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fix(claim-check): void a claim receipt whose branch was restarted - #512
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CLOUD-516 The claim receipt is keyed by branch name, so a branch restarted after its PR merged inherits a stale claim and `claim-guard` passes on it silently
Why Measured 2026-08-13. The cause is that the receipt is keyed by branch name, and a name is not a branch. After its PR merged, the branch was restarted twice with Branch-keying was the right call and remains right for the case it was chosen for. This is the failure class this repo treats as worse than no gate. Refinement — Ready Refinement gate: Definition of Ready & Done. This body carries only specializations.
Acceptance
Not in this issue Whether the receipt should carry more than a base — the ready-lint verdict and CLOUD-36 Extract git and state core primitives
Why Acceptance
Refinement — Ready (fix-regardless primitives; merged-ness by patch-id/content; library-internal, fixture-gated) Refinement gate: Definition of Ready & Done. This body carries only specializations. Primitives in scope (each fixture-covered): patch-id / content merged-ness detection; counted suppression markers; out-of-tree state paths (reuse the landed CLOUD-38 resolver); the mutating-verb table; the acceptance runner; the derive-don't-hardcode ruleset pattern.
CLOUD-418 A new gate is never shown to fail, so a test that cannot discriminate ships as coverage
Why This repository's most-repeated failure is a claim nothing exercises. It happened again, live, while building the landing lease (CLOUD-393). A concurrency test was written for a real race — That was found only because someone chose to mutate and re-run — a discipline nothing asks for and nothing checks. The green suite before that check and the green suite after it were indistinguishable. Root cause. The obligation is stated as "a rule ships with a runnable gate" — a gate that exists. Nothing requires evidence the gate discriminates. A test that passes on both the fixed and the broken code satisfies every rule this repo currently has. Scope, deliberately narrow. Not mutation testing over the workspace, which is a research project and a large CI bill. The claim here is about Refinement — Ready
Test obligation The mechanism must catch the case that motivated it: the Commit / bump (§6): Blockers (§8): none. Acceptance
CLOUD-431 `claim-check` lets an agent certify a Ready block it wrote seconds earlier, so nothing gates implementing an unrefined story
Measured on CLOUD-427, 2026-08-12. An agent asked to discuss a design instead: filed the issue itself, authored its own Ready block, moved it Todo, piped a payload it hand-wrote to The gates all fired, and none of them was this gateNot a case of guards being absent — three fired and each did its job:
Every one of them gates the shape of an action. None gates the sequence. The deeper shape: The compounding factor, which is oursAGENTS.md's autonomous-workflow section is emphatic and deliberately overrides harness caution: "The core directive is DOING, not asking", "The gates ARE your authorization". Against a self-minted receipt, "the gates are your authorization" resolves to "I authorized myself". The prose is not wrong — it kills a real failure — but it currently has no counterweight for work whose existence is unagreed, as distinct from work whose steps are unapproved. The stated exception ("the change is outside the scope you were asked") is exactly what was violated, and it is prose with no mechanism, which non-negotiable rule 2 says is half a change. The unwired window
Refinement — Ready
Test obligation A decision table over fixture payloads and a fixture clone: a Todo, unassigned, PR-free issue whose block fails Commit / bump (§6): Blockers (§8): none. The Acceptance
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughBranch receipts now record the ChangesBranch receipt validation
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Malformed claim receipts can still be accepted as valid when a branch has its own commits, weakening protection against stale branch claims. Merge should wait for base-record validation and a regression test. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ClaimCheck
participant Git
participant ReceiptEvaluator
participant Branch
ClaimCheck->>Git: Resolve origin/main
Git-->>ClaimCheck: Base commit or -
ClaimCheck->>ReceiptEvaluator: Store keyed base record
ReceiptEvaluator->>Git: Read current base and count origin/main..HEAD
