feat(webui): read-only workflow policy & guardrail visibility (Closes #646)

Phase 3 child of the Web Console epic #631. Operators can now see the active
workflow policy/guardrail configuration from the console instead of reading the
repo tree.

- webui/policy_inventory.py (new): redacted, machine-readable guardrail
  inventory. One row per major guardrail (role separation/RBAC, lease rules,
  worktree binding, merge confirmation, redaction, contamination, allocator
  policy, audit logging, mutation gating) with source pointers (file/module/doc)
  and a compact active projection from the existing safe policy accessors.
  Fail-soft per entry; whole payload run through console_redaction before emit;
  diff vs documented default where feasible.
- webui/policy_views.py (new): HTML cards with source pointers, active config,
  and the documented-default diff; read-only page copy, no forms.
- webui/app.py: register GET /policy and GET /api/v1/policy (additive).
- webui/layout.py: add Policy nav item.
- tests/test_webui_policy_visibility.py (new): guardrail presence + source
  pointers (AC1), redaction incl. planted-secret masking and scan_for_secrets
  (AC2/AC3), read-only page + no-mutation routes (AC4), fail-soft rendering.
- docs/webui-local-dev.md: route table + read-only policy-visibility section.

Read-only throughout; no policy editing, no gate-weakening toggle, secrets
redacted.

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

branch_cleanup_guard.py

@@ -163,19 +163,7 @@ _TERMINAL_OWNERSHIP_STATUSES = frozenset(
     {"released", "abandoned", "done", "blocked", "terminal", "closed"}
 )
 _EXPIRED_STATUSES = frozenset({"expired"})
-_STALE_STATUSES = frozenset(
+_STALE_STATUSES = frozenset({"stale", "stale_dead_process", "stale_missing_worktree"})
-    {
-        "stale",
-        "stale_dead_process",
-        "stale_missing_worktree",
-        # #790 Slice A heartbeat-lifecycle bands. Listed here so they are
-        # *classified* rather than falling through to the unknown-status branch;
-        # they still block unless the ownership record proves
-        # ``reclaim_allowed is True``, so the O2 fail-closed rule is unchanged.
-        "stale_missed_heartbeat",
-        "stale_absolute_cap",
-    }
-)
 
 
 def _norm_str(value: Any) -> str:

docs/mcp-tool-inventory.md

@@ -100,7 +100,6 @@ that gates each call, not which tools exist.
 - `gitea_get_profile`
 - `gitea_get_runtime_context`
 - `gitea_get_shell_health`
-- `gitea_heartbeat_issue_lock`
 - `gitea_heartbeat_reviewer_pr_lease`
 - `gitea_inspect_workflow_lease`
 - `gitea_issue_irrecoverable_provenance_authorization`

docs/webui-local-dev.md

@@ -64,6 +64,8 @@ status, onboarding checklist state, and the fail-closed error payloads (#635).
 | `/api/prompts` | JSON prompt export with workflow hashes |
 | `/runtime` | MCP runtime health and stale detection (#430) |
 | `/api/runtime` | JSON runtime health export |
+| `/policy` | Workflow policy and guardrail configuration visibility (#646) |
+| `/api/v1/policy` | Versioned JSON guardrail inventory (redacted, read-only) |
 | `/audit` | Report audit paste + validator preview (#431) |
 | `/api/audit` | JSON validator preview (POST `report_text`, optional `task_kind`) |
 | `/worktrees` | Worktree hygiene dashboard (#432) |
@@ -153,6 +155,19 @@ 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.
 
+## Policy & guardrail visibility (#646)
+
+`/policy` (HTML) and `/api/v1/policy` (JSON) surface a **read-only** projection
+of the major workflow guardrails — role separation/RBAC, lease lifecycle,
+author worktree binding, merge confirmation, secret redaction, contamination
+containment, allocator policy, audit logging, and mutation gating. Each entry
+carries source pointers to the file/module/doc that owns it, a compact active
+value derived from the existing safe policy accessors, and — where a documented
+default is declared — a diff of active vs documented. The whole payload is run
+through the console redaction pass before it is emitted, so a planted or
+accidental secret degrades to the placeholder rather than reaching a client.
+The view never edits policy and exposes no gate-weakening toggle.
+
 ## Deployment boundary (#435)
 
 MVP serves on loopback by default. Binding `0.0.0.0` or `::` is **refused**

gitea_mcp_server.py

@@ -2020,7 +2020,6 @@ import allocator_dependencies  # noqa: E402
 import dependency_graph  # noqa: E402  # #784 durable dependency edges
 import control_plane_db  # noqa: E402
 import lease_lifecycle  # noqa: E402
-import lease_policy  # noqa: E402
 import workflow_dashboard  # noqa: E402  # #605 live queue/lease dashboard
 import incident_bridge  # noqa: E402
 import sentry_observability  # noqa: E402  (#606 optional Sentry observability)
@@ -2263,6 +2262,7 @@ import canonical_comment_validator as ccv  # noqa: E402
 # GITEA_ISSUE_LOCK_DIR, bound to the current MCP session via a per-PID pointer.
 # Legacy global path retained only for test/doc references — do not seed manually.
 ISSUE_LOCK_FILE = "/tmp/gitea_issue_lock.json"
+WORK_LEASE_TTL_HOURS = 4
 AUTHOR_ISSUE_WORK_LEASE = "author_issue_work"
 VALID_WORK_LEASE_OPERATIONS = frozenset({
     AUTHOR_ISSUE_WORK_LEASE,
@@ -2562,12 +2562,7 @@ def _build_author_issue_work_lease(
     host: str | None,
 ) -> dict:
     created = _work_lease_now()
-    # #790 Slice A: the window comes from the central policy, not a literal here.
+    expires = created + timedelta(hours=WORK_LEASE_TTL_HOURS)
-    # It is also now a *sliding* window — the lease lives ``initial_ttl_minutes``
-    # past its last valid heartbeat rather than a fixed four hours past its
-    # creation, so an abandoned task stops holding the claim within one TTL.
-    policy = lease_policy.policy_for(lease_policy.TASK_CLASS_AUTHOR_ISSUE_WORK)
-    expires = created + timedelta(minutes=policy.initial_ttl_minutes)
     return {
         "operation_type": AUTHOR_ISSUE_WORK_LEASE,
         "issue_number": issue_number,
@@ -2578,15 +2573,6 @@ def _build_author_issue_work_lease(
         "created_at": _work_lease_timestamp(created),
         "expires_at": _work_lease_timestamp(expires),
         "last_heartbeat_at": _work_lease_timestamp(created),
-        # #790 AC-N1: the ownership key for this task. Distinct from the recorded
-        # PID, which is the shared daemon and identifies no individual task.
-        "task_session_id": issue_lock_store.mint_task_session_id(
-            AUTHOR_ISSUE_WORK_LEASE
-        ),
-        # #790 AC-N8: the explicit lifecycle marker. Its absence — never a
-        # timestamp comparison — is what makes a lock legacy.
-        "lifecycle_version": lease_policy.LIFECYCLE_HEARTBEAT_V1,
-        "heartbeat_count": 1,
     }
 
 
@@ -4356,138 +4342,6 @@ def gitea_lock_issue(
     return result
 
 
-@mcp.tool()
-def gitea_heartbeat_issue_lock(
-    issue_number: int,
-    branch_name: str,
-    task_session_id: str | None = None,
-    remote: str = "dadeschools",
-    host: str | None = None,
-    org: str | None = None,
-    repo: str | None = None,
-    worktree_path: str | None = None,
-    expected_generation: int | None = None,
-) -> dict:
-    """Prove an owned author issue lease is still active (#790 Slice A).
-
-    The task-liveness signal the lifecycle was missing. Before this, an author
-    lease carried a fixed four-hour expiry that nothing could shorten, and the
-    only liveness evidence was the recorded PID — the long-lived MCP daemon,
-    which stays alive across every task it serves and so proved nothing about
-    whether the authoring task still held the work.
-
-    Each successful call slides the lease ``initial_ttl_minutes`` past *now*
-    from the central policy, so an actively heartbeating session is never
-    evicted while an abandoned one releases its claim within one TTL.
-
-    What this tool cannot do, by construction:
-
-    * **Acquire.** It refuses when no durable lock exists.
-    * **Take over.** Exact issue, branch, realpath-normalized worktree,
-      claimant username, claimant profile, and recorded task-session identifier
-      must all match; a superseded session holding an older identifier is
-      refused.
-    * **Revive.** A lease already past its grace is not heartbeatable — that
-      would let a session restore ownership it had stopped proving. It must use
-      the sanctioned reclaim path, which mints a new generation.
-
-    A lock predating the heartbeat lifecycle is rebound rather than heartbeated:
-    its exact owner is re-verified and a genuine task-session identifier and
-    first heartbeat are minted (#790 AC-N8). The rebind is decided server-side
-    from the durable lifecycle marker; there is no caller-facing switch.
-
-    Args:
-        issue_number: The locked issue number.
-        branch_name: The branch recorded on the lock.
-        task_session_id: The identifier this session received when it acquired
-            or rebound the lock. It is a fencing token, not an ownership
-            assertion: it is compared against durable state and can only ever
-            cause a refusal, never grant anything. Omitted only when rebinding a
-            legacy lock, which has no identifier yet and mints one.
-        remote: Known instance — 'dadeschools' or 'prgs'.
-        host: Override the Gitea host.
-        org: Override the owner/organization.
-        repo: Override the repository name.
-        worktree_path: Author worktree recorded on the lock.
-        expected_generation: Optional fencing value. The per-issue flock already
-            serializes the read and the write, so this is for a caller that
-            wants to pin the generation it last observed across calls; a moved
-            generation fails closed.
-
-    Returns:
-        dict with 'success', 'performed', the sliding 'expires_at',
-        'last_heartbeat_at', 'lock_generation', 'task_session_id', the applied
-        'policy', and post-write 'freshness'; on refusal 'success'/'performed'
-        False with 'reasons' naming exactly what did not match.
-    """
-    blocked = _profile_permission_block(
-        task_capability_map.required_permission("heartbeat_issue_lock"),
-        issue_number=issue_number,
-        remote=remote,
-        host=host,
-        org=org,
-        repo=repo,
-        org_explicit=org is not None,
-        repo_explicit=repo is not None,
-    )
-    if blocked:
-        return blocked
-
-    resolved_worktree = issue_lock_worktree.resolve_author_worktree_path(
-        worktree_path, _canonical_local_git_root()
-    )
-    h, o, r = _resolve(remote, host, org, repo)
-    claimant = _work_lease_claimant(h)
-    identity = claimant.get("username")
-    profile = claimant.get("profile")
-
-    existing = _load_existing_issue_lock(
-        remote=remote, org=o, repo=r, issue_number=issue_number
-    )
-    if not existing:
-        return {
-            "success": False,
-            "performed": False,
-            "issue_number": issue_number,
-            "reasons": [
-                f"no durable lock for issue #{issue_number}; heartbeat cannot "
-                "acquire a claim (fail closed)"
-            ],
-        }
-
-    if issue_lock_store.is_legacy_lease(existing):
-        # AC-N8 exit route one: canonical exact-owner rebinding. The other exit
-        # is terminal retirement, which is Slice B.
-        outcome = issue_lock_store.rebind_legacy_lock(
-            remote=remote,
-            org=o,
-            repo=r,
-            issue_number=issue_number,
-            branch_name=branch_name,
-            worktree_path=resolved_worktree,
-            identity=identity,
-            profile=profile,
-            expected_generation=expected_generation,
-        )
-        outcome["operation"] = "legacy_rebind"
-        return outcome
-
-    outcome = issue_lock_store.heartbeat_session_lock(
-        remote=remote,
-        org=o,
-        repo=r,
-        issue_number=issue_number,
-        branch_name=branch_name,
-        worktree_path=resolved_worktree,
-        identity=identity,
-        profile=profile,
-        task_session_id=str(task_session_id or ""),
-        expected_generation=expected_generation,
-    )
-    outcome["operation"] = "heartbeat"
-    return outcome
-
-
 @mcp.tool()
 def gitea_assess_work_issue_duplicate(
     issue_number: int,

issue_lock_store.py

@@ -15,27 +15,15 @@ import json
 import os
 import re
 import tempfile
-import uuid
 from contextlib import contextmanager
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
 from typing import Any
 
-import lease_policy
-
 LOCK_DIR_ENV = "GITEA_ISSUE_LOCK_DIR"
 DEFAULT_LOCK_DIR = os.path.expanduser("~/.cache/gitea-tools/issue-locks")
+WORK_LEASE_TTL_HOURS = 4
 AUTHOR_ISSUE_WORK_LEASE = "author_issue_work"
 
-# Freshness classifications. ``STATUS_STALE`` remains the dead-PID band that
-# #753 recovery keys on; the two bands below are new in #790 Slice A and apply
-# only to leases minted under the heartbeat lifecycle.
-STATUS_LIVE = "live"
-STATUS_EXPIRED = "expired"
-STATUS_ABSENT = "absent"
-STATUS_STALE = "stale"
-STATUS_STALE_MISSED_HEARTBEAT = "stale_missed_heartbeat"
-STATUS_STALE_ABSOLUTE_CAP = "stale_absolute_cap"
-
 _SAFE_SEGMENT_RE = re.compile(r"[^A-Za-z0-9._+-]+")
 
