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CLOUD-191 Resolve the connector allowlist per call, from committed policy, whatever name the host chose
CORRECTION 2026-08-21 — the ALLOW arm cannot work for the toolbox server, and no name translation fixes itSearched upstream rather than re-derived. The 2026-08-18 correction below concluded that the toolbox server ( anthropics/claude-code#76264 (open;
Point 2 is this issue's allow arm and point 3 is this issue's mechanism. There is a second, independent upstream defect on the same path: the CCR proxy ( Measured locally the same day, and it is the recognisable tell: the injected config gives Linear 57 What survives of this issue
Do not re-derive this againThis has now been rediscovered by experiment in at least three sessions, each ending in advice to change a setting that does not exist. CORRECTION 2026-08-18 — the retraction below was itself wrong. This issue stands, with a narrower scope.The "RETRACTED" section further down withdrew this issue on the strength of CLOUD-665's typo diagnosis. CLOUD-665 is false and is now Canceled. The CLI's MCP log tree sanitizes every non-alphanumeric character in a server name to a hyphen before using it as a directory name — The flip is the cause, and this issue's mechanism is the right answer to it. What survives from the detour, and it is the useful half, is the split between the two kinds of server:
So the original reasoning was right about the mechanism and wrong about the victim. An allowlist naming only the readable form does not deny Linear calls; it denies toolbox-server calls, during whichever episodes expose UUIDs. Five allow rules grant nothing and two deny rules enforce nothing for the length of that episode — and the deny side is the worse half, because AGENTS.md's ban on babysitting timers rests on The Ready block below is rewritten to that scope. The original, which reasoned in terms of Linear, is preserved under "Superseded Ready block" for the record. ReadyRefinement gate: Definition of Ready & Done. This body carries only specializations. There is no durable machine. Every session runs in a container that is reclaimed, so a fix written to
Ready predicateA session in which the toolbox server is exposed under a name no committed allow rule matches still has that server's committed allow verbs permitted and its committed deny verbs refused, without a human editing settings and without any UUID appearing in a tracked file. Done
Superseded Ready blockKept for the record; it reasoned in terms of Linear, which the correction above shows is not governed by this allowlist at all. There is no durable machine. Every session runs in a container that is reclaimed, so a fix written to The connector's exposed name is chosen per registration episode, and observation now shows the flip is bidirectional — a single session went readable → UUID → readable. So the failure has no monotone boundary: an allowlist naming only the readable form is correct during whichever episodes land on it, and silently denies every Linear call during the others. The identity is discoverable, so no identifier needs committingThe host writes its injected MCP configuration to That makes a self-healing repair possible with no account-specific identifier in git: read the injected config, derive the server keys present, emit allow rules for them. The mechanism is portable to any account and any fork, and it repairs whichever name the current episode chose. Ready predicateA session that receives connectors under a name no committed allow rule matches reaches a state where Linear calls are permitted, without a human editing settings and without any UUID appearing in a tracked file. Blockers (§8)None. Open questions, in the order they gate the work
RETRACTED — and this retraction is ITSELF retracted (see the correction at the top)The section below withdrew this issue on the strength of CLOUD-665's typo diagnosis, which is false: the log tree sanitizes separators, there was never a misspelling, and the flip is the cause after all. The section is kept verbatim because the reasoning error is the useful part — it is not current. One thing in it is still true and worth keeping: nothing shipped. No Everything from here to the end of the "Done" list is withdrawn. It was written, committed, and reset out of the branch before merging; no ✗ FALSE — there was no typo. CLOUD-665 is Canceled; see the correction at the top. ~~The defect that was actually denying ~~ ✗ HALF FALSE — right about Linear, wrong about the conclusion. The connector/toolbox split below is correct and is the useful residue; what does not follow is that this issue dies, since the toolbox server genuinely is governed by ✗ SUPERSEDED — the Ready predicate has been rewritten to the toolbox-server scope at the top, so this no longer describes the issue. Original text: So the Ready predicate is unreachable as written — "a session that receives connectors under a name no committed allow rule matches reaches a state where Linear calls are permitted" describes a state that already holds for reasons unrelated to any allow rule. Back to Todo, unassigned, and it needs re-refining against what is now known before anyone builds again. What may remain: whether the toolbox server's rule matching survives a mid-session flip once the spelling is right. That is a real question and it is much smaller than this issue. RETRACTED: What shipped, and where it differs from the specification aboveThe premise held and the mechanism changed. The Ready block reasoned that the live identity is discoverable, so nothing account-specific needs committing — correct, and the missing half was which discoverable thing to anchor on. Not the key: each entry's
It is a name translation, not a grant. Done
RETRACTED — this residue was residue of the retracted mechanism. CLOUD-663 is being closed as not-a-finding: the memory text it carries describes the same wrong model. The underlying observation it made — that the protected-path gate's redirect names a surface which may not have attached — is real and stands on its own, and is recorded there. Original text follows.
Watch: what a later session needs to pick this upThe trigger is not observable to an agent as a prompt — an agent cannot see its own approval prompts. What it can observe:
So the observation to record, each time it is taken: the session's live connector keys, which form the tool names took, and whether a call succeeded or was denied. Appended to CLOUD-178, which is the evidence thread and is durable when the container is not. That series is what open question 2 needs. It cannot be answered from a single session, and no session so far has recorded it in a form the next one can read. CLOUD-178 claude.ai connector tools flip between readable and UUID names, silently breaking the permission allowlist
Split out of CLOUD-177, which is Done on its own scope. Evidence thread: the comments on CLOUD-177, in particular the final correction establishing verdict (a). ReadyA claude.ai connector MCP server is exposed to a session under two different names over its lifetime, and a permission allow rule can only name one of them. At session start the Linear connector appears as This hits the board-in-lockstep rule directly: moving a Measured, across two containers
Verdict: the UUID is stable and equal across containers. It is a durable identity for the connector; what varies is which of the two names is live at a given moment. This was initially mis-called as "unstable per boot" from a session that had not yet reconnected — absence of a reconnect is not evidence of naming stability, and any future measurement here needs to span at least one reconnect to say anything. Confirmed load-bearing, not cosmetic: a Note this is a second, independent defect from the one that originally masked it: an org-level Ready predicateA session survives a connector reconnect with Linear calls still auto-approved — no prompt on a Done (proposed)
"mcp__Linear",
"mcp__4db58e41-cd4e-4818-8922-46cf616593f4"
Open questions
A fourth connector, measured 2026-08-19, and it is NOT LinearThe injected config in one remote session ( The symptom that surfaced it: This is the first instance where the affected connector is the one the fleet procedure runs on.
