The forge carries the operator's own repositories (jschoubben/hal, jschoubben/novadock) beside the mesh's; the
indexer writes their pull requests as candidates, the gate never names their trunk, so the checker said each
"cannot be judged" and owed the status error on mesh/check, which the forge module wrote into repositories the
mesh's forge account may not write: 403, 119 times each (sweep 2026-10-30 item 7).
Quick fix: name the two repositories as not the mesh's in the checker.
Thorough fix, chosen because any repository on the forge can meet it: a candidate every pull request of which is
of a repository the gate's source.main names no trunk of and touches no module is outside the mesh. The checker
writes it no verdict and owes it no status, takes away a status owed before, says it once in the log, and lists it
in checker_status as outside_the_mesh. A new mesh repository's first pull request adds a module, so it is still
said untrunked and owed error (issue 1422). Nothing is outside before the gate's source is read.
mesh/check pass 2d8ad2e66a8f on 38f89c6976c9 | carried from 1f6f4eda3208 | unit 470 run, 4760 kept, 13 skipped | integration 503 run, 4844 kept, 22 sk…
Once the gate's one-hour ask bound goes (mesh-catalog fix/1733-no-hour), the
gate asks the operator's Approve only on a verdict, so every path that left
a candidate without one now writes one, from an event and with no timer:
- a group with a member whose repository's trunk head is not known (a pull
request the checker cannot claim) is not judged in part: its verdict fails
naming that repository, and every status of the group says so (a pass of
the others would have let it merge with that member never checked);
- the verdict of heads that cannot be judged replaces whatever the key held,
such as a running verdict left by a check that can no longer run;
- a verdict key deleted is judged again on its delete (the checker watches its
verdicts), and a check running when its key is deleted writes it anew.
Tests: three rows at the end of the no-trunk test; counts unchanged.
A repository never merged through the gate has no entry in source.main, so its pull requests were dropped without a log
line, a verdict or a status, and checker_status counted them as new. Now the verdict says it cannot be judged and why,
the forge status is error with those words, checker_status names it under cannot_be_judged, the log says it once per
head, and the heads are judged whole once the trunk head is known. Quick fix: this. Thorough fix (the gate seeding
source.main from the pull message's base head) is still to do: it needs mesh-sdk, the forge bridge and the gate.
The checker took and kept nothing for a workspace given siblings, and every core repository has siblings, so the
kept store stayed empty. The digest step now folds the siblings' commits in and echoes them; a verdict is kept or
taken only when the echo equals the siblings the fetch was given, so a digest that misses one never poisons another
check (ADR 0444, issue 482).
jschoubben