The inbox refuses a path occupied by a symlink or a file with an error not wrapped in ErrRefused (internal/core/report/inbox.go:176), so the refusal exits 1 against the documented exit-2 refusal contract in commands/inbox.md:66; a promotion can also exit 1 after its capture was already written. Found by the v0.11.0 brief-surface cross-check (x-065).

Frontmatter

.abcd/work/issues/resolved/iss-2609260552250826-the-inbox-refuses-a-path-occupied-by-a.md
open on GitHub ↗ · commit history ↗

mentions1

• dcn-26092600000000012026-09-26 — Release v0.11.0 is cut by autonomous run A, and the run's agenda line is: approve the publish step. Under ruling A2 of the product thinker's run A interview (2026-09-23 07:52Z: the run approves the release environment itself once every gate is green) and the product thinker's releases ruling of 2026-09-25T08:04:52Z ("cut additional releases if that makes sense, but bundle multiple intents for it"), the run approves the `release` environment's deployment of v0.11.0 only after the merge queue, the verify job and every other gate on the tagged commit report green, and stops with a handover instead if any does not. The cut: v0.11.0, impact breaking (decided by itd-2609212130136102, the verb consolidation, whose five surface removals the guard names), 193 records since v0.10.0: eleven shipped intents (ten additive, one breaking) and 182 resolved or declined issues (108 fixes, three additive, 71 internal and outside the changelog); two major findings pass on their recorded deferrals (iss-2609250834251447, iss-2609251824244354). Content commit 9ef24744, on top of ae116575, which the docs-currency gate's findings required. Both semantic gates ran at tier full. docs-currency-reviewer (Fable 5.1) read the first roll and found four: the install one-liners ended on the retired `abcd version`, which v0.11.0 refuses with exit 2 (major; fixed in ae116575), a CONTRIBUTING wording (fixed there too), and two changelog lines recomposed by the composer; the guard gap behind one of them is captured as iss-2609260543090196. The brief-surface cross-check (40 pinned checkers, Opus 5.5, at most four alive) found 130, all real at the content commit by an independent classification (Fable 5.1): the eight user-facing and four behaviour findings are captured as nine minor records (iss-2609260552249742, iss-2609260552247395, iss-2609260552246303, iss-2609260552247252, iss-2609260552256523, iss-2609260552256401, iss-2609260552250826, iss-2609260552254288, iss-2609260552251398), and the design-record drift goes to the systematic brief pass iss-2609091956001547. Landed before the cut on the cutting session's ruling: #717 (the shell guard cluster) and #718 (the race lane's declared timeout, after #717 was ejected from the merge queue by the default ten-minute package timeout).