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🔗 Linked Issue

Closes #1266


🏷️ PR Type

  • type:feature — New feature

📝 Summary

  • Adds engram session end <id> as the CLI counterpart of mem_session_end: marks a session ended while keeping its observations, with idempotent statuses (ended / already_ended / not_found) and --summary / --json support. Unlike the store's legacy EndSession, the strict path never silently succeeds on an unknown ID and never overwrites an existing ended_at or summary.
  • Adds bulk cleanup: engram session end --by-age <dur> [--project X] selects open sessions by last activity (observation fallback to started_at), defaults to a dry-run preview, and only mutates with --apply. All ends and their sync-journal entries commit in one transaction.
  • Adds a read-only stale_open_sessions doctor check (30d activity threshold, per-project counts, oldest/newest) whose safe next step points at the new command, so the accumulation reported in Sessions never end: 1000+ open sessions accumulate and break mem_save with 'multiple active runtime sessions' #1247 becomes visible before it breaks mem_save with multiple active runtime sessions.

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File Change
internal/store/store.go EndSessionStrict (status tri-state, COALESCE summary guard, journals on end only); StaleOpenSessions read-only selection (last-activity proxy, LOWER(project) match, NULL-project excluded); EndSessionsBulk single-tx bulk end with per-session journal entries
internal/store/store_test.go 14 subtests: status paths, ended_at/summary preservation, age boundary, project matching, journal presence
cmd/engram/session.go New session end command: single/bulk modes, table-tested arg parser rejecting unknown tokens before store open, 72h/30d/2w durations, dry-run default with --apply, --json for both modes
cmd/engram/session_test.go 48 subtests: parser tables, 3 single-end paths, dry-run no-mutation, apply, JSON shapes, pre-store-open rejections, dispatch, usage
cmd/engram/main.go session dispatch case and usage block (mirrors delete)
internal/diagnostic/checks.go stale_open_sessions check: warning severity, evidence with per-project counts/oldest/newest, read-only
internal/diagnostic/checks_test.go Scope.Now time-travel tests: stale flagged, fresh by activity not flagged, ended ignored, registry membership
internal/diagnostic/registry.go Registers the new check
internal/diagnostic/diagnostic_test.go One-line sorted want-list update for the registry ordering test

🧪 Test Plan

  • Unit tests pass locally: go test ./internal/store ./internal/diagnostic and go test ./cmd/engram -skip TestCmdServeSignalClosesUnixSocket (the skipped test is a known environmental failure on this machine: socket parent-hierarchy permissions; it passes under umask 022)
  • E2E tests pass locally: go test -tags e2e ./internal/server/... — not run; no server or HTTP surface changed (git diff confirms internal/server, internal/mcp, plugin/ untouched)
  • Lint passes locally: make lint — golangci-lint not available locally; go vet and staticcheck are clean on the three touched packages
  • Manually tested the affected functionality: built the binary and exercised all paths against a scratch DB — single end (fresh/already-ended/unknown), bulk dry-run listing without mutation, bulk --apply with case-insensitive project match, mutual-exclusion and unknown-flag rejections, doctor check with stale and clean states, sync journal entries for ended sessions (single and bulk), and an already-ended session's original ended_at/summary preserved across bulk runs

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New Features

  • Added session end commands for ending individual sessions or managing stale sessions in bulk.
  • Individual sessions support summaries and JSON output; bulk operations support age and project filters, dry-run previews, apply mode, and JSON output.
  • Added support for day- and week-based duration values.
  • Diagnostics now identify stale open sessions, group findings by project, and provide guidance for resolving them.

Bug Fixes

  • Session-ending results distinguish ended, already-ended, and unknown sessions while preserving existing summaries.

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The change adds session-ending store operations, a new engram session end CLI with single and bulk modes, and a diagnostic check for stale open sessions. Tests cover validation, output, persistence, journaling, filtering, registration, and execution.

Changes

Session lifecycle management

Layer / File(s) Summary
Store session lifecycle operations
internal/store/store.go, internal/store/store_test.go
The store now supports strict single-session ending, stale open-session selection, transactional bulk ending, summary preservation, and sync journaling.
Session end CLI
cmd/engram/main.go, cmd/engram/session.go, cmd/engram/session_test.go
The CLI adds session end dispatch, single-session and bulk argument validation, dry-run and apply modes, text and JSON output, compact age parsing, and related tests.
Stale-session diagnostic check
internal/diagnostic/checks.go, internal/diagnostic/checks_test.go, internal/diagnostic/registry.go, internal/diagnostic/diagnostic_test.go
The diagnostic registry reports open sessions older than 30 days with project aggregation, timestamps, warning severity, and cleanup guidance.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Operator
  participant cmdSessionEnd
  participant Store
  participant SQLite
  Operator->>cmdSessionEnd: submit session end arguments
  cmdSessionEnd->>Store: validate mode and request session operation
  Store->>SQLite: select or update session rows
  SQLite-->>Store: session status or matching IDs
  Store-->>cmdSessionEnd: operation result
  cmdSessionEnd-->>Operator: text or JSON output
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Maintainers: I'm pull-only, so I can't apply the type:bug label myself. Could someone add it (commit type is fix) so the Check PR Has type:* Label gate can pass? Thanks!

