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fix(tui,runs): anchor the paused-spec read and confine the replan write on the run's tree - #748

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Problem

tui/app.py::_paused_spec resolved Path(task.spec_file) against the TUI process cwd. Under worktree isolation StoryTask._serialized_worktree_path persists spec_file relative to the mounted worktree and from_dict reads it back raw, so that bare Path(...) named the main checkout's copy — which carries the same layout.

Three review surfaces displayed the wrong file, and _do_replan wrote to it: both reset_spec_status and strip_auto_run_result succeeded, because the main checkout's copy genuinely is under project, so containment accepted it and reset returned True. The operator saw "plan reset to draft", the run resumed, the worktree's real spec kept its terminal status — so the next dispatch did not re-plan — and an unrelated tracked file was rewritten. Pre-existing since #82, invisible to the suite because every TUI row set an absolute spec_file.

Change

runs._task_spec_path / _task_spec_root were written for this exact defect at the bmad-loop resolve call site. Promote both to public and route the TUI's read, the replan's confine_root, and resolve.build_context through them, so the anchor and the containment root are one claim about which tree owns the spec.

Two follow-up fixes from review (850f65d6):

  • task_spec_root could return a root that cannot confine the anchored path. task_spec_path passes an absolute spec_file through verbatim, but the root was unconditionally the worktree. _serialized_worktree_path keeps a path verbatim exactly when relative_to(worktree_path) raises, so an absolute value beside a set worktree_path is the out-of-mount shape. _atomic_write_spec gates on the same lexical is_relative_to and silently took the plain no-follow arm, losing the confined arm's O_NOFOLLOW walk (Atomic writes resolve parent directories by name, so follow_symlinks=False does not stop a symlinked parent #593); _restore_rearmed_spec, which calls the confined writer directly, raised UnconfinedWriteError instead — turning a recoverable re-arm abort into a lost undo. It now yields the project for that shape, compared with the same lexical test the writer gates on so root and gate agree by construction (deliberately not canonicalized — that would diverge from the gate).
  • _paused_spec_root's two arms made two different claims (self.project, a canonicalized constructor value, vs. the delegate's Path(state.project)). Now one claim. This arm is unreachable from the write path today; the fix is about not leaving a second claim for a future caller, and the docstring says so rather than overclaiming.

A spec missing or undecodable at the anchored path now reads as an explicit fault rather than an empty body — the UnicodeDecodeError arm matters because all three review surfaces call this from the Textual event loop, where an escaping raise takes the dashboard down.

Later review rounds (69e5d5c3..f9de3cb1)

Four further passes each found the same defect at the next surface — a persisted spec_file resolved against the reader's cwd — which is the shape of the problem, not a queue of unrelated bugs:

  • The fields beside the spec were left on the main checkout. The re-anchor had been adopted for spec_file alone, so the escalation modal read its spec text from the run's tree and its sentinel indicator from the project — one modal contradicting itself, showing a pre-planning sentinel wedge as an ordinary escalation. task_spec_root answers "which tree can confine a write", and its out-of-mount arm falls back to the project; the stories folder is a different question, so task_stories_root was split out to mirror stories_engine._stories_folder's rule.
  • The restart arm discarded the mount but kept what was measured inside it. worktree_path/branch were cleared while baseline_commit, baseline_untracked, spec_file and dispatched_spec_file survived, and the arm saves before the replacement is mounted — so a git spawn fault persisted them beside an empty worktree_path. A later resume then took the in-place elif task.baseline_commit: leg against the main checkout: untracked_files(repo) - baseline_untracked named every untracked file in the operator's own checkout as attempt debris, and recovery could restore a dead attempt's snapshot over their own copy of the spec. Neither operand failed loud — linked worktrees share the object database, so a deleted unit branch's baseline still resolves and a reset onto it still succeeds.
  • Sweep never inherited any of it. SweepEngine replaces _loop wholesale, and Engine._loop is the only caller of _finish_inflight, which carries the re-anchor — while both engines share the discard helper. Fixed in _recover_inflight_bundle, above the isolated gate for the reason the engine puts it there: the gate is live policy, the relative spelling is persisted state.
  • Pause notifications printed the raw field on the surface the operator reads first, sprint mode included, so _operator_spec_path moved from StoriesEngine to Engine. The dev-session prompt deliberately keeps the raw value: that session's cwd is the mount.
  • The unreadable-spec refusal was asymmetric in the wrong direction. The previous pass refused both escalation verbs; Resolve writes nothing, is what repairs a bad anchor, and gating it left close as the modal's only action — while the R binding reached the same agent regardless, making the refusal advisory. Re-arm stays refused. The unreadable notice also prefixed the shared body render, which answers "" for the failure sentence, so the modal printed the warning and "(no blocking condition recorded)" together — the second denying the first. It now replaces the body.

The guard

Nothing made the anchor rule checkable, which is exactly why each round found only the next unanchored reader. tests/test_portability_guard.py now flags a raw Path(x.spec_file) / Path(x.dispatched_spec_file) by call shape (so an alias is caught too), allowlisting runs.py, engine.py, verify.py and recovery_flow.py as the tree-local consumers. Adding a file to that list is a claim that its cwd is the run's tree.

Since the guard asserts an absence, two companion rows grade the detector itself: it fires on the exact line the defect shipped as, and stays silent on the sanctioned spellings.

Scope note

This intentionally changes rearm_escalation at four call sites; the promotion was otherwise rename-only. The direction is one-way: where the project contains the spec, a skipped-or-refused confined write becomes a taken one; where nothing contains it, the outcome is unchanged.

Verification

7190 passed, 49 skipped · pyright 0 errors · trunk check --all clean (258 files).

Every behavioral claim was ablated with the bytecode cache purged and PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1, control-first so a collection error could not masquerade as a pass. Reverting task_spec_root reddens exactly three rows — including the UnconfinedWriteError one — while both unchanged-shape rows stay green; two deliberately over-broad variants are each caught by the "stays on the worktree" row.

Two later rows close gaps that were fully green under ablation, so they graded nothing before:

  • The stories/spec root split is now graded by a row where the two resolvers genuinely disagree (an absolute, out-of-mount spec_file), at both the runs primitive and build_context. Every other row builds the relative shape where they agree by construction — which is why collapsing task_stories_root back into task_spec_root left the whole suite green.
  • The plan-checkpoint row asserts the notify body, not only the journal record. No row in the repo observed any gates.notify body, so every notification site could have been reverted to a bare task.spec_file with the suite green.

_stories_paused_run now refuses spec_outside_worktree without a worktree_path — a combination that read like an isolated row while silently building a non-isolated one.

One assertion is inert on POSIX: str() and .as_posix() are byte-identical for an absolute POSIX path, so the spec_file posix check only grades on Windows CI. That is written into the test docstring rather than left implicit.

