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Adds operator-declared [environment] probes plus [verify] env_fault_rc, so a broken environment pauses the run instead of charging the attempt. Also adds bmad-loop resolve <run> --reverify, which replays verification on a DEFERRED or env-fault escalated story's kept work, then reviews and commits it with no dev session.

Why

Community report (0.13.0, in-place): green committed work was deferred because a local container was down during e2e verify, and there was no supported way back. Tracked in the ledger as DW-522 / DW-523.

How

  • Probes run at three sites: before [verify] commands, before a failure is charged, and before each dev/review launch. The last of these gets a new environment pause stage that a plain resume clears. An agent Environment fault: line only triggers a probe.
  • The reverify re-arm is a deliberate direct assignment to dev-verify (in place, or for a kept worktree unit), followed by a deterministic verify replay. No LLM decides anything.
  • Defaults are byte-identical: nothing spawns, journals, or changes prompts or digests.

Testing

Engine/runs/CLI/TUI tests, every refusal ablated. Full suite (13410 passed), pyright and trunk check --all are clean.

Changelog

Added / Changed / Fixed entries under ## [Unreleased].

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  • New Features

    • Added configurable environment probes before verification and session launches. Failed probes pause the run without charging an attempt; resuming checks the environment again.
    • Added verify.env_fault_rc to classify selected verification exit codes as environment faults, alongside improved handling for shell errors.
    • Added resolve --reverify to replay verification on eligible kept work without starting a development session. Successful verification can proceed to review and commit or merge.
    • Updated pause notices and TUI views to identify environment faults and guide recovery.
  • Documentation

    • Updated setup, command, recovery, and TUI guides with environment probe and re-verification details.

t added 8 commits October 1, 2026 11:21
Add [environment] probes + probe_timeout_s and [verify] env_fault_rc.
Probes run fail-fast before [verify] commands in every composition
(verify_commands_outcome / the three review gates, the engine dev/fix
pass, cli._reverify); a failed probe escalates as an env fault (cause
"probe") without running the commands or charging the attempt, and the
engine journals env-probe-failed with the asking site. A command exiting
with env_fault_rc is a declared env fault. VerifyOutcome gains
env_fault_cause, and the env-fault pause text names its cause instead of
asserting "command not found / not executable" for rc 126/127.
Probes are hashed into config_digest only when set; defaults spawn,
journal and digest nothing new.
…523)

Add the failure-decision environment seam. When [environment] probes are
configured, every decision that would charge a story — a RETRY, a DEFER
or a budget-exhausted action, at the dev leg, review session, salvage
fallback, harvest exhaustion, review gate (before the fix dispatch),
skip-review gate, _fix_phase, review non-convergence and blocking
workflows — re-runs the probes first; a failed probe replaces it with a
PAUSE (journaled env-fault-reclassified) and the attempt is not charged.
The deciders stay pure: Decision gains budget_exhausted (set wherever
_exhausted_action drives the action) and env_site, and the engine
post-filters through _env_gate_decision.

StoryTask.env_fault_site records where an escalated env fault was
detected (verify:<role> for a verify env fault, probe:decision:<role>
for a reclassified decision); story-escalated and dev-decision carry it
only when set, re-arm and branch adoption clear it, and the resolve
context and skill surface it. escalation.env_fault_claim is a stub
returning None until the claim contract lands.

Fix: an env fault at the review-budget rescue gate escalated nowhere and
fell through to the "did not converge" defer; it now escalates.

With no probes configured nothing spawns, journals or changes.
Add the StoryTask.reverify_from latch, model.env_fault_site_reverifiable,
escalation.decide_reverify, runs.deferred_stash_path (now shared with
Engine._stash_deferred_artifacts), runs.reverify_refusal and
runs.rearm_for_reverify for in-place DEFERRED and reverifiable env-fault
ESCALATED stories. Worktree tasks are refused for now. No engine arm or
CLI flag yet.
Engine _finish_inflight gains a reverify arm (ahead of the spec-approval
arm) and _resume_reverify: replay dev verification on the kept tree with
no dev session, route through decide_reverify, then review/commit,
re-defer or escalate. cmd_resolve gains --reverify (mutually exclusive
with --adopt-branch/--restore-patch) and hints it on a deferred story;
recovery pauses, the defer note, env-fault texts and the TUI point at it.
reverify_refusal gains a mounted arm: the kept worktree must exist (a
torn-down unit names its changes.patch), be registered, sit on the unit
branch (branch_per="run" detaches it), hold product above the baseline,
and carry the spec. A mounted story is accepted under any pause stage
when --story names it (explicit_story); in place keeps the escalation
pause and last-task rules. A finished run is refused either way.

