A push that fails against a configured remote warned on stderr and then
fell through to the trailing branchless `if`, which resolves to 0, so
`--push` reported a successful backup while nothing had left the machine.
That is the exact loss the vault exists to prevent. It now returns
non-zero, verified against a real unreachable remote rather than a mock.
The same audit found two more false zeros in this function, both fixed:
the commit block warned about a rebase conflict and walked past it, and
swallowed a hook-rejected commit entirely (neither branch of its if/else
if matched, since the error goes to stderr rather than stdout); and
--restore reported a relink failure and then returned 0 regardless. All
three now feed one flag and the function ends on an explicit status
rather than on whatever the last branchless `if` left behind.
--adopt is now atomic. A rename that landed while the relink failed left
the memory intact at the new slug but unreferenced: the next ordinary run
found no live link, recomputed the old slug, found nothing there, and
fabricated a fresh empty entry, so the agent wrote history-less memory
from then on. No bytes were lost, but continuity was, with no automated
recovery. The live link is no longer removed first -- ensure_symlink
repins a link that points elsewhere on its own -- a contentless target
entry is moved aside rather than deleted, the origin note is appended
only after the relink succeeds, and a failed relink rolls the rename back
so the vault is exactly as it was.
The --adopt validator no longer refuses a leading dot. _agents_repo_slug
legitimately emits one for a dot-led subdomain, so refusing it made such
an entry impossible to adopt; inside projects/ it is a hidden directory,
not an escape. The traversal cases are still refused: no slash survives
the charset, and "." and ".." are refused by name.
Adds the RETURNS section the header was missing. --status prints a
structured report, which this repo's convention treats as return value
rather than as progress output.
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