Promote the 2026-09-27 guest-groups harvest: exec gate version mismatch, v1 auto-restore, CE0639, four bug drafts, e2e Chromium fallback

[MendixMau]

Direct lane (changes to skills/, bug-logs/, project-bin/, project-tests/)

What changed and why (one paragraph):
This PR promotes eight contrib/inbox/2026-09-27-* files and deletes each one in the same commit that consumes it. It makes five changes:

1. Exec gate false green. mxbuild refuses a model from another Mendix version with exit 3, the reason in errors[] and an empty problems[]. The gate counted that as 0 errors and logged "pass · mxbuild clean". Now mxtk_mxbuild_error_count returns ? (unverified) for a refusal. find_mxbuild also picks the mxbuild that matches the model's _MetaData._ProductVersion instead of the newest one, and announces any fallback.
2. v1 auto-restore. exec.sh had its own inline restore that only handled mprcontents/. It now restores through restore-mpr.sh, which covers v1 single-file, v2 and two-tree layouts. It only reports a rollback when the restore actually ran. sync-project.sh flags installed copies that are missing this arm.
3. CE0639. The rule said CE0639 on validation feedback could not be avoided. It no longer reproduces on v0.23.0, so the rule is restamped. Feedback now goes in VAL_/SUB_ microflows, and ACT_ calls them and branches on the result. A WRONG/RIGHT pair is included, and both halves pass mxcli check. The cookbook and the build-loop handoff table are corrected to match.
4. Four BUG-DRAFT-* ledger entries, all findable with bin/bug-lookup.sh:
   • XPath system member in the wrong case gives CE0161.
   • owner Both is ignored on modify.
   • Cross-module owner Both gives CE0066.
   • Audit-member CE0066. This one is fixed upstream; the entry adds the process point of recording mxcli --version.
5. e2e Chromium fallback. When the Chromium that Playwright pins is missing, the e2e launchers now use PW_EXECUTABLE, then /opt/pw-browsers/chromium.

Field evidence:

• Items 1, 2 and 4: observed on an existing-app change project (Mendix 11.12.2, mxcli v0.23.0, v1 single-file .mpr). There, 29 of 29 execs logged "mxbuild clean" against a refusing 11.14.0 Beta mxbuild, one of them over a real CE0066. The refusal's errors file is captured verbatim as tests/wave2/fixtures/mxbuild-version-mismatch.errors.json. The _MetaData shape was read off the real model.

• Item 3: re-probed on v0.23.0. Both MDL halves pass mxcli check.

• Item 5: field run in a cloud container that had chromium-1194 but not the pinned 1243. With the pre-fix helper, the launch fails with "Executable doesn't exist … chrome-headless-shell". With the patched helper, it launches Chromium 141.0.7390.37 and renders a page.

• No client data anywhere in the diff. Ledger entries describe the project generically.

• Size cap is exceeded: 22 files including 8 inbox deletions, and about 450 non-fixture lines, mostly _common.sh and exec.sh. The five commits are separable (one per item) and can be split into stacked PRs on request.

• Test tier reached: T0, T1 and T2 (see below). T3 is left to CI.

• New/changed instrument: the golden input is captured, not hand-written. Both layouts are covered: restore-mpr.sh handles single-tree and two-tree, and the fixtures build v1 and v2 projects. On platforms, find_java on macOS prefers JDK 21, and the version probe uses Python sqlite3 with a fallback to the newest mxbuild. Windows was checked by test-common-windows.sh.

• New skill: n/a (no new skill; routing not touched).

• CHANGELOG.md line appended for each item, crediting marketplace-rnd.

• New bug entries are headed ## BUG-DRAFT-<slug>:.

Checks run (T1, scoped):

Fixture	Result	Positive control
tests/wave2/test-mxbuild-version-match.sh project-bin/_common.sh (new)	18/18	pre-fix: 10 fail
tests/wave2/test-bug07-08.sh project-bin/exec.sh (new cases K and L)	43/0	pre-fix: K fails 4, L fails 3
test-common-windows.sh project-bin/_common.sh	10/0	—
test-doctor-gate-selftest.sh bin/doctor.sh	28/0	—
test-bug12-sync.sh bin/sync-project.sh	60/0	—
test-bug09-13.sh skills/iterative-build-loop.md	22/0	—

bash -n and node --check pass on the changed scripts.

Not run: tests/run-tests.sh and both full suites (T3, left to CI), and render-routing --check (routing untouched).

Not changed, reported only: the toolkit's CONV010 allowlist lacks ValidationFeedbackAction, and also NanoflowCallAction and ShowHomePageAction, which upstream has.

Two follow-up commits (independent of the five above, can be split off)

These two commits sit on top of the five above but don't depend on them. They can go to their own PR if you'd rather review them separately.

• 7392b03 exec.sh --patch. Runs a one-off script that edits the model directly (a Python BSON patch) through the MDL chain: snapshot, baseline, version-matched mxbuild gate, restore through restore-mpr.sh, and a BUILD-LOG row. The patch is kept only if the gate verifies it. A non-zero exit, a failed gate, a gate that cannot run and an unverified result are all rolled back, and ALLOW_UNVERIFIED does not apply. The chain does not guard anything outside the .mpr. ./bin/exec.sh is allow-listed, so in auto mode Claude Code's classifier does not review the script; the header says so. sync-project.sh flags installed copies from before this change, and learned-mdl-preflight.md Step 0 has one line pointing at it.
  Field runs used a scratch copy of the real model (Mendix 11.12.2, v1 .mpr):
  • The idempotent guest-groups patch wrote 0 units and passed the gate in 182s, with the model byte-identical afterwards.
  • A script that deleted 50 units and exited 2 was restored byte-identical, with no mxbuild run.
  • A script that wrote garbage into 20 units and exited 0 failed the gate ("Expected '$ID' as the first property") and was restored byte-identical.
    Fixtures: test-bug07-08.sh project-bin/exec.sh 43/0. test-bug12-sync.sh bin/sync-project.sh reached 55 ok / 0 fail through T13, then hit a 25-minute timeout on a starved host; it has no assertions on exec.sh notes.
• c88ddf6 install-claude-permissions doc finding. The request was to write autoMode.environment into the project's settings. That cannot work. https://code.claude.com/docs/en/auto-mode-config (checked 2026-09-27) says the classifier reads autoMode only from ~/.claude/settings.json, managed settings and --settings, and never from .claude/settings.json or .claude/settings.local.json. The settings reference gives its scope as "User or managed". So this commit writes no autoMode anywhere. The script header and agent-permission-friction.md record the finding and name the two routes that do work: /auto-mode-setup (the user's own decision) and ./bin/exec.sh --patch. No code or permission rules change. Field run on a scratch copy of the project's .claude/: install, jq validation, --check 1→0, idempotent reinstall and --uninstall all behaved as expected. test-install-claude-permissions.sh 66/0.

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