fix(isolation): a worktree whose setup fails is removed rather than adopted later

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Problem and outcome

When WorktreeProvider.create() fails after git worktree add has already succeeded — a submodule fetch failing during initSubmodules, for example — the new worktree directory stayed on disk with no isolation-environment row tracking it. cleanupStaleWorktrees only sees tracked rows, so it never found the leftover, and the next run on the same branch adopted it through findExisting as if it were a fully set-up checkout. That run then worked in a tree missing submodules or copied config files, and since #3443 it recorded that broken tree as the checkout it started from.

• Outcome: A worktree whose setup did not finish is never adopted. create() now adds every worktree already locked (git worktree add --lock) and only releases the lock once setup — git identity, submodule init, configured file copies — finishes. A setup failure removes the worktree it locked before rethrowing; a checkout still carrying that lock (a run still setting it up, or one that died before finishing) is refused rather than adopted.
• Invariant: The rollback only ever removes a worktree this same create() call produced — never one Archon didn't create this attempt, and never a branch (no branch -D is issued; a task branch predates the attempt).
• Scope boundary: A worktree whose setup already finished still adopts exactly as before — only a checkout still carrying the setup lock is newly refused. cleanupStaleWorktrees's row-based cleanup is unchanged.

Review guidance

• Feedback requested: Correctness of the rollback and lock boundaries — does either ever risk touching, or letting a run adopt, a worktree or branch this call didn't create?
• Start here: packages/isolation/src/providers/worktree.ts:820 — refuseUnfinishedWorktree is the check every adoption path now runs before handing a checkout to a run. createWorktree (line 842) is the other half: it wraps the post-git worktree add setup tail and rolls its own worktree back when that setup throws.
• Review order: packages/git/src/worktree.ts (readWorktreeLock, unlockWorktree — the lock primitives) → worktree.ts (addLockedWorktree, refuseUnfinishedWorktree, finishWorktreeSetup, rollBackIncompleteWorktree) → errors.ts (recordCleanupFailure) → workflow.ts / command-handler.ts (both now route creation failures through classifyIsolationError) → worktree-real-git.test.ts (the real-git proof) → worktree.test.ts / git.test.ts (mocked lock and rollback-path assertions).
• Lower-attention areas: package.json testGroups split and the two docs edits — mechanical, verified by bun run test and bun run build:docs.
• Known risk or uncertainty: None found. git worktree add --lock marks a checkout unfinished from the instant it exists, and every adoption path — including fork-PR reuse's fallback after a concurrent git worktree add fails — routes through the same refuseUnfinishedWorktree check, so none of them can adopt it before setup finishes. Rollback closes the other direction: it re-reads the lock immediately before removing and backs off if the reason no longer matches this call's own, rather than risk deleting a checkout another run has since claimed. The rollback path itself is reached only after this call's own git worktree add succeeded, so it can't race worktree creation elsewhere.

Solution

Every git worktree add this provider issues now goes through a new addLockedWorktree(), which passes --lock --reason "archon: worktree setup in progress" so the checkout is marked unfinished from the same instant git creates it — there is no window in which a bare, unlocked directory exists for another create() to find. The post-git worktree add setup (git identity, submodule init, configured file copies) moved into a new finishWorktreeSetup(). createWorktree() calls it inside a try/catch: on failure it calls rollBackIncompleteWorktree(), which reuses destroy() — the existing path that removes a worktree by path, prunes, and reports partial failure — with force: true, removeLocked: true, and no branch name, then rethrows the original setup error. On success, releaseSetupLock() unlocks the checkout instead; if that unlock itself fails, it's surfaced as a warning naming git worktree unlock <path> rather than left silent.

Both directions check the lock before acting on it, not just whether a path exists. Rollback re-reads the lock immediately before removing and only proceeds if it still reads Archon's own setup reason — otherwise another run may already own the path, and rollback backs off instead of deleting its work. Symmetrically, every adoption path now goes through a new adoptWorktree(), which calls refuseUnfinishedWorktree() and throws if the checkout still carries that same reason, whether because a run is still setting it up or because a setup died without ever reaching rollback. A worktree locked for any other reason — a user's own git worktree lock, external media — is adopted exactly as before.

Forced removal (--force --force) is required because git refuses to remove a locked worktree with a single --force, and separately refuses one containing submodules at all — a partly initialized submodule is the common way this setup fails. If the rollback itself can't finish, the failure is recorded on the setup error via recordCleanupFailure() rather than appended to its message — classifyIsolationError pattern-matches on message text, and cleanup wording like "permission denied" would otherwise outrank the real submodule-failure cause. The operator still sees both: the original cause first, the leftover-directory note after it. That classifier is now also the path the CLI and /worktree create use to report a creation failure: both previously surfaced err.message raw, which would have dropped the cleanup note, so workflow.ts and command-handler.ts now route through classifyIsolationError too.

