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GodopuandClaude Opus 5 cb7ed1aa38 fix(issue-5): close the phase 2b gate holes found by all three reviewers
Seven blocking items across three reviews, every one reproduced here before
being accepted. Two themes run through them: a gate whose strictness depended on
what the caller remembered to pass, and a boundary that trusted its only current
caller instead of enforcing its own rule.

Independent verification is no longer optional. Omitting the report directory
skipped the disk check entirely and handed the decision back to the collector's
own flags -- the self-certification this design exists to prevent. It is now a
refusal, as is an empty directory or a job with no recorded dispatch.

Evidence is now bound to its target. The policy compares a scenario against the
dispatch context carried inside that same scenario, which is self-consistent by
construction, so one job's evidence could complete another. The gate now checks
the job, attempt, session and pane generation against the recorded dispatch.

A reviewer with no verdict token is no longer completed. Phase 0 made this a
safety contract and run_loop reads a missing token as NOT PASS, so inferring
completion first would start a correction round against a review that was never
finished. The requirement applies to reviewers only.

Bookkeeping may write one field. A status-free request was an unrestricted merge
on a terminal record: it could rewrite the prompt and the session. Settling is
also conditional now on the exact intent that was sent, because publishing
happens outside the lock and a newer intent can legitimately land mid-flight;
clearing unconditionally dropped a notification nobody had sent. The intent's
own identity travels in the payload, since the transport sequence cannot
identify a retry of the same intent.

Side-effect evidence must be evidence. A kind with no reference names something
without evidencing it, and the CLI parser could not be the only check because
the API and hand-written manifests bypass it.

Also honours MAM_ENGINE_CAS=0, which the operations note already promised
disables auto-completion, matches backend keys exactly rather than by prefix so
a future name cannot inherit evidence never collected for it, records an
absolute report path, and imports the notifier at module scope.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UrDNJkHmm18uu7n7JwV5Qd
2026-09-06 22:25:50 +09:00

