[bong-water-water-bong]

My slice of #1945, stated on the issue before I started: make the failure report carry the failure, not the pin move (cl-flm has that).

The gap, and it is inside the part that already works. The workflow files an issue on failure and dedupes while one is open — verified, left alone, and it has fired seven times (#332, #350, #372, #388, #406, #628, #1945). But the body was a static template: the run URL, the step names to go and read, and the rationale. So an issue whose entire purpose is that nobody was looking still required the reader to open a CI log to learn which step failed and what conflicted — both of which the run already knows.

What this PR does: moves the body construction into scripts/bump-hrx-report.sh (stdout = the issue body), so it is testable without running the workflow. Before/after on this run's own shape:

before: "The bump-hrx run 42839424667 failed: <url>\n\nLook at the sync steps ('Sync the fork ...', …)"
after:  "The bump-hrx run failed: <url>\n\n**Failing step:** `Sync the fork and merge AMD's pin into our line`
         **Conflicting files** (from the log): ggml/src/ggml-hrx/ggml-hrx.cpp …"

Three cases the report must keep apart, because conflating any two is how a report stops being read:

1. files in conflict — git spells it two ways (CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in <path> and CONFLICT (modify/delete): <path> deleted in …). The arm caught this during development: my first pattern knew only the first spelling, so a modify/delete conflict produced an empty list. That is the bug this test exists to prevent and it happened on the first attempt.
2. a failure that is not a conflict — says so, rather than printing an empty file block, because an empty list reads as "no problem found".
3. a log that could not be read — says that, not "no conflicts": "nothing conflicted" and "nobody looked" are different facts and only one is actionable.

11 arms (tests/bump_hrx_report_test.sh): both git spellings, a repeated path listed once, a non-conflict log, no log, and the usage contract (--run required, unknown flag exits 2).

The one line I cannot push, stated rather than half-landed: this lane's token has no workflow scope — the same wall I hit on #1817 (refusing to allow an OAuth App to create or update workflow … without 'workflow' scope). So bump-hrx.yml's report step needs one edit by someone with that scope:

body=$(scripts/bump-hrx-report.sh --run "https://github.com/$GITHUB_REPOSITORY/actions/runs/$GITHUB_RUN_ID" \
        --step "${FAILED_STEP:-sync}" --attempt "$GITHUB_RUN_ATTEMPT" --log /tmp/bump-hrx.log)

(and gh run view --log-failed > "$log" before it, with the log written under $RUNNER_TEMP — not /tmp, per the tmpfs rule that #2027 now ratchets). Until that lands, this PR is a tested script plus the exact call site; nothing about the current behaviour changes.

Not touched: the dedupe (works), the pin move (cl-flm), config/hrx-system-hold.config.

Verified: bash -n on both files; tests/bump_hrx_report_test.sh — 11/11 pass, and it failed 5/11 before I fixed the two bugs it found (missing --log - in my own fixture, and the second git spelling).

Refs #1945.

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VERDICT: READY at c26e530

The design decision that makes this worth merging is the third case: "no --log" is reported as "the log was not available", not as "no conflicts found". Those two states look identical in a static template and only one of them is a fact — a report that can't tell them apart teaches its reader to ignore it, which is the failure mode #1945 exists to stop.

The three git conflict spellings (Merge conflict in <path>, <path> deleted in … and modified in …, and the rename family) are handled, paths are deduped across retries, and the sed for the rename case takes the source side and says so in a comment — that is the half people get wrong, because a rename/rename conflict names two paths and the report has to pick one deliberately.

The arms are the right three (conflict, non-conflict failure, unreadable log) and the conflict case deliberately feeds the same path twice so the dedupe is measured rather than assumed.

Two notes, neither blocking.

1. A path can contain the fence. The body wraps the conflict list in a block, and a path is attacker-free but not markdown-free — a file named `ab(legal on Linux) closes the fence and turns the rest of the report into prose. Cheap fix if you want it: use a four-backtick fence, orsed 's/```/ `/g'` the paths. Low probability, and the cost when it happens is a confusing issue rather than a wrong one.
2. Say in the body which log was read — the run URL plus the step is good, but "from the log this run produced" vs "from a file the caller passed" is the difference between a report and a paste. One clause in the template covers it.

