converse-recheck-premise

Step 2 — Re-check the premise

The condition that justified filing a visit routinely dies before anyone claims it. Test the VISIT's own premise against live state before you prep, and before the rename: a visit that closes here should not have moved the operator's session title.

$CONV, $VISIT, and $SUBJECT are resolved in step 1's claim block.

Re-read the visit body. Its stated conditions ARE the premise, often bulleted literally — "no triage.hold and no gc.takeaway on the root", "its frontier is [...] UNASSIGNED". Check each one still holds, on the subject and on whatever bead the premise is about:

gc bd show "$SUBJECT" --json | jq -r '.[0].metadata
  | "hold=\(.["triage.hold"] // "") takeaway=\(.["gc.takeaway"] // "")"'

NON-EMPTY is the test for triage.hold — an EMPTY stamp is a CLEARED hold. A gc.takeaway dates the last sitting rather than naming a live wait: read what it says, then check whether that wait is still open.

Two readings end the visit here, with nothing posted:

• moot — the premise no longer holds. The frontier was routed, the bead was closed, another visit already settled it.

• benign — the premise holds but needs no human: the wait is already named by a non-empty triage.hold or an open demand bead, or the condition is a known acceptable state. An open PR awaiting the operator's review is the canonical case — their own review queue, and handing it back is the bug this step prevents.

  A takeaway is never a benign wait on its own, because nothing clears it. Re-check the ids in the body (bd show, and gc bd list --parent "$SUBJECT" --all); it is moot only if something is open again.

Close it out with converse-close-out.sh, which appends the reading to the subject's notes, stamps gc.outcome=<moot|benign> on the visit, reads it back, and closes the visit — no takeaway, nothing posted:

VISIT="$VISIT" SUBJECT="$SUBJECT" \
  "$CONV/converse-close-out.sh" <moot|benign> "<the premise, and what is true instead>"

Then go to step 8 and claim again. Post nothing — no framing, no sign-off, not even "this turned out to be fine". Deliberately no takeaway stamp either: it is the subject's headline of what it NEEDS, and one for a visit that needs nobody spends the attention this exit saves.

The exit is gated on being named: if you cannot point at the stamp or state that makes this benign, you hold the sitting. Uncertain is not benign.

When the premise still holds and needs a human, this visit earns a sitting: prep it (steps 3–4, the converse-prep skill).