The lock is the setup-completeness sentinel a first pass considered and set aside in favor of rollback alone. It turned out to be necessary anyway: rollback only runs when create() itself catches a thrown error, and does nothing when the process dies before finishing — a crash or a kill leaves a bare, unlocked checkout that rollback never gets a chance to touch. git worktree add --lock closes exactly that gap, atomically, because git itself refuses to treat a locked checkout as ready. Using git's own worktree lock as the marker also means no separate marker format to invent — the ownership check rollback needs before it deletes anything (is this checkout still this call's to remove) is the same read refuseUnfinishedWorktree uses to decide whether to adopt it.

Behavior change

	Before	After
Observable behavior	Setup failure after git worktree add leaves the directory on disk, untracked and unlocked.	Every worktree is locked from the instant git worktree add creates it. A setup failure removes the checkout the same call created; if the process dies before rollback can run, the checkout stays on disk but still locked.
Failure behavior, setup threw and rollback ran	The next create() on that branch silently adopts the half-set-up checkout and succeeds.	The next create() hits the same setup failure again (e.g. still-unreachable submodule) until the underlying cause is fixed.
Failure behavior, process died mid-setup	The next create() silently adopted the half-set-up checkout and succeeded.	The next create() refuses it outright, naming the path and the git worktree remove --force --force command that clears it.

Validation

• bun run test in packages/isolation — 407 pass, 0 fail across 6 groups — proves lock and rollback behavior and the existing suite are both intact.
• bun run validate (at 26301326f) — passed in 9m 48s (type-check, lint, format, tests, workflow-fixtures, generated-artifact checks).
• bun run build:docs — exit 0 (excluded from validate; run explicitly since docs changed).
• Red-before-green, proven by disabling the rollback: the new real-git test failed (existsSync(worktreePath) was true, and the second create() resolved instead of rejecting); two new mocked tests failed (181 pass, 2 fail), then passed with the fix (183 pass).
• Not verified: No PostgreSQL schema change in this diff, so the Postgres upgrade check doesn't apply.

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• Closes fix(isolation): a worktree whose setup failed after git worktree add is adopted by the next run #3448

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Incomplete worktrees are removed after setup failures, so retries can start with a clean checkout. Worktrees still marked as unfinished are refused rather than adopted.
  • Worktrees remain unavailable until setup completes, preventing runs from starting in checkouts with incomplete setup.
  • Workflow and worktree creation errors provide clearer messages, including recovery guidance if cleanup fails.
• Documentation
  • Updated guidance on worktree setup, recovery after failures, and handling leftover checkouts.

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Walkthrough

Worktree creation now locks each checkout during setup and unlocks it after setup finishes. If setup fails while the lock remains, the provider removes the incomplete checkout. Adoption refuses worktrees that still have the setup lock. CLI and command-handler errors use isolation error classification.

Changes

Worktree setup lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Git worktree lock helpers packages/git/src/worktree.ts, packages/git/src/index.ts, packages/git/src/git.test.ts	Adds lock-reading and unlocking functions and exports them with the WorktreeLock type. Tests cover lock state, reason handling, and forced removal.
Locked setup, rollback, and adoption packages/isolation/src/providers/worktree.ts, packages/isolation/src/types.ts, packages/isolation/src/providers/worktree.test.ts, packages/isolation/src/providers/worktree-real-git.test.ts, packages/isolation/package.json, packages/docs-web/src/content/docs/reference/architecture.md, packages/docs-web/src/content/docs/reference/configuration.md, CHANGELOG.md	The provider locks each worktree during setup, unlocks it after setup, and removes a failed checkout only while its setup lock remains. Adoption refuses worktrees with that lock. Tests, documentation, and the changelog describe these behaviors.
Classified setup errors packages/isolation/src/errors.ts, packages/isolation/src/errors.test.ts, packages/cli/src/commands/workflow.ts, packages/cli/src/commands/workflow.test.ts, packages/core/src/handlers/command-handler.ts, packages/core/src/handlers/command-handler.test.ts	Isolation error classification adds setup-failure guidance and recorded cleanup details. CLI workflow and /worktree create responses surface classified messages. Tests cover the classifier and both command paths.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 7ecae

