CHANGELOG

CODEFLUX CHANGE LOG

Purpose
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This tracked ledger records completed commit-level outcomes. Every authorized
commit must add one focused entry and carry the matching Change-Log trailer.

Commit binding
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An entry uses a stable Change-ID because a commit cannot contain its own final
hash. The commit message must include:

Change-Log: CL-YYYYMMDD-NNN

Resolve the final commit with:

git log --grep="Change-Log: CL-YYYYMMDD-NNN"

The Commit field carries the real hash, written AFTER the commit exists. Write
the entry with "Commit: pending", commit it, then fill the short hash in. That
edit stays in the working tree and is swept up by the next feature commit, so it
costs no commit of its own.

The newest entry therefore reads "pending" until the next feature lands, and the
last entry of a session stays pending until the next session. That is expected.
The Change-Log trailer is the binding that always works; the hash is a
convenience, and where the two disagree -- after a rebase, squash, or
cherry-pick, all of which change the hash -- the trailer is right.

One entry is a standing exception. CL-20260802-018 was swept into checkpoint
commit 92f1eed under the checkpoint's own message, so its commit carries no
Change-Log trailer at all and git log --grep="Change-Log: CL-20260802-018"
returns nothing. Rewriting a released commit to add the trailer is forbidden, so
this cannot be repaired. For that one entry the back-filled Commit field is the
sole working binding, and the entry itself repeats this note. The commit-msg
hook added by CL-20260802-041 prevents a second occurrence.

Entry fields
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Change-ID:
Commit:
Date:
Type:
Request-or-TODO:
Outcome:
Affected-behavior:
Compatibility-or-migration:
Verification:
Dev-Log:

Entries
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Change-ID: CL-20260820-001
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-20
Type: Phase-planning cascade: in-run hostile review, interface repair, and
  planning-diagnostic corrections
Request-or-TODO: User instruction to fix the revised P0/P1/P2 list, run the
  cascading planner on rung 151, and keep ascending the rungs
Outcome: Gives the phase cascade an independent hostile review that runs inside
  the run, an interface blocked-repair path that satisfies the graph transition
  rules, and eleven planning validators that state the rule they enforce rather
  than only the observation that violated it. Two structured-output caps that
  were smaller than the problem they bounded were raised, and two harness
  timeouts that measured a configuration nobody ships were corrected.
Affected-behavior: RecordSealedPlanningPhaseReview has a production caller for
  the first time, so a cascade run no longer pauses for a clearance nothing can
  produce. Planning rejections now name the required relation kinds, the legal
  role compositions, every missing source rather than the first, the divergence
  point of a non-verbatim quote, and the located cause of an invalid interface
  specification. Evidence fragments may reach 1000 characters and a semantics
  response may carry 128 relations. The ladder uses the product request timeout
  and a wait budget derived from the outer test deadline.
Compatibility-or-migration: No schema migration. The cascading planner remains
  opt-in behind CODEFLUX_ADAPTIVE_PLANNER_STAGE_AUDIT; it was briefly made the
  default in this session and reverted, see the development log.
Verification: Focused planning and coordinator tests pass, including new suites
  for the interface correction, the requirement-bearing node, the review verdict
  logic, the single-line framing property, the quote-divergence diagnostic, and
  the relation-kind advice. go build and go vet are clean. The full coordinator
  suite was diffed against HEAD earlier in the session at 19 failures before and
  19 after, all pre-existing. Rung 151 was NOT completed and rung 145 was NOT
  re-verified after the default was reverted.
Dev-Log: DL-20260820-001

Change-ID: CL-20260813-002
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-13
Type: CHECKPOINT -- explicitly authorized R144 control-plane checkpoint
Request-or-TODO: User instruction to stop R144, update the development log,
  and commit all current code.
Outcome: Preserves the robust adaptive-planning interface matcher, typed
  rejection retries, staged-audit routing, provider provenance validation,
  reviewed-frontier recovery, and execution/final-review lifecycle corrections
  developed while running R144.
Affected-behavior: Zero-input CLI acceptance, heterogeneous multiline outputs,
  explicit no-stderr policy, phase-specific prompt auditing, and provider
  model/effort attribution now fail closed at their authority boundaries.
Compatibility-or-migration: No schema migration. Historical composite effort
  values remain readable; new planning turns require the canonical provider
  model and effort tuple. R144 itself is intentionally not declared complete.
Verification: Planning and storage focused tests passed. The final coordinator
  focus run is red at TestAcceptanceCompatibilityExposesAmbiguousSurfaces:
  its ambiguity fixture expected matching surfaces but produced zero. The user
  directed work to stop, so this is committed as an explicitly red checkpoint;
  the ignored R144 artifact is not source authority or committed.
Dev-Log: DL-20260813-005

Change-ID: CL-20260813-001
Commit: adab24d
Date: 2026-08-13
Type: CHECKPOINT -- explicitly authorized collapse of the current integrated work
Request-or-TODO: User instruction: "go ahead and remove all the older artifacts" after authorizing the complete current source state as a checkpoint.
Outcome: Preserves the integrated adaptive-planning, semantic/evidence soundness, lifecycle/finalization, provider-accounting, and exact stage-correction work. Historical generated artifacts were removed while the latest R101 ladder artifact was retained outside version control.
Affected-behavior: Planning frontiers and provider evidence are durably bound; candidate/report tree identity and lifecycle recovery are stricter; verifier evidence is more truthful; immutable exact-tree stage evaluations and root-only smart send-backs can avoid replaying unrelated stages; certified candidates reject further autonomous mutation.
Compatibility-or-migration: Adds SQLite migrations 48 through 55. Existing databases migrate forward through the embedded ordered catalog. No generated artifact or executable is committed.
Verification: Pending final checkpoint verification: generation checks, focused pipeline/storage/coordinator suites, repository compile/vet, diff hygiene, and staged-content inspection.
Dev-Log: DL-20260813-002

Change-ID: CL-20260810-006
Commit: deliberately not back-filled -- see Outcome
Date: 2026-08-10
Type: Ledger maintenance
Request-or-TODO: User instruction: "the changelog too".
Outcome: Releases the back-filled commit hash for CL-20260810-005, which had
  been left in the working tree.
Affected-behavior: None. Ledger only.
Compatibility-or-migration: None.
Verification: The hash reads 684b762 and `git log --grep="Change-Log:
  CL-20260810-005"` resolves to that commit, so the field and the trailer agree.
Note on this entry's own Commit field: the ledger's design has a back-fill ride
  along with the next feature commit precisely so it never costs a commit of its
  own. Committing one on request inverts that, and doing it again for THIS entry
  would not terminate -- every back-fill commit needs a further back-fill. The
  field is therefore left unfilled on purpose rather than reading "pending",
  which would suggest somebody still owes it. The Change-Log trailer is the
  authoritative binding, as the preamble says, and it is present.
Dev-Log: DL-20260810-049

Change-ID: CL-20260810-005
Commit: 684b762
Date: 2026-08-10
Type: CHECKPOINT -- explicitly requested collapse of another lane's work
Request-or-TODO: User instruction: "go again", then "bypass" when the lint gate
  was about to be consulted.
Outcome: 47 files committed in one commit. They are NOT one feature and none
  belong to the lane writing this entry: adversarial review, convergence,
  execution, narration, numeric safety, obligations, outstanding work,
  performance, planning, the cases/delivery/mutation/structure stages, atom
  documentation asking, planned layout, preseeded and run lessons, and the
  executor's file and patch tools.
Affected-behavior: Not separable per feature at this revision.
Compatibility-or-migration: No migration in this batch.
Verification: go build ./... is clean. THE LINT GATE WAS NOT RUN for this
  revision: the user answered "bypass" when it was about to be consulted, so
  this entry cannot state what it would have reported. As of the previous
  checkpoint (CL-20260810-003) it reported six ST1005 in
  internal/codexmodel/model.go and two U1000 unused functions in
  internal/coordinator, and internal/transport failed two AUDIT-016a tests;
  none of those were addressed by this lane, and this batch touches
  internal/executor and internal/coordinator, so the count may have moved in
  either direction unobserved.
  No test suite was run for this revision either.
Dev-Log: DL-20260810-048

Change-ID: CL-20260810-004
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-10
Type: CHECKPOINT -- explicitly requested commit of all current code
Request-or-TODO: User instruction: "commit all the fucking code"; completed
  PIPE-139y through PIPE-139by.
Outcome: Checkpoint the accumulated ladder-pipeline refinements through the
  retained Rung 32 control, including deterministic tool boundaries, adaptive
  planning and routing, contextual preventive memories, semantic verification,
  mutation and performance evidence, planned layout enforcement, and their
  focused regressions.
Affected-behavior: Codeflux more accurately routes compact semantic work,
  rejects malformed or unsafe edits transactionally, keeps repair evidence
  monotonic, selects relevant memories, and avoids several false verification
  debts observed while ascending Rungs 19 through 32.
Compatibility-or-migration: No database migration. Preventive-memory pack and
  classifier versions advance in place; retained ladder databases and reports
  remain untouched under `.artifacts/`.
Verification: Pending checkpoint verification; the commit will record the
  exact test, vet, and diff-hygiene results.
Dev-Log: DL-20260810-047; detailed feature records DL-20260810-004 through
  DL-20260810-046.

Change-ID: CL-20260810-003
Commit: 8704bcf
Date: 2026-08-10
Type: CHECKPOINT -- explicitly requested collapse of another lane's work
Request-or-TODO: User instruction: "go again", continuing "commit everything".
Outcome: 15 files committed in one commit. They are NOT one feature and none
  belong to the lane writing this entry: adaptive routing observation,
  convergence, outstanding work, the mutation stage and its tests, stage
  routing, planned layout, preseeded lessons, run lessons, and the semantic
  frontier test.
Affected-behavior: Not separable per feature at this revision.
Compatibility-or-migration: No migration in this batch.
Verification: go build ./... is clean. go test ./web/... and ./internal/pipeline/
  pass. FAILING AT THIS REVISION, knowingly committed: the same eight as
  CL-20260810-002 -- six ST1005 in internal/codexmodel/model.go, two U1000
  unused functions in internal/coordinator -- plus the two internal/transport
  AUDIT-016a tests. Unchanged for a fourth consecutive checkpoint.
  go test ./internal/coordinator/ was NOT run.
Dev-Log: DL-20260810-003

Change-ID: CL-20260810-002
Commit: 5b9c643
Date: 2026-08-10
Type: CHECKPOINT -- explicitly requested collapse of another lane's work
Request-or-TODO: User instruction: "go again", continuing "commit everything".
Outcome: 37 files committed in one commit. They are NOT one feature and none
  belong to the lane writing this entry: convergence, execution, planning,
  registration and structure stages, declared and semantic atom contracts,
  documentation derivation, discard refinement, planned layout, frontier tests,
  the inspection repository, and the codexmodel and openaimodel packages.
Affected-behavior: Not separable per feature at this revision.
Compatibility-or-migration: No migration in this batch.
Verification: go build ./... is clean. go test ./web/..., ./internal/codexmodel/
  and ./internal/openaimodel/ pass. FAILING AT THIS REVISION, knowingly
  committed:
    - internal/transport, two tests (AUDIT-016a), unchanged since
      CL-20260809-011.
    - staticcheck: six ST1005 in internal/codexmodel/model.go and two U1000
      unused functions in internal/coordinator. Unchanged for a third
      consecutive checkpoint.
  The gofmt stage of the gate was cleared separately in CL-20260810-001, so the
  eight failures above are now the whole of what the gate reports rather than
  what it reports first.
  go test ./internal/coordinator/ was NOT run.
Dev-Log: DL-20260810-002

Change-ID: CL-20260810-001
Commit: cf0c8d1
Date: 2026-08-10
Type: Fix -- restore the gofmt gate
Request-or-TODO: Repository lint gate
Outcome: internal/atomdoc/semantic_contract_test.go and
  internal/storage/atom_semantic_contract_repository_test.go are gofmt-clean.
Affected-behavior: None. Whitespace alignment inside composite literals only.
  Both files were released unformatted in the checkpoint CL-20260809-011, which
  is how they reached a state the gate refuses; the gofmt check runs ahead of
  staticcheck, so they were also masking whatever staticcheck would say next.
Compatibility-or-migration: None.
Verification: gofmt -l reports nothing for internal/atomdoc and internal/storage.
  go vet passes for both packages. The lint gate now proceeds past gofmt to the
  eight staticcheck failures it was already reporting before the checkpoints.
Dev-Log: DL-20260810-001

Change-ID: CL-20260809-023
Commit: aa32d18
Date: 2026-08-09
Type: CHECKPOINT -- explicitly requested collapse of another lane's work
Request-or-TODO: User instruction: "go again", continuing "commit everything".
Outcome: 19 files committed in one commit. They are NOT one feature and none
  belong to the lane writing this entry: acceptance overfit detection, cohesion,
  narration, completeness, registration and structure stages, edit scope, the
  inspection repository, and a new codeflux-dev run-report command.
Affected-behavior: Not separable per feature. Unlike the two checkpoints before
  it, this batch DOES carry a DEVLOG entry from its authors
  (DL-20260809-030), so the work is described where it should be.
Compatibility-or-migration: No migration in this batch.
Verification: go build ./... is clean. go test ./web/... and ./internal/storage/
  pass. FAILING AT THIS REVISION, knowingly committed:
    - internal/transport, two tests (AUDIT-016a), unchanged since
      CL-20260809-011.
    - staticcheck: six ST1005 in internal/codexmodel/model.go and the two U1000
      unused functions in internal/coordinator. Unchanged from CL-20260809-019 --
      the count stopped growing this round but nothing was cleared.
  go test ./internal/coordinator/ was NOT run.
Dev-Log: DL-20260809-032

Change-ID: CL-20260809-022
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-09
Type: DOCUMENTATION -- asset directory rename
Request-or-TODO: User instruction to give every Flux repository the same layout:
  "for each flux project readme like you did for codeflux add the main image to
  the readme and store the other assets in a design/branding folder".
Outcome: design/brand renamed to design/branding, and the README's image path
  updated to match. The other four Flux repositories were given the same
  design/branding layout in their own commits, so the five now agree.
Affected-behavior: None. Static assets and one markdown path.
Compatibility-or-migration: A raw.githubusercontent link to the old design/brand
  path stops resolving. Nothing in this repository referenced it, and the
  README's own reference moved in the same commit.
Verification: git mv preserves history; the README's single asset path was
  updated and confirmed to point at a file that exists.

Change-ID: CL-20260809-021
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-09
Type: DOCUMENTATION -- README factual audit against the code
Request-or-TODO: User instruction: "the model escalation isnt a stall its a smart
  router ffs, bro read the code and fix all the outdated facts in the readme".
Outcome: README.md. Escalation is described as what agent_convergence.go
  actually implements: a router that counts repetition by failure fingerprint
  rather than attempts, keeps a per-failure tally so an unrelated failure between
  two identical ones cannot erase the evidence, and applies a different rule per
  gate class -- atom-documentation and completeness never escalate because they
  ask for text the run already has; assembly, adversarial, integration-tests and
  acceptance escalate on the second failure because they are properties that can
  be lost; deterministic-refinement and path-coverage escalate on the second
  because each is a whole repair loop; research gates never trigger alone.
  Per-rung budgets, provider-health gating, bounded refunds for machinery
  failures, per-family capability memory, and alternation tracking are documented
  because each exists to fix a real run. The word "stall" is gone from the
  section, the diagram edges, and the medium-effort rationale.
  Project status counts corrected: milestones 00-23 hold 1,862 closed tasks, not
  1,846; Milestone 24 is about 60% rather than "roughly half"; Milestone 25 has
  opened and was unmentioned; the 2,375 closed / 352 open totals are stated.
Affected-behavior: None. Documentation only.
Compatibility-or-migration: None.
Verification: A claim-by-claim audit rather than a spot fix. Checked against the
  code and matching: the 41 stage constants, the four DefaultLadder rungs, the
  five pipeline States, the four ModelBearing gates, the eight gate names cited
  in the new escalation table, the three documented CLI commands and the
  --no-browser flag, the three data directories in internal/release, and the CI
  platform matrix. Code fences balanced at 16.

Change-ID: CL-20260809-020
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-09
Type: DOCUMENTATION -- README pipeline, ladder, and worktree removal
Request-or-TODO: User instructions, in order: the README text and mermaid
  diagrams were not updated with the latest pipeline stages and enhanced
  workflows; "we arent working with worktrees so remove those references"; and
  "model ladder needs updating".
Outcome: README.md only, on three fronts.
  Pipeline: the flow is 41 stages, not 37. Both pipeline diagrams and the phase
  labels now carry every stage by name, and the four appended stages -- 38
  acceptance-oracle, 39 skip-audit, 40 atom-registration, 41
  molecule-registration -- are documented in a table with a diagram dashing each
  back to the phase it conceptually belongs to, since they were appended rather
  than renumbered (PIPE-045 owns the renumbering). "The other 36 stages" is now
  40. A paragraph was added for the structured-planning layout gate at stages 3
  and 4, closed by LAD-001.
  Ladder: the default ladder is luna:low, terra:low, sol:low, sol:high -- three
  models climbing capability at low effort before effort is raised on the
  frontier model. The README described luna:low, luna:max, sol:low, sol:high and
  asserted the opposite rationale, that effort is exhausted on the cheap model
  first. Diagram, table, and reasoning replaced.
  Worktrees: every reference removed on instruction. The isolation section is
  retitled and now rests on the review gate rather than on a sandbox, and carries
  a note that the shipped launcher still creates a worktree per task.
Affected-behavior: None. Documentation only.
Compatibility-or-migration: None.
Verification: Stage names and numbers read from internal/pipeline/stages.go and
  phase bounds from internal/pipeline/phases.go, not restated from memory. Ladder
  rungs read from pipeline.DefaultLadder and DefaultApprovalRungs, models from
  KnownModels. Code fences balanced at 16; four mermaid blocks intact.

Change-ID: CL-20260809-019
Commit: 6722b63
Date: 2026-08-09
Type: CHECKPOINT -- explicitly requested collapse of another lane's work
Request-or-TODO: User instruction: "go again", continuing "commit everything".
Outcome: 17 files committed in one commit. They are NOT one feature and none
  belong to the lane writing this entry: narration, outstanding work,
  completeness, mutation, registration and structure stages, patch context, run
  lessons, the codexmodel package, and a new test-entrypoint preservation test.
Affected-behavior: Not separable per feature, and not described by its authors:
  this batch, like CL-20260809-016, arrived with no CHANGELOG or DEVLOG entries
  of its own.
Compatibility-or-migration: No migration in this batch.
Verification: go build ./... is clean. go test ./web/... and
  ./internal/codexmodel/ pass. FAILING AT THIS REVISION, knowingly committed:
    - internal/transport, two tests (AUDIT-016a), unchanged since
      CL-20260809-011.
    - staticcheck: SIX ST1005 capitalized error strings in
      internal/codexmodel/model.go, up from five at CL-20260809-016, plus the
      two long-standing U1000 unused functions in internal/coordinator.
  The lint gate has now failed at four consecutive checkpoints and the count has
  grown rather than shrunk. That is recorded here because a gate bypassed
  repeatedly stops being a gate, and the four --no-verify commits that carried
  these revisions were authorized one at a time, not as a standing policy.
  go test ./internal/coordinator/ was NOT run.
Dev-Log: DL-20260809-026

Change-ID: CL-20260809-018
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-09
Type: DOCUMENTATION -- README alignment and an honesty correction
Request-or-TODO: User instruction: "re-review the recent changes to the agentic
  coding engine and rewrite the readme and the plans with my goals to better
  align the readme for codeflux", then, after review, the decision that atoms
  remain the headline identity, and finally "actually dont touch plan.md".
Outcome: README.md only. The two bets are now stated as separable claims --
  decomposition, and reuse -- with the dependency between them named and a kill
  criterion for each. The reuse section carries an explicit "built, not
  demonstrated" note citing LAD-002, and Project status gains a table saying
  which bet is exercised and which has never fired. The stage arithmetic is
  corrected: a run carries 41 stages and reuse excuses 11 of them, where the
  previous text implied eleven stages were the whole of establishing an atom.
Affected-behavior: None. Documentation only.
Compatibility-or-migration: None. docs/plan.md was deliberately left untouched on
  instruction; the README therefore leads with an emphasis the plan's Section 2
  does not yet share, and that divergence is known rather than accidental.
Verification: No code changed, so the pre-commit gate skips format, lint and
  tests by design. Stage count checked against TODOS.md, where "all 41 stages"
  is the recurring figure; the 11-stage reuse saving checked against plan.md,
  which excuses stages 16 through 26. The LAD-002 quotations are taken verbatim
  from that ticket.

Change-ID: CL-20260809-017
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-09
Type: DOCUMENTATION and ASSETS -- README, brand images, link casing
Request-or-TODO: User instruction: "update the readme and repo with the codeflux
  image assets", followed by "also change the repo name safely to CodeFlux".
Outcome: Added design/brand/ with four web-sized CodeFlux brand assets (poster,
  mark, logo lockup, social card) derived from the commissioned artwork, and put
  the poster at the head of README.md. Rewrote every https://github.com/
  monstercameron/codeflux link to the CodeFlux casing the repository is being
  renamed to, across README.md, docs/using.md, docs/new_features.md and the five
  files under .github/.
Affected-behavior: None. Documentation and static images only -- no code, no
  build inputs, no schema. The Go module path is codeflux.dev/codeflux, a vanity
  path with no GitHub component, so the rename cannot affect imports.
Compatibility-or-migration: GitHub serves a permanent redirect from the old
  repository name, so existing clones, remotes and third-party links keep
  working; the rewritten links are for correctness, not to avoid breakage.
  DEVLOG was deliberately NOT rewritten -- it is a historical ledger and the old
  name is what those entries were written against.
Verification: Documentation only; no build or test surface. Asset paths checked
  against the committed tree. The CHANGELOG hash backfill for CL-20260809-016 is
  swept up here per the convention above, together with another lane's pending
  DEVLOG entries, which this commit does not otherwise touch.

Change-ID: CL-20260809-016
Commit: 0852878
Date: 2026-08-09
Type: CHECKPOINT -- explicitly requested collapse of another lane's work
Request-or-TODO: User instruction: "go again", continuing "commit everything".
  Labelled as a checkpoint here and in the subject as AGENTS.md requires,
  including what is failing at this revision.
Outcome: 40 files committed in one commit. They are NOT one feature and none
  belong to the lane writing this entry: they are the ladder and pipeline lane's
  next increment -- adversarial exit parsing and grammar, cohesion, contract
  assurance and evidence-breadth checks, numeric safety, routing outcome
  analysis, preseeded lessons, skip-audit changes, scheduler changes, and a new
  internal/codexmodel package.
Affected-behavior: Not separable per feature at this revision, and NOT DESCRIBED
  BY ITS AUTHORS: unlike CL-20260809-014, this batch arrived with no CHANGELOG
  or DEVLOG entries of its own. What each change does is recoverable only from
  the diff and from the TODO identifiers in the test names.
Compatibility-or-migration: No new migration in this batch. docs/plan.md and
  README.md changed alongside the code.
Verification: go build ./... is clean. go test ./web/... and ./internal/pipeline/
  pass. FAILING AT THIS REVISION, knowingly committed:
    - internal/transport TestGeneratedClientsExecuteSyntheticJourney and
      TestOpeningAWorkspaceIsRefusedRatherThanFaked (AUDIT-016a), unchanged
      since CL-20260809-011.
    - staticcheck: five ST1005 capitalized error strings in the new
      internal/codexmodel/model.go, plus the two long-standing U1000 unused
      functions in internal/coordinator. The repository lint gate does not pass
      at this revision.
  go test ./internal/coordinator/ was NOT run; its ladder suites are long
  running and belong to the lane that owns them.
Dev-Log: DL-20260809-023

Change-ID: CL-20260809-015
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-09
Type: DOCUMENTATION -- README only
Request-or-TODO: User instruction on the earlcameron.com portfolio: give each
  Flux project a dedicated page, then "refine the gh readme to both point to the
  page and readjust the copy to match the page a little more".
Outcome: README.md now leads with the brand line from CodeFlux's own poster art
  ("Verified atoms. Better software."), restates the one-sentence description in
  the same words the portfolio page uses, and links the case study at
  https://www.earlcameron.com/projects/codeflux. No other file changed; the
  CHANGELOG hash backfill for CL-20260809-014 is swept up here as the convention
  above prescribes.
Affected-behavior: None. Documentation only -- no code, no build, no schema.
Compatibility-or-migration: None.
Verification: Text change only; no build or test surface. The linked page is
  served by the portfolio's dev branch and reaches the public site when that
  branch is promoted, which is the site owner's call.

Change-ID: CL-20260809-014
Commit: 734b31c
Date: 2026-08-09
Type: CHECKPOINT -- explicitly requested collapse of another lane's work
Request-or-TODO: User instruction: "go again", continuing "commit everything".
  Labelled as a checkpoint here and in the subject because AGENTS.md requires
  it, including what is failing at this revision.
Outcome: 45 files committed in one commit. They are NOT one feature, and none
  of them belong to the lane writing this entry. The tree held the ladder and
  pipeline lane's next increment -- LAD-077 verification decision telemetry,
  LAD-078 adaptive agent routing and performance measurement, project lesson
  keys, and migrations 000046 and 000047 -- together with the CHANGELOG and
  DEVLOG entries that lane had already written for it (CL-20260809-012,
  DL-20260809-017 through DL-20260809-019).
Affected-behavior: Not separable per feature at this revision. That lane's own
  entries describe the work; this entry records only that it was released here
  and by whom.
Compatibility-or-migration: Adds migrations 000046_verification_decision_telemetry
  and 000047_project_lesson_key_observations. A database opened by this revision
  migrates forward; an older coordinator binary refuses it afterwards, which is
  the intended failure.
Verification: go build ./... is clean. go test ./web/... passes. FAILING AT THIS
  REVISION, knowingly committed:
    - internal/transport TestGeneratedClientsExecuteSyntheticJourney and
      TestOpeningAWorkspaceIsRefusedRatherThanFaked, from the in-flight
      OpenWorkspaceRequest.project_id work (AUDIT-016a). Unchanged since
      CL-20260809-011.
    - staticcheck U1000 on internal/coordinator/agent_stage_checks.go:465 and
      internal/coordinator/engine_end_to_end_test.go:272, dead code in that
      lane's own files, so the repository lint gate does not pass here.
  go test ./internal/coordinator/ was NOT run: its ladder suites are long
  running and their state belongs to the lane that owns them.
Dev-Log: DL-20260809-021

Change-ID: CL-20260809-013
Commit: fe9d4ea
Date: 2026-08-09
Type: Fix -- an atom declared a required field inapplicable without saying why
Request-or-TODO: FE-001 follow-up; repository lint gate
Outcome: ResolveRepositoryRouteScope states its precondition instead of
  declaring it none.
Affected-behavior: The atom's Preconditions field read "None beyond a readable
  database connection", which is a None with a restatement of the schema rather
  than a reason, and the repository's own atom-documentation check refused it.
  The field now says what is actually required and what is not: the resolver
  opens no transaction, writes nothing, and does not depend on a prior
  bootstrap. That is a stronger claim than "none" and is the one a caller needs.
Compatibility-or-migration: None. Documentation comment only; no behavior, no
  signature, no stored value changed.
Verification: codeflux-dev lint no longer reports this atom. go test
  ./internal/storage/ passes.
Dev-Log: DL-20260809-020

Change-ID: CL-20260809-012
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-09
Type: FEATURE -- decision and verification telemetry
Request-or-TODO: LAD-077; retain richer skip, repair, escalation, evidence,
  mutation, reuse-refusal, reproducibility, and claim-coverage data, then
  restart the ladder from rung 1 without touching prior roots
Outcome: Pipeline and attempt decisions are queryable as typed SQLite facts;
  the final verification-coverage view maps claims to method, source, strength,
  independence, rationale, model, evidence, reproducibility, and duration.
  Fresh rung 1 passes with its complete decision lineage retained.
Affected-behavior: Send-backs retain structured frontiers and repair categories;
  mutation retains operator and viability details; acceptance discrimination
  retains its baseline facts; recall retains per-candidate refusal taxonomy;
  inspect-db accepts a bounded caller-selected limit through 500.
Compatibility-or-migration: Schema advances from 45 to 46. Historical rows
  migrate with explicit unknown/default telemetry and are never retroactively
  assigned provenance or assurance they did not record.
Verification: Focused LAD-077, MEM-002, PIPE-020, migration, and inspect-db
  tests pass; coordinator/storage/CLI vet passes. Rung-1 task
  `tsk_019fe79b-5599-7263-a52a-48f730365a57` passed 41/41 stages plus external
  build/run/adversarial assertions in 57.77s; retained inspection reports 46
  decisions, 50 claim-evidence rows, and two transitions without truncation.
Dev-Log: DL-20260809-018

Change-ID: CL-20260809-011
Commit: 112dc01
Date: 2026-08-09
Type: CHECKPOINT -- explicitly requested collapse of concurrent lane work
Request-or-TODO: User instruction: "seeing >200 changed files, commit
  everything". This entry exists because AGENTS.md requires a checkpoint commit
  to be labelled as one, in its subject and here, including what is failing at
  this revision.
Outcome: 278 files committed in one commit. They are NOT one feature. The
  working tree held the concurrent, uncommitted work of several lanes -- ladder
  rungs and their retained fixtures, atom semantic contracts and the
  atom_implementations store, agent pipeline stages, fuzz targets, transport and
  proto surface changes, docs, and the browser client remainder of the FE series
  -- and the user asked for all of it to land rather than wait for each lane to
  commit its own.
Affected-behavior: Not separable per lane at this revision. The individually
  reviewable parts of this session's own work landed before this commit as
  CL-20260809-006 through CL-20260809-010; everything after them is here.
Compatibility-or-migration: Includes migration 000044_atom_implementations.sql
  and the regenerated protobuf artifacts. Databases at schema 43 migrate
  forward on open; a coordinator binary older than this revision refuses a
  database that has already migrated, which is the intended failure.
Verification: go build ./... passes. go test ./web/..., ./internal/storage/
  pass. FAILING AT THIS REVISION, knowingly committed as part of the requested
  checkpoint:
    - internal/transport TestGeneratedClientsExecuteSyntheticJourney and
      TestOpeningAWorkspaceIsRefusedRatherThanFaked, both from the in-flight
      OpenWorkspaceRequest.project_id work (AUDIT-016a).
    - staticcheck U1000 on internal/coordinator/agent_stage_checks.go:465
      (checkNonFunctional) and internal/coordinator/engine_end_to_end_test.go:272
      (startEscalatingEngineFixture), both dead code in another lane's in-flight
      files. The repository lint gate therefore does not pass at this revision.
  go test ./internal/coordinator/ was NOT run: its ladder suites take longer
  than this commit could reasonably wait on, and their state belongs to the lane
  that owns them.
Dev-Log: DL-20260809-016

Change-ID: CL-20260809-010
Commit: 18470b8
Date: 2026-08-09
Type: Documentation -- close the FE series and record what each fix actually was
Request-or-TODO: FE-001 through FE-011a
Outcome: TODOS.md records the thirteen FE tickets as closed, each with the
  mechanism that made the defect possible rather than a restatement of the
  ticket.
Affected-behavior: None. Task ledger only.
Compatibility-or-migration: None.
Verification: Read against the commits it describes; every closure names the
  file it changed and the test that pins it.
Dev-Log: DL-20260809-013

Change-ID: CL-20260809-009
Commit: 53d1b11
Date: 2026-08-09
Type: Feature -- the atom surface shows an atom's own code and says what it is
Request-or-TODO: FE-006 follow-up (user requests: "the atom code and metadata
  doesnt exist", "for the atom code add a copy to keybpard button", "you are
  showing their ids instead of their names in the list")
Outcome: The atom detail pane renders the declaration source with a control that
  copies it, distinguishes a declared name from no name at all, and carries the
  provenance a registered atom has instead of a file and a line.
Affected-behavior: A registered atom has no declaration in the checkout, so the
  ordinary "where it lives" answer was three empty labels. The pane now shows
  the repository revision the comment was read at, how it was authored, and the
  hashes that make it addressable. A row whose atom was never named is badged
  "Declared name" when it is titled by its declaration and "Unnamed" when even
  that is unknown; neither is allowed to read as a name the atom was given,
  because the declared name belongs to the revision -- the same atom is declared
  resultText in one program and formatDistance in another. The code block gained
  a copy control, because selecting numbered lines by hand drags the line
  numbers with them.
Compatibility-or-migration: None. Rendering only; the fields consumed here are
  supplied by the client and default to empty.
Verification: go test ./web/frontend/... passes. The pane, the badge, the row
  titles and the copy control were each driven in a real browser against a live
  ladder database; the copy control's label was observed flipping to "Copied".
Dev-Log: DL-20260809-012

Change-ID: CL-20260809-008
Commit: bd56b20
Date: 2026-08-09
Type: Fix -- a long value painted over its neighbours
Request-or-TODO: FE route sweep (found by screenshot, not by markup)
Outcome: Each readout in the application bar's instrument strip carries a width
  ceiling in characters, so no single value can consume the row.
Affected-behavior: The strip's items had a floor -- min-width: 0, which lets a
  flex item shrink -- and no ceiling. Shrinking only happens when the row runs
  out of room and this row never did, because the strip is free-width: a long
  value grew its group instead, and the workspace readout was drawn straight
  across the model and spend groups, clipping them to "mai", "98/" and
  "of $50.00". The full value stays on the control's accessible name and in the
  panel it opens.
Compatibility-or-migration: None. Presentation only.
Verification: Two tests in web/frontend/shell: the workspace readout no longer
  folds to the same class as the branch beside it, and every readout kind
  declares a ceiling. Both were confirmed to fail with the ceiling removed.
Dev-Log: DL-20260809-011

Change-ID: CL-20260809-007
Commit: 210eeb2
Date: 2026-08-09
Type: Fix -- the header reported readings it did not have
Request-or-TODO: FE route sweep
Outcome: An instrument group in the application bar is drawn only when at least
  one of its instruments actually reports something.
Affected-behavior: /projects, /repositories, /settings and /code each drew
  "MODEL - UNKNOWN / Unknown - Unknown", and on the settings page that sat
  inches above the real configured model, one page contradicting itself. Two
  separate defects produced it. The group was gated on TaskState alone, which is
  non-empty on routes carrying no task; and the gate was the `hidden` attribute,
  which cannot hide an element whose class sets `display: flex`, because
  `hidden` is a user-agent rule and the class is an author rule. A node that
  must not appear is now not built.
Compatibility-or-migration: None. Presentation only; no request, response, or
  stored value changed.
Verification: Four tests in web/frontend/shell covering an unmeasured group, a
  measured one, a half-measured one, and a route with no task at all. Each was
  confirmed to fail with the gate removed.
Dev-Log: DL-20260809-010

Change-ID: CL-20260809-006
Commit: 0f435f5
Date: 2026-08-09
Type: Fix -- the code surface described the wrong subject
Request-or-TODO: FE-006 follow-up (user request: "the code page needs to only
  show code produced for the specific project id")
Outcome: /code now lists the files the PROJECT produced, read from artifacts and
  scoped by project_id, instead of the canonical checkout at git HEAD.
Affected-behavior: On an agent-run project the page listed the seed fixture and
  nothing else -- carryOut never calls AcceptTaskChange, so no generated file is
  committed to any branch, every task branch sits on the seed revision, and the
  worktree holding the program is deleted when the run ends. A live 250-rung
  project rendered "2 files" while it had produced 2,197. It now renders 110
  files and 49 documented atoms over the produced tree, one entry per path at
  its newest content, with declarations and atom counts parsed from the
  artifact. No revision is reported, because these files were never committed at
  one; reporting the checkout's revision attached a git identity to content git
  has never seen.
Compatibility-or-migration: No schema or API change. ListCodeFiles and
  ReadCodeFile keep their request and response shapes; only the store they read
  changed. CodeFilePage.Revision is now empty for produced listings, which
  clients already render as absent.
Verification: go build ./... and go test ./web/... pass. Driven in a real
  browser against a live ladder database: the tree, the per-file atom badges,
  and a file opened to its numbered source were each confirmed by screenshot.
Dev-Log: DL-20260809-009

Change-ID: CL-20260809-005
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-09
Type: Test correction -- expression-language acceptance oracle
Request-or-TODO: Continue ascending the retained program-generation ladder
Outcome: Corrected rung 47's expected result from 25 to 20 so its oracle agrees
  with the stated usual arithmetic semantics of `max(3 * 3 + abs(-4), 20)`.
Affected-behavior: The ladder now rewards a conventional expression evaluator
  instead of repeatedly asking correct implementations to invent nonstandard
  arithmetic behavior solely for one fixture.
Compatibility-or-migration: Test-only correction; no production API, runtime
  schema, or retained database migration.
Verification: Focused ladder harness and instruction/acceptance checks passed.
  Retained replay `r47-oracle-fix-2`, task
  `tsk_019fe744-10f6-7dc6-95c4-ec7b96de0f78`, passed 41/41 pipeline stages and
  all external build/run/adversarial assertions in 751.20s overall.
Dev-Log: DL-20260809-008

Change-ID: CL-20260809-004
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-09
Type: Fix -- actionable and reproducible fuzz refinement
Request-or-TODO: LAD-076
Outcome: Go fuzz execution now bounds worker fan-out, discriminates transient
  worker exits from reproducible saved-corpus failures, retains useful root
  diagnostics, and feeds stable findings back into model refinement before the
  attempt ceiling. Target-creation and finding-repair budgets are independent.
Affected-behavior: A real fuzz panic can be repaired by a later implementation
  attempt instead of first appearing after the model loop. A transient nonzero
  fuzz process must complete a full isolated single-worker replay before it is
  treated as recovered. The final atom-fuzz stage remains mandatory and runs
  independently. Coverage guidance now scopes one unreachable directive to one
  specific branch.
Compatibility-or-migration: No schema or API change. Existing retained tasks,
  corpora, logs, and SQLite rows remain unchanged.
Verification: Focused fuzz, convergence, unreachable-directive, scheduler, and
  pipeline cohorts pass; coordinator and pipeline vet pass. Retained rung 45
  replay `r45-fuzz-feedback-2`, task
  `tsk_019fe724-b019-7b12-9de6-0e64bc6175ce`, passed all 41 stages and external
  assertions in 440.59s after five attempts; atom-fuzz, path coverage,
  repetition, mutation, and non-functional gates all held.
Dev-Log: DL-20260809-007

Change-ID: CL-20260809-003
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-09
Type: Feature -- atom behavioral contracts
Request-or-TODO: LAD-075
Outcome: Added schema-v2 atom semantic contracts containing primitive facts,
  mechanically derived composition properties, and verification obligations,
  separately from schema-v1 retrieval documentation.
Affected-behavior: New atom registrations bind a canonical semantic contract
  to the exact sanitized implementation before becoming visible. Unknown or
  contradictory facts fail closed, and clients can inspect fact and derived
  JSON independently. Historical exact implementations are backfilled
  conservatively on the registry write path.
Compatibility-or-migration: Migration 000045 is additive and immutable. It
  does not reinterpret schema-v1 comments or delete historical rows. The
  product response adds an optional semantic-contract field.
Verification: Focused atomdoc, real-SQLite storage, coordinator registration,
  transport, safe-inspection, generation, migration, and vet checks pass.
  Retained rung 43 passed all 41 stages and external assertions in 339.01s and
  populated schema-v2 rows for both historical and newly registered exact
  implementations. The repository-wide suite still contains independently
  failing pre-existing cohorts and a ten-minute coordinator timeout; it is not
  represented as green by this change.
Dev-Log: DL-20260809-006

Change-ID: CL-20260809-002
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-09
Type: Feature/Fix -- durable atom source and workflow-backed preventive memory
Request-or-TODO: LAD-069, LAD-070, LAD-071, LAD-072, LAD-073, LAD-074
Outcome: Admitted atom revisions now retain their exact implementation and
  friendly declaration name in immutable SQLite rows. Preventive memories are
  automatically checked against durable failed stage, intermediate attempt
  send-back, or tool records, unsupported
  claims are quarantined, duplicates and context are bounded, and unknown gate
  prose is never promoted into memory. Graph dependency wording no longer
  triggers software-change approval, failed plan binding stops before provider
  work, and deep command checks receive executor-enforced process-tree deadlines.
Affected-behavior: Atom inspection no longer depends on a surviving task
  worktree. Later generation sees at most four exact, workflow-supported
  preventive constraints. Ordinary dependency-graph tasks remain routine, and
  fuzz/repetition/non-functional checks cannot hang on descendant-held pipes.
  Risk phrases use word boundaries, preventing `api` inside ordinary words
  such as `capital` from requiring an unrelated approval.
  Assembly duration now measures the actual final build rather than model
  refinement time that happened earlier in the attempt.
Compatibility-or-migration: Migration 000044 is additive and reconciles an
  admitted historical implementation only on exact normalized input identity
  and contract hash. Existing unverified memory remains retained but is
  quarantined from model context rather than deleted.
Verification: Focused storage, coordinator, transport, web-client, Windows
  descendant-process, migration-generation, and vet cohorts pass. Retained rung
  38 task `tsk_019fe638-f4f9-786a-9739-1c588e3d2e2e` passed all 41 stages and
  external assertions in 340.83s; its database contains 80 documentation
  revisions, 16 exact implementations, and 16 names. Its memory preflight
  admitted one of five new lessons and quarantined four whose claimed evidence
  did not match the workflow log.
Dev-Log: DL-20260809-005

Change-ID: CL-20260809-001
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-09
Type: Fix -- rung-23 deep-pipeline convergence and truthful verification scope
Request-or-TODO: LAD-056, LAD-057, LAD-058, LAD-059
Outcome: Multiple fuzz targets in one package now run under distinct exact
  selectors and one shared budget. Direct named-test obligations stop at
  exported and direct-command boundaries across every refinement and ledger
  consumer, while coverage, mutation, fuzzing, integration, and acceptance
  remain mandatory for private helpers. Repeated path-coverage debt routes as
  semantic work through Terra-low, Sol-low, and Sol-high. Sub-second suite
  timing uses a one-second absolute noise floor alongside the unchanged 1.5x
  ratio and reports the effective limit it actually applies.
Affected-behavior: Agent verification scope, fuzz scheduling, convergence
  routing, and non-functional timing verdicts. No user requirement, acceptance
  assertion, mutation threshold, coverage requirement, or stage was removed.
Compatibility-or-migration: No schema migration. Parsed function records gain
  in-memory boundary metadata; metadata-free callers retain conservative scope.
Verification: Focused fuzz, boundary, convergence, coordinator, pipeline, vet,
  and diff cohorts pass. Retained exact rung-23 `all-direct-gates-1` performed
  41/41 stages with zero final failures, built and ran the command with exact
  output, survived hostile input, and passed in 563.29s; task
  `tsk_019fe4fe-e7da-7614-ada0-ba7a9e8c519e` and all prior failed controls
  remain in the shared SQLite/artifact root.
Dev-Log: DL-20260809-001, DL-20260809-002, DL-20260809-003,
  DL-20260809-004

Change-ID: CL-20260808-004
Commit: 422c70b
Date: 2026-08-08
Type: Fix -- TODOS.md declared four task identifiers twice
Request-or-TODO: REPO-050
Outcome: REPO-024, REPO-027a and REPO-037 were each declared twice, once open
  with the diagnosis and once closed with the resolution, so the same work read
  as both finished and not started and any count of open tickets overstated by
  three. REPO-031 named two unrelated tickets, so cross-references to it could
  not be resolved to a single piece of work. Each duplicate pair is merged into
  the entry carrying the resolution; the colliding worktree ticket is renumbered
  to REPO-051, leaving 031 with the atom-comment rule that every released ledger
  entry means. REPO-024 is now a standing unchecked item carrying its last
  verification, because a recurring check is never complete.
Affected-behavior: TODOS.md only. No source, schema, or gate behaviour changes.
Compatibility-or-migration: References to REPO-031 meaning the worktree
  prohibition now read REPO-051. No released ledger entry was rewritten.
Verification: New TestREPO050_EveryTaskIdentifierIsDeclaredExactlyOnce guards
  it, and discriminates -- run against TODOS.md at the previous commit it
  reports all four collisions.
Dev-Log: DL-20260808-014

Change-ID: CL-20260808-003
Commit: 50ea686
Date: 2026-08-08
Type: Fix -- the browser packages' wasm-only source was never vetted
Request-or-TODO: REPO-035
Outcome: `codeflux-dev lint` now runs go vet under both build targets, the way
  it already runs Staticcheck. The host pass over ./... is unchanged; a second
  pass analyses each browser package under GOOS=js GOARCH=wasm, which reaches 50
  files the host target cannot see. It names files rather than packages because
  go vet always loads a package's tests, browser tests import the coordinator
  and through it SQLite, SQLite has no js/wasm build, and go vet has no
  -tests=false to exclude them with.
Affected-behavior: `codeflux-dev lint` only. It gains roughly 13 seconds.
Compatibility-or-migration: None.
Verification: `codeflux-dev lint` exits 0. A new test asserts the wasm pass
  reaches files the host pass cannot see -- a pass listing only host-visible
  files would close nothing while satisfying every other assertion -- and that
  no test file reaches it.
Dev-Log: DL-20260808-012

Change-ID: CL-20260808-002
Commit: 387ee43
Date: 2026-08-08
Type: Fix -- the seed server's stale-lock record covered the wrong window
Request-or-TODO: REPO-041c
Outcome: `codeflux-dev seed --serve` records its reclaimable pidfile before it
  builds or spawns anything, instead of after the run was already driven, so a
  hard kill during the build-and-drive window now leaves a record the next run
  can act on. The record's directory is created rather than assumed, and a
  record naming the running process is skipped instead of killed.
Affected-behavior: `codeflux-dev seed --serve` only. The stale-lock sweep, the
  exact-executable-path verification, and the worker path match are unchanged.
Compatibility-or-migration: None. The record's on-disk shape is unchanged.
Verification: New end-to-end test proves os.RemoveAll(root) fails while a
  process runs from inside root and succeeds after the sweep; new record and
  call-order tests; the four pre-existing kill tests and the whole
  ./cmd/codeflux-dev package pass.
Dev-Log: DL-20260808-011

Change-ID: CL-20260808-001
Commit: 8ba64a8
Date: 2026-08-08
Type: Fix -- startup reported a missing directory as a rival coordinator
Request-or-TODO: REPO-049
Outcome: Starting into a data directory that does not exist yet now creates it
  and starts. It previously failed with "another Codeflux coordinator owns this
  database" and exit 1 with no coordinator running and the port free, because
  the single-instance lock is taken on a file beside the database and was taken
  before storage.Open created that directory. A lock that could not be attempted
  and a lock another process holds are now reported as the different outcomes
  they are, instead of sharing the contention message.
Affected-behavior: `codeflux start` and `codeflux-dev serve` on a fresh root.
  Genuine contention is unchanged and still refuses with the same wording.
Compatibility-or-migration: None. storage.EnsureDatabaseDirectory is new and
  exported; ensureDatabaseFile now calls it with no change in behaviour.
Verification: New TestREPO049 pair in internal/coordinator, proven to
  discriminate in both directions; existing TestAUDIT009a startup flow and the
  whole internal/storage package pass; go build and gofmt clean.
Dev-Log: DL-20260808-009

Change-ID: CL-20260803-180
Commit: ba048aa
Date: 2026-08-04
Type: Fix -- three tool rules were stated only in the refusal that enforced them
Request-or-TODO: Standing goal to optimise the prompting
Outcome: A refusal is a correction after the round is spent; the descriptor is
  the only place that can stop the round being spent. Three rules were stated
  only in the refusal. The suite is answered from the last run when nothing has
  changed and refused after twice -- rung 16 spent 40 of its 73 rounds asking
  anyway, and wrote six times in all. A second wholesale rewrite of one file in
  an attempt is refused -- rung 9 hit that seven times in a single pass. Both are
  now in the descriptors. The test tool's summary was also "Run an approved test
  recipe", which names a category and no action: the arguments were not guessable
  from it, so a run had to guess and spend a round finding out. It now says what
  to call. Adds LAD-004 for a pre-existing catalog/descriptor RPC count mismatch
  found by the regression sweep and confirmed present at 5577f21.
Affected-behavior: The apply-edit and test descriptors carry their own rules.
Compatibility-or-migration: None.
Verification: Two new tests, one asserting all three rules are stated across the
  three write-and-verify tools so a fourth rule cannot be added refusal-only.
  The ladder cannot measure this today: no credits.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-190

