@bongos/core 1.19.755 → 1.19.757

package/.bongos-core.json

@@ -2,22 +2,22 @@
   "artifact": "bongos-core",
   "manifest_schema": 1,
   "generator": "scripts/gds/package-core.js",
-  "core_version": "1.19.755",
-  "core_contract": "1.19.755",
-  "source_commit": "1cc8ad5ec0be2921b0e5cf12464689c86b5c36a6",
+  "core_version": "1.19.757",
+  "core_contract": "1.19.757",
+  "source_commit": "cc213a1bab1fc07008953502c035d32a98ced469",
   "source_ref": "HEAD",
-  "built_at": "2026-09-16T02:11:51.276Z",
+  "built_at": "2026-09-16T02:31:57.888Z",
   "redaction": {
     "model": "docs-redacted+functional-verbatim",
     "docs_redacted": 483,
     "agent_docs_stubbed": 25,
-    "functional_verbatim": 2112,
+    "functional_verbatim": 2115,
     "rules": 3,
     "gate_literals": 3,
     "gate": "passed"
   },
-  "file_count": 2620,
-  "tree_sha256": "4960c3809b0d1bd4756c52793ef2167cfc1b70844cd2250f3e35723cd275bc50",
+  "file_count": 2623,
+  "tree_sha256": "6dfa78abe36908cd3c7762f36e1145d5ca9a22362b4825d6eb8c240e05a01815",
   "files": [
     {
       "path": ".claude/skills/ask-for-help/SKILL.md",
@@ -2512,7 +2512,7 @@
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       "path": "docs/module-api-changelog.md",
       "mode": "0000644",
-      "sha256": "744adc56bff99972f3104823c66db347b9aaef9aee42d06f12bff8da8e559a7d"
+      "sha256": "c415a541beec31293c9fe17473fce5706b0c043818a3da9d2c092d6a36892a12"
     },
     {
       "path": "docs/modules-contract.md",
@@ -5472,7 +5472,7 @@
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       "mode": "0000644",
-      "sha256": "2ec7c2bec4ef96b5ded094c69104fc30e53b7659cb2b2444ed4491df3f3836dc"
+      "sha256": "381e3bf734537972e33bc7ca3f23097f3f264f42bf33d29cb0c5378b01459c68"
     },
     {
       "path": "modules/lifecycle/db-versions.js",
@@ -7567,12 +7567,12 @@
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       "path": "package-lock.json",
       "mode": "0000644",
-      "sha256": "d2721993cfbc4a656aab1c93434a55dd7a440a3bb63048893ed6b43c2b1bbeec"
+      "sha256": "93d77133102c1137fe1e2772f30fabcd7e4630aece1c1ec238db81580f23f634"
     },
     {
       "path": "package.json",
       "mode": "0000644",
-      "sha256": "23815bafaed5c20104d344967253d871d91b0df5524e5fba825119a316a0784a"
+      "sha256": "eb18ccfda9df0b09d536acaff0fdb18df77860d53a35cfa65b41cc1aa70e361c"
     },
     {
       "path": "public-docs/index.html",
@@ -8024,11 +8024,21 @@
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       "sha256": "b8b1a7ed1d8dd217b24757a3ec9f4b3aa58b26a3e2a7b2cef9de217792e5ea43"
     },
+    {
+      "path": "scripts/gds/fitness-checks-error-envelope.js",
+      "mode": "0000644",
+      "sha256": "ab11c75ae177397fdd507505732450fee3531d42b99ba0b34811d06563ebd21c"
+    },
     {
       "path": "scripts/gds/fitness-checks-identity.js",
       "mode": "0000644",
       "sha256": "583b21bf6527b657058ebfab50aff8c51cec96a0b1baa4d01daea55e90d0ccf7"
     },
+    {
+      "path": "scripts/gds/fitness-checks-packaging.js",
+      "mode": "0000644",
+      "sha256": "1f0611c9b8cb30e20119d50f67bc3a1148d6b5d869337361ae0ac58724aaca12"
+    },
     {
       "path": "scripts/gds/fitness-checks-route-pins.js",
       "mode": "0000644",
@@ -8057,7 +8067,7 @@
     {
       "path": "scripts/gds/fitness.js",
       "mode": "0000644",
-      "sha256": "69c24b7d4a273520284cf2e07be151ffd70128e495b6bb12aa6da83b7d62cf71"
+      "sha256": "4856485e5bb5bb03e47cd6953659c25214411d0b63287f6ab2faa4c34e1e27bc"
     },
     {
       "path": "scripts/gds/gate-review.js",
@@ -9192,7 +9202,7 @@
     {
       "path": "src/bongos/optimizer.js",
       "mode": "0000644",
-      "sha256": "f1feab040af1d5c5b7cf8a59ea870a04d4305e12d82ba4db7237ab3597a81831"
+      "sha256": "eaa5ba49269f8188222b0c979ea60e05f1e6ddc1a0ba8064f735a3f8ac25e0ce"
     },
     {
       "path": "src/bongos/path-match.js",
@@ -9342,7 +9352,7 @@
     {
       "path": "src/bongos/serve-internal.js",
       "mode": "0000644",
-      "sha256": "9edf07966de8d137ba6d987557bb4a9fefeedd19e640f10302dbfd340e0343f9"
+      "sha256": "f4bba033b2052b61d026682b0a06dd3044d77138e1978ad601060fbebbfdc34d"
     },
     {
       "path": "src/bongos/uptime-poller.js",
@@ -9372,7 +9382,7 @@
     {
       "path": "src/module-api.js",
       "mode": "0000644",
-      "sha256": "690fb3d76f0d06fcc41490f58b4a273c42ecfd65c8e9a2acb7cff0e85885f5a4"
+      "sha256": "9798743d1dae3c952b257d48b1ee56341bf0a946504ebb6be66fd88f1a8cddcd"
     },
     {
       "path": "src/module-loader/catalog.js",
@@ -10002,7 +10012,7 @@
     {
       "path": "tests/claimable_blocker_status.mjs",
       "mode": "0000644",
-      "sha256": "6bb10ab7ee346bbe673055e46e9fc53865540157c48c203e57c11ad51ba44336"
+      "sha256": "1aae622cb425a287309bc68f5537d754ff9e31b2c4cd8506c7ec72288da69220"
     },
     {
       "path": "tests/claims_bind_session.mjs",
@@ -12644,6 +12654,11 @@
       "mode": "0000644",
       "sha256": "2396f97cac08f5fd752a73f3728a0ae90807fe7af7fbb5da2340c4436d280f0f"
     },
+    {
+      "path": "tests/single_host_apex_routes.mjs",
+      "mode": "0000644",
+      "sha256": "d6869d2749e06a2c67c280e1800ea5e84eb042542507c684aaf01b3b8d4da12f"
+    },
     {
       "path": "tests/single_host_hall.mjs",
       "mode": "0000644",

package/docs/module-api-changelog.md

@@ -1984,5 +1984,9 @@ is load-bearing: the script throws rather than guess if it is missing, and
         landed since 1.19.753 with no explicit bump. run 35039836268. (task 1002620)
   1.19.755 — CI auto-patch (publish-on-merge, ADR 0161): carrier for merges
         landed since 1.19.754 with no explicit bump. run 35047010813. (task 1002620)
+  1.19.756 — CI auto-patch (publish-on-merge, ADR 0161): carrier for merges
+        landed since 1.19.755 with no explicit bump. run 35047623582. (task 1002620)
+  1.19.757 — CI auto-patch (publish-on-merge, ADR 0161): carrier for merges
+        landed since 1.19.756 with no explicit bump. run 35048307666. (task 1002620)
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 ```

