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Follow-up to #435. Do not merge — Khaliq holds that gate. Opened at chief's authorization because it is currently the thing blocking diagnosis of the live outage.

Why

#435 shipped a repair for the lifecycle-terminal refusal, and on production lifecycle-terminal: 8 is unchanged. That is exactly what its acceptance check named as the disproof — but the check cannot distinguish which of four things is happening, because the reconcile is silent by design. It answers every uncertainty by returning false and leaving the row alone, so all four look identical from outside:

what is happening how it looks today
the repair is firing and clearing rows lifecycle-terminal persists
its durable reads are throwing, swallowed by the never-throw boundary lifecycle-terminal persists
it is losing the compare-and-delete race and standing down lifecycle-terminal persists
it ran and its preconditions were never met lifecycle-terminal persists

The last row is the important one: it says the refused rows are not the shape the repair targetscomplete rather than abandoned, or carrying no lease — which is a completely different bug from the repair being broken, and is currently indistinguishable from it.

The counters already existed (dispatchTerminalStaleReopened / Conflicts / Failures). Nothing published them: public-health.ts emits a strict allowlist, so status().counters never reaches a deployed operator.

What this adds

staleTerminalReopens: { cleared, conflicts, failures } on readinessReconcile.

Cumulative since process start — deliberately not per-sweep like the counts beside it. A clear is a one-shot repair per work unit, so a per-sweep view would read zero on nearly every sweep and the one sweep that mattered would have to be caught live. Cumulative answers the question an operator actually has: has this fired at all since boot, and how often. The per-sweep block's own doc comment says it carries "the last enumerating sweep's arithmetic", so rather than smuggle a lifetime counter in beside it, this is a separate field whose contract is stated in its own doc.

Published whole or not at all. A reader seeing cleared without failures would take the missing field for a zero and call a silently-erroring repair healthy. A partial group is dropped; so is a malformed one — non-integer, negative, or non-object — on the same discipline as the enumeration trio.

Independently optional, for the reason dispatchFailures is: an older daemon publishes the trio and knows nothing about this field, and requiring it would drop that producer's whole sweep block, deleting the counters that are currently the only view of the outage.

An all-zero group is a diagnosis, not an absence, so it is emitted whenever the reconcile can run at all rather than omitted when everything is zero. That reading — {cleared: 0, conflicts: 0, failures: 0} alongside a persistent lifecycle-terminal: 8 — is the one that would tell us the preconditions are never met, and omitting it would delete exactly the signal this PR exists to add.

Verification

  • src/orchestrator/public-health.test.ts62/62, exit 0 (3 new: whole-group publish, partial/malformed rejection incl. -1, 1.5, '8', null, a string, and an older producer keeping its sweep block)
  • src/cli/diagnose.test.ts — 34/34, exit 0
  • npm run build — exit 0
  • npm run featuremap:check — exit 0

src/orchestrator/factory.test.ts is running locally and left to CI as the arbiter; this machine has been producing timeout-shaped flakes all night that pass in isolation, so I am not reporting a local number I do not trust.

What I would read off it

Against the live daemon, in one /healthz:

  • cleared > 0 → the repair is working and the 8 are a rotating set.
  • failures > 0 → its reads are throwing on the shedding DO; the repair is a silent no-op and the fix is retry/backoff, not the guard logic.
  • conflicts > 0 → another owner is reclaiming rows first.
  • all zero → the preconditions are never met, and the 8 are almost certainly complete rows rather than abandoned ones — which #435 refuses by design, and which would need a different repair.

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Summary by cubic

Publishes the stale-terminal reconcile's cumulative outcome counts on readinessReconcile, so operators can tell a working repair from a silent no-op. The group is now also published when no enumerating sweep completed, and the field is declared on the internal status type so consumers can reach it without casts.

Diagnosis readings

  • cleared > 0 means the repair is firing; failures > 0 means its reads are throwing and being swallowed; conflicts > 0 means another owner reclaimed the row; all zero means the preconditions are never met.
  • Counts are cumulative since process start, since a clear is a one-shot repair per work unit.
  • Published whole or not at all: partial or malformed groups are dropped, so a reader never infers a zero for a field the producer lacks.
  • Independently optional, so older daemons that don't know the field keep their sweep block intact.
  • Computed before the enumeration gate, so the group survives wedged or invalid sweeps that would otherwise take the early return.

Written for commit dbb9259. Summary will update on new commits.

Review in cubic

The #410/#412 reconcile is silent by design — it answers every uncertainty
by leaving the row alone — so from outside, four different situations look
identical, because `lifecycle-terminal` simply persists in all of them:

- the repair is firing and clearing rows;
- its durable reads are throwing and being swallowed by the never-throw
  boundary, a silent permanent no-op on a shedding store;
- it is losing the compare-and-delete race and correctly standing down;
- it ran and its PRECONDITIONS were never met, which is the reading that
  says the refused rows are not the shape it targets (`complete` rather
  than `abandoned`, or carrying no lease).

The counters that separate those already existed; nothing published them.
`public-health.ts` publishes a strict allowlist, so `status().counters`
never reached an operator.

Publishes `staleTerminalReopens: { cleared, conflicts, failures }` on
`readinessReconcile`.

