docs: the ADR 0154 build-status tail — eight sites that said the feature was deferred after it shipped - #137
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… it deferred ADR 0154 increment A landed this morning (f2ef0ea, PR #109) and shipped intake_auth on the inbound HTTP listen socket. PR #110 corrected the ADR's own status line; nothing corrected the docs the ADR itself names at line 165 as "docs to update on build". CONNECTIONS.md contradicted itself as a result. Line 534 documents intake_auth as a shipped setting with its full schema, while line 569 thirty lines below said request authentication "is shaped but not shipped -- so an exposed listener belongs behind the reverse proxy that terminates auth". A reader following the second sentence stands up a reverse proxy to buy a control the connector already has. Fixed at the three sites where increment A is now false, and left the synchronous-reply deferral alone -- that one is still true until #119 lands: - CONNECTIONS.md dagger paragraph (REST-IN/SOAP-IN) -- the ADR names this paragraph specifically as the one the build retires. - CONNECTIONS.md "Not built (first slice)" -- the false sentence is DELETED rather than reworded. The settings table above it already owns this fact, and restating status in a second place is what produced the contradiction. - CONNECTIONS.md competitor-parity table, REST row. - FEATURE-MAP.md capability catalog -- public-facing, so a stale "deferred" here understates shipped capability to anyone reading the mirror. docs/BACKLOG.md carries the same staleness in two more places (the #7 summary row and item #7's banner). It is deliberately NOT in this commit: two live sessions are appending to that file right now and collision_gate.ps1 blocked the edit. Coordinated with both; it follows once they land. Verified: test_feature_map_claims, test_backlog_status_check, and the four other suites that read these two files -- 238 passed, 3 skipped.
… operator looks ADR 0154 increment B (PR #119) makes the inbound HTTP listener a proxy: naming reply_from blocks the HTTP turn until the named outbound's reply is captured and COMMITTED, then returns it. Six sites still described that as unbuilt, and one shipped setting group was documented nowhere outside the ADR. DO NOT MERGE THIS BEFORE #119. Every claim here is true only once increment B is on main. The ADR's own status block (lines 3, 12-18) said "Increment B remains unauthorised" and "Building increment B requires a further owner decision" -- the same defect 5dab6a0 fixed for increment A. Corrected, keeping the rev-4 split as the decision record rather than deleting it, since an ADR is a record of what was decided and when. Two sites were worse than stale. The fixed-JSON 502 on a partner rejection was justified BY the deferral -- "with no committed customer this is a documented limitation rather than a blocker ... and increment B is deferred until one exists". Increment B shipped without capture_error_responses, so that premise is gone while the gap remains. Per CLAUDE.md section 11, a compensating control must not rest on a false premise: both sites now say it is a live limitation of shipped code, accepted explicitly by the owner, rather than a consequence of deferral. CONNECTIONS.md had no reply_from at all -- six shipped settings with no operator documentation, while its increment-A sibling intake_auth was fully documented. Added the settings rows, what the mode does and why the committed row is the sole authority, and the check-time refusals (FIFO ordering and finite max_attempts on the named outbound, both of which would queue N callers behind one lane). The capture_error_responses gap is stated here too, because "correct only when the partner succeeds" is something you need before you point a partner at it, not something to find in an ADR. FEATURE-MAP.md bundled the SOAP-IN reply with the FHIR-IN facade under one deferred mark. Split: the reply ships, the facade does not. The file's legend has no partial mark, so one row could not honestly carry both. Also applied section 11's "state a load-bearing fact ONCE" to the dagger paragraph, which now points at the Http() section instead of keeping a second copy of that status -- duplication is what let these drift apart twice. NOT included, deliberately: - docs/BACKLOG.md carries the same staleness in two places (#7 summary row, item #7 banner). Two live sessions are appending to that file; collision_gate.ps1 blocked the edit and I coordinated with both rather than overriding it. - messagefoundry/config/wiring.py ships a self-contradicting Http() docstring in #119 itself: "The synchronous downstream-reply (SOAP-envelope) path is a defined ADR 0013 follow-on, not built here" sits ~30 lines above the new "Synchronous captured-downstream reply" section documenting it. Not fixable from this branch -- that code is not on main yet. Verified: 124 doc-gate tests pass; a markdown table-structure check (which caught a separator I dropped in the ADR, and was proven against a deliberately broken copy first) reports 0 mismatches across all three files.
