feat(auto): safe-default closure mode + partial-unsafe blocker code (PR-B2)

[shaun0927]

Summary

PR-B2 of the L4 Auto Envelope v2 freeze (#1157, #821, #1138).

Closes two gaps observed in live ooo auto runs against the #821 acceptance matrix where the safe-default policy could have produced a clean closure but the result envelope did not reflect what happened:

• The existing safe-default success path closed the interview but never set state.interview_closure_mode. Callers could not distinguish mutual_agreement (default None) from a safe-default-applied closure. PR-B2 tags the envelope with interview_closure_mode = "safe_default" on that path.
• The partial safe-default case — some required gaps were safely defaultable but at least one remained unsafe (e.g. CONFLICTING ledger entry, per-section unsafe-context flag) — used to fall through to the generic interview_max_rounds_exhausted blocker with no structured event and no rollback. PR-B2 routes it to a dedicated event auto.interview.safe_default_partial_unsafe_gaps and a new typed code interview_unsafe_gaps_remain. Partial defaults are rolled back via the existing _revert_safe_default_entries helper because synthesis was never pushed to the backend transcript — same invariant as the synthesis-failure rollback already in place.

The genuine-deadlock case (nothing defaultable at all) is unchanged — it continues to emit interview_max_rounds_exhausted.

Why this scope

This is the smallest first slice that closes the documented PR-B2 gap from the #1157 living SSOT and pushes the L4 Envelope v2 lane from 🟡 partial to closer-to-🟢-complete. After this lands, closure_mode taxonomy has four values (None / ledger_only / safe_default; blockers do not carry it), and stop_reason_code taxonomy has eight codes (3 interview-layer + 5 Ralph-layer).

What is NOT done here

• No schema change, no manifest change, no new envelope field. Pure behavior + envelope-tag refinement on fields shipped by fix(auto): close interview on ledger-only consensus at max_rounds #1148 (PR-B1, interview_closure_mode) and feat(auto): canonical stop_reason_code for interview-layer blockers #1151 (PR-E, stop_reason_code).
• No change to finalize_safe_defaultable_gaps or the safe-default policy itself — only the driver-level routing of its outcome.
• PR-C2 (assumptions[].source provenance promotion) remains a separate follow-up.

Scope

• src/ouroboros/auto/interview_driver.py
  • Tag safe_default closure_mode on the existing success branch.
  • Insert the new partial-unsafe branch with rollback + typed code, ahead of the existing mutual_agreement_deadlock_at_max_rounds event emission.
• skills/auto/SKILL.md
  • Extend the canonical stop_reason_code taxonomy table to 8 codes (adds interview_unsafe_gaps_remain).
  • Add an Interview closure mode taxonomy table covering None / ledger_only / safe_default.
• tests/unit/auto/test_interview_pipeline.py
  • Extend the existing safe-default success test to assert state.interview_closure_mode == "safe_default".
  • Add a new test for the partial-unsafe path that constructs a CONFLICTING ledger entry on one section and asserts the new typed code, the rollback invariant, and the preserved user-recorded entry.
  • Extend the existing unsafe-everything test (case C) with a regression guard that last_error_code stays interview_max_rounds_exhausted.

Test plan

• uv run pytest tests/unit/auto/test_interview_pipeline.py -k "safe_default or unsafe_gaps or finalize" -q → 39 passed
• uv run pytest tests/unit/auto tests/integration/auto -q → 908 passed (baseline 907 + 1 new)
• uv run ruff check on touched files → clean
• uv run ruff format --check on touched files → clean
• uv run mypy src/ouroboros/auto/interview_driver.py → clean

Refs #1157 (L4 lane), #821 (autonomy acceptance matrix), #1138 (PR-A instrumentation), #1148 (PR-B1 ledger_only), #1151 (PR-E stop_reason_code).

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Review — ouroboros-agent[bot]

Verdict: APPROVE

Reviewing commit c2f34e8 for PR #1167

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[Q00]

Follow-up policy note from #1219 / PR #1220: if the safe-default synthesis is successfully written to the persisted interview transcript but the backend returns a non-terminal follow-up turn, the auto driver should now fail forward as a safe_default closure. The ledger is already structurally complete and mirrored into the transcript, so rolling defaults back creates the observed cli-todo false block. The remaining fail-closed path is transcript-sync failure before the synthesis is persisted.

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