Three fenced worker Pods claim Hermes Kanban runs through a coordinator that
owns every state transition, with per-ordinal HMAC authority, a mediated
broker-only SCM path, and durable per-ordinal workspaces.
Content is the reviewed head of PR #18 (689bcb6e) with PR 16's and PR 19's
contributions removed: they were merged in only to validate co-existence and are
not prerequisites, so this branch no longer carries them as ancestors. Only PR 14
and PR 15 remain, because the broker boundary and the cli_lane_* decomposition
are load-bearing for two of the fixed P0 boundaries.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The distributed worker pool stacks on exactly two open pull requests, in this
order: PR 14 supplies the broker-only SCM boundary the mediators route through
and the hermes-scm-boundary-v2 ConfigMap they mount, and PR 15 supplies the
cli_lane_* decomposition -- including canonical_run_id and the eligibility
predicate on claim_ready -- that the coordinator depends on. Neither can be
dropped without breaking a fixed P0 boundary, so both are carried here as
prerequisites and this branch must not merge before them.
PR 16 (agent image release lane) and PR 19 (full-handoff acceptance harness)
are NOT prerequisites and are deliberately absent, so reviewing this branch no
longer means approving them.
PR 14 and PR 15 conflict with each other in nine paths. Each is resolved to the
resolution already reviewed on this branch at 4d4cf1bd.
The local goal judge scored every worker report against "did the reviewed
implementation reach a shippable state". A read-only reviewer that returned a
completed BLOCK verdict with findings was therefore resumed turn after turn with
an instruction to repair code it was forbidden to touch (observed live on
t_dbdcd739), burning subscription capacity and risking an unbounded loop.
Completion is now judged against the action the card assigned:
* Cards declare their role explicitly with Hermes-Task-Role / Hermes-Expected-
Output metadata. Pre-contract cards fall back to a narrow inference that needs
a read-only scope, a requested verdict, no requested mutation deliverable, and
a report that changed no files.
* Role resolution reads only the card itself. Prior attempts, parent results,
cross-task history and comments appended to the worker context can no longer
reassign the role.
* Review, audit and diagnostic cards finalize deterministically on a truthful
SHIP or BLOCK verdict with evidence, and fail closed on a missing,
unrecognized or self-contradictory verdict, on a BLOCK without findings, and
on a verdict without evidence. Every rejection reason carries the read-only
guard, so a resumed review is never told to edit the reviewed implementation.
* Implementation cards keep the fail-closed model judge unchanged, including the
unfinished-work heuristic and judge-unavailable rejection.
* All judge reasons are bounded, single-line and secret-redacted before they
reach Kanban metadata, comments and continuation prompts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
