Move the "explicit scratch means no project" decision into the one resolver
every surface funnels through, `kanban_db.create_task`: board-project
inheritance now runs only when the caller left `workspace_kind` open
(`None`), and `workspace_kind` defaults to scratch after that check. The
tool handler keeps the #106347 fix for `project=""` (no `or` collapse) and
`board=` scoping but drops its handler-local sentinel logic, since the
resolver now owns the rule; the `self_task` project inheritance for
dispatcher-owned workers is unchanged.
Sibling surfaces had the same bug through the same line and are fixed by
the same change:
- CLI `hermes kanban create --workspace scratch` on a project-scoped board
produced a project worktree; `--workspace` no longer defaults in
argparse so the resolver can tell "omitted" from "scratch".
- Dashboard `POST /tasks` with `workspace_kind: "scratch"` did the same;
`CreateTaskBody.workspace_kind` defaults to `None` for the same reason.
- `kanban_swarm.create_swarm` threads `None` through for consistency.
Tests: one resolver invariant in test_kanban_board_project.py (explicit
scratch stays scratch, omitted still inherits) and the salvaged tool test
folded into a single parametrized matrix over scoped/unscoped target boards.
`hermes kanban promote --force <id>` printed `Promoted <id> -> ready` and
then the very next claim (a human `claim`, or the dispatcher tick seconds
later) demoted the task back to `todo` with `claim_rejected
{parents_not_done}` and returned None (#106195). The non-force refusal
even pointed operators at `--force` as the escape hatch.
The claim gate is deliberate: `claim_task` is the single enforcement point
("never ready -> running with an undone parent, whichever writer set
'ready'", cda20eec0c), and `complete_task`/`request_review` re-check the
same predicate, so a child let through by a forced claim could still never
finish. A promotion override therefore has no honest outcome; the
dependency edge is the real knob.
- drop `--force` from `promote` (parser, CLI handler, `promote_task`
kwarg, the `forced` event field nothing read)
- the refusal message now states why the gate cannot be bypassed and names
the working remedies: complete the parents or `hermes kanban unlink`
- two invariant tests: refusal on an undone parent leaves `todo` with no
fake `ready`; the flag no longer parses
Salvage direction from #75354 by @vyacheslavk (diagnosis of the promote ->
claim gap); the consume-at-claim authorization there is not taken because
the same parent gate also blocks completion of the forced child.
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