rdmsm4x-changelog-20260902-2343-rtty-owner-coordination

Preserved an authorized RTTy owner's in-progress Standard/App Store work after a duplicate post-reboot resume, stopped only an obsolete worktree-local Build 41 GUI probe, and kept installed Build 44 intact.

Scope and reason

• Host: rdmsm4x only.
• Project: RTTy App Store finalization.
• Continuing goal: 01a063fb-57b2-7300-a58b-4297025764b2.
• Authorized owner task: 01a0653e-e615-76d0-b06c-4db003e63f0b.
• Ticket: FEAT-20260831-57, held by codex@rdmsm4x/rtty-appstore-resume. Authoritative ticket claims --all --json readback at 2026-09-03 00:25 EDT reported heartbeat 2026-09-03T00:02:13-04:00, expiry 2026-09-04T00:02:13-04:00, and live: true.
• Reason: the dispatcher resumed the original Codex goal while a second resumed task took the valid ticket claim and began Standard/App Store archive work in the same isolated worktree. The duplicate continuation inspected and preserved state, then returned to a strictly read-only monitor role after the live claim was confirmed.

Local state changes

• Created coordination record: /Users/richh/dev/_handoff/rtty-appstore-finalization-20260902/OWNER-COLLISION-20260902-2332.md. The record includes a governing correction that the historical filename describes duplicate resume, not unauthorized work.
• Created a point-in-time full-file archive of the 13 tracked dirty paths: /Users/richh/dev/_handoff/rtty-appstore-finalization-20260902/backups/rtty-active-owner-dirty-b50f44f-20260902-2339.tar.gz.
• Created coordination messages:
  • 20260902-233221-6955BEAD — initial freeze/handoff request.
  • 20260902-234044-92FA7075 — preservation and Build 41 stop update.
  • 20260902-234313-91DAADC6 — correction confirming the resumed task as sole writer and retracting the freeze demand.
  • 20260902-234812-521D0605 — provisional Network Extension packaging concern.
  • 20260902-234946-BD4B7E5D — local SDK correction and missing pinned-Xcode-path evidence.
  • 20260902-235243-BA4CEA5A — Standard signing/profile readiness audit.
  • 20260902-235436-6E316832 — Xcode 26.6 SDK result and missing activation-flow evidence.
  • 20260903-000516-8D85674B — independent platform-target/toolchain audit sent to the active RTTy owner after probing all five peer Macs.
  • 20260903-000745-A076AC04 — current Apple TestFlight-versus-App-Store toolchain acceptance boundary.
  • 20260903-001028-DB50DE5D — warned that a later test edit might invalidate the in-flight archive-policy snapshot.
  • 20260903-001325-1FE19A1C — corrected that warning after proving the edited focused test is not in the trusted verifier bundle or invoked by the long suite.
  • 20260903-001641-8DF6E4DA — Apple-supported Xcode/host-OS boundary and recommendation not to reinstall the healthy stable bundle.
  • 20260903-002128-20948B57 — preliminary bounded-wrapper success sent while the Xcode specialist completed its report.
  • 20260903-002628-A62C6AE9 — independent readback and hashes for the completed Xcode-repair report and diagnostic wrapper.
• Sent TERM only to PID 90876 after exact command-path verification. That process was the worktree-local .../dist/RTTy.app/Contents/MacOS/RTTy, version 0.3.819, build 41, bundle ID com.eastcoastscience.rtty.direct. No Codex, test, build, archive, installed-app, or fleet process was signaled.
• No RTTy or ecs0lib source was edited, staged, reset, stashed, committed, launched, installed, deployed, or submitted by this duplicate continuation.
• The delegated Xcode specialist created only isolated handoff/diagnostic artifacts: /Users/richh/dev/_handoff/rtty-appstore-finalization-20260902/xcode-repair/REPORT.md, the disposable xcode-repair/probe/ project/workspace and wrapper, and /Users/richh/.agent-coordination/checkins/codex-rdmsm4x-xcode-repair-20260903.json. It did not modify Xcode, xcode-select, RTTy source, an RTTy archive, or the installed app.

