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8 people	f67c478f05	v1.91.34.0 fix: /autoplan on current Claude Code and long sessions, quieter pre-push and sync guards, gstack-post, gstack-doctor (#3069) ... * docs: Oct 7 follow-up wave plan (pre-review) * docs: Oct 7 follow-up wave plan, reviewed through /autoplan * docs: Oct 7 wave plan, record final gate decisions (UC1 accepted, UC2 rejected) * docs: credit #1822 to @Mike-E-Log and #1743 to @habassa5 (v1.64.0.0) The v1.64.0.0 CHANGELOG entry credited the extension token fix (#1822) and the polyfill exited promise (#1743) to the wrong handle, and the extension-sender-auth test header repeated the first slip. Commit history is not rewritten. Fixes #3054. Co-authored-by: Mike Ilog <48659643+Mike-E-Log@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(context-restore): offer newer checkpoints from nested repos and task worktrees /context-restore could present an older checkpoint as the latest with no error in two layouts: 1. A session started in a non-git parent saved from a nested repo, so the checkpoint went to the nested repo's bucket. Restore in the parent now lists checkpoints of other buckets whose project_root lies below the cwd (BELOW_CWD; the 200 newest are read, and from $HOME only each project's newest). /context-save also leaves a JSON pointer (checkpoint path, bucket, project_root) in the starting directory's bucket when $CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR is set and files elsewhere; restore lists those as POINTER, in or out of git. 2. A plan checkpoint on the main tree's branch shadowed a newer checkpoint saved in a ticket worktree. When another branch holds a newer checkpoint for the same task (a worktree below the main tree, read from the new worktree: stamp; equal normalized titles; or a shared #123 / ABC-123 token in titles or branch names), restore prints NEWER_TASK and the skill shows both and proposes the newer one. Generic titles (wip, checkpoint, save, notes, todo) never match on title alone, and the worktree rule applies only when restoring from the main tree, so sibling worktrees still never shadow each other. The branch-first ordering itself is unchanged. Refs #3065. Co-authored-by: Thomas Gernhardt <t.gernhardt@softwareprojekt.net> Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(redact-prepush): list each MEDIUM finding with rule, file line and fix The pre-push hook printed only a MEDIUM count, which nobody could review without re-running the engine by hand. It now prints one line per finding: rule id, file and file line, and a fix, never the matched value. Line numbers come from the hunk headers (combined --cc headers included), so a finding in a later hunk or past a scan-chunk boundary points at the real file line. Findings from the per-commit catch-up path name the commit whose file line it is, so content removed before the pushed tip is still locatable. Plan items: CEO-7 (summary half), DX-9 (fix lines), ENG-8 (line mapping). Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(redact-prepush): stop flagging your own email and already-public authors (#3060) The hook never passed the engine's selfEmail / repoPublicEmails, so every push that added the pusher's address, or a commit author's, raised a MEDIUM pii.email warning for an address the destination already shows. The hook now reads `git config user.email` and one bounded `git log` of author and committer addresses, raw and mailmapped (%ae %aE %ce %cE): the history of every pushed tip (those commits become public with the push), each remote tip being replaced, and, for a new branch or an unknown remote tip pushed to a configured remote, that remote's own tracking refs. A URL or unknown destination never borrows tracking refs, and another remote's history never counts. The read stops at 50,000 commits (the newest authors are used) and 5 seconds. An error or the timeout passes no history and, when an email finding is listed, prints one line saying suppression was limited for this push. The two inputs fail independently. HIGH findings and every other rule are untouched. Controls: a stranger's address, an address only another remote knows, a URL push next to a matching remote, and a first push of a repo with no history all still report. Plan items: A3, CEO-7, CEO-23 (A3 half), DX-9 (partial history), ENG-8 (history scope, mailmap). Co-authored-by: akmandhania <143462686+akmandhania@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * feat(redact-prepush): per-address allowlist for pii.email (gstack.redact.allowEmail) `git config --add gstack.redact.allowEmail <address>` allows that address for MEDIUM pii.email findings only, so a team alias or support address that has to be in the repo stops warning without reaching for --no-verify. It never affects HIGH findings or any other rule, and the pii.email fix line names it. Controls: a different address still reports, and a HIGH secret next to an allowed address still blocks. Plan item: DX-17. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * docs(troubleshooting): pre-push pii.email findings, exemptions and allowlist Plan item: DX-12 (pre-push touchpoint). Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * test(redact-prepush): assemble fixture addresses at runtime The email fixtures were literals, so this branch's own push listed 47 pii.email findings in its test file. Build them from a helper instead, the way the neighbouring tests build credential and IP fixtures. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(browse): offer the user's signed-in tab, name silent aside repl failures Rules (rendered into every browsing skill, kept short): - Rule 1: before the first openTab, offer the user's tabs on the target origin (title and origin only; the rest of listBrowserTabs() stays private) and attach only after the user confirms one. - Rule 4: a second sign-in wall after a confirmed sign-in means the session is bound to the tab or URL; offer that tab instead of another sign-in. - Rule 6 no longer suggests an early return; rule 7 says a fast [ok without GSTACK_STEP_OK is an abort. Cookbook (browse, devex-review): a "Silent failures" list (evaluate returns only serializable values, no top-level return, locator(sel).press(key), an empty DOM read is about the selector until the screenshot and the request's response say otherwise, read toggle state before clicking) and a signed-in tab recipe that prints only target-origin tabs and never closes the user's tab. Parity caps for design-consultation, land-and-deploy, qa and the browse skeleton are raised to the measured sizes, with notes. Refs #3063, #3064. Co-authored-by: Thomas Gernhardt <t.gernhardt@softwareprojekt.net> Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * feat(codex): run gstack-codex-probe as a command, one subcommand per probe Generated skills now execute bin/gstack-codex-probe (select-model, check-auth, show-sandbox, check-sandbox, probe-model, check-version, show-first-use-notice, run-with-timeout, log-event, log-hang, help) and capture its KEY: value lines, so no helper state crosses into the calling shell and the preflight works from bash, zsh or sh. select-model keeps --model > GSTACK_CODEX_MODEL > config.toml precedence; run-with-timeout supervises with the existing gtimeout/timeout/ watchdog chain and returns 124 on a deadline; an unknown subcommand exits 64. Sourcing keeps working for skills rendered before the upgrade and prints one deprecation line naming /gstack-upgrade; it and the zsh self-locate block are removed in a release on or after 2026-10-21 (DX-18). Parity caps raised with measured notes for the longer capture lines. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * feat(gstack-post): one argv-only, redaction-scanned write path for PR and issue text bin/gstack-post posts a PR/MR or issue comment, a review-comment reply, a PR title or body, a new PR/MR or a new issue from agent-written files. Every value reaches gh/glab as its own argv element in --flag=<value> form or on stdin, never through a shell string, and a target is a number or a URL of this repository on the same host. The helper owns the redaction scan: it reads each file once, scans those exact bytes (visibility from config, then gh/glab; the pusher's own email suppressed) and sends the same bytes. HIGH is refused with exit 1 and no confirmation can post it. MEDIUM exits 2 with RULE:/LINE:/PART: lines and a TOKEN: digest of the bytes, destination, operation and findings; only --confirm <token> for those exact bytes posts, so any edit needs a new confirmation. gh/glab failures exit 3, usage errors 64. It also carries the projectCards REST fallback and the title read-back that /ship did by hand. The logic lives in lib/gstack-post.ts behind an injectable runner, so its tests run in the Windows free lane; the stub-gh executable test is POSIX. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(autoplan): guard verifies dispatches on Claude Code 2.1.29x (schema strip, unflushed call, named causes) Cause A: Claude Code journals the model's raw Agent input but hands PreToolUse the schema-parsed input; with the fork-subagent gate on (the interactive default in 2.1.292) run_in_background is dropped, so the journal record never deep-equaled the payload. nativeToolInput now drops only that documented strip for Agent. Agent input is bound on both paths: keys limited to prompt, description, subagent_type (general-purpose) and run_in_background; a model override or any other key is denied. Cause B: when a ready journal lacks the current call, the guard evaluates the payload placed after the last journaled record instead of polling for a record that may arrive only with the tool result. A phase transition counts a report only when a later journaled record follows it (and, on the journal path, it is not in the current call's message). One batch rule covers both paths; a background reviewer keeps the invocation armed until its completion notice. Every outcome now has a stable reason code, disposition and anchor (autoplan/bin/guard-reasons.ts). UC1: Claude-Code-caused states (unrecognized shape, journal lag, rewritten journal, oversized record, unchecked-version schema strip) allow with a visible warning; integrity failures stay denials. No denial advises a bare retry. Every guarded decision appends one content-free line to analytics/autoplan-guard.jsonl, trimmed to 1,000 lines past 256 KiB. Co-authored-by: Jared <182125291+yolo-jared@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: crblabs <293123359+crblabs@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(autoplan): publish each phase report with a no-op call; foreground requests are conditional Phase-close step 6 sends the report in a message whose only tool call is the Bash no-op ': autoplan-published <phase>', and step 7 makes the next guarded call in a later message, so the guard sees the report flushed before the next phase entry regardless of Claude Code's journal timing. Every site that asked for run_in_background: false now asks for it only when the Agent schema offers it and says how to recover when a dispatch runs in the background anyway (wait for its completion notice). Parity caps rise by the measured bytes. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * feat(ship,spec,review): PR and issue text goes out only through gstack-post /ship: Step 18 writes the title into an agent-written file. An existing PR's title is piped from gh/glab through gstack-pr-title-rewrite.sh --stdin (new), so neither the agent nor a shell string carries it; a new title is written with the file tool and its version prefix checked in the file. Step 19 composes the body as before and publishes with gstack-post pr-create, or pr-body then pr-title, which scan the exact bytes they send. The separate title and body scans, the hand-rolled REST fallback and the title self-check are gone (the helper does all three). Title preparation moved into the pr-body section, so the skeleton shrinks. /spec files its issue with gstack-post issue-create and drops the pre-issue re-scan; Greptile replies use gstack-post reply and pr-comment. scripts/resolvers/redact-doc.ts loses its PR and issue sinks, and a test keeps any template from rendering one again. Tests that pinned the old scan-then-gh wiring now pin the gstack-post wiring; the publication tests run the real compose and publish blocks against a stub gh with the real helper (HIGH in title or body refused, MEDIUM token flow). Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * ci: pin Claude Code 2.1.292 in the CI image 2.1.292 is the npm latest users run. Its interactive default turns on the fork-subagent gate, which strips run_in_background from the Agent schema and backgrounds reviewers; CI on 2.1.284 never saw the /autoplan guard break. The image tag is a content hash, so every eval workflow picks up the new image without a workflow edit. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(brain-sync): one drain lock for every writer to the artifacts repo gstack-artifacts-init, gstack-brain-restore, gstack-gbrain-source-wireup and the skill-start merge ran git in $GSTACK_HOME without the drain's lock, so the drain could never tell an abandoned .git/index.lock from a live one. They now take the same mkdir lock (bin/gstack-brain-lock.sh): the drain and the skill-start merge skip when it is held, user-run writers wait for it (GSTACK_BRAIN_LOCK_WAIT, default 120 s), and a child of the holder (the drain's daily worktree advance, restore's wireup) inherits it by token. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(brain-sync): hold back only the flagged file, keep coupled artifacts whole One file with secret-shaped text used to block every push, silently. The drain now attributes scanner hits to files in one pass over the staged diff (split on its diff --git headers), holds back each flagged file with the rest of its coupled group, unstages it, and requires the remaining staged diff to re-scan clean; anything short of that falls back to a full unstage and status blocked. Held files stay queued and are re-scanned every drain. - Status file gains held_count, drainable, last_drain_at, last_push_at and held[] (path, scanner rule, dependents, both fixes); new status held. - Coupled groups come from an explicit map (decisions.jsonl and decisions.active.json): a queued member stages the whole group, a group stages only when its snapshot matches its log in the index, a skipped member stops the whole group. - --unskip-file undoes --skip-file and queues the path again. - An index lock older than 10 minutes is removed under the drain lock; a younger one, a failed git add, a failed commit (hooks included) keep the queue and report status error. A verified empty staged diff is the only "nothing to commit". git add runs once, batched. - The scanner reads bytes, so undecodable content no longer crashes it into a false clean; matched text never reaches the status file. - An empty-queue run with unpushed sync commits stays push_failed. - Privacy-held duplicate records collapse to one per path; --status counts a spool too deep for a shell glob. - --attention prints skill start's fixed attention lines from the sync status table in the usage header. Co-authored-by: v639dragoon <matthewsbrickley@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * feat(skill-start): ARTIFACTS_SYNC attention lines for a stuck sync Skill start now prints one fixed attention line per sync-status-table row that applies (held, blocked, push_failed, error, unknown, stale-push, stale-drain), each naming gstack-brain-sync by absolute path. Values from the status file are clamped (status code to the table, counts to digits, timestamps to their shape), so the status message, file paths and scanner output never reach the line. The preamble tells the model to surface the line in one sentence and continue. Skill-start tests are generated from the table in bin/gstack-brain-sync, and docs/gbrain-sync-errors.md carries the same table. Co-authored-by: v639dragoon <matthewsbrickley@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(outside-review): severity words in label position count as findings The Oct 7 /autoplan run's Codex CEO and DX reviews labeled seven and eight findings High/Medium without [Pn] tags, and the classifier printed VERDICT: clean / FINDINGS: none for both. lib/outside-review-result.ts now reads severity words in label position (Severity: High, a leading High: / High — / [High], **High**, a table cell): critical/high block like P0/P1, medium/low are advisory. Words in prose (high-level, low-risk, no critical findings) never count. A review or structured response with neither tags, labels nor an explicit no-findings statement is unverified, never clean (DX-11, ENG-10). Design-direction proposals move to a new proposal gate so they keep needing only their Recommendation line, and review prompts ask for a severity per finding. Fixtures reproduce the CEO/DX label shapes, the eng [P1] output, a table and prose negative controls; the stored Codex panel keeps its verdicts. docs/troubleshooting.md explains how the verdict is read. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * feat: gstack-doctor readiness report and setup --status Codex row (B5) bin/gstack-doctor prints one row per check without starting a skill: install root (the registry rows behind ./setup --status), state root, Bun against the floor, hook parse check, Codex mode and self-locate via gstack-codex-probe subcommands, the cached model probe with its age (--live runs the paid probe-model), artifacts-sync health from the status file with the status code clamped, the browse bundle, Claude Code version, the largest session journal and the last five schema-1 guard reason codes. Rows are ok, warn, not configured or fail; only fail exits non-zero; fix lines name helpers by absolute install-root path. ./setup --status gains a read-only Codex row (bin/gstack-codex-status.sh, shared with the doctor) and ends with the doctor's absolute path. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * docs: bug-report template asks for doctor output; README troubleshooting entry; doctor test in the Windows lane The template gives the Claude Code doctor path and a lookup for other hosts and names no bare gstack- command (asserted in test/gstack-doctor.test.ts). The doctor test runs every script through explicit bash argv, so it joins the curated Windows free subset. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * docs(troubleshooting): readiness check section points at gstack-doctor Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(question-tuning,plan-tune,gbrain): free text reaches helpers only through agent-written files Question tuning no longer pipes the question summary through printf: a registered id needs no summary, and for an unregistered id the agent writes the summary to .gstack/tmp/qt.txt and passes --summary-file (new). The helper resolves a relative path against the git top level, removes scratch files under .gstack/tmp, and asks normally when the file is missing. /plan-tune tune events carry the user's own words again: they go into a file the agent writes and reach gstack-question-preference --write through --free-text-file (new), still behind the injection filter and the user-origin gate. docs/gbrain-write-surfaces.md drops its heredoc templates for the agent-written page file on stdin, matching the per-skill save block, and the generic save block stops showing a quoted --content argument. The tuning prose was tightened so every preamble stays within its size cap. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * test(evals): daily autoplan-schema-canary on the latest Claude Code A periodic rule case installs the latest published Claude Code with install scripts off, verifies registry signatures, and runs one headless session with the fork-subagent gate on whose PreToolUse hook records an Agent and a Read payload. Each payload must match its journal record under the guard's own comparison, keep the journal's key set apart from the documented run_in_background strip, and stay inside the Agent allowlist; a background Agent's completion notice must keep the shape the guard reads. evals-periodic.yml runs it daily on its own schedule and concurrency group (read-only token); the weekly census also includes it. A free test proves the comparison fails on an injected strip. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(doctor): read the artifacts sync held count from held_count, the field the drain writes * fix(artifacts sync): the init and restore pre-commit hooks catch Bearer/Basic/Token-prefixed JSON auth headers like the drain does * feat(greptile-early): detect Greptile, ask once on public repos, open the early draft, wait for the review bin/gstack-greptile-early backs /ship's early Greptile PR: - detect: a root .greptile/ folder (which takes precedence), greptile.json, or a Greptile comment on the repo in the last 90 days; triggerOnDrafts from the effective root config; repo visibility; public-repo consent. It prints the signal, that /ship will push and open a draft now, the 10-minute wait cap and the absolute gstack-config command that turns it off. - consent yes|no: the public-repo answer, remembered per repo in the project's state. - open: opens the draft through gstack-post with a body saying /ship opened it early, and posts one @greptileai comment through gstack-post when the config does not set triggerOnDrafts: true. An open PR is left alone. - wait: polls every 30 s for a completed Greptile check run, a Greptile review of the head commit or a summary naming it; each call returns within about 90 s and reports timeout 10 minutes after the PR opened. gstack-config gains ship_greptile_early (default true, invalid values rejected): on automatically whenever the repo uses Greptile, off per user. The logic is in lib/greptile-early.ts behind an injectable runner, so its fixture-repo tests run in the Windows lane; an end-to-end test drives the real helper and gstack-post against a stub gh. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * feat(ship): early Greptile PR at Step 6.5, bounded wait at Step 10 (#3020) When the repo uses Greptile, /ship pushes and opens a draft PR right after its free tests pass (new lazy section greptile-early, Step 6.5), so Greptile reviews while Steps 7-9 run. A public repo asks once, remembered per repo; declining keeps today's order. Step 10 waits for that review with gstack-greptile-early wait and takes the existing unavailable route on a timeout, never a claim of zero comments. Step 18 replaces the provisional title, Step 19 marks the draft ready unless a draft was requested, and a /ship that stops after Step 6.5 leaves the draft open with one comment saying why. ship's union cap rises to 1.5275 with the measured note (B4 +836 bytes, B2 +4,732 bytes); the step-numbering guard allows 6.5; ship goldens are refreshed for B4 and B2. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(autoplan): the publication no-op is 'true autoplan-published <phase>' Measured on Claude Code 2.1.292 in a default-settings interactive session: a bare ':' Bash command asks for approval ('This command requires approval'), and after a background reviewer's completion notice starts a new turn the skill's allowed tools no longer cover it, so the phase-close no-op prompted the user. 'true' with arguments runs without approval and prints nothing. The guard only needs a later journaled record, so the command changes everywhere it is named. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * test(evals): live autoplan-guard-pty case on the pinned Claude Code A gate-tier rule case (one trial, haiku) drives an interactive PTY session with default settings through a project skill that carries /autoplan's own hook block: init, Phase 1 entry, a CEO reviewer dispatch that sends run_in_background, a prepared close packet, the report published with the no-op, and the Phase 2 entry in a later message. It reads outcomes from the guard decision log (three verified allows) and fails if the no-op raises a permission card; other cards are approved and printed. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(autoplan): bounded, append-tolerant owned-journal read (A2) The publication guard no longer reads the whole parent journal or refuses it at 32 MiB. lib/claude-owned-journal.ts streams the bytes present at open to the last complete line (pass one), keeps a content-free index per record and decides ownership, ancestry and causal order on it with the same checks and reason codes as before. Pass two reloads in full only what the evaluation reads (autoplan/bin/guard-journal.ts): every literal init and its result, the current call, and inside the invocation window (from the latest human turn at or before the bound chain's first init) guarded and close-packet Read results, structured Bash results, error results, assistant text after the first close Read and active-plan mutations, plus the earlier Read a dedup reply cites even before the window (ENG-4). - lib/claude-journal-records.ts: per-record event extraction, record metadata and the causal-order checks, shared by readPlanCountTranscript and the bounded reader. The batch reader keeps its whole-file read and cap. - Appends after open never fail a read; same device and inode and no shrink are required (identity). A second read in one hook invocation must hash bytes [0, first size) the same, or it is `rewritten` (UC1 unverified); the unrecognized-shape double read uses that prefix hash. `changing` is removed (REMOVED_CODES; its anchor stays). - OWNED_RECORD_MAX_BYTES (32 MiB): only one record over it is too_large. OWNED_RETAINED_MAX_BYTES (32 MiB): over it is the new oversized_invocation fallback denial. GSTACK_TRANSCRIPT_TEST_MAX_BYTES and GSTACK_TRANSCRIPT_TEST_RETAINED_BYTES can only lower them. - ENG-5: evaluation groups uses and results by tool id once (no per-tool rescans). CEO-25 / ENG-5 spike (120 MiB synthetic, 31,242 records, 4 vCPU Linux, Bun 1.4.2): a full streaming rescan (parse every line, small index, sha256) took 254-326 ms at 147-161 MiB peak RSS; a pass-one index cache under the state root (load cached index, verify a 64 KiB tail hash, parse the tail) took 26-29 ms at 47 MiB. The rescan meets the 1 s budget, so the cache is not adopted: it would add trusted persistent state and invalidation for no budget need. A backward tail read cannot prove competing_root or cycle, so it was not a candidate. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * test(autoplan): journal-read benchmark and its dispatch-only workflow (CEO-2, CEO-6) scripts/measure-journal-read.ts builds two synthetic 120 MiB parent journals around a real /autoplan invocation (mixed: ~28k records, most bytes inside the invocation; large-invocation: ~89k records with a current invocation of many small records), keeps appending while the guard reads, and measures one hook call in a fresh process (wall ms, peak RSS). The workflow runs it on ubuntu-latest and macos-latest on workflow_dispatch only. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * test(evals): autoplan-long-session, a resumed >100 MiB session enters Phase 1 CEO-15 with ENG-6's observer: a real session is compacted, its journal padded past 100 MiB with owned records before the compact boundary, and the resumed interactive session runs the scripted phase boundary; the guard decision log must show a verified Phase 1 allow. A free test proves that observer on a padded journal through the lower-only bound seams (the PTY counting reader refuses the same journal), with a sidechain control that must deny. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * v1.91.34.0: CHANGELOG, TODOS, version; harness decision for test-pr-profile; ship title-step test reads its new section * docs(changelog): use an example.com address in the allowEmail example * test: assemble GitHub-token fixtures at runtime in the new brain-sync and skill-start tests (CI credential scan) * fix: integration repairs across the wave (Step 6.5 fence, printed helper paths on Windows, probe usage without a heredoc) and tests pinned to the moved title and gstack-post contracts * test(doctor): the healthy fixture builds browse.exe on Windows, the name setup uses there * test(shared-libs): recognize Claude Code 2.1.292's internal git probe prefix (format.pretty and per-hook disables), with its CI receipt * fix(ship-measure): report lists v1 measurements as an older format instead of crashing --------- Co-authored-by: Mike Ilog <48659643+Mike-E-Log@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Thomas Gernhardt <t.gernhardt@softwareprojekt.net> Co-authored-by: akmandhania <143462686+akmandhania@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Jared <182125291+yolo-jared@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: crblabs <293123359+crblabs@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: v639dragoon <matthewsbrickley@gmail.com>	2026-10-07 23:29:05 +00:00
+818 people	28f1385eac	v1.91.32.0 fix: Codex works from zsh, free text never enters shell commands, honest failures (#3057) ... * fix: sourced helpers locate themselves under zsh (#3024) Skill blocks source bin/gstack-codex-probe and bin/gstack-egress-lib.sh into the host's shell. Under zsh (macOS default) BASH_SOURCE is empty, so Codex model selection resolved /../scripts/... and every outside pass reported CODEX_MODEL: invalid; the egress lib resolved to the caller's cwd. Resolve the file once at source time (BASH_SOURCE under bash, %x under zsh), and replace the bash-only ${!name} indirection in the auth probe. A free test derives every sourced helper from the generated skills and sources each under bash and zsh. Co-authored-by: marcosdetry <marcosdetry@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: akshaykalia <akshaykalia@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: scottgigante-hubflow <scottgigante-hubflow@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: woodsonl <woodsonl@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: bezdekt <bezdekt@users.noreply.github.com> * fix: reply and issue templates never pass untrusted text in double quotes (#3046) greptile-triage's reply APIs posted -f body="<reply text>" while the templates quote SHAs and diff code in backticks; in double quotes bash ran each span (replies posted as 'Fixed in .', and diff or reviewer text ran as a command). The pre-existing-failure issue template and /spec's issue title had the same shape. All three now go through quoted heredocs. The generated-bash lint gains untrusted-in-quotes and now also covers runtime reference docs in skill directories (review/greptile-triage.md). Co-authored-by: dgrant <dgrant@users.noreply.github.com> * fix: a Codex usage limit is its own state, not 'inconclusive; proceeding' (#3051) The model probe matched only model and broken-install errors, so a usage or rate limit fell through to MODEL_PROBE_INCONCLUSIVE: Codex's own message (with the reset time) was dropped, the hint pointed at model config, and every later skill re-probed for 30 s. The probe now returns MODEL_QUOTA_EXHAUSTED (exit 4) on a failed, non-timeout call that names a usage limit, rate limit, insufficient_quota or 429, relays Codex's line verbatim and caches it for 15 minutes. Preflights map it to CODEX_MODE: quota_exhausted (missing coverage, no further Codex calls), and classifyOutsideReview reports a mid-run limit as unavailable (quota) with its own troubleshooting anchor. Co-authored-by: venkatareddyg <venkatareddyg@users.noreply.github.com> * test: record ship/review union sizes after the quota branch and issue template * fix: Codex watchdog freezes the command before reaping its children The bash-native watchdog (stock macOS, no timeout binary) ran pkill -P on the command's children and then killed the command. Between the two, the command continued past its killed child and printed output after its deadline. Stop it first. The test's minimal PATH also lacked pkill, which the watchdog uses to reap children (stock macOS ships it), so the orphaned child held stdout open and the capture waited out its sleep. * fix(autoplan): an oversize session journal is a hard too_large denial, not a retryable identity failure (#3050) The guard capped journal reads at 32 MiB and reported a longer journal as 'identity', which the hook treats as deny-and-retry. A journal only grows, so /autoplan could never enter Phase 1 in a long session, and the troubleshooting row sent people chasing symlinks. Oversize journals now report too_large as a hard cause that names the size and the supported fallback (run the reviews by hand or start a new session). Co-authored-by: venkatareddyg <venkatareddyg@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(deps): clear the weekly OSV findings (#3040) Raise overrides to fixed releases: ip-address 10.7.3 (our own pin was the vulnerable 10.3.1; reachable through socks in browse's proxy path), fast-uri 3.1.8, hono 4.13.13, proxy-addr 2.0.8, @modelcontextprotocol/sdk 1.31.0, sharp 0.35.5, and in lib/diagram-render dompurify 3.4.16 (bundled by mermaid) and source-map-js 1.2.2; the render page is rebuilt. Three advisories without a usable fix get justified, expiring ignores: braces (build-time only, excalidraw -> sass -> chokidar; a test checks the page carries no chokidar code), sprintf-js (roarr's constant-format logger) and katex (needs pre-existing prototype pollution; fix outside mermaid's range). osv-scanner with the repo config: no issues found. * fix(autoplan): name a shell-built snapshot init as the cause of the missing-evidence denial (#3045) The guard binds a phase entry only to a literal snapshot-init Bash call. When the model resolved the tool path into a variable, chained or piped the call, init ran and succeeded but the denial said 'Complete the existing snapshot init step', which reads as already done, so the run gave up. When no init binds but a Bash call looks like one, the denial now says the shape cannot be bound and prints the literal re-run (answers reused:true). The binding rule is unchanged, and the skill says to run init on its own. Co-authored-by: CharlesBerg85 <CharlesBerg85@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(browse): chain reads piped stdin synchronously, so Windows runs the flow (#3039) On Windows, an awaited Bun.stdin.text() inside the CLI's un-awaited main() let the process exit 0 before reading stdin: a replayed flow reported success with nothing sent to the daemon. Read fd 0 synchronously (skipped for a terminal); empty input now gets the server's usage error and a non-zero exit. Co-authored-by: VaibDeveloper <VaibDeveloper@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(browse): clearer config-mismatch refusal and a WebGL note for the macOS GPU flags (#3030) A plain call refused because another session started the daemon with --headed/--proxy was told to 'apply --proxy/--headed', flags it never passed. It now says who started the daemon and offers both remedies. The BROWSER.md env table notes that the default macOS GPU flags disable WebGL and that GSTACK_DISABLE_GPU=off restores it for WebGL QA. Co-authored-by: Hagetino <Hagetino@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(ship): skip Greptile triage when no PR exists yet (#3020) /ship's