@popovych.co/witness 0.17.0 → 0.18.0

package/README.md

@@ -149,6 +149,12 @@ either.
 | `harness: claude-code \| pi` | **the judge** — which harness runs this repo's gate reviewers, is measured by `calibrate`, and is probed by `check`. Judgment resolves `harness:` → `PI_CODING_AGENT` → `CLAUDECODE` → `claude-code`; session lines (`next`'s handoff, `dispatch`'s relay, `init --agent auto`) resolve detection first, because those name the CLI you are about to type at. Committed, so it binds every teammate's gates; `witness init --agent` writes it once and never re-points it. Undeclared repos are judged by whichever agent's session is open — `witness check` and `witness status` say so |
 | `gates.reviewerTimeoutMs` | milliseconds per reviewer invocation (default 600000) |
 | `drive.sessionTimeoutMs` | milliseconds a `drive`-spawned session may run before SIGTERM (default 3600000) |
+| `drive.parallel` | sessions `witness drive` runs at once under autonomy, one per target (default 2) |
+| `drive.parallelSuites` | `true` lets test runs in two worktrees overlap (default false: they take turns, because suites that boot servers or browsers collide) |
+| `drive.caps.rounds` | gate rounds one target may run across budget resets (default 16) — the run parks a target that reaches it |
+| `drive.caps.upstream` | upstream resets one target may take (default 6) — the run parks a target that reaches it |
+| `drive.caps.spawns` | sessions one target may take in one drive run (default 24) — the run parks a target that reaches it |
+| `drive.caps.wallClockMs` | milliseconds of session time one target may take in one drive run (default 57600000 · 16 h) — the run parks a target that reaches it |
 | `autonomy: on \| off` | whether the CLI settles its own stops — through its recommendation or the arbiter it launches — and merges its own PRs once CI is green (default off). A committed repo fact: it counts only once HEAD says it, and the merge also needs the ship branch on origin to say it. `--manual` on a gate run keeps that run's stop for a human, and three stops always reach one: the look of a new screen, an unmet plan need and a trust grant |
 | `ship.merge: merge \| squash \| rebase` | how `witness ship` merges its own PR under `autonomy: on` (default merge) — only once the ship gate is approved and CI is green, and never when the approval lapsed or GitHub refuses |
 | `ship.ciSettleMs` | milliseconds a green check set must hold still before `witness ship` merges under autonomy (default 60000, at most 1800000) — gh's watch ends the moment nothing is pending, so a check that registers late would otherwise be missed. Green means at least one check passed and none failed, was cancelled or is pending |
@@ -165,6 +171,7 @@ are declared in machine config, not env:
 reviewerExtensions:
   - /Users/you/.pi/agent/npm/node_modules/pi-claude-oauth-adapter
 opener: xdg-open   # optional; nonstandard desktops only
+notify: /usr/local/bin/ping-me   # optional; the run summary is its one argument · default: the platform notifier
 ```
 
 Repo facts live in `witness.config.yaml` (committed); machine facts live in
@@ -189,7 +196,7 @@ the wrong file refuses. There are no `WITNESS_*` env vars for configuration.
 | `design <spec-id> --file <html>\|--open\|--reconfirm` | register/show a `ui` spec's approved look |
 | `start <plan-id>` | create/re-attach the plan's worktree (`.witness/worktrees/<id>`) — code only: the canon dirs are excluded from it, so a plan cannot go stale in there |
 | `next` | the one next action across every effort |
-| `drive [--flow <plan-id>] [--max-spawns <n>]` | schedule green-path work through headless sessions; you appear only at judgment stops. TTY-only — agents are what drive spawns, never what spawns drive |
+| `drive [--flow <plan-id>] [--max-spawns <n>] [--manual] [--detach] [--ask "<text>"]` | runs every session itself · under autonomy it needs no terminal and reports when nothing else can move. Up to `drive.parallel` targets at once, one session per target; usage limits are waited out; a target past a cap is parked. `--detach` (autonomy only) runs it in the background into `.witness/drive.log`; `--ask` queues an ask first; `--manual` runs serially and asks you at every stop. One drive per repo. A session drive spawned is refused — agents are what drive spawns, never what spawns drive |
 | `ship <plan-id> [--manual]` | lanes → ship gate → PR → CI watch → under autonomy: merge on green · `--manual` keeps that run's stop and merge for a human |
 | `test-evidence` / `verify-red` | journal red/green criteria evidence from a worktree |
 | `adopt <path>` | absolve a finished hand-edit into the journal |
@@ -234,7 +241,8 @@ depends on none of them (DESIGN.md row 79):
 
 - **Keep the host awake.** A suspend longer than an hour mid-run expires the prompt
   cache; on wake the full agent context is re-written at cache-write price. On macOS:
-  `caffeinate -dims` for the session, or plug in and disable sleep.