Change-ID: CL-20260803-179
Commit: f8fc5f3
Date: 2026-08-04
Type: Fix -- a systematic pass over every instruction that asks a run to write
  code, rather than one more reaction to one more rung
Request-or-TODO: Standing goal to optimise the prompting
Outcome: Two instructions were fixed reactively today, each after a rung failed
  on it. The property gate is the measured one: described in prose it produced
  nothing -- rung 18 read it twice and wrote twenty-two tests without a loop in
  any of them -- and with five lines of Go under it the same model on the same
  rung reached thirteen of thirty-one tests examining a set. This applies that
  result to the instruction that shares the defect before a rung demands it.
  fuzzTargetInstruction described a fuzz target in prose, and a Go fuzz target
  is fiddly in a way prose hides: every parameter of the f.Fuzz closure after
  *testing.T must match what f.Add supplies, in order and in type, and a
  mismatch is a compile error rather than a weak test. atom-fuzz was a sendback
  on rungs 9, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18 and 19. It now shows the target and names both
  ways it gets written wrong -- the arity mismatch, and treating a decoder's
  refusal as a finding when it is a pass. The sweep also confirmed two families
  are closed rather than merely unreported: every instruction that can be raised
  while the build is broken says so, and the two that cannot assert nothing
  about the suite rather than guessing.
Affected-behavior: The atom-fuzz instruction carries a worked example.
Compatibility-or-migration: None.
Verification: Three new tests, one of them a sweep asserting that every
  instruction asking for code shows the code -- property, fuzz, the unreachable
  marker and the atom schema -- so the next instruction added is held to the
  same rule. The ladder cannot confirm the effect today: the OpenAI account has
  no credits remaining and every run 429s at about fifteen seconds.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-189

Change-ID: CL-20260803-178
Commit: 9ad54ea
Date: 2026-08-04
Type: Fix -- LAD-003. The run adopted step identities it generated itself and
  assumed the store had written the same ones
Request-or-TODO: LAD-003
Outcome: The run's step identities and the store's are different vocabularies,
  paired by position. The pairing read the plan built to send to the store
  rather than the one the store returned. Those are the same object on an
  ordinary write and need not be on an idempotent one, where the store answers
  with the revision it already had -- and the identities the run then adopts are
  ones the store never issued. Every later read of such a step is refused with
  "load plan step state: database constraint: step does not belong to run plan",
  which is a true sentence about a situation nothing else reports and which
  names neither the step nor the cause. It cost two entire ladder passes on
  2026-08-04 before the widened stage trace made it legible at all. Pairing now
  reads recorded.Plan.Steps, falls back to the local build only when the store
  echoes nothing, and traces the mismatch when the two lengths disagree.
  Together with CL-20260803-174, which drops an unpaired step rather than
  keeping it, a run now carries only steps the store knows about.
Affected-behavior: A run adopts the identities the store issued. A mismatch is
  visible in the trace instead of surfacing as a constraint violation three
  attempts later.
Compatibility-or-migration: None.
Verification: Three new tests over the extracted pairing: identities come from
  the store, a short recorded plan leaves the extra steps unpaired and adoption
  then drops them, and an empty plan pairs nothing rather than half of
  something. The ladder cannot confirm this today -- the OpenAI account has no
  credits remaining and every run 429s at about fifteen seconds.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-188

Change-ID: CL-20260803-177
Commit: 622d8c2
Date: 2026-08-04
Type: Fix -- a hard gate deferred itself behind every softer one and was never
  reached
Request-or-TODO: Ladder rung 19
Outcome: atom-property-tests waited for nothing else to be outstanding before it
  would ask. That is right for a refinement -- a run with a broken build does not
  need to hear about an untried empty slice yet -- and wrong for a hard gate: a
  run that never states a property fails the rung whatever else is true of it.
  Rung 19 on 2026-08-04 spent six sendbacks on other gates, was never once told
  about this, and then failed on it, with a program that built, ran, printed
  exactly what was asked and survived every hostile input. This is the same
  argument the hostile-input probe already carries in this file, written for the
  same failure on rung 4: "Deferring it meant it was never reached". It is now
  asked alongside whatever else is outstanding, still bounded at three, and the
  instruction says whether the suite currently passes -- being asked for a
  property while the build is broken should read as the second job it is.
Affected-behavior: A run is told about a missing property while it still has
  attempts to write one.
Compatibility-or-migration: None.
Verification: A new test that the instruction differs by whether the tests
  passed, so a run asked mid-breakage is not told its suite is fine. The three
  existing property-instruction tests still hold.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-187

Change-ID: CL-20260803-176
Commit: fbf36b3
Date: 2026-08-04
Type: Investigation -- LAD-003 narrowed; one hypothesis refuted and a better one
  found
Request-or-TODO: LAD-003
Outcome: Ruled out the last standing explanation for the plan-binding failure. A
  run cannot hold two plan bindings: run_plan_bindings.run_id is the table's
  PRIMARY KEY, so the query's "count(*) != 1" can only ever mean zero, and zero
  means the step really is not in the revision the run is bound to. Reading the
  record path for that turned up a better-supported cause:
  agent_plan_record.go builds its local-to-durable step map from the result of
  the local BuildAgentPlan call rather than from the value the store returned,
  so a run adopts step identities it generated itself and assumes the store
  wrote the same ones. Nothing checks that. If RecordPlanRevision ever returns a
  revision whose steps carry different identities -- an idempotent hit on an
  existing revision being the obvious way -- every later step read is refused,
  with a message saying the step does not belong when the truth is that the run
  holds identities the store never issued.
Affected-behavior: None. This edits a ticket.
Compatibility-or-migration: None.
Verification: Not applicable; no behaviour changed. The refutation is read
  directly from migrations/000014_agent_plans.sql.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-186

Change-ID: CL-20260803-175
Commit: 6186d18
Date: 2026-08-04
Type: Revert -- a fixture edit of mine caused a hard regression I cannot explain
Request-or-TODO: Ladder rung 18
Outcome: CL-20260803-173 added one sentence to rung 18's requirement defining
  "pure", the same definition rung 17 states, on the reasoning that a bar and
  its prose must agree. Every pass after that edit died inside two minutes on
  "load plan step state: database constraint: step does not belong to run plan",
  having produced nothing; every pass before it reached 31 of 37 stages
  satisfied with the monad laws asserted. That is strictly worse, and the
  sentence is reverted. Three explanations were tested and refuted: the sentence
  is not read as naming files, the plan is recorded successfully in every
  failing pass, and no step goes unmapped now that adoption traces its drops.
  Behaviour count does not correlate either -- pass 1 named eighteen and was
  clean, pass 6 named sixteen and failed. LAD-003 records what was ruled out and
  the one reading that still fits: currentPlanStepState refuses on count != 1,
  so two matching rows fail exactly as zero do.
Affected-behavior: Rung 18's requirement returns to its earlier wording. The
  purity definition stays unstated, which is the known narrow failure it had
  before.
Compatibility-or-migration: None.
Verification: The reverted fixture compiles and vets. Whether the failure goes
  with it is what the next pass establishes.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-185

Change-ID: CL-20260803-174
Commit: e133f2d
Date: 2026-08-04
Type: Fix -- a step the recorded plan did not know was kept, and every read of
  it was refused
Request-or-TODO: Ladder rung 18
Outcome: Adoption maps each step's local identity onto the one the store
  recorded. A step with no mapping was kept with its local identity, and the
  store then refuses it on every read: "load plan step state: database
  constraint: step does not belong to run plan". That arrives mid-attempt, names
  no step, and reaches the coordinator as an unrecognised loop error -- which
  costs an attempt each time and, three times over, the run. Rung 18 on
  2026-08-04 lost two entire passes to it, ending in seventy-seven and
  a hundred and forty-two seconds, and the trace said only "the loop refused the
  attempt". Such a step is now dropped rather than kept, and the drop is traced
  with the identities: a step the plan never recorded is one no tool call can be
  attributed to, so keeping it offers the run work it will be refused for doing.
Affected-behavior: A plan-adoption mismatch is visible and survivable instead of
  fatal three attempts later.
Compatibility-or-migration: None.
Verification: Three new tests: an unmapped step is dropped while the mapped ones
  take their durable identities, a fully recorded plan comes back whole and in
  order, and a run with no recorded plan keeps its own identities so a degraded
  run does not become no run.
Considered-and-rejected: Reverting rung 18's requirement, which is the only
  thing that changed between the last clean pass and the two that failed. The
  correlation is real and unexplained -- filesNamedIn still reports the
  requirement as naming no file, so the layout path is unchanged, and the plan
  was recorded successfully in both failing passes. Fixing the silent mismatch
  is right whatever triggered it, and the trace will now name the step.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-184

Change-ID: CL-20260803-173
Commit: b8f0891
Date: 2026-08-04
Type: Fix -- three defects rung 18 exposed in sequence: an undefined word in the
  requirement, a template that taught the wrong shape, and a slip priced as an
  attempt
Request-or-TODO: Ladder rung 18
Outcome: Three separate things, each uncovered by fixing the one before it.
  First, rung 18 asks for two pure packages and defines "pure" nowhere, while
  the check is mechanical and strict: importing fmt makes a package impure, and
  fmt.Errorf is the idiomatic way to build the error a parse failure returns.
  The run produced a correct program -- monad laws asserted, 31 of 37 stages
  satisfied, built, run, printing exactly what was asked, surviving every
  hostile input -- and failed because mean/mean.go imports fmt. Rung 17 spells
  the definition out; rung 18 now does too. This states the bar rather than
  lowering it and nothing about what is checked changes. Second, the atom
  documentation instruction showed every one of the nineteen schema fields with
  the same indented placeholder, which is the right shape for prose and the
  wrong shape for the eight that are lists: a list field with a sentence under
  it parses to text and no items, and validation reports it as empty. A run
  wrote exactly what it was shown and had three atoms refused for
  `field "Inputs" is empty`, with Inputs written -- which is why the registry has
  been empty for every run of this session. The template now shows "- " items
  for list fields and says what happens if they are filled in as prose. Third, a
  turn asking for more tool calls than the round takes cost the whole attempt,
  counted alongside a turn carrying both calls and completion. That is a
  different thing: the run knows what it wants and got the batching wrong, and
  one sentence corrects it. Rung 18 opened by writing all three of its files in
  one turn, lost the attempt, did it again, and the run was over in seventy-seven
  seconds having produced nothing. It costs a round now, bounded at three, and
  the message carries both numbers.
Affected-behavior: Purity is defined where it is required. Atom documentation is
  shown in the shape its validator accepts. An over-batched turn costs a round.
Compatibility-or-migration: None. atomdoc gains CanonicalFieldTemplate, exported
  for the same reason CanonicalFieldLabels is: a caller describing this schema
  should read it rather than restate it.
Verification: Six new tests across the three. The per-round bound test was
  updated to the new policy and still asserts the guarantee that mattered -- that
  none of the calls run.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-183

Change-ID: CL-20260803-172
Commit: ec89d6f
Date: 2026-08-04
Type: Fix -- the property instruction described the answer and never showed one
Request-or-TODO: Ladder rung 18; standing goal to optimise the prompting
Outcome: The instruction says what a property is, in the code's terms and not in
  testing vocabulary: a decoded value round-tripping to what encoded it, a
  sorted result holding its input's elements, a total equalling the sum of its
  parts. Rung 18 read that twice -- the repeat ask landed, and it did work -- and
  wrote twenty-two tests without a loop in any of them, on a rung whose
  requirement asks for the monad laws. A law is a property in the only sense
  this gate means, so the idea was not what was missing. Five lines of Go now
  show the shape: one range over a handful of inputs, one assertion inside it.
  The instruction still leaves the relationship to the run, because choosing it
  is the part that needs thought and the loop is not.
Affected-behavior: The atom-property-tests instruction carries a worked example.
Compatibility-or-migration: None.
Verification: A new test asserting the example loops, asserts, and still leaves
  the relationship open. Checked first, against the produced worktree rather
  than the trace, that the run really had written no loop: the gate was right
  and the detector was not at fault.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-182

Change-ID: CL-20260803-171
Commit: 4c2a1bd
Date: 2026-08-04
Type: Fix -- a hard gate was asked for once and then buried, and the registry
  gap is recorded
Request-or-TODO: Ladder rung 18
Outcome: atom-property-tests fails a run outright, and it was asked exactly once
  per run on the reasoning that a run told this precisely and not doing it will
  not do it on the third telling. That holds when the tellings are consecutive.
  It does not hold when the demand is raised and then buried: rung 18 on
  2026-08-04 was asked at attempt four, spent attempts five through nine on
  integration-tests, path-coverage and atom-documentation, was never reminded,
  and failed the run on this gate two hundred seconds later -- having been told
  in that same message that "every one of these is checked again, together, on
  the next attempt", which was true of the checking and false of the asking. It
  is now bounded at three like the coverage ladder, and still asked only when
  nothing else is outstanding, so it cannot displace work that has to happen
  first. Also adds LAD-002 recording why the atom registry never fills: every
  run this session ends with registration failing advisorily, so the recall
  stage searches an empty project and the compounding-effort thesis is unstarted
  rather than unproven. TestPIPE048_ChangedContractMintsADifferentAtomIdentity
  is the cheapest way in and was confirmed failing at 5577f21, before this
  session's work.
Affected-behavior: A run that never states a property is told up to three times
  rather than once.
Compatibility-or-migration: None.
Verification: Two new tests: the bound is above one and below five, and the
  instruction says what a property is rather than only naming the unhappy gate —
  repeating an instruction only helps if it was actionable to begin with.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-181

Change-ID: CL-20260803-170
Commit: d37de09
Date: 2026-08-04
Type: Fix -- two stages asked which functions the tests call and had two
  answers, both blind the same way
Request-or-TODO: Ladder rung 18
Outcome: CL-20260803-169 taught the completeness gate to see a call to an
  explicitly instantiated generic. atom-example-tests asks the same question
  through its own scanner and was left blind, so rung 18 was asked three times
  for a test of fp/result.go:Err that existed, and then failed at
  atom-example-tests with "no test mentions Err, so nothing checks them on their
  own terms" -- with that test in front of it -- blocking the atoms and
  path-coverage stages behind it. Both now read one function. A function invoked
  indirectly is still deliberately not counted, which keeps the check stricter
  than the truth rather than looser, and that is the safe direction for a gate
  whose whole claim is that something was examined.
Affected-behavior: atom-example-tests sees generic call sites, and agrees with
  completeness by construction.
Compatibility-or-migration: None.
Verification: A new test asserts the two stages give the same answer for a
  generic call, a plain call, and a function nothing calls, rather than trusting
  that they do. Rung 18 reached this stage having produced two pure packages,
  built, run and printing exactly what was asked.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-180

Change-ID: CL-20260803-169
Commit: d37de09
Date: 2026-08-04
Type: Fix -- a test calling a generic function did not count as testing it
Request-or-TODO: Ladder rung 18
Outcome: A generic call is instantiated before it is called, and the
  instantiation wraps the name: Err[int](e) parses as an IndexExpr whose X is
  the identifier, Map[A, B](f) as an IndexListExpr. The call detector knew only
  Ident and SelectorExpr, so it saw no callee at all. It bites hardest on the
  functions that cannot be called any other way -- Err[T any](error) Result[T]
  has no argument to infer T from, so every call site must instantiate it
  explicitly, so every call to it was invisible. completeness then demanded a
  direct test for a function that already had one, and completeness is a gate
  that never escalates, so there was no way out of it: rung 18 on 2026-08-04 was
  asked for a test of fp/result.go:Err three times running, with the test
  written. This is the first rung to use generics, which is why it surfaced
  here; rungs above it use more of them.
Affected-behavior: completeness, atom-case-synthesis and every other check
  reading which tests name which function now see generic call sites.
Compatibility-or-migration: None.
Verification: Three new tests: an explicitly instantiated call of both shapes is
  seen, plain and qualified calls still are, and a generic nothing calls is
  still reported as untested.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-179

Change-ID: CL-20260803-168
Commit: fc166f7
Date: 2026-08-04
Type: Fix -- a failed stage's line stopped before its reason
Request-or-TODO: Diagnosing the registration failures on rungs 16 and 17
Outcome: Every stage line was truncated to 110 characters, which is enough to
  skim a satisfied stage and too few to act on a failed one. atom-registration
  reported "0 of 1 produced atom(s) reached the registry, so no later task can
  find this work: Calculate: documentation wa" -- the line ends exactly where
  the only actionable part begins, and reading the reason means opening the
  run's database. That is the same shape as the provider failures fixed earlier
  today, which named a category and stopped before the cause. A stage that did
  not hold now gets 420 characters; a satisfied one keeps its 110, because
  widening every line would bury the failures among the thirty that passed.
Affected-behavior: The trace only.
Compatibility-or-migration: None.
Verification: Two new tests: a failed stage's detail reaches its reason at the
  wider width and demonstrably does not at the old one, and a satisfied stage
  stays short.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-178

Change-ID: CL-20260803-167
Commit: 675c6f9
Date: 2026-08-04
Type: Fix -- the decomposition paraphrased away the names the request gave
Request-or-TODO: Ladder rung 17; standing goal to optimise the prompting
Outcome: The behaviours the planner names become the instruction a run works
  from -- a plan step's summary is the numbered list of them and nothing else --
  so a paraphrase loses the one part of a request nobody can infer. Rung 17 asks
  for a function called Totals and a struct called Entry; the decomposition
  rendered those as "Aggregate amounts independently for each name" and "Expose
  entries with a name and integer amount", and the run built the right shape
  around a function it called Calculate. It failed on the name alone, having got
  everything else: one package reaching nothing outside itself, built, run,
  printing exactly what was asked, surviving every hostile input. The planning
  instruction now asks for the request's own spelling wherever the request names
  a function, type, method, field or flag, on the grounds that such a name is a
  contract with whoever calls it rather than a detail of the description.
Affected-behavior: Behaviours carry the identifiers the request names.
Compatibility-or-migration: None.
Verification: Two new tests: the instruction asks for exact spelling and still
  carries the request; and the control that it still asks for behaviours and for
  the layout, so the addition has not turned decomposition into a naming
  exercise.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-177

Change-ID: CL-20260803-166
Commit: 671d221
Date: 2026-08-04
Type: Fix -- two long-failing tests were asserting against premises the code had
  deliberately moved past
Request-or-TODO: Regression sweep after the rung 16 work
Outcome: Both predate this session's pipeline work -- checked by running them at
  the pre-session checkpoint -- and both were reporting a deliberate design
  decision as a broken mechanism. TestAnInterruptedStallIsStillAStall asserted
  that an identical failure three times escalates, using "completeness" as the
  gate; completeness is in escalationWouldNotHelp, because it asks for text the
  run has already been given in full and a dearer model cannot supply it any
  better, so record declines to escalate on it whatever the tally. It now uses a
  gate with no exemption and fails loudly if that gate ever acquires one -- the
  same shape as the fix to TestARunRepeatingItselfIsEscalated earlier today, and
  the second time this pattern has been found.
  TestAnUndocumentedMainIsAskedForRatherThanOnlyReported looked for a bare
  "main" in the reported gaps; gaps have been qualified with their file since
  CL-20260803-141, because a generated workspace holds a stub main.go beside the
  real one and the unqualified name describes both. It matches the qualified
  name now.
Affected-behavior: None. Both changes are to tests.
Compatibility-or-migration: None.
Verification: Both pass. Both were confirmed failing at 5577f21, before any of
  this session's pipeline changes, so neither was caused by them.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-176

Change-ID: CL-20260803-165
Commit: bf60014
Date: 2026-08-04
Type: Fix -- the fuzz stage named the case it could not handle and then did the
  one thing guaranteed to fail
Request-or-TODO: Ladder rung 16
Outcome: Go refuses -fuzz across more than one package, so the stage names the
  package holding the targets. packageHoldingFuzzTargets returned nothing when
  several packages declared one -- "a choice this has no basis to make" -- and
  the caller then fell back to ./..., which is the single argument certain to be
  refused. There is no choice to make: each of those packages has a target and
  each gets fuzzed, one invocation at a time. This only started mattering today,
  because a run could not produce more than one package until the planner was
  allowed to choose the layout. Rung 16 on 2026-08-04 was blocked here holding a
  correct program -- built, ran, printed exactly what was asked, survived every
  hostile input -- and the only stage that did not hold was this one, refusing
  to run at all. The twenty-second budget is shared across the packages rather
  than multiplied by them, floored at five seconds, so the stage's cost does not
  scale with a layout the run was encouraged to choose and never holds on a
  fuzzer that looked at nothing.
Affected-behavior: A multi-package program is fuzzed. A single-package one is
  fuzzed exactly as before.
Compatibility-or-migration: None.
Verification: Four new tests: every package with a target is fuzzed and in a
  stable order, one package is still named directly, no target is no packages,
  and the budget is shared rather than multiplied. The two existing tests were
  updated to the plural helper.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-175

Change-ID: CL-20260803-164
Commit: b876e8d
Date: 2026-08-04
Type: Fix -- a protocol slip was recorded as a lost build and bought a dearer
  model
Request-or-TODO: Ladder rung 16
Outcome: A malformed turn was sent back under the assembly gate, which means the
  code did not compile, and assembly is one of the regression-prone gates:
  failing it twice halves the stall threshold, because losing a build you
  already had is going round rather than going slowly. A malformed turn is
  neither. The code may compile perfectly; what failed is the protocol -- two
  writes to one file in a turn, a call attributed to a step that cannot accept
  it -- so a run that slipped twice escalated to a more expensive model. That is
  the same mistake the infrastructure path was separated out to avoid: money
  spent on the wrong remedy. The lesson written into the project's memory also
  said the build broke, which it had not. It has its own gate now, stalls at the
  ordinary threshold, and still escalates, because honouring a tool protocol is
  the kind of thing a stronger model does more reliably.
Affected-behavior: A malformed turn no longer counts as a compile regression.
  The next attempt's scope is unchanged.
Compatibility-or-migration: A new gate name appears in traces and lessons.
Verification: Three new tests: the new gate is not regression-prone while
  assembly still is, the next attempt keeps a wide scope, and the gate is not in
  the escalation-would-not-help set.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-174

Change-ID: CL-20260803-163
Commit: a9806d7
Date: 2026-08-04
Type: Fix -- the round showed the run files as they were before it changed them
Request-or-TODO: Ladder rung 16; standing goal to optimise the prompting
Outcome: The repository context is read once, when an attempt begins, and handed
  to every round of that attempt unchanged. From the moment the run's first write
  lands, the document therefore presents files as they no longer are --
  confidently, in a field called content, at the top of the round. A patch is
  matched against a file's exact text, so a hunk written from that copy cannot
  apply; the only current copy of the file is inside the previous round's tool
  result, after a long error message. Rung 16 on 2026-08-04 failed 90 patches in
  one run with "does not match anything", and the sample examined was against a
  file that had since grown a whole extra test and a fuzz target in the region
  being patched. The loop now re-reads the files the run may change on the first
  round after a write, and merges them by path rather than replacing the list:
  the selection's excerpts and what the project already knows come from sources
  the refresher cannot consult and have not gone stale. A file the attempt
  created is appended, since it was in no revision when the context was read.
Affected-behavior: A round after a write sees the files as they are. Rounds
  before any write are unchanged, and a caller with no worktree to re-read
  supplies no refresher and behaves exactly as before.
Compatibility-or-migration: LoopDependencies gains an optional RefreshContext.
Verification: Three new tests: a refresh replaces only what it re-read and keeps
  order, a file created this attempt is appended, and an empty refresh does not
  empty the context.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-173

Change-ID: CL-20260803-162
Commit: 9503011
Date: 2026-08-04
Type: Fix -- the round document never said which files the run could write
Request-or-TODO: Ladder rung 16; standing goal to optimise the prompting
Outcome: repository_context holds files a run may read and files it may write,
  and nothing in the document told them apart. On a generated workspace the
  difference bites immediately: the module's stub main.go sits in that list
  beside the files the plan owns, and it is a main package in a project being
  asked for a program, so it reads as the obvious place to write. Runs edited it,
  were refused, and spent the round finding out what they could have been told at
  the start of it -- the advice existed and was only ever printed in the refusal
  after the write. what_to_do_now now names the writable files every round. The
  advice is the loop's own, exported rather than restated, because the
  alternative is the prompt package deciding for itself which files are writable
  and drifting from the plan that decides it.
Affected-behavior: Every round's instruction names the files the plan permits, or
  says plainly that none are.
Compatibility-or-migration: None.
Verification: Two new tests: the instruction names the open step's file, and a
  plan whose steps are all closed says so rather than listing nothing.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-172

Change-ID: CL-20260803-161
Commit: c96d8e4
Date: 2026-08-04
Type: Fix -- a documentation round refused the documentation it had been asked
  for
Request-or-TODO: Ladder rung 16
Outcome: atom-documentation names every undocumented declaration in a file and
  asks for a comment on each. The comments-only round it then opens capped a
  patch at forty lines, six hunks and half the file -- and on a small file with
  several declarations, a full documentation pass is most of the lines. Rung 16
  on 2026-08-04 was refused thirteen times for changing 71% of a stats.go it had
  just been told to document. The size limits were never what made the round
  safe: permits applies the patch in memory and requires the syntax trees to be
  byte-identical with comments stripped, which no quantity of comment lines can
  defeat. That check stays and the size limits go. A test round keeps its limits,
  because it has no equivalent proof -- permits only checks the path ends
  _test.go, so size is the only bound there is.
Affected-behavior: A documentation round may write as much comment as the gate
  asked for, and still cannot change a declaration, statement, import or
  signature.
Compatibility-or-migration: None.
Verification: Three new tests: the round is unbounded by size, it still refuses
  a behaviour change, and a test round keeps its limits.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-171

Change-ID: CL-20260803-160
Commit: fe66985
Date: 2026-08-04
Type: Fix -- a hunk with no context was told its text was wrong
Request-or-TODO: Ladder rung 16
Outcome: Measured on rung 16's pass 7: 58 of 58 no-match patch failures carried
  exactly one line and no context at all. A bare line matches wherever that text
  happens to occur, or nowhere, and "does not match anything" reads as "your
  text is wrong" -- so a run that had copied the line correctly re-checked
  characters instead of adding the context that would have located it. A
  context-free hunk that fails to match is now told that is why, and the tool
  descriptor asks for two unprefixed lines above and below every change, since
  the cheapest place to prevent this is before it is sent. Blank lines are not
  counted as context: every patch ends with a newline, so counting the trailing
  empty element would have meant no hunk ever had zero context and the new
  message could never have printed.
Affected-behavior: apply-patch failure messages, and what the descriptor asks
  for. A hunk that carries context and still misses keeps the older message,
  which was right for that case.
Compatibility-or-migration: None. PatchHunk gains a Context count.
Verification: Three new tests covering the bare-hunk message, the with-context
  control, and context counted the same whether or not its leading space was
  written. An existing staleness test was exercising its case through a bare
  hunk and now carries context, so it asserts the message it means to.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-170

Change-ID: CL-20260803-159
Commit: 6cd94db
Date: 2026-08-04
Type: Fix -- every attempt after the first was told to write somewhere else
Request-or-TODO: Ladder rung 16
Outcome: A run decides where its work goes once, and every attempt after the
  first rebuilt its steps so the step kinds could follow the filesystem --
  attempt one creates a file, attempt three patches the file attempt one wrote.
  That rebuild called agentPlanSteps, which re-derives the layout through the
  fallback parser, and the fallback answers cmd/generated/main.go and its test
  for any request naming no path. So a run whose planner chose cmd/stats and
  stats wrote there on attempt one and was told to write somewhere else
  entirely on attempt two, abandoning everything it had built. Rung 16 on
  2026-08-04 shows it exactly: the planner's layout is present in all seven
  attempts' repository context, and the model is editing cmd/generated, asking
  for direction about cmd/generated, and rewriting package clauses trying to
  reconcile the two -- including a //go:build ignore on its own test file. The
  comment above that rebuild already claimed "the plan itself is unchanged --
  the same files"; the layout is now captured once and reused, which is what
  makes that true.
Affected-behavior: Attempts after the first write the files the run planned.
  Step kinds still follow the filesystem, which is the whole reason for the
  rebuild.
Compatibility-or-migration: None.
Verification: Two new tests: the layout after a rebuild equals the layout the
  first attempt used and re-deriving demonstrably differs, and the control that
  step kinds still move from edit to patch once the files exist.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-169

Change-ID: CL-20260803-158
Commit: c59b927
Date: 2026-08-04
Type: Fix -- one unchanged suite result was handed back as many times as it was
  asked for
Request-or-TODO: Ladder rung 16
Outcome: A suite run against bytes the suite has already seen is answered from
  the last run, and the note says the files have not moved and says not to ask
  again until one does. A run that asks anyway was given the same output every
  time, labelled succeeded or failed exactly as before, which is the pipeline
  agreeing the call was worth making. Rung 16 on 2026-08-04 spent 40 of its 73
  rounds this way across 14 attempts, wrote six times in all, and exhausted its
  whole attempt budget without once acting on the compile error its last real
  suite run had reported. After two such answers the call is now refused, with a
  message naming the one thing that would make it worth making. Refused rather
  than withheld: withholding the tool for the attempt is how this was once
  handled, and it is worse, because an attempt is sent back precisely to change
  files and the moment its first patch lands the tool that would say whether the
  patch held is already gone. Any write resets the count, so the very next
  change makes the suite answerable again.
Affected-behavior: A run cannot spend an attempt asking for an answer it already
  has.
Compatibility-or-migration: None.
Verification: Three new tests covering the bound, the reset on a write, and the
  refusal naming its condition.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-168

Change-ID: CL-20260803-157
Commit: 773806f
Date: 2026-08-04
Type: Fix -- the client killed its own requests and the pipeline read it as the
  provider going away
Request-or-TODO: Ladder rung 16; Cam asked whose side the outage was on
Outcome: ResponseHeaderTimeout was thirty seconds while RequestTimeout was five
  minutes. That is not a stricter bound, it is a contradictory one: a reasoning
  model at high effort thinks for longer than thirty seconds before emitting a
  single response header, so the client cancelled the request every time and
  reported "http2: timeout awaiting response headers". The adapter then retried
  three times, each retry thought just as long, and the three failures together
  produced about ninety seconds of nothing with no status code -- which is
  indistinguishable from an outage and was diagnosed as one, by me, repeatedly.
  It ended runs whose programs were already correct: rung 16 built, ran, printed
  exactly what was asked and survived every hostile input, twice, and was
  recorded as paused. The header timeout is now the request's own, so one
  timeout governs a request. It is kept as a field rather than removed so a
  server that accepts a connection and says nothing is still bounded, and an
  injected client keeps whatever timeouts its caller chose.
Affected-behavior: Long high-effort requests complete instead of being cancelled
  at thirty seconds.
Compatibility-or-migration: None.
Verification: The next rung 16 run recorded zero provider-availability failures,
  against two in each of the two runs before it. Two new tests: the header
  timeout is never shorter than the request timeout at three different request
  timeouts, and an injected client's own timeouts are not rewritten.
Considered-and-rejected: Raising the outer infrastructure allowance from one
  retry to three over two minutes. It was written, and reverted on finding this:
  it would have spent more retries against a deterministic client-side timeout
  and buried the cause further. The escalation step-down committed earlier is
  kept -- it is sound on its own terms -- but its stated reason was wrong, and
  what it was really surviving was this.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-167

Change-ID: CL-20260803-156
Commit: 0089e8a
Date: 2026-08-04
Type: Fix -- a ladder rung asked for one more package than its own requirement
  described
Request-or-TODO: Ladder rung 16; decision taken by Cam on 2026-08-04
Outcome: Rung 16 asserted minPackages 3 against a requirement describing one
  package that exports and the command that imports it, which is two
  directories, and the count includes the command. A run that grouped the work
  exactly as written was failed for it. The engine produced cmd/stats and stats
  on two independent runs once the planner chose its own layout, which is the
  reading the prose supports. The confusion was in the name: "spans two
  packages" reads as two libraries, and the requirement names one. Rung 17 sets
  two for the same shape -- one pure package and a command -- and rung 18 sets
  three for a requirement that genuinely describes two libraries, so two is
  already what this rung's siblings mean. Bar lowered to 2 and the rung renamed
  to say what it tests.
Affected-behavior: The ladder fixture only. No production code.
Compatibility-or-migration: The rung's subtest name changes, so its artifact
  directory changes with it.
Verification: The package-count assertion no longer fires; the run builds, runs,
  prints exactly what was asked and survives every hostile input. The rung is
  still not passing, for an unrelated reason recorded below.
Considered-and-rejected: Sharpening the requirement to ask for two libraries and
  keeping the bar at 3, and pushing the planner to decompose more finely. Both
  were put to Cam with the evidence; the fixture was judged the thing that was
  wrong.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-166

Change-ID: CL-20260803-155
Commit: fba54cf
Date: 2026-08-04
Type: Fix -- LAD-001. The layout was a constant, and the cause walk added
  yesterday did not reach the cause
Request-or-TODO: LAD-001, ladder rung 16
Outcome: filesNamedIn answered with cmd/generated/main.go and its test whenever
  a request named no path, so how many packages a run could produce was a
  constant rather than a decision. Nothing downstream could recover from it: the
  plan's files are the scope every write is checked against, so a second package
  was unreachable rather than merely unplanned. The planner already reads the
  requirement to name behaviours and now names the files too, asked for only
  when the request named none -- a path in the request is the person saying
  where the work goes and still outranks it. The layout is validated against the
  loop's own path rule, must contain something runnable, gets a test beside every
  source file, and is bounded; a layout with one unusable path in it is
  discarded whole rather than repaired, because repairing means inventing the
  path the planner did not give. Falling back is a worse layout and a working
  run, which is the trade planning already makes when the planner does not
  answer. Separately, withUnderlyingCause walked the single-parent chain only,
  and the retry layer builds fmt.Errorf("%w: %w", ...) -- two verbs, so
  Unwrap() returns a slice and errors.Unwrap returns nil. The walk stopped at
  the top and appended nothing, which is why the trace after that change read
  exactly as it had before.
Affected-behavior: A request that leaves the layout open can be planned into
  more than one package. An infrastructure death names the error under the
  classification, through either wrapping shape.
Compatibility-or-migration: The decomposition schema gains a required "files"
  array, which may be empty. A planner that cannot honour the schema still falls
  back to the line parser and the parsed layout, as before.
Verification: Rung 16 produced two packages (cmd/stats and stats) where every
  previous pass produced one; the run reported "4 behaviours named, laid out in
  4 files". It still fails the rung's own bar of three. Nine new tests cover the
  layout, the nothing-to-run control, the discard-whole control, the bound, the
  empty-layout case, the request-names-a-file precedence, the loop's acceptance
  of a planner layout, and the multi-error cause walk.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-165

Change-ID: CL-20260803-154
Commit: f1dd8d4
Date: 2026-08-04
Type: Fix -- an infrastructure death named a category and never the error
Request-or-TODO: Asked whether the dead provider was rate-limiting
Outcome: providers.Failure formats as "provider <operation> failed: <kind>" and
  never mentions what it wrapped, so the line that ends a run read
  "provider call the model failed: transport" and stopped there. "transport" is
  also failureSentinel's default, so it doubles as the bucket for every
  unrecognised error, and whether the cause was a connection reset, a TLS
  failure or an EOF sat one Unwrap away and was never asked for. That is the
  difference between a fact about this machine's network and a fact about the
  provider, and the run that hit it is the only one that had the answer. The
  deepest cause is now appended after the classification, which stays first
  because it is what the circuit decided on. A message that already prints its
  cause is left alone, so nothing doubles.
Affected-behavior: The provider-availability trace line. Nothing else.
Compatibility-or-migration: None.
Verification: Three new tests, run against the previous implementation first;
  the old rendering reproduces the ladder log byte for byte,
  "provider retry budget exhausted: provider call the model failed: transport".
  A second test pins that a 429 classifies as rate-limited and never as
  transport, which is the question that exposed this.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-164

Change-ID: CL-20260803-153
Commit: 933c19f
Date: 2026-08-04
Type: Ticket -- records why rung 16 fails, without guessing at the fix
Request-or-TODO: Ladder rung 16
Outcome: Adds LAD-001. filesNamedIn falls back to exactly cmd/generated/main.go
  and its test whenever a requirement names no path, so how many packages a run
  can produce is a constant rather than a decision. Rung 16 asks for a package
  the command imports, got a plan holding one directory, and then satisfied 31
  stages with none failing while delivering one package -- every gate judged the
  plan and the plan was already wrong. The ticket names the fix (the
  decomposition, which already reads the requirement, should name the files) and
  names what was tried and rejected, so the next attempt does not repeat it.
Affected-behavior: None. No code changed.
Compatibility-or-migration: None.
Verification: Not applicable.
Considered-and-rejected: Inferring the layout from the requirement's prose. The
  symbol extractor reads only backtick-quoted code spans and these requirements
  write Mean and Max as ordinary words, so a symbol-based rule never fires; the
  implementation was written, found inert, and removed rather than replaced with
  a capitalised-word heuristic that would make the plan depend on English
  punctuation.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-163

Change-ID: CL-20260803-152
Commit: 169ba05
Date: 2026-08-04
Type: Fix -- escalating onto a provider that was not answering ended runs that
  were still making progress
Request-or-TODO: Ladder rung 15
Outcome: Escalation exists to give a stuck run a better chance. Escalating onto
  a rung that is down gives it none: the first request fails at the transport,
  the adapter exhausts its own retries, the circuit opens and the run stops.
  Rung 15 died that way in four of five passes on 2026-08-04, every one on the
  first request after moving up, while the rung below had been answering
  throughout. Two changes. Escalation no longer moves a run onto a rung another
  run found unavailable inside the health window -- it stays where it is and
  keeps the fresh allowance, because staying put is worse than moving up and
  better than stopping. And when the rung a run climbed to stops answering, the
  run climbs back down the way it came rather than ending: only to a rung this
  run actually escalated from, read off its own recorded escalations, and each
  step consuming the escalation that produced it, so one outage cannot unwind a
  whole ladder or drop a run below where it started. A run that never escalated
  has nowhere to go and the circuit opens exactly as before.
Affected-behavior: A provider failure on an escalated rung costs the escalation
  rather than the run.
Compatibility-or-migration: None.
Verification: Rung 15 passes in 427s over 6 attempts, having failed 5 passes in
  a row. Five new tests cover the refused escalation, the healthy-ladder
  control, the step down, the never-escalated control, and the one-step bound.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-162

Change-ID: CL-20260803-151
Commit: 356a4d6
Date: 2026-08-04
Type: Fix -- a failing suite was identified by its prose, so a run circling two
  red tests never counted a repeat; and an infrastructure death said nothing
  about what killed it
Request-or-TODO: Ladder rung 15
Outcome: A suite failure's text is mostly the values it compared, and a run
  getting closer without arriving changes those on every round. What identifies
  the failure is which tests are red. Rung 15 failed
  TestGivesLeftmostGapsRemainderSpaces and TestDistributesExtraSpacesEvenly
  eighteen times each across eight attempts and escalated for none of them; with
  the suite identified by its failing tests it escalated on attempt 3. Subtests
  fold into their parent, so splitting one test into a table is not a new
  failure, and clearing one of three red tests still reads as the progress it is.
  Separately, an infrastructure death traced only its classification --
  "retry-budget-exhausted" -- which says the adapter gave up and not what it gave
  up on: three ladder runs died there naming neither a status code nor a message.
  The refusal's own text is now in the line, and it identified the cause as a
  transport failure on long max-effort requests rather than anything the pipeline
  was doing. Also corrects TestASingleExampleSuiteIsNotAPropertySuite, whose
  fixtures were "package main; func main() {}" -- a program with no input space,
  which the property gate now correctly declines to judge, so its single-example
  half passed for the wrong reason and its table-driven half failed for it.
Affected-behavior: A run circling the same red tests escalates. An
  infrastructure failure names its cause.
Compatibility-or-migration: None.
Verification: Rung 15 escalated at attempt 3 rather than 9. Four new tests cover
  the suite fingerprint, the subtest fold, the progress control and the
  non-suite control, each run against the previous implementation first.
Considered-and-rejected: Counting visits per gate rather than per failure, to
  catch a run alternating between two gates. It reads "cleared example 1, now
  example 2 fails" as going round when it is the clearest sign of progress, and
  would raise the price of every working run to catch the few that are not --
  the trade TestARunThatConvergesCostsWhatItAlwaysDid exists to refuse. There is
  no evidence escalating earlier would have helped rung 15.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-161

Change-ID: CL-20260803-150
Commit: 5c33239
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- a repeated finding read as a new one because it had moved down the
  file
Request-or-TODO: Ladder rung 11
Outcome: The stall fingerprint normalises what changes between two runs of one
  defect -- addresses, durations, temporary paths, and a compiler's
  "main.go:37:12". A review writes "main.go:37" with no column, and every edit
  above the defect shifts that line, so the same finding at two line numbers
  fingerprinted as two failures and the tracker never counted a repeat. Rung 11
  was told "executeCommands nests 5 levels deep" at line 37, then at line 40,
  then at line 40 again, across four of its nine attempts; it escalated for none
  of them, stayed on the cheapest model throughout, and ran out of attempts with
  the defect still there. A file position with no column now normalises too.
  Separately, TestARunRepeatingItselfIsEscalated asserted the ordinary stall
  threshold using "acceptance", which is one of the regression-prone gates and
  has half that threshold, so it had been reporting a policy disagreement as an
  off-by-one in record. It now uses a gate that is not regression-prone, and
  fails loudly if that gate is ever added to the list.
Affected-behavior: A run circling one finding escalates on schedule. Two
  different findings, and the same finding in two files, are still distinct.
Compatibility-or-migration: None.
Verification: Rung 11 passes in 296s over 6 attempts, having failed at 464s over
  9. Patch success rose to 70% from 53%. Two new tests cover the moved-line case
  and its two controls; both were run against the previous implementation first.
  The convergence suite now passes in full for the first time this session.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-160

Change-ID: CL-20260803-149
Commit: e863873
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- a patch could not say which of several identical places it meant,
  and trailing text became part of the hunk
Request-or-TODO: Ladder rung 9
Outcome: A patch names the scope a change is inside in one of two ways: a
  heading on the "@@" line, or a hunk of nothing but context immediately before
  the change. Both were discarded -- the heading as envelope, the context block
  as a hunk that changes nothing -- so a hunk whose context was a closing brace
  and its indent was searched for across the whole file and matched once per
  function. Rung 9 sent the same six-line patch six times in a row, told each
  time to add more context, with the context it needed sitting in the hunk above
  it. Both forms now travel as a hunk's Anchor: it is never applied and never
  required to match, and its only effect is to narrow where the hunk is looked
  for, so a stale scope name costs nothing. Separately, the parser accepts an
  unprefixed line as context written without its leading space, which is right
  inside a hunk and wrong after "*** End Patch": a run that finished its patch
  and wrote a stray "EOF" had that EOF folded into the last hunk, which then
  asked the file to contain a line no file contains.
Affected-behavior: apply-patch. Ambiguity refusals fall; a patch followed by
  trailing text applies.
Compatibility-or-migration: None. No schema change.
Verification: Rung 9 passes in 502s after six failing passes. Its patch failures
  by kind: "does not match anything" fell to 6 of 109 after the end-marker fix,
  from dominant before it; "matches N places" was 103 of 109 before the anchor
  fix. Six new tests cover both anchor forms, the line-range control that must
  not become an anchor, an anchor that resolves to nothing, trailing text after
  the end marker, and a second envelope whose hunks must not be dropped.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-159

Change-ID: CL-20260803-148
Commit: 373fc05
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- a step could not use the tool its own first call made necessary,
  and the suite told a run its writes had not landed when they had
Request-or-TODO: Ladder rung 9
Outcome: A write step's kind is resolved once, when the plan is built, from
  whether the file is on disk. That stops being true the moment the step's first
  call lands. The two write tools then contradicted each other: apply-edit
  refuses a second wholesale rewrite and tells the run to send a patch instead,
  on a step whose only permitted tool was apply-edit. There was no call the run
  could make that would change the file. Rung 9 lost an attempt to it: the fix
  for its one failing test was written at 41.9s, refused, rewritten at 50.8s,
  refused again, and the attempt ended reporting that its tests did not pass. A
  creating step now declares both write tools and the tools themselves decide --
  apply-edit refuses a rewrite it has already accepted once, and apply-patch has
  nothing to match against in a file that is not there. A patch step is not
  widened, because there the file exists from the start. Separately, the no-op
  write detection, the staleness flag and the write counter all asked
  "== apply-edit", written when that was the only write tool, so from the second
  attempt onward -- when every run switches to patching -- none of them saw a
  write. A suite answered from the last run therefore told a run "the write did
  not land" while four patches had applied cleanly and undone each other; it now
  says which of those two things happened.
Affected-behavior: A run can revise the file it just created. A suite answered
  from cache names the real reason it is unchanged.
Compatibility-or-migration: None. An edit step's plan now declares two
  completion tools; the loop's contract accepts that pair and no other.
Verification: Rung 9 reached its integration tests passing for the first time in
  five passes, and reached path-coverage. New tests cover the pair, the
  patch-step control, the loop's acceptance of the pair, both notes, and the
  write-tool set.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-158

Change-ID: CL-20260803-147
Commit: 4237a5d
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Chore -- remove code nothing calls, and satisfy the atom lint the commit
  hook enforces
Request-or-TODO: Unblocking the commit of CL-20260803-140 through -146
Outcome: The repository lint refused every commit until this landed, on debt
  that predated this session: an atom whose Preconditions said "None" without
  the reason the schema requires, an atom name the verb list does not
  recognise, and seven declarations staticcheck reports as unreferenced --
  traceEnvironment, changedFileSummary, terminalStatus, reviewAdversarially,
  and three unused test fields. The naming case is recorded as an
  atom-name-exception rather than renamed, because validation is itself the
  domain action and a recognised verb would name the mechanism instead of the
  outcome. One of the seven, toolIsApproved, was this session's own: it was
  added for the completion guard and superseded by toolCanStillBeCalled, which
  asks whether an open step can accept the tool rather than whether the tool is
  approved.
Affected-behavior: None. Every removal is unreferenced by staticcheck's
  analysis, which includes tests.
Compatibility-or-migration: None.
Verification: go run ./cmd/codeflux-dev lint passes, gofmt is clean, go vet
  passes, and the agent, executor and openaimodel suites pass.
Dev-Log: None: this is cleanup carried out to land the entries above, and it is
  described here rather than in the development log because it implements
  nothing.

Change-ID: CL-20260803-146
Commit: 5577f21
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Checkpoint -- unrelated in-flight work swept in at the user's request
Request-or-TODO: User asked for everything in the working tree to be committed
Outcome: This commit collapses work that was already uncommitted in the tree when
  this session began and that this session did not review: the regenerated
  protobuf and its .proto, the codeflux-dev and codeflux command changes
  including the seed-stale-lock helpers, the atom-collection and pipeline-ledger
  frontend work, one addition to the patch-tool tests, and the TODOS.md edits.
  It is labelled a checkpoint because it is exactly what the commit rules
  otherwise forbid -- several unrelated purposes in one commit -- and its
  contents are listed rather than explained, because explaining work nobody read
  would be inventing a rationale for it.
Affected-behavior: Unknown to this session. Nothing here was exercised by the
  ladder runs that verified the rest of this batch.
Compatibility-or-migration: Unassessed. The protobuf regeneration is the part
  most likely to matter to a consumer.
Verification: go build ./... and gofmt pass over the whole tree. No behavioural
  verification was performed on this commit's contents.
Dev-Log: None. This work has no development-log entry because this session did
  not do it.

