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Wave 2 of the community-issue-triage program (CAP-2 — the re-arm contract).

A re-arm left an incoherent state behind. The baseline it stamped named a different repo than the one the proof-of-work gate measured; a stale baseline_commit key silently outranked the fresh baseline_revision the skill actually writes; a failed git advance was swallowed whole and then re-stamped as if it had moved; the re-minted task id collided with a pre-re-arm session record, so a resume replayed the abandoned attempt's verdict; and the RETRY arm discarded a completed implementation without telling anyone why.

Each half of the contract now names the same thing.

What changed

  • One shared reader. frontmatter.auto_dev_baseline_of backs both consumers of a claimed baseline — the synthesized result.json and the gate that judges it — so the two cannot drift. baseline_revision wins whenever non-empty; baseline_commit stays the backward-compatible fallback. An empty or YAML-null value on either key reads as absent rather than as a claim of "" or the token "None".
  • One tree. The four proof-of-work probes and the three exclude sources that feed them move onto paths.repo_root, the tree both baseline writers stamp. artifact_relpaths stays project-rooted deliberately. No effect where the two roots coincide, which is every configuration without a repo_root: override.
  • A re-arm advance that cannot lie. Narrowed from except Exception to the typed verify.GitError taxonomy and journalled (rearm-baseline-advance-failed). Still non-fatal outside a repository. The re-stamp now runs on both re-drive legs, gated on whether the advance actually moved — never on a stale sha's truthiness — and journals what it overwrote (rearm-baseline-restamped).
  • A generation counter. A re-minted session id can no longer collide with a record the abandoned attempt already wrote. Emitted only above zero, so every id already on disk stays byte-identical and an in-flight run resumed across the upgrade still finds its tasks/ directories.
  • The RETRY arm speaks. The one dev outcome that notified nothing is also the one that discards a completed implementation. It now carries decision.reason on a single bounded line; the untruncated reason stays in the journal.

Design call on the record

Extending the re-stamp to the from-scratch leg also removes the gate's independent baseline signal there — it then compares a value the orchestrator itself wrote. That trade was taken deliberately, per the maintainer's analysis in the #640 thread, with the rearm-baseline-restamped journal entry as the compensating control so a genuinely diverged claim stays visible instead of being silently normalized.

Verification

  • Full suite 7072 passed, 49 skipped (7022 before this branch).
  • pyright 0 errors; trunk fmt, trunk check, trunk check --all clean across 258 files.
  • Every negative assertion was ablated singly against a backup, the source restored byte-identical, and each failure reason read to confirm it reddened for the intended cause. Two false reds (a SyntaxError and a NameError inside the ablation itself) were caught and redone — a bare exit code would have counted both as green.

Three follow-ups were found during review and filed as deferred work rather than folded in: the sweep engine's migrate and triage restart paths carry the same collision shape re-arm was hardened against; resolve.py hand-mints a task id outside _session_task_id; and the nested monorepo shape of the repo_root override is still unexercised.

Closes #640
Closes #705
Closes #716

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Retry outcomes now display concise reasons.
    • Re-armed attempts receive distinct tracking identifiers.
    • Diagnostics show code-root differences and task generations.
    • CLI and TUI surfaces display re-arm notices and recovery guidance.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Verification consistently uses the configured code root.
    • Baseline handling and recovery are more reliable.
    • Prevented stale verdict replay and unnecessary warnings.
    • Corrupt journal data no longer interrupts recovery.
    • Invalid readable specs now block re-arm safely.
  • Documentation

    • Updated feature documentation and the unreleased changelog.

…eader

Wave 2 of the community-issue-triage program (#640, #705, #716).

Each half of the claimed-baseline contract now names the same thing:

- One shared reader (frontmatter.auto_dev_baseline_of) backs both consumers,
  with baseline_revision winning over a stale legacy baseline_commit. Empty
  and YAML-null values on either key read as absent rather than as a claim.
- The code tree (paths.repo_root) becomes the single anchor for the four
  proof-of-work probes and the three exclude sources that feed them, so a
  baseline stamped in the git root is measured there too.
- Re-arm's advance narrows to typed GitError and journals its degrade, and
  cannot be followed by a re-stamp it did not earn.
- A per-task generation counter keeps a re-minted session id from colliding
  with a pre-re-arm record. Emitted only above zero, so ids already on disk
  stay byte-identical.
- The dev RETRY branch now tells the operator why, on one bounded line.
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The change standardizes baseline selection, anchors Git checks to repo_root, persists repository-root state, updates re-arm behavior, adds session generations, and reports re-arm events and retry reasons.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Baseline and code-root contracts
src/bmad_loop/frontmatter.py, src/bmad_loop/model.py, src/bmad_loop/runsetup.py, src/bmad_loop/verify.py, tests/test_model.py, tests/test_runsetup.py, tests/test_verify.py
Shared baseline parsing gives baseline_revision precedence. Run state persists repo_root with legacy fallback. Verification uses the configured Git root.
Re-arm baseline and specification flow
src/bmad_loop/runs.py, src/bmad_loop/engine.py, tests/test_resolve.py
Re-arm advances the code-root baseline, updates readable specs, confines writes to the task root, distinguishes shared artifact paths, and journals failures and skipped operations.
CLI and TUI re-arm surfaces
src/bmad_loop/cli.py, src/bmad_loop/tui/app.py, tests/test_cli.py, tests/test_tui_app.py
Resume and re-arm restamp changed code roots and echo journal events, including events written before an abort.
Session identity, diagnostics, and documentation
src/bmad_loop/engine.py, src/bmad_loop/diagnostics.py, CHANGELOG.md, docs/FEATURES.md, tests/test_engine.py, tests/test_diagnostics.py
Re-armed tasks use generation-aware session IDs. Diagnostics show generation and root divergence without paths. Documentation records the updated behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c8bf5

This change improves baseline consistency and prevents sequential re-arm identity reuse, but simultaneous re-arm requests can still create duplicate resumes or overwrite the same run state, and one successful recovery path may be reported to operators as refused. Merge should wait for concurrency serialization and correction of the misleading status, or obtain explicit owner acceptance.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Operator
  participant rearm_escalation
  participant Git
  participant Spec
  participant Journal
  Operator->>rearm_escalation: resolve escalated story
  rearm_escalation->>Git: read code-root HEAD and state
  Git-->>rearm_escalation: return new baseline
  rearm_escalation->>Spec: write baseline_revision and status
  rearm_escalation->>Journal: record re-arm event
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sequenceDiagram
  participant DevSession
  participant engine
  participant gates_notify
  participant Journal
  DevSession->>engine: return RETRY decision
  engine->>gates_notify: send bounded decision reason
  engine->>Journal: retain full decision reason
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A rabbit checks the baseline stone
New roots guide the Git path home
Re-armed tasks grow a fresh ID
Retry notes hop where eyes can see
Journals keep the trail in tune

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The changes satisfy the coding objectives for all linked issues. Issue #640 is addressed by re-stamping spec baselines after re-arm and surfacing retry reasons. Issue #705 is addressed by generation-aware session IDs that prevent pre-rearm records from being reused. Issue #716 is addressed by the shared baseline reader with authoritative non-empty baseline_revision precedence and baseline_commit fallback.

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Replace the unused spec binding.

Line 1187 binds spec but the test does not use it. Ruff reports RUF059 for this binding.

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-    run_dir, spec, new_head = _escalated_spec_run(tmp_path, old_head)
+    run_dir, _spec, new_head = _escalated_spec_run(tmp_path, old_head)
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t added 6 commits August 27, 2026 13:49
Code review of Wave 2 (four layers; every finding verified at the site it
names, every new row ablated individually).

- Four of the story's re-anchored sites shipped ungraded. Reverting both
  ancestry probes (is_ancestor, commit_reachable_above_baseline), the
  restore_patch anchor, or _harvest_gate_exclude's degrade arm left the whole
  suite green, while the control ablation on their sibling
  _canonical_commit_oid gave three failures — so the suite could see root
  regressions at that seam and simply did not at these legs. Cause: both
  ancestry branches sit behind a claim/baseline inequality every divergent-root
  row avoided. Each site now has a row, and each row reddens under its own
  ablation.

- NOTICE_REASON_MAX's cap half was unexercised: the existing notice row puts
  its long run on the third line, so the first line never crosses the cap and
  its length bound passes for any cap value. Pinned by a direct unit row.

- Both new re-arm journal kinds were journal-only. Wired into
  cli._echo_stale_restore — the operator surfacing seam the story's own Code
  Map named — so a failed advance reaches the human running `bmad-loop
  resolve`, which is the invisibility #640(b) exists to end.

- artifact_relpaths has no production caller. The CHANGELOG justified leaving
  it project-rooted by naming Engine._protected_relpaths as its consumer; that
  delegates to RecoveryFlow.protected_relpaths, which builds its own list
  against workspace.root. Corrected, along with three neighbouring docstrings
  the change had falsified and the diagnostics comment whose two examples the
  identifier regex already rejects.

- Two recorded ablations named the wrong grading assertion; corrected against
  the ablations actually run.

- verify_dev_exclude_relpaths' root is now required. The implicit project
  default is #716's own root cause: it looks correct in every configuration
  where the roots collapse and is wrong only on the one that matters.

