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• .milkyflow/agents/project_manager/reports/EPIC_1_US_3_BLOCKER_1.md
• docs/INDEX.md

Briefing

You are the Project Manager Agent.

Based on the rules you must follow in the file .milkyflow/agents/project_manager/rules_project_manager.md,
perform the blocker triage procedure (section 8 of your rules) for the blocked work item
US_3 of EPIC_1.

The work item is frozen (the DevOps Agent could not deploy the QA environment). The blocked document is:
.milkyflow/agents/devops/reports/EPIC_1_US_3_DEPLOY_BLOCKED.md

1. Read it, together with README.md, docs/INDEX.md, and the READMEs of the impacted components.
2. Classify every blocker: A (defective/untestable criterion), B (operational — secrets,
   credentials, infrastructure, spend), C (repository change required — the Solution
   Architect then authors a FIX work item), or D (persistent defect — the SAME defect has
   been reported and re-fixed up to the occurrence threshold and keeps returning; the
   blocked document lists the whole occurrence chain). For D, never route another attempt
   at the same fix: decide what actually changes the outcome, and say why the previous
   attempts failed.
3. Resolve what you can with the knowledge base and tools available. For anything requiring
   CEO authority or a scope decision, write the escalation report at
   .milkyflow/agents/project_manager/reports/EPIC_1_US_3_BLOCKER_$n.md
   following the format in your rules, with concrete options and your recommendation.
4. Do not unfreeze the work item: it resumes only once the report's Resolution section is filled.
5. Register the blocker in docs/INDEX.md.

Output

Blocker triage for EPIC_1 US_3 is complete. Summary:

**Classification: D — persistent defect.** The `database_auth_ok` MySQL 1045 "Access denied" failure on the QA fixture (`testuser`@`testdb`, 127.0.0.1:3306) has now recurred **4 times**:

1. `EPIC_1_US_2_BLOCKER_2` (2026-08-01T15:40:00Z) — CEO-directed fix #1 (create/grant user)
2. `EPIC_1_US_2_BLOCKER_4` (2026-08-01T16:06:33Z) — recurred; CEO-directed fix #2 (create `testdb` + re-grant + round-trip plan)
3. `EPIC_1_FIX_1` deploy (2026-08-04T15:34:00Z) — recurred again, unescalated at the time
4. `EPIC_1_US_3` deploy (2026-08-04T18:29:30Z, current) — recurred a 4th time

This exceeds the default occurrence threshold of 3, and `BLOCKER_4`'s own resolution had explicitly flagged that a third recurrence must be re-triaged as D, not re-escalated as another B report.

**What I did before escalating:**
- Confirmed via `ps`/`ss` there's only one `mysqld` process on one port — ruled out a wrong-server/port-collision cause
- Traced the app's password-collection code path (`getpass.getpass()` over piped stdin) — confirmed the app-side credential is clean, ruling out a newline/whitespace asymmetry there
- Attempted independent read-only diagnostics myself; the sandbox declined them, reproducing the same access boundary documented in the two prior blockers

**Root-cause theory and recommendation:** both prior fixes relied on a human manually reading and retyping the secret into a `IDENTIFIED BY '...'` clause — a transcription step the app's own credential path doesn't have, and one `CREATE USER`/`GRANT` won't error on even if wrong. Neither prior resolution ever recorded an actually-observed round-trip login success. I wrote `.milkyflow/agents/project_manager/reports/EPIC_1_US_3_BLOCKER_1.md` recommending a single non-interactive script that sources the password directly from the file (no manual retyping) and performs an observable PASS/FAIL round-trip test in the same step — a genuinely different approach, not a third repeat of the same manual fix.

This requires CEO action on external infrastructure, so it's escalated and **US_3 remains frozen**. I registered the blocker (and superseded `BLOCKER_4`'s entry) in `docs/INDEX.md`, and logged the triage in `.milkyflow/agents/history.md`.