[Alan-TheGentleman]

Summary

Refs #1494. Opt-in STATUS client transport.

Adds the optional native STATUS request flag, strict protocol negotiation, and narrowly matched old-provider fallback/cache. This slice does not turn the option on for ordinary calls.

This is one bounded slice of the existing implementation and archived experiments, not a new design or a new benchmark. 266 additions plus deletions; no tests or comments are discarded to meet the 400-line limit.

Stack and dependencies

Order: decoder #3174 → optional transport → bounded result → run-only scope → integration → benchmark/reference documentation. These drafts allow review/CI in parallel. Merge sequentially only after provider support in Gentleman-Programming/gentle-ai#6107 and #6108 is delivered and each current-head check passes. Direct native calls, consent and closure authority remain unchanged.

Verification

• Current-main integrated stack: TypeScript check PASS; 49 focused tests PASS.
• Full exported test runner: 10,095 PASS, 0 FAIL, 94 skipped; provider-contract and runtime-harness stages PASS. Unit file concurrency was 2; no runner source, assertions or timeouts changed. This does not claim the earlier default-concurrency attempts passed.
• Independent packaging probes: four worker-executed cases; four additional worker-authored public probes executed by the parent after mandatory isolated preparation. Public checks cover concurrent scope isolation, malformed rejection/no authority writes, narrow old-provider fallback/cache, direct/capture parity and correction payload behavior. The source was subsequently integrated with current main and checked again as above.
• Main's new bug(review): gh pr create from a linked worktree is always denied with "Native preflight is unavailable" on Linux, while git -C push of the same range passes #3169 fixture failed on both unchanged main and candidate because /tmp aliases /private/tmp. Canonical root fixes preserve the assertions. The initial current-main test command mistakenly requested absent tsx and ran no product tests; the repository-native runner was used thereafter.
• Earlier default-concurrency failures and the old-provider/static benchmark limitations remain recorded. This PR does not claim new live-model quality or performance measurements. Existing raw evidence and gentle-shell-bench archive commit 2486ec4 are preserved.
• Current-head GitHub CI remains required before merge.

AI assistance

Material assistance: el Gentleman / Pi agents for implementation packaging, tests, independent probes, documentation and integration. Parent reviewed the partition, retained all coverage and measured its size. No actual RDD mode change or native review was performed.

Risk

Shared review-client and prompt contracts; independent verification retained. Provider permission, consent, correction selection and closure authority are not broadened.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • STATUS checks can optionally request non-blocking findings during standard client-initiated requests. Provider-issued selection submissions are unchanged.
• Compatibility
  • If the installed command-line tool returns a recognized unsupported-option refusal before starting the request, the check retries once without the option. The client remembers the refusal for that executable and tries the option again if the executable changes. Other errors are reported without an automatic retry.

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Walkthrough

Native STATUS requests can opt into --non-blocking-findings. Exact unsupported-flag refusals trigger one retry without the flag and are cached by executable digest. Provider-issued selection submissions do not receive the flag.

Changes: Non-blocking STATUS findings

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Opt-in contract and refusal cache lib/native-review-cli.ts, runtime/native-review-cli.mjs	NativeTargetStatusRequest adds nonBlockingFindings?: true. The client recognizes the exact unsupported-flag refusal and records it by executable path and digest.
STATUS invocation, fallback, and validation lib/native-review-cli.ts, runtime/native-review-cli.mjs, tests/native-review-cli-nonblocking-findings.test.ts	Contracted STATUS requests send the flag when requested and not cached. An exact refusal triggers one retry without it. Tests cover provider-issued submissions, binary changes, concurrent calls, and failures that must not retry.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Possibly related PRs

• Gentleman-Programming/gentle-shell#3174: Decodes the optional non_blocking_findings key in STATUS responses; this PR adds the opt-in flag that requests the corresponding payload.

Suggested reviewers: dnlrsls

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to b1971

The opt-in non-blocking STATUS flag is not enabled for ordinary calls and falls back once for older providers. The previously noted risk of wrongly caching a replaced executable has been addressed, and the change is ready to merge once current-head CI passes.

Pre-merge checks: 4

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Explanation

The title "feat(review): add optional non-blocking status transport" matches the main change. The PR adds an opt-in --non-blocking-findings flag to the native STATUS request, plus a narrowly matched fallback and digest-based refusal cache for older providers. The title names the opt-in flag's transport as the primary change. It is specific, short, and follows a conventional commit style. It does not cover the fallback/cache behavior, but that is expected.

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Review comments at @lib/native-review-cli.ts:
- Line 524: Capture the executable digest before invoking STATUS, then in the
refusal handling around nonBlockingFindingsRefusals.set, record that captured
digest only if the executable’s identity is unchanged when the refusal arrives.
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