fix(review): prevent post-burn lineage recreation

[decode2]

🔗 Linked Issue

Closes #3572

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🏷️ PR Type

What kind of change does this PR introduce?

• type:bug — Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue)
• type:feature — New feature (non-breaking change that adds functionality)
• type:docs — Documentation only
• type:refactor — Code refactoring (no functional changes)
• type:chore — Build, CI, or tooling changes
• type:breaking-change — Breaking change (fix or feature that changes existing behavior)

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📝 Summary

• Prevent a late concurrent FINALIZE from recreating compact lineage state after terminal burn.
• Enforce the live-authority check while holding the same maintenance/version lock order used by burn, closing the check/write race without cleanup retries.
• Add a deterministic, opt-in bench axis that holds one real FINALIZE before journal admission, lets the winner burn, and then proves the loser cannot recreate authority.

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📂 Changes

File / Area	What Changed
internal/reviewtransaction/finalize_attempt_journal.go	Refuse finalize-attempt journal creation when compact state is absent under the shared maintenance and version locks.
internal/reviewtransaction/finalize_attempt_journal_test.go	Add a deterministic post-burn regression test.
internal/reviewtransaction/bench_fixture.go	Add a fixture-only FINALIZE admission barrier for the real subprocess schedule.
bench/axis_terminal_burn.go	Drive winner and held contender through the real CLI, validate negotiated loser fields, and assert complete terminal residue absence.
bench/axis_terminal_burn_test.go	Freeze the axis's opt-in, non-black-box declaration.

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Tool/model (if known): Pi with OpenAI Codex GPT-5.6 Luna and GPT-5.6 Sol.

Material scope: Root-cause mapping, implementation, deterministic concurrency test/bench design, and validation command execution.

Verification performed: Every changed line and the lock ordering were independently audited. Focused race, package/root tests, vet, formatting, deadcode ratchet, benchmark module checks, driven terminal-burn evidence, and the deterministic cross-lane battery all passed.

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🧪 Test Plan

Strict TDD evidence

• Retrospective RED was reconstructed after the first worker timed out without returning evidence: reversing only the production guard while retaining the exact test/hook caused the focused test to fail and the driven axis to report recreated terminal residue.
• Restoring the guard byte-for-byte produced GREEN for both the focused test and the driven axis.

Unit and static validation

go run ./internal/gofmtcheck
go test -race ./internal/reviewtransaction -run '^TestFinalizeAttemptLateAfterBurnCannotRecreateLineage$' -count=1
go test ./internal/reviewtransaction -count=1
go test ./internal/cli -run '^TestConcurrentFinalizeElectsExactlyOneWriter$' -count=25
go test ./...
go vet ./...
./scripts/deadcode-ratchet.sh

All passed.

Benchmark module

cd bench
go build ./...
go vet ./...
go test ./...

All passed.

Driven issue evidence

go build -tags bench_fixture -trimpath -o /tmp/gentle-ai-bench-fixture ./cmd/gentle-ai
cd bench && go build -o /tmp/gentle-ai-bench .
/tmp/gentle-ai-bench run \
  --binary /tmp/gentle-ai-bench-fixture \
  --axis terminal-burn \
  --only tb01-concurrent-finalize-cannot-recreate-burned-lineage

Result: 1 completed, 0 unsupported, 0 failed; 3 real CLI commands. The axis is explicitly opt-in and BlackBox: false; it does not change or claim coverage for the portable corpus.

Cross-lane battery

go build -trimpath -o /tmp/gentle-ai ./cmd/gentle-ai
./scripts/cross-lane-battery.sh --binary /tmp/gentle-ai

Result: 30 checks, 0 failed. Model/host subscription tiers were skipped as designed.

Docker E2E was not run locally; the platform E2E matrix remains pending in CI.