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Non-blocking follow-up notes from the native review (13 informational advisories; the two substantive ones are now tracked as #1253 — unbounded --project-only bulk window — and #1254 — bulk lock hold / stale-scan cost). The remaining polish items, listed so they are not lost; all are small and confined to this PR's surface:

  • internal/store/store.go (staleOpenSessionQuery comment): a curly quote glyph slipped into "neither LOWER(NULL) nor ["] equals a named project" — normalize to ASCII
  • EndSessionStrict comment accuracy: the SQL is summary = COALESCE(?, summary), so a provided summary does replace a previously stored one when re-reading an open row that already carries a summary (possible via sync import or legacy data). The comment currently says it never clobbers; either fix the comment or, if fill-only was intended, use COALESCE(summary, ?) and adjust the test
  • Usage text is duplicated between printSessionEndUsage and the cmdSession no-args branch — extract one constant/printer
  • The 30d threshold lives three times (staleOpenSessionsThreshold, staleOpenSessionsThresholdDays, and the literal 720h inside the SafeNextStep string) — single-source it so the guidance cannot drift from the check
  • parseSessionEndAge: compact forms like 999999999d overflow float64 -> time.Duration silently; the d <= 0 guard only catches negative overflow — reject values beyond math.MaxInt64 nanoseconds
  • Single-end --json: a storeGetSession failure after a successful end goes through fatal, so the mutation happened but no JSON was emitted — degrade to printing the status with ended_at omitted instead of exiting ugly

Happy to take these as a small follow-up PR once #1253/#1254 are triaged.

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In `@cmd/engram/session.go`:
- Around line 92-114: Update the argument parsing for --summary and --project in
the session-end parser to reject missing, whitespace-only, empty, or ---prefixed
values before any store access; reuse the existing missingValue("--summary") and
missingValue("--project") errors, and preserve valid value handling.

In `@internal/diagnostic/checks_test.go`:
- Line 25: Add a deterministic test for StaleOpenSessionsCheck.Run that makes
Store.StaleOpenSessions return a known error, then assert Run returns that same
error unchanged. Keep the test focused on the diagnostic caller error path and
avoid duplicating the store’s cutoff or activity coverage.

In `@internal/diagnostic/checks.go`:
- Line 155: Update StaleOpenSessionsCheck.Run to pass scope.Project to
Store.StaleOpenSessions instead of an empty project filter, preserving project
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project-scoped run only reports stale sessions belonging to the requested
project.

In `@internal/store/store_test.go`:
- Around line 16162-16531: Add rollback-focused tests for EndSessionStrict and
EndSessionsBulk by forcing enqueueSyncMutationTx’s sync_mutations insert to
fail. Verify EndSessionStrict leaves its session open with no journal mutation,
and verify EndSessionsBulk rolls back all session updates and journal mutations
when a later session fails after an earlier one succeeds.

In `@internal/store/store.go`:
- Line 2914: Update the session-ending SQL statement to use COALESCE(summary, ?)
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@dnlrsls ready for your review. This closes #1247 (status:approved, priority:high).

All functional checks are green (unit, E2E, lint, plugin, Windows); the only failing check is "Check PR Has type:* Label", which needs the type:bug label applied on your side.

Follow-ups from the native review are already filed as #1253 and #1254, so they don't block this one.

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… end CLI

- validate --summary/--project values before store access: empty,
  whitespace-only, and flag-like values are rejected through the
  existing missingValue errors
- require an explicit --by-age window in bulk mode so --project alone
  can never select every open session; --project now only narrows
  within the window (Closes Gentleman-Programming#1253)
- scope the stale_open_sessions doctor check to the requested project
  instead of scanning every project
- EndSessionStrict fills but never clobbers an existing session
  summary: COALESCE(summary, ?) matches the documented fill-only
  contract
- pin transactional rollback of EndSessionStrict and EndSessionsBulk
  when sync journaling fails mid-batch (regression tests via the
  storeHooks.exec seam)

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🟠 Major · Return the end result from the mutation transaction. · session.go:211-257

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Return the end result from the mutation transaction.

cmdSessionEndSingle calls (*store.Store).EndSessionStrict, then calls (*store.Store).GetSession before writing JSON. EndSessionStrict commits the update and returns only the status. GetSession performs a separate query and can return a query or scan error. fatal then exits before writeSessionEndJSON, so a committed session end can return an error with no JSON result.