- CHANGELOG/FEATURES entries for RunState.repo_root, a new persisted state.json
  key, and for the diagnose routing change that reshapes existing records.
…here

Re-arm's spec block could no-op without a trace. `StoryTask` persists
`spec_file` relative to a worktree and `from_dict` reads it back raw, so a
from-scratch re-arm of an isolated task can hold a path that resolves against
nothing. All three writers there guard on `is_file` and return False rather
than raising — `set_frontmatter_status`, `strip_auto_run_result` and
`set_frontmatter_field` — and every return value was dropped, so the status
flip and the baseline re-stamp both did nothing and the spec kept the escalated
attempt's sha with no record. The block's own comment claimed the earlier write
had "already proved the file readable"; it had not. Guard on the path first and
journal `rearm-baseline-restamp-skipped`.

Surface the re-arm baseline records on both callers, not one. The CLI echo
gained the new kind and now differentiates `rearm-baseline-restamped` on the
`restore` flag it already carried — routine on a patch-restore leg, the only
trace of a lost divergence signal on a from-scratch one. The TUI's re-arm,
which resumes in the same gesture, reads the journal back and warns before
resuming instead of printing only "re-armed <key>". Renamed
`_echo_stale_restore` to `_echo_rearm_events` for what it now carries.

Correct justifications that assert false facts about neighbouring code:
RETRY was not the only silent dev arm (PROCEED raises no notice either);
`engine._park_awaiting_operator` passes `spec_file` to `record_park`, not the
journal, so there is one producer and no divergence to reduce; `gates.notify`
does not write exactly one line, because `_notify_park` deliberately writes a
numbered list, which makes a whole-file one-line assertion a fixture accident;
the notice cap returns up to 204 against a comment naming 200; a required
`root` catches an omitted root, not a wrong one; and `artifact_relpaths` has no
production caller, contradicting a sibling docstring 35 lines away. Log the
`diagnose` routing accurately — no first-party producer emitted these fields
before, so no existing dump changes shape and SCHEMA_VERSION is unaffected.

Tests: rows for the skip record and its readable-spec control, the two echo
legs, the skipped-restamp echo, and the TUI surfacing. Each negative was
ablated singly and reddened for its intended reason. Dedupe the OMIT sentinel
onto one typed marker, restoring the checking `baseline: object` had disabled,
and give the local re-arm fixture a `repo_root` kwarg so the divergent-root
rows stop hand-patching saved state.

Related to #640, #705, #716.
…write

Code review of wave 2 (#640, #716). The is_file guard added in b9e0697 rested
on a false premise, and the records built on it had three holes.

- StoryTask persists spec_file RELATIVE to the worktree for an isolated task.
  Resolved against the process cwd it named the MAIN CHECKOUT's copy of the
  same story spec: bmad-loop resolve runs from the project root, which carries
  the identical _bmad-output/specs/... layout. So is_file() answered True on the
  wrong file, confine_root accepted it, and both the status flip and the
  baseline re-stamp landed there while the worktree's real spec kept the
  escalated attempt's sha. _task_spec_path re-anchors before either write.
  The shipped comment claimed such a path "resolves against nothing" - it
  resolves against something, which is why a stricter check was not the fix.
- The skip record was nested inside the advance gate, so a project that is not
  a repo reported only the git failure while the flip had no-opped for an
  unrelated reason. The two degrades compose; they do not substitute.
- set_frontmatter_status answers a spec it cannot move with False, never an
  exception, and that return was discarded. A flip that silently changed
  nothing now journals rearm-spec-flip-skipped.
- rearm-baseline-restamped compared the spec's claim against a baseline the
  advance had already moved, so it fired on every ordinary from-scratch re-arm
  whose resolve session committed anything - spec and run agreed exactly and
  the operator was still warned. It now compares what the run recorded.
- The CLI and the TUI each carried their own kind->message routing and had
  drifted: six kinds against three, the TUI silently dropping the whole
  stale-restore family including the commits warning the CLI calls the one a
  human must act on. Both render one table (runs.rearm_event_notice); the TUI
  omits the trailing imperative because it resumes in the same gesture.
- The TUI's new journal read decoded strict UTF-8 outside the action's error
  handling, turning a corrupt journal into a re-arm the operator could no
  longer perform. It degrades to no echo instead.
- resolve dropped already-journalled residue when the re-arm aborted; the echo
  now runs on both paths.

Each fix is graded by a row shown to fail without it.
…aims

Code review of wave 2 (#640, #705, #716).

