From 739a48e18522880e8e9f322859dbf9d89249e947 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tupe12334 <ofek.gabay.he@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:31:03 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] fix: ack.sh exits 0 with message when session already
 complete

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 core/src/scripts.rs | 6 ++++++
 scripts/ack.sh      | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/core/src/scripts.rs b/core/src/scripts.rs
index c8ca0da..a2e2023 100644
--- a/core/src/scripts.rs
+++ b/core/src/scripts.rs
@@ -102,6 +102,12 @@ mod tests {
         assert!(content.contains("state.json"));
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn ack_sh_handles_complete_session() {
+        assert!(ACK_SH.contains("session already complete"));
+        assert!(ACK_SH.contains("[*]"));
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn ensure_ack_sh_is_idempotent() {
         let tmp = TempDir::new().unwrap();
diff --git a/scripts/ack.sh b/scripts/ack.sh
index 2b8cbb0..4f79a21 100644
--- a/scripts/ack.sh
+++ b/scripts/ack.sh
@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ STATE="$DIR/state.json"
 TMP="$STATE.tmp.$$"
 
 CURRENT=$(jq -r '.current_state'      "$STATE")
+
+if [ "$CURRENT" = "[*]" ]; then
+  CHECKLIST=$(jq -r '.checklist' "$STATE")
+  echo "steplock: nothing to acknowledge for '$CHECKLIST' (session already complete)"
+  exit 0
+fi
+
 NEXT=$(jq -r '.next_state // empty'   "$STATE")
 NEXT="${1:-$NEXT}"