+  `witness drive` holds `caffeinate -ims` for its own lifetime (a closed lid on battery
+  still sleeps); for a chat session, `caffeinate -dims`, or plug in and disable sleep.
 - **`CLAUDE_CODE_AUTO_COMPACT_WINDOW`** (set at CLI launch) lowers the harness's
   auto-compaction threshold as belt-and-suspenders under the dispatch budget. It is
   documented for main sessions only — whether subagents honor it is unverified.

package/dist/awake.js

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+import { spawn } from 'node:child_process';
+export function keepAwake(env, platform, pid) {
+    // Test seam, on WITNESS_DRIVE_AGENT_BIN's precedent: never documented.
+    const bin = env.WITNESS_KEEP_AWAKE_BIN ?? (platform === 'darwin' ? 'caffeinate' : undefined);
+    if (bin === undefined)
+        return { stop: () => { } };
+    const args = ['-ims', '-w', String(pid)];
+    const child = spawn(bin, args, { stdio: 'ignore' });
+    child.on('error', () => { }); // a missing binary costs the guard, never the run
+    child.unref();
+    return {
+        command: [bin, ...args].join(' '),
+        stop: () => { if (child.exitCode === null && child.signalCode === null)
+            child.kill('SIGTERM'); },
+    };
+}

package/dist/caps.js

@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+import { EXIT } from './cli.js';
+import { fellBack, gateRuns, lastGateRun } from './rounds.js';
+import { duration } from './usage.js';
+import { gateSettled } from './verbs/next.js';
+const isCapPark = (e) => {
+    if (e.t !== 'human-decision')
+        return false;
+    const d = e;
+    return d.selected === 'policy' && typeof d.rule === 'string' && d.rule.startsWith('cap-');
+};
+// The gates still open on a target — run, and neither settled nor approved — most recent
+// last. A cap parks only on one of these (F7): a flow whose gates converged is moving, and a
+// stop journaled on a settled gate would hide it behind a reopen that refuses.
+function openGates(entries) {
+    const order = entries.filter((e) => e.t === 'gate-run').map((e) => String(e.gate));
+    return [...new Set(order.reverse())].reverse().filter((g) => !gateSettled(entries, g));
+}
+// First hit wins, in this order: rounds · upstream · spawns · wall clock.
+export function capHit(entries, use, caps) {
+    let lastPark = -1;
+    entries.forEach((e, i) => { if (isCapPark(e))
+        lastPark = i; });
+    const since = entries.slice(lastPark + 1);
+    // Every budget reset is ignored: this counts the rounds a gate ran, not its window. The
+    // exemptions are `roundsSinceApprove`'s — a malformed or fallen-back round spends nothing.
+    const gates = [...new Set(since.filter((e) => e.t === 'gate-run').map((e) => String(e.gate)))];
+    for (const gate of gates) {
+        const n = gateRuns(since, gate).filter((r) => r.outcome !== 'malformed' && !fellBack(r)).length;
+        // a gate that converged at the cap is not capped
+        if (n >= caps.rounds && !gateSettled(entries, gate)) {
+            return { cap: 'rounds', gate, note: `drive cap: ${gate} ran ${n} rounds across budget resets · drive.caps.rounds ${caps.rounds}` };
+        }
+    }
+    const upstream = since.filter((e) => e.t === 'human-decision' &&
+        e.decision === 'revise-upstream').length;
+    if (upstream >= caps.upstream && openGates(entries).length > 0) {
+        return { cap: 'upstream', note: `drive cap: ${upstream} upstream resets · drive.caps.upstream ${caps.upstream}` };
+    }
+    if (use.spawns >= caps.spawns) {
+        return { cap: 'spawns', note: `drive cap: ${use.spawns} session(s) this run · drive.caps.spawns ${caps.spawns}` };
+    }
+    if (use.ms >= caps.wallClockMs) {
+        return {
+            cap: 'wall-clock',
+            note: `drive cap: ${duration(use.ms)} of sessions this run · drive.caps.wallClockMs ${duration(caps.wallClockMs)}`,
+        };
+    }
+    return undefined;
+}
+// The park goes through A1's one door with `selected: 'policy'` and the cap as its rule.
