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Fixes #538. Fixes #541. Follows #542.

Problem

hil_lock.board_task (#535) leaves every consumer to rebuild the same plumbing, and each copy drew the same review
findings:

• The verdict. It is given under an InterruptHold, retried inline when an interrupt lands before the hold is in,
  and the first interrupt is re-raised afterwards.
• A second __exit__. It is called by hand when CPython delivered a signal as __exit__ was entered.
• Report fields. They are copied from the task into each report.

hathach/tinyusb#4499 nets about +280 production lines from these copies alone.

Two lock defects ride along:

• hil_lock: end_failed clears the holder record when its failed event was not logged, so the next take is not stopped #538: end_failed clears a task's record even when its failed event could not be logged, so the failure leaves
  no trace for the next take.
• hil_flash: probe_users counts every STM32_Programmer_CLI as a user of every stlink probe, so sibling ST-LINK boards cannot be admitted #541: probe_users counts every STM32_Programmer_CLI as a user of every ST-LINK. A board is refused while a
  sibling's ST-LINK is being flashed, so each consumer filters those sessions itself.

Solution

• board_task(..., verdict=fn). The consumer's collector fn(task, exc) reads its ledger and gives clean(),
  restored() or failed().
  • When it runs: once, at the end of an admitted task whose body gave no verdict, under finalization's own hold and
    inside the existing __exit__ retry frame.
  • When it fails: a collector that raises (an interrupt included, when no hold could be installed) or gives no
    verdict ends the task failed. Any failed evidence it gave is kept, an unrecheckable marker is added, and the task
    never ends cleanly.
• First interrupt wins. The first interrupt caught while finishing wins, and a body's own interrupt counts as first.
  The docstring names the remaining boundaries: entry into __exit__/finish(), and a signal landing while the
  replay's handler runs.
• task.finish(exc). It replaces the hand-written second __exit__. It is idempotent, ends an interrupted
  admission as a refusal and an unused task as untouched, and never raises exc.
• task.report(). One dict of the outcome attributes, describe() and copies of errors and restore_notes, for
  consumers that copy fields today (tinyuf2's lock object).
• hil_lock: end_failed clears the holder record when its failed event was not logged, so the next take is not stopped #538. _end_failed_each clears a record only once its failed event is logged, and still drops the flock. The next
  take logs the record as found-left. If the log is still unwritable then, that take reports it only in its
  cleanup_failures. The Arduino manual-hold gate (held_by) no longer accepts such a kept protected record as a hold.
• hil_flash: probe_users counts every STM32_Programmer_CLI as a user of every stlink probe, so sibling ST-LINK boards cannot be admitted #541. On an ST-LINK, probe_users skips an STM32_Programmer_CLI whose -c/--connect parameters carry a
  nonempty sn=, with no -script and no word containing this probe's serial. Its argv and fd matches are both
  skipped: its discovery opens every ST-LINK before the sn= filter, and those opens are accepted. Every other tool's
  readable fds still count. An ST-LINK is an stlink flasher or openocd on interface/stlink.cfg, the recovery entry
  of every ST-LINK board, which a consumer's busy check also walks; ST's vendor id alone is not one (Versaloon is
  0483:a038).
• agentrc's consumers. The Arduino engine (run and commission) and the farm check move onto the collector and
  finish(), which deletes their inline holds, retries and second __exit__. Their report schemas are unchanged.
  Move the Arduino engine and farm check onto board_task and remove write-ahead claims #542's late interrupt fixes carry over: the Arduino collector fails a passing cleanup while a tracked child is
  pending or its state is still unknown, and the interrupt sweeps cover the collector.

Tests: the BUILD.md suite passes (5249 passed, 130 skipped).

Hardware, on ci.lan at f53909b:

• Normal battery: passes on raspberry_pi_pico (OpenOCD) and metro_m4_express (J-Link), with each lock released and no
  event. The pico commission also passes and matches the roster.
• Injected failed cleanup (a tracked survivor), pico: exit 4. The failed event carries the survivor's receipt. A
  restore under hold refuses while the survivor lives and restores both failures once it ends.
• SIGINT mid-battery (pico, during OpenOCD): exit 4, aborted, lock released and the failure logged. The rerun passes
  and resolves it.
• Busy probe: an idle OpenOCD refuses the pico battery with probeUsers naming it. An idle JLinkExe refuses the farm
  check of stm32f407disco. Nothing is touched in either case.
• Farm check: 28 of 30 boards ok, 0 blocked (ek_tm4c123gxl unsupported; espressif_s3_devkitm held by a CI run). A
  SIGINT during nrf52840dk's JLinkExe reset ends released with no event, and the recheck is ok.
• ST-LINK siblings: a looping STM32_Programmer_CLI on stm32g0b1nucleo's ST-LINK (under a hold), with
  stm32h743nucleo farm-checked alongside it:
  • this branch: 5/5 ok;
  • Move the Arduino engine and farm check onto board_task and remove write-ahead claims #542's head dc341a3: 5/5 refused as busy;
  • the same loop on h743's own ST-LINK refuses h743 3/3.
• ac8a8f6, the recovery entry, through Take HIL board locks through hil_lock.board_task tinyusb#4499's hil_test.py, which walks both entries:
  • stm32g0b1nucleo was held, with the same loop on its ST-LINK: 229 sessions during stm32h743nucleo's battery. h743
    passed 32/32 with no busy refusal.
  • One run of h743, g0b1 and u083 in parallel workers had no busy refusal.
• hil_lock: end_failed clears the holder record when its failed event was not logged, so the next take is not stopped #538 is covered by unit tests only, since making the shared rig's cleanup log unwritable was out of bounds.