Review

Three parallel review layers ran. 7 findings patched, 8 deferred to the ledger, 9 dismissed with reasons recorded. Two reviewer claims were refuted by running them: trunk does not reflow the CHANGELOG bullet, and the new failure string is not parsed as spec content.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Corrected spec and story path handling for isolated runs and worktrees.
    • Improved notifications, journals, dashboards, and context details.
    • Prevented re-arm, approval, and replanning when specs or policies are unreadable.
    • Improved recovery for missing worktrees and stale mount state.
    • Preserved spec ownership and baseline information during restarts and isolation changes.
    • Re-drive decisions now reflect the active isolation policy, with clearer correction guidance.
    • Added warnings when isolation settings change during resolution.
  • Documentation

    • Updated guides with anchored paths, unavailable actions, and correction workflows.

t added 2 commits August 28, 2026 12:43
… run's tree

An isolated unit's `spec_file` is persisted relative to its mounted worktree,
and the dashboard resolved that raw against its own cwd — the project root,
which carries the same layout. The review modals rendered the main checkout's
copy, and `Request replan` reset that copy to `draft` instead of the run's:
both writes reported success, because the wrong file genuinely is inside the
confinement root, so the run resumed while the worktree's real spec kept its
terminal status and the next dispatch did not re-plan.

Promote `runs._task_spec_path`/`_task_spec_root` to public (rename only) and
route the TUI read, the replan's `confine_root`, and `resolve.build_context`
through them, so the anchor and the containment root are one claim about which
tree owns the spec. A spec missing or undecodable at the anchored path now
reads as an explicit fault rather than an empty body.
`task_spec_path` passes an absolute `spec_file` through verbatim, but
`task_spec_root` returned the worktree unconditionally. `_serialized_worktree_path`
keeps a path verbatim exactly when `relative_to(worktree_path)` raises, so an
absolute value beside a set `worktree_path` is precisely the out-of-mount shape —
and the worktree can then never contain it. `_atomic_write_spec` gates on the same
lexical `is_relative_to` and silently took the plain no-follow arm, losing the
confined arm's O_NOFOLLOW walk (#593); `_restore_rearmed_spec`, which calls the
confined writer directly, raised `UnconfinedWriteError` instead, turning a
recoverable re-arm abort into a lost undo.

Yield the project for that shape, tested with the same lexical comparison the
writer gates on so the root and the gate agree by construction. This deliberately
reaches `rearm_escalation`'s four call sites: where the project contains the spec a
skipped or refused confined write becomes a taken one, and where nothing contains
it the outcome is unchanged.

Also make `_paused_spec_root`'s no-task arm answer `Path(state.project)` rather
than `self.project`, so both arms make one claim about which tree owns the spec.
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Walkthrough

The change centralizes spec-path anchoring on run-owned trees. Recovery, context generation, pause notifications, TUI reads, and TUI writes use the correct roots. Unreadable specs block destructive actions. Re-drive behavior follows live isolation policy.

Changes

Run-owned spec anchoring and recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Spec path and re-drive contracts
src/bmad_loop/model.py, src/bmad_loop/runs.py, src/bmad_loop/resolve.py, tests/test_model.py, tests/test_runs.py, tests/test_resolve.py
Shared helpers re-anchor paths, select confinement and stories roots, report re-drive reachability, and populate context.json.
Recovery and mount-state lifecycle
src/bmad_loop/engine.py, src/bmad_loop/sweep.py, src/bmad_loop/worktree_flow.py, src/bmad_loop/workspace.py, tests/test_engine_worktree.py, tests/test_sweep.py
Recovery re-anchors paths before mount disposal, releases mount-owned state, and handles isolation changes.
TUI, resolve, and operator flows
src/bmad_loop/tui/app.py, src/bmad_loop/tui/screens/modals.py, src/bmad_loop/stories_engine.py, src/bmad_loop/cli.py, tests/test_tui_app.py, tests/test_stories_engine.py, tests/test_cli.py
TUI views and replan writes use run-owned roots. Unreadable specs disable destructive actions while keeping Resolve available. Resolve passes the active isolation mode to re-arm.
Validation and behavior contracts
tests/test_portability_guard.py, CHANGELOG.md, docs/FEATURES.md, docs/tui-guide.md, src/bmad_loop/diagnostics.py, src/bmad_loop/data/skills/bmad-loop-resolve/SKILL.md, tests/test_resolve_skill_contract.py, tests/test_engine.py
Tests, documentation, comments, and skill contracts describe anchored paths, recovery, unreadable-spec handling, and re-drive fields.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to e057c

The PR now anchors specification reads and writes to the run-owned tree, reducing the chance of modifying the wrong checkout. Merge readiness remains moderate because the current head still has concrete lint, test-contract, and documentation issues, while interrupted or concurrent recovery can leave the specification, recovery records, and saved run state inconsistent; these should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Operator
  participant ResolveCLI
  participant ResolveContext
  participant RearmEscalation
  participant Engine
  Operator->>ResolveCLI: Complete interactive resolve session
  ResolveCLI->>ResolveCLI: Re-read active isolation policy
  ResolveCLI->>RearmEscalation: Pass isolated_redrive mode
  RearmEscalation->>ResolveContext: Resolve spec and stories roots
  RearmEscalation->>Engine: Record re-drive state or hold resume
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And anchors paths by moonlit light
Unreadable plans stay safely still
Resolve remains available
The run owns every spec tonight

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t added 6 commits August 28, 2026 15:44
`test_build_context_gathers_critical_escalations` passed the literal
"/abs/spec.md" and asserted it reached `context.json` verbatim. On Windows
that string is drive-relative, not absolute, so `runs.task_spec_path` took
its anchoring arm and pathlib kept the root's drive while discarding its
path — emitting "D:/abs/spec.md" and reddening both Windows legs. The
literal passed unnoticed before this branch only because `build_context`
emitted `task.spec_file` raw.

Anchor the fixture on `tmp_path`, which is absolute on every OS, and grade
against `spec.as_posix()`. The row keeps testing that an absolute
`spec_file` passes through verbatim, and on Windows now also grades the
`.as_posix()` half that `str()` would fail.

Test-only: no `runs.py` behavior change, which the spec's frozen Boundaries
forbid for every caller outside the renegotiated confining-root arm.
…un's tree

The re-anchor landed for `spec_file` alone, so every field beside it still
resolved against the main checkout. `_sentinel_kind` scanned `self.project`
while `_paused_spec` read the run's tree, and both feed one `EscalationModal` —
a pre-planning sentinel wedge then rendered as an ordinary escalation, which is
a different operator decision. `context.json` named the run's tree in
`spec_file` and the project's in `stories.sentinel`, describing a file the
re-arm never touches. `stories_engine`'s pause notices printed the raw
worktree-relative path on the surface an operator reads before any dashboard.

Route all three through `task_spec_root`. The dev-session prompt at `spec_ref`
is deliberately left relative: that session's cwd IS the mount, so the anchor
belongs to the consumer, not to the field.