+// `park` anchors it on the gate's last run even after the author moved the tree. A target
+// with no open gate has nothing to park on; a refusal from the door is named, not guessed.
+export async function parkAtCap(ctx, root, target, hit) {
+    const { readStream } = await import('./journal.js');
+    const entries = readStream(root, target);
+    if (!entries.some((e) => e.t === 'gate-run'))
+        return { parked: false, why: 'no gate run to park it on' };
+    const open = openGates(entries);
+    const gate = hit.gate !== undefined && open.includes(hit.gate) ? hit.gate : open.at(-1);
+    const last = gate !== undefined ? lastGateRun(entries, gate) : undefined;
+    if (gate === undefined || last === undefined)
+        return { parked: false, why: 'no open gate to park it on' };
+    // Loaded on A1's precedent for settle.ts: decide.ts reaches the gate registry.
+    const { applyDecision } = await import('./verbs/decide.js');
+    const errs = [];
+    const code = await applyDecision({ ...ctx, cwd: root, err: (l) => { errs.push(l); ctx.err(l); } }, {
+        gate, target, decision: 'stop', note: hit.note, selected: 'policy', rule: `cap-${hit.cap}`, park: true, runId: last.run_id,
+    });
+    if (code === EXIT.OK)
+        return { parked: true };
+    // the refusal's rows are indented under its header; the rule is each row's second field
+    const rule = errs.map((l) => /^\s+[^,]+,([a-z-]+),/.exec(l)?.[1]).find((r) => r !== undefined);
+    return { parked: false, why: `the policy could not park it (${rule ?? `exit ${code}`})` };
+}

package/dist/cli.js

@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ const VERB_USAGE = {
     floor: 'witness floor --show | --set <triple> --note <why>',
     design: 'witness design <spec-id> --file <html> | --reconfirm | --open',
     diff: 'witness diff <spec-id>',
-    drive: 'witness drive [--flow <plan-id>] [--max-spawns <n>] — schedule green-path work through headless sessions; you appear at judgment stops',
+    drive: 'witness drive [--flow <plan-id>] [--max-spawns <n>] [--manual] [--detach] [--ask "<text>"] — runs every session itself · under autonomy it needs no terminal and reports when nothing else can move',
     'dispatch-report': 'witness dispatch-report <plan-id> --steps-assigned <n> --steps-completed <n> [--tokens <n>] [--tool-uses <n>] [--duration-ms <n>]',
     gate: 'witness gate <decompose|plan|implement|ship|design> <target> [--fresh] [--manual]',
     index: 'witness index',

package/dist/config.js

@@ -104,20 +104,87 @@ export function resolveImplement(raw) {
 // once, a starved one kills a working e2e run and hands the human a false `spawn-timeout`
 // to debug. The ceiling exists to break a hung child, not to pace a healthy one.
 export const DEFAULT_SESSION_TIMEOUT_MS = 3_600_000;
+// Rows 181 and 183. Drive runs up to `parallel` sessions at once, one per target (design
+// §11 call 5). The caps park a target that will not converge; their defaults are fewhats's
+// 2026-10-19 calibration (B5): rounds = the largest normal merged plan's 13 implement rounds
+// plus one budget window · upstream = where the human abandoned thread-mirror-plan-1 ·
+// spawns = half again over the busiest normal merged plan's 16 sessions · wall clock = 16 h,
+// over the slowest normal merged plan's ~14 h in worktree sessions.