 
@@ -265,331 +253,6 @@ def bind_session_lock(
     return path
 
 
-def _ownership_refusals(
-    lock: dict[str, Any],
-    *,
-    issue_number: int,
-    branch_name: str,
-    worktree_path: str,
-    identity: str | None,
-    profile: str | None,
-) -> list[str]:
-    """Exact-ownership mismatches between a durable lock and a live caller.
-
-    Shared by the heartbeat writer and the legacy rebind path so the two cannot
-    disagree about what "the same owner" means. Every field is compared against
-    durable state; nothing is taken on the caller's word beyond the identity the
-    server itself resolved.
-    """
-    reasons: list[str] = []
-    if lock.get("issue_number") != issue_number:
-        reasons.append(
-            f"lock targets issue #{lock.get('issue_number')}, not #{issue_number}"
-        )
-    if str(lock.get("branch_name") or "") != str(branch_name or ""):
-        reasons.append(
-            f"lock branch '{lock.get('branch_name')}' does not match '{branch_name}'"
-        )
-    if not _same_realpath(str(lock.get("worktree_path") or ""), worktree_path):
-        reasons.append(
-            f"lock worktree '{lock.get('worktree_path')}' does not match "
-            f"'{worktree_path}'"
-        )
-    lease = lock.get("work_lease") if isinstance(lock, dict) else None
-    claimant = lease.get("claimant") if isinstance(lease, dict) else None
-    claimant = claimant if isinstance(claimant, dict) else {}
-    recorded_identity = str(claimant.get("username") or "").strip()
-    recorded_profile = str(claimant.get("profile") or "").strip()
-    if not recorded_identity or not recorded_profile:
-        reasons.append("lock does not record both a claimant username and profile")
-    if recorded_identity and recorded_identity != str(identity or "").strip():
-        reasons.append(
-            f"lock claimant '{recorded_identity}' does not match active identity "
-            f"'{str(identity or '').strip() or 'unknown'}'"
-        )
-    if recorded_profile and recorded_profile != str(profile or "").strip():
-        reasons.append(
-            f"lock profile '{recorded_profile}' does not match active profile "
-            f"'{str(profile or '').strip() or 'unknown'}'"
-        )
-    return reasons
-
-
-def _refusal(reasons: list[str], **extra: Any) -> dict[str, Any]:
-    return {"success": False, "performed": False, "reasons": reasons, **extra}
-
-
-def heartbeat_session_lock(
-    *,
-    remote: str,
-    org: str,
-    repo: str,
-    issue_number: int,
-    branch_name: str,
-    worktree_path: str,
-    identity: str | None,
-    profile: str | None,
-    task_session_id: str,
-    expected_generation: int | None = None,
-    lock_dir: str | None = None,
-    now: datetime | None = None,
-) -> dict[str, Any]:
-    """Slide a heartbeat-lifecycle lease forward (#790 Slice A, A4).
-
-    The write happens inside the same per-issue ``flock`` that serializes
-    acquisition, and under the #772 generation compare-and-swap, so a heartbeat
-    can never race a concurrent reclaim: whichever lands first moves the
-    generation and the other fails closed.
-
-    Refuses — never revives — in every ambiguous case. A lease that has already
-    lapsed past its grace is *not* heartbeatable: allowing that would let a
-    session that stopped proving liveness restore ownership retroactively, which
-    is precisely the revival AC-N5 forbids. Such a session must go through the
-    sanctioned reclaim path, which mints a fresh generation.
-    """
-    current = _lease_now(now)
-    root = _ensure_lock_dir(lock_dir)
-    path = lock_file_path(
-        remote=remote, org=org, repo=repo, issue_number=issue_number, lock_dir=root
-    )
-    declared_session = str(task_session_id or "").strip()
-    if not declared_session:
-        return _refusal(["no task_session_id supplied (fail closed)"])
-
-    sentinel = flock_path(path)
-    try:
-        with _exclusive_file_lock(sentinel):
-            lock = read_lock_file(path)
-            if not lock:
-                return _refusal([f"no durable lock for issue #{issue_number}"])
-
-            if is_legacy_lease(lock):
-                return _refusal(
-                    [
-                        "lock predates the heartbeat lifecycle; it must be rebound "
-                        "by its exact owner before it can be heartbeated"
-                    ],
-                    lifecycle=lease_lifecycle_version(lock),
-                    legacy_lease=True,
-                )
-
-            reasons = _ownership_refusals(
-                lock,
-                issue_number=issue_number,
-                branch_name=branch_name,
-                worktree_path=worktree_path,
-                identity=identity,
-                profile=profile,
-            )
-            recorded_session = lease_task_session_id(lock)
-            if not recorded_session:
-                reasons.append(
-                    "lock declares the heartbeat lifecycle but records no "
-                    "task_session_id (fail closed)"
-                )
-            elif recorded_session != declared_session:
-                # A superseded session holding an old identifier cannot heartbeat
-                # over the session that replaced it.
-                reasons.append(
-                    "task_session_id does not match the session recorded on the lock"
-                )
-            if reasons:
-                return _refusal(reasons)
-
-            current_generation = lock_generation(lock)
-            if (
-                expected_generation is not None
-                and current_generation != expected_generation
-            ):
-                return _refusal(
-                    [
-                        f"lock generation changed: expected {expected_generation}, "
-                        f"found {current_generation}; another session reclaimed or "
-                        "replaced this claim (fail closed)"
-                    ],
-                    lock_generation=current_generation,
-                )
-
-            freshness = assess_lock_freshness(lock, now=current)
-            if not freshness.get("live"):
-                return _refusal(
-                    [
-                        f"lease is not live ({freshness.get('status')}): "
-                        f"{freshness.get('reason')}; a lapsed lease must be "
-                        "reclaimed, not heartbeated"
-                    ],
-                    freshness=freshness,
-                )
-
-            policy = lease_policy.policy_for(lease_task_class(lock))
-            expires = current + timedelta(minutes=policy.initial_ttl_minutes)
-            record = dict(lock)
-            lease = dict(record.get("work_lease") or {})
-            prior_heartbeat = lease.get("last_heartbeat_at")
-            lease["last_heartbeat_at"] = _format_lease_timestamp(current)
-            lease["expires_at"] = _format_lease_timestamp(expires)
-            try:
-                lease["heartbeat_count"] = int(lease.get("heartbeat_count") or 0) + 1
-            except (TypeError, ValueError):
-                lease["heartbeat_count"] = 1
-            record["work_lease"] = lease
-            record["lock_generation"] = current_generation + 1
-            save_lock_file(path, record)
-    except LockContentionError as exc:
-        return _refusal([f"issue #{issue_number} lock contention: {exc} (fail closed)"])
-
-    return {
-        "success": True,
-        "performed": True,
-        "issue_number": issue_number,
-        "branch_name": branch_name,
-        "worktree_path": worktree_path,
-        "task_session_id": declared_session,
-        "lock_generation": record["lock_generation"],
-        "prior_generation": current_generation,
-        "prior_heartbeat_at": prior_heartbeat,
-        "last_heartbeat_at": lease["last_heartbeat_at"],
-        "expires_at": lease["expires_at"],
-        "heartbeat_count": lease["heartbeat_count"],
-        "lock_file_path": path,
-        "policy": lease_policy.describe(lease_task_class(record)),
-        "freshness": assess_lock_freshness(record, now=current),
-    }
-
-
-def rebind_legacy_lock(
-    *,
-    remote: str,
-    org: str,
-    repo: str,
-    issue_number: int,
-    branch_name: str,
-    worktree_path: str,
-    identity: str | None,
-    profile: str | None,
-    expected_generation: int | None = None,
-    lock_dir: str | None = None,
-    now: datetime | None = None,
-) -> dict[str, Any]:
-    """Move a legacy lock into the heartbeat lifecycle (#790 AC-N8).
-
-    One of the two sanctioned exits from the preserved-expiry legacy state; the
-    other is terminal retirement, which is Slice B. Only the exact recorded
-    owner may rebind, and only while the legacy lock is still live under its
-    original absolute expiry — an already-expired legacy lease belongs to the
-    #760 renewal path or #601 reclaim, and this must not become a second, weaker
-    way to revive one.
-
-    The rebind mints a genuine task-session identifier and a genuine first
-    heartbeat. It does not fabricate history: the original creation and expiry
-    are preserved under ``legacy_origin`` for audit, and the new lifecycle's
-    absolute cap runs from the rebind, not from the legacy claim.
-    """
-    current = _lease_now(now)
-    root = _ensure_lock_dir(lock_dir)
-    path = lock_file_path(
-        remote=remote, org=org, repo=repo, issue_number=issue_number, lock_dir=root
-    )
-    sentinel = flock_path(path)
-    try:
-        with _exclusive_file_lock(sentinel):
-            lock = read_lock_file(path)
-            if not lock:
-                return _refusal([f"no durable lock for issue #{issue_number}"])
-            if not is_legacy_lease(lock):
-                return _refusal(
-                    [
-                        "lock is already on the heartbeat lifecycle; use the "
-                        "heartbeat path"
-                    ],
-                    lifecycle=lease_lifecycle_version(lock),
-                    legacy_lease=False,
-                )
-
-            reasons = _ownership_refusals(
-                lock,
-                issue_number=issue_number,
-                branch_name=branch_name,
-                worktree_path=worktree_path,
-                identity=identity,
-                profile=profile,
-            )
-            if reasons:
-                return _refusal(reasons)
-
-            current_generation = lock_generation(lock)
-            if (
-                expected_generation is not None
-                and current_generation != expected_generation
-            ):
-                return _refusal(
-                    [
-                        f"lock generation changed: expected {expected_generation}, "
-                        f"found {current_generation} (fail closed)"
-                    ],
-                    lock_generation=current_generation,
-                )
-
-            freshness = assess_lock_freshness(lock, now=current)
-            if not freshness.get("live"):
-                return _refusal(
-                    [
-                        f"legacy lease is not live ({freshness.get('status')}): "
-                        f"{freshness.get('reason')}; rebinding is not a recovery "
-                        "path for a lapsed lease"
-                    ],
-                    freshness=freshness,
-                )
-
-            policy = lease_policy.policy_for(lease_task_class(lock))
-            expires = current + timedelta(minutes=policy.initial_ttl_minutes)
-            session_id = mint_task_session_id(lease_task_class(lock))
-            record = dict(lock)
-            lease = dict(record.get("work_lease") or {})
-            legacy_origin = {
-                "created_at": lease.get("created_at"),
-                "expires_at": lease.get("expires_at"),
-                "last_heartbeat_at": lease.get("last_heartbeat_at"),
-                "lifecycle": lease_policy.LIFECYCLE_LEGACY,
-            }
-            lease["lifecycle_version"] = lease_policy.LIFECYCLE_HEARTBEAT_V1
-            lease["task_session_id"] = session_id
-            lease["created_at"] = _format_lease_timestamp(current)
-            lease["last_heartbeat_at"] = _format_lease_timestamp(current)
-            lease["expires_at"] = _format_lease_timestamp(expires)
-            lease["heartbeat_count"] = 1
-            record["work_lease"] = lease
-            record["legacy_rebind"] = {
-                "rebound_at": _format_lease_timestamp(current),
-                "task_session_id": session_id,
-                "prior_generation": current_generation,
-                "legacy_origin": legacy_origin,
-                "reason": (
-                    "legacy lock rebound into the heartbeat lifecycle by its exact "
-                    "recorded owner"
-                ),
-            }
-            record["lock_generation"] = current_generation + 1
-            save_lock_file(path, record)
-    except LockContentionError as exc:
-        return _refusal([f"issue #{issue_number} lock contention: {exc} (fail closed)"])
-
-    return {
-        "success": True,
-        "performed": True,
-        "issue_number": issue_number,
-        "task_session_id": session_id,
-        "lock_generation": record["lock_generation"],
-        "prior_generation": current_generation,
-        "lifecycle": lease_policy.LIFECYCLE_HEARTBEAT_V1,
-        "legacy_rebind": record["legacy_rebind"],
-        "expires_at": lease["expires_at"],
-        "last_heartbeat_at": lease["last_heartbeat_at"],
-        "lock_file_path": path,
-        "freshness": assess_lock_freshness(record, now=current),
-    }
-
-
 def read_session_issue_lock(lock_dir: str | None = None) -> dict[str, Any] | None:
     root = (lock_dir or default_lock_dir()).strip()
     pointer = read_lock_file(session_pointer_path(root))
@@ -673,16 +336,6 @@ def _parse_lease_timestamp(value: str | None) -> datetime | None:
         return None
 
 
-def _format_lease_timestamp(value: datetime) -> str:
-    """Serialize a lease timestamp in the durable ``...Z`` form already on disk."""
-    return (
-        value.astimezone(timezone.utc)
-        .replace(microsecond=0)
-        .isoformat()
-        .replace("+00:00", "Z")
-    )
-
-
 def lease_expires_at(lock: dict[str, Any] | None) -> datetime | None:
     if not lock:
         return None
@@ -703,216 +356,60 @@ def is_lease_live(lock: dict[str, Any] | None, *, now: datetime | None = None) -
     return assess_lock_freshness(lock, now=now)["live"]
 
 
-def lease_task_class(lock_data: dict[str, Any] | None) -> str:
-    """Policy task class for a durable lock; author work when unrecorded."""
-    lease = lock_data.get("work_lease") if isinstance(lock_data, dict) else None
-    if isinstance(lease, dict):
-        recorded = str(lease.get("operation_type") or "").strip()
-        if recorded:
-            return recorded
-    return AUTHOR_ISSUE_WORK_LEASE
-
-
-def lease_lifecycle_version(lock_data: dict[str, Any] | None) -> str:
-    """Read the durable lifecycle marker (#790 AC-N8).
-
-    The marker is the *only* discriminator between a heartbeat-lifecycle lease
-    and a legacy one. Timestamps are deliberately not consulted: a lock minted
-    before this lifecycle existed has ``last_heartbeat_at == created_at``
-    forever, and reading that equality as "recently heartbeated" would treat
-    every never-heartbeated legacy lock as fresh — the precise inversion AC-N8
-    forbids. A newly minted heartbeat lease also has the two equal, so the
-    equality carries no information in either direction.
-    """
-    lease = lock_data.get("work_lease") if isinstance(lock_data, dict) else None
-    if isinstance(lease, dict):
-        recorded = str(lease.get("lifecycle_version") or "").strip()
-        if recorded:
-            return recorded
-    return lease_policy.LIFECYCLE_LEGACY
-
-
-def is_legacy_lease(lock_data: dict[str, Any] | None) -> bool:
-    """True when a lock predates the shared heartbeat lifecycle."""
-    return lease_lifecycle_version(lock_data) != lease_policy.LIFECYCLE_HEARTBEAT_V1
-
-
-def lease_task_session_id(lock_data: dict[str, Any] | None) -> str:
-    """Recorded per-task session identifier, or empty for a legacy lock."""
-    lease = lock_data.get("work_lease") if isinstance(lock_data, dict) else None
-    if isinstance(lease, dict):
-        return str(lease.get("task_session_id") or "").strip()
-    return ""
-
-
-def mint_task_session_id(task_class: str = AUTHOR_ISSUE_WORK_LEASE) -> str:
-    """Mint an ownership key for one task (#790 AC-N1).
-
-    Deliberately contains no process identifier. The recorded PID belongs to the
-    long-lived MCP daemon, which outlives any individual task and is reused by
-    every task it serves, so PID digits cannot identify *which* task holds a
-    claim. The PID is still recorded alongside this value as evidence.
-    """
-    prefix = _sanitize_segment(str(task_class or AUTHOR_ISSUE_WORK_LEASE))
-    return f"{prefix}-{uuid.uuid4().hex[:16]}"
-
-
-def _lease_heartbeat_at(lock_data: dict[str, Any] | None) -> datetime | None:
-    lease = lock_data.get("work_lease") if isinstance(lock_data, dict) else None
-    heartbeat_at = None
-    if isinstance(lock_data, dict):
-        heartbeat_at = _parse_lease_timestamp(lock_data.get("last_heartbeat_at"))
-    if heartbeat_at is None and isinstance(lease, dict):
-        heartbeat_at = _parse_lease_timestamp(lease.get("last_heartbeat_at"))
-    return heartbeat_at
-
-
 def assess_lock_freshness(
     lock_data: dict[str, Any] | None,
     *,
     now: datetime | None = None,
 ) -> dict[str, Any]:
-    """Classify a lock as live, expired, stale, or absent.
+    """Classify a lock as live, expired, stale, or absent."""
-
-    #790 Slice A makes the heartbeat load-bearing. Before this change
-    ``last_heartbeat_at`` was parsed and then never consulted: liveness was
-    decided entirely by the absolute ``expires_at`` and by PID liveness, and
-    since the recorded PID is the long-lived MCP daemon, an abandoned author
-    task stayed "live" for the full four-hour TTL.
-
-    Two rules govern the rewrite:
-
-    * **An alive PID never establishes freshness** (AC-N2). It proves the daemon
-      is up, nothing about the task. It is recorded as evidence and no branch
-      returns ``live`` because of it.
-    * **A dead PID still corroborates staleness.** The dead-PID band is
-      unchanged and still precedes every heartbeat evaluation, so #753
-      dead-session recovery keys on exactly the classification it always did.
-
-    Legacy leases (AC-N8) keep their recorded absolute expiry and are never
-    evaluated against the short heartbeat grace, so deploying this change cannot
-    make an existing claim instantly reclaimable.
-    """
     current = _lease_now(now)
     if not lock_data:
         return {
-            "status": STATUS_ABSENT,
+            "status": "absent",
             "live": False,
             "stale": False,
             "reason": "no lock record",
         }
 
