@opengsd/gsd-path 1.4.0 → 1.6.0

package/skills/gsd-path-plan/scripts/worktree_paths.py

@@ -22,6 +22,27 @@ else:
         from scripts import _common
 
 
+def _worktree_list_porcelain(primary: Path) -> tuple[str, bool]:
+    try:
+        if __package__:
+            from . import pipeline_git as pg
+        else:
+            from scripts import pipeline_git as pg
+    except ImportError:
+        try:
+            import pipeline_git as pg
+        except ImportError:
+            pg = None
+    if pg is not None:
+        return pg.worktree_list_porcelain(primary)
+    try:
+        output = _git(primary, "worktree", "list", "--porcelain", "-z")
+        return output, True
+    except ValueError:
+        output = _git(primary, "worktree", "list", "--porcelain")
+        return output, False
+
+
 def _git(primary: Path, *args: str) -> str:
     result = _common.run_git(primary, *args)
     if result.returncode:
@@ -82,6 +103,33 @@ def _workspace(primary: Path, pin: bool) -> Path:
     return workspace
 
 
+def release_workspace(primary: Path) -> bool:
+    """Forget the pinned placement receipt once no linked worktrees remain.
+
+    Lets GSD_PATH_WORKTREE_ROOT (or a new default) apply again at the next
+    milestone's first allocation. Returns True when a receipt was removed;
+    any remaining linked worktree (including one only still registered) keeps
+    the pin.
+    """
+    primary = primary.resolve()
+    common = Path(_git(primary, "rev-parse", "--git-common-dir"))
+    common = (primary / common).resolve()
+    receipt = common / "gsd-path" / "workspaces" / f"{_identity(primary)}.json"
+    if not receipt.is_file():
+        return False
+    output, nul_separated = _worktree_list_porcelain(primary)
+    records = output.split("\0\0") if nul_separated else [
+        block for block in output.strip().split("\n\n") if block.strip()
+    ]
+    for record in records:
+        fields = record.split("\0") if nul_separated else record.splitlines()
+        for field in fields:
+            if field.startswith("worktree ") and Path(field[len("worktree "):]).resolve() != primary:
+                return False
+    receipt.unlink()
+    return True
+
+
 def worktree_path(primary: Path, kind: str, name: str, *, pin: bool = False) -> Path:
     primary = primary.resolve()
     if kind not in {"task", "verify", "integrate", "bound"} or not name or Path(name).name != name or name in {".", ".."}:
@@ -91,9 +139,13 @@ def worktree_path(primary: Path, kind: str, name: str, *, pin: bool = False) ->
     legacy = (primary.parent / f".{primary.name}-gsd-path-integrate-{name}"
               if kind == "integrate" else primary.parent / f"{primary.name}.gsd-path" / kind / name)
     branch = f"refs/heads/gsd-path-{kind}/{name}"
-    records = _git(primary, "worktree", "list", "--porcelain", "-z").split("\0\0")
+    output, nul_separated = _worktree_list_porcelain(primary)
+    if nul_separated:
+        records = output.split("\0\0")
+    else:
+        records = [block for block in output.strip().split("\n\n") if block.strip()]
     for record in records:
-        fields = record.split("\0")
+        fields = record.split("\0") if nul_separated else record.splitlines()
         # Compare as paths: git prints forward slashes on Windows.
         worktrees = [Path(field[len("worktree "):]) for field in fields if field.startswith("worktree ")]
         if legacy in worktrees and f"branch {branch}" in fields:

package/skills/gsd-path-plan/templates/patch-findings.md

@@ -11,6 +11,6 @@ State: ship/blocked
 ### P001 — <short finding title>
 
 - **Source**: `.project/review/FINAL.md`
-- **Locator**: `<SC number or gap risk row>`
-- **Evidence**: <observed result copied from the source review>
-- **Fix direction**: <concrete direction for the patch task>
+- **Locator**: <copy the full `Risk: ...` line from a gap review, or the `SC<n>` id from `FINAL.md`>
+- **Evidence**: <copy the gap review's `Found` or `FINAL.md`'s `Finding` field verbatim>
+- **Fix direction**: <copy the source's `Fix direction` field verbatim>

package/skills/gsd-path-plan/templates/plan.md

@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ Goal: <the end-to-end slice that runs>
 Review depth: <full | deep | verify-only>
 