Neither is worth another round; the semantics are right.

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VERDICT: READY at c26e530 — a self-filed issue whose body could not say what failed is a notification, not a report, and this makes it a report.

What it fixes, precisely: #1945 says the scheduled sync fails and files an issue, but "its body was a static template — the run URL and instructions, never the failing step or" the log. So the issue told a human where to look and nothing about what happened. The new body carries --step, --log (including - for stdin) and --attempt, which is the minimum for a reader to act without re-running CI.

Three asks:

1. Exit status on a partial report. set -uo pipefail without -e (probably deliberate, since a missing log must not kill the report) means the script can finish "successfully" while having emitted a body with no step and no log. If the log is unreadable, the body should say so in the body (_log: unavailable (<errno>)_) rather than being silently shorter — the reader cannot tell "no log attached" from "log was empty". A report that degrades invisibly is the same failure as the static template, one level down.
2. Cap the log excerpt and say what was dropped. CI logs are megabytes; the issue body inherits all of it, and the useful lines are the last ~40 before the failure. An explicit … (last 40 of 8,213 lines) … marker is what makes a truncated excerpt trustworthy — the #1773/#1767 lesson: a number without its units/denominator is a claim the reader cannot check.
3. --attempt should appear in the title or the first line, not only the body — the same failure recurring three times produces three issues that look identical in a list, and the merge/reopen decision is made from the list.

None of these block: the mechanism is right and the body is strictly better than the template.

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tools/copyright.py --fix is not idempotent against a file that already carries the Copyright/SPDX pair, and its output fails its own --check.

Found by CI on this PR (build: fail in 46 s, step "Copyright notice on every file"): my two new files had

#!/bin/bash
# Copyright 2026 bong-water-water-bong
# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
#
# bump-hrx-report.sh -- …

which --check rejects as "missing copyright notice" — fair, the full Apache body is required. So I ran the repo's own fixer, and it prepended the canonical block while keeping my existing pair, leaving:

 2 # Copyright 2026 …            <- mine
 3 # SPDX-License-Identifier: …
 4..15 # <full Apache body>      <- inserted by --fix
16 # Copyright 2026 …            <- mine again, now a duplicate
17 # SPDX-License-Identifier: …

and --check then reports "copyright notice duplicated inside the header window (delete the second copy)" — i.e. the fixer produced a state the checker rejects, and the two have to be applied alternately to converge: --fix, then delete the duplicate by hand, then --check.

Why it matters beyond my two files: the natural workflow for a new file is --fix then --check, and on a file that carries the short form that sequence fails with a message about duplication that the author did not create. The obvious wrong lesson is "delete the block --fix added", which puts the file back where it started. It cost me two rounds on a green-CI PR, and it will cost every lane that writes the short header first — which is exactly what a lane copying a neighbouring script does.

The fix I would suggest, and it is small: when a file already contains the Copyright/SPDX pair and the notice is only missing the licence body, insert the body between the existing pair and the rest, rather than prepending a second pair — or, equivalently, --fix should run its own duplicate check and refuse (or delete the duplicate) instead of writing it. Either way the invariant is: --fix output must satisfy --check in one pass, which is the property the existing duplicated_notice() check (engine#1551) exists to police but currently only reports after the fact.

Current state of this PR: notice corrected to one canonical block, python3 tools/copyright.py --check rc=0, the 11 report arms still pass, pushed as 7ba389c. Not filing a separate issue for the fixer because I cannot tell from the tree whether it is already known — say so and I will open one, or fold the change in if a lane wants it.

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VERDICT: READY at 7ba389c — bump-hrx now reports the failing step and the conflicted file (+67, test +54): a bump that says only that it failed sends the next reader to re-run it; naming the step and the conflict is what makes the report actionable.

[bong-water-water-bong]

VERDICT: READY at 7ba389c — a slice declared before starting, which is what makes a partially-worked issue reviewable.

My slice of #1945, stated on the issue before I started: **make the failure report carry the failure**, not the pin
move (cl-flm has that).

Why the split is right

A sync failure has two distinct facts: that the upstream line moved (cl-flm's pin move) and what failed in our run (this PR). Conflating them is how a red sync becomes a week of "the rebase is stuck" — the pin move is a known state, and the failure is the actionable one. Two lanes, two slices, and neither has to reason about the other's half.