first run on a branch dispatched a triage subagent only to learn there was no PR. Step 10 now checks for a PR inline (gh's 'no pull requests found') and records that Greptile runs on the PR once it exists; other gh errors still dispatch so the child can report unavailable. Co-authored-by: dgrant <dgrant@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(router): route only to loaded skills, and say when not to invoke (#3018) The root router listed every skill and ended 'When in doubt, invoke the skill'. Current Claude models follow that literally: they tried to invoke skills a user had turned off in Claude Code's skillOverrides (which gstack's own disabled_skills render cannot see), and borderline requests tipped into full workflows. The router now routes only to skills in the session's available-skills list and names when to answer directly; the CLAUDE.md routing block skill-start offers says the same. Co-authored-by: Rekin226 <Rekin226@users.noreply.github.com> * fix: spawned sessions never auto-grant consent or publish off the machine (#3016) Spawned sessions auto-choose the recommended option except for destructive or irreversible choices. Main already withholds the artifacts-sync consent prompt from spawned sessions; the remaining gap was any other prompt whose recommended option grants a consent or syncs data off the machine. Every spawned directive (skill-start's block, the escape sentence, the Conductor deny reason and the AUQ-error fallback) now names that as irreversible. A consent the user already gave interactively stays in force. Co-authored-by: ekson73 <ekson73@users.noreply.github.com> * test: fix the spawned-block slice and type the #3045 re-init events * fix(redact): TypeScript types and JSX expressions are code, not env.kv secrets (#3048) A credential-named parameter or prop with an unquoted code value (`session: SessionState,`, `key={turn.requestId + turn.role}`, `apiKey={settings.apiKey}`) cleared the entropy gate and blocked pushes as a MEDIUM env.kv finding. One rule replaces the PR's two keyword heuristics: a value that reads as a code name (no digits, word-like camelCase or dotted parts) with a code terminator, or a brace expression of such names with no quoted literal, is source syntax. Paired controls keep firing on quoted, brace-wrapped, concatenated, YAML-bare and random-letter literals. Co-authored-by: tianxchen <tianxchen@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(setup): refuse to register a hook that does not parse (#3032) Claude Code runs gstack's hook shims through /bin/sh; a shim that does not parse exits 2, which for a PreToolUse hook blocks the tool call in every session until someone finds the file. Before any hook registration is healed or written, setup now runs bash -n on each registered shim and a Bun parse of its TypeScript entry, and stops with the file, line and fix. A lean rewrite of the PR's idea (one gate block plus a test that runs it). Co-authored-by: BenjaminDSmithy <BenjaminDSmithy@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(browse): Windows runtime roots start the server from the source checkout's bundle (#3026) On Windows a host runtime root (~/.codex/skills/gstack and the other env-var hosts) holds file copies of browse/dist and no node_modules, so its server-node.mjs could not import playwright and every browser skill died (the module-scope server.ts half was fixed in v1.91.19.0). setup now records the source checkout in every runtime root's .source-path, and the CLI runs that checkout's bundle when the adjacent one cannot reach playwright. Verified by unit layout tests and the Windows CI lane, not live on Windows. Co-authored-by: ubay887 <ubay887@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(copilot): on Windows, run bash blocks in Git for Windows Bash (#3047) Copilot CLI on Windows ran gstack's extensionless helpers straight from PowerShell, which opened an app picker, and bare bash can resolve to WSL. The Copilot tool glossary (rendered into every Copilot skill) now says to run each bash block in Git for Windows Bash by its full path and never to translate a block into PowerShell. The PR's PowerShell repair skill and README section are not taken. Co-authored-by: nareshh74 <nareshh74@users.noreply.github.com> * test: record ship's union size after the Greptile no-PR check * fix: keep issue numbers out of model-read Copilot text; seed the new routing sentence in the autoplan fixture * docs: Oct 6 fix-wave plan, reviewed through /autoplan * fix(autoplan): every oversize-journal path reports too_large with a recovery that keeps the work Review follow-up to the #3050 fix. The summed batch read and the narrowed parent loop now report too_large with the real size instead of a plain error naming a hard-coded 32 MiB. The denial names the size and the cap, and gives the recovery that keeps work (/context-save, new session, /context-restore, /autoplan) with a docs anchor. A test seam that can only lower the cap replaces the 33 MiB fixture. * test(autoplan): negative controls and more shapes for the shell-built init denial * fix(redact): decide TS/JSX source syntax by file context, not by value shape Review follow-up to the #3048 fix. The word-shape heuristic also exempted real secrets made of words (API_KEY=VelvetRiverOrbitSunset; in a .env). The scanner now takes the file path (ScanOptions.sourcePath): the pre-push hook scans the pushed diff per file with its +++ b/ path, and gstack-redact --from-file passes its path. Only in a TypeScript/JSX file is an unquoted value after ':' or a JSX brace of names treated as source; the same line in .env/YAML, or with no path, is scanned as a literal, and the jwt pattern still fires in .ts files. Co-authored-by: tianxchen <tianxchen@users.noreply.github.com> * docs: gstack's own CLAUDE.md routing block matches the new router wording Live check (Claude Code 2.1.284): a skill set to "off" in skillOverrides is absent from the session's skill list while its sibling is listed, and both are listed without the override, so 'route only to skills in your available-skills list' holds. * fix(sync-gbrain): don't offer a call-graph build for a source with no code pages (#3029) Step 3.5 offered --dream for any source with pages, including one that holds only markdown (synced with gbrain's default strategy), where a build cannot help, and the injected CLAUDE.md guidance told future sessions to run --dream for any count: 0. On gbrain >= 0.60, code-def for an impossible symbol answers .status (probed live against gbrain 0.60.96: ready for a code source, out_of_scope for a markdown-only one). Step 3.5 now probes the pinned source first, reports the cause instead of asking on out_of_scope, and keeps today's offer when the probe is unknown (older gbrain, an error). gstack's own sync uses --strategy code, so the PR's soft-delete claim does not apply to gstack's path. Co-authored-by: syong <syong@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(setup): register the hooks that parse, refuse the rest with file:line (#3032) The landed gate stopped setup before any registration, so one unparseable hook left every other hook unregistered. On the Claude install the canonical root is the checkout Claude Code runs hooks from, so there is no staged swap to abort: setup now registers the hooks that parse, refuses the ones that do not with file and line, finishes the install and exits non-zero, saying it is a gstack bug and that a skipped hook keeps running from the checkout. bin/gstack-hook-check derives its list from setup's _hook_command_path calls plus the autoplan phase-publication hook (a test keeps them equal), parses each shim with its shebang's interpreter, and bundles each TypeScript entry with its local imports (packages external) into a temp dir, so a broken or missing import, or a missing entry, fails. Co-authored-by: BenjaminDSmithy <BenjaminDSmithy@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(auto-update): hold an update whose hooks do not parse, before the checkout moves bin/gstack-session-update fast-forwards the live checkout before setup runs, and Claude Code runs hooks straight from it, so setup's gate cannot protect an auto-update. After the Bun floor check the updater extracts the incoming revision with git archive and runs bin/gstack-hook-check on it; a failure holds the update like bun-too-old, records hook-does-not-parse with file:line in the update status, and the next session start says the current hooks keep running. Fixture-remote tests cover a broken shim, a broken imported module and a parseable control. Co-authored-by: BenjaminDSmithy <BenjaminDSmithy@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(browse): chain with no flow is a usage error before any daemon boots (#3039) Empty piped input, a terminal with no arguments, and a readFileSync(0) error (EAGAIN, EOF) now print the chain usage with the cause and its troubleshooting link and exit 1 before ensureServer(), instead of sending an empty argument to a daemon the CLI booted for it. Tests run the real CLI with no daemon and no browser, plus the stub-daemon flow. Co-authored-by: VaibDeveloper <VaibDeveloper@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(browse): refuse a runtime-root CLI and checkout server from different builds (#3026) A Windows runtime root runs the source checkout's Node server bundle through .source-path. When the root's CLI and the checkout's bundle carry different browse/dist/.version builds (the checkout was rebuilt without refreshing the root), the CLI now refuses to start the server with both builds, the ./setup fix and its troubleshooting anchor. Unversioned dev builds are not called skew. Co-authored-by: ubay887 <ubay887@users.noreply.github.com> * ci(windows): real isolated ./setup install, then a piped chain flow through the installed browse windows-setup-e2e built the checkout but never ran ./setup. It now installs the codex host into an isolated HOME (a runtime root copy with no node_modules), then from an unrelated directory pipes a two-command chain flow at a loopback page into the installed browse and asserts the page text, and that empty piped input exits 1 with the usage error. Covers the checkout-bundle path and the piped-stdin path end to end. * test(lint): free text never enters a generated command (structural rule) The generated-bash lint's untrusted-in-quotes rule (gh/glab/git/curl text flags in double quotes only) becomes free-text-placeholder: any <placeholder> anywhere in any command, in double, single or no quotes, and in heredoc bodies (quoted or not), unless it is on the reviewed identifier allowlist (test/helpers/placeholder-allowlist.ts) with the grammar a value must match. Quoted-only identifiers (URLs, selectors, paths printed by gstack) must sit inside quotes. Backslash-newline continuations now read as one command, so a flag and its value on separate lines are still seen together. Co-authored-by: dgrant <dgrant@users.noreply.github.com> * fix: reply, issue and spec text travel as agent-written files, never through a heredoc Replaces the quoted-heredoc bodies with CEO-12's file mechanism: a bash block creates a private mktemp file in the project's .gstack/tmp/ (kept out of git through .git/info/exclude), the agent writes the text with its file-write tool, and the next block posts with -F body=@file, --body-file or "$(cat file)". A heredoc ends early at any body line equal to its delimiter; a file has no such line. When the file was never written the block refuses with the path and the command to send it by hand, and it deletes the file after a successful post. - review/greptile-triage.md: replies; the fetched JSON moves from fixed /tmp/greptile_*.json paths to a mktemp directory; REPO and PR are re-derived per block instead of