fix: mark successfully applied proposals to prevent replay by WTF-Am-ID · Pull Request #241 · kunchenguid/backpass

WTF-Am-ID · 2026-10-28T12:09:13Z

Intent

ok same instructions i gave you before pick high value issues from scan, in all the repos you scanning and use codex only to close them

Context: this task is scan pick P4: upstream issue #35 in kunchenguid/backpass. Successful normal apply never stamps appliedAt/appliedBy, so the proposal can reopen for review. Triage contract class: restore. Scan notes for this pick:
Issue: #35

Successful normal apply never stamps appliedAt/appliedBy, so the proposal can reopen for review.
An existing replay-prevention guard has no corresponding successful state transition.
Size S.
Contract class: restore.
Maintainer triage.

Evidence: Current remote src/commands/apply.js:99-101 checks appliedAt, but the file contains no successful appliedAt/appliedBy assignment. Latest maintainer restamp confirms only bootstrap stamps.

Competing work: No exact target among the 16 open proposals. #214 changes target-specific proposal storage but its diff retains only the existing appliedAt guard and adds no success stamp. The earlier attempted #36 was closed without merge, according to the complete issue thread.

Closure test: Apply an accepted synthetic proposal to disposable files. On complete non-dry-run success persist appliedAt and appliedBy=apply, then verify a second apply stops at the existing replay guard before review or writes. Dry-run, rejected edits and any write failure must leave it unstamped and retryable. Check the actual proposal.json and resulting file bytes.
The owner approved fixing the scan's high-value picks upstream through PRs, written and reviewed by Codex only.

What Changed

Persist appliedAt and appliedBy: "apply" after successful applies with accepted edits, so the existing replay guard blocks subsequent review and writes.
Roll back file, skill, and loading-layout changes if saving rejections or the applied stamp fails. Keep dry runs and rejected-only reviews unstamped and retryable.
Document the behavior and add CLI regression tests for stamping, replay refusal, rollback, and retries.

Risk Assessment

✅ Low: The change is bounded, preserves replay and dry-run behavior, and includes proposal persistence failures in existing rollback handling.

Testing

Review used only Codex models by the owner's temporary choice.

Focused apply tests and all live CLI scenarios passed. The base revision reproduced the missing stamp. Terminal review, plain/JSON output, rollback, and retries were verified against disposable repositories, with CLI transcripts and persisted bytes retained as evidence. Scratch files were removed. No full suite, lint, formatting, or static analysis ran.

Live validation: ✅ go - 8 of 8 scenarios driven live against the product

Scenario	Result	Live	Evidence
Accept edits through terminal review or --decisions and persist the expected file bytes plus appliedAt and appliedBy=apply	✅ pass	live	Live CLI transcripts: success plain/json; Interactive terminal review; Persisted proposals and file bytes
Apply a stamped proposal again and stop before browser review, terminal review, decision parsing, or writes	✅ pass	live	Live CLI transcripts: replay plain/json and terminal replay
Dry-run accepted edits without changing proposal or target bytes, then successfully apply	✅ pass	live	Live CLI transcripts: dry-run plain/json and subsequent retries
Reject every edit without stamping the proposal, then accept and successfully apply it	✅ pass	live	Live CLI transcripts: rejected plain/json and subsequent retries
Fail skill creation with filesystem permissions and retain unchanged, unstamped files that apply after permissions are restored	✅ pass	live	Live CLI transcripts: skill-write plain/json and subsequent retries
Fail the memory write after creating skills, roll back those skills, and successfully retry	✅ pass	live	Live CLI transcripts: memory-write plain/json and subsequent retries
Make .backpass unwritable and roll back accepted memory, skills, and their symlink while preserving an unstamped, retryable proposal	✅ pass	live	Live CLI transcripts: state-directory and state-directory-mixed plain/json
Block proposal-stamp persistence after rejection persistence, roll back accepted edits, and successfully retry	✅ pass	live	Live CLI transcripts: stamp-temp-mixed plain/json and subsequent retries

Evidence: Live CLI transcripts

# Live apply verification

Candidate: a817c5b67de6d9f233f6b95f66b4128a3e329380

Baseline: bc7bc6458cd2a023606d826a195decd3d72b7016

The actual CLI ran in disposable git repositories. No model or shared service was called. Full proposal and file bytes are in live-apply.json.