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"""The single state-transition authority.
Every job-status write goes through `transition`. Before phase 2a there were two
write paths: `update_job_status` merged fields unconditionally, and
`pick_pending` hand-rolled a correct pending->running swap plus its own audit
mirror. Neither was wrong on its own; having two was the risk, because a fix or
a rule added to one silently misses the other.
It lives in `lib_py.delegation`, not `lib_py.loop`, because it writes the
registry and the registry writers are here. A frozen loop can bind
`lib_py.delegation` to a different tree than the parent package, so delegation
importing a sibling would mix trees -- the rule this package states in its own
__init__, and which caught this during implementation.
Lock discipline (the reason this is a module and not a helper):
with registry_lock: decide, write the record once, QUEUE notifications
after the lock: flush notifications, publish, anything slow
Nothing that can block on another process or the network may run while the lock
is held. `pick_pending` already mirrored its audit entries after releasing the
lock; this generalises that shape to every transition.
`MAM_ENGINE_CAS=0` restores the previous unconditional-merge behaviour without a
redeploy. The legacy bodies are preserved by their callers for that reason.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import logging
import os
from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional
from lib_py.delegation import mqtt_common, notifier
logger = logging.getLogger("loop.engine")
TERMINAL_STATUSES = ("completed", "error", "cancelled")
NON_TERMINAL_STATUSES = ("pending", "running")
# request -> the status it asks for. `merge`/`progress` ask for nothing.
REQUEST_TO_STATUS = {
"claim": "running",
"started": "running",
"progress": None,
"permission_required": None,
"completed": "completed",
"error": "error",
"cancelled": "cancelled",
"deadline_timeout": "error",
"merge": None,
# Operator-authority requests. The wrapper drives multi-iteration delegation
# (`submit --type loop|discuss`) by re-dispatching a finished job to the next
# session, and by finalising it as an error when the iteration budget is
# exhausted. Both legitimately move a terminal record, which is why they are
# separate requests gated on authority rather than an exception in the table.
"redispatch": "pending",
"finalize": "error",
# Bookkeeping: records that an owed notification was delivered. It cannot
# change status, and it is *about* a terminal, so refusing it in a terminal
# state would make an owed notification impossible to ever settle.
"notification_settled": None,
}
# Requests that carry no status at all and are therefore safe in any state,
# including a terminal one. Keep this list short and obviously status-free.
BOOKKEEPING_REQUESTS = ("notification_settled",)
# The only fields a bookkeeping request may write.
BOOKKEEPING_FIELDS = ("pending_notification",)
# Distinguishes "no expectation" from "expect the field to be None".
_UNSET = object()
# Only these sources may move a record out of a terminal state. An agent can
# never walk back its own terminal; that is the whole point of the CAS table.
OPERATOR_SOURCES = ("registry_cli", "operator")
OPERATOR_REQUESTS = ("redispatch", "finalize")
# A caller that merges `status=<value>` is making the request that owns that
# value; mapping it here is what stops a raw field write from sidestepping the
# CAS table. Every status has an owning request, `pending` included: the wrapper
# resets a finished job to pending to hand it to the next iteration.
STATUS_TO_REQUEST = {
"pending": "redispatch",
"running": "started",
"completed": "completed",
"error": "error",
"cancelled": "cancelled",
}
def cas_enabled() -> bool:
"""The rollback switch. Read per call so a test or operator can flip it."""
return os.environ.get("MAM_ENGINE_CAS", "1") != "0"
class TransitionResult(object):
__slots__ = ("committed", "from_status", "to_status", "reason", "record",
"notifications", "idempotent")
def __init__(self, committed, from_status, to_status, reason, record, notifications,
idempotent=False):
self.committed = committed
# Not every uncommitted transition is a refusal. Re-receiving a terminal
# that already holds is a no-op ACK in the contract table, and a caller
# that treats it as failure turns a success path into an error.
self.idempotent = idempotent
self.from_status = from_status
self.to_status = to_status
self.reason = reason
self.record = record
self.notifications = notifications
def __repr__(self): # pragma: no cover - debugging aid
return "TransitionResult(committed={!r}, {!r}->{!r}, {!r})".format(
self.committed, self.from_status, self.to_status, self.reason)
class _Decision(object):
__slots__ = ("commit", "to_status", "reason", "conflict", "idempotent")
def __init__(self, commit, to_status, reason, conflict=False, idempotent=False):
self.commit = commit
self.to_status = to_status
self.reason = reason
self.conflict = conflict
self.idempotent = idempotent
def _decide(record: Dict[str, Any], request: str, expected_status, expected_attempt,
source="unknown", fields=None, expected_notification=_UNSET) -> _Decision:
"""Pure CAS decision. No I/O, so it is safe to call under the lock.
Implements the target table in docs/contracts/issue-5/state-transitions.md §3.
"""
current = record.get("status")
fields = fields or {}
# An unrecognised request must never fall through to the permissive branch.
if request not in REQUEST_TO_STATUS:
return _Decision(False, current, "unknown request: {!r}".format(request))
# A status may only be set by the request that owns it. Letting one ride in
# as an ordinary field would let `progress` commit a terminal, which is the
# decision table being bypassed from inside its own boundary.
if "status" in fields:
return _Decision(False, current,
"status must be requested, not merged as a field "
"(got status={!r} on request {!r})".format(fields["status"], request))
# A supplied precondition must be *proved*, not merely un-contradicted. If a
# caller names an expected attempt and the record cannot show one, the
# compare-and-swap has nothing to compare and must fail closed.
if expected_attempt is not None:
actual = record.get("attempt_id", record.get("iteration"))
if actual is None:
return _Decision(False, current,
"expected attempt {!r} but the record carries none".format(
expected_attempt))
if actual != expected_attempt:
return _Decision(False, current,
"stale attempt: expected {!r}, record has {!r}".format(
expected_attempt, actual))
if expected_status is not None and current != expected_status:
return _Decision(False, current,
