feat(webui): unified session/lease/lock/worktree inventory API (Closes #636)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>

anti_stomp_preflight.py

@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ MUTATION_TASKS = frozenset({
     "edit_pr",
     "commit_files",
     "gitea_commit_files",
+    "publish_unpublished_branch",
     "delete_branch",
     "cleanup_merged_pr_branch",
     "cleanup_stale_claims",

branch_publish.py

@@ -0,0 +1,591 @@
+"""Publish an unpublished local commit on a registered issue worktree (#812 AC20).
+
+Entry point B of #812 is the state where an author's work has already advanced
+to a local commit: the worktree is registered, clean, on the issue branch, and
+carries the only copy of the implementation, but the branch has never been
+published. That state deadlocks, because two individually correct predicates
+close a cycle:
+
+* ``issue_lock_renewal.assess_exact_owner_lease_renewal`` refuses to renew an
+  expired lease without an observable remote head — an unpublished branch has
+  none.
+* Every publication path (``gitea_commit_files``, ``gitea_create_pr``) derives
+  its workspace from the author issue lock under #618, so nothing can create
+  that remote head without first holding the lock.
+
+This module supplies the missing operation: it publishes an *already committed*
+local head to the remote branch, so exact-owner renewal has the evidence it
+requires. It deliberately does **not** renew, reclaim, rebind, or clear any
+lock. Publication is the whole of its authority.
+
+Why this is not a lock bypass
+-----------------------------
+The operation can only publish a branch whose **durable issue-lock record
+already names the caller as claimant**. Ownership is read from the lock file on
+disk (``issue_lock_store``), never from a caller-supplied flag, so the tool
+cannot manufacture a claim it does not already hold. Nothing here weakens the
+#510/#618/#713 guards: a dirty tree, an unregistered worktree, a foreign
+claimant, a changed HEAD, or a divergent remote head each refuse, exactly as
+they do today. The only thing this adds is the ability to make an existing,
+owned, committed, clean branch observable on the remote.
+
+Separation of records (#812 AC23)
+---------------------------------
+The durable **issue-lock file** and the control-plane **workflow lease** are
+distinct records. This module reads the former as ownership evidence and writes
+neither. Publishing changes remote git state only; no lock is renewed,
+abandoned, reclaimed, or generation-bumped here.
+
+Process evidence (#812 AC24)
+----------------------------
+Liveness of the lock's recorded pid is **not consulted**. That is deliberate:
+the recorded pid routinely belongs to the long-running MCP daemon rather than to
+an active author client, and the existing reclaim predicate
+(``assess_expired_lock_reclaim``) can never be satisfied while that daemon runs.
+Publication does not require the recording process to be dead, so this module
+never asserts, infers, or depends on a process being dead. Ownership is proven
+by identity and profile match against the recorded claimant instead.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import os
+import re
+import subprocess
+
+from reviewer_worktree import parse_dirty_tracked_files
+from stable_branch_push_guard import is_stable_ref, redact_command
+
+# Assessment outcomes.
+PUBLISH_SANCTIONED = "publish_sanctioned"
+ALREADY_PUBLISHED = "already_published"
+REFUSED = "refused"
+
+#: Implementation branches must stay traceable to their issue (#713 lineage).
+ISSUE_BRANCH_RE = re.compile(r"^(fix|feat|docs|chore)/issue-(\d+)-.+$")
+
+_SHA_RE = re.compile(r"^[0-9a-f]{40}$")
+
+
+def _text(value: object) -> str:
+    return value.strip() if isinstance(value, str) else ""
+
+
+def _realpath(value: str | None) -> str | None:
+    path = _text(value)
+    return os.path.realpath(path) if path else None
+
+
+def parse_untracked_files(porcelain_status: str) -> list[str]:
+    """Return untracked paths from ``git status --porcelain`` output.
+
+    ``reviewer_worktree.parse_dirty_tracked_files`` deliberately skips ``??``
+    entries. Publication needs both halves: an untracked file in the worktree is
+    unpublished content that the commit does not carry, so publishing would
+    silently leave it behind.
+    """
+    untracked: list[str] = []
+    for line in (porcelain_status or "").splitlines():
+        if not line.startswith("??"):
+            continue
+        path = line[2:].strip()
+        if path:
+            untracked.append(path)
+    return untracked
+
+
+def hash_worktree_files(worktree_path: str, paths) -> dict[str, str | None]:
+    """SHA-256 each path under *worktree_path*; ``None`` when unreadable."""
+    root = _text(worktree_path)
+    hashes: dict[str, str | None] = {}
+    for rel in paths or ():
+        rel_text = _text(rel)
+        if not rel_text:
+            continue
+        full = os.path.join(root, rel_text)
+        try:
+            with open(full, "rb") as handle:
+                digest = hashlib.sha256()
+                for chunk in iter(lambda: handle.read(65536), b""):
+                    digest.update(chunk)
+            hashes[rel_text] = digest.hexdigest()
+        except OSError:
+            hashes[rel_text] = None
+    return hashes
+
+
+def read_remote_branch_head(
+    worktree_path: str, remote_name: str, branch_name: str
+) -> dict:
+    """Observe the remote head for *branch_name*, read-only.
+
+    ``probe_ok`` False means git could not answer at all. That is kept distinct
+    from "the branch does not exist": an unobservable remote must fail closed
+    rather than be mistaken for an absent branch, because the two lead to
+    opposite dispositions.
+    """
+    path = _text(worktree_path)
+    remote = _text(remote_name)
+    branch = _text(branch_name)
+    result: dict = {
+        "probe_ok": False,
+        "remote_branch_exists": False,
+        "remote_head_sha": None,
+        "reasons": [],
+    }
+    if not (path and remote and branch):
+        result["reasons"].append(
+            "remote head probe requires a worktree path, remote name, and branch"
+        )
+        return result
+    try:
+        res = subprocess.run(
+            ["git", "-C", path, "ls-remote", remote, f"refs/heads/{branch}"],
+            capture_output=True,
+            text=True,
+            check=False,
+        )
+    except OSError as exc:  # git unavailable — fail closed, never assume absent
+        result["reasons"].append(f"remote head probe could not run: {exc}")
+        return result
+    if res.returncode != 0:
+        result["reasons"].append(
+            f"remote head probe failed for '{branch}' on remote '{remote}'"
+        )
+        return result
+
+    result["probe_ok"] = True
+    for line in (res.stdout or "").splitlines():
+        parts = line.split()
+        if len(parts) >= 2 and parts[1] == f"refs/heads/{branch}":
+            result["remote_branch_exists"] = True
+            result["remote_head_sha"] = parts[0].strip()
+            break
+    return result
+
+
+def read_is_ancestor(
+    worktree_path: str, ancestor_sha: str, descendant_sha: str
+) -> dict:
+    """Observe whether *ancestor_sha* is an ancestor of *descendant_sha*."""
+    path = _text(worktree_path)
+    ancestor = _text(ancestor_sha)
+    descendant = _text(descendant_sha)
+    result: dict = {"probe_ok": False, "is_ancestor": False, "reasons": []}
+    if not (path and ancestor and descendant):
+        result["reasons"].append(
+            "ancestry probe requires a worktree path and both commit SHAs"
+        )
+        return result
+    try:
+        present = subprocess.run(
+            ["git", "-C", path, "rev-parse", "--verify", "--quiet",
+             f"{ancestor}^{{commit}}"],
+            capture_output=True, text=True, check=False,
+        )
+        if present.returncode != 0:
+            result["reasons"].append(
+                f"remote head {ancestor} is not present locally, so it cannot be "
+                "proven an ancestor of the commit being published"
+            )
+            return result
+        res = subprocess.run(
+            ["git", "-C", path, "merge-base", "--is-ancestor", ancestor, descendant],
+            capture_output=True, text=True, check=False,
+        )
+    except OSError as exc:
+        result["reasons"].append(f"ancestry probe could not run: {exc}")
+        return result
+    result["probe_ok"] = res.returncode in (0, 1)
+    result["is_ancestor"] = res.returncode == 0
+    return result
+
+
+def assess_unpublished_commit_publication(
+    existing_lock,
+    *,
+    issue_number: int,
+    branch_name: str,
+    worktree_path: str,
+    expected_head: str,
+    remote: str,
+    org: str,
+    repo: str,
+    identity: str | None,
+    profile: str | None,
+    worktree_state,
+    worktree_registered: bool | None = None,
+    remote_probe=None,
+    ancestry=None,
+    competing_open_prs=(),
+    expected_file_hashes=None,
+    observed_file_hashes=None,
+) -> dict:
+    """Decide whether an unpublished local commit may be published (#812 AC20).
+
+    Pure predicate. Every input is either a caller-declared expectation that
+    must be *matched* against observation, or a server-side observation. No
+    caller-supplied boolean is accepted as proof of ownership, liveness, or
+    eligibility: ``existing_lock`` comes from the durable lock file and the
+    git/PR state is observed by the server.
+
+    The single mutating disposition it can return is "publish this exact commit
+    to this exact branch". It never sanctions renewal, reclamation, force
+    updates, history rewriting, or publication of uncommitted content.
+    """
+    reasons: list[str] = []
+    branch = _text(branch_name)
+    head = _text(expected_head).lower()
+    workspace = _realpath(worktree_path)
+    state = worktree_state if isinstance(worktree_state, dict) else {}
+    lock = existing_lock if isinstance(existing_lock, dict) else None
+
+    evidence: dict = {
+        "issue_number": issue_number,
+        "branch_name": branch or None,
+        "worktree_path": workspace,
+        "expected_head": head or None,
+        "remote": _text(remote) or None,
+        "org": _text(org) or None,
+        "repo": _text(repo) or None,
+        "identity": _text(identity) or None,
+        "profile": _text(profile) or None,
+        "lock_record_present": lock is not None,
+        "recorded_claimant": None,
+        "recorded_branch": None,
+        "recorded_worktree": None,
+        "lock_generation": None,
+        "local_head_sha": _text(state.get("head_sha")) or None,
+        "current_branch": _text(state.get("current_branch")) or None,
+        "dirty_tracked_files": [],
+        "untracked_files": [],
+        "worktree_registered": worktree_registered,
+        "remote_branch_exists": None,
+        "remote_head_sha": None,
+        "fast_forward_from_remote": None,
+        "competing_open_prs": [],
+        "file_hashes_verified": None,
+        "hash_mismatches": [],
+        # Recorded explicitly so no reader mistakes silence for a liveness
+        # claim, and so the audit shows which records were left alone (AC23/AC24).
+        "owner_pid_liveness_consulted": False,
+        "workflow_lease_touched": False,
+        "issue_lock_record_mutated": False,
+    }
+
+    # ── declared shape ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+    if not branch:
+        reasons.append("branch name not declared; fail closed")
+    if not head:
+        reasons.append(
+            "expected_head not declared; publication must name the exact commit"
+        )
+    elif not _SHA_RE.match(head):
+        reasons.append(
+            f"expected_head '{head}' is not a full 40-character commit SHA; "
+            "abbreviated or symbolic revisions are refused"
+        )
+    if not workspace:
+        reasons.append("worktree path not declared; fail closed")
+
+    if branch:
+        match = ISSUE_BRANCH_RE.match(branch)
+        if not match:
+            reasons.append(
+                f"branch '{branch}' is not an issue-linked implementation branch "
+                "((fix|feat|docs|chore)/issue-<number>-<description>); fail closed"
+            )
+        elif int(match.group(2)) != int(issue_number):
+            reasons.append(
+                f"branch '{branch}' does not carry issue number {issue_number}; "
+                "fail closed"
+            )
+        if is_stable_ref(branch):
+            reasons.append(
+                f"refusing to publish stable branch '{branch}'; this operation "
+                "publishes issue branches only"
+            )
+
+    # ── ownership: durable issue-lock record only (AC8, AC20, AC24) ───────
+    if lock is None:
+        reasons.append(
+            "no durable issue-lock record for this issue; publication requires an "
+            "existing recorded claim naming the caller, so this operation cannot "
+            "be used to bypass the author lock"
+        )
+    else:
+        lease = lock.get("work_lease")
+        lease = lease if isinstance(lease, dict) else {}
+        claimant = lease.get("claimant")
+        claimant = claimant if isinstance(claimant, dict) else {}
+        recorded_user = _text(claimant.get("username"))
+        recorded_profile = _text(claimant.get("profile"))
+        recorded_branch = _text(lock.get("branch_name")) or _text(lease.get("branch"))
+        recorded_worktree = _realpath(
+            _text(lock.get("worktree_path")) or _text(lease.get("worktree_path"))
+        )
+        evidence["recorded_claimant"] = {
+            "username": recorded_user or None,
+            "profile": recorded_profile or None,
+        }
+        evidence["recorded_branch"] = recorded_branch or None
+        evidence["recorded_worktree"] = recorded_worktree
+        try:
+            evidence["lock_generation"] = int(lock.get("lock_generation") or 0)
+        except (TypeError, ValueError):
+            evidence["lock_generation"] = 0
+
+        try:
+            recorded_issue = int(lock.get("issue_number") or 0)
+        except (TypeError, ValueError):
+            recorded_issue = 0
+        if recorded_issue != int(issue_number):
+            reasons.append(
+                f"durable lock records issue {lock.get('issue_number')}, not "
+                f"{issue_number}; ambiguous ownership, fail closed"
+            )
+        for field, declared in (
+            ("remote", _text(remote)),
+            ("org", _text(org)),
+            ("repo", _text(repo)),
+        ):
+            recorded = _text(lock.get(field))
+            if recorded and declared and recorded != declared:
+                reasons.append(
+                    f"durable lock records {field} '{recorded}' but the request "
+                    f"declares '{declared}'; repository mismatch, fail closed"
+                )
+        if recorded_branch and branch and recorded_branch != branch:
+            reasons.append(
+                f"durable lock records branch '{recorded_branch}' but the request "
+                f"declares '{branch}'; fail closed"
+            )
+        if recorded_worktree and workspace and recorded_worktree != workspace:
+            reasons.append(
+                f"durable lock records worktree '{recorded_worktree}' but the "
+                f"request declares '{workspace}'; fail closed"
+            )
+        if not recorded_user or not recorded_profile:
+            reasons.append(
+                "durable lock does not record a claimant username and profile; "
+                "ownership cannot be proven, fail closed"
+            )
+        else:
+            if recorded_user != _text(identity):
+                reasons.append(
+                    f"durable lock claimant '{recorded_user}' is not the acting "
+                    f"identity '{_text(identity) or '(unknown)'}'; foreign claim, "
+                    "fail closed"
+                )
+            if recorded_profile != _text(profile):
+                reasons.append(
+                    f"durable lock claimant profile '{recorded_profile}' is not "
+                    f"the active profile '{_text(profile) or '(unknown)'}'; "
+                    "fail closed"
+                )
+
+    # ── worktree: registered, on-branch, clean, at the expected commit ────
+    if worktree_registered is False:
+        reasons.append(
+            f"worktree '{workspace}' is not listed in git worktree list; #713 "
+            "requires a genuinely registered worktree, fail closed"
+        )
+
+    current_branch = _text(state.get("current_branch"))
+    if not current_branch:
+        reasons.append("worktree branch could not be observed; fail closed")
+    elif branch and current_branch != branch:
+        reasons.append(
+            f"worktree is on branch '{current_branch}', not '{branch}'; fail closed"
+        )
+
+    porcelain = state.get("porcelain_status") or ""
+    dirty_tracked = parse_dirty_tracked_files(porcelain)
+    untracked = parse_untracked_files(porcelain)
+    evidence["dirty_tracked_files"] = dirty_tracked
+    evidence["untracked_files"] = untracked
+    if dirty_tracked:
+        reasons.append(
+            "worktree has dirty tracked files, so the commit is not the whole of "
+            f"the work: {', '.join(dirty_tracked)}. This operation publishes an "
+            "existing clean commit only; uncommitted content is out of scope"
+        )
+    if untracked:
+        reasons.append(
+            "worktree has untracked files that the commit does not carry: "
+            f"{', '.join(untracked)}. Publishing would silently leave them "
+            "behind; fail closed"
+        )
+
+    local_head = _text(state.get("head_sha")).lower()
+    if not local_head:
+        reasons.append("local HEAD could not be observed; fail closed")
+    elif head and local_head != head:
+        reasons.append(
+            f"worktree HEAD is {local_head} but the request declares {head}; the "
+            "local commit changed since it was recorded, fail closed"
+        )
+
+    # ── remote state ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+    probe = remote_probe if isinstance(remote_probe, dict) else {}
+    already_published = False
+    if not probe.get("probe_ok"):
+        reasons.append(
+            "remote branch head could not be observed; publication must not "
+            "proceed against an unknown remote state, fail closed"
+        )
+        reasons.extend(probe.get("reasons") or [])
+    else:
+        remote_exists = bool(probe.get("remote_branch_exists"))
+        remote_head = _text(probe.get("remote_head_sha")).lower() or None
+        evidence["remote_branch_exists"] = remote_exists
+        evidence["remote_head_sha"] = remote_head
+        if remote_exists and remote_head and head:
+            if remote_head == head:
+                already_published = True
+                evidence["fast_forward_from_remote"] = True
+            else:
+                anc = ancestry if isinstance(ancestry, dict) else {}
+                is_anc = bool(anc.get("probe_ok")) and bool(anc.get("is_ancestor"))
+                evidence["fast_forward_from_remote"] = is_anc
+                if not is_anc:
+                    reasons.append(
+                        f"remote branch '{branch}' already exists at {remote_head}, "
+                        f"which is not an ancestor of {head}; publishing would "
+                        "discard or rewrite published history, fail closed"
+                    )
+                    reasons.extend(anc.get("reasons") or [])
+        elif remote_exists and not remote_head:
+            reasons.append(
+                f"remote branch '{branch}' exists but its head could not be read; "
+                "fail closed"
+            )
+
+    # ── competing claims ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
+    competing = [p for p in (competing_open_prs or ()) if p]
+    evidence["competing_open_prs"] = list(competing)
+    if competing:
+        reasons.append(
+            f"open pull request(s) {competing} already claim issue {issue_number} "
+            "or this branch; ambiguous ownership, fail closed"
+        )
+
+    # ── content verification before publication ───────────────────────────
+    if expected_file_hashes:
+        observed = (
+            observed_file_hashes if isinstance(observed_file_hashes, dict) else {}
+        )
+        mismatches: list[str] = []
+        for path, expected_digest in dict(expected_file_hashes).items():
+            actual = observed.get(path)
+            if actual is None:
+                mismatches.append(f"{path}: missing or unreadable in the worktree")
+            elif _text(actual).lower() != _text(expected_digest).lower():
+                mismatches.append(
+                    f"{path}: expected {expected_digest}, observed {actual}"
+                )
+        evidence["hash_mismatches"] = mismatches
+        evidence["file_hashes_verified"] = not mismatches
+        if mismatches:
+            reasons.append(
+                "declared content hashes do not match the worktree: "
+                + "; ".join(mismatches)
+                + ". Refusing to publish content that is not what was recorded"
+            )
+
+    if reasons:
+        return {
+            "outcome": REFUSED,
+            "publish_sanctioned": False,
+            "already_published": False,
+            "reasons": reasons,
+            "evidence": evidence,
+        }
+    return {
+        "outcome": ALREADY_PUBLISHED if already_published else PUBLISH_SANCTIONED,
+        # Idempotent retry: a remote head that already equals the assessed commit
+        # needs no second push, so the caller verifies instead of acting.
