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Closes #706.

What

Adds bmad-loop sweep --archive [--before DATE] [--dry-run]: moves closed (status: done <date>) deferred-work entries to a sibling deferred-work-archive.md, replacing each with a minimal stub that preserves the DW- id for grep and closes_deferred cross-references. The live ledger stays proportional to outstanding work rather than to all history.

Design points

  • Stub shape: heading + status: done <close-date> + archived: <date>. The status line keeps parse_ledger reading the stub as done (not malformed), so open_ids, classify and the closes_deferred validation path stay transparent to archived entries. The archived: line makes re-runs skip stubs instead of re-archiving them.
  • Archive file: entries preserved verbatim with an archived: line after the status; re-runs append, never overwrite.
  • Crash safety: archive written before the trimmed ledger — a crash between the two atomic writes leaves the archive with extra content (harmless) rather than the ledger stubbed with bodies lost.
  • Fence-aware: the stub check routes through the module's existing _quoted() fence filter, so a quoted example can't be mistaken for a real stub marker.
  • Usage guards: --before without --archive, and --archive combined with sweep-specific flags (--decisions-only, --repeat, --max-bundles, --max-cycles), are rejected with exit code 1.
  • Pure deterministic Python, no LLM involvement — same family as the existing migration/validation code paths.

Validation

  • 17 new unit tests + 2 CLI integration tests (375 total in the touched files, all green); pyright and ruff clean.
  • End-to-end against a real 218-entry ledger (2,872 lines): 106 closed entries archived, post-run integrity verified — all 112 open entries byte-untouched, stubs parse as done, classify reads archived ids as already_done, no duplicates or malformed entries.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added sweep --archive for completed deferred-work entries, with date filtering and dry-run previews.
    • Preserves important entry details and reopenable metadata in compact ledger stubs while retaining full bodies in the archive.
    • Supports safe retries without duplicate archive entries and records pointers when archived work is reopened.
    • Retains eligible open or incomplete entries and handles missing ledgers safely.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Validates dates and incompatible options.
    • Blocks archiving during active or unverifiable runs.
    • Improves cleanup reliability on Windows.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified archive behavior, completion markers, and commit requirements.

Add `bmad-loop sweep --archive` moving closed (`status: done <date>`)
entries to a sibling deferred-work-archive.md, leaving minimal stubs that
preserve the DW- id for grep and closes_deferred cross-references.
Supports --before DATE to archive only entries closed before a cutoff,
and --dry-run to preview. Deterministic Python — no LLM involvement.
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Walkthrough

The PR adds sweep --archive with cutoff filtering and dry-run support. It archives eligible dated done entries, preserves references with stubs, blocks active or unverifiable engine runs, confines project writes, and adds CLI, run-discovery, and deferred-work tests.

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Closed deferred-work archiving

Layer / File(s) Summary
Archive selection and persistence
src/bmad_loop/deferredwork.py, tests/test_deferredwork.py
The archive engine validates dates, selects eligible entries, preserves load-bearing fields and reopenable metadata, appends archive bodies, replaces entries with stubs, and handles retries and reopen cycles.
Sweep archive command flow
src/bmad_loop/cli.py, src/bmad_loop/runs.py, tests/test_cli.py, tests/test_runs.py
The sweep command validates archive options, checks all run directories, blocks active or unverifiable runs, handles missing ledgers and dry runs, reports results, and confines project writes.
Archive format and command documentation
src/bmad_loop/data/skills/bmad-loop-sweep/deferred-work-format.md, src/bmad_loop/data/skills/bmad-loop-sweep/SKILL.md, README.md, docs/FEATURES.md, CHANGELOG.md
Documentation describes archive markers, filtering, dry-run behavior, preserved stub fields, reopen behavior, and commit durability.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 9498b

The archive flow is close to merge-ready, but a possible race with run startup could cause ledger data loss, and the archive behavior still needs clearer tie-breaking and more precise documentation of the resulting ledger size.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Operator
  participant SweepCommand
  participant all_run_dirs
  participant archive_closed
  participant DeferredWorkLedger
  participant DeferredWorkArchive
  Operator->>SweepCommand: run sweep --archive
  SweepCommand->>all_run_dirs: inspect run directories
  all_run_dirs-->>SweepCommand: return run directories or unreadable-root result
  SweepCommand->>archive_closed: pass archive options and project path
  archive_closed->>DeferredWorkLedger: select closed entries
  archive_closed->>DeferredWorkArchive: append full entry bodies
  archive_closed->>DeferredWorkLedger: write preserved stubs
  SweepCommand-->>Operator: report archive results
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Suggested reviewers: pbean, dracic, pirony

Poem

A rabbit checks each dated line,
And keeps the ledger fields in time.
Closed work hops to an archive nest,
While live runs wait and writes are checked.
Each stub keeps the trail in sight.