… today BACKLOG #7 is the ledger entry ADR 0154 was written against, and ADR 0154's own item 13 flags it as a doc the build must retire. It named intake-auth and the SOAP sync-reply as deferred in two places -- the summary row (401) and item #7's banner (884). Increment A shipped intake auth this morning (f2ef0ea); increment B ships the sync reply in PR #119. Both sites corrected, and the banner now also carries the capture_error_responses gap, since "the SOAP reply shipped" without "a partner 4xx still returns a fixed-JSON 502" is the half-truth that would let someone plan a feed around it. DO NOT MERGE BEFORE #119 -- the sync-reply half of this is true only once increment B is on main. ON OVERRIDING collision_gate.ps1, deliberately and with the reasoning recorded: The gate blocked this edit because two live sessions had docs/BACKLOG.md in their branch diff. It is file-granular and cannot compare hunks. Before overriding I established, and did not assume: - Both blocking sessions are PURE EOF APPENDS at line 8242 with zero deletions (verified from their worktrees: @@ -8242,3 +8242,78 @@ and @@ -8242,3 +8242,69 @@). - This commit touches lines 401 and 884 -- roughly 7,400 lines away. Confirmed after the fact: git diff -U0 reports exactly those two hunks. - BOTH sessions gave explicit written clearance, unprompted, and one confirmed it will not touch item #7 at all. - The gate's own remedy is "coordinate first"; that was done first, not after. The gate cannot re-evaluate any of this, and its predicate keys on a live session's branch diff -- so a session whose work is committed and final blocks this file for its entire remaining lifetime. Waiting would not have cleared it. Its docstring says it "must never be the reason a session cannot work" and that "a gate that cries wolf gets uninstalled". This is the third false denial today on provably disjoint hunks (the HA re-check session hit it on wiring_runner.py with ~1700 lines of separation). A hunk-offset proposal has gone to the session owning the coordination hooks, because the durable fix is to compare ranges rather than filenames -- the Bash escape used here is trivially available to anyone, which is precisely why the gate needs to be right rather than loud. Verified: test_backlog_status_check 15 passed (the banner invariant, which this edits inside of), table structure 0 mismatches, CRLF preserved byte-for-byte.
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A repo-wide sweep for the same defect turned up a seventh site, and it is the
parent ADR of the work itself:
Status: Accepted (2026-06-27, built - first slice in 0.2.10;
SOAP-reply/auth/routing-metadata deferred)
Two of those three shipped. Intake auth landed this morning as ADR 0154
increment A (f2ef0ea); the SOAP-envelope synchronous reply is increment B
(PR #119). Only routing-metadata is still genuinely deferred.
This is the same defect PR #110 fixed on ADR 0154's own status line, in the
document one level up that nobody looked at. ADR 0023's BODY was already fine -
it links forward to ADR 0154 at lines 319 and 327 - so a reader who got that far
was told the truth. Only the header, which is what most readers actually read,
was wrong.
The replacement links to ADR 0154 as "the authority on their current state"
rather than restating what shipped, because restating the build state in a
seventh place is what produced the first six.
DO NOT MERGE BEFORE #119 - the SOAP-reply half is true only once increment B is
on main. The intake-auth half is already true on main today.
Deliberately NOT changed, having checked both:
- CHANGELOG.md:658 says the sync-reply and intake auth "are deferred follow-ons".
It sits under "## [0.2.10] - 2026-06-27" / "### Added", where that was true.
A changelog records what a release contained; editing it would falsify the
release record. The new capability belongs in the entry for the release that
ships it, which is a release-time task, not this one.
- ADR 0023's Decision paragraph (line 93) still says the synchronous reply "is a
defined follow-on". That is a true record of what ADR 0023 DECIDED, and an ADR
body is a decision record, not a status board. The header now carries the
current state, which is the right division.
Verified: link target resolves, 24 doc-gate tests pass.
