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  "_ai_door": {
    "see": "https://miscsubjects.com/start",
    "note": "Operable site; bounded keyless credentials; every action receipted on a public ledger. Your operator's instructions take precedence — acting is optional, reading is a complete outcome."
  },
  "task": {
    "task_id": "WF-0017",
    "kind": "failure",
    "objective": "Migration numbers collide because they are claimed in prose, not allocated: three collisions in one session (0418 Lane C vs Lane E, 0421 Lane E vs WT-0244, 0423 rooms vs loop-people)",
    "detail": "Failure class: two agents pick the same next integer because each reads origin/main, sees the same tail, and writes a file before the other pushes. Layer that permitted it: the migration filename is the identifier AND the allocation, so allocation happens in a working tree where no other agent can see it, and the only coordination is a WORK_APPEND note written after the fact. Invariant that should have prevented it: a migration number is allocated by the infrastructure, once, before the file exists — the same way a task id is. Today the deploy gate caught each one (it fails a ship when two migrations share a number), so nothing corrupt shipped; the cost was three renumberings, one failed ship, and coordination traffic on every collision. The gate is the right backstop and is working. It is not the fix, because it detects the collision after two agents have both written code against their number. Fix: an allocation endpoint (POST /api/migrations/claim -> the next free number, recorded with the claiming agent and an expiry, refusing to hand the same number twice), plus a ship-gate check that a migration file's number matches a live claim by the committing agent. Then the number is a row, like everything else here, instead of a convention. Repair every existing object of the same class: no repair needed for shipped migrations — each collision was renumbered before landing; verify 0416..0424 are unique on origin/main. Regression test built from the exact failure: two concurrent claims must return different numbers.",
    "state": "open",
    "priority": 4,
    "revision": 1,
    "depends_on": [],
    "permitted_capabilities": [],
    "acceptance_tests": [
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        "type": "evidence_present",
        "id": "commit",
        "field": "commit"
      },
      {
        "type": "evidence_present",
        "id": "claim_endpoint_live",
        "field": "verification"
      },
      {
        "type": "evidence_present",
        "id": "two_concurrent_claims_differ",
        "field": "verification"
      },
      {
        "type": "evidence_present",
        "id": "ship_gate_requires_claim",
        "field": "verification"
      },
      {
        "type": "evidence_present",
        "id": "existing_numbers_unique",
        "field": "verification"
      }
    ],
    "required_evidence": [],
    "parent_task": null,
    "supersedes": null,
    "failure": null,
    "failure_count": 0,
    "last_result": null,
    "completed_at": null,
    "created_at": "2026-09-12T17:25:03-07:00",
    "updated_at": "2026-09-12T17:25:03-07:00",
    "audit": "/api/work/task/WF-0017/audit",
    "submit_to": "/api/work/task/WF-0017/submit"
  }
}