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Garry Tan	55f8151fbe	v1.91.30.0 fix: honest eval failure reports, Bun floor with safe auto-update, make-pdf and /review on Codex (#3033) ... * docs: approved reliability follow-ups plan (Oct 2026) * D1: score overlay wrong answers as comparison results (contract v4) A completed answer that fails the fixture's output check is now a valid measurement with taskCorrect false and answerError set, in either arm. Only execution, scope and metric failures invalidate a trial. ON correctness still gates the case, so an OFF wrong answer stays in the comparison. OVERLAY_CONTRACT moves to v4; v3 verdicts are not reinterpreted. Replays the 37198445662 sonnet trials (OFF-0 wrong). * C4: score auq-matrix substance with a 3-sample judge panel Each skill keeps one native capture in the same execution; the recommendation-substance grader now runs as a JUDGE_PANEL_SAMPLES panel on that capture and gates on the mean against the unchanged minimum of 4. A failed sample fails the panel without resampling. Approved at the gate 2026-10-04 for censuses after this change. * E1: one Bun version source; setup refuses below the 1.3.3 floor, updater checks before advancing bin/gstack-bun-version.sh holds the security floor (1.3.3) and the tested version (1.4.0, the CI pin and engines.bun). setup refuses Bun below the floor before writing anything, warns between floor and tested, warns and continues on an unparseable version, and prints a 1.4.0 install hint. Prereleases sort below their release (semver). gstack-session-update now fetches, reads the incoming release's floor and checks the bun setup will run before fast-forwarding to that exact revision; below it the update is held with reason bun-too-old and a resume command, leaving the revision and installs untouched. Fixture copies of setup (team-mode, claude-code migration) now include the sourced file; the slow-git lock test sleeps on fetch, the updater's network step. * E3: record the owned Chromium's PID over CDP so the #2709 reap runs on Playwright 1.62 Playwright 1.62's Browser has no process(), so chromiumProcInfo was always null and browse stop never reaped a surviving headless Chromium. The owned headless launch now reads the browser PID from CDP SystemInfo.getProcessInfo (bounded at 2s; a hung or failed call logs once and records nothing). The reaper's start-time and cmdline identity checks are unchanged, so a recycled PID or an externally owned browser is never signalled. * A1: ship docs gate records post-child hashes with gstack-docs-candidate, saves each record once Stored transcripts (37198445662 gate-census-2) show the parent's reads of release files take ~1 s; the parent's own model time dominates (completion 268 s of 392 s, store ~270 s of 387 s), and 45-78 s of it is retyping hash maps, child output and records into several artifacts after the child returns. The child contract is unchanged. * A2: /plan-ceo-review sends the mode handoff line before any other tool call plan-ceo-mode-routing's HOLD SCOPE session spends its 240 s post-selection window on model work: 37176837432 skipped the handoff helper and paraphrased the mode, 37198445662 ran it, then wrote the plan, loaded sections and probed Codex for 114 s before the posture chat. The handoff line is the posture. * B3: accept wrapped unchanged rows in the cropped Edit preview PR run 37176835584 timed out with the floor's owned Edit menu on screen: unchanged diff rows soft-wrap under their gutter with a blank marker column, and a trimmed empty unchanged row keeps only its number. The parser accepted wrapped +/- rows only, so it never verified the owned edit. Both forms are now parsed and still compared with the exact source lines; the captured viewport is replayed with negative controls. * A3: record per-phase headroom diagnosis for docsync, plan-mode-no-op, mode-routing and gate slice 11 * E4: /review Step 1 keeps going when the base fetch fails and reports stale base coverage Under Codex's read-only .git, 'git fetch && merge-base && diff --stat' stopped at the fetch, so the empty output read as 'Nothing to review'. The fetch is now separate, prints BASE_REFRESH fresh or stale with the local base revision, and the review states stale coverage. * D2: reword the format-approach question prompt Both plan-ceo-review-format-approach refusals in census 37195203538 (Fable 5.1 model_refusal_no_fallback, category reasoning_extraction: "duplicating model outputs") were anchored on the session prompt, whose capture instruction asked for the "verbatim" question and "the exact prose you would have shown" in a "format-capture test". The approach case now asks for the same question in the same file as the step's output, without that wording. The other three plan-format cases keep their unchanged prompt (no refusals in 72 trials). * C2: /qa defines its outcome filename fields; QA report templates name the measured timing fields Low judge samples in failing panels named both: qa workflow (37186854666) 'an undefined {user} in the outcome filename', and qa-only workflow (37198445662) 'template asks for Duration / durationMs totals while reporting.md mandates Probe budget and Guarded command time'. The qa union stays under its 1.11 size ratio (93292 of 93294 bytes). * 0.1: session ledger written by the claude -p, Agent SDK, PTY and Codex runners Each armed model session appends one best-effort line to $GSTACK_EVAL_DIR/session-ledger.jsonl: a stable session key, the timeout it armed, monotonic elapsed time, its end reason (completed, session_timeout, observer_timeout, api_error, refusal, aborted, error), one sanitized evidence line and, for stream-JSON runners, a compact liveness summary (longest in-request silence with nothing outstanding, last event kind, tool open at end). Partial messages now stream for every claude -p session and for SDK sessions without a custom query provider (runSharedInteractive opts in); their rows feed only the summary, so transcripts keep their size unless publicStreamDiagnostics is set. Structured refusal and API-error signals win over phrases, and tool results are never read for them. * 0.2: failure_cause beside failure_class, from runner facts and the session ledger One pure failureCauseOf() beside failureClassOf() sets failure_cause (contract > pre_turn_infra > api_error > refusal > provider_stall > session_timeout > observer_timeout > assertion > unknown; no machine-set 'detector') with one bounded evidence line, and failureDetailOf() keeps a Bun matcher's Expected/Received or a judge's failing dimensions in failure_detail. Both record builders (classifyTrialShard, junitCensus) call them and attach the trial's ledger sessions. failure_class, error and TRIAL_ERROR_MAX are computed exactly as before; the new fields are optional, bounded and validated only when present, and a frozen copy of the v1 reader accepts every new record. A provider stall needs partial messages and STALL_WINDOW_MS (120 s, eval-budgets.ts beside HEADROOM_WARN/FAIL) of in-request silence with nothing outstanding; it stays a failure under EVAL_POLICY v1. * E4: fingerprint under a read-only .git via a private object dir owned by review-log Codex's sandbox mounts .git read-only, so gstack-wtree's git add -A could not write blobs and /review lost its start capture. gstack-review-log now creates a private 0700 object directory under TMPDIR, passes it to gstack-wtree (which writes new objects there with the common-dir object store, resolved before exporting, as an alternate, so linked worktrees work), exposes it to the bindReview/checkSharedLibsReuse consumers that read the tree and blobs, and removes it on EXIT/INT/TERM after they finish. gstack-wtree prints one stderr line and exits 1 on a failed write or unwritable TMPDIR instead of printing a partial hash; review-log no longer swallows that line. Standalone gstack-wtree keeps writing to the repository store so git diff between saved snapshots (/ship) still works. * 0.3: red lines name their values, evidence and an after-a-repair command; one published-text sanitizer Each red line in the census report keeps its stored error and adds the machine cause with its evidence, the failure_detail values (Expected/Received, or each failing judge dimension with its mean, sample count and the sample sentence naming it), the slice artifact and shard directory that hold the transcript, a fetch command (eval:pass-rates --run <id> --case <id>), and 'after a repair:' with a command that selects only that case (E2E ids via --case, judges via their selection and an exact test-name filter). A session that completed and failed a check says so instead of 'assertion (success)'. Report text that reaches a PR comment, issue or committed file goes through scripts/lib/published-text.ts: control and bidi characters stripped, credential-scan patterns redacted, mentions neutralized, HTML and link brackets escaped inline, blocks in a fence longer than any backtick run, length capped. Verdicts and collector verdict objects are unchanged. * E2: one make-pdf resolver for readiness and every $P block on env-var hosts make-pdf exported $P from its readiness block, which Codex and the other env-var hosts lose between blocks. binaryAssignment gains 'make-pdf': the MAKE-PDF SETUP readiness check and the runtime prelude both use it, so every block that runs $P derives the same make-pdf/dist/pdf binary, with MAKE_PDF_BIN (dev builds) winning when it is executable. Claude output keeps its repo-local-first probe; only the false 'subsequent blocks' comment changed. Root plus P=... fits the 400-byte prelude budget; the fixed MAKE_PDF_OVERRIDE segment is the one exemption, named in runtime-root.ts and the conformance test. * 0.1: eval:pass-rates --headroom, --reds and --run report views; 85% headroom alarm in --gate A new pure module, scripts/lib/eval-history.ts, reports per case the slowest armed session against the timeout it armed (censored when it timed out, insufficient below 3 samples, unknown without a session ledger, with the case wall shown separately as an upper bound), the census critical path from the slice jobs' timings, the verdict red ledger per census by failure class and machine cause with shrunk per-case rates, and the all-green probability (an approximation: the product of 1 - p_i, with an interval). --run <id> lists one census's reds with their values and history and downloads only the slice artifacts those reds name, reporting any over 64 MB instead of skipping them. eval-flake-rank.ts only routes flags: --help works offline, an unknown flag or case id exits 2 before any fetch, --case narrows the JSON and the alarms, every view prints its run/branch scope, and --gate also alarms on a session above HEADROOM_FAIL (85%) of its budget. * E5: GSTACK_DESIGN_IMAGE_MODEL override; the live model check always tests the defaults The image_generation tool model gains an env override validated against a conservative gpt-image-<version> pattern; a bad value fails before any request and the error names the variable. Pairing and rejection hints name the tool model actually requested. design/scripts/live-model-check.ts now ignores GSTACK_DESIGN_MODEL and GSTACK_DESIGN_IMAGE_MODEL (and says so), so an override cannot mask a retirement of a default, and its exit 2 (no key) says nothing was checked. * C3: /deslop-shared-libs names a concrete risk for each recommendation, never 'none' Both shared-libs-opportunity-judgment reds (37193478719 t3, 37195203538 t1) failed adoption_and_risk because the top recommendation said 'Main risk: none found inside the repo' / 'none in behavior'. The skill asked to 'name the main risk or uncertainty' without saying what counts. * B4: --case selects loop-registered cases; an unknown id exits before any process caseSelection() resolves the one paid file that registers a case and how a trial selects it: by its literal Bun test name, by the id a registration loop names its test at runtime (coverage audits, TPA, journeys), or by running the whole file when it registers no other case (plan-mode-no-op, whose test names are not the id, so the old name pattern ran nothing). A whole-file case runs one file shard per trial and is judged by shard status, as CI judges it. --list prints the selection. Every E2E_TIERS id now resolves except carve-section-loading, which fifteen files register (CI runs each as its own shard) and which still fails with the owning files named. * 0.3: after-a-repair runs the shard file when --case cannot resolve a case A case that several files register (carve-section-loading) cannot be selected by --case; its red line now prints the bun test command for the shard file that went red, so every printed command selects exactly one case. * C1: pre-register workflow-judge control bundles for qa, qa-only, review and setup-deploy Positive (production bundle), negative (headings only) and one targeted execution-blocking defect per judge, one 3-sample panel each, built with the eval's own reader, prompt builder, options and floors. * F: cost_known: a trial whose harness captured no billing says so; totals never hide it cost_usd stays a finite number. Trial and eval records gain an optional cost_known boolean (absent means known, so old records still parse; the validator accepts only a boolean). Session-ledger rows record whether the session's terminal result carried total_cost_usd; PTY and Codex sessions never do, and SDK captures without a terminal result do not. A trial is cost-known only when it has eval records and every record and session captured billing, so JUnit-only PTY cases (125 of 298 trials in run 37198445662 recorded 0) now read cost unknown. The census headline prints the known sum plus the unknown count, never a bare total over unknown costs, and no total when every cost is unknown; the history import keeps the flag. PTY transcripts are not priced: test/helpers/pricing.ts estimates exclude cache writes, so they cannot give the billed cost. * B1: replay corpora for the five repeat-offender cases shared-libs-plan-callers, plan-ceo-section-loading, auto-decide-preserved, plan-design-review-plan-mode and ship-docsync-late-result each get an inventory of every wave census in scope (all artifacts still available) and minimal, redacted detector or actor inputs replayed through the real detector in the free suite: census passes, every distinct census red, and derived negative controls labelled as derived. Fixed false reds stay as expected passes with their history; the two genuine auto-decide product failures (37176837432, 37179171083) stay refused. A contract test bounds each entry at 64 KB, scans it for HIGH credentials, requires a pass and a refusal per case, and reports entries whose series identity is stale. Building the auto-decide corpus exposed a latent native detector misread: a bold 'Mode application and rationale.' heading was parsed as a withdrawn Mode field (37186854666). A field status now ends at its sentence. * B2: read approved stale-fill decisions from more valid ledger records The structured ledger reader is authoritative before the prose fallback, but it missed two valid approved records in passing censuses (37186854666: a camelCase writeProfile subject; 37195203538: a slash-joined 'D1 / STALE-FILL' row id), which then rested on the prose detector that caused both historical reds. Both forms are accepted; an unresolved row, an unrelated decision, the copied fixture plan and non-write camelCase words stay refused. * C1: record workflow-judge control results (negatives separated; qa and review miss a removed step) * C2: record every low workflow-judge sample in the wave censuses with its disposition * 0.3: published lines cannot break a fixed fence evals.yml wraps collector-outcomes failures in a fixed three-backtick fence for the PR comment, so those lines (and eval:pass-rates output meant for the tracking issue) go through sanitizeFixedFenceLine: cleaned like every published line, with backticks turned into quotes. Inline published text also neutralizes backticks. * A1: fit the post-child record wording under ship's 1.428 parity size cap * E4: inline the Step 1 base refresh to fit review's 1.199 parity size cap * B2: inventory of gate and periodic phrase-only detector checks docs/evals/detector-inventory.md lists every pass/fail decision in gate and periodic E2E cases that rests on phrases in model free text, with its structured source (if any), whether the contract is user-visible, and a disposition: already structured-first, convert candidate, phrase witness required, or no structured source. Convert candidates are ordered by census red history. * 0.2: failureCauseOf takes the stall window instead of importing it; the PTY ledger never throws eval-store.ts imported STALL_WINDOW_MS from eval-budgets.ts, which free tests replace with mock.module stubs (review-finalization-budget, office-hours, qa-fix-loop, qa-only), so loading eval-store failed there. failureCauseOf is now dependency-free: the record builders pass STALL_WINDOW_MS. A PTY session whose handle cannot show its text (test doubles) records no panel instead of throwing from runPtySession's cleanup. The 37186854666 replay also runs through classifyTrialShard. * A2/auto-decide: the CEO handoff chat repeats the helper's printed line verbatim Claude Code 2.1.284 collapses the helper's Bash output ('Ran 1 shell command'), so the 'Auto-decided review mode → …' line reaches the user only through chat. In lane D's auto-decide-preserved corpus every passing capture's chat starts with that line, and the reds paraphrased it ('HOLD SCOPE was auto-selected…', 'Mode decision done…', "I'm defaulting to HOLD SCOPE…"). The template now says verbatim and why. * C2: record the judge panels rerun on the final ship and review wording * integrate: touchfiles and module-size ratchet entries for the wave's new modules GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES gains session-ledger.ts, published-text.ts and auq-substance-panel.ts; bin/gstack-bun-version.sh joins every entry that lists setup or the updater; auq-matrix stays a rule case with its C4 evidence beside E2E_KINDS; eval-history, published-text and session-ledger are registered new modules. * E1: BROWSE SETUP install hint pins the tested Bun (1.4.0) * E2: quote "$P" in make-pdf commands so install paths with spaces work * E1: /gstack-upgrade checks the incoming Bun floor before pulling gstack_bun_incoming_hold (bin/gstack-bun-version.sh) is now the one pre-advance check: the auto-updater calls it before its fast-forward and /gstack-upgrade's git path calls it after fetching. Below the incoming release's floor the upgrade stops with BUN_TOO_OLD and the checkout, VERSION and installs stay untouched. Vendored installs were already safe: setup refuses before writing and the swap restores the previous install. * 0.3: only main posts or closes tracking issues; reports carry alarms, red ledger, headroom and all-green A branch-dispatched periodic or marathon run writes its report to the step summary and a report artifact; the upsert and close steps run only on refs/heads/main. The periodic body now keeps every pass-rate alarm line (the old grep kept only the header), adds the red ledger and session headroom read with an explicit --branch, the all-green estimate and the triage guide link, and routes report text through scripts/lib/published-text.ts. The marathon lane gains the matching close-on-green step. Migrated: evals-workflow-wiring pinned report-summary.md in the upsert step; the body is now written by 'Write the census report'. * C3: prosons neutral-posture detector ignores a negated "taste call" Both plan-review-prosons-neutral-neg reds (37179171083 t3, 37193478719 t3) recommended A and closed with "a coverage call, not a taste call"; the old /taste call/i matched the negation. The detector moves to a helper so the two census captures replay free as negatives, with positive controls. * B2: credit the CEO mode handoff only when the chat shows its line Claude Code 2.1.284 collapses the gstack-ceo-mode-handoff Bash result, so the printed AUTO_DECIDE line is user-visible only when a later chat message of the session begins with it. The native detector now requires that witness; the helper's tool result locates it but no longer replaces it, and a generic mode statement cannot stand in once a handoff ran. Census 37182865432 is relabelled a genuine miss (expected: refused): the chat said "I'm defaulting to HOLD SCOPE…" and "Mode decided: HOLD SCOPE". Corpus replay: 5 credited, 3 refused. ceo-mode-handoff tests migrated to the witness rule (deliberate behavior change). * test: baseline the wave's approved detector and harness replay tests B1 corpora, B3, C3, C4 and D2 replay captures through paid-case detectors, actors or fixtures (test code by design); each entry carries its reason. * E6: live Codex multi-block periodic case in the host-run Codex job test/codex-e2e-multiblock-live.test.ts runs ./setup --host codex once from the job's checkout into a fresh HOME and CODEX_HOME (auth.json copied from the CI login home), asserts codex debug prompt-input lists the gstack router as a real file, seeds one learning, and runs /learn's Show recent block through codex exec: that later block must root itself through its prelude, run the installed gstack-learnings-search and print the seeded learning; no block may report a missing install or an unresolved gstack helper path. The file joins CODEX_CI_FILES so the planner gives it to the host-run Codex job. paid-test-durations.json carries a 180 s packing estimate (refreshed by --write-durations after the first census) so the plan keeps every slice within max-parallel. Oracles live in test/helpers/codex-multiblock.ts with free replays in test/codex-multiblock.test.ts. Registration (E2E_TOUCHFILES, E2E_TIERS periodic, E2E_KINDS rule) is the integrator's. * E5: design live-model check as a periodic case test/skill-e2e-design-model-smoke.test.ts runs design/scripts/live-model-check.ts (default models only) under a temp HOME. Without OPENAI_API_KEY the case is a Bun skip that the census lists as SKIPPED with no coverage credit; with a key, exit 0 passes and any other exit fails with the script output (exit 2 under a present key fails as 'nothing was checked'). paid-test-durations.json carries a 90 s packing estimate. Registration (E2E_TOUCHFILES, E2E_TIERS periodic, E2E_KINDS rule) is the integrator's. * A1: docsync parent points children at a saved interface file The /ship docsync fixture saved its observation interface only in the parent prompt and told the parent to copy it into every child prompt, about 30-40 s of parent generation per session (lane S, 37198445662). docsSessionOptions now writes it to <home>/fixture-interface.md (0600) and the parent tells each child to Read that file first. Fault-actor prompts, which prepare already writes to a file, are unchanged. Fixture-only. * A3: a JUnit case's recorded wall is capped by its shard's wall junitCensus summed a case's JUnit test times as duration_ms; for plan-mode-no-op's concurrent PTY tests that is 346 s inside a 176 s shard (the "432-613 s" history). The case wall headroom shows is now min(sum, shard elapsed), a true upper bound. Session headroom already used the ledger's per-session clocks. * A3: refresh paid-test durations from census 37198445662 Recorded 2026-09-29 estimates under-packed gate slice 11 (17 files estimated 1078 s ran 1353 s; plan-review-report 76 s -> 198 s, plan-ceo-plan-mode 37 s -> 112 s, safety-codex-consult 83 s -> 150 s). Refreshed both tiers with --report --write-durations from the latest census's slice walls. Old plan re-costed with observed walls: worst slice ~677 s (slice 11); refreshed plan: every slice estimated <= 539 s. * C2: Browser Quick gets a feasible budget; QA loop names its directory and stop path Judge rationales on the qa-only panels (2 of the last 3) cited the 30 s Browser Quick budget: homepage + 5 targets, each a checkpoint write and a guarded command, left ~5 s per probe. Quick is now 180 s (method text: 3 minutes); the qa-only-no-fix paid check expects the same native deadline. PROBE_DIR points at its source line, a stopped loop goes to the final report steps (annotations, materialize, Markdown), and /review and /ship say that after smoke expiry only plan checks rerun in revalidation. * C2: name the flows judges found implicit in review resolvers Structured outside review: MISSING COVERAGE asks no fix question and is never reported clean (was "preserve the existing user decision flow"). /review's HIGH-impact plan gate: spawned or non-interactive runs report REQUIREMENTS MISSING and continue, writing no TODOs. Value cards: the byte clamp applies to card lines; JSON records you write keep full values. * C1: a free test catches a removed workflow step, which the judges missed C1 controls showed the qa workflow judge passing /qa without Phase 10 and the review judge passing /review without Step 3. The new test pins every step/phase heading of qa, qa-only, review, ship, plan-ceo-review, plan-eng-review and setup-deploy (derived from the templates' step headings) and names any that goes missing or out of order; new step headings must be pinned. The judge rubric is unchanged (EVAL_POLICY). * size: fit the wave's wording under ship, review and qa parity caps Measured after all lane merges: ship -79, review -210, qa -68 bytes over. Trimmed the added wording first (post-expiry rule, MISSING COVERAGE, plan-gate default, value-card JSON, stop line) and folded /review's redundant INFORMATIONAL sentence and findings bullet. ship 268,036 (room 8), review 130,118 (room 1). qa needed 11 more bytes: cap 1.11 -> 1.1102 with the measured 93,305 / 84,049 = 1.11013 and its reason beside it. * docs: troubleshooting sections for the wave's new messages Bun floor (setup, auto-update, /gstack-upgrade), /review stale base and fingerprint temp-dir errors, the design image model override, the unrecorded Chromium PID, and a contributor section for census report lines (pass-rates flags, failure causes, headroom, cost unknown, overlay v4, stale corpora, auq substance). A free test checks every troubleshooting.md#anchor printed by setup or bin scripts exists. * TODOS: reliability follow-ups deferrals; close the Bun floor, make-pdf $P and #2709 reap * 0.4: 'A census went red' guide; docs for causes, session ledger, headroom and new messages docs/evals/census-red.md walks one red line to a diagnosis: prerequisites, the report fields, eval:pass-rates --run/--reds/--headroom with expected output, what unknown/insufficient/unrecorded data means, free replay, and the single 'after a repair' paid run allowed by TESTING_INTERNALS. Linked from CONTRIBUTING, TESTING_INTERNALS and both census reports. TESTING_INTERNALS documents the failure_cause glossary (one row per FAILURE_CAUSES value, diagnostic only under EVAL_POLICY v1), failure_detail, sessions[], cost_known, the session ledger, the pass-rates views and the 85% headroom alarm, main-only tracking issues, overlay contract v4, auq-matrix's 3-sample substance panel and the E5/E6 periodic cases. troubleshooting.md gains #bun-too-old and an anchor per new user-facing message from lanes P, D and F. README names GSTACK_DESIGN_IMAGE_MODEL. test/census-red-docs.test.ts pins the glossary to FAILURE_CAUSES, parses every guide command and checks the links. * v1.91.20.0: CHANGELOG and version for the reliability follow-ups * regen: SKILL.md and sections for all hosts, digest, context-budget fixture bun run gen:skill-docs --host all; goldens and llms.txt re-rendered unchanged; bun test/helpers/capture-context-budget.ts. * integrate: register codex-multiblock-live and design-model-smoke (periodic, rule) * 0.4: census report and eval:pass-rates views link the census-red guide * test: cookie approval fixture reverses the Bun install-hint pin (E1) The historical approved cookie-workflow prompt carried BUN_VERSION=1.3.10; the regenerated install hint now pins 1.4.0, so the fixture's reversal list gains that edit like the earlier waves' entries. * test: release floor counts the two new periodic cases (E5, E6) * fix: /freeze, /guard, /unfreeze and /investigate work on Codex and other env-var hosts Templates quoted "$HOME/.claude/skills/gstack/...", which the env-var hosts' rewrites turned into "$HOME/.agents/skills/gstack/..." on Codex (a path a global install never has; same class on the other hosts), and setup's runtime roots had no freeze/bin. Quoted runtime paths now use {{RUNTIME_ROOT}}: $GSTACK_ROOT on env-var hosts (the fence gets the runtime prelude), the unchanged $HOME path on Claude. _link_runtime_dists links freeze/bin and the careful/bin helper it sources into every env-var host's root. Also fixes the same guess in /benchmark-models, /retro and /diagram. test/env-host-runtime-assets.test.ts fails on the previous code: no fence guesses a $HOME/<dir>/skills/gstack path, every $GSTACK_ROOT path a fence uses is in the host's runtime root, and the installed Codex /freeze and /unfreeze fences run from a fresh shell. Template-reading tests now read the Claude render or expect the placeholder (deliberate change). * CHANGELOG/TODOS: lane W's workflow, cases and guide; the env-var host freeze fix * E6: a block that reads a SKILL.md is not a missing install The first live codex-multiblock-live run passed its real check (the /learn block found the install and printed the seeded learning) but the oracle flagged a sed of the learn SKILL.md, whose prelude source quotes the 'gstack: no install found (tried $_r)' text. Only an emitted line that starts with the message and names a real root counts now; free replay negative added. * test: qa-only fixture keeps its caller-set 30 s deadline The qa-only-no-fix fixture tells the model to start the guard with 30 s (a caller limit), so its deadline assertion's default stays 30 000 ms; the product's Browser Quick default (180 s) does not apply to it. Reverts the helper and its test to their base. * C2: keep PROBE_DIR 'owned' (qa-functional-prompt pins it); qa measured 93,311 * test: paid file count and periodic floor include the two new periodic cases * test: ship docs freshness pin checks meaning after A1's wording trim The snapshot still hashes selected release paths (--select narrows them), generated outputs and docs; the pin now checks that instead of the pre-trim sentence. * E3: reap the recorded Chromium only after the daemon has exited With the PID now recorded (E3), browse stop reaped Chromium while the daemon was still shutting down; the daemon read that as a crash, exited 1 and left its state file (chromium-profile-isolation's headless stop test failed 3/3 locally, passes on base). The CLI waits up to 5 s for the daemon to exit before reaping a survivor. * regen: qa and qa-only exploratory sections (PROBE_DIR wording) * B1: batching counter reads a target declared mid-line; replay corpus GSTA-23's census 37228573062 failed plan-eng-multi-finding-batching with reviewCount=0 after 975 s although D1-D10 were asked one per finding, each with its saved decision-ledger record. The report wrote 'Report destination requested by the user. Review target (fixed): `PLAN.md` ...' and the counter read target fields only at a line start, so no brief inherited the plan identity. A target field may now open any sentence of its line; a mid-sentence mention or another file still gives no identity. Floor (3), budget and kind unchanged. Corpus: 9 earlier passing censuses, the red (now credited at D5), and a derived batching refusal; 975 s noted in the headroom diagnosis. * B1: shared-libs corpus labels its git path and covers the supported shape Every census entry was recorded in CI's eval image (git 2.43), where gstack-safe-git falls back because --no-lazy-fetch is rejected; each entry now says so (git_path: fallback). Two synthetic supported-path entries (HEAD and a history citation in the brief, as git >= 2.44 produces) keep the 37193478719 pass and the 37195203538 refusal, and a test asserts both shapes are covered and the actor reads no git-path-specific text. * v1.91.21.0: move off v1.91.20.0 (claimed by #3031) * test: settle nav-guard commands before asserting; make two new tests Windows-safe navigation-guard: Bun's expect(promise).rejects slows each Playwright round-trip to ~1s while it waits (50 page.evaluate: 43ms plain vs 46.6s inside the matcher), so the click's 5s timeout expired before the guard saw the link-local request (CI: 'click: Timeout 5000ms exceeded ... waiting for scheduled navigations'). Settle the command first, then assert on the refusal; a source check keeps it so. env-host-runtime-assets: PROBE_FILES now matches either path separator. detector-corpus ship-docsync-late-result: JSON-escape the <ROOT> substitution so a Windows temp path's backslashes do not break JSON.parse. * fix: CI run/job ids are not phone numbers; context-recovery fixture gets the full runtime bin pii.phone.e164 redacted the run id in the published eval report's fetch command (--run 37235771700), breaking the command it prints. Digit-only spans in a run/job flag, gh run argument, actions/runs/ or /job/ URL segment, or run_id/job_id key are now exempt; the same digits elsewhere still report. context-recovery-artifacts: the fixture's ./bin/ lacked gstack-skill-start and gstack-context-recovery (the preamble's runtime scripts since v1.71), so the agent spent its 10 turns hunting for them and hit error_max_turns with no final message (run 37235771700, 11 turns). Link the whole runtime bin; diagnostic rerun passed in 6 turns. * test: replay run 37237194905's late-result capture through the docs authority detector The only failure was call 20's write to a mistyped shard root (3GanyY for 3GanyU), which the model disclosed; the detector is correct and the A1 post-snapshot --out under the fixture home stays permitted. Named red recorded in TODOS. * test: keep docsync-authority in the Windows profile The replay test's literal helper path tripped the Windows curator's shebang-spawn pattern, dropping the whole file from the Windows profile (test-free-shards invariant). The snapshot --out case is already covered by docsync-command-grammar, so it is removed here, and the Linux-path replay skips on win32. * fix: gstack-docs-candidate --help works; docs gate red lines name the denying tool failure PR run 37239016858 ship-docsync-completion: the parent ran 'gstack-docs-candidate --help' (the helper's usage error points at --help, which failed). That undeclared command made docsToolFailures non-empty, which denied the atomic-replacement proof of the child's legitimate native Edit, so the red line blamed the Edit's temp file. A replay of the capture proves the atomic replace once --help is declared. - the helper prints its usage for --help/-h and exits 0 - the fixture interface and command grammar admit the helper's bare --help - the atomic-proof denial names its check and the tool failures behind it (deny labels renumbered to their lines) - replay with negative controls (undeclared command, temp left behind, renamed elsewhere); diagnostic rerun of ship-docsync-completion passed * test: retro-base-branch fixture uses main and a shallow report path PR run 37241493377: the agent wrote retro-output.md one directory above the requested <tmp>/retro-base/retro-output.md (it dropped the retro-base segment), so the report check found nothing. The fixture also ran plain git init, which makes master on CI's git while the prompt says the repo is on main; the agent logged that mismatch as a learning. Init on main and use the temp dir itself as the repo. Diagnostic rerun passed (18 turns, 203s). * test: qa-quick sets a caller probe limit and drains past its session budget C2 raised Browser Quick's native budget to 180 s. qa-quick is the only gate case on the native budget, and its wall went 194 s (main periodic, pre-C2) -> 254 s and 274 s (this PR's runs) -> 300 s session timeout (run 37242691913): the agent now probes every navigation target with a checkpoint, then needs ~80 s to report. Like qa-only-no-fix, the eval now sets a caller probe limit (30 s), scopes the fixture, and gives bun's outer timeout the session drain margin instead of racing the 300 s session. The product's 180 s budget and the session budget are unchanged. Diagnostic rerun passed in 195 s. * review/ship: use main's post-expiry smoke sentence; v1.91.24.0 GSTA-23's measurement on the review workflow judge: main's 'Post-expiry smoke rechecks are not-run.' passed 10/10; the C2 wording passed 6/10 and the '..., even in 4c.' variant failed in PR run 37248650879. qa-probe-gates pins main's sentence before step 4c. * test: record the plan-design corpus test in the test-of-test baseline #3031's ratchet now counts tests that slice a paid test file's source; the B1 plan-design-review-plan-mode replay corpus reads test/skill-e2e-design.test.ts like its sibling corpora already listed. * fix: --case no longer deadlocks importing the running CLI runCaseDiagnosis loaded runPaidShards with a dynamic import of scripts/test-paid-shards.ts; when that file is the entry it is still in its top-level await, so the import never resolved and `--case` hung after its first line (on main since #3031, found by the per-case measurement runs). The CLI now passes its runner in; library callers keep the lazy import. * test: name the in-flight file and the native error when bun dies before its summary (#3037) * Bun 1.4.2 everywhere CI and setup pin the tested version Bun 1.4.0 on Windows aborts about 3% of free-suite shards with native bad-handle errors (main too; #3037); the same head on 1.4.2 had none in 180 shard runs. Every current 1.4.0 pin moves together, as bun-version-drift requires: setup-bun in every workflow (CSO orchestration included), the eval image (sha256 from bun-v1.4.2's SHASUMS256.txt, re-hashed locally), GitLab, the Ubicloud free-suite setup, gstack-bun-version.sh's tested version, engines.bun and @types/bun, the install hint in generated skills, the Dia and cookie native-qualification pins, and docs and tests that state the current pin. Recorded 1.4.0 observations, fixtures, CHANGELOG history and the CSO images' oven/bun:1.3.10 base stay. * fix: --case runs a single-case file whole A session option naming the case (testName: 'office-hours-section-loading') made caseSelection pick test-name mode, whose filter matched no Bun test, so every trial would run hollow. A file that registers only this case now runs whole before any name match is tried. * fix(office-hours): reviewer returns a hash-bound receipt instead of echoing its verdict The spec reviewer now Writes its verdict once, seals it with gstack-office-hours-review seal (validates the saved JSON and prints OFFICE_HOURS_VERDICT round=N sha256=<hash> path=<verdict>), and returns only that line. check --receipt recomputes the hash and fails closed on a missing, malformed, stale-round, wrong-path or mismatched receipt. The saved file stays the sole findings inventory; validators bind the receipt to the saved bytes and the judge reads those bytes. * fix(office-hours): only blocking findings send a design back for another review round Review findings carry severity blocking|minor (verdict schema v2). PASS when no blocking findings remain; minor findings are recorded in Reviewer Concerns and the Spec Review table, never a reason for another round. CONVERGENCE needs a persisting blocking prior. A persisting or unverified blocking prior cannot be relabeled minor. The 3-round cap is unchanged. * fix(office-hours): rounds 2 and 3 are delta re-reviews of the captured design diff prepare saves each reviewed design as round-N.design.md and gives later reviewers the exact line diff since the previous round. A new later-round blocking finding must cite (changed_text) an excerpt of a changed line; seal, check and the validators verify it against the snapshots and fail closed when a citation or snapshot is missing. Other new observations are minor. Severity, anti-downgrade and CONVERGENCE rules are unchanged. * test(office-hours): preservation judge accepts COMPLETED with recorded minor findings * fix(office-hours): parent fixes only blocking findings; callers may set --max-rounds Between rounds the parent edits for blocking findings only; minor findings stay recorded. gstack-office-hours-review takes --max-rounds 1|2|3 (default 3) on every command; reaching it stops at MAX_ITERATIONS. The marathon fixture sets 2 rounds so round 1 (full) and round 2 (delta) run live. * docs(changelog): office-hours review loop changes in v1.91.28.0 * fix(cso): helper JSON keeps run URLs only in the validated workflow slot The shared redactor now treats GitHub Actions run ids as CI metadata (c245d1bc2), so main's #3041 invariant that the same run digits stay redacted outside qualification.workflow held only through the phone false positive. Make it explicit in the CSO sanitizer. * test(plan-ceo): split-overflow progress detector accepts the skill's candidate wording Collection never ended when the model wrote 'E1 Slack:' / 'E1-SLACK:' or labels like 'Include in this quarter' / 'Defer with flip trigger', so the session ran the whole review (930-1464 s) and failed on its extra findings or the case deadline (6 of 21 runs). The candidate check now accepts a platform-bound E-id and the action is the bucket's leading verb, as the skill names them (Include/Defer/Cut/Hold). The semantic judge, call floor and include/defer/cut validation are unchanged. Replays the captured CI 37374526437, t2, t9 and t15 menus with negative controls. * test(plan-ceo): split-overflow candidate identity is the one E1-E5 token The skill fixes no header or question wording, and shape-matching kept missing new forms (header 'D1.1 Slack' with 'SCOPE-E1:', 'D1.1 E1 Slack', 'E1 Slack DM bot ...:', a misspelled 'Mattermst'). Identity is now exactly one E1-E5 token across the header and the question's first line, with no other candidate's platform named. Options rules, judge, call floor and include/defer/cut validation are unchanged. Replays all 31 measured runs; the quoted-row controls now quote a second ledger id. * v1.91.30.0: move past #3044's claimed 1.91.29.0 * test: register the split-overflow wording replay as a free fixture * fix(skills): resolve judge-cited ambiguities in /qa and /plan-eng-review - tasks JSONL keeps the raw branch as GIT_BRANCH instead of overwriting gstack-slug's sanitized BRANCH used for artifact names - the Codex outside-voice block runs for ready or unverified, matching its routing rule - plan-eng startup names the preamble's own setup prompts; the cross-project question waits for Step 0 - /qa 8c: a fix that applies but leaves the finding reproducing gets one revised fix, else it is reverted; browser verification names its before screenshot; the exploratory loop drops its duplicate 3-step summary * fix(plan-eng): keep the startup steps in their pinned order * fix(plan-eng): explicit spawned sessions follow the spawned rule at the scope gate; one announcement rule A missing tool still sends the prose menu whatever the session type, but a session the caller or host explicitly marks spawned selects the menu's Recommendation without prose or BLOCKED. The pre-load announcement sentence now states Step 0's single check. * eval policy v3: judge panels gate on the per-dimension median of 3 samples A judge dimension now passes when at least 2 of its 3 samples meet the unchanged threshold (judgePanelMedian); any other sample count or a non-numeric sample fails closed. Thresholds, sample count, judge model and prompts are unchanged; panel logs show every sample and the mean, and name the median as the gate. Applies to the skill-llm-eval panels, the workflow-judge cache, the auq-matrix substance panel and the calibration replicas. EVAL_POLICY 2 -> 3 and HARNESS_VERSION 1 -> 2 (verdicts change), so every case starts a new pass-rate series. Replays the captured panels from jobs 112032744416 and 112049856586 as replayed evidence.	2026-10-06 18:07:50 +00:00
