refactor(land): retire the landing shell cluster onto the engine

[wenzowski]

Closes CLOUD-1148. Closes CLOUD-1456. Closes CLOUD-1471. Closes CLOUD-1338. Closes CLOUD-1452.

Refs CLOUD-1423, CLOUD-861, CLOUD-727.

What this is

mise-tasks/land.sh and its four siblings were 4,698 lines of Button-specific
landing policy a consumer inherits and cannot tailor. They are gone — 9,440
lines across ten paths, 290 bats cases — and the engine PRs #812 and #829
shipped now actually runs.

That last part was the starting problem. Those PRs landed ~4,000 lines of
batten land and batten lease and none of it had ever run: zero call sites
outside prose. CLOUD-1423 is that gap filed as a row.

Step 0: driving the dead verbs found one broken

Every arm was driven by hand against the real remote before anything was written.

All ten lease arms work — acquire performed a genuine receive-pack CAS,
renew rolled the TTL, release tombstoned. Three of four land verbs work.

batten land verify did not, on every invocation in every clone. It handed
exec::run_in a literal ., and the capture store is keyed by the repository's
directory NAME, which state::derive_repo_name cannot read off .. Measured:
LAND_VERIFY=true and LAND_VERIFY=false produced byte-identical output and the
same exit. Three other sites in the crate defend against this and cite the same
measured refusal; land::verify was the fourth and did not, and exec::run_in
has no other caller — so the function existed solely for that call and the call
never worked.

Invisible twice over: the refusal is a UsageError, so main's reporter prints
one line and drops the chain, and the None arm then wrapped it in a context
naming the gate — so a boundary that never started the program read as the
program having run and failed.

Had this not been driven first, it would have surfaced while landing a
9,440-line deletion with the verb meant to land it.

The engine

The join key is the fast-forward's whole correctness argument. An
issue_comment run attaches to the default branch's tip, so head_branch and
head_sha both name trunk and nothing records which PR asked. Polling by
timestamp reads strangers' refusals as your own — measured on the predecessor at
~400 runs in thirty minutes, 243 of them refusals. That is how "the bot is
silent" was concluded while it was answering every attempt within 23 seconds.

The lap is one table, not five branches. land::progress_of maps (step, exit
code, verdict) to Proceed / Lap / Stop / Landed, asking one question: would a
rebase clear this? Bounds are counts; nothing consults a clock.

The pipeline is declared. The step list was an array literal with a
compile-time step→function match, so compensation had nowhere to live and a
step == Verify staleness probe had leaked into the driver sixteen lines below a
comment promising it could not. pipeline.rs is that list declared, and a
composition that spends before the commit point without declaring an undo fails
to LOAD.

Three clusters this branch had built and left reachable from nothing got their
entry point — the compensations through unwind_lap, the ready event and the
Ledger, and speculation's settle and placement.

What the disposition pass found

Each retirement writes one ledger arm per deleted path, and then one row per
@test title. The gate only counts the arms; the title rows are read by hand,
and that is where the defects were. Four suites, four live defects, every one
in code written this session and green under its own tests:

found by reading	what it was
main-watch.bats	an empty base reported as trunk movement
abandon-matrix.bats	CI_FANIN_CHECK read where a workflow PATH was needed, so spared was always 0 and the fan-in's own run was cancelled with the rest
land-lock.bats	lease check naming the holder while dropping the successor
land.bats	four cases with no successor at all

That last one blocked the deletion, so it was built rather than dispositioned:

• A refusal over a borrowed tree now says so. A lap that adopted a bet
  replays commits this branch did not write, and an unqualified your gate
  failed sends the author to debug somebody else's diff. Measured 2026-08-19,
  and again 2026-08-22 where the masked failure was in the lander's own suite.
  Phrased as a suspicion, never a verdict — that row retracted two attributions
  in one day for treating "speculative" as the explanation.
• An environment failure is named as one. CLOUD-861: the reclaim passed a lap
  with 6242MB against its 4096MB floor, the link step consumed all of it, and the
  stop said "Reproduce and fix locally" over a tree with nothing wrong in it.
  The literal and the remedy are [[verify_environment_pattern]] rows, because
  both are this consumer's vocabulary.
• And the gate's output now reaches the operator. Found while wiring the
  above: land::verify ran through ExecConfig::DEFAULT, whose tee is false,
  so a stopped lap said "refused" and showed nothing — while Verified's own
  header claimed the output "went to the caller's terminal where it belongs".
  False for that call's entire life.

CLOUD-1471 is the same shape one level up: two of land.sh's clusters — the
PR-subscription drop and the merged-branch retirement — had no successor either,
and landed first so the deletion could take the program.

Two scope corrections, both against the plan I was given

The stale arm's ETag port is superseded and would have been a regression.
main-watch polls conditionally because it reaches the metered REST API through
gh; the engine's stale arm is ref discovery over its own client and incurs none
of that cost.

land.sh runs three staleness races, not one — verify, ci-wait, and the
fast-forward answer. land::stale closes the metered half of the first
(CLOUD-423, ~45% of laps paying a full gate to learn trunk moved); it does not
abort the gate early, and that shortfall is stated on the row rather than
absorbed.

Deliberately not here

The inline-fetch dedup is CLOUD-1460. Sixteen jobs across five workflows
inline the same pre-checkout lease guard. Both in-repo forms are ruled out by the
block's own invariants: a local ./.github/actions/… would be the head's own
copy of the guard, which the trunk-pinning comment forbids in as many words;
and …@main cannot resolve until it is already on main, so all 16 jobs would
fail on the PR that introduces it. That is a two-merge sequence and this is one
PR. Recorded deleted in the plan store rather than completed — the route
plan-complete provides for an entry the author withdraws.

The stall sensor is CLOUD-1467, a new Stop-surface predicate and outside
this branch's scope.

CLOUD-1306 is conserved and named rather than absorbed: Settle::Pending
still cannot tell a speculative base that will never go green from one that has
not landed yet.

Verification

lint:clippy clean. 4,738 Rust tests and 1,653 bats cases over 100
suites green. policy test: 59 bundles, 752 passed.