## success plain

`` `text
$ /opt/homebrew/Cellar/node/26.12.1_1/bin/node ~/.no-mistakes-upstream-codex/worktrees/c16e92fc504d/01M615473HKPTENEG3ND2C7DQG/bin/backpass.js apply --decisions e1=accepted e2=accepted
exit: 0

2 accepted · 0 rejected
  wrote AGENTS.md (e1, e2)
    budget [................................] 77 -> 51 / 5,000 tok
  wrote .agents/skills/ci-details/SKILL.md (new skill)
    created .agents/skills
    created .claude/skills -> ../.agents/skills
  wrote .agents/skills/release-details/SKILL.md (new skill)

`` `

Persisted appliedAt: 2026-10-28T12:04:16.690Z. Persisted appliedBy: apply.

## replay plain --no-open

`` `text
$ /opt/homebrew/Cellar/node/26.12.1_1/bin/node ~/.no-mistakes-upstream-codex/worktrees/c16e92fc504d/01M615473HKPTENEG3ND2C7DQG/bin/backpass.js apply --no-open
exit: 1
error the last proposal was already applied by apply (2026-10-28T12:04:16.690Z)
  run `backpass` again to produce a fresh one

`` `

Persisted appliedAt: 2026-10-28T12:04:16.690Z. Persisted appliedBy: apply.

## replay plain --no-ui

`` `text
$ /opt/homebrew/Cellar/node/26.12.1_1/bin/node ~/.no-mistakes-upstream-codex/worktrees/c16e92fc504d/01M615473HKPTENEG3ND2C7DQG/bin/backpass.js apply --no-ui
exit: 1
error the last proposal was already applied by apply (2026-10-28T12:04:16.690Z)
  run `backpass` again to produce a fresh one

`` `

Persisted appliedAt: 2026-10-28T12:04:16.690Z. Persisted appliedBy: apply.

## replay plain --decisions invalid-decision

`` `text
$ /opt/homebrew/Cellar/node/26.12.1_1/bin/node ~/.no-mistakes-upstream-codex/worktrees/c16e92fc504d/01M615473HKPTENEG3ND2C7DQG/bin/backpass.js apply --decisions invalid-decision
exit: 1
error the last proposal was already applied by apply (2026-10-28T12:04:16.690Z)
  run `backpass` again to produce a fresh one

`` `

Persisted appliedAt: 2026-10-28T12:04:16.690Z. Persisted appliedBy: apply.

## dry-run plain

`` `text
$ /opt/homebrew/Cellar/node/26.12.1_1/bin/node ~/.no-mistakes-upstream-codex/worktrees/c16e92fc504d/01M615473HKPTENEG3ND2C7DQG/bin/backpass.js apply --decisions e1=accepted e2=accepted --dry-run
exit: 0

[dry-run] 2 accepted · 0 rejected
  wrote AGENTS.md (e1, e2)
    budget [................................] 77 -> 51 / 5,000 tok
  wrote .agents/skills/ci-details/SKILL.md (new skill)
  wrote .agents/skills/release-details/SKILL.md (new skill)

`` `

Persisted appliedAt: None. Persisted appliedBy: None.

## dry-run retry plain

`` `text
$ /opt/homebrew/Cellar/node/26.12.1_1/bin/node ~/.no-mistakes-upstream-codex/worktrees/c16e92fc504d/01M615473HKPTENEG3ND2C7DQG/bin/backpass.js apply --decisions e1=accepted e2=accepted
exit: 0

2 accepted · 0 rejected
  wrote AGENTS.md (e1, e2)
    budget [................................] 77 -> 51 / 5,000 tok
  wrote .agents/skills/ci-details/SKILL.md (new skill)
    created .agents/skills
    created .claude/skills -> ../.agents/skills
  wrote .agents/skills/release-details/SKILL.md (new skill)

`` `

Persisted appliedAt: 2026-10-28T12:04:18.361Z. Persisted appliedBy: apply.

