v1.91.2.0 fix: consolidate gstack reliability wave (#2959)

* fix(memory-ingest): --scan-secrets scans the rendered page and fails closed

--scan-secrets ran gitleaks on the raw transcript .jsonl, then imported a
page rendered from it. gitleaks' assignment rules don't match across a
JSON-escaped quote (KEY=\"v\" on disk), so a secret the rendered page
shows as KEY="v" was imported unflagged. And the gate skipped a file only
on scanner "gitleaks" with findings, so a scan that errored (non-zero
exit, 16MB maxBuffer overflow on a file with many findings, unparseable
report) or could not run (gitleaks missing, slow-probe cooldown) imported
the file unscanned.

Scan the rendered page body, the exact bytes writeStaged() writes, via a
new secretScanText() helper, and skip the file whenever the scan did not
complete. Skipped files stay out of the state file, so the next run
retries them. Reword the helper warnings and setup-gbrain/memory.md,
which described the fail-open as intended.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(test): reconcile Bun failure markers and footer counts

* fix(sync-gbrain): verify source-scoped reads without mutation

* fix(test): recognize grounded TTHW target choices structurally

* fix(aside): make the readiness probe work under zsh and report why it failed

The probe built its deadline into `_T` and expanded it unquoted, so
`$_T aside repl …` only worked in a shell that word-splits. zsh does not: it
looked for a command literally named "gtimeout 30", the probe answered
ASIDE_NOT_RUNNING with Aside installed and ready, and every browsing skill
fell back to the bundled Chromium in silence. zsh is the macOS default and
Aside is macOS-only, so on a stock Mac the probe could never report READY.

The deadline becomes a function, `_gs_d`. It receives the command as "$@",
already split, so sh, bash and zsh all behave the same, and the gtimeout →
timeout → perl alarm chain is unchanged. A 4th arm runs the call unbounded
when none of the three is present, which is what the empty `_T` did before.
Not `eval`: it re-parses the string, so the parens and `;` of the perl arm
become syntax and that arm dies in bash *and* zsh — on a stock Mac, the arm
that actually runs.

On failure the probe now prints the CLI's reason after ASIDE_NOT_RUNNING:,
the shape gstack-render already uses: the first line that starts with a
capital letter, i.e. the CLI's own sentence or Node's `Error:` line below its
loader frame. "Not running" covers states with different fixes — no window
open for the profile, a NODE_OPTIONS preload that kills the CLI — and a bare
verdict sent all of them to "open the Aside app". The BROWSER SETUP prose
quotes that reason before asking the user to open the app.

The text pin asserted the broken invocation verbatim, so it now pins the
function and asserts neither `$_T aside repl` nor an eval form comes back. A
second test executes the rendered probe in sh, bash and zsh on each of the
four deadline arms with stubbed binaries on a narrowed PATH, plus two failing
CLIs: one that prints its own sentence, one that crashes like Node with the
useful line below the frame.

The deadline function costs zero bytes against the lines it replaces; the
reason costs 53 per copy of the probe (44 where the reworded BROWSER SETUP
line gives 9 back). That moves four guards by the measured amount:
plan-devex-review's skeleton cap to 68,550 (measured 68,544), plan-ceo-review's
skeleton cap to 80,150 (measured 80,111) and union ratio to 1.081 (measured
1.0803), and plan-eng-review's union ratio to 1.151 (measured 1.1504).

Fixes #2842, #2941.