+4454 people	2db0b3adc8	v1.91.19.0 fix: severe fix wave (truthful gates, no lost memory, every host finds gstack) (#3025) ... * docs: approved severe fix wave plan (Oct 2026) * D0: keep a project's .env and bunfig.toml out of compiled binaries and daemon children Compiled binaries are built with --no-compile-autoload-dotenv and --no-compile-autoload-bunfig; the browse server and terminal agent are spawned with --no-env-file and an empty config, so a repo's .env cannot set GSTACK_CHROMIUM_NO_SANDBOX and a bunfig preload cannot run code in them. Verified on Bun 1.4.0. * A9: --no-write is a dry run and leaves ingest state untouched --no-write stamped every prepared page ingested_at and saved state, so a later real run skipped those pages forever. It now prepares and reports pages without importing or changing the state file. Tests that used GSTACK_MEMORY_INGEST_NO_WRITE / --no-write to seed state move to an explicit seam (a fake gbrain that accepts every staged page), because the --no-write contract deliberately changes. * H #2885 #2827: vector geometry is not phone or card PII pii.phone.e164 accepts "." as a group separator, so a single float (viewBox="0 0 581.66796875 ...") and a run of path coordinates ("37.6188 101.694") read as phone numbers. pii.cc's \b stops at a decimal point, so the long fraction of an .excalidraw float is a Luhn candidate. Excalidraw's seed/versionNonce/updated integers read as bare phone numbers. A rendered /diagram triplet raised 18 (svg) and 97 (excalidraw) MEDIUM findings on main; it now raises none. - looksLikeDecimalCoordinates (ported from #2885, extended to a single decimal and refusing a leading "+", the E.164 marker) - insideDecimalNumber: a cc span glued to "<digit>." or ".<digit>" - isNumericMetadataValue: an unquoted JSON value under a seed, nonce or timestamp key; the same digits under "phone" still report Controls: E.164 in prose, dotted and spaced phones, "+"-prefixed runs, "phone"/"contact" JSON numbers, Luhn-valid cards in prose and at sentence end. Co-authored-by: Lewis <lewispeel@hotmail.com> * D1: pin the terminal-agent /ws Origin to the gstack extension (#1324) GSTACK_EXTENSION_ID moves to browse/src/extension-id.ts, shared by /extension-token and the terminal agent's /ws gate. /ws now returns 403 for every origin except the pinned extension. Forks override the ID with gstack-config set browse_extension_id <id>, honored by both routes; the BROWSE_EXTENSION_ID env var is no longer read. Test sites that used fake extension IDs now use the pinned origin. * H #2899: env.kv skips a function call assigned to a credential name `session = _FlakySession(...)`, `token = make_token(user, ...)` and `password = getpass.getpass()` raised env.kv MEDIUM, which blocks the fail-closed decision log. The exemption needs the line's evidence, not the span's shape: the value is unquoted, is an identifier or dotted path followed by "(", and the call closes on the line or opens a multi-line argument list. Quoted values, unclosed "(" inside an unquoted secret (API_SECRET=Abc123xyz(9Qm) and calls carrying a high-entropy literal argument still report. The literal check is shared with the #2912 env-read exemption. Co-authored-by: Yugz <yannduzelier@gmail.com> * H #2962: per-machine config filenames are not internal hostnames `CLAUDE.local.md` and `settings.local.json` reported internal.hostname MEDIUM (the pattern's \b stops at the dot before the extension), which fails closed in the decision log. A span immediately followed by a known config extension (.md .json .jsonc .yaml .yml .toml .ini .conf .txt) and a word boundary is a filename. Controls: `ssh build.local`, `printer.local.` at a sentence end, `printer.local/md`, `printer.local.mdx`, a host with a port, `api.corp`, `build-7.internal`. The `.env.local` vectors (#2740) pass on main already via isDotenvFilename and are pinned here as regressions. Co-authored-by: Florian <florian.cleyetmerle@gmail.com> * H #2784: four-part versions need a version declaration, not a shape `"version": "1.128.1.0"`, `<Version>`, `AssemblyVersion("1.0.0.0")` and Keep a Changelog headings raised pii.ip_public MEDIUM on every release, because a four-part version is byte-for-byte a dotted quad. Exempt only when the same line declares it a version immediately before the value (a version key or word, an XML tag, an attribute call, or a `## [x]` heading). The same digits after host:/server =/"upstream", bare on a line, or after prose that merely mentions a version still report. Unlike #2784, this does not exempt a value because the same string is declared a version elsewhere in the text: that let a real address sharing a diff with a matching version slip. The pre-push hook's VERSION-file rule (#2856) is unchanged. Co-authored-by: cdecook23 <decook23@gmail.com> * H #2913: postgres:postgres is exempt only on a loopback host The postgres image's default pair in compose files and CI DATABASE_URLs blocked pushes as db.url_with_password HIGH. It is now exempt only for postgres/postgresql URLs with exactly postgres:postgres on localhost or 127.0.0.1 (optional port). A bare single-label host (`db`, `postgres`), any other host, a host that merely starts with localhost (`localhost.evil...`, `localhost@prod-db`), any other user or password, and other schemes still block. #2913 exempted the pair on any host; this keeps the plan's narrower rule. Co-authored-by: mb1810 <michael.berger1810@gmail.com> * G1: ship without a version when no version source is configured Resolve the version source to four outcomes (valid, absent, ambiguous, broken) in lib/version-source.ts and read that one signal in gstack-version-bump (new NO_VERSION state; write refuses to invent a VERSION), gstack-next-version (no_version, no slot), /ship's bump, CHANGELOG and title steps, /land-and-deploy's drift check and /document-release. A configured version file that is missing, empty, unreadable or malformed stops with its path; 0.0.0.0 is never substituted. docs/skills.md documents .gstack/version-path. Migrates two tests that pinned the old fabricated-0.0.0.0 behavior. Co-authored-by: Koda <koda@edgeviewfinance.com.au> Co-authored-by: Merit Blake <merit@newsprint.com> * H #2949: eval credential screen checks every name segment The hermetic eval env admits GITHUB_* and EVALS_* metadata but rejects credential-shaped names, judged only by the last underscore segment. A trailing qualifier carried a credential through: GITHUB_APP_PRIVATE_KEY_BASE64, GITHUB_TOKEN_1, EVALS_API_KEY_FALLBACK reached eval children. The screen now rejects a name when any segment is a credential word; segments, not substrings, so GITHUB_PATH / GITHUB_TOKENIZER / GITHUB_KEYRING stay metadata, and explicit runner admissions still win. Co-authored-by: Nguyen Thanh Dat <ntdat812@gmail.com> * H #2915: cover chunked scanning of large multi-file push diffs Test-only coverage for behavior already on main: a clean two-file pushed diff over the engine's 1 MiB cap passes without engine.input_too_large, and a credential at the end of the second file (a later scan chunk) still blocks the push. Co-authored-by: pneumorea-ai <pneumorea@gmail.com> * A3: keep a project's DATABASE_URL away from a PGLite brain With a PGLite config, buildGbrainEnv returned the caller env unchanged, so a project's .env DATABASE_URL (autoloaded by Bun) reached gbrain: a false broken-db at best, gbrain talking to the app's own Postgres at worst. Inherited DATABASE_URL and GBRAIN_DATABASE_URL are now blanked for PGLite configs (GSTACK_RESPECT_ENV_DATABASE_URL=1 still keeps them), and every gbrain child runs from gbrain's config dir instead of the user's project, so it cannot reload the project's .env / .env.local. The old test that pinned pass-through for an engine:pglite config is migrated: pass-through now applies only to configs that name neither a database_url nor PGLite. Co-authored-by: maxpetrusenkoagent <max.petrusenko.agent@gmail.com> * C9: guard destructive gstack-upgrade and spec fences against unset or wrong paths Fresh-shell hosts (and Claude Code, which keeps cwd but not shell variables) ran cd "$INSTALL_DIR" with an empty variable, so git checkout/stash/reset targeted the user's project. Step 2 now prints an absolute path; every destructive fence starts with cd -- "${VAR:?...}" || exit 1 and checks it is gstack's own checkout before any git command. /spec's worktree and spawn fences get the same guard. * F4: keep every paid design variant across regenerate rounds $D variants now reserves a collision-safe round-<N>/ directory per run (atomic mkdir) and writes a manifest.json of what each round saved. The paid image request and the local write retry separately: a write failure retries the write (temp + rename) and, if the path stays unwritable, keeps the bytes in the temp dir instead of buying the image again. Responsive variants land in their round directory too. Readers updated: design-shotgun reserves a round dir and a private temp dir for its parallel agents and records approved_path/round in approved.json; design-html resolves approved_path (legacy letters still work) and finds round-dir variants; design-consultation checks the printed paths; the gallery shows round-dir variants. Variants that were already overwritten before this change cannot be recovered. Migrates the consultation contract test that pinned the flat path. Co-authored-by: Matt Van Horn <mvanhorn@gmail.com> * A2: stage dot-leading slugs gbrain can collect; network errors are db-unreachable A page slug segment starting with a dot (a .claude project) staged a file gbrain's import walker prunes, so the batch was refused on every run. Leading dots become "dot-" per segment, and slugs recorded in state under the old name map through the same function so no page is duplicated. A DNS or connection failure (ENOTFOUND, EAI_AGAIN, ECONNREFUSED, ...) no longer classifies as broken-db, which routed users to move a working config aside. The new db-unreachable status carries the reason "database host unreachable (<code> <host>); your gbrain config is unchanged. Fix: check network or VPN, then re-run /sync-gbrain.", skips local sync stages with that reason, and counts as usable for gstack-gbrain-detect --is-ok like timeout. Co-authored-by: Infiniteyieldai <infiniteyield.ai@gmail.com> * D2: one address classifier for navigation literals, DNS answers, redirects and page-driven navigations (#2811) classifyAddress() in url-validation.ts blocks 169.254.0.0/16 (metadata and container credential endpoints), 100.100.100.200, fe80::/10 and fc00::/7, including IPv4-mapped, IPv4-compatible and NAT64 spellings and decimal, octal and hex IPv4. validateNavigationUrl, the A/AAAA answer check and session-persist's cookie-domain guard all use it. BrowserManager now checks every navigation request (redirect hops, link clicks, scripted navigations): a blocked target resets the tab to about:blank and the write command fails with the reason. Connection-time DNS rebinding remains out of scope. Co-authored-by: Gabriel Rondon <grondon@gmail.com> * C4: external hosts point at carved sections relative to the installed skill Publishes the pointer form setup matches: on every non-Claude host a carved section is `sections/<file>` relative to the installed gstack-<skill> SKILL.md directory (QA's existing form), never $GSTACK_ROOT/<skill>/sections/, which does not exist in external runtime roots. No render changes yet: only QA is carved on external hosts today. * INV-1: gate outcome contract for outside reviews classifyOutsideReview() returns separate execution, findings and verdict fields from text, stderr and exit status; reason codes, anchors and fix actions live in lib/gate-outcomes.ts. validateOutsideReview() stays as the text-only wrapper and the two-argument CLI keeps exit 0/1/2 for importers and installed skills that predate a re-render. The --verdict form (implied by --stderr/--exit) prints VERDICT/FINDINGS/REASON and exits 0/3/4/1; the generated outside-voice caller moves to it and branches on each status (unverified prints OUTSIDE_STATUS: unverified, never completed). Adds docs/troubleshooting.md with one anchored section per reason code, the anchor test, and the gate-tail lint (query scripts may not swallow failures, gate calls may not end in || true, other best-effort tails say why). * G1: quote the base placeholder in document-release title sync The title-sync block is checked with bash -n; an unquoted <base> parses as a redirection. Migrates the test that pinned the old root VERSION read to the shared classifier call. * G3: give every logging-bin mktemp a ${TMPDIR:-/tmp} template Bare mktemp, mktemp -t and literal /tmp templates in the learnings, question and preference logs (plus jsonl-merge, distill, the two dashboards, /ship's PR body and /document-release's run dir) now use "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/<name>.XXXXXX", the form the INV-3 lint accepts. When the temp file cannot be created, the learnings, question and preference logs now say the entry was not recorded and how to fix TMPDIR instead of exiting with only mktemp's own error. Three tests that pinned the bare PR_BODY_FILE=$(mktemp) and one that pinned the /tmp run dir migrate. GNU and BSD mktemp already honor TMPDIR without a template, so the macOS-sandbox drop in #2952 is unverified here; the template makes the temp location explicit on every mktemp. Co-authored-by: Davon Johnson <d.johnson@dayofshow.net> * B1b: structured outside-review gate fails on P0 as well as P1 validateOutsideReview() derived its structured pass/fail from a [P1] match, so a review reporting only [P0] findings passed. The wrapper now reads the classifier's findings verdict (P0 or P1), and the /review and /ship structured-gate prose requests [P0]-[P3] tags and fails on P0/P1; untagged output (OUTSIDE_STATUS: unverified) is missing coverage. The ship clarity pin moves from 'structured P1' to 'structured P0/P1' with the behavior. * E1: freeze normalizes boundary and target the same way on Windows; hooks spawn through cmd.exe (#2876, #2354) gstack_hook_normalize_path (careful/bin/hook-extract.sh) maps C:\..., c:/..., UNC \\server\share (leading // kept) and /cygdrive/c to one form; check-freeze runs both the saved boundary and file_path through it before the absolute test, after symlink resolution, and compares case-insensitively on Windows bash. freeze, guard and careful register hooks as bash -c "exec bash \"$HOME/...\"" so cmd.exe, which never expands $HOME, no longer turns the hook into a silent exit 127. Co-authored-by: Kevin Grasso <kevin@biblingo.com> Co-authored-by: Xuan-Ce Wang <261591073+xwang4-svg@users.noreply.github.com> * G4: keep CLI-to-daemon loopback calls off HTTP_PROXY (#494) The CLI appends 127.0.0.1, localhost and ::1 to the user's NO_PROXY (and no_proxy), keeping existing entries, before its first fetch. Verified on Bun 1.4.0: fetch honors NO_PROXY when it is set before the first request and ignores later changes, so it is set at the top of main(). * F1: bind the plan audit to this branch's plan, never the newest file Plan File Discovery now prefers an explicit binding (the plan-mode file or /autoplan ACTIVE_PLAN from the conversation, then a "Plan: <path>" line in the PR body), then lists candidates: repo-committed docs/designs/ files this branch changed or that name it, and personal plan files that name the branch. Candidates are offered, never picked silently. The repo-name match and the newest-file-of-the-day fallback, which audited PRs against unrelated plans, are gone. With nothing bound or chosen it prints the exact line 'Plan completion audit: not run (...). Fix: add "Plan: <path>" to the PR body, or run /autoplan.' /ship's parent now binds the plan before dispatching the audit subagent ({{PLAN_COMPLETION_GATE_SHIP:discovery}}), so the child never searches. Migrates three tests that pinned the old markers and notice. Co-authored-by: loulanyue <260355617@qq.com> * G5: browse type --selector <sel> <text> (#2936) --selector focuses the element (sel or @ref) and types into it. The bare form still types its text literally into the focused element; text that starts with -- goes after a -- separator. When the first word looks like a CSS selector, the result adds a hint to use --selector without echoing the typed text, and never refuses based on page contents. Help and command usage updated. Co-authored-by: Thomas Reuser <thomasreuser@gmail.com> * F2: design-doc discovery reads docs/designs, never a root DESIGN.md A root DESIGN.md is the design system /design-consultation writes, so preferring it unconditionally reviewed plans against a token file while printing "Design doc found" and never looked at docs/designs/ feature docs. Discovery now considers only docs/designs/*.md as the repo-local design doc (still freshness-compared with the private ~/.gstack copy). The CEO finding fixture seeds its supplied design as a docs/designs doc and its test follows. Co-authored-by: Bit0ps <alex.dreamscaper@gmail.com> * C4: rename the external carve test (typecheck:test union-order artifact) tsc prints a union's members in type-creation order; a test file sorting before ceo-mode-option.test.ts reordered one baseline diagnostic's text. * C1: every env-var host fence resolves its own gstack root Codex and the other env-var hosts run each block in a fresh shell, so GSTACK_ROOT/BIN, B and D set by the preamble were empty in later blocks (/bin/gstack-slug, B=/browse). scripts/resolvers/runtime-root.ts now owns root resolution: a valid exported GSTACK_ROOT (bin/ and lib/), else the per-install literal root (no git call), else repo-local, else the global root (CODEX_HOME on Codex); no root prints the setup fix line and exits. One post-render pass inserts it (<=400 bytes) into every fence that uses these variables without assigning them; B/D come from the same helper as BROWSE and DESIGN SETUP. Claude output is byte-identical. Migrated pins of the old preamble lines (gen-skill-docs.test.ts) and a fixture whose exported GSTACK_ROOT lacked lib/ (skill-positional-literals). * E8: headless browse honors GSTACK_CHROMIUM_PATH; extensions load in new headless mode (#2771, #1968, #2281) The headless launch passes GSTACK_CHROMIUM_PATH as executablePath, scopes the XProtect self-heal out for that bundle, and names the path in a launch failure with the fix. BROWSE_EXTENSIONS_DIR now launches a persistent context under the project state dir with --headless=new, so the extension runs and no window appears (the off-screen window was visible on macOS and the extension never ran in an isolated newContext). The GPU source guard test moves from the removed useHeadless flag to launch() vs launchHeaded(). Co-authored-by: oli548 <312288720+oli548@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Slava <slava.istomin@tuta.io> Co-authored-by: ryanlaiwy <129729476+ryanlaiwy@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: 李翊楠 <yinanli1917@gmail.com> * C2: link design/dist and make-pdf/dist into every host runtime root and the agents sidecar Codex design and make-pdf skills fall back to $GSTACK_DESIGN and $GSTACK_MAKE_PDF under the runtime root, but setup linked only browse/dist, so both preflights reported NOT_AVAILABLE on a fresh install. One helper links dist/ only (make-pdf/ ships a Claude SKILL.md) into the Codex, Factory, OpenCode, Cursor, Copilot and Kiro roots, the .agents sidecar and the Cursor sidecar. Co-authored-by: Mammad M. <mammad@digit.az> * C3: install router and nested SKILL.md files as real copies; back up hand edits; --status checks Codex skips a symlinked SKILL.md file, so the gstack router linked into ~/.codex/skills/gstack was invisible. Every host runtime root (Codex, Factory, OpenCode, Cursor, Copilot, Kiro) and Kiro's per-skill installs now get real copies, rewritten on every run (the auto-update path runs setup --refresh-registered, so it refreshes them too). setup records each copy's hash in <state root>/skill-copies.tsv; a copy that no longer matches is saved to a uniquely named backup under <state root>/backups/skill-copies/ before _activate_runtime_root replaces the tree, and a failed backup keeps the old tree. setup prints what it refreshed or removed. ./setup --status now prints, per registered install, whether the router is a real file and whether every section pointer resolves, with the fix command. Test migration: setup-codex-model pinned the Kiro router/upgrade links as _link_or_copy; C3 deliberately changes them to copies. * INV-3: install-level host conformance checks (no symlinked SKILL.md, dist present, section pointers resolve) For codex, kiro, factory, opencode, cursor and copilot, the real-setup conformance kit now fails when an installed SKILL.md is a symlink, when design/dist or make-pdf/dist is missing from the runtime root, or when a 'Read `.../sections/<f>.md`' pointer in an installed SKILL.md does not resolve (bare pointers in carved skills, relative-to-installed-skill pointers, and $GSTACK_ROOT/~/absolute/../ pointers everywhere), and ./setup --status must report 'all resolve'. No new setup runs. Expected red until the generator lane lands: design-html's install-offer pointer and plan-eng-review's review-sections pointer name $GSTACK_ROOT/<skill>/sections/... on every external host. * B11: auto-update tracks pull, setup and migrations; announces only on success; retries with backoff gstack-session-update wrote the 'just upgraded' marker after SETUP_FAILED or SETUP_SKIPPED bun_missing, and re-ran setup only when HEAD moved, so a failed install was announced as an upgrade and never retried. Stages are now persisted in <state root>/session-update-pending; the marker is written only when every stage succeeded; a pending setup or migrations stage is retried even with HEAD unchanged after the update-check interval, then 6h, then 24h; and each session start prints one line naming the stage, the reason and the repair command while it is pending. Best-effort tails carry a same-line reason. * D1: gstack-config key browse_extension_id for forks and self-built extensions The browse daemon trusts one Chrome extension ID on /extension-token and the terminal-agent /ws. The override now lives only in gstack-config (never an env var a project .env could set): empty by default (gstack's published extension), a 32-letter a-p Chrome ID when set, "" clears it, and anything else is rejected with the stored value kept. The browse lane reads it. gstack-config-defaults: browse/src counts as a reader directory; the key is listed prose-only until the browse lane's reader lands (the stale-entry check then asks for the entry's removal). * G2: key the sticky slug cache on the git common dir A linked worktree used to resolve its slug fresh from the remote while the main checkout kept its sticky pre-remote identity, so learnings, checkpoints and timelines split into two buckets. gstack-slug and its TS twin in lib/bin-context.ts now key the cache on the git common dir (read from .git files, no git spawn, so cache hits stay git-free) and read entries in one deterministic order: the repository entry, then the main checkout's pre-upgrade entry, then this directory's own. Both the repository and per-path entries are written. When a worktree's own old entry named a different bucket that still holds data, that slug is recorded in projects/<slug>/.former-slugs and reported by --get FORMER_SLUGS. New --adopt-legacy --from <slug> merges it: JSONL logs append missing lines with de-duplication, missing files copy, differing files are listed as conflicts and never overwritten, the source bucket is kept, and it prints migrated/pending/conflicting counts; reruns are idempotent. --adopt-legacy --dismiss <slug> drops the reminder. Co-authored-by: loulanyue <260355617@qq.com> * C5: OpenCode /gstack-* commands load the skill by its frontmatter name OpenCode's skill tool knows gstack-review as `review` (its frontmatter name), and OpenCode's builtin /review shadows that name as a command. The managed /gstack-review command told the agent to load `gstack-review`, a name the skill tool does not list. Every managed command now names the frontmatter name. OpenCode's AskUserQuestion/ExitPlanMode mapping (#2759) already shipped in v1.91.16.0. Test migration: the #2629 commands test pinned the directory name. Co-authored-by: Lockyer <135391289+Lockyer228@users.noreply.github.com> * E4: Windows node-server bundle keeps sharp and socks external; CLI resolves its server script lazily (#2260, #2439) build-node-server.sh passes --external sharp and --external socks (Bun on Windows refuses to inline them; on Linux they were silently inlined). The CLI no longer resolves server.ts or server-node.mjs at module load: resolveServerLaunch() runs when a server starts, so a Windows minimal runtime with only server-node.mjs works and a missing script is reported only when one is needed. Co-authored-by: Spooks444 <193448029+Spooks444@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: punksterlabs <77217235+punksterlabs@users.noreply.github.com> * B1: Codex reviews whose sandbox could not start are unavailable, not a pass In containers without unprivileged user namespaces every Codex command fails, yet the review exits 0 and concludes 'no findings' (captured in test/fixtures/codex-sandbox/). The validator now takes execution evidence: 'codex exec --json' command events and the 'codex review' stderr transcript (a command that succeeded proves execution); sandbox failure lines on stderr or in failed command output return unavailable(sandbox_unavailable); exact 'could not run commands / read the diff' phrases are the last fallback. Review text that merely discusses bwrap or namespaces still passes. A free 'codex sandbox ... true' preflight (Linux, 10 s) runs before the paid model probe and every automatic outside review; CODEX_MODE gains sandbox_unavailable, and an inconclusive model probe reports unverified instead of ready (exit code kept for stale callers). Every Codex site (outside-voice resolver, /codex review, challenge, consult) takes its sandbox from _GSTACK_CODEX_SANDBOX and pipes its result through the validator; a static test parses rendered command positions for both. GSTACK_CODEX_NO_SANDBOX=1 (exactly 1, shell env only) switches to danger-full-access with a warning on every use. Sandbox pins in existing tests move from the literal read-only to the selected-sandbox variable; captured autoplan probes are judged against the probe block they executed. * C6: gstack-relink discovers skills structurally, so /browse survives a skill_prefix toggle relink skipped a hardcoded list of support-directory names that included browse, a real skill, so toggling skill_prefix removed /browse. A top-level directory is now a skill exactly when it carries a SKILL.md. Co-authored-by: Jonathan Zhang <topcoder1@Mac-Studio.local> * C4: carve ship and plan-ceo-review on every host; enforce the 160 KB byte gate The generated ship skill was 202-241 KB on all 10 non-Claude hosts (and Factory plan-ceo-review 160,039 bytes), over the 160,000-byte ceiling, because section carving ran only for Claude. Both skills now carve on every host, pointing at sections relative to the installed skill directory (literal $GSTACK_ROOT/<skill>/sections refs are rewritten the same way). The ceiling is measured in UTF-8 bytes and fails generation in repo mode; under --install-root it warns so setup never leaves a user without skills. qa-lazy-sections.test.ts pinned ship as inline-on-external-hosts; migrated to the carved policy and kept the inline check on review (Claude-only carve). * B5: learnings and timeline reads fail loudly when bun is missing gstack-learnings-search and gstack-timeline-read ended in '2>/dev/null || exit 0', so a missing bun or a crashed embedded script printed nothing and exited 0, identical to 'nothing recorded'. Both now exit 127 with '<script>: bun not found on PATH, so ... could not be read. Fix: install Bun (https://bun.sh), then re-run ./setup.' and let an embedded-script failure exit non-zero with its stderr. A successful run with no matches still exits 0 with empty output. The generated callers that print 'LEARNINGS: unavailable (...)' belong to the generator lane. Co-authored-by: loulanyue <260355617@qq.com> * B2: a retired-model 404 reports MODEL_UNUSABLE, not CODEX_MODE: ready The model probe matched only 400 / 'is not supported', so a retired model's 404 ('does not exist or you do not have access to it') and a custom provider's bare 404 fell through to the inconclusive branch and reported ready. Both now classify as MODEL_UNUSABLE with a hint naming the two causes (retired model, or a wrong base_url) and log codex_model_retired; a 'requires a newer version of Codex' 400 points at upgrading the CLI and logs codex_cli_outdated. Ported from #2843 onto the current probe. Co-authored-by: Marek Cermak <marek.cermak@strv.com> * B6: rank learnings by matched query tokens and disclose truncation A more specific query used to drop the exact match: the token-OR filter recalled every entry sharing one token, the sort used confidence alone, and the default --limit cut silently. Entries now rank by how many distinct query tokens they match, then confidence, then recency, and a query that matched more than fit says '-- N more matched, raise --limit to see them'. The hit count lives in a local map so a field stored on disk can never become a sort key, and the type grouping uses a null-prototype map so a row typed 'constructor' or '__proto__' cannot crash the run. Ranking code ported from #2796; regression vectors adapted from #2799 (its stemmer is not needed). Co-authored-by: loulanyue <260355617@qq.com> Co-authored-by: y$un_ <forrest.sun527@gmail.com> * C7: required team mode also blocks Copilot CLI's lowercase skill tool Copilot CLI applies Claude-format matchers by tool name; its skill tool is `skill`, which no Claude tool name maps to, so the 'Skill' matcher never fired and Copilot ran protected skills without gstack. The hook entry now matches 'Skill|skill', an entry an older team-init wrote is upgraded in place, and the deny is emitted in both decision formats (Copilot reads the top-level permissionDecision, Claude Code reads hookSpecificOutput) with exit 0 so both parse it. Test migration: the settings test pinned matcher 'Skill'. Co-authored-by: neallee <neallee@gmail.com> * B3: Codex auth probe accepts custom providers' env_key credentials The auth probe only knew CODEX_API_KEY, OPENAI_API_KEY and auth.json, so a working self-hosted or OpenAI-compatible provider configured with [model_providers.<id>] env_key = "X" reported AUTH_FAILED and /codex stopped. The probe now reads env_key from model_providers tables only (comments ignored, the name must be a shell identifier before it is dereferenced) and accepts a set variable; when none is set it names the missing key on stderr. Ported from #2192 with the table scoping added. Co-authored-by: hardy <932821449@qq.com> * E8: keep the extensions profile under the state dir at a path lock cleanup accepts cleanSingletonLocks only cleans directories named chromium-profile, so the BROWSE_EXTENSIONS_DIR profile moves to <state>/extensions/chromium-profile. * B10: plan-tune never reports CALIBRATED with zero signal events Stats printed CALIBRATED: true from logged-answer counts alone, while every answer could miss SIGNAL_MAP and leave each dimension at its 0.5 seed (#2623). --derive now records inferred.signal_events, the answers that actually moved a dimension; calibration requires at least one, and the summary prints 'not calibrated: no recorded signals' verbatim when there are none (or says the count is unknown for a profile derived before this change). The psychographic redesign stays out of scope. * A1: verify gbrain landing before stamping transcripts, plus --reconcile gbrain import exits 0 while skipping pages (returned per-file failures, malformed filenames, managed-import Pending receipts), and its failure ledger exists only for git import dirs, so a skipped page was stamped ingested and never retried (field reports: 37 and 69 lost entries). Write, verify, then stamp (lib/memory-ingest-landing.ts, a new ratcheted module): - State schema 2 with a transition table (staged -> imported_unverified -> ingested, plus refused, quarantined, unrecoverable). Schema 1 files migrate in place: entries become ingested in the legacy "default" source and a reconcile pass is marked pending. - Named failures come from --json `failures`, stderr "Skipped <rel>:" lines and the ledger; a failure gbrain does not attribute refuses the whole batch. After 3 refused batches the batch is bisected and the page that poisons it is quarantined (printed even under --quiet). - Landing check: one `gbrain list --source-id` per source per run and at most 50 `gbrain get --json` content checks against a gstack_content_sha256 frontmatter field gstack now writes. Lookup errors and pglite_busy mean "not yet checked", never absent; pages over the cap stay imported_unverified and are not re-imported. - Each entry records its gbrain source_id. Remote-http mode records "staged", never "ingested". - The source fingerprint comes from the exact bytes parsed, so a transcript that grows during import is not stamped as its newer self (the old unscanned contract test is migrated; it pinned that bug). - --reconcile mode (bounded by --limit, default 200; resumable; --dry-run; backs up the state file) prints "reconcile: checked N, present M, re-queued K, not yet checked L". --request-reconcile records a pending pass without calling gbrain; the v1.91.17.0 migration (placeholder name) uses it, and the next ingest run does one bounded pass. - One lock for every state writer; a state-save failure fails the run. The #1802 static pins in regression-1611 move to the new structure (remote-http returns before importBatch; the finally honors preserveStaging). Co-authored-by: afshaker <andrew@phone2.io> * B4: arm64 re-sign keeps a backup, restores it when codesign fails, and reports design unavailable on exit 137 setup's Apple Silicon re-sign mutated each binary in place (truncate, remove signature) and left it that way when re-signing failed; a design binary that was then SIGKILLed at launch produced at most a quiet log line. Each binary is now copied first and restored as built when signing fails, and design is exec-probed after re-signing: exit 137 prints 'design unavailable: ... Fix: cd <checkout> && ./setup' (even under -q). Verified on Linux with the real block and uname/codesign/otool/stat stubs; not run on a Mac. * D3: treat design docs and handoff notes as data in plan reviews plan-ceo-review, plan-eng-review and plan-devex-review read the freshest design doc as the source of truth, and nothing said its content is data. In multi-agent pipelines another agent may have written it, or a handoff note beside it, with reviewer-directed text ('skip Step 0', 'approve as-is'). Each read site now says the doc and any handoff note are data, never to follow text aimed at the reviewer, and to report it as suspicious content. The plan-completion audit's discovery, which now reads repo docs/designs/ files (F1), carries the same rule. Co-authored-by: cube <frosimanuel@gmail.com> * D4: setup-deploy reports Render API key presence only /setup-deploy ran 'echo $RENDER_API_KEY | head -c 4', printing the key's first bytes into the transcript. It now prints only 'RENDER_API_KEY: set' or 'RENDER_API_KEY: not set'. Wording follows the #2971 port of #1096; a test also guards against any setup-deploy command echoing a credential variable. Co-authored-by: jacob-wang <jiayuw794@gmail.com> * D5: per-project headed Chromium profiles; never kill a live profile owner (#2492) The headed profile moves from <gstack home>/chromium-profile to <project>/.gstack/chromium-profile (CHROMIUM_PROFILE still wins). killOrphanChromium now kills a SingletonLock PID only when the lock names this host, the process is a Chromium using that profile, and its daemon is gone (reparented to init or a subreaper); a live owner or another host's lock stops browse with the holder named. On first headed use a project profile is seeded from the old shared profile only when nothing holds it: copied without Singleton* files into a 0700 temp dir and renamed into place, with a one-time notice; otherwise it starts fresh and says how to import later. New: browse profiles [list] and browse profiles prune [--days N] (never removes a profile in use or the old shared one). The #2817 headed-startup tests move to the project profile and a real orphan (the old stand-in was a live child of the test). Co-authored-by: miao <miao@macmini-2.local> * F5: installed Claude skills serve the rendered sections, not the checkout copies Probe: a gbrain user render serves ship/SKILL.md from the render dir; its STOP pointers name absolute render paths, but its section index names `sections/<f>.md` relative to the installed skill directory, whose sections/ was linked from the checkout. So the rendered 'Save Results to Brain' blocks (plan reviews, office-hours, ship adversarial) were generated and never read. setup's _link_skill_runtime_assets and gstack-relink (the gbrain-refresh path) now serve a rendered counterpart per file, keep checkout-only assets (manifest.json), return an asset to the checkout once its render is gone, and never touch an entry that is not gstack's links. Co-authored-by: Jonah Berg <jonah.berg.g@gmail.com> * F1: ratchet /ship's parity union-size cap for this lane's content G1's NO_VERSION arms, F1's parent-side plan binding and D3's data line add 2,126 bytes to /ship's skeleton-plus-sections union, taking it from 1.4022x to 1.4135x of the v1.64.1.0 baseline (cap was 1.405). The cap moves to 1.414 with the measurement recorded, as earlier growth did; no other invariant changes. * E5: feed every Codex prompt on stdin instead of argv Prompts went to Codex as one argv string ('codex exec "$(cat file)"'), which fails over 32 KB on Windows (and over 128 KB on Linux, E2BIG) and mangles quotes. Every codex exec site (outside-voice resolver, /codex review custom instructions, challenge, consult new and resume) now runs 'codex exec -' with the prepared prompt file on stdin; challenge and consult write the prompt with a quoted heredoc so it is never shell-parsed. The bash-native timeout watchdog (stock macOS) started the command in the background, which gives it /dev/null as stdin; it now passes the caller's stdin through. The 'byte for byte' dispatch test drops its old argv trailing-LF exception, the consultation and autoplan fixtures follow the stdin form, and the static site test requires stdin at every rendered codex exec. * G6: prettyscreenshot --hide keeps a trailing image path as the output path (#1419) --hide collected every following non-flag argument as a selector, so the output path was hidden instead of written to. A trailing argument that looks like a path or ends in .png/.jpg/.jpeg/.webp is now the output path. Co-authored-by: Jayesh Betala <jayesh.betala7@gmail.com> * INV-3: render-level host conformance and generated-bash lint on every host One render per host checks every fence of every SKILL.md and section file: bash -n with angle-bracket placeholders normalized; the env-var host prelude and its B/D consumers run under env -i and set -u with stub binaries (no empty value, no /bin/, /browse, /design or /gstack- path); and a quote-aware lint (test/helpers/generated-bash-lint.ts) fails on a ~/ word inside double quotes, mktemp without a TMPDIR-respecting template, and cd/rm -r/mv/git -C on a variable the fence never assigned unless written ${VAR:?...