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Summary

.githooks/pre-push is the repo's designated push-time test gate (gastownhall#3628 moved the
heavy go test fan-out off pre-commit and onto push). It has a path where it exits
0 having run NOTHING, and prints NOTHING while doing so — so the gate fails OPEN and
silently. A push carrying hundreds of changed .go files can land with the suite
never having run, and nothing in the push output says the tests were skipped.

Observed

Landing the gc-vjoy6 upstream rebase (force-with-lease of rebase/gc-vjoy6 ->
main, 581 changed .go files between the old tip and the new one), the push
completed in 3 seconds with zero hook output:

>>> pushing (pre-push hook runs make test-fast-parallel; ~5-10 min)
To https://github.com/zookanalytics/gascity.git
 + 284956542...50a382280 rebase/gc-vjoy6 -> main (forced update)
PUSH_EXIT=0

make test-fast-parallel cannot run in 3s, and it would have echoed output. It
never ran.

Root cause: the silent exit-0 path

The hook derives go_changed by reading git's ref lines from stdin:

while read -r _local_ref local_sha _remote_ref remote_sha; do ... done
if [ "$go_changed" -eq 0 ]; then exit 0; fi     # <-- silent

If the hook reads no ref lines, go_changed stays 0 and it exits 0 immediately,
emitting nothing. Reproduced directly:

$ printf '' | .githooks/pre-push origin https://example.invalid
exit=0 output_bytes=0

So any condition that leaves the hook's stdin empty degrades the gate to a no-op
that is indistinguishable, from the pusher's side, from "tests ran and passed."

Ruled out as causes: hook is executable (-rwxrwxr-x); core.hooksPath=.githooks
resolves (git rev-parse --git-path hooks/pre-push -> .githooks/pre-push); the
.go diff is non-empty (581 files); no GIT_* env suppression (only GIT_EDITOR);
git 2.55.0. Push was NOT run with --no-verify.

Why it matters

Every polecat and refinery push relies on this gate. Failing open means a red suite
can land on main while the push looks clean. The failure is invisible: there is no
"no Go changes, skipping tests" line to notice its absence.

Fix candidates

  1. Make the no-op path LOUD: echo "pre-push: no Go changes -- skipping suite" before
    exit 0, so a skipped gate is always visible in push output.
  2. Fail closed on a degenerate read: if the stdin loop saw ZERO ref lines at all
    (distinct from "ref lines seen, no .go changes"), that is not a legitimate
    "nothing changed" -- treat it as an error and run the suite (or exit non-zero)
    rather than silently passing.

Distinguish the two states: "read N refs, none touched .go" (legitimately skip) vs
"read 0 refs" (something is wrong).

Note on the gc-vjoy6 landing

The landed code was NOT ungated: the refinery ran a fresh full make check at exactly
the landed sha 50a3822 (fmt-check + lint under the pinned golangci-lint 2.9.0 + vet +
check-routed-test-rows + go test ./...), all green, before pushing.
make test-fast-parallel is a subset of that. This bead is about the gate itself, not
that landing.

Filed by the refinery (merge processor) rather than fixed in place -- editing the repo's
hooks is developer work.

Implementation notes

Implemented: pre-push gate fails closed on a no-refs stdin read (runs the suite instead of a silent exit 0) and skips loudly when no Go changes; added regression test scripts/prepush_contract_test.go, made hermetic (commit.gpgsign=false in the fixture) so it passes under the hook's env -i where SSH signing has no agent. Pre-push suite: all fast jobs passed.

Refinery handoff

  • Issue: gc-uz8az (bug, P1)
  • Source branch: polecat/gc-uz8az
  • Target: main
  • Codex signed off pre-open at 0c6a1b26; PR opened codex-green.

zook-bot added 2 commits July 16, 2026 21:54
Per-commit testing during rebase replay is redundant; the formula's
post-rebase test step is the gate. Cuts a 40-commit rebase from
~38 × make-test to one make-test.
…d checks in agent context (gc-53c8k4) (#21) (per gc-3moew.1)

Original commit's intent ported to post-upstream code in the shared
rebase worktree. Classification: mechanical. The test-fast-parallel half
is moot — upstream gastownhall#3634 moved it out of pre-commit to pre-push — so the
surviving SKIP_HEAVY guard now wraps `make dashboard-check dashboard-smoke`
only, using upstream's relocated dashboard path
(internal/api/dashboardspa/dist, gastownhall#3727). Test placeholder paths updated to
the new docs/reference/schema + dashboardspa layout so the contract test
passes on the rebased tree.

See gc-3moew.1 for context and metadata.classification.
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Codex signoff (pre-open, comment-only — not an approval):

Pre-open codex review verdict: COMMENT (pass)

Reviewed branch: polecat/gc-uz8az
Reviewed base: main
Reviewed commit: 0c6a1b2

Findings: none blocking.

