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feat(memory): journal step-declared packs with exact resume accounting - #221

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A step can now declare memory: {scope, query, budget} in both SDK and kernel dialects. The daemon journals the requested declaration, injected pack, provider identity, and consuming step's cost before execution. Resume and semantic retry reuse that fact without calling the provider or charging it again.

The first commit, 72e03d5, adds the failing real-daemon SIGKILL test before implementation. The test kills after injection and before completion, resumes through the CLI, and asserts identical context, one injection, and exactly 20 input tokens / 5 output tokens / "0.005" total spend (one memory charge plus one worker completion).

  • Journal append validates one injection per step, active attempt, declaration, and budget in its transaction. Provider or budget failure prevents execution; a rejected append releases reserved worker capacity.
  • Pure replay, disabled-provider resume, semantic retry, and epoch tests pin reuse. Epoch rollover carries packs and preserves their recorded spend. Decimal addition is exact beyond machine precision; token overflow fails closed.
  • Deterministic scripts receive RELAYFLOW_MEMORY; dispatch includes the recorded payload; the SDK worker supplies its pack to the real CLI/wrapper. Completion usage excludes the already charged memory cost.
  • Shared canonical/hash fixtures and an acceptance corpus keep the dialects aligned.

Slice 1 only: the default provider returns a fixed synthetic pack and usage (7 input tokens / 0 output tokens / "0.002"). There is no retrieval, relayhistory call, or behavioural quality claim. A crash before a successful append can invoke the provider again because no injection was committed. Historical removal remains future epoch-compaction work. Details: kernel/MEMORY.md.

The existing large spec/compiler files receive declaration and lowering hooks; provider logic, journal validation, and replay logic live in separate small modules. Existing tests and gate configuration remain intact.

Closes #220.

Captured verification follows; all output is literal. Final checks exited 0. The first test execution deliberately exited 101 at the unsupported declaration.

Test-first red at 72e03d5
cd kernel && cargo test -p relayflowd --test crash_resume memory_sigkill -- --nocapture
   Compiling relayflowd-core v0.1.0 (/Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-212-channels-wt/kernel/relayflowd-core)
   Compiling relayflowd-journal v0.1.0 (/Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-212-channels-wt/kernel/relayflowd-journal)
   Compiling relayflowd v0.1.0 (/Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-212-channels-wt/kernel/relayflowd)
    Finished `test` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 3.54s
     Running tests/crash_resume.rs (target/debug/deps/crash_resume-e6635a3f0d48512c)

running 1 test

thread 'memory::memory_sigkill_after_injection_replays_pack_and_charges_it_once' (76337868) panicked at relayflowd/tests/crash_resume/memory.rs:25:10:
a step-declared memory pack must be supported: invalid_spec: unknown field "memory" at steps[1] — refusing to guess (fail closed)
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace
test memory::memory_sigkill_after_injection_replays_pack_and_charges_it_once ... FAILED

failures:

failures:
    memory::memory_sigkill_after_injection_replays_pack_and_charges_it_once

test result: FAILED. 0 passed; 1 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 36 filtered out; finished in 0.68s

error: test failed, to rerun pass `-p relayflowd --test crash_resume`
Final kernel workspace gate
cd kernel && cargo test --workspace
   Compiling relayflowd-core v0.1.0 (/Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-212-channels-wt/kernel/relayflowd-core)
   Compiling relayflowd-journal v0.1.0 (/Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-212-channels-wt/kernel/relayflowd-journal)
   Compiling relayflowd v0.1.0 (/Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-212-channels-wt/kernel/relayflowd)
    Finished `test` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 6.84s
     Running unittests src/lib.rs (target/debug/deps/relayflowd-399037c915557fdb)

running 36 tests
test engine::remote::worker_failure_detail_tests::a_string_output_is_carried_verbatim_and_trimmed ... ok
test engine::remote::worker_failure_detail_tests::a_null_or_blank_output_yields_no_detail ... ok
test engine::remote::worker_failure_detail_tests::an_output_at_the_boundary_is_not_truncated ... ok
test engine::remote::worker_failure_detail_tests::a_non_string_output_is_rendered_rather_than_dropped ... ok
test engine::remote::worker_failure_detail_tests::truncation_does_not_split_a_multi_byte_char ... ok
test engine::boot_identity_tests::every_engine_in_this_process_shares_one_boot_id ... ok
test server::client::tests::resume_waits_while_the_heartbeat_renewed_lease_is_live ... ok
test server::liveness::tests::sweep_id_buckets_by_the_interval ... ok
test server::channels::tests::unknown_verb_never_falls_through_to_receive ... ok
test exec_det::tests::timeout_has_an_explicit_completion_reason ... ok
test exec_det::tests::captures_deterministic_output ... ok
test engine::wake::claim_guard_tests::a_disarmed_guard_leaves_the_claim_alone ... ok
test engine::wake::claim_guard_tests::an_armed_guard_releases_the_claim_when_dropped ... ok
test server::tests::agent::contract::an_agent_worker_attaching_without_pins_is_refused_at_attach ... ok
test engine::wake::claim_guard_tests::a_guard_only_releases_its_own_run ... ok
test server::liveness::tests::sweep_pass_healthy_subscription_is_a_noop ... ok
test server::liveness::tests::sweep_pass_latches_after_journaling_and_next_bucket_is_empty ... ok
test server::tests::agent::contract::an_oversized_trajectory_tail_is_refused_at_step_complete ... ok
test engine::wake::claim_guard_tests::a_panic_between_claim_and_register_still_releases ... ok
test server::tests::agent::contract::agent_without_a_compatible_worker_parks_without_starting ... ok
test server::tests::hello_enforces_protocol_version ... ok
test server::tests::agent::contract::an_agent_worker_missing_a_declared_surface_parks_the_run_instead_of_erroring ... ok
test server::tests::run_resume_asks_the_registry_instead_of_treating_an_orphan_file_as_a_run ... ok
test server::tests::a_failed_disconnect_journal_append_is_retained_and_retried_not_dropped ... ok
test server::tests::agent::pins::reset_worker_reporting_a_revision_other_than_its_pin_fails_closed_as_worker_error ... ok
test server::tests::run_start_fails_closed_on_an_unknown_verification_key ... ok
test server::tests::run_resume_refuses_a_journal_that_never_recorded_its_run ... ok
test server::tests::agent::contract::an_llm_completion_claiming_an_effect_fails_closed_with_the_reason_journaled ... ok
test server::tests::agent::contract::a_replacement_worker_that_never_reported_the_pinned_surface_is_not_dispatched_to ... ok
test server::tests::run_resume_adopts_a_real_journal_whose_registry_row_is_missing ... ok
test server::tests::run_resume_refuses_a_valid_journal_that_belongs_to_another_run ... ok
test server::tests::agent::pins::consecutive_agent_steps_on_different_surfaces_each_start_from_their_own_pins ... ok
test server::tests::stopped_heartbeats_past_the_deadline_journal_lease_expired_and_release_the_step ... ok
test exec_det::tests::timeout_kills_the_whole_process_group ... ok
test server::tests::agent::pins::a_replacement_worker_at_a_different_revision_is_not_dispatched_the_stale_pins ... ok
test server::tests::an_entry_appended_during_watch_registration_is_delivered_exactly_once ... ok

