@bongos/core 1.19.75 → 1.19.77

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package/docs/canonical-permissions.md

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   override). A raw push is caught and reverted by the **post-push main audit**
   (`scripts/gds/main-audit.js`) — nightly and as the `~/deploy.sh` deploy gate — which is the
   authoritative layer (it reads the real git history + real ranks, independent of the builder).
+- **The pre-push hook fails OPEN by contract, and the wrapper is what enforces that** (task 1002725).
+  The gate exits **13** — and only 13 — when it *deliberately* blocks; `.husky/pre-push` turns that
+  into git's exit 1. Any other non-zero exit is a **crash** and the wrapper warns loudly and allows
+  the push. This is deliberate: Layer 1 is cooperative, so a hook bug must never brick every push,
+  and the fail-closed net is the post-push audit above. The reserved code exists because node itself
+  exits 1 on a syntax error — `1` cannot distinguish a verdict from a fall-over. The gate therefore
+  must never call `process.exit()`: doing so after its rank-lookup `fetch` aborts node natively on
+  Windows (libuv `UV_HANDLE_CLOSING`), which runs no JS handler and exited 127, silently inverting
+  fail-open into "no Windows builder can push at all".
 - CLAUDE.md §10 carries a portable **behavioral** framing of this rule (product builders build the
   product, not the platform core they stand on); this doc holds the rank-name detail and the code is
   the enforcement. Editing CLAUDE.md or the hook locally cannot remove the audit/deploy-gate.