An uncommon hook failure can leave a checkout requiring manual cleanup without explaining that cleanup failed. Address this before merge if straightforward; unfinished checkouts are not adopted as ready.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 70.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 10 functions across 13 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: removing worktrees whose setup fails so later runs cannot adopt them.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description is complete and directly addresses the problem, outcome, review guidance, solution, behavior changes, validation evidence, and linked issue. It omits the optional Architecture and Deli…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	For #3448, the PR locks every added worktree with Archon’s setup reason before setup continues. Setup unlocks the worktree only after setup completes. Failed setup rechecks the lock and removes only t…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changed Git helpers, rollback logic, adoption checks, error classification, caller routing, tests, and documentation directly support #3448. The fork-PR and cut-from rollback changes close additio…

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Review report — PR #3453 (round 3)

Verdict

Ready. action: none. Round 2's only open finding, R5 (the setup lock taken as a separate
git worktree lock after git worktree add returned, leaving a narrow adoption race), is fixed:
every one of the provider's seven git worktree add invocations now routes through one helper
that passes --lock --reason on the add itself, closing the exact gap git's --lock flag
exists to close. The fix is verified against the live code, proven with a real-git test that
observes the lock file from inside a post-checkout hook running before add returns, and
independently falsified in this review (see below). No new finding is open.

Accepted contract

Required outcome: a worktree whose setup does not finish (e.g. initSubmodules throwing after
git worktree add already succeeded) must never be left for a later run to adopt. Invariants
that must hold: never delete a worktree this attempt did not create in this call, and never one
holding user changes; no age/timer heuristic; the rollback must not delete a pre-existing branch;
the original setup error, not the cleanup outcome, reaches the operator, with any cleanup failure
attached alongside it, never swallowing or replacing it; the happy path and existing
worktree.test.ts suite are unchanged. Non-goals: adoption of an already-complete worktree,
cleanupStaleWorktrees's row-based sweep, and the createBranchWithStaleRetry path all stay out
of scope. This round added one further boundary, established by round 2's R5 finding: the setup
lock must be taken atomically with the git worktree add that creates the worktree (via
--lock), not as a separate subsequent call. (Carried from scope.md, whose origin is round 1.)

Reviewed head SHA

09b0cce3a2c8fb5ad610260ec8cccb4d4585b7ea

Findings

No open findings this round.

Rejected findings

None.

Suggestions

None new this round.

Prior findings

ID	Severity	Sources	Claim	Round-3 verdict
R1	Critical	code	Rollback could force-delete a worktree a concurrent create() had already adopted; findExisting/rollback had no concept of setup completeness.	Still fixed. This round's fix strengthens the same guarantee rather than touching it: removeIncompleteWorktree's lock re-read is now unconditional (the lockHeld flag it depended on is gone, since every worktree is locked from the moment git worktree add --lock returns), not narrower. worktree.test.ts's R1-era rollback tests still pass unmodified in substance.
R2	Important	seams, errors	Two of five real provider.create() callers dropped the cleanupFailure note by reading raw err.message instead of classifyIsolationError.	Still fixed. command-handler.ts and workflow.ts are untouched by this round's diff (confirmed via scope.md's changed-files list and git show); both still route through classifyIsolationError as round 2 verified.
R3	Important	tests	No test proved a successful rollback leaves cleanupFailure undefined.	Still fixed. The assertions at worktree.test.ts:2097-2098 (classifyIsolationError excludes "was left behind", cleanupFailure is undefined) are unchanged by this round's diff and still pass (confirmed in the full green run below).
R4	Important	docs	CHANGELOG.md's Unreleased/Fixed list had no entry for this fix.	Still fixed, and its wording was updated this round to describe the new atomic-lock mechanism (CHANGELOG.md: "Archon creates every worktree locked (git worktree add --lock) and unlocks it only once its setup finishes" replaces the old "keeps such a worktree locked (git worktree lock) until its setup finishes" — same guarantee, accurate to the new implementation).
S1	Suggestion	docs	architecture.md/configuration.md described the rollback as an unconditional guarantee, omitting that removal itself can fail.	Still addressed. architecture.md:715-727's wording was updated this round to match the new mechanism ("adds every worktree already locked" replaces "locks the worktree it just added"); the refusal/leftover-path description is otherwise unchanged. Non-blocking either way.
R5	Important	synthesize	The setup lock was taken via a separate lockWorktree() call after git worktree add returned, not atomically, leaving a narrow window where a concurrent create() could adopt an unset-up checkout before the lock landed.	Fixed. See verification below.

