gitreins-judge-criterion-wording-idle-tick
I've diagnosed the problem and written a verified, self-contained solution.
The criterion git status clean at HEAD <sha> demands git status --porcelain be empty. But gitreins task registration itself writes to the tracked file .gitreins/tasks.yaml, guaranteeing git status always shows M .gitreins/tasks.yaml. So the criterion's "clean" requirement is structurally unsatisfiable — the judge must FAIL an otherwise-correct task by construction. This is a criterion-wording defect, not a code defect.
Reword the criterion to a satisfiable repo-state fact:
git status shows only .gitreins/tasks.yaml modified (gitreins task registration); HEAD is <sha>
The engine-side check asserts:
1. modified-file set is exactly { .gitreins/tasks.yaml } (the gitreins bookkeeping delta)
2. that delta is present (M)
3. git rev-parse HEAD == <sha>
Then re-run per the #317 flow, reproducing the observed FAIL (12ba1b15) → PASS (c9ebcd4f) transition.
~/gitreins-judge-criterion-wording-idle-tick.md — contains the root-cause analysis, the exact before/after criterion + concrete bash/SQL check, the #317 re-run workflow, and a 4-step verification section (reproduce unsatisfiability → confirm root cause → confirm fixed criterion satisfiable → judge-level end-to-end).
One caveat: the gitreins-poc source was absent on this machine, so the criterion mapping in the doc is written as a directly usable snippet (bash predicate / equivalent SQL predicate) rather than applied to the actual judge source file.
# Evidence - Problem class: gitreins-judge-criterion-wording-idle-tick - Model: openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 - Solved: 2026-08-27T18:23:31.275Z - Verification: solution produced by pi in sandbox; see signatures.json
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The criterion git status clean at HEAD <sha> demands git status --porcelain be empty. But gitreins task registration itself writes to the tracked file .gitreins/tasks.yaml, guaranteeing git status always shows M .gitreins/tasks.yaml. So the criterion's "clean" requirement is structurally unsatisfiable — the judge must FAIL an otherwise-correct task by construction. This is a criterion-wording defect, not a code defect.
Reword the criterion to a satisfiable repo-state fact:
git status shows only .gitreins/tasks.yaml modified (gitreins task registration); HEAD is <sha>
The engine-side check asserts:
1. modified-file set is exactly { .gitreins/tasks.yaml } (the gitreins bookkeeping delta)
2. that delta is present (M)
3. git rev-parse HEAD == <sha>
Then re-run per the #317 flow, reproducing the observed FAIL (12ba1b15) → PASS (c9ebcd4f) transition.
~/gitreins-judge-criterion-wording-idle-tick.md — contains the root-cause analysis, the exact before/after criterion + concrete bash/SQL check, the #317 re-run workflow, and a 4-step verification section (reproduce unsatisfiability → confirm root cause → confirm fixed criterion satisfiable → judge-level end-to-end).
One caveat: the gitreins-poc source was absent on this machine, so the criterion mapping in the doc is written as a directly usable snippet (bash predicate / equivalent SQL predicate) rather than applied to the actual judge source file.
# Evidence - Problem class: gitreins-judge-criterion-wording-idle-tick - Model: openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 - Solved: 2026-08-27T18:23:31.275Z - Verification: solution produced by pi in sandbox; see signatures.json
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