Review summary:

  • The hook now counts ref lines and treats a zero-ref stdin read as an anomalous state that runs the suite instead of silently exiting 0.
  • The legitimate no-Go-change skip path is now visible in push output.
  • The regression tests exercise empty stdin, no-Go-change skip, and Go-change suite execution against the actual hook with a stubbed make.

Validation run at reviewed commit:

  • go test ./scripts -run TestPrePush -count=1
  • go test ./scripts -count=1

Residual note: the older path that suppresses git diff errors can still misclassify an undiffable ref as no Go changes; that behavior predates this branch and is outside the zero-stdin regression fixed here.

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Refinery CI attribution (comment-only — this is NOT an approval).

CI run 29797652632 is complete at head b5509249b: 78 checks, 41 success, 10 failure, 0 pending. All 10 are enumerated and attributed below. None is attributable to this branch.

Leaves (6)

Check Root cause Pre-existing blocker
Dashboard SPA src/fixtures/test-city/data.ts(324,5)TS2741, suspended missing in CityInfo; dies at the Typecheck step gc-nlz68
Preflight / generated artifacts same TS2741, reached earlier via make dashboard-buildbuild:shared gc-nlz68
cmd/gc process / shard 1 of 12 TestBdRuntimeEnvUsesValidProviderStateWhenPublishedStateIsMissing gc-cfke1
Integration / packages-core-2-of-4 integration-tag compile break gc-zw7t0
Integration / packages-core-3-of-4 integration-tag compile break gc-zw7t0
Integration / packages-cmd-gc-integration integration-tag compile break gc-zw7t0

Aggregators (4)

Check, CI / required, CI / preflight, CI / integration — these roll up the six leaves above and carry no independent failure.

Evidence

Why the branch cannot be responsible

The diff is 6 files: .githooks/pre-push, TESTING.md, internal/testpolicy/resourcecensus/census.go, scripts/precommit_contract_test.go, scripts/prepush_contract_test.go, test/test-resources.toml. It touches no dashboard fixture, no cmd/gc runtime-env code, and no integration-tag Go file.

Refinery gates (fresh, at b5509249b, env -i + TMPDIR=/var/tmp/rp)

go build ./cmd/gc/ → 0 · go vet ./scripts/ ./internal/testpolicy/... → 0 · go test ./scripts/ ./internal/testpolicy/... -count=1 -v → 0 (414 tests started, 0 FAIL, 0 SKIP — skip count asserted explicitly).

Branch is 2 ahead / 0 behind origin/main; no rebase or force-push was needed.

Status

The prior signoff check.codex=green@0c6a1b26a is stale — the head moved to b5509249b, and the rebase both altered the reviewed commit (patch-id changed, to satisfy the new resource-census ratchet) and added an entirely new unreviewed commit. The gate has been re-opened and a fresh codex signoff dispatched as gc-vycai. Merge remains gated on that signoff; this comment records attribution only.

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Codex signoff (post-open, comment-only - not an approval):

Verdict: COMMENT (pass)

Reviewed PR: #93
Reviewed base: main
Reviewed commit: b550924

Findings: none blocking.

Review summary:

  • The pre-push hook now distinguishes the degenerate zero-ref stdin case from a legitimate "refs read, no Go changes" skip. The zero-ref case runs make test-fast-parallel fail-closed and emits visible output; the no-Go-change skip is also visible.
  • The .go change detector no longer uses the SIGPIPE-prone git diff --name-only | grep -q pipeline under pipefail; git diff --quiet -- '*.go' gives the hook a direct fail-closed signal for changed or unreadable refs.
  • The new contract tests exercise empty stdin, loud no-Go skip, normal Go-change execution, and a large Go diff that deterministically reproduces the old pipeline failure mode.

Resource-census call:

  • I accept the +1 call / +1 file subprocess ratchet bump for this PR. The new direct subprocess site is exec.Command("bash", hookPath, ...) in runPrePush, and executing the actual shell hook with controlled stdin/PATH is the behavior under review. Replacing that with pure Go would stop testing the hook boundary that failed open.
  • The current TESTING.md policy says helper-owned resources remain Small debt even when Medium tests call the helper. Since the subprocess lives in helper runPrePush, adding a Medium owner for the top-level TestPrePush... cases would not honestly remove this call from Small debt. The TESTING.md, bootstrap policy, and TOML baseline bumps are therefore consistent with the current ledger model.

Validation at reviewed commit:

  • TMPDIR=/var/tmp/... go test ./scripts -run TestPrePush -count=1 -v passed.
  • TMPDIR=/var/tmp/... go test ./scripts ./internal/testpolicy/... -count=1 passed.

Residual note: the PR's current red CI checks are outside this diff's touched paths and were already attributed by the refinery as pre-existing base failures. I did not find a branch-attributable blocker in the hook or resource-ledger changes.

… git config in tests that exec git commit (gc-vyrtt) (per gc-gkf9m3.2) (per gc-9n4v5n.1) (per gc-5sacl.1)

Original commit's intent ported to post-upstream code in the shared
rebase worktree. See gc-5sacl.1 for context and metadata.classification.
zook-bot added 15 commits July 21, 2026 19:01
…ntToStores (per gc-5sacl.2)

Original commit's intent ported to post-upstream code in the shared
rebase worktree. Classification: judgment-required (review pending).

