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Problem

#535 added hil_lock.board_task and deprecated write-ahead claims, but this repo's own consumers still use the old
lifecycle. The Arduino engine takes and ends its locks by hand and writes claims. The farm check finalizes its lock by
hand. Neither checks whether another process already uses the board's probe. The claim API stays in hil_lock only
for them.

Solution

• Arduino engine (arduino_hil.py):
  • Board tasks. run_board and commission run on board_task, with busy set to probe_users for the
    board's flasher.
    • A busy probe refuses before any hardware access and names its users. A check that cannot decide runs nothing.
    • Verdicts:
      • an untouched refusal is clean;
      • a proven restore is restored;
      • Unclean, unknown state or a failed restore is failed, with the tracker's pending receipts.
    • Each verdict is given inside an inline retry under InterruptHold. An interrupt before the hold still logs the
      pending evidence.
  • Manual session commands stay outside board_task. They run under session_mutex plus the same busy check.
    Each command gets its own run directory, and a refusal still writes its result.json.
• Farm check (hil_farm_check.py):
  • It runs each board on board_task.
  • A profile must supply a busy(board) hook; a missing hook is refused, never treated as idle.
  • Busy and contention give locked. Open operations give failed, with receipts and retained sessions. The
    verdict uses the same interrupt-safe retry.
• Claim API removed from hil_lock: claims, settle and the invocation state. A reduced PendingSessions
  read/add/clear stays for marks written by older runners.
• Shared formatting. hil_lock.users_text renders probe users for BoardBusy and both consumers.
• Docs. skills/hil/SKILL.md and skills/arduino/SKILL.md updated.

Downstream pins: TinyUSB's farm profile already implements busy (hathach/tinyusb#4499). The Arduino libraries and
core move their pins in their own PRs.

Tests: the BUILD.md suite passes.

Hardware, on ci.lan at this branch:

• Arduino engine on metro_m4_express (J-Link; core and library profiles), raspberry_pi_pico (OpenOCD) and
  espressif_s3_devkitm (esptool):
  • Battery and commission: pass.
  • Injected failed cleanup: exit 4 with a failed event carrying the leftover child's receipt.
    restore --under-hold resolves it.
  • SIGINT mid-battery: exit 4 with a failed event logged and the lock released. The next run reports it and
    resolves it.
  • An own hold: gives a locked row with nothing touched.
  • An idle JLinkExe, OpenOCD or tty holder: refuses the battery naming it, and refuses a manual check under a
    hold, which is kept.
  • Two concurrent commands under one hold: the second is refused as session busy.
• Farm check through TinyUSB's profile:
  • 30 boards: 29 ok, ek_tm4c123gxl unsupported.
  • An idle JLinkExe on stm32f407disco's probe gives locked (busy) with no reset.
  • An own hold gives locked.
  • SIGINT during a J-Link and an OpenOCD reset gives an interrupted row, with the child proven ended and the lock
    released.

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Walkthrough

Farm checks and Arduino HIL operations replace invocation-claim handling and manual lock lifecycles with board tasks and busy checks. Farm profiles must provide a busy check before reset. Runs and commissioning check probe use under the board lock, while session commands serialize through a shared mutex. The changes update cleanup verdicts and refusal reporting, remove claim-related lock helpers, and add tests for admission, cleanup, and interruption behavior.

Possibly related issues

• hathach/agentrc#475: The PR records failed farm-check cleanup with receipts and retained sessions, but does not add the resolution or compaction path described by the issue.

Possibly related PRs

• hathach/agentrc#484: This PR removes the invocation-claim API introduced by #484 and replaces it with board tasks and busy checks.
• hathach/agentrc#474: Both PRs change cleanup handling and the lock API used by the farm check and Arduino HIL.

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 5ecd3

The Arduino engine and farm check move onto board_task with busy checks. The cleanup-verdict problems raised earlier have been addressed. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains in the supplied evidence.

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Description check		The description states the problem, the proposed solution, and the test and hardware results. It covers the Arduino engine, the farm check, the claim API removal, the users_text helper, and the doc up…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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The description states the problem, the proposed solution, and the test and hardware results. It covers the Arduino engine, the farm check, the claim API removal, the users_text helper, and the doc updates, all of which appear in the changeset.

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Major · Re-raise OSError from op_console when a tracked child is pending. · arduino_hil.py:1161-1162

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Re-raise OSError from op_console when a tracked child is pending.

Tracker.run() records any tracked exception whose cleanup is not done as a pending child, then re-raises it. With --reset, detach() and reset() run inside the op_console try block. An OSError from such a child can reach the except (serial.SerialException, OSError) handler at line 1419. That handler returns a normal failed result. _session_op then writes 'survivors': [], skips the tracker.check() call, and does not write the pending receipt to the board's cleanup log that the next task reads.

Keep the OSError capture for serial errors with no pending child. Re-raise when a child is pending, as the KeyboardInterrupt branch already does. The error then reaches the except BaseException path, which records the pending receipts and returns exit code 4.

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     except (serial.SerialException, OSError) as e:   # pyserial's line setters raise a bare OSError
+        if tracker.pending:
+            raise   # _session_op records the unproven child
         why = f'{tty}: {e}'   # the capture so far is kept; the hold stays with the caller

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Update the op_console exception handling so an OSError is re-raised when tracker.pending is non-empty, allowing the BaseException path to record pending receipts; retain the existing serial-error capture when no child is pending.

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Fixed in 5ecd3c5.

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