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Draft: fall back to a draft model when the N-gram proposer misses

speculative.ngram_fallback = "draft" (alongside a configured draft model):
when the suffix/cache proposer has no candidates, the pipelined verify-window
path proposes from the draft model instead of degrading to one token per
round trip — the failure mode that dominates freeform text on high-RTT links.

  • The draft session syncs incrementally to committed context + optimistic
    suffix (DraftRunner::sync_to_context); a full re-prefill only happens on
    divergence. Accepted fallback proposals extend the sync prefix, so
    consecutive fallback refills are cheap.
  • Drafting feeds the same candidate pipeline at both the seed and refill
    points; the classic serial draft loop stays disabled while fallback drives
    the pipeline, and depth-1 setups keep classic behavior.
  • Telemetry: speculative_fallback_draft_{proposals,tokens,ms}.

Draft because: unit-tested and suite-green, but not yet exercised
end-to-end with a real draft model — needs a freeform-workload bench run
(the N-gram-friendly re-emit workload never misses, so the fallback path
stays cold there).

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added speculative.ngram_fallback, allowing configured draft models to supplement N-gram proposals when candidates are insufficient.
    • Added fallback metrics for proposals, tokens, and processing time.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved draft-model synchronization and fallback budget handling.
    • Added validation for missing draft models, unsupported values, and insufficient pipeline depth.
    • Improved handling of incompatible native MTP sidecars according to policy.
    • Reject filesystem paths in model deletion requests more consistently.
  • Documentation
    • Documented the new setting, requirements, default, and supported values.

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The change adds speculative.ngram_fallback, validates its prerequisites, applies native-MTP pairing policies, enables pipelined draft fallback with synchronized context and telemetry, improves release-note recovery, and expands path-validation and test-isolation coverage.

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N-gram draft fallback

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configuration contract and validation
crates/mesh-llm-config/src/model.rs, crates/mesh-llm-config/src/model/..., crates/mesh-llm-config/src/model_validation.rs, crates/mesh-llm-config/src/wiring_status.rs, crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/tests/fixtures/..., docs/..., website/...
Adds ngram_fallback to configuration serialization, precedence, schema, validation, wiring metadata, fixtures, and reference documentation.
Fallback resolution and runtime config
crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/inference/skippy/resolver/..., crates/skippy-server/src/frontend/speculative.rs, crates/skippy-server/src/binary_transport/options.rs
Validates draft fallback prerequisites, applies native-MTP pairing policies, and initializes the runtime fallback flag.
Draft session synchronization
crates/skippy-server/src/frontend/generation/draft_runner.rs
Tracks synchronized draft tokens, extends matching contexts, resets on divergence, and records successful proposal steps.
Pipelined fallback generation and telemetry
crates/skippy-server/src/frontend/embedded_generation.rs, crates/skippy-server/src/frontend/speculative.rs
Uses the draft model when pipelined N-gram proposals or refills lack candidates. It applies token budgets and records fallback metrics.

Release-note recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Release-note classification and recovery
scripts/release-notes-classify.py, scripts/release-notes-generate.sh, scripts/tests/test_release_notes.py
Checks for entries after the link pass and covers recovery, classification, and publication of linked entries.

Validation and test isolation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Path validation and test-local storage
crates/model-hf/src/store/delete.rs, crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/models/delete_tests.rs, crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/api/tests/*, crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/inference/skippy/resolver/test_support.rs
Rejects additional filesystem path forms, uses temporary keystore paths in tests, and exposes shared resolver test support to the parent module.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Config as speculative.ngram_fallback
  participant Resolver as resolve_speculative_config
  participant Generation as embedded_generation
  participant DraftRunner
  participant Metrics as OpenAiSpeculativeStats
  Config->>Resolver: resolve fallback configuration
  Resolver->>Resolver: validate draft model and pipeline depth
  Resolver->>Generation: enable draft fallback
  Generation->>DraftRunner: sync_to_context
  DraftRunner-->>Generation: synchronized draft context
  Generation->>DraftRunner: generate fallback proposal
  DraftRunner-->>Generation: draft tokens
  Generation->>Metrics: record fallback metrics
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The config plumbing and gating look solid (validated enum, resolver bails when draft is set without an N-gram strategy, default false keeps all existing paths identical, and the classic serial draft loop correctly stays authoritative at depth 1).

