fix: rank blocking closing gates above external waits - #396
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Cold-cache runs finish right at the 15-minute limit and get cancelled in the last step (#396, #399). Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TmcjGzo6LrkTRHph3f241E
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A pane whose closing block had blocking gates plus a
Waiting:line reportedworking, so the sidebar hid a real blocker (ub1wG:p6, arbitrationclosing_external_wait, 3 gates, idle screen).Changes
closing_block.pyherdr_state,herdr_status.pystate_for): blocking gates and Waiting-on-you rank above external waits and running agents.closing_task_projection): pending human input on a non-working screen projects Blocked before the external-wait branch._EXTERNAL_WAIT_RE/_WAITING_ON_YOU_RE: a wait also ends at. Waiting on you/; waiting on you, so the tail is no longer swallowed into the wait text.Evidence
Corpus: 13,227 closing blocks from 14 days of Claude/Codex transcripts on ub1, ub2, mbpro.
working; the next human turn answered them at a rate close to plain gates (41% vs 61%), versus 13% for wait-only blocks.blocked(was allworking); swallowed wait tails 53 → 1; wait-only blocks stayworking.Tests
pending_human_input_outranks_external_wait_on_an_idle_screen.test_report_emits_v2_arrays_and_blocked_channel_with_agents,test_non_gate_action_points_block_even_when_an_agent_is_running,test_report_emits_lifecycle_fields_while_blocked_by_human_input.https://claude.ai/code/session_01TmcjGzo6LrkTRHph3f241E