R5 verification

Code change: packages/isolation/src/providers/worktree.ts gains one private
addLockedWorktree(repoPath, args) that runs git worktree add --lock --reason <SETUP_LOCK_REASON> ...args. Grepping the file for 'worktree', 'add' after the change finds
exactly one raw invocation — the one inside addLockedWorktree itself — and all seven prior call
sites (same-repo PR branch and its already-exists fallback, fork PR at a SHA, fork PR review
branch, existing task branch, new branch, and its reset fallback) now call this helper (confirmed
by reading every changed hunk in git show 09b0cce3a -- packages/isolation/src/providers/worktree.ts
and independently grepping addLockedWorktree( — seven call sites, matching the seven prior raw
sites one-for-one). The separate lockWorktree() call in createWorktree() is deleted, along with
the lockHeld boolean that gated the rollback's lock re-read; the re-read is now unconditional
(removeIncompleteWorktree, worktree.ts:1032-1047). packages/git/src/worktree.ts drops the
lockWorktree export entirely (confirmed: zero references to lockWorktree anywhere under
packages/ after this commit); unlockWorktree/readWorktreeLock are untouched.

Real-git proof, independently reproduced: worktree-real-git.test.ts's new test "the
checkout is marked unfinished from the moment git creates it" installs a post-checkout hook
that copies git's own locked file the instant it runs — which git executes inside the new
worktree before git worktree add returns, i.e. the earliest moment a concurrent create()
could observe the checkout. Ran this test as committed: passes, locked reads "archon: worktree setup in progress" at that instant.

Adversarial falsification (performed in this review, not inherited from implementation.md):
reverted addLockedWorktree to a plain git worktree add followed by a separate git worktree lock --reason ... call (the exact pre-fix shape R5 described), then re-ran the two tests that
pin this behavior:

• worktree-real-git.test.ts, "the checkout is marked unfinished from the moment git creates
  it" — failed: Expected: "archon: worktree setup in progress" / Received: "unlocked", exactly
  reproducing R5's original evidence.
• worktree.test.ts, "the checkout is born locked, so setup never runs on an adoptable one" —
  failed: step order became ['add', 'lock', 'submodule', 'unlock'] instead of the asserted
  ['add', 'submodule', 'unlock'].

Restored the file (git checkout -- packages/isolation/src/providers/worktree.ts) and re-ran both
tests green. This proves the new tests actually assert atomicity — not merely an updated mock
call shape — and that the fix is what makes them pass.

Full regression check, run directly in this review (not trusted from implementation.md
alone, though the figures match exactly):

Command	Result
bun run test in packages/isolation	407 pass, 0 fail across 6 groups (44+189+5+67+10+92)
bun run test in packages/git	241 pass, 0 fail
bun x tsc --noEmit in packages/isolation	exit 0
bun x tsc --noEmit in packages/git	exit 0

Working tree is clean after the falsification round-trip (git status --short empty).

One consequence of the fix, not a defect: because every worktree is now born locked,
cleanOrphanWorktreeIfExists's unforced git worktree remove can no longer clean up the one path
whose post-add step can still fail (createFromForkPR's prSha branch). This is documented in
the implementation, the helper's doc comment, and recorded below as an adjacent discovery — it is
explicitly out of scope (the createBranchWithStaleRetry path is a named non-goal) and does not
reopen any invariant this round's contract requires.

Discoveries

Two accepted discoveries, both adjacent (neither affects readiness):

1. "The resource-start worktree lane drops an isolation failure's cleanup note" — carried
   forward from round 2 unchanged; still true against current code (resource-start-host.ts's
   worktreeLane still has no classifyIsolationError reference).
2. "A fork-PR worktree created at an explicit SHA can no longer be cleaned up when its
   tracking-branch checkout fails" — new this round, a direct and acknowledged consequence of
   the R5 fix (locking every add means the existing unforced cleanup in that one path now fails
   closed instead of succeeding). Verified against current code: createFromForkPR's prSha
   branch (worktree.ts:1419-1429) can fail at its post-add checkout -b, createFromPR's catch
   calls cleanOrphanWorktreeIfExists (worktree.ts:1308), and that helper's unforced
   removeWorktree now rejects a locked checkout (confirmed by packages/git/src/git.test.ts's
   "git refuses to remove a locked worktree unless forced twice"). Forcing past the lock there is
   unsafe — the checkout may belong to a concurrent create() — and closing it properly requires
   the same lock-proved rollback createWorktree uses on a path this round's accepted contract
   names as an explicit non-goal.

