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rcourtman b44d5892f4 Gate stale-finding auto-resolve on category whitelist
reconcileStaleFindings was auto-resolving any seeded finding that the
LLM didn't re-report in a successful run. The function's own comment
acknowledges the LLM doesn't reliably use patrol_resolve_finding, so
this was built as a cleanup pass — but it cannot tell the difference
between "LLM correctly recognized this is fixed" and "LLM forgot to
re-mention it." For findings that represent discrete events or
persistent states (a backup task that failed, a service that
crashed, a security vulnerability that was found, a configuration
error), absence in a Patrol report is not evidence that the issue
has cleared. The result was bogus auto_resolved → re-detected →
regressed cycles, observed in the wild as "Backup failed" regressing
4× over 6 hours and "Provider analysis error" regressing 271×.
Those bogus auto-resolutions also inflated the trust strip with
fictional auto-resolved credit.

CategorySupportsStaleAutoResolve in findings.go gates the cleanup:
only `performance` and `capacity` findings — continuous current-state
metric thresholds — may be auto-resolved from absence. The other
four categories (reliability, backup, security, general) stay active
until explicitly resolved.

Updates the ai-runtime subsystem contract Current State section with
the whitelist and the adjacent lifecycle dedup rules already landed.

Adds TestReconcileStaleFindings_SkipsNonCurrentStateCategories with
table-driven subtests for all four event/persistent categories, and
TestCategorySupportsStaleAutoResolve to lock in the whitelist.
2026-05-10 19:27:36 +01:00
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