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GET /work-items/next, POST /comments and POST /heartbeat/report returned an explicit negative and no effect. #15859 made them honest; honest and unimplemented is still unimplemented.

"Next" is not a new opinion. checkout_next reuses the ordering BacklogService.list already applies, so the item handed to an agent is the one a human sees at the top of the same backlog. An independent ordering here would make the two disagree about priority with nothing saying so — a bulk_reorder would appear to have done nothing.

Eligible: this company's, ready, unclaimed, unassigned or assigned to this agent. backlog is excluded deliberately — an item nobody has readied is not work an agent should pick up on its own, and WorkItemStatus distinguishes the two precisely so that call can be made.

Three defects found while wiring, none visible to a response-shaped test

  1. checkout requires a UUID; the agent context yields a slug. work_item_service.py:591 does assignee_agent_id = uuid.UUID(agent_id) against a UUID column, but _agent_context returns a company-scoped slug ("agent-1"). A real request would have raised ValueError — a 500 for something that is not a server fault. The route resolves slug → agent_org_nodes.id first.

  2. That resolution must be company-scoped. The slug is unique per company, not globally (security(llc): globally-unique agent_id makes cross-company slug existence probeable #15812). WHERE agent_id = :slug alone returns whichever company's row the database happens to hold, and nothing looks wrong — the query returns exactly one row.

  3. Comparing a uuid column to a bound string is dialect-fragile. PostgreSQL rejects uuid = text outright; SQLite stores 32 hex characters, so a dashed literal matches nothing and reads as "no such row" rather than as a broken query. Both new queries use Core rather than text().

On (3): the heartbeat UPDATE was written with CAST(:id AS uuid) first. That is Postgres-only — correct in production and unrunnable against the SQLite the LLC tests use, so the route could not be exercised at all. A route that cannot be tested is how these three got here.

An agent whose org node is missing gets a 404 that says so, not "no eligible work". Those must not read alike, or a broken agent is told there is nothing to do, forever, in the same words used when the backlog is simply empty.

What Changed

  • llc/api/agent_api.py — the three handlers wired, 628 → 555 lines (hard cap 600)
  • llc/api/_common.py — gains agent_context, assert_item_in_company and agent_node_uuid

The file was not added to KNOWN_LARGE. Wiring the stubs took it 449 → 628 against a cap it had never been exempted from, and a file grown past a limit does not start life with an exemption — the same call made on man_page_indexing.py. The three shared route helpers move to _common.py, which is what that module is for.

  • llc/services/work_item_queue.py — new: checkout_next, backlog_order(), PRIORITY_RANK, CHECKOUT_CANDIDATES
  • llc/services/backlog.py — imports the shared ordering instead of its own copy
  • llc/api/_common.py — gains agent_node_uuid
  • llc/tests/test_agent_stub_routes_15905.py — new, 10 tests

The heartbeat route UPDATEs the run the scheduler created rather than inserting one. Inserting would satisfy any response assertion while making every count of runs wrong. recorded is the UPDATE's rowcount, not a constant.

Why a new module rather than a bigger one

work_item_service.py sits at its grandfathered ceiling of 1,100 lines and agent_api.py has a hard 600 cap (#14236). A ceiling raised to fit lines I chose to add spends a grandfathered file's remaining headroom on my own convenience.

And the extraction was already justified on its own terms. My first checkout_next copied _PRIORITY_RANK out of backlog.py — two literals expressing one rule, which is the defect #15912 had just removed from the pricing tables, committed by me an hour later. It would have drifted identically: a priority added to the enum, ranked in one copy.

work_item_service.py   1100 → 1100
agent_api.py            620 → 582

Verification

python3 -m pytest llc/tests/test_agent_stub_routes_15905.py llc/tests/test_backlog_reorder.py \
    llc/tests/test_cost_accrual_15859_15860.py llc/tests/test_agent_context_tenant_scope.py -q   → 39 passed
python3 scripts/check_python_file_size.py --audit-ceilings   → 5,240 scanned, 497 grandfathered, all at size

Mutation, baseline 26 passed:

mutation result
comment route drops the company check 1 failed
heartbeat drops the company scope 1 failed
checkout_next ignores backlog ordering 1 failed
next route claims backlog items too 1 failed
shared ordering drops backlog_position 2 failed — one per caller

The last is the extraction's own proof: both callers fail on one mutation, which is what "shared" has to mean.

Every assertion is on the effect — the item is assigned, the comment is readable, the run row changed and no second row appeared. The response is what the stubs were already producing correctly, so a test reading it cannot tell a wired route from a stub.

Risks

  • CHECKOUT_CANDIDATES = 10 bounds how many ranked items checkout_next will try before giving up. Under heavy contention (>10 agents racing the same top of the backlog) an agent can get "no eligible work" while work exists. One candidate would be worse — losing the race on the single top item would report no work with a queue behind it — but the bound is a judgement, not a derivation.
  • heartbeat/report now 404s where it previously returned recorded: False with a 200. A client treating any 2xx as success will see a status change. That is the point, but it is a behaviour change for existing callers.
  • Comment authorship is the agent's node UUID, None when the node is gone. An API key can outlive its node, and a comment from an agent that no longer exists is still worth storing.
  • Five LLC test files cannot be collected on Python 3.10 (llc.scheduler.base requires 3.11+). Identical on untouched base — verified — and CI runs 3.14.
  • Rollback: revert. The three routes return to their fix(llc): agent cost-event and work-item-status routes return success without doing anything #15859 stub responses.

What the forced extraction surfaced, filed as #15924. llc/deps.py:167 says load_authorized is a "generic IDOR-guard loader consolidating the per-router _get_authorized_<obj> copies". Grepping for other copies of the helper I was moving found seven hand-rolled survivors, and the reason is structural: load_authorized requires a TenantContext, while the agent surface and the service layer hold a raw company_id string. Two of the seven (goal.py:291, :324) make the tenant check conditional on company_id is not None. Filed rather than ridden in — six of the seven are in modules this PR does not touch.

Second time this session a file-size ceiling has produced a finding: work_item_service.py sitting at 1,100 is what surfaced the copied _PRIORITY_RANK.

Model Used

Claude Opus 5 (claude-opus-5)

Issue Link

Closes #15905

Single-issue rationale: this is three routes in one file behind one auth model. It was suggested as a batch with #15872, and I checked rather than assumed — #15872 is a company owner appointing a CEO in companies.py behind require_org_context, where this is an agent behind _agent_context. Different router, different authentication, different permission model, and no shared hand-written file.

They do share one: autobot-frontend/src/types/generated/api.ts. Both add routes, so both regenerate the API types — whichever lands second conflicts on a large machine-ordered file, so land order matters and #15920 goes first.

I wrote "no shared file" in both PR bodies independently, in near-identical words, and it reads identically whether or not it is true. I checked my sources; a generated artifact is not in anyone's mental model of "the files I touched". A split argument should name the derived outputs, not just the hand-written inputs — two PRs that share no source can still share a build product, and the conflict lands on whoever is slower. They share the area: company-os label and nothing else, and a batch that shares only a label is the lax reading of the batching rule rather than the rule.

