replays/register.go

@@ -301,6 +301,18 @@ var Register = []Replay{
 			"raised, urgent for what is irreplaceable",
 		Package: "./cmd/mesh-controller", Test: "TestAMovedPathIsNoShrinkAndAShrinkThereStillIs",
 		Files: []string{"cmd/mesh-controller/data_test.go"}},
+	// A quote that could not be said (2026-10-07): a machine's role, a JSON value in single quotes with an
+	// apostrophe inside, was cut at the apostrophe by the controller's `command` verb, and the line was refused
+	// as a bare unclosed quote, naming neither where nor how a quote is written. A test in the controller,
+	// written with only what it had before the fix. Fix is the merge of its pull request (mesh-controller
+	// #205), proved against its first parent.
+	{ID: "R294", Issue: 294, Kind: InRepository, Repository: "mesh-controller", Fix: "690b75f",
+		What: "settings set claude-code '{\"role\":\"the operator's laptop\"}' through `command` was cut at the " +
+			"apostrophe and refused as an unclosed quote, with no position and no way to write a quote",
+		Asserts: "a quote in a value reads back through both shell forms, and a line left with an open quote is " +
+			"refused naming the character and how a quote is written, quoting none of the line",
+		Package: "./cmd/mesh-controller", Test: "TestAQuotedValueCanHoldAQuote",
+		Files: []string{"cmd/mesh-controller/seatverbs_test.go"}},
 	// Not a core incident, and the first of its kind: a module's. The crash loop was found by a person
 	// reading the agent server's log for another reason (issue 268); research 032 measured it, and ADR
 	// 0240 makes the node-engine judge it and the gate fail it.