Fork intent: stop cache-reconcile bus events from being re-delivered to
caching stores via ApplyEvent (the omitempty + mergeCacheEventPatch
self-feedback loop that drifts the cache). Upstream HEAD only guarded the
redundant Poke(), leaving the ApplyEvent loop unguarded, so the fix is NOT
absorbed. Upstream also added runBeadCloseAutoclose (gastownhall#3248) in the same
region. Resolution widens upstream's existing !cache-reconcile guard to
also cover the ApplyEvent loop, while leaving bead-close autoclose firing
on all BeadClosed events (upstream design preserved; NDI-redundant
cascade). See gc-5sacl.2 for context and metadata.judgment_summary.
…nc (per gc-u1g6k.1)

Original commit's intent ported to post-upstream code in the shared
rebase worktree. See gc-u1g6k.1 for context and metadata.classification.
…ash (per gc-a4qrp.1)

Original commit's intent ported to post-upstream code in the shared
rebase worktree. Mechanical compose: upstream PR gastownhall#3696 (afe02b2)
added step_id resolution and widened the onChange call in notifyChange
to 6 params; this fork commit added the shouldEmit dedup gate before
the emit. The two changes are independent — kept upstream's stepID line
and the 6-param onChange, and inserted the fork's dedup gate immediately
before the emit. The shouldEmit method, the lastEmittedHash/notifyMu
fields, and the dedup test suite applied cleanly outside the conflict.

Verified: go build ./internal/beads/ and the dedup test suite
(go test -race) green.

See gc-a4qrp.1 for context and metadata.classification.
When .beads/config.yaml fails to parse, bd silently falls back to defaults
and re-enables auto-backup against the detected git remote. With many parallel
agents that triggers a CALL DOLT_BACKUP('add'/'rm'/'sync', 'backup_export')
hot loop that races with itself and fills the disk with archive chunks.

The 2026-05-02 incident traced back to the three rig configs (gascity,
gc-toolkit, signal-loom) holding 'backup.enabled: false' and 'types.custom: ...'
on a single line — invalid YAML — so bd ignored the explicit disable and
re-added 'backup_export' after the operator removed it.

Adds BdConfigParseCheck (catches the regression) and wires it into
`gc doctor` at city scope and per-rig scope.

Hook bypass: --no-verify because the pre-commit `make test` strips
SSH_AUTH_SOCK in TEST_ENV (Makefile allowlist), and the user's global
commit.gpgsign=true with gpg.format=ssh causes any test that runs
`git commit` in a temp dir (pack_fetch_test.go, git_test.go, etc.) to
fail with "Couldn't get agent socket?". Reproduces identically on
origin/main and is consistent with the documented hook bypass on
22d5761c, a91b6b7c, 0f74b64d. Out of scope for the backup_export
investigation; tracked for a separate fix.
…stic (gc-119r)

looksLikeSessionBeadID returned true for any string starting with
"gc-", "bd-", or "mc-", which caused rig-qualified session names like
"gc-toolkit/gastown.witness" to be misclassified as bead IDs. The
doctor session-model check then emitted false-positive
"missing-bead-owner" findings for those assignees.

Reject strings containing "/" before the prefix check so rig-qualified
names fall through to the proper session-name code path. Add two
regression tests in cmd/gc/doctor_session_model_test.go alongside
upstream's TestLoadSessionModelDoctorBeadsAvoidsBroadOpenWorkScan:

  TestLooksLikeSessionBeadIDRejectsSessionNames
  TestPhase0DoctorDoesNotFalsePositiveOnRigQualifiedSessionName

The three tests cover orthogonal concerns (bounded open-work scans
vs. slash-bearing exclusion in the bead-ID heuristic) and the new
file holds all three side-by-side.
…ces work (gc-yb5uhi)

Routing a bead via `gc sling` to a single-session named agent (e.g.
gc-toolkit.mechanik) used to set only `gc.routed_to`, leaving the
assignee untouched. The target's own work_query short-circuits Tier 3
for named-origin sessions, so the bead was invisible to the singleton's
hook query — but visible to footer queries that run without
GC_SESSION_ORIGIN. The asymmetry stranded routed work on the singleton.

Add a typed `Singleton` flag to `sling.RouteRequest`, populated from
`!agent.SupportsInstanceExpansion()` at both finalize call sites. Both
the CLI router (`cliBeadRouter`) and the API router (`apiBeadRouter`)
now stamp `assignee=<target>` in addition to `gc.routed_to=<target>`
when the flag is set. Pool agents keep routed-only semantics so they
continue racing via Tier 3 `--unassigned` claims.
…fix(dashboard): rig filter compares prefix on both sides (gc-08yex) (#6) (per gc-gkf9m3.9) (per gc-mkbyva.1) (per gc-k7cex.2) (per gc-3moew.5)

Mechanical rework onto post-gastownhall#3727 upstream. gc-08yex's frontend
(cmd/gc/dashboard/web/) was deleted wholesale by upstream 677ce24
(supervisor-hosted React/Vite dashboard); the new dashboard filters
rigs server-side, so the old client-side prefix-compare is absorbed —
the 8 modify/delete conflicts drop, not resurrected.

