v1.66.0.0 feat: test/evals/CI speedup — 90s truthful free suite, diff-billed evals, required Linux lane (#2593)

* ci: bump CI image Bun 1.3.10 -> 1.3.13

Matches the local toolchain and brings native `bun test --shard=M/N` /
--parallel to CI (needed by the free-test lane and shard runner work).

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

* ci: stop version bumps rebuilding the eval Docker image (cache key trio)

Three coupled fixes, atomic because any subset is worse than none:

1. Image tag keys on hashFiles(Dockerfile.ci, bun.lock) — package.json is
   out: its version field changed on 60/60 recent commits, forcing a ~2min
   image rebuild per PR for a dependency set only bun.lock determines.
2. ci-image.yml now pushes that same content-hash tag (previously only
   :latest/:sha, so the weekly prebuild never warmed the tag the eval
   matrix actually looks up) and both eval workflows get registry layer
   cache (cache-to export gated to same-repo runs; fork tokens cannot
   write GHCR).
3. Dockerfile bakes /opt/node_modules_cache/.bun.lock and the runtime
   Restore-deps guard diffs bun.lock instead of package.json — otherwise
   every version-only bump made all 14 matrix jobs fall back to a live
   bun install, which is slower than today's behavior.

Worst-case failure mode is self-healing: a missing tag or cache falls
back to exactly the previous rebuild-and-install path.

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* ci: stop double-running lint + skill-docs on every PR commit

Both fired on unrestricted push AND pull_request, so each PR push ran
them twice (12 duplicate (headSha, workflow) pairs in the last 200 runs).
push is now main-only; pull_request covers PR branches.

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* ci: run actionlint from the prebuilt image (16s -> ~2s)

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

* ci: right-size five single-core jobs to ubicloud-standard-2

actionlint, skill-docs, version-gate, pr-title-sync, and the evals report
job never exceed one core; standard-8 was ~4x the cost for zero wall-clock.
build-image and the eval matrix keep standard-8.

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* ci: fix workflow_dispatch concurrency collisions (head_ref || run_id)

head_ref is empty on workflow_dispatch, so every manual dispatch of these
four workflows shared one empty-suffix group and cancelled each other.

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* ci(windows): cache bun installs; run the curated suite, not a hand list

- actions/cache on ~/.bun/install/cache keyed on bun.lock (install was
  35-45s of both 55-64s jobs, all network) and Bun pinned to 1.3.13 to
  match the other lanes.
- windows-free-tests now runs `bun run test:windows` (the runner's
  --windows-only curation) instead of a hand-listed 13-file subset that
  had drifted from the registry it sampled. POSIX-bound tests get
  excluded in ONE place (the curation patterns), not two.

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* evals: retry 1, not 2, on every paid path

Measured on the llm-judge shard: --retry 2 amplified 25 tests into 46
executions (+84%), with retried runs at 138s vs a 10-12s baseline (429
backoff), and a permanently-failing test paying 3x. One retry still
absorbs one-off flakes; chronic flakes become visible fix-work instead
of silent wall-clock.

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

* evals: split skill-e2e-review into three per-file CI shards

Bun runs describe blocks as concurrency barriers, so the e2e-review CI
job executed its tests serially: 741s of an 860s PR critical path for
tests whose slowest member is 224s. The per-file matrix is the repo's
parallelism unit, so the split moves:

- Retro E2E + retro-base-branch  -> test/skill-e2e-retro.test.ts
- review/ship base-branch + Review Dashboard Via Attribution
                                  -> test/skill-e2e-review-attribution.test.ts
- sql-injection / enum-completeness / design-lite stay in
  test/skill-e2e-review.test.ts

One 741s job becomes three ~180-250s jobs. Locally the worst paid shard
drops from 1705s (94.7% of the 1800s kill) to under 700s. Test names,
bodies, suite strings, and eval-store collectors are unchanged, so
baselines carry over. Matrix rows added to both eval workflows
(attribution is gate-only, so no periodic row); the report job's
hardcoded runner count is gone (drift-proof).

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* test: gate security-bench on SECURITY_BENCH=1, not model-cache existence

The existsSync gate ran ~12s of ONNX inference (plus a HuggingFace
dataset fetch) on every free-suite run on any dev box that had ever
warmed the classifier, while CI (no cache) silently skipped it. Now
explicit opt-in: SECURITY_BENCH=1 bun test browse/test/security-bench.test.ts.

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* test: watchdog E2E in 1.5s instead of 22.7s (tunable poll interval)

server.ts gains BROWSE_WATCHDOG_INTERVAL_MS (floor 50ms, default 15s
unchanged). The #994 stay-alive test runs a 250ms tick and waits for the
stay-alive log line instead of blind-sleeping 2s + 20s past the
production interval.

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* test: dedupe coverage gates; route both walks through skill-census

skill-coverage-floor duplicated two matrix assertions (registry
completeness, gate-tier floor) with a DIFFERENT hand-rolled directory
walk — matrix's skipped nothing, floor's skipped node_modules/docs/test.
Two 'same' gates disagreeing on the census is the bug class
test/helpers/skill-census.ts was written to kill. Registry assertions
now live in matrix only (with floor's better error message), both files
walk via skillCensus().authoredSkills, and floor keeps the per-skill
structural checks it owns.

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* evals: EVALS_JOBS for shard processes; explicit within-shard concurrency

EVALS_CONCURRENCY was overloaded: the legacy bun-test path used it as
--max-concurrency (default 15) while the sharded runner read it as the
process count — exporting the legacy value gave 15 concurrent Bun
processes each spawning claude (the 429 storm). Now: EVALS_JOBS = shard
processes (default 4); EVALS_CONCURRENCY = bun --max-concurrency inside
a shard (default 4, explicit in shard args — omitting it made
within-shard parallelism silently differ from the legacy path). Stale
49/59 header math replaced with the live-count rule.

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* evals: enforce detach-timeout floor from the live shard census

New free tripwire: eval:bg:gate / eval:bg:periodic --timeout must cover
ceil(shards/jobs) x shard-timeout x 1.05, recomputed from the actual paid
test census every run. Hand-derived numbers go stale every time a paid
file lands — the review split just proved it: periodic's 28800s dropped
BELOW its new 32130s worst case (raised to 32400s here). An undersized
watchdog kills healthy runs and the tail reports never-started.

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

* evals: preflight ping once in the sharded parent, not per shard

The Anthropic fail-fast ping ran at module load in every paid test file
importing e2e-helpers — ~30 paid claude -p calls (30s timeout each) per
full sharded run for one bit of information. The parent now pings once
before spawning shards and sets EVALS_PREFLIGHT_OK=1; the module-load
path honors the flag. Extracted to test/helpers/anthropic-preflight.ts
(injectable spawn seam) with regression pins in both directions: the
flag must skip, its absence must ping exactly once, dead API must throw.

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* evals: split touchfiles into pure data + selection logic + facade

touchfiles.ts listed ITSELF in GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES, so adding one test's
dep entry forced the full ~$38 / 30-45min suite — measured on 21.9% of
recent commits (42/192). The self-reference existed because data and
logic shared a file: any edit COULD be a selection-logic change.

Now: touchfiles-data.ts (the four maps, literals only, zero imports —
the future map-diff target), test-selection.ts (matchGlob/detectBase
Branch/getChangedFiles/selectTests), and touchfiles.ts as a re-export
facade so all ~12 import sites are untouched. GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES drops
the self-ref, adds test-selection.ts (logic stays maximally
conservative), and TEMPORARILY adds touchfiles-data.ts until the
map-diff change lands. New free test pins the literal-only property
(comment-aware state-machine scan with a self-test) and facade export
parity (===), so neither can silently rot.

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* test: free runner — strict output, parallel execution, stable shard indices

Three coupled changes to scripts/test-free-shards.ts:

1. STRICT OUTPUT: runFreeShard streams through the paid runner's
   BunTestOutputClassifier — exit 0 without bun's 'Ran N tests across M
   files' summary, with (fail) lines, or with a wrong file count is a
   FAILURE (anti-truncation backstop at the runner layer), plus an
   external wall-clock timeout that SIGKILLs the process group
   (timed-out distinct from failed; exit 124 vs 1). Also fixes a latent
   shard-bleed: file selectors now use exactTestFileSelectors (relative
   paths were substring filters that matched sibling roots).

2. PARALLEL: full-suite mode is one 'bun test --parallel' invocation
   (Bun 1.3.13). Measured semantics recorded in the header: per-file
   worker isolation, standard summary, and mid-suite process.exit
   surfaces as a crashed-worker FAIL with exit 1 — strictly safer than
   serial, where the same exit truncates silently. No static weight
   lists; --shards M --shard i keeps deterministic hash partitioning for
   CI matrices (native --shard rejected: round-robin renumbers when
   files land). Spawned shards get throwaway GSTACK_HOME/TMPDIR so
   parallel shards can't contend on real state. Per-shard epilogue
   prints files/seconds/status every run.

3. Stable indices: assignFilesToShards no longer drops empty shards, so
   a shard's index depends only on the file hash and requested count —
   an empty CI matrix slot is a fast no-op success, not a renumbering.

package.json 'test' now delegates to the runner (TEST_ROOTS becomes the
single source of truth for roots; slop:diff tail preserved; the runner
inherits the 30s per-test timeout the old glob passed inline).

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

* ci: Linux free-test lane — ~400 files get CI coverage for the first time

New required, secretless free-tests job: the canonical runner's single
'bun test --parallel' invocation with strict-output classification on
ubicloud-standard-8. The free suite previously ran on NO Linux CI — only
a curated Windows subset ran anywhere — so every 'tests pass' claim
about main rested on contributors running them locally.

Secretless by design (no API keys; fork PRs finally get real test
signal) and pinned by test/free-tests-workflow-wiring.test.ts: canonical
runner invoked, zero secrets.* references, pull_request never
pull_request_target, and matrix-count/--shards agreement if anyone
switches to the sharded fallback.

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* evals: map-diff selection — a touchfiles-data edit runs only what changed

Editing the eval dep-list data no longer forces the full ~$38 /
30-45min suite (measured on 21.9% of recent commits). When
touchfiles-data.ts is in the diff, selection now evaluates the BASE
version (git show -> mkdtemp -> spawnSync bun child printing the four
maps as JSON — sync because e2e-helpers selects at module scope) and
JSON-diffs per key: added entries, edited dep lists, and tier flips are
selected; keys removed from all maps are reported, never silently
dropped; a GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES edit still runs everything.

FAIL-CLOSED with named causes: missing-base-ref, git-show-failed,
import-failed, shape-mismatch each degrade to run-all and print
'selection: global — touchfiles-data changed (<cause>)' (D9 — silently
expensive beats silently wrong, but never silently). eval:select prints
'selected N of M, reason: ...' + removed tests; --base scopes the
map-diff too.

The temporary conservative GLOBAL entry for touchfiles-data.ts is gone —
its changes route through the map-diff. 23 new free tests: pure-core
fixtures, selectTests wiring incl. a poison-injection guard, and a temp
git repo exercising every fail-closed cause end-to-end.

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* evals: selection sees uncommitted work; git errors fail closed

getChangedFiles is now the deduped union of committed (base...HEAD),
staged+unstaged (git diff HEAD), and untracked (git status --porcelain
--untracked-files=all) — an agent that edits files and runs evals
BEFORE committing no longer gets the full $38 suite every time because
the committed diff looked empty. Clean tree still returns [] (run-all
by design for main-branch/periodic runs).

Git failures now THROW with the failing command, stderr, and 'set
EVALS_ALL=1 to deliberately run the full suite' — the old return []
silently became run-all, which is silently expensive. 11 new free tests
cover every source, dedupe, quoted paths, and both failure shapes via
an injectable spawn seam.

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

* test: revert GSTACK_HOME injection in the free runner — shared mutable state

The first full run under the strict runner surfaced 12 failures with one
root cause: injecting a single throwaway GSTACK_HOME per invocation made
6,900 tests share a MUTABLE scratch home. gstack-config tests wrote keys
into it; relink and update-check tests then read them (e.g. relink saw
skill_prefix left behind by a config test and produced prefixed names).
All 12 pass when run directly.

TMPDIR isolation stays (mkdtemp inside it is still per-call unique).
Tests needing GSTACK_HOME isolation mkdtemp their own per test — the
repo convention — and hermetic-env covers E2E children. The env-dump pin
now asserts GSTACK_HOME passes through UNTOUCHED so the injection can't
come back.

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

* test: rebase parity baseline to v1.64.0.0; fix capture-vs-check drift

The parity ratchet had quietly failed for 7 skills — v1.58-v1.64 growth
landed past the v1.57.7.0 anchors and nothing caught it because this
test had no CI lane (verified pre-existing: SKILL.md content is
byte-identical to origin/main). Same rebase protocol as
v1.53->v1.57.7.0; old baseline retained for the audit trail.

Root-caused a second latent bug while rebasing: captureBaseline recorded
SKELETON-ONLY bytes while the checker compares UNION bytes (skeleton +
carved sections/*.md), so a fresh capture read carved skills at ~2x
ratio (ship: 82KB captured vs 183KB checked). captureBaseline now takes
sectionedSkills and records unions for carved skills — capture and check
measure the same thing, so the NEXT rebase can't hit this. Four
CARVE_GUARDS skeleton caps re-ratcheted to current +headroom
(plan-ceo 92K, plan-eng 70K, office-hours 100K, design-consultation
70K), annotated inline.

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* fix: package.json version matches VERSION (1.64.0.0)

v1.64.0.0 shipped with VERSION bumped but package.json left at 1.63.0.0
— the 'package.json version matches VERSION file' test fails on
origin/main today. Nothing caught it because that test had no CI lane
until this branch's free-tests job.

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* test: fix variants-retry-after HTTP-date flake (TODOS P2)

toUTCString() truncates to whole seconds, so a +3000ms Retry-After date
could mean an effective wait of ~2001ms — flaking against the 2500ms
assertion floor ~1-2 in 9 runs under suite load. +4000ms puts the
truncation floor at 3001ms with the assertion floor safely below it.
Pulled forward from U4 because the free-tests lane is now a required
check and this flake would randomly block PRs.

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* test: skill-fixture helper — extract SKILL.md sections, don't copy files

extractSkillSections (fence-aware H2 scanner, loud-throw on missing
sections with available-heading list), extractSkillBody (drops the
shared generated preamble), extractSkillHead (frontmatter + first 30
lines, for routing fixtures). Pinned section lists per consumer, and
free-tier real-skill pins so a gen-skill-docs heading rename fails the
FREE suite instead of a paid run. skill-fixture.ts joins
GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES (fail-safe polarity: over-select).

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* test(evals): review E2E fixtures extract sections — 1871 -> 207 lines

CLAUDE.md's extract-don't-copy rule, applied: the three review fixtures
carry only the sections the sql-injection/enum/design-lite prompts and
judges exercise (89% cut). Full-file copies made claude -p read 1871
lines per test — the direct cause of the 1705s worst shard (94.7% of
the 1800s kill).

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* test(evals): retro E2E fixtures extract sections — 1821 -> 757 lines

Keeps every section the retro flow exercises incl. base-branch detect;
drops preamble, Global Retrospective Mode, Compare Mode (58% cut).
retro-base-branch was the single slowest CI test at 224s.

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* test(evals): review-army fixture extracts sections — 1871 -> 650 lines

CS1's set plus Step 1.5 (PLAN COMPLETION AUDIT machinery) and Step 4.5
(army dispatch, quality_score, findings schema) that the 7 army tests
assert on. Pin test guards the three load-bearing strings.

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* test(evals): skillify fixtures via extractSkillBody — 63-83% smaller

Tests follow all 11 skillify steps, so the whole body stays; only the
shared generated preamble drops (skillify 1239->453, scrape 958->167).

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* test(evals): context-skills fixtures via extractSkillBody — 74-82% smaller

context-save 1037->267 lines, context-restore 952->168; the 8 tests
exercise full save/restore/list flows so the body stays, preamble drops.

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* test(evals): opus-47 discovery fixtures via extractSkillHead — ~95% smaller

Routing/fanout tests only read frontmatter + opening lines of the 14
installed skills (review 1871->54, office-hours 1706->80).

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* test(evals): codex runner gains sections option — review variant 88% smaller

runCodexSkill/installSkillToTempHome accept sections?: string[] routed
through extractSkillSections; codex-review-findings wired (1465->181
lines). codex-discover-skill deliberately keeps the FULL copy — its
stderr assertions validate that the real generated artifact loads.

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* test(evals): routing fixture installs skill HEADS, not ~18 full SKILL.md

Routing reads frontmatter only; extractSkillHead per skill (root
611->48, ship 1435->54 lines). This was the single worst fixture bloat
site: one fixture dir holding ~18 full skills.

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* evals: parent-side shard skipping — a one-test diff runs 3 of 44 shards

The sharded runner spawned every shard regardless of diff; only the
child self-skipped, so a typical single-skill change still paid 44 Bun
boots + container-equivalent setup for shards with zero selected tests.
The parent now computes selection once (mirroring e2e-helpers exactly:
EVALS_ALL -> run-all, empty union -> run-all, git errors propagate the
fail-closed throw) and drops shards where no selected test name maps in.

Mapping = quoted E2E map keys in the file's source UNION keys whose dep
list registers the file (constructed-name families need the second
direction). FAIL-OPEN everywhere it matters: run-all, non-skill-e2e
files, unreadable source, zero mapped names all keep the shard — the
child filter stays authoritative, so a parent bug can only run extra.

New taxonomy status skipped-by-diff (never conflated with
never-started); selection banner prints once; --list is selection-aware.
C6 lands in the same commit: a HARD tier-alignment test — every paid
skill-e2e file must be parent-mappable or provably fail-open-safe.
Note: this change-set's 14 dep-list registrations in touchfiles-data.ts
rode along in f945c841 (concurrent-agent staging); they belong to this
change logically.

Demo: selection of one test -> 'running 3 of 44 shards, 41
skipped-by-diff'. 13 new $0 tests via injected seams.

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* evals: fix context-save-list test that was 0-for-26 ($5.28, zero passes)

Disposition for the eval store's only permanently-red test. Root cause:
the hide-other-branches assertions scanned the FULL output surface
(incl. bash tool_results), so any agent that ran ls on the checkpoints
dir — the natural first step of a list flow — surfaced all three seeded
filenames and failed, even when its user-facing listing filtered
correctly. The test punished the agent for looking at the directory.

The hide-assertions now scan the agent's FINAL TEXT (the listing the
user sees); showsMain keeps the broad surface for its documented reason.
Validated live in the final gate run rather than quarantined: the test
guards real behavior (branch filtering) and the assertion was the bug.

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* test: wire 12 orphaned test files into the free suite (D3a)

ios-qa/daemon/test (10 files), ios-qa/scripts/gen-accessors.test.ts, and
browser-skills/hackernews-frontpage/script.test.ts ran under NO script
or CI — written coverage catching nothing. All 174 tests green on
arrival (4.6s), zero quarantines needed. TODOS P2 closed: main wired
design/test in v1.64, the variants-retry-after flake it named is fixed
on this branch, and this commit lands the remaining orphans.

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* test: supabase-provision runs in-process — 16.5s -> 0.45s

bin/gstack-gbrain-supabase-provision (482-line bash) becomes a 26-line
bun-shebang entry over a new importable lib/gbrain-supabase-provision.ts
with an injected-deps seam (fetch/env/stdout/sleep — D7: args, never
env-mutation-before-import). The 33 spawn-per-test cases run in-process
against the same Bun.serve mocks; exactly one spawn smoke keeps the
shebang/CLI/receipt contract covered.

Byte-compat proven by a 25-case differential harness (old bash bin from
git vs new, same mock): stdout, stderr, exit codes identical across all
subcommands, JSON/plain modes, and error paths. Egress receipts stay
per-attempt, receipt-before-send, fail-closed (scanner updated:
SHELL_SINKS -> MODULE_SINKS). No-op sleep injection makes retry/backoff
paths instant.

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* evals: kill the 3,372-line zombie monolith; revive 4 never-run tests

test/skill-e2e.test.ts survived the v1.56 split as a zombie: the paid
glob needs the skill-e2e-* hyphen, so with EVALS=1 NOTHING has executed
it for ~8 releases — and it held the ONLY implementations of four
map-registered tests: review-coverage-audit (gate), plan-eng-coverage-
audit (gate), ship-triage (gate), ship-idempotency (periodic). Three
gate tests silently never ran — the exact 0%-execution class this
branch exists to kill.

Rehomed into test/skill-e2e-coverage-audit.test.ts, -triage.test.ts, and
-ship-idempotency-sdk.test.ts with bodies byte-identical modulo collector
wiring and fixture extraction (drift observed in the skills since v1.56
is DOCUMENTED in each header, not fixed — their first paid run in 8
releases must attribute failures to drift, not to this move). All 24
other monolith names were true duplicates of the split files — dropped
with the monolith. Matrix rows added to both eval workflows; the paid
glob's zombie-exclusion is now a commented regression pin.

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* test: fix two parallelism-exposed flakes (probe re-run, live-tree census)

Both pass solo and on main but flaked under the parallel runner:

1. gstack-brain-context-load probed 'gbrain --version' PER QUERY with a
   500ms budget — a cold probe on a saturated box timed out (observed
   505ms), branding gbrain 'missing' for one query while siblings
   passed. The probe is now memoized (availability can't change
   mid-invocation) with a generous one-time 5s budget; query calls keep
   the tight timeout.

2. skill-size-budget's catalog estimate read the LIVE tree, so a
   concurrent worker's transient skill-shaped scratch dirs exactly
   doubled it (8356 vs 4177). The ratchet now counts git-TRACKED skills
   only — the catalog that ships, immune to sibling workers.

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* evals: demote 4 expensive posture tests to periodic (D2a)

design-consultation-research ($0.91/304s) and -preview ($0.89/481s) —
the two most expensive gate tests — plus office-hours-forcing-energy
(LLM-judge posture score; its sibling was already demoted) and
cso-full-audit (250s/$0.57; the targeted cso tests stay gate). Saves
~$8-12 and 10-15 min per gate run. The plan-*-finding-floor tests stay
gate deliberately: cheap insurance on the most-edited skill surface.
Housing files have no whole-file self-gates, so the runtime E2E_TIERS
filter handles both tiers; tier-alignment tripwire green.

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* evals: judge default Sonnet -> Haiku 4.5 (D1a)

The 25 doc-quality judges are rubric-scoring calls — a duty Haiku is
already proven at in this repo (pty hung/working classifier,
first-task-scaffold, hermetic-canary). Tests needing a stronger judge
pass a model explicitly. Note: eval-store judge costs were hardcoded
synthetic (0.02), so no baseline distortion. Re-baselined by the
periodic run in this branch's final verification.

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* evals: SDK runner default Opus -> Sonnet (D1a)

agent-sdk-runner defaulted to Opus 4.7 while session-runner (the claude
-p path) defaulted to Sonnet — an inconsistency between the two runners,
not a decision anyone made. Unpinned tests were implicitly asserting the
expensive model. The 30+ tests that genuinely need Opus already pin it
via opts.model. Re-baselined by the periodic run in this branch's final
verification; regressors get explicit Opus pins.

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

* docs: CLAUDE.md tells the truth about the free suite; make-pdf gate is macOS-only

The '<2s' claim was off by two orders of magnitude (measured 454s serial
at v1.63; ~90-100s now under the parallel runner), and the bare
'bun test' guidance walked the whole repo, loading paid eval files and
missing the strict classifier. Commands now say 'bun run test' with real
numbers, document the strict-output invariant, the EVALS_JOBS /
EVALS_CONCURRENCY split, the computed detach-timeout floor, and the
required free-tests lane. make-pdf-gate drops its Linux leg (redundant
with the free lane running make-pdf tests on every PR); macOS rendering
coverage stays.

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

* test: catalog ratchet reads committed content; SDK unit pins follow D1a default

Two follow-ups from the verification runs:

1. skill-size-budget's catalog estimate still flaked under --parallel
   (8356, then 8041, vs 4177 solo) even after filtering to tracked
   skills: sibling workers REGENERATE real SKILL.md files mid-run, so
   any live-tree read is a moving target. The ratchet now reads each
   tracked skill's frontmatter from git show HEAD: — the catalog that
   ships — which no concurrent worker can perturb.

2. agent-sdk-runner unit pins asserted the old Opus default through the
   default-flow fixtures; flipped to the Sonnet default (the explicit-
   override pass-through pins keep Opus — that path is unchanged).

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

* fix(browse): SIGKILL abandoned Chromium on close-race timeout (suite wedge)

close()'s launched-mode path raced browser.close() against 5s and on
timeout ABANDONED the child: this.browser nulled, process handle lost,
Chromium alive holding keep-alive connections into test servers whose
stop() then waits forever. Reproduced twice as an intermittent (~50%)
whole-suite wedge — a 44min 0.1%-CPU hang pinned by a leaked LISTEN
socket, and a 400s hang with commands.test.ts teardown in flight.

The child handle is now captured BEFORE the race and SIGKILLed on
race-timeout (launched mode only; headed keeps context.close). Race
timers are unref'd so a successful close stops pinning the caller's
event loop for the window. The four browse test servers force-close
keep-alives (stop(true)) as belt-and-braces.

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

* test: delete two dead-architecture security contract tests

browse/test/security-source-contracts.test.ts and sidebar-security.test.ts
read browse/src/sidebar-agent.ts at module scope — a file deleted (on main
too) when the sidebar chat-queue path was ripped in favor of the terminal
PTY. Both files have errored on load ever since: the old truncating suite
never surfaced it, and no CI lane ran them. Their subjects (queue-spawn
canary injection, preSpawnSecurityCheck, queued args, chat system prompt)
no longer exist; server.ts retains processAgentEvent only in a comment.

Live security coverage continues in security.test.ts (canary/verdict),
content-security.test.ts (L1-L3), server-sanitize-surrogates.test.ts,
and the security-bench suite. If the terminal-agent path should inherit
any of the deleted contracts, that is a separately scoped piece of work
against the component that actually exists.

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

* fix(redact): calibrate placeholder recognition for code and doc shapes

Three pushed-secret false positives blocked this branch's push; each is
now recognized as a placeholder in the url_with_password/basic_auth_url
validators, with real passwords still blocking (all pinned):

- ${camelCase} JS template interpolations (the old check only skipped
  uppercase env-style ${DB_PASS}, so the supabase-provision bash->TS
  port's `postgresql://${dbUser}:${dbPass}@...` flagged as two
  pushed secrets).
- The literal PASSWORD/pass placeholder in URL-format doc comments.
- The provision lib's doc comments now use <PASSWORD>/PASSWORD forms.

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

* test: opt-in gate for live-playwright ML tests; ios-qa build hygiene

security-live-playwright's L4 tests dlopen onnxruntime inside a bun
--parallel worker whenever the dev box has a warm model cache — the
source of the intermittent 'panic: Segmentation fault' + crashed-worker
retries (and likely the residual run wedges). Same SECURITY_BENCH=1
opt-in as security-bench.test.ts; the L1-L3 tests in the file still run
everywhere.

Also: gitignore the ios-qa gen-accessors-tool Swift .build/ output (a
side-effect of running its tests that kept polluting git status) and
commit its Package.resolved so tool builds resolve reproducibly.

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

* test: free runner output contract — name the failure, quiet the noise

Diagnosing a red run used to mean re-running with output captured to a
file and grepping past ~1000 lines of tab-close spam and ASCII art —
several runs today ended with no way to even NAME the failing test, and
a wall-timeout kill said nothing about which file wedged.

New contract: the full child stream ALWAYS lands in a per-run log file
(path printed up front); the console shows only runner lines, (fail)
results, crash markers, and the terminal summary (--verbose restores
the firehose; the strict classifier consumes the full stream in every
mode). After every run a stable epilogue names the outcome:

  [test:free] FAIL — k failing test(s) in j file(s), c crashed
  worker(s). Full log: <path>
    ✗ <file> — <test name>
    ⚠ crashed+retried: <file>
    ⏱ in flight at kill: <files>      (timeout only — the wedge suspects)

Attribution rides bun --parallel's per-file output grouping
(ANSI-stripped — color codes defeated a plain grep today). 12 new pins:
epilogue formats, crash surfacing, quiet/verbose console policy, log
completeness, in-flight-at-kill on a real hang.

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

* test: quarantine 5 pre-existing env failures individually (receipts in-file)

Three snapshot tests (stale-ref error, snapshot -D diff, annotation
cleanup) and two extension-sender-auth behavioral tests fail identically
on origin/main v1.64.1.0, solo, on dev machines — verified per the blame
protocol. Main's CI lane skip-lists both FILES wholesale; quarantining
only the five failing tests keeps the other 60 guarding. Each carries
the un-skip condition.

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

* test: stealth-webdriver launch gets parallel-load headroom (120s)

Playwright's default 30s launch timeout dies under the full-suite
--parallel run when ~400 workers contend for Chromium launches — bun
reports the hook death as an '(unnamed)' 30006ms failure (named on
sight by the new runner epilogue). Both launch sites get explicit 120s
timeouts; the runner's external wall-clock still bounds the ceiling.

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

* test: free-runner wall timeout 15min -> 6min (faster wedge diagnosis)

The suite completes in ~100-160s; a wedge used to mean 15 minutes of
silence before the kill-and-name epilogue fired. 6min keeps ~3.5x
headroom over the slowest observed clean run while naming wedge
suspects in minutes. --wall-timeout <secs> overrides per run.

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

* test: run worker-hostile files in a serial child (first entry: security-live-playwright)

The residual full-suite wedge, named by the new epilogue: Bun 1.3.13
segfaults running browse/test/security-live-playwright.test.ts in a
--parallel worker ('panic: Segmentation fault ... a bug in Bun'), and
the crashed-worker retry then wedges the whole invocation past the wall
clock. The file passes serially.

New WORKER_HOSTILE placement list: full-suite mode excludes listed files
from the parallel invocation and runs them in their own strict-classified
serial child afterward — execution placement, not a skip; each entry
carries its reason and removal condition.

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

* test: gate compare-board's file-level hooks too — the intermittent staller

Skipped describes do NOT skip file-level hooks: the quarantined
compare-board file still ran its top-level beforeAll (PNG fixtures +
Bun.serve + a BrowserManager launch — exactly the 'needs a
display-shaped env' code) on every run, and under parallel load that
setup wedges. Caught red-handed by the runner's in-flight-at-kill
epilogue: '⏱ in flight at kill: browse/test/compare-board.test.ts'.
This was the suite's intermittent staller. Hooks now honor the same
GSTACK_COMPARE_BOARD_TESTS gate; the gated file drops from 3.7s of live
setup to 0.4s of pure skips.

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

* test: full suite runs as N shard processes; scrub spec-sync child env

Two fixes from the wedge-hunt endgame:

1. Full-suite mode switches from one 'bun test --parallel' invocation to
   N concurrent shard PROCESSES, serial within each (the paid runner's
   proven model; N = min(6, cpus-2)). The single-invocation strategy hit
   three distinct Bun 1.3.13 worker pathologies in one day — a segfault
   whose crashed-worker retry wedged the run, a quarantined file's
   still-running file-level hooks stalling a worker, and spawn-heavy
   files hanging under load — and each one stalled the WHOLE invocation.
   Process shards isolate any wedge to its own shard. First full run
   under this model: no wedge, six epilogues, one real failure named.
   WORKER_HOSTILE stays as the paper trail; --parallel remains available
   per-shard for a future Bun.

2. That one real failure: spec-template-sync regenerates SKILL.md via a
   child that inherited the shard process's env — an earlier test's
   GSTACK_*/GBRAIN_* mutations changed generator output (failed in-suite,
   passed solo on an identical tree). The child now gets a scrubbed env:
   generator output must be a function of the templates, not of whichever
   test ran before.

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

* test: tree-mutating tests run after the parallel shards; scrub relink env

The flake family's root cause, finally: five test files REGENERATE
shared repo artifacts in place (catalog-mode-full rewrites every
SKILL.md in full-catalog mode; spec-sync and idempotency regenerate all
skills; gen-skill-docs and skill-validation rewrite .agents/). Any
concurrent shard reading those files sees a moving target — this one
family produced the exactly-doubled catalog estimate, the golden-file
drift, and the spec-sync mismatch chased earlier today. Full-suite mode
now runs TREE_MUTATING files in one serial shard AFTER the parallel
shards complete; CI's matrix is unaffected (per-runner checkouts).

Also: relink's run() helper spread process.env into its children, so a
sibling file's leaked GSTACK_HOME made the 'fresh install' test see a
neighbor's skill_prefix. GSTACK_HOME is now dropped unless the test
passes it explicitly.

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

* test: gbrain-detection-override joins TREE_MUTATING (mutator #6)

It regenerates SKILL.md in place with --respect-detection (the gbrain
variant adds ~1-3KB per carved skeleton) and git-restores afterward —
its own header documents the approach. During that window the parity
suite in a concurrent shard read inflated skeletons and failed 4 caps.

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

* test: tree-ratchet readers join the serial phase (quiet tree by construction)

Two consecutive runs failed the parity caps with byte-identical inflated
skeletons (+~2KB gbrain-variant blocks) while the tree was clean before
and after — some concurrent regen window keeps escaping the mutator
census. Rather than hunt every present and future mutator, the tests
that MEASURE the shared tree (parity caps, size budgets, carve guards)
now run in the serial phase after the parallel shards: a quiet tree by
construction, immune to any regen we haven't found.

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

* evals: judge default back to Sonnet — Haiku regressed the rubric family (A/B receipts)

The partial-diff rehearsal was the Haiku judge default's first live run
and it failed all three selected doc-rubric judges. Controlled A/B on
the identical health-rubric prompt: Haiku 2/2/2 vs Sonnet 4/3/4, both
with coherent reasoning — Haiku is simply a harsher grader on
long-document rubrics, and every >=4 threshold in skill-llm-eval was
calibrated against months of Sonnet baselines. Per D1a's
pin-on-regressors protocol the default reverts; a new
GSTACK_EVAL_MODEL_JUDGE override makes future recalibration a one-var
experiment. Haiku keeps the classifier-grade duties (pty hung/working,
warmup, distill via lib/eval-model.ts) and D1a's capture->Sonnet stands.

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

* fix(test-runner): per-origin classifier buffers — interleaved pipes can't shear lines

stdout and stderr are independent pipes; a chunk from one can arrive
between two halves of a line from the other. The single shared
pending-buffer glued those fragments into garbled lines: a sheared
(fail) line went uncounted (defeating the exit-0-with-failures
backstop) and a sheared terminal summary read as truncation.
Counters stay shared; line assembly is now per-stream, and both
runners tag the stream origin. Also drops the dead ChildProcess
type import left by the killProcessGroup move.

* fix(test-runner): real carve-guard keys in TREE_MUTATING; census pins; size-scaled wall deadlines

TREE_MUTATING listed 'test/carve-guard-checks.test.ts' — a file that
has never existed (the real ratchet readers are
carve-guard-completeness and carve-section-ordering), so the intended
serialization was silently absent. New census pin tests fail on any
key that doesn't name a real free test file, and on a TEST_ROOTS
entry that stops contributing files. Full-suite wall deadlines now
scale with shard size (max(6min, files x 5s)) so a jobs=1 machine or
the ~130-file Windows shards can't false-timeout a healthy run;
explicit --wall-timeout disables scaling. Stale --parallel wording in
the dry-run message, jsdoc, and the TREE_MUTATING ordering comment
corrected to the shipped process-shard model.

* fix(evals): selection under-selection fixes — duplicate keys, self-paths, quotePath

Three under-selection holes: (1) duplicate E2E_TOUCHFILES keys
(ship-plan-completion/-verification) — JS keeps the LAST duplicate, so
the earlier dep lists were dead; pair deleted and a duplicate-key scan
added to the literal-only tripwire. (2) The five rehomed e2e files
didn't list themselves in their own dep lists, so editing the test
never selected it. (3) git C-escapes non-ASCII paths without
core.quotePath=false, so an accented filename matched no glob and
deselected its tests. Also updates the stale --retry cost comment.

* fix(evals): destructive-actions guard actually inspects Bash commands

The rehomed guard filtered on typeof input === 'string', but
session-runner records tool inputs as objects ({command} for Bash) —
the filter matched nothing and the assertion could never fail, even
against a real 'git push'. Now extracts the command from the object
shape, same as the usedGitDiff check above it.

* fix(redact): interpolation allowance can't swallow a real $word password

The placeholder calibration used optional braces on both sides, which
also suppressed bare $lowercase — a real password starting with '$'
would have passed the HIGH gate. Interpolation now means ${identifier}
(braced, any case) or bare $UPPER_SNAKE only; both connection-string
patterns share one validator so they can't drift. Pins added for the
bare-$word block, $UPPER allowance, and mismatched-brace block.

* fix(gbrain): wait --timeout validates up front instead of polling forever on NaN

Number('abc') is NaN, NaN comparisons are always false, and the
poll loop never hit its deadline — an infinite 5s loop where the bash
predecessor errored immediately. die(2) at parse time, with a test.

* ci: least-privilege tokens on the two lanes that execute PR-controlled code

free-tests runs PR code (install lifecycle scripts + the suite) with
whatever the repo-default GITHUB_TOKEN grant is, persisted into
.git/config by checkout. Now: permissions contents:read,
persist-credentials false, pinned by the wiring test. actionlint gets
the same treatment plus a digest pin on the third-party Docker Hub
image (a tag is repointable with no GitHub-side audit trail, and the
image sees the mounted checkout). restore-keys added to both caches so
a lockfile bump warms from the previous cache; stale --parallel header
wording corrected.

* test(browse): unit coverage for the close() SIGKILL fallback

The wedge fix (capture the Chromium child before the close race,
SIGKILL on timeout) shipped without a test of the branch it added —
the coverage audit flagged it as the diff's one regression-gap. The
5s race window becomes an injectable closeRaceMs field, and four unit
tests pin: SIGKILL on hang, no SIGKILL on clean close, no SIGKILL on
an already-exited child, SIGKILL on a rejecting close.

* docs: CLAUDE.md describes the shipped shard-process model, not the abandoned --parallel probe

* fix(test-runner): cancellation terminates the run; win32 kills the whole tree

Installing SIGINT/SIGTERM forwarders suppresses Node's default
terminate-on-signal, so a cancelled run killed the current child and
kept LAUNCHING shards — observed as paid runs continuing to burn API
spend after Ctrl-C (codex adversarial, repro'd ALIVE_AFTER_SIGTERM).
The first signal now also schedules the parent's own exit after the
children's SIGKILL grace, and both shard pools consult
isTerminationRequested() before taking new work. On win32,
killProcessGroup uses taskkill /T /F — detached:true creates no
killable group there, and a bare child.kill orphaned every grandchild
(ports, locks, and the inherited pipes that kept close from firing).
Also: the tree-mutating serial shard prints dirty generated artifacts
when it dies mid-regeneration, and --shard CI-matrix mode gets the
same size-scaled wall deadline as full-suite mode.

* fix(evals): preflight fails fast on spawn error, timeout, and exit 127

The ping only grepped stdout for two connection strings — a missing
claude binary, a 30s timeout kill, or command-not-found all returned
'ok', and the fleet then burned ~30 shard timeouts discovering the
outage one child at a time. Cross-model finding (testing specialist +
codex adversarial). Other non-zero exits stay deliberately fail-open:
a flaky preflight must not block a runnable suite; pinned both ways.

* fix(redact): lowercase 'password'/'pass' at the URL-password position blocks

The case-insensitive placeholder words waved postgres://admin:password@host
through the HIGH gate as a doc placeholder (codex adversarial,
verified zero findings pre-fix). URL-password position is now stricter
than generic placeholder detection: ALL-CAPS doc convention
(USER:PASSWORD), ${identifier} interpolations, bare $UPPER_SNAKE, and
structural shapes (<your-password>) suppress; lowercase dictionary
words block. Pinned in both directions.

* fix(gbrain): DSNs percent-encode the password; body reads retry; stdout drains

Three codex-adversarial findings in the provision port: (1) raw DB_PASS
interpolation — a reserved character (/ # ? % @) restructured the URI,
provisioning succeeded, and every consumer then failed to parse the DSN
(unusable billable orphan); now encodeURIComponent, round-trip pinned.
(2) await res.text() sat outside the transport try — a server that sent
headers then reset the stream was an uncaught exit 1 instead of a
retry-then-exit-8. (3) The bin entrypoint called process.exit() after
unawaited stdout writes, truncating piped JSON; exitCode lets writes
drain.

* fix(evals): selection-path helpers join GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES; base-branch keys self-register

The three-file split moved test-selection.ts into the globals but
dropped the facade — an edit to test/helpers/touchfiles.ts (executable
selection-path code imported by every consumer) selected ZERO paid
tests, the exact invisible-non-execution class this branch exists to
kill (claude adversarial, finding 1). e2e-helpers.ts (the harness every
paid test imports) and paid-test-set.ts (paid-vs-free classification)
had the same gap. The review/ship base-branch keys also register
test/skill-e2e-review-attribution.test.ts so editing those tests
selects them.

* ci(free-tests): PR-number concurrency, failure-log artifact, main-push runs

Three red-team/adversarial findings on the new required lane:
(1) concurrency keyed on bare head_ref — two forks with the same
branch name shared one group, so a push to fork B cancelled fork A's
in-flight REQUIRED check (merge-pipeline DoS with no code fault); key
on the PR number. (2) The runner's full logs die with the runner in
os.tmpdir() — a red check named WHICH test failed but never why;
upload the shard logs as an artifact on failure. (3) PR-only trigger
meant two individually-green PRs could merge into a red main with
nothing running the suite there; add push: branches: [main].

* ci: PR-number concurrency keying on the eval and Windows lanes too

Same fork-branch-name collision as free-tests.yml: bare head_ref
carries no owner prefix, so same-name branches from different forks
shared a cancel-in-progress group.

* test(evals): retro E2E passes require the report on disk

Both retro tests passed with zero work product: error_max_turns
counted as success and the content assertion was guarded by
fs.existsSync — a run that burned 30 turns and wrote nothing recorded
green (red team). The report is now load-bearing for pass/fail.

* chore: bump version and changelog (v1.66.0.0)

Test/evals/CI speedup pass: release summary + itemized changes in
CHANGELOG.md; TODOS.md marks the free-suite exit-code P1 complete and
files the review-army follow-ups.

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

* fix(redact): fully-braced ${...} interpolations are code, whatever they contain

The identifier-only braced form flagged the DSN builder's own
${encodeURIComponent(dbPass)} call site as a pushed secret — a scan
that cries wolf on the fix for the previous finding. Any ${...}
spanning the whole password segment is template code; bare $word
stays uppercase-only so $hunter2 still blocks. The mismatched-brace
negative fixture assembles at runtime so this file's own pushed bytes
carry no blockable URL shape.

* test(gbrain): assemble the pooler expected-URL from parts (scan-clean pushed bytes)

* docs: sync docs for v1.66.0.0 (test/evals/CI speedup)

CONTRIBUTING.md, AGENTS.md, and ARCHITECTURE.md still taught bare
`bun test` for the suite; the shipped runner deprecates it (walks the
whole repo, loads paid eval files, misses the strict classifier). All
suite-level references now say `bun run test`, the Tier 1 section
describes the strict shard runner (~90-100s, --verbose, --wall-timeout),
the sharded paid-runner paragraph documents diff-based shard skipping
and the EVALS_JOBS / EVALS_CONCURRENCY split, the Tier 3 row points at
the actual judge-only invocation, and GSTACK_EVAL_MODEL_JUDGE is
documented at the judge it overrides.

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

* ci(free-tests): restore the PR-number concurrency + failure-log artifact; truth-fix stale comments

The workspace-revert incident that hit CHANGELOG/TODOS mid-ship also
caught free-tests.yml between edits: commit 8d6c2ff8's message claims
PR-number concurrency + artifact upload + main-push runs, but only the
push trigger survived to the commit (caught by the /document-release
doc-vs-code audit). Both re-applied. Also: eval-model.ts header said
capture defaults to Opus (it's Sonnet per D1a), paid-shards' header
pinned a stale 44/63 shard census, and two CHANGELOG phrases
over-claimed ('six' -> 'up to six' shard processes; retry-1 scoped to
retry-bearing paid paths).

* ci: setup-buildx before every cache-exporting image build

First live run of the cache trio failed at flag-parse time: the
default buildx `docker` driver hard-errors on cache-to registry
export ('Cache export is not supported for the docker driver'), which
failed build-image on PR #2593 and skipped the entire gate eval
matrix behind it. docker/setup-buildx-action creates the
docker-container builder that supports registry cache export; all
three build sites (evals, evals-periodic, ci-image) get it.

* fix(browse): Xvfb identity is argv[0]'s basename, not a cmdline substring

First Linux CI run: isOurXvfb identified the TEST RUNNER as our Xvfb —
the suite's own argv contains 'xvfb.test.ts', the substring match over
the whole cmdline passed, and the start-time check matched because the
pid was real. Any process whose ARGUMENTS mention xvfb (a runner, an
editor) was killable — the sibling-kill class the identity check
exists to prevent. Identity now rests on argv[0]'s basename ('Xvfb'),
with a sh-$0 regression pin. isDisplayFree falls back to the X
socket/lock files when xdpyinfo isn't installed (x11-utils is absent
on some images that ship Xvfb).

* fix(test-runner): strip GHA ::group:: wrappers before file attribution

On GitHub Actions bun wraps each file's log section in ::group::. The
un-stripped header failed FILE_HEADER_RE, failures attributed to the
PREVIOUS file, and the terminal recap's re-printed (fail) lines landed
under a phantom second file — the first Linux run reported 5 real
failures as 10 across 2 files (one of them innocent). Strip the prefix
before matching; the existing file+test dedupe then absorbs the recap.

* test: first-Linux-run environment fixes — bun-only PATH shim, claude gate, darwin-scoped pdf gates

Three environmental assumptions the Linux lane exposed:
(1) gbrain-detect's deterministic SAFE_PATH lacked the bun runtime, so
every env-shebang spawn exited 127 on CI; a scratch dir holding ONLY a
bun symlink joins the PATH (appending bun's real dir would leak its
siblings — dev boxes keep gbrain there too).
(2) host-config's 'detect finds claude' assumed a claude binary; the
secretless lane deliberately has none — gated on Bun.which.
(3) The four make-pdf render gates hard-required prerequisites on ANY
CI, but the make-pdf gate workflow is macOS-only by decision and the
Linux lane doesn't build dist/pdf — hard-require scoped to darwin.

* ci(free-tests): run the suite under xvfb-run

Headed-browser tests (handoff, extension sidepanel DOM) need a real
DISPLAY; the first Linux run died on Playwright's 'headed browser
without an XServer' banner. xvfb-run -a provides the display; x11-utils
ships xdpyinfo for display probing.

* fix(test-runner): bun's headerless failure recap can't invent a phantom failing file

Round-3 CI showed the remaining half of the recap bug: bun prints
'N tests failed:' then re-prints every (fail) line with NO file
headers, so they attributed to the stale currentFile — an innocent
file (test/uninstall.test.ts) was charged with another file's 5
failures. The recap marker now ends attribution (currentFile=null,
chunk closed) and recap re-prints of already-recorded test names
dedupe; a recap-only failure the main run never attributed still
records, unattributed, as belt and braces.

* test(browse): sidepanel DOM suite launches with --no-sandbox on CI + console capture

The suite's raw chromium.launch had no --no-sandbox — every browse
test that goes through gstack's launcher (which always passes it)
survived the Linux lane, while this file's sandboxed renderer died on
first navigation: waitForFunction hung to the 15s test timeout, then
every newContext failed with Target.createBrowserContext. Also wires
pageerror/console-error capture at all six pages so a page-side
failure reads as itself in CI logs instead of a bare timeout.

* test(browse): delete the sidepanel security-DOM suite — it tests UI removed in v1.14

Another member of the never-ran class: the file skipped everywhere
(Playwright chromium absent locally, no Linux CI until this branch),
so it rotted invisibly through THREE contract changes — the v1.63
/extension-token bootstrap, the endpoint growth (/memory,
/pty-session, /sse-session), and finally the v1.14 sidebar-REPL
rewrite that removed the security shield/banner UI it asserts on
(#security-shield survives in sidepanel.html as a dead hidden stub
with no JS driver; sidepanel.js:87 and :1317 document the removal).
The Linux lane executed it for the first time and it can never pass:
the behavior is gone. The L1-L3 security filters it name-checked stay
covered by the ~83 unit/behavioral security tests. The free-tests
lane also vendors xterm assets (bun run vendor:xterm) so the
sidepanel terminal scripts load for any future DOM coverage.

* ci(evals): per-row retry override — two receipted rows keep the third attempt

Three PR rounds of receipts: pty-plan-smoke failed attempt 2 in two
consecutive rounds with ROTATING members (plan-design-review, then
plan-eng-review) and e2e-workflow's document-release timed out on
attempt 2 in round 4 — while both families pass on branches still
running three attempts, and every other row stayed green at --retry 1
across all rounds. Matrix rows gain an optional retries field
(default 1); only these two rows set 2, keeping the measured
retry-amplification win everywhere else.

* test(windows): curate the seven POSIX-bound files the expanded lane surfaced; fix flag-utils path embedding

First full run of the expanded Windows lane (13 -> ~258 files, PR #2593
run 31918591602) failed in exactly 8 files. One was a real test bug,
fixed: design-flag-utils embedded a raw Windows ROOT into a bun -e
string where backslashes act as escapes (D:\a\gstack imported as
D:agstack) — forward slashes work on every platform. The other seven
are POSIX-bound in ways the content patterns cannot see (sed/ln/bash
ARE their subject, a shebang shim arrives via variable, wall-clock
retry bounds on the slowest runner) — each gets a receipted
KNOWN_WINDOWS_INCOMPATIBLE entry, and the census pin now covers that
list so a renamed file fails the suite instead of silently keeping a
stale exclusion.

* test(windows): curate skill-census + browser-manager-unit; surface unhandled errors in the epilogue

Round-2 Windows census (zero failing TESTS — the first curation wave
held): shard 1 failed on an unhandled module-load throw in
skill-census (the skills-tree symlink layout needs Developer Mode CI
runners lack) and shard 2 wedged to its wall deadline inside
browser-manager-unit — both get receipted exclusions; macOS + Linux
lanes keep covering the files. The unhandled-error class also exposed
an epilogue gap: it fails the shard via the strict classifier but
produces no (fail) lines, so the epilogue read 'FAIL — 0 failing
test(s)' with no culprit. The reporter now attributes each
'# Unhandled error between tests' marker to its chunk and the FAIL
line carries the count.

* docs: file the two Windows-lane follow-ups (browser-manager wedge, skill-census symlinks)

* test(windows): round-3 curation — seven files the round-2 wedge had been truncating

The browser-manager-unit wedge was cutting shard 2 short, so each
Windows round revealed the next segment of never-run files. With the
wedge excluded, shard 2 completes (50s) and shows its real failures:
seven more POSIX-environment files (PID/cmdline identity probing,
bash scripts as the subject under test, env-scrubbed bun spawns).
Shards 1 and 3 (including all tree-mutators) now PASS on
windows-latest — this should be the fixed point: ~234 files of real
Windows coverage vs the 13 hand-picked before.

* test(windows): round-4 curation (spawnSkill env, symlink fixtures) + shard-log artifact

Shard 2 ran all 132 files with zero (fail) lines yet bun exited 1 —
unhandled errors in a shape neither counter names, and the Windows
lane had no log artifact to attribute them. Statically attributed and
excluded: browser-skill-commands (spawnSkill spawns bun with a
constructed env; resolution fails under Windows spawn) and
security-audit-r2 (evil-link symlink fixtures need Developer Mode).
The lane now uploads its shard logs on failure like free-tests.yml,
with os.tmpdir() pointed at runner.temp so the glob can find them.

* evals: Opus pin on the spec AUQ-matrix entry — D1a regressor, receipts in-file

The periodic re-baseline for the capture default (Opus -> Sonnet)
found exactly one regressor across the seven-entry AUQ behavioral
matrix: spec failed twice under Sonnet ('never reached a question in
budget', 242s) while its six siblings passed; the controlled Opus
re-run passed cleanly (7/7 format, substance 5, 160s), and a second
run through the new per-entry model plumbing confirms. MatrixSkill
gains an optional model field wired into captureFirstAuq; only spec
sets it. TODOS gains the re-baseline receipts for the never-baselined
periodic tail (three setup-gbrain files + ship-idempotency, all
local-only).

* test(evals): scope-gate assertion carries its evidence tail; file the detector-flake TODO

The plan-design-review member fails ONLY scopeGateQuestionObserved
intermittently on unchanged code (PR #2593: red rounds 3/11 + rerun,
green rounds 5/6 — every attempt terminal, no plan-mode leak), and a
bare Expected-true/Received-false is undiagnosable from CI logs. The
check now throws with the last-2KB visible evidence, so the next
failure distinguishes a detector-sensitivity miss from a real silent
bypass. TODO filed with the full receipt trail.

* test(evals): review-dashboard-via budget 300s -> 360s — third ratchet of the same contention story

PR #2472 documented the 180s deterministic 0-turn startup timeouts and
ratcheted to 300s; PR #2593 hit 302s timeouts on attempt 2 in two
consecutive runs while five sibling rounds passed — marginal at 300s
under 40-way in-shard concurrency. Same headroom its contention-class
sibling (retro-base-branch) carries; outer bun timeout rises to 480s.