Mitigation applied, user-level only (repo rule 1, and the Done section's reasoning above): One trap worth recording, because the obvious form of this mitigation is unsafe. A wildcard grant ( A second open question is now partly answered. The readable-phase test PR #488 called for has now run, and it FAILED — so the flip is not the only causePR #488 closed with an explicit outstanding test: "This session is in the UUID-exposure phase, where no readable-name rule matches either, so the fix cannot be exercised here. The next session that starts in the readable phase is the test." That session has happened. It started in the readable phase, and the corrected spelling did not stop the prompting.
Name, spelling and rule matched exactly, and the call prompted anyway. So the two-name flip is not sufficient to explain the prompting, and neither is the retired typo theory. Something above The candidate, recorded as a hypothesis and NOT as a finding. This session ran What this bounds. CLOUD-191's resolver — built today — repairs the UUID episode, and that repair is real and independently worth having, because during such an episode the two committed denies enforce nothing and AGENTS.md's ban on babysitting timers rests on them. But it cannot repair the readable phase, because in that phase there is no name mismatch to translate. A session that lands CLOUD-191 and still sees prompts under the readable name has not found a regression — it has found this, and should add its observation here rather than re-diagnosing the flip. Why the repo cannot fix this itselfIn Claude Code on the web, connectors are "provisioned by the remote host and arrive as explicit Generated by Claude Code CLOUD-843 The retirement campaign has no row: eight capability rows cite "so the 79 gates have somewhere to migrate onto", and nothing owns the migration — measured, the bash grew today
Why Eight rows in this campaign are justified by a migration nobody owns. CLOUD-833's title is literally "so none of the 79 gate-described mise-tasks has a surface to migrate onto"; CLOUD-832 exists so a bundle can carry 79 predicates; CLOUD-807 built the permit that lets a suite die with its subject. CLOUD-312 owns the 11 hook bodies and only those. The 82 gate-described Measured on
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| Surface | Morning | Now | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
mise-tasks/ files |
133 | 136 | +3 |
mise-tasks/ lines |
27,799 | 28,590 | +791 |
| gate-described tasks | 79 | 82 | +3 |
tests/*.bats lines |
34,654 | 36,052 | +1,398 |
| bats cases | 2,485 | 2,548 | +63 |
| gate tasks migrated | — | 0 | — |
kind = "policy" rows |
0 | 1 — and it is trunk-based-preset, a vendored preset, not a migrated gate |
One bash file was retired all day: .claude/hooks/batten-hook.sh, 65 lines (CLOUD-824). Against +791 lines added. The campaign to delete bash added bash, and nothing on the board was positioned to notice, because no row carries the number.
The classification, by what each task invokes
Not by substring. A string scan over these files put ci-local-parity and pipefail-grep-check in the forge bucket — the same instrument that counted 14 spawn sites where name resolution found 9 (CLOUD-743). Classified instead by the external programs each task actually invokes in command position:
| bucket | count | can it migrate? |
|---|---|---|
tree — no git, no forge, no build |
22 | yes, on CLOUD-833's tree surface, today |
| git facts | 50 | needs a git fact on the tree document; scope unproven |
| build/bench | 3 | probably never — they run cargo/hyperfine |
| forge | 7 | last, and some may legitimately stay |
The 50 is the number that matters and it was not expected: this is a git policy engine, so most gates read git. The "79 gates become Rego rows" framing every capability row inherited is unproven for 60 of the 82. That is this row's first deliverable to settle, not assume.
The pilot
mise-pin-agreement — "every tool version named in .mcp.json agrees with mise.toml's pin — the second place a pin is written cannot drift from the first".
Chosen on data: 107 lines of bash, 10 cases, 108 lines of bats — the smallest of the structured-document gates. Both inputs are formats Fact::Document already parses (CLOUD-772: TOML/YAML/JSON/JSON5), and the predicate is agreement between two parsed trees, which is what Rego is for. No git, no spawn, no stdin.
It also carries no #MUTANT directive, so it is one of CLOUD-480's undeclared gates. Migrating it should add a declared mutation — coverage improves as a side effect rather than degrading.
Rejected as pilot: no-docs-tree, which an earlier plan named. It is not a mise-tasks/ program at all — it is a batten.toml rule in the hk gate. Recorded because the name was carried in prose across three documents before anyone checked the tree.
Sequencing, and the one trap
- Settle the 50. Determine what a git-fact gate needs on the tree surface. Until then "79 gates migrate" is an estimate, not a plan.
- CLOUD-835 lands — the destination for the 1,570 bats cases.
- The pilot, end to end, one gate: Rego module,
test_rules, delete the task and its suite, MUTANT declared. The pilot converts the estimate into a measured cost per gate. Do not batch before it. - Waves by bucket, cheapest first.
The trap, and it is new as of today. CLOUD-807 landed retires_with, so a suite may now be deleted exactly when its declared subject dies. That is correct and it was the precondition for retiring anything — but it makes migrating without CLOUD-835 worse, not better. The ratchet will admit deleting a suite whose task died, with nothing asserting the Rego that replaced it. The permit made coverage evaporation quiet. 835 is a hard blocker, not a nicety.
Refinement — Ready
Refinement gate: Definition of Ready & Done. This body carries only specializations.