Every new gate shown able to fail, by seeding rather than by assertion-counting:
reverting the root resolution reproduces the exact observed message; inverting
the lap table's replay/verify arm reddens two of four cases; widening the adopted
bet's range bound reddens exactly the one assertion that case exists for; and for
the verify advice, seeding the classifier reddens only the environment case while
seeding tee reddens only the output case — all four anti-vacuity twins stay
green under both, which is the discrimination.

policy/**, batten.toml and .github/workflows/** are protected; each write
is a spent admission with the full Admits: block in its commit message.

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The change adds compiled landing, lease, REST, receipt, policy, and command flows. Landing gains bounded laps, concurrent trunk and check polling, compensation, body gates, matrix accounting, fast-forward handling, and lease guards. Receipt verification supports configured checks. Retired shell workflows are replaced by compiled commands, installer tasks, workflow steps, completions, manuals, policies, and integration tests.

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 159b9

The change replaces landing and lease automation with compiled commands, but unresolved guard, freshness, policy-bypass, and receipt-validation defects can allow incorrect landing decisions or silently disable intended protections. It is not ready to merge until these issues are addressed or explicitly accepted.

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Inline comments:
In `@batten.toml`:
- Line 1874: Update the BATS_TEST_DIRNAME regex validation so path traversal
segments cannot escape the intended suite-relative target; normalize the suffix
against the suite path and require the normalized result to equal gone before
the downstream basename check. Add a regression case covering repeated ..
segments such as traversal through a foreign path.

In `@crates/batten/src/land.rs`:
- Around line 888-890: Wire the accounting API into run_land_lap by creating a
Ledger at the start of its lap loop and invoking attempt plus the appropriate
outcome method (bought_a_matrix, waited, unknown, transient, or spent) for each
step. Make Ledger and these methods available to production code rather than
test-only blocks, enforce LeaseWaits, Unknowns, and Transients through the
ledger, and update the exhausted-laps error to use spent() and identify the
bound that was exceeded.
- Around line 710-711: Persist a single main_watch::Poll across land laps
instead of creating one inside land::stale. Create it outside the lap loop, pass
it through run_land_lap to stale, and use poll.etag() when calling
main_watch::read so retries send the cached validator.

In `@crates/batten/src/lib.rs`:
- Around line 5316-5319: Update the LAND_MAX_LAPS parsing near the laps
initialization to reject parsed zero values and fall back to LAPS, matching the
positive-value filtering used by LAND_ANSWER_MAX_UNKNOWNS while preserving valid
positive values.

In `@crates/batten/src/pr_watch.rs`:
- Around line 174-177: Update the poll_floor parsing in parse_response to reject
finite non-negative X-Poll-Interval values above an explicit operational ceiling
before they reach pause or Duration::from_secs_f64. Preserve accepted values at
or below the ceiling, and add tests covering both an over-ceiling value and a
valid capped-boundary value.

In `@crates/batten/src/receipt.rs`:
- Line 1591: In the receipt validation flow around load_statement and validity,
require statement.predicate.check to match the expected check and
statement.predicate.conclusion to equal CONCLUSION_PASS before calling validity;
reject mismatches rather than accepting them as Validity::Valid. Add integration
cases covering both an incorrect check and a non-pass conclusion.
- Around line 1549-1591: Update run_verified to iterate the active
required-check declaration from batten.toml rather than the hard-coded
VERIFIED_BY array, so every declared check is loaded and validated before
reporting success. Preserve the existing validity and exit-code behavior, and
ensure missing or expired receipts for any required check produce the unverified
result.

In `@crates/batten/tests/it/pointer_only.rs`:
- Around line 708-717: Update batten() to remove the ambient LAND_WORKFLOW
variable before running the census harness, then assert that the land
fast-forward corpus produces Usage through run_land_fast_forward.

In `@policy/module-layering.rego`:
- Around line 268-270: Update the forbidden-edge table to reject direct hook and
check imports from both fast_forward and main_watch, covering all four
module-edge pairs. Add policy tests that assert each forbidden direct edge is
blocked, consistent with their forge-spawning adapter classification.

In `@policy/shell-retirement.rego`:
- Around line 389-390: The removed-assignment branch must verify that binding is
the assignment resolved by bats_retired_path_vars(path, gone), not merely any
removed binding with the same assigned_name as variable. Require the removed
binding’s value to match the retired Bats-relative path, and add a regression
test covering removal of an unrelated assignment while retaining the
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crates/batten/src/receipt.rs (1)

1588-1594: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Bind each receipt verified entry to its receipt predicate

run_verified selects each receipt by path, but validity checks only the checkout, HEAD, and origin/main. It does not compare predicate.check with check or require predicate.conclusion == CONCLUSION_PASS. A stored receipt for another check or a non-pass conclusion can therefore make receipt verified exit successfully. Validate both fields for every VERIFIED_BY entry.

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In `@crates/batten/src/receipt.rs` around lines 1588 - 1594, Update run_verified
so each loaded receipt is accepted only when its predicate.check matches the
current VERIFIED_BY entry and predicate.conclusion equals CONCLUSION_PASS, in
addition to the existing validity check; record any mismatch as unverified.

mise.toml (1)

3160-3160: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Run each shim against the checkout binary.

These shims resolve batten through PATH. Only test:bats prepends target/debug to PATH; mise run land reaches singleton and task-registry before that task runs. A clean checkout can therefore fail with batten: command not found, or use an unrelated installed binary. Invoke the binary with cargo run --quiet -p batten -- … in all three shims, or set the checkout path for every caller.

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In `@mise.toml` at line 3160, Update the translate shim and the other two related
shims to invoke the checkout binary via cargo run --quiet -p batten -- rather
than resolving batten through PATH, ensuring clean-checkout tasks use the
repository version consistently.

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crates/batten/src/lib.rs (1)

5602-5606: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

LAND_MAX_LAPS=0 still runs no lap and returns Internal.

The parser accepts zero, so 1..=laps iterates never and the function falls through to the exhausted-laps message with 0 lap(s) bought no landing. Apply the same positive-value filter that LAND_ANSWER_MAX_UNKNOWNS uses at Line 6168.

🐛 Proposed fix

     let laps = std::env::var("LAND_MAX_LAPS")
         .ok()
         .and_then(|declared| declared.parse::<u32>().ok())
+        .filter(|laps| *laps > 0)
         .unwrap_or(LAPS);

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In `@crates/batten/src/lib.rs` around lines 5602 - 5606, Update the LAND_MAX_LAPS
parsing before the 'laps loop to reject zero values using the same
positive-value filter as LAND_ANSWER_MAX_UNKNOWNS, preserving LAPS as the
fallback so the landing flow always has at least one lap.

policy/module-layering.rego (1)

274-277: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Security Misconfiguration (CWE-693)

Reachability: Internal · Exploitability: Theoretical

The stated hook and check refusals are not in the forbidden-edge table.

