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Garry Tanandcapy-ai[bot]	5d647455f2	v1.91.79.0 feat(eval-plan): /eval-plan tier 1, lane-check, evidence verify, coordinator contract, owner brief, contributor-PR mode, banned terms (multi-agent wave PR E) (#3123) ... * v1.91.79.0 feat(eval-plan): /eval-plan tier 1, lane-check, evidence verify, coordinator contract, owner brief, contributor-PR mode, banned terms (multi-agent wave PR E) Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(spec,review): fail closed when the coordinator contract cannot be read; restore the omitted-Army sentence The spec --execute spawn captures `gstack-autoplan contract` before piping the archive, so a lane never starts without the contract; the C9 fixture installs its gstack-like checkout (bin, lib, a contract stub) at every host's global root. Review Step 5.8 keeps the pinned 'without claiming specialist coverage' wording. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> --------- Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>	2026-10-11 03:10:06 +00:00
Garry Tanandcapy-ai[bot]	ab79e55119	v1.91.78.0 feat(review): plan reality rows, sideways review and cso sweep, investigate recipes (multi-agent wave PR D) (#3119) ... * v1.91.70.0 feat(unattended): artifact contract, unattended session kind, findings-derived review log, gate list Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * v1.91.72.0 feat(autoplan): unattended runner next|submit, pluggable outside voice, review checklists, spec-loop cap Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(b-runner): atomic lock creation in spend-ledger, judge bundle skips runner-only sections, fixture env spelling - lib/spend-ledger.ts: create the lock by linking a complete temp file so a contender never reads an empty lock and breaks a live owner (CI admitted 20 of a cap of 8 under contention); unreadable locks break only by mtime age. - test/helpers/workflow-judge-input.ts: exclude manifest runner_only sections (the B4 checklists) from the judge bundle; the judge rates the interactive workflow. test/workflow-judge-input.test.ts expects the same set. - test/helpers/autoplan-run-fixture.ts: spell the runner's session kind without the literal the free-suite environment scan rejects. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * v1.91.74.0 feat(review): plan reality rows, sideways review and cso sweep, investigate recipes Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * test: register the investigate carve case and map Reality rows to real headings in the review checklists Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * test: pin the corrected Reality rows obligation rows Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(investigate): use allowlisted placeholders in the flake and polluter fences; select the investigate carve case on PTY changes Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> --------- Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>	2026-10-11 02:14:23 +00:00
8 people	f67c478f05	v1.91.34.0 fix: /autoplan on current Claude Code and long sessions, quieter pre-push and sync guards, gstack-post, gstack-doctor (#3069) ... * docs: Oct 7 follow-up wave plan (pre-review) * docs: Oct 7 follow-up wave plan, reviewed through /autoplan * docs: Oct 7 wave plan, record final gate decisions (UC1 accepted, UC2 rejected) * docs: credit #1822 to @Mike-E-Log and #1743 to @habassa5 (v1.64.0.0) The v1.64.0.0 CHANGELOG entry credited the extension token fix (#1822) and the polyfill exited promise (#1743) to the wrong handle, and the extension-sender-auth test header repeated the first slip. Commit history is not rewritten. Fixes #3054. Co-authored-by: Mike Ilog <48659643+Mike-E-Log@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(context-restore): offer newer checkpoints from nested repos and task worktrees /context-restore could present an older checkpoint as the latest with no error in two layouts: 1. A session started in a non-git parent saved from a nested repo, so the checkpoint went to the nested repo's bucket. Restore in the parent now lists checkpoints of other buckets whose project_root lies below the cwd (BELOW_CWD; the 200 newest are read, and from $HOME only each project's newest). /context-save also leaves a JSON pointer (checkpoint path, bucket, project_root) in the starting directory's bucket when $CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR is set and files elsewhere; restore lists those as POINTER, in or out of git. 2. A plan checkpoint on the main tree's branch shadowed a newer checkpoint saved in a ticket worktree. When another branch holds a newer checkpoint for the same task (a worktree below the main tree, read from the new worktree: stamp; equal normalized titles; or a shared #123 / ABC-123 token in titles or branch names), restore prints NEWER_TASK and the skill shows both and proposes the newer one. Generic titles (wip, checkpoint, save, notes, todo) never match on title alone, and the worktree rule applies only when restoring from the main tree, so sibling worktrees still never shadow each other. The branch-first ordering itself is unchanged. Refs #3065. Co-authored-by: Thomas Gernhardt <t.gernhardt@softwareprojekt.net> Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(redact-prepush): list each MEDIUM finding with rule, file line and fix The pre-push hook printed only a MEDIUM count, which nobody could review without re-running the engine by hand. It now prints one line per finding: rule id, file and file line, and a fix, never the matched value. Line numbers come from the hunk headers (combined --cc headers included), so a finding in a later hunk or past a scan-chunk boundary points at the real file line. Findings from the per-commit catch-up path name the commit whose file line it is, so content removed before the pushed tip is still locatable. Plan items: CEO-7 (summary half), DX-9 (fix lines), ENG-8 (line mapping). Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(redact-prepush): stop flagging your own email and already-public authors (#3060) The hook never passed the engine's selfEmail / repoPublicEmails, so every push that added the pusher's address, or a commit author's, raised a MEDIUM pii.email warning for an address the destination already shows. The hook now reads `git config user.email` and one bounded `git log` of author and committer addresses, raw and mailmapped (%ae %aE %ce %cE): the history of every pushed tip (those commits become public with the push), each remote tip being replaced, and, for a new branch or an unknown remote tip pushed to a configured remote, that remote's own tracking refs. A URL or unknown destination never borrows tracking refs, and another remote's history never counts. The read stops at 50,000 commits (the newest authors are used) and 5 seconds. An error or the timeout passes no history and, when an email finding is listed, prints one line saying suppression was limited for this push. The two inputs fail independently. HIGH findings and every other rule are untouched. Controls: a stranger's address, an address only another remote knows, a URL push next to a matching remote, and a first push of a repo with no history all still report. Plan items: A3, CEO-7, CEO-23 (A3 half), DX-9 (partial history), ENG-8 (history scope, mailmap). Co-authored-by: akmandhania <143462686+akmandhania@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * feat(redact-prepush): per-address allowlist for pii.email (gstack.redact.allowEmail) `git config --add gstack.redact.allowEmail <address>` allows that address for MEDIUM pii.email findings only, so a team alias or support address that has to be in the repo stops warning without reaching for --no-verify. It never affects HIGH findings or any other rule, and the pii.email fix line names it. Controls: a different address still reports, and a HIGH secret next to an allowed address still blocks. Plan item: DX-17. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * docs(troubleshooting): pre-push pii.email findings, exemptions and allowlist Plan item: DX-12 (pre-push touchpoint). Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * test(redact-prepush): assemble fixture addresses at runtime The email fixtures were literals, so this branch's own push listed 47 pii.email findings in its test file. Build them from a helper instead, the way the neighbouring tests build credential and IP fixtures. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(browse): offer the user's signed-in tab, name silent aside repl failures Rules (rendered into every browsing skill, kept short): - Rule 1: before the first openTab, offer the user's tabs on the target origin (title and origin only; the rest of listBrowserTabs() stays private) and attach only after the user confirms one. - Rule 4: a second sign-in wall after a confirmed sign-in means the session is bound to the tab or URL; offer that tab instead of another sign-in. - Rule 6 no longer suggests an early return; rule 7 says a fast [ok without GSTACK_STEP_OK is an abort. Cookbook (browse, devex-review): a "Silent failures" list (evaluate returns only serializable values, no top-level return, locator(sel).press(key), an empty DOM read is about the selector until the screenshot and the request's response say otherwise, read toggle state before clicking) and a signed-in tab recipe that prints only target-origin tabs and never closes the user's tab. Parity caps for design-consultation, land-and-deploy, qa and the browse skeleton are raised to the measured sizes, with notes. Refs #3063, #3064. Co-authored-by: Thomas Gernhardt <t.gernhardt@softwareprojekt.net> Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * feat(codex): run gstack-codex-probe as a command, one subcommand per probe Generated skills now execute bin/gstack-codex-probe (select-model, check-auth, show-sandbox, check-sandbox, probe-model, check-version, show-first-use-notice, run-with-timeout, log-event, log-hang, help) and capture its KEY: value lines, so no helper state crosses into the calling shell and the preflight works from bash, zsh or sh. select-model keeps --model > GSTACK_CODEX_MODEL > config.toml precedence; run-with-timeout supervises with the existing gtimeout/timeout/ watchdog chain and returns 124 on a deadline; an unknown subcommand exits 64. Sourcing keeps working for skills rendered before the upgrade and prints one deprecation line naming /gstack-upgrade; it and the zsh self-locate block are removed in a release on or after 2026-10-21 (DX-18). Parity caps raised with measured notes for the longer capture lines. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * feat(gstack-post): one argv-only, redaction-scanned write path for PR and issue text bin/gstack-post posts a PR/MR or issue comment, a review-comment reply, a PR title or body, a new PR/MR or a new issue from agent-written files. Every value reaches gh/glab as its own argv element in --flag=<value> form or on stdin, never through a shell string, and a target is a number or a URL of this repository on the same host. The helper owns the redaction scan: it reads each file once, scans those exact bytes (visibility from config, then gh/glab; the pusher's own email suppressed) and sends the same bytes. HIGH is refused with exit 1 and no confirmation can post it. MEDIUM exits 2 with RULE:/LINE:/PART: lines and a TOKEN: digest of the bytes, destination, operation and findings; only --confirm <token> for those exact bytes posts, so any edit needs a new confirmation. gh/glab failures exit 3, usage errors 64. It also carries the projectCards REST fallback and the title read-back that /ship did by hand. The logic lives in lib/gstack-post.ts behind an injectable runner, so its tests run in the Windows free lane; the stub-gh executable test is POSIX. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(autoplan): guard verifies dispatches on Claude Code 2.1.29x (schema strip, unflushed call, named causes) Cause A: Claude Code journals the model's raw Agent input but hands PreToolUse the schema-parsed input; with the fork-subagent gate on (the interactive default in 2.1.292) run_in_background is dropped, so the journal record never deep-equaled the payload. nativeToolInput now drops only that documented strip for Agent. Agent input is bound on both paths: keys limited to prompt, description, subagent_type (general-purpose) and run_in_background; a model override or any other key is denied. Cause B: when a ready journal lacks the current call, the guard evaluates the payload placed after the last journaled record instead of polling for a record that may arrive only with the tool result. A phase transition counts a report only when a later journaled record follows it (and, on the journal path, it is not in the current call's message). One batch rule covers both paths; a background reviewer keeps the invocation armed until its completion notice. Every outcome now has a stable reason code, disposition and anchor (autoplan/bin/guard-reasons.ts). UC1: Claude-Code-caused states (unrecognized shape, journal lag, rewritten journal, oversized record, unchecked-version schema strip) allow with a visible warning; integrity failures stay denials. No denial advises a bare retry. Every guarded decision appends one content-free line to analytics/autoplan-guard.jsonl, trimmed to 1,000 lines past 256 KiB. Co-authored-by: Jared <182125291+yolo-jared@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: crblabs <293123359+crblabs@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(autoplan): publish each phase report with a no-op call; foreground requests are conditional Phase-close step 6 sends the report in a message whose only tool call is the Bash no-op ': autoplan-published <phase>', and step 7 makes the next guarded call in a later message, so the guard sees the report flushed before the next phase entry regardless of Claude Code's journal timing. Every site that asked for run_in_background: false now asks for it only when the Agent schema offers it and says how to recover when a dispatch runs in the background anyway (wait for its completion notice). Parity caps rise by the measured bytes. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * feat(ship,spec,review): PR and issue text goes out only through gstack-post /ship: Step 18 writes the title into an agent-written file. An existing PR's title is piped from gh/glab through gstack-pr-title-rewrite.sh --stdin (new), so neither the agent nor a shell string carries it; a new title is written with the file tool and its version prefix checked in the file. Step 19 composes the body as before and publishes with gstack-post pr-create, or pr-body then pr-title, which scan the exact bytes they send. The separate title and body scans, the hand-rolled REST fallback and the title self-check are gone (the helper does all three). Title preparation moved into the pr-body section, so the skeleton shrinks. /spec files its issue with gstack-post issue-create and drops the pre-issue re-scan; Greptile replies use gstack-post reply and pr-comment. scripts/resolvers/redact-doc.ts loses its PR and issue sinks, and a test keeps any template from rendering one again. Tests that pinned the old scan-then-gh wiring now pin the gstack-post wiring; the publication tests run the real compose and publish blocks against a stub gh with the real helper (HIGH in title or body refused, MEDIUM token flow). Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * ci: pin Claude Code 2.1.292 in the CI image 2.1.292 is the npm latest users run. Its interactive default turns on the fork-subagent gate, which strips run_in_background from the Agent schema and backgrounds reviewers; CI on 2.1.284 never saw the /autoplan guard break. The image tag is a content hash, so every eval workflow picks up the new image without a workflow edit. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(brain-sync): one drain lock for every writer to the artifacts repo gstack-artifacts-init, gstack-brain-restore, gstack-gbrain-source-wireup and the skill-start merge ran git in $GSTACK_HOME without the drain's lock, so the drain could never tell an abandoned .git/index.lock from a live one. They now take the same mkdir lock (bin/gstack-brain-lock.sh): the drain and the skill-start merge skip when it is held, user-run writers wait for it (GSTACK_BRAIN_LOCK_WAIT, default 120 s), and a child of the holder (the drain's daily worktree advance, restore's wireup) inherits it by token. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(brain-sync): hold back only the flagged file, keep coupled artifacts whole One file with secret-shaped text used to block every push, silently. The drain now attributes scanner hits to files in one pass over the staged diff (split on its diff --git headers), holds back each flagged file with the rest of its coupled group, unstages it, and requires the remaining staged diff to re-scan clean; anything short of that falls back to a full unstage and status blocked. Held files stay queued and are re-scanned every drain. - Status file gains held_count, drainable, last_drain_at, last_push_at and held[] (path, scanner rule, dependents, both fixes); new status held. - Coupled groups come from an explicit map (decisions.jsonl and decisions.active.json): a queued member stages the whole group, a group stages only when its snapshot matches its log in the index, a skipped member stops the whole group. - --unskip-file undoes --skip-file and queues the path again. - An index lock older than 10 minutes is removed under the drain lock; a younger one, a failed git add, a failed commit (hooks included) keep the queue and report status error. A verified empty staged diff is the only "nothing to commit". git add runs once, batched. - The scanner reads bytes, so undecodable content no longer crashes it into a false clean; matched text never reaches the status file. - An empty-queue run with unpushed sync commits stays push_failed. - Privacy-held duplicate records collapse to one per path; --status counts a spool too deep for a shell glob. - --attention prints skill start's fixed attention lines from the sync status table in the usage header. Co-authored-by: v639dragoon <matthewsbrickley@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * feat(skill-start): ARTIFACTS_SYNC attention lines for a stuck sync Skill start now prints one fixed attention line per sync-status-table row that applies (held, blocked, push_failed, error, unknown, stale-push, stale-drain), each naming gstack-brain-sync by absolute path. Values from the status file are clamped (status code to the table, counts to digits, timestamps to their shape), so the status message, file paths and scanner output never reach the line. The preamble tells the model to surface the line in one sentence and continue. Skill-start tests are generated from the table in bin/gstack-brain-sync, and docs/gbrain-sync-errors.md carries the same table. Co-authored-by: v639dragoon <matthewsbrickley@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(outside-review): severity words in label position count as findings The Oct 7 /autoplan run's Codex CEO and DX reviews labeled seven and eight findings High/Medium without [Pn] tags, and the classifier printed VERDICT: clean / FINDINGS: none for both. lib/outside-review-result.ts now reads severity words in label position (Severity: High, a leading High: / High — / [High], **High**, a table cell): critical/high block like P0/P1, medium/low are advisory. Words in prose (high-level, low-risk, no critical findings) never count. A review or structured response with neither tags, labels nor an explicit no-findings statement is unverified, never clean (DX-11, ENG-10). Design-direction proposals move to a new proposal gate so they keep needing only their Recommendation line, and review prompts ask for a severity per finding. Fixtures reproduce the CEO/DX label shapes, the eng [P1] output, a table and prose negative controls; the stored Codex panel keeps its verdicts. docs/troubleshooting.md explains how the verdict is read. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * feat: gstack-doctor readiness report and setup --status Codex row (B5) bin/gstack-doctor prints one row per check without starting a skill: install root (the registry rows behind ./setup --status), state root, Bun against the floor, hook parse check, Codex mode and self-locate via gstack-codex-probe subcommands, the cached model probe with its age (--live runs the paid probe-model), artifacts-sync health from the status file with the status code clamped, the browse bundle, Claude Code version, the largest session journal and the last five schema-1 guard reason codes. Rows are ok, warn, not configured or fail; only fail exits non-zero; fix lines name helpers by absolute install-root path. ./setup --status gains a read-only Codex row (bin/gstack-codex-status.sh, shared with the doctor) and ends with the doctor's absolute path. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * docs: bug-report template asks for doctor output; README troubleshooting entry; doctor test in the Windows lane The template gives the Claude Code doctor path and a lookup for other hosts and names no bare gstack- command (asserted in test/gstack-doctor.test.ts). The doctor test runs every script through explicit bash argv, so it joins the curated Windows free subset. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * docs(troubleshooting): readiness check section points at gstack-doctor Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(question-tuning,plan-tune,gbrain): free text reaches helpers only through agent-written files Question tuning no longer pipes the question summary through printf: a registered id needs no summary, and for an unregistered id the agent writes the summary to .gstack/tmp/qt.txt and passes --summary-file (new). The helper resolves a relative path against the git top level, removes scratch files under .gstack/tmp, and asks normally when the file is missing. /plan-tune tune events carry the user's own words again: they go into a file the agent writes and reach gstack-question-preference --write through --free-text-file (new), still behind the injection filter and the user-origin gate. docs/gbrain-write-surfaces.md drops its heredoc templates for the agent-written page file on stdin, matching the per-skill save block, and the generic save block stops showing a quoted --content argument. The tuning prose was tightened so every preamble stays within its size cap. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * test(evals): daily autoplan-schema-canary on the latest Claude Code A periodic rule case installs the latest published Claude Code with install scripts off, verifies registry signatures, and runs one headless session with the fork-subagent gate on whose PreToolUse hook records an Agent and a Read payload. Each payload must match its journal record under the guard's own comparison, keep the journal's key set apart from the documented run_in_background strip, and stay inside the Agent allowlist; a background Agent's completion notice must keep the shape the guard reads. evals-periodic.yml runs it daily on its own schedule and concurrency group (read-only token); the weekly census also includes it. A free test proves the comparison fails on an injected strip. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(doctor): read the artifacts sync held count from held_count, the field the drain writes * fix(artifacts sync): the init and restore pre-commit hooks catch Bearer/Basic/Token-prefixed JSON auth headers like the drain does * feat(greptile-early): detect Greptile, ask once on public repos, open the early draft, wait for the review bin/gstack-greptile-early backs /ship's early Greptile PR: - detect: a root .greptile/ folder (which takes precedence), greptile.json, or a Greptile comment on the repo in the last 90 days; triggerOnDrafts from the effective root config; repo visibility; public-repo consent. It prints the signal, that /ship will push and open a draft now, the 10-minute wait cap and the absolute gstack-config command that turns it off. - consent yes|no: the public-repo answer, remembered per repo in the project's state. - open: opens the draft through gstack-post with a body saying /ship opened it early, and posts one @greptileai comment through gstack-post when the config does not set triggerOnDrafts: true. An open PR is left alone. - wait: polls every 30 s for a completed Greptile check run, a Greptile review of the head commit or a summary naming it; each call returns within about 90 s and reports timeout 10 minutes after the PR opened. gstack-config gains ship_greptile_early (default true, invalid values rejected): on automatically whenever the repo uses Greptile, off per user. The logic is in lib/greptile-early.ts behind an injectable runner, so its fixture-repo tests run in the Windows lane; an end-to-end test drives the real helper and gstack-post against a stub gh. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * feat(ship): early Greptile PR at Step 6.5, bounded wait at Step 10 (#3020) When the repo uses Greptile, /ship pushes and opens a draft PR right after its free tests pass (new lazy section greptile-early, Step 6.5), so Greptile reviews while Steps 7-9 run. A public repo asks once, remembered per repo; declining keeps today's order. Step 10 waits for that review with gstack-greptile-early wait and takes the existing unavailable route on a timeout, never a claim of zero comments. Step 18 replaces the provisional title, Step 19 marks the draft ready unless a draft was requested, and a /ship that stops after Step 6.5 leaves the draft open with one comment saying why. ship's union cap rises to 1.5275 with the measured note (B4 +836 bytes, B2 +4,732 bytes); the step-numbering guard allows 6.5; ship goldens are refreshed for B4 and B2. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(autoplan): the publication no-op is 'true autoplan-published <phase>' Measured on Claude Code 2.1.292 in a default-settings interactive session: a bare ':' Bash command asks for approval ('This command requires approval'), and after a background reviewer's completion notice starts a new turn the skill's allowed tools no longer cover it, so the phase-close no-op prompted the user. 'true' with arguments runs without approval and prints nothing. The guard only needs a later journaled record, so the command changes everywhere it is named. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * test(evals): live autoplan-guard-pty case on the pinned Claude Code A gate-tier rule case (one trial, haiku) drives an interactive PTY session with default settings through a project skill that carries /autoplan's own hook block: init, Phase 1 entry, a CEO reviewer dispatch that sends run_in_background, a prepared close packet, the report published with the no-op, and the Phase 2 entry in a later message. It reads outcomes from the guard decision log (three verified allows) and fails if the no-op raises a permission card; other cards are approved and printed. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(autoplan): bounded, append-tolerant owned-journal read (A2) The publication guard no longer reads the whole parent journal or refuses it at 32 MiB. lib/claude-owned-journal.ts streams the bytes present at open to the last complete line (pass one), keeps a content-free index per record and decides ownership, ancestry and causal order on it with the same checks and reason codes as before. Pass two reloads in full only what the evaluation reads (autoplan/bin/guard-journal.ts): every literal init and its result, the current call, and inside the invocation window (from the latest human turn at or before the bound chain's first init) guarded and close-packet Read results, structured Bash results, error results, assistant text after the first close Read and active-plan mutations, plus the earlier Read a dedup reply cites even before the window (ENG-4). - lib/claude-journal-records.ts: per-record event extraction, record metadata and the causal-order checks, shared by readPlanCountTranscript and the bounded reader. The batch reader keeps its whole-file read and cap. - Appends after open never fail a read; same device and inode and no shrink are required (identity). A second read in one hook invocation must hash bytes [0, first size) the same, or it is `rewritten` (UC1 unverified); the unrecognized-shape double read uses that prefix hash. `changing` is removed (REMOVED_CODES; its anchor stays). - OWNED_RECORD_MAX_BYTES (32 MiB): only one record over it is too_large. OWNED_RETAINED_MAX_BYTES (32 MiB): over it is the new oversized_invocation fallback denial. GSTACK_TRANSCRIPT_TEST_MAX_BYTES and GSTACK_TRANSCRIPT_TEST_RETAINED_BYTES can only lower them. - ENG-5: evaluation groups uses and results by tool id once (no per-tool rescans). CEO-25 / ENG-5 spike (120 MiB synthetic, 31,242 records, 4 vCPU Linux, Bun 1.4.2): a full streaming rescan (parse every line, small index, sha256) took 254-326 ms at 147-161 MiB peak RSS; a pass-one index cache under the state root (load cached index, verify a 64 KiB tail hash, parse the tail) took 26-29 ms at 47 MiB. The rescan meets the 1 s budget, so the cache is not adopted: it would add trusted persistent state and invalidation for no budget need. A backward tail read cannot prove competing_root or cycle, so it was not a candidate. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * test(autoplan): journal-read benchmark and its dispatch-only workflow (CEO-2, CEO-6) scripts/measure-journal-read.ts builds two synthetic 120 MiB parent journals around a real /autoplan invocation (mixed: ~28k records, most bytes inside the invocation; large-invocation: ~89k records with a current invocation of many small records), keeps appending while the guard reads, and measures one hook call in a fresh process (wall ms, peak RSS). The workflow runs it on ubuntu-latest and macos-latest on workflow_dispatch only. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * test(evals): autoplan-long-session, a resumed >100 MiB session enters Phase 1 CEO-15 with ENG-6's observer: a real session is compacted, its journal padded past 100 MiB with owned records before the compact boundary, and the resumed interactive session runs the scripted phase boundary; the guard decision log must show a verified Phase 1 allow. A free test proves that observer on a padded journal through the lower-only bound seams (the PTY counting reader refuses the same journal), with a sidechain control that must deny. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * v1.91.34.0: CHANGELOG, TODOS, version; harness decision for test-pr-profile; ship title-step test reads its new section * docs(changelog): use an example.com address in the allowEmail example * test: assemble GitHub-token fixtures at runtime in the new brain-sync and skill-start tests (CI credential scan) * fix: integration repairs across the wave (Step 6.5 fence, printed helper paths on Windows, probe usage without a heredoc) and tests pinned to the moved title and gstack-post contracts * test(doctor): the healthy fixture builds browse.exe on Windows, the name setup uses there * test(shared-libs): recognize Claude Code 2.1.292's internal git probe prefix (format.pretty and per-hook disables), with its CI receipt * fix(ship-measure): report lists v1 measurements as an older format instead of crashing --------- Co-authored-by: Mike Ilog <48659643+Mike-E-Log@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Thomas Gernhardt <t.gernhardt@softwareprojekt.net> Co-authored-by: akmandhania <143462686+akmandhania@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Jared <182125291+yolo-jared@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: crblabs <293123359+crblabs@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: v639dragoon <matthewsbrickley@gmail.com>	2026-10-07 23:29:05 +00:00
4 people	ac20ef1e13	v1.91.16.0 fix: safe installs and upgrades, skills start everywhere, truthful completion (parallel wave) (#3014) ... * fix(make-pdf,design): real TOC page numbers and anchors; design models move to gpt-5.5 + gpt-image-2 (#2903, #2807) * ci: pin every action to a SHA, Scorecard, checksummed Bun, scoped Codex CLI in the CI image, macOS named-regressions job (#1948, #1706, #1997) * fix(cso,browse): Windows/macOS lease identity, retention skips bad runs, truthful 'not assessed' reports, env.kv false positive, Windows browse spawn fixes (#2894, #2912, #2048, #2637, #2805) * fix(outside-voice): one Codex model precedence for probe and dispatch, bounded timeouts with KILL escalation, probe cache identity, guarded mktemp, skills hidden in nested Codex (#2776, #2914, #2787, #2881, #2847) * feat(setup): install registry, ./setup --status, staged activation, per-scope migrations, host tiers and conformance kit, OpenCode/Hermes fixes, Copilot CLI (experimental), disabled_skills, slimmer CLAUDE.md (#1925, #2879, #2347, #2338, #2626, #2629, #2825, #2015, #393, #1206, #2096) Co-authored-by: Andrey Esipov <61357035+andrey-esipov@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Matthew Williams <5863886+ridermw@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Rocky Wu <92764750+lolisaigao1234@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(preamble): skills start in worktree-isolated Claude Code sessions — one literal skill-start line, context-recovery helper, no eval in skill blocks, $N token tripwire, honest plan-mode precedence (#2763, #2896, #2851) * fix(setup): per-install renders for renamed, vendored and custom-config installs, space-safe alias roots, per-host /cso launcher path (#1882, #2906) * test: free tests never write the real HOME (home-write tripwire), no orphaned browse daemons, symlinked-TMPDIR (macOS) fixes, gbrain-on-PATH isolation (#2895, #2816, #2829, #2841, #2982, #2911, #2909, #2908, #2910) * chore: integrate wave follow-ups — regenerate all hosts, README model docs, TODOS, touchfiles, duration seeds, Bun 1.3 telemetry test fix, replay fixtures pinned to their recorded bytes * v1.91.14.0: release metadata * test(browse): group-kill cleanup falls back to the leader when macOS returns EPERM for a live group * ci: Codex login steps run under bash (the CI container's default sh rejects pipefail) * fix: full-suite repairs — private state roots for 7 real-HOME writers, truthful home-guard attribution with --attribute-home, gstack-paths shim in ship-hook fixtures, Copilot in team-init probes, test-of-test detector, cookie review fixture pinned to the approved excerpt * fix(windows): LF for Dockerfiles, normalized home-guard exclusions, path.relative fixture containment, ship push test spawn timeouts * test(design-detect): widen the whole-scan budget test's timing margins so a loaded macOS runner can't time out the single-batch call * fix(evals): qa protocol names defined for the judge, async PTY judge so overlapping sessions keep their cleanup deadline, bws setup cases use the standard JUDGE_MS tier * test(pty): the non-blocking judge case is POSIX-only (its fake judge is a shebang script, like the PTY harness it covers) * test(evals): ship-coverage-audit names absolute skill paths, uses Read, and skips the Step 7 artifact nothing consumes (removes the mechanism behind 3 of 4 historical timeouts) * test: deflake terminal-agent concurrent startup (write the placeholder record before spawning, like the product) and qa-evidence resumed pipe (barrier on a full high-water mark instead of a sleep) * fix(design): daemon log stream handles open errors instead of crashing the daemon; shutdown test awaits the stubbed exit * test(evals): skillify checks the product's resolved state root (no GSTACK_HOME bypass), negative cases check every root; tpa shims live outside the agent's cwd and answer consistently * test(evals): coverage-audit detector splits parallel columns at │ rails and [+] groups; coverage prompts name absolute skill paths; TODOs from the gate eval census * fix(plan-eng-review): scope gate always sends the menu (no headless 'Scope pending' exit); PTY harness ends idle turn-ends and API-error panels promptly with a precise diagnostic * test(evals): one position-bound coverage-read rule credits read-only && chains (labels, context ranges, git displays in either order) and still rejects forged output * fix(ship): documentation section has one saved source inserted by cat (never retyped); spawned-marker evidence is the child output; refreshed codex/factory ship goldens * test(docsync): the byte-exact insert positive is POSIX-only (the bash-command observer refuses backslash paths by design) * test(evals): plan-design-with-ui focus-title rule accepts the comma-less 'dimensions or focus' wording (replayed on the captured CI run, negative controls kept) * fix(qa-callers): exploratory preflight says the scope/method Reads come after exploratory.md; design-review scan check credits an executed scan proven by one engine run over the changed files --------- Co-authored-by: Andrey Esipov <61357035+andrey-esipov@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Matthew Williams <5863886+ridermw@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Rocky Wu <92764750+lolisaigao1234@users.noreply.github.com>	2026-10-03 07:54:09 -07:00