 <!-- More waves: features by dependency, then polish. Rules:
-     - deps only in earlier waves, or same wave with no file overlap
-     - no two same-wave tasks share files
+     - deps only in earlier waves or the same wave
+     - same-wave tasks share files only when one transitively depends on the other
      - nothing from INTENT.md scope-out appears anywhere -->
 
 ## Surface contract
@@ -83,6 +83,21 @@ Walkthrough:
 |-----------|------|------------|
 | SC1 | T001 | AC1 |
 
+## Held-out checks
+
+<!-- Required when INTENT.md Edge coverage has a held-out edge; omit the
+     section entirely when it has none. One row per held-out edge, given to
+     the task that owns the edge's criterion. Test is a file listed in that
+     task's files (optionally `path::test_name`); the task's Verify runs it
+     and its Acceptance
+     criteria state the edge id and the ruling from INTENT.md Detail. Final
+     review cites this test's recorded result for the edge.
+     `scripts/check_handoffs.py plan` gates this table. -->
+
+| Edge | Task | Test |
+|------|------|------|
+| E1 | T001 | <test path from T001 files> |
+
 ## Dependency notes
 
 <Per non-obvious edge: the exact data or landed effect that makes X precede Y,

package/skills/gsd-path-plan/templates/task.md

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ task_branch: null   # orchestrator-owned: gsd-path-task/<id> while parallel; nul
 # Optional explicit dispatch overrides: model: <advertised slug|inherit>
 # effort: <advertised effort|inherit>
 # repo: <member>    # multi-repo only: the MEMBERS.md member this task changes; omit for the coordinator
+# supersedes: [<task id>]  # only when INTENT requires it: earlier-wave tasks whose behavior this task replaces; retires their Verify
 files:              # every file this task may touch — dispatch checks overlap
   - <path>
 ---

package/skills/gsd-path-research/SKILL.md

@@ -84,6 +84,17 @@ settled brownfield input.
    template before dispatch. Record every standard dimension exactly once as
    `dispatched` or `skipped` with a reason, and assign every research question
    to at least one dispatched dimension. No question may remain unassigned.
+   Copy each question to exactly one `Question assignments` row. Assign one or
+   more dispatched dimension slugs there, each in its own code span and
+   separated by commas, as in:
+
+   ```md
+   - `[RESEARCH] Which approach is viable?` → `stack`, `pitfalls`
+   ```
+
+   List a dimension only once per row. Every dispatched dimension must own at
+   least one question, and its evidence file must answer every question
+   assigned to it. Use `- none` only when there are no research questions.
 2. Decide which standard dimensions have work: dispatch a dimension only when
    it has at least one assigned `RESEARCH` question from INTENT.md or
    CHARTER.md. Unsettled choices and risks need that source question before

package/skills/gsd-path-research/references/dispatch.md

@@ -44,6 +44,19 @@ use exactly one matching branch:
   create another worktree. Encode task dependencies explicitly; launch
   independent children concurrently up to the host's advertised
   concurrent-subagent capacity.
+- A `muse.subagent_spawn` tool (with `muse.subagent_wait`,
+  `muse.subagent_read_result`, and `muse.subagent_send_message` siblings) is
+  Muse Code. Omit `subagent_type` (general-purpose, full capability), pass the
+  logical task name as `task_name` and `role`, and the complete brief as
+  `objective`. Never set `worktree_isolation`. Keep the returned
+  `subagent_id`; send a correction to a still-live child with
+  `muse.subagent_send_message` mode `followup` and the complete new prompt,
+  otherwise start a fresh child. Collect with `muse.subagent_wait`
+  (`wait_for: task_terminal`) then `muse.subagent_read_result`; on
+  `root_capacity_exhausted`, wait for a child to finish and retry. Spawn has no
+  model or effort argument, so record no such capability. If only
+  `muse.workflow` is exposed (untrusted workspace), do not script or inline
+  the work; stop and report that the workspace must be trusted.
 
