The pipeline punished what it prescribed: after a failed merge it tells the
author to rebase and restore S7-code-review, and that attempt finished the
budget. On #225 (light track, limit 2) the sequence yellow, green, rebase
produced review-4 on a task whose code review was green and whose CI was
green, with no product change after the verdict — the owner had to
arbitrate work that was already accepted.
A cycle under section 4 is a verdict with blocking findings followed by a
return to the author, so only yellow and red verdicts spend the budget now.
A green verdict returned nothing and consumes nothing, which also removes
any need to mark rebase re-runs specially.
Attempts and cycles are now separate quantities. The attempt number keeps
naming the document, because two runs sharing a number would overwrite each
other's review artefact, while the limit compares blocking cycles only. The
exhaustion comment lists the verdicts it counted, and the guard no longer
strips review-4 — it reports the recount and leaves the decision with the
owner.
Rule 7 of the process gate follows: its document threshold rises above the
cycle limit, because legitimate attempts can exceed cycles and a threshold
equal to the limit would refuse the very rebase the pipeline demands.
Issue: #227
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Rule 8 demanded a working S-label from every class A/B commit's issue,
while owner decision #118 sends infrastructure work outside the S1..S8
flow entirely — such an issue has no status label by construction. The
two rules contradicted each other and the machine-checked one won, so
Validate on dev went red on every infrastructure commit (#175, #191,
#202, #206) and the catch-up signal stopped meaning anything. A gate that
is always red is not a gate.
The waiver keys on the diff, not on a permission label: a range with no
class A file at all. An `infra` label could be pinned on a product task
to walk a product commit past the status check; ceasing to touch class A
without ceasing to be infrastructure work is not possible. Issue
existence, open state, `blocked` and fail-closed on an unreachable gh all
still apply, and the waiver prints a visible warning rather than passing
in silence.
Mutation-checked both ways: unwiring the waiver reddens the CLI test,
and letting class A keep the waiver reddens both new tests.
Issue: #207
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After the mandatory rebase of a published issue branch the pre-push hook
still passes remote_old..local_new, and once the old tip is no longer an
ancestor that range drags in the whole advanced dev history: on #117 it
meant 84 foreign commits and 20 false rule-8 rejections over already
closed issues, leaving --no-verify as the only exit.
The clamp lives in the gate rather than the hook: .githooks/pre-push
carries an executable bit that MCP publication strips (the commit-msg
precedent), so editing it needs an owner-side commit. When the target is
an issue branch and the declared base is not an ancestor of the head, the
base becomes the merge-base with origin/dev. Fast-forward pushes keep
their exact range, every own commit is still judged, and a real violation
in a post-rebase commit still blocks — covered by a scenario test that
goes red without the wiring.
Issue: #190
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The owner's report: the process works but every stage takes a long time even on
simple bugs. Two causes, and neither was the one that first comes to mind.
The reviewer ran everything regardless. On #89 it installed Chromium, ran all 127
smoke files and a full golden capture — right for a task rated 10/10 for
complexity, absurd for a bug about a room divider. Full suites are the pre-beta
gate; the review now runs typecheck, unit and build always, and smokes, golden,
pytest or performance only where the diff and the AC call for them. The price of
narrowing it is honesty: the reviewer must list which gates it ran, which it did
not, and why, so a skipped gate is a visible decision rather than a silent one.
The reviewer also built its own environment out of model turns, with no npm cache
and no browser cache, paid for from the same forty-five minutes. The workflow now
installs dependencies and Chromium as ordinary cached steps, after switching to
the task branch so the lockfile is the branch's own.
Second, ceremony did not scale down. The light track makes a spec cheap; the new
trivial track does without one — S2-analysis straight to S5-ready, no spec review,
AC in the issue body. It is deliberately hard to qualify for: a bug on one surface,
no new UX contract, no migration, no i18n, no perf or touch effect, three checkable
AC at most, and expected behaviour already on record. Nothing left to decide is the
criterion that holds the whole thing up, and it cannot be met by feeling sure.
Code review is never skipped on either track. It is what stands in for testing
here, so it is the one stage speed may not buy.
Issue: #127
Issue: #128
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Check 2 compared the Issue trailers against whatever branch the working tree
happened to be on, over whatever range it was given. Those two are not the same
set. After a rebase the CI range widens — `before` points at a discarded commit,
the merge-base slides back, and commits that belong to dev arrive carrying other
issue numbers. Every one of them then looks like a violation.
Running the gate over real history from issue/89 with a dev range produced 26
false refusals out of 26 commits, which would have reddened Validate on the next
force-push of any task branch.
The rule now reads origin/dev..HEAD for its own verdict and leaves the event
range to the other checks. A commit that genuinely carries the wrong trailer for
its branch is still caught; the integration test covers both directions.
Issue: #105
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PROCESS.md 10.2 describes scripts/process-gate.mjs; the script never existed.
Commits go straight to dev without PRs and GitHub blocks nothing on its side, so
until now the only thing standing between the process and rule #1 was the good
faith of whoever was committing. Hooks catch a violation on the author's machine
but --no-verify walks past them; this job is the catch-up pass that cannot be
skipped locally.
Checks 1-7 offline, 8 through gh, plus the escalation of check 3: a class A
commit with neither a spec file nor the `small` label is a failure, not a
warning. Check 8 is fail closed — an unreachable or closed issue is a refusal,
never a silent pass.
Two things surfaced while wiring it up and are recorded in the script header.
S8-merged had to join the allowed statuses: the pipeline merges into dev before
it moves the label, so Validate reads the issue already advanced and a strict set
would redden every accepted task. And the status question now applies only to
class A/B commits — asking it of a review document would fail every time, since
that document lands while the issue sits in S4-spec-review or S7-code-review.
Issue: #105
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Matysh