-    lease = lock_data.get("work_lease")
     expires_at = lease_expires_at(lock_data)
-    heartbeat_at = _lease_heartbeat_at(lock_data)
+    lease = lock_data.get("work_lease")
-    created_at = (
+    heartbeat_at = _parse_lease_timestamp(lock_data.get("last_heartbeat_at"))
-        _parse_lease_timestamp(lease.get("created_at"))
+    if heartbeat_at is None and isinstance(lease, dict):
-        if isinstance(lease, dict)
+        heartbeat_at = _parse_lease_timestamp(lease.get("last_heartbeat_at"))
-        else None
-    )
 
     pid = lock_data.get("session_pid")
     if pid is None:
         pid = lock_data.get("pid")
-    # Evidence only. Never consulted to grant liveness (AC-N2).
     pid_alive = is_process_alive(pid) if pid is not None else False
 
-    lifecycle = lease_lifecycle_version(lock_data)
+    if expires_at and expires_at <= current:
-    legacy = lifecycle != lease_policy.LIFECYCLE_HEARTBEAT_V1
+        return {
-    policy = lease_policy.policy_for(lease_task_class(lock_data))
+            "status": "expired",
+            "live": False,
+            "stale": True,
+            "reason": f"lease expired at {expires_at.isoformat()}",
+            "pid_alive": pid_alive,
+        }
 
-    evidence: dict[str, Any] = {
+    if pid is not None and not pid_alive:
+        return {
+            "status": "stale",
+            "live": False,
+            "stale": True,
+            "reason": f"owner pid {pid} is not alive",
+            "pid_alive": False,
+        }
+
+    return {
+        "status": "live",
+        "live": True,
+        "stale": False,
+        "reason": "lock heartbeat and lease are fresh",
         "pid_alive": pid_alive,
-        "lifecycle": lifecycle,
-        "legacy_lease": legacy,
-        "task_session_id": lease_task_session_id(lock_data) or None,
         "heartbeat_at": heartbeat_at.isoformat() if heartbeat_at else None,
         "expires_at": expires_at.isoformat() if expires_at else None,
     }
 
-    def _result(status: str, *, live: bool, reason: str, **extra: Any) -> dict[str, Any]:
-        return {
-            "status": status,
-            "live": live,
-            "stale": not live and status != STATUS_ABSENT,
-            "reason": reason,
-            **evidence,
-            **extra,
-        }
-
-    if legacy:
-        # AC-N8: the preserved absolute expiry is the only clock for a lock
-        # written before task-session heartbeats existed.
-        if expires_at and expires_at <= current:
-            return _result(
-                STATUS_EXPIRED,
-                live=False,
-                reason=f"lease expired at {expires_at.isoformat()}",
-            )
-        if pid is not None and not pid_alive:
-            return _result(
-                STATUS_STALE, live=False, reason=f"owner pid {pid} is not alive"
-            )
-        return _result(
-            STATUS_LIVE,
-            live=True,
-            reason=(
-                "legacy lease is within its recorded absolute expiry; the "
-                "heartbeat grace does not apply retroactively"
-            ),
-            legacy_expiry_preserved=True,
-        )
-
-    # ── Heartbeat lifecycle ──
-    if pid is not None and not pid_alive:
-        # Unchanged dead-PID band: #753 recovery depends on this exact status.
-        return _result(STATUS_STALE, live=False, reason=f"owner pid {pid} is not alive")
-
-    if heartbeat_at is None:
-        # Contradictory: a heartbeat lease must carry a heartbeat. Fail closed.
-        return _result(
-            STATUS_STALE_MISSED_HEARTBEAT,
-            live=False,
-            reason=(
-                f"lease declares lifecycle '{lifecycle}' but records no "
-                "last_heartbeat_at (fail closed)"
-            ),
-        )
-
-    if policy.absolute_cap_hours and created_at is not None:
-        cap_at = created_at + timedelta(hours=policy.absolute_cap_hours)
-        if cap_at <= current:
-            return _result(
-                STATUS_STALE_ABSOLUTE_CAP,
-                live=False,
-                reason=(
-                    f"lease exceeded its {policy.absolute_cap_hours}h absolute cap "
-                    f"at {cap_at.isoformat()}; canonical re-adoption is required"
-                ),
-                absolute_cap_at=cap_at.isoformat(),
-            )
-
-    grace_at = heartbeat_at + timedelta(minutes=policy.missed_heartbeat_grace_minutes)
-    if grace_at <= current or (expires_at is not None and expires_at <= current):
-        return _result(
-            STATUS_STALE_MISSED_HEARTBEAT,
-            live=False,
-            reason=(
-                f"no valid heartbeat since {heartbeat_at.isoformat()}; the "
-                f"{policy.missed_heartbeat_grace_minutes}min grace lapsed at "
-                f"{grace_at.isoformat()}"
-            ),
-            missed_heartbeat_since=grace_at.isoformat(),
-        )
-
-    warning_at = heartbeat_at + timedelta(minutes=policy.stale_warning_minutes)
-    return _result(
-        STATUS_LIVE,
-        live=True,
-        reason="lease heartbeat is fresh within the configured grace",
-        heartbeat_warning=warning_at <= current,
-    )
-
 
 def _same_realpath(left: str | None, right: str | None) -> bool:
     if not left or not right:
@@ -949,27 +446,6 @@ def assess_expired_lock_reclaim(
             "reasons": ["lock is still live; cannot reclaim (fail closed)"],
             "freshness": freshness,
         }
-    status = str(freshness.get("status") or "")
-    if status in (STATUS_STALE_MISSED_HEARTBEAT, STATUS_STALE_ABSOLUTE_CAP):
-        # #790: under the heartbeat lifecycle the heartbeat *is* the liveness
-        # proof, so a session that stopped heartbeating past its grace has
-        # released its claim by definition. Requiring a dead PID on top of that
-        # would reinstate the original defect — the recorded PID is the shared
-        # daemon, which stays alive across every abandoned task it ever served.
-        #
-        # This band is unreachable for a legacy lease (AC-N8), so no lock
-        # written before this lifecycle can be reclaimed by this path.
-        return {
-            "reclaim_allowed": True,
-            "reasons": [
-                f"heartbeat-lifecycle lease is {status}: {freshness.get('reason')}"
-            ],
-            "freshness": freshness,
-            "prior_branch": existing_lock.get("branch_name"),
-            "prior_worktree": existing_lock.get("worktree_path"),
-            "prior_pid": existing_lock.get("session_pid") or existing_lock.get("pid"),
-            "prior_task_session_id": lease_task_session_id(existing_lock) or None,
-        }
     pid = existing_lock.get("session_pid")
     if pid is None:
         pid = existing_lock.get("pid")

lease_policy.py

@@ -1,212 +0,0 @@
-"""Central lease policy configuration (#790 Slice A, AC-N7).
-
-The single authoritative source for every lease duration in the project. Before
-this module the numbers were scattered: a four-hour author TTL was declared
-twice (``issue_lock_store`` and ``gitea_mcp_server``), the reviewer/merger
-sliding window lived in ``reviewer_pr_lease``, the conflict-fix window in
-``pr_work_lease``, and the control-plane default in ``control_plane_db``.
-Nothing tied them together, so tuning one class silently diverged from the
-others and no reader could answer "how long does a lease live?" without
-grepping four files.
-
-AC-N7 requires that this configuration exist *before* the first heartbeat and
-TTL behavior that reads from it, so it ships in Slice A rather than trailing the
-code it governs.
-
-Deliberate boundaries:
-
-* **Declaration is not rewiring.** Every task class is declared here, but only
-  those with ``heartbeat_lifecycle_active`` were migrated onto the shared
-  heartbeat lifecycle in Slice A — currently ``author_issue_work`` alone.
-  Reviewer, merger, and conflict-fix leases keep their own existing behavior
-  until Slice C moves them; their numbers are recorded here so the two cannot
-  drift apart unnoticed, and ``tests/test_issue_790_lease_policy.py`` asserts
-  the recorded values still equal the constants those modules use.
-* **No policy decision lives here.** This module answers "how long", never "may
-  this session proceed". Freshness, reclaim, and renewal dispositions stay in
-  ``issue_lock_store``.
-"""
-
-from __future__ import annotations
-
-import os
-from dataclasses import dataclass
-from typing import Any
-
-# Task classes. Only the first is migrated onto the shared lifecycle in Slice A.
-TASK_CLASS_AUTHOR_ISSUE_WORK = "author_issue_work"
-TASK_CLASS_REVIEWER_PR = "reviewer_pr"
-TASK_CLASS_MERGER_PR = "merger_pr"
-TASK_CLASS_CONFLICT_FIX = "conflict_fix"
-
-# Durable marker for a lease minted under the shared heartbeat lifecycle.
-#
-# #790 AC-N8: this explicit marker — never a timestamp comparison — is what
-# distinguishes a heartbeat-lifecycle lease from a legacy one. A lock written
-# before this lifecycle existed carries no marker and reads as
-# ``LIFECYCLE_LEGACY``.
-LIFECYCLE_HEARTBEAT_V1 = "heartbeat-v1"
-LIFECYCLE_LEGACY = "legacy"
-
-_ENV_PREFIX = "GITEA_LEASE_POLICY"
-
-
-@dataclass(frozen=True)
-class LeasePolicy:
-    """Durations governing one task class.
-
-    All intervals are minutes except ``absolute_cap_hours``. ``None`` for the
-    cap means the class has no maximum continuous duration.
-    """
-
-    task_class: str
-    initial_ttl_minutes: float
-    heartbeat_cadence_minutes: float
-    stale_warning_minutes: float
-    missed_heartbeat_grace_minutes: float
-    absolute_cap_hours: float | None
-    recovery_grace_minutes: float
-    terminal_race_drain_minutes: float
-    terminal_retirement_eligible: bool
-    heartbeat_lifecycle_active: bool
-
-
-# Defaults. ``author_issue_work`` adopts the reviewer window proven by #747
-# rather than inventing new numbers: a lease expires 10 minutes after its last
-# valid heartbeat, warns at half that, and an actively heartbeating session is
-# never evicted. The prior value was a fixed four hours (240 minutes) that no
-# heartbeat could shorten — the defect this issue exists to correct.
-_DEFAULTS: dict[str, LeasePolicy] = {
-    TASK_CLASS_AUTHOR_ISSUE_WORK: LeasePolicy(
-        task_class=TASK_CLASS_AUTHOR_ISSUE_WORK,
-        initial_ttl_minutes=10.0,
-        heartbeat_cadence_minutes=2.0,
-        stale_warning_minutes=5.0,
-        missed_heartbeat_grace_minutes=10.0,
-        absolute_cap_hours=8.0,
-        recovery_grace_minutes=10.0,
-        terminal_race_drain_minutes=2.0,
-        terminal_retirement_eligible=True,
-        heartbeat_lifecycle_active=True,
-    ),
-    # Declared, not rewired. These mirror reviewer_pr_lease.LEASE_TTL_MINUTES
-    # and STALE_WARNING_MINUTES; Slice C migrates the call sites.
-    TASK_CLASS_REVIEWER_PR: LeasePolicy(
-        task_class=TASK_CLASS_REVIEWER_PR,
-        initial_ttl_minutes=10.0,
-        heartbeat_cadence_minutes=2.0,
-        stale_warning_minutes=5.0,
-        missed_heartbeat_grace_minutes=10.0,
-        absolute_cap_hours=None,
-        recovery_grace_minutes=10.0,
-        terminal_race_drain_minutes=2.0,
-        terminal_retirement_eligible=False,
-        heartbeat_lifecycle_active=False,
-    ),
-    TASK_CLASS_MERGER_PR: LeasePolicy(
-        task_class=TASK_CLASS_MERGER_PR,
-        initial_ttl_minutes=10.0,
-        heartbeat_cadence_minutes=2.0,
-        stale_warning_minutes=5.0,
-        missed_heartbeat_grace_minutes=10.0,
-        absolute_cap_hours=None,
-        recovery_grace_minutes=10.0,
-        terminal_race_drain_minutes=2.0,
-        terminal_retirement_eligible=False,
-        heartbeat_lifecycle_active=False,
-    ),
-    # Mirrors pr_work_lease.DEFAULT_CONFLICT_FIX_TTL_MINUTES. Deliberately left
-    # at its current window; shortening it is Slice C's call, not this slice's.
-    TASK_CLASS_CONFLICT_FIX: LeasePolicy(
-        task_class=TASK_CLASS_CONFLICT_FIX,
-        initial_ttl_minutes=120.0,
-        heartbeat_cadence_minutes=2.0,
-        stale_warning_minutes=5.0,
-        missed_heartbeat_grace_minutes=10.0,
-        absolute_cap_hours=None,
-        recovery_grace_minutes=10.0,
-        terminal_race_drain_minutes=2.0,
-        terminal_retirement_eligible=False,
-        heartbeat_lifecycle_active=False,
-    ),
-}
-
-_NUMERIC_FIELDS = (
-    "initial_ttl_minutes",
-    "heartbeat_cadence_minutes",
-    "stale_warning_minutes",
-    "missed_heartbeat_grace_minutes",
-    "absolute_cap_hours",
-    "recovery_grace_minutes",
-    "terminal_race_drain_minutes",
-)
-
-
-def env_var_name(task_class: str, field: str) -> str:
-    """Environment variable that overrides one field of one task class."""
-    return f"{_ENV_PREFIX}_{task_class.upper()}_{field.upper()}"
-
-
-def _override(task_class: str, field: str, default: float | None) -> float | None:
-    """Read one override, falling back to *default* on anything unusable.
-
-    A malformed or non-positive override is ignored rather than raised: a typo
-    in an environment variable must not be able to mint a zero-length lease that
-    makes every claim instantly reclaimable, nor crash the server at import.
-    """
-    raw = (os.environ.get(env_var_name(task_class, field)) or "").strip()
-    if not raw:
-        return default
-    try:
-        value = float(raw)
-    except (TypeError, ValueError):
-        return default
-    if value <= 0:
-        return default
-    return value
-
-
-def policy_for(task_class: str) -> LeasePolicy:
-    """Return the effective policy for *task_class*.
-
-    Unknown task classes fall back to the author policy, which is the most
-    conservative migrated class, rather than raising — a new caller must never
-    be able to crash a lock write by naming a class this table has not learned.
-    """
-    key = str(task_class or "").strip() or TASK_CLASS_AUTHOR_ISSUE_WORK
-    base = _DEFAULTS.get(key) or _DEFAULTS[TASK_CLASS_AUTHOR_ISSUE_WORK]
-    resolved = {
-        field: _override(base.task_class, field, getattr(base, field))
-        for field in _NUMERIC_FIELDS
-    }
-    if all(resolved[field] == getattr(base, field) for field in _NUMERIC_FIELDS):
-        return base
-    return LeasePolicy(
-        task_class=base.task_class,
-        terminal_retirement_eligible=base.terminal_retirement_eligible,
-        heartbeat_lifecycle_active=base.heartbeat_lifecycle_active,
-        **resolved,
-    )
-
-
-def known_task_classes() -> tuple[str, ...]:
-    """Every declared task class, migrated or not."""
-    return tuple(_DEFAULTS)
-
-
-def describe(task_class: str) -> dict[str, Any]:
-    """Serializable view of a policy, for audit records and tool payloads."""
-    policy = policy_for(task_class)
-    return {
-        "task_class": policy.task_class,
-        "initial_ttl_minutes": policy.initial_ttl_minutes,
-        "heartbeat_cadence_minutes": policy.heartbeat_cadence_minutes,
-        "stale_warning_minutes": policy.stale_warning_minutes,
-        "missed_heartbeat_grace_minutes": policy.missed_heartbeat_grace_minutes,
-        "absolute_cap_hours": policy.absolute_cap_hours,
-        "recovery_grace_minutes": policy.recovery_grace_minutes,
-        "terminal_race_drain_minutes": policy.terminal_race_drain_minutes,
-        "terminal_retirement_eligible": policy.terminal_retirement_eligible,
-        "heartbeat_lifecycle_active": policy.heartbeat_lifecycle_active,
-        "lifecycle_version": LIFECYCLE_HEARTBEAT_V1,
-    }

