looop 0.15.0

A tiny, portable, Kubernetes-shaped control loop for your work
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//! EXECUTE — looop deterministically performs the ONE typed action the decider
//! emitted, then journals it. This is what makes RULE 1 real: the decide phase
//! is symmetric with the sense phase (sensors emit JSON describing the world;
//! the decider emits JSON describing its single move), and looop — the
//! unbreakable shell — is the SOLE executor. A tick can therefore do at most one
//! move no matter how the model misbehaves, and irreversible action types can be
//! gated in code rather than by prompt discipline.
//!
//! The decider's contract: write exactly one JSON object describing the move to
//! `.decision.json` in the data dir, e.g.
//! `{"action":"start_worker","id":"triage","prompt":"…","journal":"why"}`.
//! `journal` (the one-line log entry looop appends) and `next_interval_s` (an
//! optional cadence nudge, NOT a move) ride alongside the action tag and are
//! lifted out before the action itself is decoded.

use crate::paths::Paths;
use crate::session;
use anyhow::{Context, Result, bail};
use serde::Deserialize;
use std::fs;
use std::fs::OpenOptions;
use std::io::Write;

/// The one-shot file the decider writes its single move to (relative to the data
/// dir). looop reads, executes, and deletes it each beat — a stale decision can
/// never re-run (level-triggered).
pub const DECISION_FILE: &str = ".decision.json";

/// The single move the decider chose, tagged by `action`. Unknown sibling keys
/// (journal, next_interval_s, reason, …) are ignored here — `Decision` lifts the
/// metadata out before this is decoded.
#[derive(Debug, Deserialize, PartialEq)]
#[serde(tag = "action", rename_all = "snake_case")]
pub enum Action {
    /// A valid move when nothing needs doing.
    Noop {
        #[serde(default)]
        reason: String,
    },
    /// The escape hatch: one ad-hoc, reversible shell command (gh query, draft,
    /// …). looop runs it (and can gate it) — arbitrary power, but ONE command,
    /// logged, not an open-ended agent session.
    RunShell {
        cmd: String,
        #[serde(default)]
        reason: String,
    },
    /// Create or update goals/<id>.md.
    WriteGoal { id: String, body: String },
    /// Move goals/<id>.md -> goals/archive/<id>.md.
    ArchiveGoal { id: String },
    /// Create or update sensors/<name>.sh (made executable).
    WriteSensor { name: String, script: String },
    /// Replace PLAYBOOK.md.
    WritePlaybook { body: String },
    /// Spawn a worker session for hands-on work.
    StartWorker { id: String, prompt: String },
    /// Type text into a live worker's stdin.
    SteerSession { id: String, input: String },
    /// Send named keys (Enter, C-c, …) to a live worker.
    SendKey { id: String, keys: Vec<String> },
    /// Restart a wedged worker's wrapped command.
    RestartSession { id: String },
    /// Surface a blocker / notice to the human. Journaled (and shown on the tick
    /// line); if `notification` is wired in config, looop also fires that command
    /// (e.g. pop a tmux window onto the flagged worker). `id` is the worker
    /// session to attach when relaying a flag — it populates `{{id}}` / `$LOOOP_ID`
    /// in the notification command. The human resolves the notice by editing the
    /// world (a goal / the PLAYBOOK / creds) or attaching to the worker, which the
    /// next tick observes — level-triggered, no reply channel.
    SendNotification {
        message: String,
        #[serde(default)]
        id: String,
    },
}

/// One tick's decision: the action plus the metadata that rides alongside it.
#[derive(Debug, PartialEq)]
pub struct Decision {
    pub action: Action,
    /// The one journal line looop appends after executing (may be empty; the
    /// executor falls back to a generated summary).
    pub journal: String,
    /// Optional one-shot cadence nudge (seconds); NOT a move. Handed to the
    /// pulse loop in-process via `Decided.next_interval_s` (the loop clamps it).
    pub next_interval_s: Option<u64>,
}

impl Decision {
    /// Parse one decision object. `journal` / `next_interval_s` are lifted out;
    /// the remainder is decoded into the tagged `Action`.
    pub fn parse(json: &str) -> Result<Decision> {
        let v: serde_json::Value =
            serde_json::from_str(json.trim()).context("decision is not valid JSON")?;
        let journal = v
            .get("journal")
            .and_then(|x| x.as_str())
            .unwrap_or_default()
            .to_string();
        let next_interval_s = v.get("next_interval_s").and_then(|x| x.as_u64());
        let action: Action =
            serde_json::from_value(v).context("decision has no/unknown \"action\"")?;
        Ok(Decision {
            action,
            journal,
            next_interval_s,
        })
    }
}

