fix(t1b): one resolution per list_agents row, and artifact_missing needs observed done (#488)

[EtanHey]

Closes #488. Round 2 — reviewer verdict was ITERATE; all three asks addressed below.

The defect

list_agents takes a fresh discovery scan on every call, renders state from
that scan, and rendered closure from screenObservationForRecord →
discovery.cachedScan(), which returns null once that scan is 2000 ms old.
Null ⇒ fall back to the registry record ⇒ #408's minutes-old flip to done ⇒
closure:"artifact_missing" on the same row whose state says working, read
from evidence the call itself had just collected. Cache warm they agree, cache
cold they contradict — the flap voiceClaude's reviewer watched on db1ff995.

Round 2 — the divergence is closed on every emitter, not one

The reviewer's blocking finding was right, and auditing every
assessHarvestability caller turned up four sites, not two:

emitter	before	now
list_agents row	fixed in round 1	—
list_agents health block (detail:"full")	re-derived harvestability through the probe inside buildAgentHealthInput, so blocking closure_without_artifact could fire beside closure:"pending"	fed the row's one resolution
get_agent_state	fresh readParsedSurface for health, probe for closure	observeAgentOnce → both
wait_for	same	observeAgentOnce → both
lifecycle sweep (agent-engine.ts)	probe-based closure feeding health input, the sidebar row and the done notification, beside a screen-derived state	resolves from the screen it reads

New observeAgentOnce(agent, topology) reads the surface once and returns
both the health screen_* overrides (which stop the health call re-reading) and
the resolved LiveAgentState. The read moves out of the health call; it is not
added to it.

The sweep needed a second pass to be real: my first attempt reused only the
done-detection pass's screen text, which is absent precisely for a record already
at done — #488's shape — so it was a no-op there. It now pre-reads through
readSweepScreen, which memoizes on the same sweepCtx the health input reuses,
so the read is shared. The test asserts both halves (no closure_without_artifact
on the row, and readScreen called exactly once).

Requirement 1 — which resolution, and why

One resolution by construction, not per-field source. Per-field source
widens the default payload for every row and makes the contradiction legible
rather than impossible — a lead still has to reconcile two verdicts. The
existing state.source provenance is unchanged and now covers closure too,
because closure comes from the same observation.

Requirement 2 — artifact_missing requires positive done evidence

state !== "done"            → pending
closureArtifactVerified     → verified
!doneEvidence               → pending      ← new
otherwise                   → artifact_missing

Evidence is evidence_channel.done_source !== "none" (a done marker seen on
screen, or a finished harness transcript) or a screen that itself reads done.
Per the reviewer's minimality item, the unreachable closureArtifactVerified
disjunct is gone — resolveClosureState returns verified before doneEvidence
is consulted.

Requirement 3 — cold-cache decision and measured cost

No forced fresh reads. Every emitter now carries its own observation, so the
cold window is unreachable on those paths; where no observation exists at all,
resolveLiveAgentState records source:"registry" and requirement 2 degrades to
pending, never to a deadlock claim.

Measured: zero added reads. list_agents — a test counts readScreen calls
and asserts one scan (RED C below shows the rejected forced-read design failing
it at 4 vs 2). get_agent_state/wait_for — the read relocates out of the health
call. Sweep — asserted readScreen called exactly once. detail:"full" got
cheaper: harvestability is assessed once per row instead of twice.

The false-negative, addressed rather than predicted

The reviewer is right that "ready + stale-done, no evidence" and "a genuinely
deadlocked worker whose done was never observed" are the same input shape. Two
concrete answers, both tested:

1. A genuinely deadlocked worker still renders artifact_missing — done
   evidence + missing report, asserted on all three emitters in one test
   (list_agents, get_agent_state, wait_for). RED B below shows it failing
   the moment doneEvidence is sabotaged, so it is a real guard, not a passthrough.
2. The narrowing silences the CLAIM, not the evidence. For an unobserved
   done, closure_artifact_verified:false, evidence_channel.done_source:"none"
   and the blocking closure_without_artifact health issue all still render.
   That is the named post-merge signal to watch: records at done with
   closure:"pending" and done_source:"none" — queryable at get_agent_state,
   pinned by a test.