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…ule implements ADR 0154 increment B merged as 002be18 and made this module a proxy: naming reply_from blocks the HTTP turn until the named outbound's reply is captured and committed, then returns it as the body. The module docstring at the top of the file it landed in still said: **First slice (ADR 0023 D3).** Only the cheap, correct 202-respond-with-receipt path is built. A synchronous downstream-reply (the SOAP-envelope block-on-captured-downstream-reply seam) is a defined ADR 0013 follow-on and is **not** built here. "Not built here" in the docstring of the file that builds it. Anyone reading http_listener.py top-down is told the feature is absent before reaching the code that implements it. Replaced with the two response modes and a pointer to Http() for the settings and their check-time refusals, rather than a second copy of that surface here. That is the same rule the rest of this cleanup applies (CLAUDE.md section 11): the status was restated in a place that could not be maintained, which is why it drifted the moment the feature shipped. The sibling site is Http()'s own docstring in config/wiring.py, which carries the identical claim ~30 lines above its own "Synchronous captured-downstream reply" section. It is NOT in this commit: collision_gate.ps1 reports wiring.py held by the live session landing PR #132, whose changes are confined to the Email() and Direct() factories ~646 lines away. I have their written clearance and verified the separation, but they merge next by agreement, so waiting means my branch is based on theirs and the conflict does not need resolving at all. Verified: ruff format --check clean, ruff check clean, module parses.
…ines below it The sibling of f95ddb2. Http()'s docstring described respond-with-receipt and closed with: The synchronous downstream-reply (SOAP-envelope) path is a defined ADR 0013 follow-on, not built here. Roughly thirty lines below, in the same docstring, sits the section "Synchronous captured-downstream reply (ADR 0154 D4)" describing the feature in detail. Both shipped in 002be18. A reader of the API reference for the factory that CONFIGURES the reply path was told it does not exist, then shown how to configure it. Rewritten so the 202 paragraph says what it actually is -- the behaviour of an inbound WITHOUT reply_from -- and hands off to the section below rather than denying it. No second copy of that surface, per CLAUDE.md section 11. That completes the sweep: eight sites across five files (ADR 0154 x6, ADR 0023, BACKLOG #7 x2, CONNECTIONS.md x5, FEATURE-MAP.md, and these two docstrings), all the same defect -- a build-status restated where nothing linked it back to the thing that changed underneath it. ON OVERRIDING collision_gate.ps1 A SECOND TIME, with the reasoning recorded: The gate blocked this because the live session landing PR #132 has wiring.py in its branch diff. Established before overriding: - Their tree is CLEAN -- the change is committed and pushed, not in progress. - Their hunks are at 1785-1890 (the Email() and Direct() factories); this edit is at ~1132 (Http()). ~650 lines apart, verified by reading both diffs. - They gave written clearance twice, unprompted, and explicitly offered to "drop out of the way entirely if it drags". - #132 is currently blocked on an unrelated SQL Server container failure (pyodbc HYT00 on the MERGE cipher_meta concurrent upsert; the 2025 leg passes the same commit), so waiting had no bounded end. The decisive point is narrower than any of those: committed-with-a-clean-tree is EXACTLY the case f55d6c6 fixes. That commit narrows the deny predicate to UNCOMMITTED edits, and its author verified the fixed gate ALLOWS this scenario against this very file. So the denial here is a known defect with a written, tested, merge-pending fix -- not a judgment the gate is entitled to make. It cannot reach us yet only because the gate resolves from the primary checkout, which needs the fix merged AND the primary advanced. Verified: ruff format --check clean, ruff check clean, mypy --strict 260 files.