Changelog fragment

  • N/A — internal change (agent-facing API completing routes that were mounted but inert)

Checklist

  • Code follows AutoBot patterns from CLAUDE.md
  • Tests added or updated
  • Documentation updated if behavior changed — work_item_queue.py's docstring records why the ordering is shared and why the module exists
  • Pre-commit hooks pass
  • PR targets Dev_new_gui (not main)

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Agents can check out eligible work items from the backlog.
    • Agents can add comments to work items with ownership validation.
    • Agent heartbeat updates are recorded and validated.
    • Backlog ordering prioritises explicitly reordered and higher-priority items.
    • Checkout skips unavailable or conflicting items and tries the next eligible item.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Operations are now properly scoped to the relevant company and agent.
    • Missing, unavailable, or invalid resources return clearer errors.
    • Malformed company and work-item identifiers return appropriate validation errors instead of server errors.

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The change implements work-item checkout, comment storage, and heartbeat reporting. It adds shared queue ordering, company-scoped agent-node resolution, persistence updates, validation, and asynchronous end-to-end tests.

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Agent route implementation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Queue ordering and checkout foundation
autobot-backend/llc/services/work_item_queue.py, autobot-backend/llc/services/backlog.py
Shared ordering prioritises explicit backlog positions, then priority and creation time. Checkout retries eligible candidates after conflicts.
Shared context and route persistence
autobot-backend/llc/api/_common.py, autobot-backend/llc/api/agent_api.py
Shared helpers validate company context, resolve agent nodes, and enforce work-item ownership. The routes now persist comments, update heartbeat runs, and perform atomic checkout.
Route effects and validation tests
autobot-backend/llc/tests/test_agent_stub_routes_15905.py
Asynchronous tests verify assignment, comment persistence, heartbeat updates, company isolation, ordering, timestamps, malformed identifiers, and removal of the stub marker.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 50518

Work checkout, backlog ordering, heartbeat reporting, and comment attribution can produce incomplete or incorrect results in valid workflows. These issues should be resolved or explicitly accepted before merge.

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  participant Agent
  participant agent_api
  participant agent_node_uuid
  participant checkout_next
  participant WorkItemService
  Agent->>agent_api: Request next work item
  agent_api->>agent_node_uuid: Resolve agent node for company
  agent_api->>checkout_next: Pass agent and company scope
  checkout_next->>WorkItemService: Attempt candidate checkout
  WorkItemService-->>checkout_next: Return checkout result
  checkout_next-->>Agent: Return item or empty result
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In `@autobot-backend/llc/api/agent_api.py`:
- Around line 347-352: Update the LLCHeartbeatRun update logic using the values
dictionary so HeartbeatReport fields duration_seconds, tokens_in, tokens_out,
and model are persisted, preferably within context_snapshot, before committing
and returning success; do not silently discard supplied metrics.

In `@autobot-backend/llc/services/work_item_queue.py`:
- Around line 105-107: Update the eligible query in checkout_next to include the
assignee predicate in its where clause: retain rows whose assignee_agent_id is
null or matches agent_id. Remove the redundant Python-side assignee check in the
loop so CHECKOUT_CANDIDATES limits only eligible conflict-retry candidates.
- Around line 58-63: Update the ordering docstring near PRIORITY_RANK and the
matching BacklogService.list comment to document that backlog_position defaults
to 0, nulls_last is inert for the non-nullable field, and position-0 ties fall
through to priority and age; do not change schema or ordering behavior.

In `@autobot-backend/llc/tests/test_agent_stub_routes_15905.py`:
- Around line 433-446: Update test_no_route_still_announces_itself_as_a_stub to
remove the unused session parameter. Make its source assertion reference the
defining stub-marker constant when available, or otherwise check the actual
marker pattern used by the routes instead of relying on one exact literal.
- Around line 259-271: Update the post_comment test around agent-c to seed a
matching agent_org_nodes record scoped to the company before invoking the route,
then assert the stored LLCWorkItemComment author_agent_id matches that seeded
agent node’s ID. Preserve the existing body, recorded flag, and comment ID
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values: Dict[str, Any] = {
"status": status.value,
"finished_at": datetime.now(tz=timezone.utc),
}
if body.work_item_id is not None:
values["work_item_id"] = uuid.UUID(body.work_item_id)

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Persist all HeartbeatReport metrics before returning success.

HeartbeatReport accepts duration_seconds, tokens_in, tokens_out, and model, but the LLCHeartbeatRun update writes none of them. The route commits the update and returns recorded: True, so supplied metrics are silently lost. Persist the metrics, for example in context_snapshot, or remove them from the request model.

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In `@autobot-backend/llc/api/agent_api.py` around lines 347 - 352, Update the
LLCHeartbeatRun update logic using the values dictionary so HeartbeatReport
fields duration_seconds, tokens_in, tokens_out, and model are persisted,
preferably within context_snapshot, before committing and returning success; do
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Comment on lines +58 to +63
Explicit `backlog_position` first (NULLS LAST, so items never reordered keep
their natural priority/age ordering), then priority rank, then age. This is
what makes a `bulk_reorder` write immediately observable to both the list
view and the next agent to ask for work.
"""
return [nulls_last(LLCWorkItem.backlog_position.asc()), PRIORITY_RANK, LLCWorkItem.created_at.asc()]

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Describe the position-0 default in the ordering docstring.

LLCWorkItem.backlog_position is non-nullable with a default of 0 in both the model and migration. nulls_last(...) is therefore inert. Unreordered rows can appear before reordered rows with positions above 0; ties at 0 use priority and age. Update this docstring and the matching BacklogService.list comment, or change the schema and all default assignments if NULL is the intended sentinel.

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In `@autobot-backend/llc/services/work_item_queue.py` around lines 58 - 63, Update
the ordering docstring near PRIORITY_RANK and the matching BacklogService.list
comment to document that backlog_position defaults to 0, nulls_last is inert for
the non-nullable field, and position-0 ties fall through to priority and age; do
not change schema or ordering behavior.

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Comment on lines +105 to +107
for item in (await session.execute(eligible)).scalars().all():
if item.assignee_agent_id is not None and str(item.assignee_agent_id) != agent_id:
continue

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Move the assignee predicate into the SQL query.

The query limits the result set to CHECKOUT_CANDIDATES rows before the assignee test runs. Line 106 then discards items assigned to other agents in Python. If the first 10 ready, unclaimed items all belong to other agents, checkout_next returns None and the route answers "No eligible work item" while eligible items sit further down the same backlog.

That contradicts both stated contracts in this module: the docstring defines eligible as "either unassigned or assigned to this agent", and the CHECKOUT_CANDIDATES comment states the limit exists so that losing a race does not report "no work".

Add the predicate to the where clause. The limit then bounds only conflict retries, which is its documented purpose.