package/modules/lifecycle/db-tasks.js

@@ -766,14 +766,48 @@ async function listTasks({ versionId, status, kind, discipline, goalId, createdB
 // it just stops the query's LOCKING from referencing the view relations.
 // If the view bodies change in a future migration, change these in lockstep
 // (or fold back to the views once per-view DDL contention is a solved problem).
+// THE BLOCKER GUARD, spelled ONCE (task 1003913).
+//
+// A task is hidden from the queue only while a blocker on it is still OPEN — not
+// forever because a link row exists. Nothing ever deletes a `task_blockers` row,
+// so the older `NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM task_blockers tb WHERE tb.task_id = t.id)`
+// meant that a task which had EVER been blocked vanished from /builder-start the
+// moment its blocker resolved — workable by id, unfindable in the feed, and
+// permanent.
+//
+// Migration core_239 fixed exactly this in the `claimable_tasks` VIEW and the two
+// queries below were missed, because the predicate existed in three spellings and
+// only one of them was a migration.
+//
+// BOTH queries below interpolate this constant — the feed and the session-fit
+// projection, which is the whole point of it being one. The first cut of this fix
+// declared the constant and then hand-copied the clause into SESSION_FIT_SQL
+// anyway, recreating the two-spellings bug inside the file written to remove it.
+// The grader caught it; tests/claimable_blocker_status.mjs now COUNTS the
+// interpolations instead of merely checking that the constant exists.
+//
+// src/bongos/optimizer.js keeps its OWN copy of this text: it inlines the view
+// bodies on purpose (a lock incident, task 2181) and cannot require a module file
+// across the ADR 0083 boundary. It deduplicates within itself the same way.
+//
+// THE LEFT JOIN IS LOAD-BEARING. A legacy markdown-anchor link carries
+// `blocker_ref` with no `blockers` row at all; an inner join would drop it from the
+// NOT EXISTS and silently UNHIDE it. `b.id IS NULL` keeps an unresolvable link
+// blocking, which is the fail-closed arm.
+const OPEN_BLOCKER_GUARD = `
+     AND NOT EXISTS (
+       SELECT 1
+         FROM task_blockers tb
+         LEFT JOIN blockers b ON b.id = tb.blocker_id
+        WHERE tb.task_id = t.id
+          AND (b.id IS NULL OR b.status = 'open')
+     )`;
+
 const CLAIMABLE_SQL = `
   SELECT t.*, pms_calibrated_minutes(t.est_minutes, t.kind) AS est_minutes_calibrated
     FROM tasks t
    WHERE t.status = 'ready'
-     AND t.title NOT LIKE '\\_\\_smoke\\_\\_%' ESCAPE '\\'
-     AND NOT EXISTS (
-       SELECT 1 FROM task_blockers tb WHERE tb.task_id = t.id
-     )
+     AND t.title NOT LIKE '\\_\\_smoke\\_\\_%' ESCAPE '\\'${OPEN_BLOCKER_GUARD}
      AND NOT EXISTS (
        SELECT 1 FROM claims c
          JOIN tasks t2 ON t2.id = c.task_id
@@ -783,8 +817,7 @@ const CLAIMABLE_SQL = `
 const SESSION_FIT_SQL = `
   SELECT t.id,
     CASE
-      WHEN t.automation_tag = 'overnight-safe' AND COALESCE(t.manual_degree, 5) <= 2
-           AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM task_blockers tb WHERE tb.task_id = t.id)
+      WHEN t.automation_tag = 'overnight-safe' AND COALESCE(t.manual_degree, 5) <= 2${OPEN_BLOCKER_GUARD}
         THEN ARRAY['autonomous','check-in','active']
       WHEN t.automation_tag = 'live-only' OR COALESCE(t.manual_degree, 5) >= 4
         THEN ARRAY['active']

package/package-lock.json

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "@bongos/core",
-  "version": "1.19.755",
+  "version": "1.19.757",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "@bongos/core",
-      "version": "1.19.755",
+      "version": "1.19.757",
       "license": "AGPL-3.0-or-later",
       "dependencies": {
         "express": "^4.21.2",

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@bongos/core",
-  "version": "1.19.755",
+  "version": "1.19.757",
   "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/fitness-checks-error-envelope.js

@@ -0,0 +1,134 @@
+// scripts/gds/fitness-checks-error-envelope.js — Check 17: no route hand-rolls a
+// FLAT error (BV1 R03 / task 1990 / ADR 0116).
+//
+// Carved out of scripts/gds/fitness.js by task 1003825 alongside the packaging pair,
+// for the headroom reason documented there. Self-contained: the scan needs only
+// CORE_ROOT / rel / walkJs / walkJsAllRoots from fitness-lib.js, and FLAT_ERROR_BASELINE
+// travels WITH the check rather than staying behind — the baseline and the gate that
+// reads it are one decision, and splitting them is how a ratchet quietly loses its floor.
+//
+// fitness.js requires the four public names straight back (checkErrorEnvelope,
+// scanFlatErrorSites, countFlatErrors, FLAT_ERROR_BASELINE — the last three are read by
+// the R04 sweep and its tests), so nothing outside this file changes shape.
+// stripCommentsForFlat stays PRIVATE here: it was never on fitness.js's exports, and
+// exporting it now to mirror the carve would be a new public name nothing consumes.
+
+'use strict';
+
+const fs = require('node:fs');
+const path = require('node:path');
+
+const { CORE_ROOT, rel, walkJs, walkJsAllRoots } = require('./fitness-lib.js');
+// ============================================================================
+// Check 17 — no route hand-rolls a FLAT error (BV1 R03 / task 1990 / ADR 0116)
+// ============================================================================
+//
+// The error-envelope contract (ADR 0116) says every failure is the ONE envelope
+// `{error:{code,message,details}}`, emitted via res.fail() or a thrown ApiError
+// (the R02 middleware, task 1989). A hand-rolled flat error —
+// `res.status(n).json({ error: 'x' })` or `.json({ error })` — breaks the
+// contract: the caller gets a bare string where the envelope should be.
+//
+// RATCHET, not big-bang. The R04 sweep (task 1991) migrates the ~562 existing
+// sites; until it finishes they'd all "fail" a strict check, so this HOLDS THE
+// LINE: it fails only when the count rises ABOVE the committed baseline (a NEW
+// hand-rolled flat error), and nudges the baseline DOWN as the sweep shrinks it.
+// When the sweep reaches 0, FLAT_ERROR_BASELINE is 0 and any new flat error
+// hard-fails immediately. Detector is shared with the sweep + its test.
+const FLAT_ERROR_BASELINE = 0; // R04 sweep (task 1991) landed the surface at 0 — the gate is now hard-zero: any new hand-rolled flat error fails the build immediately.
+// A flat error is a `.json({ … })` whose FIRST key is `error` with a value that
+// is NOT an object literal (a string/var/shorthand). The envelope's nested
+// `error: { … }` and `.json(envelope(…))` deliberately do NOT match.
+// The `(?!\s*\{)` lookahead is whitespace-aware: without the inner `\s*` the
+// preceding `\s*` backtracks to zero and the lookahead is tested at the space in
+// `error: {`, so the compliant nested envelope was wrongly flagged (task 2029).
+const FLAT_ERROR_VALUE_RE = /\.json\(\s*\{\s*error\s*:\s*(?!\s*\{)/g; // error: 'x' | error: code
+const FLAT_ERROR_SHORTHAND_RE = /\.json\(\s*\{\s*error\s*[,}]/g;   // { error } | { error, … }
+
+// Strip // line comments + /* */ block comments AND blank out string/template
+// contents (keeping the delimiters) so neither a DOC example of the anti-pattern
+// — e.g. the res.fail() usage note in middleware/error-envelope.js — nor a
+// pattern quoted inside a string literal is counted as a real flat error once
+// the gate is hard-zero (task 1991). Real flat errors are unaffected: in
+// `res.status(404).json({ error: 'x' })` the `.json({ error:` the detector keys
+// on is CODE (outside the string), so blanking the `'x'` content still matches.
+function stripCommentsForFlat(src) {
+  let out = '';
+  let i = 0;
+  let quote = null;
+  while (i < src.length) {
+    const c = src[i];
+    const d = src[i + 1];
+    if (quote) {
+      // inside a string/template: drop content, keep only the closing delimiter
+      if (c === '\\') { i += 2; continue; }
+      if (c === quote) { out += c; quote = null; }
+      i++; continue;
+    }
+    if (c === '"' || c === "'" || c === '`') { quote = c; out += c; i++; continue; }
+    if (c === '/' && d === '/') { while (i < src.length && src[i] !== '\n') i++; continue; }
+    if (c === '/' && d === '*') { i += 2; while (i < src.length && !(src[i] === '*' && src[i + 1] === '/')) i++; i += 2; continue; }
+    out += c; i++;
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
+function countFlatErrors(text) {
+  const code = stripCommentsForFlat(text);
+  return (code.match(FLAT_ERROR_VALUE_RE) || []).length
+       + (code.match(FLAT_ERROR_SHORTHAND_RE) || []).length;
+}
+
+// scanFlatErrorSites() — per-file flat-error counts across the API surface
+// (core src/bongos + every module), skipping tests. Shared by the check below, the
+// R04 codemod, and tests/api_error_envelope_buildcheck.mjs.
+function scanFlatErrorSites() {
+  const seen = new Set();
+  const byFile = {};
+  let total = 0;
+  const files = [
+    ...walkJs(path.join(CORE_ROOT, 'src', 'bongos')),
+    ...walkJsAllRoots('modules'),
+  ];
+  for (const abs of files) {
+    const relFile = rel(abs);
+    if (seen.has(relFile)) continue;
+    seen.add(relFile);
+    if (relFile.includes('/tests/') || relFile.endsWith('.test.js')) continue;
+    const n = countFlatErrors(fs.readFileSync(abs, 'utf8'));
+    if (n) { byFile[relFile] = n; total += n; }
+  }
+  return { total, byFile };
+}
+
+function checkErrorEnvelope() {
+  const { total, byFile } = scanFlatErrorSites();
+  const violations = [];
+  const warnings = [];
+  if (total > FLAT_ERROR_BASELINE) {
+    const top = Object.entries(byFile).sort((a, b) => b[1] - a[1]).slice(0, 8)
+      .map(([f, n]) => `${f} (${n})`).join(', ');
+    violations.push(
+      `${total} hand-rolled flat-error sites — ABOVE the ${FLAT_ERROR_BASELINE} baseline. A new route emitted a flat \`res.status(n).json({error:'x'})\` instead of \`res.fail('x', n)\` / \`throw new ApiError('x')\` (ADR 0116). Top files: ${top}. Use the envelope helper (src/bongos/middleware/error-envelope.js).`
+    );
+  } else if (total < FLAT_ERROR_BASELINE) {
+    warnings.push(
+      `${total} flat-error sites — BELOW the ${FLAT_ERROR_BASELINE} baseline. The sweep tightened; lower FLAT_ERROR_BASELINE to ${total} in fitness.js so the ratchet can't slip back (BV1 R04 / task 1991).`
+    );
+  }
+  return {
+    name: 'no route hand-rolls a flat error (ADR 0116 / R03)',
+    ok: violations.length === 0,
+    hardFail: violations.length > 0,
+    violations,
+    warnings,
+    note: `≤ ${FLAT_ERROR_BASELINE} flat \`.json({error:'…'})\` sites (ratchet → 0 as the R04 sweep lands); currently ${total}. New failures must use res.fail()/ApiError (the R02 envelope).`,
+  };
+}
+
+module.exports = {
+  checkErrorEnvelope,
+  scanFlatErrorSites,
+  countFlatErrors,
+  FLAT_ERROR_BASELINE,
+};

