v1.66.1.0 feat: content binding — evidence ledger, wtree staleness, tracker trust envelope, fail-closed hooks (#2603)

* fix(hooks): fail-closed freeze + shared extractor + careful HIGH tier

Freeze boundary hook had four verified bugs: the grep-first JSON extractor
truncated at escaped quotes and failed OPEN on unparseable payloads; the deny
JSON was printf-interpolated so a quote- or newline-bearing path silently
no-oped the block; the freeze path read stripped INTERNAL spaces (a boundary
like ~/My Project could never match); and the path resolver skipped the final
component, letting an in-boundary symlink write through to an out-of-boundary
target.

Fixes, structurally: one shared sourced helper (careful/bin/hook-extract.sh)
now owns JSON extraction and JSON-encoded decision envelopes for BOTH hooks --
the two-copy drift is how freeze kept a broken extractor after careful's was
fixed. Freeze is now deny-tier fail-closed (unparseable payload denies,
parsed-but-no-file_path still allows), trims only leading/trailing whitespace,
and resolves symlinks through the final path component.

Careful gains a HIGH tier (hard deny, simple commands only): recursive delete
of /, ~, or $HOME, and force-push to the repo's default branch. Compound
commands always fall through to the MEDIUM ask; --force-with-lease is never
HIGH. Documented as a best-effort advisory hard-stop, not a policy boundary.
Plus additive-only project patterns (~/.gstack/careful-patterns.txt +
per-project file): config can only ADD warn rules, never suppress a baseline
family.

test/hook-scripts.test.ts: 89 tests incl. malformed-payload deny, parseable
deny JSON for hostile paths, space-bearing boundaries, symlink escape, HIGH
tier splits, additive invariant, invalid-regex resilience.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(review): content-addressed staleness via working-tree fingerprint

Review records now bind to the content they were made on. bin/gstack-review-log
stamps every appended record with commit_full, tree, dirty (informational) and
wtree — a working-tree fingerprint from the new bin/gstack-wtree (temp index
seeded from HEAD + git add -A + write-tree). The binding fields are computed
authoritatively; caller-supplied values for those keys are ignored, so a stale
rendered template or a forged field can't bind a record to content it wasn't
made on.

Why a working-tree fingerprint instead of HEAD^{tree}: committing identical
content doesn't change it (a record made on a dirty tree stays valid after the
same content is committed), untracked new source files DO change it (new code
can't hide from freshness), and gitignored scratch stays out. Rebase, amend
and squash with identical content grade CURRENT instead of stale.

Grading: the dashboard (scripts/resolvers/review.ts) and /land-and-deploy Step
3.5a apply a content-first rule to diff-scoped review rows — wtree match with
both sides clean is CURRENT, full stop. Plan-tier reviews grade a plan file,
not the repo tree, so they keep the 7-day logic (optional plan_sha256 caller
field noted). The rev-list fallback no longer errors when the stored commit
was rebased away: it grades UNKNOWN and treats it as stale.
bin/gstack-review-read emits ---WTREE---/---TREE---/---DIRTY--- so graders
consume one tool output. Old records without wtree fall back to the existing
heuristics; no migration.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(evidence): verification-evidence ledger mechanizes /ship's IRON LAW

New bin/gstack-evidence: a transparent wrapper that records every verification
run as {ts, label, command, cmd_sha256, exit, duration_s, commit, tree, dirty,
wtree, log_path} in ~/.gstack/projects/<slug>/<branch>-evidence.jsonl, plus a
read-only `check` that grades FRESH/STALE/MISSING per label. "Tests passed"
now binds to the exact working-tree content it ran on (bin/gstack-wtree
fingerprint), so evidence recorded on uncommitted code stays FRESH after the
exact tested content is committed — the /ship Step 5 -> Step 16 case — while
an untracked new source file or any content change invalidates it.

Check semantics: every named label's latest record must be green, within
--max-age, matching --expect-cmd's hash when given, and fingerprint-identical
(or diff confined to --allow-paths — mechanizing Step 16's existing "CHANGELOG
edits don't count" carve-out). No --any mode: a green lane can never mask a
red sibling. Any git failure inside check (gc'd tree object, not a repo)
degrades to STALE/MISSING, never an error into the calling skill flow.

Transparency invariant (load-bearing, test-pinned): the child's exit code is
ALWAYS the wrapper's exit code; ledger/log/redact failures are stderr
warnings. Logs are per-run (0600, exclusive-open, 2MB truncation marker,
30-day opportunistic prune) — no more shared /tmp collisions between
concurrent ships. Command strings are redact-scanned before recording (HIGH
credential -> stored redacted). Machine-local by design: neither ledger nor
logs brain-sync.