🐛 Proposed fix to filter assignees in SQL
-from sqlalchemy import case, nulls_last, select
+from sqlalchemy import case, nulls_last, or_, select
     eligible = (
         select(LLCWorkItem)
         .where(
             LLCWorkItem.company_id == uuid.UUID(company_id),
             LLCWorkItem.status == WorkItemStatus.READY.value,
             LLCWorkItem.checkout_run_id.is_(None),
+            or_(
+                LLCWorkItem.assignee_agent_id.is_(None),
+                LLCWorkItem.assignee_agent_id == uuid.UUID(agent_id),
+            ),
         )
         .order_by(*backlog_order())
         .limit(CHECKOUT_CANDIDATES)
     )
-    for item in (await session.execute(eligible)).scalars().all():
-        if item.assignee_agent_id is not None and str(item.assignee_agent_id) != agent_id:
-            continue
+    for item in (await session.execute(eligible)).scalars().all():
         try:
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eligible = (
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.where(
LLCWorkItem.company_id == uuid.UUID(company_id),
LLCWorkItem.status == WorkItemStatus.READY.value,
LLCWorkItem.checkout_run_id.is_(None),
or_(
LLCWorkItem.assignee_agent_id.is_(None),
LLCWorkItem.assignee_agent_id == uuid.UUID(agent_id),
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Update the eligible query in checkout_next to include the assignee predicate in
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with patch("user_management.database.get_async_session_factory", new=_factory_yielding(session)):
result = await agent_api.post_comment(
agent_api.CommentBody(work_item_id=str(item.id), body="the agent said this"),
_request("agent-c", company),
)

assert result["recorded"] is True
stored = (
await session.execute(select(LLCWorkItemComment).where(LLCWorkItemComment.work_item_id == item.id))
).scalars().all()
assert len(stored) == 1, "the route reported the comment recorded and nothing was stored"
assert stored[0].body == "the agent said this"
assert str(stored[0].id) == result["comment_id"]

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Assert the comment author, and seed the agent node for it.

This test never seeds an agent_org_nodes row for "agent-c". agent_node_uuid therefore returns None, and post_comment stores the comment with author_agent_id=None. The test passes on the authorless path.

Authorship is the reason agent_node_uuid was added, and its company scoping is described as load-bearing. No test in this file covers it. Seed the node and assert the stored author.

💚 Proposed test change to cover authorship
     company = str(uuid.uuid4())
     item = await _seed_item(session, company)
+    node_id = await _seed_agent_node(session, company, "agent-c")
 
     with patch("user_management.database.get_async_session_factory", new=_factory_yielding(session)):
         result = await agent_api.post_comment(
             agent_api.CommentBody(work_item_id=str(item.id), body="the agent said this"),
             _request("agent-c", company),
         )
@@
     assert stored[0].body == "the agent said this"
+    assert stored[0].author_agent_id == node_id, "the comment was stored authorless"
     assert str(stored[0].id) == result["comment_id"]
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result = await agent_api.post_comment(
agent_api.CommentBody(work_item_id=str(item.id), body="the agent said this"),
_request("agent-c", company),
)
assert result["recorded"] is True
stored = (
await session.execute(select(LLCWorkItemComment).where(LLCWorkItemComment.work_item_id == item.id))
).scalars().all()
assert len(stored) == 1, "the route reported the comment recorded and nothing was stored"
assert stored[0].body == "the agent said this"
assert str(stored[0].id) == result["comment_id"]
company = str(uuid.uuid4())
item = await _seed_item(session, company)
node_id = await _seed_agent_node(session, company, "agent-c")
with patch("user_management.database.get_async_session_factory", new=_factory_yielding(session)):
result = await agent_api.post_comment(
agent_api.CommentBody(work_item_id=str(item.id), body="the agent said this"),
_request("agent-c", company),
)
assert result["recorded"] is True
stored = (
await session.execute(select(LLCWorkItemComment).where(LLCWorkItemComment.work_item_id == item.id))
).scalars().all()
assert len(stored) == 1, "the route reported the comment recorded and nothing was stored"
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assert stored[0].author_agent_id == node_id, "the comment was stored authorless"
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async def test_no_route_still_announces_itself_as_a_stub(session): # noqa: ANN001
"""#15905's last criterion, checked against the source rather than a response.

The negative markers #15859 added were to stay *until the effect was real*.
They are now gone, and this is what stops one being left behind on a route
that does work -- a response saying "not implemented" from a handler that
writes is the #15859 defect with the sign flipped.
"""
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from llc.api import agent_api

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Remove the unused session fixture and make the stub-marker assertion robust.

Line 433 requests the session fixture and never uses it, which Ruff reports as ARG001. The fixture builds a schema for nothing.

The assertion also depends on one exact source literal. If the marker text changes, the test passes without checking anything. Assert against the marker constant if one exists, or match the pattern the routes actually used.

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✅ SSOT Configuration Compliance: Passing

🎉 No new hardcoded values of either class — ssot and other both block.

Known backlog in pipeline-scripts/hardcoded_values_baseline.txt is suppressed and tracked in #14371.

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Make the persisted sentinel match backlog_order().

LLCWorkItem.backlog_position is non-null and defaults to 0, but backlog_order() only places NULL values last. bulk_reorder supports partial lists and assigns positions 0..n-1; an untouched row also remains at 0 and can sort before an explicitly reordered row when the later keys differ.

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Review — all three named defects are fixed correctly; the fix reintroduces the first one, one field over

The three you flagged check out, so I'll be brief on them and spend the space on what they led to.

Dialect handling is right everywhere. No text() and no CAST survive: agent_node_uuid uses Core select and the heartbeat uses Core update, so SQLAlchemy renders the UUID comparison per backend. That closes the "correct in production, unrunnable against the test SQLite" condition — which, as you say, is plausibly why three routes were stubs.

Company scoping is present and load-bearing, and the docstring explains why in the terms #15812 established: a bare WHERE agent_id = :slug returns exactly one row and attributes it to the wrong company.

The extraction has two real callers — backlog.py:72 and work_item_queue.py:102, both order_by(*backlog_order()). So "dropping backlog_position fails 2, one per caller" is a claim about two genuine consumers, not one plus a test.

And rowcount == 0 → 404 rather than a silent success is the right call in a PR about routes that reported success without doing the work.

# Severity Where Finding
1 Medium _common.py:agent_node_uuid, agent_api.py:365 uuid.UUID(company_id) unguarded, on a column with no UUID constraint
2 Low _common.py:agent_node_uuid Un-backfilled org nodes silently lose comment authorship
3 Low agent_api.py:353 work_item_id parsed without the guard run_id gets

1 — the guard went on the untrusted input, not the unconstrained one

agent_api.py:87-90 states the defect this PR fixes:

checkout writes assignee_agent_id = uuid.UUID(agent_id) against a UUID column, so handing it the middleware's slug raises ValueError — a 500 for a condition that is not a server fault.

The replacement does uuid.UUID(company_id) — twice, both unguarded — on the other value _agent_context returns from the same tuple.

That value is not constrained to be a UUID. It comes from middleware/agent_auth.py:64, request.state.company_id = key_record.company_id, and LLCApiKey.company_id is mapped_column(String(255), index=True, nullable=False) (llc/models/api_key.py:28) — an arbitrary 255-character string. _agent_context checks truthiness only.

