Session Handoff [default]: Unattended Picker Narrowed and Overview Label Refusal Fixed, Released as 2.0.776 #2190

Next steps, in priority order

Re-read each issue and pull request rather than trusting these summaries.

1. Close the Installer Gaps Left After the Marketplace Re-Point Fix #2019, the small installer gaps left after Refresh Skills After a Release Without Moving the Claude Marketplace Source #2017. git_in() should catch ValueError, so --report survives a NUL in a registered path. The "gone" messages should not say "no longer exists" about a plain file. The host-setup cadence paragraph and check-this-repo's "Answering" section should both say --snapshot-only. One short PR.

2. Deny the Remaining core.hooksPath and no-verify Bypass Routes in the Guard #2177, the guard's remaining hook-bypass routes:

   • a persistent git config core.hooksPath;
   • the GIT_CONFIG_* environment forms;
   • wrapped or aliased git.

   Done looks like the bypass check reusing rule 6's _all_git_invocations walk and its alias resolution. Its heredoc false-positive item overlaps the auto-2112 lane (Session Handoff [auto-2112]: Strip Every Heredoc Body a Line Opens in the Guard per #2112 #2123), so check that lane's state first.

3. This round's follow-ups, each small:

   • Close the Unattended Loop's Parking-Comment and Interrupted-Park Gaps #2184: unattended-loop gaps, namely more than one parking comment on a link, an interrupted park, and the picker not reading which promotion is open.
   • Pair Nonstandard details Markup Correctly When Blanking the Overview Narrative #2187: nonstandard details markup in the narrative masking, plus a missing test for an unclosed narrative.
   • Emit an Unclosed details Block's Preceding Text Once in details_spans #2186: details_spans emits the text before an unclosed block twice. This predates the round.
   • Decide How the Prose Gate Widens Past the Latin Part of the Recorded-Name Rule #2170: the maintainer answered option 2, a per-line or per-file allow marker for a recorded name.

4. Exercise the unattended loop's parked-lane half. An attended "resume the handoff" of a lane parked under blocked has still never run. Done looks like one parked lane coming back through the attended procedure intact.

5. Say the Hub Commits the Report Wherever Done-Means-Audited Is Stated #1826: reword the remaining places that say the audited repository "carries" a committed reports/<repo>/audit.md.

6. Carry the code-review skill bootstrap to seven repos whose Copilot reviews never state coverage #1815: carry the code-review skill bootstrap and the .github/skills tree into the seven repositories listed there.

7. Downstream resyncs for the new Fleet Bootstrap text. These are per-repository work in each repository's own session. When aiopurpleair resyncs, its handoff (aiopurpleair Update codegen files #177) should drop step 3, "commit an audit report".

8. Smaller follow-ups: Copilot Refuses a Pull Request Carrying Only Default-Excluded Files, and No Rule Covers It #2180, Durable Knowledge does not say where a lesson goes when no change is open #1811, audit.py --issue path never prints the no-remote hub-name warning #1810, Skill files hard-wrap while comment-and-doc-style requires one paragraph per line #1814.

9. Carried unchanged from Session Handoff [default]: WORKFLOW.md Corrections and the pyproject.toml Decision Released as 2.0.672 #1804, in its order:

   • The native-Windows check of bootstrap.ps1, then close Bootstrap registers its temporary tree as the live Claude Code skills source, then deletes it #1756.
   • Keep an Owned Tree Recognizable When Its Final Directory Removal Fails #1795, followed by Name the Leftover Old Tree When the Bash Loader Cannot Remove It #1790, Drive the PowerShell Loader's Kept-Tree Functions from the Test Suite #1791 and Lock the Bootstrap Directory for a Kept-Tree Run #1792.
   • Gate Every Repository's Python on Its Code, Not on Its Config #1800: settle its three decisions with the maintainer before any edit, folding in Spec: python.profile.detect does not describe a virtual uv workspace root #1778.
   • The menu's skills task registers a clone it then removes #1771 before Re-point a Claude Code registration an older bootstrap left dangling #1769, then Say Where the Deploy-Site Task Actually Requires the SSH Key #1801 and Declare the Default Workflow Token Permission in the Repository Settings Payload #1783.
   • A regex pins a phrase inside a # comment, so rewrapping that comment fails the test with a false explanation #1732 before skills_install --report follow-ups: stamp-less live report, bootstrap remedy text, --intended guard test #1759, skills_install source_ref hides ignored files and trusts an enclosing git repo #1758 and skills_install --report's live channel does not check that the plugin is installed and enabled #1757.
   • Then A stacked pull request's diff reopens after the parent squash-merges, and nothing documents it #1742, Session Handoff [default]: One Issue Closed Whose Premise Was Wrong, and a Release #1735, Converge Financial-Modeling with the hub baseline (32 findings) #1579, The widened configuration shape misses the unspaced key=value an environment file writes #1717 and issue-ref reads no URL outside instruction text, so an own-repository tracker URL in code is banned and unreported #1719.
   • Lower priority: Two skills describe the live skills channel only as a git checkout #1772, A kept skills tree edited by hand still stamps clean #1775, Nothing tests the bootstrap loaders' kept-tree swap sequence #1767, Two concurrent bootstrap runs can remove each other's tree #1764 and install-skills.ps1 fails under a directory whose path contains a wildcard character #1765.

External blockers

• Downstream promotions still open, per the 2026-09-30 comment on Session Handoff [default]: Shared-Hook Install Rule and hooksPath Guard Denial Released as 2.0.774 #2181:

  • EspDinIoT Update readme and workspace #10 needs the maintainer's approval or a UI merge. Its ruleset requires extra approval for unattributed changes.
  • Financial-Modeling waits for its unattended run.
  • DevKitCIoT's KiCad 10 conflict is the maintainer's to resolve in KiCad.

  Re-verify before acting.

• A native Windows host is needed for step 9's first item.

Internal dependencies

• Deny the Remaining core.hooksPath and no-verify Bypass Routes in the Guard #2177 should follow or absorb whatever the auto-2112 lane lands on heredoc handling, since both edit the guard's tokenizer path.
• Close the Unattended Loop's Parking-Comment and Interrupted-Park Gaps #2184's open-promotion item and Decide How the Unattended Picker Recognizes an Adopted Lesson #2183's answer both edit the unattended-handoff picker. Take Decide How the Unattended Picker Recognizes an Adopted Lesson #2183's answer first, so the two edits are not re-reviewed against each other.
• Carry the code-review skill bootstrap to seven repos whose Copilot reviews never state coverage #1815 comes before relying on stated coverage in those seven repositories.

State

• Hub: main is at the Promote develop to main: Skip the Overview Narrative in Label Vetting and Narrow the Unattended Picker #2189 promotion merge, released as 2.0.776. develop holds nothing main lacks. The primary checkout is clean on develop at current origin/develop. This round left no feature branch or worktree behind.
• This machine: the Codex/opencode snapshot reads current at the Promote develop to main: Skip the Overview Narrative in Label Vetting and Narrow the Unattended Picker #2189 merge. Claude Code's fleet marketplace loads from the primary checkout on develop.
• Unattended lanes still open: auto-2080 (Session Handoff [auto-2080]: Read an eval Argument as a Wait-Loop Payload in the Guard per #2080 #2137), auto-2112 (Session Handoff [auto-2112]: Strip Every Heredoc Body a Line Opens in the Guard per #2112 #2123), auto-2106 (Session Handoff [auto-2106]: Refuse a Dangling Remote-Tracking Target in local_review per #2106 #2120, PR Refuse a Dangling Remote-Tracking Target in local_review #2121) and auto-1634 (Session Handoff [auto-1634]: Narrow Nested timeout Handling per #2056 #2072, PR Deny a Signal-0 timeout as a Wait Bound in the Guard #2117). Re-derive with handoff.py tracks and gh pr list before touching them.
• Other open lane: Session Handoff [python-contract]: Escaped and Folded python-directories Values Refused, Released as 2.0.738 #2014 (python-contract).
• Other repository touched: Blog, through its own session only, and nothing was written there.