Verification evidence

• Reboot dispatcher digest: /Users/richh/dev/fleet/ops/resume/LAST-BOOT-DIGEST.md reports the RTTy Codex goal resumed and verified running after the 2026-09-02 23:00 boot.
• Authorized worktree HEAD during capture: b50f44f7ef246953784b313fd706b10cd7d7da05.
• Captured dirty paths: 13 tracked files.
• Stable captured diff SHA-256: b14cea9db4209b010712ebd97210b77044f9386255f94e719027da3c9045dc0f.
• Archive size: 85,917 bytes.
• Archive entries: 13.
• Archive SHA-256: d809f6926d696569b97391d4f4e2430af950fd3ba71a19849b1a30c475b1734b.
• The diff hash was identical immediately before and after archive creation.
• After stopping PID 90876, /Applications/RTTy.app was re-read as version 0.3.822, build 44, bundle ID net.dataroo.RTTy; PID 1954 remained running. Earlier in the same audit, it verified as signed by team ZU2882L4HT and universal x86_64 arm64.
• Subsequent process probes showed only /Applications/RTTy.app; the worktree Build 41 process did not automatically relaunch during the observation window.
• The owner task's exact rollout file was held open by the Codex app server and continued receiving records. Its first archive-policy-suite process ended, and the owner then reported in its live task stream that the first complete policy-suite pass was green.
• Exact command evidence shows bash Tests/ScriptTests/release_channel_coverage_test.sh exited 0 with PASS: release QA proves Standard app/extension closure before Direct launch. This corrects an earlier inference that the same command record represented the longer archive-policy suite.
• The owner subsequently changed script/archive_standard.sh, bringing the live worktree to 14 modified tracked paths (382 insertions, 59 deletions) while keeping HEAD at b50f44f7ef246953784b313fd706b10cd7d7da05.
• The owner regenerated the trusted project graph in a private temporary directory and proved all generated graph/workspace/scheme files byte-matched the worktree (graph_render_match=YES).
• At 2026-09-02 23:58 EDT, the owner reported that the verifier itself now enforces the 152-file build-input count, both extension plists are parsed before Xcode may archive, and the real four-target Standard product was compiling with the restored stable toolchain in separate derived data. This is owner-reported in-progress evidence, not yet a completed signed archive handoff.
• At 2026-09-03 00:01 EDT, the owner explicitly confirmed that it remained at the live release gate, that the Xcode 26.6 build had stalled after dependency resolution, and that Build 44 remained protected. The owner also committed to no fleet-wide archival/removal until a replacement is signed, deployed, and verified host by host.
• The owner advanced the live release-policy change to 15 modified tracked files, 414 insertions and 66 deletions, with HEAD still b50f44f7ef246953784b313fd706b10cd7d7da05. The stable tracked diff SHA-256 observed during the post-change run was c7da4336aaf2c16d4fa6d5caf28d2f8e5b3f2c1994014af85589140b4bdeb84d. Tests/ScriptTests/__pycache__/ was also present as untracked generated output. The owner inspected its two .pyc files and moved the directory intact to /private/tmp/rtty-script-tests-pycache-20260903-0026 before committing; this monitor did not remove or move it.
• Exact post-change focused owner gates passed: Python syntax/compile and diff checks; standard_pbx_source_closure_test.py; standard_project_test.sh; release_channel_coverage_test.sh; release_metadata_test.sh; and standard_candidate_closure_test.py, whose result closed all 121 compiler inputs and the complete build-input projection. The regenerated trusted project graph matched the checked-in projection byte-for-byte.
• The owner then started one post-change bash Tests/ScriptTests/archive_standard_policy_test.sh run as PID 89498. It demonstrably advanced through changing adversarial fixtures rather than hanging: malformed App Intents and Mach-O inputs, injected helpers, frameworks, plug-ins, XPC services and apps, extension identity/toolchain/mode drift, source/metadata/privacy/entitlement drift, staged-file/directory/path races, and candidate-self-approval cases. After approximately 20 minutes, the owner's exact terminal result was exit 0 with PASS: isolated Standard archive fixtures fail closed and bind one immutable unsigned candidate.
• The owner regenerated and byte-compared the trusted project, graph, scheme, and verifier bundle again; reran Python compilation, shell syntax, git diff --check, and cached-diff checks; then explicitly staged the same 15 paths and committed 637a16d4e86372e0420067c582b5dfa96fa1f2ee with subject fix(standard): close network filter archive graph. Both the prior fork anchor and finalization anchor are ancestors. Immediate readback showed a clean branch and the empty-diff SHA-256 e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855.
• A post-commit runtime readback still found /Applications/RTTy.app as signed universal x86_64 arm64, version 0.3.822, build 44, bundle ID net.dataroo.RTTy, team ZU2882L4HT, PID 1954. The owner remained active and began a separate design/review pass for authenticating the Xcode discovery-probe workaround; it had not yet changed the clean 637a16d4 tree at the last handoff.
• The delegated Xcode report was independently read back as 321 lines with SHA-256 76bbe94579c3d02727fd8811fc7dbecc2dc47cdbe0cb77f24af5218a251412d6. Its wrapper SHA-256 is 9c9a3222cd1a109220e92707e33706eb04bf38a718fd832a5112be46f7d55a79. The same disposable project that stalled with unmodified Xcode 26.6 built and linked in 4.27 seconds with the scoped CC wrapper; its binary printed stable-xcode-probe-ok. This proves a diagnostic workaround, not RTTy archive, signing, notarization, upload, or submission readiness.