* test(evals): document-release budget 180s -> 300s — same contention ratchet, receipts in-file

Timed out at exactly 180s on its final attempt twice on PR #2593
(rounds 4 and 13) while passing four other rounds — a 30-turn
multi-step doc workflow is marginal at 180s under 40-way in-shard CI
concurrency. Same story and same fix as review-dashboard-via and
retro-base-branch; outer bun timeout rises to 360s.

* docs: file the systemic in-shard-concurrency follow-up behind the timeout-flake family

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

test/agent-sdk-runner.test.ts

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ function uuid(): string {
   return `00000000-0000-0000-0000-${String(++uuidCounter).padStart(12, '0')}`;
 }
 
-function systemInit(model = 'claude-opus-4-7', version = '2.1.117'): SDKMessage {
+function systemInit(model = 'claude-sonnet-4-6', version = '2.1.117'): SDKMessage {
   return {
     type: 'system',
     subtype: 'init',
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ function assistantTurn(
       id: 'msg_' + uuid(),
       type: 'message',
       role: 'assistant',
-      model: 'claude-opus-4-7',
+      model: 'claude-sonnet-4-6',
       content: blocks.map((b) => ({ ...b })),
       stop_reason: 'end_turn',
       stop_sequence: null,
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ describe('runAgentSdkTest — happy path', () => {
     expect(result.turnsUsed).toBe(2);
     expect(result.costUsd).toBe(0.05);
     expect(result.sdkClaudeCodeVersion).toBe('2.1.117');
-    expect(result.model).toBe('claude-opus-4-7');
+    expect(result.model).toBe('claude-sonnet-4-6');
     expect(result.firstResponseMs).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(0);
   });
 
@@ -699,7 +699,7 @@ describe('toSkillTestResult', () => {
     expect(s.output).toBe('hi');
     expect(s.costEstimate.estimatedCost).toBe(0.02);
     expect(s.costEstimate.turnsUsed).toBe(1);
-    expect(s.model).toBe('claude-opus-4-7');
+    expect(s.model).toBe('claude-sonnet-4-6');
     expect(s.firstResponseMs).toBeNumber();
     expect(s.maxInterTurnMs).toBeNumber();
     expect(s.transcript).toBeArray();
@@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ describe('validateFixtures', () => {
     return {
       id: 'test-fixture',
       overlayPath: 'model-overlays/opus-4-7.md',
-      model: 'claude-opus-4-7',
+      model: 'claude-sonnet-4-6',
       trials: 10,
       setupWorkspace: () => {},
       userPrompt: 'go',

test/anthropic-preflight.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+/**
+ * Regression pins for the preflight-dedup seam (test/helpers/anthropic-preflight.ts).
+ *
+ * The preflight runs at MODULE LOAD in every paid test file that imports
+ * e2e-helpers, so a broken skip-check either brings back ~30 paid pings per
+ * sharded run or — worse — skips the fail-fast everywhere. Both directions
+ * are pinned here with an injected spawn; no real claude call is made.
+ */
+
+import { describe, test, expect } from 'bun:test';
+import { preflightAnthropicApi } from './helpers/anthropic-preflight';
+
+type SpawnCall = { command: string; args: string[] };
+
+function fakeSpawn(stdout: string, calls: SpawnCall[]) {
+  return ((command: string, args: string[]) => {
+    calls.push({ command, args });
+    return { stdout: Buffer.from(stdout), stderr: Buffer.from(''), status: 0 } as ReturnType<
+      typeof import('child_process').spawnSync
+    >;
+  }) as typeof import('child_process').spawnSync;
+}
+
+describe('preflightAnthropicApi', () => {
+  test('EVALS_PREFLIGHT_OK=1 skips the ping entirely (sharded-child path)', () => {
+    const calls: SpawnCall[] = [];
+    const result = preflightAnthropicApi({ EVALS_PREFLIGHT_OK: '1' }, fakeSpawn('never read', calls));
+    expect(result).toBe('skipped');
+    expect(calls.length).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  test('without the flag, pings exactly once and passes on healthy output', () => {
+    const calls: SpawnCall[] = [];
+    const result = preflightAnthropicApi({}, fakeSpawn('{"type":"result"}', calls));
+    expect(result).toBe('ok');
+    expect(calls.length).toBe(1);
+    expect(calls[0].args.join(' ')).toContain('claude -p');
+  });
+
+  test('unreachable API throws (fail-fast before any shard spawns)', () => {
+    const calls: SpawnCall[] = [];
+    expect(() =>
+      preflightAnthropicApi({}, fakeSpawn('error: ConnectionRefused connecting to api', calls)),
+    ).toThrow(/Anthropic API unreachable/);
+  });
+
+  test('a truthy-but-not-"1" flag still pings (no accidental widening)', () => {
+    const calls: SpawnCall[] = [];
+    const result = preflightAnthropicApi({ EVALS_PREFLIGHT_OK: 'true' }, fakeSpawn('ok', calls));
+    expect(result).toBe('ok');
+    expect(calls.length).toBe(1);
+  });
+
+  // Failure modes that guarantee every shard fails too must fail the
+  // preflight — previously a missing binary, a timeout kill, and exit 127
+  // all returned 'ok' and the fleet burned its own discovery of the outage.
+  const shapedSpawn = (shape: Partial<ReturnType<typeof import('child_process').spawnSync>>) =>
+    ((() => ({ stdout: Buffer.from(''), stderr: Buffer.from(''), status: 0, ...shape })) as unknown as
+      typeof import('child_process').spawnSync);
+
+  test('spawn error (unlaunchable shell/binary) throws', () => {
+    expect(() =>
+      preflightAnthropicApi({}, shapedSpawn({ error: new Error('spawn sh ENOENT') })),
+    ).toThrow(/could not run/);
+  });
+
+  test('timeout kill (signal set) throws', () => {
+    expect(() =>
+      preflightAnthropicApi({}, shapedSpawn({ signal: 'SIGTERM' })),
+    ).toThrow(/timed out/);
+  });
+
+  test('exit 127 (claude not found) throws', () => {
+    expect(() =>
+      preflightAnthropicApi({}, shapedSpawn({ status: 127 })),
+    ).toThrow(/not found on PATH/);
+  });
+
+  test('other non-zero exits stay fail-open (a flaky preflight must not block a runnable suite)', () => {
+    expect(preflightAnthropicApi({}, shapedSpawn({ status: 1, stdout: Buffer.from('transient') }))).toBe('ok');
+  });
+});

test/changed-files-union.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,167 @@
+/**
+ * getChangedFiles union semantics: committed + staged + unstaged + untracked.
+ * Free (no API calls), runs with `bun test`.
+ *
+ * Change-set 3 of the eval-selection work: an agent that edits files and
+ * runs evals BEFORE committing used to get an empty committed-diff → run-all
+ * → full paid suite. getChangedFiles now unions the committed diff with the
+ * working-tree diff and untracked files, and FAILS CLOSED (throws, naming
+ * EVALS_ALL=1) on any git error instead of silently returning [].
+ */
+
+import { describe, test, expect, beforeEach, afterEach } from 'bun:test';
+import { spawnSync } from 'child_process';
+import * as fs from 'fs';
+import * as os from 'os';
+import * as path from 'path';
+
+import { getChangedFiles } from './helpers/touchfiles';
+
+describe('getChangedFiles union', () => {
+  let repo: string;
+
+  const git = (args: string[]) => {
+    const result = spawnSync(
+      'git',
+      ['-c', 'user.email=test@test', '-c', 'user.name=test', '-c', 'commit.gpgsign=false', ...args],
+      { cwd: repo, stdio: 'pipe', timeout: 10000 },
+    );
+    if (result.status !== 0) {
+      throw new Error(`git ${args.join(' ')} failed: ${result.stderr?.toString()}`);
+    }
+  };
+
+  const write = (rel: string, content: string) => {
+    const filePath = path.join(repo, rel);
+    fs.mkdirSync(path.dirname(filePath), { recursive: true });
+    fs.writeFileSync(filePath, content);
+  };
+
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    repo = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'changed-files-union-'));
+    git(['init', '-q']);
+    write('a.txt', 'a\n');
+    write('b.txt', 'b\n');
+    git(['add', 'a.txt', 'b.txt']);
+    git(['commit', '-q', '-m', 'base']);
+    git(['tag', 'base']);
+  });
+
+  afterEach(() => {
+    fs.rmSync(repo, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  });
+
+  test('committed-only change', () => {
+    write('a.txt', 'a2\n');
+    git(['add', 'a.txt']);
+    git(['commit', '-q', '-m', 'change a']);
+    expect(getChangedFiles('base', repo)).toEqual(['a.txt']);
+  });
+
+  test('staged-only change', () => {
+    write('a.txt', 'a2\n');
+    git(['add', 'a.txt']);
+    expect(getChangedFiles('base', repo)).toEqual(['a.txt']);
+  });
+
+  test('unstaged-only change', () => {
+    write('b.txt', 'b2\n');
+    expect(getChangedFiles('base', repo)).toEqual(['b.txt']);
+  });
+
+  test('untracked-only file', () => {
+    write('new-dir/new.txt', 'new\n');
+    expect(getChangedFiles('base', repo)).toEqual(['new-dir/new.txt']);
+  });
+
+  test('mixed sources — each file exactly once', () => {
+    // committed change to a.txt...
+    write('a.txt', 'a2\n');
+    git(['add', 'a.txt']);
+    git(['commit', '-q', '-m', 'change a']);
+    // ...PLUS an unstaged edit to the same file (dedupe check),
+    write('a.txt', 'a3\n');
+    // a staged edit to b.txt,
+    write('b.txt', 'b2\n');
+    git(['add', 'b.txt']);
+    // and an untracked file.
+    write('c.txt', 'c\n');
+
+    const result = getChangedFiles('base', repo);
+    expect(result.sort()).toEqual(['a.txt', 'b.txt', 'c.txt']);
+    expect(result.filter(f => f === 'a.txt').length).toBe(1); // deduped
+  });
+
+  test('clean tree → empty union (run-all semantics preserved by callers)', () => {
+    expect(getChangedFiles('base', repo)).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  test('non-repo cwd → throws naming EVALS_ALL', () => {
+    const dir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'changed-files-nonrepo-'));
+    try {
+      expect(() => getChangedFiles('main', dir)).toThrow(/EVALS_ALL=1/);
+    } finally {
+      fs.rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+    }
+  });
+
+  test('missing base ref → throws naming EVALS_ALL and the failing command', () => {
+    expect(() => getChangedFiles('no-such-ref', repo)).toThrow(/EVALS_ALL=1/);
+    expect(() => getChangedFiles('no-such-ref', repo)).toThrow(/diff --name-only no-such-ref\.\.\.HEAD/);
+  });
+
+  test('non-ASCII filenames come back as raw UTF-8, not C-escaped (core.quotePath=false)', () => {
+    const name = 'résumé-fixture.md';
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(repo, name), 'x');
+    try {
+      const files = getChangedFiles('base', repo);
+      expect(files).toContain(name);
+      expect(files.every((f) => !f.includes('\\303'))).toBe(true);
+    } finally {
+      fs.rmSync(path.join(repo, name), { force: true });
+    }
+  });
+
+  test('injected spawn failure → throws with stderr in the message', () => {
+    const failingSpawn = ((_cmd: string, args: string[]) => ({
+      status: 128,
+      error: undefined,
+      stdout: Buffer.from(''),
+      stderr: Buffer.from(`fatal: injected failure for ${args[0]}`),
+    })) as unknown as typeof spawnSync;
+
+    let message = '';
+    try {
+      getChangedFiles('base', repo, failingSpawn);
+    } catch (err) {
+      message = (err as Error).message;
+    }
+    expect(message).toContain('EVALS_ALL=1');
+    expect(message).toContain('injected failure');
+    expect(message).toContain('exit 128');
+  });
+
+  test('injected spawn error object (git binary missing) → throws', () => {
+    const errorSpawn = (() => ({
+      status: null,
+      error: new Error('spawn git ENOENT'),
+      stdout: Buffer.from(''),
+      stderr: Buffer.from(''),
+    })) as unknown as typeof spawnSync;
+
+    let message = '';
+    try {
+      getChangedFiles('base', repo, errorSpawn);
+    } catch (err) {
+      message = (err as Error).message;
+    }
+    expect(message).toContain('EVALS_ALL=1');
+    expect(message).toContain('spawn git ENOENT');
+    expect(message).toContain('spawn-error');
+  });
+
+  test('untracked path with spaces (git quotes it) is unquoted', () => {
+    write('has space.txt', 'x\n');
+    expect(getChangedFiles('base', repo)).toEqual(['has space.txt']);
+  });
+});

test/codex-e2e.test.ts

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  *
  * Spawns `codex exec` with skills installed in a temp HOME, parses JSONL
  * output, and validates structured results. Follows the same pattern as
- * skill-e2e.test.ts but adapted for Codex CLI.
+ * the skill-e2e-*.test.ts suites but adapted for Codex CLI.
  *
  * Prerequisites:
  * - `codex` binary installed (npm install -g @openai/codex)
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 import { describe, test, expect, beforeAll, afterAll } from 'bun:test';
 import { runCodexSkill, parseCodexJSONL, installSkillToTempHome } from './helpers/codex-session-runner';
 import type { CodexResult } from './helpers/codex-session-runner';
+import { CODEX_REVIEW_E2E_SECTIONS } from './helpers/skill-fixture';
 import { EvalCollector } from './helpers/eval-store';
 import type { EvalTestEntry } from './helpers/eval-store';
 import { selectTests, detectBaseBranch, getChangedFiles, E2E_TOUCHFILES, GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES } from './helpers/touchfiles';
@@ -139,7 +140,11 @@ describeCodex('Codex E2E', () => {
   });
 
   testIfSelected('codex-discover-skill', async () => {
-    // Install gstack-review skill to a temp HOME and ask Codex to list skills
+    // Install gstack-review skill to a temp HOME and ask Codex to list skills.
+    // Deliberately installs the FULL generated SKILL.md (no `sections`): this
+    // test's purpose is to prove the real artifact loads under Codex — the
+    // stderr assertions below ('invalid' / 'Skipped loading') would be
+    // meaningless against an extracted fixture.
     const skillDir = path.join(testWorktree, '.agents', 'skills', 'gstack-review');
 
     const result = await runCodexSkill({
@@ -172,7 +177,10 @@ describeCodex('Codex E2E', () => {
   // code review, and produce structured review output with findings/issues.
   // Accepts Codex timeout (exit 124/137) as non-failure since that's a CLI perf issue.
   testIfSelected('codex-review-findings', async () => {
-    // Install gstack-review skill and ask Codex to review the worktree
+    // Install gstack-review and ask Codex to review the worktree. The skill
+    // fixture is EXTRACTED to the core review-workflow sections — the full
+    // Codex host variant is ~1460 lines and this test only exercises the
+    // diff-review flow (CLAUDE.md: "E2E test fixtures: extract, don't copy").
     const skillDir = path.join(testWorktree, '.agents', 'skills', 'gstack-review');
 
     const result = await runCodexSkill({
@@ -181,6 +189,7 @@ describeCodex('Codex E2E', () => {
       timeoutMs: 540_000,
       cwd: testWorktree,
       skillName: 'gstack-review',
+      sections: CODEX_REVIEW_E2E_SECTIONS,
     });
 
     logCodexCost('codex-review-findings', result);

test/design-flag-utils.test.ts

@@ -90,8 +90,12 @@ describe("parseIntFlag contract (#2032, codex 17a-c)", () => {
 
 describe("normalizeIntFlag CLI wrapper (exit-1 semantics)", () => {
   function runWrapper(rawExpr: string, specExpr: string): { status: number; stderr: string } {
+    // Forward slashes: a raw Windows ROOT embeds backslashes into the eval
+    // string where they act as ESCAPES ("D:\\a\\gstack" imports as
+    // "D:agstack" — first Windows lane run). Import specifiers accept
+    // forward slashes on every platform.
     const script = `
-      import { normalizeIntFlag } from "${ROOT}/design/src/flag-utils";
+      import { normalizeIntFlag } from "${ROOT.replaceAll('\\', '/')}/design/src/flag-utils";
       const v = normalizeIntFlag(${rawExpr}, ${specExpr});
       console.log("VALUE:" + v);
     `;

test/e2e-tier-alignment.test.ts

@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ import { describe, test, expect } from 'bun:test';
 import { readdirSync, readFileSync } from 'fs';
 import * as path from 'path';
 import { E2E_TOUCHFILES, E2E_TIERS, LLM_JUDGE_TOUCHFILES } from './helpers/touchfiles';
+import { isPaidTestFile } from './helpers/paid-test-set';
+import { knownTestNamesInSource, PARENT_MAPPER_TEST_NAMES } from '../scripts/test-paid-shards';
 
 const TEST_DIR = import.meta.dir;
 // Both quote styles — a mechanical refactor to double quotes must not
@@ -95,4 +97,51 @@ describe('E2E tier alignment (touchfiles declaration vs test self-gate)', () =>
 
     expect(misaligned).toEqual([]);
   });
+
+  // HARD invariant (C6): the paid sharded runner skips a skill-e2e shard when
+  // none of the file's MAPPED test names (E2E map keys quoted in its source,
+  // union E2E map keys whose dep list registers the file) are diff-selected.
+  // A skill-e2e file the mapper cannot see at all is only safe if it provably
+  // opts out of name-based selection: it must not touch the e2e-helpers
+  // selection surface (describeIfSelected / runSkillTest / selectedTests) AND
+  // it must carry an explicit whole-file EVALS_TIER self-gate (the child-side
+  // gate that makes the parent's fail-open keep semantically correct).
+  //
+  // Anything else is an invisible-test-names hole: the parent could drop a
+  // shard whose child would have run real work. Fix by either quoting the
+  // test's E2E map key as a string literal in the file, or adding the file's
+  // path to its key's dep list in test/helpers/touchfiles-data.ts.
+  test('every paid skill-e2e file is visible to the parent diff mapper (or provably fail-open-safe)', () => {
+    const invisible: string[] = [];
+
+    for (const file of testFiles) {
+      const repoPath = `test/${file}`;
+      if (!isPaidTestFile(repoPath)) continue;
+      const content = readFileSync(path.join(TEST_DIR, file), 'utf-8');
+
+      const quoted = knownTestNamesInSource(content, PARENT_MAPPER_TEST_NAMES);
+      const registered = Object.keys(E2E_TOUCHFILES).filter((k) => E2E_TOUCHFILES[k].includes(repoPath));
+      if (quoted.length + registered.length > 0) continue; // parent-mappable
+
+      const usesNameSelection = /\b(describeIfSelected|runSkillTest|selectedTests)\b/.test(content);
+      // Both self-gate shapes count: the raw predicate and the consolidated
+      // helper (test/helpers/e2e-gate.ts documents this file as a consumer
+      // that must recognize describeE2ETier/e2eTierEnabled).
+      const selfGated = /EVALS_TIER\s*===\s*['"](gate|periodic)['"]/.test(content)
+        || /\b(?:describeE2ETier|e2eTierEnabled)\(\s*['"](gate|periodic)['"]/.test(content);
+      if (!usesNameSelection && selfGated) continue; // fail-open-safe standalone
+
+      invisible.push(
+        `${repoPath}: invisible to the parent diff mapper — no E2E map key quoted in the file, `
+        + 'not registered in any E2E_TOUCHFILES dep list, and it '
+        + (usesNameSelection
+          ? 'uses name-based selection (describeIfSelected/runSkillTest/selectedTests)'
+          : 'has no whole-file EVALS_TIER self-gate')
+        + '. Quote the test\'s E2E map key as a string literal, or add this file path to its '
+        + 'key\'s dep list in test/helpers/touchfiles-data.ts.',
+      );
+    }
+
+    expect(invisible).toEqual([]);
+  });
 });

test/egress-receipt-wiring.test.ts

@@ -78,6 +78,9 @@ const MODULE_SINKS = [
   // missing file must fail loudly (a rename/move that drops its receipt wiring
   // is exactly what this pins), not silently soften the assertion.
   'lib/context-bill.ts',
+  // supabase-provision engine (bin/gstack-gbrain-supabase-provision is a thin
+  // bun-shebang entry over this module; the receipt lives at the api-call layer).
+  'lib/gbrain-supabase-provision.ts',
 ];
 
 /** Shell sinks: must source the shared lib; every network op receipted. */
@@ -88,7 +91,6 @@ const SHELL_SINKS = [
   'bin/gstack-gbrain-mcp-verify',
   'bin/gstack-security-dashboard',
   'bin/gstack-community-dashboard',
-  'bin/gstack-gbrain-supabase-provision',
   'bin/gstack-artifacts-init',
   'bin/gstack-brain-restore',
   'bin/gstack-session-update',
@@ -339,9 +341,15 @@ describe('egress receipt wiring tripwire', () => {
     // dashboards (open).
     expect(read('bin/gstack-security-dashboard')).toMatch(/_receipted_curl open security-dashboard/);
     expect(read('bin/gstack-community-dashboard')).toMatch(/_receipted_curl open community-dashboard/);
-    // mcp-verify + provision (closed).
+    // mcp-verify (closed).
     expect(read('bin/gstack-gbrain-mcp-verify')).toMatch(/_receipted_curl closed gbrain-mcp-verify/);
-    expect(read('bin/gstack-gbrain-supabase-provision')).toMatch(/_receipted_curl closed supabase-provision/);
+    // supabase-provision (closed): TS module — the receipt is written before
+    // the fetch, and a receipt failure refuses the send (fail-closed, exit 8).
+    const provision = read('lib/gbrain-supabase-provision.ts');
+    expect(provision).toMatch(/sink:\s*['"]supabase-provision['"]/);
+    expect(provision).toContain('fail-closed');
+    expect(provision.indexOf('writeReceipt(')).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    expect(provision.indexOf('writeReceipt(')).toBeLessThan(provision.indexOf('ctx.fetchImpl('));
     // design (open): the wrapper catches receipt errors and proceeds.
     const rf = read('design/src/receipted-fetch.ts');
     expect(rf).toContain('fail-open');

test/eval-detach-timeout-floor.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+/**
+ * Detach-timeout floor — free, gate-tier tripwire.
+ *
+ * The eval:bg:gate / eval:bg:periodic scripts wrap the sharded paid runner in
+ * bin/gstack-detach with a hard --timeout. If that number dips below the
+ * runner's worst-case wall clock — ceil(shards / jobs) × shard timeout — the
+ * watchdog kills a healthy run mid-flight and the tail shards report
+ * never-started: paid truncation by configuration. That nearly shipped once
+ * (a review pass proposed 10800s against a 19,800s gate worst case), so the
+ * bound is enforced here against the LIVE shard census instead of a comment
+ * snapshot that goes stale every time a paid test file is added.
+ *
+ * If this test fails you have two honest options: raise the --timeout in the
+ * package.json script it names, or reduce the tier's worst case (split fewer
+ * files per shard, raise DEFAULT_JOBS after verifying API rate headroom).
+ */
+
+import { describe, test, expect } from 'bun:test';
+import * as fs from 'fs';
+import * as path from 'path';
+import {
+  collectPaidTestFiles,
+  selectPaidTestFiles,
+  DEFAULT_JOBS,
+  DEFAULT_SHARD_TIMEOUT_MS,
+  type PaidTier,
+} from '../scripts/test-paid-shards';
+
+const ROOT = path.resolve(import.meta.dir, '..');
+// 5% margin over the theoretical bound: detach setup, lock wait, aggregation.
+const MARGIN = 1.05;
+
+function detachTimeoutSeconds(scriptName: string): number {
+  const pkg = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.join(ROOT, 'package.json'), 'utf-8'));
+  const script: string | undefined = pkg.scripts?.[scriptName];
+  expect(script, `package.json is missing the "${scriptName}" script`).toBeTruthy();
+  const m = script!.match(/--timeout\s+(\d+)/);
+  expect(m, `"${scriptName}" has no gstack-detach --timeout flag`).toBeTruthy();
+  return parseInt(m![1], 10);
+}
+
+function worstCaseSeconds(tier: PaidTier): number {
+  const shards = selectPaidTestFiles(collectPaidTestFiles(), tier).selected.length;
+  expect(shards).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+  return Math.ceil(shards / DEFAULT_JOBS) * (DEFAULT_SHARD_TIMEOUT_MS / 1000);
+}
+
+describe('eval:bg detach timeouts cover the sharded runner worst case', () => {
+  for (const [tier, script] of [
+    ['gate', 'eval:bg:gate'],
+    ['periodic', 'eval:bg:periodic'],
+  ] as Array<[PaidTier, string]>) {
+    test(`${script} >= ceil(${tier} shards / jobs) x shard timeout x ${MARGIN}`, () => {
+      const floor = Math.ceil(worstCaseSeconds(tier) * MARGIN);
+      const configured = detachTimeoutSeconds(script);
+      if (configured < floor) {
+        throw new Error(
+          `${script} --timeout ${configured}s is below the ${tier} tier's worst-case ` +
+          `wall clock of ${floor}s (ceil(shards/${DEFAULT_JOBS} jobs) x ` +
+          `${DEFAULT_SHARD_TIMEOUT_MS / 1000}s shard timeout x ${MARGIN} margin). ` +
+          `An undersized detach watchdog kills healthy runs mid-flight and the tail ` +
+          `shards report never-started. Raise the --timeout in package.json or reduce ` +
+          `the tier's worst case.`,
+        );
+      }
+    });
+  }
+});

test/eval-model.test.ts

@@ -13,7 +13,9 @@ describe("resolveEvalModel", () => {
     expect(resolveEvalModel("distill", null, { GSTACK_EVAL_MODEL: "g" } as never)).toBe("g");
   });
   test("defaults per kind", () => {
-    expect(resolveEvalModel("capture", null, {} as never)).toBe("claude-opus-4-7");
+    // capture defaults to Sonnet per D1a (2026-08 review): Opus is opt-in via
+    // explicit arg or GSTACK_EVAL_MODEL_CAPTURE.
+    expect(resolveEvalModel("capture", null, {} as never)).toBe("claude-sonnet-4-6");
     expect(resolveEvalModel("warmup", null, {} as never)).toBe("claude-haiku-4-5");
     expect(resolveEvalModel("distill", null, {} as never)).toBe("claude-haiku-4-5-20251001");
   });

test/free-tests-workflow-wiring.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+/**
+ * Static tripwire for .github/workflows/free-tests.yml — the Linux free-suite
+ * lane. Pins the three properties that made the lane worth having:
+ *
+ *   1. It invokes the CANONICAL runner (bun run test:free), not a raw
+ *      `bun test <dirs>` glob — the runner owns TEST_ROOTS and strict-output
+ *      classification, so a truncated run can't report green.
+ *   2. It is SECRETLESS: free tests make no API calls, and keeping keys out
+ *      means fork PRs get real signal here. Any `secrets.` reference is a
+ *      regression.
+ *   3. It triggers on `pull_request` (never `pull_request_target`, which
+ *      would hand a fork PR the base repo's context).
+ *
+ * Same wiring-tripwire class as test/hermetic-wiring.test.ts.
+ */
+
+import { describe, test, expect } from 'bun:test';
+import * as fs from 'fs';
+import * as path from 'path';
+
+const WORKFLOW = path.resolve(import.meta.dir, '..', '.github', 'workflows', 'free-tests.yml');
+
+describe('free-tests workflow wiring', () => {
+  const source = fs.readFileSync(WORKFLOW, 'utf-8');
+
+  test('workflow exists and invokes the canonical runner', () => {
+    expect(source).toContain('bun run test:free');
+    expect(source).not.toMatch(/run:\s*bun test\s/);
+  });
+
+  test('secretless: no secrets reach the free lane', () => {
+    expect(source).not.toContain('secrets.');
+    expect(source).not.toContain('ANTHROPIC_API_KEY');
+    expect(source).not.toContain('OPENAI_API_KEY');
+  });
+
+  test('pull_request trigger, never pull_request_target', () => {
+    expect(source).toContain('pull_request:');
+    expect(source).not.toContain('pull_request_target');
+  });
+
+  test('if sharded (matrix), the matrix count matches --shards N', () => {
+    // Single-job --parallel mode has no matrix — vacuously fine. If someone
+    // switches to the shard matrix (the V3 fallback), the two encodings of
+    // the shard count must agree or CI silently drops files.
+    const shardsFlag = source.match(/--shards\s+(\d+)/);
+    const matrix = source.match(/shard:\s*\[([^\]]+)\]/);
+    if (shardsFlag || matrix) {
+      expect(shardsFlag, 'matrix present but no --shards N flag').toBeTruthy();
+      expect(matrix, '--shards N present but no shard matrix').toBeTruthy();
+      const count = parseInt(shardsFlag![1], 10);
+      const entries = matrix![1].split(',').map(s => s.trim()).filter(Boolean);
+      expect(entries.length).toBe(count);
+    }
+  });
+
+  test('least-privilege token: contents read-only, credentials not persisted', () => {
+    // The job executes PR-controlled code (install lifecycle scripts + the
+    // suite itself). A default-grant GITHUB_TOKEN persisted into .git/config
+    // by checkout would hand that code whatever the repo default allows.
+    expect(source).toMatch(/permissions:\s*\n\s*contents:\s*read/);
+    expect(source).toMatch(/persist-credentials:\s*false/);
+  });
+});

test/gbrain-detect-install.test.ts

@@ -25,7 +25,16 @@ const INSTALL = path.join(ROOT, 'bin', 'gstack-gbrain-install');
 // dirs — this keeps `gbrain` out of PATH deterministically across dev machines
 // while still finding jq, git, curl, sed, cat, etc. Each test can prepend a
 // fake-gbrain dir when it wants to simulate presence.
-const SAFE_PATH = '/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/homebrew/bin:/usr/local/bin';
+// Deterministic PATH for spawned children — but it must still contain the
+// bun runtime itself: the bin's `#!/usr/bin/env -S bun run` shebang resolves
+// bun from PATH, and CI installs bun outside the standard dirs (~/.bun/bin),
+// which made every spawn exit 127 on the first Linux run. Appending bun's
+// REAL dir would leak its siblings (a dev box keeps gbrain in ~/.bun/bin
+// too, breaking every "no gbrain on PATH" case) — so a scratch dir holds a
+// symlink to bun and nothing else.
+const BUN_ONLY_DIR = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'bun-only-'));
+fs.symlinkSync(process.execPath, path.join(BUN_ONLY_DIR, 'bun'));
+const SAFE_PATH = `/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/homebrew/bin:/usr/local/bin:${BUN_ONLY_DIR}`;
 
 let tmpHome: string;
 let tmpHomeReal: string;

test/gbrain-supabase-provision.test.ts

@@ -11,17 +11,28 @@
  * GET /config/database/pooler), PAT + DB_PASS env-var discipline, retry
  * + backoff on transient errors, pooler URL construction using the
  * generated DB_PASS (not the API response's templated connection_string).
+ *
+ * Tests drive lib/gbrain-supabase-provision.ts IN-PROCESS with injected
+ * fetch/env/sleep (decision D7: dependency injection via options, never
+ * process.env mutation before import — ESM hoists imports so env-set-before-
+ * import silently doesn't work). One spawn-based smoke test at the bottom
+ * runs the real bin end-to-end to pin the shebang/CLI contract. This
+ * replaced ~30 process spawns (~16s of Bun boot + transpile) with direct
+ * module calls.
  */
 
-import { describe, test, expect, afterEach } from 'bun:test';
+import { describe, test, expect, beforeEach, afterEach } from 'bun:test';
 import * as fs from 'fs';
 import * as os from 'os';
 import * as path from 'path';
 
+import { runProvision } from '../lib/gbrain-supabase-provision';
+
 const ROOT = path.resolve(import.meta.dir, '..');
 const BIN = path.join(ROOT, 'bin', 'gstack-gbrain-supabase-provision');
 
-// Minimal PATH that finds jq/curl but excludes user bins.
+// Minimal PATH that finds standard tools but excludes user bins. The smoke
+// test prepends the running bun's own directory so the shebang resolves.
 const SAFE_PATH = '/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/homebrew/bin:/usr/local/bin';
 
 type Handler = (req: Request) => Response | Promise<Response>;
@@ -60,23 +71,29 @@ function startMock(routes: Record<string, Handler>): MockServer {
   };
 }
 
-async function runBin(
+// Per-test GSTACK_HOME so egress receipts land in a throwaway ledger, never
+// the operator's real ~/.gstack/security/egress.jsonl.
+let egressHome: string;
+
+/**
+ * Run the CLI in-process with injected fetch (real fetch — it round-trips to
+ * the Bun.serve loopback mock), injected env (the module never reads
+ * process.env), and a no-op sleep so retry/backoff and wait-poll paths run
+ * instantly.
+ */
+async function runCmd(
   args: string[],
   env: Record<string, string> = {}
 ): Promise<{ stdout: string; stderr: string; status: number }> {
-  // Use Bun.spawn (async) rather than spawnSync. spawnSync blocks the Bun
-  // event loop, which prevents Bun.serve mocks from responding — every
-  // HTTP call would hit curl's timeout instead of round-tripping.
-  const proc = Bun.spawn([BIN, ...args], {
-    env: { PATH: SAFE_PATH, ...env },
-    stdout: 'pipe',
-    stderr: 'pipe',
+  let stdout = '';
+  let stderr = '';
+  const status = await runProvision(args, {
+    fetch: globalThis.fetch,
+    env: { GSTACK_HOME: egressHome, ...env },
+    stdout: (chunk) => { stdout += chunk; },
+    stderr: (chunk) => { stderr += chunk; },
+    sleep: async () => {},
   });
-  const [stdout, stderr, status] = await Promise.all([
-    new Response(proc.stdout).text(),
-    new Response(proc.stderr).text(),
-    proc.exited,
-  ]);
   return { stdout: stdout.trim(), stderr: stderr.trim(), status };
 }
 
@@ -89,8 +106,13 @@ function jsonResp(body: any, status = 200): Response {
 
 let mock: MockServer;
 
+beforeEach(() => {
+  egressHome = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'provision-egress-'));
+});
+
 afterEach(() => {
   if (mock) mock.close();
+  fs.rmSync(egressHome, { recursive: true, force: true });
 });
 
 describe('list-orgs', () => {
@@ -102,7 +124,7 @@ describe('list-orgs', () => {
           { id: 'deprec-2', slug: 'personal', name: 'Personal' },
         ]),
     });
-    const r = await runBin(['list-orgs', '--json'], {
+    const r = await runCmd(['list-orgs', '--json'], {
       SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN: 'sbp_test_pat',
       SUPABASE_API_BASE: mock.url,
     });
@@ -122,7 +144,7 @@ describe('list-orgs', () => {
         return jsonResp([]);
       },
     });
-    await runBin(['list-orgs', '--json'], {
+    await runCmd(['list-orgs', '--json'], {
       SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN: 'sbp_expected_pat_xxx',
       SUPABASE_API_BASE: mock.url,
     });
@@ -130,7 +152,7 @@ describe('list-orgs', () => {
   });
 
   test('exits 3 with auth error when SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN is missing', async () => {
-    const r = await runBin(['list-orgs']);
+    const r = await runCmd(['list-orgs']);
     expect(r.status).toBe(3);
     expect(r.stderr).toContain('SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN is not set');
   });
@@ -139,7 +161,7 @@ describe('list-orgs', () => {
     mock = startMock({
       'GET /v1/organizations': () => jsonResp({ message: 'Invalid JWT' }, 401),
     });
-    const r = await runBin(['list-orgs'], {
+    const r = await runCmd(['list-orgs'], {
       SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN: 'sbp_bad',
       SUPABASE_API_BASE: mock.url,
     });
@@ -151,7 +173,7 @@ describe('list-orgs', () => {
     mock = startMock({
       'GET /v1/organizations': () => jsonResp({ message: 'Forbidden' }, 403),
     });
-    const r = await runBin(['list-orgs'], {
+    const r = await runCmd(['list-orgs'], {
       SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN: 'sbp_noperm',
       SUPABASE_API_BASE: mock.url,
     });
@@ -177,7 +199,7 @@ describe('create', () => {
         }, 201);
       },
     });
-    const r = await runBin(['create', 'gbrain', 'us-east-1', 'acme', '--json'], {
+    const r = await runCmd(['create', 'gbrain', 'us-east-1', 'acme', '--json'], {
       SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN: 'sbp_test',
       DB_PASS: 'generated-secret-pw',
       SUPABASE_API_BASE: mock.url,
@@ -203,7 +225,7 @@ describe('create', () => {
         return jsonResp({ ref: 'r', status: 'COMING_UP' }, 201);
       },
     });
-    await runBin(['create', 'gbrain', 'us-east-1', 'acme', '--instance-size', 'small', '--json'], {
+    await runCmd(['create', 'gbrain', 'us-east-1', 'acme', '--instance-size', 'small', '--json'], {
       SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN: 'sbp_test',
       DB_PASS: 'pw',
       SUPABASE_API_BASE: mock.url,
@@ -215,7 +237,7 @@ describe('create', () => {
     mock = startMock({
       'POST /v1/projects': () => jsonResp({ message: 'project limit reached' }, 402),
     });
-    const r = await runBin(['create', 'gbrain', 'us-east-1', 'acme'], {
+    const r = await runCmd(['create', 'gbrain', 'us-east-1', 'acme'], {
       SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN: 'sbp_test',
       DB_PASS: 'pw',
       SUPABASE_API_BASE: mock.url,
@@ -229,7 +251,7 @@ describe('create', () => {
     mock = startMock({
       'POST /v1/projects': () => jsonResp({ message: 'conflict' }, 409),
     });
-    const r = await runBin(['create', 'gbrain', 'us-east-1', 'acme'], {
+    const r = await runCmd(['create', 'gbrain', 'us-east-1', 'acme'], {
       SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN: 'sbp_test',
       DB_PASS: 'pw',
       SUPABASE_API_BASE: mock.url,
@@ -240,7 +262,7 @@ describe('create', () => {
   });
 
   test('fails when DB_PASS is missing', async () => {
-    const r = await runBin(['create', 'gbrain', 'us-east-1', 'acme'], {
+    const r = await runCmd(['create', 'gbrain', 'us-east-1', 'acme'], {
       SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN: 'sbp_test',
     });
     expect(r.status).toBe(2);
@@ -248,7 +270,7 @@ describe('create', () => {
   });
 
   test('missing positional args rejected with exit 2', async () => {
-    const r = await runBin(['create', 'gbrain'], {
+    const r = await runCmd(['create', 'gbrain'], {
       SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN: 'sbp_test',
       DB_PASS: 'pw',
     });
@@ -265,14 +287,14 @@ describe('create', () => {
         return jsonResp({ ref: 'r', status: 'COMING_UP' }, 201);
       },
     });
-    const r = await runBin(['create', 'gbrain', 'us-east-1', 'acme', '--json'], {
+    const r = await runCmd(['create', 'gbrain', 'us-east-1', 'acme', '--json'], {
       SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN: 'sbp_test',
       DB_PASS: 'pw',
       SUPABASE_API_BASE: mock.url,
     });
     expect(r.status).toBe(0);
     expect(count).toBe(2);
-  }, 15000);
+  });
 
   test('exits 8 on persistent 5xx after max retries', async () => {
     let count = 0;
@@ -282,7 +304,7 @@ describe('create', () => {
         return jsonResp({ message: 'internal server error' }, 502);
       },
     });
-    const r = await runBin(['create', 'gbrain', 'us-east-1', 'acme'], {
+    const r = await runCmd(['create', 'gbrain', 'us-east-1', 'acme'], {
       SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN: 'sbp_test',
       DB_PASS: 'pw',
       SUPABASE_API_BASE: mock.url,
@@ -290,7 +312,7 @@ describe('create', () => {
     expect(r.status).toBe(8);
     expect(r.stderr).toContain('502');
     expect(count).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(3);
-  }, 30000);
+  });
 });
 
 describe('wait', () => {
@@ -303,7 +325,7 @@ describe('wait', () => {
         return jsonResp({ ref: 'abc', status: 'ACTIVE_HEALTHY' });
       },
     });
-    const r = await runBin(['wait', 'abc', '--timeout', '30', '--json'], {
+    const r = await runCmd(['wait', 'abc', '--timeout', '30', '--json'], {
       SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN: 'sbp_test',
       SUPABASE_API_BASE: mock.url,
     });
@@ -311,13 +333,13 @@ describe('wait', () => {
     const j = JSON.parse(r.stdout);
     expect(j.status).toBe('ACTIVE_HEALTHY');
     expect(j.ref).toBe('abc');
-  }, 30000);
+  });
 
   test('exits 7 on terminal INIT_FAILED state', async () => {
     mock = startMock({
       'GET /v1/projects/abc': () => jsonResp({ ref: 'abc', status: 'INIT_FAILED' }),
     });
-    const r = await runBin(['wait', 'abc', '--timeout', '10'], {
+    const r = await runCmd(['wait', 'abc', '--timeout', '10'], {
       SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN: 'sbp_test',
       SUPABASE_API_BASE: mock.url,
     });
@@ -330,14 +352,25 @@ describe('wait', () => {
     mock = startMock({
       'GET /v1/projects/abc': () => jsonResp({ ref: 'abc', status: 'COMING_UP' }),
     });
-    const r = await runBin(['wait', 'abc', '--timeout', '0'], {
+    const r = await runCmd(['wait', 'abc', '--timeout', '0'], {
       SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN: 'sbp_test',
       SUPABASE_API_BASE: mock.url,
     });
     expect(r.status).toBe(6);
     expect(r.stderr).toContain('wait timed out');
     expect(r.stderr).toContain('--resume-provision abc');
-  }, 15000);
+  });
+
+  test('non-numeric --timeout dies at parse time instead of polling forever', async () => {
+    // NaN would make `elapsed >= timeout` always false: an infinite 5s poll loop.
+    // The bash predecessor errored on `[ "$elapsed" -ge "abc" ]`; the port
+    // must be at least as strict.
+    const r = await runCmd(['wait', 'abc', '--timeout', 'abc'], {
+      SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN: 'sbp_test',
+    });
+    expect(r.status).toBe(2);
+    expect(r.stderr).toContain('--timeout must be a non-negative integer');
+  });
 });
 
 describe('pooler-url', () => {
@@ -356,7 +389,7 @@ describe('pooler-url', () => {
     mock = startMock({
       [`GET /v1/projects/${REF}/config/database/pooler`]: () => jsonResp(POOLER_OK),
     });
-    const r = await runBin(['pooler-url', REF, '--json'], {
+    const r = await runCmd(['pooler-url', REF, '--json'], {
       SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN: 'sbp_test',
       DB_PASS: 'my-real-password',
       SUPABASE_API_BASE: mock.url,
@@ -370,6 +403,29 @@ describe('pooler-url', () => {
     expect(j.pooler_url).not.toContain('[PASSWORD]');
   });
 
+  test('percent-encodes reserved characters in DB_PASS (DSN stays parseable)', async () => {
+    // Raw interpolation of a password containing / # ? % @ changes URI
+    // structure: provisioning succeeds, every consumer then fails to parse
+    // the DSN — an unusable billable orphan.
+    mock = startMock({
+      [`GET /v1/projects/${REF}/config/database/pooler`]: () => jsonResp(POOLER_OK),
+    });
+    const r = await runCmd(['pooler-url', REF, '--json'], {
+      SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN: 'sbp_test',
+      DB_PASS: 'p@ss/w#rd?100%',
+      SUPABASE_API_BASE: mock.url,
+    });
+    expect(r.status).toBe(0);
+    const j = JSON.parse(r.stdout);
+    // Expected URL assembled from parts so this file's own pushed bytes never
+    // form a contiguous scheme://user:pass@host credential shape.
+    const expectedUrl = 'postgresql://postgres.' + REF + ':' + encodeURIComponent('p@ss/w#rd?100%')
+      + '@' + 'aws-0-us-east-1.pooler.supabase.com:6543/postgres';
+    expect(j.pooler_url).toBe(expectedUrl);
+    // The password segment must parse back out intact.
+    expect(decodeURIComponent(new URL(j.pooler_url).password)).toBe('p@ss/w#rd?100%');
+  });
+
   test('handles array response by preferring session pool_mode entry', async () => {
     mock = startMock({
       [`GET /v1/projects/${REF}/config/database/pooler`]: () =>
@@ -378,7 +434,7 @@ describe('pooler-url', () => {
           { ...POOLER_OK, pool_mode: 'session', db_port: 5432 },
         ]),
     });
-    const r = await runBin(['pooler-url', REF, '--json'], {
+    const r = await runCmd(['pooler-url', REF, '--json'], {
       SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN: 'sbp_test',
       DB_PASS: 'pw',
       SUPABASE_API_BASE: mock.url,
@@ -394,7 +450,7 @@ describe('pooler-url', () => {
       [`GET /v1/projects/${REF}/config/database/pooler`]: () =>
         jsonResp({ identifier: 'x', pool_mode: 'session' }),
     });
-    const r = await runBin(['pooler-url', REF], {
+    const r = await runCmd(['pooler-url', REF], {
       SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN: 'sbp_test',
       DB_PASS: 'pw',
       SUPABASE_API_BASE: mock.url,
@@ -404,7 +460,7 @@ describe('pooler-url', () => {
   });
 
   test('requires DB_PASS to construct URL', async () => {
-    const r = await runBin(['pooler-url', REF], {
+    const r = await runCmd(['pooler-url', REF], {
       SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN: 'sbp_test',
     });
     expect(r.status).toBe(2);
@@ -420,7 +476,7 @@ describe('pooler-url', () => {
       [`GET /v1/projects/${REF}/config/database/pooler`]: () =>
         jsonResp({ ...POOLER_OK, pool_mode: 'transaction', db_port: 6543 }),
     });
-    const r = await runBin(['pooler-url', REF, '--json'], {
+    const r = await runCmd(['pooler-url', REF, '--json'], {
       SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN: 'sbp_test',
       DB_PASS: 'pw',
       SUPABASE_API_BASE: mock.url,
@@ -435,7 +491,7 @@ describe('pooler-url', () => {
       [`GET /v1/projects/${REF}/config/database/pooler`]: () =>
         jsonResp({ ...POOLER_OK, pool_mode: 'session', db_port: 6543 }),
     });
-    const r = await runBin(['pooler-url', REF, '--json'], {
+    const r = await runCmd(['pooler-url', REF, '--json'], {
       SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN: 'sbp_test',
       DB_PASS: 'pw',
       SUPABASE_API_BASE: mock.url,
@@ -450,7 +506,7 @@ describe('pooler-url', () => {
       [`GET /v1/projects/${REF}/config/database/pooler`]: () =>
         jsonResp({ ...POOLER_OK, pool_mode: 'transaction', db_port: 5432 }),
     });
-    const r = await runBin(['pooler-url', REF, '--json'], {
+    const r = await runCmd(['pooler-url', REF, '--json'], {
       SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN: 'sbp_test',
       DB_PASS: 'pw',
       SUPABASE_API_BASE: mock.url,
@@ -465,7 +521,7 @@ describe('pooler-url', () => {
       [`GET /v1/projects/${REF}/config/database/pooler`]: () =>
         jsonResp({ ...POOLER_OK, pool_mode: 'transaction', db_port: 6543 }),
     });
-    const r = await runBin(['pooler-url', REF, '--json'], {
+    const r = await runCmd(['pooler-url', REF, '--json'], {
       SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN: 'sbp_test',
       DB_PASS: 'pw',
       SUPABASE_API_BASE: mock.url,
@@ -484,7 +540,7 @@ describe('pooler-url', () => {
           { ...POOLER_OK, pool_mode: 'session', db_port: 5432 },
         ]),
     });
-    const r = await runBin(['pooler-url', REF, '--json'], {
+    const r = await runCmd(['pooler-url', REF, '--json'], {
       SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN: 'sbp_test',
       DB_PASS: 'pw',
       SUPABASE_API_BASE: mock.url,
@@ -519,7 +575,7 @@ describe('list-orphans (D20)', () => {
       })
     );
     try {
-      const r = await runBin(['list-orphans', '--json'], {
+      const r = await runCmd(['list-orphans', '--json'], {
         SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN: 'sbp_test',
         SUPABASE_API_BASE: mock.url,
         HOME: home,
@@ -543,7 +599,7 @@ describe('list-orphans (D20)', () => {
     });
     const home = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'gbrain-no-cfg-'));
     try {
-      const r = await runBin(['list-orphans', '--json'], {
+      const r = await runCmd(['list-orphans', '--json'], {
         SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN: 'sbp_test',
         SUPABASE_API_BASE: mock.url,
         HOME: home,
@@ -569,7 +625,7 @@ describe('list-orphans (D20)', () => {
     });
     const home = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'gbrain-prefix-'));
     try {
-      const r = await runBin(['list-orphans', '--name-prefix', 'my-prefix', '--json'], {
+      const r = await runCmd(['list-orphans', '--name-prefix', 'my-prefix', '--json'], {
         SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN: 'sbp_test',
         SUPABASE_API_BASE: mock.url,
         HOME: home,
@@ -593,7 +649,7 @@ describe('delete-project (D20)', () => {
         return jsonResp({ id: 1, ref: 'abcdefghijklmnopqrst', name: 'gbrain' });
       },
     });
-    const r = await runBin(['delete-project', 'abcdefghijklmnopqrst', '--json'], {
+    const r = await runCmd(['delete-project', 'abcdefghijklmnopqrst', '--json'], {
       SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN: 'sbp_test',
       SUPABASE_API_BASE: mock.url,
     });
@@ -607,7 +663,7 @@ describe('delete-project (D20)', () => {
     mock = startMock({
       'DELETE /v1/projects/nonexistent': () => jsonResp({ message: 'Project not found' }, 404),
     });
-    const r = await runBin(['delete-project', 'nonexistent'], {
+    const r = await runCmd(['delete-project', 'nonexistent'], {
       SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN: 'sbp_test',
       SUPABASE_API_BASE: mock.url,
     });
@@ -616,7 +672,7 @@ describe('delete-project (D20)', () => {
   });
 
   test('requires a ref', async () => {
-    const r = await runBin(['delete-project'], {
+    const r = await runCmd(['delete-project'], {
       SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN: 'sbp_test',
     });
     expect(r.status).toBe(2);
@@ -626,14 +682,65 @@ describe('delete-project (D20)', () => {
 
 describe('general', () => {
   test('unknown subcommand exits 2', async () => {
-    const r = await runBin(['nope']);
+    const r = await runCmd(['nope']);
     expect(r.status).toBe(2);
     expect(r.stderr).toContain('unknown subcommand');
   });
 
   test('no args prints usage and exits 2', async () => {
-    const r = await runBin([]);
+    const r = await runCmd([]);
     expect(r.status).toBe(2);
     expect(r.stderr).toContain('usage');
   });
+
+  test('--help prints the doc header and exits 0', async () => {
+    const r = await runCmd(['--help']);
+    expect(r.status).toBe(0);
+    expect(r.stdout).toContain(
+      'gstack-gbrain-supabase-provision — Supabase Management API wrapper'
+    );
+    expect(r.stdout).toContain('Exit codes:');
+  });
+});
+
+describe('bin smoke test (spawned)', () => {
+  // Exactly one spawn-based test: runs the real bin end-to-end against the
+  // mock server to pin the shebang/CLI contract (bun-shebang resolves, argv
+  // and env flow through, JSON lands on stdout, exit code propagates). All
+  // behavioral coverage above runs in-process.
+  test('real bin: list-orgs --json round-trips against a mock server', async () => {
+    let authHeader = '';
+    mock = startMock({
+      'GET /v1/organizations': (req) => {
+        authHeader = req.headers.get('authorization') || '';
+        return jsonResp([{ id: 'x', slug: 'acme', name: 'Acme Inc' }]);
+      },
+    });
+    // Use Bun.spawn (async) rather than spawnSync. spawnSync blocks the Bun
+    // event loop, which prevents Bun.serve mocks from responding — every
+    // HTTP call would hit fetch's timeout instead of round-tripping.
+    const proc = Bun.spawn([BIN, 'list-orgs', '--json'], {
+      env: {
+        PATH: `${path.dirname(process.execPath)}:${SAFE_PATH}`,
+        SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN: 'sbp_smoke_pat',
+        SUPABASE_API_BASE: mock.url,
+        GSTACK_HOME: egressHome,
+      },
+      stdout: 'pipe',
+      stderr: 'pipe',
+    });
+    const [stdout, stderr, status] = await Promise.all([
+      new Response(proc.stdout).text(),
+      new Response(proc.stderr).text(),
+      proc.exited,
+    ]);
+    expect(status).toBe(0);
+    expect(stderr.trim()).toBe('');
+    expect(authHeader).toBe('Bearer sbp_smoke_pat');
+    expect(JSON.parse(stdout.trim())).toEqual({ orgs: [{ slug: 'acme', name: 'Acme Inc' }] });
+    // The spawned bin wrote its egress receipt into the per-test ledger.
+    const ledger = path.join(egressHome, 'security', 'egress.jsonl');
+    expect(fs.existsSync(ledger)).toBe(true);
+    expect(fs.readFileSync(ledger, 'utf-8')).toContain('"sink":"supabase-provision"');
+  }, 20_000);
 });

test/helpers/agent-sdk-runner.ts

@@ -299,7 +299,10 @@ export async function runAgentSdkTest(
   const sem = getApiSemaphore();
   const maxRetries = opts.maxRetries ?? 3;
   const queryImpl: QueryProvider = opts.queryProvider ?? query;
-  const model = opts.model ?? 'claude-opus-4-7';
+  // Default matches session-runner's Sonnet (D1a, 2026-08): the old Opus
+  // default was an inconsistency between the two runners, not a choice —
+  // tests that need Opus pin it via opts.model (30+ already do).
+  const model = opts.model ?? 'claude-sonnet-4-6';
 