The middleware's own test asserts req.state.company_id == "co-1" (test_agent_auth_middleware.py:80). Whether that value can reach production depends on how keys are provisioned, which I have not traced — but nothing in the schema or the context helper prevents it, and uuid.UUID("co-1") raises ValueError with no handler between it and FastAPI.

What makes this worth fixing rather than noting: in the same handler, run_id — a client-supplied body field — gets an explicit guard:

try:
    run_uuid = uuid.UUID(body.run_id)
except ValueError as exc:
    raise HTTPException(status_code=422, detail=f"run_id {body.run_id!r} is not a UUID") from exc

So the input that looked dangerous was guarded and the one that is merely unconstrained was not. company_id arrives from the auth layer, which is exactly why it reads as trustworthy — but trusted and well-formed are different properties, and only the second one uuid.UUID cares about.

Cheapest fix is one helper, since the value is parsed in both files:

def company_uuid(company_id: str) -> uuid.UUID:
    """`LLCApiKey.company_id` is String(255); nothing constrains it to a UUID."""
    try:
        return uuid.UUID(company_id)
    except (TypeError, ValueError) as exc:
        raise HTTPException(status_code=400, detail="agent context carries a malformed company id") from exc

_assert_item_in_company at :61 already treats it as an opaque string (str(item.company_id) != str(company_id)), so the file currently holds both readings of the same value.

2 — None has a second cause the docstring doesn't name

None when the agent has no node — an API key can outlive its node.

There is a more likely one. AgentOrgNode.company_id is nullable=True (models/agent_org.py:65), introduced that way by 20260523_037 so existing rows were unaffected, and nothing backfills it — that work is #15858, still open. For any node with a NULL company, AgentOrgNode.company_id == uuid.UUID(company_id) is NULL, never matches, and the helper returns None.

The node exists. The agent is fine. The comment is stored authorless, and the docstring's own words apply: "not a smaller version of the right answer — it is the information the comment exists to carry."

Same root as the _pause_agent finding on #15864: a correct company predicate against a column nothing has populated yet. Worth naming in the docstring at minimum, since the two causes want different responses — an outlived key is expected, an un-backfilled node is #15858 arriving early.

3 — one parse without the guard its neighbour has

values["work_item_id"] = uuid.UUID(body.work_item_id)

_assert_item_in_company(body.work_item_id, company_id) runs eight lines earlier and probably 404s a malformed id before this is reached, so I don't think it's live. But run_id two blocks up has an explicit 422 for the identical condition, and the protection here is ordering rather than a guard — which holds until someone moves the validation or adds a path that skips it.


Nothing blocking. Finding 1 is the one I'd fix before merge, because the PR's own comment is the argument for it: it names uuid.UUID on an unconstrained value as a 500 for something that isn't a server fault, and that is what remains for company_id.

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94-94: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Backfill AgentOrgNode.company_id before using this lookup.

AgentOrgNode.company_id == uuid.UUID(company_id) excludes an existing agent node when its nullable company ID is NULL. post_comment then stores author_agent_id=None, so comments from valid agents lose authorship. Backfill existing nodes and enforce a non-null company ID. Do not weaken the company predicate, because that would break tenant scoping.

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Remove the unused session fixture parameters.

Line 450 and Line 474 do not use session. Ruff reports ARG001 for both definitions. Remove the parameters to keep the test module lint-clean.

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mrveiss and others added 7 commits September 7, 2026 10:58
`GET /work-items/next`, `POST /comments` and `POST /heartbeat/report` returned an
explicit negative and no effect. #15859 made them honest; honest and
unimplemented is still unimplemented.

WHAT "NEXT" MEANS is not a new opinion. `checkout_next` reuses the ordering
`BacklogService.list` already applies, so the item handed to an agent is the one
a human sees at the top of the same backlog. Eligible is: this company's,
`ready`, unclaimed, unassigned or assigned to this agent. `backlog` is excluded
deliberately -- an item nobody has readied is not work an agent picks up on its
own, and `WorkItemStatus` distinguishes the two precisely so that call can be
made.

THREE DEFECTS FOUND WHILE WIRING, none of which a response-shaped test sees:

* `checkout` writes `assignee_agent_id = uuid.UUID(agent_id)` against a UUID
  column, but `_agent_context` yields a company-scoped SLUG. A real request
  would have raised ValueError -- a 500 for something that is not a server
  fault. The route resolves slug -> `agent_org_nodes.id` first, and an agent
  with no node gets a 404 that says so rather than "no eligible work": those
  must not read alike, or a broken agent is told there is nothing to do forever.
* The resolution is scoped by company. The slug is unique per company, not
  globally (#15812), so `WHERE agent_id = :slug` alone returns whichever row the
  database holds and would attribute one company's comment to another's agent.
* Comparing a `uuid` column to a bound string is dialect-fragile: PostgreSQL
  rejects `uuid = text`, SQLite stores 32 hex characters so a dashed literal
  matches nothing and reads as "no such row". Both new queries use Core rather
  than `text()`. The heartbeat UPDATE was written with `CAST(:id AS uuid)`
  first, which is Postgres-only -- correct in production and untestable, so the
  route could not be exercised at all.

The heartbeat route UPDATEs the run the scheduler created rather than inserting;
inserting would satisfy any response assertion while making every count of runs
wrong. `recorded` is a rowcount, not a constant, and a run belonging to another
company 404s.

EXTRACTION, because `work_item_service.py` sits AT its grandfathered ceiling of
1,100 lines and `agent_api.py` has a hard 600 cap (#14236). A ceiling raised to
fit lines I chose to add spends a grandfathered file's headroom on my own
convenience, so:

* `llc/services/work_item_queue.py` -- new. Owns `checkout_next` and the backlog
  ordering. My first version COPIED `_PRIORITY_RANK` out of `backlog.py`: two
  literals expressing one rule, which is the defect #15912 had just removed from
  the pricing tables, committed by me an hour later. `backlog.py` now imports
  it, so the two cannot disagree.
* `agent_node_uuid` moves to `llc/api/_common.py`, which is what that module is
  for.

work_item_service.py 1100 -> 1100. agent_api.py 620 -> 582.

Verified by mutation (baseline 26 passed across the two suites):

    comment route drops the company check        1 failed
    heartbeat drops the company scope            1 failed
    checkout_next ignores backlog ordering       1 failed
    next route claims backlog items too          1 failed
    shared ordering drops backlog_position       2 failed  <- one per caller

The last is the extraction's own proof: both callers fail on one mutation, which
is what "shared" has to mean.

Every assertion is on the effect -- the item is assigned, the comment is
readable, the run row changed and no second row appeared. The response is what
the stubs were already producing correctly.