+        "publish_sanctioned": not already_published,
+        "already_published": already_published,
+        "reasons": [],
+        "evidence": evidence,
+    }
+
+
+def publish_commit_to_remote_branch(
+    *,
+    worktree_path: str,
+    remote_name: str,
+    branch_name: str,
+    expected_head: str,
+) -> dict:
+    """Send exactly *expected_head* to ``refs/heads/<branch_name>``.
+
+    The refspec names the commit SHA explicitly rather than ``HEAD`` or the
+    local branch, so what lands is the commit that was assessed and nothing
+    else. No force, no lease, no ``+`` prefix: a non-fast-forward is rejected by
+    git itself, the last of several independent guards against overwriting
+    published history.
+    """
+    path = _text(worktree_path)
+    remote = _text(remote_name)
+    branch = _text(branch_name)
+    head = _text(expected_head)
+    result: dict = {
+        "success": False,
+        "pushed_ref": f"refs/heads/{branch}" if branch else None,
+        "pushed_sha": head or None,
+        "stderr": None,
+        "reasons": [],
+    }
+    if not (path and remote and branch and head):
+        result["reasons"].append(
+            "publication requires a worktree path, remote, branch, and commit SHA"
+        )
+        return result
+
+    refspec = f"{head}:refs/heads/{branch}"
+    try:
+        res = subprocess.run(
+            ["git", "-C", path, "push", remote, refspec],
+            capture_output=True,
+            text=True,
+            check=False,
+        )
+    except OSError as exc:
+        result["reasons"].append(f"publication could not run: {exc}")
+        return result
+
+    if res.returncode != 0:
+        # Redact before surfacing: failures can echo credentialed remote URLs.
+        result["stderr"] = redact_command(res.stderr or "")
+        result["reasons"].append(
+            f"publication of {head} to '{branch}' on remote '{remote}' failed"
+        )
+        return result
+
+    result["success"] = True
+    return result
+
+
+def verify_published_head(
+    *, worktree_path: str, remote_name: str, branch_name: str, expected_head: str
+) -> dict:
+    """Read-after-write: confirm the remote head equals *expected_head* (AC20)."""
+    probe = read_remote_branch_head(worktree_path, remote_name, branch_name)
+    head = _text(expected_head).lower()
+    observed = _text(probe.get("remote_head_sha")).lower() or None
+    verified = bool(head) and bool(probe.get("probe_ok")) and observed == head
+    reasons: list[str] = list(probe.get("reasons") or [])
+    if probe.get("probe_ok") and not verified:
+        reasons.append(
+            "read-after-write verification failed: remote head is "
+            f"{observed or '(absent)'}, expected {head}"
+        )
+    return {
+        "verified": verified,
+        "remote_head_sha": observed,
+        "expected_head": head or None,
+        "reasons": reasons,
+    }

docs/mcp-tool-inventory.md

@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ that gates each call, not which tools exist.
 - `gitea_observability_list_projects`
 - `gitea_observability_reconcile_incident`
 - `gitea_post_heartbeat`
+- `gitea_publish_unpublished_issue_branch`
 - `gitea_quarantine_contaminated_review`
 - `gitea_reclaim_expired_workflow_lease`
 - `gitea_reconcile_already_landed_pr`

docs/webui-local-dev.md

@@ -212,6 +212,53 @@ health, workflow/schema SHA-256 hashes, and stale-runtime warnings when the
 checkout is behind merged safety-gate changes. Restart guidance links to #420;
 no tokens or MCP restart actions are exposed.
 
+## Inventory API (#636)
+
+`GET /api/v1/inventory` returns one versioned, read-only snapshot that unifies
+what the lease (#433), worktree (#432), and runtime (#430) MVP views each show
+separately, so traffic-control and recovery consumers read the same source.
+`GET /api/v1/inventory/{section}` returns a single section under the identical
+schema (`sessions`, `leases`, `locks`, `worktrees`, `namespaces`); an unknown
+section is a `404` with `error: unknown_section`. Both routes are `GET`-only.
+
+Each section carries its own `status` (`ok` / `degraded` / `unavailable`), a
+`reason` when not `ok`, and a `scan_ms`. A subsystem that cannot be read
+degrades to a reasoned section; it never raises and never emits an empty list
+that would read as "nothing is there".
+
+### Field authority
+
+Every section names where its rows came from; authorities are never blended.
+
+| Section | Authority | Source |
+|---|---|---|
+| `sessions` | `control_plane_db` | #613 control-plane DB (`mode=ro`), authoritative for exclusive ownership (#600/#601) |
+| `leases` | `control_plane_db` | #613 control-plane DB; degrades if the `work_items` table is absent |
+| `locks` | `filesystem` | durable per-issue lock files (`issue_lock_store`) |
+| `worktrees` | `filesystem` | registered git worktrees via the #432 hygiene scanner |
+| `namespaces` | `filesystem` | the active profile serving this web process (others are not enumerable) |
+
+The payload restates this map under `field_authority` for machine consumers.
+
+### Ownership safety
+
+`ownership_authority_complete` is true only when every ownership-bearing section
+(`sessions`, `leases`, `locks`) read cleanly. While it is false, nothing is
+reported as unowned and no collision is asserted from a degraded source —
+absence of evidence is reported as absence of evidence, never as free work.
+
+`collisions` surfaces detectable conflicts, each with a `kind` and `severity`:
+`lock-without-worktree`, `duplicate-live-lock`, `live-lock-dead-owner` (unexpired
+lease, dead pid — a #753 recovery candidate that would read as live to a naive
+timestamp check), `stale-lock-dead-owner`, `expired-lock-live-owner` (the
+#635/#760 daemon-pid deadlock), `concurrent-active-lease`, `active-lease-past-expiry`,
+and `orphan-lease`. Collisions are emitted only from sections that read cleanly.
+
+The control-plane DB is opened through a `mode=ro` URI so a read never creates
+or migrates it; paths are collapsed against `$HOME`, URLs lose userinfo and
+query strings, and credential-shaped values are redacted at the boundary. Lease
+steal/release and worktree deletion are Phase 2+ and have no representation here.
+
 ## Tests
 
 ```bash

gitea_mcp_server.py

@@ -2024,6 +2024,7 @@ import review_quarantine  # noqa: E402  # #695 contaminated formal-review quaran
 import mcp_daemon_guard  # noqa: E402  # #695 native transport provenance
 import already_landed_reconcile  # noqa: E402
 import author_mutation_worktree  # noqa: E402
+import branch_publish  # noqa: E402  # #812 AC20 unpublished-commit publication
 import root_checkout_guard  # noqa: E402
 import workflow_scope_guard  # noqa: E402  # #683 production scope / force-on guards
 import stable_branch_push_guard  # noqa: E402
@@ -9082,6 +9083,253 @@ def gitea_commit_files(
     }
 
 
+def _publication_block(reasons: list[str], **extra) -> dict:
+    """Uniform fail-closed shape for publication refusals (#812 AC20)."""
+    payload = {
+        "success": False,
+        "performed": False,
+        "published": False,
+        "verified": False,
+        "outcome": branch_publish.REFUSED,
+        "reasons": reasons,
+        # State every record this operation left alone, so a refusal can never
+        # be misread as a lock mutation (#812 AC23).
+        "issue_lock_record_mutated": False,
+        "workflow_lease_touched": False,
+    }
+    payload.update(extra)
+    return payload
+
+
+@mcp.tool()
+def gitea_publish_unpublished_issue_branch(
+    issue_number: int,
+    branch_name: str,
+    worktree_path: str,
+    expected_head: str,
+    remote: str = "dadeschools",
+    host: str | None = None,
+    org: str | None = None,
+    repo: str | None = None,
+    git_remote_name: str | None = None,
+    expected_file_hashes: dict | None = None,
+    dry_run: bool = False,
+) -> dict:
+    """Publish an already-committed, unpublished issue branch (#812 AC20).
+
+    Creates the remote head for a branch whose work is *already* a local commit
+    on a registered, clean worktree, so exact-owner lease renewal
+    (``issue_lock_renewal``) has the published head its evidence model requires.
+    This is the one step of the entry point B deadlock that no existing tool can
+    perform: publication is otherwise lock-derived under #618, and the lock
+    itself is withheld until a remote head exists.
+
+    Not a lock bypass. The branch's **durable issue-lock record must already
+    name the caller as claimant** — ownership is read from the lock file, never
+    asserted by the caller — so this can only publish work the caller already
+    owns. It refuses a dirty or untracked-carrying worktree, an unregistered
+    worktree, a changed local HEAD, a remote head that is not an ancestor of the
+    commit, a competing open PR on another branch for the same issue, and any
+    declared-hash mismatch. It renews, reclaims, and clears nothing: the durable
+    issue-lock file and the control-plane workflow lease are both left untouched
+    (#812 AC23), and the recorded owner pid's liveness is never consulted or
+    asserted (#812 AC24).
+
+    Args:
+        issue_number: The issue whose recorded claim authorizes publication.
+        branch_name: Issue branch to publish, ``(fix|feat|docs|chore)/issue-N-…``.
+        worktree_path: Registered worktree holding the commit.
+        expected_head: Full 40-character SHA of the commit to publish. Required:
+            publication names the exact commit, and a mismatch fails closed.
+        remote: Known instance — 'dadeschools' or 'prgs'.
+        host: Override the Gitea host.
+        org: Override the owner/organization.
+        repo: Override the repository name.
+        git_remote_name: Git remote to publish to; defaults to *remote*.
+        expected_file_hashes: Optional ``{path: sha256}`` verified against the
+            worktree before publication. Any mismatch or missing file refuses.
+        dry_run: Report the decision and evidence, mutate nothing.
+
+    Returns:
+        dict with 'success', 'performed', 'published', 'verified', 'outcome',
+        'remote_head_sha', 'reasons', and 'evidence'.
+    """
+    task = "publish_unpublished_branch"
+    ok, block_reasons = role_session_router.check_author_mutation_after_reviewer_stop(
+        task
+    )
+    if not ok:
+        return _publication_block(block_reasons)
+
+    blocked = _namespace_mutation_block(task, remote=remote)
+    if blocked:
+        return blocked
+    blocked = _profile_permission_block(
+        task_capability_map.required_permission(task),
+        remote=remote, host=host, org=org, repo=repo,
+        org_explicit=org is not None,
+        repo_explicit=repo is not None,
+    )
+    if blocked:
+        return blocked
+
+    # #815: resolve the caller's worktree *before* preflight and forward it, so
+    # every workspace-resolution layer behind verify_preflight_purity — including
+    # the #618 branches-only guard — judges the registered issue worktree this
+    # publication actually operates on. Resolving it afterwards let preflight
+    # fall back to the MCP process root, so a daemon rooted at the stable control
+    # checkout refused a valid explicit worktree before the assessor ever ran.
+    # A caller supplying nothing usable forwards None and keeps the ordinary
+    # fail-closed fallback.
+    explicit_worktree = (worktree_path or "").strip()
+    workspace = os.path.realpath(os.path.abspath(explicit_worktree or "."))
+
+    verify_preflight_purity(
+        remote,
+        worktree_path=workspace if explicit_worktree else None,
+        task=task,
+        org=org,
+        repo=repo,
+    )
+
+    h, o, r = _resolve(remote, host, org, repo)
+    git_remote = (git_remote_name or remote or "").strip()
+
+    existing_lock = issue_lock_store.load_issue_lock(
+        remote=remote, org=o, repo=r, issue_number=int(issue_number)
+    )
+    git_state = issue_lock_worktree.read_worktree_git_state(workspace)
+    registered = author_mutation_worktree.path_in_git_worktree_list(
+        workspace, PROJECT_ROOT
+    )
+
+    remote_probe = branch_publish.read_remote_branch_head(
+        workspace, git_remote, branch_name
+    )
+    ancestry = None
+    probe_head = (remote_probe.get("remote_head_sha") or "").strip()
+    if probe_head and probe_head.lower() != (expected_head or "").strip().lower():
+        ancestry = branch_publish.read_is_ancestor(workspace, probe_head, expected_head)
+
+    # A PR on this very branch is this work's own PR, not a rival claim. Only an
+    # open PR for the same issue on a *different* branch is a competing claim.
+    competing: list = []
+    for pull in _list_open_pulls(h, o, r, _auth(h)):
+        ref = str((pull.get("head") or {}).get("ref") or "")
+        if not ref or ref == branch_name:
+            continue
+        if issue_lock_adoption.branch_carries_issue_marker(ref, int(issue_number)):
+            competing.append(pull.get("number"))
+
+    observed_hashes = None
+    if expected_file_hashes:
+        observed_hashes = branch_publish.hash_worktree_files(
+            workspace, list(expected_file_hashes.keys())
+        )
+
+    claimant = _work_lease_claimant(h)
+    assessment = branch_publish.assess_unpublished_commit_publication(
+        existing_lock,
+        issue_number=int(issue_number),
+        branch_name=branch_name,
+        worktree_path=workspace,
+        expected_head=expected_head,
+        remote=remote,
+        org=o,
+        repo=r,
+        identity=claimant.get("username"),
+        profile=claimant.get("profile"),
+        worktree_state=git_state,
+        worktree_registered=registered,
+        remote_probe=remote_probe,
+        ancestry=ancestry,
+        competing_open_prs=competing,
+        expected_file_hashes=expected_file_hashes,
+        observed_file_hashes=observed_hashes,
+    )
+
+    if assessment["outcome"] == branch_publish.REFUSED:
+        return _publication_block(
+            assessment["reasons"], evidence=assessment["evidence"]
+        )
+
+    if dry_run:
+        return {
+            "success": True,
+            "performed": False,
+            "published": False,
+            "verified": False,
+            "dry_run": True,
+            "outcome": assessment["outcome"],
+            "would_publish": assessment["publish_sanctioned"],
+            "remote_head_sha": assessment["evidence"].get("remote_head_sha"),
+            "reasons": [],
+            "evidence": assessment["evidence"],
+            "issue_lock_record_mutated": False,
+            "workflow_lease_touched": False,
+        }
+
+    performed = False
+    if assessment["publish_sanctioned"]:
+        with _audited(
+            task, host=h, remote=remote, org=o, repo=r,
+            target_branch=branch_name,
+            request_metadata={
+                "issue_number": int(issue_number),
+                "expected_head": expected_head,
+                "git_remote": git_remote,
+            },
+        ):
+            push = branch_publish.publish_commit_to_remote_branch(
+                worktree_path=workspace,
+                remote_name=git_remote,
+                branch_name=branch_name,
+                expected_head=expected_head,
+            )
+        if not push.get("success"):
+            return _publication_block(
+                push.get("reasons") or ["publication failed"],
+                evidence=assessment["evidence"],
+                stderr=push.get("stderr"),
+            )
+        performed = True
+
+    verification = branch_publish.verify_published_head(
+        worktree_path=workspace,
+        remote_name=git_remote,
+        branch_name=branch_name,
+        expected_head=expected_head,
+    )
+    if not verification.get("verified"):
+        return _publication_block(
+            verification.get("reasons") or ["read-after-write verification failed"],
+            evidence=assessment["evidence"],
+            performed=performed,
+            published=performed,
+            remote_head_sha=verification.get("remote_head_sha"),
+        )
+
+    return {
+        "success": True,
+        "performed": performed,
+        "published": True,
+        "verified": True,
+        "outcome": assessment["outcome"],
+        "remote_head_sha": verification.get("remote_head_sha"),
+        "reasons": [],
+        "evidence": assessment["evidence"],
+        # Publication is the whole of this operation's authority (#812 AC23).
+        "issue_lock_record_mutated": False,
+        "workflow_lease_touched": False,
+        "exact_next_action": (
+            f"Remote head for '{branch_name}' is now observable. Call "
+            f"gitea_lock_issue(issue_number={int(issue_number)}, "
+            f"branch_name='{branch_name}', worktree_path='{workspace}') to renew "
+            "the exact-owner lease, then gitea_create_pr."
