mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/internal/check/checker.go

package check

import (
	"context"
	"errors"
	"fmt"
	"sort"
	"strings"
	"sync"
	"time"

	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
)

// DefaultBound is how long a check may run before it is ended failed naming the step it was stuck at (ADR 0484, issue 1678):
// none since R4g. A check's asks wait in the build seats' streams as long as the backlog is (ADR 0525 §9), and each ask's
// step is bounded from its start on the node that took it (buildrun.Asker.Bound, DefaultStepBound); a bound set by
// MESH_CHECKER_BOUND still ends a check that ran past it.
const DefaultBound time.Duration = 0

// UnheardWords end the Words of a failure because a part of the mesh the check reads was not heard (the forge, issue 1624):
// like a failure of the nodes, it is not the change's, and is judged again when the nodes change.
const UnheardWords = "not heard; judged again when the nodes change"

// The events the checker says on its stream checks (module.json): a preview or a status was written, so a part that reads
// the bucket, which is made when the checker is assigned and may not exist when that part starts, finds it (ADR 0437 §8: no
// timer). The body is {"key": ...}.
const (
	EventPreviewWritten = "preview.written"
	EventOwedWritten    = "owed.written"
)

// Announcer says an event of the checker's stream, with the key written.
type Announcer func(ctx context.Context, event, key string)

// Outcome is what judging a case gives: the verdict (state, failure, levels, times, composition; the checker adds the
// group, the heads and the trunk) and, for the line, what the check knows of the builds of the modules it touches.
type Outcome struct {
	Verdict delivery.Verdict
	Builds  []BuildNote
	// Slowest names the slowest tests of a level that went over its bound ("unit pkg.Test 1.2s").
	Slowest []string
	// Judged says, by pull request (pullKey), which program judged a change to a build module (ADR 0535 §5); a pull request
	// that changes none is not named.
	Judged map[string]string
	// Beside are the siblings the check read at their trunk's head, by repository (ADR 0548 §6): the verdict names them, and
	// a move of one is carried.
	Beside map[string]string
}

// BuildNote is the state of a candidate's module build, by module: built, failed or waiting (ADR 0484 clause 7).
type BuildNote struct {
	Module string
	State  string
}

// Judge runs the check of a case: the merge, the levels. It writes what it is doing to c.Progress. It answers an error
// only when it could not judge at all; a failure of the change is a Verdict.
type Judge interface {
	Judge(ctx context.Context, c *Case) (Outcome, error)
}

// Checker judges the candidates the indexer writes, dark (ADR 0453 clause 4, ADR 0484): for each candidate it claims a
// verdict key, runs the check through its Judge, writes the verdict and, for each pull request judged, the owed status
// `mesh/check` the forge bridge performs. It holds no timer; a check starts from a candidate or from a change of the
// nodes, the trunk or the controller's plan, and ends when its judge does or its bound passes.
type Checker struct {
	Verdicts KV
	Owed     KV
	Judge    Judge
	Trunks   interface{ Heads() map[string]string }
	// Runs says which commit the mesh runs of a module (the indexer's modules): the node-engine a verdict read beside at its
	// running commit is out of date when that commit moves (ADR 0548 §6); nil reads every sibling at its trunk.
	Runs interface{ CommitOf(module string) string }
	// Turns are the gate's merge turns (ADR 0548 §3): no check is claimed of a repository a turn names, but the check of the
	// waiting delivery's own heads; nil holds none.
	Turns interface {
		Holding(repositories []string, heads string) (string, delivery.TurnWait, bool)
	}
	// Bound is how long one check may run; none when 0 (DefaultBound).
	Bound time.Duration
	// Link is the base of the address a status points at; the verdict key follows.
	Link string
	// Announce says a status was written (EventOwedWritten); nil says nothing.
	Announce Announcer
	Now      func() time.Time
	Logf     func(format string, args ...any)
	// Settle is how long a group's heads must stay the same after the candidate last changed them before its check starts
	// (issue 1890): the members of a group are announced one after another, and a check of each partial set is thrown
	// away at the next. None when 0; DefaultSettle in the module.
	Settle time.Duration

	once      sync.Once
	wg        sync.WaitGroup
	mu        sync.Mutex
	known     map[string]delivery.Candidate // by candidates key
	inflight  map[string]bool               // by verdict key
	again     map[string]bool               // by verdict key: asked again while it ran
	tried     map[string]bool               // by verdict key: looked at since this process started
	epoch     uint64                        // changes of the nodes seen since this process started
	nodesFail map[string]uint64             // by verdict key: the epoch a failure of the nodes was written at
	held      map[string]string             // by verdict key: the turn that holds its check off, as last said
	live      map[string]liveCheck          // by verdict key: the check running in this process, ended when its heads go
	settling  map[string]*window            // by candidates key: the window its heads settle in
}