Garry Tan	74512c20a7	v1.91.15.0 v1.91.15.0: Opus 5.5 prompt cleanup, behavior-level skill tests, transcript consent (#3017) ... * fix(models): allowlist routing for model-pinned Claude families (W1) resolveModel lowercases input and strips one trailing [...] context marker. Opus 4.7, Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5 keep their pinned overlay only for the bare ID, the bare ID plus an 8-digit date, and the bare ID plus -latest; any other suffix (point releases such as claude-sonnet-5-5, claude-opus-4-7-1) falls to the generic claude overlay. claude-opus-5-5 routes to claude explicitly (no new overlay, no new ALL_MODEL_NAMES entry). Fable keeps its prefix match while CLAUDE_FRONTIER_EVAL_MODEL is claude-fable-5-1, guarded by a test. Tests: one test/model-overlays.test.ts case per shape in the plan, plus the lowercase / [1m] marker / family-name cases and the Fable guard. * docs(CLAUDE.md): define when prompt bytes are a test contract (W7 prompt-byte rule) Adds the gstack-repo definition to the Testing section at normal volume: prompt bytes are a contract only when software reads them or a recorded eval shows the wording matters. Amends the test-value-bar line so 'prompt bytes' refers to that definition. scripts/resolvers/test-value.ts and docs/test-value-bar.md are unchanged. * fix(browse): sidebar tab hint names real tabs.json fields and how $B resolves (s11 H1, s11 M8, s11 M9) * fix(router): route telemetry uses the echoed SESSION_ID (s01 H1) $_SESSION_ID is never set in the router's bash block since bin/gstack-skill-start took over session bookkeeping, so every /gstack route event logged an empty session id. Use the literal SESSION_ID placeholder and tell the model to substitute the echoed value, matching the completion-status telemetry block. No W7a pins on the changed line. * docs(CLAUDE.md): correct stale test-infra facts (s01 H2, H3, H4, H5) H2: TREE_MUTATING is not empty; it still holds bootstrap-retention. H3: catalog ceiling is CATALOG_BUDGET_TOKEN_EQUIVALENTS (1,194), not 1,171. H4: detach timeouts point at package.json's --timeout values (gate is 49320s). H5: Writing Style lives in preamble/generate-writing-style.ts and the jargon list is Read at runtime, not baked at generation time. No W7a pins on the changed lines. * fix(preamble): drop the stale jargon-list count (s01 H6) The list has 77 terms, not 80+, and the model Reads the file anyway. No W7a pins on the changed text. * fix(overlay): claude.md dedicated-tools nudge stops naming tools the host may lack (s01 M1) The nudge named Glob and Grep, which some Claude hosts do not expose. It now names the host's dedicated file tools and its search tools when it has them, keeping the prefer-dedicated-tools behavior the claude-dedicated-tools-vs-bash overlay eval measures. Updates the prose comment at test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts:643 (comment only, no assertion change). The matching comment in test/fixtures/overlay-nudges.ts is left to its owner. * fix(preamble): progress notes on phase changes, not a [PROGRESS] cadence (s01 M2) Context Health told the model to periodically write a tagged [PROGRESS] summary. No code reads that tag; the line now says when to tell the user (finishing a phase or changing direction). Loop detection stays. W7a pin: test/terse-build.test.ts:103 pinned 'PROGRESS'; it now checks the default build emits a non-empty Context Health body (terse still emits ''). * fix(preamble): learnings review without incident archaeology (s01 M3) Drops the issue number, the 43-of-44 statistic and the ALWAYS caps from the Operational Self-Improvement step; keeps the rule that the review runs every time and that an empty result is stated explicitly. No W7a pins on the removed text. * docs(CLAUDE.md): fold 'Long-running tasks' into the detach section (s01 M4, CEO W4) The 'don't give up' section told agents to poll a plain background task with sleep 180 + TaskOutput, which the next section forbids for evals. Its one durable rule (keep checking until the run finishes, report progress at each check) now lives in the detach section's poll step, pointed at the gstack-detach EXIT sentinel, at normal volume. No tests pin the removed text. * fix(preamble): test-failure triage questions defer to the AskUserQuestion Format (s01 M5) The two quoted pseudo-briefs pinned a superseded question shape (RECOMMENDATION: Choose X, a completeness score on the recommendation, no D<N>/ELI10/Net). The triage step now gives the facts, the options with their completeness values, and the recommended option as data, and defers the shape to the Format section. Option labels that Step T4 and test/skill-validation.test.ts:2004-2016 depend on are verbatim. No W7a pins on the removed text. * fix(proactive): PROACTIVE=false means no suggestions, including 'want me to run /X?' (W5.1) The router forbade suggesting skills when PROACTIVE is false while the preamble told the model to ask 'want me to run it?'. Decision: false means never auto-invoke and never suggest, including by asking. The preamble line in generate-upgrade-check.ts now matches the router, and both quote the value as `false`, the way gstack-skill-start prints it. Restore with gstack-config set proactive true. W7a pin: test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts:4488 used the old quoted sentence as a preamble-order marker; it now finds the PROACTIVE-false rule with a quote-tolerant, case-insensitive pattern. * docs(ETHOS.md): correct the claim that ETHOS is injected into every preamble (W5.7) Nothing injects ETHOS.md. Preambles carry condensed principles (completeness, voice, search before building) and the Search Before Building section links to this file. Edit approved by Garry for this PR. * office-hours: fix stale refs, state-root path, profile query, SESSION_ID (s07 H1, H2, H3, M7, M10; s01 H1 office-hours note) - Phase 4.5 points at Founder Resources instead of the nonexistent Beat 3.5 (H1). - builder-journey.md is written to $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT, where it is opened (H2). - builder-profile context query reads developer-profile.json, the file the migration leaves behind; drop meaningless tail (H3). - Drop issue numbers from three headings (M7) and the MANDATORY/NOT optional markers on Phase 4 (M10). - Handoff telemetry uses the echoed SESSION_ID placeholder; $_SESSION_ID is never set in a fresh shell. Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * spec: plain Phase 3 gate, drop duplicates, dead telemetry and review IDs (s07 H4, M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, M6) - H4: Standard template heading no longer names nonexistent --bug/--feature/--refactor flags. - M1: Phase 3 read-code-first gate at normal volume, constraint and reason kept. - M2: drop the in-phase repeat of the read-first rule (Rules recap stays). - M3: drop the duplicate audit-sink paragraph. - M4: drop TTHW telemetry block and its never-set frontmatter keys. - M5/M6: drop plan-review finding IDs from Phase 5 headings and the /ship handoff. W7a pins: spec-template-invariants:314 (Mandatory/MUST) becomes a Phase 3 section check for the read-evidence-before-asking constraint; :203 matches 'raw spec must not be persisted' across line wraps so no duplicate paragraph is needed to satisfy it. Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * investigate: drop issue numbers from freeze-script comment (s07 M8) Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * qa: replace WTF point table with named signals and a plain stop rule (s07 M9) The self-regulation check keeps its cadence (every 5 fixes or after a revert), its signals (reverts, unrelated files, sprawl, long runs, low-severity tail), STOP-and-ask, and the 50-fix hard cap. The percentage table goes; the stop threshold (two reverts, or one unrelated-file edit) stops at least as early. W7a pins: qa-browser-preservation:220 drops 'WTF > 20%' and checks the signals case-insensitively; skill-validation:1250 checks the test-only exclusion rule instead of the heading name; carve-guards qa anchor 'WTF-LIKELIHOOD' becomes the '### 8f. Self-Regulation' heading. Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * design-html: match Pretext docs to the vendored bundle; fix cross-block server state (s08 H1, H2, H3, H4, H7, M6) - H1-H3: walkLineRanges, layoutNextLine and layoutWithLines signatures and return shapes now match design-html/vendor/pretext.js; patterns 2-4 rewritten. - H4: inline the ES-module bundle in <script type="module"> with page code in the same module; no window.Pretext global exists. - H7: remember the printed server URL and PID; later blocks restate them. - M6: drop the 2-3 line cap on the refinement summary. Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * make-pdf: drop nonexistent --no-syntax flag, trigger list and relative phrasing (s08 H5, M7, M9) Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * design-shotgun: DESIGN.md decides what variants vary; fix $SLUG; drop history (s08 H6, M1, M2, M3; W5.6) - H6: the office-hours lookup block evals gstack-slug before using $SLUG. - M1 + W5.6: with a DESIGN.md, variants keep its fonts and palette and vary layout and composition; without one they vary font, palette and layout. The swap-the-headline test and the 'Anti-convergence directive' heading (carve-guards anchor) stay. - M2: drop the Claude Code version pin; run_in_background: false and its reason stay. - M3: /tmp-then-cp rule and reason without the incident story. G1 (replace executor subagents) deferred to TODOS.md per plan. Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * design-review: plain identity line; scope 'never read source' to the audit (s08 M4, M10) M5 (risk-percentage stop conditions) is a UC2 gate and keeps its wording. Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * design-consultation: plain CLAUDE.md design-system snippet with its reason (s08 M8) Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * plan-tune: describe the never-ask hook truthfully; drop plan codes (s09 H8, H9, H10, M10; W4 plan-tune) W4: make the text true rather than change the hook. The consent copy and scope now say never-ask questions are auto-decided with gstack's recommendation by the question-preference hook (one-way doors still ask), and the profile itself never changes defaults. H10 removes the nonexistent --dismiss command. M10 strips cathedral/Layer/D-codes and keeps mechanisms. Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * context-save/restore: drop rename history; fix command-list branch rule (s09 H11, M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, M6) Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * retro: correct what the skill writes; drop word cap and archaeology (s09 H13, M7, M8, M9, M25) H13 and M7 touch neighbouring lines and were merged by hand in that order. Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * health: compute the composite in code; fix example weights; drop D6 codes (s09 H12, M21, M22) Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * gstack-upgrade: drop issue numbers and version history, keep rationale (s09 M20) Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * canary: replace the 30-second/don't-over-analyze rule with the goal (s09 M23) Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * benchmark: self-contained page discovery instead of a /canary reference (s09 M24) Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * codex: drop judge vocabulary and the maintainer known-bad-list note (s10 M1, M2) The synthesis line keeps its Recommendation: <action> because <reason> shape. M16 (consult-mode embed rule) is a UC2 gate and keeps its wording; the outside-voice prompt bodies sent to Codex are unchanged. Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * document-generate: true redaction-fence behavior; drop thoroughness booster (s10 H8, M3) Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * document-release: changelog sell test as three questions, not a 0-3 score (s10 M6) The threshold stays (fewer than two answered = needs attention, not replacement). M4/M5 (NEVER CLOBBER / NEVER BUMP) keep their wording; the integrator owns the eval-gated rewrite. W7a pin: workflow-excerpt:170 'Entries scoring <2 need attention, not replacement' becomes a case-insensitive check that weak entries get attention, not replacement. Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * ios-clean/fix/sync: match the generator's real header, package shape and regen command (s10 H2, H3, H4, H5, M9, M12) - H2: inventory greps the header the generator actually writes. - H4/H5: remove the local .package(path:) entry and DebugBridge* product deps; delete the generated DebugBridge/ and DebugBridgeGenerated/ dirs so the Phase 3 check can pass. - H3: regenerate accessors with /ios-sync (gstack-ios-qa-regen). - M12: ios-fix writes the regression with the project's own test runner. - M9: drop migration-relative sentence. ios-qa DEMO MODE (M8) is a UC2 gate and keeps its wording. Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * setup-deploy: drop User-invocable boilerplate; say default branch, not main (s10 M10, M11) Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * skillify: test staged skills directly; stop after Aside scrapes; drop roadmap notes (s10 H1, H6, H7, M14, M15) Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * W4: transcript ingest needs affirmative consent (recent|all) normalizeTranscriptConsent() in gstack-memory-ingest reads transcript_ingest_mode once per process. Only recent (90 days) and all (all history) are consent; an absent key, off, legacy gate letters, incremental and unknown values skip transcripts while other memory still syncs. The ingest's default source set drops transcript without consent; an explicit --sources list naming transcript overrides. gstack-gbrain-sync reads consent once at sync start and pins a non-consented run to an explicit source list, so a mid-run config change cannot add transcripts. It prints the pinned skip notice on every such run (even --quiet), records the normalized mode and skip reason in the memory stage, restages an interrupted import when the consent policy changed, passes --all-history on --full for mode all, and documents the default in --help. Tests: new gstack-gbrain-sync-transcript-mode.test.ts; memory-ingest fixtures seed consent; regression-2922's every-type case seeds consent. Findings: s09 H16 (enforce the consent choice in code). * W4: gstack-brain-sync holds staged transcript pages without consent Queued transcripts/ pages stay queued and on disk unless transcript_ingest_mode is recent or all; other classes still push. Test: brain-sync.test.ts push-filter case (absent, off, legacy A, then recent). * W4: gstack-config validates transcript_ingest_mode; set rejects empty and multi-line values transcript_ingest_mode accepts only recent|all|off and leaves the stored value unchanged otherwise. set rejects an empty value or one containing a newline for every key instead of truncating it. The config header documents the key; lookup_default keeps off. * setup-gbrain, sync-gbrain: fix stale facts and strip plan archaeology Applies s09 H1a, H1c (Mac-only wording; the installer supports Linux and Windows), H2 (smoke test has no delete step), H3 (five invocation modes), H4 (no CI grep test backs the telemetry claim), H7 (Step 4.5 does not exist; the prompt is Path 4 step 4d), M11, M12, M13, M15, M18, M19 (plan codes, issue numbers, version pins, rename story), M14 (restore-from-sync never shipped), M16 (draft self-dialogue in the Supabase steps), M17 (passed sunset date, manual merge into both sections). W7a: retires the setup-gbrain-bin-invocation-paths 'now persists staged transcripts' change-detector (t06 #17); the no-bare-invocation regex tests keep the contract. * W4: transcript consent prose in /setup-gbrain, /sync-gbrain and memory.md The Step 7.5 gate is rewritten as a consent question (manual merge of s09 H5, with H1b and H6): it checks gstack-config has, asks once with A) recent, B) all history, E) never, names Claude Code and Codex sessions from every repo-policy-allowed project and the destination brain, stores the mode value (never the letter), asks yes/no when no transcripts exist, never asks spawned or headless sessions, and drops the silent no-question bulk paths and the false skill-start-hook claim (s09 H5c). Path 4 no longer stores off on the user's behalf. /sync-gbrain gains Step 1.6 (ask when the key is absent or holds a legacy value). Step 10 and the sync verdict show the mode. setup-gbrain/memory.md gains #transcripts (values, sources, destination, override precedence, one-time restage, held staged pages, already-ingested pages stay). W7a: setup-gbrain-bin-invocation-paths drops the silent-bulk and preamble-hook pins (that prose is gone) for negative checks (no pre-answer --bulk, no skill-start claim), loosens the gstack-config pin (t06 #18) to the command without <choice>, and adds the DX 'gated on has' order check for both skills. * W5.2: /sync-gbrain is the only writer of the CLAUDE.md search-guidance block setup-gbrain's claude-md-persist section stops writing its own '## GBrain Search Guidance' block, which also removes the false 'auto-syncs on every gstack skill start' text (s09 H15; s09 H14 decided). Step 10 offers to run /sync-gbrain now and names it otherwise. Test sweep: only skill-e2e-sync-gbrain-readiness references the heading, and it checks the block /sync-gbrain writes, so no test changes. * E4: config-key reader tripwire in gstack-config-defaults.test.ts Every key in bin/gstack-config's DEFAULTS table must be read by code (gstack-config get/has <key>, a config-binary variable, a spawn argv, a config-reader call, or an anchored ^key: pattern in bin/, lib/, scripts/, setup or any .tmpl; wildcard keys by prefix) or appear in PROSE_ONLY_KEYS with a reason. Run on the current tree first: every key has a reader, so the seeded prose-only list is empty. Failure messages name the two fixes. A synthetic-tree case checks each reader form and that docs prose does not count. setup is scanned because timeline_stop_hook is read only there. * W4: /open-gstack-browser asks before replacing a live browse daemon Step 0 probes with BROWSE_NO_AUTOSTART=1 $B status (no daemon is booted by the probe). No live daemon: clear Chromium profile locks and run plain $B connect, which reaps orphans and refuses to replace a busy daemon. Already headed: connect reports it. Live headless daemon: AskUserQuestion, and only an explicit yes runs $B connect --force-restart; spawned or headless sessions leave it running and print the stop line with the resolved browse binary. The hand-rolled kill / kill -9 of the recorded PID and the browse.json deletion are gone. Supersedes s10 M13. Tests: new open-gstack-browser-liveness.test.ts (no kill of the recorded PID, status probe before connect, --force-restart only after the yes branch, profile-lock cleanup kept, spawned/headless stop line). The state-extraction tripwire now covers only the port snippet, since the pid snippet is gone. * fix(browse): untrusted-content warnings name both marker formats (s02 H5, s02 L2 / W7f) The /browse warning named only the --- UNTRUSTED EXTERNAL CONTENT --- envelope and the browser fallback only the ═══ UNTRUSTED WEB CONTENT ═══ one; $B prints both (commands.ts wrapUntrustedContent, content-security.ts ENVELOPE_BEGIN). Both surfaces now name both formats. W7f pin: test/aside-driver.test.ts:347-350 no longer bans the EXTERNAL marker; it reads both marker labels from browse/src/commands.ts and browse/src/content-security.ts and requires both in the fallback and warning. Negative control: reverting browse.ts turns the test red. Parity cap (test/helpers/carve-guards.ts): qa maxSizeRatio 1.103 -> 1.104 (measured 1.1035); the second marker adds bytes to every skill that renders the browser fallback. expected red until the regeneration commit (generated SKILL.md not committed) * fix(design): mockup board loop matches the daemon CLI (s02 H1, s02 H2, s02 H3) - H1: $D compare --serve publishes to the design daemon and exits; read BOARD_URL from stderr, wait with AskUserQuestion, then read feedback.json / feedback-pending.json. The fallback no longer names a $D serve command the step never runs. - H2: the reload POST uses the jq --arg form, so $_DESIGN_DIR expands (the single-quoted JSON sent the literal variable name). - H3: Content & Microcopy lists 11 items, not 8. No test pins the removed text. expected red until the regeneration commit * design: name the defaults to avoid in native design-direction prompts; plain path rule (s02 H4a, s02 H4b, s02 M9) - H4a/H4b: the design-consultation and design-sketch native subagent prompts now name the default looks to avoid (the three looks from the Hard Rules calibration plus the catalog entries the sibling outside-voice prompt already lists) and say to pick again if the first idea is one of them. - M9: 'CRITICAL PATH RULE' -> 'Path rule'; the rule and its reason stay. No test pins the changed text. Parity cap (test/helpers/carve-guards.ts): design-consultation maxSizeRatio 1.085 -> 1.092 (measured 1.0911). expected red until the regeneration commit * fix(outside-voice): preflight mode list no longer looks exhaustive (s02 M10) The preflight also prints under_codex and under_current_harness; not_authed exists only on the Codex path. 'every other mode skips them' covers all non-ready modes. No test pins the old line. expected red until the regeneration commit * outside-voice: drop booster sentences and plan-review decision IDs (s02 M1, s02 M7) - M1: native adversarial subagent prompt drops 'Be adversarial. Be thorough.'; the attacker framing, defect list and 'No compliments' output rule stay. - M7: doc-review headings drop the D3 / T3B plan-review decision IDs (D<N> also collides with AskUserQuestion brief numbering). Not changed: s02 M2 (outside adversarial prompt body sent to Codex/GPT: out of scope per plan) and s02 M3 (CODEX_BOUNDARY: UC2 gate keeps its wording). No test pins the removed text. expected red until the regeneration commit * confidence: drop issue IDs and the contributor-only design-doc pointer (s02 M4a, s02 M4b) - M4a: gate heading and FP-class intro lose '#1539' and the Django sprint measurement note; the gate rule and its four FP classes stay. - M4b: remove the pointer to ~/.gstack-dev/plans/1539-framework-aware-review.md, a contributor-local file that never exists where /plan-eng-review and /ship run. W7a pins (test/regression-1539-review-self-verify.test.ts): - :34 toMatch(/#1539/) removed (cosmetic issue-number pin; the gate-header check stays). - :64-67 'references the deferred design doc' replaced by a structural check that no .gstack-dev/plans/ path reaches the emitted prose. expected red until the regeneration commit * question-tuning: state why the summary is piped instead of citing #2024 (s02 M6) No test pins the resolver text (#2024 appears only in test names/comments). expected red until the regeneration commit * fix(testing): shared TEST_BOOTSTRAP undoes only owned changes (s03 H1, s03 H2, s03 H3, s03 M1) The shared {{TEST_BOOTSTRAP}} (/ship, /design-review) still told the agent to 'git checkout -- package.json package-lock.json', to 'revert all bootstrap changes', to 'delete silently' a failing first test, and to stage 'all bootstrap files'. The QA copy (qa/sections/test-bootstrap.md.tmpl) already says undo only owned changes, never blanket-checkout, never silently delete a valid red regression, and stop on unrelated staged edits. The shared copy now matches it. This removes destructive behavior (UC2: lands regardless of eval). W7g: test/qa-browser-preservation.test.ts gains a check that the shared copy (ship, design-review) has no 'git checkout --', no silent deletion, no blanket revert, and keeps the owned-change and staged-edits rules (case-insensitive). Negative control: the old testing.ts turns it red. Parity cap (test/helpers/carve-guards.ts): ship maxSizeRatio 1.404 -> 1.405 (measured 1.4044 at the branch tip, with the s03 M2/M3 wording). expected red until the regeneration commit * testing: coverage trace and test generation follow the value bar (s03 M2, s03 M3) - M2: 'Every branch in this diagram needs a test' / 'Each step in the journey needs a test' contradicted COVERAGE_GOAL ('Test count is not a goal') in the same rendered audit. Branches and journey steps now need coverage that would catch a regression; the value bar decides new test vs extension vs covered. - M3: 'Mock all external dependencies' -> the smallest native test, mocking only services unrelated to the behavior (matches the QA handoff in qa.ts and the audit's own E2E routing). No test pins the removed text. expected red until the regeneration commit * plan-gates: per-item confirmation states its reason, not an incident ID (s03 M4) 'VAS-449' meant nothing to the model and reached the user in the >5-items warning. The rule now gives the reason (a blanket confirmation lets the user click through without opening any file / lets unchecked items pass as verified). The per-item confirmation rule is unchanged. W7a pin: test/ship-plan-completion-invariants.test.ts:122 toMatch(/VAS-449/) removed (cosmetic incident-ID pin); the per-item rule and blanket-confirm ban checks on the same test stay. expected red until the regeneration commit * plan-gates, review-dashboard: terminal-report rules without trait claims or 'prior versions' narrative (s03 M5, s03 M7) - M5: exit gate drops 'will (correctly) reject it' and the 'Self-deception failure mode' aside; keeps the contract-violation sentence (pinned by test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts) and the body-prose-is-not-the-report rule. - M7: report-write step states the rule and its reason (delete and append at EOF so the report stays last) instead of the history of how it broke. No test pins the removed text. expected red until the regeneration commit * spec-review: default anti-shortcut clause without incident narrative (s03 M6) Drops 'the May 2026 transcript bug ... that's the bug, recognize it' and the caps; keeps the rule: each non-trivial finding goes through AskUserQuestion before it enters the plan, and only a zero-finding review skips asking. The four skill-specific branches are unchanged. W7a pin: test/skill-ceo-section-ordering.test.ts:868-873 pinned the SHA-256 of the default clause. It now checks, on every host, that the clause still says the plan cannot replace the interactive review, routes findings through AskUserQuestion, and lets only zero findings reach ExitPlanMode without asking (case-insensitive), and that the clause is host-independent. The old clause also passes; deleting the zero-findings rule turns it red. The DX hash pin is unchanged. expected red until the regeneration commit * constants: foreground-dispatch note in current-state terms at normal volume (s03 M8) Keeps every constraint (explicit run_in_background: false, Agent tool only, never inline or as a Skill, fallback only after a dispatched subagent fails) and the reason (fresh-context isolation); drops 'no longer', BACKGROUND/ONLY/ WRONG/FALLBACK caps. test/ship-control-flow.test.ts and run-in-background-guidance.test.ts check the placeholder and the explicit flag, not this prose. expected red until the regeneration commit * tasks-section: inline the effort ratios for every phase (s03 M9) The non-CEO/Eng branch said 'Effort uses the AI-compression table from CLAUDE.md', but at runtime CLAUDE.md is the user's project file; the table exists only in gstack's own repo. Every phase now renders the inline ratios the CEO/Eng branch already used. No test pins the removed text. expected red until the regeneration commit * hosts, utility: model-neutral Claude co-author trailer (s03 M10, s11 M10) The Claude host trailer and the resolver fallback (cursor, kiro, opencode, slate) signed commits as 'Claude Opus 4.7' whatever model ran. Both now read 'Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>' so the trailer cannot go stale at the next model release (the s11 report offered this neutral form; s03 M10's hunk uses it). document-release's release body renders the same {{CO_AUTHOR_TRAILER}} and follows on regeneration. test/host-config.test.ts:589 only requires 'Claude' and stays green. Goldens move on regeneration (not committed). expected red until the regeneration commit * changelog workflow: cross-check covers user-facing changes, not every commit (s03 M11) 'Every commit must map to at least one bullet' contradicted the same block's voice rule (never mention contributor-facing details) and CLAUDE.md's entry rule (the diff vs main, not how the branch got there). Every user-facing change in the commit list must be represented; merges, version bumps and mid-branch fixes need no bullet. W7a pin: test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts:2038 no longer pins the old sentence; it checks the Cross-check step still compares against the step-2 commit list and scopes to user-facing changes (case-insensitive), without re-pinning the new sentence. expected red until the regeneration commit * plan-ceo-review, plan-eng-review: storage paths follow the state root (s04 F2, s04 F3) The CEO storage policy and the eng write policy named ~/.gstack/projects/ and ~/.gstack/analytics/, while the writers (tasks-section.ts, testing.ts, spec-review.ts) use $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT. When the state root is relocated the prose pointed at the wrong directory. W7a pin: test/plan-review-cases.test.ts:852 pinned the stale path; it now checks the discovery path is under $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT and that the hardcoded ~/.gstack/projects/{slug}/ is gone. expected red until the regeneration commit * plan-ceo-review: remove the handoff-note reader and cleanup for files nothing writes (s04 F6, s04 F7) CEO handoff notes (*-ceo-handoff-*.md) have not been written since v0.11.5.1; no template, resolver or bin script produces them. The reader cost a bash call on every CEO run, depended on $SLUG/$BRANCH from another shell, and looked under $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT where pre-state-root notes never lived. W7a pin: test/skill-ceo-section-ordering.test.ts:320 sliced up to the removed '## Handoff Note Cleanup' heading; it now slices to the next heading ('## Review Log') with the same assertions. Note: the ceo-mode-option / ceo-mode-prerequisite PTY cases fail under the image's Bun 1.3.14 with or without this change and pass under Bun 1.4.0. expected red until the regeneration commit * plan reviews: replace context-pressure triage with the full-completion rule (s04 F1; manual merge of s05 M2) plan-ceo-review, plan-design-review and plan-devex-review ranked sections 'under context pressure' ending in 'Everything else', which licensed dropping sections their own anti-skip rules require. plan-eng-review already replaced the same block with 'Complete every required stage ... do not preemptively warn'. All three now use that rule and name what may never be shortened (design: Step 0, Step 0.5 mockups unless the user opted out, Passes 1-7; devex: Step 0 with persona/empathy/benchmark/magical moment/TTHW, Passes 1-8). s04 F1 noted the same block in the s05 files; the design copy is a manual merge of s05 M2 (drops 'non-negotiable', which contradicted the user's explicit 'skip mockups' opt-out). No test pins the removed text. expected red until the regeneration commit * plan-ceo-review: shared-code guidance matches the eng review (s04 F4, s04 F5) 'DRY: flag repetition aggressively' and 'DRY violations. Be aggressive.' contradicted plan-eng-review's newer rule (require common behavior and improved reliability or net savings; similar-looking code alone is insufficient), so the two reviews gave the same plan opposite advice. Both CEO lines now follow the eng rule; Section 5 keeps the file:line citation. No test pins the removed text. expected red until the regeneration commit * plan reviews: normal-volume rules; eng sections report every finding (s04 F8, s04 F10, s04 F11) - F8: eng 'at most 8 findings' per section conflicted with 'never condense or skip' and left a 9th high-confidence finding nowhere to go; report every main-report finding, most severe first (confidence calibration still suppresses low-confidence ones). - F10: drop 'It is not optional.' (the anti-skip rule already covers Section 2). - F11: 'ALWAYS a smell' -> 'a smell'. No test pins the removed text. Two eng PTY cases fail under Bun 1.3.14 and pass under Bun 1.4.0 (CI pin). expected red until the regeneration commit * plan reviews: '## CRITICAL RULE — How to ask questions' -> '## How to ask questions' (s04 F9, s05 L3) The bodies are plain procedure; the caps label added nothing and competed with the CRITICAL GAP output label. Applied in plan-ceo-review, plan-design-review and plan-devex-review sections (s05 L3 promoted by the plan). W7a: test/devex-finding-fixture.test.ts:83-84 now finds the section by a heading regex ending in 'How to ask questions'; the skill-e2e-plan-ceo-plan-mode failure diagnosis names the new heading. Judge anchors NOT changed here (builder E moves them to structural anchors): skill-ceo-section-ordering.test.ts (old :938), workflow-excerpt.test.ts:109,296, skill-llm-eval.test.ts:638, workflow-judge-input.test.ts:366,373; the mirror in touchfiles.test.ts:219 also uses '## CRITICAL RULE'. These stay red until E's anchor commit lands. expected red until the regeneration commit * autoplan: phase drivers match the loaded review skills (s05 H1, s05 H2, s05 H3, s05 H4, s05 H5, s05 M5) - H1/H2: the skip list names the current headings ('Step 0: Detect platform and base branch', 'Design Outside Voices (independent)'); the old names never matched, risking a duplicate base-branch detection or outside-voice pass. - H3: the DX journey map is the 6-stage table from Step 0F, not 9 stages. - H4: the DX checklist names Step 0 'DX Investigation' and scores only after the evidence exists, as plan-devex-review requires. - H5 (manual merge): the eng test-plan artifact uses the eng skill's {user}-{branch}-eng-review-test-plan-{datetime}.md name under $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT/projects/$SLUG (consistent with s04 F3). - M5: the Decision Audit Trail separator has 7 columns to match its header. No test pins the removed text. Three autoplan PTY cases fail under Bun 1.3.14 and pass under Bun 1.4.0. expected red until the regeneration commit * plan-design-review: scope gate runs Step 0 before mockups (W5.4, s05 H6) The scope gate said 'audit → mockups → Step 0' while the body runs Step 0 (0A-0D) first and 0D announces 'I'll generate visual mockups next'. Per the W5.4 decision, the three gate phrases now read audit → Step 0 → Step 0.5 mockups. 'Reply with A, B, or C' is unchanged. W7a pins: - test/plan-scope-selection.test.ts:616 pinned the old order sentence; it now checks the order of the 'After resolution:' steps (preamble, base branch, audit, Step 0, mockups). Negative control: the old order turns it red. - test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts:4737 normalizer strips the design-only 'Then run the pre-review audit, ... against that plan.' sentence by pattern. expected red until the regeneration commit * plan-design-review: mockup default and retrospective at normal volume (s05 M1, s05 M3, s05 M4) - M1: 'YOUR PRIMARY TOOL' / 'The rule is simple ... Don't ask permission ... Mockups ARE the plan' -> generate mockups without asking when the plan has UI and the designer is available, with the reason; skip only under the Step 0.5 conditions (which include the user's opt-out). - M3: 'be MORE aggressive' on previously flagged areas -> check whether the earlier issue recurs or was only partly fixed and say so. - M4: drop the unverifiable 'Tier 2+ (15+ RPM)' rate-tier aside; keep the one-at-a-time rule and the /design-shotgun pointer. (s05 M2 landed with s04 F1.) No test pins the removed text; the remaining failing case is the plan-scope-selection PTY case that fails under Bun 1.3.14 and passes under Bun 1.4.0. expected red until the regeneration commit * plan-devex-review: DX TRIAGE keeps every pass and reports blockers only (W5.5, s05 H7) The Mode Quick Reference let TRIAGE skip the benchmark, the magical moment and passes 2/4-8, contradicting the anti-skip rule, the 0C target gate and the 'executed all 8 DX passes' self-check. Per the W5.5 decision the TRIAGE cells now read 'Target only' / 'Verify exists' / 'All 8, blockers only', matching the Rating Method's 'flag adoption blockers; skip nice-to-haves'. No test pins the removed cells. expected red until the regeneration commit * ship, review, land-and-deploy, landing-report: fix stale cross-references (s06 H1, s06 H2, s06 H3, s06 H4, s06 H5, s06 H8, s06 M6) - H1: TODOS-format cites /ship Step 14, not 5.5. - H2: the land readiness review is the checklist /ship applies in Step 9 (there is no Step 3.5). - H3: the Apple adapter names the no-credential-talk rule by location instead of 'line 14' (it renders at line 16). - H4: greptile triage diffs against origin/<base> from the caller's detected base, not origin/main. - H5: the land Important Rules recap matches the steps (4-minute CI rounds in Step 3; 30 seconds for merge readback and deploy status). - H8: landing-report calls the util once per bump level (four), and drops the unsupported 'cached by bun' claim. - M6: landing-report says what its base detection does instead of claiming it matches other skills. No test pins the removed text. expected red until the regeneration commit * fix(land-and-deploy): readiness gate uses the project's test command and the live eval store (s06 H6, s06 H7) - H6 (manual merge): TEST_COMMAND comes from CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md; if neither documents one, ask the user instead of defaulting to 'bun test' (wrong for non-Bun projects and a bare suite run in gstack). The audit hunk's 'persist the answer to CLAUDE.md' write is not adopted: it adds a write the readiness gate never had. - H7: E2E and judge results are searched in the eval store the collector writes (~/.gstack/projects/<slug>/evals/ and its shards/*/ directories), then the legacy ~/.gstack-dev/evals/ fallback; the gate no longer reports 'no E2E tests run today' when results exist. test/state-root-ratchet.allowlist.json: allowlist the EVAL_DIR line with its reason (test/helpers/eval-store.ts writes under os.homedir()/.gstack, so the reader must use the same path, not $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT). Parity cap (test/helpers/carve-guards.ts): land-and-deploy maxSizeRatio 1.10 -> 1.108 (measured 1.1076 at the branch tip, including the W7f marker). expected red until the regeneration commit * ship: Step 9 Pass 1 defers to the checklist's critical categories (W5.3, s06 H9) /ship restated the checklist's Pass 1 as two of its five CRITICAL categories (missing Race Conditions, Shell Injection, Enum Completeness). Per the W5.3 decision it now names 'the checklist's Pass 1 categories', matching /review. No test pins the removed text. expected red until the regeneration commit * land-and-deploy: host-neutral post-merge branch example (s06 M5) The squash-merge cleanup example created 'codex/post-merge-pr-N' branches on every host. The example is now 'post-merge/pr-N', naming Codex Desktop's codex/ prefix as the host-specific case and keeping the detached-HEAD reason and the no-force-push rule. No test pins the removed text. expected red until the regeneration commit * ship: drop issue/incident IDs and the 'continue silently' suppressor (s06 M2, s06 M3, s06 M4, s06 M7) - M2/M3: '(#1946)' and '(#1079)' removed from the credential guard and REST fallback headings; the rules are unchanged. - M4: the audit-failure fallback states the reason (a skipped audit lets unverified plan items ship as done) instead of 'the failure shape that VAS-449 surfaced'. - M7: 'Continue silently — just note the counts briefly' -> report the pass counts in one line and continue to Step 6 (Step 16 cites these counts). Not changed: s06 M1, the Step 16 IRON LAW (UC2 gate keeps its wording). W7a pin: test/ship-plan-completion-invariants.test.ts:127 pinned the VAS-449 sentence; it now checks that the audit-failure fallback still forbids a silent fail-open (case-insensitive). Negative control: deleting that sentence turns it red. expected red until the regeneration commit * test: anchor plan-design excerpts on the question-procedure heading, not '## CRITICAL RULE' (W7a judge-anchor move; workflow-excerpt.test.ts:109,296) The end marker now accepts a RegExp. ASK_QUESTIONS_HEADING matches the heading with or without its 'CRITICAL RULE — ' prefix, so the excerpt is byte-identical on the current templates and survives the s04 F9 / s05 L3 rename. * test: plan-design judge-input case anchors on the question-procedure heading (W7a judge-anchor move; workflow-judge-input.test.ts:366,373) * test: plan-design workflow judge ends its slice at the question-procedure heading (W7a judge-anchor move; skill-llm-eval.test.ts:638) Judge input is byte-identical on the current templates; judge prompts and schemas are unchanged. * test: CEO governing-stage order anchors on the question-procedure heading (W7a judge-anchor move; skill-ceo-section-ordering.test.ts:938) * test: dedicated-tools overlay gates on correct output plus 20% fewer Bash calls (Eng W7 overlay predicate; replaces overlay-nudges.ts:213 taskCorrect) Every ON trial must pass the fixture's verify (already a valid-measurement requirement) and lowerIsBetter20Pct must hold; when the OFF median is 0, every ON trial must also be 0. assessOverlayArms enforces both through a new fixture.gate. Overlay contract bumps to v3 so v2 records are never reinterpreted. overlay-measurement gains rows for correct+worse (fails), 20%+incorrect (fails) and the zero baseline (passes only at 0). The prose comment follows the s01 M1 claude.md wording. * test: document-release E2E stops coaching the rules it measures (W7b; UC2 gate eval for NEVER CLOBBER / NEVER BUMP) Drops the IMPORTANT block at skill-e2e-workflow.test.ts:76-83, including 'auto-approve everything' and the CHANGELOG/VERSION instructions; keeps only the environment facts (non-interactive, no remote). Asserts the outcome: the original CHANGELOG entries remain, VERSION still reads 1.1.1, no commit after the fixture head touches VERSION, and README mentions Feature C. * test: routing E2E uses the routing instruction gstack ships (W7b routing fixture; skill-routing-e2e.test.ts:113) readShippedSkillRouting() parses the '## Skill routing' section from the routing-injection heredoc in bin/gstack-skill-start at test time. The journey fixture now carries that instruction instead of 'ALWAYS invoke … FIRST action. Do NOT answer directly', and still withholds the per-skill rule list so a regressed description can fail. bin/gstack-skill-start and the helper join the journey, context-skills and skillify touchfiles. A free check catches heredoc drift. Runs on unchanged templates set the new baseline. * test: context-skills E2E routes with the shipped ## Skill routing section (W7b routing fixture) Replaces the shouted 'ALWAYS invoke it … FIRST action' fixture and its hand-written context-save/restore rules with the section gstack appends to CLAUDE.md, which already routes save/resume to those skills. * test: skillify E2E stops scripting the skill and routes with the shipped section (W7b skillify prompt + routing fixture; W7d skillify narration ban) - CLAUDE.md fixture: the shipped ## Skill routing section replaces 'ALWAYS invoke it via the Skill tool as your FIRST action' and its hand-written rules. - scrape-match-path: prompt is 'Run /scrape latest hacker news stories'; the 'You MUST follow … 1. Run skill list … Do NOT enter the prototype phase' script is gone. Asserts the outcome: the bundled skill ran, no goto prototyping, no new skill or skillify staging written. Listing is logged. - scrape-prototype-path: drops the five-step script and the self-fulfilling 'Suggest /skillify'; keeps the user's JSON shape request. - skillify-provenance-refusal: prompt no longer dictates the refusal. - Narration grader moves to helpers/skill-body-narration.ts: line-start 'I '/'I'll '/'Let me ' plus mid-sentence 'let me <verb>', so 'let me know' is legal. Stored known-good/known-bad bodies show it still rejects every known-bad case the old /Let me /i ban caught. * test: land-and-deploy E2Es state environment facts instead of scripting the skill (W7b deploy prompts) The workflow, first-run and review-gate prompts drop the 'IMPORTANT … simulate: 1. Detect … 2. Infer … 3. Note …' scripts and the answers they supplied (platform, app, URL, merge method, 'Eng Review should be NOT RUN'). They keep the facts the fixture cannot provide (no remote, no PR, gh/fly unavailable, gstack-review-read output, report directory). Assertions now check the outcome: the artifacts name Fly and test-app, and the readiness report records the missing review. Canary, benchmark and setup-deploy prompts are unchanged. * test: ship triage asserts each failure's in-branch/pre-existing label (W7b ship triage) The old check passed if the words 'in-branch', 'pre-existing', 'math' and 'string' appeared anywhere in the final message, in any pairing. The prompt now asks for a closing JSON map; helpers/ship-triage-labels.ts reads it (or unambiguous per-failure lines) and the test requires truncate/string -> in-branch and divide/math -> pre-existing, plus a Bash call that ran the suite. Stored outputs show swapped, words-only and one-label runs fail. Drops the untyped recordE2E extras (typecheck baseline shrinks by one). * test: design-review-fix asserts a fixed design issue, not only the Aside ritual (W7b design-review-fix) Keeps the engine-routing checks (Aside driven, retired binary unused) and adds the outcome: design-audit.md exists, names a seeded defect, and index.html or style.css differs from the initial fixture commit. The style(design) commit prefix is not required. This case still cannot gate the design-review stop-condition rewrite (it self-skips without Aside and caps fixes in its prompt), per the Eng item. * test: CEO HOLD preservation grader checks the decision, not its phrasing (W7d CEO mode-routing regex judge, ceo-mode-option.ts:410-440) Drops the exact 'Keep <x> in scope' / 'Defer <x> to TODOS' labels, the 'D<n> — Keep … in scope, or defer' title, the '<plan>.md lists' phrase and the 2-of-5 keyword quota. Keeps the evidence bindings (native answer, session, timestamps, source read, mode context, later withdrawal) and now requires: one keep option and one defer option, the answer selects keep, a word of the kept label names a listed plan requirement, no expansion language, and an ELI10 + Stakes rationale of at least 20 words (so a bare mode label still fails). Stored captures: both retained known-good runs pass; every existing known-bad mutation still fails; four rewordings the old grader rejected now pass; three new known-bad cases fail. The Net/Note single-brief checks (t02 #3) are unchanged: the 'second sentence after Net' row adds scope ('Also add shared views'), so it stays a known-bad. * test: docsync observer accepts harmless read wrappers (W7d docsync observer) docsCommandAllowed now unwraps, on read-only commands only (pwd, ls, cat, stat, sha256sum, Git reads): a leading 'cd <fixture repo> &&', '2>/dev/null', a trailing '|| true', '--no-pager', '-C <fixture repo>' and '-c' with core.pager=cat / core.quotepath / color.