Correct the guarantee `task_spec_root` claimed. "Only ever trades a skipped or
refused confined write for a taken one" was false in its docstring, in the
CHANGELOG and in a test name: a spec lexically inside the project but reached
through a symlinked component moves from a succeeding plain write to
`UnconfinedWriteError`, which `rearm_escalation` re-raises as `RearmError`.
Gating the arm on `path_is_confined` was implemented and backed out — that
predicate answers False for a component it cannot probe, so the confine root
would have depended on filesystem state, anchoring on the worktree before a
directory existed and on the project after. A root that moves under a `mkdir`
is not a definition, and the refusal is correct on #593's own terms, so the
behavior is kept, the claim narrowed, and the exception is now graded.

Close what the read-side fix exposed. `_do_replan` caught only `(OSError,
FrontmatterWriteError)` while `reset_spec_status` decodes strictly, so making
the modal survivable on a non-UTF-8 spec moved the event-loop crash one click
later. A decode fault now degrades one byte rather than discarding the whole
document, the failure body is reserved for absence, an unreadable spec dims its
text and disables its destructive verbs, and `task_spec_path` enforces its
empty-`spec_file` precondition instead of documenting it. `context.json`
carries `spec_reaches_the_redrive`, so a session is not sent to edit a spec the
mount discards.

Restore the ESCALATED-phase assertion an inserted sibling row had absorbed from
`test_rearm_restores_the_spec_when_the_result_strip_faults`, and grade the
escalation modal under isolation — matrix row 3's third consumer, previously
ungraded on both its spec text and its sentinel indicator.
`spec_file` and `dispatched_spec_file` are both persisted relative to the
mounted worktree by `model._serialized_worktree_path`, and `from_dict` reads
them back raw. Every `_finish_inflight` arm that continues an isolated unit
re-anchors them through `reopen_unit` first — but two do not:

  - the restart arm discards the mount and clears `worktree_path` before its
    durable save, so a host death in the re-mount window persists a
    mount-relative spelling beside an empty `worktree_path`; and
  - the `isolated` test is live policy, while the relative spelling is
    persisted state — an `isolation` change across a resume is journaled,
    never refused — so a task that still carries a mount takes the in-place
    arms.

Either way the raw value then resolves against the main checkout, which
carries the same layout. `recovery_flow._attempt_owned_spec` finds exactly one
candidate (the artifacts probe doubles the prefix and cannot exist), its
`len(resolved_files) != 1` guard passes on the wrong single file, and
`spec_within_roots` accepts it against the same roots — so a rollback could
restore a dead attempt's snapshot bytes over the operator's own copy of the
spec, and its Git exclusion named the wrong tree's file.

The engine's own reader was never exposed: `_read_dispatched_spec_snapshot`
resolves strictly and rejects `resolved != spec_path`, which no relative path
can satisfy, so it fails closed. Nine of the ten other engine sites only test
the field against `None`. The defect is at the producer, not any reader, so no
read site changed.

`_finish_inflight` now re-anchors both fields on `task.worktree_path` before
the `isolated` gate. A binding whose tree is gone is then unresolvable, and
recovery refuses it loudly instead of rewriting a file the run never used.

The rule gets one owner: `StoryTask.rebase_spec_paths_on`, on the class whose
`_serialized_worktree_path` creates the relative spelling. `reopen_unit` calls
it instead of its own loop, so this lands as a third caller rather than a third
copy.

`to_dict` / `_serialized_worktree_path` / `from_dict` are untouched — the
persisted form stays a compatibility contract and the asymmetry is still fixed
on the read side only.
The restart arm dropped a half-built unit worktree and cleared `worktree_path`
and `branch`, but left `baseline_commit` and `baseline_untracked` — both
stamped by `_dev_phase` from `self.workspace.root`, which is the unit worktree
under isolation. The arm then saves, so that pair is durable beside an empty
`worktree_path`, and any later resume takes the in-place
`elif task.baseline_commit:` leg into `recovery_flow.rollback_or_pause` against
the MAIN checkout.

No host death is required to reach it: `run_isolated` assigns
`task.worktree_path` only after `open_unit_workspace` returns, so a
`GitSpawnError` there pauses the run with the cleared value already persisted.

Neither operand fails loud in the main checkout:

  - Linked worktrees share the main repo's object database, so force-deleting
    the unit branch does not make the baseline unresolvable. `git diff` reads
    it, and `git reset --hard` onto it SUCCEEDS — moving the operator's branch
    onto a commit that only ever lived on the deleted unit branch, in the
    `branch_per="run"` and re-entered-`_dev_phase` shapes where the baseline is
    a unit-branch commit rather than the shared cut point.

  - A fresh worktree is a tracked-only checkout, so `baseline_untracked` is
    effectively empty. `verify._rollback_cleanup_plan` computes
    `untracked_files(repo) - set(baseline_untracked)` as its DELETION list, so
    every untracked non-ignored file in the operator's own checkout reads as
    this attempt's debris. Under `scm.rollback_on_failure` those are unlinked;
    with the default off it pauses on a dirtiness no operator action can clear,
    so the manual-recovery loop cannot terminate — the exact non-termination
    `rollback_or_pause`'s docstring promises against.

`rollback_or_pause`'s routing was already correct and is untouched:
`in_unit_worktree` is compared by path, not policy, precisely so a resume with
no worktree recorded still targets the main checkout and pauses. The bug was
never which arm ran, only which operands it ran on.

Both fields are now cleared with the mount that defined them, via a shared
`_discard_unit_for_restart` that `sweep`'s identical arm also uses. `None`
rather than `[]` for the untracked half is the value `attempt_dirty` and
`_rollback_cleanup_plan` both read as "nothing here is this attempt's to
remove". `_dev_phase` re-stamps both from the replacement mount, so the leg
becomes a correct no-op rather than a probe of the wrong tree.
… unanchored

The re-anchor landed on `Engine._finish_inflight` and never reached sweep:
`SweepEngine` replaces `_loop` wholesale and `Engine._loop` is the only caller
of `_finish_inflight`, so a bundle inherited the shared discard helper's
baseline half and none of the spec-ownership half. Re-anchored in
`_recover_inflight_bundle`, above the `isolated` gate for the same reason the
engine puts it there — the gate is live policy, the relative spelling is
persisted state.

The escalation modal discarded the read verdict, so an unreadable spec rendered
"(no blocking condition recorded)" — indistinguishable from a spec that halted
without one — while `Re-arm & resume` stayed live over a write that flips
frontmatter, strips the result and re-stamps the baseline. It now reports the
condition as unknown and refuses both verbs.

`task_spec_root` answered which tree can CONFINE a write to `spec_file`, and the
sentinel and stories block borrowed it as a folder anchor; its out-of-mount arm
sent them to the main checkout while `_stories_folder` stayed on the mount.
Split out `task_stories_root`, which mirrors the engine's rule.

Sprint mode's spec-approval pause still printed the raw field, so
`_operator_spec_path` moves to `Engine`. `spec_reaches_the_redrive` is gated on
`task.spec_file` like its sibling, so no verdict is emitted beside a null spec.

