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The host instructions omitted the standalone gateway install before test:counts. Controlled clean states reproduced the six ioredis compilation errors and proved the existing setup boundary. The supported sequence is root npm ci, root npm run build, npm ci --prefix services/gateway, then npm run test:counts.

This PR corrects setup documentation and synchronizes the canonical record as M15 Increment 50 — test:counts / standalone gateway host setup contract. Status: RESOLVED — SETUP / DOCUMENTATION CONTRACT DRIFT CORRECTED. The gateway intentionally remains outside root workspaces; metrics does not install dependencies. No gateway implementation defect was proven and no topology, script, lockfile, CI, Docker or runtime change is required. Signature B remains unresolved and under separate investigation. DO NOT MERGE; the owner merges manually.

Synchronization and scope

  • Historical starting main: 771b1f93c05585294474e95fcb24bf116766db3d.
  • Pre-sync HEAD: bd198d884992a0acbf360d3065d2a1c0c35e9dc9.
  • Synchronized main: 026005b2420006e04028bff4c69a16f30c78a905 (PR test(api): make the durable analysis cache own its database setup #43).
  • Current final HEAD: 199b6166f374b291298427fbb8f7a7890b3f76d6.
  • Same worktree and branch: C:/Users/hp/shatarang-codex-test-counts, codex/test-counts-gateway-determinism.
  • Authorized normal merge of origin/main completed without conflicts; no rebase or force push.
  • Increment 49 and all older PROJECT_STATE historical text preserved exactly apart from line-ending normalization; only the Last updated header and new Increment 50 were added. The durable analysis-cache defect remains resolved.
  • PR test(api-diagnostics): capture Signature B's exit status and read it from the streams that carry it #44 contains only diagnostic changes. An older separate worktree has an uncommitted ROADMAP edit last written August 31; it was neither changed nor imported. No PR test(api-diagnostics): capture Signature B's exit status and read it from the streams that carry it #44 findings were adopted.
  • Exactly six PR-specific files relative to synchronized main: AI_HANDOVER.md, README.md, docs/CI_SETUP.md, docs/RUNNING.md, docs/PROJECT_STATE.md, docs/ROADMAP.md. No code, tests, scripts, workflows, manifests or lockfile changes in this PR's diff.
  • Canonical synchronization is complete. This continues the same task with no additional Gemini, agy or subagent session.

Current validation after PR #43

Windows, Node 24.15.0, npm 11.12.1; DATABASE_URL and REDIS_URL unset. Both installs were repeated in this task's previously prepared checkout; independent clean-state acceptance is historical evidence below, not a claim that this repeat started without build outputs.

npm run test:counts: exit 0; 3272 total, 118 skipped. Root subtotal 3256 total, 113 skipped across 19 packages; standalone gateway 16 total, 11 passed, 5 skipped. Root npm test also exited 0 with 3256 total and 113 skipped. Old 3269/115 measurements predate PR #43 and are historical. Redis-backed tests NOT RUN because REDIS_URL is unavailable; skips are not passes.

The initial synchronized validation passed every requested gate. CodeRabbit then identified ambiguous evidence wording, which was corrected. A subsequent repeat encountered the separate learning-api file-level failure described below. The final gate results below are from the last complete run on the exact final source, with separate logs retained for every attempt.

Command Exit
npm ci 0
npm run build 0
npm ci --prefix services/gateway 0
npm run lint 0
npm test 0
npm run test:counts 0
npm run test:scripts 0
npm run check:ci-parity 0
npm run check:adr-claims 0
npm run check:variant-parity 0
npm run check:engine-pin-parity 0
npm run check:observability 0
npm run build --prefix services/gateway 0
npm test --prefix services/gateway 0
npm run lint --prefix services/gateway 0
npm run test:load-harness 0
npm run check:build-order 0
npm run check:deploy-gates 0
git diff --check 0

Direct gateway build/lint/test each exited 0; script tests passed 132/132. The initial synchronized validation had no Signature B-like failure. During the post-review repeat, learning-api.test.js produced a bare file-level test failed (API: 975 total, 927 passed, 1 failed, 47 skipped). Its isolated rerun exited 0, 22/22. The PowerShell evidence wrapper exited 1 on npm stderr before recording the root npm process exit code; that partial repeat is not an all-gates result. Both this observation and historical state D remain recorded without assigning a mechanism. The final complete run is reported independently; later success does not resolve Signature B. Both committed lockfiles remain byte-identical.