• Unit tests pass (go test ./...)
• Go format passes (go run ./internal/gofmtcheck)
• E2E tests pass (cd e2e && ./docker-test.sh)
• Manually tested locally

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Check	Status	Description
Check PR Cognitive Load	⏳	Exact payload is 370 additions + deletions.
Check Issue Reference	⏳	Body closes approved #3572.
Check Issue Has status:approved	⏳	#3572 is approved.
Check PR Has type:* Label	⏳	type:bug will be the only type label.
Unit Tests	⏳	go test ./... must pass.
Go Format	⏳	go run ./internal/gofmtcheck must pass.
E2E Tests	⏳	Platform matrix pending.

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• Benchmark validation completed, or this change is not applicable to the benchmark (explain why in the Test Plan).
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💬 Notes for Reviewers

The core invariant is the lock order: FINALIZE admission holds shared maintenance and compact v2/LOCK across the live-state check and journal write; terminal burn holds exclusive maintenance and the same v2/LOCK across validation and deletion. A late contender therefore cannot cross the burn boundary and recreate the lineage.

Guard-population review: the new check admits stores whose compact state still exists under both locks and rejects burned/missing authority. It does not alter one of the frozen v2.2.1 registered guard families, so .guard-population-baseline.txt is unchanged.

Please focus review on the StatePath guard, lock ordering, fixture-only barrier isolation, loser classification, and deferred process cleanup.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Prevented late finalization attempts from recreating removed terminal state.
  • Ensured concurrent finalization operations return consistent failure results after a process is completed.
  • Improved cleanup validation so completed operations do not leave residual transaction or staging data.

• Tests

  • Added regression coverage for terminal-state cleanup and failed late-finalization behavior.
  • Added deterministic concurrency testing to verify finalization handling and confirm cleanup integrity.

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Chain Context

Field	Value
Chain	Terminal-burn unblock → dangling managed-config repair
Strategy	Stacked-to-main, preserving existing cross-fork PRs
Tracker PR	Not needed
Position	1 of 2
Base	main
Depends on	None
Follow-up	#3561
Review budget	370 / 400
Starts at	main@fb55ef7b
Ends with	Terminal FINALIZE can no longer recreate burned lineage state

Chain Overview

main
 └── 📍 #3576 terminal-burn convergence
      └── #3561 dangling managed-config Doctor repair

GitHub native stack metadata is unavailable because both existing heads are cross-fork and GitHub does not support cross-fork stacks. The PRs and their review history are intentionally preserved; Alan should integrate them bottom-up in the order above.

Scope

• Includes: fix(review): prevent late finalize from recreating burned lineage #3572 terminal FINALIZE admission/burn convergence and its deterministic bench axis.
• Excludes: bug(doctor): sync remedy is unrunnable for dangling config symlinks #3557 Doctor behavior, which remains isolated in fix(doctor): avoid sync remedy for dangling config symlinks #3561.

Autonomy

• CI passes for this PR branch.
• This PR has one deliverable scope.
• This PR can be rolled back without unrelated changes.
• Tests and driven benchmark evidence cover this unit.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The PR adds a deterministic terminal-burn benchmark for concurrent review finalize, adds a finalize admission barrier, prevents late lineage recreation after authority burn, and validates failure contracts and filesystem cleanup.

Changes

Terminal-burn finalize flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Finalize admission and burned-lineage guard internal/reviewtransaction/bench_fixture.go, internal/reviewtransaction/finalize_attempt_journal.go, internal/reviewtransaction/finalize_attempt_journal_test.go	A bench-only barrier coordinates finalize admission. ReconcileFinalizeAttempt rejects missing compact authority after lock acquisition. The regression test verifies that late finalize does not recreate the lineage.
Concurrent terminal-burn journey bench/axis_terminal_burn.go	The benchmark holds one finalize contender, runs a competing finalize to burn the lineage, releases the contender, and records both observations.
Outcome and residue validation bench/axis_terminal_burn.go, bench/axis_terminal_burn_test.go	The benchmark validates the negotiated failure contract and checks transaction, effect-marker, incident, and staging residue. The test verifies axis registration and fixture configuration.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 693f6