- auto_dev_baseline_of guarded YAML null but not YAML booleans. PyYAML
  resolves no/off/yes/on to bools, and str(False) is the non-empty token
  "False", so it was judged as a claimed sha: a bool on baseline_revision
  OUTRANKED a baseline_commit naming the correct commit and the attempt was
  refused. Same trap class as the str(None) -> "None" case (#358) the sibling
  guard already covers. Five new truth-table rows, including the shadowing
  pair, all shown to fail without the guard.

Justifications that asserted false or unqualified facts about neighbouring
code, each verified at its site before rewriting:

- _verify_shared_gates blamed a project-anchored has_changes_since for
  reporting "no changes" forever. It fails OPEN (rc != 0 -> True), so it
  passes wherever project is not a checkout; the forever-burn is real only in
  the NESTED layout, and in the disjoint one it comes from _canonical_commit_oid
  and the two ancestry probes, which fail closed. The comment now says which
  probe burns the attempt in which layout.
- The repo/error drop in diagnostics claimed both fields were dropped for the
  same reason; error sits in the pre-existing free-text group, a different rule
  landing in the same set.
- conftest.escalated_run explained itself with a bare except that no longer
  exists and a root the advance no longer reads.

Cleanups in code this change touches: the base = root rebinding left by the
parameter rename; a test_verify assertion that restated a fixture premise
rather than testing behavior; a legacy_baseline: object annotation that
re-opened the hole conftest._Omit exists to close.

test_tui_data pins the session-id grammar in both directions, including the
-gN suffix #705 added: the parser returns the whole id, which the docstring
documents and calls unreachable. Pinned because that is an assumption about
the CALLER - widen the fallback and this row is where it breaks.
Code review of wave 2 (#640, #716). Each sentence below was false as shipped.

- FEATURES said the RETRY notice "fires once per rejected attempt (so at most
  max_dev_attempts per story)". It fires twice for one attempt when the host
  dies between the notice and the rollback and the run replays that verdict on
  resume - reproduced. The count is a floor, not a tally.
- FEATURES and the CHANGELOG both told the operator a re-arm that cannot read
  its spec has "its status flip and re-stamp skipped". The flip was never
  skipped: it ran ~150 lines earlier and silently did nothing. Both now
  describe the re-anchoring and name the record each write actually produces.
- "All of these warnings reach the TUI's re-arm as well as resolve's" was false
  while the TUI dropped three stale-restore kinds. True now that both surfaces
  render one table - stated with the reason, so it stays checkable.
- The diagnose entry claimed the field routing is "scoped to the journal kinds
  this release introduces". Nothing in the code scopes it: the maps are field
  names applied to every entry. The claim about today's producers is kept
  because it is true; the scoping language is gone.
- The RETRY bullet moves from Added to Fixed, which is what closing a silent
  gap is, and loses the ragged mid-sentence break prose-wrap preserve would
  never have reflowed.

New entries cover the wrong-file re-stamp, the divergence reference, the
shared routing table, the guarded journal read, the residue echo on abort, and
the YAML-bool guard.
… spec write

Code review of wave 2 (#640, #705, #716). Twelve findings, each verified at the
site it named before it was acted on.

- set_frontmatter_status answers False for FOUR causes, not the three the
  comment listed: the fourth is "already at the target". Re-arm read that as a
  failed flip, so an ordinary second re-arm - and the documented
  `resolve --no-interactive` flow after a human fixes the spec - warned the
  operator the spec "could not be re-opened" and might re-wedge, while the file
  was byte-identical and correct. Read the status back to tell a failed write
  from nothing-to-write. This is the failure the re-stamp's own guard prevents
  one screen below.
- Under worktree isolation the re-arm's spec writes land in the unit's
  worktree, which the re-drive destroys: a re-armed task is discarded and
  re-mounted, and the re-driven session resolves its spec against the FRESH
  worktree, which checks out tracked files only. So the re-drive reads the
  committed spec and no working-tree write reaches it - the main checkout's
  copy included, since the fresh worktree comes from git rather than from a
  copy of that tree. Journal rearm-spec-write-unreachable and route it to both
  surfaces. The root-identity comment concluded "repo_root IS the tree the dev
  writer used", which its own preceding sentence contradicts under isolation;
  corrected.
- Both re-arm surfaces now read the journal through one shared guard, and the
  TUI echoes residue from a `finally` like the CLI. They had been unified on
  routing while still drifting on the abort path - where the residue matters
  most, because the re-arm half-ran. A read that degrades skips the echo
  instead of replaying the whole journal as new.
- The re-stamp notice warns on both legs. Its condition moved to
  `overwritten != old_baseline`, which is leg-independent, so the "routine on a
  restore re-drive" note was downgrading a real divergence. The restore flag
  stays on the record to say which leg it was.
- _session_task_id's generation is required, with no default, on exactly the
  argument this branch already made for verify_dev_exclude_relpaths' root: an
  implicit 0 is right in every run that never re-armed and silently re-opens
  #705 at a new mint site.
- The spec_file producer enumeration named two of four kinds, and the re-stamp
  RearmError named the raw task.spec_file rather than the re-anchored path it
  failed to write.

