fix(gbrain): thin-client state — remote-MCP brains no longer classify as broken-config (#2051)

A thin client (remote-HTTP MCP brain, no local engine by design) probed
`gbrain sources list`, which gbrain's dispatch guard REFUSES on thin clients
(exit 1, no recognized error string), so the classifier fell to its
defensive broken-config default and every suppression gate silently hid
brain-aware blocks from exactly the users on a shared team brain.

New 'thin-client' state, detected PRE-probe from gbrain's own remote_mcp
config marker via the existing gbrainConfigPath() helper (mirrors gbrain's
isThinClient(); honors GBRAIN_HOME; zero network, immune to error-string
drift), with a /thin[- ]client/ stderr backstop in the probe catch. Remote
reachability is deliberately NOT probed by the classifier — that is the
#1964 pathology; gbrain calls degrade gracefully at use time, and the detect
JSON says so honestly (gbrain_thin_client: {probed: false}).

The state is admitted at every suppression gate — gstack-gbrain-detect
--is-ok (drives setup + gbrain-refresh), gen-skill-docs' detection override,
gstack-config gbrain-refresh — while the sync stages (code/memory/dream)
SKIP with an accurate reason: code indexing runs on the brain server, memory
syncs via the remote brain's artifacts pull. The two consumer classes need
opposite answers, which is why this is a distinct state and not a
skip-the-probe special case. sync-gbrain Step 1.5 and setup-gbrain prose
route thin-client to proceed, never into broken-config remediation.

detectMcpMode secondary generalization: url-match against the config's
remote_mcp.mcp_url (deterministic — gbrain mounts at the generic /mcp path)
-> name pattern gbrain[-_]* -> stdio command token; gbrain_mcp_mode stays a
3-value enum.

Tripwires: end-to-end --is-ok exits 0 on a thin-client fixture AND still
exits 1 on broken-config (the gate didn't widen); pre-probe + stderr-fallback
classifier paths; 4 detectMcpMode identification cases incl. a non-matching
url that must NOT false-positive.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Garry Tan
2026-07-09 19:29:37 -07:00
co-authored by Claude Fable 5
parent a7a25aa489
commit e742648eda
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@@ -411,9 +411,11 @@ case "${1:-}" in
fi
case "$STATUS" in
ok|timeout)
# "timeout" = slow-but-healthy engine (#1964) — same treatment as
# "ok", matching gstack-gbrain-detect --is-ok and gen-skill-docs.
ok|timeout|thin-client)
# "timeout" = slow-but-healthy engine (#1964); "thin-client" =
# remote-HTTP MCP brain, no local engine by design (#2051) — same
# treatment as "ok", matching gstack-gbrain-detect --is-ok and
# gen-skill-docs.
echo "Detected gbrain v$VERSION (local-status: $STATUS)."
# Render brain-aware blocks INTO the global install so EVERY project's
# Claude sessions get them (other projects read SKILL.md + sections from