docs(plan-fleet): plan mode is a property of the dispatch, not a default - #499
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…name A permission rule in `.claude/settings.json` must name its MCP server as a literal — `mcp-allow-check` refuses a glob there, correctly, because the CLI skips such a rule with a warning and it grants nothing. But a claude.ai connector's exposed name is chosen per registration episode by the host: readable at session start, a UUID after a reconnect (CLOUD-178). The literal that would match the second is an account-specific identifier that non-negotiable rule 1 keeps out of committed config. So the four PR-subscription rules added in d671184 are half inert. Measured on that commit: the session that wrote them had the two connectors exposed as `mcp__bf7c680d-…__*` and `mcp__cc451d34-…__*`, so three of the four denies matched nothing, and `…__get_session` and `…__list_comments` both answered "requires approval" from inside an allow list that reads as covering them. A second literal spelling is still a literal. CLOUD-178 concluded from this that no gate is possible. That conclusion was wrong, and the counter-example was already shipping beside it: `issue-read-guard` and `board-move-guard` match `*save_issue` on the SUFFIX and never read the server segment, so they work under either name with no account identifier in the repo. `mise-tasks/connector-verb-guard` applies that idiom to the verbs AGENTS.md already rules on — `unsubscribe_pr_activity` pre-approved so the drop `land` requires never waits on a person, and `subscribe_pr_activity`, `send_later` and `create_trigger` denied as the no-heartbeat rule already says. It emits `permissionDecision: "allow"`, which the engine has no representation for (`Decision::Allow` means "emit nothing"), so it is a by-path guard rather than a `batten.toml` row — a capability gap for CLOUD-312's ledger. `mcp-allow-check` gains the predicate that would have caught the inert rules at commit time: a deny naming one host-supplied server and one tool, both literally, must be covered by a suffix-matching guard. Scoped to denies because the two directions fail differently — an under-matching allow fails closed into a prompt a human sees, an under-matching deny fails open and silently. Coverage is declared by each guard's `--covers` rather than parsed out of its `case` statements, so there is one authority per fact. Two bugs found while building it, both by the repo's own gates rather than by review: probing `--covers` across every `*-guard` hung the whole suite at the two-minute kill, because a guard that does not know the flag falls through to `raw=$(cat)` and blocks on stdin; and two `printf | grep -q` pairs were the early-exit-under-pipefail shape `pipefail-grep-check` exists to refuse. Refs: CLOUD-178, CLOUD-518
CLOUD-672 `plan-fleet` says plan mode is the dispatch default and this environment's own, and both halves are now false — so every fire-and-forget dispatch overrides the procedure silently
Why
Both halves are false as of 2026-08-18, and each was falsified by a different observation.
Note the park was not Three authorities, three answers, and no record of the resolution. The What is right about plan mode, so this is not one-sided. The park is genuinely the feature when a human is standing by: it is the cheapest possible review point, before any tokens are spent building. The counter-evidence, because a criterion needs the case where the other answer is right. Plan mode did not stall the CLOUD-607 campaign. Five BUNDLE children dispatched 2026-08-14 with One observation that does not yet support a mechanism claim, recorded as an observation. The instruction has a third copy, so this amendment has two destinations. CLOUD-607's handoff template also prescribes Refinement — Ready Refinement gate: Definition of Ready & Done. This body carries only specializations.
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Step 4 prescribed `permission_mode: "plan"` on every `create_session` and justified it as "also this environment's default". Both halves are false. `create_session` inherits the caller's mode — the tool contract says "omit to inherit it" — and dispatchers on this account run `auto`, so two children dispatched with the parameter omitted came up `PERMISSION_MODE_AUTO`. The 2026-08-11 measurement in `mem:workflow/agent-fanout` was taken from a dispatcher already in plan mode: it measured inheritance and recorded it as an environment property. That memory's bound — "only a defect for work nobody intends to approve" — is the normal case rather than the edge. One child parked 91 minutes on `AskUserQuestion`, not `ExitPlanMode`, for no commit, branch or PR; the same ticket re-dispatched without the parameter reached a draft PR. Attended, plan mode is still the cheapest review point available: the five CLOUD-607 bundles dispatched under it all reached review_ready with the owner approving in the web UI. So the criterion is a property of the dispatch, not of the ticket, and it now sits where the dispatch is made. The memory keeps the false measurement and supersedes it in place, in the file's existing style, so the next reader meets the correction alongside the claim rather than the claim alone. Step 4's per-ticket loop is made conditional in the same change: it told every child to plan "and wait for approval", which under a fire-and-forget dispatch is precisely the stall documented above. Refs: CLOUD-672
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136-150: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winMatch this test to the production predicate.
mise-tasks/mcp-allow-checkexempts declared servers and deny rules with globbed segments. This loop requires coverage for everymcp__deny rule. It can fail for a settings file that the gate correctly accepts.Run the gate against the committed settings instead of duplicating a stricter predicate here.