Wired: ship Step 5 lanes run wrapped (per-lane labels), ship Step 16 and
land-and-deploy 3.5b check the ledger first and cite FRESH evidence instead of
re-running; a failed CHECK never blocks (run live), a failed RUN does.
test/evidence.test.ts: 21 tests incl. the keystone dirty-record -> commit ->
FRESH case.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(security): trust envelope for tracker text at every model-context ingress

Web page content has had a trust envelope since v1.38; tracker text did not —
PR bodies, PR/issue comment bodies, and model-judged issue titles entered
agent context raw. Anyone who can comment on a PR could put instructions in
front of the agent.

New lib/tracker-guard.ts + bin/gstack-issue-guard: every tracker-text read now
emits inside a "BEGIN UNTRUSTED TRACKER CONTENT" envelope. Content is enveloped
even when clean (a pattern scan is not proof of safety); injection-shaped lines
get a visible [INJECTION-PATTERN] label; NFKC + zero-width normalization runs
for DETECTION only (fullwidth/invisible evasion caught, content bytes never
rewritten); forged END banners are zero-width-spliced so they can't close the
envelope early. Fetch failure exits non-zero with NO envelope — never a
fake-trusted empty one. Issue numbers are validated and gh is spawned via argv
arrays. Patterns reuse lib/jsonl-store's INJECTION_PATTERNS single copy plus a
separate TRACKER_EXTRA list (kept separate so decision/learning store
write-rejection semantics don't change).

8 sites wired: greptile findings + replies fetches (metadata/body split — ids
and paths stay machine-raw for reply POSTs), review.ts PR-body reads x2,
land-and-deploy 3.5c, document-release PR/MR body (two-artifact flow: the
enveloped rendering is what the agent READS, the raw tempfile is what the
pipeline mutates, and a write-side banner tripwire aborts any edit that leaked
envelope markup), and spec's issue-title dedupe (titles are model-judged for
similarity, so they're ingress). Title-prefix rewrites and state-routing
fetches are mechanical, not ingress — deliberately not enveloped.

test/tracker-guard-wiring.test.ts is the CI tripwire: raw tracker-text reads
outside the guard fail the suite unless carried by a reasoned SCANNER_EXEMPT
entry; exemptions are liveness-checked so a moved site forces a re-audit.

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* chore(binding-wave): drift tripwire, golden fixtures, TODOS follow-ups

test/binding-template-drift.test.ts pins the load-bearing prose rules in the
GENERATED templates (ship Step 16 evidence check, per-lane wrapped test lanes,
land-and-deploy wtree-first grading + UNKNOWN fallback, dashboard content-first
rule, release-body banner tripwire, greptile guard pipes) so a template
refactor can't silently drop a rule while the bins keep passing their unit
tests.

Golden ship fixtures re-pinned to the new intentional output (claude/codex/
factory variants). TODOS.md gains the five deferred follow-ups from the review
wave: eval-run evidence records, spec-spawn outcome ledger, merge-SHA custody,
default-if-silent escalations, and the paid eval case proving agents apply the
staleness grading rule.

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* fix(careful): trim HIGH-tier + project-pattern docs under the size budget

The new sections pushed careful/SKILL.md to 2551 -> 3879 bytes (x1.52, gate
caps growth at x1.5 of the v1.47 baseline). Same content, tighter prose:
3516 bytes (x1.38).

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* fix(tests): scratch-repo fixtures never invoke the operator's gpg

The evidence/review-log/hook fixtures inherited global commit.gpgsign, so
fixture commits called the operator's gpg-agent — which fails with "Cannot
allocate memory" under parallel shard load, breaking test SETUP (not the code
under test). All fixture git invocations now pass -c commit.gpgsign=false
-c tag.gpgsign=false. Hermetic repos, no pinentry.

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* fix: pre-landing review fixes (27 specialist findings, 3 critical)

Specialist army findings, all quote-verified before fixing:

Security: careful force-push guard now catches git's plus-refspec force
syntax (git push origin +main carried force with no flag — silently allowed
before) and refspec-form targets (HEAD:main); default-branch matching is
tokenized FIXED-STRING comparison on the full branch path (slashed defaults
like release/2.0 work; no ERE interpolation), glob-safe via noglob. HIGH rm
tier is tokenized too: trailing long options (--no-preserve-root) and /* are
root-class. Stored evidence fingerprints are 40-hex re-validated before
reaching git argv. normalizeForDetection sweeps ALL Unicode format chars
(\p{Cf}: soft hyphens, bidi marks, tag chars) instead of five enumerated
zero-widths. The wiring scanner gains flagless gh pr/issue view patterns. The
release-body banner tripwire diffs against the fetched original so a hostile
pre-existing banner string can't permanently DoS doc updates. Ship/land
evidence checks now pass --expect-cmd (a green `echo ok` recorded under the
label can never mint FRESH); package.json stays allow-listed with the
residual documented.