cmd_resolve admits `--reverify --story` under any pause, the sweep
engine escalates a stray reverify latch, and the help, CHANGELOG and
resolve skill drop the in-place-only wording.
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The change adds configurable environment probes and environment-fault classification. It adds environment-stage pauses with probe-on-resume behavior, and resolve --reverify to replay verification on eligible kept work without a development or resolve session.

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Environment verification and replay

Layer / File(s) Summary
Environment contracts and policy
src/bmad_loop/model.py, src/bmad_loop/policy.py, src/bmad_loop/escalation.py, src/bmad_loop/devcontract.py, src/bmad_loop/runsetup.py, tests/test_policy.py, tests/test_model.py, tests/test_escalation.py, tests/test_devcontract.py, tests/test_runsetup.py
Adds probe settings, fault sites and causes, bounded environment claims, replay metadata, configuration validation, and probe-aware configuration digests.
Probe execution and orchestration gates
src/bmad_loop/verify.py, src/bmad_loop/engine.py, src/bmad_loop/stories_engine.py, src/bmad_loop/sweep.py, tests/test_verify.py, tests/test_engine.py, tests/test_stories_engine.py, tests/test_sweep.py
Runs probes before verification and dispatch, records outcomes, and routes failures through pause, retry, defer, review, and resume paths.
Kept-work verification replay
src/bmad_loop/cli.py, src/bmad_loop/runs.py, src/bmad_loop/recovery_flow.py, src/bmad_loop/resolve.py, src/bmad_loop/data/skills/bmad-loop-resolve/SKILL.md, tests/test_cli.py, tests/test_runs.py, tests/test_engine_worktree.py, tests/test_recovery_flow.py, tests/test_resolve.py, tests/conftest.py
Adds replay eligibility checks and resolve --reverify, preserving attempt work while verification runs without a development or resolve session.
Operator surfaces and supporting validation
src/bmad_loop/tui/*, src/bmad_loop/data/settings/core.toml, src/bmad_loop/data/skills/README.md, README.md, docs/*, CHANGELOG.md, docs/plugin-authoring-guide.md, docs/tui-guide.md, tests/test_tui_app.py, tests/test_portability_guard.py, tests/test_settings_schema.py, tests/test_plugin_workflows.py
Updates pause handling, configuration and workflow guidance, recovery notices, and tests for operator interactions and state invariants.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Operator
  participant CLI
  participant Runs
  participant Engine
  participant Verify
  Operator->>CLI: request resolve --reverify
  CLI->>Runs: validate and re-arm kept work
  Runs-->>CLI: return re-armed task
  CLI->>Engine: resume verification replay
  Engine->>Verify: run probes and verification
  Verify-->>Engine: return replay outcome
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Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 4551a

The recovery path retains deterministic verification, work-ownership checks, and normal review and commit controls. Configured probes run as host commands, and resume trusts current local configuration. No introduced security bypass was substantiated, but incomplete coverage prevents a minimal-risk assessment.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — Configured probes extend host-command execution to dispatch, verification, and failure-routing seams. Their effective scope follows the selected commands and the host process's permissions; a workspace working directory should not be interpreted as sandbox containment.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • observed — Agent-controlled Environment fault prose can trigger configured probes, but does not supply their command strings or independently authorize acceptance. Passing or absent probes preserve the original decision; a failed probe replaces it with a pause.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Nonempty probe commands are included in the host-execution integrity digest. Unattended child sweeps compare their freshly loaded, frozen configuration against the parent baseline and refuse changes before launching the child.
  • observed — The persisted reverify latch selects deterministic replay before the ordinary DEV_VERIFY continuation. Mounted continuations reopen the recorded worktree, and replay success is not itself a direct commit authorization.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The replay latch is cleared before decision actions persist their outcome. Probe freshness is scoped to the workspace root and invalidated by rollback, reset, or discarded work, preventing a prior workspace's healthy result from authorizing a replacement tree.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Document probes as side-effect-free or safely repeatable checks. Recovery can repeat command execution before an outcome becomes durable, so probe authors should not rely on exactly-once execution for privileged mutations.
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Review comments at @docs/FEATURES.md:
- Line 52: Update the Environment preflight description in `docs/FEATURES.md` to
limit `env-probe-failed` journaling and attempt escalation to in-run gates.
State that a failed probe during `confirm --reverify` blocks confirmation
without writing to the completed run’s journal.

