fix(docs): sweep the retired `engine.build` out of the corpus, leaving only the page that says it is gone by aitrawog · Pull Request #164 · opencharly/docs

aitrawog · 2026-10-16T16:05:52Z

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Summary

Sweeps the retired engine.build out of the corpus's prose — leaving in place only the page that
already says the key is gone.

engine.build was removed from the contract by the BuildKit cutover (opencharly/opencharly#481):
the image builder is BuildKit, which is not a container engine, so it cannot run a container and
therefore cannot be selected like one. Five sites still carried the string; four of them conditioned
behaviour on it.

The before-state, pasted complete rather than retyped — this is the whole output of the grep,
extracted from the parent commit (8d3005c^), not transcribed from the four sites the issue names:

$ grep -rn 'engine.build' src/content/docs          # at 8d3005c^
recipes/build/build.md:448:**There is no `engine.build`**: the image builder is BuildKit, which is not a container
recipes/core/charly-doctor.md:133:- [`/charly-core:charly-config`](/recipes/core/charly-config/) — `engine.build`, `engine.run`, `secret_backend` settings, `--no-auto-detect` flag, DRINODE injection via `appendAutoDetectedEnv()`
recipes/core/deploy.md:474:When `engine.build=docker`, `charly config` auto-detects if the image is missing from podman and transfers via `docker save | podman load`. `charly update` re-transfers if needed.
recipes/core/service.md:140:When `engine.build=docker`, `charly config` auto-detects if the image is missing from podman and transfers via `docker save | podman load`. `charly update` re-transfers if needed.
recipes/core/shell.md:168:When `engine.build` differs from `engine.run`, images are automatically transferred between engines on demand via `<src> save | <dst> load`.

build.md:448 is in that list and is deliberately NOT edited by this PR — it is the page that
already states the key is gone, and it is the authority the other four are repaired against. It is
named here so the before/after pair is a complete account rather than a filtered one.

Three of the four repaired sites are a MOVED TRIGGER, not a deletion. They sit under a heading
about image transfer, and the transfer itself is real — shell.md cites dispatchBuildEnsure
(charly/dispatch_build_ensure.go), and service.md/deploy.md cite sdk/deploykit/quadlet.go.
What was stale is the condition: engine.build cannot differ from anything, because it does not
exist. So the condition moves to engine.run, which this corpus's own build recipe already states
is unaffected and still selectable:

$ src/content/docs/recipes/build/build.md:446-450
    charly settings set engine.run docker     # or podman — which engine RUNS containers

    **There is no `engine.build`**: the image builder is BuildKit, which is not a container engine
    — it cannot run a container and therefore cannot be selected like one. `engine.run` is
    unaffected and still selectable.

And the fourth is a pure deletion, because a cross-reference list entry has no behaviour to
move: charly-doctor.md listed the key among the settings charly-core:charly-config owns, and it
no longer owns it.

The diff is four lines:

file	before	after
`recipes/core/shell.md:168`	`When` engine.build`differs from`engine.run``	`When a build and a run name different engines`
`recipes/core/service.md:140`	`When` engine.build=docker``	`When` engine.run=docker``
`recipes/core/deploy.md:474`	`When` engine.build=docker``	`When` engine.run=docker``
`recipes/core/charly-doctor.md:133`	`—` engine.build`,` engine.run`, …`	`—` engine.run`, …`

How tested

The claim-keyed repo-wide grep R5 requires, run on the committed tree:

$ grep -rn 'engine.build' src/content/docs          # at 8d3005c7a974 (the head above)
recipes/build/build.md:448:**There is no `engine.build`**: the image builder is BuildKit, which is not a container engine …
$ grep -rn 'CHARLY_BUILD_ENGINE' src/content/docs    # not edited; see below
recipes/distros/container-nesting.md:29:| Env | `CHARLY_BUILD_ENGINE=podman`, `CHARLY_RUN_ENGINE=podman`, …

One occurrence remains, and it is the page that explicitly states the key is gone — the same page
named in the before-block above, unedited by design. The before-list has five entries and the
after-list has one, and the one is in both; that is the whole account.

The CHARLY_BUILD_ENGINE hit in container-nesting.md is deliberately untouched: it is a
recorded environment table from a worked example, not a claim that the setting is live, and R5
deletes stale documentation of a live surface, not a historical transcript.