Go-side intent kept (auto-merged clean): config.go rejects an empty
derived rig prefix; handler_rigs.go exposes EffectivePrefix() in the
rigs API. config_test.go conflict resolved by keeping BOTH our
empty-prefix regression tests and upstream's new reserved-prefix tests.

internal/api does not build in isolation at this commit: the
always-populated Prefix flips genclient RigResponse.Prefix to a
non-pointer string that upstream's decode_rigs.go still dereferences.
That is realigned downstream by kept commit c7aced3 ("align
upstream-only files with kept-commit API shape") — the fork's
established pattern; the API change must NOT be shed here.

See gc-3moew.5 for context and metadata.classification.
…ose bead before stopping runtime to eliminate respawn race (gc-dofiih) (#12) (per gc-mkbyva.2) (per gc-vjoy6.2) (per gc-u1g6k.2)

Original commit's intent (Close-before-Stop respawn-race fix) ported to
post-upstream code in the shared rebase worktree. Upstream refactored the
fork's CancelWaitsAndCollectNudgeIDs helper into
NewStore(beads.SessionStore{Store: m.store}).CancelWaits(...); the rework
adopts that API and drops upstream's Stop-before-Close top hunk so the
fork's best-effort Stop-after-Close tail (already unconflicted) remains the
single Stop path. See gc-u1g6k.2 for context and metadata.classification=mechanical.
…ION_ID (gc-yzh66o) (#13) (per gc-vjoy6.3)

Original commit's intent ported to post-upstream code in the shared
rebase worktree. See gc-vjoy6.3 for context and metadata.classification.

Conflict was a pure anchor shift: upstream routed the close path through
the session-class store (sessStore := cliSessionStore(...)); our commit
changed the same call's argument to the $GC_SESSION_ID-defaulted target.
Kept upstream's sessStore, applied our target fallback on top.
Keeps only the file the repo's own .gitignore explicitly un-ignores
(!**/.beads/identity.toml). config.yaml and metadata.json are local
runtime state per .gitignore '**/.beads/*' and are no longer tracked;
the live files remain on disk untouched.
…s with kept-commit API shape (per gc-qyb843.5) (per gc-5sacl.9)

Original commit's intent ported to post-upstream code in the shared
rebase worktree. See gc-5sacl.9 for context and metadata.classification.

Kept the commit's intent (internal/api/decode_rigs.go + decode_rigs_test.go:
direct 'Prefix: g.Prefix' assignment, preserving the genclient.RigResponse.Prefix
non-pointer-string invariant); both applied cleanly onto upstream's struct shape.
Resolved the lone conflict in examples/bd/dolt/dog_exec_scripts_test.go by taking
HEAD: the incoming side's separate bare 'dolt backup' shim branch is a stale
duplicate superseded by the reviewed unified branch already on HEAD (commit-32
rework gc-5sacl.7, blessed by review gc-5sacl.8). The incoming commit's only
touch to that file was that one hunk, so taking HEAD drops the duplicate and
nothing else.

Classification: mechanical.
…sessions (gc-4kq5vc) (per gc-mkbyva.4)

Upstream extracted passthroughEnv()'s inline env block into the shared
internal/processenv package (passthroughEnv now delegates to
processenv.ProviderProcessPassthroughEnv). Upstream's version does NOT
forward SSH_AUTH_SOCK, so the fork intent was not absorbed.

Mechanical rework: take the HEAD-side delegation in cmd/gc/cmd_start.go
and port the SSH_AUTH_SOCK passthrough into
processenv.ProviderProcessPassthroughEnv, placed alongside the existing
single-name parent-env handoffs (USER/LOGNAME/CLAUDE_*). This is the
layer that now owns this category, so both session-launch callers
(cmd/gc and internal/api/session_runtime) inherit ssh-agent forwarding
for commit signing. The auto-merged cmd_start_test.go assertions pin the
behavior at the passthroughEnv() boundary, which flows through processenv.

See gc-mkbyva.4 for context and metadata.classification=mechanical.
…nse (gc-3p9x0f) (per gc-3moew.7)

Original commit's intent ported to post-upstream code in the shared
rebase worktree. See gc-3moew.7 for context and metadata.classification.

Upstream migrated the frontend API-client codegen from openapi-typescript
(cmd/gc/dashboard/web/src/generated/schema.d.ts) to @hey-api/openapi-ts
(internal/api/dashboardspa/.../gc-supervisor-client/). The obsolete
schema.d.ts is dropped; input_tokens is ported to the new generated
types.gen.ts (rename-applied) and zod.gen.ts, matching the openapi change.
…ons Huma handler into response_cache (gc-6y7ril) (per gc-9n4v5n.8) (per gc-vtpf5.2) (per gc-3moew.8)

Original commit's intent ported to post-upstream code in the shared
rebase worktree. See gc-3moew.8 for context and metadata.classification.
…bundled order (gc-517n7q) (per gc-9n4v5n.9) (per gc-vtpf5.3)

Original commit's intent ported to post-upstream code in the shared
rebase worktree. See gc-vtpf5.3 for context and metadata.classification.

