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rdmsm4x — resume dispatcher v1.1 and v1.2: seven defects found after it shipped

2026-09-01 18:30 → 18:45 EDT · rdmsm4x · claude@rdmsm4x/1dc2a549-bfd5-4c40-b573-529f65e2d266

One line: the login-resume dispatcher shipped at 18:27 (ISSUE-20260831-21) had seven defects, found in the following eighteen minutes by five peer sessions and a test suite; the worst would have made it resume nothing after a reboot while reporting success.

Companion to rdmsm4x-changelog-20260901-1826-login-resume-dispatcher-consolidation.md, which describes the consolidation itself.

Scope

rdmsm4x only. ~/dev/fleet/ops/resume/. Commits d40fc37, 615fab0, da95aca.

Why this record exists

Every one of the seven is the same failure class: a check that returns the right answer to the wrong question, and therefore looks correct. They are listed with the question each was actually answering, because that is the reusable part.

v1.1 — four found by peer review

# Reported by The check asked… …when the question was Fix
1 rdreceipt-…-4e (ISSUE-20260901-10) "is this transcript recent?" "did it change since boot?" Every session alive in the 4h before a restart has a minutes-old transcript at login, so the 4h guard skipped exactly the set the dispatcher exists to resume, and logged them as live — so it would not have read as a failure. kern.boottime is asked first now; age governs only what was written since boot.
2 logtty-af "where does the work live?" "where was the session started?" claude --resume resolves under ~/.claude/projects/<slug(cwd)>. An audit of all 12 pins found 4 of 8 Claude pins wrong. Each would have opened a Terminal, logged DISPATCH, and resumed nothing. The cwd now comes from the transcript's own record, proven by re-slugifying it back to the directory the file sits in.
3 replicantdb-b8 "does a transcript exist?" "is this still the current session?" claude --resume opens a new transcript, so a pin written before a manual resume names a real but stale session. Digest warns; it does not switch — picking the newest would be guessing at intent.
4 tyrell-c5 — "what about the boot that went wrong?" A digest written only on the success path cannot report a failed run. Now written from a trap and marked INCOMPLETE RUN.

Also corrected from project-state-9a: the cap counts dispatches, not pins — a pin skipped as live consumes no slot.

v1.2 — three more, two found by the test suite

# Found by Defect
5 fleet-health-sync-coordination, relaying Rich A test fixture opened a real Terminal window on Rich's desktop. He watched claude --resume c1111111-… fail with "No conversation found" and asked whether that was ever a session. It was a fixture UUID. RESUME_PINS_DIR and friends isolated everything the script reads and writes; nothing isolated what it does to the machine. ISSUE-20260901-15.
6 rdreceipt-…-4e v1.1 then REFUSED a re-cased project. The project directory freezes the spelling at session start (rdRECEIPT) while both candidate cwds carry the current one (RDReceipt), so reading the cwd from the transcript does not rescue it. v1.1 had turned a silent no-op into a wrong refusal.
7 the test suite A zsh trap runs and then RESUMES. One handler for EXIT INT TERM wrote the digest on a mid-dispatch TERM and then kept dispatching the rest of the pin set; the final EXIT relabelled the digest as a completed run.

Fixes: RESUME_LAUNCHER replaces the Terminal launcher entirely under test; the start-directory spelling is reconstructed character-by-character from the frozen directory name and used only when it re-slugifies correctly and exists on disk; INT/TERM get their own handler that writes the digest and exits 143.

And one in my own harness, same class: the first blocking stub was /bin/sleep 20, which the dispatcher calls with three arguments appended — sleep rejects them and exits instantly, so the run finished before the kill landed and correct behaviour was reported as a failure. A stub that does not ignore its arguments is not a stub.

Verification

~/dev/fleet/ops/resume/tests/run_tests.zsh — 19 cases, 19 passing, ~30s, every one against a fixture HOME with a stubbed launcher:

boot-vs-age liveness in both directions · cwd correction, refusal, and re-casing · stale pins · the cap and its deferral text · disabled and superseded pins · the per-boot receipt in both directions · the digest on a killed run and on a clean one.

The control is the last assertion: the Terminal window count must be identical before and after the whole run, and the real LAST-BOOT-DIGEST.md must be untouched. That assertion is the only thing that catches the side effect nobody thought to stub, and it is what defect 5 needed.

Real pin set re-checked after every change: 12 pins, 11 live sessions correctly skipped, 1 eligible, warn=0, stale=0.

Commands

zsh ~/dev/fleet/ops/resume/tests/run_tests.zsh              # 19 cases
zsh ~/dev/fleet/ops/resume/resume_dispatcher.zsh --status   # read-only, changes nothing

Undo

Nothing destructive. git -C ~/dev/fleet revert da95aca (or d40fc37) walks the script back; ops/resume/archive/launchagents-retired-20260901/ still holds the twelve original plists. Reverting past d40fc37 restores the v1.0 age guard, which resumes nothing after a reboot — do not.

Outstanding

The part worth keeping

Five sessions verified this against their own machines instead of accepting my handover note, and that is the only reason the dispatcher will do anything at all at the next boot. My note said "your session still comes back after a reboot, and you need to do nothing." It was true of the plumbing and false of the outcome — which is precisely the failure the consolidation exists to prevent.

No secrets in this record.