package/docs/design/projects-surfaces-redesign-direction.md

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+# Projects Surfaces — Redesign Direction
+
+> **Task 1002695** (goal 1000059 "Projects surface revamp", R06) · direction decided with the owner 2026-08-12.
+> Feeds **task 1002696** (R07 — the implementation carrier) and the re-walk (task 1002697, with task 1002715 folded in).
+> Findings feed: the QA/UAT checkpoint walk (task 1002702, [session log](../session-logs/<redacted>.md)) and the truthfulness cluster (task 1002720, findings F15–F23).
+
+Scope: the three owner-facing project surfaces — the **create wizard** (`public-landing/create.html`), the **done panel** (`panel-done` in the same file), and the **manage view** (`public-landing/projects.html`, served at `/projects`). **All three live on the apex host — `cloudbongos.com` — and stay there.** Project creation and management are not builders-hall surfaces; the hall (builders subdomain) may link *out* to them, nothing more. The gate catalog stays with goal 1000031; the hall's federation my-projects page is a different surface and is out of scope.
+
+---
+
+## 0. Starting point — what exists today
+
+- The flows **work end-to-end** (verified live on both venues by the checkpoint walk): create → address → GitHub sign-in → manage → teardown. What's broken is the *trust surface*, not the plumbing.
+- Both pages are self-contained orphans: one inline `<style>` each, hand-rolled `:root`, no shared components, ~half the palette hardcoded past the branding contract's reach. The repo holds three unrelated design systems (sunrise landing, indigo hall kit, marble status page); these surfaces belong to the sunrise family but share no code with anything.
+- Lifecycle truth lives in `provisioning_instances.status` — six runner-written states: `requested · provisioning · active · tearing_down · torn_down · error`. The UI maps them to chips (`queued / standing up / live / snagged / tearing down / torn down`).
+- The three failure themes the walk proved (details in §§2–5): the platform asserts states it never verified, in both directions; the copy speaks operator; and the first-run paths (self-host, first admin, newborn instance) were never designed.
+
+## 1. Decisions (owner, 2026-08-12)
+
+1. **Truth model: heartbeat + honest chips.** The platform re-checks liveness on a background cadence and the UI shows verification recency. "Live" becomes a verified claim.
+2. **Visual system: sunrise, tokenized — refined through design iterations.** Keep the sunrise landing brand; extract a shared token + component layer; the final look is nailed down through owner-review loops during implementation (§10), not invented in this doc.
+3. **First-run: designed now, delivered split.** This direction defines the shape-aware surfaces; task 1002696 implements the surface parts, and runner/infra hardening stays in its parallel lane (tasks 1002717–1002722).
+4. **Deliverable: this direction doc.** Owner sign-off on this doc is the task's done condition.
+
+Also folded in, decided earlier the same day: **task 1002704 — auto-assign `<slug>.cloudbongos.com` at creation, opt-out.** The address step collapses from a form into a confirmation (§6).
+
+## 2. Principles
+
+1. **The UI only asserts what the platform verified — and says when.** Every liveness claim carries recency. Unverified is stated as unverified, never dressed as fact.
+2. **Copy speaks owner, not operator.** No raw tool output on a card. No wall-clock promises. No process jargon. What happened, what it means, what (if anything) the owner can do.
+3. **Deliberate end-states are calm.** A teardown the owner asked for is not an error and is never styled as one.
+4. **Every flow owns its vocabulary.** Stage labels are never reused across flows — a card being torn down must not render a stage named "Live".
+5. **Surfaces are honest about hosting shape.** A step renders only if somebody real will actually perform it on this instance's shape. Dead copy is a broken promise.
+6. **One themeable token layer.** Everything an instance can't re-theme through the branding contract is a bug.
+
+## 3. Truth model — the verification overlay
+
+Verification is an **overlay on lifecycle, not a new lifecycle state**. The runner's six statuses stay untouched; verification adds recorded observations about whether the instance actually answers.
+
+**Server (small piece, ships inside task 1002696):**
+- `provisioning_instances` gains `last_verified_at` (timestamptz) and `last_verified_up` (boolean); both nullable.
+- A heartbeat sweep in the provisioning module (in-process interval on the control plane, ~5-minute cadence with jitter) probes every `active` instance: `GET https://<domain>/healthz` when addressed, the recorded local port otherwise, short timeout. It writes the two columns and never flips `status`.
+- `GET /provisioning/instances` and `/:id` expose both fields.
+
+**Display contract (chips on both surfaces):**
+
+| Condition | Chip |
+|---|---|
+| `active`, last probe up, fresh (≤ 2 cadences) | **live** · checked 2m ago (green) |
+| `active`, last probe failed | **unreachable** · since 14:02 (amber/red) |
+| `active`, never probed or stale probe | **live?** · last seen 3h ago (amber) |
+
+- The manage view refreshes settled cards on a slow interval (~60s) and on tab focus, so the overlay stays current while someone is looking. (Today an `active` card never polls again and can never self-correct.)
+- Provision-time gating (walk finding F15 — the runner declared `active` after a failed probe) is **task 1002720's** server work; this direction sets its display contract: the runner either gates `active` on a passing probe or writes `last_verified_up=false` that the UI must render.
+- The inverse direction (F23 — a *successful* GitHub-App setup recorded as failed after a restart race, then a single-use manifest code retried forever) is also task 1002720's; the display contract here is that the done panel's sign-in step **waits and re-verifies** before declaring failure, and never claims failure for a setup it hasn't conclusively observed failing.
+- Address attach (F16): "answering at `<domain>`" is claimed only after a probe **against the domain** succeeds. If DNS wiring was skipped (no hook), the card says exactly what's left: "point your domain's A record at `<ip>` — we'll confirm once it answers."
+
+## 4. Vocabulary — states, chips, strips
+
+**Chips** (one set, both surfaces): `queued · standing up · live (·recency) · live? · unreachable · snagged · tearing down · torn down`. `torn down` renders neutral (faint ink, no color), never red.
+
+**Progress strips are per-flow** — distinct labels, chosen by the open intent on the card (F22), not by lifecycle status alone:
+
+| Flow | Stages |
+|---|---|
+| Standup | Request filed → Standing it up → Live |
+| Teardown | Teardown queued → Winding down → Torn down |
+| Revive | Revive queued → Standing it up → Back live |
+| Address | Address queued → Wiring the address → Answering at `<domain>` |
+
+- A torn-down card with a pending revive intent shows the **revive strip** — never "you can start another project below" (F22's actively-wrong guidance).
+- A strip's final stage lights only when the truth model confirms it (probe answered), not when the runner finishes its script.
+
+## 5. Copy rules — owner voice
+
+1. **Errors are a plain sentence + a disclosure.** Map the failed runner step to an owner-facing category — "We couldn't reach the project's repository," "The server didn't come up," "The address didn't wire up." The raw `error_note` (git stderr, ssh noise) moves into a `<details>` labeled "Technical details" — present for whoever helps, never the headline.
+2. **No wall-clock promises.** Kill "usually under a minute" and friends. Describe what's happening and what happens next; never how long.
+3. **Retry honesty (F19).** Intents retire after 3 attempts and nothing auto-retries. The snagged card says so — "Stopped after 3 tries" — and gains an owner-facing **Try again** action that re-enqueues (the enqueue API already accepts re-provisioning; wire it). "The platform keeps retrying" copy dies.
+4. **Teardown truth (F17) — decided: the database is not dropped.** (Owner, 2026-08-12: no database drop unless we find otherwise — retention is policy, not an accident.) The confirm and the torn-down card say so plainly: the server goes away, the repository stays the owner's, the database is kept and recoverable by the operator. Copy always states exactly what the runner does.
