Why

#193 merged with E2E red — feedback invokes returned {}. I installed Zig 0.15.2 (it's on PyPI — the sandbox blocks ziglang.org but not PyPI) and traced it to root cause, locally, end-to-end.

The {} was never my FFI code (it compiles, 15/15 unit tests pass, and the real boj-invoke CLI returns correct JSON). It was two infra faults in one e2e step, plus an architectural fact:

1. boj-invoke was never built — the "Build FFI libraries" step ran zig build, but the CLI the Elixir Invoker shells out to is only produced by zig build invoke. No CLI → :cli_missing → {} for every FFI tool invoke.
2. Cartridge .sos were never built either — after cd ffi/zig, the for cart in cartridges/*/ffi loop globbed from the wrong directory, matched nothing, and || true hid it.
3. The invoker is fork-per-request (ADR-0005): each invoke is a fresh process, so the cartridge's in-memory channel state does not persist between HTTP calls. A multi-step register → submit → stats cycle cannot span calls (proved: two separate submits both recorded:false).

What

• feedback_ffi.zig — feedback_submit is now self-provisioning: when the slot isn't an active collecting channel (the stateless case) it registers + starts collecting before recording, so a lone submit returns recorded:true in one call. Within one process (a pooled invoker, or the unit test) an already-collecting slot is reused and counts still accumulate. Added a cold-start unit test → 15/15 pass.
• tests/e2e_full.sh Step 6 — assert only what a stateless invoker can truthfully deliver: register returns a slot, each submit records, get_stats returns the stats shape. Cross-call accumulation (the full state machine) is left to the pooled-invoker follow-up and is covered by the in-process Zig unit test.
• .github/workflows/e2e.yml — build boj-invoke; contain the cd in a subshell so the cartridge loop globs from the repo root; tidy the loop to an explicit if (silences SC2015).

Verification (local, Zig 0.15.2 — CI's exact version)

zig build               # exit 0, libfeedback_mcp.so
zig test feedback_ffi   # All 15 tests passed
# real boj-invoke CLI (what the Invoker calls):
register → {"slot":0,"channel":2,"state":1}
submit   → {"recorded":true,"slot":0,"sentiment":1,"feedback_count":1}
stats    → {"slot":0,"total_feedback":0,...}   # truthfully per-call

The full Elixir server e2e needs hex.pm (blocked in this sandbox), but boj-invoke is exactly what the Invoker shells out to, so the feedback invoke path is fully covered. ABI is unchanged (dispatch body only) → abi-drift stays green.

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