## rejected plain

`` `text
$ /opt/homebrew/Cellar/node/26.12.1_1/bin/node ~/.no-mistakes-upstream-codex/worktrees/c16e92fc504d/01M615473HKPTENEG3ND2C7DQG/bin/backpass.js apply --decisions e1=rejected e2=rejected
exit: 0

0 accepted · 2 rejected
  rejections recorded - they will not be re-proposed without new evidence
  nothing written

`` `

Persisted appliedAt: None. Persisted appliedBy: None.

## rejected retry plain

`` `text
$ /opt/homebrew/Cellar/node/26.12.1_1/bin/node ~/.no-mistakes-upstream-codex/worktrees/c16e92fc504d/01M615473HKPTENEG3ND2C7DQG/bin/backpass.js apply --decisions e1=accepted e2=accepted
exit: 0

2 accepted · 0 rejected
  wrote AGENTS.md (e1, e2)
    budget [................................] 77 -> 51 / 5,000 tok
  wrote .agents/skills/ci-details/SKILL.md (new skill)
    created .agents/skills
    created .claude/skills -> ../.agents/skills
  wrote .agents/skills/release-details/SKILL.md (new skill)

`` `

Persisted appliedAt: 2026-10-28T12:04:19.367Z. Persisted appliedBy: apply.

## skill-write plain

`` `text
$ /opt/homebrew/Cellar/node/26.12.1_1/bin/node ~/.no-mistakes-upstream-codex/worktrees/c16e92fc504d/01M615473HKPTENEG3ND2C7DQG/bin/backpass.js apply --decisions e1=accepted e2=accepted
exit: 1

2 accepted · 0 rejected
  failed .agents/skills/ci-details/SKILL.md (e1): EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '~/.no-mistakes-upstream-codex/worktrees/c16e92fc504d/01M615473HKPTENEG3ND2C7DQG/.test-phase/skill-write-plain/.agents/skills/ci-details'
  failed .agents/skills/release-details/SKILL.md (e2): EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '~/.no-mistakes-upstream-codex/worktrees/c16e92fc504d/01M615473HKPTENEG3ND2C7DQG/.test-phase/skill-write-plain/.agents/skills/release-details'
  failed AGENTS.md: AGENTS.md was left unchanged: its edits point at a skill that could not be written
  nothing written

`` `

Persisted appliedAt: None. Persisted appliedBy: None.

## skill-write retry plain

`` `text
$ /opt/homebrew/Cellar/node/26.12.1_1/bin/node ~/.no-mistakes-upstream-codex/worktrees/c16e92fc504d/01M615473HKPTENEG3ND2C7DQG/bin/backpass.js apply --decisions e1=accepted e2=accepted
exit: 0

2 accepted · 0 rejected
  wrote AGENTS.md (e1, e2)
    budget [................................] 77 -> 51 / 5,000 tok
  wrote .agents/skills/ci-details/SKILL.md (new skill)
    created .agents/skills
    created .claude/skills -> ../.agents/skills
  wrote .agents/skills/release-details/SKILL.md (new skill)

`` `

Persisted appliedAt: 2026-10-28T12:04:20.145Z. Persisted appliedBy: apply.

## memory-write plain

`` `text
$ /opt/homebrew/Cellar/node/26.12.1_1/bin/node ~/.no-mistakes-upstream-codex/worktrees/c16e92fc504d/01M615473HKPTENEG3ND2C7DQG/bin/backpass.js apply --decisions e1=accepted e2=accepted
exit: 1

2 accepted · 0 rejected
  failed AGENTS.md: AGENTS.md could not be written: EACCES: permission denied, open '~/.no-mistakes-upstream-codex/worktrees/c16e92fc504d/01M615473HKPTENEG3ND2C7DQG/.test-phase/memory-write-plain/.AGENTS.md.backpass-96d85a94-fa7c-455d-824b-9161d4553149'
  failed: rolled back skill paths written earlier in this round: .agents/skills/release-details/SKILL.md, .agents/skills/ci-details/SKILL.md
  nothing written

`` `

Persisted appliedAt: None. Persisted appliedBy: None.

