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]>