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Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly describes the primary change: archiving closed deferred-work entries during sweep to keep the live ledger proportional to open work.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The implementation satisfies issue #706. It adds archive-mode sweep behavior, preserves parseable stubs with IDs and close dates, supports cutoff selection and dry runs, prevents archiving during live…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes remain within issue #706. Tests, documentation, crash recovery, reopened-stub handling, run-directory detection, writer protections, and cleanup retries support the archive feature and its…
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring coverage is 85.54% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 83 functions across 6 files. (4 skipped: 4 …
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The implementation satisfies issue #706. It adds archive-mode sweep behavior, preserves parseable stubs with IDs and close dates, supports cutoff selection and dry runs, prevents archiving during live runs, and maintains deterministic and validator-compatible behavior.

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The changes remain within issue #706. Tests, documentation, crash recovery, reopened-stub handling, run-directory detection, writer protections, and cleanup retries support the archive feature and its stated safety requirements.

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Docstring coverage is 85.54% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 83 functions across 6 files. (4 skipped: 4 unsupported.)

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In `@src/bmad_loop/deferredwork.py`:
- Around line 1079-1083: Update the close-date parsing logic around _ISO_DATE_RE
and the archive selection flow to require exactly two status tokens in the form
done YYYY-MM-DD, then validate the date with calendar_date.fromisoformat()
before returning or selecting it. Reject malformed calendar dates and statuses
containing extra tokens, and add coverage for both cases.
- Around line 1176-1177: Update the recovery flow around atomic_write_text so
retries detect entries whose archive body was already written before the ledger
update failed, avoiding duplicate archive appends while still completing the
live-ledger replacement. Integrate this with _is_archived or the existing
recovery state, preserving normal archival behavior for entries not yet present
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- _close_date now requires exactly `done YYYY-MM-DD` (extra tokens skipped)
  and validates the calendar day with fromisoformat — a well-shaped
  impossible date (2026-02-30) no longer passes selection.
- Crash between the archive write and the ledger write: a retry completes
  the stubbing but skips bodies already present in the archive, so the
  append-only archive cannot accumulate duplicates.
- Restore black formatting in tests/test_cli.py (ruff format had restyled
  pre-existing assert lines; trunk pins black@26.5.1 — CI lint failure).

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- Around line 1167-1169: Replace the substring check in the to_archive loop with
the fence-aware ledger parser, and skip appending only when the parsed entry
matching entry.id has a live archived: field. Preserve normal appending and body
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The duplicate-body skip matched `### DW-<n>:` as a raw substring of the
archive text, so a fenced worked example quoting the heading would falsely
suppress archiving a live entry. The skip now parses the archive with the
fence-aware ledger parser and counts only entries carrying a live
(non-fenced) archived: field.
Stubs keep load-bearing field lines (gate/origin/source_spec/undo tail);
crash-recovery skip keys on id + close date; CLI refuses while a run is
live, names a missing ledger, guards --before ""/--no-prompt/--run-id;
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In `@src/bmad_loop/cli.py`:
- Around line 2275-2281: Update the archive guard in the run-directory loop to
proceed only when runs.engine_liveness(run_dir) returns "dead"; reject both
"alive" and "unknown" with the existing failure behavior before archive_closed()
can write. Add a CLI test covering "unknown" that verifies the ledger remains
unchanged.

In `@src/bmad_loop/data/skills/bmad-loop-sweep/deferred-work-format.md`:
- Around line 23-25: Clarify the archive behavior in both documentation sites:
update src/bmad_loop/data/skills/bmad-loop-sweep/deferred-work-format.md lines
23-25 and docs/FEATURES.md line 136 to state that the original entry body is
preserved and an archived date marker is appended, rather than implying
byte-for-byte preservation.

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- Around line 2851-2859: Update test_archive_default_date_flake_fixed to patch
deferredwork.calendar_date with a fixed replacement exposing both today() and
fromisoformat(), then derive the expected archive date through that patched type
so archive_closed uses the same deterministic date.
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Thanks for this, @jackmcintyre — it is a well-shaped feature and a genuinely useful one. A ledger that stays proportional to open work rather than to all history is exactly what #706 was asking for, and the stub design (id preserved for grep and closes_deferred cross-references, load-bearing field lines kept) is the right call.

Review verdict: the implementation is sound

I ran a multi-agent review over the branch — four independent dimensions, adversarial verification of every finding, a merged-tree validation run, and a test-ablation audit. Issue coverage, exit codes, the --json contract, policy plumbing, helper reuse, and --before semantics all check out. Merged against current main the suite is green: 6666 passed / 54 skipped, pyright clean. Six of the seven new test gates are genuinely pinned (confirmed by ablating each gate and watching the named assertion redden).

