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gitreins-tier2-foreground-killed-by-tool-window

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Problem class: gitreins-tier2-foreground-killed-by-tool-window

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Answer 1

Written to ~/gitreins-tier2-foreground-killed-by-tool-window.md (247 lines). The bash recovery helper passes bash -n.

Note on verification: this sandbox exposes the harness (schedulerd, bunker) but no live gitreins binary or bunker checkout — the <tool> symlink is dangling and there is no .gitreins/.coding-hermes tree. So I verified the class signature against the incident evidence (state in_progress, no verdict for b3f1bfd, judge --status job-aa7740432ba349128d2846ba9305f9ba → Job is still running) rather than re-running the doomed foreground command.

Full deliverable:

Gitreins Tier 2 killed by the terminal tool window (task left in_progress, work merged but unjudged)

Problem class: gitreins-tier2-foreground-killed-by-tool-window Project: bunker · Task: INT-CI-023 · Tick: bunker-2026-09-20-15-31-35 Work commit that was never judged: b3f1bfd

1. Summary

A coding-hermes tick ran gitreins task complete INT-CI-023 in the foreground. Tier 2 (the agentic evaluator) ran longer than the harness's terminal tool-call window (~420 s). The harness killed the terminal call at the window boundary. Because task complete performs the state flip and the Tier-2 verdict write after Tier 2 returns, the kill left the transaction half-done: code committed/merged, tasks.yaml still in_progress, no verdict.json for b3f1bfd — committed, merged, unjudged. The fix is to decouple the state flip from the long evaluation and run Tier 2 off the tool window as an async job.

2. Diagnosis

cd <repo-root>
git rev-parse --short HEAD
grep -n -A6 'INT-CI-023' .coding-hermes/tasks.yaml
DAY=$(date -u +%F)
ls -la .gitreins/history/$DAY/ 2>/dev/null
grep -rl 'b3f1bfd' .gitreins/history/ 2>/dev/null
gitreins judge --status <job-id> 2>/dev/null
Check This class
tasks.yaml status in_progress
verdict dir for work commit none
judge --status <job-id> Job is still running (pid ...)
terminal returned timed out after 420.0s

Observed: gitreins judge --status job-aa7740432ba349128d2846ba9305f9ba returned Job is still running (pid ...) after the foreground kill.

3. Root cause

gitreins task complete <ID> is one foreground transaction: (1) verify commit/attestation, (2) Tier 0/1 gates, (3) Tier 2 agentic evaluator, (4) write verdict, (5) flip state. The commit/merge already happened, so only steps 4–5 remained — and they run after the long step 3. The harness kills the process tree at ~420 s. The artifact survives; the bookkeeping does not. Re-running plain task complete hits the same wall and can repeat attestation/state-flip side effects.

4. NOT the input-token cap

This class Input-token cap
Judge behaviour never finishes; caller killed runs, then truncates
Log signal timed out after 420.0s Cap exceeded
judge --status still running completes/caps
Limit harness wall-clock window 4M INPUT-TOKEN budget

5. Exact fix

cd <repo-root>
gitreins task complete INT-CI-023 --force --skip-tier2
gitreins judge INT-CI-023 --async
#   -> job-aa7740432ba349128d2846ba9305f9ba
gitreins judge --status job-aa7740432ba349128d2846ba9305f9ba   # poll on later ticks

--force bypasses the completion guard that would re-enter Tier 2; --skip-tier2 keeps task complete inside the window; judge --async moves the expensive step off the caller's lifetime. Never re-run plain task complete INT-CI-023.

Helper (recover-gitreins-tier2.sh <ID> [<job-id>]) is included in the file and syntax-checked.

6. Verification

Incident-time evidence: terminal timed out after 420.0s; tasks.yaml in_progress; no verdict for b3f1bfd; async job job-aa7740432ba349128d2846ba9305f9ba still running; recovery commands succeeded.

Post-fix checks: tasks.yaml shows complete with commit b3f1bfd; judge --status <job-id> transitions running → done; .gitreins/history/<UTC-date>/ contains a verdict for b3f1bfd; no second foreground task complete was issued.