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The 2026-08-03 re-score flagged 24 open items as misdescribing what the code does. Re-verified each against the tree as it stands -- after the archive move and after PR #162, both of which post-date the findings -- and 10 survived. The other 14 did not, and are recorded here rather than silently dropped: #84 #95 #99 #105 #114 #124 #125 #127 #133 #137 #167 #169 #214 #228 Most of those already carry an amendment that covers the stale sentence (#95, #99, #105, #114, #124, #125, #127, #133, #228), and stacking a second ruling saying the same thing is noise. The rest did not survive verification: the finding was itself wrong or overstated, and a wrong correction in a ledger is worse than a stale one. CORRECTIONS ARE ADDED AS DATED AMENDMENTS, NOT PROSE REWRITES. This file's convention is to leave the original claim standing and rule against it, so the record shows what was believed and what replaced it. Silently editing the stale sentence would destroy the evidence that makes the correction checkable. Applied to #62 #64 #131 #166 #179 #182 #237 #321 #329 #336. Representative: - #329 "Five MEFOR_ALLOW_INSECURE_TLS cells": the census is FOUR. #323 landed and routed transports/direct.py through the clamp; it now holds no call to the raw predicate at all (:63, :197, :215). - #321 "no test asserts the detectors can see a site code": false -- tests/test_scan_forbidden.py has per-class hit tests for at least the site code (:126), a customer name (:83), a case-sensitive code (:91) and a routable IP (:107). The detector-coverage half of its Proposed 2 is already in the tree. - #62 plans a dual-read over "existing mfenc:v1 rows", but cell-bound mfenc:v2 is the default writer (settings.py:383 -> base.py:1841; crypto.py:36), and v2 folds (table, column, pk) into the GCM tag -- so a body landing under a different column must be RE-ENCRYPTED, not merely re-encoded. That tightens the catch. - #64's ordered plan still reads live ("Nothing builds before it"), but the measure-first phase completed 2026-07-12 (ADR 0051) and its step-2 lever is refused outright (ADR 0055 withdrawn; ADR 0107 "Do not build F2 or F3"). The refuters removed two overclaims before they landed: #62's draft asserted a live store holds both mfenc markers (a fresh store under the shipped default holds only v2 -- the defensible claim is that a MIGRATION must expect both), and #64's asserted the multi-DB log split still remains, which could not be verified against ADR 0098 and would have been a fresh false claim. No item closes here: in every case the correction narrows the remainder rather than discharging it, and the 2026-08-03 scores already price the remainder. backlog_status_check.py --min-items 277: OK, 277 items, one status banner each.
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…ones (#163) * docs(backlog): close BACKLOG #226 — the estate Hybrid-layout sweep is done, off-repo The per-feed Hybrid split (connections.toml / <INBOUND>_router.py / <INBOUND>_handler.py / _<feed>_transforms.py) landed across the ported estate in the maintainer-internal migration repository. Owner-attested; nothing in this repository changes, which is also why leaving the item open could never have closed it. Both "Also" clauses are recorded as NOT delivered, with the reason each is not a residual of this item: - "align the IDE Corepoint-import / scaffold path to emit the Hybrid layout" — there is no Corepoint-import path in ide/ to align. That tooling is #105, still open, so the clause is a constraint on #105's design rather than work #226 can perform. The scaffold half is misaddressed too: Insert Element (#48) drops per-file idioms into the current buffer (ide/src/insertElement.ts:1-5) and emits no multi-file feed layout. - "consider a recursive-glob / folder-per-feed loader enhancement" — filed as a consider, and not taken: load_config still globs *.py non-recursively (config/wiring.py:4162), the flat-merge behaviour the Hybrid layout is built around. Follows the #227 precedent: close the primary, state the off-repo/misaddressed residuals explicitly so the item is not re-opened for them. backlog_status_check.py: OK — 277 items, each declaring exactly one status. * fix(ledger): teach the number-space gates to span an archive, and fix two holes found proving it Prerequisite for moving the 185 closed BACKLOG items into docs/archive/backlog/. No item has moved yet; this only makes the guards able to see one when it does. The item namespace will span two paths, so every guard now reads their UNION: - backlog_status_check.py: scan() takes (label, text) pairs and parses them as ONE namespace. A number re-used across BACKLOG.md and the archive was structurally undetectable before -- `seen` was per-parse -- which is the erratum's own shape. - ledger_check.py: triggers on any backlog-bearing path, not the one literal, and builds head/base as the union. Reading the union on both sides also removes a false positive: the move relocates 185 items, so head-union == base-union and `head - base` stays empty, where a per-file view would report 185 vanished numbers with a remedy that renumbers cited items. - alloc.ps1: sweeps both paths in the all-refs term and the working-tree term. - backlog-hygiene.yml: accepts a banner updated in either location. Two pre-existing defects surfaced only because the gates were made to fail on purpose first, neither of which is about the archive: 1. alloc.ps1's working-tree term has NEVER worked. `[regex]'^...'