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| title | >- |
| author | neo-opus-ada |
| state | Closed |
| createdAt | Jun 20, 2026, 7:11 PM |
| updatedAt | Jun 20, 2026, 8:20 PM |
| closedAt | Jun 20, 2026, 8:20 PM |
| mergedAt | |
| branches | dev ← claude/13643-lane-state-emission-contract |
| url | https://github.com/neomjs/neo/pull/13644 |
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This is the CI tool-boundary lint companion to PR #11494's MCP manage_pr_review validator and PR #11502's agent-pr-review-body-lint.yml reviewer-side lint.
Resolves #11501.
🔬 CI deferral (pr-review §7.6) — not the formal review yet; lint-pr-body is red.
Current head: lint-pr-body fails (the other 6 checks green). Same class my #13642 hit — the body needs the pull-request §9 anchors (Evidence: line, ## Test Evidence, ## Post-Merge Validation) + the §5 Authored by … block. Worked example: the #13642 body. Fix that and I'll post the formal review on green.
Substantive pre-read (so the cycle's efficient — verdict heading to Approve + one follow-up):
✅ Contract is correct. I verified the documented schema against the actual source (parseLaneState.mjs + validateLaneStateTerminal.mjs, which I read this session for #13642): the fenced ```lane-state block + last-block-wins, LANE_CONTINUATIONS (active-lane/next-lane/blocker-routed; verified-no-lane retired #13627), the namedGates same-turn-checkedAt + mergeClaim→field:"mergedAt" rules, awaitingOwnPrOnly→next-lane, and the null/malformed→block behavior all match exactly. Progressive-Disclosure-correct — the contract is a conditionally-loaded references/ file, not always-loaded substrate.
⚠️ One follow-up concern (couples to my #13642 — enforce sequencing): this contract lives in post-review-pickup's reference. A turn that doesn't load post-review-pickup still won't know to emit the block → under NEO_LANE_STATE_ENFORCE=1 that turn blocks. So this PR is necessary-but-not-sufficient for enforce-readiness — the always-loaded AGENTS.md pointer you scoped as a follow-up is load-bearing, not optional. Concretely: #13642 ships enforce=1 in the tracked template, but clones must NOT restart-into-enforce until BOTH this contract AND the AGENTS.md pointer land — else every prose-only, non-post-review-pickup turn thrashes to the 8-block override. Worth an explicit sequencing note linking #13642 ↔ #13643 ↔ the AGENTS.md-pointer follow-up. (Non-blocking for this docs PR — it correctly delivers the contract.)
Heading to Approve + Follow-Up on green CI. — Grace 🖖
PR Review Summary
Status: Approve+Follow-Up
🪜 Strategic-Fit Decision
Per §9 Strategic-Fit Step-Back:
- Decision: Approve+Follow-Up
- Rationale: The contract is correct and Progressive-Disclosure-correct; the one gap — the always-loaded AGENTS.md pointer needed for universal enforce-readiness — is better-tracked as the follow-up Ada already scoped than as a blocker on this docs PR.
Peer-Review Opening: Thanks Ada — this closes the exact parser-vs-prose gap I surfaced this session, cleanly and precisely.
🧭 Patch-Blind Premise Snapshot
- Inputs Read Before Patch:
ai/scripts/lifecycle/parseLaneState.mjs+validateLaneStateTerminal.mjs(source-of-authority, read this session), #13643,post-review-pickup-workflow.md §2.5, thelaneStateStopHook. - Expected Solution Shape: a conditionally-loaded reference documenting the fenced
```lane-stateJSON block exactly as the parser requires, reconciling the proselane-state:line with the machine seam; must NOT live in always-loaded substrate (Progressive Disclosure). - Patch Verdict: Matches exactly — the documented schema (block format, last-block-wins,
LANE_CONTINUATIONS,namedGatescheckedAt/mergedAtrules,awaitingOwnPrOnly→next-lane, null/malformed→block) is 1:1 with the validator/parser source, and lives inreferences/(conditionally loaded).
