Gate ignores a group's end on FORGE before decoding; keeper row for take-in-waits (issue 1585, ADR 0633)

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JG73KG7AfSdh6FP8VrBqCn

modules/mesh-conditions/cmd/mesh-conditions/keeper_test.go

@@ -240,6 +240,14 @@ func TestTheKeeperCarriesNoControllerConditionAndClearsWhatItCarriedOnce(t *test
 	if err := r.k.Finding(watchman, key, raw, false); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
+	// take-in-waits (issue 1585) is an observer's kind with no row in Homes: its finding is raised and EndCarried leaves it (T26).
+	takeKey, takeRaw := finding(t, watchman, health.ScopeMachine, "g14", "take-in-waits", "take-in", health.Warning, r.now)
+	if err := r.k.Finding(watchman, takeKey, takeRaw, false); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if _, open := r.open(takeKey); !open {
+		t.Fatal("a take-in-waits finding raised no condition")
+	}
 	r.said = nil
 	// Carried while the controller ran: two of kinds that ended with it, still open in conditions.
 	for _, c := range []health.Condition{
@@ -257,6 +265,9 @@ func TestTheKeeperCarriesNoControllerConditionAndClearsWhatItCarriedOnce(t *test
 	if _, open := r.open(key); !open {
 		t.Error("a condition a finding holds was cleared")
 	}
+	if _, open := r.open(takeKey); !open {
+		t.Error("EndCarried cleared a take-in-waits condition")
+	}
 	if n, err := r.k.EndCarried(); err != nil || n != 0 || r.changes() != "" {
 		t.Errorf("a second EndCarried cleared %d (%v)", n, err)
 	}

modules/mesh-delivery-gate/cmd/mesh-delivery-gate/holder_test.go

@@ -251,6 +251,11 @@ func TestAMergedGroupEndsMergedWithSourceMainMoved(t *testing.T) {
 	if len(w.h.refusals) != 0 {
 		t.Errorf("the gate refused a merged message with no trees: %v", w.h.refusals)
 	}
+	// A group's end is the indexer's: the gate ignores it before decoding, and says no refusal (1585/T25).
+	w.h.Forged("mesh-delivery-forge-bridge.forge.group.merged", []byte(`{"v":1,"group":"feat/y"}`))
+	if len(w.h.refusals) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("the gate refused a group's end: %v", w.h.refusals)
+	}
 }
 
 // ADR 0419 §2, issue 978: a description's `after:` line is not read, and says so once on its pull request. The

modules/mesh-delivery-gate/cmd/mesh-delivery-gate/merges.go

@@ -312,8 +312,17 @@ func (h *Holder) mergeValue(name, key string, approved map[string]string, target
 	return m, len(m.Pulls) > 0 && state == sdk.MergeMerged
 }
 
+// forgeGroupEnd ends the subject of a group end on FORGE: the four-part form of a pull request's message has no such tail.
+const forgeGroupEnd = ".forge.group.merged"
+
 // Forged takes a message of the forge bridge on FORGE: the gate follows a merge and the refusal of a merge, and nothing else.
+//
+// The end of a group's merges (`forge.group.merged`, a body this gate has no use for: the gate wrote the merges itself) is
+// the indexer's, and is ignored before it is decoded, so no refusal is said for it (issue 1585, ADR 0633 clause 4).
 func (h *Holder) Forged(event string, body []byte) {
+	if strings.HasSuffix(event, forgeGroupEnd) {
+		return
+	}
 	f, err := sdk.DecodeForge(body)
 	if err != nil {
 		h.Refuse(fmt.Errorf("a message of the forge bridge is not readable: %v", err))