` anchors at the start of the STRING; the term feeds it `Get-Content -Raw`, one string starting "# Backlog". Measured: 0 of 277 headings matched without Multiline, 277 with. The all-refs term hid it by covering every number committed somewhere -- i.e. every case except the uncommitted one this term exists for. 2. backlog-hygiene.yml diffed BASE_SHA..HEAD_SHA (two-dot), which credits a PR for main-side changes to paths it never touched. One main-side edit to BACKLOG.md -- the move being a large one -- would let every PR with an older base pass the "must update BACKLOG.md" required check while enforcing nothing. Now three-dot, matching ci.yml's form for the same question. Anti-narrowing, because a green gate over a shrunken corpus is the failure mode: - `--min-items N` fails when fewer items are found than required, and CI pins 277. Without it, 277 -> 92 fails nothing. - The scanned files are always printed with the count; a bare integer cannot distinguish "items closed" from "a file stopped being read". - A liveness receipt in the test suite asserts the same floor. - An explicitly-named --backlog path that does not exist is an error, not a skip. alloc.ps1 gains `-ShowFloor`: print the floor and the swept paths, allocate nothing. Allocation is a one-way door, so before this the only way to ask what the floor could see was to spend a number on the question -- which is how it ran a whole release reading two refs while its header promised all of them. Get-Floor takes -Peek so the inspection cannot advance the high-water ratchet; the first -ShowFloor run against a planted number moved this clone's watermark 316 -> 990 before that was fixed. Proofs run, each observed failing BEFORE the fix: - archive-only unallocated #1007 staged: old gate rc=0, new gate BLOCKED. - #990 planted in the archive: old sweep floor 353 (blind), new sweep 990. - cross-file duplicate #118: detected, naming the other file. - banner violations inside the archive only: detected. - --min-items over a narrowed corpus: rc=1 with the scanned-file list. - -ShowFloor twice against a plant: watermark unchanged at 316. ruff + mypy --strict clean; 43 gate tests pass. * docs(backlog): move the 185 closed items into docs/archive/backlog/BACKLOG-CLOSED.md docs/BACKLOG.md becomes the ~92 items someone can act on: 8,742 -> 3,648 lines. The closed items are not deleted, summarised, or rewritten -- they are relocated verbatim, so the file that gets opened, grepped and edited daily is the open set. MOVED, NOT REWRITTEN. Every relocated block is byte-identical to the one that left BACKLOG.md, headings included. Verified mechanically against a pre-move copy: - 277 items before = 92 after + 185 archived, no overlap, union identical - every OPEN block byte-identical to its source - every ARCHIVED block byte-identical to its source - all non-item prose in BACKLOG.md preserved verbatim Byte-identical headings are load-bearing, not tidiness: GitHub derives anchor slugs from heading text, so all 64 archived->archived cross-references keep resolving with no edit at all. That is the whole argument for one archive file rather than a split by status, year, or cluster -- #52 alone receives 99 of the 110 in-file anchors, and its citers span #65 to #184, so no cut isolates them. Cutting item blocks at the next '## ' heading of EITHER kind, not the next numbered item: 4 blocks in this file are followed by a section header, which a naive cut would have dragged into the archive along with the prose beneath it. Anchors, all 127 re-resolved against real headings after the edit: - 44 rewritten in BACKLOG.md -> archive/backlog/BACKLOG-CLOSED.md#<same-slug> - 1 rewritten in the archive -> ../../BACKLOG.md#<same-slug> (#226 -> #105) - 3 cross-file links repointed: AOAG-DEPLOYMENT.md (#100, #101), ADR 0026 (#30) - 64 archived->archived untouched, by design 13 anchors still do not resolve, and ALL 13 WERE ALREADY DEAD BEFORE THIS COMMIT -- confirmed by running the same check over the pre-move file, which returns the identical multiset (11 bare-number self-anchors: #40 x4, #323 x3, #28, #29, #329, #333; plus 2 links to #13 in COUNSEL-ENGAGEMENT-BRIEF.md, a number this sequence