RED ON RED — every test shown failing

RED A — the 10 T1b tests against pre-fix src (269afbd), tests unchanged:

   × working screen + COLD closure probe reads pending, never artifact_missing
   × ready screen + stale-done record with NO done evidence reads pending
   ✓ the deadlock signal SURVIVES: done evidence + missing report is artifact_missing
   ✓ costs ZERO extra screen reads: one scan per call, both fields off it (#425)
   × get_agent_state does not render artifact_missing beside a working screen
   × wait_for does not render artifact_missing beside a working screen
   ✓ the deadlock signal survives on ALL THREE emitters, not just list_agents
   × narrowing artifact_missing silences the CLAIM, not the evidence: health still flags it
   × detail:full health carries the SAME resolution, not a third one
   × three consecutive calls for an unchanged agent do not flap the closure
      Tests  7 failed | 3 passed (10)

The no-flap failure prints its actual sequence — no frozen clock involved, the
cold branch is forced by value, not by timing:

["pending","artifact_missing","artifact_missing"]: expected [ 'pending', 'artifact_missing', …(1) ]
  to deeply equal [ 'pending', 'pending', 'pending' ]

The 3 passing rows are guards, which by construction cannot be red against
pre-fix code — a guard's job is that behaviour does not change. So each was made
red against the wrong fix instead:

RED B — doneEvidence sabotaged to false (over-narrowing):

   × the deadlock signal SURVIVES: done evidence + missing report is artifact_missing
   × the deadlock signal survives on ALL THREE emitters, not just list_agents
      Tests  2 failed | 8 passed (10)

RED C — the REJECTED design (force a fresh read per row on the closure path):

   × costs ZERO extra screen reads: one scan per call, both fields off it (#425)
     → expected 4 to be 2
      Tests  1 failed | 9 passed (10)

RED D — the sweep test against pre-fix src, the contradiction in one
rendered row (registry_screen_disagreement beside closure_without_artifact):

   × sweep row closure follows the screen it read, at no extra read
     → expected 'brainlayer | role=worker | state=done…' not to contain 'closure_without_artifact'
Received: "brainlayer | role=worker | state=done | health=unhealthy(inbox_monitor_not_alive:degraded,
           registry_screen_disagreement:info,closure_without_artifact:blocking) | ... | report=n/a"

Suite

bun run test — 132 files, 3097 passed, 1 skipped, 0 failed. bun run typecheck clean. (Reviewer was right that my round-1 number was off by one; it is
measured, not copied, this time.)

One disclosure: two intermediate runs showed failures I could not reproduce —
64 across 5 files once, then 3 in tests/release-receipts.test.ts. Both ran at
roughly double the normal wall-clock (58s vs 26s) immediately after a
sabotage/restore cycle, both suites pass in isolation, and four subsequent full
runs on the identical tree are green. I read it as load contention on the
shell-driven suites, and I am naming it rather than reporting only the green runs.

#478 ownership — my recommendation: #478 owns resolveClosureState

Confirmed by reading its diff: #478 adds the same required doneEvidence
parameter with the same !doneEvidence → pending branch, and also edits
tests/coordination-paths.test.ts and tests/f1-live-state-truth.test.ts.

Proposal, posted to the collab for @cmuxlayerClaude to rule on:

• fix(f1b): wait_for and watch resolve from live state, not the raw record #478 owns the coordination-paths.ts change — it was in flight first and it
  is that lane's core change.
• fix(t1b): one resolution per list_agents row, and artifact_missing needs observed done (#488) #489 owns the observation threading — observeAgentOnce, the
  assessHarvestability(agent, {live}) seam, and the four emitters.
• If fix(f1b): wait_for and watch resolve from live state, not the raw record #478 lands first I rebase and drop my coordination-paths.ts hunk
  entirely, keeping only || live.screen_state === "done" as an additive
  disjunct in the engine's doneEvidence (their version omits it). If fix(t1b): one resolution per list_agents row, and artifact_missing needs observed done (#488) #489 lands
  first, fix(f1b): wait_for and watch resolve from live state, not the raw record #478 drops theirs. Either order is a small, mechanical rebase — but it
  must be decided before either merges, not discovered at merge time.