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  • Final local and remote HEAD: 199b6166f374b291298427fbb8f7a7890b3f76d6; divergence 0 0; clean worktree.
  • Main remained 026005b2420006e04028bff4c69a16f30c78a905 at the final fetch.
  • Qodo on exact final HEAD: Bugs 0, Rule violations 0, Requirement gaps 0. Review.
  • CodeRabbit full review covers main 026005b2420006e04028bff4c69a16f30c78a905 through final HEAD, all six files: 0 actionable, Merge Risk Minimal. Review. No numeric 5/5 rating is shown; five pre-merge checks are a separate measure.
  • 0 unresolved threads; all four review threads resolved.
  • PR OPEN, non-draft, MERGEABLE / CLEAN. CodeRabbit check SUCCESS.
  • GitHub Actions: 0 runs for this docs-only HEAD; CI path filters exclude these markdown changes. This is not reported as an Actions pass. All requested local gates completed with exit 0 in the final complete run.
  • Canonical Increment 50 sync is complete. The requested PR gate is satisfied; Signature B remains a separate unresolved defect. NOT MERGED.

Historical controlled A/B/C/D evidence (main 771b1f9)

Every state started with root and service node_modules, all packages/*/dist, and gateway dist/dist-test absent. All commands below ran from the state root. The reported totals exclude failed suites and include the displayed skips; they are not all-pass counts.

State Preparation (each command exited 0) Root modules / gateway modules before tests Package dist before tests Gateway dist / dist-test before tests test:counts exit Exact outcome
A npm ci yes / no none no / no 1 7 successful suites, subtotal 479 tests / 0 skips; 13 suite errors. Gateway missing both ioredis and built workspace types.
B npm ci; npm run build yes / no all 19 no / no 1 All 19 workspace suites succeeded, subtotal 3253 / 110; only gateway failed on six TS2307 ioredis imports.
C npm ci; npm ci --prefix services/gateway yes / yes none no / no 1 7 successful suites, subtotal 479 / 0; ioredis resolves, but linked workspace public outputs remain absent.
D npm ci; npm run build; npm ci --prefix services/gateway yes / yes all 19 no / no 1 Direct gateway test first exited 0 (16 total, 11 passed, 5 skipped); aggregate gateway succeeded 16 / 5. Aggregate API failed on openapi.test.js, separately described below; successful-suite subtotal 2276 / 71.

After aggregate tests, the root/service module presence and public package dist presence stayed as above. Gateway dist remained absent in all four states; gateway dist-test existed in all four, including failed compilations. Its presence alone is not evidence of success. State D's preceding direct test created dist-test before the aggregate run.

Root-cause proof and falsification

Hypothesis recorded before repository edits: aggregate metrics need both compiled public workspace outputs and the excluded service's dependency tree. Root npm ci establishes neither build outputs nor service dependencies, and root build supplies only the former. Host instructions omit the service install that CI/Docker already perform.

Smallest intervention: after recording B, add only npm ci --prefix services/gateway (exit 0), then npm test --prefix services/gateway changes to exit 0, 16 tests / 5 skips. No root rebuild, root dependency change, or gateway production build. This isolates the gateway install as the cause of B's historical failure.

Then rerun only root npm ci (exit 0): gateway node_modules/ioredis and workspace dist survive, and direct gateway tests still exit 0 (16 / 5). A prepared checkout therefore stays prepared across a root clean install. This supplies a concrete causal explanation for the historical exit-1 / exit-0 difference; the exact earlier operation on the original machine is not recoverable from the old summary, and root-level ioredis contamination is not asserted.