* settings. Lifecycle and script calls stay literal so their failures cannot be suppressed. Writes, other repos, --git-dir/--work-tree, config that can execute code, real composition and redirects stay rejected. Stored commands (fixtures/docsync-observer-commands.json): 11 known-good read forms, which the old observer rejected, now pass; all 17 known-bad forms still fail under the new and old observers. docsync-command-grammar moves its three harmless rows to an accept test and keeps unsafe variants of them as rejects. * test: AUQ matrix fails only on the format fields software reads (W7d AUQ matrix emoji check) auqMachineFormatProblems() fails a first-question run when the Recommendation: line is missing or empty, or when the brief does not label exactly one option (recommended); recommendation substance >= 4 is unchanged. ELI10, Pros / cons, ✅/❌ and Net: are still scored and logged but no longer fail a paid case. scoreAuqFormat and the consistency suite are unchanged. Stored briefs: three known-good (including one without emoji or Net) pass; four known-bad (no or empty Recommendation, zero or two (recommended)) fail. * test: coverage audit grades a closing tested/untested summary before the diagram grammar (W7d coverage-audit-evidence) The diagram grammar grew through four waves of capture patches to accept correct-but-different diagrams. The E2E prompt now asks for one closing JSON line {"tested": [...], "untested": [...]}; coverageAuditVerdict passes the outcome when processPayment is only in tested and refundPayment only in untested (last summary wins; quoted or example summaries ignored). The legacy grammar stays as a fallback, so every stored capture keeps its verdict (all existing rows unchanged). Read evidence and capture success are still required. Stored summaries: three known-good (which the old grader rejected) pass; seven known-bad fail. * test: disabled outside-plan grader reads the run's own coverage self-report (W7d disabled-plan-review-evidence) The false-completion oracle kept being patched to tell historical review-log mentions from current claims. The E2E prompt now asks for a closing JSON line {"outside_review_this_run": ...}. When present, the coverage claim is that report ('completed' fails) plus any undenied 'both reviewers agree'; 'disabled' also satisfies attribution. Runs without it keep the existing prose oracle, so all stored captures and mutation rows keep their verdicts. Dispatch, CLI execution, preflight and persisted-disabled checks are unchanged. Stored outputs: three known-good pass (the old grader rejected the table form); four known-bad fail. * test: investigate boundary grader checks the verified fix, not one Edit and one verify (W7d investigate exactly-one ritual) Completion now needs at least one allowed Edit, the correction in place, at least one verifier run whose final status is 0, and no edit after the final verification. The ending-error case still requires a single verifier run (status 69), because that fixture's error tells the actor to stop without retrying. Ownership acquisition/release checks are unchanged. New free protocol controls: a passing re-verification passes (the old grader failed it); a failing final re-verification and a retry after the ending error both fail, as they did before. * test: CEO split-overflow call floor is two, the minimum for five options at four per call (W7d split-overflow 4-call floor) The regression is a candidate silently dropped to fit the four-option cap. The scope validator already requires an offered Include/Defer/Cut disposition for all five candidates; the extra N-1 call floor failed agents that batch compatible candidates, which the test header calls legitimate. FLOOR now comes from CEO_SPLIT_CALL_FLOOR = 2. Stored shapes (ceo-split-floor.test.ts): five sequential, 2-call and 3-call batches pass; a dropped candidate fails with 'missing target decisions'. The registration controls keep their verdicts; the 3-call plan_ready scenario still fails, now on missing decisions. * test: shared-libs PR coverage checks the stated page budget, not per-PR ceilings from one run (W7d shared-libs per-endpoint page caps) prCoverageRequestViolations keeps the skill's stated older-open-PR budget (five metadata pages, fifty file-list pages plus recent PR 7) and the coverage outcome (PR 42's file list read from page 1 through page 2). It drops the PR 42 three/four-page and single-first-page ceilings, which were tuned to one observed capture with a truncated first view. The judge criteria are unchanged. Stored endpoint lists: three known-good (including a re-read first page the old ceilings rejected) pass; four known-bad plus an over-budget file-list run fail. incompleteFirstFileView is no longer used by the paid case. * test: test-value review accepts any caller search, not only the literal 'git grep' (W7d literal git grep in test-value) recordsNonTestCallerSearch keeps the value-card contract (non_test_callers recorded) and accepts git grep, rg, grep or the Grep tool as the search. Severity checks and the golden exclusion are unchanged. Stored evidence: four known-good (three the old check rejected) pass; three known-bad (no search, no caller count, prose only) fail. * test: plan-format accepts any statement that kind-differentiated options are not comparable on coverage (W7d 'options differ in kind' phrase) The outcome, no fabricated Completeness: N/10, stays asserted. The required note now matches any brief wording of the same fact (KIND_NOTE_RE in helpers/plan-format-kind-note.ts). The format-compliance suite that pins the declared kind-note string is unchanged. Stored lines: four known-good pass, three known-bad (a completeness score, a recommendation, 'kind to the user') fail. * test: plan-mode smokes check the targeted plan, not the scope-gate announcement, and reject plan-file ## Decisions (W7d exact scope-gate line; W7g plan-mode ## Decisions) - Seeded eng/design plan-mode cases keep 'no scope menu' and replace the exact 'Scope gate: plan mode — auto-selected B' requirement with seededPlanTargeted(): the announcement or native seeded-plan selection, or seed-only plan names appearing in the review output after the slash command (trackTokens). The announcement is logged. - The AskUserQuestion format forbids writing a decision to the plan file as a substitute for asking. assertNoPlanFileDecisions() fails any plan_ready run whose plan carries ## Decisions (eng, design, devex, office-hours auto-mode). The AUQ-blocked cases (eng seeded, devex, office-hours) now require outcome 'asked' (AskUserQuestion variant or prose fallback). - plan-mode-evidence registration controls keep their verdicts; the missing-decisions control now fails on 'without a question'. - plan-mode-targeting.test.ts stores known-good (announcement; paraphrase plus seed content) and known-bad (neither; an untracked token) observations and plan files with and without ## Decisions. * test: plan-design judge selection check anchors on the question-procedure heading (W7a judge-anchor move; touchfiles.test.ts:219) Same structural anchor as the other judge-anchor moves; selects the same text on the current templates and after the '## How to ask questions' rename. * test: CEO plan-mode failure message names the current rule, not the '## CRITICAL RULE' heading (t13 F20) * test: browse reference judge gates on its stated floors; the baseline comparison is recorded, not a ratchet (W7d browse judge baseline ratchet; t08 F7) expect(regressions).toEqual([]) compared a noisy three-sample mean against eval-baselines.json (clarity 4), silently raising the stated clarity floor of 3. The comparison stays in judge_reasoning; pass and assertions use BROWSE_JUDGE_FLOORS (clarity 3, completeness 4, actionability 4). Judge prompt and schema are unchanged. Stored panel means: three known-good (two the ratchet rejected) pass; three below-floor panels fail. * test: eval-kinds drops the exact 22 behavior / 25 judge census (W7d exact count in eval-kinds; t12 F6) The kind contract is already asserted: every live case has one kind, kinds are rule/behavior/judge, every LLM judge is judge-kind, every behavior case has a literal registration and a BEHAVIOR_WHY, and the named contract-shaped cases stay rule. The census count only broke on adding or retiring a case. * test: plan-eng artifact case binds to the hermetic state root and requires the artifact; report case drops its shouted requirement (W7g plan-artifact fixture binding; W7g skill-e2e-plan.test.ts:479,720) - plan-eng-review-artifact: actor, observer and cleanup use one isolated GSTACK_HOME (the hermetic run's, or a seeded temporary one when hermetic mode is off) and the slug gstack-slug resolves for the fixture, instead of os.homedir()/.gstack/projects/test-project. A guard refuses a state root under the real home, and cleanup removes only the fixture's project directory. The 'IMPORTANT … you MUST write the test-plan artifact' line is replaced by the environment fact (state root and slug). The soft warning becomes an assertion: exactly one new *eng-review-test-plan-*.md about the reviewed dashboard change. - plan-review-report: removes 'CRITICAL REQUIREMENT … MOST IMPORTANT deliverable' and the restated report contract; keeps 'plan.md is the plan file'. The existing assertions (report present, last, rows, unresolved status) now measure the skill's own report prose. * test: session-runner-tools checks harness prompt properties, not a byte-for-byte copy (W7e session-runner-tools.test.ts:544; t09 F7, F8) The ship capture prompt test asserts its purpose (no CEO-only writing guidance) plus the functional rules: one allowed skill path, AskUserQuestion unavailable, the section Read rule, no git/gh/mutation, and the REPORT.md path. The two 'MUST actually Read' pins match the Read rule case-insensitively. Negative control: dropping the no-mutation rule from the harness prompt turns the test red. * test: section-capture native tools checks harness prompt properties, not a copied golden (W7e section-capture-native-tools.test.ts:467; t04 F4) Asserts the absolute skill path is the only SKILL.md named, the scenario, AskUserQuestion unavailable, the section Read rule (case-insensitive, also at :308), no git/gh/mutation, and the REPORT.md path. argv/tool-list checks are unchanged. Negative control: dropping the no-mutation rule turns it red. * test: office-hours review-preservation judge test keeps its schema and untrusted-data checks, not its wording (W7e office-hours-completion.test.ts:416-429; t09 F10) Drops 13 phrase pins on the judge prompt. Kept: both inputs carried as JSON, the response schema (wire format), and the separate untrusted-DATA test. The validator behavior tests already use stub judges. Negative control: changing the schema string in the prompt builder turns the test red. * test: docsync lifecycle interface drops pins on its own helper prompt (W7e docsync-lifecycle-interface.test.ts; t02 #17) docsNativeInterface is the test helper's own prompt, so its sentence pins only checked that the helper says what it says. Kept: owned skill path, the two extracted lifecycle commands (exact), the scripts-list interpolation, the repo path and Git read examples, and every docsCommandAllowed / docsToolFailures behavior check that enforces the interface. * test: shared-libs revalidation prompt keeps its machine-shaped checks, not ~69 phrase pins (W7e shared-libs-revalidation-prompt; t11 #3, #8; t05 F17) reviewRevalidationPrompt and reviewPrompt are test-owned harness prompts (non-test callers: 0); the paid shared-libs E2Es measure whether they work. Kept: the three exact receipt commands, base-prompt prefix and resumed suffix identity, branch selection (actor / default / resumed coverage), the state path and turn-budget interpolations, read-record-before-diff and first-response-before-start ordering, no embedded token, no supplied Skip answer, reusable:true before reusable:false, the captured R59 stage boundaries in the exclusion list, asset roots and interfaces, and the stale step-6 reference ban. The review template's Step 4.7/4.8 completion rule is matched by step number on one line, not by sentence. Negative control: reordering the diff-read instruction turns the test red. * test: plan-design SDK fixture pins its harness prompt once, by ordered properties (W7e plan-design-sdk-fixture.test.ts:91-120; t01 F13) The prompt was pinned three ways (sha256, ~20 sentences, an order check). Kept: the skill and lazy-section paths, the plan path, the ordered read -> review -> edit -> Write -> read-back -> summary steps, and the no-browsing rule (case-insensitive). Dropped the hash and sentence pins. Negative control: removing the read-back step turns it red. * docs: overlay benchmark contract v3 (dedicated-tools gate = correct output + 20% fewer Bash) * test: dedicated-tools overlay case pinned to claude-opus-5-5 (E2) * chore: regenerate SKILL.md, goldens and context-budget fixture for the Opus 5.5 prompt cleanup * document-release: CHANGELOG-preservation and VERSION-ask rules at normal volume (s10 M4, M5; UC2, eval-gated) * chore: regenerate document-release * Revert "test: dedicated-tools overlay case pinned to claude-opus-5-5 (E2)" This reverts commit 737bf478d9. * test: memory-pipeline E2E seeds transcript consent (W4 consent-first default) * test: plan-review-report free check follows the de-coached prompt (W7g) * test(W7h): drop issue-number pins in land-and-deploy-postfail, match guards case-insensitively W7h (t09 F12, F13). One test file. Removed assertion groups: - `cli/cli#3442` / `cli/cli#13380` pins (t09 F12). Invariant: none of its own (upstream archaeology; the IDs stay in the template, only the pin goes). The behavior they decorated, "after any non-zero `gh pr merge` exit, query authoritative state before retrying", is now a kept free meaning check. - `Universal invariant` label pin. Invariant: query-before-retry. Remaining protection: the new case-insensitive check `/non-zero exit from `gh pr merge`, query authoritative PR state before retrying/i` (stronger: the mutation that inverts the rule now goes red; the old test stayed green). Loosened to case-insensitive meaning checks (kept, W7 keep list, data-loss and destructive-op guards): STOP worktree cleanup without removing, no `--force`, primary working tree never removed, CLOSED -> stop, never replay a merge after MERGED, one direct fallback, no fallback from a direct attempt, the OPEN/no-auto/no-queue fallback precondition, branch-absent vs check-failed messages. Gate-tier E2E also covering the flow: land-and-deploy-workflow (gate), judge `land-and-deploy/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane). Cosmetic pins dropped (no control needed): capitals on STOP / Do NOT. Mutation log: .context/mutation-land-and-deploy-postfail.md (12 mutations, 0 unexpected: reorder, field delete and 7 safety deletes red; 3 rewordings green). * test(W7c): ship-apple-gate matches its gates on meaning, not capitals W7c (t06 #19). One test file. Removed assertion groups: - "A genuine blocker may require a safety or named documentation-risk decision" and "routine interactions and blocking decisions above" sentence pins. Invariant: routine release authorization never waives a blocking safety/docs decision. Remaining protection: kept free meaning check `/stop for that decision rather than treating release authorization as a waiver/i` plus `/named documentation-risk exception before distribution/i`. - Full-sentence "in `read-only` mode against the selected release source". Invariant: the docs preflight is read-only. Remaining protection: kept free check on "`read-only` mode". Loosened (case-insensitive, kept): apply-only-to-repository-landing scope line, CLASSIFY-before-credentials (credential boundary), never abort a store release over branch topology (demonstrated failure), two routine interactions (numeric limit), stop-for-decision (consent/stop line). Kept unchanged: manifest trigger routing, Apple read before the branch gate, byte-exact branch gate appearing once, docs preflight before the authorization moment, fastlane/iris/appPriceSchedules command anchors, stale-wording bans. No gate-tier E2E covers the Apple adapter, so every invariant keeps a free check here. Cosmetic pins dropped: capitals on ONLY / CLASSIFY / STOP. Mutation log: .context/mutation-ship-apple-gate.md (14 mutations, 0 unexpected: 2 reorders, 1 marker and 6 safety mutations red; 5 rewordings green). * test(W7c): ship-reentry-gates keeps stop/consent meaning, drops sentence pins W7c (t08 F3). One test file. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - "Retain queued fixes and restore coverage" -> a missing reviewer keeps queued fixes: gate E2E ship-skipped-queued-finding (gate) and judge `ship/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane); the stop itself stays a free check. - qa decline print line ("Test bootstrap previously declined — skipping.") -> qa skips bootstrap after a saved decline: kept free meaning check `/BOOTSTRAP_DECLINED ... skip the rest of bootstrap/i`. - "with the user's free-text evidence" -> UNVERIFIABLE items are confirmed one by one: kept free `/per-item confirmation/i` here plus the blanket-confirm check in ship-plan-completion-invariants. - Docs reentry sentences ("On reentry, reuse only ...", its duplicate, "base/ input hashes still match", "retain its actual status and scope", "Otherwise use Blocked recovery ...") -> reentry reuses only this invocation's validated evidence: kept free checks "never reuse an audit across invocations" and "reentry never resets the count or authorizes a launch"; gate E2Es ship-docsync-stale-before, ship-docsync-stale-after, ship-docsync-recovery, ship-docsync-late-result (all gate). - "left uncommitted after Step 15" -> late commits take only remaining changes: kept free "never create an empty commit" and "preserve unrelated user files"; gate E2E ship-local-workflow (gate). Loosened to case-insensitive meaning checks (stop/consent/approval lines, always kept): STOP blocks advancement, answer each AskUserQuestion, routine authorization never waives gates, dispatched-reviewer-missing -> stop, CYCLES >= 3 -> stop, Any N -> stop as NOT DONE, resume only after verified, no second deferral, per-item confirmation, explicit Add-tests choice overrides the decline for this invocation only, framework approval, first entry launches the audit, no third attempt, unwaivable redaction/security gates. Kept unchanged: bootstrap branch order, no `rm` in the decline branch, the Step 14 -> 14.5 routing line, stale-string bans, `NEW_TITLE` field and `--title "$NEW_TITLE"`. Cosmetic pins dropped: STOP capitals, "mandatory". Mutation log: .context/mutation-ship-reentry-gates.md (17 mutations, 0 unexpected: 1 reorder, 2 marker and 9 safety mutations red; 5 rewordings green). * test(W7c): shrink ceo-workflow-clarity to structural and meaning checks W7c conversion (t05 F5-F8). Pin lines 48 -> 29 (toContain|toMatch|indexOf|includes|ordered); sentence pins collapse to one case-insensitive meaning check per invariant. Per the Eng "Retirements" item, CEO invariants count as periodic-only once plan-ceo-review-benefits retires, so every invariant below keeps a free check. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - Required/Pending/Settled status sentences (4 pins): pending work stays unapproved; only exact authority settles a choice -> kept free: label order plus /Pending: unapproved/i and /Settled: ... a recommendation does not/i. - Admin-route sentences (Skip steps 1-4, 0E/0H ownership, admin answer that requests a plan change, 0G proposals use this route, mode-change pointer): admin menus approve nothing and return locally -> kept free: Admin < Plan decision < steps 1-4 < checkpoints order, /this approves no plan changes/i, /0D returns to its caller, not to mode selection/i. - not.toContain('0D never restarts mode selection') and not.toContain('using the Step 0E mode-handoff format') (t05 F8, bans of retired phrasings): same invariants -> kept free: the positive route checks. - '**STOP for the actual answer, even for a lone option.**' exact bold pin: wait for the answer before recording -> kept free: /stop for the actual answer/i, located between step 4 and the post-answer checkpoint. - Mode-change sentences (repeat handoff record, complete newly applicable Step 0 work, resume the paused step): a mode change waits for an answer -> kept free: /pause and ask ... keep the mode until answered/i and /selecting a mode does not approve changes/i; routing table rows kept exact. - Scope-count sentences: reuse counts against limits, mode recommendation excludes unchanged reuse, neither approves -> kept free: three short case-insensitive meaning checks plus the >15 / 8-file / 2-class numbers and the route order. - Completion-fraction sentences (select answered questions, exclude unscored, Y/X definitions): fraction definition -> kept free: 10/7/3 scale, reopened choice counted once, 'Report X/Y, or `N/A` when Y is zero' (output field). - Section-gate sentences ('0D's Plan decision route through its post-answer save', 'Resolve critical risks now') and the literal Decision gate count 11 (t05 F7): one gate per section -> kept free: path order, /no path selects the mode again/i, gate count derived from '### Section N:' headings. - Section 1 opening sentences (retain mode/rationale, governing row ID): Section 1 publishes current dispositions, not a mode handoff -> kept free: **Current scope** present, the four disposition names, /not another mode handoff; do not ask or log the mode again/i. Gate-tier judge that also grades this prose: 'plan-ceo-review/SKILL.md modes'. Mutation pass (scratch worktree, generated plan-ceo-review skill): 16/16 as expected; 11 kept-step/marker/safety/numeric mutations go red, 5 rewordings of dropped sentences (and a lowered-register STOP line) stay green. Log: .context/mutation-ceo-workflow-clarity.md. * test(W7c): shrink eng-review-routing to structural and meaning checks W7c conversion (t02 #4-#10, W7a s04 F15 pin). Pin lines 88 -> 74 (toContain|toMatch|indexOf|includes|ordered); ~50 full-sentence pins become order checks, field/marker checks and short case-insensitive meaning checks. Remaining gate-tier judge for the plan-eng prose: 'plan-eng-review/SKILL.md sections' (judge input is ENG_REVIEW_EXCERPT, which the first test proves contains review-sections and Recovery routing). Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - Preparation sentences ('Follow the blocks below in order after startup', 'Confidence Calibration and Decision procedure are reference rules'): blocks run in order -> kept free: heading order check now starts at '## Review preparation'; judge 'plan-eng-review/SKILL.md sections'. - Priority/compression sentences ('Shorten only optional commentary', 'never Scope Challenge, Sections 1-4...', 'Never condense, abbreviate or skip a section'): compression cannot drop required stages -> kept free: /complete every required stage, decision gate and output/i and the 'Everything else' stale ban; judge. - Exact seven-label toEqual on Scope Challenge assessments (t02 #8): all seven checks present -> kept free: arrayContaining on the same labels plus the A/B/C heading toEqual (excerpt anchors). - 'Complete these checks before the complexity decision in B': A runs before B -> kept free: heading order A < B < C. - Below-threshold / findings sentences (numbered step full sentences): C always runs, findings approve nothing -> kept free: step-number order, /fewer than 8 files AND fewer than 2 new classes/i, /run C whether B was completed or skipped/i, /approve no remedies/i, '"No issues found"'. - '... STOP before Section 1' exact caps (t02 #4): high complexity halts -> kept free: /at 8\+ files or 2\+ new classes\/services, stop before section 1/i. - High-complexity sentences ('With no proposed cuts...', 'Both retain the same approved feature list...', 'Initial scope selectors need no grid...'): cuts and structure asked separately -> kept free: step order with short anchors, 'Pending remedies not decided here: <ids>' field; judge. - Smaller-arrangement sentences ('offer confirmation of the original arrangement or a pause', 'then return to this structure selector'): a pause authorizes no cut -> kept free: order + /do not continue to C until it is settled/i + /investigate only the agreed question/i. - Selector summary sentences ('post-answer scope summary, not a remedy's pending ledger record', 'Do not invent a pre-answer record afterward', 'Scope Challenge B also uses its own selectors'): answers saved before applying -> kept free: field template order, /a failed save or read blocks advancement/i, '**not persisted**', /these selections approve no engineering remedy/i. - Decision-procedure Read-choreography anchors ('use Read to fetch the entire saved record', 'Read the entire resolution block, including State') and the bold '**STOP until the actual answer arrives.**' anchor (t02 #5/#6, s04 F18): ask once, wait, record before the next choice -> kept free: Compare < Pending-record checkpoint < Send once < AskUserQuestion call < Record < next choice, /stop until the actual answer arrives/i located between Send and Record, /do not apply a remedy ... while the choice awaits an answer/i, /approves no implementation/i; AUQ completeness and kind-note strings kept exact (plan-tune reads them). - 'An Investigate/Defer option must bound the investigation', 'Apply the preamble's Completeness scores or kind-note accordingly': judge only (gate). - Research/outside-voice sentences ('If Aside is unavailable, use host WebSearch', 'Record the actual coverage...'): unavailable research is recorded, not hidden -> kept free: exact 'Search unavailable' output string, 'Outside voice: recorded provider, completed / unavailable / disabled / skipped (reason)' field, /only completed reviews enter cross-model tension/i, TODO < Approval readiness < Required outputs order. - Recovery sentences: kept as /i meaning checks (ExitPlanMode/telemetry wait, do not resend, stop before dependent output, no chat-only success, skip forbidden writes); 'If no recovery is specified or it fails' full sentence -> kept free: 'follow **Blocked outcome**' routing; OUTCOME=error kept. - Late-change sentences ('Refresh affected tests, tasks, dependencies and parallelization', 'Unchanged saved outputs may reuse their successful Review Log'): rerun affected outputs before navigation -> kept free: order of return/Decision procedure/Approval readiness/Required outputs/navigation and the stale-evidence Blocked outcome route; judge. - Final sequence anchor 'Run Learning hooks, including gated Brain Calibration Write-Back; then return to the entrypoint's Section self-check' -> kept free: 'Section self-check' as the last ordered anchor. - Coverage-audit sentences ('For each existing or proposed component in the selected target', 'the selected target. For each existing or proposed feature', 'dedicated tool call before drawing the diagram' (s06 L9 choreography)): plan diagrams cover proposed paths, ship covers changed code -> kept free: /existing or proposed (component|function\/method)/, /future paths remain proposals/i, the four 'Every ...' obligations, /no skipping regression coverage/i, ship has no 'existing or proposed'; gate E2E plan-eng-coverage-audit. - Brain write-back ordered prose list ('reserved default-off gate', 'this runtime does not set it', 'not an instruction to write now', t02 #9 / W7a s04 F15): no gbrain write without the default-off gate and trust policy -> kept free: 'Skip unless `BRAIN_CALIBRATION_WRITEBACK` is set' precedes both write tools, eng prefix says /skip this section/i and /do not enable it or infer permission/i, trust-policy key, /if unknown, skip/i, no env interpolation, other skills carry no eng-only skip prefix. Mutation pass (scratch worktree; plan-eng-review templates and scripts/resolvers/gbrain.ts): 21/21 as expected; 14 reorder/marker/stop/ approval/consent/numeric mutations go red, 7 rewordings of dropped sentences and lowered-register STOP lines stay green. Log: .context/mutation-eng-review-routing.md. * test: fold the harness-freeze fixture tests into the tests that own their helpers (test-of-test ratchet) Seven new files imported only test code; their stored known-good/known-bad rows move unchanged into the owning tests: - auq-matrix-format-gate -> auq-native-capture.test.ts - browse-judge-floors -> workflow-judge-cache.test.ts - ceo-split-floor -> plan-review-cases.test.ts (one block appended at the end) - plan-mode-targeting -> plan-mode-evidence.test.ts - shared-libs-pr-coverage-budget -> shared-libs-fixture.test.ts - skill-body-narration -> skill-fixture.test.ts - test-value-seam-evidence -> test-value-bar.test.ts plan-format-kind-note and ship-triage-labels have no other owner, so each now checks its grader against the production source it grades: the kind note generateAskUserFormat prescribes, and the in-branch / pre-existing labels in ship/sections/tests.md.tmpl. No BASELINE entries added. * test(W7c): ship-plan-completion-invariants keeps tokens and gates, drops prose W7c (t06 #9, #10, #11; #7/#8 already landed with W7a). One test file. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - Execution-only extraction sentences ("implementation and test-creation requirements", "retain its command, expected outcome and source verbatim", "not EXTERNAL-STATE merely because ...", "Keep genuine external-state ...") -> execution-only checks route to Step 8.1/9 outside counts and are never DONE statically: kept free checks `Step 8.1/9`, outside implementation counts, `never DONE from static inspection`, do-not-waive; gate E2E ship-exploratory-plan-checks (gate). - Plan-verification prep sentences (~17: "Clarify unknown outcomes", browser vs functional items, "An API URL is not automatically a page", "Only browser evidence needs screenshots", smoke-budget and command-limit sentences, risk acceptance wording) -> plan checks are collected now, executed by the Step 9.2.1 owner before Fix-First, and never silently waived: kept free checks on the heading list, `Collect now; execute in Step 9`, `Step 8.2`, `Handoff to Step 9.2.1` order, `before Fix-First`, never silently waive, noninteractive -> blocked, the `VERIFY_RESULT=` line and `## Verification Results`; gate E2Es ship-exploratory-plan-checks, ship-exploratory-small-cli (gate). - Parent-processing duplicates on the generated section (same pins as the template test) -> kept on the template test; the generated copy keeps section order + seven-field anchor; freshness via gen-skill-docs. - "Check the task's terminal status", "recording the reason in the PR body and Step 20 metrics" -> failed audits use the fallback: kept free LAST-line JSON -> audit-failure fallback check and `(recommended/default)` marker. - Step 16 evidence sentences ("Independently prove ...", "exact command, exit, timestamp and log", "This recovery also applies ... stage 5") -> storage failure is not stale input: kept free table-row structure, storage column must not rerun `gstack-evidence run`, STALE/MISSING without proof, ledger unavailable never FRESH; judge `ship/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane). - "Each commit must work independently" -> bisectable commits: kept `bisectable commits`, `continue to Step 16`, no empty commit, history- rewrite bans; judge `ship/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane). Loosened to case-insensitive meaning checks (kept): per-item confirmation, blanket-confirm ban, classified DONE/NOT DONE by `[ -f` (MUST dropped), stop publication on new/changed/unwaived test failure + `Run Steps 5–15`, waiver reuse limited to verified pre-existing failures, fetch/push failure -> stop, never rewrite history, only a successful push, stop live child before inline audit, never race a late result, AskUserQuestion on second failure. Kept unchanged: seven-field JSON contract parse, review-mode negatives, CONTENT-SHAPE/validator tokens, Step 14 deferral routing, CHANGELOG negatives, the executed push-idempotency shell test. Cosmetic: MUST / mandatory / Do NOT capitals; "VAS-449" dropped from the describe title. Mutation log: .context/mutation-ship-plan-completion-invariants.md (19 mutations, 0 unexpected: 3 reorders, 4 markers, 7 safety red; 5 rewordings green). * test(W7c): shrink eng-scope-entry-ap to structural and meaning checks W7c conversion (t05 F1-F4; W7a s04 F15/F18 pins). Pin lines 97 -> 69 (toContain|toMatch|indexOf|includes|ordered). The AskUserQuestion-format byte-equivalence test (t05 Kept) is unchanged. eng scope-gate E2Es are periodic (plan-eng-review-plan-mode), so every scope-gate invariant keeps a free check; duplicates of eng-review-routing cite that file. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - 'Reply with A, B, or C. STOP and wait' order anchors (t05 F1): menu before bootstrap -> kept free: the consumed prefix 'Reply with A, B, or C' (pty/classify.ts, pty/judge.ts) before {{PREAMBLE}}, {{GBRAIN_CONTEXT_LOAD}} and the first ```bash; new presence checks for the announcement and menu after '## Scope gate' (an indexOf of -1 used to pass the order check). - Preamble 'starting from the Scope gate...' exact pin: kept as /i meaning. - Scope entry sentences ('Before discovery tools or preamble, check provided messages...', 'Do not probe for session state', 'When no exception above applied:', 'Announce an auto-selected plan in one line...', 'A fresh announcement made before skill loading...', 'Step 0 below still verifies or sends the public auto-selection line...') (t05 F4): target bound before bootstrap and announced -> kept free: announcement/menu-before-bootstrap order checks above, /first tool call = AskUserQuestion/i, /clarify ambiguous, conflicting, quoted or stale targets/i; periodic E2E plan-eng-review-plan-mode. - Startup step sentences ('3. Check web-research readiness at ...', '4. Run **Design Doc Check**, then ...', 'Keep the reviewed target fixed', 'Continue at ...'): startup order -> kept free: ordered startup anchors (now including Prerequisite Skill Offer), '**Engineering review → Step 0**' pointer, the stale-path ban; 'Keep the reviewed target fixed' stays pinned (/i) in eng-review-routing.test.ts. - Entry anchors 'Before Step 0, require resolved scope' and '**Complexity gate:** while a Scope Challenge complexity question' -> shortened anchors 'require resolved scope' and '**Complexity gate:**', same order check. - Plan-selection exception sentences and 'If the tool is unavailable, disallowed (`--disallowedTools`) ... send the menu as plain prose and STOP' (t05 F4): pasted text is not a mode signal; ambiguity and named targets ask; unavailable tool stops -> kept as /i meaning checks for each (safety and consent lines); A/B/C menu body kept exact (consumed by the PTY classifier). - 'Reply with A, B, or C. STOP and wait for the answer.' exact: kept as the exact prefix plus /reply with A, B, or C\. stop and wait for the answer/i. - Judge-bundle sentences ('format/transport rules apply throughout', 'Follow the blocks below in order after startup', 'It may be the selected plan or a separate file', 'Save permitted auxiliary artifacts under the write policy'): ordering and write permission -> kept free: stage order, write-policy table rows exact, /permission for one path authorizes no other/i, /defer ... telemetry and plan status footer to finish/i, forbidden-log Blocked outcome route (/i), section Read paths, log exit-code tails. - Complexity-path duplicates of eng-review-routing (t05 F2: 'Complete these checks before...', 'After verification, apply only accepted scope changes', 'Run C whether B...', 'Always ask the structure question...', post-answer summary/Read-back sentences, 'A failed save or Read blocks advancement', 'Findings and scope answers approve no remedies', 'Continue to Section 1 only when...', 'Send one question object for one choice', 'Compare every native field...', 'Repair any difference and repeat the complete Read before asking', 'Read the selected saved label...', 'Check the save result, then Read the entire resolution block', '**STOP until the actual answer arrives.**', the Paused question / Blocked outcome lines): the same invariants -> kept free in eng-review-routing.test.ts (order of Send/AskUserQuestion/Record, /stop until the actual answer arrives/i, failed save blocks, approve-no-remedies, Paused/Blocked recovery checks) and auq-format-always-loaded.test.ts (one question object per choice); here: A/B/C stage order and the 8-file / 2-class thresholds (/i, no caps STOP literal), Recovery routing pointer for unreadable records. The Read-back choreography is the dated text s04 F18 flags; judge 'plan-eng-review/SKILL.md sections' (gate) grades the procedure. - Calibration note exact sentences and the one-line formatting pin (t05 F3, W7a s04 F15): no shipped source enables BRAIN_CALIBRATION_WRITEBACK -> kept free: {{BRAIN_WRITE_BACK}} once after {{LEARNINGS_LOG}}, /never set it yourself/i, and a new code check that no file in bin/, lib/ or scripts/ assigns or exports BRAIN_CALIBRATION_WRITEBACK (only the gbrain resolver names it). Mutation pass (scratch worktree; plan-eng-review templates, generated plan-eng-review skill, bin/gstack-config): 21/21 as expected; 14 reorder/marker/table/stop/safety/consent/code/numeric mutations go red, 7 rewordings and lowered-register lines stay green. Log: .context/mutation-eng-scope-entry-ap.md. * test: type the model-routing table; point skillify comment at skill-fixture.test.ts * test(W7c): skill-validation matches three capital-letter pins on meaning W7c (t08 F2, F4, F5). One test file; only these three pins change. Removed assertion groups: none. Loosened, invariant kept as a free case-insensitive meaning check: - `MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE` (codex skeleton) -> one codex mode per invocation: `/mutually exclusive/i` (t08 F4). - `skip the Codex passes ONLY` (review adversarial) -> `codex_reviews=disabled` skips only the Codex passes, Claude adversarial still runs: `/disabled[^\n]*skip the Codex passes only/i` (t08 F5). - `If any in-branch failures remain unfixed, **STOP**. Do not proceed` (ship tests section) -> unfixed in-branch failures block advancement: `/in-branch failures remain unfixed ... stop ... do not proceed/i` (t08 F2). Also covered by gate E2E ship-triage (gate). Cosmetic pins dropped: capitals and bold only. Mutation log: .context/mutation-skill-validation.md (6 mutations, 0 unexpected: 3 rule deletions red; 3 lower-case rewordings green). * test(W7c): drop coverage-audit checklist tool-call prose pins W7c conversion (t05 F11; unblocks s06 L9). Pin lines 17 -> 14. Removed assertion group (invariant -> remaining protection): - review/specialists/testing.md prose pins 'If the caller explicitly asks for an ASCII coverage diagram', 'dedicated tool call' and /Read diffs, package files, configs, or other context in separate tool calls\./ (tool-use choreography): the agent reads the named source and test files before drawing the diagram -> kept free: the same test still extracts the checklist's example diagram and requires coverageAuditVerdict to accept it (sourceRead/testsRead/diagram/passed), plus the kept [OK]/[GAP] row and legend pins; gate-tier E2Es review-coverage-audit, plan-eng-coverage-audit and ship-coverage-audit (E2E_TIERS: gate) grade the reads from transcript evidence with the same oracle. Mutation pass (scratch worktree, review/specialists/testing.md): 6/6 as expected; reordered diagram rows, deleted legend, deleted [OK] marker and a removed text fence go red; two rewordings of the dropped tool-call sentences stay green. Log: .context/mutation-coverage-audit.md. * test(W7c): loosen auq-format-always-loaded per-skill rule pins W7c conversion (t01 F10-F12; W7c list item auq-format-always-loaded:61-72). The MANDATORY format list (machine-read Recommendation:/(recommended) and the AUQ format labels, W7 keep list) is unchanged. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - plan-ceo-review /Do NOT batch/i (t01 F10): one decision per question -> kept free: /One decision unit = one AskUserQuestion call/i in the same rule list. - plan-eng-review full-sentence regexes 'Send `AskUserQuestion({ questions: [currentDecision] })` only after the pending-record checkpoint passes. Send one question object for one choice; other IDs wait' and 'If you discover another independent choice, separate it and rebuild this comparison before saving or sending the question' (t01 F11): one question object per independent choice survives the carve -> kept free: /one\s+question object for one choice/i and /independently selectable changes separate IDs/i; the checkpoint-before-send order stays pinned in eng-review-routing.test.ts. - codex /Synthesis recommendation \(REQUIRED\)/i (t01 F12, caps marker): codex keeps its synthesis rule always loaded -> kept free: /Synthesis recommendation/i and the machine format /Recommendation\s*:\s*<action>\s* because/i. Mutation pass (scratch worktree, generated SKILL.md and sections): 8/8 as expected; removing Recommendation: <action> because, the synthesis rule, or the CEO/eng/design decision-unit rules goes red; dropping (REQUIRED) and rewording the two dropped eng sentences stays green. Log: .context/mutation-auq-format-always-loaded.md. * test(W7c): qa-probe-gates keeps loop order, bounds and the CI-proven Read gate W7c (t07 F3, F4, F5). One test file. This file stays the single owner of shared QA loop ordering (qa-functional-prompt defers to it). Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - `> **STOP.** Before any probe ...