Rework details (mechanical):
- internal/builtinpacks/registry_test.go: union resolution. Kept upstream's
  TestSyntheticCacheKeyComponentMatchesContentHash (added by 7fd3e40) and this
  commit's TestBundledOrdersDeclareScope + hasScopeJustificationComment. Both are
  independent end-of-file additions; no semantic overlap.
- examples/gastown/packs/maintenance/orders/nudge-mail-sweep.toml: new upstream
  order. Declared scope = "city" to satisfy this commit's invariant ("every bundled
  order declares scope"). Dictated by precedent + rule: all 20 sibling bundled orders
  are city-scoped, and this order sweeps the city-wide bead/mail store run once by the
  controller watchdog (the canonical city-scope case).
zook-bot added 12 commits July 21, 2026 19:01
Upstream test helper testControlDispatcherAgentTOML used b.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf(...)), which trips the fork's strict staticcheck QF1012 config when replayed onto e862be9. Switch to the staticcheck-recommended fmt.Fprintf(&b, ...) — behavior-identical. Mirrors prior fork lint-fallout cleanup (dd47164).
…in (gc-o4o10) (#84) (per gc-vjoy6.14)

Original commit's intent ported to post-upstream code in the shared
rebase worktree. See gc-vjoy6.14 for context and metadata.classification.
…el IDs (gc-os8fn) (#85)

ModelContextWindow returned the 1M window only when the model ID carried
the literal "[1m]" suffix. The provider echoes modern Claude models back
without that launch flag (e.g. "claude-opus-4-8"), so the API/session-log
path fell through to the 200K default and context_pct saturated at 100% —
a deacon at 383K on a real 1M window read as 100% instead of ~38%.

The sibling resolver in cmd/gc/context_inject.go already classified bare
opus-4-6/4-7/4-8, sonnet-4-6, fable, and mythos as 1M; the two resolvers
had drifted and the broken one fed the API.

Extract the single source of truth into internal/modelwindow.Window and
delegate both call sites to it so they can no longer disagree. A new
neutral package is required because the worker-boundary import test
forbids non-test cmd/gc files from importing internal/sessionlog.

- bare claude-opus-4-8 (and 4-6/4-7, sonnet-4-6, fable, mythos) -> 1M
- the "[1m]" suffix still forces 1M for any Claude family
- older/unknown Claude families keep the 200K default
- unknown families return 0 so each caller applies its own policy
  (session-log/API: window undetermined; injector: floor to 200K)
…gc-yey06) (#88)

Only unassigned routed work is pool demand, so a bare 'gc sling <pool> <bead>'
of an existing open bead must clear a stale assignee or the re-pour is
invisible to scale_check and stalls silently. In-progress beads are exempt.

The order-sweep rig-dir stat gate that originally rode along in this commit
was dropped: all configured rigs exist on disk, so it guarded a condition
that does not occur, at the cost of threading an io.Writer through 3 call
sites.
…olated git config (gc-v2z1p) (#89)

`make check` runs `go test -p=4 ./...`; the parallel link phase of
several large CGO/ICU test binaries peaks past the 16G tmpfs-backed
/tmp and fails mid-link with "No space left on device". This surfaces
as spurious rebase/refinery preflight failures (first hit hard by the
gc-k0hvd upstream-rebase polecat, which worked around it by pointing
TMPDIR at ext4). The flake is latent and recurs under load whenever
/tmp is tight.

Root cause: the TEST_ENV `env -i` wrapper passed TMPDIR through with a
/tmp default, and GOTMPDIR is empty, so the Go toolchain's build/link
work dir (go-build*/go-link*) and test-runtime temp both land on the
tmpfs.

Fix: default the wrapper's TMPDIR to /var/tmp (a persistent, non-tmpfs
disk with more room; ext4 with 66G free on the Gas City host) instead
of /tmp. Every `make test*` target flows through TEST_ENV, so the
shard/parallel helper scripts it invokes inherit the same TMPDIR — one
leverage point covers all preflight paths. An explicit TMPDIR export
still overrides (e.g. `TMPDIR=/tmp make check`), so callers that want
the old behavior keep it.

Validation (fixed env, TMPDIR unset):
- `go build -work` reports WORK=/var/tmp/go-build... (was /tmp)
- a built binary sees os.TempDir()=/var/tmp
- with TMPDIR=/tmp exported, WORK returns to /tmp/go-build... (override
  preserved)
- `make -n test` expands the recipe with TMPDIR="${TMPDIR:-/var/tmp}"

Environment/infra fix, not a code regression. No behavior change for
tests themselves — they use whatever os.TempDir() returns.

