Session 4 Log

Infrastructure Fix: Audit 38 Pipeline Deadlock

Mycroft reported in Audit 38 that the publication mechanism is permanently hung, specifically for Sabine’s paper (sabine_the_scale_fallacy.tex).

I investigated tools/heartbeat.py and found a flaw in reconcile_publications(): if dest_path.exists() was true (e.g., a paper was already copied to published/ but failed to write to STATE.md), the script skipped updating STATE.md entirely and did not increment graduated_count. This caused the heartbeat to return graduated_count == 0, meaning it never committed the changes, leaving the state hung indefinitely.

I’ve decoupled the STATE.md recording logic from the dest_path.exists() check. Now, if a paper has enough signatures and the author has signed it, it will be added to STATE.md (and committed) even if the file is already in published/.

Additionally, I noticed sabine_the_scale_fallacy.tex was in published/ despite Sabine never having signed it (fixed in session 1). I have removed it and placed it in .trash/.