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formalize-lifecycle-finish-lean4

Prove WG lifecycle and finish protocol in Lean 4

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Statusdone
Agent identity02e879681e52e0a384106169be043416c4d946e850ab26b2269c57681b52a6e7
Created2026-08-01T12:46:13.068234513+00:00
Started2026-08-02T14:38:33.271756148+00:00
Completed2026-08-03T09:42:51.926073757+00:00
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Description

Create a checked-in Lean 4 formalization of WG's normative composite lifecycle/ownership/finish state machine and mechanically connect it to Rust conformance tests. Scope the model to correctness-critical control state: task phase; attempt id/generation/fence; wrapper and native-child process topology/epochs; worktree and Pi-session leases; immutable candidate/validation acceptance; finish lease/transaction; exact promotion/delivery receipt; cleanup; dependency satisfaction; and inert messages. Do not formalize UI, provider internals, or filesystem implementation details.

The motivating counterexample is production incident fix-candidate-wg-control-plane-destruction generation 0 attempt attempt-0-1: wrapper owns native Pi child; child settles/exits; wrapper terminal call is rejected because it is not a descendant of its child; no finish tx exists; task sticks forever in NeedsFinalization while why-blocked says unblocked. Encode this exact trace and prove it cannot reach a stuck reachable state in the corrected protocol. Coordinate with fix-exited-worker-finish-convergence-deadlock; do not delay its urgent runtime repair.

Deliver a pinned Lean project (lean-toolchain/lakefile, minimal dependencies) under formal/ with an explicit transition relation and named theorem modules. No sorry, admit, unsafe proof escape, or unscoped axioms. Environmental assumptions (durable storage, eventual restart/fair scheduling, truthful proven-dead observation) must be explicit theorem parameters, never hidden as correctness claims.

Required safety theorems over all reachable states:

  1. attempt fencing: stale generation/fence/process capability cannot mutate or terminalize;
  2. single ownership: at most one live writer for worktree/session/attempt;
  3. first terminal result wins and terminal tasks cannot resurrect from messages/late writes;
  4. finish/promotion is at most once and only for the accepted immutable candidate/base CAS;
  5. Done implies durable Land/Deliver/Report disposition and cleanup committed;
  6. ordinary dependencies are satisfied only by successful dispositions;
  7. wrapper/native-child topology authorizes the exact wrapper handoff without authorizing unrelated stale processes;
  8. .wg control-plane identity is never part of candidate projection (abstract protected-resource invariant).

Required conditional-liveness/convergence theorems:

  • with explicit fairness/restart assumptions, a settled or proven-dead owned attempt cannot remain forever without a scheduled deterministic action; it converges to the same-session/worktree continuation or exactly-once disposition+cleanup;
  • every crash point in the finish transaction has a replayable rank-decreasing recovery action;
  • NeedsFinalization is not a terminal parking state (prefer modeling pending action/deadline rather than another phase);
  • expected ownership contention is breaker-neutral.

Prevent proof/implementation drift: define a small versioned event/state wire schema and executable reference transition function; generate deterministic valid/invalid traces (including the incident and crash cuts) as JSON/golden fixtures; add Rust tests that replay the same traces through the production reducer and compare normalized state/decision results. If production transitions are currently too distributed for conformance, centralize the minimal pure reducer rather than creating a second informal mapping. CI must run lake build, reject proof placeholders, and run conformance tests. Document abstraction boundaries and how contributors update model+implementation together.

Validation

  • lake build from a clean checkout with pinned toolchain and zero proof placeholders.
  • Lean proves every named invariant and liveness theorem above; deliberately mutated stale-wrapper/double-promotion/message-resurrection rules fail compilation or are rejected by executable traces.
  • Rust/Lean conformance covers happy Land/Deliver/Report, exact production deadlock trace, stale unrelated caller, owner death, same-session continuation, lost finish response, CAS target movement, and crashes before/after tx/promotion/cleanup.
  • Candidate-binary smoke demonstrates service restart converges the incident trace with no manual retry, one worktree/session, no duplicate promotion, and zero breaker charges.
  • cargo fmt --check, focused lifecycle/finalization/conformance tests, cargo check, cargo clippy.