+5. **Repo visibility is stated, always (task 1002721).** Every path that creates or adopts a repo says whether it will be public or private, before the owner commits — GitHub's own UI must never be the first place visibility appears.
+6. **Newborn welcome (idea 1000701).** A freshly-provisioned instance greets its founding owner with a welcome moment, and account nags (billing, art-key coverage) are suppressed until first-run completes.
+
+## 6. Surface · Create wizard
+
+Beats stay **Name · Home · Address · Create** — the flow shape survives; the address beat changes meaning and everything gets the copy + token pass.
+
+- **Gate panel:** unchanged in flow (GitHub sign-in, AGPL trust link); copy pass only.
+- **Name panel:** unchanged in flow; the live slug hint becomes the seed of the address confirmation.
+- **Home panel:** the three-way progressive branch (picker / manual / fresh) survives; the manual path and the fresh path both state repo visibility explicitly (§5.5).
+- **Address panel — collapses to a confirmation (task 1002704):** headline shows the assigned address — "`<slug>.cloudbongos.com` — yours from the moment it stands up." The slug stays editable inline (revalidating availability). A disclosure "Use a domain I own" holds the custom-domain input. Starting without an address remains possible only inside that disclosure, with the honest consequence stated: "sign-in on your instance can't be set up until it has an address."
+- **Review panel:** the Domain row becomes the Address row and always shows the resolved address.
+
+## 7. Surface · Done panel
+
+- **Keep** the canonical-plan rendering (task 1002694's work: checklist from `GET /provisioning/onboard-plan`, manifest-driven sign-in leg, live tick states).
+- **Shape-awareness:** the plan endpoint tags each step with the hosting shapes it applies to; the panel renders only steps real for this instance's shape. On shapes with no control-plane runner, `auto` steps either disappear or convert to explicit owner-instructions — no promise a runner will do what no runner exists to do.
+- **The progress strip obeys the truth model:** "Live" lights on a verified answer, not on script completion; a lost verification race shows "confirming…" rather than a false ✖ (F23 display contract).
+- **A door out:** the panel ends with a link to `/projects` — "watch it any time from Your projects."
+
+## 8. Surface · /projects (manage view)
+
+- **Card anatomy stays** (name + chip → meta → address → strip → message → actions) with the §3 chip overlay, §4 per-flow strips, and §5 message rules.
+- **New actions:**
+  - **Bring it back** on `torn_down` cards — the enqueue API already revives a torn-down slug; the walk had to do it raw. Button + confirm, revive strip while it runs.
+  - **Try again** on `snagged` cards (§5.3).
+- **Address row** shows the auto-assigned domain post-1002704; attach/change stays for custom domains, claiming "answering" only per §3.
+- **Navigation doors (the page is currently orphaned):** the gate gets a signed-in "Your projects" door; the done panel links out (§7); the hall gets a cross-host link out to `cloudbongos.com/projects` (a door only — the surface itself never moves to the hall host). At least the gate and done-panel doors ship with task 1002696.
+- **Refresh model:** slow interval + on-focus refetch for settled cards (§3); active-intent cards keep today's 5s poll.
+
+## 9. First-run — designed now, delivered split
+
+| First-run gap (walk source) | Design (this direction) | Delivery |
+|---|---|---|
+| Done panel promises a runner self-hosts don't have (task 1002717) | Shape-aware plan rendering (§7) | **task 1002696** |
+| `FIRST_ADMIN` invisible — first user bounced to a nonexistent Owner (task 1002717) | A virgin instance's sign-in surface says plainly: "No one is admitted yet — the instance operator names the first admin," and points at the one-line fix (env var / branding field) | copy surface with task 1002696 where it lives in core UI; self-host docs + recipe with the **1002717 lane** |
+| Newborn instance greets its founder with "your art coverage has ended" (idea 1000701) | §5.6 welcome + nag suppression until first-run completes | **task 1002696** if it stays a small `needs`-gating change; otherwise spun out as its own task |
+| `/create` + `/projects` unreachable on single-origin self-hosts (task 1002717) | Out of this direction's hands — a mounting/architecture question | **1002717 lane** |
+| Runner assumes the founder's box six ways; founder-identity hardcodes (tasks 1002718, 1002719) | Not a surface concern | **hardening lane** |
+| Refuse-unknown dispatch + runner-drift gate (task 1002722) | Not a surface concern | **hardening lane** |
+
+## 10. Visual system — sunrise, tokenized, iterated
+
+**Base:** the sunrise landing brand stays — these surfaces are continuous with the gate, not the hall.
+
+**Token + component layer** (new, shared by the three surfaces — e.g. `public-landing/assets/sunrise.css`):
+- Tokens aligned to the branding contract's themeable set. The currently-hardcoded semantics (`--card`, `--line`, `--ok`, `--err`, chip fills, strip states, sky gradients) become tokens **derived from contract vars via `color-mix`** where that reads well; the contract's `COLOR_VARS` set is extended only where derivation fails aesthetically. End state: an instance pack re-themes the whole page, not half of it.
+- Component set: page shell (sky header), card, chip, progress strip, step list, choice card, field row, disclosure, confirm dialog. Types and states defined once, used by all three surfaces.
+
+**Iteration loops (owner-requested — the look is nailed by review, not by this doc):**
+1. **Loop 1 — component sheet.** A static mock page showing the token palette and every component in every state (all chips, all strips, a card in each lifecycle). Owner reviews and directs before any surface is rebuilt.
+2. **Loop 2 — applied surfaces.** The three rebuilt surfaces staged for an owner walk (stage preview or static) before task 1002696 ships.
+3. **Final gate:** the re-walk (task 1002697, with the true-stranger pass task 1002715) is the acceptance test for the whole act.
+
+## 11. Scope boundaries
+
+**In (task 1002696 implements):** the three surfaces rebuilt on the shared token/component layer; heartbeat sweep + two columns + API exposure; chip overlay + per-flow strips; owner-voice copy pass incl. error categories + disclosures; address-step collapse (task 1002704); repo-visibility statements; Bring-it-back + Try-again actions; nav doors (gate, done panel); shape-aware done panel; newborn welcome/nag suppression (if small).
+
+**Parallel (hardening lane, already seeded):** provision-time healthz gating, no-hook attach honesty, teardown-vs-dropdb reality, manifest race + spent-code fix (task 1002720); self-host reachability + FIRST_ADMIN recipe (task 1002717); runner assumptions (task 1002718); founder-identity hardcodes (task 1002719); dispatch/drift gates (task 1002722).
+
+**Out:** the gate catalog (goal 1000031); the hall's federation my-projects surface; unreachable-instance Discord alerts (owner wants them — captured as idea 1000703, a follow-up on top of the heartbeat, deliberately not in task 1002696).
+
+## 12. Implementation seams — what task 1002696 must not break
+
+- The canonical onboard-plan contract (`GET /provisioning/onboard-plan`) and its consumers — the done panel renders *from* it; shape-awareness extends the plan, it doesn't fork it.
+- The GitHub-App manifest flow (`startManifest` → public status/callback routes) — the one-click sign-in leg keeps working mid-redesign.
+- The `sessionStorage` create-draft resume behavior.
+- Branding injection: `landingPage()` string tokens (`{{productName}}` etc.) and `themeMarkup()`'s `:root` override — the new token layer must sit *under* it, not fight it.
+- Apex-host mounting (`isApexHost`) — moving these pages off the control plane is 1002717-lane work, not this task.
+- The provisioning API surface consumed by other callers; additions only, no breaking changes.
+- `tests/onboard.mjs` and the walk's verified legs — the re-walk (task 1002697) must pass everything the checkpoint walk passed.
+
+## 13. Sign-off dispositions (owner, 2026-08-12)
+
+No open questions remain — both were decided at sign-off:
+
+1. **Teardown does not drop the database** — retention is deliberate policy unless we find otherwise (§5.4). Any future change starts with the runner, and the copy follows it.
+2. **Unreachable-instance Discord alerts: yes** — captured as idea 1000703, a follow-up on top of the heartbeat, outside task 1002696's scope.

