fix(mise): propagate the engine's verdict out of batten-check - #722
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CLOUD-1090 `batten-check` discards the engine's verdict: `enforce`'s exit 2 leaves the task as 1, so consumer #1's own gate cannot report a policy denial
Why
The second line collapses every non-zero code the engine can emit into This is the repository's consumer #1 gate — the one that evaluates the committed Sized honestly: latent, not live. Every current consumer treats any non-zero as failure — The forward risk is CLOUD-909's class — a carried-over assertion asserting the wrong thing and passing — as the retirement campaign moves gates through this task. Why this is not the churn CLOUD-307 rules out CLOUD-307 records a standing non-goal: "Renumbering the
Why
The distinction this row draws: **propagate the code, or record it in machine-readable evidence. ** Acceptance
Refinement — Ready (the invoker propagates what the engine decided) Refinement gate: Definition of Ready & Done. This body carries only specializations.
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`[tasks.batten-check]` ended `if ! cargo run … enforce; then exit 1; fi`, collapsing every non-zero code the engine emits into 1. A policy denial (2), a config error (1) and an internal error (3) left the task indistinguishable — and 2 is the code the whole contract is numbered around (house style §7). Consumer #1's own gate was the one place the contract should be observable and the one place that erased it. The status is captured and re-exited unchanged rather than `exec`-ed, because the step receipt must be written only on a clean run and an `exec` handoff would strand it permanently. Capturing `$?` and exiting with that same value is propagation, not verdict reconstruction: nothing reads a finding or re-derives an answer. `provision apply` keeps its own `exit 1` — a scanner that could not be installed is a fault of the environment, not a verdict about the tree. CLOUD-407 is untouched and asserted: `verify` still maps a content failure to 1 so its own 2 can mean "main moved under this branch". The assertions live in `crates/batten/tests/runner_verdict.rs` rather than beside the `verify` cases in `tests/task-fail-closed.bats`, where they belong on subject: `shell-retirement` denies both an added and an edited `tests/**/*.bats`, which is CLOUD-1088. Shown to discriminate — both defect cases go red against the previous body while the anti-vacuity and CLOUD-407 controls stay green. Refs: CLOUD-1090
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to This PR preserves the engine’s status from batten-check, but the regression test does not yet ensure that successful runs still record their receipt; merge is reasonable with explicit follow-up to tighten that assertion. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@crates/batten/tests/runner_verdict.rs`:
- Around line 112-142: Add an executable compiled-binary regression test
alongside the existing the_engine_status_is_captured_and_re_exited_unchanged
test, invoking the real enforcement flow with verdicts 1, 2, and 3 to verify
each status is propagated unchanged and no receipt is written after failure.
Also exercise verify’s reserved rebase-race path and assert it returns exit
status 2 only for that race, while preserving the normal status behavior for
other outcomes.
In `@mise.toml`:
- Around line 1023-1024: Update the provision and enforce command entries to
invoke the repository’s mise-managed command form instead of calling cargo
directly, preserving the existing provision failure handling and enforce
execution order.
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| fn the_engine_status_is_captured_and_re_exited_unchanged() { | ||
| let body = batten_check_body(); | ||
| assert!( | ||
| body.contains("verdict=$?"), | ||
| "the batten-check body captures the engine's exit status" | ||
| ); | ||
| assert!( | ||
| body.contains(r#"exit "$verdict""#), | ||
| "the batten-check body exits with the status it captured, unchanged" | ||
| ); | ||
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| // ORDER IS THE PROPERTY, not mere presence: a capture that is never tested, or | ||
| // tested after the receipt is written, leaves the defect in place. mise task | ||
| // bodies do not run under `set -e`, so nothing else enforces this. | ||
| let capture = body.find("verdict=$?").expect("the capture is present"); | ||
| let propagate = body | ||
| .find(r#"exit "$verdict""#) | ||
| .expect("the exit is present"); | ||
| let record = body | ||
| .find("step-receipt.sh record") | ||
| .expect("the receipt write is present"); | ||
| assert!( | ||
| capture < propagate, | ||
| "the status is captured before it is propagated" | ||
| ); | ||
| assert!( | ||
| propagate < record, | ||
| "a non-zero verdict exits before the receipt is written — a denied run must \ | ||
| leave no receipt, or the next run answers from a cache of the failure" | ||
| ); | ||
| } |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Add an executable verdict-regression test.