Both comments claim the edges are "forbidden below for pr_watch's reason". The table at Lines 428-519 lists no target for fast_forward or main_watch, and it carries no row for pr_watch either. So the prose describes a rule that does not exist, and a direct import from hook or check would pass. The hook -> land and check -> land rows cover today's lap route transitively, but this file states its own standard for that case: an edge routable around by one hop is listed rather than left to follow.

Add the four pairs, and add a test per pair.

♻️ Proposed change to the forbidden table

-		"hook": {"fetch", "mcp", "lease", "gitwrite", "land"},
-		"check": {"lease", "gitwrite", "land"},
+		"hook": {"fetch", "mcp", "lease", "gitwrite", "land", "pr_watch", "fast_forward", "main_watch"},
+		"check": {"lease", "gitwrite", "land", "pr_watch", "fast_forward", "main_watch"},

Run the following script to confirm the table's contents and the absence of tests for these edges:

#!/bin/bash
# Description: Check forbidden-edge coverage and tests for the two new modules.
set -eu

rg -n -C 4 '"hook":|"check":|"pr_watch"|"fast_forward"|"main_watch"' policy/module-layering.rego
rg -n '^test_' policy/module-layering.rego
rg -n -C 3 'fast_forward|main_watch' policy/spawn-adapters.rego

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In `@policy/module-layering.rego` around lines 274 - 277, Update the
forbidden-edge table in module-layering.rego to explicitly add the four
hook/check-to-fast_forward/main_watch pairs, then add one policy test for each
pair. Keep the existing transitive lap-route entries unchanged.

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crates/batten/src/lease.rs (1)

2130-2134: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Encode path before building the commits query.

When a configured landing_paths value contains & or #, newest_landing_commit passes a different query to gh api. Encode path, or pass it as a separate GET field.

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In `@crates/batten/src/lease.rs` around lines 2130 - 2134, Update the query
construction in newest_landing_commit so each landing_paths path is URL-encoded
before interpolation into the commits endpoint, preserving configured paths
containing characters such as ampersands or hashes. Alternatively, pass path as
a separate GET field while keeping the existing forge_read request behavior.

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Inline comments:
In `@crates/batten/src/config.rs`:
- Around line 716-717: Validate Lease.landing_paths during deserialization so
every entry is non-empty, causing configurations such as [""] to be rejected
before parse_ungated or newest_landing_commit runs. Reuse the existing
validation mechanism and add focused tests covering empty entries and valid
paths.

In `@crates/batten/src/land.rs`:
- Around line 710-711: Update land::stale to retain the main_watch::Poll across
landing laps, including the transition after Verify, instead of recreating it
for each call. Pass the retained poll’s ETag to main_watch::read rather than
None, while continuing to absorb the response into that poll so unchanged laps
can use conditional requests.

In `@crates/batten/src/lib.rs`:
- Around line 5552-5564: Update the LAND_MAX_LAPS parsing and fallback used by
the lap-driving logic so a configured value of zero is treated as invalid,
falling back to the existing LAPS constant (or rejecting the configuration
explicitly). Ensure valid positive values retain their current behavior and land
lap does not skip all landing iterations.

In `@crates/batten/tests/it/pointer_only.rs`:
- Around line 727-732: Update the pointer-only test setup in run_in to remove
LAND_WORKFLOW via env_remove before executing the land fast-forward case,
ensuring it consistently exercises the unconfigured Usage path rather than
fast_forward::open_pull_request.

In `@policy/shell-retirement.rego`:
- Around line 389-390: Update the binding selection in the relevant policy rule
so the selected binding itself resolves to gone before applying the
Bats-relative path check. Keep the variable-name match, but do not rely solely
on bats_retired_path_vars, which may select an unrelated removed assignment.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@crates/batten/src/receipt.rs`:
- Around line 1588-1594: Update run_verified so each loaded receipt is accepted
only when its predicate.check matches the current VERIFIED_BY entry and
predicate.conclusion equals CONCLUSION_PASS, in addition to the existing
validity check; record any mismatch as unverified.

In `@mise.toml`:
- Line 3160: Update the translate shim and the other two related shims to invoke
the checkout binary via cargo run --quiet -p batten -- rather than resolving
batten through PATH, ensuring clean-checkout tasks use the repository version
consistently.

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Duplicate comments:
In `@crates/batten/src/lib.rs`:
- Around line 5602-5606: Update the LAND_MAX_LAPS parsing before the 'laps loop
to reject zero values using the same positive-value filter as
LAND_ANSWER_MAX_UNKNOWNS, preserving LAPS as the fallback so the landing flow
always has at least one lap.

In `@policy/module-layering.rego`:
- Around line 274-277: Update the forbidden-edge table in module-layering.rego
to explicitly add the four hook/check-to-fast_forward/main_watch pairs, then add
one policy test for each pair. Keep the existing transitive lap-route entries
unchanged.

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- Around line 2130-2134: Update the query construction in newest_landing_commit
so each landing_paths path is URL-encoded before interpolation into the commits
endpoint, preserving configured paths containing characters such as ampersands
or hashes. Alternatively, pass path as a separate GET field while keeping the
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crates/batten/src/lease.rs (2)

2230-2230: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Encode path before passing it to gh api.

newest_landing_commit inserts each configured path into the raw query string. A path containing &, #, or an invalid % escape can alter or invalidate the path parameter. Use gh api --method GET with query-field arguments, or percent-encode path.

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In `@crates/batten/src/lease.rs` at line 2230, Update newest_landing_commit so the
configured path is safely encoded before being sent to gh api, preferably by
using GET query-field arguments instead of interpolating it into the raw URL.
Preserve the existing repository, trunk, path, and per-page query values while
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2253-2253: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Select the topologically newest landing commit before calling head_carries.

The GitHub commits endpoint returns the newest matching commit first, so rows.first() with per_page=1 does not select the oldest commit. However, newest_landing_commit compares mutable commit.committer.date values across paths. An older trunk commit can therefore win, and carries may report Current for a head that lacks a later landing commit. Select the candidate by trunk ancestry and add a regression test with inverted committer dates.