Change-ID: CL-20260803-145
Commit: 6a5aaa9
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- the patch tool applied a two-file patch to whichever file was named
  last, and searched every hunk against the whole file
Request-or-TODO: Ladder rungs 7 and 9
Outcome: A patch request carries one path and one flat list of hunks, and every
  "*** Update File:" header overwrote that path while its hunks joined the same
  list. A patch naming two files therefore had every hunk searched for in the
  file named last: a hunk written for main.go was reported as matching
  thirty-nine places in main_test.go, naming a file it was never about, and no
  amount of the added context the message asked for could have helped. Such a
  patch is now refused, naming both files, because a call is bound to one plan
  step and a step names one file -- applying half would attribute work to a step
  that did not ask for it, and dropping the other half would lose changes the run
  believes it made. The tool descriptor states one file per call, so a run is
  told before it is refused. Separately, hunks are now located in what remains of
  the file after the previous hunk landed, which is what makes repeated context
  unambiguous in a table-driven test; a hunk the remainder cannot place still
  falls back to the whole-file search, so an out-of-order patch applies exactly
  as before.
Affected-behavior: apply-patch. A two-file patch fails with an actionable message
  instead of being misapplied; ordered hunks over repeated context now apply.
Compatibility-or-migration: None. No schema change.
Verification: Rung 7's patch record across four passes: 4 of 25 landing, then 10
  of 23, then 17 of 27, then 22 of 48 on the passing run; multi-file refusals
  fell from three a run to one once the descriptor carried the rule. Five new
  tests in internal/executor/ordered_hunks_test.go cover ordered placement, the
  out-of-order fallback, a genuinely ambiguous hunk that is still refused, the
  two-file refusal, and a file named twice.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-155

Change-ID: CL-20260803-144
Commit: a965e8b
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- four hard gates were measured only after the loop that was meant to
  inform them, and two of them said things that were not true
Request-or-TODO: Ladder rungs 2, 4, 6, 7 and 9
Outcome: atom-case-synthesis, the hostile-input probe, the mutation score and
  atom-fuzz each fail a run, and each was evaluated only in the final stage wave.
  A run was therefore failed for work nothing had asked it to do: rung 4 ended on
  "given nothing at all: accepted it, printed nothing, and exited zero", first
  said at 254 seconds with the last send-back at 250. All four now report into
  the refinement loop. The probe and the fuzz-target scan are asked alongside
  whatever else is outstanding because both are cheap; the mutation score is
  deferred behind everything else because it costs a suite execution per planted
  defect. Two of these gates also misdescribed their own findings. The coverage
  instruction ended by telling a run to explain a genuinely unreachable line in a
  comment and leave it, and nothing read that explanation -- rung 7 obeyed it and
  was asked for the same lines three times -- so the escape is now the
  //codeflux:unreachable directive, whose reason is required because a checker
  can verify a marker and cannot verify a sentence. And atom-fuzz ran
  "go test -fuzz=. ./...", which Go refuses across more than one package, then
  reported the refusal as "fuzzing found a failing input": fuzzing now targets
  the single package declaring the target, and a refusal is reported as a
  refusal.
Affected-behavior: Runs are told about hostile input, missing fuzz targets,
  untried cases and weak tests while they still have attempts. A declared
  unreachable branch is no longer asked for again. A fuzzer that could not run no
  longer accuses the program of a defect.
Compatibility-or-migration: Produced code may now carry //codeflux:unreachable
  comments. No schema change.
Verification: Rungs 4, 6 and 7 pass, each having failed on the gate the change
  surfaces. New tests cover the directive and its bare-marker control, the fuzz
  package scoping, and a refusal that must not read as a finding.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-153, DL-20260803-154, DL-20260803-155

Change-ID: CL-20260803-143
Commit: 658a746
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- the attempt budget and the stall tracker disagreed with themselves
Request-or-TODO: Ladder rungs 5 and 9
Outcome: Three predicates answered one question three ways. lastAttempt treated a
  rung above and a decomposition as available allowances, but record grants those
  only on a stall, so a converging run was told an attempt would follow when none
  would: rung 5 was sent back for one uncovered line at 155 seconds and the next
  line in the trace is the run finishing. converging read any repeat as a stall
  while record escalates at three. And the stall fingerprint was taken over the
  gate and its one-line reason, which is a fixed sentence per gate, so a review
  raising three different findings across three rounds -- each addressed, each
  verified -- recorded as the same failure three times and cost rung 9 its
  extension with four minutes of budget unused. The hatches now count only when
  the run is stalling, converging uses record's own threshold including the
  halved bar for regression-prone gates, and the fingerprint includes what was
  actually asked.
Affected-behavior: A run that clears a different gate every attempt keeps its
  extension. A run repeating one failure still stalls, escalates and stops.
Compatibility-or-migration: None.
Verification: Rung 5 passes. New tests in
  internal/coordinator/attempt_budget_agreement_test.go pin the agreement between
  the two predicates, the shared threshold, and the regression-prone control;
  each was run against the previous implementation first.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-155

Change-ID: CL-20260803-142
Commit: ae366b1
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- the loop spent whole attempts on mistakes a round could correct
Request-or-TODO: Ladder rungs 1, 4, 5 and 9
Outcome: Completing a step froze the file it named, so after two patches the
  patch tool vanished and a run with a compile error left to fix spent the
  attempt emitting turns nothing could bind; a step is now spent only when it
  failed or was skipped. A turn that said nothing ended the attempt, and now
  costs a round. Reaching outside the plan ended the attempt, and now costs a
  round that names the files the plan owns -- on a generated workspace the wrong
  file is nearly always the stub main.go in the opening context. An attempt could
  end on a write no test had seen, which the coordinator then discarded
  wholesale; the loop refuses that ending while the suite is still callable. A
  mislabelled call was corrected in one place and left uncorrected in the four
  records written about it, so the durable consistency trigger refused the
  transition and discarded the attempt. And a run of identical tool failures no
  longer records the step as failed, because nothing can move a step out of
  failed and completion evidence must attribute to an implemented one.
Affected-behavior: Attempts are spent on work rather than on correctable
  mistakes. Every record of a tool call names the step the loop bound it to.
Compatibility-or-migration: None.
Verification: Rungs 1, 5, 6, 7 and 8 pass. New tests in internal/agent cover each
  retry and its bound, the repeat-write case, the failed-step control, and the
  attribution agreement; each was run against the previous implementation.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-150, DL-20260803-152, DL-20260803-155

Change-ID: CL-20260803-141
Commit: 1fb3d24
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- the prompt described the run's own files inaccurately
Request-or-TODO: Ladder rungs 1, 4, 5 and 6
Outcome: patchContextItems appended its own explanation to the file's content
  field, so a run reading a file that ended "This is cmd/generated/main.go
  exactly as it stands now" wrote hunks deleting that sentence, which could never
  match; producedTestFilesFor did the same to every test file. Both now carry the
  file and nothing else, with the guidance in a pseudo-item. Every gate's
  instruction reached the model labelled "last-test-run-output", so the one item
  asking for new work was named as a log of something already finished while
  what_to_do_now pointed at the original plan. A patch was answered with nothing
  and a suite run with nothing, so a hunk written after either was written
  against a file that had already moved -- a patch straight after a test call
  failed 15 times out of 21, against 2 of 7 otherwise. A refusal the narrator
  issued itself carried no request identity, so the loop rejected it as a
  malformed result and the coordinator ended the attempt on it. And completeness
  gaps now name the file with the function, because a generated workspace holds
  two declarations called main.
Affected-behavior: The model sees its files as they are, is told what it must do
  in an item named for that, and is refused in a way it can read.
Compatibility-or-migration: None.
Verification: Rungs 1 through 8 pass. The patch failure rate for a patch written
  after a test call fell from 71% to 8%. New and updated tests cover the echo,
  its worktree confinement, the size bound, and the refusal identity.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-151, DL-20260803-152, DL-20260803-153

Change-ID: CL-20260803-140
Commit: 004d2f7
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- gates that contradicted each other, and a time report that could not
  be read
Request-or-TODO: Ladder rungs 1, 2 and 4
Outcome: path-coverage demanded coverage of lines no test in the same process can
  execute -- main's body, and any block that ends the process -- which were the
  very lines the adversarial review had just demanded be written; two sibling
  gates already exempted main and this one did not. atom-property-tests read
  atom-case-synthesis' answer to decide whether an input space exists, and case
  synthesis counts a failure case for any atom returning an error, so a program
  printing a constant through an injected writer was asked for a property over
  inputs it does not have. Atom registration counted declarations the
  documentation ask deliberately never requested, reporting "0 of 3 reached the
  registry" when one had been asked for, written and refused on a missing field
  and the other two were correctly never mentioned. And the phase report summed
  per-stage durations across concurrent, repeatedly-decided stages, reporting
  2991.96s of a 371-second run, which drove the unaccounted remainder negative
  and silently omitted the one line the report exists for.
Affected-behavior: Gates no longer refuse what another gate required. The time
  report's phases are the union of when each was running, and the remainder
  always prints.
Compatibility-or-migration: None.
Verification: Rungs 1, 2 and 4 pass. New tests cover the coverage exemptions and
  their reachable-line control, the property gate's sink-versus-reader
  distinction, the registration scope, and the interval arithmetic.
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-150, DL-20260803-152, DL-20260803-153

Change-ID: CL-20260803-139
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- one protocol for the decomposition answer, and no suite run that
  could learn nothing
Request-or-TODO: Pipeline analysis, items 7 and 10
Outcome: The decomposition prompt asked for "one behaviour per line and nothing
  else" while the request carried a JSON schema the answer had to satisfy. Two
  protocols, one enforced and the other merely asked for, and a model reading
  both has to guess which is real — which is a plausible part of why the same
  request decomposed into seven behaviours one run and six the next. The schema
  is the format now, and the instruction says only what to put in it: what is
  observable from outside the program, because that is what a test can check,
  and each stated error case as its own behaviour, because refusing bad input
  is something a program does and something that can be got wrong on its own.
  The suite is no longer offered to a round that has changed nothing since it
  last ran. The coordinator already noticed and said so afterwards; the model
  cannot see it, and each re-run looked to it like a step forward. Withholding
  the tool is more honest than letting it be called and then explaining that
  the answer was already known. The write tools are still offered, because a
  round that cannot usefully test can still be a round that writes.
Verification: Build, vet, gofmt, one new test and the planning suite
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-149

Change-ID: CL-20260803-138
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Feature -- refinement takes two related findings and knows what it tried
Request-or-TODO: Pipeline analysis, items 4, 5 and 6
Outcome: A round given ten findings makes ten changes and verifies once, so a
  failure afterwards says only that one of ten was wrong. Two changes and a
  verification is a bisection; ten is a guess. Rung 6 was handed a full review
  and rewrote its files ten and thirteen times inside single attempts.
  A round now takes at most two findings, and related ones rather than the
  first two: fixing two things in one function is one edit, and fixing one in
  the parser and one in the printer is two, with the second undoing the
  verification the first earned. The measured defect leads, because that is
  what the review already decided matters. What is not selected stays open
  rather than becoming an advisory — it has not been tried, and calling it
  carried would be deciding not to fix something nobody looked at.
  Scope is derived from the findings rather than from the gate. A gate is one
  word about a whole review: rung 6's review found a real defect in main and
  the next attempt was restricted to test files, because the rule keyed on the
  gate and the finding knew better. A round holding any production defect may
  change production code; a round holding only missing tests may not, because
  the program is usually already right and rewriting it is how that run broke a
  working evaluator while adding two tests.
  Progress is tracked rather than assumed. A finding that stops being raised is
  verified; one addressed twice and still raised is exhausted and carried,
  because it is not going to be fixed by a fourth attempt and saying so is more
  useful than sending the same prose again.
Verification: Build, vet, gofmt, four new tests covering scope from findings,
  the two-related-findings rule, exhaustion after two attempts, and
  verification when a finding stops being raised
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-148

Change-ID: CL-20260803-137
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Feature -- a run can see the file it is about to patch
Request-or-TODO: Pipeline analysis item 3; direct instruction to document how
  the tests are run
Outcome: Context selection reads the repository at its base revision, and on a
  generated project that is empty: the files a refinement changes are ones the
  run wrote itself, and they were in no revision when the selection ran. So a
  refinement round asked a model to change a file it had last seen several
  attempts earlier, and the model did the only thing available — rewrote the
  whole file from memory, which is how a working program loses a function
  nobody meant to touch.
  A patch cannot be written from memory at all. Its hunks are matched against
  the file's exact text, indentation included, so offering the patch tool
  without the file was offering a tool that could not be used. Every file a
  step is about to modify is now in the round's context in full, with the
  revision a patch is written against, and the tests beside it, which are what
  must still pass afterwards.
  Only those files. Everything else is context selection's business, and files
  nobody asked about spend the context the instruction needs.
  docs/testing.md is added, at request: the four test surfaces and which one
  spends money, how to run one ladder rung, how to read the trace, what a
  healthy rung looks like, how to read a run afterwards without paying for
  another, and the three different things a rung failure can mean.
Verification: Build, vet, gofmt, three new context tests
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-147

Change-ID: CL-20260803-136
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- one mapping from step kind to write tool, and a plan the loop
  refuses stops the run at once
Request-or-TODO: Pipeline analysis, 2026-08-03, items 1 and 2
Outcome: CL-20260803-135 listed two completion tools on the edit step so the
  patch tool would be offered. The loop's validator requires exactly the one
  tool a step's kind names, and it had not been told. Every plan was refused
  before the first prompt: three attempts, an escalation to the most expensive
  rung, zero files written, zero patches attempted, zero tests run, and a full
  pipeline dump describing thirty-six stages nothing had reached. Thirteen
  seconds of planning and reporting with no coding loop at all.
  The remedy is a separate kind rather than a broadened one. A create step is
  completed by the whole-file tool and a modify step by the patch tool, one
  each, and which one a file gets is resolved from whether it is already on
  disk. The plan is rebuilt every attempt, so the same file is a create on
  attempt one and a modify on attempt three — which is the transition the patch
  tool existed for and never had.
  The mapping now lives in one place and the loop's own validator is exported,
  so a test asserts the two agree rather than assuming it. Each file had been
  individually defensible; only the relationship between them was wrong.
  A plan the loop will never accept is no longer retried. It fails identically
  however good the model is, and treating it as a model-quality problem spent
  three attempts and an escalation on coordinator metadata the model never
  sees. It now ends the run at once and says it is a defect in this build
  rather than in the work.
Verification: Build, vet, gofmt, three new invariant tests covering plan
  acceptance before and after the files exist, the kind-to-tool mapping, and
  the create-to-modify transition
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-146

Change-ID: CL-20260803-135
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- the patch tool nobody was offered, and the eleven-rewrite attempt
Request-or-TODO: Observed in the rung 6 trace after CL-20260803-134
Outcome: The JSON prompts worked: zero backticks in the whole run. The patch
  tool did not, because it was never offered.
  The loop shows a model only the tools an open plan step declares, and every
  write step declared the whole-file tool alone. apply-patch was registered,
  described, tested and unreachable — it never once appeared in
  tools_you_may_call. A model cannot use a tool it is not given, and every
  other change made for its sake was inert. A write step now accepts either,
  and a test asserts it, because this is precisely the wiring that looks
  correct in each file and is wrong between them.
  A second wholesale rewrite of the same file in one attempt is now refused and
  pointed at the patch tool. The first is how a file comes into existence; the
  eleventh is a run that has stopped editing and started guessing. Rung 6 wrote
  whole files eleven times in attempt four and thirteen in attempt five, each
  re-sending two thousand bytes to move ten, each line re-sent a chance to drop
  something that was working.
Verification: Build, vet, gofmt, a new test that a write step can be completed
  by a patch, and the edit-scope suite
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-145

Change-ID: CL-20260803-134
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Feature -- every prompt is a declared JSON document, and the fences are
  gone
Request-or-TODO: Direct instruction, 2026-08-03: structured outputs, a JSON
  message shape per prompt, no Markdown fences
Outcome: The round handed to the model was prose assembled by string
  concatenation, with repository files and tool output wrapped in triple
  backticks to separate untrusted content from the instruction. That separation
  is closable by the content it separates: a file holding three backticks ends
  the block, and everything after it reads as instruction.
  The round is now one JSON object with declared fields — round,
  repository_context, plan, what_has_happened,
  results_of_your_last_tool_calls, tools_you_may_call, what_to_do_now — and the
  system message describes that shape so the model knows what it is reading. A
  string is a string however many backticks are in it, and the escaping is the
  language's rather than ours. A test carries a hostile file containing a fence
  and an injected instruction through the encoder and proves it arrives as
  data.
  It also stops the prompt teaching a habit the tools refuse. A model shown
  fenced code every round writes fenced code back, and the write tool rejects
  it: ladder rung 6 spent four turns on exactly that, and the prompt was the
  thing demonstrating the format. The system message now says outright that a
  tool argument is literal content and a fence costs the round.
  Every model call in this build is now structured: planning answers a JSON
  schema, the working turns are tool calls whose arguments are JSON against the
  tool's own schema, the observation going out is JSON, and the tool results
  coming back are typed fields rather than a blob.
  Patch size is bound to the obligation. A patch tool removes the accidental
  rewrite and not the deliberate one — a model can rewrite a file hunk by hunk
  as thoroughly as in one write — so a documentation round may move forty lines
  across six hunks and a test round a hundred and twenty across eight, measured
  after applying the patch in memory and refused before anything is written.
Verification: Build, vet, gofmt, three observation tests, the openaimodel and
  executor suites
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-144

Change-ID: CL-20260803-133
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Feature -- refinement edits by patch, and stops echoing files into prompts
Request-or-TODO: Direct instruction, 2026-08-03: diff-based edits, structured
  and targeted, and stop echoing whole files
Outcome: Two changes, and the second was the more expensive defect.
  UserReadableToolSummary rendered every argument in full, and that summary
  travels back into the next prompt as the record of what the last round did.
  So a written file's entire contents were echoed into every subsequent request
  for the rest of the run — two or three thousand bytes per edit, repeated,
  paid for by the token and crowding out the instruction. Large values are now
  a bounded excerpt with their length and digest. What the next round needs is
  that the write happened, to what, and how big it was; if it needs the
  contents it can read them, which costs the same tokens once instead of every
  round.
  apply-patch is a real tool now, taking the format the models already reach
  for: a "*** Update File" header, "@@" before each hunk, lines to remove
  prefixed "-", lines to add prefixed "+", and unprefixed context around them.
  A hunk is located by its whole before-text rather than by line numbers,
  because a line number goes stale the moment anything above it moves and a
  mis-numbered hunk either fails obscurely or applies in the wrong place.
  Context does not go stale: it either still reads that way or it does not.
  Every hunk must match exactly once. Matching twice is not a near miss to
  resolve by guessing — it is the patch failing to say which place is meant,
  and guessing is how an edit lands in the wrong function. Every hunk applies
  or none does, and the result must still parse as Go before anything is
  written, because a half-patched file is a state neither the model nor the
  coordinator asked for.
  The whole-file tool now routes patch syntax rather than refusing it: the
  content was right and the tool was wrong, and saying which tool takes it is
  worth more than explaining what a Go file looks like. Its summary says it is
  for creating a file or replacing one wholesale, and the house style says to
  patch an existing file rather than rewrite it.
Verification: Build, vet, gofmt, seven new patch tests covering ambiguity,
  staleness, all-or-nothing application, missing context, the frame, and
  git-style headers
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-143

Change-ID: CL-20260803-132
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- the write tool described itself as a patch API, and got patches
Request-or-TODO: Observed live in the rung 6 trace, 2026-08-03
Outcome: The trace paid for itself on its first run. Rung 6 spent four turns
  sending "*** Begin Patch" three times and "@@" once, each refused, and the
  reason was not the model. The tool's own summary read "Apply an expected-hash
  edit batch", which is a patch API described in words. A model reads the
  summary before deciding what to send, and it sent what the summary described.
  The summary now says what the tool takes: one file's complete new contents,
  not a patch or diff. A test asserts it keeps saying so, because this is
  exactly the kind of wording that drifts back.
  The refusal names the mistake too. "What arrived is not source at all" does
  not tell a model which of its habits to drop; "this tool has no patch mode,
  send the whole file from its package clause to its last line" does. Detected
  from a fixed list of openings — the unified-diff hunk and file headers, the
  apply-patch envelope markers, a merge conflict marker — rather than guessed
  from content, so a Go file that starts oddly is not misread.
Verification: Build, vet, gofmt, the full executor suite including two new
  tests
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-142

Change-ID: CL-20260803-131
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- the phase trace said nothing, and the ladder's second question was
  never asked
Request-or-TODO: Observed in the rung 6 trace, 2026-08-03
Outcome: The phase boundaries added an hour earlier were nonsense on their
  first real run. Stages are decided in dependency order rather than in numeric
  order, so the label changed constantly and the run reported twenty-three
  phases in four minutes, bouncing between specification and delivery. A
  boundary every time a label changes is not a phase; it is a label changing.
  A phase is now announced once, the first time one of its stages is decided,
  and the totals are reported at the end with each phase's share. The most
  useful line is the remainder: rung 6 measured nine seconds of stages across
  four minutes, and the answer to "why is this slow" was never going to be in
  any stage — it is the model calls and tool runs between them, which the trace
  now says outright rather than leaving a reader to subtract.
  The ladder's second question was also missing: an edit adding it had silently
  failed to apply, so the suite still reported only whether the program worked.
  It now logs the task state and fails when the program is correct and the
  pipeline did not converge.
Verification: Build, vet, gofmt, the coordinator suites
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-141

Change-ID: CL-20260803-130
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Feature -- three ways a run can go missing, closed
Request-or-TODO: Provider-failure analysis, items 7, 9 and 10
Outcome: A run may not return with its task active, and that is now enforced by
  a defer rather than intended by every path. "Every path arranges it" is the
  kind of claim that stays true until somebody adds a path, and a task left
  running is invisible: nothing retries it, nothing reports it, and whatever is
  waiting on it waits forever. The forced ending is recovery-required rather
  than failed, because a run that reached the end without recording an outcome
  produced work nobody has judged.
  The case a defer cannot catch — the process died, so there was no return to
  defer from — is covered by a reconciler that finds tasks sitting active with
  nothing happening to them and marks them for recovery. It never resumes
  anything: restarting work that may have been half done, on a provider that
  may have been why it died, is a decision with a bill attached and belongs to
  a person. Its staleness window is deliberately generous, because reconciling
  a live run out from under itself is a far worse defect than leaving a dead
  one for another cycle.
  Provider health is now shared across runs. The per-run circuit is right and
  insufficient: twenty tasks discovering the same dead provider one full
  timeout at a time is twenty times the wait and twenty times the spend for one
  fact. A run that exhausts a provider records it for thirty seconds; a run
  starting inside that window is told before it waits rather than after. It is
  advisory — the run still tries, because a task that never starts because an
  unrelated one failed is the worse mistake — and a success clears it at once.
Verification: Build, vet, gofmt, six new tests covering the shared health
  window and the reconciler's refusal to touch a live run
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-140

Change-ID: CL-20260803-129
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- provider failure becomes a bounded state machine, and the trace
  shows phases, timings, prompts and replies
Request-or-TODO: Provider-failure analysis and the tracing request, 2026-08-03
Outcome: Opening the circuit was tied to holding a checkpoint, so the case with
  no verified work -- the one where stopping matters most, because there is
  nothing to fall back on -- was the case that kept asking an unavailable
  provider. The checkpoint now decides what recovery means, not whether the
  breaker opens.
  Four dispositions replace one boolean, because the three ways of stopping are
  genuinely different: a run holding verified work finishes on it, a run
  holding an unverified draft is left recovery-required for somebody to resume,
  and a run whose credentials are wrong is not waiting for anything.
  recovery-required is not "failed": a draft nobody could check because the
  machinery went away is unfinished work, not bad work, and it is the only
  ending that says the worktree is worth keeping.
  The machinery got its own allowance, separate from the work's and never
  refunded. Refunding the work's budget is right -- a run learned nothing from
  an outage -- but a refund with no separate ceiling is an unbounded licence to
  keep asking. One outer retry and twenty-five seconds; the provider adapter
  already owns network retries with its own backoff, and this layer's only job
  is to notice that the layer below has given up.
  Cancellation outranks everything, and an authentication or safety refusal is
  not retried at all. The message is composed from the ruling, so a run can no
  longer say "Trying again" and finalise on the next line.
  Finalisation runs on its own context, derived with WithoutCancel: the context
  that timed out waiting for a model was the same one used to write the ending,
  so a run that died of a provider timeout could not record that it had.
  The trace now shows what a watcher asked for: phase boundaries with elapsed
  time, per-stage duration, and the prompts and replies themselves. The trace
  primitives moved to internal/tracing so the model client can write to the
  same stream -- a trace showing which stage is running and not what was sent
  answers "where is it" and not "why".
Verification: Build, vet, gofmt, seven circuit tests covering exhaustion with
  and without a checkpoint, the bounded transport retry, the unrefundable
  allowance, unretryable failures, cancellation precedence and the narration
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-139

Change-ID: CL-20260803-128
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- the refinement policy stops spending runs on invented wording
Request-or-TODO: Rung 6 trace analysis, 2026-08-03, items 1 to 8, 10 and 11
Outcome: Most of rung 6's churn went on error prose the requirement never
  specified -- "expression leaves 0 values", then "... on stack", then "... on
  the stack" -- and on a test demanding `operator "a" requires two operands`
  where the implementation's `invalid token "a"` was the better answer. The
  style directive now says it plainly: assert that a failure happened and that
  it is the sentinel or type the code declares, never the exact text of a
  message the request did not specify. The wording is the implementation's to
  choose, and a test that pins it turns a correct program into a failing one
  for a reason nobody asked about.
  A parameter a function parses now gets a parser's questions -- input that
  runs out part way, input that is well formed and then continues, a token the
  grammar has no meaning for -- instead of the collection heuristics. An RPN
  token stream is ordered syntax; "the same element repeated" is not a tie to
  break and "already in the wrong order" is not a property it has.
  Property tests joined the attempt loop. Rung 6 ended on "atom-property-tests
  failed" having never been asked for one: the gate was hard, the run had
  attempts left, and nothing told it. Path coverage was decoupled from the
  six-link chain that had it waiting on property tests, atoms, verification,
  composition and control flow -- it runs the suite itself, so what it needs is
  something to run, not somebody else's verdict on having run it.
  A blind-spot round may now write only test files, and a documentation round
  may change only comments, enforced at the write with the executable syntax
  tree compared before and after. Both were already asked for in prose, and
  rung 6 was asked for a comment on main and rewrote the evaluator's error
  semantics.
  Content that is not source is refused by its shape rather than by a column
  number. "<<", "*", "noop" and "#" arrived as Go source across two attempts
  and each got "expected 'package', found ..." -- the symptom, where the run
  needed the category.
  "Trying again" is no longer said by a run whose circuit has just opened, and
  "ready to be looked at with advisories" is reserved for a run with no hard
  failure. The ladder now reports the task state beside the program's
  behaviour and fails when they disagree: rung 6 reported PASS while the task
  ended failed, which reads as "the platform worked" when what was established
  was "the program was correct despite the platform not finishing".
Verification: Build, vet, gofmt, thirteen new tests across edit scope, the
  write shape check, case duplication and reader matching
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-138

Change-ID: CL-20260803-127
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- two cases stop being one, and the schema stops claiming what it
  cannot know
Request-or-TODO: Rung 5 enrichment analysis, items 5 and 7
Outcome: sampleOf falls back to the zero value for any type it does not know,
  so a slice of a produced struct rendered its "three distinct items" case and
  its "the same item repeated" case as the identical text, and its
  one-element case and its zero-valued-element case likewise. One label of each
  pair is not what it says, no suite can answer both from one literal, and
  counting them separately asked for a case that does not exist. Where no two
  distinct values can be written the cases are now described rather than
  quoted, and every type's ladder is deduplicated on the way out, keeping the
  case whose class matters most -- if a run only gets to try one input, that is
  the one to try.
  The derived documentation stopped making claims the analysis cannot support.
  A function handed an io.Reader is pure by the effect analysis, because it
  reaches nothing outside its arguments, and calling it twice does not give the
  same answer: the reader is consumed. Writing "the same arguments give the
  same results" of it is confidently false, and a later run reusing it on that
  basis is wrong in a way the documentation caused. Determinism and idempotency
  now read unknown for a function taking a stream, complexity reads unknown
  where the cost is dominated by something this cannot measure -- a JSON decode
  is not constant time because the body has no loop -- and verification says
  the acceptance examples are properties of the whole command rather than of
  this function alone. A genuinely pure function keeps its confident answers:
  the point is accuracy, not timidity.
Verification: Build, vet, gofmt, four new tests
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-137

Change-ID: CL-20260803-126
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- enrichment commits or does not happen, and unverified atoms are
  not admitted
Request-or-TODO: Rung 5 enrichment analysis, 2026-08-03, items 1 to 4 and 10
Outcome: Deriving the registry documentation was right; doing it in place was
  not. Enrichment edited the verified worktree, revalidated, and stopped --
  leaving the tree different from every recorded artifact and from the
  checkpoint digest the run then reported as its verified revision. Rung 5
  ended with a correct 7,593-byte program on disk, an artifact record holding
  the version before enrichment, and a terminal record saying "the worktree is
  NOT verified revision 8bef148ac7cd". All three were accurate, and the run
  failed anyway, because the only thing anyone could read back was the stale
  copy.
  The sequence now commits or does not happen: enrich, build, test, check the
  acceptance examples, re-record every produced file, capture a new verified
  digest. Any step failing puts the previous revision back and records nothing.
  Registration is withheld when this run's atom verification was performed and
  did not hold. Rung 5 registered three atoms while case synthesis had failed,
  example tests and verification were blocked behind it, and the task ended
  failed. A registry row asserts that a later task may reuse this instead of
  building it, and saying that about code whose own verification never ran
  poisons every project that reads it.
  Withheld on a checked failure rather than on the absence of a check. A flow
  that never reached the stage has established nothing either way, and refusing
  on that would stop registration everywhere except a full run.
Verification: Build, vet, gofmt, the recall, registration and derived-schema
  suites
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-136

Change-ID: CL-20260803-125
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- a blind spot asks for a test, and a run keeps time to finish
Request-or-TODO: Rung 5 regression-stall analysis, items 3 and 5
Outcome: A review that found only blind spots is asking for tests, not for
  edits. A blind spot is behaviour nothing checks, which is not the same as
  behaviour that is wrong, and the program is usually already correct about it:
  a parser asked for an empty-input test very often rejects empty input
  perfectly well and has simply never been asked. Ladder rung 5 was given two
  blind spots, rewrote its production code to address them, changed its output
  in the process, and spent four attempts getting back to a program it already
  had. The order is now stated: write the test, run it, change the program only
  for a test that actually fails, and do not rewrite working code to make room
  for a test. A review holding a real defect is told none of this, because a
  demonstrated defect is not closed by a test that passes.
  A run also now keeps a minute of wall clock back to finish with. What
  finishing costs is knowable -- restore the checkpoint, rebuild, re-run the
  suite, check acceptance, write the terminal state -- and a run that spends
  its last minute on a model call it cannot complete has no result, no terminal
  state, and a record that says nothing, while a verified revision sits on
  disk. Only when the caller set a deadline: a run without one has nothing to
  reserve against, and inventing a limit would end runs entitled to continue.
Verification: Build, vet, gofmt, one new test that a blind-spot-only review
  asks for tests first and a defect-bearing one does not
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-135

Change-ID: CL-20260803-124
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- a failed refinement stops becoming the next refinement's baseline
Request-or-TODO: Rung 5 regression-stall analysis, 2026-08-03
Outcome: A refinement is a candidate, not a commit, and every attempt was
  editing the worktree in place -- so a failed candidate became the next
  candidate's baseline. Ladder rung 5 had a correct, tested, accepted program
  at 33.8 seconds, changed its output while adding two blind-spot tests, and
  then spent attempts three, four and five repairing a descendant of the broken
  version: losing a function its own tests named, drifting a signature, and
  referencing an undefined identifier, none of which existed in the program it
  started from.
  A refinement that loses the build, the tests or the acceptance examples is
  now discarded and the verified revision put back before the next attempt. The
  failed candidate is preserved beside the worktree rather than deleted -- what
  it tried is a hypothesis that has been run, and it is the most useful thing
  the next attempt can be told -- and the instruction says plainly that the
  edits are gone and why, because a run that reads its own files and finds work
  it does not remember doing will assume the tooling is broken.
  Nothing is discarded when there is no verified revision to go back to. A run
  that has never had one has nothing better than what it is holding.
  Separately, an exhausted retry budget now opens the circuit on its first
  occurrence. The two-failure rule is right for a raw transport error, which
  may be one closed socket, and wrong for "retry budget exhausted" -- that is
  the provider's own retry policy reporting it has already tried and given up.
  Rung 5 waited 90.8 seconds for the first and began a second attempt that
  would have cost another ninety, with a verified checkpoint on disk the whole
  time.
  A gate that a run had satisfied and then lost now escalates on its second
  failure rather than its third. A cycle is by definition not consecutive: the
  failures alternate with the fixes, which is what makes it a cycle and what
  made it invisible to a consecutive-repeat counter.
Verification: Build, vet, gofmt, two new discard tests
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-134

Change-ID: CL-20260803-123
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- a restore is honest, and an advisory stage stops gating hard ones
Request-or-TODO: Rung 5 trace analysis, 2026-08-03, items 1 to 3
Outcome: A restore now clears everything the run believed about the tree it
  replaced -- whether validation ran, whether it failed, whether files moved
  since, the last suite fingerprint, the last failure -- rather than reasoning
  around stale flags. A stale fact that survives a restore is
  indistinguishable from a current one, and the whole point of the restore is
  that the worktree changed.
  The terminal record states three facts separately where one boolean used to
  answer all three badly: whether the tree that exists now passes the
  completion floor, whether every required gate held, and whether this tree is
  the one the checkpoint verified. Rung 5 restored a verified revision and
  reported "the work was never verified" -- true of the gates, false of the
  tree, and said as though it were both.
  A hard stage may no longer depend on an advisory one. Composition
  obligations required atom documentation, which was reasonable while
  documentation was asked of the model during the run and is not now that it
  is derived after verification and classified advisory. The edge blocked four
  hard stages -- composition obligations, molecule tests, molecules, molecule
  verification -- so a run with a perfectly good composition was told nothing
  about it because a comment was missing. The dependency that survives is the
  real one: obligations are stated over atoms shown to work.
Verification: Build, vet, gofmt, the finalization suite and the pipeline suite
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-133

Change-ID: CL-20260803-122
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- a restored run stops calling its own verified work unverified
Request-or-TODO: Rung 5, run alone, 2026-08-03; analysis item 12
Outcome: Rung 5 passed, and the checkpoint did exactly what it is for: attempt
  6 broke the suite, the run put back revision 28c3375abe72, and finished on
  work that had compiled, passed its tests and matched its acceptance examples.
  Its record then said "Final status: failed — the work was never verified",
  in the same paragraph as "restored=true verified_revision=28c3375abe72",
  about the same worktree.
  filesChangedSinceValidation tracks what the agent wrote, so a restore was
  invisible to it: the run replaced the tree and then read the failed verdict
  of the attempt that had broken it. A restore is a write, and the verdict has
  to describe the tree that exists, so it now forces a revalidation like any
  other write.
Verification: Build, vet, gofmt, and a test that the terminal record cannot say
  both that a revision was verified and that none ever was
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-132

Change-ID: CL-20260803-121
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- the atom registry fills for the first time
Request-or-TODO: Process-refinement analysis item 5
Outcome: Every run of this session recorded "0 of N produced atom(s) carried
  schema-v1 //codeflux:atom documentation". Deriving the documentation from
  measured facts was the right half of the answer and it still registered
  nothing, for two reasons neither of which was visible.
  The schema block was inserted above StartLine, which points at the doc
  comment rather than at the declaration, so it landed before the ordinary
  comment and the prose that followed read as a continuation of the last field.
  It now goes directly above the func keyword, which is where the schema's own
  instruction has always said to put it.
  Seven of the nineteen fields are lists, read from lines beginning with a
  dash, and they were written as prose. The document was refused with 'field
  "Inputs" is empty' against a line reading "int, []int" -- a field that
  visibly has words in it. Those seven now emit items.
  Neither reason was reachable from any record. Registration counted refusals
  and discarded why, so "0 of 2 produced atoms" was the whole account. The
  reasons are now carried in the stage's evidence, traced per atom, and named
  in the stage detail, which is what made both defects findable in one run
  instead of one per guess.
Verification: Build, vet, gofmt, and a new test that drives an undocumented
  atom through derivation into the registry and reads the revision back out of
  storage
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-131

Change-ID: CL-20260803-120
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- the three blockers: fatal loop errors, late gates, and a noise gate
Request-or-TODO: Process-refinement analysis, 2026-08-03, items 1 to 4
Outcome: A loop error this code had no name for ended the run outright. Two
  named errors were absorbed and everything else was fatal, which put "the loop
  refused a tool result whose identity it could not match" in the same category
  as "the database will not open". Rung 3 died on exactly that, having already
  written a working program and needing one more attempt to add a missing
  import; thirty-seven stages were recorded as never performed because of one
  refused turn. Unrecognised loop errors now cost an attempt, bounded at two,
  after which the run ends with the error -- which is correct for a machine
  that is actually broken.
  Path coverage was measured only after the attempt loop, so a run converged,
  finished, and was then told that five of its thirty-nine changed lines are
  executed by nothing. Rung 2 did exactly that. Uncovered lines are now named
  inside the loop, while attempts remain, with the lines listed rather than a
  percentage: a run told "coverage is 87%" has to work out which lines the
  number is about before it can act. Bounded at three rounds, because coverage
  of generated code has a floor below which the remaining lines are error
  branches nothing reaches without contorting the program.
  The non-functional gate stopped reporting weather as a defect. A ratio alone
  measures noise when the baseline is small: rung 2 failed at 591ms against a
  372ms baseline. The limit is now the larger of the 1.5x ratio and the
  baseline plus half a second, so a minute-long suite is unaffected and a
  third-of-a-second suite stops crying wolf. It also joins the advisory set,
  where a wall-clock measurement on a developer machine belongs.
  Severity is printed beside every stage decision. A reader watching a run
  could not otherwise tell a failure that stops the work from one carried as a
  note, and the two look identical in a log.
Verification: Build, vet, gofmt, the finalization and non-functional tests
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-130

Change-ID: CL-20260803-119
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- a saving of one test run cost a whole rung
Request-or-TODO: Observed in the shared rungs 1-3 run, 2026-08-03
Outcome: CL-20260803-114 refused a test run against files that had not moved
  since the last one, by returning a result without calling the executor. The
  executor is what records a tool in the run's journal, so the loop saw a turn
  whose tool never happened, refused it, and ended the run. Ladder rung 3 lost
  all thirty-seven of its remaining stages -- every one recorded
  "not-implemented" -- to a saving of one test run.
  The observation was right and the mechanism was wrong. The tool runs, and the
  output carries the note: not one byte of the produced files changed since the
  last time these tests ran, so this result is that result, and if you meant to
  change something the write did not land. That is a fact the model cannot see
  for itself, and it is the one that makes the next step obvious.
  Also recorded for the ladder: rungs 1 and 2 passed in the same shared root,
  and the memory preflight found 0, then 1, then 2 candidates across the three
  rungs -- the first time work has accumulated across tasks in this project.
Verification: Build, vet, gofmt, the coordinator finalization tests
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-129

Change-ID: CL-20260803-118
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- a run may not return with its task still running
Request-or-TODO: Terminal-state analysis of the rung 3 run, 2026-08-03
Outcome: The stall was never the circuit breaker. completeRunIfPossible had
  fifteen bare returns in it, every one a real decision -- the evidence did not
  resolve, a required stage did not hold, the revision could not be read -- and
  every one left the task in `running` with nothing recorded. The ladder waited
  for a terminal state nothing was going to write. Rung 3 verified its work at
  60 seconds, finished its checks at 71, and sat there until the enclosing
  timeout.
  Completion now returns a finalization carrying whether the ending is terminal
  and why. A caller that gets a non-terminal result gives the run an ending
  itself, conditional on the task still being running so a specific outcome
  already recorded is never overwritten by this generic one.
  Path coverage, atom documentation, and both registration stages are declared
  advisory. They are refinement-ceiling gates: a coverage percentage below a
  threshold and an atom without a registry row are both real and neither makes
  the program wrong. The completion floor -- assembly, integration tests,
  end-to-end, atom verification -- can never be advisory, and a test says so,
  because a program that does not build must never read as awaiting review.
  The terminal record moved after the transition it describes. It used to be
  written before, which made it a prediction: it named a status while the task
  was still running, and the two could disagree with nobody the wiser.
  The atom schema is now derived from what the run measured rather than asked
  of the model. All nineteen fields are facts the analysis already holds -- the
  signature gives inputs and outputs, the effect analysis gives effects and
  determinism, ReturnsError gives failure semantics, LoopDepth gives the
  complexity bound. It runs after verification, against the verified tree, and
  is reverted whole if it breaks anything: a registry row is worth having and
  is not worth a working program.
Verification: Build, vet, gofmt, three new finalization tests
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-128

Change-ID: CL-20260803-117
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- a reviewable program is not sent back for its coverage percentage
Request-or-TODO: Trace analysis item 8, confirmed by the rung 3 run at
  CL-20260803-116
Outcome: With the circuit breaker in, rung 3 finished in 71 seconds with 29 of
  37 stages satisfied -- and then reported "the work is not ready to be looked
  at", because branch coverage came to 84% and one atom carried no registry
  documentation. Both are true and neither is a reason to withhold a program
  that builds, passes its tests and does what was asked.
  The completion floor and the refinement ceiling are now separate. A run that
  crossed the floor is ready to be looked at with advisories, and the record
  names the verified revision and says what remains is refinement rather than
  correctness. A run that did not cross it reads exactly as before. Delivery is
  unchanged in every case: nothing is handed over before a person accepts it,
  and that is not a judgement a run is entitled to make.
  The terminal record now also reaches the trace. It was published as an event
  only, so the one summary a person most needs was absent from the terminal
  they were watching.
Verification: Build, vet, gofmt
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-127

Change-ID: CL-20260803-116
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- a run that has converged is allowed to finish
Request-or-TODO: Trace analysis of the rung 3 run, 2026-08-03
Outcome: The implementation loop had converged; the orchestration loop had not.
  Rung 3 captured three verified checkpoints inside 135 seconds and then spent
  272 more seconds waiting out identical provider failures without touching the
  worktree. It possessed a verified result and treated unavailable refinement
  capacity as a reason not to finish.
  A circuit breaker now closes that. Two identical infrastructure failures --
  same category, same tree hash -- against an existing verified checkpoint end
  refinement and finalise from the checkpoint. A different category or a
  changed tree resets the count, because either means something happened
  between the failures.
  Findings are fingerprinted with their identifiers removed, so "main calls
  run, which can fail" and "main calls runCommand, which can fail" are one
  criticism rather than two. The callee is dropped by position rather than by
  shape: "run" is a name in that sentence and a common verb everywhere else,
  and nothing about the word itself tells them apart.
  Completion and refinement are now separate thresholds. A measured defect --
  one the tests were actually run against and did not catch -- still blocks. A
  mechanical rule's opinion, once attempted and raised again, is carried as an
  advisory and the run finishes.
  Every exit path emits a terminal record: the status, the verified revision
  and why it was verified, whether the worktree is that revision, attempts
  split between productive and lost-to-the-provider, unresolved work, and the
  advisories carried rather than fixed.
  The adversarial instruction stopped claiming the tests were unproven. It read
  the narrator's flags and told the model its tests "have not been shown to
  pass" in the same run whose trace says a checkpoint was captured because they
  had; the suite is re-run on that exact tree a few lines earlier, so the fact
  is known rather than inferred.
Verification: Build, vet, gofmt, three new tests plus the six from CL-115
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-126

Change-ID: CL-20260803-115
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- two gates that could not be satisfied by any correct program
Request-or-TODO: Refinement analysis items 4 and 7, both observed live on rung 3
Outcome: The adversarial critic told main it had swallowed an error by
  returning none of its own. Go defines main as func main(), with no results; a
  main that returned an error would not compile. Rung 3 was told this twice per
  attempt, could not comply, was sent back three times for the same finding,
  escalated to the most expensive rung on the resulting stall, and spent the
  rest of its budget there before the provider gave out. A gate whose
  instruction cannot be followed does not merely fail to improve the work -- it
  consumes the run.
  What main genuinely owes is now checked instead, and it is satisfiable: a
  main that calls something fallible and then exits zero whatever happens has
  produced a program that fails silently and reports success to whatever ran
  it. Write the message to os.Stderr and call os.Exit(1). A main that already
  exits non-zero, and a main that calls nothing fallible, owe nothing.
  Separately, math.MaxInt is no longer proposed for a function whose work is
  proportional to its argument. Rung 3 is FizzBuzz -- its whole body is a loop
  bounded by that argument -- and the case cannot finish. The boundary still
  gets a case, bounded, because "well past what the author pictured" is worth
  asking and "a run that cannot finish" is not. A function with no loop keeps
  its overflow case, which is a fair question there.
  The two invented rationales are gone: "ties must be broken somehow" now reads
  as duplicate handling being decided rather than assumed, which is what the
  case was ever actually about.
Verification: Build, vet, gofmt, six new tests
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-125

Change-ID: CL-20260803-114
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Feature -- structured output, and a test that is not run twice against
  the same files
Request-or-TODO: Direct instruction, 2026-08-03: all model output must be patch
  formatted or structured; refinement analysis item 10
Outcome: StructuredOutputRequirement had been built in the provider layer, with
  a name, a description, a schema and a strict flag, and validation for all of
  them. Nothing in the repository ever set it. The same shape as the memory
  system: implemented, never called.
  Planning is now schema-constrained. It had asked in prose for "one behaviour
  per line and nothing else" and got numbered lines, bullet characters and
  headings often enough that the parser reading it back has a branch for each
  -- and the branch that costs most is silent, because a paragraph surviving
  the length check counts as one behaviour and produces a plan claiming the
  work is a single unit when nothing established that. The line parser stays as
  the fallback for a model that cannot honour a schema, which is the same
  reasoning that makes the whole planning call a fallback rather than an error
  path.
  A schema-constrained request declares no tools and makes no tool choice. The
  two are alternatives: an answer constrained to a JSON object cannot also be a
  function call, and a provider handed both has to pick, which is a decision
  this code should make rather than discover.
  Separately, a test run against files that have not moved since the last one
  is now refused rather than performed, and the run is told what changed --
  nothing -- which is a fact it cannot see for itself. Ladder rung 3 ran the
  same failing test three times in a row without an edit between them. The
  refusal keeps the earlier verdict: a suite that failed and was not re-run has
  still failed, and reporting the refusal as a success would be the exact false
  green the reconciliation layer exists to prevent.
Verification: Build, vet, gofmt, three planning-schema tests, the openaimodel
  and agent suites
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-124

Change-ID: CL-20260803-113
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Feature -- protect the last verified revision, and order the gates
Request-or-TODO: The refinement analysis, 2026-08-03, items 1 to 3
Outcome: Three changes, in the order asked for.
  A run now keeps a copy of the worktree at every point where it compiled,
  passed its tests, and matched its acceptance examples, and puts that copy
  back if the loop ends on a state that fails. Every attempt edits the same
  worktree in place, so a run that reached a good state and was sent back for
  coverage could rewrite its way out of all three and report, several attempts
  later, a failure it had already solved once. The copy is what makes "refine"
  mean refine rather than gamble. Version control and built binaries are
  excluded: a .git restored over a live repository is actively harmful, and a
  restored binary older than the source beside it is a lie about what the
  source does.
  Acceptance is now checked and sent back on its own, ahead of coverage and
  documentation, rather than as one item of four in a combined list.
  The full order a failure is now handled in is cancellation, provider,
  compilation, tests, acceptance, adversarial correctness, coverage,
  documentation. Adversarial review moved ahead of the coverage and
  documentation asks, which is where it belongs: a demonstrated defect is not
  a peer of a missing doc comment.
Verification: Build, vet, gofmt, three new checkpoint tests covering restore
  after a regression, the never-captured case, and the exclusion of version
  control
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-123

Change-ID: CL-20260803-112
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- the registration stages stop reading as unperformed while they run
Request-or-TODO: The memory-layer analysis, 2026-08-03
Outcome: Ladder rung 3 recorded "atom-registration: not-implemented -- no part
  of this build performs this stage" and "molecule-registration:
  not-implemented" in the same run in which registerAndRecordProducedDeclarations
  had just been called. Registration wrote its own row directly through storage
  while the ledger separately declared the stage unperformed, so one run held
  two records of the same fact that contradicted each other, and every reader
  of the flow saw the wrong one.
  The outcomes are now handed back from recall and recorded through the ledger
  like every other stage, and the three cases stay distinct: nothing was
  produced to register, something was registered, and something was produced
  and refused for carrying no schema documentation. The last is the one that
  mattered -- it is why the registry stayed empty for a whole session -- and
  reading it as "skipped" hid it.
Verification: Build, vet, gofmt, the recall and registration suites
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-122

Change-ID: CL-20260803-111
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- gate priority, a provider gate of its own, and memory before
  planning rather than after
Request-or-TODO: Two refinement analyses, 2026-08-03
Outcome: Four changes, all of them orderings rather than new machinery.
  A concrete test failure now preempts every research gate. go build does not
  compile test files, so a test calling a function with the wrong number of
  arguments passed the assembly gate and arrived at the refinement loop listed
  underneath a block asking for three synthesised integer cases. Rung 3 spent
  the attempt on the cases. The compiler had named the file, the line and the
  mistake; nothing else the run could have been told was worth as much.
  Provider failures leave the assembly gate. Arriving there -- the gate that
  means "the code does not compile" -- counted toward the stall that drives
  escalation, so a closed socket bought a more expensive model; was written
  down as a lesson, so the project learned about its own code from an outage;
  and charged an attempt, so a run two gates from finished could die of a
  transport blip. None of those follow now, and the attempt is refunded under a
  bound.
  Memory moved in front of planning. Retrieval and registration both lived in
  recallKnownAtoms, which runs after the attempt loop, so a run was told what
  it could have reused at the moment it could no longer use it. Registration
  was implemented and worked; nothing read it in time to matter. Retrieved
  items are now presented as a decision -- use unchanged, adapt, or reject with
  a reason -- and every refused candidate carries the exact reason it was
  refused, so "memory found nothing" and "memory correctly refused unsafe
  reuse" can be told apart.
  Atom enrichment moved behind delivery readiness and gained an admission
  gate. Rung 2 alternated atom-documentation, completeness, completeness,
  atom-documentation on the lowest rung, fixing each in turn and regressing the
  other; neither is a reason a program cannot be reviewed.
Verification: Build, vet, gofmt, the case and lesson suites, one new admission
  test
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-121

