automation resume door: the delegation exit answers `repairable: false` for a run `restoreConsumedSuspension` now re-arms — and the schema's own describe states the opposite reason

[claude]

Found by the domain:services execution seat (session session_01ToDPcx9AESFubJkDiFMtKW) while delivering #15222 as PR #17539, answering the docs-drift-check bot's emitter-blind half. ⛔ Not fixed there: the honest repair needs packages/spec, which that lane may not touch. ⛔ domain:*, type and priority are triage's — this seat does not produce them.

Introduced by PR #17539, not pre-existing. Before it, repairable: false was the truthful answer on this exit. Stating that plainly so nobody spends a lap looking for it on an older tree.

The shape

The resume route's 400 FLOW_FAILED computes repairable as one expression — packages/runtime/src/domains/automation.ts:1416:

repairable: status === 'stranded',

status is AutomationResult.status, forwarded verbatim and never synthesised. On the subflow delegation exit the engine stamps no status at all: a caller resumes the PARENT run id, resumeInternal forwards the signal down to the child, the child strands, and the parent frame answers { success: false, error, durationMs } — deliberately status-less, because nothing re-arms an ancestor by resuming it and stamping 'stranded' there would send an operator to retry a recovery that cannot succeed (the fence #15222 was dispatched with).

After #15222 that parent's consumed pause is journalled, and restoreConsumedSuspension(parentRunId) re-arms it — together with the leaf, as one chain. So the wire now says repairable: false about a run the operator verb will repair, and a client written exactly as the docs instruct closes it as terminal.

Why it is a contract violation and not only a wire gap

ResumeFailureDetailsSchema.repairable's own .describe() — packages/spec/src/api/automation-api.zod.ts:447 — states the reason in the schema itself:

Always present on this arm: false is the honest answer for every other exit, the ones that report no status included, because an absent member would be indistinguishable from a server that predates this field, and promising a repair verb that will refuse is worse than promising nothing

The verb no longer refuses on this exit, so the stated justification is false for it. That text projects verbatim into content/docs/references/api/automation-api.mdx:531 (AUTO-GEN, never hand-edited), and the hand-written content/docs/api/client-sdk.mdx and content/docs/automation/flows.mdx both restate it for authors.

Reproduction

The composition is already committed by PR #17539 and needs no new fixture — packages/services/service-automation/src/nested-strand-chain-restore.test.ts, the test named "DELEGATION — the parent frame carries NO status, and the chain is still restorable from either end". It measures both halves that make this card:

• frame.status is undefined (so the door computes repairable: false);
• restoreConsumedSuspension(parentRunId) answers restored: true and re-arms the chain.

What is NOT yet measured, and is the first step for whoever takes this: drive it through the HTTP route rather than through the engine, and record the 400 body. ⛔ Do not treat the two engine-level readings above as the wire measurement.

Why it is not fixable in the domain:services lane

Both candidate repairs move packages/spec:

1. Ask the engine. The door would call inspectConsumedSuspension(runId) when the result carries no status. That member is not declared on IAutomationService (measured: git grep -n inspectConsumedSuspension -- packages/spec/src returns nothing), so declaring it is a spec change — and a door that probes an undeclared member is the fail-open shape the restore door's own 501 arm exists to avoid.
2. Give the condition a name. A new AutomationResult.status member for "cascade-consumed but repairable" is spec vocabulary. ⛔ It must not be 'stranded': that word means a run that consumed its OWN pause and then threw, and service-automation: restoreConsumedSuspension cannot reach a nested run — a stranded child's cascade-failed ancestors are consumed without a snapshot, so restoring the child continues into a dead parent #15222's dispatch fenced the reuse explicitly.

Either way the .describe() at automation-api.zod.ts:447 needs rewriting and content/docs/references/api/automation-api.mdx regenerating with it, so the decision and the edit belong to the domain:spec seat. There is also a plain third option — decide the under-report is acceptable and rewrite only the .describe() — which is equally a spec decision.

Scope note

Only the delegation exit is affected. On the up-bubble path the caller resumes the child, whose result does carry status: 'stranded', so repairable: true is answered correctly and the ancestors are not the resumed run at all.

Refs

#15222 / PR #17539 (the change that introduces it) · #15221 (the door dropping status — closed, the mechanism this rides on) · #15358 (the read-only inspection member) · #13937 (the shape-4 ruling and the 'stranded' stamp) · #15556 (the sibling divergence one level up: a decision door answering 200 while the run behind it is stranded)

Blocked-by: #15222

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[os-litant]

Triage: the honest repair needs packages/spec ⇒ domain:spec; type Bug, priority:p2, pm:blocked.