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Note

Fix list_agents to use one observation per row and require done evidence for artifact_missing

• resolveClosureState now returns 'pending' instead of 'artifact_missing' when state is 'done' but no positive done evidence (screen observation or done_source) is present.
• A new observeAgentOnce helper in server.ts performs a single screen read shared between health evaluation and closure/harvestability resolution, preventing contradictions like state:'working' with closure:'artifact_missing'.
• list_agents now computes harvestability once per row from the live scan observation and passes it into both the health overrides and the top-level closure field, removing divergent re-computation paths.
• assessHarvestability accepts an optional live override so callers can inject a specific screen observation for consistent resolution within a single flow.
• Behavioral Change: artifact_missing is no longer reachable from a 'done' record that lacks observed done evidence; such records now resolve to 'pending'.

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Walkthrough

The change makes closure reporting depend on positive completion evidence. list_agents now shares one live screen observation across state and harvestability resolution, preventing registry-only done states and probe divergence from producing artifact_missing.

Changes

Closure evidence flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Closure-state evidence contract src/coordination-paths.ts, tests/coordination-paths.test.ts	resolveClosureState requires doneEvidence. Registry-only done states resolve to pending; verified artifacts resolve to verified.
Harvestability evidence calculation src/agent-engine.ts, tests/f1-live-state-truth.test.ts	assessHarvestability accepts live state, identifies completion evidence from live or verified sources, and passes it to closure resolution.
Consistent list_agents reporting src/server.ts, tests/t1b-closure-probe-divergence.test.ts	list_agents uses one row-specific live observation for state and harvestability. Tests cover stale records, missing artifacts, screen reads, and repeated calls.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 91d89

The PR fixes inconsistent state and closure reporting, but full-detail health results can still be computed from a separate observation and disagree with the row’s closure or harvestability; the new integration test also emits lifecycle errors from an incomplete mock. These bounded issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Poem

I’m a rabbit with a watchful screen,
No stale done slips unseen.
One live read guides the way,
Evidence marks the close of day.
Pending stays when proof is shy.
Hop, hop—no closure fields will fly!

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes satisfy issue #488 by sharing one live observation, requiring positive done evidence, preventing stale fallback, and adding regression coverage.
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cmuxlayer/src/agent-engine.ts

Lines 1858 to 1861 in 91d8922

	goal.goalText,
	reportText,
	);
	const prLoopSatisfied = prLoopRequired

doneEvidence remains true for a resumed agent because evidenceChannel.done_source treats any historical task_done_detected_at as current completion evidence. Since reopenForResume does not clear that timestamp, a ready resumed agent whose registry is spuriously done is reported as artifact_missing instead of pending; scope the recorded screen evidence to the current activity epoch using hasCurrentRecordedOutputDoneEvidence(agent).

     const doneEvidence =
-      evidenceChannel.done_source !== "none" ||
+      this.hasCurrentRecordedOutputDoneEvidence(agent) ||
       live.screen_state === "done" ||
       closureArtifactVerified;

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`doneEvidence` remains true for a resumed agent because `evidenceChannel.done_source` treats any historical `task_done_detected_at` as current completion evidence. Since `reopenForResume` does not clear that timestamp, a ready resumed agent whose registry is spuriously `done` is reported as `artifact_missing` instead of `pending`; scope the recorded screen evidence to the current activity epoch using `hasCurrentRecordedOutputDoneEvidence(agent)`.

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Review — PR #489 (T1b / #488): ITERATE

Verified in the worktree .worktrees/t1b-probe-divergence at 91d8922. I read the
test bodies, ran the suite, and reproduced the residual case by executing the real
tool handlers.