package/package-lock.json

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "@bongos/core",
-  "version": "1.19.75",
+  "version": "1.19.77",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "@bongos/core",
-      "version": "1.19.75",
+      "version": "1.19.77",
       "license": "AGPL-3.0-or-later",
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package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@bongos/core",
-  "version": "1.19.75",
+  "version": "1.19.77",
   "description": "Cloud Bongos — the AI-first build platform core (GDS + platform surfaces + module system), installed as a versioned dependency (ADR 0108).",
   "license": "AGPL-3.0-or-later",
   "main": "src/platform-server.js",

package/scripts/gds/box.js

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 //   park      <builder>   snapshot + destroy the droplet (stop compute billing)
 //   wake      <builder>   recreate the droplet from its snapshot
 //   deprovision <builder> destroy droplet AND snapshot (full reclaim)
-//   sweep-idle            deprovision every active box idle > BOX_IDLE_MINUTES (#804)
+//   sweep-idle            PARK every active box idle > BOX_IDLE_MINUTES (snapshot kept)
 //   sweep-dormant         deprovision every box parked > BOX_DORMANT_DAYS (pings builder)
 //   status                print the box roster + estimated cost
 //
@@ -1007,33 +1007,47 @@ async function cmdDeprovision(pool, boxes, ref, { apply }) {
 }
 
 // ---- sweep-idle ------------------------------------------------------------
-// Idle boxes are deprovisioned directly (no park step). Park is removed from the
-// automated lifecycle — it added snapshot storage cost (~$0.30/mo) with no
-// benefit given boxes are ephemeral by design (builders provision fresh each session).
-// Park remains available as a manual CLI command for Archon use.
+// Idle boxes are PARKED: snapshot taken, droplet destroyed (compute billing
+// stops), filesystem preserved so the builder wakes into their work. Snapshot
+// storage is ~$0.30/mo — the price of not silently discarding uncommitted work.
+//
+// This sweep deliberately never destroys a snapshot. Full reclaim (droplet AND
+// snapshot) belongs to sweep-dormant, which only fires after BOX_DORMANT_DAYS of
+// being parked and pings the builder first. That split is the whole safety
+// property: no automated path can take work off a builder without warning.
+//
+// History: this sweep used to call deprovisionOne directly, on the theory that
+// boxes are ephemeral and builders provision fresh each session. In practice it
+// meant a box idle past the threshold was annihilated — droplet and snapshot —
+// taking anything uncommitted with it, while the CLI help, the /builder-box
+// skill and the hall all still described park-and-wake. Task 1002726 restored
+// the documented behaviour rather than the documentation.
 
 async function cmdSweepIdle(pool, boxes, { apply }) {
   const rows = await boxes.listBoxes(pool, { state: 'active' });
   const idle = boxes.selectIdleBoxes(rows, { idleMinutes: CONFIG.idleMinutes, nowMs: Date.now() });
   console.log(`idle sweep (threshold=${CONFIG.idleMinutes}m${apply ? '' : ', dry-run'}): ${idle.length} of ${rows.length} active box(es) idle`);
-  if (idle.length === 0) { console.log('  nothing idle — exit clean'); return { deprovisioned: 0 }; }
+  if (idle.length === 0) { console.log('  nothing idle — exit clean'); return { parked: 0 }; }
   const doApi = apply ? makeDo(apply) : null;
-  let deprovisioned = 0, errors = 0;
+  let parked = 0, errors = 0;
   for (const box of idle) {
     const mins = Math.round((Date.now() - (boxes.effectiveActivityMs(box) || Date.now())) / 60000);
-    if (!apply) { console.log(`  would deprovision @${box.github_login}'s box (idle ${mins}m, droplet ${box.droplet_id})`); continue; }
+    if (!apply) { console.log(`  would park @${box.github_login}'s box (idle ${mins}m, droplet ${box.droplet_id})`); continue; }
     try {
-      await deprovisionOne(pool, boxes, doApi, box, { actor: 'sweep:idle', login: box.github_login });
-      deprovisioned++;
-      console.log(`  ✓ deprovisioned @${box.github_login} (idle ${mins}m)`);
+      await parkOne(pool, boxes, doApi, box, { actor: 'sweep:idle' });
+      parked++;
+      console.log(`  ✓ parked @${box.github_login} (idle ${mins}m — snapshot kept, compute stopped)`);
     } catch (e) {
+      // A park that fails must NOT fall through to a destroy — leaving the box
+      // at 'error' with its droplet intact is strictly safer than reclaiming it,
+      // and reconcile-drift picks the row up from there.
       errors++;
       await markErrorUnlessDestroyed(pool, boxes, box.builder_id, e.message);
       console.log(`  ✖ @${box.github_login}: ${e.message}`);
     }
   }
-  console.log(`done — deprovisioned=${deprovisioned} errors=${errors} dry-run=${!apply}`);
-  return { deprovisioned, errors };
+  console.log(`done — parked=${parked} errors=${errors} dry-run=${!apply}`);
+  return { parked, errors };
 }
 
 // ---- sweep-dormant ---------------------------------------------------------
@@ -1427,4 +1441,4 @@ async function main() {
 
 if (require.main === module) main();
 
-module.exports = { cmdProvision, deprovisionOne, deleteWithRetry, cmdReconcileDrift, runDnsHook, runDnsHookBlackhole, markErrorUnlessDestroyed, resolveBoxInfraDir, boxInfraCandidates, readCloudInit, BOX_INFRA_TEMPLATE };
+module.exports = { cmdProvision, deprovisionOne, parkOne, cmdSweepIdle, deleteWithRetry, cmdReconcileDrift, runDnsHook, runDnsHookBlackhole, markErrorUnlessDestroyed, resolveBoxInfraDir, boxInfraCandidates, readCloudInit, BOX_INFRA_TEMPLATE };

package/scripts/gds/hooks/pre-push.js

@@ -37,6 +37,24 @@ const { apiCall, productName } = require(path.join(__dirname, '..', 'cli-lib.js'
 const ZERO = /^0+$/;
 const MAIN_REF = 'refs/heads/main';
 
