@bongos/core 1.19.919 → 1.19.921

package/.bongos-core.json

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       "mode": "0000644",
@@ -11657,7 +11672,7 @@
     {
       "path": "tests/grader_prompt_fencing.mjs",
       "mode": "0000644",
-      "sha256": "fa155f3c5faa3763d1a51d56b7746ad870e826e3249f5e9b08108a3cfbfcbd72"
+      "sha256": "b626e614de000078eef1b305f6322d94326f032bcbeba2808baaa9dcc8ed3103"
     },
     {
       "path": "tests/grader_quality_window_overflow.mjs",
@@ -12479,6 +12494,11 @@
       "mode": "0000644",
       "sha256": "03b61cb8de6713b03fe17b2b3c5d70af7c511b33b17a42295f49c36e27771470"
     },
+    {
+      "path": "tests/nav_permission_atoms.mjs",
+      "mode": "0000644",
+      "sha256": "c965c4d56b00ec2cdf476ca045c8e28120ca16b57f26006a9017350b44014e92"
+    },
     {
       "path": "tests/needs_rebase.mjs",
       "mode": "0000644",
@@ -12502,7 +12522,7 @@
     {
       "path": "tests/no_artifact_escalation.mjs",
       "mode": "0000644",
-      "sha256": "3d2b03a39cbefc02565a190dee0612e14576edbf32ea0fccf798d6ed28fee8f1"
+      "sha256": "f1523ee48247d18c7326b9aa0b442ca2c9fab8bd41dbe9f23a4cb89e1986bee0"
     },
     {
       "path": "tests/oauth_secret.mjs",
@@ -13677,7 +13697,7 @@
     {
       "path": "tests/skip_is_not_pass.mjs",
       "mode": "0000644",
-      "sha256": "6258b4a3ad76a1d9139b053535c173760c5b42aa82510541501b6fef5ddd1fe1"
+      "sha256": "db9e246f1ce7ef6306b938d325c450e31f2e834244f64dd2f0aaea96e760d987"
     },
     {
       "path": "tests/smoke_preflight.mjs",

package/.claude/skills/grade-audit/SKILL.md

@@ -20,6 +20,15 @@ node scripts/gds/api.js GET "/api/bongos/tasks/<id>?include=grade"
 
 Bucket by grade shape: `passed`, failed, `signals.panel_outcome='unavailable'` (outage — no quality signal existed), or no grade row at all.
 
+**Then split off the no-artifact species before any leg reads the bucket** (task 1004011, ADR 0320). A grade with `signals.no_artifact_grade === true` judged the builder's **claim that nothing was needed** — the handoff notes and value summary against the task description — not a diff. There is no diff, no panel, and one generalist shot (`signals.lenses_dropped` names the four lenses that did not run). It is a real grade and a real gate, but it measures a different thing, so:
+
+- **Do not average or count it alongside diff grades.** A 7.5 over three paragraphs of prose and a 7.5 over a 400-line diff are not the same number.
+- **Leg 2 still applies, and matters more here.** A `blocker`/`major` on a no-artifact pass usually means the *evidence* was thin — queue it the same way.
+- **Leg 3 does not apply** — there is no merged diff to re-read for runtime behaviour. The equivalent question, worth asking on any no-artifact pass that shipped on assertion alone, is: *could a reader today re-run or re-read what the notes claim?* If not, queue it.
+- **A no-artifact FAIL is not an override candidate for Leg 1** unless it also landed. The builder's remedy is better evidence, not a permission.
+
+Note `task_grades.grader_kind` is **not** the discriminator: the server records `'subagent'` for everything arriving through `POST /tasks/:id/grade`. `signals.no_artifact_grade` is the durable marker.
+
 ## Leg 1 — the override ledger
 
 For every shipped task whose grade **failed** (or is absent), the land needed an override. Cross-reference the ledger (Archon — `override_request.decide`):