What is right

• The mechanism fix is the correct one. list_agents now resolves live state
  once from trustedScreenObservation and threads it into
  assessHarvestability(agent, { live }), so state and closure on a row cannot
  come from two evidence sources. Both the default payload and detail:"full" read
  the single rowHarvestability, and detail:"full" now assesses once instead of
  twice — a real reduction in report-file reads, not just a wash.
• The three shapes have real tests, not name-only tests. All five cases in
  tests/t1b-closure-probe-divergence.test.ts drive the actual list_agents
  handler against a live fake surface client.
• The no-flap test is a faithful model, and a stronger one than a frozen clock.
  It does not simulate 2000 ms of elapsed time; it replaces the resolver with
  resolveLiveAgentState(agent, null) — precisely the value cachedScan() returns
  once expired. That forces the cold branch deterministically instead of racing a
  timer, so the expiry is modelled by its effect rather than its cause. Accepted.
• Cost claim holds. The read-count test asserts reads equal the surface count,
  and it would catch a per-row forced scan (one row, two surfaces: a forced closure
  read would make it three). No added reads at fleet size.
• bun run test (not bun test): 132 files, 3091 passed, 1 skipped, 0
  failed. bun run typecheck: clean. The PR body says 3090 passed — off by
  one against what I measured; cosmetic, but fix the number.

Blocking — the divergence survives on two other call sites

Requirement: the chosen resolution must hold everywhere closure and state are
emitted together. It does not. get_agent_state and wait_for each build a health
block from a fresh readParsedSurface (evaluateServerAgentHealth,
server.ts:7230) and then take closure from the probe-based
engine.assessHarvestability(agent) (server.ts:13443 and server.ts:13273) — the
cold cachedScan() path #488 traced. Same two sources, same response.

I reproduced this on this branch, not from reading. One record — state: "done",
task_done_detected_at set, screen reading working — through three tools with
the probe poisoned to its cold shape:

list_agents      closure = pending            state = working      ← fixed
get_agent_state  closure = artifact_missing    health.reconciled_state = working
wait_for         closure = artifact_missing    health.reconciled_state = working

That is #488's exact rendering — "route a reviewer NOW" beside a screen this same
response read as mid-turn — on two of the three paths. doneEvidence narrows it
(the six field specimens had no observed done, so they now read pending
everywhere) but does not close it: any agent whose done was once observed and
that is working again renders the contradiction. Both sites already hold a fresh
parsed surface when they call assessHarvestability — threading it in is the same
move already made in list_agents, and it is what keeps this from being recreated
elsewhere.

Consequently Closes #488 is not yet earned: ask 1 of the issue is scoped to
"one response", and two responses still carry two resolutions.

Scope — #489 and #478 ship the same doneEvidence change

PR #478 (in flight) already adds a required doneEvidence: boolean to
resolveClosureState in src/coordination-paths.ts, with the same semantics and
the same !doneEvidence → pending branch, differing only in comment text — and it
also edits tests/coordination-paths.test.ts and tests/f1-live-state-truth.test.ts,
the two files this PR edits. The collab note here records the #478 overlap as
src/server.ts only; the real collision is the closure function itself. Decide which
PR owns that half before either merges, or the second one lands a conflict in the
function both lanes are trying to fix. (#486 rewrites large spans of server.ts
— expect a rebase there too, but no semantic overlap.)

The false-negative, named precisely

Requirement 3's adversarial case is not hypothetical here — it is already pinned by
this PR's own second test. "ready + stale-done record, no done evidence ⇒
pending" and "a genuinely deadlocked worker whose done was never observed" are the
same input shape; after this change nothing distinguishes them. A worker that
finished without emitting a recognized done marker is exactly the worker whose
artifact is missing, so the two correlate rather than being independent. Coverage
rests on task_done_detected_at or a finished harness transcript — solid for the
JSONL harnesses, silent for any harness whose done marker the parser misses. The PR
discloses this in PREDICTION and I agree with the direction (#478 makes the same
call); I am asking only that it be watched with a named signal after merge rather
than left to a prediction paragraph.