One blocking ask: the new incremental-sync logic in DraftRunner is subtle and entirely untested. synced bookkeeping is now load-bearing for KV correctness across fallback proposals (prefix-extension vs full reset on divergence, plus propose pushing each accepted current), and a mistake here silently corrupts draft proposals at runtime. Please add unit coverage for at least:

  1. sync_to_context extends incrementally when the target has the synced tokens as a prefix (assert no reset/prefill of the whole context),
  2. sync_to_context falls back to a full reset on divergence,
  3. one end-to-end path exercising ngram_fallback_draft = true with an N-gram miss (asserting fallback_draft_proposals > 0 and that output still matches the non-fallback run), or — if a model-backed test isn't feasible in CI — a test at the draft_runner level proving propose-after-sync produces the same tokens as propose-after-reset for the same context.

Minor, non-blocking: in the first fallback site the budget is ... .min(native_mtp_remaining) .max(2) — the .max(2) can exceed a remaining budget of 1; worth a comment or clamp if a downstream invariant depends on it.

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Reviewed at origin/feat/ngram-draft-fallback against its base feat/runahead-verify-windows. Reviewing it as a draft — the "needs a freeform bench" caveat is the right call and I'm not treating the missing E2E run as a finding.

DraftSyncState is the good part of this PR. Splitting the plan out from the session I/O and unit-testing it separately is exactly right for something where a wrong answer is silent KV corruption rather than an error, and the test list covers the cases that matter (divergence, over-long session after a rejection, proposal steps joining the prefix).

Three things.

1. The seed path trusts an invariant the refill path is careful about

The refill site does this correctly:

let mut sequence = context_tokens.clone();
sequence.extend_from_slice(pipeline.optimistic_suffix());
if let Some(&last) = sequence.last() {
    draft.sync_to_context(&sequence)?;
    let draft_tokens = draft.propose(last, budget)?;

sync_to_context materializes all but the last token, and propose decodes from that exact last token. Self-consistent.

The seed site doesn't:

draft.sync_to_context(&context_tokens)?;
...
let draft_tokens = draft.propose(current, budget)?;

This is only correct if current == *context_tokens.last(). It is today — current starts as prompt_token_ids.last() and the two context_tokens.push(current) sites keep them in step — but that's an invariant maintained across ~1100 lines of decode loop plus fused_first_decode, held together by nothing but convention. If it ever slips, DraftSyncState records a prefix the session didn't materialize and every subsequent proposal is quietly drawn from a corrupt KV, which is the exact failure your own doc comment calls out:

claiming a prefix extension the session has not materialized silently corrupts every later proposal.

Cheapest fix is to just not depend on it — propose from *context_tokens.last() the way the refill path does. If you'd rather keep current for clarity, a debug_assert_eq!(context_tokens.last(), Some(&current)) before the sync makes the slip loud in test builds instead of silent in production.

2. ngram_fallback = "draft" with no draft model is a silent no-op

The resolver bails when the N-gram strategy is missing:

"draft" => {
    if config.ngram.is_none() {
        bail!("skippy speculative ngram_fallback = \"draft\" requires an N-gram strategy");
    }
    true
}

but nothing checks for a draft model, and the runtime gate is ... && draft_guard.is_some() && .... So a config with ngram_fallback = "draft" and no draft_model starts cleanly, reports nothing, and never once takes the fallback path — the operator gets baseline behaviour and a telemetry counter stuck at zero, with no way to tell that from "the proposer never missed."

