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Two bugs Jay reported from the glass. Both were measured in a real browser at the device's own CSS viewport (540x1200, sway scale 2.0) rather than reasoned about from source — a playwright rig driving real touchstart/touchmove/touchend through CDP, because this page binds touch events and a mouse drag proves nothing about it.

Cards: tsk-bgxtxn, tsk-5baas4.

1. Swiping up on an agent island opened the keypad (tsk-bgxtxn)

"swiping up against the agent islands still activates the keypad"

The measurement that settles it. With the six agents the demo phone shows, #ls-feed reports scrollHeight 394, clientHeight 394. The feed is content-sized: the islands fit, so it does not overflow and never did. feedScrollRoom() returns 0, the veto feedScrollRoom() > 4 is false, and every drag beginning on an island unlocked the phone.

I had predicted the opposite — that six islands would make the feed overflow, which would have meant the veto was arming and something else was wrong. It does not, and that prediction was wrong.

The veto was not broken. It was doing exactly what #3104 says: a feed that cannot scroll has no room, so it unlocks across the whole screen. That was reasoned as a corner case for a device with one agent and nothing to show. The measurement says it is the ordinary state of the screen. The deliberate rule is the bug.

feedOverflows() therefore returns to the veto — but as a disjunct, not the conjunct removed with tsk-36i6ed. That one could not change the answer (the browser clamps scrollTop to 0 on a feed that cannot scroll), which is precisely why it went. This one decides its own case and no other:

feed state room > 4 !overflows veto behaviour
scrollable, at top T F veto reading a long feed never unlocks
scrollable, at end F F no veto tsk-36i6ed preserved
cannot scroll F T veto cards are not a hidden unlock pad

The gesture is not lost: the feed is 394px of a 1200px screen, and the rest of the glass still unlocks. There is a test holding that bound.

Two existing tests asserted the old rule and are reversed here deliberately, each saying so and saying why in its docstring. Verified red-before-green: with the one-line veto change reverted, both go red and the new mutation control refuses to run at all rather than passing silently.

2. The islands flickered every fifteen seconds (tsk-5baas4)

"the agent islands flicker occasionally"

paintActivity() wiped #ls-agents with textContent = "" and rebuilt every island each poll. Each was a new node, and .ls-island carries ls-island-in — 520ms with staggered per-child delays — so the whole list replayed its entrance every 15s whether or not the payload had changed.

Measured over one cycle with nothing touched:

before after
animationstart on islands 6 of 6 0
first island is the same node no yes

The list is now reconciled by agent name and updated in place. A persisting island is never re-inserted — re-inserting restarts the animation, so the reconcile checks position before moving anything. A reconfigured agent (new portrait, different framework) is still rebuilt; that comes from configuration, not from a tick, and it is a deliberate exception with its own test.

The tests assert node identity, not rendered values. The old code rendered the right names too — that is exactly why a value assertion would have passed on it.

Tests

tests/test_lock_screen_repaint.py is new and follows the existing gesture-test convention: the real source runs under node against a DOM stand-in that maintains an actual tree, because the properties under test are about which nodes survive. It carries the same kind of control — test_harness_observes_the_defect puts the wipe back and requires identity to break, so the file cannot quietly go inert and report green.

  • test_lock_screen_gestures.py — 18 passed (2 reversed, 1 new mutation control, 1 new bound)
  • test_lock_screen_repaint.py — 10 passed (new)
  • test_onscreen_keyboard.py — its focus-ordering test named the wipe, which no longer exists; it now names the repaint, and the docstring explains that reconciliation makes focus loss impossible for a persisting island rather than merely recoverable
  • test_auth.py + the three above — 220 passed

Not in here

The stats and notification pollers repaint wholesale the same way — that is the flicker Jay also reported in the system widget ("the system stats widget flickers too"). Same shape of fix, tracked separately so this stays reviewable.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Fixed an issue where swiping up on a non-scrolling lock-screen feed could open the PIN keypad.
    • Prevented agent islands, system stats, and notification stacks from flickering during periodic updates.
    • Preserved keyboard focus while lock-screen activity refreshes.
    • Updated lock-screen content in place while correctly handling changed, added, removed, and reordered items.
    • Cleared outdated stats indicators and notification details when no longer available.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for lock-screen gestures, periodic updates, focus preservation, and content lifecycle changes.

Removed tests, and why each one went

Three tests on dev are gone from this branch. None was dropped for being
inconvenient: two assert a rule this PR deliberately REVERSES, and the third
names machinery that no longer exists. Each has a named replacement.

