{"task_id":"st_01a04d8d","status":"completed","residency_state":"persisted_only","parent_session_id":"01a04ad7-eaa9-790c-83f7-57410e6370d1","root_session_id":"01a04ad7-eaa9-790c-83f7-57410e6370d1","depth":1,"execution_mode":"in-process","model":"openai-codex/gpt-5.6-sol","notify_on_terminal":true,"created_at":"2026-08-29T12:44:19.562Z","updated_at":"2026-08-29T15:18:51.149Z","notification":{"run_epoch":0,"notified_epoch":0},"name":"authority-red-test-design","task_summary":"Find faithful RED seam for authority mismatch","description":"authority-red-test-design","category":"deep","requested_model":{"provider":"openai-codex","model_id":"gpt-5.6-sol","display":"openai-codex/gpt-5.6-sol","source":"category","variant":"medium","reasoning_effort":"medium"},"fallback_models":[{"provider":"clinepass","model_id":"cline-pass/deepseek-v4-pro","display":"clinepass/cline-pass/deepseek-v4-pro","source":"category","variant":"medium","reasoning_effort":"medium"},{"provider":"clinepass","model_id":"cline-pass/glm-5.2","display":"clinepass/cline-pass/glm-5.2","source":"category","variant":"medium","reasoning_effort":"medium"}],"resolved_model":{"provider":"openai-codex","model_id":"gpt-5.6-sol","display":"GPT-5.6 Sol","source":"category","variant":"medium","reasoning_effort":"medium"},"spawn_spec":{"version":1,"cwd":"/home/cube/projects/richard/traning coach","prompt":"TASK: Identify the cheapest faithful failing-first test for the observed live error \"runtime candidate is not current or was revoked\" and the regression suite needed for the fix. DELIVERABLE: exact test files/test names/fixtures, expected RED assertion, GREEN observable, and adversarial cases for stale pin, interrupted promotion, and rollback. SCOPE: read-only NutriCoach combined worktree and existing evidence; no edits or live actions. VERIFY: cite source lines and existing fixture capabilities. STOP WHEN: executable test design covers live credential plus external registry/ledger/pin coherence.\n\n<Category_Context name=\"deep\">\nYou are operating in DEEP mode. This is the category reserved for goal-oriented autonomous work on hairy problems that reward thorough exploration and comprehensive solutions.\n\nThe orchestrator chose this category because the task benefits from depth over speed. You should feel empowered to spend the time needed: five to fifteen minutes of silent exploration before the first edit is normal and correct. Rushing to implementation on a deep task is a failure mode, not a feature.\n\n# How deep mode adjusts the base behavior\n\n**Exploration budget: generous.** Read the files you need, trace dependencies both directions, fire 2-5 explore/librarian sub-agents in parallel for broader questions. Build a complete mental model before the first `apply_patch`. Exploration here is an investment, not overhead.\n\n**Goal, not plan.** You receive a GOAL describing the desired outcome. You figure out HOW to achieve it. The orchestrator deliberately did not hand you a step-by-step plan; producing one and asking for approval is not what was asked. Execute.\n\n**Atomic task treatment.** When the goal contains numbered steps or phases, treat them as sub-steps of ONE task and execute them all in this turn. Splitting them across turns is wrong unless they reveal an architectural blocker that requires the user's input. If the \"steps\" turn out to be genuinely independent tasks that should have been separate delegations, flag that in your final message and refuse the ones beyond scope.\n\n**Root cause bias.** Prefer root-cause fixes over symptom fixes. A null check around `foo()` is a symptom fix; fixing whatever causes `foo()` to return unexpected values is the root fix. Trace at least two levels up before settling on an answer. In deep mode, you have permission (and the expectation) to do the deeper fix.\n\n**Ambition scaled to context.** For brand-new greenfield work, be ambitious. Choose strong defaults, avoid AI-slop aesthetics, produce something you would be proud to hand to another senior engineer. For changes in an existing codebase, be surgical and respect the existing patterns; depth does not mean invasiveness.\n\n**Completion bar: full delivery.** \"Simplified version\", \"proof of concept\", and \"you can extend this later\" are not acceptable deliveries for a deep task. The orchestrator routed here specifically for a complete solution. If you hit a genuine blocker (missing secret, design decision only the user can make, three materially different attempts all failed), document it and return; otherwise, finish the task.\n\n**Status cadence: sparse.** The user is not on the other side of this conversation; the orchestrator is, and they will synthesize your progress. Send commentary only at meaningful phase transitions (starting exploration, starting implementation, starting verification, hitting a genuine blocker). Do not narrate every tool call; silence during focused work is expected.