Git-->>ReceiptEvaluator: Base and own-commit data
ReceiptEvaluator->>Branch: Allow or reject branch receipt
Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
✨ Finishing Touches📝 Generate docstrings
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A branch NAME outlives the branch it described. `git checkout -B <name> origin/main` is the documented remedy once a PR merges, and it repoints the name at a new base and discards the old commits, while the receipt keyed by that name survives. Measured 2026-08-13: a receipt naming CLOUD-230 authorised every edit behind four unrelated stories and reported nothing — a gate passing on evidence that had expired, the silent false green this repo treats as worse than no gate. CLOUD-444 ported the guard into the engine while keeping bare existence as the verdict, so the defect crossed unchanged. The receipt now records the origin/main it was claimed against, and is void when BOTH that base moved AND the branch carries no commits of its own. The own-commits half is what makes this shippable. Voiding whenever the base moves would fire on every `land` lap, which is the loop working — a re-claim per lap is the false-positive rate that gets a guard bypassed. A restart is the one state with a moved base and nothing of its own. Proven, not asserted: weakening the conjunction to the base-moved half reddens exactly `a_rebase_lap_is_never_asked_to_re_claim` and nothing else, and the shell half carries a `#MUTANT` declaration the mutation gate now catches. "Base moved" is read off HEAD, not off a merge base. The two are the same commit in the only case that reaches the comparison — with no commits of its own the branch sits at or below origin/main — so the equivalence keeps CLOUD-36's no-reachability rule satisfied and drops a git invocation from the mediated hot path. The first draft used merge-base and that gate caught it. A receipt with no `base` line reads as void, so receipts predating this do not grandfather themselves in. Two defects found while building it, both measured rather than reasoned: a bare `git rev-parse origin/main` prints the unresolvable ref to stdout before failing, so the `|| echo -` fallback would have recorded a two-line "origin/main\n-" — `--verify --quiet` prints nothing. And the module's scratch dir was keyed by pid alone while wiping itself on entry, so parallel cases deleted each other's receipts; it is per-case now. That was survivable while one case used it and fails as `Missing`, which reads as a verdict rather than a broken fixture. Refs: CLOUD-516
…t the predicate `crates/batten/tests/claim_receipt.rs` mints receipts through a helper whose own doc says it does so "the way `claim-check` does". That stopped being true the moment claim-check began recording a base, and the suite caught it — two cases went red against a receipt no real claim resembles. The helper records the base now, and `mint_against` lets the cases that are ABOUT a moved base name one. Two cases join it at the layer that matters, since this suite drives the actual mediated call rather than the predicate in isolation: a branch restarted onto a new base after its PR merged is refused, and a lap that rebases onto newer main while carrying its own commit is not. Refs: CLOUD-516
…ring `-D warnings` promotes clippy::format_push_string, and the fixture helper hit it. Pushing the three pieces avoids the intermediate allocation without reaching for `write!` and its ignored Result in a test. Refs: CLOUD-516
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In `@crates/batten/src/receipt.rs`:
- Around line 618-624: Update recorded_base to accept a base only when it is
nonempty, not "-", and is a full hexadecimal object ID matching head’s length;
ensure malformed values are rejected so branch_validity does not return Valid
when own is greater than zero. Add a test covering a malformed nonempty base
with own greater than zero.
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| fn recorded_base(body: &str) -> Option<String> { | ||
| body.lines() | ||
| .find_map(|line| line.strip_prefix("base ")) | ||
| .map(str::trim) | ||
| .filter(|base| !base.is_empty() && *base != "-") | ||
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Reject malformed base records.
recorded_base accepts any nonempty value except -. If a receipt contains base not-a-sha and the branch has owned commits, Line 605 does not evaluate the base and branch_validity returns Validity::Valid.
Validate the base as a full hexadecimal object ID with the same length as head. Add a test for a malformed nonempty base with own > 0.