package/scripts/gds/fitness-checks-packaging.js

@@ -0,0 +1,132 @@
+// scripts/gds/fitness-checks-packaging.js — Checks 16 + 16b: core code must not
+// HARD-require a boundary-EXCLUDED config or module.
+//
+// Carved out of scripts/gds/fitness.js by task 1003825, on the task-1003192
+// precedent. That file had returned to the 1,500-line ratchet with ONE line of
+// headroom (1,499 of 1,500, fitness-ratchets.js OVERSIZE_LINES), so the next check
+// registered there would have tipped it over and redded the ratchet for whoever
+// wrote it. These two checks left together because they are one subject — the same
+// question asked of a config and of a module — and because the pair depends only on
+// CORE_ROOT / rel / walkJs / walkJsAllRoots, all already public on fitness-lib.js,
+// so the carve adds no import cycle.
+//
+// fitness.js requires both names straight back, so the CHECKS registry and the
+// module surface the tests read are unchanged.
+
+'use strict';
+
+const fs = require('node:fs');
+const path = require('node:path');
+
+const { CORE_ROOT, rel, walkJs, walkJsAllRoots } = require('./fitness-lib.js');
+// ============================================================================
+// Check 16 — core code must not HARD-require an instance-excluded config/*.json
+// ============================================================================
+//
+// A vanilla self-host boot ships only the PUBLISHABLE tree (publish-manifest.js). An
+// instance-only config (config/devbox-app.json, config/bongos-cli.json, config/branding.json,
+// config/modules.json, …) is boundary-EXCLUDED, so a bare `require('../../config/<excluded>.json')`
+// in core code throws MODULE_NOT_FOUND and CRASHES the boot on a fresh instance — the exact
+// class that shipped in R88 (two hard-requires in src/bongos/serve-internal.js; task 1824). The
+// cure is to READ the config instead of requiring it, tolerating a missing file
+// (tryLoadInstanceConfig in src/bongos/serve-internal.js / fs.existsSync → fail-to-vanilla), which
+// also drops the require() literal so it no longer matches here. Check 1 (core↔host) scans
+// code→code IMPORTS and misses this code→config class. Only an EXCLUDED config is a violation;
+// a publishable neutral.*/schema config (which ships with the core) is fine.
+const CONFIG_REQUIRE_RE = /require\(\s*['"]([^'"]*config\/[^'"]*\.json)['"]\s*\)/g;
+
+function checkCoreRequiresExcludedConfig() {
+  const { isPublishable } = require('./publish-manifest');
+  const violations = [];
+  // src/ + scripts/ are CORE; modules ship from BOTH roots (ADR 0108 §Consequences #4). Dedup by
+  // repo-relative path so a shared checkout scans each file once.
+  const seen = new Set();
+  const allAbs = [
+    ...['src', 'scripts'].flatMap((d) => walkJs(path.join(CORE_ROOT, d))),
+    ...walkJsAllRoots('modules'),
+  ];
+  for (const abs of allAbs) {
+    const relFile = rel(abs);
+    if (seen.has(relFile)) continue;
+    seen.add(relFile);
+    if (!isPublishable(relFile)) continue; // only CORE (publishable) code can crash a vanilla boot
+    for (const raw of fs.readFileSync(abs, 'utf8').split('\n')) {
+      const trimmed = raw.trim();
+      if (trimmed.startsWith('//') || trimmed.startsWith('*') || trimmed.startsWith('/*')) continue;
+      let m;
+      CONFIG_REQUIRE_RE.lastIndex = 0;
+      while ((m = CONFIG_REQUIRE_RE.exec(raw))) {
+        const relCfg = rel(path.resolve(path.dirname(abs), m[1]));
+        if (!isPublishable(relCfg)) {
+          violations.push(`${relFile} → require('${m[1]}') hard-requires an instance-excluded config (${relCfg}) — guard the read (tryLoadInstanceConfig in src/bongos/serve-internal.js / fs.existsSync, fail-to-vanilla) so a fresh core boots (task 1824).`);
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return {
+    name: 'core never hard-requires an excluded config (task 1824)',
+    ok: violations.length === 0,
+    hardFail: violations.length > 0,
+    violations,
+    warnings: [],
+    note: "a publishable src/·scripts/·modules/ .js must not require('…config/X.json') when X.json is boundary-excluded — guard the read so a vanilla core boots.",
+  };
+}
+
+// ============================================================================
+// Check 16b — core code must not require an instance-EXCLUDED module (task 2135)
+// ============================================================================
+//
+// Sibling of Check 16 for the code→MODULE class. A publishable core file that
+// require()s a boundary-EXCLUDED module (modules/game, modules/art-pipeline,
+// modules/character-anim, …) throws MODULE_NOT_FOUND once that module lives in the
+// consumer's instance repo rather than the core package (R89 split). The cure is
+// either to reclassify the module INTO core (if it belongs there — e.g. provisioning,
+// sibling of dev-box) or to exclude the requiring file with the feature it serves
+// (art tooling). Catches BOTH require forms: a direct literal
+// require('../modules/<key>/…') AND a require(path.join(<root>, 'modules/<key>/…')).
+// Only an EXCLUDED module required from a PUBLISHABLE file is a violation; requiring a
+// publishable (core) module is fine, and the loader's DYNAMIC dispatch
+// (path.join(dir,'routes',rk) — no literal modules/<key>/ string) is invisible here.
+const MODULE_PATH_IN_STRING_RE = /['"](?:[^'"]*\/)?modules\/([a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*)\/[^'"]*['"]/g;
+
+function checkCoreRequiresExcludedModule() {
+  const { isPublishable } = require('./publish-manifest');
+  const violations = [];
+  const seen = new Set();
+  const allAbs = [
+    ...['src', 'scripts'].flatMap((d) => walkJs(path.join(CORE_ROOT, d))),
+    ...walkJsAllRoots('modules'),
+  ];
+  for (const abs of allAbs) {
+    const relFile = rel(abs);
+    if (seen.has(relFile)) continue;
+    seen.add(relFile);
+    if (!isPublishable(relFile)) continue; // only CORE (publishable) code can crash a vanilla boot
+    for (const raw of fs.readFileSync(abs, 'utf8').split('\n')) {
+      const trimmed = raw.trim();
+      if (trimmed.startsWith('//') || trimmed.startsWith('*') || trimmed.startsWith('/*')) continue;
+      if (!/require\s*\(/.test(raw)) continue; // only lines that actually require()
+      let m;
+      MODULE_PATH_IN_STRING_RE.lastIndex = 0;
+      while ((m = MODULE_PATH_IN_STRING_RE.exec(raw))) {
+        const key = m[1];
+        if (isPublishable(`modules/${key}/module.json`)) continue; // requiring a CORE module is fine
+        violations.push(`${relFile} → require(...'modules/${key}/…') pulls in an instance-EXCLUDED module — reclassify it into core (if it belongs there) or exclude ${relFile} with the feature it serves, so a fresh core boots (task 2135).`);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return {
+    name: 'core never requires an excluded module (task 2135)',
+    ok: violations.length === 0,
+    hardFail: violations.length > 0,
+    violations,
+    warnings: [],
+    note: "a publishable src/·scripts/·modules/ .js must not require('…modules/<key>/…') when that module is boundary-excluded — MODULE_NOT_FOUND post-split (R89).",
+  };
+}
+
+module.exports = {
+  checkCoreRequiresExcludedConfig,
+  checkCoreRequiresExcludedModule,
+};