package/docs/adr/0320-an-empty-diff-is-not-an-ungraded-diff.md

@@ -0,0 +1,159 @@
+# ADR 0320 — An empty diff is not an ungraded diff: grade the claim instead
+
+- **Status:** Accepted
+- **Date:** 2026-09-20
+- **Task:** 1004011 · goal 1000118 · scoped out of task 1003950 (shape 2)
+- **Supersedes nothing.** Narrows [ADR 0041](0041-temporary-grader-bypass-killswitch.md)'s reach: the `--allow-empty` close is no longer one of the things `task.confirm.grade_bypass` gates.
+- **Drops** task 1004010, the alternative shape (a new permission atom for the same close). Owner decision, 2026-09-20 — see §5.
+
+## 1. Context
+
+`scripts/gds/ship.js --allow-empty` is how a builder closes a task that produced no
+committed artifact: the premise turned out to be false, the work was a pure
+verification, the change landed directly in the database or on the host.
+
+Until now that flag did two things at once. It set `skipGrade = true` — the subagent
+grader never ran — and it therefore routed the close through
+`POST /tasks/:id/confirm`, whose gate is `task.confirm.grade_bypass`, one of the four
+trust-boundary keys [ADR 0157](0157-archon-is-rank-and-identity-only.md) names. In
+practice a Metic could not close an artifact-free task at all without asking an Archon.
+
+Task 1003950 shipped a terminating escalation on that refusal so the builder at least
+stopped looping. It deliberately left the underlying shape alone and filed two
+alternatives: give the close its own lower-floored permission atom (1004010), or remove
+the need for a permission by grading something real (1004011, this one).
+
+## 2. The two things that were wrong
+
+**The permission was the wrong question.** `task.confirm.grade_bypass` means *ratify
+this past a grade that FAILED*. That is a genuine trust-boundary act: a verdict exists
+and a human is overriding it. An `--allow-empty` close is not that. No verdict exists,
+because there was nothing for the grader to read. Charging the same key for "it was
+judged and rejected" and "there was nothing to judge" conflates a override with an
+absence, and the cost of the conflation was that the cheapest, least scrutinised ship
+in the system needed the most powerful key to perform.
+
+**Nothing was being checked.** This is the more serious half. On a no-artifact ship the
+grader was skipped *entirely*, so the assertions in the handoff notes — "the premise was
+already fixed", "this was a pure ops verification", "the row was updated directly" —
+went into the ledger unexamined. The ledger is the complete record of what happened to
+the project (CLAUDE.md §8), and on exactly the ships where the record is the *only*
+evidence, nothing read it. A permission gate is not a substitute for scrutiny: an Archon
+clicking confirm is not the same as someone checking whether the claim is true.
+
+## 3. Decision
+
+**On an `--allow-empty` ship, grade the NOTES (and the value summary) against the task
+description, instead of skipping the grade.** The grader's question becomes: *is this
+task genuinely artifact-free, and does the evidence given support that?* A pass is a
+real passing grade that confirms through the ordinary rank-open path and needs no bypass
+permission. A fail is a real fail, and the remedy is better evidence, not a key.
+
+Four sub-decisions carry most of the weight:
+
+**D1 — The rubric axes are re-asked, not replaced.** The gate downstream is
+`functional_fidelity >= THRESHOLD AND code_quality >= THRESHOLD AND confidence >= 0.4`,
+and `/grade-audit`, the aggregates and the cost model all read those columns. Inventing
+a third pair of axis names would have meant teaching every one of them a synonym. So the
+axes keep their names and the prompt re-asks them for this species:
+`functional_fidelity` → *is this genuinely artifact-free?*; `code_quality` → *is the
+evidence specific and checkable, or bare assertion?*. The gate arithmetic is untouched.
+
+**D2 — Two generalist shots, not the four-lens panel.** The panel is Hacker / Quality /
+Efficiency / (Reader) — lenses over code. Over three paragraphs of prose they are four
+readings of the same short text at four times the cost, so the lenses go, recorded in
+`signals.lenses_dropped` rather than left to be inferred from their absence (the
+trivial-diff precedent, #513: lighter, never silent).
+
+The panel's unanimous gate, however, was also the cross-check that makes injection
+hard — an attacker must fool *every* gating worker. This decision's first implementation
+kept a single shot and lost that property; the grader failed the ship on it, correctly
+(see D4). So the species runs **two** independent readings of the same prompt, collapsed
+by **unanimity, not median**: the worst score on each axis, and a pass only if every shot
+passed. Under a median the collapse would be actively harmful — the median of two is
+their mean, so a fooled 10 averages with a suspicious 3 into a passing 6.5 and the second
+reading launders the first. A split verdict is recorded as `signals.shot_dissent`, since
+two readings of the same fenced text disagreeing is itself worth a human's eye.
+
+The collapse covers **all three gate axes, `confidence` included** — a point the second
+round of grading caught, because the first fix collapsed only `functional_fidelity` and