Tests: five rows, each ablated to confirm it reddens without its fix. Two close
gaps that were fully green under ablation — every `_operator_spec_path` call
site, and `_review_gate`'s unreadable refusal.
`test_task_spec_root_refuses_a_spec_the_project_cannot_reach` now drives
`reset_spec_status` rather than the primitive, so it grades arm selection, and
its docstring no longer claims the `rearm_escalation` link it never exercised.

Also corrects three docstrings/comments that had become false, the CHANGELOG
clause attaching the explicit-read-failure claim to undecodable specs (they
degrade in place), and the tui-guide entries for the escalation and gate views.
…e the anchor rule checkable

The previous pass refused BOTH escalation verbs while the spec could not be
read. Resolve is the wrong half to refuse: it opens an interactive agent and
writes nothing itself, a bad anchor is exactly what it repairs, and gating it
left `close` as the modal's only action on the one failure the resolve agent
exists to fix. It also put the modal out of step with `action_resolve_run` (the
`R` binding), which has no readability check — so the refusal was advisory
rather than enforced. Re-arm stays refused: it flips the frontmatter, strips the
result and re-stamps the baseline. The hint now explains THIS refusal and names
the CLI fallback.

The unreadable notice PREFIXED the shared body render, which answers "" for the
failure sentence — so the modal printed the warning and "(no blocking condition
recorded)" together, the second denying the first. It now replaces the body.

`_stories_entry` read the manifest through `self.project` while `_sentinel_kind`
beside it read the mount, so one `EscalationModal` could take its title from one
tree and its sentinel from another — the same one-surface-two-trees defect the
anchor exists to close. Both now use `task_stories_root`.

Nothing made the anchor rule checkable, which is why four rounds each found only
the next unanchored reader. `test_portability_guard` now flags a raw
`Path(x.spec_file)` / `Path(x.dispatched_spec_file)` by call shape, so an alias
is caught too, with `runs.py`, `engine.py`, `verify.py` and `recovery_flow.py`
allowlisted as the tree-local consumers. Two companion rows grade the detector
itself — it fires on the exact line the defect shipped as, and stays silent on
the sanctioned spellings — since the guard asserts an absence.

Tests: the stories/spec root split is now graded by a row where the two
resolvers genuinely disagree (absolute out-of-mount `spec_file`), at both the
`runs` primitive and `build_context`; every other row builds the relative shape
where they agree by construction, which is why collapsing them left the suite
green. The plan-checkpoint row asserts the NOTIFY body, not only the journal —
no row observed any `gates.notify` body before, so every notification site could
have been reverted with the suite green. `_stories_paused_run` now refuses
`spec_outside_worktree` without a `worktree_path`, a combination that read like
an isolated row while grading nothing, and the symlink row skips on win32.

`engine.py` records why `baseline_ledger_digest` and the `pre_harvest_ledger`
pair are deliberately NOT cleared with the mount: the criterion is "read before
anything re-measures it", and clearing them would destroy the crash-replay
attribution `_disarm_ledger_snapshot` exists to preserve.

CHANGELOG: the section had drifted back into multi-paragraph root-cause
narration; condensed to one bullet per change.
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Comment thread src/bmad_loop/resolve.py
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"spec_reaches_the_redrive": (
spec_reaches_the_redrive(task, state) if task and task.spec_file else None
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P1 Badge Teach the resolve skill to honor spec reachability

When spec_reaches_the_redrive is false for a worktree-local isolated run, this value is merely added to context.json: the canonical src/bmad_loop/data/skills/bmad-loop-resolve/SKILL.md schema at lines 28–45 does not document it, while steps 94–110 still unconditionally require editing spec_file and lines 172–173 forbid committing. The agent therefore follows the existing instructions, edits the mounted copy that resume discards, and records a successful resolution; re-arm then has to hold the run and ask the operator to reconstruct and commit that correction manually. Update the canonical skill contract and workflow to branch explicitly on this field so the new signal actually prevents the lost-work scenario it was added for.

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- Anchor the TUI's paused-spec read and its `Request replan` write on the tree the run
owns. An isolated unit's `spec_file` is persisted relative to its mounted worktree, and
the dashboard resolved it against its own cwd — the project root, which carries the same
layout — so the review modals showed the main checkout's copy and the replan reset that
copy to `draft`. Both writes reported success, so the run resumed with the worktree's

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P1 Badge Condense the Unreleased changelog entries

The seven new Fixed entries occupy 43 lines and include implementation details, failure analyses, and exceptions; the repository explicitly requires changelog entries to be terse, scannable, and imperative. Condense each item to a short user-facing summary and leave the detailed rationale in the behavior documentation or commit message.

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`test_task_stories_root_stays_on_the_mount_for_an_out_of_mount_spec` passed the
literal "/elsewhere/6-4.md" and asserted `task_spec_root` answers the PROJECT
while `task_stories_root` answers the mount. That divergence is the entire
reason the second function exists, and the arm producing it gates on
`Path.is_absolute()` — which is False on Windows for a DRIVE-relative string.
Both Windows legs therefore took the fallback, got the worktree, and reddened;
POSIX graded the row as intended.

Anchor the fixture on `tmp_path`, absolute on every OS. What the arm needs is a
spec outside the MOUNT, not outside the project, so the shape is unchanged and
the row now grades the same divergence on both platforms.

Same trap as `69e5d5c3`, one file over: a rooted literal is not an absolute
path. Re-ablated after the change — delegating `task_stories_root` to
`task_spec_root` still reddens the first assertion, so the fixture swap did not
cost the row its teeth.

Test-only; no `runs.py` change.
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`spec_reaches_the_redrive` was emitted into `context.json` and read by nobody.
The resolve skill is that file's only consumer, and its schema, its step 4 and
its commit prohibition were all silent on the field — so an agent handed
`false` followed the unconditional "update the frozen spec" instruction, edited
the worktree-local copy `_finish_inflight` discards, and recorded a successful
resolution over lost work. Exactly the scenario the verdict was added to
prevent. The skill now documents the field, keeps the edit (the corrected spec
is what gets carried over) and requires the agent to say the copy does not
survive the re-arm, and the prohibition names whose job the commit is rather
than reading as a refusal of the remedy step 4 now demands.

`tests/test_resolve_skill_contract.py` makes the class checkable instead of
leaving the next one to be found by hand: every key `build_context` emits must
be named in the skill, in the schema block or in prose — `restore_supported` is
documented the second way and passes, which is why the guard accepts both and
needs no allowlist. Keys are read from the source literal, so one added
tomorrow is in scope the moment it is written. Ablated both ways: undocumenting
the field reddens the documentation row AND the branching row, while keeping
the schema and dropping only step 4's branch reddens the branching row alone —
so the two grade different things. A third row pins the key scan itself, since
the guard asserts an absence and an `ast` walk that matched nothing would pass.