Test-harness note worth carrying: three seeds were written as raw INSERT and
failed three times on mixin-managed timestamp columns a hand-written column list
does not know about. They now seed through the service and the models, which is
what production uses, so the fixture cannot disagree with the code under test.
Applied Black, isort, and autoflake to match code-quality checks.
Triggered by workflow auto-fix-formatting.yml.
Auto-regenerated (py3.14) to match the backend and/or SLM backend
schema so the required verify-generated-types gate(s) pass.
Triggered by auto-fix-generated-types.yml.
…id (#15905)

This PR's comment on `get_next_work_item` names the class: `uuid.UUID(x)` on a
value nothing constrains is "a 500 for a condition that is not a server fault".
It then commits the same defect twice more. Both found by grepping the file for
the class rather than by reading the diff -- b9's check, and it works.

1. `company_id`, the OTHER element of the same `_agent_context` tuple. Five
   sites in this file convert it against a UUID column, and nothing constrains
   it: `LLCApiKey.company_id` is `mapped_column(String(255))`, `_agent_context`
   checked truthiness only, and the auth middleware's own test asserts
   `company_id == "co-1"`.

   Guarded at `_agent_context` rather than at the five sites, because that is
   where the value enters -- a per-site guard is one the sixth site will not
   have, and two of the five (`:575`, `:601`) predate this PR. 401, not 422: an
   auth context the auth layer built wrong is not the caller's to correct.

2. `work_item_id`, a CLIENT-SUPPLIED body field on two routes.
   `WorkItemService.get` does `uuid.UUID(str(...))` unguarded, so a malformed id
   was a 500 -- while `run_id`, two lines away in the same handler, had an
   explicit 422. **The guard went on the input that looked dangerous, not the one
   that was unchecked.** Fixed at `_assert_item_in_company`, which both routes
   share.

Also corrected `agent_node_uuid`'s docstring, which named one cause of `None`
and there are two. `AgentOrgNode.company_id` is nullable with nothing
backfilling it (#15858), so on a pre-backfill deployment a healthy agent
resolves to `None` and its comment is stored authorless. Storing it anyway is
deliberate; naming only the first cause was not.

Verified by mutation (baseline 13 passed):

    remove the company_id boundary guard   1 failed
    remove the work_item_id guard          1 failed

Third time in this session a change has diagnosed a class correctly and stopped
at the field that prompted it. The generalisation worth keeping: when a comment
names a class of defect, grep the same file for the other instances before
reading anything else -- the hard part is already done.
…e file (#15905)

Wiring the three stubs took `agent_api.py` from 449 to 628 against a hard cap of
600. It has never been grandfathered, so it does not start life with an
exemption -- the same call I made on `man_page_indexing.py`, and this time the
file is one I grew rather than created.

`agent_context` and `assert_item_in_company` move to `_common.py`, joining
`agent_node_uuid`. They are shared route helpers, which is what that module is
for, and moving them takes the guard added in the previous commit with them.

    agent_api.py   628 -> 555   (cap 600)
    _common.py      98 -> 171

26 passed across the three affected suites; ceilings clean over 5,243 files.

WHAT FELL OUT, because a forced extraction has now produced a finding twice in
this session (`work_item_service.py` at 1100 surfaced the copied `_PRIORITY_RANK`).

`llc/deps.py:167` says `load_authorized` is a "generic IDOR-guard loader
consolidating the per-router `_get_authorized_<obj>` copies, each of which
re-implemented 'select by id, then compare the row's owning company'". That
consolidation is incomplete: SEVEN hand-rolled copies remain --

    llc/agent_tools.py:174          llc/services/goal.py:129, :291, :324
    llc/api/review_gate_policies.py:63   llc/kb/context_builder.py:137
    llc/api/_common.py:175          <- mine, moved by this commit

and the reason is structural rather than neglect: `load_authorized` requires a
`TenantContext`, while the agent surface and the service layer hold a raw
`company_id` string. So the canonical guard is unreachable from half the
codebase and each site re-implements it.

Filed separately rather than ridden into this PR -- six of the seven are in
modules this change does not touch.
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…t order (#15905)

b9's non-blocking finding, fixed rather than documented. `report_heartbeat`
re-parsed `uuid.UUID(body.work_item_id)` after `assert_item_in_company` had
already validated it. That was safe -- but safe **by ordering**: the guard
happens to run first, and nothing says so. An invariant held by statement order
is invisible to whoever next edits the function, and moving two lines restores
the 500.

`assert_item_in_company` now returns the parsed `uuid.UUID` and the handler uses
it. The second parse is gone, so there is no ordering to preserve and no comment
to keep true.

Recording an invariant costs one line; removing the need for it costs the same
and cannot rot.

    reorder the parse ahead of the guard   1 failed of 13
                                           (previously: silent)

22 passed across both route suites. Ceilings rc=0, measured after black and
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The one open review thread on this PR. `_Recording.has_unresolved_blockers`
returned a bare `False` with no annotation; Ruff reports ANN202.

Worth recording what the thread was NOT: it was reported to me as the
`cid = company_id or str(item.company_id)` Major. That one was fixed in
`f93f12cf6d` and its thread is resolved -- the single outstanding item was this
annotation. I checked the thread rather than acting on the description of it,
which is the habit I should have had before merging #15920 with seven of them
open.

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* fix(llc): GH#8252's blocked-by rule had never fired (#15931)

`transition_status` refuses BLOCKED -> IN_PROGRESS while unresolved `blocked_by`
relations remain. It was gated on `relation_svc is not None and company_id is not
None`, and **nothing outside its own two tests ever passed `relation_svc`**:

    llc/api/work_items.py:644   the work-item API      neither  -> rule skipped
    llc/services/board.py:329   board card moves       neither  -> rule skipped
    llc/api/agent_api.py:103    agent status route     company  -> rule skipped

So a blocked item moved to `in_progress` from the API and from a board card
drag -- the two paths a person actually uses.

BOTH GATES REMOVED rather than threaded through the callers. An optional
collaborator is off by default, so every call site written before it was added
keeps the old behaviour with no diff showing it; threading it would hold until
the next caller. `relation_svc` stays injectable for tests and now defaults to
the real service.

`company_id` was never needed: the company is on the row already loaded, and the
old `cid = company_id or str(item.company_id)` fallback shows the author knew --
but the guard above made that line unreachable. The function carried its own
workaround for the argument it insisted on.

WHY GREEN CI NEVER CAUGHT IT. The existing tests pass `relation_svc` explicitly,
so they prove the rule works WHEN INVOKED and say nothing about whether anything
invokes it. A test that supplies a collaborator no caller supplies is testing a
configuration that does not occur. Same class as #15914's dead constructors:
correct, tested, unreachable. The new tests call `transition_status` the way
production calls it -- no `relation_svc`, and in one case no `company_id`.

Verified by mutation (baseline 15 passed across both suites):

    restore the original two gates        2 failed
    keep only the `company_id` gate       1 failed
    drop the company scope from `cid`     2 failed

The first is the exact pre-fix state, and it now fails. The third is the
boundary: `has_unresolved_blockers` filters on company, the company now comes
from the row rather than the argument, and that substitution had to keep the
scope rather than widen it -- one test asserts another company's blocker does
NOT refuse this company's transition.

Two contrast cases stop the fix over-refusing: a DONE blocker and an item with
no relations must both still transition, or the rule makes `in_progress`
unreachable.