Performance: gstack-wtree seeds its temp index by COPYING the real index
(stat cache preserved — measured 40x faster than read-tree seeding, identical
hash) with read-tree fallback; evidence uses findLast and one gstack-slug
spawn; the stream pump honors backpressure via drain; careful's pattern block
short-circuits before slug resolution when no pattern file exists.

Testing: the gh-failure envelope test was VACUOUS (killing PATH killed the
bun shebang before the code under test ran) — replaced with a PATH gh shim
that exercises the real branch, plus shimmed happy paths (issue/pr-body/
unparseable JSON); evidence check --all + empty ledger + non-numeric
--max-age (now a usage error, was silent fail-open) covered; HIGH-tier
variants pinned; hook analytics respect GSTACK_HOME so tests stop writing the
operator's real skill-usage.jsonl.

Maintainability: dead exit ternary removed; flagValue deduped into
bin-context; sentinel defusal derived from the banner constants (no invisible
literals — \u escapes only); scratch-repo git fixture extracted to
test/helpers/scratch-repo.ts (one hermetic incantation, three consumers);
shared gstack_hook_log_fire in hook-extract.sh; the dashboard/land diff-scoped
row lists are aligned (codex-review) and drift-pinned.

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* fix: red-team review fixes (9 findings, 2 critical)

Red team reviewed what four specialists missed — cross-cutting and
self-contradiction class:

CRITICAL: the release-body banner tripwire failed OPEN on the exact leak it
guards (grep -c prints 0 AND exits 1 on no-match, so a fallback echo
double-emitted "0" twice and the -gt comparison fell into the clean branch) —
counts now default via parameter expansion, and a functional drift test
executes the rendered tripwire block against a 0->1 banner delta to prove the
ABORT branch fires. CRITICAL: evidence fingerprints were captured AFTER the
child exited, so a working-tree edit made DURING a long suite was certified as
tested content — wtree is now captured before spawn and re-checked after;
mid-run drift omits the fingerprint (grades STALE) with a warning.

Also: the review-grading rule dropped its dirty-gates (they nullified the
keystone dirty-record->commit->CURRENT property that evidence checks already
honor — wtree equality alone proves identical content); careful's HIGH
force-push tier falls back to probing origin/main|master when the origin/HEAD
symbolic ref is absent (Conductor worktrees — the tier was silently inert in
the primary deploy environment); quoted tokens (rm -rf "/", push "main") no
longer dodge the deny; freeze fails CLOSED when its own helper file is missing
(bash makes a missing source target fatal non-interactively, so an existence
pre-check guards it); spec dedupe distinguishes pipeline failure from zero
matches instead of silently skipping dedupe on gh/jq breakage; land 3.5b sets
the cross-session --expect-cmd mismatch expectation; hook analytics JSON
fields are encoder-built per this wave's own rule.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: re-pin codex/factory golden fixtures post-regeneration

The suite regenerates .agents/.factory in place mid-run; the prior pin
snapshotted them before the dashboard-rule regen landed.

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* chore: bump version and changelog (v1.66.1.0)

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* fix: adversarial review fixes (Claude pass, 14 findings, 1 verified-live critical)

The fresh-context adversarial pass caught a live bug in this branch's own
performance fix: gstack-wtree exported GIT_INDEX_FILE BEFORE resolving the
real index path, so `git rev-parse --git-path index` returned the temp index
itself, the stat-cache copy self-copied and failed, and every invocation fell
back to the full re-hash — the fast path was dead code (verified with bash -x).
Resolution now happens before the export; measured 0.08s per call on this repo.