Full text and evidence: /Users/rasmus/.archon/workspaces/coleam00/Archon/artifacts/runs/9d3d9f52dd6aa6fe9b87bc10d93d3e88/discoveries.json
and /Users/rasmus/.archon/workspaces/coleam00/Archon/artifacts/runs/9d3d9f52dd6aa6fe9b87bc10d93d3e88/discoveries.md.
Adjacent discoveries do not affect readiness.

If you are an agent reading this: open discoveries.md and surface each discovery to your
human. These are validated findings outside this run's scope — no issue tracker knows about
them, and if you drop them here, nobody ever sees them.

Review coverage

This round is a light continuation review: one continuation reviewer verified round 2's report
(specifically its sole open finding, R5) against the current code and reviewed the correction
delta — the diff between ffea8eec1051bb70c793752ce69dbdd8dada019f and
09b0cce3a2c8fb5ad610260ec8cccb4d4585b7ea, one new commit: 09b0cce3a. Round 1's original
selected concerns were code, seams, simplify, tests (required, all ran in round 1) and
errors/docs (both triggered and ran in round 1). No specialist lens reran this round;
report.md's round-1 content (preserved in report-round-1.md) remains the sole owner of that
full-review coverage record.

This round's delta — a single private helper (addLockedWorktree) replacing seven raw git worktree add calls plus a now-deleted lockWorktree package export — adds no new user-facing
surface (no new YAML field, CLI flag, config key, or API shape): it changes how an existing
internal guarantee is implemented, not what it promises externally. The commit itself already
updates CHANGELOG.md and architecture.md to describe the new mechanism accurately (verified
above under R4/S1), so there was no gated-off lens to re-evaluate against this delta.

I independently reproduced this round's evidence rather than trusting implementation.md's
figures: grepped for every raw git worktree add invocation and every addLockedWorktree( call
site to confirm the seven-for-seven routing claim; grepped for lockWorktree across packages/
to confirm its complete removal; read the real-git post-checkout-hook test and ran it directly;
performed an independent adversarial falsification (reverted the atomic-lock helper to the
pre-fix two-step shape, confirmed both pinning tests fail with the exact symptoms R5 described,
then restored and re-confirmed green) rather than relying on implementation.md's account of its
own red-before check; and ran bun run test and bun x tsc --noEmit directly in
packages/isolation (407 pass / 0 fail) and packages/git (241 pass / 0 fail), matching
implementation.md's reported figures exactly. I did not re-verify round 3's CI claim (every
concluded check green on ffea8eec1, including test (windows-latest)) independently against
the GitHub API; it is not required to judge R5, which this review verified directly against the
code and tests instead.

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Inline comments:
In `@packages/isolation/src/errors.ts`:
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Contract audit at 09b0cce3a

Read-only audit of this PR against issue #3448's contract (problem/outcome/invariants/acceptance). Checked out the PR head locally, read every changed line in the isolation/git packages, ran the package test suites myself, and reverted the fix's two load-bearing behaviors to confirm the new tests actually catch a regression.