The CHANGELOG's new entries had drifted back into root-cause narration at 44
lines; cut to 26 across 8 bullets, one user-facing topic each, with the
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# snapshot restore rewrites the operator's own copy. Anchoring here
# names the tree that actually owned the attempt; when that tree is
# gone the binding is unresolvable and recovery refuses it loudly.
task.rebase_spec_paths_on(Path(task.worktree_path))

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P1 Badge Rebase the accepted spec onto the replacement worktree

When an isolated task enters the resume-restart arm (for example, after re-arming an escalation or a crash without a resumable result), this converts spec_file to an absolute path inside the old mount; _discard_unit_for_restart then destroys that mount without clearing the field, and opening the replacement worktree does not remap absolute paths. The next _dispatched_spec_for_attempt therefore cannot bind the committed corrected spec in the fresh worktree, and if the initial bare-key attempt needs a repair, the repair prompt still names the deleted path and the required snapshot gate raises instead of running the retry. Preserve/remap the accepted-spec spelling onto the replacement mount while retaining the dead absolute path only for the abandoned attempt's ownership record; the sweep restart path has the same ordering.

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Record the required gate-deletion ablation.

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Codex P1 on `b5525d5d`, confirmed by reproducing the sequence: this branch's
own re-anchor introduced it.

`_finish_inflight` re-anchors `spec_file` onto the mount before the restart arm
discards it — correct, and the reason recovery stopped resolving it against the
main checkout. But `_discard_unit_for_restart` then deleted that mount and left
the field absolute into it. `verify.resolve_spec_path` passes an absolute path
through untouched, so `_dispatched_spec_for_attempt` resolved a dead path with
`strict=True`, swallowed the `FileNotFoundError`, and left the fresh attempt
UNBOUND on a story whose spec sits in the replacement mount at the same relative
place. Nothing downstream repaired it: `_record_dev_spec` no-ops while
`spec_file` is set, and verify's three re-stamps all run after the session the
binding was needed for. Before the re-anchor the value stayed relative and
`resolve_spec_path` re-probed it against the live workspace, so it bound.

`StoryTask.release_spec_paths_from_mount` splits the pair by role rather than
treating them as one asymmetry, because at a discard they stop being one: the
attempt-owned pair (`dispatched_spec_file` + its snapshot) died with its tree
and is cleared together, while `spec_file` is the accepted artifact that
outlives the attempt and goes back to the mount-relative spelling. It reuses
`_serialized_worktree_path`, so the discarded-mount spelling and the persisted
one agree by construction and an out-of-mount spec stays verbatim. Called before
`worktree_path` is cleared, since the relativization is measured against it.
Sweep routes through the same helper, so its restart arm is covered too.

`_discard_unit_for_restart`'s docstring argued the opposite — that the pair
could be left because the next rebind precedes any reader. The rebind does run;
it returns None. Rewritten to say what actually happens.

Tests: three pure-core rows for the new method (relativize, clear the pair,
leave an out-of-mount spec verbatim) and one seam row that drives the real
restart arm and then resolves the saved spelling against a REPLACEMENT mount,
so it grades the binding rather than the spelling alone — the main checkout
carries an identical layout and would answer a relative value from the wrong
tree. The whole suite passed with this fix applied AND with it ablated before
these rows existed, which is why the seam row asserts the durable state.
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Comment on lines +56 to +60
Do not skip the edit when it is `false` — the corrected spec is what gets carried
over. Do step 4 as usual, then tell the human, in the same breath as the resolution,
that **this copy does not survive the re-arm and the correction has to be committed
to reach the re-driven session**. The orchestrator prints the same remedy, with the
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P1 Badge Carry the corrected spec onto the re-drive branch

Fresh evidence in this revision is that the new false branch explicitly tells the agent to edit the same worktree-local spec_file, write a successful resolution marker, and merely tell the human to commit it. The resolve session runs from the main project checkout, while that file belongs to a linked unit worktree that re-arm discards; committing from the main checkout cannot include it, and committing only on the unit branch still does not put it on the pinned target branch from which the replacement worktree is created. Thus every isolated local-spec resolution still requires the operator to reconstruct or manually transfer the edit after the session. Provide a target-branch copy or a durable patch/apply step before recording success.

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task.rebase_spec_paths_on(Path(task.worktree_path))
isolated = self._isolated and task.worktree_path

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P2 Badge Finish handling the persisted worktree when isolation changes

When a run is resumed after [scm] isolation changes from worktree to none, this re-anchors spec_file onto the old unit mount, but the subsequent isolated check is false, so the engine neither reopens nor discards that mount and instead rolls back and re-runs in the main workspace. The new attempt then sees an absolute spec outside its live workspace roots; _dispatched_spec_for_attempt leaves it unbound and an explicit-spec prompt can fail the required snapshot gate before launch. Treat a persisted mounted task as isolated for recovery, or release/remap its paths before continuing in-place.

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if task is None or not task.worktree_path:
return Path(state.project)
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P2 Badge Fall back to the project after a successful unit teardown

For an isolated story with done_checkpoint, successful integration deletes the unit worktree before _after_story raises the checkpoint pause, but the terminal task retains its nonempty worktree_path. The TUI's new _story_context therefore calls this helper and looks for stories.yaml under a deleted mount, so the story checkpoint card loses the committed story's title and description even though the merged manifest is available in the project checkout. Terminal tasks whose mount no longer exists need to resolve the stories root to state.project.

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All three from codex on `f225517a`; the first two validated against the code
before acting, the third accepted as stated.

`task_stories_root` trusted a `worktree_path` whose mount was gone. That field
is cleared at exactly ONE site in the engine — the restart discard — so a task
retired through successful integration keeps naming the worktree its own
teardown removed. The `done_checkpoint` pause is raised in that window and the
TUI reads this root for the checkpoint card, so it looked for `stories.yaml`
under a deleted directory and dropped the committed story's title and
description while the merged manifest sat in the project. It now degrades to the
project when the mount is not a directory. Deciding on filesystem state is right
here and would be wrong in `task_spec_root`: that one is a write-confinement
root, where an answer that moves under a `mkdir` is not a definition; this is a
read locator, and observation degrades.

The isolation flip left a mount in limbo. `[scm] isolation` is re-read on every
resume and a change is journaled, never refused, so `worktree -> none` reaches
`_finish_inflight` with a mount still recorded: the re-anchor makes `spec_file`
absolute into it (it must — recovery would otherwise resolve the relative
spelling against the main checkout), and then no arm reopens or discards it
while the re-run happens in the main workspace, against a spec outside its own
roots. The restart arm now releases spec ownership for that shape through the
same helper the discard uses. The mount is deliberately left standing: this arm
did not build it, and an isolation flip is not an instruction to delete the
operator's tree. The in-place rollback leg becomes a plain `if` so it still runs
for the released case.

`spec_reaches_the_redrive: false` stated a problem with no remedy, and both
obvious repairs fail silently: committing from the main checkout cannot include
a file that lives in a linked unit worktree, and committing on the unit's own
branch does not put it on the ref the replacement worktree is cut from.
`context.json` now carries `redrive_base_ref` beside the verdict — the run's
pinned `target_branch` while a mount is recorded — and the skill says where the
correction has to land and why the two near-misses are near-misses.
`_redrive_base_ref` is promoted to public for the second consumer, the same move
`task_spec_path`/`task_spec_root` took earlier on this branch, so the session and
`rearm_escalation`'s unreachable-write record quote one answer.

