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  "title": "Circe PR #3 durable journal review",
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  "verdict": "APPROVED",
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    "recommendation": "PR #3 is ready to merge",
    "rationale": "All review findings are verified fixed. 323 repository tests and all 95 independent probes pass; typecheck is clean. No new blocker identified in the latest diff and affected paths. No numeric score."
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    "frozenAt": "2026-09-22T21:31:34.413640+00:00",
    "title": "PR #3: journal records are not yet a complete recovery protocol",
    "lede": "Review exact PR #3 head 8d9cc15 after verifying it already contains merged PR #7.",
    "walkthrough": {
      "prose": "PR #3 adds startup reconstruction to the journal port. It records full intents and transaction snapshots, discourse snapshots, accepted commands and final command results; recoverState reconstructs maps and marks unresolved dispatches UNKNOWN.",
      "bullets": [
        "createRuntime calls recoverState before exposing command and ingestion entry points.",
        "Mutation writers append intent, transaction, effect and outcome records at different points in each command.",
        "Recovery loads the latest snapshots, reattaches frozen effects and caches reconstructed command results.",
        "Reconciliation operates on recovered UNKNOWN effects without an automatic retry."
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      "prose": "The fix adds exact interaction scoping, accepted-command fingerprints, a complete-freeze marker, pre-dispatch operation keys and complete outcome fields. The original reproductions pass. Five new assertions show incomplete coverage in three original findings and one replay regression.",
      "bullets": [
        "305 repository tests and typecheck pass.",
        "All 74 prior independent probes pass, including 15 recovery cases.",
        "Eight new cases: five failed assertions and three passing controls. The probe files pass strict TypeScript.",
        "Five prior findings close: F46, F47, F49, F51, F52. F48, F50 and F53 remain partially addressed; F54 is new."
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      "prose": "The fix adds scoped observation reservations, target-selection records for typed commands, a shared settlement decision and correct null-result recovery. All earlier reproductions pass. Semantic execution still bypasses target recording, target-only progress is mistaken for completion, and paused recovery still skips settlement.",
      "bullets": [
        "311 repository tests and typecheck pass.",
        "All 82 earlier independent probes pass.",
        "Five new cases: three failures and two passing controls; all recovery probe files typecheck.",
        "F48 and F50 close. F53 and F54 remain partially addressed. F55 is new."
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      "prose": "F53, F54 and F55 now pass. The remaining gap is the no-target semantic case: completed affirmations and interrupts do not persist their empty selection, so replay can affect later work.",
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        "316 repository tests and typecheck pass.",
        "All 87 earlier independent probes pass.",
        "Five new cases: three failures and two passing controls.",
        "F53, F54 and F55 close. F56 is new and remains open."
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      "prose": "The patch adds a null-target record for four semantic acts only when no intent or transaction was touched. Previous no-op cases pass. An interrupt that actually paused existing work still replays against newly created transactions.",
      "bullets": [
        "320 repository tests and typecheck pass.",
        "All 92 earlier independent probes pass.",
        "New suite: two failing interrupt variants and one passing complete-journal control.",
        "F56 remains open; no new finding number."
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      "prose": "Recovery now treats command-applied as completion evidence in the no-target branch. The semantic-action no-op guard is removed. Both remaining interrupt reproductions pass, and no new actionable finding was identified in the incremental diff and affected paths.",
      "bullets": [
        "323 repository tests and typecheck pass.",
        "All 95 independent probes pass.",
        "F46-F56 are verified fixed. No open review findings.",
        "This is a PR #3 merge recommendation, not approval of PRs #4-#6."
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      "id": "f46",
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      "reviewRound": 1,
      "title": "Restart loses the presented gate and can redirect unaddressed actions",
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      "lines": "560-570",
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        "DiscourseSnapshot omits presentedGateId and the fact that a gate has already been presented. Neither finalize nor the startup restore preserves these fields. Transactions are reconstructed, but the runtime forgets which one the user saw and incorrectly treats the interaction as never having presented a gate.",
        "After proposing A and then B, a clean restart makes an unaddressed confirmation do nothing, instead of confirming B. If B has already succeeded before restart, an unaddressed cancellation falls back to older A and cancels it. D1 and D2 reproduce both behaviors from complete, valid journals; no crash truncation is needed.",
        "This reintroduces the transaction-targeting behavior that PR #2 corrected. Persist and restore the presented identity even after that transaction settles. Keep the no-fallback semantics; do not infer the anchor from whichever live transaction happens to be first."
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      "fix": "Extend the durable discourse contract and its writer/reader with the presented anchor and its lifetime semantics. Preserve the settled anchor tombstone or an equivalent durable fact. Verify both current-gate confirmation and no fallback to older work after settlement.",
      "prompt": "Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.\n\nIn `packages/core/src/types.ts` around lines 560-570, DiscourseSnapshot omits presentedGateId and the fact that a gate has already been presented. Neither finalize nor the startup restore preserves these fields. Transactions are reconstructed, but the runtime forgets which one the user saw and incorrectly treats the interaction as never having presented a gate. Extend the durable discourse contract and its writer/reader with the presented anchor and its lifetime semantics. Preserve the settled anchor tombstone or an equivalent durable fact. Verify both current-gate confirmation and no fallback to older work after settlement. Reproduce D1, D2 in `/tmp/circe-pr3-evidence/recovery.test.ts` against PR #3 head 8d9cc151f6f62fb825d041b3a2b546773a8a3fff. Keep the three recovery controls and all 59 earlier reviewer probes passing. Run the repo test suite and typecheck. Change the durable record and recovery rule together; do not patch only the test scenario.",
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      "source": "560: export interface DiscourseSnapshot {\n561:   scopes: Scope[];\n562:   scopeStack: ScopeId[];\n563:   retainedScopes: ScopeId[];\n564:   views: WorldView[];\n565:   referents: Referent[];\n566:   currentReferentId?: ReferentId;\n567:   recentReferentIds: ReferentId[];\n568:   pendingQuestion?: PendingQuestion;\n569:   pendingFrame?: { capability: CapabilityId };\n570:   metrics: MetricsBucket;",
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          "round": 2,
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          "note": "D1 and D2 pass. The snapshot writer and startup restore now preserve the presented gate and tombstone."
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          "round": 3,
          "commit": "180759c95783720cffdbf1a29e27e36fd93f2694",
          "note": "Remains fixed. All original recovery probes and the complete prior independent suite pass."
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          "round": 4,
          "commit": "c05efe6da94df3eb704bd4b6c4c7db28fe209611",
          "note": "Remains fixed. All prior independent probes pass."
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          "round": 5,
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          "note": "Remains fixed. All 92 prior independent probes pass."
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          "round": 6,
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          "note": "Remains fixed. The complete 95-case independent suite passes on the exact reviewed head."