Also fixed: careful fails to an ASK (not silence) when its own helper file is
missing (same partial-install state freeze already defends against); the
--source label is sanitized inside the envelope lib (newline-stripped,
sentinel-defused, length-capped — it sits in trusted framing); the HIGH rm
tokenizer skips redirections/backgrounding/`--` (rm -rf / 2>/dev/null now
denies) and knows ${HOME}; user pattern lines starting with a dash work
(grep --); greptile bodies carry per-comment id headers inside the envelope so
multi-comment PRs stay attributable (ids verified against raw metadata, never
trusted in-body); the release-body tripwire fails CLOSED when its input files
are missing (separate-shell $$ reality); land 3.5b gets the same allow-paths
as ship; the "either side dirty" fallback leftover is gone from both grading
surfaces; the evidence pump races drain against error (EPIPE consumers can't
hang the wrapper); an unset HOME skips bookkeeping instead of creating a
literal ~ dir inside the repo; a write-failure log ends with a visible marker;
freeze expands a literal leading ~ in the boundary; review-log documents its
log-time binding window.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: pin golden fixtures from --host all generation

`bun run gen:skill-docs` generates the claude host only; .agents/.factory
regenerate when the suite's --host codex/factory tests run in place. Fixture
pins must come from `gen-skill-docs --host all` output or they lag one
resolver edit behind and fail the next full-suite run.

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* test: assemble the fixture PAT by concatenation (no live-format literal)

The repo's own pre-push credential guard (correctly) blocked the push: the
redaction test's fabricated GitHub PAT was a live-format literal in the diff.
The token is now concatenated at runtime — the source carries nothing the
scanner can match, the engine still receives a live-format value.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: update project documentation for v1.66.1.0

CLAUDE.md: add gstack-wtree/gstack-evidence/gstack-issue-guard to the bin/
structure line and tracker-guard.ts to the lib/ line. README.md +
docs/skills.md: /careful descriptions no longer claim every warning is
overridable — the HIGH tier hard-denies root/home recursive deletes and
default-branch force-pushes; skills.md also documents the additive-only
careful-patterns.txt warn rules.

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* docs: doc-review fixes — new bins in README table, careful claims precise

README.md: add gstack-wtree, gstack-evidence, and gstack-issue-guard to the
Standalone binaries table (they shipped in v1.66.1.0 with no user-facing
reference outside CHANGELOG). docs/skills.md: the safety-skills intro said
"no configuration files" which the optional careful-patterns.txt now
contradicts, and the hard-deny description undersold the deny set (the hook
also denies /*, ~/, and $HOME/ forms, not just bare / and ~).

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* docs: guard reflects the hard-deny tier; changelog stats current

guard/SKILL.md claimed every destructive warning was overridable — the shared
careful hook now hard-denies the catastrophic shapes. CHANGELOG numbers
updated to the final measured state (0.09s fingerprint, 50 findings/6
critical across all review passes).

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test/review-log.test.ts

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { execSync, ExecSyncOptionsWithStringEncoding } from 'child_process';
 import * as fs from 'fs';
 import * as path from 'path';
 import * as os from 'os';
+import { gitIn } from './helpers/scratch-repo';
 
