PR Review Summary

Status: Approved

🪜 Strategic-Fit Decision

Per §9 Strategic-Fit Step-Back:

• Decision: Approve
• Rationale: Restores the ratified host-edge role (D#15595 + #16173) as a minimal, graphless launchd invocation — the missing half of the dual-role topology — with the ADR 0014 supersession done the way #16188's wasn't: dated, falsifier-cited, map-preserving, trigger-carrying. Merge-safe; live journey honestly deferred as a declared residual while the re-embed holds the provider.

Peer-Review Opening: Emmy — the contrast between this ADR amendment and the #16188 one is the best process receipt of the night: same file, same class of change, opposite discipline. And gating storage on data-integrity-sweep authority instead of role names is the right kind of lazy.

🧭 Patch-Blind Premise Snapshot

• Inputs Read Before Patch: #16210 (I authored tonight's reframe — the three defects and runtime-receipt ACs are my own text); D#15595 line 44 (slim host-profile blueprint); ADR 0014 §8 + its revalidation clause; merged #16218 state; the live stack (drain depth, orchestrator health) probed all night; current dev compose for the WAL claim.
• Expected Solution Shape: a second invocation of the same scheduler under authorityProfile=host-edge, distinct host-only state root outside any checkout, graph access structurally denied (not just unconfigured), initial lane set minimal, wake receiver kept as a separate boundary, ADR reconciliation carrying reopened authority. Must NOT: open Docker SQLite/Chroma from the host, revive the checkout-plane cutover procedure, or amend ADR elections silently.
• Patch Verdict: Matches on every axis. Evidence: initializeGraphDatabaseIfOwned() + requiresOrchestratorPlane() key on the canonical container-plane lane's authority (fail-closed via the exhaustive map — host-edge gets db=null and skips the Tier-1 plane assertion that would have re-tethered it to the retired checkout plane); the new host-edge plist parameterizes every path (__HOST_EDGE_STATE_DIR__ outside checkouts) and explicitly disables all thirteen non-LMS lanes; the lease-epoch guard (acquiredAt < currentProcessStartedAt with same PID and a historical-inspection carve-out now >= processStart) kills exactly the PID-1 inheritance defect — my #16210 defect 3 — with injectable seams and focused tests; the ADR 0014 change is a dated supersession section citing the incident falsifier, preserving the authority map, and adding both a new-lane guardrail and a revalidation trigger.
• Premise Coherence: coheres — this RESTORES graduated authority with the reopened record (the #16167 course-correction + reframed #16210 + operator direction), the exact discipline the consensus-mandate wants.

🕸️ Context & Graph Linking

• Target Epic / Issue ID: Resolves #16210
• Related Graph Nodes: #16218, #16167, D#15595, ADR 0014, ADR 0019
• Origin Session ID: 449fb365-2bce-4451-bf99-35b0cffd015b

🔬 Depth Floor

Challenge OR documented search (per guide §7.1):

• Challenge: the storage gate rides data-integrity-sweep's profile classification as a proxy for "owns graph-backed plane work." Elegant coupling to the SSOT — but it makes that lane's name/classification load-bearing for storage authority in a way taskAuthority.mjs doesn't announce: reclassify that one lane someday and the graph gate silently moves with it. Non-blocking; worth one comment line on the taskAuthority side when next touched.

Rhetorical-Drift Audit (per guide §7.4):

• PR description: matches the diff — including the honest "live journey: not run; the active full re-embedding was deliberately left untouched"
• Anchor & Echo summaries: mechanism-stating (epoch boundary, fail-closed proxy), no snapshot anchors
• [RETROSPECTIVE] tag: N/A — none added
• Linked anchors: the withdrawn WAL claim is verifiable — merged compose :160 sets the formula-consistent dir, and the fresh plane's drain SEES pending writes (live depth-1 observation tonight), so the writer/drainer mismatch died with the retired copied plane; withdrawal legitimate

Findings: Pass.

🧠 Graph Ingestion Notes

• [KB_GAP]: none asserted.
• [TOOLING_GAP]: MC semantic sweep still saturated by the #16208 run (by design); grounding = in-context authority chain + live-stack probes.
• [RETROSPECTIVE]: the dated-supersession ADR pattern shipped here (incident falsifier + preserved map + guardrail + revalidation trigger) should be the house template for election changes — it is the constructive answer to the #16188 failure class.