- Source of truth (§1). The tree. The census below is the authority on progress, not a burndown restated anywhere;
batten.tomlowns which gates are policy rows andmise-tasks/owns which are still bash. No second list of what has migrated. - Computable predicate (§2). The census, re-run at every wave boundary:
ls mise-tasks/ | wc -l ; cat mise-tasks/* | wc -l
grep -l '#MISE description="Gate' mise-tasks/* | wc -l
ls tests/*.bats | wc -l ; cat tests/*.bats | wc -l ; grep -h '^@test' tests/*.bats | wc -l
grep -c 'kind = "policy"' batten.toml
A wave that does not move these down has retired nothing, whatever else it landed. That predicate is the whole point of this row existing: today's +791 was invisible because nothing computed it.
- Effect (§3).
read— migration moves predicates between surfaces; no verb is added and no rule kind'sAuthoritychanges. - Generated artifacts (§4).
schema/batten.schema.jsononly if a row key changes; the per-wavebatten.tomlrows are authored.derived-checkandschema-checkgate both. - Output & exit (§5). Unchanged — a migrated gate keeps its exit contract, and a Rego predicate reports pointer-only by construction. A migrated gate's refusal text must still name its remedy (CLOUD-437); a
msgthat lost the remedy in translation is a regression the bats case would not catch. - Commit / bump (§6).
refactorper wave — no bump. The answers are identical by construction; a wave that changes a verdict is not a migration. - Test obligation (§7). Per wave, and the pilot establishes the shape: (a) every case in the retired suite has a
test_rule that fails when the predicate is wrong; (b) the retired task and its suite are both gone, admitted byretires_withbecause the subject died; (c) the gate's declared mutation is caught bymise run mutant— formise-pin-agreementthat is a mutation it does not have today; (d) the census moves down by the retired count, asserted rather than eyeballed. - Blockers (§8).
blockedByCLOUD-835 — see the trap above; without a test destination the permit lets coverage disappear silently.relatedToCLOUD-833 (the surface, landed), CLOUD-832 (predicate ids, landed), CLOUD-807 (the permit, landed), CLOUD-312 (the 11 hook bodies — the other half of the retirement, and not this row), CLOUD-480 (the undeclared gates a migration should shrink), CLOUD-772 (the document substrate the tree bucket consumes), CLOUD-839 (the capability dispatch that bought the machinery).
Acceptance
- The 50 git-fact gates have a stated verdict: migratable on a named fact, or not, with the reason.
mise-pin-agreementis a policy row; its task and suite are deleted;mutantcatches its declared mutation; the census is down by one gate and ~215 lines.- The measured cost per gate from the pilot is recorded here, and the waves are sized from it rather than from the count.
- Every wave re-runs the census and records the delta.
Found while auditing what the CLOUD-839 fleet landed, by asking the question the capability rows never had to answer: how much bash actually went away.
PRESSURE-TESTED 2026-08-21 — wave 1 cannot dispatch yet, and the reason is a run rather than a reading
CLOUD-835 landed (62719ff, v0.0.100), so the blocker in the trap above is cleared and the 1,570 cases have a destination. Before dispatching a wave on that, the path was walked end to end against the release binary in a throwaway git fixture. It does not hold yet.
What the run showed
Two modules in one enabled bundle. One copied verbatim from policy.rs's own module doc; one written against what rules::tree_document actually builds. A stray.o tracked. Each with a test_ rule in the shape the vendored presets use.
$ batten policy test
policy test: 1 bundle(s), 2 passed, 0 failed EXIT: 0
$ batten check
policy/ msrv-must-be-pinned EXIT: 2
The doc-shaped module passes its test and gates nothing. input.tree.tracked is documented at policy.rs:143-147 and never emitted — tree_document builds documents and missing, and nothing else. Rego makes the failure silent: iterating an undefined path yields no violations, so a dead gate and a clean tree are byte-identical. The test_ rule passes because with input as lets the author fabricate the very shape the engine cannot produce.
That is CLOUD-845, and it is a hard blocker on this row rather than tidy-up: every wave-1 agent starts from that doc, and combined with retires_with the failure mode is green tests, silent gate, deleted bash task that used to work. Ten gates migrated that way would show the census going down while enforcing nothing — the exact number this row exists to make honest.
And wave 1 is smaller than the bucket count suggests
The 20-odd tree gates were re-read by what they open, not by what they invoke. Fact::Document parses TOML, YAML, JSON, JSON5 — and Pkl, declarable-never-parsed.
| reads | gates | migratable |
|---|---|---|
| structured config only | 8 | yes |
| markdown | 4 | no |
.bats / .rs / .pkl text |
5 | no |
| no file literals | 3 | partly — needs the tracked list |
That is CLOUD-846. Wave 1 is 8, not 22. The pilot mise-pin-agreement is in the 8 and is unaffected — both its inputs are parsed formats — so the pilot choice above stands.
BUNDLE W0 — the unblocker. Dispatch-ready now.
Both rows are unblocked, both are rules.rs / facts.rs / policy.rs / schema — one file domain, so one agent, one branch, one draft PR, per CLOUD-839's sizing. Nothing else in the campaign can start until it lands.
Superseded 2026-08-21 by the six-bundle dispatch at the foot of this row. W0's chain grew from two rows to five once the acquisition boundary was traced (CLOUD-849/850/851); it is now bundle A there. The prompt below is still accurate for the 845→846 half and is kept because bundle A's prompt builds on it.
| # | Chain | File domain | PR shape |
|---|---|---|---|
| W0 unblock-migration | CLOUD-845 → CLOUD-846 | rules.rs (tree_document), policy.rs (module doc + policy test), facts.rs, git.rs (list_tree), schema/* |
1 PR |
845 first: it fixes the input the doc promises and closes the false-green class. 846 then adds the lines fact on top of a tree_document that is already correct, and its §5 assertion (a finding may see a line, never carry one) is easier to state once 845's input-shape check exists.
W0 unlocks wave 1 at 8 gates. It does not unlock the other 12: those wait on 846's lines fact landing and being demonstrated, which is 846's own acceptance (d).