task_capability_map.py

@@ -32,15 +32,6 @@ TASK_CAPABILITY_MAP: dict[str, dict[str, str]] = {
         "permission": "gitea.issue.comment",
         "role": "author",
     },
-    # #790 Slice A: prove an owned author lease is still active. Strictly
-    # narrower than lock_issue — it can only slide a lease this exact session
-    # already owns, never acquire, take over, or revive one — so it gates on the
-    # same authority rather than introducing an operation name that every
-    # already-configured author profile would be missing.
-    "heartbeat_issue_lock": {
-        "permission": "gitea.issue.comment",
-        "role": "author",
-    },
     "set_issue_labels": {
         "permission": "gitea.issue.comment",
         "role": "author",

tests/test_issue_790_heartbeat_mcp_path.py

@@ -1,444 +0,0 @@
-"""Task heartbeat through the native MCP author path (#790 Slice A, AC-N6).
-
-Assessor-level coverage is not sufficient here, and this project has already
-paid for learning that: in review #499 on PR #791 the #760 renewal waiver was
-computed correctly and then *discarded* at two later gates, so every real
-renewal still failed while the unit suite stayed green. AC-N6 exists because of
-that, and requires driving the real tools against a real git repository and a
-real durable lock file, composing the gates in production order.
-
-These tests therefore call ``gitea_lock_issue`` and
-``gitea_heartbeat_issue_lock`` themselves and assert on what lands on disk,
-never on an assessor's return value alone.
-"""
-
-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__)))
-
-from mutation_profile_fixture import shared_mutation_env  # noqa: E402
-
-import issue_lock_provenance  # noqa: E402
-import issue_lock_store  # noqa: E402
-import lease_policy  # noqa: E402
-import mcp_server  # noqa: E402
-
-ISSUE = 9791
-BRANCH = f"fix/issue-{ISSUE}-heartbeat-mcp"
-IDENTITY = "example-user"
-PROFILE = "test-author-prgs"
-ORG = "Scaled-Tech-Consulting"
-REPO = "Gitea-Tools"
-
-
-def _ts(moment: datetime) -> str:
-    return (
-        moment.astimezone(timezone.utc)
-        .replace(microsecond=0)
-        .isoformat()
-        .replace("+00:00", "Z")
-    )
-
-
-class _HeartbeatMcpBase(unittest.TestCase):
-    """Real git repo plus a real durable lock, driven through the real tools."""
-
-    def setUp(self):
-        self.lock_dir = tempfile.TemporaryDirectory()
-        self.addCleanup(self.lock_dir.cleanup)
-        self.repo = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix="issue790-mcp-")
-        self.addCleanup(lambda: subprocess.run(["rm", "-rf", self.repo], check=False))
-        self._init_worktree()
-        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):
-        return subprocess.run(
-            ["git", "-C", self.repo, *args], capture_output=True, text=True, check=True
-        )
-
-    def _init_worktree(self):
-        self._git("init", "-q", "-b", "master")
-        self._git("config", "user.email", "[email protected]")
-        self._git("config", "user.name", "Test")
-        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()
-        # A fresh claim starts base-equivalent, which is the ordinary first-lock
-        # shape and exercises assess_issue_lock_worktree on its normal path.
-        self._git("checkout", "-q", "-b", BRANCH)
-        self.head_sha = self.base_sha
-        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 _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
-        return env
-
-    def _git_state(self, *, porcelain="", base_equivalent=True):
-        return {
-            "current_branch": BRANCH,
-            "porcelain_status": porcelain,
-            "base_equivalent": base_equivalent,
-            "head_sha": self.head_sha,
-            "inspected_git_root": self.worktree,
-            "base_branch": "master",
-        }
-
-    def run_lock_issue(
-        self,
-        *,
-        branch_entries=None,
-        open_prs=None,
-        git_state=None,
-        identity=IDENTITY,
-        profile=PROFILE,
-    ):
-        branch_entries = branch_entries if branch_entries is not None else []
-        open_prs = open_prs if open_prs is not None else []
-        git_state = git_state or self._git_state()
-        env = self._tool_env()
-        with patch(
-            "mcp_server.api_get_all", return_value=list(branch_entries)
-        ), patch(
-            "mcp_server._list_open_pulls", return_value=list(open_prs)
-        ), patch(
-            "mcp_server.get_auth_header", return_value="token x"
-        ), patch(
-            "mcp_server._work_lease_claimant",
-            return_value={"username": identity, "profile": profile},
-        ), patch(
-            "mcp_server.issue_lock_worktree.read_worktree_git_state",
-            return_value=git_state,
-        ), patch(
-            "mcp_server.issue_duplicate_context_fetcher",
-            side_effect=lambda h, o, r, auth, issue_number: (
-                list(open_prs),
-                [b.get("name") for b in branch_entries if isinstance(b, dict)],
-                {"status": "not_claimed"},
-            ),
-        ), patch.dict(os.environ, env, clear=True):
-            os.environ["GITEA_ISSUE_LOCK_DIR"] = self.lock_dir.name
-            return mcp_server.gitea_lock_issue(
-                issue_number=ISSUE,
-                branch_name=BRANCH,
-                remote="prgs",
-                worktree_path=self.worktree,
-            )
-
-    def run_heartbeat(
-        self, *, task_session_id, identity=IDENTITY, profile=PROFILE, **kwargs
-    ):
-        env = self._tool_env()
-        with patch(
-            "mcp_server._work_lease_claimant",
-            return_value={"username": identity, "profile": profile},
-        ), patch("mcp_server.get_auth_header", return_value="token x"), patch.dict(
-            os.environ, env, clear=True
-        ):
-            os.environ["GITEA_ISSUE_LOCK_DIR"] = self.lock_dir.name
-            return mcp_server.gitea_heartbeat_issue_lock(
-                issue_number=ISSUE,
-                branch_name=kwargs.pop("branch_name", BRANCH),
-                task_session_id=task_session_id,
-                remote="prgs",
-                worktree_path=kwargs.pop("worktree_path", self.worktree),
-                **kwargs,
-            )
-
-    def write_legacy_lock(self, *, hours_old: float = 3.0, ttl_hours: float = 4.0):
-        """A durable lock in the shape the store wrote before this slice."""
-        now = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
-        claimant = {"username": IDENTITY, "profile": PROFILE}
-        created = now - timedelta(hours=hours_old)
-        record = {
-            "issue_number": ISSUE,
-            "branch_name": BRANCH,
-            "remote": "prgs",
-            "org": ORG,
-            "repo": REPO,
-            "worktree_path": self.worktree,
-            "session_pid": os.getpid(),
-            "pid": os.getpid(),
-            "lock_generation": 1,
-            "work_lease": {
-                "operation_type": issue_lock_store.AUTHOR_ISSUE_WORK_LEASE,
-                "issue_number": ISSUE,
-                "pr_number": None,
-                "branch": BRANCH,
-                "worktree_path": self.worktree,
-                "claimant": claimant,
-                "created_at": _ts(created),
-                # The legacy signature: never advanced past creation.
-                "last_heartbeat_at": _ts(created),
-                "expires_at": _ts(created + timedelta(hours=ttl_hours)),
-            },
-            "lock_provenance": issue_lock_provenance.build_sanctioned_lock_provenance(
-                tool="gitea_lock_issue", claimant=claimant
-            ),
-        }
-        path = self._lock_path()
-        record["lock_file_path"] = path
-        issue_lock_store.save_lock_file(path, record)
-        return record
-
-
-class TestLockIssueMintsTheLifecycle(_HeartbeatMcpBase):
-    """Durable lock creation and read-back through the real tool."""
-
-    def test_native_lock_writes_the_marker_and_a_task_session_id(self):
-        result = self.run_lock_issue()
-        self.assertTrue(result["success"], result)
-
-        written = issue_lock_store.read_lock_file(result["lock_file_path"])
-        lease = written["work_lease"]
-        self.assertEqual(
-            lease["lifecycle_version"], lease_policy.LIFECYCLE_HEARTBEAT_V1
-        )
-        self.assertTrue(lease["task_session_id"])
-        self.assertFalse(issue_lock_store.is_legacy_lease(written))
-        # AC-N1: the ownership key is not the daemon pid, which is recorded
-        # separately as evidence.
-        self.assertNotIn(str(written["session_pid"]), lease["task_session_id"])
-        self.assertEqual(written["session_pid"], os.getpid())
-
-    def test_native_lease_uses_the_policy_window_not_four_hours(self):
-        result = self.run_lock_issue()
-        lease = result["work_lease"]
-        created = datetime.fromisoformat(lease["created_at"].replace("Z", "+00:00"))
-        expires = datetime.fromisoformat(lease["expires_at"].replace("Z", "+00:00"))
-        policy = lease_policy.policy_for(lease_policy.TASK_CLASS_AUTHOR_ISSUE_WORK)
-        self.assertEqual(
-            (expires - created).total_seconds() / 60.0, policy.initial_ttl_minutes
-        )
-
-    def test_freshness_of_a_new_native_lock_is_live(self):
-        result = self.run_lock_issue()
-        self.assertEqual(
-            result["lock_freshness"]["status"], issue_lock_store.STATUS_LIVE
-        )
-        self.assertTrue(result["lock_freshness"]["live"])
-
-
-class TestHeartbeatThroughTheTool(_HeartbeatMcpBase):
-    def _lock_and_session(self):
-        result = self.run_lock_issue()
-        self.assertTrue(result["success"], result)
-        return result, result["work_lease"]["task_session_id"]
-
-    def test_heartbeat_slides_the_lease_and_advances_the_generation(self):
-        locked, session = self._lock_and_session()
-        before = issue_lock_store.read_lock_file(locked["lock_file_path"])
-
-        beat = self.run_heartbeat(task_session_id=session)
-
-        self.assertTrue(beat["success"], beat)
-        self.assertEqual(beat["operation"], "heartbeat")
-        after = issue_lock_store.read_lock_file(locked["lock_file_path"])
-        self.assertGreater(
-            issue_lock_store.lock_generation(after),
-            issue_lock_store.lock_generation(before),
-        )
-        self.assertGreaterEqual(
-            after["work_lease"]["expires_at"], before["work_lease"]["expires_at"]
-        )
-        self.assertEqual(after["work_lease"]["heartbeat_count"], 2)
-
-    def test_heartbeat_evidence_survives_the_downstream_mutation_gate(self):
-        """The #499 F2 lesson, applied.
-
-        A sanction that is computed and then discarded downstream is worthless.
-        After a heartbeat the lock must still satisfy the gate every author
-        mutation runs through.
-        """
-        locked, session = self._lock_and_session()
-        self.run_heartbeat(task_session_id=session)
-
-        written = issue_lock_store.read_lock_file(locked["lock_file_path"])
-        verdict = issue_lock_store.verify_lock_for_mutation(
-            written,
-            issue_number=ISSUE,
-            branch_name=BRANCH,
-            worktree_path=self.worktree,
-        )
-        self.assertTrue(verdict["proven"], verdict)
-        self.assertFalse(verdict["block"])
-
-    def _duplicate_gate(self, *, open_prs, branches):
-        env = self._tool_env()
-        with patch("mcp_server.get_auth_header", return_value="token x"), patch(
-            "mcp_server.issue_duplicate_context_fetcher",
-            side_effect=lambda h, o, r, auth, issue_number: (
-                list(open_prs),
-                list(branches),
-                {"status": "not_claimed"},
-            ),
-        ), patch.dict(os.environ, env, clear=True):
-            os.environ["GITEA_ISSUE_LOCK_DIR"] = self.lock_dir.name
-            return mcp_server.gitea_assess_work_issue_duplicate(
-                issue_number=ISSUE, branch_name=BRANCH, remote="prgs"
-            )
-
-    def test_heartbeat_does_not_change_the_duplicate_gate_verdict(self):
-        """The gate must be invariant under heartbeating.
-
-        The point is not that the gate passes — with a linked open PR at the
-        lock phase it correctly blocks (#400), heartbeat or not. The property
-        that matters is that sliding a lease neither loosens the gate nor
-        corrupts the lock state it reads: the verdict before and after a
-        heartbeat must be identical, for both the clear and the blocking shape.
-        """
-        _, session = self._lock_and_session()
-        linked = [{"number": 4242, "head": {"ref": BRANCH, "sha": self.head_sha}}]
-
-        clear_before = self._duplicate_gate(open_prs=[], branches=[])
-        blocked_before = self._duplicate_gate(open_prs=linked, branches=[BRANCH])
-
-        self.assertTrue(self.run_heartbeat(task_session_id=session)["success"])
-
-        clear_after = self._duplicate_gate(open_prs=[], branches=[])
-        blocked_after = self._duplicate_gate(open_prs=linked, branches=[BRANCH])
-
-        self.assertEqual(clear_before["outcome"], clear_after["outcome"])
-        self.assertFalse(clear_after["block"])
-        self.assertEqual(blocked_before["outcome"], blocked_after["outcome"])
-        self.assertTrue(blocked_after["block"])
-        self.assertEqual(blocked_after["linked_open_pr"], 4242)
-
-    def test_foreign_session_id_is_refused_through_the_tool(self):
-        self._lock_and_session()
-        beat = self.run_heartbeat(task_session_id="author_issue_work-ffffffffffffffff")
-        self.assertFalse(beat["success"])
-        self.assertIn("task_session_id does not match", " ".join(beat["reasons"]))
-
-    def test_stale_generation_is_refused_through_the_tool(self):
-        locked, session = self._lock_and_session()
-        current = issue_lock_store.lock_generation(
-            issue_lock_store.read_lock_file(locked["lock_file_path"])
-        )
-        beat = self.run_heartbeat(
-            task_session_id=session, expected_generation=current + 5
-        )
-        self.assertFalse(beat["success"])
-        self.assertIn("generation changed", beat["reasons"][0])
-
-    def test_foreign_claimant_is_refused_through_the_tool(self):
-        _, session = self._lock_and_session()
-        beat = self.run_heartbeat(task_session_id=session, identity="someone-else")
-        self.assertFalse(beat["success"])
-
-    def test_heartbeat_cannot_acquire_a_missing_lock(self):
-        beat = self.run_heartbeat(task_session_id="author_issue_work-000000000000")
-        self.assertFalse(beat["success"])
-        self.assertIn("no durable lock", beat["reasons"][0])
-
-    def test_alive_pid_alone_does_not_keep_a_lease_live_through_the_tool(self):
-        """PID-only refusal, end to end.
-
-        The recorded pid is this live process. The lock is aged past its grace
-        with no heartbeat, so the tool must refuse to slide it and the durable
-        record must classify as a missed heartbeat rather than as live.
-        """
-        locked, session = self._lock_and_session()
-        record = issue_lock_store.read_lock_file(locked["lock_file_path"])
-        record["work_lease"]["last_heartbeat_at"] = _ts(
-            datetime.now(timezone.utc) - timedelta(minutes=30)
-        )
-        record["work_lease"]["expires_at"] = _ts(
-            datetime.now(timezone.utc) + timedelta(hours=2)
-        )
-        issue_lock_store.save_lock_file(locked["lock_file_path"], record)
-
-        self.assertTrue(issue_lock_store.is_process_alive(record["session_pid"]))
-        fresh = issue_lock_store.assess_lock_freshness(record)
-        self.assertEqual(
-            fresh["status"], issue_lock_store.STATUS_STALE_MISSED_HEARTBEAT
-        )
-        self.assertTrue(fresh["pid_alive"])
-
-        beat = self.run_heartbeat(task_session_id=session)
-        self.assertFalse(beat["success"])
-        self.assertIn("reclaimed", " ".join(beat["reasons"]))
-
-
-class TestLegacyLocksThroughTheTool(_HeartbeatMcpBase):
-    """AC-N8 end to end: protected on deployment, and rebindable."""
-
-    def test_legacy_lock_stays_protected_after_deployment(self):
-        record = self.write_legacy_lock(hours_old=3.0, ttl_hours=4.0)
-        fresh = issue_lock_store.assess_lock_freshness(record)
-        self.assertEqual(fresh["status"], issue_lock_store.STATUS_LIVE)
-        self.assertTrue(fresh["legacy_lease"])
-        self.assertTrue(fresh["legacy_expiry_preserved"])
-        # It had never heartbeated, so under the new grace alone it would be
-        # long gone; the preserved absolute expiry is what protects it.
-        self.assertEqual(
-            record["work_lease"]["created_at"],
-            record["work_lease"]["last_heartbeat_at"],
-        )
-
-    def test_tool_rebinds_a_legacy_lock_and_mints_a_first_heartbeat(self):
-        self.write_legacy_lock(hours_old=3.0, ttl_hours=4.0)
-
-        result = self.run_heartbeat(task_session_id=None)
-
-        self.assertTrue(result["success"], result)
-        self.assertEqual(result["operation"], "legacy_rebind")
-        self.assertTrue(result["task_session_id"])
-
-        written = issue_lock_store.read_lock_file(self._lock_path())
-        lease = written["work_lease"]
-        self.assertEqual(
-            lease["lifecycle_version"], lease_policy.LIFECYCLE_HEARTBEAT_V1
-        )
-        self.assertEqual(lease["heartbeat_count"], 1)
-        self.assertNotEqual(
-            lease["created_at"],
-            written["legacy_rebind"]["legacy_origin"]["created_at"],
-        )
-        self.assertFalse(issue_lock_store.is_legacy_lease(written))
-
-    def test_rebound_lock_then_heartbeats_through_the_tool(self):
-        self.write_legacy_lock(hours_old=3.0, ttl_hours=4.0)
-        rebound = self.run_heartbeat(task_session_id=None)
-        beat = self.run_heartbeat(task_session_id=rebound["task_session_id"])
-        self.assertTrue(beat["success"], beat)
-        self.assertEqual(beat["operation"], "heartbeat")
-        self.assertEqual(beat["heartbeat_count"], 2)
-
-    def test_rebind_refuses_a_foreign_owner_through_the_tool(self):
-        self.write_legacy_lock(hours_old=3.0, ttl_hours=4.0)
-        result = self.run_heartbeat(task_session_id=None, identity="someone-else")
-        self.assertFalse(result["success"])
-        self.assertEqual(result["operation"], "legacy_rebind")
-
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    unittest.main()