test result: ok. 36 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.58s

     Running unittests src/main.rs (target/debug/deps/relayflowd-9e21fa47745f4fb0)

running 0 tests

test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s

     Running tests/crash_resume.rs (target/debug/deps/crash_resume-e6635a3f0d48512c)

running 37 tests
test concurrency::cancel_closes_the_lease_and_rejects_a_late_completion ... ok
test concurrency::cancel_and_completion_race_has_one_terminal_fact ... ok
test agent::rung_c_sigkill_after_final_effect_replays_results_without_redispatch ... ok
test channels::channels_reject_foreign_workers_stale_attempts_and_invalid_acknowledgements ... ok
test agent::resume_without_a_worker_parks_immediately_instead_of_timing_out ... ok
test agent::rung_c_sigkill_between_agent_completion_and_final_effect_memoizes_the_agent ... ok
test concurrency::run_start_dispatches_every_independent_lane_before_any_completion ... ok
test concurrency::concurrent_resumes_lease_exactly_one_attempt ... ok
test concurrency::live_resume_leaves_an_active_lease_running ... ok
test agent::rung_c_crash_between_effect_election_and_the_provider_call_performs_it_exactly_once ... ok
test agent::rung_c_reset_sigkill_mid_edit_restores_pins_dedupes_effect_and_explains_attempts ... ok
test concurrency::server_restart_recovers_every_parallel_lease_without_duplicate_success ... ok
test llm::completed_llm_output_is_memoized_when_serve_dies_during_the_next_step ... ok
test llm::sigkill_after_the_final_rung_b_effect_resumes_without_redispatching_llm ... ok
test agent::rung_c_sigkill_boundaries_resume_only_unfinished_steps_via_real_cli ... ok
test llm::serve_plumbs_watch_events_and_replayable_stream_verbs ... ok
test llm::failing_llm_verification_schedules_a_durable_retry_and_succeeds ... ok
test llm::llm_verification_exhaustion_is_a_declared_failure_kind ... ok
test pin_projection::rejected_completion_cannot_forge_inspect_retry_pins_over_the_real_socket ... ok
test memory::memory_sigkill_after_injection_replays_pack_and_charges_it_once ... ok
test llm::sigkill_under_serve_mid_llm_releases_the_lease_and_finishes_via_cli_resume ... ok
test llm::worker_killed_while_holding_a_lease_is_explained_and_released_on_cli_resume ... ok
test protocol_admission::every_mutating_run_verb_refuses_terminal_before_changing_state ... ok
test sigkill_after_cancel_request_resumes_to_one_canceled_fact ... ok
test sigkill_mid_step_replaces_and_explains_the_dead_attempt ... ok
test parallel_lifecycle::terminal_failure_drains_or_explains_every_live_sibling ... ok
test parallel_lifecycle::overlapping_agent_conflict_survives_server_crash_and_resume ... ok
test surface_identity::aliases_are_rejected_and_external_ancestors_serialize_over_real_sockets ... ok
test sigkill_under_serve_resumes_the_socket_started_run ... ok
test parallel_lifecycle::overlapping_agent_lanes_serialize_while_disjoint_lanes_merge_in_either_order ... ok
test worker_capacity::two_workers_receive_a_deterministic_fair_capacity_bounded_batch ... ok
test workspace_identity::workspace_aliases_are_refused_and_canonical_subtrees_serialize_over_real_sockets ... ok
test worker_capacity::default_capacity_one_reopens_only_after_durable_completion_or_crash ... ok
test llm::sigkill_sweep_covers_before_and_between_the_rung_b_steps ... ok
test channels::channels_sigkill_resume_redelivers_unacked_messages_with_exactly_once_effects ... ok
test sigkill_sweep_covers_every_hello_step_boundary ... ok
test parallel_lifecycle::renewed_parallel_leases_survive_the_original_grant_and_remain_distinct ... ok

test result: ok. 37 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 38.03s

     Running tests/event_wake.rs (target/debug/deps/event_wake-68806edfe23e584d)

running 3 tests
test matching_event_wakes_once_with_fresh_context ... ok
test a_resumed_run_dispatches_the_original_wake_context ... ok
test two_racing_deliveries_of_one_event_produce_exactly_one_run ... ok

test result: ok. 3 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.03s

     Running tests/hn_monitor_integration.rs (target/debug/deps/hn_monitor_integration-503c7fe71dfd86ee)

running 1 test
test hn_story_event_wakes_monitor_once_with_story_context ... ok

test result: ok. 1 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.03s

     Running tests/invalid_schema_preflight.rs (target/debug/deps/invalid_schema_preflight-bb9367af18e074b7)

running 3 tests
test invalid_json_schema_is_refused_before_journal_or_command ... ok
test unbounded_json_schema_is_refused_before_journal_or_command ... ok
test legitimately_recursive_json_schema_still_starts ... ok

test result: ok. 3 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 6.81s

     Running tests/memory.rs (target/debug/deps/memory-de434a79a52b50a9)

running 5 tests
test rejected_journal_fact_releases_reservation_and_never_dispatches ... ok
test llm_dispatch_receives_same_pack_after_resume_without_provider ... ok
test replay_and_resume_need_no_provider_and_script_receives_recorded_pack ... ok
test semantic_retry_reuses_memory_without_a_second_charge ... ok
test over_budget_and_provider_errors_fail_without_dispatch_or_charge ... ok

test result: ok. 5 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.04s

     Running tests/memory_epoch.rs (target/debug/deps/memory_epoch-36d4afe08d3953b8)

running 1 test
test epoch_carries_pack_and_exact_charge_and_refuses_duplicate_injection ... ok

test result: ok. 1 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.02s

     Running tests/parallel_driver.rs (target/debug/deps/parallel_driver-f38ce1eaf4ecefc1)

running 4 tests
test stop_after_one_holds_for_an_independent_deterministic_batch ... ok
test backpressured_or_mismatched_lane_does_not_drop_a_later_dispatch ... ok
test pause_before_second_independent_step_holds_the_driver_boundary ... ok
test crash_boundaries_resume_the_real_driver_with_one_effect_per_lane ... ok

test result: ok. 4 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.08s

     Running tests/subscription_liveness.rs (target/debug/deps/subscription_liveness-f71f7e88f8d163dc)

running 3 tests
test submit_event_upserts_subscription_row_and_sweep_flags_it_stale_after_budget ... ok
test stale_transition_is_journaled_as_subscription_stale_entry_in_the_last_known_run ... ok
test a_fresh_arrival_re_arms_the_latch_and_the_next_silence_can_stale_again ... ok

test result: ok. 3 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.03s

     Running unittests src/lib.rs (target/debug/deps/relayflowd_core-b1fe3b3250e9e7a2)

