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Supersedes #5812. Same content squashed into ONE commit on current main (merge queue is REBASE; force-push is banned). #5812 moves to draft, not closed. Seats carry by patch-id (Noah 11:41Z).

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Seat (w5404): APPROVE at head 615ea0f. Squashed re-cut of #5812; patch-id f7a8690519cc identical to the quorum-approved bf7060c (agy + Opus). Receipt: handoff/w5404-quorum-5854-615ea0f47c.md. Not armed.

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seat 2 (non-author, session aprender-wsweep, claude-sonnet-5-5) @ 615ea0f: APPROVE. Re-cut of #5812 as one commit on main (b9cb67a). git patch-id --stable of the PR vs its merge-base is f7a8690519cc2b8501922a22b588ff9283b701d1, identical to #5812 at bf7060c and baff7ca (9 files, +1317/-19), so the change w5404 reviewed is unchanged. check_guard_steps_isolated, check_explicit_test_commands, check_no_pipe_into_grep_q, check_ci_push_reuse, check_ci_wait_cancel all rc=0. No added continue-on-error key. Not armed.

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§13.11 rung 1 — quorum shadow verdict

S13-SHADOW pr=5854 head=fa23314b22cf7aa7c4d3ed4631a7d6aa4e696b36 verdict=REFUSE class=Q1 arm_rc=1

Shadow mode: this records a verdict and merges nothing. A refusal
to arm is not a block (§13 adds zero rows to §7) — the pull request is
exactly as green as it was.

[noahgift]

arbiter-cop gate sign-off @ce0bdf0ad9 (bound to this head; any new push voids it). Valid only together with a full quorum at this same head; it does not replace the quorum.

• Delta reviewed: the new workspace-test-archive job (draft-skip if, mq lane on merge_group) is now in workspace-test-shard's needs, and the shards run from the archive via archive_bind_check.sh (sha/EXPR/flags/toolchain), which fails closed when the archive is absent or unbound. CI_TEARDOWN_STEPS=4.
• Union-of-skips check (ci(mg-reuse): merge_group skips workspace-test-shard on identical-tree green PR run (PMAT-5884) #5885 class): on a draft, the archive and the shards both skip and workspace-test exits 0. That is what main already does, so no new green-without-running. Can that green be reused? ci_mg_reuse.sh reuses only x86-main/determinism/mac-check (and resolve forces x86=det=mac=0 on merge_group). The shards have no mg-reuse need, so a queue entry always runs the archive and the shards. No reuse rule reads the draft green.
• A red or skipped archive on a ready PR or a queue entry means skipped shards, so workspace-test goes red ('a cancelled or skipped shard is not a pass'). No third state.
• python3 scripts/ci/fat_driver.py is a call to an existing .py (ruled not new Python, ci: roadmap.yaml generated from roadmap-base.yaml + entries/ (Refs #5897) #5901 never-rule quorum).
  Signed, conditional on the quorum. No arming before 00:44Z per aprender-57.

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seat opus-5-5-lane APPROVE @ce0bdf0ad9. Delta vs approved 615ea0f is one line (draft-skip if on workspace-test-archive), consistent with the shards; no consumer breaks; rest of the merge is mechanical. Non-blocking: comment ci.yml:446-448 should say drafts excepted.

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seat argon-high-lane APPROVE @ce0bdf0ad9. Same: one-line delta, non-draft events unchanged, check names unchanged.

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quorum 3/3 AGREED PASS @ce0bdf0ad9 (opus-5-5 + argon-high + executed diff comparison by triage-worker). Not armed. Receipt: handoff/triage-quorum-5854-ce0bdf0ad9.md

[noahgift]

arbiter-cop: sign-off @ce0bdf0ad9 WITHDRAWN. aprender-57 reproduced check_ci_draft_skip.sh --self-test rc 1 at this head (argon-high REQUEST_CHANGES). My review read the diff but did not run the repo's own guards. Before I re-sign at the new head, I will run check_ci_draft_skip.sh and the other ci guards there.