+// The ONE exit code that means "the gate deliberately blocked this push". Any
+// other non-zero exit is a CRASH, and .husky/pre-push translates it back to a
+// warn-and-allow (task 1002725 / idea 1000704).
+//
+// WHY a reserved code and not the conventional 1: node itself exits 1 on a
+// syntax error / unhandled rejection, so `1` cannot distinguish "we decided to
+// block" from "the gate fell over". Reserving an unusual code means the wrapper
+// only ever fails CLOSED on a decision this file actually made — every other
+// shape (127 native abort, 134 SIGABRT, 1 syntax error) reads as a crash and
+// fails OPEN, which is this layer's documented design (the post-push main audit
+// is the fail-closed net).
+const BLOCK_EXIT_CODE = 13;
+
+// Sentinel returned by block() so each call site can `return block([...])` and
+// stop the sweep. run() must never call process.exit() itself — see the note on
+// the entrypoint at the bottom of this file.
+const BLOCKED = Symbol('blocked');
+
 function git(args) {
   try {
     return execSync(`git ${args}`, { encoding: 'utf8', stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'ignore'] }).trim();
@@ -70,18 +88,25 @@ function changedFilesFor(localSha, remoteSha) {
 const LIVE_RANK_TIMEOUT_MS = 4000;
 
 async function liveRank() {
+  let timer = null;
   try {
-    const timeout = new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(() => resolve('__timeout__'), LIVE_RANK_TIMEOUT_MS));
+    const timeout = new Promise((resolve) => { timer = setTimeout(() => resolve('__timeout__'), LIVE_RANK_TIMEOUT_MS); });
     const res = await Promise.race([
       apiCall('GET', '/api/gds/me', null, { allowUnauthenticated: true }),
       timeout,
     ]);
+    // The loser of the race must be cleared. This used to leak: process.exit()
+    // tore the loop down regardless, so nobody noticed. Now that the hook exits
+    // NATURALLY (task 1002725), an armed 4s timer would hold every
+    // protected-path push open for the full timeout after the API already
+    // answered.
+    if (timer) clearTimeout(timer);
     if (res === '__timeout__') {
       console.error(`\n\x1b[33m⚠ permission gate: GDS /me did not respond within ${LIVE_RANK_TIMEOUT_MS}ms — treating rank as unknown.\x1b[0m`);
       return null;
     }
     if (res && res.ok) return res.data?.builder?.rank ?? null;
-  } catch (_) { /* offline / no session */ }
+  } catch (_) { /* offline / no session */ } finally { if (timer) clearTimeout(timer); }
   return null;
 }
 
@@ -89,7 +114,8 @@ function block(lines) {
   console.error(`\n\x1b[31m✖ push blocked by the ${productName()} permission gate (SEC #863)\x1b[0m`);
   for (const l of lines) console.error('  ' + l);
   console.error('');
-  process.exit(1);
+  process.exitCode = BLOCK_EXIT_CODE;
+  return BLOCKED;
 }
 
 async function run() {
@@ -103,13 +129,13 @@ async function run() {
     const [localRef, localSha, remoteRef, remoteSha] = l.split(/\s+/);
     return { localRef, localSha, remoteRef, remoteSha };
   });
-  if (refs.length === 0) process.exit(0); // nothing to push
+  if (refs.length === 0) return; // nothing to push
 
   // Rule 1: no direct push to main.
   if (!allowMain) {
     for (const r of refs) {
       if (r.remoteRef === MAIN_REF && !ZERO.test(r.localSha)) {
-        block([
+        return block([
           'Direct pushes to `main` are not allowed.',
           'The GDS lands graded work for you: run `/builder-ship` on your claimed task.',
           'A direct push to main skips the grader, the confirm gate, parallel-safety, and',
@@ -128,7 +154,7 @@ async function run() {
   }
   const changedFiles = [...allChanged];
   const protectedHits = ppc.matchProtected(changedFiles);
-  if (protectedHits.length === 0) process.exit(0); // nothing sensitive — fast path
+  if (protectedHits.length === 0) return; // nothing sensitive — fast path
 
   const rank = await liveRank();
   if (rank === null) {
@@ -140,12 +166,12 @@ async function run() {
     console.error('  This push touches permission-sensitive paths:');
     for (const h of protectedHits.slice(0, 10)) console.error(`    - ${h.file}`);
     console.error('  Allowing the push; the server-side audit will re-check with your real rank.\n');
-    process.exit(0);
+    return;
   }
 
   const result = ppc.checkPermissionPaths({ changedFiles, builderRank: rank });
   if (result.hardFail) {
-    block([
+    return block([
       `Your rank '${rank}' is below Metic and may not modify permission-sensitive surfaces:`,
       ...protectedHits.slice(0, 12).map((h) => `  - ${h.file}  (matches ${h.glob})`),
       '',
@@ -154,20 +180,28 @@ async function run() {
       'raise it with an Archon — do not edit it from a sandbox/newcomer rank (ADR 0016, ADR 0043).',
     ]);
   }
-  process.exit(0);
 }
 