Resolution and lockfile evidence

  • npm ls --prefix services/gateway, npm ls ioredis --prefix services/gateway, and npm ls ws --prefix services/gateway: each exits 1 in A/B, each exits 0 in C/D.
  • A/B report all 11 direct service dependencies unmet in the service's local tree. That is distinct from ancestor resolution: Node resolves ws@8.21.0 from root, but no ioredis exists in its search path.
  • A's workspace links point to the correct package directories, but dist/index.js / dist/index.d.ts are absent. TypeScript trace (--noEmit, exit 2) confirms unresolved exported type paths and ioredis.
  • B resolves all built local imports. The only gateway compiler errors are TS2307 for ioredis: src/command-forwarder.ts(19,28), src/ownership.ts(17,28), src/redis-pubsub.ts(17,23), src/serve.ts(420,36), test/gateway-tracing.test.ts(7,28), test/redis-ownership.integration.test.ts(18,23).
  • C/D install ioredis@5.11.1, service ws@8.21.1, TypeScript 5.9.3, and six correct links back to their own local package directories. C's trace resolves ioredis/built/index.d.ts but reports missing workspace dist; D resolves both. No broken link or install/lock mismatch was reproduced.
  • Both committed lockfiles are byte-identical after the experiments. Root SHA-256: 9e7c14e071e3a75cff79e1f14e42d55477a8c78ea0781eab80724f50cb2d7290; gateway: 3fdc802973c461abe1f7a5774a56561fcfbd2701a5b152709cd264d71878c955.

Intended setup contract and selected boundary

The existing supported host sequence is npm ci, npm run build, npm ci --prefix services/gateway, then npm run test:counts. Root workspaces are intentionally packages/*; root install/build does not claim to include the service. The handover command block nevertheless omitted the extra install before metrics. The service test compiles dist-test; a separate service production build is not needed for tests. Static imports require ioredis even when Redis tests skip at runtime.

CI's gateway job already installs root, builds root, installs the service in its own directory, and builds/lints/tests it against Redis. Docker uses root npm ci, build:server, and the independent service install/build, then prunes/copies both dependency trees and public local-package outputs. ci:local intentionally leaves installs to its caller. The docs now explain these existing boundaries; no CI or Docker behavior changes.

Candidate Locks / workspace / local-file semantics CI / Docker / duplicate installs Local behavior / reproducibility / metrics mutation Decision
A: gateway root workspace Changes root/service lock topology, hoisting and workspace scope; still needs public local outputs Revisits service job, prune/copy assumptions; may reduce duplication Alters lifecycle broadly for a missing setup step Reject; no topology rewrite attempted
B: metrics installs/builds gateway Same locks possible, but must also build upstream packages Repeats preparation already done by CI/Docker; duplicate installs npm ci replaces local dependency state and needs registry access on a metrics run; build alone cannot install ioredis Reject
C: explicit bootstrap Could retain both locks/links and known sequence Same independent installs; new script contract to maintain Reproducible, outside metrics, but duplicates three supported commands without a demonstrated need Defer
D: remove gateway from counts No lock/link change; reduces scope Independent CI remains; no extra install Conceals expected service coverage rather than fixing setup Reject
E: prerequisite diagnostics No lock/workspace change; must check real package outputs, not merely directories No install duplication or image behavior change Better early UX, no mutation, but does not establish prerequisites; would need behavioral RED first Optional future enhancement; no proven invocation defect requires it
F: focused setup docs Both locks, links and workspace scopes retained Mirrors CI/Docker; keeps the existing small independent service tree Explicit reproducible setup; metrics compiles/tests but never installs Chosen
G: shared orchestration helper Preserves topology if carefully designed, adds common contract Broader CI/local refactor and maintenance Adds abstraction without new evidence Reject for this scope

No code/script behavior changed, so a RED/GREEN regression is inapplicable. The unchanged-code A/B/C failures, B single-variable intervention, direct D test, and fresh final acceptance are the behavioral proof; no implementation-text tests were invented.