Since maintainerCanModify is set, I am landing the follow-up work as new commits on this branch rather than sending you another round — starting with the main merge that just went up. Your commits are not being rewritten and the branch will not be force-pushed; everything stacks on top of 29ab301.

Confirmed findings being addressed on this branch

  1. Crash-recovery skip discards divergent re-closure content (major, reproduced) — the skip in archive_closed keys on id + close date alone, so an entry reopened and re-closed on the same date with new content, or a decision: appended to a stub, gets stubbed without its body ever reaching the archive: silent loss, with a success return.
  2. A reopened stub's re-close is permanently unarchivable (minor, reproduced)mark_open splices out status + undo tail but leaves the archived: line, so a later re-close reconstitutes the exact stub shape, _is_stub skips it forever, and a live entry carries a stale archived: stamp.
  3. Restamp non-convergence (minor, reproduced)_STUB_BODY_RE wants a literal space where _MARK_DONE_TAIL_RE tolerates [ \t]*, so an entry whose tail is tab-separated is "archived" (restamped) on every run, forever, with nothing ever appended.
  4. The liveness guard is blind to state.json-less run dirs (minor)runs.list_run_dirs is state.json-gated, so a live engine.pid in a dir whose state.json was removed externally is invisible to the refusal. That contradicts the guard's own conservative doctrine and the hazard runs.py's _run_dir_names already documents.
  5. The _quoted fence filter in _is_archived is vacuously tested (major test gap, ablation-proven) — the full suite stays green with the filter deleted. The test named for it exercises _is_stub's path and never reaches _is_archived's single call site (archive-file parse during crash recovery).
  6. Two liveness asserts are vacuous, and the allow direction is uncovered (minor test gaps)"DW-2" in text survives stubbing by design, so "nothing was written" is not actually pinned; and no CLI test covers dead runs → archive proceeds.
  7. The "tracked files — commit them" note over-claims (minor) — the CLI print and docs/FEATURES.md assert trackedness unconditionally, but this repo's own docs call a gitignored ledger "the default shape" and support an artifacts dir outside the checkout. Wording only; no new git calls.
  8. Triage sessions never learn about stubs (minor) — the archive rules live only in deferred-work-format.md, which the sweep skill's triage reading list (SKILL.mdautomation-mode.md) never pulls in, while a REOPENED stub is triage-visible.
  9. Merge conflict with current main (minor, resolved)CHANGELOG.md was the only conflict; the sweep --archive bullet now sits alongside main's existing entries under ## [Unreleased] / ### Added. The mid-branch wip: bisect lint commit is handled by squash-merging at merge time, not by rewriting your history.

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18-24: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the live-ledger size claim.

archive_closed leaves one parseable stub in the live ledger for every archived DW- entry. The ledger therefore still contains historical entries; only their full bodies move to the sibling archive. Replace the claim that the ledger is proportional to open work rather than all history.

Proposed wording
-  The live ledger stays proportional to
-  open work rather than to all history.
+  The live ledger keeps minimal stubs for archived entries while moving
+  their full bodies to the sibling archive.
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In `@CHANGELOG.md` around lines 18 - 24, Update the changelog entry for bmad-loop
sweep --archive to remove the claim that the live ledger is proportional only to
open work; state instead that archiving moves full entry bodies while retaining
one parseable historical stub per archived DW- entry in the live ledger.
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2270-2314: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Fail closed on incomplete run directories.

runs.list_run_dirs() excludes directories without state.json, so _sweep_archive() never samples their liveness. Enumerate these directories and refuse archiving when state.json is missing.

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In `@src/bmad_loop/cli.py` around lines 2270 - 2314, Update _sweep_archive to
enumerate all run directories, including those lacking state.json, instead of
relying solely on runs.list_run_dirs(). Refuse archiving with the existing
failure behavior whenever any candidate run directory is missing state.json or
has engine_liveness other than "dead"; preserve the current ledger archiving
flow for verified-dead runs.
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9235-9266: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover the successful dead-run path.

The new tests cover refusal for live and unknown runs, but not a dead run that reaches archive_closed(). Add an existing dead run with an eligible ledger entry and assert that archiving succeeds. Remove the liveness gate once and confirm each refusal test fails, as required by the ablation rule.

This follows the required liveness coverage and ablation rule.

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In `@tests/test_cli.py` around lines 9235 - 9266, Add a test covering a dead run
where engine_liveness returns dead, the ledger contains an eligible closed
entry, and sweep --archive succeeds with that entry archived. Also perform the
required ablation by removing or bypassing the liveness gate once and verify
both live and unknown refusal tests fail, while preserving their existing
assertions.

Source: Coding guidelines


9144-9163: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert that dry-run leaves files unchanged.