` prefix pin (t07 F3, retire) -> parent QA loads methods before any probe: kept free meaning check on "before any probe, including plan checks, complete the ordered scope/method Reads" and its order before the required-checks step. - Preparation prose in the stage list ("in full and select the surfaces", "2. Read the selected surface methods below in full", "Write a **charter**", "Start once before baseline:") -> stage order scope -> methods -> charter -> deadline start -> loop: kept as structural anchors (section Reads, surface labels, `## 1. Charter and preflight`, `bun G start D SECONDS`, step 1 title); added a reorder control moving a method Read after the charter. - Bounds/layout sentences ("an unlimited mode uses the caller's bound", "announce finite command timeouts", "EARLIER_UTC = caller's absolute deadline, if set", "in the probe directory, beside its deadline if bounded", duplicate SECONDS pins in the mode-bounds test, "charters as Markdown in the report", the full "observed: its exact decoded child JSON ..." sentence) -> numeric bounds and field names are kept free checks; the observed-field shape is enforced by the native checkpoint validator (qa-functional-prompt validator tests, free) and gate E2Es qa-functional-cli-report, qa-functional-webhook-report (gate). - Publication prose ("No drafts/placeholders", "and replay limits in the report", "An absolute state path is not itself a secret", "If capture is incomplete, report that limit instead of reconstructing it") -> notes are immutable and unsafe values withheld: kept free checks on "corrections cannot repair published notes", never invent a substitute, withhold secrets/unsafe values and stop the chain; validator-backed in qa-functional-prompt; gate E2Es review-exploratory-small-cli, ship-exploratory-small-cli (gate). - Loop-step prose ("Guard if bounded; await completion", "Run that exact probe; G enforces ..." duplicate, "then minimize via those gates", "Expiry leaves confirmation/minimization incomplete", "for each affected revalidation", "If bounded, run", "Reuse Step 4's ... completed Reads", "Finish missing methods before charters") -> loop has 5 steps, guarded by G, replays via steps 2–3, revalidation returns to step 2: kept free checks on step count, `G enforces the deadline`, `bun G status D`, `via steps 2–3`, `return to step 2`, refusals as not-run, do not repeat completed Reads. - CI-fixture clause "description, section index or remembered method is not a completed instruction Read" -> covered by the kept CI-proven clauses (`## 0. Preparation gate`, await each Read, complete missing Reads before Charter) and gate E2E ship-exploratory-small-cli (gate; the CI case). Kept (meaning checks, case-insensitive where prose): CI-proven "await their results before the first probe" rule (comment + mutation kept), Reads in order, no repeated Reads, SECONDS=30/900, shorter mode/caller limit, no D without a total limit, finite timeouts, REPORT_DIR layout and caller paths win, plan checks after smoke with no smoke guard and no clock reset, caller cap, not-run on expiry, await clock results, never reset D/bypass G, invalid/missing D stops probes, expiry -> write the report, Step 4 read-only, isolation/permission preflight before setup, field names, QA_DEADLINE receipts, all semantic-flip mutation controls, method/report resource paths, helper commands. Cosmetic pins dropped: STOP / AND capitals, bold STOP prefix. Mutation log: .context/mutation-qa-probe-gates.md (22 mutations, 0 unexpected: 3 reorders, 4 markers, 8 safety red; 7 rewordings green). * test(W7c): shrink autoplan-phase-order to structural and meaning checks W7c conversion (t06 #13; W7c list item 'Eng runs LAST, always', 'ONLY/FINAL'). Pin lines 203 -> 166. autoplan has only periodic E2Es (autoplan-dual-voice, autoplan-journal-drift: E2E_TIERS periodic), so every invariant keeps one free check: sentence pins collapse to short /i meaning checks; commands, CLI signatures, placeholders, tool parameters, report fields, packet outputs (code-generated) and stale-string bans stay exact. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - 'Eng runs LAST, always' (caps sentence): Eng is the terminal phase -> kept free: /CEO → Design.*→ DX.*→ Eng/s, heading order 1 < 2 < 2.5 < 3 and the 'CEO → Design → Eng → DX' ban. - Final-gate sentences ('...Use Decision Classification; ask once at Final Approval Gate, never mid-run', 'Queue clearly-wrong/challenged premises', 'The user decides there; never stop mid-pipeline'): premises queue for the single final gate -> kept free: /never auto-decide user challenges/i, /ask once at final approval gate, never mid-run/i, 'as User Challenges for Phase 4', /never stop mid-pipeline/i, the two old-gate bans. - Generated setup sentences ('Resolve this phase', 'Run all applicable skills and lazy sections fully', 'log successful ranges/total to EOF'): phases load at their own boundary -> kept free: /never prefetch future phases/i, /missing skill: report phase and setup repair/i, per-phase methodology CLI and Read-before-create order, no in-full-now Reads. - Intake load sentence ("Resolve this phase's source to absolute `<REVIEW_SKILL>`; load via its checkpoint") -> kept free: `<REVIEW_SKILL>` token and /never prefetch future phases/i; section load keeps `readRanges`/EOF/skip-listed checks. - Native dispatch sentences ("ONLY/FINAL tool call", 'Keep native Reads enabled', 'all criteria + plan', 'if its schema exposes it', 'Claude Code: end response immediately', 'Other hosts await that ID', "Then outside → this phase's review ONLY", 'No inline substitute; apply failure policy'): the native review blocks and completes before outside review -> kept free: native < outside order, run_in_background: false, isAsync: true, /final tool call/i, /end response immediately/i, /no further tool calls\/review until/i, `nativePromptPath` to EOF, INPUT-hash match, /retry invalid input once/i, /no inline substitute/i, 720000ms timeout, provenance placeholder, N/A and CONFIRMED status tokens, /primary cannot replace/i. - Sequential Execution sentences (Keep ONE phase active, compaction reload, 'reconcile saved artifacts and sent conversation messages separately', 'Publication is a separate operation', 'an earlier Read is not this close', "Then continue to the next phase's tool calls in the same turn", 'record verbatim into fenced history', 'retaining its original source SHA', 'compaction resumes the existing invocation', the full LOG/amend-input sentence): one phase at a time, publish before advancing -> kept free: /keep one phase active/i, /never draft future-phase reviews/i, compaction reload (/i), two ordered chains (load < snapshot < dispatch < consume < remaining sections; phase-close < parent message < driver advance < after Eng), skip/resume/step 6 (Publish) routes, open-gate, uptake, pending, never-skip and raw-transcript lines (/i), rerun fields `baselineEdits.record`/`sourceSha256`, `amend-input`. - Amendment-binding sentences ('load the shared close steps afresh, even if read earlier', 'Keep this checkpoint for this invocation; review exports do not replace it') -> kept free: checkpoint field per phase, `methodologyPath`, /afresh/i, /review exports do not replace it/i. - Shared-close sentences (~20: completion prerequisites, readRanges Read choreography, 'A Read of only the edited tail does not satisfy...', 'If a result is truncated...', 'If a Read fails...', 'regenerate the packet...', 'Retention checks prove bytes; counts, hashes...', 'Review history stays in Review record', 'Taste remains provisional', 'Apply the phase's failure policy...'): read the whole packet, verify, then publish -> kept free: the seven-step order, terminal-results/INPUT/pending/no-credit/User Challenges/None/fixed-checkpoint lines (/i), prepare-close CLI, `readRanges` with exact `offset` and `limit`, /through EOF/i, no advance without a result, step-3 return, verification compare/recheck/keep-open, stale ban, generated copy contains the template. - Publication sentences ('After sending the actual parent report', 'using actual findings and voice statuses', "The sent conversation message is step 6's output", 'This message is the next operation...', the duplicated driver pins) -> kept free: publish < report < return order, /send the filled report ... visible parent assistant text/i, /before any next-phase tool call/i, both-voices rule, same-turn/driver-alone/no-continue-wait/skip lines (/i), Bash-is-not-publication (/i), stale ban. - Report-format sentences ("the actual host's reviewer names", 'Include the DX metrics line only when ...', "Resolve `report.next` using the driver's applicable scope/skip rules") -> kept free: every report field line, `report.includeDxMetrics`, `report.next`, and the code-generated packet checks. - Intake/DX-scope/call-site sentences ('without losing requirements', 'Use returned paths/`scope`', 'false and neither semantic trigger applies', 'checks exact retention', the 'for both voices' tail) -> kept free: ACTIVE_PLAN field, save-to-ACTIVE_PLAN, conversation approval, backup-exactly, stop on helper error, `## Review record` (all /i where prose), init/scope/create/ prepare-close CLIs, `dxRequired`, 2+ threshold, enabling flags, no-negation rule, snapshot/verbatim dispatch/outside-inline lines, stale path bans. Mutation pass (scratch worktree; autoplan template, sections and generated phase-close): 23/23 as expected; 16 reorder/old-order/tool-param/placeholder/ numeric/consent/stop/safety mutations go red, 7 rewordings and lowered caps (ONLY/FINAL, Keep ONE phase) stay green. Log: .context/mutation-autoplan-phase-order.md. * test(W7c): qa-functional-prompt keeps the verifier contract, drops driver prose W7c (t07 F6, F7, F8). One test file. The eval prompt itself is unchanged. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - ~40 driver-prompt sentence pins in the disclosure, artifact and fix-budget tests ("All four reads are required before probing ...", "command is the exact full outer capture invocation, including ...", "different later command", "not the required same-command replay", "Only the helper writes observed fields", "Link the evidence and checkpoint files ...", "Evidence rows contain ONLY complete JSON ...", "aim under 400 words", "one causal sentence per checkpoint hypothesis ...", "a reproduced in-tier defect requires ...", duplicates of "retain its headings ..." etc.) -> the run produces verifiable evidence and a linked report: free validator tests in this file (qaFunctionalVerdict replay, validateQACheckpoints on CI, R29 and R85 captures) and gate E2Es qa-functional-cli-report, qa-functional-webhook-report, qa-functional-cli-fix, qa-functional-webhook-fix (gate). Kept the machine-read contract: read list, `"command":"<exact full outer capture invocation>"`, `annotations.learning`, the three copied field names, the >20-character limit, evidence.json before report.md. - `maxTurns: 40` / `completionReserveMs: timeout / 4` exact source pins -> replaced by a `maxTurns >= 40` floor and presence of `completionReserveMs`. - Fix-stage provenance sentences ("most recent completed native probe", "Tests, source edits and clock reads ...", "write no checkpoint when there is no next probe") -> test output never becomes `observed`: kept one free meaning check plus the R29 validator test (free). - Duplicate loop-order checks on qa-only/sections/exploratory.md and grep of `scripts/resolvers/qa.ts` source (t07 F6, F8) -> loop ordering has one owner, qa-probe-gates (free, every host). Here the source grep becomes a check on `generateQAExploratory` output (one probe per native command, never batch probes), and the caller test keeps resource paths, field names and structural stage anchors. Loosened to case-insensitive meaning checks (kept): never synthesize JSON, never shorten native JSON, existing tests read-only, freeze tests after red, repair scope `src/<family>.ts`, green suite does not replace native probes, report incomplete honestly, report-only proposes test stubs, completion reserve does not end coverage, all eight scenarios required, never backfill notes, owned probe directory, only complete emitted JSON, wrapper/entrypoint boundary lines. Kept unchanged: paid-case selection, CI/R29/R85 validator replays, actor boundary and command allowlist, fix-stage order, verification probe list, scenario lists. Cosmetic pins dropped: ONLY / NOT / Never capitals. Mutation log: .context/mutation-qa-functional-prompt.md (19 mutations, 0 unexpected: 3 reorders, 4 markers, 7 safety red; 5 rewordings green). * test(W7c): match plan-scope-selection scope-gate stop lines case-insensitively W7c conversion, scope-gate caps pins only (t06 #14). The scope classifiers (nativeSeededPlanSelection, isScopeGateAutoSelectVisible, isScopeGateQuestionVisible), the consumed announcement and A/B/C menu bytes, and every non-caps assertion are unchanged. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - 'Reply with A, B, or C. STOP and wait' order anchors (design, template and every host expansion): menu precedes bootstrap -> kept free: the consumed prefix 'Reply with A, B, or C' (pty/classify.ts, pty/judge.ts), now also required to exist after '## Scope gate' so a missing menu cannot pass the order check with indexOf -1. - 'call AskUserQuestion FIRST and wait.', 'does NOT count as the mode signal', 'If the user explicitly named a DIFFERENT target' (design and eng), 'STOP and wait for the answer — only after the user picks', 'STOP and wait for the answer' (toContain and indexOf before the first ```bash on every host): ask first, pasted text is not a mode signal, explicit targets win, stop until answered -> kept free: the same rules as case-insensitive meaning checks, including the per-host ordering (search /stop and wait for the answer/i before the first ```bash, with a presence check). Mutation pass (scratch worktree; plan-design-review and plan-eng-review templates): 12/12 as expected; gate-after-preamble, removed design menu prefix, removed stop lines (design, eng), removed mode-signal, ask-first and explicit-target rules go red; lowering STOP/FIRST/NOT/DIFFERENT stays green. The eng menu prefix is not pinned here (eng-scope-entry-ap.test.ts M1 covers it). Log: .context/mutation-plan-scope-selection.md. * test(W7c): match document-release spawned-dispatch contract on meaning W7c conversion (t04 F3; W7a run-in-background-guidance.test.ts:472,474, named by the Eng W7c gate as anti-injection and VERSION invariants that stay as case-insensitive meaning checks). The run_in_background flag pins, structural scanner and inverted-phrasing ban are unchanged. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - 'NEVER trigger it on their own' (caps literal): prompt/file/tool claims do not enable spawned mode (anti-injection) -> kept free: /claims never trigger it on their own/i in the generated skill and template. - 'The NEVER-do invariants below do' (short form of a wrapped sentence that names the caps headings s10 rewrites): spawned auto-pick still never rewrites CHANGELOG or changes VERSION -> kept free: /skip any recommendation that rewrites CHANGELOG or changes VERSION/i (whitespace-normalized) in both files; gate E2E document-release. - 'A spawned run must never change VERSION': same rule, now /i. Mutation pass (scratch worktree; document-release skill, template and release-body section, ship/sections/documentation.md): 7/7 as expected; deleting the anti-injection clause, the CHANGELOG/VERSION carve-out, the spawned VERSION line, the run_in_background flag or the dispatch heading goes red; lowering NEVER and rewording 'NEVER-do invariants' stays green. Log: .context/mutation-run-in-background-guidance.md. * test(W7c): match retro clock rule case-insensitively, drop proximity regex W7c conversion (t02 #11, #12). Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - /NEVER from `date`/ (caps): today comes from the session reminder, not the system clock -> kept free: /session reminder/ and /never from `date`/i. - /(?:disclosure[\s\S]{0,200}narrative|narrative[\s\S]{0,200}disclosure)/ (200-char word-proximity window): offline/local-only runs disclose that the window is not freshness-verified -> kept free: the exact disclosure string 'offline run, window not freshness-verified' (it reaches the retro output), RETRO_REF disclosure and the GUARD_* script checks; gate judge 'retro/SKILL.md instructions'. Mutation pass (scratch worktree, retro/SKILL.md.tmpl): 4/4 as expected; allowing `date` or deleting the disclosure string goes red; lowering NEVER and rewording the narrative clause stays green. Log: .context/mutation-regression-1624-retro-stale-base.md. * test(W7c): match redact scan-at-sink exact-bytes rule case-insensitively W7c conversion (t02 #13). Credential-handling checks (mktemp, --from-file, exit codes 3/2/0, visibility lookups, no HIGH skip flag) are unchanged. Removed assertion group (invariant -> remaining protection): - /EXACT bytes/ (caps): scan the exact bytes that will be sent -> kept free: /exact bytes/i in the same test, next to the mktemp and --from-file checks. Mutation pass (scratch worktree, scripts/resolvers/redact-doc.ts): 3/3 as expected; scanning a summary instead of the exact bytes or dropping the Exit 3 (HIGH) branch goes red; lowering EXACT stays green. Log: .context/mutation-redact-doc-resolver.md. * test(W7c): check the codex boundary on meaning and its path list W7c conversion (t02 #14, W7a host-config.test.ts:565). The boundaryInstruction bytes sent to Codex are unchanged; only the test loosens. Removed assertion group (invariant -> remaining protection): - toContain('Do NOT read') (caps fragment): Codex must not read or execute Claude skill definitions -> kept free: /do not read or execute any files under/i plus each excluded path ('~/.claude/', '~/.agents/', '.claude/skills/', 'agents/'), which is the actual contract. Mutation pass (scratch worktree, hosts/codex.ts): 3/3 as expected; replacing the prohibition or dropping an excluded path goes red; lowering IMPORTANT/NOT stays green. Log: .context/mutation-host-config.md. * test(W7c): shrink skill-ceo-section-ordering to structural and meaning checks W7c conversion of test/skill-ceo-section-ordering.test.ts: t06 #1-#6, t05 F5 (cross-reference: the remaining bold-STOP pins), t13 F3 / W7.md CRITICAL RULE anchor. #1 (ASK_QUESTIONS_HEADING anchor) was already on the base branch; #5 now slices the blocked chat return to the next "\n## " heading, so removing or renaming `## Review Log` cannot widen or break the window. Pins (grep -cE 'toContain|toMatch|indexOf|includes'): 647 -> 388 lines; toContain( 535 -> 136; expect() calls per run 1657 -> 1399. The carve block, section-capture fixtures and validateCeoReviewCompletion tests are unchanged (t06 keep list) except two exact-duplicate 0D pins. CEO invariants count as periodic-only (plan-ceo-review-benefits retires), so every invariant below keeps a free structural or case-insensitive check. Gate-tier judge that also grades this prose: 'plan-ceo-review/SKILL.md modes'. New helpers: ordered() (exact labels/headings/placeholders/table cells as strings, meaning anchors as /i RegExp) and between() (fails loudly on a missing end anchor instead of silently running to EOF). Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - t06 #2 / t05 F5: '**STOP for the actual answer, even for a lone option.**' (x6 exact pins + 3 split/indexOf anchors) and '**STOP for the answer**' (x3): wait for the actual answer before recording -> kept free: one /stop for the actual answer/i per slice (template 0D in dispatch order between the ask-one-row check and the answer save; every generated host carrier between **4. Ask and **Post-answer checkpoint:**), /stop for the answer/i in 0E step 3 (template and generated), plus the Pre-question < 4. Ask < Post-answer checkpoint order and the 2-checkpoint count. Dispatch slices now end at **Post-answer checkpoint:**. - t06 #4 'Recommendation is ALWAYS present': recommendation label contract -> kept free: '(recommended)' and 'AUTO_DECIDE depends on it' in generated SKILL.md; exactly-one-(recommended) rule in 0D's currentDecision table. - t06 #6 and other bans of retired phrasings ('If the section has findings, you MUST call AskUserQuestion', 'Otherwise, use AskUserQuestion for each finding', 'After each section, pause and wait for feedback', 'Save pending rows before comparisons', 'using the Step 0E mode-handoff format', 'Save a chat-only plan', 'quality bonus, not a gate', 'If no file is in scope, skip this section', 'always write', 'For every question', 'for architecture choices', 'These approaches differ in coverage (...)', 'Finish with ExitPlanMode', 'Before summaries, review logs or next-step menus...', "put the complete comparison in the question's brief", 'Use this exact route:', 'citing its ID', /\blog (?:with|that ID)\b/): same invariants -> kept free: the positive checks (one **Decision gate.** per section wired to Analyze → Resolve → Apply; pending-rows-before-comparisons order; **Otherwise:** in the 0H order; report not persisted + Read-back gate; write-when-permitted incl. zero tasks; Outcome routing count 1; record-provenance-after-handoff order; literal dispatch-object comparison). 'Do NOT proceed ... 0C-bis' becomes not.toContain('0C-bis') on 0D. Short stale-token bans stay (<approved 0D approach>, reference | commitment | current value, ___ methods, retry once, telemetry has logged, NUMBER + LETTER / "3A", the Forbidden-storage regex, removed menu option, unbound placeholders). - t06 #3, magic counts: literal 11 sections / toHaveLength(7) closing steps -> kept free: section numbers 1..N derived from '## Review Sections (N sections' and checked against the ### Section headings; closing-step count derived from the 7 route labels. - Decision cycle / storage / comparison sentences (Start at step 1, run steps 2–4 only when needed, mode-change pointer, storage-policy save sentence, Copy the grid, Validate every field, Show unchanged/shared/pending repeated x4, other rows stay fixed or pending x5, never prewrite x3, Build one currentDecision x3, Ask one row per call x6, Save the answer reference x5, Keep independent changes separate x4): full decision protocol in order -> kept free: label order 1. Check < 2. Record < 3. Compare < grid < Pre-question < Read-back < 4. Ask < Post-answer (template + every host), one /i check each for pending-rows-before-comparisons, save-before-ask, amend only authorized work, failed save stops, decline-all stop, show unchanged/shared/pending, independent changes separate. Admin/plan routes also kept in ceo-workflow-clarity.test.ts. - Handoff/provenance sentences (After selection, send brief chat, Keep rows separate, logging-row repeats, Section 1 current-scope sentences): mode handoff applies before questions and logs provenance after -> kept free: /before tools or further questions/i, handoff < Other selections < provenance < selecting-a-mode order, the two exact output-format lines with <rows or none> / <Application and rationale>, auto_decided true/false fields, 'No new approach decision was needed' (quoted chat output). Section 1 dispositions -> ceo-workflow-clarity's Section 1 test. - Scope/mode-selection sentences (REDUCTION, HOLD and SELECTIVE's HOLD checks; For both expansion modes...; Skip/Defer destination repeats; present both inputs for final approval; 0E counts changed files; Count all deliverables; >15/greenfield repeats; SELECTIVE balances...): scope decisions per item with exact destinations -> kept free: prescribed menu label orders (A Add/B Defer/C Skip; A Defer/B Keep; TODO A/B/C; depth A/B), Defer -> TODOS.md + NOT in scope, Skip -> no TODO, /ask separately/i, /all four 0D steps for each unanswered addition or deferral/i, routing rows and >15 / 8-file / 2-class numbers (once each; ceo-workflow-clarity keeps the reuse-count checks), carve block's document-approval order. - TODO menu (per plan-review-calibration t04 F11 retirement, which names this file as the remaining free protection): kept free in the TODOS.md-updates slice: /only unanswered TODO proposals reach this menu/i, /do not ask again about an item already deferred, skipped or kept/i, /one per question/i. - Resolver prose (spec review, plan report, tasks emit, exit gate, codex plan review, brain cache refresh, approval readiness, design clause): each sentence pin -> one short /i check per invariant on every host (five dimensions, at most three launches, required save stops, destination-file Read/Write order, zero tasks, unknown files JSONL format, ExitPlanMode only after checks, forbidden history, outcome routing and skip routes, native fallback never outside coverage); exact strings kept only for machine/output tokens (NO UNRESOLVED DECISIONS, '- + N unresolved from prior reviews', STATUS/SOURCE/OUTSIDE_STATUS assignments, CROSS-MODEL, OUTSIDE COVERAGE, 'N findings; R resolved; U unresolved', quoted report phrases, Gate outcome: Blocked, Read-back gate). Dropped: 'If both counts are zero', 'For **Outside Review**, use ...', 'Enter after either an external reviewer...', 'identify the causal mechanism', 'A credible material risk...', "check the assembled set's capacity", 'including findings that needed only factual correction', 'show unsaved fields and errors', Strategy-only tasks sentence, verified-report-can-pass sentence -> neighbouring kept /i checks in the same slice plus the gate-tier 'plan-ceo-review/SKILL.md modes' judge. - Review-section prose (continuity requirement lists, test-review and outside rule duplicates, strategy-only diagram sentences, Review facts repeats, Stage 3 publishes it, Count a reopened choice once, Keep them before the terminal report repeats, EXIT gate verifies..., no report or log needed yet, then run telemetry as the last review operation): per-section gate and ledger continuity -> kept free: Analyze < Resolve < Apply, Resolve paths via check-scope < correct < record order, /resolve critical risks now/i, /review only; do not change code/i, ledger header + status tokens, one /i per approval/stop line; reopened-once lives in ceo-workflow-clarity; terminal order kept as cache refresh < {{BRAIN_CACHE_REFRESH}} < Telemetry < finished < Call ExitPlanMode < handoff. - Duplicate pins removed outright (same string asserted 2-6 times across tests, incl. carve-block 'Ask one row per call' and bold-STOP pins): each keeps its single remaining check named above. Cosmetic pins dropped without controls: bold/caps (**STOP**, ALWAYS, MUST), double compactProse wrappers. Mutation pass (scratch worktree; templates, generated SKILL.md and review-dashboard resolver): 39/39 as expected; 28 kept-step/marker/ placeholder/safety/consent/numeric mutations go red (incl. the three TODO-menu lines), 11 rewordings of dropped sentences, the CRITICAL RULE heading rename, re-adding the retired #6 sentence, and lowered-register STOP lines stay green. Log: .context/mutation-skill-ceo-section-ordering.md. Runtime (Bun 1.4.0, 3 runs): before 2.05/1.84/1.77 s (median 1.84), after 1.87/1.80/2.08 s (median 1.87); dominated by runGeneration and the capture subprocess fixtures. * test(W7c): shrink plan-review-cases to structural and meaning checks W7c conversion (t03 F1-F4; t02 F4/F5 duplicate STOP/threshold pins). Pins 713 -> 208 lines by the brief's grep (toContain|toMatch|indexOf|includes); prose assertions 592 -> 366 (toContain/toMatch calls plus expectAll regex rules; expect() calls per run 3232 -> 2808). Tests 218 -> 215. t03 F1 (stale ~/.gstack/projects discovery path) was already fixed by W7a on the base; its $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT check and the stale-path ban are kept. Kept byte-exact or structural: marker-order arrays (### Prepare an unanswered choice -> ### Send once and wait -> ### Record the answer, heading list equality, Pending-record checkpoint, finish steps 1-6, entrypoint recovery order, output placeholder order), the parsed write-policy table routes, the generateAntiShortcutClause host matrix, every not.toContain(stale) ban, numeric limits (8+ files / 2+ new classes, fewer than 8 / 2, under 5 words, 2-3 options, six-column / five-field / four-step), consumed tokens and field names (`scope accepted as-is`, `scope reduced per recommendation`, FULL_REVIEW/ SCOPE_REDUCED mapping, **issues_found**, SOURCE=/OUTSIDE_STATUS=/STATUS=, OUTCOME=, `BLOCKED`, `## GSTACK REVIEW REPORT`, `currentDecision`, D<N> and ROW-ID formats, prescribed A-D menus), placeholders, commands/paths and all picker behavior tests (unchanged). STOP/wait/approval/safety lines become case-insensitive meaning checks located between their headings (e.g. /stop until the actual answer arrives/i between Send once and Record the answer; /do not replace the section in place/i plus /append the new report at EOF/i). CEO invariants (periodic-only once plan-ceo-review-benefits retires) each keep one free check. Eng/Design/DX invariants keep one free check too; nothing below relies on a periodic-only E2E. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - CEO route/narrow depth (:19) full sentences: admin answers approve nothing, plan decisions run steps 1-4, settled choices go to 0E -> kept free: Admin < Plan decision order, checkpoint order, five short /i checks, stale ban. - Eng evidence paths/labels (:33) 'Prior Learnings configuration', path rule sentences -> kept free: the three path field labels, /never invent paths/i, `not available`, label tokens, stale ban. - Eng first report save (:47) 9 requirement sentences -> 5 short /i requirements with the same remove-one-must-throw self-control; parent-dir, original-plan-copy and scope-record clauses dropped (initialization invariant kept by target-header/preserve/no-findings/placement/terminal- report checks; collision suffix kept in the write-policy test). - Eng setup selectors (:79) and its duplicate in the big Eng ordering test: selectors approve no remedy -> kept free: /these selections approve no engineering remedy/i, B selectors, no pre-answer ledger, stale ban; the 'For the next choice' sentence -> kept free: transaction marker order. - Eng performance (:94) exact bullet list -> kept free: four concern keywords from the parsed bullets; Decision-procedure sentence -> kept free in the four-section test. - Eng complexity/MODE (:105) per-target counting, 'Count each once', 'Keep it current', 'Continue to Section 1' sentences -> kept free: count-selected- work, both thresholds, MODE tokens and mapping, scope-reduction meaning, 'approves no pending remedy', Continue-to-Section-1 in the C order array. - Eng three-stage transaction (:125) sentence markers -> same 13-step order array with short /i anchors and the remove-one-must-throw control. - Eng Test Plan refresh, coverage trace (:150, :162) sentences -> kept free: placeholder count/order, prepare step count, short /i checks; coverage audit also graded by plan-eng-coverage-audit (gate). - CEO fallback (:178) sentences -> kept free: host mode token matrix, status field values, /final report is written later in Required Outputs/i, ban. - Persistence per skill (:229) Eng duplicates ('If the required log is forbidden', 'Neither supplies', FULL_REVIEW mapping, 'after successful Read-back') -> kept free in the readiness, complexity and write-policy tests; CEO 'retain its diagnostic' -> kept free: /do not claim that entry was recorded/i and three other CEO log checks. - Report resolver per host (:261) duplicate 'Do not choose another destination', 'Review record and write policy', 'full review output', explicit/named/active sentences -> kept free: target precedence order; CEO writer's seven sentences -> kept free: six-anchor order ending at '4. **Read-back gate:**' plus the blocked-return check. - Generated carriers (:327) bold STOP pin -> /stop until the actual answer arrives/i in the dispatch order array. - Big Eng ordering test (:358) duplicates of the gate describe (one question object, 8+/STOP, both-retain, setup, separate instrumentation, keep chosen values, calibration<procedure<scope, Decision procedure < Architecture, outside-voice consent lines) -> kept free once each (boundary list, queue test, preparation order array now ending at ### 1. Architecture review); 'Use existing tests ... bounded probes', 'post-answer scope summary', 'Compare only the file/class arrangement', 'contracts and approved security...', 'With no proposed cuts', 'Present numbered...' sentences -> kept free: build-boundary order check, structure-question and unapproved-fixes checks, C-step order array. - Eng gate describe: exact-duplicate pins (same sentence 2-4x in one test or repeated per section inside the 4-section loop) -> one copy kept; ledger placeholder descriptions (Plan baseline/Runtime evidence/Actual answer/ Accepted scope text) -> kept free: parsed ledger field-name list, R1 header, State values, A)/B) selectors, ledger position. - Gate tests 'identifies commitments before comparing values', 'common new defaults...', 'exact prior answers authorize...', 'finding evidence, stable decision identity...' merged: every non-duplicate invariant (optional depths, shared new value needs approval, unknown risks visible, drafts grant nothing, reopened ID keeps D<N>, test scores not answer status) -> kept free as one /i check in 'current contracts...' or 'all four section gates...'; their order checks -> kept free: prepare<identify<compare<save<send<record. - Remove-old-occurrence, 'Otherwise leave the remedy pending', 'no question or comparison grid is needed', 'never the saved-report gate', 'Compare the label separately', 'When revising, replace the whole current payload', 'It may be the selected plan', 'Present each completely as not persisted', 'If none is permitted...', 'A forbidden write follows its row', 'Run Learning hooks ...', 'Refresh affected tests...', 'If startup values...', 'instead of creating another approval row', 'Keep that remedy pending' -> same invariant kept free by an adjacent check (State replace/once checks, approves-no-implementation, factual-correction, recovery routing, payload rebuild, write-policy routes, return-to-entrypoint count, late-change and blocked checks, common-work check). - Worked example anchor sentence -> anchored on the Compare section and 'Ask about jitter first:'; parsed R1/R2 table equality kept. - Outside-voice queue: dead generic branch (all three skills `continue` before it; never executed) removed -> none needed (unreachable). Eng procedure re-checks inside the queue (5 sentences) -> kept free in the gate describe. Shared CEO/Eng/DX scope-revision sentences hoisted to one shared /i block per skill; CEO 'Keep candidate scope ...' etc. -> kept free as short /i checks; prescribed A-D menus kept exact. - Design register (:1771) sentences -> kept free: grounding-before-question order and three /i checks; 'Surface real missing decisions' dropped (positive restatement of the same rule). Gate-tier coverage that also grades this prose: judges 'plan-eng-review/ SKILL.md sections', 'plan-design-review/SKILL.md passes', 'plan-ceo-review/ SKILL.md modes'; E2Es plan-eng-coverage-audit, plan-review-report, plan-devex-review-plan-mode (gate). Cosmetic pins dropped without controls: bold/caps STOP and NOT, issue-number comments unchanged. Mutation pass (scratch worktree; eng/ceo/design templates and the outside-voice, testing and review-dashboard resolvers): 33/33 as expected; 24 kept-step/marker/safety/numeric mutations go red, 6 rewordings of dropped sentences and 3 lowered-register STOP/NOT lines stay green. Log: .context/mutation-plan-review-cases.md. Runtime (bun test, Bun 1.4.0, median of 3): 0.85 s -> 0.77 s. * test(W7c): qa-caller-authority keeps authority and safety lines, drops report prose W7c (t10 F12, F13). One test file; still renders every host x caller. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - `STOP and wait` / `STOP for the answer` / `AskUserQuestion and WAIT` capitals (t10 F12) -> approval before `./setup` or install: now an order check (explicit approval < "only after approval" < `cd <SKILL_DIR> && ./setup`; OK to proceed? < setup; AskUserQuestion-and-wait < install only the actual choice), plus case-insensitive "stop for the answer". Stronger: the mutation that moves setup ahead of the approval ask now goes red (the old test stayed green). New negative control removes the approval ask. - Report-layout prose for /review and /ship (keep metadata/outcome tables, demote headings one/two levels, fields as subsections, keep scores separate, save baseline normally) -> one final linked report section: kept free checks on the `## Exploratory QA and Verification Results` / `### Browser results` / `## Exploratory QA` headings, link every checkpoint and no second report; gate E2Es review-exploratory-small-cli, ship-exploratory-small-cli (gate). - Smoke-pacing prose ("one success and the riskiest changed failure/edge", "Required even for small diffs ...", "Required: plan commands/assertions, listed separately", "Other ideas are optional, untested") and duplicate report-status pins -> kept the numeric `5 minutes/12 probes` bound and the report-clean-only-when-all-required-pass gate; gate E2Es ship-exploratory-small-cli, ship-exploratory-plan-checks (gate). - Dedup prose ("Combine saved `findings` ...", "If both history ... classify normally", "Report the suppressed count once if nonzero", "If N > 0, print once:", "Otherwise skip the summary") -> only user `skipped` findings are suppressed: kept free order check (read decisions before matching) and the `skipped` / never `fixed` / `auto-fixed` lines; gate E2E ship-skipped-queued-finding (gate). - Preparation sentence pins duplicated from qa-probe-gates (Reads in order, no repeated Reads, "in full and select the surfaces", "Write a **charter**", "charter** per behavior", "announce finite command timeouts") -> owned by qa-probe-gates (free, every host); this file keeps scope < methods < charter structural order for every caller. - Learnings prose ("Otherwise skip this optional lookup", "Reading old notes never requires writing new ones") -> report-only lookup never writes: kept free checks (directory already known, caller permits, do not run the search helper, no bash/gstack-config/AskUserQuestion, injection throw); the query interpolation stays checked via `"webhook retries"`. - Misc prose ("Re-run affected contracts and adjacent happy paths ...", "Run only for selected browser surfaces", "Confirm each issue by retrying once", "parent applies queued fixes", "No test framework detected", "Report QA setup blockers", "required QA") -> judge `qa/SKILL.md workflow` and `review/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane); the adjacent kept gates remain free. Kept as case-insensitive meaning checks (authority, consent, safety): probe- local blocker rule, report-only never bootstraps/invokes skills, unknown caller -> report-only, declined -> blocked, credentials/passwords/other tabs, local-target ownership, no unit-test/curl substitute, functional-only reads nothing browser-side, never-pass list, named-risk acceptance, noninteractive -> blocked, test_stub ASK approval, ship waiver cannot complete review, caller-required rechecks, blocked rechecks never verify repairs, no edits during Step 4.8, no inner repair loop, REVIEW_START/token-once, native pass required for 5.8, coverage-cap stop lines, report-only never commits or dispatches, CI/test-weakening ban, never delete a valid red regression. Kept unchanged: machine tokens (`bun G start D`, `$B snapshot -i`, `DIFF_START`, `CONSOLE_ERRORS=`, `$B handoff/resume`), resource paths, the `If A and allowance remains:` count, `Minimum = 60%, Target = 80%`, all `.not.toContain` stale-workflow bans, existing negative controls. Cosmetic pins dropped: STOP / WAIT / LOCAL / Never capitals. Mutation log: .context/mutation-qa-caller-authority.md (23 mutations, 0 unexpected: 3 reorders, 3 markers, 11 safety red; 6 rewordings green). * test(W7h): retire CEO TODO-menu prose pins from plan-review-calibration W7h retirement (t04 F11; W7c list). The calibration corpus and buildPlanReviewDecisionPrompt never read this CEO prose; the AUQ format tokens (consumed by plan-tune and judges) and the calibration-harness outcome tests are unchanged. Retirement card: - test: plan-review-calibration.test.ts, the six CEO TODO-menu pins ('Only unanswered TODO proposals reach this menu', 'Do not ask again about an item already deferred, skipped or kept', 'carry its actual answer and destination forward', 'Resolve each remaining proposal through all four steps of 0D, using the menu below', 'Never batch TODOs — one per question'). - detects: edits to plan-ceo-review TODO-menu prose. - non_test_callers: none (test-only reads of the template). - search_command: grep -rn "Never batch TODOs\|Only unanswered TODO" test/ - stronger_proof / replacement: skill-ceo-section-ordering.test.ts 'TODOS.md updates' slice keeps /i meaning checks for unanswered-only, no re-asking and one TODO per question (CEO invariants are periodic-only under the W7c gate, so they keep a free check); 'route through 0D' stays covered by that file's 0D route checks. - history: 636175d v1.87.6.0. - validation: bun test test/plan-review-calibration.test.ts. Controls (scratch worktree): replacing 'Never batch TODOs — one per question' or deleting 'Only unanswered TODO proposals reach this menu' turns skill-ceo-section-ordering.test.ts red (2/2); in this file, removing an AUQ format token goes red and rewording the retired TODO sentence stays green (2/2). Log: .context/mutation-plan-review-calibration.md. * test(W7h): retire spec-template-sync as a duplicate of the freshness check W7h retirement (t05 F18; Eng factual correction: the file takes 145 ms, its "2 minutes" was the 120 s timeout, so this is a duplicate-only retirement). Removes its scripts/free-test-durations.json entry. Retirement card: - test: test/spec-template-sync.test.ts (regenerate /spec into an out-dir and compare spec/SKILL.md + spec/sections/gate-and-file.md with the tracked bytes; check the generated header). - detects: /spec template edited without regeneration, or a hand-edited generated file. - non_test_callers: none. - search_command: grep -rn spec-template-sync package.json scripts test .github - stronger_proof / replacement: gen-skill-docs.test.ts 'generated files are fresh (match --dry-run)' (FRESH for every skill, no STALE anywhere; the dry-run covers carved sections such as spec/sections/gate-and-file.md); the generated-banner checks in the same file cover the header. - history: c118e24 / 410b492 / 394db32 / b1485d8 (codex T8). - validation: bun test test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts. Control (scratch worktree, run against the replacement): a stale spec/sections/gate-and-file.md, a stale spec/SKILL.md, and a spec template edit without regeneration each fail gen-skill-docs 'generated files are fresh' (3/3). Log: .context/mutation-spec-template-sync.md. * test(W7h): retire the literal 75 KB autoplan budget duplicate W7h retirement (t04 F18). test/skill-preflight-budget.test.ts asserted the same four-skill autoplan sum twice: once against AUTOPLAN_PREFLIGHT_BUDGET_BYTES * 3 (25,600 x 3 = 76,800 = 75 KiB) and once against a literal 75 * 1024, which would drift silently if the constant changed. Retirement card: - test: skill-preflight-budget.test.ts 'autoplan total under 25 KB instruction cap × 3 (75 KB instruction budget)'. - detects: the four plan-* skills' brain preflight + refresh + write-back instructions exceeding 75 KiB. - non_test_callers: none. - stronger_proof / replacement: 'autoplan: sum across 4 plan-* skills stays under AUTOPLAN_PREFLIGHT_BUDGET_BYTES × 3 (instructions)' in the same file, which reads the constant from scripts/brain-cache-spec.ts. - history: c118e24 v1.64.1.0. - validation: bun test test/skill-preflight-budget.test.ts. Controls (scratch worktree): shrinking AUTOPLAN_PREFLIGHT_BUDGET_BYTES below the current total, or growing the eng write-back instructions by 80 KB, turns the kept constant-based check red (2/2). Log: .context/mutation-skill-preflight-budget.md. * test(W7c): workflow-excerpt keeps heading order and tokens, drops judged prose W7c (t04 F5, F6, F7, F15; F1/F2 already landed with W7a). One test file. This file guards judge-input fidelity; the judges that read these excerpts grade the prose itself. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - Ship rule sentences ("Use the documented selector and pre-merge command.", "During pre-flight, read the existing review log", "Tests must pass or retain approval ...", "For another repair, repeat rule 2 ...", "The unchanged release steps follow", "Use this example only after confirming ...", "Retain queued fixes and restore coverage", "Each commit must work independently", "Keep actual outcomes and incomplete flags", the long "Continue to Step 9.2 with the core/design-lite findings ..." form, the Y'd/D'd evidence sentence) -> judge `ship/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane), which reads this exact excerpt; kept free checks on step routing (`Step 4`, `Step 8.1`, 9.2 -> 9.2.1 QA -> 9.3, `Insert Step 5, affected Steps 6–8 and all of Step 9 before the pending Step 10`, `5 → 6 → … → 11.5`, `continue to Step 16`), tokens (`BASE_VERSION`, `VERIFY_RESULT stays fail`, `"partial":N,"not_done":N`, "intentionally dropped"), and the review cycle order (9.1 < 9.2 < 9.2.1 < 9.3 < 9.4) as a structural check. - Outside-review routing sentences ("Other preflight mode, including harness mismatch", "Outside execution or output validation fails", "Retain its output and diagnosis ...", "No prompt, outside process or native replacement", "Other preflight failures retain their printed diagnosis", the full fallback-list regex) -> disabled means no outside call: kept free order of disabled/prompt/ready/fallback blocks, `outside_status` tokens, `_DISABLED_REVIEW_MODE`, disabled recheck before dispatch, "disabled means no replacement", fallback-not-completion; judges `document-release/SKILL.md workflow`, `plan-eng-review/SKILL.md sections` (gate lane). - Eng/design prose ("quote the motivating plan requirement", "Use a scoped Edit to save this record ... Leave other choices unchanged" full form, "edit the plan and re-rate") -> judge `plan-eng-review/SKILL.md sections` and `plan-design-review/SKILL.md passes` (gate lane); approval meaning checks kept. - Retro prose ("does not require saved history", "PRs referenced", "not newly added test cases", "is the live **team** streak", "draft the tweetable summary using the format in Step 14, then save") -> judge `retro/SKILL.md instructions` (gate lane); kept headings, `prs_merged: null`, `streak_days`, the one-second compare window, Capture Learnings after Step 14, no `$(date`, two `today="<today>"`. Loosened to case-insensitive meaning checks (stop/consent/approval and safety lines, always kept): STOP for each pending decision (now a regex anchor between Step 5 and the Test Plan Artifact), STOP until the actual answer arrives, no remedy/next section/ExitPlanMode while a choice awaits an answer, evidence-not-approval, reopened choices need answers, wait for approval (design), AskUserQuestion once (t04 F6), per-finding approvals, dispatched-reviewer-missing -> stop, CYCLES >= 3 -> stop with `converged:false`, no fourth cycle, required-probe gate before Step 10, failed probes block continuation, coverage-gate not bypassed, failed/unrun probes not passed, three snapshots match, document-release VERSION-absent rule, never create an empty commit, `read any other SKILL.md` (t04 F15), AskUserQuestion-and-wait in the capture prompt. Kept unchanged: heading/step order checks, `## Review Sections` single-copy check, fail-closed marker tests, redact-before-edit ordering, approval gates outside subagent prompts, plan-tune auto-decide output lines, CEO capture harness contract, deploy formula execution, all stale-string bans. Cosmetic pins dropped: STOP / ONCE / NOT / OTHER capitals. Mutation log: .context/mutation-workflow-excerpt.md (21 mutations, 0 unexpected: 3 reorders, 3 markers, 8 safety red; 7 rewordings green). * test(W7h): retire the paid first-task-scaffold E2E duplicate W7h retirement (t12 F12). Removes the case from test/helpers/touchfiles-data.ts (E2E_TOUCHFILES, E2E_TIERS periodic, E2E_KINDS rule) and both scripts/paid-test-durations.json entries; test/helpers/periodic-exclude-data.ts had no entry. e2e-tier-alignment, eval-kinds, eval-detach-timeout-floor, periodic-exclude-policy, touchfiles and paid-shards tests stay green. Retirement card: - test: test/skill-e2e-first-task-scaffold.test.ts ('first-task-scaffold', periodic, ~$0.02): Haiku is told to run exactly one detector command and the test greps the tool result for code_node / greenfield. - detects: detector bucket regressions in bin/gstack-first-task-detect. - non_test_callers: none. - search_command: grep -rn "first-task-scaffold" test scripts .github - stronger_proof / replacement: test/preamble-first-task-scaffold.test.ts (free; executes the real detector on fixture repos for every bucket, including code_node and greenfield, plus first-run gating and telemetry in bin/gstack-skill-start). The model added nothing: the prompt dictated the exact command. - history: c118e24 v1.64.1.0. - validation: bun test test/preamble-first-task-scaffold.test.ts plus the registration tests above. Control (scratch worktree, against the replacement): making the detector emit the wrong bucket for a Node project or a commit-less repo turns preamble-first-task-scaffold.test.ts red (2/2). Log: .context/mutation-first-task-scaffold.md. * test(W7c): shrink gen-skill-docs to structural and meaning checks W7c conversion of the sentence/caps pins in test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts (t01 F2-F9, F18, F19; t08 F12; t10 F4; t02 #5 duplicate STOP literal). t01 F1 ('Every commit must map to at least one bullet point') was already gone on the base. Pins (grep -cE 'toContain|toMatch|indexOf|includes') 1446 -> 1360; tests 457 -> 457. Untouched: the FRESH/STALE freshness check, the routing soft-policy negative, skill-start/end script pins, the SESSION_KIND spawned line, and the old-wording negative pins (delete-then-append, 0D/0F, gate "if applicable"). Machine markers stay byte-exact: NO UNRESOLVED DECISIONS, `**UNRESOLVED DECISIONS:**`, `Approval readiness: PASS`, `D<N> — <ROW-ID>: ...`, `## EXIT PLAN MODE GATE (BLOCKING)` anchors, `**Gate outcome: Blocked**`, helper commands/flags (gstack-office-hours-review prepare/check/finalize --design, --out-dir, --report, --unreviewed), helper stop reasons, analytics commands. Consent, stop, approval, decision-cycle and navigation lines (incl. the Eng W7c-gate lines at the old 2362-2370) are kept as short case-insensitive checks. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - qa-only 'Never fix bugs' + 'NEVER fix anything' (t01 F8): report-only skill -> kept free: /never fix/i in Additional Rules + frontmatter no Edit/Glob/Grep. - qa 'WTF' token (t08 F12): fix-loop self-check -> kept free: /every 5 fixes/i. - TEST_COVERAGE_AUDIT sharedPhrases sentences and the three Test-step sentences (t01 F4): read source before tracing/diagramming in plan and ship -> kept free: order 'concrete source and test files' < Trace data flow < Diagram the execution < Quality scoring rubric in both, star/GAP markers, the plan/diff mode split, the Test review subheading structure test; gate judges 'plan-eng-review/SKILL.md sections', 'ship/SKILL.md workflow'. - 'REGRESSION RULE' / 'IRON RULE' labels (t01 F4): regression coverage is required -> kept free: REGRESSION RULE heading, /without regression coverage, that coverage is a critical requirement/i (plan), /regression test is written immediately/i (ship), plus the existing regression-contract tests. - '**STOP for each pending decision.**' (t01 F7, retired) -> kept free: 'Wait for its answer before applying that remedy' (control C1). - F19 rule sentences: step numbers dropped; kept free /prevent duplicate bumps, pushes and PRs, never verification/i, /native result never supplies outside coverage/i, /required-probe gate, never silently waive/i, /never offer a conversion/i, /actual counts, never estimates/i (deduped 2 -> 1). - SPEC_REVIEW_LOOP (t01 F3, about 74 sentence pins): - office-hours dispatch sentences (Before EACH dispatch, parent Read does not deliver, string unchanged) -> kept free: prepare --design/--out-dir, order mktemp < prepare < round-N.prompt.md < `dispatch`, /all preceding valid round files in order/i, /read the entire prepared prompt/i. - reviewer prompt sentences -> kept free: document/verdict path and schema wiring, mode sections ('The Assignment', 'What I noticed...'), dimension order, short checks for coaching protection, no invented customer answers, minor findings included, identical JSON, classify every prior finding, open questions vs committed behavior. Dropped: 'Could an engineer implement this...' ban (positive design-and-coaching check carries it), absence-is-not- confirmation, unsupported-claims and labeling sentences -> gate E2E office-hours-spec-review; prior-status validation in office-hours-review.test.ts. - convergence evidence sentences, 'Recording concerns does not mark them fixed', Disposition, observation/attempt counting, 'unavailable score is null', 'missing or invalid verdict is ... never PASS', 'Preserve the failed output' -> office-hours-review.test.ts (convergence, finalize, invalid artifact vs --unreviewed, null quality_score) + gate E2E office-hours-spec-review; kept free: helper stop-reason order and round 3, /before fixing any findings or dispatching again/i, /on a stop, do not fix again or re-dispatch/i, /do not edit that generated section/i, finalize before /existing user approval/i, --unreviewed wiring, /do not fabricate JSON/i, /not an approval gate/i. - CEO spec-review sentences (Read Agent's tool definition, omit field, consume completed review, Keep both consistent, duplicated 'both complete labeled texts'/'all five dimensions'/'Preserve the failure'/'citing the owning input'/'## Reviewer Concerns', 'Read these documents' ban, strategy-only and narrow-decision sentences) -> CEO is periodic-only, so kept free: one short check per invariant (wait tool, no-wait resume, no advance while waiting, three launches, stop after third, stop the loop, missing score, null grade, SCORE 1-10, not persisted, mkdir/append stop, save-failure stop, ITERATIONS, FOUND/FIXED/REMAINING order, both inputs in full, partial-input refusal, summary-is-not-the-plan, 1-10 score, PASS rule, cite input) plus the existing order/count/command checks. - Design approval reconciliation (t01 F2, about 79 pins): - Pass 5 sentences and 'AskUserQuestion once per issue. Do NOT batch. Recommend + WHY.' -> kept free: /stop\W+AskUserQuestion once per issue/i located after four short reuse/new-evidence/first-decision checks; batching -> auq-format-always-loaded.test.ts PER_SKILL_RULES ('One issue = one AskUserQuestion call'). - duplicate 'Never group distinct issues.' pins (2 -> 1) and the rest of the Design gate 0 sentences -> kept free: 0 < 1 order, short checks per approval line, refresh < Read-back gate < rerun order; gate judge 'plan-design-review/SKILL.md passes'. - CEO readiness/gate/0D sentences -> kept free: one short check per approval line, readiness order, `Approval readiness: PASS`, gate order Read-only < Verify readiness < 1. Read, route order, /stop for the actual answer/i in step 4, `D<N> — <ROW-ID>` header, row fields; admin-route sentences -> ceo-workflow-clarity.test.ts kept checks. Dropped: 'No report or completion log is needed' (order check carries it), 'Save or present the updated plan', 'checked row IDs...' (marker kept), strategy-only/narrow-decision sentences (default kept), cross-model/integration sentences reduced to external-only and native-fallback checks. - Eng readiness/procedure sentences -> kept free: short approval checks, gate numbering/order, AUQ call < /stop until the actual answer arrives/i < Record the answer, recovery order; 'separate it and rebuild this comparison' -> auq-format-always-loaded.test.ts PER_SKILL_RULES. - Exit gate 'contract violation' sentence (t01 F9, design/devex/codex) -> kept free: heading anchor + /do not call ExitPlanMode/i inside the gate. - Unresolved-decisions gate (t01 F5): '(MANDATORY', 'Never omit'/'never omitted', 'FINAL non-whitespace line is the unresolved-decisions', 'FAILS the gate', 'DROP the current skill' -> kept free: NO UNRESOLVED DECISIONS, /final\s+non-whitespace\s+line/i, `**UNRESOLVED DECISIONS:**`, /missing\s+status [^.]*fails/i in every gate skill and the resolver, /avoids double-counting/i, the old soft-wording negative pin. - delete-then-append 'never mid-file' / 'Do NOT replace the section in place' (t01 F6) -> kept free: 'delete-then-append flow' + /append the new report at EOF/i; old-wording negatives kept. - design-html '**Never include by default (AI slop blacklist):**' (t01 F18) -> kept free: /AI slop blacklist/i, catalog id comment, lib/design-catalog.ts. - CODEX_BOUNDARY 'Do NOT read or execute any' casing (t10 F4) -> kept free: /do not read or execute any/i in every codex-calling skill. - CEO 0D order anchor '**STOP for the actual answer...**' (one of the 8) -> kept free: /stop for the actual answer/i at the same position. Mutation pass (scratch worktree, generated SKILL.md/sections plus spec-review.ts and lib/office-hours-review.ts; the freshness test is excluded with -t because any mutation makes it STALE): 43/43 as expected. 25 kept-step, marker, safety, numeric and retirement-control mutations go red; 18 rewordings of dropped sentences and lowered-register STOP/NEVER/FAILS lines stay green. Log: .context/mutation-gen-skill-docs.md. Runtime (Bun 1.4.0, wall, 3 runs): before 4.42/4.49/4.70s (median 4.49s), after 4.42/4.53/4.63s (median 4.53s). * test(W7c): review-workflow-clarity keeps order, tokens and gates, drops judged prose W7c (t06 #12). One test file. Each removed pin was the text fix for a past `review/SKILL.md workflow` judge finding; that judge (gate lane) still grades the prose, so the free test keeps only structure, tokens and gates. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - Plan-audit sentences ("retain the exact command ...", "A mixed item contributes to both lists", "Keep external-state ...", "If only behavioral checks remain ...", "File-existence checks ... are static audit checks") -> audited deliverables vs deferred behavioral checks: kept free checks on the separation, never DONE from a diff, zero-deliverable no-waive, UNVERIFIABLE -> Step 4.7, read-only audit (no apps/APIs/state) and inspect -before-invoke order; gate E2E review-exploratory-small-cli (gate). - QA loop/report duplicates of qa-probe-gates / qa-caller-authority (probe loop sentences, shared contracts, report layout prose, "Only the parent runs report-only discovery", "Read agent/user updates ...", "Prepare one provisional QA section", smoke composition) -> owned there (free, every host); here only `5 minutes/12 probes`, headings, link-every-checkpoint, no second report, never overwrite another run, freshness vs current inputs. - Persistence/finalization prose (~45: "final zero-edit pass, reconcile", "by structural identity", "without requiring deleted pre-extraction blocks", "raw bytes equal the bound snapshot blobs", "Keep both through re-reviews", "Earlier core tokens remain unused", "Re-read its final- snapshot supporting source ...", "Fixed advice needs no skip coverage", "The required in-host adversarial result controls native completion", "Optional outside attempts keep their own incomplete records ...", etc.) -> kept free token list (REVIEW_START/PASS_START, COMPLETED, CONVERGED, CYCLES=0 once, `review_binding`, `snapshot_covered_paths`, sharedLibsFingerprint, `completed:false`, evidence_paths/helper_target), cycle limit (at most 3, Below 3 repeat, At 3 persist `converged:false`), section order, and the integrity gates below; judge `review/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane); gate E2Es review-army-delivery-audit, review-army-json-findings, review-army-quality-score (gate). - Confidence-calibration prose (data loss/outage examples, missing field / nullable / race quoting, metaclass/ORM sentence, missing-literal sentence, learning-log sentence) -> kept the score table as a routing table (each band's action), `[CRITICAL]` / `[CRITICAL|INFORMATIONAL]`, no P0-2, `file:line`, force 4-5, never invent 7+, unverified-without-quote, gate before table; judge `review/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane). - Shared-code reuse safeguard enumeration (assume-unchanged/skip-worktree, sparse index, symlinks, submodules, Git filters, encodings, fsmonitor, textconv, provenance, binding wording) -> enforced in code and covered by free tests test/shared-libs-snapshot-check.test.ts, test/shared-libs-evidence.test.ts, test/shared-libs-checker-interface- evidence.test.ts; kept the checker command/heredoc/JSON tokens and the fail-closed lines. - Misc definitions ("A probe is affected when ...", "An invocation is this /review run ...", "Step 1.5's provisional notes ...", "Otherwise record each considered specialist", "Core findings use the confidence gates below", "highest confidence", "distinct specialists", "all source names", "active or unknown reader/writer", Greptile "Before edits, inspect ...") -> judge `review/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane). Kept as case-insensitive meaning checks (stop/consent/approval/safety): no edits before Step 5, readers returned or confirmed stopped, no edits in Step 4.8, stop without edits on unconfirmed readers (review and ship), stop at 3 cycles with no clean summary or fourth pass, failed/blocked probes mean incomplete, ship named-risk cannot complete review, native vs outside cannot substitute, structured-review gate, never carry coverage forward, never invent a binding, skipped advisory cannot suppress a defect, user-skip-only suppression, Greptile reply != code approval and wait for approval before editing, HIGH-impact gate options (A ends, read-only audit, no shipping authorization), never downgrade severity, never trust a supplied hash, missing metadata cannot dedupe, test creation needs approval, report-only review never runs setup/installs/cookie import. Kept unchanged: all marker-order arrays, manifest order, Pre-Landing summary after the logger, finish-token count and negatives, stale-wording bans (incl. `git diff origin/main`), ship/review routing negatives. Cosmetic pins dropped: STOP / NON / COUNT capitals; the test titled "resolves the judged ... ambiguities" is renamed to say what it keeps. Mutation log: .context/mutation-review-workflow-clarity.md (23 mutations, 0 unexpected: 3 reorders, 4 markers, 11 safety red; 5 rewordings green). * test(W7c): ship-control-flow keeps step routing, tokens and gates, drops rule prose W7c (t09 F1, F2, F3, F4). One test file. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - Work-list prose ("Expand a repair into individual steps ...", "This replaces the current item ...", "Add its destination only if ...", "The saved list takes precedence ...", "For another repair, repeat rule 2 ...", "The unchanged release steps follow", "Follow the saved work list", "Keep CYCLES and scoped approvals across this repeat", "Keep the findings and their approvals", "any further repair inserts its checks ...") -> repairs insert ordered steps ahead of pending work: kept free checks on the example sequences (`5 → … → 11.5`, `9 → 10 → 11` before 11.5, `5–11.5 → 12–14 → 16`, `14.5 → 15 → 16`, `9 → 10 → 11 → 11.5`), insert-before- pending routing lines, no unlisted steps, same attempt counts, no reset of the one-repair limit; judge `ship/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane); gate E2Es ship-docsync-recovery, ship-docsync-stale-after (gate). - Queue-qualification sentence pins duplicated in ship-version-sync (t09 F4: "require successful utility output ...", "`offline:false` qualifies ...", "Offline output without that fallback ...") -> kept in test/ship-version-sync.test.ts next to its script-behavior tests (free); here the Qualify < Usable < No-usable order, `NEW_VERSION=CANDIDATE_VERSION`, `>= NEW_VERSION`, `BUMP_LEVEL`, `currentVersion` and the approval line stay. - Distribution prose ("List candidate distribution paths", untracked files, manifest sentences) -> kept the New-artifact branch label, AskUserQuestion and the no-release-during-/ship safety line; gate E2E ship-local-workflow (gate). - Dispatch/dashboard/coverage prose ("Omitting the flag runs the subagent in the background", "keeping a fresh context", "Use one row for each entry in step 1", "including its undetermined-percentage and test-only rules") -> kept the `run_in_background: false` contract at all three sites, the dashboard header/verdict tokens, no inline Skill fallback, coverage gate not bypassed; gate E2E ship-coverage-audit (gate). - Recovery/docs/test sentences ("If an attempt remains and either ...", "a concrete launch/input/permission correction ...", "restart Step 16 stage 1 to regenerate ...", "This recovery also applies ... stage 5", "Content- preserving commits keep valid evidence", "Retain queued fixes and restore coverage", "If this pass made edits, resume at the next decision ...", "Undispatched host-unsupported/gated specialists do not block", "count it in the invocation record before launch", "Keep Step 9.4's incomplete flags", "saved handle, original token and source", "unknown or missing status is unavailable", "Finish the saved replies ...", "fetch and inspect the remote, then merge ...") -> judge `ship/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane); gate E2Es ship-docsync-* (gate) and ship-skipped-queued-finding (gate); the adjacent stop/approval lines stay free. Kept as case-insensitive meaning checks (t09 F1/F3; stop/consent/approval and safety lines): STOP and AskUserQuestion gates apply during repairs, a repair never resets or expands approvals, children return evidence not permission, prior-invocation audits never qualify, one repair/re-audit and no third attempt (initial-plus-one, once), Otherwise -> stop unless the user accepts the named docs risk, never silently refresh hashes, never run a third audit, dispatched-reviewer-missing -> stop, CYCLES >= 3 -> stop with `converged:false`, no fourth cycle, missing coverage cannot be replaced, failed probes never clean, required-probe gate before Step 10, cannot waive reviewer/test/security gates, native recovery stops the task first and remains blocked, outside output cannot replace native, never attach new tokens to old work, failed build stops shipping, never edit the child's counts, test failure stops publication, push failure stops with no Step 19, never rewrite history, never bypass failed guards, both redaction scans before publishing, no release publish during /ship, only approval changes the version, declining bootstrap is not test approval. Kept unchanged: the executed plan-tune nudge shell test (3 roots), section/ step ordering checks, Step 11.5 placement and `review_binding.*` fields, branch-label order in the adversarial finish (every host), all stale- wording bans, `(recommended)` marker on Add tests. Cosmetic pins dropped: STOP / ONE capitals (t09 F1, F3). Mutation log: .context/mutation-ship-control-flow.md (21 mutations, 0 unexpected: 3 reorders, 3 markers, 9 safety red; 6 rewordings green). * test(W7h): replace workflow-judge-cache source-grep counts with an invariant W7h retirement (t09 F16, t13 F6) of the source-grep counts in 'workflow registration preserves model work and reserves only terminal-recording grace'. The stage-order check over runWorkflowJudge (the cheapest guard) and every behavioral callback test stay. Retirement card: - test: workflow-judge-cache.test.ts pins of skill-llm-eval.test.ts source: "execution: reused ? 'reused' : 'executed'", 'const workDeadline = started + JUDGE_MS;', 'const WORKFLOW_JUDGE_RECORD_MS = 5_000;', 'const WORKFLOW_JUDGE_TEST_MS = JUDGE_MS + 10_000;', "testName: 'review/SKILL.md workflow'", and the magic counts /}, WORKFLOW_JUDGE_TEST_MS\);/ x17 and /}, JUDGE_MS\);/ x7. - detects: any workflow eval added or removed, any constant reformatted. - non_test_callers: none. - stronger_proof / replacement: (a) a new invariant in the same test: every `await runWorkflowJudge(` registration closes with WORKFLOW_JUDGE_TEST_MS (the property the 17-count stood in for, now independent of how many evals exist); (b) the real-callback tests in this file exercise execute-once, reuse with provenance (execution reused/executed), timeout, supersede, expiry and the recording deadline. - history: 636175d (#2898); last 7fca42a. - validation: bun test test/workflow-judge-cache.test.ts. Controls (scratch worktree, test/skill-llm-eval.test.ts): moving cache.publish before the score assertions or registering the ship workflow judge with JUDGE_MS goes red; adding a correctly registered eval and reformatting 5_000 as 5000 (both red under the old pins) stay green (4/4). Log: .context/mutation-workflow-judge-cache.md. * test(W7h): retire the bws session-awareness (ELI16) paid case W7h retirement (t14 F5). Removes the case from test/skill-e2e-bws.test.ts and its E2E_TOUCHFILES / E2E_TIERS (gate) / E2E_KINDS (rule) entries in test/helpers/touchfiles-data.ts; scripts/paid-test-durations.json is per-file and test/helpers/periodic-exclude-data.ts had no entry. test/touchfiles.test.ts selection examples now name sibling cases with the same touchfiles (skillmd-outside-git, skillmd-no-local-binary). e2e-tier-alignment, eval-kinds and touchfiles stay green. Retirement card: - test: skill-e2e-bws.test.ts 'session-awareness' (gate, paid). - detects: nothing gstack ships. The prompt coaches a mode that no longer exists ("_SESSIONS=4, so ELI16 mode is active ... Re-ground them"; `git grep ELI16` outside test/ and CHANGELOG is empty) and says "DO NOT actually call AskUserQuestion"; every asserted word (billing/acme, payment/feature, stripe/checkout, recommend) comes from the prompt itself. - non_test_callers: none. - search_command: git grep -n "session-awareness\|ELI16" -- test scripts - stronger_proof / replacement: the AUQ format's grounding line 'Project/branch/task: <1 short grounding sentence using _BRANCH>' is pinned free by plan-review-calibration.test.ts (format tokens) and graded by gate E2E auq-format-gate; session identity in the preamble stays pinned by skill-validation.test.ts 'contains session awareness' and gen-skill-docs.test.ts 'session awareness lives in gstack-skill-start'. - history: c118e24 v1.64.1.0 (#2572). - validation: bun test test/touchfiles.test.ts test/e2e-tier-alignment.test.ts test/eval-kinds.test.ts. Control (scratch worktree, against the replacement): removing the 'Project/branch/task:' grounding line from the AUQ format resolver turns plan-review-calibration.test.ts red (1/1). Log: .context/mutation-session-awareness.md. * test(W7h): pin the Codex availability probe free for the four offering skills Replacement check for the codex-offered-* paid retirement (t14 F8): each of office-hours, plan-ceo-review, plan-design-review and plan-eng-review must render the executed `command -v codex` probe and its `not_installed` fallback mode in its generated SKILL.md + sections. These are bash lines the agent runs, so a deterministic grep replaces a paid model summary of them. skill-validation.test.ts already covers the default-on outside voice for eng/CEO/devex; this adds office-hours and plan-design-review and the fallback token. Control (scratch worktree, generated files): removing the probe from office-hours, plan-design-review or plan-eng-review, or the CEO not_installed branch, turns the new test red (4/4). Log: .context/mutation-codex-offering.md. * test(W7c): ship-workflow-clarity becomes a structural check of ship-only invariants W7c (t07 F1, F2, F15). One test file: 59 tests / ~438 pins -> 33 tests. Round-tagged titles (r6/r12/r22) are gone. Every invariant this file shared with the other converted ship files is now checked once, in its owner: ship-control-flow (work list, repair ranges, docs/test/push recovery, adversarial finish order, Step 11.5 binding), ship-plan-completion- invariants (evidence ledger, push/commit, waivers), ship-reentry-gates (stop lines, docs reentry, NEW_TITLE), workflow-excerpt (review cycle order, coverage/probe gates), qa-probe-gates / qa-caller-authority (QA loop). Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - Duplicated literals (45 repeated 2-7x, e.g. "Keep the same attempt counts throughout the invocation" x7, "Docs, TODO edits ... make evidence STALE" x5, the CYCLES >= 3 / fixes-below-cap / no-edits sentences, push-failure and native-recovery sentences) -> one free check each in the owners above. - Smoke/plan-check loop sentences and "Required even for small diffs ..." -> qa-probe-gates (free, every host); gate E2E ship-exploratory-small-cli (gate). Kept here: smoke guard started once before step 3, every host. - Invocation-record field lists (receipt/handle/attempt field prose, "reuse this invocation's saved level", FRESH/ALREADY_BUMPED level derivation, receipt definition, start-token definition) -> kept `BUMP_LEVEL`, record outside the product tree, approval scope, never borrow/replace a token, REVIEW_START/PASS_START/DESIGN_START, `gstack-review-log --start`, `gstack-wtree`; version derivation also in test/ship-version-sync.test.ts (free); judge `ship/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane). - Reuse/judge-evidence prose ("original command, result/counts ...", "Compare hashes or complete bytes", "consumed files, fixtures ...", "complete expanded request, rubric ...") -> kept never resample, changed/ unknown dependencies rerun, mandatory reviews still run, freeze inputs; judge `ship/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane). - Build/route prose ("If none exists, record not applicable ...", "declared generation/build commands ...", "Run them and save results", "Explain why other changes cannot affect it", "Inspect writer handles, including the docs child", "Keep Step 8's original child report and counts", "Recheck affected plan items ...", "append current evidence ...") -> kept stage order, route-label order, prompts/templates count as behavior, no-change -> stage 3, writer termination before another writer, stop until confirmed, build-failed label, no substitute command; gate E2Es ship-docsync-* (gate). - Docs-collector prose ("Terminal completion or confirmed termination is sufficient", "Require every field/type ...", "Compare saved base and input hashes ...", "Otherwise save post-child hashes ...", "A stale snapshot is neither ...", "Reconcile those before proceeding") -> kept attempt counting incl. failed launches, request alone insufficient, exited child blocked, HEAD/index unchanged + `files_updated`, protected-file exclusions, `documentation_section`, failed/blocked -> recovery, actual user exception, blocked status retained, same approved scope and exact content, retry restarts stage 1; gate E2Es ship-docsync-missing-marker, ship-docsync-launch-failure, ship-docsync-late-result (gate). - Release/commit prose ("Record the release decision after a version was actually written", "Skip unchanged versions and manifest-only repairs", "Best-effort, non-interactive, non-blocking", "Group VERSION + CHANGELOG + TODOS.md ...", "Only the final VERSION/CHANGELOG commit gets the release version and co-author trailer", "use the first changed component ... (major/minor/patch/micro") -> kept ALREADY_BUMPED, the stale "skip if ALREADY_BUMPED" ban, `baseVersion`/`currentVersion`, absent fourth component is zero, no automatic rebump, digest tokens and pre-push digest check, no Git tag, commit-before-push order; gate E2E ship-local-workflow (gate). - Coverage/design prose ("Count each generation-authorized attempt ...", "including the initial audit, failures and zero-test results", "Two passes already used ...", "read-only reassessment uses no pass", design-lite ownership, same path/line merge, specialist stats, distinct defects) -> kept the 2-pass and 30/5/2-minute limits, re-entry never resets, missing permission is not approval, audit-only header/override order/no commit/ return decisions, child JSON, one item with both sources and stricter ASK, neither pass substitutes; gate E2Es ship-coverage-audit, ship-coverage-value (gate). Design-review-lite E2E is periodic, so the merge rule keeps its free meaning check here. - Spec/title/comment prose ("existing open PR/MR", "one match supplies the existing title/identity", "Save the result for Step 19's recheck", "In a new shell, restore ...", "Partial, deferred, failed, dropped or unverified scope uses ...", "newest", "Try to auto-resolve if they are simple", "distinguish an app from a library/CLI", "If the ask is App Store/ TestFlight distribution", "a new package.json or Cargo.toml alone ...", "After edits, the full re-review repeats ...") -> judge `ship/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane); ship-apple-gate (free) for the Apple route. Kept as case-insensitive meaning checks (stop/consent/approval/safety, always kept): never invent credentials, ask for unknown targets first, include the workflow in tests/review, frontmatter read as data never shell source, exact spec_branch match, positive-integer issue number, Closes #N only for fully completed scope, lookup failure/ambiguous match -> stop never "no PR", never publish an unprefixed title, ambiguous conflicts -> stop, AskUserQuestion and wait, unclear Apple target -> AskUserQuestion and wait, confirmed app -> stop and Read, stop for repair (recommended) or accept each named probe risk, skipping a fix is not risk acceptance, accepted risk is not passing verification, queue without editing in Steps 10/11, never credit outside coverage, do not report a clean review, unavailable outside challenge never resets the three-cycle limit, records mismatch blocks release, missing snapshots block regardless of HEAD, uncertain edits cannot be exempted, scripts/dependencies/runtime config need live tests, named testing gap A/B/C (recommended), reuse prior B only for same scope, declared but unavailable suite blocks, explicit untested-scope approval, report the gap never FRESH, no documentation writer after push, do not run create commands for an existing PR, Greptile status truthfulness. Kept unchanged: all stale-string bans, machine tokens and JSON contracts (`gh pr list ... --json number,title,url`, glab list, `v$NEW_VERSION `, `${NEW_TITLE:?...}` guard, exit 3, `--allow-paths ...`, `| FRESH (exit 0) |`, `--label <lane> --expect-cmd`, `gstack-review-read`, `git diff <reviewed-tree> <current-tree>`, `"status":"complete|no_pr|unavailable"`, specialist and coverage JSON, `status:"unavailable"`/`completed:false`/`converged:false`, `Pre-Landing Review: INCOMPLETE`, `ALREADY_PUSHED`), the threshold/branch/ installed-asset reference test, the section-index row check. Cosmetic pins dropped: STOP / ONE / ONLY capitals and bold (t07 F2). Mutation log: .context/mutation-ship-workflow-clarity.md (23 mutations, 0 unexpected: 4 reorders, 4 markers, 9 safety red; 6 rewordings green, all of which turned the old test red). * test(W7c): qa-exploratory-callers keeps phase order and authority, drops duplicated prose W7c (t04 F8, F16). One test file; only the generated-parent-path and runner-prompt pins change. The validator-backed caller tests (observer, checkpoint causality, read-only diff grammar, write watcher, deadline authority) are unchanged. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - Parent-path loop and preparation pins duplicated from qa-probe-gates (Reads in order, "Reuse Step 4's surfaces ...", "Finish missing methods before charters", isolation preflight, shared preparation order, the six plan-execution sentences, the three shared loop contracts) -> owned by qa-probe-gates (free, every host, with semantic mutation controls). - Parent prose ("Templates cannot replace them", "Only the parent runs report-only discovery", "Read agent/user updates and await results ...", report-clean and not-run list duplicates of qa-caller-authority) -> caller observer attribution tests in this file (free) and gate E2Es review-exploratory-small-cli, ship-exploratory-small-cli (gate); report gates stay in qa-caller-authority (free, every host). - Shared-loop duplicates (preserve key/value, Q supplies observed, write the report, return to step 2, pass requires) -> qa-probe-gates / qa-caller-authority; kept the observationCommand/observed field definitions and identity-hash rule here. - Runner harness prompt sentences (t04 F16: receipt-interface prose, appendSystemPrompt rules, scheduling prompt) -> reduced to one anchor per rule; `at most ${maxTurns} assistant turns`, maxTurns/timeout/reserve values, `(probe-...)