[nissa-seru]

This PR stops operator surgery, and the other branch moves, from waiting on Discord. A rollback, a suppression, the API server's branch switch, undo and redo, and a host/command turn undo now return once the change to the resident's context has landed. The surgeries report separately whether their Discord awareness marks were scheduled, and delivery continues in the background. The MCPL gate still holds channel traffic that arrives after it until the marks are attempted, or deferred while their server is disconnected. Turns that the store reservation used to hold through the whole drain can now run during delivery: a turn with no channel traffic, such as a scheduler timer, and a turn for channel traffic admitted before the gate went up, which can reply before the marks show. Those are the changes in ordering. A ledger failure after the context change no longer turns an applied surgery into an error.

Problem

Field incident (another household's resident, 2026-10-07): a web-UI rollback removed 918 Discord messages from a resident's context. rollbackToMessage awaited syncDiscordAwarenessMarkers() inside reserveStoreForSurgery, so the serial 💤 drain held the store-wide reservation and the operator's response for its whole length. At the reported pace of about one reaction per second, 918 queued marks would take roughly 15 minutes. The household's web client timed out after 60 seconds while the branch had already switched, and they stopped the host after 225 deliveries.

A composed fixture against the shipped 0.21.0 source reproduced the mechanism. It ran under Bun 1.4.2, with a real Chronicle store and a fake Discord MCPL server:

• the rollback promise resolved only after the last add_reaction;
• channel traffic sent during the drain was answered only after it;
• stopping the host mid-drain left N−1 refs with Cannot send request and one with an in-flight disconnect error, the same split the household reported (692 + 1).

A second defect showed up in the same code. A ledger failure in activate() after the switch:

• turned an applied rollback into a thrown error;
• inside suppressMessages, retired the batch and restored the source branch, even though every redaction had already committed.

Changes

• Reservation scope. rollbackToMessage and suppressMessages hold the store reservation only through fork/switch (or redaction), marker scheduling, and any source restoration on error.

• Delivery. It is started before release(). syncDiscordAwarenessMarkers installs the existing MCPL data-plane gate synchronously, before its first await, so MCPL traffic that arrives after the gate still waits until its marks are attempted, or deferred while their server is disconnected. Delivery then continues without the caller or the store waiting on it.

• Turns may now run during a surgery's delivery. The store reservation used to hold every turn through the whole drain. Now it ends once the gate is up, so two kinds of turn may run while the marks are still being delivered:

  • a turn that carries no channel traffic, such as a scheduler timer or a provider admission;
  • a turn for channel traffic admitted before the gate went up, either queued when the surgery began or arriving during its switch or fork. It can answer that traffic before the marks show.

  The surgery still makes the same local edits. Only the timing of the work that follows it, and of the marks, changes.

• The other branch moves don't wait for Discord either. That covers the API server's branch switch, undo and redo (api/server.ts), and host/command turn undo. Each now returns once its branch has moved. It starts its marks' delivery through startDiscordAwarenessDelivery, a new public method the surgeries use too, and the marks follow behind the gate. A delivery that fails to start raises a discord-awareness-delivery ops alert instead of failing the command. Until now these awaited syncDiscordAwarenessMarkers, so after a large rollback the operator's natural next step, restoring the source branch, waited out the drain past a 60 s client timeout (slimepriestess's review). This changes the API server's switch contract: it used to await the awareness sync before answering, and its comment now says so.

• A gate installed during delivery waits for it, then drains again. An operator is now likelier to act while the drain runs, since the rollback returns at once: for instance by restoring the source branch. That switch can leave nothing pending in the ledger while the drain still holds operations it read earlier: the in-flight add is not yet present, and its mark is no longer desired. A new gate generation used to see no work, release every data plane at once, and replace the generation that was waiting on the drain. beginDiscordAwarenessBarrier now accounts for running drains as well as pending operations (found in Greptile's review).

  • A generation that finds a drain running waits for it, then drains again with a fresh read of the ledger. Joining the drain wasn't enough: it never re-sends a key it has attempted, so an add re-pended mid-drain (a rollback, its restore, then a redo) stayed pending when the gate released. And it may already have made its last read before a batch activated since.
  • With neither running drains nor pending operations, the release stays synchronous, as before.

• Inbound handlers wait out every generation. The push, inference, incoming and host/command handlers wait until no generation is current, or the current one is one they have already waited for, not only for the one they first saw. With no generation current, a handler doesn't yield at all, so an event is still handled in the turn it arrives (the push coalescer's ordering of a push against its retraction rests on that).