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      "id": "f47",
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      "reviewRound": 1,
      "title": "Recovery is not fully scoped to an exact interaction identity",
      "file": "packages/core/src/journal-recovery.ts",
      "lines": "200-203",
      "severity": "major",
      "pBadge": "P1",
      "type": "logic",
      "section": "actionable",
      "category": "data-integrity",
      "bodyParagraphs": [
        "The command-accepted branch populates acceptedKeys without checking entry.interactionId, although the field is available. Later, recovery synthesizes cached results for these foreign keys. Effect records use startsWith(effectPrefix) instead of an exact interaction identity, so valid IDs A and A:child also overlap.",
        "D3 writes command same in interaction A, then starts interaction B on the shared journal. B's own command same returns an empty reconstructed result and never invokes. D4 records an effect under A:child and recovers A; A imports the other interaction's effect despite having none of its intents or transactions. The existing isolation test uses different command IDs and does not assert effect isolation.",
        "The journal is advertised as supporting multiple interactions, so every recovered namespace must apply the same exact boundary. The effect overlap can also collide with local transaction IDs such as tx:1 when those records exist in both interactions."
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      "fix": "Filter command acceptance by exact interactionId. Give effect, dispatch and outcome records an explicit interactionId or use a provably unambiguous identity encoding and exact ownership check. Test identical local command IDs across interactions and delimiter-containing interaction IDs.",
      "prompt": "Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.\n\nIn `packages/core/src/journal-recovery.ts` around lines 200-203, The command-accepted branch populates acceptedKeys without checking entry.interactionId, although the field is available. Later, recovery synthesizes cached results for these foreign keys. Effect records use startsWith(effectPrefix) instead of an exact interaction identity, so valid IDs A and A:child also overlap. Filter command acceptance by exact interactionId. Give effect, dispatch and outcome records an explicit interactionId or use a provably unambiguous identity encoding and exact ownership check. Test identical local command IDs across interactions and delimiter-containing interaction IDs. Reproduce D3, D4 in `/tmp/circe-pr3-evidence/recovery.test.ts` against PR #3 head 8d9cc151f6f62fb825d041b3a2b546773a8a3fff. Keep the three recovery controls and all 59 earlier reviewer probes passing. Run the repo test suite and typecheck. Change the durable record and recovery rule together; do not patch only the test scenario.",
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      "source": "200:       case \"command-accepted\":\n201:         if (entry.commandId) {\n202:           acceptedKeys.set(`command:${entry.commandId}`, entry.commandId);\n203:         }",
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          "round": 2,
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          "note": "D3 and D4 pass. Accepted commands and effect records now use exact interactionId checks."
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          "round": 3,
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          "note": "Remains fixed. All original recovery probes and the complete prior independent suite pass."
        },
        {
          "round": 4,
          "commit": "c05efe6da94df3eb704bd4b6c4c7db28fe209611",
          "note": "Remains fixed. All prior independent probes pass."
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        {
          "round": 5,
          "commit": "486b83b8855ea266348a53429add7ee9ed4f094c",
          "note": "Remains fixed. All 92 prior independent probes pass."
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        {
          "round": 6,
          "commit": "45288ebaf28e1e1581c03dd81514323e2e15d78d",
          "note": "Remains fixed. The complete 95-case independent suite passes on the exact reviewed head."
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      "id": "f48",
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      "fixedAt": "180759c95783720cffdbf1a29e27e36fd93f2694",
      "reviewRound": 1,
      "title": "Acceptance is treated as completion and reconstructed commands lose fingerprints",
      "file": "packages/core/src/journal-recovery.ts",
      "lines": "242-252",
      "severity": "major",
      "pBadge": "P1",
      "type": "logic",
      "section": "actionable",
      "category": "data-integrity",
      "bodyParagraphs": [
        "Recovery turns every accepted key without a command-outcome into a completed cached TurnResult, even if no intent or transaction was written. It also restores fingerprints only from command-outcome or command-failed, ignoring the accepted command payload. Acceptance, execution progress and completion are therefore conflated.",
        "D6 keeps a real journal prefix ending immediately after command-accepted. On restart, redelivery returns an empty result with no errors, creates no intent and does no work; that key is consumed permanently. D5 cuts only the final command-outcome after A already succeeded. Redelivering the same ID with target B is accepted as a cached A result instead of raising the required payload-conflict error.",
        "A conservative no-retry policy is appropriate after uncertain external execution, but acceptance alone is not evidence of execution. Recovery needs a visible incomplete state or a safe resumption path, plus the immutable accepted fingerprint. Silently synthesizing completion hides lost work."
      ],
      "fix": "Persist a scoped reservation with the original fingerprint before applying the command, and represent accepted, partially applied and completed states separately. Recover never-started commands or surface an explicit recoverable failure; retain no-reinvoke behavior after dispatch. Restore and compare fingerprints before any cached result is returned.",
      "prompt": "Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.\n\nIn `packages/core/src/journal-recovery.ts` around lines 242-252, Recovery turns every accepted key without a command-outcome into a completed cached TurnResult, even if no intent or transaction was written. It also restores fingerprints only from command-outcome or command-failed, ignoring the accepted command payload. Acceptance, execution progress and completion are therefore conflated. Persist a scoped reservation with the original fingerprint before applying the command, and represent accepted, partially applied and completed states separately. Recover never-started commands or surface an explicit recoverable failure; retain no-reinvoke behavior after dispatch. Restore and compare fingerprints before any cached result is returned. Reproduce D5, D6 in `/tmp/circe-pr3-evidence/recovery.test.ts` against PR #3 head 8d9cc151f6f62fb825d041b3a2b546773a8a3fff. Keep the three recovery controls and all 59 earlier reviewer probes passing. Run the repo test suite and typecheck. Change the durable record and recovery rule together; do not patch only the test scenario.",
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      "test": "D5, D6",
      "commit": "8d9cc151f6f62fb825d041b3a2b546773a8a3fff",
      "source": "242:   // Accepted commands whose outcome was never recorded are reconstructed\n243:   // from the state they produced, so a replay cannot execute them again.\n244:   for (const tx of transactions.values()) {\n245:     if (tx.commandKey) acceptedKeys.set(tx.commandKey, tx.commandId ?? tx.commandKey);\n246:   }\n247:   for (const key of acceptedKeys.keys()) {\n248:     if (commandResults.has(key)) continue;\n249:     commandResults.set(\n250:       key,\n251:       synthesizeResult(key, transactions, intents, effects),\n252:     );",
      "verifications": [
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          "round": 2,
          "commit": "a8099f1ea7b509225d5b6572929c59f8551820e9",
          "note": "D5 and D6 pass for typed commands. E6 still fails for ingest: recoverState ignores input records, so an observation whose final command-outcome is missing has a cached reconstructed result but no restored fingerprint. Reusing its ID with different text returns the old result instead of rejecting. E7 proves the intact journal rejects the same conflict."
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        {
          "round": 3,
          "commit": "180759c95783720cffdbf1a29e27e36fd93f2694",
          "note": "E6 and E7 now pass. observation-accepted durably records the interaction-scoped key and original fingerprint before ingest applies work. Prior typed-command cases also pass."
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          "round": 4,
          "commit": "c05efe6da94df3eb704bd4b6c4c7db28fe209611",
          "note": "Remains fixed. All prior independent probes pass."
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        {
          "round": 5,
          "commit": "486b83b8855ea266348a53429add7ee9ed4f094c",
          "note": "Remains fixed. All 92 prior independent probes pass."
