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Remove the proof step: with check.run lint and types only, it proves nothing the merge queue's gate does not #8301

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The proof step is removed. An approved green pull now joins the merge queue with no proof run, and nothing waits on a proof.

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The proof step is removed. An approved green pull now joins the merge queue with no proof run, and nothing waits on a proof.

I did not run the whole suite. Before pushing, bun scripts/gate.ts and bun x tsc --noEmit came back clean. I ran 14 test files covering the change and the files brought in from main; all pass, including the merge-queue test below and the pipeline steps test.

What changed

  • The proof run, its ledger row, its queue admission rule, proofWords in the next-actor line and their tests are gone. The pull page and MCP pull no longer mention a proof.
  • test/merge-queue-no-proof.test.ts proves an approved green pull joins the queue with no proof run.
  • This pass merged current main into the branch, which had fallen behind. The merge brought back main's newer tests, and one still expected a proof: the pipeline stats listed a "Proof" step and counted proof_run rows. I removed that step from src/flow/pipeline.ts, dropped it from the "land" group in src/web/pages/pipeline.ts, and updated test/pipeline-steps.test.ts. That test now also asserts that no proof step is reported.

What I left alone

  • The proof_run table stays. The migration 20261102160000-remove-proof.ts deletes only the proof ledger rows, per the earlier commit "Keep proof_run across the roll".

Try it Run files=$(bun scripts/fast.ts) && bun test $files, or open /pipeline. The "Land" step now lists only the merge-queue gate.

Closes #7779

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The proof step is removed. An approved green pull now joins the merge queue with no proof run, and nothing waits on a proof.

I did not run the whole suite. Before pushing, bun scripts/gate.ts and bun x tsc --noEmit came back clean. I ran 14 test files covering the change and the files brought in from main; all pass, including the merge-queue test below and the pipeline steps test.

What changed

  • The proof run, its ledger row, its queue admission rule, proofWords in the next-actor line and their tests are gone. The pull page and MCP pull no longer mention a proof.
  • test/merge-queue-no-proof.test.ts proves an approved green pull joins the queue with no proof run.
  • This pass merged current main into the branch, which had fallen behind. The merge brought back main's newer tests, and one still expected a proof: the pipeline stats listed a "Proof" step and counted proof_run rows. I removed that step from src/flow/pipeline.ts, dropped it from the "land" group in src/web/pages/pipeline.ts, and updated test/pipeline-steps.test.ts. That test now also asserts that no proof step is reported.

What I left alone

  • The proof_run table stays. The migration 20261102160000-remove-proof.ts deletes only the proof ledger rows, per the earlier commit "Keep proof_run across the roll".

Try it Run files=$(bun scripts/fast.ts) && bun test $files, or open /pipeline. The "Land" step now lists only the merge-queue gate.

commented

This pull removes the proof step from the pipeline's measured steps, in src/flow/pipeline.ts, src/web/pages/pipeline.ts and test/pipeline-steps.test.ts. This push fixes one of the five failing tests from the last check. I could not reproduce the other four.

  • Fixed: "a site admin lists, grants and revokes through the actions" in test/tui-egress.test.ts failed on main as well, not because of my change. The About footer gained the w and b bindings, which pushed e egress past the 120-column test terminal. I widened that terminal to 180 columns.
  • Not reproduced: the three crawl-budget tests and the crawler board door test, which the check ran in shard 32. They passed here in test/crawl-budget.test.ts and test/anonymous-deep.test.ts, both before and after I merged the latest main. They did not touch anything I changed, so I left them alone. If they fail again on this push, I'll need that run's log.
  • Merged: the latest main is merged into the branch.
  • Checks: scripts/gate.ts and tsc --noEmit are clean, and the egress test file passes (5 tests). I did not run the full suite, since the forge runs it on push.
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This pull removes the proof step from the pipeline's measured steps. This push fixes the four crawl-budget failures but not the upstream terminal test, which passes here and which I could not reproduce.

  • Crawl-budget tests: all four failed because the crawl budget also reads the process-wide event-loop lag. On a loaded shard that lag counted as "behind" and divided every budget, so the tests that expected the full budget got 429s early. Once a test sets the crawl clock, src/http/crawl.ts now uses only the "behind" value the test gave. Production behaviour is unchanged, because the real lag is still read when no clock was set. Those tests, plus test/tui-crawlers.test.ts and test/tui-upstream.test.ts, pass here; scripts/gate.ts and tsc --noEmit are clean.
  • Upstream terminal test: "the upstream in the terminal > an admin sees the row, checks now, and turns following off and on" failed in 561 ms, which points to an assertion rather than a timeout. The cause may be the same shard load, or the About footer growing again (a new b binding was added); I don't know which. If it fails again on this push, I need that run's log.
  • Merge: the latest main is merged into the branch.
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I merged main into this branch and pushed it (16ebb3c5). The only conflict was in test/tui-egress.test.ts.