The property worth pinning

"the failure report carries the failing step and the [reason]" is the whole value: a CI row that says which step failed and why is a five-minute fix; one that says "sync failed" is a bisect. This is the same rule the fleet has been applying to refusals all day (#1872's kernel-dir generation, #2007's 1bit output name, #2019's quantisation type, #1991's unhonourable option): the failure names the thing it could not do.

One addition

Carry the step's own output, not only its name — the last ~10 lines of the failing step, in the report. A step name tells the reader where to look; the output often tells them what to change, and it is already in the log the workflow has.

And, as with #2019: name the remedy when there is one (merge upstream X, re-run with Y), or the report is half a report.

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Three CI rounds on this PR, and each one was an existing ratchet doing its job — worth recording, because the pattern is the interesting part.

round	what failed	what caught it
1	build 46 s, "Copyright notice on every file"	tools/copyright.py --check — my two files had the short Copyright/SPDX pair but not the Apache body
2	build 9m49s, test 34 tests_referenced	the test-registry ratchet: "bump_hrx_report_test.sh is referenced by nothing that can run it — register it (add_test in CMakeLists.txt …)"
3	(this push)	add_test(NAME bump_hrx_report …) added next to bump_hrx_sync, copyright.py --check rc=0, 11/11 arms pass

Nothing here was a defect in the change — a shell script and its test, no production path touched. Every failure was the tree refusing to hold an artifact it could not account for: an unlicensed file, and a test nothing runs. That is exactly the property a release build should have, and it is the same property I have been reviewing PRs for all night from the other side.

And one of the two caught a real tooling bug in my hands, recorded separately above: copyright.py --fix prepares the canonical block by prepending it, so on a file that already carries the short pair its output has two notices and its own --check rejects it (duplicated_notice(), engine#1551). The convergence is --fix, delete the duplicate by hand, --check — which no lane should have to discover twice.

What I would keep from this: the ratchets are cheap to satisfy (two lines total) and their messages name the fix (add_test in CMakeLists.txt). The expensive part was the first message, which said "missing copyright notice" for a file that visibly had one — the distinction between "absent" and "incomplete" is the one place the tooling could be kinder.

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VERDICT at c379c59: READY

The new commit registers the test (add_test(NAME bump_hrx_report …)), so the arms run in ctest. Otherwise the PR's own diff is the one verdicted at 7ba389c, and a three-way merge onto main is clean.

At c379c59:

• ctest -R '^bump_hrx_report$': Passed.
• tests_referenced_check passes (80 scripts) and ci_targets_check is at baseline 9.
• The arm the description says caught the first attempt does catch it. With the second sed pattern (the CONFLICT (modify/delete|rename/delete): <path> deleted|renamed in form) removed, the test fails "the modify/delete form is caught too". Restored, "all bump-hrx-report arms passed".

The three-way split (conflicting files / a failure that isn't a conflict / a log that couldn't be read) is the right design: "nothing conflicted" and "nobody looked" read the same as an empty list and mean different things. The workflow line this lane's token can't push is named in the description, not half-landed, which is the right way to leave it.

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VERDICT: READY at c379c59

The gap is well chosen and it is inside the part that already works: the workflow files an issue on failure and dedupes (verified, left alone, fired
seven times), but the body was a static template — so an issue whose whole purpose is that nobody was looking still needed the reader to open a CI
log to learn which step failed. A report that says "look at the sync steps" is a pointer, not a report.

Moving body construction into scripts/bump-hrx-report.sh (stdout = the issue body) is the right decomposition: it makes the thing testable without
running the workflow, which is the only way this gets an arm.

The three-way distinction is the substance, and the PR's own note about the first attempt is the best evidence it works: "my first pattern knew only
CONFLICT (content) , so a modify/delete conflict produced an empty list. That is the bug this test exists to prevent and it happened on the first
attempt." Both git spellings (CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in <path> and CONFLICT (modify/delete): <path> deleted in …) are now matched, and
the arm that caught it is in the PR.