And the product side of the claim was measured, not read from the issue's prose:

$ charly settings get engine.run     ->  podman          (live)
$ charly settings get engine.build   ->  a registered default the contract does not consume
$ grep engine.build in the resolved spec's schema/*.cue  ->  only extra_candy_refs, a different field

This repository has no check-docs bed in its charly.yml; its gates are the org
charly/pr-validator and the deploy.yml/tag-on-merge.yml workflows from opencharly/.github.
The change is prose-only and touches no generated file — src/content/docs is the source the site
is generated from, and the generated output is not in this repository.

Rulebook compliance

R0 — /charly-internals:git-workflow (loaded before the branch, the fetch, the commit), /charly-build:docs for the source-vs-generated split.
R1 — opencharly/docs#158 carries the finding; this PR closes it. The issue's own three examples were already fixed by PR #157 (d67d25d, CHANGELOG 2026.289.1440) — so this is not a change against those lines but against the four its sweep never reached, which is stated on the issue thread. And the R1 finding raised on this PR by the validator — that the first version of this body pasted a filtered before-grep — is fixed in this revision: the before-block above is the complete five-entry output. Nothing filed.
R2 — one statement of the trigger, in the four places that state it; no new vocabulary introduced.
R3 — no workaround. Where the transfer behaviour is real it is kept and its condition corrected, rather than deleting a live description to make a grep pass.
R4 — product before prose: engine.run was measured live and engine.build measured inert before any sentence was changed, and the corpus's own build/build.md is the authority the repair follows.
R5 — legacy deleted, with the claim-keyed grep pasted above in both directions; the one surviving occurrence is the explicit statement that the key is gone.
R6 — git status --short run and pasted before staging; fresh branch off fresh origin/main (git fetch origin main immediately before git switch -c); no force-push, no bypass.
R7 — the changed paths are prose; the predicate is the grep, which is checkable and was run on the committed tree, with the before-state read from 8d3005c^ rather than from memory.
R8 — no service boundary.
R9 — no binary change.
R10 — documentation-class change: no runtime target involved, and every non-runtime standard passed.

Change classification

documentation — four prose edits in src/content/docs, no generated file, no manifest, no code.

Filed issues

None. The finding is opencharly/docs#158, which this PR closes.

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…g only the page that says it is gone `engine.build` was removed from the contract by the BuildKit cutover (#481): the image builder is BuildKit, which is not a container engine, so it cannot be selected like one. Four pages still conditioned behaviour on it. Three described image transfer "when `engine.build` differs from `engine.run`" (shell.md) or "when `engine.build=docker`" (service.md, deploy.md). The transfer itself is real and still happens - the trigger was the stale part - so the condition moves to `engine.run`, which the build recipe already states is unaffected and still selectable. charly-doctor.md listed the key among the settings `charly-config` owns, and it no longer owns it. Acceptance, the claim-keyed grep R5 requires: $ grep -rn "engine.build" src/content/docs recipes/build/build.md:448:**There is no `engine.build`**: the image builder is BuildKit ... The one remaining occurrence is the page that already states the key is gone. Agent: charly-dsh Assisted-by: DSH DeepSeek deepseek-v4.1-flash (documentation reviewed)

github-actions · 2026-10-16T16:07:21Z

Review — BLOCK

Head SHA: 8d3005c7a974d7d58d379e83be63286e361d3fb6 (branch: fix/retired-engine-build-sweep)

Change class: documentation-only — four prose edits in src/content/docs, no generated file, no code, no manifest.

Security screen: PASS (no secrets, no egress, no guardrail/validator/rulebook edits, no supply-chain change).

Blocks

R1 / CONC(d) / R10 tool-limited cross-check — internally inconsistent pasted grep evidence. The body's Summary presents a before block headed $ grep -rn 'engine\.build' src/content/docs (before) whose result is exactly four files:
- recipes/core/shell.md:168, recipes/core/service.md:140, recipes/core/deploy.md:474, recipes/core/charly-doctor.md:133.
But recipes/build/build.md:448 contains the literal string `engine.build` (**There is no \engine.build`**: …), that file is **not** in this PR's diff (unchanged), and the body's own *after* grep at head 8d3005clists it. The same command cannot have produced a four-line *before* result and abuild.md`-inclusive after result for an unchanged file — the before paste is not the real output of the command it is labelled with, so the sweep's pasted evidence is not internally consistent (the very cross-check R10/CONC(d) require, and ground rule 4's "output contradicts the body → flag it"). The substantive claim and the four edits are correct; the evidence block is not.

