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Problem

kixel-ai/dotfiles#164 gave each agent session its own TMPDIR, a 12 GiB tmpfs on the NixOS host, so whatever moq's tests write there now counts against 12 GiB. Its trace found moq the biggest leaker: fedora's /tmp/moq-test-1000 held 101 to 110 GB of kept harness runs. The maintainer kept three follow-ups from it.

Approach

Two new m1 quests:

• quest/m1/harness-runs-in-checkout.md [S]: harness runs, kept failures included, live in the checkout's .tmp/, so a kept run goes with the worktree and stays out of TMPDIR.
• quest/m1/carla-bridge-test-locks.md [XS]: the carla bridge's tests leave no carla-bridge-*.sock.lock files.

The third, TLC's metadir, got no quest: its goal already holds on main. Since moq-dev/moq#8628 (merged 2026-11-13), sh/tlc.py makes each metadir under the checkout's .tmp/tlc/, on the worktree's filesystem and removed with it, never in TMPDIR. The remaining empty /tmp/tlc-<n> directories are moq-dev/moq#8758's (open). Moving the metadir into target/ would also go against AGENTS.md's "scratch never goes in target/".

No existing quest or open PR owned these; searched the quest tree, its history, and open PRs.

Decisions

From the maintainer's /quest-plan interview, 2026-11-14:

• Goals confirmed as written in each quest. TLC's metadir goal was "lives under target/, so a large TLA+ state space never hits the 12 GiB agent scratch".

From the maintainer's decision comment on this PR, 2026-11-14, which supersedes the interview's pick of target/:

• Harness run directories: ✅ the checkout's .tmp/ (such as .tmp/harness/), beside TLC's .tmp/tlc/, so AGENTS.md's "scratch never goes in target/" stands unchanged (rejected: target/, narrowing that rule; keeping runs in TMPDIR but deleting staged binaries on failure, keeping only logs).
• TLC metadir quest: ✅ dropped, since moq-dev/moq#8628 already moved it to .tmp/tlc/ (rejected: a quest moving it to target/).

Structure: all in m1 (the coordinator's choice: hygiene work, contained meanwhile by the per-session scratch, and additive). Sizes: harness runs S (shared by 19 harnesses, plus the test README), carla locks XS (test-only).

Hard links under .tmp/: mbx keeps build output behind a target link (~/.cache/mbx/targets on desktop, /var/cache/mbx/targets on fedora and nixos), and on all three that shares one XFS root with ~/work, so staging still hard-links. Elsewhere harness_stage falls back to cp -L into .tmp/, a full copy on the checkout's disk that goes with the worktree; the quest suggests --reflink=auto to make it nearly free.

Impact

None on the public API or wire. Quest files only.

Alternatives

The cargo target directory: always on the binaries' filesystem, but against AGENTS.md's "scratch never goes in target/". Rejected by the maintainer.

Follow-ups

None beyond the two quests.

Validation

quest check passes. df on desktop, fedora, and nixos compared mbx's target root with ~/work. Facts were read from test/lib/harness.sh (harness_begin, harness_stage, harness_finish), sh/tlc.py, and demo/carla/bridge/src/lib.rs.

Models

Size: XS
Implementer: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, unknown effort

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Review

Rewritten by quest review after each round.

• Head: 6fb586d

• Base: origin/main at 98ed0f8

• Risk: medium, the base has no RISK.md to name what is always high or customer-facing, so every change is medium

• Classified: medium by default

• Reviewer: Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort

• Session: 01a1de07-80fb-7a71-8e8d-3c5a93ba9bae, round 2

• Score: 10/10, The revised plan places retained harness runs in the checkout’s .tmp directory consistently with repository guidance and is ready to land as is.

• Rounds: 2; first round 0; findings 0: fixed 0, refuted 0, open 0

• Findings: none

[pullfrog]

✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes — two new quest plan files, with no code or runtime changes.