Change-ID: CL-20260803-110
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Feature -- a refused tool teaches the next run, not only a refused gate
Request-or-TODO: The memory-loop instruction, 2026-08-03
Outcome: Lessons were recorded only where a gate sent work back. The most
  repeated mistakes never reach a gate: the run makes them, a tool refuses
  them, the run fixes them and arrives at the gate clean, and nothing
  downstream ever sees what happened.
  Ladder rung 3, watched in a terminal, made four such mistakes in seven
  attempts -- two writes wrapping Go source in a markdown fence, a caller left
  with the wrong number of arguments after a signature changed, and a use of
  strings with no import. The gate vocabulary has a word for none of them, and
  each is a sentence apiece to prevent.
  Only recognised shapes are recorded. A lesson invented from arbitrary
  compiler output carries the file and line it happened at, so it never merges
  with the same mistake made elsewhere, and a list that grows by one per
  failure is the context bloat that makes a run skip the section.
Verification: Build, vet, three new tests covering the four shapes, the refusal
  of unrecognised output, and the ordering that reads a markdown fence before a
  missing import
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-120

Change-ID: CL-20260803-109
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- an ordinary positive value is any ordinary positive value
Request-or-TODO: The ladder-ascent instruction, 2026-08-03
Outcome: The third place the same defect appeared, and the one that showed it
  does more than refuse good work. The integer case for "an ordinary positive
  value" is written as 42, and 42 was matched as text.
  Ladder rung 3 is FizzBuzz. Its tests call the function with 1, 3, 5 and 15 --
  every ordinary positive value that rung has a reason to use -- and the gate
  reported the case untried. The run then did what it was asked and wrote a
  test for 42 specifically, could not make its own assertion over forty-two
  lines of output pass, and spent attempts 3, 4 and 5 fighting it before
  escalating to the most expensive model on the ladder for attempts 6 and 7.
  A gate demanding an arbitrary value does not merely refuse correct work. It
  manufactures incorrect work, and then charges for the attempts.
  math.MaxInt and math.MinInt keep being matched literally. Those are not
  invented: they name the ends of the range, and nothing else answers them.
Verification: Build, vet, two new tests, including one that digits inside int8
  and buffer256 are not counted as a value the suite tried
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-119

Change-ID: CL-20260803-108
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- a string case is matched by its property, not its characters
Request-or-TODO: The ladder-ascent instruction, 2026-08-03
Outcome: The same defect CL-20260803-107 fixed for slices was still present for
  strings, and worse there. A string parameter synthesises eight cases, and six
  of them were matched as exact text: a run had to write "héllo wörld" with
  that greeting, "a  b	c
d" with those letters, and strings.Repeat("x",
  100000) with that character and that count. No correct test would, so every
  rung taking a string parameter had cases it could not have tried, and stage 7
  blocks eleven stages behind it.
  Matching is now on the property each case names -- empty, whitespace only,
  padded, mixed separators, outside ASCII, far longer than expected, a single
  character, ordinary -- which is what the case was synthesised to demand. The
  eight map to eight distinct properties, so nothing collapses into anything
  else and coverage is not overstated.
  Format strings and assertion messages are excluded. A suite is full of "%d
"
  and "got %v, want %v", and counting those would satisfy the separator and
  ordinary-text cases in every suite ever written -- a false green in the check
  whose whole job is to report what was never tried.
Verification: Build, vet, and four new tests covering the property match, the
  eight-way distinctness, and the format-string exclusion
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-118

Change-ID: CL-20260803-107
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- a synthesised case matched its literal instead of its property
Request-or-TODO: The ladder-ascent instruction, 2026-08-03
Outcome: The repeated-element case is written as three identical elements, and
  the matcher required every element to be equal. Its own rationale says what
  it is asking about -- "the same element repeated, so ties must be broken
  somehow" -- and a tie takes two equal values, not three. Ladder rung 2 wrote
  []string{"4", "4", "-2"} under the heading "repeated elements" and
  []string{"8", "-3", "8"}, and both were refused for holding a third value
  that was not a duplicate.
  Two untried cases out of twenty-eight failed stage 7, which blocked stages 8,
  10, 11, 14, 17, 19, 20, 23, 24, 25 and 32 behind it. Re-deciding that same
  worktree with the matcher fixed satisfies all of them; the tests were correct
  the whole time. The downstream check is shallow on purpose -- it looks for
  the shape of a case, not proof the path ran -- and a shallow check that reads
  a literal letter by letter is not shallow, it is brittle.
Verification: Build, the coordinator case tests, and a re-decision of rung 2's
  recorded worktree: 15 worktree-only stages, 1 failing where 13 had been
  blocked
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-117

Change-ID: CL-20260803-106
Commit: bdb6ad3
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- the shared ladder could never run a second rung
Request-or-TODO: The ladder-ascent instruction, 2026-08-03
Outcome: Every rung appended its request under the constant idempotency key
  "engine-request", so the second rung of a shared ladder collided with the
  first and was refused before it began: "idempotency key belongs to different
  message content". Shared mode is the only mode in which atoms and lessons
  accumulate across tasks, so the compounding-effort thesis could not be
  exercised at all. The recall stage's report that the project held no earlier
  work was true, and true for a reason nobody had looked at.
  Hashing the body restores what idempotency means here: the same request twice
  is one message, two different requests are two.
Verification: Rungs 1 and 2 in one shared root; the second is admitted and
  reaches the stage flow
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-116

Change-ID: CL-20260803-105
Commit: 1746eca
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Feature -- ask for the documentation that makes an atom findable
Request-or-TODO: The compounding-effort thesis
Outcome: Registration skips a declaration carrying no //codeflux:atom schema
  comment, and nothing asked for one, so atom_names held zero rows and every
  recall stage searched an empty project. Only leaf functions are asked, and
  main is not asked at all: a composing function is not registered and main is
  not an atom, so nineteen fields of documentation would be spent on something
  registration refuses anyway.
Verification: Build and the coordinator suite
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-115

Change-ID: CL-20260803-104
Commit: 7bf9d1a
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Feature -- rank a project's lessons against what this run was asked to do
Request-or-TODO: Direct instruction, 2026-08-03: check memories before starting
  the work, in a fuzzy way
Outcome: Newest-first alone puts whatever failed most recently in front of a
  run it may have nothing to do with, and a list a run learns to skip costs
  context on every attempt. Lessons are now ordered by meaningful-word overlap
  with the requirement, recency breaking ties. Lessons sharing no words are
  kept at the back rather than dropped: several are general enough to apply to
  anything, and those are exactly the ones scoring zero would lose.
  The instruction asked for semantic ranking. That is deliberately not done
  here: docs/plan.md 0 holds the vector branch closed until a measured recall
  failure justifies it, and TestAUDIT026 fails the build if production code
  reaches a vector writer before then. Word overlap is what is available under
  that gate.
Verification: Build and four ranking tests
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-114

Change-ID: CL-20260803-103
Commit: 5c3043b
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Feature -- a run learns from the last one's failures
Request-or-TODO: Direct instruction, 2026-08-03: the memory system is meant to
  capture lessons from failures and inject them into later prompts
Outcome: It was meant to, and it never had. Every memory table in every run of
  this session was empty: memory_artifacts, memory_artifact_revisions,
  episode_fact_references, evidence, atom_names, all zero.
  The write path had worked since M21. Its only production caller extracted
  build commands at the acceptance decision, gated on the episode being
  accepted -- and no run is ever accepted, because human-acceptance is
  correctly blocked on a person looking. The gate that makes memory honest was
  the gate that made it never happen. The candidacy funnel built earlier today
  has no production caller either, and the mechanical-rule tier has no domain
  content type at all.
  The consequence was concrete rather than theoretical: ladder rung 5 and rung
  10 independently invented the same os.Stdin pipe deadlock, because nothing
  carried the first one's lesson to the second.
  Every send-back now writes an observation and every attempt reads the
  project's observations back before it starts. A lesson is one imperative --
  "build the package before reporting the work finished" -- not a narration of
  what happened, because a run told what happened learns nothing it can act on
Affected-behavior: A run in a project that has failed before is shown what it
  failed at, capped at eight lessons
Compatibility-or-migration: Recorded at the observation tier, whose evidence
  strength the domain constructor pins at none. One run failing one way is not
  a law about the project
Verification: Four tests on lesson shape and merging, including the control
  that an unrecognised gate is observed rather than given an invented
  imperative -- a confident wrong rule is worse in a prompt than a plain
  statement of what happened
Known-limitations: Overlap collapses only where it is exact. The lesson is
  keyed on the gate rather than the failure text, so two runs failing to
  compile produce one lesson, but two different gates describing one underlying
  mistake still produce two. Merging those needs the mechanical-rule tier,
  which has no content type
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-113

Change-ID: CL-20260803-102
Commit: e1bacdb
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- the ledger decides readiness, and instructions stop asserting what
  nobody checked
Request-or-TODO: Architectural review of the rung 5 and rung 10 traces
Outcome: A review of two ladder traces named one flaw behind several defects
  this session had been fixing one at a time: many gates, and no single
  authoritative layer reconciling them before a run is called ready. Two parts
  of that were verifiable here and are closed.
  Readiness was reconstructed inside completeRunIfPossible from compiles and
  verified alone, while the caller had already computed whether the ledger was
  clean, used it to decide the delivery stages, and then did not pass it. A run
  with a failed or blocked required stage could therefore be moved to
  awaiting-review by that function while its own ledger recorded the failure.
  It now takes the ledger's answer rather than deriving its own.
  Three instruction builders opened with the fixed words "The code compiles and
  its tests pass, but". That is a claim, and it was made whether or not
  anything established it. On ladder rung 10 the produced program looped
  forever, its test run was cancelled, and the model was then told its tests
  passed and asked to improve its coverage -- reasoning from a premise the run
  had every reason to know was false. The preamble now states what is known:
  compiling is established by the assembly stage and may still be said, and
  passing is said only when it happened
Affected-behavior: A run whose ledger is not clean no longer reaches
  awaiting-review. An instruction whose suite was not proven says so
Compatibility-or-migration: The three builders take the validation state
  explicitly rather than assuming it
Verification: Two tests on the preamble, including the control that a suite
  which did pass is still stated plainly, because saying less when nothing is
  known must not become saying less when something is
Known-limitations: The review's wider proposal -- one typed attempt verdict
  replacing scattered booleans, and a strict gate priority so a cancelled tool
  can never be read as a failure of the code -- is not implemented. What is
  implemented is the readiness predicate and the wording; the verdict type is
  the right next step and is larger than one change
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-112

Change-ID: CL-20260803-101
Commit: 73d9c5b
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- generated code can no longer hang the pipeline forever
Request-or-TODO: The ladder-ascent instruction, 2026-08-03
Outcome: SuiteBudgetSeconds was declared, defaulted to sixty, and listed in the
  settings a person can read, and no code read it. Every run of the produced
  suite went out unbounded, so a generated program that loops forever hung
  whichever stage reached it, indefinitely and without a word.
  Ladder rung 10 asks for a shortest path through a grid. The first program it
  produced looped forever on the example the requirement itself supplies: go
  test in that worktree ran for five minutes without returning, and the stage
  that reached it did not fail, did not time out, and did not report. It
  stopped, and so did the run.
  All seven places the flow runs the produced suite now carry go test's own
  -timeout. That flag rather than a context deadline alone, because it kills
  the test binary and prints the goroutine dump saying where it hung, which is
  what a person or the next attempt needs; a deadline kills the process and
  leaves nothing to read.
  A run that ends with work still owed now says so instead of reporting
  implementation-complete, and the stall that decides escalation is keyed on
  why the work came back rather than on the prose telling the model about it.
  The old key was the whole combined instruction, whose first four hundred
  characters change whenever the set of outstanding gates changes -- so a
  failure repeating every other attempt never looked repeated, and rung 2 asked
  for the same doc comment six times on the lowest rung with three better ones
  available
Affected-behavior: A looping program fails its stage instead of stopping the
  run. A stalling run escalates. A run out of attempts reports what it owes
Compatibility-or-migration: An unset or negative budget falls back to the
  default rather than removing the bound, because zero must not mean "no
  timeout"
Verification: The recheck completes against rung 10's looping worktree, where
  it previously hung. Three tests on the budget including the fallback control
Known-limitations: The bound comes from default settings rather than the run's
  own. The checks that run the suite are free functions that were never given
  the settings, and threading them through all seven is wider than closing the
  hang. A run configuring a different budget still gets the default; the point
  of the value is that a bound exists at all
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-111

Change-ID: CL-20260803-100
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- a repeat write and an untestable main no longer cost a run
Request-or-TODO: The ladder-ascent instruction, 2026-08-03
Outcome: Two more gates that no correct output could satisfy, both found by
  climbing and both fixed against the flow's own stated intent.
  control-tests demanded that a unit test reach every function taking a
  decision, including main. No Go test can call main, and the style directive
  the flow hands the model says to put input, output and failure reporting
  there. A run that followed that instruction exactly was failed for it, and it
  was the single remaining failing stage of forty-one on ladder rung 5.
  end-to-end-tests already runs the built executable against every acceptance
  example, which is the only way main's paths can be reached at all.
  A model that wrote one file twice in a turn closed the owning step with its
  first call; the second write was then owned by no open step and the whole
  turn was refused, discarding the first write with it. That cost an attempt on
  rung 1 and on rung 5. A second write to a file the plan named is the model
  correcting itself, not a breach: the contract is that only named files are
  written, and the file that survives is the one it meant. An open step that
  owns the path is still preferred; a path no step names and a path several
  name are still refused
Affected-behavior: Rung 1 now passes in two attempts and forty-one seconds,
  where it previously took six attempts and a hundred and twenty-one
Compatibility-or-migration: None
Verification: Both fixes carry a control. An ordinary branching function with
  no test still fails control-tests and is still named. An open step is still
  preferred over a closed one, so the plan does not look unfinished
Known-limitations: main is exempt from control-tests only. It is still expected
  to carry a doc comment, because documenting it is possible where testing it
  is not
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-110

Change-ID: CL-20260803-099
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- a mislabelled write no longer costs an attempt, and stages can be
  re-decided without paying for a run
Request-or-TODO: The ladder-ascent instruction, 2026-08-03
Outcome: A tool call names the plan step it belongs to, and the loop refused
  the whole turn when the named step did not own the path. On ladder rung 5
  that discarded two of six attempts -- a third of the budget -- because the
  model attributed a write of main.go to the step that names main_test.go. The
  plan was not being violated: the file was one the plan itself asked for by a
  call that misfiled itself. When exactly one executable step names the path,
  the call is bound to that step instead. A path no step names, a path several
  name, and a step already closed are all still refused.
  The consequence of refusing was worse than a lost attempt. The turn that
  would have updated a test after its function was renamed was discarded, and
  the worktree was left with main.go defining aggregate and main_test.go
  calling aggregateTotals -- a suite that did not compile, which then failed
  six stages that were all reporting it correctly.
  A successful test run summarised as its first output line, which for `go test
  ./...` in a module whose root holds no tests is "? pkg [no test files]" -- a
  sentence that reads as "nothing ran" for a run whose tests had just passed.
  It was misread as a failure twice in one day, once while diagnosing an
  unrelated defect. An ok line is preferred now, then any line that is not a
  package notice.
  RecheckWorktree decides every stage that reads only the worktree, against a
  worktree an earlier run produced, with no model call. Iterating on a gate
  meant paying for the generation half again every time; a one-line fix to a
  check cost a full paid run to evaluate, and several of them for a defect that
  only appears at stage seven
Affected-behavior: A mislabelled but unambiguous write is bound rather than
  refused. Passing runs read as passing
Compatibility-or-migration: RecheckWorktree is additive and decides fifteen of
  the forty-one stages. The rest need a run's own context and are absent from
  its result rather than guessed at
Verification: Four tests on the step binding, three of them controls that keep
  the contract intact. Two on the summary. The recheck was exercised against
  rung 5's own worktree and diagnosed in two seconds what a paid run had taken
  three minutes to show
Known-limitations: The recheck cannot decide the stages that need a plan,
  acceptance examples, attribution or a provider, and says so by omitting them
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-109

Change-ID: CL-20260803-098
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- a false green, a run killed by its provider, and a live trace
Request-or-TODO: The ladder-ascent instruction, 2026-08-03
Outcome: Four more defects found by climbing, and the observability that would
  have found them sooner.
  The verification gate reported the most recent test run and nothing else, so
  a run that tested, then edited, then stopped recorded "the project's own test
  command ran and passed" about code that no longer existed. Three stages
  disagreed in one ledger: integration-tests said passed while repetition and
  platform-matrix, which re-run the suite themselves, both failed. Running the
  suite by hand settled it -- the worktree did not build. A write now
  supersedes the verdict, and rather than refuse such a run outright the
  coordinator re-runs the suite itself and records the real answer.
  Asking the model to re-run its own tests was tried first and was worse: the
  model's last act in almost every attempt is a write, so the ask fired every
  time and the run never reached the stages past it -- twelve attempts, five
  stages recorded, no progress. That is written down rather than quietly
  replaced.
  A provider that would not answer ended the whole run. Rung two escalated,
  the next model call failed transport, and six attempts of work that had
  already passed their gates were discarded. The code had already decided this
  shape for a malformed turn -- cost an attempt, not the run -- and a provider
  outage belongs in the same category.
  The case ladder stopped asking after two rounds and the run then declared
  itself complete with the case stage still failing. Bounding the ask by
  whether the debt was falling was the next wrong answer: a run that plateaus
  is exactly the run the model ladder exists for, and refusing to ask again
  meant the escalation that would have brought a stronger model was never
  reached
Affected-behavior: A run that finishes on an unchecked write has its suite run
  for it. A provider outage costs an attempt. The case ask continues while the
  run has attempts left
Compatibility-or-migration: CODEFLUX_TRACE is off by default and a run without
  it is byte-identical to before
Verification: Each fix has its own test, including the control that keeps the
  gate honest -- a failed write leaves the verdict standing, authentication
  failure is not absorbed, and a suite that only passes three distinct values
  has still not tried the empty input
Known-limitations: The trace writes to stderr rather than the test log because
  Go buffers a subtest's log until it ends, which is when a person watching a
  slow run stops needing it. That means it interleaves with other output on a
  loaded machine
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-108

Change-ID: CL-20260803-097
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- refuse non-Go in a .go file, and stop demanding a test twice
Request-or-TODO: The ladder-ascent instruction, 2026-08-03
Outcome: Two more defects found by climbing rung two, both costing whole
  attempts of a run that was otherwise converging.
  The write tool wrote whatever it was handed and reported the byte count. On
  one run the model twice wrote a file whose first character was an asterisk,
  the build failed with "expected 'package', found '*'", and each occurrence
  cost a write, a build, a send-back and a full rewrite. One landed on the
  run's last attempt, so every structural stage recorded blocked because the
  module did not build. A .go write is now parsed before it lands and refused
  with a message the model can act on in the same round.
  Only the parse is checked. Code that will not compile, names something
  undefined, or carries an unused import is still written, because that is the
  compiler's business and the flow's; refusing it here would turn a guard on
  the file into an opinion about the code. The content is refused rather than
  repaired: stripping a fence would hide the defect from the run that caused it
  and leave the model no reason to stop producing it. Files under testdata are
  exempt by the same convention the Go toolchain uses.
  Separately, the case gate counted an empty slice and a nil slice as two
  demands. A function that ranges over a slice cannot tell []string{} from a
  nil []string -- both have length zero and both yield nothing -- so a run that
  wrote {name: "empty", args: nil} was told the empty input was never tried and
  sent back to write the test it had already written
Affected-behavior: A malformed .go write fails at the tool with a specific
  reason instead of at the build with a parse error attributed to the run. The
  case gate stops asking for a duplicate test
Compatibility-or-migration: None
Verification: The write guard is proven against four real shapes of malformed
  output -- a markdown heading, a fenced block, a diff marker and prose before
  the source -- with a control admitting code that parses but will not compile,
  and a control for the testdata and non-Go exemptions. The nil equivalence is
  proven both ways: nil covers the empty case, and says nothing about the
  single-element or duplicate cases
Known-limitations: The nil scan is textual and asks whether the suite ever
  supplies nil, not whether it supplies it to this parameter. Resolving that
  properly means the call graph, which is the mutation stage's job, and the
  failure mode of being shallow here is far cheaper than telling a run to
  rewrite a test it already has
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-107

Change-ID: CL-20260803-096
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- a run can no longer be stranded, and the ledger describes the run
Request-or-TODO: The ladder-ascent instruction, 2026-08-03
Outcome: Climbing from rung one to rung two exposed four defects, three of them
  in the platform rather than in anything a model wrote.
  A run whose agent returned an error was stranded. The error was discarded at
  the call site, so the task sat in running with an idle worker on the other end
  of a loopback connection until something timed out half an hour later, and
  nothing anywhere recorded why. Establishing that took a goroutine dump and a
  process listing: the worker had burned zero seconds of CPU and had no
  connection to any provider. The error is now acted on and the task reaches a
  terminal state, which turned a silent thirty-minute hang into a forty-second
  failure that named its own cause.
  What it named was the second defect. PersistPlanStepTransition is the port the
  loop reports through; storage owns plan-step state and promotes steps itself
  when it records validation attributions, so the loop's account routinely
  arrives after the fact. A stale-revision refusal aborted the whole run. Two
  narrower rules were tried first -- already at the target state, then already
  past it along the forward chain -- and both still failed on real runs, so the
  rule is now the general one: a reporting port may not end a run by disagreeing
  with the record it reports into.
  Third, atom-case-synthesis demanded that a test contain the synthesiser's own
  invented literals. []string{"a", "b", "c"} does not mean the letters a, b and
  c, it means three distinct strings, and searching the test source for that
  exact text asked for a coincidence. Rung two recorded ten of eighteen cases
  never tried for a program that was correct, built, ran, and survived the
  adversarial probe. Matching is now structural -- same type, same cardinality
  class, same repeats-or-not -- and scalars are still matched literally because
  nil, "" and 0 mean exactly themselves. That took the same run to four of nine,
  and those four are real gaps the tests genuinely do not cover.
  Fourth, the flow ledger described the first draft rather than the run. It was
  built once per Run while Run loops over attempts, and storage keeps the first
  row for a task, attempt and stage, so every attempt after the first was
  discarded. A run that converged after six attempts still read as whatever
  failed on attempt one -- not merely incomplete, but disagreeing with the
  outcome the same run reported
Affected-behavior: A stranded run becomes a failed one. A converged run's ledger
  now shows the attempt that converged. The case gate is satisfiable
Compatibility-or-migration: Stages decided before the attempt loop are sealed
  and re-recorded under each later attempt rather than left out. Recording them
  as never performed was the first thing the ledger change got wrong, and it is
  written down here rather than quietly corrected
Verification: Each gate fix has a discrimination test verified by reverting and
  reproducing the exact recorded failure, and a control keeping the gate firing
  for the case it exists to catch. The strand and the race were verified against
  real ladder runs rather than fixtures: same binary, same rung, hang before and
  a named failure after
Known-limitations: The transition row is not written when the report is late, so
  the ledger holds storage's promotion without the loop's account of it. A gap
  in the narrative, not in the state.
  A separate code-generation defect is observed and unfixed: the model twice
  wrote a file beginning with an asterisk, giving "expected 'package', found
  '*'". The run recovered both times, so the write path is accepting output that
  is not Go source
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-106

Change-ID: CL-20260803-095
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-03
Type: Fix -- two gates no plan could pass, and a fixture reading somebody
  else's program
Request-or-TODO: Direct instruction, 2026-08-03: run the ladder rungs and make
  every pipeline stage pass without fitting the fix to the run
Outcome: The first ladder rung ever driven through the real flow died at stage
  four with correct produced code, and so did rung five, with a different plan
  and a different requirement. Two gates were unpassable by construction and a
  third check was reading files nobody in the run had written.
  Decomposition coverage compared the plan's files against the files the
  request named and treated an empty set as proof that every planned file was
  invented. A request that describes behaviour rather than naming files -- the
  ordinary case, and the ladder's own stated premise -- could therefore never
  pass it. Delegating the layout is not inventing work: with nothing named
  there is no stated intent for a planned file to contradict.
  Atom property tests then demanded a table-driven test from a program with no
  input space. Worse, the run already knew better: atom-case-synthesis recorded
  skipped, saying nothing could be varied, in the same run where this stage
  failed for not having varied it. The two had drifted into contradicting each
  other, so the fix is to share the judgement rather than write a second one.
  The ladder's own readProducedWork claimed to read what the run wrote and
  actually read every Go file in the worktree. The fixture repository ships a
  placeholder main.go, so a run that correctly added a command produced two
  main packages and the harness refused to judge either
Affected-behavior: Rung one now passes end to end: 41 of 41 stages performed,
  none failed, 21 satisfied, 18 skipped with stated reasons, and the two
  blocked stages are human acceptance and delivery, which are a person's
  decision and correctly not the run's
Compatibility-or-migration: None. Both gates keep their original arm for the
  case they were written for
Verification: Each fix has a discrimination test verified by reverting the
  change and reproducing the exact recorded failure, and a control proving the
  gate still fires for the case it exists to catch: a request that does name a
  file and a step writing something else, and a unit that does take inputs
  tested by a single example
Known-limitations: Nothing is registered as an atom yet -- the run produces no
  //codeflux:atom documentation, so registration correctly skips and the
  registry stays empty. Runs stall intermittently: the same binary and inputs
  completed in 25 and 27 seconds twice and hung past five minutes three times,
  with the coordinator idle in Supervisor.reap and the worker subprocess not
  returning. That is a real robustness defect, separately tracked
Dev-Log: DL-20260803-105

Change-ID: CL-20260802-094
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Fix -- a configured container command finally reaches the worker
Request-or-TODO: AUDIT-017, AUDIT-011a, AUDIT-027
Outcome: The worker already knew how to launch inside a container wrapper and
  had its own tests for it. Nothing between configuration and the coordinator
  ever populated the field, so every task ran natively regardless of intent --
  not because the container path was broken, but because there was nowhere to
  ask for it. A validated command now threads from application options through
  the launcher into the supervisor's start request.
  The storage layer gained a fault-injection boundary at two real choke-points
  every mutation passes through, which is one of the six boundaries that ticket
  names and the only one this change claims.
  AUDIT-011a's premise turned out to be stale: the resolver was already wired
  into context selection before this session. What was missing was proof, and
  building it surfaced a separate defect worth more than the ticket
Affected-behavior: A container command can now be configured and is executed.
  Nothing changes for a run that does not set one
Compatibility-or-migration: NewTaskRunLauncher gains a parameter; four test call
  sites updated. No schema change
Verification: The container test proves execution rather than assignment: the
  configured wrapper is a compiled marker program that writes a file naming its
  own argv, driven through a real application start and a real task start. The
  fault-boundary test asserts the arm is consumed rather than merely accepted
Known-limitations: Five of AUDIT-027's six boundaries are untouched. AUDIT-011a
  keeps its grant surface open, deliberately: every caller of the grant function
  is still a test, and building a creation endpoint for admitting repository
  text into a run is the shape MEM-009 was left uncalled to avoid. AUDIT-016a is
  the same shape and is left blocked rather than half-built as a table with no
  caller. AUDIT-010a is larger than its text says -- the entire presentation
  layer it assumes is absent. AUDIT-019 is blocked on a plan decision rather
  than an implementation. AUDIT-011b is filed and is the real find here
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-104

Change-ID: CL-20260802-093
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Fix -- a run acknowledges that it is running, and pause starts working
Request-or-TODO: AUDIT-020a, PIPE-044a, PIPE-130a
Outcome: A run's durable row sat at "starting" for its entire executing life
  while the task moved through its own states independently. That was recorded
  as a bookkeeping gap. The survey found it was not one: RequestTaskPause gates
  on the run being running or validating, so pause was unusable for the whole
  time a run was actually doing work, and only the brief review window ever
  admitted it. The transition now happens when the agent binds its plan, which
  is the earliest durable once-per-attempt fact that work has begun and which
  re-fires correctly after a pause and resume.
  The unverified-stages caveat now reaches the run's final timeline message. The
  summary is threaded from the review fetch that already computed it rather than
  from a second one.
  The mutation gate is calibrated: twenty fixtures, one thorough and one
  deliberately blind for each of the ten operators the mutator declares, with
  the blind ones asserting real values that the specific mutation happens not to
  change, which is a harder bar than the earlier fixture that discarded its
  result entirely
Affected-behavior: Pause becomes usable during execution. Two tests that forced
  a state transition through raw SQL needed widening because the row may now
  legitimately already be running
Compatibility-or-migration: domain/states.go is untouched; the transition was
  already declared valid. The browser test is opt-in and skipped by default
Verification: The caveat's rendered text was cross-checked against a direct
  database read of the same attempt's stage records, excluding the same stage
  the summary excludes, and the numbers agree exactly. The mutation calibration
  verifies a sample of its own ground-truth labels by hand-mutating source and
  running the suite directly, outside the checker being measured
Known-limitations: A real fetch bug was found and only partly fixed. A
  dependency comparison missed the no-task-to-task transition, so the ledger
  fetch could settle permanently on the earlier load's error; an explicit reload
  improved the pass rate substantially without making it deterministic, and it
  is not claimed as reliable. Measured mutation rates are zero false positives
  and zero false negatives out of ten each, which is a small population
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-103

Change-ID: CL-20260802-092
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Security -- a mediated command's descendants no longer outlive it
Request-or-TODO: PIPE-132a, PIPE-133a
Outcome: Every mediated subprocess is now assigned to a Windows job object that
  kills its members when the handle closes, released on every exit path.
  The gap this actually closes had not been named anywhere: the pre-existing
  process-tree kill ran only from the timeout and cancellation branches, so a
  mediated command that exited successfully -- the ordinary case -- never had
  its descendants reaped at all. A helper started rather than waited for kept
  running, unconfined, indefinitely. Closing the job now terminates every
  process ever assigned to it at any depth, including one that asks to break
  away, because neither breakaway flag is set.
  PIPE-133a's two named observations stay open, and forcing them to pass was
  refused. A job object bounds what outlives a command; it has no bearing on
  what a still-running process does, and both actions in the original abuse case
  complete synchronously before mediation is finished with the command. Those
  two recorded lines are left exactly as they were
Affected-behavior: A background process a verification command leaves behind is
  now killed when that command completes. Anything relying on such a process
  surviving would break, and nothing does
Compatibility-or-migration: golang.org/x/sys/windows was already a dependency at
  v0.46.0; no new dependency. A no-op sibling keeps the Unix call sites
  compiling with behaviour unchanged
Verification: The discriminating test was verified by disabling confinement and
  reproducing the failure, then restoring it -- not by assertion. A mediated
  command spawns a helper that sleeps and then writes a marker and returns
  immediately; the marker never appears, and an unmediated control proves the
  same helper does survive without confinement. A third abuse vector was added
  to PIPE-133's own family rather than rewriting it: a detached helper betting
  on outliving mediation, which this mechanism does refuse
Known-limitations: Assignment happens just after the process starts rather than
  through suspended creation, so there is a small window during which the child
  runs outside the job. A running mediated process can still open a socket to
  anywhere and write to any absolute path; closing that needs network filtering
  or a filesystem jail, which this codebase does not have on Windows.
  Measured cost by the same disable-and-restore method: the engine canary moves
  from 3.91-4.13s to 4.13-4.74s, about ten per cent, on a machine six lanes were
  sharing -- real but not lab-clean
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-102

Change-ID: CL-20260802-091
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Fix -- the critic's two finders were near-random, and now are not
Request-or-TODO: PIPE-095, PIPE-096, PIPE-097, PIPE-103, PIPE-104, PIPE-105,
  PIPE-106
Outcome: Both static finders were broken in ways that made their output close to
  noise, and the plan said so.
  The swallowed-error finder skipped every impure function outright and could
  only detect a swallow of another produced function's error, so the case it
  exists to catch -- a standard-library call whose error goes nowhere -- was
  structurally invisible. It now examines impure functions and resolves a
  curated set of fallible standard-library calls through the effects the
  contracts work already computes.
  The boundary finder matched substrings over concatenated test source, so "0"
  matched inside a file mode and "Error" matched inside t.Errorf: one finding was
  unreachable and the rest were near-random. It now reads literal arguments from
  the test syntax tree, so a token has to be an actual literal node.
  Findings gained a stable identity derived from kind, location and content, an
  evidence level and a lineage, tagged at each producer rather than stamped
  uniformly afterwards. They are ranked by expected defect cost and capped per
  kind in the instruction, with the omitted count disclosed rather than
  truncated silently
Affected-behavior: The critic reports different findings. Both finders were
  measured before promotion and both measured clean, so neither is retired
Compatibility-or-migration: reviewAdversarially's signature and behaviour are
  unchanged; risk-selected review is a new function beside it
Verification: Each repair's discriminating test is the named bug as a fixture --
  an impure function swallowing a standard-library error, a file mode
  suppressing the zero-edge finding, a t.Errorf suppressing the error-assertion
  finding -- each failing against the old code, each with a control proving the
  fix did not simply widen the finder into flagging everything. The ranking test
  sorts through the production comparison rather than a copy of it
Known-limitations: A finding still does not outlive its attempt, so a stable
  identity is a property nothing yet uses; that is PIPE-098 and it lives in a
  file this change does not own, as do PIPE-099, PIPE-100, PIPE-102, PIPE-107,
  PIPE-108 and PIPE-095's one-line call site. The false-positive measurement is
  a test-time population rather than a persisted cross-run metric. A model-backed
  critic was not attempted because reaching a provider from here needs the
  budgeted and authorised path, and building an unbudgeted one to get there
  would be inventing the credential route this session has twice refused to
  invent
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-101

Change-ID: CL-20260802-090
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Feature -- an admission point with backpressure, and the caller it lacks
Request-or-TODO: PIPE-066, PIPE-067, PIPE-068, PIPE-069, PIPE-070, PIPE-071
Outcome: Model requests had no concurrency ceiling and no jitter. There is now
  one admission point per retry executor -- a resizable semaphore wrapping every
  physical attempt -- with a configured maximum rather than a ceiling that falls
  out of the graph's shape, and sustained rate limiting narrows it monotonically
  for the remainder of the run instead of retrying at full width into a limit.
  Backoff already honoured Retry-After and grew exponentially; what it lacked
  was jitter, which the section explicitly requires. Equal jitter over half the
  interval is added behind an injectable source.
  The finding that governs how to read all of this: the production model path
  does not go through this package at all. The only implementation of the
  model interface issues a bare http.Client.Do against the Responses API with no
  retry, no backoff, no Retry-After handling and no admission control, and the
  only production caller of the retry executor and the budgeted execution
  service is the run-live smoke gate, which issues one serial request.
  So this is real infrastructure on the port that exists, and it is not in the
  path a real run spends money through
Affected-behavior: None for a real run, for the reason above. The run-live gate
  now jitters its backoff
Compatibility-or-migration: MaximumConcurrency defaults to 4 and validates 1-64.
  One pre-existing test asserting an exact sleep schedule is pinned with a fixed
  random source and a comment rather than deleted
Verification: The concurrency tests launch more goroutines than the ceiling and
  assert observed peak equals it exactly -- removing the acquire takes them from
  two to six. The rate-limit test drives a scripted 429 server with and without
  Retry-After and asserts the schedule, the ceiling dropping by exactly one per
  limited attempt, the ledger wording, and that no attempt records failed
  because of a rate limit
Known-limitations: PIPE-066, PIPE-069 and PIPE-070 stay open. The first two
  because nothing in a real run calls the port; the third because budget
  enforcement genuinely exists already -- a revision-CAS reservation taken
  before execution, which does prevent two concurrent stages both believing they
  are under the cap -- but it lives at the ledger level, and pricing and storage
  types do not belong in a package deliberately free of both. No budget logic
  was invented to manufacture a closure. PIPE-072 is a frontend change. Filed as
  PIPE-066a, which is the largest gap between what this section claims and what
  a run does
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-100

Change-ID: CL-20260802-089
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Test -- the browser matrix reaches a real populated thread
Request-or-TODO: REPO-041
Outcome: The mounted browser checks assumed a durably-open thread carrying a
  real task graph and real timeline cards, and nothing on a freshly migrated
  database creates one -- bare /tasks is deliberately a thread picker rather
  than a route that adopts a session. seed now drives one real requirement
  through a real Application over real SQLite to awaiting-review and serves it,
  behind an environment toggle so the descriptive default output is untouched.
  The checks were rewritten against the node classes read back out of the
  database rather than guessed, and node identifiers are captured from the DOM
  because they are fresh identifiers per seed.
  The result is worse-looking and more honest: 235 of 260 pass where 248 passed
  before. Seeding a real thread reached checks that had never executed at all,
  and the failures are not the ones this ticket predicted
Affected-behavior: seed gains a serving mode. Its default output is unchanged
Compatibility-or-migration: The toggle is an environment variable rather than a
  flag because the invocation parser and per-command argument limits are in
  files this change does not own
Verification: One clean sequential run, one seed server, one test-browser
  invocation. Every failure is listed with what could and could not be
  established about its cause. No assertion was weakened to reach green and the
  suite is not reported as green
Known-limitations: The largest finding is that this ticket predates a redesign.
  The graph canvas is no longer inline on /tasks at wide viewport -- it moved to
  the observation rail and has its own route -- so four checks assert something
  unsatisfiable by design and need repointing. A genuine state bug surfaced:
  task selection is lost on viewport resize. The route-contract path swallows a
  selection error, so five narrow-viewport failures have no established cause.
  The seed server's cleanup is not orphan-safe: a hard kill leaves a worker
  holding the database and the next run fails to clear its directory, which was
  reproduced three times. Filed as REPO-041a, REPO-041b and REPO-041c
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-099

Change-ID: CL-20260802-088
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Feature -- declared run profiles, and why the flow was not renumbered
Request-or-TODO: PIPE-045, PIPE-046, PIPE-047
Outcome: A run profile declares a stage inapplicable before the run starts, so
  declining in advance and skipping at runtime stop being the same recorded
  fact. The table, its validator, and a profile-aware decline classification are
  in place, with the default profile provably inert across every stage and state.
  The renumber this section is named for was declined, and the reason is a
  read-time hazard rather than the numbering: a stage's classification is
  re-derived from its persisted number against the running binary's tables,
  including for every row of every historical ledger the frontend renders. A
  renumber would leave old rows' names correct and their reasons describing a
  different stage, with nothing to notice the disagreement
Affected-behavior: None yet. Nothing consults a profile
Compatibility-or-migration: decline.go is extended additively; the existing
  classification path is unchanged
Verification: The discriminating test drives the real scheduler rather than a
  model of it -- RestrictToStages and RunConcurrently, once per profile -- and
  proves the runner is never invoked at all for a declined stage
Known-limitations: Zero production call sites. Every place stage selection or
  classification happens is in a file this change does not own, so the profile
  is declared and not yet consulted; that is stated in the plan section this
  ticket adds rather than left for a reader to discover. Filed as PIPE-046a.
  PIPE-045 needs decline classification rekeyed by stage name, migration 31's
  1-to-64 bound widened, and a rows-copy migration that respects the
  append-only trigger rather than defeating it. Filed as PIPE-045a
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-098

Change-ID: CL-20260802-087
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Fix -- restore three TODOS.md notes filed under the wrong headings
Request-or-TODO: Correction to CL-20260802-082 and CL-20260802-085
Outcome: Six lanes share one checkout, so TODOS.md carries several lanes' notes
  at once and each commit stages only its own hunks. The tool doing that split
  diffed at zero context and applied with --unidiff-zero, which means git cannot
  locate a hunk by its surrounding text and places it at the recorded line
  number instead. Those numbers are correct only if every earlier hunk was also
  applied; dropping another lane's hunk shifts every later offset.
  The result was silent and plausible-looking: PIPE-132's and PIPE-133's
  findings were filed under PIPE-136 in the Measurement Honesty section, and
  three MEM notes landed under the Injection Surfaces heading. Nothing failed,
  because a misplaced Markdown paragraph is still valid Markdown.
  The splitter now diffs at three lines of context and applies without
  --unidiff-zero, so placement is content-addressed and a dropped hunk cannot
  displace a later one
Affected-behavior: TODOS.md only. No code change
Compatibility-or-migration: None
Verification: The corrected file is the working tree that every lane has been
  reading, so the fix is the diff between it and what was committed
Known-limitations: The two commits that carried the misplacement are left as
  they are rather than rewritten, and this entry is the record of what they got
  wrong
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-097

Change-ID: CL-20260802-086
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Chore -- the commit-time test gate becomes opt-in
Request-or-TODO: Direct instruction, 2026-08-02: "bypass the hooks"
Outcome: Six lanes shared one checkout and each had already run the tests for
  the package it changed before handing work over, so the pre-commit unit run
  re-ran work that had just been done and cost minutes per commit.
  Making the layer opt-in is this change's reading of "bypass the hooks", rather
  than passing --no-verify blindly and losing the cheap checks with the
  expensive one. Formatting, lint and the artifact check still run on every Go
  commit; pre-push still runs the full suite for the coverage floor; CI still
  runs everything
Affected-behavior: A commit no longer runs tests unless
  CODEFLUX_PRECOMMIT_TESTS=1 is set. Nothing now runs a test until push
Compatibility-or-migration: Opt-in rather than deleted, so re-enabling is one
  environment variable and the removal is reversible by reading the file
Verification: Manual. The hook is exercised by every commit in this session; the
  disabled path prints its own notice rather than silently skipping
Known-limitations: The stated consequence is the real one and is written into
  CONTRIBUTING rather than left implicit: with this off, the first test anything
  runs is at push time. That is a genuine loosening, accepted deliberately for
  the duration of a six-lane session and worth revisiting when the tree is
  quiet again
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-096

Change-ID: CL-20260802-085
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Feature -- the memory candidacy funnel, built but not yet in the path
Request-or-TODO: MEM-012, MEM-013, MEM-013a, MEM-016
Outcome: Section 31 names five candidacy tiers and three inadmissible sources,
  and nothing anywhere decided either. A pure decision layer now selects the
  strongest tier that can express an observation, refuses a weaker one without a
  recorded reason the stronger could not carry it, refuses agent self-report,
  unattributed produced work and unapproved repository text outright before any
  tier logic runs, and refuses a first-attempt success only for the tiers that
  require something to have been contested.
  That last distinction is the point rather than a detail: refusing an
  uncontested run outright would forbid the deterministic tier on the runs that
  go well, which are most of them, and so would forbid the extraction wired up
  in CL-20260802-079.
  The three tickets stay open, because nothing calls any of it. A gate with no
  caller does not gate anything, which is the standard applied to PIPE-132 and
  PIPE-133 in the same session
Affected-behavior: None yet. Two new files, no call sites
Compatibility-or-migration: None; no schema change and no domain type added
Verification: The discrimination is the MEM-016 case: the repository's real
  findAntiPatterns runs over a fixture with a genuine swallowed error, the real
  mechanical check is confirmed to fire on it, and only then is the funnel shown
  refusing an advisory-pattern request for that same observation. Separately,
  all three refusal points were temporarily bypassed to simulate the absence of
  the funnel; five tests fail, including that one, and pass again once restored
Known-limitations: It cannot be wired yet, for a reason established by reading.
  domain.MemoryArtifactKind covers only two of the five tiers -- workspace fact
  and regression case. Mechanical rule, routing evidence and advisory pattern
  have no domain payload at all, so the funnel returns an abstract tier because
  there is nothing concrete to mint for three of five. That is MEM-015 and
  MEM-017 onward. Filed as MEM-012a.
  No approval-granting path for repository text was built, following MEM-009's
  precedent: inventing one would open a prompt-injection route into every later
  run
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-095

Change-ID: CL-20260802-084
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Feature -- verified atoms and molecules reach the registry
Request-or-TODO: PIPE-048, PIPE-049, PIPE-052, PIPE-054, PIPE-055
Outcome: The registry PIPE-050's recall reads from was never written to, so
  reuse had nothing to find and the section's whole loop was open at one end.
  Two stages are added to the flow -- atom registration and molecule
  registration -- and a real run now writes real atom_documentation_revisions
  rows through them. A molecule registers on the same terms as an atom and
  names the atoms it composes as dependency bindings.
  Reuse is refused when this run's own verification failed, which is the
  direction that matters: an exact contract-hash match downgrades to write
  rather than reuse, and the justification names the ticket.
  A recall miss is separated from a registry gap, so "nothing was reused" stops
  being one undifferentiated outcome
Affected-behavior: Two new stage numbers, so the flow is longer and
  phases_test.go's out-of-range probe moves accordingly. Every run writes
  registry rows it previously did not
Compatibility-or-migration: ListAtomDocumentationRevisionsByProject is additive
  with no schema change. The two new stages carry PIPE-048 and PIPE-049
  unestablished markers and keep them
Verification: Identity is proven in both directions. The same contract
  registered twice yields the same atom identity, and a different contract in
  the same project yields a different one with no cross-contamination -- an
  implementation that ignored the contract-hash key and returned the most
  recent atom would pass the first and fail the second. Reuse has an affirmative
  case as well as a refusal: without the explicitly-held test, a gate that
  downgraded on any checked evidence rather than only on failure would still
  pass everything else in the file
Known-limitations: Run() reaches both performers through recallKnownAtoms, but
  never records their ledger rows through the pipelineLedger type, because that
  call site is in a file this change does not own. The stage's own
  pipeline_stage_records row is written directly and idempotently instead,
  documented as a narrow exception to this package's ledger-is-the-only-writer
  shape. That gap is what the two unestablished markers name.
  PIPE-G08 is NOT demonstrated: stage 6's binding matcher still searches only
  the raw artifact table and does not consult the new registry, so the registry
  is populated but not yet read by the reuse decision. Widening that search is
  the next step and is exactly what the regret classifier's recall-miss output
  points at. PIPE-053 and PIPE-056 are unstarted; PIPE-056 is blocked because
  the influence recorder needs a retrieval service AgentExecution does not hold
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-094

Change-ID: CL-20260802-083
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Feature -- the structure frontier runs concurrently
Request-or-TODO: PIPE-058a, PIPE-059, PIPE-064
Outcome: examineStructure decided nineteen unconditional stages and five
  suite-verified ones one after another, so the dependency graph PIPE-058
  declared described an execution nothing performed. It now schedules through
  pipeline.RunConcurrently against that graph, restricted to its own stage list.
  The measured frontier is four wide across fourteen waves, against a
  theoretical whole-graph five; the three stages accounting for the difference
  are decided in agent_execution.go, which this change does not own.
  PIPE-064 landed first, before anything ran in parallel, because it is the
  property the section is written against. Its companion test deadlocks if the
  scheduler silently serialises a wave, so identical-either-way is a claim
  against real concurrency rather than against accidental seriality.
  Resource classes are assigned by reading each check's own exec.Command and
  os.WriteFile calls rather than inferred from stage names. Exactly one check
  writes a produced source file in place and restores it, and it never shares a
  wave with anything
Affected-behavior: A stage's recorded start is now measured at its own check
  rather than inferred from when the previous stage was recorded, which stops
  meaning anything once stages overlap. A blocked stage reports that its span
  was not measured instead of a fabricated near-zero one. State, detail and
  evidence are byte-identical
Compatibility-or-migration: producedFunctionCache's four memoised fields are
  guarded by a mutex, because the four pure-AST checks sharing it now run in one
  wave. The sequential record path is untouched for agent_execution.go's callers
Verification: Verdicts are identical at one worker and at unbounded workers; the
  exclusive stage is alone in its wave over twenty-five repetitions; the
  ordering PIPE-017 requires is asserted twice, once against the planned waves
  and once against measured decision timestamps from a real scheduler run
Known-limitations: -race is unavailable on this windows/arm64 host, so the new
  mutex is not race-detector-verified. That is a gap in the evidence rather than
  a formality. The engine canary reads 5.2-5.4s against a 3.8s baseline and the
  measurement cannot be separated from five other agents contending for this
  machine, so concurrency is not yet demonstrated to be faster. PIPE-060,
  PIPE-061, PIPE-062 and PIPE-065 are untouched
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-093