package/scripts/gds/fitness.js

@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ const { CORE_ROOT, INSTANCE_ROOT, MODULE_ROOTS, REPO_ROOT, rel, walkJs, walkJsAl
 const { IDENTITY_SCAN_ALLOWED, IDENTITY_SCAN_EXCLUDE, IDENTITY_SCAN_EXTRA_FILES, IDENTITY_SCAN_EXTS, IDENTITY_SCAN_ROOTS, IDENTITY_SCAN_SKIP_DIRS, PROMPT_IDENTITY_LITERALS, checkDesignContract, checkKernelPromptsNoHardcodedIdentity, checkNeutralConfigsNoHostIdentity, collectIdentityFiles, scanPromptIdentity, stripCommentsForIdentity } = require('./fitness-checks-identity.js');
 const { WRITE_VALIDATION_BASELINE, WRITE_VALIDATION_EXEMPT, checkWriteRoutesValidated, scanUnvalidatedWriteRoutes } = require('./fitness-checks-write-validation.js');
 const { GOAL_VOCAB_CITATION, GOAL_VOCAB_LINE_SCOPED, GOAL_VOCAB_SURFACE, LIFECYCLE_DB_FILES, PRELAUNCH_SURFACE, RENAME_IDENTITY_RE, VOCAB_ALLOW, VOCAB_BANNED, VOCAB_CITATION, VOCAB_EXTS, VOCAB_HISTORICAL_REF, VOCAB_SURFACE, checkGoalMembershipVocabulary, checkGovernmentRenameIdentity, checkPrelaunchVocabulary, checkVocabularyWall, vocabFilesToScan } = require('./fitness-checks-vocabulary.js');
+const { checkCoreRequiresExcludedConfig, checkCoreRequiresExcludedModule } = require('./fitness-checks-packaging.js'); // Checks 16 + 16b — carved out by task 1003825 (the 1,500-line ratchet)
+const { FLAT_ERROR_BASELINE, checkErrorEnvelope, countFlatErrors, scanFlatErrorSites } = require('./fitness-checks-error-envelope.js'); // Check 17 — carved out by task 1003825
 // ============================================================================
 // Check 1 — core ↔ host/game import boundary (ADR 0062 §1 cut-line)
 // ============================================================================
@@ -1084,219 +1086,6 @@ function checkHallSectionRegistry() {
   };
 }
 
