Tasks: the-loop diagnoses its own failures and files the bug itself

The last spec artifact. A DAG derived from the design and testing plan.

Task list

• [x] 1. Write the failing tests for the pure core (redact + selfdiagnosis units)

  • Scrubber masks (home, username, hostname, paths, e-mails, tokens, sensitive env values); keyword defang defeats control.parse_command; candidate policy; fingerprint normalization; dossier allow-list drops unknown and known-sensitive fields; config parsing (absent/false/invalid → disabled or refusal); retry/abandon and rolling-day-cap arithmetic.
  • Depends on: none
  • Requirements: R1.1–3, R2.1, R3.3, R4.1–2, R5.4, R6.2
  • Test: T1, T8 (red)

• [x] 2. Write the failing integration scenarios (pipeline + watcher + verb)

  • End-to-end with fake agent and fake gh: log record → labeled issue argv; dry run prints and posts nothing; concurrent scan skipped under the lock; watcher scans on interval and stops with its daemon; no-arming assertions on the composed body and argv. Gherkin docstrings with Requirement: links.
  • Depends on: none
  • Requirements: R1.4–6, R2.2, R3.1–4, R4.3, R5.1–3, R6.1, R6.3
  • Test: T2, T8 (red)

• [x] 3. Capture the red run as evidence

  • Depends on: 1, 2
  • Requirements: (process — tdd.mode: standard)
  • Test: evidence/red.md

• [x] 4. redact.py — the scrubber and the keyword defang

  • Depends on: 3
  • Requirements: R4.2, R6.2
  • Test: T1 (green: test_redact.py)

• [x] 5. core/selfdiagnosis.py — policy, fingerprint, dossier, state, compose, post

  • Everything up to but excluding the thread: SelfDiagnosisConfig.from_mapping, _is_candidate, fingerprint, _dossier, the synthetic-Critic agent run, _compose, _create_issue (comments.py contract), the state file with flock and atomic replace, scan() with dedup/retry/abandon/rate-cap.
  • Depends on: 4
  • Requirements: R1.1–3, R1.6, R3, R4, R5, R6.1–2
  • Test: T1, T2, T8 (green)

• [x] 6. start_watcher + the two daemon wiring points

  • Daemon thread on stop_event.wait(interval); poller/daemon.py _run_locked and webhook/daemon.py build_receiver/cleanup start and stop it; None when disabled.
  • Depends on: 5
  • Requirements: R1.4, R2.1
  • Test: T2 -k watcher, T8 -k disabled (green)

• [x] 7. the-loop diagnose command

  • commands/diagnose_cmd.py + registration import; --dry-run works while disabled; refusal names the config key; page under docs/cli/commands/diagnose.md (P1/P2 gate).
  • Depends on: 5
  • Requirements: R1.5, R2.2
  • Test: T2 -k dry_run, T12 (docs parity)

• [x] 8. The selfDiagnosis config section, both schema copies, dogfood yaml, docs

  • .the-loop/cli-config.schema.json + byte-copy cli/the_loop/schemas/…; .the-loop/cli-config.yaml block (enabled: false, commented); config reference page docs/config/cli/self-diagnosis-options.md (P3/P4/P5 gates).
  • Depends on: 5
  • Requirements: R2.1, R2.3
  • Test: T12 (schema parity, configschema guard, docs parity)

• [x] 9. Event types, state registry, observability reference

  • eventlog.EVENT_TYPES += diagnosis.detected|posted|deferred|failed; state.GENERATED_PATHS += the self-diagnosis state file; skills/the-loop/reference/observability.md mirrors the new types; docs/cli/state.md if it enumerates the layout.
  • Depends on: 5
  • Requirements: NFR (observability, state locality)
  • Test: T12

• [x] 10. Run the full suite and the repo's own gates

  • Depends on: 6, 7, 8, 9
  • Requirements: all
  • Test: T12, T13

• [x] 11. Manual dry run on this repo's own log, human-read for redaction quality

  • Depends on: 10
  • Requirements: R4 (judgement)
  • Test: T11 → evidence/dry-run.md

• [x] 12. Capability doc, decision record, user-facing docs

  • New docs/capabilities/self-diagnosis.md + index row; decision-090 (opt-in self-diagnosis: detection over the event log, allow-list redaction, never-armed issues), indexed in decisions.md; README/docs-site touchpoint if the change makes either wrong; execution log ## Capability docs + ## Documentation.
  • Depends on: 10
  • Requirements: R1–R6 (the record of them)
  • Test: T12 — pytest cli/tests/test_docs_parity.py, T13