Read-only release-readiness findings

• security find-identity -v -p codesigning exposed one valid Apple Development identity and no Apple Distribution identity.
• Six unique installed provisioning profiles were decoded. None targeted com.eastcoastscience.rtty or com.eastcoastscience.rtty.network-filter, and none carried the Network Extension or RTTy App Group entitlement. Structural unsigned QA is possible, but a locally signed Store candidate is not currently proven producible.
• RTTy's trust scripts pin /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer, Xcode 26.6 build 17F113; that path was absent during this audit. The selected toolchain was Xcode 27 beta 6, while an Apple-signed, strict-verifying Xcode 26.6 copy existed at /Users/richh/Archive/xcode-dupes-20260831/Xcode.app. This duplicate monitor did not move it, symlink it, or change xcode-select.
• After that initial audit, /Applications/Xcode.app was populated with Apple-signed Xcode 26.6 build 17F113; the duplicate monitor independently re-read its version, identifier, signing authorities, and Apple team 59GAB85EFG. PID 4913 was the owner's exact unsigned RTTyStandard clean-build command using that path and /private/tmp/rtty-release-qa/standard-derived-data-xcode26; it remained at zero CPU with SWBBuildService while the owner diagnosed the stall. The monitor did not terminate, restart, or otherwise alter either process.
• The owner subsequently stopped only its own idle validation build. The command terminated with exit 75 after completing its clean phase; it never produced a completed four-target compile. The owner identified the governing mismatch: Xcode 26.6 build 17F113 ships the macOS 26.5 SDK, while RTTy requires deployment target 26.7.
• Apple currently lists Xcode 26.6 as supported on macOS Tahoe 26.2 through 26.x, not macOS 27. The installed stable Xcode is authentic and byte-matches its two retained copies, so another reinstall is not justified. The delegated minimal reproducer instead isolated a SwiftBuild 6.3.3 pipe-draining defect: the release implementation consumes stdout fully before stderr, while clang blocks writing its verbose discovery trace. Current SwiftBuild drains both concurrently.
• Xcode 27 beta 6 built the same minimal project without the wrapper in 7.26 seconds under the same heavy host load. The current App Store Connect release notes accept Xcode 27 beta 6/macOS 27 beta 6 SDK builds for internal and external TestFlight, but not App Store release. Xcode 26.6 remains accepted for Store release, but its SDK and host support do not make it a truthful final 26.7-floor submission lane on this macOS 27 machine.
• The 26.7 floor is intentional, not an unexplained regression. Canonical /Users/richh/dev/lib/app-baseline/PLATFORM_TARGETS.md and commit ffe1574f record Rich's approved contract: Intel macOS 26.7+, Apple Silicon 27 APIs behind availability guards, built using Xcode 27.
• Live read-only fleet probes on 2026-09-03 found no installed stable toolchain with an SDK capable of building the 26.7 floor. The three peer Apple Silicon Macs expose Xcode 27 beta 6 build 27A5252f with SDK 27.0; both Intel Macs expose stable Xcode 26.6 build 17F113 with SDK 26.5. Lowering the floor merely to make Xcode 26.6 compile would reverse an explicit platform decision and was not performed.
• At Rich's direction inside the active owner task, the owner spawned one isolated xcode_repair agent. Its scope is toolchain state plus a written diagnostic/repair report; it may not edit RTTy source, change the globally selected developer directory, deploy an app, or touch Build 44. This duplicate monitor did not spawn a competing repair lane.
• Apple's public Network Extension pages are not internally consistent about macOS app-extension versus system-extension packaging. Both locally installed macOS 26.5 and macOS 27 SDK headers explicitly allow an NEFilterDataProvider app extension or system extension. Packaging therefore remains provisional rather than rejected.
• No NEFilterManager preference load/save/activation flow was found in RTTy source. App Store qualification still requires a real signed activation, user approval, attributed flow, useful default rule action, and App Group persistence readback; source and archive-shape tests alone are not runtime proof.