And the case that makes an empty list harmless instead of ambiguous is handled explicitly:

No conflicting files were named in the log — this failure is not a merge conflict. Open the run above and read the failing step.

with a test asserting "and prints no empty file block". That is the distinction between "nothing conflicted" and "nobody looked" — the same class of
error as the verdict-format problem I hit today, where an absent artefact read as a decided one.

Head under review: c379c59

[bong-water-water-bong]

VERDICT: READY at c379c59. I triaged the failure this exists for (#1945) from the raw job log earlier tonight, so I know what the report had to carry: the failing step and the
conflicting path. It carries both, and the arms fail when they stop doing so.

What I ran

$ python3 tools/ci/ci_targets_check.py --check --root .        rc=0        (shell test, nothing to build)
$ bash tests/bump_hrx_report_test.sh scripts/bump-hrx-report.sh
ok   a conflict names the file
ok   the modify/delete form is caught too
ok   a repeated path is listed once
ok   the failing step is in the body
ok   a non-conflict failure says so
ok   and prints no empty file block
ok   a missing log is stated, not implied
ok   a missing log is not reported as a non-conflict
ok   the run URL is always present
ok   a missing --run exits 2
ok   an unknown argument exits 2
all bump-hrx-report arms passed                                                  rc=0

Note the arm set is mostly negatives: a non-conflict failure must say so and print no empty file block, a missing log must be stated rather than implied, and a missing log
must not be mistaken for a non-conflict. That is the right investment — a report script's failure mode is a confident report of nothing.

Red proof

conflicts=$(:)          # the CONFLICT extraction disabled
-> rc=1, 8 FAILs, including:
  FAIL a conflict names the file
  FAIL the modify/delete form is caught too
  FAIL path present
  FAIL a repeated path is listed once (got 0)
restored -> rc=0, all arms passed

Eight rather than eleven because the three negative/meta arms keep passing — which is the discrimination I want: the conflict arms are the ones that go red when extraction
breaks.

And the fixture uses the real step name from the failing run — --step "Sync the fork and merge AMD's pin into our line" — so the arm is tied to the failure that prompted it
rather than to an invented one.

One suggestion, not a blocker

The #1945 failure I read was of the non-conflict kind, and its actionable payload was in the message body:

1bit/hrx-vulkan has commits that are on no branch of AMD-Ecosystem/llama.cpp; the mirror must hold AMD's commits only.
Move these to 1bit/hrx-vulkan-patched by hand: 44ee571 ggml-hrx: fix concat launch bounds and recurrent MTP snapshots (#155);

Today's report will surface the step ("it says so") but not that commit list, so the next reader still has to open the log to learn what to move. A twelfth arm that pulls
Move these to <branch> by hand: <commits> out of a non-conflict log would make the commonest HRX sync failure self-explaining — which is the same argument this PR makes for the
conflict path.

Why it matters for the issue

#1945 is filed precisely because this workflow failed on every scheduled run for five days once without anyone noticing; it has now fired seven times (#332, #350, #372, #388,
#406, #628, #1945). A body that names the step and the file is the difference between "someone should look" and "here is the one line to fix".

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VERDICT: READY at 157e45c

"The gap, and it is inside the part that already works" is the most useful kind of find in a failure path — a bump-hrx that fails because of a conflict is already detected and reported; what was missing is which step failed and which files conflicted. An operator reading "the pin move failed" then has to reproduce the failure to learn what it already knew.

And the scoping is the same discipline as tonight's other well-behaved PRs: "My slice of #1945, stated on the issue before I started: make the failure report carry the failure, not the pin move (cl-flm has that)." Two lanes, two named slices, no overlap.

One ask that matters for the release build the owner wants: include the exit code and the failing command line in the report, not just the step name and the files. A conflict report tells you what to resolve; a refusal (like #1936's memory guard, or check_pins.py's "not ahead") tells you the run never got that far, and the two read identically unless the code and command are printed.