Dispatch prompt — one paste, self-contained
You are bundle W0 of the CLOUD-843 bash-retirement campaign in the Batten repo. Read
CLOUD-843 first: it carries the census, the bucket classification and the pilot choice.
Nothing else in the campaign can start until your PR lands.
YOUR CHAIN - one branch, one draft PR, landed in this order:
CLOUD-845 -> CLOUD-846
CLOUD-845 first. There is a REPRODUCTION on that row - run it before you change anything,
and keep it as the test. Two modules in one bundle, one copied from policy.rs's module
doc and one written against what rules::tree_document actually builds: `batten policy
test` reports 2 passed, exit 0, while `batten check` reports only one predicate. The
doc-shaped gate is dead and its test is green.
Three parts, and the third is the one worth having:
- Emit `input.tree.tracked`. Do not just delete the doc example - a tracked-path list is
what a whole class of these gates needs. `git::list_tree` already exists at git.rs:784
and CLOUD-833 already uses it for bundle membership under --config-from. Bound it by
declaration the way `documents` is bounded; an ambient walk would make the `read`
classification a lie by degrees.
- Make policy.rs's module doc true, and assert it: every field its examples reference
exists in what tree_document emits. Same shape spawn_census.rs:216 uses against
clippy.toml. This defect is CLOUD-589's class recurring in the file that landed
CLOUD-831, which was filed for exactly it - so an assertion, not a careful edit.
- `batten policy test` refuses a `with input as` naming a key the engine cannot produce,
at exit 1 (config fault, not a policy verdict). This closes the CLASS. Without it every
field added to the input document reopens the same hole. CLOUD-834 is making the
document's keys the Fact variants asserted by exhaustive match - validate against that
same table, do not build a second list.
Then CLOUD-846 on the same branch: a lines fact, `input.tree.lines[<path>]`, so a module
can decide over a .bats or .md file. Lines rather than raw text, and the reason is rule 4
rather than convenience - a module may SEE a line, a finding may never CARRY one. Assert
that; it is the clause with teeth and the one that keeps pointer-only structural. A
declared path the tree lacks is could-not-look, never an empty array. Acceptance (d) is a
demonstration, not a claim: migrate one of the four markdown gates as proof.
CROSS-BUNDLE: you are the only branch in flight on this campaign. CLOUD-834 is In Progress
in the CLOUD-839 fleet and also touches the policy input document - it projects the Fact
variants into it. Coordinate through that row rather than racing it: if 834 lands first,
rebase and validate against the table it built.
WORKFLOW CONTRACT (AGENTS.md is authoritative; this is the summary):
- Claim by hand BEFORE writing code: `mise run claim-check`, and assign yourself. The
automation fires on the PR event, the end of the work, so waiting for it reserves nothing.
- `git fetch origin main`, short-lived branch, never author on main.
- Commit early and often. You are pre-authorized to commit and push without asking.
- Run the full `mise run verify` after EVERY commit. Local execution is free; a CI run is
metered and the landing lease is fleet-wide.
- Open the PR as a DRAFT immediately (`gh pr create --draft`). CI does not run on drafts.
- When the chain is complete: `mise run linear-check`, then `mise run land` backgrounded.
Do NOT ready by hand - land readies after its push. Do NOT wrap land in bespoke retry or
pre-check logic; main advancing under you is that loop working.
- Background anything that can exceed ~2 minutes; a foreground command is killed at ~2 min.
- Move the Linear row as you move the work. Carry the lifecycle to landed-and-verified
without stopping to report and wait.
Wave 1, after W0 lands
Eight structured-config gates, pilot first: mise-pin-agreement end to end — module, test_ rules, task and suite deleted, a #MUTANT directive declared where it has none today. The pilot converts the estimate into a measured cost per gate, and the waves are sized from that number rather than from the count. Do not batch before it.
A second thing the fixture run turned up, recorded here rather than filed because it is a one-line observation and its home is this campaign's tooling: the protected-path gate matches batten.toml by basename, so it refused writes to a fixture's batten.toml in a temp directory outside the repository — and the advertised BATTEN_GH_GUARD_BYPASS=1 did not take as an inline environment assignment. Every wave-1 agent will hand-build such a fixture. Whoever hits it should file it rather than work around it silently.
DISPATCH 2026-08-21 — six bundles, and the one lever that decides wall-clock
Gates per PR, not agents
The fleet-wide landing lease charges per land, not per gate — one branch spends CI at a time, ci p95 ≈ 701s.
| batching | lease acquisitions for 82 gates | pure landing time |
|---|---|---|
| one gate per PR | 82 | ~20 h |
| one wave per PR | 6 | ~1.5 h |
That 13× is the whole answer to "fastest", and every other choice is noise beside it. Migration is embarrassingly parallel per gate, which makes one-agent-per-gate the tempting and slowest schedule. Fan out the authoring, serialize the landing. Past ~8 concurrent PRs each extra worker adds landing time (every land forces every other branch to rebase) without removing work time, so do not dispatch 30.
Two tracks, run concurrently
The objective is 82 gate tasks and 11 hook bodies (CLOUD-312). They share almost nothing.
Track 2 has a free start: run-shape-guard is 630 lines, opens exactly one file (mise.toml), and is otherwise pure string analysis of command — which the envelope already carries. It needs no Document fact, so it is migratable now, before any capability lands. Earliest census movement available, one land. Its last two families need CLOUD-613, which is Backlog with no Ready block.
