fix(mcp): stop the budget gate justifying its floor with the number it falsified (CLOUD-730) - #541
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CLOUD-730 `mcp-timeout-budget` justifies its floor with the number the same commit falsified, and the surviving diagnosis points the next reader out of the repository
Why
1. Two contradictory margins for one number, eleven lines apart. The
Against 52747 ms, 120000 is 2.3×, not ~7×. A reader deciding whether the margin is generous gets 7× or 2.3× depending on which paragraph they stop at. 2. A falsified diagnosis that sends the next reader outside this repository. This is the one that costs something. The
The premise is false and I am the one who falsified it. Two containers on the same commit:
The 14:28 connection opened with 3. 4. Found while fixing the above, and the worst of the four: the falsified diagnosis is also the gate's RUNTIME REMEDY.
That is not a comment a maintainer might one day read; it is the line an operator reads at the moment the gate fires, and under CLOUD-122's contract it is the deny's fix pointer. A deny that names the fix, naming the wrong one, is worse than a deny that declares it has none — The general defect, which CLOUD-266 already names. A budget must carry the measurement that justifies it. This one carries two measurements and justifies its floor with the superseded one, and nothing failed when they diverged — the header is prose, so the arithmetic between Prior art to adopt rather than reinvent. and it already argues why the budget lives beside the value it bounds rather than in a table: "a budget that can drift from the enforced value without failing is the second authority non-negotiable rule 6 warns about." That is this defect, in a file Rejected alternative: extend Refinement — Ready (correct the three passages; make the floor's arithmetic a predicate, in Refinement gate: Definition of Ready & Done. This body carries only specializations.
Not in scope, stated rather than left to inference. Why one container gets the declared budget and another does not is untouched here and remains open — this issue makes the header stop asserting a false answer to it, and does not supply the true one. Provenance. Found while verifying that this session's retractions had reached every surface carrying the claim. They had reached CLOUD-668, CLOUD-700 and (now) PR #504's body; the shipped gate header was the surface nobody checked, and it is the one a future maintainer reads first. Correction found by the mechanism itself, on its first run. This block originally wrote the example as |
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`32f68be` raised FLOOR 60000 -> 105000 on a re-measured worst observed
success of 52747 ms and recorded that re-measurement in the header, but
four passages of the pre-measurement text survived in the same file.
The one that costs something is not a stale number. The `settings.json`
`env` paragraph concluded, from ten logs that all opened at 30000ms, that
the block does not reach the MCP client and therefore that no fix could
live in this repository — and the gate emitted that same conclusion as
its RUNTIME REMEDY, so the fix pointer CLOUD-122 requires pointed at the
wrong place. It is false: the 14:28 container opened with
`Starting connection with timeout of 120000ms` and succeeded at 52747 ms.
Every one of those ten logs predated the connection that settles it. Why
one container picks the declaration up and another does not is open, and
the file now says so instead of answering it wrongly.
Also corrected: the "1.8x headroom" and "~7x" margins, which derived from
the superseded 16.65s and described the host default as tight when the
later measurement shows it insufficient; and `inert` in the second
`#MUTANT` rationale, the retracted word in the rationale for the row that
exists because of the retraction.
The recurrence gets a mechanism rather than a promise, adopting
`timeout-check`'s existing `budget-arithmetic` class for the one budget
its glob does not cover. The floor now carries its basis on the line it
annotates and the gate parses it:
FLOOR=105494 # budget: worst=52747ms x2 measured=2026-08-19
A floor moved without its basis fails, and so does a basis moved without
the floor. 105494 rather than 105000 because 52747 x 2 is 105494 — the
rounding that produced the older value is a small instance of the same
drift, caught by the assertion on its first run.
Nine bats rows cover both directions, an absent comment, two malformed
ones, an unreadable budget file, and arithmetic refused even when the
declared budget clears the floor. A third `#MUTANT` row drops the
comparison.
Closes CLOUD-730
`mise run mutant` refused the new row with `names-no-case`: its description is matched against a bats test name, and mine described the mutation rather than naming the row that catches it. Aligned to the case that actually kills it. Refs: CLOUD-730
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Line 59 names a bare
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In `@mise-tasks/mcp-timeout-budget`:
- Around line 151-154: Update the malformed budget metadata branch in
mcp-timeout-budget to exit with status 2 instead of 1 when the FLOOR line or
budget comment is missing or invalid. Update tests/mcp-timeout-budget.bats lines
241-263 to expect status 2 for missing, malformed, and date-missing budget
comments; keep exit status 1 reserved for budget and arithmetic failures.