running 60 tests
test clock::tests::simulated_clock_is_explicitly_advanced ... ok
test journal::tests::memory_journal_assigns_sequences_and_rolls_epochs ... ok
test channel::tests::send_retry_is_stable_and_conflicting_content_is_rejected ... ok
test channel::tests::malformed_payloads_and_invalid_new_channel_appends_leave_state_unchanged ... ok
test channel::tests::delivery_replay_and_independent_acknowledged_offsets ... ok
test channel::tests::forged_deliveries_and_acknowledgements_fail_closed ... ok
test machine::parallel_tests::machine_starts_every_runnable_step_in_authored_order ... ok
test machine::tests::all_backing_off_steps_return_timers ... ok
test machine::parallel_tests::failed_run_drains_open_siblings_before_terminal_entry ... ok
test machine::parallel_tests::external_ancestor_and_descendant_paths_conflict_but_siblings_do_not ... ok
test machine::parallel_tests::workspace_ancestor_and_descendant_paths_conflict_but_siblings_do_not ... ok
test machine::tests::cancel_request_closes_the_active_lease_before_the_terminal_fact ... ok
test machine::parallel_tests::overlapping_agent_surfaces_are_serialized_in_authored_order ... ok
test machine::parallel_tests::every_declared_mutable_surface_participates_in_conflict_selection ... ok
test machine::parallel_tests::crash_resume_preserves_each_parallel_lease_exactly_once ... ok
test machine::tests::every_reason_label_matches_its_serialized_form ... ok
test machine::tests::durable_cancel_request_outranks_crash_recovery ... ok
test machine::tests::machine_starts_runnable_step_with_stable_effect_key ... ok
test machine::tests::crashed_attempt_does_not_consume_an_iteration ... ok
test machine::tests::repeated_cancel_request_is_idempotent ... ok
test machine::parallel_tests::parallel_lanes_do_not_cross_the_dependency_barrier_early ... ok
test machine::tests::inspect_recovery_injects_the_dirty_pin_completion_reason_and_tail ... ok
test machine::tests::every_failed_run_terminates_with_declared_completion_reasons ... ok
test machine::tests::verification_failure_schedules_a_durable_retry ... ok
test machine::tests::successful_memo_is_never_scheduled_again ... ok
test memory::tests::caps_compare_exact_decimals_and_each_token_dimension ... ok
test machine::tests::worker_reported_failure_without_detail_still_records_a_verification ... ok
test machine::parallel_tests::disjoint_agent_lanes_merge_pins_in_either_completion_order ... ok
test retry::tests::jitter_is_repeatable_and_bounded ... ok
test machine::tests::manual_recovery_parks_needs_human_and_never_redispatches ... ok
test machine::tests::reset_recovery_dispatches_the_original_pinned_revision ... ok
test schema::tests::in_document_uri_references_resolve_to_the_node_they_name ... ok
test schema::tests::refusal_names_the_cycle_it_found ... ok
test spec::tests::a_misspelled_step_level_key_is_a_parse_error ... ok
test spec::tests::a_misspelled_verification_gate_key_is_a_parse_error_not_a_dropped_gate ... ok
test spec::tests::cycles_are_rejected ... ok
test spec::tests::preflight_data_is_fail_closed ... ok
test spec::tests::external_surface_paths_must_have_one_canonical_spelling ... ok
test spec::tests::spec_version_is_semver_and_gated ... ok
test spec::tests::unknown_root_and_nested_fields_are_rejected ... ok
test spec::tests::workspace_mounts_and_worktrees_must_have_one_canonical_spelling ... ok
test spec::tests::zero_agent_flow_is_valid ... ok
test schema::tests::references_the_bound_leaves_opaque_are_refused_by_the_engine ... ok
test state::budget::tests::adds_costs_exactly_beyond_machine_decimal_precision ... ok
test state::budget::tests::overflow_and_malformed_cost_leave_total_unchanged ... ok
test state::tests::budget_decimal_strings_add_without_floats ... ok
test state::tests::end_pin_chain_is_enforced_and_a_broken_chain_is_a_hard_error ... ok
test state::tests::a_completion_that_omits_a_surface_does_not_drop_it_from_the_pin_chain ... ok
test state::tests::journal_replays_data_gate_verdict_without_rerunning_completed_code ... ok
test verify::tests::an_unbounded_schema_in_a_journal_fails_its_gate_instead_of_aborting ... ok
test verify::tests::deterministic_output_requires_successful_exit_and_content ... ok
test spec::tests::the_full_ladder_parses_in_the_one_dialect ... ok
test verify::tests::json_schema_is_a_control_gate ... ok
test schema::tests::a_property_named_ref_is_not_a_reference ... ok
test schema::tests::shared_declarations_and_boolean_schemas_are_validated ... ok
test schema::tests::every_accepted_corpus_schema_is_accepted ... ok
test schema::tests::every_refused_corpus_schema_compiles_but_is_refused_by_the_bound ... ok
test spec::tests::sdk_boundary_rejects_a_10_000_step_cycle_with_a_typed_error ... ok
test spec::tests::sdk_boundary_accepts_a_valid_10_000_step_reverse_chain ... ok
test schema::tests::deeply_nested_schemas_do_not_overflow_the_checker ... ok

test result: ok. 60 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.85s

     Running tests/spec_parity.rs (target/debug/deps/spec_parity-bbda6cf1e1cf1c19)

running 7 tests
test step_memory_has_identical_canonical_bytes_and_hash ... ok
test the_kernel_parses_the_event_triggered_spec_and_stamps_the_same_hash ... ok
test the_kernel_parses_the_deterministic_rung_and_stamps_the_same_hash ... ok
test the_kernel_parses_the_rung_c_agent_spec_and_stamps_the_same_hash ... ok
test memory_declaration_acceptance_matches_the_sdk_corpus ... ok
test the_kernel_parses_the_sdk_compiled_spec_and_stamps_the_same_hash ... ok
test the_kernel_parses_the_rung_b_spec_and_stamps_the_same_hash ... ok

test result: ok. 7 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.02s

     Running unittests src/lib.rs (target/debug/deps/relayflowd_journal-d13cb7954335385c)