`, `reports/review.md`, and every `not.toMatch` scenario-answer ban stay. validateCallerEvidence remains the behavioral oracle. Kept as case-insensitive meaning checks: phase order 1-4 per caller, review readiness follows report-only rules and never installs/imports cookies/bootstraps, smoke stop at 5 minutes or 12 probes, G enforces the deadline, never reset D/bypass G, plan checks remain required past the smoke budget, /review incomplete and /ship blocked unless the user accepts the named risk, repeat step 3 for affected checks, harness keeps parent decision gates, turn limit never authorizes skipping work, never group probes, Hard deadline UTC rule, HANDOFF.md read before completed records, no checkpoint for deferred ideas. Cosmetic pins dropped: AND / Never capitals. Mutation log: .context/mutation-qa-exploratory-callers.md (15 mutations, 0 unexpected: 2 reorders, 2 markers, 6 safety red; 5 rewordings green). * test(W7h): pin the CEO /office-hours prerequisite structure free Replacement check for the plan-ceo-review-benefits paid retirement (t14 F7). The paid case had a model summarize plan-ceo-review/SKILL.md and grep the summary for "office hours" and "design doc". The rendered text is static, so this free test checks it directly: the Prerequisite Skill Offer triggers on the design-doc check's "No design doc found", offers 'A) Run /office-hours now' and 'B) Skip — proceed with standard review', does not re-offer later in the session, and Mid-session detection (0A) offers `/office-hours`. Per the Eng Retirements item, CEO invariants become periodic-only once this gate case retires, so they keep this structural free check. Control (scratch worktree, generated plan-ceo-review/SKILL.md): removing the /office-hours option, the no-design-doc trigger, the mid-session offer or the no-re-offer rule goes red; rewording the pitch stays green (5/5). Log: .context/mutation-ceo-benefits.md. * test(W7h): retire the paid SKILL.md-summary cases in skill-e2e-plan W7h retirement (t14 F6-F8): office-hours-spec-review, plan-ceo-review-benefits and codex-offered-{office-hours,ceo-review,design-review,eng-review}. Each asked a model to read a generated SKILL.md, write a summary, and grepped the summary for facts the generated file states directly. Registration cleanup in the same commit: E2E_TOUCHFILES, E2E_TIERS (all six gate) and E2E_KINDS (rule) in test/helpers/touchfiles-data.ts; six scripts/paid-test-durations.json case-shard entries; no test/helpers/periodic-exclude-data.ts entries existed. The fast PR profile (scripts/test-pr-profile.ts) drops plan-ceo-review-benefits and office-hours-spec-review from PR_PROFILE_CASE_IDS and PR_PROFILE_FILES. Tests that named the retired ids as live examples move to existing ones: paid-free-boundary and paid-pr-profile (a CEO template change now plans auq-format-gate plus the CEO judge; the case-shard fixture uses plan-review-report), test-pr-profile, touchfiles (CEO selection count 21 -> 19), the touchfile-moved-code w5 golden (retired ids removed), the behavior-lane case-shard census (78 -> 72) in cookie-validation-phases, and the skill-e2e-plan timeout list and full-gate PR floor (78,425 -> 72,755 s) in paid-retry-supervision. e2e-tier-alignment, eval-kinds, eval-detach-timeout-floor and paid-shards stay green. Coverage consequence: per the Eng Retirements item, plan-ceo-review-benefits was the only gate-tier CEO E2E in the fast PR profile, so CEO invariants are treated as periodic-only under the W7c gate (every CEO conversion in this branch keeps one free check per invariant); the gate judge 'plan-ceo-review/SKILL.md modes' still runs for CEO prompt changes. An office-hours prompt change now has no fast PR E2E and is reported as deferred to broad coverage rather than run. Retirement cards: - office-hours-spec-review: detects the Spec Review Loop's stated dimensions, dispatch tool, iteration cap and metrics. Replacement: gen-skill-docs.test.ts 'SPEC_REVIEW_LOOP resolver' (round-3 cap, prepare/check/finalize commands, verdict and round-file wiring) and test/office-hours-review.test.ts (verdict parsing). Control: changing the round limit in scripts/resolvers/spec-review.ts turns gen-skill-docs red. - plan-ceo-review-benefits: detects the CEO /office-hours prerequisite and mid-session offer. Replacement: gen-skill-docs.test.ts 'plan-ceo-review offers /office-hours when no design doc exists and detects a lost user mid-session' (previous commit). Control: 4/4 red mutations there. - codex-offered-* (x4): detects the `command -v codex` probe, a fallback and optionality. Replacement: gen-skill-docs.test.ts 'Codex outside voice is offered behind an executed availability probe' (probe + not_installed fallback for all four skills) and skill-validation.test.ts 'plan reviews run the Codex outside voice default-on'. Control: 4/4 red there. - non_test_callers: none; history: c118e24 v1.64.1.0 (#2572). - validation: the registration tests named above. Controls log: .context/mutation-skill-e2e-plan-retirements.md. * test(W7h): delete the codex-offering prompt builder left unused by the retirement Dead-code follow-up to the codex-offered-* retirement: buildCodexOfferingPrompt (test/helpers/codex-offering-fixture.ts) had no caller besides those cases. Deletes the helper, its free test (test/codex-offering-fixture.test.ts), the two captured public fixtures it replayed, its scripts/free-test-durations.json entry, and the helper/fixture paths still listed as touchfiles of six plan review E2Es in test/helpers/touchfiles-data.ts. Retirement card: - test: codex-offering-fixture.test.ts (pinned the builder's prompt text and replayed captured timeout/CDD transcripts against it). - detects: changes to a prompt that no paid case sends any more. - non_test_callers: none (grep -rn codex-offering test scripts is empty). - replacement: none needed; the behavior it supported is now the free probe check in gen-skill-docs.test.ts. - validation: bun test test/touchfiles.test.ts test/touchfiles-map-diff.test.ts test/paid-shards.test.ts test/e2e-tier-alignment.test.ts; bun run typecheck. * test(W7h): delete validateOfficeHoursSpecSummary left unused by the retirement Dead-code follow-up to the office-hours-spec-review retirement: validateOfficeHoursSpecSummary in test/helpers/office-hours-completion.ts graded only that paid case's model-written summary. Deletes it and its free describe block in test/office-hours-completion.test.ts ('office-hours spec-review summary completion'); every other validator and test in both files is unchanged. Retirement card: - detects: a summary missing five dimensions, the Agent dispatch, the 3 iteration cap or the four metrics. - non_test_callers: none. - replacement: the facts it graded are pinned free on the generated text by gen-skill-docs.test.ts 'SPEC_REVIEW_LOOP resolver' (round-3 cap and loop wiring); see the retirement commit's control. - validation: bun test test/office-hours-completion.test.ts. * test(W7h): drop the no-op review-report check from setup-gbrain-remote W7h retirement (t12 F9) of one assertion in the paid setup-gbrain-remote case. No registration changes (the case stays). Retirement card: - assertion: `expect(/## GSTACK REVIEW REPORT|critical_gaps/i .test(result.output)).toBe(false)` with its comment. - detects: /setup-gbrain writing a plan-review report or critical_gaps findings, which it never produces; the removed comment itself said "Setup-gbrain doesn't have a review report contract". Copied from the plan-review tests (c118e24, #2572). - non_test_callers: none. - replacement: none needed; `grep -rln "PLAN_FILE_REVIEW_REPORT\|GSTACK REVIEW REPORT\|critical_gaps" setup-gbrain/*.tmpl setup-gbrain/sections/*.tmpl` is empty, so there is no behavior to control. The case's real contracts stay: the secret token never reaches CLAUDE.md, `mcp add ... --transport http`, and `Mode: remote-http` (read by bin/gstack-gbrain-detect). - validation: bun test test/skill-e2e-setup-gbrain-remote.test.ts (skips without EVALS; module loads). * test(W7h): delete incompleteFirstFileView, which no paid case uses W7h retirement (task scope: "incompleteFirstFileView + its free test in test/shared-libs-fixture.test.ts if no paid case uses it"). `grep -rn incompleteFirstFileView test scripts` showed only the export in test/helpers/shared-libs-eval-fixture.ts and its own free describe block; no paid case or grader calls it, so the helper and the two tests that pinned it are dead code. Retirement card: - test: shared-libs-fixture.test.ts 'incompleteFirstFileView (census 36641820398 shared-libs-pr-coverage)' (2 tests). - detects: regressions in a page-1 recovery classifier nothing consumes. - non_test_callers: none. - replacement: none needed; the shared-libs page budgets that a recovery read is charged to stay enforced by the kept budget function and its tests. - validation: bun test test/shared-libs-fixture.test.ts (241 pass); bun run typecheck. * test: update the periodic release floor for the opus-5-5 overlay case paid-retry-supervision.test.ts 'detached PR fallback and release commands cover their actual default worker budgets' was red on the integrated base 23a0be82d (green on f30b7b7): 737bf478d (E2, "dedicated-tools overlay case pinned to claude-opus-5-5") added a periodic file, so the recomputed periodic release floor is 33,852 s, not the pinned 33,821 s. Updates the pinned floor and the two-tier sum (55,546 -> 55,577 s); the detached release wall (116,700 s) still exceeds the recomputed census wall plus 120 s, which the same test asserts, so package.json does not change. eval-detach-timeout-floor stays green. * test(E1): pin CLAUDE.md facts, /ship step references and state-root literals New free test test/instruction-facts.test.ts (CEO/DX/Eng E1 items; DX-13 one named test() per check, each failure prints both values, file:line and the fix): - 'CLAUDE.md names every TREE_MUTATING file and does not call the set empty': imports TREE_MUTATING from scripts/test-free-shards.ts (today test/bootstrap-retention.test.ts). - 'CLAUDE.md states the current catalog ceiling from test/catalog-budget.test.ts': the "`CATALOG_BUDGET_TOKEN_EQUIVALENTS` (N today" value must equal the constant (1,194). - 'CLAUDE.md points at package.json for detach timeouts instead of stating numbers': no eval:bg* --timeout value appears in CLAUDE.md (plain or with commas), and the detach section names package.json's eval:bg:gate / eval:bg:periodic and states no timeout number. - 'every explicit /ship Step reference names a defined /ship step with the expected title': matches only `/ship Step N` and `/ship's Step N` (backticked or not) across every .tmpl and scripts/resolvers/; each must be a table row whose step is a heading in ship/SKILL.md.tmpl or ship/sections/*.md.tmpl whose title contains the row's subject, and the reference's line or enclosing heading must mention that subject; stale rows fail. Today: document-release release-body Step 7 -> /ship Step 14 (TODOS.md), plus the incident-history comment in scripts/resolvers/constants.ts ("/ship Step 18"), kept as a historical row with a reason (handoff: that comment's step is stale; the dispatch is Step 14.5). - 'negative control: moving a reference to another existing /ship step fails': rewrites the TODOS reference to Step 12 in memory and asserts the checker reports it. - 'every ~/.gstack/projects/ and ~/.gstack/analytics/ hit is allowlisted with a reason' and 'every state-root allowlist row still matches a hit': all 37 current hits in .tmpl and scripts/resolvers/ are covered by 36 rows, each with one of four reasons (user-facing description; gbrain context_queries manifest glob read literally by bin/gstack-brain-context-load.ts; source comment; pending conversion tracked in TODOS.md). The readiness-gate EVAL_DIR rows reuse the reason from test/state-root-ratchet.allowlist.json. New hits fail, and converting a literal fails until its row is deleted. Mutation pass (scratch worktree): 15/15 as expected; drifting the catalog number in CLAUDE.md or the constant, dropping or emptying TREE_MUTATING text, adding a TREE_MUTATING key, copying a detach timeout into CLAUDE.md, moving/undefining/retitling a /ship reference, a new /ship reference, a new state-root literal and a converted allowlisted literal all go red; unrelated rewording stays green. Log: .context/mutation-instruction-facts.md. * test: integration repairs after F2 (calibration test renders the AUQ format; census counts and release floors without the reverted overlay case) * chore: constants comment names the /ship documentation dispatch, not a stale step number * test: office-hours-auto-mode joins the fast PR profile (replaces the retired office-hours-spec-review probe) * docs: TODOS for the Opus 5.5 prompt-cleanup deferrals * fix(state-root): design-doc discovery reads $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT/projects DESIGN_DOC_DISCOVERY and autoplan's Step 2 design-doc lookup read the literal ~/.gstack/projects path, so under a non-default state root they missed the docs office-hours writes. The block now globs "$GSTACK_STATE_ROOT"/projects, and each caller's bash block (autoplan, plan-ceo/devex/eng-review, the spec-review prerequisite recheck) resolves the root with the guarded gstack-paths eval first. Allowlist: drops the autoplan ls row, both _LOCALDOC rows and the resolver source-comment row from STATE_ROOT_ALLOWLIST. Tests: the eng Design Doc Check fixture installs gstack-paths and seeds docs under a non-default root; the CEO discovery fixture passes an explicit GSTACK_STATE_ROOT. * chore: regenerate SKILL.md and context budget after design-doc discovery state-root change * fix(state-root): history, report and ledger paths name $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT Agent-facing read/write paths that named the literal ~/.gstack default now name the state root their writers use: - canary-history.jsonl and health-history.jsonl (the blocks above already resolve the root and print PROJECT_DIR) - ios-design-review report: adds {{SLUG_SETUP}} so the report path is the PROJECT_DIR it prints - plan-tune dream-cycle gate's distillation-proposals.json - retro's skill-usage and eureka reads: read the path gstack-retro-metrics prints (it already checks $_gstack_sr_root/analytics) - ship's apple-effects.log durable-effect ledger and the gstack-evidence ledger description (bin/gstack-evidence writes under resolveStateRoot()) Allowlist: drops the nine matching PENDING rows from STATE_ROOT_ALLOWLIST. * chore: regenerate SKILL.md, ship goldens and context budget after history/ledger state-root paths * fix(state-root): taste-profile legacy fallback globs $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT designs The legacy approved.json fallback in {{TASTE_PROFILE}} (design-consultation, design-shotgun) named the literal ~/.gstack/projects path while the approval writers use $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT/projects/$SLUG/designs. Allowlist: drops the design.ts PENDING row. Pin (W7a): design-consultation-contract's exact glob string becomes a meaning-level check (legacy fallback names the state-root designs dir and approved.json, and no ~/.gstack literal). * chore: regenerate SKILL.md and context budget after taste-profile state-root glob * fix(state-root): completion-status telemetry prose names $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT/analytics gstack-skill-end writes analytics under the resolved state root ($_GH), so the PLAN MODE EXCEPTION note now names $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT/analytics/ instead of the ~/.gstack default. Allowlist: drops the generate-completion-status.ts PENDING row. Pin (W7a): gen-skill-docs 'render documents the analytics sink' now checks that the render names the state-root analytics dir. * chore: regenerate SKILL.md, ship goldens and context budget after telemetry prose state-root change * fix(state-root): gbrain context_queries globs use {gstack_state_root}/ bin/gstack-brain-context-load.ts resolves the {gstack_state_root}/ prefix through gstack-paths (configuredStateGlob); the legacy ~ form only matched the default root. The nine projects/analytics manifest globs in design-consultation, design-shotgun, investigate, office-hours, plan-ceo-review and retro now use the prefix, as does office-hours' builder-profile developer-profile.json glob (plan-tune writes it under $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT). Allowlist: drops the nine MANIFEST_GLOB rows and the now-unused MANIFEST_GLOB and PENDING reasons; the header lists the remaining row kinds. Tests: new brain-context-load case loads the shipped investigate and office-hours queries against a configured root and proves a file only under ~/.gstack is not read. * chore: regenerate SKILL.md and context budget after manifest state-root globs * plan-tune, office-hours, retro: read gate and profile files from the state root (E1 follow-up) * chore: regenerate plan-tune, office-hours, retro * release: v1.91.15.0 — Opus 5.5 prompt cleanup, behavior-level skill tests, transcript consent * test: calibration-gate scan reads tracked files with POSIX paths (windows-free-tests) * test: skillify E2E sweeps the state root (GSTACK_HOME) where the global tier actually writes * qa-only: one rule for mixed-run clocks; annotations and materialize are per probe directory * chore: regenerate qa-only * test: shared-libs evals deliver the skill instructions in context, as a loaded skill does * Revert design-doc discovery state-root conversion: it made plan-eng-review ask its scope gate in prose (plan-mode no-op eval) * chore: regenerate after design-doc discovery revert * test: plan-review-report prompt asks plainly to save the review to plan.md * docs: CHANGELOG and TODOS reflect the held design-doc discovery conversion * docs: exact eval counts for the held design-doc conversion * test: coverage-audit grader accepts read-only git diff with a -- pathspec (CI run 37094035231 shape) * qa: plain self-regulation stop rule; drop the report template's link to an index.md nothing writes * chore: regenerate qa * qa: --quick sets both tier and exploration; say how browser phases and functional contracts share the probe loop * chore: regenerate qa * test: a bare QA helper invocation is a usage probe, like --help (CI run ship-exploratory-unavailable)	2026-10-03 01:19:03 -07:00
Garry TanandOpenAI Codex	636175d349	v1.87.6.0 fix: make checks reliable and everyday validation faster (#2898) ... * fix: acknowledge seeded plans before invoking review skills * fix: distinguish current plan input from conversation history * fix: keep hermetic plan reviews on manual permissions * fix: distinguish tool discovery from file permission ownership * fix: preserve initial plan mode in observation tests * fix: wait for scope decisions before writing review findings * fix: carry autoplan decisions consistently into review artifacts * test: retain native failure context in periodic assertions * fix: advance active file permissions before queued questions * fix: finish red-team attempts before retry and cleanup * fix: finalize plan format captures and judges before retry * fix: cancel setup-gbrain SDK attempts before fixture cleanup * test: select periodic consumers of the bounded attempt helper * fix native Bash permission cards and queued questions * fix: preserve independent decisions and review scope Keep CEO approach, engineering scope and outside-review choices from approving independent remedies together. Carry declared contracts through DX polish and resolve new gaps before editing the plan. Regenerate every host and retain existing stop boundaries. Validation: 654 focused tests passed across nine files; all-host generation passed. Full free and periodic validation pending. Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * fix: require approval before design plan amendments Align the Design review philosophy and rating recipe with its section protocol: resolve one proposed fix, then apply only that approved decision and retain honest scores for declined fixes. Validation: 469 focused tests passed across four files; all-host generation passed. Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * fix: observe native question completion before transcript persistence Match owned completion hooks to submitted choices, reject conflicting or late answers, and retain bounded failure evidence. * test: recognize review posture in acknowledged native questions Require the selected mode acknowledgement, a completed follow-up question, and its current decoded display while preserving existing posture assertions. * fix: preserve settled CEO choices and isolate pending remedies Resolve established approach gates with cited authority and keep independent fixes out of unrelated option commitments and plan amendments. * fix: carry approved DX choices through later review steps Choose documentation approaches within the accepted scope and map resolved confusion points without reopening them through a bulk menu. * test: handle native settings-file edit prompts Keep one-time owned-file approvals and retain the actual sampled Autoplan permission frame with its matching barrier state. * test: accept standard CEO reply directives with tuning footers Recognize the exact trailing preference footer and letter-list directive while preserving current-display and exact acknowledgement checks. * test: scope split reviewers to their generated plan artifacts * test: observe native Bash permissions and invocation results * test: handle owned Bash prompts during mode preference checks * test: preserve synchronous subprocess rejection in Codex fixture * Fix periodic review handoff navigation Recognize review-first and explicit manual-next-step labels while preserving exact action families, manual preference, and ambiguous-menu rejection. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Bind pending file permissions to distinct current targets Allow one captured file request to own the complete current dialog while unrelated file work is pending. Preserve same-path ambiguity, exact input ownership, and one-time grant checks. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Make paired CEO verification choices genuinely unresolved Start the positive control with proposed manual checks so its unchanged oracle measures two new coverage decisions. Preserve runtime contracts, targets, count bounds, and all assertions. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Keep CEO review options and verification within approved scope Audit every offered option for independent add-ons and keep new verification depth pending until accepted. Preserve already requested coverage and trace plan changes to the actual decision. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Assemble DX review artifacts before appending the final report Keep early DX evidence above decisions, update artifact sections in place, and append the report using the actual current file suffix. Re-read after deleting an existing report before choosing the append anchor. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Keep outside plan reviews exclusive and invocation-owned Follow one preflight-selected backend, terminate failed Codex work before fallback, and allocate extra prompt/output files uniquely. Consume only the current invocation’s completed output. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Select periodic completion evaluations for report writer changes Register the shared review resolver for eight missing consumers and regress selection for all nine completion cases without changing their IDs or tiers. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Keep permission ambiguity fixtures on the same normalized target Use distinct raw spellings of one target in the four negative fixtures so they exercise the normalized duplicate-owner guard after exact current-file disambiguation. Preserve the existing exception, no-input, diagnostic and cleanup assertions. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Clarify preserved contracts in engineering review fixture Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Recognize the offered DX follow-up handoff Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Check independent commitments before presenting review options Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Keep Codex review output and status in one shell invocation Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Distinguish seeded plans from reports written by a test attempt Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Recover clipped Autoplan file approvals with bounded viewport resizing Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Recover clipped Bash approvals before binding the complete command Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Isolate setup message tests from the shared checkout Run the real installer in a temporary payload with private config, require successful completion, and guard source and binary contents and mtimes. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Fix periodic native permission and report completion handling Match the pinned CLI's soft wraps and clipped headings without granting from incomplete frames. Retire completed file requests, retain mode annotations, and ask section captures for a short final acknowledgement after their full report is saved. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Preserve review approvals and validate DX comparison artifacts Keep independent remedies and approved amendments explicit. Give the synthetic DX review its existing documentation and validate peer comparison as required analysis alongside four native decisions. Add positive and negative semantic calibrations while preserving review counts, model budgets and prompt size limits. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Make the five-finding CEO fixture's application boundary explicit Materialize the request adapter and service composition used by the synthetic payment application. Explicitly declare the revised unregistered-event and mail-telemetry assumptions while preserving uncaught handler errors, the original invoice path and all five unresolved findings. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Keep CEO state-path checks scoped to directory preparation Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Use checked ports and bounded cleanup in pair-agent tests Discover the daemon port from its owned state file, retain startup diagnostics, and await failed-start cleanup. Add occupied-port, early-exit, deadline, and foreign-state regressions while preserving the existing HTTP assertions and hook budgets. Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Preserve queued edit identity and recover clipped Bash permissions Distinguish separately queued unfinished edits from mutation of one native tool ID. Keep grants bound to an exact owned request and reject reused IDs, ambiguous inputs, and competing owners. Support the pinned renderer's literal em dash and request a repaint when only the Bash card's top rule is clipped. Grants still require the complete fresh card and an exact native acknowledgment. Validation: 413 integrated parser/event tests passed; private repaint controls and joint source review passed. Full canonical suite and native periodic rerun remain pending. Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Keep periodic reviews within their approved contracts and deliverables Carry exact approvals through engineering review, preserve declared contracts when amending CEO plans, and keep prioritization at the requested decision level. Materialize the revised synthetic SDK reference contract while retaining the five original documentation gaps. Accept the observed semicolon in the finite DX handoff menu and register the direct source dependencies used by the engineering cases. Regenerate canonical review documents without changing model budgets, retries, count bands, or native completion assertions. Validation: all-host generation and 275 review, fixture, selection and parity tests passed. Full free-suite and native periodic validation remain pending. Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Keep Eng approval cadence and independence guards explicit * Accept ordinary punctuation in manual review handoffs * Recover file permissions alongside queued Bash calls * Carry approved DX work through later review findings * Clarify the synthetic auth internal failure decision * Bound the periodic DX fixture to onboarding changes * Recognize native Design review handoff labels * Hold scope in the integration-choice review fixture * Carry approved Design decisions through review evidence * Capture listener state when feedback reload fails * Exclude workspace caches before checking deprecated flags * Verify Design UI scope against a seeded review plan * Clarify plan review decisions and outside-voice approval flow * Reject setup menus in the Design UI gate * docs: require focused repair validation before final acceptance * fix: separate review commitments within existing prompt budgets * docs: align generation and contributor validation guidance * fix: advance native review prompts and count acknowledged findings * chore: bump version and changelog (v1.87.1.0) Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * chore: enforce cheap checks and side-effect-free validation previews * fix: handle owned Fetch permissions and oversized native cards * test: ground review fixtures in independent executable contracts * fix: preserve review decisions and verify reports before completion * test: construct the synthetic credential URL without a scanner false positive * test: materialize DX examples and verify their actual local behavior * fix: clarify CEO review decisions and execution order * fix: clarify review workflow ordering and select Design quality checks * Fix review decision gates and incomplete evaluation fixtures Persist CEO and engineering commitment ledgers before menus, preserve exact approvals, and distinguish implementation structure from feature scope. Route Autoplan through the canonical CEO Step 0 ordering. Classify DX findings before requesting approval and ground runtime claims in actual evidence. Complete neutral non-target fixture contracts and accept the captured Design handoff purpose without relaxing its ownership or acknowledgment checks. Record runtime-capability verification in AGENTS.md validation discipline. Validation: 1,335 focused tests passed across 21 files; build, all-host freshness, skill validation (647 artifacts / 107 tracked), and credential checks passed. Prior paid failures are preserved; behavioral acceptance remains pending. * Fix review decision boundaries and owned Read prompts Preserve exact approvals across review options, compare consistent DX milestones, and keep proposed implementation separate from review evidence. Bind modern Read prompts to one immutable native request and wait for its result. Retain captured regression verdicts, correct fixture error names, improve import probe diagnostics, and record focused-first validation discipline in AGENTS.md. * Clarify CEO and engineering review decisions Use explicit decision steps, one engineering ledger, and clear scope/write transitions. Preserve exact approvals and distinguish pending test requirements. Keep unrelated generated content unchanged. * Fix review decision ordering and native evaluation interactions * Clarify engineering decisions and test artifact order * Clarify pending choices and approvals in CEO reviews * Make CEO review phases sequential and clarify completion * Fix Design board submission intent matching * Seed an existing browser test baseline for Autoplan * Document decision-log payloads before state initialization * Preserve exact review scope and decide one change before drafting options * Require input identity before repeating passing model judges * Honor permitted storage throughout CEO review completion * Match complete native permission text within the pinned renderer contract * Align review approvals, independent choices, and bounded validation * fix: preserve reopened approvals and declare fixture interfaces * fix: isolate review artifacts and audit complete questions * fix: match detector artifact permissions to configured storage * fix: complete native permissions and review fixture workflows * fix: order CEO review work and separate engineering guarantees * fix: preserve native validation and separate review choices * fix: clarify review decisions and judge complete report context * fix: constrain review judgments and retain parse failures * fix: compare each affected value before review decisions * fix: make engineering review decisions and completion order explicit * fix: give the complete Autoplan evaluation a bounded chain budget * fix(cso): diagnose forbidden Docker endpoints before tool lookup * fix(reviews): reconcile workflow contracts and generated artifacts after main integration * fix(evals): migrate retained regressions to the native review harness * fix(tests): close native harness and workflow integration regressions * fix(evals): preserve complete permission context and native menu contracts * fix(tests): capture synchronous command output without pipe drain stalls * fix(reviews): clarify decision and completion ordering * fix(reviews): separate decision readiness from final completion checks * refactor(reviews): consolidate decision rules and completion branches * fix(plan-eng-review): order preparation and clarify decision routing * fix(plan-eng-review): restore size and question-format guard parity * fix(plan-eng-review): clarify scope phases and blocked completion * fix(plan-eng-review): unify review flow and report destination * fix(plan-eng-review): define bootstrap and question stage ownership * fix(plan-eng-review): clarify review structure and design lookup * fix(plan-eng-review): render report examples and show saved decisions * fix: consolidate Eng review decisions and select their evaluations * test: cover overlapping terminal attachments and clean merged runner type * fix: preserve Office Hours relationship closings during review updates * fix: retain pasted review targets across slash invocations * docs: preserve validation traces and correct release scope * test: cover pasted targets in both review skills * fix: validate report artifacts before recording success * fix: redact source roots at CSO report boundaries * fix: bind native Design questions before answering * test: select report privacy and native recovery regressions * test: bind rejection predicate in extracted observers * fix: bind complete boxed native questions * test: keep the Design UI fixture on native review * fix: preserve review decisions and evaluation completion outcomes * fix: clarify CEO approval and report completion order * fix: align native review evaluation ownership and completion * fix: bind review evaluators to native decisions and owned artifacts * fix: validate review decisions against native outcomes * fix: preserve review evidence and Autoplan phase handoffs * test: bind review evidence to owned decisions and completion * fix: retain owned native history across compaction * fix(evals): validate current review decisions and setup choices * fix: bind Autoplan reviews and phase completion to current amended input * fix: reconcile native review evidence and close Autoplan phases * test: recognize owned whole-candidate complexity decisions * test: preserve report freshness for approved investigation handoffs * fix: recognize scoped review findings and isolate dual voice fixtures * fix: make review handoffs and question dispatch self-contained * test: recognize complete CEO decisions and procedural pauses * fix: bind current CEO comparison options and risk intervals * test: bind engineering decisions and completion to owned evidence * fix: publish Autoplan phase reports before continuing tools * test: verify actual Autoplan dual-review dispatch evidence * test: select dual review when shared evidence fixtures change * fix: clarify plan review decisions and completion gates * fix: make CEO review decisions and return paths explicit * test: keep Autoplan prompt files inside attempt state * test: preserve source whitespace across permission dialog wraps * fix: publish Autoplan phase reports before continuing * test: recognize current CEO comparisons and reject inactive records * fix: reconcile engineering decision states before completion * test: recognize complete Design decisions and reports * test: verify current engineering decisions before navigation * Recognize source-owned component reduction choices * fix: recognize current CEO ledger and commitment grids * test: supply RequestPolicy context to Eng count fixture * fix: save complete engineering decisions before asking * fix: bind Autoplan publication to the complete phase readback * chore: prepare 1.87.5.0 reliability release * fix: clarify engineering review completion and preserve log failures * fix: bind CEO saved choices and current section ancestry * fix(evals): bind review execution and completion evidence * fix(plan-ceo-review): verify complete decisions before asking * fix(evals): preserve complete engineering choice records * fix(evals): preserve complete review outcomes and bounded fixtures * fix(autoplan): publish phase reports before advancing * fix(plan-ceo-review): validate option fields before asking * fix(plan-eng-review): verify current decisions after answers * fix(evals): bind review decisions and bound fixture scope * fix(plan-ceo-review): verify decision rows and edit saved checkpoints * fix(evals): bind review evidence and scope document lookup * fix(plan-eng-review): update resolution state with its answer * fix(reviews): preserve complete questions through dispatch * fix(evals): recognize completed mode declarations * fix(evals): define cache consistency at wrapper completion * fix(evals): validate owned initial scope and completed review handoffs * fix: assemble complete CEO decision fields before saving * fix: authenticate automatic mode decisions without guessing selectors * fix: bind engineering coverage to approved regression contracts * fix(evals): supply review helpers to native Eng capture * fix(plan-eng-review): preserve the full selected option scope * fix(evals): recognize owned engineering seed and regression evidence * fix(evals): bind engineering retry reports to native approvals * docs: clarify release guarantees (v1.87.5.0) Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * fix(evals): recognize owned engineering decisions and handoffs * fix(evals): bind engineering decisions and completion evidence * fix(tests): align review contracts and selection fixtures * fix(skills): restore review prompt size limits * fix(plan-eng-review): clarify review execution and completion * fix(evals): preserve configured retries through all supervision layers * Clarify Engineering decisions and report completion * Keep native decision assertions within their source boundary * fix: recognize owned engineering decisions and completed navigation * fix: bind completed auto decisions to their current review * fix: recognize explicit CEO source attribution * fix: dispatch verified CEO decisions without recomposing fields * test: expose existing execution deadlines to review actors * fix: distinguish CEO decision records from incidental headings * test: bind split-scope choices to the registered native actor * test: connect reviewed regressions to required evaluation coverage * Clarify CEO decision routing and completion stages * test: expose existing section review deadlines to fixture actors * test: recognize complete native CEO pacing inventories * test: exclude answered history from current CEO payloads * test: detect phase entry through owned skill HOME aliases * test: validate native review completion and owned report permissions * fix: make Autoplan close packets carry the parent handoff steps * test: assess source-bound HOLD decisions within the existing deadline * fix: keep CEO native decision fields under one formatting authority * test: register integrated review and permission dependencies * test: align native review adapters and finding coverage Preserve explicit AUTO decisions, apply native single-select defaults, and bind complete cropped questions and report permissions to their owned requests. Require seeded review findings instead of crediting setup menus. Keep captured failure controls and additive selection dependencies. The integrated candidate passed 3,099 focused tests across 65 files; affected paid validation remains required before publication. * fix(autoplan): require phase reports before advancing * fix(evals): bind setup and evidence to complete attempts * fix(evals): bind native answers and pending writes to fixture scope Preserve complete option rows when native descriptions wrap, retain current owned Write arguments before journal publication, and keep engineering and DX answers within their declared fixture interfaces. Add captured free regressions without increasing model budgets or relaxing completion checks. * fix(autoplan): verify phase reports across native tool paths Guard owned methodology reads and reviewer dispatches, detect complete driver loads through Bash, and distinguish report-only edits from implementation changes. Follow authenticated native UUID ancestry when journal writes arrive out of order and verify earlier native content for cached phase reads. Keep current close acknowledgment and parent publication in order, require CEO entry before later phases, and register captured failure regressions. * fix(evals): honor native input and collection lifecycles Match complete native Edit panes and truncated question borders, reject stderr close before EOF, and stop the CEO split fixture once its acknowledged scope decisions are collected. Keep semantic validation, process failures, report requirements, and absolute deadlines authoritative. Add captured-event and real-process regressions with selection dependencies. Focused checks pass; final integrated paid and full-suite acceptance remain pending. * fix(autoplan): retain native session ownership across directory changes Recover missed native UUID ancestry through the existing strict graph while preserving ordinary event order and legacy scoping. Bind publication hooks to Claude's original project directory while retaining current cwd for requested file paths. Captured public-event regressions, existing caller checks, and a pinned native CLI loopback verify both fixes. Preserve failed attempts and require fresh paid and final full-suite acceptance. * docs: align evaluation limits and completion version * fix(autoplan): allow authenticated phase reads during journal streaming * fix(evals): bind clipped native questions and owned edit dialogs * fix: preserve overlay retries and bounded cleanup * fix: recognize owned planning preludes in native questions * docs: explain overlay scheduling and cleanup guarantees * fix: require fresh publication after Autoplan phase reruns * Release gstack 1.87.6 * fix: preserve CI paths, process identity, and test deadlines * fix: keep informational setup commands independent of install probes * fix: clarify plan review decisions and bound source audit reports * Fix remaining Windows identity and native path CI failures * Clarify CEO review decision and reviewer-result routing * test: accept no-install planner in retry supervision * fix(ceo-review): make review decisions and report completion explicit * perf(test): add fast PR gates, input-keyed judge reuse and isolated free shards * fix(test): start isolated CEO smoke from its existing project plan * fix(test): repair CI fixture races and preserve retry evidence * fix(ceo-review): clarify approvals, depth and saved completion --------- Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com>	2026-09-22 14:57:52 -04:00