+`code_quality`. Confidence is easy to miss: it is the one gate axis that lives in
+`signals` rather than `rubric_scores`. Leaving it at the median would have reintroduced
+the same laundering on the axis where it matters most, since the server's
+`validateAndScore` derives `lowConfidence` purely from the submitted value and never sees
+the client's `unanimous` boolean — a shot honestly reporting 0.2 ("I cannot judge this
+claim", the value that exists to fall through to a human) would average with a confident
+0.9 and clear the 0.4 gate at 0.55.
+
+**D4 — Every builder-controlled field is scrubbed and fenced (SR-15 / #995).** The panel
+workers have wrapped the diff, title, description and value summary in
+`grader-workers/fence.js` since #995, because a builder can embed steering text in their
+own artifact. This species carries the same inputs and is the worse case on both sides of
+the ledger: the notes are not context around an artifact the model can independently
+check, they *are* the evidence; and a successful injection does not merely flip one of
+four workers, it closes a task past the scrutiny this ADR introduced to replace the
+Archon-only gate. So fencing here is not defence in depth, it is the boundary. The
+no-follow rule is also restated *after* the artifact, because the notes may run to 24,000
+characters and a rule stated once at the top is a long way behind by the end of an
+adversarial payload.
+
+**D3 — The species marker lives in `signals`, not in `grader_kind`.** The server's
+`validateAndScore` hardcodes `task_grades.grader_kind` to `'subagent'` for everything
+arriving through `POST /tasks/:id/grade`, so the column cannot carry the distinction
+without teaching every consumer of that enum a new member. `signals.no_artifact_grade`
+is submitted verbatim and stored, so it is the durable discriminator.
+`signals.graded_subject = 'notes'` says what was read.
+
+## 4. Consequences
+
+- A Metic can now close a genuinely artifact-free task on the strength of a graded
+  claim. `task.confirm.grade_bypass` keeps exactly the meaning ADR 0041 gave it and
+  loses a use it never should have had.
+- **A second grade species exists in `task_grades`.** Every consumer that averages,
+  counts or spot-checks grades must split on `signals.no_artifact_grade` first: a score
+  over prose and a score over a 400-line diff are not the same measurement.
+  `/grade-audit` is updated with that rule in this change.
+- **No-artifact closes get harder, not easier, for the dishonest.** The permission wall
+  was indiscriminate — it stopped the honest Metic and waved through any Archon. The
+  grade is discriminating: it reads the claim. "Confirmed working" with nothing a reader
+  could re-run now fails an axis that previously did not exist.
+- **The diff-hash reuse key is deliberately not set** for this species. Hashing the empty
+  diff would let the *next* empty-diff ship of the same task reuse this grade — a
+  different claim, different notes, silently inheriting a pass it never earned.
+- **Below the protected-path floor, nothing changes.** The server's Guard 1b (task
+  1002646) fails a passing grade closed when a below-floor builder submits no
+  `committed_files`, and a no-artifact grade submits none by definition. That guard is
+  correct and untouched: for a sub-floor builder the permission-path check is genuinely
+  unprovable. This decision moves the Metic-and-above case, which is the case that was
+  filed.
+- `--skip-grade` is unchanged and still reaches the Archon gate. The escalation split
+  task 1003950 added still decides which refusal prints there.
+
+## 5. Alternatives considered
+
+**Task 1004010 — a new permission atom for the no-artifact close.** The sibling shape,
+and the one this drops. It would have added a lower-floored relative of a trust-boundary
+key, plus a governance migration and a `system: true` decision of its own. Rejected on
+two grounds: it answers "who may skip the check" when the better question is "why is
+there no check", and it permanently widens the permission surface — the same class of
+change the owner declined three days earlier for `version.create` (task 1003853,
+[ADR 0250](0250-strict-versioning-the-version-boundary-is-the-scope-gate.md) §6a).
+Solving the problem without a new atom is the consistent call. The row is closed, with
+its problem statement kept should this fail to land.
+
+**Keep skipping the grade, lower the floor on the existing key.** Cheapest, and wrong
+for the same reason as 1004010: it treats the gate as the point. Nothing would read the
+notes.
+
+**Grade the notes with the full panel.** Rejected under D2 — four code lenses over prose
+is cost without signal. Note what the rejection had to preserve separately: the panel's
+value here was never its lenses, it was the unanimity of its gate, and D2 keeps that with
+two shots rather than four lenses.
+
+**A single generalist shot.** This decision's first implementation, and wrong for a
+reason that only became visible once the prompt was written: it leaves one reading
+between a crafted set of handoff notes and a closed task. Corrected before landing.
+
+**A new pair of rubric axes for prose.** Rejected under D1 — honest about the
+measurement, but it moves the gate arithmetic and every consumer of it, for a naming
+gain.