/// Reject a file-name segment that could escape the data dir or hit a dotfile.
fn safe_segment(kind: &str, id: &str) -> Result<()> {
    if id.is_empty() || id.contains('/') || id.contains('\\') || id.starts_with('.') || id == ".." {
        bail!("invalid {kind} id {id:?}");
    }
    Ok(())
}

/// Normalize + guard a worker-session target: strip a legacy `looop-` prefix and
/// refuse the reserved pulse id so a move can never hijack the control loop.
fn worker_target(id: &str) -> Result<String> {
    let s = id.strip_prefix("looop-").unwrap_or(id);
    if s.is_empty() {
        bail!("empty session id");
    }
    if s == session::PULSE_SESSION {
        bail!("'{s}' is the pulse (the control loop), not a worker");
    }
    Ok(s.to_string())
}

/// A short, stable word naming the action's category — for the typed stdout
/// line and the `action` field on the decided event.
pub fn kind(action: &Action) -> &'static str {
    match action {
        Action::Noop { .. } => "noop",
        Action::RunShell { .. } => "shell",
        Action::WriteGoal { .. } => "goal",
        Action::ArchiveGoal { .. } => "archive",
        Action::WriteSensor { .. } => "sensor",
        Action::WritePlaybook { .. } => "playbook",
        Action::StartWorker { .. } => "worker",
        Action::SteerSession { .. } => "steer",
        Action::SendKey { .. } => "key",
        Action::RestartSession { .. } => "restart",
        Action::SendNotification { .. } => "notify",
    }
}

/// The goal id an action targets, if any — used to stamp the per-goal activity
/// ledger that drives the `sys-goals` staleness reading (so the decider can see
/// which goals it's been neglecting and avoid starving them). Actions with no
/// goal association (noop, run_shell, write_sensor, write_playbook, notify)
/// return None.
fn goal_of(action: &Action) -> Option<String> {
    match action {
        Action::WriteGoal { id, .. } => Some(id.clone()),
        Action::ArchiveGoal { id } => Some(id.clone()),
        Action::StartWorker { id, .. } => Some(id.clone()),
        Action::SteerSession { id, .. }
        | Action::SendKey { id, .. }
        | Action::RestartSession { id } => worker_target(id).ok(),
        _ => None,
    }
}

/// Stamp `id` as acted-on "now" in the goal-activity ledger (goal id -> unix
/// secs). Best-effort: a write failure just means the staleness reading is a
/// beat stale.
fn record_goal_activity(paths: &Paths, id: &str) {
    let path = paths.goal_activity();
    let mut map: serde_json::Map<String, serde_json::Value> = fs::read_to_string(&path)
        .ok()
        .and_then(|s| serde_json::from_str(&s).ok())
        .unwrap_or_default();
    map.insert(id.to_string(), serde_json::json!(crate::util::now_unix()));
    let _ = fs::write(&path, serde_json::Value::Object(map).to_string());
}

fn with_trailing_newline(body: &str) -> String {
    if body.ends_with('\n') {
        body.to_string()
    } else {
        format!("{body}\n")
    }
}

/// Execute the decided action deterministically. Returns a short human summary
/// of what was done (used for the journal fallback + stdout rendering). The
/// caller owns appending the journal line and applying `next_interval_s`.
///
/// The executor is SILENT on stdout — looop renders the returned summary. Some
/// underlying calls (the worker spawn's `started …` banner, babysit's
/// send/key/restart chatter) print CLI-friendly lines; we suppress fd 1 around
/// them so raw text never leaks into the pulse's structured — and under
/// `--json`, NDJSON — stream.
pub fn execute(paths: &Paths, action: &Action) -> Result<String> {
    session::suppress_stdout(|| execute_inner(paths, action))
}

fn execute_inner(paths: &Paths, action: &Action) -> Result<String> {
    match action {
        Action::Noop { reason } => Ok(if reason.is_empty() {
            "noop".into()
        } else {
            format!("noop · {reason}")
        }),

        Action::RunShell { cmd, reason } => {
            let out = std::process::Command::new("bash")
                .arg("-lc")
                .arg(cmd)
                .current_dir(&paths.data_dir)
                .output()
                .with_context(|| format!("run_shell: {cmd}"))?;
            let code = out.status.code().unwrap_or(-1);
            let why = if reason.is_empty() { cmd } else { reason };
            if out.status.success() {
                Ok(format!("run-shell · {why}"))
            } else {
                bail!("run_shell exited {code}: {why}");
            }
        }