## memory-write retry plain

`` `text
$ /opt/homebrew/Cellar/node/26.12.1_1/bin/node ~/.no-mistakes-upstream-codex/worktrees/c16e92fc504d/01M615473HKPTENEG3ND2C7DQG/bin/backpass.js apply --decisions e1=accepted e2=accepted
exit: 0

2 accepted · 0 rejected
  wrote AGENTS.md (e1, e2)
    budget [................................] 77 -> 51 / 5,000 tok
  wrote .agents/skills/ci-details/SKILL.md (new skill)
    created .agents/skills
    created .claude/skills -> ../.agents/skills
  wrote .agents/skills/release-details/SKILL.md (new skill)

`` `

Persisted appliedAt: 2026-10-28T12:04:20.817Z. Persisted appliedBy: apply.

## state-directory plain

`` `text
$ /opt/homebrew/Cellar/node/26.12.1_1/bin/node ~/.no-mistakes-upstream-codex/worktrees/c16e92fc504d/01M615473HKPTENEG3ND2C7DQG/bin/backpass.js apply --decisions e1=accepted e2=accepted
exit: 1

2 accepted · 0 rejected
  failed: EACCES: permission denied, open '~/.no-mistakes-upstream-codex/worktrees/c16e92fc504d/01M615473HKPTENEG3ND2C7DQG/.test-phase/state-directory-plain/.backpass/proposal.json.tmp'
  failed: rolled back skill paths written earlier in this round: .claude/skills, .agents/skills/release-details/SKILL.md, .agents/skills/ci-details/SKILL.md
  nothing written

`` `

Persisted appliedAt: None. Persisted appliedBy: None.

## state-directory retry plain

`` `text
$ /opt/homebrew/Cellar/node/26.12.1_1/bin/node ~/.no-mistakes-upstream-codex/worktrees/c16e92fc504d/01M615473

... [14415 bytes truncated] ...

2
        },
        "dryRun": false
      }
    ],
    "skills": [
      {
        "path": ".agents/skills/ci-details/SKILL.md",
        "dryRun": false,
        "created": [
          ".agents/skills",
          ".claude/skills -> ../.agents/skills"
        ]
      },
      {
        "path": ".agents/skills/release-details/SKILL.md",
        "dryRun": false,
        "created": []
      }
    ],
    "failed": [],
    "warnings": [],
    "accepted": 2,
    "rejected": 0,
    "rejectionsRecorded": false
  },
  "mix": null
}

`` `

Persisted appliedAt: 2026-10-28T12:04:26.985Z. Persisted appliedBy: apply.

## state-directory json

`` `text
$ /opt/homebrew/Cellar/node/26.12.1_1/bin/node ~/.no-mistakes-upstream-codex/worktrees/c16e92fc504d/01M615473HKPTENEG3ND2C7DQG/bin/backpass.js apply --decisions e1=accepted e2=accepted --json
exit: 1
{
  "decisions": {
    "e1": "accepted",
    "e2": "accepted"
  },
  "rejectReasons": {},
  "results": {
    "written": [],
    "skills": [],
    "failed": [
      {
        "error": "EACCES: permission denied, open '~/.no-mistakes-upstream-codex/worktrees/c16e92fc504d/01M615473HKPTENEG3ND2C7DQG/.test-phase/state-directory-json/.backpass/proposal.json.tmp'"
      },
      {
        "error": "rolled back skill paths written earlier in this round: .claude/skills, .agents/skills/release-details/SKILL.md, .agents/skills/ci-details/SKILL.md"
      }
    ],
    "warnings": [],
    "accepted": 2,
    "rejected": 0,
    "rejectionsRecorded": false
  },
  "mix": null
}

`` `

Persisted appliedAt: None. Persisted appliedBy: None.