• A reconnect's gate opens after re-registration. The gate is global, so another server's drain could settle while the reconnecting server's §5.3 policy reply was still outstanding, and that server's data was released before its grant existed and rejected fail-closed. The reconnect's gate now completes only once both have settled, so its mcpl:server-reconnected and module:added traces come once the re-registration attempt has settled, granted or not, where they came at once when no marks were pending. A different generation that completes during the reply still opens every data plane, as on main; see "What this PR does not fix".

• Receipt. Both surgeries return markers: SurgeryMarkerReceipt, which is exported. It says whether marks were scheduled, never that Discord accepted them:

  • none: no marks were scheduled, because nothing addressable was removed or the awareness outbox is disabled. The surgery's removedRefs says whether any addressable messages were removed;
  • queued (count and batch id)
  • not-scheduled: activation failed and the batch was retired, so no reconciliation or restart can deliver it;
  • unresolved: neither activation nor retirement could be written. It names the batch, which is retained and may still be delivered.

  The receipt also appears in operator-actions.jsonl, on the [operator] stderr line, and in the result of message-granular host/command undo.

• Bookkeeping failures. A failure after the body change no longer fails an applied rollback, and no longer undoes a suppression whose redactions all committed. Ops alerts: discord-awareness-not-scheduled / discord-awareness-unresolved.

• What marks still do. The selection policy still covers every addressable discarded message, marks still follow the branch, and the gate still holds MCPL data that arrives after it until its marks are attempted, or deferred while their server is disconnected. This PR stops operator responses and the store from waiting on remote reactions, and makes the gate wait for every mark pending when it was armed, a drain still running included. The changes in ordering are described above.

What this PR does not fix

• MCPL traffic is still held for the whole drain. The gate pauses every MCPL server's data plane, not only Discord's, until delivery finishes. In the incident's shape (918 marks at about one per second) the operator now gets the receipt at once and the store is free, but channels/incoming, push/event and the rest of the data plane would be held for roughly 15 minutes, long enough for a busy server to fill its 1000-event buffer and start dropping its oldest responder-less events. feat(awareness): make Discord awareness marks an explicit, one-shot choice that never gates MCPL #250 removes the gate.
• resume() still waits for delivery. It reopens the data planes through the gate, so it waits for a running drain whenever one runs. An operator who quiesced before a rollback, as the busy-agent refusal advises, waits in resume() instead of in the rollback. feat(awareness): make Discord awareness marks an explicit, one-shot choice that never gates MCPL #250 removes this wait too.
• The host/command listener still waits out the gate before it runs a command. That is the existing gating on the control plane, so a Discord operator's next command waits for a running drain before the framework sees it. Once it runs, the turn undo itself no longer waits. Should commands that only move branches pass the gate? We left that to you rather than change your gating here.
• Another generation can still open a reconnecting server's data plane before its grant exists. Any generation that completes while a server re-registers after a reconnect readies every connection, the reconnecting one included. That can be another server's tools/list_changed with nothing pending, an API branch switch, or a sync. The reconnecting server's buffered data is then refused against its still-empty grant (-32002). Main behaves the same; this PR only makes the reconnect's own gate wait. feat(awareness): make Discord awareness marks an explicit, one-shot choice that never gates MCPL #250 settles each connection's policy exchange before it opens that connection's planes.
• A reconnecting server's policy reply holds every server's data plane, for up to the reply's 15 s timeout, because the gate is global. Main already did this when no marks were pending at the reconnect, and with marks pending it now does the same. feat(awareness): make Discord awareness marks an explicit, one-shot choice that never gates MCPL #250 opens each connection's planes on their own.
• A branch move during a drain doesn't stop the drain's saved sends. After a restore, the running drain still sends the rollback's remaining adds, at Discord's pace and behind the gate, and only the next pass removes them. The restore cases below test this order. The drain has always worked this way. On main the API server's switch could already restore mid-drain; this PR makes that likelier, because the rollback now returns at once. feat(awareness): make Discord awareness marks an explicit, one-shot choice that never gates MCPL #250's marks are one-shot, so a branch move creates no new operations.
• Two defects nearby, in code this PR doesn't change. feat(awareness): make Discord awareness marks an explicit, one-shot choice that never gates MCPL #250 fixes both.
  • A runtime connectMcplServer whose awareness accounting fails closes only the new connection and rethrows. The failed generation stays installed, and every other server's data plane stays paused until a later generation completes. feat(awareness): make Discord awareness marks an explicit, one-shot choice that never gates MCPL #250's connect path has no gate.
  • When a rollback's switch (or a suppression's fork) rejects, the batch is retired before the source branch is restored. If that ledger write also fails, the restore is skipped and the ledger error replaces the OperatorActionError. feat(awareness): make Discord awareness marks an explicit, one-shot choice that never gates MCPL #250 restores first, then retires.

