From 114c99e02a521c04f1698b87781778986ae7caca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jochen <jschoubben@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:31:04 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] The delivery seat promises mark-ready: a reviewer marks a
 head ready through one audited verb (issue 913)

---
 internal/catalogue/delivery_seat.go      | 11 ++++++++-
 internal/catalogue/delivery_seat_test.go | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/internal/catalogue/delivery_seat.go b/internal/catalogue/delivery_seat.go
index 682723e1..19a2d51b 100644
--- a/internal/catalogue/delivery_seat.go
+++ b/internal/catalogue/delivery_seat.go
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ package catalogue
 // DeliverySeat is the seat mesh-delivery holds.
 const DeliverySeat = "mesh-delivery"
 
-// deliveryVerbs are the delivery seat's tools: six that read, and the acts of a person and of healer H2.
+// deliveryVerbs are the delivery seat's tools: six that read, and the acts of a person, a reviewer and healer H2.
 func deliveryVerbs() []Verb {
 	return []Verb{
 		{Name: "deliveries", Description: "Every delivery not final, and those that ended in the last day, one line " +
@@ -84,6 +84,15 @@ func deliveryVerbs() []Verb {
 				"dry":        "\"true\": what it would retire, changing nothing"}, []string{"why"}, "dry"),
 			// Added after the seat's holder shipped (novox/hq issue 313): optional until mesh-delivery serves it.
 			Optional: true},
+		{Name: "mark-ready", Description: "A reviewer's word that a delivery's head is approved: the holder puts the " +
+			"label mesh/ready on its pull request and then writes \"ready at <head>\", the order the forge counts, " +
+			"as the mesh's own forge account, naming who reviewed it and why. Refused when the delivery's commit is " +
+			"no longer its pull request's head. mesh-delivery then merges it once its checks pass (novox/hq ADR 0364).",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{"id": "the delivery's id (owner/repository@commit): the head reviewed",
+				"reviewed-by": "who reviewed it, as who@node", "why": "the review's verdict in a line"},
+				[]string{"id", "reviewed-by", "why"}),
+			// Added after the seat's holder shipped (novox/hq issue 913): optional until mesh-delivery serves it.
+			Optional: true},
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/internal/catalogue/delivery_seat_test.go b/internal/catalogue/delivery_seat_test.go
index 5fe8daf2..783ec06e 100644
--- a/internal/catalogue/delivery_seat_test.go
+++ b/internal/catalogue/delivery_seat_test.go
@@ -133,3 +133,32 @@ func TestTheDeliverySeatPromisesTimesOptionally(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("a holder serving times: %v", err)
 	}
 }
+
+// The seat marks a reviewed head ready (novox/hq issue 913): `mark-ready`, with the delivery's id, who reviewed it
+// and why, so a reviewer marks a pull request through one audited verb, label and comment in the order the forge
+// counts, instead of two raw forge calls. Added after the holder shipped, it is optional.
+func TestTheDeliverySeatPromisesMarkReadyOptionally(t *testing.T) {
+	seat, _ := SeatNamed(DeliverySeat)
+	var mark *Verb
+	for i := range seat.Serves {
+		if seat.Serves[i].Name == "mark-ready" {
+			mark = &seat.Serves[i]
+		}
+	}
+	if mark == nil || !mark.Optional {
+		t.Fatalf("the delivery seat promises %v, mark-ready optionally", VerbNames(seat.Serves))
+	}
+	if req, _ := mark.Input["required"].([]string); !reflect.DeepEqual(req, []string{"id", "reviewed-by", "why"}) {
+		t.Errorf("mark-ready requires %v, wanted id, reviewed-by and why", req)
+	}
+	var without []string
+	for _, v := range VerbNames(seat.Serves) {
+		if v != "mark-ready" {
+			without = append(without, v)
+		}
+	}
+	m := Manifest{Module: "mesh-delivery", Claims: []Claim{{Name: DeliverySeat, Scope: ScopeMesh, Serves: without}}}
+	if err := CanHold(m, seat); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("a holder without mark-ready yet: %v", err)
+	}
+}