// liveCheck is a check running in this process: the candidates key of its group and the end of its run.
type liveCheck struct {
	group string
	end   context.CancelCauseFunc
}

// window is a group's settle window: aborted with errUnsettled when its heads change again or the group goes, and with
// errSettled to end it at once.
type window struct{ abort context.CancelCauseFunc }

var (
	errUnsettled = errors.New("the group's heads changed again")
	errSettled   = errors.New("the group's heads settled")
)

// settleNow ends the settle window of every group at once, as if Settle had passed.
func (ch *Checker) settleNow() {
	ch.mu.Lock()
	defer ch.mu.Unlock()
	for _, w := range ch.settling {
		w.abort(errSettled)
	}
}

// DefaultSettle is the module's Settle (issue 1890). On 2026-10-26 the three members of a group were announced within 2.8
// seconds of each other (20:31:52.3, :53.7, :55.1 UTC), a session opening or pushing them one API call after another;
// fifteen seconds holds five times that, and costs a check of 10 to 18 minutes under 2.5 % of its time. A member that comes
// later still is no waste beyond its asks already taken: the check of the heads it replaced is ended at once.
const DefaultSettle = 15 * time.Second

// EndedWords open the words of a verdict the checker ended without judging it, its heads no candidate's any more (issue
// 1890): never a failure of the change, and judged whole if a candidate holds those heads again.
const EndedWords = "ended: "

// IsEnded says whether a verdict was ended without being judged (EndedWords).
func IsEnded(v delivery.Verdict) bool {
	return v.State == delivery.VerdictFail && v.Failed.Machine == "checker" && strings.HasPrefix(v.Failed.Words, EndedWords)
}

// superseded is the cause a running check is ended with: the heads that replaced its own, or none when its group went.
type superseded struct{ by string }

func (s superseded) Error() string {
	if s.by == "" {
		return EndedWords + "no candidate holds these heads any more: the group was closed or merged"
	}
	return EndedWords + "superseded by " + s.by
}

func (ch *Checker) init() {
	ch.once.Do(func() {
		ch.known, ch.inflight, ch.again, ch.tried = map[string]delivery.Candidate{}, map[string]bool{}, map[string]bool{}, map[string]bool{}
		ch.nodesFail, ch.held = map[string]uint64{}, map[string]string{}
		ch.live, ch.settling = map[string]liveCheck{}, map[string]*window{}
	})
}

// endOthers ends every check of the group running in this process whose verdict key is not keep: no candidate holds its
// heads any more (issue 1890). Called with ch.mu held.
func (ch *Checker) endOthers(group, keep, by string) {
	for k, l := range ch.live {
		if l.group == group && k != keep {
			l.end(superseded{by: by})
		}
	}
}

func (ch *Checker) logf(format string, args ...any) {
	if ch.Logf != nil {
		ch.Logf(format, args...)
	}
}

func (ch *Checker) now() time.Time {
	if ch.Now != nil {
		return ch.Now()
	}
	return time.Now()
}

func (ch *Checker) bound() time.Duration {
	if ch.Bound > 0 {
		return ch.Bound
	}
	return DefaultBound
}

// Wait returns when every check started so far has ended.
func (ch *Checker) Wait() { ch.wg.Wait() }

// Candidate takes one value of the indexer's candidates bucket in (the key is the group) and checks it if it is to be
// checked. A value that is not a candidate is said and left.
func (ch *Checker) Candidate(ctx context.Context, key string, value []byte) {
	ch.init()
	c, err := delivery.DecodeCandidate(value)
	if err != nil {
		ch.logf("candidates.%s holds what is not a candidate, left: %v", key, err)
		return
	}
	vkey, _ := delivery.CheckerVerdictKey(c.Group, c.HeadsHash)
	ch.mu.Lock()
	prev, had := ch.known[key]
	ch.known[key] = c
	// A check of heads this candidate no longer holds is ended at once (issue 1890): a member's new head, a member joining
	// or leaving.
	ch.endOthers(key, vkey, GateHeads(c))
	moved := !had || prev.HeadsHash != c.HeadsHash
	if ch.Settle > 0 && (moved || ch.settling[key] != nil) {
		// The group's heads changed: its check waits until they have been the same for Settle, so a group whose members
		// are announced one after another is checked once, whole. A later change starts the window again. The wait is a
		// context's bound, no timer (ADR 0437 §8).
		if w := ch.settling[key]; w != nil {
			w.abort(errUnsettled)
		}
		base, abort := context.WithCancelCause(ctx)
		w := &window{abort: abort}
		ch.settling[key] = w
		ch.wg.Add(1)
		go func() {
			defer ch.wg.Done()
			wait, done := context.WithTimeout(base, ch.Settle)
			defer done()
			<-wait.Done()
			settled := errors.Is(wait.Err(), context.DeadlineExceeded) || errors.Is(context.Cause(wait), errSettled)
			ch.mu.Lock()
			if !settled || ch.settling[key] != w {
				ch.mu.Unlock()
				return // changed again, forgotten, or the checker stops
			}
			delete(ch.settling, key)
			now, ok := ch.known[key]
			ch.mu.Unlock()
			abort(nil)
			if ok {
				ch.consider(ctx, key, now)
			}
		}()
		ch.mu.Unlock()
		return
	}
	ch.mu.Unlock()
	ch.consider(ctx, key, c)
}