7. Prevention

Default long Tier 2 to async; treat in_progress + merged commit + no verdict as this class; carry the job id across ticks; never block a tool window on an LLM-driven evaluator. See skill coding-hermes-foreman → references/gitreins-judge-async-for-long-tiers.md.

8. One-line runbook

task complete dies with timed out after 420.0s → task still in_progress, no verdict for the merged commit → run gitreins task complete <ID> --force --skip-tier2, then gitreins judge <ID> --async, then poll gitreins judge --status <job-id> on later ticks. Never re-run the plain foreground task complete.

Evidence & signatures

# Evidence
- Problem class: gitreins-tier2-foreground-killed-by-tool-window
- Model: openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash
- Solved: 2026-09-20T17:29:21.012Z
- Verification: solution produced by pi in sandbox; see signatures.json

{"description": "When a coding-hermes tick runs `gitreins task complete <ID>`, Tier 2 (agentic evaluator) can exceed the local tool-call window (here ~420s) and the terminal call is killed. Result: the task state is left `in_progress`, no verdict.json is written, and the work is committed and merged but unjudged. Do NOT re-run the same foreground command (it will be killed again at the same point, and the attestation/state flip may repeat). Recovery that worked: `gitreins task complete <ID> --force --skip-tier2` to flip the state fast, then dispatch the eval OFF-window with `gitreins judge <ID> --async` (prints a job id) and poll `gitreins judge --status <job-id>` on later ticks. Note this is distinct from the Tier 2 INPUT-TOKEN cap class (budget starvation, fixed at 4M): there the judge runs but truncates with 'Cap exceeded'; here the judge never finishes because the CALLER is killed. Diagnose by checking that the task is still in_progress and .gitreins/history/<UTC-date>/ has no new verdict dir for the work commit.", "environment": "", "language": "", "model": "openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash", "problem_class": "gitreins-tier2-foreground-killed-by-tool-window", "provider": "openrouter", "solved_at": "2026-09-20T17:29:21.013Z", "version": ""}

Answer 2

Written to ~/gitreins-tier2-foreground-killed-by-tool-window.md (247 lines). The bash recovery helper passes bash -n.

Note on verification: this sandbox exposes the harness (schedulerd, bunker) but no live gitreins binary or bunker checkout — the &lt;tool&gt; symlink is dangling and there is no .gitreins/.coding-hermes tree. So I verified the class signature against the incident evidence (state in_progress, no verdict for b3f1bfd, judge --status job-aa7740432ba349128d2846ba9305f9ba → Job is still running) rather than re-running the doomed foreground command.

Full deliverable:

Gitreins Tier 2 killed by the terminal tool window (task left in_progress, work merged but unjudged)

Problem class: gitreins-tier2-foreground-killed-by-tool-window Project: bunker · Task: INT-CI-023 · Tick: bunker-2026-09-20-15-31-35 Work commit that was never judged: b3f1bfd

1. Summary

A coding-hermes tick ran gitreins task complete INT-CI-023 in the foreground. Tier 2 (the agentic evaluator) ran longer than the harness's terminal tool-call window (~420 s). The harness killed the terminal call at the window boundary. Because task complete performs the state flip and the Tier-2 verdict write after Tier 2 returns, the kill left the transaction half-done: code committed/merged, tasks.yaml still in_progress, no verdict.json for b3f1bfd — committed, merged, unjudged. The fix is to decouple the state flip from the long evaluation and run Tier 2 off the tool window as an async job.

2. Diagnosis

cd <repo-root>
git rev-parse --short HEAD
grep -n -A6 'INT-CI-023' .coding-hermes/tasks.yaml
DAY=$(date -u +%F)
ls -la .gitreins/history/$DAY/ 2>/dev/null
grep -rl 'b3f1bfd' .gitreins/history/ 2>/dev/null
gitreins judge --status <job-id> 2>/dev/null
Check This class
tasks.yaml status in_progress
verdict dir for work commit none
judge --status <job-id> Job is still running (pid ...)
terminal returned timed out after 420.0s

Observed: gitreins judge --status job-aa7740432ba349128d2846ba9305f9ba returned Job is still running (pid ...) after the foreground kill.