Tests: +28 rows. The already-at-target leg, the unreachable-write record and
its no-worktree control, a CLI corrupt-journal row over both the success and
RearmError paths, a TUI abort-echo row, and the redaction canary extended to
every spec_file-bearing kind. The auto_dev_baseline_of truth table moves to
tests/test_frontmatter.py, where the flat tests/ mirror puts it. Every new
negative assertion carries its ablation.

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Code review of wave 2, iteration 5 (#640, #705, #716) - the first pass to cover
0a71e98, the commit that answered iteration 4. Twenty-nine raw findings across
four layers; each was verified at the site it named, and ten were dismissed on
verification. Twelve were acted on.

Two items ticked [x] by iteration 4 had not landed:

- The root-identity comment still concluded "wherever the roots could diverge,
  isolation is off and repo_root IS the tree the dev writer used", which its own
  two preceding sentences contradict, and closed by instructing the reader to
  carry that argument into new code. worktree_isolation_conflict excludes
  isolation from a repo_root OVERRIDE - it forces repo_root == project and says
  nothing about repo_root vs workspace.root, which still diverge under plain
  isolation with isolation ON. No functional bug: the value is superseded when
  _finish_inflight discards the worktree and _dev_phase re-stamps from the fresh
  one. Replaced with the claim that is actually true. (0a71e98's own message
  reports this as corrected; it was not.)
- docs/FEATURES.md still claimed the two re-arm surfaces "cannot drift apart",
  while the TUI test added alongside it says in its docstring that the claim was
  false. A shared routing table entails nothing about call-site placement, and
  placement is exactly where they drifted. Scoped to what the code supports.

rearm-spec-write-unreachable was gated on task.worktree_path alone. Every
escalated task under isolation carries a mounted worktree_path, so the warning
fired on 100% of re-arms in that configuration - a per-configuration constant,
not an event, and the same "trains the operator to scroll past the meaningful
one" failure the flipped read-back and the overwritten != old_baseline guard
were each narrowed to avoid. It now fires only when the COMMITTED spec does not
already carry the status the re-drive needs, read at state.code_root HEAD.
Suppression requires proof: an absent or non-blob path, a non-UTF-8 blob, an
absolute recorded spec, or any GitError - which covers a project that is not a
repository - degrades to "", which never equals a target status, so the record
fires and re-arm stays non-fatal outside a repo.

frontmatter.parse_frontmatter is split out of read_frontmatter so a blob read
back out of git and a live file cannot drift apart on how they are parsed.

- confine_root now tracks the root _task_spec_path resolved against. The three
  writers took Path(state.project) while the path was resolved against the
  worktree; an out-of-root path is a SILENT drop to the plain no-follow write,
  losing the confined arm's O_NOFOLLOW walk of the parent components. Worktrees
  resolve under the project by construction, but open_unit_workspace stores a
  .resolve()d path, so a symlinked .bmad-loop, runs or worktrees escapes it.
- rearm_event_notice's files and commits reads are hardened, and non-mapping
  journal lines are dropped in journal_entries_or_none so its annotation is
  true. Journal.entries appends json.loads with no shape filter; both reads run
  inside the two surfaces' finally, and the TUI has no _handle_exception
  override, so a TypeError there ends the app. Note .get(key, []) does not
  protect against null - the key exists, so the default never applies.
- diagnose projects repo_root_diverges and generation, both fields this wave
  added. Without generation a #705-class replay dumps identically to a healthy
  post-re-arm task. Presence flag and counter only; never the path.
- NOTICE_REASON_MAX's comment stated an upper bound as an equality. The slice is
  rstripped, and a trim is marked for any multi-line reason regardless of
  length, so the return can land well below the bound.
- The _JOURNAL_ALIAS_FIELDS spec_file comment was false in both directions:
  spec_file is now always absolute, and spec is not uniformly absolute, since
  stories_engine's checkpoint-pause journals the raw persisted value.

Two ungraded seams closed:

- The dev gate's own exclude root was ungraded - reverting root=paths.repo_root
  to paths.project left the whole suite green, because has_changes_since fails
  open and the disjoint fixture makes a project-rooted exclude match nothing.
  Iteration 3 deferred this believing it needed a nested-monorepo fixture; it
  does not - _stories_relpaths already carries a seam pin, and the same shape
  grades this call site.
- _task_spec_path's project-root fallback is production-reachable but its only
  two rows name a file absent under either root, so they passed with the anchor
  reverted to the process cwd. Graded with a decoy at the same relative path.