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In `@crates/batten/src/lease.rs` at line 2253, Update newest_landing_commit to
select the topologically newest landing commit from trunk ancestry before
invoking head_carries, rather than relying on the GitHub response order or
mutable committer.date values. Preserve the existing carries behavior and add a
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later landing commit is not reported as Current.

policy/shell-retirement.rego (1)

2297-2301: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Join the Bats variable with its removed binding.

bats_retired_path_vars derives GATE from the surviving GATE="$BATS_TEST_DIRNAME/../mise-tasks/old-gate.sh" assignment, while admitted_removal only requires any removed assignment with the same name. Removing GATE="$GATE" and run "$GATE" can therefore satisfy every removal check while the retired binding remains. Require the same removed binding to contain the anchored retired-path value, and add this duplicate-name regression case.

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- Line 2230: Update newest_landing_commit so the configured path is safely
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arguments instead of interpolating it into the raw URL. Preserve the existing
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- Line 2253: Update newest_landing_commit to select the topologically newest
landing commit from trunk ancestry before invoking head_carries, rather than
relying on the GitHub response order or mutable committer.date values. Preserve
the existing carries behavior and add a regression test using inverted committer
dates to verify a head without the later landing commit is not reported as
Current.

In `@policy/shell-retirement.rego`:
- Around line 2297-2301: Update admitted_removal to require the removed
assignment for each variable to include the same anchored retired-path value
derived by bats_retired_path_vars, rather than matching only the variable name.
Add a duplicate-name regression case covering a surviving GATE path binding
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In @.github/workflows/commit-lint.yml:
- Around line 106-107: Update the pre-checkout lease guard flow in
commit-lint.yml and all four invocations in rust.yml so trusted trunk
batten.toml configuration is loaded into an isolated temporary root before
batten lease guard runs. Ensure run_lease/config::load receives the explicit
trusted configuration path, or pass trusted lease.landing_paths directly; do not
read configuration from the pull-request checkout or discard
configuration-loading errors.

In `@batten.toml`:
- Line 7037: Add crates/batten/src/fast_forward.rs to the tracked landing paths
alongside crates/batten/src/land.rs, and audit the directly dependent
landing-protocol modules to ensure changes affecting land fast-forward
invalidate lease carries freshness.

In `@install.sh`:
- Around line 314-316: Ensure the release selected by
BATTEN_VERSION_FROM_REF=main includes the lease guard command before relying on
it in workflows; either publish the pending version or pin to an existing
release containing lease guard. Preserve the existing lease precondition and do
not allow workflows to silently bypass it through the current failure
suppression.

In `@policy/ci-parity.rego`:
- Around line 491-498: Update lease_invocations and lease_tolerant so each lease
guard invocation is paired with a "$LEASE_RUN_ID" || exit 0 tolerance within the
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Read land.rs in full and run_land_lap at head eba065cc. Context this thread may not have: I arrived from "should the landing orchestration move into core at all", surveyed the Rust workflow ecosystem for it, and the two findings below are what survived. Line numbers are at eba065cc so you can check rather than take my word.

The primitive half is right and I would not touch it. 23 functions with explicit params and typed outcomes, no driver in the file — the header's "owns the git and record work" is accurate. And Step 0 is the best thing here: driving the dead verbs found batten land verify broken on every invocation in every clone, with LAND_VERIFY=true and false producing byte-identical output.

1. The lap never compensates, and the primitives to do it are already in the file

The compensation cluster is built, unit-tested, and has no entry point:

• land.rs:1372 redraft — 0 call sites.
• land.rs:1230 abandon — calls spending (:1240) and worthless (:1243), and is itself called by nothing in land.rs or lib.rs.
• land.rs:1284 closes_the_tap — 8 call sites, all at 2109–2169, i.e. entirely inside #[cfg(test)] mod tests which starts at :1601.
• rerun_failed, draft_state, failed_runs — likewise no production caller.

Progress is {Proceed, Lap, Stop, Landed} — no compensating variant — and the driver's stop, lib.rs:5648, is:

land::Progress::Stop => return Ok(code),

Step::Ready's own doc is what makes that expensive: "where a lap stops being free: readying is what starts CI, so it is the one site that buys a matrix." A lap that readies and then stops at Push, Wait or FastForward returns with the PR ready and CI running, while redraft — "CI skips drafts, so re-drafting is what stops the next push — from any source" — sits uncalled in the same file. land.sh compensates at :229; this returns. Your still-to-come list has "forge/race bookkeeping", so I read this as known and unwired rather than missed.

When you wire it, the compensation must be a durable external write, not an in-process unwind. This is the part I most wanted to arrive before the code does, because the obvious implementation is wrong here. A saga-style compensation stack unwound in the same process does not run when the container is killed — land.sh:353 already records exactly that: "a trap runs on the container kill too." The compensations that survive are the ones landing outside the process: a lease tombstone (land-lock.sh:286 mints one at lifetime 0), a PR re-draft on the forge. The lease's expires is the same idea already done right — a compensation needing no live process to perform it.

Alternatives I checked and would not reach for, so nobody re-derives them: cano (0.15.2, ~8.8k downloads, one maintainer) has sagas with compensation, but the stack is in-process — the disqualifier above. temporalio-sdk reached 1.0.0 and is genuinely mature, but it is server-backed, and a completion gate should not need a server running to decide whether a branch landed. The model worth borrowing is statig's (4.6M downloads): entry/exit actions, where a state's exit action is its compensation, paired with the state by the type system instead of scattered across the driver. The pairing is the idea; the crate is optional.

2. Wiring it is blocked by the same thing that hardcodes the composition

Progress::Stop is one global arm, so there is nowhere to say what unwinds. Compensation is inherently per-step — readying is undone by re-drafting, a held lease by a tombstone, a speculative bet by an abandon. Giving each step its own arms is a declared step list. Which lib.rs:5593 currently is not:

for step in [
    land::Step::Replay,
    land::Step::Verify,
    land::Step::Ready,
    land::Step::Push,
    land::Step::Wait,
    land::Step::FastForward,
] {
    let code = match step {
        land::Step::Replay => run_land_replay(root, url, reference, branch, out)?,
        …

An array literal with compile-time step→function binding: a consumer cannot add, remove, reorder or re-implement a step, and cannot supply their own FastForward for a forge without our bot. body_gates parameterises the contents of Ready — "Both the runner and the task names are the CONSUMER's" — and does not reach the pipeline. So this PR's opening line, "4,698 lines of Button-specific landing policy a consumer inherits and cannot tailor", still describes the successor; and a shell script can at least be forked where a match arm needs a release.