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In `@mise-tasks/mcp-timeout-budget`:
- Around line 58-60: Update the explanatory comment near the timeout budget to
replace the bare “cargo build” reference with the applicable mise build command,
or remove that command reference, while preserving the existing timeout
rationale.
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Return exit code 2 for malformed budget metadata.
Lines 151-154 classify missing or malformed budget metadata as exit code 1. CLOUD-730 requires exit code 2 for malformed input. Reserve exit code 1 for budget and arithmetic failures.
mise-tasks/mcp-timeout-budget#L151-L154: return exit code 2 when theFLOORline or its budget comment does not match the required format.tests/mcp-timeout-budget.bats#L241-L263: expect exit code 2 for missing, malformed, and date-missing budget comments.
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In `@mise-tasks/mcp-timeout-budget` around lines 151 - 154, Update the malformed
budget metadata branch in mcp-timeout-budget to exit with status 2 instead of 1
when the FLOOR line or budget comment is missing or invalid. Update
tests/mcp-timeout-budget.bats lines 241-263 to expect status 2 for missing,
malformed, and date-missing budget comments; keep exit status 1 reserved for
budget and arithmetic failures.
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32f68beraisedFLOOR60000 → 105000 on a re-measured worst observed success of 52747 ms and recorded that re-measurement inmise-tasks/mcp-timeout-budget's header. Four passages of the pre-measurement text survived in the same file, and the gate ended up arguing against itself.The one that costs something is not a stale number
The
settings.jsonenvpassage concluded, from ten logs that all opened at30000ms, that the block does not reach the MCP client and therefore that no fix could live in this repository — andobserved_budget_holdsemitted that same conclusion as its runtime remedy:Under CLOUD-122's contract that string is the deny's fix pointer. A deny that names the fix, naming the wrong one, is worse than one that declares it has none —
Fix::Noneat least renders "none declared".It is false, and the sample is why every one of those ten logs was consistent with it:
CONNECT_TIMEOUTThe 14:28 connection opened with
Starting connection with timeout of 120000ms— a connect no 30 s default survives. The declaration does reach the client. Why one container picks it up and another does not is open, and the file now says exactly that instead of answering it wrongly.The other three
inertsurvived in the second#MUTANTrationale — the retracted word, in the rationale for the row that exists because of the retraction.The mechanism, adopted rather than invented
timeout-check(also CLOUD-266) already refuses a workflow budget whose declared minutes disagree with its own statedp95 × multiplier, and already argues why the budget lives beside the value it bounds: "a budget that can drift from the enforced value without failing is the second authority non-negotiable rule 6 warns about." Same failure class, one file its glob does not cover.Parsed, not merely readable. A floor moved without its basis fails; so does a basis moved without the floor. The floor the parse yields is the floor enforced, so the number and its justification cannot be varied apart — and because the line is read from
$MCP_TIMEOUT_BUDGET(defaulting to the gate's own file), a fixture can exercise every direction.Rejected: extending
timeout-checkto shell tasks. Its parser is keyed totimeout-minutes:in YAML, and a second syntax there buys nothing over four lines here while widening a gate that is currently a pure function of.github/workflows/.Tests
Nine new
batsrows: arithmetic agrees; floor raised without its basis; basis moved without the floor; no budget comment; two malformed ones; no measurement date; an unreadable budget file (exit 2, never a silent pass); and arithmetic refused even when the declared budget clears the floor, so a drifted repo cannot report green on the strength of a generous declaration. The two rows pinning the old floor are repinned to 105494. 28/28 green.A third
#MUTANTrow drops the comparison.mutantrejected the first version of that row withnames-no-case— its description is matched against a bats test name and mine described the mutation instead — which is the harness working; it is aligned in the second commit. Full run: 57 declared mutations across 25 gates, every one caught.Why this replaces #539
Same two commits.
claim-check's receipt is keyed by branch name; I minted it on this branch and then renamed to Linear'sgitBranchName, which stranded it. Renaming back recovered the receipt but left the PR on the other name, andclaim-race-checkcorrectly read local-vs-#539 as two agents on one issue. The receipt, the branch and the PR have to agree, and this is the branch that carries the receipt. Filed as CLOUD-733 — CLOUD-516's landed predicate does not reach a rename (it moves neither the base nor the commit count), and the documented recoveryBATTEN_CLAIM_TAKEOVER=1is refused by this session's permission classifier.Scope
The header now states plainly that why a container ignores the declaration is unanswered here. This PR makes the file stop asserting a false answer; it does not supply the true one.
Closes CLOUD-730
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