The skill-contract guard added last round caught the new context key itself —
`redrive_base_ref` failed `test_every_emitted_context_key_is_documented` until
the schema documented it, which is the class of miss that guard exists for.

Tests: the stories-root fallback is ablated both ways (drop the guard and the
mount-gone row reddens; collapse the function to the project and the divergence
row reddens), so it cannot be satisfied by either over-broad variant. The
existing divergence row now creates its mount, since a never-created path would
have graded the new fallback instead of the split it was written for. The
context row pins both legs and reddens when the ref helper is hardcoded to HEAD.
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In `@docs/FEATURES.md`:
- Around line 86-87: Update the documentation around the sentinel, stories
fields, and spec_file to describe their separate root contracts: spec_file
resolves against the spec-owning root, while the sentinel and stories fields
resolve against the workspace stories root, which may differ for an out-of-mount
spec.

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- Line 496: Update the Resolve description near the sentence beginning “offered”
to clarify that Resolve does not directly re-arm or mutate run state; it starts
the repair session, while cmd_resolve writes resolver context, the interactive
resolver writes resolution.json, and the resolver updates the spec.

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the appropriate landing location instead of always requiring a commit on
redrive_base_ref.

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CodeRabbit's first review of this branch, validated against the code.

The resolve skill told the human "where the correction has to land to be read:
committed on `redrive_base_ref`" without condition, then carved the opposite
exception sixteen lines later ("when `redrive_base_ref` is `HEAD`, do not tell
them to commit anything"). Step 4 and the prohibition already branched; the
sentence that most directly instructs did not, so an agent acting on it before
reaching the exception sends the human to commit onto a tree the in-place
re-drive never reads — the exact lost work the fork exists to prevent.

`test_skill_branches_on_the_in_place_remedy` is why it survived four commits: its
own comment says "step 4 and the prohibition both have to carry the fork too",
enumerating two sites when there are three, so the unconditional spelling reddened
nothing. The row now pins the instruction sentence as well; ablated by restoring
the absolute wording, which reddens it.

Also, three statements that had drifted from what the code does:

- `FEATURES.md` said the sentinel and stories fields answer "from that one root",
  which contradicts the fix this branch made. `task_stories_root` is deliberately
  NOT `task_spec_root` — the latter's out-of-mount arm falls back to the project so
  a `confine_root` can always contain what it validates, and borrowing that for a
  READ looks the stories folder up in the main checkout while the dev session
  answers the worktree. Two roots, stated separately.
- `tui-guide.md` said Resolve "writes nothing". It writes the resolver's
  `context.json` and the agent writes `resolution.json`; what it does not do is
  re-arm or rewrite the spec, which is the property the sentence was defending.
- `diagnostics.py` credited `stories_engine._operator_spec_path`; the helper is
  defined on `Engine` (`engine.py`), and stories_engine only calls it.
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Comment thread src/bmad_loop/cli.py
Comment on lines +2992 to +2996
runs.rearm_escalation(
run_dir,
story_key,
restore_patch=restore_patch,
isolated_redrive=pol.scm.isolation == "worktree",

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P1 Badge Reload isolation after the interactive resolve session

When policy.toml changes while the interactive resolve agent is open, this passes the stale pol loaded before the blocking resolve.run_session() call. For example, a noneworktree change makes re-arm treat the main-checkout spec edit as reachable and skip the hold, but _resume_paused_run() immediately reloads the new policy and mounts a fresh worktree that cannot see that edit, consuming the escalation and re-wedging the story. Reload or compare the isolation mode after the session and before mutating the task.

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"spec_reaches_the_redrive": (
spec_reaches_the_redrive(task, state, isolated_redrive=isolated_redrive)
if task and task.spec_file
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P1 Badge Carry sentinel corrections to the re-drive tree

For an isolated stories-mode task that halted with a sentinel, this verdict describes the sentinel file, but the canonical resolve workflow explicitly tells the agent not to edit that file and to correct SPEC.md or stories.yaml instead. Fresh evidence beyond the existing local-spec findings is that rearm_escalation() takes its sentinel arm, clears task.spec_file, and bypasses the reachability warning/hold entirely; the CLI can therefore resume a fresh worktree from the pinned branch while the upstream correction remains only in the main checkout or doomed unit mount, recreating the same sentinel. Model the reachability of the actual upstream correction and require it to land on the re-drive tree before resuming.

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…ches the re-drive

The sentinel arm of `rearm_escalation` bypassed the reachability gate entirely.
A pre-planning sentinel is cleared by DELETION, so the arm drops `task.spec_file`
and returns — and `spec_reaches_the_redrive` / `rearm-spec-write-unreachable`
live wholly in the `else`. No gate was ever computed for a sentinel, and no
resume was ever held for one.

The loss is not a missing warning. The correction that stops a sentinel
RECURRING is upstream — `SPEC.md` / `stories.yaml`, where `bmad-loop-resolve`
explicitly sends the agent instead of the sentinel — and an isolated re-drive
mounts fresh from `redrive_base_ref` and re-plans from a COMMITTED tree. So the
human's correction sat uncommitted in the main checkout, the re-plan read the
same intent that wedged, minted the identical sentinel, and the escalation was
spent with nothing anywhere reporting it.

`rearm-upstream-write-unreachable` now records it, names the folder and the
branch to commit on, and holds the resume through the existing
`rearm_holds_the_resume` walk both surfaces already run.

Narrowed by PROOF, not by configuration, and the need is sharper than it was for
the spec record. Every isolated stories run resolves its spec folder inside the
project, so reachability alone answers "unreachable" for 100% of sentinel
re-arms under `isolation = "worktree"` — and since the kind holds the resume,
an unnarrowed gate would turn every one of them into a two-command gesture for
an outcome nothing decided. There is no status to route on for a sentinel, so
`_redrive_reads_the_upstream_artifacts` proves byte equality instead: the record
fires only while the ref the re-drive mounts from does not already hold this
checkout's copy of those two files. The blob goes through
`worktree_file_bytes_at_revision`, not a raw read — under `core.autocrlf=true`
a raw comparison would mismatch every artifact and re-create the constant on
Windows alone.

One arm, not two, unlike the spec record: `task_spec_path` re-anchors a spec
write ON the recorded mount, but the upstream artifacts are named by a
project-relative `spec_folder` and `resolve.run_session` runs the agent with
`cwd=project`, so the correction lands in the main checkout whichever way an
isolation flip went. An in-place re-drive reads that same tree, so it short-
circuits to reachable and writes no record at all. That short-circuit is
deliberately the ONLY one: a second in-place arm inside the proof would shadow
it and leave the reachability answer ungraded by any test — which is exactly
what the first draft did, caught by ablating it.