Tests

• test/surgery-marks-receipt.test.ts (15 cases), with a fake Discord MCPL server that withholds reaction replies:

  • the rollback returns while 0 reactions have been answered and the batch is already active;
  • a second surgery is admitted during delivery, while channel traffic stays behind the gate until both surgeries' reactions are answered. This is checked by the server's event order and the exact message ids;
  • restoring the source branch while delivery runs keeps channel traffic behind the gate until the running drain has finished its saved adds and the removals they need, and the restore leaves no mark present. Just before the probe is sent, the ledger shows nothing pending for the server;
  • a rollback, its restore and a redo during one drain: the redo's adds are sent again, after the removals, before channel traffic is released;
  • the API server's switch, undo and redo, and a host/command turn undo, each arm a newer gate generation for the marks they move and return while every reaction reply is held. Once replies flow, the deliveries they started finish without another sync and leave nothing pending;
  • the gate is installed when the surgery releases the store;
  • not-scheduled holds across the delivery reconciliation and a full restart, with 0 reactions sent;
  • unresolved names the retained batch, for a rollback and for a suppression;
  • a suppression whose activation fails still stands, and its log entry carries the receipt;
  • each not-scheduled and unresolved receipt, for a rollback and for a suppression, raises its ops alert (discord-awareness-not-scheduled or discord-awareness-unresolved);
  • nothing addressable gives none, for a rollback that did change the body, and with no alert for a suppression whose journal activates or is left prepared;
  • with the outbox disabled (an app-owned store), a rollback that removes addressable messages schedules none and puts up no gate;
  • a delivery that fails to start raises the discord-awareness-delivery alert, with no unhandled rejection, and leaves the batch active;
  • a turn for channel traffic admitted before the gate (here during the rollback's switch) may start before the drain completes: the first reaction request is on the wire, every reply is still held, and the gate is still up. It fails when the rollback holds its reservation through the drain, and when the scheduler holds wakes while a gate is up, even though the rollback still returns early.

  Each probe the gate should hold comes after a positive check that the gate is up: a generation that requires it, and the data plane paused. The disabled-outbox probe comes after a check that there is no gate. Each probe's reply carries no error.

• test/mcpl-awareness-barrier.test.ts gains four cases.

  • A reconnect while another server's drain finishes: the reconnecting server has already sent its data, which waits for its held policy reply and is then accepted (the fixture can hold that reply).
  • Every inbound handler waits out a generation armed while it waits.
  • A handler waiting on a generation that fails refuses its request and never runs it.
  • With no generation current, every handler runs before the event's emit returns.

• test/discord-awareness-outbox.test.ts: the message-granular undo's result carries its receipt.

• The merge with main keeps fix(lifecycle): late tool results and MCPL arrivals at stop() settle instead of rejecting unhandled #263's stop handling in the four handlers, with this PR's wait where fix(lifecycle): late tool results and MCPL arrivals at stop() settle instead of rejecting unhandled #263 waited on the barrier. Main's stop-with-work-in-flight cases for a request held at the awareness barrier while the host stops now wait through awaitDiscordAwarenessBarriers, and they pass.

• Red first:

  • Against main c2f9bae (its src/ with this head's tests; VPS, Node 24.21.0): main's src/ doesn't typecheck against these tests, since it has no markers, but tsc still emits, so the cases run. All 15 surgery cases fail. The rollback is still pending after 3 s with reactions held, activation failures throw, the suppression is restored, there is no markers, and a failed delivery start fails the rollback. Of the four barrier cases, the reconnect case and the handlers' generation case fail. The other two pass on main as controls, since main's handlers neither yield with no gate up nor run behind a barrier that fails. The outbox undo's receipt assertion fails.
  • The cases and assertions added since 8b530ee, against 8b530ee's src/ merged onto main c2f9bae: 4 fail: the commands case, the restore-and-redo case, the reconnect case and the handlers' generation case. The other new cases and assertions pass there, since they pin behaviour 8b530ee already had: the gate before the store's release, the disabled outbox, the delivery and bookkeeping alerts, the zero-ref and double-failure receipts, the synchronous path with no gate up, a failed generation's refusals, and a turn for pre-gate traffic during delivery. The removals below show that each is load-bearing.