 For every branch:
 

package/skills/gsd-path-research/references/operating-rules.md

@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ bundles this file; spawned agents follow their role brief instead.
   the lookahead planning track for the next milestone; it follows the same
   marker rule, owns no task frontmatter, and never binds a branch.
 - STATE.integration_default is the project closeout choice and
-  STATE.integration is the current milestone choice. Both are `direct` or
-  `pull-request`; STATE.integration_source is `default` or `milestone` and
+  STATE.integration is the current milestone choice. Both are `direct`,
+  `pull-request`, or `external-landing`; STATE.integration_source is `default` or `milestone` and
   preserves explicit override provenance. Older v2 state defaults to `direct`,
   and modes may be changed only through `pipeline_state.py
   configure-integration` before build. A next milestone resets its current
@@ -82,7 +82,9 @@ bundles this file; spawned agents follow their role brief instead.
   `isolation.py attest` may stand in for it: one `.project/`-only commit that
   names the base, the attested HEAD, the declared files that changed, the
   task Verify recorded as passing at that HEAD, and the ruling verbatim.
-  `recover` reports it as `attested`, never as a proven landing.
+  `recover` reports it as `attested`, never as a proven landing. Attestation
+  matches the declared files literally: work that is only below a declared
+  directory can land but cannot be attested.
 - All pipeline work for a milestone lives on `gsd-path/M00N` (M001, M002,
   …) bound in STATE.branch. The next milestone binds a new unused
   `gsd-path/M00N` at the remote default after the previous ship integrates.
@@ -90,6 +92,12 @@ bundles this file; spawned agents follow their role brief instead.
   branch — either Path's direct merge or a Path-owned PR merged by the user.
   The bound branch never receives merges or back-merges and is never the
   GitHub default.
+- The default branch is the one that STATE `default_branch` records at
+  initialization; a STATE file without the field means `main`. `main` and
+  `origin/main` in these rules mean that branch. Never change the record and
+  never take the name from a later `origin/HEAD` lookup. For a member
+  repository, the branch is the one that its `.project/MEMBERS.md` section
+  records as `Default branch`; a section without the field means `main`.
 - After initialization writes STATE.md, and before entering the first pipeline
   phase in an existing Git repository, the router calls
   `scripts/pipeline_git.py bind-initial` with the selected M00N and exact

package/skills/gsd-path-research/references/runtime-selection.md

@@ -20,6 +20,15 @@ references to bundled copies of those helpers. Other skill helpers, templates,
 and role briefs remain in the installed skill bundle. Pass `-B` to Python helper
 invocations so execution does not create bytecode in the runtime store.
 
+The selected runtime is authoritative for each helper in its `manifest.json`;
+this includes `review_findings.py` and `task_context.py`. A selected runtime
+that was published before a helper became a runtime file does not list that
+helper: run the bundled copy until the project runtime is upgraded.
+`dispatch_driver.py` and `workflow_run.py` always run from the installed skill
+bundle, because they read role briefs and templates from it; a skill update
+replaces them, a runtime upgrade does not. The driver reloads the helper modules
+that it imports from the selected runtime.
+
 With no declaration, retain the legacy helper lookup. An existing
 `.gsd-path/runtime/` requires the explicit `--runtime-migrate --project PATH`
 operation before adopting external storage; review the resulting Git diff.

package/skills/gsd-path-research/scripts/_common.py

@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@ import signal
 import subprocess
 import time
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import BinaryIO, Iterator, List, Optional, Sequence
+from typing import BinaryIO, Iterable, Iterator, List, Optional, Sequence, Tuple
+
 
 # Chosen by what imports, not os.name, so tests can emulate Windows on POSIX.
 try:
@@ -65,6 +66,49 @@ VERIFY_RESULTS = ("pass", "fail")
 VERIFY_LEDGER_SCHEMA = "gsd-path/verify-ledger/v2"
 VERIFY_BLOCK_PATTERN = re.compile(r"```bash[ \t]*\n(?P<block>.*?)```", re.DOTALL)
 
