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Routes #502 C3. Reproduced end to end in a throwaway repo before anything was changed — TEAMLEAD (session 15b69750), 2026-09-07.

The defect

With all 8 roles provisioned and every one of them NODOCTRINE — a tree that exists, sits in the conventional location, and whose HEAD carries no prompts/:

check   → exit 1   ⛔ 8 role(s) have a tree that does NOT carry the doctrine
                   ⇒ Re-create from a ref that carries them: … create <ref>

create  → exit 0   nothing to create — no role is without a tree

The tool told the operator to run a command that refuses — and refuses with exit 0, reporting success for the state it had just called blocking. create <ref>, spelled exactly as the message spells it, behaves identically: the guard is n_missing -eq 0, and a NODOCTRINE tree exists, so nothing is missing.

★ The fix is not to auto-remediate

This file's own stance, six lines into where(), is that a suspect tree is "reported for a human to judge, and never auto-remediated" — and git worktree remove can destroy uncommitted work.

So create now refuses loudly and prints the commands that actually do it, per role, rather than silently doing nothing or silently doing something:

⛔ nothing is MISSING, but 8 role(s) carry a tree WITHOUT the doctrine: architect devops dx …
  `create` cannot fix this: it only builds trees that are ABSENT, and these exist.
  Removing a worktree can destroy uncommitted work, so this is not done for you.
  ⇒ Per role, after checking the tree holds nothing you need:
       git worktree remove <path>/architect && ./fleet-worktree.sh create <ref-that-has-prompts>
       …

Proven two-sided, in a sandbox built to the exact state

⛔ 8 trees, all NODOCTRINE, 0 MISSING
     before  exit 0   "nothing to create — no role is without a tree"
     after   exit 1   names all 8, prints `git worktree remove <path> && … create <ref>`

✅ the same 8 trees, doctrine PRESENT
     after   exit 0   "nothing to create — no role is without a tree"

⇒ The branch fires on the state it is for and does not over-fire on the healthy one. Without that second pole, a guard that refused everything would have passed the first.

⚠ The fixture had to be built twice

My first sandbox had one tree present, so n_missing was 7 and create cheerfully built the other seven — no defect visible. The bug needs n_missing == 0 to exist at all.

⇒ A partial fixture hid it, which is the same shape as the reviews: [] default that let #642's vacuous leg run 26 times unasserted: the fixture's default state decides which branch you are testing.

#502 now stands at 11 of 14

Remaining: B1 / B2 (need a Windows host to verify) and C6 (shell=True — a policy call about who the tool is for).

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  • Bug Fixes
    • The worktree creation command now reports an error when roles lack the required doctrine, instead of incorrectly indicating that nothing needs to be created.
    • Provides role-specific cleanup and creation commands to help resolve the issue.
    • Exits with a failure status so the problem can be detected reliably.

…eck` had just refused

#502 C3. Reproduced end to end in a throwaway repo before anything was changed.

⛔ THE DEFECT. With all 8 roles provisioned and every one of them NODOCTRINE — a tree
that exists, sits in the conventional location, and whose HEAD carries no `prompts/`:

    check   -> exit 1  "⛔ 8 role(s) have a tree that does NOT carry the doctrine"
                       "⇒ Re-create from a ref that carries them: … create <ref>"
    create  -> exit 0  "nothing to create — no role is without a tree"

⇒ THE TOOL TOLD THE OPERATOR TO RUN A COMMAND THAT REFUSES, and refuses with exit 0 —
reporting success for the state it had just called blocking. `create <ref>`, spelled
exactly as the message spells it, behaves identically: the guard is `n_missing -eq 0`,
and a NODOCTRINE tree EXISTS, so nothing is missing.

★ THE FIX IS NOT TO AUTO-REMEDIATE. This file's own stance, six lines into `where()`,
is that a suspect tree is "reported for a human to judge, and never auto-remediated" —
and `git worktree remove` can destroy uncommitted work. So `create` now REFUSES loudly
and prints the two commands that actually do it, per role, rather than silently doing
nothing or silently doing something.

PROVEN TWO-SIDED, in a sandbox repo built to the exact state:
  ⛔ 8 trees, all NODOCTRINE, 0 MISSING
       before  exit 0  "nothing to create — no role is without a tree"
       after   exit 1  names all 8 and prints `git worktree remove <path> && … create <ref>`
  ✅ the same 8 trees, doctrine PRESENT
       after   exit 0  "nothing to create — no role is without a tree"
⇒ The branch fires on the state it is for and does not over-fire on the healthy one.
Without that second pole a guard that refused everything would have passed the first.