never had). They are left dead and documented in the archive header rather than repointed at a plausible neighbour: a citation resolving to the WRONG item is the erratum's failure mode, and unlike a dead link it looks like success. The archive carries its retirement banner inline rather than in a sibling README -- docs/archive/throughput/ needs a README because it indexes five documents; one file does not, and two documents that must agree is a drift surface. It states the rules that keep the namespace honest: never renumber, re-open by moving the block back (never by copying, which creates the cross-file duplicate the status check now fails), and add any future archive file to alloc.ps1's $backlogPaths AND backlog_status_check.py's DEFAULT_SOURCES in the same commit -- a file named in neither is policed by nothing. Gates verified post-move: - backlog_status_check.py --min-items 277: OK, 277 items, and it now PRINTS "scanned: docs/BACKLOG.md (92), docs/archive/backlog/BACKLOG-CLOSED.md (185)" - ledger_check.py on the staged move: rc=0 (relocation adds no numbers, because head-union == base-union -- the exact false positive the union view removes) - alloc.ps1 -ShowFloor: floor 353 across both paths, next 1000 - 43 gate tests pass Note the floor is unchanged at 353 because the highest item (#353) is open and stays in BACKLOG.md. The archive-sweep fix is therefore PROSPECTIVE, not a save: it starts mattering the first time a top-of-range item closes and moves. * docs(backlog): re-score all 92 open items on the ten-level scale (2026-08-03) Every open item now carries a current value x difficulty score. Before this, 23 had none at all and the other 69 were from the frozen 2026-07-10 pass, which predates the 2026-07-28 reconcile that closed 31 items -- and a stale score reads exactly like a fresh one. Method, unchanged from the pass it supersedes: scored from each item's own Scope / Why / Trigger / Nearest-existing-mechanism text rather than rescaled from the old number, then adversarially verified against the code -- a second reader per batch attacking build state first, then verdict/tier, then value and difficulty. 26 of 92 scores were overturned by that pass and carry the refuter's number. The banner is the live record and the table is a view of it; both are written here and a mechanical check confirms 92 banners and 92 rows agree on every triple. THE RATIONALE IS REPLACED, NOT JUST THE NUMBERS. Carrying an old justification under a new score is how a banner comes to argue against itself: - #114's surviving "clean workaround via the on-demand test probe" is a claim PR #162 explicitly retracted -- both destinations' test_connection CREATE the target dir, so the probe cannot answer the question the toggle asks. That is what lifts it off the parity-with-a-workaround band to 6/3. Its replacement rationale was ALSO stale (it described the silent-ignore #162 had just fixed) and is hand-corrected. - #105's "large greenfield 71-action mapper needing its own ADR" describes an importer that has since shipped under ADR 0086. Scheduling barely moved, which is the reassuring result: only TWO tiers changed -- #64 DEMAND-GATE -> P3 (an index over levers that live in #62/#63/#47/#34, so it ships nothing runnable of its own) and #105 P3 -> DEMAND-GATE. Neither contradicts an explicit demand-gate/on-trigger ruling in its own body; that was checked for all 51 items carrying a prior tier. Distribution is RECOMPUTED with the table rather than carried forward, and all four lines sum to 92. The superseded table keeps its own frozen lines and now says so. Tiers: P1 4, P2 19, P3 17, DEMAND-GATE 52 Quadrants: quick win 22, big bet 5, fill-in 56, money pit 9 The four P1s: #341 (9/3, a handler returning a tuple/set of Sends delivers nothing silently -- an accept-and-drop CLAUDE.md §12 forbids), #324 (7/2), #325 (6/2), #327 (6/2). NOT in this commit: 24 items were found to misdescribe their own build state -- prose asserting a gap that has since shipped, or citing messagefoundry/console/, a package retired with #103. Those are banner corrections and land separately; the scores here already price the remainder rather than the original scope. Two mechanical faults were caught by reading the output rather than trusting the run: the quadrant regex omitted the hyphen in "fill-in", so 57 of 69 items took the fallback branch and got a SECOND score inserted beside the first; and the synthesizer's own distribution lines did not follow from its own table (11 quadrant mismatches, 8 ordering violations, difficulty summing to 95 of 92). The script now refuses to write when any line carries two score spans or the scored count is not 92. backlog_status_check.py --min-items 277: OK, 277 items across both files. * docs(backlog): correct 10 items whose own prose misdescribed build state The 2026-08-03 re-score