// Forget takes a candidate out (its key was deleted): a check of its heads still running is ended, as no candidate holds
// them any more.
func (ch *Checker) Forget(key string) {
	ch.init()
	ch.mu.Lock()
	delete(ch.known, key)
	if w := ch.settling[key]; w != nil {
		w.abort(errUnsettled)
		delete(ch.settling, key)
	}
	ch.endOthers(key, "", "")
	ch.mu.Unlock()
}

// NodesChanged is Reconsider after a change of the nodes: one came online or went, a build module became healthy or
// stopped being, or a toolchain moved. A check that failed because no node qualified is run again only after such a change.
func (ch *Checker) NodesChanged(ctx context.Context) {
	ch.init()
	ch.mu.Lock()
	ch.epoch++
	ch.mu.Unlock()
	ch.Reconsider(ctx)
}

// Reconsider looks at every candidate again: the trunk moved, the nodes changed or a delivery ended. A candidate whose
// verdict stands for the trunk it was judged against is left.
func (ch *Checker) Reconsider(ctx context.Context) {
	ch.init()
	ch.mu.Lock()
	known := make(map[string]delivery.Candidate, len(ch.known))
	for k, c := range ch.known {
		known[k] = c
	}
	ch.mu.Unlock()
	for k, c := range known {
		ch.consider(ctx, k, c)
	}
}

func (ch *Checker) heads() map[string]string {
	if ch.Trunks == nil {
		return nil
	}
	return ch.Trunks.Heads()
}

func (ch *Checker) consider(ctx context.Context, key string, c delivery.Candidate) {
	cs := CaseOf(c, ch.heads())
	if cs == nil {
		return // nothing to judge: no trunk known
	}
	cs.Queued = ch.now()
	ch.mu.Lock()
	if ch.settling[key] != nil {
		ch.mu.Unlock()
		return // its heads are settling: the window's end considers it (Settle)
	}
	if ch.inflight[cs.Key] {
		ch.again[cs.Key] = true // looked at once more when the check ends, so a change of the trunk is never lost
		ch.mu.Unlock()
		return
	}
	ch.inflight[cs.Key] = true
	run, end := context.WithCancelCause(ctx)
	ch.live[cs.Key] = liveCheck{group: key, end: end}
	ch.mu.Unlock()
	ch.wg.Add(1)
	go func() {
		defer ch.wg.Done()
		vkey := cs.Key
		defer func() {
			ch.mu.Lock()
			delete(ch.inflight, vkey)
			delete(ch.again, vkey)
			delete(ch.live, vkey)
			ch.mu.Unlock()
			end(nil)
		}()
		for {
			// Every check is asked at once: the build seats' streams hold the backlog, a new head's check and a check after a
			// failure of the nodes on check, a re-judge after a trunk move on recheck, pulled after them (ADR 0525 §4, §9;
			// ADR 0536 §4). The checker holds no place and no capacity of its own.
			ch.prepare(ctx, cs)
			ch.try(ctx, run, key, cs)
			ch.mu.Lock()
			more := ch.again[vkey]
			delete(ch.again, vkey)
			ch.mu.Unlock()
			if !more || run.Err() != nil {
				return
			}
			// Looked at again for the same heads only: a candidate that moved to other heads has its own check (issue 1890).
			if next := CaseOf(ch.candidate(key, c), ch.heads()); next != nil {
				if next.Key != vkey {
					return
				}
				cs = next
			}
			cs.Queued = ch.now()
		}
	}()
}