tests/test_issue_790_lease_policy.py

@@ -1,594 +0,0 @@
-"""Central lease policy and load-bearing heartbeat freshness (#790 Slice A).
-
-Before this slice, ``issue_lock_store.assess_lock_freshness`` parsed
-``last_heartbeat_at`` and then never consulted it: liveness was decided by an
-absolute four-hour ``expires_at`` and by PID liveness. Because the recorded PID
-is the long-lived MCP daemon rather than the authoring task, an abandoned claim
-stayed "live" for the full four hours, and a claim whose work had already landed
-blocked reconciliation for just as long (Issue #787 / PR #789, and again Issue
-#760 / PR #791).
-
-These tests pin the corrected semantics, including the two asymmetries that are
-easy to lose in a refactor:
-
-* an **alive** PID must never make anything live (AC-N2), while
-* a **dead** PID must still mark a lease stale, because #753 dead-session
-  recovery keys on exactly that classification.
-
-Durable-state helpers here write real lock files through the real flock path;
-they are not mocks of the store.
-"""
-
-from __future__ import annotations
-
-import os
-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__))))
-
-import issue_lock_store  # noqa: E402
-import lease_policy  # noqa: E402
-import pr_work_lease  # noqa: E402
-import reviewer_pr_lease  # noqa: E402
-
-ISSUE = 9790
-BRANCH = f"fix/issue-{ISSUE}-heartbeat"
-IDENTITY = "example-user"
-PROFILE = "test-author-prgs"
-ORG = "Example-Org"
-REPO = "Example-Repo"
-REMOTE = "prgs"
-DEAD_PID = 2**22  # far above any live pid on a test host
-
-
-def _ts(moment: datetime) -> str:
-    return (
-        moment.astimezone(timezone.utc)
-        .replace(microsecond=0)
-        .isoformat()
-        .replace("+00:00", "Z")
-    )
-
-
-class _LockFixture(unittest.TestCase):
-    def setUp(self):
-        self.lock_dir = tempfile.TemporaryDirectory()
-        self.addCleanup(self.lock_dir.cleanup)
-        self.now = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
-        self.worktree = os.path.realpath(tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix="issue790-"))
-        self.addCleanup(patch.stopall)
-
-    def _path(self):
-        return issue_lock_store.lock_file_path(
-            remote=REMOTE,
-            org=ORG,
-            repo=REPO,
-            issue_number=ISSUE,
-            lock_dir=self.lock_dir.name,
-        )
-
-    def write_lock(
-        self,
-        *,
-        lifecycle: str | None = lease_policy.LIFECYCLE_HEARTBEAT_V1,
-        created_delta: timedelta = timedelta(minutes=1),
-        heartbeat_delta: timedelta = timedelta(minutes=1),
-        expires_delta: timedelta = timedelta(minutes=9),
-        pid: int | None = None,
-        task_session_id: str | None = "author_issue_work-aaaabbbbccccdddd",
-        generation: int = 1,
-        identity: str = IDENTITY,
-        profile: str = PROFILE,
-        branch: str = BRANCH,
-        worktree: str | None = None,
-    ) -> dict:
-        """Write a real durable lock and return the record.
-
-        Deltas are relative to ``self.now``; ``expires_delta`` is added, the
-        others subtracted, so "in the past" reads naturally at each call site.
-        """
-        lease: dict = {
-            "operation_type": issue_lock_store.AUTHOR_ISSUE_WORK_LEASE,
-            "issue_number": ISSUE,
-            "pr_number": None,
-            "branch": branch,
-            "worktree_path": worktree or self.worktree,
-            "claimant": {"username": identity, "profile": profile},
-            "created_at": _ts(self.now - created_delta),
-            "last_heartbeat_at": _ts(self.now - heartbeat_delta),
-            "expires_at": _ts(self.now + expires_delta),
-        }
-        if lifecycle is not None:
-            lease["lifecycle_version"] = lifecycle
-            if task_session_id is not None:
-                lease["task_session_id"] = task_session_id
-        pid_value = os.getpid() if pid is None else pid
-        record = {
-            "issue_number": ISSUE,
-            "branch_name": branch,
-            "remote": REMOTE,
-            "org": ORG,
-            "repo": REPO,
-            "worktree_path": worktree or self.worktree,
-            "session_pid": pid_value,
-            "pid": pid_value,
-            "lock_generation": generation,
-            "work_lease": lease,
-        }
-        path = self._path()
-        record["lock_file_path"] = path
-        issue_lock_store.save_lock_file(path, record)
-        return record
-
-
-class TestPolicyIsTheSingleSource(unittest.TestCase):
-    """AC-N7: one authoritative configuration source for every duration."""
-
-    def test_author_policy_carries_the_agreed_values(self):
-        policy = lease_policy.policy_for(lease_policy.TASK_CLASS_AUTHOR_ISSUE_WORK)
-        self.assertEqual(policy.initial_ttl_minutes, 10.0)
-        self.assertEqual(policy.heartbeat_cadence_minutes, 2.0)
-        self.assertEqual(policy.stale_warning_minutes, 5.0)
-        self.assertEqual(policy.missed_heartbeat_grace_minutes, 10.0)
-        self.assertEqual(policy.absolute_cap_hours, 8.0)
-        self.assertEqual(policy.recovery_grace_minutes, 10.0)
-        self.assertEqual(policy.terminal_race_drain_minutes, 2.0)
-        self.assertTrue(policy.terminal_retirement_eligible)
-        self.assertTrue(policy.heartbeat_lifecycle_active)
-
-    def test_the_four_hour_author_ttl_literal_is_gone(self):
-        """The duplicated literal AC-N7 exists to remove."""
-        self.assertFalse(hasattr(issue_lock_store, "WORK_LEASE_TTL_HOURS"))
-        import gitea_mcp_server
-
-        self.assertFalse(hasattr(gitea_mcp_server, "WORK_LEASE_TTL_HOURS"))
-
-    def test_declared_reviewer_values_match_the_module_still_using_them(self):
-        """Slice A declares reviewer/merger numbers without rewiring them.
-
-        Recording a value in two places is only safe if drift is detectable, so
-        this asserts the declaration still equals the constants #747 owns. When
-        Slice C migrates those call sites, this test becomes the proof the
-        migration changed nothing.
-        """
-        policy = lease_policy.policy_for(lease_policy.TASK_CLASS_REVIEWER_PR)
-        self.assertEqual(
-            policy.initial_ttl_minutes, float(reviewer_pr_lease.LEASE_TTL_MINUTES)
-        )
-        self.assertEqual(
-            policy.stale_warning_minutes,
-            float(reviewer_pr_lease.STALE_WARNING_MINUTES),
-        )
-        self.assertFalse(policy.heartbeat_lifecycle_active)
-
-    def test_declared_conflict_fix_value_matches_its_module(self):
-        policy = lease_policy.policy_for(lease_policy.TASK_CLASS_CONFLICT_FIX)
-        self.assertEqual(
-            policy.initial_ttl_minutes,
-            float(pr_work_lease.DEFAULT_CONFLICT_FIX_TTL_MINUTES),
-        )
-        self.assertFalse(policy.heartbeat_lifecycle_active)
-
-    def test_environment_override_applies(self):
-        var = lease_policy.env_var_name(
-            lease_policy.TASK_CLASS_AUTHOR_ISSUE_WORK, "initial_ttl_minutes"
-        )
-        with patch.dict(os.environ, {var: "7"}):
-            self.assertEqual(
-                lease_policy.policy_for(
-                    lease_policy.TASK_CLASS_AUTHOR_ISSUE_WORK
-                ).initial_ttl_minutes,
-                7.0,
-            )
-
-    def test_unusable_override_falls_back_instead_of_minting_a_zero_lease(self):
-        """A typo must not make every claim instantly reclaimable."""
-        var = lease_policy.env_var_name(
-            lease_policy.TASK_CLASS_AUTHOR_ISSUE_WORK, "initial_ttl_minutes"
-        )
-        for bad in ("0", "-5", "not-a-number", "   "):
-            with self.subTest(value=bad), patch.dict(os.environ, {var: bad}):
-                self.assertEqual(
-                    lease_policy.policy_for(
-                        lease_policy.TASK_CLASS_AUTHOR_ISSUE_WORK
-                    ).initial_ttl_minutes,
-                    10.0,
-                )
-
-    def test_unknown_task_class_does_not_raise(self):
-        policy = lease_policy.policy_for("something-new")
-        self.assertEqual(policy.task_class, lease_policy.TASK_CLASS_AUTHOR_ISSUE_WORK)
-
-
-class TestLifecycleDiscrimination(_LockFixture):
-    """AC-N8: the marker, never a timestamp, decides legacy vs heartbeat."""
-
-    def test_missing_marker_reads_as_legacy(self):
-        record = self.write_lock(lifecycle=None)
-        self.assertTrue(issue_lock_store.is_legacy_lease(record))
-        self.assertEqual(
-            issue_lock_store.lease_lifecycle_version(record),
-            lease_policy.LIFECYCLE_LEGACY,
-        )
-
-    def test_marker_present_reads_as_heartbeat_lifecycle(self):
-        record = self.write_lock()
-        self.assertFalse(issue_lock_store.is_legacy_lease(record))
-
-    def test_equal_created_and_heartbeat_never_implies_a_fresh_heartbeat(self):
-        """The exact inversion AC-N8 forbids.
-
-        A legacy lock has ``last_heartbeat_at == created_at`` forever because
-        nothing ever advanced it. Reading that equality as "recently
-        heartbeated" would classify every never-heartbeated lock as fresh.
-        """
-        legacy = self.write_lock(
-            lifecycle=None,
-            created_delta=timedelta(hours=3),
-            heartbeat_delta=timedelta(hours=3),
-        )
-        lease = legacy["work_lease"]
-        self.assertEqual(lease["created_at"], lease["last_heartbeat_at"])
-        self.assertTrue(issue_lock_store.is_legacy_lease(legacy))
-
-        # A brand-new heartbeat lease has them equal too, so the equality
-        # carries no information in either direction.
-        fresh = self.write_lock(
-            created_delta=timedelta(seconds=0), heartbeat_delta=timedelta(seconds=0)
-        )
-        self.assertEqual(
-            fresh["work_lease"]["created_at"],
-            fresh["work_lease"]["last_heartbeat_at"],
-        )
-        self.assertFalse(issue_lock_store.is_legacy_lease(fresh))
-
-    def test_minted_session_id_contains_no_pid(self):
-        """AC-N1: the ownership key must not be derived from the daemon pid."""
-        minted = issue_lock_store.mint_task_session_id()
-        self.assertNotIn(str(os.getpid()), minted)
-        self.assertNotEqual(minted, issue_lock_store.mint_task_session_id())
-
-
-class TestFreshnessIsHeartbeatDriven(_LockFixture):
-    """AC-N2 and the new bands."""
-
-    def test_fresh_heartbeat_is_live(self):
-        record = self.write_lock(heartbeat_delta=timedelta(minutes=1))
-        fresh = issue_lock_store.assess_lock_freshness(record, now=self.now)
-        self.assertEqual(fresh["status"], issue_lock_store.STATUS_LIVE)
-        self.assertTrue(fresh["live"])
-        self.assertFalse(fresh["heartbeat_warning"])
-
-    def test_heartbeat_past_warning_is_still_live_but_flagged(self):
-        record = self.write_lock(heartbeat_delta=timedelta(minutes=6))
-        fresh = issue_lock_store.assess_lock_freshness(record, now=self.now)
-        self.assertEqual(fresh["status"], issue_lock_store.STATUS_LIVE)
-        self.assertTrue(fresh["heartbeat_warning"])
-
-    def test_missed_heartbeat_past_grace_is_classified_explicitly(self):
-        record = self.write_lock(
-            heartbeat_delta=timedelta(minutes=11),
-            expires_delta=timedelta(minutes=30),
-        )
-        fresh = issue_lock_store.assess_lock_freshness(record, now=self.now)
-        self.assertEqual(
-            fresh["status"], issue_lock_store.STATUS_STALE_MISSED_HEARTBEAT
-        )
-        self.assertFalse(fresh["live"])
-        self.assertTrue(fresh["stale"])
-
-    def test_alive_pid_never_establishes_freshness(self):
-        """The defect in one assertion.
-
-        The recorded PID is this very process, so it is unambiguously alive —
-        and the lease is still not live, because the task stopped heartbeating.
-        """
-        record = self.write_lock(
-            pid=os.getpid(),
-            heartbeat_delta=timedelta(hours=4),
-            expires_delta=timedelta(hours=4),
-        )
-        fresh = issue_lock_store.assess_lock_freshness(record, now=self.now)
-        self.assertTrue(fresh["pid_alive"])
-        self.assertFalse(fresh["live"])
-        self.assertEqual(
-            fresh["status"], issue_lock_store.STATUS_STALE_MISSED_HEARTBEAT
-        )
-
-    def test_dead_pid_still_marks_stale_for_issue_753(self):
-        """The opposite asymmetry: dead-PID corroboration is preserved."""
