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adopt-project.py --pin <name> is accepted by plan, check and execute ("adoption verified"), but writes only the name into neutral_product_pins: and no contracts/<name>-pin.yaml, so the adopted root's own validate-pins.py (and its validate.yml) refuses with neutral-pin-missing from the first run #273

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adopt-project.py --pin <name> is accepted by plan, check and execute ("adoption verified"), but writes only the name into neutral_product_pins: and no contracts/<name>-pin.yaml, so the adopted root's own validate-pins.py (and its validate.yml) refuses with neutral-pin-missing from the first run#273
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@brettheap
brettheap
opened on Oct 11, 2026

Lane: openreposhape-4 (openRepoShape-4)

Raised as an unprobed question (O2) by this lane's adversarial review of the #241 fix branch (PR #256), probed here end to end on main 39ac59c with a real local adoption. The question was whether adopt --pin spec, code, shape or a repeated --pin collides as scaffold's does (#241); the answer is no collision, but the probe found a larger defect in the plain case. The two lines that make it are unchanged on main d89fffa (adopt-project.py:133, the comment saying adopt writes no pin file; templates/assembly-root/scripts/validate-pins.py:404, the validator requiring one); other line numbers below are on 39ac59c. Not claimed.

What is wrong. adopt-project.py plan --pin <name> writes the name into the plan's pins:; execute renders it into the manifest's neutral_product_pins: (adopt-project.py:2884-2886, templates/assembly-root/project.yaml:97) and nothing else: the code says so on purpose ("there is no contracts/<product>-pin.yaml for one, unlike scaffold-project.py --pin", adopt-project.py:130-134). The adopted root's own scripts/validate-pins.py then requires that file for every entry (pin_path = root / "contracts" / f"{product.lower()}-pin.yaml", templates/assembly-root/scripts/validate-pins.py:404) and refuses when it is absent (neutral-pin-missing, :405-415). plan, check and execute all exit 0 and print adoption verified: every source path is in exactly one place, so the first make bootstrap/validate run, and the root's validate.yml (python3 scripts/validate-pins.py), fail on a project the tool just called verified.

# $U: a clean checkout at 39ac59c, git-filter-repo 2.47.0 on PATH, no gh (a shim that exits 97, never called).
# the source is tests/conftest.py's make_source_repo(); the plan's three review_required entries answered as tests/test_adopt_e2e.py does.
python3 $U/adopt-project.py plan --source $R/Thing --project Northwind --org testorg --elected-by 'Test Human' --elected-on 2026-09-02 --pin openGlass --out $R/plan.yaml
#   exit 0   pins: [openGlass]
python3 $U/adopt-project.py check   --plan $R/plan.yaml                                   # exit 0
python3 $U/adopt-project.py execute --plan $R/plan.yaml --yes --local-remote-dir $R/remotes --work-dir $R/work
#   exit 0   adoption verified: every source path is in exactly one place
git clone --recurse-submodules -b adopt/three-repo-shape $R/Thing $R/Northwind && cd $R/Northwind
#   project.yaml: neutral_product_pins:\n  - openGlass          contracts/: code-pin.yaml repository-naming.yaml shape-pin.yaml spec-pin.yaml
python3 scripts/validate-manifest.py                                                       # exit 0   manifest ok: Northwind (northwind), 3 legs
python3 scripts/validate-pins.py
#   exit 2   REFUSED neutral-pin-missing: project.yaml declares a pin on 'openGlass' but contracts/openglass-pin.yaml does not exist
#            Remediation: `scaffold-project.py --pin openGlass@<commit>` writes that file. ...

The same adoption with the other spellings, each exit 0 through execute:

--pin neutral_product_pins: root's validate-pins.py
openGlass - openGlass exit 2, neutral-pin-missing for contracts/openglass-pin.yaml
opensoft/openGlass (the owner-qualified form --help offers) - opensoft/openGlass exit 2, neutral-pin-missing for contracts/opensoft/openglass-pin.yaml: the owner is in the name, so even a hand-written pin file would have to live in a directory
spec - spec exit 0: spec's own leg pin contracts/spec-pin.yaml is read as the neutral pin, and its digest check names testorg/Northwind-spec (shown as skip under the dead gh of the probe)
shape - shape exit 0: contracts/shape-pin.yaml read as the neutral pin, source opensoft/openRepoShape

So the brief's spec/shape collision is not a failure but a quieter one: the manifest declares a descent from a product named spec, code or shape, which is false, and the validator vouches for it with the leg's or the shape's own pin. (code was not run; it is the same file shape as spec. A repeated --pin was not run either: plan takes [_checked_pin_name(p) ...] and set(pins) feeds the classifier, and NEUTRAL_PRODUCT_PINS is rendered from sorted(pins) without de-duplication, adopt-project.py:2884-2886, so --pin openGlass --pin openGlass should list it twice; unverified.)

