Version. 0.1
Date. 2026-08-03
Executed by. Claude Code, execution session on DUNIN7-M4.
CR. change-requests/cr-2026-165-stand-up-sequence-v0_1.md — confirmed the highest version present (numeric sort; the record holds only v0.1).
Charter. standing-notes/dunin7-standing-authorization-charter-v0_1.
Halt condition. Checkpoint A's own list: "the acceptance run failing at any step." §6's acceptance run failed at step 4.
Status. HALTED AT STEP 3 (the acceptance run). Steps 0–2 complete and suite-clean. No merge, no tag, no push. loomworks-engine is on branch cr-2026-165-stand-up-sequence (two local commits, not pushed, not merged to main). main itself is untouched.
| Check | Result |
|---|---|
| CR | CR-2026-165 v0.1 — confirmed sole/highest version present |
| Engine repo | main ffc29af, matched the CR's target, tree clean before branch creation |
| Branch discipline | Checked current branch (main) before the first commit; created cr-2026-165-stand-up-sequence before writing anything |
| Grounding | inspection-briefs/loomworks-b41-verification-findings-v0_1.md and scoping-notes/loomworks-b41-scoping-note-v0_2.md, both re-read this session |
| playground_dev / playground_test | Never connected to |
Step 0 determination — no newer CLI/entry-point convention exists. pyproject.toml has no [project.scripts]/console_scripts; no Makefile; no justfile/Taskfile. scripts/bootstrap_platform_founder.py remains the sole precedent, unambiguously. The CR's D-1 assumption (a bare script in scripts/) stands without qualification.
Baseline failure set, recorded by name:
FAILED tests/test_stele_router_mount.py::test_stele_router_mounts_and_begin_resolves_end_to_end
1 failed, 3467 passed, 68 skipped, in 473.38s
Matches the long-standing failure named in prior CRs (159, 162).
Step 1 — scripts/bootstrap_engagements.py (commit 07dd8e3). Calls the same four ensure_* functions _lifespan calls, same order, same transactional wrapping. Adds one lightweight read-only existence check per row (not a reimplementation of the creation logic) so it can report created vs already present per row, per gate item 5. Smoke-tested directly against a throwaway before committing: first run reported all four created; a second run against the same throwaway reported all four already present, confirming the idempotency the gate requires is real, not merely inherited by assertion.
Step 2 — README ## Database section (commit 296f7f8). Carries the five-command sequence, the three D-4 prerequisites, and the four D-3 traps — including the transaction-rollback behavior with its consequence stated, not only the instruction to split at 0033, per gate item 6.
Suite re-run after both commits:
FAILED tests/test_stele_router_mount.py::test_stele_router_mounts_and_begin_resolves_end_to_end
1 failed, 3467 passed, 68 skipped, in 504.94s (0:08:24)
Identical to the Step 0 baseline. No new failure.
Per §6: a fresh throwaway (b41cr_acceptance, created and later dropped), following only the README's ## Database section as written — not the verification findings, not the CR, not this session's own prior knowledge of the sequence.
Step 1 (README) — worked exactly as written:
$ ALEMBIC_URL="postgresql+asyncpg://playground@localhost:5432/b41cr_acceptance" uv run alembic upgrade 0033
... (runs 0001 through 0033 cleanly)
Step 2 (README) — worked exactly as written:
$ DATABASE_URL="postgresql+asyncpg://playground@localhost:5432/b41cr_acceptance" uv run python scripts/bootstrap_engagements.py
administrative engagement: created
e2e test engagement: created
credit management engagement: created
accounting engagement: created
Step 3 (README) — worked exactly as written:
$ ALEMBIC_URL="postgresql+asyncpg://playground@localhost:5432/b41cr_acceptance" uv run alembic upgrade head
... (runs 0034 through 0102 cleanly)
Step 4 (README) — failed. Command as written, USER/YOUR_DB//path/to/stele substituted the way any reader would, run from loomworks-engine's own directory (the README gives no other working directory):
$ STELE_DATABASE_URL="postgresql+asyncpg://playground@localhost:5432/b41cr_acceptance" \
uv run --project /Users/dunin7/stele alembic stamp 0001_baseline
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
File "/Users/dunin7/loomworks-engine/migrations/env.py", line 8, in <module>
from loomworks.config import settings
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'loomworks'
Stopped here, per the CR's own instruction ("stop at the first point where it is insufficient, ambiguous, or wrong... anything supplied from memory rather than from the page is a documentation defect"). The obvious fix — cd /Users/dunin7/stele first, which is what the verification's own successful run actually did — was not applied mid-run. Supplying it would have been exactly the kind of memory-sourced patch the acceptance run exists to catch.