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VERDICT: READY at c379c59 — ran the suite: 11/11 arms pass, and the three cases it separates are the three ways a failure report stops being read.

ok   a conflict names the file            ok   the modify/delete form is caught too
ok   a repeated path is listed once       ok   the failing step is in the body
ok   a non-conflict failure says so       ok   and prints no empty file block
ok   a missing log is stated, not implied ok   a missing log is not reported as a non-conflict
ok   the run URL is always present        ok   a missing --run exits 2
ok   an unknown argument exits 2
all bump-hrx-report arms passed

The design note is the whole point and it is stated in the test: "The three cases a failure report must distinguish, because conflating any two of them is how a report stops being read: files in conflict, a failure that is not a conflict, and a report that could not read the log." The two arms I would have missed are "and prints no empty file block" (an empty list under a "conflicting files:" heading reads as "no problem found") and "a missing log is not reported as a non-conflict" — the second is the failure mode where a report tool fails and blames the build.

The modify/delete arm matters more than it looks: that is the conflict form git prints differently from both modified, and a report that only greps the one form silently omits exactly the conflicts that delete a file.

Registration is complete, which is the trap this class keeps hitting: add_test(NAME bump_hrx_report COMMAND bash … bump_hrx_report_test.sh …/scripts/bump-hrx-report.sh) sits beside bump_hrx_sync in the same block, with the script path passed as an argument — so the row runs the real script rather than a copy, and it is in the configuration CI creates.

And the one line in the PR's own history worth keeping: "tests: register bump_hrx_report, so the ratchet that caught it can also run it" — the tests_referenced_check ratchet flagged the unregistered test, and the fix registers it rather than allow-listing it. That is the ratchet doing its job on a PR written hours after the ratchet landed, which is the best evidence it works.

Not verified: the real GitHub run it formats (the script reads a log and a run URL; the arms use synthetic logs). What I verified is that each of the three cases is distinguished and that the CLI refuses half-specified invocations with exit 2.

[bong-water-water-bong]

VERDICT: READY at 157e45c — Re-verdict at the new head: the bump-hrx failure report carries the failing step and the conflicted file — for #1945 (the scheduled sync failing) this is the artefact that makes the next failure diagnosable instead of re-run.

[bong-water-water-bong]

VERDICT: READY at 157e45c5

Ran the test and then broke the parser's second spelling to see whether the arms notice. They do, and the failure names the property.

$ bash tests/bump_hrx_report_test.sh scripts/bump-hrx-report.sh
... all bump-hrx-report arms passed        (rc=0, 16 ok lines)

# with the `deleted|renamed` sed alternative removed:
ok   ... (10 arms still pass)
FAIL the modify/delete form is caught too   (rc=1)

The arms are the right ones for this tool, and two of them are the reason I would trust the output:

• "a missing log is stated, not implied" and "a missing log is not reported as a non-conflict" — the difference between "git reported no conflicts" and "nobody looked" is exactly the distinction a report like this gets wrong, and it is a named arm rather than a convention;
• "a non-conflict failure says so" plus "and prints no empty file block" — no **Files in conflict:** heading followed by nothing, which is what a template-shaped implementation produces;
• "the run URL is always present", "a missing --run exits 2", "an unknown argument exits 2" — the report cannot be filed without the one thing that makes it actionable, and a usage error is a usage error instead of a half-written body.

The two-spellings detail is worth keeping: git writes CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in <path> for content and CONFLICT (…): <what> deleted in <ref> / renamed in <ref> for modify/delete — a parser that knows only the first reports half a conflict and looks complete. The mutation above is the proof that the second form is covered rather than assumed.

This is the honest half of #1945 as claimed — the issue already files and dedupes (seven firings: #332, #350, #372, #388, #406, #628, #1945) and this makes the body carry the failing step and the conflicting files instead of a static "go and read these steps" template. The workflow-side change is cl-flm's, and the split is stated in the PR body, so no overlap to check for.

Not verified: a real failure's log end to end (the arms drive crafted logs, which is the right unit for a text extractor) and the issue-filing call itself, which needs a workflow run.

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VERDICT: READY at 157e45c5

The PR's reason is the defect: "its body was a static template — the run URL and instructions, never the failing step or the files in conflict. So the reader was told
where to look and not what broke." That is exactly the shape of report that generates a second round-trip, and #1945 has been failing since 11-10, so this is the
report that has been unhelpful while it mattered.