 // Only run when invoked directly (the husky wrapper does `node pre-push.js`).
 // Requiring this file (e.g. a test importing matchProtected logic) must NOT
 // read stdin or call process.exit.
+//
+// NOTE (task 1002725): nothing on this path may call process.exit(). Calling it
+// after liveRank()'s fetch aborts the process natively on Windows —
+// "Assertion failed: !(handle->flags & UV_HANDLE_CLOSING), file src\win\async.c"
+// — because undici's handles are still closing when the loop is torn down. The
+// abort exits 127 BEFORE the .catch() below can run, so the fail-open guarantee
+// was silently inverted into "no Windows builder can push anything at all".
+// Setting process.exitCode and letting the loop drain naturally is what keeps
+// this hook's own error handling reachable.
 if (require.main === module) {
   run().catch((e) => {
     // A hook crash must not silently allow a bad push of protected paths, but it
     // also must not brick all pushes on an unrelated bug. Fail OPEN with a loud
     // warning — the post-push audit remains the fail-closed net.
     console.error(`\n⚠ permission pre-push hook errored (${e.message}); allowing push. The server-side audit still applies.\n`);
-    process.exit(0);
+    process.exitCode = 0;
   });
 }
 
-module.exports = { run };
+module.exports = { run, BLOCK_EXIT_CODE };

package/src/module-api.js

@@ -577,8 +577,12 @@ const { validateOrRespond, LIMITS, parseId, asyncHandler, corsPublicGet, parsePa
 //         landed since 1.19.73 with no explicit bump. run 31628379432. (task 1002620)
 //   1.19.75 — CI auto-patch (publish-on-merge, ADR 0161): carrier for merges
 //         landed since 1.19.74 with no explicit bump. run 31632769733. (task 1002620)
+//   1.19.76 — CI auto-patch (publish-on-merge, ADR 0161): carrier for merges
+//         landed since 1.19.75 with no explicit bump. run 31637719876. (task 1002620)
+//   1.19.77 — CI auto-patch (publish-on-merge, ADR 0161): carrier for merges
+//         landed since 1.19.76 with no explicit bump. run 31647860631. (task 1002620)
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-const CORE_VERSION = '1.19.75'; // CI auto-patch carrier (ADR 0161); see changelog above
+const CORE_VERSION = '1.19.77'; // CI auto-patch carrier (ADR 0161); see changelog above
 
 // A namespaced logger so a module's log lines are attributable + consistent.
 // Usage: const log = api.logger('dev-box'); log.info('mounted');

package/tests/boxes.mjs

@@ -1251,5 +1251,86 @@ await ta('markErrorUnlessDestroyed: a genuine (pre-destroyed) failure still park
   assert.match(writes[0].patch.error_note, /DO 500/);
 });
 
+console.log('\ntask 1002726 — the idle sweep parks, it does not destroy:');
+
+// The regression this pins: cmdSweepIdle used to call deprovisionOne, so an idle
+// box lost its droplet AND its snapshot — every sweep:idle row in the live
+// box_events history was a full teardown, and nothing could be woken. The sweep
+// must snapshot-and-park instead, leaving the filesystem recoverable.
+function sweepHarness({ idleRows, parkThrows = null }) {
+  const events = [];
+  const states = [];
+  const fakeBoxes = {
+    async listBoxes() { return idleRows; },
+    selectIdleBoxes: boxes.selectIdleBoxes,
+    effectiveActivityMs: boxes.effectiveActivityMs,
+    async setBoxState(_db, _bid, state, patch) { states.push({ state, patch }); return {}; },
+    async recordComputeCost() { return 0; },
+    async recordEvent(_db, e) { events.push(e); },
+    async getBoxByBuilderId() { return { state: 'active' }; },
+  };
+  return { fakeBoxes, events, states, parkThrows };
+}
+
+await ta('cmdSweepIdle: an idle box is PARKED — snapshot retained, no snapshot delete', async () => {
+  const NOW_ROW = {
+    id: 3, builder_id: 3, state: 'active', droplet_id: '591743808', droplet_name: 'box-lars589',
+    github_login: 'lars589', last_activity_at: new Date(Date.now() - 5 * 3600_000).toISOString(),
+    claude_active: false, snapshot_id: null,
+  };
+  const h = sweepHarness({ idleRows: [NOW_ROW] });
+  const deleted = [];
+  const doApi = {
+    dryRun: false,
+    async powerOffDroplet() { return { action: { id: 1 } }; },
+    async waitForAction() {},
+    async snapshotDroplet() { return { action: { id: 2 } }; },
+    async getDroplet() { return { droplet: { snapshot_ids: ['999'] } }; },
+    async deleteDroplet(id) { deleted.push(`droplet:${id}`); },
+    async deleteSnapshot(id) { deleted.push(`snapshot:${id}`); },
+  };
+  // makeDo() is only reached under --apply; inject our fake by stubbing the DO
+  // client the command builds. cmdSweepIdle takes (pool, boxes, {apply}), so we
+  // exercise parkOne directly with the same contract the sweep now uses.
+  await boxCli.parkOne({}, h.fakeBoxes, doApi, NOW_ROW, { actor: 'sweep:idle' });
+
+  const parked = h.states.find((s) => s.state === 'parked');
+  assert.ok(parked, 'box reaches parked');
+  assert.equal(parked.patch.snapshot_id, '999', 'snapshot id retained on the row');
+  assert.equal(parked.patch.droplet_id, null, 'droplet released');
+  assert.ok(deleted.includes('droplet:591743808'), 'droplet destroyed (compute billing stops)');
+  assert.ok(!deleted.some((d) => d.startsWith('snapshot:')), 'the snapshot is NEVER deleted by an idle park');
+  assert.equal(h.events.find((e) => e.event === 'park')?.actor, 'sweep:idle', 'logged as a park, not a deprovision');
+});
+
+await ta('cmdSweepIdle: dry-run reports "would park" and touches nothing', async () => {
+  const row = {
+    id: 3, builder_id: 3, state: 'active', droplet_id: '591743808', github_login: 'lars589',
+    last_activity_at: new Date(Date.now() - 5 * 3600_000).toISOString(), claude_active: false,
+  };
+  const h = sweepHarness({ idleRows: [row] });
+  const lines = [];
+  const origLog = console.log;
+  console.log = (...a) => lines.push(a.join(' '));
+  try {
+    const res = await boxCli.cmdSweepIdle({}, h.fakeBoxes, { apply: false });
+    assert.equal(res.parked, 0, 'dry-run parks nothing');
+  } finally { console.log = origLog; }
+  assert.ok(lines.some((l) => /would park/.test(l)), 'dry-run says park, not deprovision');
+  assert.ok(!lines.some((l) => /would deprovision/.test(l)), 'no destroy language survives');
+  assert.equal(h.states.length, 0, 'no state written in dry-run');
+});
+
+await ta('cmdSweepIdle: a box running Claude is never parked mid-session', async () => {
+  const busy = {
+    id: 4, builder_id: 4, state: 'active', droplet_id: '1', github_login: 'busy',
+    last_activity_at: new Date(Date.now() - 99 * 3600_000).toISOString(), claude_active: true,
+  };
+  const h = sweepHarness({ idleRows: [busy] });
+  const res = await boxCli.cmdSweepIdle({}, h.fakeBoxes, { apply: true });
+  assert.equal(res.parked, 0, 'claude_active holds the box open regardless of age');
+  assert.equal(h.states.length, 0);
+});
+
 console.log(`\nboxes.mjs: ${passed} passed, ${failed} failed`);
 process.exit(failed === 0 ? 0 : 1);

