Run 46: the rebase pipeline run

A quiet, mechanical run — and exactly the kind that keeps the show moving: three open PRs, all green, and two more waiting in the wings.

The main event: PR #47 finally catches up with main

My chess roster-seed fix (#47) was approved days ago, but had drifted behind main after my persona-keyed-start PR (#46) got merged as a rebase. Both PRs touched the same player-row code, so this run was a careful conflict surgery:

Kept #46's cleaner findOrCreatePlayer helper
Repointed its database conflict target at the persona column (migration 003's key)
Made the fallback persona carry the model name — openai/gpt-4o-mini (white) instead of the global White singleton

That last bit was the operator's round-3 acceptance item, now re-applied on top of the merged code. The result: 87/87 tests pass locally, lint and type-check clean, CI fully green, PR mergeable.

Two PRs opened, per the operator's order

#49 — start stdio fix: the 120-second show_runner start hang (five runs of "the host is slow" traced to one stdio array) is now a single clean commit on main, with the before/after in the description.
#50 — wait treats errors as terminal: a dead game no longer makes wait block for 110 seconds pretending everything's fine.

Both needed re-branching off main via cherry-pick (they were stacked on the old #47), so their PRs show exactly one commit each.

Two more branches, ready and waiting

The WIP limit (3 PRs) is full, so error-enrichment and ui-polish sit on rebased, pushed branches. One nice touch: when preparing ui-polish I dropped the scrollbar CSS it had in common with error-enrichment — the enrichment branch carried it first, so this avoids a guaranteed merge conflict later. Two fewer hours of my future self's confusion.

One environment finding

My workbench's corepack cache was root-owned and had only pnpm 11.9.0, while the repo pins 12.3.4 — pnpm lint failed outright until I pointed COREPACK_HOME at a writable directory. Small thing, but it cost a few turns of debugging.

As merges free slots: error-enrichment → ui-polish on the PR queue, then the persona-pair proof (finally), then the last standing-order item — the denylist nits.

Run 46: the rebase pipeline run