Red run — the tests that motivate the change (issue-270)

Captured before any production code changed: at this point only cli/tests/* and the spec chain exist, so every failure below is the reported bug.

Command

$ uv run --project cli python -m pytest -q \
    cli/tests/test_routing.py cli/tests/test_poller.py \
    cli/tests/test_poller_integration.py cli/tests/test_interaction.py \
    -k "settle or settled or deduper_remembers or pre_start or older_version or whole_thread"

Output

=========================== short test summary info ============================
FAILED cli/tests/test_routing.py::test_router_deduper_remembers_a_delivery_outcome
FAILED cli/tests/test_routing.py::test_a_comment_refused_awaiting_start_settles_its_delivery
FAILED cli/tests/test_routing.py::test_a_spawn_policy_drop_still_releases_its_id_and_settles_nothing
FAILED cli/tests/test_routing.py::test_a_paused_session_settles_the_delivery_it_suppresses
FAILED cli/tests/test_routing.py::test_a_pause_between_enqueue_and_dispatch_settles_the_delivery
FAILED cli/tests/test_routing.py::test_a_delivery_a_session_received_outranks_a_settlement
FAILED cli/tests/test_routing.py::test_an_executed_control_command_settles_its_delivery
FAILED cli/tests/test_routing.py::test_a_rejected_control_command_settles_its_delivery
FAILED cli/tests/test_routing.py::test_conflicting_control_keywords_settle_the_delivery
FAILED cli/tests/test_poller.py::test_a_synchronously_settled_comment_is_baselined_with_no_attempt
FAILED cli/tests/test_poller.py::test_a_comment_settled_after_an_attempt_is_resolved_next_cycle
FAILED cli/tests/test_poller.py::test_a_settled_comment_is_never_abandoned_so_an_upgrade_replays_nothing
FAILED cli/tests/test_poller.py::test_a_settled_comment_reports_no_delivery_failure
FAILED cli/tests/test_poller.py::test_a_settled_presence_resolves_the_spawn_ledger
FAILED cli/tests/test_poller_integration.py::test_a_pre_start_comment_is_refused_once_and_never_counted_again
FAILED cli/tests/test_poller_integration.py::test_a_ledger_left_pending_by_an_older_version_settles_on_the_next_cycle
FAILED cli/tests/test_interaction.py::test_the_spawn_prompt_tells_the_session_to_read_the_whole_thread
17 failed, 343 deselected in 0.91s

What each failure says

Test	Pre-fix behaviour it pins
test_router_deduper_remembers_a_delivery_outcome	the dedup entry holds no outcome — there is nowhere to say "done with this"
test_a_comment_refused_awaiting_start_settles_its_delivery	the ticket's case: the refusal reads back as inflight
test_a_paused_session_settles_the_delivery_it_suppresses · …pause_between_enqueue_and_dispatch…	the same for a paused session, on both the synchronous and the asynchronous path
test_a_delivery_a_session_received_outranks_a_settlement	precedence: a real delivery must still win
test_an_executed_control_command_settles_its_delivery · …rejected… · …conflicting_control_keywords…	a consumed control comment is accounted for as a pending delivery
test_a_spawn_policy_drop_still_releases_its_id_and_settles_nothing	the control: spawn-policy must keep releasing its id (it fails only because delivery_outcome does not exist yet)
test_a_synchronously_settled_comment_is_baselined_with_no_attempt	commentAttempts: {IC_1: 1} — the reported symptom
test_a_comment_settled_after_an_attempt_is_resolved_next_cycle	a later settlement never clears the counter
test_a_settled_comment_is_never_abandoned_so_an_upgrade_replays_nothing	the refusal is written into gaveUp, which a later version re-arms — an accidental replay
test_a_settled_comment_reports_no_delivery_failure	poll.comment_failed and a give-up notice on the ticket for a delivery nobody attempted
test_a_settled_presence_resolves_the_spawn_ledger	a refused presence spends the spawn budget
test_a_pre_start_comment_is_refused_once_and_never_counted_again	the reproduction, end to end, including the restart
test_a_ledger_left_pending_by_an_older_version_settles_on_the_next_cycle	an existing stuck ledger is retried rather than resolved
test_the_spawn_prompt_tells_the_session_to_read_the_whole_thread	nothing tells the spawned session to read what was never delivered