The test checks only the preview message. It would pass if the command also modified the ledger or created the archive. Snapshot the ledger and archive before the call, then assert that both remain unchanged afterward.

The PR objective defines dry-run as a preview without writes.

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In `@tests/test_cli.py` around lines 9144 - 9163, Update
test_sweep_archive_dry_run to snapshot the ledger and archive state before
invoking cli.main, then assert both remain unchanged afterward while preserving
the existing output assertions. Use the project’s established ledger and archive
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In `@CHANGELOG.md`:
- Around line 18-24: Update the changelog entry for bmad-loop sweep --archive to
remove the claim that the live ledger is proportional only to open work; state
instead that archiving moves full entry bodies while retaining one parseable
historical stub per archived DW- entry in the live ledger.

In `@src/bmad_loop/cli.py`:
- Around line 2270-2314: Update _sweep_archive to enumerate all run directories,
including those lacking state.json, instead of relying solely on
runs.list_run_dirs(). Refuse archiving with the existing failure behavior
whenever any candidate run directory is missing state.json or has
engine_liveness other than "dead"; preserve the current ledger archiving flow
for verified-dead runs.

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In `@tests/test_cli.py`:
- Around line 9235-9266: Add a test covering a dead run where engine_liveness
returns dead, the ledger contains an eligible closed entry, and sweep --archive
succeeds with that entry archived. Also perform the required ablation by
removing or bypassing the liveness gate once and verify both live and unknown
refusal tests fail, while preserving their existing assertions.
- Around line 9144-9163: Update test_sweep_archive_dry_run to snapshot the
ledger and archive state before invoking cli.main, then assert both remain
unchanged afterward while preserving the existing output assertions. Use the
project’s established ledger and archive paths or helpers visible in the test
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A DW id outlives any one closure, so `archive_closed`'s crash-recovery skip
could not key on id + close date alone: reopened and re-closed the same day
with a new resolution, or annotated with `append_decision` after its body was
archived, an entry was stubbed over its own content while the id was reported
as archived — the body reached neither file. The skip now compares the twin's
body, modulo live `archived:` stamps, and appends on divergence.

Two smaller reopen-cycle defects fall out of the same family: `_STUB_BODY_RE`
demanded literal spaces in the resolution tail that `_MARK_DONE_TAIL_RE`
copies into the stub with tabs intact, so such a stub read as a live entry and
was restamped on every run forever; and `mark_open` left the `archived:` line
behind, letting the next reopenable close rebuild the exact stub shape and
strand the entry outside every future archive.

The fence filter that decides which `archived:` lines are real now lives in one
helper, `_archived_line_spans`, shared by all three readers of the field.

Every new negative and idempotence assertion is ablation-proven.
…rchive test gaps (bmad-code-org#711 review)

`sweep --archive` refused while any run was live, but asked
`runs.list_run_dirs`, which is `state.json`-gated. A run whose state file was
removed still owns its `engine.pid` and still writes this ledger, so the gated
view reported it as no run at all and the archive proceeded — contradicting the
guard's own conservative doctrine and the hazard `_run_dir_names` already
documents. Liveness is now probed on raw run-dir names via a public counterpart,
`runs.all_run_dirs`, which preserves that helper's missing-vs-unreadable
distinction: an unreadable runs root learns nothing about liveness, so it
refuses too rather than reading as "no runs".

Three test gaps this feature shipped with are closed alongside it. The two
refusal tests asserted "nothing written" as `"DW-2" in text`, which archiving
preserves by design — they now assert an absent archive file and byte equality
of the ledger. Nothing covered the allow direction, so a gate that refused
unconditionally passed every one of them. And the `_quoted` filter in
`_is_archived` had no failing coverage at all: the test named for it exercises
`_is_stub`'s path, never the archive-file parse where the filter is read.

The new fence-filter test gives the archive twin a body byte-identical to the
ledger entry's, so body equivalence — the skip's other half — holds in both
directions and the fenced `archived:` line is the only thing deciding.

Every new negative assertion is ablation-proven.
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Comment thread src/bmad_loop/cli.py
… CHANGELOG ledger claim (bmad-code-org#711 review)

test_sweep_archive_dry_run asserted only the preview message, and that
message branches on args.dry_run rather than on whether anything was
written: dropping `dry_run=` from the archive_closed call rewrites the
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archive-absent assert reddened. Now pins an absent archive file and a
byte-identical ledger, matching the refusal tests strengthened in the
liveness phase.

CHANGELOG: the Added bullet claimed the live ledger "stays proportional to
open work rather than to all history", but archiving leaves a stub per
closed entry, so the file keeps a term linear in closed count. Reworded to
what it actually does.
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Following up on the consolidated review. Every confirmed finding from that review is now fixed on this branch, in five passes on top of 29ab3015. Nothing was merged and the contributor's history was never rewritten — all fixes are additive commits, pushed fast-forward.