Exactly three read-only Gemini delegations

All three dispatched via agy with gemini-3.8-flash-high, effort high, read-only plan mode. No fourth session or additional delegation. This continuation uses no additional agents.

  1. Root-cause / environment architecture audit: confirmed independent service lifecycle, static-import failure before Redis skip gating, and CI/Docker preparation. Primary verification corrected overclaims about requiring gateway production dist and all root packages being dependency-free. Historical root contamination remained an unproven possibility and was not adopted.
  2. Regression + implementation design: recommended the focused setup-doc boundary and no invented code/regression. Its supplied pending-state counts and proposed protected milestone edits were unsupported/out of scope and rejected; the measured matrix above is authoritative. Both first/second relays reported completed, zero changed files, and no read-only violation.
  3. Adversarial review: completed with zero actionable findings on the initial documentation diff; no read-only violation. Its four listed dirty files were the pre-existing Codex documentation diff, unchanged by the reviewer. It confirmed prerequisite/compilation/link/anchor claims and ran read-only parity/ADR checks; final gates are independently run by Codex. Its reference to an API concurrency cause is not adopted: the captured file-level failure does not establish a mechanism.

Separate Signature B observation

D's aggregate API run emitted dist-test/test/openapi.test.js:1:1, file-level test failed, without an assertion. API summary: 976 tests, 931 passed, 1 failed, 44 skipped, exit 1. Isolated rerun of that same built file with TAP reporter exited 0, all 18 tests passed. This resembles tracked Signature B, but no diagnostic preload was attached, so its cause is not established. No attribution to gateway setup and no claim of resolution. The original aggregate failure is retained above.

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Clarify test counts and standalone gateway prerequisites

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• Document root builds and standalone gateway installs required before live test counts.
• Explain fresh-clone failures, skipped Redis coverage, and gateway troubleshooting.
• Align handover, README, runtime, and CI setup guidance.
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graph TD
  Clone["Fresh clone"] --> RootInstall["Root npm ci"] --> RootBuild["Workspace build"] --> GatewayInstall["Gateway npm ci"] --> Counts["Test counts"]
  Counts --> WorkspaceTests["Workspace tests"]
  Counts --> GatewayTests["Gateway tests"]
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The following are alternative approaches to this PR:

1. Bootstrap dependencies in test:counts
  • ➕ Provides a single self-preparing command for clean checkouts.
  • ➕ Prevents missing dependency and build-output failures.
  • ➖ Makes a test command mutate dependencies and generated outputs.
  • ➖ Adds network access and substantial startup cost to repeated test runs.
  • ➖ Obscures the repository's intentional package and service separation.
2. Add gateway to root workspaces
  • ➕ Allows one root install to prepare every package and service.
  • ➕ Simplifies local test prerequisites and dependency management.
  • ➖ Changes the repository's standalone service architecture.
  • ➖ Requires manifest and lockfile migration beyond this documentation correction.
  • ➖ Could affect deployment and dependency-isolation assumptions.

Recommendation: Keep the PR's documentation-first approach because the commands behave consistently with the repository's deliberate standalone gateway layout. Script bootstrapping would introduce surprising side effects, while workspace consolidation is a broader architectural change unsupported by an implementation defect.

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AI_HANDOVER.mdCorrect host setup and live-count prerequisites +8/-6

Correct host setup and live-count prerequisites

• Expands the standard host command sequence to build root packages and install standalone gateway dependencies before running 'test:counts'. It also distinguishes gateway test compilation from production builds and clarifies skip semantics.

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README.mdLink fresh-clone users to complete test setup +4/-0

Link fresh-clone users to complete test setup

• Adds a prominent link to the host build and test instructions, highlighting the separate gateway installation required by 'npm run test:counts'.