These tests only inspect task text. They pass if a successful command is inserted between enforce and verdict=$?, even though the task then captures 0 instead of the engine status. The verify assertions also confirm token presence but do not execute its reserved rebase-race path.
Add a compiled-binary test that triggers enforcement statuses 1, 2, and 3, checks that no receipt is written after a non-zero result, and confirms that verify uses exit 2 only for the rebase race.
Also applies to: 149-160
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In `@crates/batten/tests/runner_verdict.rs` around lines 112 - 142, Add an
executable compiled-binary regression test alongside the existing
the_engine_status_is_captured_and_re_exited_unchanged test, invoking the real
enforcement flow with verdicts 1, 2, and 3 to verify each status is propagated
unchanged and no receipt is written after failure. Also exercise verify’s
reserved rebase-race path and assert it returns exit status 2 only for that
race, while preserving the normal status behavior for other outcomes.
Source: MCP tools
| if ! cargo run --quiet -p batten -- provision apply; then exit 1; fi | ||
| if ! cargo run --quiet -p batten -- enforce; then exit 1; fi | ||
| cargo run --quiet -p batten -- enforce |
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Run these commands through mise.
Lines 1023-1024 invoke cargo directly. Replace both invocations with the repository’s mise-managed command form.
As per coding guidelines, mise.toml: “Use mise for everything; never a bare cargo/export/one-off install.”
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In `@mise.toml` around lines 1023 - 1024, Update the provision and enforce command
entries to invoke the repository’s mise-managed command form instead of calling
cargo directly, preserving the existing provision failure handling and enforce
execution order.
Source: Coding guidelines
`clippy::manual_assert` rejects `if cond { panic!(…) }`. The loop is
replaced by a `find` plus an assertion over its result, which is the same
predicate and the same message.
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In `@crates/batten/tests/runner_verdict.rs`:
- Around line 123-142: Strengthen the ordering assertion in the runner verdict
test so exit "$verdict" is verified to be inside the non-zero verdict guard, not
merely before step-receipt.sh record. Preserve the required order: capture the
status, conditionally exit only when the verdict is non-zero, then record the
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| // ORDER IS THE PROPERTY, not mere presence: a capture that is never tested, or | ||
| // tested after the receipt is written, leaves the defect in place. mise task | ||
| // bodies do not run under `set -e`, so nothing else enforces this. | ||
| let capture = body.find("verdict=$?").expect("the capture is present"); | ||
| let propagate = body | ||
| .find(r#"exit "$verdict""#) | ||
| .expect("the exit is present"); | ||
| let record = body | ||
| .find("step-receipt.sh record") | ||
| .expect("the receipt write is present"); | ||
| assert!( | ||
| capture < propagate, | ||
| "the status is captured before it is propagated" | ||
| ); | ||
| assert!( | ||
| propagate < record, | ||
| "a non-zero verdict exits before the receipt is written — a denied run must \ | ||
| leave no receipt, or the next run answers from a cache of the failure" | ||
| ); | ||
| } |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Assert that only a non-zero verdict exits before receipt recording.
The current ordering check passes if the task changes to unconditional exit "$verdict" before step-receipt.sh record. That change suppresses the receipt even when enforce returns 0.
Assert that exit "$verdict" is inside the non-zero verdict guard, and that this guarded exit precedes receipt recording.