-// ============================================================================
-// Check 16 — core code must not HARD-require an instance-excluded config/*.json
-// ============================================================================
-//
-// A vanilla self-host boot ships only the PUBLISHABLE tree (publish-manifest.js). An
-// instance-only config (config/devbox-app.json, config/bongos-cli.json, config/branding.json,
-// config/modules.json, …) is boundary-EXCLUDED, so a bare `require('../../config/<excluded>.json')`
-// in core code throws MODULE_NOT_FOUND and CRASHES the boot on a fresh instance — the exact
-// class that shipped in R88 (two hard-requires in src/bongos/serve-internal.js; task 1824). The
-// cure is to READ the config instead of requiring it, tolerating a missing file
-// (tryLoadInstanceConfig in src/bongos/serve-internal.js / fs.existsSync → fail-to-vanilla), which
-// also drops the require() literal so it no longer matches here. Check 1 (core↔host) scans
-// code→code IMPORTS and misses this code→config class. Only an EXCLUDED config is a violation;
-// a publishable neutral.*/schema config (which ships with the core) is fine.
-const CONFIG_REQUIRE_RE = /require\(\s*['"]([^'"]*config\/[^'"]*\.json)['"]\s*\)/g;
-
-function checkCoreRequiresExcludedConfig() {
-  const { isPublishable } = require('./publish-manifest');
-  const violations = [];
-  // src/ + scripts/ are CORE; modules ship from BOTH roots (ADR 0108 §Consequences #4). Dedup by
-  // repo-relative path so a shared checkout scans each file once.
-  const seen = new Set();
-  const allAbs = [
-    ...['src', 'scripts'].flatMap((d) => walkJs(path.join(CORE_ROOT, d))),
-    ...walkJsAllRoots('modules'),
-  ];
-  for (const abs of allAbs) {
-    const relFile = rel(abs);
-    if (seen.has(relFile)) continue;
-    seen.add(relFile);
-    if (!isPublishable(relFile)) continue; // only CORE (publishable) code can crash a vanilla boot
-    for (const raw of fs.readFileSync(abs, 'utf8').split('\n')) {
-      const trimmed = raw.trim();
-      if (trimmed.startsWith('//') || trimmed.startsWith('*') || trimmed.startsWith('/*')) continue;
-      let m;
-      CONFIG_REQUIRE_RE.lastIndex = 0;
-      while ((m = CONFIG_REQUIRE_RE.exec(raw))) {
-        const relCfg = rel(path.resolve(path.dirname(abs), m[1]));
-        if (!isPublishable(relCfg)) {
-          violations.push(`${relFile} → require('${m[1]}') hard-requires an instance-excluded config (${relCfg}) — guard the read (tryLoadInstanceConfig in src/bongos/serve-internal.js / fs.existsSync, fail-to-vanilla) so a fresh core boots (task 1824).`);
-        }
-      }
-    }
-  }
-  return {
-    name: 'core never hard-requires an excluded config (task 1824)',
-    ok: violations.length === 0,
-    hardFail: violations.length > 0,
-    violations,
-    warnings: [],
-    note: "a publishable src/·scripts/·modules/ .js must not require('…config/X.json') when X.json is boundary-excluded — guard the read so a vanilla core boots.",
-  };
-}
-
-// ============================================================================
-// Check 16b — core code must not require an instance-EXCLUDED module (task 2135)
-// ============================================================================
-//
-// Sibling of Check 16 for the code→MODULE class. A publishable core file that
-// require()s a boundary-EXCLUDED module (modules/game, modules/art-pipeline,
-// modules/character-anim, …) throws MODULE_NOT_FOUND once that module lives in the
-// consumer's instance repo rather than the core package (R89 split). The cure is
-// either to reclassify the module INTO core (if it belongs there — e.g. provisioning,
-// sibling of dev-box) or to exclude the requiring file with the feature it serves
-// (art tooling). Catches BOTH require forms: a direct literal
-// require('../modules/<key>/…') AND a require(path.join(<root>, 'modules/<key>/…')).
-// Only an EXCLUDED module required from a PUBLISHABLE file is a violation; requiring a
-// publishable (core) module is fine, and the loader's DYNAMIC dispatch
-// (path.join(dir,'routes',rk) — no literal modules/<key>/ string) is invisible here.
-const MODULE_PATH_IN_STRING_RE = /['"](?:[^'"]*\/)?modules\/([a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*)\/[^'"]*['"]/g;
-
-function checkCoreRequiresExcludedModule() {
-  const { isPublishable } = require('./publish-manifest');
-  const violations = [];
-  const seen = new Set();
-  const allAbs = [
-    ...['src', 'scripts'].flatMap((d) => walkJs(path.join(CORE_ROOT, d))),
-    ...walkJsAllRoots('modules'),
-  ];
-  for (const abs of allAbs) {
-    const relFile = rel(abs);
-    if (seen.has(relFile)) continue;
-    seen.add(relFile);
-    if (!isPublishable(relFile)) continue; // only CORE (publishable) code can crash a vanilla boot
-    for (const raw of fs.readFileSync(abs, 'utf8').split('\n')) {
-      const trimmed = raw.trim();
-      if (trimmed.startsWith('//') || trimmed.startsWith('*') || trimmed.startsWith('/*')) continue;
-      if (!/require\s*\(/.test(raw)) continue; // only lines that actually require()
-      let m;
-      MODULE_PATH_IN_STRING_RE.lastIndex = 0;
-      while ((m = MODULE_PATH_IN_STRING_RE.exec(raw))) {
-        const key = m[1];
-        if (isPublishable(`modules/${key}/module.json`)) continue; // requiring a CORE module is fine
-        violations.push(`${relFile} → require(...'modules/${key}/…') pulls in an instance-EXCLUDED module — reclassify it into core (if it belongs there) or exclude ${relFile} with the feature it serves, so a fresh core boots (task 2135).`);
-      }
-    }
-  }
-  return {
-    name: 'core never requires an excluded module (task 2135)',
-    ok: violations.length === 0,
-    hardFail: violations.length > 0,
-    violations,
-    warnings: [],
-    note: "a publishable src/·scripts/·modules/ .js must not require('…modules/<key>/…') when that module is boundary-excluded — MODULE_NOT_FOUND post-split (R89).",
-  };
-}
-
-// ============================================================================
-// Check 17 — no route hand-rolls a FLAT error (BV1 R03 / task 1990 / ADR 0116)
-// ============================================================================
-//
-// The error-envelope contract (ADR 0116) says every failure is the ONE envelope
-// `{error:{code,message,details}}`, emitted via res.fail() or a thrown ApiError
-// (the R02 middleware, task 1989). A hand-rolled flat error —
-// `res.status(n).json({ error: 'x' })` or `.json({ error })` — breaks the
-// contract: the caller gets a bare string where the envelope should be.
-//
-// RATCHET, not big-bang. The R04 sweep (task 1991) migrates the ~562 existing
-// sites; until it finishes they'd all "fail" a strict check, so this HOLDS THE
-// LINE: it fails only when the count rises ABOVE the committed baseline (a NEW
-// hand-rolled flat error), and nudges the baseline DOWN as the sweep shrinks it.
-// When the sweep reaches 0, FLAT_ERROR_BASELINE is 0 and any new flat error
-// hard-fails immediately. Detector is shared with the sweep + its test.
-const FLAT_ERROR_BASELINE = 0; // R04 sweep (task 1991) landed the surface at 0 — the gate is now hard-zero: any new hand-rolled flat error fails the build immediately.
-// A flat error is a `.json({ … })` whose FIRST key is `error` with a value that
-// is NOT an object literal (a string/var/shorthand). The envelope's nested
-// `error: { … }` and `.json(envelope(…))` deliberately do NOT match.
-// The `(?!\s*\{)` lookahead is whitespace-aware: without the inner `\s*` the
-// preceding `\s*` backtracks to zero and the lookahead is tested at the space in
-// `error: {`, so the compliant nested envelope was wrongly flagged (task 2029).
-const FLAT_ERROR_VALUE_RE = /\.json\(\s*\{\s*error\s*:\s*(?!\s*\{)/g; // error: 'x' | error: code
-const FLAT_ERROR_SHORTHAND_RE = /\.json\(\s*\{\s*error\s*[,}]/g;   // { error } | { error, … }
-
-// Strip // line comments + /* */ block comments AND blank out string/template
-// contents (keeping the delimiters) so neither a DOC example of the anti-pattern
-// — e.g. the res.fail() usage note in middleware/error-envelope.js — nor a
-// pattern quoted inside a string literal is counted as a real flat error once
-// the gate is hard-zero (task 1991). Real flat errors are unaffected: in
-// `res.status(404).json({ error: 'x' })` the `.json({ error:` the detector keys
-// on is CODE (outside the string), so blanking the `'x'` content still matches.
-function stripCommentsForFlat(src) {
-  let out = '';
-  let i = 0;
-  let quote = null;
-  while (i < src.length) {
-    const c = src[i];
-    const d = src[i + 1];
-    if (quote) {
-      // inside a string/template: drop content, keep only the closing delimiter
-      if (c === '\\') { i += 2; continue; }
-      if (c === quote) { out += c; quote = null; }
-      i++; continue;
-    }
-    if (c === '"' || c === "'" || c === '`') { quote = c; out += c; i++; continue; }
-    if (c === '/' && d === '/') { while (i < src.length && src[i] !== '\n') i++; continue; }
-    if (c === '/' && d === '*') { i += 2; while (i < src.length && !(src[i] === '*' && src[i + 1] === '/')) i++; i += 2; continue; }
-    out += c; i++;
-  }
-  return out;
-}
-
-function countFlatErrors(text) {
-  const code = stripCommentsForFlat(text);
-  return (code.match(FLAT_ERROR_VALUE_RE) || []).length
-       + (code.match(FLAT_ERROR_SHORTHAND_RE) || []).length;
-}
-
-// scanFlatErrorSites() — per-file flat-error counts across the API surface
-// (core src/bongos + every module), skipping tests. Shared by the check below, the
-// R04 codemod, and tests/api_error_envelope_buildcheck.mjs.
-function scanFlatErrorSites() {
-  const seen = new Set();
-  const byFile = {};
-  let total = 0;
-  const files = [
-    ...walkJs(path.join(CORE_ROOT, 'src', 'bongos')),
-    ...walkJsAllRoots('modules'),
-  ];
-  for (const abs of files) {
-    const relFile = rel(abs);
-    if (seen.has(relFile)) continue;
-    seen.add(relFile);
-    if (relFile.includes('/tests/') || relFile.endsWith('.test.js')) continue;
-    const n = countFlatErrors(fs.readFileSync(abs, 'utf8'));
-    if (n) { byFile[relFile] = n; total += n; }
-  }
-  return { total, byFile };
-}
-
-function checkErrorEnvelope() {
-  const { total, byFile } = scanFlatErrorSites();
-  const violations = [];
-  const warnings = [];
-  if (total > FLAT_ERROR_BASELINE) {
-    const top = Object.entries(byFile).sort((a, b) => b[1] - a[1]).slice(0, 8)
-      .map(([f, n]) => `${f} (${n})`).join(', ');
-    violations.push(
-      `${total} hand-rolled flat-error sites — ABOVE the ${FLAT_ERROR_BASELINE} baseline. A new route emitted a flat \`res.status(n).json({error:'x'})\` instead of \`res.fail('x', n)\` / \`throw new ApiError('x')\` (ADR 0116). Top files: ${top}. Use the envelope helper (src/bongos/middleware/error-envelope.js).`
-    );
-  } else if (total < FLAT_ERROR_BASELINE) {
-    warnings.push(
-      `${total} flat-error sites — BELOW the ${FLAT_ERROR_BASELINE} baseline. The sweep tightened; lower FLAT_ERROR_BASELINE to ${total} in fitness.js so the ratchet can't slip back (BV1 R04 / task 1991).`
-    );
-  }
-  return {
-    name: 'no route hand-rolls a flat error (ADR 0116 / R03)',
-    ok: violations.length === 0,
-    hardFail: violations.length > 0,
-    violations,
-    warnings,
-    note: `≤ ${FLAT_ERROR_BASELINE} flat \`.json({error:'…'})\` sites (ratchet → 0 as the R04 sweep lands); currently ${total}. New failures must use res.fail()/ApiError (the R02 envelope).`,
-  };
-}
 