Change-ID: CL-20260802-082
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Security -- verification subprocesses go through the mediated boundary
Request-or-TODO: PIPE-131, PIPE-132, PIPE-133
Outcome: Acceptance runs, adversarial probes and mutation suite runs shelled out
  directly, so a TestMain, an init, or any produced command ran with the
  coordinator's own authority and no approval. All three now go through
  ClassifyAuthority and ExecuteAuthorizedTool.
  The shared call builds its request under a synthetic per-call identity rather
  than the run's real task and policy, because this is the coordinator's own
  verification decision and not a model's request; conflating the two would let
  a model's granted authority widen what verification may do.
  What this does and does not achieve is stated rather than implied. It stops
  the coordinator's credential reaching a produced program, a go test binary, or
  repository test code, because the environment is stripped before the child
  starts. It does not stop that process opening a socket or writing to an
  absolute path outside the worktree; nothing in this codebase confines a
  running process's syscalls, and the word sandbox appears nowhere
Affected-behavior: Verification is slower by a measured amount and no longer
  passes the coordinator's environment to repository code
Compatibility-or-migration: AuthorizedToolRequest gains a Stdin field; nothing
  had piped stdin through the mediated boundary and acceptance examples and
  hostile probes need it. Public stage signatures are unchanged
Verification: Three discriminating tests, one per call site, each passing under
  mediation and failing without it. The abuse case runs repository test code
  attempting all three escapes at once and reruns the identical fixture
  unmediated: the credential payload is empty under mediation and carries the
  real key without it
Known-limitations: PIPE-132 and PIPE-133 are partial and stay open. Network
  reach and writes outside the worktree are not refused; the abuse case logs
  both as observed rather than asserting a containment that does not exist.
  Filed as PIPE-132a and PIPE-133a.
  Cost measured rather than estimated: ResolveExecutableIdentity hashes the
  whole go.exe on every mediated call, 107ms isolated against 34us for LookPath,
  giving 4.25s to 4.82s over eight calls in the mutation stage. It was left
  alone because it is shared by every mediated command repository-wide
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-092

Change-ID: CL-20260802-081
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Fix -- a contract can now disagree with its implementation
Request-or-TODO: PIPE-137, PIPE-138, PIPE-139, PIPE-140, PIPE-141
Outcome: describeContracts derived a contract's effects and purity by walking
  the same function body the atoms stage later walks, so the two were
  definitionally equal and no fixture could make them disagree. A contract that
  cannot be contradicted is not a check. The declared half now comes from the
  //codeflux:atom doc comment through internal/atomdoc, an independent source,
  while signature, parameter types and error cases stay derived from the type
  signature -- those were never the vacuous part.
  Declared purity is compared against observed effects and the gate fails on a
  disagreement, naming each one. checkAtoms fails on a declared-pure atom that
  reaches outside its arguments. Effect resolution goes through the file's own
  import declarations rather than a bare identifier list, so time.Duration(n) is
  no longer an effect and a renamed import is still followed. testsNaming
  resolves call sites instead of sweeping identifiers, which is the second site
  of the defect PIPE-008 repaired at testedNames
Affected-behavior: A run whose produced code carries no atom declaration -- the
  shape of every existing scripted-model fixture here -- records the contracts
  stage as skipped rather than satisfied. That is a visible change and it is the
  correct one: it never claimed a held row it could back
Compatibility-or-migration: StageContracts' PIPE-137 and StageAtomVerification's
  PIPE-141 unestablished markers are cleared. StageAtoms keeps PIPE-138's,
  because only the purity half of contract satisfaction is checked
Verification: The discrimination proof is a function declaring "None: pure atom"
  whose body calls fmt.Println; the stage reports broke and names it. Under the
  old code that fixture could not have disagreed with itself. A control fixture
  where declaration and body agree holds. A vacuity guard confirms the
  no-declaration case is skipped, not held
Known-limitations: A call through a value that cannot be resolved to an import
  -- a method on a local variable, a struct field, an injected interface -- is
  invisible to the effect resolver. The wider rule was tried and rejected: it
  flags var b strings.Builder; b.WriteString(x) as impure, trading a stated
  false negative for a much larger false positive across ordinary code. That is
  a judgment call rather than a proof. Preconditions and postconditions actually
  holding are still unchecked
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-091

Change-ID: CL-20260802-080
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Fix -- bounded plan-step detail, and quoted acceptance arguments
Request-or-TODO: PIPE-019b, PIPE-121, PIPE-123
Outcome: agentPlanSteps embedded the raw requirement verbatim in a plan step's
  redacted detail, which Validate refuses for trailing whitespace -- and the
  acceptance blocks PIPE-019 makes mandatory produce exactly that, so the full
  Run path could not reach a bound plan at all. requirementSummary strips the
  acceptance block, takes the first line of what remains, and caps it, which
  addresses the real defect: a step's detail is a label, and an arbitrarily long
  user block does not belong in one whatever it ends with.
  Acceptance argument lines are tokenised with quote handling instead of split
  on spaces, so an example can pass an argument containing one.
  The acceptance oracle and adversarial probe now resolve the module root rather
  than assuming the worktree root, and both acceptance forms accept build tags
Affected-behavior: A multi-line acceptance requirement now reaches a bound plan
  through the real run. Unquoted argument lines parse identically to before
Compatibility-or-migration: None
Verification: A test drives the full Run and confirms a real bound plan
  revision, which was previously unreachable. Discrimination confirmed by
  reverting and reproducing "agent plan step 1 is invalid". The quoting
  discriminator was verified to fail against the old code
Known-limitations: The primary validation gate still assumes the worktree root
  in agent_execution.go and the agent_stage_* files, so regression, mutation,
  coverage and control-flow stages are unfixed for a non-root module. PIPE-124
  is diagnosed and not implemented: checkAtoms hard-fails on zero atoms and
  takes no attribution parameter, so it cannot use PIPE-111a's established flag;
  the exact fix is recorded in TODOS.md
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-090

Change-ID: CL-20260802-079
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Feature -- deterministic facts extracted at episode close
Request-or-TODO: MEM-006, MEM-008
Outcome: Build commands, test commands and repository conventions are extracted
  when a review decision closes an episode, gated on acceptance -- 31's rule
  that a run nobody accepted has established nothing.
  All five extractors already existed and had no production caller; what was
  missing was the orchestrator and the call site. That was verified by reading
  rather than assumed, after three tickets this session named things that did
  not exist as described
Affected-behavior: An accepted run now deposits deterministic facts. Nothing
  reads them yet
Compatibility-or-migration: None; no schema change
Verification: The discriminating test is the same fixture with a rejected
  outcome yielding zero facts. The storage extractor gates only on the episode
  being closed, so that case isolates the new coordinator-level outcome check as
  the thing refusing it -- without it a passing run would prove nothing about
  the new code
Known-limitations: MEM-007 needs an observed changed-file set nothing passes
  into the close. MEM-009 is deliberately uncalled: it is correctly gated on a
  granted approval and no call site anywhere creates one, so inventing a path
  would open a prompt-injection route into every later run. MEM-010 waits on
  PIPE-136. MEM-011's revision trigger is re-armed by this change; its toolchain
  and dependency triggers have no schema support at all
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-089

Change-ID: CL-20260802-078
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Feature -- a run can finally be reviewed
Request-or-TODO: AUDIT-020
Outcome: RepairCompletionService had no production caller, so no run ever left
  running and the whole diff, validation, evidence, repair and rollback journey
  was unreachable. Completion is now constructed and called, and a run reaches
  awaiting-review through the real application. The CODEFLUX_AUDIT020 gate is
  removed.
  The earlier attempt's hang was NOT the final go test ./... this ticket
  suspected. A completion path that re-runs nothing still hung. The real cause
  was a failed write wearing a hang's clothes: PersistPlanStepTransition
  referenced tool requests by a hashed ID while the production journal stores
  raw IDs, so every run's first plan-step transition failed a consistency
  trigger, Run returned early, and the test polled for a file that could never
  appear.
  Five further defects surfaced en route, each with a constraint failure as
  evidence: a validation-profile naming rule, a dangling command-execution
  reference, a manual plan-step promotion conflicting with storage's own, a
  summary field round-tripping into a failure column, and no production code
  anywhere transitioning a run from starting to running
Affected-behavior: A finished run becomes reviewable. This is the change that
  makes a real code-generation attempt collectable rather than merely runnable
Compatibility-or-migration: TransitionRunToValidation bridges the starting to
  running step itself, scoped to that call site and documented as narrow rather
  than general. AUDIT-020a carries the real fix
Verification: The engine canary is 3.8s baseline against 3.87s now, and the
  AUDIT-020 test reaches awaiting-review in 9-12s over repeated runs. Full
  coordinator and storage package suites green over two consecutive runs
Known-limitations: A flake in the new test was found and fixed -- its wait loop
  treated the transient validating state as terminal, which a loaded machine
  could sample mid-transition. Reproduced twice before the fix and passed twice
  after, so it is a race in the test rather than in the run
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-088

Change-ID: CL-20260802-077
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Fix -- the mutation score now measures what it claims
Request-or-TODO: PIPE-127, PIPE-128, PIPE-129, PIPE-130
Outcome: The score was inflatable three ways and unverified in a fourth.
  An uncompilable mutant counted as caught, so the cheapest way to raise the
  score was to generate mutants that could not build. Each candidate is now
  built before the suite ever runs and discarded if it fails, with its own
  counter. On a real fixture, one of the old implementation's five "caught"
  mutations was a build failure it credited as caught -- the free score
  observed rather than theorised. Discarding is also about six times cheaper
  than scoring: 0.11s against 0.73s, and the ratio widens on a slower suite.
  Mutation now walks the syntax tree. Only *ast.BinaryExpr nodes with a mutable
  operator are candidates, spliced at the operator's own position, so landing
  inside a string literal or a comment is structurally impossible rather than
  avoided by a rule -- a literal is one opaque node and a comment is wired into
  no expression.
  Sampling takes an evenly spaced stride across the attributed candidates rather
  than the first twelve, so the score describes the change instead of whichever
  lines come first
Affected-behavior: The reported score changes, and should be read as more
  honest rather than as a regression where it drops
Compatibility-or-migration: StageAtomMutation's PIPE-127 unestablished marker is
  cleared, on the basis that the gate claims the tests are known to detect
  defects and the score is now shown to discriminate
Verification: PIPE-130 is the proof and is the reason the rest is believable. A
  fixture whose only test discards its result -- genuinely blind to the
  boundary -- scores 0% and records broke, so a high score is unachievable there
  by construction. The contrast is identical source with a test that checks both
  edges, scoring 100%. Without that pairing a low score would be
  indistinguishable from a broken check.
  PIPE-128's proof is a contrast in one test: the same " == " byte pattern is
  placed in a comment, a string literal and real code, and the retained byte
  scanner is run beside the AST discovery. The AST finds only the real code; the
  scanner lands on the comment
Known-limitations: PIPE-130's full text also asks for false-positive and
  false-negative rates, which need repeated trials across a fixture population.
  Only the discrimination proof was delivered; the rates are filed as PIPE-130a,
  and until they exist the threshold is a number nobody has calibrated
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-087

Change-ID: CL-20260802-076
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Fix -- three browser defects, one of them user-facing
Request-or-TODO: REPO-048, REPO-046, REPO-047
Outcome: The first-run page no longer sits on loading skeletons for ever.
  coordinatorStore dispatched FirstRunChanged once at boot with DataLoading and
  nothing ever moved it, so /first-run rendered placeholder bars for all five
  setup cards permanently and the "Open tasks" call to action never mounted --
  the plan's first prototype journey, and a new user could not complete it. It
  now dispatches DataReady alongside the other panes' answers.
  The graph legend no longer overflows the viewport. The container was already
  width-bound; the per-entry spans were not, so their content-based automatic
  minimum size stopped them shrinking. overflow:hidden clips paint, not layout
  geometry, so the last entry still measured past the viewport even though
  nobody would have seen it painted there.
  One interaction check no longer contaminates the next. The suite reuses one
  page, so a check that failed could leave an element focused going into the
  following one; loadInteractionThread now blurs before handing the page on
Affected-behavior: A new user can complete the first-run journey. Nothing else
  changes for an existing one
Compatibility-or-migration: None
Verification: test-browser improved from 15 failures to 12 -- 248 of 260 checks
  pass -- and all twelve remaining are REPO-041 and REPO-044's thread and graph
  data gap. The first-run fix was driven live: five region states reported
  ready, the cards rendered, and "Open tasks" was clicked through to /tasks. The
  legend fix was verified by DOM scan: 0 of 380 descendants exceed 1280px, down
  from 2
Known-limitations: first-run genuinely needs no remote data -- FirstRunView's
  CurrentStep and Completed exist and are read by nothing, and the cards are
  static copy. So DataReady is honest today and would need revisiting if the
  surface ever gains real state
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-086

Change-ID: CL-20260802-075
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Fix -- one classification rule instead of two
Request-or-TODO: PIPE-042, PIPE-006a
Outcome: pipeline.ClassifyDecline becomes the single implementation of the
  skip-audit classification, called by the coordinator when it writes the audit
  and by the browser when it recomputes from the wire.
  Two copies existed for a few hours and disagreed immediately. The coordinator
  classified a stage with no declared check as unimplemented; the browser folded
  that case in with may-not-satisfy and answered no-check-by-design, or
  principled-decline when the stage appeared in Section33Resolved. The same
  ledger therefore classified differently depending on who read it -- and in the
  direction that flatters, since a stage the flow gained without a performer
  would have been shown to a reader as a deliberate design decision
Affected-behavior: The browser and the coordinator now agree. The coordinator's
  own answers are unchanged; the browser's change on the unbound case
Compatibility-or-migration: None
Verification: The unbound case is pinned by a test that names why it matters,
  and a second test separates a §33-resolved decline, a by-design stage and an
  unimplemented one
Known-limitations: The classification is still not on the wire, so the browser
  recomputes it from shared static tables rather than reading it. That is why
  two implementations existed at all, and carrying it on the wire would remove
  the need entirely
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-085

Change-ID: CL-20260802-074
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Feature -- the pipeline ledger gets a reader
Request-or-TODO: PIPE-006a
Outcome: web/frontend/pipelineledger renders the stage table with per-stage
  duration and the skip-audit headline with its three-way breakdown, mounted
  into the already-live review panel. Until PIPE-006b landed the wire and this
  landed the surface, the 39-stage ledger -- the central evidence artifact of
  the whole milestone -- could not be seen by anybody.
  Unmeasured is distinguished from instant on three non-colour channels:
  different accessible text, a different status glyph, and a different DOM
  shape. The decoder discards a wire elapsed value when the measured flag is
  false, so a malformed upstream response cannot leak a false duration
Affected-behavior: A new read-only section in the review panel
Compatibility-or-migration: The classification is not on the wire, so the client
  recomputes it from internal/pipeline's static tables, precedented by
  evidencereport importing internal/evidence. The run's own free-text reason
  stays server-side and is not shown
Verification: Native projection tests cover the populated, empty and failed
  states and the measured-zero case. The shell was driven in a real browser and
  the screenshots opened -- it boots and renders correctly with this compiled in
Known-limitations: **The populated ledger was never seen in a browser.** The
  review panel's button is disabled with "There is no work to review yet"
  because a fresh database has no completed task, so the headline and breakdown
  are covered only by projection tests, which is weaker than a viewed
  screenshot. That is REPO-041 and REPO-044 again: no supported path produces a
  run to look at. test-browser did not complete and no result is claimed from it
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-084

Change-ID: CL-20260802-073
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Correction -- a regression this session introduced
Request-or-TODO: PIPE-006b
Outcome: The RPC contract catalog gains the PipelineStageService row it was
  never given. CL-20260802-064 added ListPipelineStages as the product's 60th
  RPC and did not record it, so TestRPCContractCatalogMatchesProductDescriptor
  failed with "catalog has 59 RPCs; descriptor has 60" from that commit onward.
  It was committed and pushed in that state. Recorded as a correction rather
  than folded into an unrelated change, because the catalog exists precisely to
  make an unrecorded RPC impossible to ship, and it worked -- the test caught
  it, and it was reported by an unrelated lane rather than noticed by the lane
  that caused it
Affected-behavior: None at runtime. The catalog is descriptive
Compatibility-or-migration: None
Verification: go test ./internal/coordinator/ -run
  TestRPCContractCatalogMatchesProductDescriptor green
Known-limitations: The gap existed across two pushed commits. Nothing else
  consulted the catalog in between
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-083

Change-ID: CL-20260802-072
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Change -- share the shell-out, not the tree
Request-or-TODO: PIPE-057
Outcome: The ticket asked to stop re-parsing produced source about twenty times
  a run. Measurement says the parse is not the cost: parseProducedFunctions runs
  in 0-506 microseconds, while producedGoFiles is a git status process spawn at
  18-22ms. Six of each is roughly 120ms of a 3.8s run.
  So the cache memoizes the file list, the parsed tree, tested names and
  documented names for the four checks examineStructure runs consecutively, and
  the four shell-outs collapse to one. It also removes a fully wasted parse:
  resolveAttribution built an attributedScope that both of its callers discarded
Affected-behavior: None. No check's verdict changes
Compatibility-or-migration: None
Verification: The cache is keyed on the exact sorted file list, never on the
  worktree, so an attribution-derived list and a git-status-derived list cannot
  share an entry -- a conflation that would be a correctness bug, and there is a
  test for it. Each test proven to discriminate by injecting the exact defect
Known-limitations: Wall clock is noise-dominated and is reported as such rather
  than dressed up: five lanes were editing this checkout, a controlled A/B
  drifted together as load rose, and the provable saving is below the noise
  floor. The structural claim is guaranteed by the code, not sampled.
  checkSimplification is deliberately uncached because it runs after mutation
  testing writes and restores files in place
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-082

Change-ID: CL-20260802-071
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Change -- storage test suite separation
Request-or-TODO: REPO-030a
Outcome: internal/storage was the largest remaining cost in test-fast and could
  not be tagged because its test files shared fixtures almost all-to-all. Ten
  shared helpers move verbatim into an untagged shared_fixtures_test.go, and
  eleven measured-heavy files move behind the integration tag. Untagged wall
  clock drops from 238.8s to 178.2s, and the package keeps 293 of its 343 tests
  under test-fast, so no unit-test collapse
Affected-behavior: test-fast runs fewer storage tests and is faster;
  test-integration runs everything it did
Compatibility-or-migration: None
Verification: Selection counts are the evidence -- 2635 untagged against 2718
  tagged, a delta of 83, being 50 from this change plus REPO-030's existing 33.
  Both suites pass tagged and untagged
Known-limitations: The threshold sits at a measured natural break -- heaviest
  untagged file 8.9s, lightest tagged 11.0s -- rather than a round number, so it
  will need revisiting as files grow
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-081

Change-ID: CL-20260802-070
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Feature -- recall binds, and matches on the contract rather than the name
Request-or-TODO: PIPE-050, PIPE-051, PIPE-051a
Outcome: Recall used to list names that happened to match and oblige nobody.
  Every contract now leaves recallKnownAtoms with a decision: reuse, naming the
  matching function, its artifact and the contract hash that matched it, or
  write, carrying a justification. bindRecallDecisions fails the stage naming
  any contract left undecided, which is what makes it binding.
  The match is now a contract hash -- SHA-256 over the name-erased parameter and
  result type vector, ReturnsError, and sorted deduplicated effects -- replacing
  a substring search for "func <name>(" that found a renamed atom never and a
  same-named different atom always.
  The signature-shape key exists and is deliberately incapable of a verdict: it
  is read in exactly one place, to produce a candidate count for a write
  decision's prose. Similarity can narrow, and structurally cannot admit
Affected-behavior: The recall stage can now fail. A contract with no decision is
  a stage failure rather than a silent omission
Compatibility-or-migration: The contract hash lives in a new
  internal/retrieval/recallkey package rather than internal/retrieval, because
  that package's own gate test fails the build if it imports internal/atomdoc --
  a guard protecting the M21 discovery gate, whose purpose this mechanism does
  not share. The guard was run before and after to confirm that reading
Verification: Proven to discriminate by replacing the contract-hash lookup with
  a name-only key, reproducing the exact prior defect: the rename test and the
  same-name-different-contract test both failed with those symptoms, then passed
  again on revert. TestAUDIT026 passes unmodified, confirming the vector branch
  is untouched
Known-limitations: Recall still runs after assembly and the tests, so it reports
  on code already written; moving it means restructuring Run, whose file was
  held by another lane, and StageRecall keeps its unestablished marker honestly.
  PIPE-051b stays blocked: AUDIT-026's miss measurement cannot run without a
  reviewed real-run fallback, and none exists. No end-to-end reuse is
  demonstrated, because the registry is empty until PIPE-048 lands
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-080

Change-ID: CL-20260802-069
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Feature -- the graph draws six node classes instead of three
Request-or-TODO: REPO-044
Outcome: internal/graph implements seven NodeClass values and the only recorder
  wired into a live run emitted three, so the graph showed edits and commands
  and never the plan, validation or artifact structure a run genuinely has.
  Three more are now emitted, each at the point its fact becomes true: the plan
  region after RecordPlanRevision commits, the validation obligation where the
  tool's own outcome becomes known, and the artifact result after
  RecordProducedArtifact returns. A real run now produces six distinct shapes.
  ApprovalBoundary and RecoveryObserved are deliberately not wired, with their
  sites named: the approval fact is granted before a task starts, so no per-run
  recorder exists yet, and recovery resumes a task whose recorder is long gone
Affected-behavior: The task graph is richer. It remains derived and read-only
Compatibility-or-migration: None
Verification: Each emitter disabled in turn, confirming that class and only that
  class vanishes -- one of which made recordFileEdit fail outright on an edge
  referencing an unprojected node. A third test proves declarePlan with no
  durable revision projects nothing at all: an absent node rather than a lying
  one
Known-limitations: BranchMatchMerge stays unemitted; it is the class both
  unwired facts use. The mounted check asserting ten nodes and four shapes still
  needs a reachable populated graph, which is REPO-041
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-079

Change-ID: CL-20260802-068
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Feature -- work is judged against what the run changed
Request-or-TODO: PIPE-111, PIPE-111a, PIPE-112, PIPE-113, PIPE-114, PIPE-115,
  PIPE-116
Outcome: Four gates judged the whole repository rather than the run's own
  changes, so on a repository with existing code a run touching one function was
  held answerable for every declaration in every file it opened. Attribution is
  derived from the base revision in the durable worktree binding, and
  completeness, anti-patterns, complexity, simplification, mutation and coverage
  are all scoped to it.
  A worse defect was found on the way: every check enumerated produced files
  through git status --porcelain, which sees only uncommitted edits. The moment
  a run commits to its own worktree -- the documented operating mode -- that
  went completely blind rather than merely over-broad
Affected-behavior: The six rescoped checks report on the run's own work. Each
  fails toward inclusion when attribution cannot be established
Compatibility-or-migration: None. PIPE-115's unestablished marker is cleared
  because the scoping defect it named is fixed; the gate's "branch coverage"
  wording against a statement-coverage measurement is recorded as a pre-existing
  gap rather than silently conflated
Verification: Every test carries an explicit contrasting run -- unestablished
  attribution, or a constructed wide-open attribution simulating the old
  file-level scoping -- and asserts the defect reproduces on the same fixture
  before asserting the fix. PIPE-116's twelve-function fixture repository with a
  real pre-existing anti-pattern and completeness gap is what makes the rest
  believable: a clean-slate fixture has nothing pre-existing to disagree about
Known-limitations: Zero attribution and failed attribution are distinguished by
  an explicit flag rather than by an empty map, and the fail-open direction is
  deliberate -- under-attributing would silently shrink what every gate examines
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-078

Change-ID: CL-20260802-067
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Feature -- skip-audit stage
Request-or-TODO: PIPE-042
Outcome: A new stage 39 audits every stage this run recorded as skipped or
  not-implemented and reports the ratio, so a run cannot read as thorough while
  having declined most of its checks.
  The classification is the substance. A stage that can never satisfy and is
  named in Section33Resolved is a principled decline carrying its governing
  ticket; one that can never satisfy and is not named is no-check-by-design; a
  stage that could satisfy and recorded skipped declined after examining this
  run's own facts; the same stage recording not-implemented is unimplemented.
  Satisfied, failed and blocked are counted but not classified, because a failed
  check ran and a blocked stage was never given a fair chance
Affected-behavior: One further stage in the flow. Declared report-only in the
  refinement gates, because every row it audits is either an honest decline or a
  gap nobody has built, and a send-back would ask the work to repair the flow's
  own gaps -- a run could raise its ratio only by declining less honestly
Compatibility-or-migration: Appended as stage 39 rather than renumbered;
  PIPE-045 owns renumbering
Verification: Three discrimination proofs, each by breaking the guarded code:
  the Section33Resolved lookup, the empty-ledger guard, and the nil-store
  branch. Computed from the rows this run wrote, never from the flow
  declaration, and an unreadable ledger records skipped rather than a zero-value
  pass
Known-limitations: Not yet called from the run. The one-line wiring in
  agent_execution.go is held back because that file was contended, so stage 39
  currently records not-implemented -- honest, if incomplete
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-077

Change-ID: CL-20260802-066
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Record -- four standing decisions closed
Request-or-TODO: REPO-020a, REPO-024, REPO-037, REPO-038
Outcome: REPO-020a records the one entry whose commit binding cannot be
  repaired. CL-20260802-018 was swept into checkpoint 92f1eed with no
  Change-Log trailer, so git log --grep for it returns nothing and adding the
  trailer would mean rewriting a released commit. The exception is now written
  in two places -- this file's Commit-binding preamble, so a reader learning the
  general rule learns it has one exception, and the entry's own field, so a
  reader arriving there directly does not have to know the preamble exists.
  REPO-024: the vendored frontend-design skill is checked and has not drifted --
  SHA-256 matches on both files against the cached marketplace copy.
  REPO-037: the adversarial worktree-clean check stays removed. checkSimplification
  still performs no rewrite, no ticket implements one, and restoring an uncalled
  function to serve a caller nobody has scheduled is not an improvement.
  REPO-038: the bootstrap field stays. It is dead in web/client, but three test
  files outside it assert on its presence and absence as a live proxy for
  whether a session was established
Affected-behavior: None. Records and decisions only
Compatibility-or-migration: None
Verification: The drift check is a byte comparison, not a reading. The
  REPO-038 finding is three cited test files, not an absence of grep hits
Known-limitations: REPO-038's proxy is still a proxy -- whoever revisits it
  should replace it with a direct assertion rather than delete the signal.
  This commit names CL-20260802-018 in prose so an un-anchored grep resolves to
  something pointing at 92f1eed, which the trailer grep never can
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-076

Change-ID: CL-20260802-065
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Feature -- graph search in the browser client
Request-or-TODO: REPO-036
Outcome: The graph surface gains a search box. The SearchGraph RPC was real,
  implemented and tested server-side with no way for the interface to call it --
  the server answered a question nothing could ask. Deleting a working
  capability was the worse of the two resolutions the ticket offered.
  The results list is built from primitives.Button, so keyboard handling and
  ARIA come from the primitive rather than being hand-rolled. Search is
  debounced by supersession with a stale-response guard. Selecting a result
  centres and selects a node already in the loaded slice, and says so plainly
  when the match is not loaded -- search covers the server's whole graph while
  the view holds a bounded slice, and silently doing nothing there would read as
  a broken control.
  The dead LinkedChatNodeID field is reused as FocusNodeID rather than adding a
  second select-and-centre mechanism beside it; it had no call sites and is
  exactly the effect a search result needs
Affected-behavior: A new control on the graph surface, with loading, empty and
  populated states
Compatibility-or-migration: None
Verification: Driven in a real browser with typing and keystrokes against a
  purpose-built fixture, because no live task graph is currently reachable --
  see REPO-041 and REPO-044. Loading state appeared, two results returned, Tab
  reached a result button, Enter activated it, the node reported aria-pressed,
  and the viewport centred. A zero-match query was driven too. Screenshots were
  opened and judged
Known-limitations: Verified against a three-node in-memory fixture rather than a
  real run's graph, because none exists yet. The check that would exercise it
  against real data is blocked behind REPO-044
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-075

Change-ID: CL-20260802-064
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Feature -- the pipeline stage ledger becomes readable
Request-or-TODO: PIPE-006b
Outcome: PipelineStageService.ListPipelineStages exposes one task attempt's
  recorded flow -- stage number, name, verdict, and elapsed timing with an
  explicit measured signal. Nothing outside internal/coordinator could read
  pipeline_stage_records before this, so the evidence the whole Pipeline
  Refinement milestone produces had no reader at all.
  An RPC rather than a durable session event: the rows are immutable and fully
  written before any interface could announce them, they are addressed by task
  and attempt rather than delivered in one session's live order, and the session
  snapshot is correctness-bearing base state rather than a stage-by-stage audit
  trail. An event would have bought live per-stage animation at the cost of
  threading a payload through every write site and multiplying session-event
  volume by up to 38 per attempt for data already durable in SQL.
  Migration 000036 adds elapsed_measured, because StartedAt and FinishedAt alone
  cannot distinguish an untracked start from a genuinely instant stage -- both
  store identical equal timestamps. The bit is decided once at write time, in
  the only place that knows why the two are equal, and the handler leaves
  elapsed unset rather than an explicit zero when unmeasured
Affected-behavior: A new authenticated, bounded read surface. No existing
  behavior changes
Compatibility-or-migration: Forward migration 000036 adds one column;
  migration-check accepts it and generate-check accepts the regenerated protobuf
Verification: Proven to discriminate twice. Sabotaging the storage write to
  infer measured-ness from timestamp inequality made the re-read assertion fail;
  sabotaging the handler to always set elapsed made the wire test fail. Both
  reverted and re-verified. A further test proves the LIMIT 128 read bound does
  not clip a real 38-stage flow, and TestAUDIT008 confirms the new service is
  registered and refuses an unauthenticated call
Known-limitations: attempt=0 resolves to attempt 1, matching
  NextPipelineAttempt's convention. There is no "latest attempt" concept
  anywhere in the product and this surface does not invent one
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-074

Change-ID: CL-20260802-063
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Fix -- episodes close with a real outcome
Request-or-TODO: MEM-001a
Outcome: An episode now closes at the acceptance decision with the outcome that
  decision made -- accepted, rejected, or abandoned -- instead of always closing
  unresolved at the end of the agent run. Every episode previously reported
  unresolved regardless of what happened, which made the outcome column useless
  to every extractor the learning layer is specified against.
  finalizeReviewDecision closes the task's open episode immediately after
  RecordTaskReviewDecision succeeds. closeRunEpisode leaves a task in
  awaiting-review open, because a real decision is still pending, and closes
  anything else abandoned so a failed or cancelled run no longer sits open
Affected-behavior: Episode outcomes carry the decision. No user-visible change
Compatibility-or-migration: None. The outcome vocabulary and both repository
  methods already existed from migration 000035; migration-check unchanged
Verification: Every new invariant proven to discriminate by removing its guard,
  watching the specific test fail, and restoring it -- the awaiting-review skip,
  the abandoned outcome, the decision-site close, and the already-closed guard.
  go test with an empty run pattern over ./... confirms no other implementer of
  reviewMutationRepositories was broken by the interface change
Known-limitations: A task reaching awaiting-review and never decided on keeps
  its episode open. That is honest rather than a regression -- nobody has
  decided -- but an abandoned review is indistinguishable from a pending one
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-073

Change-ID: CL-20260802-062
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Test -- ladder acceptance verified, and one rung repaired
Request-or-TODO: PIPE-020a
Outcome: The ticket's premise was already stale. It recorded that the escalation
  ladder supplies no acceptance example, which was true of the 48-rung ladder it
  was written against; commit 49061c4 expanded the ladder to 251 rungs the same
  day and added acceptanceBlock(), appended to every rung's requirement. All 251
  carry a non-empty expected value, so there was no landmine.
  Verified rather than assumed, and without running the paid path: three tests
  drive the real parseAcceptanceExamples, parseNamedTestExamples and
  checkAcceptanceOracle over all 251 rungs. Each satisfies the instructions
  predicate exactly as agent_execution.go computes it, each parses back to the
  expected value the rung declares, and each fails against a bare worktree as
  PIPE-020's oracle requires. A third test is the control: a worktree already
  satisfying its example makes the oracle report broke, so held is not vacuous.
  One independent pre-existing defect repaired. Rung 25's expected value began
  with a literal space, and both normalizeProgramOutput and parseOneExample trim
  the whole joined text, eating it -- so that rung's own correctness check could
  never pass even for a perfect program. The diff was reordered so the first
  differing line is a deletion, keeping the rung's existing convention
Affected-behavior: Test-only. Rung 25 becomes satisfiable
Compatibility-or-migration: None
Verification: The three new tests green; the ladder still skips cleanly with
  CODEFLUX_LADDER unset
Known-limitations: CODEFLUX_LADDER was never set and run-live never invoked, so
  what a real model does with this text is unverified: whether it satisfies
  end-to-end-tests, whether reportFlow's other stages hold against real output,
  and whether rung 25's new transcript is one a correct diff would produce.
  Offline testing shows the string is self-consistent, not that it is achievable
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-072

Change-ID: CL-20260802-061
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Fix -- one definition of the requirement text
Request-or-TODO: PIPE-019a
Outcome: AnalyzeTaskRequirement trims before validating instead of refusing an
  untrimmed body. It is the one function all three disagreeing computations
  already call, so normalising there and only there makes disagreement
  structurally impossible without a fourth definition of the requirement text.
  The silent swallow is fixed: the ambiguity check records the clarification
  stage as failed with the analysis error in its detail, rather than leaving the
  stage absent so ledger close later mislabels it not-implemented
Affected-behavior: A requirement carrying a trailing newline -- which the
  acceptance blocks PIPE-019 makes mandatory produce -- analyses and records
  instead of stalling the run four stages later with a constraint error
Compatibility-or-migration: None. agent_plan_repository.go and
  agent_plan_record.go needed no change once the shared function was correct,
  which is the evidence that a single definition was the right shape
Verification: The reproduction test that asserted the old refusal was rewritten
  to assert the new invariant rather than deleted, and a new test round-trips a
  multi-line acceptance requirement to a bound plan revision
Known-limitations: Persist-time normalisation was rejected deliberately -- the
  stored message is the user's own content and an internal analysis
  disagreement is no reason to rewrite what a person typed. Fixing this also
  exposed PIPE-019b, previously unreachable because this failure always fired
  first: agentPlanSteps embeds the raw requirement in a plan step's redacted
  detail, which Validate refuses for trailing whitespace
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-071

Change-ID: CL-20260802-060
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Feature -- CI enforces the coverage ratchet
Request-or-TODO: REPO-027a
Outcome: ci.yml's coverage step reads coverageFloorPercent out of
  cmd/codeflux-dev/coverage_floor.go at run time and passes it to
  --min-coverage. Previously it invoked test-coverage bare, which writes a
  profile and asserts nothing, so the ratchet was enforced only by the pre-push
  hook and only for people who had set core.hooksPath
Affected-behavior: A CI run below the floor now fails. A value must be passed:
  resolveCoverageThreshold reads only the flag or CODEFLUX_MIN_COVERAGE and
  leaves the floor disabled when neither is set
Compatibility-or-migration: None
Verification: The extraction was exercised against the real file and resolves to
  the constant's value; the workflow was parsed to confirm it is valid YAML
Known-limitations: It is a regex over Go source, so a rewrite such as adding an
  explicit type to the constant would stop matching. The step throws when the
  constant cannot be found, so that fails CI loudly rather than silently passing
  an empty floor and disabling the gate -- the acceptable version of the risk. A
  codeflux-dev subcommand printing the floor would remove it entirely
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-070

Change-ID: CL-20260802-059
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Security -- dependency upgrade
Request-or-TODO: REPO-043
Outcome: google.golang.org/grpc moves from v1.81.0 to v1.82.1, closing the one
  open HIGH Dependabot advisory (xDS RBAC and HTTP/2 vulnerabilities).
  google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/rpc moved with it; golang.org/x/net and
  google.golang.org/protobuf did not
Affected-behavior: None observable. No call site changed in the coordinator, the
  frontend server, or the transport
Compatibility-or-migration: None. No API this repository uses was removed or
  deprecated by the upgrade
Verification: go build ./... and go vet ./... clean; gofmt clean; the full
  internal/frontendserver suite green, including the websocket bridge,
  same-origin and loopback security tests; the transport, session and AUDIT-008
  registered-service tests green; lint exit 0
Known-limitations: Only the HTTP/2 half of the advisory was ever reachable here
  -- grep confirmed no xDS usage -- so the upgrade closes a real exposure on the
  worker protocol and browser bridge rather than a theoretical one, but the xDS
  half was never a risk and should not be cited as one
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-069

Change-ID: CL-20260802-058
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Record -- open security advisory
Request-or-TODO: REPO-043
Outcome: Files REPO-043 for the one open Dependabot alert, reported by GitHub
  when dev was pushed on 2026-08-02: gRPC-Go xDS RBAC and HTTP/2
  vulnerabilities, HIGH, vulnerable below v1.82.1, and go.mod pins v1.81.0. It
  predates this session and nothing here touched go.mod
Affected-behavior: None. The dependency is unchanged; this records the finding
  so it is not carried only by a push-time notice nobody reads twice
Compatibility-or-migration: None yet. The upgrade is the ticket
Verification: Version read from go.mod; range and patched version read from the
  Dependabot API
Known-limitations: The advisory has two halves and only one is on a live path
  here -- the coordinator serves the worker protocol over gRPC and the frontend
  server carries the browser bridge, so HTTP/2 applies even loopback-bound,
  while nothing uses xDS. That distinction is recorded so the ticket is not
  triaged as entirely inapplicable
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-068

Change-ID: CL-20260802-057
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Record -- completion ledger for this session's work
Request-or-TODO: The session's twenty-four closed tickets
Outcome: TODOS.md is brought into line with what landed: twenty-four items
  checked with their evidence, and eighteen new items filed for gaps the work
  exposed. Corrections to two stale records are included, as is the
  qualification on REPO-018's own wording, whose stated diagnosis was wrong in a
  way that would have deleted live frontend code
Affected-behavior: None. This is the completion record
Compatibility-or-migration: None
Verification: The ledger-identifier rule added by CL-20260802-042 accepts the
  file, and lint was green over this working tree before the commit sequence
  began
Known-limitations: AGENTS.md asks for the checkbox in the same commit as the
  work it describes, and this commit does not honour that. Six lanes shared one
  checkout, so TODOS.md carries interleaved edits whose hunks merge between
  adjacent tickets even at zero context -- selecting one ticket's checkbox drags
  in its neighbours', which would attribute a box to a commit that does not
  carry the work. Splitting it would have been less accurate, not more. The
  binding that survives is the per-commit Change-Log trailer, which is what
  CL-20260802-041's hook enforces and what a reviewer resolves against.
  This commit also carries a correction: at revision da61102 both CHANGELOG and
  DEVLOG hold CL-20260802-055 and DL-20260802-065 twice. Two sessions were
  writing these files at once, and one swept the other's entry from the working
  tree before that session committed the same entry itself. The redundant copy
  is removed here rather than left, since a duplicated identifier is an
  accidental repetition of one record rather than a second record, and
  CL-20260802-042's rule exists to refuse exactly this
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-067

Change-ID: CL-20260802-056
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Fix -- regenerated constant
Request-or-TODO: MEM-001 through MEM-005
Outcome: The generated schema-version constant follows migration 000035 from 34
  to 35. It belongs with the migration commit and was missed there
Affected-behavior: buildinfo reports the schema version the migrations actually
  reach. Left stale it would have understated the schema by one
Compatibility-or-migration: Generated source, regenerated
Verification: codeflux-dev migration-check accepts the catalog, and the
  constant now matches migrations.LatestVersion
Known-limitations: None
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-066

Change-ID: CL-20260802-055
Commit: da61102
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Agent worktrees are prohibited; everyone works in the dev checkout
Request-or-TODO: User: "lets never use worktrees, just tell the agents to build
  inside of dev and be careful to not clobber other agents changes"
Outcome: AGENTS.md's "One Lane, One Worktree" is replaced by "Everyone Works in
  dev, Nobody Clobbers". Agents no longer create a worktree or a second clone;
  they work directly in the dev checkout alongside each other, and the
  co-tenancy rules become the discipline instead of the workaround: stage
  explicit paths and never git add -A; stage only your own hunk when a shared
  file carries another lane's work; re-read CHANGELOG and DEVLOG immediately
  before writing an entry because identifiers move and have already collided;
  never revert, reformat, or repair a file you did not change, the one exception
  being a mechanical gofmt left unstaged; expect a syntactically broken tree that
  is not yours and wait rather than fixing it; never rewrite shared history; and
  treat the fixed-port dev server as shared. The section states the accepted cost
  plainly -- a repository-wide gate can be red for reasons unrelated to you, and
  a push carries whatever else is unpushed -- and that this is not a licence to
  route around a gate. The prohibition is explicitly scoped to agent working
  copies; the per-task worktrees the product creates in internal/gitwork are
  untouched, and the section says so, because a later agent reading only the
  heading could otherwise remove a product feature
Affected-behavior: None at runtime
Compatibility-or-migration: Supersedes CL-20260802-022. Any worktree created
  under the previous rule should be removed with git worktree remove
Verification: Prose only; no Go source touched
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-065

Change-ID: CL-20260802-054
Commit: b9e286d
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Fix -- pre-commit hook
Request-or-TODO: REPO-042
Outcome: The pre-commit hook no longer tries to build testdata directories as
  packages. It derives the packages to test from the staged Go files' parent
  directories, which named cmd/codeflux-dev/testdata/atomdocs whenever a lint
  fixture changed. The Go tool ignores testdata precisely so fixtures may be
  invalid on purpose; naming one explicitly overrides that. Those seven fixtures
  all declare the same identifier by design, so the directory cannot compile,
  and no commit touching a fixture could pass the hook
Affected-behavior: A commit changing only fixtures is testable again. A staged
  set consisting solely of testdata files now skips the unit-test step rather
  than running go test with no arguments, which would have tested the current
  directory
Compatibility-or-migration: None
Verification: Found by the hook refusing the REPO-031 commit, which adds two
  fixtures. With the filter the same commit passes; the fixtures are still
  exercised, by cmd/codeflux-dev's own tests reading them as data
Known-limitations: The hook still tests only the changed packages, so a change
  breaking a dependent package is caught later, at push and in CI
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-064

Change-ID: CL-20260802-053
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Fix -- accessibility defect in the composer
Request-or-TODO: REPO-040
Outcome: The composer's "Options" and "Task controls" trigger buttons now honour
  the disabled parameter every sibling control already respected. They stayed
  natively enabled while their containing section reported aria-disabled=true,
  so a keyboard user tabbing through a disabled composer landed on them
Affected-behavior: Tabbing through a disabled composer no longer stops on two
  controls that cannot be used. The tab sequence after them is no longer shifted
Compatibility-or-migration: None
Verification: keyboard-full-shell-forward-reverse-visible-focus passes. The
  defect was reproduced first by a raw single Tab press from "Open task review"
  landing on #composer-options every time, independent of any snapshot timing
Known-limitations: The check could not see this: Playwright's keyboardTabStops
  honours ARIA-disabled ancestry and a real browser's Tab key does not, so an
  accessibility check modelling ARIA more faithfully than the browser misses the
  defects that reach a keyboard user
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-063

Change-ID: CL-20260802-052
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Fix -- stale browser matrix expectations
Request-or-TODO: REPO-039
Outcome: internal/frontendtest/matrix.go's RouteHeadings named headings the
  product stopped rendering when its demo fixture was removed -- including one
  string production_console_test.go explicitly lists as content that must no
  longer appear. direct-route-heading failed on /tasks and /memory at every
  viewport and cascaded into every graph and mounted check behind a 30s timeout
  each. The headings now match what is rendered
Affected-behavior: Test expectations only
Compatibility-or-migration: None
Verification: direct-route-heading passes on both routes at every viewport. The
  assertion still pins real rendered content and was not weakened to a substring
Known-limitations: test-browser is still red. The residue is REPO-041, a
  different and larger problem
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-062

Change-ID: CL-20260802-051
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Feature -- episode lifecycle, with migration
Request-or-TODO: MEM-001, MEM-002, MEM-003, MEM-004, MEM-004a, MEM-005
Outcome: Runs now open and close an episode. OpenEpisode and CloseEpisode had no
  production caller, so the append-only record the learning layer is specified
  against did not exist. Migration 000035 adds the attempt binding, an immutable
  fingerprint carry table, attempt transitions, memory-influence events, and
  write-once advisory exposure.
  episodes.task_id was UNIQUE, permitting one episode per task ever, which
  contradicts the requirement that a task started twice produce two episodes.
  The table is rebuilt to UNIQUE(task_id, attempt), bound to the pipeline
  ledger's existing attempt number rather than a second notion of attempt
Affected-behavior: Every run records an episode. No user-visible change
Compatibility-or-migration: Forward migration 000035. It rebuilds the episodes
  table, which SQLite requires for a constraint change; migration-check accepts
  it. This commit is not split further because the migration is atomic and the
  repositories that read the new columns cannot land without it
Verification: migration-check ok; go test ./internal/storage/ -run TestMEM (13
  tests) and ./internal/coordinator/ -run TestMEM (5 tests) green; the full
  storage suite green at 157s with no regressions. The advisory-exposure trigger
  was proven load-bearing by deleting it, regenerating, and confirming the
  discriminating test fails, then restoring it
Known-limitations: CloseEpisode always closes unresolved, because no user
  decision happens inside a run and the row freezes on close -- MEM-001a. Two
  attempt-ending branches are not separately recorded. The memory-influence path
  is built and deliberately not called, since the agent loop has no mechanism to
  report a real used/adapted/rejected decision and recording an invented one
  would be worse than recording none
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-061

Change-ID: CL-20260802-050
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Feature -- acceptance-oracle stage
Request-or-TODO: PIPE-020
Outcome: A new acceptance-oracle stage runs each declared acceptance example
  against the repository before the run's own work and requires it to fail. An
  example that is already true before anything is built discriminates nothing,
  and every later gate that rests on it inherits that
Affected-behavior: A run whose examples already pass now records the oracle
  failed rather than proceeding as though the examples meant something
Compatibility-or-migration: The stage is appended as number 38 rather than
  renumbered, because PIPE-045 owns renumbering. Its number and its position in
  the dependency graph therefore diverge: it is unblocked immediately after
  instructions.
  Its entry in PIPE-058's requirements table rides in this commit rather than a
  follow-up, so no revision exists where the flow holds a stage the table does
  not cover. That coverage check refused the stage the moment it was added,
  which is the failure mode it was designed to produce
Verification: Proven to discriminate -- inverting the held branch makes
  TestPIPE020_AnExampleAlreadyTrueBeforeAnyWorkFailsTheOracle fail, and
  reverting restores green
Known-limitations: None beyond PIPE-019's, which it depends on
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-060

Change-ID: CL-20260802-049
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Diagnosis -- reproduced, not repaired
Request-or-TODO: PIPE-019a
Outcome: The reason scope.requirement cannot be trimmed, established by
  reproduction. The ticket's own guess -- that the raw body is used as a key or
  digest -- is wrong. AnalyzeTaskRequirement refuses an untrimmed body; the
  ambiguity check swallows that error so clarification silently records
  not-implemented; recordDurablePlan propagates it so the plan revision stays
  zero and every stage needing a bound plan never runs. Decisively,
  RecordTaskRequirement does not trust the caller's analysis: it re-reads the
  message body from SQL and recomputes, requiring a byte-identical match, so
  trimming at the source could never have worked
Affected-behavior: None. Two reproduction tests are added and one explanatory
  comment. The defect is unrepaired
Compatibility-or-migration: None
Verification: The trim was applied, both tests re-run, confirmed insufficient,
  and reverted. TestPIPE019a_TrimmingRequirementOfAloneDoesNotFixIt refuses a
  hand-trimmed analysis against an untrimmed stored message with ErrConstraint,
  proving mechanically that the fix must live elsewhere
Known-limitations: The fix belongs in internal/storage -- normalise once, either
  inside AnalyzeTaskRequirement or where the body is persisted. Not done here
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-059

Change-ID: CL-20260802-048
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Fix -- instructions gate
Request-or-TODO: PIPE-019
Outcome: The instructions stage now requires at least one executable acceptance
  example instead of permitting a declared absence. This is what makes the
  end-to-end gate non-vacuous -- it claims the built executable reproduces every
  acceptance example, which was trivially true when there were none -- so
  StageEndToEndTests no longer carries PIPE-019 as unestablished
Affected-behavior: A run whose request carries no acceptance example now fails
  at the first stage rather than proceeding and satisfying downstream gates
  against nothing
Compatibility-or-migration: None
Verification: go test ./internal/coordinator/ -run 'TestPIPE|TestEveryStage|
  TestAUDIT' green; the affected integration-tagged ledger test updated and run
  with -tags integration
Known-limitations: The CODEFLUX_LADDER escalation test supplies no acceptance
  example and fails the whole test on any failed stage row, so its next paid run
  fails every rung at this stage. Filed as PIPE-020a and not fixed here
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-058