  1. test_a_feed_with_nothing_to_scroll_is_already_at_its_end — asserted that a
    feed which cannot scroll counts as already read to its end, so a drag from a
    card unlocked. That rule IS the bug Jay reported. Replaced by its opposite,
    test_a_feed_with_nothing_to_scroll_is_not_treated_as_at_its_end.
  2. test_a_feed_with_nothing_to_scroll_still_unlocks — same rule, same
    reversal. Replaced by
    test_a_feed_with_nothing_to_scroll_does_not_unlock_from_a_card.
    Unlocking at the END of a feed that CAN scroll (tsk-36i6ed, Jay's own
    earlier report) is still asserted and still passes.
  3. test_focus_is_captured_before_the_wipe_and_restored_after_the_rebuild
    there is no wipe and no rebuild any more; an island that persists keeps its
    node and never loses focus in the first place. Renamed to
    test_focus_is_captured_before_the_repaint_and_restored_after_it, which
    asserts the same property against the mechanism that actually ships.

Removes-Intentionally: tests/test_lock_screen_gestures.py:TestUnlockAtTheEndOfTheFeed.test_a_feed_with_nothing_to_scroll_is_already_at_its_end
Removes-Intentionally: tests/test_lock_screen_gestures.py:TestUnlockSwipeOrigin.test_a_feed_with_nothing_to_scroll_still_unlocks
Removes-Intentionally: tests/test_onscreen_keyboard.py:TestTheIslandRepaintKeepsKeyboardFocus.test_focus_is_captured_before_the_wipe_and_restored_after_the_rebuild

Two bugs Jay reported from the glass, both measured in a real browser at the
device's own CSS viewport (540x1200) rather than reasoned about from source.

tsk-bgxtxn -- swiping up on an agent island opened the keypad.

With the six agents the demo phone shows, #ls-feed reports scrollHeight 394 and
clientHeight 394: the feed is content-sized, the islands fit, and it does not
overflow. The unlock veto asked only how far the feed could still travel, so it
read zero room and stood aside, and every drag beginning on an island unlocked
the phone.

The veto was not broken -- it was doing what it said. The comment shipped with
tsk-36i6ed reasoned that a feed which cannot scroll is not being read, so a drag
from it should unlock, and treated that as a corner case for a device with one
agent and nothing to show. The measurement says it is the ordinary state of the
screen. That deliberate rule is the bug.

Overflow therefore returns to the veto, as a disjunct rather than the conjunct
removed with tsk-36i6ed. That one could not change the answer, because the
browser clamps scrollTop to 0 on a feed that cannot scroll; this one decides its
own case and no other:

  scrollable, at the top  -> room left     -> veto   (reading is not unlocking)
  scrollable, at the end  -> neither       -> unlock (tsk-36i6ed, preserved)
  cannot scroll at all    -> !overflows    -> veto   (cards are not an unlock pad)

Two existing tests asserted the old rule and are reversed here deliberately,
saying so and saying why. A new mutation control strips the added arm and
requires the non-scrolling case to go red while both scrollable cases stay
exactly as they are -- a mutation that broke everything would show only that the
suite notices change, not that these scenarios tell a dead feed from a feed read
to its end.

tsk-5baas4 -- the islands flickered every fifteen seconds.

paintActivity() wiped #ls-agents and rebuilt every island on each poll. Every
one was a new element, and .ls-island carries a 520ms entrance animation with
staggered per-child delays, so the whole list replayed its entrance every tick
whether or not a byte of the payload had changed. Measured over one cycle with
nothing touched: six of six islands fired animationstart and the first island
was no longer the same node. After: zero, and the same node.

The list is now reconciled by agent name. An island that persists is updated in
place and never re-inserted -- re-inserting a node restarts its animation, so
the reconcile checks position before it moves anything. A reconfigured agent, a
new portrait or a different framework, is still rebuilt; that comes from
configuration rather than from a tick.

The tests assert node identity, not rendered values: the old code rendered the
right names too, which is exactly why a value assertion would have passed on it.
The focus save and restore stays for the cases reconciliation cannot cover, and
its ordering test now names the repaint instead of the wipe it used to name.

Still open, and not in here: the stats and notification pollers repaint
wholesale the same way, which is the flicker Jay saw in the system widget.

Docs-Reviewed: no route was added, removed or changed. The edit is entirely
inside _LOCK_SCREEN_SCRIPT, the client-side script auth.py serves, plus its
tests; the HTTP surface and the agent-coordination contract are untouched.
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The lock screen now blocks unlock gestures that start in non-scrolling feeds. Activity, statistics, and notification repaints reconcile DOM nodes in place and rebuild only changed content. Tests cover gesture mutations, node identity, updates, ordering, removal, focus, and panel semantics.