The shortage already shows. At lib.rs:5615, sixteen lines below the comment promising that policy "cannot land in four ifs out of five", there is a Progress::Proceed if step == land::Step::Verify staleness probe. I don't read that as carelessness — (step, code) → progress has no per-step room, so the first thing that needed it leaked into the driver. GH_REPO with pr_watch::REPO_PLACEHOLDER and a bare LAND_MAX_LAPS read sit beside it.

Suggestion

Engine keeps the primitives (land.rs unchanged), the Step/Progress/ExitCode/Readied vocabulary, and a driver that walks a declared list. A step entry names its primitive, its disposition arms, an optional pre-check (absorbing the step == Verify probe natively rather than as an exception), and a compensate naming a durable external undo.

Then let the schema carry the invariant, which is what makes a preset robust rather than merely configurable: an effectful step positioned before the commit point must declare a compensation, and FastForward is the commit point — irreversible by definition, which is exactly why everything before it needs one. A composition that spends and then abandons fails to load instead of failing in production. That is raise-only in the same spirit as deny-only rego: a consumer may compose any pipeline, but not one that leaks spend. It would also catch CLOUD-1306's shape at load — "unwinds a LOST bet but has no arm for a POISONED one" is an incomplete outcome set, which a totality check refuses.

landing-loop already ships this loop's invariants as 5 modules / 1,015 lines. Button's composition ships beside them as that preset's default, so an adopter amends it and has a working loop on day one, and tailors one step without forking the engine.

Pkl rather than more batten.toml, for three reasons that aren't stylistic: its type refinement can make the dangerous cells unwritable — pin Usage → Stop so nobody remaps a clean stop into the CLOUD-235 hang, and require compensate on effectful steps — where free-form TOML would hand consumers those footguns; amends is an override model rather than a fork; and it is a separate typed surface, so §8's narrow-config authority isn't widened. It is already pinned at mise.toml:138, already amends-ing at hk.pkl:14, and already evaluated as a gate at mise.toml:772 — and pklr gives a pure-Rust evaluator if shelling to pkl is unwanted.

Net effect is a smaller core: primitives plus a list-walker, instead of primitives plus a pipeline plus a global disposition match plus step-keyed exceptions.

Why now rather than as a follow-up. The deletion isn't in this diff and Step has no callers outside this branch, so the composition has no dependents yet. Afterwards it has callers and the bash it was derived from is gone.

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crates/batten/src/rest.rs (1)

266-266: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

The fixture path reads a narrower backoff than the wire path.

backoff_from resolves backoff from Retry-After, and otherwise from X-RateLimit-Reset once X-RateLimit-Remaining is 0. canned reads only retry-after. A fixture that states the rate-limit headers therefore yields backoff: None, so a case asserting rate-limit backoff passes without exercising the behaviour. This module's header names that class: two readings of one header block.

Share one reader between the two paths. backoff_from already takes now, and exchange already resolves it, so from_fixture can build a fetch::Response from the parsed head and call the same function.

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crates/batten/src/pr_watch.rs (1)

466-473: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Remove or consolidate pr_watch::request.

No workspace Rust code calls request. It independently builds the same check-runs endpoint and If-None-Match argument that read now handles. Remove it if it is not an external API, or derive both paths from one shared helper.

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constructing and fetching the check-runs endpoint with the etag argument; only
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.github/workflows/rust.yml (1)

89-93: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

The rewritten precondition comment leaves a sentence with no subject. Each block now says the step runs batten lease guard, then keeps the script-era clause "An unreadable body runs — fail open, which is the whole posture". There is no fetched body any more, so the sentence names something the step no longer has and reads as the opposite of the fail-open rule it is trying to state. Restate the clause over what now fails open: a binary that will not download, a policy that will not fetch, or a guard that will not run.

• .github/workflows/rust.yml#L89-L93: replace the "An unreadable body runs" clause with the download, policy-fetch, and execution cases the || exit 0 lines cover.
• .github/workflows/rust.yml#L197-L201: apply the same wording as the cross job.
• .github/workflows/rust.yml#L287-L291: apply the same wording as the cross job.
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cannot download, a policy that cannot fetch, and a guard that cannot run; remove
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In @.github/workflows/rust.yml:
- Around line 121-125: Update the workflow’s installer selection around
BATTEN_VERSION_FROM_REF and BATTEN_REQUIRE so it uses a published installer and
binary that support the lease guard contract; otherwise defer enabling this
precondition. Ensure the subsequent batten lease guard check cannot be silently
passed by an installer that ignores these variables.

In @.github/workflows/test.yml:
- Around line 129-133: Update the Windows workflow leg so it does not run the
Unix-only install.sh path: either use a Windows-compatible installer and invoke
the resulting .exe for the “lease guard” check, or remove this installer-based
check from Windows; do not retain failure handling that exits successfully while
skipping the validation.

In `@batten.toml`:
- Around line 6325-6333: The delta_sources and line_sources Rust patterns only
match files directly under crates/batten/src; update both entries to use the
recursive crates/batten/src/**/*.rs glob so nested Rust modules are included.

In `@crates/batten/src/fast_forward.rs`:
- Line 80: Update the open_pull_request call chain in fast_forward.rs to pass
the PR head owner and construct GitHub’s head filter as owner:branch, preserving
correct behavior for pull requests originating from forks so fast-forward
requests can be found.

In `@crates/batten/src/land.rs`:
- Around line 1190-1199: Update the scan-line classification in the function
containing the verdict/nonverdict iterator so it returns None when any line
starts with neither "verdict" nor "nonverdict"; retain Some with the collected
nonverdict lines only when every record has a recognized prefix.

In `@crates/batten/src/lease.rs`:
- Line 1562: Update the branch normalization in lands_by_fast_forward to remove
only one leading refs/heads/ prefix, preserving repeated prefixes via
strip_prefix with the original branch as fallback. Add a nested-ref test
covering refs/heads/refs/heads/lane/x so it does not match the configured lane/
exemption.