README.md

CI_SETUP.mdDocument CI gateway dependency isolation +6/-2

Document CI gateway dependency isolation

• Explains that the gateway CI job separately builds root packages and installs gateway dependencies from the service lockfile. It clarifies that root install and build commands exclude the standalone service.

docs/CI_SETUP.md

RUNNING.mdAdd comprehensive host test preparation and troubleshooting +46/-0

Add comprehensive host test preparation and troubleshooting

• Adds the canonical fresh-clone command sequence and explains relationships among root workspaces, public dist outputs, gateway dependencies, and test compilation. It also documents Redis skip behavior, common missing-module failures, prepared-checkout differences, and local CI runner prerequisites.

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The documentation separates root workspace setup from standalone gateway-service setup. It adds host preparation, gateway dependency installation, build and test commands, Redis prerequisites, test-count guidance, and local CI requirements.

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Documents host setup, separate root and gateway dependencies, build outputs, gateway tests, Redis behavior, troubleshooting, and fresh-clone instructions.
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docs/CI_SETUP.md, AI_HANDOVER.md, docs/PROJECT_STATE.md, docs/ROADMAP.md
Separates root and gateway workflows and updates test-count, build, installation, output, and setup-status guidance.

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This updates setup guidance for root and standalone gateway test preparation without changing application behavior, configuration, dependencies, or runtime systems. No current merge-blocking risk is identified.

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Records the diagnostic work already on this branch in the canonical documents,
now that PR #42 has merged and Increment 50 exists.

Status is unchanged by this commit: Signature B remains UNRESOLVED, at
root-cause acceptance Level C. 39 bounded runs produced 5 real captures across
packages/api and packages/persistence, every one reporting exit status
3221226505 (0xC0000409, STATUS_STACK_BUFFER_OVERRUN) with signal null and a
child lifecycle log holding only start and preload-installed. On the four
captures taken with the hardened harness the fatal-marker and diagnostic-report
channels were both empty, which is what excludes the measured V8/Node fatal
path. What remains is a family of two - an in-process Windows fail-fast path,
or an external TerminateProcess choosing that status - and the evidence does
not choose between them.

Avast is present and aswhook.dll was observed loaded inside a live node.exe;
that is a leading candidate for a controlled A/B test, not a cause. No
antivirus was disabled and no security posture was changed.

Signature B occurred twice during this increment's own final validation, both
on the plain spec-reporter path with no exit-status evidence. Both are recorded
rather than dismissed for passing on rerun.

Increment 50 is preserved unchanged. Documentation only.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…from the streams that carry it (#44)

* test(api-diagnostics): read a Signature B capture from the streams that carry it

Four real Signature B occurrences were captured this session, the first ever with
a parent-side exit status recorded. Every one of them exits 3221226505
(0xC0000409, the Windows __fastfail status) with the child log holding only
`start` and `preload-installed`. Reading them exposed two blind spots that would
have made the next capture say the wrong thing, and both are fixed here.

The fatal markers were read from the parent runner's stderr, which structurally
cannot contain them: Node's runner attaches a readline interface to each child's
stderr and re-emits every line as a `test:stderr` reporter event, so a child's
`FATAL ERROR:` banner reaches the report and never this process. Measured on a
real bounded heap exhaustion as zero bytes on the parent's stderr against the
full banner in the report. They now come from the report, attributed per failure
rather than per run, and counting only the lines Node emitted as diagnostics.

`readChildLogs` keyed on the test file path alone and concatenated event kinds
across every log in the directory. Given a stale clean log and a fresh terminated
one for the same file it merged them and announced that an external termination
and a native fault were ruled out -- a false negative on the one hypothesis still
standing, reachable through the preload's own documented default log directory.
Events are now bucketed per process, keyed by log file and pid because a pid is
not an identity on Windows, and a file with several processes on record reports
that it cannot attribute rather than picking one.