running 28 tests
test registry::tests::a_previous_boots_claim_with_no_run_is_repaired ... ok
test registry::tests::a_registered_run_dedupes_across_boots ... ok
test registry::tests::a_same_boot_claim_with_no_run_yet_is_a_duplicate_not_wreckage ... ok
test registry::tests::registry_is_a_rebuildable_run_locator ... ok
test registry::tests::a_pre_migration_registry_gains_boot_id_and_its_claims_are_repairable ... ok
test registry::tests::releasing_a_claim_lets_the_same_boot_retry ... ok
test registry::tests::releasing_is_scoped_to_the_claiming_run ... ok
test subscriptions::tests::detect_without_latch_stays_available_for_the_next_sweep ... ok
test channel::tests::stale_attempts_and_raw_forged_acknowledgements_cannot_change_offsets ... ok
test subscriptions::tests::last_run_for_subscription_returns_none_before_first_arrival ... ok
test subscriptions::tests::latch_is_a_no_op_if_a_fresh_event_arrived_between_detect_and_latch ... ok
test subscriptions::tests::prune_sweep_claims_deletes_only_rows_older_than_cutoff ... ok
test subscriptions::tests::last_run_for_subscription_returns_the_lex_greatest_ulid_regardless_of_insertion ... ok
test channel::tests::channels_cross_segment_boundaries_and_terminal_runs_reject_mutations ... ok
test subscriptions::tests::sweep_ignores_subscriptions_whose_silence_is_still_within_budget ... ok
test subscriptions::tests::sweep_election_gives_the_first_caller_the_result_and_second_gets_empty ... ok
test subscriptions::tests::sweep_does_not_re_emit_the_same_stale_row_on_a_later_tick ... ok
test subscriptions::tests::sweep_marks_row_stale_when_silence_exceeds_budget ... ok
test channel::tests::failed_channel_writes_never_expose_delivery_or_advance_acknowledged_offset ... ok
test tests::append_is_durable_and_monotonic_after_reopen ... ok
test tests::failed_commit_is_returned_not_swallowed ... ok
test subscriptions::tests::upsert_after_stale_re_arms_and_next_silence_can_re_emit ... ok
test subscriptions::tests::upsert_is_idempotent_across_bumps_and_preserves_event_type_updates ... ok
test tests::effects_are_deduplicated_at_the_journal_boundary ... ok
test tests::rollover_is_atomic_scaffolding_for_epoch_resume ... ok
test tests::an_unconfirmed_election_is_reclaimed_by_the_next_attempt_not_treated_as_done ... ok
test tests::terminal_run_refuses_every_later_entry_atomically ... ok
test channel::tests::independent_connections_serialize_send_receive_and_acknowledgement ... ok

test result: ok. 28 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.17s

   Doc-tests relayflowd

running 0 tests

test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s

   Doc-tests relayflowd_core

running 0 tests

test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s

   Doc-tests relayflowd_journal

running 0 tests

test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s

SDK parity and real wrapper execution
cd packages/sdk && node node_modules/vitest/vitest.mjs run tests/memory.test.ts tests/spec-parity.test.ts tests/worker-cli.test.ts

 RUN  v2.1.9 /Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-212-channels-wt/packages/sdk

 ✓ tests/memory.test.ts (18 tests) 6ms
 ✓ tests/spec-parity.test.ts (28 tests) 213ms
 ✓ tests/worker-cli.test.ts (13 tests) 20130ms
   ✓ custom wrapper execution bounds are reader-owned > resolves when a conforming wrapper leaks a stdio pipe to a background helper 1745ms
   ✓ custom wrapper execution bounds are reader-owned > resolves when the leaked helper inherits stderr only 1712ms
   ✓ custom wrapper execution bounds are reader-owned > resolves when a wrapper leaks a stdio pipe and exits before identifying 3255ms
   ✓ custom wrapper execution bounds are reader-owned > journals a completionReason at the default bound when a wrapper leaks a stdio pipe 11255ms
   ✓ custom wrapper execution bounds are reader-owned > accepts the same over-8KiB payload whether or not it coalesces with the execute token 471ms
   ✓ delivers the journaled memory pack to the real wrapper and excludes its charge from completion usage 346ms

 Test Files  3 passed (3)
      Tests  59 passed (59)
   Start at  09:47:45
   Duration  20.46s (transform 263ms, setup 0ms, collect 612ms, tests 20.35s, environment 0ms, prepare 191ms)

SDK type checks and build
cd packages/sdk
# Commands and exit statuses are captured below.
$ node node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc --noEmit
exit_status: 0
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maintainability lens — PASS

Maintainability review — PR #221 (step memory, slice 1)

Concerns

1. ensure_step_memory returns bool, forcing callers to re-load state to fetch the pack.
kernel/relayflowd/src/engine/drive.rs:113-119 calls ensure_step_memory, which itself calls load_state internally, then the caller does another load_state(&journal, spec.clone())? just to reach .steps[&step.id].memory. drive.rs:159-174 repeats the same pattern for the remote path. A stranger editing this in six months has to know both: (a) inject side-effects into the journal, and (b) that the pack lives inside RunState and must be re-folded to be observed. Better contract: ensure_step_memory → Result<Option<MemoryInjectedPayload>>, and hand the pack directly to execute_with_memory and the dispatch payload. Eliminates two extra full-state folds per step and one drift surface.

2. Two code paths validate the memory field shape.
Serde deny_unknown_fields on MemorySpec (kernel/relayflowd-core/src/memory.rs:17-22) and the manual validate_shape invoked from reject_unknown_step_fields in spec.rs:302-312. The manual pass exists to reject null-valued optional budget limits. Nothing in the code marks these two paths as jointly authoritative; a future author tightening one will silently drift.

3. Collapsed error detail hides the actual failure.
state/memory.rs:14-24 returns a single message covering "declaration mismatch OR provider empty OR budget exceeded". state/memory.rs:35-42 collapses "already injected" and "wrong attempt" into one string. The journal-side memory.rs:15-25 returns "cannot inject memory twice" whenever count != 1 — including when the row has step_id=NULL and matches zero rows. Six months from now, a bug report saying "memory must be injected once by an active attempt" won't tell an on-call which of the two conditions fired.

4. carry_summary runs a full journal replay inside the append transaction.
kernel/relayflowd-journal/src/memory.rs:32-45 folds every entry on every memory.injected append. The TODO(epoch-compaction) note on line 33-34 correctly flags that historical entries can't be removed until this is redesigned, but the coupling — journal integrity now depends on RunState::fold being callable inside a Transaction — is not called out anywhere in journal/src/lib.rs.

5. Implicit format contract in worker.ts:149-153.
memoryInstruction welds \n\nMemory context (journaled):\n<JSON> onto the instruction. This becomes a de facto prompt schema for every agent that consumes memory, undocumented and not tested for stability. If someone changes the marker string, silently broken agent behavior on live runs.

6. kernel/MEMORY.md conflates design doc, contract, and evidence pointer.
The doc restates behavior the code already declares (scope names, JSON payload shape) — future drift risk. Also collides with the auto-memory MEMORY.md convention lower in the tree.

Notes

  • Hand-rolled arbitrary-precision decimal in state/budget.rs:15-100 has correctness tests but no algorithm-level comment; the previous u128 version was ~15 lines and the new one is ~60. Worth a two-line summary of alignment/carry/trim.
  • Nice: journal validation is atomic with the append (insert_entry → validate_entry), and the epoch summary carries packs explicitly.
  • The crash_resume/memory.rs test uses assert_eq!(replay, injected, "...") to prove no second fact — good pin against a future edit that appends on resume.

No maintainability blockers. Structure is clean enough that the concerns above are addressable in a follow-up.

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history lens — PASS

Blockers: none. PR #221 passes the HISTORY lens at b4456d7. I read the requested 40-commit history, AGENTS.md, RFC-0001, DRIVE-LOG, NEXT, and DIRECTIVES, and inspected both PR commits and its scope statement.