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Lock-screen gesture handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Dead-feed gesture handling
tinyagentos/routes/auth.py, tests/test_lock_screen_gestures.py, changelog.d/tsk-bgxtxn-lockscreen-glass-bugs.md
The swipe-up veto now rejects gestures that start in non-scrolling feeds. Tests distinguish non-scrolling feeds from scrollable feeds and verify the mutation case.

Polled lock-screen repaint reconciliation

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Agent island reconciliation
tinyagentos/routes/auth.py, tests/test_lock_screen_repaint.py, tests/test_onscreen_keyboard.py, changelog.d/tsk-bgxtxn-lockscreen-glass-bugs.md
The repaint keys islands by agent name, updates mutable fields in place, reorders existing nodes, removes missing agents, and rebuilds changed configurations. Tests verify node identity and focus handling.
Stats and notification reconciliation
tinyagentos/routes/auth.py, tests/test_lock_screen_repaint.py, changelog.d/tsk-5baas4-stats-notif-flicker.md
Stats parts and notification stacks now persist across polls when their data is unchanged. Missing measurements, chips, notes, and stacks are removed. Changed notification stacks are rebuilt selectively.
Panel semantics and supporting validation
tests/test_onscreen_keyboard.py
Activity and notification panels now use named tabpanel roles. Focus assertions follow the in-place repaint flow.

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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  Poller->>Painter: poll payload
  Painter->>LockScreenDOM: reconcile keyed elements
  LockScreenDOM-->>Painter: preserve, update, remove, or rebuild nodes
  Painter-->>Poller: updated lock-screen view
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var existing = {};
var kids = agentsEl.children;
for (var i = 0; i < kids.length; i++) {
var key = kids[i].getAttribute("data-agent");
if (key !== null) existing[key] = kids[i];

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Use a stable agent ID for island reconciliation.

lock_widgets() can return distinct records with the same name: it prepends the "taOS Agent" record without checking configured names, and load_config() does not enforce validate_config() before exposing configured records. reconcileIslands() stores only the last matching DOM child in existing[name]. On the next poll, it reuses that child, creates another one for the earlier record, and leaves the overwritten child outside cleanup. Repeated polls add stale islands and can restore focus to the wrong record.

Include each agent's stable id in the payload. Give the system record a fixed ID. Use that ID for data-agent and focus restoration instead of name.

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and the island reconciliation flow to include each agent’s stable id in the
payload, assign the system “taOS Agent” record a fixed id, and use that id for
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Lead review (@taOS-dev) of head eaf27c8da. Content is sound and I verified the red-first substance by measurement — two mechanical blockers, one of them a genuine CI-only red.

Your cards tsk-bgxtxn / tsk-5baas4 404 for my cred (taOSmobile's board), so I did not take the body's word for the evidence. I ran it.

✅ What I verified myself

$ python3 -m pytest tests/test_lock_screen_gestures.py tests/test_lock_screen_repaint.py tests/test_onscreen_keyboard.py -q
100 passed

And the mutation that matters — reverting your one-line veto at tinyagentos/routes/auth.py:2335 back to the pre-PR rule:

$ sed -i '2335s/.*/      return feedScrollRoom() > 4;/' tinyagentos/routes/auth.py
$ python3 -m pytest tests/test_lock_screen_gestures.py tests/test_lock_screen_repaint.py -q --tb=line
FAILED tests/test_lock_screen_gestures.py::TestUnlockSwipeOrigin::test_a_feed_with_nothing_to_scroll_does_not_unlock_from_a_card
FAILED tests/test_lock_screen_gestures.py::TestUnlockAtTheEndOfTheFeed::test_the_suite_fails_the_mutation_that_ignores_a_dead_feed
FAILED tests/test_lock_screen_gestures.py::TestUnlockAtTheEndOfTheFeed::test_a_feed_with_nothing_to_scroll_is_not_treated_as_at_its_end
3 failed, 25 passed

The suite can fail on the exact defect it exists to catch, and the named mutation control goes with it. That is the evidence I needed; the scrollHeight 394 == clientHeight 394 measurement and the disjunct-not-conjunct argument both hold up, and the table's "tsk-36i6ed preserved" row is real.