Change-ID: CL-20260802-047
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Feature -- declared stage dependency graph
Request-or-TODO: PIPE-058
Outcome: internal/pipeline/requirements.go declares, for every stage, the stages
  it genuinely requires, with the reason recorded per entry. Validation refuses a
  stage with no entry, an entry for an unknown stage, a requirement naming an
  unknown stage, an edge pointing forward in the flow, a cycle, and an
  unreachable stage, returning every finding rather than the first.
  The widest frontier the graph permits is five: integration-tests,
  end-to-end-tests, global-invariants, adversarial, and platform-matrix all
  unblock the instant program is satisfied
Affected-behavior: None yet. This is the declaration; PIPE-058a executes against
  it
Compatibility-or-migration: A separate table rather than a Stage field, because
  Flow's entries are positional composite literals
Verification: Each of the five validations proven to discriminate against a
  hand-broken table, including a real injected three-stage cycle whose report
  names all three. A test asserts the widest frontier by name and fails if the
  graph degenerates to a chain. The coverage check proved itself in practice
  when PIPE-020 added a stage and the table refused it until an entry existed
Known-limitations: The author flagged one reading for review: "the suite" in the
  repetition and non-functional gates was taken as the executable-level suite
  rather than every test stage
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-057

Change-ID: CL-20260802-046
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Feature -- enforceable coverage floor
Request-or-TODO: REPO-026, REPO-027, REPO-028
Outcome: The measured baseline is 62.6% untagged and 63.6% with the integration
  tag. Against that, the 80% floor is unreachable and would be bypassed, so the
  floor becomes a ratchet: coverageFloorPercent, with a test that reads the
  value as of the last commit touching the file and refuses a decrease.
  codeflux-dev test-coverage gains --min-coverage, and pre-push delegates to it
  rather than keeping a second implementation
Affected-behavior: test-coverage can now fail. Without the flag or
  CODEFLUX_MIN_COVERAGE it still asserts nothing, preserving the bare CI
  invocation
Compatibility-or-migration: The hook's default floor changes from an unreachable
  80 to the ratchet value; a test keeps the shell default and the Go constant in
  step
Verification: Tests run against an isolated module with deterministic 50%
  coverage, covering below-floor, at-floor, env-only, flag-beats-env, unenforced
  by default, and a failing suite refused without a percentage printed. Four
  functions were hand-mutated and each corresponding test confirmed failing
Known-limitations: ci.yml still invokes test-coverage bare, so CI does not
  enforce the ratchet yet. Filed as REPO-027a
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-056

Change-ID: CL-20260802-045
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Change -- test suite separation
Request-or-TODO: REPO-030
Outcome: Six heavy test files move behind //go:build integration, so test-fast
  and test-integration finally select different sets: 2554 tests untagged and
  2587 tagged, a difference of exactly the 33 functions moved. internal/
  testharness drops from 11.6s to 0.6s, internal/testfixtures from 7.4s to 0.4s,
  and internal/coordinator from 128.9s to 77.4s on a warm cache
Affected-behavior: test-fast runs fewer tests and is faster. test-integration
  runs everything it did before
Compatibility-or-migration: None
Verification: Test-selection counts before and after, plus test-fast and
  test-integration both passing. Before tagging, every unexported symbol was
  cross-referenced against every other test file in each package to prove no
  untagged file would stop compiling
Known-limitations: Two of the ticket's assumptions did not survive measurement.
  internal/retrieval is not heavy -- 5.5s for the package -- and was left alone.
  internal/storage cannot be tagged until its shared fixtures are extracted,
  since 42 of ~80 files use one helper; filed as REPO-030a, and it remains the
  largest cost in test-fast at ~135s
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-055

Change-ID: CL-20260802-043
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Feature -- repository lint rule
Request-or-TODO: REPO-034
Outcome: lint refuses a _test.go function that calls ReadProviderKey without an
  explicit environment opt-in ahead of it: a read of a distinct non-provider-key
  variable and a t.Skip inside an if, the shape CODEFLUX_LADDER establishes.
  Decides REPO-034's open question as no -- a provider-backed test may not exist
  without an opt-in. The rule matches the provider-key resolution helper only,
  not raw environment reads of key-shaped names
Affected-behavior: codeflux-dev lint gains a check. No product behavior changed
Compatibility-or-migration: None
Verification: Nine cases, including a gate placed after the access (still
  fires), a package-qualified call, and the three real files that must pass
Known-limitations: A test reaching a real key by a route that does not go
  through the helper is not caught. That route does not exist today
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-053

Change-ID: CL-20260802-042
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Feature -- repository lint rule
Request-or-TODO: REPO-021
Outcome: lint refuses a duplicate or malformed CHANGELOG/DEVLOG identifier. Six
  collisions already exist and are released, so they are exempted by a
  content-addressed allowlist -- SHA-256 of each duplicate entry's full text --
  which a later lane cannot exploit by deleting one and reusing its identifier
  for different content. Parsing is anchored to the Entries marker, because both
  ledgers open with a field-name template whose bare labels an unanchored scan
  reads as malformed entries
Affected-behavior: codeflux-dev lint gains a check. No product behavior changed
Compatibility-or-migration: None. The six historical collisions are recorded,
  not corrected; AGENTS.md forbids rewriting a released entry
Verification: Clean fixture passes, preamble-template regression passes,
  duplicate Change-ID and Dev-Log both fire, malformed identifiers fire, a
  substitute duplicate reusing a legacy identifier with different content still
  fires, and the real ledgers pass
Known-limitations: The allowlist grows only by deliberate edit, which is the
  intent; a seventh collision is a failure, not an entry
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-052

Change-ID: CL-20260802-041
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Feature -- commit-msg hook
Request-or-TODO: REPO-020
Outcome: .githooks/commit-msg requires both ledger trailers and resolves each
  identifier against the staged CHANGELOG and DEVLOG, so an entry added in the
  same commit counts and a dangling reference does not. It is a hook rather than
  a lint check because lint runs from pre-commit, before a commit message
  exists; reading .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG was rejected because it persists after
  every commit, so a standalone or CI lint would validate a stale message or
  none at all
Affected-behavior: A commit missing either trailer, carrying a malformed one, or
  naming an identifier with no ledger entry is now refused. codeflux-dev lint is
  unaffected and structurally cannot fail on this rule
Compatibility-or-migration: Requires core.hooksPath set to .githooks, as the
  existing hooks already do
Verification: Five tests drive the real hook through actual git commit calls in
  a temporary repository. One reproduces CL-20260802-018 -- swept into checkpoint
  92f1eed with no trailer, git log --grep returning nothing -- proving the hook
  would have refused the one commit whose ledger binding this repository lost
Known-limitations: It cannot repair CL-20260802-018; adding a trailer means
  rewriting a released commit. Recorded as REPO-020a
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-051

Change-ID: CL-20260802-040
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Fix -- stage-to-performer bindings
Request-or-TODO: PIPE-004a
Outcome: Six of the thirty-seven entries in pipeline.Checks named functions that
  do not exist. Four had never existed in this repository
  (checkDecompositionCoverage, synthesiseAtomCases, checkAtomPropertyTests,
  checkAssembly); two were deleted as unreachable under REPO-018 while the table
  kept pointing at them (documentAtoms, measureCoverage). All six now name the
  function that really decides the stage, and a test resolves every binding
  against the package's declarations
Affected-behavior: None at runtime; Performer is descriptive. What changes is
  that a reader chasing a satisfied ledger row now reaches real code
Compatibility-or-migration: None
Verification: go test ./internal/coordinator/ -run TestPIPE004a green, and
  proven to discriminate -- restoring measureCoverage makes it fail naming that
  entry and its stage. The test refuses to run against zero parsed declarations,
  so it cannot pass vacuously
Known-limitations: It confirms a function of that name exists, not that it is
  the one that decides the stage. Naming the wrong real function still passes
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-050

Change-ID: CL-20260802-039
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Fix -- dispatch scheduling
Request-or-TODO: AUDIT-018a
Outcome: Lifting a pause, granting an approval, and registering a restored run
  each signal the dispatch pump, so work those transitions unblock starts on the
  transition rather than waiting up to two seconds for the fallback tick. Each
  signal is sent after its durable commit and is non-blocking, so no transition
  is delayed. The application wires all three, which is the half AUDIT-018 left
  undone
Affected-behavior: A task unblocked by a resume or an approval starts promptly
  instead of on the next tick
Compatibility-or-migration: None. newApplicationTaskControls takes the notifier
  as a parameter and accepts nil, meaning nothing is signalled
Verification: The tests set the pump's fallback interval to one hour against a
  500ms window, so a start inside that window cannot be attributed to the tick,
  and each re-reads durable state from inside the signal callback to prove
  ordering. 15/15 over -count=5. A separate test reads the three construction
  sites, because with the wiring absent every behavioural test still passes --
  which is exactly how AUDIT-018 shipped incomplete
Known-limitations: The wiring test reads source rather than observing a signal,
  and says so at the test
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-049

Change-ID: CL-20260802-038
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Removal -- a declared capability with no executor
Request-or-TODO: AUDIT-005a
Outcome: The unused deletion policy is removed from internal/storage:
  DeletionMode, both mode constants, DeletionPolicy, and DefaultDeletionPolicy.
  It declared tombstone-then-purge for projects and threads while nothing
  performed it and the schema actively refused it -- no migration declares ON
  DELETE and the DSN enforces foreign keys, so deleting a project with
  descendants is refused atomically. TestMaintenancePoliciesAreExplicit
  asserted the declaration's own literal values, so it could not fail for any
  reason that mattered; it is narrowed to the retention policy. A new guard
  test fails if a deletion policy is declared again in production source
  without an executor
Affected-behavior: None at runtime. Nothing called the removed symbols. What
  changes is the record: the repository no longer claims deletion semantics it
  does not implement
Compatibility-or-migration: None. No schema change. The absence of a project or
  thread purge path is unchanged and now recorded as AUDIT-005b
Verification: go build ./... clean; gofmt clean; go test ./internal/storage/
  -run 'TestAUDIT005|TestMaintenancePolicies' green. The guard test is proven to
  discriminate: a temporary production reference was detected and named, then
  removed
Known-limitations: A user cannot delete their own project or thread through any
  supported path, and could not before this change either. AUDIT-005b carries it
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-048

Change-ID: CL-20260802-037
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Removal -- a flag reporting a capability that does not exist
Request-or-TODO: AUDIT-029a
Outcome: codeflux start no longer accepts --simulate, and
  ApplicationOptions.SimulateExecution is removed. The flag was parsed, threaded
  into the coordinator, and printed an "execution is SIMULATED" banner, and no
  code ever read the value, so a user asking for a simulated run got a real one
  with a banner claiming otherwise. The flag now exits with a usage error
Affected-behavior: codeflux start --simulate fails as an unknown flag instead of
  being accepted and ignored. No other behavior changes; the removed field had
  no reader
Compatibility-or-migration: A script passing --simulate now fails rather than
  silently running for real. That is the intended correction
Verification: go build ./... clean; gofmt clean; go vet over the three affected
  packages clean; go test ./cmd/codeflux/ -count=1 green; staticcheck clean.
  cmd/codeflux/simulate_flag_removed_test.go pins both the refusal and the
  absence of the symbols from production source
Known-limitations: There is no simulated-execution mode. Nothing currently asks
  for one, so no ticket is filed
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-047

Change-ID: CL-20260802-036
Commit: pending
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Fix -- static analysis findings, and one product defect found among them
Request-or-TODO: REPO-018
Outcome: Every Staticcheck finding is cleared under all three passes the gate
  now runs. 32 unreachable declarations were removed from internal/coordinator,
  internal/executor, cmd/codeflux-dev, web/client, and web/frontend; two control
  characters became explicit escapes; a loop became an append; a comparison to a
  bool constant and a redundant nil check were simplified; and five deprecated
  fixed-duration waits in the browser suite were replaced with waits on the
  condition each was really waiting for.
  One finding was a real user-visible defect rather than a style issue. In
  web/client/timeline_mounted.go the error from fetching an older timeline page
  was assigned and never read. On the page-merge failure path the feed came back
  with LoadingOlder still true and no SafeError, and nothing else clears that
  flag, so "load older messages" wedged permanently on a spinner with no error
  shown until the user switched threads. The error is now checked and the feed
  forced to a definite failed state
Affected-behavior: The stuck-spinner defect above is fixed. Otherwise no product
  behavior changed: the removed declarations had no callers under any build
  target
Compatibility-or-migration: None. No schema, no generated source, no public API
Verification: All three Staticcheck passes report zero findings. go build ./...
  clean; GOOS=js GOARCH=wasm go build ./web/client/... clean; gofmt clean;
  go test ./web/client/, ./web/frontend/..., ./internal/executor/, and
  ./cmd/codeflux-dev/ green
Known-limitations: Three capabilities were removed rather than wired and the
  repository no longer has them -- graph search in the browser client, the
  adversarial-review worktree-clean check, and a superseded session-bootstrap
  path. Each is recorded in TODOS.md so the loss is findable. The browser suite
  covering the rewritten waits was not confirmed to have been run
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-046

Change-ID: CL-20260802-035
Commit: ec92bb7
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Fix -- static analysis gate
Request-or-TODO: REPO-018
Outcome: codeflux-dev lint now analyses each package under a build target it is
  actually compiled for. Non-browser packages are analysed on the host as
  before. The packages beneath web/ are additionally analysed under GOOS=js
  GOARCH=wasm, which is the target they ship to, and their unused-code check is
  decided only there. Previously a single host pass judged the browser packages
  under a target they never run on, which was wrong in both directions at once:
  19 of the 51 findings recorded against REPO-018 stood against live, wired
  frontend code whose only callers sit behind //go:build js && wasm, while the
  wasm-tagged files were never analysed at all and six genuine findings had
  never been seen
Affected-behavior: codeflux-dev lint, and the pre-commit hook and CI that run
  it. No product behavior changed. The finding set changes: 19 false positives
  are gone and six previously invisible findings are now reported
Compatibility-or-migration: None. No schema, no generated source, no public API
Verification: go test ./cmd/codeflux-dev/ -run TestREPO018 green, covering the
  package partition including the prefix trap (a package whose path merely
  begins with the browser root's letters stays in the host pass) and the
  refusal of an empty host package list, which is the failure mode that would
  make the gate pass by examining nothing. lint measured before and after: host
  and browser-host passes clean, js/wasm pass reporting the six newly visible
  findings
Known-limitations: A finding in a browser file visible to both targets can be
  reported twice. go vet has the same blind spot and is not fixed here -- it
  has no -tests=false, so a js/wasm vet pass fails to compile on browser test
  files that reach SQLite. The browser packages' wasm-only source remains
  unvetted and needs its own ticket
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-045

Change-ID: CL-20260802-034
Commit: e488743
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Fix -- repository lint rule
Request-or-TODO: REPO-031
Outcome: The atom-comment rule reads the opening sentence instead of the first
  physical line. A doc comment wrapped at the repository's comment width now
  passes when its opening sentence is present and still fails when it is not,
  and the failure message names the text that was found rather than asserting
  the comment must begin with an identifier it already begins with. A second
  finding in the same file, reachable only once the first was fixed, is
  included: "Attribute" was missing from the concrete-action-verb allowlist and
  is now present. Both fixes are in one change because each alone leaves lint
  red, and a red lint cannot pass the pre-commit hook
Affected-behavior: codeflux-dev lint, and therefore every lane's pre-commit
  hook, which has been failing on internal/storage/spend_attribution_repository.go
  for correct Go style. That file is unchanged. Two new lint fixtures were
  added; no product behavior changed
Compatibility-or-migration: None. No schema, no generated source, no public API
Verification: go test ./cmd/codeflux-dev/ -run
  'TestAtomDocumentationFixtures|TestValidateAtomNameFixtures' green. The new
  wrapped-opening fixture passes and the new unterminated-opening fixture fails
  naming what it found, so the relaxed rule is shown to still discriminate;
  identifier-mismatched and keyword-stuffed still fail as before. go run
  ./cmd/codeflux-dev lint clears the repository check and now stops at
  staticcheck instead
Known-limitations: lint remains red on the 51 staticcheck findings tracked by
  REPO-018, so no Go commit is unblocked by this change alone
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-044

Change-ID: CL-20260802-033
Commit: 92f1eed
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: CHECKPOINT -- collapses one lane's in-flight work into a single commit at
  explicit user request
Request-or-TODO: User: "commit the entire repo"
Outcome: A checkpoint commit, not a feature commit. It sweeps eighty-three paths
  another lane left in the working tree -- thirty-seven modified, forty-six
  untracked -- into one revision, because the user asked for the whole tree
  rather than for a feature. The commit-boundary rules were not applied and no
  attempt was made to split this into independently reviewable changes.
  What it carries: three migrations (repository instruction approvals,
  non-functional baselines, proof obligations) with their repositories; a new
  internal/plantrace package; pipeline checks and acceptance forms; coordinator
  work spanning proof obligations, stage boundaries, context selection, a
  dispatch pump, and named test forms; executor live progress and fault
  boundaries; storage permissions split by platform; and roughly twenty new test
  files. Only the loopback-port change carries a CHANGELOG entry of its own
  (CL-20260802-018); the rest has none, which is the deficit this commit records
  rather than repairs
Affected-behavior: Unknown in aggregate. This commit makes no claim about what
  the swept work does, because it was not authored, reviewed, or scoped here
Compatibility-or-migration: Three forward migrations, 000032 through 000034.
  migration-check passes and the generated catalog is current
Verification: PASSING at this revision -- go build ./..., GOOS=js GOARCH=wasm go
  build ./web/..., gofmt, go vet ./..., migration-check, and the full go test
  ./... suite. FAILING at this revision -- codeflux-dev lint, on
  internal/storage/spend_attribution_repository.go:146, which is the open
  REPO-031 blocker: the atom-comment rule reads one physical line where the
  opening sentence wraps. That failure predates this commit and is unrelated to
  anything in it. The pre-commit hook was bypassed with --no-verify under
  explicit user authorization for the same reason
Known-limitations: A checkpoint is not a reviewable unit. Bisecting through this
  revision will land on eighty-three paths with one message. The swept work has
  no ledger coverage beyond CL-20260802-018, so the CHANGELOG cannot answer why
  most of it exists. Whoever owns that lane should still write its entries
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-043

Change-ID: CL-20260802-032
Commit: a24b969
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: The functional program graph gets a planned milestone and the plan records
  the decisions it is blocked on
Request-or-TODO: User: "next give me a detailed list of todos to implement it,
  analyze the current todos and weave them in, also add details to the plan and
  create front end stories to render the graph aswell"
Outcome: TODOS.md gains Milestone 25, 173 tasks in seventeen sections covering
  the disposable graph-medium experiment end to end: authorization, the twelve
  plan decisions that block it, representability, grammar and editor, the
  intermediate representation, provenance, four structural rules, ten
  well-formedness preconditions, the type layer, contract stubs, evaluator and
  fixtures, Go lowering, traceability, the authoring surface, the conformance
  suite, experiment execution, and nine gates. Twenty-three of those are
  frontend stories for a program-graph authoring surface, which is a different
  surface from M19's read-only explanatory pane: diagnostics render at the node
  they concern, a key's derivation cone is directly inspectable, and proposed
  constructs render distinguishably from frozen ones. plan.md gains section 34,
  recording the fifteen-operation control-flow surface, three proposed
  constructs, the surface specification, and twelve decisions the plan owes --
  including that section 3's own frozen molecule fails the rules derived from
  section 12. POST-001 and M19 now cross-reference the new milestone
Affected-behavior: None at runtime. Planning and specification only; every M25
  task is unchecked and M25-001 blocks the rest on deferred.Authorize
Compatibility-or-migration: None
Verification: Task and section counts confirmed by grep; codeflux-dev lint fails
  only on the pre-existing REPO-031 blocker, verified identical with these
  changes stashed
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-042

Change-ID: CL-20260802-031
Commit: 7c7379f
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Control-flow constructs become retrievable atom documentation
Request-or-TODO: User: "add to document and add to a seeder that sets these as
  the starter funcs that can be retreived from the database"
Outcome: internal/atomcatalog declares the fifteen control-flow operations the
  program graph needs as schema-v1 atom documentation and returns typed records
  for the storage lane to persist, matching how atomdoc and atomname already
  behave. Identities are derived from each entry rather than generated, so
  re-seeding resolves to the same atoms instead of duplicating them on every
  run; seeding is idempotent because revision identity is content-addressed.
  Entries are Tier 1 graph-native, which classifies as SQLite-authored, correct
  for a construct with no Go declaration to extract a comment from. Each entry
  carries its readiness -- six frozen, five proposed, one undefined -- and its
  open question into the persisted text, so a retrieval result cannot present an
  unsettled construct as settled
Affected-behavior: A new package with no callers. Nothing seeds automatically;
  SeedControlFlowCatalog is a library call
Compatibility-or-migration: None. No schema change; the package writes through
  the existing atom documentation repository
Verification: Committed with --no-verify under explicit user authorization,
  because the pre-commit hook fails on REPO-031 -- a lint-rule defect in
  already-committed code this change does not touch, verified identical with
  these changes stashed. The hook's checks were run by hand in its place and all
  passed: gofmt, go vet, go build, and go test over the package. Lint itself was
  not run and is not claimed. Thirteen tests pass covering
  entry coverage, copy safety, field substantiveness, open-question propagation,
  identity stability and distinctness, revision completeness, content
  addressing, seeding, idempotence, input rejection, and failure naming
Known-limitations: The contract hash is a placeholder derived from each entry's
  text, because no atom contract exists and complexity, effects, and
  capabilities are not contract-expressible under section 14. No TODOS.md task
  governs the package
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-041

Change-ID: CL-20260802-030
Commit: 5060867
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: The functional program graph gets a design document and the standard
  library research behind it
Request-or-TODO: User: "start desiging the graph!" and "create a detailed
  documente for the golang program graph using the learning from the realy
  functional programming languages"
Outcome: docs/go-program-graph.md designs the graph that composes atoms into
  programs, grounded in the plan's own vocabulary and gated behind POST-001. It
  covers the intermediate representation, the type layer, the provenance
  algebra, logical effect identity, four structural rules with ten
  well-formedness preconditions, the atom boundary, Go lowering, traceability
  and debuggability, the evaluator, program completeness, and a cost layer. It
  records twenty-two plan conflicts, nineteen residual risks sorted by whether
  they block, and every place the document has been wrong more than once.
  docs/strict-fp-control-flow-research.md is the survey it draws on: the
  control-flow surface of six strict-functional standard libraries, verified
  against primary sources
Affected-behavior: None. Documentation only, with no build authority; POST-001
  through POST-005 remain closed
Compatibility-or-migration: None
Verification: Seven revisions against nineteen adversarial reviews across six
  rounds. Every Go claim marked verified was tested against a live Go 1.26.3
  toolchain, including the sealed-interface hole, eliminator arity, panic
  sealing, deep copy, symbol-name drift, and eleven determinism hazards
Known-limitations: Five items block on plan decisions this document cannot make:
  Rule 4's applicability, where provider deduplication scope lives, the grammar's
  contradiction with the one-node-per-line rule, whether every control
  transition needs an explicit arrow, and the fact that the frozen molecule both
  fails the validator derived from the plan's rules and cannot be built with the
  plan's own six editor operations
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-040

Change-ID: CL-20260802-029
Commit: c9214c5
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Agents must close the tasks they finish, not only refrain from closing
  ones they have not
Request-or-TODO: User: "also in the agent file, always tell the agent to mark
  completed todos if its using a todo list"
Outcome: AGENTS.md carried only the guard -- never mark an item complete before
  its output exists and its verification passes -- which reads as a reason to
  leave boxes unchecked. The Task Lifecycle now states the other half: when
  working from a task list, whether TODOS.md or an ephemeral session list, mark
  each item as it lands rather than in a batch at the end, check the box in the
  same commit as the work, and record the evidence beneath it. Finished work
  under an unchecked box is indistinguishable from work nobody started, and the
  next agent redoes it or routes around it. Work finished that the list does not
  contain gets its item added and checked in the same commit
Affected-behavior: None at runtime
Compatibility-or-migration: None
Verification: Prose only; no Go source touched
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-039

Change-ID: CL-20260802-028
Commit: 6c59976
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: The pre-commit hook runs unit tests for the changed packages instead of
  the whole repository
Request-or-TODO: User: "make sure teh pre commit is only doing unit tests and
  not integration tests"
Outcome: The hook ran codeflux-dev test-fast, which is go test over ./... and is
  not a unit run: internal/coordinator's engine test builds and executes
  generated programs and takes over nine minutes by itself, which is why
  test-fast raises its timeout to twenty. It now derives the package list from
  the staged Go files and tests only those, untagged, so nothing behind the
  integration build tag is built. Refines CL-20260802-021, which introduced the
  whole-repository run
Affected-behavior: Committing Go changes is now proportional to what was changed
Compatibility-or-migration: None
Verification: The hook parses under sh -n; package derivation was checked
  against a representative file list; an untagged run of a single package was
  executed and passed
Note: The audit found that no file in the repository carries the integration
  build tag in either syntax, so codeflux-dev test-integration currently selects
  exactly the same tests as test-fast. The suite separation exists in the
  command graph and not in the code, recorded as REPO-030
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-038

Change-ID: CL-20260802-028
Commit: 49061c4
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: The engine ladder grows to 250 rungs and is judged by properties of the
  work rather than by paths it was told to write to
Request-or-TODO: User: "expand the list to 150 programs, make sure each new
  program is more complex than the last, above 100 lets start making it
  integrate with the golang http framework"; then "the next 50 are full web
  server multi stage requirements, make them complex like how a production
  software company, many acs to hit, complex, large and fine grained";
  "include sql(ite) related acs aswell"; "I dont like that you have filenames in
  the test instructions, that should be abstracted away into the graph and it
  and we should let the agent determine even the file names and func groupings";
  "the complexity comes from the integration of 3rd party impure libraries for
  side effect heavy code, lets make sure our structure can work well with less
  structured code in a sane and scalable way"; "make sure these test if ran
  store the pipeline artifacts ... lets add a flag to toggle full pipeline or a
  passes over each test without artifacts"
Outcome: The ladder was 48 single programs. It is now 250 in five bands: harder
  algorithms and multi-package systems (49-100), HTTP services that serve and
  call themselves on an ephemeral port (101-150), production specifications with
  interacting acceptance criteria over a real SQLite database (151-200), and the
  same work built on 29 third-party libraries (201-250). No requirement names a
  file, a package or a function: the layout is the run's to decide and part of
  what is judged. The checks were rebuilt to match. They read the produced work
  once with go/parser and ask about properties -- how many packages the work was
  separated into, whether the package an idea landed in reaches outside itself,
  how far a library was allowed to spread, whether an interface exists to
  substitute at, whether two runs print the same bytes, whether anything was
  left on disk -- rather than about paths. Containment is what replaces purity
  for impure code: a library may be reachable from one package, and asking a
  package that drives a database driver to be pure describes nothing. The suite
  also gained two modes. Isolated is the default and gives every rung its own
  database; shared runs the whole ladder against one project so the recall stage
  has a history to search, which is the only way that stage has ever had
  anything to find.
Affected-behavior: Test-only. No product code changed. Three defects that only
  the shared mode exposes were fixed in the fixture: carryOut used constant
  idempotency keys, so a second rung sharing a database would have matched the
  first rung's key and been handed the first rung's task; the completion wait
  read the thread's narration, which already holds the previous rung's
  "Finished:" and would have returned at once; and four pre-existing rungs
  passed command-line arguments containing spaces, which the acceptance block
  joins and the engine's parser splits, so those rungs showed the model a
  different invocation from the one they were judged by. Their inputs moved to
  standard input, which the format escapes correctly.
  A fourth defect was fixed on the user's instruction: the ladder ran whenever a
  provider key could be found, which meant any `go test ./...` -- including the
  one the pre-push hook runs -- charged 250 live model runs to whoever had a key
  in their .env. It now skips unless CODEFLUX_LADDER names a mode, so spending
  money is something a person asks for rather than something a hook does.
Compatibility-or-migration: Running the ladder now requires CODEFLUX_LADDER to
  be set to isolated or shared; without it the test skips. The rung table moved
  out of the test function into ladderRungs so the checks that need no provider
  key can read it.
Verification: gofmt clean; go vet ./internal/coordinator exits 0; the fourteen
  provider-free tests in engine_produced_work_test.go pass in 0.35s. The 250
  rungs themselves have not been run against a model: that needs a key and
  spends real money, and the expected transcripts are reasoned rather than
  observed.
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-038

Change-ID: CL-20260802-027
Commit: 287fc7b
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: A push carrying Go changes is refused below 80% statement coverage
Request-or-TODO: User: "refine repo rules lets aim for 80% code coverage to push
  to dev"
Outcome: .githooks/pre-push runs the suite with a coverage profile, reads the
  total through go tool cover -func, and refuses the push below 80%. The floor
  is checked on push rather than on commit because coverage describes the branch
  being published, not every step along the way. A push with no Go change skips
  the measurement entirely. A failing suite is refused rather than measured: a
  percentage from a partial run describes only the packages that passed, and
  reads as reassuring while meaning nothing. CODEFLUX_MIN_COVERAGE overrides the
  floor for bisecting and for establishing a baseline. The rule is written into
  AGENTS.md and CONTRIBUTING, both of which state that coverage is a floor and
  not a target -- statements executed is not behaviour verified, which is what
  the mutation-score gate is for
Affected-behavior: Pushing Go changes now runs the suite locally first
Compatibility-or-migration: The hook only applies to clones that have run
  git config core.hooksPath .githooks
Verification: The hook parses under sh -n; the skip path was exercised against a
  real ref pair; Go-file detection was verified against a range that contains Go
  changes and one that does not; the total parser was run against a real profile
  and the tenths comparison confirmed to block at 26.9 against 80
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-037

Change-ID: CL-20260802-026
Commit: 6fe095b
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: The README leads with the atom thesis instead of the authority model, in
  a plainer voice
Request-or-TODO: User: "the readme souns so pretentious, this is an experimental
  coding agent where we build large programs from the ground up using well
  defined atoms. the theory is atoms are building blocks, so if they are well
  defined and reusable we enhance correctness and cost as we can use cheaper
  models perhaps after the atom was already created, correctness is the biggest
  dimension we are working on and we are betting big on FP and atomicity, refine
  the readme based on teh plan and my opinion of the project"
Outcome: The opening argued structural authority, which is a safety property
  rather than the project's bet, and argued it in an aphoristic register the
  user found pretentious. It now opens on atoms: a reusable unit with identity,
  typed signature, contract, documentation, declared effects, and evidence,
  larger than a helper and smaller than a workflow, reading nothing outside its
  arguments. Atoms compose into molecules, molecules into control flow, control
  flow into a program. Correctness is named as the dimension being optimized and
  cost as its consequence -- a verified atom is capital, and reusing it collapses
  eleven stages into one obligation, that it still passes the new run's cases
  derived from the new contract. The cheaper-model claim is stated as the
  hypothesis it is rather than as a result, and the kill criterion the plan
  attaches to reuse is stated in the opening rather than buried in the
  limitations. Authority and the known/ambiguous/recommended split are kept, in
  one paragraph, as the habits they are. A section on how atoms are kept and
  re-verified was added; the pipeline prose was sanded of its grander phrasing;
  the GitHub description was rewritten to match
Affected-behavior: None. Documentation only
Compatibility-or-migration: None
Verification: Every claim was read out of docs/plan.md or internal/pipeline
  before being written: the atom definition, molecule registration, the
  re-verification obligation, and the reuse kill criterion. No stage numbers
  from the plan's newer flow were used, since internal/pipeline is what the
  diagrams document
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-036

Change-ID: CL-20260802-025
Commit: 5337f43
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: The day's repository work is backfilled into TODOS.md, including the
  server-side configuration no commit can carry
Request-or-TODO: User: "review the latest commits against the todo list and
  changelog and backfill todos and changes that werent documented"
Outcome: An audit of every commit since the branch split found the CHANGELOG
  complete: all seventeen commits carry both trailers, every trailer resolves to
  an entry, and the only entry without a commit is CL-20260802-018, which is
  drafted for the blocked fixed-port change and correctly absent from the
  committed file. TODOS.md was the gap -- the day's work cites no task at all,
  where AGENTS.md requires a governing ID and says to add the task first when
  none exists. A dated section, matching the convention of the Completion Audit
  and Pipeline Refinement sections, records sixteen completed items against
  their Change-IDs and commits, and eight open ones for the gaps found in the
  review. REPO-016 records the GitHub server-side configuration -- rulesets and
  their IDs, required checks, security toggles, Actions restrictions, labels,
  milestone, and the deliberate disabling of auto-merge -- because none of it
  exists in Git and this is the only place it is written down
Affected-behavior: None. Records only
Compatibility-or-migration: None
Verification: Each completed item was checked against its commit by trailer
  before being written. No Go source touched
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-035

Change-ID: CL-20260802-024
Commit: 1ef9949
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: The user guide stops instructing people to verify a release that does not
  exist, and the issue tracker's role is stated
Request-or-TODO: User: "use the gaps to refine the repo handling"
Outcome: docs/using.md opened by telling a reader to download an artifact,
  check it against SHA256SUMS, and verify a signature against the published
  release key. There are no releases, no artifacts, no checksum file, and no
  signing key, so every one of those steps was unfollowable. The section now
  says so plainly and gives the build-from-source path, keeping the verification
  steps for when releases exist. A guide that tells you to check a signature
  that does not exist teaches you to skip the check. CONTRIBUTING now also
  states that TODOS.md is the authoritative work list -- over two hundred open
  items, none mirrored -- and that GitHub issues are the inbox rather than the
  plan: an accepted issue becomes a TODOS task and is closed against that ID
Affected-behavior: None
Compatibility-or-migration: None
Verification: Prose only; no Go source touched
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-034

Change-ID: CL-20260802-023
Commit: 8a1886c
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: A scheduled job reports drift between the vendored skills and upstream
Request-or-TODO: User: "use the gaps to refine the repo handling"
Outcome: The two skills under .claude/skills/ were point-in-time copies with
  nothing watching them, so they would rot silently -- still read, still obeyed,
  slowly no longer matching what they claim to be a copy of. A weekly job now
  fetches karpathy-guidelines at its pinned commit and diffs it against the
  vendored body, ignoring the appended provenance section. It reports and
  updates nothing: pulling third-party prompt content automatically is what
  AGENTS.md forbids, and an unattended change to instructions an agent obeys is
  a supply-chain change nobody reviewed. A failed fetch is reported as unknown
  rather than passed as a match, so an upstream deletion cannot read as agreement
Affected-behavior: None
Compatibility-or-migration: The pinned commit appears in three places now --
  AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, and this workflow -- and all three move together
Verification: The workflow file parses
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-033

Change-ID: CL-20260802-022
Commit: a476144
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Concurrent agent lanes are required to take separate Git worktrees
Request-or-TODO: User: "use the gaps to refine the repo handling", addressing
  the deadlock recorded as a known limitation in DL-20260802-031
Outcome: codeflux-dev lint is repository-wide, so the pre-commit hook fails on
  any file in the tree -- including one another lane is halfway through writing.
  In a single session that blocked four commits, three of them for files the
  committing lane had never touched. AGENTS.md now requires one worktree per
  lane, gives the three commands, and states the two things a worktree does not
  solve: the dev server binds one fixed port so only one lane can run it, and
  the rules get stricter rather than looser in a shared checkout -- a gate
  naming a file you did not touch is another lane's work, to be coordinated
  rather than fixed, reformatted, or committed to get your own change through
Affected-behavior: None at runtime
Compatibility-or-migration: A new worktree needs core.hooksPath set again; the
  setting is per-clone
Verification: Prose only; no Go source touched
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-032

Change-ID: CL-20260802-021
Commit: e3d72fe
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: The pre-commit hook formats, lints, and tests before a commit is allowed
Request-or-TODO: User: "add pre commit hooks where we lint, format and test code
  before allowing commits so agents dont have to wait for github"
Outcome: .githooks/pre-commit ran only lint. It now formats staged Go files in
  place and re-stages them, then runs lint, test-fast, and artifact-check. A
  commit with no staged Go file skips all four and exits immediately, because
  making a ledger-only or workflow-only commit wait several minutes is how a
  hook teaches people to reach for --no-verify. core.hooksPath was also set to
  .githooks in this clone; the hook existed but nothing had installed it, so it
  had never run
Affected-behavior: A commit touching Go now waits for lint and the fast suite
Compatibility-or-migration: Anyone whose clone lacks core.hooksPath must run
  git config core.hooksPath .githooks, as CONTRIBUTING already documents
Verification: The no-Go fast path was exercised and exits immediately. The full
  path was exercised repeatedly against real commits and correctly refused
  three: a syntactically broken test file from a concurrent lane, an unformatted
  file from another, and two lint regressions this session had introduced into
  CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md and pushed unnoticed
Correction: CL-20260802-019 records only the CLAUDE.md repair, but its commit
  ece2c03 also carried the "Stop What You Start" section of AGENTS.md, because
  the whole file was staged rather than the intended hunk. Two features in one
  commit, which is the rule CL-20260802-014 introduced. Recorded here rather
  than corrected by rewriting the commit
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-031

Change-ID: CL-20260802-020
Commit: 246c480
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: The pinned Karpathy reference is restored to both instruction files
Request-or-TODO: Repair of CL-20260802-016, caught by codeflux-dev lint
Outcome: checkInstructionFiles requires AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md each to contain
  the pinned upstream URL and to label it community-maintained and unofficial.
  Compressing the Karpathy section in CL-20260802-016 dropped the URL and the
  labels from AGENTS.md, and thinning CLAUDE.md in CL-20260802-019 dropped them
  from there. Both are restored, still without restating the four themes the
  section exists to avoid duplicating
Affected-behavior: None. Documentation only
Compatibility-or-migration: None
Verification: The instruction check passes; lint now advances past it to a
  finding in another lane's file
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-030

Change-ID: CL-20260802-019
Commit: ece2c03
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: CLAUDE.md is restored to a thin entry point, repairing a lint regression
  this session introduced
Request-or-TODO: Repair of CL-20260802-012 and CL-20260802-017, found by the
  new pre-commit hook on its first real use
Outcome: A repository lint rule requires CLAUDE.md to stay under thirty lines
  and to point at AGENTS.md, docs/plan.md, and TODOS.md. Earlier commits this
  session grew it to thirty-seven lines with a branch section, a .claude/ table,
  and skill provenance, which broke that rule. The content moves to AGENTS.md as
  "Tracked Agent Configuration" and "Branches", where it belongs anyway, and
  CLAUDE.md returns to a pointer
Affected-behavior: None. Documentation only
Compatibility-or-migration: None
Verification: codeflux-dev lint now passes this check; CLAUDE.md is 13 lines
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-029

Change-ID: CL-20260802-018
Commit: 92f1eed
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: The coordinator binds a fixed loopback port instead of an ephemeral one
Request-or-TODO: User: "so for the dev server tell it to keep teh port stable
  and try to use this port 47311"
Outcome: codeflux start now defaults to 127.0.0.1:47311 instead of
  127.0.0.1:0, exported as DefaultListenAddress. codeflux-dev serve inherits it,
  since it shells to start without an address. An explicit --address still wins,
  and the coordinator library keeps its :0 default so tests continue to take
  ephemeral ports and run in parallel. A fixed port also makes a stale server
  visible: the bind now fails with a message naming the likely cause and the
  --address escape, where the ephemeral default silently gave every abandoned
  server a port of its own and nothing ever collided
Affected-behavior: codeflux start binds 47311 by default. A second coordinator
  cannot start while the first holds the port; that is the intended behaviour
Compatibility-or-migration: Anything that assumed a random port and read it from
  the printed URL still works, since the URL is still printed.
  This entry also carries a permanent binding exception, recorded under
  REPO-020a. It was swept into checkpoint commit 92f1eed with no Change-Log
  trailer, so git log --grep="Change-Log: CL-20260802-018" returns nothing and
  cannot be repaired without rewriting a released commit. The Commit field above
  is the only working binding for this entry; see the Commit binding section of
  this file's preamble for the general rule it is exempted from
Verification: gofmt clean on the touched files; go build of cmd/codeflux and
  internal/coordinator exits 0; go test ./cmd/codeflux/... passes. The existing
  CLI tests pass --address explicitly, so the default change does not touch them
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-028

Change-ID: CL-20260802-017
Commit: 13392a7
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Anthropic's frontend-design skill is vendored, and reading it becomes a
  precondition for building or reshaping a surface
Request-or-TODO: User: "also import the claude front end design skill and store
  it in here for gpt models to use and when touching the front end use that
  skill"
Outcome: .claude/skills/frontend-design/ holds SKILL.md and LICENSE.txt copied
  verbatim from the official Anthropic plugin marketplace. It is Apache-2.0,
  which permits redistribution provided the licence travels with it and the
  files are unmodified or their modification is declared; both files are
  byte-identical to source, verified by diff, and the licence sits beside them.
  Checking it in is the point of the request: an agent that is not Claude Code
  cannot load a skill, but any agent can read a file in the repository.
  AGENTS.md now requires reading it before a new surface is built or an existing
  one materially reshaped, and states the translation rule -- the skill talks
  about palettes, typefaces, and CSS selector specificity because it was written
  for projects that ship CSS, while this repository forbids handwritten CSS and
  expresses colour, type, spacing, and motion through the Go design tokens in
  web/frontend/design. Its design thinking applies; its implementation
  vocabulary does not, and where they collide the product boundary wins
Affected-behavior: None at runtime
Compatibility-or-migration: None
Verification: diff against the marketplace source confirms both files verbatim.
  No Go source touched
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-027

Change-ID: CL-20260802-016
Commit: 5c0dda8
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: AGENTS.md is restructured for focus; no rule removed
Request-or-TODO: User: "refine the agents.md make sure its focused and not
  confounding or perplexing"
Outcome: The file described one workflow three times -- Required Reading Order,
  Atomic Inner Loop buried under the commands section, and a Before-reporting
  list at the end of Testing -- so an agent had to reconcile three overlapping
  checklists to learn one loop. They are now a single Task Lifecycle near the
  top, in three phases, holding every step the three lists contained. The
  authority paragraph became a "Who decides what" table, since precedence is
  looked up rather than read. The Karpathy section restated the four themes
  already spelled out immediately above it and is now one paragraph pointing at
  the vendored skill, keeping the rule against fetching external skill content.
  The hardcoded list of eighteen codeflux-dev commands was already drifting from
  the registry and from docs/developing.md; it is replaced by codeflux-dev help
  as the source of truth, keeping only the notes help does not give. Frontend
  guidance was split between a Frontend Rules section and a browser-verification
  subsection three sections away; they are now together. The 47-line ReserveFlow
  dogfood block, which applies only to the §28 / M24 trial, moved to a clearly
  scoped appendix instead of sitting between the general Go and planning rules
Affected-behavior: None. Governance prose only
Compatibility-or-migration: Section headings moved, so anything citing
  "Required Reading Order", "Atomic Inner Loop", or "Karpathy-Inspired
  Reference" by name needs updating
Verification: Every line removed relative to HEAD was diffed and checked for
  survival elsewhere in the file. The only text that disappears is the three
  duplicate checklists, the four replaced headings, the stale command list, and
  two rewritten paragraphs -- each of whose rules was confirmed present in its
  new location, including the prohibition on downloading external skill content.
  No Go source touched
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-026

Change-ID: CL-20260802-015
Commit: bce52d0
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: A frontend change now requires a browser driven by real clicks and real
  keystrokes, and a screenshot somebody actually looked at
Request-or-TODO: User: "also lets refine the programming guide, if the agent
  touches any front end code it MUST e2e test it via clicks and keyboard, pay
  attention to its events and their state and visually inspect the
  implementation to ensure excellent ui/ux quality"
Outcome: AGENTS.md gains "Frontend changes must be driven in a browser", which
  replaces a single soft bullet about keyboard and accessibility checks. A Go
  test over a pure projection no longer counts as verification of a frontend
  change: the control a person would use must be operated through the mounted
  Playwright harness, and the check must assert the event, the resulting state,
  and the render, because a handler that fires without changing state, state
  that changes without re-rendering, and a render on the wrong boundary are
  three different defects with one symptom. The keyboard path is walked in full
  including focus restoration after an overlay closes; the loading, empty,
  error, and truncated states are covered rather than only the state the work
  was built in; and a screenshot must be taken AND opened, judged for legibility
  at rendered scale, overlap, clipping, spacing, and focus ring containment. The
  section closes the three false claims: a projection test, an unopened
  screenshot, and a successful build are none of them evidence that an interface
  works. docs/developing.md's frontend golden path was rewritten to match and
  points at AGENTS.md as authoritative
Affected-behavior: None at runtime. This governs how frontend work is verified
Compatibility-or-migration: None. Existing mounted checks already satisfy the
  rule; it is newly stated, not newly invented
Verification: No Go source touched, so the gates are unaffected. The harness
  capabilities cited -- Click, Fill, Press, Keyboard().Press, Focus,
  SelectOption, Screenshot, SetViewportSize, the routes/states/viewports
  cross-product, and the 15s-120s timeouts -- were each read out of
  internal/frontendtest rather than assumed
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-025

Change-ID: CL-20260802-014
Commit: fc05c3f
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Commits become feature-atomic, and ledger entries carry the real commit
  hash, back-filled
Request-or-TODO: User: "next lets define how the agent does work, I want feature
  atomic commits, so not to congolmerate all teh changes into a single commit, I
  want feature atomic commits, devlog notes, and changelog notes with the commit
  id, so refine this idea and then refine the agent file"; then, on how the hash
  gets there: "just append/prepend thee hash after the commit and the next
  feature will pick it up dont over think it"
Outcome: A commit is now scoped to one feature, not to one work session and not
  to whatever the working tree happens to contain. AGENTS.md states the test --
  if the honest subject needs an "and", it is more than one commit -- and
  requires the split to be decided before staging rather than discovered
  mid-commit, each commit to be individually sound so the sequence never passes
  through a broken state, and each to carry its own CL and DL pair. It also
  bans git add -A and git commit -a outright and says that a path you cannot
  account for belongs to another lane. Both ledgers gain a Commit field carrying
  the real short hash. Because a commit cannot contain its own hash, it is
  back-filled: write the entry with "pending", commit, fill the hash in, and
  leave that edit uncommitted for the next feature commit to sweep up, so it
  costs no commit of its own. ledger-scribe was rewritten to plan the commit
  split before drafting anything and to perform the back-fill
Affected-behavior: None at runtime. This governs how work is committed
Compatibility-or-migration: Entries written before this commit have no Commit
  field and are not back-filled; the Change-Log trailer already resolves them
Verification: No Go source touched, so the gates are unaffected. This entry's
  own hash is filled in by the next feature commit, which is the mechanism
  working as described
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-024

Change-ID: CL-20260802-013
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: CI splits into a non-gating dev pass and the gated main pass
Request-or-TODO: User: "lets start create the workflows and the non gated dev
  pass and the gated main pass"
Outcome: ci.yml is now the main gate and runs only on main and on pull requests
  into main. Its six jobs plus CodeQL's "Analyze Go" are the seven required
  checks, and their names are unchanged, because the ruleset matches required
  checks by exact job name and a renamed job becomes a required check that never
  reports and blocks every merge while looking correct. A header on the file now
  says so. dev-pass.yml is new: lint, generate-check, unit tests, and build on
  one Ubuntu runner, on dev and on pull requests into dev. It gates nothing --
  the dev ruleset requires no checks -- and its job name is deliberately
  distinct so it can never be mistaken for a required one. Each of its steps
  runs even after an earlier one failed, so a single push reports everything
  broken rather than only the first thing, and it writes a step summary saying
  in as many words that it is not a verdict. Both workflows gained
  workflow_dispatch for manual reruns
Affected-behavior: The full four-platform matrix no longer runs on every push to
  every branch, so feedback on dev is one runner instead of six. Platform-
  specific breakage is now caught at the pull request into main rather than
  earlier, which is the intended trade
Compatibility-or-migration: The README's CI badge is pinned to ?branch=main. The
  default branch is dev, where the gate no longer runs, so an unpinned badge
  would have rendered "no status" indefinitely
Verification: All four workflow files parse. Job names were enumerated and
  compared against the ruleset's seven required contexts; they match exactly
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-022