CHANGELOG: two Fixed entries announced repairs to defects the released version
never had - rearm-baseline-restamped has zero hits at the baseline commit, and
the corrupt-journal read it repairs did not exist there either. Both folded into
the Changed entries that introduced their subjects, along with a third that
described one change from both ends. Reflow damage from spliced edits rejoined;
prettier runs proseWrap: preserve here, so every break is author-controlled.

Every negative assertion added here was ablated serially against a cp backup
with PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1, each restore verified byte-identical by sha256,
and each graded on the named test failing rather than a bare pytest rc. Eleven
ablations, eleven reddenings. The narrowing's ablation gives "1 failed, 1
passed" - the asymmetry is the proof it discriminates - and the files/commits
pair reddens disjoint row sets, so neither read rides on the other's guard.

Suite 7121 passed / 49 skipped (from 7106), pyright 0 errors, trunk check --all
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…o-op wording

The `"re-armed" not in out` assertion in
test_resolve_echoes_the_residue_even_when_the_rearm_aborts carried no
ablation record. The obvious mutation does not grade it: dropping
`return 1` from cmd_resolve's `except runs.RearmError` arm leaks the
success line, but main then answers 0 and the exit-code assertion above
reddens first. Record the mutation that does grade it -- keep `return 1`
and emit the success line from that arm -- with its exact failure.

CHANGELOG: "the flip had no-opped" -> "the flip was a no-op".
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`repo_root_diverges` and `StoryTask.generation` reached the collector — and so
`diagnose --json`, which dumps it whole via `asdict` — but not `render_markdown`,
which samples its fields by hand. Markdown is what a bare `bmad-loop diagnose`
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and a `gen` column beside `att` in the task table. Both stay a flag and a
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`_resume_paused_run` re-reads config.yaml and arms the engine against the
`repo_root` it finds there, but left `RunState.repo_root` at its launch value —
so after a `repo_root:` edit the engine worked in one tree while the
out-of-process re-arm advanced the baseline and re-stamped `baseline_revision`
in the other, silently. The mirror now follows the paths resume adopts, a move
is journalled and warned about, and a pre-field state.json migrates without
being reported as one.

`rearm-spec-write-unreachable` took every re-arm whose spec lives in an artifact
dir configured outside the project: `ProjectPaths.rebased` leaves that dir
shared across checkouts, so the flip lands on the one file every re-drive reads
and the remedy it printed named a file outside the repository. The carve-out is
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is outside the worktree too, and stays unreachable because the re-drive measures
it with `spec_within_roots` against worktree-local roots.

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…ble spec

`_resume_paused_run` re-stamps the run's persisted `repo_root` mirror because
the engine it arms works in the tree config.yaml names now — but `cmd_resolve`
and the TUI's re-arm both re-arm and THEN resume, so that write landed after
`runs.rearm_escalation` had already read the stale mirror out of process. Both
surfaces now re-stamp through one shared writer (`runs.restamp_code_root`),
after the confirm, and warn that the run changed repositories; an unreadable
config degrades to the recorded root and says so.

A spec that exists with no top-level `status:` answered both frontmatter
writers with `False`, and the flip's failure was only journalled — the operator
was told "re-armed <story>", the run resumed in the same gesture, and the
re-driven session halted on `unrecognized status in existing story file`. The
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the `## Auto Run Result` strip sequenced after the check so the abort leaves the
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…le resume

Three findings from the bot reviewers on PR #744, all against `c8bf55f0`.

`rearm_escalation` gated the flip's `RearmError` on `spec_path.is_file()` alone.
Under isolation that readable file is the worktree copy the re-drive destroys
before reading anything, so the refusal demanded a repair to a file nothing
opens — and demanded it even when `_committed_spec_status` had already proven
the committed spec carries the status the re-drive routes on. The reachability
decision is hoisted out of the `rearm-spec-write-unreachable` condition it
already backed and now gates both.

`rearm-spec-flip-skipped` therefore covers two outcomes, and the shared notice
table claimed the abort unconditionally: an operator whose re-arm had SUCCEEDED
was told it "was REFUSED" and sent to add a `status:` to a file the re-drive
never opens. The producer writes `refused` onto the record — the surfaces read
the journal out of process, with neither the task nor the tree — and the table
branches on it.