⛔ 1. check-all-skip red — reproduced, and it is NOT what the bot comment says

The comment on this PR claims all your tests skip. Ignore it — that comment is a fixed string posted on any failure of the gate, and it misdescribes your case. I have carded that separately as tsk-ivbdjs. The job log's actual finding:

::error::pytest exited 2 on tests/test_lock_screen_repaint.py (collection error or crash)

Reproduced at your head, under CI's own invocation:

$ uv run --frozen pytest tests/test_lock_screen_repaint.py -rs --tb=short -q
ERROR collecting tests/test_lock_screen_repaint.py
tests/test_lock_screen_repaint.py:36: in <module>
    from tests.test_lock_screen_gestures import _balanced, _function
E   ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'tests'
RC=2

Why your local run was green and CI's is not. python -m pytest puts the CWD on sys.path; the pytest console script that uv run invokes does not. There is no tests/__init__.py in this repo, so tests is only importable in the first form. Your "10 passed" is true — it just is not reproducible in CI, and the shards use the same invocation.

The fix is one line, and the repo already has the convention. tests/test_lock_screen_repaint.py:36 is the only from tests. import in the whole suite; the one existing cross-test import uses the sibling form (from test_routes_cluster_pairing import ..., 3 call sites). Match it:

from test_lock_screen_gestures import _balanced, _function

Please do not "fix" this by adding tests/__init__.py — that changes collection semantics for 200+ files to unblock one.

⛔ 2. deleted-symbols-gate red — needs the trailer, and I judge the deletions legitimate

Three symbols go:

tests/test_lock_screen_gestures.py:TestUnlockAtTheEndOfTheFeed.test_a_feed_with_nothing_to_scroll_is_already_at_its_end
tests/test_lock_screen_gestures.py:TestUnlockSwipeOrigin.test_a_feed_with_nothing_to_scroll_still_unlocks
tests/test_onscreen_keyboard.py:TestTheIslandRepaintKeepsKeyboardFocus.test_focus_is_captured_before_the_wipe_and_restored_after_the_rebuild

All three are explained in your body and I agree with each: the first two asserted the very rule this PR reverses, and the third named a wipe that no longer exists. That is a rename, not a loss of coverage — and the replacements are in the 100 above. But the gate cannot read your prose. Add the trailer to the PR body (scripts/check_deleted_symbols.py:54,333 parses path:qualname, comma-separated, and accepts multiple lines):

Removes-Intentionally: tests/test_lock_screen_gestures.py:TestUnlockAtTheEndOfTheFeed.test_a_feed_with_nothing_to_scroll_is_already_at_its_end, tests/test_lock_screen_gestures.py:TestUnlockSwipeOrigin.test_a_feed_with_nothing_to_scroll_still_unlocks
Removes-Intentionally: tests/test_onscreen_keyboard.py:TestTheIslandRepaintKeepsKeyboardFocus.test_focus_is_captured_before_the_wipe_and_restored_after_the_rebuild

One note on the body

You wrote that with the veto reverted "the new mutation control refuses to run at all rather than passing silently". It does not refuse — it fails, which is the stronger and more useful outcome. Worth correcting so nobody later reads a refusal as an infrastructure flake.

Not blocking, and I agree with the split

Leaving the stats and notification pollers out is right — same shape, separate card, this stays reviewable.


Fix (1), add the trailer for (2), and I will merge on a green shard set. I am not merging on the bot-review-gate green alone — that gate fails open and is under fix in #3100.

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Correction to my review above — one claim of mine was wrong, and it matters for what you do next.

I wrote that "the shards use the same invocation" and implied they would go red on the import. They do not, and they will not. Your shards are green and that is the correct result, not a stale run. I measured both forms at your head:

$ uv run --no-sync pytest tests/test_lock_screen_repaint.py --co -q
ERROR tests/test_lock_screen_repaint.py -> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'tests'
RC=2

$ uv run --no-sync pytest tests/ --ignore=tests/e2e --co -q      # ci.yml:122, the shard form
14288 tests collected in 57.77s
RC=0

Same interpreter, same uv run, same head. Passing the directory collects fine; passing the single file does not. I also checked -n auto on the chance that xdist was the difference — it is not, both file-form runs fail identically with and without it.

So the accurate statement is narrower than what I posted: check-all-skip is the only thing this breaks, because .github/scripts/check_all_skip.py:65-68 is the one place in CI that runs pytest on a single file.

What does not change: the fix. tests/test_lock_screen_repaint.py:36 is still the only from tests. import in the suite, it still breaks the moment anything addresses that file on its own, and the one-line sibling form is still the right change. If anything this is a better argument for making it than the one I gave — the per-file gate caught a fragility the shards structurally cannot see, since they only ever collect the whole directory. Green shards were never evidence that import was sound.