read from a previous shell. - Test-failure issues: title and body files, platform case on github/gitlab, assignee only when it is a valid login. - /spec: one draft file feeds the audit hash, every redaction scan, the issue and the archive; the archive no longer expands <title>/<body> inside an unquoted heredoc; the decision-log JSON is built by jq from files. Location verified against Claude Code 2.1.284 (Dockerfile.ci pin): project-local .gstack/tmp is writable under acceptEdits with no prompt and keeps mode 0600; $TMPDIR and the gstack state root prompt even under acceptEdits. Co-authored-by: dgrant <dgrant@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(ship): Greptile triage runs only when a PR exists; every other case says why PR: unknown (gh missing, not logged in, a non-GitHub remote, or a failed lookup) used to dispatch the triage child anyway. The Step 10 check now tests gh, its login, the remote and the PR in that order, and every case but 'PR: exists' skips the dispatch and records 'Greptile: not run (<reason>); runs on the PR once it exists'. Co-authored-by: dgrant <dgrant@users.noreply.github.com> * fix: question-tuning commands carry no free text The question log took the summary in single quotes and the preference write took the user's own words; an apostrophe ended the quote and the rest ran as shell. The summary is now a kebab-case slug (an identifier with a grammar), and the optional free_text field is no longer passed from skills (the binary still accepts it). * fix(cso): Windows finds docker.exe only under known-folder roots and says transport is unsupported (#3028) On Windows /cso looked for docker only in Git's directory and System32, so Docker Desktop was never found and the gap read as 'not installed'. It now resolves Program Files, Program Files (x86) and the Windows directory through PowerShell's [Environment]::GetFolderPath (not the process environment), checks each candidate's real path against those roots and rejects reparse points. lib/cso/docker.ts admits only unix:/// endpoints, so a trusted docker.exe reports 'native Windows Docker transport is not supported yet; static assessment only'; one outside the roots is refused as outside the trusted install locations, not overridable. Both carry an anchor. Native named-pipe transport is not implemented. * fix: sourced helpers share one self-locate block and fail loudly when they cannot locate themselves (#3024 rework) The codex probe and the egress lib now carry one byte-identical block: BASH_SOURCE under bash or %x under zsh, made absolute with $PWD, else a set GSTACK_ROOT that holds the helper. Anything else (dash, sh, a shell that cannot name the file) prints "gstack: cannot locate <helper> (shell: ...)" with the docs/troubleshooting.md#sourced-helper-location URL and returns before any bash- or zsh-only syntax. The Claude-only default path and the $(pwd) fallback are gone. The generated Codex preflight dot-sources the probe and, when it cannot load, reports CODEX_MODE: helper_unavailable with the helper's own line instead of falling through to not_authed. The class guard enumerates nested sources, makes real resolver, auth, state-root and egress-home calls under bash and zsh (absolute, relative then cd, bare name via PATH), covers dash and an unknown shell, runs the full preflight, and lints BASH_SOURCE to the shared block plus other bash-only constructs. Co-authored-by: marcosdetry <marcosdetry@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: akshaykalia <akshaykalia@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: scottgigante-hubflow <scottgigante-hubflow@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: woodsonl <woodsonl@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: bezdekt <bezdekt@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(cso): a Maven or Gradle repository is Java, not Python (#3028) With no supported stack metadata, preparation defaulted to Python and asked a Java repository for requirements.txt. A root pom.xml, build.gradle or build.gradle.kts now names the stack as Java (unsupported for runtime preparation, so the prerequisite says so), and Python helper scripts or a root requirements.txt beside it no longer make it Python. * fix(browse): BROWSER.md says plainly how to enable WebGL; the mismatch refusal links Daemon discipline (#3030) The GSTACK_DISABLE_GPU row now states the effect and the switch: set GSTACK_DISABLE_GPU=off to enable WebGL (off is the only recognized value). The reworded config-mismatch refusal links BROWSER.md's Daemon discipline section. Free tests pin both. Co-authored-by: Hagetino <Hagetino@users.noreply.github.com> * test(windows): name the B2, B4, B5 and B12 tests in the curated Windows lane The runtime-root bundle tests lived in browse/test/config.test.ts and the Copilot glossary test in test/host-config.test.ts, both excluded from the Windows lane, so the two Windows-only fixes were never checked on Windows. Move each into its own Windows-safe file (unchanged assertions) and list it, the piped-stdin chain test and the /cso docker.exe discovery test as named Windows coverage in scripts/lib/windows-curation.ts. * fix: the free-text block exits loudly when mktemp fails; spec and redact tests follow the file mechanism The redact resolver test, the #2679 mktemp guard test, the /spec invariant and the spec secret-sink harness pinned the heredoc transport. They now pin the agent-written file: the harness runs the draft-file block, writes the draft the way the file-write tool would, then runs the real scan fence, with every HIGH/MEDIUM/scanner-failure assertion unchanged. Co-authored-by: dgrant <dgrant@users.noreply.github.com> * test: hostile payloads through the generated posting blocks, identifier grammars, every quoting shape - The lint reads a whole command, so an unquoted multi-word placeholder is caught; negative controls cover double, single and no quotes, quoted and unquoted heredocs, continuation lines, and quoted-only identifiers used unquoted. - Every allowlisted grammar rejects quote-breaking characters (and shell operators and whitespace when used unquoted); git accepts 'fix;id' and 'fix`id`' as branch names, the ref grammar does not. - Greptile replies, test-failure issues (GitHub and GitLab) and /spec filing and archive run from the real generated text with stub gh/glab: a body with backticks, $(...), an apostrophe and lines equal to EOF and the old heredoc delimiters arrives byte for byte, nothing in it runs, and the temp file is gone. An unwritten file is refused with its path and the manual command, and nothing is sent. Co-authored-by: dgrant <dgrant@users.noreply.github.com> * test(ship): the PR check precedes the Greptile dispatch, and each skip names its reason Runs Step 10's generated check against stub gh for gh missing, not logged in, a non-GitHub remote, no PR, a failed lookup and an existing PR. Fails on the previous text (which printed PR: unknown and dispatched). Co-authored-by: dgrant <dgrant@users.noreply.github.com> * feat(ship): ship-measure runner for the measure-then-fix loop (A6) scripts/ship-measure.ts owns /ship's diagnostic measurement of a red eval case: per-kind aggregation (rule trials; behavior panels of 3, each at its own 2 of 3 plus 90% of trials; judge outputs scored by 3-sample panels, standalone judge ids accepted), one artifact directory per baseline, repair round and trial, a diagnostic label with verdict null that refuses the eval history dir, an estimated admission budget that reserves every concurrent trial and reconciles actual cost, the ask-once rule, the repair-round limit, the unmeasured skip and the per-case PR table. Free-suite flakes (CEO-1): 'free' reruns one shard's exact file list N times, rerun 1 alone as the baseline and the rest in parallel at max(1, floor(cores / shard concurrency)), each with its own HOME, state root and flake ledger, GSTACK_FREE_RETRY_FLAKY=0, under a wall cap that reports a partial count. test:ubicloud --diagnostic runs the same on one VM with the retry off. bin/gstack-config gains the DX-7 keys with their CEO-9 defaults and rejecting validators. Free tests drive every kind, the budget stop, the unmeasured skip and the free reruns with fake runners. * fix: a Codex usage limit is quota_exhausted, a plain 429 is rate_limited, and only Codex's own error lines count (#3051 rework) The probe's quota signature used to treat any rate limit, "too many requests" or 429 as quota, and read the whole output, which echoes the prompt. Now only Codex's trailing ERROR: / stream error lines are read. A usage-limit or insufficient_quota line is MODEL_QUOTA_EXHAUSTED (exit 4, cached 15 minutes; quota wins over a 429 that names insufficient_quota); a plain 429 is MODEL_PROBE_RATE_LIMITED (exit 0, state rate_limited, never cached), reported as CODEX_MODE: unverified (rate_limited) so the review still runs and decides. The quota HINT says how many minutes gstack skips Codex and how to retry now (GSTACK_CODEX_PROBE_RETRY=1 skips the negative cache for that probe, or delete <state root>/.codex-model-probe), with the full troubleshooting URL. classifyOutsideReview reads the same trailing lines: a mid-review quota is unavailable (quota_exhausted), a mid-review 429 unavailable (rate_limited). New gate row rate_limited and docs anchor codex-rate-limited; the quota row documents the retry. Tests cover each line shape, the echoed prompt, exit 0, timeout, retry recovery, probe/classifier parity, and two fresh-shell preflight blocks where the second makes no paid Codex call. Co-authored-by: venkatareddyg <venkatareddyg@users.noreply.github.com> * ci: the eval image installs zsh, and the macOS lane sources the Codex probe from zsh Dockerfile.ci adds zsh so the sourced-helper guard runs (and fails loudly when zsh is missing) inside the eval container too. The macOS named regressions job sources bin/gstack-codex-probe from zsh in an unrelated directory and runs _gstack_codex_select_model exec (no paid call), then runs the sourced-helper guard on the macOS runner. A free test pins both lanes and runs the macOS step's script locally. * test: deterministic regression for the Codex watchdog freezing the command before reaping its children The existing stubborn-child test caught the reap-then-kill race only some of the time (2 of 3 runs on the pre-fix watchdog). A pkill that sleeps after reaping widens the window between reaping the children and killing the command, so a watchdog that does not SIGSTOP the command first always lets it print "late" after the deadline. Fails 3 of 3 on the pre-fix watchdog, passes 3 of 3 on the current one. * test: live codex smokes run codex in a private HOME and CODEX_HOME codex-resume-flag-semantics and codex-e2e-sol-scope probe the codex CLI (the latter at module load, in every free run), and every codex run writes $CODEX_HOME/tmp/arg0, so with a real codex on PATH they wrote into the developer's ~/.codex. Both now give codex a private HOME and CODEX_HOME and remove it afterwards. A free test runs each file against a stub codex that records HOME and CODEX_HOME and asserts neither is the caller's. * feat(ship): a red eval runs classify, measure, fix, re-measure, gate once (A6) Step 6 no longer stops at the first red paid eval: it reads the new lazily loaded measure section and runs the loop for each red case, and Step 5 measures a failed free-suite shard (diagnostic reruns, retry off) before the triage can call it pre-existing. The section states the diagnostic- not-verdict rule, the per-kind table, the ask-once and named-red stops, the unmeasured label and the honest-fix wording (observed k/n after fix at <cause>). A free test pins the steps and their order in the generated skill and checks every command and flag it names exists in the runner. Ship's