// The kinds of a check (ADR 0536 §4): a head never judged and a head asked again after a failure of the nodes are asked on
// the build seats' check stream; a carry, a verdict moved to a newer trunk or sibling commit by its package digests (ADR 0548
// §5), on the recheck stream, pulled after.
const (
	KindNew   = "new"
	KindNodes = "nodes"
	KindTrunk = "trunk"
)

// prepare reads the case's verdict key and says what its check is (ADR 0548 §1, §5, §7): none (or one left running) is a
// head never judged, a whole check; a failure of the nodes is asked again after the nodes changed; a verdict judged on trunk
// or sibling commits that moved since is carried, its packages run only where the move changed their digest, and a pass's
// commits are named as the carry's CarriedFrom. A verdict that stands is ranked with the carries: its claim finds nothing
// to do.
func (ch *Checker) prepare(ctx context.Context, cs *Case) {
	cs.Kind, cs.CarriedFrom, cs.Composition = KindNew, nil, nil
	value, _, found, err := ch.Verdicts.Get(ctx, cs.Key)
	if err != nil || !found {
		return
	}
	v, err := delivery.DecodeVerdict(value)
	switch {
	case err != nil || v.State == delivery.VerdictRunning:
		return
	case IsNodesFailure(v):
		cs.Kind = KindNodes
		return
	case IsConflictFailure(v):
		return // a head git refused: its next check is whole (ADR 0548 §7)
	case IsEnded(v):
		return // ended unjudged when its heads went (issue 1890): held again, they are checked whole
	}
	cs.Kind = KindTrunk
	if v.State == delivery.VerdictPass && ch.stale(v, cs) {
		cs.CarriedFrom = judgedOn(v)
		if c := v.Composition; c != nil && c.State == delivery.CompositionPass && c.FPSet != "" && c.FPSet == cs.FPSet {
			kept := *c
			cs.Composition = &kept
		}
	}
}

// stale says whether a verdict was judged on commits that are no longer the case's: a trunk it merged moved, or a sibling it
// read at its trunk's head (ADR 0548 §6).
func (ch *Checker) stale(v delivery.Verdict, cs *Case) bool {
	return !sameTrunk(v.Trunk, cs.Trunk) || besideMoved(v.Beside, ch.besideNow())
}

// besideNow are the commits a sibling is read at now, by repository: its trunk head, and for the node-engine the commit the
// mesh runs when the indexer names one, as besideFor places them.
func (ch *Checker) besideNow() map[string]string {
	return besideAt(ch.heads(), ch.Runs)
}

// besideAt places the commits a sibling is read at: the trunk heads, with the node-engine at the commit the mesh runs when
// runs names one (ADR 0548 §6). The checker's decision and the status read the same commits through it.
func besideAt(now map[string]string, runs interface{ CommitOf(module string) string }) map[string]string {
	if runs != nil {
		if c := runs.CommitOf(nodeEngineModule); c != "" {
			out := make(map[string]string, len(now)+1)
			for r, h := range now {
				out[r] = h
			}
			out[nodeEngineRepo] = c
			return out
		}
	}
	return now
}

// besideMoved says whether a sibling read at these commits moved: the commit it is read at now is known and another.
func besideMoved(beside, now map[string]string) bool {
	for r, c := range beside {
		if h := now[r]; h != "" && h != c {
			return true
		}
	}
	return false
}

// judgedOn are the trunk and sibling commits a verdict was judged on, by repository.
func judgedOn(v delivery.Verdict) map[string]string {
	out := make(map[string]string, len(v.Trunk)+len(v.Beside))
	for r, c := range v.Beside {
		out[r] = c
	}
	for r, c := range v.Trunk {
		out[r] = c
	}
	return out
}

// carried is what a carry's verdict names as carried from (ADR 0548 §5): the commits it was judged on before, of the
// repositories the new verdict still judges or reads; nil when none of them moved.
func carried(from map[string]string, v delivery.Verdict) map[string]string {
	out, moved := map[string]string{}, false
	for r, c := range from {
		now, ok := v.Trunk[r]
		if !ok {
			now, ok = v.Beside[r]
		}
		if ok && now != "" && c != "" {
			out[r] = c
			moved = moved || now != c
		}
	}
	if !moved {
		return nil
	}
	return out
}