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- Line 86: Qualify both README descriptions of `--reverify` to say
environment-fault escalations are eligible only at replayable fault sites, while
preserving the DEFERRED-story behavior. Update the command summary and the
explanation near line 251 so operators do not expect excluded fault sites or
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Review comments at @src/bmad_loop/engine.py:
- Around line 3570-3572: Defer the `followup_reviews_spent` increment in the
review-cycle loop until after `_gate_dispatch(task, "review")` succeeds, so a
pause cannot persist a spend that completed-pass replay will apply again. Track
the pending spend from the existing end-of-cycle increment, initialize it before
the loop, and clear it after applying it beyond the dispatch gate.
- Around line 2786-2799: Add the workflow claim site to ENV_FAULT_SITES so
probe:claim:workflow is recognized by env_fault_site_reverifiable and escalated
workflow tasks can use --reverify.

Review comments at @src/bmad_loop/runs.py:
- Around line 6417-6436: Update _rearm_for_reverify_locked to catch OSError from
reading the deferred stash or restoring the spec and raise an actionable
RearmError that includes the failure details and instructs the operator to
restore the spec and rerun resolve --reverify. Preserve exception chaining and
the existing cleanup behavior.

Review comments at @tests/test_verify.py:
- Around line 2528-2540: Update test_probe_timeout_is_a_failure to avoid
launching a real sleeping process: add the monkeypatch fixture and make
verify._run_shell_command return a timed-out verify.CommandResult. Keep the
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Comment thread src/bmad_loop/model.py
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role = _REVERIFY_DECISION_SITE_ROLES.get(site)
if role is None:
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P2 Badge Require a completed latest session for claim-site reverify

When a third-party adapter returns a non-completed dev/fix result containing env_fault_claim, a failed probe records probe:claim:dev or probe:claim:fix; this branch treats that site as reverifiable without checking the latest session's status. If the task has an earlier completed dev record, reverify_refusal accepts it and _resume_reverify uses that stale record while verifying the dirty tree left by the failed latest session, which can review or commit partial work. Apply the same latest-completed-session requirement used for decision-site dev/fix faults.

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Valid — fixed in 66527bb: probe:claim:dev / probe:claim:fix now join the decision sites in _REVERIFY_DECISION_SITE_ROLES, so the latest dev-role record must be completed. Matrix rows added for completed/crashed/timeout/no-record; ablated.

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"probe:decision:workflow",
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P2 Badge Register workflow claim faults in the recovery vocabulary

A failed probe after a blocking workflow's env_fault_claim reaches _env_gate_claim(..., role="workflow"), which persists probe:claim:workflow and tells the operator to use resolve <run> --reverify. Because that site is omitted here, env_fault_site_reverifiable rejects it as unknown and reverify_refusal always refuses the advertised recovery command. Include the workflow claim site in the closed vocabulary, or avoid offering reverify for that path.

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Valid — fixed in 66527bb: probe:claim:workflow registered in the closed vocabulary. Workflows only run at post_dev_phase / post_review_result / pre_commit_gate, i.e. after a completed dev session, so it is reverifiable like probe:decision:workflow.