+export const DEFAULT_PARALLEL = 2;
+export const DEFAULT_CAPS = { rounds: 16, upstream: 6, spawns: 24, wallClockMs: 57_600_000 };
+const DRIVE_WANTS = {
+    sessionTimeoutMs: 'an integer >= 1 — milliseconds each spawned session may take before SIGTERM',
+    parallel: 'an integer >= 1 — sessions drive runs at once · one per target',
+};
+const CAP_WANTS = {
+    rounds: 'an integer >= 1 — gate rounds one target may run across budget resets before drive parks it',
+    upstream: 'an integer >= 1 — upstream resets one target may take before drive parks it',
+    spawns: 'an integer >= 1 — sessions one target may take in one drive run',
+    wallClockMs: 'an integer >= 1 — milliseconds of session time one target may take in one drive run',
+};
+const DRIVE_KEYS = ['sessionTimeoutMs', 'parallel', 'parallelSuites', 'caps'];
+const isCount = (val) => typeof val === 'number' && Number.isInteger(val) && val >= 1;
+const isMap = (val) => typeof val === 'object' && val !== null && !Array.isArray(val);
+// Strict: no consumer sets `drive:` today, so a typo'd key refusing costs nobody, while a
+// typo'd cap silently defaulting would let a flow run past the bound its author meant.
 export function resolveDrive(raw) {
     const conf = raw.drive;
+    const defaults = {
+        sessionTimeoutMs: DEFAULT_SESSION_TIMEOUT_MS, parallel: DEFAULT_PARALLEL, parallelSuites: false, caps: { ...DEFAULT_CAPS },
+    };
     if (conf === undefined)
-        return ok({ sessionTimeoutMs: DEFAULT_SESSION_TIMEOUT_MS });
-    if (typeof conf !== 'object' || conf === null || Array.isArray(conf)) {
+        return ok(defaults);
+    if (!isMap(conf))
         return refuse([v('drive', 'invalid', String(conf), 'a map of drive settings')]);
+    const violations = [];
+    for (const key of Object.keys(conf)) {
+        if (!DRIVE_KEYS.includes(key)) {
+            violations.push(v(`drive.${key}`, 'unknown-drive-key', key, `a drive setting (${DRIVE_KEYS.join(' | ')})`));
+        }
     }
-    const val = conf.sessionTimeoutMs;
-    if (val === undefined)
-        return ok({ sessionTimeoutMs: DEFAULT_SESSION_TIMEOUT_MS });
-    if (typeof val !== 'number' || !Number.isInteger(val) || val < 1) {
-        return refuse([v('drive.sessionTimeoutMs', 'invalid', String(val), 'an integer >= 1 — milliseconds each spawned session may take before SIGTERM')]);
+    const out = defaults;
+    for (const key of ['sessionTimeoutMs', 'parallel']) {
+        const val = conf[key];
+        if (val === undefined)
+            continue;
+        if (!isCount(val))
+            violations.push(v(`drive.${key}`, 'invalid', String(val), DRIVE_WANTS[key]));
+        else
+            out[key] = val;
+    }
+    if (conf.parallelSuites !== undefined) {
+        if (typeof conf.parallelSuites !== 'boolean') {
+            violations.push(v('drive.parallelSuites', 'invalid', String(conf.parallelSuites), 'true | false — whether test runs in two worktrees may overlap'));
+        }
+        else {
+            out.parallelSuites = conf.parallelSuites;
+        }
     }
-    return ok({ sessionTimeoutMs: val });
+    const caps = conf.caps;
+    if (caps !== undefined) {
+        if (!isMap(caps)) {
+            violations.push(v('drive.caps', 'invalid', String(caps), 'a map of cap settings'));
+        }
+        else {
+            for (const key of Object.keys(caps)) {
+                if (!(key in CAP_WANTS)) {
+                    violations.push(v(`drive.caps.${key}`, 'unknown-drive-key', key, `a cap (${Object.keys(CAP_WANTS).join(' | ')})`));
+                }
+            }
+            for (const key of Object.keys(CAP_WANTS)) {
+                const val = caps[key];
+                if (val === undefined)
+                    continue;
+                if (!isCount(val))
+                    violations.push(v(`drive.caps.${key}`, 'invalid', String(val), CAP_WANTS[key]));
+                else
+                    out.caps[key] = val;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    if (violations.length)
+        return refuse(violations);
+    return ok(out);
 }
 export const DEFAULT_REVIEWER_TIMEOUT_MS = 600_000;