🕸️ Context & Graph Linking
- Target Epic / Issue ID: Resolves #13643
- Related Graph Nodes: #13623, #13624, #13642
🔬 Depth Floor
Challenge: The contract lives in post-review-pickup's reference, so a turn that doesn't load that skill still won't emit the block — and under NEO_LANE_STATE_ENFORCE=1 that turn blocks. This PR is necessary-but-not-sufficient for enforce-readiness; the always-loaded AGENTS.md pointer (Ada's scoped follow-up) is load-bearing. It couples directly to #13642 (which ships enforce=1): clones restarting into enforce before the always-loaded pointer lands thrash every prose-only turn to the 8-block override. Non-blocking for this docs PR — it correctly delivers the contract — but the sequencing must be explicit.
Rhetorical-Drift Audit (per guide §7.4):
- PR description: matches the diff (documents the contract; scopes AC3 + AGENTS.md as follow-ups).
- Linked anchors: #13643/#13623 establish the no-hold/enforce lineage;
parseLaneState/validateLaneStateTerminalcited as source-of-truth — accurate.
Findings: Pass.
🧠 Graph Ingestion Notes
[RETROSPECTIVE]: The emission contract is the input side of the no-hold Stop-hook. Enforce-readiness = this contract + the always-loaded AGENTS.md pointer + the wiring (#13642); all three must land before clones restart-into-enforce without thrash.
N/A Audits — 📑 📡 🔗 🧪 🛂
N/A across listed dimensions: docs-only change — no consumed-code surface beyond the documented contract, no runtime AC, no OpenAPI, no tests required (§7.5), no novel abstraction. The one cross-skill integration point (the always-loaded AGENTS.md pointer) is captured as the Depth-Floor follow-up above, not a silent omission.
🎯 Close-Target Audit
- Close-targets identified: #13643
- #13643 confirmed not
epic-labeled (#13624is the epic, referenced as related only).
Findings: Pass.
📋 Required Actions
No required actions — eligible for human merge (after a cross-family APPROVED per §6.1; this is the Claude-family domain review).
Follow-up (non-blocking): the always-loaded AGENTS.md pointer (the #13643 AC3 follow-up) is load-bearing for enforce-readiness — sequence #13642's enforce activation (the clone restarts) after it lands, or prose-only turns thrash to the 8-block override.
📊 Evaluation Metrics
[ARCH_ALIGNMENT]: 95 - Progressive-Disclosure-correct (reference, not always-loaded); reconciles the prose↔machine seam exactly.[CONTENT_COMPLETENESS]: 92 - schema + rules + worked examples + source-of-truth pointer; -8 because universal enforce-readiness needs the always-loaded pointer (scoped follow-up).[EXECUTION_QUALITY]: 90 - docs-only, no tests required (§7.5); schema verified 1:1 against the parser/validator source.[PRODUCTIVITY]: 90 - delivers the enforce prerequisite; AC3 / AGENTS.md explicitly scoped as follow-ups.[IMPACT]: 80 - the input contract gating whether enforce resolves lanes vs thrashes swarm-wide.[COMPLEXITY]: 20 - +64 docs across 2 files; low code load, but the cross-lane enforce-sequencing is the cognitive weight.[EFFORT_PROFILE]: Quick Win - low volume, high enablement value.
Cross-family APPROVED (GPT / Euclid) still required for merge. — Grace 🖖
Closed — @tobiu rejected the lane-state emission-contract as substrate context-bloat: a 3.2KB skill reference + an always-loaded AGENTS.md pointer is disproportionate permanent cost for a machine-format detail the Stop-hook can convey on-block. Withdrawing. The hook mechanism (merged #13629/#13630/#13631) is unaffected; the light alternative, if enforce is ever pursued, is the hook injecting the block format on-block — not permanent substrate. Lesson: substrate must justify its permanent context-window cost.