Nits

• doneEvidence includes closureArtifactVerified, but resolveClosureState
  returns verified before it is consulted — redundant, harmless.
• doneEvidence: false in the pre-closure branch is correctly unreachable as a
  deadlock claim: the guard is effectiveState !== "done" || role === "orchestrator",
  and the orchestrator case returns not_applicable.

To flip this to ACCEPT

1. Thread the fresh observation into assessHarvestability at get_agent_state
   and wait_for, with a test at the shape above for each.
2. Resolve the resolveClosureState ownership with fix(f1b): wait_for and watch resolve from live state, not the raw record #478.
3. Either land 1 or drop Closes #488 and write the deferred half into the issue.

— @reviewer-489 (cmuxlayerClaude-aebd6881) · claude-code/claude-opus-5[1m]

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Inline comments:
In `@src/server.ts`:
- Around line 13693-13716: Update the health evaluation call in this
row-processing flow to pass the already computed rowHarvestability as the
harvestability override, while retaining rowLiveState in the existing overrides.
Ensure evaluateServerAgentHealth reuses these values instead of resolving a
separate observation or recalculating artifact harvestability.

Apply the same fix in `@src/server.ts` at line 13759: Closure already uses the
shared result; this site is covered by the health-consistency fix.

Apply the same fix in `@src/server.ts` at line 13770: Detail harvestability
already uses the shared result; the remaining divergence is health evaluation.

In `@tests/t1b-closure-probe-divergence.test.ts`:
- Around line 50-128: Add a no-op async setStatus method to the
LiveSurfaceClient mock so the background sweep can invoke it without throwing;
add clearStatus, setProgress, or notify only if the sweep reaches those methods
during this test.

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📚 Learning: 2026-03-15T10:42:35.917Z

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File: tests/quality-tracking.test.ts:171-200
Timestamp: 2026-03-15T10:42:35.917Z
Learning: In tests/quality-tracking.test.ts for the cmuxlayer project, ensure that at or above 80% context quality degradation, behavior depends on depth: depth-0 agents receive a /compact command; depth > 0 agents are killed and logged (kill + log). Respawn of non-root agents is out of scope for v1. Treat the design doc quality tracking section as the authoritative source for this behavior, and align test expectations accordingly.

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src/server.ts

[warning] 10227-10227: Lifecycle initialization failed because the mocked client does not provide listWorkspaces().

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[warning] 10413-10413: Background sweep failed because the mocked client does not provide setStatus(); the sweep will retry.

🔇 Additional comments (5)

src/coordination-paths.ts (1)

124-132: LGTM!

Also applies to: 145-158

tests/coordination-paths.test.ts (1)

115-119: LGTM!

Also applies to: 131-131, 141-160, 192-192

src/agent-engine.ts (1)

1737-1749: LGTM!

Also applies to: 1766-1766, 1795-1796, 1842-1852, 1927-1927

tests/f1-live-state-truth.test.ts (1)

385-385: LGTM!

Also applies to: 396-399

tests/t1b-closure-probe-divergence.test.ts (1)

204-343: LGTM!

[coderabbitai]

🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add a no-op setStatus to LiveSurfaceClient to stop the background-sweep warning.

createLiveServer starts the full agent lifecycle engine (skipAgentLifecycle defaults to false), including its periodic background sweep. The sweep calls client.setStatus(...) directly, but LiveSurfaceClient does not implement setStatus. This matches the pipeline log: "Background sweep failed and will retry because the client does not provide setStatus: TypeError: client.setStatus is not a function." Add a no-op async setStatus() {} (and clearStatus/setProgress/notify if the sweep reaches them) to the mock to remove this CI noise and the associated retry/flake risk.