 // gates.* is otherwise read loosely at its consumers (stagePin); the timeout is
@@ -188,7 +255,7 @@ export function autonomyAt(root, rev) {
     }
 }
 const committedAutonomy = (root) => autonomyAt(root, 'HEAD');
-const LOCAL_KEYS = ['reviewerExtensions', 'opener'];
+const LOCAL_KEYS = ['reviewerExtensions', 'opener', 'notify'];
 export const localConfigPath = (root) => join(root, '.witness', 'config.local.yaml');
 export function loadLocalConfig(root) {
     const p = localConfigPath(root);
@@ -230,9 +297,18 @@ export function loadLocalConfig(root) {
             opener = obj.opener;
         }
     }
+    let notify;
+    if (obj.notify !== undefined) {
+        if (typeof obj.notify !== 'string' || obj.notify === '') {
+            violations.push(v('notify', 'invalid', String(obj.notify), 'a command name or path — it receives the run summary as its one argument'));
+        }
+        else {
+            notify = obj.notify;
+        }
+    }
     if (violations.length)
         return refuse(violations);
-    return ok({ reviewerExtensions, ...(opener !== undefined ? { opener } : {}) });
+    return ok({ reviewerExtensions, ...(opener !== undefined ? { opener } : {}), ...(notify !== undefined ? { notify } : {}) });
 }
 // Lenient path resolution for callers without a loaded Config (canon scan, git
 // state scoping): a missing or broken config falls back to the defaults — the

package/dist/drive-presence.js

@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+import { lstatSync, mkdirSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { join } from 'node:path';
+import { isAlive, pause, pidOf, releaseIfMine, takeStale } from './lock.js';
+import { ok, refuse, v } from './refusal.js';
+// Row 180. What a process knows about the drive it runs under. Drive marks every child
+// session with WITNESS_DRIVE=<target>: the marker is the recursion guard (a marked session's
+// `witness drive` refuses) and the child's scope (its `next` answers for that target alone).
+export const DRIVE_ENV = 'WITNESS_DRIVE';
+export const TARGETLESS = '-'; // the marker's value for work with no target
+// Final review F14: when drive will kill this session (epoch ms). A reviewer inside it never
+// waits past that — a wait drive kills mid-way leaves an orphaned gate and a stuck target.
+export const DRIVE_DEADLINE_ENV = 'WITNESS_DRIVE_DEADLINE';
+// unset → undefined · '-' → { target: undefined } · else → { target: <value> }
+export function driveChild(env) {
+    const marker = env[DRIVE_ENV];
+    if (marker === undefined || marker === '')
+        return undefined;
+    return { target: marker === TARGETLESS ? undefined : marker };
+}
+// Row 180. One drive per repo: `.witness/drive.lock` names the live drive's pid and, for a
+// background drive, its log — so a second drive, or `next` under autonomy, can say where to
+// watch the one that runs and how to stop it.
+export const DRIVE_LOCK = '.witness/drive.lock';
+export const DRIVE_LOG = '.witness/drive.log';
+// How a background drive learns its own log path, set by `detachDrive` on its child alone.
+export const DRIVE_LOG_ENV = 'WITNESS_DRIVE_LOG';
+function readHolder(root) {
+    const p = join(root, DRIVE_LOCK);
+    let text;
+    try {
+        if (lstatSync(p).isSymbolicLink())
+            return 'unreadable';
+        text = readFileSync(p, 'utf8');
+    }
+    catch (e) {
+        return e.code === 'ENOENT' ? 'absent' : 'unreadable';
+    }
+    try {
+        const h = JSON.parse(text);
+        if (typeof h.pid !== 'number' || !Number.isInteger(h.pid) || h.pid < 1)
+            return 'unreadable';
+        // The lock says only WHETHER a background log exists; its path is always derived. What
+        // the file says is never printed: `watch:` is a line the engine acts on, and a path read
+        // from a file could carry a newline and a forged `launch:` or `run:` line.
+        return { pid: h.pid, ...(h.log !== undefined ? { log: join(root, DRIVE_LOG) } : {}) };
+    }
+    catch {
+        return 'unreadable';
+    }
+}
+// A live holder only: a dead one (a drive killed with SIGKILL) reads as none.