The parked decision queue

One issue: #2183, how the unattended picker recognizes an adopted lesson. It offers three choices, and the recommended one is that the session recording the answer edits the issue body.

What the last round did

• Fixed unattended-handoff: adopted lesson issues stall, and the promotion STOP matches any decision issue #1812 in #2185.
  • The picker's promotion STOP now matches only a decision issue stating that it blocks the promotion, read as JSON so issue bodies are visible.
  • A resuming worker follows only the decision its lane waits on.
• Fixed Read Bold-Led Change Bullets in the Copilot Overview as Narrative, Not Metadata Labels #2182 in #2188. pr_review.py no longer exits 43 when Copilot's overview lists its changes as bold-led bullets. A peer Blog session reported it on a Blog promotion.
• Promoted both in #2189 and released them as 2.0.776.
• Filed Decide How the Unattended Picker Recognizes an Adopted Lesson #2183 (decision), Close the Unattended Loop's Parking-Comment and Interrupted-Park Gaps #2184, Emit an Unclosed details Block's Preceding Text Once in details_spans #2186 and Pair Nonstandard details Markup Correctly When Blanking the Overview Narrative #2187.
• Told the Blog session that 2.0.776 carries the Read Bold-Led Change Bullets in the Copilot Overview as Narrative, Not Metadata Labels #2182 fix. Its next promotion is the first to exercise the fix live, since Promote develop to main: Skip the Overview Narrative in Label Vetting and Narrow the Unattended Picker #2189's overview had no bold-led change bullets.

What not to repeat

• unattended-handoff: adopted lesson issues stall, and the promotion STOP matches any decision issue #1812 took six local passes (4, 2, 4, 4, 1 and 0 findings).
  • The adopted-lesson clause could not be worded so the picker could act on it, because no signal it reads tells "label removed" from "never labelled". The same went for an interrupted-park branch I added outside the issue's scope.
  • Deleting both, and filing them as Decide How the Unattended Picker Recognizes an Adopted Lesson #2183 and Close the Unattended Loop's Parking-Comment and Interrupted-Park Gaps #2184, is what converged.
  • Do not re-add either one without first settling Decide How the Unattended Picker Recognizes an Adopted Lesson #2183's answer.
• Read Bold-Led Change Bullets in the Copilot Overview as Narrative, Not Metadata Labels #2182 took six local passes (4, 4, 2, 4, 4 and 1 findings).
  • A first cut removing whole regions hid real labels.
  • A recursive split reordered output and could exhaust the stack.
  • Widening the shared DETAILS_TAG close to the spellings HTML accepts matched literal text, and its [^>]* tail swallowed a following section heading.
  • Blanking the narrative in place, with develop's exact close tag, converged. Do not widen DETAILS_TAG again without a bounded pattern and a test for every details_spans reader. Pair Nonstandard details Markup Correctly When Blanking the Overview Narrative #2187 holds the cases.
• gh issue view --comments prints no issue body when run without a terminal. Read a body and its comments together with gh issue list|view --json body,comments.
• The write guard blocks a whole compound command when any part of it pushes from the primary checkout. Delete a merged remote branch from there with gh api -X DELETE .../git/refs/heads/<branch> after the ls-remote tip check.

New learnings

• No new governance lesson this round. The non-convergence pattern is the existing "inference from a diff does not converge" and "deleting a rule beats re-deriving it", and both held again. The cases left open are in Close the Unattended Loop's Parking-Comment and Interrupted-Park Gaps #2184 and Pair Nonstandard details Markup Correctly When Blanking the Overview Narrative #2187.