A malformed state.toml in conductor/tracks/<track>/state.toml (e.g.,
from an interrupted previous run) caused tomllib.load() to raise
TOMLDecodeError, which propagated up and crashed App.__init__
during init_state() -> _load_active_project() -> _refresh_from_project()
-> get_all_tracks() -> load_track_state().
This manifested as test failures in tests/test_layout_reorganization.py,
tests/test_auto_slices.py, tests/test_hooks.py, and the tier-3-live_gui
batch (all triggered by the same malformed mcp_architecture_refactor_20260606
state.toml).
The fix wraps tomllib.load() in a try/except for (OSError,
tomllib.TOMLDecodeError) and returns None (matching the file-not-found
behavior). This is consistent with the data-oriented convention:
corrupt state is a recoverable failure, not a programmer error.
Tests verified:
- tests/test_track_state_persistence.py (1 test) PASS
- tests/test_layout_reorganization.py (4 tests) PASS
- tests/test_auto_slices.py (3 tests) PASS
- tests/test_hooks.py (3 tests) PASS
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