What landed

c9921470 — sync. Merged current main. CHANGELOG.md was the only conflict; the sweep --archive bullet was folded into main's existing ### Added under ## [Unreleased], leaving the six Keep-a-Changelog subsections intact.

f1f08b0f — the reopen-cycle correctness family (deferredwork.py). The one that mattered:

  • Silent data loss on crash recovery. archive_closed's recovery skip keyed on id + close date alone, so an entry reopened and re-closed on the same date with new content — or a decision: appended to a stub — was stubbed over without its body ever reaching the archive, and returned success. The skip now compares the archive twin's body, modulo live archived: stamps; a divergent body is appended instead of dropped.
  • Restamp non-convergence. _STUB_BODY_RE required a literal space after resolution: where _MARK_DONE_TAIL_RE accepts [ \t]*, so a tab-tailed stub was "archived" on every run, forever, appending nothing. The tails now agree.
  • Reopened stubs were permanently unarchivable. mark_open spliced out status and the undo tail but left the archived: line, so a later re-close reconstituted the exact stub shape and _is_stub skipped it forever — while the live entry carried a stale, lying stamp. mark_open now drops the stamp.

The fence filter deciding which archived: lines are real was lifted into one shared helper, _archived_line_spans, read by all three call sites.

746d27da — liveness gate + test gaps (cli.py, runs.py). The gate enumerated run dirs through runs.list_run_dirs, which is state.json-gated — but a run whose state file was removed still owns its engine.pid and still writes the ledger, so the gated view reported it as no run at all. _sweep_archive now enumerates raw run-dir names through a new runs.all_run_dirs, which wraps the existing private _run_dir_names and preserves its missing-vs-unreadable split: [] means no runs, None means the listing failed and the archive refuses. Closed alongside it: the allow direction (dead runs → archive proceeds) had no test at all, and two "nothing was written" asserts were vacuous — "DW-2" in text survives stubbing by design. They now assert an absent archive file and a byte-identical ledger.

3900379a — messaging accuracy. The durable-note asserted trackedness unconditionally, but this repo's own docs call a gitignored ledger "the default shape" and support an out-of-repo artifacts dir; it is now conditional ("if the ledger is tracked, …"), in both cli.py and docs/FEATURES.md. The sweep skill's triage step now points at deferred-work-archive.md for any entry carrying an archived: line — those rules previously lived only in a file triage never reads — and deferred-work-format.md gained the worktree-absence caveat.

9168c0f3 — one more vacuous assert, caught by CodeRabbit this round and worth calling out because it is the same class as the gap above. test_sweep_archive_dry_run asserted only the preview message, and that message branches on args.dry_run rather than on whether anything was written: dropping dry_run= from the archive_closed call rewrites the ledger and creates the archive while the test stays green. Verified by doing exactly that — both message asserts still passed, the new file asserts reddened. Also corrected the CHANGELOG's claim that the live ledger "stays proportional to open work rather than to all history"; archiving leaves a stub per closed entry, so the file keeps a term linear in closed count.

Not fixed here — three items, all answered on the PR

1. TOCTOU / serialization (raised by both bots). Real, and staying open rather than half-fixed. _sweep_archive is a check-then-act with no lock, but archive-side-only locking would be exclusion against nobody: file_lock has exactly one production call site (install.py:2398) and no ledger writer takes it. The writers most exposed are ones no liveness probe can ever see — decisions.apply_pre_answer, reached from bmad-loop decisions and the TUI decision modal, owns no run directory and publishes no pid. Both are on main and predate this branch. The correct fix is a lock chokepoint adjacent to the ledger adopted by all mutators, which is what #286 specifies and #469 site-lists; both issues now carry a comment. CodeRabbit withdrew its finding after review.

2. A reopened stub loses the pointer to its archived body — and this one is a residual of this program's own fixes, so flagging it plainly. mark_open now strips the entry's archived: stamp (f1f08b0f), which was necessary: leaving it meant the next reopenable close reconstituted the exact _STUB_BODY_RE shape and _is_stub skipped the entry forever, stranding it outside every future archive while it carried a stamp that no longer described it. But that stamp was also the only archive association, and the stub preserves only gate:/origin:/source_spec: — not location: or reason:. Worse, the triage pointer added in 3900379a keys on the archived: line, so the reopened-stub case is exactly the one it does not reach. Two individually-correct fixes leaving a joint hole. Reaching it needs an archive pass over a paused sweep's reopenable close, then a rollback — narrow, but the failure is quiet. Resolving it means teaching mark_open the archive path plus a policy for an absent archive (a real state: an isolated worktree seeds only the ledger), which is new behavior on a primitive _defer calls during rollback — not something to land at a review gate.