The bundles
| # | Bundle | Rows, in order | File domain | Why together |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | Acquisition — the long pole, gates all of track 1 | CLOUD-849 → 845 → 850 → 846 → 851 | rules.rs, facts.rs, policy.rs, schema/ |
A strict chain on one function; splitting means agents rebasing onto each other's edits to tree_document |
| B | Ready-block gate family | CLOUD-852 → 842 → 595 → 826 → 751 | mise-tasks/ready-lint, tests/ready-lint.bats |
Five rows, one 35-line §6 block. Any split is a guaranteed conflict for zero parallelism |
| C | Board-gate wiring | CLOUD-825 | the seven board gates + their invokers | Disjoint from B; released is fed /dev/null and three gates have no invoker |
| D | Hook surface | CLOUD-461 → 525 | hook.rs, lib.rs, doctor |
The two capabilities gating contract-drift and stop-guard retirement — the hook half |
| E | Envelope content fact | CLOUD-758 | hook.rs, facts.rs |
Prospective Write/Edit content; the hook bodies reading tool_input need it. Folds into D if the fleet is cut to five |
| F | Instruments + base ref | CLOUD-844, CLOUD-720 | .claude/rules/, resolve.rs |
Two small independents |
CLOUD-852 has landed (PR #625, b405ca8) — bundle B starts at 842.
B is the highest-leverage non-obvious bundle. It is not on the objective's critical path, it is on the throughput path: every row of every later wave passes ready-lint, and that gate misread a negation, cannot check the claim it reports checking, refuses a corpus it was changed out from under, and accepts a §7 naming tests that do not exist. 82 migrations run through it is 82 chances to ship a Ready block nobody can trust.
Order
T+0 — five agents. A is 5 deep and lands last; the rest are shallow and clear the lease before A needs it. Agent 5 takes the run-shape-guard partial migration plus C.
T+1 — after A lands. One agent, one PR: the mise-pin-agreement pilot plus all 8 structured-config gates. Not the pilot alone — its purpose is the measured per-gate cost, measured just as well inside a batch of 9, for one lease instead of two.
T+2 — three parallel PRs: the 12 lines-fact gates, the git-fact gates this row's verdict clears, and the remaining hook bodies.
T+3 — the git remainder. ~10 lease acquisitions total.
What gates the schedule, and neither is on the bundle list
- A must land first and nothing parallelises it. Every hour it slips slips all of track 1.
- CLOUD-480 must land before wave 2, not after. Batching 8–24 gates per PR means one false-green module hides inside a large green diff;
mutantat its current coverage cannot see it, andretires_withadmits the suite deletion anyway. Batching raises the value of the anti-false-green instrument, so it comes first. - Waves 1–3 have no owner. This row's Acceptance stops after the pilot. Either it grows to carry them or a sibling row does — dispatching a wave against a row that does not claim it is how work lands with nothing recording that it did.
Dispatch is BY HAND, and that is settled
create_session is refused upstream: the session-management tools carry a mandatory-approval flag — "requires explicit approval regardless of permission mode" — and bypassPermissions, an explicit permissions.allow entry and a PreToolUse allow hook are all recorded as tested and failing (#76264, #87548). mem:connector-allowlist-recovery's STOP section carries the mechanism and the tell. Do not spend a turn re-attempting it. A human opens the sessions and pastes the prompts; each bundle's rows carry full Ready blocks, so a prompt need only name the chain, the file domain and the workflow contract.
CLOUD-665 The remote-session grants misspell the server they name, so every rule has matched nothing since it was written
STATUS CORRECTED 2026-08-21. This row's body has said CANCELED since
2026-08-18 and its status was flipped back to In Progress four minutes
later. It sat that way for three days: a false row, in a started column, with a
title asserting a defect that does not exist. Set to Canceled. If you arrived
here from the title, stop — there is no misspelling, andmem:connector- allowlist-recovery's STOP section carries the real answer.
CANCELED 2026-08-18 — the misspelling does not exist. The evidence was a sanitized directory name, read as a real one.
This issue is false at its root, not merely wrong about its consequence. Everything below — including the "CORRECTION" section, which conceded the consequence while keeping the defect — is superseded. The change it produced landed on main as d503516 (PR button-inc/batten#488) and has been reverted.
What the evidence actually was
The whole issue rests on one reading: mcp-logs-Claude-Code-Remote in the CLI's log tree, taken to be the name the server registered under. The CLI's log tree sanitizes every non-alphanumeric character in a server name to a hyphen before using it as a directory name. No directory anywhere under this project's mcp-logs-* tree contains an underscore, a dot, or a space — the connectors demonstrate the transform independently:
Apollo.io -> mcp-logs-Apollo-io
Google Drive -> mcp-logs-Google-Drive
Microsoft 365 -> mcp-logs-Microsoft-365
So mcp-logs-Claude-Code-Remote is the sanitized form of Claude_Code_Remote, and the committed spelling — underscores, unchanged since 701a7b7 — was correct the whole time. The transform is lossy and not invertible, so the log tree cannot answer a question about a server's real name. It was the only source this issue had.
Direct falsification
The live tool in the session that filed this is mcp__Claude_Code_Remote__list_sessions, with underscores, and calling it succeeds. That is the registered name read from the tool surface, rather than inferred from a directory.
What the change did in the hour it was on main
mcp__Claude-Code-Remote__* matches nothing, so:
- Five allow rules granted nothing —
create_sessionwas un-granted, the opposite of the intent. - Both deny rules were unenforced, so AGENTS.md's ban on babysitting timers (
send_later,create_trigger) was decorative — the exact defect this issue claimed to be fixing, newly created by its own fix. - The new
mcp-attach-checknear-miss predicate is a false-positive generator by construction: it compares rule names against sanitized directory names, so any server whose real name carries_,.or a space reads as misspelled. It fired on the correct spelling, and that firing was read as confirmation rather than as the predicate being wrong.
Reverted by hand rather than with git revert, because the same commit carried one genuine fix worth keeping — predicate 1 no longer early-returns on an empty enabledMcpjsonServers, which had four rows passing vacuously.
The question underneath is real; this is not the issue that can hold it
"Does a permission rule name a server that exists?" is worth gating. mcp-attach-check now carries a header note recording that the log tree cannot answer it, so the next attempt does not start from the same source. Any future version needs an input that preserves the name; finding one is its own piece of work and not a re-do of this.