Return ended_at with the status from EndSessionStrict, including the existing timestamp for already_ended, and build the JSON payload from that result. Do not call GetSession after the commit or substitute time.Now(). The SQL timestamp is authoritative. The existing tests require ended_at for both fresh and already-ended JSON results.

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In `@cmd/engram/session.go` around lines 211 - 257, Update storeEndSessionStrict
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authoritative ended_at timestamp, including the existing timestamp for
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remove the post-commit storeGetSession call; do not substitute time.Now(), and
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- Around line 211-257: Update storeEndSessionStrict and cmdSessionEndSingle so
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cmdSessionEndSingle previously re-read the session with GetSession
after the end transaction committed; a failure in that second read
made a committed session end exit 1 with no JSON output. EndSessionStrict
now returns SessionEndResult{Status, EndedAt}: the fresh timestamp for
ended, the original one for already_ended, nil for not_found. The --json
payload is built from that result and the post-commit GetSession (and
its injectable stub) is removed.

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The current head already fixes #1253: bulk session end --project now requires --by-age, and the regression coverage rejects both project-only and project-plus-apply invocations before the store opens.

Please update this branch against current main and resolve its conflicts while preserving the guard in cmd/engram/session.go and the associated tests. The downstream zero-age store behavior still selects every open session, so losing this CLI validation during conflict resolution would reintroduce the unsafe path. Once the branch is clean, we can re-review it.

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… end CLI

- validate --summary/--project values before store access: empty,
  whitespace-only, and flag-like values are rejected through the
  existing missingValue errors
- require an explicit --by-age window in bulk mode so --project alone
  can never select every open session; --project now only narrows
  within the window (Closes Gentleman-Programming#1253)
- scope the stale_open_sessions doctor check to the requested project
  instead of scanning every project
- EndSessionStrict fills but never clobbers an existing session
  summary: COALESCE(summary, ?) matches the documented fill-only
  contract
- pin transactional rollback of EndSessionStrict and EndSessionsBulk
  when sync journaling fails mid-batch (regression tests via the
  storeHooks.exec seam)

CodeRabbit findings from the 2026-09-18 review of Gentleman-Programming#1252.
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cmdSessionEndSingle previously re-read the session with GetSession
after the end transaction committed; a failure in that second read
made a committed session end exit 1 with no JSON output. EndSessionStrict
now returns SessionEndResult{Status, EndedAt}: the fresh timestamp for
ended, the original one for already_ended, nil for not_found. The --json
payload is built from that result and the post-commit GetSession (and
its injectable stub) is removed.

Addresses the CodeRabbit Major finding from the 20:11 re-review of Gentleman-Programming#1252.
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In `@internal/store/store.go`:
- Around line 3043-3046: Update the stale-session query around the GROUP
BY/HAVING clause to normalize stored and cutoff timestamps before comparison:
aggregate normalized order timestamps, normalize s.started_at, and normalize the
cutoff parameter using SQLite datetime conversion. Preserve the existing
grouping and ordering while ensuring RFC3339 values with a T compare correctly
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Branch updated against main@9ac5cef (force-push e6d1968 → de2eae1). One real conflict during the rebase, in internal/store/store_test.go (both sides appended test blocks at the same anchor) — resolved by keeping both: your six runtime-lease tests first, then the session-end tests.

The --by-age guard survived intact: TestCmdSessionEndRejectsInvalidInvocationsBeforeStoreOpen still asserts that --project-only and --project --apply without a window are rejected before the store opens, and it passes on the rebased head. CI is green.

Two pre-existing main-side notes, not introduced here: gofmt drift in internal/diagnostic/diagnostic_test.go and cmd/engram/doctor.go (already on main), and TestCmdServeSignalClosesUnixSocket is umask-sensitive locally (fails under 0002, passes under 022; CI unaffected). Happy to take either as a separate issue if useful.

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…e windows

The stale open-session selection compared stored timestamps as raw
strings. Imported observations carry RFC3339 values whose 'T' sorts
above the space-format cutoff, so same-day activity kept stale
sessions permanently fresh and EndSessionsBulk silently skipped them.
Normalize the aggregate, the started_at fallback, and the cutoff bind
through datetime() so both layouts compare in one canonical form;
unparseable values stay NULL and fail safe.

