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Brennan Benson cc6b600e21 Fix orchestration CLI recovery, settled-Dispatch mail, and guide defects (#16919)
* Fix orchestration CLI recovery, settled-Dispatch mail, and guide defects

Five reported orchestration CLI defects, verified individually before fixing.
Two were real code defects, one was a docs error, one was correct as-is, and
one was correct on both ends except for its recovery wording.

- Mail addressed to a settled `dispatch:<id>` was accepted and silently dropped.
  Local sends bypassed the settlement check the federated branch already had, so
  the caller was told success for a delivery no worker would ever read. Reject
  with `dispatch_inactive` and name the Run mailbox to use instead.

- A lost mutation response offered no read-only way to ask whether it took
  effect. `--retry-request` does dedupe correctly, but the recovery guidance
  emitted a query command only when the payload carried a dispatch id, which is
  exactly what a lost response lacks. Add read-only
  `orca orchestration request-show --request <id>` over the durable receipt
  ledger, and always emit a read-only step before the keyed retry.

- The bundled `orca-cli` guide documented `check --unread --inject`, a flag the
  parser rejects. Correct it to `--format` and add a ratchet that runs every
  orchestration invocation in the bundled guides through the real CLI parser.

- `check --json` is one stdout document and its keepalives are stderr-only; the
  reported `Extra data: line 2` came from merging the streams. Document the
  contract rather than changing the wire.

- A rejected lifecycle message is loud on both ends already, but the rejection
  never named the flag that supplies the missing capability. Name it.

* Harden orchestration mutation recovery guidance
2026-08-30 18:12:58 -07:00
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