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        {
          "round": 6,
          "commit": "45288ebaf28e1e1581c03dd81514323e2e15d78d",
          "note": "Remains fixed. The complete 95-case independent suite passes on the exact reviewed head."
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        "Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.\n\nIn `packages/core/src/runtime.ts` around lines 2043-2052, D5 and D6 pass for typed commands. E6 still fails for ingest: recoverState ignores input records, so an observation whose final command-outcome is missing has a cached reconstructed result but no restored fingerprint. Reusing its ID with different text returns the old result instead of rejecting. E7 proves the intact journal rejects the same conflict. Persist an interaction-scoped observation reservation and original fingerprint before ingest applies work. Recover it just like typed command identity and compare it before returning a synthesized result. Do not infer interaction ownership from the existing unscoped input record. Retain safe replay and conflict checks for both entry points. Validate E6 and E7. Reproduce with `/tmp/circe-pr3-round2-evidence/recovery-round2.test.ts` at PR #3 head a8099f1ea7b509225d5b6572929c59f8551820e9. Keep all 74 earlier independent probes passing and run the repository tests and typecheck."
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      "id": "f49",
      "status": "fixed",
      "fixedAt": "a8099f1ea7b509225d5b6572929c59f8551820e9",
      "reviewRound": 1,
      "title": "Crash recovery invents batch receipt keys that were never dispatched",
      "file": "packages/core/src/journal-recovery.ts",
      "lines": "229-238",
      "severity": "major",
      "pBadge": "P1",
      "type": "logic",
      "section": "actionable",
      "category": "data-integrity",
      "bodyParagraphs": [
        "dispatch-requested stores only effectId and a timestamp. When acknowledgement is absent, recoverState fabricates a receipt with idempotencyKey equal to each member effect ID and executor set to unknown. The runtime actually submits a batch under the first member's key, so the persisted record is insufficient to reconstruct what was sent.",
        "D7 runs a two-target batch and restarts from the prefix before its first acknowledgement. Both effects correctly become UNKNOWN. Reconciling the second effect asks about its own ID, although only the first effect's ID was used for the external operation. The recorded executor is also lost. A real executor cannot reliably find the second operation because it never existed under that key.",
        "This is precisely the lost-response boundary that the PR promises to handle without retry. The dispatch identity has to be durable before the external call; an acknowledgement cannot be the first place the true batch identity is recorded."
      ],
      "fix": "Write the actual dispatch envelope before invoking: interaction, executor, operation/idempotency key, and full member effect IDs. Build synthetic lost-ack receipts from that record for every member. Verify all recovered receipts use the actual batch key and no recovery path reinvokes uncertain work.",
      "prompt": "Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.\n\nIn `packages/core/src/journal-recovery.ts` around lines 229-238, dispatch-requested stores only effectId and a timestamp. When acknowledgement is absent, recoverState fabricates a receipt with idempotencyKey equal to each member effect ID and executor set to unknown. The runtime actually submits a batch under the first member's key, so the persisted record is insufficient to reconstruct what was sent. Write the actual dispatch envelope before invoking: interaction, executor, operation/idempotency key, and full member effect IDs. Build synthetic lost-ack receipts from that record for every member. Verify all recovered receipts use the actual batch key and no recovery path reinvokes uncertain work. Reproduce D7 in `/tmp/circe-pr3-evidence/recovery.test.ts` against PR #3 head 8d9cc151f6f62fb825d041b3a2b546773a8a3fff. Keep the three recovery controls and all 59 earlier reviewer probes passing. Run the repo test suite and typecheck. Change the durable record and recovery rule together; do not patch only the test scenario.",
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      "test": "D7",
      "commit": "8d9cc151f6f62fb825d041b3a2b546773a8a3fff",
      "source": "229:   for (const effect of effects.values()) {\n230:     if (!dispatchedAt.has(effect.id) || terminal.has(effect.id)) continue;\n231:     if (effect.status !== \"PENDING\" && effect.status !== \"RUNNING\") continue;\n232:     effect.status = \"UNKNOWN\";\n233:     effect.failure = undefined;\n234:     effect.receipt ??= {\n235:       effectId: effect.id,\n236:       executor: \"unknown\",\n237:       idempotencyKey: effect.id,\n238:       dispatchedAt: dispatchedAt.get(effect.id)!,",
      "verifications": [
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          "round": 2,
          "commit": "a8099f1ea7b509225d5b6572929c59f8551820e9",
          "note": "D7 passes. Lost-ack receipts retain the actual batch operation key and executor from pre-invoke records."
        },
        {
          "round": 3,
          "commit": "180759c95783720cffdbf1a29e27e36fd93f2694",
          "note": "Remains fixed. All original recovery probes and the complete prior independent suite pass."
        },
        {
          "round": 4,
          "commit": "c05efe6da94df3eb704bd4b6c4c7db28fe209611",
          "note": "Remains fixed. All prior independent probes pass."
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        {
          "round": 5,
          "commit": "486b83b8855ea266348a53429add7ee9ed4f094c",
          "note": "Remains fixed. All 92 prior independent probes pass."
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        {
          "round": 6,
          "commit": "45288ebaf28e1e1581c03dd81514323e2e15d78d",
          "note": "Remains fixed. The complete 95-case independent suite passes on the exact reviewed head."
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    {
      "id": "f50",
      "status": "fixed",
      "fixedAt": "180759c95783720cffdbf1a29e27e36fd93f2694",
      "reviewRound": 1,
      "title": "Clean recovery drops completed effect results and failure details",
      "file": "packages/core/src/journal-recovery.ts",
      "lines": "174-185",
      "severity": "minor",
      "pBadge": "P2",
      "type": "logic",
      "section": "actionable",
      "category": "data-integrity",
      "bodyParagraphs": [
        "Recovery reconstructs effects from effect-frozen and status-only outcome records. invokeBatch updates effect.result or effect.failure in memory but emits outcome without those payloads; reconciliation also omits successful results and failure details. The full command-outcome is loaded into the result cache, not used to reconstruct current effects.",
        "The two D8 cases complete successfully and fail with a structured executor error, then restart from an intact journal. The recovered effect retains its status but loses the success result or failure object. Cached replay can still contain data that runtime.state() no longer has, giving different answers for the same durable outcome.",
        "This is a data-fidelity defect on ordinary clean restart, independent of disk corruption or torn writes. Outcome records should be sufficient to rebuild the effect itself rather than relying on an unrelated command response cache."