- engine: apply a review pass's damping grant only past the next cycle's
  dispatch gate, so an environment pause no longer persists a spend the
  completed-pass replay re-derives (the granted follow-up was force-converged)
- model: register `probe:claim:workflow` in ENV_FAULT_SITES (a confirmed
  workflow claim was always refused by --reverify), and require a completed
  latest dev session for `probe:claim:dev`/`fix`, as for the decision sites
- runs: surface a spec-restore I/O fault in the reverify re-arm as an
  actionable RearmError instead of a bare OSError
- tests: fake the probe-timeout runner instead of sleeping toward a deadline
- docs: scope env-probe-failed journaling to in-run gates; qualify which
  env-fault escalations --reverify accepts
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self._refuse_gated_story(task.story_key)
# DW-523: re-probe a dispatch-site environment pause first (re-pauses
# unchanged while the environment is still down).
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P2 Badge Reopen the mounted workspace before re-probing

In a worktree-isolated run, an initial dispatch probe runs inside the unit worktree, but after the resulting pause self.workspace has been restored to the main checkout. This resume path calls _take_env_dispatch_pause() before _reopen_unit() swaps the workspace back, so the probe is evaluated against the main checkout. A cwd-sensitive probe such as docker compose ... can therefore clear the pause based on a different configuration and launch the session in a still-broken unit, or keep the unit paused even though its own environment is healthy. Reopen/swap the mounted unit before consuming its dispatch pause.

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Valid — fixed in 669c99c: _take_env_dispatch_pause now re-probes in the task's recorded worktree (Path(task.worktree_path), the unit's workspace root) instead of the main checkout; a missing worktree falls back to the workspace root and the following _reopen_unit escalates it as before. Test test_isolated_dispatch_pause_reprobes_inside_the_unit records each probe's cwd and asserts the first resumed probe ran in the unit; ablated.

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if not self.policy.environment.probes or self._env_probes_fresh:
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P2 Badge Scope probe freshness to the workspace it checked

The freshness bit is engine-global, so a successful decision-site probe can suppress the dispatch probe for a different story's worktree. For example, when the last attempt of an isolated story fails, the decision probe passes, and the story is deferred, no subsequent session clears _env_probes_fresh; the next isolated story then enters a new worktree and returns here without running its cwd-sensitive probes. This can dispatch a session even when that worktree's environment check would fail. Track the probed workspace with the freshness state or invalidate it whenever the active workspace changes.

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Valid — fixed in 669c99c: the engine-global flag is now _env_probes_fresh_root, the workspace root the passing probes ran in (set by _run_environment_probes and the review-gate sink, cleared on failure and at every session launch); _gate_dispatch skips only when it equals self.workspace.root. Test test_dispatch_gate_freshness_is_scoped_to_the_probed_root pins both halves; ablated.

- resume re-probes a dispatch-site pause in the task's recorded worktree,
  not the main checkout the resumed engine starts in; a missing worktree
  falls back to the workspace root and the unit reopen escalates it
- probe freshness records the root the passing probes ran in, so a pass in
  one story's worktree (or main) no longer skips the dispatch gate in another
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if restart_isolated:
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P2 Badge Preserve the paused sweep worktree on redispatch

When an isolated sweep pauses at its dev dispatch probe, a successful resume probe is run inside the kept unit, but this branch immediately force-removes that unit and lets _run_story create a fresh one. A worktree-local repair that made the probe pass—such as an uncommitted .env or compose change—is therefore deleted before the session launches; if the replacement reuses the same path, _env_probes_fresh_root can also suppress re-probing the now-broken replacement. Reopen and dispatch in the existing unit, as the ordinary story recovery path does, rather than treating this no-session pause as a restart.

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Partly addressed in 910c88c.

Freshness half (valid): the replacement unit is mounted at the same path, so the resume re-probe's pass suppressed the replacement's own dispatch gate. _discard_unit_for_restart now clears _env_probes_fresh_root, so a pass in a discarded tree vouches for nothing. Test test_isolated_bundle_dispatch_pause_reprobes_the_replacement_unit asserts two probes (resume re-probe, then the replacement's gate) before the dev session launches; ablated (reds at 1 == 2).

Preserve-the-unit half (not changed): the bundle re-drive deliberately goes back through _ensure_bundle_intent + _run_story, which always mounts a fresh unit; reopening the paused one would restructure sweep recovery. Nothing session-produced is lost — the pause fires before any session ran, so the discarded unit holds only its checkout — and [environment] probes check external services, not hand edits inside an orchestrator-owned temporary worktree. With the freshness fix, a repair that lived only in the discarded unit now fails the replacement's gate and re-pauses visibly rather than dispatching.