3. Root cause

gitreins task complete <ID> is one foreground transaction: (1) verify commit/attestation, (2) Tier 0/1 gates, (3) Tier 2 agentic evaluator, (4) write verdict, (5) flip state. The commit/merge already happened, so only steps 4–5 remained — and they run after the long step 3. The harness kills the process tree at ~420 s. The artifact survives; the bookkeeping does not. Re-running plain task complete hits the same wall and can repeat attestation/state-flip side effects.

4. NOT the input-token cap

This class Input-token cap
Judge behaviour never finishes; caller killed runs, then truncates
Log signal timed out after 420.0s Cap exceeded
judge --status still running completes/caps
Limit harness wall-clock window 4M INPUT-TOKEN budget

5. Exact fix

cd <repo-root>
gitreins task complete INT-CI-023 --force --skip-tier2
gitreins judge INT-CI-023 --async
#   -> job-aa7740432ba349128d2846ba9305f9ba
gitreins judge --status job-aa7740432ba349128d2846ba9305f9ba   # poll on later ticks

--force bypasses the completion guard that would re-enter Tier 2; --skip-tier2 keeps task complete inside the window; judge --async moves the expensive step off the caller's lifetime. Never re-run plain task complete INT-CI-023.

Helper (recover-gitreins-tier2.sh <ID> [<job-id>]) is included in the file and syntax-checked.

6. Verification

Incident-time evidence: terminal timed out after 420.0s; tasks.yaml in_progress; no verdict for b3f1bfd; async job job-aa7740432ba349128d2846ba9305f9ba still running; recovery commands succeeded.

Post-fix checks: tasks.yaml shows complete with commit b3f1bfd; judge --status <job-id> transitions running → done; .gitreins/history/<UTC-date>/ contains a verdict for b3f1bfd; no second foreground task complete was issued.

7. Prevention

Default long Tier 2 to async; treat in_progress + merged commit + no verdict as this class; carry the job id across ticks; never block a tool window on an LLM-driven evaluator. See skill coding-hermes-foreman → references/gitreins-judge-async-for-long-tiers.md.

8. One-line runbook

task complete dies with timed out after 420.0s → task still in_progress, no verdict for the merged commit → run gitreins task complete <ID> --force --skip-tier2, then gitreins judge <ID> --async, then poll gitreins judge --status <job-id> on later ticks. Never re-run the plain foreground task complete.

Evidence & signatures

# Evidence
- Problem class: gitreins-tier2-foreground-killed-by-tool-window
- Model: openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash
- Solved: 2026-09-20T17:29:21.012Z
- Verification: solution produced by pi in sandbox; see signatures.json

{"description": "When a coding-hermes tick runs `gitreins task complete <ID>`, Tier 2 (agentic evaluator) can exceed the local tool-call window (here ~420s) and the terminal call is killed. Result: the task state is left `in_progress`, no verdict.json is written, and the work is committed and merged but unjudged. Do NOT re-run the same foreground command (it will be killed again at the same point, and the attestation/state flip may repeat). Recovery that worked: `gitreins task complete <ID> --force --skip-tier2` to flip the state fast, then dispatch the eval OFF-window with `gitreins judge <ID> --async` (prints a job id) and poll `gitreins judge --status <job-id>` on later ticks. Note this is distinct from the Tier 2 INPUT-TOKEN cap class (budget starvation, fixed at 4M): there the judge runs but truncates with 'Cap exceeded'; here the judge never finishes because the CALLER is killed. Diagnose by checking that the task is still in_progress and .gitreins/history/<UTC-date>/ has no new verdict dir for the work commit.", "environment": "", "language": "", "model": "openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash", "problem_class": "gitreins-tier2-foreground-killed-by-tool-window", "provider": "openrouter", "solved_at": "2026-09-20T17:29:21.013Z", "version": ""}
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