Closes the "zombie jobs" incident class: job status was set only inside
the live launcher process, so a process death left jobs.status='running'
forever; at max_concurrency=1 one zombie blocked ALL projects' queue
(self-hosting risk). Adds a background daemon (src/job_reaper.py) with
three-tier liveness (dead-pid streak / known exit_code / max-running
backstop) whose only mutating write is an atomic terminal flip guarded by
WHERE status='running' (no double-process). For exit0 the canonical QG is
the source of truth via gate-driven advance, not "exit0".
Also proactively reclaims stale merge-lease (dead pid OR TTL) via file
delete only (no git ops), and makes merge finalization idempotent
(pr_already_merged guard + up-to-date short-circuit on re-drive).
New jobs.pid column via idempotent _ensure_column (no migration); pid
stamped in launcher._spawn after Popen. Reaper start/stop in lifespan;
"reaper" snapshot in GET /queue. Kill-switches: ORCH_REAPER_ENABLED,
ORCH_REAPER_INTERVAL_S, ORCH_REAPER_DEAD_TICKS, ORCH_REAPER_MAX_RUNNING_S,
ORCH_LEASE_RECLAIM_ENABLED.
Invariants unchanged (AC-13): STAGE_TRANSITIONS, QG_CHECKS registry,
check_branch_mergeable signature/behaviour, BUG-8 rollback, hook exit
codes. restart-safe, never-raise per unit of background work.
Docs: docs/architecture/README.md, CHANGELOG.md, .env.example.
Tests: tests/test_job_reaper.py, tests/test_merge_lease_reclaim.py,
tests/test_merge_gate.py (TC-16), tests/test_merge_gate_race.py (TC-17),
tests/test_queue.py, tests/test_config.py (TC-19/TC-20). 742 passed.
Refs: ORCH-065
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