\n</Category_Context>"},"final_response":"I read this as a read-only test-design investigation - I traced the live failure through credential loading, external authority publication, transaction commit, and rollback.\n\n## Finding\n\nThe cheapest faithful RED is a disposable transaction test that:\n\n1. Starts with an external authority whose current candidate is the predecessor.\n2. Gives the service both real credential names.\n3. Executes the v1.5 successor transaction.\n4. Loads authority through the production credential loader from the successor credential directory.\n\nCurrent behavior rebinds `task26-candidate-digest` but merely copies the old authority pin; it never promotes the successor in the external registry/ledger. The production loader then reaches the exact live error.\n\nEvidence confirms this was post-commit, not startup/install failure:\n\n- Live manual QA error: `.omo/evidence/nutricoach-v150-combined/task-v14r20-live-outcome.json:8`\n- Ledger had already succeeded: same file `:11`\n- Correct remediation recorded as “repair candidate-current authority publication”: same file `:18`\n- Successor credential held digest `3dab...`: rehearsal credential line 1.\n- Its pin still referenced the 13-event v1.3 authority: rehearsal pin line 1.\n- The live drop-in loaded both `task26-authority-pin.json` and `task26-candidate-digest`: rehearsal `authority.conf:4-5`.\n\n## Cheapest failing-first test\n\n**File:** `tests/test_nutricoach_v150_v14_safety.py`  \n**Test:** `test_committed_successor_is_current_in_external_runtime_authority`\n\n### Fixture composition\n\nReuse:\n\n- `target_fixture(tmp_path)` for profile, service unit, and transaction files (`tests/test_nutricoach_v150_sealed_controller.py:26-36`).\n- `write_runtime_authority(tmp_path / \"external-authority\", predecessor)` for a private, coherent two-event registry/ledger/pin/candidate fixture (`scripts/dualcoach_v111_disposable_fixture.py:243-283`).\n- `ConcreteLiveHost.disposable(...)`, which already supports deterministic stage faults (`scripts/nutricoach_v150_concrete_host.py:90-107,130-157,220-223`).\n- `load_task26_production_authority(...)`, which reads the exact production credential names and performs activation authorization (`gateway/platforms/task26_runtime_authority.py:357-389`).\n\nConfigure the current drop-in with:\n\n```text\nLoadCredential=task26-authority-pin.json:<fixture pin>\nLoadCredential=task26-candidate-digest:<fixture predecessor digest>\n```\n\nSet `CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY` to the successor’s generated `runtime-authority` directory after `execute_disposable(...)`.\n\n### Expected RED\n\n```python\nsource, candidate = load_task26_production_authority(\n    profile_root=host.paths.profile,\n    package_root=tmp_path / \"package\",\n)\n```\n\nCurrent code raises:\n\n```text\nValueError: runtime candidate is not current or was revoked\n```\n\nThis is the exact production branch at `gateway/platforms/task26_runtime_authority.py:146-148`.\n\nWhy it fails:\n\n- `switch_postimages()` rewrites the candidate credential for both supported names (`scripts/nutricoach_v150_host_operations.py:127-142`).\n- It copies every other credential, including the stale pin, unchanged.\n- External registry/ledger current-candidate state remains the predecessor.\n- Production loading validates the credential candidate against that external state.\n\n### GREEN observable\n\nThe same production load must succeed, followed by:\n\n```python\nassert candidate == host.candidate_digest\nwith source.authorize(candidate, \"activation\") as snapshot:\n    assert snapshot[\"candidate_digest\"] == host.candidate_digest\n```\n\nAlso assert all four authority surfaces agree:\n\n- successor credential digest;\n- external registry `current_qualified_candidate`;\n- external registry and ledger heads;\n- installed pin’s `event_count`, `registry_head_sha256`, and `ledger_head_sha256`.\n\nFinally:\n\n```python\nassert PhaseJournal(...).phase() == \"COMMITTED\"\nassert GlobalLedger(...).outcome() == \"SUCCEEDED\"\n```\n\nDo not accept only “credential file contains the successor”; that is already covered by `test_switch_rebinds_task26_candidate_credential_name` (`tests/test_nutricoach_v150_v14_safety.py:239-257`) and missed the live defect.\n\n## Required regression tests\n\n### 1. Stale pin\n\n**File:** `tests/test_nutricoach_v150_v14_safety.py`  \n**Test:** `test_runtime_authority_promotion_never_commits_a_stale_pin`\n\nAdvance the external registry/ledger to the successor while retaining the predecessor pin, then exercise production loading.