🔧 Proposed fix

   async send() {}
   async sendKey() {}
+  async setStatus() {}
+  async clearStatus() {}

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Suggested change

	class LiveSurfaceClient {
	readonly workspace = "workspace:1";
	readonly pane = "pane:1";
	readonly readySurface = "surface:ready";
	readonly workingSurface = "surface:working";
	readonly screens: Record<string, string> = {
	"surface:ready": READY_CODEX_SCREEN,
	"surface:working": WORKING_CODEX_SCREEN,
	};
	async listWorkspaces() {
	return {
	workspaces: [
	{
	ref: this.workspace,
	title: "Main",
	index: 0,
	selected: true,
	pinned: false,
	},
	],
	};
	}
	async listPanes() {
	return {
	workspace_ref: this.workspace,
	window_ref: "window:1",
	panes: [
	{
	ref: this.pane,
	index: 0,
	focused: true,
	surface_count: 2,
	surface_refs: [this.readySurface, this.workingSurface],
	selected_surface_ref: this.readySurface,
	},
	],
	};
	}
	async listPaneSurfaces() {
	return {
	workspace_ref: this.workspace,
	window_ref: "window:1",
	pane_ref: this.pane,
	surfaces: [
	{
	ref: this.readySurface,
	title: "cmuxlayerCodex-ready",
	type: "terminal",
	index: 0,
	selected: true,
	},
	{
	ref: this.workingSurface,
	title: "cmuxlayerCodex-working",
	type: "terminal",
	index: 1,
	selected: false,
	},
	],
	};
	}
	async send() {}
	async sendKey() {}
	readScreenCalls = 0;
	async readScreen(surface: string, opts?: { lines?: number }) {
	const text = this.screens[surface];
	if (text == null) throw new Error(`Unknown surface: ${surface}`);
	this.readScreenCalls += 1;
	return { surface, text, lines: opts?.lines ?? 30, scrollback_used: false };
	}
	async renameTab() {}
	}
	class LiveSurfaceClient {
	readonly workspace = "workspace:1";
	readonly pane = "pane:1";
	readonly readySurface = "surface:ready";
	readonly workingSurface = "surface:working";
	readonly screens: Record<string, string> = {
	"surface:ready": READY_CODEX_SCREEN,
	"surface:working": WORKING_CODEX_SCREEN,
	};
	async listWorkspaces() {
	return {
	workspaces: [
	{
	ref: this.workspace,
	title: "Main",
	index: 0,
	selected: true,
	pinned: false,
	},
	],
	};
	}
	async listPanes() {
	return {
	workspace_ref: this.workspace,
	window_ref: "window:1",
	panes: [
	{
	ref: this.pane,
	index: 0,
	focused: true,
	surface_count: 2,
	surface_refs: [this.readySurface, this.workingSurface],
	selected_surface_ref: this.readySurface,
	},
	],
	};
	}
	async listPaneSurfaces() {
	return {
	workspace_ref: this.workspace,
	window_ref: "window:1",
	pane_ref: this.pane,
	surfaces: [
	{
	ref: this.readySurface,
	title: "cmuxlayerCodex-ready",
	type: "terminal",
	index: 0,
	selected: true,
	},
	{
	ref: this.workingSurface,
	title: "cmuxlayerCodex-working",
	type: "terminal",
	index: 1,
	selected: false,
	},
	],
	};
	}
	async send() {}
	async sendKey() {}
	async setStatus() {}
	async clearStatus() {}
	readScreenCalls = 0;
	async readScreen(surface: string, opts?: { lines?: number }) {
	const text = this.screens[surface];
	if (text == null) throw new Error(`Unknown surface: ${surface}`);
	this.readScreenCalls += 1;
	return { surface, text, lines: opts?.lines ?? 30, scrollback_used: false };
	}
	async renameTab() {}
	}

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minimal, and validate.

In `@tests/t1b-closure-probe-divergence.test.ts` around lines 50 - 128, Add a
no-op async setStatus method to the LiveSurfaceClient mock so the background
sweep can invoke it without throwing; add clearStatus, setProgress, or notify
only if the sweep reaches those methods during this test.

Source: Pipeline failures

[EtanHey]

Addendum — minimality (YAGNI + readability). Verdict unchanged: ITERATE, but not on these grounds.

Etan added minimality as an explicit criterion this round, refined as YAGNI +
readability, not fewest lines — a longer plainer implementation beats a terse
clever one. Judged on that, this PR passes minimality, and I want to say so
before the one item I am asking for, so the ask is not read as bigger than it is.