// moveWords say a carry's moves, for the words of a failure: "carried from <old12> to <new12> of <repository>", each moved
// repository, sorted.
func moveWords(from map[string]string, v delivery.Verdict) string {
	var moves []string
	for r, c := range from {
		now, ok := v.Trunk[r]
		if !ok {
			now = v.Beside[r]
		}
		if now != "" && now != c {
			moves = append(moves, fmt.Sprintf("%s %s to %s", r, short12(c), short12(now)))
		}
	}
	sort.Strings(moves)
	return strings.Join(moves, ", ")
}

func (ch *Checker) candidate(key string, fallback delivery.Candidate) delivery.Candidate {
	ch.mu.Lock()
	defer ch.mu.Unlock()
	if c, ok := ch.known[key]; ok {
		return c
	}
	return fallback
}

// claimed is a verdict key the checker holds: the revision the next write is made at.
type claimed struct{ rev uint64 }

// claim takes the check of the case, or answers nil when it is not this checker's to run now:
//   - no key: it is created running; a create that finds the key made meanwhile gets nothing;
//   - a key left running is taken over as it stands when this process looks at it for the first time (it was left by the
//     checker that stopped; there is one instance, as there is one builder per node, ADR 0478 clause 6), and left otherwise;
//   - a pass or a failure for the trunk heads the case has stands; one for other trunk heads (the trunk moved) is taken
//     again by compare-and-set on the same key, and so is a failure of the nodes after the nodes changed.
func (ch *Checker) claim(ctx context.Context, cs *Case, first bool, epoch uint64) (*claimed, error) {
	running := delivery.Verdict{Group: cs.Group, Heads: cs.Heads, Trunk: cs.Trunk, State: delivery.VerdictRunning}
	data, err := delivery.EncodeVerdict(running)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	value, rev, found, err := ch.Verdicts.Get(ctx, cs.Key)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", cs.Key, err)
	}
	if !found {
		if ch.heldByTurn(cs) {
			return nil, nil
		}
		rev, err := ch.Verdicts.Create(ctx, cs.Key, data)
		if errors.Is(err, ErrConflict) {
			return nil, nil // another checker made it first
		}
		if err != nil {
			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", cs.Key, err)
		}
		return &claimed{rev}, nil
	}
	cur, err := delivery.DecodeVerdict(value)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s holds what is not a verdict: %w", cs.Key, err)
	}
	retake := false
	switch {
	case cur.State == delivery.VerdictRunning:
		if first {
			return &claimed{rev}, nil
		}
		return nil, nil
	case IsEnded(cur), ch.stale(cur, cs):
		retake = true // heads held again after their check was ended unjudged (issue 1890), or a trunk that moved
	case cur.State == delivery.VerdictFail && IsNodesFailure(cur):
		ch.mu.Lock()
		at, ok := ch.nodesFail[cs.Key]
		ch.mu.Unlock()
		retake = !ok || epoch > at
	}
	if !retake || ch.heldByTurn(cs) {
		return nil, nil
	}
	rev, err = ch.Verdicts.Update(ctx, cs.Key, data, rev)
	if errors.Is(err, ErrConflict) {
		return nil, nil
	}
	if err != nil {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", cs.Key, err)
	}
	return &claimed{rev}, nil
}

// heldByTurn says whether a merge turn holds the case's check off (ADR 0548 §3): an approved merge waits on one of the
// repositories it merges heads into, and it is not the merge of the case's own heads. The check is claimed when the turn's
// key goes (Reconsider on the turns watch). Said once per turn in the log. A check already claimed is never held: one
// claimed in the moment before the gate wrote its turn is judged on the commit it read and carried once after.
func (ch *Checker) heldByTurn(cs *Case) bool {
	if ch.Turns == nil {
		return false
	}
	repos := make([]string, 0, len(cs.Trunk))
	for r := range cs.Trunk {
		repos = append(repos, r)
	}
	repo, w, held := ch.Turns.Holding(repos, cs.Heads)
	why := ""
	if held {
		why = repo + " " + w.Group + " " + w.Heads
	}
	ch.mu.Lock()
	said := ch.held[cs.Key]
	if why == "" {
		delete(ch.held, cs.Key)
	} else {
		ch.held[cs.Key] = why
	}
	ch.mu.Unlock()
	if held && said != why {
		ch.logf("%s: not claimed: the approved merge of %s (heads %s) holds a turn on %s, so its check waits for that merge (ADR 0548 §3)",
			cs.Key, w.Group, w.Heads, repo)
	}
	return held
}

// Held is every check a merge turn holds off now, by verdict key, with the turn's repository, group and heads.
func (ch *Checker) Held() map[string]string {
	ch.init()
	ch.mu.Lock()
	defer ch.mu.Unlock()
	out := make(map[string]string, len(ch.held))
	for k, v := range ch.held {
		out[k] = v
	}
	return out
}