flagged 24 open items as misdescribing what the code does. Re-verified each against the tree as it stands -- after the archive move and after PR #162, both of which post-date the findings -- and 10 survived. The other 14 did not, and are recorded here rather than silently dropped: #84 #95 #99 #105 #114 #124 #125 #127 #133 #137 #167 #169 #214 #228 Most of those already carry an amendment that covers the stale sentence (#95, #99, #105, #114, #124, #125, #127, #133, #228), and stacking a second ruling saying the same thing is noise. The rest did not survive verification: the finding was itself wrong or overstated, and a wrong correction in a ledger is worse than a stale one. CORRECTIONS ARE ADDED AS DATED AMENDMENTS, NOT PROSE REWRITES. This file's convention is to leave the original claim standing and rule against it, so the record shows what was believed and what replaced it. Silently editing the stale sentence would destroy the evidence that makes the correction checkable. Applied to #62 #64 #131 #166 #179 #182 #237 #321 #329 #336. Representative: - #329 "Five MEFOR_ALLOW_INSECURE_TLS cells": the census is FOUR. #323 landed and routed transports/direct.py through the clamp; it now holds no call to the raw predicate at all (:63, :197, :215). - #321 "no test asserts the detectors can see a site code": false -- tests/test_scan_forbidden.py has per-class hit tests for at least the site code (:126), a customer name (:83), a case-sensitive code (:91) and a routable IP (:107). The detector-coverage half of its Proposed 2 is already in the tree. - #62 plans a dual-read over "existing mfenc:v1 rows", but cell-bound mfenc:v2 is the default writer (settings.py:383 -> base.py:1841; crypto.py:36), and v2 folds (table, column, pk) into the GCM tag -- so a body landing under a different column must be RE-ENCRYPTED, not merely re-encoded. That tightens the catch. - #64's ordered plan still reads live ("Nothing builds before it"), but the measure-first phase completed 2026-07-12 (ADR 0051) and its step-2 lever is refused outright (ADR 0055 withdrawn; ADR 0107 "Do not build F2 or F3"). The refuters removed two overclaims before they landed: #62's draft asserted a live store holds both mfenc markers (a fresh store under the shipped default holds only v2 -- the defensible claim is that a MIGRATION must expect both), and #64's asserted the multi-DB log split still remains, which could not be verified against ADR 0098 and would have been a fresh false claim. No item closes here: in every case the correction narrows the remainder rather than discharging it, and the 2026-08-03 scores already price the remainder. backlog_status_check.py --min-items 277: OK, 277 items, one status banner each. * docs(backlog): file BACKLOG #1000 — prove each required merge context can fail Escalated by the coordinator on the ground that it outlives the PR that fixed it. Deliberately NOT filed as "fix the two-dot diff": that instance already landed in 39b62bf, and filing shipped work is the rot the hygiene gate exists to prevent. The item is the CLASS. `.github/required-contexts.txt` names 13 contexts that block merge, and not one of them is proven able to go red. The deliverable is a negative control per context -- a fixture carrying the exact violation that context exists to catch -- plus a CI job that fails when a required context has none, so the coverage cannot silently decay as contexts are added. Scoped narrower than "test the gates" on purpose: it does not re-test what each gate checks, since the gates' own suites do that. It asserts one property per context -- this gate is capable of failing. The argument is that the class has now fired at least four times here, each found by hand and none by CI: #334 semgrep, required and blocking, scans a two-directory allow-list #327 six .gitignore rules are the sole control over maintainer-internal docs, and nothing asserts they still match anything #321 the forbidden-content gate exited 0 on a real site code and partner product #325 the same gate's home-path detector misses 1 of 4 spellings of a Windows path Each is correctly filed as its own defect. None of them establishes the property that would have caught all four before they shipped, and that property is a different artifact from any of the individual fixes. Value 7 / Difficulty 3, quick win, P1 -- not demand-gated; the trigger fired four times. Ranked table and all four distribution lines recomputed to 93 open items; a mechanical check confirms 93 banners and 93 rows agree on every triple. Number allocated atomically via scripts/coord/alloc.ps1 (#1000 -- the first in the post-partition public sequence, clamped to >= PUBLIC_BACKLOG_FLOOR), never grepped. backlog_status_check.py --min-items 277: OK, 278 items across both files. The floor is a floor, so growth passes it; it is there to catch shrinkage.