## state-directory retry json

`` `text
$ /opt/homebrew/Cellar/node/26.12.1_1/bin/node ~/.no-mistakes-upstream-codex/worktrees/c16e92fc504d/01M615473HKPTENEG3ND2C7DQG/bin/backpass.js apply --decisions e1=accepted e2=accepted --json
exit: 0
{
  "decisions": {
    "e1": "accepted",
    "e2": "accepted"
  },
  "rejectReasons": {},
  "results": {
    "written": [
      {
        "file": "AGENTS.md",
        "edits": [
          "e1",
          "e2"
        ],
        "budget": {
          "capTokens": 5000,
          "current": 77,
          "projected": 51,
          "delta": -26,
          "withinBudget": true,
          "over": 0,
          "utilization": 0.0102
        },
        "dryRun": false
      }
    ],
    "skills": [
      {
        "path": ".agents/skills/ci-details/SKILL.md",
        "dryRun": false,
        "created": [
          ".agents/skills",
          ".claude/skills -> ../.agents/skills"
        ]
      },
      {
        "path": ".agents/skills/release-details/SKILL.md",
        "dryRun": false,
        "created": []
      }
    ],
    "failed": [],
    "warnings": [],
    "accepted": 2,
    "rejected": 0,
    "rejectionsRecorded": false
  },
  "mix": null
}

`` `

Persisted appliedAt: 2026-10-28T12:04:27.826Z. Persisted appliedBy: apply.

## state-directory-mixed json

`` `text
$ /opt/homebrew/Cellar/node/26.12.1_1/bin/node ~/.no-mistakes-upstream-codex/worktrees/c16e92fc504d/01M615473HKPTENEG3ND2C7DQG/bin/backpass.js apply --decisions e1=accepted e2=rejected --json
exit: 1
{
  "decisions": {
    "e1": "accepted",
    "e2": "rejected"
  },
  "rejectReasons": {},
  "results": {
    "written": [],
    "skills": [],
    "failed": [
      {
        "error": "EACCES: permission denied, open '~/.no-mistakes-upstream-codex/worktrees/c16e92fc504d/01M615473HKPTENEG3ND2C7DQG/.test-phase/state-directory-mixed-json/.backpass/rejections.json.tmp'"
      },
      {
        "error": "rolled back skill paths written earlier in this round: .claude/skills, .agents/skills/ci-details/SKILL.md"
      }
    ],
    "warnings": [],
    "accepted": 1,
    "rejected": 1,
    "rejectionsRecorded": false
  },
  "mix": null
}

`` `

Persisted appliedAt: None. Persisted appliedBy: None.

## state-directory-mixed retry json

`` `text
$ /opt/homebrew/Cellar/node/26.12.1_1/bin/node ~/.no-mistakes-upstream-codex/worktrees/c16e92fc504d/01M615473HKPTENEG3ND2C7DQG/bin/backpass.js apply --decisions e1=accepted e2=rejected --json
exit: 0
{
  "decisions": {
    "e1": "accepted",
    "e2": "rejected"
  },
  "rejectReasons": {},
  "results": {
    "written": [
      {
        "file": "AGENTS.md",
        "edits": [
          "e1"
        ],
        "budget": {
          "capTokens": 5000,
          "current": 77,
          "projected": 63,
          "delta": -14,
          "withinBudget": true,
          "over": 0,
          "utilization": 0.0126
        },
        "dryRun": false
      }
    ],
    "skills": [
      {
        "path": ".agents/skills/ci-details/SKILL.md",
        "dryRun": false,
        "created": [
          ".agents/skills",
          ".claude/skills -> ../.agents/skills"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "failed": [],
    "warnings": [],
    "accepted": 1,
    "rejected": 1,
    "rejectionsRecorded": true
  },
  "mix": null
}

`` `

Persisted appliedAt: 2026-10-28T12:04:28.697Z. Persisted appliedBy: apply.

## stamp-temp-mixed json

`` `text
$ /opt/homebrew/Cellar/node/26.12.1_1/bin/node ~/.no-mistakes-upstream-codex/worktrees/c16e92fc504d/01M615473HKPTENEG3ND2C7DQG/bin/backpass.js apply --decisions e1=accepted e2=rejected --json
exit: 1
{
  "decisions": {
    "e1": "accepted",
    "e2": "rejected"
  },
  "rejectReasons": {},
  "results": {
    "written": [],
    "skills": [],
    "failed": [
      {
        "error": "EISDIR: illegal operation on a directory, open '~/.no-mistakes-upstream-codex/worktrees/c16e92fc504d/01M615473HKPTENEG3ND2C7DQG/.test-phase/stamp-temp-mixed-json/.backpass/proposal.json.tmp'"
      },
      {
        "error": "rolled back skill paths written earlier in this round: .claude/skills, .agents/skills/ci-details/SKILL.md"
      }
    ],
    "warnings": [],
    "accepted": 1,
    "rejected": 1,
    "rejectionsRecorded": true
  },
  "mix": null
}

`` `

Persisted appliedAt: None. Persisted appliedBy: None.