EndSessionsBulk now rejects olderThan <= 0 with ErrInvalidStalenessWindow
before computing the cutoff, defending the store boundary even though
the session CLI already validates --by-age.

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Adds the operator-facing counterpart to mem_session_end so accumulated
open sessions can be closed without deleting observations:

- store: EndSessionStrict (ended/already_ended/not_found statuses, never
  overwrites an existing ended_at or summary, sync-journals on end),
  read-only StaleOpenSessions selection, and EndSessionsBulk which ends
  every match and journals each mutation in a single transaction
- CLI: 'engram session end <id>' with --summary and --json, plus bulk
  mode (--by-age, --project) that defaults to a dry-run preview and only
  mutates with --apply; unknown flags are rejected before the store
  opens
- doctor: new read-only stale_open_sessions check (30d activity
  threshold, per-project counts) whose safe next step points at the new
  command

Closes Gentleman-Programming#1247
… end CLI

- validate --summary/--project values before store access: empty,
  whitespace-only, and flag-like values are rejected through the
  existing missingValue errors
- require an explicit --by-age window in bulk mode so --project alone
  can never select every open session; --project now only narrows
  within the window (Closes Gentleman-Programming#1253)
- scope the stale_open_sessions doctor check to the requested project
  instead of scanning every project
- EndSessionStrict fills but never clobbers an existing session
  summary: COALESCE(summary, ?) matches the documented fill-only
  contract
- pin transactional rollback of EndSessionStrict and EndSessionsBulk
  when sync journaling fails mid-batch (regression tests via the
  storeHooks.exec seam)

CodeRabbit findings from the 2026-09-18 review of Gentleman-Programming#1252.
cmdSessionEndSingle previously re-read the session with GetSession
after the end transaction committed; a failure in that second read
made a committed session end exit 1 with no JSON output. EndSessionStrict
now returns SessionEndResult{Status, EndedAt}: the fresh timestamp for
ended, the original one for already_ended, nil for not_found. The --json
payload is built from that result and the post-commit GetSession (and
its injectable stub) is removed.

Addresses the CodeRabbit Major finding from the 20:11 re-review of Gentleman-Programming#1252.
…e windows

The stale open-session selection compared stored timestamps as raw
strings. Imported observations carry RFC3339 values whose 'T' sorts
above the space-format cutoff, so same-day activity kept stale
sessions permanently fresh and EndSessionsBulk silently skipped them.
Normalize the aggregate, the started_at fallback, and the cutoff bind
through datetime() so both layouts compare in one canonical form;
unparseable values stay NULL and fail safe.

EndSessionsBulk now rejects olderThan <= 0 with ErrInvalidStalenessWindow
before computing the cutoff, defending the store boundary even though
the session CLI already validates --by-age.

Addresses the two actionable CodeRabbit findings from the 02:06 review
of Gentleman-Programming#1252.
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Status update: branch updated again, now 023dba8 on current main, keeping the full review round plus the stale-session timestamp normalization and the non-positive window guard. All checks green (unit, E2E, lint, plugin, Windows, CodeRabbit). Still ready whenever you are; closes #1247.

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Thanks for turning the stale-session recovery problem into an explicit, dry-run-first operator workflow. I reviewed immutable head 023dba827c02c16218c71123832a0bac6139f1df against current main@70870987f56ae662acf3cfa36fa7e9a99efa9fb3. The synthetic merge is conflict-free, but the current-main runtime contract exposes two destructive-selection blockers.

Blocking correctness

  1. Never bulk-end a session with a live runtime lease.

    staleOpenSessionQuery (internal/store/store.go:3030-3057) only checks ended_at IS NULL and observation/start timestamps. Current main has authoritative runtime_lease_expires_at semantics, but this query ignores them, so an old session with an unexpired lease can appear in the dry run and be ended by --apply.

    This contradicts approved issue #1266's requirement that cleanup remain safe when a genuinely live runtime exists. Exclude valid unexpired leases using the caller-supplied now so preview/apply and tests stay deterministic. Treat a non-empty malformed lease conservatively rather than guessing that the runtime is dead. Add store, CLI dry-run/apply, and doctor coverage.

  2. Malformed activity timestamps must fail closed.

    MAX(datetime(o.created_at)) ignores malformed values, then COALESCE(..., datetime(s.started_at)) treats the session as if it had no observations. An old session whose only/latest observation has an unparseable timestamp can therefore be selected and ended. The comment currently describes the opposite behavior.