Commands and methods

• Read-only owner/runtime checks: git status, git diff, git rev-parse, stat, ps, pgrep, lipo, codesign, and PlistBuddy.
• Cross-task checks: Codex task read/wait/message APIs and the fleet message bus.
• Release-readiness checks: security find-identity, provisioning-profile decoding, pinned/current Xcode inspection, SDK-header comparison, and bounded source search for Network Extension activation APIs.
• Platform/toolchain checks: inspected canonical PLATFORM_TARGETS.md, traced commit ffe1574f, extracted the exact failed Xcode record, and queried OS/Xcode/SDK state over read-only SSH on rdmbair13m5, rdmbair15m5, rdmpw3265m, rdmpw3275m, and jdmbair13m5.
• Xcode specialist verification: strict/deep signature, Gatekeeper, first-launch, retained-copy hashes, direct clang/Swift probes, process stack sampling, a disposable minimal project, stable-versus-beta controls, public SwiftBuild source comparison, and a narrowly scoped compiler-discovery wrapper. The monitor then re-read and hashed the completed report and wrapper.
• Preservation: a guarded tar of exactly git diff --name-only, with entry-count and pre/post diff-hash validation.
• Process stop: exact PID command comparison followed by kill -TERM; no broad pattern kill was used.

Undo and recovery

• The source worktree needs no undo from this continuation because it was not changed.
• The authorized owner may deliberately relaunch a correctly identified test bundle if required; do not relaunch the stale Build 41 bundle by default.
• The archive and coordination record are additive recovery evidence and should be retained until the owner commits and independently verified integration completes.
• If removal is later approved, remove only the archive, the coordination record, this changelog, and its matching Apple Note. Fleet messages are immutable history.