 // ============================================================================
 // Check 2c — every SKILL.md frontmatter parses the way Claude Code's YAML reader reads it (task 1003548)

package/src/bongos/optimizer.js

@@ -34,6 +34,24 @@ const { pool } = require('./pool');
 // claimTask / claimTasksBatch will actually allow.
 const { touchesOverlap } = require('./path-match');
 
+// The blocker guard, once (task 1003913). Same predicate as migration core_239
+// and as db-tasks.js's OPEN_BLOCKER_GUARD, deliberately duplicated ACROSS those
+// files — this is core, db-tasks.js is a module, and core may not require module
+// code (ADR 0083). Within THIS file there is no such excuse, so the two inlined
+// view bodies below interpolate one constant.
+//
+// The LEFT JOIN is load-bearing: a legacy markdown-anchor link carries
+// blocker_ref with no blockers row, and an inner join would drop it from the
+// NOT EXISTS and silently unhide it. b.id IS NULL is the fail-closed arm.
+const OPEN_BLOCKER_GUARD = `
+            AND NOT EXISTS (
+              SELECT 1
+                FROM task_blockers tb
+                LEFT JOIN blockers b ON b.id = tb.blocker_id
+               WHERE tb.task_id = t.id
+                 AND (b.id IS NULL OR b.status = 'open')
+            )`;
+
 const VALID_MODES = ['active', 'check-in', 'autonomous'];
 const DEFAULT_MAX_PARALLEL = 3;
 
@@ -58,6 +76,13 @@ async function optimizeSession({ builderId, mode, timeBudgetMin, maxParallel })
   // backend queued an ACCESS EXCLUSIVE DDL on the views and parked every view
   // SELECT behind it. Plan-identical (Postgres inlines simple views); change in
   // lockstep with the views / listClaimableTasks if a migration alters them.
+  //
+  // THAT LOCKSTEP FAILED ONCE, WHICH IS WHY A TEST NOW HOLDS IT (task 1003913).
+  // Migration core_239 added the blocker-STATUS guard to claimable_tasks and both
+  // bodies below kept the old "any link row hides it forever" form, so a task
+  // whose blocker had been resolved stayed invisible here. A comment asking the
+  // next editor to remember is not enforcement: tests/claimable_blocker_status.mjs
+  // now asserts this file, db-tasks.js and the migration carry the same predicate.
   const { rows } = await pool.query(
     `SELECT ct.*, sf.fits_session_modes, sf.credits_per_minute
        FROM (
@@ -65,7 +90,7 @@ async function optimizeSession({ builderId, mode, timeBudgetMin, maxParallel })
            FROM tasks t
           WHERE t.status = 'ready'
             AND t.title NOT LIKE '\\_\\_smoke\\_\\_%' ESCAPE '\\'
-            AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM task_blockers tb WHERE tb.task_id = t.id)
+${OPEN_BLOCKER_GUARD}
             AND NOT EXISTS (
               SELECT 1 FROM claims c
                 JOIN tasks t2 ON t2.id = c.task_id
@@ -76,8 +101,7 @@ async function optimizeSession({ builderId, mode, timeBudgetMin, maxParallel })
        JOIN (
          SELECT t.id,
            CASE
-             WHEN t.automation_tag = 'overnight-safe' AND COALESCE(t.manual_degree, 5) <= 2
-                  AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM task_blockers tb WHERE tb.task_id = t.id)
+             WHEN t.automation_tag = 'overnight-safe' AND COALESCE(t.manual_degree, 5) <= 2${OPEN_BLOCKER_GUARD}
                THEN ARRAY['autonomous','check-in','active']
              WHEN t.automation_tag = 'live-only' OR COALESCE(t.manual_degree, 5) >= 4
                THEN ARRAY['active']

package/src/bongos/serve-internal.js

@@ -492,6 +492,35 @@ function isBuildersHost(req) {
   return cfg !== '' && host === cfg;
 }
 
+// Is this instance served entirely from ONE host — publicOrigin and buildersOrigin
+// the same name (task 1002861)? Then "the builders host" and "the apex" are the same
+// request, isBuildersHost() is true for everything, and the builders rewrite shim has
+// no separate subdomain to root the hall at. Surfaces that only ever live on the apex
+// must therefore be handed through it rather than rewritten under /builders.
+//
+// Compares HOSTS, not origin strings: http vs https, a port, or a trailing slash are
+// all routing-irrelevant here and would each give a false negative on a string compare.
+// Empty on either side is NOT single-host — an unconfigured origin must not silently
+// widen what the shim lets past.
+function singleHostInstance() {
+  let pub = '';
+  try {
+    const po = (branding().domains || {}).publicOrigin || '';
+    pub = po ? new URL(po).host.toLowerCase().split(':')[0] : '';
+  } catch { return false; }
+  const hall = configuredBuildersHost();
+  return pub !== '' && hall !== '' && pub === hall;
+}
+
+// Paths that exist ONLY on the apex and are registered BELOW the builders rewrite
+// shim. Kept as one named predicate so the shim and its audit stay in one place: a
+// future apex-only surface added below the shim belongs here the day it is mounted.
+// `/modules/*` is deliberately absent — it serves on EVERY host and the shim exempts
+// it unconditionally, which is a different rule, not an entry in this list.
+function isApexOnlyPath(p) {
+  return p === '/docs' || p.startsWith('/docs/');
+}
+
 // Mount the internal web surfaces onto `app`, in the exact order server.js used.
 // Call this ONCE, right after app setup (trust proxy etc.) and BEFORE any
 // entrypoint-specific tail (the game static + themed 404 in server.js; the plain
@@ -837,9 +866,34 @@ function mountInternalSurfaces(app) {
     // lets the request reach it.
     //
     // The general hazard: ANY apex-rooted route registered BELOW this shim is
-    // eaten the same way. Today that is this one and the /docs family (idea 529
-    // → task 1002861); /downloads/* dodges it by being registered ABOVE instead.
+    // eaten the same way. The audit for task 1002861 walked every registration
+    // below this point: the complete set is this one and the /docs family
+    // immediately after it. Everything else down there is already /builders-scoped
+    // and passes through untouched, and /downloads/* dodges the problem entirely
+    // by being registered ABOVE the shim (see the note at its own mount).
     if (req.path.startsWith('/modules/')) return next();
+    // /docs is APEX-ONLY, which makes it the opposite case to /modules above, and
+    // the exemption has to be narrower because of it (task 1002861).
+    //
+    // On a SINGLE-HOST instance — publicOrigin === buildersOrigin, e.g. a
+    // demo.<apex> standalone, or any instance whose free-plan TLS can't cover a
+    // two-level builders.<sub>.<apex> — isBuildersHost() is true for the apex
+    // itself (task 1001971 taught it the configured buildersOrigin). So this shim
+    // fires on every apex request and rewrote /docs to /builders/docs, which no
+    // handler matches: GET /docs 404'd at the edge while loopback /docs returned
+    // 200, because a loopback Host matches neither origin. That asymmetry is the
+    // whole bug, and it is why it read as an edge/proxy fault for so long.
+    //
+    // Deliberately NOT a blanket exemption. On a TWO-host instance the builders
+    // subdomain is not supposed to serve /docs at all — the handler's own comment
+    // says the module hosts skip it — and today the only thing actually enforcing
+    // that is this shim, since isModuleSurfaceHost excludes the builders host by
+    // construction (the hall is partitioned out of webSurfaces). Exempting /docs
+    // unconditionally would therefore START serving it on builders.<apex>: a
+    // behaviour change nobody asked for, smuggled in under a 404 fix. Gating on
+    // singleHostInstance() fixes the standalone and leaves two-host routing
+    // byte-identical.
+    if (singleHostInstance() && isApexOnlyPath(req.path)) return next();
     if (req.path === '/builders' || req.path.startsWith('/builders/')) return next();
     // Prefix with /builders so the handlers below match. req.url carries the
     // query string; preserve it. '/' → '/builders/', '/watch' → '/builders/watch'.