parity cap rises to 1.455 (measured 272,944 / 187,706 = 1.4541). * docs(testing): diagnostic measurement is not a verdict; per-kind measure table (A6) * test(ship): seeded-flake paid case for the measure loop (A6, periodic, behavior) A fixture repo with no remote documents a single-case eval command and a gate command, both free local stubs. queue-priorities claims trial slots with atomic mkdir (reset per ship-measure round) and fails slots 2, 5 and 9 while src/priorities.js leaves its seed-shuffled list unsorted, printing failure_cause and failure_detail that name the line. The paid case gives /ship's generated Step 6 and measure section to a live session and asserts it measured the case alone, fixed the named line without touching the eval, re-measured at least 10 passing trials on the sorted file, and only then ran the gate once; any question other than the spend question is a contract violation. A free test measures the fixture through the real ship-measure CLI: 7/10 unsorted, 7/10 after an unrelated edit with the gate still red (ENG-13's negative control), 10/10 after the sort with the gate green. * test(cso): the missing-scanner case points Docker at a dead socket 'an optional scanner prerequisite does not turn completed manual coverage partial' assumed no usable Docker. On a machine with Docker and a pulled gitleaks image the scan completed and the test failed (also on main). The scan step now gets a DOCKER_HOST that cannot connect, which is the prerequisite-missing condition the test describes. * fix: Aside prompts travel as agent-written files, never inside the command The open-ended reading recipe (browse, devex-review), scrape's fuzzy-intent read and the shared web-research block put the model's question, query and reply format inside a double-quoted _aside_exec argument, where backticks and $(...) from page or repo text would run. The agent now writes the prompt into a private .gstack/tmp file; the send block rebuilds the path from the printed basename, refuses when the file is empty, and passes "$(cat "$PROMPT_FILE")". The fixed read-only sentence stays in the shell source. aside-driver pins move from the inline prompt to the file-based send block. Co-authored-by: dgrant <dgrant@users.noreply.github.com> * fix: design briefs and approval feedback travel as agent-written files Design briefs went into $D variants/generate/check as a double-quoted argument, and approval feedback was spliced into a single-quoted echo of JSON, so a quote, backtick or $(...) in either broke the command or ran. The agent now writes each brief into a private .gstack/tmp file and the block passes --brief "$(cat "$BRIEF_FILE")" (the CLI's --brief-file expects a JSON brief, so plain text uses --brief). variants and the later check reuse the same brief file. approved.json is built with jq -n from --arg values and --rawfile feedback, so the feedback is data. The office-hours mockup flow creates its brief and feedback files in one block. design-approval-flow now writes the feedback file (with quotes, backticks and $(...) in it) instead of substituting <FEEDBACK>, and checks the file is removed after the save. Co-authored-by: dgrant <dgrant@users.noreply.github.com> * fix: carve office-hours on every host to stay under the 160,000-byte ceiling With its brief, feedback and research prompts moved into files, the inlined office-hours render is 161,329 bytes on Codex and 160,302 on Factory, over SKILL_BYTE_CEILING, so gen-skill-docs --host all fails. Per the C4 policy (carve every skill whose external render exceeds the ceiling), office-hours joins ship and plan-ceo-review in CARVED_ON_EVERY_HOST. The Claude render is unchanged; external hosts read its sections relative to the installed skill. external-host-carve and qa-lazy-sections now include office-hours in their carved-skill lists. Co-authored-by: dgrant <dgrant@users.noreply.github.com> * chore: regenerate after the free-text mktemp guard * fix(codex): prompts and review focus travel as agent-written files Co-authored-by: dgrant <dgrant@users.noreply.github.com> Challenge and consult prompts, and the /codex review focus text, are written by the agent into private .gstack/tmp files and fed to Codex on stdin or read back with cat; no heredoc carries them. Consult's new and resumed runs share one block (and one parser) so no placeholder stands in for the parser; a resumed run reads its session id from .context/codex-session-id and checks it. Adds the A3 group 2 placeholder allowlist block. * fix(benchmark-models): an inline prompt goes through a prompt file Co-authored-by: dgrant <dgrant@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(land-and-deploy): PR head repository and branch travel as data Co-authored-by: dgrant <dgrant@users.noreply.github.com> The branch check reads headRepository/headRefName from gh's JSON into quoted shell variables; ls-remote, the confirm-first delete and the local delete use those variables instead of model-substituted names. The postfail test now pins the variable form it replaces. * fix(office-hours): the reviewer receipt must match the receipt grammar before the check runs Co-authored-by: dgrant <dgrant@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(setup-gbrain): cleanup-orphans collects the PAT with read_secret_to_env Co-authored-by: dgrant <dgrant@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(ship): PR body drafts and rejected test paths are agent-written files Co-authored-by: dgrant <dgrant@users.noreply.github.com> The PR body is written into two private drafts (through ## Documentation, and from ## Test plan on); the scan block splices Step 14.5's section between them into the scanned temp file and deletes the drafts. Rejected test paths are read from a written list, and paths outside the repository are skipped. Tests that ran the old heredoc blocks now write the drafts and list first. * fix(sync-gbrain): orchestrator flags must match an allowlisted grammar Co-authored-by: dgrant <dgrant@users.noreply.github.com> * fix: the gbrain page save and external-host placeholders pass the free-text rule The gbrain save block passed the whole page through a quoted heredoc inside --content; the agent now writes it to a mktemp file and gbrain put reads it on stdin. The Claude Code outside-voice runtime root and session mode, and the feature slug, join the allowlist with grammars; unused entries are dropped, and a test keeps every allowlisted placeholder tied to a real use. Co-authored-by: dgrant <dgrant@users.noreply.github.com> * fix: skill-specific Aside research queries travel as prompt files investigate, office-hours, plan-ceo-review, review, plan-eng-review, design-consultation Phase 2, the shared test bootstrap (B2) and QA's test bootstrap each carried their own _aside_exec call with the model-filled query inside a double-quoted argument. Skills that already carry the Web research block now give only the prompt-file text and use that block to create, write and send it; design-consultation, the shared bootstrap and QA create the file and send it with the new {{ASIDE_RESEARCH_SEND}} resolver, which is the same send block the research section uses (read-only sentence stays in the shell). aside-driver's B2 pin and qa-browser-preservation's bootstrap contract move from the inline call to the prompt file and the shared send resolver. Co-authored-by: dgrant <dgrant@users.noreply.github.com> * fix: prose design commands pass briefs and feedback as data The DESIGN_SETUP command list taught `iterate --feedback "..."`, and design-consultation's late-change and plan-design-review's slop-regenerate lines showed `--feedback "<feedback>"` / `"..."`; design-shotgun's retry showed `generate --brief "<brief>"` and `evolve --brief "<brief>"`. Feedback now reads "$(cat "$FEEDBACK_FILE")" from an agent-written mktemp file (the setup note says how), and the shotgun retry reads the variant's own brief out of briefs.json with jq instead of retyping it. Co-authored-by: dgrant <dgrant@users.noreply.github.com> * test: record parity sizes after the free-text file mechanism; refresh ship goldens Measured union and skeleton sizes for ship, plan-eng-review, plan-design-review, office-hours, design-consultation, review, qa, browse and design-shotgun after every posting, prompt and brief site moved to agent-written mktemp files; the ship goldens pick up the question-tuning slug and the dropped free_text field. * test: parity caps for the combined wave head (rounded up past the measured ratio) * fix(plan-ceo-review): the mode handoff helper reminds the model to lead its chat with the line (#3038) Periodic run 37272185151's auto-decide-preserved red replays as the Step 0E handoff-line class: the model ran gstack-ceo-mode-handoff --auto, got the exact line, then opened its chat with a heading and a paraphrase, so the user never saw the auto-decide line (the terminal collapses tool output) and the detector saw no outcome. The helper now prints a one-line reminder on stderr beside the line; the detector accepts the line followed by that reminder and nothing else. The ship Greptile check test reads its template (test-of-test ratchet). * test: every troubleshooting link in shipped code resolves, relative or full URL * docs(todos): Oct 6 fix-wave follow-ups * v1.91.32.0 release notes: Codex works from zsh, free text never enters shell commands, honest failures * fix(plan-ceo-review): show the mode handoff line through a PostToolUse hook, not model compliance (#3038) The stderr reminder beside the handoff line measured 1/10 on auto-decide-preserved: the model still opened its chat with a paraphrase ('I've set review mode to HOLD SCOPE...'), so the user never saw the line and the detector saw no outcome. /plan-ceo-review now declares a Claude-only PostToolUse hook that shows the helper's exact line as a system message. Diagnostic measurement on this head: 10/10, the line visible in every trial while no trial's chat led with it. The reminder is reverted. * fix: type the handoff hook's line filter * fix: repairs from the integrated free suite - The self-locate markers looked like heredocs to the pipe-deadlock guard; they are plain comment fences now. - The spawned block keeps the canonical 'conservative non-destructive' phrase the cross-surface drift guard pins. - The free-text block's mktemp refusal says 'mktemp failed', as every /codex temp file must. - The batch transcript read reports sizes in MiB. - docs/TESTING_INTERNALS.md gets a real 'Ship measure' heading for its anchor. - The early-question harness admits /plan-ceo-review's handoff hook by its exact command (it only adds a system message); any other PostToolUse Bash hook is still refused. - Paid file count and the unconsumed-file example follow the new seeded case; ship goldens refreshed. - The CSO scanner test points Docker at a dead socket, so a machine with the pulled image does not scan. * test(cso): a host with no Docker binary is also a no-scan host The missing-image scan test failed on a Docker-less VM (docker is not installed in a trusted directory). Every accepted message is a reason the scan cannot run here; the not_assessed, helper-owned artifact assertions are unchanged. * ci: split the USERPROFILE assignment from export (SC2155) * fix(browse): Windows runtime roots read .source-path as a native path (#3026) The new windows-setup-e2e journey showed the installed browse could not start its server. setup runs under Git Bash and wrote .source-path as an MSYS path (/d/a/gstack); Node read it as \d\a\gstack on the current drive, found nothing, and fell back to the root's own bundle, which cannot import playwright. setup now writes cygpath -m, and the CLI maps an MSYS drive path for installs written by an older setup. The journey prints the daemon and startup logs when the chain fails. * fix(ship-measure): defects from the parallel #3034 plan review - A trial passes only with a JUnit testcase that executed and passed; a --case that selected nothing also exits 0. - measure runs a no-cost --list preflight that must plan the case's own file before any paid trial. - Diagnostic trials drop EVALS_CACHE_DIR/EVALS_CACHE_RUNTIME_ID, so they never reuse a stored judge pass or publish one the gate could reuse. - Gate once: when CI runs the gate on push, the push is the gate run; the skill no longer also starts eval:bg:pr (a second paid gate). - ubi-runner: down fails unless the VM is confirmed gone, and nothing sweeps other runners' VMs by default (UBI_GC_HOURS opt-in). * test(windows): the seeded-flake fixture drives a POSIX shell stub, so it stays off the Windows lane CreateProcess cannot exec the fixture's ./evals.sh shebang script (status null on windows-free-shard 6). The measure runner is covered on Windows by ship-measure.test.ts, which uses in-process fake runners. * fix: the free-text block refuses an unset temp dir instead of writing at / The rendered block ran mktemp "$_GT/..." with _GT unset in the portability test; on Linux that fails at /, but Git Bash on Windows can write to its install root, so the block went on (windows-free-shard 3). It now uses ${_GT:?