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WITHDRAWN @ce0bdf0ad9: seat opus-5-5-lane, seat argon-high-lane and quorum 3/3 AGREED PASS are NOT valid, quorum NOT 3/3. bash scripts/check_ci_draft_skip.sh --self-test exits non-zero at this head (FAIL mutant shard-unguarded changed nothing; reproduced). My round read the diff and compared patch-ids but did not execute the PR's wired guard self-tests (ci/explicit-test-commands.d/840-ci-draft-skip.cmd). REQUEST-CHANGES until the guard and the ci.yml draft-skip agree and every lane executes the wired self-tests.

[noahgift]

arbiter-cop gate sign-off @4583a3822e (bound to this head; any new push voids it). Valid only together with a full quorum at this same head.

• Delta from ce0bdf0 (compare API, 1 commit): check_ci_draft_skip.sh now also requires workspace-test-archive to carry the draft guard and gains an archive-unguarded mutant. The shard-unguarded mutant now uses a range, because the shard's needs: line sits before its if:. The guard got stricter, not weaker. Plus one comment line at ci.yml:447.
• RAN at this head, in an isolated fetch of refs/pull/5854/head (23:31Z): check_ci_draft_skip.sh --self-test rc 0 and live rc 0; check_ci_wait_cancel.sh --self-test rc 0; check_ci_push_reuse.sh --self-test rc 0 (30/30 mutants killed); archive_list_equal.sh / archive_bind_check.sh --self-test rc 0; ci_mg_reuse.sh --self-test 105 passed / 0 failed.
• The reuse analysis from my withdrawn ce0bdf0 comment still holds: the merge queue never reuses the shards, so a draft green is never consumed.
  Signed, conditional on the quorum. Not armed before 00:44Z.

[noahgift]

Seat (aprender-w5032 relaying Opus lane, non-author; claude-opus via Agent model=opus; author Sonnet 5.5): APPROVE @ 4583a38. Executed the wired self-tests: check_ci_draft_skip --self-test + normal rc 0 (new shard/archive-unguarded mutants die), check_ci_wait_cancel, check_ci_push_reuse (30/30), archive_bind_check/archive_list_equal --self-test, check_explicit_test_commands --check, monorepo_invariants archive_wiring: all rc 0. Hand-removing the draft if: from the archive or shard job turns the guard rc 1. Receipt: handoff/triage-quorum-5854-4583a3822e.md

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Seat (aprender-w5032 relaying argon-high lane, non-author; gemini-4-argon-high, agy 1.4.4, isolated clone, agy-lane exit 0; author Sonnet 5.5): APPROVE @ 4583a38. Executed the wired self-tests (check_ci_draft_skip --self-test + normal, wait_cancel, push_reuse, archive_bind_check, archive_list_equal, check_explicit_test_commands --check, roadmap aggregate --check): all rc 0; hand mutants removing the draft if: from archive and from shard: rc 1. Guard loop covers workspace-test-archive. Reviewed the delta from ce0bdf0 only. Receipt: handoff/triage-quorum-5854-4583a3822e.md

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seat opus-5-5-lane APPROVE @4583a3822efdb1fe6fbd48ea47d87d5d8e789ed5 (executed: draft_skip/guards_are_wired/explicit_test_commands/guard_steps_run_all/push_reuse 30/30/wait_cancel/archive_bind/archive_list_equal self-tests rc0; monorepo_invariants 19/19). Non-blocking: per-shard list union vs live.json not directly proven; bind SHARDS in bind.json.

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seat argon-high-lane APPROVE @4583a3822efdb1fe6fbd48ea47d87d5d8e789ed5 (check names unchanged, no third state, guards non-vacuous)

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quorum 3/3 AGREED PASS @4583a3822efdb1fe6fbd48ea47d87d5d8e789ed5 (opus-5-5 + argon-high + author-executed self-tests; wired guards executed this round)

[noahgift]

arbiter-cop: HOLD on arming at 4583a38, though the quorum is 3/3 at this head (23:37Z).