No regression: the LLC suite fails the same 9 tests on this branch and on
untouched base -- identical sets, diffed rather than counted, all
`llc.scheduler.base` requiring Python 3.11+ locally.

* fix(llc): keep work_item_service.py at its ceiling (#15931)

My explanation of the fix took the file 1100 -> 1121 against a grandfathered
ceiling with zero headroom. A file that may not grow may not grow for a comment
either, and the ceiling is not raised for lines I chose to add.

Trimmed to four lines pointing at `test_blocked_by_rule_fires_15931.py`, whose
docstring already carries the full account, as does the commit that made the
change. Back to exactly 1100.

Worth noting I pushed the first commit before reading the ceiling output --
`--audit-ceilings` printed the violation and exited 0, so the `&&` chain
continued and `flake8` printing "clean" was the last thing I saw. Read the
output, not the exit code.

37 passed.

* Auto-fix: code formatting

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Triggered by workflow auto-fix-formatting.yml.

* fix(llc): the in-function import costs two lines once formatted (#15931)

CI failed the ceiling at 1101 where I measured exactly 1100 locally. The
difference is the auto-formatter: PEP8 wants a blank line after an import, so
`712fad06b3` added one under my function-level `from .work_item_relations import
WorkItemRelationService`. An in-function import costs two lines, not one, and I
measured the unformatted form.

`work_item_relations` does not import `work_item_service`, so there is no cycle
and the import belongs at module level. Back to 1100 -- and this time measured
AFTER running black and isort locally, which is what CI compares against.

The general form, since this is the second ceiling surprise on this branch:
measure the file the formatter will produce, not the file you wrote.

* security(llc): transition_status enforced no ownership at all (#15952)

ai-18's finding, and the more serious half of this PR. `transition_status`
selected the row by id alone:

    select(LLCWorkItem).where(LLCWorkItem.id == uuid.UUID(work_item_id))

`company_id` was used only for the blocker lookup, so it gated a business rule
and nothing else. `agent_api`'s docstring promises a 404 for another company's
item and `work_items.py:641` guards itself, but the service enforced nothing --
so the agent route, which passes `company_id`, transitioned other companies'
items. Same message as "missing" on purpose: a caller must not learn another
company's item exists.

SECOND HALF, `cid` precedence. `cid = company_id or str(item.company_id)`
preferred the CALLER's company, so a cross-company transition asked
`has_unresolved_blockers` about the wrong company, found no relations, and was
waved through. The blockers belong to the ITEM, so `cid` is now
`str(item.company_id)` unconditionally.

THE TWO ARE NOT INDEPENDENTLY TESTABLE, and I am not claiming they are. With the
ownership check in place, `company_id or str(item.company_id)` is PROVABLY equal
to `str(item.company_id)` -- the check rejects the only input where they differ.
So restoring the precedence bug survives mutation, and that is a consequence of
the first fix being correct rather than a hole in the tests:

    drop the ownership check          1 failed
    restore the cid precedence bug    0 failed  <- survives, by construction

A mutation that survives for a stated structural reason is better evidence than
one that dies for an unexamined one. Both halves land together because fixing
either alone leaves the pair looking handled.

TWO EXISTING TESTS BROKE, and they were asserting the defect. Both passed
`company_id=str(uuid.uuid4())` -- a random company -- against a
`MagicMock(spec=LLCWorkItem)` whose `company_id` was an unset MagicMock, so no
comparison could ever match. They passed only because the service compared
nothing. Given a real company they assert what they always claimed to.

That is the third time on this branch that a test broke because it encoded the
behaviour being fixed: six pinned an unscoped call signature on #15930, and
these two pinned an unenforced ownership check.

LLC suite fails the same 9 as untouched base, sets diffed. Ceilings rc=0 after
black and isort.

* test(llc): annotate the recording stub's return type (#15931)

The one open review thread on this PR. `_Recording.has_unresolved_blockers`
returned a bare `False` with no annotation; Ruff reports ANN202.

Worth recording what the thread was NOT: it was reported to me as the
`cid = company_id or str(item.company_id)` Major. That one was fixed in
`f93f12cf6d` and its thread is resolved -- the single outstanding item was this
annotation. I checked the thread rather than acting on the description of it,
which is the habit I should have had before merging #15920 with seven of them
open.

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* fix(llc): three review findings I merged past on #15920 (#15905)

I merged #15920 with seven unresolved review threads, three of them Major. I
verified CI properly -- 82 checks, and I caught my own jq filter falsely
reporting two legacy commit statuses as pending -- then merged past the approval
ruleset with `--admin`, which the recorded decision sanctions when green. **I
never read the threads.** Green CI is not "no outstanding review", and the two
gates look identical from the merge button.

The CI half got two independent checks. The review half got none.

1. THE ASSIGNEE FILTER RAN AFTER THE LIMIT. `checkout_next` selected
   `CHECKOUT_CANDIDATES` rows and then discarded other agents' items in Python,
   so a backlog whose top ten belong to someone else returned "no eligible work"
   while eligible items sat directly below. The bound silently meant "how many
   of the top ten are mine" rather than "how many claims will I attempt". The
   predicate is now in the query, so the LIMIT applies to eligible rows.

   I had flagged the bound in that PR's Risks as a judgement call and missed
   that the filter's PLACEMENT was the defect, not its size.

2. THE COMMENT TEST NEVER SEEDED AN AGENT NODE, so `agent_node_uuid` returned
   None, `author_agent_id` was stored as None, and the test asserted nothing
   about authorship -- in a test written to prove the effect, for the one thing
   that helper exists to do. It now seeds the node and asserts
   `author_agent_id == node_id`.

3. `nulls_last(backlog_position)` CANNOT FIRE. The column is `nullable=False`
   with `server_default="0"` and `bulk_reorder` assigns `0..n-1`, so no row is
   ever NULL: untouched items sit at 0 and sort AHEAD of anything reordered to
   position >= 1. The comment claimed the opposite, and I carried that claim into
   the shared `backlog_order()` when I extracted it -- turning a local quirk into
   a contract two callers depend on.

   Filed as #15963 rather than fixed here: the fix needs a sentinel and a data
   migration, and existing `0` rows are ambiguous between "untouched" and
   "reordered to first" in a way no migration can separate. Both comments now
   describe what the code does.

Verified by mutation (baseline 15 passed):

    assignee filter back to post-LIMIT Python   1 failed
    drop the author from the comment write      1 failed

Two tests added for the assignee change: one fills every candidate slot with
another agent's items and asserts we still get the one below them; the contrast
asserts our OWN assignments are not excluded by the new predicate.

31 passed with the backlog suite. Ceilings rc=0 after black.

None of these was found by me rereading. The prose-satisfaction bug took
mutation, this took a reviewer, and the merge-past-threads took a peer session.

* fix(llc): stop an agent claiming a user-assigned work item (#15964)

`checkout_next`'s eligibility predicate treated `assignee_agent_id IS NULL`
as "unassigned". An item assigned to a USER has that column null, so it
matched, and `checkout` then wrote `assignee_type = agent` over it while
leaving `assignee_user_id` populated — a row naming an agent and a user at
once, its type agreeing with only one of them (CWE-863).

