fix: resolve GBRAIN_HOME with gbrain's parent-dir semantics (#2521)

gstack treated GBRAIN_HOME as the config directory; gbrain's configDir()
treats it as the PARENT and always appends `.gbrain` itself (the contract
is explicit in gbrain's source: GBRAIN_HOME=/tmp/x → /tmp/x/.gbrain/
config.json). With GBRAIN_HOME set, gstack classified engine status from
a file gbrain never reads — the probe's two halves (file checks vs the
spawned `gbrain sources list`) looked at DIFFERENT installs, so any
resulting status was arbitrary: missing-config/broken-config against
healthy installs, or a thin-client marker gstack saw that gbrain itself
reported as "No brain configured".

New shared resolver `gbrainConfigDir()` in lib/gbrain-exec.ts is the
single source of truth. All seven gstack sites route through the contract:

- lib/gbrain-local-status.ts gbrainConfigPath (the classifier's file half)
- bin/gstack-gbrain-detect GBRAIN_CONFIG + readRemoteMcpUrl
- lib/gbrain-exec.ts buildGbrainEnv (the probe's DATABASE_URL seed —
  fixing only the classifier would have left the split-brain in the
  spawn half, flagged by the reporter)
- lib/gbrain-guards.ts gbrainHome (clones-dir + autopilot-lock paths)
- lib/gstack-memory-helpers.ts gbrainConfigPath (engine-tier fallback)
- bin/gstack-gbrain-install pre-doctor config check (shell)

Unit tests cover GBRAIN_HOME set (config found at $GBRAIN_HOME/.gbrain),
the old flat layout explicitly NOT read (both classifier and
buildGbrainEnv), and unset (~/.gbrain unchanged). Existing fixtures that
encoded the deviant flat layout are updated to gbrain's contract.

Root-cause analysis by @d-danielsun in #2521.

Deviation from the 3-site plan spec: the same deviant resolution existed
in four more sites (buildGbrainEnv, gbrain-guards, memory-helpers,
gbrain-install); fixing only three would have left gstack disagreeing
with itself as well as with gbrain, so the whole class moved to the
shared resolver in one change.

Fixes #2521

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
Garry Tan
2026-08-16 10:01:44 -07:00
co-authored by Claude Fable 5
parent ce4a7bbb7e
commit 5854d122d3
10 changed files with 115 additions and 41 deletions
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@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ import {
import { atomicWriteSync } from "./fs-atomic";
import { homedir } from "os";
import { dirname, join } from "path";
import { buildGbrainEnv, NEEDS_SHELL_ON_WINDOWS } from "./gbrain-exec";
import { buildGbrainEnv, gbrainConfigDir, NEEDS_SHELL_ON_WINDOWS } from "./gbrain-exec";
export type LocalEngineStatus =
| "ok"
@@ -122,11 +122,14 @@ export function cacheFilePath(): string {
);
}
/** Honors GBRAIN_HOME (codex D11) — same resolution as buildGbrainEnv. */
/**
* Honors GBRAIN_HOME (codex D11) with gbrain's own configDir() semantics
* (#2521): GBRAIN_HOME is a parent dir, `.gbrain` is appended. Same
* resolution as buildGbrainEnv — both route through gbrainConfigDir.
*/
function gbrainConfigPath(env?: NodeJS.ProcessEnv): string {
const e = env ?? process.env;
const gbrainHome = e.GBRAIN_HOME || join(userHome(e), ".gbrain");
return join(gbrainHome, "config.json");
return join(gbrainConfigDir(e), "config.json");
}
/**