// ConflictWords are what the words of a head that git would not merge onto its trunk say before the files in conflict.
const ConflictWords = "does not merge into the trunk: files in conflict: "

// IsConflictFailure says whether a verdict failed because its head did not merge onto its trunk (ADR 0548 §7): it has no
// pass to carry, so its next check, at a push or at a later trunk move, is a whole check of its head.
func IsConflictFailure(v delivery.Verdict) bool {
	return v.State == delivery.VerdictFail && strings.Contains(v.Failed.Words, ConflictWords)
}

// IsNodesFailure says whether a verdict failed because a part of the mesh the check reads was not heard (UnheardWords):
// it is judged again when the nodes change. No check fails for want of a build node any more: its asks wait in the build
// seats' streams (ADR 0525 §6, issue 1912).
func IsNodesFailure(v delivery.Verdict) bool {
	return v.State == delivery.VerdictFail && strings.Contains(v.Failed.Words, UnheardWords)
}

// try claims the check, judges it within its bound under run and writes the verdict and the owed statuses. A check that ends
// because ctx did is left running: the checker takes it again when it starts. A check whose run was ended because no
// candidate holds its heads any more (issue 1890) is ended: its verdict says so, and no status is written.
func (ch *Checker) try(ctx, run context.Context, key string, cs *Case) {
	if run.Err() != nil {
		return // ended before it was claimed: nothing to write
	}
	ch.mu.Lock()
	first := !ch.tried[cs.Key]
	ch.tried[cs.Key] = true
	epoch := ch.epoch
	ch.mu.Unlock()
	cl, err := ch.claim(ctx, cs, first, epoch)
	if err != nil {
		ch.logf("%s: %v", cs.Key, err)
		return
	}
	if cl == nil {
		return
	}
	began := ch.now()
	ch.writeOwed(ctx, cs, delivery.Verdict{State: delivery.VerdictRunning}, Outcome{})
	out := ch.judge(run, cs)
	// An ask the build seat gave up on judged nothing (issue 734): the check is asked again under the same claim, its status
	// pending, and after LostAskTries it fails as not heard, judged again when the nodes change.
	for try := 1; IsLostAsk(out.Verdict) && run.Err() == nil; try++ {
		if try >= LostAskTries {
			out.Verdict.Failed.Words = strings.TrimSpace(out.Verdict.Failed.Words + "\nasked " + fmt.Sprint(LostAskTries) +
				" times and given up each time: " + UnheardWords)
			break
		}
		ch.logf("%s: %s; asked again (%d of %d)", cs.Key, out.Verdict.Failed.Words, try+1, LostAskTries)
		out = ch.judge(run, cs)
	}
	if ctx.Err() != nil {
		return
	}
	var why superseded
	if errors.As(context.Cause(run), &why) {
		ch.end(ctx, cs, cl, why)
		return
	}
	v := out.Verdict
	v.Group, v.Heads, v.Trunk, v.Beside = cs.Group, cs.Heads, cs.Trunk, nil
	for r, c := range out.Beside {
		if _, merged := cs.Trunk[r]; !merged && c != "" {
			if v.Beside == nil {
				v.Beside = map[string]string{}
			}
			v.Beside[r] = c
		}
	}
	if cs.CarriedFrom != nil {
		// A carry (ADR 0548 §5): a pass names the commits it was carried from; a failure names the move it failed on.
		switch v.State {
		case delivery.VerdictPass:
			v.CarriedFrom = carried(cs.CarriedFrom, v)
		case delivery.VerdictFail:
			if moves := moveWords(cs.CarriedFrom, v); moves != "" {
				v.Failed.Words = strings.TrimSpace(v.Failed.Words + "\nfailed on the carry over the move of " + moves + ": the move changed what these tests read")
			}
		}
	}
	if v.Took.Queue == 0 && !cs.Queued.IsZero() && began.After(cs.Queued) {
		v.Took.Queue = began.Sub(cs.Queued).Milliseconds()
	}
	data, err := delivery.EncodeVerdict(v)
	if err != nil {
		ch.logf("%s: the verdict cannot be written: %v", cs.Key, err)
		v = delivery.Verdict{Group: cs.Group, Heads: cs.Heads, Trunk: cs.Trunk, State: delivery.VerdictFail,
			Failed: delivery.FailedFirst{Machine: "checker", Words: "the verdict could not be written: " + err.Error()}}
		if data, err = delivery.EncodeVerdict(v); err != nil {
			return
		}
	}
	if _, err := ch.Verdicts.Update(ctx, cs.Key, data, cl.rev); err != nil {
		ch.logf("%s: the verdict could not be written: %v", cs.Key, err)
		return
	}
	if IsNodesFailure(v) {
		ch.mu.Lock()
		ch.nodesFail[cs.Key] = epoch
		ch.mu.Unlock()
	}
	if ch.movedSince(cs) || besideMoved(v.Beside, ch.besideNow()) {
		// Judged on a trunk that moved while it ran: the verdict is kept as judged, and the status stays pending until the
		// check of the new trunk, which Reconsider starts, ends.
		ch.owePending(ctx, cs, v)
		ch.logf("%s: %s on a trunk that moved while it ran; the status stays pending until it is carried", cs.Key, v.State)
		return
	}
	ch.writeOwed(ctx, cs, v, out)
	ch.logf("%s: %s", cs.Key, v.State)
}