## stamp-temp-mixed retry json

`` `text
$ /opt/homebrew/Cellar/node/26.12.1_1/bin/node ~/.no-mistakes-upstream-codex/worktrees/c16e92fc504d/01M615473HKPTENEG3ND2C7DQG/bin/backpass.js apply --decisions e1=accepted e2=rejected --json
exit: 0
{
  "decisions": {
    "e1": "accepted",
    "e2": "rejected"
  },
  "rejectReasons": {},
  "results": {
    "written": [
      {
        "file": "AGENTS.md",
        "edits": [
          "e1"
        ],
        "budget": {
          "capTokens": 5000,
          "current": 77,
          "projected": 63,
          "delta": -14,
          "withinBudget": true,
          "over": 0,
          "utilization": 0.0126
        },
        "dryRun": false
      }
    ],
    "skills": [
      {
        "path": ".agents/skills/ci-details/SKILL.md",
        "dryRun": false,
        "created": [
          ".agents/skills",
          ".claude/skills -> ../.agents/skills"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "failed": [],
    "warnings": [],
    "accepted": 1,
    "rejected": 1,
    "rejectionsRecorded": true
  },
  "mix": null
}

`` `

Persisted appliedAt: 2026-10-28T12:04:29.400Z. Persisted appliedBy: apply.

## baseline accepted apply

`` `text
$ /opt/homebrew/Cellar/node/26.12.1_1/bin/node ~/.no-mistakes-upstream-codex/worktrees/c16e92fc504d/01M615473HKPTENEG3ND2C7DQG/.test-phase/baseline-source/bin/backpass.js apply --decisions e1=accepted e2=accepted
exit: 0

2 accepted · 0 rejected
  wrote AGENTS.md (e1, e2)
    budget [................................] 77 -> 51 / 5,000 tok
  wrote .agents/skills/ci-details/SKILL.md (new skill)
    created .agents/skills
    created .claude/skills -> ../.agents/skills
  wrote .agents/skills/release-details/SKILL.md (new skill)

`` `

Persisted appliedAt: None. Persisted appliedBy: None.

## terminal apply persisted bytes and replay refused

`` `text
$ /opt/homebrew/Cellar/node/26.12.1_1/bin/node ~/.no-mistakes-upstream-codex/worktrees/c16e92fc504d/01M615473HKPTENEG3ND2C7DQG/bin/backpass.js apply --no-ui
exit: 1
error the last proposal was already applied by apply (2026-10-28T12:04:42.198Z)
  run `backpass` again to produce a fresh one

`` `

Persisted appliedAt: 2026-10-28T12:04:42.198Z. Persisted appliedBy: apply.

Evidence: Persisted proposals and file bytes (local file: ~/.no-mistakes-upstream-codex/evidence/01M615473HKPTENEG3ND2C7DQG/live-apply.json)

Evidence: Interactive terminal review

$ /opt/homebrew/bin/node ~/.no-mistakes-upstream-codex/worktrees/c16e92fc504d/01M615473HKPTENEG3ND2C7DQG/bin/backpass.js apply --no-ui
PTY dimensions: 40 rows x 120 columns, set before process launch

backpass apply · terminal · AGENTS.md · 2 proposed edit(s)
budget: 77 -> 51 / 5,000 tok if all accepted

[1/2] EXTRACT -> SKILL  -20 tok (+6 tok skill description)
  Move CI detail
  file: AGENTS.md
  Keep topic details in their skill

  --- AGENTS.md ---
  - - Run the checked-in build command before pushing.
  - - Wait for the actual job verdict before making another change.
  - 
  + - Load `ci-details` for this topic.

  new skill: .agents/skills/ci-details/SKILL.md
  description: Use when working on CI.