    Preserve uncertainty: if any relevant activity value cannot be ordered safely, do not auto-select that session for destructive cleanup. Add malformed observation and malformed session timestamp cases for both preview and apply.

  3. Keep preview and apply on one validated store contract.

    EndSessionsBulk rejects non-positive windows, while public StaleOpenSessions does not. The CLI parser currently protects the dry run, but the store APIs can disagree if called elsewhere. Apply the same positive-window validation at the shared selection boundary and test parity.

  4. Restore the standard race gate.

    The full go test -race ./internal/store ./internal/diagnostic ./cmd/engram -count=1 command failed on both the candidate and synthetic current-main merge at TestCmdMCPStdioSIGTERMRunsGracefulShutdown; the identical full command passes exact current main. The MCP test also passes when isolated on all three trees, so this is a candidate-suite interaction, load, or leaked-state problem rather than a direct MCP behavior regression. Please identify and remove the interaction or make the synchronization deterministic; the eventual combined tree must pass the ordinary race command, not only focused tests.

Integration ownership

Open PR #1250 already changes the canonical EndSession contract to reject missing IDs, preserve terminal timestamps/summaries, journal only real transitions, and classify busy-store failures. This PR adds a parallel EndSessionStrict implementation. A synthetic chain is textually conflict-free, but it leaves two close primitives with overlapping semantics and different error behavior.

Please stack the single-session CLI work on the canonical closure contract after #1250 is dispositioned instead of introducing a second store API that can drift.

Documentation and review size

This adds a destructive operator command but no user-facing command documentation outside --help; please document single end, dry-run, --apply, project scoping, JSON output, live-lease exclusion, and recovery/rollback expectations in the canonical CLI/operations docs.

At 2,124 changed lines across nine files, this cannot receive a blanket size exception. Split it by behavior with tests kept beside each contract. A safe chain is:

  1. canonical single-session closure/CLI on top of #1250;
  2. stale selection plus transactional bulk store behavior;
  3. bulk CLI and operator documentation;
  4. read-only doctor diagnostic.

If one test-heavy slice still crosses 400 lines, request a narrow evidenced exception for that slice rather than the monolith.

Verification

  • synthetic merge with current main: conflict-free (cd0ce11d6c0162f8cde28298b82e609248fa0603)
  • git diff --check: passed
  • candidate go test ./internal/store ./internal/diagnostic ./cmd/engram -count=1: passed
  • candidate go vet ./internal/store ./internal/diagnostic ./cmd/engram: passed
  • synthetic current-main merge focused tests: passed
  • full candidate and synthetic -race commands both fail at TestCmdMCPStdioSIGTERMRunsGracefulShutdown; the same full command passes exact current main, while the focused MCP test passes on all three trees

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Split executed per your chain. All four slices are built, verified, and pushed to the fork; this PR is superseded by the stack below (issue #1266 stays open until the stack lands).

# Branch (danielgap/engram) Commit Lines Contents
1 fix/1247-session-end-single 0f7462b +631 single-session end CLI composed on #1250's canonical contract (GetSession pre-check, EndSession transition, authoritative re-read; no EndSessionStrict anywhere in the chain)
2 fix/1247-stale-bulk-store 221381c +549 stale selection (StaleOpenSessions) + transactional EndSessionsBulk with per-row journaling and window guard
3 fix/1247-bulk-cli-docs 24bf92c +472/−21 bulk CLI (dry-run default, explicit --apply, --json envelopes, --by-age/--project) + operator docs (CLI reference entry + Session End CLI section)
4 fix/1247-stale-doctor c05f435 +271/−1 read-only stale_open_sessions doctor check + DOCTOR.md catalog entry

Slices 1-3 are test-heavy and cross the 400-line budget (422, 387, and ~330 test lines respectively of each total). Requesting the narrow evidenced exception you allowed per slice rather than the monolith; slice 4 lands at 272.

Sequencing: fork PRs can only target upstream branches, so the stack opens sequentially. PR 1 targets main as soon as #1250 is dispositioned, since its composition already speaks that contract (ErrSessionNotFound, ErrSessionBusy, already-ended short-circuit with preserved terminal state). Each later PR opens when its parent merges, retargeted so only its own slice shows.

Verification at the chain head: go build ./..., go vet on all three touched packages, and go test ./internal/store ./internal/diagnostic ./cmd/engram -count=1 all pass (one known local socket-permission test skipped locally, unrelated).

The four blockers land as focused commits on their owning slices: live-lease exclusion in the stale selection (slice 2, once the chain rebases onto current main's runtime_lease_expires_at), malformed-timestamp fail-closed (slice 2), shared positive-window validation (slice 2), and the MCP race-gate interaction (chain level).

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