In `@crates/batten/src/pr_watch.rs`:
- Line 176: Update the interval clamp in the floor-selection logic to cap the
raised floor at a value no lower than configured, preserving the invariant that
Config::interval is never reduced even when configured exceeds MAX_FLOOR. Add a
regression test alongside the existing ceiling test using configured 600 and
floor Some(700.0), asserting an interval of 600.0.

In `@crates/batten/tests/it/receipt_verified.rs`:
- Around line 226-228: Update the temporary fixture path in the receipt
verification test to use the existing common::scratch/in_lane helper, or
otherwise append both BATTEN_TEST_SCRATCH_LANE and the process id, so concurrent
runs never share or delete the same directory.

In `@mise.toml`:
- Line 3080: Update the catch-all exit-status handling in the shim so engine
exit code 3 is translated to legacy exit code 2, while preserving the existing
behavior for all other return codes.

In `@policy/spawn-widening.rego`:
- Around line 228-231: Add the missing clippy-test-idiom pattern to the
vocabulary used by the escapes tests, then extend the test coverage to verify
#[allow(clippy::expect_used)] under crates/batten/src/ is treated as the
engine-source exemption. Preserve the existing test behavior and pattern
conventions.

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Nitpick comments:
In @.github/workflows/rust.yml:
- Around line 89-93: Rewrite the fail-open clause in the workflow guard comments
so it explicitly covers a binary that cannot download, a policy that cannot
fetch, and a guard that cannot run; remove the obsolete “unreadable body runs”
wording. Apply identical wording at .github/workflows/rust.yml lines 89-93,
197-201, and 287-291, .github/workflows/test.yml lines 90-94, and
.github/workflows/zizmor.yml lines 85-89.

In `@crates/batten/src/pr_watch.rs`:
- Around line 466-473: Remove the unused pr_watch::request function and retain
read as the single implementation for constructing and fetching the check-runs
endpoint with the etag argument; only introduce a shared helper if request is
required as an external API.

In `@crates/batten/src/rest.rs`:
- Line 266: Update canned/from_fixture backoff parsing to reuse the existing
backoff_from reader instead of reading only retry-after. Build the
fetch::Response from the parsed fixture head and pass the already-resolved now
value, preserving the same Retry-After and exhausted X-RateLimit-Reset behavior
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- Around line 788-794: Update the pipeline.rs memory entry to accurately reflect
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compensation entry points, durable unwinding, and load-time validation instead
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compatibility with persisted or cast values.

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before any bare batten command runs, while preserving the existing test path.

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In the context of the mise-en-place (mise) developer tool, the configuration key _.path is used within a mise.toml file to prepend specific directories to the PATH environment variable for a project [1][2]. By adding this key to the [env] section of your configuration, mise automatically adds the specified directory to the front of your PATH whenever the project is activated [2][3]. Example configuration: [env] _.path = "./node_modules/.bin" In this example, the./node_modules/.bin directory is prepended to the existing PATH [2]. You can also use template variables, such as {{config_root}}, to specify paths relative to your configuration file, ensuring the path remains valid even when navigating into subdirectories [2][3]. Because mise modifies the PATH dynamically (based on your current directory or shell prompt), these changes are applied automatically, allowing local project tools to take precedence over system-wide installations [4][5].

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• 3: http://mise.jdx.dev/mise-cookbook/nodejs.html
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Do not allow an installed batten binary as fallback.

If target/release/batten is absent, _.path prepends that directory but preserves the existing PATH. Bare batten commands in the checks and task commands can then resolve to an installed binary and evaluate this checkout with a stale schema. Require the checkout binary explicitly, or fail before invoking bare batten.

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In `@mise.toml` at line 358, Update the _.path configuration so batten resolution
cannot fall back to an installed binary when target/release/batten is absent;
require the checkout’s target/release/batten explicitly or validate its
existence and fail before any bare batten command runs, while preserving the
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Correct, and it is stated at the site — mise.toml:357-369. An earlier revision of that comment claimed a clean checkout "still fails loudly with batten: command not found"; that was false for exactly the reason you give, _.path prepends, and the comment now says so.

The compensating control is provisioning rather than resolution: [tasks."session:batten"] runs install:local, which builds the release binary at session start and reports an ::error:: with a log pointer when it cannot. So an ordinary session has the tree's own binary before any task runs, and a session that does not has already said so out loud.

Making the fallback itself refuse needs a mechanism _.path has no spelling for — mise offers no way to require a path entry to resolve — so this is a stated gap, not a fix I am declining to make. If you know of a spelling that pins it, that would be worth a row.

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@wenzowski, I verified the mise documentation. env._.path supports path prepending only. It has no documented option to require an executable in that directory or to remove later PATH entries.

The session provisioning control reduces exposure. It does not prevent stale-binary resolution when target/release/batten is absent. The finding therefore remains valid as a stated limitation.

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1332-1337: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Validate lease override bounds before using them.

LAND_LOCK_TTL and LAND_LOCK_HEARTBEAT accept independent positive values. A TTL shorter than the required three heartbeat beats removes the missed-heartbeat safety window. A very large TTL can also overflow now + terms.ttl in claim and renewal.

Reject invalid override combinations before returning Terms. Add cases for ttl < 3 * beat and a maximum TTL value. Otherwise, a lease can appear expired while its holder continues landing, and a rival can acquire it.

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In `@crates/batten/src/lease.rs` around lines 1332 - 1337, Validate the resolved
lease overrides before returning Terms: reject configurations where ttl is less
than three times beat and where ttl exceeds the maximum safe value used by claim
and renewal’s now + terms.ttl arithmetic. Apply this after LAND_LOCK_TTL and
LAND_LOCK_HEARTBEAT overrides are resolved, preserving valid independent
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In `@crates/batten/src/lease.rs`:
- Around line 1332-1337: Validate the resolved lease overrides before returning
Terms: reject configurations where ttl is less than three times beat and where
ttl exceeds the maximum safe value used by claim and renewal’s now + terms.ttl
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Review round closed in e8cc90ed. Nineteen findings: sixteen fixed, three answered below.