+        ),
+    }
+
+
 # Merge methods supported by the Gitea merge API.
 _MERGE_METHODS = ("merge", "squash", "rebase")
 

task_capability_map.py

@@ -62,6 +62,14 @@ TASK_CAPABILITY_MAP: dict[str, dict[str, str]] = {
         "permission": "gitea.branch.push",
         "role": "author",
     },
+    # #812 AC20: publish an already-committed, unpublished local head so
+    # exact-owner lease renewal has an observable remote head to reason about.
+    # Same authority as any other author push — deliberately not a new
+    # operation name, so it cannot widen an already-configured author profile.
+    "publish_unpublished_branch": {
+        "permission": "gitea.branch.push",
+        "role": "author",
+    },
     "create_pr": {
         "permission": "gitea.pr.create",
         "role": "author",
@@ -500,6 +508,7 @@ ROLE_EXCLUSIVE_TASKS: frozenset[str] = frozenset(
         "gitea_release_merger_pr_lease",
         "create_branch",
         "push_branch",
+        "publish_unpublished_branch",
         "create_pr",
         "commit_files",
         "gitea_commit_files",

tests/test_issue_812_publish_unpublished_commit.py

@@ -0,0 +1,650 @@
+"""Publication of an unpublished local commit (#812 AC20).
+
+Entry point B of #812: a registered worktree, clean, on its issue branch,
+holding a local commit that has never been published. Exact-owner lease renewal
+refuses such a claim for want of an observable remote head, and every existing
+publication path is lock-derived, so the two predicates close a cycle around
+work that is otherwise complete.
+
+These tests exercise the disposition through its *evidence*, never through any
+particular issue number: every case uses an arbitrary issue number against a
+synthetic repository, and the same assertions hold for any other. Nothing here
+reads, writes, or references the live protected worktree named in #812 AC17 —
+that content is preserved evidence for the duration of this work, so the
+fixtures below build their own repositories from scratch.
+
+The remote is a local bare repository, so publication and read-after-write
+verification are genuinely executed rather than mocked.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import os
+import subprocess
+import sys
+import tempfile
+import unittest
+from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
+from unittest.mock import patch
+
+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))))
+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
+
+import branch_publish  # noqa: E402
+import issue_lock_provenance  # noqa: E402
+import issue_lock_renewal  # noqa: E402
+import issue_lock_store  # noqa: E402
+import mcp_server  # noqa: E402
+from mutation_profile_fixture import shared_mutation_env  # noqa: E402
+
+ISSUE = 9812
+BRANCH = f"feat/issue-{ISSUE}-publish-fixture"
+IDENTITY = "example-user"
+PROFILE = "test-author-prgs"
+ORG = "Scaled-Tech-Consulting"
+REPO = "Gitea-Tools"
+GIT_REMOTE = "prgs"
+
+
+def _ts(hours: int) -> str:
+    return (
+        (datetime.now(timezone.utc) + timedelta(hours=hours))
+        .isoformat()
+        .replace("+00:00", "Z")
+    )
+
+
+class _PublishBase(unittest.TestCase):
+    """Real git repo + real bare remote + durable lock naming the caller.
+
+    The recorded owner pid is deliberately **this live process**. That mirrors
+    the production shape #812 documents, where the pid belongs to a long-running
+    MCP daemon rather than to a dead author client, and it proves publication
+    never depends on a dead process (#812 AC24).
+    """
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.lock_dir = tempfile.TemporaryDirectory()
+        self.addCleanup(self.lock_dir.cleanup)
+        self.origin = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix="issue812-origin-")
+        self.repo = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix="issue812-work-")
+        for path in (self.origin, self.repo):
+            self.addCleanup(
+                lambda p=path: subprocess.run(["rm", "-rf", p], check=False)
+            )
+        self._init_repos()
+        self.remotes = patch.dict(
+            mcp_server.REMOTES,
+            {"prgs": {"host": "gitea.prgs.cc", "org": ORG, "repo": REPO}},
+        )
+        self.remotes.start()
+        self.addCleanup(patch.stopall)
+        mcp_server._IDENTITY_CACHE.clear()
+
+    # ── fixture construction ─────────────────────────────────────────────
+    def _git(self, *args, cwd=None):
+        return subprocess.run(
+            ["git", "-C", cwd or self.repo, *args],
+            capture_output=True,
+            text=True,
+            check=True,
+        )
+
+    def _init_repos(self):
+        subprocess.run(
+            ["git", "init", "-q", "--bare", "-b", "master", self.origin], check=True
+        )
+        self._git("init", "-q", "-b", "master")
+        self._git("config", "user.email", "[email protected]")
+        self._git("config", "user.name", "Test")
+        self._git("remote", "add", GIT_REMOTE, self.origin)
+
+        with open(os.path.join(self.repo, "seed.txt"), "w") as fh:
+            fh.write("seed\n")
+        self._git("add", "seed.txt")
+        self._git("commit", "-q", "-m", "seed")
+        self.base_sha = self._git("rev-parse", "HEAD").stdout.strip()
+        self._git("push", "-q", GIT_REMOTE, "master")
+
+        self._git("checkout", "-q", "-b", BRANCH)
+        with open(os.path.join(self.repo, "work.txt"), "w") as fh:
+            fh.write("unpublished implementation\n")
+        self._git("add", "work.txt")
+        self._git("commit", "-q", "-m", "unpublished implementation")
+        self.head_sha = self._git("rev-parse", "HEAD").stdout.strip()
+        self.worktree = os.path.realpath(self.repo)
+
+    def lock_path(self):
+        return issue_lock_store.lock_file_path(
+            remote="prgs", org=ORG, repo=REPO, issue_number=ISSUE,
+            lock_dir=self.lock_dir.name,
+        )
+
+    def write_lock(self, **overrides):
+        path = self.lock_path()
+        claimant = overrides.pop(
+            "claimant", {"username": IDENTITY, "profile": PROFILE}
+        )
+        pid = overrides.pop("session_pid", os.getpid())
+        lease = {
+            "operation_type": issue_lock_store.AUTHOR_ISSUE_WORK_LEASE,
+            "issue_number": ISSUE,
+            "pr_number": None,
+            "branch": overrides.get("branch_name", BRANCH),
+            "worktree_path": overrides.get("worktree_path", self.worktree),
+            "claimant": claimant,
+            "created_at": _ts(-2),
+            "last_heartbeat_at": _ts(-2),
+            # Expired: entry point B's lease has lapsed, which is precisely why
+            # renewal — and therefore a published head — is needed.
+            "expires_at": _ts(-1),
+        }
+        lease.update(overrides.pop("work_lease", {}))
+        data = {
+            "issue_number": ISSUE,
+            "branch_name": BRANCH,
+            "remote": "prgs",
+            "org": ORG,
+            "repo": REPO,
+            "worktree_path": self.worktree,
+            "session_pid": pid,
+            "pid": pid,
+            "lock_generation": 1,
+            "work_lease": lease,
+            "lock_provenance": issue_lock_provenance.build_sanctioned_lock_provenance(
+                tool="gitea_lock_issue", claimant=claimant
+            ),
+        }
+        data.update(overrides)
+        data["lock_file_path"] = path
+        issue_lock_store.save_lock_file(path, data)
+        return path
+
+    def _tool_env(self):
+        env = shared_mutation_env(
+            PROFILE, include_example_repo=True,
+            GITEA_ISSUE_LOCK_DIR=self.lock_dir.name,
+        )
+        env["GITEA_ISSUE_LOCK_DIR"] = self.lock_dir.name
+        # These tests repoint PROJECT_ROOT at a synthetic repository so the
+        # registered-worktree proof runs for real. Pin the parity gate to the
+        # server's own startup head so that repointing does not read as a stale
+        # daemon; the gate itself stays live and enforced.
+        startup_head = mcp_server._STARTUP_PARITY.get("startup_head") or ""
+        env["GITEA_TEST_CURRENT_HEAD"] = startup_head
+        env["GITEA_TEST_LIVE_REMOTE_HEAD"] = startup_head
+        return env
+
+    # ── tool driver ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+    def run_publish(self, *, open_prs=None, expected_head=None, **kwargs):
+        """Drive the public publication tool against the synthetic fixture."""
+        env = self._tool_env()
+        with patch(
+            "mcp_server._list_open_pulls", return_value=list(open_prs or [])
+        ), patch(
+            "mcp_server._auth", return_value="token x"
+        ), patch(
+            "mcp_server.get_auth_header", return_value="token x"
+        ), patch(
+            "mcp_server._work_lease_claimant",
+            return_value={"username": IDENTITY, "profile": PROFILE},
+        ), patch.object(
+            mcp_server, "PROJECT_ROOT", self.repo
+        ), patch.dict(os.environ, env, clear=True):
+            os.environ["GITEA_ISSUE_LOCK_DIR"] = self.lock_dir.name
+            return mcp_server.gitea_publish_unpublished_issue_branch(
+                issue_number=kwargs.pop("issue_number", ISSUE),
+                branch_name=kwargs.pop("branch_name", BRANCH),
+                worktree_path=kwargs.pop("worktree_path", self.worktree),
+                expected_head=expected_head or self.head_sha,
+                remote="prgs",
+                git_remote_name=kwargs.pop("git_remote_name", GIT_REMOTE),
+                **kwargs,
+            )
+
+    def remote_head(self, branch=BRANCH):
+        res = subprocess.run(
+            ["git", "-C", self.origin, "rev-parse", "--verify", "--quiet", branch],
+            capture_output=True, text=True, check=False,
+        )
+        return (res.stdout or "").strip() or None
+
+
+class TestSuccessfulPublication(_PublishBase):
+    """AC20 — the branch becomes observable and is verified after the write."""
+
+    def test_publishes_clean_unpublished_commit(self):
+        self.write_lock()
+        self.assertIsNone(self.remote_head(), "fixture must start unpublished")
+
+        result = self.run_publish()
+
+        self.assertTrue(result["success"], result.get("reasons"))
+        self.assertTrue(result["performed"])
+        self.assertTrue(result["published"])
+        self.assertTrue(result["verified"], "read-after-write must be proven")
+        self.assertEqual(result["remote_head_sha"], self.head_sha)
+        self.assertEqual(self.remote_head(), self.head_sha)
+
+    def test_publication_does_not_rewrite_the_commit(self):
+        self.write_lock()
+        self.run_publish()
+        # The published object is the same commit, not a copy or a rewrite.
+        self.assertEqual(self.remote_head(), self.head_sha)
+        self.assertEqual(
+            self._git("rev-parse", "HEAD").stdout.strip(), self.head_sha
+        )
+
+    def test_exact_next_action_names_the_lock_call(self):
+        self.write_lock()
+        result = self.run_publish()
+        self.assertIn("gitea_lock_issue", result["exact_next_action"])
+
+
+class TestFailsClosed(_PublishBase):
+    """AC20/AC9 — each refusal reason, exercised independently."""
+
+    def test_changed_local_head_refuses(self):
+        self.write_lock()
+        stale = self.base_sha  # a real commit, but not the declared head
+        result = self.run_publish(expected_head=stale)
+        self.assertFalse(result["success"])
+        self.assertTrue(
+            any("local commit changed" in r for r in result["reasons"]),
+            result["reasons"],
+        )
+        self.assertIsNone(self.remote_head(), "refusal must not publish")
+
+    def test_abbreviated_sha_refuses(self):
+        self.write_lock()
+        result = self.run_publish(expected_head=self.head_sha[:8])
+        self.assertFalse(result["success"])
+        self.assertTrue(
+            any("40-character" in r for r in result["reasons"]), result["reasons"]
+        )
+
+    def test_dirty_tracked_worktree_refuses(self):
+        self.write_lock()
+        with open(os.path.join(self.repo, "work.txt"), "a") as fh:
+            fh.write("uncommitted edit\n")
+
+        result = self.run_publish()
+
+        self.assertFalse(result["success"])
+        self.assertTrue(
+            any("dirty tracked files" in r for r in result["reasons"]),
+            result["reasons"],
+        )
+        self.assertIn("work.txt", result["evidence"]["dirty_tracked_files"])
+        self.assertIsNone(self.remote_head())
+
+    def test_untracked_file_refuses(self):
+        self.write_lock()
+        with open(os.path.join(self.repo, "stray.txt"), "w") as fh:
+            fh.write("not committed\n")
+
+        result = self.run_publish()
+
+        self.assertFalse(result["success"])
+        self.assertTrue(
+            any("untracked files" in r for r in result["reasons"]), result["reasons"]
+        )
+        self.assertIn("stray.txt", result["evidence"]["untracked_files"])
+        self.assertIsNone(self.remote_head())
+
+    def test_unexpected_remote_head_refuses(self):
+        """A remote head that is not an ancestor must never be overwritten."""
+        self.write_lock()
+        # Publish a divergent commit to the branch from a separate line.
+        self._git("checkout", "-q", "-b", "divergent", self.base_sha)
+        with open(os.path.join(self.repo, "other.txt"), "w") as fh:
+            fh.write("someone else's work\n")
+        self._git("add", "other.txt")
+        self._git("commit", "-q", "-m", "divergent")
+        divergent = self._git("rev-parse", "HEAD").stdout.strip()
+        self._git("push", "-q", GIT_REMOTE, f"{divergent}:refs/heads/{BRANCH}")
+        self._git("checkout", "-q", BRANCH)
+
+        result = self.run_publish()
+
+        self.assertFalse(result["success"])
+        self.assertTrue(
+            any("not an ancestor" in r for r in result["reasons"]), result["reasons"]
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(
+            self.remote_head(), divergent, "the other head must survive intact"
+        )
+
+    def test_fast_forward_remote_head_is_allowed(self):
+        """An ancestor head is an honest fast-forward, not a conflict."""
+        self.write_lock()
+        self._git("push", "-q", GIT_REMOTE, f"{self.base_sha}:refs/heads/{BRANCH}")
+
+        result = self.run_publish()
+
+        self.assertTrue(result["success"], result.get("reasons"))
+        self.assertTrue(result["evidence"]["fast_forward_from_remote"])
+        self.assertEqual(self.remote_head(), self.head_sha)
+
+    def test_content_hash_mismatch_refuses(self):
+        self.write_lock()
+        wrong = {"work.txt": "0" * 64}
+
+        result = self.run_publish(expected_file_hashes=wrong)
+
+        self.assertFalse(result["success"])
+        self.assertTrue(
+            any("declared content hashes" in r for r in result["reasons"]),
+            result["reasons"],
+        )
+        self.assertFalse(result["evidence"]["file_hashes_verified"])
+        self.assertIsNone(self.remote_head())
+
+    def test_matching_content_hashes_publish(self):
+        self.write_lock()
+        digests = branch_publish.hash_worktree_files(self.worktree, ["work.txt"])
+
+        result = self.run_publish(expected_file_hashes=digests)
+
+        self.assertTrue(result["success"], result.get("reasons"))
+        self.assertTrue(result["evidence"]["file_hashes_verified"])
+
+    def test_missing_declared_file_refuses(self):
+        self.write_lock()
+        result = self.run_publish(expected_file_hashes={"absent.txt": "0" * 64})
+        self.assertFalse(result["success"])
+        self.assertTrue(
+            any("missing or unreadable" in r for r in result["reasons"]),
+            result["reasons"],
+        )
+
+    def test_foreign_claimant_refuses(self):
+        """Ownership comes from the durable record, not from the caller."""
+        self.write_lock(claimant={"username": "someone-else", "profile": PROFILE})
+
+        result = self.run_publish()
+
+        self.assertFalse(result["success"])
+        self.assertTrue(
+            any("foreign claim" in r for r in result["reasons"]), result["reasons"]
+        )
+        self.assertIsNone(self.remote_head())
+
+    def test_foreign_profile_refuses(self):
+        self.write_lock(
+            claimant={"username": IDENTITY, "profile": "test-reviewer-prgs"}
+        )
+        result = self.run_publish()
+        self.assertFalse(result["success"])
+        self.assertTrue(
+            any("claimant profile" in r for r in result["reasons"]), result["reasons"]
+        )
+
+    def test_absent_lock_record_refuses(self):
+        """No recorded claim means this cannot be used to bypass the lock."""
+        result = self.run_publish()  # no write_lock()
+
+        self.assertFalse(result["success"])
+        self.assertTrue(
+            any("no durable issue-lock record" in r for r in result["reasons"]),
+            result["reasons"],
+        )
+        self.assertIsNone(self.remote_head())
+
+    def test_branch_mismatch_against_lock_refuses(self):
+        self.write_lock(branch_name=f"feat/issue-{ISSUE}-different")
+        result = self.run_publish()
+        self.assertFalse(result["success"])
+        self.assertTrue(
+            any("records branch" in r for r in result["reasons"]), result["reasons"]
+        )
+
+    def test_worktree_mismatch_against_lock_refuses(self):
+        self.write_lock(worktree_path="/tmp/some/other/worktree")
+        result = self.run_publish()
+        self.assertFalse(result["success"])
+        self.assertTrue(
+            any("records worktree" in r for r in result["reasons"]), result["reasons"]
+        )
+
+    def test_competing_open_pr_on_another_branch_refuses(self):
+        self.write_lock()
+        competing = [{"number": 4242, "head": {"ref": f"fix/issue-{ISSUE}-rival"}}]
+
+        result = self.run_publish(open_prs=competing)
+
+        self.assertFalse(result["success"])
+        self.assertTrue(
+            any("already claim issue" in r for r in result["reasons"]),
+            result["reasons"],
+        )
+        self.assertIsNone(self.remote_head())
+
+    def test_open_pr_on_the_same_branch_is_not_competing(self):
+        """This branch's own PR is not a rival claim against itself."""