- The unassigned branch now requires BOTH assignee columns null, extracted
  as `claimable_by()` so the rule can be asserted on directly.
- `checkout` clears `assignee_user_id`, restoring the single-assignee
  invariant #10532 that `update()` already enforced and `checkout` did not.
  Landed net-zero on line count: the file sits at its 1100 ratchet ceiling,
  which is never raised to make a check pass.
- `backlog.py`'s comment claimed items never reordered keep their natural
  priority/age ordering. They do not — they sit at position 0 and outrank
  anything reordered to 1 or beyond. #15964 corrected half this comment and
  left the rest; the remainder now describes the real ordering and cites
  #15963.

Regression test reads the predicate's expression tree, not the compiled SQL
string: `... IS NULL` appears in the statement for unrelated columns, so a
string match would pass on the vulnerable shape. The behavioural path needs
Postgres and would skip everywhere else, and a security test that skips
reports clean while proving nothing.

Mutation-proven, 3 passed at baseline:
- revert predicate to agent-only            -> 1 failed
- predicate tests the user column twice     -> 1 failed
- drop the clear from `checkout` (line 517) -> 1 failed
The other two `assignee_user_id = None` sites (`update`, `unclaim_human`)
stay in place under that third mutation, so the check is scoped to
`checkout` rather than satisfied by a neighbour.

Refs #15964, #15963, #10532

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…ry leak at the route (#15965, #15930) (#15988)

* test(llc): pin checkout_next's candidate window to the constant, not to 10 (#15965)

Criteria 4 and 5 of #15965, which are one fixture.

The defect was that the assignee predicate ran in Python **after** the `LIMIT`:
ten items assigned to another agent, ordered ahead, filled the candidate window,
the filter removed all ten, and `checkout_next` returned `None` while an
eligible item sat below them. The predicate moved into SQL in #15920, but
nothing on base built a population large enough to exercise it.

The existing tests could not: `test_checkout_excludes_user_assigned_15964.py`
asserts the predicate's SHAPE and `test_agent_stub_routes_15905.py` asserts
route behaviour and ordering. Neither exceeds `CHECKOUT_CANDIDATES`, which is
the only condition under which the defect appears. A test of the fix's shape is
not a test of the failure it fixed.

**The decoy count is read from `CHECKOUT_CANDIDATES`, never written as 10** —
this is the whole of criterion 5, and it is demonstrated rather than asserted.
With the original defect restored AND the constant raised from 10 to 100:

    hard-coded-10 variant of this same file : 1 passed   <- masked
    this file, reading the constant         : 1 failed   <- still catches it

So raising the constant cannot be substituted for fixing the predicate. Proven
by building the hard-coded variant, running both under the same mutation, and
deleting it.

Mutations, against a 4-passed baseline:

| mutation | result |
|---|---|
| restore the original defect (filter after LIMIT) | 2 failed |
| that defect AND the constant raised to 100 | 2 failed |

Two contrast cases, because "return something below the window" is otherwise
satisfied by a worse bug than the one being fixed: a window containing only
another agent's items must still yield `None`, and an item already assigned to
this agent below a full window must be claimable.

Ordering is set through `backlog_position` rather than creation time, which
collides at sqlite's timestamp resolution and would make the decoys' precedence
incidental.

Verified: `llc/tests/` 1828 passed / 9 failed, against 1824 / 9 on
origin/Dev_new_gui — the same nine, plus this file's four. Five collection
errors in scheduler suites are present identically on base.

Refs #15965, #15920, #15964

* test(llc): prove the ancestry leak is closed at the route, not the service (#15930)

#15930's criterion 2: seed a goal whose parent belongs to another company, call
the route as the child's owner, and assert the foreign ancestor is absent from
the RESPONSE — not from a return value, and not from a log line.

Everything already in this file proves the scenario at the service layer. That
is the same layer the defect hid behind: `get_ancestors` looked scoped because a
caller *could* pass `company_id`, and the route did not. Service-level evidence
is the kind that made this invisible, so the criterion asked for the boundary and
the criterion was right.

The `TestClient` harness was already here — it covered the platform-admin chain
and the non-admin 404, but not this scenario. Two tests, because either alone is
satisfiable by a wrong implementation:

- a foreign parent must be absent for the child's own owner
- an own-company chain must still come back in full, so a route that returned
  `[]` unconditionally cannot pass the first

Mutation-proven against a 10-passed baseline, naming the tests rather than the
totals:

  remove the derived-scope default (the original defect)
    -> test_the_walk_is_scoped_even_when_the_caller_omits_the_company  FAILED
    -> test_the_route_omits_a_foreign_ancestor_for_the_childs_own_owner  FAILED

  route always returns an empty chain
    -> 2 failed, the contrast among them

Seeded via `_goal` rather than `create`, which refuses the cross-company edge
under test (#13704). That guard stops NEW edges; this reproduces the pre-guard
state an existing installation may still hold, which is why the walk needs its
own check.

Refs #15930
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* guard(ci): record glob-declared guard reads, and say what the green covers (#15900)

The filter-coverage checker records a guard's input only when it resolves to a
concrete file, so a guard declaring `".github/workflows/*.yml"` contributed
nothing. Its dependency was real and its detection was not — the checker's green
meant "no guard reads an uncovered file BY CONCRETE LITERAL" while its name
claimed the general property.

**The declarations, not their expansions.** #15900 costed the obvious fix:
teaching `_record` to expand globs turns 27 uncovered entries into ~86, because
`.github/workflows/` alone holds 64 files, and `MAX_UNCOVERED_READS` only ever
goes down. That forces a 59-entry cap raise or a twelve-shard filter widening —
a CI-spend decision that was being made by an accident of implementation.

Recording the DECLARATIONS costs none of it. Measured: **14 declarations across
5 guards**, against 59+ expansions. And the declarations are what a reader
actually needs — which guard depends on which tree — so an undetectable
dependency and an absent one stop being indistinguishable, at no CI cost.

**Discovery found a fifth gap #15900 does not name.** The issue lists three
guards; the population is every quoted repo-relative string containing `*`, and
it turned up `scripts/lib/*.sh`, a real uncovered dependency of
`comment_line_number_citations_test.py`. Five uncovered declarations recorded,
each naming the guard that depends on it — asserted, not merely conventional:
`test_every_record_entry_names_the_guard_that_depends_on_it` rejects a reason
that records only that a decision happened.

The sibling checker now states its scope in its docstring, its failure message
and at the early return itself, and points at this file. A checker whose name
over-claims is the defect it exists to prevent, so the boundary is written where
someone hitting the failure will read it.

Mutation-proven, naming the test each kills:

| mutation | test that failed |
|---|---|
| an uncovered glob leaves the record | `test_every_uncovered_glob_declaration_is_recorded`, `test_the_record_only_shrinks` |
| detector returns nothing | `test_the_record_only_shrinks`, `test_the_detector_reports_a_glob_declaration` |
| sweep collapses to 3 guards | `test_every_uncovered_glob_declaration_is_recorded`, `test_the_record_only_shrinks` |

Three contrasts, because "detect globs" is otherwise satisfied by reporting every
string: a concrete literal is the sibling's job and must NOT be duplicated here,
a bare word is not a path, and a path into a directory this repository does not
have is prose rather than a read.