Four broke the lap outright, and three of them share one root — a spawn moved in-process inherits the caller's substitutions and the caller's status reading, or it inherits neither:

• run_land_fast_forward sent the literal {owner}/{repo}. That is the forge client's substitution, performed in the process that no longer runs, so the braces reached the endpoint, it answered 404, and every land fast-forward — the lap's commit point included — stopped with "no open pull request". Reads GH_REPO now, like the six sibling sites that always did.
• open_pull_request filtered head=<branch> where the forge documents user:ref-name and silently ignores anything else, returning the newest open PR of any branch. head=<owner>:<branch> now.
• head_verdict never read the status. A 401/403/5xx is a completed exchange carrying an error document, so rest::get answers Some, the body does not parse as a run array, decide says unregistered and buys_a_matrix says Refire — one forge blip re-drafting and re-readying the PR, cancelling the matrix that arm exists to protect. rest::Answer::is_reading is now the one spelling of which statuses are answers.
• The driver recorded an effectful step as entered on success alone. Right for Ready; inverted for Wait, which answers success only when green — so red, stale and unanswered, the three outcomes where runs keep billing against a head nothing will land, recorded nothing, and Compensation::Abandon ran only after a green wait. The reason now hangs off the compensation (owed_on_attempt, a match, so a new arm is a compile error) and is read through StepRow::entered; a step == Wait arm in the loop would be the step == Verify exception pipeline exists to have removed.

crates/batten/tests/it/land_forge_reads.rs is the tier the first two needed. The defect lives in the bytes of the request, and a malformed request comes back 404, which every caller in this family reads as could-not-look and survives quietly — so the exit code is identical either way and only the fixture's recorded URL tells them apart. Seeded to prove it fails: both cases redden with repos/{owner}/{repo}/pulls?head={owner}:topic.

Three answered rather than applied:

1. .github/workflows/rust.yml#L121-L125 — the guard can indeed be passed by an installer that ignores BATTEN_REQUIRE, and it is today: that variable is added by this branch, and the step fetches install.sh from main. That is a bootstrap window, not a defect with a fix available inside this PR — no published release carries lease guard either. What was missing was that the vacuity was unstated, so the corrected comment now says it in all seven copies: until this change is trunk's, the step is vacuous by construction rather than by accident. Making it attributable at runtime (an ::warning:: beside each || exit 0) is the right mechanism and belongs with the composite-action dedup that owns these seven duplicated blocks, filed and deliberately withdrawn from this PR as a two-merge sequence.
2. mise.toml#L358 — a hard failure has no spelling in _.path, which prepends and cannot refuse. The comment claimed a clean checkout "still fails loudly", which was false; it now states the gap and names the compensating control ([tasks."session:batten"] builds the release binary at session start and reports an ::error:: with a log pointer when it cannot).
3. .github/workflows/test.yml#L129-L133 — applied, but only the honest half: the Windows leg is now skipped rather than reporting green having installed nothing. A Windows-capable installer is detect_target's own contract and is tracked separately; the comment says so beside the condition.

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Review of head 9d68aca, ten finder angles, every candidate below re-verified against the code by a second pass; rejected candidates are omitted.

Blocking: mise run land cannot land anything as shipped. Six confirmed findings compose into that one outcome. The lap's env contract (LAND_VERIFY / LAND_WORKFLOW / GH_REPO) is undeclared anywhere the consumer runs it; the lap never acquires the landing lease, so red-CI redraft is structurally dead and fleet serialisation is gone; fast_forward::answer is a single read with no poll, so every lap posts a new /fast-forward comment and cancels its own green matrix; the absent-ok roster reads CI_ABSENT_OK where the consumer declares CI_ABSENT_OK_CHECKS; the REST tier is unauthenticated on a gh auth login workstation; and the CI lease guard is green-with-no-guard until a release carries lease guard. Inline comments carry the file:line and the reproduction for each.

Confirmed, correctness: unwind_the_bet passes a short branch name to set_ref; both Poll::absorbs overwrite readings on error status and Answer::backoff has no consumer; land::verify maps a task-not-found exit to Refusal::Tree; body-gate refusals arrive with empty detail because stderr is nulled; no beat < ttl check on lease terms; split_whitespace() argv decoding; two rule-1 grep hits for the consumer's name in crates/batten.

Plausible, lower confidence, not commented inline: local-clock since fence vs forge created_at skew (fast_forward.rs ~277); empty main_now settles a bet as Lost (lib.rs ~6161); tracking_ref hardcodes origin and takes the leaf, re-derived inline twice; empty PR body skips every body gate (land.rs ~1121); head_carries unencoded and status-blind; ci-task-parity substring match; tests/tree-clean.bats admitted only by an arm this PR adds to shell-retirement.rego.

Efficiency, unverified: a fresh tokio runtime, TLS config and handshake per rest::get inside a 1s poll loop; open_pull_request re-issued 3 to 5 times per lap for a constant; 14 CI jobs each installing the binary and issuing ~12 forge calls for one shared answer.

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Confirmed: mise run land cannot complete as shipped. [tasks.land] (mise.toml:3158) runs batten land lap main, but nothing in mise.toml [env], batten.toml, or the workflows declares LAND_VERIFY, LAND_WORKFLOW, or GH_REPO; only the tests inject them.

Order of failure on a real run: run_land_entry_gates fires first (LAND_ENTRY_GATES is declared) and calls open_pull_request with the literal pr_watch::REPO_PLACEHOLDER ({owner}/{repo}), which rest::exchange sends verbatim, so it exits 3 with "no open pull request … will resolve". With GH_REPO exported by hand, this line returns Usage on the empty LAND_VERIFY and land::progress maps (_, Usage) => Stop. With that set too, run_land_fast_forward (~6474) does the same on LAND_WORKFLOW.

The predecessor defaulted LAND_WORKFLOW:-fast-forward.yml, ran mise run verify directly, and resolved the repo through gh api. tests/it/land_forge_reads.rs:62-84 documents the placeholder leak and fixes it by reading GH_REPO, which the consumer never sets.

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Confirmed: the lap never acquires the landing lease, so Compensation::Redraft is structurally dead. No pipeline step calls run_lease_acquire / hold / release; the only callers are the batten lease CLI dispatch and lease_hand_back here in unwind_lap. land::push is a receive-pack CAS on the branch ref, not the landing lease.

So mine computed here is always false under mise run land, Tap { singleton_held: mine } at ~6069 is false, and land::closes_the_tap returns before land::redraft is reached. After Waited::Red the PR stays ready and every later push spends a matrix on the unfixed failure, which is the outcome the header at 5940-5960 says this function exists to prevent. Fleet serialisation (the predecessor's land-lock acquire before ready, hold heartbeat, held check before /fast-forward) is also gone, so the speculation path can never find a holder.