        Action::WriteGoal { id, body } => {
            safe_segment("goal", id)?;
            fs::create_dir_all(paths.goals_dir())?;
            fs::write(
                paths.goals_dir().join(format!("{id}.md")),
                with_trailing_newline(body),
            )?;
            Ok(format!("write-goal {id}"))
        }

        Action::ArchiveGoal { id } => {
            safe_segment("goal", id)?;
            let from = paths.goals_dir().join(format!("{id}.md"));
            let archive = paths.goals_dir().join("archive");
            fs::create_dir_all(&archive)?;
            fs::rename(&from, archive.join(format!("{id}.md")))
                .with_context(|| format!("archive_goal {id:?}"))?;
            Ok(format!("archive-goal {id}"))
        }

        Action::WriteSensor { name, script } => {
            safe_segment("sensor", name)?;
            fs::create_dir_all(paths.sensors_dir())?;
            let p = paths.sensors_dir().join(format!("{name}.sh"));
            fs::write(&p, with_trailing_newline(script))?;
            #[cfg(unix)]
            {
                use std::os::unix::fs::PermissionsExt;
                let mut perm = fs::metadata(&p)?.permissions();
                perm.set_mode(0o755);
                fs::set_permissions(&p, perm)?;
            }
            Ok(format!("write-sensor {name}"))
        }

        Action::WritePlaybook { body } => {
            fs::write(paths.playbook(), with_trailing_newline(body))?;
            Ok("write-playbook".into())
        }

        Action::StartWorker { id, prompt } => {
            // Reuse the worker-launch path (contract injection, reserved-id
            // guard, corpse reuse, detached spawn).
            let code = session::cmd_start_session(paths, &[id.clone(), prompt.clone()])?;
            if code != std::process::ExitCode::SUCCESS {
                bail!("start_worker {id:?} failed");
            }
            Ok(format!("start-worker {id}"))
        }

        Action::SteerSession { id, input } => {
            let s = worker_target(id)?;
            session::send(paths, &s, input.clone(), true, false)?;
            Ok(format!("steer {s}"))
        }

        Action::SendKey { id, keys } => {
            let s = worker_target(id)?;
            session::key(paths, &s, keys.clone(), false)?;
            Ok(format!("key {s} · {}", keys.join(" ")))
        }

        Action::RestartSession { id } => {
            let s = worker_target(id)?;
            session::restart(paths, &s, false)?;
            Ok(format!("restart {s}"))
        }

        Action::SendNotification { message, id } => {
            let msg = message.trim();
            if msg.is_empty() {
                bail!("send_notification: empty message");
            }
            // The journal line IS the notice. If the operator wired a
            // `notification` command in config, also fire it (best-effort,
            // detached — a failed hook never fails the tick) so a flag can pop
            // a tmux window onto the waiting worker.
            fire_notification_hook(paths, msg, id.trim());
            Ok(format!("notify · {msg}"))
        }
    }
}

/// Fire the operator's optional `notification` command (config `.notification`)
/// when a `send_notification` action runs. Substitutes `{{message}}` / `{{id}}`
/// and exports `$LOOOP_MESSAGE` / `$LOOOP_ID`, then spawns it DETACHED via bash
/// in the data dir. Best-effort: a missing hook, a config error, or a spawn
/// failure is silently ignored — the notice is already journaled, so the hook is
/// pure surfacing and must never fail (or block) the tick.
fn fire_notification_hook(paths: &Paths, message: &str, id: &str) {
    let Ok(cfg) = crate::config::Config::load(paths) else {
        return;
    };
    let Some(cmd) = cfg.notification() else {
        return;
    };
    let rendered = cmd.replace("{{message}}", message).replace("{{id}}", id);
    let _ = std::process::Command::new("bash")
        .arg("-lc")
        .arg(&rendered)
        .current_dir(&paths.data_dir)
        .env("LOOOP_MESSAGE", message)
        .env("LOOOP_ID", id)
        .spawn(); // detached — do NOT wait; the tick moves on immediately
}

/// Append one journal line in the canonical `- YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM <text>` format
/// (matching the timestamp the prompt hands the decider).
fn append_journal(paths: &Paths, line: &str) -> Result<()> {
    let stamp = crate::util::date_fmt("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M");
    let mut f = OpenOptions::new()
        .create(true)
        .append(true)
        .open(paths.journal())?;
    writeln!(f, "- {stamp} {line}")?;
    Ok(())
}