`--report-on-fatalerror` is added because it was measured to discriminate: a V8
heap exhaustion writes exactly one report named after the dying child's pid,
while `process.abort()` and both external kills write none -- and all of them can
leave exit code 134.

`--package` lets one pass target `packages/persistence`, where Signature B has
been observed since Increment 46 and where two of these four captures happened.
No file moved and no existing invocation changed meaning.

Signature B stays UNRESOLVED. No fix is proposed: the mechanism family is
narrowed, the terminating party is not identified.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CUPqvu66J5ZVyiv4nJ797r

* fix(api-diagnostics): make the capture channels correct off Windows and off this cwd

CI failed the first push on all three test jobs for one reason: two new tests
asserted exit code 134 for a V8 heap exhaustion. That is how Windows reports it.
POSIX raises SIGABRT and leaves the exit code null, so both tests failed on Linux
while passing on the machine they were written on. They now assert the fault
rather than one platform's encoding of it, through a named helper that says why
the two are the same event.

Three review findings, all real:

A relative `--out` meant two different directories. This process creates and
reads the artifact paths, while the spawned runner resolves the same strings
against the package `--package` selected, so `--out artifacts --package
../persistence` had the child write its report into the other package and this
process look for it here -- a pass that cannot read its own run. The path is
resolved once, up front.

A diagnostic report was recorded as one run-level list. A run can hold several
failures, and a flat list cannot say which child suffered the fault, which is the
only thing the report was collected to say. Node names each report after the pid
that wrote it, so the join needs nothing the capture did not already hold; each
record now carries its own.

A report body is a credential file: it contains the whole command line and every
environment variable, and this suite runs with DATABASE_URL and its password in
the environment. The names are the evidence and are kept; the bodies are deleted
with the raw transcript, for the same reason and at the same moment.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CUPqvu66J5ZVyiv4nJ797r

* test(api-diagnostics): prove a report goes to the child that faulted, not to the run

Falsification found the previous test powerless: with one failure in the run, a
report attributed per record and a report attributed per run are the same list,
so reverting the attribution changed nothing any test could see. The mutant
survived, which is the only honest reading of a test that asserts a distinction
it cannot make.

Two files now fail in one run with the same status where Windows reports one: the
first suffers a real bounded heap exhaustion, the second merely chooses to exit
134. Only the first makes Node write a report, so a run-level list would hand
that report to both records and say the second faulted too -- the opposite of
what the report was collected to establish. The mutant is killed.

Falsification now stands at 11 of 12. The survivor is equivalent under the TAP
grammar Node can emit: ending a marker region at the point line rather than at
the end of the previous test's report body is unobservable, because Node indents
report bodies and the diagnostic-line filter already excludes them. The stricter
boundary is kept as the correct one, not as one any test distinguishes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CUPqvu66J5ZVyiv4nJ797r

* fix(api-diagnostics): a run's artifacts start empty, and no report body outlives them

Two further review findings, both real, and both the same class of mistake this
PR set out to fix -- stale evidence, and evidence kept longer than it should be.

A run's artifact directories were created but not emptied. `mkdirSync` is happy
with a directory that already holds an interrupted pass's files, so a reused
`--out` lent the new run the old run's diagnostic report -- and because a report
is attributed by the pid in its name, a reused pid would let a file that merely
chose its exit status inherit a native fault it never suffered. That is exactly
the staleness the correlator refuses on the child-log side, reproduced in the
artifact directory. Both directories are now emptied before a run.

Report bodies were deleted only on the capture and clean-run paths. A run whose
report could not be read, or a pass interrupted by SIGINT, left them on disk --
and a report body carries the whole command line and every environment variable,
this suite's DATABASE_URL password included. The bodies are now deleted the
moment their names are read, before any branch, so a captured run, a clean run
and an unreadable run all leave the same nothing behind; the signal handler takes
the in-flight directory with the process tree it already kills.