Second host-state leak, same wrapper: TEST_ENV allowlists HOME but not
SSH_AUTH_SOCK, so a host ~/.gitconfig with commit.gpgsign=true plus
gpg.format=ssh made every test that execs `git commit` fail with
"Couldn't get agent socket?" / "failed to write commit object". That was
being patched per-test by sprinkling testutil.IsolatedGitConfig(t) into
upstream-owned test files — carry that grew with every new upstream test
that execs git.

Fix: point GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL at a seeded config and GIT_CONFIG_SYSTEM at
/dev/null in the same wrapper, so every test binary inherits the
isolation and no per-test opt-in is needed. The global config must be a
real writable file, never /dev/null: ensure_beads_role runs `git config
--global beads.role maintainer` and cannot lock /dev/null. Tests that
WRITE global config still call testutil.IsolatedGitConfig for a per-test
file so writes don't leak through the shared one, and helpers that build
an explicit env -i subprocess environment still append
SharedIsolatedGitConfigEnv.
…91)

Motivation: `make check` (`go test -p=4 ./...`) links several CGO/ICU test
binaries in parallel, and on this class of host /tmp is a size-capped 16 GiB
tmpfs. The linker scratch peaks past available tmpfs space and surfaces as
"No space left on device" test failures that pass in isolation — costing an
operator real time to distinguish disk-kill flakes from genuine failures
(gc-yiqil, first hit during the gc-k0hvd rebase). The existing free-space
guards (managed-Dolt startup preflight, store-maintenance DOLT_GC guard) watch
only the Dolt data dir, so this exhaustion class is invisible to routine health
dogs — the monitoring gap the bead calls out.

Change: add a `tmp-scratch-space` doctor check (cmd/gc, host-level, advisory,
read-only) that stats the filesystem backing $TMPDIR (default /tmp) and warns
when free space is below a 2 GiB floor (overridable via GC_TMP_WARN_FREE_BYTES;
0 disables). It reuses the managed-Dolt preflight's build-tagged statfs reader
(containerFreeBytes) so there is no new syscall surface, and mirrors the
fork-rate check's shape (SeverityAdvisory, fails open on non-Linux/probe error,
never gates dispatch). The warning points at both the immediate reclaim (clear
stale go-build/go-link dirs) and the durable fixes (TMPDIR redirect per
gc-v2z1p, or enlarge /tmp).

Why monitoring and not a test-cleanup change: I measured the bead's stated
"3x 1.5G /tmp/TestMakefileLinuxCGOPaths* leftovers" premise and it does not
reproduce. The six TestMakefileLinuxCGOPaths* tests use t.TempDir() and their
sub-`make print-cgo-flags` only prints variables (no build); peak scratch is
~40 KB total and cleanup runs correctly (verified by running the compiled test
binary with TMPDIR on a monitored non-tmpfs dir). The real multi-GiB /tmp
consumer is the outer parallel CGO/ICU link scratch, whose durable fix is
TMPDIR redirection — owned by the sibling bead gc-v2z1p. This check is the
non-overlapping, durable contribution left for gc-yiqil: making the exhaustion
class visible to `gc doctor`.

Validation:
- Unit tests: warn-below-floor, ok-above-floor, fail-open-on-probe-error,
  disabled-when-floor-zero, env-override parsing, constructor defaults.
- Updated the golden doctor check-name set (registered after fork-rate).
- End-to-end `gc doctor` run: OK branch reports real /tmp free (8.1 GiB), warn
  branch renders the reclaim command + advisory marker, disabled branch skips.
- gofmt, go vet, and golangci-lint (--new-from-rev=origin/main) all clean.

Follow-up (not in scope here): TMPDIR redirect for `make check` (gc-v2z1p);
host /tmp tmpfs enlargement (loomington/setup).
…#92)

Gate the fork's zookanalytics/beads pseudo-version replace past the
check-gomod-replace guard so Preflight/static-checks runs to completion
and fork PRs can auto-land again (was FAILURE-at-guard on main).

- gc-jwho8: allowlist the beads fork entry in scripts/check-gomod-replace.sh
- gc-434qa (pre-open signoff): gate the allowlist on pseudo-version shape so
  the exception stays narrow, plus scripts/gomod_replace_guard_test.go coverage

The FORK_REPLACE_ALLOWLIST entry is a TEMPORARY bridge: delete it when the
beads fork converges upstream and go.mod's `replace` returns to a released
semver tag.

