Files
improvise/prolog-sessions
Edward Langley 6f9efcf2e8 docs: improvise-xps8 describes a bug that does not exist — turn it into a guard
Review findings on PR #30, all three applied.

1 [P1]. The claim that the handshake watchdog overwrites a genuine mid-session
disconnect 8s later is FALSE on any tree that has PR #21. `close` routes BOTH
arms through `setShellFailure` (app.js:248-250), which clears the timer
synchronously (app.js:165-169).

It was believed because it was measured honestly — against a tree predating
PR #21 — and then reported as "surviving" that PR on the strength of a
simulation that re-created only the `opened` flag and not the other half of the
fix, the routing. A simulated fix that is not the fix you named reproduces a
bug the real code does not have, and reads exactly like a confirmation.

Rather than delete the claim, execute the property it denied: the
open-then-dropped test now runs past HANDSHAKE_TIMEOUT_MS + 2s and asserts
"sent no document" never appears. Proved discriminating by removing
`setShellFailure`'s `clearTimeout` — the assertion then fails with exactly the
message xps8 described. gotcha 48 and the spec's comment block corrected; the
ticket is cited in neither. Recorded as
doctrine(a_simulated_fix_must_be_the_fix_you_named), the sibling of
an_injected_fault_must_be_the_fault_you_named that fails the other way: a wrong
fault proves a check that cannot fire, a wrong simulated fix proves a bug that
does not exist.

2 [P1]. The previous commit created the contradiction it was meant to remove:
design-principles recorded the measured ~2.2s while kb.pl still said "under 2
seconds". The ambiguity between per-binary and wall clock is what let it drift,
so both now state two numbers — no single binary over 2s, wall clock is the
sum, measured 1309 tests / 33 binaries / ~2.2s / longest 1.42s — in kb.pl,
design-principles and repo-map alike. Also 16 -> 17 in doctrine(binding_dump_diff).

3 [P2]. The new audit exclusion was unanchored, so `improvise-gp` was a prefix
match that would silently exclude a real future ticket. Anchored `^…$`. It
immediately caught the example id the explanatory paragraph itself spelled out
— a recipe is code, twice over.

CLAUDE.md: declined, with evidence. Both copies of the duplicated tail sit
inside `<!-- BEGIN BEADS INTEGRATION v:1 profile:minimal hash:ca08a54f -->`
markers written by `bd setup claude` and `bd setup codex` and refreshed against
that hash. A process change there is one tool invocation, not two hand edits,
and a pointer makes `bd setup <recipe> --check` report it modified. Recorded as
kb_issue_found(claude_md_tail_is_generated_not_duplicated) so it is not
re-proposed.

kb.pl: doctrine 54->55, kb_issue_found 11->12; invariant 51, decision 47,
location 34 unchanged. kb_consistent passes.

cargo test --workspace: 1309 passed, 0 failed, 2 ignored.
harness (Playwright): 12 passed, 3 skipped (webkit has no OPFS).
Dead-ID audit with the anchored recipe: 157 tokens, all resolve.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-20 01:11:46 -07:00
..