Outstanding owner actions

• Apple Notes publication is pending. The approved helper refused this background session (launchctl managername was Background), and Computer Use is not permitted to operate Terminal. Run the following from Terminal.app in the Aqua desktop session on rdmsm4x: zsh ~/scripts/notes_changelog.zsh '/Users/richh/dev/LLM/Claude/changelogs/rdmsm4x-changelog-20260902-2343-rtty-owner-coordination.md'.
• The authorized task must finish its coherent Standard/App Store change, commit it, report exact test/archive evidence, and hand off the result for independent review.
• Recheck the owner's in-progress four-target Standard compile and do not treat its start, unsigned structure, or policy-suite success as a signed App Store archive.
• Resolve or produce a bounded diagnosis for the Xcode 26.6 post-dependency-resolution stall before accepting the four-target compile gate. The bounded diagnosis is now complete; decide whether to use a supported macOS 26 build host, await a newer stable Xcode with concurrent pipe draining, or explicitly admit the exact wrapper hash and CC injection into a non-submission experiment. Do not silently inject the wrapper into the trusted archive path.
• Preserve the approved 26.7 floor unless Rich explicitly revises the canonical platform policy. Xcode 27 beta may provide internal structural/fleet evidence, but must not be represented as a submission artifact; the Store archive remains gated on an Apple-accepted stable toolchain that includes an SDK new enough for 26.7.
• The isolated xcode_repair report has landed and was independently verified at the path and hash above. Preserve it with the release handoff.
• The post-change archive_standard_policy_test.sh terminal result is green and the owner checkpointed it as clean commit 637a16d4. Independently review that exact commit and its retained command evidence before integration; do not equate this structural unsigned policy milestone with a signed distribution archive.
• Independently review that owner handoff before reconciling preserved release-gate commit 59758d2; do not cherry-pick or write into its worktree without explicit transfer.
• Keep installed Build 44 as the protected baseline until a deliberate, validated next-candidate launch decision. No fleet deployment or App Store submission is accepted from this observation.

Follow-up after the first Build 45 archive attempt (2026-09-03 01:09 EDT)