+        self.write_lock()
+        own = [{"number": 77, "head": {"ref": BRANCH}}]
+
+        result = self.run_publish(open_prs=own)
+
+        self.assertTrue(result["success"], result.get("reasons"))
+
+
+class TestGuardStrictnessPreserved(_PublishBase):
+    """AC15 — publication is an operation, never a weakening of the guards."""
+
+    def test_non_issue_branch_refuses(self):
+        self._git("checkout", "-q", "-b", "scratch/not-issue-linked")
+        self.write_lock(branch_name="scratch/not-issue-linked")
+
+        result = self.run_publish(branch_name="scratch/not-issue-linked")
+
+        self.assertFalse(result["success"])
+        self.assertTrue(
+            any("issue-linked" in r for r in result["reasons"]), result["reasons"]
+        )
+
+    def test_stable_branch_refuses(self):
+        self.write_lock(branch_name="master")
+        result = self.run_publish(branch_name="master")
+        self.assertFalse(result["success"])
+        self.assertTrue(
+            any("issue-linked" in r or "stable branch" in r for r in result["reasons"]),
+            result["reasons"],
+        )
+
+    def test_branch_number_must_match_the_issue(self):
+        other = "feat/issue-7777-mismatched"
+        self._git("checkout", "-q", "-b", other)
+        self.write_lock(branch_name=other)
+        result = self.run_publish(branch_name=other)
+        self.assertFalse(result["success"])
+        self.assertTrue(
+            any("does not carry issue number" in r for r in result["reasons"]),
+            result["reasons"],
+        )
+
+    def test_unregistered_worktree_refuses(self):
+        """#713 — an improvised directory is not a registered worktree."""
+        path = self.write_lock()
+        assessment = branch_publish.assess_unpublished_commit_publication(
+            issue_lock_store.read_lock_file(path),
+            issue_number=ISSUE, branch_name=BRANCH, worktree_path=self.worktree,
+            expected_head=self.head_sha, remote="prgs", org=ORG, repo=REPO,
+            identity=IDENTITY, profile=PROFILE,
+            worktree_state={
+                "current_branch": BRANCH, "porcelain_status": "",
+                "head_sha": self.head_sha,
+            },
+            worktree_registered=False,
+            remote_probe={"probe_ok": True, "remote_branch_exists": False},
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(assessment["outcome"], branch_publish.REFUSED)
+        self.assertTrue(
+            any("not listed in git worktree list" in r
+                for r in assessment["reasons"]),
+            assessment["reasons"],
+        )
+
+    def test_unobservable_remote_refuses(self):
+        """An unknown remote state must not be mistaken for an absent branch."""
+        self.write_lock()
+        result = self.run_publish(git_remote_name="no-such-remote")
+        self.assertFalse(result["success"])
+        self.assertTrue(
+            any("could not be observed" in r for r in result["reasons"]),
+            result["reasons"],
+        )
+
+
+class TestRecordSeparation(_PublishBase):
+    """AC23 — the durable issue lock and the workflow lease are distinct."""
+
+    def test_publication_leaves_the_issue_lock_byte_identical(self):
+        path = self.write_lock()
+        with open(path, "rb") as fh:
+            before = fh.read()
+
+        result = self.run_publish()
+
+        self.assertTrue(result["success"], result.get("reasons"))
+        with open(path, "rb") as fh:
+            after = fh.read()
+        self.assertEqual(before, after, "publication must not mutate the lock record")
+        self.assertFalse(result["issue_lock_record_mutated"])
+        self.assertFalse(result["workflow_lease_touched"])
+
+    def test_refusal_also_reports_untouched_records(self):
+        result = self.run_publish()  # refuses: no lock record
+        self.assertFalse(result["issue_lock_record_mutated"])
+        self.assertFalse(result["workflow_lease_touched"])
+
+    def test_lock_generation_is_not_advanced(self):
+        path = self.write_lock()
+        self.run_publish()
+        lock = issue_lock_store.read_lock_file(path)
+        self.assertEqual(lock["lock_generation"], 1)
+
+
+class TestTruthfulProcessEvidence(_PublishBase):
+    """AC24 — a live daemon pid is never represented as a dead process."""
+
+    def test_live_recorded_pid_does_not_block_publication(self):
+        # The recorded pid is this live process, standing in for the live MCP
+        # daemon. Reclaim would refuse here; publication legitimately does not.
+        path = self.write_lock(session_pid=os.getpid())
+        lock = issue_lock_store.read_lock_file(path)
+        self.assertEqual(lock["pid"], os.getpid())
+
+        result = self.run_publish()
+
+        self.assertTrue(result["success"], result.get("reasons"))
+        self.assertEqual(self.remote_head(), self.head_sha)
+
+    def test_liveness_is_not_consulted_as_evidence(self):
+        self.write_lock(session_pid=os.getpid())
+        result = self.run_publish()
+        self.assertFalse(result["evidence"]["owner_pid_liveness_consulted"])
+
+    def test_reclaim_still_refuses_for_the_same_live_pid(self):
+        """Publication does not soften the reclaim predicate it routes around."""
+        path = self.write_lock(session_pid=os.getpid())
+        lock = issue_lock_store.read_lock_file(path)
+        reclaim = issue_lock_store.assess_expired_lock_reclaim(lock)
+        self.assertFalse(reclaim["reclaim_allowed"])
+
+
+class TestIdempotentRetry(_PublishBase):
+    """AC20 — retry is safe and read-after-write is proven every time."""
+
+    def test_second_publication_reports_already_published(self):
+        self.write_lock()
+        first = self.run_publish()
+        self.assertTrue(first["performed"])
+
+        second = self.run_publish()
+
+        self.assertTrue(second["success"], second.get("reasons"))
+        self.assertFalse(second["performed"], "no second push is needed")
+        self.assertTrue(second["published"])
+        self.assertTrue(second["verified"])
+        self.assertEqual(second["outcome"], branch_publish.ALREADY_PUBLISHED)
+        self.assertEqual(self.remote_head(), self.head_sha)
+
+
+class TestDryRun(_PublishBase):
+    """AC12 — dry run reports the decision and mutates nothing."""
+
+    def test_dry_run_reports_intent_without_publishing(self):
+        self.write_lock()
+
+        result = self.run_publish(dry_run=True)
+
+        self.assertTrue(result["success"])
+        self.assertTrue(result["dry_run"])
+        self.assertTrue(result["would_publish"])
+        self.assertFalse(result["performed"])
+        self.assertIsNone(self.remote_head(), "dry run must not publish")
+
+    def test_dry_run_and_apply_agree_on_a_refusal(self):
+        """AC11 — the reported decision does not depend on which mode ran."""
+        self.write_lock(claimant={"username": "someone-else", "profile": PROFILE})
+
+        dry = self.run_publish(dry_run=True)
+        applied = self.run_publish()
+
+        self.assertFalse(dry["success"])
+        self.assertFalse(applied["success"])
+        self.assertEqual(dry["reasons"], applied["reasons"])
+
+
+class TestRenewalUnblocked(_PublishBase):
+    """AC20/AC21 — renewal is permitted only after verified publication."""
+
+    def _renewal(self, remote_head):
+        return issue_lock_renewal.assess_exact_owner_lease_renewal(
+            issue_lock_store.read_lock_file(self.lock_path()),
+            issue_number=ISSUE, branch_name=BRANCH, worktree_path=self.worktree,
+            remote="prgs", org=ORG, repo=REPO,
+            identity=IDENTITY, profile=PROFILE,
+            current_branch=BRANCH, porcelain_status="", worktree_exists=True,
+            head_sha=self.head_sha, remote_head_sha=remote_head,
+        )
+
+    def test_renewal_refuses_before_publication(self):
+        self.write_lock()
+        decision = self._renewal(None)
+        self.assertFalse(decision["renewal_sanctioned"])
+        self.assertTrue(
+            any("unpublished branch" in r for r in decision["reasons"]),
+            decision["reasons"],
+        )
+
+    def test_renewal_is_sanctioned_after_publication(self):
+        self.write_lock()
+        result = self.run_publish()
+        self.assertTrue(result["verified"], result.get("reasons"))
+
+        decision = self._renewal(self.remote_head())
+
+        self.assertTrue(decision["renewal_sanctioned"], decision["reasons"])
+
+
+class TestProtectedAssetUntouched(unittest.TestCase):
+    """AC17 — no test or fixture may reference the protected worktree."""
+
+    def test_no_reference_to_the_protected_worktree(self):
+        here = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
+        root = os.path.dirname(here)
+        needle = "issue-635-project-registry" + "-api"
+        for path in (
+            os.path.join(here, "test_issue_812_publish_unpublished_commit.py"),
+            os.path.join(root, "branch_publish.py"),
+        ):
+            with open(path, "r", encoding="utf-8") as fh:
+                body = fh.read()
+            self.assertNotIn(needle, body)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":  # pragma: no cover
+    unittest.main()

tests/test_issue_815_preflight_worktree_forwarding.py

@@ -0,0 +1,622 @@
+"""Publication preflight must receive the caller's worktree (#815).
+
+``gitea_publish_unpublished_issue_branch`` takes a **required** ``worktree_path``
+but resolved it only *after* ``verify_preflight_purity`` had already run. Every
+workspace-resolution layer behind that preflight — canonical root, root checkout,
+create-issue bootstrap, the #618 branches-only guard, issue scope, and anti-stomp
+— therefore received ``None`` and fell back to the MCP process root. A daemon
+rooted at the stable control checkout refused a valid registered issue worktree
+that the caller had explicitly supplied, before the publication assessor ever ran.
+
+The #812 suite could not see this. Its fixture sets ``self.worktree =
+os.path.realpath(self.repo)`` and patches ``PROJECT_ROOT`` to that same path, so
+the fallback resolved to the very worktree the argument named. The production
+topology — control checkout on a stable branch, issue worktree somewhere else —
+was never constructed, and preflight additionally no-ops under pytest unless
+production guards are forced on.
+
+These tests build that topology honestly:
+
+* ``PROJECT_ROOT`` is a control checkout sitting on ``master``;
+* the registered issue worktree is a genuinely separate path under ``branches/``;
+* ``GITEA_TEST_FORCE_PRODUCTION_GUARDS`` is set so the #618 guard really runs;
+* no patch makes the issue worktree appear to be ``PROJECT_ROOT``.
+
+Nothing here reads, writes, or references the protected worktree named in #812
+AC17 and #815 AC9. Every fixture is built from scratch against a local bare
+remote, so publication and read-after-write verification genuinely execute.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import os
+import subprocess
+import sys
+import tempfile
+import unittest
+from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
+from unittest.mock import patch
+
+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))))
+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
+
+import issue_lock_provenance  # noqa: E402
+import issue_lock_store  # noqa: E402
+import mcp_server  # noqa: E402
+from mutation_profile_fixture import shared_mutation_env  # noqa: E402
+
+ISSUE = 9815
+BRANCH = f"feat/issue-{ISSUE}-forwarding-fixture"
+WORKTREE_DIRNAME = BRANCH.replace("/", "-")
+IDENTITY = "example-user"
+PROFILE = "test-author-prgs"
+ORG = "Scaled-Tech-Consulting"
+REPO = "Gitea-Tools"
+GIT_REMOTE = "prgs"
+
+AUTHOR_PROFILE = {
+    "profile_name": "prgs-author",
+    "role": "author",
+    "allowed_operations": [
+        "gitea.read", "gitea.issue.create", "gitea.issue.comment",
+        "gitea.pr.create", "gitea.repo.commit", "gitea.branch.push",
+    ],
+    "forbidden_operations": [],
+    "audit_label": "prgs-author",
+}
+
+
+def _ts(hours: int) -> str:
+    return (
+        (datetime.now(timezone.utc) + timedelta(hours=hours))
+        .isoformat()
+        .replace("+00:00", "Z")
+    )
+
+
+class TestPreflightReceivesTheWorktree(unittest.TestCase):
+    """AC1 — the supplied path reaches ``verify_preflight_purity`` itself.
+
+    Follows the #735 capture pattern: replace preflight with a recorder that
+    raises, so the argument can be proven forwarded without performing the
+    mutation. This is the direct unit-level statement of the defect.
+    """
+
+    def _capture_preflight(self, **kwargs):
+        captured: dict = {}
+
+        def _capture(*a, **kw):
+            captured.update(kw)
+            captured["_args"] = a
+            raise RuntimeError("capture-only")
+
+        with patch.object(
+            mcp_server, "verify_preflight_purity", side_effect=_capture
+        ), patch.object(
+            mcp_server, "get_profile", return_value=AUTHOR_PROFILE
+        ), patch.object(
+            mcp_server, "_resolve",
+            return_value=("gitea.prgs.cc", ORG, REPO),
+        ), patch.object(
+            mcp_server, "_auth", return_value="token fake",
+        ), patch.object(
+            mcp_server.role_session_router,
+            "check_author_mutation_after_reviewer_stop",
+            return_value=(True, []),
+        ), patch.object(
+            mcp_server, "_namespace_mutation_block", return_value=None
+        ), patch.object(
+            mcp_server, "_profile_permission_block", return_value=None
+        ):
+            try:
+                mcp_server.gitea_publish_unpublished_issue_branch(**kwargs)
+            except RuntimeError as exc:
+                if "capture-only" not in str(exc) and not captured:
+                    raise
+        self.assertTrue(
+            captured,
+            "gitea_publish_unpublished_issue_branch never called "
+            "verify_preflight_purity",
+        )
+        return captured
+
+    def _base_kwargs(self, **overrides):
+        kwargs = {
+            "issue_number": ISSUE,
+            "branch_name": BRANCH,
+            "worktree_path": "/tmp/issue-815-explicit-worktree",
+            "expected_head": "a" * 40,
+            "remote": "prgs",
+            "org": ORG,
+            "repo": REPO,
+            "git_remote_name": GIT_REMOTE,
+        }
+        kwargs.update(overrides)
+        return kwargs
+
+    def test_explicit_worktree_path_reaches_preflight(self):
+        captured = self._capture_preflight(**self._base_kwargs())
+        self.assertEqual(
+            captured.get("worktree_path"),
+            os.path.realpath(os.path.abspath("/tmp/issue-815-explicit-worktree")),
+            "the authoritative worktree_path must be forwarded into preflight",
+        )
+
+    def test_forwarded_path_is_the_one_publication_uses(self):
+        """AC4 — preflight and publication must judge the same resolved path."""
+        raw = "/tmp/issue-815-explicit-worktree/./"
+        captured = self._capture_preflight(**self._base_kwargs(worktree_path=raw))
+        expected = os.path.realpath(os.path.abspath(raw.strip()))
+        self.assertEqual(captured.get("worktree_path"), expected)
+
+    def test_blank_worktree_path_forwards_none(self):
+        """AC5/AC8 — nothing usable supplied keeps the fail-closed fallback."""
+        for blank in ("", "   "):
+            with self.subTest(blank=repr(blank)):
+                captured = self._capture_preflight(
+                    **self._base_kwargs(worktree_path=blank)
+                )
+                self.assertIsNone(
+                    captured.get("worktree_path"),
+                    "a blank worktree must not resolve to the process cwd",
+                )
+
+    def test_org_repo_and_task_forwarding_are_not_regressed(self):
+        """AC6 — #735's org/repo forwarding and the task name still hold."""
+        captured = self._capture_preflight(**self._base_kwargs())
+        self.assertEqual(captured.get("org"), ORG)
+        self.assertEqual(captured.get("repo"), REPO)
+        self.assertEqual(captured.get("task"), "publish_unpublished_branch")
+
+
+class _ProductionTopologyBase(unittest.TestCase):
+    """Control checkout on master + a distinct registered issue worktree.
+
+    This is the shape the production daemon runs in and the shape the #812
+    fixture never built. ``PROJECT_ROOT`` is the control checkout; the issue
+    worktree is a real registered worktree at a different path; production
+    guards are forced on so the #618 branches-only guard genuinely evaluates.
+    """
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.lock_dir = tempfile.TemporaryDirectory()
+        self.addCleanup(self.lock_dir.cleanup)
+        self.origin = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix="issue815-origin-")
+        self.control = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix="issue815-control-")
+        for path in (self.origin, self.control):
+            self.addCleanup(
+                lambda p=path: subprocess.run(["rm", "-rf", p], check=False)
+            )
+        self._init_repos()
+        self.remotes = patch.dict(
+            mcp_server.REMOTES,
+            {"prgs": {"host": "gitea.prgs.cc", "org": ORG, "repo": REPO}},
+        )
+        self.remotes.start()
+        self.addCleanup(patch.stopall)
+        mcp_server._IDENTITY_CACHE.clear()
+
+    def _git(self, *args, cwd=None):
+        return subprocess.run(
+            ["git", "-C", cwd or self.control, *args],
+            capture_output=True, text=True, check=True,
+        )
+
+    def _init_repos(self):
+        subprocess.run(
+            ["git", "init", "-q", "--bare", "-b", "master", self.origin], check=True
+        )
+        self._git("init", "-q", "-b", "master")
+        self._git("config", "user.email", "[email protected]")
+        self._git("config", "user.name", "Test")
+        self._git("remote", "add", GIT_REMOTE, self.origin)
+
+        with open(os.path.join(self.control, "seed.txt"), "w") as fh:
+            fh.write("seed\n")
+        # The real repository gitignores branches/, so a registered worktree
+        # living there does not dirty the stable control checkout. Mirror that,
+        # or the #615 dirty-runtime block fires on the worktree we just created.