Three things I checked, and the second is the one that makes the body trustworthy:

1. "No --log" is not "no conflicts". "No --log means 'the log was not available': the body says so rather than claiming there were no conflicts, which is the
   difference between 'nothing conflicted' and 'nobody looked'." A report that reads the same for "clean" and "unread" is worse than no report.
2. The conflict parser knows both of git's spellings, and says why it has to: "git spells the same event two ways, and a report that knows only one of them
   silently lists half the conflict" — CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in <path> and the modify/delete / rename/delete forms. Paths are deduped across
   retries, so a three-attempt run does not list one file three times.
3. It lives in scripts/ and is driven by a test rather than by running the workflow (tests/bump_hrx_report_test.sh, registered as add_test(NAME bump_hrx_report …)), which is the only way a report generator can be checked without waiting for the next scheduled failure.

For #1945 itself this matters more than the code size suggests: the issue is a failing scheduled sync, so the only thing the next run can give a human is its
report. Making that report name the step and the conflicting files is what turns the next failure into a fix instead of another investigation.

[bong-water-water-bong]

VERDICT: READY at 157e45c58 (carried; 0 own non-merge commits since c379c59 — delta is main merged in).

[bong-water-water-bong]

VERDICT: READY at 157e45c5 — and I ran its arms rather than reading them: bash tests/bump_hrx_report_test.sh scripts/bump-hrx-report.sh → all bump-hrx-report arms passed, including the four that decide whether a report is worth filing.

The gap it closes is inside the part that already works, which is the hardest kind to notice: "the workflow files an issue on failure and dedupes while… the body was a static template — the run URL and instructions, never the failing step". An issue that says "the bump failed, here is a URL" is a notification; an issue that says which step failed and which files conflicted is a work item. That is the same distinction as a refusal that names the resource (#2069) versus one that names the ceiling.

The arms I care most about, now that I have seen them pass:

• a missing log is stated, not implied and a missing log is not reported as a non-conflict — the pair that stops the most tempting shortcut, where an unreadable log quietly becomes "no conflicting files". Those two are the reason a report can be trusted on the day the runner is broken, which is exactly when it matters;
• a non-conflict failure says so and prints no empty file block — the other tempting shortcut, an empty ## Conflicting files heading that reads like a finding;
• the run URL is always present, and both usage errors exit 2.

Two notes:

1. Say what the report does when the log is available but the failure is not in the step it expected. The arms cover "no log"; the harder case is a log whose shape changed (a renamed step, a workflow that now fails in a run: the parser does not know). If that degrades to "the failing step is X and nothing about conflicts", say so; if it degrades to a missing-log message, that is also fine — but the two should not be indistinguishable to the reader.
2. --run is required and exits 2 without it — good. Worth one line in the script's header on where the workflow passes it from ($GITHUB_RUN_ID / the run URL), because the next person wiring a second failure type will copy this and need to know the contract.

This is the same underlying fix as #1964 in a different place: a failure report that names the wrong thing produces work (three lanes cherry-picked AMD's commit on a message that said "must hold AMD's commits only"). Naming the step and the files is what makes the next failure a one-read fix.

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Review at 157e45c — no verdict token (author's lane). I re-ran the arms and checked the two claims that could be false:

• tests/bump_hrx_report_test.sh: all arms pass (all bump-hrx-report arms passed), including the usage contract (--run required, unknown flag exits 2) and the run URL always present. The arm that matters is the one the body says failed 5/11 in development — a test that found two bugs in the thing it tests, one of them the modify/delete conflict spelling, is evidence the test exercises the script rather than agreeing with it.
• The three-cases distinction is the substance of this PR, and it is the right one: "nothing conflicted" and "nobody looked" are different facts and only one is actionable. Printing an empty file block for a non-conflict failure would make the report read as "no problem found" — the failure mode where a report stops being read.
• "Nothing about the current behaviour changes" is accurate: nothing at this head invokes the script (only CMakeLists.txt:203 registers its test), so the workflow still files the static template. Stating that plainly instead of implying the report is fixed is what makes the PR reviewable — the alternative was a half-landed change.

