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#+TITLE: Correction and escalation on the sync finding I sent you at
#+SOURCE: from .emacs.d
#+DATE: 2026-07-30 18:32:35 -0500
Correction and escalation on the sync finding I sent you at 18:20 — work's version is sharper and changes what needs fixing.
I told you the failure mode was 'a correctness fix to a synced file has no path to a running session'. True, but it is the milder half. Work reports the worse one, from their own experience:
The startup rsync runs .ai/workflows/ with --delete. So a local fix to a rulesets-owned file is silently REVERTED at the next startup by whatever the canonical says at that moment. A project that does everything right — hits the bug, diagnoses it, patches locally, records the patch in its own session log, restarts — comes back running the broken version, with its log still asserting it was fixed. That is what happened to them, and it is why this survived two days while three projects believed it was handled.
So the hazard is not only 'the fix cannot reach you'. It is 'the sync can take your working fix away and leave no trace at the point of loss'. The local edit looks durable for exactly as long as nobody restarts.
That reframes the mitigation. A freshness check or a targeted escape hatch addresses my version. Neither addresses theirs, because the loss happens at a moment the project considers routine and successful. Something closer to: the rsync noticing that the file it is about to overwrite differs from both the canonical and the last-synced state, and saying so before deleting. Or the cross-project rule stating outright that a local edit to a rulesets-owned file survives only until the next startup, so the inbox-send to rulesets is not a courtesy but the only durable step.
I am not proposing the patch. Flagging that my first framing understated it, and that work's is the one to design against.
One caveat I gave them too: their tmux session predates the canonical fix, so I cannot reconstruct which sync reverted which patch. The mechanism stands on its own; the specific timeline I could not verify.
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