+REVIEW_BULLET_HEADING_PATTERN = re.compile(r"^#{2,3} ")
+REVIEW_BULLET_FIELD_LABEL_PATTERN = re.compile(r"^- \*\*[^*]+\*\*:")
+
+
+def review_bullet_field_label_pattern(field: str) -> re.Pattern[str]:
+    return re.compile(rf"^- \*\*{re.escape(field)}\*\*:[ \t]*(.*)$")
+
+
+def _review_bullet_field_value(lines: Sequence[str], index: int, inline: str) -> str:
+    if inline:
+        return inline
+    collected: list[str] = []
+    for line in lines[index + 1 :]:
+        if REVIEW_BULLET_FIELD_LABEL_PATTERN.match(line) or REVIEW_BULLET_HEADING_PATTERN.match(
+            line
+        ):
+            break
+        if line and not line[0].isspace():
+            break
+        stripped = line.strip()
+        if stripped:
+            collected.append(stripped)
+    return "\n".join(collected)
+
+
+def find_review_bullet_field_values(lines: Sequence[str], field: str) -> list[str]:
+    pattern = review_bullet_field_label_pattern(field)
+    values: list[str] = []
+    for index, line in enumerate(lines):
+        match = pattern.fullmatch(line)
+        if match is None:
+            continue
+        values.append(_review_bullet_field_value(lines, index, match.group(1)))
+    return values
+
+
+def parse_review_bullet_field(lines: Sequence[str], field: str) -> str:
+    """Parse one `- **Field**:` review bullet, including indented continuations."""
+    values = find_review_bullet_field_values(lines, field)
+    if len(values) != 1:
+        raise ValueError(field)
+    return values[0]
+
 
 # Sample paths the pipeline must commit. A product rule such as an unanchored
 # `build/` would otherwise drop them silently from every commit.
@@ -118,6 +162,33 @@ def project_ignore_error(repo: Path) -> Optional[str]:
             + ". Anchor the product rule (for example `/build/`) in a task that owns it.")
 
 
+_DEFAULT_BRANCH_RE = re.compile(
+    r"[^\s#\"'\\~^:?*\[\x00-\x1f\x7f-][^\s#\"'\\~^:?*\[\x00-\x1f\x7f]*"
+)
+_RESERVED_BRANCH_PREFIXES = ("gsd-path/", "gsd-path-integrate/", "gsd-path-task/")
+
+
+def valid_default_branch(name: str) -> bool:
+    """A git branch name that STATE frontmatter can hold and Path does not reserve."""
+    return (
+        bool(_DEFAULT_BRANCH_RE.fullmatch(name))
+        and name != "null"
+        and not name.startswith(_RESERVED_BRANCH_PREFIXES)
+        and not name.endswith(("/", ".", ".lock"))
+        and not any(part in name for part in ("..", "//", "/.", "@{"))
+    )
+
+
+def origin_default_branch(repo: Path) -> str:
+    """The origin default branch that initialization records; an unset origin/HEAD means main."""
+    result = run_git(repo, "symbolic-ref", "--quiet", "refs/remotes/origin/HEAD")
+    prefix = "refs/remotes/origin/"
+    remote_ref = result.stdout.strip()
+    if result.returncode != 0 or not remote_ref.startswith(prefix):
+        return "main"
+    return remote_ref.removeprefix(prefix)
+
+
 def section_body(text: str, heading: str) -> Optional[str]:
     """The text under `## <heading>` up to the next `## `, or None when absent."""
     match = re.search(
@@ -126,6 +197,79 @@ def section_body(text: str, heading: str) -> Optional[str]:
     return match.group("body") if match else None
 