Change-ID: CL-20260802-012
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: The repository gains a tracked Claude Code configuration, three subagents,
  and the Karpathy guidelines skill
Request-or-TODO: User: "lets create claude and agent files and also include the
  karpathy skill aswell"
Outcome: .claude/ is now tracked, so every agent working in this repository
  starts from the same configuration rather than whatever its operator happens
  to have locally. settings.json pre-allows the codeflux-dev gates and the
  read-only git and go commands, and denies the three things that should never
  happen by accident: run-live, which is the only command that reaches a
  provider and spends money; reading .env; and pushing to main. Three subagents
  encode work that is repetitive and has already been done wrong here --
  plan-locator resolves the governing docs/plan.md section and TODOS.md ID and
  will report "unplanned" rather than invent an authorization; gate-runner runs
  the gates and returns a triaged list, and carries the traps that cost time
  today, including that truncating a run to its tail discards the failing
  package name and that gofmt -l counts .artifacts; ledger-scribe drafts these
  entries with the correct next identifiers, newest-first placement, and the
  rule that Verification states what actually ran. The Karpathy guidelines skill
  is vendored as one file. CLAUDE.md gains the branch model and a map of
  .claude/, and AGENTS.md records these files as authorized so a later agent
  does not delete them under the no-unrequested-Markdown rule
Affected-behavior: None at runtime. Agent tooling and documentation only
Compatibility-or-migration: None
Verification: settings.json parses; all four Markdown files carry valid
  frontmatter; no Go source touched
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-021

Change-ID: CL-20260802-011
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: The repository adopts a two-branch flow, and the version becomes 0.0.1
Request-or-TODO: User: "lets start working on the devx, lets protect main, all
  new contributions are in their own prs, them merge to dev, dev collects all
  viable changes them merges to main main can only merge if all ci/ tests are
  passing, for dev it doesnt"; and "also the current version is 0.0.1"
Outcome: Contributions now branch from dev and arrive as their own pull request
  into dev, which is the default branch and is allowed to carry a red CI --
  that is what an integration branch is for. main receives only dev, only
  through a pull request, and only when all seven checks are green; it takes no
  direct push, no force push, no deletion, and grants no administrator bypass.
  CodeQL and dependency review now trigger on dev as well as main, so a pull
  request into dev is actually checked rather than merely allowed to be red.
  Dependabot retargets to dev, because a dependency bump is a contribution like
  any other. The branching model is written into CONTRIBUTING so the rule is
  discoverable rather than only enforced. The compiled version default moves
  from 0.0.0-dev to 0.0.1 in both the buildinfo default and the release ldflags
Affected-behavior: codeflux version now reports 0.0.1. No runtime behaviour
  otherwise changes
Compatibility-or-migration: Anyone with a local clone should retarget work to
  dev. Pushing to main will now be refused
Verification: gofmt clean; go build of the touched packages exits 0;
  go test ./internal/buildinfo/... passes; all three edited YAML files parse
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-020

Change-ID: CL-20260802-010
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: The redaction suite's synthetic Slack tokens are assembled at runtime
  instead of written as literals
Request-or-TODO: User: "secretes beloing in gitignored .env files", after a push
  to the public remote was refused by GitHub secret scanning
Outcome: The two synthetic Slack tokens in internal/redact are now built by
  concatenation, matching how the same files already build the Google and GitHub
  fixtures. Nothing about the test changes: the same strings are still fed to
  the pipeline and the same redaction is still asserted. What changes is that
  tracked source no longer contains a contiguous credential-shaped literal,
  which a scanner cannot distinguish from a live token. These values were never
  secrets -- they are the corpus the redaction engine is tested against, and
  they cannot move to a gitignored .env because the tests would then have no
  input on a fresh clone or in CI, and because FixtureCredentialShapes is
  already the sanctioned in-repository home for fixture credential material
  that artifact-check scans against
Affected-behavior: None. Test-only change; the values are byte-identical
Compatibility-or-migration: None
Verification: gofmt clean; go test ./internal/redact/... passes
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-019

Change-ID: CL-20260802-009
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: CHECKPOINT. Every uncommitted working-tree change is committed as the
  lanes left it, with the repository's own gates failing
Request-or-TODO: User: "commit all code and push to remote"; then, when the
  failing gates were raised, "just commit everything for now"; then "stop
  wasting time runnig tests the code isnt worth testing rn, just fuckig commit
  and push codeflux"
Outcome: This is a clearly labelled checkpoint commit, taken under the explicit
  user authorization AGENTS.md requires before a knowingly failing state may be
  committed. It carries the in-flight work of several concurrent lanes: the
  agent stage runner and its stage implementations in internal/coordinator, the
  pipeline stage ledger and its two migrations, the spend attribution and
  artifact repositories in internal/storage, the memory and settings-spend
  services in internal/transport, internal/openaimodel, the repository, file
  tree, atom collection, appearance, readout, and settings surfaces in
  web/frontend and web/client, and 439 lines of new task records in TODOS.md.
  It also carries two changes made to clear earlier gates: gofmt applied to 20
  files under web/, and five headings in web/frontend/codecollection that
  carried no type-scale class, given design.HeadingPanel to match the pattern
  already used in web/frontend/reviewactions
Affected-behavior: Unknown in aggregate. This commit is a snapshot of partly
  finished work across several lanes, not one coherent change, and it is
  recorded as such rather than described as something it is not
Compatibility-or-migration: Adds migrations 000030_pipeline_stage_ledger.sql and
  000031_pipeline_stage_documentation.sql. Migrations are immutable once merged,
  so a later correction must be a new migration
Verification: FAILING AND COMMITTED ANYWAY. gofmt is clean and go build ./...
  exits 0. staticcheck reports 44 findings -- 35 U1000 unused, 5 SA1019
  deprecated, 2 ST1018, 1 S1002, 1 S1011 -- concentrated in web/client (19) and
  internal/coordinator (11), which are declarations written ahead of the code
  that will use them. codeflux-dev test-fast exits 1; the failing package was
  not captured because the run's output was truncated to its tail, and the suite
  was not re-run because the user directed that testing stop. No claim is made
  here that this revision is correct
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-018

Change-ID: CL-20260802-008
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: The interface design references are tracked as source rather than left
  loose in the working tree
Request-or-TODO: User, asked whether design/ was source or scratch: "Track it --
  it's design source"
Outcome: The six reference renderings under design/references/ui/ are committed.
  They are inputs to the interface work rather than build output, so versioning
  them lets a later change be compared against the target it was chasing. They
  are explicitly NOT screenshots: they carry invented data and describe a design
  target, which is why they were kept out of the README
Affected-behavior: None. Images only; no source, schema, or runtime path
Compatibility-or-migration: None. Adds 11.2 MB of PNG to the repository, which
  .gitattributes already marks binary so no line-ending normalisation applies
Verification: git check-attr confirms the binary attribute applies. No gate is
  affected by an image
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-017

Change-ID: CL-20260802-007
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: The repository gains the public-facing metadata a published project needs,
  and is relicensed from Apache 2.0 to MIT
Request-or-TODO: User: "lets make this a pro level repo lets add all the repo
  level metadata and then when done there lets create a god tier readme
  together note teh license is mit"; then "add a mermaid chart of the code gen
  pipeline"
Outcome: LICENSE is now MIT, replacing Apache 2.0 at the user's explicit
  direction after the discrepancy was raised; every commit to this point was
  single-authorship, so no third-party consent was required, and the Apache
  patent grant is deliberately given up for MIT's shorter terms. A root
  README.md is added under explicit authorization, superseding M01-003's record
  that its absence was intentional: it argues the product from the authority
  model outward, carries three Mermaid diagrams of the 37-stage delivery flow,
  the model ladder, and every stage by phase, and states plainly that
  internal/pipeline declares the flow while the coordinator performs only part
  of it. Community health metadata lands under .github/: a security policy that
  separates a proposed hostile action from one executed without authority, a
  contributing guide naming the rules that actually block a change, a code of
  conduct, CODEOWNERS, a pull-request template, and three issue forms.
  .gitignore gains rules for compiled output and editor leavings, .editorconfig
  mirrors .gitattributes, and .env.example documents the five accepted
  CODEFLUX_* settings without carrying a credential
Affected-behavior: None. No Go source, no schema, and no runtime path is
  touched by this commit
Compatibility-or-migration: The licence under which the project is distributed
  changes from Apache 2.0 to MIT as of this commit. Copies taken before it
  remain under the terms they were received under
Verification: gofmt, go build ./..., and the YAML parse of all nine workflow and
  template files pass. The repository-wide lint and test gates do NOT pass at
  this revision; see CL-20260802-009, which records that failing state and the
  reason it was committed anyway
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-016

Change-ID: CL-20260802-004
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: The run-settings package is committed so the surfaces that read it can be
Request-or-TODO: Dependency of CL-20260802-005. internal/pipeline was authored
  in a concurrent lane and left uncommitted, and nothing that reads a run
  setting compiles without it
Outcome: internal/pipeline is committed as its author left it: the phases a run
  moves through, the model ladder it climbs, the escalation rules, and
  Settings, which is the declaration of every choice the delivery flow leaves
  open. It is committed on its own, ahead of anything that depends on it, so
  the commit that hooks it to the settings surface carries only that hooking
  and this one can be attributed to the lane that wrote it
Affected-behavior: None. Nothing at this commit imports the package, so it adds
  a declaration and changes no behaviour
Compatibility-or-migration: None. Additive package, no schema change
Verification: go build ./...; go test ./internal/pipeline/... passes at this
  snapshot, which is why this snapshot is the one committed
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-009

Change-ID: CL-20260802-006
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: The settings sheet gains controls that fit it, a way to find one setting
  among twenty, and a type scale
Request-or-TODO: User: "the value change inputs look like dogshit so they need
  to be redesigned and lets add a search on this page to find a setting and
  allows the user to jump to that section"; then "do another visual pass for
  spacing and overlapping and other visual issues"; then "Model that decides how
  work is split has overlapping issues"; then "do a refinement pass on the
  control and font sizes for the settings page as it looks childish"
Outcome: Every control on the settings sheet now looks like the value it edits.
  A number is a stepper that enforces the engine's bound, a switch offers both
  states, and a posture with a long option set is a list rather than a segmented
  control wider than its own row -- which is what had been painting over the
  name of the setting that chooses the planning model. A search field finds a
  setting by name, key, group, or what it does, ranked by where it matched, and
  jumps to the row and marks it. The page was then measured and re-sized: prose
  moved up one step, values came down to the size of the name beside them, the
  four facts that open the sheet keep the emphasis, and controls are sized to the
  row instead of to a fingertip
Affected-behavior: Settings, at /settings. primitives.Button and
  primitives.ToggleButton gain a Compact weight, which nothing else sets, so no
  other surface moves
Compatibility-or-migration: None. No schema change, no migration, no API change
Verification: go build ./...; GOOS=js GOARCH=wasm go build ./web/...; gofmt
  clean; go test for settingsview, primitives, appearanceview, telemetryview,
  and web/client. Inspected in Chromium at 1600, 1280, and 1024 with a scripted
  audit asserting nothing paints outside its grid cell or past the sheet edge at
  any width and that every value ends on the same column; the search was driven
  end to end
Known-limitation-of-this-commit: The route that mounts this sheet lives in
  web/frontend/shell/shell.go, which four lanes are rewriting at once, and its
  settings hunks cannot be separated from theirs without producing a tree that
  does not compile. The shell wiring and the appearance panel's axis land with
  those lanes; this commit carries the sheet, its controls, its search, and its
  data path, all of which build and test on their own
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-010, DL-20260802-011, DL-20260802-012

Change-ID: CL-20260802-005
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: The settings page is a specification sheet, and the run settings on it are
  the ones the engine enforces
Request-or-TODO: User: "there is a new settings api being created find it and
  hook it up to the settings page", then "the shape/structure/design of the
  settings page needs a redesign, use the front end design skill, visually
  inspect it first then redesign from scratch"
Outcome: internal/pipeline.Settings -- the choices the run flow leaves open,
  which the agent engine already read and nothing exposed or persisted -- is
  readable and changeable end to end. The page renders the engine's own
  declaration: label, help, kind, choices, and bounds travel with each value, so
  a setting the engine adds appears without the interface changing, and the
  coordinator resolves a key to its field by convention rather than a list that
  goes stale. Changes are held until saved, validated as one configuration, and
  handed to the running engine. The surface holding them was rebuilt: seven
  rounded cards in a two-column grid, 4,990 pixels tall with roughly two
  thousand of them empty, are now one column of rows on a shared value axis,
  opening with the four facts that decide what a run would do now
Affected-behavior: Settings, at /settings; GetFlowSettings and SetFlowSettings
  on the product API
Compatibility-or-migration: Additive API. No schema change and no migration: the
  flow configuration shares the user settings layer with the non-secret
  configuration under its own document key, and both writers carry the other
  key forward
Verification: go build ./...; GOOS=js GOARCH=wasm go build ./web/...; gofmt
  clean; go test for internal/transport, internal/coordinator settings suites,
  web/frontend/settingsview, web/frontend/shell, and web/client. Driven in
  Chromium: changed a number, a posture, and a switch, read the diff in the
  commit bar, saved, reloaded, and confirmed the coordinator reports the new
  values with the default markers correct
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-009

Change-ID: CL-20260802-003
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: A repository's own code is readable, with its documented atoms marked
Request-or-TODO: User: "there needs to be a way to see the directory of atoms
  and inspect the code collection"; touches AUDIT-010 (wire repository mapping
  into a service) and AUDIT-023 (a server-backed repository symbol picker)
Outcome: CodeCollectionService serves what a repository contains at an exact
  revision: its packages, its declarations, and one declaration read closely
  with its signature, its own comment, its atom documentation when it is an
  admitted atom, and what calls it. This is the first production consumer of
  the repository mapper, which had been written, tested, and never called.
Affected-behavior: The collection is read-only and derived on demand; nothing
  is persisted and no source is written. Which packages and declarations exist
  is the Go toolchain's answer at a named revision, and what a declaration says
  about itself is read from its source file at inspection time; neither is
  guessed from the other. No response carries a declaration's body, because
  this is a directory of what the collection offers rather than an editor. An
  answer always names the revision it describes and says when the working tree
  has moved past it. A declaration carrying the atom directive whose
  documentation does not parse is reported as exactly that instead of being
  counted as an atom. Listings are bounded and say when they are.
Compatibility-or-migration: None. No schema change and no migration. The
  service is additive; nothing existing changes behavior.
Verification: go build ./...; GOOS=js GOARCH=wasm go build ./web/...; go vet;
  gofmt clean. New tests: a real temporary Git module carrying one fully
  documented atom, one function that calls it, and one unexported function,
  asserting the mapper's package and declaration counts, the atom lens, the
  exported filter, the signature without its body, the documented fields, the
  recorded caller, and an unknown key reported as an absence; the transport
  service against a fake application; the rendered states of the surface; and
  the client projections. Visually inspected in Chromium against this
  repository at revision 2994deb59e08.
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-002

Change-ID: CL-20260802-002
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Internal, generated: regenerate the API for concurrently added services
Request-or-TODO: User: "commit the codeflux changed code in groups"; the
  generated output could not be split, and the user chose to commit it as one
  declared mechanical change
Outcome: The protobuf contract and its generated Go output are regenerated from
  the current definitions.
Affected-behavior: None on its own. This commit adds declarations, not
  behavior: CodeCollectionService and its views for the code-collection
  surface, MemoryService and its views, three memory identity kinds, and
  InspectRepositoryResponse.working_tree_read. The services they declare are
  registered by their own commits.
Compatibility-or-migration: Additive only. No field number, name, or type is
  reused or changed, so an older client remains compatible.
Verification: `codeflux-dev generate-check` reports the generated output
  matches its definitions; go build ./...; GOOS=js GOARCH=wasm go build
  ./web/...
Dev-Log: DL-20260802-002

Change-ID: CL-20260802-001
Date: 2026-08-02
Type: Reachable settings, so a person can see what governs their runs
Request-or-TODO: User: "connect the front end to the backend, make sure the
  settings are exposed"; governing item AUDIT-016 (construct and register the
  production provider/settings services and verify their real capabilities
  over generated RPC clients)
Outcome: SettingsService answers the questions a settings page asks. GetPolicy
  reports the execution policy in force, resolved from compiled defaults and
  the stored user layer. GetModels reports the providers the coordinator has
  recorded and the models catalogued against them, with a row for a provider
  that has none. ConfigureProvider binds an opaque operating-system credential
  reference to a provider, and TestProvider reports whether the coordinator can
  obtain that credential.
Affected-behavior: The settings surfaces read the coordinator instead of
  rendering fixed English. A provider is reported as available only when it is
  enabled and a credential is bound; availability is never a claim that the
  provider answered. TestProvider makes no provider request and every summary
  it returns says so, so a local credential check cannot be read as a
  connection test. SetPolicy and SetBudgetDefaults remain unimplemented on
  purpose: routing is one frozen versioned policy through prototype exit and
  task intake reads no user layer, so those controls would change a stored row
  nothing reads.
Compatibility-or-migration: None. No schema change and no migration. The
  settings service now requires both of its applications at construction, so a
  service that reports itself constructed can no longer answer Unimplemented.
Verification: go build ./...; GOOS=js GOARCH=wasm go build ./web/...; go vet
  ./...; gofmt clean. New tests: the settings surfaces answered over a
  generated SettingsServiceClient against the real application, including
  session authentication, an empty coordinator, a registered provider, a
  credential check that names what it did not do, and a refused configuration;
  the fixed configuration precedence read against a real SQLite database
  including an unreadable stored layer; the two storage listings against real
  SQLite; the transport service against a fake application; and the rendered
  states of the surface.
Dev-Log: DL-20260801-019

Change-ID: CL-20260801-013
Date: 2026-08-01
Type: Reachable plan approval, so a typed request reaches a running worker
Request-or-TODO: User: "does it look like the app is working to you????? e2e
  test it ffs"
Outcome: A request typed into the browser now creates a task, records the
  approval of its forecast and budget, binds what was reviewed, starts it, and
  spawns a worker against a real Git worktree
Affected-behavior: Sending a request recorded a message and a bare draft task
  with no policy, forecast, or budget, and stopped there. Of the five steps
  between a request and a worker, three could not be reached by any client:
  CreateTask and StartTask existed as RPCs the interface never called, and plan
  approval and preflight binding had no RPC at all, so a created task could
  never leave Draft. Every test passed while this was true, because the suite
  proved the page mounts, connects, and does not lie, and never proved the
  product does its job. TaskService gains ApprovePlan, which the plan catalog
  had declared and nothing had implemented; it walks a task through
  Forecasting and AwaitingPlanApproval to Ready with the approval recorded on
  the transition that means "a person said run this", then binds the exact
  policy and forecast that were reviewed and returns the binding for StartTask
  to name back. Intake's four environment requirements — base revision,
  toolchain, validation profile, baseline model — are now observed by the
  coordinator instead of demanded from the caller, because they are facts
  about the machine rather than decisions and a browser supplying them would
  have been guessing. The kind of change is the one thing nothing can observe,
  so the composer asks for it and refuses to start a task without it. Two
  failures this exposed are also fixed: Git's own explanation of a failed
  command was discarded, so every worktree failure read "exit status 128" —
  the actual message was "Filename too long", Windows refusing a path past 260
  characters, which left runs recorded as started with no worktree and no
  worker; and the workspace read "No task yet" against a live worker because
  the session snapshot it drew from was fetched before the task existed and
  nothing refetched it
Compatibility-or-migration: One added RPC, TaskService.ApprovePlan, already
  present in the backend function catalog. CreateTaskRequest's environment
  fields become optional and are filled by the coordinator when empty; a caller
  that names them keeps them. SendMessage no longer asks for a draft task.
  storage gains GetCurrentTaskForecast; gitwork worktree creation sets
  core.longpaths and surfaces Git's stderr in its errors
Verification: `go build ./...`, `go test ./...`, and `codeflux-dev lint` pass.
  New coordinator tests drive intake, approval, and start against a booted
  application and assert a worktree exists. A new end-to-end test types a
  request into a real browser, declares a kind of change, sends it, and fails
  unless the database shows a running task with a worktree holding a checkout
  and the workspace stops reporting that nothing is running
Dev-Log: DL-20260801-013

Change-ID: CL-20260801-012
Date: 2026-08-01
Type: Local repository bootstrap, live session publication, and removal of
  invented interface data
Request-or-TODO: User: "ffs get the dev server ui working" and "stop using
  seeded data and use real experiment/code data that we are working on from the
  engine"
Outcome: codeflux start opens a repository, the coordinator publishes the
  session a browser must attach to, and every value the interface presents is
  read from the coordinator or reported as unknown
Affected-behavior: A fresh database held no repository row, so the coordinator
  reported first-run and the browser had no workspace to attach a session to.
  Nothing inside the interface could create that first row, because
  OpenWorkspace refuses by design and the chooser's only control re-rendered
  first-run, so the product could never leave local preview. start now opens
  the repository the person ran it in, defaulting to the working directory and
  overridable with --repository, and refuses a directory that is not a Git
  repository or has no commit rather than recording a workspace whose every
  task would fail at its first command. The bootstrap payload is recomputed per
  request instead of captured at construction, because start opens the
  repository after the coordinator is built and the captured payload said
  first-run forever; it now also carries selected_session_id,
  selected_thread_id, and selected_repository_id. Without the session the
  client started no stream at all and reported itself disconnected with no
  error anywhere to say why; without the repository it could only guess which
  repository a thread belonged to. The client also adopts the thread the URL
  names, which nothing did, so a correct deep link drew the right conversation
  against no session. Separately, the application booted from a fixture on
  every render: five invented threads, five invented messages, a ten-node
  graph, a task titled "Implement the Codeflux frontend shell", a spend of
  $0.42 against a $4.00 budget, a right rail opening with "Milestone M16" and a
  plan reference that reported four correctness gates as passed without
  anything having run, and a timeline fallback drawing a pending approval card
  with working Approve and Deny controls for an action that did not exist.
  Pause and Stop flipped a browser-local string, so the interface reported a
  run as paused while nothing had been asked to pause, and the top bar's chips
  fell back to the names of the fields they hold, so an unset model rendered
  the word "model". All of it is gone. The top bar reads the repository,
  branch, and working-tree state Git reports now, counted ("4 uncommitted
  changes") rather than stated; the rail reads the repository, task, and
  measured cost; the chooser lists the repositories the coordinator returns,
  each as a row that can be entered; an unbound control renders disabled; a
  pane with no answer says so instead of drawing a skeleton nothing would
  resolve; and the navigation rail scopes itself to what is open rather than to
  the URL, which had disabled Tasks and Memory on the page every session begins
  at
Compatibility-or-migration: No schema change. storage gains
  EnsureLocalBootstrap, idempotent on canonical path and self-repairing after
  an interrupted open; FrontendRouteAccess gains the selected session, thread,
  and repository, read in the same single statement as everything else; gitwork
  gains ReadRepositoryState; WorkspaceService.InspectRepository reports the
  live working tree and still returns the repository when only that read fails;
  transport declares its own RepositoryRecord, WorkspaceRecord, and
  RepositoryGitState rather than importing the storage adapter, which the
  boundary check forbids
Verification: go build ./..., GOOS=js GOARCH=wasm go build ./web/client,
  go test ./..., and codeflux-dev lint pass. The opt-in production console
  suite drives the real executable and now also asserts that start opened a
  repository, that the payload names all four identities, that the interface
  reaches live, and that no invented string appears anywhere on the page
Dev-Log: DL-20260801-012

Change-ID: CL-20260801-011
Date: 2026-08-01
Type: Workspace service registration
Request-or-TODO: AUDIT-010 and AUDIT-016
Outcome: Implemented and registered WorkspaceService, and added the repository
  listing it reads
Affected-behavior: The repository picker, the workspace state surface, and the
  repository inspection surface are reachable. Every call to WorkspaceService
  previously returned Unimplemented because the service was declared in the API
  and never registered, against a coordinator that held the data for all three.
  Inspection now warns about a repository with no recorded Git identity, whose
  changes cannot be bound to a base revision, and about a non-absolute recorded
  path, which resolves differently depending on where the coordinator started
Compatibility-or-migration: No schema change. storage gains ListRepositories,
  bounded at 200 and ordered by canonical path
Verification: `go build ./...`, `GOOS=js GOARCH=wasm go build ./web/...`,
  `go vet ./...`, `gofmt -l`, `go test ./...`, `codeflux-dev lint`, and the
  repository checks pass
Dev-Log: DL-20260801-011

Change-ID: CL-20260801-010
Date: 2026-08-01
Type: Self-contained release build
Request-or-TODO: AUDIT-021, AUDIT-030, and the part of AUDIT-003 covering one
  command that produces everything
Outcome: Added `codeflux-dev release`, which verifies generated output, builds
  the browser client, compiles it into the executable, and produces
  self-contained binaries; added the end-to-end proof that one such executable,
  alone in an empty directory, serves the whole console
Affected-behavior: A released `codeflux start` reports "serving the interface
  from compiled into this executable" and needs nothing beside it. Previously
  web/assets/static held only a README, so nothing was ever embedded and the
  release path validated synthetic artifacts
Compatibility-or-migration: No schema change. The compiled client is staged
  into web/assets/static during the build and removed afterwards, so the source
  tree is unchanged and the tens-of-megabytes client never enters history
Verification: `go build ./...`, `GOOS=js GOARCH=wasm go build ./web/...`,
  `go vet ./...`, `gofmt -l`, `go test ./...`, `codeflux-dev lint`,
  `generate-check`, `migration-check`, and `artifact-check` pass. A release was
  built, its executable copied to an empty directory outside the repository,
  and started with no asset flag: index, runtime shim, 36 MB client, and
  bootstrap all served, the client mounted in headless Chromium with no error,
  and nothing was fetched from off the machine
Dev-Log: DL-20260801-010

Change-ID: CL-20260801-009
Date: 2026-08-01
Type: Disabled-control accountability and control coverage
Request-or-TODO: The requirement that every control be functional or explain
  itself
Outcome: Every button can carry the reason it is disabled, and the end-to-end
  suite refuses a control that is neither actionable nor explained
Affected-behavior: A disabled control now states why through its native
  tooltip and its accessible description. The telemetry deletion control,
  which was disabled with no stated reason, now distinguishes the two cases
  that disable it: nothing to delete, and a disconnected session
Compatibility-or-migration: primitives.ButtonProps gains DisabledReason. The
  attribute is emitted only when a reason exists, so unchanged controls
  produce unchanged markup
Verification: `go build ./...`, `GOOS=js GOARCH=wasm go build ./web/...`,
  `go vet ./...`, `gofmt -l`, `go test ./...`, `codeflux-dev lint`, and the
  repository checks pass. The end-to-end console suite passes with both new
  checks: no control is inert or nameless, and every control meets a usable
  target size
Dev-Log: DL-20260801-009

Change-ID: CL-20260801-008
Date: 2026-08-01
Type: Execution surfaces, glyph removal, and end-to-end console coverage
Request-or-TODO: The streaming execution surfaces shown in the design mockups,
  and end-to-end browser coverage of the wired console
Outcome: Added web/frontend/executionview -- a measurement strip with
  sparklines, an ordered execution timeline, a severity-filtered streaming log,
  and a currently-executing panel -- projected from durable events and mounted
  in the task workspace. Removed the last decorative glyphs from accessible
  names. Added an end-to-end suite that builds the assets, starts the real
  executable, and drives the console it serves
Affected-behavior: A running task now shows what it is doing: the figures that
  decide whether to intervene, the steps it has taken in the coordinator's own
  order, the lines it is emitting with severity filters, and the unit of work
  in flight. A figure the coordinator has not reported reads as unknown rather
  than as a zero. Decorative glyphs no longer reach assistive technology: a
  section previously announced as "Identity and plan up-arrowhead" and a
  control as "white diamond Request review"
Compatibility-or-migration: No schema change. RootProps, AppShellProps,
  RouteShellProps and TaskWorkspaceProps gain an optional Execution field;
  contextControl no longer takes a glyph
Verification: `go build ./...`, `GOOS=js GOARCH=wasm go build ./web/...`,
  `go vet ./...`, `gofmt -l`, `go test ./...`, `codeflux-dev lint`,
  `generate-check`, `migration-check`, and `artifact-check` pass. The new
  end-to-end suite ran against the real executable and passed every check:
  the client mounts with no console error, nothing is fetched from off the
  machine, every heading resolves a colour and a size, the title resolves to
  the reading serif, the navigation rail draws its icons, every primary route
  navigates, keyboard focus is visible, and the page does not scroll sideways
Dev-Log: DL-20260801-008

Change-ID: CL-20260801-007
Date: 2026-08-01
Type: Interface composition, drawn icon set, and live review decisions
Request-or-TODO: AUDIT-024; user direction to make the interface much better
  after visual inspection of the running server
Outcome: Replaced every Unicode glyph used as an icon with a drawn set,
  rebuilt the application bar so its controls fit and stay legible, rebuilt the
  first-run steps as single coherent cards, and connected the four review
  decisions to the coordinator that already implements them
Affected-behavior: The application bar previously truncated its context chips
  to two characters -- "co", "m", "uncom", "provid" -- because a slogan and a
  cost readout shared a track with them; the slogan is gone, the readout moved
  in with the session state, and every chip now shows its full label at one
  height. Navigation, context, and control icons are drawn rather than typed,
  so they render at one weight instead of six. A first-run step is one card
  carrying its position, name, state, meaning, and action, replacing a tall box
  with a heading and a lot of nothing. Accept, request repair, reject, and
  rollback are dispatchable where the review material is loaded; they were
  presented as permanently unavailable against a server that implements all
  four
Compatibility-or-migration: No schema change. primitives.ButtonProps gains an
  Icon field; headerIconButton and its ID variant now take an IconName;
  bindAuthoritativeTimelineActions takes a review decision binder
Verification: `go build ./...`, `GOOS=js GOARCH=wasm go build ./web/...`,
  `go vet ./...`, `gofmt -l`, `go test ./...`, `codeflux-dev lint`,
  `generate-check`, `migration-check`, and `artifact-check` pass. The result
  was inspected in a real browser at each step and rebuilt against the running
  server between passes
Dev-Log: DL-20260801-007

Change-ID: CL-20260801-006
Date: 2026-08-01
Type: Frontend asset pipeline, worker launch, and typographic direction
Request-or-TODO: AUDIT-020, AUDIT-021; user request to wire the development
  server and redesign the interface around serif typography and negative space
Outcome: Added `codeflux-dev build-frontend` and `codeflux-dev serve`, taught
  `codeflux start` to resolve browser assets and refuse to run without them,
  gave the frontend server a resolved-asset source so a released executable can
  serve from inside itself, connected a started task to a real worker
  subprocess through a new run launcher, and reset the typographic direction so
  the face a value is set in says what kind of thing it is
Affected-behavior: `codeflux start` now serves the interface. It previously
  started the coordinator, printed a URL, and returned 404 there, because
  nothing ever passed it an asset directory and nothing ever built one.
  Starting a task now creates its Git worktree, queues the run, and launches
  the worker; it previously wrote a run row and returned, so the task read as
  running while no subprocess existed and no provider request was ever made.
  Headings across the frontend now set their own colour and size: the
  first-run title had no colour of its own and rendered near-white on
  near-white in the light theme, and a rail heading had no class at all and
  rendered larger than the page title beside it
Compatibility-or-migration: No schema change. `codeflux start` gains
  `--assets` and honours `CODEFLUX_ASSETS`; with neither, it uses the
  development build directory and otherwise exits 3 naming the build command.
  frontendserver.Options gains an Assets source and refuses both inputs at
  once. coordinator.NewTaskLifecycleAdapter now requires a run launcher
Verification: `go build ./...`, `GOOS=js GOARCH=wasm go build ./web/...`,
  `go vet ./...`, `gofmt -l`, `go test ./...`, `codeflux-dev lint`,
  `generate-check`, `migration-check`, and `artifact-check` pass. The built
  executable was started and its URL fetched: index, runtime shim, client, and
  bootstrap all serve. The real client was loaded in headless Chromium and
  mounts with no console or page errors
Dev-Log: DL-20260801-006

Change-ID: CL-20260801-005
Date: 2026-08-01
Type: Backlog record
Request-or-TODO: AUDIT-001 through AUDIT-032
Outcome: Recorded thirty-two completion-audit follow-ups comparing every
  checked TODO against the current plan, production wiring, tests, and
  retained evidence
Affected-behavior: No behavior change. The items name checked claims that must
  be reconciled before the completion ledger can be treated as authoritative,
  including the two this repository's own investigation had already confirmed:
  the start command never mounted the browser assets, and starting a task
  never spawned a worker
Compatibility-or-migration: None
Verification: The file is the record; no code changed
Dev-Log: DL-20260801-005

Change-ID: CL-20260801-004
Date: 2026-08-01
Type: Prototype exit protocol, dogfood control plane, and enforced deferrals
Request-or-TODO: M24-001 through M24-221, M24-G01 through M24-G10,
  DONE-001 through DONE-016, POST-001 through POST-015, M01-071, and
  M01-077; closes every open item in TODOS.md
Outcome: Added the exit protocol as executable structure: the clean-room
  preconditions with hidden-test sealing, the forty-two-step evaluator
  journey, ten independent evaluations, the scorecard with its kill criteria
  and gated features, the dogfood control plane with its fifteen-packet
  revealer and append-only ledger, the evaluator harness with its crash
  points and secret markers, the fifteen paired tasks and verdicts, the ten
  product observations, the failure report with its frozen evidence, the
  fourteen-stage repair protocol, the frozen adversarial reviewer,
  preregistration and candidate selection, eleven per-task measurements, the
  four-track execution plan, the comparison report, ten exit gates bound to
  sixteen completion criteria, the registry of fifteen enforced deferrals,
  and the two atom documentation obligations wired into lint
Affected-behavior: `codeflux-dev lint` now fails the moment the first real
  atom declaration lands without a reviewed comment example in docs, and the
  moment a pull-request template lands without an atom naming review section.
  Both checks are silent until their trigger fires, because the plan forbids
  inventing either contract earlier. exitrun.EvaluateExit reports an
  unmeasured gate as unanswered rather than passed, so nothing reads as a
  result until a run supplies one
Compatibility-or-migration: No schema change and no runtime behavior change
  outside the development command
Verification: `go build ./...`, `GOOS=js GOARCH=wasm go build ./web/...`,
  `go vet ./...`, `gofmt -l`, `go test ./...`, `codeflux-dev lint`,
  `generate-check`, `migration-check`, and `artifact-check` pass at this
  commit. The deferral registry's creep scan reads the real source tree, and
  a companion test plants a marker in a temporary tree to show the scan
  fires
Dev-Log: DL-20260801-004

Change-ID: CL-20260801-003
Date: 2026-08-01
Type: Command line, first run, doctor, application logging, and packaging
Request-or-TODO: M23-001 through M23-085 and M23-G01 through M23-G04;
  completes Milestone 23
Outcome: Added the codeflux command line with five exit codes and a declared
  command registry, the start and provider commands, the redacted diagnostic
  bundle, the nine-step first-run journey with a ten-minute target, ten
  doctor checks where every non-ok result must carry a remediation, four-level
  application logging over sixteen stable event names with rotation,
  retention, and clear, the release and update model across five platforms
  with checksums, signatures, compatibility, and migration preparation, the
  embedded web assets, and docs/using.md with the test that keeps it true
Affected-behavior: A person who did not build CodeFlux can install it, run
  first-run, configure a provider by piping the credential on stdin, start
  the local interface, diagnose the installation with doctor, and collect a
  diagnostic bundle that is asserted to carry no credential. Interaction
  policy is explicit per command, and a command that needs an answer nobody
  can give exits 4 rather than hanging
Compatibility-or-migration: No schema change. Update compatibility and
  migration preparation are declared and tested but no release has been
  published against them
Verification: `go build ./...`, `GOOS=js GOARCH=wasm go build ./web/...`,
  `go vet ./...`, `gofmt -l`, `go test ./...`, `codeflux-dev lint`,
  `generate-check`, `migration-check`, and `artifact-check` pass at this
  commit
Dev-Log: DL-20260801-003

Change-ID: CL-20260801-002
Date: 2026-08-01
Type: Test harness, security and abuse suites, benchmarks, and observability
Request-or-TODO: M22-001 through M22-130 and M22-G01 through M22-G06;
  completes Milestone 22
Outcome: Added the deterministic provider, repository, database, event, and
  fault fixtures; the coordinator, browser, and replay harnesses with twelve
  named scenarios; security and abuse suites for the frontend server, Git
  workspace, review editor, executor, storage, redaction, and graph; fuzz
  targets for identity, replay, path resolution, and transport conversion;
  the thirteen-journey browser and accessibility matrix bound to its render
  fixture; twelve declared benchmarks with a recorded environment; the
  metrics, scorecard, and read-only inspection repositories; developer
  diagnostics for logs, profiling, and marks; and an artifact secret scan
  wired into artifact-check
Affected-behavior: Four product defects the new suites found are fixed. The
  HTTP guard now accepts "localhost", which internal/config accepts as a bind
  host and which RFC 6761 reserves for loopback, so a supported configuration
  is no longer locked out of its own interface with a 421. The Git workspace
  and review editor guards now refuse os.ModeIrregular, because Windows
  reports a directory junction that way and filepath.EvalSymlinks returns a
  junction unchanged, so a junction escaped the worktree boundary. Upward
  message pagination no longer replaces every loaded message with a zero
  value. Every routed region now carries an accessible name
Compatibility-or-migration: No schema change. Message bodies are now bounded
  at 64 KiB on append; longer bodies are refused rather than truncated
Verification: `go build ./...`, `GOOS=js GOARCH=wasm go build ./web/...`,
  `go vet ./...`, `gofmt -l`, `go test ./...`, `codeflux-dev lint`,
  `generate-check`, `migration-check`, and `artifact-check` pass at this
  commit; the thirteen mounted browser journeys were additionally run for
  real in headless Chromium and pass; the benchmark suite was run and its
  measured figures recorded in docs/benchmarks.md
Dev-Log: DL-20260801-002

Change-ID: CL-20260801-001
Date: 2026-08-01
Type: Project-memory retrieval, chronological episodes, and atom identity
Request-or-TODO: M21-029 through M21-050, M21-064 through M21-089, M21-103
  through M21-107, M21-126 through M21-145, M21-153 through M21-156, M21-164
  through M21-168, and M21-G01 through M21-G08; completes Milestone 21
Outcome: Added chronological episode capture, deterministic fact extraction,
  the pre-work retrieval gate with its eligibility, provenance, and reason
  vocabulary, the atom documentation and atom name repositories with their
  discovery paths, deterministic recall review, retrieval influence
  reporting, the closed vector-discovery branch gate, and the task intake and
  lifecycle adapters that let a requirement reach a started task
Affected-behavior: Planning now consults admitted project memory before work
  begins, and records which items were eligible, which influenced the plan,
  and why the rest were refused; retrieval refuses on provenance and
  eligibility before similarity is consulted, and vector discovery stays
  closed at its branch gate with an executable absence test
Compatibility-or-migration: Adds migrations 000026 through 000029 for atom
  documentation and naming, chronological episodes, retrieval channel
  provenance, and deterministic recall reviews; schema version moves from 25
  to 29 and the generated catalog and build-info versions are regenerated.
  The migrations are additive; existing rows are untouched
Verification: `go build ./...`, `GOOS=js GOARCH=wasm go build ./web/...`,
  `go vet ./...`, `gofmt -l`, `go test ./...`, `codeflux-dev lint`,
  `generate-check`, `migration-check`, and `artifact-check` all pass at this
  commit
Dev-Log: DL-20260801-001

Change-ID: CL-20260731-073
Date: 2026-07-31
Type: Deterministic project-memory foundation
Request-or-TODO: M21-001 through M21-028, M21-051 through M21-063, M21-090
  through M21-099, M21-100 through M21-102, M21-108 through M21-125,
  M21-146 through M21-152, M21-157 through M21-163, and M21-169 through
  M21-175
Outcome: Added the governed project-memory domain vocabulary, its immutable
  SQLite schema and repositories, the versioned task fingerprint, atom
  documentation extraction and admission, atom naming identity and rename
  classification, and the project-memory inspection and correction surface.
  Each block was then adversarially reviewed, and every reproduced defect
  found was fixed with a test that failed beforehand.
Affected-behavior: Memory artifacts carry maturity states whose authority
  grants require corroborated evidence bound to the exact revision, so a proof
  earned for one artifact cannot promote another. Quarantine is terminal:
  correction of a terminal artifact is refused rather than silently returning
  it to candidate under its original identity. Deletion previews are computed
  transitively over derived_from, verified against the current lineage index,
  and acknowledged by explicit dependent identity rather than a bare flag.
  Agent self-report is stored but can never satisfy an authority grant.
  Fingerprints hash only exact identity fields, normalized for path separator
  and Unicode form. Atom documentation rejects control bytes that previously
  allowed two different documents to collide on one normalized hash.
Compatibility-or-migration: Adds migration 000025 and its generated catalog
  and version entries. Extends internal/domain with memory types and three ID
  kinds. golang.org/x/text is now a direct dependency. No handwritten
  JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, or CSS source is added. No prior migration
  checksum changed.
Verification: go build, go vet, gofmt, migration-check, and the js/wasm web
  build are clean across the repository. Domain, storage, fingerprint,
  atomdoc, atomname, memoryinspector, and i18n suites pass, including the full
  storage suite against real temporary SQLite databases. Cross-project,
  immutability, quarantine-terminality, and cascade boundaries were exercised
  by raw SQL against a migrated database, and the counterexample boundary was
  confirmed to fail open before its trigger and Go check were added.
Dev-Log: DL-20260731-074

Change-ID: CL-20260731-072
Date: 2026-07-31
Type: Frontend design tokens and presentation primitives
Request-or-TODO: User request to align the shipped interface with the
  design/references/ui mockups using the existing theming and i18n systems
Outcome: Retuned the dark, light, and high-contrast palettes from the prior
  navy/teal system to the mockups' near-black ground with an emerald accent,
  added eight typed kind colors with their On* pairs to ColorTokens, added the
  design.Kind presentation contract, added the primitives.IconChip primitive,
  and added a renderer-neutral timelinecard-to-design kind mapping.
Affected-behavior: Every themed surface inherits the retuned palette without
  component edits. The light theme no longer renders panel header text at
  approximately 1.1:1 against its surface. Components may now distinguish
  artifact kinds by color instead of rendering identical bordered cards.
Compatibility-or-migration: Additive token and primitive changes only; no
  exported token, field, or function was renamed or removed, and no runtime
  schema or migration is involved. GeometryTokens radii remain unchanged
  because an existing exact-equality test pins them. No handwritten
  JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, or CSS source is added.
Verification: All 76 fixed contrast pairs meet WCAG AA in the dark, light, and
  high-contrast themes; design, primitives, timelinecard, and i18n package
  tests pass; go build, go vet, gofmt, and the js/wasm web build are clean.
  Rendered output was inspected as screenshots at five viewport widths in both
  themes before acceptance.
Dev-Log: DL-20260731-073

Change-ID: CL-20260731-071
Date: 2026-07-31
Type: Exact validation, review, evidence, and acceptance
Request-or-TODO: M20-001 through M20-094 and M20-G01 through M20-G04
Outcome: Added risk-based validation planning and execution, immutable exact-diff
  evidence, source-linked diff review, claim-level assurance reports, validated
  editor opening, and authoritative accept/repair/reject/rollback workflows.
Affected-behavior: A changed diff cannot inherit stale validation; final reports
  distinguish every disposition and reject fabricated provenance; review actions
  resolve live Git/report/check state server-side, perform their real effects,
  and then publish durable task-state decisions. The production GWC review drawer
  mounts the diff and evidence views with typed navigation and no page reload.
Compatibility-or-migration: Adds migrations 000021 through 000024 and extends
  ReviewService. No handwritten JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, or CSS is added.
Verification: Decisive M20 Go suites, storage/Git effect tests, generated contract
  checks, migration/artifact checks, js/wasm build, focused protobuf lint, diff
  checks, and fixed preview health on 127.0.0.1:63131 pass.
Dev-Log: DL-20260731-072

Change-ID: CL-20260731-070
Date: 2026-07-31
Type: Authoritative task graph
Request-or-TODO: M19-001 through M19-108 and M19-G01 through M19-G04
Outcome: Added immutable task-graph revisions, deterministic event projection,
  bounded task-scoped queries, stable SCC-aware layout, authenticated GraphService
  RPCs, and an accessible interactive Go/GWC SVG graph with a typed inspector.
Affected-behavior: Ordinary draft-task messages now create or reuse a durable
  requirement graph, publish only committed graph revisions, and preserve stable
  node identity across chat links, mode changes, expansion, comparison, restart,
  and compatible patches. The graph remains optional and collapsible.
Compatibility-or-migration: Adds migration 000020 and the GraphService contract.
  No handwritten JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, or CSS source is added.
Verification: Graph domain/storage/projection/query/layout/transport/client tests,
  deterministic replay, restart and forged-provenance regressions, performance
  thresholds, WASM builds, the full fixed-port browser suite, a real production
  message-to-graph revision, and mounted visible-SVG/inspector/action checks pass.
Dev-Log: DL-20260731-071

Change-ID: CL-20260731-069
Date: 2026-07-31
Type: Authoritative live task workspace
Request-or-TODO: M18-001 through M18-070 and M18-G01 through M18-G05
Outcome: Added the atomic session task projection, seven-state delivery model,
  idempotent live task and recovery commands, exact budget/cost presentation,
  complete task-state action matrix, diagnostics cursor, and content-free local
  frontend telemetry through the typed Go/GWC workspace.
Affected-behavior: A selected session replays from a sequence-bound SQLite
  snapshot before controls become live, repairs gaps and invalidations through
  the same snapshot boundary, retains drafts and command keys through uncertain
  outcomes, and exposes only server-owned task correctness facts. All supported
  controls traverse the authenticated gRPC bridge; unavailable future actions
  are disabled before activation with accessible reasons.
Compatibility-or-migration: Adds migrations 000018 and 000019 for bounded
  frontend telemetry and crash-repair projection notifications; extends the
  protobuf task/session/settings/recovery contracts and generated Go sources.
  No handwritten JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, or CSS source is added.
Verification: Full Go tests, vet, generation, lint, migration, artifact, WASM,
  diff, and source-boundary checks pass. The fixed loopback runtime passes all
  260 Chromium checks plus live visual inspection, real message settlement,
  GWC client routing, telemetry modal/delete, responsive, graph, keyboard,
  focus, replay, repair, recovery, budget, and task-state matrix evidence.
Dev-Log: DL-20260731-070

Change-ID: CL-20260731-068
Date: 2026-07-31
Type: Authoritative conversation workspace
Request-or-TODO: M17-001 through M17-115 and M17-G01 through M17-G04
Outcome: Added the durable thread/session backend, reconnectable ordered event
  stream, and typed Go/GWC thread rail, virtual timeline, cards, composer,
  approval, review, and interactive graph workspace.
Affected-behavior: An authorized workspace can create, paginate, rename,
  archive, reopen, and continue threads through typed RPC clients; selected
  sessions page and replay authoritative events without duplication. The UI
  exposes disconnected state honestly, preserves drafts and idempotency keys,
  and refuses to invent successful mutations when authority is unavailable.
Compatibility-or-migration: Adds migrations 000016 and 000017 for thread
  service state and thread/session lifecycle, extends the versioned protobuf
  thread and session contracts, and regenerates the Go API and event catalogs.
  No handwritten JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, or CSS source is added.
Verification: The 260-check live Chromium matrix passes on the fixed loopback
  server. Full Go tests, coordinator/transport/storage/event integration,
  js/wasm build, vet, lint, generation, migration, artifact, diff, and secret
  checks pass.
Dev-Log: DL-20260731-069

Change-ID: CL-20260731-067
Date: 2026-07-31
Type: Cross-platform frontend build correction
Request-or-TODO: M16 public CI follow-up
Outcome: Added the native host sentinel for the browser-only Go/WASM client
  command so repository-wide builds can type-check shared client sources.
Affected-behavior: Linux, macOS, and Windows native build jobs no longer fail
  because the `web/client` main package has no host entry point; the actual
  browser entry point remains restricted to js/wasm.
Compatibility-or-migration: No runtime, protocol, schema, or browser behavior
  change.
Verification: Native client build and tests pass; the existing WASM entry point
  and browser bundle remain unchanged.
Dev-Log: DL-20260731-068

Change-ID: CL-20260731-066
Date: 2026-07-31
Type: Frontend shell and design foundation
Request-or-TODO: M16-001 through M16-100 and M16-G01 through M16-G05
Outcome: Added the typed-Go GoWebComponents v5 product shell, local bootstrap
  and session lifecycle, responsive conversation/graph workspace, design
  tokens and themes, route shells, shared primitives, accessibility behavior,
  render isolation, embedded local server, and adversarial browser harness.
Affected-behavior: CodeFlux now starts from its loopback coordinator, restores
  only server-confirmed non-sensitive route state, renders the reference-aligned
  dark/light/high-contrast shell at all supported widths, preserves layout and
  graph selection, supports complete keyboard navigation and focus recovery,
  and performs no external frontend requests.
Compatibility-or-migration: No protocol or database schema change. The new
  frontend remains generated from Go source; no handwritten JavaScript, HTML,
  or CSS is added to the repository.
Verification: The 247-check Chromium route, viewport, accessibility, focus,
  interaction, visual-viewport, and external-network matrix passes. Mounted
  Chromium render counters prove isolated cost, chat, and graph updates.
  `test-all`, lint, integration, security, artifact, native Go, and WASM build
  gates pass.
Dev-Log: DL-20260731-067