+        with open(os.path.join(self.control, ".gitignore"), "w") as fh:
+            fh.write("branches/\n")
+        self._git("add", "seed.txt", ".gitignore")
+        self._git("commit", "-q", "-m", "seed")
+        self.base_sha = self._git("rev-parse", "HEAD").stdout.strip()
+        self._git("push", "-q", GIT_REMOTE, "master")
+
+        # The control checkout STAYS on master. This is the whole point: the
+        # daemon's process root is the stable control checkout, never the
+        # worktree the publication targets.
+        self.worktree = os.path.realpath(
+            os.path.join(self.control, "branches", WORKTREE_DIRNAME)
+        )
+        self._git("worktree", "add", "-q", "-b", BRANCH, self.worktree, "master")
+
+        with open(os.path.join(self.worktree, "work.txt"), "w") as fh:
+            fh.write("unpublished implementation\n")
+        self._git("add", "work.txt", cwd=self.worktree)
+        self._git("commit", "-q", "-m", "unpublished implementation", cwd=self.worktree)
+        self.head_sha = self._git("rev-parse", "HEAD", cwd=self.worktree).stdout.strip()
+
+        self.control_branch = self._git(
+            "rev-parse", "--abbrev-ref", "HEAD"
+        ).stdout.strip()
+
+    # ── durable lock naming the caller and the issue worktree ────────────
+    def lock_path(self):
+        return issue_lock_store.lock_file_path(
+            remote="prgs", org=ORG, repo=REPO, issue_number=ISSUE,
+            lock_dir=self.lock_dir.name,
+        )
+
+    def write_lock(self, *, bind_session=True, **overrides):
+        path = self.lock_path()
+        claimant = overrides.pop(
+            "claimant", {"username": IDENTITY, "profile": PROFILE}
+        )
+        pid = overrides.pop("session_pid", os.getpid())
+        lease = {
+            "operation_type": issue_lock_store.AUTHOR_ISSUE_WORK_LEASE,
+            "issue_number": ISSUE,
+            "pr_number": None,
+            "branch": overrides.get("branch_name", BRANCH),
+            "worktree_path": overrides.get("worktree_path", self.worktree),
+            "claimant": claimant,
+            "created_at": _ts(-2),
+            "last_heartbeat_at": _ts(-2),
+            "expires_at": _ts(-1),
+        }
+        lease.update(overrides.pop("work_lease", {}))
+        data = {
+            "issue_number": ISSUE,
+            "branch_name": BRANCH,
+            "remote": "prgs",
+            "org": ORG,
+            "repo": REPO,
+            "worktree_path": self.worktree,
+            "session_pid": pid,
+            "pid": pid,
+            "lock_generation": 1,
+            "work_lease": lease,
+            "lock_provenance": issue_lock_provenance.build_sanctioned_lock_provenance(
+                tool="gitea_lock_issue", claimant=claimant
+            ),
+        }
+        data.update(overrides)
+        data["lock_file_path"] = path
+        issue_lock_store.save_lock_file(path, data)
+        # Bind the session pointer so the #683 issue-scope guard resolves an
+        # owning issue for this author session. In real production the publish
+        # task does not require a session lock — require_author_lock is keyed on
+        # the test-only production_guards_forced() flag, which this suite must
+        # set to make preflight run at all — so this pointer is fixture
+        # scaffolding to clear a guard production would not apply here, never a
+        # softening of the worktree-forwarding behaviour under test. The
+        # preflight-negative cases below leave it unbound precisely so the #618
+        # guard is reached with no session fallback to rescue a bad worktree.
+        if bind_session:
+            pointer = {
+                "pid": os.getpid(),
+                "lock_file_path": path,
+                "issue_number": ISSUE,
+                "branch_name": data["branch_name"],
+                "remote": "prgs",
+                "org": ORG,
+                "repo": REPO,
+            }
+            issue_lock_store.save_lock_file(
+                issue_lock_store.session_pointer_path(self.lock_dir.name), pointer
+            )
+        return path
+
+    def _tool_env(self):
+        env = shared_mutation_env(
+            PROFILE, include_example_repo=True,
+            GITEA_ISSUE_LOCK_DIR=self.lock_dir.name,
+        )
+        env["GITEA_ISSUE_LOCK_DIR"] = self.lock_dir.name
+        # The defect only exists where preflight actually runs. Under pytest the
+        # production root/branches/scope guards are skipped unless forced on, so
+        # force them: this test exists to exercise the #618 guard, not to bypass
+        # it. Parity is pinned to the server's own startup head so repointing
+        # PROJECT_ROOT does not read as a stale daemon.
+        env["GITEA_TEST_FORCE_PRODUCTION_GUARDS"] = "1"
+        # Production is a promoted stable-control runtime. The pytest process
+        # itself runs from a branches/ worktree, which the #615 runtime-mode
+        # gate correctly classifies as dev-test; declaring the sanctioned mode
+        # models the production daemon rather than defeating the gate. Without
+        # this, forcing production guards on would trip the *runtime-mode* block
+        # for a reason unrelated to the #815 worktree-forwarding defect.
+        env["GITEA_MCP_RUNTIME_MODE"] = "stable-control"
+        startup_head = mcp_server._STARTUP_PARITY.get("startup_head") or ""
+        env["GITEA_TEST_CURRENT_HEAD"] = startup_head
+        env["GITEA_TEST_LIVE_REMOTE_HEAD"] = startup_head
+        return env
+
+    def run_publish(self, *, open_prs=None, expected_head=None, **kwargs):
+        """Drive the public tool with PROJECT_ROOT pinned to the CONTROL checkout."""
+        env = self._tool_env()
+        with patch(
+            "mcp_server._list_open_pulls", return_value=list(open_prs or [])
+        ), patch(
+            "mcp_server._auth", return_value="token x"
+        ), patch(
+            "mcp_server.get_auth_header", return_value="token x"
+        ), patch(
+            "mcp_server._work_lease_claimant",
+            return_value={"username": IDENTITY, "profile": PROFILE},
+        ), patch.object(
+            # NOTE: the control checkout — deliberately NOT self.worktree.
+            mcp_server, "PROJECT_ROOT", self.control
+        ), patch.dict(os.environ, env, clear=True):
+            os.environ["GITEA_ISSUE_LOCK_DIR"] = self.lock_dir.name
+            return mcp_server.gitea_publish_unpublished_issue_branch(
+                issue_number=kwargs.pop("issue_number", ISSUE),
+                branch_name=kwargs.pop("branch_name", BRANCH),
+                worktree_path=kwargs.pop("worktree_path", self.worktree),
+                expected_head=expected_head or self.head_sha,
+                remote="prgs",
+                git_remote_name=kwargs.pop("git_remote_name", GIT_REMOTE),
+                **kwargs,
+            )
+
+    def remote_head(self, branch=BRANCH):
+        res = subprocess.run(
+            ["git", "-C", self.origin, "rev-parse", "--verify", "--quiet", branch],
+            capture_output=True, text=True, check=False,
+        )
+        return (res.stdout or "").strip() or None
+
+
+class TestForwardingClearsThe618Guard(_ProductionTopologyBase):
+    """AC2 — the faithful production reproduction, and the sharpest fix proof.
+
+    The production recovery worker had **no** session issue lock — acquiring one
+    was the very thing the deadlock prevented — so preflight had nothing but the
+    explicit ``worktree_path`` argument to resolve the workspace from. This class
+    reproduces exactly that: no session pointer is bound, so there is no
+    author-lock fallback to rescue a dropped argument.
+
+    With the argument forwarded (fixed source) the #618 branches-only guard
+    accepts the registered issue worktree and the call advances to the next
+    guard. With the argument dropped (the buggy source this issue reports)
+    preflight falls back to ``PROJECT_ROOT`` — the stable control checkout — and
+    the #618 guard traps the call there. The two outcomes are told apart by the
+    guard that fired, on its own error text.
+
+    This test therefore *fails* against the unpatched source (the call is trapped
+    at #618 instead of clearing it), which is what makes it a regression rather
+    than a smoke test.
+    """
+
+    _CONTROL_CHECKOUT_MARKERS = ("stable control checkout", "#618")
+
+    def test_explicit_worktree_clears_618_without_a_session_lock(self):
+        # No write_lock(): the session is deliberately unbound, as in production.
+        with self.assertRaises(RuntimeError) as ctx:
+            self.run_publish()
+        message = str(ctx.exception)
+        # The workspace guard is satisfied — the failure is the *later* scope
+        # guard (no owning issue), never the control-checkout refusal. If the
+        # argument were dropped, this call would be trapped at #618 instead.
+        for marker in self._CONTROL_CHECKOUT_MARKERS:
+            self.assertNotIn(
+                marker, message,
+                f"the explicit worktree must clear #618; got a control-checkout "
+                f"refusal instead: {message}",
+            )
+        self.assertIn(
+            "owning issue", message,
+            f"expected the downstream scope guard to fire, got: {message}",
+        )
+        self.assertIsNone(self.remote_head())
+
+    def test_dropped_argument_would_be_trapped_at_618(self):
+        # Simulate the buggy call shape directly: no session lock, and preflight
+        # given no worktree, exactly as the unpatched source left it. This pins
+        # the control-checkout refusal that the fix eliminates, so the pair of
+        # tests brackets the defect from both sides regardless of which source
+        # version is loaded.
+        env = self._tool_env()
+        with patch(
+            "mcp_server._list_open_pulls", return_value=[]
+        ), patch(
+            "mcp_server._auth", return_value="token x"
+        ), patch(
+            "mcp_server.get_auth_header", return_value="token x"
+        ), patch(
+            "mcp_server._work_lease_claimant",
+            return_value={"username": IDENTITY, "profile": PROFILE},
+        ), patch.object(
+            mcp_server, "PROJECT_ROOT", self.control
+        ), patch.dict(os.environ, env, clear=True):
+            os.environ["GITEA_ISSUE_LOCK_DIR"] = self.lock_dir.name
+            with self.assertRaises(RuntimeError) as ctx:
+                # Drive verify_preflight_purity the way the buggy body did:
+                # no worktree_path forwarded at all.
+                mcp_server.verify_preflight_purity(
+                    "prgs",
+                    task="publish_unpublished_branch",
+                    org=ORG,
+                    repo=REPO,
+                )
+        message = str(ctx.exception)
+        self.assertTrue(
+            any(m in message for m in self._CONTROL_CHECKOUT_MARKERS),
+            f"a dropped worktree must trap at the control checkout: {message}",
+        )
+        self.assertIsNone(self.remote_head())
+
+
+class TestProductionTopologyPublishes(_ProductionTopologyBase):
+    """AC2/AC4/AC7 — the explicit registered worktree is what preflight validates."""
+
+    def test_fixture_is_genuinely_the_production_topology(self):
+        """Guard the guard: if this drifts, the regression stops meaning anything."""
+        self.assertNotEqual(
+            os.path.realpath(self.control), self.worktree,
+            "the issue worktree must not be PROJECT_ROOT",
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(
+            self.control_branch, "master",
+            "the control checkout must sit on a stable branch",
+        )
+        self.assertTrue(
+            os.path.realpath(self.worktree).startswith(
+                os.path.realpath(os.path.join(self.control, "branches")) + os.sep
+            ),
+            "the issue worktree must live under branches/",
+        )
+        listed = subprocess.run(
+            ["git", "-C", self.control, "worktree", "list"],
+            capture_output=True, text=True, check=True,
+        ).stdout
+        self.assertIn(
+            self.worktree, listed, "the issue worktree must be genuinely registered"
+        )
+
+    def test_publishes_from_a_control_rooted_daemon(self):
+        """The exact production failure: this refused with #618 before the fix."""
+        self.write_lock()
+        self.assertIsNone(self.remote_head(), "fixture must start unpublished")
+        res = self.run_publish()
+        self.assertTrue(res.get("success"), res)
+        self.assertTrue(res.get("performed"), res)
+        self.assertEqual(self.remote_head(), self.head_sha)
+
+    def test_dry_run_uses_the_explicit_worktree(self):
+        """AC4 — dry-run reaches the same decision without publishing."""
+        self.write_lock()
+        res = self.run_publish(dry_run=True)
+        self.assertTrue(res.get("success"), res)
+        self.assertFalse(res.get("performed"), res)
+        self.assertTrue(res.get("would_publish"), res)
+        self.assertIsNone(self.remote_head(), "dry-run must not publish")
+
+    def test_dry_run_and_apply_agree_on_the_same_worktree(self):
+        """AC4 — both paths resolve the same workspace, so both succeed."""
+        self.write_lock()
+        dry = self.run_publish(dry_run=True)
+        self.assertTrue(dry.get("would_publish"), dry)
+        applied = self.run_publish()
+        self.assertTrue(applied.get("performed"), applied)
+        self.assertEqual(self.remote_head(), self.head_sha)
+
+    def test_read_after_write_verification_still_runs(self):
+        """AC6 — PR #814's post-publication verification is unchanged."""
+        self.write_lock()
+        res = self.run_publish()
+        self.assertTrue(res.get("verified"), res)
+        self.assertEqual(res.get("remote_head_sha"), self.head_sha)
+
+
+class TestProductionTopologyFailsClosed(_ProductionTopologyBase):
+    """AC3/AC5/AC8 — the fix does not weaken any refusal.
+
+    A refusal reaches the caller by one of two mechanisms, and this class holds
+    them apart deliberately. A bad *workspace* is caught by the #618 preflight
+    guard, which raises before the assessor is built. A bad *content/ownership*
+    fact passes preflight (the worktree itself is fine) and is then refused by
+    the publication assessor, which returns ``success: False``. Both are
+    fail-closed; asserting the wrong mechanism would hide a regression.
+    """
+
+    # ── #618 preflight refusals: no session lock, so nothing rescues a bad
+    #    workspace and the guard fires exactly as it does in production ──────
+    def _assert_preflight_raises(self, **kwargs):
+        with self.assertRaises(RuntimeError) as ctx:
+            self.run_publish(**kwargs)
+        self.assertIsNone(
+            self.remote_head(), "a blocked publication must not reach the remote"
+        )
+        return str(ctx.exception)
+
+    def test_blank_worktree_path_fails_closed_via_618(self):
+        """AC5 — a blank path forwards None, so preflight sees the control root."""
+        for blank in ("", "   "):
+            with self.subTest(blank=repr(blank)):
+                message = self._assert_preflight_raises(worktree_path=blank)
+                self.assertIn("618", message)
+
+    def test_control_checkout_as_worktree_fails_closed_via_618(self):
+        """AC5 — naming the stable control checkout explicitly is still refused."""
+        message = self._assert_preflight_raises(worktree_path=self.control)
+        self.assertIn("618", message)
+
+    def test_unregistered_directory_fails_closed(self):
+        """AC3 — a plain directory under branches/ is not a registered worktree."""
+        bogus = os.path.join(self.control, "branches", "not-a-worktree")
+        os.makedirs(bogus, exist_ok=True)
+        self._assert_preflight_raises(worktree_path=bogus)
+
+    def test_missing_worktree_path_fails_closed(self):
+        """AC3 — a path that does not exist is refused, not silently replaced."""
+        missing = os.path.join(self.control, "branches", "absent-worktree")
+        self._assert_preflight_raises(worktree_path=missing)
+
+    # ── assessor refusals: preflight passes on a valid worktree, then the
+    #    publication assessor refuses on content/ownership evidence ──────────
+    def _assert_assessor_refuses(self, **kwargs):
+        res = self.run_publish(**kwargs)
+        self.assertFalse(res.get("success"), res)
+        self.assertFalse(res.get("performed"), res)
+        self.assertIsNone(self.remote_head())
+        return res
+
+    def test_changed_local_head_still_refuses(self):
+        """AC6 — the declared expected_head remains authoritative."""
+        self.write_lock()
+        self._assert_assessor_refuses(expected_head="b" * 40)
+
+    def test_foreign_claimant_still_refuses(self):
+        """AC6 — ownership still comes from the durable lock record."""
+        self.write_lock(claimant={"username": "someone-else", "profile": PROFILE})
+        self._assert_assessor_refuses()
+
+    def test_dirty_worktree_still_refuses(self):
+        """AC6 — cleanliness enforcement survives the forwarding change."""
+        self.write_lock()
+        with open(os.path.join(self.worktree, "work.txt"), "a") as fh:
+            fh.write("uncommitted drift\n")
+        self._assert_assessor_refuses()
+
+    def test_competing_open_pr_still_refuses(self):
+        """AC6 — a rival claim on another branch still blocks."""
+        self.write_lock()
+        self._assert_assessor_refuses(
+            open_prs=[{"number": 4242, "head": {"ref": f"fix/issue-{ISSUE}-rival"}}]
+        )
+
+    def test_issue_lock_record_is_not_mutated_by_a_refusal(self):
+        """AC6 — record separation (#812 AC23) is unaffected by this change."""
+        path = self.write_lock()
+        with open(path, "rb") as fh:
+            before = fh.read()
+        self._assert_assessor_refuses(expected_head="c" * 40)
+        with open(path, "rb") as fh:
+            self.assertEqual(before, fh.read())
+
+
+class TestProtectedFixtureNotReferenced(unittest.TestCase):
+    """AC9 — this regression never names the protected #635 fixture.
+
+    The forbidden tokens are reconstructed from fragments so this assertion
+    file does not itself contain them and produce a false positive.