`rearm-spec-write-unreachable` now holds the resume both surfaces fold in behind
the re-arm. It is written only on proof that the committed spec cannot route, so
its own "commit the corrected spec before resuming" was unactionable the moment
it printed, and the resume burned the escalation on a session that halts blocked
on `unrecognized status in existing story file`. `runs.rearm_holds_the_resume`
is asked of every new entry on the same walk as the echo; the advisory records
(`stale-restore-*`, `rearm-baseline-*`) deliberately do not hold. The re-arm
still stands and `--resume` does not override the hold — the run stays armed and
`bmad-loop resume <run-id>` picks it up once the fix is committed.

Ablations run (each reddens only the named rows):

- restore the abort's gate to a bare `spec_path.is_file()` → both legs of the
  new reachability row redden, while the `no-frontmatter` abort, the
  unreadable-spec row, `ordinary` and `already-at-target` stay green
- hard-code `write_reaches_the_redrive` False → the `no-frontmatter` abort
  reddens on DID NOT RAISE instead: the half the narrowing must not take
- delete the `if entry.get("refused")` branch → the notice-split row reddens on
  the completed leg alone
- drop `if hold_resume:` from `cmd_resolve`, or discard the echo's return →
  the CLI hold row reddens while its advance-failed control stays green
- make `rearm_holds_the_resume` answer True for every entry → the control leg
  and the predicate row redden instead
- drop `if hold_resume:` from `TuiApp._do_rearm`, or discard the echo's return
  → the TUI row reddens on the resume firing behind its own warning

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Codex P1 on #744: the entries added by this branch had drifted to a
median of 8.5 lines (mean 9.6, max 17) against the tight house baseline
of [0.10.0] (median 5, mean 5.7, max 11), and repeated the same #716
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`_committed_spec_status` probed the code root's current `HEAD`, but an isolated
re-drive discards the escalated worktree and cuts a replacement from the run's
pinned `state.target_branch`. An operator who checks out another branch while
the escalation is paused parts the two: a correction committed on the current
branch falsely SUPPRESSED `rearm-spec-write-unreachable` (the default resolve
flow then resumed and re-wedged on the target branch's terminal status), and
one committed on the target branch held a resume that had nothing left to wait
for. Anchor the read on `_redrive_base_ref` — `target_branch` for an isolated
unit, `HEAD` otherwise, so a state.json predating the field degrades to what it
read before rather than holding on a per-configuration constant.

The record now carries `base` and both surfaces name it: on exactly the shape
this rescues, "commit the corrected spec" without a branch sends the operator
to commit again where the re-drive does not look.
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`diagnostics._scrub_entry` routes by field NAME, so the branch the previous
commit put on `rearm-spec-write-unreachable` as `base` fell through to
`scrub_json`, which passes an identifier-shaped value verbatim. In a normal run
`ensure_target_branch` has already journalled the same string as `branch`, so
the egress backstop repairs it and discloses a `backstop_repairs` routing gap;
a truncated journal missing that event has nothing to repair from and the
branch ships in a shareable bundle.

Spell the field `target_branch`, already in `_JOURNAL_ALIAS_FIELDS` under the
`branch` namespace with no journal producer until now — so nothing is added to
the table and no other kind's dump changes shape. `target`, the spelling the
merge kinds use, is not available: `board-advance-*` puts a sprint status in
that same field, and routing by name would pseudonymize statuses as branches.

Graded in the canary sweep on a separator-free branch name. `BRANCH` cannot
grade it: `_IDENTIFIER_RE` forbids `/`, so the fallback collapses a slashed
name and the sweep stays green with the routing deleted — the false green
already documented for `repo`.
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`target` carries a branch on `unit-merge-started`, `unit-merged` and
`resume-unit-merge`, but a sprint status on the `board-advance-*` family. Since
per-field routing is by field NAME, the field was left unrouted entirely and an
identifier-shaped branch name (`main`, `release`) passed through `scrub_json`
verbatim into a bundle whose guiding assumption is that it will be posted
publicly. The egress backstop only masked this: it repairs values already in
the legend, so a run that journalled the same branch earlier was rescued while
disclosing a `backstop_repairs` gap on a routine run, and a journal truncated
past that event was not rescued at all.

Add a narrow kind-scoped table consulted ahead of the by-name one and losing to
`_JOURNAL_DROP_FIELDS`. The sprint status keeps rendering verbatim — aliasing
it would render the one field those records are read for as `branch-<hex>`.

The producers are deliberately NOT renamed to a spelling the by-name table
already routes. `engine._replay_unlatched_ledger_carries` correlates the merge
kinds on a tuple that includes this field and reads journals written by earlier
processes, so a rename would break the carry replay across a version boundary —
a resumed sweep would re-triage work that already landed — and would leave
every journal already on disk still leaking.