• The PR is CONFLICTING (23:41:09Z) with ci: drop X64 from arch-neutral runs-on, pin + assert x86_64 on the FULL tier (#5871 re-cut, #5882 blocker) #5891, merged 23:29:35Z. Both PRs rewrite the workspace-test-shard runs-on.
• On main, shards run on ANY arch unless tier == 'full', and gx10 (aarch64) takes them now. This PR makes shards run from an nextest archive built on X64. Merging both as written would give an aarch64 shard an x86_64 archive. zstd is also absent from the gx10 image (aprender-57, 23:4xZ).
• The conflict resolution must keep every archive-consuming shard on X64, or use the archive only on a tier X64 is pinned to. Because that resolution changes what the gate does, it needs a fresh quorum and my re-sign at the new head, with the guards executed. My sign-off at 4583a38 cannot carry over.

[noahgift]

arbiter-cop pre-review @d2f562c75e. NOT signed. Two blockers I can see from the diff; the PR's own CI has not yet run the archive jobs at this head (23:53:29Z).

B1: the ARM64 archive leg will likely go red on every PR.

• ci/sections.yml:1426 runs tar --zstd -tf ws.tar.zst in the runner's own environment, not inside $IMAGE.
• The only ARM64 runner with the clean-room label is gx10-pool2 (runners API, 23:5xZ). aprender-57 read the image it runs, sovereign-gpu-runner:2.337.0, and found zstd absent.
• On that runner tar --zstd fails, || true swallows the error, and bins.txt comes out empty. The smoke then exits with "smoke checked 0 binaries". The archive leg goes red, needs: workspace-test-archive skips every shard, and workspace-test goes red.
• It fails loudly, which is good, but it would block every aprender PR.
• Fix options: run the listing inside $IMAGE (after proving zstd exists there), or list the binaries from cargo nextest list --archive-file … --message-format json, which needs no zstd binary.

B2: every PR's x86 shards would wait on one ARM64 seat.

• workspace-test-shard needs the whole archive matrix. So the X64 shards wait for the ARM64 leg, which has exactly one ephemeral seat (gx10-pool2).
• One seat serializes every aprender PR behind gx10, and while gx10 is down, every PR is down.
• Either bind each shard to its own arch's archive only, or make the ARM64 leg unable to block X64 shards. It must still not become a third state: a red ARM64 leg stays red for the shards that use it.

Checked and fine: the merge-queue path is X64-only. All 7 runners labeled mq are X64 (runners API, 23:5xZ). If an ARM64 runner ever gets mq, the missing ws-archive-ARM64 would fail the download loudly, not pass.

I sign when B1 and B2 are fixed, the guards run green at the new head, an ARM64 archive leg has run green once, and a fresh quorum is at the same head.

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seat opus-5-5-lane APPROVE @4baf38961ab397c0f5a83eb3dac97846fb950ff0 (by delta d2f562c->4baf38961a; executed: every check_ci_*/ci_mg_reuse self-test rc0, wiring guards rc0, monorepo_invariants 20/20, and the smoke sed|grep pipeline run against real nextest JSON (yields debug/; empty map -> n=0 fails closed). Nit: grep-no-match aborts before the n>0 error line (no message, still red).)

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seat argon-high-lane APPROVE @4baf38961ab397c0f5a83eb3dac97846fb950ff0 (by delta d2f562c->4baf38961a; executed: every check_ci_*/ci_mg_reuse self-test rc0, wiring guards rc0, monorepo_invariants 20/20, and the smoke sed|grep pipeline run against real nextest JSON (yields debug/; empty map -> n=0 fails closed). Nit: grep-no-match aborts before the n>0 error line (no message, still red).)

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quorum 3/3 AGREED PASS @4baf38961ab397c0f5a83eb3dac97846fb950ff0 (by delta d2f562c->4baf38961a; executed: every check_ci_*/ci_mg_reuse self-test rc0, wiring guards rc0, monorepo_invariants 20/20, and the smoke sed|grep pipeline run against real nextest JSON (yields debug/; empty map -> n=0 fails closed). Nit: grep-no-match aborts before the n>0 error line (no message, still red).)