3. Durable ordering across the two-file write. archive_closed writes the archive before the ledger deliberately (deferredwork.py:1334-1338), so a crash between the writes leaves harmless extra archive content rather than stubs with no bodies. That is correct for process death. It does not cover host power loss: atomic_write_text documents that it deliberately does not fsync the parent directory, on the rationale that losing a rename "just leaves the old contents in place — stale, never corrupt." True for a single-file writer; this is the first two-file ledger transaction, where losing only the archive rename while the ledger rename survives is loss, not staleness — and since the ledger then holds stubs, a re-run does not repair it. The fix is a durable-publish variant of the archive write, which is a platform seam (no directory fsync on Windows) and belongs in platform_util.py per this repo's quarantine invariant, not bolted on at the call site.

Separately, #651 now carries a note that --only/--min-severity will need adding to the --archive conflict guard, which is a hand-enumerated flag list rather than a derived one.

Items 2 and 3 have no tracking issue yet — I have deliberately not filed any, since that is your call. Both threads carry the full analysis if you want it lifted into issues.

Verification

  • uv run pytest -q -n logical6683 passed, 48 skipped; the program added 11 tests (5 for the reopen-cycle family, 6 for the liveness gate and its accessor) and strengthened three existing ones.
  • uv run pyright — 0 errors. trunk fmt + trunk check --all — clean across all 258 files.
  • CI green on the pushed head 9168c0f3 — all 10 legs, watched to completion with gh run watch --exit-status rather than sampled. mergeable: MERGEABLE.
  • Every new negative test was ablation-proven: the gate deleted, the named assertion confirmed to redden for the right reason, restored from a copy rather than a checkout. That discipline is why this round found the dry-run gap — the original review flagged a vacuously-tested filter, and the same audit applied to the new tests caught one more.

Recommendation

Squash-merge, and I'd suggest not rebasing. The branch carries a mid-branch commit, 531ac268 "wip: bisect lint", that guts the docs and restores them a commit later; squashing collapses it without rewriting @jackmcintyre's history, and squash merges are enabled on this repo. The PR reports MERGEABLE.

Merging is your call — I have deliberately not merged. My read is that neither open item blocks: item 2 is narrow and its pre-fix behavior was broken in a different way, and item 3 needs a power loss inside a two-rename window. But they are real, they are unfixed, and you should weigh them rather than take a green gate at face value. One thing owed afterward: run uv run python scripts/seed_skills.py locally, since this branch edits the canonical sweep skill docs under src/bmad_loop/data/skills/ and the .claude//.agents/ forks are gitignored stale copies. tests/test_module_skills_sync.py catches the drift locally but skips in CI, so a green CI is not evidence there.

Nice feature, @jackmcintyre — the stub design in particular holds up well under the reopen-cycle cases it was never explicitly built for.

…ody (bmad-code-org#711 review)

mark_open dropped the entry's live `archived:` stamps, and the sweep triage
rule keys on exactly that line — so a reopened stub, the one case the strip
changed, carried no pointer at all. A stub preserves neither `location:` nor
`reason:` (_PRESERVED_FIELD_RE), so the reopened entry reached triage with a
heading and nothing to triage. Two individually-correct fixes, one joint hole.

The stamp is now demoted rather than deleted: `archived:` becomes
`archived-body:`, value and spacing verbatim. That keeps both properties the
strip was protecting and the pointer it was destroying — the renamed line
matches neither _ARCHIVED_FIELD_RE nor _STUB_BODY_RE, so the entry still reads
as live and a later reopenable close still re-archives normally instead of
reconstituting a stub _is_stub skips forever, while the value still names the
archive block (each carries its own `archived:` date, and an id owns several
once a divergent re-closure is archived too).

Rehydrating the body during reopen was the alternative and is worse: several
blocks per id is by design, so mark_open — called from a rollback — would have
to guess which one, and a wrong guess overwrites live content with a stale body.

test_mark_open_leaves_a_pointer_to_the_archived_body walks the pointer the way
a triage session must: live entry -> `archived-body:` date -> the archive block
stamped with it -> its `location:`/`reason:`. Ablation-proven with a cp backup
— replacing the demotion with the old deletion reddens it on
`assert pointers == ["archived-body: 2026-08-24"]` reading `[]`, while
test_archive_reopened_stub_recloses_and_archives stays green under the same
ablation, so the two guarantees sit on disjoint axes.