 const ROOT = path.resolve(import.meta.dir, '..');
 const BIN = path.join(ROOT, 'bin');
@@ -74,4 +75,138 @@ describe('gstack-review-log', () => {
       }
     }
   });
+
+  function readNewestRecord(): any {
+    const projectDirs = fs.readdirSync(slugDir);
+    const projectDir = path.join(slugDir, projectDirs[0]);
+    const jsonlFiles = fs.readdirSync(projectDir).filter((f) => f.endsWith('.jsonl'));
+    const content = fs.readFileSync(path.join(projectDir, jsonlFiles[0]), 'utf-8').trim();
+    const lines = content.split('\n');
+    return JSON.parse(lines[lines.length - 1]);
+  }
+
+  test('stamps authoritative binding fields (commit_full, tree, wtree, dirty) in a git repo', () => {
+    const result = run('{"skill":"review","status":"clean"}');
+    expect(result.exitCode).toBe(0);
+    const rec = readNewestRecord();
+    expect(rec.commit_full).toMatch(/^[0-9a-f]{40}$/);
+    expect(rec.tree).toMatch(/^[0-9a-f]{40}$/);
+    expect(rec.wtree).toMatch(/^[0-9a-f]{40}$/);
+    expect(typeof rec.dirty).toBe('boolean');
+    // Non-binding caller fields pass through untouched.
+    expect(rec.skill).toBe('review');
+    expect(rec.status).toBe('clean');
+  });
+
+  test('caller-supplied binding fields are IGNORED, never trusted', () => {
+    const forged = '{"skill":"review","status":"clean","wtree":"forged","tree":"forged","commit_full":"forged","dirty":"forged"}';
+    const result = run(forged);
+    expect(result.exitCode).toBe(0);
+    const rec = readNewestRecord();
+    expect(rec.wtree).not.toBe('forged');
+    expect(rec.tree).not.toBe('forged');
+    expect(rec.commit_full).not.toBe('forged');
+    expect(rec.dirty).not.toBe('forged');
+    expect(rec.wtree).toMatch(/^[0-9a-f]{40}$/);
+  });
+
+  test('append still succeeds outside a git repo (binding fields omitted)', () => {
+    const nonGit = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'gstack-nongit-'));
+    try {
+      const execOpts: ExecSyncOptionsWithStringEncoding = {
+        cwd: nonGit,
+        env: { ...process.env, GSTACK_HOME: tmpDir },
+        encoding: 'utf-8',
+        timeout: 10000,
+      };
+      execSync(`${BIN}/gstack-review-log '{"skill":"review","status":"clean"}'`, execOpts);
+      // A record landed somewhere under projects/ without a wtree stamp.
+      const found: string[] = [];
+      const walk = (d: string) => {
+        for (const e of fs.readdirSync(d, { withFileTypes: true })) {
+          const p = path.join(d, e.name);
+          if (e.isDirectory()) walk(p);
+          else if (e.name.endsWith('-reviews.jsonl')) found.push(p);
+        }
+      };
+      walk(slugDir);
+      expect(found.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+      const rec = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(found[0], 'utf-8').trim().split('\n').pop()!);
+      expect(rec.skill).toBe('review');
+      expect(rec.wtree).toBeUndefined();
+      expect(rec.commit_full).toBeUndefined();
+    } finally {
+      fs.rmSync(nonGit, { recursive: true, force: true });
+    }
+  });
+});
+
+describe('gstack-wtree', () => {
+  function withScratchRepo(fn: (repoDir: string, wtree: () => string) => void) {
+    const repoDir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'gstack-wtree-'));
+    try {
+      const git = (args: string) => gitIn(repoDir, args);
+      git('init -q -b main');
+      fs.writeFileSync(path.join(repoDir, 'a.txt'), 'hello\n');
+      fs.writeFileSync(path.join(repoDir, '.gitignore'), 'scratch.txt\n');
+      git('add a.txt .gitignore');
+      git('commit -q -m init');
+      const wtree = () => execSync(`${BIN}/gstack-wtree`, { cwd: repoDir, encoding: 'utf-8', timeout: 10000 }).trim();
+      fn(repoDir, wtree);
+    } finally {
+      fs.rmSync(repoDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+    }
+  }
+
+  test('an UNTRACKED source file changes the fingerprint; a gitignored file does not', () => {
+    withScratchRepo((repoDir, wtree) => {
+      const clean = wtree();
+      expect(clean).toMatch(/^[0-9a-f]{40}$/);
+
+      // Gitignored scratch: invisible to the fingerprint (Conductor scratch stays out).
+      fs.writeFileSync(path.join(repoDir, 'scratch.txt'), 'noise\n');
+      expect(wtree()).toBe(clean);
+
+      // Untracked NEW source file: visible (new files can never be invisible to freshness).
+      fs.writeFileSync(path.join(repoDir, 'new-source.ts'), 'export {}\n');
+      expect(wtree()).not.toBe(clean);
+    });
+  });
+
+  test('committing identical content does NOT change the fingerprint', () => {
+    withScratchRepo((repoDir, wtree) => {
+      fs.writeFileSync(path.join(repoDir, 'a.txt'), 'edited\n');
+      const dirtyFingerprint = wtree();
+      gitIn(repoDir, 'commit -q -am edit');
+      expect(wtree()).toBe(dirtyFingerprint);
+    });
+  });
+
+  test('exits non-zero outside a git repo', () => {
+    const nonGit = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'gstack-wtree-nongit-'));
+    try {
+      expect(() => execSync(`${BIN}/gstack-wtree`, { cwd: nonGit, timeout: 10000, stdio: 'pipe' })).toThrow();
+    } finally {
+      fs.rmSync(nonGit, { recursive: true, force: true });
+    }
+  });
+});
+
+describe('gstack-review-read', () => {
+  test('emits ---WTREE---, ---TREE--- and ---DIRTY--- sections', () => {
+    const out = execSync(`${BIN}/gstack-review-read`, {
+      cwd: ROOT,
+      env: { ...process.env, GSTACK_HOME: tmpDir },
+      encoding: 'utf-8',
+      timeout: 10000,
+    });
+    expect(out).toContain('---HEAD---');
+    expect(out).toContain('---WTREE---');
+    expect(out).toContain('---TREE---');
+    expect(out).toContain('---DIRTY---');
+    const wtreeLine = out.split('---WTREE---')[1].trim().split('\n')[0].trim();
+    expect(wtreeLine).toMatch(/^([0-9a-f]{40}|unknown)$/);
+    const dirtyLine = out.split('---DIRTY---')[1].trim().split('\n')[0].trim();
+    expect(['true', 'false']).toContain(dirtyLine);
+  });
 });