Item 2 (the Removes-Intentionally: trailer) and everything I verified by measurement — the 100 passed, and the veto mutation turning 3 red including your named control — stand unchanged.

Jay, from the glass, in the same breath as the agent islands: "the system
stats widget flickers too". It is the same defect one view over, and worse:
the stats poll runs every THREE seconds, not fifteen, and `.ls-stat-card`
carries the same 520ms `ls-island-in` entrance the islands do. Every tick
wiped `#ls-stats` and rebuilt it, so the card replayed its entrance twenty
times a minute.

Measured in chromium at the device's own 540x1200 viewport, stats view,
nothing touched. Before: two entrance replays in 7.5s, 2992ms apart -- the
poll -- and the card a different, already-detached element each time. After:
none across three consecutive nine-second runs, the card keeping its element
and the readings updating in place.

Reconciling also makes `.ls-stat-fill`'s 420ms width transition mean
something. A transition needs a FROM value, which only a surviving element
has, so every meter had been snapping to its reading rather than travelling
to it. Measured after: the same fill element, 69.7% -> 89.2%.

The notification stacks had it too, at a fifteen-minute cadence: a wipe, the
same entrance animation, and -- because a stack is a `role="button"` with a
tabindex -- keyboard focus thrown away with it. Keyed by source now. A stack
whose notifications genuinely changed is still rebuilt, because that is new
content arriving and the animation is what it is for.

Two things the reconcile had to get right rather than merely make still:

- A reading that stops being measured loses its bar. A meter left at its last
  value goes on reporting a measurement nobody is making, and reads exactly
  like a live one.
- The minute labels are collected from what is actually on screen rather than
  from whatever the paint happened to build. A stack that is deliberately left
  alone builds nothing, so the old list would have silently stopped retouching
  its clocks -- and a clock frozen at "2h ago" looks like a working one.

The weather and task lists are polled and rebuilt the same way and are
deliberately left alone: nothing they rebuild carries an animation or a
transition, and neither holds focus, so neither can flicker. That is a
measurement of those two, not an assumption about them.

ALSO, in the test harness, a defect that made the suite pass for the wrong
reason: `_balanced` was quote-aware but not comment-aware, so the apostrophe
in `// The App Store's own artwork` inside `island()` opened a string that
never closed. `_function("island")` was quietly returning 12kB -- island(),
reconcileIslands() AND paintActivity() -- instead of 5kB. Everything passed,
because the extra functions were the real ones and `reconcileIslands` was
being supplied by accident rather than by name. Now comment-aware, and the
reconcile helpers are named in `_source` explicitly.

The DOM stand-in's `textContent` was a plain string property, so assigning it
did not remove children the way a browser does. A panel that failed to empty
would have looked empty to the harness. It now clears its children, which is
also what the controls were hand-rolling around.

Docs-Reviewed: no route surface changes; this is lock-screen client script and
its tests.
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Use the sibling import style. The all-skip gate runs pytest on each changed test file separately. In that mode, from tests.test_lock_screen_gestures cannot resolve this top-level test sibling because tests has no __init__.py. The import used by tests/test_lock_screen_views.py is the compatible pattern:

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Removes-Intentionally: tests/test_lock_screen_gestures.py:TestUnlockSwipeOrigin.test_a_feed_with_nothing_to_scroll_still_unlocks, tests/test_lock_screen_gestures.py:TestUnlockAtTheEndOfTheFeed.test_a_feed_with_nothing_to_scroll_is_already_at_its_end, tests/test_onscreen_keyboard.py:TestTheIslandRepaintKeepsKeyboardFocus.test_focus_is_captured_before_the_wipe_and_restored_after_the_rebuild

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Keep demo notification identities stable across polls. Each enabled /auth/lock-notifications request calls _demo_notifications(), which derives at from a new time.time() value. pollNotifications() repeats the request every 15 minutes, while notifIdentity() includes at. An unchanged stack can therefore receive a different identity, causing paintNotifications() to replace it and replay the entrance animation. The replacement can also discard keyboard focus. Cache the demo timestamps, or assign stable notification IDs while retaining title and text in the identity.

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In `@tinyagentos/routes/auth.py` around lines 2751 - 2752, The demo notifications
generated by _demo_notifications() must retain stable identities across repeated
pollNotifications() requests. Cache their at timestamps or otherwise assign
stable IDs, while preserving title and text in notifIdentity() so unchanged
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`check-all-skip` is the only job in CI that runs pytest on a SINGLE FILE, and
`pytest tests/<one file>.py` puts tests/ itself on sys.path rather than the
repo root. There is no tests/__init__.py, so the `tests.` package does not
exist under that invocation and the import raised ModuleNotFoundError with
rc=2. The shards pass the DIRECTORY, so they resolved it and went green: their
green was correct and was not evidence that this file imports.