An isolated sweep's dev-dispatch resume re-probes in the kept unit, then
discards it for a fresh mount, often at the same path. `_discard_unit_for_restart`
now clears the probe freshness so the replacement's own dispatch gate probes.
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Comment thread src/bmad_loop/runs.py Outdated
"""The task's latest COMPLETED dev-role session record, or None. Fix sessions are
recorded under the dev role too, so a repaired attempt's verdict is the one read."""
return next(
(s for s in reversed(task.sessions) if s.role == "dev" and s.status == "completed"),

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P2 Badge Require the latest dev record for deferred reverify

When a completed dev pass is followed by a crashed or timed-out fix that exhausts the attempt budget, the task becomes DEFERRED, but this helper skips that latest non-completed dev-role record and returns the older completed result. resolve --reverify then replays using stale result metadata against the partial tree left by the failed fix and can subsequently review and commit it. The fresh evidence beyond the earlier claim-site issue is that the DEFERRED branch in reverify_refusal bypasses env_fault_site_reverifiable, so the latest-session check added there never runs; require the latest dev-role record itself to be completed before allowing this replay.

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Valid — fixed in 30dca78: reverify_refusal now requires the latest completed dev-role record to BE the latest dev-role record (fix sessions included), for DEFERRED and escalated origins alike; a crashed or timed-out dev/fix session after it refuses with a re-arm hint. New refusal-matrix row latest_dev_session_failed (a crashed fix record after the completed dev pass); ablated. FEATURES.md refusal list updated.

…-522)

A DEFERRED story skips `env_fault_site_reverifiable`, so `reverify_refusal`
accepted an older completed dev result while a crashed or timed-out dev or fix
session after it had left partial work on the tree. The completed record must
now be the latest dev-role record.
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Comment thread src/bmad_loop/runs.py
Comment on lines 5410 to +5413
task.review_cycle = 0
task.followup_reviews_spent = 0 # human-resolved re-drive gets a fresh damping budget
task.defer_reason = None
task.env_fault_site = None # the re-armed story starts with no fault on record (DW-523)

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P2 Badge Clear the stale reverify latch during normal re-arm

Clear task.reverify_from here along with the other recovery latches. A reverify can escalate before _resume_reverify reaches its latch-clearing decision—for example, _post_dev_state_sync can escalate when the sprint board refuses its write—leaving reverify_from persisted on the escalated task. If the operator then uses ordinary resolve, this re-arm moves the task to PENDING but retains that stale value; after the fresh dev pass, any pause at DEV_VERIFY (such as spec approval or a review-dispatch environment pause) makes _finish_inflight select the reverify arm again, rerunning verification and post-dev workflows instead of continuing to review.

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Valid — fixed in 39f4dd7: _rearm_escalation_locked now clears reverify_from alongside adopt_pending and the other recovery latches. (Clearing it earlier inside _resume_reverify was rejected: a save mid-replay followed by a crash would then resume through the spec-approval arm and skip the verify replay.) Test test_rearm_clears_a_stale_reverify_latch; ablated.

A verify replay that escalates before its decision (a refused board write)
leaves `reverify_from` on the escalated task. The plain re-arm now spends it
with the other recovery latches, so the fresh attempt's next DEV_VERIFY pause
no longer resumes through the verify-replay arm.
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Comment thread src/bmad_loop/engine.py
Comment on lines +2796 to +2800
gated = self._env_gate_decision(
task,
session_failure_reason(f"blocking workflow {wf.name!r} ({lp.name})", result),
Decision(Action.DEFER, reason),
role="workflow",
result_json=result.result_json,

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P2 Badge Probe claims from completed blocking workflows

When a blocking workflow returns status="completed" with an env_fault_claim—especially at pre_commit_gate, where no later session dispatch or verify preflight necessarily runs—execution never reaches this environment gate because it is nested under result.status != "completed". The configured probes are therefore not run, no claim record or fault site is produced, and the story can be committed even though those probes would confirm the reported environment failure. Route claims from completed blocking workflow results through the claim gate while preserving their normal success decision.