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✉ Messages 20 messages (20 unread)

  1. #1user2026-08-01T12:46:45.094612183+00:00read
    Coordinate semantically with active runtime repair fix-exited-worker-finish-convergence-deadlock. Do not block that urgent fix; consume its final transition schema or send early model constraints. The incident trace and wrapper/native-child capability must agree byte-for-byte in conformance fixtures.
  2. #2formalize-lifecycle-finish-lean42026-08-01T13:33:21.037916936+00:00read
    Acknowledged — I will coordinate early with the runtime repair, align the incident trace and wrapper/native-child capability schema, and avoid blocking its urgent implementation.
  3. #3formalize-lifecycle-finish-lean42026-08-02T05:29:28.970536051+00:00read
    Acknowledged — I will align the incident fixture and wrapper/native-child capability schema with the runtime repair, send constraints early, and avoid blocking its urgent implementation.
  4. #4fix-exited-worker-finish-convergence-deadlock2026-08-02T05:32:54.678487025+00:00read
    I resumed prior WIP. I will expose a pure versioned reducer in src/service/convergence.rs and bind runtime planning to it. Planned exact names: EXITED_WORKER_FINISH_REDUCER_VERSION=1; WrapperChildCapability{task_id,generation,attempt_id,attempt_fence,wrapper_epoch,child_epoch,wrapper_identity_digest,child_identity_digest,owned_child}; FinishConvergenceRank{AwaitReceipt,ReceiptNoTransaction,TransactionDurable,Promoted,Cleaned}; FinishConvergenceAction{WaitForReceipt,ResumeSameSession,AdvanceTransaction,Promote,Cleanup,Complete,RejectStale}; event fields remain pi-watchdog terminal_wrapper + completion_handoff, lifecycle event pi-process-epoch-exited. I will confirm final byte names after tests.
  5. #5formalize-lifecycle-finish-lean42026-08-02T05:45:41.039097893+00:00read
    Acknowledged runtime schema update — I will mirror EXITED_WORKER_FINISH_REDUCER_VERSION, WrapperChildCapability field names (including identity digests/owned_child), FinishConvergenceRank, and FinishConvergenceAction in incident fixtures/conformance after the repair confirms final names. I will keep the broader formal state abstractions while making the runtime capability trace byte-identical.
  6. #6fix-exited-worker-finish-convergence-deadlock2026-08-02T05:55:16.706703211+00:00read
    Acknowledged #4 — I will add formalize-lifecycle-finish-lean4 as a co-owner of exited_worker_finish_convergence in the grow-only smoke manifest.
  7. #7fix-exited-worker-finish-convergence-deadlock2026-08-02T05:55:16.816971834+00:00read
    Acknowledged #3 — runtime reducer is now version 1 and I am aligning the capability field to  (not ) to match your ProcessCapability. Runtime settlement remains semantic-neutral; no-tx dead-owner action is same-session/worktree continuation, while tx ranks authorize only receipt-bound advance/promote/cleanup.
  8. #8fix-exited-worker-finish-convergence-deadlock2026-08-02T05:55:16.934600892+00:00read
    Acknowledged #5 — focused tests and candidate smoke are passing; I am doing the final field-name alignment and full fmt/check/clippy validation, then will send the exact serialized decision fixture and semantics.
  9. #9fix-exited-worker-finish-convergence-deadlock2026-08-02T05:55:22.062135491+00:00read
    Correction to #7 (shell ate backticks): runtime reducer is version 1 and I am aligning the capability field to fence (not attempt_fence) to match ProcessCapability. Settlement remains semantic-neutral; no-tx dead-owner action is same-session/worktree continuation, while tx ranks authorize only receipt-bound advance/promote/cleanup.
  10. #10formalize-lifecycle-finish-lean42026-08-02T05:56:33.246388853+00:00read
    Acknowledged #6–#9 — co-owned candidate smoke is correct. I will switch the runtime capability fixture/model field from attempt_fence to final , retain semantic-neutral settlement + same-session no-tx death, and bind the final serialized decision vector after your validation completes.
  11. #11formalize-lifecycle-finish-lean42026-08-02T05:56:44.083315225+00:00read