`stories_root` is dropped in `diagnostics`, following `repo` rather than
`spec_file`: it is a directory, journalled by one kind, and one run has one spec
folder, so it correlates nothing — and a `spec` alias would additionally
collapse every run onto the same basename.

Found by the sixth codex pass on this seam.

Ablations, each confirmed to redden the named row alone: drop the proof conjunct
(the already-committed row), force the in-place arm unreachable (the in-place
row), delete the gate (the uncommitted row), read `HEAD` instead of
`redrive_base_ref` (both ref rows), drop the project-containment arm (the
in-project row), force the isolated arm unreachable (the external-artifact-dir
row), and drop `stories_root` from `_JOURNAL_DROP_FIELDS` (the presence
assertion, while the canary sweep stays green — the same false green `repo`'s
own row documents).
`cmd_resolve` loads policy once, near the top, then calls `resolve.run_session`
— which blocks on `subprocess.run` until a human finishes an interactive
conversation of unbounded length. Everything below it kept keying on that stale
answer: the restore-patch latch, the isolation-conflict refusal, and
`rearm_escalation`'s `isolated_redrive`. Meanwhile `_resume_paused_run`, at the
bottom of the same function, re-reads policy for the engine it arms.

So an edit made while the agent was open split the two readers in the one window
nobody can bound. `none -> worktree` re-armed treating the main-checkout
correction as reachable, emitted no hold, and then mounted a fresh worktree cut
from git that could not see it: escalation spent, story re-wedged, no error
anywhere. The mirror flip is the same loss in the other direction.

The window is real precisely because this session is interactive by contract — a
human is present and the skill is allowed to ask. Deciding a story needs
isolation is one of the things a resolve conversation concludes.

Re-read is unguarded, exactly like the sibling load above it: nothing has been
mutated yet, so an unreadable policy aborts before the re-arm rather than
guessing a mode — and `resolution.json` is already on disk, so
`--no-interactive` picks the work back up. A change across the session is
reported on stderr, because the agent was told where the correction had to land
under the old mode.

The stale framing in an earlier note — "the window is after re-arm, before
resume, and unclosable" — was wrong and is corrected here: `cmd_resolve` ends
WITH `_resume_paused_run`, so re-arm and resume are one gesture and the window
is during the session, which is closable.

Found by the sixth codex pass on this seam.

Ablation: delete the second `policy_mod.load` and the flipped row reddens on the
recorded `isolated_redrive`; drop the warning `print` and it reddens on stderr
alone with the isolation assertion still passing. The untouched-policy row stays
green through both, which is what makes this a re-read rather than a hardcode.
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`_redrive_reads_the_upstream_artifacts` reads git on a path that did not before,
so the sentinel arm inherits a requirement `_redrive_spec_status` already carries
for the spec record: a project that is not a repository must still re-arm. A
`GitError` escaping here aborts a re-arm that has ALREADY deleted the sentinel
and preserved its copy, spending the escalation on a traceback.

Found by probing the claim rather than trusting the docstring that makes it.
The degrade direction is confirmed as the warning one: no proof means the record
fires and the resume holds, so the operator is told to commit rather than quietly
resumed into a re-plan nothing verified.

Ablation: drop the `except verify.GitError` arm and this reddens with the
GitError escaping `rearm_escalation` — "Stopping at filesystem boundary
(GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set)" — the sentinel already gone from disk.

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Comment on lines +147 to 149
discard_worktree(repo_root, str(wt), "", run_dir=run_dir)
if verify.branch_exists(repo_root, branch):
verify.worktree_add(repo_root, wt, branch, create=False)

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P2 Badge Reset reclaimed per-story branches to the requested base

When isolation changes worktree -> none -> worktree for a task using branch_per = "story", _release_orphaned_mount leaves the old unit branch behind, and this reclaim removes only its mount before reattaching that existing branch at its own HEAD. The replacement attempt therefore is not created from base: it can inherit commits from the abandoned attempt and miss newer target-branch commits or corrections. Fresh evidence beyond the earlier orphan-reclaim comment is that the implemented reclaim preserves the branch unconditionally even though only branch_per = "run" needs that behavior; delete or reset per-story branches while retaining shared run branches.

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return isinstance(entry, dict) and entry.get("kind") in (
"rearm-spec-write-unreachable",
"rearm-upstream-write-unreachable",
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P2 Badge Preserve the sentinel resume hold without rereading the journal

When journal.jsonl is unreadable as UTF-8, rearm_escalation can still append this new rearm-upstream-write-unreachable record and persist the re-arm, but both CLI and TUI derive the hold by rereading the journal; journal_entries_or_none then returns None, their echo helpers return False, and the gesture resumes immediately. For an isolated sentinel whose upstream correction is not committed, that discards the only hold, spends the escalation, and recreates the same sentinel. Return the hold verdict directly from the repair operation or fail closed when it cannot be recovered instead of making control flow depend on a best-effort observation.

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825-841: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Release orphaned mount state in all non-isolated recovery branches

When isolation changes to none, _recover_inflight_bundle re-anchors spec paths but does not call _release_orphaned_mount. Add the call before the non-isolated COMMITTING, DEV_VERIFY, and restart continuations. Otherwise inherited Engine methods can use orphaned spec paths and mount baselines against the main checkout; strict spec resolution can fail, and rollback can classify main-checkout files as attempt debris.

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In `@src/bmad_loop/sweep.py` around lines 825 - 841, The _recover_inflight_bundle
recovery flow must release orphaned mount state whenever isolation is none
before continuing through COMMITTING, DEV_VERIFY, or restart branches. Add the
existing _release_orphaned_mount call after re-anchoring paths and before each
non-isolated continuation, while leaving isolated recovery behavior unchanged.
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In `@tests/test_model.py`:
- Line 250: Update the rebase tests around _rebased_on to construct both mount
paths from tmp_path, producing OS-absolute paths rather than hard-coded
root-relative literals. Preserve the assertions for idempotence and
absolute-path pass-through behavior.

In `@tests/test_resolve.py`:
- Around line 2545-2547: Rename the unused state binding in the _sentinel_run
unpack to _state, and likewise rename the unused task binding at the referenced
unpack to _task to satisfy Ruff RUF059.

In `@tests/test_stories_engine.py`:
- Line 1040: The negative assertion in the test does not match the actual
notification text and therefore cannot detect the ablated behavior. Update the
assertion around _pause_plan_checkpoint to include the literal “review the
planned spec” prefix while still rejecting the unanchored task.spec_file
wording.

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In `@src/bmad_loop/sweep.py`:
- Around line 825-841: The _recover_inflight_bundle recovery flow must release
orphaned mount state whenever isolation is none before continuing through
COMMITTING, DEV_VERIFY, or restart branches. Add the existing
_release_orphaned_mount call after re-anchoring paths and before each
non-isolated continuation, while leaving isolated recovery behavior unchanged.
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Comment thread tests/test_model.py
values are already anchored (a spec outside the mount persists verbatim) and
must pass through, which is also what makes the call idempotent.
"""
mount = Path("/repo/.bmad-loop/runs/r1/worktrees/1-1-a")

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second = mount / str(first)
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Use OS-absolute paths in the rebase tests.