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Valid — fixed in c9fca4c: a completed blocking workflow now routes a PROCEED through _env_gate_decision (role workflow), so its claim forces the probe; a failing probe escalates at probe:claim:workflow, a passing one journals env-fault-claim and the story proceeds. Without a claim the PROCEED returns unchanged and nothing spawns. Test test_completed_blocking_workflow_claim_is_probed (dead and healthy environment, at pre_commit_gate); ablated — both cases redden.

…W-523)

The claim gate ran only for failed blocking workflows, so a completed one's
"Environment fault:" claim never probed — at `pre_commit_gate` the story could
commit with nothing else probing first. A completed blocking workflow now passes
a PROCEED through `_env_gate_decision`; without a claim it returns unchanged and
spawns nothing.
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"""The task's latest COMPLETED dev-role session record, or None. Fix sessions are
recorded under the dev role too, so a repaired attempt's verdict is the one read."""
return next(
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P2 Badge Ignore workflow sessions when finding the dev result

When a plugin workflow uses the supported/default role = "dev", _run_session appends a role="dev" record but deliberately stores result_json=None for that labeled session. This reverse search therefore selects a completed workflow instead of the preceding primary dev/fix result, causing reverify_refusal to report that no completed dev result exists (and its latest-record check has the same ambiguity). Consequently, an otherwise eligible environment fault after a post_dev_phase or pre_commit_gate workflow cannot use resolve --reverify; exclude labeled workflow records consistently from both dev-result lookups.

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Valid — fixed in a64b506. Workflow sessions now stamp SessionRecord.label (<plugin>.<workflow>, "" for primary sessions, defaulted for legacy state), and labeled records are excluded consistently from latest_completed_dev_record, the latest-dev-session check in reverify_refusal, and env_fault_site_reverifiable. Test: a completed role="dev" workflow record after the dev pass no longer blocks rearm_for_reverify (ablating either filter reddens it).

Comment thread src/bmad_loop/engine.py
follows the failure-decision seam, which probed before charging it. Fresh
means fresh for THIS workspace root: a pass in another story's worktree
(or in main) does not vouch for a cwd-sensitive probe here."""
if not self.policy.environment.probes or self._env_probes_fresh_root == self.workspace.root:

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P2 Badge Invalidate probe freshness after rolling back the tree

When a non-fixable dev failure yields RETRY, the decision seam runs the probes against the failed attempt and marks this root fresh, after which the retry path resets the tree to its baseline. Because freshness is keyed only by the unchanged root path, the next _gate_dispatch returns here without probing the post-rollback tree. A cwd-sensitive probe such as docker compose ... can pass using configuration introduced by the failed attempt, have that configuration removed by rollback, and then allow the next coding session to launch against an environment its own probe would reject; clear freshness whenever rollback mutates the workspace.

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Valid, with one correction to the path: the in-loop RETRY dispatch inside _dev_phase never calls _gate_dispatch (by design, the decision seam probed before charging it), so freshness does not skip a probe there. The real gap is the next gated dispatch after a rollback, e.g. story A defers with rollback_on_failure, and story B's dispatch gate saw the root as fresh from A's seam probe. Fixed in 4551ae9: _rollback_or_pause and _safe_reset clear _env_probes_fresh_root. Regression test uses a cwd-sensitive probe that passes only on a file A's crashed attempt wrote; B now pauses at probe:dispatch:dev instead of launching (ablation verified). I am not adding a re-gate to the in-loop retry: pausing mid-chain would need a new resume arm, and the cost is bounded. A retry launched into a dead environment fails, and its own decision seam re-probes and withholds the charge.

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…(DW-522)

A plugin workflow declaring role = "dev" is recorded under the dev role
with no result payload, so the reverify lookups picked it over the real
dev/fix session and refused an eligible story. Stamp SessionRecord.label
on workflow records and exclude labeled records from
latest_completed_dev_record, the latest-session check, and
env_fault_site_reverifiable.
A probe pass vouched for the tree the rollback rewinds; a cwd-sensitive
probe may have passed on config the failed attempt wrote. Clear
_env_probes_fresh_root in _rollback_or_pause and _safe_reset so the next
gated dispatch (the next story after a rolled-back defer) re-probes.
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