+export function driveHolder(root) {
+    const h = readHolder(root);
+    return typeof h === 'object' && isAlive(h.pid) ? h : undefined;
+}
+export function acquireDriveLock(root, info, pid = process.pid) {
+    const p = join(root, DRIVE_LOCK);
+    mkdirSync(join(root, '.witness'), { recursive: true });
+    const release = () => releaseIfMine(p, pid);
+    const t0 = Date.now();
+    for (;;) {
+        try {
+            writeFileSync(p, JSON.stringify({ pid, ...(info.log !== undefined ? { log: info.log } : {}) }), { flag: 'wx' });
+            return ok(release);
+        }
+        catch (e) {
+            if (e.code !== 'EEXIST') {
+                return refuse([v(DRIVE_LOCK, 'drive-lock-unwritable', e.code ?? String(e), 'a writable .witness directory')]);
+            }
+        }
+        const h = readHolder(root);
+        if (typeof h === 'object' && h.pid === pid)
+            return ok(release);
+        if (typeof h === 'object' && isAlive(h.pid)) {
+            return refuse([v(DRIVE_LOCK, 'drive-running', `pid ${h.pid}`, `one drive per repo — ${watchLine(h)}`)]);
+        }
+        if (Date.now() - t0 > 5_000) {
+            return refuse([v(DRIVE_LOCK, 'drive-running', 'the lock changed hands while it was being taken', 'run this again')]);
+        }
+        // `wx` creates the file empty before the pid lands: an unreadable lock gets the repo
+        // lock's grace before it counts as a dead drive's. A dead one is taken atomically
+        // (F15), so of several drives started at once exactly one gets in.
+        if (h === 'unreadable') {
+            pause(50);
+            if (Date.now() - t0 < 1_000)
+                continue;
+        }
+        try {
+            const took = takeStale(p, (text) => typeof h === 'object' ? pidOf(text) === h.pid : pidOf(text) === undefined);
+            if (took === 'busy')
+                pause(50);
+        }
+        catch (e) {
+            return refuse([v(DRIVE_LOCK, 'drive-lock-unwritable', e.code ?? String(e), 'a writable .witness directory')]);
+        }
+    }
+}
+// A path is quoted only when it needs it, so the common line stays the one a human types.
+const shellArg = (p) => /^[\w@%+=:,./-]+$/.test(p) ? p : `'${p.replaceAll("'", "'\\''")}'`;
+export function watchLine(h) {
+    return h.log !== undefined
+        ? `tail -f ${shellArg(h.log)} · stop it: kill ${h.pid}`
+        : `the terminal running witness drive · pid ${h.pid}`;
+}

package/dist/drive-report.js

@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+import { existsSync, readdirSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { basename, join } from 'node:path';
+import { handoffLine, resolveDriver } from './harness.js';
+import { readStream } from './journal.js';
+import { unmetNeeds } from './needs.js';
+import { findById, loadCanon } from './scan.js';
+import { pendingTxn } from './txn.js';
+import { owedDecisions, parkedGates } from './verbs/next.js';
+import { recoverChoice } from './verbs/recover.js';
+const journalDir = (root) => join(root, '.witness', 'journal');
+const streams = (root) => existsSync(journalDir(root))
+    ? readdirSync(journalDir(root)).filter((f) => f.endsWith('.jsonl')).map((f) => f.slice(0, -'.jsonl'.length)).sort()
+    : [];
+export function runStart(root) {
+    return { lines: new Map(streams(root).map((s) => [s, readStream(root, s).length])) };
+}
+export function entriesSince(root, start) {
+    return streams(root).flatMap((stream) => readStream(root, stream).slice(start.lines.get(stream) ?? 0).map((entry) => ({ stream, entry })));
+}
+const prOf = (line) => /PR #(\d+)/.exec(line)?.[1];
+// Every `run:` and `then:` line is raw: a command is never kv-escaped (D120).
+export function driveReport(root, ctx, cfg, start, aside, run) {
+    const canon = loadCanon(root);
+    const since = entriesSince(root, start);
+    const merged = since.filter(({ entry }) => entry.t === 'status' && entry.cause === 'merge')
+        .map(({ entry }) => `merged: ${String(entry.artifact)} · PR #${String(entry.pr)}`);
+    // The waits, each target once, in the order a human answers them.
+    const waits = [];
+    const named = new Set();
+    const wait = (target, rows) => { named.add(target); waits.push(...rows); };
+    // A crash no session could recover blocks every write: it is named first (F4).