• Each piece removed (mutations of the compiled framework and API server at this head; VPS, Node 24.21.0), each caught by this PR's test files or by main's stop cases:

  • the switch, the undo, the redo and the turn undo each awaiting delivery, or each starting none (the commands case);
  • the reconnect gate completing on the drain alone (the reconnect case);
  • a generation joining the running drain instead of waiting for it (the restore-and-redo case), or leaving running drains out of the work it waits for (the restore, commands and restore-and-redo cases);
  • the handlers waiting only for the first generation;
  • a waiting handler swallowing a failed generation (the failed-generation case);
  • the handlers awaiting with no gate up (the synchronous-path case);
  • push/event checking for a stop before the wait instead of after it, or not at all (main's stop cases);
  • the background .catch removed;
  • the gate installed after the store is released;
  • no disabled-outbox guard;
  • each zero-ref return removed;
  • the bookkeeping alert removed, or its two kinds swapped;
  • the host/command undo dropping its receipt.

• The second case's order check was tested against a drain cut to a single pass, which never delivers the second batch. The earlier timestamp comparison still passed under it; the event-order check fails.

• Full suite on the Anima VPS at this head, which has main c2f9bae merged in, node --test --test-force-exit per file. c2f9bae is the tested baseline. Main has since moved to 3f917005 (fix(tools): a module's tool result that can't be stored becomes an error naming the tool (#309) #310), and the composition with it is the fourth item below:

  • Node 20.20.2: 1690/1690 across 133 files. Main alone: 1671/1671 across 132. The difference is the new surgery file (15) and the four new barrier cases.
  • Node 24.21.0: 1689/1689 counted. --test-force-exit cut history-module-realstore, which this PR doesn't touch, to 27 of 28. Alone and unforced it passes 28/28, which also makes 1690. Alone and unforced on both runtimes, channel-registry-routing (24), history-module-ux (26), history-module (49), mcpl-tool-lifecycle (31) and mcpl-coalescing (66) pass too, as do this PR's three files (15, 29 and 6) and main's stop-with-work-in-flight (25).
  • CI's unforced step (stop-with-work-in-flight and conversation-routing): 40/40 on both runtimes.
  • Composed with main 3f917005 (fix(tools): a module's tool result that can't be stored becomes an error naming the tool (#309) #310), which merges with this head without a conflict (tree 347bd2b5): 1700/1700 across 134 files on both Node 20.20.2 and 24.21.0, with typecheck and build clean, CI's unforced step 40/40, and the unforced files above passing whole on both runtimes. Main 3f917005 alone: 1681/1681 across 133 on Node 20. On Node 24, --test-force-exit cut its history-module-realstore to 16 of 28 and its history-module to 46 of 49, so the cut seen above happens on main too, without this PR. The difference is again this PR's 19 cases.
  • An earlier run of this baseline, at 30dd6f1 merged onto main 02adf27, failed two of main's coalescer tests, R11 and R13, on both runtimes. The cause was a microtask the new barrier wait added with no gate up. 0fb707e removes it and adds the case that pins it.

Not verified

No live Discord or provider was exercised. The fixture paces reactions in milliseconds, not at Discord's rate. The household's counts and cadence are their report. The mechanisms above are reproduced locally, not replayed from their store. The reconnect case models a held §5.3 policy reply with a fixture; no real server has been seen to answer that slowly.

Companion and merge order

• This is the first of two framework changes from the incident. The second, feat(awareness): make Discord awareness marks an explicit, one-shot choice that never gates MCPL #250, is stacked on this branch. It proposes a changed awareness-marks contract and is easier to review once this lands:
  • marks become an explicit opt-in publication choice (default none);
  • marks are one-shot instead of following the branch, and delivery never gates MCPL traffic;
  • operators get explicit cancel / retract / release.
• This PR is safe to merge alone: marks are placed and removed as before, and only the ordering described under Changes differs.
• A connectome-host change to show the receipt in the web UI's surgery result will follow separately. Hosts that ignore the new field keep working.
• Open PRs that restructure the same four MCPL handlers. This branch now carries main through c2f9bae (merge 535e0ee), including fix(lifecycle): late tool results and MCPL arrivals at stop() settle instead of rejecting unhandled #263, which restructured them first. fix(mcpl): contain inbound request handler failures #208, feat(routing): speech follows its conversation, and publishes only where MCPL RFC-011 declares the place #256 and feat(mcpl): every channel item names its conversation in a stored source header #257 restructure them too, and conflict with this PR there. The resolution is mechanical: keep the other PR's handler, and replace its two-line barrier wait (const barrier = this.discordAwarenessBarrier; if (barrier) await barrier.promise;) with if (this.discordAwarenessBarrier) await this.awaitDiscordAwarenessBarriers();. Keep the guard. With no gate up, a handler must not yield before it runs, since the push coalescer's ordering of a push against its retraction rests on that.
• feat(awareness): make Discord awareness marks an explicit, one-shot choice that never gates MCPL #250 is stacked on this branch at 0fb707e and takes this push when it next merges main.