\n\nExpected fail-closed result:\n\n```text\nValueError: runtime authority pin is stale\n```\n\nThe constructor requires pin event count and both heads to equal current chains (`gateway/platforms/task26_runtime_authority.py:102-126`).\n\nFor the fixed transaction, inject failure after registry/ledger publication but before pin publication and assert:\n\n- transaction is not `COMMITTED`;\n- predecessor service is running;\n- successor is absent;\n- a freshly loaded predecessor credential succeeds;\n- pin heads equal verified registry/ledger heads.\n\n### 2. Interrupted promotion\n\n**File:** `tests/test_nutricoach_v150_v14_safety.py`  \n**Test:** `test_interrupted_runtime_authority_promotion_recovers_coherent_authority`\n\nParameterize deterministic publication checkpoints, not sleeps:\n\n```python\n[\n    \"registry_published\",\n    \"ledger_published\",\n    \"registry_source_bound\",\n    \"ledger_source_bound\",\n    \"pin_published\",\n    \"successor_credential_published\",\n]\n```\n\nThese boundaries are necessary because current publication is multi-write:\n\n- base registry then ledger: `task26_candidate_authority.py:165-166`;\n- source/genesis rebinding rewrites each document again: `task26_runtime_authority.py:420-423`;\n- fixture pin and candidate are separate writes: `dualcoach_v111_disposable_fixture.py:276-283`.\n\nEach injected `BaseException`, followed by fresh-process `recover_pending(host)`, must produce:\n\n- phase `ROLLED_BACK`;\n- transaction ledger `FAILED`;\n- no successor;\n- predecessor active;\n- `verify_candidate_authority(root, predecessor)` succeeds;\n- production loading through the active runtime’s credential directory succeeds;\n- pin event count and heads exactly match the paired chains.\n\nThis requires a durable promotion journal or equivalent recovery data. Restoring only profile/unit/drop-in bytes is insufficient.\n\n### 3. Ordinary pre-commit rollback after completed promotion\n\n**File:** `tests/test_nutricoach_v150_sealed_controller.py`  \n**Test:** `test_post_promotion_fault_restores_predecessor_external_authority`\n\nExtend the existing stage matrix with a named authority-promotion stage before service activation. Inject the next-stage fault after promotion.\n\nAssert behavioral restoration, not byte rewind:\n\n- external current candidate is predecessor;\n- any compensating append remains chain-valid;\n- active predecessor pin references the new final heads;\n- successor credential/root is absent;\n- service is running;\n- approval ledger is consumed `FAILED`.\n\nThe existing generic fault matrix already checks every concrete stage, exact profile restoration, service restart, and successor cleanup (`tests/test_nutricoach_v150_sealed_controller.py:152-189`). It should include the promotion stage and authority coherence assertions.\n\n### 4. Post-commit/manual-QA rollback\n\n**File:** `tests/test_nutricoach_v150_v14_safety.py`  \n**Test:** `test_postcommit_manual_qa_rollback_republishes_predecessor_authority`\n\nReproduce the live sequence:\n\n1. Transaction reaches `COMMITTED`/`SUCCEEDED`.\n2. Successor production authority load succeeds.\n3. Invoke the committed rollback path with a synthetic manual-QA failure.\n4. Load production authority through the restored predecessor credentials.\n\nGREEN requires:\n\n- phase `ROLLED_BACK`;\n- one-use ledger remains `SUCCEEDED`, matching the live semantics;\n- predecessor is current externally;\n- predecessor credential and refreshed pin load successfully;\n- successor and weekly authority are absent.\n\nThe existing evidence rollback explicitly starts from `COMMITTED` (`r20-postcommit-rollback.py:50-69`) and checks predecessor restoration and successor removal (`:76-113`), but does not test external registry/ledger/pin authority.\n\n## Supporting unit coverage\n\nAdd **`tests/gateway/test_task26_runtime_authority_promotion.py`** with:\n\n- `test_promotion_publishes_candidate_registry_ledger_and_pin_coherently`\n- `test_stale_pin_is_rejected_after_external_head_advances`\n- `test_interrupted_promotion_recovers_without_mixed_heads`\n- `test_rollback_qualification_makes_predecessor_current_and_repins`\n- `test_revoked_successor_cannot_be_promoted_or_requalified`\n\nThe last case preserves existing revocation semantics: revoked candidates cannot be requalified (`task26_candidate_authority.py:114-117,237-239`).\n\n## Regression command\n\n```bash\nPYTHONPATH='dualcoach/profile:.' uv run pytest -q \\\n  tests/gateway/test_task26_runtime_authority_promotion.py \\\n  tests/test_nutricoach_v150_v14_safety.py \\\n  tests/test_nutricoach_v150_sealed_controller.py \\\n  tests/test_nutricoach_v150_v3_hardening.py \\\n  tests/gateway/test_nutrition_coaching.py::test_disposable_controller_issuance_enables_approved_transport\n```\n\nNo tests or live probes were run because the assigned scope was strictly read-only. 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