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Walkthrough

BoardTask now collects missing cleanup verdicts during finalization and exposes finish() and report(). Failed holder records remain available when failure events cannot be logged. Arduino and farm-check workers use verdict callbacks and the updated interruption handling. Probe-user detection recognizes OpenOCD ST-LINK configurations and excludes qualifying STM32_Programmer_CLI processes that select another probe.

Possibly related issues

• hathach/agentrc#475 — The issue concerns open failed events in the cleanup log. This change retains failure evidence when logging fails, but does not address the issue’s compaction or resolution-scope behavior.

Possibly related PRs

• hathach/agentrc#542 — It introduces worker task interfaces that this change updates with verdict callbacks and finish().
• hathach/agentrc#474 — Both changes modify the hil_lock.end_failed cleanup-record contract and its consumers.
• hathach/agentrc#397 — It introduces the Arduino HIL engine whose battery, commission, and run flows are updated here.

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 35dcd

The change moves verdict collection and finishing into BoardTask, retains failed cleanup records when their log write fails, and narrows ST-LINK user attribution. The earlier review concerns are reported as fixed, and no remaining merge-blocking risk is evident.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the main change: BoardTask in hil_lock now takes a verdict collector and gains finish() and report() methods. The diff adds verdict=None, finish(exc=None), and report() to BoardTask, a…
Description check		The description is closely related to the changeset. It explains the verdict collector, finish(exc), and report() APIs, the #538 cleanup-record fix in end_failed, and the #541 probe_users STM32_Progra…
Linked Issues check		[#538] The AI-generated summary of skills/hil/scripts/hil_lock.py says end_failed keeps a holder record when its failed event cannot be logged. It marks the record cleanupOwed behind UNLOGGED, a…
Out of Scope Changes check		Each changed area maps to the stated objectives. The board_task verdict collector, finish(), and report() in skills/hil/scripts/hil_lock.py implement the shared plumbing the PR describes. The Ar…

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The title names the main change: BoardTask in hil_lock now takes a verdict collector and gains finish() and report() methods. The diff adds verdict=None, finish(exc=None), and report() to BoardTask, and the Arduino and farm-check consumers move onto them, so the title matches the primary change. It does not mention the #538 or #541 fixes, which is acceptable since the title need not cover every detail.

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The description is closely related to the changeset. It explains the verdict collector, finish(exc), and report() APIs, the #538 cleanup-record fix in end_failed, and the #541 probe_users STM32_Programmer_CLI exclusion. It also lists tests and hardware validation that match the modified test files and scripts.

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[#538] The AI-generated summary of skills/hil/scripts/hil_lock.py says end_failed keeps a holder record when its failed event cannot be logged. It marks the record cleanupOwed behind UNLOGGED, and _leftover recognizes that marker. The flock is still dropped. The next take logs the record as found-left. If the log stays unwritable, that take reports the problem only in cleanup_failures, which answers the issue's open question about blocking. The summary says the Arduino held_by gate rejects a record marked CLEANUP_OWED. tests/test_hil_lock.py and tests/test_hil_reserve.py cover the unlogged-failure path. [#541] The summary says probe_users in skills/hil/scripts/hil_flash.py excludes an STM32_Programmer_CLI on an ST-LINK when its connect parameters carry a nonempty sn=, it has no -script, and no word contains this probe's UID. Argv and fd matches are both skipped for such sessions. Selector-less and -script sessions still count. tests/test_hil_flash.py adds the matching cases. The summary also adds -pwr/--power as a further exclusion guard. The PR description does not list that guard, but the guard only keeps more sessions counted, so it does not weaken the issue requirement. Uncertainty: the repository diff tool could not read the changed blobs at head, so exact line behavior is not confirmed from source. The assessment rests on the summary, the PR description, and the test coverage the summary reports.

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Each changed area maps to the stated objectives. The board_task verdict collector, finish(), and report() in skills/hil/scripts/hil_lock.py implement the shared plumbing the PR describes. The Arduino engine (skills/arduino/scripts/arduino_hil.py) and farm check (skills/hil/scripts/hil_farm_check.py) move to the collector and finish(), which the PR states. The SKILL.md and hil_flash.py documentation describe the #541 and #538 behavior. The ST-LINK recognition of interface/stlink.cfg and the -pwr guard are narrowing or recognition refinements inside the #541 probe_users change. The -pwr guard appears in the commit history, not in the PR description. The tests cover these same behaviors. Uncertainty: the diff tool could not read changed blobs, so this rests on the change summaries.

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