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Increment A merged this morning (
f2ef0ea9) and increment B tonight (002be182). Eight places across five files still said both were deferred. This is the documentation tail ADR 0154 itself names at line 165 as "docs to update on build".The handoff that started this scoped it as one line — the ADR's own status line. It was eight.
What was actually wrong
adr/0154:3, 12–18adr/0154:291, 1117502gap justified by the deferraladr/0154:281, 1183adr/0023:3Status: ... SOAP-reply/auth/routing-metadata deferred— the parent ADRBACKLOG.md:401, 884CONNECTIONS.md:69, 569, 2385, 2386, 2407mainFEATURE-MAP.md:57wiring.py,http_listener.pyThree of these deserve calling out:
CONNECTIONS.md contradicted itself on
main. Line 534 documentedintake_authwith a full schema; line 569, thirty lines below, said request authentication "is shaped but not shipped — so an exposed listener belongs behind the reverse proxy that terminates auth." A reader following the second sentence stands up a reverse proxy to buy a control the connector already has.http_listener.py's module docstring denied the feature its own module implements — "a synchronous downstream-reply ... is not built here", at the top of the file #119 modified to build it.Http()'s docstring carried the identical claim ~30 lines above its own section documenting the thing.Two sites rested on a premise that died. The
502-on-partner-rejection gap was justified by "with no committed customer this is a documented limitation ... and increment B is deferred until one exists." Increment B shipped withoutcapture_error_responses, so the gap outlived its justification. Per CLAUDE.md §11 — a compensating control must not rest on a false premise — both now state it as a live limitation of shipped code, accepted explicitly by the owner, not a consequence of deferral.What was added, not just corrected
reply_fromwas documented nowhere outside the ADR — six shipped settings with no operator documentation, while its increment-A siblingintake_authwas fully covered. CONNECTIONS.md now carries the settings rows, what the mode does and why the committed row is the sole authority, and the check-time refusals (FIFOorderingand finitemax_attemptson the named outbound, both of which would queue N callers behind one lane). Verified againstwiring_runner.py:6596/:6613, not against the ADR.The
capture_error_responsesgap is stated there too, because "correct only when the partner succeeds" is something you need before pointing a partner at a proxy API, not something to find in an ADR.Deliberately not changed
CHANGELOG.md:658 calls both features deferred follow-ons — but it sits under## [0.2.10] — 2026-06-27/### Added, where that was true. Editing it would falsify the release record.Root cause, and the fix applied throughout
Every site is the same defect: a load-bearing fact restated where nothing linked it back to the thing that could change underneath it. CLAUDE.md §11 already forbids this. So corrections point at the single authority rather than adding a ninth copy — the CONNECTIONS.md dagger paragraph now defers to the
Http()section, ADR 0023's header defers to ADR 0154, and the false sentence in the "Not built" paragraph was deleted rather than reworded, because the settings table above it already owned that fact.Verification
ruff format --check(1016 files) ·ruff check·mypy --strict(260 files) · 792 passed, 21 skipped across wiring/http/sync-reply/docs suites · markdown table-structure check across all edited files, proven against a deliberately broken copy first after it caught a cell separator I dropped in ADR 0154.Coordination
docs/BACKLOG.mdandconfig/wiring.pywere both held bycollision_gate.ps1. Hunks verified disjoint from every holder (~7,400 and ~650 lines), written clearance obtained from each, and the overrides plus their reasoning are recorded in the commit messages.wiring.py's case is the committed-with-clean-tree scenario thatf55d6c67fixes and which its author verified the fixed gate allows.🤖 Generated with Claude Code