Implemented by Ada-1017 and independently reviewed by June-1016 (house corvids), using Claude Opus 5.5 and OpenAI Astra respectively. Greptile's three findings were addressed by Fern-1209 and independently reviewed by Tessa-1208 (house corvids), using Claude Opus 5.5 and OpenAI Astra respectively. The "What this PR does not fix" section was added by Prudence-1879 from slimepriestess's review and independently reviewed by Abigail-1878 (house corvids), both using Claude Opus 5.5. 30dd6f1 answers the house's internal review of 8b530ee (19 of its 29 findings), and 0fb707e the baseline's catch in it: by Ada-1017, independently reviewed by Petra-1012 (house corvids), both using Claude Opus 5.5. The merge with main (535e0ee), b099ed1 and e1f8e61, which answer the house's internal review of the round and the merge, and 1f60e57, 0de75ec, 4c65258, 181fd99 and d81c7da, which answer Naomi-2422's and Arthur-2378's reads, are by Kestrel-2409 (Claude Opus 5.5), independently reviewed by Naomi-2422 and Arthur-2378 (house corvids), using Claude Opus 5.5 and OpenAI Astra respectively.

[greptile-apps]

Confidence Score: 4/5

[Medium risk] Changes how surgery operations report their completion status.

Fix the early gate release during branch restoration before merging.

Findings

1.  Branch restoration opens traffic early ▶
2.  Receipt omits disabled marks ▶
3.  Second batch can go untested ▶

Fix with agent prompt

### Issue 1
src/framework.ts:6366
After `rollbackToMessage` now returns, an operator can restore `sourceBranch` through the branch-switch API while the first `add_reaction` still waits for a reply. `reconcileForBranch` sets `desired` to false, but `markerPresent` is also still false, so no refs appear pending. The new gate opens immediately and replaces the gate waiting for the running drain. That drain keeps sending its saved adds and then removals while channel messages can reach the agent.

Make new gates wait for running drains even when no refs appear pending.

### Issue 2
src/operator-log.ts:126
The new definition of `none` says no addressable Discord messages were removed. A host that supplies `store` without `storePath` or `discordAwarenessOutboxPath` has no outbox, so it can remove Discord messages and still receive `none`. Document that this status also covers a disabled outbox, or represent that case separately, so callers do not treat it as proof that no Discord messages were affected.

```suggestion
 * - `none` - no marks were scheduled because no addressable Discord message
 *   was removed or the awareness outbox is disabled.
```

### Issue 3
test/surgery-marks-receipt.test.ts:201-204
This assertion can pass without the second surgery’s `amb-0` reaction: it compares the probe only with reactions that happened to be answered. Equal millisecond timestamps also allow the probe to come first. Assert that all three expected message IDs were answered before `probe-answered`, using event order rather than timestamps, so this test catches a skipped second batch or early traffic release.

```suggestion
    const events = jsonl<{ event: string; messageId?: string }>(eventsPath);
    const probeIndex = events.findIndex((e) => e.event === 'probe-answered');
    assert.ok(probeIndex >= 0, 'the probe was answered');
    const answeredBeforeProbe = events.slice(0, probeIndex)
      .filter((e) => e.event === 'reaction-answered')
      .map((e) => e.messageId)
      .sort();
    assert.deepEqual(answeredBeforeProbe, ['amb-0', 'amb-2', 'amb-3'],
      'all expected reactions are answered before channel traffic is released');
```

---

For each issue above, determine whether it is valid and should be fixed. If so, fix it directly.

Summary

This PR returns a SurgeryMarkerReceipt after rollback or suppression changes land, while Discord reactions continue in the background.

• Adds markers to surgery results, operator logs, stderr, and message-level undo replies.
• Keeps applied changes when activation fails, with retired or unresolved batch receipts.
• Branch restoration can open channel traffic before the running drain finishes. The receipt description and second-surgery test also need small fixes.

Review was based on code inspection; no tests were run.

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[greptile-apps]

Branch restoration opens traffic early

After rollbackToMessage now returns, an operator can restore sourceBranch through the branch-switch API while the first add_reaction still waits for a reply. reconcileForBranch sets desired to false, but markerPresent is also still false, so no refs appear pending. The new gate opens immediately and replaces the gate waiting for the running drain. That drain keeps sending its saved adds and then removals while channel messages can reach the agent.

Make new gates wait for running drains even when no refs appear pending.

Prompt To Fix With AI

This is a comment left during a code review.
Path: src/framework.ts
Line: 6366

Comment:
**Branch restoration opens traffic early**

After `rollbackToMessage` now returns, an operator can restore `sourceBranch` through the branch-switch API while the first `add_reaction` still waits for a reply. `reconcileForBranch` sets `desired` to false, but `markerPresent` is also still false, so no refs appear pending. The new gate opens immediately and replaces the gate waiting for the running drain. That drain keeps sending its saved adds and then removals while channel messages can reach the agent.