Change-ID: CL-20260731-065
Date: 2026-07-31
Type: Architecture-boundary correction
Request-or-TODO: M15 public CI follow-up
Outcome: Removed the task-control transport adapter's direct dependency on the
  storage adapter by translating persistence failures at the coordinator port
Affected-behavior: Authenticated pause, resume, and cancellation preserve their
  existing public error codes while respecting the enforced adapter boundary
Compatibility-or-migration: No protocol, schema, or persisted-data change
Verification: Focused transport and coordinator tests pass; the complete
  repository architecture, formatting, vet, static-analysis, migration, and
  secret lint gate passes locally
Dev-Log: DL-20260731-066

Change-ID: CL-20260731-064
Date: 2026-07-31
Type: Durable checkpoint, interruption, and crash recovery
Request-or-TODO: M15-001 through M15-045 and M15-G01 through M15-G03
Outcome: Added versioned secret-free checkpoints, cooperative task controls,
  divergence-aware resume, startup recovery classification, immutable recovery
  decisions and attempts, and binary-safe patch preservation
Affected-behavior: Every execution boundary now has an attributable durable
  recovery point. Pause, cancellation, shutdown, restart, and user edits cannot
  silently repeat actions, change provider or policy authority, lose the task
  patch, or convert cancellation into failure.
Compatibility-or-migration: Adds migration 000015 for canonical checkpoint
  state, idempotency aliases, task-control lineage, and recovery assessments,
  decisions, and attempts; schema version advances from 14 to 15.
Verification: Real Git preservation and divergence tests, SQLite atomicity and
  close/reopen crash matrices, subprocess pre-checkpoint recovery, authenticated
  task-control RPC and CLI tests, go test ./..., lint, generation, migration,
  integration, security, and complete local test-all gates pass. The final
  adversarial audit accepts all M15 gates.
Dev-Log: DL-20260731-065

Change-ID: CL-20260730-063
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Cross-platform provider cancellation ordering
Request-or-TODO: M14-060 and M14 public-CI follow-up
Outcome: Make provider cancellation arbitration exactly-once when request
  cancellation and attempt cleanup become ready concurrently
Affected-behavior: A cancelled provider stream now always invokes the provider
  cancel hook before attempt cleanup completes, while a cancellation watcher
  and synchronous cleanup cannot issue duplicate cancel calls.
Compatibility-or-migration: No schema, API, or persisted-data change.
Verification: The macOS ARM64 failure is reproduced from public CI. The focused
  cancellation test passes 100 consecutive runs locally, and coordinator
  tests, lint, generation, and artifact checks pass.
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-064

Change-ID: CL-20260730-062
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Bounded agent planning, execution, repair, and review
Request-or-TODO: M14-001 through M14-062 and M14-G01 through M14-G03
Outcome: Added deterministic requirement intake, immutable structured plans,
  a fixed-provider observe-think-act loop, exact validation profiles, bounded
  repair, completion evidence, and explicit review decisions
Affected-behavior: Persisted user intent now controls risk, scope, plan,
  approved tools, exact executable validation, repair limits, and completion.
  Every effect is attributable to durable plan, model, tool, and policy facts;
  failures stop without silent fallback, authority expansion, validation
  weakening, or automatic acceptance.
Compatibility-or-migration: Adds migration 000014 for requirement and plan
  revisions, run-plan bindings, plan-step state, validation selection and
  attribution, repair attempts, completion candidates, and review decisions;
  schema version advances from 13 to 14.
Verification: Deterministic full-state-machine and boundary tests, real SQLite
  constraints and reconstruction, executor/agent/coordinator/storage focused
  suites, go test ./..., lint, generation, integration, security, and complete
  local test-all gates pass. Five adversarial refinement rounds end in ACCEPT
  on the frozen migration checksum.
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-063

Change-ID: CL-20260730-061
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Fixed routing, forecasting, and exact budget enforcement
Request-or-TODO: M13-001 through M13-045 and M13-G01 through M13-G03
Outcome: Added the frozen GPT-5.6 Sol maximum-effort policy, transparent
  P50/P90 forecasts, exact rational budget reservations and settlements,
  durable execution preflights, attributable budget adjustments, and terminal
  forecast-versus-actual telemetry
Affected-behavior: Tasks cannot start without current inspectable policy,
  forecast, and budget evidence. Provider requests reserve the full retry
  envelope before activation, reconcile physical attempts and actual usage,
  block cross-task or over-cap work before I/O, retain unknown accounting, and
  expose exact or unknown reserved, actual, and remaining amounts.
Compatibility-or-migration: Adds migrations 000010 through 000013 for the
  budget ledger, execution preflights, preapproval adjustments, and actual
  provider-call reconciliation; schema version advances from 9 to 13.
Verification: Fixed-policy, forecast, exact arithmetic, concurrent race,
  retry, reconciliation, preflight, live zero-I/O hard-cap, migration,
  generation, integration, security, and complete local test-all gates pass.
  The final independent adversarial audit accepts every M13 TODO and gate.
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-062

Change-ID: CL-20260730-060
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Provider abstraction and exact accounting
Request-or-TODO: M12-001 through M12-055 and M12-G01 through M12-G04
Outcome: Added normalized OpenAI Responses, Anthropic Messages, and
  OpenAI-compatible adapters with streaming, tools, structured output,
  cancellation, bounded retry, immutable pricing evidence, and durable
  per-attempt attribution
Affected-behavior: Provider requests now retain exact provider/model/revision
  identity, sealed known or explicit-unknown pricing, normalized standard and
  provider-specific usage, exact rational cost, safe metadata, partial-effect
  evidence, latency, retry decisions, recovery choices, and terminal status.
  Observable partial work cannot be retried, provider switching requires
  explicit authority, and an opt-in live gate uses only OS credential
  references and an external database without printing response content.
Compatibility-or-migration: Adds migration 000009 for provider configuration,
  sealed pricing revisions, logical requests, physical attempts, accounting,
  partial evidence, and live-smoke attribution; schema version advances from
  8 to 9.
Verification: Deterministic adapter conformance, mock-server, cancellation,
  deadline, retry, recovery, provider-specific accounting, migration,
  generation, integration, security, and complete local test-all gates pass.
  Three independent adversarial contract, runtime, and storage audits accept
  the final tree.
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-061

Change-ID: CL-20260730-059
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Cross-platform worker directory identity
Request-or-TODO: M11-028 and M11-G01 public-CI follow-up
Outcome: Compare the launched worker directory by filesystem identity in the
  subprocess integration test
Affected-behavior: macOS temporary paths that traverse the /var-to-/private
  alias now prove the same task-worktree identity without a false string-path
  mismatch
Compatibility-or-migration: No schema, API, or runtime behavior change
Verification: The focused worker suite and full local tests pass; public CI
  run 30545302566 records the originating macOS ARM64 failure
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-060

Change-ID: CL-20260730-058
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Coordinator and worker lifecycle
Request-or-TODO: M11-001 through M11-048 and M11-G01 through M11-G03
Outcome: Added single-instance coordinator startup, authenticated one-worker-
  per-task execution, durable ownership and queueing, heartbeat recovery,
  process isolation controls, and ordered graceful shutdown
Affected-behavior: The coordinator migrates before serving on literal
  loopback, restores uncertain state as recovery-required, dispatches within
  separate worker and provider limits, persists process/report diagnostics,
  compensates failed starts durably, and prevents duplicate active owners.
  Workers receive credential-free pipe startup, execute only in the exact
  task worktree, continue control heartbeats while paused, and terminate as a
  platform process tree.
Compatibility-or-migration: Adds migration 000008 for worker leases, ordered
  reports, and the durable task queue; schema version advances from 7 to 8.
  Default isolation is explicitly mediated workspace confinement rather than
  a perfect sandbox.
Verification: Migration, artifact, generation, lint, security, integration,
  focused crash/concurrency/recovery suites, deterministic loopback startup,
  and the complete local test-all gate pass. Public CI supplies cross-platform
  process and Ubuntu race coverage for the committed state.
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-059

Change-ID: CL-20260730-057
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Coordinator-worker protocol foundation
Request-or-TODO: M11-015 through M11-019
Outcome: Defined a versioned, ordered, authenticated, credential-free worker
  bootstrap and message protocol with bounded loopback and reconnect contracts
Affected-behavior: Workers receive exact task/run/worktree/policy/tool-schema
  identity and a per-launch session token, reject protocol mismatch and
  non-loopback coordinators, and cannot receive raw provider credentials
  through the typed startup contract
Compatibility-or-migration: No schema change; protocol version begins at 1
Verification: Worker package tests pass
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-058

Change-ID: CL-20260730-056
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Mediated tools, permissions, and subprocess execution
Request-or-TODO: M10-001 through M10-059 and M10-G01 through M10-G03
Outcome: Added a versioned typed tool protocol, exact task authority policy,
  controlled subprocess runner, immutable permission/custom-command records,
  and durable command outcome/output storage
Affected-behavior: Repository reads and confined edits have explicit policy
  classes; network, dependency, external, credential, destructive, privileged,
  and communication effects require exact attributable authority. Commands use
  argument arrays, confined working directories, credential-free allowlisted
  environments, bounded timeouts, process-tree cancellation, and redacted
  bounded output. Denials remain capability-scoped across tool substitution.
Compatibility-or-migration: Adds migration 000007 for per-run tool schema,
  exact permission metadata and one-use consumption, immutable reviewed custom
  commands, and command execution outcome metadata; schema version advances to
  7. Arbitrary in-process plugins and a marketplace remain deliberately
  deferred.
Verification: Migration and generation checks, lint, focused executor/storage
  suites, security suite, and full local test-all pass. Platform process-tree
  behavior is exercised by the public Windows, Ubuntu, and macOS CI matrix.
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-057

Change-ID: CL-20260730-055
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Cross-platform worktree path correction
Request-or-TODO: M09-G01 through M09-G03 follow-up from public CI
Outcome: Canonicalized the task-worktree root at service startup and compared
  canonical paths with platform-aware relative identity
Affected-behavior: Worktrees beneath aliased Windows temporary paths and the
  macOS /var-to-/private path alias remain confined and verifiable instead of
  being falsely reported as moved or unsafe
Compatibility-or-migration: No schema or API change
Verification: Focused Gitwork suite and lint pass locally; the originating
  failure remains captured in public CI run 30536861293 for regression evidence
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-056

Change-ID: CL-20260730-054
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Isolated Git editing and acceptance
Request-or-TODO: M09-001 through M09-050 and M09-G01 through M09-G03
Outcome: Added durable task-worktree bindings, collision-safe isolated
  worktrees, confined expected-hash edits, exact review diffs, checkpoint
  rollback, and commit/patch/both acceptance modes
Affected-behavior: Agent-supported mutations cannot resolve outside an active
  task worktree or silently overwrite changed content; dirty primary worktrees
  remain untouched until explicit patch acceptance, and every accepted result
  stays bound to its task, base revision, reviewed diff, branch, and author
Compatibility-or-migration: Adds migration 000006 with task and expected-HEAD
  bindings plus a unique task-worktree index; generated schema version advances
  from 5 to 6 with additive Go APIs only
Verification: Gitwork/storage tests and vet, deterministic generation and
  migration checks, lint, security tests, and the complete local test matrix
  pass. Real repositories cover lifecycle/restart, collisions, dirty-primary
  preservation, traversal/symlink attacks, all edit types, stale hashes,
  alternate-index diffs, checkpoints, rollback, acceptance, and cleanup.
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-055

Change-ID: CL-20260730-053
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Deterministic context selection and persistence
Request-or-TODO: M08-029 through M08-053 and M08-G01 through M08-G04
Outcome: Added revision-bound, budgeted, explainable repository-context
  selection, immutable SQLite manifests, an expandable all-Go card projection,
  and a serialized untrusted-data prompt boundary
Affected-behavior: Explicit paths and symbols now lead deterministic context
  ranking, direct code/test/configuration/history neighbors expand within
  independent budgets, likely secrets are excluded, stale maps are rejected,
  and malicious repository instructions cannot gain command, network,
  credential, or permission authority
Compatibility-or-migration: Adds migration 000005 with immutable context
  manifest, item, and exclusion tables; generated schema version advances from
  4 to 5 with no handwritten frontend assets or API break
Verification: Workspace and storage tests and vet, migration/generation checks,
  lint, security tests, and the complete local test matrix pass. Representative
  and malicious repository fixtures cover deterministic order, budget caps,
  map invalidation, explanations, secret exclusion, approval gating, escaped
  fake prompt boundaries, transactional persistence, and immutability.
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-054

Change-ID: CL-20260730-052
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Deterministic Go repository map
Request-or-TODO: M08-015 through M08-028
Outcome: Added a revision-bound multi-module Go mapper covering packages,
  files, imports, tests, targets, symbols, references, calls, interface
  implementations, build constraints, generated files, commands,
  instructions, and bounded warnings
Affected-behavior: Codeflux can now derive the same ordered map for the same
  Git revision without downloading dependencies or allowing repository content
  to become executable authority; one invalid package no longer prevents valid
  packages from being indexed
Compatibility-or-migration: Additive workspace behavior only; no protobuf or
  database schema change
Verification: Representative clean and invalid multi-module fixtures,
  deterministic revision comparison, fixed-command recording,
  network-disabled missing dependency test, workspace package tests, vet,
  repository lint, and full local suite pass
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-053

Change-ID: CL-20260730-051
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Native bridge test lifecycle correction
Request-or-TODO: M06-018, M06-019, and M06-G02
Outcome: Made native conformance teardown close the tracked peer transport and
  wait for gRPC transport exit before closing the client connection
Affected-behavior: Linux race tests no longer invoke the pinned bridge
  adapter's write deadline concurrently with an in-flight Gorilla WebSocket
  write at the end of any unary or streaming test
Compatibility-or-migration: Test-harness lifecycle correction only; no runtime,
  protobuf, dependency, or database change
Verification: Transport-spike package passes 20 consecutive runs and repository
  lint locally; public Linux AMD64 race CI provides authoritative confirmation
Supersedes: CL-20260730-049's narrower stream-EOF teardown explanation
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-052

Change-ID: CL-20260730-050
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Read-only repository discovery
Request-or-TODO: M08-001 through M08-014
Outcome: Added bounded canonical Git repository discovery with revision-bound
  snapshots, stable identity, sanitized remotes, worktree risk classification,
  and repository-content marker detection
Affected-behavior: Codeflux can now open a selected directory without mutation,
  reject unsafe or invalid roots, and report branch/HEAD/status, operations,
  detached/conflicted state, submodules, nested repositories, LFS pointers,
  untracked files, ignored files, and dirty-state warnings deterministically
Compatibility-or-migration: Additive workspace behavior only; existing
  repository persistence already separates stable identity from mutable path;
  no database schema change
Verification: Real temporary Git repositories exercise clean, moved, dirty,
  detached, conflicted, operation, submodule, nested, LFS, ignored, untracked,
  invalid-root, empty-repository, cancellation, and output-limit paths; package
  tests and repository lint pass
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-051

Change-ID: CL-20260730-049
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Cross-platform transport security and teardown correction
Request-or-TODO: M06-018, M06-019, M06-024, and M06-G02
Outcome: Made editor-path validation independent of the host path convention
  and completed resumed streams before tunnel teardown
Affected-behavior: Unix and macOS now reject Windows drive-qualified or
  backslash editor targets, and the Linux race suite no longer closes the
  pinned WebSocket tunnel while its gRPC writer is flushing a resumed stream
Compatibility-or-migration: Internal retained-spike correction only; no product
  protobuf or database schema change
Verification: Focused transport-spike tests and repository lint pass locally;
  Linux AMD64 race and macOS/Linux fast-test confirmation run in public CI
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-050

Change-ID: CL-20260730-048
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Backend application contract and deterministic flow gate
Request-or-TODO: M07-061 through M07-090 and M07-G01 through M07-G04
Outcome: Added a descriptor-checked RPC/application-function catalog and the
  complete section 27B backend function catalog, with executable deterministic
  acceptance flows for lifecycle, repository context, generated-client task
  planning, tools, durable controls, review, replay, crash recovery, retrieval,
  and atom admission
Affected-behavior: Every v1 product RPC and planned backend function now has
  machine-reviewable authority, retry, revision, transaction, repository,
  event, effect, ambiguity, cancellation, and safe-error behavior; the
  generated clients complete the semantic synthetic journey and unsafe vector
  or ambiguous-effect fallbacks are rejected by tests
Compatibility-or-migration: Additive internal coordinator contracts and tests;
  removes a forbidden transport-to-storage adapter dependency; no protobuf or
  database schema change
Verification: Descriptor/catalog completeness, function-category, defensive
  copy, deterministic flow, generated-client Bufconn, transport, vet,
  bootstrap, generation, migration, lint, fast, integration, security,
  all-scope, and artifact-containment checks pass
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-049

Change-ID: CL-20260730-047
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Authenticated product gRPC boundary
Request-or-TODO: M07-051 through M07-060
Outcome: Added unary/stream validation and authentication interceptors, stable
  safe error details, request correlation and credential-free logging,
  unchanged deadline propagation, and bounded graceful shutdown
Affected-behavior: Product RPCs now reject malformed or unauthenticated input
  before delegation and return stable user-safe failures without exposing raw
  internal errors; all 37 methods and the generated-client journey run through
  an authenticated in-process boundary
Compatibility-or-migration: Additive internal transport behavior only; no
  protobuf or database schema change
Verification: In-process all-method and generated-client tests plus malformed,
  unauthorized, bridge-attestation, stale, duplicate, deadline, correlation,
  logging, rich-status, graph-bound, and shutdown tests pass with repository
  lint
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-048

Change-ID: CL-20260730-046
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Versioned product gRPC contracts
Request-or-TODO: M07-001 through M07-050
Outcome: Added the complete v1 domain-oriented product API, shared error,
  mutation, pagination, exact-value, time, redaction, path, and resource
  conventions, plus generated Go server and browser-compatible client bindings
Affected-behavior: Seven logical services now expose 37 typed methods for the
  synthetic user journey with one resumable session stream, retry-safe mutation
  controls, bounded graph reads, opaque cursors, and credential references only
Compatibility-or-migration: Additive protobuf v1 surface only; no SQLite
  migration or implemented production handler behavior
Verification: Buf STANDARD lint and FILE breaking comparison, deterministic
  generation/check, generated package compilation, repository lint, and
  descriptor tests for method, mutation, streaming, and safe-field contracts
  pass
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-047

Change-ID: CL-20260730-045
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: GoWebComponents browser transport and rendering decision
Request-or-TODO: M06-001 through M06-038 and M06-G01 through M06-G05
Outcome: Pinned GoWebComponents v5.0.1 and GoGRPCBridge v1.1.1, added a
  retained all-Go/WASM conformance client and same-origin embedded typed gRPC
  bridge, and recorded measured framework, transport, security, reconnect,
  accessibility, and rendering results
Affected-behavior: The development fixture now serves a virtualized 10,000-row
  thread, reconnectable 10,000-event stream, approval-gated editor capability,
  and isolated 300-to-1,200-node graph from one loopback Go process with no
  handwritten frontend source or separately installed proxy
Compatibility-or-migration: Adds pinned GWC, bridge, gRPC runtime, and gRPC Go
  generator dependencies plus a retained conformance protobuf; no application
  database schema or production RPC contract changes
Verification: Pinned bootstrap, deterministic generation, protobuf lint,
  Staticcheck, fast/integration/security/all suites, artifact containment,
  focused transport/security/load tests and benchmark, WASM build, and live
  browser refresh/restart/history/cancellation/isolation/accessibility tests
  pass; the local race command correctly defers to Ubuntu AMD64 CI on Windows
  ARM64
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-046

Change-ID: CL-20260730-044
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Durable session journal and reconnect stream
Request-or-TODO: M05-016 through M05-038 and M05-G01 through M05-G03
Outcome: Added schema 4, atomic monotonic session-event append, post-commit
  publication, bounded replay/live subscriptions, snapshots, strict task
  reduction, and transactional UI-command idempotency
Affected-behavior: Sessions now reconnect without event gaps or duplicates;
  ephemeral progress is coalesced under pressure while material facts force an
  explicit replayable disconnect, and duplicate commands return one stored
  result without repeating effects
Compatibility-or-migration: Forward migration 4 adds sessions, immutable
  session events and snapshots, and immutable command-result records; schema
  version advances from 3 to 4
Verification: Event and storage tests cover transaction rollback, concurrent
  sequence allocation, replay/live races, every reconnect boundary, slow
  subscribers, cancellation, restart, interleaved event types, snapshot
  reduction, duplicate commands, and randomized sequence properties
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-045

Change-ID: CL-20260730-043
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Unified session-event contract
Request-or-TODO: M05-001 through M05-015
Outcome: Added stable session identity plus domain and protobuf SessionEvent
  envelopes with every initial versioned typed payload, safe-field validation,
  stable error codes, and delivery/correctness classification
Affected-behavior: Session facts now have one canonical shape and cannot pass
  validation with mismatched payloads, invalid identities/states/values, or an
  unsupported payload version
Compatibility-or-migration: Adds protobuf session messages and identity enum
  value 22; generation now uses the module-pinned local Go plugin invocation
  instead of the rate-limited remote registry
Verification: Event/domain/transport tests, deterministic generation, isolated
  generation-check, and the complete repository suite pass
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-044

Change-ID: CL-20260730-042
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Redaction pipeline and credential gates
Request-or-TODO: M04-021 through M04-032 and M04-G01 through M04-G03
Outcome: Added one bounded exact-and-pattern redaction pipeline for prompt,
  log, UI, and diagnostic boundaries plus streaming, structured, and full
  mock-task secret-absence tests
Affected-behavior: Loaded credentials, supported key formats, bearer/header
  values, and PEM private keys become a constant marker before persistence or
  delivery; unapproved permission-bearing repository configuration is rejected
Compatibility-or-migration: No schema or external API change
Verification: Focused redaction/configuration gates and
  `go run ./cmd/codeflux-dev test-all` passed; the mock task scans persisted
  SQLite artifacts and all four output boundaries for known-secret absence
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-043

Change-ID: CL-20260730-041
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Native credential boundary
Request-or-TODO: M04-010 through M04-020
Outcome: Added opaque credential values, Windows Credential Manager operations,
  explicit read-only environment fallback, honest unsupported-platform status,
  SQLite opaque references, and worker-environment secret removal
Affected-behavior: Provider material cannot format or serialize, is never sent
  to task-worker child environments, and never crosses the SQLite boundary;
  doctor now reports the real platform credential backend status
Compatibility-or-migration: Forward migration 3 adds only opaque provider
  references; schema version advances from 2 to 3
Verification: Credential, Windows-backend fake, real child-environment,
  real-SQLite page-absence, migration, CLI doctor, Linux AMD64 compile, and
  macOS ARM64 compile tests pass
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-042

Change-ID: CL-20260730-040
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Versioned settings persistence
Request-or-TODO: M04-007 and M04-008
Outcome: Added schema version 2 with immutable settings revisions,
  task-to-settings bindings, and content-hashed effective run configurations
Affected-behavior: Repository-created tasks bind to one settings revision and
  runs can record only the matching bounded non-secret effective configuration;
  changed retries and secret-shaped JSON fields are rejected
Compatibility-or-migration: Forward migration 2 seeds legacy tasks with
  reserved revision zero; schema version advances from 1 to 2
Verification: Real-SQLite settings/run repository tests and the complete
  storage migration matrix pass, including upgrade from versions 0, 1, and 2
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-041

Change-ID: CL-20260730-039
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Non-secret configuration contract
Request-or-TODO: M04-001 through M04-006 and M04-009
Outcome: Added fixed layered configuration resolution, typed boundary
  validation, mandatory repository approval, a narrow environment allowlist,
  and strict bounded non-secret JSON import/export
Affected-behavior: Unapproved repository settings, insecure remote endpoints,
  invalid budgets/timeouts/worktree roots/policies, unknown Codeflux
  environment variables, and unknown imported fields fail before use
Compatibility-or-migration: No schema change; introduces internal/config
Verification: `go test ./internal/config -count=1 -v` and
  `go vet ./internal/config` passed precedence, validation, environment,
  strict-import, size-bound, trailing-data, and secret-shaped-field tests
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-040

Change-ID: CL-20260730-038
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: SQLite durability and replay gates
Request-or-TODO: M03-G01 through M03-G04
Outcome: Added deterministic task-event replay with corruption detection and a
  real child-process forced-termination test that proves committed durability,
  interrupted transaction rollback, integrity, lineage, and replay equivalence
Affected-behavior: Persisted task histories can reconstruct state and revision;
  discontinuous or invalid histories fail as corruption rather than producing
  a guessed state
Compatibility-or-migration: No schema or CLI compatibility change
Verification: `go run ./cmd/codeflux-dev test-all` passed all locally available
  suites, including forced termination, replay, credential-column and safe
  diagnostics, migration, backup, restore, and newer-schema refusal
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-039

Change-ID: CL-20260730-037
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: SQLite diagnostics and maintenance
Request-or-TODO: M03-061 through M03-069
Outcome: Added path-free database diagnostics, explicit backup and integrity
  commands, shutdown WAL checkpointing, bounded verbose-output retention, and
  explicit deletion/orphan policies
Affected-behavior: Operators can inspect storage health, size, and versions,
  create consistent snapshots, and run integrity checks without exposing
  selected paths or raw database details; close and retention now enforce
  durable lifecycle policy
Compatibility-or-migration: No schema change; CLI gains backup and integrity
  commands and doctor accepts an optional explicit database path
Verification: `go run ./cmd/codeflux-dev test-all` passed lint,
  generation-drift, fast, real-SQLite integration, and security suites;
  browser remains gated on M16 and race verification runs in Ubuntu CI
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-038

Change-ID: CL-20260730-036
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Task, authority, budget, and evidence repositories
Request-or-TODO: M03-049 through M03-054 and M03-056 through M03-058
Outcome: Added atomic task transitions and event allocation, approval
  resolution, exact budget accounting, checkpoints, validations, and evidence
  with operation-oriented contracts and typed lineage
Affected-behavior: State and event facts commit together; concurrent events
  receive gapless unique sequences; retries are content-bound; budget posts
  cannot exceed currency, revision, integer, reservation, or hard-cap rules
Compatibility-or-migration: No schema change
Verification: Every repository runs against temporary real SQLite; focused
  tests cover idempotency, stale revisions, exact accounting, lineage, and 20
  concurrent appends; full repository suites pass
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-037

Change-ID: CL-20260730-035
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Core identity and conversation repositories
Request-or-TODO: M03-045 through M03-048
Outcome: Added operation-oriented repository contracts and real-SQLite
  persistence for projects, repositories, threads, stable cursor pages, and
  immutable idempotent message append
Affected-behavior: Typed IDs survive repository round trips; cross-project
  thread lineage is rejected; identical message retries reuse the original
  sequence while changed retries fail with conflict
Compatibility-or-migration: No schema change
Verification: Real-SQLite tests cover typed round trips, not-found, conflict,
  constraint lineage, two-page stable ordering, message sequence allocation,
  identical retries, and changed retries; full repository suites pass
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-036

Change-ID: CL-20260730-034
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Cancellable SQLite transaction boundary
Request-or-TODO: M03-044, M03-055, M03-059, and M03-060
Outcome: Added the storage-owned immediate-write transaction runner, complete
  typed repository error vocabulary, atomic rollback, and context-bounded lock
  waiting with connection-policy restoration
Affected-behavior: Multi-table operations now commit as one unit or retain no
  partial state; a short caller deadline bounds SQLite writer contention even
  when the configured busy timeout is longer
Compatibility-or-migration: No schema change
Verification: Real-SQLite tests prove successful commit, halfway rollback,
  100 ms blocked-writer cancellation, busy-timeout restoration, and typed error
  matching; full repository suites pass
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-035

Change-ID: CL-20260730-033
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Initial operational SQLite schema
Request-or-TODO: M03-026 through M03-043
Outcome: Added the first append-only application migration with all 26 Phase 1
  operational tables, lineage, exact-value and state checks, idempotency and
  sequence constraints, query indexes, and immutable-fact triggers
Affected-behavior: SQLite can now durably represent projects through evidence
  without credential columns or floating-point cost and rejects malformed,
  orphaned, duplicate, or in-place-rewritten facts
Compatibility-or-migration: Advances the generated schema version from 0 to 1;
  migration recovery creates a pre-upgrade snapshot before applying it
Verification: Real-SQLite schema enumeration, constraint, trigger, index,
  credential-column, foreign-key, integrity, and every-version migration tests
  pass with the full repository suites
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-034

Change-ID: CL-20260730-032
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Transactional SQLite migration and recovery
Request-or-TODO: M03-012 through M03-025
Outcome: Added cross-process migration authority, embedded source verification,
  schema/history control, disk-space gating, online backup/restore, transactional
  application, downgrade refusal, and stable failure recovery
Affected-behavior: Pending schemas migrate only after a recovery snapshot;
  incompatible concurrent binaries, newer schemas, checksum drift, and failed
  attempts refuse unsafe or repeated mutation
Compatibility-or-migration: Adds github.com/gofrs/flock v0.13.0; initializes
  migration-control tables and applies embedded migration version 0
Verification: Real-SQLite tests cover every committed start version, backup and
  restore, contention, disk exhaustion, downgrade, checksum mismatch, failure,
  interruption, and stable refusal; full repository suites pass
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-033

Change-ID: CL-20260730-031
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: SQLite database lifecycle
Request-or-TODO: M03-001 through M03-011
Outcome: Added the pinned CGO-free SQLite driver, OS application-data paths,
  restrictive file creation, durable connection policy, health checks, typed
  database failures, and checkpointed close
Affected-behavior: Codeflux can now open a bounded real-SQLite pool with WAL,
  foreign keys, FULL durability, and measured busy waits on every supported OS
Compatibility-or-migration: Adds modernc.org/sqlite v1.55.0 and its pinned
  transitive dependencies; no application schema exists yet
Verification: Real-SQLite tests cover policy pragmas, reads, writes, foreign
  keys, contention timeout, corruption, permissions, pool bounds, and repeated
  close; full repository suites pass
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-032

Change-ID: CL-20260730-030
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Exact policy, budget, and assurance domain values
Request-or-TODO: M02-022 through M02-033 and M02-G01 through M02-G03
Outcome: Added provider-neutral execution policy, exact money and token usage,
  budgets, forecasts, risk, assurance, validation severity, and typed reasons
Affected-behavior: Unknown usage and forecasts remain distinct from known zero;
  invalid domain values fail with typed errors; lint enforces one canonical
  task-state owner
Compatibility-or-migration: Establishes initial value contracts; no persisted
  schema exists
Verification: Exhaustive deterministic JSON coverage, exact arithmetic tests,
  budget and forecast validation, task-state ownership lint, float-type AST
  guard, and the full repository suites pass
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-031

Change-ID: CL-20260730-029
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Domain lifecycle state machines
Request-or-TODO: M02-007 through M02-021
Outcome: Added separate task, run, command, approval, checkpoint, validation,
  graph-revision, and change-acceptance state machines with pure validators
Affected-behavior: Impossible and unauthorized transitions now fail with typed
  user-presentable errors before storage or transport exists
Compatibility-or-migration: Establishes initial lifecycle contracts; no
  persisted schema exists
Verification: Tests execute every allowed transition, representative forbidden
  transitions for all machines, every terminal-task-to-running case, and all
  non-granted approval variants; full repository suites pass
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-030

Change-ID: CL-20260730-028
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Identity boundary adapters
Request-or-TODO: M02-005
Outcome: Added exhaustive JSON, SQL, and generated-protobuf identity
  round-trips for all 21 domain identity kinds
Affected-behavior: Protobuf boundaries now retain and validate the identity
  kind instead of transporting an untyped interchangeable string
Compatibility-or-migration: Adds the initial `StableIdentity` protobuf message
  and enum; no persisted schema exists
Verification: Deterministic generation and domain/transport tests pass for
  every identity kind, including null, wrong-kind, malformed, and zero cases;
  full repository test and lint suites pass
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-029

Change-ID: CL-20260730-027
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Domain identity primitives
Request-or-TODO: M02-001 through M02-004 and M02-006
Outcome: Added distinct type-prefixed UUIDv7 identities for every declared
  project, execution, graph, evidence, provider, and budget entity
Affected-behavior: Domain boundaries now reject empty, malformed, wrong-kind,
  non-v7, or non-canonical identities with typed errors
Compatibility-or-migration: Establishes the initial canonical identity text
  format; no persisted schema exists yet
Verification: Domain tests cover all identity kinds, invalid formats, boundary
  rejection, local generation, chronological sorting, and Go type isolation;
  full repository test and lint suites pass
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-028

Change-ID: CL-20260730-026
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Milestone gate evidence
Request-or-TODO: M01-G04
Outcome: Closed the hosted-CI platform gate with a successful public matrix run
Affected-behavior: M02 domain work is dependency-authorized after the
  gate-evidence commit itself passes the same required CI matrix
Compatibility-or-migration: No runtime or schema impact
Verification: GitHub Actions run 30519967041 passed Windows 11 ARM64 quality
  and build, Windows Server 2025 AMD64, macOS 15 ARM64, Ubuntu 24.04 AMD64, and
  Ubuntu race jobs at commit c8b3f2f2e3cb00a402bb9fb9205c48cda673c246
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-027

Change-ID: CL-20260730-025
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: CI portability fix
Request-or-TODO: M01-G04
Outcome: Accepted explicit development-helper temporary roots on a different
  Windows volume while retaining `.artifacts` confinement for repository-local
  roots
Affected-behavior: Hosted Windows jobs may keep the checkout on `D:` and create
  isolated test roots on `C:` without a false unsafe-root rejection
Compatibility-or-migration: No interface or schema change
Verification: Added a Windows cross-volume regression test; targeted and full
  local suites pass; hosted matrix rerun is required before closing M01-G04
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-026

Change-ID: CL-20260730-024
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Evaluation and refinement policy
Request-or-TODO: User request for end-to-end adversarial refinement toward
  better prompting
Outcome: Added an independently reviewed, leakage-resistant, fixed-budget
  prompt and process refinement protocol without starting dependency-blocked
  product tuning
Affected-behavior: M24 evaluations must pre-isolate adversarial review from
  hidden acceptance, preregister one-invariant candidates, permit one held-out
  confirmation, and reject correctness or safety regressions
Compatibility-or-migration: No runtime or schema impact; adds M24-216 through
  M24-221 and narrows permissible evaluation claims
Verification: Current-scope `test-all` and deterministic development-profile
  loopback health smoke passed; an independent read-only adversarial audit
  supplied the leakage, evidence, and stop controls and accepted the corrected
  protocol after rejecting its first draft
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-025

Change-ID: CL-20260730-023
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Frontend architecture policy
Request-or-TODO: User instruction to use GWC without handwritten JavaScript,
  HTML, or CSS
Outcome: Made GoWebComponents v5 the required Go-authored frontend path and
  prohibited separately maintained JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS
  source; removed the existing bootstrap CSS and added lint enforcement
Affected-behavior: Frontend tasks must implement behavior and presentation in
  Go/GWC; pre-spike packaging now has an honest empty asset manifest and
  browser assets may exist only as generated projections
Compatibility-or-migration: Frontend version changed to the deterministic
  empty-asset digest; no runtime or schema impact
Verification: Repository instruction and detailed frontend-plan sections state
  the same source-language boundary; generator, fast tests, lint, generation
  drift, and tracked-extension checks pass
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-024

Change-ID: CL-20260730-022
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Security configuration
Request-or-TODO: User request to keep a supplied OpenAI API key out of Git
Outcome: Ignored local environment credential files while preserving
  trackable example templates
Affected-behavior: `.env` and `.env.*` files cannot be accidentally staged
  unless they are explicitly named example templates
Compatibility-or-migration: No runtime or schema impact; existing credential
  storage policy remains unchanged
Verification: Git ignore probes passed for local environment files and failed
  as intended for example templates; no tracked file contains a project-key
  prefix
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-023

Change-ID: CL-20260730-021
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Clean-clone gate evidence
Request-or-TODO: M01-095, M01-G01 through M01-G09 except M01-G04
Outcome: Recorded a Git-clean documented contributor journey and successful
  cross-builds for every declared platform while leaving hosted CI unclaimed
Affected-behavior: Evidence and checklist state only; no runtime change
Compatibility-or-migration: None
Verification: Clean clone bootstrap/build/test/generation/lint/migration/run/
  benchmark/artifact checks and four target cross-builds passed
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-022

Change-ID: CL-20260730-020
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Developer safety and artifact confinement
Request-or-TODO: M01-063, M01-064, M01-090 through M01-094, M01-097
  through M01-104
Outcome: Enforced roots, import direction, generated paths, Markdown policy,
  artifact ignore/escape/cleanup, always-run CI scans, real migration checks,
  real M01 benchmarks, and the documented atomic inner loop
Affected-behavior: Unsafe repository output fails before writing and CI detects
  disposable escape after each command, including failed commands
Compatibility-or-migration: Adds artifact-check and migration-check commands
  plus named M01 benchmark output; no runtime migration
Verification: Root/dependency/artifact/cleanup tests, real commands, actionlint,
  lint, test-all, artifact scan, and staged whitespace checks
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-021

Change-ID: CL-20260730-019
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Development command orchestration
Request-or-TODO: M01-085 through M01-088
Outcome: Added live-provider authority/cost gating, current integration,
  security, and pre-submit suites, protobuf lint/compatibility enforcement,
  and honest unavailable subsystem commands
Affected-behavior: Developer commands now distinguish runnable checks from
  deferred browser/provider/storage features with stable exits and exact steps
Compatibility-or-migration: Live gate result schema v1; no runtime migration
Verification: Live gate and skeleton tests, Buf checks, integration/security/
  all commands, aggregate lint, fast suite, and staged whitespace checks
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-020

Change-ID: CL-20260730-018
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Deterministic development profile
Request-or-TODO: M01-084, M01-089
Outcome: Added an offline loopback profile with a temporary SQLite target,
  in-memory fake credentials, fixed provider script, ephemeral port, bounded
  self-check, owned shutdown, and the four declared profile specifications
Affected-behavior: Contributors can start and verify the current deterministic
  profile without external network or premature storage/provider dependencies
Compatibility-or-migration: Run result schema v1; runtime schema remains 0
Verification: Profile boundary unit tests, real one-shot startup/health/shutdown,
  cleanup inspection, aggregate lint, fast tests, and staged whitespace checks
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-019

Change-ID: CL-20260730-017
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Deterministic source generation
Request-or-TODO: M01-082, M01-083
Outcome: Extended the sole generation entry point and isolated drift check to
  protobuf, events, migrations, build versions, and frontend asset manifests
Affected-behavior: Committed migrations and frontend assets now carry generated
  checksums and executable identity derives schema/frontend versions from them
Compatibility-or-migration: Generator schema 1; runtime schema remains 0
Verification: Determinism and duplicate-event unit cases, generated checksum
  tests, full suite, isolated generation check, lint, and staged diff checks
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-018

Change-ID: CL-20260730-016
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Development bootstrap
Request-or-TODO: M01-081
Outcome: Added patched Go selection, pinned local generator/linter installation,
  Git verification, secret-scrubbed subprocesses, and an explicit deferred
  GoWebComponents boundary
Affected-behavior: Fresh contributors can provision and inspect the exact M01
  toolchain beneath the ignored artifact root with text or versioned JSON output
Compatibility-or-migration: Bootstrap result schema v1; no runtime migration
Verification: Bootstrap unit cases, real tool installation/version probes,
  aggregate lint, fast tests, and staged whitespace checks
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-017

Change-ID: CL-20260730-015
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Development command registry
Request-or-TODO: M01-079, M01-080
Outcome: Added a versioned deterministic registry, complete command discovery,
  per-command help, stable unavailable behavior, and safe root resolution
Affected-behavior: Contributors can inspect the exact current and planned
  development surface through one cross-platform Go command
Compatibility-or-migration: Command registry schema v1 and stable exit 3 for
  unavailable subsystems; no runtime migration
Verification: Registry, help, unavailable/unsupported JSON, root safety, fast
  suite, aggregate lint, and staged whitespace checks
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-016

Change-ID: CL-20260730-014
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Atom documentation and naming enforcement
Request-or-TODO: M01-067 through M01-070, M01-073 through M01-076, M01-078
Outcome: Added AST-based atom admission, exact v1 documentation validation,
  standalone name lint, reviewed exceptions, deterministic name derivation,
  rename classification, and the required positive/negative fixtures
Affected-behavior: Lint rejects incomplete, empty, malformed, stuffed, or
  identifier-mismatched atom comments and ambiguous or misleading atom names
Compatibility-or-migration: Introduces the source marker and atom comment
  schema v1 lint contract; no runtime migration
Verification: Atom fixture, name fixture, derivation, rename, and orphan-marker
  tests plus aggregate lint, fast suite, and staged whitespace inspection
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-015

Change-ID: CL-20260730-013
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Instruction integrity tests
Request-or-TODO: M01-060 through M01-062, M01-065
Outcome: Added offline instruction presence, authority-pointer, pinned-link,
  attribution, anti-duplication, and pre-edit plan/TODO smoke checks
Affected-behavior: Repository lint rejects missing or weakened instruction
  roots, broken relative targets, moving references, or edits selected before
  their governing plan section and atomic TODO
Compatibility-or-migration: Development checks only
Verification: Instruction positive and negative unit cases, aggregate lint,
  fast tests, and staged whitespace inspection
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-014

Change-ID: CL-20260730-012
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Repository agent instructions
Request-or-TODO: M01-055 through M01-059, M01-066, M01-072
Outcome: Tracked authoritative Codeflux instructions, a thin Claude entry
  point, executable coding disciplines, atom documentation and naming rules,
  and an accurately labeled revision-pinned community reference
Affected-behavior: Coding agents have one non-duplicated repository authority
  for work selection, implementation, security, verification, and handoff
Compatibility-or-migration: Documentation governance only
Verification: Section, pointer, attribution, atom-template, and naming-grammar
  inspection passed; the pinned external Git revision resolves
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-013

Change-ID: CL-20260730-011
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Cross-platform continuous integration
Request-or-TODO: M01-047 through M01-054
Outcome: Added current hosted-runner coverage for every frozen platform,
  aggregate quality and deterministic-generation enforcement, Linux race
  tests, allow-listed failure metadata, and weekly dependency review
Affected-behavior: Pull requests and pushes reject build, test, formatting,
  vet, Staticcheck, migration, generation, or provider-token violations
Compatibility-or-migration: CI selects patched Go 1.26.5 while preserving Go
  1.26.0 language compatibility; no runtime migration
Verification: Failure-artifact tests, fast suite, lint, actionlint v1.7.12,
  manual allow-list inspection, and whitespace checks passed
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-012

Change-ID: CL-20260730-010
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Developer documentation
Request-or-TODO: M01-045, M01-046
Outcome: Documented current native prerequisites and the executable protobuf
  regeneration workflow without inventing a WASM command
Affected-behavior: Contributors can distinguish offline build/test commands
  from the first network-capable pinned generation action
Compatibility-or-migration: Documentation only
Verification: Copied generation-check, lint, and fast-test commands passed;
  plan trace check passed
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-011

Change-ID: CL-20260730-009
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Executable identity and diagnostics
Request-or-TODO: M01-042 through M01-044
Outcome: Added structured build identity, `codeflux version`, and an honest
  prerequisite-only doctor skeleton
Affected-behavior: Development binaries report semantic version, commit,
  deterministic commit date, Go version, schema version, and frontend version
Compatibility-or-migration: Initial CLI output; schema version remains 0
Verification: Build-info and CLI unit tests, linked binary output, expected
  doctor exit 3, build, vet, and Staticcheck passed
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-010

Change-ID: CL-20260730-008
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Repository integrity and security checks
Request-or-TODO: M01-036 through M01-041
Outcome: Added isolated generated-drift comparison, generated-header and
  migration checks, tracked SQLite rejection, provider-token scanning, and a
  pre-commit lint hook
Affected-behavior: Stale generation, malformed migration numbering, local
  databases, or common live-token shapes now fail before review
Compatibility-or-migration: Migration names must be contiguous six-digit
  lower-snake-case files beginning at 000000
Verification: Check unit tests, isolated generate-check, lint, build, hook
  invocation, temporary-output cleanup, and negative fixtures passed
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-009

Change-ID: CL-20260730-007
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Build input embedding
Request-or-TODO: M01-034, M01-035
Outcome: Added compile-time SQL migration and frontend asset embedding with
  exact-path tests
Affected-behavior: Builds now include the immutable migration catalog input and
  reviewed frontend asset package
Compatibility-or-migration: The 000000 bootstrap migration is a deliberate
  no-op; no application schema or UI contract is introduced
Verification: Migration and asset package tests, full build, fast suite, vet,
  and Staticcheck passed
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-008

Change-ID: CL-20260730-006
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Protobuf generation
Request-or-TODO: M01-033
Outcome: Added a pinned Buf/protoc-gen-go pipeline and the first generated
  build-identity message contract
Affected-behavior: `codeflux-dev generate` reproducibly compiles protobuf
  sources without requiring a global protoc installation
Compatibility-or-migration: Initial protobuf contract; protobuf runtime
  v1.36.11 is now a direct dependency
Verification: Buf lint, two identical generations, generated-header check,
  build, fast tests, vet, and Staticcheck passed
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-007

Change-ID: CL-20260730-005
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Quality enforcement
Request-or-TODO: M01-028 through M01-032
Outcome: Added deterministic format, vet, pinned Staticcheck, race, and
  coverage commands to the cross-platform development helper
Affected-behavior: Lint rejects unformatted or statically invalid Go; coverage
  stays under .artifacts; unsupported race hosts fail with an explicit route to
  the declared CI job
Compatibility-or-migration: Staticcheck 2026.1 is now the pinned linter
Verification: Helper unit tests, `lint`, `test-coverage`, expected unsupported
  `test-race` result on Windows ARM64, coverage-file inspection, and artifact
  escape scan passed
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-006

Change-ID: CL-20260730-004
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Development commands
Request-or-TODO: M01-026, M01-027
Outcome: Added cross-platform build and fast-test commands plus the worker
  executable entry point
Affected-behavior: `go run ./cmd/codeflux-dev build` compiles all packages and
  emits both binaries under .artifacts/bin; `test-fast` runs all current tests
Compatibility-or-migration: Initial command surface; no runtime migration
Verification: Command unit tests, direct build, direct test-fast, `go vet
  ./...`, binary inspection, and repository artifact-escape scan passed
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-005

Change-ID: CL-20260730-003
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Internal package architecture
Request-or-TODO: M01-007 through M01-025
Outcome: Added the user command, all initial internal package boundaries,
  frontend/protobuf/migration source packages, and a synthetic testdata policy
Affected-behavior: The complete initial module compiles with documented inward
  dependency direction and no invented subsystem behavior
Compatibility-or-migration: Initial package layout; no runtime or schema change
Verification: `go list ./...`, package-doc check, command build, `go test ./...`,
  and `go vet ./...` passed; binary output was confined to .artifacts/bin
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-004

Change-ID: CL-20260730-002
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Repository bootstrap
Request-or-TODO: M01-001 through M01-006
Outcome: Initialized the Codeflux Go module, minimum language version, Apache
  2.0 license, ignore policy, and deterministic text/binary normalization
Affected-behavior: Go tooling resolves the repository as
  codeflux.dev/codeflux with Go 1.26 language semantics
Compatibility-or-migration: Initial module identity; future module-path changes
  require an explicit compatibility decision
Verification: `go env GOMOD` and `go mod edit -json` resolve the root module;
  Git attribute and ignored-artifact checks pass; no root README was created
  without explicit authorization
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-003

Change-ID: CL-20260730-001
Date: 2026-07-30
Type: Product contract, evaluation fixture, and documentation check
Request-or-TODO: M00-001 through M00-G05
Outcome: Froze the bounded Codeflux prototype contract, objective measurement
  definitions, current-agent baselines, branch authorization gates, one
  independently testable ReserveFlow task, and executable plan traceability
Affected-behavior: Implementation may proceed to M01 only through the declared
  platform, repository, concurrency, authority, acceptance, performance, and
  evaluation boundaries
Compatibility-or-migration: Initial contract; no runtime or schema migration
Verification: Plan trace check passed; evaluator self-containment test passed;
  the independent Task 1 acceptance test is intentionally red against the
  frozen empty ReserveFlow scaffold; all M00 checklist items and gates were
  reviewed against recorded evidence
Dev-Log: DL-20260730-002