package/src/module-api.js

@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ const { responsibilityFor, ROLE_RESPONSIBILITIES } = require('./role-responsibil
 // there. scripts/gds/bump-version.js still rewrites the literal below; it appends
 // the entry to that file. Look for a version's history there, not here.
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-const CORE_VERSION = '1.19.755'; // CI auto-patch carrier (ADR 0161); changelog: docs/module-api-changelog.md
+const CORE_VERSION = '1.19.757'; // CI auto-patch carrier (ADR 0161); changelog: docs/module-api-changelog.md
 
 // A namespaced logger so a module's log lines are attributable + consistent.
 // Usage: const log = api.logger('dev-box'); log.info('mounted');

package/tests/claimable_blocker_status.mjs

@@ -95,4 +95,110 @@ await test('the feed and the claim path enforce the SAME rule', () => {
     'the by-id claim path checks blocker STATUS, and the view must not be laxer or stricter');
 });
 
+/* ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+   Task 1003913 — the migration was never the only copy.
+
+   core_239 fixed claimable_tasks and the feed did not move, because the same
+   predicate is written in FOUR more places that no migration touches:
+   CLAIMABLE_SQL and SESSION_FIT_SQL in modules/lifecycle/db-tasks.js, and the
+   two view bodies src/bongos/optimizer.js inlines on purpose (a lock incident,
+   task 2181). Everything above this line passed throughout that bug — the file
+   asserted the migration and then asked db-claims.js one question. So the gap
+   was never the rigour of the assertions, it was their REACH.
+
+   COMMENTS ARE STRIPPED BEFORE SCANNING. db-tasks.js documents the old broken
+   form in prose so the next reader knows what was wrong; a raw-text scan would
+   read that as the bug and red CI on a correct file. (Exactly the defect filed
+   as task 1003832 against government_require_permission.mjs.)
+   ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── */
+
+// Strip // line comments and /* */ blocks, then flatten whitespace, so every
+// assertion below is about code that actually runs.
+const code = (...p) => read(...p)
+  .replace(/\/\*[\s\S]*?\*\//g, ' ')
+  .replace(/^\s*\/\/.*$/gm, ' ')
+  .replace(/\s+/g, ' ');
+
+// The bug, as a pattern: a task_blockers existence check that never looks at the
+// blocker. This is the exact clause core_239 replaced.
+//
+// THE OPTIONAL SPACES AFTER '(' AND BEFORE ')' ARE NOT COSMETIC. The migration
+// writes the clause across lines, so normalising collapses it to "( SELECT"; the
+// JS copies write it on one line as "(SELECT". A pattern pinned to the
+// migration's spacing matched neither JS copy, so this tripwire passed for the
+// whole life of the bug it exists to catch, and only the COUNT assertion below
+// failed when the fix was reverted. Caught by mutating db-tasks.js:791 rather
+// than by reading it.
+const UNGUARDED = /NOT EXISTS \(\s?SELECT 1 FROM task_blockers tb WHERE tb\.task_id = t\.id\s?\)/;
+// The fix, as a pattern.
+const GUARDED = /FROM task_blockers tb LEFT JOIN blockers b ON b\.id = tb\.blocker_id WHERE tb\.task_id = t\.id AND \(b\.id IS NULL OR b\.status = 'open'\)/g;
+
+const RUNTIME = [
+  ['modules', 'lifecycle', 'db-tasks.js'],
+  ['src', 'bongos', 'optimizer.js'],
+];
+
+await test('no RUNNING query still carries the unguarded clause', () => {
+  // The tripwire that would have caught core_239's miss on the day it landed.
+  for (const f of RUNTIME) {
+    assert.doesNotMatch(code(...f), UNGUARDED,
+      `${f.join('/')} hides a task because a link row EXISTS, not because its blocker is open — ` +
+      'the bug core_239 fixed in the view and this copy kept');
+  }
+});
+
+await test('each file declares the guard ONCE and every query it serves USES it', () => {
+  // The assertion this file needed and did not have. Round 1 of this task
+  // declared OPEN_BLOCKER_GUARD in db-tasks.js, interpolated it into
+  // CLAIMABLE_SQL, and then hand-copied the same clause into SESSION_FIT_SQL —
+  // two spellings of one predicate, inside the file written to remove exactly
+  // that. The old check was assert.match on /\$\{OPEN_BLOCKER_GUARD\}/, which is
+  // non-global and therefore satisfied by ONE use. Counting is the whole point.
+  for (const f of RUNTIME) {
+    const src = code(...f);
+    const decls = (src.match(/const OPEN_BLOCKER_GUARD = /g) || []).length;
+    const uses = (src.match(/\$\{OPEN_BLOCKER_GUARD\}/g) || []).length;
+    assert.equal(decls, 1, `${f.join('/')} must declare the guard exactly once`);
+    assert.equal(uses, 2, `${f.join('/')} serves two queries and both must interpolate the guard, not re-type it`);
+  }
+});
+
+await test('the declared guard is core_239-s predicate, verbatim', () => {
+  // One declaration per file, so the files agree with the migration iff each
+  // DECLARATION does. optimizer.js cannot import db-tasks.js across the ADR 0083
+  // boundary, so nothing but this comparison holds the three together.
+  const fromMigration = (body.match(GUARDED) || [])[0];
+  assert.ok(fromMigration, 'core_239 still carries the predicate this pins everything else to');
+  for (const f of RUNTIME) {
+    const decl = (code(...f).match(/const OPEN_BLOCKER_GUARD = `[^`]*`/) || [])[0];
+    assert.ok(decl, `${f.join('/')} declares the guard as a template literal`);
+    assert.ok(decl.includes(fromMigration),
+      `${f.join('/')}'s guard must be core_239's predicate verbatim — a paraphrase is how the next one drifts`);
+  }
+});
+
+await test('the guard actually reaches both composed statements', () => {
+  // Counting interpolations proves the constant is referenced twice; this proves
+  // what those references EXPAND to, which is what Postgres receives.
+  for (const f of RUNTIME) {
+    const raw = read(...f);
+    const gm = raw.match(/const OPEN_BLOCKER_GUARD = `([\s\S]*?)`;/);
+    assert.ok(gm, `${f.join('/')} declares the guard`);
+    const expanded = raw.split('\${OPEN_BLOCKER_GUARD}').join(gm[1]).replace(/\s+/g, ' ');
+    const hits = (expanded.match(GUARDED) || []).length;
+    assert.equal(hits, 3, `${f.join('/')}: one declaration plus two expanded uses`);
+  }
+});
+
+await test('the promotion sweep keeps its own, deliberately different, guard', () => {
+  // PROMOTABLE_BACKLOG_WHERE uses an INNER join + b.status = 'open' on purpose:
+  // it promotes backlog->ready and an unresolvable legacy link must not block
+  // that. Asserted so the sweep above does not "tidy" it into the LEFT form and
+  // quietly change which tasks get promoted.
+  const raw = code('modules', 'lifecycle', 'db-tasks.js');
+  assert.match(raw, /PROMOTABLE_BACKLOG_WHERE/);
+  assert.match(raw, /FROM task_blockers tb JOIN blockers b ON b\.id = tb\.blocker_id WHERE tb\.task_id = t\.id AND b\.status = 'open'/,
+    'the sweep resolves the blocker too — it just answers the legacy-link case differently');
+});
+
 summary();