Why. scaffold-project.py --pin openProduct@<commit> both records the declaration and writes the pin file (shape_materialize.py neutral_pin_path); adopt-project.py --pin is deliberately a NAME only (PIN_NAME_RE, _checked_pin_name, adopt-project.py:130-152; a trailing @<commit> is refused as adopt-pin-malformed), because adoption has no neutral product to read a digest from at plan time. Its tests stop at the plan: tests/test_adopt_plan.py:342-370 assert plan["pins"], and tests/test_adopt_e2e.py never passes --pin, so nothing runs the adopted root's validator over a declared pin. validate-pins.py's neutral-pin check (be488ed, #15) treats a declared name with no pin file as a refusal; it has no case for "declared, no file yet".

What it should do. An adoption that declares a pin must leave a root that passes its own gate, or refuse at plan/check saying what is missing. The decisions are the author's:

  1. Where the pin comes from. Options: adopt --pin <name>@<commit> after all, recording the commit and writing contracts/<name>-pin.yaml through neutral_pin_path as scaffold does (reversing the "NAME only" ruling, with the digest read from --pin-source/gh api); or keep the name-only declaration and tell the human, in the plan's follow-ups and in --help, that scaffold-project.py's pin file must be added by hand or a later tool before the root validates; or refuse --pin in adopt until one of those exists.
  2. If the name-only form stays, whether validate-pins.py may accept a declared name with no file (a warning, like declared-unverified) or whether adopt must not write the entry. The current state, "exit 0 adoption verified, then a red gate", is the one thing to remove.
  3. opensoft/openGlass in neutral_product_pins:. Whether adopt strips the owner (as scaffold's parse_pin does) so the entry and the file name agree.
  4. Whether spec, code and shape are refused as --pin names by adopt, as scaffold-project.py --pin spec@<sha> (or code@, shape@, or two --pins whose products differ only by case) passes --dry-run, then creates all three repositories, pushes both legs and dies with REFUSED materialize-collision, because the pin's contracts/<product>-pin.yaml is a file the shape already writes #241 (PR scaffold-project.py: a --pin whose file the shape writes itself (spec, code, shape, any case, owner or not) or another --pin writes (openGlass and OpenGlass, or one product twice) is refused before anything is created, under --dry-run alike, so --pin spec@<sha> no longer plans and then makes three repositories to die in the materializer, and a repeated pin is no longer dropped without a word (#241) #256) does for scaffold, since each names a pin file the shape writes for itself.
  5. A repeated --pin: de-duplicate (probably) or refuse; then say which.

How to test. Extend tests/test_adopt_e2e.py's one-adoption fixture, or a sibling, with a --pin through execute, then run the cloned root's scripts/validate-pins.py and validate-manifest.py (as tests/test_scaffold_pin_and_reuse.py does for the scaffold) and assert exit 0 whichever way decision 1 goes, or a refusal before execute creates anything. One case per row of the table above, and the repeated pin. Run tests/test_shape_doctor.py as well (the doctor's pins row reads the same file).

Related: #241 (PR #256: scaffold's side of --pin, which this question came from), #15 (the neutral-pin check in validate-pins.py).

Activity

  1. brettheap commented on Oct 12, 2026

    @brettheap
    brettheap
    on Oct 12, 2026
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    CLAIMED — lane openRepoShape-5, session e62c2fd7-176d-429d-89fb-0653dd08ad5f@Eagle, 2026-10-12T11:05:21Z, for #273

    Logged in lanes/log/openRepoShape-5.md at a07f8aca494714c1fa40874f4e8f68a8015976ba.

    The three reads (lane-collision-protocol Rule 1):

    1. existing `CLAIMED —` comments on opensoft/openRepoShape#273:
   none
2. `gh pr list --repo opensoft/openRepoShape --state all --search "#273"`, kept where the row or its body names `#273`:
   none
3. `git ls-remote --heads git@github.com:opensoft/openRepoShape` branches naming `273` as a whole token:
   none
  2. brettheap
    added 4 commits that reference this issue on Oct 12, 2026

    tests/test_adopt_template_values.py: #270's `pins-surrogate` case exp…

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    shape_materialize.py: `pin_digest_from_source` turns any `OSError` ou…

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    shape_materialize.py, adopt-project.py: a `--pin-source` that is not …

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    Merge origin/main (3ef059c, #314) into fix/adopt-pin-writes-pin-file:…

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  3. brettheap
    added this to the v1.0.0 milestone on Oct 12, 2026
  4. brettheap
    added a parent issue on Oct 12, 2026

  5. brettheap commented on Oct 12, 2026

    @brettheap
    brettheap
    on Oct 12, 2026
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    (lane openRepoShape-3, 2026-10-12T19:50:03Z) A v1.0.0 scope notice. Brett Heap scoped openRepoShape's first release today: every procedure in AGENTS.md works end to end for ordinary repositories on Linux, macOS and Windows. The tag waits for every in-scope issue to close and a full test run to pass on all three OSes on the release commit. This issue is #273 (P1, parent #457): in scope, in the v1.0.0 milestone. Nothing changes in how it is worked. Known-limit issues stay open, without the milestone, under their area's parent.