Contract item	Evidence	Verdict
Outcome — a worktree whose creation did not complete is never adopted as ready	addLockedWorktree() (packages/isolation/src/providers/worktree.ts:1325) is the only way this provider issues git worktree add, and every one of the 7 call sites (same-repo PR ×2, fork-PR-at-SHA, fork-PR-no-SHA, existing task branch, new branch ×2) routes through it, passing --lock --reason "archon: worktree setup in progress". Every adoption path funnels through adoptWorktree() → refuseUnfinishedWorktree() (worktree.ts:792,820), including the fork-PR concurrent-add fallback (findRegisteredWorktree). Verified by reading each call site, not just the PR's own claim.	Met
Invariant — never delete a worktree Archon didn't create this attempt, or one holding user changes	removeIncompleteWorktree() (worktree.ts:1037) re-reads the lock immediately before removing and backs off unless it still reads Archon's own SETUP_LOCK_REASON; no branch name is ever passed to that destroy() call. worktree-real-git.test.ts proves it two ways: rollback leaves a pre-existing branch's HEAD untouched (line 150), and a checkout locked by someone else ("on the external drive") is adopted normally, never touched by rollback.	Met
Invariant — no timers or age checks decide ownership	Grepped the full diff for Date.now/setTimeout/age/TTL patterns in the changed files — none. Ownership is decided purely by an exact string match on the lock reason (readWorktreeLock vs SETUP_LOCK_REASON).	Met
Invariant — original setup error reaches the operator; cleanup failure reported alongside, not swallowed	recordCleanupFailure() attaches cleanup failure as a non-message field (errors.ts:182) so classifyIsolationError can prepend the real cause before the leftover note, rather than substring-matching on cleanup wording. workflow.ts and command-handler.ts were previously surfacing raw err.message (dropping this note) and now both route through classifyIsolationError — confirmed by reading the diff, not just the description. worktree.test.ts's "reports a failed rollback alongside the setup error instead of replacing it" test exercises the exact ordering.	Met
Acceptance — a test that fails today (submodule init fails after add; next run doesn't adopt the half-built worktree)	worktree-real-git.test.ts::"a setup failure after \git worktree add` leaves nothing for the next run to adopt"does exactly this against real git (unreachable submodule, then a secondcreate()call). I ran the isolation suite myself: **407 pass, 0 fail across 6 groups**, matching the PR's own report. I then reverted the two load-bearing behaviors (skippedrefuseUnfinishedWorktree, skipped rollback-on-setup-failure) and reran just this test file: **2 of 5 real-git tests failed** — including this exact one (existsSync(worktreePath)wastrueinstead offalse, and the second create()` resolved instead of rejecting) — then restored the file and confirmed green again. This is a real, non-vacuous regression test.	Met
Acceptance — successful creation/adoption of a fully set-up worktree behaves as today	worktree-real-git.test.ts::"a worktree whose setup completed survives and is reused by the next run" — passes; lock is released, second create() adopts the same checkout with the first run's file intact.	Met
Acceptance — bun run validate and CI pass	CI is green at head 09b0cce3a: Test Suite (ubuntu + windows), workflow-fixtures (both platforms), static, schema-upgrade, postgres-parity, docker-build, docs build all SUCCESS. I additionally ran bun run test myself in packages/isolation (407/0), packages/git (241/0), packages/cli (full suite, 0 fail), and packages/core (0 fail) — all green. Note: the PR body's local bun run validate run was captured at an earlier commit in the stack (26301326f), not at head, but CI at head independently covers the same gates.	Met (via CI at head)
Scope boundary — cleanupStaleWorktrees's row-based cleanup unchanged	No hits for cleanupStaleWorktrees anywhere in the diff.	Met

Regressions / speculative machinery

None found. WorktreeDestroyOptions.removeLocked (the only new public-ish surface) is only ever passed from the rollback's own internal call, gated by the lock-reason re-read — it isn't reachable from any CLI command, API route, or external caller, so it doesn't widen any capability. The package.json testGroups split and the two docs edits are mechanical/descriptive, not new behavior.

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Verdict: READY

No open gaps against #3448's contract. The fix is narrowly scoped (16 files, ~991/98 lines against current dev), every outcome/invariant/acceptance line has concrete evidence I verified independently (not just re-reading the PR's own claims), and I reproduced the acceptance test's bite by reverting the fix and watching it fail.

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🟡 Minor · Rollback only after the explicit-SHA worktree is added. · worktree.ts:1438-1455

packages/isolation/src/providers/worktree.ts:1438-1455
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Rollback only after the explicit-SHA worktree is added.

The explicit-SHA path currently leaves a locked checkout when the tracking-branch checkout fails. Add the rollback around only the checkout. If the rollback also catches addLockedWorktree, an add failure caused by another attempt's locked checkout can make this attempt force-remove that other checkout. Preserve cleanupFailure when createFromPR wraps the error.

Suggested fix

       await this.addLockedWorktree(repoPath, [worktreePath, prSha]);

-      // Create a local tracking branch so it's not detached HEAD
-      await this.createBranchWithStaleRetry(
-        repoPath,
-        () =>
-          execFileAsync('git', ['-C', worktreePath, 'checkout', '-b', reviewBranch, prSha], {
-            timeout: GIT_OPERATION_TIMEOUT_MS,
-          }),
-        reviewBranch
-      );
+      try {
+        // Create a local tracking branch so it's not detached HEAD
+        await this.createBranchWithStaleRetry(
+          repoPath,
+          () =>
+            execFileAsync('git', ['-C', worktreePath, 'checkout', '-b', reviewBranch, prSha], {
+              timeout: GIT_OPERATION_TIMEOUT_MS,
+            }),
+          reviewBranch
+        );
+      } catch (error) {
+        const setupError = error instanceof Error ? error : new Error(String(error));
+        await this.rollBackIncompleteWorktree(repoPath, worktreePath, setupError);
+        throw setupError;
+      }

