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iOS live-lane retry policy (from #3336 review): scope re-issue to declared reads, count absorbed misses, build wire-shape fixtures #3344

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@thymikee

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Three follow-up notes from the human review of #3336 (reviewer comment 2026-10-08T22:38:43Z; the lane-policy layer shipped there is row 8's subject matter in #2491). None blocks the PR; all three outlive it, so they live here instead of a comment thread.

Scope

  1. Scope the re-issue predicate to declared reads. runStep in test/integration/ios-simulator-e2e/live-harness.ts attaches isObservationPreventedStepMiss to EVERY iOS step. A replay step's failure response is the failed step's OWN wire response passed through verbatim (readLastResponse() in packages/replay-port/src/daemon-port/native-command.ts), so a nested wait's retriable: true + details.reason hoists to the top level and could re-run a whole script after earlier mutating steps. Today that is benign (every lane replay starts with open --relaunch or launchApp clearState), and it cannot stack with the test suite's --retries: a scheduler-level suite failure is built as errorResponse(code, message) without details/retriable (packages/replay-port/src/daemon-port/test-command.ts), and a completed-with-failures suite returns ok:true counts the harness asserts itself. The scoping rule the reviewer proposed: re-issue only steps whose command declares the read effect (resolveCommandRecordingEffect(step) === 'observes-app'), so hoisting can never reach a mutating step even after fixture changes.
  2. Make absorbed misses countable. A re-issue that turns a step green records the first failure only inside step-history.json (runtime.ts runStep, issue > 1). One stderr line or JUnit annotation keyed on the typed reason (error.details.reason + retriable) would let ci(ios): the iOS simulator smoke lane is failing on main across several rotating signatures #2491 count absorbed misses per class instead of grepping step histories.
  3. Build the retry-policy fixtures from the wire, not by hand. waitFailure() in test/integration/ios-simulator-e2e-step-retry-policy.test.ts hand-writes the response shape. It currently matches the recorded payload (run 37356199982: top-level retriable: true, details.reason: wait_runner_restart_exhausted), but building fixtures via normalizeError or a recorded CLI payload keeps them honest if the envelope moves.

Related: #2491, #3336.

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