SpeculativeConfig already carries draft_model, so the resolver can check it in the same place it checks ngram. Same for the verify_window.depth() > 1 requirement — a depth-1 config with ngram_fallback = "draft" is also a silent no-op, and that one is at least worth a warning since the comment says depth 1 is deliberate.

3. Small: propose records the step before it's known to have happened

for _ in 0..max_tokens {
    self.synced.record_proposal_step(current);
    current = self.session.decode_step(current)...?;

If decode_step fails, synced.tokens now claims a token the session may not hold. Unreachable in practice — the error aborts the request and the next request's reset_to_context clears the state — but the ordering is free to fix and removes the need to reason about it:

let stepped_from = current;
current = self.session.decode_step(current)...?;
self.synced.record_proposal_step(stepped_from);

Nothing here is structural. Once the bench run lands I'd want (1) resolved before merge; (2) and (3) are cheap enough to fold in now.

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All three in 2d47d28.

1. Seed path invariant. Took the cheap fix rather than depending on it — the seed path now proposes from *context_tokens.last(), the same token sync_to_context deliberately leaves unmaterialized, so the two sites are self-consistent for the same reason the refill path is. Kept a debug_assert_eq! against current as well, so if the decode loop's invariant ever does slip it's loud in tests rather than quietly gone.

2. Silent no-op. Both cases now bail in the resolver: ngram_fallback = "draft" requires speculative.draft_model, and requires depth > 1. I went with an error rather than a warning for depth 1 — a config that asks for a feature the depth-1 path can't provide is a config bug, and a warning in a log nobody reads reproduces the exact problem you're describing. Two resolver tests cover the messages.

3. propose ordering. Fixed as suggested — records stepped_from after decode_step returns.

Bench still owed before this leaves draft; that's the freeform-workload run, not an E2E smoke.

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Rechecked the latest 2d47d287 draft head. The remaining-window budget ordering is fixed, and the new DraftSyncState unit tests cover the bookkeeping cases. The model-backed correctness requirement from the existing change request is still unmet, though: there is no test proving propose-after-incremental-sync matches propose-after-reset for the same context, nor an end-to-end N-gram miss using a real draft model. Because this state is load-bearing for draft KV correctness, I cannot approve the draft without that evidence. It is also stacked on #1409, which still has active protocol blockers.

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In `@crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/inference/skippy/resolver/speculative.rs`:
- Line 147: Update the native-MTP sidecar path in the speculative resolver to
apply the existing fail_closed and warn_disable pairing policy before forwarding
the sidecar, including incompatible-pair validation via
incompatible_draft_pair_reason. Set has_draft_model only when a standalone draft
model is available, excluding native-MTP sidecars so they cannot enable N-gram
draft fallback.

In `@crates/skippy-server/src/frontend/embedded_generation.rs`:
- Around line 966-970: Update the budget calculation near native_mtp_options so
draft.window remains an upper bound after enforcing the two-token floor: either
skip the fallback when draft.window is below two, or apply the draft.window cap
after max(2). Preserve the existing native_mtp_remaining limit and behavior for
windows of at least two.

In `@crates/skippy-server/src/frontend/speculative.rs`:
- Around line 211-213: Extend validation in BinaryStageOptions::from_cli_args so
ngram_fallback_draft requires verify_window.pipeline_depth greater than 1 and
draft_model_path to be present. Keep the existing ngram proposer validation, and
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Fixes #1868.

v0.76.2 published with no release notes at all, and #1844, the
self-updater fix the hotfix was cut for, is not mentioned anywhere.

## What happens today

`release-notes-generate.sh:37` returns early when GitHub's generated
body carries no `* .../pull/N` entry. The link pass runs at line 50,
thirteen lines later, and its own comment states what it is for:

> The link pass repairs what GitHub's generated list cannot express

GitHub credits a pull request through its merge commit. A release
assembled by cherry-pick, which is the ordinary shape of a hotfix branch
cut from the previous tag, has no merge commit in its range, so the
generated body comes out empty of entries and the guard reads that as
nothing to do. The one case where the published list is entirely wrong
is the one case the repair was never allowed to see.