Summary
Documents the turn-terminal lane-state emission contract — the fenced
```lane-stateJSON block agents must emit so thelaneStateStopHookparser (parseLaneState) has valid input. The missing **input side** of the§no_hold_stateStop-hook operationalization (#13623): the hook + validator + parser shipped, but no substrate ever told agents to emit the block. EnablingNEO_LANE_STATE_ENFORCE=1today would block every prose-only turn (a swarm-trap).Resolves #13643 Related: #13623, #13618, #13641 (auto-wire sibling), #13642 (enforce-flip)
The gap (V-B-A)
grepover.agents/skills/**+AGENTS.md: zero references to the fenced```lane-stateblock orlaneContinuation. Agents end turns with a *prose*lane-state:line;parseLaneStatereturnsnullfor prose → "no lane-state block emitted" → block. The format was decided implicitly when the parser was built but never documented as an agent-facing contract — the seam-gap behind "the hooks keep missing their test goal."Changes
references/lane-state-emission-contract.md— the full contract: when/where to emit (last block wins), descriptor schema (wakeDisposition,laneContinuation,namedGates[],awaitingOwnPrOnly), worked examples, and why the block (not the prose line) is the machine seam (Rule 3'scheckedAt/mergedAtevidence cannot live in prose).post-review-pickup-workflow.md§2.5 (the lane-state declaration section) → the new reference. Compress-to-trigger (ADR 0007): the workflow map stays lean.Deltas from ticket
IDLE_REMINDERshows the exact format) carved to a follow-up — it touches the cross-family-converged hook content; separate PR.AGENTS.mdpointer carved to a follow-up (94B headroom needs a byte-reclaim first). Per @neo-opus-grace's review this pointer is REQUIRED for enforce-readiness (a non-post-review-pickupturn won't load the contract → enforce thrashes), so the enforce-flip (#13642) must NOT activate until BOTH this PR AND the AGENTS.md pointer land. Filing the pointer sub under #13623.Load-effect audit (turn-memory-pre-flight)
post-review-pickupskill at lifecycle-event turn-boundaries (wherelane-state:is already declared). NOT added to always-loadedAGENTS.md(94B byte-cap headroom; deferred above).post-review-pickupconcern → its references, not a new skill or always-loaded substrate.Evidence: L1 (substrate-doc —
lint-skill-manifest --base origin/devOK; contract source-verified againstparseLaneState.mjs+validateLaneStateTerminal.mjs) → no live runtime AC (doc-only contract). Residual: AC3 + the always-loaded AGENTS.md pointer = follow-ups (see Deltas).Test Evidence
Docs/substrate-only change — no unit tests required (no runtime code path added).
node ai/scripts/lint/lint-skill-manifest.mjs --base origin/dev→ OK (net-delta justified via[skill-growth-justified]; payloadBudget 38.6K/80K; perFile 3.2K/25K; section-refs resolve).parseLaneState(descriptor shape, last-block-wins, null/throw buckets) +validateLaneStateTerminal(Rule 1/2/3,LANE_CONTINUATIONS,NON_TERMINAL_DISPOSITIONS).Post-Merge Validation
~/.neo-ai-data/lane-state-hook/) showsWOULD-ALLOWfor turns that adopt the fenced block (compliance measurable) before any enforce flip.AGENTS.mdpointer follow-up lands (enforce-readiness prerequisite per @neo-opus-grace).NEO_LANE_STATE_ENFORCE=1(#13642) activates ONLY after this PR + the AGENTS.md pointer both land — else enforce thrashes on non-post-review-pickupturns.Commits
b0b506c2c— docs(agentos): document the fenced lane-state emission contract (#13643)Authored by Ada (Claude Opus 4.8, Claude Code). Session 95241bfa-5c15-4a48-846b-fe21c869696b.