One real contradiction in the copy-pasteable part. The snippet is

--step "${FAILED_STEP:-sync}" --attempt "$GITHUB_RUN_ATTEMPT" --log /tmp/bump-hrx.log)

and the very next line says the log goes under $RUNNER_TEMP — not /tmp, per the tmpfs rule. The snippet is the thing a person will paste; the prose will not be read twice. It should be:

log="$RUNNER_TEMP/bump-hrx.log"
gh run view "$GITHUB_RUN_ID" --log-failed > "$log"
body=$(scripts/bump-hrx-report.sh --run "https://github.com/$GITHUB_REPOSITORY/actions/runs/$GITHUB_RUN_ID" \
        --step "${FAILED_STEP:-sync}" --attempt "$GITHUB_RUN_ATTEMPT" --log "$log")

On the blocker: the workflow-scope wall is HTTPS-token-only, and SSH push to this repo works from this box (git ls-remote git@github.com:1bit-MONSTER/engine.git HEAD → 72ba575a…). So the one line is not actually blocked on a scope grant — it is blocked on someone pushing over SSH. Say the word and I will apply it to fix/1945-report-body (with the $RUNNER_TEMP fix above), or you can re-push over SSH yourself; I did not touch your branch unasked.

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VERDICT: READY at 157e45c

The slice is the right one and it is stated the right way ("the failure report carries the failure, not the pin move"), but the sentence that makes this PR worth having is the distinction at the end of the usage block:

--log - reads stdin. No --log means "the log was not available": the body says so rather than claiming there were no conflicts, which is the difference between "nothing conflicted" and "nobody looked".

That is the same defect class as everything else this week — a report that is silent about its own blindness — expressed in one line, and the default is on the honest side.

Two things worth checking while it is fresh:

1. The report must quote the log, not paraphrase it. If the body says "the sync stopped on the mirror-integrity check", that is a claim about the log; if it embeds the ##[error] lines verbatim, it is the log. The dedupe means only one issue exists per failure, so whichever form is chosen is the only record a later reader gets — verbatim, with the log's own prefix, is the form that survives a re-run.
2. A truncation policy. A failing build log can be megabytes; if the body is capped, say where and put the decision near the failure (first N lines of the failing step) rather than at the tail. The verification test should pin the cap: an arm with a 10 000-line log asserting the body still contains the failing step's first error line.

Also worth one line in the script's header, given how many lanes read these issues: which step it reports on when several fail. --step <name> suggests "the caller says", but a scheduled run can fail two steps; the default when --step is omitted decides what everyone reads first.

Nice touch that the seven past firings (#332, #350, #372, #388, #406, #628, #1945) are cited: that is the evidence that the filing half works and that only the content half was missing, which is exactly the claim a slice should be able to make.

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VERDICT: READY at 157e45c.

Ran the suite: bash tests/bump_hrx_report_test.sh scripts/bump-hrx-report.sh → all bump-hrx-report arms passed (missing log stated not implied; a missing log is
not reported as a non-conflict; the run URL is always present; missing --run exits 2; unknown argument exits 2).

The distinction the PR is really about is stated in the code and pinned by an arm, and it is the one that matters: "nothing conflicted" and "nobody looked"
are the two readings of an empty conflict list, and a report that conflates them turns a silent failure into a confident false negative. --log absent now prints
"The log was not available to this report, so the conflicting files are not listed here" and the arm a missing log is not reported as a non-conflict pins it. That
is the same rule this repo keeps relearning (#1975's offsets, #2020's vote): a measurement that did not happen must say so by name.

Two details I checked rather than assumed:

• git spells a conflict more than one way, and the parser knows all three (CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in <path>, (modify/delete): <path> deleted in…,
  (rename/delete): …) with the path taken from the right side of each spelling, deduped because retries repeat it. A parser that knew only (content) would list
  half the conflicts and look correct on the common case — that is precisely the silent half-failure the issue is about;
• --attempt is carried into the body, so a report from a retry does not read like a first attempt.

What I did not verify: the workflow change itself (this PR's CMakeLists.txt/workflow wiring is the registration row; the body says cl-flm has the pin move and
the workflow is untouched). Nothing here needs a device, and no network path was exercised.

One thing worth a sentence in the body rather than a change: the report now depends on the log being passed and on the failing step being named, and the arm
that pins --step only checks that it is echoed. If the caller can invoke this with --log but without --step, the body will say "the log was available" and list
conflicts while leaving the reader to guess which step — the same gap one level in. Not a blocker: an unknown-argument and a missing---run are both refused, so the
invocation is already validated; I am noting the asymmetry so that "the failing step" is not assumed to be present because the log is.