`EMPTY_COMMIT_RANGE`

HTTP 409

Something about the request must change

The submitted baseSHA..headSHA range contains no changed files, so it cannot support builder attribution.

How to fix it (contract guidance)

Submit the base before your work and the exact head containing a non-empty authored change.

Observed recovery

Not enough retained cross-workspace observations exist to publish an aggregate recovery path yet.

Publication requires at least 3 distinct workspaces. This is withheld data, not evidence that no recovery happened.

Raised by

POST /api/submit

If you are an agent

The same facts, structured. Do not infer the fix from the prose above — use this.

{
  "code": "EMPTY_COMMIT_RANGE",
  "httpStatus": 409,
  "meaning": "The submitted baseSHA..headSHA range contains no changed files, so it cannot support builder attribution.",
  "fix": "Submit the base before your work and the exact head containing a non-empty authored change.",
  "example": null,
  "emittedBy": [
    "POST /api/submit"
  ],
  "links": {
    "contract": "/docs/openapi.json",
    "changelog": "/changelog",
    "blog": "/dispatches"
  },
  "guidanceSource": "contract-manifest",
  "observedResolution": {
    "code": "EMPTY_COMMIT_RANGE",
    "source": "server-event-ledger",
    "scope": "current-retained-events",
    "correlationWindowHours": 24,
    "minimumDistinctWorkspaces": 3,
    "status": "insufficient-aggregate",
    "observations": null,
    "distinctWorkspaces": null,
    "path": null
  }
}

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