+    """
+
+    def test_no_reference_to_the_protected_worktree(self):
+        forbidden = [
+            "issue-635-" + "project-registry-api",
+            "b2f6e9a6dc40e9651ef8" + "76f322dd0a68bddebfd8",
+        ]
+        here = os.path.abspath(__file__)
+        with open(here, "r", encoding="utf-8") as fh:
+            text = fh.read()
+        for token in forbidden:
+            self.assertNotIn(
+                token, text,
+                f"the protected #635 fixture must not be referenced: {token}",
+            )
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    unittest.main()

tests/test_task_capability_role_invariants.py

@@ -139,6 +139,9 @@ EXPECTED_ROLE_EXCLUSIVE_TASKS = frozenset(
         "gitea_release_merger_pr_lease",
         "create_branch",
         "push_branch",
+        # #812 AC20: publishing an unpublished local head is author-only for the
+        # same reason every other push is — it writes a branch to the remote.
+        "publish_unpublished_branch",
         "create_pr",
         "commit_files",
         "gitea_commit_files",

tests/test_webui_inventory.py

@@ -0,0 +1,468 @@
+"""Tests for the unified web-console inventory API (#636).
+
+Covers the four cases the issue names — empty, populated, partial failure, and
+the no-false-unowned invariant — plus redaction, collision detection, the
+resource-split routes, and read-only guarantees against a real control-plane
+database and real durable lock files.
+"""
+import json
+import os
+import sys
+import tempfile
+import unittest
+from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+
+sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent))
+
+from starlette.testclient import TestClient
+
+import control_plane_db
+from webui.app import create_app
+from webui import inventory
+
+
+def _iso(dt: datetime) -> str:
+    return dt.astimezone(timezone.utc).isoformat()
+
+
+def _write_lock(lock_dir: str, name: str, payload: dict) -> str:
+    path = os.path.join(lock_dir, name)
+    with open(path, "w", encoding="utf-8") as handle:
+        json.dump(payload, handle)
+    return path
+
+
+def _live_lock_payload(
+    *,
+    issue_number: int,
+    branch: str,
+    worktree_path: str,
+    pid: int,
+    username: str = "jcwalker3",
+    profile: str = "prgs-author",
+) -> dict:
+    now = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
+    future = now + timedelta(hours=2)
+    return {
+        "branch_name": branch,
+        "issue_number": issue_number,
+        "org": "Scaled-Tech-Consulting",
+        "repo": "Gitea-Tools",
+        "remote": "prgs",
+        "pid": pid,
+        "session_pid": pid,
+        "lock_generation": 1,
+        "worktree_path": worktree_path,
+        "claimant": {"username": username, "profile": profile},
+        "work_lease": {
+            "branch": branch,
+            "issue_number": issue_number,
+            "operation_type": "author_issue_work",
+            "created_at": _iso(now),
+            "expires_at": _iso(future),
+            "last_heartbeat_at": _iso(now),
+            "claimant": {"username": username, "profile": profile},
+        },
+    }
+
+
+class _FixtureMixin(unittest.TestCase):
+    def setUp(self) -> None:
+        self._tmp = tempfile.TemporaryDirectory()
+        self.tmp = self._tmp.name
+        self.lock_dir = os.path.join(self.tmp, "locks")
+        os.makedirs(self.lock_dir, mode=0o700)
+        self.db_path = os.path.join(self.tmp, "control_plane.db")
+        self.addCleanup(self._tmp.cleanup)
+
+    def _seed_db(self) -> control_plane_db.ControlPlaneDB:
+        db = control_plane_db.ControlPlaneDB(self.db_path)
+        db.upsert_session(
+            session_id="prgs-author-1",
+            role="author",
+            profile="prgs-author",
+            namespace="gitea-author",
+            pid=os.getpid(),
+        )
+        db.upsert_work_item(
+            remote="prgs",
+            org="Scaled-Tech-Consulting",
+            repo="Gitea-Tools",
+            kind="issue",
+            number=636,
+        )
+        db.assign_and_lease(
+            session_id="prgs-author-1",
+            role="author",
+            remote="prgs",
+            org="Scaled-Tech-Consulting",
+            repo="Gitea-Tools",
+            kind="issue",
+            number=636,
+        )
+        return db
+
+
+class TestRedaction(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_redact_path_collapses_home(self):
+        home = os.path.expanduser("~")
+        self.assertEqual(
+            inventory.redact_path(f"{home}/Development/Gitea-Tools"),
+            "~/Development/Gitea-Tools",
+        )
+
+    def test_redact_url_strips_userinfo_and_query(self):
+        self.assertEqual(
+            inventory.redact_url("https://user:[email protected]/api?token=abc"),
+            "https://gitea.prgs.cc/api",
+        )
+
+    def test_scrub_drops_credential_keys(self):
+        scrubbed = inventory.scrub(
+            {"token": "abc123", "api_key": "k", "profile": "prgs-author"}
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(scrubbed["token"], "[redacted]")
+        self.assertEqual(scrubbed["api_key"], "[redacted]")
+        self.assertEqual(scrubbed["profile"], "prgs-author")
+
+    def test_scrub_is_recursive_and_never_raises(self):
+        class Weird:
+            def __repr__(self) -> str:
+                return "weird-obj"
+
+        out = inventory.scrub({"nested": [{"password": "p", "obj": Weird()}]})
+        self.assertEqual(out["nested"][0]["password"], "[redacted]")
+        self.assertEqual(out["nested"][0]["obj"], "weird-obj")
+
+
+class TestEmptyInventory(_FixtureMixin):
+    def test_empty_db_and_locks_degrade_without_raising(self):
+        # No DB file, no locks: sessions/leases unavailable, locks ok+empty.
+        snap = inventory.load_inventory_snapshot(
+            db_path=self.db_path,
+            lock_dir=self.lock_dir,
+            load_hygiene=lambda: _StubHygiene(entries=()),
+        )
+        sessions = snap.section("sessions")
+        leases = snap.section("leases")
+        locks = snap.section("locks")
+        self.assertEqual(sessions.status, inventory.STATUS_UNAVAILABLE)
+        self.assertEqual(leases.status, inventory.STATUS_UNAVAILABLE)
+        self.assertEqual(locks.status, inventory.STATUS_OK)
+        self.assertEqual(len(locks.items), 0)
+        # Ownership authority is incomplete because the DB is missing.
+        self.assertFalse(snap.ownership_authority_complete)
+        self.assertEqual(snap.collisions, ())
+
+    def test_empty_db_present_but_unpopulated(self):
+        control_plane_db.ControlPlaneDB(self.db_path)  # creates schema, no rows
+        snap = inventory.load_inventory_snapshot(
+            db_path=self.db_path,
+            lock_dir=self.lock_dir,
+            load_hygiene=lambda: _StubHygiene(entries=()),
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(snap.section("sessions").status, inventory.STATUS_OK)
+        self.assertEqual(len(snap.section("sessions").items), 0)
+        self.assertEqual(snap.section("leases").status, inventory.STATUS_OK)
+        self.assertTrue(snap.ownership_authority_complete)
+
+
+class TestPopulatedInventory(_FixtureMixin):
+    def test_sections_populated_and_correlated(self):
+        self._seed_db()
+        wt = f"{self.tmp}/branches/issue-636-inventory-api"
+        _write_lock(
+            self.lock_dir,
+            "prgs-Scaled-Tech-Consulting-Gitea-Tools-636.json",
+            _live_lock_payload(
+                issue_number=636,
+                branch="feat/issue-636-inventory-api",
+                worktree_path=wt,
+                pid=os.getpid(),
+            ),
+        )
+        hygiene = _StubHygiene(
+            entries=(
+                _StubEntry(
+                    rel_path="branches/issue-636-inventory-api",
+                    branch="feat/issue-636-inventory-api",
+                    classification="active-issue",
+                ),
+            )
+        )
+        snap = inventory.load_inventory_snapshot(
+            db_path=self.db_path,
+            lock_dir=self.lock_dir,
+            load_hygiene=lambda: hygiene,
+        )
+        self.assertTrue(snap.ownership_authority_complete)
+        self.assertEqual(len(snap.section("sessions").items), 1)
+        self.assertEqual(len(snap.section("leases").items), 1)
+        self.assertEqual(len(snap.section("locks").items), 1)
+        self.assertEqual(len(snap.section("worktrees").items), 1)
+
+        # The lease, lock, and worktree for #636 correlate onto one row.
+        row = next(r for r in snap.correlations if r["issue_number"] == 636)
+        self.assertEqual(row["branch"], "feat/issue-636-inventory-api")
+        self.assertTrue(row["lock_live"])
+        self.assertEqual(row["worktree_classification"], "active-issue")
+        self.assertEqual(len(row["lease_ids"]), 1)
+        # No collision: live lock, live pid, matching worktree.
+        self.assertEqual(snap.collisions, ())
+
+    def test_serialized_payload_declares_field_authority(self):
+        self._seed_db()
+        snap = inventory.load_inventory_snapshot(
+            db_path=self.db_path,
+            lock_dir=self.lock_dir,
+            load_hygiene=lambda: _StubHygiene(entries=()),
+        )
+        payload = inventory.snapshot_to_dict(snap)
+        self.assertEqual(payload["api_version"], "v1")
+        self.assertEqual(payload["schema_version"], 1)
+        self.assertEqual(payload["field_authority"]["sessions"], "control_plane_db")
+        self.assertEqual(payload["field_authority"]["locks"], "filesystem")
+        self.assertIn("sessions", payload["sections"])
+
+
+class TestPartialFailure(_FixtureMixin):
+    def test_worktree_scan_failure_degrades_only_that_section(self):
+        self._seed_db()
+
+        def _boom():
+            raise RuntimeError("git worktree list exploded")
+
+        snap = inventory.load_inventory_snapshot(
+            db_path=self.db_path,
+            lock_dir=self.lock_dir,
+            load_hygiene=_boom,
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(
+            snap.section("worktrees").status, inventory.STATUS_UNAVAILABLE
+        )
+        self.assertIn("exploded", snap.section("worktrees").reason)
+        # DB-backed sections still healthy.
+        self.assertEqual(snap.section("sessions").status, inventory.STATUS_OK)
+        self.assertIn("worktrees", snap.degraded_sections)
+
+    def test_degraded_ownership_suppresses_unowned_claim(self):
+        # DB absent → sessions/leases unavailable → ownership incomplete even
+        # though a lock exists and could look "unclaimed" by the DB alone.
+        _write_lock(
+            self.lock_dir,
+            "prgs-Scaled-Tech-Consulting-Gitea-Tools-636.json",
+            _live_lock_payload(
+                issue_number=636,
+                branch="feat/issue-636-inventory-api",
+                worktree_path=f"{self.tmp}/wt",
+                pid=os.getpid(),
+            ),
+        )
+        snap = inventory.load_inventory_snapshot(
+            db_path=self.db_path,
+            lock_dir=self.lock_dir,
+            load_hygiene=lambda: _StubHygiene(entries=()),
+        )
+        self.assertFalse(snap.ownership_authority_complete)
+        payload = inventory.snapshot_to_dict(snap)
+        self.assertIn("may be treated as unowned", payload["ownership_note"])
+
+
+class TestCollisionDetection(_FixtureMixin):
+    def test_live_lock_dead_owner_flagged(self):
+        _write_lock(
+            self.lock_dir,
+            "prgs-Scaled-Tech-Consulting-Gitea-Tools-700.json",
+            _live_lock_payload(
+                issue_number=700,
+                branch="feat/issue-700-x",
+                worktree_path=f"{self.tmp}/wt700",
+                pid=999_999_999,  # not a running pid
+            ),
+        )
+        control_plane_db.ControlPlaneDB(self.db_path)  # empty but present
+        snap = inventory.load_inventory_snapshot(
+            db_path=self.db_path,
+            lock_dir=self.lock_dir,
+            load_hygiene=lambda: _StubHygiene(entries=()),
+        )
+        kinds = {c.kind for c in snap.collisions}
+        self.assertIn("live-lock-dead-owner", kinds)
+        # Also lock-without-worktree, since no worktree carries the branch.
+        self.assertIn("lock-without-worktree", kinds)
+
+    def test_duplicate_live_lock_on_same_branch(self):
+        for issue in (800, 801):
+            _write_lock(
+                self.lock_dir,
+                f"prgs-Scaled-Tech-Consulting-Gitea-Tools-{issue}.json",
+                _live_lock_payload(
+                    issue_number=issue,
+                    branch="feat/issue-800-shared",
+                    worktree_path=f"{self.tmp}/wt{issue}",
+                    pid=os.getpid(),
+                ),
+            )
+        control_plane_db.ControlPlaneDB(self.db_path)
+        snap = inventory.load_inventory_snapshot(
+            db_path=self.db_path,
+            lock_dir=self.lock_dir,
+            load_hygiene=lambda: _StubHygiene(entries=()),
+        )
+        self.assertIn(
+            "duplicate-live-lock", {c.kind for c in snap.collisions}
+        )
+
+    def test_no_collision_when_sections_degraded(self):
+        # locks ok but worktrees unavailable → lock-without-worktree must NOT
+        # be asserted (a missing scan is not a missing worktree).
+        _write_lock(
+            self.lock_dir,
+            "prgs-Scaled-Tech-Consulting-Gitea-Tools-636.json",
+            _live_lock_payload(
+                issue_number=636,
+                branch="feat/issue-636-inventory-api",
+                worktree_path=f"{self.tmp}/wt",
+                pid=os.getpid(),
+            ),
+        )
+        control_plane_db.ControlPlaneDB(self.db_path)
+
+        def _boom():
+            raise RuntimeError("scan down")
+
+        snap = inventory.load_inventory_snapshot(
+            db_path=self.db_path,
+            lock_dir=self.lock_dir,
+            load_hygiene=_boom,
+        )
+        self.assertNotIn(
+            "lock-without-worktree", {c.kind for c in snap.collisions}
+        )
+
+
+class TestSectionInclude(_FixtureMixin):
+    def test_include_restricts_scanned_sections(self):
+        self._seed_db()
+        snap = inventory.load_inventory_snapshot(
+            db_path=self.db_path,
+            lock_dir=self.lock_dir,
+            include=("locks",),
+        )
+        self.assertIsNotNone(snap.section("locks"))
+        self.assertIsNone(snap.section("sessions"))
+        self.assertIsNone(snap.section("worktrees"))
+
+
+class TestRoutes(_FixtureMixin):
+    def setUp(self) -> None:
+        super().setUp()
+        # Point the loaders at the fixture DB and lock dir via env, and stub
+        # the worktree scan so the route does not shell out to git.
+        self._prev_env = {
+            "GITEA_CONTROL_PLANE_DB": os.environ.get("GITEA_CONTROL_PLANE_DB"),
+            "GITEA_ISSUE_LOCK_DIR": os.environ.get("GITEA_ISSUE_LOCK_DIR"),
+            "WEBUI_TEST_OFFLINE": os.environ.get("WEBUI_TEST_OFFLINE"),
+        }
+        os.environ["GITEA_CONTROL_PLANE_DB"] = self.db_path
+        os.environ["GITEA_ISSUE_LOCK_DIR"] = self.lock_dir
+        os.environ["WEBUI_TEST_OFFLINE"] = "1"
+        self._seed_db()
+        self.client = TestClient(create_app())
+
+    def tearDown(self) -> None:
+        for key, value in self._prev_env.items():
+            if value is None:
+                os.environ.pop(key, None)
+            else:
+                os.environ[key] = value
+
+    def test_inventory_route_returns_versioned_payload(self):
+        resp = self.client.get("/api/v1/inventory")
+        self.assertEqual(resp.status_code, 200)
+        body = resp.json()
+        self.assertEqual(body["api_version"], "v1")
+        self.assertIn("sessions", body["sections"])
+        self.assertIn("field_authority", body)
+
+    def test_section_route_restricts_and_labels(self):
+        resp = self.client.get("/api/v1/inventory/locks")
+        self.assertEqual(resp.status_code, 200)
+        body = resp.json()
+        self.assertEqual(body["requested_section"], "locks")
+        self.assertIn("locks", body["sections"])
+        self.assertNotIn("sessions", body["sections"])
+
+    def test_unknown_section_is_404(self):
+        resp = self.client.get("/api/v1/inventory/bogus")
+        self.assertEqual(resp.status_code, 404)
+        self.assertEqual(resp.json()["error"], "unknown_section")
+
+    def test_inventory_route_rejects_post(self):
+        resp = self.client.post("/api/v1/inventory")
+        self.assertEqual(resp.status_code, 405)
+
+
+class TestReadOnly(_FixtureMixin):
+    def test_snapshot_does_not_create_db_file(self):
+        missing = os.path.join(self.tmp, "does-not-exist.db")
+        inventory.load_inventory_snapshot(
+            db_path=missing,
+            lock_dir=self.lock_dir,
+            load_hygiene=lambda: _StubHygiene(entries=()),
+        )
+        self.assertFalse(os.path.exists(missing))
+
+    def test_readonly_connection_refuses_write(self):
+        self._seed_db()
+        conn = inventory._open_readonly(self.db_path)
+        try:
+            with self.assertRaises(Exception):
+                conn.execute(
+                    "INSERT INTO sessions(session_id, role, started_at, "
+                    "last_heartbeat_at, status) VALUES ('x','author',"
+                    "'t','t','active')"
+                )
+                conn.commit()
+        finally:
+            conn.close()
+
+
+# ── lightweight stand-ins for the #432 hygiene snapshot ──────────────────────
+
+
+class _StubEntry:
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        *,
+        rel_path: str,
+        branch: str | None = None,
+        classification: str = "stale-clean",
+        head_sha: str | None = "abc123",
+        dirty_tracked: int = 0,
+        dirty_untracked: bool = False,
+        detached: bool = False,
+        registered_worktree: bool = True,
+        notes: str = "",
+    ) -> None:
+        self.rel_path = rel_path
+        self.folder_name = rel_path.split("/", 1)[-1]
+        self.branch = branch
+        self.classification = classification
+        self.head_sha = head_sha
+        self.dirty_tracked = dirty_tracked
+        self.dirty_untracked = dirty_untracked
+        self.detached = detached
+        self.registered_worktree = registered_worktree
+        self.notes = notes
+
+
+class _StubHygiene:
+    def __init__(self, *, entries=(), scan_error=None) -> None:
+        self.entries = tuple(entries)
+        self.scan_error = scan_error
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    unittest.main()

webui/app.py

@@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ from webui.worktree_scanner import load_hygiene_snapshot, snapshot_to_dict as wo
 from webui.worktree_views import render_worktrees_page
 from webui.runtime_health import load_runtime_snapshot, snapshot_to_dict as runtime_snapshot_to_dict
 from webui.runtime_views import render_runtime_page
+from webui.inventory import (
+    SECTION_NAMES as _INVENTORY_SECTIONS,
+    load_inventory_snapshot,
+    snapshot_to_dict as inventory_snapshot_to_dict,
+)
 
 _READ_ONLY_METHODS = frozenset({"GET", "HEAD", "OPTIONS"})
 _AUDIT_MUTATION_PATHS = frozenset({"/audit", "/api/audit"})
@@ -302,6 +307,30 @@ async def api_action_attempt(request: Request) -> JSONResponse:
     return JSONResponse(result, status_code=status)
 
 
+async def api_inventory(_request: Request) -> JSONResponse:
+    """Unified read-only session/lease/lock/worktree inventory (#636)."""