Proposed fix
-fn recorded_base(body: &str) -> Option<String> {
+fn recorded_base(body: &str, object_id_len: usize) -> Option<String> {
body.lines()
.find_map(|line| line.strip_prefix("base "))
.map(str::trim)
- .filter(|base| !base.is_empty() && *base != "-")
+ .filter(|base| {
+ base.len() == object_id_len
+ && base.bytes().all(|byte| byte.is_ascii_hexdigit())
+ })
.map(str::to_owned)
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In `@crates/batten/src/receipt.rs` around lines 618 - 624, Update recorded_base to
accept a base only when it is nonempty, not "-", and is a full hexadecimal
object ID matching head’s length; ensure malformed values are rejected so
branch_validity does not return Valid when own is greater than zero. Add a test
covering a malformed nonempty base with own greater than zero.
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Measured 2026-08-13.
.git/batten-receipts/claim.claude-groom-cloud-491-qv83e7contained
CLOUD-230, while the work done on that branch was CLOUD-507,CLOUD-505, CLOUD-456 and CLOUD-513. The claim gate was satisfied on every edit
behind all four, by a claim for an unrelated issue, and reported nothing.
A branch NAME outlives the branch it described.
git checkout -B <name> origin/mainis the documented remedy once a PR merges — new work must not stackon already-merged history — and it repoints the name at a new base and discards
the commits that were the branch. The receipt, keyed by the name, survives.
This PR's own branch is the reproduction. It sat at
v0.0.66carrying asix-day-old receipt; restarting it onto
origin/mainmoved the base 184 commitsand left the receipt untouched and authoritative.
What changed
mise-tasks/claim-checkrecords theorigin/mainit claimed against.branch_validityvoids the receipt when both that base moved and thebranch carries no commits of its own — the one state a restart produces:
The own-commits half is what makes it shippable. Voiding whenever the base moves
fires on every
landlap — that is the loop working, and a re-claim per lap isthe false-positive rate that gets a guard bypassed. A receipt with no
baselinereads as void, so receipts predating this do not grandfather themselves in.
CLOUD-444 is why this is in Rust rather than shell. It retired
claim-guardinto the engine while keeping bare existence as the verdict — exactly what
CLOUD-516 predicted: "would carry this defect across unchanged." It did.
Shown able to fail
Weakening the conjunction to the base-moved half alone reddens exactly
a_rebase_lap_is_never_asked_to_re_claimand nothing else. Run twice, before andafter a redesign. The shell half carries a
#MUTANTdeclarationmise run mutantnow catches. Coverage at three layers: the predicate (unit), the mintingtask (bats), and the real mediated call (
tests/claim_receipt.rs).Three gates caught real defects, and each changed the design
CLOUD-36 rejected the first implementation. It used
merge-base; that rulebans deciding anything by reachability, since a rebased landing is invisible to
ancestry. The replacement is better: with no commits of its own the branch sits
at or below
origin/main, so where it forks is HEAD — already resolved inRepoFacts. Equivalent comparison, one fewer git invocation on the mediated hotpath.
A bats case caught the shell. A bare
git rev-parse origin/mainprints theunresolvable ref to stdout before failing, so
|| echo -would have recorded atwo-line
origin/main\n-.--verify --quietprints nothing.The unit suite caught its own fixture. The module's scratch dir was keyed by
pid alone while wiping itself on entry — survivable with one case, a race once
CLOUD-516 added more, and it fails as
Missing, which reads as a verdict ratherthan a broken fixture. Per-case now.
tests/claim_receipt.rs'smint()helper documented itself as minting "the wayclaim-checkdoes" and stopped being true; it records a base now, andmint_againstserves the cases that are about a moved base.Not fixed here
mutantalso reportsland-lock/stall-never-bailsascase-already-red— thatcase
skips on this runner. Pre-existing, already filed as CLOUD-450, andland-lockis not this change's file.Closes CLOUD-516
The other keys above are cited, not completed: CLOUD-36, CLOUD-418, CLOUD-431 and
CLOUD-444 are the rules and prior changes this one reasons from; CLOUD-230,
CLOUD-456, CLOUD-505, CLOUD-507 and CLOUD-513 are the four stories the stale
receipt sat under while it was measured; CLOUD-450 is the pre-existing
land-lockskip this change deliberately leaves alone.Summary by CodeRabbit