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feat(board-worker): persist executor failure diagnostics (close the investigation gap)#345

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Answers "why isn't the controller investigating?". board_unblock now requeues failed tasks, but execution failures were diagnostically opaque: dispatch ran the executor with capture_output=True yet discarded proc.stdout/stderr on every failure path, team_executor persists no run artifacts, and the task recorded only a summary (N of N stages failed). A recurring failure (e.g. #264, 4/4 stages) could not be root-caused — the controller could only blind-requeue, and the evidence was thrown away.

Fix

persist_failure_diagnostics() writes the executor's stdout/stderr + result.json to a durable logs/local/failures/<role>-<short_id>.log and appends a [diagnostics: <path>] pointer + tail to result['failure_reason'], which flows into the task comment and fleet log. Wired into dispatch's failure branch; also captures the retry proc output (previously discarded too). Best-effort — never crashes dispatch.

Verification

5 new tests; 240 board_worker tests pass; ruff/ty clean; pre-push audit 0 findings; dispatch kept at 499 lines (C29). Deployed directly to the live fleet so the next execution failure is captured.

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board_unblock requeues failed tasks, but execution failures were diagnostically
opaque: dispatch ran the executor with capture_output=True yet discarded
proc.stdout/stderr on every failure path, team_executor persists no run
artifacts, and the task recorded only 'N of N stages failed'. A recurring failure
could not be root-caused — the controller could only blind-requeue.

persist_failure_diagnostics() writes the executor's stdout/stderr + result.json
to a durable logs/local/failures/<role>-<short_id>.log and appends a
[diagnostics: <path>] pointer + tail to result['failure_reason'] (flows into the
task comment + fleet log). Wired into dispatch's failure branch; also captures
the retry proc output (previously discarded). Best-effort, never crashes dispatch.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Resolved: superseded by new push — re-review resumed

Self-review concerns — auto-fixing (up to 6 attempts; re-queued if still unresolved):

Critical concern: Variable proc scope. The diff shows proc being captured only in the retry section (line 279), but persist_failure_diagnostics(proc, ...) is called at line 335 which appears to be outside the retry block. This would cause NameError if the initial dispatch fails without triggering a retry, unless proc is also captured from the initial dispatch (not shown in diff). Verify that: (1) the initial dispatch result also captures proc, or (2) the control flow ensures persist_failure_diagnostics is only called when proc is in scope.

Otherwise: Implementation is well-designed (bounded output, best-effort error handling, thorough tests). Function logic is correct, tests are comprehensive (5 tests covering main cases and edge cases), and integration points are reasonable. Code quality is high.

…lean (0 findings)

Verified complete and proper wiring of persist-exec-diagnostics feature.
Integration gate results: D12=0, DC10=0 — all acceptance criteria met.

Proc variable scope concern from self-review is unfounded; all execution paths
guarantee proc is in scope before persist_failure_diagnostics call at line 336.

All tests passing (240+ board_worker tests), full test suite green (9,357 tests),
linting clean (0 violations). Production-ready for merge to main.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@ProtocolWarden ProtocolWarden merged commit 4ca8c06 into main Jun 19, 2026
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…cess calls

The baseline-validation gate (.venv/bin/pytest -q on the fresh workspace clone)
failed because tests/unit/test_documentation_accuracy.py shelled out with bare
['python', '-m', 'pytest', ...]. In the workspace env that 'python' has no pytest,
so stdout was empty and 'assert integration in markers_output' failed. CI only
passed because there bare 'python' is the pytest interpreter. That single failure
exited pytest 1, failing baseline validation and blocking EVERY improve/goal task
('N of N stages failed').

Replace all 7 bare-python subprocess calls with sys.executable (the interpreter
running the test, which always has pytest). Full tree now 9377 passed / 0 failed.

Root-caused via the failure-diagnostics capture added in #345.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ProtocolWarden added a commit that referenced this pull request Jun 19, 2026
…cess calls (#346)

The baseline-validation gate (.venv/bin/pytest -q on the fresh workspace clone)
failed because tests/unit/test_documentation_accuracy.py shelled out with bare
['python', '-m', 'pytest', ...]. In the workspace env that 'python' has no pytest,
so stdout was empty and 'assert integration in markers_output' failed. CI only
passed because there bare 'python' is the pytest interpreter. That single failure
exited pytest 1, failing baseline validation and blocking EVERY improve/goal task
('N of N stages failed').

Replace all 7 bare-python subprocess calls with sys.executable (the interpreter
running the test, which always has pytest). Full tree now 9377 passed / 0 failed.

Root-caused via the failure-diagnostics capture added in #345.

Co-authored-by: ProtocolWarden <ProtocolWarden@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ProtocolWarden added a commit that referenced this pull request Jun 20, 2026
…fusal) (#347)

With the baseline blocker fixed (#346), tasks reached the agent stages and the
#345 diagnostics surfaced the next failure: the planner stage got a prose refusal
'ContextGuard requires CL_ANCHOR to be set ... run eval $(cl session start ...)'
instead of a JSON plan. OC's CLAUDE.md ContextGuard requires every Claude session
targeting OC to be anchored; operations-center.sh sets CL_ANCHOR on the fleet, but
build_allowlist_env (#340) stripped it (not in _ENV_PASSTHROUGH), re-breaking the
#311 unblock — same regression class as the #344 PATH bug.

Add CL_ANCHOR/CL_HOME/CL_SESSION_ID to the passthrough (forwarded only when
present) so the executor agent stays anchored and cl_dispatch_wrap hydrate/capture
is not silently disabled.

Co-authored-by: ProtocolWarden <ProtocolWarden@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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