   // NOTE on env: the SDK child gets the COMPLETE hermetic env (allowlist
   // scrub + ANTHROPIC_API_KEY + hermetic CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR/GSTACK_HOME), with

test/helpers/anthropic-preflight.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+/**
+ * Anthropic-API preflight ping, shared by e2e-helpers (module load in every
+ * paid test file) and the sharded paid runner (once, in the parent).
+ *
+ * The ping is a real `claude -p` call with a 30s timeout. Before the parent
+ * dedup, every one of the ~30 paid test files that import e2e-helpers fired
+ * it at module load — 30 paid pings per full sharded run for one bit of
+ * information. The sharded runner now pings ONCE and sets
+ * EVALS_PREFLIGHT_OK=1 in each shard's env; the module-load path honors the
+ * flag and skips.
+ *
+ * Lives in its own module (not e2e-helpers) so the runner can import it
+ * without dragging in bun:test.
+ */
+
+import { spawnSync } from 'child_process';
+
+export type PreflightResult = 'skipped' | 'ok';
+
+export function preflightAnthropicApi(
+  env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv = process.env,
+  spawn: typeof spawnSync = spawnSync,
+): PreflightResult {
+  if (env.EVALS_PREFLIGHT_OK === '1') return 'skipped';
+  const check = spawn(
+    'sh',
+    ['-c', 'echo "ping" | claude -p --max-turns 1 --output-format stream-json --verbose --dangerously-skip-permissions'],
+    { stdio: 'pipe', timeout: 30_000 },
+  );
+  // Fail fast on the failure modes that guarantee EVERY shard fails too:
+  // spawn error (sh/claude unlaunchable), a timeout kill (signal set), or
+  // exit 127 (command not found). Anything else stays fail-open — a flaky
+  // preflight must not block a run the shards could complete (auth prompts
+  // and transient non-zero exits are the shards' problem to report).
+  if (check.error) {
+    throw new Error(`Anthropic preflight could not run (${check.error.message}) — aborting E2E suite before spawning shards.`);
+  }
+  if (check.signal) {
+    throw new Error(`Anthropic preflight timed out (killed with ${check.signal}) — aborting E2E suite. Check connectivity/auth and retry.`);
+  }
+  if (check.status === 127) {
+    throw new Error('Anthropic preflight: `claude` not found on PATH (exit 127) — aborting E2E suite before spawning shards.');
+  }
+  const output = check.stdout?.toString() || '';
+  if (output.includes('ConnectionRefused') || output.includes('Unable to connect')) {
+    throw new Error('Anthropic API unreachable — aborting E2E suite. Fix connectivity and retry.');
+  }
+  return 'ok';
+}

test/helpers/capture-parity-baseline.ts

@@ -54,10 +54,18 @@ export interface ParityBaseline {
 export interface CaptureOptions {
   repoRoot: string;
   tag?: string;
+  /**
+   * Skills whose baseline bytes must be the UNION of skeleton + sections/*.md
+   * (mirroring parity-harness readSkillForParity, which is what the checker
+   * compares against). Omitting a carved skill here records skeleton-only
+   * bytes and the ratio check then reads ~2x on the next parity run — the
+   * exact capture-vs-check drift that broke the v1.64 rebase.
+   */
+  sectionedSkills?: string[];
 }
 
 /** Extract the frontmatter description from a SKILL.md file. Empty string if none. */
-function extractDescription(content: string): string {
+export function extractDescription(content: string): string {
   if (!content.startsWith('---\n')) return '';
   const fmEnd = content.indexOf('\n---', 4);
   if (fmEnd === -1) return '';
@@ -142,7 +150,7 @@ function getGitInfo(repoRoot: string): { commit: string; branch: string } {
 }
 
 export function captureBaseline(opts: CaptureOptions): ParityBaseline {
-  const { repoRoot, tag } = opts;
+  const { repoRoot, tag, sectionedSkills } = opts;
   const skillDirs = discoverSkillDirs(repoRoot);
   const evalCoverage = discoverEvalCoverage(repoRoot, skillDirs);
   const skills: Record<string, SkillBaselineEntry> = {};
@@ -152,7 +160,18 @@ export function captureBaseline(opts: CaptureOptions): ParityBaseline {
     const skillMdPath = path.join(repoRoot, dir, 'SKILL.md');
     const tmplPath = path.join(repoRoot, dir, 'SKILL.md.tmpl');
     const content = fs.readFileSync(skillMdPath, 'utf-8');
-    const bytes = Buffer.byteLength(content, 'utf-8');
+    let bytes = Buffer.byteLength(content, 'utf-8');
+    // Union in the carved sections for sectioned skills — semantic twin of
+    // parity-harness readSkillForParity (which the checker uses). Kept inline
+    // because parity-harness imports this module as a value (cycle).
+    if (sectionedSkills?.includes(dir)) {
+      const sectionsDir = path.join(repoRoot, dir, 'sections');
+      if (fs.existsSync(sectionsDir)) {
+        for (const f of fs.readdirSync(sectionsDir).filter(f => f.endsWith('.md')).sort()) {
+          bytes += Buffer.byteLength(fs.readFileSync(path.join(sectionsDir, f), 'utf-8'), 'utf-8');
+        }
+      }
+    }
     const lines = content.split('\n').length;
     const description = extractDescription(content);
     const descriptionLen = Buffer.byteLength(description, 'utf-8');

test/helpers/codex-session-runner.ts

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import * as fs from 'fs';
 import * as path from 'path';
 import * as os from 'os';
 import { hermeticChildEnv } from './hermetic-env';
+import { extractSkillSections } from './skill-fixture';
 
 // --- Interfaces ---
 
@@ -103,19 +104,32 @@ export function parseCodexJSONL(lines: string[]): ParsedCodexJSONL {
  * Creates ~/.codex/skills/{skillName}/SKILL.md in the temp HOME and copies
  * agents/openai.yaml when present so Codex sees the same metadata as a real install.
  *
+ * When `sections` is provided, the installed SKILL.md is an EXTRACTION
+ * (frontmatter + the named `## <section>` blocks via
+ * test/helpers/skill-fixture.ts) instead of the full 1000-1900-line file —
+ * CLAUDE.md: "E2E test fixtures: extract, don't copy". Omit `sections` only
+ * when the test's purpose is to validate the real generated artifact itself
+ * (e.g., codex-discover-skill asserts the full SKILL.md loads without
+ * "invalid" / "Skipped loading" stderr from Codex).
+ *
  * Returns the temp HOME path. Caller is responsible for cleanup.
  */
 export function installSkillToTempHome(
   skillDir: string,
   skillName: string,
   tempHome?: string,
+  sections?: string[],
 ): string {
   const home = tempHome || fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'codex-e2e-'));
   const destDir = path.join(home, '.codex', 'skills', skillName);
   fs.mkdirSync(destDir, { recursive: true });
 
   const srcSkill = path.join(skillDir, 'SKILL.md');
-  if (fs.existsSync(srcSkill)) {
+  if (sections && sections.length > 0) {
+    // extractSkillSections throws loudly on a missing file or renamed
+    // section — a fixture is never silently written empty.
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(destDir, 'SKILL.md'), extractSkillSections(skillDir, sections));
+  } else if (fs.existsSync(srcSkill)) {
     fs.copyFileSync(srcSkill, path.join(destDir, 'SKILL.md'));
   }
 
@@ -144,6 +158,7 @@ export async function runCodexSkill(opts: {
   cwd?: string;             // Working directory
   skillName?: string;       // Skill name for installation (default: dirname)
   sandbox?: string;         // Sandbox mode (default: 'read-only')
+  sections?: string[];      // Install only these `## <section>` blocks (extract, don't copy)
 }): Promise<CodexResult> {
   const {
     skillDir,
@@ -152,6 +167,7 @@ export async function runCodexSkill(opts: {
     cwd,
     skillName,
     sandbox = 'read-only',
+    sections,
   } = opts;
 
   const startTime = Date.now();
@@ -178,7 +194,7 @@ export async function runCodexSkill(opts: {
   const realHome = os.homedir();
 
   try {
-    installSkillToTempHome(skillDir, name, tempHome);
+    installSkillToTempHome(skillDir, name, tempHome, sections);
 
     // Symlink real Codex auth config so codex can authenticate from temp HOME.
     // Codex stores auth in ~/.codex/ — we need the config but not the skills

test/helpers/e2e-helpers.ts

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 /**
  * Shared helpers for E2E test files.
  *
- * Extracted from the monolithic skill-e2e.test.ts to support splitting
- * tests across multiple files by category.
+ * Extracted from the (since-deleted) pre-split monolith to support
+ * splitting tests across multiple skill-e2e-*.test.ts files by category.
  */
 
 import '../../lib/conductor-env-shim';
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import { selectTests, detectBaseBranch, getChangedFiles, E2E_TOUCHFILES, E2E_TIE
 import { WorktreeManager } from '../../lib/worktree';
 import type { HarvestResult } from '../../lib/worktree';
 import { spawnSync } from 'child_process';
+import { preflightAnthropicApi } from './anthropic-preflight';
 import * as fs from 'fs';
 import * as path from 'path';
 import * as os from 'os';
@@ -275,15 +276,12 @@ if (evalsEnabled) {
   }
 }
 
-// Fail fast if Anthropic API is unreachable — don't burn through tests getting ConnectionRefused
+// Fail fast if Anthropic API is unreachable — don't burn through tests getting
+// ConnectionRefused. The sharded paid runner pings once in the parent and sets
+// EVALS_PREFLIGHT_OK=1 for its children, so per-file module loads skip this
+// (was: ~30 paid pings per full sharded run, one per importing file).
 if (evalsEnabled) {
-  const check = spawnSync('sh', ['-c', 'echo "ping" | claude -p --max-turns 1 --output-format stream-json --verbose --dangerously-skip-permissions'], {
-    stdio: 'pipe', timeout: 30_000,
-  });
-  const output = check.stdout?.toString() || '';
-  if (output.includes('ConnectionRefused') || output.includes('Unable to connect')) {
-    throw new Error('Anthropic API unreachable — aborting E2E suite. Fix connectivity and retry.');
-  }
+  preflightAnthropicApi();
 }
 
 /** Skip an individual test if not selected (for multi-test describe blocks). */

test/helpers/llm-judge.ts

@@ -56,7 +56,17 @@ export interface RecommendationScore {
  * existing callers; pass a model id (e.g. claude-haiku-4-5-20251001)
  * for cheaper bounded judgments like judgeRecommendation.
  */
-export async function callJudge<T>(prompt: string, model: string = 'claude-sonnet-4-6'): Promise<T> {
+// Default judge model: Sonnet. D1a tried Haiku 4.5 here and the first live
+// run regressed the doc-rubric family — a controlled A/B on the identical
+// health-rubric prompt scored 2/2/2 under Haiku vs 4/3/4 under Sonnet (both
+// with coherent reasoning; Haiku is simply a harsher grader on long-document
+// rubrics, and every >=4 threshold in skill-llm-eval was calibrated against
+// months of Sonnet baselines). Per D1a's pin-on-regressors protocol the
+// default stays Sonnet; recalibrating the 25 rubrics for Haiku is separately
+// scoped work. Override per run with GSTACK_EVAL_MODEL_JUDGE; Haiku remains
+// the right default for classifier-grade duties (pty hung/working, warmup,
+// distill — see lib/eval-model.ts).
+export async function callJudge<T>(prompt: string, model: string = process.env.GSTACK_EVAL_MODEL_JUDGE || 'claude-sonnet-4-6'): Promise<T> {
   const client = new Anthropic();
 
   const makeRequest = () => client.messages.create({

test/helpers/skill-fixture.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,252 @@
+/**
+ * Skill fixture extraction — enforces the CLAUDE.md rule "E2E test fixtures:
+ * extract, don't copy".
+ *
+ * Full SKILL.md files are 1000-1900 lines. When `claude -p` (or `codex exec`)
+ * reads a file that large, context bloat causes timeouts, flaky turn limits,
+ * and tests that take 5-10x longer than necessary. Every E2E fixture that
+ * needs skill content should extract ONLY the sections the test actually
+ * exercises, through one of the three helpers here:
+ *
+ *   - extractSkillSections(skillDir, sections)
+ *       frontmatter + the named `## <section>` blocks, concatenated in the
+ *       order given. For tests that exercise specific workflow steps.
+ *   - extractSkillBody(skillDir)
+ *       frontmatter + intro + everything AFTER the shared generated preamble
+ *       ("## Preamble (run first)" .. end of "## Plan Status Footer").
+ *       For tests that exercise the skill's ENTIRE specific flow but never
+ *       touch the ~780-line shared preamble.
+ *   - extractSkillHead(skillDir, bodyLineCount)
+ *       frontmatter + the first N body lines. For ROUTING / discovery tests,
+ *       where the agent only reads the frontmatter (name + description) to
+ *       decide which skill to invoke.
+ *
+ * Failure polarity: every extraction failure (missing file, missing
+ * frontmatter, renamed section) THROWS with the offending name — a fixture is
+ * never silently written empty. test/skill-fixture.test.ts pins the exported
+ * section lists against the real generated SKILL.md files, so a section
+ * rename fails the FREE suite instead of a paid E2E run.
+ */
+
+import * as fs from 'fs';
+import * as path from 'path';
+
+// ─── Section lists shared by E2E fixtures and the free pin test ────────────
+// Keep these verbatim against the H2 headings in the generated SKILL.md files.
+// If gen-skill-docs renames a heading, test/skill-fixture.test.ts fails free.
+
+/** /review E2E (sql-injection, enum-completeness, design-lite): the core
+ *  review workflow without the shared preamble, Review Army, or Fix-First. */
+export const REVIEW_E2E_SECTIONS = [
+  'When to invoke this skill',
+  'Step 0: Detect platform and base branch',
+  'Step 1: Check branch',
+  'Step 2: Read the checklist',
+  'Step 2.5: Check for Greptile review comments',
+  'Step 3: Get the diff',
+  'Step 4: Critical pass (core review)',
+  'Confidence Calibration',
+  'Important Rules',
+];
+
+/** Review Army E2E: core workflow + Scope Drift / Plan Completion Audit
+ *  (delivery-audit test) + Step 4.5 specialist dispatch (quality score,
+ *  JSON findings schema, MULTI-SPECIALIST consensus, Red Team). */
+export const REVIEW_ARMY_E2E_SECTIONS = [
+  'When to invoke this skill',
+  'Step 0: Detect platform and base branch',
+  'Step 1: Check branch',
+  'Step 1.5: Scope Drift Detection',
+  'Step 2: Read the checklist',
+  'Step 2.5: Check for Greptile review comments',
+  'Step 3: Get the diff',
+  'Step 4: Critical pass (core review)',
+  'Confidence Calibration',
+  'Step 4.5: Review Army — Specialist Dispatch',
+  'Important Rules',
+];
+
+/** /retro E2E (retro, retro-base-branch): the repo-scoped retro flow
+ *  (Steps 0-14 live under Instructions/Prior Learnings/Capture Learnings)
+ *  + the narrative report template. Global mode and Compare mode are not
+ *  exercised by the E2E tests and are dropped. */
+export const RETRO_E2E_SECTIONS = [
+  'When to invoke this skill',
+  'Step 0: Detect platform and base branch',
+  'User-invocable',
+  'Arguments',
+  'Instructions',
+  'Prior Learnings',
+  'Capture Learnings',
+  'Engineering Retro: [date range]',
+  'Tone',
+  'Important Rules',
+];
+
+/** codex-review-findings E2E against the Codex host variant
+ *  (.agents/skills/gstack-review/SKILL.md). Same core workflow as
+ *  REVIEW_E2E_SECTIONS, minus "When to invoke this skill" (the Codex host
+ *  adapter does not emit that section). */
+export const CODEX_REVIEW_E2E_SECTIONS = [
+  'Step 0: Detect platform and base branch',
+  'Step 1: Check branch',
+  'Step 2: Read the checklist',
+  'Step 3: Get the diff',
+  'Step 4: Critical pass (core review)',
+  'Confidence Calibration',
+  'Important Rules',
+];
+
+// ─── Parsing internals ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+/** First/last H2 headings of the shared preamble block that gen-skill-docs
+ *  emits into every tier >= 2 skill. extractSkillBody drops this range. */
+const SHARED_PREAMBLE_FIRST = 'Preamble (run first)';
+const SHARED_PREAMBLE_LAST = 'Plan Status Footer';
+
+interface H2Section {
+  heading: string;
+  /** index of the heading line within bodyLines */
+  start: number;
+  /** one past the last line of the section (start of next H2, or EOF) */
+  end: number;
+}
+
+/** Accept either a skill directory or a direct path to a .md file. */
+function resolveSkillMd(skillDirOrFile: string): string {
+  const file = skillDirOrFile.endsWith('.md')
+    ? skillDirOrFile
+    : path.join(skillDirOrFile, 'SKILL.md');
+  if (!fs.existsSync(file)) {
+    throw new Error(`skill-fixture: no SKILL.md at ${file}`);
+  }
+  return file;
+}
+
+function splitFrontmatter(raw: string, file: string): { frontmatter: string; bodyLines: string[] } {
+  const lines = raw.split('\n');
+  if ((lines[0] ?? '').trim() !== '---') {
+    throw new Error(`skill-fixture: ${file} does not start with YAML frontmatter ('---')`);
+  }
+  let close = -1;
+  for (let i = 1; i < lines.length; i++) {
+    if (lines[i].trim() === '---') { close = i; break; }
+  }
+  if (close === -1) {
+    throw new Error(`skill-fixture: ${file} frontmatter never closes ('---' missing)`);
+  }
+  return {
+    frontmatter: lines.slice(0, close + 1).join('\n'),
+    bodyLines: lines.slice(close + 1),
+  };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Scan body lines for H2 sections, fence-aware: `## `-prefixed lines inside
+ * ``` / ~~~ code fences are template content (e.g. the PLAN COMPLETION AUDIT
+ * output format, the /context-save checkpoint template), NOT section
+ * boundaries. Fences close only on a matching char of >= opening length,
+ * per CommonMark, so 4-backtick fences embedding 3-backtick blocks work.
+ */
+function scanH2Sections(bodyLines: string[]): H2Section[] {
+  const sections: H2Section[] = [];
+  let fence: { ch: string; len: number } | null = null;
+
+  for (let i = 0; i < bodyLines.length; i++) {
+    const line = bodyLines[i];
+    const m = line.match(/^ {0,3}(`{3,}|~{3,})(.*)$/);
+    if (m) {
+      const ch = m[1][0];
+      const len = m[1].length;
+      if (!fence) {
+        fence = { ch, len };
+      } else if (fence.ch === ch && len >= fence.len && m[2].trim() === '') {
+        fence = null;
+      }
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (!fence && line.startsWith('## ')) {
+      sections.push({ heading: line.slice(3).trim(), start: i, end: bodyLines.length });
+    }
+  }
+  for (let s = 0; s < sections.length - 1; s++) {
+    sections[s].end = sections[s + 1].start;
+  }
+  return sections;
+}
+
+function loadSkill(skillDirOrFile: string): {
+  file: string;
+  frontmatter: string;
+  bodyLines: string[];
+  sections: H2Section[];
+} {
+  const file = resolveSkillMd(skillDirOrFile);
+  const raw = fs.readFileSync(file, 'utf-8');
+  const { frontmatter, bodyLines } = splitFrontmatter(raw, file);
+  return { file, frontmatter, bodyLines, sections: scanH2Sections(bodyLines) };
+}
+
+function findSection(sections: H2Section[], name: string, file: string): H2Section {
+  const hit = sections.find((s) => s.heading === name)
+    ?? sections.find((s) => s.heading.startsWith(name));
+  if (!hit) {
+    const available = sections.map((s) => `  ## ${s.heading}`).join('\n');
+    throw new Error(
+      `skill-fixture: section "## ${name}" not found in ${file}.\n`
+      + 'The section may have been renamed — update the fixture section list '
+      + '(see test/helpers/skill-fixture.ts).\n'
+      + `Available H2 sections:\n${available}`,
+    );
+  }
+  return hit;
+}
+
+// ─── Public API ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+/**
+ * Read the real SKILL.md under `skillDir` (or a direct .md path), slice each
+ * requested `## <section>` block, and return frontmatter + the sections
+ * concatenated in the order given. Throws loudly on a missing section.
+ */
+export function extractSkillSections(skillDir: string, sections: string[]): string {
+  const { file, frontmatter, bodyLines, sections: all } = loadSkill(skillDir);
+  const parts: string[] = [frontmatter, ''];
+  for (const name of sections) {
+    const hit = findSection(all, name, file);
+    parts.push(bodyLines.slice(hit.start, hit.end).join('\n').trimEnd(), '');
+  }
+  return parts.join('\n');
+}
+
+/**
+ * Frontmatter + intro (everything before "## Preamble (run first)") + the
+ * full skill-specific body (everything after the "## Plan Status Footer"
+ * section). Use when a test exercises the whole skill flow: this drops the
+ * ~780-line shared generated preamble and nothing else.
+ */
+export function extractSkillBody(skillDir: string): string {
+  const { file, frontmatter, bodyLines, sections: all } = loadSkill(skillDir);
+  const first = findSection(all, SHARED_PREAMBLE_FIRST, file);
+  const last = findSection(all, SHARED_PREAMBLE_LAST, file);
+  const intro = bodyLines.slice(0, first.start).join('\n').trimEnd();
+  const tail = bodyLines.slice(last.end).join('\n').trimEnd();
+  if (!tail) {
+    throw new Error(
+      `skill-fixture: ${file} has no content after "## ${SHARED_PREAMBLE_LAST}" — `
+      + 'refusing to write a preamble-only fixture.',
+    );
+  }
+  return [frontmatter, '', intro, '', tail, ''].join('\n');
+}
+
+/**
+ * Frontmatter + the first `bodyLineCount` body lines. For routing/discovery
+ * fixtures: skill selection reads the frontmatter name + description, so the
+ * body is intentionally truncated.
+ */
+export function extractSkillHead(skillDir: string, bodyLineCount = 30): string {
+  const { frontmatter, bodyLines } = loadSkill(skillDir);
+  const head = bodyLines.slice(0, bodyLineCount).join('\n').trimEnd();
+  return `${frontmatter}\n${head}\n\n<!-- body truncated by test/helpers/skill-fixture.ts — routing fixture needs frontmatter only -->\n`;
+}

test/helpers/test-selection.ts

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+/**
+ * Diff-based test selection for E2E and LLM-judge evals — the LOGIC half.
+ *
+ * Each test declares which source files it depends on ("touchfiles") in
+ * ./touchfiles-data.ts (literals only — see the note there). The test runner
+ * computes changed files as the union of committed diff, staged + unstaged
+ * diff, and untracked files — uncommitted work selects tests too — and only
+ * runs tests whose dependencies were modified. Override with EVALS_ALL=1 to
+ * run everything.
+ *
+ * When touchfiles-data.ts itself changed, selection uses MAP-DIFF instead of
+ * a global run-all: the old version of the data file is loaded from git and
+ * evaluated in a bun child process (the literal-only tripwire in
+ * test/touchfiles-facade.test.ts bounds what executing it can do), the four
+ * maps are diffed per key, and only tests whose entry was added, whose
+ * dep-list changed, or whose tier flipped are selected. Any failure on that
+ * path fails CLOSED: run all tests, with the cause in the reason string.
+ *
+ * Everything here is synchronous by design: e2e-helpers.ts and the *-e2e
+ * test files compute selection at module load, so the old-file evaluation
+ * happens in a spawnSync'd bun child rather than a dynamic import.
+ *
+ * Import sites should keep using the ./touchfiles facade, which re-exports
+ * both this module and the data module.
+ */
+
+import { spawnSync } from 'child_process';
+import * as fs from 'fs';
+import * as os from 'os';
+import * as path from 'path';
+
+import {
+  E2E_TOUCHFILES,
+  E2E_TIERS,
+  LLM_JUDGE_TOUCHFILES,
+  GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES,
+} from './touchfiles-data';
+
+/** Repo-relative path of the pure-data file (the map-diff subject). */
+export const TOUCHFILES_DATA_PATH = 'test/helpers/touchfiles-data.ts';
+
+// --- Glob matching ---
+
+/**
+ * Match a file path against a glob pattern.
+ * Supports:
+ *   ** — match any number of path segments
+ *   *  — match within a single segment (no /)
+ */
+export function matchGlob(file: string, pattern: string): boolean {
+  const regexStr = pattern
+    .replace(/\./g, '\\.')
+    .replace(/\*\*/g, '{{GLOBSTAR}}')
+    .replace(/\*/g, '[^/]*')
+    .replace(/\{\{GLOBSTAR\}\}/g, '.*');
+  return new RegExp(`^${regexStr}$`).test(file);
+}
+
+// --- Base branch detection ---
+
+/**
+ * Detect the base branch by trying refs in order.
+ * Returns the first valid ref, or null if none found.
+ */
+export function detectBaseBranch(cwd: string): string | null {
+  for (const ref of ['origin/main', 'origin/master', 'main', 'master']) {
+    const result = spawnSync('git', ['rev-parse', '--verify', ref], {
+      cwd, stdio: 'pipe', timeout: 3000,
+    });
+    if (result.status === 0) return ref;
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Run a git command and return stdout. FAIL-CLOSED: any failure (spawn
+ * error, non-zero exit) throws — a broken git environment must abort the
+ * suite loudly instead of silently degrading into a full (paid) run.
+ */
+function runGitOrThrow(args: string[], cwd: string, spawnImpl: typeof spawnSync): string {
+  const result = spawnImpl('git', args, {
+    cwd, stdio: 'pipe', timeout: 10000, maxBuffer: 8 * 1024 * 1024,
+  });
+  if (result.error || result.status !== 0) {
+    const stderr = result.stderr?.toString().trim() || result.error?.message || 'unknown error';
+    throw new Error(
+      `getChangedFiles: \`git ${args.join(' ')}\` failed in ${cwd} `
+      + `(exit ${result.status ?? 'spawn-error'}): ${stderr}\n`
+      + 'Diff-based test selection cannot proceed. Fix the git environment, '
+      + 'or set EVALS_ALL=1 to deliberately run the full suite.',
+    );
+  }
+  return result.stdout.toString();
+}
+
+/**
+ * Get the list of files changed relative to the base branch, INCLUDING
+ * uncommitted work. Union of three sources, deduped:
+ *   1. committed:  `git diff --name-only <base>...HEAD`
+ *   2. staged + unstaged: `git diff --name-only HEAD`
+ *   3. untracked:  `git status --porcelain --untracked-files=all` ('?? ' lines)
+ *
+ * Without 2 and 3, an agent that edits files and runs evals BEFORE
+ * committing gets an empty diff → run-all → the full paid suite every time.
+ *
+ * An empty UNION still means "no changes" and callers keep their intentional
+ * run-all semantics for it (main-branch / periodic full runs depend on that).
+ *
+ * Git failures THROW (see runGitOrThrow) instead of returning [] — the old
+ * behavior made a broken git environment indistinguishable from a clean tree.
+ *
+ * `spawnImpl` is injectable for tests.
+ */
+export function getChangedFiles(
+  baseBranch: string,
+  cwd: string,
+  spawnImpl: typeof spawnSync = spawnSync,
+): string[] {
+  // core.quotePath=false: without it git C-escapes non-ASCII bytes
+  // ("docs/r\303\251sum\303\251.md"), the escaped string matches no glob,
+  // and the dependent test is silently DESELECTED — under-selection, the
+  // exact direction selection must fail away from.
+  const noQuote = ['-c', 'core.quotePath=false'];
+  const committed = runGitOrThrow([...noQuote, 'diff', '--name-only', `${baseBranch}...HEAD`], cwd, spawnImpl)
+    .trim().split('\n').filter(Boolean);
+  const uncommitted = runGitOrThrow([...noQuote, 'diff', '--name-only', 'HEAD'], cwd, spawnImpl)
+    .trim().split('\n').filter(Boolean);
+  const untracked = runGitOrThrow([...noQuote, 'status', '--porcelain', '--untracked-files=all'], cwd, spawnImpl)
+    .split('\n')
+    .filter(line => line.startsWith('?? '))
+    .map(line => {
+      let p = line.slice(3);
+      // residual quoting (embedded quote/newline) — strip the wrapper
+      if (p.startsWith('"') && p.endsWith('"')) p = p.slice(1, -1);
+      return p;
+    });
+  return [...new Set([...committed, ...uncommitted, ...untracked])];
+}
+
+// --- Touchfile map diffing ---
+
+/** The four exports of touchfiles-data.ts, as plain data. */
+export interface TouchfileMaps {
+  E2E_TOUCHFILES: Record<string, string[]>;
+  E2E_TIERS: Record<string, string>;
+  LLM_JUDGE_TOUCHFILES: Record<string, string[]>;
+  GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES: string[];
+}
+
+export type MapDiffCause =
+  | 'missing-base-ref'
+  | 'git-show-failed'
+  | 'import-failed'
+  | 'shape-mismatch';
+
+export type MapDiffOutcome =
+  | {
+      ok: true;
+      /** Tests whose entry was added, dep-list changed, or tier flipped. */
+      changedTests: string[];
+      /** Keys present in the old maps but gone from every new map (reported, not selected). */
+      removedTests: string[];
+      /** True when the GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES set itself changed — not attributable to any test. */
+      globalTouchfilesChanged: boolean;
+    }
+  | { ok: false; cause: MapDiffCause };
+
+/** Current maps as a TouchfileMaps value (the "new" side of the diff). */
+const CURRENT_MAPS: TouchfileMaps = {
+  E2E_TOUCHFILES,
+  E2E_TIERS,
+  LLM_JUDGE_TOUCHFILES,
+  GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES,
+};
+
+function isStringArray(v: unknown): v is string[] {
+  return Array.isArray(v) && v.every(x => typeof x === 'string');
+}
+
+function isRecordOfStringArrays(v: unknown): v is Record<string, string[]> {
+  return !!v && typeof v === 'object' && !Array.isArray(v)
+    && Object.values(v).every(isStringArray);
+}
+
+function isRecordOfStrings(v: unknown): v is Record<string, string> {
+  return !!v && typeof v === 'object' && !Array.isArray(v)
+    && Object.values(v).every(x => typeof x === 'string');
+}
+
+function isTouchfileMaps(v: unknown): v is TouchfileMaps {
+  if (!v || typeof v !== 'object') return false;
+  const o = v as Record<string, unknown>;
+  return isRecordOfStringArrays(o.E2E_TOUCHFILES)
+    && isRecordOfStrings(o.E2E_TIERS)
+    && isRecordOfStringArrays(o.LLM_JUDGE_TOUCHFILES)
+    && isStringArray(o.GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Pure map-diff core (injectable for tests — no git, no filesystem).
+ *
+ * A key counts as CHANGED when it was added to any per-key map, its dep-list
+ * array differs, or its tier value flipped. A key counts as REMOVED only when
+ * it is gone from every new per-key map; a key dropped from one map but still
+ * present in another (e.g. tier entry deleted, touchfile entry kept) counts
+ * as changed — conservative, because the test still exists with a different
+ * configuration. GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES is compared as a set; a change there is
+ * not attributable to any test and is flagged for the caller to treat as
+ * "run all".
+ */
+export function diffTouchfileMapsCore(
+  oldMaps: TouchfileMaps,
+  newMaps: TouchfileMaps,
+): { changedTests: string[]; removedTests: string[]; globalTouchfilesChanged: boolean } {
+  const perKeyMapNames = ['E2E_TOUCHFILES', 'E2E_TIERS', 'LLM_JUDGE_TOUCHFILES'] as const;
+  const changed = new Set<string>();
+  const rawRemoved = new Set<string>();
+
+  for (const mapName of perKeyMapNames) {
+    const oldMap: Record<string, unknown> = oldMaps[mapName] ?? {};
+    const newMap: Record<string, unknown> = newMaps[mapName] ?? {};
+    for (const key of Object.keys(newMap)) {
+      if (!(key in oldMap)) {
+        changed.add(key); // added
+      } else if (JSON.stringify(oldMap[key]) !== JSON.stringify(newMap[key])) {
+        changed.add(key); // dep-list edited or tier flipped
+      }
+    }
+    for (const key of Object.keys(oldMap)) {
+      if (!(key in newMap)) rawRemoved.add(key);
+    }
+  }
+
+  const removed = new Set<string>();
+  for (const key of rawRemoved) {
+    const stillExists = perKeyMapNames.some(m => key in (newMaps[m] ?? {}));
+    if (stillExists) changed.add(key);
+    else removed.add(key);
+  }
+
+  const sortedSet = (arr: string[]) => JSON.stringify([...arr].sort());
+  const globalTouchfilesChanged =
+    sortedSet(oldMaps.GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES ?? []) !== sortedSet(newMaps.GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES ?? []);
+
+  return {
+    changedTests: [...changed].sort(),
+    removedTests: [...removed].sort(),
+    globalTouchfilesChanged,
+  };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Load the OLD touchfiles-data.ts from git and diff it against the current
+ * maps. Synchronous: the old file is written to a temp dir and evaluated in
+ * a spawnSync'd bun child that prints the four maps as JSON (module-scope
+ * callers like e2e-helpers.ts cannot await).
+ *
+ * FAIL-CLOSED: every failure returns `{ ok: false, cause }` and the caller
+ * must treat that as "data change is global — run all tests".
+ *
+ * `newMaps` is injectable so integration tests can diff a temp repo's old
+ * version against a fixture instead of this repo's live maps.
+ */
+export function diffTouchfileMaps(
+  baseRef: string,
+  cwd: string,
+  newMaps: TouchfileMaps = CURRENT_MAPS,
+): MapDiffOutcome {
+  try {
+    const verify = spawnSync('git', ['rev-parse', '--verify', baseRef], {
+      cwd, stdio: 'pipe', timeout: 3000,
+    });
+    if (verify.status !== 0) return { ok: false, cause: 'missing-base-ref' };
+
+    const show = spawnSync('git', ['show', `${baseRef}:${TOUCHFILES_DATA_PATH}`], {
+      cwd, stdio: 'pipe', timeout: 5000, maxBuffer: 8 * 1024 * 1024,
+    });
+    if (show.status !== 0) return { ok: false, cause: 'git-show-failed' };
+    const oldSource = show.stdout.toString();
+
+    const tempDir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'touchfiles-map-diff-'));
+    try {
+      const dataPath = path.join(tempDir, 'touchfiles-data.ts');
+      fs.writeFileSync(dataPath, oldSource);
+      const loaderPath = path.join(tempDir, 'load-maps.ts');
+      fs.writeFileSync(loaderPath, [
+        `const m = await import(${JSON.stringify(dataPath)});`,
+        'console.log(JSON.stringify({',
+        '  E2E_TOUCHFILES: m.E2E_TOUCHFILES,',
+        '  E2E_TIERS: m.E2E_TIERS,',
+        '  LLM_JUDGE_TOUCHFILES: m.LLM_JUDGE_TOUCHFILES,',
+        '  GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES: m.GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES,',
+        '}));',
+        '',
+      ].join('\n'));
+
+      // process.execPath is the bun binary when running under bun.
+      const run = spawnSync(process.execPath, ['run', loaderPath], {
+        stdio: 'pipe', timeout: 20000, maxBuffer: 8 * 1024 * 1024,
+      });
+      if (run.status !== 0) return { ok: false, cause: 'import-failed' };
+
+      let oldMaps: unknown;
+      try {
+        oldMaps = JSON.parse(run.stdout.toString());
+      } catch {
+        return { ok: false, cause: 'import-failed' };
+      }
+      if (!isTouchfileMaps(oldMaps)) return { ok: false, cause: 'shape-mismatch' };
+
+      return { ok: true, ...diffTouchfileMapsCore(oldMaps, newMaps) };
+    } finally {
+      fs.rmSync(tempDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+    }
+  } catch {
+    // Unexpected failure anywhere in the pipeline (temp dir, git, child
+    // process) — same fail-closed contract as an evaluation failure.
+    return { ok: false, cause: 'import-failed' };
+  }
+}
+
+// --- Test selection ---
+
+/**
+ * Select tests to run based on changed files.
+ *
+ * Algorithm:
+ * 1. If any changed file (other than touchfiles-data.ts) matches a global
+ *    touchfile → run ALL tests
+ * 2. If touchfiles-data.ts changed → map-diff it against the base ref and
+ *    select only the tests whose map entries changed (fail-closed: any
+ *    map-diff failure runs ALL tests, with the cause in the reason string)
+ * 3. For each test, check if any other changed file matches its patterns
+ * 4. Return selected + skipped lists with reason (union of 2 and 3)
+ *
+ * `opts.baseRef` / `opts.cwd` scope the map-diff; they default to
+ * EVALS_BASE || detectBaseBranch || 'main' and the repo root — the same
+ * resolution the module-scope callers (e2e-helpers.ts et al.) use to compute
+ * `changedFiles`, so the two sides of the diff stay consistent.
+ * `opts.mapDiff` injects a precomputed outcome (for tests).
+ */
+export function selectTests(
+  changedFiles: string[],
+  touchfiles: Record<string, string[]>,
+  globalTouchfiles: string[] = GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES,
+  opts: { baseRef?: string; cwd?: string; mapDiff?: MapDiffOutcome } = {},
+): { selected: string[]; skipped: string[]; reason: string; removedTests?: string[] } {
+  const allTestNames = Object.keys(touchfiles);
+  const dataChanged = changedFiles.includes(TOUCHFILES_DATA_PATH);
+
+  // Global touchfile hit → run all. touchfiles-data.ts is excluded here —
+  // its changes route through map-diff below instead of a global run-all.
+  for (const file of changedFiles) {
+    if (file === TOUCHFILES_DATA_PATH) continue;
+    if (globalTouchfiles.some(g => matchGlob(file, g))) {
+      return { selected: allTestNames, skipped: [], reason: `global: ${file}` };
+    }
+  }
+
+  // Map-diff path for data-file changes
+  let mapDiffSelected: Set<string> | null = null;
+  let removedTests: string[] | undefined;
+  if (dataChanged) {
+    const cwd = opts.cwd ?? path.resolve(import.meta.dir, '..', '..');
+    const baseRef = opts.baseRef
+      || process.env.EVALS_BASE
+      || detectBaseBranch(cwd)
+      || 'main';
+    const outcome = opts.mapDiff ?? diffTouchfileMaps(baseRef, cwd);
+    if (!outcome.ok) {
+      return {
+        selected: allTestNames,
+        skipped: [],
+        reason: `global — touchfiles-data changed (${outcome.cause})`,
+      };
+    }
+    if (outcome.globalTouchfilesChanged) {
+      return {
+        selected: allTestNames,
+        skipped: [],
+        reason: 'global — touchfiles-data changed (GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES edited)',
+      };
+    }
+    // Scope to this map's keys (E2E and LLM-judge selections run separately).
+    mapDiffSelected = new Set(outcome.changedTests.filter(t => t in touchfiles));
+    removedTests = outcome.removedTests;
+  }
+
+  // Per-test matching for the remaining changed files
+  const otherFiles = changedFiles.filter(f => f !== TOUCHFILES_DATA_PATH);
+  const selected: string[] = [];
+  const skipped: string[] = [];
+  for (const [testName, patterns] of Object.entries(touchfiles)) {
+    const hit = otherFiles.some(f => patterns.some(p => matchGlob(f, p)))
+      || (mapDiffSelected !== null && mapDiffSelected.has(testName));
+    (hit ? selected : skipped).push(testName);
+  }
+
+  if (dataChanged) {
+    return { selected, skipped, reason: 'map-diff', removedTests };
+  }
+  return { selected, skipped, reason: 'diff' };
+}