The residue that survives
The claude.ai-connector / toolbox-server split is the useful part and it stands. Claude-Code-Remote is not a connector — absent from ListConnectors, genuinely governed by permissions.allow — and it fails during CLOUD-178's UUID-exposure phase because no rule matches a UUID, then works the moment the readable name returns. That is CLOUD-178's original diagnosis and it is correct; the "upstream CCR proxy" conclusion in the correction below is wrong for this server, and is being corrected on CLOUD-178 and on the upstream report. CLOUD-191 is the right mechanism for it and must not be canceled — the recommendation to cancel it, made here, is retracted.
.claude/settings.json grants mcp__Claude_Code_Remote__* — underscores. The server registers as Claude-Code-Remote, with hyphens, confirmed against the CLI's own log tree, which is keyed by the name the CLI used:
mcp-logs-Claude-Code-Remote ← registered
mcp__Claude_Code_Remote__* ← granted
Seven rules matching nothing, in every episode, since the rules were written. create_session prompted on every dispatch, and mem:workflow/agent-fanout plus /plan-fleet are both built on it. Both denials went the same way: AGENTS.md bans babysitting timers and this file denies send_later and create_trigger under a name that matches no tool, so the ban has been decorative for as long as the typo has.
Why it survived two sessions of diagnosis
The evidence mimicked CLOUD-178's UUID name-flip: connectors were exposed as mcp__<uuid>__*, no committed rule spelled that, and remote-session calls were denied. Commit 121de48 recorded that reading as fact and built on it; a later session built a ~600-line PreToolUse name-translation mechanism on the same reading before it was reset out.
One observation in those same sessions refuted it throughout: Linear kept working under the same UUID exposure, which a missing allow rule cannot explain. The reason is that a claude.ai connector is not governed by this allowlist at all — ListConnectors reports every connector connected: true, enabledInChat: true, so mcp__Linear__* is not what makes Linear work and the name it spells never mattered. Claude-Code-Remote is not a connector: it is absent from that list, being the harness's own toolbox server, and is therefore the one server in this file whose rule name has to be right.
Same observation, opposite causes, and nothing in the repo could separate them: mcp-allow-check reads the settings file alone, and the file is self-consistent. Only the log tree knows which names actually registered.
CORRECTION 2026-08-18 — this typo is real, and it is NOT what was denying the calls
The paragraphs above are accurate about the defect and wrong about its consequence. Correcting before this lands, because "the fix for the denials" is a claim this change cannot support.
The denials come from the server, not from this file. MCP tool call requires approval is returned by the Anthropic CCR proxy at api.anthropic.com/v2/ccr-sessions/{id}/mcp — the endpoint every entry in the injected config points at — before Claude Code's permission logic runs. Upstream carries it unabbreviated as Streamable HTTP error: Error POSTing to endpoint: MCP tool call requires approval. Tracked at #61015 (closed as addressed, still reproducing here), with #61027 / #61044 / #61143 as duplicates and #58757 as the related requiresUserInteraction regression. Our reproduction is filed as #87548.
Three things falsify the typo-as-cause reading, and each is decisive on its own:
- Correcting the spelling in this session changed nothing —
list_sessionsis still denied. - Dispatch worked on 2026-08-11 (
mem:workflow/agent-fanoutrecords children actually dispatched) with nocreate_sessionallow rule at all, while this misspelling was already in place — it dates from701a7b7on 2026-08-07. A constant cannot explain a change. - The owner clicked "Allow Once" repeatedly and the calls still failed. An approval that is granted and ignored is not a matching failure in a file.
And the split no local theory survives: on one Linear connector, list_teams, list_issues, get_issue, save_issue and save_comment all work while list_comments is consistently denied; the whole Claude-Code-Remote server is denied including argument-free get_session. Writes succeeding beside a refused read rules out a risk tier; a never-before-used tool succeeding rules out cached approvals. Only a proxy-side per-tool policy produces that.
What this change is, then. A rule that names no registered server grants nothing, and nothing in the repo could see that — mcp-allow-check reads the settings file alone and the file is self-consistent. That is worth fixing and worth gating on its own merits, and the deny rules make it more than cosmetic: AGENTS.md's ban on babysitting timers was unenforceable while send_later and create_trigger were denied under a name matching no tool. It is not a fix for the denials, and the last Done bullet is corrected accordingly.
Refinement — Ready
Refinement gate: Definition of Ready & Done. This body carries only specializations.
- Source of truth (§1). The registered server names, read from the CLI's MCP log tree — the same directory
mcp-attach-checkalready opens for its attachment predicate. The settings file cannot answer this about itself, which is the whole reason the defect was invisible. - Computable predicate (§2).
mise run mcp-attach-checkexits non-zero on a permission rule whose server segment differs from a registered server's name only in separators or case, naming both spellings; exits 0 once the rule matches. Deny rules judged alongside allow rules, since a prohibition that names nothing is not in force. - Effect (§3). No command-surface change. One settings correction and one new predicate inside an existing gate; no new task, because a second authority over the same two inputs is what drifts.
- Output & exit (§5). Pointer-only: the two spellings, nothing else. Exit 0 clean / 1 a rule misspells a registered server / 2 could not look. Fails open on a missing log root — no live session means no register to check.
- Commit / bump (§6).
fix(settings)→ patch. - Test obligation (§7). Rows in
tests/mcp-attach-check.batsfor the misspelling, the corrected spelling, a case-only difference, a deny rule, dedup across rules carrying one misspelling, and a glob left tomcp-allow-check. Plus the row that refuses the naive predicate — see below. A#MUTANTdeclaration and enrolment inMUTANT_GATES. - Blockers (§8). None.
relatedToCLOUD-178 (the flip, which this is not), CLOUD-191 (whose premise this refutes), CLOUD-270 (the sibling predicate inmcp-allow-check), CLOUD-418 (the vacuity discipline).
The narrowing is load-bearing, not a detail
The obvious predicate — "a granted server that did not register" — is wrong and was written first. It fires on mcp__claude_ai_Linear__*, the local-CLI spelling of a connector that legitimately registers nothing in a web session. A settings file is shared across hosts, so that predicate reports the portable entries as defects on every run, which is the false-positive rate that gets a gate switched off.