The job was green. This is all it printed:

```
release-notes: tag=v0.76.2 base=v0.76.1 workdir=/home/runner/work/_temp/release-notes
release-notes: no PR entries in the published body; nothing to regroup
```

## What this changes

The decision moves below the link pass and reads the body that pass
settled on. Nothing else in the file moves.

A genuinely empty range still exits early and publishes nothing, so the
only behaviour that changes is the one that was losing entries. The link
pass does now run on a body GitHub left empty, which costs one API call
per suffixless commit in the range, bounded by the budget already in
place. A cherry-picked subject keeps its `(#N)` suffix, which
`resolve_pull_requests` treats as authoritative, so the recovery that
matters costs nothing.

Deliberately not done: failing loudly when the range carries `(#N)`
subjects and the body is still empty after the link pass. That would
catch a future silent loss, but it adds a way for a release job to go
red and that call belongs to whoever owns this pass.

## Measured on the live release

The three scripts, unmodified, replayed against v0.76.2 starting after
the guard:

```
$ python3 scripts/release-notes-link.py --body body.github.md --range v0.76.1..v0.76.2 ...
linked 0 commit(s) to a pull request through the API; recovered 1 entry(ies) GitHub did not credit (0 published)

$ python3 scripts/release-notes-classify.py --body body.md --range v0.76.1..v0.76.2 ...
classified 1/1 entries deterministically (0 in 'Other changes')

$ python3 scripts/release-notes-regroup.py --body body.md --plan plan.json --out notes.md
ok: regrouped 1 entries
```

```markdown
## [0.76.2] - 2026-09-14

### Fixed

* Install composed product-v2 bundles in the self-updater by @i386 in #1844
```

Both invariants hold on that run. The never-drop gate is empty,
trivially so since nothing was published, and the rendered body carries
exactly the pull requests the plan settled on.

The guard itself, run against the real artifacts:

| body | old guard on `body.github.md` | new guard on `body.md` |
|---|---|---|
| v0.76.2 | gives up, exit 0 | passes, the chain continues |

## Tests

`test_giving_up_is_decided_after_the_link_pass` asserts both halves,
that the decision follows the link pass and that its condition reads
`body.md`. It fails on `main` for both reasons.

`test_a_body_with_no_entries_at_all_still_recovers_the_release` covers a
body with no entries, which was untested. The nearest existing case,
`test_an_orphan_with_no_carrier_after_it_is_still_credited`, still hands
the recovery a published entry to hang off.

## Gates

- `python3 -m unittest scripts.tests.test_release_notes`: 95 tests, 2
errors. `main` gives 93 tests and the same 2 errors, so the failing set
is identical and the two extra tests are the ones added here. Both
errors execute `scripts/hooks/commit-msg` directly, which Windows
refuses for a shebang script, `OSError WinError 193`. They predate this
branch.
- `bash -n scripts/release-notes-generate.sh`: clean.
- `scripts/check-conventional-commit.py --range upstream/main..HEAD`:
passed.
- `scripts/check-env-mutation-contract.py` and `python -m unittest
scripts.tests.test_env_mutation_contract`: passed, 234 mutation sites, 8
tests.
- `cargo fmt`, clippy and `repo-consistency no-console-print` are not
applicable: no `.rs` file and no crate is touched, and
`tools/xtask/src/no_console_print.rs` only scans `.rs` files under
`crates/`.

## Not verified

I did not run the release job. The two hook tests above cannot run on
this box for the reason given, and I have not run anything on Linux or
macOS. I did not touch the live v0.76.2 notes.


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Release notes can now be recovered and grouped when the original
release body contains no pull request entries, including releases
assembled through cherry-picks.
* Entries added during link processing are correctly recognized and
published.
* Release bodies containing only a changelog link and trailing content
no longer count as having existing entries.
* Releases without recoverable entries continue to exit cleanly without
unnecessary regrouping.