  evidence (1 transcript(s)):
    - "Disposable evidence for extraction"
      codex · synthetic setup · turn 1
^[[1G^[[0J
  [a]ccept / [r]eject / [q]uit > ^[[34Ga


[2/2] EXTRACT -> SKILL  -19 tok (+7 tok skill description)
  Move Release detail
  file: AGENTS.md
  Keep topic details in their skill

  --- AGENTS.md ---
  - - Read the release procedure before making a release.
  - - Keep the executable identifier unchanged across releases.
  - 
  + - Load `release-details` for this topic.

  new skill: .agents/skills/release-details/SKILL.md
  description: Use when working on Release.

  evidence (1 transcript(s)):
    - "Disposable evidence for extraction"
      codex · synthetic setup · turn 1
^[[1G^[[0J
  [a]ccept / [r]eject / [q]uit > ^[[34Ga


2 accepted · 0 rejected
  wrote AGENTS.md (e1, e2)
    budget [................................] 77 -> 51 / 5,000 tok
  wrote .agents/skills/ci-details/SKILL.md (new skill)
    created .agents/skills
    created .claude/skills -> ../.agents/skills
  wrote .agents/skills/release-details/SKILL.md (new skill)

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🚨 src/commands/apply.js:159 - F1: Proposal persistence is outside the writer's rollback boundary. With an existing readable proposal and a non-writable .backpass directory, an accepted apply commits the memory and skills, then writeProposal throws while creating proposal.json.tmp. The proposal stays unstamped, but restoring permissions does not make it retryable: the writer rejects its original memory hash. This contradicts the required criterion "any write failure must leave it unstamped and retryable." The new call at src/commands/apply.js:159 affects browser, terminal, and --decisions paths, including --json. The failure test at test/apply-cli.test.js:777 fails before this step and misses this case. Include stamp persistence within the existing guarded commit/rollback boundary. The acceptance contradiction requires owner review.

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Live validation: ✅ go - 8 of 8 scenarios driven live against the product

Scenario	Result	Live	Evidence
Accept edits through terminal review or --decisions and persist the expected file bytes plus appliedAt and appliedBy=apply	✅ pass	live	Live CLI transcripts: success plain/json; Interactive terminal review; Persisted proposals and file bytes
Apply a stamped proposal again and stop before browser review, terminal review, decision parsing, or writes	✅ pass	live	Live CLI transcripts: replay plain/json and terminal replay
Dry-run accepted edits without changing proposal or target bytes, then successfully apply	✅ pass	live	Live CLI transcripts: dry-run plain/json and subsequent retries
Reject every edit without stamping the proposal, then accept and successfully apply it	✅ pass	live	Live CLI transcripts: rejected plain/json and subsequent retries
Fail skill creation with filesystem permissions and retain unchanged, unstamped files that apply after permissions are restored	✅ pass	live	Live CLI transcripts: skill-write plain/json and subsequent retries
Fail the memory write after creating skills, roll back those skills, and successfully retry	✅ pass	live	Live CLI transcripts: memory-write plain/json and subsequent retries
Make .backpass unwritable and roll back accepted memory, skills, and their symlink while preserving an unstamped, retryable proposal	✅ pass	live	Live CLI transcripts: state-directory and state-directory-mixed plain/json
Block proposal-stamp persistence after rejection persistence, roll back accepted edits, and successfully retry	✅ pass	live	Live CLI transcripts: stamp-temp-mixed plain/json and subsequent retries

TMPDIR="$PWD/.test-phase/tmp" node --import ./test/helpers/hermetic-config.js --test test/apply-cli.test.js test/user-apply.test.js
git archive bc7bc6458cd2a023606d826a195decd3d72b7016 | tar -x -C .test-phase/baseline-source followed by real baseline CLI apply reproduced the missing stamp.
TMPDIR="$PWD/.test-phase/tmp" node .test-phase/live-apply.mjs drove plain and JSON success, replay, dry-run, rejection, write failures, rollback, and retries.
TMPDIR="$PWD/.test-phase/tmp" node .test-phase/live-apply.mjs setup-terminal and python3 .test-phase/terminal.py drove real terminal acceptance in a 40×120 PTY.
TMPDIR="$PWD/.test-phase/tmp" node .test-phase/live-apply.mjs verify-terminal checked persisted bytes, stamps, and replay refusal.

