fix: whitelist engine-locked at all three gbrain-usable gates (#2456)

#2194 taught the classifier to report a PGLite lock held by a live
\`gbrain serve\` as engine-locked instead of broken-config, but none of the
three "is gbrain usable?" gates accepted the new status — so the symptom
moved from a wrong error to a quieter wrong suppression: gbrain-refresh
stripped GBRAIN_CONTEXT_LOAD / GBRAIN_SAVE_RESULTS blocks out of every
generated SKILL.md after every upgrade, on the RECOMMENDED /setup-gbrain
default (PGLite + local-stdio MCP spawns gbrain serve at session start).

engine-locked is the same class as timeout (#1964): the engine is
installed and healthy, a legitimate holder has the lock. All three gates
now agree:

- bin/gstack-gbrain-detect --is-ok exits 0 on engine-locked
- bin/gstack-config gbrain-refresh case arm renders instead of suppressing
- scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts --respect-detection treats it as detected

Test mirrors the existing timeout case in
test/gbrain-detection-override.test.ts (engine-locked renders brain
blocks; the sibling no-cli case still proves suppression works).

Applies the reporter's patch + test from the issue.

Fixes #2456

Co-authored-by: Mateus Moraes <mmoraes@users.noreply.github.com>
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 Mateus Moraes Claude Fable 5
parent 5b65f91a8c
commit f9f3c9801a
4 changed files with 56 additions and 20 deletions
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@@ -434,11 +434,14 @@ case "${1:-}" in
fi
case "$STATUS" in
ok|timeout|thin-client)
ok|timeout|thin-client|engine-locked)
# "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.
# remote-HTTP MCP brain, no local engine by design (#2051);
# "engine-locked" = same class (#2456): PGLite is single-writer, so a
# live `gbrain serve` (typically an MCP server) holds the embedded DB.
# gbrain is installed and healthy; a transient lock must not strip
# brain blocks out of every SKILL.md. All get the 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 an UNTRACKED out-dir (#2569) and
# repoint the installed skills at it — the old in-place render wrote
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@@ -288,17 +288,23 @@ function main(): void {
}
// --is-ok: live engine-status gate. Exits 0 iff gbrain is usable ("ok";
// "timeout" — a slow-but-healthy engine, #1964; or "thin-client" — remote-HTTP
// MCP brain with no local engine by design, #2051 — neither slow nor remote
// must silently suppress brain features), 1 otherwise. Runs detection live
// (never reads the possibly-stale gbrain-detection.json), so callers — setup,
// bin/dev-setup, and `gstack-config gbrain-refresh` — can decide whether to
// render the gbrain :user variant without duplicating the JSON grep.
// Prints nothing on stdout.
// "timeout" — a slow-but-healthy engine, #1964; "thin-client" — remote-HTTP
// MCP brain with no local engine by design, #2051; or "engine-locked" —
// PGLite is single-writer, so a live `gbrain serve` (typically an MCP
// server) holds the embedded DB, #2456 — gbrain is installed and healthy in
// all four; none must silently suppress brain features), 1 otherwise. Runs
// detection live (never reads the possibly-stale gbrain-detection.json), so
// callers — setup, bin/dev-setup, and `gstack-config gbrain-refresh` — can
// decide whether to render the gbrain :user variant without duplicating the
// JSON grep. Prints nothing on stdout.
if (process.argv.includes("--is-ok")) {
const noCache = process.env.GSTACK_DETECT_NO_CACHE === "1";
const status = localEngineStatus({ noCache });
process.exit(status === "ok" || status === "timeout" || status === "thin-client" ? 0 : 1);
process.exit(
status === "ok" || status === "timeout" || status === "thin-client" || status === "engine-locked"
? 0
: 1,
);
}
main();