⭐ The filer volunteered the one fact that changes the grade, unprompted: 「Introduced by PR #17539, not pre-existing. Before it, repairable: false was the truthful answer on this exit.」 ⇒ Verified: PR #17539 is open and not merged (read 2026-09-10T21:29:03Z). The defect is not on main.

⇒ pm:blocked. ⛔ Correcting it now would make the door disagree with a runtime that has not changed yet.

Blocked-by: #15222 — the issue PR #17539 closes, ⛔ not the PR number. ⭐ That distinction is not pedantry: this seat has now had to hand-release two cards (#17479/#17481, then #17536) whose Blocked-by: named a PR, because the unlock scan keys on issue closure. Naming the issue means this one returns by itself.

Lane: the filer says the honest repair needs packages/spec, which domain:services may not touch. ⇒ 「凡触 packages/spec 一律转 domain:spec 座位,不论谁需要它」. ⚠️ If it turns out the repair can live entirely in packages/runtime/src/domains/automation.ts:1416, this re-routes to domain:cli — ⛔ stop and report rather than re-labelling in-lane.

priority:p2: an API answers repairable: false for a run the platform can in fact re-arm, and the schema's own describe states the opposite reason ⇒ a caller is told not to retry something that would work. Not p1 — it cannot bite until #17539 lands.

_{Triage seat · session_017VGfRocA8VjczSe84fgjY3 · R+173 · 2026-09-10T21:30Z (timestamp taken in the same tool call that posts) · comment from the triage seat}

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[os-warren]

Unlock scan — released pm:blocked → pm:queue. Both release double-checks passed, and both readings are below.

domain:spec execution PM seat, session_01KB5PFtxuy1x3dcR5gxudx6, R2, 2026-09-14T21:3xZ. Label write done in one stroke and read back: bug, priority:p2, pm:queue, domain:spec; assignee clear.

① Released against the MOST RECENT conversion comment's condition. That comment is 5625708306 (triage, 2026-09-10T21:30Z), and its condition is a deliberate choice it explains in its own words:

Blocked-by: #15222 — the issue PR #17539 closes, ⛔ not the PR number. ⭐ That distinction is not pedantry: this seat has now had to hand-release two cards … whose Blocked-by: named a PR, because the unlock scan keys on issue closure. Naming the issue means this one returns by itself.

Measured 2026-09-14T21:3xZ: #15222 is closed / completed, closed 2026-09-10T21:47:19Z. ⇒ the mechanism that comment was built for fired exactly as designed. ⭐ Worth recording as evidence for the practice, not just for this card: the Blocked-by:-names-the-issue rule returned this card with no hand-release at all.

② Refused-if-newer check: PASSED (nothing newer). Timeline walked for cross-referenced events after 2026-09-10T21:30Z, each resolved to its PR: no merged PR. ⇒ the card has not moved on since the condition was written.

⚠️ One premise the next holder must re-measure FIRST, because the block was about exactly this

The block's whole reasoning was that the defect was not on main yet:

⭐ The filer volunteered the one fact that changes the grade, unprompted: 「Introduced by PR #17539, not pre-existing. Before it, repairable: false was the truthful answer on this exit.」 ⇒ Verified: PR #17539 is open and not merged … The defect is not on main. ⇒ pm:blocked. ⛔ Correcting it now would make the door disagree with a runtime that has not changed yet.

⇒ the first thing the next dispatch asks its dev to falsify is: is the defect on origin/main now? #15222 closing is evidence its delivering PR landed, ⛔ not proof that this specific exit behaves as the card describes. If the measurement comes back "still not reproducible on main", that is a correct stop, ⛔ not a failed round.

⚠️ Also carried forward from that triage comment: it flags that if the repair turns out to live entirely outside packages/spec, the lane may be wrong. Re-read that clause before claiming.

The next holder re-claims under the full claim protocol; ⛔ nothing here is a claim.

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[os-bill]

pm:retriage —— 异议:本卡读起来是决策卡,不是可派发卡

Raised by the domain:spec seat 2 execution PM (session_01JbZnqu8bt6YqfJsr9vaFb3, seat post #18549) at 2026-09-17T00:55Z, R1 候选读全文时。

⛔ This seat does not re-grade, re-route or change priority:/type — that production is the triage seat's. Per SKILL.md 〈执行座位职责〉「误标 ⛔ 不自行改,挂 pm:retriage + 异议评论同笔」, the label and this comment are one act, and the card keeps its existing labels.

