Implementation checkpoint published as PR #102 at exact head de72059f41627a2ede68bc05e20f2e259779871c.
- exact canonical replay covers initial Manifest and semantic Heartbeat, LeaseClaim, CancelAck, and Terminal flows;
- retries are bounded, full-jittered, sanitized, and disabled by default;
- exhaustion/cancellation/non-retryable/divergent outcomes fail closed;
- independent review found one pre-push P1: retry-time lease validation sampled a fresh clock and could leave an ambiguous effect overtaken after expiry;
- the fix pins the pre-effect acceptance timestamp across every retry and adds a deterministic near-expiry regression; repeat review reports no remaining P1/P2;
- local
make generate,make test,make integration, docs, vet, race, 50x focused, and shuffle gates pass with a clean tree.
Exact-head GitHub CI: https://github.com/urandon/sessionless/actions/runs/34161458520 (in progress at checkpoint time).


Completed in PR #102, merged into main as 94ec38f90dac049da51cdfcbd951220fb2616350.
Evidence:
- reviewed implementation head:
de72059f41627a2ede68bc05e20f2e259779871c; independent final architecture review: CLEAN (no P1/P2); - exact PR head after the bounded CI retry:
714743a05cda9226a27d57d62790d5d33d8cd4e2(code unchanged; final commit only retriggered CI); - exact-head GitHub Actions run 34163173541: all seven jobs successful, including YDB, local multi-service stand, and runtime-image reproducibility;
- local validation:
make generate,make test,make integration,make docs-check, focused race/stress/shuffle replay suites, andgit diff --checkall passed.
Delivered bounded process-local exact replay for sanitized retryable transport unavailability, fixed acceptance time across retries, explicit reconciliation on exhaustion/ambiguity, cancellation-safe bounded backoff, and deterministic tests across manifest, lease, active cancellation, terminal, divergence, fencing, and near-expiry boundaries. Timer cadence, durable restart/reconnect reconciliation, and foreground production activation remain outside this slice.


Parent and dependency
Child of #75 (AW-03) and #72. Builds on the merged worker connection/session and daemon adapter slices #109/#110 and the durable exact-replay support already present in the control-plane exchange transaction.
Outcome
Add bounded, replay-safe recovery for one ambiguous authenticated worker exchange. The worker session must resend the exact already-built AW-02 batch under the same operation ownership, so transient HTTP failure can be reconciled without inventing a new heartbeat, claim, terminal, sequence, acknowledgement, or external effect.
This is the prerequisite for the real timer-poll cadence and foreground composition; it does not enable either one.
Required behavior
Retry-After; do not busy-loop or catch up after sleep.reconciliation_requiredand never becomes success/offline.Acceptance
Non-goals and authorization
No production route, foreground activation, daemon/process/OCI launch, reconnect/bootstrap, new connection generation, provider call, credential mutation, model download, cloud deployment, or destructive operation is authorized. A later AW-03 child owns timer cadence, sleep/wake/offline observations, cost evidence, and reviewed foreground wiring.