On Windows, these literals are root-relative, not absolute. _rebased_on therefore does not exercise its absolute-path branch. The assertions can pass accidentally because Windows path joining discards the preceding path. Anchor both paths under tmp_path to test idempotence and pass-through behavior.

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Both round-7 findings validated against the code. Both are real, both are pre-existing and outside this PR's diff, and both are now recorded in the deferred-work ledger rather than patched here.

1. runs.py — resume hold derived from a journal re-read. The mechanism is accurate: journal_entries_or_none returns None on a UnicodeDecodeError, _echo_rearm_events then returns False, and the gesture resumes. But rearm-upstream-write-unreachable does not introduce it — _echo_rearm_events has zero diff lines across this PR's three commits, and the degrade is present verbatim at 27588b41 with its rationale already stated: "the hold degrades with the echo... an unproven hold is a guess, and this is what the gesture did before either existed." rearm-spec-write-unreachable has carried the identical exposure since it began holding the resume; the new kind only inherits it.

The suggested remedy — return the hold verdict from the repair operation instead of re-deriving it — is the right shape, and it is a design change to a released seam consumed by both the CLI and the TUI. That belongs in its own change, not a seventh round on this one.

2. workspace.py — per-story branch reclaim. workspace.py has zero commits in this PR's range (27588b41..HEAD); the reclaim described arrived in 0cc71643, and the finding is explicitly framed as a re-raise ("fresh evidence beyond the earlier orphan-reclaim comment"). Recorded as your claim, flagged not-independently-verified, to be confirmed before acting.

Note this review targeted 5cfca6c6 and missed 7b7e8c33, which adds a test pinning the non-repo degrade of the new git read (a GitError escaping there would abort a re-arm that had already deleted the sentinel).

For the record on the two P1s from round 6, both fixed here: the sentinel gate is narrowed by proof, not reachability alone — gating on reachability would have fired on 100% of isolated sentinel re-arms and, since the kind holds the resume, turned every one into a two-command gesture. Ten ablations were run, each confirmed to redden only its intended row; two of them found real defects rather than confirming the work (a redundant in-place short-circuit that shadowed the graded one, and the missing non-repo test). CI is green on all 10 jobs including both Windows legs.

CodeRabbit's seventh-round review, validated. The binding really is unused —
no caller of `_sentinel_run` consumes its `state`. Matches the idiom the sibling
call site already uses two rows down.

Not adopted as a lint rule: the finding cites RUF059, and `[tool.ruff.lint]`
pins `select = ["E4", "E7", "E9", "F"]` with an explicit "Do NOT ratchet
stricter than CI without moving CI first". So this is the binding cleaned up,
not the rule family turned on.
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P2 Badge Rebase in-place specs before mounting the re-drive

When a sprint-mode task was escalated with isolation = "none" and policy changes to worktree, its persisted spec_file is an absolute path in the main checkout. This arm correctly reports that edits there cannot reach the fresh mount, but after the operator commits the correction on the named target branch, _finish_inflight has no recorded mount to release or relativize, so the replacement attempt retains the main-checkout path; _dispatched_spec_for_attempt rejects it as outside the mounted workspace roots and the required snapshot gate prevents dispatch. Fresh evidence beyond the prior replacement-worktree finding is the opposite transition with no old mount, where the new release helper never runs. Convert project-local absolute specs to a tree-relative spelling before mounting so the prescribed commit actually makes the re-drive usable.

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Round-8 finding validated: real, and outside this PR's diff.

engine.py has zero commits in 27588b41..HEAD, and spec_reaches_the_redrive is untouched — the diff adds four new symbols after it, so the apparent hits are the hunk-header context line and mentions inside new docstrings. _finish_inflight and _dispatched_spec_for_attempt are both engine-side.

I confirmed the structural half: _release_orphaned_mount has exactly four call sites (engine.py:1676/1707/1729/1767) and all four handle worktree -> none. There is no counterpart for the opposite transition, which is your point. The dispatch-rejection consequence I have recorded as your claim rather than verified end-to-end.

Filed in the deferred-work ledger, flagged as the fourth finding on one seam: spec anchoring and mount-state release across an isolation flip. The other three are the engine legs fixed in 0cc71643, your workspace.py per-story-branch reclaim, and CodeRabbit's sweep.py _recover_inflight_bundle twin.

That pattern is why I am not patching it here. Rounds 7 and 8 produced only findings in this family and only outside the diff, at P2, after round 6's two P1s — severity fell and stayed fallen while the findings drifted off the change. This PR's two P1s are fixed, tested and green; the seam wants one deliberate program covering both flip directions, all four call sites, the sweep twin and the branch reclaim. A standing gap from round 5 belongs in that program too: of those four call sites, only the DEV_VERIFY leg is pinned by a test.

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- Line 721: Update the unpacking in _review_escalation so the unused spec_path
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def _review_escalation(self, run_id: str, run_dir: Path, state: RunState) -> None:
story_key = state.paused_story_key or "?"
spec_path, spec_text = self._paused_spec(state)
spec_path, spec_text, readable = self._paused_spec(state)

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Prefix the unused unpacked bindings to keep Ruff green.

The spec_path binding in _review_escalation and the task binding in the resolve test are unused, and Ruff reports RUF059 at both sites. Rename them to _spec_path and _task respectively.

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  • src/bmad_loop/tui/app.py#L721-L721 (this comment)
  • tests/test_resolve.py#L518-L518
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In `@src/bmad_loop/tui/app.py` at line 721, Update the unpacking in
_review_escalation so the unused spec_path value is prefixed appropriately for
Ruff RUF059, while preserving spec_text and readable for the existing
EscalationModal arguments.

Apply the same fix in `@tests/test_resolve.py` at line 518: The same
unused-tuple-binding remediation applies to the resolve test.

Source: Linters/SAST tools

Brings in #728 (psmux per-project registry root). The two changes are
orthogonal in subject — #728 never touches `spec_file`, the spec anchor,
or `task_spec_root`/`task_stories_root` — so every conflict was
positional rather than semantic.

Two test files conflicted, both add/add at one insertion point with an
empty base section: each side appended a distinct block of new tests at
the same anchor and git aligned them across the common prefixes of
different test functions. Resolved by keeping both blocks whole. No
top-level name collides between the sides and neither side removes a
base definition, so the resolved files are exactly additive
(test_runs.py 4243+5137-3835=5545, test_tui_app.py 5986+5481-5326=6141).

Three functions were edited by both sides and auto-merged; each keeps
both intents in the required order — `_do_replan` and `_do_rearm` take
#728's `_blocked_by_control_alias` gate ahead of every side effect,
above this branch's liveness check, policy read and confine_root
plumbing, and `cmd_resolve` gates on the control alias at entry while
still re-reading isolation after the resolve session and before the
re-arm.
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