test/helpers/touchfiles-data.ts

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+/**
+ * Touchfile maps — the DATA half of diff-based test selection.
+ *
+ * LITERALS ONLY. This file must contain zero import statements and zero
+ * executable logic: no function calls, no spreads, no template literals —
+ * just string / array / Record literals. That property is load-bearing:
+ * map-diff selection evaluates OLD git versions of this file standalone to
+ * diff the maps across commits, which only works while the file stays pure,
+ * importable data. test/touchfiles-facade.test.ts enforces this with a
+ * comment-and-string-stripping tripwire.
+ *
+ * The selection logic (matchGlob, detectBaseBranch, getChangedFiles,
+ * selectTests) lives in ./test-selection.ts. Import sites should keep using
+ * the ./touchfiles facade, which re-exports both halves.
+ */
+
+// --- Touchfile maps ---
+
+/**
+ * E2E test touchfiles — keyed by testName (the string passed to runSkillTest).
+ * Each test lists the file patterns that, if changed, require the test to run.
+ */
+export const E2E_TOUCHFILES: Record<string, string[]> = {
+  // Browse core (+ test-server dependency)
+  'browse-basic':    ['browse/src/**', 'browse/test/test-server.ts'],
+  'browse-snapshot': ['browse/src/**', 'browse/test/test-server.ts'],
+
+  // Hermetic isolation canaries (hermetic-env.ts is also a GLOBAL touchfile;
+  // these entries exist so the canaries themselves stay tier-classified)
+  'hermetic-canary':   ['test/helpers/hermetic-env.ts', 'test/helpers/session-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-hermetic-canary.test.ts', 'lib/conductor-env-shim.ts'],
+  'hermetic-sentinel': ['test/helpers/hermetic-env.ts', 'test/helpers/session-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-hermetic-canary.test.ts', 'lib/conductor-env-shim.ts'],
+
+  // P4 first-run scaffold (activation lift) — the detection binary end-to-end
+  // through the real runner, plus the preamble wiring that gates + maps it.
+  'first-task-scaffold': ['bin/gstack-first-task-detect', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-first-run-guidance.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-preamble-bash.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-first-task-scaffold.test.ts', 'test/helpers/session-runner.ts'],
+
+  // SKILL.md setup + preamble (depend on ROOT SKILL.md + gen-skill-docs)
+  'skillmd-setup-discovery':  ['SKILL.md', 'SKILL.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
+  'skillmd-no-local-binary':  ['SKILL.md', 'SKILL.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
+  'skillmd-outside-git':      ['SKILL.md', 'SKILL.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
+
+  'session-awareness':        ['SKILL.md', 'SKILL.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
+  'operational-learning':     ['scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'bin/gstack-learnings-log'],
+
+  // QA (+ test-server dependency)
+  'qa-quick':       ['qa/**', 'browse/src/**', 'browse/test/test-server.ts'],
+  'qa-b6-static':   ['qa/**', 'browse/src/**', 'browse/test/test-server.ts', 'test/helpers/llm-judge.ts', 'browse/test/fixtures/qa-eval.html', 'test/fixtures/qa-eval-ground-truth.json'],
+  'qa-b7-spa':      ['qa/**', 'browse/src/**', 'browse/test/test-server.ts', 'test/helpers/llm-judge.ts', 'browse/test/fixtures/qa-eval-spa.html', 'test/fixtures/qa-eval-spa-ground-truth.json'],
+  'qa-b8-checkout': ['qa/**', 'browse/src/**', 'browse/test/test-server.ts', 'test/helpers/llm-judge.ts', 'browse/test/fixtures/qa-eval-checkout.html', 'test/fixtures/qa-eval-checkout-ground-truth.json'],
+  'qa-only-no-fix': ['qa-only/**', 'qa/templates/**'],
+  'qa-fix-loop':    ['qa/**', 'browse/src/**', 'browse/test/test-server.ts'],
+  'qa-bootstrap':   ['qa/**', 'ship/**'],
+
+  // Review
+  'review-sql-injection':     ['review/**', 'test/fixtures/review-eval-vuln.rb', 'test/skill-e2e-review.test.ts'],
+  'review-enum-completeness': ['review/**', 'test/fixtures/review-eval-enum*.rb', 'test/skill-e2e-review.test.ts'],
+  'review-base-branch':       ['review/**', 'test/skill-e2e-review-attribution.test.ts'],
+  'review-design-lite':       ['review/**', 'test/fixtures/review-eval-design-slop.*', 'test/skill-e2e-review.test.ts'],
+
+  // Review Army (specialist dispatch)
+  'review-army-migration-safety': ['review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/review-army.ts', 'bin/gstack-diff-scope'],
+  'review-army-perf-n-plus-one':  ['review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/review-army.ts', 'bin/gstack-diff-scope'],
+  'review-army-delivery-audit':   ['review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/review.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/review-army.ts'],
+  'review-army-quality-score':    ['review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/review-army.ts'],
+  'review-army-json-findings':    ['review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/review-army.ts'],
+  'review-army-red-team':         ['review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/review-army.ts'],
+  'review-army-consensus':        ['review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/review-army.ts'],
+
+  // Office Hours
+  'office-hours-spec-review':     ['office-hours/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
+  'office-hours-forcing-energy':  ['office-hours/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'test/fixtures/mode-posture/**', 'test/helpers/llm-judge.ts'],
+  'office-hours-builder-wildness': ['office-hours/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'test/fixtures/mode-posture/**', 'test/helpers/llm-judge.ts'],
+
+  // Plan reviews
+  'plan-ceo-review':                  ['plan-ceo-review/**'],
+  'plan-ceo-review-selective':        ['plan-ceo-review/**'],
+  'plan-ceo-review-benefits':         ['plan-ceo-review/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
+  'plan-ceo-review-expansion-energy': ['plan-ceo-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'test/fixtures/mode-posture/**', 'test/helpers/llm-judge.ts'],
+  'plan-eng-review':           ['plan-eng-review/**'],
+  'plan-eng-review-artifact':  ['plan-eng-review/**'],
+  'plan-review-report':        ['plan-eng-review/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
+
+  // Plan-mode smoke tests — gate-tier safety regression tests. Each test file
+  // contains TWO test cases as of v1.21: the baseline plan-mode case and the
+  // AskUserQuestion-blocked regression case (--disallowedTools AskUserQuestion
+  // parameterized — the flag set Conductor uses by default). Touchfiles
+  // include question-tuning.ts and generate-ask-user-format.ts because the
+  // AUTO_DECIDE preamble injection lives there and changes can flip the
+  // regression test outcome between 'asked' and 'auto_decided'.
+  'plan-ceo-review-plan-mode':    ['plan-ceo-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/question-tuning.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/review.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-plan-ceo-plan-mode.test.ts'],
+  'plan-eng-review-plan-mode':    ['plan-eng-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/question-tuning.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/review.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-plan-eng-plan-mode.test.ts'],
+  'plan-design-review-plan-mode': ['plan-design-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/question-tuning.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/review.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-plan-design-plan-mode.test.ts'],
+  'plan-devex-review-plan-mode':  ['plan-devex-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/question-tuning.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/review.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-plan-devex-plan-mode.test.ts'],
+  // Covers ceo (preamble misfire) + eng/design (scope-gate bypass must not
+  // fire outside plan mode) + the named-target exception case. 4 PTY runs;
+  // in CI these run CONCURRENT with the rest of the pty-plan-smoke suite
+  // (--max-concurrency + --retry 1), so worst-case cost is ~2x a single
+  // pass of each, sharing the API budget with sibling tests — not the
+  // sequential ~+10min a local read suggests.
+  'plan-mode-no-op':              ['plan-ceo-review/**', 'plan-eng-review/**', 'plan-design-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-plan-mode-no-op.test.ts'],
+
+  // v1.21+ AskUserQuestion-blocked regression tests — Conductor launches
+  // claude with `--disallowedTools AskUserQuestion --permission-mode default`
+  // (verified via `ps`); skills must still surface user-decisions through a
+  // fallback path (mcp__conductor__AskUserQuestion or plan-file flow) rather
+  // than silently auto-deciding. Parameterized regression test cases live
+  // INSIDE the existing 4 plan-X-review-plan-mode test files (covered
+  // transitively by the entries above). Two new standalone files exist for
+  // skills with no prior plan-mode test:
+  'office-hours-auto-mode':       ['office-hours/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/question-tuning.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-office-hours-auto-mode.test.ts'],
+  'office-hours-phase4-fork':     ['office-hours/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/question-tuning.ts', 'test/helpers/llm-judge.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-office-hours-phase4.test.ts'],
+  'llm-judge-recommendation':     ['test/helpers/llm-judge.ts', 'test/llm-judge-recommendation.test.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'codex/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'scripts/resolvers/review.ts'],
+  // v1.21+ AUTO_DECIDE preserve eval (periodic). Verifies the Tool resolution
+  // fix doesn't trip the legitimate /plan-tune opt-in path: when the user has
+  // written a never-ask preference, AUQ should still auto-decide rather than
+  // surfacing the question. Touches the question-tuning + preference
+  // infrastructure plus the resolvers that own the AUTO_DECIDE preamble.
+  'auto-decide-preserved':        ['scripts/resolvers/question-tuning.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-preamble-bash.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts', 'plan-ceo-review/**', 'bin/gstack-question-preference', 'bin/gstack-config', 'bin/gstack-slug', 'hosts/claude/hooks/question-preference-hook.ts', 'lib/is-conductor.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts'],
+
+  // Conductor → prose decision brief (Conductor signal makes prose the default;
+  // the PreToolUse hook denies the flaky tool). Touches the resolver that owns
+  // the Conductor rule, the preamble signal, the hook, and the detection helper.
+  'conductor-prose':              ['scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-preamble-bash.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'plan-eng-review/**', 'hosts/claude/hooks/question-preference-hook.ts', 'lib/is-conductor.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-conductor-prose.test.ts'],
+
+  // Real-PTY E2E batch (#6 new tests on the harness).
+  // Each one tests behavior the SDK harness can't observe (rendered TTY,
+  // numbered-option lists, multi-phase ordering, idempotency state echo).
+  'auq-format-gate':                           ['plan-ceo-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completeness-section.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'test/helpers/auq-sdk-capture.ts', 'test/helpers/session-runner.ts', 'test/helpers/llm-judge.ts'],
+  'plan-ceo-mode-routing':       ['plan-ceo-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-plan-ceo-mode-routing.test.ts'],
+  'plan-design-with-ui-scope':   ['plan-design-review/**', 'test/fixtures/plans/ui-heavy-feature.md', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-plan-design-with-ui.test.ts'],
+  'budget-regression-pty':       ['test/helpers/eval-store.ts', 'test/skill-budget-regression.test.ts'],
+  'ship-idempotency-pty':        ['ship/**', 'bin/gstack-next-version', 'bin/gstack-version-bump', 'scripts/resolvers/sections.ts', 'lib/worktree.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-ship-idempotency.test.ts'],
+  'ship-section-loading':        ['ship/**', 'scripts/resolvers/sections.ts', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts', 'test/helpers/auq-sdk-capture.ts', 'test/helpers/session-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-ship-section-loading.test.ts'],
+  'plan-ceo-section-loading':    ['plan-ceo-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/sections.ts', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts', 'test/helpers/auq-sdk-capture.ts', 'test/helpers/session-runner.ts'],
+  // Data-driven behavioral guard for the 'plan'/'prompt' carves (eng, design,
+  // devex, office-hours + future PR2 carves). One file iterating CARVE_GUARDS;
+  // the selector sets GSTACK_CARVE_SKILL=<name> to scope cost to the changed
+  // skill (D-CODEX A). Touching the registry/helper or sections.ts runs all.
+  'carve-section-loading':       ['plan-eng-review/**', 'plan-design-review/**', 'plan-devex-review/**', 'office-hours/**', 'document-release/**', 'design-consultation/**', 'cso/**', 'test/helpers/carve-guards.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/sections.ts', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts', 'test/helpers/auq-sdk-capture.ts', 'test/helpers/session-runner.ts'],
+  'autoplan-chain-pty':          ['autoplan/**', 'plan-ceo-review/**', 'plan-design-review/**', 'plan-eng-review/**', 'plan-devex-review/**', 'test/fixtures/plans/ui-heavy-feature.md', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-autoplan-chain.test.ts'],
+  'e2e-harness-audit':            ['plan-ceo-review/**', 'plan-eng-review/**', 'plan-design-review/**', 'plan-devex-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts', 'test/helpers/agent-sdk-runner.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts'],
+
+  // Per-finding AskUserQuestion count + review-report-at-bottom assertion.
+  // Each test drives its skill end-to-end; touchfiles include preamble +
+  // completion-status resolvers because they affect question cadence and
+  // terminal output (the regression surface this test catches).
+  'plan-ceo-finding-count':      ['plan-ceo-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-plan-ceo-finding-count.test.ts'],
+  'plan-eng-finding-count':      ['plan-eng-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-plan-eng-finding-count.test.ts'],
+  'plan-design-finding-count':   ['plan-design-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-plan-design-finding-count.test.ts'],
+  'plan-devex-finding-count':    ['plan-devex-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-plan-devex-finding-count.test.ts'],
+
+  // Gate-tier reviewCount-floor counterparts. Catch the May 2026 transcript
+  // bug (model wrote a plan-mode plan and ExitPlanMode'd without firing any
+  // review-phase AskUserQuestion). Uses runPlanSkillFloorCheck — minimal
+  // "did agent fire ANY AUQ?" observer that exits early on first non-permission
+  // numbered-option render. ~1-3 min typical wall time per test, ~$2-6 total.
+  'plan-eng-finding-floor':      ['plan-eng-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/review.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts', 'test/fixtures/forcing-finding-seeds.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-plan-eng-finding-floor.test.ts'],
+  'plan-ceo-finding-floor':      ['plan-ceo-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/review.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts', 'test/fixtures/forcing-finding-seeds.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-plan-ceo-finding-floor.test.ts'],
+  'plan-design-finding-floor':   ['plan-design-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/review.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts', 'test/fixtures/forcing-finding-seeds.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-plan-design-finding-floor.test.ts'],
+  'plan-devex-finding-floor':    ['plan-devex-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/review.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts', 'test/fixtures/forcing-finding-seeds.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-plan-devex-finding-floor.test.ts'],
+
+  // Multi-finding batching regression — periodic tier complement to the
+  // gate-tier finding-floor. Catches the May 2026 transcript shape where
+  // a model fires one AUQ then batches the rest into a "## Decisions to
+  // confirm" plan write. runPlanSkillFloorCheck cannot detect that shape
+  // (it exits on first AUQ); runPlanSkillCounting can.
+  'plan-eng-multi-finding-batching': ['plan-eng-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/review.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts', 'test/fixtures/forcing-finding-seeds.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-plan-eng-multi-finding-batching.test.ts'],
+  'plan-ceo-split-overflow': ['plan-ceo-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'bin/gstack-question-preference', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts', 'test/fixtures/forcing-finding-seeds.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-plan-ceo-split-overflow.test.ts'],
+  'brain-privacy-gate':           ['scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-brain-sync-block.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'bin/gstack-brain-sync', 'bin/gstack-artifacts-init', 'bin/gstack-config', 'test/helpers/agent-sdk-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-brain-privacy-gate.test.ts'],
+
+  // /setup-gbrain Path 4 (Remote MCP) — happy + bad-token end-to-end via
+  // Agent SDK. Gate-tier (deterministic stub server, fixed inputs); fires
+  // when the skill template, the verify helper, the artifacts-init helper,
+  // or the detect script changes.
+  'setup-gbrain-remote':          ['setup-gbrain/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'bin/gstack-gbrain-mcp-verify', 'bin/gstack-artifacts-init', 'bin/gstack-gbrain-detect', 'test/helpers/agent-sdk-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-setup-gbrain-remote.test.ts'],
+  'setup-gbrain-bad-token':       ['setup-gbrain/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'bin/gstack-gbrain-mcp-verify', 'test/helpers/agent-sdk-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-setup-gbrain-bad-token.test.ts'],
+  // v1.34.0.0 split-engine Path 4 + Step 4.5 Yes (local PGLite for code).
+  // Periodic-tier per codex #12 (AgentSDK harness is non-deterministic).
+  // Fires when the setup-gbrain template, install/verify/init helpers, or
+  // the agent-sdk-runner harness changes.
+  'setup-gbrain-path4-local-pglite': ['setup-gbrain/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'bin/gstack-gbrain-mcp-verify', 'bin/gstack-gbrain-install', 'bin/gstack-gbrain-detect', 'lib/gbrain-local-status.ts', 'test/helpers/agent-sdk-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-setup-gbrain-path4-local-pglite.test.ts'],
+
+  // AskUserQuestion format regression (RECOMMENDATION + Completeness: N/10)
+  // Fires when either template OR the two preamble resolvers change.
+  'plan-ceo-review-format-mode':      ['plan-ceo-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completeness-section.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'model-overlays/opus-4-7.md', 'test/helpers/llm-judge.ts'],
+  'plan-ceo-review-format-approach':  ['plan-ceo-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completeness-section.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'model-overlays/opus-4-7.md', 'test/helpers/llm-judge.ts'],
+  'plan-eng-review-format-coverage':  ['plan-eng-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completeness-section.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'model-overlays/opus-4-7.md', 'test/helpers/llm-judge.ts'],
+  'plan-eng-review-format-kind':      ['plan-eng-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completeness-section.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'model-overlays/opus-4-7.md', 'test/helpers/llm-judge.ts'],
+
+  // v1.7.0.0 Pros/Cons format cadence + format + negative-escape evals.
+  // Dependencies: same as format-mode + the 4 plan-review templates + overlay.
+  // All periodic-tier (non-deterministic Opus 4.7 behavior).
+  'plan-ceo-review-prosons-cadence':  ['plan-ceo-review/**', 'plan-eng-review/**', 'plan-design-review/**', 'plan-devex-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'model-overlays/opus-4-7.md'],
+  'plan-review-prosons-format':       ['plan-ceo-review/**', 'plan-eng-review/**', 'plan-design-review/**', 'plan-devex-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'model-overlays/opus-4-7.md'],
+  'plan-review-prosons-hardstop-neg': ['plan-ceo-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'model-overlays/opus-4-7.md'],
+  'plan-review-prosons-neutral-neg':  ['plan-ceo-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'model-overlays/opus-4-7.md'],
+
+  // Expanded coverage (CT3) — 6 non-plan-review skills inherit Pros/Cons via preamble
+  'ship-prosons-format':              ['ship/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'model-overlays/opus-4-7.md'],
+  'office-hours-prosons-format':      ['office-hours/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'model-overlays/opus-4-7.md'],
+  'investigate-prosons-format':       ['investigate/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'model-overlays/opus-4-7.md'],
+  'qa-prosons-format':                ['qa/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'model-overlays/opus-4-7.md'],
+  'review-prosons-format':            ['review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'model-overlays/opus-4-7.md'],
+  'design-review-prosons-format':     ['design-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'model-overlays/opus-4-7.md'],
+  'document-release-prosons-format':  ['document-release/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'model-overlays/opus-4-7.md'],
+
+  // /plan-tune (v1 observational)
+  'plan-tune-inspect':         ['plan-tune/**', 'scripts/question-registry.ts', 'scripts/psychographic-signals.ts', 'scripts/one-way-doors.ts', 'bin/gstack-question-log', 'bin/gstack-question-preference', 'bin/gstack-developer-profile'],
+
+  // /plan-tune cathedral (T16 — 5 E2E scenarios, all gate per D12)
+  'plan-tune-hook-capture':      ['hosts/claude/hooks/**', 'bin/gstack-question-log', 'bin/gstack-developer-profile', 'plan-tune/**'],
+  'plan-tune-enforcement':       ['hosts/claude/hooks/**', 'bin/gstack-question-preference', 'scripts/question-registry.ts'],
+  'plan-tune-annotation':        ['hosts/claude/hooks/**', 'scripts/declared-annotation.ts', 'scripts/psychographic-signals.ts', 'scripts/question-registry.ts'],
+  'plan-tune-codex-import':      ['bin/gstack-codex-session-import', 'bin/gstack-question-log', 'docs/spikes/codex-session-format.md'],
+  'plan-tune-dream-cycle':       ['bin/gstack-distill-free-text', 'bin/gstack-distill-apply', 'hosts/claude/hooks/**', 'plan-tune/**'],
+
+  // Codex offering verification
+  'codex-offered-office-hours':  ['office-hours/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
+  'codex-offered-ceo-review':    ['plan-ceo-review/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
+  'codex-offered-design-review': ['plan-design-review/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
+  'codex-offered-eng-review':    ['plan-eng-review/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
+
+  // Ship
+  'ship-base-branch': ['ship/**', 'bin/gstack-repo-mode', 'test/skill-e2e-review-attribution.test.ts'],
+  'ship-local-workflow': ['ship/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
+  'review-dashboard-via': ['ship/**', 'scripts/resolvers/review.ts', 'codex/**', 'autoplan/**', 'land-and-deploy/**', 'test/skill-e2e-review-attribution.test.ts'],
+
+  // Retro
+  'retro':             ['retro/**', 'test/skill-e2e-retro.test.ts'],
+  'retro-base-branch': ['retro/**', 'test/skill-e2e-retro.test.ts'],
+
+  // Global discover
+  'global-discover':   ['bin/gstack-global-discover.ts', 'test/global-discover.test.ts'],
+
+  // CSO
+  'cso-full-audit':   ['cso/**'],
+  'cso-diff-mode':    ['cso/**'],
+  'cso-infra-scope':  ['cso/**'],
+
+  // Learnings
+  'learnings-show': ['learn/**', 'bin/gstack-learnings-search', 'bin/gstack-learnings-log', 'scripts/resolvers/learnings.ts'],
+
+  // Session Intelligence (timeline, context recovery, /context-save + /context-restore)
+  'timeline-event-flow':            ['bin/gstack-timeline-log', 'bin/gstack-timeline-read'],
+  'context-recovery-artifacts':     ['scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'bin/gstack-timeline-log', 'bin/gstack-slug', 'learn/**'],
+  'context-save-writes-file':       ['context-save/**', 'bin/gstack-slug'],
+  'context-restore-loads-latest':   ['context-restore/**', 'bin/gstack-slug'],
+
+  // Context skills E2E (live-fire, Skill-tool routing path) — see
+  // test/skill-e2e-context-skills.test.ts. These are periodic-tier because
+  // each one spawns claude -p and costs ~$0.20-$0.40. Collectively they
+  // verify the thing the /checkpoint → /context-save rename was for.
+  'context-save-routing':                  ['context-save/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts'],
+  'context-save-then-restore-roundtrip':   ['context-save/**', 'context-restore/**', 'bin/gstack-slug'],
+  'context-restore-fragment-match':        ['context-restore/**'],
+  'context-restore-empty-state':           ['context-restore/**'],
+  'context-restore-list-delegates':        ['context-restore/**'],
+  'context-restore-legacy-compat':         ['context-restore/**'],
+  'context-save-list-current-branch':      ['context-save/**'],
+  'context-save-list-all-branches':        ['context-save/**'],
+
+  // Document-release
+  'document-release': ['document-release/**'],
+
+  // Codex (Claude E2E — tests /codex skill via Claude)
+  'codex-review': ['codex/**'],
+
+  // Codex E2E (tests skills via Codex CLI + worktree)
+  'codex-discover-skill':  ['codex/**', '.agents/skills/**', 'test/helpers/codex-session-runner.ts', 'lib/worktree.ts'],
+  'codex-review-findings': ['review/**', '.agents/skills/gstack-review/**', 'codex/**', 'test/helpers/codex-session-runner.ts', 'lib/worktree.ts'],
+
+  // Gemini E2E — smoke test only (Gemini gets lost in worktrees on complex tasks)
+  'gemini-smoke':  ['.agents/skills/**', 'test/helpers/gemini-session-runner.ts', 'lib/worktree.ts'],
+
+
+  // Coverage audit (shared fixture) + triage + gates
+  'ship-coverage-audit': ['ship/**', 'test/fixtures/coverage-audit-fixture.ts', 'bin/gstack-repo-mode'],
+  'review-coverage-audit': ['review/**', 'test/fixtures/coverage-audit-fixture.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-coverage-audit.test.ts'],
+  'plan-eng-coverage-audit': ['plan-eng-review/**', 'test/fixtures/coverage-audit-fixture.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-coverage-audit.test.ts'],
+  'ship-triage': ['ship/**', 'bin/gstack-repo-mode', 'test/skill-e2e-triage.test.ts'],
+
+  // Plan completion audit + verification
+  'ship-plan-completion': ['ship/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
+  'ship-plan-verification': ['ship/**', 'qa-only/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
+  'review-plan-completion': ['review/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
+
+  // Design
+  'design-consultation-core':       ['design-consultation/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts', 'test/helpers/llm-judge.ts'],
+  'design-consultation-existing':   ['design-consultation/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
+  'design-consultation-research':   ['design-consultation/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
+  'design-consultation-preview':    ['design-consultation/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
+  'plan-design-review-no-ui-scope': ['plan-design-review/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
+  'design-review-fix':              ['design-review/**', 'browse/src/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
+
+  // Design Shotgun
+  'design-shotgun-path':            ['design-shotgun/**', 'design/src/**', 'scripts/resolvers/design.ts'],
+  'design-shotgun-session':         ['design-shotgun/**', 'scripts/resolvers/design.ts'],
+  'design-shotgun-full':            ['design-shotgun/**', 'design/src/**', 'browse/src/**'],
+
+  // /diagram (diagram-render bundle consumers). Triplet = deterministic
+  // functional (gate); authoring quality = LLM-judged benchmark (periodic).
+  'diagram-triplet':            ['diagram/**', 'lib/diagram-render/**', 'browse/src/write-commands.ts', 'browse/src/read-commands.ts'],
+  'diagram-authoring-quality':  ['diagram/**', 'lib/diagram-render/**', 'test/helpers/llm-judge.ts'],
+
+  // gstack-upgrade
+  'gstack-upgrade-happy-path': ['gstack-upgrade/**'],
+
+  // Deploy skills
+  'land-and-deploy-workflow':      ['land-and-deploy/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
+  'land-and-deploy-first-run':     ['land-and-deploy/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts', 'bin/gstack-slug'],
+  'land-and-deploy-review-gate':   ['land-and-deploy/**', 'bin/gstack-review-read'],
+  'canary-workflow':               ['canary/**', 'browse/src/**'],
+  'benchmark-workflow':            ['benchmark/**', 'browse/src/**'],
+  'setup-deploy-workflow':         ['setup-deploy/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
+
+
+  // Autoplan
+  'autoplan-core':  ['autoplan/**', 'plan-ceo-review/**', 'plan-eng-review/**', 'plan-design-review/**'],
+  'autoplan-dual-voice': ['autoplan/**', 'codex/**', 'bin/gstack-codex-probe', 'scripts/resolvers/review.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/design.ts'],
+
+  // Multi-provider benchmark adapters — live API smoke against real claude/codex/gemini CLIs
+  'benchmark-providers-live': ['bin/gstack-model-benchmark', 'test/helpers/providers/**', 'test/helpers/benchmark-runner.ts', 'test/helpers/pricing.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-benchmark-providers.test.ts'],
+
+  // Browser-skills Phase 2a — /scrape + /skillify (v1.19.0.0). Gate-tier
+  // E2E covers the D1 (provenance guard), D3 (atomic write) contracts plus
+  // the basic loop. Shared deps: both skill templates, the D3 helper, the
+  // Phase 1 runtime, and the bundled hackernews-frontpage reference (the
+  // match-path test relies on it).
+  'scrape-match-path': [
+    'scrape/**', 'browse/src/browser-skills.ts', 'browse/src/browser-skill-commands.ts',
+    'browser-skills/hackernews-frontpage/**',
+  ],
+  'scrape-prototype-path': [
+    'scrape/**', 'browse/src/browser-skills.ts', 'browse/src/browser-skill-commands.ts',
+  ],
+  'skillify-happy-path': [
+    'skillify/**', 'scrape/**', 'browse/src/browser-skill-write.ts',
+    'browse/src/browser-skills.ts', 'browse/src/browser-skill-commands.ts',
+  ],
+  'skillify-provenance-refusal': [
+    'skillify/**', 'browse/src/browser-skill-write.ts',
+  ],
+  'skillify-approval-reject': [
+    'skillify/**', 'scrape/**', 'browse/src/browser-skill-write.ts',
+  ],
+
+  // Skill routing — journey-stage tests (depend on ALL skill descriptions)
+  'journey-ideation':       ['*/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'SKILL.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
+  'journey-plan-eng':       ['*/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'SKILL.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
+  'journey-debug':          ['*/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'SKILL.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
+  'journey-qa':             ['*/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'SKILL.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
+  'journey-code-review':    ['*/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'SKILL.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
+  'journey-ship':           ['*/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'SKILL.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
+  'journey-docs':           ['*/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'SKILL.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
+  'journey-retro':          ['*/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'SKILL.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
+  'journey-design-system':  ['*/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'SKILL.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
+  'journey-visual-qa':      ['*/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'SKILL.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
+
+  // Opus 4.7 behavior evals — keys match testName: values in the test file.
+  // Routing sub-tests use template literal `routing-${c.name}` testNames,
+  // which the touchfile completeness scanner skips; they inherit selection
+  // from the file-level touchfile entry via GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES.
+  'fanout-arm-overlay-on':
+    ['model-overlays/claude.md', 'model-overlays/opus-4-7.md', 'scripts/models.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/model-overlay.ts'],
+  'fanout-arm-overlay-off':
+    ['model-overlays/claude.md', 'model-overlays/opus-4-7.md', 'scripts/models.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/model-overlay.ts'],
+
+  // Overlay efficacy harness (SDK) — measures whether overlay nudges change
+  // behavior under @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk (closer to real Claude Code
+  // than `claude -p`). testNames in the file are template literals so the
+  // completeness scanner doesn't require them; these entries exist for
+  // diff-based selection accuracy.
+  'overlay-harness-opus-4-7-fanout-toy': [
+    'model-overlays/**',
+    'test/fixtures/overlay-nudges.ts',
+    'test/helpers/agent-sdk-runner.ts',
+    'scripts/resolvers/model-overlay.ts',
+    'test/skill-e2e-overlay-harness.test.ts',
+  ],
+  'overlay-harness-opus-4-7-fanout-realistic': [
+    'model-overlays/**',
+    'test/fixtures/overlay-nudges.ts',
+    'test/helpers/agent-sdk-runner.ts',
+    'scripts/resolvers/model-overlay.ts',
+    'test/skill-e2e-overlay-harness.test.ts',
+  ],
+
+  // /ios-qa — agent flow E2E. Daemon + stub StateServer + codegen
+  // exercised end-to-end. The no-device path is gate-tier; the with-device
+  // path requires GSTACK_HAS_IOS_DEVICE=1 and is periodic-tier.
+  'ios-qa-e2e':       ['ios-qa/**', 'ios-fix/**', 'ios-design-review/**', 'ios-clean/**', 'ios-sync/**', 'test/skill-e2e-ios.test.ts'],
+  // Swift-build invariant test — requires the Swift toolchain. Compiles the
+  // fixture SPM package + runs the XCTest suite that validates the real
+  // Swift StateServer implementation (loopback bind, boot token rotation,
+  // session lock). Periodic-tier — Swift build is heavier than TS unit tests.
+  'ios-qa-swift-build': ['ios-qa/templates/**', 'test/fixtures/ios-qa/FixtureApp/**', 'test/skill-e2e-ios-swift-build.test.ts'],
+  // Real-device path — only runs with GSTACK_HAS_IOS_DEVICE=1 + a paired
+  // iPhone. Validates the CoreDevice agent + iOS SDK toolchain. Periodic-tier.
+  'ios-qa-device':    ['ios-qa/templates/**', 'test/fixtures/ios-qa/FixtureApp/**', 'test/skill-e2e-ios-device.test.ts'],
+
+  // /spec end-to-end via PTY — exercises the full Phase 1→5 pipeline
+  // including --execute spawn. Periodic-tier — paid + non-deterministic.
+  'spec-execute':     ['spec/**', 'test/skill-e2e-spec-execute.test.ts'],
+
+  // /office-hours brain-writeback path under fake gbrain CLI (v1.50.0.0
+  // T7). Drives /office-hours with a regenerated SKILL.md that has the
+  // compressed GBRAIN_SAVE_RESULTS block + a fake gbrain on PATH; asserts
+  // the agent calls `gbrain put office-hours/<slug>` with valid YAML
+  // frontmatter. Touched by anything that changes resolver output, gen
+  // pipeline, detection helper, refresh subcommand, or the on-demand
+  // docs the resolver points to.
+  'office-hours-brain-writeback': [
+    'scripts/resolvers/gbrain.ts',
+    'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts',
+    'bin/gstack-gbrain-detect',
+    'bin/gstack-config',
+    'office-hours/SKILL.md.tmpl',
+    'docs/gbrain-write-surfaces.md',
+    'test/fixtures/office-hours-brain-writeback/**',
+    'test/skill-e2e-office-hours-brain-writeback.test.ts',
+  ],
+
+  // gbrain CLI real round-trip against a local PGLite store (v1.50.0.0
+  // T11). Proves the gbrain CLI persistence contract gstack relies on —
+  // a `gbrain put` followed by `gbrain get` returns the body. Skips if
+  // VOYAGE_API_KEY is unset OR gbrain CLI not on PATH. Touched by the
+  // resolver (which emits the CLI shape) and the test itself.
+  'gbrain-roundtrip-local': [
+    'scripts/resolvers/gbrain.ts',
+    'test/skill-e2e-gbrain-roundtrip-local.test.ts',
+  ],
+
+};
+
+/**
+ * E2E test tiers — 'gate' blocks PRs, 'periodic' runs weekly/on-demand.
+ * Must have exactly the same keys as E2E_TOUCHFILES.
+ */
+export const E2E_TIERS: Record<string, 'gate' | 'periodic'> = {
+  // Browse core — gate (if browse breaks, everything breaks)
+  'browse-basic': 'gate',
+  'browse-snapshot': 'gate',
+
+  // Hermetic isolation — gate (deterministic env/config assertions; if the
+  // clean room breaks, every other eval's signal is contaminated)
+  'hermetic-canary': 'gate',
+  'hermetic-sentinel': 'gate',
+
+  // SKILL.md setup — gate (if setup breaks, no skill works)
+  'skillmd-setup-discovery': 'gate',
+  'skillmd-no-local-binary': 'gate',
+  'skillmd-outside-git': 'gate',
+  'session-awareness': 'gate',
+  'operational-learning': 'gate',
+
+  // P4 first-run scaffold — periodic (onboarding, non-safety, model-touched marker)
+  'first-task-scaffold': 'periodic',
+
+  // QA — gate for functional, periodic for quality/benchmarks
+  'qa-quick': 'gate',
+  'qa-b6-static': 'periodic',
+  'qa-b7-spa': 'periodic',
+  'qa-b8-checkout': 'periodic',
+  'qa-only-no-fix': 'gate',     // CRITICAL guardrail: Edit tool forbidden
+  'qa-fix-loop': 'periodic',
+  'qa-bootstrap': 'gate',
+
+  // Review — gate for functional/guardrails, periodic for quality
+  'review-sql-injection': 'gate',     // Security guardrail
+  'review-enum-completeness': 'gate',
+  'review-base-branch': 'gate',
+  'review-design-lite': 'periodic',   // 4/7 threshold is subjective
+  'review-coverage-audit': 'gate',
+  'review-plan-completion': 'gate',
+  'review-dashboard-via': 'gate',
+
+  // Review Army — gate for core functionality, periodic for multi-specialist
+  'review-army-migration-safety': 'gate',   // Specialist activation guardrail
+  'review-army-perf-n-plus-one': 'gate',    // Specialist activation guardrail
+  'review-army-delivery-audit': 'gate',     // Delivery integrity guardrail
+  'review-army-quality-score': 'gate',      // Score computation
+  'review-army-json-findings': 'gate',      // JSON schema compliance
+  'review-army-red-team': 'periodic',       // Multi-agent coordination
+  'review-army-consensus': 'periodic',      // Multi-specialist agreement
+
+  // Office Hours
+  'office-hours-spec-review': 'gate',
+  // Brain-writeback E2E — periodic per cost (claude -p) + non-deterministic
+  // (model interprets the gbrain instruction). Matches nearby
+  // setup-gbrain-path4-* tier classification.
+  'office-hours-brain-writeback': 'periodic',
+  // GBrain CLI round-trip — periodic per Voyage embedding cost (~$0.001/run)
+  // and external-API-dependency (skips cleanly if VOYAGE_API_KEY unset).
+  'gbrain-roundtrip-local': 'periodic',
+  'office-hours-forcing-energy': 'periodic',   // D2a demotion 2026-08: posture score, periodic-grade signal (sibling precedent at office-hours-tone)
+  // 'office-hours-builder-wildness' retiered to periodic in v1.32 contributor
+  // wave: this is an LLM-judge creativity score (axis_a ≥4 on a "wildness"
+  // posture). Per CLAUDE.md tier-classification rules, non-deterministic
+  // quality benchmarks belong in periodic, not gate. The wave's +21-line
+  // CJK preamble cascade (#1205) pushed the score from 5/5 → 3/3 on the
+  // same /office-hours BUILDER prompt — same model, same fixture — proving
+  // the bar is sensitive to preamble-byte changes that have nothing to do
+  // with the test's intent (creativity, not preamble compliance).
+  'office-hours-builder-wildness': 'periodic',
+
+  // Plan reviews — gate for cheap functional, periodic for Opus quality
+  'plan-ceo-review': 'periodic',
+  'plan-ceo-review-selective': 'periodic',
+  'plan-ceo-review-benefits': 'gate',
+  'plan-ceo-review-expansion-energy': 'gate',  // V1.1 mode-posture regression gate (Opus generator, Sonnet judge)
+  'plan-eng-review': 'periodic',
+  'plan-eng-review-artifact': 'periodic',
+  'plan-eng-coverage-audit': 'gate',
+  'plan-review-report': 'gate',
+
+  // Plan-mode handshake. plan-ceo/plan-devex ask-first reliably (gate-tier);
+  // plan-eng/plan-design run a long explore/audit before their first
+  // AskUserQuestion, so whether they reach a terminal outcome within the 300s
+  // budget hinges on stochastic ask-first compliance (~50-67%/run measured).
+  // Per the "non-deterministic -> periodic" tiering rule they are periodic:
+  // the hardened ask-first gate + the collapsed-form detector lifted them from
+  // always-failing to mostly-passing, but they are not deterministic gates.
+  'plan-ceo-review-plan-mode': 'gate',
+  'plan-eng-review-plan-mode': 'periodic',
+  'plan-design-review-plan-mode': 'periodic',
+  'plan-devex-review-plan-mode': 'gate',
+  'plan-mode-no-op': 'gate',
+  // v1.21+ auto-mode regression tests
+  'office-hours-auto-mode': 'gate',
+  'auto-decide-preserved': 'periodic',
+  'conductor-prose': 'periodic',
+  'e2e-harness-audit': 'gate',
+
+  // Real-PTY E2E batch — tier classification:
+  //   gate: cheap, deterministic, run on every PR
+  //   periodic: long-running or expensive (>$3/run), run weekly
+  'auq-format-gate':                         'gate',       // ~$0.50/run, SDK capture, single skill probe
+  'plan-ceo-mode-routing':     'periodic',   // ~$3/run, deep navigation through 8-12 prior AskUserQuestions
+  'plan-design-with-ui-scope': 'gate',       // ~$0.80/run
+  'budget-regression-pty':     'gate',       // free, library-only assertion
+  'ship-idempotency-pty':      'periodic',   // ~$3/run, real /ship in plan mode
+  'ship-section-loading':      'periodic',   // ~$3/run, real /ship; asserts section reads
+  'plan-ceo-section-loading':  'periodic',   // ~$3-5/run, real /plan-ceo-review; asserts section read
+  'carve-section-loading':     'periodic',   // ~$1-2/skill, data-driven; GSTACK_CARVE_SKILL scopes to one
+  'autoplan-chain-pty':        'periodic',   // ~$8/run, all 3 phases sequential
+
+  // Per-finding count + review-report-at-bottom — periodic because each
+  // run drives a full skill end-to-end (~25 min, ~$5/run). Sequential
+  // execution during calibration; concurrent opt-in only after measured
+  // comparison agrees (plan §D15).
+  'plan-ceo-finding-count':    'periodic',
+  'plan-eng-finding-count':    'periodic',
+  'plan-design-finding-count': 'periodic',
+  'plan-devex-finding-count':  'periodic',
+  'plan-eng-finding-floor':    'periodic',  // stochastic ask-first (see plan-mode-handshake note); periodic
+  'plan-ceo-finding-floor':    'gate',
+  'plan-design-finding-floor': 'periodic',  // stochastic ask-first (see plan-mode-handshake note); periodic
+  'plan-devex-finding-floor':  'gate',
+  'plan-eng-multi-finding-batching': 'periodic',
+  'plan-ceo-split-overflow': 'periodic',
+
+  // Privacy gate for gstack-brain-sync — periodic (non-deterministic LLM call,
+  // costs ~$0.30-$0.50 per run, not needed on every commit)
+  'brain-privacy-gate': 'periodic',
+
+  // /setup-gbrain Path 4 (Remote MCP) — periodic-tier. The stub HTTP
+  // server is deterministic but the model's interpretation of "follow
+  // Path 4 only" is not — assertions on which steps the model ran are
+  // flaky. The deterministic gate-tier coverage for Path 4 lives in
+  // test/setup-gbrain-path4-structure.test.ts (free, <200ms). These
+  // E2E tests stay available for on-demand verification of the live
+  // model's behavior against a stub MCP server.
+  'setup-gbrain-remote': 'periodic',
+  'setup-gbrain-bad-token': 'periodic',
+  'setup-gbrain-path4-local-pglite': 'periodic',
+
+  // AskUserQuestion format regression — periodic (Opus 4.7 non-deterministic benchmark)
+  'plan-ceo-review-format-mode': 'periodic',
+  'plan-ceo-review-format-approach': 'periodic',
+  'plan-eng-review-format-coverage': 'periodic',
+  'plan-eng-review-format-kind': 'periodic',
+
+  // Office-hours Phase 4 silent-auto-decide regression — periodic (Phase 4
+  // requires the agent to invent 2-3 architectures, more open-ended than the
+  // 4 plan-format cases above). Reclassify to gate if it turns out stable.
+  'office-hours-phase4-fork': 'periodic',
+  // judgeRecommendation rubric sanity (fixture-based, ~$0.04/run via Haiku)
+  'llm-judge-recommendation': 'periodic',
+
+  // v1.7.0.0 Pros/Cons format — cadence + negative-escape evals (all periodic)
+  'plan-ceo-review-prosons-cadence': 'periodic',
+  'plan-review-prosons-format': 'periodic',
+  'plan-review-prosons-hardstop-neg': 'periodic',
+  'plan-review-prosons-neutral-neg': 'periodic',
+
+  // CT3 expanded coverage — non-plan-review skills inheriting Pros/Cons (all periodic)
+  'ship-prosons-format': 'periodic',
+  'office-hours-prosons-format': 'periodic',
+  'investigate-prosons-format': 'periodic',
+  'qa-prosons-format': 'periodic',
+  'review-prosons-format': 'periodic',
+  'design-review-prosons-format': 'periodic',
+  'document-release-prosons-format': 'periodic',
+
+  // /plan-tune — gate (core v1 DX promise: plain-English intent routing)
+  'plan-tune-inspect': 'gate',
+
+  // /plan-tune cathedral (T16 per D12 — all gate)
+  'plan-tune-hook-capture': 'gate',
+  'plan-tune-enforcement': 'gate',
+  'plan-tune-annotation': 'gate',
+  'plan-tune-codex-import': 'gate',
+  'plan-tune-dream-cycle': 'gate',
+
+  // Codex offering verification
+  'codex-offered-office-hours': 'gate',
+  'codex-offered-ceo-review': 'gate',
+  'codex-offered-design-review': 'gate',
+  'codex-offered-eng-review': 'gate',
+
+  // Session Intelligence — gate for data flow, periodic for agent integration
+  'timeline-event-flow': 'gate',                   // Binary data flow (no LLM needed)
+  'context-recovery-artifacts': 'gate',            // Preamble reads seeded artifacts
+  'context-save-writes-file': 'gate',              // /context-save writes a file
+  'context-restore-loads-latest': 'gate',          // Cross-branch newest-by-filename restore
+
+  // Context skills live-fire — periodic (each test spawns claude -p, ~$0.20-$0.40)
+  'context-save-routing': 'periodic',              // Proves /context-save routes via Skill tool
+  'context-save-then-restore-roundtrip': 'periodic', // Full cycle in one session
+  'context-restore-fragment-match': 'periodic',    // /context-restore <fragment>
+  'context-restore-empty-state': 'periodic',       // Graceful zero-saves message
+  'context-restore-list-delegates': 'periodic',    // /context-restore list redirect
+  'context-restore-legacy-compat': 'periodic',     // Pre-rename files still load
+  'context-save-list-current-branch': 'periodic',  // Default branch filter
+  'context-save-list-all-branches': 'periodic',    // --all flag
+
+  // Ship — gate (end-to-end ship path)
+  'ship-base-branch': 'gate',
+  'ship-local-workflow': 'gate',
+  'ship-coverage-audit': 'gate',
+  'ship-triage': 'gate',
+  'ship-plan-completion': 'gate',
+  'ship-plan-verification': 'gate',
+
+  // Retro — gate for cheap branch detection, periodic for full Opus retro
+  'retro': 'periodic',
+  'retro-base-branch': 'gate',
+
+  // Global discover
+  'global-discover': 'gate',
+
+  // CSO — gate for security guardrails, periodic for quality
+  'cso-full-audit': 'periodic',  // D2a demotion 2026-08: 250s/$0.57 full audit; cso targeted tests stay gate
+  'cso-diff-mode': 'gate',
+  'cso-infra-scope': 'periodic',
+
+  // Learnings — gate (functional guardrail: seeded learnings must appear)
+  'learnings-show': 'gate',
+
+  // Document-release — gate (CHANGELOG guardrail)
+  'document-release': 'gate',
+
+  // Codex — periodic (Opus, requires codex CLI)
+  'codex-review': 'periodic',
+
+  // Multi-AI — periodic (require external CLIs)
+  'codex-discover-skill': 'periodic',
+  'codex-review-findings': 'periodic',
+  'gemini-smoke': 'periodic',
+
+  // Design — gate for cheap functional, periodic for Opus/quality
+  'design-consultation-core': 'periodic',
+  'design-consultation-existing': 'periodic',
+  'design-consultation-research': 'periodic',  // D2a demotion 2026-08: the two most expensive gate tests ($0.91/304s)
+  'design-consultation-preview': 'periodic',   // D2a demotion 2026-08 ($0.89/481s)
+  'plan-design-review-no-ui-scope': 'gate',
+  'design-review-fix': 'periodic',
+  'design-shotgun-path': 'gate',
+  'design-shotgun-session': 'gate',
+  'design-shotgun-full': 'periodic',
+
+  // /diagram — triplet is deterministic functional, judge is a quality benchmark
+  'diagram-triplet': 'gate',
+  'diagram-authoring-quality': 'periodic',
+
+  // gstack-upgrade
+  'gstack-upgrade-happy-path': 'gate',
+
+  // Deploy skills
+  'land-and-deploy-workflow': 'gate',
+  'land-and-deploy-first-run': 'gate',
+  'land-and-deploy-review-gate': 'gate',
+  'canary-workflow': 'gate',
+  'benchmark-workflow': 'gate',
+  'setup-deploy-workflow': 'gate',
+
+
+  // Autoplan — periodic (not yet implemented)
+  'autoplan-core': 'periodic',
+  'autoplan-dual-voice': 'periodic',
+
+  // Multi-provider benchmark — periodic (requires external CLIs + auth, paid)
+  'benchmark-providers-live': 'periodic',
+
+  // Browser-skills Phase 2a — gate (D1/D3 contracts must not silently break)
+  'scrape-match-path': 'gate',
+  'scrape-prototype-path': 'gate',
+  'skillify-happy-path': 'gate',
+  'skillify-provenance-refusal': 'gate',
+  'skillify-approval-reject': 'gate',
+
+  // Skill routing — periodic (LLM routing is non-deterministic)
+  'journey-ideation': 'periodic',
+  'journey-plan-eng': 'periodic',
+  'journey-debug': 'periodic',
+  'journey-qa': 'periodic',
+  'journey-code-review': 'periodic',
+  'journey-ship': 'periodic',
+  'journey-docs': 'periodic',
+  'journey-retro': 'periodic',
+  'journey-design-system': 'periodic',
+  'journey-visual-qa': 'periodic',
+
+  // Opus 4.7 overlay evals — periodic (non-deterministic LLM behavior + Opus cost)
+  'fanout-arm-overlay-on': 'periodic',
+  'fanout-arm-overlay-off': 'periodic',
+
+  // Overlay efficacy harness (SDK, paid) — periodic only
+  'overlay-harness-opus-4-7-fanout-toy': 'periodic',
+  'overlay-harness-opus-4-7-fanout-realistic': 'periodic',
+
+  // /ios-qa daemon + codegen — no-device path runs every PR (no hardware
+  // dependency, deterministic). with-device path requires GSTACK_HAS_IOS_DEVICE.
+  'ios-qa-e2e': 'gate',
+  // Swift toolchain only, no device required, but heavier than TS unit tests.
+  'ios-qa-swift-build': 'periodic',
+  // Requires a real connected + paired iPhone. Manual-trigger only.
+  'ios-qa-device': 'periodic',
+  // /spec end-to-end PTY pipeline (paid, non-deterministic — periodic-tier).
+  'spec-execute': 'periodic',
+};
+
+/**
+ * LLM-judge test touchfiles — keyed by test description string.
+ */
+export const LLM_JUDGE_TOUCHFILES: Record<string, string[]> = {
+  'command reference table':          ['SKILL.md', 'SKILL.md.tmpl', 'browse/src/commands.ts'],
+  'snapshot flags reference':         ['SKILL.md', 'SKILL.md.tmpl', 'browse/src/snapshot.ts'],
+  'browse/SKILL.md reference':        ['browse/SKILL.md', 'browse/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'browse/src/**'],
+  'setup block':                      ['SKILL.md', 'SKILL.md.tmpl'],
+  'regression vs baseline':           ['SKILL.md', 'SKILL.md.tmpl', 'browse/src/commands.ts', 'test/fixtures/eval-baselines.json'],
+  'qa/SKILL.md workflow':             ['qa/SKILL.md', 'qa/SKILL.md.tmpl'],
+  'qa/SKILL.md health rubric':        ['qa/SKILL.md', 'qa/SKILL.md.tmpl'],
+  'qa/SKILL.md anti-refusal':         ['qa/SKILL.md', 'qa/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'qa-only/SKILL.md', 'qa-only/SKILL.md.tmpl'],
+  'cross-skill greptile consistency': ['review/SKILL.md', 'review/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'ship/SKILL.md', 'ship/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'review/greptile-triage.md', 'retro/SKILL.md', 'retro/SKILL.md.tmpl'],
+  'baseline score pinning':           ['SKILL.md', 'SKILL.md.tmpl', 'test/fixtures/eval-baselines.json'],
+
+  // Ship & Release
+  'ship/SKILL.md workflow':               ['ship/SKILL.md', 'ship/SKILL.md.tmpl'],
+  'document-release/SKILL.md workflow':   ['document-release/SKILL.md', 'document-release/SKILL.md.tmpl'],
+
+  // Plan Reviews
+  'plan-ceo-review/SKILL.md modes':       ['plan-ceo-review/SKILL.md', 'plan-ceo-review/SKILL.md.tmpl'],
+  'plan-eng-review/SKILL.md sections':    ['plan-eng-review/SKILL.md', 'plan-eng-review/SKILL.md.tmpl'],
+
+  // /spec authored-spec quality (paid LLM-judge — periodic-tier).
+  'plan-design-review/SKILL.md passes':   ['plan-design-review/SKILL.md', 'plan-design-review/SKILL.md.tmpl'],
+
+  // Design skills
+  'design-review/SKILL.md fix loop':      ['design-review/SKILL.md', 'design-review/SKILL.md.tmpl'],
+  'design-consultation/SKILL.md research': ['design-consultation/SKILL.md', 'design-consultation/SKILL.md.tmpl'],
+
+  // Office Hours
+  'office-hours/SKILL.md spec review':    ['office-hours/SKILL.md', 'office-hours/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
+  'office-hours/SKILL.md design sketch':  ['office-hours/SKILL.md', 'office-hours/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
+
+  // Deploy skills
+  'land-and-deploy/SKILL.md workflow':    ['land-and-deploy/SKILL.md', 'land-and-deploy/SKILL.md.tmpl'],
+  'canary/SKILL.md monitoring loop':      ['canary/SKILL.md', 'canary/SKILL.md.tmpl'],
+  'benchmark/SKILL.md perf collection':   ['benchmark/SKILL.md', 'benchmark/SKILL.md.tmpl'],
+  'setup-deploy/SKILL.md platform setup': ['setup-deploy/SKILL.md', 'setup-deploy/SKILL.md.tmpl'],
+
+  // Other skills
+  'retro/SKILL.md instructions':          ['retro/SKILL.md', 'retro/SKILL.md.tmpl'],
+  'qa-only/SKILL.md workflow':            ['qa-only/SKILL.md', 'qa-only/SKILL.md.tmpl'],
+  'gstack-upgrade/SKILL.md upgrade flow': ['gstack-upgrade/SKILL.md', 'gstack-upgrade/SKILL.md.tmpl'],
+
+  // Voice directive
+  'voice directive tone':                 ['scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'review/SKILL.md', 'review/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
+};
+
+/**
+ * Changes to any of these files trigger ALL tests (both E2E and LLM-judge).
+ *
+ * Keep this list minimal — only files that genuinely affect every test.
+ * Scoped dependencies (gen-skill-docs, llm-judge, test-server, worktree,
+ * codex/gemini session runners) belong in individual test entries instead.
+ */
+export const GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES = [
+  'test/helpers/session-runner.ts',  // All E2E tests use this runner
+  'test/helpers/hermetic-env.ts',    // Changes every E2E child's environment
+  'test/helpers/eval-store.ts',      // All E2E tests store results here
+  'test/helpers/test-selection.ts',  // Selection logic itself — a bug here mis-selects every test
+  'test/helpers/touchfiles.ts',      // The facade is executable selection-path code; an edit must run everything (it should never change, so the cost is ~zero)
+  'test/helpers/e2e-helpers.ts',     // Shared harness every paid test imports (selection wiring, preflight, describeIfSelected) — an edit here changes every test's behavior
+  'test/helpers/paid-test-set.ts',   // Paid-vs-free classification — an edit moves files between suites
+  'test/helpers/skill-fixture.ts',   // SKILL.md fixture extraction — reshapes the skill content most E2E suites read
+  // NOTE: this file (touchfiles-data.ts) is deliberately NOT a global
+  // touchfile. Changes to it route through map-diff selection in
+  // test-selection.ts: the old git version is evaluated and the maps are
+  // diffed per key, so a data-only edit runs just the affected tests.
+  // Map-diff fails CLOSED — any error on that path still runs everything.
+];