* Clarify engineering review startup and decision flow

* Fix Windows readiness fixture PATH and command shim

* fix(test): recognize grounded TTHW target choices structurally

* Clarify engineering review startup and decision flow

* fix(test): restrict QA-only fixture tools to its no-Edit contract

* v1.90.0.0 fix(sync-gbrain): guard readiness verdicts and refresh metadata

* fix(browse): validate canonical upload targets

* fix(gbrain): classify structured PGLite busy response

* fix(browse): preserve native extension runtime APIs

* Fix displayless browser handoff ownership

* Accept unique installed autoplan methodology aliases

* fix(skills): preserve positional literals during installation

* fix(browse): checksum installer contents through stdin

* fix(test): normalize Windows checksum fixture paths

* test: emulate unavailable shasum in Windows checksum fixture

* fix(investigate): preserve owned freeze lifecycle

* fix(review): preserve N+1 retry and Red Team completion

* fix: bound Aside readiness and preserve safe fallback

* test: exercise setup and Chromium on native ARM

* fix: preserve install ownership and ARM browser selection

* Fix gbrain ingest scan boundaries and seed observation

* Refresh managed ship hooks and supervise expanded paid census

* Reject resumed gbrain pages excluded by current policy

* Recover zombie agent locks safely and enable CI Python venv

* Repair paid actor declarations and Aside pitch assertions

* Bump consolidated wave to next free minor release

* Clarify CEO review admin choices and option tradeoffs

* Preserve CEO mode handoff anchors in clarified workflow

* Make Windows portability fixtures use shell-native paths

* Restore ARM Bun alias and clarify ship review gates

* Refresh ship workflow golden snapshots

* Fix Windows DX documentation controls without piped stdin

* Decode Codex child pipes without Bun's encoded-stream stall

* Bound DX pre-review audit before product questions

* Clarify trusted review-start read in paid revalidation

* Bump consolidated wave to next free minor release

* Clarify CEO review admin choices and option tradeoffs

* Preserve CEO mode handoff anchors in clarified workflow

* Make Windows portability fixtures use shell-native paths

* Restore ARM Bun alias and clarify ship review gates

* Refresh ship workflow golden snapshots

* Fix Windows DX documentation controls without piped stdin

* Decode Codex child pipes without Bun's encoded-stream stall

* Bound DX pre-review audit before product questions

* Clarify trusted review-start read in paid revalidation

* Reconcile new main planning flow and paid judge census

* fix: reconcile rebased planning and source-bound validation

* test: pin cookie workflow judge to scored Sonnet model

* fix: keep terminal agent boot out of module imports

* fix: preserve pending-question uncertainty in engineering review

* fix: stabilize Windows reliability-wave fixtures

* fix: clarify design consultation research workflow

* fix: preserve independent design consultation inputs

* fix: resolve design taste scope and browser research guidance

* fix: make consultation opt-in preflight unambiguous

* test: await native Edge owner readiness or terminal result

---------

Co-authored-by: Bruce Krysiak <brucek@alum.mit.edu>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Antonio Vitalic <antoninte99@gmail.com>

office-hours/SKILL.md

@@ -439,23 +439,29 @@ Skills that run plan reviews (`/plan-*-review`, `/codex review`) include the EXI
 
 ## Third-Party Web Actions
 
-A step sometimes requires action on an external website the user controls: registering an API key, creating a vendor or developer account, configuring a dashboard, webhook, OAuth app, billing plan, or domain verification. This contract governs that moment. It grants no new browsing authority — the AskUserQuestion format and one-way-door rules remain binding, including approval before anything that spends money.
+Some steps require action on a site the user controls: registering an API key, creating a vendor or developer account, configuring a dashboard, webhook, OAuth app, billing plan, or domain verification. This contract governs that moment. It grants no new browsing authority — the AskUserQuestion format and one-way-door rules remain binding, including approval before anything that spends money.
 
 1. **Never hand the user a manual step list for a third-party site without first offering to drive it.** The recommended driver is the Aside AI browser — the user's real browser, already signed in to the accounts vendor dashboards need. Detect it at runtime, every task, with the /browse skill's readiness probe:
 
    ```bash
-   _T=""; command -v gtimeout >/dev/null 2>&1 && _T="gtimeout 30"; [ -z "$_T" ] && command -v timeout >/dev/null 2>&1 && _T="timeout 30"
-   [ -z "$_T" ] && command -v perl >/dev/null 2>&1 && _T="perl -e alarm(shift);exec(@ARGV) 30"
+   _gs_d() { if command -v gtimeout >/dev/null; then gtimeout 30 "$@"; elif command -v timeout >/dev/null; then timeout 30 "$@"
+   elif command -v perl >/dev/null; then perl -e 'alarm(shift);exec(@ARGV)' 30 "$@"; else return 125; fi; }
    if [ "${GSTACK_SKIP_ASIDE:-}" = "1" ] || ! command -v aside >/dev/null 2>&1; then
      echo "NEEDS_ASIDE"
-   elif $_T aside repl 'console.log("ASIDE_READY " + pwd)' 2>&1 | grep -q '^ASIDE_READY'; then
-     echo "READY: aside $(aside --version 2>/dev/null)"
    else
-     echo "ASIDE_NOT_RUNNING"
+     _rc=0; _o=$(_gs_d aside repl 'console.log("ASIDE_READY " + pwd)' 2>&1) || _rc=$?
+     case "$_rc" in
+       124|142) echo "ASIDE_TIMEOUT: probe deadline exceeded" ;;
+       125) echo "ASIDE_UNAVAILABLE: bounded probe unavailable" ;;
+       0) if printf '%s\n' "$_o" | grep -q '^ASIDE_READY '; then echo "READY: aside"
+          else echo "ASIDE_NOT_RUNNING: no readiness marker"; fi ;;
+       *) echo "ASIDE_CLI_ERROR: exit $_rc; inspect aside --help locally" ;;
+     esac
+     unset _o
    fi
    ```
 