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greptile-apps · 2026-10-28T12:12:45Z

Confidence Score: 5/5

[Medium impact] The numbered crash-lock finding is fixed, and no new blocking findings were accepted.

_{Reviews (3) · Last reviewed commit: "no-mistakes(ci): Removed proposal lockin..." · Reviewed by Greptile}

kunchenguid · 2026-10-28T16:53:44Z

Speaking as Kun's firstmate: thanks @WTF-Am-ID for taking on #35. I reviewed the diff (no workflow, network, or exec changes) and approved fork CI. The rollback handling and the 8 of 8 live scenarios are thorough.

This is waiting on you for one fix. Greptile's P1 on src/apply/writer.js is real: applyDecisions now writes back the proposal object it loaded before review, and nothing in backpass locks .backpass/proposal.json. If another backpass run saves a fresh proposal while a review is open, finishing the old review overwrites the fresh proposal with the old, stamped copy, so the new edits are lost and the next apply refuses them as already applied. On main, apply never rewrites the proposal, so this is a new loss path. Could you check that the saved proposal is still the one that was reviewed (for example by comparing its id or bytes) right before stamping, and skip or fail loudly when it changed, with a regression for that case? No rebase needed from you.

VISION per-rule:

Evidence is the only currency: aligns.
The human owns the weights: aligns once the stale-overwrite case is guarded. Stopping replay keeps a reviewed proposal from being re-applied, but silently replacing a newer proposal discards review work the person hasn't seen.
Nothing the model says is taken on faith: aligns.
The budget is the constraint: not affected.
It reads what you already have and owns nothing: aligns.
Failure is loud and named: aligns (write and state failures roll back and are reported).
Scope: aligns.

Contract-class: restore. The appliedAt replay guard already exists in apply and bootstrap already stamps; a normal apply was the broken path.

…ing now verifies the reviewed proposal under a lock shared by saves and clears. Reproduced the overwrite on 8efafaa, then verified fresh bytes survive and old edits roll back. All 34 authorized focused tests pass. No scratch files remain in the worktree

…ore-stamp and rollback. Replaced the lock-specific test with an interrupted-save regression, reproduced before the fix. All 34 tests pass using the authorized focused command, including stale/cleared proposal, rollback, retry, replay, dry-run, and rejection coverage. No worktree scratch files remain

kunchenguid · 2026-10-29T16:35:15Z

Speaking as Kun's firstmate: thanks @WTF-Am-ID, the stale-overwrite guard is in. State.writeProposal now compares the saved proposal with the reviewed one right before stamping, fails loudly with "the saved proposal changed during review", and rolls back that round's file, skill, and symlink writes, with a regression for both the replaced and the cleared case. I checked that nothing in the review or apply flow mutates the loaded proposal, so a normal apply still stamps. CI is green (build-and-test on ubuntu and macOS, no-mistakes, generated-files guard) and the PR is CLEAN.

VISION per-rule:

Evidence is the only currency: aligns (no evidence or corroboration change).
The human owns the weights: aligns. A reviewed proposal can't be re-applied, and a newer proposal saved during review is no longer overwritten.
Nothing the model says is taken on faith: aligns.
The budget is the constraint: not affected.
It reads what you already have and owns nothing: aligns.
Failure is loud and named: aligns (stamp and state failures roll back and are reported, and retries work).
Scope: aligns.

Contract-class: restore. The appliedAt replay guard already existed in apply and bootstrap already stamps; normal apply was the broken path. Merging.

kunchenguid · 2026-10-29T16:35:29Z

Speaking as Kun's firstmate: this is merged. Thank you @WTF-Am-ID — really appreciate you taking the time on this.

WTF-Am-ID added 3 commits October 28, 2026 07:34

fix: mark successfully applied proposals as consumed

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no-mistakes(review): Roll back apply when proposal persistence fails

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no-mistakes(document): Document apply completion and format writer

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Normal apply does not mark the proposal as applied #35

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