Verified both ways rather than just the one that was failing: the file alone
(29 passed) and alongside its sibling (47 passed).

This is the only file in tests/ that used the `tests.` prefix, so nothing else
moves with it.

Docs-Reviewed: test-only import fix; no route or API surface involved.
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…e no-credential sentinel for a VALID human token, turning the project-tasks 403 into a silent empty 200 (#3107)

* a2a_bus: sanitise human-principal handle, fix auth docstrings

Lift the printable-filter and 64-char cap into a shared _sanitise_handle
helper in a2a_bus.py and have both the admin and human branches of
_resolve_send_identity call it, so the two paths cannot drift apart.

Extend check_agent_scope and check_agent_scope_for_project docstrings
to document that None also means a valid human-principal token was
presented, matching the behaviour of _verify_agent_scope.

Give check_agent_project_grants the same human-principal short-circuit
so it matches check_agent_scope, and update its docstring.

RED
```
FAILED tests/test_a2a_bus_agent_auth.py::TestBusHumanAuth::test_human_handle_is_sanitised
>       assert "\n" not in sent_from
E       AssertionError: assert '\n' not in '@evil\n\x00injected'
E         '\n' is contained here:
E           @evil
E         ? -----
E           injected
```

GREEN 34 passed in 48.61s

Docs-Reviewed: handle sanitisation is an internal proxy-side security
fix, no agent-coordination.md update required

Docs-Reviewed: handle sanitisation is an internal proxy-side security fix; the agent-coordination.md description of from-derivation remains accurate and the agent manual does not document bus handle sanitisation.

* fix(check_agent_project_grants): raise 403 for human-principal tokens instead of returning no-auth sentinel

A valid human-principal token on the project-tasks aggregate was being
conflated with "no Authorization header" because check_agent_project_grants
returned (None, {}) for human tokens. The caller in projects.py mapped that
to an empty 200, making "you have no projects" indistinguishable from
"your token is the wrong type".

Move the principal_type check before the registry lookup (matching
_verify_agent_scope) and raise a 403 with a distinguishable detail instead.

Also add the equivalent handle fallback on the human branch of
_resolve_send_identity: when _sanitise_handle strips a username down to
just "@", fall back to "@<human_id>" so two distinct users cannot collapse
to the same bare handle.

Docs-Reviewed: internal auth fix, no agent-coordination.md update required

RED
```
FAILED tests/test_routes_project_tasks_aggregate.py::test_human_token_aggregate_gets_distinguishable_403 - AssertionError
```

GREEN 1 passed in 6.44s

Note: _sanitise_handle applies the 64-char cap after the "@" prefix, so two
usernames that differ only past character 63 collapse to the same handle.
There is no username length cap at registration, so this truncation collision
is reachable. It is not fixed in this commit because the a2a_bus sanitisation
half and its test must remain byte-identical to BASE apart from the "@"
fallback; a follow-up should either add a registration cap or change the
cap to apply to the username part before the "@" is prepended.

* Fix version-sync guard to cover all 5 version places (#3098)

Extended tests/test_version_lock_sync.py to compare pyproject.toml version
against all four sibling carriers:
- tinyagentos/__init__.py __version__ (regex read, no import)
- desktop/package.json root version
- desktop/package-lock.json top-level version AND packages[''].version (two
  separate tests, beta.52 missed the latter)
- kept existing uv.lock test with PEP 440 Version() comparison

Updated docs/RELEASING.md step 1 to list all five files with package-lock.json
note about the two root version fields.

RED-FIRST evidence:

__init__.py drifted (red):
```
.F...                                                                    [100%]
=================================== FAILURES ===================================
____________________ test_pyproject_and_init_versions_match ____________________

    def test_pyproject_and_init_versions_match():
        pyproject_version = _read_pyproject_version()
        init_version = _read_init_version()
        # Exact string compare: __init__.py is not PEP 440 normalised.
>       assert pyproject_version == init_version, (
            f"pyproject declares {pyproject_version!r} but tinyagentos/__init__.py "
            f"has {init_version!r}; these versions must match exactly."
        )
E       AssertionError: pyproject declares '1.0.0-beta.53' but tinyagentos/__init__.py has '1.0.0-beta.99'; these versions must match exactly.
E       assert '1.0.0-beta.53' == '1.0.0-beta.99'
E
E         - 1.0.0-beta.99
E         ?            ^^
E         + 1.0.0-beta.53
E         ?            ^^

tests/test_version_lock_sync.py:88: AssertionError
=========================== short test summary info ============================
FAILED tests/test_version_lock_sync.py::test_pyproject_and_init_versions_match
1 failed, 4 passed in 0.37s
```

