From ce07db748eb1ced499e3f9555a88d291b0005485 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matysh <web@justbusiness.site>
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2026 22:59:28 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Witness synchronous warm confirmation refusal

Issue: #470
User-Visible: no
---
 demo/smoke_danger_confirm_branches.mjs | 22 ++++++++++++++--------
 scripts/mutation-gate.mjs              |  4 ++--
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/demo/smoke_danger_confirm_branches.mjs b/demo/smoke_danger_confirm_branches.mjs
index d81c4b59..3a9955e8 100644
--- a/demo/smoke_danger_confirm_branches.mjs
+++ b/demo/smoke_danger_confirm_branches.mjs
@@ -65,15 +65,20 @@ const warmGate = await page.evaluate(async () => {
     new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(() => resolve('timeout'), 100)),
   ]);
   await settle();
+  const warmDecision = card._confirmDanger({
+    key: 'warm-language-gate',
+    kind: 'destructive',
+    title: 'Delete?',
+    message: 'The plan and all its rooms will be deleted.',
+    confirmLabel: 'Delete',
+    cancelLabel: 'Cancel',
+  });
+  // Refusal is a synchronous registration barrier, not eventual cleanup by
+  // the next warm render. A briefly pending request has no decision surface.
+  const warmRequestWasNeverRegistered = card._dangerConfirm === null
+    && card._dangerConfirmController.state === null;
   const decision = await Promise.race([
-    card._confirmDanger({
-      key: 'warm-language-gate',
-      kind: 'destructive',
-      title: 'Delete?',
-      message: 'The plan and all its rooms will be deleted.',
-      confirmLabel: 'Delete',
-      cancelLabel: 'Cancel',
-    }),
+    warmDecision,
     new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(() => resolve('timeout'), 100)),
   ]);
   const result = {
@@ -81,6 +86,7 @@ const warmGate = await page.evaluate(async () => {
     readyConfirmationOpenedBeforeWarm: openedWhileReady,
     readyToWarmCancelsOpenConfirmation: cancelledOnTransition === false,
     readyToWarmKeepsCommittedBody: root().querySelector('ha-card')?.outerHTML === committedBody,
+    warmLanguageGateNeverRegisters: warmRequestWasNeverRegistered,
     warmLanguageGateRefusesImmediately: decision === false,
     warmLanguageGateKeepsControllerEmpty: card._dangerConfirm === null
       && card._dangerConfirmController.state === null,
diff --git a/scripts/mutation-gate.mjs b/scripts/mutation-gate.mjs
index 041e9b9f..2c87450f 100644
--- a/scripts/mutation-gate.mjs
+++ b/scripts/mutation-gate.mjs
@@ -1623,8 +1623,8 @@ const MUTANT_DEFINITIONS = [
   {
     id: 'danger-confirm-warm-language-guard-removed',
     guard: 'node demo/smoke_danger_confirm_branches.mjs',
-    because: 'the warm language branch returns Lit noChange, so a newly registered '
-      + 'confirmation has no rendered decision source and hangs (#417 AC2)',
+    because: 'a request made while the language gate is already warm must be rejected '
+      + 'synchronously without ever entering the confirmation controller (#417 AC2/AC3)',
     patches: [{
       file: 'src/houseplan-card.ts',
       find: "    if (this._syncDangerConfirmLocaleGate() === 'warm') return Promise.resolve(false);",