      ],
      "fix": "Journal the complete outcome data needed by Effect, including structured result, failure and timestamps, for invoke, observation and reconciliation writers. Reconstruct those fields consistently and test success/failure state equality after clean recovery.",
      "prompt": "Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.\n\nIn `packages/core/src/journal-recovery.ts` around lines 174-185, Recovery reconstructs effects from effect-frozen and status-only outcome records. invokeBatch updates effect.result or effect.failure in memory but emits outcome without those payloads; reconciliation also omits successful results and failure details. The full command-outcome is loaded into the result cache, not used to reconstruct current effects. Journal the complete outcome data needed by Effect, including structured result, failure and timestamps, for invoke, observation and reconciliation writers. Reconstruct those fields consistently and test success/failure state equality after clean recovery. Reproduce D8 success and failure in `/tmp/circe-pr3-evidence/recovery.test.ts` against PR #3 head 8d9cc151f6f62fb825d041b3a2b546773a8a3fff. Keep the three recovery controls and all 59 earlier reviewer probes passing. Run the repo test suite and typecheck. Change the durable record and recovery rule together; do not patch only the test scenario.",
      "followUp": false,
      "test": "D8 success and failure",
      "commit": "8d9cc151f6f62fb825d041b3a2b546773a8a3fff",
      "source": "174:       case \"outcome\":\n175:       case \"reconciled\": {\n176:         const effect = effects.get(entry.effectId);\n177:         if (!effect) break;\n178:         const status: EffectStatus = VALID_EFFECT_STATUSES.has(entry.status)\n179:           ? entry.status\n180:           : \"UNKNOWN\";\n181:         effect.status = status;\n182:         if (entry.detail !== undefined) effect.result = structuredClone(entry.detail);\n183:         if (TERMINAL_EFFECT_STATUSES.has(status)) {\n184:           effect.endedAt = entry.at;\n185:           terminal.add(entry.effectId);",
      "verifications": [
        {
          "round": 2,
          "commit": "a8099f1ea7b509225d5b6572929c59f8551820e9",
          "note": "Both D8 object-payload cases pass. E8 still fails on a clean restart with a valid null result: entry.result ?? entry.detail discards null and leaves result undefined. The writer persisted null correctly."
        },
        {
          "round": 3,
          "commit": "180759c95783720cffdbf1a29e27e36fd93f2694",
          "note": "E8 now passes. Recovery distinguishes undefined from an explicit null result; prior object-result and structured-failure cases still pass."
        },
        {
          "round": 4,
          "commit": "c05efe6da94df3eb704bd4b6c4c7db28fe209611",
          "note": "Remains fixed. All prior independent probes pass."
        },
        {
          "round": 5,
          "commit": "486b83b8855ea266348a53429add7ee9ed4f094c",
          "note": "Remains fixed. All 92 prior independent probes pass."
        },
        {
          "round": 6,
          "commit": "45288ebaf28e1e1581c03dd81514323e2e15d78d",
          "note": "Remains fixed. The complete 95-case independent suite passes on the exact reviewed head."
        }
      ],
      "priorCurrentPrompts": [
        "Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.\n\nIn `packages/core/src/journal-recovery.ts` around lines 204-205, Both D8 object-payload cases pass. E8 still fails on a clean restart with a valid null result: entry.result ?? entry.detail discards null and leaves result undefined. The writer persisted null correctly. Preserve explicit null outcome data. Use presence or an undefined check when falling back from result to the legacy detail field, not nullish coalescing. Validate E8 alongside object results, failures and reconciliation outcomes. Reproduce with `/tmp/circe-pr3-round2-evidence/recovery-round2.test.ts` at PR #3 head a8099f1ea7b509225d5b6572929c59f8551820e9. Keep all 74 earlier independent probes passing and run the repository tests and typecheck."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "f51",
      "status": "fixed",
      "fixedAt": "a8099f1ea7b509225d5b6572929c59f8551820e9",
      "reviewRound": 1,
      "title": "A partially recorded effect set can execute as if it were complete",
      "file": "packages/core/src/journal-recovery.ts",
      "lines": "210-215",
      "severity": "major",
      "pBadge": "P1",
      "type": "logic",
      "section": "actionable",
      "category": "data-integrity",
      "bodyParagraphs": [
        "commit writes one effect-frozen record per target and only later writes confirmation and the transaction transition containing the full effect list. Recovery reattaches whichever effects survived, but there is no durable manifest or completion marker proving that the recovered list is the complete authorized set.",
        "D9 proposes targets A and B and restarts from the actual journal prefix ending after the first effect-frozen record. Resume executes only A and settles the transaction as SUCCEEDED. B vanishes from the effect set even though the recovered intent still contains both targets. A complete-freeze control correctly resumes both targets.",
        "Reattaching an orphan effect is useful, but it cannot establish that no sibling is missing. Before dispatch, recovery must know whether the freeze was complete. Otherwise it silently changes the operation the user requested."
      ],
      "fix": "Record the complete frozen effect set and its transaction/revision association as one durable unit, or use a manifest plus completion record. On recovery, incomplete freezes must be completed deterministically with stable identities or remain explicitly blocked. Never mark a subset successful as the whole requested operation.",
      "prompt": "Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.\n\nIn `packages/core/src/journal-recovery.ts` around lines 210-215, commit writes one effect-frozen record per target and only later writes confirmation and the transaction transition containing the full effect list. Recovery reattaches whichever effects survived, but there is no durable manifest or completion marker proving that the recovered list is the complete authorized set. Record the complete frozen effect set and its transaction/revision association as one durable unit, or use a manifest plus completion record. On recovery, incomplete freezes must be completed deterministically with stable identities or remain explicitly blocked. Never mark a subset successful as the whole requested operation. Reproduce D9 in `/tmp/circe-pr3-evidence/recovery.test.ts` against PR #3 head 8d9cc151f6f62fb825d041b3a2b546773a8a3fff. Keep the three recovery controls and all 59 earlier reviewer probes passing. Run the repo test suite and typecheck. Change the durable record and recovery rule together; do not patch only the test scenario.",
      "followUp": false,
      "test": "D9",
      "commit": "8d9cc151f6f62fb825d041b3a2b546773a8a3fff",
      "source": "210:   // A crash between freezing and the next transaction transition must not\n211:   // orphan authorized effects or allow a second effect set for the revision.\n212:   for (const effect of effects.values()) {\n213:     const tx = transactions.get(effect.transactionId);\n214:     if (tx && !tx.effects.includes(effect.id)) tx.effects.push(effect.id);\n215:   }",
      "verifications": [
        {
          "round": 2,
          "commit": "a8099f1ea7b509225d5b6572929c59f8551820e9",
          "note": "D9 and D13 pass. The complete-set marker prevents a torn freeze from authorizing a partial set; complete paused sets still resume."
        },
        {
          "round": 3,
          "commit": "180759c95783720cffdbf1a29e27e36fd93f2694",
          "note": "Remains fixed. All original recovery probes and the complete prior independent suite pass."
        },
        {
          "round": 4,
          "commit": "c05efe6da94df3eb704bd4b6c4c7db28fe209611",
          "note": "Remains fixed. All prior independent probes pass."
        },
        {
          "round": 5,
          "commit": "486b83b8855ea266348a53429add7ee9ed4f094c",
          "note": "Remains fixed. All 92 prior independent probes pass."