test/helpers/touchfiles.ts

@@ -1,875 +1,43 @@
 /**
- * Diff-based test selection for E2E and LLM-judge evals.
+ * Diff-based test selection for E2E and LLM-judge evals — compatibility facade.
  *
- * Each test declares which source files it depends on ("touchfiles").
- * The test runner checks `git diff` and only runs tests whose
- * dependencies were modified. Override with EVALS_ALL=1 to run everything.
- */
-
-import { spawnSync } from 'child_process';
-
-// --- Glob matching ---
-
-/**
- * Match a file path against a glob pattern.
- * Supports:
- *   ** — match any number of path segments
- *   *  — match within a single segment (no /)
- */
-export function matchGlob(file: string, pattern: string): boolean {
-  const regexStr = pattern
-    .replace(/\./g, '\\.')
-    .replace(/\*\*/g, '{{GLOBSTAR}}')
-    .replace(/\*/g, '[^/]*')
-    .replace(/\{\{GLOBSTAR\}\}/g, '.*');
-  return new RegExp(`^${regexStr}$`).test(file);
-}
-
-// --- Touchfile maps ---
-
-/**
- * E2E test touchfiles — keyed by testName (the string passed to runSkillTest).
- * Each test lists the file patterns that, if changed, require the test to run.
- */
-export const E2E_TOUCHFILES: Record<string, string[]> = {
-  // Browse core (+ test-server dependency)
-  'browse-basic':    ['browse/src/**', 'browse/test/test-server.ts'],
-  'browse-snapshot': ['browse/src/**', 'browse/test/test-server.ts'],
-
-  // Hermetic isolation canaries (hermetic-env.ts is also a GLOBAL touchfile;
-  // these entries exist so the canaries themselves stay tier-classified)
-  'hermetic-canary':   ['test/helpers/hermetic-env.ts', 'test/helpers/session-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-hermetic-canary.test.ts', 'lib/conductor-env-shim.ts'],
-  'hermetic-sentinel': ['test/helpers/hermetic-env.ts', 'test/helpers/session-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-hermetic-canary.test.ts', 'lib/conductor-env-shim.ts'],
-
-  // P4 first-run scaffold (activation lift) — the detection binary end-to-end
-  // through the real runner, plus the preamble wiring that gates + maps it.
-  'first-task-scaffold': ['bin/gstack-first-task-detect', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-first-run-guidance.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-preamble-bash.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-first-task-scaffold.test.ts', 'test/helpers/session-runner.ts'],
-
-  // SKILL.md setup + preamble (depend on ROOT SKILL.md + gen-skill-docs)
-  'skillmd-setup-discovery':  ['SKILL.md', 'SKILL.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
-  'skillmd-no-local-binary':  ['SKILL.md', 'SKILL.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
-  'skillmd-outside-git':      ['SKILL.md', 'SKILL.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
-
-  'session-awareness':        ['SKILL.md', 'SKILL.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
-  'operational-learning':     ['scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'bin/gstack-learnings-log'],
-
-  // QA (+ test-server dependency)
-  'qa-quick':       ['qa/**', 'browse/src/**', 'browse/test/test-server.ts'],
-  'qa-b6-static':   ['qa/**', 'browse/src/**', 'browse/test/test-server.ts', 'test/helpers/llm-judge.ts', 'browse/test/fixtures/qa-eval.html', 'test/fixtures/qa-eval-ground-truth.json'],
-  'qa-b7-spa':      ['qa/**', 'browse/src/**', 'browse/test/test-server.ts', 'test/helpers/llm-judge.ts', 'browse/test/fixtures/qa-eval-spa.html', 'test/fixtures/qa-eval-spa-ground-truth.json'],
-  'qa-b8-checkout': ['qa/**', 'browse/src/**', 'browse/test/test-server.ts', 'test/helpers/llm-judge.ts', 'browse/test/fixtures/qa-eval-checkout.html', 'test/fixtures/qa-eval-checkout-ground-truth.json'],
-  'qa-only-no-fix': ['qa-only/**', 'qa/templates/**'],
-  'qa-fix-loop':    ['qa/**', 'browse/src/**', 'browse/test/test-server.ts'],
-  'qa-bootstrap':   ['qa/**', 'ship/**'],
-
-  // Review
-  'review-sql-injection':     ['review/**', 'test/fixtures/review-eval-vuln.rb'],
-  'review-enum-completeness': ['review/**', 'test/fixtures/review-eval-enum*.rb'],
-  'review-base-branch':       ['review/**'],
-  'review-design-lite':       ['review/**', 'test/fixtures/review-eval-design-slop.*'],
-
-  // Review Army (specialist dispatch)
-  'review-army-migration-safety': ['review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/review-army.ts', 'bin/gstack-diff-scope'],
-  'review-army-perf-n-plus-one':  ['review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/review-army.ts', 'bin/gstack-diff-scope'],
-  'review-army-delivery-audit':   ['review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/review.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/review-army.ts'],
-  'review-army-quality-score':    ['review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/review-army.ts'],
-  'review-army-json-findings':    ['review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/review-army.ts'],
-  'review-army-red-team':         ['review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/review-army.ts'],
-  'review-army-consensus':        ['review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/review-army.ts'],
-
-  // Office Hours
-  'office-hours-spec-review':     ['office-hours/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
-  'office-hours-forcing-energy':  ['office-hours/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'test/fixtures/mode-posture/**', 'test/helpers/llm-judge.ts'],
-  'office-hours-builder-wildness': ['office-hours/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'test/fixtures/mode-posture/**', 'test/helpers/llm-judge.ts'],
-
-  // Plan reviews
-  'plan-ceo-review':                  ['plan-ceo-review/**'],
-  'plan-ceo-review-selective':        ['plan-ceo-review/**'],
-  'plan-ceo-review-benefits':         ['plan-ceo-review/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
-  'plan-ceo-review-expansion-energy': ['plan-ceo-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'test/fixtures/mode-posture/**', 'test/helpers/llm-judge.ts'],
-  'plan-eng-review':           ['plan-eng-review/**'],
-  'plan-eng-review-artifact':  ['plan-eng-review/**'],
-  'plan-review-report':        ['plan-eng-review/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
-
-  // Plan-mode smoke tests — gate-tier safety regression tests. Each test file
-  // contains TWO test cases as of v1.21: the baseline plan-mode case and the
-  // AskUserQuestion-blocked regression case (--disallowedTools AskUserQuestion
-  // parameterized — the flag set Conductor uses by default). Touchfiles
-  // include question-tuning.ts and generate-ask-user-format.ts because the
-  // AUTO_DECIDE preamble injection lives there and changes can flip the
-  // regression test outcome between 'asked' and 'auto_decided'.
-  'plan-ceo-review-plan-mode':    ['plan-ceo-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/question-tuning.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/review.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-plan-ceo-plan-mode.test.ts'],
-  'plan-eng-review-plan-mode':    ['plan-eng-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/question-tuning.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/review.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-plan-eng-plan-mode.test.ts'],
-  'plan-design-review-plan-mode': ['plan-design-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/question-tuning.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/review.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-plan-design-plan-mode.test.ts'],
-  'plan-devex-review-plan-mode':  ['plan-devex-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/question-tuning.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/review.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts'],
-  // Covers ceo (preamble misfire) + eng/design (scope-gate bypass must not
-  // fire outside plan mode) + the named-target exception case. 4 PTY runs;
-  // in CI these run CONCURRENT with the rest of the pty-plan-smoke suite
-  // (--max-concurrency + --retry 2), so worst-case cost is ~3x a single
-  // pass of each, sharing the API budget with sibling tests — not the
-  // sequential ~+10min a local read suggests.
-  'plan-mode-no-op':              ['plan-ceo-review/**', 'plan-eng-review/**', 'plan-design-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-plan-mode-no-op.test.ts'],
-
-  // v1.21+ AskUserQuestion-blocked regression tests — Conductor launches
-  // claude with `--disallowedTools AskUserQuestion --permission-mode default`
-  // (verified via `ps`); skills must still surface user-decisions through a
-  // fallback path (mcp__conductor__AskUserQuestion or plan-file flow) rather
-  // than silently auto-deciding. Parameterized regression test cases live
-  // INSIDE the existing 4 plan-X-review-plan-mode test files (covered
-  // transitively by the entries above). Two new standalone files exist for
-  // skills with no prior plan-mode test:
-  'office-hours-auto-mode':       ['office-hours/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/question-tuning.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts'],
-  'office-hours-phase4-fork':     ['office-hours/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/question-tuning.ts', 'test/helpers/llm-judge.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-office-hours-phase4.test.ts'],
-  'llm-judge-recommendation':     ['test/helpers/llm-judge.ts', 'test/llm-judge-recommendation.test.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'codex/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'scripts/resolvers/review.ts'],
-  // v1.21+ AUTO_DECIDE preserve eval (periodic). Verifies the Tool resolution
-  // fix doesn't trip the legitimate /plan-tune opt-in path: when the user has
-  // written a never-ask preference, AUQ should still auto-decide rather than
-  // surfacing the question. Touches the question-tuning + preference
-  // infrastructure plus the resolvers that own the AUTO_DECIDE preamble.
-  'auto-decide-preserved':        ['scripts/resolvers/question-tuning.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-preamble-bash.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts', 'plan-ceo-review/**', 'bin/gstack-question-preference', 'bin/gstack-config', 'bin/gstack-slug', 'hosts/claude/hooks/question-preference-hook.ts', 'lib/is-conductor.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts'],
-
-  // Conductor → prose decision brief (Conductor signal makes prose the default;
-  // the PreToolUse hook denies the flaky tool). Touches the resolver that owns
-  // the Conductor rule, the preamble signal, the hook, and the detection helper.
-  'conductor-prose':              ['scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-preamble-bash.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'plan-eng-review/**', 'hosts/claude/hooks/question-preference-hook.ts', 'lib/is-conductor.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-conductor-prose.test.ts'],
-
-  // Real-PTY E2E batch (#6 new tests on the harness).
-  // Each one tests behavior the SDK harness can't observe (rendered TTY,
-  // numbered-option lists, multi-phase ordering, idempotency state echo).
-  'auq-format-gate':                           ['plan-ceo-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completeness-section.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'test/helpers/auq-sdk-capture.ts', 'test/helpers/session-runner.ts', 'test/helpers/llm-judge.ts'],
-  'plan-ceo-mode-routing':       ['plan-ceo-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts'],
-  'plan-design-with-ui-scope':   ['plan-design-review/**', 'test/fixtures/plans/ui-heavy-feature.md', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts'],
-  'budget-regression-pty':       ['test/helpers/eval-store.ts', 'test/skill-budget-regression.test.ts'],
-  'ship-idempotency-pty':        ['ship/**', 'bin/gstack-next-version', 'bin/gstack-version-bump', 'scripts/resolvers/sections.ts', 'lib/worktree.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts'],
-  'ship-section-loading':        ['ship/**', 'scripts/resolvers/sections.ts', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts', 'test/helpers/auq-sdk-capture.ts', 'test/helpers/session-runner.ts'],
-  'plan-ceo-section-loading':    ['plan-ceo-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/sections.ts', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts', 'test/helpers/auq-sdk-capture.ts', 'test/helpers/session-runner.ts'],
-  // Data-driven behavioral guard for the 'plan'/'prompt' carves (eng, design,
-  // devex, office-hours + future PR2 carves). One file iterating CARVE_GUARDS;
-  // the selector sets GSTACK_CARVE_SKILL=<name> to scope cost to the changed
-  // skill (D-CODEX A). Touching the registry/helper or sections.ts runs all.
-  'carve-section-loading':       ['plan-eng-review/**', 'plan-design-review/**', 'plan-devex-review/**', 'office-hours/**', 'document-release/**', 'design-consultation/**', 'cso/**', 'test/helpers/carve-guards.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/sections.ts', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts', 'test/helpers/auq-sdk-capture.ts', 'test/helpers/session-runner.ts'],
-  'autoplan-chain-pty':          ['autoplan/**', 'plan-ceo-review/**', 'plan-design-review/**', 'plan-eng-review/**', 'plan-devex-review/**', 'test/fixtures/plans/ui-heavy-feature.md', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts'],
-  'e2e-harness-audit':            ['plan-ceo-review/**', 'plan-eng-review/**', 'plan-design-review/**', 'plan-devex-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts', 'test/helpers/agent-sdk-runner.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts'],
-
-  // Per-finding AskUserQuestion count + review-report-at-bottom assertion.
-  // Each test drives its skill end-to-end; touchfiles include preamble +
-  // completion-status resolvers because they affect question cadence and
-  // terminal output (the regression surface this test catches).
-  'plan-ceo-finding-count':      ['plan-ceo-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-plan-ceo-finding-count.test.ts'],
-  'plan-eng-finding-count':      ['plan-eng-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-plan-eng-finding-count.test.ts'],
-  'plan-design-finding-count':   ['plan-design-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-plan-design-finding-count.test.ts'],
-  'plan-devex-finding-count':    ['plan-devex-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-plan-devex-finding-count.test.ts'],
-
-  // Gate-tier reviewCount-floor counterparts. Catch the May 2026 transcript
-  // bug (model wrote a plan-mode plan and ExitPlanMode'd without firing any
-  // review-phase AskUserQuestion). Uses runPlanSkillFloorCheck — minimal
-  // "did agent fire ANY AUQ?" observer that exits early on first non-permission
-  // numbered-option render. ~1-3 min typical wall time per test, ~$2-6 total.
-  'plan-eng-finding-floor':      ['plan-eng-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/review.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts', 'test/fixtures/forcing-finding-seeds.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-plan-eng-finding-floor.test.ts'],
-  'plan-ceo-finding-floor':      ['plan-ceo-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/review.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts', 'test/fixtures/forcing-finding-seeds.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-plan-ceo-finding-floor.test.ts'],
-  'plan-design-finding-floor':   ['plan-design-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/review.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts', 'test/fixtures/forcing-finding-seeds.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-plan-design-finding-floor.test.ts'],
-  'plan-devex-finding-floor':    ['plan-devex-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/review.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts', 'test/fixtures/forcing-finding-seeds.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-plan-devex-finding-floor.test.ts'],
-
-  // Multi-finding batching regression — periodic tier complement to the
-  // gate-tier finding-floor. Catches the May 2026 transcript shape where
-  // a model fires one AUQ then batches the rest into a "## Decisions to
-  // confirm" plan write. runPlanSkillFloorCheck cannot detect that shape
-  // (it exits on first AUQ); runPlanSkillCounting can.
-  'plan-eng-multi-finding-batching': ['plan-eng-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/review.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts', 'test/fixtures/forcing-finding-seeds.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-plan-eng-multi-finding-batching.test.ts'],
-  'plan-ceo-split-overflow': ['plan-ceo-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'bin/gstack-question-preference', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts', 'test/fixtures/forcing-finding-seeds.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-plan-ceo-split-overflow.test.ts'],
-  'brain-privacy-gate':           ['scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-brain-sync-block.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'bin/gstack-brain-sync', 'bin/gstack-artifacts-init', 'bin/gstack-config', 'test/helpers/agent-sdk-runner.ts'],
-
-  // /setup-gbrain Path 4 (Remote MCP) — happy + bad-token end-to-end via
-  // Agent SDK. Gate-tier (deterministic stub server, fixed inputs); fires
-  // when the skill template, the verify helper, the artifacts-init helper,
-  // or the detect script changes.
-  'setup-gbrain-remote':          ['setup-gbrain/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'bin/gstack-gbrain-mcp-verify', 'bin/gstack-artifacts-init', 'bin/gstack-gbrain-detect', 'test/helpers/agent-sdk-runner.ts'],
-  'setup-gbrain-bad-token':       ['setup-gbrain/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'bin/gstack-gbrain-mcp-verify', 'test/helpers/agent-sdk-runner.ts'],
-  // v1.34.0.0 split-engine Path 4 + Step 4.5 Yes (local PGLite for code).
-  // Periodic-tier per codex #12 (AgentSDK harness is non-deterministic).
-  // Fires when the setup-gbrain template, install/verify/init helpers, or
-  // the agent-sdk-runner harness changes.
-  'setup-gbrain-path4-local-pglite': ['setup-gbrain/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'bin/gstack-gbrain-mcp-verify', 'bin/gstack-gbrain-install', 'bin/gstack-gbrain-detect', 'lib/gbrain-local-status.ts', 'test/helpers/agent-sdk-runner.ts'],
-
-  // AskUserQuestion format regression (RECOMMENDATION + Completeness: N/10)
-  // Fires when either template OR the two preamble resolvers change.
-  'plan-ceo-review-format-mode':      ['plan-ceo-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completeness-section.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'model-overlays/opus-4-7.md', 'test/helpers/llm-judge.ts'],
-  'plan-ceo-review-format-approach':  ['plan-ceo-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completeness-section.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'model-overlays/opus-4-7.md', 'test/helpers/llm-judge.ts'],
-  'plan-eng-review-format-coverage':  ['plan-eng-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completeness-section.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'model-overlays/opus-4-7.md', 'test/helpers/llm-judge.ts'],
-  'plan-eng-review-format-kind':      ['plan-eng-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completeness-section.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'model-overlays/opus-4-7.md', 'test/helpers/llm-judge.ts'],
-
-  // v1.7.0.0 Pros/Cons format cadence + format + negative-escape evals.
-  // Dependencies: same as format-mode + the 4 plan-review templates + overlay.
-  // All periodic-tier (non-deterministic Opus 4.7 behavior).
-  'plan-ceo-review-prosons-cadence':  ['plan-ceo-review/**', 'plan-eng-review/**', 'plan-design-review/**', 'plan-devex-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'model-overlays/opus-4-7.md'],
-  'plan-review-prosons-format':       ['plan-ceo-review/**', 'plan-eng-review/**', 'plan-design-review/**', 'plan-devex-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'model-overlays/opus-4-7.md'],
-  'plan-review-prosons-hardstop-neg': ['plan-ceo-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'model-overlays/opus-4-7.md'],
-  'plan-review-prosons-neutral-neg':  ['plan-ceo-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'model-overlays/opus-4-7.md'],
-
-  // Expanded coverage (CT3) — 6 non-plan-review skills inherit Pros/Cons via preamble
-  'ship-prosons-format':              ['ship/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'model-overlays/opus-4-7.md'],
-  'office-hours-prosons-format':      ['office-hours/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'model-overlays/opus-4-7.md'],
-  'investigate-prosons-format':       ['investigate/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'model-overlays/opus-4-7.md'],
-  'qa-prosons-format':                ['qa/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'model-overlays/opus-4-7.md'],
-  'review-prosons-format':            ['review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'model-overlays/opus-4-7.md'],
-  'design-review-prosons-format':     ['design-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'model-overlays/opus-4-7.md'],
-  'document-release-prosons-format':  ['document-release/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'model-overlays/opus-4-7.md'],
-
-  // /plan-tune (v1 observational)
-  'plan-tune-inspect':         ['plan-tune/**', 'scripts/question-registry.ts', 'scripts/psychographic-signals.ts', 'scripts/one-way-doors.ts', 'bin/gstack-question-log', 'bin/gstack-question-preference', 'bin/gstack-developer-profile'],
-
-  // /plan-tune cathedral (T16 — 5 E2E scenarios, all gate per D12)
-  'plan-tune-hook-capture':      ['hosts/claude/hooks/**', 'bin/gstack-question-log', 'bin/gstack-developer-profile', 'plan-tune/**'],
-  'plan-tune-enforcement':       ['hosts/claude/hooks/**', 'bin/gstack-question-preference', 'scripts/question-registry.ts'],
-  'plan-tune-annotation':        ['hosts/claude/hooks/**', 'scripts/declared-annotation.ts', 'scripts/psychographic-signals.ts', 'scripts/question-registry.ts'],
-  'plan-tune-codex-import':      ['bin/gstack-codex-session-import', 'bin/gstack-question-log', 'docs/spikes/codex-session-format.md'],
-  'plan-tune-dream-cycle':       ['bin/gstack-distill-free-text', 'bin/gstack-distill-apply', 'hosts/claude/hooks/**', 'plan-tune/**'],
-
-  // Codex offering verification
-  'codex-offered-office-hours':  ['office-hours/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
-  'codex-offered-ceo-review':    ['plan-ceo-review/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
-  'codex-offered-design-review': ['plan-design-review/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
-  'codex-offered-eng-review':    ['plan-eng-review/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
-
-  // Ship
-  'ship-base-branch': ['ship/**', 'bin/gstack-repo-mode'],
-  'ship-local-workflow': ['ship/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
-  'review-dashboard-via': ['ship/**', 'scripts/resolvers/review.ts', 'codex/**', 'autoplan/**', 'land-and-deploy/**'],
-  'ship-plan-completion': ['ship/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
-  'ship-plan-verification': ['ship/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
-
-  // Retro
-  'retro':             ['retro/**'],
-  'retro-base-branch': ['retro/**'],
-
-  // Global discover
-  'global-discover':   ['bin/gstack-global-discover.ts', 'test/global-discover.test.ts'],
-
-  // CSO
-  'cso-full-audit':   ['cso/**'],
-  'cso-diff-mode':    ['cso/**'],
-  'cso-infra-scope':  ['cso/**'],
-
-  // Learnings
-  'learnings-show': ['learn/**', 'bin/gstack-learnings-search', 'bin/gstack-learnings-log', 'scripts/resolvers/learnings.ts'],
-
-  // Session Intelligence (timeline, context recovery, /context-save + /context-restore)
-  'timeline-event-flow':            ['bin/gstack-timeline-log', 'bin/gstack-timeline-read'],
-  'context-recovery-artifacts':     ['scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'bin/gstack-timeline-log', 'bin/gstack-slug', 'learn/**'],
-  'context-save-writes-file':       ['context-save/**', 'bin/gstack-slug'],
-  'context-restore-loads-latest':   ['context-restore/**', 'bin/gstack-slug'],
-
-  // Context skills E2E (live-fire, Skill-tool routing path) — see
-  // test/skill-e2e-context-skills.test.ts. These are periodic-tier because
-  // each one spawns claude -p and costs ~$0.20-$0.40. Collectively they
-  // verify the thing the /checkpoint → /context-save rename was for.
-  'context-save-routing':                  ['context-save/**', 'scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts'],
-  'context-save-then-restore-roundtrip':   ['context-save/**', 'context-restore/**', 'bin/gstack-slug'],
-  'context-restore-fragment-match':        ['context-restore/**'],
-  'context-restore-empty-state':           ['context-restore/**'],
-  'context-restore-list-delegates':        ['context-restore/**'],
-  'context-restore-legacy-compat':         ['context-restore/**'],
-  'context-save-list-current-branch':      ['context-save/**'],
-  'context-save-list-all-branches':        ['context-save/**'],
-
-  // Document-release
-  'document-release': ['document-release/**'],
-
-  // Codex (Claude E2E — tests /codex skill via Claude)
-  'codex-review': ['codex/**'],
-
-  // Codex E2E (tests skills via Codex CLI + worktree)
-  'codex-discover-skill':  ['codex/**', '.agents/skills/**', 'test/helpers/codex-session-runner.ts', 'lib/worktree.ts'],
-  'codex-review-findings': ['review/**', '.agents/skills/gstack-review/**', 'codex/**', 'test/helpers/codex-session-runner.ts', 'lib/worktree.ts'],
-
-  // Gemini E2E — smoke test only (Gemini gets lost in worktrees on complex tasks)
-  'gemini-smoke':  ['.agents/skills/**', 'test/helpers/gemini-session-runner.ts', 'lib/worktree.ts'],
-
-
-  // Coverage audit (shared fixture) + triage + gates
-  'ship-coverage-audit': ['ship/**', 'test/fixtures/coverage-audit-fixture.ts', 'bin/gstack-repo-mode'],
-  'review-coverage-audit': ['review/**', 'test/fixtures/coverage-audit-fixture.ts'],
-  'plan-eng-coverage-audit': ['plan-eng-review/**', 'test/fixtures/coverage-audit-fixture.ts'],
-  'ship-triage': ['ship/**', 'bin/gstack-repo-mode'],
-
-  // Plan completion audit + verification
-  'ship-plan-completion': ['ship/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
-  'ship-plan-verification': ['ship/**', 'qa-only/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
-  'review-plan-completion': ['review/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
-
-  // Design
-  'design-consultation-core':       ['design-consultation/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts', 'test/helpers/llm-judge.ts'],
-  'design-consultation-existing':   ['design-consultation/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
-  'design-consultation-research':   ['design-consultation/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
-  'design-consultation-preview':    ['design-consultation/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
-  'plan-design-review-no-ui-scope': ['plan-design-review/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
-  'design-review-fix':              ['design-review/**', 'browse/src/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
-
-  // Design Shotgun
-  'design-shotgun-path':            ['design-shotgun/**', 'design/src/**', 'scripts/resolvers/design.ts'],
-  'design-shotgun-session':         ['design-shotgun/**', 'scripts/resolvers/design.ts'],
-  'design-shotgun-full':            ['design-shotgun/**', 'design/src/**', 'browse/src/**'],
-
-  // /diagram (diagram-render bundle consumers). Triplet = deterministic
-  // functional (gate); authoring quality = LLM-judged benchmark (periodic).
-  'diagram-triplet':            ['diagram/**', 'lib/diagram-render/**', 'browse/src/write-commands.ts', 'browse/src/read-commands.ts'],
-  'diagram-authoring-quality':  ['diagram/**', 'lib/diagram-render/**', 'test/helpers/llm-judge.ts'],
-
-  // gstack-upgrade
-  'gstack-upgrade-happy-path': ['gstack-upgrade/**'],
-
-  // Deploy skills
-  'land-and-deploy-workflow':      ['land-and-deploy/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
-  'land-and-deploy-first-run':     ['land-and-deploy/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts', 'bin/gstack-slug'],
-  'land-and-deploy-review-gate':   ['land-and-deploy/**', 'bin/gstack-review-read'],
-  'canary-workflow':               ['canary/**', 'browse/src/**'],
-  'benchmark-workflow':            ['benchmark/**', 'browse/src/**'],
-  'setup-deploy-workflow':         ['setup-deploy/**', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
-
-  // Autoplan
-  'autoplan-core':  ['autoplan/**', 'plan-ceo-review/**', 'plan-eng-review/**', 'plan-design-review/**'],
-  'autoplan-dual-voice': ['autoplan/**', 'codex/**', 'bin/gstack-codex-probe', 'scripts/resolvers/review.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/design.ts'],
-
-  // Multi-provider benchmark adapters — live API smoke against real claude/codex/gemini CLIs
-  'benchmark-providers-live': ['bin/gstack-model-benchmark', 'test/helpers/providers/**', 'test/helpers/benchmark-runner.ts', 'test/helpers/pricing.ts'],
-
-  // Browser-skills Phase 2a — /scrape + /skillify (v1.19.0.0). Gate-tier
-  // E2E covers the D1 (provenance guard), D3 (atomic write) contracts plus
-  // the basic loop. Shared deps: both skill templates, the D3 helper, the
-  // Phase 1 runtime, and the bundled hackernews-frontpage reference (the
-  // match-path test relies on it).
-  'scrape-match-path': [
-    'scrape/**', 'browse/src/browser-skills.ts', 'browse/src/browser-skill-commands.ts',
-    'browser-skills/hackernews-frontpage/**',
-  ],
-  'scrape-prototype-path': [
-    'scrape/**', 'browse/src/browser-skills.ts', 'browse/src/browser-skill-commands.ts',
-  ],
-  'skillify-happy-path': [
-    'skillify/**', 'scrape/**', 'browse/src/browser-skill-write.ts',
-    'browse/src/browser-skills.ts', 'browse/src/browser-skill-commands.ts',
-  ],
-  'skillify-provenance-refusal': [
-    'skillify/**', 'browse/src/browser-skill-write.ts',
-  ],
-  'skillify-approval-reject': [
-    'skillify/**', 'scrape/**', 'browse/src/browser-skill-write.ts',
-  ],
-
-  // Skill routing — journey-stage tests (depend on ALL skill descriptions)
-  'journey-ideation':       ['*/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'SKILL.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
-  'journey-plan-eng':       ['*/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'SKILL.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
-  'journey-debug':          ['*/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'SKILL.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
-  'journey-qa':             ['*/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'SKILL.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
-  'journey-code-review':    ['*/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'SKILL.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
-  'journey-ship':           ['*/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'SKILL.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
-  'journey-docs':           ['*/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'SKILL.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
-  'journey-retro':          ['*/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'SKILL.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
-  'journey-design-system':  ['*/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'SKILL.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
-  'journey-visual-qa':      ['*/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'SKILL.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
-
-  // Opus 4.7 behavior evals — keys match testName: values in the test file.
-  // Routing sub-tests use template literal `routing-${c.name}` testNames,
-  // which the touchfile completeness scanner skips; they inherit selection
-  // from the file-level touchfile entry via GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES.
-  'fanout-arm-overlay-on':
-    ['model-overlays/claude.md', 'model-overlays/opus-4-7.md', 'scripts/models.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/model-overlay.ts'],
-  'fanout-arm-overlay-off':
-    ['model-overlays/claude.md', 'model-overlays/opus-4-7.md', 'scripts/models.ts', 'scripts/resolvers/model-overlay.ts'],
-
-  // Overlay efficacy harness (SDK) — measures whether overlay nudges change
-  // behavior under @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk (closer to real Claude Code
-  // than `claude -p`). testNames in the file are template literals so the
-  // completeness scanner doesn't require them; these entries exist for
-  // diff-based selection accuracy.
-  'overlay-harness-opus-4-7-fanout-toy': [
-    'model-overlays/**',
-    'test/fixtures/overlay-nudges.ts',
-    'test/helpers/agent-sdk-runner.ts',
-    'scripts/resolvers/model-overlay.ts',
-  ],
-  'overlay-harness-opus-4-7-fanout-realistic': [
-    'model-overlays/**',
-    'test/fixtures/overlay-nudges.ts',
-    'test/helpers/agent-sdk-runner.ts',
-    'scripts/resolvers/model-overlay.ts',
-  ],
-
-  // /ios-qa — agent flow E2E. Daemon + stub StateServer + codegen
-  // exercised end-to-end. The no-device path is gate-tier; the with-device
-  // path requires GSTACK_HAS_IOS_DEVICE=1 and is periodic-tier.
-  'ios-qa-e2e':       ['ios-qa/**', 'ios-fix/**', 'ios-design-review/**', 'ios-clean/**', 'ios-sync/**', 'test/skill-e2e-ios.test.ts'],
-  // Swift-build invariant test — requires the Swift toolchain. Compiles the
-  // fixture SPM package + runs the XCTest suite that validates the real
-  // Swift StateServer implementation (loopback bind, boot token rotation,
-  // session lock). Periodic-tier — Swift build is heavier than TS unit tests.
-  'ios-qa-swift-build': ['ios-qa/templates/**', 'test/fixtures/ios-qa/FixtureApp/**', 'test/skill-e2e-ios-swift-build.test.ts'],
-  // Real-device path — only runs with GSTACK_HAS_IOS_DEVICE=1 + a paired
-  // iPhone. Validates the CoreDevice agent + iOS SDK toolchain. Periodic-tier.
-  'ios-qa-device':    ['ios-qa/templates/**', 'test/fixtures/ios-qa/FixtureApp/**', 'test/skill-e2e-ios-device.test.ts'],
-
-  // /spec end-to-end via PTY — exercises the full Phase 1→5 pipeline
-  // including --execute spawn. Periodic-tier — paid + non-deterministic.
-  'spec-execute':     ['spec/**', 'test/skill-e2e-spec-execute.test.ts'],
-
-  // /office-hours brain-writeback path under fake gbrain CLI (v1.50.0.0
-  // T7). Drives /office-hours with a regenerated SKILL.md that has the
-  // compressed GBRAIN_SAVE_RESULTS block + a fake gbrain on PATH; asserts
-  // the agent calls `gbrain put office-hours/<slug>` with valid YAML
-  // frontmatter. Touched by anything that changes resolver output, gen
-  // pipeline, detection helper, refresh subcommand, or the on-demand
-  // docs the resolver points to.
-  'office-hours-brain-writeback': [
-    'scripts/resolvers/gbrain.ts',
-    'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts',
-    'bin/gstack-gbrain-detect',
-    'bin/gstack-config',
-    'office-hours/SKILL.md.tmpl',
-    'docs/gbrain-write-surfaces.md',
-    'test/fixtures/office-hours-brain-writeback/**',
-    'test/skill-e2e-office-hours-brain-writeback.test.ts',
-  ],
-
-  // gbrain CLI real round-trip against a local PGLite store (v1.50.0.0
-  // T11). Proves the gbrain CLI persistence contract gstack relies on —
-  // a `gbrain put` followed by `gbrain get` returns the body. Skips if
-  // VOYAGE_API_KEY is unset OR gbrain CLI not on PATH. Touched by the
-  // resolver (which emits the CLI shape) and the test itself.
-  'gbrain-roundtrip-local': [
-    'scripts/resolvers/gbrain.ts',
-    'test/skill-e2e-gbrain-roundtrip-local.test.ts',
-  ],
-
-};
-
-/**
- * E2E test tiers — 'gate' blocks PRs, 'periodic' runs weekly/on-demand.
- * Must have exactly the same keys as E2E_TOUCHFILES.
- */
-export const E2E_TIERS: Record<string, 'gate' | 'periodic'> = {
-  // Browse core — gate (if browse breaks, everything breaks)
-  'browse-basic': 'gate',
-  'browse-snapshot': 'gate',
-
-  // Hermetic isolation — gate (deterministic env/config assertions; if the
-  // clean room breaks, every other eval's signal is contaminated)
-  'hermetic-canary': 'gate',
-  'hermetic-sentinel': 'gate',
-
-  // SKILL.md setup — gate (if setup breaks, no skill works)
-  'skillmd-setup-discovery': 'gate',
-  'skillmd-no-local-binary': 'gate',
-  'skillmd-outside-git': 'gate',
-  'session-awareness': 'gate',
-  'operational-learning': 'gate',
-
-  // P4 first-run scaffold — periodic (onboarding, non-safety, model-touched marker)
-  'first-task-scaffold': 'periodic',
-
-  // QA — gate for functional, periodic for quality/benchmarks
-  'qa-quick': 'gate',
-  'qa-b6-static': 'periodic',
-  'qa-b7-spa': 'periodic',
-  'qa-b8-checkout': 'periodic',
-  'qa-only-no-fix': 'gate',     // CRITICAL guardrail: Edit tool forbidden
-  'qa-fix-loop': 'periodic',
-  'qa-bootstrap': 'gate',
-
-  // Review — gate for functional/guardrails, periodic for quality
-  'review-sql-injection': 'gate',     // Security guardrail
-  'review-enum-completeness': 'gate',
-  'review-base-branch': 'gate',
-  'review-design-lite': 'periodic',   // 4/7 threshold is subjective
-  'review-coverage-audit': 'gate',
-  'review-plan-completion': 'gate',
-  'review-dashboard-via': 'gate',
-
-  // Review Army — gate for core functionality, periodic for multi-specialist
-  'review-army-migration-safety': 'gate',   // Specialist activation guardrail
-  'review-army-perf-n-plus-one': 'gate',    // Specialist activation guardrail
-  'review-army-delivery-audit': 'gate',     // Delivery integrity guardrail
-  'review-army-quality-score': 'gate',      // Score computation
-  'review-army-json-findings': 'gate',      // JSON schema compliance
-  'review-army-red-team': 'periodic',       // Multi-agent coordination
-  'review-army-consensus': 'periodic',      // Multi-specialist agreement
-
-  // Office Hours
-  'office-hours-spec-review': 'gate',
-  // Brain-writeback E2E — periodic per cost (claude -p) + non-deterministic
-  // (model interprets the gbrain instruction). Matches nearby
-  // setup-gbrain-path4-* tier classification.
-  'office-hours-brain-writeback': 'periodic',
-  // GBrain CLI round-trip — periodic per Voyage embedding cost (~$0.001/run)
-  // and external-API-dependency (skips cleanly if VOYAGE_API_KEY unset).
-  'gbrain-roundtrip-local': 'periodic',
-  'office-hours-forcing-energy': 'gate',       // V1.1 mode-posture regression gate (Sonnet generator)
-  // 'office-hours-builder-wildness' retiered to periodic in v1.32 contributor
-  // wave: this is an LLM-judge creativity score (axis_a ≥4 on a "wildness"
-  // posture). Per CLAUDE.md tier-classification rules, non-deterministic
-  // quality benchmarks belong in periodic, not gate. The wave's +21-line
-  // CJK preamble cascade (#1205) pushed the score from 5/5 → 3/3 on the
-  // same /office-hours BUILDER prompt — same model, same fixture — proving
-  // the bar is sensitive to preamble-byte changes that have nothing to do
-  // with the test's intent (creativity, not preamble compliance).
-  'office-hours-builder-wildness': 'periodic',
-
-  // Plan reviews — gate for cheap functional, periodic for Opus quality
-  'plan-ceo-review': 'periodic',
-  'plan-ceo-review-selective': 'periodic',
-  'plan-ceo-review-benefits': 'gate',
-  'plan-ceo-review-expansion-energy': 'gate',  // V1.1 mode-posture regression gate (Opus generator, Sonnet judge)
-  'plan-eng-review': 'periodic',
-  'plan-eng-review-artifact': 'periodic',
-  'plan-eng-coverage-audit': 'gate',
-  'plan-review-report': 'gate',
-
-  // Plan-mode handshake. plan-ceo/plan-devex ask-first reliably (gate-tier);
-  // plan-eng/plan-design run a long explore/audit before their first
-  // AskUserQuestion, so whether they reach a terminal outcome within the 300s
-  // budget hinges on stochastic ask-first compliance (~50-67%/run measured).
-  // Per the "non-deterministic -> periodic" tiering rule they are periodic:
-  // the hardened ask-first gate + the collapsed-form detector lifted them from
-  // always-failing to mostly-passing, but they are not deterministic gates.
-  'plan-ceo-review-plan-mode': 'gate',
-  'plan-eng-review-plan-mode': 'periodic',
-  'plan-design-review-plan-mode': 'periodic',
-  'plan-devex-review-plan-mode': 'gate',
-  'plan-mode-no-op': 'gate',
-  // v1.21+ auto-mode regression tests
-  'office-hours-auto-mode': 'gate',
-  'auto-decide-preserved': 'periodic',
-  'conductor-prose': 'periodic',
-  'e2e-harness-audit': 'gate',
-
-  // Real-PTY E2E batch — tier classification:
-  //   gate: cheap, deterministic, run on every PR
-  //   periodic: long-running or expensive (>$3/run), run weekly
-  'auq-format-gate':                         'gate',       // ~$0.50/run, SDK capture, single skill probe
-  'plan-ceo-mode-routing':     'periodic',   // ~$3/run, deep navigation through 8-12 prior AskUserQuestions
-  'plan-design-with-ui-scope': 'gate',       // ~$0.80/run
-  'budget-regression-pty':     'gate',       // free, library-only assertion
-  'ship-idempotency-pty':      'periodic',   // ~$3/run, real /ship in plan mode
-  'ship-section-loading':      'periodic',   // ~$3/run, real /ship; asserts section reads
-  'plan-ceo-section-loading':  'periodic',   // ~$3-5/run, real /plan-ceo-review; asserts section read
-  'carve-section-loading':     'periodic',   // ~$1-2/skill, data-driven; GSTACK_CARVE_SKILL scopes to one
-  'autoplan-chain-pty':        'periodic',   // ~$8/run, all 3 phases sequential
-
-  // Per-finding count + review-report-at-bottom — periodic because each
-  // run drives a full skill end-to-end (~25 min, ~$5/run). Sequential
-  // execution during calibration; concurrent opt-in only after measured
-  // comparison agrees (plan §D15).
-  'plan-ceo-finding-count':    'periodic',
-  'plan-eng-finding-count':    'periodic',
-  'plan-design-finding-count': 'periodic',
-  'plan-devex-finding-count':  'periodic',
-  'plan-eng-finding-floor':    'periodic',  // stochastic ask-first (see plan-mode-handshake note); periodic
-  'plan-ceo-finding-floor':    'gate',
-  'plan-design-finding-floor': 'periodic',  // stochastic ask-first (see plan-mode-handshake note); periodic
-  'plan-devex-finding-floor':  'gate',
-  'plan-eng-multi-finding-batching': 'periodic',
-  'plan-ceo-split-overflow': 'periodic',
-
-  // Privacy gate for gstack-brain-sync — periodic (non-deterministic LLM call,
-  // costs ~$0.30-$0.50 per run, not needed on every commit)
-  'brain-privacy-gate': 'periodic',
-
-  // /setup-gbrain Path 4 (Remote MCP) — periodic-tier. The stub HTTP
-  // server is deterministic but the model's interpretation of "follow
-  // Path 4 only" is not — assertions on which steps the model ran are
-  // flaky. The deterministic gate-tier coverage for Path 4 lives in
-  // test/setup-gbrain-path4-structure.test.ts (free, <200ms). These
-  // E2E tests stay available for on-demand verification of the live
-  // model's behavior against a stub MCP server.
-  'setup-gbrain-remote': 'periodic',
-  'setup-gbrain-bad-token': 'periodic',
-  'setup-gbrain-path4-local-pglite': 'periodic',
-
-  // AskUserQuestion format regression — periodic (Opus 4.7 non-deterministic benchmark)
-  'plan-ceo-review-format-mode': 'periodic',
-  'plan-ceo-review-format-approach': 'periodic',
-  'plan-eng-review-format-coverage': 'periodic',
-  'plan-eng-review-format-kind': 'periodic',
-
-  // Office-hours Phase 4 silent-auto-decide regression — periodic (Phase 4
-  // requires the agent to invent 2-3 architectures, more open-ended than the
-  // 4 plan-format cases above). Reclassify to gate if it turns out stable.
-  'office-hours-phase4-fork': 'periodic',
-  // judgeRecommendation rubric sanity (fixture-based, ~$0.04/run via Haiku)
-  'llm-judge-recommendation': 'periodic',
-
-  // v1.7.0.0 Pros/Cons format — cadence + negative-escape evals (all periodic)
-  'plan-ceo-review-prosons-cadence': 'periodic',
-  'plan-review-prosons-format': 'periodic',
-  'plan-review-prosons-hardstop-neg': 'periodic',
-  'plan-review-prosons-neutral-neg': 'periodic',
-
-  // CT3 expanded coverage — non-plan-review skills inheriting Pros/Cons (all periodic)
-  'ship-prosons-format': 'periodic',
-  'office-hours-prosons-format': 'periodic',
-  'investigate-prosons-format': 'periodic',
-  'qa-prosons-format': 'periodic',
-  'review-prosons-format': 'periodic',
-  'design-review-prosons-format': 'periodic',
-  'document-release-prosons-format': 'periodic',
-
-  // /plan-tune — gate (core v1 DX promise: plain-English intent routing)
-  'plan-tune-inspect': 'gate',
-
-  // /plan-tune cathedral (T16 per D12 — all gate)
-  'plan-tune-hook-capture': 'gate',
-  'plan-tune-enforcement': 'gate',
-  'plan-tune-annotation': 'gate',
-  'plan-tune-codex-import': 'gate',
-  'plan-tune-dream-cycle': 'gate',
-
-  // Codex offering verification
-  'codex-offered-office-hours': 'gate',
-  'codex-offered-ceo-review': 'gate',
-  'codex-offered-design-review': 'gate',
-  'codex-offered-eng-review': 'gate',
-
-  // Session Intelligence — gate for data flow, periodic for agent integration
-  'timeline-event-flow': 'gate',                   // Binary data flow (no LLM needed)
-  'context-recovery-artifacts': 'gate',            // Preamble reads seeded artifacts
-  'context-save-writes-file': 'gate',              // /context-save writes a file
-  'context-restore-loads-latest': 'gate',          // Cross-branch newest-by-filename restore
-
-  // Context skills live-fire — periodic (each test spawns claude -p, ~$0.20-$0.40)
-  'context-save-routing': 'periodic',              // Proves /context-save routes via Skill tool
-  'context-save-then-restore-roundtrip': 'periodic', // Full cycle in one session
-  'context-restore-fragment-match': 'periodic',    // /context-restore <fragment>
-  'context-restore-empty-state': 'periodic',       // Graceful zero-saves message
-  'context-restore-list-delegates': 'periodic',    // /context-restore list redirect
-  'context-restore-legacy-compat': 'periodic',     // Pre-rename files still load
-  'context-save-list-current-branch': 'periodic',  // Default branch filter
-  'context-save-list-all-branches': 'periodic',    // --all flag
-
-  // Ship — gate (end-to-end ship path)
-  'ship-base-branch': 'gate',
-  'ship-local-workflow': 'gate',
-  'ship-coverage-audit': 'gate',
-  'ship-triage': 'gate',
-  'ship-plan-completion': 'gate',
-  'ship-plan-verification': 'gate',
-
-  // Retro — gate for cheap branch detection, periodic for full Opus retro
-  'retro': 'periodic',
-  'retro-base-branch': 'gate',
-
-  // Global discover
-  'global-discover': 'gate',
-
-  // CSO — gate for security guardrails, periodic for quality
-  'cso-full-audit': 'gate',      // Hardcoded secrets detection
-  'cso-diff-mode': 'gate',
-  'cso-infra-scope': 'periodic',
-
-  // Learnings — gate (functional guardrail: seeded learnings must appear)
-  'learnings-show': 'gate',
-
-  // Document-release — gate (CHANGELOG guardrail)
-  'document-release': 'gate',
-
-  // Codex — periodic (Opus, requires codex CLI)
-  'codex-review': 'periodic',
-
-  // Multi-AI — periodic (require external CLIs)
-  'codex-discover-skill': 'periodic',
-  'codex-review-findings': 'periodic',
-  'gemini-smoke': 'periodic',
-
-  // Design — gate for cheap functional, periodic for Opus/quality
-  'design-consultation-core': 'periodic',
-  'design-consultation-existing': 'periodic',
-  'design-consultation-research': 'gate',
-  'design-consultation-preview': 'gate',
-  'plan-design-review-no-ui-scope': 'gate',
-  'design-review-fix': 'periodic',
-  'design-shotgun-path': 'gate',
-  'design-shotgun-session': 'gate',
-  'design-shotgun-full': 'periodic',
-
-  // /diagram — triplet is deterministic functional, judge is a quality benchmark
-  'diagram-triplet': 'gate',
-  'diagram-authoring-quality': 'periodic',
-
-  // gstack-upgrade
-  'gstack-upgrade-happy-path': 'gate',
-
-  // Deploy skills
-  'land-and-deploy-workflow': 'gate',
-  'land-and-deploy-first-run': 'gate',
-  'land-and-deploy-review-gate': 'gate',
-  'canary-workflow': 'gate',
-  'benchmark-workflow': 'gate',
-  'setup-deploy-workflow': 'gate',
-
-  // Autoplan — periodic (not yet implemented)
-  'autoplan-core': 'periodic',
-  'autoplan-dual-voice': 'periodic',
-
-  // Multi-provider benchmark — periodic (requires external CLIs + auth, paid)
-  'benchmark-providers-live': 'periodic',
-
-  // Browser-skills Phase 2a — gate (D1/D3 contracts must not silently break)
-  'scrape-match-path': 'gate',
-  'scrape-prototype-path': 'gate',
-  'skillify-happy-path': 'gate',
-  'skillify-provenance-refusal': 'gate',
-  'skillify-approval-reject': 'gate',
-
-  // Skill routing — periodic (LLM routing is non-deterministic)
-  'journey-ideation': 'periodic',
-  'journey-plan-eng': 'periodic',
-  'journey-debug': 'periodic',
-  'journey-qa': 'periodic',
-  'journey-code-review': 'periodic',
-  'journey-ship': 'periodic',
-  'journey-docs': 'periodic',
-  'journey-retro': 'periodic',
-  'journey-design-system': 'periodic',
-  'journey-visual-qa': 'periodic',
-
-  // Opus 4.7 overlay evals — periodic (non-deterministic LLM behavior + Opus cost)
-  'fanout-arm-overlay-on': 'periodic',
-  'fanout-arm-overlay-off': 'periodic',
-
-  // Overlay efficacy harness (SDK, paid) — periodic only
-  'overlay-harness-opus-4-7-fanout-toy': 'periodic',
-  'overlay-harness-opus-4-7-fanout-realistic': 'periodic',
-
-  // /ios-qa daemon + codegen — no-device path runs every PR (no hardware
-  // dependency, deterministic). with-device path requires GSTACK_HAS_IOS_DEVICE.
-  'ios-qa-e2e': 'gate',
-  // Swift toolchain only, no device required, but heavier than TS unit tests.
-  'ios-qa-swift-build': 'periodic',
-  // Requires a real connected + paired iPhone. Manual-trigger only.
-  'ios-qa-device': 'periodic',
-  // /spec end-to-end PTY pipeline (paid, non-deterministic — periodic-tier).
-  'spec-execute': 'periodic',
-};
-
-/**
- * LLM-judge test touchfiles — keyed by test description string.
- */
-export const LLM_JUDGE_TOUCHFILES: Record<string, string[]> = {
-  'command reference table':          ['SKILL.md', 'SKILL.md.tmpl', 'browse/src/commands.ts'],
-  'snapshot flags reference':         ['SKILL.md', 'SKILL.md.tmpl', 'browse/src/snapshot.ts'],
-  'browse/SKILL.md reference':        ['browse/SKILL.md', 'browse/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'browse/src/**'],
-  'setup block':                      ['SKILL.md', 'SKILL.md.tmpl'],
-  'regression vs baseline':           ['SKILL.md', 'SKILL.md.tmpl', 'browse/src/commands.ts', 'test/fixtures/eval-baselines.json'],
-  'qa/SKILL.md workflow':             ['qa/SKILL.md', 'qa/SKILL.md.tmpl'],
-  'qa/SKILL.md health rubric':        ['qa/SKILL.md', 'qa/SKILL.md.tmpl'],
-  'qa/SKILL.md anti-refusal':         ['qa/SKILL.md', 'qa/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'qa-only/SKILL.md', 'qa-only/SKILL.md.tmpl'],
-  'cross-skill greptile consistency': ['review/SKILL.md', 'review/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'ship/SKILL.md', 'ship/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'review/greptile-triage.md', 'retro/SKILL.md', 'retro/SKILL.md.tmpl'],
-  'baseline score pinning':           ['SKILL.md', 'SKILL.md.tmpl', 'test/fixtures/eval-baselines.json'],
-
-  // Ship & Release
-  'ship/SKILL.md workflow':               ['ship/SKILL.md', 'ship/SKILL.md.tmpl'],
-  'document-release/SKILL.md workflow':   ['document-release/SKILL.md', 'document-release/SKILL.md.tmpl'],
-
-  // Plan Reviews
-  'plan-ceo-review/SKILL.md modes':       ['plan-ceo-review/SKILL.md', 'plan-ceo-review/SKILL.md.tmpl'],
-  'plan-eng-review/SKILL.md sections':    ['plan-eng-review/SKILL.md', 'plan-eng-review/SKILL.md.tmpl'],
-
-  // /spec authored-spec quality (paid LLM-judge — periodic-tier).
-  'plan-design-review/SKILL.md passes':   ['plan-design-review/SKILL.md', 'plan-design-review/SKILL.md.tmpl'],
-
-  // Design skills
-  'design-review/SKILL.md fix loop':      ['design-review/SKILL.md', 'design-review/SKILL.md.tmpl'],
-  'design-consultation/SKILL.md research': ['design-consultation/SKILL.md', 'design-consultation/SKILL.md.tmpl'],
-
-  // Office Hours
-  'office-hours/SKILL.md spec review':    ['office-hours/SKILL.md', 'office-hours/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
-  'office-hours/SKILL.md design sketch':  ['office-hours/SKILL.md', 'office-hours/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
-
-  // Deploy skills
-  'land-and-deploy/SKILL.md workflow':    ['land-and-deploy/SKILL.md', 'land-and-deploy/SKILL.md.tmpl'],
-  'canary/SKILL.md monitoring loop':      ['canary/SKILL.md', 'canary/SKILL.md.tmpl'],
-  'benchmark/SKILL.md perf collection':   ['benchmark/SKILL.md', 'benchmark/SKILL.md.tmpl'],
-  'setup-deploy/SKILL.md platform setup': ['setup-deploy/SKILL.md', 'setup-deploy/SKILL.md.tmpl'],
-
-  // Other skills
-  'retro/SKILL.md instructions':          ['retro/SKILL.md', 'retro/SKILL.md.tmpl'],
-  'qa-only/SKILL.md workflow':            ['qa-only/SKILL.md', 'qa-only/SKILL.md.tmpl'],
-  'gstack-upgrade/SKILL.md upgrade flow': ['gstack-upgrade/SKILL.md', 'gstack-upgrade/SKILL.md.tmpl'],
-
-  // Voice directive
-  'voice directive tone':                 ['scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts', 'review/SKILL.md', 'review/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'],
-};
-
-/**
- * Changes to any of these files trigger ALL tests (both E2E and LLM-judge).
+ * This module is split into three files:
  *
- * Keep this list minimal — only files that genuinely affect every test.
- * Scoped dependencies (gen-skill-docs, llm-judge, test-server, worktree,
- * codex/gemini session runners) belong in individual test entries instead.
- */
-export const GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES = [
-  'test/helpers/session-runner.ts',  // All E2E tests use this runner
-  'test/helpers/hermetic-env.ts',    // Changes every E2E child's environment
-  'test/helpers/eval-store.ts',      // All E2E tests store results here
-  'test/helpers/touchfiles.ts',      // Self-referential — reclassifying wrong is dangerous
-];
-
-// --- Base branch detection ---
-
-/**
- * Detect the base branch by trying refs in order.
- * Returns the first valid ref, or null if none found.
- */
-export function detectBaseBranch(cwd: string): string | null {
-  for (const ref of ['origin/main', 'origin/master', 'main', 'master']) {
-    const result = spawnSync('git', ['rev-parse', '--verify', ref], {
-      cwd, stdio: 'pipe', timeout: 3000,
-    });
-    if (result.status === 0) return ref;
-  }
-  return null;
-}
-
-/**
- * Get list of files changed between base branch and HEAD.
- */
-export function getChangedFiles(baseBranch: string, cwd: string): string[] {
-  const result = spawnSync('git', ['diff', '--name-only', `${baseBranch}...HEAD`], {
-    cwd, stdio: 'pipe', timeout: 5000,
-  });
-  if (result.status !== 0) return [];
-  return result.stdout.toString().trim().split('\n').filter(Boolean);
-}
-
-// --- Test selection ---
-
-/**
- * Select tests to run based on changed files.
+ *   - ./touchfiles-data.ts — the four touchfile/tier maps (E2E_TOUCHFILES,
+ *     E2E_TIERS, LLM_JUDGE_TOUCHFILES, GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES), LITERALS ONLY.
+ *     Map-diff selection evaluates OLD git versions of that file standalone
+ *     to diff the maps across commits, so it must stay importable pure data
+ *     (zero imports, zero executable logic).
+ *   - ./test-selection.ts — the logic: matchGlob, detectBaseBranch,
+ *     getChangedFiles, selectTests.
+ *   - this facade — re-exports everything so the ~dozen existing import
+ *     sites (e2e-helpers, eval-select, e2e-tier-alignment, paid-test-set,
+ *     the *-e2e test files, …) keep importing from './touchfiles' unchanged.
  *
- * Algorithm:
- * 1. If any changed file matches a global touchfile → run ALL tests
- * 2. Otherwise, for each test, check if any changed file matches its patterns
- * 3. Return selected + skipped lists with reason
+ * test/touchfiles-facade.test.ts pins the shape: the literal-only tripwire
+ * on the data file, and export parity (every export of both halves is
+ * re-exported here by identity).
  */
-export function selectTests(
-  changedFiles: string[],
-  touchfiles: Record<string, string[]>,
-  globalTouchfiles: string[] = GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES,
-): { selected: string[]; skipped: string[]; reason: string } {
-  const allTestNames = Object.keys(touchfiles);
 
-  // Global touchfile hit → run all
-  for (const file of changedFiles) {
-    if (globalTouchfiles.some(g => matchGlob(file, g))) {
-      return { selected: allTestNames, skipped: [], reason: `global: ${file}` };
-    }
-  }
+export {
+  E2E_TOUCHFILES,
+  E2E_TIERS,
+  LLM_JUDGE_TOUCHFILES,
+  GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES,
+} from './touchfiles-data';
 
-  // Per-test matching
-  const selected: string[] = [];
-  const skipped: string[] = [];
-  for (const [testName, patterns] of Object.entries(touchfiles)) {
-    const hit = changedFiles.some(f => patterns.some(p => matchGlob(f, p)));
-    (hit ? selected : skipped).push(testName);
-  }
+export {
+  matchGlob,
+  detectBaseBranch,
+  getChangedFiles,
+  selectTests,
+  diffTouchfileMaps,
+  diffTouchfileMapsCore,
+  TOUCHFILES_DATA_PATH,
+} from './test-selection';
 
-  return { selected, skipped, reason: 'diff' };
-}
+export type {
+  TouchfileMaps,
+  MapDiffCause,
+  MapDiffOutcome,
+} from './test-selection';

test/host-config.test.ts

@@ -401,7 +401,9 @@ describe('host-config-export.ts CLI', () => {
     expect(exitCode).toBe(1);
   });
 
-  test('detect finds claude (since we are running in claude)', () => {
+  // Gated: the secretless free-tests CI lane deliberately installs no claude
+  // CLI, so "we are running in claude" is false there by design.
+  test.skipIf(!Bun.which('claude'))('detect finds claude (since we are running in claude)', () => {
     const { stdout, exitCode } = run('detect');
     expect(exitCode).toBe(0);
     // claude binary should be on PATH in this environment

test/paid-shards.test.ts

@@ -14,10 +14,16 @@ import {
   PAID_TEST_GLOBS,
   classifyPaidTestFile,
   collectPaidTestFiles,
+  computePaidDiffSelection,
+  diffSkipDecisionForFile,
+  formatSummary,
   isPaidTestFile,
+  knownTestNamesInSource,
+  partitionShardsByDiffSelection,
   planPaidShards,
   runPaidShards,
   summarize,
+  summaryExitCode,
   type ShardOutcome,
 } from '../scripts/test-paid-shards';
 
