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root c5a6dcd42a fix(revision-preflight): default to warn, name the refusal class, bound the fetch
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Bounded correction round on PR #134 after a PASS-WITH-FINDINGS review whose
Finding 4 is High. The guard's purpose and its fail-closed fix stand; the
problem was that with 'enforce' as the default it gates EVERY scheduled
contract, and three legitimate states produce a refusal - a clone legitimately
ahead of origin/master mid-review, a detached HEAD, and an offline or failed
fetch - so any of them would turn the fleet's monitoring into withheld
verdicts. That risk outweighs the staleness the guard catches.

1. DEFAULT IS NOW 'warn'. 'enforce' remains available and documented. The
   criteria for flipping the default later are written into the doc as a
   decision with evidence - a sustained window (30 days / 200+ runs) with zero
   mismatch:* and zero cannot-verify:* refusals, no fetch blips, and a pinned
   clone demonstrably kept current - explicitly as its own change, not a silent
   flip.

2. 'COULD NOT CHECK' IS NOW DISTINGUISHABLE FROM 'THIS COPY IS WRONG'. Every
   non-zero exit prints a machine-readable REASON=<class> line:
     cannot-verify:fetch-failed | cannot-verify:ref-unresolvable   (exit 2)
     mismatch:path-absent | mismatch:content
     mismatch:detached-head | mismatch:clone-ahead                (exit 1)
   detached-head and clone-ahead are named separately because they are
   legitimate states, far less alarming than a hand-edited file. clone-ahead
   requires HEAD to be STRICTLY ahead; an uncommitted edit on a commit that IS
   the ref is a plain content mismatch (my own first cut got this wrong and the
   new test 7d caught it).

3. THE DEFAULT FETCH IS BOUNDED: --fetch-timeout, default 20s, 0 = unbounded,
   and a missing 'timeout' binary is itself a cannot-verify rather than an
   unbounded fetch inside a scheduled contract.

4. TEST COVERAGE ADDED for every new class: fetch failure, fetch timeout
   (asserted to return promptly under a 1s bound), unresolvable ref, detached
   HEAD, clone-ahead, genuine content mismatch, and the contract-run.sh default.
   The pre-fix draft fixture comparisons are kept: 31 passed, 0 failed.

5. MERGE-TIME SEQUENCE documented: fast-forward /opt/contract-runner, confirm
   clean, prove a contract runs and reports. Baseline recorded as of today -
   firstmate has already fast-forwarded it to 9faffe4 - with the note that an
   untracked file blocks a fast-forward even when byte-identical.

Live behaviour re-verified on the real runner path:
  default: REASON=mismatch:clone-ahead -> 'continuing because ...=warn' -> VERDICT: PASS, exit 0
  enforce: REASON=mismatch:clone-ahead -> 'VERDICT WITHHELD: mismatch:clone-ahead', exit 2

MANDATORY CHECKS (master went red once from a credential-SHAPED string, so
these are now run on every shippable branch):
  bash scripts/prose-lint.sh        -> LINT PASSED (18 warning(s))
  secret scan                       -> secret scan clean (tree; 34 allowlisted,
                                       24 inert value(s) ignored); No committed credentials
  shellcheck revision-preflight.sh  -> clean
  shellcheck test_revision_preflight.sh -> clean
  shellcheck contract-run.sh        -> SC2034 x1, SC2086 x2 - byte-identical on
                                       master, i.e. pre-existing, none introduced

tests/test_probe_drift.py::test_prose_lint_accepts_report_format_with_provenance
fails both before and after this branch (it runs prose-lint from a temp CWD and
cannot find its sibling secret-scan.sh). Pre-existing, unrelated, not fixed here.
2026-09-25 11:29:15 +00:00
root 574cb99d76 feat: land the revision-preflight guard, fixed and wired into contract execution
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A contract verdict is only meaningful if it came from the merged copy. The
fleet has been bitten three times on 2026-09-25 (a clone parked on a merged
feature branch while executing from another clone; a script copied into the
runner clone by hand; a stale local origin/master making an ancestry check
report unlanded work). The control for this existed as an untracked draft and
protected nobody, because it was entirely fail-open.

Defect in the draft, preserved verbatim as tests/fixtures/revision-preflight.prefix.sh:

  git -C "$CLONE" show "origin/master:$(basename "$SCRIPT")"

basename drops the scripts/ prefix, so for any script under scripts/ it queried
the repo root, failed, took the "warn but don't block" branch and exited 0 -
passing a script that exists in no revision at all. Reproduced:
  pre-fix + scripts/demo.sh under scripts/  -> 'could not resolve', EXIT=0
  pre-fix + a script in no revision          -> EXIT=0

Fixed guard (scripts/revision-preflight.sh):
* resolves the repo-relative path inside the clone, so scripts/ paths resolve;
* FAILS CLOSED - a path absent from the ref, an unresolvable ref, or a failed
  fetch is a failure, never a warning;
* fetches the remote by default, because a stale local ref would otherwise
  pass a stale script as current; --no-fetch states the assumption instead of
  hiding it.

Wiring (scripts/contract-run.sh): before executing, the wrapper runs the guard
against the clone it lives in. Default CONTRACT_REVISION_PREFLIGHT=enforce
withholds the verdict, alerts and exits 2 on mismatch; =warn logs and
continues; =off skips. Verified live: match -> contract proceeds and PASSes;
mismatch -> 'VERDICT WITHHELD', exit 2; =warn -> continues.

Pinning (docs/contract-execution-pinning.md): every contract pins the clone
contract-run.sh lives in - the deployed runner being /opt/contract-runner on
CT 100. Documented that daily-health-digest has no contract file at all, which
is why its execution copy was silently operator-chosen.

Tests: tests/test_revision_preflight.sh, 15 assertions over a throwaway clone
with a real bare remote. It runs the pre-fix draft against the same cases and
shows it passing a ghost script, so the tests provably bite.

shellcheck: scripts/revision-preflight.sh and the new test are clean. The three
findings remaining in contract-run.sh (SC2086 x2, SC2034) are pre-existing and
byte-identical on master.
2026-09-25 11:04:29 +00:00