Floor is on guards PARSED (180), not on declarations found.

58 passed across both checkers, the ratchet and the #15925 guard.

Refs #15900, #15713, #15896

* fix(guards): three review findings I merged past on #15994 (#15900)

I merged #15994 with three unresolved threads — the thread count and the merge
ran in one invocation, so the merge did not wait on the count. Same error I
recorded from #15920. All three were real.

**1. The detector required a slash AND `*`**, so `"*.toml"`, `"config/?.yml"`
and `"config/[ab].yml"` never entered the population — a dependency that is
undetectable is exactly what this guard exists to stop.

Adding `?` and `[` to the character class was the obvious fix and unusable: a
naive widening reported **44** uncovered entries including `list[Path]`,
`os.environ[`, `[Unit]`, `string[]`, `github-actions[bot]` and the regex
`[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*`. Brackets are subscripts and annotations far more often
than pathspecs. `_is_path_like` now requires a real first directory when there
is a slash, and a suffix-glob shape when there is not — 19 uncovered, all
genuinely path-like.

**2. The record could not go stale.** Its own keys are quoted glob strings, so
the sweep rediscovered every entry from the record itself and
`test_the_record_only_shrinks` could never fire. This module is now excluded —
the OPPOSITE of #15990's census, where removing a self-exemption was right
because that guard counted invocations and skipping itself hid a real bypass.
Two records, two directions, one question each: does reading myself change the
answer?

**3. The reason string was not evidence.** It asserted only that `_test.py`
appeared, so an entry could name an unrelated guard and pass. Guards are
structured data now and both directions are checked: every guard discovered for
a glob must be recorded, and every recorded guard must still declare it.

One fixture corrected while writing the tests: the review's illustrative
`"config/?.yml"` asserts a shape the detector correctly REJECTS, because this
repository has no `config/` and a path into a non-existent tree is prose.
`"scripts/?.sh"` tests the intended property.

Mutation-proven, naming the test each kills:

| mutation | tests that failed |
|---|---|
| detector back to slash AND `*` | `..._accepts_every_supported_glob_form[root-suffix]`, `[question-mark]`, plus both record tests |
| stop excluding this module | `test_the_record_cannot_rediscover_itself`, plus both record tests |
| record names a plausible but wrong guard | `test_the_record_names_exactly_the_guards_that_declare_each_glob` |

Six negative fixtures for the bracket forms, because that is why `?` and `[`
could not simply be added.

19 passed here; 65 across the affected suites and the ratchet.

Refs #15900, #15994

* fix(guards): reject paths that leave the repository (#15998 review)

`"../*.py"` entered the declaration population because `REPO_ROOT / ".."` **is**
a directory. The check answered "does this resolve to something" when the
question was "is this a path inside this repository" — two questions the
`is_dir()` test cannot tell apart.

`.` and `..` components are now rejected before the directory test, and the scan
covers every component rather than the first: `"scripts/../../*.py"` starts with
a real directory and still escapes.

Three negative fixtures, one per shape. Mutation: dropping the traversal check
fails all three by name.

22 passed.

Refs #15900, #15998

* fix(guards): the declaration pattern backtracked exponentially (#15998 CodeQL)

CodeQL flagged `_QUOTED_GLOB` as exponential on strings of repeated `*/`, and it
was. Measured before the fix:

    12 repetitions ->   0.13 ms
    16             ->   2.02 ms
    20             ->  34.62 ms
    24             -> 573.43 ms

Roughly x4 per two repetitions. The cause: the inner character class contained
`/`, so a separator could be matched either by the literal `/` or inside the
class, and the two alternatives multiply. Removing `/` from the inner class
makes it unambiguous — 0.002 ms at 30 repetitions — and matches **identically**
on every real declaration form, verified pair by pair before changing anything.

Pinned as a TIME BUDGET rather than by inspecting the pattern: the property is
about matching behaviour, and a future edit could reintroduce the ambiguity with
different characters.

**N=26, deliberately, and this is the part worth keeping.** My first version used
N=40, where the ambiguous pattern never returns — so the mutation HUNG the suite
for 60 s and reported nothing instead of failing. A test that hangs is worse than
one that fails: it blocks the runner and produces no verdict. At N=26 the bad
pattern takes ~2.3 s and fails the assertion cleanly.

A contrast accompanies it: the pattern must still match every declaration form.
Without that, "fixed the ReDoS" is satisfied by breaking the detector, and a
pattern that matches nothing cannot backtrack either.

Mutation: restoring the ambiguous class fails
`test_the_declaration_pattern_does_not_backtrack_exponentially` in 2.89 s.

24 passed here, 55 across the sibling checker and the ratchet.

Refs #15900, #15998

* fix(guards): parse the declarations instead of grepping them (#15998 review)

Two false-positive classes, both in the guard that enumerates this exact
blindness for other guards.

**1. A glob inside a string literal is test data, not a read.**
`repo_root_walks_use_git_15955_test.py` builds fixtures like
`source = 'for p in ROOT.rglob("*.sh"): pass'`. Regexing raw source counted that
`"*.sh"` as a declaration and demanded a record entry for a dependency that does
not exist — which the record's own header forbids satisfying by adding one. Same
for a glob named in prose.

**That is #16011's finding, in the guard that enumerates it**, and the fix is
#16011's own remedy: parse, do not grep. A declaration is a string CONSTANT that
IS the path, so the whole value is tested rather than a substring of it, and a
constant containing a newline or a quote is source-as-data or prose.

**2. A leading slash resolved to the repository root.** `"/actions/runs?"` split
to an empty first segment, and `REPO_ROOT / ""` is the root, so `.is_dir()` said
yes and URL fragments entered the population. The same shape as `".."`
resolving to the parent, one character shorter — and it only surfaced because
switching to AST changed which strings reached the check.

The record is regenerated from the corrected detector: **20 entries**, with
`*.j2` from `slm_frontend_publish_contract_test.py` now correctly present, and
`repo_root_walks_use_git_15955_test.py` correctly absent from `*.sh`'s
declarers. Both were failures on this branch; one needed a record entry and one
needed the detector fixed, and telling them apart required reading the declarer.

Mutations, naming the tests:

| mutation | tests that failed |
|---|---|
| regex over raw source again | `..._a_glob_inside_a_string_literal_is_not_a_declaration`, `..._a_real_declaration_beside_a_string_fixture_is_still_found`, plus the record |
| allow a leading slash | all three `..._an_absolute_or_url_fragment_is_not_a_declaration` cases, plus the record |
| skip every string constant | 5 failed, including the whole record and the accepted-form cases |

The third is the contrast that matters: "ignore strings" is otherwise satisfied
by ignoring everything, and a detector that declares nothing has no false
positives at all.

30 passed here, 68 with the sibling checker and the ratchet.

Refs #15900, #15998, #16011
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