The self-hosting orchestrator looped on deploy-staging -> development because
scripts/staging_check.py exited 1 on ANY failed check, so two infra-only checks
(C9a sandbox branch / C9b analyst-job — caused by SANDBOX bot accounts not being
members of the sandbox Plane project, NOT a pipeline regress) forced
staging_status: FAILED -> rollback -> loop, burning developer retries and tokens.
Direction (б) per ADR-001: classify staging checks as REAL (all pipeline checks,
fail-closed) vs SANDBOX_INFRA (narrow allowlist {C9a, C9b}, waivable). New leaf
module src/staging_verdict.py (stdlib-only, never-raise): classify_check +
compute_staging_verdict fold per-check results into a tolerant-but-fail-closed
verdict — any REAL failure -> FAILED/exit1 (safety net holds under any flag);
only C9a/C9b failed & tolerant -> SUCCESS/exit0 with waived list; only infra &
strict -> FAILED/exit1; any internal error -> FAILED/exit1 (never a false green).
staging_check.py now auto-classifies each check (public 3-tuple _items shape kept
as an ORCH-048 b6 regression guard), exposes categorized_items(), prints
INFRA-WAIVED/VERDICT lines, and exits via the verdict; new --strict flag forces
legacy strictness per-run. Kill-switch ORCH_STAGING_INFRA_TOLERANCE_ENABLED
(default true) restores legacy strict mode globally. launcher gains
action_stage_no_changes_note so "no changes to commit" on action stages is logged
as expected, not treated as under-delivery.
Contracts unchanged: STAGE_TRANSITIONS, QG_CHECKS registry, staging_status:/
deploy_status: frontmatter, hook exit-code (0/1/2), check_staging_status; no DB
migration. Docs: README, STAGING_CHECK.md, deployer.md, .env.example, CHANGELOG.
Refs: ORCH-061
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
_parse_tests_verdict now accepts three equal-rank machine-readable
frontmatter fields in 13-test-report.md — result: (canonical tester
output), verdict: and status: (legacy/enduro-trails). Any one non-empty
field suffices; a negative token in any field stays authoritative.
Fixes the producer/consumer contract mismatch where the tester emits
`result: PASS` (per .openclaw/agents/tester.md) but the gate only read
verdict:/status:, causing a testing->development rollback loop until
MAX_DEVELOPER_RETRIES (observed on ORCH-17). Token sets frozen and gate
signature/QG_CHECKS unchanged for full backward compatibility.
Refs: ORCH-047
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
check_tests_passed did "if PASS in content" over the whole 13-test-report.md
body, so a report explicitly marked verdict: BLOCKED / status: blocked whose
prose mentioned "23 passed" / "PASS" / "All checks passed" passed the gate.
On ET-013 an unfinished feature (P1 AC-19 failed) reached Done.
Now mirrors check_reviewer_verdict (S-5) and check_deploy_status: read ONLY the
YAML frontmatter verdict:/status: fields. Positive tokens (PASS/PASSED/
READY-TO-DEPLOY/GREEN/APPROVED) -> True; negative tokens (BLOCKED/FAILED/...) are
authoritative -> False; missing/empty/no-frontmatter/bad-YAML -> False with reason;
file missing -> not found. Never raises.
Positive token set derived from REAL enduro-trails reports ET-001..ET-014
(inconsistent: PASS, ready-to-deploy+status:PASSED, stage:ready-to-deploy+status:pass,
PASS — ready-to-deploy). Validated: all 9 prior passing WIs stay True, ET-013 -> False.
ET-013: deployer writes 14-deploy-log.md and merges deploy artifacts into
main via a separate PR, so the log lands in origin/main, not the feature
branch worktree that check_deploy_status reads via _repo_path(repo, branch).
Result: every successful deploy was falsely failed (Deploy log not found)
and rolled back deploy->development.
Fix: when the log is absent in the worktree, fall back to reading it from
origin/main on the shared clone (git fetch origin main + git show
origin/main:docs/work-items/<WI>/14-deploy-log.md). Lookup order:
worktree -> origin/main -> not found. Fetch/show failures degrade to
not found (never raise). Does not touch the merge-gate in gitea.py.
Tests: origin/main SUCCESS->PASS (ET-013 case), origin/main FAILED->FAILED,
absent everywhere->not found, fetch failure->degrades no exception,
worktree log short-circuits main lookup.