-        record = self.write_lock(pid=DEAD_PID, heartbeat_delta=timedelta(minutes=1))
-        fresh = issue_lock_store.assess_lock_freshness(record, now=self.now)
-        self.assertEqual(fresh["status"], issue_lock_store.STATUS_STALE)
-        self.assertFalse(fresh["live"])
-        self.assertIn("not alive", fresh["reason"])
-
-    def test_absolute_cap_requires_readoption(self):
-        record = self.write_lock(
-            created_delta=timedelta(hours=9), heartbeat_delta=timedelta(minutes=1)
-        )
-        fresh = issue_lock_store.assess_lock_freshness(record, now=self.now)
-        self.assertEqual(fresh["status"], issue_lock_store.STATUS_STALE_ABSOLUTE_CAP)
-        self.assertIn("re-adoption", fresh["reason"])
-
-    def test_heartbeat_lifecycle_without_a_heartbeat_fails_closed(self):
-        record = self.write_lock()
-        del record["work_lease"]["last_heartbeat_at"]
-        issue_lock_store.save_lock_file(self._path(), record)
-        fresh = issue_lock_store.assess_lock_freshness(record, now=self.now)
-        self.assertEqual(
-            fresh["status"], issue_lock_store.STATUS_STALE_MISSED_HEARTBEAT
-        )
-        self.assertIn("fail closed", fresh["reason"])
-
-    def test_absent_lock(self):
-        fresh = issue_lock_store.assess_lock_freshness(None)
-        self.assertEqual(fresh["status"], issue_lock_store.STATUS_ABSENT)
-        self.assertFalse(fresh["stale"])
-
-
-class TestLegacyLocksStayProtected(_LockFixture):
-    """AC-N8: deployment must not retroactively shorten an existing claim."""
-
-    def test_legacy_lock_with_a_stale_heartbeat_remains_live(self):
-        """The deployment-safety case.
-
-        A four-hour legacy lease minted three hours ago has not heartbeated
-        once. Under the new grace it would be long gone; under its preserved
-        absolute expiry it is still live, and must stay that way.
-        """
-        record = self.write_lock(
-            lifecycle=None,
-            created_delta=timedelta(hours=3),
-            heartbeat_delta=timedelta(hours=3),
-            expires_delta=timedelta(hours=1),
-        )
-        fresh = issue_lock_store.assess_lock_freshness(record, now=self.now)
-        self.assertEqual(fresh["status"], issue_lock_store.STATUS_LIVE)
-        self.assertTrue(fresh["live"])
-        self.assertTrue(fresh["legacy_lease"])
-        self.assertTrue(fresh["legacy_expiry_preserved"])
-
-    def test_legacy_lock_past_its_absolute_expiry_is_expired_as_before(self):
-        record = self.write_lock(
-            lifecycle=None,
-            created_delta=timedelta(hours=5),
-            heartbeat_delta=timedelta(hours=5),
-            expires_delta=timedelta(hours=-1),
-        )
-        fresh = issue_lock_store.assess_lock_freshness(record, now=self.now)
-        self.assertEqual(fresh["status"], issue_lock_store.STATUS_EXPIRED)
-
-    def test_legacy_lock_is_never_reclaimed_by_the_heartbeat_band(self):
-        record = self.write_lock(
-            lifecycle=None,
-            created_delta=timedelta(hours=3),
-            heartbeat_delta=timedelta(hours=3),
-            expires_delta=timedelta(hours=1),
-        )
-        reclaim = issue_lock_store.assess_expired_lock_reclaim(record, now=self.now)
-        self.assertFalse(reclaim["reclaim_allowed"])
-
-
-class TestReclaimAfterMissedHeartbeat(_LockFixture):
-    def test_missed_heartbeat_makes_ownership_reclaimable(self):
-        record = self.write_lock(
-            pid=os.getpid(),
-            heartbeat_delta=timedelta(minutes=15),
-            expires_delta=timedelta(hours=3),
-        )
-        reclaim = issue_lock_store.assess_expired_lock_reclaim(record, now=self.now)
-        self.assertTrue(reclaim["reclaim_allowed"])
-        self.assertIn("stale_missed_heartbeat", reclaim["reasons"][0])
-
-    def test_live_lease_is_never_reclaimable(self):
-        record = self.write_lock(heartbeat_delta=timedelta(minutes=1))
-        reclaim = issue_lock_store.assess_expired_lock_reclaim(record, now=self.now)
-        self.assertFalse(reclaim["reclaim_allowed"])
-
-    def test_dead_pid_reclaim_path_is_unchanged(self):
-        """#753 must keep working through its original conditions."""
-        record = self.write_lock(pid=DEAD_PID, heartbeat_delta=timedelta(minutes=1))
-        reclaim = issue_lock_store.assess_expired_lock_reclaim(record, now=self.now)
-        self.assertTrue(reclaim["reclaim_allowed"])
-        self.assertTrue(reclaim["owner_pid_dead"])
-
-
-class TestHeartbeatWriter(_LockFixture):
-    """A4: flock + CAS + exact verification, and no revival path."""
-
-    def _heartbeat(self, **kwargs):
-        params = {
-            "remote": REMOTE,
-            "org": ORG,
-            "repo": REPO,
-            "issue_number": ISSUE,
-            "branch_name": BRANCH,
-            "worktree_path": self.worktree,
-            "identity": IDENTITY,
-            "profile": PROFILE,
-            "task_session_id": "author_issue_work-aaaabbbbccccdddd",
-            "lock_dir": self.lock_dir.name,
-            "now": self.now,
-        }
-        params.update(kwargs)
-        return issue_lock_store.heartbeat_session_lock(**params)
-
-    def test_heartbeat_slides_expiry_and_advances_generation(self):
-        self.write_lock(heartbeat_delta=timedelta(minutes=4), generation=5)
-        result = self._heartbeat()
-        self.assertTrue(result["success"], result)
-        self.assertEqual(result["prior_generation"], 5)
-        self.assertEqual(result["lock_generation"], 6)
-        self.assertEqual(result["heartbeat_count"], 1)
-        self.assertEqual(result["last_heartbeat_at"], _ts(self.now))
-        self.assertEqual(result["expires_at"], _ts(self.now + timedelta(minutes=10)))
-        self.assertTrue(result["freshness"]["live"])
-
-    def test_heartbeat_is_durable_and_repeatable(self):
-        self.write_lock(heartbeat_delta=timedelta(minutes=4))
-        self._heartbeat()
-        second = self._heartbeat(now=self.now + timedelta(minutes=1))
-        self.assertTrue(second["success"], second)
-        self.assertEqual(second["heartbeat_count"], 2)
-        written = issue_lock_store.read_lock_file(self._path())
-        self.assertEqual(written["work_lease"]["heartbeat_count"], 2)
-
-    def test_stale_generation_is_refused(self):
-        self.write_lock(generation=5)
-        result = self._heartbeat(expected_generation=4)
-        self.assertFalse(result["success"])
-        self.assertIn("generation changed", result["reasons"][0])
-
-    def test_foreign_session_is_refused(self):
-        self.write_lock()
-        result = self._heartbeat(task_session_id="author_issue_work-ffffffffffffffff")
-        self.assertFalse(result["success"])
-        self.assertIn("task_session_id does not match", " ".join(result["reasons"]))
-
-    def test_missing_session_id_is_refused(self):
-        self.write_lock()
-        result = self._heartbeat(task_session_id="")
-        self.assertFalse(result["success"])
-
-    def test_foreign_claimant_is_refused(self):
-        self.write_lock()
-        for field, value in (
-            ("identity", "someone-else"),
-            ("profile", "other-profile"),
-        ):
-            with self.subTest(field=field):
-                result = self._heartbeat(**{field: value})
-                self.assertFalse(result["success"])
-
-    def test_branch_and_worktree_mismatch_are_refused(self):
-        self.write_lock()
-        wrong_branch = self._heartbeat(branch_name=f"fix/issue-{ISSUE}-other")
-        self.assertFalse(wrong_branch["success"])
-        wrong_worktree = self._heartbeat(worktree_path="/tmp/not-the-worktree")
-        self.assertFalse(wrong_worktree["success"])
-
-    def test_lapsed_lease_cannot_be_heartbeated_back_to_life(self):
-        """No revival path (A4).
-
-        A session that stopped proving liveness must reclaim under a fresh
-        generation, not restore ownership retroactively.
-        """
-        self.write_lock(
-            heartbeat_delta=timedelta(minutes=30), expires_delta=timedelta(hours=1)
-        )
-        result = self._heartbeat()
-        self.assertFalse(result["success"])
-        self.assertIn("reclaimed", " ".join(result["reasons"]))
-
-    def test_absent_lock_cannot_be_created_by_heartbeat(self):
-        result = self._heartbeat()
-        self.assertFalse(result["success"])
-        self.assertIn("no durable lock", result["reasons"][0])
-
-    def test_legacy_lock_is_refused_until_rebound(self):
-        self.write_lock(lifecycle=None)
-        result = self._heartbeat()
-        self.assertFalse(result["success"])
-        self.assertTrue(result["legacy_lease"])
-        self.assertIn("rebound", " ".join(result["reasons"]))
-
-
-class TestLegacyRebind(_LockFixture):
-    """AC-N8 exit route: canonical exact-owner rebinding."""
-
-    def _rebind(self, **kwargs):
-        params = {
-            "remote": REMOTE,
-            "org": ORG,
-            "repo": REPO,
-            "issue_number": ISSUE,
-            "branch_name": BRANCH,
-            "worktree_path": self.worktree,
-            "identity": IDENTITY,
-            "profile": PROFILE,
-            "lock_dir": self.lock_dir.name,
-            "now": self.now,
-        }
-        params.update(kwargs)
-        return issue_lock_store.rebind_legacy_lock(**params)
-
-    def test_rebind_mints_a_session_and_a_genuine_first_heartbeat(self):
-        self.write_lock(
-            lifecycle=None,
-            created_delta=timedelta(hours=3),
-            heartbeat_delta=timedelta(hours=3),
-            expires_delta=timedelta(hours=1),
-            generation=2,
-        )
-        result = self._rebind()
-        self.assertTrue(result["success"], result)
-        self.assertTrue(result["task_session_id"])
-        self.assertEqual(result["lock_generation"], 3)
-
-        written = issue_lock_store.read_lock_file(self._path())
-        lease = written["work_lease"]
-        self.assertEqual(
-            lease["lifecycle_version"], lease_policy.LIFECYCLE_HEARTBEAT_V1
-        )
-        self.assertEqual(lease["last_heartbeat_at"], _ts(self.now))
-        self.assertEqual(lease["expires_at"], _ts(self.now + timedelta(minutes=10)))
-        self.assertFalse(issue_lock_store.is_legacy_lease(written))
-        # The original claim is preserved for audit rather than overwritten.
-        origin = written["legacy_rebind"]["legacy_origin"]
-        self.assertTrue(origin["created_at"])
-        self.assertEqual(origin["lifecycle"], lease_policy.LIFECYCLE_LEGACY)
-
-    def test_rebound_lock_can_then_heartbeat(self):
-        self.write_lock(
-            lifecycle=None,
-            created_delta=timedelta(hours=3),
-            heartbeat_delta=timedelta(hours=3),
-            expires_delta=timedelta(hours=1),
-        )
-        rebound = self._rebind()
-        beat = issue_lock_store.heartbeat_session_lock(
-            remote=REMOTE,
-            org=ORG,
-            repo=REPO,
-            issue_number=ISSUE,
-            branch_name=BRANCH,
-            worktree_path=self.worktree,
-            identity=IDENTITY,
-            profile=PROFILE,
-            task_session_id=rebound["task_session_id"],
-            lock_dir=self.lock_dir.name,
-            now=self.now + timedelta(minutes=1),
-        )
-        self.assertTrue(beat["success"], beat)
-
-    def test_rebind_refuses_a_foreign_owner(self):
-        self.write_lock(lifecycle=None, expires_delta=timedelta(hours=1))
-        result = self._rebind(identity="someone-else")
-        self.assertFalse(result["success"])
-
-    def test_rebind_refuses_a_lock_already_on_the_lifecycle(self):
-        self.write_lock()
-        result = self._rebind()
-        self.assertFalse(result["success"])
-        self.assertFalse(result["legacy_lease"])
-
-    def test_rebind_is_not_a_recovery_path_for_a_lapsed_legacy_lease(self):
-        """An expired legacy lease belongs to #760 renewal or #601 reclaim."""
-        self.write_lock(
-            lifecycle=None,
-            created_delta=timedelta(hours=5),
-            heartbeat_delta=timedelta(hours=5),
-            expires_delta=timedelta(hours=-1),
-        )
-        result = self._rebind()
-        self.assertFalse(result["success"])
-        self.assertIn("not a recovery path", " ".join(result["reasons"]))
-
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    unittest.main()