• carla-bridge-test-locks.md — plans per-test temporary directories so the carla bridge tests leave no .sock.lock files, with Bridge unchanged.
• harness-runs-in-target.md — plans harness runs under the cargo target directory, so staged binaries are hard links and kept failures go away with the worktree. The plan also covers narrowing the AGENTS.md scratch rule.

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The PR adds two planning documents. One describes bridge test socket and lock files and recommends test-owned temporary directories. The other describes storing failed harness runs under Cargo’s target directory, including hard-linking staged binaries and removing kept runs with the worktree. Both documents state that public APIs and wire behavior are unchanged.

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The title names the two planning documents this PR adds, one for TMPDIR leaks from harness runs and one for TMPDIR leaks from Carla bridge tests. The changeset is two quest plan files that describe these TMPDIR leaks, so the title covers the main change. It is concise and specific, and it does not describe any code change.

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The description is related to the changeset. It explains that the PR adds two m1 quest plans: harness runs kept under the checkout's .tmp/ (harness-runs-in-checkout.md) and the Carla bridge test lock files (carla-bridge-test-locks.md). It also gives the problem (TMPDIR tmpfs pressure from kept harness runs), the decisions taken, the TLC metadir follow-up that needed no quest, validation, and the no-API-impact statement. The changeset summary describes the harness plan as storing runs under Cargo's target_directory, which conflicts with the description's stated decision to use the checkout's .tmp/ instead. That conflict affects accuracy, but the description still clearly relates to the changeset, so the check passes.

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Review comments at @quest/m1/harness-runs-in-target.md:
- Around line 28-30: Update the Goal and Decision to define what happens when
CARGO_TARGET_DIR points outside the checkout: either limit the worktree-removal
guarantee to in-checkout target directories and state that external kept runs
persist, or specify cleanup for kept runs in an external target directory.
Ensure the Guidance and stated guarantee are consistent.
- Around line 33-36: Keep live run directories and staged paths outside the
shared Cargo cleanup scope, using the HARNESS_RUNS default root, so wiping
shared output cannot remove artifacts a running matrix needs. If the
implementation must place them under target, update the README guarantee in the
same change to state that a wipe during a live run removes the run directory and
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Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Keep the README run-cleanup guarantee, or move live runs out of the cleanup scope.

The plan moves run directories and staged paths under target/. A wipe of shared Cargo output then removes them during a live matrix. The current test/README.md guarantee says collecting shared Cargo output cannot remove an artifact a running matrix still needs, so this change breaks that guarantee.

Documenting the wipe behavior in the PR does not preserve the guarantee. Choose one of these before implementation:

• Keep live run directories outside the cleanup scope, for example under the HARNESS_RUNS default root.
• Change the test/README.md guarantee in the same PR, and state that a wipe during a live run removes its run directory and staged paths.

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Review comment at @quest/m1/harness-runs-in-target.md around lines 33 - 36:
Keep live run directories and staged paths outside the shared Cargo cleanup scope, using the HARNESS_RUNS default root, so wiping shared output cannot remove artifacts a running matrix needs. If the implementation must place them under target, update the README guarantee in the same change to state that a wipe during a live run removes the run directory and staged paths.

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Maintainer decision (2026-11-14, /quest-run in kixel-ai/dotfiles):

• Harness run directories: ✅ the checkout's .tmp/ (for example .tmp/harness/), beside TLC's .tmp/tlc/, so AGENTS.md's "scratch never goes in target/" stands unchanged (rejected: target/, narrowing that rule). It still goes with the worktree and stays out of the 12 GiB agent scratch.
• Dropping the TLC metadir quest, since perf(verify): TLC runs cost fewer core-seconds and share the host #8628 already moved it to .tmp/tlc/: ✅ accepted.

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[pullfrog]

✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes — the delta since the prior review (84086a4 → 6fb586d).

• Moved harness runs to the checkout's .tmp/ — the quest was renamed to harness-runs-in-checkout.md. Runs now live in .tmp/harness/ instead of the cargo target directory, so AGENTS.md's "scratch never goes in target/" rule stays unchanged.
• Documented the hard-link fallback — the quest now covers cp -L and suggests --reflink=auto where staging can't hard-link.

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