        },
        {
          "round": 6,
          "commit": "45288ebaf28e1e1581c03dd81514323e2e15d78d",
          "note": "Remains fixed. The complete 95-case independent suite passes on the exact reviewed head."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "f52",
      "status": "fixed",
      "fixedAt": "a8099f1ea7b509225d5b6572929c59f8551820e9",
      "reviewRound": 1,
      "title": "Recovery restores a validation reservation whose worker no longer exists",
      "file": "packages/core/src/journal-recovery.ts",
      "lines": "138-142",
      "severity": "minor",
      "pBadge": "P2",
      "type": "logic",
      "section": "actionable",
      "category": "correctness",
      "bodyParagraphs": [
        "Transaction snapshots include pendingCommitRevision and recoverState restores it verbatim. This field is an in-process compare-and-set reservation for an outstanding authority await, not a durable confirmation. No validation worker survives createRuntime after a restart.",
        "D10 starts confirmation with validation still awaiting, then records an interrupt. touchedTx journals the paused transaction with pendingCommitRevision still set. After restart, even explicitly resuming and confirming that transaction cannot invoke: commit sees the stale reservation and returns. There are no frozen effects and no surviving operation that could clear the reservation.",
        "The reservation was necessary for live concurrency safety, but restoring it as an active lock makes recoverable work permanently uncommittable. Durable authorization and ephemeral in-flight ownership need different recovery rules."
      ],
      "fix": "Normalize in-flight validation reservations during recovery. Clear or recoverably abandon pendingCommitRevision when no durable committed effect set owns it, then require fresh validation before commit. Preserve duplicate-confirm protection within a live runtime and do not treat the stale lock as authorization.",
      "prompt": "Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.\n\nIn `packages/core/src/journal-recovery.ts` around lines 138-142, Transaction snapshots include pendingCommitRevision and recoverState restores it verbatim. This field is an in-process compare-and-set reservation for an outstanding authority await, not a durable confirmation. No validation worker survives createRuntime after a restart. Normalize in-flight validation reservations during recovery. Clear or recoverably abandon pendingCommitRevision when no durable committed effect set owns it, then require fresh validation before commit. Preserve duplicate-confirm protection within a live runtime and do not treat the stale lock as authorization. Reproduce D10 in `/tmp/circe-pr3-evidence/recovery.test.ts` against PR #3 head 8d9cc151f6f62fb825d041b3a2b546773a8a3fff. Keep the three recovery controls and all 59 earlier reviewer probes passing. Run the repo test suite and typecheck. Change the durable record and recovery rule together; do not patch only the test scenario.",
      "followUp": false,
      "test": "D10",
      "commit": "8d9cc151f6f62fb825d041b3a2b546773a8a3fff",
      "source": "138:       case \"transaction-transition\":\n139:         if (entry.interactionId === interactionId) {\n140:           transactions.set(entry.transaction.id, structuredClone(entry.transaction));\n141:           lastTransitionIndex.set(entry.transaction.id, index);\n142:         }",
      "verifications": [
        {
          "round": 2,
          "commit": "a8099f1ea7b509225d5b6572929c59f8551820e9",
          "note": "D10 passes. Workerless validation reservations are cleared when no effects are attached."
        },
        {
          "round": 3,
          "commit": "180759c95783720cffdbf1a29e27e36fd93f2694",
          "note": "Remains fixed. All original recovery probes and the complete prior independent suite pass."
        },
        {
          "round": 4,
          "commit": "c05efe6da94df3eb704bd4b6c4c7db28fe209611",
          "note": "Remains fixed. All prior independent probes pass."
        },
        {
          "round": 5,
          "commit": "486b83b8855ea266348a53429add7ee9ed4f094c",
          "note": "Remains fixed. All 92 prior independent probes pass."
        },
        {
          "round": 6,
          "commit": "45288ebaf28e1e1581c03dd81514323e2e15d78d",
          "note": "Remains fixed. The complete 95-case independent suite passes on the exact reviewed head."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "f53",
      "status": "fixed",
      "fixedAt": "c05efe6da94df3eb704bd4b6c4c7db28fe209611",
      "reviewRound": 1,
      "title": "Recovered effect outcomes do not settle the transaction before new commands",
      "file": "packages/core/src/journal-recovery.ts",
      "lines": "174-185",
      "severity": "major",
      "pBadge": "P1",
      "type": "logic",
      "section": "actionable",
      "category": "correctness",
      "bodyParagraphs": [
        "The reducer updates effect status but leaves transaction state at the last separately written transaction-transition. After scanning the journal it reattaches effects, yet never derives the transaction lifecycle from those recovered outcomes. A valid crash prefix can therefore contain SUCCEEDED effects with a transaction still marked COMMITTED.",
        "D11 keeps the prefix through a single effect's successful outcome, immediately before the final transaction transition. After restart, a named continuation of that completed intent passes the live-intent check and executes a second operation under a new key. The same continuation is correctly rejected once the uninterrupted runtime has settled; D14 is the positive control for that rejection.",
        "Effect completion is already durable at this boundary. Recovery must reconcile the owning transaction before exposing state to command selection. It must also distinguish complete effect sets from partial freezes, which is the separate F51 requirement."
      ],
      "fix": "After rebuilding verified complete effect sets, derive transaction settlement from recovered effect outcomes using the same lifecycle rules as the runtime. Preserve cancellations and superseding revisions. Expose a coherent state before accepting continuations or resumes; add an outcome-before-transition crash-prefix regression.",
      "prompt": "Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.\n\nIn `packages/core/src/journal-recovery.ts` around lines 174-185, The reducer updates effect status but leaves transaction state at the last separately written transaction-transition. After scanning the journal it reattaches effects, yet never derives the transaction lifecycle from those recovered outcomes. A valid crash prefix can therefore contain SUCCEEDED effects with a transaction still marked COMMITTED. After rebuilding verified complete effect sets, derive transaction settlement from recovered effect outcomes using the same lifecycle rules as the runtime. Preserve cancellations and superseding revisions. Expose a coherent state before accepting continuations or resumes; add an outcome-before-transition crash-prefix regression. Reproduce D11 in `/tmp/circe-pr3-evidence/recovery.test.ts` against PR #3 head 8d9cc151f6f62fb825d041b3a2b546773a8a3fff. Keep the three recovery controls and all 59 earlier reviewer probes passing. Run the repo test suite and typecheck. Change the durable record and recovery rule together; do not patch only the test scenario.",
      "followUp": false,
      "test": "D11",
      "commit": "8d9cc151f6f62fb825d041b3a2b546773a8a3fff",
      "source": "174:       case \"outcome\":\n175:       case \"reconciled\": {\n176:         const effect = effects.get(entry.effectId);\n177:         if (!effect) break;\n178:         const status: EffectStatus = VALID_EFFECT_STATUSES.has(entry.status)\n179:           ? entry.status\n180:           : \"UNKNOWN\";\n181:         effect.status = status;\n182:         if (entry.detail !== undefined) effect.result = structuredClone(entry.detail);\n183:         if (TERMINAL_EFFECT_STATUSES.has(status)) {\n184:           effect.endedAt = entry.at;\n185:           terminal.add(entry.effectId);",
      "verifications": [
        {
          "round": 2,
          "commit": "a8099f1ea7b509225d5b6572929c59f8551820e9",
          "note": "D11 passes for a COMMITTED transaction. E3 still fails after reconciliation: the previous durable transaction is UNKNOWN, the recovered effect is SUCCEEDED, and isTerminalTransaction causes settlement to skip it. Retrying reconcile cannot repair this because the effect is no longer UNKNOWN. E5 proves an intact reconciliation journal settles correctly."