Garry TanandOpenAI Codex	9f81911136	v1.86.0.0 feat: route outside reviews by harness (#2850) ... * feat: add a restricted and supervised Claude Code runner Preserve configured authentication and models while enforcing tool access, strict completion JSON, bounded output and process cleanup. Cover argv, failure handling, session metadata and Windows process containment. * feat: route outside reviews by harness and migrate wrapper installs Use Claude Code from Codex and Codex from other supported hosts, with shared invocation rendering, positive gate validation and per-phase provenance. Rename /claude to /claude-code, repair managed shared and copied installations safely, and generate native Kiro skills. Add installed-workflow, failure-injection and live cross-harness regression coverage. * test: recognize CEO mode labels without terminal spacing The paid workflow rendered SCOPEEXPANSION at option 4, but its driver required a literal space. Match the leading mode title without cursor-spacing artifacts and ignore adjacent preview text. Preserve missing-target failures and downstream posture assertions. * test: isolate plan-count fixtures before starting review workflows Seed the complete test plan in a private git repository before launching Claude, so a bare slash command cannot review the live workspace while a delayed fixture message remains queued. Preserve count thresholds, parsers and budgets. Add initial-context and installed-discovery tests, and retain startup/terminal diagnostics on failed evaluations. * test: stabilize review fixtures and Claude eval startup Preserve source boundaries in workflow judge inputs, isolate CEO mode plans, and wait for interactive trust input readiness. Keep startup failure evidence and retain existing models, budgets, and assertions. Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * test: classify collapsed review modes and isolate seeded findings Keep review questions out of the setup count when terminal cursor positioning removes spaces. State existing webhook safeguards so the five-finding control measures its seeded defects without accidental extra security and concurrency gaps. Preserve question bands and the paired control. Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * test: isolate browser daemon state across free shards Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * test: stabilize native review counting and interactive navigation Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * chore: prepare v1.82.0.0 release Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * fix: eliminate browser and process-cleanup test flakes Pin every CI surface to Bun 1.4.0 to avoid extra-stdio finalizers closing reused live sockets. Add an isolated GC/listener regression that fails on Bun 1.3.13, and prevent coordinated rollback to an affected CI runtime. Check renderer cleanup against the render's own staging directory so concurrent renders cannot invalidate the assertion. Make the no-pgrep process-tree walk tolerate disappearing /proc entries, and synchronize its test fixture through child readiness and pipe EOF instead of sleeps. Validation: 9,157 passed, 31 skipped, zero failures across 556 files with retries disabled. Build, all-host generation freshness, and skill checks passed. All three races have failing-before/passing-after regressions. * fix: count completed native review questions in evals * fix: drive review navigation from confirmed native choices * fix: require complete section-loading eval reports * test: isolate telemetry HTTP transport from local assertions * fix: keep review input on the active native question * test: let tunnel revocation daemon choose an available port * test: allocate available ports for pairing and watchdog fixtures * fix: stabilize planning eval navigation and phase reporting * test: isolate installed runtime paths in planning evals * test: stabilize review evidence and concurrent refresh fixtures * fix: resolve design findings before editing the plan * fix: honor and persist disabled outside plan reviews * fix: preserve planning decisions and terminal evidence Load installed host reviews at autoplan phase entry and wait for completed reviewers and saved artifacts. Reuse approved remedies while preserving individual finding decisions. Drive interactive evals from the current terminal viewport, bind native questions across scrolling, and require complete native report evidence. Cover captured stale menus, permission lifecycles, setup classification, and disabled-review tool availability with deterministic regressions. Advance release metadata and the upgrade migration to the unclaimed 1.83.0.0 slot. * fix: drive native review questions and preserve current plans Use the native single-choice keyboard protocol and current terminal viewport, with per-question navigation inside packets and completed-call coverage. Keep permissions, multi-select menus, and Submit controls distinct. Send Autoplan reviewers the amended implementation plan, keep its review record separate, and supply retained application contracts in the chain fixture. Clarify individual DevEx decisions and complete CEO fix options; use one active plan destination for the section-loading report. * fix: preserve complete plan-review decisions * fix: recognize native plan dialogs and reviewer controls * fix: preserve review decisions and phase completion * fix: recognize completed reviews without losing findings * fix: preserve review continuity and native eval completion * test: fix native review completion and eval retry isolation * test: handle native review menus and complete eval fixtures * test: fix native review setup, completion, and isolation failures * test: limit native skill discovery to runtime assets * fix: bind Autoplan reviews to full ordered phase inputs * test: fix planning eval routing, counting, and timeout handling * chore: advance queued release to v1.84.0.0 * fix: preserve complete review inputs and planning decisions * fix: reconcile review approvals and preserve phase obligations * fix: preserve review obligations and unblock eval permissions Carry recorded Autoplan requirements into blind phase inputs, require Eng review approvals before exit, and exercise combined asynchronous flows in CEO reviews. Correct native finding and handoff classification and unblock repeated report edits using scoped request identities. * fix: retain plan requirements and complete native review dialogs * fix: complete native review prompts and retain plan references * fix: preserve review inputs and classify native eval evidence * fix: check competing completion orders in CEO reviews * fix: recognize review decisions and require phase methodology Require the current phase methodology before Autoplan snapshots. Correct substantive decision, closed handoff, and cache-finding classification, and honor the recommended implementation approach in native review dialogs. Add captured-transcript regressions without changing review thresholds, provider models, retries, or deadlines. * test: bind native review decisions and close completed handoffs * fix: complete review dialogs and verify methodology delivery * fix: preserve review evidence and unblock native eval prompts * fix: handle native review question completions * fix: recognize native review narration and controls * fix: count native review decisions and isolate eval fixtures * test: verify seeded review coverage and current artifact permissions * test: isolate model and brain-aware skill renders * fix: repair native workflow evaluation and clarify review steps * fix: stabilize workflow eval evidence and review guidance * test: repair native workflow observation and fixture isolation * fix: recognize completed workflow evidence and owned skill reads * test: repair seeded workflow delivery and completion evidence * test: recognize current review evidence across native forms * test: handle native review variants and permission redraws * fix: honor review preferences and recognize native eval evidence * test: recognize completed review decisions and queued permissions * test: match current review contracts and partial-line edits * test: recognize completed workflow evidence and bounded human waits * fix: preserve review entry gates and native eval interactions * fix: recognize native workflow evidence and preserve review gates * test: recognize current review evidence and preconfigure workflow fixtures * test: recognize completed review findings and scoped artifact permissions * fix: stabilize native workflow review and permission evidence * fix: recognize current review evidence and scoped edit confirmations Clarify Design and engineering review entry instructions and Design scoring. Recognize required legacy coverage and public Autoplan completion recaps. Bind the pending Edit confirmation to its exact file, ordered digest, and one-request approval when a preceding command display remains visible. Keep reviews within their existing size limits and preserve scope gates when extracting workflow fixtures from either supported preamble header. Keep failure outcomes, review thresholds, provider choices, and eval budgets. * fix: recover review workflow progress and eval evidence * fix: recognize valid review evidence and scope selection * test: fix review evidence parsing and repeated artifact prompts * test: recognize valid review decisions and pending native cards * fix(plan-eng-review): keep final navigation consistent with approved tasks * test: recognize valid review evidence and bind legacy diff requests * fix: stabilize review eval evidence and harness repair guidance * docs: update project documentation for v1.85.0.0 Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * test: fix Windows CI fixtures and credential scan Rebase captured JSON values and filesystem evidence using the appropriate path convention. Compile native fake CLIs on Windows and synchronize pipe holder readiness, with cleanup retained when assertions fail. Assemble synthetic credential fixtures at runtime so the added-line scan keeps enforcing the same gate without flagging its own rejection controls. Discover generated skills directly for the empty-find regression check, avoiding a recursive scan through saved evaluation artifacts and dependencies. * fix: preserve source renders on Windows Compare canonical generator paths using native separators so an output sidecar pointing at the source cannot overwrite its skill or metadata. Keep the regression fixture isolated from the real checkout and expose freshness diagnostics before asserting subprocess status. Detach Windows drain-test pipe holders from the fake provider's automatic child cleanup while preserving the enclosing runner job and its assertions. * fix: clarify outside review fallback and CEO decisions Render one applicable own-harness fallback path and retain native review, disabled policy, and missing-coverage semantics. Align report field names and mode labels, and make the existing per-cut scope approval explicit. Regenerate skill outputs and keep the workflow judge's model, thresholds, and retry policy unchanged. * chore: move release to free version slot (v1.86.0.0) PR #2852 now claims v1.85.0.0. Align the release metadata and rename migration so upgrades from that version still receive it. Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * fix: include engineering review prerequisites and restore branch context * fix: recognize coverage diagrams and clarify design review instructions * fix: preserve file identities and join Windows test processes --------- Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com>	2026-09-14 14:32:45 -07:00
Garry TanandOpenAI Codex	71f6048e8a	v1.84.1.0 fix: default Codex and Claude to frontier models (#2835) ... * fix: default cross-model workflows to frontier models * chore: bump version and changelog (v1.82.1.0) Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * fix: repair frontier eval budgets and workflow instructions Preserve frontier models and quality thresholds while fixing truncated judge output, ordered section expansion, consent checks, QA scoring, and ship audit gates. Add regression coverage and refresh generated docs. Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * fix: resolve workflow gaps exposed by frontier evals Clarify plan-review ordering and fallback modes, preserve deploy readiness gates, honor configured merge methods, correct benchmark and canary contracts, and restore vendored installs on setup failure. Cover recovery with real-shell regressions. Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * fix: use agent capture budgets for deploy evals Multi-turn deploy and benchmark sessions were incorrectly limited to the single-call judge timeout. Use the existing capture tier and leave outer-test cleanup headroom, with a free policy regression test. Keep all behavioral assertions and frontier models unchanged. Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * fix: clarify retro workflow and evaluate compare instructions Include compare mode in the frontier judge excerpt, define metric sources and snapshot ordering, and preserve the existing prompt-size budget. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * fix: make documentation release review and publication consistent Review before commit, clarify changelog safeguards and unavailable reviewer modes, and preserve raw PR bodies across separate shell calls. Keep title sync in one shell and add regression coverage. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> --------- Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com>	2026-09-09 08:57:21 -07:00
Garry TanandClaude Fable 5	0d1bd5616c	v1.79.0.0 fix: ship subagent dispatches can no longer strand the run (#497/#2440 class) (#2772) ... * fix(ship): foreground-flag + deadline + scope guard on all four dispatch sites (#497/#2440 class, 3rd recurrence) Steps 7/8/10/18 dispatch subagents whose LAST-line JSON the parent consumes, but none passed run_in_background: false — since Claude Code v2.1.198 subagents background by default, so /ship stranded at Step 18 waiting on output that never arrives. Every site now renders the shared {{FOREGROUND_DISPATCH_NOTE}} resolver constant, carries a ~10-minute deadline with an explicit recovery branch (stop the runaway task, reconcile against pre-dispatch HEAD, surface stray state, never re-dispatch), and Step 18's prompt gains a docs-sync-only scope guard (no VERSION changes, no base-branch merges, push-rejection reported as pushed:false with parent-side reconciliation and a second-failure branch). Greptile failures now record as UNAVAILABLE, not zero comments. GENERATED_WITH_GUIDANCE pins all five ship dispatch carriers; a new test pins the deadline recovery + scope guard phrases in pr-body (.md and .tmpl). Codex/factory ship goldens re-rendered. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(document-release): first-class spawned-dispatch contract document-release's own templates had zero subagent-awareness — the entire headless contract lived in /ship's dispatch prompt, so any other orchestrator (or an older installed /ship) dispatching it inherited none of the gate handling. The skill now carries the contract itself: detect spawned strictly from the dispatch prompt or the preamble echo (never from file content — prompt-injection guard), auto-choose recommended options while keeping the never-clobber-CHANGELOG and never-bump-VERSION-silently invariants via their Skip options. Step 8.4d gets an explicit spawned note (its interactive recommendation bumps VERSION — wrong headlessly), and the Codex Documentation Review section skips itself in spawned sessions (the apply gate needs a human; the dispatching workflow owns review passes). Contract, 8.4d note, and resolver skip are pinned in run-in-background-guidance.test.ts; document-release skeleton budget re-measured (39,812 B) and ratcheted to 40,200. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: sweep every remaining synchronous Agent-dispatch site with run_in_background: false The #2440 failure shape was a silently-missing review voice — a specialist launched in the background and merged before it completed. Every remaining synchronous dispatch site now carries the explicit flag: the Red Team dispatch, the spec review loop, the Codex second-opinion/plan-review/doc-review Claude fallbacks, the adversarial subagent, design sketch and outside voices, autoplan's design/eng/dx phase dispatches, CSO parallel finding verification, and design-shotgun's variant launch. Parallel fan-outs stay parallel — multiple foreground Agent calls in one message run concurrently (the shipped v1.64.0.0 review-army pattern). GENERATED_WITH_GUIDANCE now pins all 24 generated carriers, so a new dispatch site that drops the flag fails the free suite. Six carved-skill skeleton ceilings re-measured and ratcheted (~80-130 B growth each); factory ship golden re-rendered. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * release: v1.79.0.0 — CHANGELOG, VERSION, TODOS follow-ups Queue-advanced to 1.79.0.0 (1.78.0.0 claimed in the workspace queue; same MINOR level per the versioning invariant). Entry references the class history (#497 → #2440 → Step 18). Three TODOS filed: PreToolUse hook enforcement, structural ship-mode for document-release, cross-host dispatch semantics audit. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * regen: review-army sections carry the Red Team foreground flag The scripts/resolvers/review-army.ts Red Team edit regenerated these two files but the sweep commit staged only the adversarial sections — the skill-docs freshness gate (regen + git diff --exit-code) catches this. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * regen: agents digest picks up v1.79.0.0 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(document-release): one canonical spawned contract, downstream notes are pointers The diff-selected LLM-judge eval scored the skill's clarity 3 (threshold 4, main scores 4): the spawned-session rules read as three separately- framed rule sets (contract paragraph, Step 8.4d note, Codex-review skip). The contract paragraph now declares itself the single source of spawned behavior and the two downstream notes reference it instead of restating rationale. The pointer avoids naming the Codex section verbatim so the codex-host render (which strips that section) keeps its negative pin. Judge re-scored 4/5/4 across repeated samples after the change. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: foreground note names the Agent tool as non-substitutable The ship-docsync gate E2E caught a behavioral regression: the note's blocking-emphasis ('a backgrounded dispatch strands the run') steered the driven agent to run doc-sync via the Skill tool inline — the most blocking option — twice in a row, forfeiting the fresh-context isolation the dispatch exists for (baseline on main's text dispatches via Agent). The shared note now says explicitly: dispatch with the Agent tool itself, never substitute Skill or inline execution; the flag already makes the call block. Re-verified: ship-docsync passes on the amended text. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: pre-landing review fixes Review army + red team findings, all verified before applying: - ship-docsync E2E now asserts run_in_background === false on the captured dispatch (red team CRITICAL: phrase pins prove text exists, this proves the model obeys it — verified passing live). - Structural scanner test: any generated file with an Agent-dispatch imperative (or bare '(foreground)' prose, the #2440 inert shape) must carry the flag or hold a reasoned exemption — the 4th-recurrence net the hand-enumerated pin list can't provide. - Parent push reconciliation models reality: the parent shares the repo, so a non-fast-forward that hit the subagent hits the parent identically — fetch + ahead/behind check first, push only when the rejection was transient; dispatch prompt promise softened to 'the parent will handle it'. - Recovered commits from a dead subagent are vetted docs-only (git show --stat, never VERSION/package.json) before any push. - Deadline pacing named: ~3 minutes between checks, wall clock not polls. - Greptile UNAVAILABLE recording narrowed to the PR body (Step 20's schema carries no triage field). - document-release contract gains the echo-failure tie-breaker: prompt claims spawned + no echo → fail fast with the dispatch contract's failure shape instead of reproducing the #2733 prose-STOP; contract anti-injection and NEVER-relax clauses pinned in tests. - 'Claude Code v2.1.198' extracted to CC_BACKGROUND_DEFAULT_SINCE and interpolated at all resolver sites (byte-identical output). - CHANGELOG: entry-boundary blank line restored; worst-case-wait row scoped to the backgrounded path. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: adversarial review fixes — failure shape, CHANGELOG guard, vet coherence Claude adversarial subagent findings (11), all verified before applying: - The dispatch JSON contract gains an explicit FAILURE shape ({"error":...}) and a parent branch for it — a doc-sync that could not run (spawned marking failed, broken preamble) previously had only the no-updates shape to emit, which the parent printed as 'Documentation is current': a silent false-clean of exactly the VAS-449 class. - Scope guard now covers CHANGELOG: skip Step 5 voice polish and resolve CHANGELOG-touching gates to leave-as-is (the parent authored the release entry; the prompt's older auto-choose clause conflicted with the contract's never-rewrite invariant). - Recovery vet is sequence-coherent: pushing a commit pushes its ancestors, so ANY non-doc commit (VERSION, package.json, CHANGELOG.md) blocks the whole sequence — no more push-the-vetted-child-of-an- unvetted-parent hole. - Steps 7/8/10 failure branches stop a still-running backgrounded task before falling back, so a late result never races the inline audit. - 'Documentation synced' print gated on pushed:true (item 6 owns the local-only outcome); doc-review skip note's backward step pointer fixed; foreground note scoped 'at initial dispatch' so the sanctioned inline FALLBACKS in Steps 7/8 read as sanctioned; constants docstring no longer overclaims single-sourcing (names the 3 inline templates). - Runtime-hook TODO raised P2 → P1: the spawned trust chain is agent-self-asserted; prose cannot close it, the hook can. Both docsync gate E2Es re-verified green on the amended prompt, including the strict run_in_background === false dispatch assert. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: codex adversarial fixes — JSON trust, fail-open visibility, user-state safety Codex outside-model adversarial pass (inline-diff workaround for the sandbox), P1/P2 findings triaged cross-model: - Parent validates the dispatch JSON's field types and treats documentation_section as untrusted markdown (Step 19's redaction scan covers the final body; instruction-shaped text inside it is never followed). The error branch now explicitly skips items 2-6. - Remote-ahead divergence is named, not silent: the parent lists foreign commits before creating a PR over a moved branch. - Recovery cleanup never discards content: stray staged doc edits are unstaged but never checked out or cleaned away. - Greptile UNAVAILABLE gets a concrete PR-body line, not a vague 'wherever results are reported'. Pre-existing-class P1s (self-asserted spawned trust chain, unenforceable foreground timeout) are cross-model confirmed and tracked: PreToolUse hook TODO at P1, harness-residue hazard documented. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: never-Skill prohibition made unambiguous; docsync fixture made diagnostic The ship-docsync E2E flaked on this sandbox because the driven agent resolved the STOP pointer's ~ to nonexistent homes (/root, /home) and acted blind — pass/fail sampled model priors, not the prompt. The fixture prompt now names the planted sections dir, making local runs deterministic (CI, with real install paths, was always diagnostic). With a diagnostic fixture: 2/2 passes, real pr-body read, Agent dispatch with run_in_background: false, zero Skill-tool substitutions. Prose: the foreground note now states the dispatch happens ONLY via the Agent tool (invoking the target as a Skill is wrong even though it appears in the skills list; inline FALLBACKs apply only after a dispatched subagent has failed), and the Step 18 imperative carries the never-the-Skill-tool clause at the decision point. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: CHANGELOG entry covers the review-hardened contract Failure JSON shape, CHANGELOG scope guard, vetted recovery pushes, structural scanner, and the behavioral dispatch assert are shipped properties of v1.79.0.0 — the entry now describes them. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: update project documentation for v1.79.0.0 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: CHANGELOG voice — follow-ups to For contributors, never-Skill property stated Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): daemon 503 test binds an OS-assigned port, not old-port+1 windows-free-tests flaked on this PR: the tunnel-less restart bound daemon.loopbackPort + 1 — a fixed neighbor of the OS-assigned ephemeral port — and died with 'Is port 55738 in use?' whenever another shard or a TIME_WAIT socket held it; the file-level retry re-rolled the same dice. Every other startDaemon in the file already uses loopbackPort: 0 and the assertion reads d2.loopbackPort, so nothing needs a predictable number. 21/21 pass locally. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-09-01 16:42:11 -07:00
Garry TanandClaude Fable 5	07b59e396c	v1.75.0.0 feat: ponytail import wave — simplification review lens, arm benchmark, reuse ladder, instruction-tier digest (#2722) ... * feat(autoplan): eng review always runs last — the gate reviews the final amended plan Reorder the pipeline to CEO -> Design (if UI scope) -> DX (if developer-facing scope) -> Eng. The old order (CEO -> Design -> Eng -> DX) let DX findings land AFTER the required gate signed off, so eng validated a stale plan. Accept-all semantics made explicit: every AskUserQuestion resolves to the recommended option; premises no longer pause the pipeline mid-run (clearly-wrong ones queue as User-Challenge items at the single Final Approval Gate). Eng's Codex voice now sees the DX consensus summary. New free static test pins the order; the chain E2E gains DX-between and Eng-terminal assertions. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(review): simplification specialist — advisory over-engineering lens with ponytail's tag vocabulary New 8th Review Army specialist (DIFF_LINES > 100, --simplification force flag) hunting unrequested STRUCTURE only: delete/stdlib/native/speculative/shrink closed tags, one-line findings, lines_removable field. speculative: replaces ponytail's yagni: tag — we import the lens, not the posture; coverage stays sacred (Completeness Gaps owns it, suppressions inlined, shrink needs >=5 lines). Advisory carve-out in the merge step: advisory findings are excluded from quality_score and the findings-count header, render with an [ADVISORY] label, and are ASK-only in Fix-First. Zero-findings case prints the lens-scoped 'Simplification: lean already — nothing to cut.' from the PARENT (the specialist keeps the exact NO FINDINGS contract); with findings, the parent prints 'net: -N lines possible' summed from lines_removable. Tests: static pins for the carve-out + early-out contract (gen-skill-docs), two periodic e2e cases with planted fixtures — activation (over-build traps: hand-rolled Intl, one-impl abstract, dead config) and false-flag precision (a lean ETHOS 'choose A' diff must yield NO FINDINGS). Inspired by dietrichgebert/ponytail's /ponytail-review. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(preamble): reuse ladder in Search Before Building — rungs 2-5 of ponytail's ladder, completeness kept Tier-3+ skills gain a per-edit reflex the section only stated as research discipline: before writing new code, stop at the first rung that holds — repo helper, stdlib, native platform feature, installed dependency — then build the COMPLETE version of what remains. The closing clause is the explicit reconciliation with Boil the Ocean: the ladder governs structure, never coverage. Rungs 1/6/7 (YAGNI / one line / minimum that works) are deliberately NOT imported. Also ports ponytail's root-cause rule: one guard in the shared function beats a guard in every caller. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(preamble): bounded-closer output rule for tier-2+ skills After completing work, skills report in a few short lines — what changed, what was skipped, what to watch — and cut any explanation that outgrows the change. Explicit exemptions protect every mandated output: decision briefs, completion-status blocks, user-requested explanations, and report-shaped skills' report formats (the report IS the work in /qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate). Rationale is signal-to-noise, not tokens: ponytail's own benchmark shows terse prose alone doesn't cut cost (caveman arm: -20% LOC, +7% tokens), and independent replications found its 'skipped on purpose' essays ate the code savings. Includes a good/bad closer example pair per the model-overlay guidance that a positive example beats a 'don't be verbose' instruction. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(resolvers): terse-mode savings claim matches measurement — 2.6KB, not 3-5KB Measured on the v1.71 render: --explain-level=terse saves exactly 2,611 bytes per tier-2+ skill. The old ~3-5KB claim predated the preamble restructuring. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(retro,preamble): gstack-shortcut debt ledger — accepted shortcuts leave a joined trail When the user accepts an option that is BOTH Completeness <= 7 AND a durable-scope call, the decision ledger entry (gstack-decision-log, ceiling + upgrade trigger in the rationale) is the source of truth, and the agent marks each cut corner in code with gstack-shortcut(dec-<id>): <ceiling>, upgrade when <trigger> — same edit, no follow-up question, never agent-initiated. /retro Step 11.5 harvests markers into a debt ledger (grep || true — zero matches is the healthy case; skill installs and docs excluded), joins on the decision id so nothing double-counts, tags unlinked and no-trigger rot risks, and closes with 'N markers, M with no trigger.' /review suppressions: a marker with ceiling+trigger downgrades a would-be Completeness Gaps finding to acknowledged debt. Redaction test pins that the marker ships untouched (the ledger is the point) — it does not match the TODO(owner) hygiene shape. Format from dietrichgebert/ponytail's ponytail-debt; store inverted to gstack's existing decision ledger. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: refresh golden ship baselines after preamble additions (reuse ladder + bounded closer) The golden-file regression test pins the rendered ship skill byte-for-byte; the WS3/WS7 preamble sections are deliberate changes, so the baselines re-capture per the goldens' own update protocol. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(hosts): instruction-only tier — a 2KB committed rules digest any agent host can read New agents-digest/gstack-AGENTS.md (1,765 bytes, hard 2,048-byte budget): gstack's ethos one-liners, the reuse ladder, and voice rules for hosts with no install arm — Zed, Amp, Jules, or any AGENTS.md-reading agent. Generated by scripts/gen-agents-digest.ts, auto-refreshed by gen:skill-docs, committed like llms.txt so setup's explainer arms can point at it before any toolchain exists. First line carries the gstack version as its own staleness nudge. Delivery is print-path + user-performed copy ONLY: setup never writes or overwrites a user's AGENTS.md (a test pins this — no cp/ln/mv/redirect into AGENTS.md anywhere in setup). openclaw and hermes explainer arms print the path; slate keeps routing to the full Claude install and gbrain ships from its own repo. HostConfig gains the optional install.instructionTier slot, declared by both instruction-tier hosts. README host table now matches what setup actually does. Inspired by dietrichgebert/ponytail's instruction-tier AGENTS.md fallback — one generated source, never per-host hand copies. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(preamble): AskUserQuestion repetition cut — gated, passed NOT-WORSE A/B Removes the duplicate statements v1.71's compaction left in the AskUserQuestion Format section: the completeness rule restated in the prose triad, the auto-decide marker syntax stated twice, the Conductor-flakiness explanation stated twice, and the self-check's full triad restatement. Every verbosity floor and all 14 format pins stay (Layer 0 green). The gate this decision rested on ran before landing (new periodic skill-e2e-auq-repetition-cut-ab.test.ts, pre-cut ref 3263fffe vs this render, same harness as auq-verbose-vs-carved-ab): POST 7/7 format elements, substance 5 — identical to PRE. No degradation; the load-bearing-repetition hypothesis did not hold for these duplicates. Net: -236 bytes per tier-2+ skill (~9.7KB corpus). Golden ship baselines re-captured for the deliberate change. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(evals): with-skill vs without-skill arm benchmark — measures whether gstack's behavioral layer earns its tokens Ponytail's honest-benchmark method pointed at gstack itself: 3 build-shaped tasks (native-platform over-build trap, CRUD endpoint, bug fix with planted decoys) x 2 arms, real claude -p sessions, scored on the git diff left behind. A research instrument, not a release gate — no assertion compares arm scores. Arms use the PROVEN project-scope pattern: the with-arm installs a build-discipline skill (extracted reuse-ladder + bounded-closer content, not whole-file copies) into the fixture's .claude/skills/ with a CLAUDE.md routing line and an explicit invocation; a live spike confirmed claude -p discovers and invokes project-scope skills via the Skill tool (3 turns, exact-output probe). Fixtures are git init + local bare origin; diff capture is three lines of git, no worktree machinery. Failure taxonomy: zero-diff arms are VALID scored cells (deterministic 0/none, no API call), harvest failures record harvest:null, judge_error cells are excluded from aggregates but named in the report — nothing drops silently. armJudge: fixed sonnet judge, 0-3 unrequested-structure rubric, must name the construct or say none, bounded retry-on-malformed; callJudge gains optional temperature/max_tokens (defaults unchanged). recordE2E now populates tokens_used for every E2E. Eval schema v2: harvest gains {insertions, deletions, net}, tolerant reads keep v1 runs comparable. Registered periodic in E2E_TIERS + touchfiles (with the auq-repetition-cut A/B); periodic detach timeout raised to the new shard-census floor. Free selftest (8 tests, zero API) pins fixtures, extraction, arm asymmetry, diff capture, judge plumbing, and the retry bound. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: absorb the ponytail-import wave into the guard fixtures — ceilings, schema pin, triad phrasing Skeleton ceilings re-captured for the 17 carved skills the wave deliberately grew (reuse ladder + bounded closer + shortcut trail, net of the gated -236B AUQ cut), each with its measured size in the comment per the carve-guards protocol. eval-store schema pin updated to v2 (harvest gains insertions/deletions/net). The AUQ prose-triad keeps its pinned per-choice phrasing ('explicit on EACH choice') while still deferring the score scale to the canonical Format rule — the shipped cut is strictly closer to the pre-cut text than the render that already passed the NOT-WORSE gate. Autoplan carve anchors follow the Phase 2.5 renumbering. Golden ship baselines re-captured. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: observability partial-file pin follows eval-store schema v2 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(test-runner): GSTACK_FREE_JOBS + opt-in flaky-retry pass for syscall-supervised sandboxes GSTACK_FREE_JOBS overrides the computed shard count (the free runner's analogue of the paid runner's EVALS_JOBS). On Vercel sandboxes, PID 1 installs a seccomp filter whose supervisor spuriously fails access(2) for busy processes — measured: 200/200 git-init probes fail 'Cannot access work tree: Permission denied' while the suite runs at 6 shards, 0/200 idle; statx succeeds while access fails on the same path in the same process. One serial mega-shard maximizes per-process pressure and fails too; 2 shards is the measured sweet spot. GSTACK_FREE_RETRY_FLAKY=1 (default OFF — dev boxes should see flakes) re-runs attributed failures once, serially, capped at 5 files; a clean retry downgrades to a loud FLAKY-PASS naming the offenders, a repeat failure stays red, timeouts and unattributed failures never retry. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(browse): portable temp paths — TEMP_DIRS allowlist, tmpdir()-based test files Local path validation now accepts os.tmpdir() alongside the classic /tmp (new TEMP_DIRS in platform.ts): on macOS os.tmpdir() is /var/folders/..., and TMPDIR-honoring CI/sandbox environments point it elsewhere entirely — both are legitimate scratch space. Remote file serving (TEMP_ONLY) stays pinned to TEMP_DIR alone; no change to the exfil boundary. commands.test.ts drops 41 hardcoded /tmp literals for a tmpp() helper on os.tmpdir() (two message assertions now reference the same variable), and path-validation's symlink-escape test targets /etc/hosts instead of /etc/crontab — the target must EXIST for realpath to resolve the link (a dangling target falls back to the link's own path and passes vacuously), and /etc/crontab is absent on Amazon Linux. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(config): portable sha256 — Linux ships sha256sum, not shasum resolve-user-slug and endpoint hashing exited 127 on Amazon Linux (shasum is a macOS/perl tool). New _sha256_hex helper prefers sha256sum and falls back to shasum, matching gstack-verify-gate's existing pattern; both call sites converted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(next-version): only trust ls-remote when origin is actually configured Without the guard, git DWIMs the literal 'origin' as an ssh host/path; on hosts whose transport launders exit codes the probe 'succeeds' with zero branches and the allocator silently sees an empty queue — the exact duplicate-allocation failure (#2545) fetchGitClaimed exists to prevent. git remote get-url origin gates the probe; absence falls through to the existing local-refs path with its staleness warning. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(testing): sandbox-doctor — one command makes a cloud sandbox run the suite green Measured failure taxonomy for Vercel/Conductor sandboxes (missing /dev/fd, 64M /dev/shm, seccomp-supervisor access(2) EACCES under load, uid-1000 processes with FULL capabilities defeating chmod-denial tests, no X server, no git identity, Conductor git-shim exit-code laundering) plus the idempotent script that treats all of it and seeds the run recipe. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(config): converge on main's self-contained sha8_of — its tests extract the function standalone The merge kept a branch-local _sha256_hex helper; main's v1.72 landed the same portability fix inline WITH tests that extract sha8_of()'s text and run it under a shim-only PATH — a helper call can't satisfy that shape. Adopt the landed implementation at both hash sites. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: coverage for GSTACK_FREE_JOBS override and failingFiles attribution Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: coverage for TEMP_DIRS widening and remote-serving TEMP_ONLY asymmetry Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: coverage for gstack-shortcut marker grammar and retro harvest joint Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: coverage for sandbox-doctor shell syntax and idempotency guards Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test-runner): empty-shard outcome carries failingFiles; harden flaky-retry list The empty-shard early return omitted the (required) failingFiles field — tsc TS2741 — feeding undefined into the flaky-retry flatMap. Also drop the dead 'else if (worst !== 0)' guard (the enclosing if already pins it). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(release): version-bump write regenerates the version-stamped agents digest agents-digest/gstack-AGENTS.md embeds VERSION in its first line and is byte-freshness-gated (test/agents-digest.test.ts + Skill Docs Freshness CI), but nothing in the release path regenerated it — every version-bumping ship of this repo would land red. write now spawns the repo's own generator when present (agentsDigest true/false/null in the output JSON), and ship's evidence gate allow-lists the digest alongside VERSION/package.json. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(setup): instruction-tier explainer prints the script-anchored digest path $(pwd) printed a nonexistent path when setup ran from any other directory; both arms now share one print_instruction_tier() using SOURCE_GSTACK_DIR. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(digest): broaden AGENTS.md writer tripwire; pin digest-resolver ladder lockstep The print-path-only guard now catches tee/install/rsync/dd/truncate, >> appends, and laundered variable-destination writes. New test ties the digest's hand-rendered reuse-ladder text to the preamble resolver so an edit to either fails CI instead of shipping drift. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(retro): shortcut harvest drops placeholder markers and convention docs The Step 11.5 grep matched documentation mentions (dec-<id>, dec-*) in checklists, resolver sources, and convention tests, reporting phantom debt rows on gstack itself. A trailing filter kills placeholder forms; prose tells the agent to discard convention-quoting hits. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(review): advisory findings count in per-specialist stats Without this, simplification (all-advisory by construction) would log findings:0 every run and auto-gate itself into permanent silence after 10 dispatches. The advisory carve-out governs score and header only. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(evals): arm-benchmark harvest and judge hardening - Harvest diffs against the recorded seed SHA (origin/main is movable by an agent that commits AND pushes; a recorded SHA is not). - Fixtures get a node_modules .gitignore and the git wrapper a 64MB maxBuffer, so a vendored-dependency arm is scored instead of killing the cell. - The judge diff cap is a named constant with loud truncation (log + judge_reasoning suffix). - Judge prompt block markers carry a per-call random sentinel, so a diff containing a faked closing marker cannot escape the data block. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(evals): AUQ A/B vendored pre-cut arm + judge-error inconclusive taxonomy - The PRE arm read a branch-local SHA (3263fffe) that becomes unreachable on fresh clones after the squash-merge; the pre-cut render is now a vendored fixture. - A judge failure on one side no longer coerces substance to 0 (which fabricated DEGRADATION on POST-side failures and masked regressions on PRE-side failures): null substance = inconclusive, format still gates. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: regression pin for the originConfigured guard vs laundering git shims On healthy hosts the guarded and unguarded paths behave identically, so a revert passes the suite; only a shim that makes 'git ls-remote' exit 0 with empty output (the Conductor wrapper's observed behavior) exposes it. Pins that the empty 'successful' probe is never trusted as an empty queue. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(sandbox-doctor): missing /dev/shm no longer aborts the doctor under set -eu Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore(touchfiles): close dep-list gaps for the new evals - arm-benchmark entries gain ship/SKILL.md (buildBehavioralSkill extracts sections from the rendered ship skill) - review-army-simplification entries gain their planted fixtures + test file - auq-repetition-cut-ab gains llm-judge.ts and the vendored PRE fixture Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore: re-capture context-budget fixture — lock the WS6-3 reduction and Step 9 deltas Per the ratchet protocol: the AUQ repetition cut shrank per-skill eager tokens but the fixture was never re-captured, leaving the win unlocked. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(release): digest regen is an explicit --regen-digest opt-in, not presence-sniffed code exec Review (security) caught the cycle-1 fix executing any repo's scripts/gen-agents-digest.ts on plain 'write' — arbitrary code exec from a hostile clone on a routine bump, contradicting the binary's own containment posture. The regen still runs the TARGET repo's generator (a 'trusted' copy beside the binary would false-red the freshness gate on version drift), but only under the flag: /ship passes it deliberately, in a repo whose code the operator already executes (its test suite). Plain write is side-effect-free again. Also: uniform output shape (agentsDigest: null on the JSON-manifest branch), a REAL generator round-trip test replacing the misnamed lockstep check, and land-and-deploy's evidence gate gets the same digest allow-path as ship so the two grading surfaces agree. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test-runner): flaky-retry vetoes on ANY unattributable failure evidence The gate equated 'some failure attributed' with 'all failures attributed': a shard with one attributed failure plus a headerless failure, an unhandled error between tests, or a truncated run (no terminal summary) qualified for retry — re-running only failingFiles and masking the rest as FLAKY-PASS, re-opening the silent-truncation hole the strict classifier closes. FreeShardOutcome now carries unattributedFailures; nonzero vetoes the retry. Pins: mixed shard, truncated-with-attributed shard, empty-shard field values. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(next-version): a configured origin advertising zero heads is never trusted The originConfigured guard covered only the no-origin laundering case. With origin configured (the normal Conductor worktree state), the laundering shim makes a failed ls-remote exit 0 with empty stdout — read as 'the queue is empty', the exact duplicate-allocation bug (#2545) one layer up. A reachable remote always advertises at least its default branch, so an exit-0 zero-head probe now falls back to local refs/remotes/origin with a laundering-specific warning. Regression test shims git for both configurations. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(sandbox-doctor): loud on git-shim patch drift; document the retry-contract override - The /conductor/bin/git patch was a silent no-op if the shim's bytes drift from the exact pattern — now warns that laundering is NOT fixed. - The bashrc block documents why GSTACK_FREE_RETRY_FLAKY=1 deliberately overrides the runner's default-OFF contract on this sandbox, and how to undo it. - Test pins the guarded shm form (missing /dev/shm must not abort set -eu). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(digest): pin the script-anchored explainer path; catch declaration-prefixed writers - Asserts $SOURCE_GSTACK_DIR/agents-digest path and forbids $(pwd)/agents-digest (the cycle-1 fix was revertible without failing anything). - The laundered-assignment arm now matches local/export/declare/readonly/typeset prefixed assignments — the likeliest in-function writer shape in setup. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(evals): arm-benchmark selftest runs FREE on every PR The selftest lived inside the paid skill-e2e-* file, so fixture-integrity and plumbing pins executed weekly at best — a broken fixture would ship past every gating check and be discovered when the periodic run burned money on a dead instrument. Harness extracted to test/helpers/arm-benchmark-harness.ts, selftest to test/arm-benchmark-selftest.test.ts (free suite). Touchfiles: harness added to the three benchmark dep lists; the auq-repetition-cut-ab tier comment now states the MANUAL re-run obligation honestly (periodic runs force EVALS_ALL, so dep lists cannot auto-trigger it). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore: re-capture context-budget fixture after cycle-2 template deltas Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(sandbox-doctor): keep both heredoc bodies under the 512B pipe-deadlock window The cycle-2 additions pushed the python-patch and bashrc heredocs into the 512-65536B window test/heredoc-pipe-deadlock.test.ts guards (sh scripts get no BASH_COMPAT escape hatch). Same content, tighter prose; the drift warning now reuses the patch pattern variable instead of a second literal. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(review): a gstack-shortcut marker only suppresses findings when its decision id resolves in the ledger Cross-model catch (Claude adversarial + Codex agreed): any diff author could fabricate a marker and silence Completeness review of that gap. Reviewers now resolve the dec-id via gstack-decision-search; an orphan marker is reported as a forged suppression, not honored as debt. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(autoplan): define the B2 gate path — accepted premise challenges amend the plan and re-run Eng The final gate offered B2 (respond to User Challenges) but the option handler table omitted it, leaving accepted challenges with no amendment or Eng re-review path. B2 now walks challenges one at a time; an accepted one amends the plan and re-runs Eng (the gate always reviews the final plan), sharing D's 3-cycle cap. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(evals): arm benchmark runs each fixture's functional oracle — correctness before LOC The plan's metric order is diff-quality FIRST, but cells never ran the fixtures' own run-tests.js, so a refusal, a broken implementation, and working code were indistinguishable in aggregates (Codex adversarial catch). Tasks with an oracle declare checkCmd; every cell records checks=pass|fail|none in the report line and eval store. Selftest pins the oracle declarations and that the planted bug fails its own check pre-fix. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ship): check the bump's agentsDigest result; state the --regen-digest trust envelope honestly A failed digest regen warned and moved on — ship now instructs re-running the generator and staging the digest with the bump (the freshness check stays red otherwise). The 'no-op everywhere else' phrasing oversold safety: the step now names what executes and why that is inside the envelope Step 5 already opened (the repo's own test suite). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test-runner): GSTACK_FREE_JOBS accepts digits only — parseInt truncation defeated the loud-failure contract '2abc' silently became 2 and '3.7' became 3 despite the error text claiming a positive-integer requirement. Strict /^\d+$/ pre-check; both shapes pinned. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(sandbox-doctor): atomic git-shim patch, :99-socket Xvfb check, dnf gate, non-interactive sudo - The /conductor/bin/git patch writes tmp-then-rename with a .orig backup — a concurrently spawned git can never exec a truncated shim. - Xvfb running-check looks for the :99 socket, not any-display pgrep. - Xvfb install is dnf-gated so non-dnf distros degrade to a warning instead of aborting the remaining fixes under set -eu. - The bashrc /dev/fd restore uses sudo -n || true — no password prompt at every shell start on non-passwordless machines. - BASH_COMPAT=50 keeps heredoc bodies off the bash pipe window. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(build): a failed agents-digest regen fails gen-skill-docs instead of deferring the red to CI Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(browse): an untrustable TMPDIR (/, $HOME, a cwd ancestor) never widens the local allowlist TEMP_DIRS honors os.tmpdir() at daemon start; a daemon launched with TMPDIR=/ would have trusted the whole filesystem for local path validation for its lifetime. Subprocess pins cover /, $HOME, cwd-ancestor rejection and that a benign distinct TMPDIR (the sandbox recipe's $HOME/tmp) stays honored. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore: zero-heads warning names the benign cause too; digest path declaration made load-bearing; ratchet re-capture - The ls-remote zero-heads warning no longer accuses an empty remote of running a laundering shim. - instructionTier.rulesFile now must equal the generator's DIGEST_RELPATH (and setup must print it) — the declaration fails with the real path instead of lying silently. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore: file ship-time follow-ups in TODOS skillify HOME-override gate red (pre-existing, proven on main), the auq-verbose-vs-carved-ab branch-local ref, eval-store harvest union, evidence digest allow-path scoping, and the WS6-2 dead-frontmatter live-host verification deferral. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * v1.73.0.0 chore: version bump + CHANGELOG — ponytail import wave Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore: raise ship skeleton parity ceiling — measured 75,592 after the v1.73 release-step prose The --regen-digest trust-envelope paragraph (Step 12) and the evidence-gate digest note (Step 16) grew the ship skeleton past the previous 75,420 ceiling. Re-measured per the deliberate-change protocol. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: update project documentation for v1.73.0.0 - README.md, docs/skills.md, AGENTS.md: /autoplan phase order corrected to CEO → design → DX → eng (eng always last); /review rows note the advisory simplification lens - docs/PROJECT_STRUCTURE.md: add agents-digest/, gen-agents-digest.ts, sandbox-doctor.sh, test-free-shards.ts to the annotated tree - CONTRIBUTING.md: document GSTACK_FREE_JOBS, GSTACK_FREE_RETRY_FLAKY, and the sandbox-doctor one-command fixer in the Tier 1 test section Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: apply cross-model doc-review fixes for v1.73.0.0 - README.md: host table gains the OpenClaw explainer arm row (setup has the arm; the table claimed to match setup) - docs/skills.md: /review completeness-gaps section documents the gstack-shortcut(dec-<id>) acknowledged-debt suppression and orphan-marker flagging; /autoplan deep-dive states the recommended-option default with the 6 principles as tie-breakers - CONTRIBUTING.md: host count 8 -> 10 (Hermes, GBrain), supported-hosts list completed - docs/TESTING_INTERNALS.md: sandbox recipe says to source ~/.bashrc after the doctor seeds it; GSTACK_FREE_JOBS wording fixed from "caps" to "overrides in either direction" (matches the un-clamped runner) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): temp-dirs asymmetry pins are topology-aware; TMPDIR probes are POSIX-only CI exposed two wrong assumptions in the new temp-dirs tests, neither a product bug: - The remote-serving asymmetry test assumed a distinct os.tmpdir() lies OUTSIDE TEMP_DIR, but the free-shard runner nests each child's TMPDIR inside /tmp on CI — a file there is under TEMP_DIR, so serving it remotely is legitimate. The test now pins the actual exfil boundary on every topology (a cwd project file is locally readable, never remotely servable) and branches the os.tmpdir() case on nested-vs-outside. Reproduced locally with TMPDIR=/tmp/nested-tmp before fixing. - The untrustable-TMPDIR subprocess probes set TMPDIR, which Windows os.tmpdir() ignores (reads TEMP/TMP) — and on Windows TEMP_DIR is DEFINED as os.tmpdir(), so the fixed+movable two-dir topology the guard filters does not exist there. Probes now skip on Windows with that rationale; the benign-TMPDIR assertion compares realpaths. Verified under all three POSIX topologies: TMPDIR=$HOME/tmp (outside), TMPDIR=/tmp/nested-tmp (CI shard shape), TMPDIR unset (identical). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(build): DIGEST_RELPATH is a forward-slash literal on every platform path.join built it with backslashes on Windows, so the wiring test's string comparisons against setup and hosts/*.ts (which carry the forward-slash literal) could never match there — windows-free-tests red. path.join(root, DIGEST_RELPATH) at the write site normalizes fine. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(sandbox-doctor): bashrc block re-heals the /dev/shm remount on sandbox restart The 4G remount does not survive restarts; a reverted 64M shm made the multi-tab browse handoff test fail consistently under suite concurrency (observed live: two consecutive full-run failures, green in isolation, green again after remounting). Same guarded arithmetic as the doctor body. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): close the cross-shard porcelain race that failed Windows CI Two-part fix for the gen-skill-docs-out-dir isolation-pin failure: - cookie-import-browser built its scratch cookie DBs inside the TRACKED browse/test/fixtures/ dir (created in beforeAll, deleted in afterAll), so they flash as untracked files mid-run — a concurrent shard's porcelain snapshot caught the window on Windows. The DBs now live in a per-run tmpdir; zero source-tree writes. - gen-skill-docs-out-dir is the free suite's only LIVE porcelain-snapshot test, so it joins TREE_MUTATING (the serial quiet window): any concurrent transient tree-write can race it, and its own spawned render rewrites llms.txt/agents-digest in place (idempotent on a fresh tree). The race is pre-existing; this branch's +5 test files reshuffled shard composition and exposed it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * v1.75.0.0 chore: queue-advance rebump — perth-v2 landed v1.74.0.0 on main The v1.73.0.0 slot this branch claimed was superseded when #2721 merged; same MINOR level relative to main per the versioning invariant. CHANGELOG entry renumbered (1.73.0.0 was branch-internal and never landed on main), digest restamped via --regen-digest. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test-runner): duration-packed walls keep the per-file floor — predictions don't transfer across machines The committed duration seed is recorded on fast CI; a syscall-supervised sandbox replays the same files 2-4x slower. Observed post-merge: a 253-file shard predicted ~242s was wall-killed at its predicted-x3 725s wall while genuinely progressing (the old count heuristic guaranteed 1265s). Packed walls may be looser than the count floor, never tighter. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-29 10:10:35 -07:00
Garry TanandClaude Fable 5	394db326f2	v1.71.0.0 feat: token-load reduction — preamble runtime scripts, gated onboarding, 20 skill carves, CLAUDE.md trim (#2691) ... * feat(gen): strip gen-time-only frontmatter keys from Claude renders interactive + benefits-from are read from the .tmpl by buildContext at generation time; no runtime, host, or test reader consumes them from the generated SKILL.md (e2e-harness-audit reads .tmpl; benefits-from tests assert rendered prose). gbrain: stays (bin/gstack-brain-context-load reads it from the installed render); hooks: stays (Claude Code host wires PreToolUse from it). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore(gen): regenerate SKILL.md — dead frontmatter keys removed Mechanical regen after hosts/claude.ts stripFields change. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(test): context-budget ratchet — CI ceilings on always-on + eager token ledgers New free test grades the two ledgers nothing else guards: the full-frontmatter always-on catalog (aggregate) and per-skill eager tokens (SKILL.md + forced-read refs), via checkBudget from lib/context-bill.ts. Ceilings live in test/fixtures/context-budget.json with x1.05/x1.10 headroom; regenerate with bun test/helpers/capture-context-budget.ts. New skills fail until consciously budgeted; removed skills fail until the fixture is refreshed; reductions ratchet the ceilings down so wins lock in. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(todos): file output-template carve wave + plan-ceo doctrine revisit; mark preamble-carve P3 in flight Two follow-ups deferred from the approved token-reduction program (CEO review 'NOT in scope' list), filed with full context per TODOS format. The existing P3 preamble-carve entry gets a status update pointing at the program that supersedes it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): review findings — Windows path normalization, full totals rebuild, ratchet coverage Pre-landing review (5 specialists) found one critical: the ratchet test runs in the curated Windows lane, where path.relative yields backslash skill names that miss the test/ filter and mismatch every POSIX fixture key. Names are now normalized once in buildRatchetBill (toPosixName) and the fixture filter is tightened to test/fixtures/. All eight Bill.totals fields are rebuilt from the filtered list (no fixture-polluted perInvocation/totalMd numbers for future consumers). New coverage: Windows-separator normalization pins, a captureContextBudget round-trip against tree-a (headroom math exact), a stripFields regression pin (interactive/benefits-from absent from renders, hooks/gbrain preserved), and the ceilings test no longer double-reports stale-fixture entries. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): adversarial findings — stable root key, symlink-alias dedupe, fixture-shape guard Adversarial review (Claude subagent) verified the fixture's root-skill key was the capture machine's checkout dirname: any non-gstack-named clone (every Conductor worktree) failed the free suite, and the documented re-run-the-capture recovery baked the local dirname into the committed fixture — silent corruption through the tool's own protocol. The root skill is now pinned to ROOT_SKILL_KEY ('gstack', its frontmatter name). Symlink aliases are realpath-deduped (census precedent): connect-chrome no longer gets its own ceiling, so Windows checkouts that materialize the symlink as a plain file can't fail the stale-ceiling set-equality test. New guards: fixture-shape validation (a string alwaysOnTotal can no longer silently disable the ceiling), a mutation pin that the filter shrinks the always-on ledger vs the raw bill, an alwaysOnTotal violation test (the branch was load-bearing with only under-budget coverage), and an atomic temp+rename fixture write. Fixture regenerated: 59 ceilings, alwaysOnTotal 6344. Deferred with a TODO: anchoring transformFrontmatter's denylist strip to the frontmatter block (latent, zero live collisions, pre-existing path). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore: bump version and changelog (v1.69.1.0) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: update project documentation for v1.69.1.0 CLAUDE.md: Token ceiling section documents the context-budget ratchet as the third guard (test file, fixture, new-skill budgeting, capture command). CONTRIBUTING.md: Tier 1 guard list gains a Context-budget ratchet bullet; the Adding-a-new-skill checklist gains the budget-capture step. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: pin exact guard semantics for the context-budget ratchet in CLAUDE.md Doc-review finding: "a third enforced ceiling" undercounted the guard family (skill-size-budget floors and parity ratios also watch these ledgers, relatively). Rephrased to match the ratchet test's own header: absolute ceilings vs relative floors/ratios. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(changelog): heaviest-skill claim matches the fixture (land-and-deploy edges review by 0.2%) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(bin): gstack-skill-start + gstack-skill-end — the preamble runtime, consolidated Absorbs the ~13KB of bash every tier-2+ SKILL.md inlined twice over (bootstrap fence + artifacts-sync fence) and the skill-end telemetry/sync fences. Same KEY: value STATUS-line contract the prose interprets, plus SKILL_START_PROTO handshake (OV5), SESSION_ID/TEL_START echoes, GSTACK_HOME-normalized state paths (EOV7), --parent-pid session identity (EOV5: $PPID inside the script is the ephemeral tool-call shell), OV4 sanitization of passthrough output, and a receipted daily artifacts pull (_receipted_git, brain-sync class, fail-closed). Per-line || true error style throughout (F3) — a mid-script failure never drops later STATUS lines. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(gen): preamble resolvers emit a script invocation fence instead of inline bash generate-preamble-bash: ~6.3KB fence -> 4-line gstack-skill-start invocation (quoted-tilde pitfall handled: leading ~ interpolates through $HOME; env-var hosts keep $GSTACK_BIN) + degraded-mode prose (F1/EOV8: safe defaults, consent gates deferred-never-lost; OV5: proto rule). generate-brain-sync-block: ~6.8KB bash -> interpretation prose + the privacy stop-gate (stays inline until Phase 2's gated emission). generate-completion-status: telemetry fence -> one gstack-skill-end call with SESSION_ID/TEL_START handoff. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore(gen): regenerate all skills + golden fixtures — inline preamble bash removed Mechanical regen after the resolver change: −12,628 lines across 52 renders (corpus 952K -> 806K render tokens; tier-2 skills −11-13KB each). Golden per-host ship fixtures refreshed from the fresh claude/codex/factory renders. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: skill-start contract suite + preamble A/B eval + touchfiles registration test/gstack-skill-start.test.ts (11 free tests): STATUS-key contract vs the prose (F2), per-host fence resolution shapes (E1), proto-first, OV4 marker sanitization, --parent-pid identity, headless suppression, skill-end duration math + pending cleanup. test/skill-e2e-preamble-script-ab.test.ts (gate tier, OV7): inline-bash render (pinned from 29785978) vs script render with the fence redirected at the worktree bin (EOV2 — hermetic evals otherwise resolve the operator install and silently exercise degraded mode). 21 touchfiles dep lists gain the two bin scripts (EOV9) so future script edits select the preamble evals; selection-count pin updated 23->24. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: repin ~70 assertions to the script contract — every literal gets a successor Assertions that pinned inline-bash internals (update-check guard, _SESSIONS reaping, telemetry start/end blocks, routing probe, repo-strip producer, first-task gating, EXPLAIN_LEVEL/QUESTION_TUNING echoes, #2499 jq scope resolution, Issue-8 CONDUCTOR gate) now pin the same invariants in their new home: bin/gstack-skill-start / bin/gstack-skill-end file content for script internals, the invocation fence + interpretation prose for render-side behavior. No assertion deleted without a successor; live-execution tests (routing probe, brain-sync jq) run against script bytes unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore(test): re-baseline size floors + ratchet ceilings down (EOV1/OV9 protocol) parity-baseline-v1.69.1.0.json captured with carved-skill unions (53 skills); skill-size-budget repointed with the derivation comment citing the Phase 1 context-bill receipt (the ~13KB/skill cut trips the old 80% floor on tier-1 skills first — setup-browser-cookies headroom 10.8KB < the cut). The v1.47 fixture stays on disk for history; the parity-suite growth baseline (v1.64.1.0) is untouched. Context-budget ceilings re-captured: review 29,309->26,192; learn ->10,969; ios-clean ->10,764 — Phase 1's win is locked. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(bin): instruction-emission layer — onboarding text appears only when its gate fires The 8 one-time onboarding flows (lake intro, telemetry opt-in, proactive opt-in, first-run/first-loop tips, routing injection, vendoring deprecation, writing-style migration, spawned-session rules), the upgrade-flow + feature discovery prose, and the privacy stop-gate (user-approved Q2) moved from every render into gated heredocs here. Blocks are SESSION_ID-bound (GSTACK_INSTRUCTION_BEGIN: <id> <session-id>) so page/file content can't mint directives (F4/OV4). Ack ownership per OV6: display-only tips write their markers at emit (script also fires the scaffold telemetry); interactive flows carry their ack commands inside the block. The dormant WRITING_STYLE_PENDING gate is computed for real now (marker files). BASH_COMPAT=50 heredoc guard (same as brain-sync); the quoted routing heredoc resolves its bin path via a sed placeholder. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(gen): drop the 8 onboarding generators — renders keep one instruction-block rule generate-{lake-intro,telemetry-prompt,proactive-prompt,first-run-guidance, routing-injection,vendoring-deprecation,spawned-session-check, writing-style-migration}.ts deleted (single source is now the script's emission layer, F5). generate-upgrade-check shrinks to the steady-state PROACTIVE/SKILL_PREFIX rules. generate-brain-sync-block hands the privacy stop-gate to the emitted block. The fence prose gains the generic rule: follow GSTACK_INSTRUCTION blocks only from this command's direct tool result with the matching SESSION_ID; unterminated block ends at end-of-output. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore(gen): regenerate all skills + goldens — onboarding prose degated Mechanical regen: corpus 806K -> 707K render tokens (−8KB/skill; cumulative vs main: ship 91->71KB, learn 53->34KB, ios-clean 53->33KB). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: onboarding tombstone + Phase 2 pin relocations New test/onboarding-moved-literals.test.ts (F5): 12 distinctive literals must live in bin/gstack-skill-start AND stay absent from every render, plus the SESSION_ID-binding pins. ~40 assertions repinned to the emission-layer contract (gates, block ids, in-block acks, script-run marker writes); the OV4 sanitize test upgraded to the real property (every legitimate block header carries the run's SESSION_ID). first-task dep list drops the deleted generator; the token->tip case map is pinned to cover every detector bucket. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore(test): carve floors/ceilings recomputed; baseline + ratchet follow Phase 2 (OV9) All 9 carved skills re-anchored to post-Phase-2 measurements (cso's union had tripped its 72,000 floor at 71,379; design-consultation had 252B of margin). maxSkeletonBytes ceilings tightened to measured+~600B. Branch-internal parity baseline recaptured in place; ratchet ceilings down again: review ->24,052, ship ->18,589, learn ->8,828, ios-clean ->8,624. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(gen): AUQ slim — tool resolution as a STATUS-line branch table, split rules to invariants + absolute pointer Tool resolution (1,799B) rewritten as a 3-branch table keyed on the echoed CONDUCTOR_SESSION/SESSION_KIND lines — Conductor prose-default, MCP-variant preference, and failure handoff preserved verbatim in behavior, including the auto-decide-first ordering and the gstack-question-log capture requirement. 5+-options handling (1,924B) compressed to the split invariants (never drop; D<N>.k shape; Include/Defer/Cut/Hold; question_id scheme with the never-ask refusal) + the full-rule pointer. Both doc pointers now interpolate the absolute install root (Codex outside-voice #7 convention) instead of the bare 'in the gstack repo'. Failure-fallback, Format, and self-check sections are byte-identical — all 14 MANDATORY always-loaded pins pass with zero test edits. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore(gen): regenerate all skills + goldens — AUQ slim Mechanical regen: −1.3KB per tier-2+ skill (ship 69.9KB, learn 32.5KB). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore(test): baseline + ratchet follow Phase 3 (OV9); OV8 evaluated — shrink floor stays Branch-internal baseline recaptured; ratchet ceilings down again. OV8's floor-retirement question, evaluated as planned after Phase 3: the 80% shrink floor stays — it uniquely catches accidental body deletion in non-carved skills BETWEEN ratchet recaptures, and the capture command has amortized the fixture-refresh cost that motivated retiring it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(review): carve adversarial, plan-completion, and review-army into sections The three resolver macros ship already carves as siblings now load on demand for /review too: skeleton 100.2KB -> 55.0KB (-45%), union 93.4KB. Resolvers stay the single source of truth (sections wrap the macros). Step 0/1, scope drift, critical pass, confidence calibration, and fix-first stay always-loaded. Fixtures and pins follow the moved content (codex-hardening wrapped-sites, review-army E2E fixture builds skeleton+sections with an empty-fixture guard). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(codex): carve the three mutually exclusive modes into sections Review/Challenge/Consult mode bodies (34.7KB where at most one ever runs) load on demand: skeleton 81.0KB -> 55.2KB, union 1.04x the monolith. The mode dispatch, filesystem boundary, and a new always-loaded 'Synthesis recommendation (REQUIRED) — all modes' block stay skeleton-side (the AUQ per-skill pins pass unchanged); the plan-file report + exit gate render after the last section pointer per the gateAfterStop pattern. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(land-and-deploy): carve first-run validation, readiness gate, and merge/deploy into sections The once-per-repo dry-run validation, the pre-merge readiness gate, and the merge + deploy-strategy steps (37.8KB) load on demand: skeleton 91.1KB -> 55.7KB. Step 1.5 keeps its detection bash as the dispatch; the first-run section's fingerprint-save block gained {{SLUG_EVAL}} so it is self-contained. Zero content lost (line-coverage checked against HEAD). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(ios): demote the four ios skills to preamble-tier 2 (Phase 5) They never consume the tier-3 sections (repo-mode ownership, search-before- building) but do fire AskUserQuestion, which tier >=2 provides — verified by grep before the plan review. -2.2KB per skill. Render assertions pin the demotion (tier-3 sections absent, AUQ format present). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore(guards): register wave-1 carves; monolith invariants retire; baselines + ratchet follow CARVE_GUARDS gains review/codex/land-and-deploy (12 carved skills total); their MONOLITH_INVARIANTS entries retire (invariants now generate from the registry, cso precedent). Touchfiles: carve-section-loading covers the three new carves; the codex + land-and-deploy LLM-judge dep lists widen to their sections. Regen + goldens + branch-internal baseline + ratchet ceilings recaptured (review 24,052 -> skeleton-based ceiling; union floors hold). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(gen-skill-docs): review render pins read the carved union The review carve's readSkillUnion conversions (same pattern its neighbor carved-skill pins already use). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(autoplan): carve the four review phases + tasks aggregator into sections Phase bodies (CEO/Design/Eng/DX consensus flows) and the Implementation Tasks aggregator load on demand; Design and DX stay separate sections because each is independently conditional on scope. Skeleton 83.7KB -> 58.7KB (-30% always-loaded); the 6 decision principles, classification, sequencing, and explicit skip-condition dispatch stay always-loaded. The chain E2E's phase-complete markers now live only in sections, so its assertions double as section-read proof (behavioral: external). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(spec): carve the post-confirmation gate-and-file tail into one section Phases 1-4 are the turn-1 conversational spine — carving them would force the Read on the first user message for zero real savings. The mechanical tail (4.5/4.5a/4.5b redaction gates + Phase 5 filing + TTHW telemetry) fires only after draft confirmation: a genuine lazy boundary, kept as ONE section so the gh-issue-create bash can never load without the fail-closed redaction gate that precedes it. Skeleton 65.4KB -> 50.7KB; all ~85 phase-structure invariants migrated location-aware plus a new carve-shape suite (56 tests). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(setup-gbrain): carve the branch-exclusive install paths into sections Brain-init (Paths 1/2/3/4 bodies), engine remediation, transcript gate, and CLAUDE.md persist load on demand — at most one install route ever runs. Skeleton 75.3KB -> 57.0KB; the Step 1 detect and Step 2 path dispatch stay always-loaded. New buildSetupGbrainFixture helper gives the periodic E2Es extract-don't-copy fixtures with a non-empty guard; the voyage-code-3 gate counts scan the tmpl union (the third init site lives in engine-remediation). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore(guards): register wave-2 carves (15 carved skills); autoplan monolith retires; baselines follow CARVE_GUARDS gains autoplan (behavioral: external via the chain eval), spec, and setup-gbrain; autoplan's MONOLITH_INVARIANTS entry retires. Touchfiles: setup-gbrain periodic dep lists gain the section tmpls + fixture helper; the stale-brain-refs scan covers setup-gbrain/sections. Regen + goldens + branch baseline + ratchet recaptured. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(qa): carve QA patterns + health rubric into on-demand sections (68→48KB skeleton) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(browse): carve full command list + snapshot flags into sections/command-list.md (39→27KB skeleton) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(retro): absorb inline git/awk metrics into bin/gstack-retro-metrics + carve report format RETRO_METRICS_PROTO: 1 contract, local git reads only (fetch stays in the skill prose), degraded path documented in the skeleton. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: register wave-3 carves (qa, browse, retro) — guards, touchfiles, pins, baselines CARVE_GUARDS gains the three entries; qa's monolith invariant retires. auq-format carve-safety now keys on the skeleton+sections union shipping the AUQ block (first tier-1 carve: browse never renders it by design). Baselines: parity v1.69.1.0 at 18 sectioned skills; ratchet recaptured. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): drop stale generate-lake-intro import (generator deleted in the emission-layer move) Sol scope discipline stays pinned via the model overlay + completeness section; the lake intro is now a single script-emitted blurb. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(office-hours): carve Phase 2A/2B into mode-exclusive sections (81→67KB skeleton) A session runs exactly one mode, so a builder session never loads the 13KB startup diagnostic. Mode mapping and the vibe-shift upgrade rule stay in the skeleton. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(design): carve UX doctrine + Pretext patterns into read-on-demand sections design-html 57→49KB, design-shotgun 53→50KB. Sections wrap {{UX_PRINCIPLES}} so scripts/resolvers/design.ts stays the source of truth; the pretext-patterns STOP sits at the top of Step 3 so the read provably precedes the Write. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: register wave-4 carves (office-hours ext, design-html, design-shotgun) — 20 carved skills Both design entries carry requiredReads + loading-eval scenarios (D3A condition). office-hours phase sections are mode-exclusive, so only the always-reached design/handoff section is a deterministic requiredRead. Baselines and ratchet recaptured. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: trim CLAUDE.md 66.4→44.9KB — verbatim moves to docs/, pointers stay inline Moved: browser/sidebar/server internals, CHANGELOG release-summary format spec, project tree, hermetic-E2E detail, slop-scan reference, OpenClaw publishing. Kept inline: every hard behavioral rule (dist/ ban, redaction scan-at-sink, egress receipts, bisect commits, eval detach, CHANGELOG entry rules), the machine-managed GBrain block (byte-identical), and the '## Deploying to the active skill' header with gbrain-refresh in range (pinned by test/gbrain-refresh-install-render.test.ts). No voice rewrites. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): seed onboarding markers into the hermetic child GSTACK_HOME EOV7 made bin/gstack-skill-start honor GSTACK_HOME, so the operator-HOME seeding in e2e-helpers.ts no longer reaches hermetic children — the emission layer fired lake-intro/telemetry prompts that burned turns and stalled PTY tests waiting on an answer (observed: plan-mode-no-op derailed by the telemetry question). Onboarding-specific tests pin their own GSTACK_HOME per-test, which merges over this seed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: raise carve-section-loading wall clock to 480s SDK / 540s bun The heavy full-workflow scenarios satisfy their required section reads inside 60s but need 300-450s to finish the report on slower sandboxes; the 300s default read as a loading failure when the carve invariant held (traces: plan-eng-review read its section at 8s, office-hours all three at 24s, design-html both at 50s — all timed out mid-report). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(security): harden the skill-start trust boundary — review-army findings Session ID gains a urandom suffix (block binding unforgeable by reflected content); _sanitize also neutralizes spoofed SESSION_ID: lines; branch names are charset-clamped before JSON embedding (skill-start + skill-end); .brain-last-push reads first line only with a charset clamp; the artifacts URL echo routes through _sanitize; the privacy consent gate fires in interactive sessions only (spawned auto-choose could accept consent no human gave — emission order is not a safety property); the daily pull gets non-interactive + slow-network git guards and stamps only when the receipted path ran; ~/.claude.json gets a grep pre-filter before the jq parse. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(resolvers): question-log session_id becomes a substitution placeholder + stale-comment sweep The question-log block bound $_SESSION_ID, a shell variable the consolidated fence never sets — hook-less hosts logged empty session_id, breaking /plan-tune per-session grouping. It now uses the same substitute-from-the-skill-start-echoes contract as the telemetry block. Also: retired the pre-Phase-2 stop-gate docstring, repointed the gbrain-local-status cross-reference at the script's inline jq, dropped an orphaned section comment, documented retro-metrics' suffix-only census. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore: regenerate renders for the question-log placeholder; goldens + baselines follow Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: hermetic update-check, onboarding gate sequencing, seeding parity The contract test's child did a live git ls-remote + curl to github.com on every bun run test (update_check config now gates it off); the headless test gets a fresh GSTACK_HOME so the suppression is actually exercised; a new OV6 test drives the script three times to pin ack-at-emit and gate sequencing; hermetic seeding covers the config-keyed privacy gate; the EVALS_HERMETIC=0 debug seeding reaches marker parity. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(ci): demote the preamble A/B to periodic (OV7) and add it to the periodic matrix Post-Phase-3 demotion per the plan; the eval needs fetch-depth 0 (it git shows a pre-Phase-1 sha), which only the periodic workflow provides — and a static matrix entry so it can't silently never run. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore: bump version and changelog (v1.70.0.0) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: update project documentation for v1.70.0.0 ARCHITECTURE.md: the preamble section now describes the v1.70 runtime — the rendered {{PREAMBLE}} block invokes bin/gstack-skill-start and reads STATUS lines, gstack-skill-end logs telemetry, and one-time onboarding text arrives as gated GSTACK_INSTRUCTION blocks instead of riding in every render. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: doc-review fixes — repair moved-file links, drop unbacked session-count claim docs/BROWSER_INTERNALS.md: the two ARCHITECTURE.md anchor links broke when the section moved from repo-root CLAUDE.md into docs/ — now ../ARCHITECTURE.md. ARCHITECTURE.md: the preamble's session-tracking item claimed an active-session count and an "ELI16 mode" that no shipped code implements (the count computation was deleted with the inline preamble); describe the real touch-and-prune behavior instead. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(changelog): correct numeric claims against measured counts 50 of 62 installed skills dropped (fixture/alias entries have no preamble); 11 new carves + a deeper office-hours carve = 9→20; test counts match the files (13 / 11 / 3 / 7). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: repoint the preamble-runtime version reference after the queue rebump (v1.71.0.0) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(e2e-design): widen the Aesthetic synonym set — vocabulary variance, not a regression Both attempts in run 33090283032 produced judge-praised DESIGN.md files phrased as 'design principles'/'design language' without any of the four original literals; inputs were identical to the prior passing run 32899975845 (design-consultation untouched by the intervening merge). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): stage design-consultation's sections/ into the E2E fixture The skill has been carved since v1.57.0.0 — the DESIGN.md structure prescription (the AESTHETIC proposal template) lives in sections/proposal-and-preview.md behind a STOP-read. The fixture only copied SKILL.md, so the agent improvised structure from the skeleton and the section-synonym check has been a coin flip since the carve (CI run 33090283032 trace shows 'no sections dir'; the local eval store has the same failure on 2026-08-25 while that day's CI run passed on lucky vocabulary). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-27 09:50:31 -07:00