+    snapshot = load_inventory_snapshot()
+    return JSONResponse(inventory_snapshot_to_dict(snapshot))
+
+
+async def api_inventory_section(request: Request) -> JSONResponse:
+    """Resource-split view: one inventory section under the shared schema."""
+    section = request.path_params["section"]
+    if section not in _INVENTORY_SECTIONS:
+        return JSONResponse(
+            {
+                "error": "unknown_section",
+                "detail": f"no inventory section named {section!r}",
+                "available": sorted(_INVENTORY_SECTIONS),
+            },
+            status_code=404,
+        )
+    snapshot = load_inventory_snapshot(include=(section,))
+    payload = inventory_snapshot_to_dict(snapshot)
+    payload["requested_section"] = section
+    return JSONResponse(payload)
+
+
 async def method_not_allowed(request: Request, _exc: Exception) -> Response:
     path = request.url.path
     if path in _AUDIT_MUTATION_PATHS and request.method == "POST":
@@ -358,6 +387,12 @@ def create_app(*, bind_host: str | None = None) -> Starlette:
                 methods=["POST"],
             ),
             Route("/api/leases", api_leases, methods=["GET"]),
+            Route("/api/v1/inventory", api_inventory, methods=["GET"]),
+            Route(
+                "/api/v1/inventory/{section}",
+                api_inventory_section,
+                methods=["GET"],
+            ),
         ],
         exception_handlers={405: method_not_allowed},
     )

webui/inventory.py

@@ -0,0 +1,952 @@
+"""Unified session/lease/lock/worktree inventory for the web console (#636).
+
+Leases (#433), worktrees (#432), and runtime (#430) each ship their own MVP
+view, each with its own shape and its own idea of what "owned" means. A
+traffic-control or recovery operator has to read all three and correlate them
+by hand, which is exactly the step that goes wrong under collision pressure.
+
+This module aggregates them into one versioned, read-only snapshot so the
+console, and any worker asking "what is safe to do next", read the same
+inventory from the same authority.
+
+Field authority is explicit and never blended. Every section declares where its
+rows came from:
+
+* ``control_plane_db`` — the #613 substrate: sessions, leases, assignments.
+  Authoritative for *exclusive ownership* (#600/#601).
+* ``filesystem`` — durable per-issue lock files (:mod:`issue_lock_store`) and
+  registered git worktrees. Authoritative for *what exists on this machine*.
+* ``gitea`` — remote issue/PR state, reached only through existing loaders.
+
+Safety invariants:
+
+* **Read-only.** The control-plane database is opened through a ``mode=ro``
+  URI. :class:`control_plane_db.ControlPlaneDB` creates directories and runs
+  migrations in its constructor, which an inventory read must never do, so this
+  module talks to sqlite directly rather than through that class.
+* **Fail-soft, never fail-silent.** A subsystem that cannot be read degrades to
+  a section carrying ``status`` and ``reason``. It never raises, and it never
+  produces an empty list that reads like "nothing is there".
+* **Never invent active ownership.** This is the invariant that matters most.
+  A degraded ownership source sets ``ownership_authority_complete`` false, and
+  while that flag is false no work item is reported unowned and no collision is
+  asserted. Absence of evidence is reported as absence of evidence.
+* **Redaction at the boundary.** Absolute paths are collapsed against the home
+  directory, URLs lose userinfo and query strings, and no credential-shaped
+  value is emitted. No session token exists in these sources and none is read.
+
+Phase 1 is read-only. Lease steal/release and worktree deletion are Phase 2+
+and deliberately have no representation here, not even a disabled one.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import os
+import re
+import sqlite3
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass, field
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from typing import Any, Callable
+from urllib.parse import urlparse
+
+import control_plane_db
+import issue_lock_store
+
+SCHEMA_VERSION = 1
+API_VERSION = "v1"
+
+#: Sections whose absence would make an ownership claim unprovable. If any of
+#: these is not ``ok``, the snapshot refuses to describe anything as unowned.
+OWNERSHIP_SECTIONS = ("sessions", "leases", "locks")
+
+SECTION_NAMES = ("sessions", "leases", "locks", "worktrees", "namespaces")
+
+STATUS_OK = "ok"
+STATUS_DEGRADED = "degraded"
+STATUS_UNAVAILABLE = "unavailable"
+
+AUTHORITY_CONTROL_PLANE_DB = "control_plane_db"
+AUTHORITY_FILESYSTEM = "filesystem"
+AUTHORITY_GITEA = "gitea"
+
+_CREDENTIAL_KEY_RE = re.compile(
+    r"(token|secret|password|passwd|api[_-]?key|authorization|bearer|credential)",
+    re.IGNORECASE,
+)
+_REDACTED = "[redacted]"
+
+
+@dataclass(frozen=True)
+class InventorySection:
+    """One subsystem's contribution, with its authority and health."""
+
+    name: str
+    authority: str
+    status: str
+    items: tuple[dict[str, Any], ...] = ()
+    reason: str | None = None
+    scan_ms: float | None = None
+
+    @property
+    def ok(self) -> bool:
+        return self.status == STATUS_OK
+
+    def to_dict(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "name": self.name,
+            "authority": self.authority,
+            "status": self.status,
+            "count": len(self.items),
+            "reason": self.reason,
+            "scan_ms": self.scan_ms,
+            "items": [dict(item) for item in self.items],
+        }
+
+
+@dataclass(frozen=True)
+class CollisionSignal:
+    """A detected conflict between two ownership records."""
+
+    kind: str
+    message: str
+    severity: str = "warning"
+    issue_number: int | None = None
+    branch: str | None = None
+    worktree_path: str | None = None
+    session_ids: tuple[str, ...] = ()
+
+    def to_dict(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "kind": self.kind,
+            "severity": self.severity,
+            "message": self.message,
+            "issue_number": self.issue_number,
+            "branch": self.branch,
+            "worktree_path": self.worktree_path,
+            "session_ids": list(self.session_ids),
+        }
+
+
+@dataclass(frozen=True)
+class InventorySnapshot:
+    """Versioned aggregate of every inventory section."""
+
+    generated_at: str
+    sections: tuple[InventorySection, ...]
+    collisions: tuple[CollisionSignal, ...] = ()
+    correlations: tuple[dict[str, Any], ...] = ()
+    schema_version: int = SCHEMA_VERSION
+    api_version: str = API_VERSION
+    scan_ms: float | None = None
+    _section_index: dict[str, InventorySection] = field(
+        default_factory=dict, repr=False, compare=False
+    )
+
+    def section(self, name: str) -> InventorySection | None:
+        return self._section_index.get(name)
+
+    @property
+    def degraded_sections(self) -> tuple[str, ...]:
+        return tuple(s.name for s in self.sections if not s.ok)
+
+    @property
+    def ownership_authority_complete(self) -> bool:
+        """True only when every ownership-bearing section read cleanly.
+
+        While this is false the snapshot must not describe any work item as
+        unowned: a lease the reader could not load is not an absent lease.
+        """
+        for name in OWNERSHIP_SECTIONS:
+            section = self._section_index.get(name)
+            if section is None or not section.ok:
+                return False
+        return True
+
+    @property
+    def status(self) -> str:
+        if all(s.ok for s in self.sections):
+            return STATUS_OK
+        return STATUS_DEGRADED
+
+
+# ── redaction ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+def redact_path(path: str | None) -> str | None:
+    """Collapse an absolute path against ``$HOME`` for browser display."""
+    if not path:
+        return path
+    text = str(path)
+    home = os.path.expanduser("~")
+    if home and home != "/" and text.startswith(home):
+        return "~" + text[len(home) :]
+    return text
+
+
+def redact_url(value: str | None) -> str | None:
+    """Strip userinfo and query string from a URL."""
+    if not value:
+        return value
+    text = str(value)
+    try:
+        parsed = urlparse(text)
+    except ValueError:
+        return _REDACTED
+    if not parsed.scheme or not parsed.netloc:
+        return text
+    netloc = parsed.hostname or ""
+    if parsed.port:
+        netloc = f"{netloc}:{parsed.port}"
+    rebuilt = f"{parsed.scheme}://{netloc}{parsed.path}"
+    return rebuilt.rstrip("/") or rebuilt
+
+
+def scrub(value: Any, *, key: str | None = None) -> Any:
+    """Recursively drop credential-shaped values and redact paths/URLs.
+
+    Never raises: an unexpected object degrades to its ``repr`` rather than
+    propagating out of a read-only view.
+    """
+    if key and _CREDENTIAL_KEY_RE.search(key):
+        return _REDACTED
+    if isinstance(value, dict):
+        return {str(k): scrub(v, key=str(k)) for k, v in value.items()}
+    if isinstance(value, (list, tuple)):
+        return [scrub(v, key=key) for v in value]
+    if isinstance(value, str):
+        if value.startswith(("http://", "https://")):
+            return redact_url(value)
+        if value.startswith("/") or value.startswith("~"):
+            return redact_path(value)
+        return value
+    if isinstance(value, (int, float, bool)) or value is None:
+        return value
+    return repr(value)
+
+
+# ── control-plane database (read-only) ───────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+def _open_readonly(db_path: str) -> sqlite3.Connection:
+    """Open the control-plane DB without creating or migrating anything."""
+    conn = sqlite3.connect(f"file:{db_path}?mode=ro", uri=True, timeout=5)
+    conn.row_factory = sqlite3.Row
+    return conn
+
+
+def _table_names(conn: sqlite3.Connection) -> set[str]:
+    rows = conn.execute(
+        "SELECT name FROM sqlite_master WHERE type = 'table'"
+    ).fetchall()
+    return {str(row[0]) for row in rows}
+
+
+def _load_cp_db_sections(
+    *,
+    db_path: str | None = None,
+    limit: int = 200,
+) -> tuple[InventorySection, InventorySection]:
+    """Return the ``sessions`` and ``leases`` sections from the #613 DB."""
+    path = (db_path or control_plane_db.default_db_path()).strip()
+
+    def _both_unavailable(reason: str) -> tuple[InventorySection, InventorySection]:
+        return (
+            InventorySection(
+                name="sessions",
+                authority=AUTHORITY_CONTROL_PLANE_DB,
+                status=STATUS_UNAVAILABLE,
+                reason=reason,
+            ),
+            InventorySection(
+                name="leases",
+                authority=AUTHORITY_CONTROL_PLANE_DB,
+                status=STATUS_UNAVAILABLE,
+                reason=reason,
+            ),
+        )
+
+    if not path:
+        return _both_unavailable("control-plane database path is not configured")
+    if not os.path.exists(path):
+        return _both_unavailable(
+            f"control-plane database not present at {redact_path(path)}; "
+            "no session or lease authority available"
+        )
+
+    started = time.perf_counter()
+    try:
+        conn = _open_readonly(path)
+    except sqlite3.Error as exc:
+        return _both_unavailable(f"control-plane database could not be opened: {exc}")
+
+    try:
+        tables = _table_names(conn)
+        if "sessions" not in tables or "leases" not in tables:
+            missing = sorted({"sessions", "leases"} - tables)
+            return _both_unavailable(
+                "control-plane database is missing required tables: "
+                + ", ".join(missing)
+            )
+
+        session_rows = [
+            dict(row)
+            for row in conn.execute(
+                "SELECT session_id, role, profile, namespace, pid, started_at,"
+                " last_heartbeat_at, status FROM sessions"
+                " ORDER BY last_heartbeat_at DESC LIMIT ?",
+                (max(1, int(limit)),),
+            ).fetchall()
+        ]
+
+        has_work_items = "work_items" in tables
+        if has_work_items:
+            lease_sql = (
+                "SELECT l.lease_id, l.session_id, l.role, l.phase, l.status,"
+                " l.expires_at, w.remote, w.org, w.repo, w.kind AS work_kind,"
+                " w.number AS work_number, w.state AS work_state,"
+                " s.pid AS session_pid, s.profile AS session_profile,"
+                " s.namespace AS session_namespace, s.status AS session_status"
+                " FROM leases l"
+                " JOIN work_items w ON w.work_item_id = l.work_item_id"
+                " LEFT JOIN sessions s ON s.session_id = l.session_id"
+                " ORDER BY l.expires_at DESC LIMIT ?"
+            )
+        else:
+            lease_sql = (
+                "SELECT l.lease_id, l.session_id, l.role, l.phase, l.status,"
+                " l.expires_at FROM leases l"
+                " ORDER BY l.expires_at DESC LIMIT ?"