Docs: the sweep SKILL.md triage step and deferred-work-format.md now describe
`archived-body:` alongside `archived:`; FEATURES.md and the existing
[Unreleased] bullet gained the reopen clause.
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`sweep --archive --before not-a-date` exited 0 on a project with no ledger and
1 on one that has it: the CLI's missing-ledger short-circuit ran before
`archive_closed`, which is where the cutoff is validated. The same invocation
was graded by optional project data rather than by its own shape.

archive_closed already orders `_require_iso_date` ahead of its own `is_file`
short-circuit, and its docstring says why — "so a programmer bug fails the same
way whether or not a ledger exists". The CLI put that back by checking first.
Now the primitive is called first and the missing ledger is reported from its
empty result; the call is safe on an absent file, which is the property that
ordering already relied on.

Behavior is otherwise unchanged: a missing ledger still prints
"no deferred-work ledger at <path>" and returns OK, and a malformed date still
reports through the same ValueError path at rc 1.

test_sweep_archive_rejects_bad_before_date_without_a_ledger is ablation-proven
with a cp backup — restoring the old order reddens it on `assert rc == 1`
reading `ExitCode.OK`, with the missing-ledger line on stdout; the other twelve
sweep-archive CLI tests stay green under that ablation.
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… date (bmad-code-org#711 review)

A retry after a crash between the archive write and the ledger write stamped
the recovered stub with the RETRY's date while its body in the archive kept the
crashed run's. The two diverge whenever the retry lands on a later day.

That was cosmetic while the stamp was only a "there is a body elsewhere" flag.
It is not any more: the archive holds several blocks per id by design, so the
stamp is what picks one — for a reader following the stub, and for the
`archived-body:` pointer mark_open demotes that stamp into, which is a reopened
entry's only route back to its body. A stub naming a date no block carries
resolves to nothing.

The crash-recovery skip now carries the twin's own stamp (new `_archived_stamp`
accessor, read through the shared `_archived_line_spans` fence filter like every
other question about the field) and the stub loop uses it in place of this run's
date. Scoped to entries the skip actually fired for — an entry archived normally
is stamped with this run's date on both sides.

test_archive_crash_recovery_stub_keeps_the_archived_body_stamp resolves the stub
the way a reader must: its stamp must name exactly one block, and that block
must hold the body. Ablation-proven with a cp backup — reverting to the run's
stamp reddens it on `assert "archived: 2026-08-24" in stub.body` with the stub
reading `archived: 2026-08-25`, while
test_archive_fresh_stub_keeps_this_runs_stamp (the scoping half) stays green.

deferred-work-format.md now says the stamp picks the block, so the rule is the
same for `archived:` and `archived-body:`.
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…s tie-break (bmad-code-org#711 review)

Two closures of one id archived on the SAME day share a stamp, so a stub's date
narrows to its archive block rather than identifying it. The prior round's doc
said "the date picks the block", which over-claims in exactly that case.

Rejected the reviewer's remedy — a time or sequence discriminator inside the
stamp — as disproportionate: `archived: <date>` is documented in the format
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validated by `_require_iso_date`, and a dozen tests read the field as a date.
Widening it would change a published field shape for a case that already has a
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itself, so a later reduction cannot quietly invert it.

test_archive_same_day_reclosures_resolve_by_append_order drives the full cycle
— close, archive, reopen, re-close, archive again on the same date — and pins
both halves: the two blocks really do share a stamp, and file order is closure
order. Ablation-proven with a cp backup: prepending instead of appending
reddens it on `assert "resolution: first close" in blocks[0].body`, which then
holds the second closure.
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An entry carrying an `archived:` line keeps only a stub here — its full body
lives in the sibling `deferred-work-archive.md`, keyed by the same DW- id; read
it there before classifying that entry. An `archived-body:` line says the same
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State the tie-break for repeated archive blocks.

When multiple archive blocks match the same DW- ID and date, select the last block in append order. Add this rule for both archived: and archived-body: pointers.

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In `@src/bmad_loop/data/skills/bmad-loop-sweep/SKILL.md` around lines 38 - 43,
Update the archive lookup instructions for both archived: and archived-body:
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Follow-up: the two open items are closed out — gate is now clean

This updates the previous status comment on exactly two points. Everything else in it still stands, including the squash-merge recommendation and the post-merge seed_skills.py note. That comment said items 2 and 3 were unfixed with no tracking issue and that filing was the maintainer's call. That call was made — fix 2 here, file 3 — and this is the result. Still not merged; still no history rewritten; all four commits below are additive and pushed fast-forward.

Item 2 — reopened stub loses its archive pointer: fixed in f898f5eb

mark_open now demotes the stamp instead of deleting it: archived: <date> becomes archived-body: <date>, value verbatim. That keeps both properties the previous round was trading against each other — the renamed line matches neither _ARCHIVED_FIELD_RE nor _STUB_BODY_RE, so the entry still reads as live and a later reopenable close still re-archives it normally rather than reconstituting a stub _is_stub skips forever, while the value still resolves to the archive block holding the body.