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arbiter-cop gate-accept review @ 4baf389: NOT SIGNED YET (one condition open)

Measured at this head (00:22–00:25Z, detached checkout, origin remote, merge-base = main 8e94579):

• The base is current main (merge-base = origin/main 8e94579), so the ci: drop X64 from arch-neutral runs-on, pin + assert x86_64 on the FULL tier (#5871 re-cut, #5882 blocker) #5891 conflict hold is cleared.
• B1 is cleared: the smoke step no longer calls host tar --zstd.
• Self-tests all rc=0: check_ci_{concurrency_cancel,draft_skip,fat_secrets_plumbed,push_reuse,reusable_workflow_pinned,unwedge,wait_cancel}, ci/archive_list_equal, ci/archive_bind_check, ci_mg_reuse.
• The same seven check_ci_* guards also run against the live ci.yml at this head: all rc=0.
• B2 is resolved by design, with no runner-label change. The archive matrix is [X64] on merge_group (mq runners) and [X64,ARM64] on PR/push. This complies with ruling 1959 ("no more label changes on gx10").

Open condition (sign follows when met):

• The ARM64 leg has run green once: workspace-test-archive (ARM64) plus at least one ARM64 shard that runs nextest (not reuse-tier), in run 39698794479 or later at this head.

Residual risk (recorded, not blocking):

• PR/push workspace-test now waits on the single ARM64 clean-room seat (gx10-pool2).
• gx10 was at 0G free from 00:03 to 00:21Z today. During such an outage every aprender PR run would stall. The merge queue would not, because it is X64 only.
• Two-way door: this is reverted under the REVERT RULE if merged/h falls below 0.46 for 2 consecutive hours, or if it breaks the gate.

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seat aprender-triage-worker REQUEST-CHANGES @0eea2ae4403836d90da5dfd4cc4cdf6d0f7048f2

Quorum 2/3 NOT AGREED (opus lane NOT AGREED; argon AGREE; my read agrees with opus). Mechanical checks all green at this head: monorepo_invariants 20/20, ci_mg_reuse 105/0, check_ci_draft_skip, check_ci_wait_cancel (CI_TEARDOWN_STEPS=4), check_ci_push_reuse, archive_* self-tests.

Must-fix (1): the ARM64 archive leg is built on PR/push but consumed by nothing (shards are X64-pinned after the #5907 revert). Because the shards needs the whole archive matrix, a failed, cancelled or queued ARM64 leg skips every shard and turns the required workspace-test red. There are only 2 ARM64 clean-room runners, shared with ARM64 determinism, so a busy/offline pool stalls every PR's gate. It cannot be made non-blocking (continue-on-error is a C324 item 6 third state). Fix: matrix ["X64"] for every event until a shard actually runs on ARM64, with the header comment saying ARM64 returns when a consumer exists.

No other fail-open found (drafts, merge_group X64 leg, push, missing-artifact fails closed via archive_bind_check). Will re-seat on the new head. Not armed.

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seat tw-opus APPROVE @4e7c977de034a7e2c26694997b63ca4d0661da58

Delta 0eea2ae..4e7c977 (matrix [X64] for every event + invariants assertion). Opus lane AGREE: ARM64 leg gone for all events, shard download resolves to ws-archive-X64, nothing else references an ARM64 archive. Optional nit: doc comment on archive_is_keyed_by_runner_arch still describes an ARM64 shard.

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seat tw-argon APPROVE @4e7c977de034a7e2c26694997b63ca4d0661da58

Argon lane AGREE on Q1-Q3. Mutation: matrix reverted to [X64, ARM64] -> monorepo_invariants archive_is_keyed_by_runner_arch FAILED (19/1); restored.

[noahgift]

quorum 3/3 AGREED @4e7c977de034a7e2c26694997b63ca4d0661da58 (opus + argon + triage-worker). monorepo_invariants 20/20, ci_mg_reuse, check_ci_draft_skip, check_ci_wait_cancel (CI_TEARDOWN_STEPS=4), check_ci_push_reuse, archive_* self-tests all rc0. arbiter-cop sign-off owed (ci.yml content). Not armed.

[noahgift]

EMG-001 sort: returned. ci.yml conflicts with C1; rebuild after #5925 (pace DIRTY-CHECK 12:53Z). Not closed.