N/A Audits — 📡 🛂 🔌

N/A across listed dimensions: no OpenAPI surface, no novel abstraction (restores ratified topology), no wire-format change (env/plist/launchd surfaces only).

🎯 Close-Target Audit

• Close-targets identified: #16210 (newline-isolated Resolves)
• #16210 labeled bug + ai + architecture, not epic

Findings: Pass — with one reconciliation I own as the ticket's author: the reframed #16210 Fix item 3 (make allWritesSemanticallyQueryable honest) is not part of this PR and not claimed by it; I am annotating its disposition on the ticket myself so the close is exact. No action needed from you.

📑 Contract Completeness Audit

• #16210 carries the Contract Ledger-equivalent (the reframed Fix/AC matrix, mine)
• Diff matches: role instantiation (host half), lease hygiene, state-root separation, WAL item withdrawn with in-body Deltas declaration

Findings: Pass.

🪜 Evidence Audit

• Evidence: line present and exact: L2 (authority/lease units + static plist/placement guards) → L4 required, Residual AC6 [#16210]
• Residuals annotated: PMV enumerates the operator-side launchd bootstrap, loaded-model receipt, and one real signed wake — matching the ticket's runtime-receipt ACs
• Two-ceiling distinction: explicit — live journey deferred BECAUSE the re-embed holds the provider, not because probing stopped
• No evidence-class collapse: unit seams are claimed as L2, never promoted
• Deployment causality: launchd bootstrap is operator-host work, correctly Post-Merge

Findings: Pass.

🔗 Cross-Skill Integration Audit

• Runbook rewritten to steady-state; the retired checkout-plane census is tripwired AGAINST returning (inverted guard in RecorderServiceDefaultOff.spec.mjs — my spec, and the inversion is correct: the procedure it guarded no longer exists, and the new assertion demands any future logical import bring its own reviewed, quiesced-writer workflow)
• ADR 0019 §10.7 row updated to merged #16218 reality (Docker-owned volumes; checkout plane = import source)

Findings: Pass. Cross-PR note, mine to carry: my open #16209 branch holds the pre-inversion census test — I rebase and adopt your inversion after this merges; no action for you.

🧪 Test-Evidence & Location Audit

• Execution evidence: exact-head CI 16/16 green at 3a3d537715 including unit (12m4s); author's focused receipts (153 + 19 + 9, plutil -lint OK ×2) consistent with the delta
• Reviewer falsifier: the WAL-withdrawal claim — checked merged compose :160 + the live drain's depth-visibility on the fresh plane; claim holds
• Test location: canonical unit tree throughout

Findings: Pass.

📋 Required Actions

No required actions — eligible for human merge.

📊 Evaluation Metrics

Verdict weights: 30% premise / right thing, 30% architecture + placement, 30% diff correctness, 10% AC/audit sanity. These are importance-to-verdict weights, not effort budgets.

• [ARCH_ALIGNMENT]: 97 - map-coupled storage gating, fully parameterized launchd templates, host state out of checkouts; -3: the proxy-lane indirection is undocumented on the taskAuthority side it depends on.
• [CONTENT_COMPLETENESS]: 96 - Deltas/Evidence/PMV/Slot-Rationale all present and honest; -4: the ticket-side Fix-item-3 disposition was left to the ticket author (me) rather than named in the body.
• [EXECUTION_QUALITY]: 95 - lease-epoch logic precise with seams + tests, graphless gating fail-closed; -5: host-edge graphlessness has no runtime witness yet (declared L4 residual, correctly).
• [PRODUCTIVITY]: 95 - delivers the host half of the dual-role topology; bootstrap remains operator PMV by nature.
• [IMPACT]: 90 - fleet-activation prerequisite: wake ownership and provider supervision return to a governed role.
• [COMPLEXITY]: 70 - launchd + authority-map + ADR + runbook surfaces in one coherent slice.
• [EFFORT_PROFILE]: Heavy Lift - restores a ratified runtime role across scheduler, supervision, and decision-record surfaces under an active incident.

Two PRs tonight, both restoring decided things instead of inventing new ones — the recovery is converging. After merge I rebase #16209 onto the inverted census guard and annotate #16210's item-3 disposition.