* **Tests**
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# Conflicts:
#	crates/skippy-server/src/frontend/embedded_generation.rs
…l one (#1850)

Follow-up to #1847, which stopped this suite from deleting the node key
and measured the owner keystore as still outstanding. This closes that
one.

## What happens today

Six tests write their keystore fixture to `default_keystore_path()`:

```rust
let temp = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
let _home_guard = HomeEnvGuard::set(temp.path());
let owner = OwnerKeypair::generate();
let keystore_path = default_keystore_path().unwrap();   // the real home
save_keystore(&keystore_path, &owner, None, true).unwrap();
```

`default_keystore_path()` resolves through `dirs::home_dir()` in
`mesh-llm-identity` and has no test override. The `#[cfg(test)]` hook
that protects the node key lives in host-runtime, so it cannot reach a
path resolved inside another crate, and `HomeEnvGuard` has no effect on
it.

Measured on Windows 11 against `3f4f1c35a`, one full `cargo test -p
mesh-llm-host-runtime`, comparing `~/.mesh-llm/owner-keystore.json`
before and after: same size, same fifteen fields, **six of them
different**. `owner_id`, `created_at`, and both the signing and
encryption key pairs. The developer's owner identity is replaced by
running the suite.

## What this changes

Each of the six call sites already had a `tempfile::tempdir()` on the
line above, and each already handed the path to
`state.set_owner_key_path()`. The default location was only ever
somewhere to put the fixture; the code under test reads whatever path it
is given. They now write into that temp directory.

Six lines, plus one import that became unused.

## Measured effect

Same box, same command, comparing `~/.mesh-llm` before and after:

| | #1847 | this branch |
|---|---|---|
| node `key` | unchanged | unchanged |
| `owner-keystore.json` | **rewritten** | unchanged |
| passed / failed | 3457 / 17 | 3457 / 17 |

The 17 failures are identical to the parent commit, compared by diffing
both complete sorted lists rather than by eye. No new failures, and none
of the six tests changed state: they passed before and still pass, they
were simply passing while overwriting the developer's identity.

## What still remains

The skippy hash cache still writes into `~/.mesh-llm/cache/hashes`, six
files per run, because tests leave `MESH_LLM_HASH_CACHE_DIR` unset and
`hash_cache.rs` falls back to the home. That is a cache rather than
identity material, so I left it out of this branch rather than mixing a
third concern in. Happy to take it next if you want the suite to touch
nothing at all.

## Gates

- `cargo test -p mesh-llm-host-runtime`: 3457 passed, 17 failed, as
above.
- `cargo fmt --all --check`: clean.
- `cargo clippy -p mesh-llm-host-runtime --all-targets`: 8 lints, and
the complete sorted set is identical to `main`.
- `cargo run -p xtask -- repo-consistency no-console-print`: passed.
- `scripts/check-env-mutation-contract.py` and `python -m unittest
scripts.tests.test_env_mutation_contract`: passed, census unchanged at
234 sites.


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Tests**
  * Updated API tests to use temporary keystore locations consistently.
* Improved test isolation for configuration diagnostics and
control-plane scenarios.

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On Windows, `mesh-llm models delete /tmp/model.gguf` answers with a
message about model stems and Hugging Face refs instead of saying that
filesystem paths are not supported.

## Why

`parse_delete_model_ref` rejects paths with `is_absolute()` plus a few
literal shapes. Windows does not consider a leading `/` absolute, since
that needs a drive letter or a UNC prefix, so a rooted POSIX path passes
the guard and falls into the Hugging Face branch.

Measured on Windows 11 by calling `resolve_model_identifier` directly:

| input | `is_absolute()` | outcome |
|---|---|---|
| `/tmp/model.gguf` | false | **falls through**, "Expected a model stem
or Hugging Face ref..." |
| `/home/user/model.gguf` | false | **falls through**, same |
| `C:\models\model.gguf` | true | rejected as a path |
| `C:/models/model.gguf` | true | rejected as a path |
| `\\server\share\model.gguf` | true | rejected as a path |
| `./model.gguf` | false | rejected as a path |
| `~/model.gguf` | false | rejected as a path |

Wrong answer rather than a dangerous one, and only on Windows.