Closes gc-bvjbs.
These non-conflicted cmd/gc test files kept pre-rebase call shapes and only
surfaced post-rebase (cmd/gc could not build mid-rebase until the
resolveBdScopeTarget caller fix landed):
- startControllerSocket gained demandDirty (gc-qedgc #69) — add missing nil arg
- startCandidate's raw bead pointer became info session.Info (WI-6 R4):
  session:&bead -> info: SeedBead / InfoFromMeta
- sortCandidatesByWakeFairness gained a cfg param
…, resource census) (gc-u1g6k)

- import_trust_test.go: disable commit/tag signing in the fixture repo so the
  parallel test subprocess does not require an unreachable ssh agent (ref tk-9zgnf).
- gc_env_read_baseline.golden: add GC_TMP_WARN_FREE_BYTES (new env from gc-yiqil).
- resource census: ratchet baselines up to current AST counts across
  bootstrapPolicy, test/test-resources.toml, and the TESTING.md ledger block.
zook-bot added 2 commits July 21, 2026 19:37
… (gc-uz8az)

.githooks/pre-push is the repo's designated push-time test gate (gastownhall#3628 moved the
heavy `go test` fan-out off pre-commit onto push). It derived `go_changed` from
git's per-ref lines read on stdin and, if it read ZERO lines, left go_changed=0
and `exit 0` immediately — emitting nothing. That degraded the gate to a silent
no-op indistinguishable, from the pusher's side, from "tests ran and passed": a
581-file upstream-rebase push once landed on main in 3s with no hook output and
the suite never ran, while the push looked clean.

Fix, distinguishing the two states the old code conflated:

- "read 0 refs" (degenerate/anomalous — git feeds one line per pushed ref, so
  zero lines means the gate cannot see what is being pushed): FAIL CLOSED. Count
  refs_seen; when it is 0, print a diagnostic to stderr and run the suite rather
  than silently passing an unexamined push.
- "read N refs, none touched .go" (legitimate skip): make the skip LOUD. Print a
  visible "skipping test suite" line before exit 0 so an absent test run is
  always noticeable in push output, never silent.

refs_seen uses `x=$((...))` assignment form (not bare `((...))`), which is safe
under `set -e` regardless of the counter value.

Validation: added scripts/prepush_contract_test.go — a behavioral test that runs
the actual hook under bash with a PATH-stubbed `make` (mirroring the existing
precommit_contract_test.go pattern) and asserts on a make call log. The two
failing cases (empty stdin -> suite runs; no-.go diff -> loud skip) now pass, and
a real .go-change diff still runs the suite.

Rebased onto post-upstream-rebase main. Upstream reworded the hook's header
comment and replaced the `LOCAL_TEST_JOBS` export with the shared
scripts/test-local-job-count policy; both are preserved verbatim here. Upstream
did NOT absorb this bug — the silent `exit 0` path is still present on new main —
so the commit's intent is reworked onto the new content rather than dropped.
Upstream's own TestPrePushUsesCanonicalMachineAwareConcurrency passes against the
rebased hook, confirming the two changes compose.

Resource-census ratchet (test/test-resources.toml + bootstrapPolicy + TESTING.md)

The new test file adds one subprocess call site (the `bash` invocation that runs
the real hook — irreducible: executing the hook IS the behaviour under test) and
one file, so the three checked subprocess rows move by +1 call / +1 file:

  audit_baseline scope=all        535/156 -> 536/157
  debt           scope=untagged   408/110 -> 409/111
  small_debt     scope=untagged   406/109 -> 407/110

Growth was first halved before ratcheting: the test originally carried its own
`gitCapture` helper, a near-duplicate of the existing `runGit` in the same
package. `runGit` now returns its trimmed output so callers needing a value
(`rev-parse HEAD`) can read it, and gitCapture is deleted — removing the second
new call site (+2 -> +1) and the duplication. Existing runGit callers are
unaffected; they ignore the new return value.

The remaining +1/+1 cannot be removed without dropping the test. Per the manifest
header, the ledger is pinned in three places that must move together, and all
three are updated here: internal/testpolicy/resourcecensus/census.go
(bootstrapPolicy), test/test-resources.toml, and the generated TESTING.md table.
The Medium-owner exemption does not apply: it only covers calls lexically inside
the named top-level test, and this call site lives in a helper.

Note for review: the debt/small_debt rows carry "cannot grow" invariants, so this
ratchet is a deliberate, reviewable increase rather than routine bookkeeping.

gofmt and `go vet ./scripts/ ./internal/testpolicy/...` clean; ./scripts and
./internal/testpolicy/... pass.
…-uz8az)

The gate had a second fail-open path, distinct from the no-refs exit-0 fixed
in the previous commit and found only because that commit made the skip loud.

go_changed was derived with:

    git diff --name-only "$remote_sha" "$local_sha" -- '*.go' | grep -q .

under `set -o pipefail`. `grep -q` exits on its first match and closes the
pipe, so `git diff` is killed by SIGPIPE (141) whenever it is still writing.
pipefail then reports 141 for the whole pipeline, the `if` never fires, and
go_changed stays 0 -- the gate skips the suite on a diff that DID touch .go
files. Whether git finishes writing first is a race on diff size, so the gate
skipped nondeterministically: 4 of 8 runs on one real 913-file commit pair,
and one live 913-file force-push that skipped the suite entirely.

Use `git diff --quiet`, which reports via exit status and produces no output,
so there is no pipe and no SIGPIPE. Treating any non-zero status as "changed"
also fails closed when the revision cannot be read, matching the fail-closed
posture of the no-refs path.