        },
        {
          "round": 3,
          "commit": "180759c95783720cffdbf1a29e27e36fd93f2694",
          "note": "E3 now passes for an unpaused UNKNOWN transaction. G3 still fails when an interrupt paused the transaction during invoke: after a lost response and successful reconciliation, live state is SUCCEEDED, but a crash prefix through reconciled recovers the effect as SUCCEEDED and the paused transaction as UNKNOWN. Recovery skips tx.paused before calling the shared helper. Pausing dispatch must not suppress settlement of already completed effects."
        },
        {
          "round": 4,
          "commit": "c05efe6da94df3eb704bd4b6c4c7db28fe209611",
          "note": "The paused settlement fix now passes G3 and the prior F53 cases. Keep fixed."
        },
        {
          "round": 5,
          "commit": "486b83b8855ea266348a53429add7ee9ed4f094c",
          "note": "Remains fixed. All 92 prior independent probes pass."
        },
        {
          "round": 6,
          "commit": "45288ebaf28e1e1581c03dd81514323e2e15d78d",
          "note": "Remains fixed. The complete 95-case independent suite passes on the exact reviewed head."
        }
      ],
      "priorCurrentPrompts": [
        "Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.\n\nIn `packages/core/src/journal-recovery.ts` around lines 289-304, D11 passes for a COMMITTED transaction. E3 still fails after reconciliation: the previous durable transaction is UNKNOWN, the recovered effect is SUCCEEDED, and isTerminalTransaction causes settlement to skip it. Retrying reconcile cannot repair this because the effect is no longer UNKNOWN. E5 proves an intact reconciliation journal settles correctly. Derive recovered transaction settlement with the actual live lifecycle rules. UNKNOWN transactions can become SUCCEEDED or FAILED through reconciliation; they must not be skipped merely because UNKNOWN blocks ordinary commands. Preserve cancellation and complete-set checks. Prefer a small shared settlement decision over a second divergent copy. Validate E3 and E5, plus existing D11 and D14. Reproduce with `/tmp/circe-pr3-round2-evidence/recovery-round2.test.ts` at PR #3 head a8099f1ea7b509225d5b6572929c59f8551820e9. Keep all 74 earlier independent probes passing and run the repository tests and typecheck."
      ],
      "currentLocation": {
        "file": "packages/core/src/journal-recovery.ts",
        "lines": "302-314"
      },
      "currentPrompt": "Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.\n\nIn `packages/core/src/journal-recovery.ts` around lines 302-314, E3 now passes for an unpaused UNKNOWN transaction. G3 still fails when an interrupt paused the transaction during invoke: after a lost response and successful reconciliation, live state is SUCCEEDED, but a crash prefix through reconciled recovers the effect as SUCCEEDED and the paused transaction as UNKNOWN. Recovery skips tx.paused before calling the shared helper. Pausing dispatch must not suppress settlement of already completed effects. Remove the recovery-only pause veto from terminal effect settlement while preserving the pause flag and preventing new dispatch. Keep complete-effect-set and cancellation checks. Compare live and recovered behavior for paused successful and failed outcomes as well as UNKNOWN reconciliation. Verify G3 and the earlier E3/D11 cases. Reproduce with `/tmp/circe-pr3-round3-evidence/recovery-round3.test.ts` at PR #3 head 180759c95783720cffdbf1a29e27e36fd93f2694. Keep all 82 earlier independent probes passing and run repository tests and typecheck."
    },
    {
      "id": "f54",
      "status": "fixed",
      "fixedAt": "c05efe6da94df3eb704bd4b6c4c7db28fe209611",
      "reviewRound": 2,
      "title": "Replayed confirm or cancel commands can act on a different transaction",
      "file": "packages/core/src/journal-recovery.ts",
      "lines": "314-328",
      "severity": "major",
      "pBadge": "P1",
      "type": "logic",
      "section": "actionable",
      "category": "correctness",
      "followUp": false,
      "test": "E1, E2; E4 control",
      "commit": "a8099f1ea7b509225d5b6572929c59f8551820e9",
      "bodyParagraphs": [
        "The new recovery rule treats an accepted command as never started when synthesizeResult finds no transaction created by that command. That inference is false for commands that modify an existing transaction. Transaction.commandKey names the original proposal, so a completed confirm or cancel has no matching transaction under its own key.",
        "E1 confirms A, then restarts from the valid prefix immediately before the final command-outcome. After presenting B, redelivery of the identical unaddressed confirmation invokes B. E2 repeats the sequence for cancellation and cancels B. The complete-journal confirmation control E4 returns the recorded result and leaves B untouched. This is a regression introduced by allowing unmatched accepted commands to run again.",
        "Persist command application identity and its selected transaction/revision before applying consequences. On recovery, distinguish never-applied work from an applied command whose reply was lost. An incomplete command may return a conservative explicit result, but replay must never resolve its target again against a later gate."
      ],
      "fix": "Use durable per-command application/progress information for commands that target existing transactions. Bind the selected transaction and revision before applying work; reconstruct a safe replay result or explicit incomplete state. Do not fix this by disabling redelivery of all accepted-only commands, which would regress D6.",
      "prompt": "Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.\n\nIn `packages/core/src/journal-recovery.ts` around lines 314-328, The new recovery rule treats an accepted command as never started when synthesizeResult finds no transaction created by that command. That inference is false for commands that modify an existing transaction. Transaction.commandKey names the original proposal, so a completed confirm or cancel has no matching transaction under its own key. Use durable per-command application/progress information for commands that target existing transactions. Bind the selected transaction and revision before applying work; reconstruct a safe replay result or explicit incomplete state. Do not fix this by disabling redelivery of all accepted-only commands, which would regress D6. Reproduce E1 and E2 in `/tmp/circe-pr3-round2-evidence/recovery-round2.test.ts`; retain E4 and D6 as controls. Check revise and resume under the same contract. Keep all 74 earlier probes passing and run the repository tests and typecheck.",
      "source": "314:   // Commands with recorded work are reconstructed so replay never re-executes\n315:   // them. A command accepted but never started has no work to reconstruct and\n316:   // stays runnable: its reservation is the restored fingerprint.\n317:   for (const tx of transactions.values()) {\n318:     if (tx.commandKey) acceptedKeys.set(tx.commandKey, tx.commandId ?? tx.commandKey);\n319:   }\n320:   for (const key of acceptedKeys.keys()) {\n321:     if (commandResults.has(key)) continue;\n322:     const result = synthesizeResult(key, transactions, intents, effects);\n323:     if (\n324:       result.intents.length === 0 &&\n325:       result.transactions.length === 0 &&\n326:       result.effects.length === 0\n327:     ) {\n328:       continue;",
      "verifications": [
        {
          "round": 3,
          "commit": "180759c95783720cffdbf1a29e27e36fd93f2694",
          "note": "Typed-command E1 and E2 pass. G1 reproduces the same unintended execution through ingest: semantic affirm calls commit without recording a command target under observation:<id>. After A completes and the final observation outcome is lost, presenting B then replaying the original yes invokes B. The durable fingerprint matches correctly, but no applied-target record prevents re-selection. G4 is the passing complete-journal control."