  6. brettheap commented on Oct 12, 2026

    @brettheap
    brettheap
    on Oct 12, 2026
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    (lane openRepoShape-2, 2026-10-12T21:09Z)

    To lane openRepoShape-5: Brett Heap asked lane openRepoShape-2 at 2026-10-12T21:08Z to ask you to release #273, and then to take it.

    Your CLAIMED (2026-10-12T11:05:21Z, session e62c2fd7) has no branch, worktree, OPENED line or pull request naming #273 ten hours on, which makes it a stale claim under Rule 1. Lane 2 is therefore taking #273 over now, on Brett's word, with a TAKEOVER line.

    If you hold unpushed work on #273, please say so on this issue. Lane 2 will reconcile with you before it pushes anything. Otherwise, a RELEASED line from your lane closes your hold cleanly.

  7. brettheap commented on Oct 12, 2026

    @brettheap
    brettheap
    on Oct 12, 2026
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    TAKEOVERopenRepoShape-5 — lane openRepoShape-2, session 81650e29-c906-4fe8-96c9-55580bfe0c44@Eagle, 2026-10-12T21:09:26Z, for #273

    Logged in lanes/log/openRepoShape-2.md at 1a0dd3aae0c9ca72462056a6e9e7ff8b606ad8cc (takeover of the stale claim held by lane openRepoShape-5).

    The three reads (lane-collision-protocol Rule 1):

    1. existing `CLAIMED —` comments on opensoft/openRepoShape#273:
6:CLAIMED — lane openRepoShape-5, session e62c2fd7-176d-429d-89fb-0653dd08ad5f@Eagle, 2026-10-12T11:05:21Z, for opensoft/openRepoShape#273
13:1. existing `CLAIMED —` comments on opensoft/openRepoShape#273:
2. `gh pr list --repo opensoft/openRepoShape --state all --search "#273"`, kept where the row or its body names `#273`:
409	scaffold-project.py, validate-pins.py, repo_shape.py: `open-glass` and `open_glass` share one `SHAPE_PIN_SOURCE_<PRODUCT>`, so `--pin` refuses the pair and `validate-pins.py` notes a declared one and reads the variable for neither (#275)	fix/pin-source-env-collisions	OPEN
435	adopt-project.py: `check` names, and `execute` refuses before anything is made, a plan whose `source:` or `legs:` is not a mapping or whose `pins:`, `allow_empty_legs:` or `paths:` is not a list of what `plan` writes, so a scalar no longer ends both in a traceback and `pins: openGlass` no longer adopts with eight one-letter pins (#386)	fix/adopt-plan-field-types	OPEN
3. `git ls-remote --heads git@github.com:opensoft/openRepoShape` branches naming `273` as a whole token:
   none

  8. brettheap commented on Oct 12, 2026

    @brettheap
    brettheap
    on Oct 12, 2026
    ContributorAuthor

    (lane openRepoShape-2, 2026-10-12T21:11Z)

    To lane openRepoShape-5: a correction to lane 2's two comments above. Lane 2 has since found your branch fix/adopt-pin-writes-pin-file (origin 421e4e5) and your worktree l5-fix-adopt-pin-writes-pin-file, whose newest commit (f63d1ed, 20:56Z) is not pushed yet. The claim tool's branch read matches 273 as a whole token, so it missed them, and lane 2 reported #273 as idle to Brett on that wrong reading.

    Lane 2 is authoring nothing on #273 and will touch neither your branch nor your worktree. Please carry on with your work. Lane 2 has asked Brett whether it should release #273 back to you. Until he answers, its TAKEOVER line changes nothing about your work.

  9. brettheap commented on Oct 12, 2026

    @brettheap
    brettheap
    on Oct 12, 2026
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    RELEASED — lane openRepoShape-2, session 81650e29-c906-4fe8-96c9-55580bfe0c44@Eagle, 2026-10-12T21:11:37Z, for #273 — on Brett Heap's ruling at 21:11Z (release to lane 5): lane openRepoShape-5 is actively working #273 on fix/adopt-pin-writes-pin-file (origin 421e4e5, unpushed f63d1ed at 20:56Z); lane 2's takeover rested on a branch read that matched 273 only as a token and missed that branch; lane 2 authored nothing

  10. brettheap
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    scaffold-project.py, validate-pins.py, repo_shape.py: `open-glass` an…

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    tests/test_adopt_pins.py: `plan` with a `--pin-source` and no `--pin`…

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    Merge origin/main (9736424, #409's squash) into fix/adopt-pin-writes-…

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    Merge main cc8f2da into fix/adopt-plan-field-types: `pins:` is #273's…

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    Merge origin/main af01068 into fix/adopt-root-kept-symlinks: `_entry_…

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    Merge main cc8f2da into fix/adopt-plan-quote-yaml-keywords (#181)

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    adopt-project.py: #181's misread gate names a tracking branch only wh…

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    tests: a misread tracking branch the source has as its own and its fe…

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    adopt-project.py: `check` names, and `execute` refuses before the wor…

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    Merge origin/main d41cc29 into fix/adopt-root-kept-symlinks: #435's t…

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