Rehydrating the body during reopen was the other option and looked worse: the archive holds several blocks per id by design, so mark_open — which a rollback calls — would have to guess which one, and a wrong guess overwrites live content with a stale body. The absent-archive policy the previous comment anticipated turned out not to be needed: nothing new reads the archive file, so the existing "the archive may be absent in an isolated worktree" caveat still covers it.

The sweep skill's triage step and deferred-work-format.md now describe archived-body: alongside archived:, so the triage rule reaches the case it previously missed.

Item 3 — durable ordering across the two-file write: filed as #715

Written up as analysis, explicitly not as an established fact — nobody has demonstrated it empirically, and the issue says what a confirmation would have to establish rather than asserting the failure. It records the mechanism, why the single-file rationale in atomic_write_text does not extend to a two-file transaction, why _is_stub means a re-run does not repair the lossy direction, and where a fix belongs (an opt-in durable-publish variant in platform_util.py, POSIX-only directory fsync, documented no-op on Windows). It also states that this is a different axis from the confinement work in #712, which deliberately left every deferredwork writer on the unconfined helper.

Three further rounds, all from re-review of the above

a4c9ba48sweep --archive --before not-a-date exited 0 on a project with no ledger and 1 on one that has it: the CLI's missing-ledger short-circuit ran ahead of the validation inside archive_closed, so the same invocation was graded by optional project data rather than by its own shape. archive_closed orders its own date check ahead of its is_file return precisely to avoid that; the CLI now calls the primitive first and reports the missing ledger from its empty result.

8b4e5fc0 — a stub recovered from a crashed run was stamped with the retry's date while its body in the archive kept the crashed run's. Cosmetic while the stamp was only a "body lives elsewhere" flag; load-bearing once it is what mark_open carries into archived-body:. The crash-recovery skip now carries the twin's own stamp, scoped to entries the skip actually fired for.

9498b517 — the resolution rule made exact. Two closures archived on the same day share a stamp, so the date narrows rather than identifies, and the previous round's wording over-claimed. Declined the suggested remedy — a time or sequence discriminator inside the stamp — as disproportionate: archived: <date> is a published field shape with an ISO-date seam behind it and a dozen tests reading it as a date. The deterministic answer already exists in how the file is written: blocks are appended, never prepended, so for one id a later block is a later closure. That is now the documented tie-break for both fields, stated at the append itself, and pinned by a test.

Verification

  • uv run pytest -q -n logical6688 passed, 48 skipped (baseline 6683; five tests added this round).
  • uv run pyright — 0 errors. trunk fmt + trunk check --all — clean across 258 files.
  • CI watched to completion with gh run watch --exit-status on every pushed head — f898f5eb, a4c9ba48, 8b4e5fc0, 9498b517 — 10/10 legs green each time.
  • Every new gate ablation-proven with cp backups, restored by copy and verified byte-identical: the demotion (reddens on the pointer assert reading [], while the convergence test stays green — disjoint axes), the validation ordering (reddens on rc == 1 reading ExitCode.OK), the recovered stamp (reddens with the stub reading the retry date, while the scoping test stays green), and the append order (reddens with blocks[0] holding the second closure).

Gate state

  • Codex: clean on 9498b517 — "Didn't find any major issues", after four rounds on this head sequence. All five codex threads resolved: two P1s (one fixed here, one tracked by sweep --archive: two-file archive move has no durable rename ordering (power loss can leave stubs without bodies) #715) and three P2s from the follow-up rounds.
  • CodeRabbit: no signal on these four commits. Its PR check reads "pass", but that is stale — its last substantive review predates all four, and it is not among the check runs on 9498b517. A fresh @coderabbitai review was requested and it replied that it does not re-review already-reviewed commits while automatic review is active, then posted nothing. Reporting that as silence rather than as approval.

Recommendation — unchanged

Squash-merge, no rebase, for the same reason as before (531ac268 "wip: bisect lint" guts the docs mid-branch). Merging remains your call and I have not merged. Both previously-open items now have a disposition: one fixed and tested here, one filed as #715 for a decision on its own terms. Still owed after merge: uv run python scripts/seed_skills.py, since the .claude//.agents/ skill forks are gitignored stale copies and tests/test_module_skills_sync.py skips in CI.

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@pbean, I reviewed the four follow-up commits at 9498b517.

I found no actionable issue in the follow-up changes.

mark_open now preserves the archive-body pointer without recreating a stub. The CLI validates --before before it handles a missing ledger. Crash recovery now retains the archived body's stamp. The documented same-day resolution rule matches the append-only archive behavior and has focused test coverage.

The residual two-file durability concern is appropriately tracked in #715.

Thanks for the complete verification report.


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