"precondition failed: expected status {!r}, found {!r}".format(
expected_status, current))
requested = REQUEST_TO_STATUS.get(request, None)
# Authority first, so a refusal says *why* rather than blaming the state.
if request in OPERATOR_REQUESTS and source not in OPERATOR_SOURCES:
return _Decision(False, current,
"{} requires operator authority (source={!r})".format(request, source))
if request in BOOKKEEPING_REQUESTS:
# Bookkeeping is allowed in a terminal state precisely because it cannot
# change anything of consequence. That has to be enforced here, at the
# boundary, and not merely by what today's one caller happens to pass:
# otherwise a status-free request becomes an unrestricted merge on a
# record nothing else is allowed to touch.
extra = sorted(set(fields) - set(BOOKKEEPING_FIELDS))
if extra:
return _Decision(False, current,
"bookkeeping may not merge {}".format(extra),
conflict=True)
expected = expected_notification
if expected is not _UNSET:
current_intent = record.get("pending_notification")
if current_intent != expected:
# A newer intent replaced the one being settled while it was in
# flight. Clearing it now would drop a notification nobody sent.
return _Decision(False, current,
"notification intent changed while it was being sent")
return _Decision(True, None, "bookkeeping ({})".format(request))
if current in TERMINAL_STATUSES:
# Idempotent re-receipt of the same terminal is a no-op ack.
if requested == current:
return _Decision(False, current, "idempotent: already {}".format(current),
idempotent=True)
operator = source in OPERATOR_SOURCES
if operator and request == "redispatch":
# Re-dispatching a finished job to the next iteration. The attempt
# must move forward, so a replayed redispatch cannot resurrect it.
new_iteration = fields.get("iteration")
old_iteration = record.get("iteration")
if new_iteration is None:
return _Decision(False, current,
"redispatch requires an iteration", conflict=True)
if old_iteration is not None and int(new_iteration) <= int(old_iteration):
return _Decision(False, current,
"redispatch iteration {!r} does not advance past {!r}".format(
new_iteration, old_iteration), conflict=True)
return _Decision(True, "pending", "{} -> pending (redispatch)".format(current))
if operator and request in ("finalize", "error"):
return _Decision(True, "error", "{} -> error (finalize)".format(current))
if requested is None:
return _Decision(False, current,
"late {} after terminal {}; refusing".format(request, current),
conflict=True)
return _Decision(False, current,
"conflicting {} after terminal {}; refusing".format(requested, current),
conflict=True)
if requested is None:
# progress / permission_required / metadata-only merge. No status is set
# here: a status-bearing field was already refused above.
return _Decision(True, None, "metadata updated ({})".format(request))
return _Decision(True, requested, "{} -> {}".format(current, requested))
def _notification(job_id, kind, **fields) -> Dict[str, Any]:
payload = {"job_id": job_id, "kind": kind}
payload.update(fields)
return payload
def transition(job_id, request="merge", *, registry_dir=None, expected_status=None,
expected_attempt=None, fields=None, source="unknown",
notify=None, expected_notification=_UNSET) -> TransitionResult:
"""Decide and commit one state transition. The only writer of job status.
Returns a result whose `notifications` have ALREADY been flushed; the field
is kept so callers and tests can see what the transition emitted.
"""
registry_dir = registry_dir or mqtt_common.DEFAULT_REGISTRY_DIR
fields = dict(fields or {})
# ---- short transaction: decide and write, never do I/O that can block ----
with mqtt_common.registry_lock(registry_dir):
record = mqtt_common.load_job(job_id, registry_dir)
from_status = record.get("status")
decision = _decide(record, request, expected_status, expected_attempt,
source=source, fields=fields,
expected_notification=expected_notification)
notifications: List[Dict[str, Any]] = []
if decision.commit:
record.update(fields)
if decision.to_status is not None:
record["status"] = decision.to_status
record["updated_at"] = mqtt_common._utcnow()
# A monotonic counter so a late flush can still be ordered correctly
# once the audit mirror happens outside the lock.
record["transition_seq"] = int(record.get("transition_seq", 0) or 0) + 1
if notify is not None:
# One atomic commit records both the new state and the fact that
# the world has not been told yet. If the process dies before the
# publish, the record still says a notification is owed.
record[notifier.FIELD] = notifier.intent_for(
notify, record["transition_seq"], record["updated_at"],
detail=str(fields.get("detail", "")))
mqtt_common._atomic_write_record(job_id, registry_dir, record)
to_status = record.get("status")
if to_status != from_status:
notifications.append(_notification(
job_id, "status_changed", **{
"from": from_status, "to": to_status,
"by": source, "timestamp": record["updated_at"],
"transition_seq": record["transition_seq"],
}))
else:
to_status = from_status
if decision.conflict:
notifications.append(_notification(
job_id, "conflict_refused",
attempted=request, current=from_status,
reason=decision.reason, by=source,
timestamp=mqtt_common._utcnow()))
# ---- lock released; everything below may block ----
_flush(notifications, registry_dir)
if not decision.commit and decision.conflict:
logger.warning("refused %s for job %s: %s", request, job_id, decision.reason)
return TransitionResult(decision.commit, from_status, to_status,
decision.reason, record, notifications,
idempotent=decision.idempotent)
def _flush(notifications, registry_dir) -> None:
"""Mirror queued notifications into the audit log, outside the lock.
Best effort by design: the registry record is already durable, and an audit
write must never be able to fail a transition that has committed.
"""
for note in notifications:
job_id = note["job_id"]
kind = note["kind"]
try:
if kind == "status_changed":
mqtt_common.update_logged_status(
job_id, note["to"], updated_at=note.get("timestamp"),
transition_seq=note.get("transition_seq"))
mqtt_common.append_event(job_id, {
"event": "status_changed",
"from": note.get("from"),
"to": note.get("to"),
"by": note.get("by"),
"timestamp": note.get("timestamp"),
"transition_seq": note.get("transition_seq"),
})
elif kind == "conflict_refused":
mqtt_common.append_event(job_id, {
"event": "conflict_refused",
"attempted": note.get("attempted"),
"current": note.get("current"),
"reason": note.get("reason"),
"by": note.get("by"),
"timestamp": note.get("timestamp"),
})
except Exception as exc: # pragma: no cover - best effort
logger.warning("audit mirror failed for %s: %s", job_id, exc)