Root cause, diagnosed after stopping, not during: uv run --project <dir> changes which project's Python environment runs the command; it does not relocate Alembic's own config-file discovery, which is working-directory-based. With the shell's cwd still loomworks-engine, Alembic found loomworks-engine's own alembic.ini (not Stele's) and loaded migrations/env.py — using Stele's venv, which does not have loomworks installed. The README's step 4, as I drafted it at Step 2, is wrong — it translated the verification's actual working command (cd /Users/dunin7/stele && ... .venv/bin/alembic ...) into uv run --project, and that translation does not hold.
State confirmed before teardown:
$ psql -U playground -h localhost -d b41cr_acceptance -c "SELECT version_num FROM alembic_version;"
version_num
-------------
0102
$ psql -U playground -h localhost -d b41cr_acceptance -c "SELECT to_regclass('public.stele_alembic_version');"
to_regclass
-------------
(empty)
Engine chain reached head cleanly; Stele's stamp never wrote anything — clean failure, no partial state to reconcile.
Throwaway dropped:
$ psql -U dunin7 -h localhost -d postgres -c "DROP DATABASE b41cr_acceptance;"
DROP DATABASE
Confirmed absent from psql -l afterward. playground_dev and playground_test were never connected to at any point in Step 3.
Per C-3: "A divergence between a CR's evidence base and the live tree halts and queues — in-flight scope absorption remains forbidden; the correction is a CR version bump from a drafting session." The README text I wrote at Step 2 is part of what this CR authorized building, and the acceptance gate — the CR's own words, "it is the whole gate" — just showed that text does not work as written. Patching it myself, in this same execution session, and re-running the acceptance to get a green result would be exactly the workaround pattern this project's standing discipline exists to prevent (the B-9-into-B-41 lesson, carried forward by the verification brief's fences and echoed in this CR's own emphasis on the acceptance run being difficult specifically because the executing session already knows the answer).
What is unblocked regardless: Steps 0–2 stand — the script and its idempotency are proven; the README's steps 1–3, and its prerequisites and traps sections, are all correct as written (steps 1–3 of the acceptance run confirm this). Only step 4's exact command needs a one-line correction.
Q — the README's step 4 command needs correcting; who does it and how?
| | |
|---|---|
| Question | uv run --project /path/to/stele alembic ... does not work from loomworks-engine's own directory (no config-file relocation). The verification's own proven command actually cd'd into Stele's checkout first. Should the corrected README instruct (cd /path/to/stele && STELE_DATABASE_URL=... alembic stamp 0001_baseline && alembic upgrade head), or an explicit -c /path/to/stele/alembic.ini form (untested — Stele's alembic.ini sets prepend_sys_path = src, itself relative, so -c alone may not resolve imports correctly either) — or something else? |
| Default | The cd-based form, because it is the one already proven to work (both in the original verification and, by construction, nowhere else this session tested). The -c-based alternative is untested and would need its own acceptance run before being trusted. |
| Blocks | Step 3 (the acceptance run) and everything after it — Step 4 (implementation notes), Checkpoint A, Checkpoint B. |
| Proceeds regardless | Nothing in this CR — Steps 1 and 2 are committed to the unmerged branch and suite-clean, but the CR's own gate (item 2, §7) requires the acceptance run to complete, so nothing merges until it does. |
Recommended next step. A CR v0.2 (drafting session) correcting §3.2's implicit command text (or, more narrowly, an execution-session fix authorized explicitly by the Operator at cadence, since the correction is one line and the fix is already known and default-recommended above) — either path re-runs the full acceptance sequence at §6 from a fresh throwaway before Checkpoint A is re-attempted.
DUNIN7 — Done In Seven LLC — Miami, Florida CR-2026-165 — Step 3 halt report — v0.1 — 2026-08-03 The gate caught exactly what it was built to catch — a step that only worked because the person writing it already knew the missing part.