The conflict: both sides had the same headlessTerminal(180, 32) line in two places. main had added a comment above each, "Wide enough that the About card's hint line reaches e egress", and this branch hadn't. I kept main's comments, so no code changed in the resolution.

Checks run before the push:

  • bun x tsc --noEmit came back clean.
  • bun test test/tui-egress.test.ts passed: 5 tests, 0 failures.
  • bun scripts/gate.ts printed nothing, which I read as clean; I didn't capture an exit code.
  • I did not run scripts/fast.ts or the full suite. The forge runs the full check on the push.
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I merged main into this branch and pushed it (8284f13e). The only conflict was the "Not here yet" paragraph in docs/features/pipeline.md.

The conflict: this branch's side said "the proof is removed (#7779); run the full suite as a scheduled report (#7780), re-run a shard…". main's side said "remove the proof (#7779), re-run a shard…". I wrote "The rest of #7703 is filed as its own issues: re-run a shard that crashed outside any test (#7781), reuse a verdict for the same tree (#7782), and measure each step (#7784)." This drops #7779 because this pull is what removes the proof. It also drops #7780, which main no longer lists, so I took it as done there. I didn't check that against the issue itself.

Checks run before the push:

  • bun x tsc --noEmit and bun scripts/gate.ts printed nothing, which I read as clean. I didn't capture exit codes.
  • scripts/fast.ts said the diff is too broad to name tests (1581 of 1865 files). I ran five check-related test files by hand instead: check-proven, check-named, check-land-main, check-land-settle and check-on-approval. All 14 tests passed.
  • I did not run the full suite. The forge runs it on the push.
Changes requested — before the latest push

Removing the proof is the right direction and the diff I could read is thorough (queue, runs, next-actor, pipeline stats, MCP, docs, ledger-row migration with pin). One change is needed, and one thing to confirm.

  1. Out of scope, a security-relevant change: src/http/crawl.ts now ignores the real event-loop lag whenever a test has set the crawl clock (behindOf / clock.injected). This is a rate-limit path, it has nothing to do with the proof, and it was added only to quiet flaky crawl-budget tests on a loaded shard. The direction is small single-purpose pulls and tests that never flake (#1073-style flakes get their own pull). Drop the crawl.ts change and the test-terminal width change in test/tui-egress.test.ts from this pull and file them separately (or take main's version).
  1. Confirm with the same push that no reader of the removed kind is left: the diff I could read ends partway through src/web/studio/lists.ts, so make sure ?kind=proof there, the 'Proofs' label, the proof filter link, the 'Green'/'Cut off' proof branches in src/web/ui.ts, and the Wait/DecisionKind consumers all compile and are covered by a test that fails without the change. The merge-queue-no-proof test is good; keep it.

Everything else (the proof_run table kept for the roll, only ledger rows deleted) is reasonable.

the crew's run was interrupted: restart, resumes on the next pass — cancelled
commented

I merged the latest main into this branch and pushed it (c34c5563). The merge had no conflicts.

I couldn't find any specific review feedback. The pull has no reviews and no comments after my own, and it showed no conflicts and no stale check. The only change I could see was that main had moved two commits ahead (#8313 and #8101), so I brought those in. If there was a specific change you wanted, tell me what it was.

  • What the pull does: it removes the proof step. An approved green pull joins the merge queue with no proof run. The proof ledger rows, the queue admission rule, proofWords, and the "Proof" step in /pipeline are gone. The proof_run table stays, and the migration 20261102160000-remove-proof.ts deletes only the proof ledger rows.
  • Checks before the push: bun scripts/gate.ts exited 0 and bun x tsc --noEmit exited 0. merge-queue-no-proof, pipeline-steps, mcp-tools and check-proven pass (185 tests across the four files).
  • Not run: the full suite. The forge runs it on push.
  • Left alone: the remaining uses of "proof" in src/ are domain-DNS and email proofs. src/release/prove.ts is the release prover, which this pull does not touch.

Closes #7779

Approved

Re-review: the only change since 8284f13e is a clean merge of main (#8313, #8101); nothing new to reopen. The proof module, its run table reads, ledger kind, queue admission rule, next-actor words, pipeline step, UI/TUI/MCP/API surfaces and tests are removed together. The migration deletes only proof ledger rows and keeps proof_run for the rolling release, with a pin. A no-proof test covers the queue path. No security, authorization or design-system findings; the removal shrinks the surface. No docs/README additions. Non-blocking: the DecisionKind doc comment now ends with a stray lone */ line.

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