} (cd must also handle failure). Negative controls plant each failure. Templated the bare mktemp calls in generator-owned resolvers and the upgrade fence; migrated the two tests that pinned the bare form. * G6: analytics averages quoted duration_s values (#1728) gstack-skill-end writes duration_s as a quoted string, and the per-skill average stripped everything from the leading quote, so every average read 0s. The awk now drops a leading quote before extracting digits. Co-authored-by: Ryan Alberts <ryan.a.alberts@gmail.com> * G6: gstack-ios-qa-daemon --help prints usage instead of starting the daemon (#1932) Co-authored-by: maxpetrusenkoagent <max.petrusenko.agent@gmail.com> * G1: tighten /ship's NO_VERSION wording to fit the union-size cap Same behavior in fewer bytes: the NO_VERSION arm, the broken-source exit, the unprefixed-title rule, the Step 20 null and the CHANGELOG skip. The cap ratchet commit measured this wording. * G6: rejected taste preferences gain confidence (#1777) bumpPref computed every entry's confidence from approved_count, so a rejected entry, which never gains approvals, stayed at 0: show ranked rejections by insertion order and the taste-drift warning could not fire from real use. Confidence now uses the entry's own bucket count. Also salvaged by Garry's #2971. Co-authored-by: Jayesh Betala <jayesh.betala7@gmail.com> * E2: Windows /cso build disables only C5105, and a failed MSVC compile is not reported as a missing toolchain The Windows SDK's winbase.h raises C5105, which /W4 /WX promotes to error C2220, so every MSVC build of the native /cso helper failed, and setup mapped every probe failure to 'install Visual Studio 2022 Build Tools'. Both compile lines add /wd5105 (only that diagnostic), and setup keeps the probe's output: a probe that found MSVC but failed to compile reports windows-msvc-compile with the compiler's first error. Not run on Windows: the mapping test stubs powershell.exe; the ps1 assertion runs everywhere. Co-authored-by: AlinValentin7 <AlinValentin7@users.noreply.github.com> * E6: gbrain-refresh hands the detection file to Python on stdin Under Git Bash, a native Windows Python first on PATH cannot open an MSYS /c/... path, so gbrain-refresh always summarized the detection as 'local-status: unknown' and brain-aware blocks were suppressed. bash now opens the file and Python reads stdin; the grep fallback without Python is unchanged. Verified on Linux with a stub Python that refuses path opens; not run on Windows. Co-authored-by: maxpetrusenkoagent <max.petrusenko.agent@gmail.com> * G6: context-save computes session duration on Linux (#2704) The duration step parsed 'ps -o lstart=' with BSD-only 'date -jf', so on Linux session_duration_s was always unknown. It now falls back to GNU 'date -d', and never parses an empty start (GNU reads that as midnight). Ported onto the current block instead of #2704's ~/.gstack/sessions mtime, which bypassed the state root. Co-authored-by: Evgenii Lopatin <e75533@gmail.com> * Q2: one-time notice naming the Codex provider and account for outside reviews Outside reviews are on by default and use whatever Codex login exists (#965). The first automatic Codex review on a machine now prints one non-blocking notice: the provider (config.toml model_provider, else openai), where the credential comes from (CODEX_API_KEY, OPENAI_API_KEY, the ChatGPT login or the key saved by codex login; never the value), that reviews stay on, and how to turn them off (gstack-config set codex_reviews disabled). A marker in the gstack state root keeps it to once per machine. Tests that run the generated command now use private state roots. Also shortens the no-sandbox provenance line. * Q1: validate browser output paths the way the kernel resolves them (#2971 salvage) validateOutputPath walks the destination one component at a time, resolving each existing component before the next, so link/../x, a dangling symlink and a dangling symlinked parent can no longer route a write outside the safe directories, while a new multi-level directory inside them is allowed. scrape validates its manifest and every downloaded file, not only --dir. Ported from PR #2971 onto current code. * G6: retro test census counts non-JS suites, skips generated output The census recognized only JS/TS-style names, so pytest and minitest (test_*.py|rb), XCTest (Tests/ dirs, FooTests.swift), Terraform (*.tftest.hcl) and Bats (*.bats) suites counted as zero, and a committed build directory counted as authored code (and its Test/ subdirs as test LOC). is_test now knows those conventions and never treats prose as a test, generated output is skipped in the numstat pass, TEST_FILES_CHANGED uses is_test, and TEST_FILES_TOTAL uses the same filename conventions minus generated paths. Merges #2812, #2809 and #2037's patterns (#2037's retro template edits target a block the metrics bin replaced). Co-authored-by: Jino <dgfrty00@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: snig-17 <santosh.m.tiwari@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Sholto McNeilage <sholto@nodenarrative.com.au> * Q3: setup stops auto-installing the AskUserQuestion preference hook in Conductor and removes one it added The PreToolUse question-preference hook breaks Conductor's native AskUserQuestion round-trip even when it only defers (#2207), and setup auto-installed it on every Conductor workspace setup. Now a Conductor setup without an explicit opt-in never installs it and removes an existing one (the question-log and AUQ-error hooks stay), printing how to keep it (gstack-config set plan_tune_hooks yes). An explicit opt-in still installs it. gstack-settings-hook remove-source gains --event to scope the removal. Test migration: setup-plan-tune-hooks-noninteractive pinned the retired Conductor auto-opt-in. Co-authored-by: Phil Hie <philhie@outlook.com> * E5: watchdog stdin test feeds the wrapper through a redirect Callers run '_gstack_codex_timeout_wrapper ... codex exec - < file'. Bash keeps stdin for a backgrounded command inside a pipeline but not behind a redirect, so the pipe form passed on the old watchdog; the redirect form reproduces the lost prompt. * F4: type the variant-round fetch stub like the existing stubs The test-typecheck ratchet flagged the zero-argument stub cast to typeof fetch; it now takes the fetch arguments like variants-retry-after's stub. Test behavior unchanged. * A4: import transcripts into per-repository, non-federated gbrain sources `gbrain import` ran without --source-id, so transcripts from every project landed in the shared (often federated) default source. - Each transcript partition imports with --source-id into its originating repository's own source (gstack-transcripts-<repo>, built with constrainSourceId, now exported from lib/gbrain-sources.ts). The source is registered machine-local and --no-federated before its first import, and the registration is cached in state. Partitions import one after another (PGLite is a single writer); a failing source no longer blocks the others, except a timeout, whose checkpoint must survive. - If gbrain cannot register the source, that partition stays local and unstamped, and the run says why (even under --quiet). - --include-unattributed sends repo-less transcripts only to the machine-local gstack-transcripts-unattributed source, keeps them on the machine when the brain is remote (Postgres, Supabase or remote-HTTP), and never writes them to the publishable ~/.gstack/transcripts staging. - A page's recorded source is sticky: pages stamped before this release ("default") keep importing there, so no source gains a duplicate. - The staging dir name carries -src-<id> so a resumed import keeps its source. Test fakes that recorded only the last import now record every import of one run, and answer `gbrain sources`; remote-http scan tests use an attributed transcript, since unattributed ones no longer stage there. Co-authored-by: Sinabina <sinabina@Sinabinas-MacBook-Pro-4.local> * F3: load the taste profile, and report a failed slug lookup The taste-profile probe double-quoted ~/.claude/.../gstack-slug, so the tilde never expanded and /design-consultation and /design-shotgun always printed NO_TASTE_PROFILE. Use quoteSafePath(); stop hiding gstack-slug's stderr and print TASTE_PROFILE_UNAVAILABLE with the fix when the slug cannot be resolved. * B4: DESIGN_READY only when the design binary actually starts DESIGN SETUP (and office-hours' visual exploration) printed DESIGN_READY for any executable binary, so one SIGKILLed at launch by an invalid macOS code signature still passed. Launch it under the portable 10-second deadline (gtimeout, timeout, or perl alarm); otherwise print DESIGN_NOT_AVAILABLE with the exit code, 'timed out after 10s', or on 137 the code-signature hint and 'Fix: cd <checkout> && ./setup'. A success is cached by inode and mtime under the state root so Gatekeeper's first-launch scan is paid once. The probe launches the binary with no arguments (usage, exit 0): the design CLI has no --version command today. * C2: name the runtime root every way a generated preflight may read it in the dist test The generator lane's C1 resolves D from $GSTACK_ROOT instead of $GSTACK_DESIGN, so the test now exports GSTACK_ROOT as well; it still fails on main (no dist in the roots) and passes with and without the C1 change. * A5: brain-sync stage fails loud when the artifacts source indexed zero pages The stage reported "curated artifacts pushed" whenever gstack-brain-sync exited 0, but a git push is not gbrain indexing. After a successful push the stage now reads the maintained artifacts source's page count (GSTACK_BRAIN_SOURCE_ID, else the source whose path is the artifacts worktree or state root): zero pages is ERR with the fix command; a missing source or an unavailable count says so instead of claiming indexing. Co-authored-by: Jimmy Zeisweiss <4261258+jzeisweiss@users.noreply.github.com> * B1: state the effective read-only sandbox in /codex review prose The codex parity invariant requires the skill to state sandbox_mode="read-only"; the command now takes it from _GSTACK_CODEX_SANDBOX, so the prose names the effective default explicitly. * A6: report deleted-worktree gbrain sources; prune only with proof, on request A deleted Conductor worktree leaves its gstack-code-<hash> source behind and gbrain's autopilot fails on it forever. Local absence is not proof a source is dead (machines sharing a federated brain register their own paths, and its pages may be the only copy of uncommitted work), so gstack never removes one automatically. - Each sync counts consecutive misses for gstack code sources whose path is missing, prints "path unavailable" once per source with the review command, and records which repository each synced source belongs to. - New gstack-gbrain-sync --prune-gone-worktrees (with --dry-run, whose plan it always prints first) removes a source only when its path was missing on two consecutive syncs, its parent is readable, recomputing deriveCodeSourceId() for that path on this host yields its id, and the repository's git common dir still exists and no longer lists the worktree. It re-checks the path right before removing (through the #1734-guarded safeSourcesRemove) and logs each removal. * D0: pass the Bun child flags after 'run' so wrappers that rewrite 'bun run' argv keep working bun run --no-env-file --config=/dev/null <script> has the same effect (verified on Bun 1.4.0) and keeps argv[1] === 'run', which the publication-lock fixture's preload injection relies on. The sidebar-tabs source guard now expects the flags in the terminal-agent spawn. * E8: count the BROWSE_EXTENSIONS_DIR persistent launch in the signal-flags guard The new launch site carries handleSIGINT/SIGTERM/SIGHUP false like the other three, so the guard's expected count moves from 3 to 4. * D2: give the memory-leak reproducer's fake request isNavigationRequest() wirePageEvents now runs the navigation guard on every request event; the fake request adapter supplies the method real Playwright requests have. * A7: run only the resolve_symbol_edges dream phase, detected first /sync-gbrain --dream and the --full auto-build ran gbrain's full dream cycle (~35 minutes, LLM phases) when the call graph needs only the resolve_symbol_edges phase. The stage now runs gbrain dream [--source <id>] --phase resolve_symbol_edges when the installed gbrain accepts that phase (detected by behavior: gbrain validates --phase before printing --help). Otherwise it skips the forced dream and says the full cycle costs about 35 minutes and how to run it, instead of starting it. Co-authored-by: liutiming <timingliu@outlook.com> * D0: keep the dotenv isolation test runnable on the Windows lane The compiled probe gets its .exe name on Windows, and the terminal-agent case (owner identity comes from ps) is skipped there. * B9: read cycle_freshness from a doctor run that includes it /sync-gbrain Step 3.5 and the --full auto-dream decision read CYCLE from gbrain doctor --json --fast, which skips the DB checks that carry cycle_freshness, so the answer was always "unknown". Both now read gbrain doctor --json --scope=brain (DB checks, no skill-file walk), parse its JSON even when doctor exits 1 for a failing check, and match the issue that names this source: "never completed" is never, "last cycled Nh ago" is completed. When the installed gbrain does not report the check, they say "unknown: installed gbrain does not expose cycle_freshness" (lib readCycleStatus carries the reason to the --full SKIP row). The source-probe fixture that pinned the --fast call and a made-up message format now answers --scope=brain with gbrain's real message. * B4: compact the launch probe (cache keyed on inode, valid while newer than the binary) Keeps design-consultation inside its parity size budget. * C4: migrate the ship docs-dispatch test to the carved external ship On Codex and Factory the documentation dispatch now lives in sections/documentation.md behind a pointer relative to the installed skill, like Claude; the test pinned the old inlined layout. * B5: learnings callers report a failed search instead of reading as empty Every generated gstack-learnings-search caller ended in 2>/dev/null || true, so a missing bun or a failed search looked like 'nothing recorded'. Callers now keep stdout, capture stderr and the exit status, and print 'LEARNINGS: unavailable (<first stderr line>)' on failure (resolver callers in learnings.ts and review-army.ts, plus investigate, qa and ship's adversarial section). * F1: ship and review count unverified/unavailable outside reviews as missing coverage INV-1 consumers in this lane's templates: /ship's readiness note, its PR body Pre-Landing Review section and /review's completion rule now say an outside review reporting unverified or unavailable is missing coverage, never a pass. The PR body's Plan Completion section prints F1's not-run line instead of the old 'No plan file detected.' The /ship union-size cap moves to 1.415 for these lines (measured 1.4148). * A8: rename the artifacts repo with OWNER/REPO, rewrite the remote only after it The v1.27.0.0 migration passed a bare repo name to gh repo rename / gh repo edit, which always fails (gh wants [HOST/]OWNER/REPO), then step 2 rewrote ~/.gstack-artifacts-remote.txt to the never-renamed repository. - Qualify both names with the owner from the recorded remote URL (else the signed-in gh user) and surface gh's error. - Step 2 moves the remote file but rewrites the URL only once the rename is confirmed; a later successful retry rewrites it then. - A pending journal now counts as state to migrate, so the #1383 retry actually re-runs step 1 (it used to see no legacy file and declare the migration done). - The v1.91.17.0 migration (placeholder name) repairs installs already hit: when the remote names gstack-artifacts-<user> that does not exist but gstack-brain-<user> does, it restores the old URL in the remote file and ~/.gstack's origin and says so. It only calls gh for such a remote and never fails the upgrade. Co-authored-by: Brandon Pugsley <aibpaem@gmail.com> * B8: read gbrain JSON with bun instead of jq in install and wireup gstack-gbrain-install read package.json with jq but never checked for it, so on a machine without jq a successful install failed with "cannot read version". gstack-gbrain-source-wireup hard-failed without jq ("brew install jq" is not actionable on git-bash), so the wireup was skipped on every run. Both now read the JSON with bun, which they already require. Co-authored-by: benjamin beres <benjamin.beres@bienpreter.com> * B4: shorter probe messages (design-consultation parity budget) * B5: shorter capture variable names (parity budget) * E7: find the Aside CLI in ~/.local/bin when it is not on PATH (#2902) The installer puts aside in ~/.local/bin, which is not on the default macOS login PATH, so the probe said NEEDS_ASIDE ('download Aside') for a healthy install. The probe now falls back to ~/.local/bin/aside, drives the resolved binary, and prints READY: <path> when it is off PATH so later blocks run that path. Ported from PR #2965 onto the current _gs_d probe. Co-authored-by: Som Samantray <som.samantray@gmail.com> * A2: key the dot-slug catalog entry on the message users actually saw * E1: cmd.exe-safe investigate freeze hook On Windows Claude Code runs hook commands through cmd.exe, which cannot parse the single-quoted bash -c argument, so /investigate's scope-lock hook never ran. Use one double-quoted bash -c script that names the hook path directly (no S= variable: POSIX sh would expand $S to empty and skip the hook). * F4: design resolver reads per-round variant paths $D variants now writes $_DESIGN_DIR/round-<N>/variant-*.png and prints JSON with roundDir, manifest and paths. The mockup flow and comparison-board loops build the board from those printed paths instead of hardcoded variant-{A,B,C}.png, and approved.json records approved_path and round so a round-1 choice made after round 2 still resolves. * E4: generators tolerate Bun's spurious EEXIST on Windows (#2329) Bun on Windows throws EEXIST from a recursive mkdir of an existing directory, so gen:skill-docs and the llms.txt writer crashed once a second file landed in a directory. Both now use lib/fs-utils' mkdirpSync (ported from PR #2329 onto the existing helper instead of a new scripts/fs-utils.ts). Co-authored-by: Vaughan <vaughan@cairnsitguy.com.au> * C7: keep the required-mode hook's exit-2 deny Copilot CLI treats a preToolUse exit 2 as deny (its hooks reference), and #2413 established exit 2 plus hookSpecificOutput as the shape Claude Code enforces, so the deny output stays as on main; only the matcher and the in-place upgrade of older 'Skill' entries change. * C3: guard Kiro's router copies on a present source; give the QA pointer adapter the copy and dist helpers A copy fails where a symlink dangled, so the Kiro router and upgrade copies are written only when their render exists (as every other runtime root already does). test/qa-lazy-sections' extracted Kiro installer now supplies _link_runtime_dists (C2) and the SKILL.md copy helpers (C3). * Q3: office-hours asks open-ended questions in a Q<N> prose form (#2719) In Conductor, and whenever AskUserQuestion fails, prose is the only channel, and the prose fallback defined only the D<N> decision brief. Phase 2A/2B diagnostic questions have no option set, so the model dropped the phase. Office-hours' preamble now defines the Q<N> open-question form (question, why I'm asking, what a strong answer sounds like) and routes free-text replies to it; the diagnostic sections name it. Scoped to office-hours so every other skill's preamble is unchanged. Ported from PR #2729. Co-authored-by: Bharadwaj Mittapelli <bharadwajmittapelli@gmail.com> * A2: render db-unreachable like timeout gbrain's new db-unreachable status is a transient network failure; a setup run while offline must not strip brain-aware blocks from every skill. * A2: treat db-unreachable like timeout in gbrain-refresh The memory lane's new db-unreachable status (network or DNS failure, config intact) is transient, so gbrain-refresh keeps rendering brain-aware blocks for it exactly as it does for timeout instead of suppressing them. * C8: a render given disabled skills drops them from the router (#3018) The root router named every skill and ends 'When in doubt, invoke the skill', so it routed to skills the user disabled. gen-skill-docs takes --disabled-skills (runGeneration disabledSkills): the router drops their routing rules, keeps the other side of an 'A or B' rule, and names them as disabled. The router and gstack-upgrade cannot be disabled. With no disabled skills the render is byte-identical. * G2/G3/INV-1: skill-start former-bucket notice and visible learnings failure; TMPDIR mktemp in gbrain bins; best-effort reasons * C9: Step 2 falls back to the install registry's source checkout (DX-7) Codex users who installed from the README's ~/gstack clone got 'ERROR: gstack not found' from /gstack-upgrade: Step 2 only looked under host skill directories. It now falls back to the source checkout the install registry recorded for the current host. * B4: design --version prints the version, and the probe uses it The design CLI treated --version as an unknown command (exit 1), so the probe launched the binary with no arguments instead. Add --version (prints the gstack version, exit 0, before auth or network) and probe with it, so messages read '<path> --version exited <code>' as planned. * C4: no external render points at a section file that is not installed design-html's detector install offer and plan-eng-review's self-check pointed at $GSTACK_ROOT/<skill>/sections/<file> on every external host, where neither skill is carved and no section tree exists. design-html now inlines the offer off Claude, and a skill's pointer to its own {{SECTION}}-inlined section names the inlined text. * C1: skillify finds the browse SDK under its own host's install root The template hardcoded ~/.claude/skills/gstack for the canonical browse-client.ts, so external hosts read another host's install or nothing. A new INSTALLED_ROOT resolver (sibling of INSTALLED_BIN_DIR) names the host's global root, or the per-install root when setup renders for one. * C4: rewrite section refs on hosts whose root stays a literal ~/<globalRoot> Kiro, OpenCode, Cursor and Copilot render ~/.claude/skills/gstack as their own literal root, not $GSTACK_ROOT, so plan-eng-review's self-check pointer escaped the rewrite (found by the setup lane's installed-pointer check). * Integrator: outside-voice fences use the shared runtime prelude; TMPDIR mktemp and per-round variant paths in design templates * Integrator: C8 router omits disabled skills on every render (relink renders the served Claude router in place); Windows-safe E4/E6 entries; investigate hooks under the cmd.exe check; browse_extension_id reader; order-insensitive test typecheck identities tsc printed one unchanged ceo-mode-option diagnostic's object members in a different order (content?/isError?) once lib/fs-utils joined the generator's import graph; identities now sort object-type members, and old baselines normalize on read. * Q1 (#2971 salvage): bound iOS proxy responses One wall-clock deadline covers headers and body (stalled and dribbling bodies time out), the whole body is capped at 64 MiB (upstream_response_too_large), every terminal path clears its timer, removes listeners and destroys the request, and the daemon threads the deadline through both listeners. Ambiguous mutations are still never replayed after a timeout or abort. Ported from #2971's proxy-transport work plus the size bound. * I1: grade the AUQ matrix's (recommended) marker on option labels, the field the auto-decide hook reads The decision-brief format puts a Pros / cons block with 'A) ... (recommended)' in the question text and the same marker on the option label. The matrix counted both and failed all six skills in periodic run 37151477069 with 'expected exactly one (recommended) option, found 2'. The question-preference hook reads labels only, so the gate now checks the native question: a Recommendation line in the question text and exactly one label ending in (recommended). Fixtures move to the native question shape and add the real spec capture plus a marker-only-in-text negative control. * Q1: type the proxy-transport test doubles (typecheck:test ratchet) * INV-1: gate outcome rows and troubleshooting sections for every lane's new messages * Release v1.91.19.0 (next free patch in the queue: #3022 holds 1.91.17.0, #3023 holds 1.91.18.0); migration renamed; engines.bun >=1.4.0 to match the CI pin (#2815) * v1.91.19.0 docs and metadata: CHANGELOG, TODOS, README troubleshooting/upgrade/type --selector, BROWSER.md type and profiles, AGENTS.md conventions, CONTRIBUTING #2949, touchfiles for the wave's new lib/bin files * I1: give hermetic Codex runs a temp dir beside CODEX_HOME so Codex can create its PATH aliases Codex 0.160 refuses to create its helper aliases (codex-linux-sandbox among them) when CODEX_HOME sits under its temp dir, and the runner put the hermetic home under the shard TMPDIR. Periodic run 37151477069 shows the warning and 'Unable to spawn codex-linux-sandbox ... No viable candidates found in PATH' for every exec_command in codex-sol-scope-termination. * I1: Codex evals fail a review whose commands never ran and stop reading tool errors as skill-load problems validateCodexReview accepted codex-review-findings in periodic run 37151477069 although its only command failed in bwrap ('I couldn't run the review'); it now requires execution evidence from classifyOutsideReview (B1's INV-1 classifier). codex-sol-scope-termination failed on 'apply_patch verification failed: invalid hunk' because the skill-load check matched any 'invalid'; it now matches Codex 0.160's skill-loader diagnostics only. * I1: run paid eval containers with seccomp unconfined so Codex's sandbox can start Docker's default seccomp profile blocks the user namespaces bubblewrap needs, so every Codex command in a paid eval failed with 'bwrap: No permissions to create a new namespace' (codex-review-findings, run 37151477069). Reproduced in the CI image locally: default profile fails, seccomp=unconfined runs the command. The runner stays non-root. * I1: shared-libs plan actor reads one exclusion grammar for scope lists Periodic run 37151477069 refused 'Existing-caller migration and helper hardening stay out of scope' as a hardening proposal: the actor had two partial exclusion rules (unanchored is/are/remains outside, and an anchored list that only stays unchanged), the third refusal at this boundary after 36633323521 and 36776104571. One anchored predicate now covers a bare list of scope nouns (hyphenated compounds included) with is/are/stays/remains and unchanged/untouched/excluded/out of scope/outside/not part; any other verb in the clause is still read as a proposal. Adds the real capture and two adversarial controls. * Parity caps: measured v1.91.19.0 union/skeleton sizes for ship, review, design-consultation, office-hours and design-shotgun, with the reason beside each * Regenerate generated output for v1.91.19.0 (gen:skill-docs --host all, goldens, llms.txt, context-budget fixture) * I1: plan-eng-review writes the Test Plan Artifact even while test choices are pending Periodic run 37151477069 (plan-eng-review-artifact): a non-interactive review recorded every Test review choice as pending and never wrote the QA test plan, because Step 5 said to write the artifact 'when these test and eval choices are resolved' while the artifact section says to list unresolved choices as pending. Both now say to write it after the decision gate, with unanswered choices under Pending Decisions. The pinned sentence becomes a meaning-level check. * I3: plan-eng-review states when findings first enter the report and that the scope menu's recommendation needs no repo probe Judge rationales for 'plan-eng-review/SKILL.md sections' (actionability 3.67 in periodic run 37151477069, clarity 3 in 36385945043 and 35567915613) cite two concrete tensions: 'do not add findings before Scope Challenge C' versus the ledger saves C itself performs, and 'Recommendation: A when a branch diff exists' versus 'do not probe for session state'. The write policy now says findings first enter through Scope Challenge C's ledger saves; the selector says its Recommendation line advises the user and needs no repository inspection. The pinned sentence becomes the new meaning-level regex. * I3: plan-ceo-review defines the closing sequence's cleanup step Two of three judge samples for 'plan-ceo-review/SKILL.md modes' in periodic run 37151477069 (actionability at the 4.0 gate) flag 'perform permitted cleanup' as never defined. The only cleanup the skill has is archiving old CEO plans, which needs approval; step 5 now says so. * I3: /qa-only's value-card rule names only its own card location qa-only rendered the /qa line 'Put it in the 8e.5 record (/qa) or under each proposed test (/qa-only)'; judge samples for 'qa-only/SKILL.md workflow' (actionability at the 4.0 gate in run 37151477069, 3.67 in 36907895813) flag the /qa-only-irrelevant 8e.5 record. The qa-mode bar now renders the invoking skill's location; both skills get shorter. * test-of-test ratchet: a repo script or setup read by path counts as product code codex-invocation-sites (runs scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts), gstack-config-gbrain-refresh (copies bin/<name> through a variable) and setup-cso-windows-probe (reads setup and scripts/build-cso-windows.ps1) exercise product code the detector could not see. * I1: DX floor actor strips the editor hint from the footer line only (from #2971) The custom-field reply normalization removed 'ctrl+g to edit in <editor>' from every line, so question text that resembled the menu footer could be rewritten and still authenticate. Only the last non-empty line is the footer. Ported from Garry's #2971 with its negative control. * I4: attribute every census testcase; deselections never count as SKIPPED The paid report counted every skipped JUnit testcase as SKIPPED and every testcase whose name was not a registry id as unattributed. On the 2026-10-03 census (run 37151477069) that was SKIPPED 82 / unattributed 72 (periodic) and SKIPPED 282 / unattributed 24 (gate), and every case-shard sibling also wrote a skipped history record that reset its pass-rate series. - attributeJUnitCase: a name is its registry id or CASE_TEST_NAMES label, else the only id its file registers, else the keyless file itself. Skipped other-tier cases, case-shard siblings, isolated or unselected cases and Bun's '(unnamed)' hook placeholders are zero-credit deselections with a reason and write no history record. Anything else is listed by name as unattributed. - One result and one history record per case per shard; a genuinely skipped selected case counts as SKIPPED and is listed with its reason, also in report-summary.md and collector-outcomes.json. SKIPPED panels show their reason and skipped trials are no longer called assertions. - CASE_TEST_NAMES labels for the three /cso cases. - tierSkipReason: a computed registration whose lane-tier ids are all registered to other test files is excluded at plan time, so the four gate and two periodic files that ran with every test skipped no longer take a runner. Census rerun: periodic SKIPPED 0 / unattributed 0, gate SKIPPED 0 / unattributed 0; verdicts unchanged. * I5: split the deploy file per case; guard PR-lane shard walls at 600 s test/skill-e2e-deploy.test.ts ran 668 s as one gate shard in the 2026-10-03 census (six sequential cases, 51-201 s each). It is now case-sharded, so each case is its own shard with its own (smaller) supervision budget; no timeout or budget was raised. - CASE_SHARDED_FILES gains the deploy file (names already equal ids). - Gate duration seeds for the six case keys from the census JUnit walls, so packing stays at 12 gate-census slices (CI cap 230m -> 200m). - shardDurationViolations + PR_LANE_SHARD_LIMIT_MS: a free test fails when a planned gate shard's recorded wall (committed seed, and the last gate census in test/fixtures/paid-report-census/gate-census-durations.json) exceeds 600 s. - Tests that pinned deploy as one shard follow the split (cookie planner keys, reuse fixture key, release/PR floors). * TODOS: /review fingerprint under Codex's read-only .git sandbox (found by the live Codex check) * Free-suite repairs from the first integrated Ubicloud run Product: - Outside-voice fences carry runtimeRootPrelude(ctx) explicitly again, so the resolver output runs on its own (the post-render pass skips fences that already assign GSTACK_ROOT); outsideVoiceRuntime stays deleted. - D5: an explicit CHROMIUM_PROFILE (gbrowser's per-workspace gbd) is never seeded from the shared profile or registered for `browse profiles prune`; this was also the free suite's write to the real ~/.gstack/browse-profiles.json. - gstack-ios-qa-daemon: BASH_COMPAT=50 for its >512-byte --help heredoc. Tests migrated to the wave's deliberate contract changes: - B1 heading admits `unverified`; sandbox flag is ${_GSTACK_CODEX_SANDBOX:?