Notes: I found no reintroduction of a deliberately removed pattern recorded in DRIVE-LOG. The new provider failures retain both a typed completion reason and explanatory detail (kernel/relayflowd/src/engine/memory.rs:57–78). Journal rejection propagates, and the dispatch path releases its reservation (kernel/relayflowd/src/engine/drive.rs:159–171), consistent with the history’s failure-handling repairs.

The implementation aligns with settled decisions #2 and #10: an existing journaled pack bypasses the provider (kernel/relayflowd/src/engine/memory.rs:30–33); injection requires the consuming step’s active attempt, rejects duplicates, and adds its cost once (kernel/relayflowd-core/src/state/memory.rs:28–51). No provider SDK, tenant identity, or new step type is introduced.

The commit subjects accurately describe their changes: 72e03d5 introduces the crash-resume test and its red capture; b4456d7 implements journaled packs and resume accounting. The evidence documentation names specific commands and committed captures, distinguishes synthetic usage from retrieval quality, and expressly makes no mutation-verification claim (kernel/evidence/220/README.md:3–47). I inspected those records; I did not independently rerun the tests.

Concerns, non-blocking: Memory validation still scans historical entries (kernel/relayflowd-journal/src/memory.rs:32–48), leaving decision #8’s current-segment-only operation unfinished. Historical compaction is explicitly deferred. Likewise, the fixed provider does not establish Gate 5’s behavioral-learning acceptance criterion; that limitation is clearly disclosed (kernel/MEMORY.md:15–19, 50–56). Neither establishes a regression or a false completion claim. NEXT’s older #174 brief is a follow-up coordination concern under this lens.

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→ Read docs/RFC-0001-everything-is-a-relayflow.md

$ wc -l /Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-ops/kernel/relayflowd-core/src/memory.rs /Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-ops/kernel/relayflowd-core/src/state/memory.rs /Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-ops/kernel/relayflowd-journal/src/memory.rs /Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-ops/kernel/relayflowd/src/engine/memory.rs /Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-ops/kernel/relayflowd/src/memory.rs /Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-ops/kernel/relayflowd-core/src/state/budget.rs /Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-ops/kernel/relayflowd-core/src/spec.rs /Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-ops/kernel/relayflowd-core/src/state.rs
wc: /Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-ops/kernel/relayflowd-core/src/memory.rs: open: No such file or directory
wc: /Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-ops/kernel/relayflowd-core/src/state/memory.rs: open: No such file or directory
wc: /Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-ops/kernel/relayflowd-journal/src/memory.rs: open: No such file or directory
wc: /Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-ops/kernel/relayflowd/src/engine/memory.rs: open: No such file or directory
wc: /Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-ops/kernel/relayflowd/src/memory.rs: open: No such file or directory
43 /Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-ops/kernel/relayflowd-core/src/state/budget.rs
605 /Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-ops/kernel/relayflowd-core/src/spec.rs
445 /Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-ops/kernel/relayflowd-core/src/state.rs
1093 total

$ ls /Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-ops/kernel/ 2>/dev/null; echo "---"; ls /Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-ops/
Cargo.lock
Cargo.toml
DESIGN.md
DURABLE-CHANNELS.md
README.md
evidence
package-lock.json
relayflowd
relayflowd-core
relayflowd-journal

AGENTS.md
BRIEF-0902.md
BRIEF-0902b.md
LICENSE
README.md
charter
docs
examples
kernel
ops
packages
regressions
scripts
sdk
testdata
workflows

$ cd /Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-ops && wc -l kernel/relayflowd-core/src/memory.rs kernel/relayflowd-core/src/state/memory.rs kernel/relayflowd-journal/src/memory.rs kernel/relayflowd/src/engine/memory.rs kernel/relayflowd/src/memory.rs kernel/relayflowd-core/src/state/budget.rs kernel/relayflowd-core/src/spec.rs kernel/relayflowd-core/src/state.rs kernel/relayflowd/src/engine/drive.rs kernel/relayflowd-journal/src/segment.rs 2>&1
wc: kernel/relayflowd-core/src/memory.rs: open: No such file or directory
wc: kernel/relayflowd-core/src/state/memory.rs: open: No such file or directory
wc: kernel/relayflowd-journal/src/memory.rs: open: No such file or directory
wc: kernel/relayflowd/src/engine/memory.rs: open: No such file or directory
wc: kernel/relayflowd/src/memory.rs: open: No such file or directory
43 kernel/relayflowd-core/src/state/budget.rs
605 kernel/relayflowd-core/src/spec.rs
445 kernel/relayflowd-core/src/state.rs
399 kernel/relayflowd/src/engine/drive.rs
58 kernel/relayflowd-journal/src/segment.rs
1550 total

$ cd /Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-ops && grep -n "StepKind::Llm|StepKind::Agent|worker_class|execute_with_memory|runAgentCli|fn execute\b|memoryInstruction" kernel/relayflowd/src/engine/drive.rs packages/sdk/src/worker.ts 2>/dev/null | head -60
kernel/relayflowd/src/engine/drive.rs:143: worker_class,
kernel/relayflowd/src/engine/drive.rs:166: step_type: worker_class,
packages/sdk/src/worker.ts:5:import { runAgentCli } from './worker-cli.js';
packages/sdk/src/worker.ts:94: ? await runAgentCli(spec.cli, spec.instruction, dispatch.wake_context, spec.model)

→ Read kernel/relayflowd/src/engine/drive.rs [offset=100, limit=100]

Structure lens review — PR #221 (step memory, slice 1)

Assessed against RFC-0001 / AGENTS.md

The core shape is sound. Memory is modeled as data, not a kernel primitive: MemoryScope/MemorySpec/MemoryInjectedPayload in kernel/relayflowd-core/src/memory.rs:1-158 are serde types, memory.injected is a normal journal entry (entry.rs), and the only execution-side addition is a MemoryProvider trait + FixedMemoryProvider stub in kernel/relayflowd/src/memory.rs:1-35 — a daemon seam, not kernel I/O. This respects "the kernel never holds provider SDKs" and decision #15 (scope is explicitly not tenant-aware).

Budget discipline matches decision #10 (itemized, charged once to the consuming step) and fail-closed is enforced at validation (SpecError::InvalidMemory, deny_unknown_fields, nulls rejected). completionReason is used (BudgetExceeded, WorkerError) rather than raw errors. Naming stays in-kernel (scope/query/budget). Direction is right.

Concerns

  1. Decimal math is duplicated in one crate. valid_decimal/decimal_cmp live in core/memory.rs:111-151 while add_decimal_strings live in core/state/budget.rs:12-105. Two independent arbitrary-precision implementations invite drift; AGENTS.md calls for shared helpers, not parallel re-implementations.

  2. Journal full-replay on every memory append. kernel/relayflowd-journal/src/memory.rs:38-60 replay() re-scans and re-folds the entire run via RunState::fold, and carry_summary (:62-79) does it again, both duplicating core's own fold. O(n) per memory.injected, and journal now re-derives full run state to validate one fact.

