Owner Loop Audit, Hardening Charge, and §1 Terminal-State Discipline

Timeline

1. 1

   Start

   Owner Loop request audit

   Dispatched a background research agent to reconstruct real request history for MedinaCHF and canvas-2 from session retros — no live DB access available at the time

2. 2

   +30m

   Synthesized findings, identified the real bottleneck

   Reasoning quality is already high; the gap is terminal-state discipline, evidence-trail completeness, and universal acceptance gating

3. 3

   +45m

   Drafted the Owner Loop Hardening Charge

   Zeb reviewed and sent back 5 concrete corrections (three-class → four-class model with promotion_blocked, kill human_notified as lifecycle state, fix notify-then-write ordering, new record-promotion-outcome.mjs script, move the consistency sweep to §2) — all applied before the Charge was finalized

4. 4

   +90m

   Committed to executing the Charge as a full ignition session

   Read HOW_TO_WORK_WITH_ZEB.md + PROJECT_INDEX.md, ran the Shaping Pass and Session Risk Forecast in conversation — but never converted the ignition arc into a written session_contract or todo list before starting real implementation

5. 5

   +150m

   Built and shipped §1's four-class lifecycle model to source

   Schema changes (5 apps), dispatch-owner-loop-requests.mjs's notify-ordering fix, new record-promotion-outcome.mjs, actor-spawn.yml wiring — all typechecked clean, committed, pushed

6. 6

   +180m

   MedinaCHF production push verified; canvas apps blocked on credentials

   db:push to MedinaCHF's real production Neon branch succeeded, independently confirmed via information_schema. Canvas-1/2/3/4 needed a DB-owner-privileged credential the dispatcher's own least-privilege role (correctly) doesn't have — a real, still-unresolved access gap, not yet closed this session

7. 7

   +210m

   Zeb flagged the missed ignition step

   Correctly caught that no session JSON existed for real, already-shipped work — this file is that correction

What shipped

• forgekit-os/charges/owner-loop-hardening-2026-09-02-charge.md — the finalized, Council-reviewed Charge covering §1 (terminal-state discipline), §2 (evidence-trail completeness), §3 (universal acceptance gating), §4 (owner-level acceptance test)

• products/medinaCHF/lib/db/schema.ts — four-class lifecycle model: added humanNotifiedAt, promotionBlockedReason, promotionBlockedAt columns; removed 'human_notified' as a dispatch_status value

• experiments/canvas-1/lib/db/schema.ts, canvas-2/lib/db/schema.ts, canvas-3/lib/db/schema.ts, canvas-4/lib/db/schema.ts — identical schema mirror of the same fix

• products/medinaCHF/components/coordinator/AdminIntentPanel.tsx — updated the optimistic-UI object literal for the 3 new schema fields (tsc fix)

• forgekit-os/scripts/dispatch-owner-loop-requests.mjs — fixed the notify-then-write race: lifecycle transition to 'awaiting_coordinator' now happens BEFORE the notification side effect, not after; human_notified_at is now evidence-only, set only on confirmed delivery

• forgekit-os/scripts/record-promotion-outcome.mjs — new script; separates promote-actor-state.sh's git-mechanics job from Owner Loop lifecycle semantics; writes dispatch_status='promotion_blocked' for any non-clean-promote outcome using domain language, not implementation language

• .github/workflows/actor-spawn.yml — new always-run finalization step invoking record-promotion-outcome.mjs after the promote step, regardless of its exit code

• MedinaCHF's real production admin_intents table — schema pushed via drizzle-kit push, independently verified via a direct information_schema query against the real production Neon branch (ep-morning-mountain-ayi12ecg)

• .github/workflows/owner-loop-hardening-schema-push-temp.yml — a temporary, one-off workflow to push the same 3 columns to canvas-1/2/3/4's real production DBs using existing CANVAS_N_OWNER_LOOP_DATABASE_URL secrets; found and fixed 2 real bugs in it this session (a /tmp module-resolution failure, and a neon()-vs-Pool DDL-permission-error-swallowing issue) but the underlying credential is the dispatcher's least-privilege role, which correctly lacks ALTER TABLE privilege — the push is still blocked on a real DB-owner credential as of this write-up