tests/test_webui_policy_visibility.py

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+"""Tests for the read-only workflow policy/guardrail visibility view (#646).
+
+Covers issue #646 acceptance criteria:
+
+1. Console lists major guardrails with source pointers.
+2. Secrets redacted.
+3. Tests ensure sample secrets never appear.
+4. Docs explain read-only nature (asserted here for the page copy; the doc
+   itself is covered by inspection).
+"""
+
+import json
+import sys
+import unittest
+from pathlib import Path
+
+sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent))
+
+from starlette.testclient import TestClient
+
+from webui import console_redaction
+from webui import policy_inventory
+from webui.app import create_app
+from webui.policy_inventory import (
+    PolicyEntry,
+    PolicyInventorySnapshot,
+    SourcePointer,
+    load_policy_inventory,
+    snapshot_to_dict,
+)
+from webui.policy_views import render_policy_page
+
+
+def _entry(key, category, *, active=None, error=None):
+    return PolicyEntry(
+        key=key,
+        title=key.replace("_", " ").title(),
+        category=category,
+        summary=f"summary for {key}",
+        sources=(SourcePointer("src", f"{key}.py", "module"),),
+        active=active,
+        documented_default=None,
+        diff=None,
+        error=error,
+    )
+
+
+def _snapshot(entries):
+    return PolicyInventorySnapshot(
+        schema_version=1,
+        read_only=True,
+        note="read-only projection",
+        entries=tuple(entries),
+        categories=tuple(dict.fromkeys(e.category for e in entries)),
+        build_errors=(),
+    )
+
+# The guardrail categories issue #646 names as in-scope.
+_EXPECTED_CATEGORIES = {
+    "role_separation",
+    "lease_rules",
+    "worktree_rules",
+    "merge_confirmation",
+    "redaction",
+    "contamination",
+    "allocator_policy",
+    "audit_logging",
+    "mutation_gating",
+}
+
+
+class TestPolicyInventoryModel(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_major_guardrails_present(self):
+        snapshot = load_policy_inventory()
+        categories = {e.category for e in snapshot.entries}
+        self.assertEqual(_EXPECTED_CATEGORIES, categories)
+        self.assertGreaterEqual(len(snapshot.entries), len(_EXPECTED_CATEGORIES))
+
+    def test_every_guardrail_has_source_pointers(self):
+        # AC1: source attribution (file/module/doc) for every guardrail.
+        snapshot = load_policy_inventory()
+        for entry in snapshot.entries:
+            with self.subTest(entry=entry.key):
+                self.assertTrue(entry.sources, "guardrail must carry source pointers")
+                for source in entry.sources:
+                    self.assertTrue(source.path)
+                    self.assertIn(source.kind, {"module", "doc", "script", "config"})
+
+    def test_diff_reported_where_documented_default_declared(self):
+        snapshot = load_policy_inventory()
+        checked_any = False
+        for entry in snapshot.entries:
+            if entry.documented_default is None:
+                self.assertIsNone(entry.diff)
+                continue
+            checked_any = True
+            self.assertIsNotNone(entry.diff)
+            self.assertEqual(
+                entry.diff["status"],
+                "matches_documented_default",
+                f"{entry.key} drifted from its documented default: {entry.diff}",
+            )
+        self.assertTrue(checked_any, "at least one guardrail should declare a default")
+
+    def test_live_projections_populate_active(self):
+        snapshot = load_policy_inventory()
+        by_key = {e.key: e for e in snapshot.entries}
+        for key in ("role_separation", "redaction", "audit_logging"):
+            self.assertIsNone(by_key[key].error, f"{key} projection failed")
+            self.assertIsInstance(by_key[key].active, dict)
+
+    def test_build_entry_is_fail_soft_on_projection_error(self):
+        def _boom():
+            raise RuntimeError("projection exploded")
+
+        row = (
+            "redaction",
+            "Secret redaction",
+            "redaction",
+            "summary",
+            (SourcePointer("x", "webui/console_redaction.py", "module"),),
+            _boom,
+            {"redact_before_persist": True},
+        )
+        entry = policy_inventory._build_entry(row)
+        self.assertIsNone(entry.active)
+        self.assertIsNotNone(entry.error)
+        self.assertEqual(entry.diff["status"], "active_unavailable")
+
+
+class TestPolicyRedaction(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_real_snapshot_has_no_secret_shapes(self):
+        # AC3: the real emitted payload never carries a known secret shape.
+        payload = snapshot_to_dict(load_policy_inventory())
+        self.assertEqual(console_redaction.scan_for_secrets(payload), [])
+
+    def test_planted_keychain_secret_is_redacted(self):
+        # AC2/AC3: a secret planted in an active projection is masked before emit.
+        snapshot = _snapshot([
+            _entry(
+                "redaction",
+                "redaction",
+                active={"leaked": "keychain:prgs-author-super-secret", "roles": ["author"]},
+            )
+        ])
+        payload = snapshot_to_dict(snapshot)
+        blob = json.dumps(payload)
+        self.assertNotIn("keychain:prgs-author-super-secret", blob)
+        self.assertEqual(console_redaction.scan_for_secrets(payload), [])
+
+    def test_planted_credential_assignment_is_redacted(self):
+        snapshot = _snapshot([
+            _entry(
+                "audit_logging",
+                "audit_logging",
+                active={"leaked": "token=abcd1234efgh5678", "append_only": True},
+            )
+        ])
+        payload = snapshot_to_dict(snapshot)
+        blob = json.dumps(payload)
+        self.assertNotIn("abcd1234efgh5678", blob)
+        self.assertEqual(console_redaction.scan_for_secrets(payload), [])
+
+
+class TestPolicyRoutes(unittest.TestCase):
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.client = TestClient(create_app())
+
+    def test_policy_html_lists_guardrails_with_sources(self):
+        response = self.client.get("/policy")
+        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
+        text = response.text
+        self.assertIn("Workflow policy", text)
+        self.assertIn("Role separation and RBAC", text)
+        self.assertIn("Source pointers", text)
+        self.assertIn("task_capability_map.py", text)
+        self.assertIn("docs/safety-model.md", text)
+
+    def test_policy_html_states_read_only(self):
+        # AC4: the page explains its read-only nature.
+        text = self.client.get("/policy").text
+        self.assertIn("read-only", text.lower())
+        self.assertNotIn("<form", text.lower())
+
+    def test_policy_html_has_no_secret_shapes(self):
+        text = self.client.get("/policy").text
+        self.assertEqual(console_redaction.scan_for_secrets(text), [])
+
+    def test_api_v1_policy_returns_inventory(self):
+        response = self.client.get("/api/v1/policy")
+        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
+        data = response.json()
+        self.assertEqual(data["schema_version"], policy_inventory.SCHEMA_VERSION)
+        self.assertTrue(data["read_only"])
+        self.assertEqual(data["entry_count"], len(data["entries"]))
+        self.assertEqual(set(data["categories"]), _EXPECTED_CATEGORIES)
+
+    def test_policy_is_read_only_no_post(self):
+        # AC4 / non-goal: no mutation endpoint.
+        response = self.client.post("/policy")
+        self.assertIn(response.status_code, (404, 405))
+
+    def test_nav_links_policy(self):
+        text = self.client.get("/").text
+        self.assertIn('href="/policy"', text)
+
+
+class TestPolicyViewFailSoft(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_page_renders_when_a_projection_errors(self):
+        snapshot = _snapshot([
+            _entry("role_separation", "role_separation", error="active projection unavailable: boom"),
+            _entry("redaction", "redaction", active={"redact_before_persist": True}),
+        ])
+        page = render_policy_page(snapshot)
+        # The errored guardrail surfaces its error; other guardrails still render.
+        self.assertIn("Active value unavailable", page)
+        self.assertIn("Redaction", page)
+        self.assertIn("Workflow policy", page)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    unittest.main()

webui/app.py

@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ 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.policy_inventory import load_policy_inventory, snapshot_to_dict as policy_snapshot_to_dict
+from webui.policy_views import render_policy_page
 
 _READ_ONLY_METHODS = frozenset({"GET", "HEAD", "OPTIONS"})
 _AUDIT_MUTATION_PATHS = frozenset({"/audit", "/api/audit"})
@@ -68,6 +70,7 @@ async def home(_request: Request) -> HTMLResponse:
         "<li><strong>Projects</strong> — registry and onboarding (#427)</li>"
         "<li><strong>Prompts</strong> — canonical workflow prompt library (#428)</li>"
         "<li><strong>Runtime</strong> — MCP health and stale-runtime detection (#430)</li>"
+        "<li><strong>Policy</strong> — workflow guardrail configuration visibility (#646)</li>"
         "<li><strong>Audit</strong> — final-report paste and validator preview (#431)</li>"
         "<li><strong>Worktrees</strong> — branch hygiene dashboard (#432)</li>"
         "<li><strong>Leases</strong> — collision and lease visibility (#433)</li>"
@@ -210,6 +213,17 @@ async def api_runtime(_request: Request) -> JSONResponse:
     return JSONResponse(runtime_snapshot_to_dict(load_runtime_snapshot()))
 
 
+async def policy(_request: Request) -> HTMLResponse:
+    snapshot = load_policy_inventory()
+    return HTMLResponse(
+        render_page(title="Policy", body_html=render_policy_page(snapshot))
+    )
+
+
+async def api_v1_policy(_request: Request) -> JSONResponse:
+    return JSONResponse(policy_snapshot_to_dict(load_policy_inventory()))
+
+
 async def _parse_audit_form(request: Request) -> tuple[str, str | None]:
     if request.method == "GET":
         return "", None
@@ -415,6 +429,8 @@ def create_app(*, bind_host: str | None = None) -> Starlette:
             Route("/api/prompts", api_prompts, methods=["GET"]),
             Route("/runtime", runtime, methods=["GET"]),
             Route("/api/runtime", api_runtime, methods=["GET"]),
+            Route("/policy", policy, methods=["GET"]),
+            Route("/api/v1/policy", api_v1_policy, methods=["GET"]),
             Route("/audit", audit, methods=["GET", "POST"]),
             Route("/api/audit", api_audit, methods=["GET", "POST"]),
             Route("/worktrees", worktrees, methods=["GET"]),

webui/layout.py

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ NAV_ITEMS = (
     ("/projects", "Projects"),
     ("/prompts", "Prompts"),
     ("/runtime", "Runtime"),
+    ("/policy", "Policy"),
     ("/audit", "Audit"),
     ("/worktrees", "Worktrees"),
     ("/leases", "Leases"),