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In @.claude/commands/plan-fleet.md:
- Around line 133-135: Update the one-PR loop’s plan-to-build branch to apply
the same approval condition as the default per-ticket loop: wait for approval
only when the dispatch was in plan mode, while preserving the existing build,
verify, and linear-check sequence.
In @.serena/memories/workflow/agent-fanout.md:
- Around line 246-252: Remove or isolate the superseded plan-mode default
guidance near the historical measurement, including the claim that plan mode is
the environment default. If retained, place it under an explicit historical
heading and clearly mark it as obsolete; ensure current guidance reflects
caller-mode inheritance so fire-and-forget work does not select plan mode
unnecessarily.
In `@mise-tasks/connector-verb-guard`:
- Around line 93-98: Separate deny-only coverage from the allow-inclusive
--covers output so unsubscribe_pr_activity cannot be treated as guarded for deny
rules. In mise-tasks/connector-verb-guard lines 93-98, add --covers-deny; update
mise-tasks/mcp-allow-check lines 163-188 to use it for deny validation. Add
separate coverage assertions in tests/connector-verb-guard.bats lines 130-134
and a regression asserting unsubscribe_pr_activity deny validation fails in
tests/mcp-allow-check.bats lines 162-169.
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In `@tests/mcp-allow-check.bats`:
- Around line 136-150: Update the missing-settings test and related assertions
in the test flow to invoke the gate against the committed settings fixture
rather than independently requiring coverage for every mcp__ deny rule. Align
the test with the production predicate used by mise-tasks/mcp-allow-check,
preserving acceptance of declared servers and deny rules containing globbed
segments.
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Apply the approval condition to the one-PR loop.
The new condition appears in the default per-ticket loop. The one-PR loop at Line 137-139 still says plan → build without the same condition. Repeat “wait for approval only if this was a plan-mode dispatch” in that branch. Otherwise, attended plan-mode one-PR bundles have inconsistent instructions.
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In @.claude/commands/plan-fleet.md around lines 133 - 135, Update the one-PR
loop’s plan-to-build branch to apply the same approval condition as the default
per-ticket loop: wait for approval only when the dispatch was in plan mode,
while preserving the existing build, verify, and linear-check sequence.
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Closes CLOUD-672
plan-fleetstep 4 prescribedpermission_mode: "plan"on everycreate_sessionand justified it in one sentence — "Plan mode is correct here and is also this
environment's default." Both halves are false, and each was falsified separately.
It is not the default.
create_sessioninherits the caller's mode — thetool contract says "omit to inherit it" — and dispatchers on this account run
auto. Two children dispatched with the parameter omitted came upPERMISSION_MODE_AUTO, not plan. The 2026-08-11 measurement recorded inmem:workflow/agent-fanoutwas taken from a dispatcher that was itself in planmode, so it measured inheritance and wrote it down as a property of the
environment.
Its documented exception is the normal case. The memory bounded the risk as
"only a defect for work nobody intends to approve". One child parked 91
minutes on
AskUserQuestion— notExitPlanMode, which is the shape the memoryanticipates — and produced no commit, no branch and no PR; the same ticket
re-dispatched without the parameter reached a draft PR.
And plan mode is still right when attended, which is why this amends rather
than deletes: the five CLOUD-607 bundles dispatched under it all reached
review_readywith the owner approving in the web UI. That is the criterionworking, not an exception to it.
What changed
.claude/commands/plan-fleet.md—permission_modecomes out of theboilerplate
create_sessioncall and becomes a stated criterion: pass it when ahuman is standing by to approve, omit it when the dispatch is fire-and-forget.
Stated as a property of the dispatch, not the ticket, since the same bundle
takes opposite answers.
approval" unconditionally, which under a fire-and-forget dispatch is exactly the
stall above. Now conditional on the dispatch mode.
mem:workflow/agent-fanout— the false measurement is kept and supersededin place, in the file's existing supersession style, so the next reader meets the
correction beside the claim rather than the claim alone. The unresolved
observation is recorded as unresolved: one child declined a write at
end-of-session citing plan mode hours after approval, and whether the mode
persists or was re-entered is not established, so the "works on from there"
clause is marked unverified rather than merely superseded.
chore(fuzz)rides along ahead of it:mainreleased 0.0.81 without regeneratingfuzz/Cargo.lock, so the first gate run on any branch dirties the tree andtree-cleanrefuses. Carried rather than reverted, for the reason4eecba7gives— reverting only defers it to the next branch. Tracked by CLOUD-590 / CLOUD-620.
Verification
mise run fmt(which ishk fix --all, so the whole gate including the batssuite) green before the commits.
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