-   Only `READY` counts as detected; the retry path in rule 3 applies only after a consented drive has started. `NEEDS_ASIDE`: if `uname -s` prints `Darwin`, tell the user once — "gstack works best with the Aside browser (macOS 15+). Download it at aside.com, open it, sign in, then re-run." Off macOS, do not pitch it. The user downloads and installs it themselves; NEVER run an installer, brew formula, or download for them, and never treat binary presence as consent to browse. `ASIDE_NOT_RUNNING`: ask the user to open the Aside app (and sign in if it asks), re-run the check once, and if it still fails quote the probe output verbatim and treat Aside as not detected for this task. The fallback driver on any platform is gstack's own stack: `$B` headed mode with `$B handoff` / `$B resume` for the human-only moments (the /browse skill's Browser fallback section), or GStack Browser when installed.
+   Only `READY` counts as detected; rule 3 retries only after a consented drive has started. `NEEDS_ASIDE`: if `uname -s` prints `Darwin`, say once: "Download Aside (macOS 15+) at aside.com; open, sign in, re-run." Off macOS, do not pitch it. User installs only: NEVER run an installer, brew formula, or download; never treat binary presence as consent to browse. `ASIDE_NOT_RUNNING`: ask once to open the app and retry. Otherwise report only the safe status, never raw diagnostics; treat Aside as not detected for this task. The fallback driver on any platform is gstack's own stack: `$B` headed mode with `$B handoff` / `$B resume` for the human-only moments (the /browse skill's Browser fallback section), or GStack Browser when installed.
 
 2. **One explicit question before any browsing.** Name the site and action. When Aside is detected, offer: A) I drive it in your Aside browser — your real logged-in sessions (recommended), B) I drive it in gstack's own visible browser — you take over for sign-in, C) manual instructions, D) defer. When Aside is not detected, offer only the gstack drive / manual / defer options. Until a probe actually returns `READY`, omit the Aside drive option entirely; even a conditional offer is premature. The selection is per-task consent; never persist it as standing permission and never infer it from an earlier task.
 
@@ -652,19 +658,25 @@ If no matches found, proceed silently.
 
 ## Web research runs in Aside
 
-When a step calls for looking something up on the web (competitors, current best practices, a known bug, prior art), do it through Aside's own agent first: it searches with the user's real browser, signed-in sessions included. If Aside is not ready, fall back to the WebSearch tool when this host provides one. If neither is available, say so once and continue on what you already know.
+For web research, do it through Aside's own agent first, using the user's signed-in browser. If Aside is not ready, fall back to the WebSearch tool when this host provides one.
 
-Check once per run that Aside is ready (if this skill already ran this same probe, in BROWSER SETUP or Third-Party Web Actions, reuse its answer):
+Check once (if this skill already ran this same probe, in BROWSER SETUP or Third-Party Web Actions, reuse its answer):
 
 ```bash
-_T=""; command -v gtimeout >/dev/null 2>&1 && _T="gtimeout 30"; [ -z "$_T" ] && command -v timeout >/dev/null 2>&1 && _T="timeout 30"
-[ -z "$_T" ] && command -v perl >/dev/null 2>&1 && _T="perl -e alarm(shift);exec(@ARGV) 30"
+_gs_d() { if command -v gtimeout >/dev/null; then gtimeout 30 "$@"; elif command -v timeout >/dev/null; then timeout 30 "$@"
+elif command -v perl >/dev/null; then perl -e 'alarm(shift);exec(@ARGV)' 30 "$@"; else return 125; fi; }
 if [ "${GSTACK_SKIP_ASIDE:-}" = "1" ] || ! command -v aside >/dev/null 2>&1; then
   echo "NEEDS_ASIDE"
-elif $_T aside repl 'console.log("ASIDE_READY " + pwd)' 2>&1 | grep -q '^ASIDE_READY'; then
-  echo "READY: aside $(aside --version 2>/dev/null)"
 else
-  echo "ASIDE_NOT_RUNNING"
+  _rc=0; _o=$(_gs_d aside repl 'console.log("ASIDE_READY " + pwd)' 2>&1) || _rc=$?
+  case "$_rc" in
+    124|142) echo "ASIDE_TIMEOUT: probe deadline exceeded" ;;
+    125) echo "ASIDE_UNAVAILABLE: bounded probe unavailable" ;;
+    0) if printf '%s\n' "$_o" | grep -q '^ASIDE_READY '; then echo "READY: aside"
+       else echo "ASIDE_NOT_RUNNING: no readiness marker"; fi ;;
+    *) echo "ASIDE_CLI_ERROR: exit $_rc; inspect aside --help locally" ;;
+  esac
+  unset _o
 fi
 ```
 
@@ -675,7 +687,7 @@ fi
   _aside_exec "Search the web for <query>. Read-only: do not sign in, submit, or change anything. Reply with <format, e.g. up to 8 bullets, each with its source URL>, then stop."
   ```
 
-- `NEEDS_ASIDE` or `ASIDE_NOT_RUNNING`: run the same queries with the WebSearch tool if this host provides it — same read-only intent, same untrusted-content rule. If it does not, skip the research and say once: "Search unavailable — proceeding with in-distribution knowledge only." Never install Aside yourself; mention aside.com at most once per run. The rest of the skill continues.
+- Any non-READY result: report only the safe status, never raw diagnostics. Run the same queries with the WebSearch tool if available, still read-only and untrusted. Otherwise say once: "Search unavailable — proceeding with in-distribution knowledge only." Never install Aside yourself; mention aside.com at most once per run. Continue the skill.
 
 Sanitize every query before it leaves the machine: strip hostnames, IPs, file paths, SQL fragments, and anything that looks like a secret. Search for the error class and the library, not the user's data.