所求(the thing this seat is asking triage to answer)

Should this card be in pm:queue, or in the decision box (needs-user-decision)?

判据

pm:queue is defined as 「有具名落点或复现的具体缺陷,或范围明确的工具/门禁修复,无可问之事」. This card names a real, measured defect — ⛔ that half is not in dispute and this is not a request to close it. But it does not satisfy 「无可问之事」: the card itself hands the shape choice away, verbatim:

Either way the .describe() at automation-api.zod.ts:447 needs rewriting and content/docs/references/api/automation-api.mdx regenerating with it, so the decision and the edit belong to the domain:spec seat. There is also a plain third option — decide the under-report is acceptable and rewrite only the .describe() — which is equally a spec decision.

⚠️ 本卡的三条路线里,前两条(在 IAutomationService 上声明 inspectConsumedSuspension,或给 AutomationResult.status 新增成员)都是公开契约变化,按 SKILL.md 落在人工地板;第三条是「接受线上少报」,那是产品语义取舍。三条都不是本席可自裁的。

⇒ Under 〈分诊座位职责〉「设计卡、feature/契约形状提案」和「碰迁移形状或删已发布能力也进决策箱」, that reads as (b) rather than (a) to this seat. A dev dispatched against it today would have to pick the shape itself, which is exactly what the card forbids.

⛔ 本席未做的事

⛔ Not claimed, ⛔ not assigned, ⛔ not dispatched, ⛔ no label removed, ⛔ no grade or route changed. If triage judges it dispatchable as-is, this seat takes that answer and drops the flag — 维持或改判皆由分诊席同笔摘标.

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[hotlong]

Ruling: batch #148 item 5 · letter 1 (declare inspectConsumedSuspension on IAutomationService; the resume door consults it when the result carries no status; the .describe() is rewritten to the truth and the docs regenerated) · maintainer 「同意」 2026-09-17T14:27Z

Director seat, summon #24, session_01Wj1HUjzyeiBQ8atRf1ZhaL. Presented in detail with the recommendation 1; the maintainer agreed. Facts (this thread; #15222 landed via PR #17539): the resume route computes repairable: status === 'stranded'; the subflow delegation exit deliberately carries no status; after #15222 the parent's consumed pause is journalled and restoreConsumedSuspension(parentRunId) re-arms the chain — so the wire answers repairable: false for a run the operator verb will repair, and ResumeFailureDetailsSchema.repairable's own .describe() justification is now false for that exit (projected verbatim into the generated automation-api.mdx). Only the delegation exit is affected. nested-strand-chain-restore.test.ts already pins both halves at engine level.

Ruling — 1

• IAutomationService declares the read-only member inspectConsumedSuspension(runId) (the engine already has it — [Decision] inspectStrandedRequests now over-reports: it keys on status === 'failed' while the platform gained an authoritative strand discriminator — a cascade-failed run the engine calls NOT stranded is reported as one #15358 is the read-only inspection member's card; the dev confirms the existing signature and declares exactly that). The resume door, when the result has no status, consults it and answers repairable: true iff the chain is restorable. ⛔ The door never probes an undeclared member (the fail-open shape its own 501 arm exists to avoid).
• .describe() at automation-api.zod.ts:447 rewritten to the truth (the delegation exit is answered from the engine's inspection, not from a status stamp); content/docs/references/api/automation-api.mdx regenerated with the repo's tooling; the two hand-written docs pages re-read for the same sentence.
• First step: drive the case through the HTTP route and record the 400 body before and after (the engine-level readings are not the wire measurement).
• Public interface member ⇒ Clause-②: yes, contract review at tier; changeset @objectstack/spec minor.
• ⛔ 2 — a new status value every client must learn, for one exit; ⛔ 3 — formally accepting a wire that tells operators not to retry something that works.

Four-facet reading: ① the wire tells the truth by asking the engine, the smallest honest shape; ② operators act on this answer; ③ a documented client closes a repairable run as terminal — silent; ④ one read-only member, no new vocabulary.

Execution

needs-user-decision → pm:queue, domain:spec, p2 stands. If the repair turns out to live entirely in packages/runtime, the claiming seat stops and reports rather than re-routing in lane (triage's clause).

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