package/tests/single_host_apex_routes.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,170 @@
+// tests/single_host_apex_routes.mjs — apex-only routes must survive the builders
+// rewrite shim on a SINGLE-HOST instance (task 1002861).
+//
+// THE BUG. On a single-host standalone (publicOrigin === buildersOrigin, e.g.
+// demo.cloudbongos.com, or any instance whose free-plan TLS cannot cover a
+// two-level builders.<sub>.<apex>) GET /docs returned 404 at the public edge while
+// loopback /docs returned 200 and the files plainly shipped. Since task 1001971
+// isBuildersHost() also returns true when the request host equals the CONFIGURED
+// buildersOrigin — which on a single-host instance is the apex — so the builders
+// rewrite shim fired on every apex request and rewrote /docs to /builders/docs,
+// which no handler matches. A loopback Host matches neither origin, so loopback
+// skipped the shim entirely: that asymmetry is why this read as an edge/proxy
+// fault for months rather than an application routing bug.
+//
+// WHAT THIS PINS, AND WHY IT NEEDS TWO PROCESSES. The fix is deliberately NARROW:
+// the shim hands apex-only paths through only when the instance is single-host. On
+// a TWO-host instance the builders subdomain still must not serve /docs, and today
+// this shim is the only thing enforcing that (isModuleSurfaceHost excludes the
+// builders host by construction, since the hall is partitioned out of webSurfaces).
+// A blanket exemption would quietly START serving /docs on builders.<apex>. Both
+// shapes are therefore asserted, and the instance shape is read from branding at
+// require time, so each shape needs its own process with its own env.
+//
+// Uses node:http, NOT fetch: `Host` is a forbidden header name in the fetch spec,
+// so fetch silently drops the override and every request goes to 127.0.0.1 —
+// which makes a host-routing test pass vacuously and keep passing with the fix
+// reverted (learning 1000264, found the hard way in task 1002848).
+//
+// Run:  node --test tests/single_host_apex_routes.mjs
+
+import { test, after } from 'node:test';
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
+import http from 'node:http';
+import { spawn } from 'node:child_process';
+import path from 'node:path';
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
+
+const ROOT = path.resolve(path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)), '..');
+
+// Boot serve-internal in a child process so branding() picks up this shape's env.
+// Prints "PORT <n>" and stays up until killed.
+// `express` is required BARE on purpose: a worktree has no node_modules of its own
+// and resolves by walking up to the main checkout, so an absolute path built from
+// ROOT would miss. cwd is ROOT below, which is what that walk-up starts from.
+const SERVER_SRC = `
+  const express = require('express');
+  const { mountInternalSurfaces } = require(${JSON.stringify(path.join(ROOT, 'src/bongos/serve-internal.js'))});
+  const app = express();
+  mountInternalSurfaces(app);
+  const s = app.listen(0, () => console.log('PORT ' + s.address().port));
+`;
+
+const servers = [];
+
+function startServer(env) {
+  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+    const child = spawn(process.execPath, ['-e', SERVER_SRC], {
+      cwd: ROOT,
+      env: { ...process.env, ...env },
+      stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'pipe'],
+    });
+    servers.push(child);
+    let out = '';
+    let err = '';
+    const timer = setTimeout(() => reject(new Error(`server did not start; stderr: ${err}`)), 30000);
+    child.stdout.setEncoding('utf8');
+    child.stderr.setEncoding('utf8');
+    child.stderr.on('data', (c) => { err += c; });
+    child.stdout.on('data', (c) => {
+      out += c;
+      const m = out.match(/PORT (\d+)/);
+      if (m) { clearTimeout(timer); resolve(Number(m[1])); }
+    });
+    child.on('error', (e) => { clearTimeout(timer); reject(e); });
+    child.on('exit', (code) => {
+      if (!/PORT \d+/.test(out)) { clearTimeout(timer); reject(new Error(`server exited ${code}: ${err}`)); }
+    });
+  });
+}
+
+after(() => { for (const c of servers) { try { c.kill(); } catch { /* already gone */ } } });
+
+function get(port, p, host) {
+  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+    const req = http.request({ host: '127.0.0.1', port, path: p, headers: { Host: host } }, (res) => {
+      let body = '';
+      res.setEncoding('utf8');
+      res.on('data', (c) => { body += c; });
+      res.on('end', () => resolve({ status: res.statusCode, body, headers: res.headers }));
+    });
+    req.on('error', reject);
+    req.end();
+  });
+}
+
+const SINGLE = { BONGOS_PUBLIC_ORIGIN: 'https://demo.example.com', BONGOS_BUILDERS_ORIGIN: 'https://demo.example.com' };
+const TWO = { BONGOS_PUBLIC_ORIGIN: 'https://example.com', BONGOS_BUILDERS_ORIGIN: 'https://builders.example.com' };
+
+let singlePort;
+let twoPort;
+
+test('boot both instance shapes', async () => {
+  [singlePort, twoPort] = await Promise.all([startServer(SINGLE), startServer(TWO)]);
+  assert.ok(singlePort > 0 && twoPort > 0);
+});
+
+// The harness is only meaningful if the Host header actually reaches the app.
+// Assert that first — otherwise every case below is an apex-vs-apex tautology.
+test('the harness really varies the Host', async () => {
+  const a = await get(twoPort, '/builders/', 'example.com');
+  const b = await get(twoPort, '/builders/', 'builders.example.com');
+  assert.notEqual(a.headers.location, b.headers.location,
+    'the two hosts must route differently, or the Host header is being dropped');
+});
+
+// ---- single-host: the bug ------------------------------------------------
+
+test('SINGLE-HOST: /docs serves on the apex (it used to 404 — the shim ate it)', async () => {
+  const r = await get(singlePort, '/docs', 'demo.example.com');
+  assert.equal(r.status, 200);
+  assert.ok(/redoc|openapi/i.test(r.body), 'the body is the API docs page, not some other handler');
+});
+
+test('SINGLE-HOST: the rest of the /docs family serves too', async () => {
+  for (const p of ['/docs/openapi.json', '/docs/redoc.standalone.js']) {
+    const r = await get(singlePort, p, 'demo.example.com');
+    assert.equal(r.status, 200, `${p} must serve on a single-host apex`);
+  }
+});
+
+test('SINGLE-HOST: /docs/openapi.json is still the spec, not a rewritten page', async () => {
+  const r = await get(singlePort, '/docs/openapi.json', 'demo.example.com');
+  const spec = JSON.parse(r.body);
+  assert.ok(spec.openapi.startsWith('3.'), 'a real OpenAPI document');
+});
+
+test('SINGLE-HOST: the hall still works — the exemption did not disable the shim', async () => {
+  // The whole point of the shim on this host is that / serves the hall. If the
+  // exemption were written too broadly it would stop rewriting everything.
+  const r = await get(singlePort, '/', 'demo.example.com');
+  assert.ok(r.status === 200 || r.status === 301 || r.status === 302,
+    `the hall root must still resolve (got ${r.status})`);
+});
+
+test('SINGLE-HOST: a /docs lookalike is NOT exempt', async () => {
+  // '/docsomething' must not escape the shim — it is neither /docs nor under /docs/.
+  const r = await get(singlePort, '/docsomething', 'demo.example.com');
+  assert.notEqual(r.status, 200, 'only /docs and /docs/* are apex-only exemptions');
+});
+
+// ---- two-host: unchanged -------------------------------------------------
+
+test('TWO-HOST: /docs serves on the apex, as it always did', async () => {
+  const r = await get(twoPort, '/docs', 'example.com');
+  assert.equal(r.status, 200);
+});
+
+test('TWO-HOST: /docs still does NOT serve on builders.<apex> — no smuggled change', async () => {
+  const r = await get(twoPort, '/docs', 'builders.example.com');
+  assert.equal(r.status, 404,
+    'a blanket exemption would have started serving /docs here; the fix is gated on single-host');
+});
+
+test('TWO-HOST: module assets still serve on BOTH hosts (task 1002848 stays fixed)', async () => {
+  // /modules/ is exempt unconditionally — a different rule from the apex-only list,
+  // and this pins that the two rules did not get conflated.
+  const p = '/modules/hall-ui/public/atlas.css';
+  assert.equal((await get(twoPort, p, 'example.com')).status, 200);
+  assert.equal((await get(twoPort, p, 'builders.example.com')).status, 200);
+});