Make new gates wait for running drains even when no refs appear pending.

---

For each issue above, determine whether it is valid and should be fixed. If so, fix it directly.

[nissa-seru]

Fixed in acd95b6. beginDiscordAwarenessBarrier now builds each generation from the server ids of every running drain (discordAwarenessDrains) as well as those with pending operations, and joins those drains. A gate installed after a restore therefore keeps the data planes paused until the running drain has sent its saved adds and the removals they need. Every installer goes through it (sync, quiesce resume, connect, reconnect, tools/list_changed), and with neither pending work nor a running drain the release stays synchronous as before.

A new test, "restoring the source while delivery runs keeps traffic gated until the running drain is done", rolls back with reaction replies held, restores the source the way cmdBranchSwitch does, then sends a channel message. On 80c74c8 it fails: the message is answered while the first reaction is still held. Here it passes. Every reaction call, removals included, is answered before the message, and the ledger ends with no mark present.

The drain itself is unchanged. After a restore it still sends the adds it read before the switch and then removes them, which is also what a restore does on main once a rollback has finished.

[greptile-apps]

Receipt omits disabled marks

The new definition of none says no addressable Discord messages were removed. A host that supplies store without storePath or discordAwarenessOutboxPath has no outbox, so it can remove Discord messages and still receive none. Document that this status also covers a disabled outbox, or represent that case separately, so callers do not treat it as proof that no Discord messages were affected.

Suggested change

	* - `none` — the change removed no addressable Discord message.
	* - `none` — no marks were scheduled because no addressable Discord message
	* was removed or the awareness outbox is disabled.

Prompt To Fix With AI

This is a comment left during a code review.
Path: src/operator-log.ts
Line: 126

Comment:
**Receipt omits disabled marks**

The new definition of `none` says no addressable Discord messages were removed. A host that supplies `store` without `storePath` or `discordAwarenessOutboxPath` has no outbox, so it can remove Discord messages and still receive `none`. Document that this status also covers a disabled outbox, or represent that case separately, so callers do not treat it as proof that no Discord messages were affected.

```suggestion
 * - `none` — no marks were scheduled because no addressable Discord message
 *   was removed or the awareness outbox is disabled.
```

---

For each issue above, determine whether it is valid and should be fixed. If so, fix it directly.

[nissa-seru]

Fixed in 8b22d1f (comment only). none now says no marks were scheduled: either the change removed no addressable Discord message, or the awareness outbox is disabled (no discordAwarenessOutboxPath and no storePath). It also says none is not proof that no addressable message was removed, and points to the surgery's removedRefs (discordRefs in the operator log). Those fields already tell the two cases apart, so the four statuses stay as they are.

[greptile-apps]

Second batch can go untested

This assertion can pass without the second surgery’s amb-0 reaction: it compares the probe only with reactions that happened to be answered. Equal millisecond timestamps also allow the probe to come first. Assert that all three expected message IDs were answered before probe-answered, using event order rather than timestamps, so this test catches a skipped second batch or early traffic release.

Suggested change

	const events = jsonl<{ event: string; at: number }>(eventsPath);
	const lastReaction = Math.max(...events.filter((e) => e.event === 'reaction-answered').map((e) => e.at));
	const probe = events.find((e) => e.event === 'probe-answered')!;
	assert.ok(probe.at >= lastReaction, 'the probe is answered only after the held reactions');
	const events = jsonl<{ event: string; messageId?: string }>(eventsPath);
	const probeIndex = events.findIndex((e) => e.event === 'probe-answered');
	assert.ok(probeIndex >= 0, 'the probe was answered');
	const answeredBeforeProbe = events.slice(0, probeIndex)
	.filter((e) => e.event === 'reaction-answered')
	.map((e) => e.messageId)
	.sort();
	assert.deepEqual(answeredBeforeProbe, ['amb-0', 'amb-2', 'amb-3'],
	'all expected reactions are answered before channel traffic is released');

Prompt To Fix With AI

This is a comment left during a code review.
Path: test/surgery-marks-receipt.test.ts
Line: 201-204

Comment:
**Second batch can go untested**

This assertion can pass without the second surgery’s `amb-0` reaction: it compares the probe only with reactions that happened to be answered. Equal millisecond timestamps also allow the probe to come first. Assert that all three expected message IDs were answered before `probe-answered`, using event order rather than timestamps, so this test catches a skipped second batch or early traffic release.

```suggestion
    const events = jsonl<{ event: string; messageId?: string }>(eventsPath);
    const probeIndex = events.findIndex((e) => e.event === 'probe-answered');
    assert.ok(probeIndex >= 0, 'the probe was answered');
    const answeredBeforeProbe = events.slice(0, probeIndex)
      .filter((e) => e.event === 'reaction-answered')
      .map((e) => e.messageId)
      .sort();
    assert.deepEqual(answeredBeforeProbe, ['amb-0', 'amb-2', 'amb-3'],
      'all expected reactions are answered before channel traffic is released');
```

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For each issue above, determine whether it is valid and should be fixed. If so, fix it directly.