The ratio is earned

src is +73 / -9, of which 41 added lines are comment — so the mechanism
fix is 32 lines of actual code across three files, for a defect traced through
two evidence sources, a 2000 ms TTL, and a false deadlock alarm. Nothing in it is
built for a future nobody asked for: no config knob, no feature flag, no
options bag, no strategy indirection, no dead branch kept "in case".

Specifically not charging these, on the refined criterion:

• The three AIDEV-NOTEs are not duplication to collapse. They restate the
  mechanism at each of the three sites a reader can land on. That is the repo's
  idiom and it is the readable choice; compressing them into one canonical note
  with two cross-references would save lines and cost the reader a jump.
• The 203 lines of scaffolding in the new test file are not bloat. They are
  near-verbatim from tests/f1-live-state-truth.test.ts (same LiveSurfaceClient,
  makeAgent, registerAgent), and a self-contained test file that reads
  top-to-bottom beats one wired through shared fixtures. I am not asking for an
  extraction. (One idiom mismatch worth knowing, not worth doing now:
  tests/helpers/mcp-tool-harness.ts already exports getTool, getEngine,
  parseToolResult and closeToolServer, which this file reimplements privately
  as callTool, testEngine, parseResult, disposeServer. Import them the
  next time this file is touched.)
• opts?: { live?: LiveAgentState | null } is not a YAGNI extension point.
  It has one caller today, which normally reads as speculative generality — but it
  is the seam this fix actually needs, and my blocking finding asks for two more
  callers to use it. The problem is that it is under-used, not that it exists.
• doneEvidence required rather than defaulted costs one forced
  doneEvidence: false on a branch that cannot reach a deadlock claim. That is the
  honest price of forcing every call site to declare its evidence, the PR names it,
  and the comment tells the reader why it cannot matter there. Correct trade.
• The tests assert behavior, not shape — rendered payload fields through the
  real handlers. The one partial exception, reads === Object.keys(client.screens).length,
  pins the cost contract the brief asked to be stated. Earned.
• No cleverness to unwind. resolveClosureState is a flat guard ladder;
  rowLiveState is a plain conditional in the idiom of the health-override block
  directly above it. Control flow is obvious on one read.

The one minimality item: delete an unreachable disjunct

src/agent-engine.ts:1849-1852:

const doneEvidence =
  evidenceChannel.done_source !== "none" ||
  live.screen_state === "done" ||
  closureArtifactVerified;      // <- unreachable

resolveClosureState returns verified on closureArtifactVerified === true
before it ever consults doneEvidence (coordination-paths.ts:157-158). So
that third disjunct can never change an outcome. It is not a bug — it costs a
reader time: arriving at it, you have to go read resolveClosureState and work
out which of verified and artifact_missing wins before you can conclude
"nothing". Drop the disjunct, and the comment above the verified line
("A verified artifact IS positive done evidence, so it is checked first") stops
having to defend an ordering that no longer matters.

Same class, already noted in my main review and repeated here only because it is a
readability item rather than a nit: keep the doneEvidence: false at
agent-engine.ts:1796 — its comment carries the guard that makes it obvious.

Net

Minimality: pass, with one 3-line deletion. This PR is not correct-but-bloated;
it is correct-and-plain, on one of the three call sites that needed it. My ITERATE
stands entirely on the blocking finding in the review above — get_agent_state and
wait_for still render artifact_missing beside a live working screen — and the
#478 ownership collision, neither of which is a size question.

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[EtanHey]

Re-review of the 4-commit delta — ACCEPT. Mergeable as-is.

Verified at 49cda94, and separately on a trial merge with origin/main at v0.4.48.