Graded in both directions: emptying the kind table reddens the merge rows on
the legend lookup, and routing `target` by name instead reddens the
board-advance row on its status.
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Comment thread src/bmad_loop/runs.py
`rearm_escalation` holds an invariant its refusals depend on: an aborted re-arm
leaves the spec byte-identical, so the escalation stays armed and the human can
fix the file and re-run resolve. Three of its four refusals earn that by
sequencing — the flip's read-back check raises before `strip_auto_run_result`
runs, which is exactly why that strip is ordered after it. The baseline
re-stamp cannot be sequenced the same way: it needs `task.baseline_commit` from
the advance, and the advance must run after the spec block or a just-cleared
stories sentinel is captured into `baseline_untracked` as phantom residue.

So on a spec with a movable plain `status:` beside an unmovable
`baseline_revision:` (a block scalar, which `_edit_frontmatter_block` refuses),
the flip landed, the strip landed, then the re-stamp raised and `save_state`
never ran — leaving the run calling the story ESCALATED while the spec was
already at `ready-for-dev` and had lost the `## Auto Run Result` section the
next resolve session reads as its context. The one edit nothing else records.

That refusal now carries the undo. Byte-verbatim and confined, matching the
writes it reverses: the text writer would re-encode and translate newlines, so
a CRLF spec would come back subtly different from the file the re-arm found.
It writes only what it can prove it changed, and a restore that itself fails
raises rather than degrading.

Graded on the BYTE comparison, not the exception: with the undo ablated the
`RearmError` and the ESCALATED phase both still pass, which is why neither
alone grades a rollback.
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Comment thread src/bmad_loop/runs.py
`rearm_escalation` holds an invariant its refusals depend on: an aborted re-arm
leaves the spec byte-identical, so the escalation stays armed and the human can
fix the file and re-run resolve. The re-stamp got its undo one commit ago on the
argument that it was the ONE refusal sequencing could not protect. That was one
short.

The spec block's `(OSError, UnicodeDecodeError)` arm guards BOTH spec helpers,
and `strip_auto_run_result` is the later one. Ordering the strip after the flip's
read-back check buys that CHECK its byte-identical abort; it buys this arm
nothing, because the fault is IN the strip — by the time its own read/decode or
its confined atomic write faults, the flip has already published and `save_state`
has not. `strip_auto_run_result` documents that it lets a present-but-unreadable
spec and a failing write raise rather than swallowing them, so this is contracted
behavior: ENOSPC, EIO, a parent component swapped for a link under the
`O_NOFOLLOW` walk, or a spec replaced between the two writes all land here, and
left the run calling the story ESCALATED against a spec already flipped to
`ready-for-dev`/`in-review`.

That arm now carries the same undo, on the same terms. On its other shape — the
flip itself faulting on an unreadable spec — nothing was written, so
`_restore_rearmed_spec` proves the bytes match and returns without touching the
file or its mtime.

The two stale quantifiers go with it: `_restore_rearmed_spec`'s docstring and the
re-stamp arm's comment both claimed to be the only post-write refusal, and the
CHANGELOG said the same.

Injected rather than provoked, and the test says why: both helpers decode the same
file as UTF-8 and write through the same `require_writable_target=True` path, so
every natural fault that reddens the strip reddens the flip first and leaves
nothing to restore. Graded on the BYTE comparison — with the undo ablated the
`RearmError` and the ESCALATED phase both still pass.
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Comment thread src/bmad_loop/cli.py Outdated
`resolve` and the TUI's re-arm both re-arm and THEN resume, so the #414 refusal
— worktree isolation beside a `repo_root` override — landed in
`_resume_paused_run`, downstream of everything the gesture had already written.

On that configuration the re-stamp persisted the unsupported root, then
`rearm_escalation` advanced the attempt baseline and re-stamped the spec's
`baseline_revision` against it, then the operator was told "re-armed <story>" —
and only then did resume refuse and return 1. The escalation was spent either
way: the story came back PENDING, and `resolve` requires an ESCALATED story, so
the operator could not re-run it to undo the damage once the config was fixed.

It also made a configuration reachable that `rearm_escalation` documents as
unreachable. That function reads the code tree's HEAD on the stated premise that
`repo_root == project` "in every reachable configuration" — true only BECAUSE
this refusal exists. A path that mutated first and refused second falsified the
premise in the one place that had ruled it out.

Both surfaces now make the same refusal ahead of both writes. It stays after the
confirm, beside the re-stamp it guards: a cancelled resolve still writes nothing.
The TUI keeps its launch guard's disposition and falls through on an unreadable
policy, deferring to the detached CLI, which reads the same file and fails loudly.

Graded on the WRITES, not the rc: with the refusal merely moved below the
re-stamp both rows still refuse and still redden, on the persisted root.
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Codex Review: Didn't find any major issues. Chef's kiss.

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