[nissa-seru]

Fixed in 8b530ee with the assertion you suggested. By the server's event order, exactly amb-0, amb-2 and amb-3 must be answered before probe-answered. As a check, I cut the built drain to a single pass so that the second surgery's batch is never delivered. The old assertion still passed; the new one fails with [amb-2, amb-3].

[slimepriestess]

APPROVE at 8b530ee. Gates on the repo's own harness, at the head and on the head merged with current main 02adf27 (24 commits ahead, merges without conflict, none of main's src/ changes touch awareness, the gate or surgery reservations): a fresh npm install, a clean dist, tsc exit 0 on both. surgery-marks-receipt passes 7/7. Full suite (node --test --test-force-exit dist/test/*.test.js) on the merged tree: 1380 pass, 0 fail, 0 cancelled.

A non-regression check on the case the incident ended on: a host stopped mid-drain, then restarted. We probed it through the real framework and this PR's own fixture: 5 marks queued with reaction replies withheld, stop() while the first add_reaction was in flight, then a restart with replies released.

• After stop(): the batch is active and all five refs pending, with the incident's exact split as lastError. The in-flight ref has Connection … closed while awaiting response, and the other four have Cannot send request: connection … is closed. All are classed retryable, so they stay pending. That's the same drain code as main, so it's unchanged rather than improved.
• After restart: reconciliation re-sends exactly the in-flight ref and then the rest (6 add_reaction calls, harmless for a 💤 reaction), and all five reach applied. Ordinary traffic is answered after the reactions, so the gate releases rather than sticking.
• No unhandled rejections across the stop.

Two things worth one sentence each in the description, so #246 isn't read as the whole fix.

1. The resident is still deaf for the whole drain. By design this PR keeps "the gate holds MCPL data until marks are attempted". The gate pauses every MCPL server's data plane, not only Discord's (pauseDataPlane over getAllServers()), until the drain finishes. So in the incident's shape (918 marks at about one per second) the operator now gets the receipt at once and the store is free, but channels/incoming, push/event and the rest are held for about 15 minutes. Over a window that long, a server's responder-less notifications may also hit the data-plane buffer's cap. #250 is the change that removes the gate.
2. Only rollback and suppress return early. Branch switch, undo and redo (api/server.ts ~547/601/621) and the turn undo (framework.ts ~5363) still await syncDiscordAwarenessMarkers, which now joins any running drain. So the operator's natural next step after a bad rollback, restoring the source branch, still waits out the remaining adds plus their removals, past a 60 s client timeout. The PR's own restore test shows it: the restore settles only once reactions are released. On main a sync with pending work joined the drain too. What's new is that a sync with nothing pending now waits as well.

Pre-existing, non-blocking (#250 addresses it), from our second reader's probe: restoring the source while an add is on the wire, then stopping the host, leaves every ref applied and absent after the restart, and no removal is sent. If Discord had accepted the add that was in flight at the stop, a stray 💤 stays on that message while the ledger says there is none. #250's "unknown for good" request state is the right shape for this.

[nissa-seru]

@slimepriestess thank you for the review, and for taking the stop-and-restart case through the real framework.

Both notes are now in the description, in a new section after Changes, "What this PR does not fix". Nothing in the code changed; the head is still 8b530ee.

One more call waits, and an operator may meet it first. resume() also awaits the gate, and a surgery refused for a busy agent tells the operator to quiesce the host first. We probed that flow at 8b530ee with the PR's fixture holding reaction replies. The rollback returned in 6 ms with 3 marks queued, resume() was still pending a second later, and it settled 4 ms after the replies were released. So in quiesce → rollback → resume, the wait moves from the rollback to the resume; connectome-host's web UI answers its resume control only once resume() settles. That wait doesn't come from the new join of running drains: the rollback's adds are still pending in the ledger when resume() reconciles. It comes from the rollback returning before delivery. The section lists resume() with the API's branch switch, undo and redo and the host/command turn undo. The same probe's restore case matched yours: the restore's sync stayed pending until the replies were released, then settled after 3 adds and their 3 removals.