        },
        {
          "round": 4,
          "commit": "c05efe6da94df3eb704bd4b6c4c7db28fe209611",
          "note": "Typed and semantic targeted replay cases now pass G1 and the prior F54 cases. Keep fixed."
        },
        {
          "round": 5,
          "commit": "486b83b8855ea266348a53429add7ee9ed4f094c",
          "note": "Remains fixed. All 92 prior independent probes pass."
        },
        {
          "round": 6,
          "commit": "45288ebaf28e1e1581c03dd81514323e2e15d78d",
          "note": "Remains fixed. The complete 95-case independent suite passes on the exact reviewed head."
        }
      ],
      "currentLocation": {
        "file": "packages/core/src/runtime.ts",
        "lines": "2160-2163"
      },
      "currentPrompt": "Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.\n\nIn `packages/core/src/runtime.ts` around lines 2160-2163, Typed-command E1 and E2 pass. G1 reproduces the same unintended execution through ingest: semantic affirm calls commit without recording a command target under observation:<id>. After A completes and the final observation outcome is lost, presenting B then replaying the original yes invokes B. The durable fingerprint matches correctly, but no applied-target record prevents re-selection. G4 is the passing complete-journal control. Ensure all consequence-bearing entry points record application targets/progress using the actual reservation key, including observation:<id>. Semantic affirm/reject/request and adapted revise must not bypass the durable contract used by typed commands. Verify G1 and G4 plus E1/E2. Put the recording at a shared consequence boundary where practical, rather than patching only the affirm branch. Reproduce with `/tmp/circe-pr3-round3-evidence/recovery-round3.test.ts` at PR #3 head 180759c95783720cffdbf1a29e27e36fd93f2694. Keep all 82 earlier independent probes passing and run repository tests and typecheck."
    },
    {
      "id": "f55",
      "status": "fixed",
      "fixedAt": "c05efe6da94df3eb704bd4b6c4c7db28fe209611",
      "reviewRound": 3,
      "title": "Target selection is cached as completion before the command applies",
      "file": "packages/core/src/journal-recovery.ts",
      "lines": "333-337",
      "severity": "major",
      "pBadge": "P1",
      "type": "logic",
      "section": "actionable",
      "category": "data-integrity",
      "followUp": false,
      "test": "G2; G5 control",
      "commit": "180759c95783720cffdbf1a29e27e36fd93f2694",
      "bodyParagraphs": [
        "command-target is emitted before applying a confirmation, cancellation, revision or resume. Recovery treats its presence as sufficient to install a completed commandResults entry, even when the journal contains no consequence of that command. Recording a selected target prevents retargeting, but does not prove application.",
        "G2 creates a gated transaction, cancels it, then recovers the actual journal prefix ending immediately after the cancellation's command-target record. Replaying that same explicit cancellation returns a synthesized result with no error and leaves the transaction AWAITING_CONFIRMATION. That command ID is permanently consumed although its cancellation never ran. G5 cuts one record earlier, after acceptance, and correctly completes the cancellation on replay.",
        "The new target record creates an additional crash boundary. Represent selected-but-unapplied work separately from completed work. Recovery may safely continue against the pinned target with the necessary revision checks, or expose an explicit recoverable incomplete outcome. It must not silently cache ordinary completion, and must not reselect a later gate."
      ],
      "fix": "Distinguish target selection from application/completion in the durable command contract. Preserve selected identity and required revision evidence, recover safely before external dispatch or surface an explicit incomplete result, and keep UNKNOWN external effects non-retriable. Retain both G2 and G5, plus the typed and semantic no-retarget controls.",
      "prompt": "Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.\n\nIn `packages/core/src/journal-recovery.ts` around lines 333-337, command-target is emitted before applying a confirmation, cancellation, revision or resume. Recovery treats its presence as sufficient to install a completed commandResults entry, even when the journal contains no consequence of that command. Recording a selected target prevents retargeting, but does not prove application. Distinguish target selection from application/completion in the durable command contract. Preserve selected identity and required revision evidence, recover safely before external dispatch or surface an explicit incomplete result, and keep UNKNOWN external effects non-retriable. Retain both G2 and G5, plus the typed and semantic no-retarget controls. Reproduce G2 in `/tmp/circe-pr3-round3-evidence/recovery-round3.test.ts`. A target-only prefix currently consumes an unapplied cancellation with no error. Check confirm/revise/resume against the same progress contract. Keep all 82 earlier independent probes passing and run the repository tests and typecheck.",
      "source": "333:     if (commandTargets.has(key)) {\n334:       // The command selected a transaction (or none) before applying\n335:       // consequences: replay must never resolve that target again.\n336:       const target = commandTargets.get(key);\n337:       transactionIds = new Set(target ? [target] : []);",
      "verifications": [
        {
          "round": 4,
          "commit": "c05efe6da94df3eb704bd4b6c4c7db28fe209611",
          "note": "The target-only prefix now returns explicit VALIDATION_INCOMPLETE and does not silently consume the cancellation. Keep fixed."
        },
        {
          "round": 5,
          "commit": "486b83b8855ea266348a53429add7ee9ed4f094c",
          "note": "Remains fixed. All 92 prior independent probes pass."
        },
        {
          "round": 6,
          "commit": "45288ebaf28e1e1581c03dd81514323e2e15d78d",
          "note": "Remains fixed. The complete 95-case independent suite passes on the exact reviewed head."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "f56",
      "status": "fixed",
      "fixedAt": "45288ebaf28e1e1581c03dd81514323e2e15d78d",
      "reviewRound": 4,
      "title": "Semantic no-op actions can retarget or pause work created after restart",
      "file": "packages/core/src/runtime.ts",
      "lines": "2153-2177",
      "severity": "major",
      "pBadge": "P1",
      "type": "logic",
      "section": "actionable",
      "category": "correctness",
      "followUp": false,
      "test": "H1, H2; H3/H4 controls",
      "commit": "c05efe6da94df3eb704bd4b6c4c7db28fe209611",
      "bodyParagraphs": [
        "`recordTarget` now protects consequence paths that have a transaction, but semantic no-op paths do not record that they selected no transaction. An affirmation with no gate falls through to `reply = \"none\"`, and an interrupt pauses every live transaction without a target record. Recovery sees the accepted observation and its `command-applied` marker, but cannot distinguish a completed no-op from an observation that may be resolved again against later state.",
        "H1 ingests an affirmation when no gate exists, cuts a valid journal at `command-applied` and at the following discourse snapshot, then creates B and replays the same observation. B is invoked even though the original affirmation was a completed no-op. H2 does the same with an interrupt: the replay pauses newly created B. H3 shows the intact-journal cache hides the problem, and H4 shows typed no-target commands have the intended behavior.",
        "This is the same identity and progress contract that F54 fixed for targeted semantic confirmations, with the no-target case missing. A replayed observation must preserve its original selection result, including an explicit empty target, before it can mutate future state. The fix belongs at the shared semantic consequence boundary, not as another special case for affirm or interrupt."