/// Consume the one-shot decision the decider left in `.decision.json` (if any):
/// execute it, append the journal line, apply any cadence nudge, and remove the
/// file so a stale decision can never re-run. Returns `None` when no decision
/// was written this beat, else what was executed (or the parse/execution error
/// — the file is removed regardless).
pub fn consume_decision(paths: &Paths) -> Option<Result<Decided>> {
    let path = paths.data_dir.join(DECISION_FILE);
    let raw = fs::read_to_string(&path).ok()?; // None ⇒ decider wrote nothing
    let _ = fs::remove_file(&path); // one-shot, win or lose

    Some((|| {
        let decision = Decision::parse(&raw)?;
        let summary = execute(paths, &decision.action)?;
        // Stamp per-goal activity so sys-goals can surface staleness (fairness:
        // the decider sees which goals it's neglected and can avoid starving
        // them) — only after a successful execute, so a failed move isn't counted.
        if let Some(id) = goal_of(&decision.action) {
            record_goal_activity(paths, &id);
        }
        let journal = if decision.journal.trim().is_empty() {
            summary.clone()
        } else {
            decision.journal.clone()
        };
        append_journal(paths, &journal)?;
        Ok(Decided {
            kind: kind(&decision.action),
            summary,
            journal,
            next_interval_s: decision.next_interval_s,
        })
    })())
}

/// What looop executed this beat: the action category, the executor's concise
/// summary, and the journal line that was appended (the "why"). The caller
/// renders the single typed stdout line from this.
#[derive(Debug, PartialEq)]
pub struct Decided {
    pub kind: &'static str,
    pub summary: String,
    pub journal: String,
    /// The decider's one-shot cadence nudge (seconds), passed straight back to
    /// the pulse loop in-process — no `.next-interval` file round-trip.
    pub next_interval_s: Option<u64>,
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
    use super::*;

    #[test]
    fn parses_noop_with_journal() {
        let d = Decision::parse(r#"{"action":"noop","reason":"quiet","journal":"nothing to do"}"#)
            .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            d.action,
            Action::Noop {
                reason: "quiet".into()
            }
        );
        assert_eq!(d.journal, "nothing to do");
        assert_eq!(d.next_interval_s, None);
    }

    #[test]
    fn parses_start_worker_and_lifts_metadata() {
        let d = Decision::parse(
            r#"{"action":"start_worker","id":"triage","prompt":"do it","journal":"started triage","next_interval_s":15}"#,
        )
        .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            d.action,
            Action::StartWorker {
                id: "triage".into(),
                prompt: "do it".into()
            }
        );
        assert_eq!(d.journal, "started triage");
        assert_eq!(d.next_interval_s, Some(15));
    }

    #[test]
    fn parses_run_shell_escape_hatch() {
        let d = Decision::parse(r#"{"action":"run_shell","cmd":"gh pr list","reason":"check"}"#)
            .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            d.action,
            Action::RunShell {
                cmd: "gh pr list".into(),
                reason: "check".into()
            }
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn parses_all_remaining_variants() {
        for (json, want) in [
            (
                r#"{"action":"write_goal","id":"g","body":"b"}"#,
                Action::WriteGoal {
                    id: "g".into(),
                    body: "b".into(),
                },
            ),
            (
                r#"{"action":"archive_goal","id":"g"}"#,
                Action::ArchiveGoal { id: "g".into() },
            ),
            (
                r#"{"action":"write_sensor","name":"n","script":"s"}"#,
                Action::WriteSensor {
                    name: "n".into(),
                    script: "s".into(),
                },
            ),
            (
                r#"{"action":"write_playbook","body":"pb"}"#,
                Action::WritePlaybook { body: "pb".into() },
            ),
            (
                r#"{"action":"steer_session","id":"w","input":"y"}"#,
                Action::SteerSession {
                    id: "w".into(),
                    input: "y".into(),
                },
            ),
            (
                r#"{"action":"send_key","id":"w","keys":["Enter"]}"#,
                Action::SendKey {
                    id: "w".into(),
                    keys: vec!["Enter".into()],
                },
            ),
            (
                r#"{"action":"restart_session","id":"w"}"#,
                Action::RestartSession { id: "w".into() },
            ),
            (
                r#"{"action":"send_notification","message":"creds expired"}"#,
                Action::SendNotification {
                    message: "creds expired".into(),
                    id: String::new(),
                },
            ),
        ] {
            assert_eq!(Decision::parse(json).unwrap().action, want, "json: {json}");
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn rejects_garbage_and_unknown_actions() {
        assert!(Decision::parse("not json").is_err());
        assert!(Decision::parse(r#"{"action":"frobnicate"}"#).is_err());
        assert!(Decision::parse(r#"{"reason":"no action tag"}"#).is_err());
    }