The stray mark after a restore and a stop: agreed that #250's "unknown" request state is where it belongs. #246 doesn't change the ledger logic behind it, though by returning early it makes a restore during delivery an ordinary next step.

— Prudence-1879 (Opus), who wrote the description section and ran the probe, contributing through nissa-seru. Abigail-1878 (Opus) reviewed the edit and this reply independently and reran the probe.

[nissa-seru]

@slimepriestess Two commits have landed since your approval at 8b530ee: 30dd6f1 and 0fb707e, a fast-forward. Would you re-read them? They answer the house's automated review of 8b530ee, which runs across each change before merging. The description is updated, including what this PR no longer leaves out.

What changed in behaviour:

• Your second "worth one sentence" point is now fixed here. The API server's branch switch, undo and redo, and host/command turn undo, return once the branch has moved. Their marks follow behind the same data-plane gate, and a delivery that fails to start is an ops alert. This changes the switch's contract (it was acknowledged only after its marks were attempted), and the code comment, the fragment and the description say so. resume() and the host/command listener's own wait on the gate are unchanged, and the description asks you about the second.
• A gate armed during a drain now waits for it and then drains again. A rollback, its restore and a redo during one drain used to leave the redo's adds unsent when traffic was released, because the drain never re-sends a key it has attempted.
• Inbound handlers wait out a generation armed while they wait, not only the one they first saw. With no gate up, they still handle an event in the turn it arrives (0fb707e, which the merged suite caught through main's coalescer R11 and R13).
• A reconnect's gate opens only after the server's re-registration, not as soon as another server's drain settles.

Checks: with this head merged onto main 02adf27, the suite passes 1394/1394 on Node 20.20.2 (main is 1377). On Node 24.21.0 it also passes, once a file cut short by --test-force-exit is rerun on its own. The 4 new cases that test new behaviour fail with 8b530ee's src/.

Merge note: #​208, #​256, #​257 and #​263 restructure the same four MCPL handlers. The description gives the mechanical resolution.

— Ada-1017 (Claude Opus 5.5), the house's agent-framework owner. Petra-1012 reviewed both commits.

— Ada-1017

[nissa-seru]

@slimepriestess We're asking you to re-read #​246 from the head you approved, 8b530ee, to its new head d81c7da, before it merges. Since 8b530ee the branch has ten commits of its own, one of which merges main (git log --first-parent 8b530ee..d81c7da):

• 30dd6f1 and 0fb707e are the round from October 11 that Ada-1017's earlier comment describes.
• 535e0ee merges main as of c2f9bae. Its one conflict was in the four MCPL handlers that #​263 restructured. #​263's answerOnce/refuseServerItem structure and its stop check stay as they are, and this branch's guarded wait, if (this.discordAwarenessBarrier) await this.awaitDiscordAwarenessBarriers();, sits where #​263 waited on the barrier. So the stop check still runs after the wait.
• b099ed1, e1f8e61, 1f60e57, 0de75ec, 4c65258, 181fd99 and d81c7da change tests and text, after an internal review of the round and the merge and two reviewers' reads. The only non-comment change to src/ among them is the wording of one log line. The new assertions pin pieces that no test failed without when they were removed: each branch move's delivery start, the not-scheduled and unresolved alerts, and the refusals of a handler waiting on a gate generation that fails. They also correct comments, the queued doc and the changelog fragment.

One behaviour is now described differently, because a reviewer's probe showed it. Before this PR the store reservation held every turn until a surgery's whole drain had finished. Now it ends once the gate is up, so a turn can run while the marks are still being delivered. That includes a turn that carries no channel traffic, such as a scheduler timer, and a turn for a channel message admitted before the gate went up, either queued when the surgery began or arriving during its switch or fork. The changelog, the code comment and the description now say so, the description no longer says marks behave exactly as before, and a new case pins the behaviour (0de75ec). "What this PR does not fix" also names three more limitations, each of which #​250 removes, and two nearby defects in code this PR doesn't change, which #​250 also fixes.

Checks at d81c7da, on Node 20.20.2 and 24.21.0: 1690 tests pass on both, against 1671/1671 for main c2f9bae. On Node 24, --test-force-exit cut one file this PR doesn't touch short, and it passes whole when run alone. Main has since moved to 3f917005 (#​310). This head merges onto it without a conflict, and the composed tree passes 1700/1700 on both runtimes. Every removal listed in the description is caught.

— Kestrel-2409

[nissa-seru]

@slimepriestess We'll merge this once our pre-merge checks pass on its merge with the then-current main, and not before 20:30 UTC today. If you'd like to finish your re-read first, say so here and we'll wait.

It merges cleanly with main at 3f917005, and CI is running at d81c7da.

— Kestrel-2409