 
+def overlapping_paths(left: Sequence[str], right: Sequence[str]) -> List[str]:
+    """Return the sorted paths that two task `files` lists both cover.
+
+    An entry covers itself and the paths below it. For a declared directory
+    and a path below it, the result names the lower path. The callers have no
+    task base, so this does not ask if an entry is a file: the task-brief
+    lint rejects a path below a file at the base.
+    """
+    return sorted(
+        {
+            max(one, other, key=len)
+            for one in left
+            for other in right
+            if one == other or one.startswith(other + "/") or other.startswith(one + "/")
+        }
+    )
+
+
+# The `- ` of an indented sub-bullet line. A line that would then read as a
+# numbered item (`- 2. text`) keeps its marker, so both readings of a source
+# have the same criteria.
+SUB_BULLET_MARKER = re.compile(r"(?m)^([ \t]+)-[ \t]+(?![ \t]*\d+\.\s)")
+
+
+def without_sub_bullet_markers(source: str) -> str:
+    """`source` with the `- ` marker of each indented sub-bullet line removed."""
+    return SUB_BULLET_MARKER.sub(r"\1", source)
+
+
+class Criterion(str):
+    """A criterion as its parser joins it, with the `- ` markers of its sub-bullet lines.
+
+    `bare` is the same criterion parsed from `without_sub_bullet_markers(source)`.
+    The joined text cannot tell a marker from a minus sign; the source lines can.
+    """
+
+    bare: str
+
+    def __new__(cls, text: str, bare: str) -> "Criterion":
+        criterion = super().__new__(cls, text)
+        criterion.bare = bare
+        return criterion
+
+
+def quotes_criterion(quote: str, criterion: str) -> bool:
+    """Whether a review quote is `criterion`, for every reader.
+
+    Only whitespace is collapsed. The quote must equal the criterion with all
+    the markers of its sub-bullet lines or with none of them; every other
+    character, a hyphen inside a line too, is compared.
+    """
+    forms = (criterion, getattr(criterion, "bare", criterion))
+    return " ".join(quote.split()) in {" ".join(form.split()) for form in forms}
+
+
+def quoted_criterion(item: str, criteria: Sequence[str]) -> Optional[Tuple[int, int]]:
+    """Index of the criterion quoted at the start of `item`, and where the quote ends.
+
+    A criterion can contain ` — ` itself, so each separator and the end of
+    `item` is a candidate, the longest quote first. A criterion as written
+    wins over any criterion read without its sub-bullet markers.
+    """
+    ends = [match.start() for match in re.finditer("(?= —(?: |$))|$", item)][::-1]
+    for bare in (False, True):
+        for end in ends:
+            quote = " ".join(item[:end].split())
+            for index, criterion in enumerate(criteria):
+                form = getattr(criterion, "bare", criterion) if bare else criterion
+                if quote == " ".join(form.split()):
+                    return index, end
+    return None
+
+
 def task_verify_command(task_text: str) -> str:
     """The Verify shell text, excluding the closing fence's separator newline."""
     body = section_body(task_text, "Verify")
@@ -133,6 +277,11 @@ def task_verify_command(task_text: str) -> str:
     return block.group("block").removesuffix("\n") if block else ""
 
 
+def fix_verify(commands: Iterable[str]) -> str:
+    """The Verify of a fix task: each distinct source Verify in its own subshell, under `set -e`."""
+    return "set -e\n" + "\n".join(f"(\n{command}\n)" for command in dict.fromkeys(commands))
+
+
 def latest_verify_entry(entries: list, command: str, commit: str,
                         repo: Optional[str] = None) -> Optional[dict]:
     """Rows are keyed by (command, repo, commit); a row without `repo` is a coordinator row."""
@@ -150,6 +299,11 @@ def verify_ledger_entries(path: Path) -> list:
     return parse_verify_ledger(path.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
 