webui/policy_inventory.py

@@ -0,0 +1,387 @@
+"""Read-only workflow policy and guardrail inventory for the web UI (#646).
+
+Policy and guardrails live in code, profiles, docs, and skills. An operator
+cannot *see* the active workflow policy configuration from the console without
+reading the repository tree. This module projects the major guardrails into a
+redacted, machine-readable inventory with source attribution (file / module /
+doc), so the console can render them as HTML tables with source pointers.
+
+Design constraints (Phase 3, #646):
+
+- **Read-only projection.** Nothing here edits policy or exposes a toggle that
+  could weaken a gate. It reports what is already enforced elsewhere.
+- **Source attribution without secrets.** Every guardrail carries pointers to
+  the file/module/doc that owns it. Live values are compact summaries derived
+  from the safe policy accessors that already exist (``rbac_matrix``,
+  ``redaction_policy``, ``audit_policy``); raw regex, tokens, and endpoints are
+  never embedded.
+- **Redact before emit.** ``snapshot_to_dict`` runs the whole payload through
+  ``console_redaction.redact_payload`` so a planted or accidental secret in any
+  projected value degrades to the placeholder rather than reaching a client.
+- **Fail soft.** A projection that raises is recorded as a per-entry error and
+  never takes the page down; a guardrail is still listed with its sources.
+- **Diff vs documented defaults where feasible.** When a guardrail declares a
+  documented invariant, the active projection is compared against it and the
+  result is reported; otherwise the diff is explicitly ``None`` with a reason.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from typing import Any, Callable
+
+from webui import console_audit
+from webui import console_authz
+from webui import console_redaction
+
+SCHEMA_VERSION = 1
+
+READ_ONLY_NOTE = (
+    "Read-only projection of guardrails enforced in code, profiles, docs, and "
+    "skills. This view never edits policy and exposes no gate-weakening toggle."
+)
+
+
+@dataclass(frozen=True)
+class SourcePointer:
+    """Where a guardrail is defined. Attribution only — never a secret."""
+
+    label: str
+    path: str
+    kind: str  # "module" | "doc" | "script" | "config"
+    anchor: str | None = None
+
+    def to_dict(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "label": self.label,
+            "path": self.path,
+            "kind": self.kind,
+            "anchor": self.anchor,
+        }
+
+
+@dataclass(frozen=True)
+class PolicyEntry:
+    key: str
+    title: str
+    category: str
+    summary: str
+    sources: tuple[SourcePointer, ...]
+    active: dict[str, Any] | None
+    documented_default: dict[str, Any] | None
+    diff: dict[str, Any] | None
+    error: str | None = None
+
+    def to_dict(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "key": self.key,
+            "title": self.title,
+            "category": self.category,
+            "summary": self.summary,
+            "sources": [s.to_dict() for s in self.sources],
+            "active": self.active,
+            "documented_default": self.documented_default,
+            "diff": self.diff,
+            "error": self.error,
+        }
+
+
+@dataclass(frozen=True)
+class PolicyInventorySnapshot:
+    schema_version: int
+    read_only: bool
+    note: str
+    entries: tuple[PolicyEntry, ...]
+    categories: tuple[str, ...]
+    build_errors: tuple[str, ...]
+
+
+def _diff_active_vs_default(
+    active: dict[str, Any] | None,
+    documented_default: dict[str, Any] | None,
+) -> dict[str, Any] | None:
+    """Compare only the keys the documented default declares.
+
+    Returns ``None`` when no documented default is declared (diff not feasible)
+    or when the active projection is unavailable. Otherwise reports, per
+    declared key, whether the active value matches the documented invariant.
+    """
+    if not documented_default:
+        return None
+    if not active:
+        return {"status": "active_unavailable", "checked": {}}
+    checked: dict[str, Any] = {}
+    matches = True
+    for key, expected in documented_default.items():
+        observed = active.get(key)
+        ok = observed == expected
+        matches = matches and ok
+        checked[key] = {"expected": expected, "observed": observed, "matches": ok}
+    return {
+        "status": "matches_documented_default" if matches else "drift_detected",
+        "checked": checked,
+    }
+
+
+# ── Live projections (compact, safe, fail-soft) ──────────────────────────────
+# Each returns a small dict of already-safe machine values. They are module
+# level so tests can substitute one to prove the redaction pass runs.
+
+
+def _project_role_separation() -> dict[str, Any]:
+    matrix = console_authz.rbac_matrix()
+    return {
+        "model_version": matrix.get("model_version"),
+        "active_phase": matrix.get("active_phase"),
+        "roles": [r.get("role") for r in matrix.get("roles", [])],
+        "privileged_action_count": len(matrix.get("privileged_actions", [])),
+        "default_decision": matrix.get("default_decision"),
+        "execution_enabled": matrix.get("execution_enabled"),
+    }
+
+
+def _project_redaction() -> dict[str, Any]:
+    policy = console_redaction.redaction_policy()
+    return {
+        "policy_version": policy.get("policy_version"),
+        "placeholder": policy.get("placeholder"),
+        "applies_to": policy.get("applies_to"),
+        "console_detector_count": len(policy.get("console_rules", [])),
+        "redact_before_persist": policy.get("redact_before_persist"),
+        "failure_mode": policy.get("failure_mode"),
+    }
+
+
+def _project_audit() -> dict[str, Any]:
+    policy = console_audit.audit_policy()
+    return {
+        "schema_version": policy.get("schema_version"),
+        "required_field_count": len(policy.get("required_fields", [])),
+        "results": policy.get("results"),
+        "retention_defaults_days": policy.get("retention_defaults_days"),
+        "append_only": policy.get("append_only"),
+        "redact_before_persist": policy.get("redact_before_persist"),
+        "enabled": policy.get("enabled"),
+    }
+
+
+def _static(value: dict[str, Any]) -> Callable[[], dict[str, Any]]:
+    return lambda: dict(value)
+
+
+# ── Guardrail catalog ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+# One row per major guardrail. ``project`` yields the active value (may raise;
+# caught per entry). ``documented_default`` drives the feasible diff.
+
+_CatalogRow = tuple[
+    str,
+    str,
+    str,
+    str,
+    tuple[SourcePointer, ...],
+    Callable[[], dict[str, Any]] | None,
+    dict[str, Any] | None,
+]
+
+_CATALOG: tuple[_CatalogRow, ...] = (
+    (
+        "role_separation",
+        "Role separation and RBAC",
+        "role_separation",
+        "Author, reviewer, merger, and reconciler capabilities are disjoint and "
+        "role-exclusive; self-review and self-merge are always blocked. The "
+        "console RBAC model defaults to deny.",
+        (
+            SourcePointer("task capability map", "task_capability_map.py", "module"),
+            SourcePointer("role/namespace gate", "role_namespace_gate.py", "module"),
+            SourcePointer("console RBAC", "webui/console_authz.py", "module"),
+        ),
+        _project_role_separation,
+        {"default_decision": "deny", "execution_enabled": False},
+    ),
+    (
+        "lease_rules",
+        "Issue and PR lease lifecycle",
+        "lease_rules",
+        "Durable work is claimed through issue locks and control-plane leases "
+        "with freshness, expiry, and dead-session recovery; abandoned or stale "
+        "claims are reclaimed only through the sanctioned recovery path.",
+        (
+            SourcePointer("issue lock store", "issue_lock_store.py", "module"),
+            SourcePointer("branch cleanup guard", "branch_cleanup_guard.py", "module"),
+            SourcePointer("safety model §5", "docs/safety-model.md", "doc", "5-mutation-gating"),
+        ),
+        None,
+        None,
+    ),
+    (
+        "worktree_rules",
+        "Author worktree binding",
+        "worktree_rules",
+        "Author mutations require a validated worktree under branches/ derived "
+        "from the active issue lock; silent fallback to the stable control "
+        "checkout or master is forbidden (#618).",
+        (
+            SourcePointer("author worktree gate", "author_mutation_worktree.py", "module"),
+            SourcePointer("worktree bootstrap", "scripts/worktree-start", "script"),
+            SourcePointer("workflow scope guard", "workflow_scope_guard.py", "module"),
+        ),
+        None,
+        None,
+    ),
+    (
+        "merge_confirmation",
+        "Explicit merge confirmation",
+        "merge_confirmation",
+        "A merge fails closed unless the caller passes the exact confirmation "
+        "phrase for that PR; reviewing never implies merging.",
+        (
+            SourcePointer("merge path", "merge_pr.py", "module"),
+            SourcePointer("merge tool gate", "gitea_mcp_server.py", "module"),
+        ),
+        _static({"required_confirmation_format": "MERGE PR <n>", "auto_merge": False}),
+        {"auto_merge": False},
+    ),
+    (
+        "redaction",
+        "Secret redaction",
+        "redaction",
+        "Every console surface runs the shared gitea_audit pass then console "
+        "patterns before any payload, HTML, log line, or audit record leaves "
+        "the server; unredactable values fail closed to the placeholder.",
+        (
+            SourcePointer("console redaction", "webui/console_redaction.py", "module"),
+            SourcePointer("shared redaction", "gitea_audit.py", "module"),
+            SourcePointer("safety model §3", "docs/safety-model.md", "doc", "3-secret-redaction"),
+        ),
+        _project_redaction,
+        {"redact_before_persist": True},
+    ),
+    (
+        "contamination",
+        "Contamination containment",
+        "contamination",
+        "A session contaminated by a direct stable-branch push or a manual MCP "
+        "daemon kill is blocked from review, merge, close, and completion "
+        "mutations until cleared (reconciler-exempt).",
+        (
+            SourcePointer("contamination gates", "gitea_mcp_server.py", "module"),
+            SourcePointer("stable-branch audit", "workflow_scope_guard.py", "module"),
+        ),
+        None,
+        None,
+    ),
+    (
+        "allocator_policy",
+        "Work allocation policy",
+        "allocator_policy",
+        "Workers do not self-select exclusive work; the controller-owned "
+        "allocator ranks the complete queue by priority then PRs-before-issues "
+        "then ascending number, honoring dependency edges and foreign claims.",
+        (
+            SourcePointer("allocator", "gitea_mcp_server.py", "module"),
+            SourcePointer("safety model §5", "docs/safety-model.md", "doc", "5-mutation-gating"),
+        ),
+        _static(
+            {
+                "self_select_exclusive_work": False,
+                "ranking": "priority desc, PRs before issues, number asc",
+                "respects_dependency_edges": True,
+                "respects_foreign_claims": True,
+            }
+        ),
+        {"self_select_exclusive_work": False},
+    ),
+    (
+        "audit_logging",
+        "Audit logging",
+        "audit_logging",
+        "Console intent and authorization outcomes are recorded to an "
+        "append-only, redact-before-persist audit log; MCP mutations are "
+        "recorded by gitea_audit and correlated by request id.",
+        (
+            SourcePointer("console audit", "webui/console_audit.py", "module"),
+            SourcePointer("MCP audit", "gitea_audit.py", "module"),
+            SourcePointer("safety model §1", "docs/safety-model.md", "doc", "1-audit-logging-and-confirmation"),
+        ),
+        _project_audit,
+        {"append_only": True, "redact_before_persist": True},
+    ),
+    (
+        "mutation_gating",
+        "Mutation gating and master parity",
+        "mutation_gating",
+        "Mutations fail closed while the running server is stale relative to "
+        "master, and every mutation is preceded by identity and capability "
+        "resolution in a fixed pre-flight order.",
+        (
+            SourcePointer("mutation gate", "gitea_mcp_server.py", "module"),
+            SourcePointer("safety model §5", "docs/safety-model.md", "doc", "5-mutation-gating"),
+        ),
+        _static(
+            {
+                "stale_runtime_blocks_mutations": True,
+                "preflight_order": "whoami -> resolve_task_capability -> mutation",
+            }
+        ),
+        {"stale_runtime_blocks_mutations": True},
+    ),
+)
+
+
+def _build_entry(row: _CatalogRow) -> PolicyEntry:
+    key, title, category, summary, sources, project, documented_default = row
+    active: dict[str, Any] | None = None
+    error: str | None = None
+    if project is not None:
+        try:
+            active = project()
+        except Exception as exc:  # noqa: BLE001 — fail soft; never take the page down
+            active = None
+            error = f"active projection unavailable: {exc}"
+    diff = _diff_active_vs_default(active, documented_default)
+    return PolicyEntry(
+        key=key,
+        title=title,
+        category=category,
+        summary=summary,
+        sources=sources,
+        active=active,
+        documented_default=documented_default,
+        diff=diff,
+        error=error,
+    )
+
+
+def load_policy_inventory() -> PolicyInventorySnapshot:
+    """Build the read-only guardrail inventory. Never raises for one bad entry."""
+    entries: list[PolicyEntry] = []
+    build_errors: list[str] = []
+    for row in _CATALOG:
+        try:
+            entries.append(_build_entry(row))
+        except Exception as exc:  # noqa: BLE001 — one row must not break the rest
+            build_errors.append(f"{row[0]}: {exc}")
+    categories = tuple(dict.fromkeys(e.category for e in entries))
+    return PolicyInventorySnapshot(
+        schema_version=SCHEMA_VERSION,
+        read_only=True,
+        note=READ_ONLY_NOTE,
+        entries=tuple(entries),
+        categories=categories,
+        build_errors=tuple(build_errors),
+    )
+
+
+def snapshot_to_dict(snapshot: PolicyInventorySnapshot) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Serialize the snapshot, redacting the entire payload before it is emitted."""
+    payload = {
+        "schema_version": snapshot.schema_version,
+        "read_only": snapshot.read_only,
+        "note": snapshot.note,
+        "categories": list(snapshot.categories),
+        "entry_count": len(snapshot.entries),
+        "entries": [entry.to_dict() for entry in snapshot.entries],
+        "build_errors": list(snapshot.build_errors),
+    }
+    return console_redaction.redact_payload(payload)

webui/policy_views.py

@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+"""HTML views for the workflow policy and guardrail inventory (#646)."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import html
+import json
+
+from webui.policy_inventory import PolicyEntry, PolicyInventorySnapshot
+
+
+def _source_pointer(source) -> str:
+    path = source.path
+    if source.anchor:
+        path = f"{path}#{source.anchor}"
+    return (
+        f"<li>{html.escape(source.label)} — "
+        f"<code>{html.escape(path)}</code> "
+        f"<span class='muted'>({html.escape(source.kind)})</span></li>"
+    )
+
+
+def _active_block(entry: PolicyEntry) -> str:
+    if entry.error:
+        return (
+            "<p class='muted'><strong>Active value unavailable:</strong> "
+            f"{html.escape(entry.error)}</p>"
+        )
+    if not entry.active:
+        return "<p class='muted'>No live projection for this guardrail.</p>"
+    pretty = json.dumps(entry.active, indent=2, sort_keys=True, default=str)
+    return f"<pre class='prompt-text'>{html.escape(pretty)}</pre>"
+
+
+def _diff_block(entry: PolicyEntry) -> str:
+    if entry.diff is None:
+        if entry.documented_default is None:
+            return "<p class='muted'>Diff vs documented default: not feasible (no declared default).</p>"
+        return "<p class='muted'>Diff vs documented default: unavailable.</p>"
+    status = entry.diff.get("status", "unknown")
+    badge = "badge-claimed" if status == "matches_documented_default" else "badge-blocked"
+    rows = []
+    for key, cell in (entry.diff.get("checked") or {}).items():
+        marker = "✓" if cell.get("matches") else "✗"
+        rows.append(
+            "<tr>"
+            f"<td><code>{html.escape(str(key))}</code></td>"
+            f"<td><code>{html.escape(str(cell.get('expected')))}</code></td>"
+            f"<td><code>{html.escape(str(cell.get('observed')))}</code></td>"
+            f"<td>{marker}</td>"
+            "</tr>"
+        )
+    table = ""
+    if rows:
+        table = (
+            "<table class='detail'><thead><tr>"
+            "<th>Key</th><th>Documented</th><th>Active</th><th>Match</th>"
+            "</tr></thead><tbody>"
+            f"{''.join(rows)}</tbody></table>"
+        )
+    return (
+        f"<p class='meta'>Diff vs documented default: "
+        f"<span class='badge {badge}'>{html.escape(status)}</span></p>"
+        f"{table}"
+    )
+
+
+def _entry_card(entry: PolicyEntry) -> str:
+    sources = "".join(_source_pointer(s) for s in entry.sources)
+    return (
+        "<div class='prompt-card'>"
+        f"<h3>{html.escape(entry.title)} "
+        f"<span class='badge'>{html.escape(entry.category)}</span></h3>"
+        f"<p>{html.escape(entry.summary)}</p>"
+        "<p class='meta'><strong>Source pointers</strong></p>"
+        f"<ul>{sources}</ul>"
+        "<p class='meta'><strong>Active configuration</strong></p>"
+        f"{_active_block(entry)}"
+        f"{_diff_block(entry)}"
+        "</div>"
+    )
+
+
+def render_policy_page(snapshot: PolicyInventorySnapshot) -> str:
+    categories = ", ".join(html.escape(c) for c in snapshot.categories) or "none"
+    cards = "".join(_entry_card(e) for e in snapshot.entries)
+    build_errors = ""
+    if snapshot.build_errors:
+        items = "".join(
+            f"<li>{html.escape(err)}</li>" for err in snapshot.build_errors
+        )
+        build_errors = (
+            "<div class='stub'><p><strong>Some guardrails could not be built:"
+            f"</strong></p><ul>{items}</ul></div>"
+        )
+    return (
+        "<h2>Workflow policy &amp; guardrails</h2>"
+        f"<p class='muted'>{html.escape(snapshot.note)}</p>"
+        f"<p class='meta'>Schema v{snapshot.schema_version} · "
+        f"{len(snapshot.entries)} guardrails · categories: {categories}</p>"
+        f"{build_errors}"
+        f"{cards}"
+        "<p class='muted'>This page is read-only. It reports enforced policy "
+        "and never edits or weakens a gate. Secret values are redacted.</p>"
+    )