The STATE.md write lock (acquireStateLock) and the .planning/ workspace lock (withPlanningLock) stole contended locks on mtime age alone with no process.kill(pid,0) liveness check, and mis-ordered stale-vs-wait so a live-but-slow holder could be robbed mid-critical-section. M1 (lost update / STATE.md corruption): a live writer whose critical section ran past the stale threshold aged out and a waiter unlinked its lock and acquired -> two writers in STATE.md's read-modify-write window. mtime is a leaky proxy for "holder is alive"; it leaks under exactly the slow-holder condition the lock guards against. M2 (uncaught EEXIST): withPlanningLock's timeout fallback unconditionally unlinked whatever lock existed (even a live holder's) and re-acquired OUTSIDE any try -- a concurrent re-create raced a raw EEXIST out of the helper. Fix backports capability-lock.cts's liveness gate (process.kill(pid,0) via a _setLockProbes/_resetLockProbes test seam): - acquireStateLock: steal when holder pid is DEAD (any age) OR age exceeds a deadman ceiling (60000ms, ABOVE maxWaitMs=30000) so a verified-live holder is never stolen within budget; garbage/legacy bodies stay recoverable. - withPlanningLock: same gate in the EEXIST path (dead stolen promptly, live waited on); removed the unconditional force-steal -> clear timeout throw, which also closes M2 (no re-acquire outside try). Uncontended path unchanged byte-for-behaviour; realClock + real process.kill remain the defaults. Pid-reuse residual fails safe (waits/times out, never corrupts) and recovers at the deadman ceiling. Tests: TDD red->green via the clock + new pid-liveness probe seams (no wall-clock; #453 deleted the race tests). 8 new behavioural tests across tests/clock-seam.test.cjs and tests/planning-workspace.test.cjs; the prior withPlanningLock timeout test rewritten to pin the no-force-steal contract. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01R88n7Q54bAaVHFkDbbH1yz
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