    #[test]
    fn safe_segment_blocks_traversal() {
        assert!(safe_segment("goal", "ok").is_ok());
        for bad in ["", "..", "a/b", ".hidden", "a\\b"] {
            assert!(safe_segment("goal", bad).is_err(), "should reject {bad:?}");
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn worker_target_refuses_pulse_and_strips_prefix() {
        assert_eq!(worker_target("triage").unwrap(), "triage");
        assert_eq!(worker_target("looop-triage").unwrap(), "triage");
        assert!(worker_target("pulse").is_err());
        assert!(worker_target("").is_err());
    }

    #[test]
    fn execute_write_and_archive_goal_round_trip() {
        let p = Paths::temp();
        let body = "goal: ship it\nnotes here";
        execute(
            &p,
            &Action::WriteGoal {
                id: "ship".into(),
                body: body.into(),
            },
        )
        .unwrap();
        let written = fs::read_to_string(p.goals_dir().join("ship.md")).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(written, format!("{body}\n"), "trailing newline normalized");

        execute(&p, &Action::ArchiveGoal { id: "ship".into() }).unwrap();
        assert!(!p.goals_dir().join("ship.md").exists());
        assert!(p.goals_dir().join("archive").join("ship.md").exists());
    }

    #[test]
    fn consume_decision_executes_journals_and_clears_file() {
        let p = Paths::temp();
        let path = p.data_dir.join(DECISION_FILE);
        fs::write(
            &path,
            r#"{"action":"noop","reason":"all quiet","journal":"did nothing","next_interval_s":30}"#,
        )
        .unwrap();

        let d = consume_decision(&p)
            .expect("a decision was present")
            .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(d.kind, "noop");
        assert_eq!(d.summary, "noop · all quiet");
        assert_eq!(d.journal, "did nothing");
        // The cadence nudge rides back on the Decided struct, not a file.
        assert_eq!(d.next_interval_s, Some(30));
        assert!(!path.exists(), "decision file is one-shot");

        let journal = fs::read_to_string(p.journal()).unwrap();
        assert!(journal.contains("did nothing"), "journal line appended");
        assert!(journal.starts_with("- "), "canonical journal prefix");
    }

    #[test]
    fn send_notification_journals_without_state_file() {
        let p = Paths::temp();
        let summary = execute(
            &p,
            &Action::SendNotification {
                message: "goals A and B conflict".into(),
                id: String::new(),
            },
        )
        .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(summary, "notify · goals A and B conflict");
        assert!(
            execute(
                &p,
                &Action::SendNotification {
                    message: "  ".into(),
                    id: String::new(),
                }
            )
            .is_err()
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn consume_decision_absent_is_none() {
        let p = Paths::temp();
        assert!(consume_decision(&p).is_none());
    }

    #[test]
    fn goal_of_maps_only_goal_targeting_actions() {
        assert_eq!(
            goal_of(&Action::StartWorker {
                id: "triage".into(),
                prompt: "p".into()
            }),
            Some("triage".into())
        );
        assert_eq!(
            goal_of(&Action::WriteGoal {
                id: "ship".into(),
                body: "b".into()
            }),
            Some("ship".into())
        );
        // A `looop-`-prefixed steer target normalizes to the bare goal id.
        assert_eq!(
            goal_of(&Action::SteerSession {
                id: "looop-triage".into(),
                input: "y".into()
            }),
            Some("triage".into())
        );
        // Non-goal actions contribute no activity.
        assert_eq!(goal_of(&Action::Noop { reason: "".into() }), None);
        assert_eq!(
            goal_of(&Action::SendNotification {
                message: "x".into(),
                id: String::new(),
            }),
            None
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn consume_decision_stamps_goal_activity() {
        let p = Paths::temp();
        fs::write(
            p.data_dir.join(DECISION_FILE),
            r#"{"action":"write_goal","id":"triage","body":"do it","journal":"made triage"}"#,
        )
        .unwrap();
        consume_decision(&p).expect("decision present").unwrap();
        let act: serde_json::Value =
            serde_json::from_str(&fs::read_to_string(p.goal_activity()).unwrap()).unwrap();
        assert!(
            act.get("triage").and_then(|v| v.as_u64()).is_some(),
            "acting on a goal stamps its activity time"
        );
    }
}