 
+def read_user_text(path: Path) -> str:
+    """Read a user-edited text file with CRLF normalized to LF."""
+    return path.read_text(encoding="utf-8").replace("\r\n", "\n").replace("\r", "\n")
+
+
 def parse_verify_ledger(text: str) -> list:
     entries = []
     for number, line in enumerate(text.splitlines(), start=1):
@@ -204,7 +358,43 @@ def run_command(
 def run_git(
     repo: Path, *arguments: str, input: Optional[str] = None
 ) -> subprocess.CompletedProcess[str]:
-    return _run_exact(("git", "-C", str(repo), *arguments), input=input)
+    return _run_exact(git_command(repo, *arguments), input=input)
+
+
+def git_command(repo: Path, *arguments: str) -> tuple[str, ...]:
+    """Git argv for repo, including WSL drvfs workarounds when needed."""
+    return ("git", "-C", str(repo), *git_drvfs_config_flags(repo), *arguments)
+
+
+def git_drvfs_config_flags(repo: Path) -> tuple[str, ...]:
+    """Disable index preload on 9p/drvfs mounts where git commit races on index.lock (#207)."""
+    if os.name != "posix":
+        return ()
+    try:
+        root = repo.resolve()
+        mounts = Path("/proc/mounts").read_text(encoding="utf-8", errors="replace").splitlines()
+    except OSError:
+        return ()
+    best = ""
+    fstype = ""
+    for line in mounts:
+        parts = line.split()
+        if len(parts) < 3:
+            continue
+        mount_point, mount_type = parts[1], parts[2]
+        if mount_type not in {"9p", "drvfs"}:
+            continue
+        if root == Path(mount_point) or root.is_relative_to(mount_point):
+            if len(mount_point) >= len(best):
+                best, fstype = mount_point, mount_type
+    if not fstype:
+        return ()
+    return ("-c", "core.preloadindex=false", "-c", "index.threads=1")
+
+
+def git_index_lock_retryable(stderr: str) -> bool:
+    text = stderr.casefold()
+    return "index.lock" in text and "file exists" in text
 
 
 # OS files that are never pipeline artifacts when git ignores them.
@@ -227,6 +417,70 @@ def git_visible_entries(directory: Path) -> set:
     return {path.split("/", 1)[0] for path in result.stdout.split("\0") if path}
 
 
+RUNTIME_PIN_PATH = ".gsd-path/runtime.json"
+RUNTIME_PIN_ALLOWANCE = (
+    "only runtime-pin commits (.gsd-path/runtime.json) may follow the reviewed HEAD"
+)
+
+
+def reviewed_head_covers(repo: Path, reviewed: str, head: str) -> bool:
+    """True when a review of `reviewed` still covers `head`.
+
+    That is the same commit, or `reviewed` is an ancestor of `head` and every
+    commit on the first-parent path in ``reviewed..head`` is a non-merge commit
+    whose only change is ``.gsd-path/runtime.json``. An empty commit does not
+    qualify. Any other path, any merge commit, an unresolvable SHA, or a
+    non-ancestor returns False.
+    """
+    if not reviewed or not head:
+        return False
+    resolved_repo = Path(repo)
+    resolved: List[str] = []
+    for value in (reviewed, head):
+        result = run_git(
+            resolved_repo, "rev-parse", "--verify", "--quiet", f"{value}^{{commit}}"
+        )
+        if result.returncode != 0 or not result.stdout.strip():
+            return False
+        resolved.append(result.stdout.strip())
+    reviewed_sha, head_sha = resolved
+    if reviewed_sha == head_sha:
+        return True
+    if (
+        run_git(resolved_repo, "merge-base", "--is-ancestor", reviewed_sha, head_sha).returncode
+        != 0
+    ):
+        return False
+    listing = run_git(
+        resolved_repo,
+        "rev-list",
+        "--first-parent",
+        "--parents",
+        f"{reviewed_sha}..{head_sha}",
+    )
+    if listing.returncode != 0:
+        return False
+    for line in listing.stdout.splitlines():
+        fields = line.split()
+        if len(fields) != 2:
+            return False
+        commit_sha, parent_sha = fields[0], fields[1]
+        changed = run_git(
+            resolved_repo,
+            "diff",
+            "--name-only",
+            "--no-renames",
+            "--no-ext-diff",
+            parent_sha,
+            commit_sha,
+        )
+        if changed.returncode != 0:
+            return False
+        if {path for path in changed.stdout.splitlines() if path} != {RUNTIME_PIN_PATH}:
+            return False
+    return True
+
+
 def atomic_replace(path: Path, temporary_path: Path, content: str) -> None:
     temporary_path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
     descriptor = None