-      const err = error as Error;
-      throw new Error(`Failed to create worktree for PR #${prNumber}: ${err.message}`);
+      const err = error instanceof Error ? error : new Error(String(error));
+      const wrapped = new Error(
+        `Failed to create worktree for PR #${prNumber}: ${err.message}`
+      ) as Error & { cleanupFailure?: string };
+      const cleanupFailure = (err as Error & { cleanupFailure?: string }).cleanupFailure;
+      if (cleanupFailure) wrapped.cleanupFailure = cleanupFailure;
+      throw wrapped;

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In `@packages/isolation/src/providers/worktree.ts` around lines 1438 - 1455, In
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🟠 Major · Roll back when the post-add HEAD lookup fails. · worktree.ts:1569

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Roll back when the post-add HEAD lookup fails.

If git worktree add succeeds but the rev-parse at Line 1611 fails, createNewBranch rejects before createWorktree enters its setup rollback catch. The checkout remains locked and has no returned environment. The same failure applies to the add at Line 1603. Include the HEAD lookup in an ownership-checked rollback scope for both add paths. (git-scm.com)

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Preserve the rollback ownership decision during PR cleanup.

When rollBackIncompleteWorktree finds that the setup lock is gone or belongs to another owner, it refuses removal. The error then reaches createFromPR, which calls cleanOrphanWorktreeIfExists. That helper performs an ownership-free, unforced git worktree remove. If another run has claimed a clean, unlocked checkout, the cleanup can remove that active worktree. Skip outer cleanup when rollback declines removal.

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Not changing this one. The outer cleanup only runs unforced, so it can remove the checkout only when the setup lock is already gone. Our lock leaves only through our own unlock after setup finishes, or an operator running git worktree unlock by hand: no other run unlocks a checkout it did not create, and adoption refuses a locked one. So there is no run-to-run path where another run has claimed this checkout while our rollback is declining it. Threading the rollback's decision out to createFromPR would add machinery for a state Archon does not produce.

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The manual-unlock case still leaves the finding valid. If an operator unlocks the checkout before rollback, rollBackIncompleteWorktree declines removal. createFromPR can then remove that same clean checkout without checking ownership. I’ll leave this thread open, but I won’t press for a change you have declined.

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@Wirasm, thanks for the fix. I verified e340e59ed in the PR head. The explicit-SHA path leaves addLockedWorktree() outside the rollback block and calls rollBackIncompleteWorktree() if the review-branch checkout fails. createFromPR() preserves cleanupFailure when it wraps the setup error. The two new tests cover removal and a failed rollback. I’m marking the finding addressed.

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@coderabbitai On the outside-diff finding (post-add HEAD lookup in createNewBranch): fixed in 7ecaea8. Every step between a locked add and the unlock now runs through one rollBackOnFailure helper: the cut-from rev-parse, the fork-PR review-branch checkout, and the rest of setup. The add stays outside, since a failed add may mean another attempt holds the path. A new test fails on the previous head and passes now. The inline finding on the createFromPR outer cleanup is answered in its thread: not changed, because no Archon path removes our lock while another run holds the checkout.

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@Wirasm, thanks for the fix. I verified 7ecaea8c7 at the PR head. The post-add rev-parse call now runs through rollBackOnFailure, which attempts to remove the locked checkout and rethrows the original error if the lookup fails. The new test covers that failure path. I’m marking the post-add HEAD lookup finding addressed. I have not evaluated the separate createFromPR outer-cleanup concern in this thread.

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Verdict: READY

Scope: 09b0cce..7ecaea8 (the four commits after the prior contract audit), excluding the dev merge's unrelated content. Touched files across the delta: packages/isolation/src/errors.ts, errors.test.ts, providers/worktree.ts, providers/worktree.test.ts.

Merge conflict resolution (8aca3e0) — checked that both sides of the conflict in createWorktree survived intact:

• The fix(isolation): a worktree whose setup failed after git worktree add is adopted by the next run #3448 lock/rollback/refuse-adoption chain is unchanged: the setup lock is still taken as part of git worktree add (no separate lock step), finishWorktreeSetup failures still roll back through rollBackOnFailure → rollBackIncompleteWorktree, and both the internal adoptWorktree and (as of 532fb57) the public adopt() refuse a worktree still carrying the setup lock.
• PR fix(workflows): checkout observations record the right start commit and are fast in new run worktrees #3463's refreshWorktreeIndex is wired in correctly for the resolved conflict: it runs once, only on the create-and-finish path (never on adoption — proven by a dedicated test), as the last step inside finishWorktreeSetup and therefore still under the setup lock, before releaseSetupLock/unlock. That ordering is exactly what avoids an adopter's git command contending for the index lock. A failed refresh is caught locally and only logged (worktree.index_refresh_failed), so it can't turn a successful setup into a rollback — an intentional, documented, observable fallback, not a swallowed error.

