instar 1.3.993 → 1.3.995

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "instar",
-  "version": "1.3.993",
+  "version": "1.3.995",
   "description": "Coherence infrastructure for self-evolving AI agents — on the Claude Code or Codex subscription you already have.",
   "type": "module",
   "main": "dist/index.js",

package/src/data/builtin-manifest.json

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 {
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   "schemaVersion": 1,
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+  "generatedAt": "2026-07-27T06:36:28.815Z",
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@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@
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@@ -490,7 +490,7 @@
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package/upgrades/1.3.994.md

@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+# Upgrade Guide — vNEXT
+
+<!-- assembled-by: assemble-next-md -->
+<!-- bump: patch -->
+
+## What Changed
+
+`runRound`'s `verifyMergedItems` seam defaulted to a no-op returning an empty set, documented in
+place as "production callers should pass a real one". No production caller ever did —
+`src/commands/server.ts` passes tracker, projectId, roundIndex and targetRepoPath, and nothing else.
+
+Consequences, all read from the code: the all-items-merged stop condition could never be true, so a
+round whose items were **all merged still spawned a child to redo them**; `outcome: 'complete'` was
+unreachable; and because the progress digest counts only completed rounds, a project could report
+`0 of 5 done` with its items merged and verified.
+
+The no-op default is deleted. The seam now defaults to the real `verifyMergedItemsViaGit`, carries
+the three-state `MergedVerificationResult`, and a new `unverifiable` outcome records **no** round
+status. `resolveCanonicalMainRef` moved from `src/server/routes.ts` into the core module both
+consumers share.
+
+## What to Tell Your User
+
+A round of project work can now actually be recorded as finished.
+
+The piece that checks "has this work landed?" was a placeholder that always answered "nothing has
+landed". Nothing failed visibly — it just quietly always said no. So a round could never be marked
+complete, your progress line could read "0 of 5 done" while the work sat merged, and asking the round
+to run again would start a fresh session to redo work already finished.
+
+It now uses the real check. And when the check genuinely cannot run, it says so rather than guessing:
+it will not start a session to redo work that may already be done, and it records no verdict at all
+rather than claiming the round failed.
+
+The distinction that took the most care: "no merge recorded yet" and "there is a merge but I couldn't
+check it" look identical in the data and mean opposite things. Read the first as unknown and every
+new round stalls forever; read the second as not-done and you are back to redoing finished work.
+
+## Summary of New Capabilities
+
+No new endpoint, command, or config key. An existing round runner gained a working merged-state check
+and an honest "could not determine" outcome that records nothing instead of inventing a verdict.
+
+## Evidence
+
+Live: project `convergence-towards-coherence` had items 1, 2 and 3 at `pipelineStage: merged`
+(item 3 verified against merge commit `3443efd1d`) while the session-start digest read `0 of 5 done`.
+
+Refusals, by falsification. Neutralising the evidence predicate:
+
+```
+× an item that RECORDS a merge commit but cannot be checked → no respawn, and NO round verdict
+× child exits 0 but the shortfall is entirely uncheckable → unverifiable, NOT partially-complete
+```
+
+Re-introducing a default that returns an unconditional empty verdict:
+
+```
+× the seam cannot default to silence again > has no default verifier that returns an unconditional empty set
+```
+
+Restored: 27/27 across the three affected files; `tsc --noEmit` exit 0.
+
+## Known limits
+
+Verification is still merge-base reachability of a recorded commit — an item merged with red CI
+verifies. Nothing here schedules rounds; it makes a run able to conclude. And
+`resolveCanonicalMainRef` remains best-effort: without `gh` it falls back to `origin/main`, which on
+a fork-origin home under-verifies toward spawning rather than toward a false complete.

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+# Upgrade Guide — vNEXT
+
+<!-- assembled-by: assemble-next-md -->
+<!-- bump: patch -->
+
+## What Changed
+
+The channel registry answered "which ways of reaching a PEER work right now?" with real probes. Asked
+the same question about the *operator*, the only available answer was `/capabilities` reporting
+`telegram: { configured: true, adapter: true, bidirectional: true }` — three values read from
+configuration, none of them a measurement. A Telegram whose poll loop died on a rejected token hours
+ago still reports all three as `true`.
+
+The two direct user channels now sit in the same registry, with liveness read from live adapter
+state: Telegram's `started` (is the loop polling *now*) and `fatalReason` (rejected credential vs
+dropped network), and Slack's `isConnected()`. Every channel row gains an `audience` field of `peer`
+or `user`, so one surface answers the whole "which channel should I use?" question instead of two.
+
+## What to Tell Your User
+
+Your agent can now tell whether it can actually reach you, rather than only whether it was set up to.
+
+Before this, asking "are your channels working?" got an answer read from a settings file — which says
+yes just as confidently after the connection has died. Now it checks the live connection, and when
+something is wrong it says which kind of wrong: a rejected login is a different problem from a
+dropped network, and needs a different fix.
+
+It is also careful about what it does not know. If a channel stopped for a reason nothing recorded,
+it reports "unknown" rather than guessing — because a confident wrong answer during an outage is
+worse than an honest one.
+
+And each channel now records *when it is the right one to use*. For your own channels that includes
+something worth saying plainly: they cost your attention, and they are also the only place your agent
+can see what you actually see. Both of those are real, and they pull in opposite directions.
+
+## Summary of New Capabilities
+
+No new endpoint, command, or config key. `GET /channels` gains two rows for the direct user channels
+with live-state liveness, and every row gains an `audience` field marking it `peer` or `user`.
+
+## Evidence
+
+The verdicts distinguish cases a boolean cannot: a rejected token reports
+`reachable-no-credential` ("Telegram answered and REJECTED the bot token") rather than a generic
+failure; a network death reports `broken`; a loop stopped with no recorded reason reports `unknown`
+with "cannot tell a deliberate stop from a silent death" — explicitly not healthy and not a confident
+broken; and no adapter at all reports `not-configured`, because off is not broken.
+
+Refusals, by falsification. Making the Telegram probe read existence instead of liveness — precisely
+what the configuration reading does:
+
+```
+× THE FIX: a configured-but-DEAD Telegram is never reported as working
+× a missing bot token is a credential verdict, not a network one
+× a network death is broken — distinct from a credential problem
+× stopped for NO recorded reason is unknown — never working, never a confident broken
+  Tests  4 failed | 12 passed (16)
+```
+
+Giving Slack "ever connected" semantics — the trap its own source warns about, since `started` means
+"ever connected" while `isConnected()` clears on disconnect:
+
+```
+× THE TRAP: enabled with the socket DOWN is broken, not working
+```
+
+Restored: 35 passed across the three channel-registry suites; `tsc --noEmit` exit 0. Two source
+ratchets keep the probes from drifting back to configuration.
+
+## Known limits
+
+A live reading is not a promise — `working` means the loop was polling when asked, not that it will
+be a second later. Telegram `working` means the poll loop is up, not that a message to a particular
+topic would land. Slack is modelled as a single workspace. WhatsApp and iMessage adapters exist in
+the tree and are **not** covered here, so the registry makes no claim about them at all.