## What this changes

A leading `/` is rejected outright. No model stem or Hugging Face ref
starts with one on any platform, and on Unix `is_absolute()` already
covered it, so behaviour there is unchanged.

The test grew from one input to the seven above, minus
`C:/models/model.gguf`, which is deliberately absent: Linux has no
reason to treat it as a path, so asserting it would pass on my box and
fail in CI.

## Measured effect, including a number that needs explaining

Full suite on Windows 11 against `main` at `3f4f1c35a`:

| | `main` | this branch |
|---|---|---|
| passed | 3457 | 3456 |
| failed | 17 | 18 |

The count went up, so here is the whole of it. One test is fixed,
`models::delete_tests::resolve_model_identifier_rejects_filesystem_paths`,
which is the one this branch targets. Two others failed that do not fail
on `main`:

-
`runtime::config_state::tests::sync::config_sync_state_apply_preserves_additive_defaults_sections`
-
`runtime::config_state::tests::sync::config_sync_state_apply_preserves_nested_sections_and_updates_hash`

Both pass 5 runs out of 5 in isolation. `runtime::config_state` never
calls `resolve_model_identifier` or `parse_delete_model_ref`, and this
branch touches one guard in `model-hf` plus its test. This box produces
one to three intermittent failures per full run, varying between runs,
and today alone it surfaced three different ones across unrelated
modules.

I would rather show you the raw number with that explanation than a
tidier one.

## Gates

- `cargo test -p model-hf`: 47 passed, 0 failed.
- `cargo test -p mesh-llm-host-runtime`: as above.
- `cargo fmt --all --check`: clean.
- `cargo clippy -p model-hf -p mesh-llm-host-runtime --all-targets`: 8
lints, complete sorted set identical to `main`.
- `cargo run -p xtask -- repo-consistency no-console-print`: passed.
- `scripts/check-env-mutation-contract.py` and `python -m unittest
scripts.tests.test_env_mutation_contract`: passed.


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved model reference validation to consistently reject filesystem
paths across platforms.
* Added coverage for Unix, Windows, network, relative, and
home-directory path formats.
  * Error messages now identify the invalid path that was provided.

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Reviewed on the exact pushed head. The full repository gate passes (1,489 tests, 9 skipped), the skippy-server suite passes serially (759 passed, 4 ignored), and the ignored model-backed regression passes against Qwen3.5-0.8B. That test also exposed and verified the native session/model drop-order fix. No blocking findings remain.

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Reviewed exact head 908e533 after synchronization with current main. The refill fallback now enforces the same two-token draft budget floor as the seed path. The skippy-server library suite passes (759 passed, 4 ignored), all-target Clippy passes with -D warnings, formatting and diff checks pass, and all review threads are resolved.

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if args.has_entries:
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Use an unambiguous empty-body exit status.

The classifier and generator use one nonzero status for both an expected empty body and an execution failure. A classifier failure can therefore make the release job exit successfully while it retains incomplete notes.

  • scripts/release-notes-classify.py#L283-L283: return a dedicated status for an empty body.
  • scripts/release-notes-generate.sh#L67-L68: handle that status as “nothing to regroup” and propagate all other failures.
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-        return 0 if body_has_entries(args.body) else 1
+        return 0 if body_has_entries(args.body) else 3
-if ! python3 "$ROOT/scripts/release-notes-classify.py" \
-    --body "$WORKDIR/body.md" --has-entries; then
+if python3 "$ROOT/scripts/release-notes-classify.py" \
+    --body "$WORKDIR/body.md" --has-entries; then
+  :
+else
+  status=$?
+  if [[ "$status" -ne 3 ]]; then
+    exit "$status"
+  fi
   echo "release-notes: no PR entries after the link pass; nothing to regroup"
   exit 0
 fi
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