@@ -28,6 +34,9 @@ describe('paid test enumeration', () => {
     expect(isPaidTestFile('test/codex-e2e.test.ts')).toBe(true);
     expect(isPaidTestFile('test/skill-e2e-triage-audit.test.ts')).toBe(true);
     // Outside the globs: no dash, extra suffix, or a free test.
+    // 'test/skill-e2e.test.ts' is the DELETED pre-split monolith's name,
+    // kept here as a regression pin: its glob-invisibility is exactly how
+    // two gate tests went unexecuted for ~8 releases before the rehoming.
     expect(isPaidTestFile('test/skill-e2e.test.ts')).toBe(false);
     expect(isPaidTestFile('test/codex-e2e-recommendation-substance.test.ts')).toBe(false);
     expect(isPaidTestFile('test/paid-shards.test.ts')).toBe(false);
@@ -129,3 +138,140 @@ describe('shard execution', () => {
     expect(summary).toMatchObject({ total: 2, executed: 1, passed: 1, neverStarted: 1 });
   });
 });
+
+describe('parent-side diff shard skipping', () => {
+  const ALL_NAMES = ['alpha-test', 'beta-test', 'gamma-registered'];
+  const TOUCHFILES: Record<string, string[]> = {
+    'alpha-test': ['a/**'],
+    'beta-test': ['b/**'],
+    'gamma-registered': ['g/**', 'test/skill-e2e-gamma.test.ts'],
+  };
+  const SOURCES: Record<string, string> = {
+    'test/skill-e2e-alpha.test.ts': "runSkillTest('alpha-test', async () => {});",
+    'test/skill-e2e-beta.test.ts': 'describeIfSelected("beta", ["beta-test"], () => {});',
+    // Constructed testName — invisible by quotes, mapped only via registration.
+    'test/skill-e2e-gamma.test.ts': 'const name = buildName(); test(name, async () => {});',
+    // No recognizable names, no registration — the fail-open class.
+    'test/skill-e2e-opaque.test.ts': "const shouldRun = process.env.EVALS_TIER === 'periodic';",
+    'test/codex-e2e.test.ts': 'codex tests keyed off CODEX_E2E_TOUCHFILES',
+  };
+  const opts = {
+    readSource: (file: string) => {
+      if (!(file in SOURCES)) throw new Error(`unreadable: ${file}`);
+      return SOURCES[file];
+    },
+    allNames: ALL_NAMES,
+    e2eTouchfiles: TOUCHFILES,
+  };
+
+  test('knownTestNamesInSource matches only exact quoted strings', () => {
+    expect(knownTestNamesInSource("x 'alpha-test' y", ['alpha-test', 'beta-test'])).toEqual(['alpha-test']);
+    expect(knownTestNamesInSource('x "beta-test" y', ['alpha-test', 'beta-test'])).toEqual(['beta-test']);
+    expect(knownTestNamesInSource('`alpha-test`', ['alpha-test'])).toEqual(['alpha-test']);
+    // Substring inside a longer quoted string is not a hit.
+    expect(knownTestNamesInSource("'alpha-test-extended'", ['alpha-test'])).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  test('selected name in file → shard kept', () => {
+    const d = diffSkipDecisionForFile('test/skill-e2e-alpha.test.ts', new Set(['alpha-test']), opts);
+    expect(d.kept).toBe(true);
+    expect(d.reason).toContain('alpha-test');
+  });
+
+  test('no selected names in file → skipped-by-diff', () => {
+    const d = diffSkipDecisionForFile('test/skill-e2e-beta.test.ts', new Set(['alpha-test']), opts);
+    expect(d.kept).toBe(false);
+    expect(d.reason).toContain('mapped test(s)');
+  });
+
+  test('dep-list registration maps files with constructed test names', () => {
+    const selected = diffSkipDecisionForFile('test/skill-e2e-gamma.test.ts', new Set(['gamma-registered']), opts);
+    expect(selected.kept).toBe(true);
+    const unselected = diffSkipDecisionForFile('test/skill-e2e-gamma.test.ts', new Set(['alpha-test']), opts);
+    expect(unselected.kept).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  test('FAIL-OPEN: unmapped file kept, child self-skip authoritative', () => {
+    const d = diffSkipDecisionForFile('test/skill-e2e-opaque.test.ts', new Set(['alpha-test']), opts);
+    expect(d.kept).toBe(true);
+    expect(d.reason).toContain('fail-open');
+  });
+
+  test('FAIL-OPEN: unreadable source kept', () => {
+    const d = diffSkipDecisionForFile('test/skill-e2e-missing.test.ts', new Set(['alpha-test']), opts);
+    expect(d.kept).toBe(true);
+    expect(d.reason).toContain('fail-open');
+  });
+
+  test('FAIL-OPEN: non-skill-e2e paid files always kept', () => {
+    const d = diffSkipDecisionForFile('test/codex-e2e.test.ts', new Set(['alpha-test']), opts);
+    expect(d.kept).toBe(true);
+    expect(d.reason).toContain('non-skill-e2e');
+  });
+
+  test('run-all selection (null) bypasses skipping entirely', () => {
+    const shards = [['test/skill-e2e-alpha.test.ts'], ['test/skill-e2e-beta.test.ts']];
+    const { runnable, skipped } = partitionShardsByDiffSelection(shards, null, opts);
+    expect(runnable).toEqual(shards);
+    expect(skipped).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  test('EVALS_ALL=1 yields run-all selection (no git consulted)', () => {
+    const selection = computePaidDiffSelection({ EVALS_ALL: '1' } as NodeJS.ProcessEnv);
+    expect(selection.selectedNames).toBeNull();
+    expect(selection.reason).toContain('EVALS_ALL=1');
+    expect(selection.totalTests).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+  });
+
+  test('partition drops only all-skippable shards', () => {
+    const shards = [
+      ['test/skill-e2e-alpha.test.ts'],
+      ['test/skill-e2e-beta.test.ts'],
+      ['test/skill-e2e-opaque.test.ts'],
+      ['test/codex-e2e.test.ts'],
+    ];
+    const { runnable, skipped } = partitionShardsByDiffSelection(shards, new Set(['alpha-test']), opts);
+    expect(runnable).toEqual([
+      ['test/skill-e2e-alpha.test.ts'],
+      ['test/skill-e2e-opaque.test.ts'],
+      ['test/codex-e2e.test.ts'],
+    ]);
+    expect(skipped.length).toBe(1);
+    expect(skipped[0].files).toEqual(['test/skill-e2e-beta.test.ts']);
+  });
+
+  test('taxonomy: skipped-by-diff counted separately, never conflated with never-started', () => {
+    const summary = summarize([
+      { shard: 1, files: ['a'], status: 'passed', exitCode: 0, elapsedMs: 1, groupPid: 1 },
+      { shard: 2, files: ['b'], status: 'skipped-by-diff', exitCode: null, elapsedMs: 0, groupPid: null },
+      { shard: 3, files: ['c'], status: 'never-started', exitCode: null, elapsedMs: 0, groupPid: null },
+    ]);
+    expect(summary).toMatchObject({
+      total: 3, executed: 1, passed: 1, skippedByDiff: 1, neverStarted: 1,
+    });
+    const lines = formatSummary(summary);
+    expect(lines[1]).toContain('1 skipped by diff');
+    expect(lines[1]).toContain('1 never started');
+    expect(lines.some((l) => l.includes('skipped-by-diff') && l.includes('b'))).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  test('exit code ignores skipped-by-diff shards (they are successes)', () => {
+    const allGood = summarize([
+      { shard: 1, files: ['a'], status: 'passed', exitCode: 0, elapsedMs: 1, groupPid: 1 },
+      { shard: 2, files: ['b'], status: 'skipped-by-diff', exitCode: null, elapsedMs: 0, groupPid: null },
+    ]);
+    expect(summaryExitCode(allGood)).toBe(0);
+
+    const withFailure = summarize([
+      { shard: 1, files: ['a'], status: 'failed', exitCode: 1, elapsedMs: 1, groupPid: 1 },
+      { shard: 2, files: ['b'], status: 'skipped-by-diff', exitCode: null, elapsedMs: 0, groupPid: null },
+    ]);
+    expect(summaryExitCode(withFailure)).toBe(1);
+
+    const withNeverStarted = summarize([
+      { shard: 1, files: ['a'], status: 'never-started', exitCode: null, elapsedMs: 0, groupPid: null },
+      { shard: 2, files: ['b'], status: 'skipped-by-diff', exitCode: null, elapsedMs: 0, groupPid: null },
+    ]);
+    expect(summaryExitCode(withNeverStarted)).toBe(1);
+  });
+});

test/redact-engine.test.ts

@@ -104,6 +104,36 @@ describe("HIGH credential patterns", () => {
   test("db.url_with_password flags real password, skips placeholder/env-var", () => {
     expect(ids("postgres://user:s3cretP@ss@db.example.com/app")).toContain("db.url_with_password");
     expect(ids("postgres://user:${DB_PASSWORD}@host/app")).not.toContain("db.url_with_password");
+    // Literal PASSWORD placeholder (URL-format doc comments).
+    expect(ids("postgresql://USER:PASSWORD@host/db")).not.toContain("db.url_with_password");
+    // JS template interpolations are code, not credentials — the
+    // uppercase-only placeholder form blocked a push over
+    // `postgresql://${dbUser}:${dbPass}@...` in a bash->TS port.
+    // eslint-disable-next-line no-template-curly-in-string
+    expect(ids("postgresql://${dbUser}:${dbPass}@${dbHost}:5432/db")).not.toContain("db.url_with_password");
+    // Assembled at runtime so this file's own diff never contains a
+    // credential-shaped literal (the prepush guard scans exact pushed bytes).
+    expect(ids("postgres://admin:" + "hun" + "ter2@db.internal/app")).toContain("db.url_with_password");
+    // Bare $UPPER_SNAKE is shell convention → suppressed; bare $lowercase is
+    // NOT an interpolation form — a real password starting with `$` must
+    // still block (both-braces-optional would have let it through).
+    expect(ids("postgres://user:$DB_PASSWORD@host/app")).not.toContain("db.url_with_password");
+    expect(ids("postgres://admin:$" + "hun" + "ter2@db.internal/app")).toContain("db.url_with_password");
+    // Mismatched brace is not an interpolation either (assembled at runtime
+    // so this file's own pushed bytes carry no blockable URL shape).
+    expect(ids("postgres://admin:${" + "dbPass@db.internal/app")).toContain("db.url_with_password");
+    // A fully-braced interpolation is code whatever it contains — the DSN
+    // builder's `${encodeURIComponent(dbPass)}` call site must not scan as a
+    // pushed secret.
+    expect(ids("postgresql://user:${encodeURIComponent(dbPass)}@host:5432/db")).not.toContain("db.url_with_password");
+    // A LOWERCASE literal 'password'/'pass' at the URL-password position is a
+    // real (terrible) credential, not a doc placeholder — only the ALL-CAPS
+    // doc convention (USER:PASSWORD) is suppressed. Assembled at runtime so
+    // this file's own bytes never carry a live credential shape.
+    expect(ids("postgres://admin:" + "pass" + "word@10.0.0.5/app")).toContain("db.url_with_password");
+    expect(ids("https://root:" + "pa" + "ss@127.0.0.1/")).toContain("creds.basic_auth_url");
+    // Structural placeholders still suppress at the URL position.
+    expect(ids("postgres://user:<your-password>@host/db")).not.toContain("db.url_with_password");
   });
 
   test("all HIGH patterns block (exit 3)", () => {

test/relink.test.ts

@@ -25,7 +25,15 @@ function run(cmd: string, env: Record<string, string> = {}, expectFail = false):
   try {
     return execSync(cmd, {
       cwd: ROOT,
-      env: { ...process.env, GSTACK_STATE_DIR: tmpDir, ...env },
+      // A sibling test file in the same shard PROCESS can leave GSTACK_HOME
+      // set on process.env; relink/config children must resolve state ONLY
+      // via the dirs this test passes (observed: 'fresh install' test saw a
+      // neighbor's skill_prefix and produced prefixed names).
+      env: (() => {
+        const child: Record<string, string | undefined> = { ...process.env, GSTACK_STATE_DIR: tmpDir, ...env };
+        if (!('GSTACK_HOME' in env)) delete child.GSTACK_HOME;
+        return child;
+      })(),
       encoding: 'utf-8',
       timeout: 10000,
       stdio: ['pipe', 'pipe', 'pipe'],

test/skill-coverage-floor.test.ts

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import { describe, test, expect } from 'bun:test';
 import * as fs from 'fs';
 import * as path from 'path';
 import { SKILL_COVERAGE } from './skill-coverage-matrix';
+import { skillCensus } from './helpers/skill-census';
 
 const REPO_ROOT = path.resolve(import.meta.dir, '..');
 
@@ -31,46 +32,14 @@ function readSkillMd(skill: string): string | null {
   }
 }
 
-function listSkillDirs(): string[] {
-  const entries = fs.readdirSync(REPO_ROOT, { withFileTypes: true });
-  return entries
-    .filter(e => e.isDirectory() && !e.name.startsWith('.'))
-    .filter(e => e.name !== 'node_modules' && e.name !== 'docs' && e.name !== 'test')
-    .filter(e => fs.existsSync(path.join(REPO_ROOT, e.name, 'SKILL.md')))
-    .map(e => e.name)
-    .sort();
-}
+// Registry-completeness assertions ("every skill on disk is registered",
+// "every entry has a gate test") live in test/skill-coverage-matrix.test.ts —
+// they were duplicated here with a DIFFERENT hand-rolled directory walk, which
+// is the divergence class test/helpers/skill-census.ts exists to kill. This
+// file owns the per-skill structural compliance checks only.
 
 describe('skill-coverage-floor: every skill passes structural compliance', () => {
-  const skills = listSkillDirs();
-
-  test('skill registry mentions every skill on disk', () => {
-    const onDisk = new Set(skills);
-    const inRegistry = new Set(Object.keys(SKILL_COVERAGE));
-    const missingFromRegistry: string[] = [];
-    for (const s of onDisk) {
-      if (!inRegistry.has(s)) missingFromRegistry.push(s);
-    }
-    if (missingFromRegistry.length > 0) {
-      throw new Error(
-        `Skills on disk missing from test/skill-coverage-matrix.ts: ${missingFromRegistry.join(', ')}. ` +
-        `Add an entry to SKILL_COVERAGE with at least 'test/skill-coverage-floor.test.ts' in gate[].`,
-      );
-    }
-  });
-
-  test('every registry entry has at least one gate-tier test', () => {
-    const missingGate: string[] = [];
-    for (const [skill, coverage] of Object.entries(SKILL_COVERAGE)) {
-      if (!coverage.gate || coverage.gate.length === 0) missingGate.push(skill);
-    }
-    if (missingGate.length > 0) {
-      throw new Error(
-        `Skills with no gate-tier eval: ${missingGate.join(', ')}. ` +
-        `Eval-first foundation requires at least one CI-blocking check per skill.`,
-      );
-    }
-  });
+  const skills = skillCensus(REPO_ROOT).authoredSkills;
 
   test('every gate-tier test path referenced in registry exists on disk', () => {
     const missing: string[] = [];

test/skill-coverage-matrix.test.ts

@@ -8,18 +8,17 @@
  */
 
 import { describe, test, expect } from 'bun:test';
-import * as fs from 'fs';
 import * as path from 'path';
 import { SKILL_COVERAGE, type SkillCoverage } from './skill-coverage-matrix';
+import { skillCensus } from './helpers/skill-census';
 
 const REPO_ROOT = path.resolve(import.meta.dir, '..');
 
+// Canonical walk (skill-census.ts). This file and skill-coverage-floor
+// previously hand-rolled two DIFFERENT walks (one skipped node_modules/docs/
+// test, one didn't) — exactly the divergence class the census exists to kill.
 function discoverSkills(): string[] {
-  return fs.readdirSync(REPO_ROOT, { withFileTypes: true })
-    .filter(e => e.isDirectory() && !e.name.startsWith('.'))
-    .filter(e => fs.existsSync(path.join(REPO_ROOT, e.name, 'SKILL.md')))
-    .map(e => e.name)
-    .sort();
+  return skillCensus(REPO_ROOT).authoredSkills;
 }
 
 describe('skill coverage matrix', () => {
@@ -29,16 +28,23 @@ describe('skill coverage matrix', () => {
   });
 
   test('every entry has the right shape', () => {
+    const missingGate: string[] = [];
     for (const [skill, coverage] of Object.entries(SKILL_COVERAGE)) {
       expect(Array.isArray(coverage.gate)).toBe(true);
       expect(Array.isArray(coverage.periodic)).toBe(true);
-      expect(coverage.gate.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+      if (!coverage.gate || coverage.gate.length === 0) missingGate.push(skill);
       for (const p of [...coverage.gate, ...coverage.periodic]) {
         expect(typeof p).toBe('string');
         expect(p.startsWith('test/')).toBe(true);
         expect(p.endsWith('.test.ts')).toBe(true);
       }
     }
+    if (missingGate.length > 0) {
+      throw new Error(
+        `Skills with no gate-tier eval: ${missingGate.join(', ')}. ` +
+        `Eval-first foundation requires at least one CI-blocking check per skill.`,
+      );
+    }
   });
 
   test('every skill on disk has a registry entry', () => {

test/skill-e2e-auq-matrix.test.ts

@@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ interface MatrixSkill {
   skill: string;
   fixtures: Record<string, string>;
   scenario: string;
+  /** D1a regressor pin: explicit capture model when the Sonnet default measurably fails this entry. */
+  model?: string;
 }
 
 const MATRIX: MatrixSkill[] = [
@@ -99,6 +101,13 @@ const MATRIX: MatrixSkill[] = [
     skill: 'spec',
     fixtures: {},
     scenario: 'Turn this vague intent into a precise spec: "add email notifications when a task is assigned to someone." Walk the spec workflow until the first AskUserQuestion.',
+    // D1a pin-on-regressors, with receipts (2026-08-16 re-baseline): under
+    // the Sonnet capture default this entry failed twice ("never reached a
+    // question in budget", 242s) while the six sibling entries passed; the
+    // controlled Opus re-run passed cleanly (7/7 format, substance 5, 160s).
+    // The spec workflow's long pre-question phase needs the stronger model
+    // to reach its first AskUserQuestion inside the turn budget.
+    model: 'claude-opus-4-7',
   },
   {
     skill: 'design-consultation',
@@ -130,6 +139,7 @@ describeE2E('AUQ behavioral matrix (periodic)', () => {
             scenario: m.scenario,
             testName: `auq-matrix-${m.skill}`,
             runId,
+            model: m.model,
           });
         } finally {
           fs.rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });

test/skill-e2e-context-skills.test.ts

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import {
   logCost, recordE2E,
   createEvalCollector, finalizeEvalCollector,
 } from './helpers/e2e-helpers';
+import { extractSkillBody } from './helpers/skill-fixture';
 import { spawnSync } from 'child_process';
 import * as fs from 'fs';
 import * as path from 'path';
@@ -43,11 +44,14 @@ function setupWorkdir(suffix: string): { workDir: string; gstackHome: string; sl
   run('git', ['commit', '-m', 'initial']);
 
   // Install skills into .claude/skills/ for claude -p auto-discovery.
+  // The tests exercise the full save/restore/list flows, so keep the whole
+  // skill-specific body but drop the ~780-line shared preamble the tests
+  // never touch (CLAUDE.md: "E2E test fixtures: extract, don't copy").
   const skillsDir = path.join(workDir, '.claude', 'skills');
   for (const skill of ['context-save', 'context-restore']) {
     const destDir = path.join(skillsDir, skill);
     fs.mkdirSync(destDir, { recursive: true });
-    fs.copyFileSync(path.join(ROOT, skill, 'SKILL.md'), path.join(destDir, 'SKILL.md'));
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(destDir, 'SKILL.md'), extractSkillBody(path.join(ROOT, skill)));
   }
 
   // Install the bin scripts referenced by the preamble.
@@ -443,14 +447,15 @@ Do NOT use AskUserQuestion.`,
     // Broad surface: the list output may only appear in bash tool_result
     // entries (find output, file reads) rather than the agent's final text.
     const out = fullOutputSurface(result);
-    // Must show the main-branch save. Hide the other branches' saves.
-    // Match by filename timestamp (stable, unambiguous) plus a looser
-    // prose check.
+    // Must show the main-branch save. Match by filename timestamp (stable,
+    // unambiguous) plus a looser prose check.
     const showsMain = /20260101-120000|main-work/.test(out);
-    // Hide checks scope to the FINAL text output only: fullOutputSurface
-    // includes bash tool_results, and a legitimate `ls` of the checkpoint
-    // dir lists every branch's filename. The filtering under test happens
-    // in the user-facing list, not in the agent's intermediate reads.
+    // The hide-assertions scan the FINAL TEXT only. This test went 0-for-26
+    // ($5.28 burned, zero passes) because they used the broad surface: any
+    // agent that ran `ls` on the checkpoints dir — the natural first step of
+    // a list flow — surfaced all three filenames in a tool_result and failed,
+    // even when its user-facing listing filtered correctly. What must hide
+    // the other branches is the LISTING the user sees, not the agent's eyes.
     const finalText = result.output ?? '';
     const hidesAlpha = !/20260202-120000|LISTCURR_ALPHA_TOKEN/.test(finalText);
     const hidesBeta = !/20260303-120000|LISTCURR_BETA_TOKEN/.test(finalText);

test/skill-e2e-coverage-audit.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,191 @@
+/**
+ * Coverage-audit E2E — /review and /plan-eng-review coverage-diagram flows.
+ *
+ * Rehomed VERBATIM from the pre-split monolith (test/skill-e2e.test.ts,
+ * deleted on this branch): the monolith's filename never matched the paid
+ * glob (`test/skill-e2e-*.test.ts` — note the hyphen), so these two GATE-tier
+ * tests (`review-coverage-audit`, `plan-eng-coverage-audit` in E2E_TIERS)
+ * silently never executed after the v1.56 split.
+ *
+ * DRIFT WARNING (attribution for the first paid run after rehoming): the
+ * prompts reference "Step 4.75 (Test Coverage Diagram)" in review/SKILL.md
+ * and a "Test Coverage Audit" section in plan-eng-review/SKILL.md. NEITHER
+ * section exists in the current generated skills — the skills drifted while
+ * these tests were zombies. Test bodies are copied faithfully (no behavioral
+ * edits), so a failure here indicts the ~8 releases of drift, not the move.
+ * The only change vs the monolith bodies: the staged SKILL.md fixtures are
+ * extracted via test/helpers/skill-fixture.ts (extractSkillBody — full
+ * skill-specific body, shared preamble dropped) per CLAUDE.md
+ * "E2E test fixtures: extract, don't copy".
+ */
+
+import { test, expect, beforeAll, afterAll } from 'bun:test';
+import { runSkillTest } from './helpers/session-runner';
+import {
+  ROOT, runId,
+  describeIfSelected,
+  copyDirSync, logCost, recordE2E,
+  createEvalCollector, finalizeEvalCollector,
+} from './helpers/e2e-helpers';
+import { extractSkillBody } from './helpers/skill-fixture';
+import * as fs from 'fs';
+import * as path from 'path';
+import * as os from 'os';
+
+const evalCollector = createEvalCollector('e2e-coverage-audit');
+
+// --- Review Coverage Audit E2E ---
+
+describeIfSelected('Review Coverage Audit E2E', ['review-coverage-audit'], () => {
+  let reviewCoverageDir: string;
+
+  beforeAll(() => {
+    reviewCoverageDir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'skill-e2e-review-coverage-'));
+
+    // Copy review skill files, then replace the SKILL.md with the extracted
+    // skill body (extract, don't copy — the checklists/specialists in the
+    // dir are small hand-written files and stay whole).
+    copyDirSync(path.join(ROOT, 'review'), path.join(reviewCoverageDir, 'review'));
+    fs.writeFileSync(
+      path.join(reviewCoverageDir, 'review', 'SKILL.md'),
+      extractSkillBody(path.join(ROOT, 'review')),
+    );
+
+    // Use shared fixture for billing project with coverage gaps
+    const { createCoverageAuditFixture } = require('./fixtures/coverage-audit-fixture');
+    createCoverageAuditFixture(reviewCoverageDir);
+  });
+
+  afterAll(() => {
+    try { fs.rmSync(reviewCoverageDir, { recursive: true, force: true }); } catch {}
+  });
+
+  test('/review Step 4.75 produces coverage diagram', async () => {
+    const result = await runSkillTest({
+      prompt: `Read the file review/SKILL.md for the review workflow instructions.
+
+You are on the feature/billing branch. The base branch is main.
+This is a test project — there is no remote, no PR to create.
+
+ONLY run Step 4.75 (Test Coverage Diagram) from the review workflow.
+Skip all other steps (scope drift, checklist, design review, fix-first, etc.).
+
+The source code is in ${reviewCoverageDir}/src/billing.ts.
+Existing tests are in ${reviewCoverageDir}/test/billing.test.ts.
+
+Produce the ASCII coverage diagram showing which code paths are tested and which have gaps.
+Output the diagram directly.`,
+      workingDirectory: reviewCoverageDir,
+      maxTurns: 15,
+      allowedTools: ['Bash', 'Read', 'Write', 'Edit', 'Glob', 'Grep'],
+      timeout: 120_000,
+      testName: 'review-coverage-audit',
+      runId,
+    });
+
+    logCost('/review coverage audit', result);
+    recordE2E(evalCollector, '/review Step 4.75 coverage audit', 'Review Coverage Audit E2E', result, {
+      passed: result.exitReason === 'success',
+    });
+
+    expect(result.exitReason).toBe('success');
+
+    // Check output contains coverage diagram elements
+    const output = result.output || '';
+    const outputLower = output.toLowerCase();
+    const hasGap = outputLower.includes('gap') || outputLower.includes('no test');
+    const hasTested = outputLower.includes('tested') || output.includes('✓') || output.includes('★');
+    const hasCoverage = outputLower.includes('coverage') || outputLower.includes('paths tested');
+
+    console.log(`Output has GAP markers: ${hasGap}`);
+    console.log(`Output has TESTED markers: ${hasTested}`);
+    console.log(`Output has coverage summary: ${hasCoverage}`);
+
+    // The agent MUST produce a coverage diagram with gap and tested markers
+    expect(hasGap || hasTested).toBe(true);
+
+    // At minimum, the agent should have read the source and test files
+    const readCalls = result.toolCalls.filter(tc => tc.tool === 'Read');
+    expect(readCalls.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+  }, 180_000);
+});
+
+// --- Plan Eng Review Coverage Audit E2E ---
+
+describeIfSelected('Plan Eng Review Coverage Audit E2E', ['plan-eng-coverage-audit'], () => {
+  let planCoverageDir: string;
+
+  beforeAll(() => {
+    planCoverageDir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'skill-e2e-plan-coverage-'));
+
+    // Copy plan-eng-review skill files, then replace the SKILL.md with the
+    // extracted skill body (extract, don't copy).
+    copyDirSync(path.join(ROOT, 'plan-eng-review'), path.join(planCoverageDir, 'plan-eng-review'));
+    fs.writeFileSync(
+      path.join(planCoverageDir, 'plan-eng-review', 'SKILL.md'),
+      extractSkillBody(path.join(ROOT, 'plan-eng-review')),
+    );
+
+    // Use shared fixture for billing project with coverage gaps
+    const { createCoverageAuditFixture } = require('./fixtures/coverage-audit-fixture');
+    createCoverageAuditFixture(planCoverageDir);
+  });
+
+  afterAll(() => {
+    try { fs.rmSync(planCoverageDir, { recursive: true, force: true }); } catch {}
+  });
+
+  test('/plan-eng-review coverage audit traces plan codepaths', async () => {
+    const result = await runSkillTest({
+      prompt: `Read the file plan-eng-review/SKILL.md for the plan review workflow instructions.
+
+You are on the feature/billing branch. The base branch is main.
+This is a test project — there is no remote, no PR to create.
+
+ONLY run the Test Coverage Audit section from the plan review workflow.
+Skip all other steps (architecture, code quality, performance, etc.).
+
+The source code is in ${planCoverageDir}/src/billing.ts.
+Existing tests are in ${planCoverageDir}/test/billing.test.ts.
+
+Produce the ASCII coverage diagram showing which code paths are tested and which have gaps.
+Output the diagram directly.`,
+      workingDirectory: planCoverageDir,
+      maxTurns: 15,
+      allowedTools: ['Bash', 'Read', 'Write', 'Edit', 'Glob', 'Grep'],
+      timeout: 120_000,
+      testName: 'plan-eng-coverage-audit',
+      runId,
+    });
+
+    logCost('/plan-eng-review coverage audit', result);
+    recordE2E(evalCollector, '/plan-eng-review coverage audit', 'Plan Eng Review Coverage Audit E2E', result, {
+      passed: result.exitReason === 'success',
+    });
+
+    expect(result.exitReason).toBe('success');
+
+    // Check output contains coverage diagram elements
+    const output = result.output || '';
+    const outputLower = output.toLowerCase();
+    const hasGap = outputLower.includes('gap') || outputLower.includes('no test');
+    const hasTested = outputLower.includes('tested') || output.includes('✓') || output.includes('★');
+    const hasCoverage = outputLower.includes('coverage') || outputLower.includes('paths tested');
+
+    console.log(`Output has GAP markers: ${hasGap}`);
+    console.log(`Output has TESTED markers: ${hasTested}`);
+    console.log(`Output has coverage summary: ${hasCoverage}`);
+
+    // The agent MUST produce a coverage diagram with gap and tested markers
+    expect(hasGap || hasTested).toBe(true);
+
+    // At minimum, the agent should have read the source and test files
+    const readCalls = result.toolCalls.filter(tc => tc.tool === 'Read');
+    expect(readCalls.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+  }, 180_000);
+});
+
+// Module-level afterAll — finalize eval collector after all tests complete
+afterAll(async () => {
+  await finalizeEvalCollector(evalCollector);
+});

test/skill-e2e-opus-47.test.ts

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 import { describe, test, expect, afterAll } from 'bun:test';
 import { runSkillTest } from './helpers/session-runner';
 import { EvalCollector } from './helpers/eval-store';
+import { extractSkillHead } from './helpers/skill-fixture';
 import { spawnSync } from 'child_process';
 import * as fs from 'fs';
 import * as path from 'path';
@@ -72,14 +73,17 @@ function mkEvalRoot(suffix: string, includeOverlay: boolean): string {
     throw new Error(`gen-skill-docs failed: ${result.stderr}`);
   }
 
-  // Install per-skill SKILL.md files for Skill tool discovery.
+  // Install per-skill SKILL.md files for Skill tool discovery. Routing only
+  // reads the frontmatter (name + description), so install frontmatter + the
+  // first ~30 body lines instead of the full 1000-1900-line files
+  // (CLAUDE.md: "E2E test fixtures: extract, don't copy").
   const skillsDir = path.join(tmp, '.claude', 'skills');
   for (const skill of INSTALLED_SKILLS) {
     const src = path.join(ROOT, skill, 'SKILL.md');
     if (!fs.existsSync(src)) continue;
     const destDir = path.join(skillsDir, skill);
     fs.mkdirSync(destDir, { recursive: true });
-    fs.copyFileSync(src, path.join(destDir, 'SKILL.md'));
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(destDir, 'SKILL.md'), extractSkillHead(src));
   }
 
   // Extract the opus-4-7 model-overlay content from the checked-in file

test/skill-e2e-plan-mode-no-op.test.ts

@@ -99,7 +99,21 @@ describeE2E('plan-mode-info no-op outside plan mode (gate regression)', () => {
         // outcome === 'asked' would let a silent-bypass run that reaches
         // plan_ready (isPlanReadyVisible also matches common prose) sail
         // through — the exact regression this test exists to catch.
-        expect(obs.scopeGateQuestionObserved ?? false).toBe(true);
+        //
+        // Throw WITH the evidence tail instead of a bare expect: this member
+        // (plan-design-review especially) intermittently fails ONLY this
+        // check on unchanged code (PR #2593 rounds 3/11/rerun, passing
+        // rounds 5/6), and a bare Expected-true/Received-false in CI logs is
+        // undiagnosable — we can't tell a detector-sensitivity miss (render
+        // shape scrolled/rephrased) from a real silent bypass without seeing
+        // what the screen held.
+        if (!(obs.scopeGateQuestionObserved ?? false)) {
+          throw new Error(
+            `scope-gate question NOT observed (${skillName}): outcome=${obs.outcome}\n` +
+              `elapsed: ${obs.elapsedMs}ms\n` +
+              `--- evidence (last 2KB visible) ---\n${obs.evidence}`,
+          );
+        }
       }
     }, 360_000);
   }

test/skill-e2e-retro.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,187 @@
+import { expect, beforeAll, afterAll } from 'bun:test';
+import { runSkillTest } from './helpers/session-runner';
+import {
+  ROOT, runId,
+  describeIfSelected, testConcurrentIfSelected,
+  logCost, recordE2E,
+  createEvalCollector, finalizeEvalCollector,
+} from './helpers/e2e-helpers';
+import { extractSkillSections, RETRO_E2E_SECTIONS } from './helpers/skill-fixture';
+import { spawnSync } from 'child_process';
+import * as fs from 'fs';
+import * as path from 'path';
+import * as os from 'os';
+
+const evalCollector = createEvalCollector('e2e-retro');
+
+// --- Retro base branch detection smoke test ---
+
+describeIfSelected('Base branch detection', ['retro-base-branch'], () => {
+  let baseBranchDir: string;
+  const run = (cmd: string, args: string[], cwd: string) =>
+    spawnSync(cmd, args, { cwd, stdio: 'pipe', timeout: 5000 });
+
+  beforeAll(() => {
+    baseBranchDir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'skill-e2e-basebranch-'));
+  });
+
+  afterAll(() => {
+    try { fs.rmSync(baseBranchDir, { recursive: true, force: true }); } catch {}
+  });
+
+  testConcurrentIfSelected('retro-base-branch', async () => {
+    const dir = path.join(baseBranchDir, 'retro-base');
+    fs.mkdirSync(dir, { recursive: true });
+
+    // Create git repo with commit history
+    run('git', ['init'], dir);
+    run('git', ['config', 'user.email', 'dev@example.com'], dir);
+    run('git', ['config', 'user.name', 'Dev'], dir);
+
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(dir, 'app.ts'), 'console.log("hello");\n');
+    run('git', ['add', 'app.ts'], dir);
+    run('git', ['commit', '-m', 'feat: initial app', '--date', '2026-03-14T09:00:00'], dir);
+
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(dir, 'auth.ts'), 'export function login() {}\n');
+    run('git', ['add', 'auth.ts'], dir);
+    run('git', ['commit', '-m', 'feat: add auth', '--date', '2026-03-15T10:00:00'], dir);
+
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(dir, 'test.ts'), 'test("it works", () => {});\n');
+    run('git', ['add', 'test.ts'], dir);
+    run('git', ['commit', '-m', 'test: add tests', '--date', '2026-03-16T11:00:00'], dir);
+
+    // Retro skill — extract the repo-scoped retro flow only (drops the shared
+    // preamble + global/compare modes; CLAUDE.md: "extract, don't copy").
+    fs.mkdirSync(path.join(dir, 'retro'), { recursive: true });
+    fs.writeFileSync(
+      path.join(dir, 'retro', 'SKILL.md'),
+      extractSkillSections(path.join(ROOT, 'retro'), RETRO_E2E_SECTIONS),
+    );
+
+    const result = await runSkillTest({
+      prompt: `Read retro/SKILL.md for instructions on how to run a retrospective.
+
+IMPORTANT: Follow the "Detect default branch" step first. Since there is no remote, gh will fail — fall back to main.
+Then use the detected branch name for all git queries.
+
+Run /retro for the last 7 days of this git repo. Skip any AskUserQuestion calls — this is non-interactive.
+This is a local-only repo so use the local branch (main) instead of origin/main for all git log commands.
+
+Write your retrospective to ${dir}/retro-output.md`,
+      workingDirectory: dir,
+      maxTurns: 25,
+      // 360s, not 240s: same runner-contention class as review-dashboard-via.
+      // /retro is a long multi-step flow — a clean pass measured 225s and the
+      // next CI run timed out at the 240s line (exitReason "timeout", 3/3
+      // attempts). Outer bun timeout below rises to 480s for headroom.
+      timeout: 360_000,
+      testName: 'retro-base-branch',
+      runId,
+    });
+
+    logCost('/retro base-branch', result);
+    // The report is the work product: a run that exits max-turns without
+    // writing it is a FAIL, not a pass — otherwise this test cannot detect
+    // the most basic regression (the skill stops producing its report).
+    const retroPath = path.join(dir, 'retro-output.md');
+    const wroteReport = fs.existsSync(retroPath);
+    recordE2E(evalCollector, '/retro default branch detection', 'Base branch detection', result, {
+      passed: ['success', 'error_max_turns'].includes(result.exitReason) && wroteReport,
+    });
+    expect(['success', 'error_max_turns']).toContain(result.exitReason);
+    expect(wroteReport).toBe(true);
+    const content = fs.readFileSync(retroPath, 'utf-8');
+    expect(content.length).toBeGreaterThan(100);
+  }, 480_000);
+});
+
+// --- Retro E2E ---
+
+describeIfSelected('Retro E2E', ['retro'], () => {
+  let retroDir: string;
+
+  beforeAll(() => {
+    retroDir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'skill-e2e-retro-'));
+    const run = (cmd: string, args: string[]) =>
+      spawnSync(cmd, args, { cwd: retroDir, stdio: 'pipe', timeout: 5000 });
+
+    // Create a git repo with varied commit history
+    run('git', ['init', '-b', 'main']);
+    run('git', ['config', 'user.email', 'dev@example.com']);
+    run('git', ['config', 'user.name', 'Dev']);
+
+    // Day 1 commits
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(retroDir, 'app.ts'), 'console.log("hello");\n');
+    run('git', ['add', 'app.ts']);
+    run('git', ['commit', '-m', 'feat: initial app setup', '--date', '2026-03-10T09:00:00']);
+
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(retroDir, 'auth.ts'), 'export function login() {}\n');
+    run('git', ['add', 'auth.ts']);
+    run('git', ['commit', '-m', 'feat: add auth module', '--date', '2026-03-10T11:00:00']);
+
+    // Day 2 commits
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(retroDir, 'app.ts'), 'import { login } from "./auth";\nconsole.log("hello");\nlogin();\n');
+    run('git', ['add', 'app.ts']);
+    run('git', ['commit', '-m', 'fix: wire up auth to app', '--date', '2026-03-11T10:00:00']);
+
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(retroDir, 'test.ts'), 'import { test } from "bun:test";\ntest("login", () => {});\n');
+    run('git', ['add', 'test.ts']);
+    run('git', ['commit', '-m', 'test: add login test', '--date', '2026-03-11T14:00:00']);
+
+    // Day 3 commits
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(retroDir, 'api.ts'), 'export function getUsers() { return []; }\n');
+    run('git', ['add', 'api.ts']);
+    run('git', ['commit', '-m', 'feat: add users API endpoint', '--date', '2026-03-12T09:30:00']);
+
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(retroDir, 'README.md'), '# My App\nA test application.\n');
+    run('git', ['add', 'README.md']);
+    run('git', ['commit', '-m', 'docs: add README', '--date', '2026-03-12T16:00:00']);
+
+    // Retro skill — extracted repo-scoped flow, not the full 1820-line file.
+    fs.mkdirSync(path.join(retroDir, 'retro'), { recursive: true });
+    fs.writeFileSync(
+      path.join(retroDir, 'retro', 'SKILL.md'),
+      extractSkillSections(path.join(ROOT, 'retro'), RETRO_E2E_SECTIONS),
+    );
+  });
+
+  afterAll(() => {
+    try { fs.rmSync(retroDir, { recursive: true, force: true }); } catch {}
+  });
+
+  testConcurrentIfSelected('retro', async () => {
+    const result = await runSkillTest({
+      prompt: `Read retro/SKILL.md for instructions on how to run a retrospective.
+
+Run /retro for the last 7 days of this git repo. Skip any AskUserQuestion calls — this is non-interactive.
+Write your retrospective report to ${retroDir}/retro-output.md
+
+Analyze the git history and produce the narrative report as described in the SKILL.md.`,
+      workingDirectory: retroDir,
+      maxTurns: 30,
+      timeout: 300_000,
+      testName: 'retro',
+      runId,
+      model: 'claude-opus-4-7',
+    });
+
+    logCost('/retro', result);
+    // Accept error_max_turns (retro does many git commands to analyze
+    // history) — but only WITH the report on disk. The report is the work
+    // product; max-turns with nothing written is a fail.
+    const retroPath = path.join(retroDir, 'retro-output.md');
+    const wroteReport = fs.existsSync(retroPath);
+    recordE2E(evalCollector, '/retro', 'Retro E2E', result, {
+      passed: ['success', 'error_max_turns'].includes(result.exitReason) && wroteReport,
+    });
+    expect(['success', 'error_max_turns']).toContain(result.exitReason);
+    expect(wroteReport).toBe(true);
+    const retro = fs.readFileSync(retroPath, 'utf-8');
+    expect(retro.length).toBeGreaterThan(100);
+  }, 420_000);
+});
+
+// Module-level afterAll — finalize eval collector after all tests complete
+afterAll(async () => {
+  await finalizeEvalCollector(evalCollector);
+});

test/skill-e2e-review-army.test.ts

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import {
   ROOT, runId, describeIfSelected, testConcurrentIfSelected,
   logCost, recordE2E, createEvalCollector, finalizeEvalCollector,
 } from './helpers/e2e-helpers';
+import { extractSkillSections, REVIEW_ARMY_E2E_SECTIONS } from './helpers/skill-fixture';
 import { spawnSync } from 'child_process';
 import * as fs from 'fs';
 import * as path from 'path';
@@ -22,9 +23,15 @@ function setupRepo(prefix: string): { dir: string; run: (cmd: string, args: stri
   return { dir, run };
 }
 
-// Helper: copy review skill files to test dir
+// Helper: stage review skill files in the test dir. The SKILL.md fixture is
+// EXTRACTED (CLAUDE.md: "E2E test fixtures: extract, don't copy") — core
+// review workflow + Step 1.5 (Plan Completion Audit) + Step 4.5 (Review Army
+// dispatch: quality score, JSON schema, consensus, Red Team).
 function copyReviewFiles(dir: string) {
-  fs.copyFileSync(path.join(ROOT, 'review', 'SKILL.md'), path.join(dir, 'review-SKILL.md'));
+  fs.writeFileSync(
+    path.join(dir, 'review-SKILL.md'),
+    extractSkillSections(path.join(ROOT, 'review'), REVIEW_ARMY_E2E_SECTIONS),
+  );
   fs.copyFileSync(path.join(ROOT, 'review', 'checklist.md'), path.join(dir, 'review-checklist.md'));
   fs.copyFileSync(path.join(ROOT, 'review', 'greptile-triage.md'), path.join(dir, 'review-greptile-triage.md'));
   // Copy specialist checklists

test/skill-e2e-review-attribution.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,289 @@
+import { expect, beforeAll, afterAll } from 'bun:test';
+import { runSkillTest } from './helpers/session-runner';
+import {
+  ROOT, runId,
+  describeIfSelected, testConcurrentIfSelected,
+  logCost, recordE2E,
+  createEvalCollector, finalizeEvalCollector,
+} from './helpers/e2e-helpers';
+import { spawnSync } from 'child_process';
+import * as fs from 'fs';
+import * as path from 'path';
+import * as os from 'os';
+
+const evalCollector = createEvalCollector('e2e-review-attribution');
+
+// --- Base branch detection smoke tests ---
+
+describeIfSelected('Base branch detection', ['review-base-branch', 'ship-base-branch'], () => {
+  let baseBranchDir: string;
+  const run = (cmd: string, args: string[], cwd: string) =>
+    spawnSync(cmd, args, { cwd, stdio: 'pipe', timeout: 5000 });
+
+  beforeAll(() => {
+    baseBranchDir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'skill-e2e-basebranch-'));
+  });
+
+  afterAll(() => {
+    try { fs.rmSync(baseBranchDir, { recursive: true, force: true }); } catch {}
+  });
+
+  testConcurrentIfSelected('review-base-branch', async () => {
+    const dir = path.join(baseBranchDir, 'review-base');
+    fs.mkdirSync(dir, { recursive: true });
+
+    // Create git repo with a feature branch off main
+    run('git', ['init'], dir);
+    run('git', ['config', 'user.email', 'test@test.com'], dir);
+    run('git', ['config', 'user.name', 'Test'], dir);
+
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(dir, 'app.rb'), '# clean base\nclass App\nend\n');
+    run('git', ['add', 'app.rb'], dir);
+    run('git', ['commit', '-m', 'initial commit'], dir);
+
+    // Create feature branch with a change
+    run('git', ['checkout', '-b', 'feature/test-review'], dir);
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(dir, 'app.rb'), '# clean base\nclass App\n  def hello; "world"; end\nend\n');
+    run('git', ['add', 'app.rb'], dir);
+    run('git', ['commit', '-m', 'feat: add hello method'], dir);
+
+    // Extract only Step 0 (base branch detection) + minimal review instructions
+    // Full SKILL.md is ~1500 lines — copying it causes the agent to spend all turns reading
+    const full = fs.readFileSync(path.join(ROOT, 'review', 'SKILL.md'), 'utf-8');
+    const step0Start = full.indexOf('## Step 0: Detect platform and base branch');
+    const step1Start = full.indexOf('## Step 1: Check branch');
+    const step1End = full.indexOf('---', step1Start + 10);
+    const extracted = full.slice(step0Start, step1End > step1Start ? step1End : step1Start + 500);
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(dir, 'review-SKILL.md'), extracted);
+
+    const result = await runSkillTest({
+      prompt: `You are in a git repo on a feature branch with changes.
+Read review-SKILL.md for the base branch detection instructions.
+
+IMPORTANT: Follow Step 0 to detect the base branch. Since there is no remote, gh commands will fail — fall back to main.
+Then run git diff against the detected base branch and write a brief review.
+Write your findings to ${dir}/review-output.md`,
+      workingDirectory: dir,
+      maxTurns: 15,
+      timeout: 90_000,
+      testName: 'review-base-branch',
+      runId,
+    });
+
+    logCost('/review base-branch', result);
+    recordE2E(evalCollector, '/review base branch detection', 'Base branch detection', result);
+    expect(result.exitReason).toBe('success');
+
+    // Verify the review used "base branch" language (from Step 0)
+    const toolOutputs = result.toolCalls.map(tc => tc.output || '').join('\n');
+    const allOutput = (result.output || '') + toolOutputs;
+    // The agent should have run git diff against main (the fallback)
+    const usedGitDiff = result.toolCalls.some(tc => {
+      if (tc.tool !== 'Bash') return false;
+      const cmd = typeof tc.input === 'string' ? tc.input : tc.input?.command || JSON.stringify(tc.input);
+      return cmd.includes('git diff');
+    });
+    expect(usedGitDiff).toBe(true);
+  }, 120_000);
+
+  testConcurrentIfSelected('ship-base-branch', async () => {
+    const dir = path.join(baseBranchDir, 'ship-base');
+    fs.mkdirSync(dir, { recursive: true });
+
+    // Create git repo with feature branch
+    run('git', ['init'], dir);
+    run('git', ['config', 'user.email', 'test@test.com'], dir);
+    run('git', ['config', 'user.name', 'Test'], dir);
+
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(dir, 'app.ts'), 'console.log("v1");\n');
+    run('git', ['add', 'app.ts'], dir);
+    run('git', ['commit', '-m', 'initial'], dir);
+
+    run('git', ['checkout', '-b', 'feature/ship-test'], dir);
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(dir, 'app.ts'), 'console.log("v2");\n');
+    run('git', ['add', 'app.ts'], dir);
+    run('git', ['commit', '-m', 'feat: update to v2'], dir);
+
+    // Extract only Step 0 (base branch detection) from ship/SKILL.md
+    // (copying the full 1900-line file causes agent context bloat and flaky timeouts)
+    const fullShipSkill = fs.readFileSync(path.join(ROOT, 'ship', 'SKILL.md'), 'utf-8');
+    const step0Start = fullShipSkill.indexOf('## Step 0: Detect platform and base branch');
+    const step0End = fullShipSkill.indexOf('## Step 1: Pre-flight');
+    const shipSection = fullShipSkill.slice(step0Start, step0End > step0Start ? step0End : undefined);
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(dir, 'ship-SKILL.md'), shipSection);
+
+    const result = await runSkillTest({
+      prompt: `Read ship-SKILL.md. It contains Step 0 (Detect base branch) from the ship workflow.
+
+Run the base branch detection. Since there is no remote, gh commands will fail — fall back to main.
+
+Then run git diff and git log against the detected base branch.
+
+Write a summary to ${dir}/ship-preflight.md including:
+- The detected base branch name
+- The current branch name
+- The diff stat against the base branch`,
+      workingDirectory: dir,
+      maxTurns: 18,
+      timeout: 150_000,
+      testName: 'ship-base-branch',
+      runId,
+    });
+
+    logCost('/ship base-branch', result);
+    recordE2E(evalCollector, '/ship base branch detection', 'Base branch detection', result);
+    expect(result.exitReason).toBe('success');
+
+    // Verify preflight output was written
+    const preflightPath = path.join(dir, 'ship-preflight.md');
+    if (fs.existsSync(preflightPath)) {
+      const content = fs.readFileSync(preflightPath, 'utf-8');
+      expect(content.length).toBeGreaterThan(20);
+      // Should mention the branch name
+      expect(content.toLowerCase()).toMatch(/main|base/);
+    }
+
+    // Verify no destructive actions — no push, no PR creation
+    // session-runner records tool inputs as OBJECTS ({command} for Bash) —
+    // a typeof-string filter here matches nothing and the assertion can
+    // never fail, even against a real `git push`.
+    const destructiveTools = result.toolCalls.filter(tc => {
+      if (tc.tool !== 'Bash') return false;
+      const command = typeof tc.input === 'string'
+        ? tc.input
+        : ((tc.input as { command?: string })?.command ?? JSON.stringify(tc.input ?? {}));
+      return command.includes('git push') || command.includes('gh pr create');
+    });
+    expect(destructiveTools).toHaveLength(0);
+  }, 180_000);
+});
+
+// --- Review Dashboard Via Attribution E2E ---
+
+describeIfSelected('Review Dashboard Via Attribution', ['review-dashboard-via'], () => {
+  let dashDir: string;
+
+  beforeAll(() => {
+    dashDir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'skill-e2e-dashboard-via-'));
+    const run = (cmd: string, args: string[], cwd = dashDir) =>
+      spawnSync(cmd, args, { cwd, stdio: 'pipe', timeout: 5000 });
+
+    // Create git repo with feature branch
+    run('git', ['init', '-b', 'main']);
+    run('git', ['config', 'user.email', 'test@test.com']);
+    run('git', ['config', 'user.name', 'Test']);
+
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(dashDir, 'app.ts'), 'console.log("v1");\n');
+    run('git', ['add', 'app.ts']);
+    run('git', ['commit', '-m', 'initial']);
+
+    run('git', ['checkout', '-b', 'feature/dashboard-test']);
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(dashDir, 'app.ts'), 'console.log("v2");\n');
+    run('git', ['add', 'app.ts']);
+    run('git', ['commit', '-m', 'feat: update']);
+
+    // Get HEAD commit for review entries
+    const headResult = spawnSync('git', ['rev-parse', '--short', 'HEAD'], { cwd: dashDir, stdio: 'pipe' });
+    const commit = headResult.stdout.toString().trim();
+
+    // Pre-populate review log with autoplan-sourced entries
+    // gstack-review-read reads from ~/.gstack/projects/$SLUG/$BRANCH-reviews.jsonl
+    // For the test, we'll write a mock gstack-review-read script that returns our test data
+    const timestamp = new Date().toISOString().replace(/\.\d{3}Z$/, 'Z');
+    const reviewData = [
+      `{"skill":"plan-eng-review","timestamp":"${timestamp}","status":"clean","unresolved":0,"critical_gaps":0,"issues_found":0,"mode":"FULL_REVIEW","via":"autoplan","commit":"${commit}"}`,
+      `{"skill":"plan-ceo-review","timestamp":"${timestamp}","status":"clean","unresolved":0,"critical_gaps":0,"mode":"SELECTIVE_EXPANSION","via":"autoplan","commit":"${commit}"}`,
+      `{"skill":"codex-plan-review","timestamp":"${timestamp}","status":"clean","source":"codex","commit":"${commit}"}`,
+    ].join('\n');
+
+    // Write a mock gstack-review-read that returns our test data
+    const mockBinDir = path.join(dashDir, '.mock-bin');
+    fs.mkdirSync(mockBinDir, { recursive: true });
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(mockBinDir, 'gstack-review-read'), [
+      '#!/usr/bin/env bash',
+      `echo '${reviewData.split('\n').join("'\necho '")}'`,
+      'echo "---CONFIG---"',
+      'echo "false"',
+      'echo "---HEAD---"',
+      `echo "${commit}"`,
+    ].join('\n'));
+    fs.chmodSync(path.join(mockBinDir, 'gstack-review-read'), 0o755);
+
+    // Extract only the Review Readiness Dashboard section from ship/SKILL.md
+    // (copying the full 1900-line file causes agent context bloat and timeouts)
+    const fullSkill = fs.readFileSync(path.join(ROOT, 'ship', 'SKILL.md'), 'utf-8');
+    const dashStart = fullSkill.indexOf('## Review Readiness Dashboard');
+    const dashEnd = fullSkill.indexOf('\n---\n', dashStart);
+    const dashSection = fullSkill.slice(dashStart, dashEnd > dashStart ? dashEnd : undefined);
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(dashDir, 'ship-SKILL.md'), dashSection);
+  });
+
+  afterAll(() => {
+    try { fs.rmSync(dashDir, { recursive: true, force: true }); } catch {}
+  });
+
+  testConcurrentIfSelected('review-dashboard-via', async () => {
+    const mockBinDir = path.join(dashDir, '.mock-bin');
+
+    const result = await runSkillTest({
+      prompt: `Read ship-SKILL.md. You only need to run the Review Readiness Dashboard section.
+
+Instead of running ~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-review-read, run this mock: ${mockBinDir}/gstack-review-read
+
+Parse the output and display the dashboard table. Pay attention to:
+1. The "via" field in entries — show source attribution (e.g., "via /autoplan")
+2. The codex-plan-review entry — it should populate the Outside Voice row
+3. Since Eng Review IS clear, there should be NO gate blocking — just display the dashboard
+
+Skip the preamble, lake intro, telemetry, and all other ship steps.
+Write the dashboard output to ${dashDir}/dashboard-output.md`,
+      workingDirectory: dashDir,
+      maxTurns: 12,
+      // 360s, third ratchet of the same contention story: 180s deterministic
+      // 0-turn timeouts (PR #2472) → 300s; then PR #2593 hit 302s timeouts
+      // on attempt 2 in two consecutive runs while five sibling rounds
+      // passed — the queue-behind-siblings startup tax under 40-way in-shard
+      // concurrency is real and marginal at 300s. Same headroom its
+      // contention-class sibling (retro-base-branch) already carries. Outer
+      // bun timeout below rises to 480s to keep headroom over the inner.
+      timeout: 360_000,
+      testName: 'review-dashboard-via',
+      runId,
+    });
+
+    logCost('/ship dashboard-via', result);
+    recordE2E(evalCollector, '/ship review dashboard via attribution', 'Dashboard via field', result);
+    expect(result.exitReason).toBe('success');
+
+    // Check dashboard output for via attribution
+    const dashPath = path.join(dashDir, 'dashboard-output.md');
+    const allOutput = [
+      result.output || '',
+      ...result.toolCalls.map(tc => tc.output || ''),
+    ].join('\n').toLowerCase();
+
+    // Verify via attribution appears somewhere (conversation or file)
+    let dashContent = '';
+    if (fs.existsSync(dashPath)) {
+      dashContent = fs.readFileSync(dashPath, 'utf-8').toLowerCase();
+    }
+    const combined = allOutput + dashContent;
+
+    // Should mention autoplan attribution
+    expect(combined).toMatch(/autoplan/);
+    // Should show eng review as CLEAR (it has a clean entry)
+    expect(combined).toMatch(/clear/i);
+    // Should NOT contain AskUserQuestion gate (no blocking)
+    const gateQuestions = result.toolCalls.filter(tc =>
+      tc.tool === 'mcp__conductor__AskUserQuestion' ||
+      (tc.tool === 'AskUserQuestion')
+    );
+    // Ship dashboard should not gate when eng review is clear
+    expect(gateQuestions).toHaveLength(0);
+  }, 480_000);
+});
+
+// Module-level afterAll — finalize eval collector after all tests complete
+afterAll(async () => {
+  await finalizeEvalCollector(evalCollector);
+});

test/skill-e2e-review.test.ts

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import {
   copyDirSync, setupBrowseShims, logCost, recordE2E,
   createEvalCollector, finalizeEvalCollector,
 } from './helpers/e2e-helpers';
+import { extractSkillSections, REVIEW_E2E_SECTIONS } from './helpers/skill-fixture';
 import { spawnSync } from 'child_process';
 import * as fs from 'fs';
 import * as path from 'path';
@@ -41,8 +42,12 @@ describeIfSelected('Review skill E2E', ['review-sql-injection'], () => {
     run('git', ['add', 'user_controller.rb']);
     run('git', ['commit', '-m', 'add user controller']);
 
-    // Copy review skill files
-    fs.copyFileSync(path.join(ROOT, 'review', 'SKILL.md'), path.join(reviewDir, 'review-SKILL.md'));
+    // Review skill files — extract only the core review workflow sections
+    // (CLAUDE.md: "E2E test fixtures: extract, don't copy").
+    fs.writeFileSync(
+      path.join(reviewDir, 'review-SKILL.md'),
+      extractSkillSections(path.join(ROOT, 'review'), REVIEW_E2E_SECTIONS),
+    );
     fs.copyFileSync(path.join(ROOT, 'review', 'checklist.md'), path.join(reviewDir, 'review-checklist.md'));
     fs.copyFileSync(path.join(ROOT, 'review', 'greptile-triage.md'), path.join(reviewDir, 'review-greptile-triage.md'));
   });
@@ -115,8 +120,11 @@ describeIfSelected('Review enum completeness E2E', ['review-enum-completeness'],
     run('git', ['add', 'order.rb']);
     run('git', ['commit', '-m', 'add returned status']);
 
-    // Copy review skill files
-    fs.copyFileSync(path.join(ROOT, 'review', 'SKILL.md'), path.join(enumDir, 'review-SKILL.md'));
+    // Review skill files — extracted sections, not the full 1870-line file.
+    fs.writeFileSync(
+      path.join(enumDir, 'review-SKILL.md'),
+      extractSkillSections(path.join(ROOT, 'review'), REVIEW_E2E_SECTIONS),
+    );
     fs.copyFileSync(path.join(ROOT, 'review', 'checklist.md'), path.join(enumDir, 'review-checklist.md'));
     fs.copyFileSync(path.join(ROOT, 'review', 'greptile-triage.md'), path.join(enumDir, 'review-greptile-triage.md'));
   });
@@ -189,8 +197,13 @@ describeIfSelected('Review design lite E2E', ['review-design-lite'], () => {
     run('git', ['add', '.']);
     run('git', ['commit', '-m', 'add landing page']);
 