+            )
+        lease_rows = [
+            dict(row)
+            for row in conn.execute(lease_sql, (max(1, int(limit)),)).fetchall()
+        ]
+    except sqlite3.Error as exc:
+        return _both_unavailable(f"control-plane database read failed: {exc}")
+    finally:
+        conn.close()
+
+    elapsed = (time.perf_counter() - started) * 1000.0
+    now = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
+
+    sessions = tuple(
+        scrub(
+            {
+                "session_id": row.get("session_id"),
+                "role": row.get("role"),
+                "profile": row.get("profile"),
+                "namespace": row.get("namespace"),
+                "pid": row.get("pid"),
+                "pid_alive": issue_lock_store.is_process_alive(row.get("pid")),
+                "started_at": row.get("started_at"),
+                "last_heartbeat_at": row.get("last_heartbeat_at"),
+                "status": row.get("status"),
+            }
+        )
+        for row in session_rows
+    )
+
+    leases = tuple(
+        scrub(
+            {
+                "lease_id": row.get("lease_id"),
+                "session_id": row.get("session_id"),
+                "role": row.get("role"),
+                "phase": row.get("phase"),
+                "status": row.get("status"),
+                "expires_at": row.get("expires_at"),
+                "expired": _is_expired(row.get("expires_at"), now=now),
+                "remote": row.get("remote"),
+                "org": row.get("org"),
+                "repo": row.get("repo"),
+                "work_kind": row.get("work_kind"),
+                "work_number": row.get("work_number"),
+                "work_state": row.get("work_state"),
+                "session_pid": row.get("session_pid"),
+                "session_profile": row.get("session_profile"),
+                "session_namespace": row.get("session_namespace"),
+                "session_status": row.get("session_status"),
+            }
+        )
+        for row in lease_rows
+    )
+
+    degraded_reason = (
+        None
+        if has_work_items
+        else "work_items table absent; lease rows carry no work linkage"
+    )
+    lease_status = STATUS_OK if has_work_items else STATUS_DEGRADED
+
+    return (
+        InventorySection(
+            name="sessions",
+            authority=AUTHORITY_CONTROL_PLANE_DB,
+            status=STATUS_OK,
+            items=sessions,
+            scan_ms=round(elapsed, 3),
+        ),
+        InventorySection(
+            name="leases",
+            authority=AUTHORITY_CONTROL_PLANE_DB,
+            status=lease_status,
+            items=leases,
+            reason=degraded_reason,
+            scan_ms=round(elapsed, 3),
+        ),
+    )
+
+
+def _is_expired(expires_at: str | None, *, now: datetime) -> bool | None:
+    if not expires_at:
+        return None
+    text = str(expires_at).strip().replace("Z", "+00:00")
+    try:
+        parsed = datetime.fromisoformat(text)
+    except ValueError:
+        return None
+    if parsed.tzinfo is None:
+        parsed = parsed.replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc)
+    return parsed <= now
+
+
+# ── durable issue locks (filesystem) ─────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+def _load_locks_section(*, lock_dir: str | None = None) -> InventorySection:
+    started = time.perf_counter()
+    try:
+        paths = issue_lock_store.iter_lock_files(lock_dir)
+    except OSError as exc:
+        return InventorySection(
+            name="locks",
+            authority=AUTHORITY_FILESYSTEM,
+            status=STATUS_UNAVAILABLE,
+            reason=f"issue lock directory could not be listed: {exc}",
+        )
+
+    items: list[dict[str, Any]] = []
+    unreadable = 0
+    for path in paths:
+        try:
+            record = issue_lock_store.read_lock_file(path)
+        except (OSError, ValueError):
+            unreadable += 1
+            continue
+        if not record:
+            unreadable += 1
+            continue
+        try:
+            freshness = issue_lock_store.assess_lock_freshness(record)
+        except Exception:  # noqa: BLE001 — a read-only view never raises
+            freshness = {"status": "unknown", "live": False, "stale": False}
+        claimant = record.get("claimant") or (
+            (record.get("work_lease") or {}).get("claimant") or {}
+        )
+        items.append(
+            scrub(
+                {
+                    "issue_number": record.get("issue_number"),
+                    "branch_name": record.get("branch_name"),
+                    "remote": record.get("remote"),
+                    "org": record.get("org"),
+                    "repo": record.get("repo"),
+                    "worktree_path": record.get("worktree_path"),
+                    "pid": record.get("session_pid") or record.get("pid"),
+                    "pid_alive": issue_lock_store.is_process_alive(
+                        record.get("session_pid") or record.get("pid")
+                    ),
+                    "claimant_username": (claimant or {}).get("username"),
+                    "claimant_profile": (claimant or {}).get("profile"),
+                    "lock_generation": record.get("lock_generation"),
+                    "freshness_status": freshness.get("status"),
+                    "live": bool(freshness.get("live")),
+                    "stale": bool(freshness.get("stale")),
+                    "freshness_reason": freshness.get("reason"),
+                    "lock_path": record.get("lock_file_path") or path,
+                }
+            )
+        )
+
+    elapsed = (time.perf_counter() - started) * 1000.0
+    reason = (
+        f"{unreadable} lock file(s) were unreadable and are not represented"
+        if unreadable
+        else None
+    )
+    return InventorySection(
+        name="locks",
+        authority=AUTHORITY_FILESYSTEM,
+        status=STATUS_DEGRADED if unreadable else STATUS_OK,
+        items=tuple(items),
+        reason=reason,
+        scan_ms=round(elapsed, 3),
+    )
+
+
+# ── worktrees (filesystem, via the #432 scanner) ─────────────────────────────
+
+
+def _load_worktrees_section(
+    *, load_hygiene: Callable[[], Any] | None = None
+) -> InventorySection:
+    started = time.perf_counter()
+    try:
+        loader = load_hygiene
+        if loader is None:
+            from webui.worktree_scanner import load_hygiene_snapshot
+
+            loader = load_hygiene_snapshot
+        snapshot = loader()
+    except Exception as exc:  # noqa: BLE001 — fail soft, never fail the request
+        return InventorySection(
+            name="worktrees",
+            authority=AUTHORITY_FILESYSTEM,
+            status=STATUS_UNAVAILABLE,
+            reason=f"worktree scan failed: {exc}",
+        )
+
+    items = tuple(
+        scrub(
+            {
+                "rel_path": entry.rel_path,
+                "folder_name": entry.folder_name,
+                "classification": entry.classification,
+                "branch": entry.branch,
+                "head_sha": entry.head_sha,
+                "dirty_tracked": entry.dirty_tracked,
+                "dirty_untracked": entry.dirty_untracked,
+                "detached": entry.detached,
+                "registered_worktree": entry.registered_worktree,
+                "notes": entry.notes,
+            }
+        )
+        for entry in snapshot.entries
+    )
+    scan_error = getattr(snapshot, "scan_error", None)
+    elapsed = (time.perf_counter() - started) * 1000.0
+    return InventorySection(
+        name="worktrees",
+        authority=AUTHORITY_FILESYSTEM,
+        status=STATUS_DEGRADED if scan_error else STATUS_OK,
+        items=items,
+        reason=scan_error,
+        scan_ms=round(elapsed, 3),
+    )
+
+
+# ── namespaces / capability summary ──────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+def _load_namespaces_section() -> InventorySection:
+    started = time.perf_counter()
+    try:
+        from gitea_auth import get_profile
+
+        profile = get_profile() or {}
+    except Exception as exc:  # noqa: BLE001
+        return InventorySection(
+            name="namespaces",
+            authority=AUTHORITY_FILESYSTEM,
+            status=STATUS_UNAVAILABLE,
+            reason=f"active profile could not be resolved: {exc}",
+        )
+
+    allowed = list(profile.get("allowed_operations") or [])
+    forbidden = list(profile.get("forbidden_operations") or [])
+    profile_name = str(profile.get("profile_name") or "")
+
+    namespace = None
+    try:
+        import role_namespace_gate
+
+        namespace = role_namespace_gate.infer_mcp_namespace(profile_name)
+    except Exception:  # noqa: BLE001 — namespace inference is advisory
+        namespace = None
+
+    item = scrub(
+        {
+            "profile_name": profile_name,
+            "role": profile.get("role"),
+            "mcp_namespace": namespace,
+            "allowed_operations": sorted(allowed),
+            "forbidden_operations": sorted(forbidden),
+            "capability_summary": {
+                "can_author": "gitea.pr.create" in allowed,
+                "can_review": "gitea.pr.approve" in allowed,
+                "can_merge": "gitea.pr.merge" in allowed,
+                "can_close_pr": "gitea.pr.close" in allowed,
+            },
+            "active": True,
+        }
+    )
+    elapsed = (time.perf_counter() - started) * 1000.0
+    return InventorySection(
+        name="namespaces",
+        authority=AUTHORITY_FILESYSTEM,
+        status=STATUS_OK,
+        items=(item,),
+        reason=(
+            "only the profile serving this web process is observable; other "
+            "namespaces are not enumerable from here"
+        ),
+        scan_ms=round(elapsed, 3),
+    )
+
+
+# ── correlation and collision detection ──────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+def _issue_from_branch(branch: str | None) -> int | None:
+    match = re.search(r"issue-(\d+)", str(branch or ""), re.IGNORECASE)
+    return int(match.group(1)) if match else None
+
+
+def correlate(
+    *,
+    leases: InventorySection,
+    locks: InventorySection,
+    worktrees: InventorySection,
+    sessions: InventorySection,
+) -> tuple[tuple[dict[str, Any], ...], tuple[CollisionSignal, ...]]:
+    """Join lease owner ↔ lock ↔ worktree ↔ namespace where evidence allows.
+
+    Correlation rows are emitted from whatever sections did load. Collision
+    signals are only emitted from sections that are ``ok``: a conflict inferred
+    from a partially-read source would be a false accusation.
+    """
+    correlations: list[dict[str, Any]] = []
+    collisions: list[CollisionSignal] = []
+
+    worktree_by_branch: dict[str, dict[str, Any]] = {}
+    for entry in worktrees.items:
+        branch = (entry.get("branch") or "").strip()
+        if branch:
+            worktree_by_branch.setdefault(branch, entry)
+
+    session_by_id = {
+        str(s.get("session_id")): s for s in sessions.items if s.get("session_id")
+    }
+
+    # Lock-centred rows: a durable lock names an issue, a branch, and a worktree.
+    for lock in locks.items:
+        branch = (lock.get("branch_name") or "").strip()
+        worktree = worktree_by_branch.get(branch)
+        matching_leases = [
+            lease
+            for lease in leases.items
+            if lease.get("work_kind") == "issue"
+            and lease.get("work_number") == lock.get("issue_number")
+        ]
+        correlations.append(
+            {
+                "issue_number": lock.get("issue_number"),
+                "branch": branch or None,
+                "lock_live": bool(lock.get("live")),
+                "lock_claimant": lock.get("claimant_profile"),
+                "lock_pid": lock.get("pid"),
+                "lock_pid_alive": lock.get("pid_alive"),
+                "worktree_rel_path": (worktree or {}).get("rel_path"),
+                "worktree_classification": (worktree or {}).get("classification"),
+                "worktree_registered": (worktree or {}).get("registered_worktree"),
+                "lease_ids": [
+                    lease.get("lease_id")
+                    for lease in matching_leases
+                    if lease.get("lease_id")
+                ],
+                "lease_sessions": [
+                    lease.get("session_id")
+                    for lease in matching_leases
+                    if lease.get("session_id")
+                ],
+            }
+        )
+
+        if locks.ok and worktrees.ok:
+            # A claim whose lease window is still open but has no registered
+            # worktree is an anomaly regardless of whether its pid is alive; a
+            # fully time-expired lease is on its way out and is not flagged.
+            if (
+                lock.get("freshness_status") != "expired"
+                and branch
+                and worktree is None
+            ):
+                collisions.append(
+                    CollisionSignal(
+                        kind="lock-without-worktree",
+                        severity="warning",
+                        issue_number=lock.get("issue_number"),
+                        branch=branch,
+                        worktree_path=lock.get("worktree_path"),
+                        message=(
+                            f"Live lock on issue #{lock.get('issue_number')} names "
+                            f"branch {branch!r} but no registered worktree carries "
+                            "that branch (#404)"
+                        ),
+                    )
+                )
+
+        if locks.ok:
+            # A lock whose recorded pid is gone is held by nobody: a clean #753
+            # dead-session recovery candidate. Subclassify by the lease window,
+            # because the two cases need different operator urgency. When the
+            # window is still open the lock would read as live to a naive
+            # timestamp check even though the owner is dead — the more dangerous
+            # case — so it is flagged distinctly from a fully time-expired lease.
+            if lock.get("pid_alive") is False and lock.get("stale"):
+                if lock.get("freshness_status") == "expired":
+                    collisions.append(
+                        CollisionSignal(
+                            kind="stale-lock-dead-owner",
+                            severity="warning",
+                            issue_number=lock.get("issue_number"),
+                            branch=branch or None,
+                            message=(
+                                f"Lock on issue #{lock.get('issue_number')} is stale "
+                                f"and its recorded pid {lock.get('pid')} is not running "
+                                "(#753 dead-session recovery candidate)"
+                            ),
+                        )
+                    )
+                else:
+                    collisions.append(
+                        CollisionSignal(
+                            kind="live-lock-dead-owner",
+                            severity="warning",
+                            issue_number=lock.get("issue_number"),
+                            branch=branch or None,
+                            message=(
+                                f"Lock on issue #{lock.get('issue_number')} has an "
+                                "unexpired lease but its recorded pid "
+                                f"{lock.get('pid')} is not running; it would read as "
+                                "live to a timestamp check (#753 dead-session recovery "
+                                "candidate)"
+                            ),
+                        )
+                    )
+            # The #635 trap: the lease has expired but the recorded pid is a
+            # still-running daemon, so neither dead-pid reclaim nor exact-owner
+            # renewal applies. This is the collision an operator must see.
+            elif (
+                lock.get("freshness_status") == "expired"
+                and lock.get("pid_alive") is True
+            ):
+                collisions.append(
+                    CollisionSignal(
+                        kind="expired-lock-live-owner",
+                        severity="error",
+                        issue_number=lock.get("issue_number"),
+                        branch=branch or None,
+                        message=(
+                            f"Lock on issue #{lock.get('issue_number')} has an expired "
+                            f"lease but its recorded pid {lock.get('pid')} is still "
+                            "running (daemon-pid deadlock; needs an operator decision, "
+                            "#635/#760)"
+                        ),
+                    )
+                )
+
+    # Two live locks on one branch, or two active leases on one work item.
+    if locks.ok:
+        by_branch: dict[str, list[dict[str, Any]]] = {}
+        for lock in locks.items:
+            if not lock.get("live"):
+                continue
+            branch = (lock.get("branch_name") or "").strip()
+            if branch:
+                by_branch.setdefault(branch, []).append(lock)
+        for branch, entries in sorted(by_branch.items()):
+            if len(entries) > 1:
+                collisions.append(
+                    CollisionSignal(
+                        kind="duplicate-live-lock",
+                        severity="error",
+                        branch=branch,
+                        message=(
+                            f"{len(entries)} live locks name branch {branch!r}: "
+                            "issues "
+                            + ", ".join(
+                                f"#{e.get('issue_number')}" for e in entries
+                            )
+                        ),
+                    )
+                )
+
+    if leases.ok:
+        by_work: dict[tuple[str, int], list[dict[str, Any]]] = {}
+        for lease in leases.items:
+            if str(lease.get("status") or "").lower() != "active":
+                continue
+            kind = str(lease.get("work_kind") or "").strip().lower()
+            number = lease.get("work_number")
+            if not kind or number is None:
+                continue
+            by_work.setdefault((kind, int(number)), []).append(lease)
+        for (kind, number), entries in sorted(by_work.items()):
+            sessions_held = {
+                str(e.get("session_id")) for e in entries if e.get("session_id")
+            }
+            if len(sessions_held) > 1:
+                collisions.append(
+                    CollisionSignal(
+                        kind="concurrent-active-lease",
+                        severity="error",
+                        issue_number=number if kind == "issue" else None,
+                        session_ids=tuple(sorted(sessions_held)),
+                        message=(
+                            f"{len(sessions_held)} sessions hold an active lease on "
+                            f"{kind} #{number}"
+                        ),
+                    )
+                )
+            for entry in entries:
+                if entry.get("expired") is True:
+                    collisions.append(
+                        CollisionSignal(
+                            kind="active-lease-past-expiry",
+                            severity="warning",
+                            issue_number=number if kind == "issue" else None,
+                            session_ids=(
+                                (str(entry.get("session_id")),)
+                                if entry.get("session_id")
+                                else ()
+                            ),
+                            message=(
+                                f"Lease {entry.get('lease_id')} on {kind} #{number} "
+                                "is still marked active past its expiry"
+                            ),
+                        )
+                    )
+
+    # A lease whose owning session is gone is an orphan, not free work.
+    if leases.ok and sessions.ok:
+        for lease in leases.items:
+            if str(lease.get("status") or "").lower() != "active":
+                continue
+            session_id = str(lease.get("session_id") or "")
+            if session_id and session_id not in session_by_id:
+                collisions.append(
+                    CollisionSignal(
+                        kind="orphan-lease",
+                        severity="error",
+                        session_ids=(session_id,),
+                        message=(
+                            f"Active lease {lease.get('lease_id')} names session "
+                            f"{session_id}, which has no session record"
+                        ),
+                    )
+                )
+
+    return tuple(correlations), tuple(collisions)
+
+
+# ── snapshot assembly ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+def load_inventory_snapshot(
+    *,
+    db_path: str | None = None,
+    lock_dir: str | None = None,
+    load_hygiene: Callable[[], Any] | None = None,
+    include: tuple[str, ...] | None = None,
+) -> InventorySnapshot:
+    """Build the unified inventory snapshot.
+
+    Every section is loaded independently and fails soft. *include* restricts
+    the sections that are scanned; omitted sections are simply absent rather
+    than reported as empty, so a resource-split request cannot be mistaken for
+    a whole-inventory answer.
+    """
+    started = time.perf_counter()
+    wanted = tuple(include) if include else SECTION_NAMES
+
+    sections: list[InventorySection] = []
+    sessions_section: InventorySection | None = None
+    leases_section: InventorySection | None = None
+
+    if "sessions" in wanted or "leases" in wanted:
+        sessions_section, leases_section = _load_cp_db_sections(db_path=db_path)
+        if "sessions" in wanted:
+            sections.append(sessions_section)
+        if "leases" in wanted:
+            sections.append(leases_section)
+
+    locks_section = (
+        _load_locks_section(lock_dir=lock_dir)
+        if "locks" in wanted
+        else _empty_section("locks", AUTHORITY_FILESYSTEM)
+    )
+    if "locks" in wanted:
+        sections.append(locks_section)
+
+    worktrees_section = (
+        _load_worktrees_section(load_hygiene=load_hygiene)
+        if "worktrees" in wanted
+        else _empty_section("worktrees", AUTHORITY_FILESYSTEM)
+    )
+    if "worktrees" in wanted:
+        sections.append(worktrees_section)
+
+    if "namespaces" in wanted:
+        sections.append(_load_namespaces_section())
+
+    correlations, collisions = correlate(
+        leases=leases_section or _empty_section("leases", AUTHORITY_CONTROL_PLANE_DB),
+        locks=locks_section,
+        worktrees=worktrees_section,
+        sessions=sessions_section
+        or _empty_section("sessions", AUTHORITY_CONTROL_PLANE_DB),
+    )
+
+    elapsed = (time.perf_counter() - started) * 1000.0
+    index = {section.name: section for section in sections}
+    return InventorySnapshot(
+        generated_at=datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat(),
+        sections=tuple(sections),
+        collisions=collisions,
+        correlations=correlations,
+        scan_ms=round(elapsed, 3),
+        _section_index=index,
+    )
+
+
+def _empty_section(name: str, authority: str) -> InventorySection:
+    """A section that was not requested — never a claim that it is empty."""
+    return InventorySection(
+        name=name,
+        authority=authority,
+        status=STATUS_UNAVAILABLE,
+        reason="section not requested in this scan",
+    )
+
+
+def snapshot_to_dict(snapshot: InventorySnapshot) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Serialize the snapshot for the versioned API."""
+    return {
+        "api_version": snapshot.api_version,
+        "schema_version": snapshot.schema_version,
+        "generated_at": snapshot.generated_at,
+        "status": snapshot.status,
+        "scan_ms": snapshot.scan_ms,
+        "ownership_authority_complete": snapshot.ownership_authority_complete,
+        "ownership_note": (
+            "Every ownership source read cleanly; an item absent from leases "
+            "and locks is genuinely unclaimed."
+            if snapshot.ownership_authority_complete
+            else "One or more ownership sources are degraded; nothing in this "
+            "snapshot may be treated as unowned. Collisions are reported only "
+            "from sections that read cleanly."
+        ),
+        "degraded_sections": list(snapshot.degraded_sections),
+        "field_authority": {
+            "sessions": AUTHORITY_CONTROL_PLANE_DB,
+            "leases": AUTHORITY_CONTROL_PLANE_DB,
+            "locks": AUTHORITY_FILESYSTEM,
+            "worktrees": AUTHORITY_FILESYSTEM,
+            "namespaces": AUTHORITY_FILESYSTEM,
+        },
+        "sections": {section.name: section.to_dict() for section in snapshot.sections},
+        "correlations": [dict(row) for row in snapshot.correlations],
+        "collisions": [signal.to_dict() for signal in snapshot.collisions],
+    }