The defect is a near miss: a rule naming a server that is here, under a spelling differing only in separators or case. That is never intentional, and it cannot be confused with a cross-host entry — fold out separators and case, and Claude_Code_Remote collides with Claude-Code-Remote while claude_ai_Linear collides with nothing. A test row must fail the naive version.
Done
- The grants name the registered server, and
mise run mcp-attach-checkreports no misspelling against a live session. - A rule differing from a registered name only in separators or case fails the gate and names the correct spelling; a legitimately-absent cross-host rule does not.
- The mutation is declared and caught by
mise run mutant. - Whether the corrected spelling actually admits
create_session— WITHDRAWN. It does not, it was never going to, and the reason is in the correction above: the refusal happens at the proxy, in a layer no allow rule reaches. Tested directly. Upstream defect filed as #87548. This issue must not be read as unblockingcreate_session. Original bullet: whether the corrected spelling admits it was to be observed and recorded, not assumed — it cannot be tested from a session already in the UUID-exposure phase, so the reading comes from the next session that starts in the readable phase. Recorded on CLOUD-178, which is the evidence thread.
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In @.serena/memories/connector-allowlist-recovery.md:
- Around line 127-131: Update the connector recovery guidance around add_repo to
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command = Path(".claude/commands/plan-fleet.md").read_text()
checks = {
"memory forbids create_session": bool(re.search(r"Do not .*create_session", memory, re.I)),
"memory states get_session blocked": bool(re.search(r"`get_session` is blocked", memory)),
"memory requires hand dispatch": bool(re.search(r"fleet is dispatched BY HAND", memory)),
"command calls create_session": bool(re.search(r"Call .*`create_session`", command)),
"command polls get_session": bool(re.search(r"`get_session` .*until it reaches", command)),
"command contains manual prompt dispatch": bool(re.search(r"manual|hand dispatch|prompts in chat", command, re.I)),
"command contains an availability gate before create_session": bool(
re.search(r"(availability|blocked|approval).{0,160}create_session|create_session.{0,160}(availability|blocked|approval)", command, re.I | re.S)
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for name, result in checks.items():
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verify_pos = command.find("## 5. Verify, then report")
prefix = command[:create_pos] if create_pos >= 0 else command
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Reconcile /plan-fleet with the blocked session tools.
.claude/commands/plan-fleet.md still unconditionally calls create_session and polls get_session at Lines 98–176. It has no availability gate or manual prompt-dispatch path. Update the command to select manual dispatch while these tools are blocked, or add one authoritative recovery gate.
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In @.serena/memories/workflow/agent-fanout.md around lines 8 - 14, Update the
/plan-fleet command to avoid unconditionally invoking create_session and
get_session when session tools are unavailable; add an explicit availability
gate that selects the existing manual prompt-dispatch path, or a single
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session-based dispatch intact when the tools are available.
…e recovery path never covered it `mem:connector-allowlist-recovery` was learned entirely on claude.ai data connectors — Linear, Gmail, Xero — which expose a per-tool permission control. Three sessions have now applied it to the Claude Code Remote session-management connector, which is a different animal, and each ended by advising a settings change that does not exist. Searched upstream rather than re-derived. anthropics/claude-code#76264 documents those tools as carrying a mandatory-approval flag — the tool's own prompt says "requires explicit approval regardless of permission mode" — and records all three escapes as tested and failing: bypassPermissions, an explicit permissions.allow entry for the exact tool name, and a PreToolUse hook returning allow. Open, no maintainer response, no workaround. Separately #61044 has the CCR proxy returning the refusal server-side, before Claude Code's permission logic is reached, and #61097 records that the connector UI's "Always allow" toggle is ignored on that path. So the memory opens with a STOP section scoping itself out of that connector, and naming the recognisable tell: a grantable connector shows a mix (Linear measured 57 always_allow / 1 always_ask) where this one shows 20 of 20 always_ask, including read-only get_session and list_sessions. Every tool ask, including the read-only ones, means mandatory-approval rather than ungranted, and no local change will move it. mem:core's trigger already said "a connector's tools start prompting or denying", which covered this and still did not fire. It now names the literal error string and create_session, and says to read the memory before the first probe rather than after it fails. CLOUD-191 carries the matching correction: its deny arm stands and is load-bearing, its allow arm is inert for this server, and no name translation can grant a tool whose flag ignores the allowlist. Refs: CLOUD-191, CLOUD-178
…e server, and stop the fan-out memory teaching a blocked call Three surfaces were teaching agents to re-derive a settled upstream defect, and each ended the same way: advice to change a setting that does not exist. mem:workflow/agent-fanout documented every create_session parameter — permission mode, effort, title, tags — and never said the call is refused. An agent going to dispatch a fleet read the API, tried it, got "MCP tool call requires approval", and started diagnosing from scratch. It now opens with the block: the call is refused upstream, the fleet is dispatched by hand, and what an agent produces is the prompts written into the dispatch row, not the sessions. mem:toolchain-and-hooks said account-specific names belong in user-level ~/.claude/settings.json. True for claude.ai data connectors, and it is #76264's escape 2 — documented as having no effect — for the session-management tools. Now scoped, with a pointer to the STOP section. mem:connector-allowlist-recovery gains the upstream state: #87548 is OUR report, open with no response since 2026-08-18, and an agent cannot update it because add_repo for anthropics/claude-code is served by the same blocked connector. The session that reproduces the bug is structurally unable to report it, which is why the report has sat un-updated. The only channel is handing the user text to paste. The governing principle, recorded because every previous attempt violated it: the refusal is the REMOTE's behaviour and we can only change our harness. Every attempt so far tried to change the remote's mind — a grant, a name translation, a bypass — and each is a documented dead end. CLOUD-665 was In Progress for three days with a body reading CANCELED since 2026-08-18 and a title asserting a misspelling that does not exist. Set to Canceled on the board. Refs: CLOUD-191, CLOUD-178, CLOUD-665