// end writes the verdict of a check whose heads no candidate holds any more (issue 1890), by compare-and-set on its claim,
// and says it once in the log with the asks it had put: they stay in the build seats' streams, since an ask once put cannot
// be taken back (buildrun.Asker has no withdraw), and are no longer waited for. No status is written: the heads that
// replaced these have their own check, whose pending status stands.
func (ch *Checker) end(ctx context.Context, cs *Case, cl *claimed, why superseded) {
	v := delivery.Verdict{Group: cs.Group, Heads: cs.Heads, Trunk: cs.Trunk, State: delivery.VerdictFail,
		Failed: delivery.FailedFirst{Machine: "checker", Words: why.Error()}}
	data, err := delivery.EncodeVerdict(v)
	if err == nil {
		_, err = ch.Verdicts.Update(ctx, cs.Key, data, cl.rev)
	}
	if err != nil {
		ch.logf("%s: %s, but the verdict could not say so: %v", cs.Key, why.Error(), err)
		return
	}
	stage, _ := cs.Progress.Now()
	asks := cs.Asks()
	ch.logf("%s: %s; it was at %q with %d asks put %v, which are no longer waited for", cs.Key, why.Error(), stage, len(asks), asks)
}

// judge runs the case within the bound. A judge that fails to judge, and a check that ran past its bound, are verdicts of
// failure naming the machine and the step.
func (ch *Checker) judge(ctx context.Context, cs *Case) Outcome {
	out, _ := judgeWithin(ctx, ch.Judge, cs, ch.bound())
	return out
}

var errBound = errors.New("the check ran past its bound")

func failure(machine, words string) delivery.Verdict {
	return delivery.Verdict{State: delivery.VerdictFail, Failed: delivery.FailedFirst{Machine: machine, Words: words}}
}

// writeOwed writes, for each pull request judged, the status the forge bridge performs: pending while the check runs, success
// or failure at its end (ADR 0484 clause 2). A key already holding the same value is not written again, so the bridge
// performs one act for each change; an older head's key is never touched.
func (ch *Checker) writeOwed(ctx context.Context, cs *Case, v delivery.Verdict, out Outcome) {
	for _, p := range cs.Pulls {
		key, err := delivery.CheckerOwedKey(p.Repository, p.Number, p.Head)
		if err != nil {
			ch.logf("%s: %v", cs.Key, err)
			continue
		}
		state := map[string]string{delivery.VerdictRunning: "pending", delivery.VerdictPass: "success", delivery.VerdictFail: "failure"}[v.State]
		o := delivery.Owed{Act: delivery.OwedStatus, Context: delivery.StatusContextCheck, State: state,
			Target: strings.TrimSuffix(ch.Link, "/") + "/" + cs.Key, Text: Line(v, cs, p, out.Builds, out.Slowest, out.Judged)}
		data, err := delivery.EncodeCheckerOwed(o)
		if err != nil {
			ch.logf("%s: the status of %s cannot be written: %v", cs.Key, key, err)
			continue
		}
		wrote, err := putOnce(ctx, ch.Owed, key, data, func(cur []byte) bool {
			held, err := delivery.DecodeCheckerOwed(cur)
			o.V = delivery.Version
			return err == nil && delivery.SameOwed(held, o)
		})
		if err != nil {
			ch.logf("%s: the status of %s cannot be written: %v", cs.Key, key, err)
		} else if wrote && ch.Announce != nil {
			ch.Announce(ctx, EventOwedWritten, key)
		}
	}
}