  3. Two admission paths for one shape. MemorySpec::validate (serialization-validated) plus the separate validate_shape null-shape check called from spec.rs:305-313 — the deny_unknown_fields band-aid is a second, parallel validator.

  4. Three delivery mechanisms, one gap. Deterministic steps get RELAYFLOW_MEMORY env (exec_det.rs), remote/agent workers get dispatch.memory + instruction-string concat (worker.ts:151-158). But llm steps declare memory and receive nothing: the testdata step-memory.flow.yaml reason step declares memory, yet worker.ts:94 only injects on cli+instruction (agent), and no LLM prompt path is amended. Either llm is out of scope for slice 1 (MEMORY.md should say so) or it's a real hole.

Notes

  • spec.rs is already ~605 lines (over the 500-line smell bar) and grows here; unrelated, but consolidation into memory/budget keeps it from worsening.
  • drive.rs:10 old execute now wraps execute_with_memory with Option — clean.

No blockers. The design conforms; the concerns are drift/duplication and the unverified llm delivery path.

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Check if these issues are valid — if so, understand the root cause of each and fix them. If appropriate, use sub-agents to investigate and fix each issue separately.


<file name="packages/sdk/tests/worker-cli.test.ts">

<violation number="1" location="packages/sdk/tests/worker-cli.test.ts:501">
P3: The assertion `expect(result.budget).toBeUndefined()` does not actually verify the behavior the test name claims ("excludes its charge from completion usage"). The SDK worker (`packages/sdk/src/worker.ts` `execute()`) calls `stepComplete(..., { output, started_pins, end_pins })` and never includes a `usage`/`budget` field, so `result.budget` is `undefined` unconditionally and this line can never fail. Either exercise a real charge-exclusion path or remove/rename the claim so the test doesn't give false coverage of the billing behavior actually implemented in the kernel/provider modules.</violation>
</file>

<file name="kernel/relayflowd/src/engine/drive.rs">

<violation number="1" location="kernel/relayflowd/src/engine/drive.rs:159">
P2: When a memory provider or budget failure is retryable with nonzero backoff, this call blocks in the retry timer before the reservation is released at the following branch. The reserved worker is therefore counted as busy and cannot accept independent work during the backoff; release the reservation before waiting or make the memory-failure path return without blocking.</violation>
</file>

<file name="kernel/relayflowd/src/engine/memory.rs">

<violation number="1" location="kernel/relayflowd/src/engine/memory.rs:34">
P2: When two resumes drive the same memory-bearing deterministic step concurrently, both calls can reach `provide` before either injection is committed. The later append is rejected after the provider call, causing an avoidable second provider query and a failed resume; serialize memory injection or elect the committing attempt before calling the provider.</violation>
</file>

<file name="kernel/relayflowd-journal/src/memory.rs">

<violation number="1" location="kernel/relayflowd-journal/src/memory.rs:62">
P1: When no `memory.injected` row exists, this early return preserves caller-supplied `summary.memory`. An epoch can therefore restore an unjournaled pack and make execution skip the provider; reject non-empty summary memory unless it is derived from recorded facts.</violation>
</file>

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|row| row.get(0),
)?;
if !has_memory {

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P1: When no memory.injected row exists, this early return preserves caller-supplied summary.memory. An epoch can therefore restore an unjournaled pack and make execution skip the provider; reject non-empty summary memory unless it is derived from recorded facts.

Prompt for AI agents
Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At kernel/relayflowd-journal/src/memory.rs, line 62:

<comment>When no `memory.injected` row exists, this early return preserves caller-supplied `summary.memory`. An epoch can therefore restore an unjournaled pack and make execution skip the provider; reject non-empty summary memory unless it is derived from recorded facts.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+        [],
+        |row| row.get(0),
+    )?;
+    if !has_memory {
+        return Ok(());
+    }
</file context>

if skipped_dispatches.remove(&(step.id.clone(), attempt)) {
continue;
}
let injection = self.ensure_step_memory(&mut journal, &step, attempt);

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P2: When a memory provider or budget failure is retryable with nonzero backoff, this call blocks in the retry timer before the reservation is released at the following branch. The reserved worker is therefore counted as busy and cannot accept independent work during the backoff; release the reservation before waiting or make the memory-failure path return without blocking.

Prompt for AI agents
Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At kernel/relayflowd/src/engine/drive.rs, line 159:

<comment>When a memory provider or budget failure is retryable with nonzero backoff, this call blocks in the retry timer before the reservation is released at the following branch. The reserved worker is therefore counted as busy and cannot accept independent work during the backoff; release the reservation before waiting or make the memory-failure path return without blocking.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -150,6 +156,18 @@ impl<C: Clock> Engine<C> {
                         if skipped_dispatches.remove(&(step.id.clone(), attempt)) {
                             continue;
                         }
+                        let injection = self.ensure_step_memory(&mut journal, &step, attempt);
+                        if !matches!(injection, Ok(true)) {
+                            if let Some(dispatcher) = &self.dispatcher {
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if state.steps[&step.id].memory.is_some() {
return Ok(true);
}
let candidate = self

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P2: When two resumes drive the same memory-bearing deterministic step concurrently, both calls can reach provide before either injection is committed. The later append is rejected after the provider call, causing an avoidable second provider query and a failed resume; serialize memory injection or elect the committing attempt before calling the provider.

Prompt for AI agents
Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At kernel/relayflowd/src/engine/memory.rs, line 34:

<comment>When two resumes drive the same memory-bearing deterministic step concurrently, both calls can reach `provide` before either injection is committed. The later append is rejected after the provider call, causing an avoidable second provider query and a failed resume; serialize memory injection or elect the committing attempt before calling the provider.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+        if state.steps[&step.id].memory.is_some() {
+            return Ok(true);
+        }
+        let candidate = self
+            .memory_provider
+            .provide(journal.run_id(), &step.id, request);
</file context>

const result = completions[0]?.[5] as { output: { instruction: string }; budget?: unknown };
expect(result.output.instruction).toContain('Use context');
expect(result.output.instruction).toContain(JSON.stringify(pack));
expect(result.budget).toBeUndefined();

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P3: The assertion expect(result.budget).toBeUndefined() does not actually verify the behavior the test name claims ("excludes its charge from completion usage"). The SDK worker (packages/sdk/src/worker.ts execute()) calls stepComplete(..., { output, started_pins, end_pins }) and never includes a usage/budget field, so result.budget is undefined unconditionally and this line can never fail. Either exercise a real charge-exclusion path or remove/rename the claim so the test doesn't give false coverage of the billing behavior actually implemented in the kernel/provider modules.

