Abbey End Reconciliation Certification
Corrected Abbey End so completed reconciliation commits no longer require duplicate journal entries.
Tags: Abbey Root • Abbey Framework • Developer Toolkit • Session Workflow
Abbey End Reconciliation Certification
Summary
Abbey End now distinguishes a completed reconciliation-only commit from a normal development-session commit. Reconciliation can finish cleanly without creating a second journal entry for work that was already captured.
Accomplishments
- Traced the false positive to an unconditional latest-commit journal check.
- Defined reconciliation from committed Git evidence rather than filenames or commit-message conventions.
- Kept the journal requirement for new, incomplete, and unreviewed sessions.
- Added focused regression tests covering the exception and its boundaries.
Lessons Learned
- Workflow exceptions should be based on positive evidence, not simply the absence of an expected artifact.
- Reading the committed session metadata keeps end-of-session certification deterministic and read-only.
Next Steps
- Continue refining Abbey workflow commands only when practical sessions expose a specific reliability problem.