// putOnce writes data under key by create, or by compare-and-set when the key exists, and writes nothing when same says the
// key holds the value already.
func putOnce(ctx context.Context, kv KV, key string, data []byte, same func(cur []byte) bool) (bool, error) {
	for try := 0; try < 4; try++ {
		cur, rev, found, err := kv.Get(ctx, key)
		if err != nil {
			return false, err
		}
		if found && same(cur) {
			return false, nil
		}
		if !found {
			_, err = kv.Create(ctx, key, data)
		} else {
			_, err = kv.Update(ctx, key, data, rev)
		}
		if errors.Is(err, ErrConflict) {
			continue
		}
		return err == nil, err
	}
	return false, fmt.Errorf("%s changed under every one of 4 tries", key)
}

// Sweep closes, at start, every verdict left running for a candidate that no longer holds those heads: nothing will check
// them again, and the key would stay running for ever (the builder's Sweep, issue 1660). Call it once the candidates have been
// read. A key of heads a candidate holds now is not touched: the check takes it over.
func (ch *Checker) Sweep(ctx context.Context) error {
	ch.init()
	keys, err := ch.Verdicts.Keys(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	ch.mu.Lock()
	current := map[string]bool{}
	for _, c := range ch.known {
		if k, err := delivery.CheckerVerdictKey(c.Group, c.HeadsHash); err == nil {
			current[k] = true
		}
	}
	ch.mu.Unlock()
	for _, key := range keys {
		if current[key] {
			continue
		}
		value, rev, found, err := ch.Verdicts.Get(ctx, key)
		if err != nil || !found {
			continue
		}
		cur, err := delivery.DecodeVerdict(value)
		if err != nil || cur.State != delivery.VerdictRunning {
			continue
		}
		cur.State = delivery.VerdictFail
		cur.Failed = delivery.FailedFirst{Machine: "checker", Words: EndedWords + "closed at start: left running, and no candidate holds these heads any more, so nothing will check them"}
		data, err := delivery.EncodeVerdict(cur)
		if err != nil {
			return err
		}
		if _, err := ch.Verdicts.Update(ctx, key, data, rev); err != nil && !errors.Is(err, ErrConflict) {
			return fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", key, err)
		}
		ch.logf("%s: closed, left running for heads no candidate holds", key)
	}
	return nil
}

// TrunkMoved is Reconsider after a move of a trunk, which first owes mesh/check pending on every open pull request of a
// candidate whose verdict was judged on other trunk heads, every member's for a group (the lead's decision L4, the checker's
// part of issue 1302): the forge's success of the old trunk never stands while the check waits for a place or for a delivery
// that holds it, so the gate never reads it as the head's.
func (ch *Checker) TrunkMoved(ctx context.Context) {
	ch.init()
	ch.mu.Lock()
	known := make(map[string]delivery.Candidate, len(ch.known))
	for k, c := range ch.known {
		known[k] = c
	}
	ch.mu.Unlock()
	heads := ch.heads()
	for _, c := range known {
		cs := CaseOf(c, heads)
		if cs == nil {
			continue
		}
		value, _, found, err := ch.Verdicts.Get(ctx, cs.Key)
		if err != nil || !found {
			continue // never judged: no status to put out of date
		}
		v, err := delivery.DecodeVerdict(value)
		if err == nil && !ch.stale(v, cs) {
			continue
		}
		if err == nil && v.State == delivery.VerdictPass {
			cs.CarriedFrom = judgedOn(v) // the status says it is being carried to the new commit (ADR 0548 §6)
		}
		ch.writeOwed(ctx, cs, delivery.Verdict{State: delivery.VerdictRunning}, Outcome{})
	}
	ch.Reconsider(ctx)
}

// owePending owes mesh/check pending on the heads of a verdict judged on commits that moved while it ran: a pass says it is
// being carried to the trunk's head now (ADR 0548 §6), anything else that it is checked again.
func (ch *Checker) owePending(ctx context.Context, judged *Case, v delivery.Verdict) {
	next := judged
	ckey, err := delivery.CandidatesKey(v.Group)
	ch.mu.Lock()
	c, ok := ch.known[ckey]
	ch.mu.Unlock()
	if err == nil && ok {
		if now := CaseOf(c, ch.heads()); now != nil && now.Key == judged.Key {
			next = now
		}
	}
	if v.State == delivery.VerdictPass {
		next.CarriedFrom = judgedOn(v)
	}
	ch.writeOwed(ctx, next, delivery.Verdict{State: delivery.VerdictRunning}, Outcome{})
}

// movedSince says whether a trunk the case was judged on is no longer the trunk's head.
func (ch *Checker) movedSince(cs *Case) bool {
	now := ch.heads()
	for repo, head := range cs.Trunk {
		if now[repo] != head {
			return true
		}
	}
	return false
}