Review finding 1 (docs/2026-08-14-confident-zero-review.md), tier 1 #2,
prioritized by .claude 2026-08-14T21:24:16Z coord message.
board.sh:381,395,409,516-517 gated four coord-count.sh invocations on
`[ -f "$SELFDIR/coord-count.sh" ]` and silently continued with empty
lookups when it failed - the 0.12.1 deployed-copy incident shape, a real
deployment state, not hypothetical. Reproduced exactly as the review
measured it (copy board.sh + route.sh to a scratch dir without
coord-count.sh, fixture mailbox with one reply-owing message): --brief
claimed "Ingen repo skylder noen et svar i dag." and then actively
mislabeled the reply-owing repo as "bare FYI-post" - a false statement,
not merely an absent one, since inbox>0/owed==0 looks identical whether
owed is genuinely 0 or simply uncomputed. --inbox-plan silently rendered
0 blocks instead of 1.
Fixed by computing HAVE_COUNT once and checking it everywhere a missing
sibling would otherwise read as "checked, found nothing": brief() no
longer enters the zero-debt/FYI-mislabel branch when the sibling is
missing, printing a warning instead; brief_orphans() and
brief_deadletters() warn instead of silently returning nothing (the
review's "dead-letter and orphan cross-checks vanish silently too");
plan() and inbox_plan() emit a key=value `advarsel=` line (not a '#'
comment - the driver consumer drops comment lines by rule, same
reasoning as the existing fokus= disclosure). plan()'s `keep` membership
logic is deliberately untouched: changing which repos appear in --plan
under this condition is a policy change to a format with a second
consumer in another repo that no test here can hold stable, and is a
proposal for the operator, not this fix.
Verified red before fixing: the reviewer's exact reproduction against
`git show HEAD:scripts/board.sh` (pre-fix) confirmed the mislabel and
the silent 0-block --inbox-plan, so the new board-selftest.sh section 17
fixture is red for the right reason, not by accident. Smoke-tested
against the real ~/repos tree (coord-count.sh present, HAVE_COUNT=1):
unchanged output, no warning.
All four selftest suites green: coord 200/200, board 183/183 (5 new
checks in section 17), route 69/69, guard 21/21.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01F1mzsaUmjqFHArbArG7EpF
Kjell Tore Guttormsen
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