Proposed test change
let propagate = body
.find(r#"exit "$verdict""#)
.expect("the exit is present");
+ let non_zero_exit = body
+ .find(r#"if [ "$verdict" != 0 ]; then exit "$verdict"; fi"#)
+ .expect("only a non-zero verdict exits before receipt recording");
let record = body
.find("step-receipt.sh record")
.expect("the receipt write is present");
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assert!(
- propagate < record,
+ non_zero_exit < record,
"a non-zero verdict exits before the receipt is written — a denied run must \
leave no receipt, or the next run answers from a cache of the failure"
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In `@crates/batten/tests/runner_verdict.rs` around lines 123 - 142, Strengthen the
ordering assertion in the runner verdict test so exit "$verdict" is verified to
be inside the non-zero verdict guard, not merely before step-receipt.sh record.
Preserve the required order: capture the status, conditionally exit only when
the verdict is non-zero, then record the receipt for successful verdicts.
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Closes CLOUD-1090
What
[tasks.batten-check]endedif ! cargo run … enforce; then exit 1; fi, which collapsed every non-zero code the engine emits into1. A policy denial (2), a config error (1) and an internal error (3) left the task indistinguishable — and2is the code the whole contract is numbered around (house style §7, "the policy verdict wherever it appears"). Consumer #1's own gate was the one place that contract should be observable and the one place that erased it.How
The status is captured and re-exited unchanged rather than
exec-ed.enforcecannot be the terminating command because the step receipt must be written only on a clean run, and anexechandoff would strand it permanently. Capturing$?and exiting with that same value is propagation, not verdict reconstruction: nothing reads a finding or re-derives an answer, and the only value the body can exit with on that path is the one the engine chose.provision applykeeps its ownexit 1— a scanner that could not be installed is a fault of the environment, not a verdict about the tree, and1is already what the engine emits for acommandrule whose binary cannot run.Scope, stated honestly
Latent, not live. Every current consumer treats any non-zero as failure —
hk.pkl's step,ci.yml's two invocations, andverify:gated, whose caller flattens to1anyway. No admission behaviour changes today. What it buys is thatbatten-checkcan serve as evidence of a policy verdict, and that consumer #1 keeps the contract it publishes. The forward risk it removes is CLOUD-909's class as the retirement campaign moves gates through this task.CLOUD-407 is untouched and now asserted.
verifydeliberately maps a content failure to1so its own2can mean "main moved under this branch". This preserves a verdict one layer down and must not be read as licence to reverse that;verify_still_reserves_exit_2_for_the_rebase_racepins it.Tests
crates/batten/tests/runner_verdict.rs, four cases, shown to discriminate (CLOUD-418) — against the previous body:Both defect cases go red; the anti-vacuity and CLOUD-407 controls stay green, so the suite fails on the defect and not on unrelated movement.
Why the assertions are in Rust rather than beside the
verifycases intests/task-fail-closed.bats, where they belong on subject:shell-retirement(severity = "deny") refuses both an added and an editedtests/**/*.bats, so the bats corpus is closed to this addition. That is CLOUD-1088, and the file header says so and says the assertions should move when 1088 lands.Bound stated in the header: this proves the body propagates rather than replaces. It does not prove the engine returns
2for a denial —exit.rs's table test owns that — and it cannot prove the two compose without a denying ruleset to run, which this repository by construction does not have.Filed, not fixed here
branch_validityreads a branch merely behindorigin/mainas CLOUD-516's restart, so a receipt taken against currentmainis void and re-taking it cannot clear it. Measured on this branch; it cost three identical refusals before a fast-forward broke the loop. Out of this diff's scope.Not in scope
Renumbering any
mise-tasks/*-checkprogram — CLOUD-307's standing non-goal ("the fix is the port, not a churn"), which this clears because[tasks.batten-check]is the invoker that survives the campaign rather than a condemned predicate. Changingverify's mapping. Any general gate over runners.Generated by Claude Code