      ],
      "fix": "Record an interaction-scoped target decision for every consequence-bearing semantic observation, including an explicit no-target decision for completed no-ops. Recover that decision before accepting later commands. Keep no-op affirmations no-op and interrupts scoped to the transactions they originally selected; do not infer targets from current live state on replay.",
      "prompt": "Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.\n\nIn `packages/core/src/runtime.ts` around lines 2153-2177, `recordTarget` now protects consequence paths that have a transaction, but semantic no-op paths do not record that they selected no transaction. An affirmation with no gate falls through to `reply = \"none\"`, and an interrupt pauses every live transaction without a target record. Recovery sees the accepted observation and its `command-applied` marker, but cannot distinguish a completed no-op from an observation that may be resolved again against later state. Record an interaction-scoped target decision for every consequence-bearing semantic observation, including an explicit no-target decision for completed no-ops. Recover that decision before accepting later commands. Keep no-op affirmations no-op and interrupts scoped to the transactions they originally selected; do not infer targets from current live state on replay. Reproduce H1 and H2 in `/tmp/circe-pr3-round4-evidence/recovery-round4.test.ts`; retain H3 and H4 controls, all 87 earlier probes, and run repository tests and typecheck.",
      "source": "2153:       case \"interrupt\": {\n2154:         for (const tx of state.transactions.values()) {\n2155:           if (!isTerminal(tx)) {\n2156:             tx.paused = true;\n2157:             touchedTx(ctx, tx);\n2158:           }\n2159:         }\n2160:         ctx.reply = \"ack\";\n2161:         break;\n2162:       }\n2163:       case \"affirm\": {\n2164:         if (classification.ambiguous) {\n2165:           // An ambiguous interpretation is a question, not authorization.\n2166:           ctx.reply = \"question\";\n2167:           break;\n2168:         }\n2169:         if (event.operations.includes(\"correction\")) {\n2170:           applyCorrection(ctx, references);\n2171:         } else if (gateTransaction()) {\n2172:           const tx = gateTransaction()!;\n2173:           await commit(ctx, tx);\n2174:           ctx.reply = ctx.errors.length > 0 ? \"none\" : \"ack\";\n2175:         } else {\n2176:           ctx.reply = \"none\";\n2177:         }",
      "currentLocation": {
        "file": "packages/core/src/journal-recovery.ts",
        "lines": "355-367"
      },
      "currentPrompt": "Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.\n\nIn packages/core/src/journal-recovery.ts around lines 338-367, honor durable command-applied evidence even when commandTargets has no entry and the observation created no transaction. Preserve a safe completed replay result instead of reclassifying or reapplying the observation to later live state. Keep acceptance-only work runnable and selected-but-unapplied work explicitly incomplete; never retry uncertain external effects. Avoid adding another act-specific condition in runtime.ts. A completed interrupt may affect multiple existing transactions without creating one, so transaction creation and target-record presence are not completion predicates. Verify both I1 variants and I2 in /tmp/circe-pr3-round5-evidence/recovery-round5.test.ts, all 92 prior probes, repository tests and typecheck.",
      "currentFix": "In packages/core/src/journal-recovery.ts around lines 338-367, honor durable command-applied evidence even when commandTargets has no entry and the observation created no transaction. Preserve a safe completed replay result instead of reclassifying or reapplying the observation to later live state. Keep acceptance-only work runnable and selected-but-unapplied work explicitly incomplete; never retry uncertain external effects. Avoid adding another act-specific condition in runtime.ts. A completed interrupt may affect multiple existing transactions without creating one, so transaction creation and target-record presence are not completion predicates. Verify both I1 variants and I2 in /tmp/circe-pr3-round5-evidence/recovery-round5.test.ts, all 92 prior probes, repository tests and typecheck.",
      "verifications": [
        {
          "round": 5,
          "commit": "486b83b8855ea266348a53429add7ee9ed4f094c",
          "note": "All H1-H4 cases now pass, but F56 is only partially addressed. I1 pauses one or two existing transactions, then recovers the actual journal prefix missing only that observation\u2019s final command-outcome. After a new transaction B is presented, replaying the original interrupt pauses B. The prefix includes command-applied. An interrupt that changed existing work has ctx.transactions.size > 0, so the new no-op guard skips recordTarget; recovery then ignores appliedKeys in its no-target branch and treats the completed observation as runnable. I2 passes with an intact journal."
        },
        {
          "round": 6,
          "commit": "45288ebaf28e1e1581c03dd81514323e2e15d78d",
          "note": "F56 is verified fixed. Both I1 variants and I2 pass, as do all H1-H4 no-op cases. The recovery reader now honors command-applied even without a target record or created transaction. The act-specific runtime no-op guard was removed. Acceptance-only and selected-but-unapplied controls still pass."
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "history": [
    {
      "round": 1,
      "at": "2026-09-22T21:31:34.413640+00:00",
      "verdict": "CHANGES_REQUESTED",
      "actionableOpen": 8,
      "note": "Rebase was already complete: PR head directly descends from merged PR #7. Reviewed the recovery implementation with actual journal prefixes and complete restart controls. No source edits or GitHub comments."
    },
    {
      "round": 2,
      "at": "2026-09-22T21:54:27.006805+00:00",
      "verdict": "CHANGES_REQUESTED",
      "actionableOpen": 4,
      "note": "The fix adds exact interaction scoping, accepted-command fingerprints, a complete-freeze marker, pre-dispatch operation keys and complete outcome fields. The original reproductions pass. Five new assertions show incomplete coverage in three original findings and one replay regression."
    },
    {
      "round": 3,
      "at": "2026-09-22T22:07:15.898969+00:00",
      "verdict": "CHANGES_REQUESTED",
      "actionableOpen": 3,
      "note": "The fix adds scoped observation reservations, target-selection records for typed commands, a shared settlement decision and correct null-result recovery. All earlier reproductions pass. Semantic execution still bypasses target recording, target-only progress is mistaken for completion, and paused recovery still skips settlement."
    },
    {
      "round": 4,
      "at": "2026-09-22T22:20:38.447621+00:00",
      "verdict": "CHANGES_REQUESTED",
      "actionableOpen": 1,
      "note": "F53, F54 and F55 now pass. The remaining gap is the no-target semantic case: completed affirmations and interrupts do not persist their empty selection, so replay can affect later work."
    },
    {
      "round": 5,
      "at": "2026-09-23T08:23:03.997569+00:00",
      "verdict": "CHANGES_REQUESTED",
      "actionableOpen": 1,
      "note": "The patch adds a null-target record for four semantic acts only when no intent or transaction was touched. Previous no-op cases pass. An interrupt that actually paused existing work still replays against newly created transactions."
    },
    {
      "round": 6,
      "at": "2026-09-23T08:33:43.307751+00:00",
      "verdict": "APPROVED",
      "actionableOpen": 0,
      "note": "Recovery now treats command-applied as completion evidence in the no-target branch. The semantic-action no-op guard is removed. Both remaining interrupt reproductions pass, and no new actionable finding was identified in the incremental diff and affected paths."
    }
  ],
  "syncMeta": {
    "instructions": "PR #3 approved at 45288eb. Preserve baseline and original finding bodies. If code changes, review changes since that head and affected paths, retaining all 95 probes. Append genuinely new findings after F56. Review later stack PRs separately."
  }
}