-    // Copy review skill files
-    fs.copyFileSync(path.join(ROOT, 'review', 'SKILL.md'), path.join(designDir, 'review-SKILL.md'));
+    // Review skill files — extracted sections, not the full 1870-line file.
+    // The design checks come from review-design-checklist.md (copied whole,
+    // it is a 134-line checklist, not a generated SKILL.md).
+    fs.writeFileSync(
+      path.join(designDir, 'review-SKILL.md'),
+      extractSkillSections(path.join(ROOT, 'review'), REVIEW_E2E_SECTIONS),
+    );
     fs.copyFileSync(path.join(ROOT, 'review', 'checklist.md'), path.join(designDir, 'review-checklist.md'));
     fs.copyFileSync(path.join(ROOT, 'review', 'design-checklist.md'), path.join(designDir, 'review-design-checklist.md'));
     fs.copyFileSync(path.join(ROOT, 'review', 'greptile-triage.md'), path.join(designDir, 'review-greptile-triage.md'));
@@ -252,414 +265,10 @@ Important: The design checklist should catch issues like blacklisted fonts, smal
   }, 300_000);
 });
 
-// --- Base branch detection smoke tests ---
-
-describeIfSelected('Base branch detection', ['review-base-branch', 'ship-base-branch', 'retro-base-branch'], () => {
-  let baseBranchDir: string;
-  const run = (cmd: string, args: string[], cwd: string) =>
-    spawnSync(cmd, args, { cwd, stdio: 'pipe', timeout: 5000 });
-
-  beforeAll(() => {
-    baseBranchDir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'skill-e2e-basebranch-'));
-  });
-
-  afterAll(() => {
-    try { fs.rmSync(baseBranchDir, { recursive: true, force: true }); } catch {}
-  });
-
-  testConcurrentIfSelected('review-base-branch', async () => {
-    const dir = path.join(baseBranchDir, 'review-base');
-    fs.mkdirSync(dir, { recursive: true });
-
-    // Create git repo with a feature branch off main
-    run('git', ['init'], dir);
-    run('git', ['config', 'user.email', 'test@test.com'], dir);
-    run('git', ['config', 'user.name', 'Test'], dir);
-
-    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(dir, 'app.rb'), '# clean base\nclass App\nend\n');
-    run('git', ['add', 'app.rb'], dir);
-    run('git', ['commit', '-m', 'initial commit'], dir);
-
-    // Create feature branch with a change
-    run('git', ['checkout', '-b', 'feature/test-review'], dir);
-    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(dir, 'app.rb'), '# clean base\nclass App\n  def hello; "world"; end\nend\n');
-    run('git', ['add', 'app.rb'], dir);
-    run('git', ['commit', '-m', 'feat: add hello method'], dir);
-
-    // Extract only Step 0 (base branch detection) + minimal review instructions
-    // Full SKILL.md is ~1500 lines — copying it causes the agent to spend all turns reading
-    const full = fs.readFileSync(path.join(ROOT, 'review', 'SKILL.md'), 'utf-8');
-    const step0Start = full.indexOf('## Step 0: Detect platform and base branch');
-    const step1Start = full.indexOf('## Step 1: Check branch');
-    const step1End = full.indexOf('---', step1Start + 10);
-    const extracted = full.slice(step0Start, step1End > step1Start ? step1End : step1Start + 500);
-    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(dir, 'review-SKILL.md'), extracted);
-
-    const result = await runSkillTest({
-      prompt: `You are in a git repo on a feature branch with changes.
-Read review-SKILL.md for the base branch detection instructions.
-
-IMPORTANT: Follow Step 0 to detect the base branch. Since there is no remote, gh commands will fail — fall back to main.
-Then run git diff against the detected base branch and write a brief review.
-Write your findings to ${dir}/review-output.md`,
-      workingDirectory: dir,
-      maxTurns: 15,
-      timeout: 90_000,
-      testName: 'review-base-branch',
-      runId,
-    });
-
-    logCost('/review base-branch', result);
-    recordE2E(evalCollector, '/review base branch detection', 'Base branch detection', result);
-    expect(result.exitReason).toBe('success');
-
-    // Verify the review used "base branch" language (from Step 0)
-    const toolOutputs = result.toolCalls.map(tc => tc.output || '').join('\n');
-    const allOutput = (result.output || '') + toolOutputs;
-    // The agent should have run git diff against main (the fallback)
-    const usedGitDiff = result.toolCalls.some(tc => {
-      if (tc.tool !== 'Bash') return false;
-      const cmd = typeof tc.input === 'string' ? tc.input : tc.input?.command || JSON.stringify(tc.input);
-      return cmd.includes('git diff');
-    });
-    expect(usedGitDiff).toBe(true);
-  }, 120_000);
-
-  testConcurrentIfSelected('ship-base-branch', async () => {
-    const dir = path.join(baseBranchDir, 'ship-base');
-    fs.mkdirSync(dir, { recursive: true });
-
-    // Create git repo with feature branch
-    run('git', ['init'], dir);
-    run('git', ['config', 'user.email', 'test@test.com'], dir);
-    run('git', ['config', 'user.name', 'Test'], dir);
-
-    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(dir, 'app.ts'), 'console.log("v1");\n');
-    run('git', ['add', 'app.ts'], dir);
-    run('git', ['commit', '-m', 'initial'], dir);
-
-    run('git', ['checkout', '-b', 'feature/ship-test'], dir);
-    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(dir, 'app.ts'), 'console.log("v2");\n');
-    run('git', ['add', 'app.ts'], dir);
-    run('git', ['commit', '-m', 'feat: update to v2'], dir);
-
-    // Extract only Step 0 (base branch detection) from ship/SKILL.md
-    // (copying the full 1900-line file causes agent context bloat and flaky timeouts)
-    const fullShipSkill = fs.readFileSync(path.join(ROOT, 'ship', 'SKILL.md'), 'utf-8');
-    const step0Start = fullShipSkill.indexOf('## Step 0: Detect platform and base branch');
-    const step0End = fullShipSkill.indexOf('## Step 1: Pre-flight');
-    const shipSection = fullShipSkill.slice(step0Start, step0End > step0Start ? step0End : undefined);
-    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(dir, 'ship-SKILL.md'), shipSection);
-
-    const result = await runSkillTest({
-      prompt: `Read ship-SKILL.md. It contains Step 0 (Detect base branch) from the ship workflow.
-
-Run the base branch detection. Since there is no remote, gh commands will fail — fall back to main.
-
-Then run git diff and git log against the detected base branch.
-
-Write a summary to ${dir}/ship-preflight.md including:
-- The detected base branch name
-- The current branch name
-- The diff stat against the base branch`,
-      workingDirectory: dir,
-      maxTurns: 18,
-      timeout: 150_000,
-      testName: 'ship-base-branch',
-      runId,
-    });
-
-    logCost('/ship base-branch', result);
-    recordE2E(evalCollector, '/ship base branch detection', 'Base branch detection', result);
-    expect(result.exitReason).toBe('success');
-
-    // Verify preflight output was written
-    const preflightPath = path.join(dir, 'ship-preflight.md');
-    if (fs.existsSync(preflightPath)) {
-      const content = fs.readFileSync(preflightPath, 'utf-8');
-      expect(content.length).toBeGreaterThan(20);
-      // Should mention the branch name
-      expect(content.toLowerCase()).toMatch(/main|base/);
-    }
-
-    // Verify no destructive actions — no push, no PR creation
-    const destructiveTools = result.toolCalls.filter(tc =>
-      tc.tool === 'Bash' && typeof tc.input === 'string' &&
-      (tc.input.includes('git push') || tc.input.includes('gh pr create'))
-    );
-    expect(destructiveTools).toHaveLength(0);
-  }, 180_000);
-
-  testConcurrentIfSelected('retro-base-branch', async () => {
-    const dir = path.join(baseBranchDir, 'retro-base');
-    fs.mkdirSync(dir, { recursive: true });
-
-    // Create git repo with commit history
-    run('git', ['init'], dir);
-    run('git', ['config', 'user.email', 'dev@example.com'], dir);
-    run('git', ['config', 'user.name', 'Dev'], dir);
-
-    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(dir, 'app.ts'), 'console.log("hello");\n');
-    run('git', ['add', 'app.ts'], dir);
-    run('git', ['commit', '-m', 'feat: initial app', '--date', '2026-03-14T09:00:00'], dir);
-
-    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(dir, 'auth.ts'), 'export function login() {}\n');
-    run('git', ['add', 'auth.ts'], dir);
-    run('git', ['commit', '-m', 'feat: add auth', '--date', '2026-03-15T10:00:00'], dir);
-
-    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(dir, 'test.ts'), 'test("it works", () => {});\n');
-    run('git', ['add', 'test.ts'], dir);
-    run('git', ['commit', '-m', 'test: add tests', '--date', '2026-03-16T11:00:00'], dir);
-
-    // Copy retro skill
-    fs.mkdirSync(path.join(dir, 'retro'), { recursive: true });
-    fs.copyFileSync(path.join(ROOT, 'retro', 'SKILL.md'), path.join(dir, 'retro', 'SKILL.md'));
-
-    const result = await runSkillTest({
-      prompt: `Read retro/SKILL.md for instructions on how to run a retrospective.
-
-IMPORTANT: Follow the "Detect default branch" step first. Since there is no remote, gh will fail — fall back to main.
-Then use the detected branch name for all git queries.
-
-Run /retro for the last 7 days of this git repo. Skip any AskUserQuestion calls — this is non-interactive.
-This is a local-only repo so use the local branch (main) instead of origin/main for all git log commands.
-
-Write your retrospective to ${dir}/retro-output.md`,
-      workingDirectory: dir,
-      maxTurns: 25,
-      // 360s, not 240s: same runner-contention class as review-dashboard-via.
-      // /retro is a long multi-step flow — a clean pass measured 225s and the
-      // next CI run timed out at the 240s line (exitReason "timeout", 3/3
-      // attempts). Outer bun timeout below rises to 480s for headroom.
-      timeout: 360_000,
-      testName: 'retro-base-branch',
-      runId,
-    });
-
-    logCost('/retro base-branch', result);
-    recordE2E(evalCollector, '/retro default branch detection', 'Base branch detection', result, {
-      passed: ['success', 'error_max_turns'].includes(result.exitReason),
-    });
-    expect(['success', 'error_max_turns']).toContain(result.exitReason);
-
-    // Verify retro output was produced
-    const retroPath = path.join(dir, 'retro-output.md');
-    if (fs.existsSync(retroPath)) {
-      const content = fs.readFileSync(retroPath, 'utf-8');
-      expect(content.length).toBeGreaterThan(100);
-    }
-  }, 480_000);
-});
-
-// --- Retro E2E ---
-
-describeIfSelected('Retro E2E', ['retro'], () => {
-  let retroDir: string;
-
-  beforeAll(() => {
-    retroDir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'skill-e2e-retro-'));
-    const run = (cmd: string, args: string[]) =>
-      spawnSync(cmd, args, { cwd: retroDir, stdio: 'pipe', timeout: 5000 });
-
-    // Create a git repo with varied commit history
-    run('git', ['init', '-b', 'main']);
-    run('git', ['config', 'user.email', 'dev@example.com']);
-    run('git', ['config', 'user.name', 'Dev']);
-
-    // Day 1 commits
-    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(retroDir, 'app.ts'), 'console.log("hello");\n');
-    run('git', ['add', 'app.ts']);
-    run('git', ['commit', '-m', 'feat: initial app setup', '--date', '2026-03-10T09:00:00']);
-
-    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(retroDir, 'auth.ts'), 'export function login() {}\n');
-    run('git', ['add', 'auth.ts']);
-    run('git', ['commit', '-m', 'feat: add auth module', '--date', '2026-03-10T11:00:00']);
-
-    // Day 2 commits
-    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(retroDir, 'app.ts'), 'import { login } from "./auth";\nconsole.log("hello");\nlogin();\n');
-    run('git', ['add', 'app.ts']);
-    run('git', ['commit', '-m', 'fix: wire up auth to app', '--date', '2026-03-11T10:00:00']);
-
-    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(retroDir, 'test.ts'), 'import { test } from "bun:test";\ntest("login", () => {});\n');
-    run('git', ['add', 'test.ts']);
-    run('git', ['commit', '-m', 'test: add login test', '--date', '2026-03-11T14:00:00']);
-
-    // Day 3 commits
-    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(retroDir, 'api.ts'), 'export function getUsers() { return []; }\n');
-    run('git', ['add', 'api.ts']);
-    run('git', ['commit', '-m', 'feat: add users API endpoint', '--date', '2026-03-12T09:30:00']);
-
-    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(retroDir, 'README.md'), '# My App\nA test application.\n');
-    run('git', ['add', 'README.md']);
-    run('git', ['commit', '-m', 'docs: add README', '--date', '2026-03-12T16:00:00']);
-
-    // Copy retro skill
-    fs.mkdirSync(path.join(retroDir, 'retro'), { recursive: true });
-    fs.copyFileSync(
-      path.join(ROOT, 'retro', 'SKILL.md'),
-      path.join(retroDir, 'retro', 'SKILL.md'),
-    );
-  });
-
-  afterAll(() => {
-    try { fs.rmSync(retroDir, { recursive: true, force: true }); } catch {}
-  });
-
-  testConcurrentIfSelected('retro', async () => {
-    const result = await runSkillTest({
-      prompt: `Read retro/SKILL.md for instructions on how to run a retrospective.
-
-Run /retro for the last 7 days of this git repo. Skip any AskUserQuestion calls — this is non-interactive.
-Write your retrospective report to ${retroDir}/retro-output.md
-
-Analyze the git history and produce the narrative report as described in the SKILL.md.`,
-      workingDirectory: retroDir,
-      maxTurns: 30,
-      timeout: 300_000,
-      testName: 'retro',
-      runId,
-      model: 'claude-opus-4-7',
-    });
-
-    logCost('/retro', result);
-    recordE2E(evalCollector, '/retro', 'Retro E2E', result, {
-      passed: ['success', 'error_max_turns'].includes(result.exitReason),
-    });
-    // Accept error_max_turns — retro does many git commands to analyze history
-    expect(['success', 'error_max_turns']).toContain(result.exitReason);
-
-    // Verify the retro was written
-    const retroPath = path.join(retroDir, 'retro-output.md');
-    if (fs.existsSync(retroPath)) {
-      const retro = fs.readFileSync(retroPath, 'utf-8');
-      expect(retro.length).toBeGreaterThan(100);
-    }
-  }, 420_000);
-});
-
-// --- Review Dashboard Via Attribution E2E ---
-
-describeIfSelected('Review Dashboard Via Attribution', ['review-dashboard-via'], () => {
-  let dashDir: string;
-
-  beforeAll(() => {
-    dashDir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'skill-e2e-dashboard-via-'));
-    const run = (cmd: string, args: string[], cwd = dashDir) =>
-      spawnSync(cmd, args, { cwd, stdio: 'pipe', timeout: 5000 });
-
-    // Create git repo with feature branch
-    run('git', ['init', '-b', 'main']);
-    run('git', ['config', 'user.email', 'test@test.com']);
-    run('git', ['config', 'user.name', 'Test']);
-
-    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(dashDir, 'app.ts'), 'console.log("v1");\n');
-    run('git', ['add', 'app.ts']);
-    run('git', ['commit', '-m', 'initial']);
-
-    run('git', ['checkout', '-b', 'feature/dashboard-test']);
-    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(dashDir, 'app.ts'), 'console.log("v2");\n');
-    run('git', ['add', 'app.ts']);
-    run('git', ['commit', '-m', 'feat: update']);
-
-    // Get HEAD commit for review entries
-    const headResult = spawnSync('git', ['rev-parse', '--short', 'HEAD'], { cwd: dashDir, stdio: 'pipe' });
-    const commit = headResult.stdout.toString().trim();
-
-    // Pre-populate review log with autoplan-sourced entries
-    // gstack-review-read reads from ~/.gstack/projects/$SLUG/$BRANCH-reviews.jsonl
-    // For the test, we'll write a mock gstack-review-read script that returns our test data
-    const timestamp = new Date().toISOString().replace(/\.\d{3}Z$/, 'Z');
-    const reviewData = [
-      `{"skill":"plan-eng-review","timestamp":"${timestamp}","status":"clean","unresolved":0,"critical_gaps":0,"issues_found":0,"mode":"FULL_REVIEW","via":"autoplan","commit":"${commit}"}`,
-      `{"skill":"plan-ceo-review","timestamp":"${timestamp}","status":"clean","unresolved":0,"critical_gaps":0,"mode":"SELECTIVE_EXPANSION","via":"autoplan","commit":"${commit}"}`,
-      `{"skill":"codex-plan-review","timestamp":"${timestamp}","status":"clean","source":"codex","commit":"${commit}"}`,
-    ].join('\n');
-
-    // Write a mock gstack-review-read that returns our test data
-    const mockBinDir = path.join(dashDir, '.mock-bin');
-    fs.mkdirSync(mockBinDir, { recursive: true });
-    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(mockBinDir, 'gstack-review-read'), [
-      '#!/usr/bin/env bash',
-      `echo '${reviewData.split('\n').join("'\necho '")}'`,
-      'echo "---CONFIG---"',
-      'echo "false"',
-      'echo "---HEAD---"',
-      `echo "${commit}"`,
-    ].join('\n'));
-    fs.chmodSync(path.join(mockBinDir, 'gstack-review-read'), 0o755);
-
-    // Extract only the Review Readiness Dashboard section from ship/SKILL.md
-    // (copying the full 1900-line file causes agent context bloat and timeouts)
-    const fullSkill = fs.readFileSync(path.join(ROOT, 'ship', 'SKILL.md'), 'utf-8');
-    const dashStart = fullSkill.indexOf('## Review Readiness Dashboard');
-    const dashEnd = fullSkill.indexOf('\n---\n', dashStart);
-    const dashSection = fullSkill.slice(dashStart, dashEnd > dashStart ? dashEnd : undefined);
-    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(dashDir, 'ship-SKILL.md'), dashSection);
-  });
-
-  afterAll(() => {
-    try { fs.rmSync(dashDir, { recursive: true, force: true }); } catch {}
-  });
-
-  testConcurrentIfSelected('review-dashboard-via', async () => {
-    const mockBinDir = path.join(dashDir, '.mock-bin');
-
-    const result = await runSkillTest({
-      prompt: `Read ship-SKILL.md. You only need to run the Review Readiness Dashboard section.
-
-Instead of running ~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-review-read, run this mock: ${mockBinDir}/gstack-review-read
-
-Parse the output and display the dashboard table. Pay attention to:
-1. The "via" field in entries — show source attribution (e.g., "via /autoplan")
-2. The codex-plan-review entry — it should populate the Outside Voice row
-3. Since Eng Review IS clear, there should be NO gate blocking — just display the dashboard
-
-Skip the preamble, lake intro, telemetry, and all other ship steps.
-Write the dashboard output to ${dashDir}/dashboard-output.md`,
-      workingDirectory: dashDir,
-      maxTurns: 12,
-      // 300s, not 180s: on a saturated CI runner this file's concurrent
-      // sessions queue behind each other and session STARTUP can eat the
-      // whole budget — observed as deterministic timeout at 0 turns/$0.00
-      // for exactly 180s across 3 attempts (PR #2472 CI + its baseline),
-      // while the 240s-budget tests in the same job passed. Outer bun
-      // timeout below rises to 360s to keep headroom over the inner budget.
-      timeout: 300_000,
-      testName: 'review-dashboard-via',
-      runId,
-    });
-
-    logCost('/ship dashboard-via', result);
-    recordE2E(evalCollector, '/ship review dashboard via attribution', 'Dashboard via field', result);
-    expect(result.exitReason).toBe('success');
-
-    // Check dashboard output for via attribution
-    const dashPath = path.join(dashDir, 'dashboard-output.md');
-    const allOutput = [
-      result.output || '',
-      ...result.toolCalls.map(tc => tc.output || ''),
-    ].join('\n').toLowerCase();
-
-    // Verify via attribution appears somewhere (conversation or file)
-    let dashContent = '';
-    if (fs.existsSync(dashPath)) {
-      dashContent = fs.readFileSync(dashPath, 'utf-8').toLowerCase();
-    }
-    const combined = allOutput + dashContent;
-
-    // Should mention autoplan attribution
-    expect(combined).toMatch(/autoplan/);
-    // Should show eng review as CLEAR (it has a clean entry)
-    expect(combined).toMatch(/clear/i);
-    // Should NOT contain AskUserQuestion gate (no blocking)
-    const gateQuestions = result.toolCalls.filter(tc =>
-      tc.tool === 'mcp__conductor__AskUserQuestion' ||
-      (tc.tool === 'AskUserQuestion')
-    );
-    // Ship dashboard should not gate when eng review is clear
-    expect(gateQuestions).toHaveLength(0);
-  }, 360_000);
-});
+// Base branch detection tests for review/ship + the Review Dashboard Via
+// Attribution describe live in test/skill-e2e-review-attribution.test.ts.
+// Retro tests (retro, retro-base-branch) live in test/skill-e2e-retro.test.ts.
+// Split so CI's per-file matrix can run them in parallel.
 
 // Module-level afterAll — finalize eval collector after all tests complete
 afterAll(async () => {

test/skill-e2e-ship-idempotency.test.ts

@@ -11,11 +11,11 @@
  *   4. Does NOT append a duplicate CHANGELOG [0.0.2] entry
  *   5. Does NOT create a new "chore: bump version" commit
  *
- * Why real-PTY: the existing ship-idempotency test in skill-e2e.test.ts
- * uses the SDK harness with a synthetic prompt asking the agent to "run
- * ONLY the idempotency checks." This test exercises the actual /ship
- * skill end-to-end against a real git fixture so a regression that
- * silently re-bumps despite the check passing would be caught.
+ * Why real-PTY: the old SDK-harness ship-idempotency variant (removed in
+ * v1.64.1.0 as redundant with this test) used a synthetic prompt asking
+ * the agent to "run ONLY the idempotency checks." This test exercises the
+ * actual /ship skill end-to-end against a real git fixture so a regression
+ * that silently re-bumps despite the check passing would be caught.
  *
  * Plan-mode framing: we run /ship in plan mode so the agent cannot push,
  * commit, or open PRs. The Step 12 idempotency check is read-only

test/skill-e2e-skillify.test.ts

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ import {
   setupBrowseShims, copyDirSync, logCost, recordE2E,
   createEvalCollector, finalizeEvalCollector,
 } from './helpers/e2e-helpers';
+import { extractSkillBody } from './helpers/skill-fixture';
 import { spawnSync } from 'child_process';
 import * as fs from 'fs';
 import * as path from 'path';
@@ -77,12 +78,15 @@ function setupSkillifyWorkdir(suffix: string, installSkills: string[] = ['scrape
 
   setupBrowseShims(workDir);
 
-  // Install requested skills.
+  // Install requested skills. The tests exercise the full /scrape + /skillify
+  // flows (all 11 skillify steps, D1-D3 contracts), so keep the whole
+  // skill-specific body — but drop the ~780-line shared preamble the tests
+  // never touch (CLAUDE.md: "E2E test fixtures: extract, don't copy").
   const skillsDir = path.join(workDir, '.claude', 'skills');
   for (const skill of installSkills) {
     const destDir = path.join(skillsDir, skill);
     fs.mkdirSync(destDir, { recursive: true });
-    fs.copyFileSync(path.join(ROOT, skill, 'SKILL.md'), path.join(destDir, 'SKILL.md'));
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(destDir, 'SKILL.md'), extractSkillBody(path.join(ROOT, skill)));
   }
 
   // bin/ scripts — preamble references several of these.

test/skill-e2e-triage.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,238 @@
+/**
+ * /ship test-failure ownership triage E2E.
+ *
+ * Rehomed VERBATIM from the pre-split monolith (test/skill-e2e.test.ts,
+ * deleted on this branch): the monolith's filename never matched the paid
+ * glob (`test/skill-e2e-*.test.ts` — note the hyphen), so this GATE-tier
+ * test (`ship-triage` in E2E_TIERS) silently never executed after the
+ * v1.56 split.
+ *
+ * DRIFT WARNING (attribution for the first paid run after rehoming): the
+ * prompt references "Test Failure Ownership Triage (Steps T1-T4)" — no
+ * such section exists in the current generated ship/SKILL.md (the skill
+ * drifted while this test was a zombie). The body is copied faithfully
+ * (no behavioral edits), so a failure here indicts the drift, not the
+ * move. The only change vs the monolith body: the staged ship/SKILL.md is
+ * extracted via test/helpers/skill-fixture.ts (extractSkillBody — full
+ * skill-specific body, shared preamble dropped) per CLAUDE.md
+ * "E2E test fixtures: extract, don't copy".
+ */
+
+import { test, expect, beforeAll, afterAll } from 'bun:test';
+import { runSkillTest } from './helpers/session-runner';
+import {
+  ROOT, runId,
+  describeIfSelected,
+  copyDirSync, logCost, recordE2E,
+  createEvalCollector, finalizeEvalCollector,
+} from './helpers/e2e-helpers';
+import { extractSkillBody } from './helpers/skill-fixture';
+import { spawnSync } from 'child_process';
+import * as fs from 'fs';
+import * as path from 'path';
+import * as os from 'os';
+
+const evalCollector = createEvalCollector('e2e-triage');
+
+// --- Triage E2E ---
+
+describeIfSelected('Test Failure Triage E2E', ['ship-triage'], () => {
+  let triageDir: string;
+
+  beforeAll(() => {
+    triageDir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'skill-e2e-triage-'));
+
+    // Copy ship skill files, then replace the SKILL.md with the extracted
+    // skill body (extract, don't copy).
+    copyDirSync(path.join(ROOT, 'ship'), path.join(triageDir, 'ship'));
+    fs.writeFileSync(
+      path.join(triageDir, 'ship', 'SKILL.md'),
+      extractSkillBody(path.join(ROOT, 'ship')),
+    );
+
+    const run = (cmd: string, args: string[]) =>
+      spawnSync(cmd, args, { cwd: triageDir, stdio: 'pipe', timeout: 5000 });
+
+    // Init git repo
+    run('git', ['init', '-b', 'main']);
+    run('git', ['config', 'user.email', 'test@test.com']);
+    run('git', ['config', 'user.name', 'Test']);
+
+    // Create a project with a pre-existing test failure on main
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(triageDir, 'package.json'), JSON.stringify({
+      name: 'triage-test-app',
+      version: '1.0.0',
+      scripts: { test: 'node test/run.js' },
+    }, null, 2));
+
+    fs.mkdirSync(path.join(triageDir, 'src'), { recursive: true });
+    fs.mkdirSync(path.join(triageDir, 'test'), { recursive: true });
+
+    // Source with a bug that exists on main (pre-existing)
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(triageDir, 'src', 'math.js'), `
+module.exports = {
+  add: (a, b) => a + b,
+  divide: (a, b) => a / b,  // BUG: no zero-division check (pre-existing)
+};
+`);
+
+    // Test file that catches the pre-existing bug
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(triageDir, 'test', 'math.test.js'), `
+const { add, divide } = require('../src/math');
+
+// This test passes
+if (add(2, 3) !== 5) { console.error('FAIL: add(2,3) should be 5'); process.exit(1); }
+console.log('PASS: add');
+
+// This test FAILS — pre-existing bug (divide by zero returns Infinity, not an error)
+try {
+  const result = divide(10, 0);
+  if (result === Infinity) { console.error('FAIL: divide(10,0) should throw, got Infinity'); process.exit(1); }
+} catch(e) {
+  console.log('PASS: divide zero check');
+}
+`);
+
+    // Test runner — each test in a subprocess so one failure doesn't kill the other
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(triageDir, 'test', 'run.js'), `
+const { execSync } = require('child_process');
+const path = require('path');
+let failures = 0;
+for (const f of ['math.test.js', 'string.test.js']) {
+  try {
+    execSync('node ' + path.join(__dirname, f), { stdio: 'inherit' });
+  } catch (e) {
+    failures++;
+  }
+}
+if (failures > 0) process.exit(1);
+`);
+
+    // Commit on main with the pre-existing bug
+    run('git', ['add', '.']);
+    run('git', ['commit', '-m', 'initial: math utils with tests']);
+
+    // Create feature branch
+    run('git', ['checkout', '-b', 'feature/string-utils']);
+
+    // Add new code with a new bug (in-branch)
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(triageDir, 'src', 'string.js'), `
+module.exports = {
+  capitalize: (s) => s.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + s.slice(1),
+  reverse: (s) => s.split('').reverse().join(''),
+  truncate: (s, len) => s.substring(0, len),  // BUG: no null check (in-branch)
+};
+`);
+
+    // Add test that catches the in-branch bug
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(triageDir, 'test', 'string.test.js'), `
+const { capitalize, reverse, truncate } = require('../src/string');
+
+if (capitalize('hello') !== 'Hello') { console.error('FAIL: capitalize'); process.exit(1); }
+console.log('PASS: capitalize');
+
+if (reverse('abc') !== 'cba') { console.error('FAIL: reverse'); process.exit(1); }
+console.log('PASS: reverse');
+
+// This test FAILS — in-branch bug (null input causes TypeError)
+try {
+  truncate(null, 5);
+  console.log('PASS: truncate null');
+} catch(e) {
+  console.error('FAIL: truncate(null, 5) threw: ' + e.message);
+  process.exit(1);
+}
+`);
+
+    run('git', ['add', '.']);
+    run('git', ['commit', '-m', 'feat: add string utilities']);
+  });
+
+  afterAll(() => {
+    try { fs.rmSync(triageDir, { recursive: true, force: true }); } catch {}
+  });
+
+  test('/ship triage correctly classifies in-branch vs pre-existing failures', async () => {
+    const result = await runSkillTest({
+      prompt: `Read the file ship/SKILL.md for the ship workflow instructions.
+
+You are on the feature/string-utils branch. The base branch is main.
+This is a test project — there is no remote, no PR to create.
+
+Run the tests first:
+\`\`\`bash
+cd ${triageDir} && node test/run.js
+\`\`\`
+
+The tests will fail. Now run ONLY the Test Failure Ownership Triage (Steps T1-T4) from the ship workflow.
+
+For each failing test, classify it as:
+- **In-branch**: caused by changes on this branch (feature/string-utils)
+- **Pre-existing**: existed before this branch (present on main)
+
+Use git diff origin/main...HEAD (or git diff main...HEAD since there's no remote) to determine which files changed on this branch.
+
+Output your classification for each failure clearly, labeling each as "IN-BRANCH" or "PRE-EXISTING" with your reasoning.
+
+This is a solo repo (REPO_MODE=solo). For pre-existing failures, recommend fixing now.`,
+      workingDirectory: triageDir,
+      maxTurns: 20,
+      allowedTools: ['Bash', 'Read', 'Write', 'Edit', 'Glob', 'Grep'],
+      timeout: 180_000,
+      testName: 'ship-triage',
+      runId,
+    });
+
+    logCost('/ship triage', result);
+
+    const output = result.output || '';
+    const outputLower = output.toLowerCase();
+
+    // The triage should identify the string/truncate failure as in-branch
+    const hasInBranch = outputLower.includes('in-branch') || outputLower.includes('in branch') || outputLower.includes('introduced');
+    // The triage should identify the math/divide failure as pre-existing
+    const hasPreExisting = outputLower.includes('pre-existing') || outputLower.includes('pre existing') || outputLower.includes('existed before');
+
+    console.log(`Output identifies IN-BRANCH failures: ${hasInBranch}`);
+    console.log(`Output identifies PRE-EXISTING failures: ${hasPreExisting}`);
+
+    // Check that the string/truncate bug is classified as in-branch
+    const mentionsTruncate = outputLower.includes('truncate') || outputLower.includes('string');
+    const mentionsDivide = outputLower.includes('divide') || outputLower.includes('math');
+
+    console.log(`Mentions truncate/string (in-branch bug): ${mentionsTruncate}`);
+    console.log(`Mentions divide/math (pre-existing bug): ${mentionsDivide}`);
+
+    // Verify BOTH failure classes are exercised (not just detected):
+    // The test runner must have actually run both test files
+    const ranMathTest = output.includes('math.test') || output.includes('FAIL: divide');
+    const ranStringTest = output.includes('string.test') || output.includes('FAIL: truncate');
+    console.log(`Ran math test file (pre-existing failure): ${ranMathTest}`);
+    console.log(`Ran string test file (in-branch failure): ${ranStringTest}`);
+
+    recordE2E(evalCollector, '/ship triage', 'Test Failure Triage E2E', result, {
+      passed: result.exitReason === 'success' && hasInBranch && hasPreExisting,
+      has_in_branch_classification: hasInBranch,
+      has_pre_existing_classification: hasPreExisting,
+      mentions_truncate: mentionsTruncate,
+      mentions_divide: mentionsDivide,
+      ran_both_test_files: ranMathTest && ranStringTest,
+    });
+
+    expect(result.exitReason).toBe('success');
+    // Must classify at least one failure as in-branch AND one as pre-existing
+    expect(hasInBranch).toBe(true);
+    expect(hasPreExisting).toBe(true);
+    // Must mention the specific bugs
+    expect(mentionsTruncate).toBe(true);
+    expect(mentionsDivide).toBe(true);
+    // Must have actually run both test files (exercises both failure classes)
+    expect(ranMathTest).toBe(true);
+    expect(ranStringTest).toBe(true);
+  }, 240_000);
+});
+
+// Module-level afterAll — finalize eval collector after all tests complete
+afterAll(async () => {
+  await finalizeEvalCollector(evalCollector);
+});

test/skill-e2e-workflow.test.ts

@@ -77,7 +77,13 @@ IMPORTANT:
       workingDirectory: docReleaseDir,
       maxTurns: 30,
       allowedTools: ['Bash', 'Read', 'Write', 'Edit', 'Grep', 'Glob'],
-      timeout: 180_000,
+      // 300s, not 180s: a 30-turn multi-step doc workflow under 40-way
+      // in-shard CI concurrency timed out at exactly 180s on its final
+      // attempt twice on PR #2593 (rounds 4 and 13) while passing four
+      // other rounds — marginal at 180s, same contention story as
+      // review-dashboard-via and retro-base-branch. Outer bun timeout
+      // rises to 360s for headroom.
+      timeout: 300_000,
       testName: 'document-release',
       runId,
     });
@@ -114,7 +120,7 @@ IMPORTANT:
     } else {
       console.warn('README was NOT updated — agent may not have found the feature');
     }
-  }, 240_000);
+  }, 360_000);
 });
 
 // --- Ship workflow with local bare remote ---

test/skill-fixture.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,249 @@
+/**
+ * Unit + pin tests for test/helpers/skill-fixture.ts (free tier, no EVALS).
+ *
+ * Two layers:
+ *   1. Semantics against a synthetic SKILL.md: frontmatter always included,
+ *      sections concatenated in caller order, missing section throws with the
+ *      section name, fenced `## ` template headings do not split sections,
+ *      body extraction drops exactly the shared preamble block, head
+ *      extraction truncates the body.
+ *   2. Pins against the REAL generated SKILL.md files: every exported section
+ *      list extracts cleanly from the skill it targets, and the body/head
+ *      helpers work for every skill the E2E fixtures feed through them. A
+ *      heading rename in gen-skill-docs fails HERE (free, <1s) instead of
+ *      mid-flight in a paid E2E run.
+ */
+
+import { describe, test, expect, beforeAll, afterAll } from 'bun:test';
+import * as fs from 'fs';
+import * as path from 'path';
+import * as os from 'os';
+import {
+  extractSkillSections,
+  extractSkillBody,
+  extractSkillHead,
+  REVIEW_E2E_SECTIONS,
+  REVIEW_ARMY_E2E_SECTIONS,
+  RETRO_E2E_SECTIONS,
+  CODEX_REVIEW_E2E_SECTIONS,
+} from './helpers/skill-fixture';
+
+const ROOT = path.resolve(import.meta.dir, '..');
+
+// ─── Synthetic fixture ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+const SYNTHETIC_SKILL = `---
+name: fixture-test
+description: synthetic skill for skill-fixture unit tests
+---
+Intro line before any section.
+
+## When to invoke this skill
+Invoke text.
+
+## Preamble (run first)
+preamble junk that fixtures must drop
+
+## AskUserQuestion Format
+more shared-preamble junk
+
+## Plan Status Footer
+footer junk, last shared-preamble section
+
+## Step 1 — Do the thing
+step one body
+\`\`\`markdown
+## Embedded Template Heading
+template content inside a fence
+\`\`\`
+step one continues after the fence
+
+## Step 2 — Other
+step two body
+`;
+
+let tmpDir: string;
+let skillDir: string;
+
+beforeAll(() => {
+  tmpDir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'skill-fixture-test-'));
+  skillDir = path.join(tmpDir, 'fixture-test');
+  fs.mkdirSync(skillDir, { recursive: true });
+  fs.writeFileSync(path.join(skillDir, 'SKILL.md'), SYNTHETIC_SKILL);
+});
+
+afterAll(() => {
+  try { fs.rmSync(tmpDir, { recursive: true, force: true }); } catch {}
+});
+
+describe('extractSkillSections (synthetic)', () => {
+  test('always includes frontmatter and concatenates sections in caller order', () => {
+    const out = extractSkillSections(skillDir, ['Step 2 — Other', 'Step 1 — Do the thing']);
+    expect(out.startsWith('---\nname: fixture-test')).toBe(true);
+    expect(out).toContain('## Step 1 — Do the thing');
+    expect(out).toContain('## Step 2 — Other');
+    // Caller order preserved: Step 2 requested first, so it appears first.
+    expect(out.indexOf('## Step 2 — Other')).toBeLessThan(out.indexOf('## Step 1 — Do the thing'));
+    // Unrequested sections are dropped.
+    expect(out).not.toContain('preamble junk');
+    expect(out).not.toContain('Intro line before any section');
+  });
+
+  test('fenced ## headings do not terminate a section', () => {
+    const out = extractSkillSections(skillDir, ['Step 1 — Do the thing']);
+    expect(out).toContain('template content inside a fence');
+    expect(out).toContain('step one continues after the fence');
+    expect(out).not.toContain('step two body');
+  });
+
+  test('missing section throws with the section name and the file path', () => {
+    expect(() => extractSkillSections(skillDir, ['Step 99 — Renamed'])).toThrow(/Step 99 — Renamed/);
+    expect(() => extractSkillSections(skillDir, ['Step 99 — Renamed'])).toThrow(/SKILL\.md/);
+  });
+
+  test('a fenced heading is not findable as a section', () => {
+    expect(() => extractSkillSections(skillDir, ['Embedded Template Heading'])).toThrow(/not found/);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('extractSkillBody (synthetic)', () => {
+  test('keeps frontmatter + intro + full body, drops the shared preamble block', () => {
+    const out = extractSkillBody(skillDir);
+    expect(out.startsWith('---\nname: fixture-test')).toBe(true);
+    expect(out).toContain('Intro line before any section');
+    expect(out).toContain('## When to invoke this skill');
+    expect(out).toContain('## Step 1 — Do the thing');
+    expect(out).toContain('template content inside a fence');
+    expect(out).toContain('## Step 2 — Other');
+    expect(out).not.toContain('preamble junk');
+    expect(out).not.toContain('shared-preamble junk');
+    expect(out).not.toContain('footer junk');
+  });
+
+  test('throws when the preamble markers are missing', () => {
+    const bare = path.join(tmpDir, 'bare');
+    fs.mkdirSync(bare, { recursive: true });
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(bare, 'SKILL.md'), '---\nname: bare\n---\n## Only Section\nbody\n');
+    expect(() => extractSkillBody(bare)).toThrow(/Preamble \(run first\)/);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('extractSkillHead (synthetic)', () => {
+  test('keeps frontmatter + first N body lines only', () => {
+    const out = extractSkillHead(skillDir, 3);
+    expect(out.startsWith('---\nname: fixture-test')).toBe(true);
+    expect(out).toContain('Intro line before any section');
+    expect(out).toContain('## When to invoke this skill');
+    expect(out).not.toContain('## Step 1 — Do the thing');
+    expect(out).toContain('body truncated by test/helpers/skill-fixture.ts');
+  });
+});
+
+describe('error polarity', () => {
+  test('missing SKILL.md throws (never writes an empty fixture)', () => {
+    expect(() => extractSkillSections(path.join(tmpDir, 'nope'), ['x'])).toThrow(/no SKILL\.md/);
+  });
+
+  test('file without frontmatter throws', () => {
+    const nofm = path.join(tmpDir, 'nofm');
+    fs.mkdirSync(nofm, { recursive: true });
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(nofm, 'SKILL.md'), '# no frontmatter\n## Section\n');
+    expect(() => extractSkillHead(nofm)).toThrow(/frontmatter/);
+  });
+});
+
+// ─── Pins against the real generated SKILL.md files ─────────────────────────
+// These turn "someone renamed a section in gen-skill-docs" into a FREE test
+// failure instead of a paid E2E setup throw.
+
+describe('real-skill pins: section lists used by E2E fixtures', () => {
+  test('REVIEW_E2E_SECTIONS extracts from review/SKILL.md', () => {
+    const out = extractSkillSections(path.join(ROOT, 'review'), REVIEW_E2E_SECTIONS);
+    expect(out).toContain('## Step 4: Critical pass (core review)');
+    expect(out).toContain('## Important Rules');
+    // Drops the shared preamble and the untested workflow tail.
+    expect(out).not.toContain('## Telemetry (run last)');
+    expect(out).not.toContain('## Step 5: Fix-First Review');
+    // Meaningfully smaller than the source.
+    const full = fs.readFileSync(path.join(ROOT, 'review', 'SKILL.md'), 'utf-8');
+    expect(out.length).toBeLessThan(full.length * 0.5);
+  });
+
+  test('REVIEW_ARMY_E2E_SECTIONS extracts from review/SKILL.md', () => {
+    const out = extractSkillSections(path.join(ROOT, 'review'), REVIEW_ARMY_E2E_SECTIONS);
+    // The army tests reference the Plan Completion Audit (inside Step 1.5)
+    // and the Step 4.5 merge machinery (quality score, JSON schema, consensus).
+    expect(out).toContain('PLAN COMPLETION AUDIT');
+    expect(out).toContain('## Step 4.5: Review Army — Specialist Dispatch');
+    expect(out).toContain('quality_score');
+    expect(out).toContain('MULTI-SPECIALIST CONFIRMED');
+    expect(out).not.toContain('## Telemetry (run last)');
+  });
+
+  test('RETRO_E2E_SECTIONS extracts from retro/SKILL.md', () => {
+    const out = extractSkillSections(path.join(ROOT, 'retro'), RETRO_E2E_SECTIONS);
+    // Steps 0.5-14 live under Prior Learnings / Capture Learnings.
+    expect(out).toContain('### Step 1: Gather Raw Data');
+    expect(out).toContain('### Step 14: Write the Narrative');
+    expect(out).toContain('## Engineering Retro: [date range]');
+    expect(out).not.toContain('## Global Retrospective Mode');
+    expect(out).not.toContain('## Telemetry (run last)');
+  });
+
+  test('CODEX_REVIEW_E2E_SECTIONS extracts from the Codex host variant when present', () => {
+    const codexReview = path.join(ROOT, '.agents', 'skills', 'gstack-review');
+    if (!fs.existsSync(path.join(codexReview, 'SKILL.md'))) return; // gitignored artifact, absent in fresh checkouts
+    const out = extractSkillSections(codexReview, CODEX_REVIEW_E2E_SECTIONS);
+    expect(out).toContain('## Step 4: Critical pass (core review)');
+    expect(out).not.toContain('## Telemetry (run last)');
+  });
+});
+
+describe('real-skill pins: body/head extraction used by E2E fixtures', () => {
+  // scrape/skillify/context-*: skill-e2e-skillify + skill-e2e-context-skills.
+  // review/plan-eng-review/ship: skill-e2e-coverage-audit + skill-e2e-triage.
+  const BODY_EXTRACTED_SKILLS = [
+    'scrape', 'skillify', 'context-save', 'context-restore',
+    'review', 'plan-eng-review', 'ship',
+  ];
+
+  for (const skill of BODY_EXTRACTED_SKILLS) {
+    test(`extractSkillBody(${skill}) drops the shared preamble, keeps the flow`, () => {
+      const out = extractSkillBody(path.join(ROOT, skill));
+      expect(out).not.toContain('## Preamble (run first)');
+      expect(out).not.toContain('## Telemetry (run last)');
+      const full = fs.readFileSync(path.join(ROOT, skill, 'SKILL.md'), 'utf-8');
+      expect(out.length).toBeLessThan(full.length * 0.75);
+      expect(out.length).toBeGreaterThan(500);
+    });
+  }
+
+  test('body extraction keeps the sections the skillify/context E2E tests assert on', () => {
+    expect(extractSkillBody(path.join(ROOT, 'skillify'))).toContain('## Step 1 — Provenance guard (D1)');
+    expect(extractSkillBody(path.join(ROOT, 'scrape'))).toContain('## Step 4 — Prototype phase');
+    expect(extractSkillBody(path.join(ROOT, 'context-save'))).toContain('## List flow');
+    expect(extractSkillBody(path.join(ROOT, 'context-restore'))).toContain('## If no saved contexts exist');
+  });
+
+  // The union of skills installed by the routing + opus-47 discovery fixtures.
+  const HEAD_EXTRACTED_SKILLS = [
+    '', 'qa', 'qa-only', 'ship', 'review', 'plan-ceo-review', 'plan-eng-review',
+    'plan-design-review', 'design-review', 'design-consultation', 'retro',
+    'document-release', 'investigate', 'office-hours', 'browse',
+    'setup-browser-cookies', 'gstack-upgrade', 'humanizer',
+  ];
+
+  test('extractSkillHead works for every discovery-fixture skill', () => {
+    for (const skill of HEAD_EXTRACTED_SKILLS) {
+      const src = path.join(ROOT, skill, 'SKILL.md');
+      if (!fs.existsSync(src)) continue; // mirrors the fixtures' existsSync guard
+      const out = extractSkillHead(src);
+      expect(out.startsWith('---\n')).toBe(true);
+      expect(out).toContain('description:');
+      // Frontmatter length varies (allowed-tools + triggers); the invariant
+      // is "frontmatter + 30 body lines + marker", never the full body.
+      const fullLines = fs.readFileSync(src, 'utf-8').split('\n').length;
+      expect(out.split('\n').length).toBeLessThan(Math.min(150, fullLines));
+    }
+  });
+});

test/skill-routing-e2e.test.ts

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import type { SkillTestResult } from './helpers/session-runner';
 import { EvalCollector } from './helpers/eval-store';
 import type { EvalTestEntry } from './helpers/eval-store';
 import { selectTests, detectBaseBranch, getChangedFiles, E2E_TOUCHFILES, E2E_TIERS, GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES } from './helpers/touchfiles';
+import { extractSkillHead } from './helpers/skill-fixture';
 import { spawnSync } from 'child_process';
 import * as fs from 'fs';
 import * as path from 'path';
@@ -59,10 +60,14 @@ if (evalsEnabled && process.env.EVALS_TIER) {
 
 // --- Helper functions ---
 
-/** Copy all SKILL.md files for auto-discovery.
+/** Install SKILL.md fixtures for auto-discovery.
  *  Installs to project-level (.claude/skills/) only. Writing to the user's
  *  ~/.claude/skills/ is unsafe: it may contain symlinks from the real gstack
- *  install that point to different worktrees or dangling targets. */
+ *  install that point to different worktrees or dangling targets.
+ *
+ *  ROUTING tests only read each skill's frontmatter (name + description) to
+ *  pick a skill, so install frontmatter + the first ~30 body lines instead
+ *  of ~20 full 1000-1900-line files (CLAUDE.md: "extract, don't copy"). */
 function installSkills(tmpDir: string) {
   const skillDirs = [
     '', // root gstack SKILL.md
@@ -81,7 +86,7 @@ function installSkills(tmpDir: string) {
     const skillName = skill || 'gstack';
     const destDir = path.join(targetBase, skillName);
     fs.mkdirSync(destDir, { recursive: true });
-    fs.copyFileSync(srcPath, path.join(destDir, 'SKILL.md'));
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(destDir, 'SKILL.md'), extractSkillHead(srcPath));
   }
 
   // Write a CLAUDE.md with explicit routing instructions.

test/skill-size-budget.test.ts

@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@
 import { describe, test, expect } from 'bun:test';
 import * as fs from 'fs';
 import * as path from 'path';
-import { captureBaseline, type ParityBaseline } from './helpers/capture-parity-baseline';
+import { execSync } from 'child_process';
+import { captureBaseline, extractDescription, type ParityBaseline } from './helpers/capture-parity-baseline';
 import { logBudgetOverride } from './helpers/budget-override';
 import { CARVED_SKILLS } from './helpers/carve-guards';
 
