Two machines filing issues in the same hour both read main correctly and
both took "the next free number". main lags every open pull request —
seven that evening — so they collided twice. The second collision
reached main with records, cycle and index all reporting success.
cycle.py now refuses a tree where two issue folders share a leading
number, and names both. Proven by adding a duplicate and watching it
fail. The colliding records become 153 and 154, renumbered in the branch
that lands last, because renumbering a branch whose author is still
pushing only moves the race.
The check catches a collision; it does not prevent one. Taking a number
still means reading the open pull requests as well as main — issue 155
says so.
The front door for "something is wrong" at the level of the mesh's design or governance.
Diagnosis happens here, where the whole mesh is in view; the fix lands in the owning code
repository.
What belongs here
Belongs here
Belongs in the knowledge base
The design permits a failure to be silent
How to fix one occurrence of it
A documented rule is enforced by nothing
A command that works around it
A stated invariant is false in practice
A node-specific quirk
The owner is unknown and finding it needs the whole mesh in view
Symptom → fix, once the answer is known
The knowledge base already holds the operational record and is indexed on symptoms. This
folder is not a second copy of it. An issue here is a question HQ must answer; an entry
there is an incident someone must clear. An issue whose answer is a general lesson belongs in
both.
Structure
NNN-short-name/
00-report.md the symptom as observed, with the evidence; status in frontmatter
01-diagnosis.md the investigation trail, dated, including what was ruled out
Frontmatter, on 00-report.md
---status:open | diagnosing | located | resolved | wontfixopened:YYYY-MM-DDlocated-in:[]# owning repo(s) or module(s), filled by diagnosisfixed-by:# pull request or commit reference, filled at resolutionamended-design:# design doc path, when the root cause was a design gap---
Rules
Anyone may open an issue. No localisation is required to report one.
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