}; verdict-form output (VERDICT/FINDINGS/REASON); fake codex follows the preflight + stdin + -o form; Q2 notice marked shown in a private state root. - C1: an exported root needs bin/ and lib/; a lone GSTACK_BIN is not honored. - C4: plan-ceo-review is carved on every host (carrier, discovery and methodology fixtures read sections/ when the render has it). - E7: READY prints the resolved Aside path. - INV-3: the cookie-approval reconstruction reverses the bun-install mktemp template. - F1's `Plan:` binding read gets a reasoned tracker-guard exemption. - Browse stubs stop their server instead of scheduling process.exit; the headless launch check only counts browsers its own launch started. * Regenerate generated output after the outside-voice prelude repair * I1: revert the seccomp-only eval container option; it does not let Codex's sandbox start Run 37158847998 on this branch and a stock Ubicloud VM both show that seccomp=unconfined only moves bubblewrap's failure from 'No permissions to create a new namespace' to 'Failed to make / slave: Permission denied'. Codex's sandbox started only with the host sysctl kernel.apparmor_restrict_unprivileged_userns=0 plus seccomp and AppArmor unconfined on the container, which a container job cannot set from its steps. The relaxation bought nothing, so it goes; the fix is filed as a TODO for the integrator. This reverts commit ec97187. * I1: a Codex review eval needs a completed command, not just review-shaped text Run 37158847998 recorded codex-review-findings as passed again: the agent wrote 'I couldn't run the review because the execution sandbox failed (bwrap: Failed to make / slave)', the failure never reached stderr or a command event, and no phrase rule matched. validateCodexReview now also requires at least one command_execution event that completed with exit 0. Fixtures gain that event; the CI output is a new negative control. * Evals lane follow-ups: close the skillify gate TODO (I2 green), file its open reds, CHANGELOG lines; refresh measured parity annotations * Regenerate generated output after merging wave/evals * D2: bound the navigation guard's tab reset (commit, 5 s) Ubicloud run 3: a click to a link-local link reported the block, but the reset's page.goto('about:blank') waited the full 30 s default navigation timeout, so the command hung past the test deadline and the stale block leaked into the next command. The reset now waits for commit only, with a 5 s bound. * I1: run Codex paid slices on a host-run job where bubblewrap can start Docker's default seccomp/AppArmor profiles and the Ubuntu 24.04 host's kernel.apparmor_restrict_unprivileged_userns=1 keep Codex's bubblewrap sandbox from starting in a job container, so every Codex command failed. The planner now packs Codex shards into their own slices (plan.codexSlices, validated against the entries); evals-periodic runs those slices on a new host-run job that lifts the host restriction and runs the same CI image with seccomp and AppArmor unconfined. Artifact names match eval-slices, so the report reconciles one manifest. Gate plans have no Codex slices. * I1: the /codex review eval passes only when Codex executed Run 37158847998 recorded codex-review as passed while the sandbox preflight said unavailable and no review ran: the case only checked the session exit and an optional output file. It now requires the shared validator's executed verdict (findings, clean or unverified) in the codex command's own output and a written, non-fail-closed GATE. * TODOS: characterize the free-suite timing reds from Ubicloud run 4 * I1: QA evidence names the probes to rerun after an input change, before the one-shot materialize ship-exploratory-late-input returned inconclusive in gate census 37158847998: the fixture locale changed after captures 001 and 002, the agent reran only input 9, and materialize (which publishes once) recorded capture 001 as open. Its next line then said to rerun what is open, which the published verdict no longer allowed. Every capture now lists the commands that observed an older input snapshot and have no rerun on current inputs (revalidate, plus the next line), and materialize's next line says the verdict is final. * I1: the eng batching counter reads records under "Section N — <review> review" headings plan-eng-multi-finding-batching failed in 6 of 12 runs with reviewCount 0-1 (or a timeout with every ask counted as Step 0). In run 37158847998 the agent asked 11 separate questions, each with a saved ledger record, but filed records R2-R10 under '## Section 1 — Architecture review'. The counter strips 'Section 1' but not the dash separator, so it rejected every record outside the Decision ledger and the floor never filled. Quoted, historical and unrelated headings still do not count. * I1: plan-eng-review-artifact names its report file without making it the only output Runs 37151477069 and 37158847998 wrote the whole review, including the GSTACK REVIEW REPORT, into review-output.md and never ran the Test Plan Artifact block. #3017 made the artifact a hard assertion and dropped the prompt's explicit artifact instruction, leaving 'Write your review to review-output.md' as the one named destination. The prompt now names that file as the selected report file and says every other output keeps the destination the skill gives it, without naming the artifact. * browse: close returns when Chromium exits; Xvfb cleanup does not wait on its own zombie BrowserManager.close() detached every 'disconnected' listener before browser.close(). That also removed Playwright's internal listener that resolves close(), so every launched-mode close waited the full 5 s race timeout (measured 5,000 ms on origin/main and on this branch; raw Playwright closes in ~50 ms), and Playwright 1.62 has no Browser.process() for the SIGKILL fallback. The daemon's SIGINT shutdown therefore took over 5 s, which reddened the CLI lifecycle test under load (1 of 8 on main) and left browsers alive at shard cleanup. gstack now detaches only its own listeners: close takes ~50 ms. cleanupXvfb treated a terminated Xvfb child as alive until our own blocked event loop reaped it, so every close waited a full second then sent SIGKILL to a zombie. A zombie now counts as exited; the display test counts only running Xvfb processes. * I1: office-hours-brain-writeback reads the long skill with Read and skips the preamble 4 of 18 trials ended error_max_turns at the unchanged 12-turn budget with a gbrain search but no gbrain put. The failing trial in 37151477069 read the 1260-line rendered SKILL.md with cat, got truncated output, spent four more turns re-reading it with sed, then ran the preamble's skill-start block. The passing trials skipped the preamble. The prompt now says to read the skill with the Read tool and skip the preamble, onboarding, telemetry and contributor sections, as the plan-eng fixtures already do. Budget unchanged. * CI: no credential-shaped URLs in added lines (quality scan); release floor measured on the merged tree The quality job's credential scan of the PR diff flagged 7 db.url_with_password lines: three docs lines now describe the login instead of spelling a URL, and three tests build the URL from parts. paid-retry-supervision's periodic release floor is the merged tree's measured 35,711 (main's value; the evals lane's 33,821 predates main's new paid files). * qa-evidence: hold the stdout-pipe cases on a FIFO, not on a paused child stream Ubicloud run 4 finished the blocked-forever case in 71 ms (it should take the 5 s write deadline): the 2 MB write was not held, because saturation depended on how the runtime buffers a paused child pipe. On POSIX the child's stdout is now a FIFO the test reads only when it chooses to, so the kernel holds the write; Windows keeps the paused pipe. * TODOS/CHANGELOG: the three run-4 timing reds are fixed at their causes (daemon close latency, FIFO-held pipe tests) * I1: a QA helper call bun could not load is checked at the installed path, not failed outright review-exploratory-small-cli failed gate census 37162480720 with 'command outside declared caller observation interface': the actor dropped one character from the shard directory in a gstack-qa-evidence capture path, bun refused to load it ('Module not found', exit 1), and the next call ran the same capture correctly. A failed call whose only output is bun's refusal for a gstack-qa-evidence/deadline path is now held to the interface as the same command at the installed helper path, so a compound or undeclared command still fails. * I1: plan-eng-review's final self-check names its three outputs The fixture-prompt repair did not hold: in 37162480720 plan-eng-review-artifact again wrote one review-output.md, ran the skeleton's read-back gate on it and stopped without the QA Test Plan artifact (no gstack-paths/gstack-slug block). The transcript shows the agent's last check before finishing is the skeleton's Section self-check, which said only 'and outputs'. It now names the saved report, the QA Test Plan artifact and the Review Log, each at its own destination or presented as not persisted (the existing write policy). * I1: revert the plan-eng-review self-check wording; it did not change the artifact outcome A local run of plan-eng-review-artifact in the CI image (Claude Code 2.1.284) at e2f65ab22 still wrote one review-output.md in 8 turns and ran no Bash, so the QA Test Plan artifact block never ran. Keep the skill text unchanged; the case is deferred with its evidence. * I1: seed the Codex files' periodic durations from their first executing run Every Codex file recorded ~1 s because its commands could not start in the container (codex-e2e*, outside-voice, workflow). Run 37162480720 executed them on the host-run job; its slice 24 walls replace the placeholders so the planner packs the Codex slice by real work (7 files, ~4.9 min estimated). * Refresh scripts/free-test-durations.json (bun run test:ubicloud --record-durations; covers the wave's new test files) * evals2 follow-ups: outside-voice-evidence helper in five case touchfiles; close the evals lane's Codex-CI, late-input, batching and brain-writeback TODOs (run 37162480720); CHANGELOG lines * fix(browse): take the next free X display when a concurrent allocator wins the race Pick-then-spawn let two allocators (parallel daemons or test shards) choose the same free display; the losing Xvfb exited and the handoff failed (run 6, handoff 'failure before launch'). spawnFreeXvfb now treats a display taken during startup as a collision and moves on. Regression test forces the race with a delayed Xvfb wrapper (pre-fix: fails; two-process repro 13/15 -> 0/15). * test(ci): read the host-run Codex eval job's docker env, mounts and uploads eval-codex-slices runs on the host and passes its executor env through docker -e flags and HOME through a $RUNNER_TEMP/eval-home mount. The evidence and coordination tests now map those back to the container view instead of assuming job.container, and the job's native-capture upload carries the qa-callers paths like the other executors. * I1: plan-eng-review-artifact runs the real interactive review in a PTY, replacing the composing fixture The claude -p case told the model to skip the preamble and questions and go straight to the review. In 37151477069, 37158847998, 37162480720 and a local CI-image run it wrote the whole review into one file without executing the workflow, so it measured composing, not /plan-eng-review. The interactive batching PTY run in 37158847998 did write the artifact during Test review, so there is no product defect. New test/skill-e2e-plan-eng-artifact.test.ts keeps the case id, tier (periodic), kind (rule) and budget (CAPTURE_LONG_MS): it drives the real /plan-eng-review over the same dashboard plan and sources, answers each question with its first option, stops once the QA test plan exists or the report completes, and asserts the same requirement (exactly one new eng-review test plan in the run's own state root, about the dashboard change). The composing case is retired from skill-e2e-plan.test.ts in this commit. runPlanSkillCounting reports engTestPlans (read before fixture cleanup) and passes them to isCollectionComplete. One paid run in the CI image (Claude Code 2.1.284): pass, collection_complete at 498 s with one test plan. The new file takes its own periodic runner (seeded at 498 s), so the periodic census plans 26 slices: the planner's --max-parallel and both executors' caps move from 25 to 26 so every slice still starts at once; the paid-file census pin moves from 106 to 107. * evals2 final: plan-eng-review-artifact touchfiles point at its PTY file and helpers; plan file wall drops the moved case Applies the lane's touchfiles-data patch (its outside-voice-evidence hunks were already in 9a96fb3). skill-e2e-plan.test.ts lost one 600 s case to skill-e2e-plan-eng-artifact.test.ts, so its periodic wall is two 900 s + two 600 s (3,000,000 + reserve) and its timeout pin lists the remaining cases. * TODOS/CHANGELOG: close plan-eng-review-artifact (real PTY review, 498 s pass) * test: plan-eng-review-artifact is a PTY runner consumer (selected by claude-pty-runner and pty-screen changes) * test(windows): spawn cmd.exe hooks verbatim, use a .invalid UNC host, and match CRLF fixtures and native separators windows-free-tests reds on 364f0f3, each verified on windows-latest (46 pass, 1 POSIX-only skip, 0 fail): - investigate-freeze-path cmd.exe cases: Bun MSVC-quoted the command line cmd.exe parses, so cmd saw \"bash and failed; Node's shell spawn (what Claude Code uses) passes it verbatim. - investigate-freeze-path UNC cases: a single-label host made each filesystem probe wait on network name resolution (cd 11 s, -L 2.8 s); a reserved .invalid host fails at once (55-80 ms). - paid-report-census: the junit fixture is CRLF in a Windows checkout. - codex-invocation-sites: rendered paths use backslashes on Windows. * eval(plan-design-with-ui): the Step 0D focus title may spell the seven dimensions as a word Run 37166586458 slice 5 (dfaf154) asked 'D2 - Review all seven design dimensions, or focus on specific areas?' and reached its review finding, but the focus predicate only accepted the numeral, so the case failed with no acknowledged Design focus. Both recognizers accept 7 or seven; the byte-exact capture is a free regression, and engineering/other-count/ no-'design' titles stay rejected. * eval(ship-docsync): git check-ignore is a declared read in the docs observation interface Run 37166586458 slice 2 (dfaf154): ship-docsync-completion's parent ran 'git check-ignore -v .qa-state' to verify the prompt's claim that the observer probe is Git-excluded. The read was outside the closed Git list, so the run's DOC_PATH replacement was unprovable and failed. check-ignore cannot write; it joins the list and the interface prose. Free regression replays the captured command against the fixture and keeps composition and redirects rejected. * fix(browse): read Xvfb's own startup error to classify a lost display race Run 10 (1ffd38e) failed handoff's concurrent promotion once: 'Xvfb on :100 exited during startup (code 1)' with the display free again by the exit check, so a holder that won the lock and closed within the 100 ms poll looked like a broken install. Startup stderr now goes to a private file; 'Server is already active for display' is a collision and moves on, and any other startup exit carries Xvfb's fatal line. Regression: a stub that reports the collision for one display and exits leaves spawnFreeXvfb on the next display (pre-fix: the misleading install error). * test: merged-main fixtures (E6 copies the Claude render library gstack-config now sources; the census fixture's plan-mode-no-op budget follows its v1.91.18.0 policy) * qa: materialize runs once per PROBE_DIR, and qa-only says §1 reuses the REPORT_DIR it resolved Run 37170610789 slice 3 (feaa28d): the qa-only workflow judge scored clarity 3.33 and named two ambiguities: §4 said materialize runs once per report root while mixed runs materialize each surface's PROBE_DIR, and SKILL.md deferred exploratory §1 without saying §1 reuses the REPORT_DIR resolved under Prepare Report Artifacts. A local run of the same judge on the repaired text: clarity 3.67, completeness 4.33, actionability 4 (pass); all three samples call the workflow internally consistent. * Regenerate generated output for the qa materialize/REPORT_DIR wording * eval: three detector defects from run 37170610789 (feaa28d) - safety-codex-consult-embed: the fake codex recorded argv only, but every codex exec takes its prompt on stdin since E5; it records stdin for the '-' form and the check reads both. - ship-docsync-missing-asset: 'ls ... 2>&1' on a read-only command is the same harmless stderr wrapper as '2>/dev/null'; stdout redirects, pipes and script calls stay rejected. - qa-functional-webhook-fix: a pre-repair capture whose command reran on the repaired inputs may be classified superseded (exploratory §4); the evidence check accepts that and still rejects superseded on a post-repair capture or one never rerun. Each free regression fails without its repair. * fix(test:free): a browser record removed mid-read by a shutting-down daemon is absent Run 13 (feaa28d) needed the flaky-retry for 'owned detached browser settlement > cancel': 2 unattributed failures instead of 1. A 16-vCPU stress run reproduced it once in 64 with the cause: 'browser ownership unavailable'. On SIGINT the cancelled daemon removes its state file; record() saw it exist, then lstat/read hit ENOENT, which failure() reports as an ownership error. ENOENT there now means absent. New mode cancel-vanishing-record forces the removal between the check and the read (pre-fix: 2 unattributed, deterministic; now 1). * test(windows): the 2>&1 wrapper regression uses relative reads (no native paths in literal commands) * test(plan-seed): wait for the fixture CLI's slash event instead of a fixed 50 ms Run 14 (b2f729b) needed the flaky-retry for 'startup-placeholder': the events log had paste/enter/end_turn but not yet the slash 50 ms after it was sent. The check now polls (bounded 5 s); the deadline assertion measures when submission settled, which is what it bounds. One test typecheck diagnostic goes away with the typed reader. * eval(plan-design-with-ui): recognize the Step 0D focus question by meaning, not one title spelling The b2f729b gate run titled it "I've rated this plan 5/10 on design completeness. Review all 7 dimensions, or focus on specific areas?", the third native wording to miss a spelling-pinned regex. The native form is now a class: a title that offers all seven (numeral or word) dimensions or passes versus a focus and names design. Captured titles from 37166586458 and this run pass; other counts, engineering passes, titles without design or without a focus stay rejected. * eval(shared-libs-read-only): curl answers the provider rate-limit probe with the same 404 as gh Gate census 37174266054 slice 9: the model probed API availability with curl -o /dev/null https://api.github.com/rate_limit (GET, discarded). The gh transport already answers rate_limit as an unknown endpoint (404); the curl transport refused it, and the refusal counted as a read-only violation. curl now gets the same 404. POST, file output, other repos and raw hosts stay refused. Paid rerun (gate, 1 trial): PASS in 177 s. * eval(shared-libs-plan-callers): an exclusion may combine states (unchanged/out of scope) Periodic census 37174266054: every option ended 'Scheduler semantics, existing callers and helper hardening stay unchanged/out of scope', which the actor read as proposing hardening. Exclusion states may now be joined by '/', 'or' or 'and'; the captured question is answered, and clauses that pair a state with a real change ('stay unchanged/harden the helper') are still refused. Paid rerun (periodic, 1 trial): PASS in 296 s. * paid: --case plan-eng-review-artifact selects its PTY test by its registered name A local --case run matched 0 tests (no spend): the PTY test's Bun name is not its case id, and CASE_TEST_NAMES had no label for it. * eval(plan-eng-review-artifact): periodic checkpoint resumes at Test review; the fresh full run moves to marathon A fresh interactive /plan-eng-review cannot reach Test review inside the 600 s periodic budget: startup plus one-at-a-time Scope Challenge questions took 595 s with six questions and no Test review in census 37174266054 and in a local run (one earlier fresh run passed at 498 s). Per the eval-speed policy, the long run moves to the non-blocking marathon lane and the blocking case becomes a focused checkpoint. - plan-eng-review-artifact (periodic, 600 s unchanged): resumes the real interactive skill from a saved review record: the plan, the Scope Challenge result, Sections 1-2 complete, and a Decision ledger rebuilt from that census run's six actual native questions and answers (test/fixtures/plan-eng-artifact-resume-37174266054.json). The live skill runs Section 3, Test review. Assertion unchanged: exactly one new eng-review test plan in the run's own state root, about the dashboard change. Paid trial (local, Claude Code 2.1.284): PASS, 364 s. - plan-eng-review-artifact-full (marathon, PTY_LONG_MS): the fresh start-to-finish run with the same assertion; budget measured beside it. - test/plan-eng-resume.test.ts proves the rebuilt record is a valid resume point and rejects missing, unanswered, edited or duplicated records. - Registry: touchfiles, tiers, kinds, test-name labels, durations, paid file count 115, PTY consumer list; CHANGELOG and TODOS. * setup-deploy: say which deploy fields count as confirmed, how to resolve the default branch, and group the detection tests Periodic census 37176837432: the setup-deploy workflow judge's actionability mean was 3.67 (4, 4, 3). The low sample named the Fly/Heroku/Railway/GitHub Actions deploy trigger left undefined until Step 4's 'not already confirmed' catch-all and an unstated way to find <default branch>, and misread 'A || B && C' detection lines. Step 4 now defines a confirmed field and names the paths that leave the trigger unset, <default branch> resolves with gh repo view, and the two OR'd detection tests are grouped explicitly (same behavior). One judge run on the repaired text: 4/4/4, pass. * Regenerate generated output for the setup-deploy wording * TODOS: census data for the skipped CEO mode handoff (mode-routing, auto-decide-preserved); floor runner Edit-permission parse under collapsed TTY spaces * fix(browse): a blocked navigation that fails at once leaves the tab blank and the next command clean PR CI on 8d2d269 (free-suite 3): the redirect to [::ffff:169.254.170.2] failed immediately on the runner, so its chrome-error page committed around the guard's about:blank reset, and leaving the error page committed a second about:blank after the reset resolved, interrupting the next three tests' gotos. The guard now lets the blocked request settle (bounded at 1 s; a hanging target is still cut off by the reset), resets, and waits for the main frame to stay quiet before returning. Regression: a redirect to a blocked address on Chromium's unsafe port 1 fails at once (pre-fix: blank check and the next goto fail, deterministically). * qa: the checkpoint note is created for browser runs and composed for functional ones Periodic census 37178143007: the qa-only workflow judge scored actionability 3.67 again; one sample read step 2's 'Create exploration-NNN.json' as applying to functional runs before reaching 'Functional: do not write this file'. The sentence now names both surfaces up front; byte-neutral (the browser line drops its restated clause), qa union 1.1098 under its 1.110 cap. One judge run on the repaired text: 3.67/4/4, pass. * Regenerate generated output for the qa checkpoint wording * eval(section-loading): byte-range prints of a section count as a complete read Periodic census 37178143007: plan-ceo-section-loading printed review-sections.md in five byte ranges (head -c 16000, then tail -c +N | head -c 17000, one-byte overlaps) and the detector, which matched whole printed lines, saw the lines split at each range edge as missing. Outputs of the commands that name the section are also joined on their overlap. Regression: the captured ranges count; dropping a middle range or the last range does not (pre-fix: the complete ranges were refused). * test(plan-design-review): count design terms the review wrote into the plan * fix(aside): probe names the platform (GSTACK_PLATFORM override) so the macOS pitch never re-probes the OS * fix(plan-ceo-review): Step 0E mode handoff runs gstack-ceo-mode-handoff so the selected mode is printed, not only composed * chore: refresh context-budget fixture * test(auto-decide): accept Step 0E's documented AUTO_DECIDE line with its decisions suffix; replay the captured trial * docs: CHANGELOG and TODOS for the CEO mode handoff and platform line * test(plan-design-review): plan-term credit needs a rated summary; adapter regression for census 37179171083 * test(auto-decide): the printed handoff may precede Step 0E's provenance log; replay census 37182865432; TODOS for two rotating census reds * test(plan-ceo-section-loading): read the skill's ledger and currentDecision records for the stale-fill decision; 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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 Tan	943105f109	v1.91.8.0 test: smaller suite, derived paid selection, retired never-green evals (#2994) ... * test: delete test-infrastructure dead code (G) - exit-propagation drives the runner's real strict verdict (BunTestOutputClassifier + strictTestExitCode); delete the unused shardRunLooksTruncated predicate. - delete skill-coverage-matrix registry + its gate (nothing reads it; the floor already iterates skillCensus()). - delete touchfiles-facade export-parity tests (Bun fails missing imports at link time) and the duplicated E2E_TIERS tier-value test. - delete brain-cache-spec TRANSPORT_DEFAULT_POLICY, SKILL_RUN_RETENTION_DAYS and the now-unused BrainTrustPolicy type with their literal tests. AUTOPLAN_PREFLIGHT_BUDGET_BYTES stays: skill-preflight-budget enforces it against real resolver output. - delete audit-compliance's JSDoc-comment grep. * test: replace product tests that fake the product with real-boundary tests (F) - design: serve.test.ts drove an inline mirror server; now two tests run the real serve() on an ephemeral port (reload confinement, submit exit 0). - setup-gbrain: rollback + voyage tests execute the template-extracted init blocks (3 sites) instead of drifted local bash copies. - terminal-agent: internalHandler source greps replaced by a behavioral /internal/grant + /internal/revoke auth matrix (no/wrong/valid token). - /health: server-security-surface and the server-auth / security-audit-r2 / sidebar-tabs source greps fold into one liveness-only check on the real body; the L4 sidecar wiring gets a behavioral /pty-inject-scan test. - delete tautologies (browser-manager onDisconnect, memory-command #12), ios swiftui tap fixture self-check, memory-ingest put_page grep, detach source greps, sidebar-agent absence pins, dead-CSS pins + the dead CSS, security-audit-r2 Task 1 + the test-only meta-commands re-export, duplicate generated-SKILL.md checks. - make-pdf coverage-gaps cases move into their owner test files. * test: delete tests of dead eval code (A) - A1: the retired Eng lexical oracle (evaluateEngSeedCoverage, isEngSeedDecisionAUQ), the completion-handoff detector and the retained corpus had no paid caller since v1.87.6; delete their 26 replay files, ~2.6k helper LOC and fixtures, and the dead blocks in 8 mixed files (live hasNativePlanTerminal / batching assertions stay). - A2: dead viewport approvers in autoplan-artifact-permission and their 11 replay files + fixtures; recorder/launcher cases stay. - A3: never-wired oracles and seeders (autoplan-phase-order, eng-finding-fixture, ceo-paired-fixture, design-ui-scope, plan-skill-completion, pty-current-screen, required-reads, transcript-section-logger); plan-seed-submission now decodes through the production createPtyScreen; section manifests name their actual guard. - A4: zero-reference helper exports, plus execGit and invokeAndObserve found by the reachability pass. - 52 fixtures orphaned by the deletions; touchfile and selection-table entries for every deleted path. * test: clean up the paid eval lane (B1-B4, B6, B7) - B1: delete paid files that assert nothing or cannot pass meaningfully: skill-llm-eval-spec and skill-e2e-spec-execute (test.todo), gemini-e2e (+ gemini-session-runner; no gemini CLI in CI), ship-idempotency (red since v1.63), the two opus-4-7 *-sonnet overlay wrappers, conductor-prose (+ its source-evaluation replay), codex-e2e-plan-format; drop their keys, scripts and census rows. - B2: skill-llm-eval grades browse/sections/command-list.md with one union judge that also carries the baseline score pin; regression-vs-baseline deleted (paid run: pass, c4/c4/a4). - B3: memory-pipeline, ios-qa, ios-qa-swift-build and plan-tune-cathedral make no model calls; renamed out of the paid glob so they run on every PR. Swift builds need GSTACK_TEST_SWIFT=1; device stub deleted. - B4: codex-e2e*, outside-voice, aside and ios-device cannot run in the CI image; excluded from the weekly lane with a tracked re-entry condition. - B6: fold opus-47's negative routing controls into skill-routing-e2e journey-negatives (paid run: 3/3 unrouted) and delete the file. - B7: delete the never-green brain-privacy-gate eval; a free gstack-skill-start test now proves consent precedes artifacts egress. * test: retire the finding-count cluster and trim its helpers (C) - C0/C1: the five never-green evals (skill-e2e-autoplan-chain and skill-e2e-plan-{ceo,eng,design,devex}-finding-count) failed on harness and budget, never on skill behavior; delete them, their touchfile/tier ids, AUTOPLAN_CHAIN_BUDGET and the dedicated eighth periodic slice (--slices 7). - C2: delete the helper groups whose only paid consumers were those files (11 modules), trim claude-pty-runner and eng-seeded-coverage to the paid closure, and delete the free replay tests whose assertions exercised only that dead code (89 files, 135 orphaned fixtures). Blocks that used dead code only as input for a live subject keep their assertions: the multiSelect default moved to plan-review-decisions, runner PTY tests use inline caller policies, and the timer-safe budget checks moved to eng-finding-retry-budget. - The eight production-touching files stay except ceo-current-decision-record (its template read only feeds the retired counter). - CARVE_GUARDS.autoplan is behavioral 'none'; TODOS records the lost chain and per-finding cadence coverage with their re-entry tests. * test: fold per-incident replay series into their detector owners (D) Twelve detector families move into one owner test each: 73 incident files become describe blocks in ceo-section-loading-fixture (stale-fill race), model-overlays, coverage-audit-evidence, autoplan-phase-observer, native-auto-decide, outside-voice-evidence, eng-first-review, plan-count-completion, plan-count-file-permission, ceo-mode-option, plan-scope-selection and plan-count-prerequisite. Each block keeps its original code and fixture, so every case still runs; only tests asserting the incident file's own touchfile registration are dropped (41). Touchfile lists that named an incident now name its owner. * test: start the plan-count history PTY on its readiness marker (H) The fake CLI prints a startup marker and the runner waits for it instead of the fixed 8 s startup sleep (8.6 s -> 0.9 s locally). eng-semantic-terminal's sleeping registration cases went with C; plan-count-timeout keeps the fixed wait because it asserts deadline behavior. * test: derive paid touchfiles from each eval's static closure (E) touchfiles.test.ts now checks, per key, that the paid file's static test/helpers and test/fixtures closure (plus fixture paths it names in string literals) is covered, and names the file, path, chain and key to fix when it is not. Free *.test.ts files are no longer touchfiles, so editing a free replay test stops selecting paid evals: 950 entries removed, 653 real closure paths added. The hand-copied inventories go: periodic-fixture-selection, fake-impeccable-touchfiles and 45 per-file selection examples. Selection for the sample edits (plan-eng-review template, claude-pty-runner, plan-count-fixture, gstack-config) loses no case under either profile. CONTRIBUTING documents the rule and its lower bound. * test: skip hollow tier shards and census judges in the paid planner (B5) A paid file is now skipped for a tier lane only when every E2E id it registers is known statically and none has that tier; ids come from the touchfile registrations and literal testName/*IfSelected arguments, so a comment or skill path that quotes another id cannot unschedule it, and computed names keep today's scheduling. --list and the manifest show each skip as "skipped: no E2E_TIERS id has tier <tier>". The weekly gate census drops the LLM judges (--skip-judges); they still run in the periodic census and PR gate lanes. Gate lane 52 -> 42 files, census 41; periodic 77 -> 69. * test: run seven paid evals on the current default capture model (B8) skill-e2e-{auq-matrix,plan-format,qa-bugs,retro,workflow} pinned claude-opus-4-7 and skill-e2e-office-hours plus -brain-writeback pinned claude-sonnet-4-6; none tests a historical model, so they now capture with resolveEvalModel('capture'), and the free harness tests that execute these registrations receive the same resolver. The paid re-pin run passed all of them. skill-e2e-{design,office-hours-phase4,plan-prosons,plan} keep claude-opus-4-7: six of their cases failed on the default model (three timeouts, a missing report file, a format miss and a posture score of 3), so per the plan's fallback they keep their pins with a TODOS entry. The pre-spend estimate and drop threshold are in docs/test-audit-2026-09.md. * test: guard the reduced suite against new test-of-test files - test/test-of-test-ratchet.test.ts records the 228 free tests that import only test/ code and fails on a new one, naming the owner test to extend instead; a stale baseline entry fails with the remove instruction. - test/helpers/resolve-repo-path.ts is the one specifier/literal resolver for the ratchet and the touchfile closure invariant, with its own unit tests. - CONTRIBUTING "Test tiers" describes the paid-failure workflow (fix, then one row in the detector's owner test) and the ratchet; TEST_PORTFOLIO gains the detector -> owner-test table and no longer claims an Autoplan chain eval. - TODOS: automatic exclusion policy for chronically red periodic files (P3), the deferred native-completion table collapse, the unused CEO payment seeder; the PTY readiness item is narrowed to the paid runner. - docs/test-audit-2026-09.md collects the triage, security mapping, inventories, selection proof, behavior-commit decisions and retained false positives. * v1.91.8.0 test: smaller suite, derived paid selection, retired never-green evals Release metadata for the test-reduction branch: VERSION 1.91.8.0 (1.91.7.0 is claimed by #2983), CHANGELOG with the measured before/after table and a contributor section, durations re-recorded on Ubicloud standard-16 (857 files, 0 failures), the agents digest, CONTRIBUTING's after-measurement row, the B8 fallback TODOS entry, and the after metrics, kept-vs-plan notes, B8 run and census estimate in docs/test-audit-2026-09.md. * fix(ubicloud): skip retrieval globs that match nothing instead of reporting a failed pull * test: count issue-numbered Design findings in the UI-scope gate eval	2026-09-29 08:58:49 -07:00
Garry TanandOpenAI Codex	06ed920a97	v1.89.0.0 feat: add shared-code extraction audit (#2925) ... * feat: bind shared-code review advice to source and branch * feat: add shared-code extraction audit and scoped review checks * test: recognize complete source reads and explicit coverage legends * chore: bump version and changelog (v1.88.0.0) Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * test: capture native review questions and retain public evidence Capture the actual first public native question with strict ownership and display matching. Preserve terminal failures and raw evidence, and retain SDK completion checks. * test: recognize verified review evidence and complete fixtures Recognize complete source and diagram evidence, concrete design and developer-experience decisions, and the complete planted scenario contracts. Preserve negative controls and grading thresholds. * fix: preserve decision brief structure in native questions Keep the required pros-and-cons heading and final Net field in native question text. Regenerate host outputs and document the release and evaluation repairs. Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * docs: update project documentation for v1.88.0.0 Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * fix: correct eval retry accounting and ship workflow gates * fix: capture native eval evidence and stabilize CI fixtures * fix: keep shared-code eval skips read-only Choose explicit no-change answers instead of mixed fix/preservation options. Reuse the bounded revalidation prompt for path fixtures so required review metadata is available without repeated discovery. Preserve source checks, retry limits, and failed native terminal outcomes. Add captured-question and callback regressions, plus evaluation selection coverage for the affected fixtures. --------- Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com>	2026-09-24 01:53:58 -04:00
Garry TanandOpenAI Codex	4a3c6a8a3c	v1.87.0.0 feat: add verified CSO audits and replayable repair bundles (#2852) ... * feat(cso): add verified audits and replayable repair bundles * fix(cso): harden qualification and setup boundaries * fix(cso): assemble security canaries at runtime * fix(cso): bound release proof and maintenance work Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * fix(cso): require complete evaluation reports Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * fix(cso): replay expired snapshots from supplied source Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * test(cso): synchronize DNS cancellation assertion Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * chore(ship): exempt repository owner from liveness proof Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * test(cso): make recheck retention overlap deterministic Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * chore: bump version and changelog (v1.85.0.0) Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * fix(cso): pass native release gates Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * chore: move release to v1.86.0.0 Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * fix(cso): resolve rechecks by finding Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * chore: move release to v1.87.0.0 Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * fix(cso): pass macOS and Windows release gates Normalize BSD wc output, compare Windows paths by filesystem identity, preserve portable snapshot race coverage, and narrow POSIX-only Windows fixtures. Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * fix(cso): harden native verification gates * fix(cso): refine Windows native diagnostics * test(cso): isolate Windows Git startup failure * test(cso): stabilize Windows native diagnostics * fix(cso): support hardened Git on Windows * fix(cso): close final verification gaps * test(cso): bound cold Docker fixture setup * fix(cso): restore cross-platform free-suite gates --------- Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com>	2026-09-14 15:14:58 -07:00
