From f7521df738fea5b1e695ec3b8efcb92c89cb449b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: sylph-decoder Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:06:04 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] agents: measure the merge state instead of describing it -- both branches are clean PROTOCOL says a human merges, and both agents have been blocked behind that while describing it rather than measuring it. Decoder branch is 328 ahead of main and 0 behind; port branch 257 ahead and 0 behind. main is an ancestor of both, so each is individually a fast-forward. And they do not conflict with each other: from their merge base the two change sets touch ZERO files in common, and git merge-tree --write-tree of the two heads exits clean with no conflict markers. Both can be merged in either order with zero conflicts. Nothing was merged. merge-tree is read-only and no branch was modified -- this is a measurement, and merging remains the human's. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Wuu56cE8vJGTBtn1ppsk8v --- docs/agents/MERGE-STATE.md | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/agents/MERGE-STATE.md diff --git a/docs/agents/MERGE-STATE.md b/docs/agents/MERGE-STATE.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..230d6d97 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/agents/MERGE-STATE.md @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +# The two agent branches, measured — for whoever merges + +`PROTOCOL.md` says *"Commit to `auto/`; a human merges."* Both agents have +been blocked behind that for days, and both have been describing it rather than +measuring it. Measured 2026-08-31: + +| branch | ahead of `main` | behind | `main` an ancestor? | files | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| `auto/build-ordinal-audit` (decoder) | **328** | **0** | **yes** — fast-forward | 327 | +| `auto/port-p6-audio` (port) | **257** | **0** | **yes** — fast-forward | 58 | + +✅ **Each is individually a fast-forward with nothing to resolve.** + +✅ **And they do not conflict with each other.** From their merge base (`1b1a4df`, +2026-08-29): + +* **files touched by both branches: 0** — the change sets are disjoint; +* `git merge-tree --write-tree` of the two heads exits **clean**, producing tree + `6caed80a` with no conflict markers. + +**So both can be merged, in either order, with zero conflicts.** The first is a +fast-forward; the second is an ordinary merge that touches no file the first did. + +⚠️ **Nothing here was merged.** `merge-tree` is read-only and no branch was +modified — this is a measurement, not an action. Merging is the human's, and +neither agent may do it. + +## What is behind it + +Three days of decoder work is reachable only from the topic branch: the dialog +table (70/70 records, `DLG_SELECT_DIFFICULTY` = id 2000), `DIFFICULTY` located as +a dialog in `GP_DIALOG` 2/3, the submenu focus rules (main menu persists, four +submenus reset, reset targets the opening item), initial focus measured as +`NEW GAME`, the corrected `ring_row` calibration, and the corrections to +`ui-record-loop-length.md`'s argument and the dialog record layout. + +📌 **The cost of the gap is not hypothetical.** The port spent days reading +`main`'s 926-line `HANDOFF.md` while the current one — 4 000+ lines — sat on this +branch; and this agent reported a defect in a `BLOCKED.md` row from a copy two days +stale. Both were the same fault in opposite directions, and both are fixed by the +merge above.