__init__.py restored (green):
```
.....                                                                    [100%]
5 passed in 0.30s
```

package-lock.json packages[''].version drifted alone (red):
```
....F                                                                    [100%]
=================================== FAILURES ===================================
__________ test_pyproject_and_package_lock_root_package_version_match __________

    def test_pyproject_and_package_lock_root_package_version_match():
        pyproject_version = _read_pyproject_version()
        _, root_pkg = _read_package_lock_versions()
        # Exact string compare: package-lock.json packages[""].version is not PEP 440 normalised.
        # The beta.52 train missed this field while the top-level was correct.
>       assert pyproject_version == root_pkg, (
            f"pyproject declares {pyproject_version!r} but desktop/package-lock.json "
            f"packages[''].version has {root_pkg!r}; these versions must match exactly."
        )
E       AssertionError: pyproject declares '1.0.0-beta.53' but desktop/package-lock.json packages[''].version has '1.0.0-beta.99'; these versions must match exactly.
E       assert '1.0.0-beta.53' == '1.0.0-beta.99'
E
E         - 1.0.0-beta.99
E         ?            ^^
E         + 1.0.0-beta.53
E         ?            ^^

tests/test_version_lock_sync.py:119: AssertionError
=========================== short test summary info ============================
FAILED tests/test_version_lock_sync.py::test_pyproject_and_package_lock_root_package_version_match
1 failed, 4 passed in 0.36s
```

package-lock.json restored (green):
```
.....                                                                    [100%]
5 passed in 0.23s
```

* The lock screen stops unlocking from a card, and stops flickering (#3105)

* The lock screen stops unlocking from a card, and stops flickering

Two bugs Jay reported from the glass, both measured in a real browser at the
device's own CSS viewport (540x1200) rather than reasoned about from source.

tsk-bgxtxn -- swiping up on an agent island opened the keypad.

With the six agents the demo phone shows, #ls-feed reports scrollHeight 394 and
clientHeight 394: the feed is content-sized, the islands fit, and it does not
overflow. The unlock veto asked only how far the feed could still travel, so it
read zero room and stood aside, and every drag beginning on an island unlocked
the phone.

The veto was not broken -- it was doing what it said. The comment shipped with
tsk-36i6ed reasoned that a feed which cannot scroll is not being read, so a drag
from it should unlock, and treated that as a corner case for a device with one
agent and nothing to show. The measurement says it is the ordinary state of the
screen. That deliberate rule is the bug.

Overflow therefore returns to the veto, as a disjunct rather than the conjunct
removed with tsk-36i6ed. That one could not change the answer, because the
browser clamps scrollTop to 0 on a feed that cannot scroll; this one decides its
own case and no other:

  scrollable, at the top  -> room left     -> veto   (reading is not unlocking)
  scrollable, at the end  -> neither       -> unlock (tsk-36i6ed, preserved)
  cannot scroll at all    -> !overflows    -> veto   (cards are not an unlock pad)

Two existing tests asserted the old rule and are reversed here deliberately,
saying so and saying why. A new mutation control strips the added arm and
requires the non-scrolling case to go red while both scrollable cases stay
exactly as they are -- a mutation that broke everything would show only that the
suite notices change, not that these scenarios tell a dead feed from a feed read
to its end.

tsk-5baas4 -- the islands flickered every fifteen seconds.

paintActivity() wiped #ls-agents and rebuilt every island on each poll. Every
one was a new element, and .ls-island carries a 520ms entrance animation with
staggered per-child delays, so the whole list replayed its entrance every tick
whether or not a byte of the payload had changed. Measured over one cycle with
nothing touched: six of six islands fired animationstart and the first island
was no longer the same node. After: zero, and the same node.

The list is now reconciled by agent name. An island that persists is updated in
place and never re-inserted -- re-inserting a node restarts its animation, so
the reconcile checks position before it moves anything. A reconfigured agent, a
new portrait or a different framework, is still rebuilt; that comes from
configuration rather than from a tick.

The tests assert node identity, not rendered values: the old code rendered the
right names too, which is exactly why a value assertion would have passed on it.
The focus save and restore stays for the cases reconciliation cannot cover, and
its ordering test now names the repaint instead of the wipe it used to name.