⚠ The sandbox needed building twice. My first attempt had ONE tree present, so
`n_missing` was 7 and `create` cheerfully built the other seven — the defect needs
`n_missing == 0` to be visible at all, and a partial fixture hid it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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The create branch now detects roles with worktrees that lack doctrine. It prints per-role removal and recreation commands, reports the condition, and exits with status 1 instead of reporting that no worktrees need creation.

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Worktree doctrine handling

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Reject incomplete worktrees during create
scripts/fleet-worktree.sh
When no role is MISSING and at least one role is NODOCTRINE, create prints repair commands for each affected role and exits 1.

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The fix remains incomplete when missing and doctrine-less worktrees coexist, and its suggested repair commands may be unsafe to copy for paths containing shell metacharacters. These issues should be addressed before merge.

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In `@scripts/fleet-worktree.sh`:
- Line 196: Update the state-handling logic around the n_missing and
n_nodoctrine counters so mixed non-zero states repair or report both missing and
NODOCTRINE roles instead of treating the existing NODOCTRINE roles as complete.
Preserve valid-ref success behavior while emitting the required repair commands,
and add a regression test covering mixed-state create behavior.
- Around line 203-204: Update the generated repair-command printf in the
worktree script to format both the WT_DIR/r path value and the script path from
$0 with Bash %q, so copied commands remain safely shell-escaped while preserving
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  • [INFO · Shell] scripts/fleet-worktree.sh:199SC2016 Expressions don't expand in single quotes, use double quotes for that.

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  • scripts/fleet-worktree.sh:199⚪ Info — SC2016: Expressions don't expand in single quotes, use double quotes for that.

…pair line was unquoted

Both review findings adopted. The first is the sharper, and it is the state my own
reproduction had stumbled into and walked past.

1. ⛔ MIXED `MISSING` + `NODOCTRINE` EXITED 0 WITH BROKEN TREES LEFT BEHIND. My guard was
   `n_missing -eq 0 && n_nodoctrine -gt 0`, so it only fired when nothing was absent.
   With both counters non-zero, `create` provisioned the absent roles and said nothing
   about the existing doctrine-less ones. Isolated in a repo whose OLD commit lacks
   prompts/ and whose main carries them — 3 NODOCTRINE trees, 5 MISSING, valid ref:

       BEFORE   rc=0   created 5 · nodoctrine reports 0 · 3 broken trees left, unmentioned
       AFTER    rc=1   created 5 · names all 3 and prints the per-role repair

   ★ That mixed state is exactly the fixture my first reproduction built by accident —
   one tree present, seven missing — and it is why the original defect was invisible on
   the first attempt. I recorded that as "a partial fixture hid it" and did not notice
   the same partial state was also a hole in the fix.

   ⚠ MY FIRST BEFORE/AFTER WAS CONFOUNDED and I nearly published it. The fixture built
   its new trees from a ref with no prompts/, so the create loop set rc=1 for an
   unrelated reason and BEFORE read 1, not 0 — the finding says "returns success WHEN
   THE NEW TREES USE A VALID REF", and mine did not. Rebuilt with a valid ref, the
   isolation is exact.

   ⇒ The report is hoisted into `report_nodoctrine()` and called from BOTH entry points,
   because the state had two and the first version guarded one.

2. ⚠ THE PRINTED REPAIR COMMANDS WERE UNQUOTED. The operator COPIES those lines, and a
   worktree path containing a space — `C:\Program Files\…` is a normal location — yields
   a command that silently removes the wrong thing. `%q` now, and `--` before the path.

       git worktree remove -- /srv/Program\ Files/wt/architect

   ★ Same root as #502 C2, one surface along: there a space broke a PARSER, here it
   breaks a command a human is about to run. C2 was found by an installer, this by
   review, and neither sweep would have found the other.

THREE STATES, all exercised:
  ⛔ 8 NODOCTRINE · 0 MISSING   -> rc 1, report
  ⛔ 3 NODOCTRINE · 5 MISSING   -> rc 1, report, 5 provisioned   (was rc 0, silent)
  ✅ doctrine present            -> rc 0, "nothing to create", no report
Without the third, a branch that reported unconditionally would pass the first two.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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