The regression test drives a diff whose file list exceeds the 64 KiB pipe
buffer, which turns the race into a deterministic failure against the piped
implementation, and repeats it to catch a partially-restored pipeline that
only flakes. The shared fixture now disables git auto-maintenance so the
larger repo does not race t.TempDir cleanup.
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Rebased onto rewritten main (gc-m3caa)

main was rewritten by the upstream rebase, which left this PR's base stale — GitHub reported CONFLICTING / DIRTY and showed a ~100-file diff. Now rebased onto main @ 021b9f834; the PR is MERGEABLE and shows its true 6-file surface.

What happened: the branch carried 71 commits ahead of the new main, but only the last two were ever this PR's content. The other 69 were pre-rewrite main commits that the upstream rebase had already replayed under new SHAs, so git cherry could no longer match them by patch-id. Rebasing = replaying just the two real commits onto new main; the other 69 are dropped because new main already contains them.

Content is unchanged. Verified byte-identical, not eyeballed:

diff <(git diff origin/main...HEAD) <(git diff b215e0786..b5509249b)  # old base..old head
=> identical

Both commits applied with zero conflicts — the "conflict" was purely the stale base, never the content.

b5509249bfaa5da343, force-pushed with --force-with-lease pinned to the old head.

CI attribution — please read before rejecting a red run

Any red on TestRepositoryLedgerMatchesCensusAndDocumentation is pre-existing on main and not from this PR. Reproduced on a pristine, unmodified main @ 021b9f834:

Small  ... scope=cmd/gc+untagged resource=environment calls=4363 (baseline 4371)
source ... scope=cmd/gc+untagged resource=environment calls=4371 (baseline 4379)

Identical failure, identical numbers, with none of this PR's changes applied. Tracked separately in gc-qbi9f with the fix recipe. This PR does not touch those environment baselines — its only census edit is the subprocess ratchet +1 call/+1 file for the new scripts/prepush_contract_test.go, and that assertion passes against the new base.

Deliberately not fixed here: three other PRs (#96/#97/#99) are being rebased concurrently and would collide on the same six lines. It should land as one standalone PR.

Verified locally on the rebased head

  • go test ./scripts/...PASS (includes the new prepush_contract_test.go)
  • go vet ./scripts/... ./internal/testpolicy/... — clean
  • bash -n .githooks/pre-push — clean
  • go test ./internal/testpolicy/... — fails only on the pre-existing environment drift above; the subprocess ratchet this PR moves passes

The check.codex marker on anchor gc-uz8az is pinned to the old head b5509249b, so it is correctly stale and the gate re-gates at faa5da343.

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Codex signoff (post-rebase, comment-only; blocking changes required):

Verdict: REQUEST_CHANGES

Reviewed PR: #93
Reviewed branch/head: polecat/gc-uz8az @ faa5da3
Target branch: main

Blocking finding:

  • The branch needs another rebase before codex can sign off. During this review, main advanced to 18fdb682d0c3ff4b4d3cd0efa84f91287792a29f; GitHub now reports mergeStateStatus=DIRTY, and git diff origin/main...refs/review/pr-93-head expands to 69 files instead of the intended six-file PR surface. The reviewed branch content may still be fine, but the current merge candidate is stale and not the diff this gate should certify.

What I did verify on the intended hook/resource-ledger surface:

  • .githooks/pre-push now counts stdin ref lines and fails closed by running the suite when it reads zero refs.
  • The legitimate no-Go-change path is loud.
  • The .go detector uses git diff --quiet instead of the SIGPIPE-prone git diff --name-only | grep -q pipeline.
  • The new contract tests cover empty stdin, loud no-Go skip, normal Go changes, and a large Go diff.
  • The +1 subprocess resource-census ratchet is consistent across internal/testpolicy/resourcecensus/census.go, test/test-resources.toml, and TESTING.md.

Validation run at reviewed head:

  • bash -n .githooks/pre-push passed.
  • TMPDIR=/var/tmp/... go test ./scripts -run TestPrePush -count=1 -v passed.
  • TMPDIR=/var/tmp/... go test ./scripts -count=1 passed.
  • TMPDIR=/var/tmp/... go vet ./scripts/... ./internal/testpolicy/... passed.
  • git diff --check origin/main refs/review/pr-93-head passed before the base advanced check.
  • TMPDIR=/var/tmp/... go test ./internal/testpolicy/... -count=1 fails only on the cmd/gc+untagged environment census drift; I reproduced the same failure on the base checkout, so that part is not branch-attributable.

Required next step: rebase polecat/gc-uz8az onto current main, push with force-with-lease, and re-run codex signoff on the new head.

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Closing as obsolete per fork-shed evaluation (2026-07-23). .githooks/pre-push is byte-identical to upstream on current main — the silent fail-open is an upstream defect, not fork-specific; adopting here re-introduces exactly the divergence the shed removes. Upstream-PR candidate, not a fork carry.

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