Still open, and not in here: the stats and notification pollers repaint
wholesale the same way, which is the flicker Jay saw in the system widget.

Docs-Reviewed: no route was added, removed or changed. The edit is entirely
inside _LOCK_SCREEN_SCRIPT, the client-side script auth.py serves, plus its
tests; the HTTP surface and the agent-coordination contract are untouched.

* The stats panel and the notification stacks stop flickering

Jay, from the glass, in the same breath as the agent islands: "the system
stats widget flickers too". It is the same defect one view over, and worse:
the stats poll runs every THREE seconds, not fifteen, and `.ls-stat-card`
carries the same 520ms `ls-island-in` entrance the islands do. Every tick
wiped `#ls-stats` and rebuilt it, so the card replayed its entrance twenty
times a minute.

Measured in chromium at the device's own 540x1200 viewport, stats view,
nothing touched. Before: two entrance replays in 7.5s, 2992ms apart -- the
poll -- and the card a different, already-detached element each time. After:
none across three consecutive nine-second runs, the card keeping its element
and the readings updating in place.

Reconciling also makes `.ls-stat-fill`'s 420ms width transition mean
something. A transition needs a FROM value, which only a surviving element
has, so every meter had been snapping to its reading rather than travelling
to it. Measured after: the same fill element, 69.7% -> 89.2%.

The notification stacks had it too, at a fifteen-minute cadence: a wipe, the
same entrance animation, and -- because a stack is a `role="button"` with a
tabindex -- keyboard focus thrown away with it. Keyed by source now. A stack
whose notifications genuinely changed is still rebuilt, because that is new
content arriving and the animation is what it is for.

Two things the reconcile had to get right rather than merely make still:

- A reading that stops being measured loses its bar. A meter left at its last
  value goes on reporting a measurement nobody is making, and reads exactly
  like a live one.
- The minute labels are collected from what is actually on screen rather than
  from whatever the paint happened to build. A stack that is deliberately left
  alone builds nothing, so the old list would have silently stopped retouching
  its clocks -- and a clock frozen at "2h ago" looks like a working one.

The weather and task lists are polled and rebuilt the same way and are
deliberately left alone: nothing they rebuild carries an animation or a
transition, and neither holds focus, so neither can flicker. That is a
measurement of those two, not an assumption about them.

ALSO, in the test harness, a defect that made the suite pass for the wrong
reason: `_balanced` was quote-aware but not comment-aware, so the apostrophe
in `// The App Store's own artwork` inside `island()` opened a string that
never closed. `_function("island")` was quietly returning 12kB -- island(),
reconcileIslands() AND paintActivity() -- instead of 5kB. Everything passed,
because the extra functions were the real ones and `reconcileIslands` was
being supplied by accident rather than by name. Now comment-aware, and the
reconcile helpers are named in `_source` explicitly.

The DOM stand-in's `textContent` was a plain string property, so assigning it
did not remove children the way a browser does. A panel that failed to empty
would have looked empty to the harness. It now clears its children, which is
also what the controls were hand-rolling around.

Docs-Reviewed: no route surface changes; this is lock-screen client script and
its tests.

* The repaint tests import the way CI's per-file run needs

`check-all-skip` is the only job in CI that runs pytest on a SINGLE FILE, and
`pytest tests/<one file>.py` puts tests/ itself on sys.path rather than the
repo root. There is no tests/__init__.py, so the `tests.` package does not
exist under that invocation and the import raised ModuleNotFoundError with
rc=2. The shards pass the DIRECTORY, so they resolved it and went green: their
green was correct and was not evidence that this file imports.

Verified both ways rather than just the one that was failing: the file alone
(29 passed) and alongside its sibling (47 passed).

This is the only file in tests/ that used the `tests.` prefix, so nothing else
moves with it.

Docs-Reviewed: test-only import fix; no route or API surface involved.

* changelog: describe the actual pre-fix behaviour, not an empty 200

The fragment claimed this change prevents "a silent empty 200". It does not:
on dev, `check_agent_project_grants` returns the `(None, {})` sentinel ONLY
when no Authorization header is present. A human-principal token WITH a Bearer
header passes the signature and sub checks, reaches `registry.get(sub)`, finds
no agent record, and already raises 403 -- with the generic
"agent is not active in the registry" detail.

So the defect was a MISLEADING 403, not a silent success, and the fix replaces
an inaccurate message with an accurate one. The test asserts exactly that (its
docstring is already correct); only the fragment's prose was wrong, and it is
user-facing.
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