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Confirmed: fast_forward::answer is read once, immediately after ask, with no poll. answer (fast_forward.rs:245-271) loops over pages only. The bot takes ~23s to create the run, so the first read is Pending, which maps to Internal, which land::progress maps to Lap for FastForward. Each lap then runs unwind_lap (Abandon cancels this head's own green runs), replays, re-verifies, re-readies, re-pushes, re-waits, and posts a second /fast-forward comment while the first run may be merging. With LAPS = 2 the landing exits 3 after two comments.

The doc at ~6455 says "3 no answer yet, which is the state the loop exists to sit in", but no loop sits in it; the only polling loop in the lap belongs to Step::Wait. pr_watch::pause already provides the pause/backoff to reuse.

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Confirmed: the REST tier runs unauthenticated on a workstation that logged in via gh auth login. credential() reads only GH_TOKEN / GITHUB_TOKEN, and mise.toml:589 rewrites GH_TOKEN to '' unless GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN or MISE_GITHUB_TOKEN is set. The gh the predecessor spawned fell back to its keyring; nothing here does (no gh auth token fallback).

Consequence: on a private repo every read 404s, open_pull_request returns None, and lib.rs ~6060/6495/7189/7298 all report "no open pull request for {branch}", which is a could-not-look presented as a fact about the branch. On a public repo the 60/hr unauthenticated limit is gone within a minute at a 1s poll interval.

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Confirmed: the lease guard is green-with-no-guard until a release carries lease guard. BATTEN_VERSION_FROM_REF=main resolves to v0.0.142, whose LeaseCommand has no guard verb; install.sh:508-510 dies on BATTEN_REQUIRE="lease guard", and || exit 0 swallows it, so the batten lease guard line never runs. Same block in rust.yml and test.yml (14 jobs). The comment at 135-136 concedes it is "vacuous by construction". So between merge and the next release, an unauthorised branch spends the full matrix, which is the spend CLOUD-420 exists to refuse.

Also: head_carries / forge_read (lease.rs ~2437, ~2573) discard HTTP status and interpolate wanted/head unencoded, so a misconfigured token or placeholder repo reads as Carries::Unknown → Run rather than naming the misconfiguration.

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Confirmed: every non-zero exit of the verify command becomes Refusal::Tree unless a [[verify_environment_pattern]] matches the output; the exit code itself is never inspected. Ok((0, _)) is Clean, Ok((_, found)) is Refused, and Err only covers a boundary that could not start the program. A renamed mise task ("task not found", exit non-zero) is therefore recorded as verify refused <sha> and the driver prints the "this tree is SPECULATIVE… the failure may not be yours" advice (lib.rs ~6699) as if the gate had judged the tree. Body gates already refuse this class as Readied::Unrunnable (land.rs:1094-1100); verify should distinguish it the same way, or at least honour the 0/1/2/3 contract.

Related, lower confidence: ready returns Clear on an empty body (land.rs:1121) before any body gate runs, and the driver feeds it unwrap_or_default(), so a failed fetch and a genuinely empty body both bypass closing-key-check.

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[wenzowski]

Confirmed: LAND_LOCK_TTL and LAND_LOCK_HEARTBEAT are accepted independently with no beat < ttl check. env_secs filters only > 0. The field docs say "the TTL is three beats wide on purpose" but nothing enforces it, and every consumer of terms.beat / terms.ttl (~1800, 1807, 1909, 1915, 2058) assumes the relation. With HEARTBEAT=120 TTL=30 the lease is expired for 90s of every beat, body.expired(now) && held_for >= terms.beat lets a waiter take a lease whose holder is alive, and two landers run concurrently.

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[wenzowski]

Rule 1 grep hit. grep -rn Button crates/batten returns this line and crates/batten/tests/it/land_lap.rs:5 ("Button-specific landing policy"); origin/main returns zero. Both are prose, so "consumer-specific" fixes each.

Also on conventions: LAND_VERIFY (lib.rs ~6649) and body_gates (land.rs ~1064) build argv with split_whitespace() and no quoting, so an argument containing a space is unexpressible and fails silently at the gate rather than at load.

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[wenzowski]

Rule 1 hit confirmed and fixed. Both are prose and both now read "consumer-specific": crates/batten/src/pipeline.rs:9 and crates/batten/tests/it/land_lap.rs:5. A grep for the name over crates/batten returns zero.

Worth naming what let it through: document_facts::no_artifact_name_reaches_the_core is the gate for rule 1, and it did not catch either of these — so the grep you ran is currently a stronger instrument than the mechanism, which is its own finding. I have not widened the gate in this change; that is a separate row rather than something to fold into a review round.

On the argv half — LAND_VERIFY and body_gates splitting on whitespace with no quoting — you are right and I have not fixed it. An argument containing a space is unexpressible, and it fails at the gate rather than at load, which is the silent direction. Leaving this thread open: the fix is a real parse rather than a split, and the module already has an authority for that question (hook::segments), so the right shape is to reuse it rather than to grow a second one inline.

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[wenzowski]

Confirmed: wrong variable name in run_land_wait (~7431) and head_verdict (~7363). Both read CI_ABSENT_OK, but the only declared variable is CI_ABSENT_OK_CHECKS (mise.toml:483), which the retired path reached through mise run checks-green --absent-ok "${CI_ABSENT_OK_CHECKS:-}". Nothing in the tree exports CI_ABSENT_OK.

With an empty roster, every required check a path filter skips (cross, windows, darwin-link, semver, the action-* matrix) is counted as unregistered (checks_green.rs:263-269), decide returns Pending::Unregistered forever, the green arm of land::wait never resolves, and buys_a_matrix reads Unregistered as Refire and re-readies the PR.

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[wenzowski]

Confirmed: body-gate refusals arrive with an empty detail (piped_through, ~1578). The spawn nulls stderr and returns stdout only, but both consumer gates write every refusal reason to stderr (deferral-check.sh:121, :166; closing-key-check.sh:272-278, :301-307). land::ready builds Readied::Refused { detail: output.trim() } from stdout, and lib.rs ~7138 skips the detail line when empty, so the operator sees mise refused this pull request's body with no coordinate. gate is also argv.first(), which is mise, not the task. This is the same defect the verify tee: true fix addressed, reintroduced one step over.

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