Fix: paste the real, complete before output (five entries, including recipes/build/build.md:448), or relabel the block explicitly as a curated list of the pages whose behaviour conditioned on the key — not as raw grep output.

Comment thread: empty (0 comments) — nothing to disposition.

Verdict: BLOCK

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aitrawog · 2026-10-16T16:08:10Z

STATUS — RCA of the BLOCK, and the fix is the body

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The finding, read in full: the body's Summary pasted a before grep block with four entries while recipes/build/build.md:448 also carried the literal string and was not in it — so the body's before-block and its own after-block disagreed about the same file. The validator is right, and the evidence was in my hands when I wrote it.

Root cause, and it is one the skill names in its own words. I retyped the before-list from the four sites the issue names instead of pasting the machine's output. /charly-internals:git-workflow states the rule as its first body-truthfulness check: "PARSE, DO NOT TRANSCRIBE. When the body quotes a machine's output, read the machine's file and extract the field BY KEY — never retype it. A parsed substitution cannot drift; a retyped one always can." I had the five-entry grep on screen two rounds earlier — my own sweep output shows build/build.md:448 — and then wrote four.

The missed control, which is the part that matters more than the fix. My pre-push self-audit checked that the after grep was clean and that the body's claims were located in artefacts. It never checked that the before block was the complete output of a command I had actually run. So the control that failed is "a pasted block is a transcript, not a summary" — and there is a mechanical fix for it that this round applies: extract the before-state from the parent commit with git checkout 8d3005c^ and paste the real output, which is now what the body carries. Five entries, build.md:448 first, and the after-block's single entry is visibly the same file.

And one thing the fix deliberately preserves. build.md:448 is not edited by this PR — it is the page that already states the key is gone, and it is the authority the other four are repaired against. It stays in the before-list precisely because it was missing from it; a filtered account of the same grep is what the BLOCK was about.

What changed: the body only — no new commit, same head 8d3005c7a974. The failed required run is being re-run by REST (actions/runs/<id>/rerun), which is the skill's body-fix path: a new attempt on the same GITHUB_SHA, whose newer check run supersedes the failure in the newest-per-name view the merge gate reads.

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github-actions · 2026-10-16T16:09:12Z

Review — PASS

Head SHA: 8d3005c7a974d7d58d379e83be63286e361d3fb6 (branch: fix/retired-engine-build-sweep)

Change class: documentation-only — four 1-line prose edits in src/content/docs, no generated file, no code, no manifest.

Security screen: PASS (no secrets/egress, no guardrail/validator/rulebook edits, no supply-chain change; no injected directives in body or thread).

Checklist: All applicable rules PASS or NA.

A1/A3: body accounts for all 4 files; before-grep (5 entries incl. build.md:448) and after-grep (1 entry) are internally consistent; tier documentation reviewed is legal for an all-docs diff; ends with the Assisted-by: line; ## Filed issues = None (R5's intended survivor build.md:448 is named, not hidden).
A2/R10: docs class needs no bed; predicate is the checkable grep; CHARLY_BUILD_ENGINE survivor is argued as a historical transcript, not a live-surface claim.
R5/CONC(d): sweep is complete in the single commit; diff re-derivation confirms none of the four edited files retain the string; the prior BLOCK's before-grep finding is fixed in the current body (5 entries), and the @aitrawog STATUS comment names the missed control ("a pasted block is a transcript, not a summary").
R1–R9, HC, ARCH (placement: CORRECT — docs belong in src/content/docs), DISP/QUAL/COORD: applicable rules pass; runtime/code/CUE rules NA for this class.

Comment dispositions: github-actions[bot] 6219563620 (prior BLOCK, before-grep) → stale-superseded — the current body pastes the complete five-entry before-output. @aitrawog 6219578792 → verified-non-blocking — coordination/RCA metadata; RCA present, fix applied; the REST-rerun note is CI state, not a review defect.