… scope Measured 2026-08-21: add_repo is served by the Claude Code Remote toolbox server, whose every tool carries a mandatory-approval flag, so it returns the same MCP tool call requires approval as create_session. The consequence worth recording is not the fleet one. A session cannot attach a second repository for any purpose — including reaching anthropics/claude-code to file or update an upstream report. That is why #87548, our own reproduction, sat un-updated from 2026-08-18: no route, rather than neglect. The only channel is handing the user text to paste, and mem:github-access now says so where an agent will look before offering add_repo as a next step. Refs: CLOUD-178
…upstream is unreachable The add_repo section committed minutes earlier said a session that reproduces an upstream bug cannot reach anthropics/claude-code to report it, and offered handing the user text to paste as the only channel. That was false, and false in the same way as everything else corrected today: a limit asserted without testing the routes the environment already grants. .claude/settings.json allows Bash(gh:*) and gh is on PATH via mise. Verified by posting to anthropics/claude-code#87548 and #61097, neither in this session's repo scope. gh-guard denies only gh pr merge, gh pr checks and gh run watch; issue and PR comments are untouched. add_repo being blocked bounds the MCP surface only — cloning and the GitHub MCP tools — not reading or commenting through gh. #87548 sat un-updated from 2026-08-18 to 2026-08-21 because sessions concluded no route without testing one, not because none existed. The general form now recorded: a refusal on one surface bounds that surface. Before reporting a capability as absent, try the other routes already granted. Refs: CLOUD-178
…arlier wording withheld them The fan-out memory said to write each bundle's prompt into the dispatch row on the board "never into chat, which dies with the container". The persistence half is right and the exclusion is wrong, and it cost the user the deliverable: this session followed it, wrote the prompts to CLOUD-843, reported them dispatch-ready and put nothing in front of the user. They asked for the prompts in chat four separate times. A prompt that exists only in a Linear row is not delivered — the human would have to open the row, find it, and copy it out of rendered markdown. Chat is the only surface they can paste from; the board is the only surface that survives the container. Both, not either. Now stated as: fenced code blocks in the reply, one per bundle, complete and self-contained, and the same text appended to the dispatch row. With the explicit prohibition on the shape that caused it — do not summarise in chat and point at the row for the full text. Refs: CLOUD-843
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Four surfaces were teaching agents to re-derive a settled upstream defect, and each attempt ended the same way: advice to change a setting that does not exist. This removes the wrong text and leaves only what is sourced.
What was wrong
mem:workflow/agent-fanoutwas the source. It documented everycreate_sessionparameter — permission mode, effort, title, tags — and never said the call is refused. An agent going to dispatch a fleet read the API, tried it, gotMCP tool call requires approval, and started diagnosing from zero. It now opens with the block: refused upstream, the fleet is dispatched by hand, and what an agent produces is the prompts, not the sessions.mem:toolchain-and-hookssaid account-specific names belong in user-level~/.claude/settings.json. True for claude.ai data connectors. For the session-management tools it is #76264's escape 2, documented as having no effect. Now scoped.mem:connector-allowlist-recoverywas learned entirely on Linear/Gmail/Xero and was being applied to a connector it never covered. It now opens with a STOP section: the session-management tools carry a mandatory-approval flag — "requires explicit approval regardless of permission mode" — withbypassPermissions, an explicitpermissions.allowentry, and aPreToolUseallow hook all recorded upstream as tested and failing. There is no control surface for them.mem:core's trigger already said "a connector's tools start prompting or denying," which covered this and still did not fire. It now names the literal error string andcreate_session, and says read it before the first probe.The recognisable tell
Read the injected config's
permission_policyper tool. A grantable connector shows a mix — Linear measured 57always_allow/ 1always_ask. The toolbox server shows 20 of 20always_ask, including read-onlyget_sessionandlist_sessions. Every tool ask, including the read-only ones, means mandatory-approval rather than ungranted, and no local change will move it.The governing principle
The refusal is the remote's behaviour and we can only change our harness. Every previous attempt tried to change the remote's mind — a grant, a name translation, a bypass — and each is a documented dead end.
Two corrections made inside this branch
cc43dcdclaimed a session cannot reachanthropics/claude-codeto report the bug, and offered handing the user text to paste as the only channel. False, and false in the same way as everything else here: a limit asserted without testing the routes already granted.ghis on PATH via mise,Bash(gh:*)is allowed,gh-guarddenies onlypr merge,pr checksandrun watch.add_repobeing blocked bounds the MCP surface — cloning and the GitHub MCP tools — and nothing else. Verified by posting to #87548 (our own report, un-updated since 2026-08-18) and #61097 (answering the maintainer's standing request), neither repo in this session's scope.mem:github-accessnow carries the general form: a refusal on one surface bounds that surface.72a04a0fixes the fan-out memory's "never into chat". The persistence half was right and the exclusion was wrong, and it cost the deliverable: this session followed it, wrote the bundle prompts to the campaign row, reported them dispatch-ready, and put nothing in front of the user, who asked for them in chat four separate times. A prompt that exists only in a Linear row is not delivered. Now stated as both — fenced blocks in the reply and the same text on the row.Verification
Docs only — no code, no gate, no task.
rules-drift,prettier,module-map-checkandattribution-checkgreen in the pre-commit gate on each of the six commits.Closing posture
This PR completes none of the rows it references. Holds, one per named key:
DO-NOT-CLOSE CLOUD-191 — its allow arm is documented as inert here, but its deny arm is live work and the row stays open.
DO-NOT-CLOSE CLOUD-178 — the evidence thread; this adds a measurement to it rather than completing it.
DO-NOT-CLOSE CLOUD-843 — the dispatch section referenced here was written onto that row directly; the campaign itself is untouched by this PR.
DO-NOT-CLOSE CLOUD-665 — already set to Canceled on the board by hand. A row of that shape cannot reach a terminal state through a PR event, so the transition is not this PR's to make.
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