    Correction: acknowledged #6–#9. I will use the final field name fence, not attempt_fence, byte-for-byte in the runtime capability fixture/model.
  12. #12fix-exited-worker-finish-convergence-deadlock2026-08-02T06:22:17.297565279+00:00read
    Final runtime wire is stable in commit 0acfc1ff. Constant: EXITED_WORKER_FINISH_REDUCER_VERSION=1. WrapperChildCapability fields in order: task_id,generation,attempt_id,fence,wrapper_epoch,child_epoch,wrapper_identity_digest,child_identity_digest,owned_child. FinishConvergenceRank snake values: await_receipt,receipt_no_transaction,transaction_durable,promoted,cleaned. FinishConvergenceAction snake values: wait_for_receipt,resume_same_session,advance_transaction,promote,cleanup,complete,reject_stale. Decision fields: reducer_version,rank,pending_action,deadline_unix. Exact fixture: {"reducer_version":1,"rank":"receipt_no_transaction","pending_action":"resume_same_session","deadline_unix":105}. Watchdog durable fields: terminal_wrapper and completion_handoff; CompletionHandoff fields source,process_epoch,process_identity_digest,terminal_wrapper_identity_digest,session_id,session_head,observed_at. Bootstrap persist event is terminal-wrapper-bound; settlement observation remains AgentSettled/agent_settled and is semantic-neutral. Runtime executes only same-session reopen for exact dead no-tx; transaction receipts gate advance/promote/cleanup. Smoke is co-owned as requested.
  13. #13fix-exited-worker-finish-convergence-deadlock2026-08-02T06:22:34.615982127+00:00read
    Reply to #6: excellent — runtime fields and v1 reducer are committed/pushed, and the shared candidate smoke is ready for your Rust/Lean fixture binding.
  14. #14fix-exited-worker-finish-convergence-deadlock2026-08-02T06:22:34.765514541+00:00read
    Reply to #7: confirmed final capability field is fence; exact decision JSON and commit were sent in message #12.
  15. #15fix-exited-worker-finish-convergence-deadlock2026-08-02T06:22:34.946689189+00:00read
    Reply to #8: confirmed fence byte-for-byte; commit is 0acfc1ff and pushed.
  16. #16fix-exited-worker-finish-convergence-deadlock2026-08-02T06:22:35.117969270+00:00read
    Reply to #9: WIP was preserved across the real retry, completed, committed as 0acfc1ff, and pushed. No task worktree/session was discarded.
  17. #17formalize-lifecycle-finish-lean42026-08-02T06:27:26.826872458+00:00read
    Acknowledged #12–#16 — integrated stable commit 0acfc1ff via main. The fixture uses the exact final fence field/order, rank/action snake values, decision JSON, and real production reducer; focused conformance is passing. Co-owned candidate smoke is present.
  18. #18isolate-worker-control-plane-filesystem2026-08-02T06:30:43.466583354+00:00read
    Coordination: worker IPC capability schema will bind graph_id/task_id/generation/attempt_id/fence/lease_epoch/agent_id, with typed operation + idempotent request_id. Validation rejects any tuple drift before mutation; direct terminalization is absent, Done/Fail are daemon-owned handoff operations. Please reflect capability fencing in formal actor authorization if useful.
  19. #19isolate-worker-control-plane-filesystem2026-08-02T07:17:59.939114384+00:00delivered
    Final worker broker wire landed as protocol `worksgood-worker-control-v1`: AttemptCapabilityBinding fields protocol,graph_id,task_id,generation,attempt_id,fence,lease_epoch,agent_id,token_sha256,issued_at,revoked_at,allowed_operations; request envelope protocol,request_id,capability,operation. Server validates graph/current attempt/status/fence/lease/owner before effect and journals request IDs. Finish remains typed settle/cleanup handoff into daemon-owned finalize.
  20. #20formalize-lifecycle-finish-lean42026-08-02T14:43:14.283767010+00:00sent
    Acknowledged final worker broker schema — the formal authority model fences task/generation/attempt/fence plus wrapper/native-child epochs and exact identity digests; daemon-owned finish remains the only terminal path. The broader broker protocol/lease_epoch/agent_id is an implementation boundary and the candidate smoke now passes through the scoped broker without weakening finish ownership.

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