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[Spec 1273] Thread: record the verify-phase e2e findings - #1311

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Summary

Docs-only. Appends the verify-phase narrative to codev/state/aspir-1273_thread.md, which shipped to main in #1305 ending at "at the pr gate" — accurate then, stale now.

Follows the #1287 precedent for a docs-only thread update.

Refs #1273

Why this is worth a PR

The verify phase produced the project's sharpest lesson, and the thread is where the cohort reads it:

The live e2e found afx reset non-functional on every lane after it merged with 4016 passing tests. Every failure was in resolution, upstream of the destructive path — the R1–R4 invariants held, --dry-run wrote nothing, and no builder ever received a wrong re-orientation.

Closing the wrong-winner bug took three passes, and passes 2 and 3 were regressions introduced by the fix, both caught by review rather than by me:

  1. alphabetically-first wins → match by identity
  2. …which orphaned the --task --protocol lane → a porch-driven builder silently told it had no porch, worse than the loud bug it replaced
  3. …and bare-number matching still let issue 799's PIR project claim builder-bugfix-799

Hence the lesson the architect asked to have recorded as stated: narrowing a match is as dangerous as widening it.

It also records why none of it was findable by tests — every variant was a property of this repo's real data shape (203 inherited project dirs, a number reused across protocols) that no fixture encoded, because the fixtures were written from a model of the world rather than the world.

Changes

  • codev/state/aspir-1273_thread.md — verify-phase section + status checklist updated.

No code, no tests, no behaviour change.

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waleedkadous merged commit f9df330 into main Jul 31, 2026
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