package/tests/pre_push_hook.mjs

@@ -3,12 +3,16 @@
 // Pins three facts the 2026-08-06 choke-point map litigated:
 //   1. G-17 refutation: pre-push.js's dependency path resolves INSIDE the repo
 //      (three `..` from scripts/gds/hooks/ is the root, not one above it).
-//   2. The hook actually blocks a direct push to refs/heads/main (exit 1),
-//      and allows a branch deletion (exit 0) — both offline-deterministic.
-//   3. G-2 fix: the tracked .husky/pre-push wrapper exists, execs the real
+//   2. The hook actually blocks a direct push to refs/heads/main (exit 13, the
+//      reserved block code the wrapper turns into git's exit 1), and allows a
+//      branch deletion (exit 0) — both offline-deterministic.
+//   3. G-2 fix: the tracked .husky/pre-push wrapper exists, invokes the real
 //      gate, and is LF + executable in the git index (CRLF or mode 100644
 //      would silently kill the hook on Unix clones).
 //
+// Plus (task 1002725) the fail-open contract: a CRASHED gate must not brick the
+// push — see the block comment above those tests.
+//
 // DB-free, no network: the main-push block fires before any API call.
 // Run:  node --test tests/pre_push_hook.mjs
 
@@ -17,6 +21,7 @@ import { test } from 'node:test';
 import { createRequire } from 'node:module';
 import { spawnSync } from 'node:child_process';
 import fs from 'node:fs';
+import os from 'node:os';
 import path from 'node:path';
 import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
 
@@ -26,6 +31,7 @@ const HOOK = path.join(ROOT, 'scripts', 'gds', 'hooks', 'pre-push.js');
 const WRAPPER = path.join(ROOT, '.husky', 'pre-push');
 const SHA = 'a'.repeat(40);
 const ZEROS = '0'.repeat(40);
+const BLOCK_EXIT_CODE = 13; // pre-push.js's reserved "deliberately blocked" code
 
 function runHook(stdinLine) {
   return spawnSync(process.execPath, [HOOK, 'origin', 'https://example.invalid/repo.git'], {
@@ -36,6 +42,30 @@ function runHook(stdinLine) {
   });
 }
 
+// Run the WRAPPER (not the gate) under `sh`, optionally with a fake `node`
+// earlier on PATH so we can drive the gate's exit code without needing the gate
+// to actually crash. This is how the fail-open contract is testable at all: a
+// native abort cannot be provoked on demand, but the wrapper only ever sees an
+// exit code, so substituting the code proves the translation.
+function runWrapper(stdinLine, { fakeNodeExit = null, fakeNodeStderr = '' } = {}) {
+  let shimDir = null;
+  const env = { ...process.env, OTB_ALLOW_MAIN_PUSH: '' };
+  if (fakeNodeExit !== null) {
+    shimDir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'prepush-shim-'));
+    const shim = path.join(shimDir, 'node');
+    fs.writeFileSync(shim, `#!/bin/sh\n[ -n "${fakeNodeStderr}" ] && printf '%s\\n' "${fakeNodeStderr}" >&2\nexit ${fakeNodeExit}\n`);
+    fs.chmodSync(shim, 0o755);
+    env.PATH = `${shimDir}${path.delimiter}${env.PATH}`;
+  }
+  try {
+    return spawnSync('sh', [WRAPPER, 'origin', 'https://example.invalid/repo.git'], {
+      cwd: ROOT, input: stdinLine, encoding: 'utf8', env,
+    });
+  } finally {
+    if (shimDir) fs.rmSync(shimDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  }
+}
+
 test('G-17 refuted: the line-30 dependency path resolves inside the repo and loads', () => {
   const hooksDir = path.dirname(HOOK);
   const resolved = path.join(hooksDir, '..', '..', '..', 'src', 'bongos', 'permission-path-check.js');
@@ -45,9 +75,9 @@ test('G-17 refuted: the line-30 dependency path resolves inside the repo and loa
   assert.equal(typeof ppc.checkPermissionPaths, 'function');
 });
 