CUMULATIVE SINCE PROCESS START, deliberately not per-sweep like the counts
beside it. A clear is a one-shot repair per work unit, so a per-sweep view
would read zero on nearly every sweep and the sweep that mattered would have
to be caught live. Cumulative answers the question an operator actually has:
has this fired at all since boot, and how often.

Published whole or not at all. A reader seeing `cleared` without `failures`
would take the missing field for a zero and call a silently-erroring repair
healthy. A malformed or partial group is dropped rather than published, and
non-integers and negatives are rejected — the same discipline as the
enumeration trio.

Independently optional, for the reason `dispatchFailures` is: an older
daemon publishes the trio and knows nothing about this field, and requiring
it would drop that producer's whole sweep block — deleting the counters that
are currently the only view of the outage.

An all-zero group is a diagnosis, not an absence, so it is emitted whenever
the reconcile can run at all rather than being omitted when everything is
zero.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Lg5tjKJXVV5hpKGpNELqYH

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The readiness reconcile health payload now includes cumulative stale-terminal reopen counters for durable dispatch lifecycles. The public projection validates all three counters and omits incomplete or malformed groups. Tests cover zero, invalid, and older-producer payloads.

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Readiness reconcile telemetry

Layer / File(s) Summary
Public health contract and validation
src/types.ts, src/orchestrator/public-health.ts
The readiness health type and sweepOutcome now support staleTerminalReopens. The projection publishes the group only when all three values are non-negative integers.
Factory counter wiring and compatibility tests
src/orchestrator/factory.ts, src/orchestrator/public-health.test.ts
The factory supplies cumulative counters for durable dispatch lifecycles. Tests cover all-zero, malformed, partial, and omitted counter groups.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f0dfc

This change adds stale-terminal reconciliation telemetry, but some valid readings can be hidden and unavailable counters can appear as real zero values. Health consumers may therefore misdiagnose reconciliation status, and the incomplete contract tests leave compatibility behavior insufficiently protected.

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A rabbit counts three hops at dawn
Cleared and conflicts, failures gone
Zero still speaks beneath the sun
Whole groups travel, none by one
The health trail tells what work has run

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In `@src/orchestrator/factory.ts`:
- Around line 6394-6396: Update the projection containing staleTerminalReopens
to publish it only after reconciliation has completed and all three
counters—dispatchTerminalStaleReopened, dispatchTerminalStaleReopenConflicts,
and dispatchTerminalStaleReopenFailures—are available. Track reconciliation
completion and initialize or validate these counters before constructing the
group; do not emit a misleading all-zero fallback when reconciliation did not
run.

In `@src/orchestrator/public-health.test.ts`:
- Around line 1304-1306: Add assertions in the legacy sweep compatibility test
for both dispatched and skipped on the older result returned by swept,
preserving the existing candidates and staleTerminalReopens checks.
- Around line 1280-1295: Strengthen the malformed-input assertions in the
swept() tests so each rejected result still retains candidates, dispatched, and
skipped while omitting staleTerminalReopens. Expand the invalid cases to cover
missing and invalid cleared, conflicts, and failures values, while preserving
valid values for the other required fields.

In `@src/orchestrator/public-health.ts`:
- Line 385: Update the sweepOutcome flow so
staleTerminalReopenCounts(status.staleTerminalReopens) is computed before the
enumeration-counter validation early return and included in both return paths,
preserving valid all-zero groups for deferred or no-enumeration statuses.

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Review findings on #444.

**P1 (chatgpt-codex-connector, and coderabbitai independently).**
`sweepOutcome` returns early when the enumeration trio is absent or invalid,
and the group was computed after that return — so a valid
`staleTerminalReopens` was discarded for any status with no completed sweep.
That is exactly the wedged-sweep outage this field exists to diagnose: a
sweep that never completes publishes no trio, takes the early return, and
the reconcile's own outcome vanished with it. The group is cumulative and
independent of any sweep's arithmetic, so it is now computed BEFORE the gate
and returned on BOTH paths.

**P2 (chatgpt-codex-connector).** `#readinessReconcileStatus()` returns
`FactoryReadinessReconcileStatus`, and a conditional spread bypasses
excess-property checking, so the field existed at runtime while every
`FactoryStatus` and `FactoryLoopHeartbeat` consumer needed a cast to reach
it. Declared on the internal status type as well as the public one.

**coderabbitai, on interpretation.** `#counters` starts empty and
`#increment` only creates a key when its branch runs, so an all-zero group
does not by itself prove the reconcile executed. Documented rather than
given a separate "has run" flag: the group is read against the sweep trio on
the same block. All zeroes with `candidates > 0` means it ran and its
preconditions were never met; all zeroes with `candidates: 0` or no trio
means it never had a ready issue to run against. The distinction already
lives in those fields.

**coderabbitai, on the tests.** The malformed-input assertions also passed
when `swept()` returned `undefined` and the whole block was gone — a worse
bug than the one under test. Every case now asserts the sweep block
survives, and covers each member missing and each member invalid in turn
rather than only two. The legacy-producer test asserted only `candidates`
and would have passed with `dispatched` or `skipped` dropped; it now asserts
the whole trio.

Ablated: dropping the group from the early-return path fails the new
no-enumerating-sweep test with `expected undefined to deeply equal
{ cleared: 0, conflicts: 0, failures: 4 }`.

public-health 63/63, diagnose 34/34, build and featuremap exit 0.

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