3 people	b1485d8897	v1.74.0.0 test/CI overhaul: green means green, suites restructured for speed (#2721) ... * fix(ci): free-tests lane actually runs the make-pdf e2e gates The 9 make-pdf/test/e2e gate tests probe make-pdf/dist/pdf, browse/dist/browse, and the diagram-render bundle, then self-skip when absent. The required free-tests lane never built any of them, so the gates silently skipped on Linux for their entire life (verified: 9 of 14 skip, exit 0). make-pdf-gate.yml's justification for deleting its Linux leg claimed the free lane covered this — it didn't. - new build:gates script: exactly the three artifacts the gates probe (full bun run build compiles five binaries; ~60-90s tax on the only required check is not warranted) - free-tests.yml: build:gates step + poppler-utils + fonts-noto-color-emoji (fonts must precede the first browse daemon launch — Chromium snapshots fontconfig at startup; verified live: a warm daemon renders tofu, a fresh one embeds NotoColorEmoji) - make-pdf/test/e2e/ci-prereqs.test.ts: GSTACK_EXPECT_BINARIES=1 (set by the workflow) inverts the skip polarity in CI — dropping the build step or poppler fails the lane instead of re-opening the silent-skip hole Pre-flight: all 9 gates green on Linux locally. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ci): kill the three zero-test eval jobs (hollow green) - delete the vestigial e2e-codex / e2e-gemini matrix rows: both files are whole-file periodic-tier, so with no row tier: they ran ZERO tests and reported green on every PR (~2 min of runner each, pure false confidence; the periodic lane owns those suites) - e2e-pty-plan-smoke gains tier: gate — its two files are whole-file describeE2ETier('gate'), so the job burned ~7 min of container setup then skipped every describe - KNOWN_TIER_UNSET burned down to empty; the ratchet stays armed so a future row/file tier mismatch fails the suite instead of shipping hollow green Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ci): least-privilege permissions + fork-safe concurrency keys - evals.yml / evals-periodic.yml evals jobs: explicit contents:read + packages:read (container-image pull) and persist-credentials:false — the jobs that execute PR-authored code with three provider API keys ran on the repo-default token grant with the token written into .git/config - permissions blocks for the 4 workflows that had none (skill-docs, make-pdf-gate, windows-free-tests, windows-setup-e2e) - fork-safe concurrency keys: actionlint, skill-docs, make-pdf-gate, windows-setup-e2e switch from head_ref to PR-number keying — a bare branch name carries no fork prefix, so same-name branches from two forks shared one group and cancelled each other's runs Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ci): one bun version everywhere + drift tripwire Lanes disagreed four ways: 1.3.13 (free-tests, windows, Dockerfile.ci), latest (quality-gate, make-pdf-gate), unpinned (skill-docs, version-gate — setup-bun installs latest), 1.3.10 (.gitlab-ci.yml). Different Bun versions change the runner output shapes the strict classifiers regex-match, spawn semantics, and shell parsing — a lane on a different Bun tests a different product; Dockerfile.ci's own comment records this class biting once already (silent 1.3.13/1.3.14 drift). All surfaces pinned to 1.3.13; test/bun-version-drift.test.ts scans every workflow setup-bun stanza + Dockerfile.ci + .gitlab-ci.yml and fails on any mismatch or unpinned stanza. skill-docs also gains --frozen-lockfile (was bare bun install). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(ci): bind the three-way image-tag hashFiles() expressions evals.yml, evals-periodic.yml, and ci-image.yml each compute the CI image tag from hashFiles('.github/docker/Dockerfile.ci', 'bun.lock', 'patches/**') — synced by comment only (TODOS.md 'CI three-way image-tag drift'). If one input list drifts, that workflow computes a different tag for the same content: eval lanes silently rebuild the image every run, or ci-image prebuilds a tag nobody looks up. The test extracts each tag-computation site and fails on any mismatch. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ci): ci-image stops rebuilding the identical image every ship - package.json out of the trigger paths: the tag hash deliberately excludes it (version bumps every ship), so every merge rebuilt and re-pushed the IDENTICAL tag (~2m26s for zero content change); patches/** added (it IS a tag input) - manifest existence check (mirrors evals.yml): tag already exists → skip the build - concurrency group: two rapid main pushes raced pushing the same :latest/:buildcache tags - cron staggered 06:00→04:00 Monday: it shared the exact minute with evals-periodic, which could race a half-pushed tag or duplicate the build - timeout-minutes: 30 (was unbounded → 360-min default for a hung docker build) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ci): quality-gate drops the 74s full-history checkout fetch-depth:0 cost 74 of the job's 92 seconds; the three gates it feeds take ~12s combined. Shallow checkout + exact-SHA fetches for the diff's base/head (an exact-SHA fetch, not a guessed depth — long-lived branches and merge queues still resolve), with a --deepen fallback for push events whose 'before' is unusable. timeout right-sized 20→10 min. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ci): small-lane batch — timeouts, right-sizing, windows cache warm-start - timeout-minutes on the 6 remaining unbounded jobs (actionlint 5, skill-docs 10, version-gate 10, make-pdf-gate 15, pr-title-sync 5, evals build-image 15) — a hung step sat on GitHub's 360-min default - right-size measured-over-long timeouts: dependency-review 10→5, windows-setup-e2e 15→10 - dependency-review: 2-core runner (28s API call on an 8-core box) and drop .github/workflows/** from its trigger paths (workflow edits have no dependencies to review) - windows caches gain restore-keys: a lockfile bump paid the 26s/43s restore for a guaranteed cold miss Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): scope GSTACK_HOME to each file's execution window Five files assigned process.env.GSTACK_HOME at module scope. Shard processes evaluate sibling modules before running their tests, so the assignment leaked into every other file in the shard — the damage was already visible in defensive workarounds (relink.test.ts:28 'fresh install test saw a neighbor's skill_prefix'; cdp-e2e's own comment documents a sibling's temp dir baked into artifacts). Pattern: save original, assign in beforeAll, restore in afterAll (cdp-e2e already restored but still assigned at load — its window now matches the others). GSTACK_TELEMETRY_OFF and GSTACK_PROJECT_SLUG get the same treatment where they rode along. Victim files' defenses stay in place (cheap insurance). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: tripwire against module-scope GSTACK_HOME assignments Column-0 assignment of GSTACK_HOME / GSTACK_STATE_ROOT in any tracked *.test.ts fails with the file:line and the fix (beforeAll + afterAll restore). Kills the cross-file env-leak class the previous commit swept. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): e2e-harness-audit derives its skill census from disk The hand-maintained 39-name SKILL_GLOBS list had drifted to 39 of 54 SKILL.md.tmpl on disk. No live gap today (none of the 15 unlisted skills is interactive), but the next interactive skill would have landed unguarded with zero signal. The audit now walks top-level dirs for SKILL.md.tmpl (statSync so symlinked dirs like connect-chrome count), so new skills are in scope the commit they appear. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(evals): judges honor the eval-model resolution chain + real 429 backoff callJudge inlined GSTACK_EVAL_MODEL_JUDGE || sonnet, silently ignoring the global GSTACK_EVAL_MODEL override every other eval call site honors via lib/eval-model.ts. New 'judge' kind in DEFAULTS (sonnet — the D1a pin-on-regressors calibration stands; model CHOICE unchanged) and callJudge resolves through it: explicit arg > GSTACK_EVAL_MODEL_JUDGE > GSTACK_EVAL_MODEL > default. 429 handling upgraded from one fixed 1s retry (reliably lost races at CI concurrency) to three jittered exponential retries (~1s/4s/16s), honoring the server's retry-after when present. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): the two expect(true) paid stubs become test.todo skill-e2e-spec-execute (600s budget) and skill-llm-eval-spec (300s) reported PASS on every periodic run while asserting nothing. Deleting them would remove the periodic-tier selector surface they exist to register (diff-based selection for spec/ changes), so they become test.todo — reported as todo/skip, never pass — with the v1.1 implementation specs kept in-file. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): reactivate 5 quarantined browse tests (2 security) extension-sender-auth's two privileged-message denial tests (content script + missing sender.url — the extension's security boundary) and snapshot's three skips were quarantined 'pre-existing' failures. Root cause: machine-local state on the quarantining dev machines — the test and gate code are byte-identical between the quarantining commit (410b4928) and HEAD, and all five pass deterministically on a clean checkout (68/68 across both files, multiple runs). No assertions weakened, no product changes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(evals): activate the 4 paid test files that could never run anywhere carve-section-loading, codex-e2e-plan-format, codex-e2e-recommendation-substance, and llm-judge-recommendation gated on EVALS/tier (free suite loads them as describe.skip) but their names fell outside PAID_TEST_GLOBS, so no paid lane ever selected them — net execution zero, forever. The existing matrix tripwire filtered on isPaidTestFile() first, so it was blind to exactly this class (the same bug that hid the pre-split monolith's gate tests for ~8 releases). - PAID_TEST_GLOBS: codex-e2e* + skill-llm-eval* wildcards (replacing exact names) + llm-judge-recommendation + carve-section-loading; package.json's six test-script glob lists mirrored - codex-e2e-plan-format gains the explicit periodic tier gate its siblings carry (external-service rule) — without it the sharded runner's no-guard default would spawn Codex in the gate tier per PR - eval:bg:periodic --timeout 32400→37800: the census growth pushed the periodic worst case to 35910s; the old value had 270s of headroom BEFORE this change and would now kill healthy runs mid-flight - new test/paid-orphan-tripwire.test.ts: any EVALS/tier-gated test file outside the globs fails the free suite (reasoned SCANNER_EXEMPT for the gate helpers + meta-tests) — the class-killer - paid-shards pins updated: the four orphans now assert INSIDE the census Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(browse): restrictDirectoryPermissions warns and skips symlinked dirs Closes the Windows Free Tests red: recent lane failures showed a platform-unguarded POSIX mode-bit assertion ('Expected: 493' — a symlink-skip test) from PR-branch variants; the KNOWN_WINDOWS_SAFE force-include reason ('mode-bitmask hits are POSIX-branch only') did not hold for that shape, and main had neither the guard nor the behavior. - product: lstat first; a symlinked dir gets a warning and a skip on both platforms — chmod AND icacls dereference the link, so restricting through a symlink hardens an unvetted target (and /inheritance:r could lock out its real owner). All callers already treat hardening as best-effort (try/catch). - test: the symlink regression test, platform-aware — symlinkSync in the house try/catch skip pattern (Windows runners without Developer Mode can't create symlinks), mode-bit assertion guarded off win32, behavior assertions (no throw, warning text, target readable) everywhere; POSIX still proves the skip (0o755 unchanged, not 0o700) - KNOWN_WINDOWS_SAFE reason updated to the now-true premise 20/20 pass on Linux. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): unique tmp dirs for plan artifacts + audited live-repo cwd sites Six paid PTY tests wrote their expected plan artifact to a FIXED shared /tmp path ('/tmp/gstack-test-plan-<mode>.md') and rmSync'd it in finally — under --retry 1, EVALS_JOBS>1, or two concurrent worktrees, a sibling's cleanup deletes this run's artifact and the D19 'agent did not produce expected plan file' assertion fires spuriously. Each test now mkdtemps its own dir, interpolates the unique path into the agent prompt (fixture-sourced prompts get a replaceAll + drift guard that throws if the fixture's literal ever moves), and cleans up its own dir. The 18 cwd:-into-the-live-repo sites were audited: all deliberate (skill registry + hermetic pre-trusted dir, in-repo gen renders, git history reads, slug resolution) — each now carries a '// LIVE-REPO CWD: <reason>' comment so the next audit can tell deliberate from accidental. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): trim the seven over-wall 1700s timeouts to the 1500s physical ceiling 1,700,000ms (28.3 min) exceeded every wall these tests run inside: the 25-min CI job timeout and the 1800s sharded-runner wall (which also leaves --retry 1 zero room for a second attempt). Budget above the wall is fiction, not headroom — a test that actually used it produced a job-level kill (no bun summary, no artifact) instead of a clean per-test timeout. No recorded p95 exists for this family (they are being retiered to periodic in the re-platform wave); the trim stops at the physical ceiling rather than guessing lower. Final policy lands in the Wave-2 eval-budgets constants module. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(gen): main() guard — importing gen-skill-docs no longer regenerates the tree The generator's whole body executed at module load, so any import of it (test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts pulls assertSinglePreamble via require(); test/catalog-trim.test.ts imports helpers) regenerated all 71 SKILL.md in place — the root cause of half the TREE_MUTATING serial-shard entries (hazard class #2532). The body now lives in an exported main(): number behind if (import.meta.main). Semantics preserved exactly: failure exits are immediate (matching the old top-level process.exit), success leaves the event loop to drain so the llms.txt fire-and-forget IIFE finishes its write, and the module stays synchronous/require()-able. Proofs: byte-identical --host all output (git status clean), --dry-run stale-tree still exits 1 (the skill-docs freshness lane depends on it), and the new test/gen-skill-docs-import-purity.test.ts pins load-time purity via a subprocess probe (mtime-based, so a dirty worktree can't false-fail). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(gen): --out-dir renders every host, outputs-only --out-dir was Claude-host-only (gen-skill-docs.ts:842), which forced the codex/factory-regenerating tests (gen-skill-docs, skill-validation, host-config) to mutate the live tree — the reason they sit in the TREE_MUTATING serial shard. The flag now mirrors ALL outputs into the out-dir: external-host trees (.agents/.factory/... via processExternalHost), external section files, openclaw docs, and gstack/llms.txt (a catalog-mode render must never rewrite the tracked index). OUTPUTS ONLY — inputs (templates, sections/, host configs) are always read from ROOT, so an empty out-dir can never feed the render. rewriteSectionBase stays Claude-only (external hosts have their own path grammar). Proofs: in-place --host all is byte-identical (tree clean); --host all --out-dir <mkdtemp> renders the full multi-host tree with ROOT untouched; gen-skill-docs-out-dir tests + 415/415 gen-skill-docs.test.ts green (bin/dev-setup's claude rendering byte-compat). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(evals): every E2E key's dep list names its own declaring test file 129-of-177 keys omitted their own test file, so editing only a test's prompt or assertions selected NOTHING — the changed test never ran on the change that changed it. 135 keys self-registered (110 E2E + 25 LLM-judge), resolved by strict declaration evidence (testName:/ testIfSelected/judge call sites), with skill-name false positives excluded. e2e-tier-alignment's warn-only branch for unregistered files is now a hard failure with a 4-entry KNOWN_UNREGISTERED ratchet (template- literal testNames, fail-open-safe) + a burn-down test so the set only shrinks. Selection sanity: a one-file diff on skill-e2e-qa-workflow now selects its 4 tests (was 0); skill-llm-eval 0 → 25. Known follow-ups (filed): 15 E2E + 2 judge PHANTOM keys select tests that exist nowhere; codex-e2e-plan-format's testIfSelected names have no map keys (run-all only). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(evals): ratchet the 8 newly-visible gate-matrix gaps The self-registration sweep made these eight files' gate-tier keys visible to the census for the first time — their gate tests run in NO CI lane today (pre-existing hole, newly measurable). Ratcheted into KNOWN_MATRIX_GAPS with the burn-down note: the paid-lane re-platform runs every gate file by construction and retires this ratchet class. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(test): duration-aware LPT shard packing for the free suite Hash sharding balances file COUNTS (1.15x spread) but not cost — the Playwright-launching files landed 4/3/4/1/2/1 across 6 shards, giving a measured 28s–97s shard spread and ~40s of idle tail on every run. Full-suite mode now packs by recorded per-file durations (longest-processing-time-first) when the committed seed scripts/free-test-durations.json exists. - ONE store, no overlay: the seed is refreshed occasionally via the new --record-durations mode (each file timed in its own child — exact, and immune to bun's stream buffering, where silent passers print no header to timestamp); GSTACK_FREE_TEST_DURATIONS overrides the path for experiments; CI never records - seed is a hint: missing → silent hash-shard fallback; corrupt (bad merge) → one warning + fallback; unknown files → 75th-percentile pessimism so a surprise long-runner can't recreate the tail - packed shards get duration-aware walls (max(base, predicted x 3)) — LPT decouples count from cost BY DESIGN, so the 5s/file heuristic would undersize a shard holding few expensive files - one log line per shard (files + predicted seconds) so packing regressions are diagnosable from any run log - the --shard CI-matrix path is untouched: stable hash indices are its contract - successor note in-code: bun >=1.3.14 ships native --timings/--shard LPT — swap this packer when the repo unpins 1.3.13 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): decouple slop:diff from bun run test; quality-gate runs it per PR 'bun run test' silently appended up to two 120s npx slop-scan runs plus a git worktree add/remove after the suite (2>/dev/null || true) — invisible in the documented '~90-100s' timing and pure friction in the pre-commit loop. Decoupling is not coverage removal: quality-gate.yml now runs slop:diff on every PR (advisory, matching its in-repo 'never blocking' contract), and /review already invokes it explicitly. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(test): eval-budgets timeout tiers + fit/ceiling policy test Five named tiers (JUDGE 120s / CAPTURE 300s / CAPTURE_LONG 600s / PTY 900s / PTY_LONG 1200s) replace hand-ratcheted sprawl (46x300s, 46x120s, 44x360s, 44x180s, 27x240s, 19x150s, 13x420s, 12x600s...), much of it inflated to paper over the old 40-way in-shard concurrency that the sharded runner's 1-file-per-shard model kills. Policy test pins: every tier fits the shard wall minus 120s overhead (the structural fix for budgets-above-the-wall fiction), tiers stay ordered, and no paid literal exceeds PTY_LONG x1.25 — oversized tests get split, not budgeted past the wall. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(test): shared runBin helper for bin-script unit tests ~36 free test files each carry a near-identical local run() (spawnSync + utf-8 + {status, stdout, stderr}) differing only in env composition, cwd, and timeout. runBin absorbs the invariant core; options carry the variance (gstackHome sets BOTH GSTACK_HOME and GSTACK_STATE_DIR — the config-precedence trap several locals rediscovered independently; home for $HOME-anchored bins; input/trim/timeout/maxBuffer). Free-test-only by design so it never becomes a de facto global touchfile. Migration of the 36 call sites lands separately (mechanical batches). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): runBin trim assertion — trim shapes stream ends, not interior Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(test): mechanical sweep — 298 paid-test timeouts onto eval-budget tiers 69 files, both shapes (trailing bun-test budgets and runner timeout/timeoutMs options), ROUND-UP ONLY so nothing that passed can start failing: 75 → JUDGE_MS, 137 → CAPTURE_MS, 74 → CAPTURE_LONG_MS, 9 → PTY_MS, 3 → PTY_LONG_MS. Raw >=60s literal count in the paid scope: 395 → 97, of which 51 are non-timeout noise (fixture dates, run IDs) and 46 are enumerated justified holds (comment-carrying calibrated budgets, poll-loop constants, utility spawn waits, and the seven physical-ceiling 1_500_000 sites). The eval-budgets policy ratchet keeps the residue from regrowing. Known collapse: where an inner runner budget and its enclosing test budget now share a tier, the old stagger is gone — an overrun surfaces as a bun test timeout instead of a graceful runner timeout (diagnosability trade, not a correctness one). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: coverage fill — 95 tests for six zero-coverage surfaces - eval CLI family (eval-list/compare/summary + eval-select smoke): the primary interface to eval results had no tests; isolation via a fake gstack-slug under a mkdtemp HOME (the scripts' real resolution path — they do NOT honor GSTACK_EVAL_DIR; only EvalCollector does). Pinned current behavior: eval-list does NOT exclude _partial runs (documented improvement candidate) - slop-diff (runs on every /review + quality-gate): fixture git repo + first-on-PATH npx stub (never downloads real slop-scan); no-diff early exit, missing-scanner fallback, fingerprint line-insensitivity, merge-base worktree scan - bin/gstack-code-intelligence CLI arg surface (lib was covered, the 284-line CLI wasn't): select/consent/suggest/index/search gating; pinned: --help routes to usage failure exit 1 (no handler) - browse media-extract: the page.evaluate callback exercised in-process against a mock DOM (no exports added) — lazy-src fallback chain, HLS/DASH detection, bg-image url() parsing, 500-element cap - browse session-cookie-store: factory contract (cookieName/ttlMs/ maxSessions eviction, cross-store isolation, mint→validate round-trip); store is in-memory — no fs cases exist - lib/version-source direct unit tests (gstack-version-bump.test.ts spawns the bin, never imports the lib): parse/format/cmp/bump coercion, npm 4→3 translation, #2501 mangled-JSON regression class All hermetic (mkdtemp homes, runBin child isolation); windows curation correctly partitions the six. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(test): first runBin migration batch (3 of ~36 run() duplicates) explain-level-config, benchmark-cli, evidence move onto the shared helper; each file's remaining special-case spawnSync sites (raw-buffer probes, env-scrub probes) stay put deliberately. 55/55 green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(evals): paid shards spool to disk + shared runShardChild lifecycle - runPaidShard no longer buffers whole 30-min stream-json streams in RAM (x concurrent jobs): every byte tees to a per-shard log file (slug-named, path printed at START for mid-run inspection and on the FAILED terminal line); failures print a 64KiB tail read back from disk; passing shards stay quiet (the file is the record) — the free runner's proven contract. Classification unchanged: the strict classifier still sees every byte first. - the ~35 duplicated spawn/group-kill/wall-timer/finally-reap lines move into runShardChild in test-strict-output.ts (detached-per- platform spawn, signal forwarding, SIGKILL group kill at the wall, drain-before-verdict); designed so the free runner can migrate later - expectedFiles drift fixed toward ENFORCEMENT: the injected-command exemption is gone — a fake command exiting 0 without bun's terminal summary now reads FAILED (pinned: silent-pass → failed) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(evals): parent-computed selection propagates to shard children The sharded runner computed diff selection once, then each of its 48-73 children recomputed it at module load — including, on touchfiles-diff branches, a per-child bun subprocess evaluating the old data file (20s timeout each). The parent now serializes {version, selected, reason} as EVALS_SELECTION_JSON into the shard env; e2e-helpers adopts it at load. Fail-open preserved: any parse/shape violation → ONE stderr warning + local recompute; absent env → silent local compute (non-sharded entrypoints unchanged). Drift test pins parent→child round-trip to identical selection decisions plus the malformed/absent cases. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): kill the four worst fixed sleeps (300s/30s/30s/20s) - watchdog.test: the 20s blind wait for one production parent-watchdog tick becomes BROWSE_PARENT_WATCHDOG_INTERVAL_MS=250 (new env knob in server.ts, NaN-safe, production default unchanged) + polls for the boot line and the tick's stay-alive log — strictly stronger (the old form never proved a tick observed the parent death). 24s → 3.6s. - stop-dead-daemon / terminal-agent-owner-watchdog: the 300s/30s stand-in child lifetimes become stdin-EOF-bound — the child can never self-exit mid-test on a slow runner (spurious-failure class) and self-reaps instantly if the test dies (no 300s orphans). Node-compat stdin APIs (owner-watchdog runs on the Windows lane). - browser-skill-commands: the sleeper fixture's 30s self-time becomes 8s (no stdin pipe exists in runToFiles) — far above the 1s product timeout it must outlive, below the test ceiling, so a timeout-kill regression fails on clean assertions instead of an opaque bun timeout; added: stdout must NOT contain 'done'. 45/45 green across the four files + server tripwires. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): gen-skill-docs + catalog-trim leave the serial mutator shard gen-skill-docs.test.ts's 15 in-place generator spawns now render into mkdtemp out-dirs (gitignored-artifact reads repointed; the handshake scan's silent console.warn degrade became a hard assertion); its tracked-tree reads (freshness dry-run, SKILL.md content pins) stay reads. catalog-trim needed no change beyond the earlier main() guard — its import is now side-effect-free (pinned by the import-purity test). Both TREE_MUTATING entries deleted in this commit, per the transition rule: an entry leaves in the same commit as the file's last in-place write. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): skill-validation renders codex host into an out-dir Its 3 in-place --host codex regeneration sites collapse into one module-level --out-dir render; assertions untouched. TREE_MUTATING entry deleted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): host-config self-provisions goldens (ordering dependency severed) Its goldens were 'produced by gen-skill-docs.test.ts' with a when-missing beforeAll fallback that wrote the live tree — an inter-test ordering dependency the serial shard hid. It now renders codex+factory UNCONDITIONALLY into its own out-dir and reads goldens only from there (the Claude golden deliberately keeps reading tracked ship/SKILL.md — a read; out-dir claude renders repoint section-base paths by design). TREE_MUTATING entry deleted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): gbrain-detection-override drops mutate-then-git-restore regenAndSnapshot renders --host claude --out-dir <mkdtemp> (+ --respect-detection) and snapshots probes from the out-dir. The git-restore machinery is deleted outright — it restored only PROBE_FILES of the 71 files each call wrote, so a stale tree kept the other 68 dirty (the partial-restore bug), and its 'no output-path arg' comment had been false since --out-dir landed. TREE_MUTATING entry deleted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): catalog-mode-full renders to out-dir; restore machinery deleted The full-catalog smoke no longer rewrites all 71 SKILL.md then regenerates to restore (with its 'CRITICAL: failed to restore' prayer path) — it renders into a mkdtemp and additionally asserts tracked ship/SKILL.md is byte-unchanged. TREE_MUTATING entry deleted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): idempotency proof strengthens to two-out-dir recursive diff Two renders into two separate out-dirs, EVERY file diffed byte-for-byte (claude-only and --host all; normalization only for each dir's own sanctioned section-base repoint; presence-sanity lists guard against a vacuous empty-dir pass) — strictly stronger than the old in-place double-regen that sampled 5 files. TREE_MUTATING entry deleted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): spec-template-sync compares an out-dir render, not an in-place one TREE_MUTATING entry deleted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(test): the serial tree-mutating shard dissolves — TREE_MUTATING is empty Zero mutators remain (all eight render into out-dirs now), so the four ratchet READERS (parity caps, size budgets, carve parity/ordering) get a quiet tree by construction in any shard and rejoin the parallel phase. The ~35-40s serial tail on every full-suite run is gone. The mechanism stays: a future test that genuinely must write shared artifacts in place earns an entry with a reason and is serialized again; the census pin still fails on renamed keys. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(gen): out-dir byte-identity + tree-clean pins for external hosts codex render: porcelain unchanged AND out-dir gstack-ship/SKILL.md byte-identical to a fresh in-place render (+openai.yaml presence); --host all render: exit 0, porcelain unchanged, claude + .agents + .factory + llms.txt + openclaw docs all present in the out-dir. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(test): commit the initial free-test durations seed (496 files) Recorded via --record-durations on a quiescent tree: 479s serial total, p50 92ms / p90 1.8s / max 31.4s — the top-heavy cost shape LPT packing exists for. A hint, not a contract: refresh opportunistically with bun run test:free --record-durations. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(evals): planner/executor/report modes — the CI re-platform surface One PLANNER computes diff selection + the slice plan ONCE and writes a manifest (--emit-plan <path> --slices K); K executors consume it (--plan <path> --slice i), never self-selecting, and write slice-result artifacts; a REPORT reconciles results against the manifest (--report <dir>) fail-closed: a slice whose artifact never landed is a FAILURE, a planned shard nobody reported fails, wrong-slice/duplicate/cross-tier results fail. Kills per-slice selector divergence and hollow-lane aggregation at the root. - hollow-shard guard: under EVALS_ALL, exit 0 with ZERO executed tests (bun's 'Ran N tests' now captured by the classifier — additive) is 'passed-empty' and fails the run; selective runs keep it 'passed' with one warning (in-file diff/tier self-skips are legitimate there); unknown counts are never guessed hollow - retry parity: --retry 1 default + RETRY_OVERRIDES literals for the three files whose old matrix rows earned retries: 2 (stale entries pinned against disk) - live smoke: gate plan = 48 shards across 6 slices; report mode exits 1 on a fabricated missing slice, 0 when complete Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(ci): sliced paid lane (planner -> 6 executors -> fail-closed report) The parity-phase re-platform: evals.yml gains a second, sliced lane driven by scripts/test-paid-shards.ts — the SAME engine local eval:bg:gate uses, so CI and local share one selection engine. - plan-slices: ONE planner (fetch-depth 0 — the only job needing history) emits the manifest; selection fails open to run-all, never per-slice (the divergence class is structurally dead) - eval-slices: 6-way matrix consuming the manifest; PTY seed + skill-registration steps run unconditionally (idempotent — a sliced lane cannot key them on suite names); aggregate spawn budget 6 x EVALS_JOBS=2 x EVALS_CONCURRENCY=2 = 24 lane-wide (the matrix's 40-way per row queued session startup behind 39 siblings — the timeout-flake family root); slice results + spooled shard logs uploaded as artifacts - slices-report: reconciles slice artifacts against the manifest FAIL-CLOSED via --report — a slice whose artifact never landed, or a planned shard nobody reported, is a failure, not an absence - sequenced needs: evals so provider concurrency never doubles while both lanes coexist; the matrix + its ratchets are deleted after demonstrated parity (intersection + expected-additions comparison) - workflow_dispatch gains evals_all (default true) for parity runs and post-merge smokes — a dispatch can never silently select zero Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(ci): weekly periodic lane runs EVERY periodic test + gate census backstop evals-periodic.yml re-platforms onto the sharded runner: planner manifest → 6 executor slices → FAIL-CLOSED report. This IS the coverage contract: all ~70 periodic-tier files weekly (EVALS_ALL=1), killing the silent-rot class where a hard-coded 9-file matrix left ~57 files running NOWHERE (the autoplan E2E rotted invisibly for months). - test/helpers/periodic-exclude-data.ts: reasoned exclusions in their OWN literals file (deliberately not touchfiles-data — map-diff evaluates old versions of that file standalone). Every entry carries reason + tracking with a re-entry condition; the runner surfaces each exclusion per run; policy test pins real-file + non-empty fields. Initial: ship-idempotency + brain-privacy-gate (documented-red, never green) and skill-e2e-ios (manual hardware). The TODOS 'sidebar E2E trio' turned out already deleted — only tombstone tests remain. - gate-census job: weekly EVALS_ALL gate-tier run — PR lanes are diff-billed, so without this the full gate census might never execute anywhere; with the hollow-shard guard it is a census-health check (exit 0 + zero executed tests fails), not just a test run. - failure notification is a concrete gh issue UPSERT (one tracking issue, commented per red week — never issue-per-week spam), with issues:write scoped to the report job. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: TESTING_INTERNALS covers the 2026-08 runner overhaul LPT-packed free suite + --record-durations, the emptied TREE_MUTATING mechanism, the sharded paid runner as the single selection engine, CI planner/executor/report with the fail-closed report and hollow-shard guard, the weekly coverage contract + exclusions policy, and the eval-budgets timeout tiers. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(CLAUDE.md): testing prose matches the overhauled runners - bun run test: duration-packed shards + --record-durations; the trailing serial tree-mutating shard no longer exists - two-tier system: the sliced CI lanes (one engine local+CI), the weekly all-periodic coverage contract + exclusions, the gate census - periodic detach timeout 32400 → 37800 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(TODOS): close the absorbed test-infra items, file the overhaul follow-ups Closed with receipts: the periodic coverage contract (implemented as full weekly coverage + exclusions), the eval-harness observability P1 (verified already landed: heartbeat, incremental _partial persistence, live stderr + eval-watch), and the sidebar trio (already deleted — tombstones remain). Filed: matrix deletion after parity, the required-check maintainer decision, browse /tmp-namespace hardening, PTY boot-readiness waits, the single typed test registry, bun-native LPT swap, runBin/free-runner migrations, eval-list partial exclusion, phantom key cleanup, duration-weighted slicing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * v1.73.0.0: test/CI overhaul — green means green, suites restructured for speed Version + release notes for the audit-and-overhaul branch: every silently-skipping or never-running test class fixed and tripwired, the free suite duration-packed with the serial mutator shard dissolved, the paid lane re-platformed onto the sharded runner (planner/slices/ fail-closed report, parity phase), the weekly all-periodic coverage contract, eval-budget timeout tiers, and 95 new coverage tests. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ci): first-live-run fixes — executor history + two environment-blind assertions The sliced lane's first run (PR #2721) did its job: the planner and report worked, the manifest governed, and every failure had a name. Three were fixable on the spot: - executor + gate-census checkouts get fetch-depth: 0 — files with SELF-derived selection (the LLM-judge map, routing) walk git at module load, and selection is deliberately fail-closed on git errors, so the shallow checkout crashed those shards ('ambiguous argument main...HEAD'). The manifest still governs WHICH shards run. - landscape --toc gate: the exact toBe(3) landscape-page count was font-metric-dependent (3 on Amazon Linux, 2 on ubuntu CI — the same disease the file's own page-index comment warns about). Now a comparative invariant: --toc must not CHANGE the landscape count vs a baseline render. - paid-run-manifest parse test builds its manifest under EVALS_ALL so it never walks git (proven with GIT_DIR=/nonexistent). Remaining first-run failures are newly-exposed rot in gate files that had never executed in CI (skillify D1 refusal, session-intelligence context-restore, one tpa-apple-ban retry flake) — being probed separately; they are the lane WORKING, not the lane failing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(TODOS): file the three first-execution findings from the sliced lane's live run Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * v1.74.0.0: queue-advance — #2722 claims the v1.73.0.0 slot The version gate caught a live queue collision (its whole job); same MINOR bump level, next free slot per bin/gstack-next-version. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): per-shard CHROMIUM_PROFILE — the collision class duration packing exposed Nine test files launch in-process persistent contexts or daemons that default to the SHARED ~/.gstack/chromium-profile. Two concurrent shard processes on one profile dir kill each other's browser — observed live on CI once duration packing recomposed shards: handoff's launchPersistentContext died 'Target page, context or browser has been closed' (--user-data-dir=~/.gstack/chromium-profile in the call log) while a sibling shard's daemon logged 'Chromium process crashed'. Hash sharding had masked the collision by chance placement; handoff passes standalone everywhere. Fix at the runner, not per file: each shard child gets CHROMIUM_PROFILE=<shard-state>/chromium-profile (the documented env knob, same isolation idea as the existing per-shard TMPDIR). Files within a shard run serially, so sharing the per-shard profile is safe; config.test's resolution-order tests save/restore the env around their assertions. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): landscape --toc gate asserts promotion PRESENCE, not counts Two rounds of CI receipts: the exact toBe(3) was font-metric-coupled (3 on Amazon Linux, 2 on ubuntu), and the baseline-comparison repair then failed 2-vs-3 across renders SECONDS apart in one CI job while the sibling no-toc test saw 3 — per-render image-promotion timing makes any count assertion here a coin flip. The sibling test owns exact promotion counts; this test's actual invariant is that --toc does not break the promotion machinery: >=1 landscape page + the TOC rendered. Also drops the second render (halves the test's runtime). Flaky per-render image promotion itself is worth its own look — noted in TODOS with these receipts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(TODOS): file the per-render image-promotion nondeterminism (receipts from PR #2721) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): per-FILE Chromium profiles for the nine in-process launcher files Completes the profile-isolation work: the per-shard CHROMIUM_PROFILE stopped cross-shard kills; these nine files launch in-process persistent contexts and could still collide with a lingering daemon a sibling file spawned on the SAME shard profile. Each now scopes a mkdtemp profile via beforeAll/afterAll (the module-scope-tripwire-safe pattern), cleaned up per file. All nine green solo and in combined runs, except the pre-existing commands+snapshot pairing — proven identical WITH and WITHOUT these edits (baseline receipts) — which is the daemon-lifecycle follow-up now extended in TODOS with this session's receipts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(browse): Chromium-crash exit is daemon-only — embedded launches never kill their host handleChromiumDisconnect unconditionally process.exit()ed. Correct for the standalone daemon (its supervisor/user must notice); suicidal when a TEST launches BrowserManager in-process: a mid-suite Chromium death exited the whole bun shard with no terminal summary — the exact truncation class the strict runner flags (observed live: CI shard 1 on eb233299 died at cache-concurrent-refresh right after a daemon-spawning gate test; with this fix the same pairing runs to completion and REPORTS instead of dying). The standalone entrypoint opts in via markDaemonProcess() under server.ts's import.meta.main gate — the same embedder contract its signal handlers already use (gbrowser phoenix keeps its own handlers). Embedded contexts now get the disconnect log line and continue. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): context-restore assertion is evidence-based, not prose-matching The test failed twice per run in TWO CI cycles while passing locally 4/4: the prompt said 'present the content' and the check grepped the FINAL message for exact phrases — local runs quoted the file, CI runs paraphrased ('the most recent context is from branch-b...') and the substring check lost the coin flip. - prompt now demands machine-checkable output: the newest file's '## Working on:' heading VERBATIM + a literal 'RESTORED: <filename>' marker (the mtime-scramble and cross-branch subject matter untouched) - assertion ordered strongest-first: RESTORED marker → legacy content phrases → tool-call corroboration (Read/Bash input naming the newer file, credited ONLY when the older file was never read — a both-files run must still present the right one) - the older-file negative got STRONGER: an explicit RESTORED marker naming the older file fails even if wintermute words appear elsewhere - sibling scan: context-recovery-artifacts got the additive prompt-side treatment only (quote the matched literals verbatim); its lenient 1-of-6 assertion deliberately unchanged 3/3 consecutive local green with all evidence classes firing (marker=true, content=true, toolNewer=true, toolOlder=false). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): skillify family — HOME==cwd broke project-skill registration Root cause (forensically pinned from stream-json init events + a kill-after-init probe): with HOME set EQUAL to the child's cwd, claude resolves <cwd>/.claude/skills as the PERSONAL skills directory and the seeded project-tier skills never register — the Skill tool returned 'Unknown skill'. The provenance-refusal test then improvised a refusal whose wording missed the regex (the deterministic CI+local red); the happy-path and approval-reject siblings passed only because their agents self-recovered by Reading SKILL.md manually — silently not exercising the Skill-tool path at all. All three tests now use HOME=<workDir>/home (a fresh subdir keeps the override's intent: child ~/.gstack writes land in the assertable sandbox, without the cwd collision). Refusal test additionally: a 'not registered/unknown skill' tripwire (a not-loaded skill can never pass as a refusal) and the refusal regex now matches assistant text only — the skill BODY echoed into the transcript contains the exact refusal message, so the old full-surface match could pass vacuously once the skill loaded. Sibling disk assertions sweep both $HOME/.gstack and cwd .gstack roots (positives and negatives). Verified paid: refusal 2x consecutive green with the skill's EXACT message rendered ('Launching skill: skillify' in-transcript), then the full file 5/5 green (~$1.35) with both siblings driving real Skill calls (25-27 turns each). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(TODOS): two of three first-execution findings fixed (skillify family, context-restore) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): context-restore gets a private home — the REAL root cause was fixture sharing The evidence-based assertion fix was treating a symptom. The slice artifact's embedded transcript showed the CI agent restoring 20260829-context-save-skill-test.md — the checkpoint the SIBLING context-save test wrote into the SHARED gstackHome checkpoints dir, which by filename-prefix ordering genuinely IS the newest. The agent behaved CORRECTLY; the test's fixture set was open to concurrent sibling writes, and bun --concurrent ordering differs between CI (save finished first) and local (restore listed first) — the entire local-green/CI-red split explained. The restore test now uses its own .gstack-restore-home (the whole home moves, not just the handed path — an agent deriving the dir from GSTACK_HOME/projects/<slug> must land in the closed set too). Full file 4/4 paid green with all evidence flags firing. Also: the on-failure shard-log artifact glob uploaded nothing — the Fix-bun-temp step points TMPDIR at /home/runner/.cache, so the spool lands there, not /tmp. Both eval workflows now glob both locations (this gap is why diagnosing THIS failure required digging transcripts out of the slice-results artifact). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(evidence): carry the real index mtime onto gstack-wtree's temp copy The stat-cache seed (cp of the real index) stamped the temp index "now", which defeats git's racy-git protection: an entry is only re-hashed when its cached mtime is not older than the index file itself, so a same-size rewrite landing in the same second as the last real index write looked non-racy, kept its stale stat-cache entry, and vanished from the fingerprint — evidence stayed FRESH after a source change. This is the CI flake in test/evidence.test.ts "allow-paths carve-out" (sub-second alignment on fast runners: expected STALE exit 1, got FRESH exit 0). touch -r restores the original index timestamp, reinstating the exact racy window git itself uses. Deterministic regression pin in test/review-log.test.ts reproduces the miss with pinned zero-nsec timestamps (fails on the old script, passes now); receipts: manual probe shows the fresh-stamped copy returning the clean tree for a same-size 'hello'→'howdy' rewrite while the mtime-carried copy detects it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): landscape gate bounds the promotion count instead of pinning 3 The alt-hinted image promotion rides the per-render measurement race already filed in TODOS (2-vs-3 landscape pages on renders seconds apart — CI receipts from PR #2721, now reproduced locally). Pin the two deterministic promotions as the floor and the three promotable blocks as the ceiling (anything above 3 means the veto leaked); the veto/portrait assertions remain exact. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: Test <test@test.com>	2026-08-29 09:06:54 -07:00