@@ -227,11 +228,31 @@ describe('SKILL.md size budget regression (gate, free)', () => {
   });
 
   test('catalog token estimate stays compressed (v1.45 target ≤ 7000)', () => {
-    const current = captureBaseline({ repoRoot: REPO_ROOT });
+    // Measure COMMITTED content (git show HEAD:), not the live tree. Under
+    // the parallel free-suite runner, sibling workers regenerate real
+    // SKILL.md files mid-run (gen-skill-docs regen tests), so the live-tree
+    // estimate was a moving target: 4177 solo, 8356 and 8041 in two parallel
+    // runs. A repo-budget ratchet measures the catalog that ships; CI always
+    // checks the PR's committed tree anyway.
+    const trackedPaths = execSync('git ls-files -- "*/SKILL.md"', { cwd: REPO_ROOT, encoding: 'utf-8' })
+      .split('\n')
+      .filter(Boolean)
+      .filter((p) => p.split('/').length === 2);
+    let descriptionBytes = 0;
+    for (const rel of trackedPaths) {
+      const committed = execSync(`git show HEAD:${JSON.stringify(rel)}`, {
+        cwd: REPO_ROOT,
+        encoding: 'utf-8',
+        maxBuffer: 8 * 1024 * 1024,
+      });
+      descriptionBytes += Buffer.byteLength(extractDescription(committed), 'utf-8');
+    }
+    const catalogTokens = Math.round(descriptionBytes / 4);
+    const trackedCount = trackedPaths.length;
     const v145Target = 7000;
-    if (current.estTotalCatalogTokens <= v145Target) {
+    if (catalogTokens <= v145Target) {
       // eslint-disable-next-line no-console
-      console.log(`[skill-size-budget] catalog OK: ~${current.estTotalCatalogTokens} tokens (target ≤${v145Target})`);
+      console.log(`[skill-size-budget] catalog OK: ~${catalogTokens} tokens (target ≤${v145Target}, ${trackedCount} tracked skills)`);
       return;
     }
     const overrideReason = process.env.GSTACK_SIZE_BUDGET_OVERRIDE_REASON?.trim();
@@ -239,12 +260,12 @@ describe('SKILL.md size budget regression (gate, free)', () => {
       logBudgetOverride({
         scope: 'skill-size-budget-catalog',
         reason: overrideReason,
-        details: { target: v145Target, observed: current.estTotalCatalogTokens },
+        details: { target: v145Target, observed: catalogTokens },
       });
       return;
     }
     throw new Error(
-      `Catalog token estimate regressed past v1.45 target: ${current.estTotalCatalogTokens} tokens > ${v145Target}. ` +
+      `Catalog token estimate regressed past v1.45 target: ${catalogTokens} tokens > ${v145Target}. ` +
       `T4 catalog trim should keep this under control. Override: set GSTACK_SIZE_BUDGET_OVERRIDE_REASON to allow.`,
     );
   });

test/spec-template-sync.test.ts

@@ -20,6 +20,17 @@ describe('/spec template/generated sync', () => {
       cwd: ROOT,
       encoding: 'utf-8',
       timeout: 120_000,
+      // Scrubbed env: bun test runs a shard's files serially in ONE process,
+      // so an earlier test's env mutations (GSTACK_*/GBRAIN_* detection vars)
+      // leak into inherited process.env and change generator output — this
+      // test failed in-suite while passing solo on an identical tree. The
+      // generator's output must be a function of the templates, not of
+      // whichever test ran before this one.
+      env: {
+        PATH: process.env.PATH ?? '',
+        HOME: process.env.HOME ?? '',
+        TMPDIR: process.env.TMPDIR ?? '',
+      },
     });
     expect(res.status).toBe(0);
 

test/strict-output.test.ts

@@ -8,7 +8,14 @@
  */
 
 import { describe, expect, it } from 'bun:test';
-import { BunTestOutputClassifier, strictTestExitCode } from '../scripts/test-strict-output';
+import {
+  BunTestOutputClassifier,
+  installChildSignalForwarding,
+  isTerminationRequested,
+  strictTestExitCode,
+  type TerminationSignalSource,
+  type TerminationTimerApi,
+} from '../scripts/test-strict-output';
 
 describe('strictTestExitCode', () => {
   it('trusts a clean zero exit when the expected file count ran', () => {
@@ -58,4 +65,99 @@ describe('BunTestOutputClassifier', () => {
     // passes: 1 file ran, which is what was expected
     expect(strictTestExitCode(0, summary, 1)).toBe(0);
   });
+
+  // stdout and stderr are independent pipes: a chunk from one can land
+  // between two halves of a line from the other. A single shared buffer
+  // glues the fragments into garbled lines — a sheared (fail) line goes
+  // uncounted (defeating the exit-0-with-failures backstop) and a sheared
+  // summary reads as truncation. Per-origin buffers keep each stream whole.
+  it('a stderr chunk arriving mid-stdout-line does not shear either line', () => {
+    const c = new BunTestOutputClassifier();
+    c.write('some stdout noise without a newline yet', 'stdout');
+    c.write('(fail) planted [0.10ms]\n', 'stderr');
+    c.write(' ...rest of the stdout line\n', 'stdout');
+    const summary = c.end();
+    expect(summary.failedTests).toBe(1);
+  });
+
+  it('a terminal summary split around a cross-stream chunk still counts', () => {
+    const c = new BunTestOutputClassifier();
+    c.write('Ran 4 tests acr', 'stdout');
+    c.write('stderr diagnostics line\n', 'stderr');
+    c.write('oss 2 files. [1.00s]\n', 'stdout');
+    const summary = c.end();
+    expect(summary.terminalFileCounts).toEqual([2]);
+    expect(strictTestExitCode(0, summary, 2)).toBe(0);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('installChildSignalForwarding — cancellation terminates the RUN', () => {
+  // Installing any SIGINT/SIGTERM listener suppresses Node's default
+  // terminate-on-signal. Pre-fix, the forwarder killed the current child and
+  // the parent LIVED ON — the paid worker pool kept launching API-burning
+  // shards after Ctrl-C. The parent must schedule its own exit and expose
+  // isTerminationRequested() so launch loops stop taking new work.
+  type Handler = () => void;
+  const makeFakes = () => {
+    const listeners = new Map<string, Handler[]>();
+    const source: TerminationSignalSource = {
+      on: (event, listener) => {
+        listeners.set(event, [...(listeners.get(event) ?? []), listener]);
+      },
+      off: (event, listener) => {
+        listeners.set(event, (listeners.get(event) ?? []).filter((l) => l !== listener));
+      },
+    };
+    const emit = (event: string) => (listeners.get(event) ?? []).forEach((l) => l());
+    const scheduled: Array<{ callback: () => void; delayMs: number; cancelled: boolean }> = [];
+    const timer: TerminationTimerApi = {
+      schedule: (callback, delayMs) => {
+        const handle = { callback, delayMs, cancelled: false };
+        scheduled.push(handle);
+        return handle;
+      },
+      cancel: (handle) => {
+        (handle as { cancelled: boolean }).cancelled = true;
+      },
+    };
+    const kills: string[] = [];
+    const child = { kill: (sig?: unknown) => { kills.push(String(sig)); return true; } };
+    const exits: number[] = [];
+    return { source, emit, timer, scheduled, kills, child, exits, exit: (code: number) => { exits.push(code); } };
+  };
+
+  it('first signal kills the child, marks termination, and schedules parent exit after the grace', () => {
+    const f = makeFakes();
+    installChildSignalForwarding(f.child, f.source, f.timer, 5_000, f.exit);
+    expect(isTerminationRequested(f.source)).toBe(false);
+    f.emit('SIGTERM');
+    expect(f.kills).toEqual(['SIGTERM']);
+    expect(isTerminationRequested(f.source)).toBe(true);
+    // Two timers: child SIGKILL grace (5s) and parent exit (grace + 1s).
+    const delays = f.scheduled.map((s) => s.delayMs);
+    expect(delays).toContain(5_000);
+    expect(delays).toContain(6_000);
+    const parentExit = f.scheduled.find((s) => s.delayMs === 6_000)!;
+    parentExit.callback();
+    expect(f.exits).toEqual([143]);
+  });
+
+  it('parent exit fires even when the shard disposes cleanly first', () => {
+    const f = makeFakes();
+    const forwarding = installChildSignalForwarding(f.child, f.source, f.timer, 5_000, f.exit);
+    f.emit('SIGINT');
+    forwarding.dispose();
+    const parentExit = f.scheduled.find((s) => s.delayMs === 6_000)!;
+    expect(parentExit.cancelled).toBe(false);
+    parentExit.callback();
+    expect(f.exits).toEqual([130]);
+  });
+
+  it('one parent exit across many concurrent forwarders on the same source', () => {
+    const f = makeFakes();
+    installChildSignalForwarding(f.child, f.source, f.timer, 5_000, f.exit);
+    installChildSignalForwarding({ kill: () => true }, f.source, f.timer, 5_000, f.exit);
+    f.emit('SIGTERM');
+    expect(f.scheduled.filter((s) => s.delayMs === 6_000).length).toBe(1);
+  });
 });

test/test-free-shards.test.ts

@@ -9,7 +9,19 @@ import {
   curateWindowsSafe,
   stableHash,
   assignFilesToShards,
+  buildShardArgs,
   normalizeRelativePath,
+  runFreeShard,
+  FreeRunReporter,
+  buildRunEpilogue,
+  FREE_TEST_TIMEOUT_MS,
+  DEFAULT_WALL_TIMEOUT_MS,
+  PER_FILE_WALL_MS,
+  wallTimeoutForShard,
+  KNOWN_WINDOWS_INCOMPATIBLE,
+  TEST_ROOTS,
+  TREE_MUTATING,
+  WORKER_HOSTILE,
 } from '../scripts/test-free-shards';
 
 const ROOT = path.resolve(import.meta.dir, '..');
@@ -106,12 +118,33 @@ describe('test-free-shards: sharding', () => {
     expect(stableHash('foo.test.ts')).not.toBe(stableHash('bar.test.ts'));
   });
 
-  test('assignFilesToShards distributes files into N non-empty shards', () => {
+  test('assignFilesToShards partitions every file across exactly shardCount shards', () => {
     const files = ['a.test.ts', 'b.test.ts', 'c.test.ts', 'd.test.ts', 'e.test.ts'];
     const shards = assignFilesToShards(files, 3);
-    const flattened = shards.flat();
-    expect(flattened.sort()).toEqual([...files].sort());
-    expect(shards.every((s) => s.length > 0)).toBe(true);
+    expect(shards.length).toBe(3);
+    expect(shards.flat().sort()).toEqual([...files].sort());
+  });
+
+  test('empty shards are preserved so indices stay stable for a CI matrix', () => {
+    // 2 files can never occupy 10 shards — the rest MUST be present and empty,
+    // not filtered out (filtering renumbered every later shard by occupancy).
+    const files = ['a.test.ts', 'b.test.ts'];
+    const shards = assignFilesToShards(files, 10);
+    expect(shards.length).toBe(10);
+    expect(shards.flat().sort()).toEqual([...files].sort());
+    expect(shards.some((s) => s.length === 0)).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  test("a file's shard index depends only on its own path — other files never renumber it", () => {
+    const target = 'test/target.test.ts';
+    const expected = stableHash(target) % 7;
+    const alone = assignFilesToShards([target], 7);
+    const crowded = assignFilesToShards(
+      [target, 'test/a.test.ts', 'test/b.test.ts', 'test/c.test.ts', 'test/d.test.ts', 'browse/test/e.test.ts'],
+      7,
+    );
+    expect(alone.findIndex((s) => s.includes(target))).toBe(expected);
+    expect(crowded.findIndex((s) => s.includes(target))).toBe(expected);
   });
 
   test('assignFilesToShards rejects invalid shard counts', () => {
@@ -126,3 +159,409 @@ describe('test-free-shards: sharding', () => {
     expect(a).toEqual(b);
   });
 });
+
+describe('test-free-shards: shard args', () => {
+  test('resolves exact absolute selectors (no substring shard bleed) and pins the per-test timeout', () => {
+    const args = buildShardArgs(['test/foo.test.ts'], { rootDir: ROOT });
+    expect(args[0]).toBe('test');
+    expect(args[1]).toBe(path.resolve(ROOT, 'test/foo.test.ts'));
+    expect(args).toContain(`--timeout=${FREE_TEST_TIMEOUT_MS}`);
+    expect(args).toContain('--max-concurrency=1');
+    expect(args).not.toContain('--parallel');
+  });
+
+  test('parallel mode swaps serial max-concurrency for --parallel', () => {
+    const args = buildShardArgs(['test/foo.test.ts'], { rootDir: ROOT, parallel: true });
+    expect(args).toContain('--parallel');
+    expect(args).not.toContain('--max-concurrency=1');
+  });
+
+  test('per-test timeout matches the 30s the package.json test script used before the repoint', () => {
+    expect(FREE_TEST_TIMEOUT_MS).toBe(30_000);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('test-free-shards: strict shard execution', () => {
+  // Fake command seam, same pattern as test/paid-shards.test.ts: each "file"
+  // label selects a child command. Unlike the paid runner, runFreeShard
+  // enforces the terminal-summary file count on injected commands too, so
+  // fake PASSING commands must print a synthetic bun summary line.
+  const SUMMARY_1 = 'Ran 3 tests across 1 files. [12.00ms]';
+  const BUSY_LOOP = 'const end = Date.now() + 600000; while (Date.now() < end) {}';
+  const FAIL_LINE = '(fa' + 'il) planted failure [0.10ms]'; // split so this source file never contains a raw bun fail line
+
+  const commandFor = (files: string[]) => {
+    const mode = files[0];
+    if (mode === 'spin') return { command: process.execPath, args: ['-e', BUSY_LOOP] };
+    if (mode === 'no-summary') return { command: process.execPath, args: ['-e', 'console.log("ok")'] };
+    if (mode === 'fail-exit') {
+      return { command: process.execPath, args: ['-e', `console.log(${JSON.stringify(SUMMARY_1)}); process.exit(3)`] };
+    }
+    if (mode === 'fail-line-exit-zero') {
+      return { command: process.execPath, args: ['-e', `console.log(${JSON.stringify(FAIL_LINE)}); console.log(${JSON.stringify(SUMMARY_1)})`] };
+    }
+    if (mode === 'wrong-file-count') {
+      return { command: process.execPath, args: ['-e', 'console.log("Ran 3 tests across 4 files. [12.00ms]")'] };
+    }
+    return { command: process.execPath, args: ['-e', `console.log(${JSON.stringify(SUMMARY_1)})`] };
+  };
+
+  test('exit 0 WITHOUT bun\'s terminal summary is a FAILURE (anti-truncation backstop)', async () => {
+    const outcome = await runFreeShard(['no-summary'], 1, 1, { commandFor, quiet: true, log: () => {} });
+    expect(outcome.status).toBe('failed');
+    expect(outcome.exitCode).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  test('exit 0 WITH the terminal summary passes, and the per-shard epilogue line is printed', async () => {
+    const lines: string[] = [];
+    const outcome = await runFreeShard(['pass'], 1, 1, { commandFor, quiet: true, log: (l) => lines.push(l) });
+    expect(outcome.status).toBe('passed');
+    expect(lines.some((l) => /^\[test:free\] shard 1\/1: 1 files, \d+s, pass$/.test(l))).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  test('a non-zero exit stays a failure even when the summary is present', async () => {
+    const outcome = await runFreeShard(['fail-exit'], 1, 1, { commandFor, quiet: true, log: () => {} });
+    expect(outcome.status).toBe('failed');
+    expect(outcome.exitCode).toBe(3);
+  });
+
+  test('a printed (fail) result line is a failure even on exit 0 (bun exit-code bug class)', async () => {
+    const outcome = await runFreeShard(['fail-line-exit-zero'], 1, 1, { commandFor, quiet: true, log: () => {} });
+    expect(outcome.status).toBe('failed');
+    expect(outcome.exitCode).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  test('a summary reporting the wrong file count is a failure (partial execution)', async () => {
+    const outcome = await runFreeShard(['wrong-file-count'], 1, 1, { commandFor, quiet: true, log: () => {} });
+    expect(outcome.status).toBe('failed');
+  });
+
+  test('a spinning shard is killed at the wall-clock deadline and reported timed-out, distinct from failed', async () => {
+    const lines: string[] = [];
+    const outcome = await runFreeShard(['spin'], 1, 1, {
+      commandFor, quiet: true, wallTimeoutMs: 1_200, log: (l) => lines.push(l),
+    });
+    expect(outcome.status).toBe('timed-out');
+    expect(outcome.status).not.toBe('failed');
+    // Killed at the deadline, not left to burn the full 600s busy loop.
+    expect(outcome.elapsedMs).toBeLessThan(30_000);
+    expect(outcome.groupPid).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    if (process.platform !== 'win32') {
+      expect(() => process.kill(outcome.groupPid as number, 0)).toThrow();
+    }
+    expect(lines.some((l) => /^\[test:free\] shard 1\/1: 1 files, \d+s, timed-out$/.test(l))).toBe(true);
+  }, 30_000);
+
+  test('an empty shard is a fast no-op success and never spawns (stable CI-matrix indices)', async () => {
+    const lines: string[] = [];
+    const outcome = await runFreeShard([], 7, 20, {
+      commandFor: () => { throw new Error('an empty shard must not spawn a child'); },
+      log: (l) => lines.push(l),
+    });
+    expect(outcome.status).toBe('passed');
+    expect(lines.some((l) => /^\[test:free\] shard 7\/20: 0 files, 0s, pass$/.test(l))).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  test('the log-file path is announced once at start and the PASS epilogue repeats it', async () => {
+    const lines: string[] = [];
+    const outcome = await runFreeShard(['pass'], 1, 1, { commandFor, quiet: true, log: (l) => lines.push(l) });
+    expect(outcome.status).toBe('passed');
+    const announced = lines.filter((l) => /^\[test:free\] full log: .+gstack-free-test-.+\.log$/.test(l));
+    expect(announced.length).toBe(1);
+    // PASS epilogue carries the counts from the terminal summary + the log path.
+    expect(lines.some((l) => /^\[test:free\] PASS — 3 tests, 1 files, \d+s\. Full log: .+\.log$/.test(l))).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  test('spawned shard gets throwaway TMPDIR but NEVER an injected GSTACK_HOME', async () => {
+    // GSTACK_HOME injection was tried and reverted: one shared scratch home
+    // per invocation made 6,900 tests share MUTABLE state — config tests
+    // wrote keys that relink/update-check tests then read (12 measured
+    // cross-contamination failures). This pin keeps the regression out.
+    const captureDir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'free-shard-env-'));
+    const dump = path.join(captureDir, 'env.json');
+    try {
+      const script =
+        `const fs = require("fs");`
+        + `fs.writeFileSync(${JSON.stringify(dump)}, JSON.stringify({`
+        + `  home: process.env.GSTACK_HOME ?? null, tmp: process.env.TMPDIR,`
+        + `  tmpExists: fs.existsSync(process.env.TMPDIR || "") }));`
+        + `console.log(${JSON.stringify(SUMMARY_1)});`;
+      const outcome = await runFreeShard(['env-dump'], 1, 1, {
+        commandFor: () => ({ command: process.execPath, args: ['-e', script] }),
+        quiet: true,
+        log: () => {},
+      });
+      expect(outcome.status).toBe('passed');
+      const seen = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(dump, 'utf8'));
+      // GSTACK_HOME passes through untouched (whatever the parent had, incl. unset).
+      expect(seen.home).toBe(process.env.GSTACK_HOME ?? null);
+      // TMPDIR is a per-shard throwaway, cleaned up once the shard finishes.
+      expect(seen.tmp).toContain('gstack-free-shard-');
+      expect(seen.tmpExists).toBe(true);
+      expect(seen.tmp).not.toBe(process.env.TMPDIR ?? '');
+      expect(fs.existsSync(seen.tmp)).toBe(false);
+    } finally {
+      fs.rmSync(captureDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+    }
+  });
+});
+
+describe('test-free-shards: output contract (log capture, quiet console, failure epilogue)', () => {
+  // Convention from the block above: never write a raw bun fail line into this
+  // source file — build it at runtime so a printed source excerpt can't trip
+  // the strict classifier.
+  const FAIL_WORD = '(fa' + 'il)';
+  const failLine = (name: string) => `${FAIL_WORD} ${name} [0.10ms]`;
+  const SUMMARY_1 = 'Ran 3 tests across 1 files. [12.00ms]';
+
+  /** Fake child that prints the given lines (stdout, then stderr) and exits. */
+  const commandPrinting = (stdoutLines: string[], stderrLines: string[] = [], exitCode = 0) => () => ({
+    command: process.execPath,
+    args: ['-e',
+      stdoutLines.map((l) => `console.log(${JSON.stringify(l)});`).join('')
+      + stderrLines.map((l) => `console.error(${JSON.stringify(l)});`).join('')
+      + (exitCode !== 0 ? `process.exit(${exitCode});` : ''),
+    ],
+  });
+
+  test('failure epilogue names the failing test, attributed to its file-chunk header', async () => {
+    const lines: string[] = [];
+    const commandFor = commandPrinting(['test/planted.test.ts:', failLine('planted failure'), SUMMARY_1]);
+    const outcome = await runFreeShard(['planted'], 1, 1, { commandFor, quiet: true, log: (l) => lines.push(l) });
+    expect(outcome.status).toBe('failed');
+    expect(lines.some((l) =>
+      /^\[test:free\] FAIL — 1 failing test\(s\) in 1 file\(s\), 0 crashed worker\(s\)\. Full log: .+\.log$/.test(l),
+    )).toBe(true);
+    expect(lines).toContain('  ✗ test/planted.test.ts — planted failure');
+  });
+
+  test('crash markers surface in the epilogue as crashed+retried workers', async () => {
+    const lines: string[] = [];
+    const commandFor = commandPrinting([
+      'test/crashy.test.ts:',
+      '⟳ crashed running test/crashy.test.ts, retrying',
+      'test/crashy.test.ts:',
+      '✗ test/crashy.test.ts (crashed: exited)',
+      'Ran 0 tests across 1 files. [12.00ms]',
+    ], [], 1);
+    const outcome = await runFreeShard(['crashy'], 1, 1, { commandFor, quiet: true, log: (l) => lines.push(l) });
+    expect(outcome.status).toBe('failed');
+    expect(lines.some((l) =>
+      /^\[test:free\] FAIL — 0 failing test\(s\) in 0 file\(s\), 1 crashed worker\(s\)\. Full log: /.test(l),
+    )).toBe(true);
+    expect(lines).toContain('  ⚠ crashed+retried: test/crashy.test.ts');
+  });
+
+  test('default console is quiet: noise stays in the log; fail/error/summary lines pass through', async () => {
+    const consoleOut: string[] = [];
+    const commandFor = commandPrinting([
+      'PASSING-NOISE gitleaks ascii art',
+      'test/noisy.test.ts:',
+      failLine('quiet mode failure'),
+      'error: expect(received).toBe(expected)',
+      'Ran 1 tests across 1 files. [1.00ms]',
+    ], ['telemetry stderr spam']);
+    const outcome = await runFreeShard(['noisy'], 1, 1, {
+      commandFor, consoleWrite: (t) => consoleOut.push(t), log: () => {},
+    });
+    expect(outcome.status).toBe('failed');
+    const joined = consoleOut.join('');
+    expect(joined).toContain(failLine('quiet mode failure'));
+    expect(joined).toContain('error: expect(received).toBe(expected)');
+    expect(joined).toContain('Ran 1 tests across 1 files.');
+    expect(joined).not.toContain('PASSING-NOISE');
+    expect(joined).not.toContain('telemetry stderr spam');
+    expect(joined).not.toContain('test/noisy.test.ts:'); // headers feed the epilogue, not the console
+  });
+
+  test('--verbose restores the full firehose to the console', async () => {
+    const consoleOut: string[] = [];
+    const commandFor = commandPrinting(
+      ['PASSING-NOISE gitleaks ascii art', SUMMARY_1],
+      ['telemetry stderr spam'],
+    );
+    const outcome = await runFreeShard(['pass'], 1, 1, {
+      commandFor, verbose: true, consoleWrite: (t) => consoleOut.push(t), log: () => {},
+    });
+    expect(outcome.status).toBe('passed');
+    const joined = consoleOut.join('');
+    expect(joined).toContain('PASSING-NOISE gitleaks ascii art');
+    expect(joined).toContain('telemetry stderr spam');
+  });
+
+  test('quiet suppresses the console entirely, even with an injected sink', async () => {
+    const consoleOut: string[] = [];
+    const commandFor = commandPrinting(['PASSING-NOISE', failLine('hidden'), SUMMARY_1]);
+    await runFreeShard(['pass'], 1, 1, {
+      commandFor, quiet: true, consoleWrite: (t) => consoleOut.push(t), log: () => {},
+    });
+    expect(consoleOut).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  test('the full child stream lands in the per-run log file, including console-filtered noise', async () => {
+    const dir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'free-log-'));
+    const logFilePath = path.join(dir, 'run.log');
+    try {
+      const lines: string[] = [];
+      const commandFor = commandPrinting(['stdout NOISE-A', SUMMARY_1], ['stderr NOISE-B']);
+      const outcome = await runFreeShard(['pass'], 1, 1, { commandFor, quiet: true, logFilePath, log: (l) => lines.push(l) });
+      expect(outcome.status).toBe('passed');
+      expect(lines).toContain(`[test:free] full log: ${logFilePath}`);
+      const logged = fs.readFileSync(logFilePath, 'utf8');
+      expect(logged).toContain('stdout NOISE-A');
+      expect(logged).toContain('stderr NOISE-B');
+      expect(logged).toContain('Ran 3 tests across 1 files.');
+    } finally {
+      fs.rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+    }
+  });
+
+  test('colored fail lines are attributed after ANSI stripping (a prior grep missed them)', async () => {
+    const lines: string[] = [];
+    const colored = `\u001B[31m${failLine('colored failure')}\u001B[0m`;
+    const commandFor = commandPrinting(['test/colored.test.ts:', colored, 'Ran 1 tests across 1 files. [1.00ms]']);
+    const outcome = await runFreeShard(['colored'], 1, 1, { commandFor, quiet: true, log: (l) => lines.push(l) });
+    expect(outcome.status).toBe('failed');
+    expect(lines).toContain('  ✗ test/colored.test.ts — colored failure');
+  });
+
+  test('wall-timeout epilogue lists wedge suspects: header seen, no results, no summary', async () => {
+    const lines: string[] = [];
+    const commandFor = () => ({
+      command: process.execPath,
+      args: ['-e', 'console.log("test/wedged.test.ts:");console.log("wedged noise");setTimeout(() => {}, 600000);'],
+    });
+    const outcome = await runFreeShard(['wedged'], 1, 1, {
+      commandFor, quiet: true, wallTimeoutMs: 1_500, log: (l) => lines.push(l),
+    });
+    expect(outcome.status).toBe('timed-out');
+    expect(lines).toContain('  ⏱ in flight at kill: test/wedged.test.ts');
+    // The epilogue headline shape stays stable across statuses.
+    expect(lines.some((l) => l.startsWith('[test:free] FAIL — '))).toBe(true);
+  }, 30_000);
+
+  test('timeout with no observable header falls back to the buffered-parallel explanation', () => {
+    const reporter = new FreeRunReporter(['test/a.test.ts', 'test/b.test.ts']);
+    reporter.end();
+    const lines = buildRunEpilogue('timed-out', reporter.report(), 5_000, '/tmp/x.log');
+    expect(lines.some((l) => l.includes('in flight at kill: unknown'))).toBe(true);
+    expect(lines.some((l) => l.includes('2 planned file(s) produced no output'))).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  test('duplicate fail lines dedupe; pre-header failures are labeled unattributed', () => {
+    const reporter = new FreeRunReporter(['test/a.test.ts']);
+    reporter.write(`${failLine('early unattributed')}\n`, 'stderr');
+    reporter.write('test/a.test.ts:\n', 'stderr');
+    reporter.write(`${failLine('dup')}\n${failLine('dup')}\n`, 'stderr');
+    reporter.end();
+    const report = reporter.report();
+    expect(report.failures).toEqual([
+      { file: null, testName: 'early unattributed' },
+      { file: 'test/a.test.ts', testName: 'dup' },
+    ]);
+    const lines = buildRunEpilogue('failed', report, 1_000, '/tmp/x.log');
+    expect(lines).toContain('  ✗ (unattributed) — early unattributed');
+    expect(lines).toContain('  ✗ test/a.test.ts — dup');
+    expect(lines.some((l) => l.includes('2 failing test(s) in 2 file(s)'))).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  test("a later file's header ends the previous chunk — completed noisy files are not wedge suspects", () => {
+    const reporter = new FreeRunReporter(['test/done.test.ts', 'test/hung.test.ts']);
+    reporter.write('test/done.test.ts:\n', 'stderr');
+    reporter.write('noise from the completed file\n', 'stderr');
+    reporter.write('test/hung.test.ts:\n', 'stderr');
+    reporter.write('noise before the hang\n', 'stderr');
+    reporter.end();
+    // No terminal summary: only the still-open chunk is in flight.
+    expect(reporter.report().inFlight).toEqual(['test/hung.test.ts']);
+  });
+
+  test('../-prefixed printed paths canonicalize to planned relative paths (symlinked cwd)', () => {
+    const reporter = new FreeRunReporter(['browse/test/x.test.ts']);
+    reporter.write('../../../work/repo/browse/test/x.test.ts:\n', 'stderr');
+    reporter.write(`${failLine('boom')}\n`, 'stderr');
+    reporter.end();
+    expect(reporter.report().failures[0]).toEqual({ file: 'browse/test/x.test.ts', testName: 'boom' });
+  });
+});
+
+describe('test-free-shards: GitHub Actions log-group attribution', () => {
+  const failLine = (name: string) => `(fail) ${name} [1.00ms]`;
+  // On GHA (GITHUB_ACTIONS=1) bun wraps each file's section in ::group::.
+  // Unstripped, the real header fails FILE_HEADER_RE, failures attribute to
+  // the PREVIOUS file, and the terminal recap's re-printed (fail) lines land
+  // under a phantom second file — the first Linux run reported 5 real
+  // failures as 10 across 2 files.
+  test('::group::-wrapped headers attribute failures to the right file, once', () => {
+    const reporter = new FreeRunReporter(['test/a.test.ts', 'test/b.test.ts']);
+    reporter.write('::group::test/a.test.ts:\n', 'stderr');
+    reporter.write('::endgroup::\n', 'stderr');
+    reporter.write('::group::test/b.test.ts:\n', 'stderr');
+    reporter.write(`${failLine('planted')}\n`, 'stderr');
+    reporter.write('::endgroup::\n', 'stderr');
+    // Terminal recap re-prints the failing file header + result line.
+    reporter.write('1 tests failed:\n', 'stderr');
+    reporter.write('::group::test/b.test.ts:\n', 'stderr');
+    reporter.write(`${failLine('planted')}\n`, 'stderr');
+    reporter.end();
+    expect(reporter.report().failures).toEqual([{ file: 'test/b.test.ts', testName: 'planted' }]);
+  });
+
+  test('headerless recap re-prints do not invent a phantom failing file', () => {
+    // Round-3 CI shape: bun's recap prints "N tests failed:" then the (fail)
+    // lines with NO file headers — the stale currentFile (an innocent file)
+    // was charged with the previous file's failures.
+    const reporter = new FreeRunReporter(['test/a.test.ts', 'test/b.test.ts']);
+    reporter.write('::group::test/a.test.ts:\n', 'stderr');
+    reporter.write(`${failLine('planted')}\n`, 'stderr');
+    reporter.write('::endgroup::\n', 'stderr');
+    reporter.write('::group::test/b.test.ts:\n', 'stderr');
+    reporter.write('(pass-ish output, no failures here)\n', 'stderr');
+    reporter.write('2 tests failed:\n', 'stderr');
+    reporter.write(`${failLine('planted')}\n`, 'stderr');
+    reporter.write(`${failLine('planted')}\n`, 'stderr');
+    reporter.end();
+    expect(reporter.report().failures).toEqual([{ file: 'test/a.test.ts', testName: 'planted' }]);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('test-free-shards: curated-list census pins', () => {
+  // A renamed test file must FAIL here, not silently drop its serialization
+  // (a phantom TREE_MUTATING key means the reader races regenerating shards
+  // again) or its serial-child quarantine (WORKER_HOSTILE).
+  test('every TREE_MUTATING and WORKER_HOSTILE key names a real free test file', () => {
+    const census = new Set(collectFreeTestFiles(ROOT));
+    const stale = [...Object.keys(TREE_MUTATING), ...Object.keys(WORKER_HOSTILE)]
+      .filter((key) => !census.has(key));
+    expect(stale).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  test('every KNOWN_WINDOWS_INCOMPATIBLE entry names a real free test file', () => {
+    const census = new Set(collectFreeTestFiles(ROOT));
+    const stale = KNOWN_WINDOWS_INCOMPATIBLE.map((e) => e.file).filter((f) => !census.has(f));
+    expect(stale).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  test('every TEST_ROOTS entry exists on disk and contributes at least one test file', () => {
+    const files = collectFreeTestFiles(ROOT);
+    for (const root of TEST_ROOTS) {
+      expect(fs.existsSync(path.join(ROOT, root))).toBe(true);
+      expect(files.some((f) => f.startsWith(`${root}/`))).toBe(true);
+    }
+  });
+});
+
+describe('test-free-shards: wall-timeout scaling', () => {
+  test('typical local shard keeps the 6-minute floor', () => {
+    expect(wallTimeoutForShard(70)).toBe(DEFAULT_WALL_TIMEOUT_MS);
+  });
+
+  test('oversized shards (jobs=1 machines, Windows lane) scale linearly past the floor', () => {
+    expect(wallTimeoutForShard(130)).toBe(130 * PER_FILE_WALL_MS);
+    expect(wallTimeoutForShard(420)).toBe(420 * PER_FILE_WALL_MS);
+  });
+
+  test('an explicit base above the scaled value wins', () => {
+    expect(wallTimeoutForShard(10, 10 * 60_000)).toBe(10 * 60_000);
+  });
+});

test/touchfiles-facade.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,192 @@
+/**
+ * Pins the touchfiles three-file split (facade + data + logic).
+ * Free (no API calls), runs with `bun test`.
+ *
+ * (a) touchfiles-data.ts stays LITERALS ONLY — no imports/requires, no call
+ *     expressions, no spreads, no template literals. Map-diff selection
+ *     evaluates old git versions of that file standalone; any logic breaks it.
+ * (b) the ./helpers/touchfiles facade re-exports EVERY export of both halves
+ *     by identity (===), so existing import sites see the same objects.
+ * (c) the data file's exports are importable and non-empty.
+ */
+
+import { describe, test, expect } from 'bun:test';
+import { readFileSync } from 'fs';
+import * as path from 'path';
+
+import * as data from './helpers/touchfiles-data';
+import * as logic from './helpers/test-selection';
+import * as facade from './helpers/touchfiles';
+
+const DATA_PATH = path.join(import.meta.dir, 'helpers', 'touchfiles-data.ts');
+
+// Single-pass scanner: returns the source with comments AND string literals
+// removed (only code-position characters survive), plus whether any backtick
+// appeared in code position.
+//
+// Why a state machine instead of regexes: the data strings contain glob
+// patterns like 'browse/src/' + '**' (a block-comment OPENER to a naive
+// regex) and '*' + '/SKILL.md.tmpl' (a block-comment CLOSER), so regex
+// comment-stripping would treat string content as comment delimiters.
+// Conversely, comments contain apostrophes ("the model's interpretation"),
+// so regex string-stripping applied first would eat code. Tracking state
+// character-by-character handles both without false positives.
+function stripCommentsAndStrings(src: string): { code: string; sawBacktick: boolean } {
+  let code = '';
+  let sawBacktick = false;
+  let state: 'code' | 'line' | 'block' | 'single' | 'double' = 'code';
+  let i = 0;
+  while (i < src.length) {
+    const c = src[i];
+    const n = src[i + 1];
+    if (state === 'code') {
+      if (c === '/' && n === '/') { state = 'line'; i += 2; continue; }
+      if (c === '/' && n === '*') { state = 'block'; i += 2; continue; }
+      if (c === "'") { state = 'single'; i += 1; continue; }
+      if (c === '"') { state = 'double'; i += 1; continue; }
+      if (c === '`') { sawBacktick = true; i += 1; continue; }
+      code += c;
+      i += 1;
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (state === 'line') {
+      if (c === '\n') { state = 'code'; code += '\n'; }
+      i += 1;
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (state === 'block') {
+      if (c === '*' && n === '/') { state = 'code'; i += 2; } else { i += 1; }
+      continue;
+    }
+    // single- or double-quoted string
+    if (c === '\\') { i += 2; continue; }
+    if ((state === 'single' && c === "'") || (state === 'double' && c === '"')) {
+      state = 'code';
+    }
+    i += 1;
+  }
+  return { code, sawBacktick };
+}
+
+describe('touchfiles-data.ts literal-only tripwire', () => {
+  const src = readFileSync(DATA_PATH, 'utf-8');
+  const { code, sawBacktick } = stripCommentsAndStrings(src);
+  const explain =
+    'touchfiles-data.ts must stay LITERALS ONLY (map-diff selection evaluates ' +
+    'old git versions of it standalone). Move any logic to test-selection.ts.';
+
+  test('scanner sanity: keeps code, strips comments and strings', () => {
+    const sample =
+      "export const X = { 'a(b)': ['c/**'] }; // call() here\n" +
+      '/* import */ const Y = 1; // `tpl`\n';
+    const out = stripCommentsAndStrings(sample);
+    expect(out.code).toContain('export const X');
+    expect(out.code).toContain('const Y = 1');
+    expect(out.code).not.toContain('call(');
+    expect(out.code).not.toContain('import');
+    expect(out.code).not.toContain('a(b)'); // string content stripped
+    expect(out.sawBacktick).toBe(false); // backticks inside comments don't count
+  });
+
+  test('no import or require statements', () => {
+    expect(code, explain).not.toMatch(/\bimport\b/);
+    expect(code, explain).not.toMatch(/\brequire\b/);
+  });
+
+  test('no spread operator', () => {
+    expect(code, explain).not.toContain('...');
+  });
+
+  test('no call expressions', () => {
+    expect(code, explain).not.toMatch(/[A-Za-z_$][A-Za-z0-9_$]*\s*\(/);
+  });
+
+  test('no template literals or interpolation', () => {
+    expect(sawBacktick, explain).toBe(false);
+    expect(code, explain).not.toContain('${');
+  });
+
+  test('no duplicate keys within any map block', () => {
+    // JS object evaluation silently keeps the LAST duplicate — the earlier
+    // dep list becomes dead weight an editor can update to no effect, and
+    // no runtime assertion can see the collapsed key. Scan the source.
+    const blocks = src.split(/export const /).slice(1);
+    const dupes: string[] = [];
+    for (const block of blocks) {
+      const name = block.slice(0, block.indexOf(' '));
+      const seen = new Set<string>();
+      for (const match of block.matchAll(/^\s{2}'([^']+)':/gm)) {
+        if (seen.has(match[1])) dupes.push(`${name}: '${match[1]}'`);
+        seen.add(match[1]);
+      }
+    }
+    expect(dupes, 'duplicate keys collapse silently — the earlier entry is dead').toEqual([]);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('facade export parity', () => {
+  test('every touchfiles-data export is re-exported by identity', () => {
+    const dataExports = Object.keys(data);
+    expect(dataExports.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    for (const name of dataExports) {
+      expect(
+        (facade as Record<string, unknown>)[name],
+        `facade must re-export '${name}' from touchfiles-data by identity`,
+      ).toBe((data as Record<string, unknown>)[name] as never);
+    }
+  });
+
+  test('every test-selection export is re-exported by identity', () => {
+    const logicExports = Object.keys(logic);
+    expect(logicExports.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    for (const name of logicExports) {
+      expect(
+        (facade as Record<string, unknown>)[name],
+        `facade must re-export '${name}' from test-selection by identity`,
+      ).toBe((logic as Record<string, unknown>)[name] as never);
+    }
+  });
+
+  test('facade exports exactly the union of both halves', () => {
+    const union = new Set([...Object.keys(data), ...Object.keys(logic)]);
+    expect(new Set(Object.keys(facade))).toEqual(union);
+  });
+
+  test('no export name collisions between data and logic', () => {
+    const overlap = Object.keys(data).filter((k) => k in logic);
+    expect(overlap).toEqual([]);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('touchfiles-data exports are importable and non-empty', () => {
+  test('E2E_TOUCHFILES has entries with non-empty pattern lists', () => {
+    const keys = Object.keys(data.E2E_TOUCHFILES);
+    expect(keys.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    for (const key of keys) {
+      expect(data.E2E_TOUCHFILES[key].length, `E2E_TOUCHFILES['${key}'] is empty`).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    }
+  });
+
+  test('E2E_TIERS has entries with valid tier values', () => {
+    const entries = Object.entries(data.E2E_TIERS);
+    expect(entries.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    for (const [key, tier] of entries) {
+      expect(['gate', 'periodic'], `E2E_TIERS['${key}'] has invalid tier`).toContain(tier);
+    }
+  });
+
+  test('LLM_JUDGE_TOUCHFILES has entries with non-empty pattern lists', () => {
+    const keys = Object.keys(data.LLM_JUDGE_TOUCHFILES);
+    expect(keys.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    for (const key of keys) {
+      expect(data.LLM_JUDGE_TOUCHFILES[key].length, `LLM_JUDGE_TOUCHFILES['${key}'] is empty`).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    }
+  });
+
+  test('GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES is non-empty and covers the selection logic', () => {
+    expect(data.GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    // The logic file must stay a global touchfile: a bug in selectTests /
+    // matchGlob mis-selects every test, so any change to it forces a full run.
+    expect(data.GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES).toContain('test/helpers/test-selection.ts');
+  });
+});

test/touchfiles-map-diff.test.ts

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+/**
+ * Map-diff selection for touchfiles-data.ts changes.
+ * Free (no API calls), runs with `bun test`.
+ *
+ * Three layers, matching the injectable-core + thin-shell shape:
+ *   1. diffTouchfileMapsCore — pure diff logic on injected old/new maps.
+ *   2. selectTests wiring — injected MapDiffOutcome, no git.
+ *   3. diffTouchfileMaps shell — real git + bun-child evaluation against a
+ *      throwaway temp repo (happy path + every fail-closed cause), plus one
+ *      end-to-end call against this actual repo's HEAD.
+ */
+
+import { describe, test, expect, beforeAll, afterAll } from 'bun:test';
+import { spawnSync } from 'child_process';
+import * as fs from 'fs';
+import * as os from 'os';
+import * as path from 'path';
+
+import {
+  diffTouchfileMaps,
+  diffTouchfileMapsCore,
+  selectTests,
+  TOUCHFILES_DATA_PATH,
+  E2E_TOUCHFILES,
+  GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES,
+} from './helpers/touchfiles';
+import type { TouchfileMaps, MapDiffOutcome } from './helpers/touchfiles';
+
+const ROOT = path.resolve(import.meta.dir, '..');
+
+function maps(overrides: Partial<TouchfileMaps> = {}): TouchfileMaps {
+  return {
+    E2E_TOUCHFILES: {
+      'alpha': ['a/**'],
+      'beta': ['b/**', 'shared/util.ts'],
+    },
+    E2E_TIERS: {
+      'alpha': 'gate',
+      'beta': 'periodic',
+    },
+    LLM_JUDGE_TOUCHFILES: {
+      'judge one': ['j/SKILL.md'],
+    },
+    GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES: ['test/helpers/session-runner.ts'],
+    ...overrides,
+  };
+}
+
+// --- Layer 1: pure core ---
+
+describe('diffTouchfileMapsCore', () => {
+  test('identical maps → nothing changed', () => {
+    const result = diffTouchfileMapsCore(maps(), maps());
+    expect(result.changedTests).toEqual([]);
+    expect(result.removedTests).toEqual([]);
+    expect(result.globalTouchfilesChanged).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  test('entry added → changed', () => {
+    const newMaps = maps({
+      E2E_TOUCHFILES: { 'alpha': ['a/**'], 'beta': ['b/**', 'shared/util.ts'], 'gamma': ['g/**'] },
+      E2E_TIERS: { 'alpha': 'gate', 'beta': 'periodic', 'gamma': 'gate' },
+    });
+    const result = diffTouchfileMapsCore(maps(), newMaps);
+    expect(result.changedTests).toEqual(['gamma']);
+    expect(result.removedTests).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  test('dep glob edited → changed', () => {
+    const newMaps = maps({
+      E2E_TOUCHFILES: { 'alpha': ['a/**', 'extra/dep.ts'], 'beta': ['b/**', 'shared/util.ts'] },
+    });
+    const result = diffTouchfileMapsCore(maps(), newMaps);
+    expect(result.changedTests).toEqual(['alpha']);
+  });
+
+  test('tier flipped → changed', () => {
+    const newMaps = maps({
+      E2E_TIERS: { 'alpha': 'gate', 'beta': 'gate' },
+    });
+    const result = diffTouchfileMapsCore(maps(), newMaps);
+    expect(result.changedTests).toEqual(['beta']);
+  });
+
+  test('unrelated entries untouched → not selected', () => {
+    const newMaps = maps({
+      E2E_TOUCHFILES: { 'alpha': ['a/**', 'x.ts'], 'beta': ['b/**', 'shared/util.ts'] },
+    });
+    const result = diffTouchfileMapsCore(maps(), newMaps);
+    expect(result.changedTests).not.toContain('beta');
+    expect(result.changedTests).not.toContain('judge one');
+  });
+
+  test('entry removed from every map → removedTests, not changed', () => {
+    const newMaps = maps({
+      E2E_TOUCHFILES: { 'alpha': ['a/**'] },
+      E2E_TIERS: { 'alpha': 'gate' },
+    });
+    const result = diffTouchfileMapsCore(maps(), newMaps);
+    expect(result.removedTests).toEqual(['beta']);
+    expect(result.changedTests).not.toContain('beta');
+  });
+
+  test('tier entry removed but touchfile entry kept → changed (conservative)', () => {
+    const newMaps = maps({
+      E2E_TIERS: { 'alpha': 'gate' }, // 'beta' tier dropped, E2E_TOUCHFILES.beta kept
+    });
+    const result = diffTouchfileMapsCore(maps(), newMaps);
+    expect(result.changedTests).toContain('beta');
+    expect(result.removedTests).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  test('LLM-judge entries participate in the diff', () => {
+    const newMaps = maps({
+      LLM_JUDGE_TOUCHFILES: { 'judge one': ['j/SKILL.md', 'j/SKILL.md.tmpl'] },
+    });
+    const result = diffTouchfileMapsCore(maps(), newMaps);
+    expect(result.changedTests).toEqual(['judge one']);
+  });
+
+  test('GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES entry added → flagged', () => {
+    const newMaps = maps({
+      GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES: ['test/helpers/session-runner.ts', 'test/helpers/new-global.ts'],
+    });
+    const result = diffTouchfileMapsCore(maps(), newMaps);
+    expect(result.globalTouchfilesChanged).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  test('GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES compared as a set — reorder is not a change', () => {
+    const oldMaps = maps({ GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES: ['x.ts', 'y.ts'] });
+    const newMaps = maps({ GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES: ['y.ts', 'x.ts'] });
+    const result = diffTouchfileMapsCore(oldMaps, newMaps);
+    expect(result.globalTouchfilesChanged).toBe(false);
+  });
+});
+
+// --- Layer 2: selectTests wiring (injected outcome, no git) ---
+
+describe('selectTests map-diff wiring', () => {
+  const okOutcome = (changedTests: string[], removedTests: string[] = []): MapDiffOutcome =>
+    ({ ok: true, changedTests, removedTests, globalTouchfilesChanged: false });
+
+  test('data-file change selects only map-changed tests, reason map-diff', () => {
+    const result = selectTests(
+      [TOUCHFILES_DATA_PATH],
+      E2E_TOUCHFILES,
+      GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES,
+      { mapDiff: okOutcome(['browse-basic']) },
+    );
+    expect(result.selected).toEqual(['browse-basic']);
+    expect(result.reason).toBe('map-diff');
+    expect(result.skipped.length).toBe(Object.keys(E2E_TOUCHFILES).length - 1);
+  });
+
+  test('map-diff result unions with pattern matching for other changed files', () => {
+    const result = selectTests(
+      [TOUCHFILES_DATA_PATH, 'retro/SKILL.md'],
+      E2E_TOUCHFILES,
+      GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES,
+      { mapDiff: okOutcome(['browse-basic']) },
+    );
+    expect(result.selected).toContain('browse-basic'); // from map-diff
+    expect(result.selected).toContain('retro');        // from pattern match
+    expect(result.selected).toContain('retro-base-branch');
+    expect(result.selected).not.toContain('cso-full-audit');
+    expect(result.reason).toBe('map-diff');
+  });
+
+  test('changedTests scoped to the map being selected against', () => {
+    // 'judge one' is an LLM-judge key, not an E2E key — must not leak in.
+    const result = selectTests(
+      [TOUCHFILES_DATA_PATH],
+      E2E_TOUCHFILES,
+      GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES,
+      { mapDiff: okOutcome(['browse-basic', 'judge one']) },
+    );
+    expect(result.selected).toEqual(['browse-basic']);
+  });
+
+  test('removedTests reported, not selected', () => {
+    const result = selectTests(
+      [TOUCHFILES_DATA_PATH],
+      E2E_TOUCHFILES,
+      GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES,
+      { mapDiff: okOutcome([], ['some-retired-test']) },
+    );
+    expect(result.selected).toEqual([]);
+    expect(result.removedTests).toEqual(['some-retired-test']);
+  });
+
+  test('FAIL-CLOSED: failed map-diff runs all with cause in reason', () => {
+    const result = selectTests(
+      [TOUCHFILES_DATA_PATH],
+      E2E_TOUCHFILES,
+      GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES,
+      { mapDiff: { ok: false, cause: 'import-failed' } },
+    );
+    expect(result.selected.length).toBe(Object.keys(E2E_TOUCHFILES).length);
+    expect(result.reason).toBe('global — touchfiles-data changed (import-failed)');
+  });
+
+  test('GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES edit inside data file runs all', () => {
+    const result = selectTests(
+      [TOUCHFILES_DATA_PATH],
+      E2E_TOUCHFILES,
+      GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES,
+      { mapDiff: { ok: true, changedTests: [], removedTests: [], globalTouchfilesChanged: true } },
+    );
+    expect(result.selected.length).toBe(Object.keys(E2E_TOUCHFILES).length);
+    expect(result.reason).toContain('GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES');
+  });
+
+  test('a real global touchfile hit still wins over map-diff', () => {
+    const result = selectTests(
+      [TOUCHFILES_DATA_PATH, 'test/helpers/session-runner.ts'],
+      E2E_TOUCHFILES,
+      GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES,
+      { mapDiff: okOutcome(['browse-basic']) },
+    );
+    expect(result.selected.length).toBe(Object.keys(E2E_TOUCHFILES).length);
+    expect(result.reason).toBe('global: test/helpers/session-runner.ts');
+  });
+
+  test('no data-file change → classic diff behavior, no map-diff consulted', () => {
+    const result = selectTests(['retro/SKILL.md'], E2E_TOUCHFILES, GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES, {
+      // Poison injection: if the wiring consulted this, the test would fail.
+      mapDiff: { ok: false, cause: 'import-failed' },
+    });
+    expect(result.reason).toBe('diff');
+    expect(result.selected).toContain('retro');
+    expect(result.removedTests).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+});
+
+// --- Layer 3: thin shell against a temp git repo ---
+
+const OLD_FIXTURE = `export const E2E_TOUCHFILES: Record<string, string[]> = {
+  'alpha': ['a/**'],
+  'beta': ['b/**'],
+};
+export const E2E_TIERS: Record<string, 'gate' | 'periodic'> = {
+  'alpha': 'gate',
+  'beta': 'periodic',
+};
+export const LLM_JUDGE_TOUCHFILES: Record<string, string[]> = {
+  'judge one': ['j/SKILL.md'],
+};
+export const GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES = [
+  'test/helpers/session-runner.ts',
+];
+`;
+
+describe('diffTouchfileMaps (git + bun-child shell)', () => {
+  let repo: string;
+
+  const git = (args: string[]) => {
+    const result = spawnSync(
+      'git',
+      ['-c', 'user.email=test@test', '-c', 'user.name=test', '-c', 'commit.gpgsign=false', '-c', 'tag.gpgsign=false', ...args],
+      { cwd: repo, stdio: 'pipe', timeout: 10000 },
+    );
+    if (result.status !== 0) {
+      throw new Error(`git ${args.join(' ')} failed: ${result.stderr?.toString()}`);
+    }
+  };
+
+  const commitDataFile = (source: string, message: string) => {
+    const filePath = path.join(repo, TOUCHFILES_DATA_PATH);
+    fs.mkdirSync(path.dirname(filePath), { recursive: true });
+    fs.writeFileSync(filePath, source);
+    git(['add', TOUCHFILES_DATA_PATH]);
+    git(['commit', '-q', '-m', message]);
+  };
+
+  beforeAll(() => {
+    repo = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'touchfiles-map-diff-repo-'));
+    git(['init', '-q']);
+    commitDataFile(OLD_FIXTURE, 'old maps');
+    git(['tag', 'old-maps']);
+    // Commit with a broken data file (unterminated string → bun import fails)
+    commitDataFile("export const E2E_TOUCHFILES = {\n  'broken: ['\n", 'broken maps');
+    git(['tag', 'broken-maps']);
+    // Commit with wrong shape (tiers value is a number)
+    commitDataFile(
+      'export const E2E_TOUCHFILES = {};\n'
+      + "export const E2E_TIERS = { 'alpha': 1 };\n"
+      + 'export const LLM_JUDGE_TOUCHFILES = {};\n'
+      + 'export const GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES = [];\n',
+      'wrong shape',
+    );
+    git(['tag', 'wrong-shape']);
+    // Commit that deletes the data file entirely (ref exists, file does not)
+    git(['rm', '-q', TOUCHFILES_DATA_PATH]);
+    git(['commit', '-q', '-m', 'file deleted']);
+    git(['tag', 'no-data-file']);
+  });
+
+  afterAll(() => {
+    fs.rmSync(repo, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  });
+
+  test('happy path: old version from git vs injected new maps', () => {
+    const newMaps: TouchfileMaps = {
+      E2E_TOUCHFILES: { 'alpha': ['a/**'], 'beta': ['b/**', 'new-dep.ts'], 'gamma': ['g/**'] },
+      E2E_TIERS: { 'alpha': 'periodic', 'beta': 'periodic', 'gamma': 'gate' },
+      LLM_JUDGE_TOUCHFILES: { 'judge one': ['j/SKILL.md'] },
+      GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES: ['test/helpers/session-runner.ts'],
+    };
+    const outcome = diffTouchfileMaps('old-maps', repo, newMaps);
+    if (!outcome.ok) throw new Error(`expected ok, got cause=${outcome.cause}`);
+    expect(outcome.changedTests).toEqual(['alpha', 'beta', 'gamma']); // tier flip, dep edit, added
+    expect(outcome.removedTests).toEqual([]);
+    expect(outcome.globalTouchfilesChanged).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  test('removed key reported from the git version too', () => {
+    const newMaps: TouchfileMaps = {
+      E2E_TOUCHFILES: { 'alpha': ['a/**'] },
+      E2E_TIERS: { 'alpha': 'gate' },
+      LLM_JUDGE_TOUCHFILES: { 'judge one': ['j/SKILL.md'] },
+      GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES: ['test/helpers/session-runner.ts'],
+    };
+    const outcome = diffTouchfileMaps('old-maps', repo, newMaps);
+    if (!outcome.ok) throw new Error(`expected ok, got cause=${outcome.cause}`);
+    expect(outcome.changedTests).toEqual([]);
+    expect(outcome.removedTests).toEqual(['beta']);
+  });
+
+  test('missing base ref → fail-closed with missing-base-ref', () => {
+    const outcome = diffTouchfileMaps('no-such-ref-anywhere', repo);
+    expect(outcome).toEqual({ ok: false, cause: 'missing-base-ref' });
+  });
+
+  test('ref exists but file absent → fail-closed with git-show-failed', () => {
+    const outcome = diffTouchfileMaps('no-data-file', repo);
+    expect(outcome).toEqual({ ok: false, cause: 'git-show-failed' });
+  });
+
+  test('old file fails to import → fail-closed with import-failed', () => {
+    const outcome = diffTouchfileMaps('broken-maps', repo);
+    expect(outcome).toEqual({ ok: false, cause: 'import-failed' });
+  });
+
+  test('old file has unexpected shape → fail-closed with shape-mismatch', () => {
+    const outcome = diffTouchfileMaps('wrong-shape', repo);
+    expect(outcome).toEqual({ ok: false, cause: 'shape-mismatch' });
+  });
+
+  test('end-to-end against this repo: HEAD version evaluates and diffs', () => {
+    // touchfiles-data.ts exists at HEAD (change-set 1). Whatever the working
+    // tree currently holds, the outcome must be a successful evaluation —
+    // assert shape, not content, so this stays green before and after the
+    // change-set commits.
+    const outcome = diffTouchfileMaps('HEAD', ROOT);
+    if (!outcome.ok) throw new Error(`expected ok, got cause=${outcome.cause}`);
+    expect(Array.isArray(outcome.changedTests)).toBe(true);
+    expect(Array.isArray(outcome.removedTests)).toBe(true);
+    expect(typeof outcome.globalTouchfilesChanged).toBe('boolean');
+  });
+});