This change prevents late FINALIZE operations from recreating terminal lineage state and includes focused regression coverage; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant TerminalBurnAxis
  participant ContenderFinalize
  participant WinnerFinalize
  participant FinalizeAdmission
  participant ReviewStore
  TerminalBurnAxis->>ContenderFinalize: start finalize with admission barrier
  ContenderFinalize->>FinalizeAdmission: publish readiness and wait
  TerminalBurnAxis->>WinnerFinalize: start competing finalize
  WinnerFinalize->>ReviewStore: approve and burn lineage
  TerminalBurnAxis->>FinalizeAdmission: create release marker
  FinalizeAdmission->>ContenderFinalize: release finalize admission
  ContenderFinalize->>ReviewStore: reconcile after authority burn
  ReviewStore-->>ContenderFinalize: return absent-authority failure

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🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 14.29% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 14 functions across 5 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes address issue #3572 by preventing late lineage recreation and adding deterministic regression and terminal-burn coverage.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The journal fix, regression test, fixture barrier, and benchmark axis directly support the linked issue objectives.
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary fix: preventing lineage recreation after terminal burn.

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Actionable comments posted: 3

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Inline comments:
In `@bench/axis_terminal_burn.go`:
- Line 169: Update the error string returned by the direct FINALIZE observation
path to begin with lowercase “git” instead of “Git”, preserving the rest of the
message.
- Line 115: Update the early-exit error handling in the held FINALIZE contender
path to distinguish a nil err from a non-nil cause; preserve the existing
message for nil and wrap non-nil err with %w so callers can unwrap it.
- Around line 157-161: Strengthen the terminal-burn failure assertions in the
validation condition around terminalBurnLineage: require Code to be
operation_outcome_unknown, AuthorityApplicability to be not_evaluated,
MutationOutcome to be unknown, RetrySafe to be false, Replayability to be
status_required, and NextAction to be review.status. Retain the existing schema,
contract, operation, phase, message, lineage, and required-input checks.

Apply the same fix in `@bench/axis_terminal_burn.go` at line 233: The shared
loser-classification helper has the same overly broad acceptance criteria.

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[decode2]

Correction: this delivery should remain the existing cross-fork Stacked PRs to main chain. No upstream branch promotion or replacement PRs are needed.

#3576 is the bottom slice and can be integrated first. After it lands on main, refresh #3561 and integrate it as the top slice. Both current PRs and their review histories remain authoritative.

[decode2]

@Alan-TheGentleman, #3576 is the final bottom slice of the Stacked PRs to main chain. It is CLEAN, mergeable, and all required checks are green.

Please integrate #3576 first. #3561 remains the focused top slice; once this foundation lands on main, we will refresh and verify #3561 before its integration. No replacement PRs or upstream branch promotion are needed.

[decode2]

Ready for integration at exact head 021976c3b5246ee12163853ef76827b58797fd2d.

• Based on main@51a0d60b7e005df6d4f5bdfd6829867d1264e2b1
• CLEAN, mergeable, 0 behind, 370 changed lines
• Local focused, race, stress, full-suite, static, benchmark, and terminal-burn validation passed
• All required hosted checks passed on this exact head

After #3576 lands, freeze the resulting main SHA before touching #3561. Then refresh #3561 with a non-destructive merge, investigate its current Unit Tests failure, run the full local and hosted exact-head validation, and only then request integration. Evidence from #3576 must not be reused for the new #3561 head.

[Alan-TheGentleman]

Content reviewed and approved in substance: the admission hook plus the burned-lineage journal re-check under the store lock closes the real race in #3572, and proving it with two real FINALIZE subprocesses through the bench_fixture barrier is exactly the right kind of evidence.

Only blocker: the branch conflicts with main, and main's finalize journal moved under the last-causal-event refactor. Rebase, re-verify the absence check still sits inside the locked section in the refactored code, and re-run the terminal-burn journey.

[Alan-TheGentleman]

Correcting my earlier request-changes: this is superseded, not rebase material. Main's 0ed9225 (refactor(review)!: close on the last causal event, closes #3587) removed FINALIZE entirely, including finalize_attempt_journal.go that this PR patches; terminal capture events now own closure and burn, and the recreation-after-burn class is covered by compact_atomic_start_test.go in the new model. The concurrency instinct here was right, the mechanism it guards no longer exists. Closing.