+    const txn = pendingTxn(root);
+    if (txn !== undefined) {
+        wait('-txn', [`wait: pending transaction · ${txn.op}`, `  run: ${recoverChoice(root, txn).options[0].command}`]);
+    }
+    for (const a of aside.filter((x) => x.kind === 'kept' && (x.stop === 'design-look' || x.stop === 'trust-grant'))) {
+        if (named.has(a.target))
+            continue;
+        wait(a.target, a.stop === 'design-look'
+            ? [`wait: design look · ${a.target}`, `  run: witness design ${a.target} --open`, `  then: witness decide design ${a.target} --show`]
+            : [`wait: trust grant · ${a.target} · in a terminal · answer each prompt`, `  run: witness gate ${a.gate ?? '<gate>'} ${a.target}`]);
+    }
+    for (const u of unmetNeeds(canon)) {
+        const held = u.type === 'spec' && u.holds.length > 0;
+        wait(u.doc, [
+            held ? `wait: held criterion · ${u.doc} · ${u.text} holds ${u.holds.join(' · ')}` : `wait: unmet need · ${u.doc} · ${u.text}`,
+            `  run: ${u.satisfy}`,
+        ]);
+    }
+    for (const o of owedDecisions(root, canon)) {
+        if (named.has(o.target))
+            continue;
+        wait(o.target, [`wait: decision · ${o.gate} ${o.target}`, `  run: witness decide ${o.gate} ${o.target} --show`]);
+    }
+    const driver = resolveDriver(ctx.env, cfg.raw);
+    for (const a of aside.filter((x) => x.kind === 'conversation' || x.kind === 'merge')) {
+        if (named.has(a.target))
+            continue;
+        if (a.kind === 'conversation') {
+            const who = a.target === '-' ? 'brainstorm' : a.target;
+            wait(a.target, [`wait: conversation · ${who}`,
+                ...(driver.ok ? [`  run: ${handoffLine(driver.value.harness, root, undefined)}`] : [])]);
+        }
+        else {
+            const pr = prOf(a.line) ?? (findById(canon, a.target)?.meta.pr !== undefined ? String(findById(canon, a.target).meta.pr) : undefined);
+            wait(a.target, [`wait: merge · ${a.target}${pr ? ` · PR #${pr}` : ''}`, ...(pr ? [`  run: gh pr merge ${pr}`] : [])]);
+        }
+    }
+    const parked = parkedGates(root, canon).flatMap((p) => {
+        const stopped = readStream(root, p.target)
+            .filter((e) => e.t === 'human-decision' && e.gate === p.gate)
+            .map((e) => e).filter((d) => d.decision === 'stop').at(-1);
+        const why = stopped?.selected === 'policy' && stopped.note ? stopped.note : `parked at ${p.anchor}`;
+        return [`parked: ${p.target} · ${p.gate} round ${p.round} — ${why}`, `  run: ${p.reopen}`];
+    });
+    // A capped target the policy could not park carries no gate (drive.ts): it is stuck too.
+    const stuck = aside.filter((a) => a.kind === 'stuck' || (a.kind === 'capped' && a.gate === undefined))
+        .map((a) => `stuck: ${a.target} — ${a.why}`);
+    const obligations = since.filter(({ entry }) => entry.t === 'deferral').map(({ entry }) => {
+        const d = entry;
+        return `obligation: ${d.id} · ${d.artifact} · ${d.anchor} — ${d.kind}`;
+    });
+    const counts = { policy: 0, arbiter: 0, affirmation: 0, named: 0 };
+    for (const { entry } of since) {
+        if (entry.t !== 'human-decision')
+            continue;
+        const d = entry;
+        if (d.caused_by !== undefined)
+            continue; // a reopen record, not a decision
+        counts[d.selected ?? 'named'] += 1;
+    }
+    const m = merged.length;
+    const w = named.size;
+    const p = parkedGates(root, canon).length;
+    const s = stuck.length;
+    const tally = `${m} merged · ${w} wait on you · ${p} parked · ${s} stuck`;
+    const lines = [
+        `drive: ${run.stopped !== undefined ? 'stopped' : 'done'} — ${tally}`,
+        ...merged, ...waits, ...parked, ...stuck, ...obligations,
+        `decisions: policy ${counts.policy} · arbiter ${counts.arbiter} · affirmation ${counts.affirmation} · named ${counts.named}`,
+        ...(w > 0 ? ['help: answer the waits above · then /witness or witness drive picks up where this run stopped'] : []),
+    ];
+    return { lines, summary: `witness drive — ${basename(root)} · ${tally}`, merged: m, waiting: w, parked: p, stuck: s };
+}