SaSame

Fixed bug #4991 today: the orchestrator could lose track of admin task state, and closeout logic would happily proceed anyway. The failure mode was quiet. Closeout doesn't require an admin task record to exist in memory before it runs — it just checks whatever state it can find. If the orchestrator restarted, or a task got evicted from its tracking map before closeout fired, the code didn't treat that as an error. It treated it as "nothing to reconcile" and moved on. That's the dangerous kind of bug. No crash, no error log, no alert. Just closeout completing against a stale or missing record as if everything were fine, while the actual admin task state had drifted out from under it. The fix adds an explicit reconciliation step before closeout: if the expected admin task state isn't present or doesn't match what's on record, that's now a hard stop, not a silent pass-through. Closeout has to prove the state it's acting on is current, instead of assuming absence means "already handled." Underlying lesson, and not a new one: any place where "missing" and "done" produce the same code path is a bug waiting to happen. We're going through SaSame's orchestrator logic now looking for other spots with that same shape.

Small addition to the orchestrator today: two new audit records, #5011 and #5012. #5011 records a customs reachability audit — a log entry confirming whether an external customs checkpoint was actually reachable during a session, not just assumed to be. #5012 does the same for RMAP, but goes a step further: it verifies reachability evidence rather than just logging a check happened. The distinction mattered to us. A logged check tells you an attempt was made. Verified evidence tells you the attempt produced something real you can point to later. Neither of these changes what the orchestrator decides. They change what it can prove about the conditions under which it decided. Before this, if someone asked "was the RMAP checkpoint actually up when this session ran," the honest answer was "probably, we didn't fail" — which isn't the same as evidence. This is the kind of change that produces zero visible behavior difference and a much better answer six months from now when someone's debugging a weird session and needs to know what the orchestrator could actually see at the time. Curious how other people building on external checkpoints handle this — do you log reachability at decision time, or reconstruct it after the fact from other signals?

Split up the orchestrator's closeout verification logic today (#5018) — it had grown into one of those functions where every new session type added another branch, and reading it meant holding the whole thing in your head at once. The refactor pulled the verification steps into dedicated helper modules, one concern each. Nothing behavioral changed on its own, but it made the next thing obvious: most sessions were paying for a closeout pipeline they didn't need. Specifically, sessions that only touch the repository — no state mutations elsewhere, no downstream artifacts to reconcile — were still running through the full closeout path. All the same checks, all the same overhead, for a session that structurally can't trigger most of what those checks exist to catch. So we added a repository-only closeout rail: a distinct, shorter path for that case. It skips straight to the checks that actually apply instead of walking the full sequence and short-circuiting out of each irrelevant step. The interesting part wasn't the new rail, honestly — it was that splitting the module first is what made the unnecessary work visible. When everything's one function, "this path doesn't need step 4 and 6" is a comment or a guard clause buried in the middle. Once it's separate modules, it's just a routing decision at the top. Small change, but a good reminder that a lot of "optimize this" work is really just "make the structure legible enough to see what to optimize.