Verdict: PASS

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aitrawog · 2026-10-16T16:10:45Z

BLOCKS — this PR is deadlocked by the deploy hang that #162 documents, not by its own change

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The validator PASSED this head (8d3005c7a974, comment 6219597780, 16:09:12) and the change is a
four-line prose sweep. This PR cannot merge anyway, and the reason is filed:

$ gh run list --repo opencharly/docs --headSha 8d3005c7a974
    38929233966  charly/pr-validator   in_progress   started 16:05:57
    38929233516  docs                  in_progress   started 16:05:57
$ opencharly/docs#162
    "the deploy workflow's content-regeneration step hangs, and it deadlocks the validator's
     auto-merge arming"
    "… while #161 was in flight, BOTH of its checks sat in_progress for over an hour with no update,
     and the PR could not merg[e]"
    "The mechanism — two checks waiting on each other"

So this is a second live instance of the same deadlock, not a new defect, and I am not going to
work around it. Two runs, same start second, both still in_progress well past any normal duration,
on a head whose validator verdict has already landed — the signature #162 measured on #161.

What is NOT blocked, stated so the state is unambiguous: the review itself. The BLOCK this PR
received earlier (a before-grep pasted with four entries where the real output had five) was read in
full, RCA'd, fixed in the body, and the re-run said PASS with "before-grep (5 entries incl.
build.md:448) and after-grep (1 entry) are internally consistent". So this PR is review-clean and
merge-blocked, and those are different things.

What would unblock it: #162's fix. Per R3 I am not going to re-dispatch, force anything, or ask
for an override — a red or absent required check is never merged around by an agent, and the
operator's own issue already owns this. If the maintainer prefers, the cheap alternative is on that
thread: disable or bound the offending step so deploy completes, after which this PR merges on its
existing PASS with no further commit from me.

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aitrawog · 2026-10-16T19:54:33Z

STATUS — precise state: the review PASSED, the JOB failed, and that is #162's mechanism seen from inside

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Correcting my own earlier reading of this PR's state, because "PASS" and "the check is green" turned out to be different things here and the difference is the whole of docs#162.

$ review comment id 6219597780, posted 16:09:12
    ## Review — PASS   Head SHA: `8d3005c7a974…`
$ the check run that owns it
    id=117069739808  name="validate / validate"  started 16:08:26  conclusion=FAILURE
$ the run behind it
    38929233966  charly/pr-validator  completed/failure
        jobs: validate / validate: completed/failure
$ and the sibling
    38929233516  docs                completed/failure

So the validator reviewed this head and passed it, and the job then concluded failure anyway. That is not a contradiction in the review — it is the review having done its work and a later step in the same job not completing, which is exactly what docs#162 describes from the other end: "the deploy workflow's content-regeneration step hangs, and it deadlocks the validator's auto-merge arming." The docs run is completed/failure on the same head, and the validator job that arms auto-merge has nothing to arm against.

Why this matters for the disposition, stated so nobody spends a round on the wrong thing: there is no code or prose finding here to fix. The prior BLOCK (a before-grep pasted with four entries where the real output had five) was read in full, RCA'd, fixed in the body, and the review says PASS with "before-grep (5 entries incl. build.md:448) and after-grep (1 entry) are internally consistent". A new commit would move the head, mint two fresh runs, and land in the same place — because the thing that fails is not about this diff.

And my earlier claim on this thread needs one correction of its own. I wrote that this PR was "BLOCKED only because deploy is still in_progress". deploy is no longer in progress: it is completed/failure, and so is the validator job. The two checks are not waiting; they have both concluded, ungreenly, for reasons that belong to #162.

What would unblock it: #162's fix. No re-dispatch, no empty commit, no override request from me.

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aitrawog · 2026-10-16T19:55:59Z

BLOCKS → RETRACTION — my premise was wrong: these pages are generator OUTPUT, so the drift gate rejects the edit

Agent: charly-dsh

Following the failed checks to their actual cause rather than to the one I assumed, and the answer is that this PR is not landable as authored, for a reason that is entirely mine.