Prompt for AI agents
Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At packages/sdk/tests/worker-cli.test.ts, line 501:

<comment>The assertion `expect(result.budget).toBeUndefined()` does not actually verify the behavior the test name claims ("excludes its charge from completion usage"). The SDK worker (`packages/sdk/src/worker.ts` `execute()`) calls `stepComplete(..., { output, started_pins, end_pins })` and never includes a `usage`/`budget` field, so `result.budget` is `undefined` unconditionally and this line can never fail. Either exercise a real charge-exclusion path or remove/rename the claim so the test doesn't give false coverage of the billing behavior actually implemented in the kernel/provider modules.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -461,3 +461,42 @@ setTimeout(() => {}, 5000);
+  const result = completions[0]?.[5] as { output: { instruction: string }; budget?: unknown };
+  expect(result.output.instruction).toContain('Use context');
+  expect(result.output.instruction).toContain(JSON.stringify(pack));
+  expect(result.budget).toBeUndefined();
+}, 20_000);
</file context>

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main is red. #221 added `memory` to STEP_COMMON_FIELDS
(packages/sdk/src/step-fields.ts:25) without updating the pin that guards it:

    FAIL tests/verb-field-lint.test.ts > closed per-verb step fields
      > pins the per-verb descriptor and generates every foreign-field pair from it
    AssertionError: expected [ 'id', 'type', 'dependsOn', …(3) ]
                    to deeply equal [ 'id', 'type', 'dependsOn', …(2) ]

(run 34098150100, main @ 6394a2e.)

The pin exists so a change to the closed vocabulary "cannot be silently
undone" — it is an acknowledgement gate, not a duplicate of the source. Adding
`memory` to it is the acknowledgement, and the comment records why the field is
common rather than verb-specific: any step kind may declare a pack, so it
generates no foreign-field pairs.

This restores the gate rather than weakening it: the test still fails if the
descriptor changes again without a matching edit here.

Verified locally:
  vitest tests/verb-field-lint.test.ts   78 passed
  full SDK suite                         684 passed, 3 skipped, 0 failed

The branch CI for #221 was already failing this before it merged
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`linux-x64-artifact` fails on this branch:

    FAIL tests/verb-field-lint.test.ts > closed per-verb step fields
    AssertionError: expected [ 'id','type','dependsOn', …(4) ]
                    to deeply equal [ 'id','type','dependsOn', …(3) ]

`requirements` was added to STEP_COMMON_FIELDS (step-fields.ts:26) without
updating the pin that guards that list. The pin is an acknowledgement gate
rather than a duplicate of the source, so adding the field to it IS the
acknowledgement.

The comment records why it is common rather than verb-specific, matching the
`memory` entry directly above: any step kind may declare placement
requirements, so it generates no foreign-field pairs.

Second time this trap has fired — #221 hit it with `memory` and merged red,
breaking main for ~90 minutes. Filing a follow-up so the failure message says
what to do rather than a third lane rediscovering it.

Verified:
  vitest tests/verb-field-lint.test.ts   78 passed
  full SDK suite                         741 passed, 3 skipped, 0 failed

Pushed to this PR's own branch rather than a new PR, so the fix lands where the
work is.

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…227)

* test: capture placement and shared workspace regression for #225

* feat: journal fixed step placement and pin declared workspaces

* fix(sdk): pin `requirements` in STEP_COMMON_FIELDS

`linux-x64-artifact` fails on this branch:

    FAIL tests/verb-field-lint.test.ts > closed per-verb step fields
    AssertionError: expected [ 'id','type','dependsOn', …(4) ]
                    to deeply equal [ 'id','type','dependsOn', …(3) ]

`requirements` was added to STEP_COMMON_FIELDS (step-fields.ts:26) without
updating the pin that guards that list. The pin is an acknowledgement gate
rather than a duplicate of the source, so adding the field to it IS the
acknowledgement.

The comment records why it is common rather than verb-specific, matching the
`memory` entry directly above: any step kind may declare placement
requirements, so it generates no foreign-field pairs.

Second time this trap has fired — #221 hit it with `memory` and merged red,
breaking main for ~90 minutes. Filing a follow-up so the failure message says
what to do rather than a third lane rediscovering it.

Verified:
  vitest tests/verb-field-lint.test.ts   78 passed
  full SDK suite                         741 passed, 3 skipped, 0 failed

Pushed to this PR's own branch rather than a new PR, so the fix lands where the
work is.

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* fix: document local pin defaults and explain routing failures

* fix(placement): reject invalid replay facts and pin commit objects

* test(placement): a resumed attempt keeps its pin when the worktree HEAD moves

Closes the open finding on #227. The concern was that a declared local run
resuming after its worktree HEAD changed would record a different source pin
for the same durable route. Nothing tested it: `placement_pins` only called
`starting_pins` directly (which does re-read HEAD, correctly — that is the
worker's job), and `crash_resume/workspace_identity` covers aliases and
canonical subtrees, not a moving HEAD.

The test starts an agent step over a git worktree, lets the dispatcher take
the lease so the run parks, commits again to move HEAD, then resumes under a
fresh Engine — a new boot id, so the leased attempt reads as dead and the step
is retried. It asserts both attempts carry the elected revision, and that a
recording dispatcher was asked for pins exactly once.

Mutation-verified rather than trusted green: forcing the `covered` branch off
in `resolve_agent_pins` makes it fail (pin_requests 2, expected 1).

Worth recording what that mutation also showed. Under it the *revision*
assertion still held, because the projection reads
`carried.workspace.iter().chain(worker.workspace.iter())` and takes the first
match. So carried-first is what actually protects the pin; the `covered`
short-circuit only avoids the needless question. The test now pins both.

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…rovider in code

#221 landed the seam and the itemized per-step accounting (decision 10), not
retrieval. Gate 5's remaining work is a provider over relayhistory's
serialization contract plus the trajectory push.

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… against it

RFC-0001 gate 5 says relayhistory is "consumed over its serialization contract,
not rewritten", so this reads the contract from the repo (3e7df69) rather than
proposing a design that ignores it.

Retrieval is `ai-hist pack --json`, emitting { query, entries }. The `--tokens`
budget is applied as chars = tokens * 4, an approximation and not a tokenizer,
so a provider must not report it back as exact usage — decision 10's per-step
accounting is only checkable if the number means something.

The trap worth having in writing: pack_entries calls std::process::exit(1) when
nothing matches, AFTER printing an empty entries array. Exit 1 means "no memory
matched", not "the call failed". A provider treating nonzero as an error would
report every cold-start step as a memory failure.

Also records what #221 already landed — the MemoryProvider seam and itemized
memory.injected accounting — versus what is still a stub, so nobody re-derives
that gate 5's hard part is done and its retrieval is not.

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Two cubic findings on #240, both mine.

The gate 7 row said the kernel "carries no provider names" two sentences after
naming `RoutingDecision (profile, provider, fallbacks_attempted, workspace)`,
and `placement.rs` declares `pub provider: String`. I meant the kernel hardcodes
no provider identities and contains no ranking; what I wrote reads as false
against the struct on the same row. Rewritten to say the chosen provider is the
journaled fact while the kernel holds no provider identities and no ranking.

The gate 5 contract note credited the memory seam to #221. `kernel/MEMORY.md` is
titled "Step memory, slice 1 (#220)"; #221 is a separate PR. Corrected.