Falsification: 12 of 13 killed, both new fixes among them. The one survivor
remains the equivalent mutant on the marker-region boundary.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CUPqvu66J5ZVyiv4nJ797r

* fix(api-diagnostics): refuse an --out that already holds a capture

Emptying each run's child logs stopped an earlier run lending a later one its
evidence, and introduced the mirror problem across passes: a second pass given
the same `--out` deletes the child logs the first pass captured while leaving its
`capture.json` in place, so the directory ends up asserting a termination whose
evidence no longer exists.

Deleting the old capture would be the worse answer -- it is the rarest artifact
this diagnostic produces, and a pass that silently destroys one is a pass nobody
should point at a real occurrence. The runner refuses instead, before it creates
or spawns anything, and says what is in the way.

Falsification: 13 of 14 killed, this one among them. The single survivor is still
the equivalent mutant on the marker-region boundary.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CUPqvu66J5ZVyiv4nJ797r

* test(api-diagnostics): prove a refused pass leaves the capture's own logs intact

The guard against reusing an --out that already holds a capture existed, but its
test only checked that the pass refused and that capture.json survived. The thing
actually at risk is the evidence the capture refers to: a pass empties each run's
child logs before running it, so a replacement pass would delete them and leave
the capture pointing at nothing.

The test now seeds that evidence and asserts it is still there after the refusal,
which is what makes the orphaning scenario unreachable rather than merely
unlikely.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CUPqvu66J5ZVyiv4nJ797r

* docs: record M15 Increment 51 Signature B mechanism isolation

Records the diagnostic work already on this branch in the canonical documents,
now that PR #42 has merged and Increment 50 exists.

Status is unchanged by this commit: Signature B remains UNRESOLVED, at
root-cause acceptance Level C. 39 bounded runs produced 5 real captures across
packages/api and packages/persistence, every one reporting exit status
3221226505 (0xC0000409, STATUS_STACK_BUFFER_OVERRUN) with signal null and a
child lifecycle log holding only start and preload-installed. On the four
captures taken with the hardened harness the fatal-marker and diagnostic-report
channels were both empty, which is what excludes the measured V8/Node fatal
path. What remains is a family of two - an in-process Windows fail-fast path,
or an external TerminateProcess choosing that status - and the evidence does
not choose between them.

Avast is present and aswhook.dll was observed loaded inside a live node.exe;
that is a leading candidate for a controlled A/B test, not a cause. No
antivirus was disabled and no security posture was changed.

Signature B occurred twice during this increment's own final validation, both
on the plain spec-reporter path with no exit-status evidence. Both are recorded
rather than dismissed for passing on rerun.

Increment 50 is preserved unchanged. Documentation only.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CUPqvu66J5ZVyiv4nJ797r

* docs: record the analysis-cache race defect's second observation

The Increment 51 entry said the durable analysis-cache race test failed once
and passed on rerun. It has now failed again, in CI's postgres integration
(persistence) job on Linux at this branch's HEAD, with the same assertion:
cross-process single-flight does not exist, expected 2, actual 1.

Two observations on two operating systems make it a real intermittent defect
rather than local noise, so the entry now says so. It remains owned by the
Increment 49 suite, is not Signature B, is not caused by this increment, and is
not fixed here.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CUPqvu66J5ZVyiv4nJ797r

* docs(adr-0140): separate process.abort from the exit-event claim

Raised by the CodeRabbit review of PR #44 and valid. The exclusion list grouped
an instrumented process.abort() with the paths that leave a lifecycle record
and fire Node's exit event. process.abort() fires no exit event at all - which
is exactly what section 4 of this ADR already establishes - so the sentence
made a claim the rest of the document contradicts.

What excludes abort is the record the preload writes synchronously before
delegating to the original binding, and the text now says so. PROJECT_STATE.md
already described it correctly; this aligns the ADR with it. No evidence,
conclusion or acceptance level changes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CUPqvu66J5ZVyiv4nJ797r

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Co-authored-by: Hussein Mohamed <hessiunmohamed123492@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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