-test('hook blocks a direct push to refs/heads/main with exit 1', () => {
+test('hook blocks a direct push to refs/heads/main with the reserved block code', () => {
   const r = runHook(`refs/heads/main ${SHA} refs/heads/main ${SHA}\n`);
-  assert.equal(r.status, 1, `expected exit 1, got ${r.status}; stderr: ${r.stderr}`);
+  assert.equal(r.status, BLOCK_EXIT_CODE, `expected exit ${BLOCK_EXIT_CODE}, got ${r.status}; stderr: ${r.stderr}`);
   assert.match(r.stderr, /push blocked/i);
   assert.match(r.stderr, /Direct pushes to `main`/);
 });
@@ -62,7 +92,7 @@ test('requiring the hook as a module neither reads stdin nor exits', () => {
   assert.equal(typeof mod.run, 'function');
 });
 
-test('G-2 fixed: tracked .husky/pre-push wrapper execs the real gate', () => {
+test('G-2 fixed: tracked .husky/pre-push wrapper invokes the real gate', () => {
   assert.ok(fs.existsSync(WRAPPER), '.husky/pre-push must be tracked (ADR 0043 Layer 1 delivery)');
   const body = fs.readFileSync(WRAPPER, 'utf8');
   assert.ok(body.startsWith('#!/bin/sh'), 'wrapper must start with a sh shebang');
@@ -70,6 +100,73 @@ test('G-2 fixed: tracked .husky/pre-push wrapper execs the real gate', () => {
   assert.ok(!body.includes('\r'), 'wrapper must be LF-only (CRLF breaks the shebang on Unix)');
 });
 
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// task 1002725 / idea 1000704 — the fail-open guarantee is REAL, not aspirational.
+//
+// The gate is documented to fail OPEN on a crash (it is cooperative Layer 1; the
+// post-push main audit is the fail-closed net). On Windows + Node 24 it instead
+// died with a native libuv abort — "Assertion failed: !(handle->flags &
+// UV_HANDLE_CLOSING), file src\win\async.c, line 76" — triggered by calling
+// process.exit() after liveRank()'s fetch, while undici's handles were still
+// closing. A native abort runs no JS, so the gate's own .catch() never fired; the
+// process exited 127 and git refused EVERY push. A Windows builder could not land
+// any work at all.
+//
+// Two invariants pin the fix:
+//   1. the gate never calls process.exit() (the abort's trigger), and
+//   2. the WRAPPER — the only layer that survives a native abort — translates a
+//      crash back into allow-with-a-warning, and a deliberate block into exit 1.
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+test('gate never calls process.exit() — that is what aborts natively on Windows', () => {
+  const src = fs.readFileSync(HOOK, 'utf8');
+  const withoutComments = src.replace(/\/\/[^\n]*/g, '').replace(/\/\*[\s\S]*?\*\//g, '');
+  assert.ok(
+    !/process\.exit\s*\(/.test(withoutComments),
+    'pre-push.js must set process.exitCode and let the loop drain; process.exit() after a fetch aborts node on Windows'
+  );
+  assert.match(src, /process\.exitCode/, 'the gate still has to report its verdict via process.exitCode');
+});
+
+test('wrapper translates the reserved block code into a real git block (exit 1)', () => {
+  const r = runWrapper(`refs/heads/main ${SHA} refs/heads/main ${SHA}\n`);
+  assert.equal(r.status, 1, `a deliberate block must stop the push; got ${r.status}; stderr: ${r.stderr}`);
+  assert.match(r.stderr, /Direct pushes to `main`/);
+});
+
+test('wrapper FAILS OPEN when the gate crashes natively (the 1002725 regression)', () => {
+  const r = runWrapper(`refs/heads/main ${SHA} refs/heads/main ${SHA}\n`, {
+    fakeNodeExit: 127,
+    fakeNodeStderr: 'Assertion failed: !(handle->flags & UV_HANDLE_CLOSING)',
+  });
+  assert.equal(r.status, 0, `a crashed gate must NOT brick the push; got exit ${r.status}; stderr: ${r.stderr}`);
+  assert.match(r.stderr, /crashed \(exit 127\)/i, 'the crash must be reported loudly, not swallowed');
+  assert.match(r.stderr, /allowing push/i);
+});
+
+test('wrapper fails open on a plain node failure (exit 1) too, not just a native abort', () => {
+  // node exits 1 on a syntax error / unhandled rejection. That is a CRASH, not a
+  // verdict — which is precisely why the deliberate block needed its own code.
+  const r = runWrapper(`refs/heads/main ${SHA} refs/heads/main ${SHA}\n`, { fakeNodeExit: 1 });
+  assert.equal(r.status, 0, `exit 1 from node is a crash and must fail open; got ${r.status}`);
+  assert.match(r.stderr, /crashed \(exit 1\)/i);
+});
+
+test('wrapper allows a clean gate run (exit 0) untouched', () => {
+  const r = runWrapper(`refs/heads/some-branch ${ZEROS} refs/heads/some-branch ${SHA}\n`, { fakeNodeExit: 0 });
+  assert.equal(r.status, 0);
+  assert.doesNotMatch(r.stderr, /crashed/i, 'a clean run must not warn');
+});
+
+test('wrapper does not exec the gate — it must survive to inspect the exit code', () => {
+  const body = fs.readFileSync(WRAPPER, 'utf8');
+  assert.ok(
+    !/^\s*exec\s+node/m.test(body),
+    '`exec node` replaces the shell, so a crash exit code propagates straight to git as a block'
+  );
+  assert.match(body, /\$\?/, 'the wrapper must capture the gate exit code');
+});
+
 test('wrapper is executable (mode 100755) in the git index', () => {
   const r = spawnSync('git', ['ls-files', '-s', '--', '.husky/pre-push'], { cwd: ROOT, encoding: 'utf8' });
   assert.equal(r.status, 0, `git ls-files failed: ${r.stderr}`);