Keep the direction. The execution guarantees still need work.

Verdict

This pass is materially stronger, but I would not call the foundation reliable yet. The remaining work extends beyond RPC lifetime, subscriptions and real-device parity. Several claimed invariants are only partially enforced. A bigger planner or more passing tests will not resolve these specific failures.

I would keep the interaction/operation model, browser connector and native accessibility adapters. Finish a node-owned executor that owns the accepted target, cancellation, observations and completion evidence. Planning should submit proposals to this executor, with the same validation for shortcuts and recovery.

The review covers the uncommitted working tree on e0f1301ccb1ae2860442d60c68c4f4e058fd9280. Previous review: foundation follow-up. Original requirements: voice and desktop design. Line references describe this working tree, not the old committed versions.

What improved

• Acceptance now groups the request claim, operation and interaction update in one transaction against the stored revision. The earlier approval revision mismatch has an implementation-level repair.
• A mismatched preferred node is refused, and the accepted target is passed into the mission. Explicit profile disconnection is handled. This improves routing but does not establish a fixed execution session.
• Desktop and connector missions register around their main execution and clear in a finalizer. The normal action loop checks stop before effects. The remaining race is before registration, with additional stop-result inconsistencies.
• Request-to-operation linkage and restart reconciliation now exist. Recovery validates a prefix instead of filtering out broken prerequisites.
• Completion categories, shortcut history and a bounded no-progress rule are present. Their predicates and evidence need the repairs below.

Findings in priority order

Voice admission needs one more contract check

The report says admission keys on the provider’s audio item. The reviewed client event type carries startMs, not an explicit audio item ID. The controller treats a timestamp as identity, and its null-timestamp fallback includes currentInputTurnStartMs === null, which can reopen admission on every delta. Transcript reduction replaces same-start fragments, which requires the producer to send cumulative revisions, not incremental chunks.

Do not claim provider-independent deduplication until the actual transport contract establishes those semantics. Normalize producer events into explicit session/utterance identity, fragment mode and commitment. Run revised-transcript and null-timestamp cases through the real transport adapter. This is a source-level contract concern; no microphone session was recorded in this review.

packages/circe-client-runtime/src/circe/liveVoice.ts:111, 214; liveVoiceController.ts:838

The next implementation order

A short plan remains useful for reducing model calls. Its speedup is conditional on correct local checks. Evaluate each step after the previous result becomes observable; an unrelated visual change must never satisfy its condition. Use event-driven waits where adapters expose them and bounded settling where they do not. Keep the model free to plan and interpret ambiguity while the host enforces target ownership and truthful outcomes.

Prefer adding these guarantees to the existing owner over adding separate ledgers, planners or verification services. One owner should decide whether the accepted operation may act and when it has ended.

Evidence and release acceptance

I invoked the current production helpers and runner directly under Node with in-memory observations. This independently reproduced the wrong-role match, ignored plan conditions, false completion, reused recovery ID acceptance and cancellation registry race. These checks did not use the supplied regression tests. They do not establish microphone, browser, OS input or remote transport reliability.

Actual runner result:
Goal: Click File, then export the document as a PDF
History: clicked unrelated-control
Verifier supplied: false
Result: {status: "done", verified: true, steps: 1}

Actual cancellation registry sequence:
requestStop before registration: false
Derived stopConfirmed: true
Register accepted operation
isCancelled after registration: false

I did not run the reported 1231 tests or six typechecks, launch desktop/browser automation, modify Circe source, start or stop its server, or open its database. I cannot confirm the cause of the stopped server on port 3773 or the migration state from the pasted report. The report’s Mac/Windows results remain unit-test claims.

The next acceptance run should demonstrate these user outcomes, with actual observations and operation state retained:

• “Check the weather” → city answer continues the same interaction and returns weather.
• “Open YouTube and search for…” uses the intended existing profile and shows matching results.
• A native calculator goal completes from both a fresh state and an already-satisfied state.
• A disposable document is edited and saved, then reopened to verify its content.
• Stop before start and during planning/input causes no later effect. Cancelling a weather question leaves unrelated coding work alone.
• A phone disconnect/reconnect returns the same operation and current outcome without duplicate effects or replayed speech.
• Changing connector attachment, disconnecting a profile, or moving focus to another app cannot redirect the mission.
• A failed type prerequisite prevents Save; an unrelated clock/spinner update does not count as success.

Run these first on Linux with live voice and existing apps. Treat Mac and Windows as experimental until the same behaviors are observed on real nodes. Test counts and package typechecks are useful engineering checks, but they do not replace these outcomes.