Each new commit vs #3448's contract and AGENTS.md:

• 532fb57 — closes a real hole: the public adopt() path (used for skill-app symbiosis) didn't call the unfinished-setup check at all before this commit, only the internal create() adoption paths did. Now both do, and the refusal message names the exact checkout path and the exact git worktree remove --force --force <path> command instead of generic prose.
• 17a3c02 — moves the unfinished-setup pattern to be checked before every other pattern in classifyIsolationError. This is a real fix, not defense-in-depth: in the prior order, 'timeout' was checked before 'its setup did not finish', so a branch-derived path segment containing a word like "timeout" would have masked the specific refusal (with its actionable path/command) behind the generic "Timed out creating workspace" message. The pattern being matched is Archon's own thrown message from refuseUnfinishedWorktree, not vendor/git stderr text, so this isn't the vendor-prose-gating pattern AGENTS.md warns about — it's the same internal-message classification the rest of that file already does for 'cannot adopt', 'branch not found', etc.
• e340e59 / 7ecaea8 — extend the existing "undo git worktree add on a later setup failure" behavior to two more failure points in the fork-PR-with-SHA path: the tracking-branch checkout, and the cut-from rev-parse. Both are wrapped only after this call's own addLockedWorktree has already succeeded, so ownership is never guessed — the checkout being rolled back is provably this attempt's own, matching the "never delete a worktree Archon did not create in this attempt" invariant. Cleanup failures still propagate via recordCleanupFailure/cleanupFailure rather than being swallowed.

Tests — verified they bite, by checking out 7ecaea8, confirming a clean 92/92 pass in packages/isolation, then manually reverting each guard in isolation and re-running bun run test:

• Removing the refuseUnfinishedWorktree call from public adopt() → refuses a registered worktree whose setup never finished fails.
• Restoring the old pattern order (unfinished-setup check after timeout) → an unfinished-setup refusal keeps its path even when the branch slug looks like another error fails.
• Removing the rollBackOnFailure wrap around the fork-PR-with-SHA checkout → both removes the locked checkout it added and reports a rollback that could not finish fail.
• Removing the rollBackOnFailure wrap around the cut-from rev-parse → removes the locked checkout when reading its cut-from commit fails fails.

All four guards were restored afterward; the tree is back to 92/92 passing at 7ecaea8.

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🟡 Minor · Handle partial worktrees when git worktree add fails. · worktree.ts:1367

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Handle partial worktrees when git worktree add fails.

A failing post-checkout hook can make git worktree add --lock reject after Git creates and locks the checkout. This occurs before rollBackOnFailure runs. The PR and existing-branch paths then call cleanOrphanWorktreeIfExists, which uses unforced removal. Git refuses to remove the locked checkout. The helper logs isolation.orphan_cleanup_failed but swallows the failure, so the caller receives only the add error while the locked checkout remains.

Track ownership for this add attempt before using --force --force, or attach an explicit cleanup-failure message to the original error when ownership cannot be established. Do not rely only on SETUP_LOCK_REASON, because a concurrent creator can hold the same marker. Add a real-Git regression test for a failing post-checkout hook.

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@coderabbitai On the outside-diff Minor (a failing post-checkout hook makes git worktree add --lock fail after the checkout exists): the case is real, and I'm leaving it out of this PR. The outcome is not silent: the add error reaches the operator, the leftover stays locked, and any later run refuses it with the exact git worktree remove --force --force <path> command. Proving this attempt owns the checkout without the lock reason needs a per-attempt token, which is more machinery than a user hook that fails on checkout justifies here. It is flagged to the maintainer as a possible follow-up.

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@Wirasm, thanks for clarifying. The failing post-checkout hook remains a real edge case, but the add error reaches the operator and a later run refuses the locked checkout. I understand the decision to leave automatic cleanup out of this PR. I’ll leave the finding unresolved.

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Learning: In `packages/isolation/src/providers/worktree.ts`, a failing Git `post-checkout` hook can cause `git worktree add --lock` to return an error after it creates a locked checkout. The add error reaches the operator, and later runs refuse to adopt the locked checkout and provide a `git worktree remove --force --force <path>` command. Automatic cleanup of this case is outside PR `#3453` because the existing lock reason does not prove which attempt owns the checkout; a per-attempt token would be needed.

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