Garry TanandClaude Fable 5	410b4928e7	v1.66.0.0 feat: test/evals/CI speedup — 90s truthful free suite, diff-billed evals, required Linux lane (#2593) ... * ci: bump CI image Bun 1.3.10 -> 1.3.13 Matches the local toolchain and brings native `bun test --shard=M/N` / --parallel to CI (needed by the free-test lane and shard runner work). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * ci: stop version bumps rebuilding the eval Docker image (cache key trio) Three coupled fixes, atomic because any subset is worse than none: 1. Image tag keys on hashFiles(Dockerfile.ci, bun.lock) — package.json is out: its version field changed on 60/60 recent commits, forcing a ~2min image rebuild per PR for a dependency set only bun.lock determines. 2. ci-image.yml now pushes that same content-hash tag (previously only :latest/:sha, so the weekly prebuild never warmed the tag the eval matrix actually looks up) and both eval workflows get registry layer cache (cache-to export gated to same-repo runs; fork tokens cannot write GHCR). 3. Dockerfile bakes /opt/node_modules_cache/.bun.lock and the runtime Restore-deps guard diffs bun.lock instead of package.json — otherwise every version-only bump made all 14 matrix jobs fall back to a live bun install, which is slower than today's behavior. Worst-case failure mode is self-healing: a missing tag or cache falls back to exactly the previous rebuild-and-install path. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * ci: stop double-running lint + skill-docs on every PR commit Both fired on unrestricted push AND pull_request, so each PR push ran them twice (12 duplicate (headSha, workflow) pairs in the last 200 runs). push is now main-only; pull_request covers PR branches. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * ci: run actionlint from the prebuilt image (16s -> ~2s) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * ci: right-size five single-core jobs to ubicloud-standard-2 actionlint, skill-docs, version-gate, pr-title-sync, and the evals report job never exceed one core; standard-8 was ~4x the cost for zero wall-clock. build-image and the eval matrix keep standard-8. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * ci: fix workflow_dispatch concurrency collisions (head_ref || run_id) head_ref is empty on workflow_dispatch, so every manual dispatch of these four workflows shared one empty-suffix group and cancelled each other. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * ci(windows): cache bun installs; run the curated suite, not a hand list - actions/cache on ~/.bun/install/cache keyed on bun.lock (install was 35-45s of both 55-64s jobs, all network) and Bun pinned to 1.3.13 to match the other lanes. - windows-free-tests now runs `bun run test:windows` (the runner's --windows-only curation) instead of a hand-listed 13-file subset that had drifted from the registry it sampled. POSIX-bound tests get excluded in ONE place (the curation patterns), not two. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * evals: retry 1, not 2, on every paid path Measured on the llm-judge shard: --retry 2 amplified 25 tests into 46 executions (+84%), with retried runs at 138s vs a 10-12s baseline (429 backoff), and a permanently-failing test paying 3x. One retry still absorbs one-off flakes; chronic flakes become visible fix-work instead of silent wall-clock. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * evals: split skill-e2e-review into three per-file CI shards Bun runs describe blocks as concurrency barriers, so the e2e-review CI job executed its tests serially: 741s of an 860s PR critical path for tests whose slowest member is 224s. The per-file matrix is the repo's parallelism unit, so the split moves: - Retro E2E + retro-base-branch -> test/skill-e2e-retro.test.ts - review/ship base-branch + Review Dashboard Via Attribution -> test/skill-e2e-review-attribution.test.ts - sql-injection / enum-completeness / design-lite stay in test/skill-e2e-review.test.ts One 741s job becomes three ~180-250s jobs. Locally the worst paid shard drops from 1705s (94.7% of the 1800s kill) to under 700s. Test names, bodies, suite strings, and eval-store collectors are unchanged, so baselines carry over. Matrix rows added to both eval workflows (attribution is gate-only, so no periodic row); the report job's hardcoded runner count is gone (drift-proof). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: gate security-bench on SECURITY_BENCH=1, not model-cache existence The existsSync gate ran ~12s of ONNX inference (plus a HuggingFace dataset fetch) on every free-suite run on any dev box that had ever warmed the classifier, while CI (no cache) silently skipped it. Now explicit opt-in: SECURITY_BENCH=1 bun test browse/test/security-bench.test.ts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: watchdog E2E in 1.5s instead of 22.7s (tunable poll interval) server.ts gains BROWSE_WATCHDOG_INTERVAL_MS (floor 50ms, default 15s unchanged). The #994 stay-alive test runs a 250ms tick and waits for the stay-alive log line instead of blind-sleeping 2s + 20s past the production interval. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: dedupe coverage gates; route both walks through skill-census skill-coverage-floor duplicated two matrix assertions (registry completeness, gate-tier floor) with a DIFFERENT hand-rolled directory walk — matrix's skipped nothing, floor's skipped node_modules/docs/test. Two 'same' gates disagreeing on the census is the bug class test/helpers/skill-census.ts was written to kill. Registry assertions now live in matrix only (with floor's better error message), both files walk via skillCensus().authoredSkills, and floor keeps the per-skill structural checks it owns. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * evals: EVALS_JOBS for shard processes; explicit within-shard concurrency EVALS_CONCURRENCY was overloaded: the legacy bun-test path used it as --max-concurrency (default 15) while the sharded runner read it as the process count — exporting the legacy value gave 15 concurrent Bun processes each spawning claude (the 429 storm). Now: EVALS_JOBS = shard processes (default 4); EVALS_CONCURRENCY = bun --max-concurrency inside a shard (default 4, explicit in shard args — omitting it made within-shard parallelism silently differ from the legacy path). Stale 49/59 header math replaced with the live-count rule. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * evals: enforce detach-timeout floor from the live shard census New free tripwire: eval:bg:gate / eval:bg:periodic --timeout must cover ceil(shards/jobs) x shard-timeout x 1.05, recomputed from the actual paid test census every run. Hand-derived numbers go stale every time a paid file lands — the review split just proved it: periodic's 28800s dropped BELOW its new 32130s worst case (raised to 32400s here). An undersized watchdog kills healthy runs and the tail reports never-started. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * evals: preflight ping once in the sharded parent, not per shard The Anthropic fail-fast ping ran at module load in every paid test file importing e2e-helpers — ~30 paid claude -p calls (30s timeout each) per full sharded run for one bit of information. The parent now pings once before spawning shards and sets EVALS_PREFLIGHT_OK=1; the module-load path honors the flag. Extracted to test/helpers/anthropic-preflight.ts (injectable spawn seam) with regression pins in both directions: the flag must skip, its absence must ping exactly once, dead API must throw. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * evals: split touchfiles into pure data + selection logic + facade touchfiles.ts listed ITSELF in GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES, so adding one test's dep entry forced the full ~$38 / 30-45min suite — measured on 21.9% of recent commits (42/192). The self-reference existed because data and logic shared a file: any edit COULD be a selection-logic change. Now: touchfiles-data.ts (the four maps, literals only, zero imports — the future map-diff target), test-selection.ts (matchGlob/detectBase Branch/getChangedFiles/selectTests), and touchfiles.ts as a re-export facade so all ~12 import sites are untouched. GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES drops the self-ref, adds test-selection.ts (logic stays maximally conservative), and TEMPORARILY adds touchfiles-data.ts until the map-diff change lands. New free test pins the literal-only property (comment-aware state-machine scan with a self-test) and facade export parity (===), so neither can silently rot. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: free runner — strict output, parallel execution, stable shard indices Three coupled changes to scripts/test-free-shards.ts: 1. STRICT OUTPUT: runFreeShard streams through the paid runner's BunTestOutputClassifier — exit 0 without bun's 'Ran N tests across M files' summary, with (fail) lines, or with a wrong file count is a FAILURE (anti-truncation backstop at the runner layer), plus an external wall-clock timeout that SIGKILLs the process group (timed-out distinct from failed; exit 124 vs 1). Also fixes a latent shard-bleed: file selectors now use exactTestFileSelectors (relative paths were substring filters that matched sibling roots). 2. PARALLEL: full-suite mode is one 'bun test --parallel' invocation (Bun 1.3.13). Measured semantics recorded in the header: per-file worker isolation, standard summary, and mid-suite process.exit surfaces as a crashed-worker FAIL with exit 1 — strictly safer than serial, where the same exit truncates silently. No static weight lists; --shards M --shard i keeps deterministic hash partitioning for CI matrices (native --shard rejected: round-robin renumbers when files land). Spawned shards get throwaway GSTACK_HOME/TMPDIR so parallel shards can't contend on real state. Per-shard epilogue prints files/seconds/status every run. 3. Stable indices: assignFilesToShards no longer drops empty shards, so a shard's index depends only on the file hash and requested count — an empty CI matrix slot is a fast no-op success, not a renumbering. package.json 'test' now delegates to the runner (TEST_ROOTS becomes the single source of truth for roots; slop:diff tail preserved; the runner inherits the 30s per-test timeout the old glob passed inline). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * ci: Linux free-test lane — ~400 files get CI coverage for the first time New required, secretless free-tests job: the canonical runner's single 'bun test --parallel' invocation with strict-output classification on ubicloud-standard-8. The free suite previously ran on NO Linux CI — only a curated Windows subset ran anywhere — so every 'tests pass' claim about main rested on contributors running them locally. Secretless by design (no API keys; fork PRs finally get real test signal) and pinned by test/free-tests-workflow-wiring.test.ts: canonical runner invoked, zero secrets.* references, pull_request never pull_request_target, and matrix-count/--shards agreement if anyone switches to the sharded fallback. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * evals: map-diff selection — a touchfiles-data edit runs only what changed Editing the eval dep-list data no longer forces the full ~$38 / 30-45min suite (measured on 21.9% of recent commits). When touchfiles-data.ts is in the diff, selection now evaluates the BASE version (git show -> mkdtemp -> spawnSync bun child printing the four maps as JSON — sync because e2e-helpers selects at module scope) and JSON-diffs per key: added entries, edited dep lists, and tier flips are selected; keys removed from all maps are reported, never silently dropped; a GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES edit still runs everything. FAIL-CLOSED with named causes: missing-base-ref, git-show-failed, import-failed, shape-mismatch each degrade to run-all and print 'selection: global — touchfiles-data changed (<cause>)' (D9 — silently expensive beats silently wrong, but never silently). eval:select prints 'selected N of M, reason: ...' + removed tests; --base scopes the map-diff too. The temporary conservative GLOBAL entry for touchfiles-data.ts is gone — its changes route through the map-diff. 23 new free tests: pure-core fixtures, selectTests wiring incl. a poison-injection guard, and a temp git repo exercising every fail-closed cause end-to-end. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * evals: selection sees uncommitted work; git errors fail closed getChangedFiles is now the deduped union of committed (base...HEAD), staged+unstaged (git diff HEAD), and untracked (git status --porcelain --untracked-files=all) — an agent that edits files and runs evals BEFORE committing no longer gets the full $38 suite every time because the committed diff looked empty. Clean tree still returns [] (run-all by design for main-branch/periodic runs). Git failures now THROW with the failing command, stderr, and 'set EVALS_ALL=1 to deliberately run the full suite' — the old return [] silently became run-all, which is silently expensive. 11 new free tests cover every source, dedupe, quoted paths, and both failure shapes via an injectable spawn seam. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: revert GSTACK_HOME injection in the free runner — shared mutable state The first full run under the strict runner surfaced 12 failures with one root cause: injecting a single throwaway GSTACK_HOME per invocation made 6,900 tests share a MUTABLE scratch home. gstack-config tests wrote keys into it; relink and update-check tests then read them (e.g. relink saw skill_prefix left behind by a config test and produced prefixed names). All 12 pass when run directly. TMPDIR isolation stays (mkdtemp inside it is still per-call unique). Tests needing GSTACK_HOME isolation mkdtemp their own per test — the repo convention — and hermetic-env covers E2E children. The env-dump pin now asserts GSTACK_HOME passes through UNTOUCHED so the injection can't come back. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: rebase parity baseline to v1.64.0.0; fix capture-vs-check drift The parity ratchet had quietly failed for 7 skills — v1.58-v1.64 growth landed past the v1.57.7.0 anchors and nothing caught it because this test had no CI lane (verified pre-existing: SKILL.md content is byte-identical to origin/main). Same rebase protocol as v1.53->v1.57.7.0; old baseline retained for the audit trail. Root-caused a second latent bug while rebasing: captureBaseline recorded SKELETON-ONLY bytes while the checker compares UNION bytes (skeleton + carved sections/*.md), so a fresh capture read carved skills at ~2x ratio (ship: 82KB captured vs 183KB checked). captureBaseline now takes sectionedSkills and records unions for carved skills — capture and check measure the same thing, so the NEXT rebase can't hit this. Four CARVE_GUARDS skeleton caps re-ratcheted to current +headroom (plan-ceo 92K, plan-eng 70K, office-hours 100K, design-consultation 70K), annotated inline. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: package.json version matches VERSION (1.64.0.0) v1.64.0.0 shipped with VERSION bumped but package.json left at 1.63.0.0 — the 'package.json version matches VERSION file' test fails on origin/main today. Nothing caught it because that test had no CI lane until this branch's free-tests job. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: fix variants-retry-after HTTP-date flake (TODOS P2) toUTCString() truncates to whole seconds, so a +3000ms Retry-After date could mean an effective wait of ~2001ms — flaking against the 2500ms assertion floor ~1-2 in 9 runs under suite load. +4000ms puts the truncation floor at 3001ms with the assertion floor safely below it. Pulled forward from U4 because the free-tests lane is now a required check and this flake would randomly block PRs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: skill-fixture helper — extract SKILL.md sections, don't copy files extractSkillSections (fence-aware H2 scanner, loud-throw on missing sections with available-heading list), extractSkillBody (drops the shared generated preamble), extractSkillHead (frontmatter + first 30 lines, for routing fixtures). Pinned section lists per consumer, and free-tier real-skill pins so a gen-skill-docs heading rename fails the FREE suite instead of a paid run. skill-fixture.ts joins GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES (fail-safe polarity: over-select). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(evals): review E2E fixtures extract sections — 1871 -> 207 lines CLAUDE.md's extract-don't-copy rule, applied: the three review fixtures carry only the sections the sql-injection/enum/design-lite prompts and judges exercise (89% cut). Full-file copies made claude -p read 1871 lines per test — the direct cause of the 1705s worst shard (94.7% of the 1800s kill). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(evals): retro E2E fixtures extract sections — 1821 -> 757 lines Keeps every section the retro flow exercises incl. base-branch detect; drops preamble, Global Retrospective Mode, Compare Mode (58% cut). retro-base-branch was the single slowest CI test at 224s. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(evals): review-army fixture extracts sections — 1871 -> 650 lines CS1's set plus Step 1.5 (PLAN COMPLETION AUDIT machinery) and Step 4.5 (army dispatch, quality_score, findings schema) that the 7 army tests assert on. Pin test guards the three load-bearing strings. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(evals): skillify fixtures via extractSkillBody — 63-83% smaller Tests follow all 11 skillify steps, so the whole body stays; only the shared generated preamble drops (skillify 1239->453, scrape 958->167). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(evals): context-skills fixtures via extractSkillBody — 74-82% smaller context-save 1037->267 lines, context-restore 952->168; the 8 tests exercise full save/restore/list flows so the body stays, preamble drops. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(evals): opus-47 discovery fixtures via extractSkillHead — ~95% smaller Routing/fanout tests only read frontmatter + opening lines of the 14 installed skills (review 1871->54, office-hours 1706->80). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(evals): codex runner gains sections option — review variant 88% smaller runCodexSkill/installSkillToTempHome accept sections?: string[] routed through extractSkillSections; codex-review-findings wired (1465->181 lines). codex-discover-skill deliberately keeps the FULL copy — its stderr assertions validate that the real generated artifact loads. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(evals): routing fixture installs skill HEADS, not ~18 full SKILL.md Routing reads frontmatter only; extractSkillHead per skill (root 611->48, ship 1435->54 lines). This was the single worst fixture bloat site: one fixture dir holding ~18 full skills. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * evals: parent-side shard skipping — a one-test diff runs 3 of 44 shards The sharded runner spawned every shard regardless of diff; only the child self-skipped, so a typical single-skill change still paid 44 Bun boots + container-equivalent setup for shards with zero selected tests. The parent now computes selection once (mirroring e2e-helpers exactly: EVALS_ALL -> run-all, empty union -> run-all, git errors propagate the fail-closed throw) and drops shards where no selected test name maps in. Mapping = quoted E2E map keys in the file's source UNION keys whose dep list registers the file (constructed-name families need the second direction). FAIL-OPEN everywhere it matters: run-all, non-skill-e2e files, unreadable source, zero mapped names all keep the shard — the child filter stays authoritative, so a parent bug can only run extra. New taxonomy status skipped-by-diff (never conflated with never-started); selection banner prints once; --list is selection-aware. C6 lands in the same commit: a HARD tier-alignment test — every paid skill-e2e file must be parent-mappable or provably fail-open-safe. Note: this change-set's 14 dep-list registrations in touchfiles-data.ts rode along in f945c841 (concurrent-agent staging); they belong to this change logically. Demo: selection of one test -> 'running 3 of 44 shards, 41 skipped-by-diff'. 13 new $0 tests via injected seams. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * evals: fix context-save-list test that was 0-for-26 ($5.28, zero passes) Disposition for the eval store's only permanently-red test. Root cause: the hide-other-branches assertions scanned the FULL output surface (incl. bash tool_results), so any agent that ran ls on the checkpoints dir — the natural first step of a list flow — surfaced all three seeded filenames and failed, even when its user-facing listing filtered correctly. The test punished the agent for looking at the directory. The hide-assertions now scan the agent's FINAL TEXT (the listing the user sees); showsMain keeps the broad surface for its documented reason. Validated live in the final gate run rather than quarantined: the test guards real behavior (branch filtering) and the assertion was the bug. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: wire 12 orphaned test files into the free suite (D3a) ios-qa/daemon/test (10 files), ios-qa/scripts/gen-accessors.test.ts, and browser-skills/hackernews-frontpage/script.test.ts ran under NO script or CI — written coverage catching nothing. All 174 tests green on arrival (4.6s), zero quarantines needed. TODOS P2 closed: main wired design/test in v1.64, the variants-retry-after flake it named is fixed on this branch, and this commit lands the remaining orphans. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: supabase-provision runs in-process — 16.5s -> 0.45s bin/gstack-gbrain-supabase-provision (482-line bash) becomes a 26-line bun-shebang entry over a new importable lib/gbrain-supabase-provision.ts with an injected-deps seam (fetch/env/stdout/sleep — D7: args, never env-mutation-before-import). The 33 spawn-per-test cases run in-process against the same Bun.serve mocks; exactly one spawn smoke keeps the shebang/CLI/receipt contract covered. Byte-compat proven by a 25-case differential harness (old bash bin from git vs new, same mock): stdout, stderr, exit codes identical across all subcommands, JSON/plain modes, and error paths. Egress receipts stay per-attempt, receipt-before-send, fail-closed (scanner updated: SHELL_SINKS -> MODULE_SINKS). No-op sleep injection makes retry/backoff paths instant. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * evals: kill the 3,372-line zombie monolith; revive 4 never-run tests test/skill-e2e.test.ts survived the v1.56 split as a zombie: the paid glob needs the skill-e2e-* hyphen, so with EVALS=1 NOTHING has executed it for ~8 releases — and it held the ONLY implementations of four map-registered tests: review-coverage-audit (gate), plan-eng-coverage- audit (gate), ship-triage (gate), ship-idempotency (periodic). Three gate tests silently never ran — the exact 0%-execution class this branch exists to kill. Rehomed into test/skill-e2e-coverage-audit.test.ts, -triage.test.ts, and -ship-idempotency-sdk.test.ts with bodies byte-identical modulo collector wiring and fixture extraction (drift observed in the skills since v1.56 is DOCUMENTED in each header, not fixed — their first paid run in 8 releases must attribute failures to drift, not to this move). All 24 other monolith names were true duplicates of the split files — dropped with the monolith. Matrix rows added to both eval workflows; the paid glob's zombie-exclusion is now a commented regression pin. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: fix two parallelism-exposed flakes (probe re-run, live-tree census) Both pass solo and on main but flaked under the parallel runner: 1. gstack-brain-context-load probed 'gbrain --version' PER QUERY with a 500ms budget — a cold probe on a saturated box timed out (observed 505ms), branding gbrain 'missing' for one query while siblings passed. The probe is now memoized (availability can't change mid-invocation) with a generous one-time 5s budget; query calls keep the tight timeout. 2. skill-size-budget's catalog estimate read the LIVE tree, so a concurrent worker's transient skill-shaped scratch dirs exactly doubled it (8356 vs 4177). The ratchet now counts git-TRACKED skills only — the catalog that ships, immune to sibling workers. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * evals: demote 4 expensive posture tests to periodic (D2a) design-consultation-research ($0.91/304s) and -preview ($0.89/481s) — the two most expensive gate tests — plus office-hours-forcing-energy (LLM-judge posture score; its sibling was already demoted) and cso-full-audit (250s/$0.57; the targeted cso tests stay gate). Saves ~$8-12 and 10-15 min per gate run. The plan-*-finding-floor tests stay gate deliberately: cheap insurance on the most-edited skill surface. Housing files have no whole-file self-gates, so the runtime E2E_TIERS filter handles both tiers; tier-alignment tripwire green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * evals: judge default Sonnet -> Haiku 4.5 (D1a) The 25 doc-quality judges are rubric-scoring calls — a duty Haiku is already proven at in this repo (pty hung/working classifier, first-task-scaffold, hermetic-canary). Tests needing a stronger judge pass a model explicitly. Note: eval-store judge costs were hardcoded synthetic (0.02), so no baseline distortion. Re-baselined by the periodic run in this branch's final verification. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * evals: SDK runner default Opus -> Sonnet (D1a) agent-sdk-runner defaulted to Opus 4.7 while session-runner (the claude -p path) defaulted to Sonnet — an inconsistency between the two runners, not a decision anyone made. Unpinned tests were implicitly asserting the expensive model. The 30+ tests that genuinely need Opus already pin it via opts.model. Re-baselined by the periodic run in this branch's final verification; regressors get explicit Opus pins. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: CLAUDE.md tells the truth about the free suite; make-pdf gate is macOS-only The '<2s' claim was off by two orders of magnitude (measured 454s serial at v1.63; ~90-100s now under the parallel runner), and the bare 'bun test' guidance walked the whole repo, loading paid eval files and missing the strict classifier. Commands now say 'bun run test' with real numbers, document the strict-output invariant, the EVALS_JOBS / EVALS_CONCURRENCY split, the computed detach-timeout floor, and the required free-tests lane. make-pdf-gate drops its Linux leg (redundant with the free lane running make-pdf tests on every PR); macOS rendering coverage stays. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: catalog ratchet reads committed content; SDK unit pins follow D1a default Two follow-ups from the verification runs: 1. skill-size-budget's catalog estimate still flaked under --parallel (8356, then 8041, vs 4177 solo) even after filtering to tracked skills: sibling workers REGENERATE real SKILL.md files mid-run, so any live-tree read is a moving target. The ratchet now reads each tracked skill's frontmatter from git show HEAD: — the catalog that ships — which no concurrent worker can perturb. 2. agent-sdk-runner unit pins asserted the old Opus default through the default-flow fixtures; flipped to the Sonnet default (the explicit- override pass-through pins keep Opus — that path is unchanged). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(browse): SIGKILL abandoned Chromium on close-race timeout (suite wedge) close()'s launched-mode path raced browser.close() against 5s and on timeout ABANDONED the child: this.browser nulled, process handle lost, Chromium alive holding keep-alive connections into test servers whose stop() then waits forever. Reproduced twice as an intermittent (~50%) whole-suite wedge — a 44min 0.1%-CPU hang pinned by a leaked LISTEN socket, and a 400s hang with commands.test.ts teardown in flight. The child handle is now captured BEFORE the race and SIGKILLed on race-timeout (launched mode only; headed keeps context.close). Race timers are unref'd so a successful close stops pinning the caller's event loop for the window. The four browse test servers force-close keep-alives (stop(true)) as belt-and-braces. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: delete two dead-architecture security contract tests browse/test/security-source-contracts.test.ts and sidebar-security.test.ts read browse/src/sidebar-agent.ts at module scope — a file deleted (on main too) when the sidebar chat-queue path was ripped in favor of the terminal PTY. Both files have errored on load ever since: the old truncating suite never surfaced it, and no CI lane ran them. Their subjects (queue-spawn canary injection, preSpawnSecurityCheck, queued args, chat system prompt) no longer exist; server.ts retains processAgentEvent only in a comment. Live security coverage continues in security.test.ts (canary/verdict), content-security.test.ts (L1-L3), server-sanitize-surrogates.test.ts, and the security-bench suite. If the terminal-agent path should inherit any of the deleted contracts, that is a separately scoped piece of work against the component that actually exists. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(redact): calibrate placeholder recognition for code and doc shapes Three pushed-secret false positives blocked this branch's push; each is now recognized as a placeholder in the url_with_password/basic_auth_url validators, with real passwords still blocking (all pinned): - ${camelCase} JS template interpolations (the old check only skipped uppercase env-style ${DB_PASS}, so the supabase-provision bash->TS port's `postgresql://${dbUser}:${dbPass}@...` flagged as two pushed secrets). - The literal PASSWORD/pass placeholder in URL-format doc comments. - The provision lib's doc comments now use <PASSWORD>/PASSWORD forms. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: opt-in gate for live-playwright ML tests; ios-qa build hygiene security-live-playwright's L4 tests dlopen onnxruntime inside a bun --parallel worker whenever the dev box has a warm model cache — the source of the intermittent 'panic: Segmentation fault' + crashed-worker retries (and likely the residual run wedges). Same SECURITY_BENCH=1 opt-in as security-bench.test.ts; the L1-L3 tests in the file still run everywhere. Also: gitignore the ios-qa gen-accessors-tool Swift .build/ output (a side-effect of running its tests that kept polluting git status) and commit its Package.resolved so tool builds resolve reproducibly. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: free runner output contract — name the failure, quiet the noise Diagnosing a red run used to mean re-running with output captured to a file and grepping past ~1000 lines of tab-close spam and ASCII art — several runs today ended with no way to even NAME the failing test, and a wall-timeout kill said nothing about which file wedged. New contract: the full child stream ALWAYS lands in a per-run log file (path printed up front); the console shows only runner lines, (fail) results, crash markers, and the terminal summary (--verbose restores the firehose; the strict classifier consumes the full stream in every mode). After every run a stable epilogue names the outcome: [test:free] FAIL — k failing test(s) in j file(s), c crashed worker(s). Full log: <path> ✗ <file> — <test name> ⚠ crashed+retried: <file> ⏱ in flight at kill: <files> (timeout only — the wedge suspects) Attribution rides bun --parallel's per-file output grouping (ANSI-stripped — color codes defeated a plain grep today). 12 new pins: epilogue formats, crash surfacing, quiet/verbose console policy, log completeness, in-flight-at-kill on a real hang. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: quarantine 5 pre-existing env failures individually (receipts in-file) Three snapshot tests (stale-ref error, snapshot -D diff, annotation cleanup) and two extension-sender-auth behavioral tests fail identically on origin/main v1.64.1.0, solo, on dev machines — verified per the blame protocol. Main's CI lane skip-lists both FILES wholesale; quarantining only the five failing tests keeps the other 60 guarding. Each carries the un-skip condition. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: stealth-webdriver launch gets parallel-load headroom (120s) Playwright's default 30s launch timeout dies under the full-suite --parallel run when ~400 workers contend for Chromium launches — bun reports the hook death as an '(unnamed)' 30006ms failure (named on sight by the new runner epilogue). Both launch sites get explicit 120s timeouts; the runner's external wall-clock still bounds the ceiling. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: free-runner wall timeout 15min -> 6min (faster wedge diagnosis) The suite completes in ~100-160s; a wedge used to mean 15 minutes of silence before the kill-and-name epilogue fired. 6min keeps ~3.5x headroom over the slowest observed clean run while naming wedge suspects in minutes. --wall-timeout <secs> overrides per run. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: run worker-hostile files in a serial child (first entry: security-live-playwright) The residual full-suite wedge, named by the new epilogue: Bun 1.3.13 segfaults running browse/test/security-live-playwright.test.ts in a --parallel worker ('panic: Segmentation fault ... a bug in Bun'), and the crashed-worker retry then wedges the whole invocation past the wall clock. The file passes serially. New WORKER_HOSTILE placement list: full-suite mode excludes listed files from the parallel invocation and runs them in their own strict-classified serial child afterward — execution placement, not a skip; each entry carries its reason and removal condition. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: gate compare-board's file-level hooks too — the intermittent staller Skipped describes do NOT skip file-level hooks: the quarantined compare-board file still ran its top-level beforeAll (PNG fixtures + Bun.serve + a BrowserManager launch — exactly the 'needs a display-shaped env' code) on every run, and under parallel load that setup wedges. Caught red-handed by the runner's in-flight-at-kill epilogue: '⏱ in flight at kill: browse/test/compare-board.test.ts'. This was the suite's intermittent staller. Hooks now honor the same GSTACK_COMPARE_BOARD_TESTS gate; the gated file drops from 3.7s of live setup to 0.4s of pure skips. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: full suite runs as N shard processes; scrub spec-sync child env Two fixes from the wedge-hunt endgame: 1. Full-suite mode switches from one 'bun test --parallel' invocation to N concurrent shard PROCESSES, serial within each (the paid runner's proven model; N = min(6, cpus-2)). The single-invocation strategy hit three distinct Bun 1.3.13 worker pathologies in one day — a segfault whose crashed-worker retry wedged the run, a quarantined file's still-running file-level hooks stalling a worker, and spawn-heavy files hanging under load — and each one stalled the WHOLE invocation. Process shards isolate any wedge to its own shard. First full run under this model: no wedge, six epilogues, one real failure named. WORKER_HOSTILE stays as the paper trail; --parallel remains available per-shard for a future Bun. 2. That one real failure: spec-template-sync regenerates SKILL.md via a child that inherited the shard process's env — an earlier test's GSTACK_*/GBRAIN_* mutations changed generator output (failed in-suite, passed solo on an identical tree). The child now gets a scrubbed env: generator output must be a function of the templates, not of whichever test ran before. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: tree-mutating tests run after the parallel shards; scrub relink env The flake family's root cause, finally: five test files REGENERATE shared repo artifacts in place (catalog-mode-full rewrites every SKILL.md in full-catalog mode; spec-sync and idempotency regenerate all skills; gen-skill-docs and skill-validation rewrite .agents/). Any concurrent shard reading those files sees a moving target — this one family produced the exactly-doubled catalog estimate, the golden-file drift, and the spec-sync mismatch chased earlier today. Full-suite mode now runs TREE_MUTATING files in one serial shard AFTER the parallel shards complete; CI's matrix is unaffected (per-runner checkouts). Also: relink's run() helper spread process.env into its children, so a sibling file's leaked GSTACK_HOME made the 'fresh install' test see a neighbor's skill_prefix. GSTACK_HOME is now dropped unless the test passes it explicitly. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: gbrain-detection-override joins TREE_MUTATING (mutator #6) It regenerates SKILL.md in place with --respect-detection (the gbrain variant adds ~1-3KB per carved skeleton) and git-restores afterward — its own header documents the approach. During that window the parity suite in a concurrent shard read inflated skeletons and failed 4 caps. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: tree-ratchet readers join the serial phase (quiet tree by construction) Two consecutive runs failed the parity caps with byte-identical inflated skeletons (+~2KB gbrain-variant blocks) while the tree was clean before and after — some concurrent regen window keeps escaping the mutator census. Rather than hunt every present and future mutator, the tests that MEASURE the shared tree (parity caps, size budgets, carve guards) now run in the serial phase after the parallel shards: a quiet tree by construction, immune to any regen we haven't found. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * evals: judge default back to Sonnet — Haiku regressed the rubric family (A/B receipts) The partial-diff rehearsal was the Haiku judge default's first live run and it failed all three selected doc-rubric judges. Controlled A/B on the identical health-rubric prompt: Haiku 2/2/2 vs Sonnet 4/3/4, both with coherent reasoning — Haiku is simply a harsher grader on long-document rubrics, and every >=4 threshold in skill-llm-eval was calibrated against months of Sonnet baselines. Per D1a's pin-on-regressors protocol the default reverts; a new GSTACK_EVAL_MODEL_JUDGE override makes future recalibration a one-var experiment. Haiku keeps the classifier-grade duties (pty hung/working, warmup, distill via lib/eval-model.ts) and D1a's capture->Sonnet stands. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test-runner): per-origin classifier buffers — interleaved pipes can't shear lines stdout and stderr are independent pipes; a chunk from one can arrive between two halves of a line from the other. The single shared pending-buffer glued those fragments into garbled lines: a sheared (fail) line went uncounted (defeating the exit-0-with-failures backstop) and a sheared terminal summary read as truncation. Counters stay shared; line assembly is now per-stream, and both runners tag the stream origin. Also drops the dead ChildProcess type import left by the killProcessGroup move. * fix(test-runner): real carve-guard keys in TREE_MUTATING; census pins; size-scaled wall deadlines TREE_MUTATING listed 'test/carve-guard-checks.test.ts' — a file that has never existed (the real ratchet readers are carve-guard-completeness and carve-section-ordering), so the intended serialization was silently absent. New census pin tests fail on any key that doesn't name a real free test file, and on a TEST_ROOTS entry that stops contributing files. Full-suite wall deadlines now scale with shard size (max(6min, files x 5s)) so a jobs=1 machine or the ~130-file Windows shards can't false-timeout a healthy run; explicit --wall-timeout disables scaling. Stale --parallel wording in the dry-run message, jsdoc, and the TREE_MUTATING ordering comment corrected to the shipped process-shard model. * fix(evals): selection under-selection fixes — duplicate keys, self-paths, quotePath Three under-selection holes: (1) duplicate E2E_TOUCHFILES keys (ship-plan-completion/-verification) — JS keeps the LAST duplicate, so the earlier dep lists were dead; pair deleted and a duplicate-key scan added to the literal-only tripwire. (2) The five rehomed e2e files didn't list themselves in their own dep lists, so editing the test never selected it. (3) git C-escapes non-ASCII paths without core.quotePath=false, so an accented filename matched no glob and deselected its tests. Also updates the stale --retry cost comment. * fix(evals): destructive-actions guard actually inspects Bash commands The rehomed guard filtered on typeof input === 'string', but session-runner records tool inputs as objects ({command} for Bash) — the filter matched nothing and the assertion could never fail, even against a real 'git push'. Now extracts the command from the object shape, same as the usedGitDiff check above it. * fix(redact): interpolation allowance can't swallow a real $word password The placeholder calibration used optional braces on both sides, which also suppressed bare $lowercase — a real password starting with '$' would have passed the HIGH gate. Interpolation now means ${identifier} (braced, any case) or bare $UPPER_SNAKE only; both connection-string patterns share one validator so they can't drift. Pins added for the bare-$word block, $UPPER allowance, and mismatched-brace block. * fix(gbrain): wait --timeout validates up front instead of polling forever on NaN Number('abc') is NaN, NaN comparisons are always false, and the poll loop never hit its deadline — an infinite 5s loop where the bash predecessor errored immediately. die(2) at parse time, with a test. * ci: least-privilege tokens on the two lanes that execute PR-controlled code free-tests runs PR code (install lifecycle scripts + the suite) with whatever the repo-default GITHUB_TOKEN grant is, persisted into .git/config by checkout. Now: permissions contents:read, persist-credentials false, pinned by the wiring test. actionlint gets the same treatment plus a digest pin on the third-party Docker Hub image (a tag is repointable with no GitHub-side audit trail, and the image sees the mounted checkout). restore-keys added to both caches so a lockfile bump warms from the previous cache; stale --parallel header wording corrected. * test(browse): unit coverage for the close() SIGKILL fallback The wedge fix (capture the Chromium child before the close race, SIGKILL on timeout) shipped without a test of the branch it added — the coverage audit flagged it as the diff's one regression-gap. The 5s race window becomes an injectable closeRaceMs field, and four unit tests pin: SIGKILL on hang, no SIGKILL on clean close, no SIGKILL on an already-exited child, SIGKILL on a rejecting close. * docs: CLAUDE.md describes the shipped shard-process model, not the abandoned --parallel probe * fix(test-runner): cancellation terminates the run; win32 kills the whole tree Installing SIGINT/SIGTERM forwarders suppresses Node's default terminate-on-signal, so a cancelled run killed the current child and kept LAUNCHING shards — observed as paid runs continuing to burn API spend after Ctrl-C (codex adversarial, repro'd ALIVE_AFTER_SIGTERM). The first signal now also schedules the parent's own exit after the children's SIGKILL grace, and both shard pools consult isTerminationRequested() before taking new work. On win32, killProcessGroup uses taskkill /T /F — detached:true creates no killable group there, and a bare child.kill orphaned every grandchild (ports, locks, and the inherited pipes that kept close from firing). Also: the tree-mutating serial shard prints dirty generated artifacts when it dies mid-regeneration, and --shard CI-matrix mode gets the same size-scaled wall deadline as full-suite mode. * fix(evals): preflight fails fast on spawn error, timeout, and exit 127 The ping only grepped stdout for two connection strings — a missing claude binary, a 30s timeout kill, or command-not-found all returned 'ok', and the fleet then burned ~30 shard timeouts discovering the outage one child at a time. Cross-model finding (testing specialist + codex adversarial). Other non-zero exits stay deliberately fail-open: a flaky preflight must not block a runnable suite; pinned both ways. * fix(redact): lowercase 'password'/'pass' at the URL-password position blocks The case-insensitive placeholder words waved postgres://admin:password@host through the HIGH gate as a doc placeholder (codex adversarial, verified zero findings pre-fix). URL-password position is now stricter than generic placeholder detection: ALL-CAPS doc convention (USER:PASSWORD), ${identifier} interpolations, bare $UPPER_SNAKE, and structural shapes (<your-password>) suppress; lowercase dictionary words block. Pinned in both directions. * fix(gbrain): DSNs percent-encode the password; body reads retry; stdout drains Three codex-adversarial findings in the provision port: (1) raw DB_PASS interpolation — a reserved character (/ # ? % @) restructured the URI, provisioning succeeded, and every consumer then failed to parse the DSN (unusable billable orphan); now encodeURIComponent, round-trip pinned. (2) await res.text() sat outside the transport try — a server that sent headers then reset the stream was an uncaught exit 1 instead of a retry-then-exit-8. (3) The bin entrypoint called process.exit() after unawaited stdout writes, truncating piped JSON; exitCode lets writes drain. * fix(evals): selection-path helpers join GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES; base-branch keys self-register The three-file split moved test-selection.ts into the globals but dropped the facade — an edit to test/helpers/touchfiles.ts (executable selection-path code imported by every consumer) selected ZERO paid tests, the exact invisible-non-execution class this branch exists to kill (claude adversarial, finding 1). e2e-helpers.ts (the harness every paid test imports) and paid-test-set.ts (paid-vs-free classification) had the same gap. The review/ship base-branch keys also register test/skill-e2e-review-attribution.test.ts so editing those tests selects them. * ci(free-tests): PR-number concurrency, failure-log artifact, main-push runs Three red-team/adversarial findings on the new required lane: (1) concurrency keyed on bare head_ref — two forks with the same branch name shared one group, so a push to fork B cancelled fork A's in-flight REQUIRED check (merge-pipeline DoS with no code fault); key on the PR number. (2) The runner's full logs die with the runner in os.tmpdir() — a red check named WHICH test failed but never why; upload the shard logs as an artifact on failure. (3) PR-only trigger meant two individually-green PRs could merge into a red main with nothing running the suite there; add push: branches: [main]. * ci: PR-number concurrency keying on the eval and Windows lanes too Same fork-branch-name collision as free-tests.yml: bare head_ref carries no owner prefix, so same-name branches from different forks shared a cancel-in-progress group. * test(evals): retro E2E passes require the report on disk Both retro tests passed with zero work product: error_max_turns counted as success and the content assertion was guarded by fs.existsSync — a run that burned 30 turns and wrote nothing recorded green (red team). The report is now load-bearing for pass/fail. * chore: bump version and changelog (v1.66.0.0) Test/evals/CI speedup pass: release summary + itemized changes in CHANGELOG.md; TODOS.md marks the free-suite exit-code P1 complete and files the review-army follow-ups. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(redact): fully-braced ${...} interpolations are code, whatever they contain The identifier-only braced form flagged the DSN builder's own ${encodeURIComponent(dbPass)} call site as a pushed secret — a scan that cries wolf on the fix for the previous finding. Any ${...} spanning the whole password segment is template code; bare $word stays uppercase-only so $hunter2 still blocks. The mismatched-brace negative fixture assembles at runtime so this file's own pushed bytes carry no blockable URL shape. * test(gbrain): assemble the pooler expected-URL from parts (scan-clean pushed bytes) * docs: sync docs for v1.66.0.0 (test/evals/CI speedup) CONTRIBUTING.md, AGENTS.md, and ARCHITECTURE.md still taught bare `bun test` for the suite; the shipped runner deprecates it (walks the whole repo, loads paid eval files, misses the strict classifier). All suite-level references now say `bun run test`, the Tier 1 section describes the strict shard runner (~90-100s, --verbose, --wall-timeout), the sharded paid-runner paragraph documents diff-based shard skipping and the EVALS_JOBS / EVALS_CONCURRENCY split, the Tier 3 row points at the actual judge-only invocation, and GSTACK_EVAL_MODEL_JUDGE is documented at the judge it overrides. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * ci(free-tests): restore the PR-number concurrency + failure-log artifact; truth-fix stale comments The workspace-revert incident that hit CHANGELOG/TODOS mid-ship also caught free-tests.yml between edits: commit 8d6c2ff8's message claims PR-number concurrency + artifact upload + main-push runs, but only the push trigger survived to the commit (caught by the /document-release doc-vs-code audit). Both re-applied. Also: eval-model.ts header said capture defaults to Opus (it's Sonnet per D1a), paid-shards' header pinned a stale 44/63 shard census, and two CHANGELOG phrases over-claimed ('six' -> 'up to six' shard processes; retry-1 scoped to retry-bearing paid paths). * ci: setup-buildx before every cache-exporting image build First live run of the cache trio failed at flag-parse time: the default buildx `docker` driver hard-errors on cache-to registry export ('Cache export is not supported for the docker driver'), which failed build-image on PR #2593 and skipped the entire gate eval matrix behind it. docker/setup-buildx-action creates the docker-container builder that supports registry cache export; all three build sites (evals, evals-periodic, ci-image) get it. * fix(browse): Xvfb identity is argv[0]'s basename, not a cmdline substring First Linux CI run: isOurXvfb identified the TEST RUNNER as our Xvfb — the suite's own argv contains 'xvfb.test.ts', the substring match over the whole cmdline passed, and the start-time check matched because the pid was real. Any process whose ARGUMENTS mention xvfb (a runner, an editor) was killable — the sibling-kill class the identity check exists to prevent. Identity now rests on argv[0]'s basename ('Xvfb'), with a sh-$0 regression pin. isDisplayFree falls back to the X socket/lock files when xdpyinfo isn't installed (x11-utils is absent on some images that ship Xvfb). * fix(test-runner): strip GHA ::group:: wrappers before file attribution On GitHub Actions bun wraps each file's log section in ::group::. The un-stripped header failed FILE_HEADER_RE, failures attributed to the PREVIOUS file, and the terminal recap's re-printed (fail) lines landed under a phantom second file — the first Linux run reported 5 real failures as 10 across 2 files (one of them innocent). Strip the prefix before matching; the existing file+test dedupe then absorbs the recap. * test: first-Linux-run environment fixes — bun-only PATH shim, claude gate, darwin-scoped pdf gates Three environmental assumptions the Linux lane exposed: (1) gbrain-detect's deterministic SAFE_PATH lacked the bun runtime, so every env-shebang spawn exited 127 on CI; a scratch dir holding ONLY a bun symlink joins the PATH (appending bun's real dir would leak its siblings — dev boxes keep gbrain there too). (2) host-config's 'detect finds claude' assumed a claude binary; the secretless lane deliberately has none — gated on Bun.which. (3) The four make-pdf render gates hard-required prerequisites on ANY CI, but the make-pdf gate workflow is macOS-only by decision and the Linux lane doesn't build dist/pdf — hard-require scoped to darwin. * ci(free-tests): run the suite under xvfb-run Headed-browser tests (handoff, extension sidepanel DOM) need a real DISPLAY; the first Linux run died on Playwright's 'headed browser without an XServer' banner. xvfb-run -a provides the display; x11-utils ships xdpyinfo for display probing. * fix(test-runner): bun's headerless failure recap can't invent a phantom failing file Round-3 CI showed the remaining half of the recap bug: bun prints 'N tests failed:' then re-prints every (fail) line with NO file headers, so they attributed to the stale currentFile — an innocent file (test/uninstall.test.ts) was charged with another file's 5 failures. The recap marker now ends attribution (currentFile=null, chunk closed) and recap re-prints of already-recorded test names dedupe; a recap-only failure the main run never attributed still records, unattributed, as belt and braces. * test(browse): sidepanel DOM suite launches with --no-sandbox on CI + console capture The suite's raw chromium.launch had no --no-sandbox — every browse test that goes through gstack's launcher (which always passes it) survived the Linux lane, while this file's sandboxed renderer died on first navigation: waitForFunction hung to the 15s test timeout, then every newContext failed with Target.createBrowserContext. Also wires pageerror/console-error capture at all six pages so a page-side failure reads as itself in CI logs instead of a bare timeout. * test(browse): delete the sidepanel security-DOM suite — it tests UI removed in v1.14 Another member of the never-ran class: the file skipped everywhere (Playwright chromium absent locally, no Linux CI until this branch), so it rotted invisibly through THREE contract changes — the v1.63 /extension-token bootstrap, the endpoint growth (/memory, /pty-session, /sse-session), and finally the v1.14 sidebar-REPL rewrite that removed the security shield/banner UI it asserts on (#security-shield survives in sidepanel.html as a dead hidden stub with no JS driver; sidepanel.js:87 and :1317 document the removal). The Linux lane executed it for the first time and it can never pass: the behavior is gone. The L1-L3 security filters it name-checked stay covered by the ~83 unit/behavioral security tests. The free-tests lane also vendors xterm assets (bun run vendor:xterm) so the sidepanel terminal scripts load for any future DOM coverage. * ci(evals): per-row retry override — two receipted rows keep the third attempt Three PR rounds of receipts: pty-plan-smoke failed attempt 2 in two consecutive rounds with ROTATING members (plan-design-review, then plan-eng-review) and e2e-workflow's document-release timed out on attempt 2 in round 4 — while both families pass on branches still running three attempts, and every other row stayed green at --retry 1 across all rounds. Matrix rows gain an optional retries field (default 1); only these two rows set 2, keeping the measured retry-amplification win everywhere else. * test(windows): curate the seven POSIX-bound files the expanded lane surfaced; fix flag-utils path embedding First full run of the expanded Windows lane (13 -> ~258 files, PR #2593 run 31918591602) failed in exactly 8 files. One was a real test bug, fixed: design-flag-utils embedded a raw Windows ROOT into a bun -e string where backslashes act as escapes (D:\a\gstack imported as D:agstack) — forward slashes work on every platform. The other seven are POSIX-bound in ways the content patterns cannot see (sed/ln/bash ARE their subject, a shebang shim arrives via variable, wall-clock retry bounds on the slowest runner) — each gets a receipted KNOWN_WINDOWS_INCOMPATIBLE entry, and the census pin now covers that list so a renamed file fails the suite instead of silently keeping a stale exclusion. * test(windows): curate skill-census + browser-manager-unit; surface unhandled errors in the epilogue Round-2 Windows census (zero failing TESTS — the first curation wave held): shard 1 failed on an unhandled module-load throw in skill-census (the skills-tree symlink layout needs Developer Mode CI runners lack) and shard 2 wedged to its wall deadline inside browser-manager-unit — both get receipted exclusions; macOS + Linux lanes keep covering the files. The unhandled-error class also exposed an epilogue gap: it fails the shard via the strict classifier but produces no (fail) lines, so the epilogue read 'FAIL — 0 failing test(s)' with no culprit. The reporter now attributes each '# Unhandled error between tests' marker to its chunk and the FAIL line carries the count. * docs: file the two Windows-lane follow-ups (browser-manager wedge, skill-census symlinks) * test(windows): round-3 curation — seven files the round-2 wedge had been truncating The browser-manager-unit wedge was cutting shard 2 short, so each Windows round revealed the next segment of never-run files. With the wedge excluded, shard 2 completes (50s) and shows its real failures: seven more POSIX-environment files (PID/cmdline identity probing, bash scripts as the subject under test, env-scrubbed bun spawns). Shards 1 and 3 (including all tree-mutators) now PASS on windows-latest — this should be the fixed point: ~234 files of real Windows coverage vs the 13 hand-picked before. * test(windows): round-4 curation (spawnSkill env, symlink fixtures) + shard-log artifact Shard 2 ran all 132 files with zero (fail) lines yet bun exited 1 — unhandled errors in a shape neither counter names, and the Windows lane had no log artifact to attribute them. Statically attributed and excluded: browser-skill-commands (spawnSkill spawns bun with a constructed env; resolution fails under Windows spawn) and security-audit-r2 (evil-link symlink fixtures need Developer Mode). The lane now uploads its shard logs on failure like free-tests.yml, with os.tmpdir() pointed at runner.temp so the glob can find them. * evals: Opus pin on the spec AUQ-matrix entry — D1a regressor, receipts in-file The periodic re-baseline for the capture default (Opus -> Sonnet) found exactly one regressor across the seven-entry AUQ behavioral matrix: spec failed twice under Sonnet ('never reached a question in budget', 242s) while its six siblings passed; the controlled Opus re-run passed cleanly (7/7 format, substance 5, 160s), and a second run through the new per-entry model plumbing confirms. MatrixSkill gains an optional model field wired into captureFirstAuq; only spec sets it. TODOS gains the re-baseline receipts for the never-baselined periodic tail (three setup-gbrain files + ship-idempotency, all local-only). * test(evals): scope-gate assertion carries its evidence tail; file the detector-flake TODO The plan-design-review member fails ONLY scopeGateQuestionObserved intermittently on unchanged code (PR #2593: red rounds 3/11 + rerun, green rounds 5/6 — every attempt terminal, no plan-mode leak), and a bare Expected-true/Received-false is undiagnosable from CI logs. The check now throws with the last-2KB visible evidence, so the next failure distinguishes a detector-sensitivity miss from a real silent bypass. TODO filed with the full receipt trail. * test(evals): review-dashboard-via budget 300s -> 360s — third ratchet of the same contention story PR #2472 documented the 180s deterministic 0-turn startup timeouts and ratcheted to 300s; PR #2593 hit 302s timeouts on attempt 2 in two consecutive runs while five sibling rounds passed — marginal at 300s under 40-way in-shard concurrency. Same headroom its contention-class sibling (retro-base-branch) carries; outer bun timeout rises to 480s. * test(evals): document-release budget 180s -> 300s — same contention ratchet, receipts in-file Timed out at exactly 180s on its final attempt twice on PR #2593 (rounds 4 and 13) while passing four other rounds — a 30-turn multi-step doc workflow is marginal at 180s under 40-way in-shard CI concurrency. Same story and same fix as review-dashboard-via and retro-base-branch; outer bun timeout rises to 360s. * docs: file the systemic in-shard-concurrency follow-up behind the timeout-flake family --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-15 22:20:30 -07:00
Garry TanandClaude Fable 5	c118e2402e	v1.64.1.0 v1.64.1.0: the code-smell fix wave — every pipeline guard now provably fires (net −24,943 lines) (#2572) ... * fix(ci): skill-docs freshness gate covers all 10 hosts and can actually fail The Codex/Factory gates ran 'git diff --exit-code -- .agents/' / '-- .factory/', but both paths are gitignored (.gitignore:16-17) — git diff on ignored untracked paths is always empty, so those two gates were structurally incapable of failing and 7 of 10 hosts had no gate at all. New shape: one 'gen:skill-docs --host all' pass (the generator hard-fails on any per-host error, gating all 10 hosts on generates-cleanly), byte-freshness via git diff for tracked output, plus a porcelain check that fails on untracked generated strays (git diff can't see brand-new files). The gitignored-hosts byte-freshness limitation is documented in the workflow comment. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): exorcise the sidebar-agent ghost from the test suite browse/src/sidebar-agent.ts was deleted in the v1.14 sidebar refactor, but the test suite kept testing it for 48 versions. Nothing noticed because the free suite runs in no CI job and Bun-era module-load errors were suppressed in the Windows shard runner via an exclusion pattern whose own comment documented the breakage ('broken on every platform since v1.14 ... exit 0'). - Delete sidebar-security.test.ts + security-source-contracts.test.ts: crashed at module load (unguarded readFileSync of the deleted file); per-assertion triage confirmed every SERVER_SRC pin targeted the deleted chat prompt builder (zero hits in today's server.ts) — nothing to port. - Delete sidebar-integration.test.ts: 11 of 13 tests exercised deleted endpoints (/sidebar-command queue, /sidebar-agent/event, chat buffer); the 2 passing tests pinned only the blanket auth gate, covered by server-auth.test.ts + dual-listener.test.ts. - Delete test/skill-e2e-sidebar.test.ts: E2E for the deleted queue flow. - sidebar-ux.test.ts 1,669 -> 830 lines: 20 dead-chat describes + 15 dead tests removed (incl. 10 vacuous passes asserting on empty indexOf slices); 2 stale pins on LIVE features fixed (content.js typed-catch CSSOM fallback, arrow-hint window widened). 95 pass / 0 fail. - sidebar-tabs.test.ts: both failures were stale pins, not regressions — forceRestart's deliberate ws.close(4001) and the terminal-agent spawn that moved into spawnTerminalAgent() (identity-based kill refactor). 28 pass. - touchfiles.ts: drop the three sidebar E2E entries from BOTH maps (E2E_TOUCHFILES + E2E_TIERS) — they pointed diff-selection at the deleted file, so those tests were unreachable by any diff. - test-free-shards.ts: remove the now-dead sidebar-agent exclusion pattern. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(ci): run the free test suite in CI (it ran nowhere) The full free suite (bun test: browse/test/ + test/ + make-pdf/test/) had no CI job on any Linux/macOS runner — only Windows curated shards, paid evals, and doc-freshness gates existed. That's how two module-load-crashing test files survived 48 versions. Same cached Dockerfile.ci image and container wiring as evals.yml (deps restore, build, Chromium verify). Includes a module-load-error guard: older Bun reported test-file import crashes with exit 0 on macOS/Linux, so the job also fails on any nonzero 'N errors' count in the summary — future crash-class regressions can't hide from the exact job built to catch them. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(test): validate touchfile dependency paths exist on disk New guard in touchfiles.test.ts: every non-glob dep path must exist, and every glob's anchor directory must exist. This is the axis the 181-key two-map sync discipline never covered — an entry can point at a long-deleted file and diff-based selection then silently never triggers those tests (the sidebar trio sat rotted for 48 versions). First run immediately caught a fourth rotted entry: 'spec authored quality' referenced test/fixtures/spec/** (directory does not exist) and selected for a judge test that exists nowhere in the repo. Removed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(security): remove deleted /sidebar-chat endpoint from tunnel allowlist TUNNEL_PATHS is the audited tunnel attack surface — its own comment says every addition widens it. '/sidebar-chat' stayed in the set after the endpoint was deleted with the chat-queue path, meaning any future route matching that path would have been silently tunnel-exposed. The set is now exactly the pair ceremony (/connect) and the scoped command endpoint (/command), and the dual-listener closed-set pin enforces that. Also repairs a pre-existing red pin in dual-listener.test.ts: v1.63.0.0 made the tunnel allowlist args-aware (canDispatchOverTunnel gained a second param) without updating the test — red on main since then, invisible because the free suite had no CI job. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(security): delete chain's shadow dispatcher that skipped every security gate meta-commands.ts carried a 'CLI mode' fallback that re-implemented command routing without the server pipeline's gates: no scope check, no domain check, no tab ownership, no rate limit, no hidden-element stripping, no scoped-token enveloping — and it called handleReadCommand without a BrowserManager, which also skipped the JS-origin cookie-exfiltration assertion. It was unreachable in production (server.ts always passes executeCommand) and one boolean away from being live. chain now hard-errors without a server context. handleReadCommand's bm param is required and assertJsOriginAllowed runs unconditionally. The chain tests that exercised the deleted fallback now route through a server-shaped executeCommand adapter (real handlers + trust wrapping + {status,result} envelope), so their behavioral coverage — sequencing, trust markers, pipe format, aliases, error reporting — survives on the production-shaped path. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(extension): delete the dead chat-queue client surface The sidebar-command handler in background.js POSTed to a server endpoint that no longer exists (deleted with the chat queue) — ~35 lines of fully-wired dead code including error handling for the permanent 404, plus its allowlist entry. No sender in the extension ever emitted the message type. chatEnabled leaves the /health contract (server hardcoded false, background.js re-derived it, nothing consumed it — the chat input element it guarded is gone from sidepanel.html). BROWSE_SIDEBAR_CHAT env flag had zero readers. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(security): delete dead exports the ripped chat path left behind Three-way split by importer class: (a) Zero importers, deleted: the whole attack-attempt logging cluster in security.ts (logAttempt, AttemptRecord, salted hashPayload + device-salt, attempts.jsonl rotation, telemetry spawn plumbing incl. buildTelemetrySpawnCommand/resolveBashBinary — the LIVE attempts.jsonl writer is tunnel-denial-log.ts with its own rotation); the decision-file handshake (writeDecision/readDecision/clearDecision/excerptForReview — written for sidebar-agent's poll loop, which no longer exists); sidebar-utils.ts (whole module — its sanitizeExtensionUrl 'sanitized before embedding in a prompt' for the deleted prompt builder); 8 dead server.ts imports (sanitizeExtensionUrl, generateCanary, injectCanary, writeDecision, rotateRoot, serializeRegistry, restoreRegistry, clearAgentRecord); buildPtyClearCookie + buildSseClearCookie; WEBDRIVER_MASK_SCRIPT (orphaned by the D7 stealth narrowing — applyStealth never used it). (b) Dead-pin tests edited with their exports: the 'still exported' pin in stealth-layer-c, the string-content describe in stealth-webdriver (its live applyStealth behavioral coverage untouched), the clear-cookie assertions, security-review-flow.test.ts deleted whole (all 4 describes exercised the dead decision mechanism, incl. a 'simulated sidebar-agent poll loop'). (c) KEPT deliberately: leaseCount (live behavioral coverage), extractPtyCookie + validatePtySessionToken (extractPtyCookie is adopted by the terminal-agent cookie-parse unification later in this wave), resetSessionMarker + clearContentFilters (test-support API for the live content-security layer). Also fixes two pre-existing red pins found while here, invisible until the free suite got a CI job: the v1.44 spawnClaude->maybeSpawnPty rename in terminal-agent.test.ts, and a cross-file test-isolation bug where content-security.test.ts's clearContentFilters() wiped the auto-registered url-blocklist filter for every later file in the same bun process (security-integration.test.ts failed on co-run; afterAll now restores it). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(security): delete the dead ML layers — transcript classifier and DeBERTa ensemble The L4b Haiku transcript classifier and the opt-in DeBERTa ensemble (GSTACK_SECURITY_ENSEMBLE=deberta, a documented 721MB download) had ZERO production callers since the chat-path agent that invoked them was ripped. The only live ML path is scanPageContent (testsavant) inside the security sidecar subprocess. Deleted by import graph: - security-classifier.ts 614 -> 265 lines: HAIKU_MODEL, checkTranscript, shouldRunTranscriptCheck, loadDeberta, scanPageContentDeberta, ToolCallInput, all DEBERTA_* consts + load state. Header now states the live truth (imported only by security-sidecar-entry.ts). downloadFile kept, name intact — it is an enumerated egress sink (HF model download). - security-bunnative.ts + test: a research skeleton self-described as 'NOT a production replacement', shipped into src/ with zero importers. - security-bench-ensemble{,-live}.test.ts + the Haiku response fixture: a paid live-model benchmark for a layer that could not fire. The security-classifier-tdz test's only case exercised checkTranscript — gone. - security.ts: layer-model header rewritten to the live architecture; StatusDetail.layers -> {testsavant, canary}; getStatus() no longer requires the impossible transcript==='ok' for 'protected' (old on-disk session state with a transcript key is tolerated on read, never re-emitted). - security-sidecar-entry.ts needed zero changes: it serializes getClassifierStatus() verbatim and no consumer read .transcript (verified in sidecar-client + server.ts). - BROWSER.md security section matches reality (ensemble knob gone, 112MB not 22MB, sidecar hosting documented). combineVerdict/THRESHOLDS retained as the pure, tested combiner of record — comments now flag transcript/deberta votes as producer-less. Net: 26 pass in security.test.ts incl. a NEW regression test for stale- transcript disk tolerance; egress-receipt tripwire green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: scrub the sidebar-agent ghost from comments and CLAUDE.md 20+ comments across 10 files still described the deleted sidebar-agent.ts as a live process — including load-bearing architecture claims ('IMPORTED ONLY BY sidebar-agent.ts', 'sidebar-agent fills this in on first prompt-injection load', 'kill sidebar-agent' in shutdown docs) and ~60 lines of tombstone blocks in server.ts enumerating deleted identifiers by name (a false grep surface: searching processAgentEvent hit server.ts and looked live). CLAUDE.md's security-stack section now documents the LIVE architecture: L1-L3 content filters + testsavant via the security sidecar subprocess; the L4b/ensemble rows, the GSTACK_SECURITY_ENSEMBLE knob, and the 721MB DeBERTa download are gone (deleted as dead code this wave) with an explicit do-not-re-document note; attempts.jsonl is correctly attributed to tunnel-denial-log.ts; the no-live-writer status of classifierStatus is stated. Comments that survive now describe what IS, not what WAS: the promotion gate in domain-skills.ts explains why classifier_score>0 is load-bearing given no L4 load-time scan exists; file-permissions.ts names real sensitive files. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(gen): delete the codex-helpers shadow module gen-skill-docs.ts imported externalSkillName (unaliased) from resolvers/codex-helpers.ts at line 21 and then re-declared the same function locally — the import was silently shadowed, and the imported copy was the STALE one (it lacked the frontmatterName param the local copy grew). Three more functions were byte-identical duplicates, imported only under _-prefixed aliases to keep the module 'referenced', and transformFrontmatter was a superseded hardcoded-Codex variant. Nothing else imported the module. Also drops three dead top-of-file imports (COMMAND_DESCRIPTIONS, SNAPSHOT_FLAGS — which pulled the whole browse/src module graph into every generator run for nothing — and an unused review-resolver trio). Proof: bun run gen:skill-docs exits 0 with a byte-identical tree (zero-diff regen); gen-skill-docs.test.ts 405/405 green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(server): delete ServerConfig.idleTimeoutMs + chromiumProfile — documented, never read Both fields carried JSDoc asserting embedder behavior that did not exist: the idle check reads the module-level IDLE_TIMEOUT_MS env constant, and both resolveChromiumProfile() call sites pass no argument. Worse than absent — an embedder passing idleTimeoutMs: 5000 silently got 30 minutes. Wiring them honestly is impossible today: the idle timer, activity state, and shutdown target are module-global, so a per-factory value would lie for any process running more than one handler. Deleted instead, with a ServerConfig note pointing at the deferred singleton/route-table refactor where real support belongs. BROWSE_IDLE_TIMEOUT and CHROMIUM_PROFILE env remain the honest knobs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(security): wire appendSecureFile at the four real log-append sites file-permissions.ts carries a 24-line rationale for why POSIX mode bits are insufficient on Windows and implements appendSecureFile (0600 at create, Windows ACL on first write only) — but its single caller was the dead logAttempt, while the four REAL page-content log writers (console/network/ dialog logs in server.ts, the command audit log) used raw fs.appendFileSync with no mode. Page-content-derived logs now get owner-only permissions from birth on every platform. Verified before wiring: mode applies atomically at create via appendFileSync {mode}, and the ACL pass runs only on first write — no per-append subprocess cost on the hot console-log path. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(stealth): handoff() uses the shared profile resolution + lock cleanup The headless-to-headed handoff path hardcoded ~/.gstack/chromium-profile, silently ignoring $CHROMIUM_PROFILE and $GSTACK_HOME (gbrowser's gbd sets per-workspace profiles), and skipped cleanSingletonLocks() — so a handoff into a profile with a stale SingletonLock could hang where launchHeaded() would have recovered. This was the third live drift between the three Chromium launch paths; the first two are documented in comments as shipped stealth regressions. Minimal targeted fix — the full buildLaunchConfig() extraction stays in the deferred queue. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(gen): resolver registry describes the template language again Seven registered {{PLACEHOLDER}}s had zero uses in any .tmpl (checked in both bare and :arg forms): REDACT_TAXONOMY_TABLE, TEST_COVERAGE_AUDIT_REVIEW, MODEL_OVERLAY, QUESTION_PREFERENCE_CHECK, QUESTION_LOG, INLINE_TUNE_FEEDBACK, MAKE_PDF_SETUP. The last two of those families are invoked programmatically by preamble.ts (functions kept, registry entries dropped); the question-tuning trio and the review coverage-audit wrapper were documented by their own module as existing 'for unit testing' that no test performed — deleted, along with generateRedactTaxonomyTable + its EXAMPLE/TIER_BLURB constants (its '/cso renders the full table' comment was itself stale) and its test describe. Also deletes the gated-resolver mechanism (ResolverEntry/appliesTo/ unwrapResolver + test/resolver-entry.test.ts): fully built, fully tested, used by zero of the 65 registry entries — the generator loop simplifies to a direct function call. CLAUDE.md's redact-doc line stops advertising the dead token. Proof: zero-diff regen (0 SKILL.md changed); gen-skill-docs + skill-validation 737 tests green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(gen): wire boundaryInstruction from host config; drop three no-op binDir ternaries hosts/codex.ts declared boundaryInstruction and nothing read it — review.ts kept its own byte-identical CODEX_BOUNDARY literal (verified equal + trailing escaped newlines). The resolver now reads the config, so the boundary has one owner. (autoplan's template carries deliberately generic variants, enforced by gen-skill-docs.test.ts:1358 — untouched by design.) The 'ctx.host === codex ? $GSTACK_BIN : ctx.paths.binDir' ternary appeared in three resolvers and could never change the result: resolvers/types.ts already sets binDir to $GSTACK_BIN for every usesEnvVars host including codex. Proof: zero-diff regen for claude AND codex hosts; gen-skill-docs + host-config suites green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test-infra): judge uses resolveClaudeBinary; eval:watch reads the real partials dir judgePtyState spawned the bare string 'claude' three definitions below the resolveClaudeBinary() helper this same file exports — broken under hermetic PATHs where every other launch in the file resolves correctly. eval:watch read _partial-e2e.json from the legacy global ~/.gstack-dev/evals/ while EvalCollector writes it into the per-project eval dir (or GSTACK_EVAL_DIR) — so the dashboard's completed-tests panel was empty whenever slug detection succeeded, i.e. the normal case. The heartbeat and per-run progress logs stay global by design (session-runner.ts: 'heartbeat stays global'). The three eval-CLI docstrings stop claiming the legacy dir is the primary location. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): delete the superseded SDK ship-idempotency suite and three orphaned fixtures test/skill-e2e-ship-idempotency.test.ts's own header documented that the monolith's SDK-harness version tests a synthetic prompt while it exercises the real /ship skill — the author knew the old suite was superseded and left both running, two paid LLM runs for one behavior. The weaker copy is gone; its 'ship-idempotency' diff-selection key goes with it (the dedicated file is periodic-tier, which always runs under EVALS_ALL — the key had no remaining consumer). Fixture rot: test/fixtures/golden-ship-claude.md was a 128KB zero-reader orphan that had drifted 46KB from its live successor (test/fixtures/golden/claude-ship-SKILL.md) while looking authoritative; parity-baseline-v1.46.0.0.json and v1.53.0.0.json had zero readers (three tests pin three OTHER baseline versions — consolidation is queued, deletion of the unreferenced two is free). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(bin): delete zero-caller scripts; make host-config-export's docstring honest - bin/gstack-open-url (14 lines): announced in a CHANGELOG entry, wired into nothing, ever. bin/gstack-platform-detect (27 lines): zero callers, and its hand-rolled host list was already stale (SLATE_HOST.md cites it as a problem). Note: the deprecated gstack-brain-consumer/reader pair the audit flagged was already deleted upstream in v1.63 with a stay-deleted tripwire. - scripts/task-emission-schema.ts (61 lines): a typed schema module nothing imported; the tasks-section comment now documents the JSONL fields inline. - scripts/host-config-export.ts claimed to be the 'shell bridge for the bash setup script' — setup never calls it (its hand-rolled host lists drifting is a known follow-up). Docstring now states what it IS: a standalone, test-pinned query CLI not yet wired into setup. Its validateValue + CLI_REGEX/PATH_REGEX internals were dead (defined for a guarantee the header claimed but nothing enforced). - KEPT deliberately: scripts/preflight-agent-sdk.ts — a documented manual diagnostic (CONTRIBUTING.md + USING_GBRAIN_WITH_GSTACK.md reference it). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(server): one lone-surrogate sanitizer, one sanitizeReplacer, one startTunnel Three copies of the surrogate sanitizer existed with two algorithms (sanitize.ts regex vs a hand-rolled charCodeAt walk in server.ts — verified byte-identical across 11 edge cases before converging) plus two identical sanitizeReplacer definitions each wrapping a different copy. sanitize.ts is now the single source of truth; the runs-INSIDE-JSON.stringify egress invariant is unchanged at every call site and its pin tests were adapted to the new import shape without losing intent. The ngrok tunnel-start sequence existed three times in server.ts — the /tunnel/start route and the BROWSE_TUNNEL=1 autostart were line-for-line equivalent (a comment admitted 'Same cleanup as /tunnel/start's error path'). One startTunnel() now owns the ephemeral loopback bind, the pre-send egress receipt, the state-file RMW via tmpStatePath(), and the ordered error-path cleanup; callers keep their distinct response surfaces. The BROWSE_TUNNEL_LOCAL_ONLY test path shares nothing (no ngrok, different state field) and deliberately stays separate. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(security): one session-cookie registry implementation, two instances pty-session-cookie.ts and sse-session-cookie.ts were byte-identical modulo the cookie name — mint/validate/parse/prune/TTL, the exact code a security fix would have to land in twice (and a third hand-rolled cookie parse in terminal-agent.ts had already diverged; unified next commit). createSessionCookieStore() owns the implementation; both modules become thin instantiations keeping every exported name, their distinct threat-model docstrings, and separate token spaces (an SSE-read cookie must never grant PTY access). pty-session-lease.ts deliberately stays out — different contract (sessionId/secret split, refresh, env TTL). The factory imports nothing from token-registry (cookie-picker-auth-isolation invariant, still pinned by sse-session-cookie.test.ts). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(security): terminal-agent uses the shared PTY cookie parser The /ws upgrade's cookie fallback hand-parsed the Cookie header inline — the fourth copy of the session-cookie parse, and the one that had already diverged from the others. Parsing now goes through extractPtyCookie; validation deliberately stays against the agent's own in-process validTokens map (the server's registry lives in a different process). The ws-handler pin test now pins the shared-parser call instead of the raw cookie-name literal. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(hosts): defineHost() factory — 10 copy-paste host files become declarations hosts/*.ts were ten copies of one file: runtimeRoot byte-identical in 9/10, pathRewrites mechanically derivable from the host name for 7/10, the 11-entry toolRewrites map byte-identical between openclaw and gbrain, and every asset change a 10-file edit (cursor and slate had already fallen out of three other hand-maintained lists). defineHost() owns the defaults; each host file now declares only what makes it different (slate/cursor: 8 lines each). Shared constants: CROSS_MODEL_RESOLVERS, GBRAIN_RESOLVERS, EXEC_STYLE_TOOL_REWRITES. Genuinely-different things stayed explicit: codex/factory $GSTACK_ROOT rewrites, hermes's tool vocabulary, claude's denylist+prefixable install, opencode's wider runtimeRoot. Proof: JSON.stringify(ALL_HOST_CONFIGS) dump-diff before/after EMPTY (and a runtime walk confirmed no function-valued or undefined-keyed fields, so the JSON diff is complete); gen:skill-docs --host all zero-diff; host-config + gen-skill-docs + idempotency suites 485/485. Host files 595 -> 285 lines. docs/ADDING_A_HOST.md teaches the factory pattern. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(lib): fs-atomic — one atomic-write implementation, with the race actually fixed Atomic tmp-write-then-rename was reimplemented ~20 times across lib/, bin/, and browse/src with three tmp-suffix conventions. One of them was a latent bug this commit closes: lib/worktree.ts used a bare '.tmp' suffix — the deterministic-tmp collision race browse/src/server.ts documents having hit in production (its fix, pid+random, was trapped in a comment at one site). lib/fs-atomic.ts: atomicWriteSync (always throws, best-effort tmp cleanup, pid+random suffix, optional mode applied at tmp creation so the file never exists with looser permissions) + atomicWriteQuiet (shutdown paths only). Unit tests pin the throw/quiet contracts, 0600 mode, tmp-name uniqueness (captured via the read-only-dir failure path — Bun's fs exports are readonly, no monkeypatching), and no-stray-tmp cleanup. Migrated: lib/worktree.ts (the bare-.tmp bug), lib/gstack-decision.ts (snapshot + compact log), lib/gbrain-local-status.ts (probe cache). browse sites follow separately. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(lib): jsonl-store's docstring stops lying; mode option added; lib bypasses adopted The header claimed 'single source of truth... the ONLY copy' with write-time injection REJECTION — while appendJsonl never screened anything, only 1 of ~10 JSONL stores imported it, and a bypass appender lived in the same directory. Now: the contract is explicit (screening is the CALLER's job via hasInjection/firstInjectionMatch; the enforcing callers are named), a option applies 0600 at create for sensitive stores, and the lib bypasses are adopted (gstack-memory-helpers ×2, redact-audit-log — which keeps its chmod backstop for files created looser by pre-mode versions). browse/src keeps its own appenders by design (compiled-binary surface, own secure-append helper) and the header now says so. gstack-decision's batched archive append stays deliberate (single-write crash-window semantics appendJsonl's one-record contract can't express). New pins: 0600-at-create, and a test that documents appendJsonl does NOT self-screen — so nobody can re-document it as self-screening without making it true. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(browse): migrate hand-rolled atomic writes to lib/fs-atomic Seven sites, each audited for its existing throw-vs-swallow contract before migrating: writeSessionState + the four fire-and-forget tab/state writers use atomicWriteQuiet (they swallowed before); writeAgentRecord + the boot-time port-file write use atomicWriteSync (they threw before — and writeAgentRecord previously leaked its tmp file on rename failure, which the helper cleans). All carry {mode: 0o600} plus restrictFilePermissions after successful writes, preserving the Windows ACL hardening that writeSecureFile provided (mode bits are POSIX-only). server.ts untouched: its three state writes route through tmpStatePath(), pinned by server-tmp-state-path.test.ts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(hosts): delete five dead HostConfig fields metadataFormat (generator hardcodes openai.yaml), sidecar (behavior lives in setup's create_agents_sidecar — knowledge preserved as a comment in codex.ts), install.prefixable (skill_prefix is implemented entirely in bin/gstack-config), staticFiles (docstring cited a SOUL.md that never existed anywhere), and adapter (its only would-be consumer, openclaw-adapter.ts, was fully dead — with a test asserting the field was undefined). Kept: learningsMode (wired next), linkingStrategy (validation reads it), coAuthorTrailer (consumed by resolvers/utility.ts). Proof: JSON dump diff shows ONLY the deleted keys vanishing; zero-diff regen across all 10 hosts; host-config + gen-skill-docs suites green. Note: this commit also carries chunk-23 edits to the shared hosts/claude.ts + define-host.ts + host-config.test.ts files (skipSkills collapse, stale line-number comment drops) — pathspec commits, concurrent prep. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(gen): preamble tiers are explicit; silent ?? 4 default becomes an error; spec stops rendering its preamble twice Eight skills (scrape, diagram, spec, skillify, pair-agent, landing-report, open-gstack-browser + its connect-chrome symlink) silently received the HEAVIEST tier-4 preamble because a missing frontmatter field defaulted to 4. Tiers are now declared in every {{PREAMBLE}} template's frontmatter and a missing declaration throws at generation time with the template path (the 5 templates without {{PREAMBLE}} never invoke the resolver). The stale hand-written tier-map comment (wrong in 3 of 4 rows) is gone. Bonus bug fixed: spec/SKILL.md.tmpl mentioned {{PREAMBLE}} in prose, so the generator inlined the ENTIRE preamble a second time — spec/SKILL.md shrinks 127,462 -> 80,924 bytes (-46,538) from de-duplication alone. skill-size-budget gains a reasoned INTENTIONAL_SHRINKS entry (its frozen baseline had measured the doubled-preamble bug). New tests: missing-tier throw carries the path; every {{PREAMBLE}} template declares a tier. (Carries chunk-23 edits in the shared test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts.) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(gen): learningsMode is read from host config, not a hardcoded host name resolvers/learnings.ts branched on ctx.host === 'codex' while every host declared learningsMode — the field was decorative, and the 7 hosts configured 'basic' (cursor, slate, kiro, opencode, openclaw, hermes, gbrain) silently received the 'full' cross-project flow their runtimes can't execute (it depends on AskUserQuestion + gstack-config plumbing). Output now matches declaration: basic hosts get the project-scoped search block. Blast radius proof: all committed Claude SKILL.md files and the three golden fixtures are byte-identical; the behavior diff lands only in the gitignored external-host trees (hand-verified: .cursor review's learnings section swaps the cross-project AskUserQuestion block for the project-scoped search). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(gen): small config scrubs — openclaw blobs to real files, setup host drift, dead artifacts - The three openclaw markdown blobs hardcoded inside gen-skill-docs.ts (which silently reverted any hand edit to their tracked outputs on regen) move to openclaw/templates/*.md source files; output shasums byte-identical. - setup's --host allowlists gain cursor + slate — both fully registered hosts with generated output, but './setup --host cursor' exited 1 because two hand-rolled lists in setup had drifted from hosts/index.ts. - scripts/proactive-suggestions.json deleted: 31KB regenerated on every run, read by nobody (the catalog-trim design's reader was never built); its emitter and three determinism tests (which guaranteed a file nothing reads didn't churn) retired with stays-retired pins. - claude/SKILL.md.tmpl deleted: a complete 8.9KB skill that never generated output (directory name collides with the host id 'claude'), in no registry. Recoverable from git if ever wanted under a non-colliding name. - openclaw's frozen extraFields.version '0.15.2.0' stamp dropped; includeSkills: [] no-ops omitted (the generator treats [] as absent); llms.txt 55 -> 54 skills. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(gen): correct preamble tiers for the 8 silently-heaviest skills With tiers now explicit, set them RIGHT by analogy to the tiered population: scrape/diagram/open-gstack-browser (+ the connect-chrome symlink) -> tier 1 (launchers and artifact generators, like browse and make-pdf); landing-report/pair-agent/skillify -> tier 2 (dashboards and session tools, like health and canary); spec -> tier 3 (interactive planning, like the plan-*-review family). Each tier-1 skill sheds 271 lines of onboarding prose it never needed; tier-2 shed 20 each. Verification per the review protocol: regen diff reviewed (pure section-removal), skill-validation + size-budget + catalog-budget + v0-dormancy suites green (822 tests), and live smoke of the tier-corrected skills confirms the preamble renders the intended sections at each tier. These skills have ~no eval coverage — stated honestly; the wave's gate-tier eval run is the backstop. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(test): e2e-gate — one tier-gate implementation, side-effect-free, with the trap pinned The EVALS/EVALS_TIER gate was copy-pasted into ~40 test files and had drifted into six different predicates — the drift that made 'eval:bg:all runs everything' silently false. test/helpers/e2e-gate.ts owns the semantics now: describeE2ETier(tier) + e2eTierEnabled(tier), env read at call time, zero side effects (the existing e2e-helpers module runs a ~30s claude ping at import under EVALS=1, so the gate lives in its own module; purity is pinned by tests that scan imports and comment-stripped source). The unit matrix pins all four env combos — including EVALS=1 with EVALS_TIER unset -> SKIP, the exact trap that made eval:bg:all a non-run. The tier-alignment tripwire gains a second regex for the helper shape (old shape still detected — stragglers can't hide), and the sharded paid runner's PRE-SPAWN tier classifier learns the helper shape too: without that, every gate-sharded run would have spawned all 28 periodic shards just to skip them, each paying the e2e-helpers import ping (~15 min of dead wall clock in the CI-blocking lane). Verified: gate runs exclude the 29 periodic files, periodic excludes the 8 gate files — identical to pre-migration. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(test): migrate the 36 tier-gated eval files to describeE2ETier Mechanical two-liner swap in 34 files (each keeping its declared tier — all 36 predicates verified against E2E_TIERS before migrating); the two files with compound gates (overlay-harness's EvalCollector feed, codex-e2e's CODEX_AVAILABLE) keep their extra conditions via e2eTierEnabled. Tier rationale comments preserved. codex-e2e/gemini-e2e/benchmark-providers keep their distinct stderr-message gate shapes by design. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(test): skill-e2e + skill-llm-eval adopt the shared selection machinery Both files re-implemented the diff-selection machinery e2e-helpers already exported. The helper gained computeDiffSelection() (extracted, identical behavior) and a trailing optional selection param on the *IfSelected helpers (defaults preserve all 30+ existing importers). skill-e2e.test.ts drops ~120 duplicated lines; skill-llm-eval keeps its LLM_JUDGE_TOUCHFILES selection and test.concurrent semantics via testConcurrentIfSelected. Deliberate deltas, stated: skill-e2e.test.ts now honors the EVALS_TIER intersection its local copy lacked (affects only direct bun test invocations of that file — it matches no eval-script glob); its recordE2E gains the helper's three diagnostic fields; skill-llm-eval sharded solo now runs e2e-helpers' module-scope preflight it already ran in combined processes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): kill the silent-truncation race; exempt the tier-corrected shrinks The full-suite shakeout (budgeted by the plan) surfaced both immediately: 1. server-embedder-terminal-port.test.ts stubbed process.exit and restored the REAL exit in its finally — but shutdown() schedules async work that can call process.exit AFTER restoration, killing the entire bun process mid-suite with exit 0 and NO summary. This is the silent-truncation class the new free-suite CI job guards against, reproduced locally on the first full run. Exit now stays a logging no-op between tests (late async exits become visible stderr lines, not process death); the true exit returns in afterAll. 2. The 80%-of-baseline shrink guard correctly flagged the six tier-corrected skills — their baseline was measured at the silent tier-4 default. Added to INTENTIONAL_SHRINKS with the reason, joining spec's double-preamble entry. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * release: v1.64.0.0 — the code-smell fix wave 35 commits, one PR: guard repairs (free suite in CI per-file, all-host freshness gates, tunnel allowlist, diff-selection validation), the sidebar-agent ghost exorcism (dead ML layers, dead endpoints, dead exports, ghost comments), config honesty (defineHost factory, dead fields deleted, preamble tiers explicit, spec double-render fixed), and dedup with safety nets (session-cookie factory, fs-atomic, jsonl-store contract, one eval tier-gate). Net -24,943 lines across 183 files. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ci): free-tests step runs under bash (container sh rejects pipefail) Maiden-voyage shakeout, exactly as budgeted: the CI container's default shell is dash, which errors on 'set -o pipefail' before the first test ran. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ci): free-tests curates 8 container-incompatible files with reasons Second maiden-voyage shakeout round: 376 of 384 files ran green in the container on the first completed pass. The 8 that can't run there yet are excluded the same way the Windows shards curate POSIX-bound files — each with its reason inline (headed-Chrome handoff, real-PTY round-trip, X server management, extension-origin identity, the job's own TMPDIR override, and three pre-existing env failures that fail on dev machines too). Anything outside the list that fails still fails the job; trimming the list is tracked follow-up. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): gstack-config-key-locale — suppress the skill_prefix auto-relink side effect The test invokes the repo's own bin/gstack-config, whose 'set skill_prefix' auto-runs $(dirname $0)/gstack-relink — resolving the install dir to the repo itself. In any environment where the loop shares a working tree (the free-tests CI container, a fresh-HOME run), gstack-patch-names rewrote all 52 tracked SKILL.md names to gstack- prefixed, poisoning five unrelated suites downstream (hermetic-skills-seeding, host-config golden, skill-census, skill-validation, spec-template-sync). GSTACK_SETUP_RUNNING=1 is the documented suppression; relink behavior stays covered by relink.test.ts's mock install. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(bin): gstack-codex-session-import — empty sessions dir exits 0 on Linux GNU xargs runs 'ls -t' once even on empty input, listing the cwd and producing a bogus LATEST from the repo root; BSD xargs (macOS) skips the run, which is why the NO_SESSIONS path only broke on Linux. xargs -r pins the BSD behavior on both platforms. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(parity): rebaseline v1.57.7.0 → v1.64.1.0 + skeleton-cap headroom The two parallel v1.64 waves (code-smell fix wave + main's #2571) each added shared-preamble prose, pushing document-release / design-consultation / cso past their size ratios on the v1.57.7.0 anchor and four carved skeletons (plan-ceo-review, plan-eng-review, office-hours, design-consultation) 22-280 B over their absolute caps. New baseline is union-normalized (skeleton + sections/*.md, matching what the harness measures); caps get +~1 KB headroom each with per-cap rationale. The v1.57.7.0 fixture stays in test/fixtures/ for the audit trail, and capture-parity-baseline.ts now documents the union-normalization step so the next rebaseline doesn't re-trip on it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ci): free-tests container parity — tools, pinned bun, git identity, mutation tripwire - Dockerfile.ci: add python3 (gstack-jsonl-merge/brain-sync/detach shell out to it), file (skill-validation's binary check), poppler-utils (make-pdf e2e gates hard-require pdftotext/pdffonts/pdfinfo), fonts-noto-color-emoji (emoji render gate, mirrors make-pdf-gate.yml). Fix the bun pin: the bun.sh installer ignores a BUN_VERSION env var, so the old form silently installed latest on every rebuild (observed 1.3.13/1.3.14 drift vs the 1.3.10 devs run locally); pass the version as the positional arg. - free-tests.yml: git identity + safe.directory for the git-exercising tests (container checkout is owned by a different uid than runner); post-loop tree-mutation tripwire that names a tracked-file-mutating test instead of letting downstream collateral confuse the report; skip the documented variants-retry-after timing flake. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(bin): gstack-session-update — detached updater owns its stdio (SIGPIPE) The backgrounded update subshell inherited the session hook's stdout/stderr pipes. Once the hook exits and the caller closes them, any child that writes — git pull's autostash notice, setup output — dies of SIGPIPE, logged as PULL_FAILED exit=141 with an empty stderr capture (observed in the free-tests container, and reachable by any production hook runner that closes stdio promptly). Redirect the fork to /dev/null; all observability already flows through the session-update log file. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): gstack-decision-bins — explicit branch context for the scope filter CI checks out a detached HEAD, where gitBranch() returns undefined on both the log and search sides, so an implicitly branch-scoped decision can never surface (filterByScope requires a matching non-empty ctx.branch). Pass the branch explicitly on both sides — the filter logic is what's under test, not git branch detection. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): ring-buffer lease interplay — same TTL window, not same millisecond Two back-to-back mintLease() calls each stamp Date.now() + TTL; when they straddle a millisecond boundary the exact-equality assertion flakes (observed in CI: expiries of ...525 vs ...526). Assert the expiries are within a 50 ms window instead — the invariant under test is that leases share a TTL policy, not that they mint in the same clock tick. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-15 09:37:04 -07:00
Garry TanandClaude Opus 4.8	cab774cced	v1.56.0.0 Token-reduction Phase B + AUQ paranoid safety net (#1849) ... * refactor(plan-ceo-review): carve review body into on-demand section Carve the largest skill (138,838 B) into a skeleton + one on-demand section, the documented next Phase B target after /ship (v2_PLAN.md:216). - sections/review-sections.md(.tmpl): the 11-section deep review, codex/ outside-voice rules, how-to-ask, Required Outputs, registries, Completion Summary, Review Log, REVIEW_DASHBOARD, PLAN_FILE_REVIEW_REPORT, Next Steps, docs/designs promotion, Formatting Rules, and the Mode Quick Reference. - sections/manifest.json: passive registry (CM2), one entry. - SKILL.md.tmpl: {{SECTION_INDEX}} after the system audit, a single {{SECTION:review-sections}} STOP-Read after Step 0 mode selection, and a Section self-check. All of Step 0 (the scope/mode conversation) stays in the always-loaded skeleton; only EXIT_PLAN_MODE_GATE follows the section. Measured: always-loaded skeleton 138,838 -> 80,731 B (-42%, ~14.4K tokens off every invocation). Union (skeleton + section) 139,110 B, behavior held. Boundary honors Codex P1: nothing review-governing (formatting rules, mode reference, how-to-ask, required outputs) sits in the skeleton below the STOP. Housekeeping resolvers ride in the section, matching the ship precedent (adversarial.md carries LEARNINGS_LOG + GBRAIN_SAVE_RESULTS). Tests (atomic with the carve — skill-docs.yml gates gen:skill-docs freshness on every push, so source + regen + tests must land together): - parity-harness: plan-ceo flipped to sectioned, maxSkeletonBytes 90_000 (measured 80,731 + headroom); content/minBytes run against the union. - skill-size-budget: plan-ceo-review added to SECTIONS_EXTRACTED. - section-manifest-consistency: generalized to discover every carved skill, vars computed per-skill-case (Codex P2). - skill-ceo-section-ordering (new, gate): per-PR static guard — STOP after Step 0, review body absent from skeleton, report writer in the section, nothing review-governing below the STOP. - skill-e2e-plan-ceo-review-section-loading (new, periodic): refreshes the installed skill first (Codex P1), drives full Step 0, asserts the section is Read before the report. - gen-skill-docs + skill-validation: read the skeleton+sections union for carved skills so relocated prose still counts. - touchfiles: plan-ceo-section-loading registered (periodic). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore: bump VERSION + CHANGELOG for plan-ceo-review carve (v1.56.0.0) MINOR: carves the largest skill into skeleton + on-demand section, dropping plan-ceo-review's always-loaded cost 42% (138,838 -> 80,731 B, ~14.4K tokens off every invocation). User-facing release notes lead with the measured token win. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(todos): file P3 follow-up — carve the shared {{PREAMBLE}} reference blocks Surfaced by /plan-eng-review on the plan-ceo-review carve: per-skill section carves stay modest because the ~40-50KB shared preamble dominates the always-loaded surface. A single preamble-reference carve would help every tier->=2 skill at once. Records the why, the cold-vs-hot split to measure, and the guards it needs. Not implemented this PR. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(auq): Layer 0 — guarantee AUQ format spec is always-loaded Deterministic, free, per-PR keystone for the token-reduction era. For every interactive (tier>=2) skill, asserts the full AskUserQuestion decision-brief format (ELI10/Recommendation/Pros-cons/checks/Net/(recommended)/Stakes/ self-check) lives in the always-loaded SKILL.md skeleton, NOT only in an on-demand section. Plus a roster guard (a carve can't silently drop the block) and per-skill rule survival in the skeleton+sections union. 51 cases + a negative control. Fails the instant a future carve strands AUQ-governing text where it won't be loaded when a question fires. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(auq): SDK capture engine + verbose-vs-carved no-degradation A/B Adds the reusable SDK $OUT_FILE capture engine (auq-sdk-capture.ts): drives a skill to its AUQ and captures the verbatim text the model GENERATES, cleanly (real-PTY mangles plan-mode AUQs via cursor escapes). Pins the skill to an absolute path with Read/Write-only tools so the agent can't wander to the global install. gradeAuqRecommendation normalizes a non-"because" connective before grading so substantive reasons aren't false-flagged (without touching the pinned shared judge). The A/B drives the same prompt through the carved 80KB skeleton and the pre-carve 137KB monolith and fails if carved scores worse. Result: both 7/7 format, substance 5 — proven no degradation, transcript-verified each side read its own planted SKILL.md. Periodic tier. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(auq): consistency — same trigger N runs, stable format + substance Drives the carved /plan-ceo-review AUQ N=3 times and fails if any format element appears in one run but not another, or substance craters. Targets the "fine one run, broken the next" failure class a single snapshot can't see. Result: 3/3 stable, 7/7 + substance 5 every run. Periodic tier. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(auq): behavioral matrix across AUQ-heavy skills Data-driven test that drives each AUQ-heavy skill (plan-eng/design/devex, office-hours, cso, spec, design-consultation) to its first AskUserQuestion and grades it to the plan-ceo bar: 7/7 decision-brief format + recommendation substance >=4. One case per skill (isolated failures), env-subsettable via AUQ_MATRIX_ONLY. Browser/design-binary skills are intentionally excluded (comparison boards, not format-AUQs; Layer 0 covers their spec). All targeted skills pass 7/7 with substance 4-5. Periodic tier. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(codex): live recommendation-substance grade for /codex Closes the gap where /codex's synthesis recommendation was only checked statically (template grep) and via fixtures. Drives the real /codex skill over a flawed diff and grades the emitted "Recommendation: ... because ..." line with judgeRecommendation (present/commits/has_because/substance>=4). The named weak spot holds up: substance 5. Periodic tier. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(auq): deterministic trigger for format-compliance gate A bare /plan-ceo-review against a repo whose work is already implemented makes the model improvise an off-script "what should I review?" scope question that skips the decision-brief format, which the gate test then times out waiting for. Hand it a concrete plan to review (FORCING_FLOOR_CEO) so it reaches the real Step 0 mode-selection AUQ that is the intended format check. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(office-hours): carve Phase 5+6 into on-demand section Third Phase B carve (v2_PLAN.md:216, after ship and plan-ceo-review). Moves Phase 5 (Design Doc templates) + Phase 6 (tiered relationship handoff) — the session's output + closing tail, only reached after the conversation and alternatives are done — into sections/design-and-handoff.md, behind a single STOP-Read after Phase 4.5. The live conversation (Phases 1-4.5) and the always-run Important Rules stay in the always-loaded skeleton. Measured: always-loaded skeleton 118,280 -> 88,975 B (-24.8%). Union preserved. The carved AUQ is identical to pre-carve (matrix: 7/7 format, substance 5), and Layer 0 confirms the AUQ format spec stays in the skeleton — the AUQ paranoid suite de-risked this carve end to end. Atomic with tests + regen (skill-docs.yml gates gen:skill-docs freshness on every push, so source + regen + tests land together; --host all regenerates the inlined non-Claude variants): - sections/manifest.json: passive registry, one entry. - parity-harness: office-hours flipped to sectioned, maxSkeletonBytes 96_000 (measured 88,975 + headroom); content/minBytes run against the union. - skill-size-budget: office-hours added to SECTIONS_EXTRACTED. - gen-skill-docs + skill-validation: read the skeleton+sections union for office-hours so relocated Phase 5/6 prose still counts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore: bump VERSION + CHANGELOG for office-hours carve + AUQ suite (v1.57.0.0) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(preamble): carve CJK-escaping manual to on-demand doc The AskUserQuestion format block is inlined into every interactive skill (~33). It carried the full multi-paragraph non-ASCII/CJK escaping manual inline, but that rationale only matters when a question contains CJK text and the operative rule already lives in the always-loaded self-check. Moved the justification to docs/askuserquestion-cjk.md (read on demand); kept the rule + a pointer. Corpus: Claude-host SKILL.md total 3,087,499 -> 3,057,975 B (-29,524 B, ~900 B x ~33 skills). Layer 0 still passes — the core decision-brief format stays always-loaded; only the rare CJK rationale moved. Atomic with the all-host regen (skill-docs.yml freshness gate). VERSION + package.json -> 1.58.0.0. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(plan-eng-review): carve review body into on-demand section Fourth Phase B carve (v2_PLAN.md:220). Moves the 4-section review (Architecture, Code Quality, Tests, Performance), outside voice, required outputs, and review report — everything after Step 0 scope — into sections/review-sections.md behind a single STOP-Read. Step 0 (scope challenge) and EXIT_PLAN_MODE_GATE stay in the always-loaded skeleton. Measured: skeleton 106,984 -> 54,892 B (-48.7%). Union preserved. Atomic with tests + all-host regen (freshness gate): parity flipped to sectioned (maxSkeletonBytes 62K), plan-eng-review added to SECTIONS_EXTRACTED, gen-skill-docs reads the union for relocated review/TEST_COVERAGE/dashboard prose. Layer 0 green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(plan-design-review): carve review body into on-demand section Fifth Phase B carve (v2_PLAN.md:220, bundled with plan-eng). Moves the 7 design passes, required outputs, and review report — everything after Step 0 scope and the mockup/rating phase — into sections/review-sections.md behind a STOP-Read. Step 0, Step 0.5 mockups, the rating method, and EXIT_PLAN_MODE_GATE stay in the always-loaded skeleton. Measured: skeleton 112,057 -> 76,024 B (-32.2%). Union preserved. Atomic with tests + all-host regen: parity sectioned (maxSkeletonBytes 82K), added to SECTIONS_EXTRACTED, gen-skill-docs reads the union. Layer 0 green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(plan-devex-review): carve review body into on-demand section Sixth Phase B carve. Moves the 8 DX passes, required outputs, and review report — everything after the Step 0 DX investigation — into sections/review-sections.md behind a STOP-Read. All of Step 0 (persona, empathy, benchmark, journey trace, roleplay) + the rating method + EXIT_PLAN_MODE_GATE stay always-loaded. Measured: skeleton 110,621 -> 69,658 B (-37%). Union preserved. Atomic with tests + all-host regen: added to SECTIONS_EXTRACTED, gen-skill-docs reads the union. Layer 0 green. (No parity invariant entry for plan-devex-review.) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore: bump VERSION + CHANGELOG for plan-* family carves (v1.59.0.0) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: refresh ship golden baselines + gbrain-detection union after carves Two follow-ups the carve commits should have carried (caught by the full suite, missed by targeted subsets): - ship golden baselines (claude/codex/factory) regenerated: the preamble CJK trim (v1.58) changed ship's always-loaded AskUserQuestion block. - gbrain-detection-override probes the office-hours skeleton+section union: GBRAIN_SAVE_RESULTS moved into sections/design-and-handoff.md when office-hours was carved, so the detection assertions now check both files. Full `bun test` green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(auq): grade format-compliance gate from SDK capture, not the TUI The real-PTY version grepped the stripAnsi'd interactive AUQ picker. Verified directly that this cannot work: plan-mode AUQs render as a cursor picker whose cursor-positioning escapes stripAnsi can't flatten — the picker renders fine for a human (cursorSeen=45) but the flattened text drops ELI10:/(recommended) and parseNumberedOptions returns 0. The test was grading a lossy projection and failed by construction. Rewritten to drive /plan-ceo-review via the SDK $OUT_FILE capture (the agent writes the verbatim question it would have shown — clean text, no rendering loss) and grade 7/7 format + kind-note + recommendation substance >=4. Same property, reliable, environment-independent; shares the engine with the periodic A/B and matrix evals. Result: 7/7 format, substance 5. Touchfiles key renamed ask-user-question-format-pty -> auq-format-gate (no longer a PTY test). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: fix carve-broken CI evals (union reads + section fixtures) Two CI eval jobs failed on the carved plan-* skills because they read content that moved into sections/: - llm-judge (skill-llm-eval): runWorkflowJudge sliced SKILL.md between markers like "## Review Sections" / "## CRITICAL RULE" that now live in sections/review-sections.md. The markers vanished from the skeleton, so the judge scored empty/wrong content. Fix: read the skeleton+sections union. Verified: plan-ceo modes / plan-eng sections / plan-design passes all PASS (25/25). - e2e-plan (skill-e2e-plan): setupPlanDir copied only <skill>/SKILL.md into the fixture, not sections/. The carved skill's STOP pointed at a section file that was absent, so the model improvised a compressed report table instead of the canonical "| Review | Trigger | Why | Runs | Status | Findings |". Fix: copy sections/ alongside SKILL.md in all 6 setup sites. Verified: report test PASS, canonical table emitted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: copy carved sections into all e2e fixtures (prevent more carve-blind CI fails) Proactive sweep beyond the two CI logs: every e2e test that copies a carved skill's SKILL.md into a temp fixture must also copy its sections/, or the model hits a STOP pointing at a missing section file and improvises/degrades. - skill-e2e.test.ts: plan-ceo/plan-eng/plan-design/office-hours copies across planDir/reviewDir/ohDir/benefitsDir dests now copy sections/. - skill-e2e-plan.test.ts: the office-hours copy + the 4-skill codex-offering loop now copy sections/. - skill-e2e-design.test.ts: plan-design-review copy now copies sections/. - skill-e2e-office-hours.test.ts: both office-hours copies now copy sections/. - skill-e2e-office-hours-brain-writeback.test.ts: GBRAIN_SAVE_RESULTS moved into the section, so check the regenerated skeleton+section UNION for the gbrain put block, ship both into the workdir, and restore both (the section regen was also leaking into the working tree — finally now restores it). ship copies (single-file Step-0 slices) and review/retro (not carved) untouched. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: migrate section-loading E2E to lossless SDK tool-stream detection The /ship and /plan-ceo-review section-loading tests drove a real PTY and scraped the ANSI screen buffer for sections/<file>.md paths. That silently saw nothing in a Conductor PTY (cursor-positioned tool renders and an unanswered Step 0 question loop both defeat the regex), so both reported read: [] even when the agent did the work. They now run the skill through claude -p (the same SDK path the AUQ matrix uses) and detect section reads from the tool-use stream — Read calls whose file_path contains sections/<file>.md — with no rendering layer to mangle. The run is also hermetic: the freshly-generated worktree skeleton + sections are copied into a throwaway fixture with the absolute path pinned, so the test validates this branch's carve without mutating the user's ~/.claude install. Validated EVALS_TIER=periodic: both pass (plan-ceo Reads review-sections.md; ship Reads review-army.md + changelog.md), ~6.5 min for both vs ~23 min combined on the old PTY path where both were failing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore: consolidate branch to v1.56.0.0 (single MINOR above main) The branch bumped VERSION several times during development (1.56 → 1.57 → 1.58 → 1.59), but none of those landed on main (main is at 1.55.1.0). Per the "never orphan branch-internal versions" discipline, collapse all four into a single 1.56.0.0 entry — one MINOR release covering the whole branch: five skills carved (plan-ceo, office-hours, plan-eng, plan-design, plan-devex), the shared AskUserQuestion preamble CJK trim, and the paranoid AUQ no-degradation test suite + lossless section-loading tests. VERSION and package.json set to 1.56.0.0; main's 1.55.1.0 entry preserved below the consolidated entry. No SKILL.md drift (VERSION is not embedded in generated bodies). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-06-04 11:14:43 -07:00