Neither changes a verdict — gate 7 stays AMBER and the gate 5 contract is
unchanged — but a scoreboard that contradicts itself is worse than one that is
merely out of date, because the contradiction is what a reader trusts least.

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Both blockers the history lens raised are mine, and H1 is the worse kind: a
commit that announced it was correcting an attribution and reversed it instead.

H1 - GATE5-MEMORY-CONTRACT.md:9 said "#220 landed the seam ... #221 is a
separate PR". #220 is the ISSUE; PR #221 implemented it and closed it. The line
now reads "PR #221 (issue #220) landed the seam", and explains that
kernel/MEMORY.md is titled with #220 because it names the issue. The historical
commit stays; the current document is corrected here, as the lens asked.

H2 - SCOREBOARD.md:14 asserted "full kernel suite 205 passed / 0 failed" and
described a case as "mutation-verified" while supplying neither commands nor a
transcript. That is the failure class AGENTS.md rules 1-2 prohibit -- evidence
is captured, not narrated -- and a pass count drifts while a transcript does
not. The row now cites the run rather than restating a number, and says how the
mutation check was performed without claiming the sentence is the proof.

Documentation only.

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kjgbot added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 10, 2026
…ing on (#240)

* docs(scoreboard): gate 7 is AMBER — #227 landed the darwin-arm64 suite it waited on

The row said RED because "regression suite needs darwin-arm64 placement". That
suite merged last night as be3c95e and is green: full kernel run is 205 passed
/ 0 failed on main at c9bf155, on darwin arm64. I merged the work and left the
row that tracks it stale, which is the same staleness this lane spent four
ticks correcting in other files.

AMBER rather than GREEN, deliberately. RFC-0001 gate 7 requires the same flow
YAML to run locally AND in cloud with no placement config, and only the local
half is provable from this repo. Promoting it to GREEN on the strength of a
passing kernel suite would repeat exactly what the gate 2 row already warns
about: its bar is the real workload in production, not a test run.

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* docs(gate5): record relayhistory's contract before writing a provider against it

RFC-0001 gate 5 says relayhistory is "consumed over its serialization contract,
not rewritten", so this reads the contract from the repo (3e7df69) rather than
proposing a design that ignores it.

Retrieval is `ai-hist pack --json`, emitting { query, entries }. The `--tokens`
budget is applied as chars = tokens * 4, an approximation and not a tokenizer,
so a provider must not report it back as exact usage — decision 10's per-step
accounting is only checkable if the number means something.

The trap worth having in writing: pack_entries calls std::process::exit(1) when
nothing matches, AFTER printing an empty entries array. Exit 1 means "no memory
matched", not "the call failed". A provider treating nonzero as an error would
report every cold-start step as a memory failure.

Also records what #221 already landed — the MemoryProvider seam and itemized
memory.injected accounting — versus what is still a stub, so nobody re-derives
that gate 5's hard part is done and its retrieval is not.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FtQSAcGDta5VH9xiZFT4sR

* docs: correct a self-contradicting claim and a PR attribution

Two cubic findings on #240, both mine.

The gate 7 row said the kernel "carries no provider names" two sentences after
naming `RoutingDecision (profile, provider, fallbacks_attempted, workspace)`,
and `placement.rs` declares `pub provider: String`. I meant the kernel hardcodes
no provider identities and contains no ranking; what I wrote reads as false
against the struct on the same row. Rewritten to say the chosen provider is the
journaled fact while the kernel holds no provider identities and no ranking.

The gate 5 contract note credited the memory seam to #221. `kernel/MEMORY.md` is
titled "Step memory, slice 1 (#220)"; #221 is a separate PR. Corrected.

Neither changes a verdict — gate 7 stays AMBER and the gate 5 contract is
unchanged — but a scoreboard that contradicts itself is worse than one that is
merely out of date, because the contradiction is what a reader trusts least.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FtQSAcGDta5VH9xiZFT4sR

* docs(gate5): place the relayhistory provider outside the kernel boundary

The structure lens raised a P1 and it is right. Item 1 read "a
RelayhistoryMemoryProvider implementing the existing MemoryProvider trait", and
that trait lives in kernel/relayflowd/src/memory.rs -- so the wording naturally
directs the implementation into relayflowd, where a subprocess/provider
integration would violate RFC-0001 section 4 and settled decision #13.

That is a structural defect in the contract, not a naming quibble: a contract
that reads as an instruction to put ai-hist inside the Rust kernel will
eventually be followed.

The item now states where the adapter lives (SDK/control-plane edge, crossing
the journal protocol boundary), keeps the kernel-side MemoryProvider an injected
protocol seam only, and prohibits an ai-hist dependency, a subprocess call, or
relayhistory-shaped vocabulary in relayflowd.

Documentation only; no product code or tests are touched.

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* docs: fix a reversed PR attribution and two unsupported claims

Both blockers the history lens raised are mine, and H1 is the worse kind: a
commit that announced it was correcting an attribution and reversed it instead.

H1 - GATE5-MEMORY-CONTRACT.md:9 said "#220 landed the seam ... #221 is a
separate PR". #220 is the ISSUE; PR #221 implemented it and closed it. The line
now reads "PR #221 (issue #220) landed the seam", and explains that
kernel/MEMORY.md is titled with #220 because it names the issue. The historical
commit stays; the current document is corrected here, as the lens asked.

H2 - SCOREBOARD.md:14 asserted "full kernel suite 205 passed / 0 failed" and
described a case as "mutation-verified" while supplying neither commands nor a
transcript. That is the failure class AGENTS.md rules 1-2 prohibit -- evidence
is captured, not narrated -- and a pass count drifts while a transcript does
not. The row now cites the run rather than restating a number, and says how the
mutation check was performed without claiming the sentence is the proof.

Documentation only.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FtQSAcGDta5VH9xiZFT4sR

* docs: move the gate-5 contract out of kernel/ and shrink the gate-7 row

Both remaining structure blockers, and the first is sharper than the wording fix
I made an hour ago.

P1 - location, not phrasing. I had added a paragraph saying the relayhistory
adapter must not live in relayflowd. Directionally right, but the FILE still sat
at kernel/GATE5-MEMORY-CONTRACT.md, and a document under kernel/ reads as kernel
design authority no matter what its text says. It specifies ai-hist CLI syntax,
JSON output, exit-code behaviour and provider traps -- SDK/control-plane
knowledge that RFC-0001 section 4 and settled decision 13 keep out of the
provider-neutral Rust kernel. Moved to docs/ and added an explicit ownership
header saying why, so location and text now agree.

P2 - the gate-7 scoreboard cell had become a second design report: Rust symbols,
test names, crash behaviour, a mutation claim, commit hashes and suite counts in
one table cell. Reduced 1420 chars to 382: gate state, what is journaled, and
the reason it is not GREEN. The implementation narrative and mutation transcript
belong in the PR #227 review artifacts, which AGENTS.md already requires to
carry the literal transcript -- a row asserting "mutation-verified" was never
evidence.

Documentation only.

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