• The active owner remained the sole writer in /Users/richh/dev/_handoff/rtty-appstore-finalization-20260902/universe/apps/RTTy. This observer continued read-only inspection and did not run tests, stage files, commit, launch, install, deploy, sign, or signal a process in that worktree.
• The owner's authenticated stable-clang-probe change completed its full adversarial release-policy suite with exit 0 and the exact terminal results: PASS: Standard archive manifest is prefix-free, deterministic, and type-closed; PASS: Standard App Intents metadata is exact, authenticated, and action-closed; PASS: Standard trust entry points rely on one authenticated v2 bundle path; PASS: Xcode 26 clang wrapper bounds only the authenticated discovery probe; and PASS: isolated Standard archive fixtures fail closed and bind one immutable unsigned candidate.
• The owner sealed clean commit a927db9f9ab980fcf86e2c9db3ef18a8187e9e44 (fix(release): authenticate stable clang probe) and then clean documentation-only descendant 9d00f9dc50a612c3f49728b67de3dec94db08704 (docs(release): advance Build 45 archive state). The owner worktree was clean when independently read back.
• The owner created a non-local clean release clone at /Users/richh/dev/_handoff/rtty-appstore-finalization-20260902/release/build45-9d00f9d/repository, with no Git alternates, at candidate 9d00f9d. The authenticated verifier is a927db9f; its bundle-manifest SHA-256 is 8642e07fe280108b9e8088b7ebca9afd5c047135f783889a7f66edb1a6084168. The production inline-anchor digest begins 00498f05 and ends 7abc; the anchor source was byte-identical between verifier and candidate.
• The first real stable-Xcode 26.6 unsigned Standard construction compiled the four-target product but failed closed before publication with the exact result FAIL: observed launch-capability projection differs from the exact reviewed policy. No standard-unsigned output directory was created, nothing was installed or launched, and Build 44 remained unchanged.
• The owner then reproduced the same product in retained diagnostic space at /Users/richh/dev/_handoff/rtty-appstore-finalization-20260902/release/build45-9d00f9d/stable-policy-diagnostic.ikvMqP/RTTyStandard.xcarchive. That direct stable-Xcode archive finished with ** ARCHIVE SUCCEEDED **. It also emitted the truthful warning that deployment target 26.7 exceeds Xcode 26.6's supported 26.5.99 maximum; the diagnostic is therefore comparison evidence, not an accepted submission archive.
• The checked-in launch-capability policy SHA-256 was 23c413d2b7156ebef85d065d9e1904344784800ab02ecd901dd00b31f2f97f3b; the stable-Xcode diagnostic policy SHA-256 was 11fd967402c5cd1965b132149edb13352acef3dcc9199482480f01e39bacd750. On both arm64 and x86_64 the stable artifact removed /usr/lib/swift/libswiftDarwin.dylib, added /usr/lib/swift/libswift_Builtin_float.dylib and /usr/lib/swift/libswift_DarwinFoundation1.dylib, and produced substantial undefined-native-symbol churn. Top-level policy fields did not differ. The owner is evaluating whether the delta is explained toolchain ABI surface; no re-baseline has yet been accepted.
• Independent Mach-O inspection of the retained prior-policy binary at /private/tmp/rtty-release-qa/standard-derived-data/Build/Products/Release/RTTy.app/Contents/MacOS/RTTy found a universal binary modified at 2026-09-02 23:24:28 EDT. Both slices carry LC_BUILD_VERSION with minimum OS 26.7, SDK 27.0, and tool version 27037.1. This directly establishes Xcode 27/SDK 27 provenance for that retained binary and explains why its exact ABI projection differs from Xcode 26.6 output; it does not by itself authorize a policy re-baseline or overcome the stable SDK's 26.5.99 support ceiling.
• A further review note warned against making the complete Xcode 26.6 Swift ABI inventory the one permanent product policy. Because the approved 26.7 floor ultimately requires an accepted stable SDK newer than 26.5, the final toolchain will change that inventory again. The owner was asked either to bind reviewed projections to exact authenticated compiler/SDK identities or to normalize the capability contract while retaining the full ABI as separate evidence.
• An independent two-axis review found no documented Apple-toolchain standards blocker in the wrapper, but identified three release-spec gaps requiring owner disposition: the wrapper recognizes required discovery tokens rather than one exact closed argv; a future signed lane would inherit CC unless it deliberately chooses unmodified tooling versus the authenticated wrapper; and plain /usr/bin/python3 currently resolves through the globally selected Xcode 27 beta interpreter even when the archive's compiler and xcodebuild are pinned to stable Xcode 26.6. The last point means the compiled Mach-O is stable-toolchain output, but candidate materialization/trust orchestration currently has mixed, unrecorded interpreter provenance.
• Exact interpreter readback: plain /usr/bin/python3 resolved inside Xcode-27.0.0-beta.6.app and reported Python 3.9.6 built with clang 2100.3.33.1; with DEVELOPER_DIR=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer it resolved inside stable Xcode and reported clang 2100.1.1.101. The live archive's Python PIDs independently confirmed the beta interpreter while xcodebuild, Swift and clang used stable Xcode 26.6.
• Coordination messages added during this follow-up were 20260903-003553-3B91967F, 20260903-003751-F51F34C1, 20260903-003906-F04CE9BE, 20260903-004033-737AD2A3, 20260903-004429-7FC14748, 20260903-005738-9AFD0116, and 20260903-010854-5AB01F41. Follow-up 20260903-011104-7DC8CEAA supplied the exact retained-binary Mach-O provenance. Follow-up 20260903-011213-1463FFEA recorded the toolchain-binding design risk. The first high-priority note asked the active owner to dispose explicitly of the policy delta, Python provenance, exact-argv, and future signed-lane findings before re-baselining.
• The same review was durably appended to FEAT-20260831-57. A direct Codex task message was also attempted, but the API refused because the target task already had an active writer; no message was injected and the active run was not interrupted. Live owner rollout inspection and the fleet bus were used instead.
• A final installed-baseline readback still identified /Applications/RTTy.app as version 0.3.822, build 44, legacy bundle ID net.dataroo.RTTy, Apple Development team ZU2882L4HT, universal x86_64 arm64, with PID 1954 still running. That legacy identifier is frozen only for the protected baseline; the Standard target remains com.eastcoastscience.rtty and the Direct target remains com.eastcoastscience.rtty.direct.
• Apple Notes publication remains pending for the same reason already recorded: this is a Background session. From an Aqua Terminal session run zsh ~/scripts/notes_changelog.zsh '/Users/richh/dev/LLM/Claude/changelogs/rdmsm4x-changelog-20260902-2343-rtty-owner-coordination.md'.