package/skills/gsd-path-research/scripts/archive_milestone.py

@@ -426,10 +426,10 @@ def frontmatter_value(content: str, key: str) -> Optional[str]:
     for line in lines[1:]:
         if line == "---":
             break
-        match = re.match(rf"^{re.escape(key)}:\s*([^#]*?)\s*(?:#.*)?$", line)
+        match = re.match(rf"^{re.escape(key)}:(.*)$", line)
         if match:
-            value = match.group(1).strip().strip('"').strip("'")
-            return value
+            value = _common.strip_yaml_comment(match.group(1))
+            return value.strip().strip('"').strip("'")
     return None
 
 
@@ -586,14 +586,11 @@ def resolved_archive_target(
     expected_number = milestone_number(branch)
     configured = parsed_state.archive
     entries = archive_sequence_entries(project)
-    missing_prior = [
-        number for number in range(1, expected_number) if number not in entries
-    ]
     later = sorted(number for number in entries if number > expected_number)
-    if missing_prior or later:
+    if later:
         raise ArchiveError(
             f"archive sequence does not match bound branch {branch}: "
-            f"missing={missing_prior}, later={later}"
+            f"later={later}"
         )
 
     if configured is not None:
@@ -1065,9 +1062,10 @@ def prepare_locked(project: Path, active_root: Path, slug: str) -> dict:
         final = active_root / "review" / "FINAL.md"
         reviewed = re.search(r"(?m)^Reviewed HEAD:\s*(\S+)", final.read_text(encoding="utf-8")) if final.is_file() else None
         head = require_git_success(run_git(project, "rev-parse", "HEAD"), "resolve HEAD").strip()
-        if reviewed and reviewed.group(1) != head:
+        if reviewed and not _common.reviewed_head_covers(project, reviewed.group(1), head):
             raise ArchiveError(
                 f"FINAL.md Reviewed HEAD {reviewed.group(1)} does not match current HEAD {head}; "
+                f"{_common.RUNTIME_PIN_ALLOWANCE}; "
                 "re-run the final review on the current commit before archiving"
             )
         target = resolved_archive_target(project, slug, parsed_state)
@@ -1680,6 +1678,7 @@ def abandon_locked(
 
 
 run_git = _common.run_git
+reviewed_head_covers = _common.reviewed_head_covers
 run_command = _common.run_command
 
 
@@ -1899,9 +1898,10 @@ def preflight(repo: Path) -> dict:
     require_stageable_carry_forward(project, archive)
     require_clean_older_archives(project, configured)
     head = require_git_success(run_git(project, "rev-parse", "HEAD"), "resolve preflight HEAD")
-    if reviewed_head != head:
+    if not reviewed_head_covers(project, reviewed_head, head):
         raise ArchiveError(
-            f"FINAL.md Reviewed HEAD {reviewed_head} does not match current HEAD {head}"
+            f"FINAL.md Reviewed HEAD {reviewed_head} does not match current HEAD {head}; "
+            f"{_common.RUNTIME_PIN_ALLOWANCE}"
         )
     return {
         "archive": configured,
@@ -2093,9 +2093,10 @@ def validate(repo: Path, *, historical: bool = False) -> dict:
 
     members = member_ship_rows(project, archive, ship_commit)
     ship_parent = require_git_success(run_git(project, "rev-parse", f"{ship_commit}^"), "resolve ship parent")
-    if reviewed_head != ship_parent:
+    if not reviewed_head_covers(project, reviewed_head, ship_parent):
         raise ArchiveError(
-            f"FINAL.md Reviewed HEAD {reviewed_head} does not match ship parent {ship_parent}"
+            f"FINAL.md Reviewed HEAD {reviewed_head} does not match ship parent {ship_parent}; "
+            f"{_common.RUNTIME_PIN_ALLOWANCE}"
         )
     require_canonical_commit_body(
         project,