The three ITERATE items are closed, and two emitters I missed were closed with them

• get_agent_state + wait_for now share one observation through
  observeAgentOnce, which reads the surface once and hands the same evidence to
  the health block (via the screen_* overrides that stop it re-reading) and to
  closure. My reproduction shape is now a test on each path.
• A third emitter I did not find: the health block re-derived harvestability
  through buildAgentHealthInput's deps.assessHarvestability, so the blocking
  closure_without_artifact issue could fire on the very row whose closure read
  pending — the divergence displaced one field over. Closed by passing
  harvestability: rowHarvestability in, and pinned.
• A fourth: the sweep. Its assessment feeds the health input, the sidebar
  report= text and the done notification, and it took closure from the same cold
  probe. Now resolved from the screen the sweep already read.
• The false-negative got a real answer, not a deferral. Closure withholds the
  deadlock claim without observed done, but closure_artifact_verified: false and
  the blocking closure_without_artifact health issue still render — I confirmed
  both in the payload. The population stays auditable and the PR names the
  post-merge signal to watch (done + closure:"pending" + done_source:"none").
• The unreachable closureArtifactVerified disjunct from my minimality pass is gone.

Red on red — every test shown failing with the fix removed

Per the binding added mid-review. Each sabotage applied to the branch, relevant
suites run, then reverted:

Sabotage	Tests that went red
assessHarvestability ignores opts.live	5 — list_agents cold, get_agent_state, wait_for, detail:"full", no-flap
resolveClosureState returns artifact_missing unconditionally	3 — no-evidence pending, auditability, coordination-paths unit case
drop harvestability: rowHarvestability from the health input	1 — "detail:full carries the SAME resolution, not a third one"
doneEvidence = false	2 — both deadlock-survival tests
sweep reverts to assessHarvestability(agent)	1 — "sweep row closure follows the screen it read"
implement the rejected design (fresh read per row)	1 — read-cost test: expected 4 to be 2

The signature test earns its keep — with the threading removed it reports the
reported defect verbatim:

["pending","artifact_missing","artifact_missing"]:
  expected [ 'pending', 'artifact_missing', …(1) ] to deeply equal [ 'pending', 'pending', 'pending' ]

That is voiceClaude's db1ff995 flap reproduced by the test, so it passes for the
claimed reason rather than because a stub makes passing unconditional.

Cost, measured rather than asserted

get_agent_state: 3 reads with the fix, 4 with the screenOverrides
removed — the read genuinely moves out of the health call rather than being added.
wait_for: 3, unchanged. list_agents: one scan, pinned. The sweep's pre-read is
memoized on sweepCtx (readSweepScreen does ctx.screen ??=) and shared with the
health input's read; the test pins readScreen at exactly 1 for the done record —
which is the shape that would otherwise add one, since the done-detection pass
returns early there.

One residual, non-blocking: deleting ...observed.screenOverrides from
get_agent_state reds no test while the read count goes 3 → 4. The claim is
true but unpinned, so a later edit could silently re-add a read per call. A
read-count assertion on that path next time this file is touched.

Merge readiness

The branch was 4 behind origin/main (v0.4.48, which carries #486's server.ts
rewrite). I trial-merged in a throwaway worktree: clean auto-merge, no conflicts,
then on the merged tree bun run test → 136 files, 3157 passed, 1 skipped, 0
failed, tsc --noEmit clean, and the primary sabotage still reds the same 5 tests
there — so #486 does not neutralize this lane's coverage.

Branch alone: 132 files, 3097 passed, 1 skipped, 0 failed, typecheck clean.

The red test check is not this PR's. Its 10 failures are 9 in
release-receipts.test.ts plus send_to keeps repaired registry repo ownership… in
server-agent-tools.test.ts — the identical set fails on main at v0.4.48 and on
all three commits merged tonight. The third file, live-topology-restart.test.ts, is
untouched by this PR and failed with Hook timed out in 10000ms on its tsc
beforeAll — a CI timing flake; that same tsc is clean locally. Worth its own
issue that main has been red through three merges; not a reason to hold this.

For the #478 lane

#478 ships the same required doneEvidence on resolveClosureState. With #489
landing first, that half is already on main and #478 should rebase onto it and drop
its copy rather than reapply it.

Closes #488 is now earned: one resolution per response holds on list_agents
(default and detail:"full"), get_agent_state, wait_for and the sweep, and all
four still emit the deadlock signal when a done was actually observed.

— @reviewer-489 (cmuxlayerClaude-aebd6881) · claude-code/claude-opus-5[1m]