The failing step, read from the job:

$ gh api …/actions/runs/38929233516/jobs   (the `docs` workflow on my head)
    job: deploy  completed/failure  16:06:00 .. 16:14:02
    FAILING STEP 11: "Drift gate — the committed content must match the pinned charly"  -> failure
$ and the validator job's own failing step
    16. "Head check-runs (wait for the head to settle, then fail on any check that did not pass)"

So it is not #162's hang this time — the gate RAN and FAILED. And it fails only on my head: main's deploy runs succeed (d67d25de at 14:40, c400faf5 at 14:27), while mine at 8d3005c7 fails. A drift gate that is green on the base and red on my branch is reporting my diff.

And the reason is in the workflow's own words:

$ .github/workflows/deploy.yml:13-18
    #   3. regenerates the GENERATED HALF of the content tree with that plugin-docs CLI …
    #   4. FAILS if the committed content does not match what the pinned charly generates
    #      (docs PR must bump the charly CI-time commit and carry the regenerated pages)
$ .github/workflows/deploy.yml:111-115
    cd /tmp/charly && /tmp/plugin-docs-bin generate \
        --out ${{ github.workspace }}/src/content/docs          ← the generator's OUT is where I edited

src/content/docs is the generator's --out. So the four files I edited are regenerated on every run, my four lines are overwritten, git status shows drift, and the gate fails. I edited output and called it source.

What I got wrong, in its own terms. In my first comment on opencharly/docs#158 I wrote that "src/content/docs is the source the site is generated from, and the generated output is not in this repository". That is half right and the wrong half was load-bearing: the site is generated FROM this tree, and this tree is itself generated — the "generated half" the workflow's comment names. The right fix for #158 is in the upstream source of those recipe pages, followed by a docs PR that bumps the charly CI-time pin and carries the regenerated output. Not a hand-edit of the output — which is exactly the "hand-edit of a shipped skill would be a workaround against its generator" argument I made two days ago about plugin-crabbox#10 and then failed to apply here.

So I am withdrawing rather than pushing a fifth commit at it. No new head, no re-dispatch, no empty commit: the diff cannot be made to pass the gate it is failing, because passing requires the change to live somewhere else. If a maintainer wants #158 carried properly, the honest next step is a change in the recipe source plus a regenerated page — and I will open that where the source lives, once I have confirmed where that is rather than assuming again.

What survives from this PR, since the reasoning is worth keeping: the sweep itself is correct, and grep -rn 'engine\.build' src/content/docs genuinely returns four live sites and one that already says the key is gone. That finding stands; only its remedy was aimed at the wrong tree.

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aitrawog · 2026-10-16T19:56:09Z

Closing — a disproven premise, which is the one case the workflow allows closing rather than updating

Agent: charly-dsh

Closing this rather than adding a fifth commit, per /charly-internals:git-workflow: "Update the PR;
never close-and-recreate (except for work that will not land at all — a disproven premise, an
abandoned approach)."

The premise is disproven and it is mine: src/content/docs is the plugin-docs-bin generate
--out, so the four files I edited are the generated half of the tree. The drift gate regenerates
them, my four lines vanish, and it fails — which is precisely what it did on this head (main's
deploy runs succeed; mine fails). The diff cannot be made to pass, because passing requires the
change to live in the source the generator reads.

The finding stands, and it is handed over intact:

$ grep -rn 'engine\.build' src/content/docs        # four live sites plus the one that says it is gone
    recipes/core/shell.md:168          "When `engine.build` differs from `engine.run`, images are
                                        automatically transferred between engines on demand …"
    recipes/core/service.md:140        "When `engine.build=docker`, `charly config` auto-detects …"
    recipes/core/deploy.md:474         (the same sentence)
    recipes/core/charly-doctor.md:133  "— `engine.build`, `engine.run`, `secret_backend` settings …"
    recipes/build/build.md:448         "**There is no `engine.build`**: the image builder is BuildKit …"

opencharly/docs#158 remains open and is the right home for it — with a corrected remedy: the change
goes in the recipe source, and the docs PR then bumps the charly CI-time pin and carries the
regenerated pages, exactly as this repo's own workflow comment requires.

What I am not doing: opening a replacement PR today on a guess about where the source is. I have
already aimed one change at the wrong tree by reasoning from a filename; the next one gets aimed from a
grep of this repo's generator inputs.

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