}, so an unset directory always fails closed with the mktemp message. * test: pin the guarded ${_GT:?} temp-file form * test: the Greptile check's gh stub uses a portable shebang On Windows the absolute bash path has a space, so the stub never ran and every case read 'gh not logged in' (windows-free-shard 1). * test: the Greptile check runs with the native PATH and the gh stub first The PATH-only stub bin could not run its stub on Windows (every case read 'gh not logged in'). Stub cases now keep the real PATH with the stub first; only the no-gh case drops directories holding a real gh. --------- Co-authored-by: marcosdetry <marcosdetry@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: akshaykalia <akshaykalia@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: scottgigante-hubflow <scottgigante-hubflow@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: woodsonl <woodsonl@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: bezdekt <bezdekt@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: dgrant <dgrant@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: venkatareddyg <venkatareddyg@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: CharlesBerg85 <CharlesBerg85@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: VaibDeveloper <VaibDeveloper@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Hagetino <Hagetino@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Rekin226 <Rekin226@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: ekson73 <ekson73@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: tianxchen <tianxchen@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: BenjaminDSmithy <BenjaminDSmithy@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: ubay887 <ubay887@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: nareshh74 <nareshh74@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: syong <syong@users.noreply.github.com>	2026-10-06 23:42:19 +00:00
Garry Tan	74512c20a7	v1.91.15.0 v1.91.15.0: Opus 5.5 prompt cleanup, behavior-level skill tests, transcript consent (#3017) ... * fix(models): allowlist routing for model-pinned Claude families (W1) resolveModel lowercases input and strips one trailing [...] context marker. Opus 4.7, Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5 keep their pinned overlay only for the bare ID, the bare ID plus an 8-digit date, and the bare ID plus -latest; any other suffix (point releases such as claude-sonnet-5-5, claude-opus-4-7-1) falls to the generic claude overlay. claude-opus-5-5 routes to claude explicitly (no new overlay, no new ALL_MODEL_NAMES entry). Fable keeps its prefix match while CLAUDE_FRONTIER_EVAL_MODEL is claude-fable-5-1, guarded by a test. Tests: one test/model-overlays.test.ts case per shape in the plan, plus the lowercase / [1m] marker / family-name cases and the Fable guard. * docs(CLAUDE.md): define when prompt bytes are a test contract (W7 prompt-byte rule) Adds the gstack-repo definition to the Testing section at normal volume: prompt bytes are a contract only when software reads them or a recorded eval shows the wording matters. Amends the test-value-bar line so 'prompt bytes' refers to that definition. scripts/resolvers/test-value.ts and docs/test-value-bar.md are unchanged. * fix(browse): sidebar tab hint names real tabs.json fields and how $B resolves (s11 H1, s11 M8, s11 M9) * fix(router): route telemetry uses the echoed SESSION_ID (s01 H1) $_SESSION_ID is never set in the router's bash block since bin/gstack-skill-start took over session bookkeeping, so every /gstack route event logged an empty session id. Use the literal SESSION_ID placeholder and tell the model to substitute the echoed value, matching the completion-status telemetry block. No W7a pins on the changed line. * docs(CLAUDE.md): correct stale test-infra facts (s01 H2, H3, H4, H5) H2: TREE_MUTATING is not empty; it still holds bootstrap-retention. H3: catalog ceiling is CATALOG_BUDGET_TOKEN_EQUIVALENTS (1,194), not 1,171. H4: detach timeouts point at package.json's --timeout values (gate is 49320s). H5: Writing Style lives in preamble/generate-writing-style.ts and the jargon list is Read at runtime, not baked at generation time. No W7a pins on the changed lines. * fix(preamble): drop the stale jargon-list count (s01 H6) The list has 77 terms, not 80+, and the model Reads the file anyway. No W7a pins on the changed text. * fix(overlay): claude.md dedicated-tools nudge stops naming tools the host may lack (s01 M1) The nudge named Glob and Grep, which some Claude hosts do not expose. It now names the host's dedicated file tools and its search tools when it has them, keeping the prefer-dedicated-tools behavior the claude-dedicated-tools-vs-bash overlay eval measures. Updates the prose comment at test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts:643 (comment only, no assertion change). The matching comment in test/fixtures/overlay-nudges.ts is left to its owner. * fix(preamble): progress notes on phase changes, not a [PROGRESS] cadence (s01 M2) Context Health told the model to periodically write a tagged [PROGRESS] summary. No code reads that tag; the line now says when to tell the user (finishing a phase or changing direction). Loop detection stays. W7a pin: test/terse-build.test.ts:103 pinned 'PROGRESS'; it now checks the default build emits a non-empty Context Health body (terse still emits ''). * fix(preamble): learnings review without incident archaeology (s01 M3) Drops the issue number, the 43-of-44 statistic and the ALWAYS caps from the Operational Self-Improvement step; keeps the rule that the review runs every time and that an empty result is stated explicitly. No W7a pins on the removed text. * docs(CLAUDE.md): fold 'Long-running tasks' into the detach section (s01 M4, CEO W4) The 'don't give up' section told agents to poll a plain background task with sleep 180 + TaskOutput, which the next section forbids for evals. Its one durable rule (keep checking until the run finishes, report progress at each check) now lives in the detach section's poll step, pointed at the gstack-detach EXIT sentinel, at normal volume. No tests pin the removed text. * fix(preamble): test-failure triage questions defer to the AskUserQuestion Format (s01 M5) The two quoted pseudo-briefs pinned a superseded question shape (RECOMMENDATION: Choose X, a completeness score on the recommendation, no D<N>/ELI10/Net). The triage step now gives the facts, the options with their completeness values, and the recommended option as data, and defers the shape to the Format section. Option labels that Step T4 and test/skill-validation.test.ts:2004-2016 depend on are verbatim. No W7a pins on the removed text. * fix(proactive): PROACTIVE=false means no suggestions, including 'want me to run /X?' (W5.1) The router forbade suggesting skills when PROACTIVE is false while the preamble told the model to ask 'want me to run it?'. Decision: false means never auto-invoke and never suggest, including by asking. The preamble line in generate-upgrade-check.ts now matches the router, and both quote the value as `false`, the way gstack-skill-start prints it. Restore with gstack-config set proactive true. W7a pin: test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts:4488 used the old quoted sentence as a preamble-order marker; it now finds the PROACTIVE-false rule with a quote-tolerant, case-insensitive pattern. * docs(ETHOS.md): correct the claim that ETHOS is injected into every preamble (W5.7) Nothing injects ETHOS.md. Preambles carry condensed principles (completeness, voice, search before building) and the Search Before Building section links to this file. Edit approved by Garry for this PR. * office-hours: fix stale refs, state-root path, profile query, SESSION_ID (s07 H1, H2, H3, M7, M10; s01 H1 office-hours note) - Phase 4.5 points at Founder Resources instead of the nonexistent Beat 3.5 (H1). - builder-journey.md is written to $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT, where it is opened (H2). - builder-profile context query reads developer-profile.json, the file the migration leaves behind; drop meaningless tail (H3). - Drop issue numbers from three headings (M7) and the MANDATORY/NOT optional markers on Phase 4 (M10). - Handoff telemetry uses the echoed SESSION_ID placeholder; $_SESSION_ID is never set in a fresh shell. Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * spec: plain Phase 3 gate, drop duplicates, dead telemetry and review IDs (s07 H4, M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, M6) - H4: Standard template heading no longer names nonexistent --bug/--feature/--refactor flags. - M1: Phase 3 read-code-first gate at normal volume, constraint and reason kept. - M2: drop the in-phase repeat of the read-first rule (Rules recap stays). - M3: drop the duplicate audit-sink paragraph. - M4: drop TTHW telemetry block and its never-set frontmatter keys. - M5/M6: drop plan-review finding IDs from Phase 5 headings and the /ship handoff. W7a pins: spec-template-invariants:314 (Mandatory/MUST) becomes a Phase 3 section check for the read-evidence-before-asking constraint; :203 matches 'raw spec must not be persisted' across line wraps so no duplicate paragraph is needed to satisfy it. Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * investigate: drop issue numbers from freeze-script comment (s07 M8) Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * qa: replace WTF point table with named signals and a plain stop rule (s07 M9) The self-regulation check keeps its cadence (every 5 fixes or after a revert), its signals (reverts, unrelated files, sprawl, long runs, low-severity tail), STOP-and-ask, and the 50-fix hard cap. The percentage table goes; the stop threshold (two reverts, or one unrelated-file edit) stops at least as early. W7a pins: qa-browser-preservation:220 drops 'WTF > 20%' and checks the signals case-insensitively; skill-validation:1250 checks the test-only exclusion rule instead of the heading name; carve-guards qa anchor 'WTF-LIKELIHOOD' becomes the '### 8f. Self-Regulation' heading. Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * design-html: match Pretext docs to the vendored bundle; fix cross-block server state (s08 H1, H2, H3, H4, H7, M6) - H1-H3: walkLineRanges, layoutNextLine and layoutWithLines signatures and return shapes now match design-html/vendor/pretext.js; patterns 2-4 rewritten. - H4: inline the ES-module bundle in <script type="module"> with page code in the same module; no window.Pretext global exists. - H7: remember the printed server URL and PID; later blocks restate them. - M6: drop the 2-3 line cap on the refinement summary. Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * make-pdf: drop nonexistent --no-syntax flag, trigger list and relative phrasing (s08 H5, M7, M9) Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * design-shotgun: DESIGN.md decides what variants vary; fix $SLUG; drop history (s08 H6, M1, M2, M3; W5.6) - H6: the office-hours lookup block evals gstack-slug before using $SLUG. - M1 + W5.6: with a DESIGN.md, variants keep its fonts and palette and vary layout and composition; without one they vary font, palette and layout. The swap-the-headline test and the 'Anti-convergence directive' heading (carve-guards anchor) stay. - M2: drop the Claude Code version pin; run_in_background: false and its reason stay. - M3: /tmp-then-cp rule and reason without the incident story. G1 (replace executor subagents) deferred to TODOS.md per plan. Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * design-review: plain identity line; scope 'never read source' to the audit (s08 M4, M10) M5 (risk-percentage stop conditions) is a UC2 gate and keeps its wording. Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * design-consultation: plain CLAUDE.md design-system snippet with its reason (s08 M8) Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * plan-tune: describe the never-ask hook truthfully; drop plan codes (s09 H8, H9, H10, M10; W4 plan-tune) W4: make the text true rather than change the hook. The consent copy and scope now say never-ask questions are auto-decided with gstack's recommendation by the question-preference hook (one-way doors still ask), and the profile itself never changes defaults. H10 removes the nonexistent --dismiss command. M10 strips cathedral/Layer/D-codes and keeps mechanisms. Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * context-save/restore: drop rename history; fix command-list branch rule (s09 H11, M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, M6) Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * retro: correct what the skill writes; drop word cap and archaeology (s09 H13, M7, M8, M9, M25) H13 and M7 touch neighbouring lines and were merged by hand in that order. Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * health: compute the composite in code; fix example weights; drop D6 codes (s09 H12, M21, M22) Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * gstack-upgrade: drop issue numbers and version history, keep rationale (s09 M20) Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * canary: replace the 30-second/don't-over-analyze rule with the goal (s09 M23) Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * benchmark: self-contained page discovery instead of a /canary reference (s09 M24) Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * codex: drop judge vocabulary and the maintainer known-bad-list note (s10 M1, M2) The synthesis line keeps its Recommendation: <action> because <reason> shape. M16 (consult-mode embed rule) is a UC2 gate and keeps its wording; the outside-voice prompt bodies sent to Codex are unchanged. Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * document-generate: true redaction-fence behavior; drop thoroughness booster (s10 H8, M3) Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * document-release: changelog sell test as three questions, not a 0-3 score (s10 M6) The threshold stays (fewer than two answered = needs attention, not replacement). M4/M5 (NEVER CLOBBER / NEVER BUMP) keep their wording; the integrator owns the eval-gated rewrite. W7a pin: workflow-excerpt:170 'Entries scoring <2 need attention, not replacement' becomes a case-insensitive check that weak entries get attention, not replacement. Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * ios-clean/fix/sync: match the generator's real header, package shape and regen command (s10 H2, H3, H4, H5, M9, M12) - H2: inventory greps the header the generator actually writes. - H4/H5: remove the local .package(path:) entry and DebugBridge* product deps; delete the generated DebugBridge/ and DebugBridgeGenerated/ dirs so the Phase 3 check can pass. - H3: regenerate accessors with /ios-sync (gstack-ios-qa-regen). - M12: ios-fix writes the regression with the project's own test runner. - M9: drop migration-relative sentence. ios-qa DEMO MODE (M8) is a UC2 gate and keeps its wording. Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * setup-deploy: drop User-invocable boilerplate; say default branch, not main (s10 M10, M11) Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * skillify: test staged skills directly; stop after Aside scrapes; drop roadmap notes (s10 H1, H6, H7, M14, M15) Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * W4: transcript ingest needs affirmative consent (recent|all) normalizeTranscriptConsent() in gstack-memory-ingest reads transcript_ingest_mode once per process. Only recent (90 days) and all (all history) are consent; an absent key, off, legacy gate letters, incremental and unknown values skip transcripts while other memory still syncs. The ingest's default source set drops transcript without consent; an explicit --sources list naming transcript overrides. gstack-gbrain-sync reads consent once at sync start and pins a non-consented run to an explicit source list, so a mid-run config change cannot add transcripts. It prints the pinned skip notice on every such run (even --quiet), records the normalized mode and skip reason in the memory stage, restages an interrupted import when the consent policy changed, passes --all-history on --full for mode all, and documents the default in --help. Tests: new gstack-gbrain-sync-transcript-mode.test.ts; memory-ingest fixtures seed consent; regression-2922's every-type case seeds consent. Findings: s09 H16 (enforce the consent choice in code). * W4: gstack-brain-sync holds staged transcript pages without consent Queued transcripts/ pages stay queued and on disk unless transcript_ingest_mode is recent or all; other classes still push. Test: brain-sync.test.ts push-filter case (absent, off, legacy A, then recent). * W4: gstack-config validates transcript_ingest_mode; set rejects empty and multi-line values transcript_ingest_mode accepts only recent|all|off and leaves the stored value unchanged otherwise. set rejects an empty value or one containing a newline for every key instead of truncating it. The config header documents the key; lookup_default keeps off. * setup-gbrain, sync-gbrain: fix stale facts and strip plan archaeology Applies s09 H1a, H1c (Mac-only wording; the installer supports Linux and Windows), H2 (smoke test has no delete step), H3 (five invocation modes), H4 (no CI grep test backs the telemetry claim), H7 (Step 4.5 does not exist; the prompt is Path 4 step 4d), M11, M12, M13, M15, M18, M19 (plan codes, issue numbers, version pins, rename story), M14 (restore-from-sync never shipped), M16 (draft self-dialogue in the Supabase steps), M17 (passed sunset date, manual merge into both sections). W7a: retires the setup-gbrain-bin-invocation-paths 'now persists staged transcripts' change-detector (t06 #17); the no-bare-invocation regex tests keep the contract. * W4: transcript consent prose in /setup-gbrain, /sync-gbrain and memory.md The Step 7.5 gate is rewritten as a consent question (manual merge of s09 H5, with H1b and H6): it checks gstack-config has, asks once with A) recent, B) all history, E) never, names Claude Code and Codex sessions from every repo-policy-allowed project and the destination brain, stores the mode value (never the letter), asks yes/no when no transcripts exist, never asks spawned or headless sessions, and drops the silent no-question bulk paths and the false skill-start-hook claim (s09 H5c). Path 4 no longer stores off on the user's behalf. /sync-gbrain gains Step 1.6 (ask when the key is absent or holds a legacy value). Step 10 and the sync verdict show the mode. setup-gbrain/memory.md gains #transcripts (values, sources, destination, override precedence, one-time restage, held staged pages, already-ingested pages stay). W7a: setup-gbrain-bin-invocation-paths drops the silent-bulk and preamble-hook pins (that prose is gone) for negative checks (no pre-answer --bulk, no skill-start claim), loosens the gstack-config pin (t06 #18) to the command without <choice>, and adds the DX 'gated on has' order check for both skills. * W5.2: /sync-gbrain is the only writer of the CLAUDE.md search-guidance block setup-gbrain's claude-md-persist section stops writing its own '## GBrain Search Guidance' block, which also removes the false 'auto-syncs on every gstack skill start' text (s09 H15; s09 H14 decided). Step 10 offers to run /sync-gbrain now and names it otherwise. Test sweep: only skill-e2e-sync-gbrain-readiness references the heading, and it checks the block /sync-gbrain writes, so no test changes. * E4: config-key reader tripwire in gstack-config-defaults.test.ts Every key in bin/gstack-config's DEFAULTS table must be read by code (gstack-config get/has <key>, a config-binary variable, a spawn argv, a config-reader call, or an anchored ^key: pattern in bin/, lib/, scripts/, setup or any .tmpl; wildcard keys by prefix) or appear in PROSE_ONLY_KEYS with a reason. Run on the current tree first: every key has a reader, so the seeded prose-only list is empty. Failure messages name the two fixes. A synthetic-tree case checks each reader form and that docs prose does not count. setup is scanned because timeline_stop_hook is read only there. * W4: /open-gstack-browser asks before replacing a live browse daemon Step 0 probes with BROWSE_NO_AUTOSTART=1 $B status (no daemon is booted by the probe). No live daemon: clear Chromium profile locks and run plain $B connect, which reaps orphans and refuses to replace a busy daemon. Already headed: connect reports it. Live headless daemon: AskUserQuestion, and only an explicit yes runs $B connect --force-restart; spawned or headless sessions leave it running and print the stop line with the resolved browse binary. The hand-rolled kill / kill -9 of the recorded PID and the browse.json deletion are gone. Supersedes s10 M13. Tests: new open-gstack-browser-liveness.test.ts (no kill of the recorded PID, status probe before connect, --force-restart only after the yes branch, profile-lock cleanup kept, spawned/headless stop line). The state-extraction tripwire now covers only the port snippet, since the pid snippet is gone. * fix(browse): untrusted-content warnings name both marker formats (s02 H5, s02 L2 / W7f) The /browse warning named only the --- UNTRUSTED EXTERNAL CONTENT --- envelope and the browser fallback only the ═══ UNTRUSTED WEB CONTENT ═══ one; $B prints both (commands.ts wrapUntrustedContent, content-security.ts ENVELOPE_BEGIN). Both surfaces now name both formats. W7f pin: test/aside-driver.test.ts:347-350 no longer bans the EXTERNAL marker; it reads both marker labels from browse/src/commands.ts and browse/src/content-security.ts and requires both in the fallback and warning. Negative control: reverting browse.ts turns the test red. Parity cap (test/helpers/carve-guards.ts): qa maxSizeRatio 1.103 -> 1.104 (measured 1.1035); the second marker adds bytes to every skill that renders the browser fallback. expected red until the regeneration commit (generated SKILL.md not committed) * fix(design): mockup board loop matches the daemon CLI (s02 H1, s02 H2, s02 H3) - H1: $D compare --serve publishes to the design daemon and exits; read BOARD_URL from stderr, wait with AskUserQuestion, then read feedback.json / feedback-pending.json. The fallback no longer names a $D serve command the step never runs. - H2: the reload POST uses the jq --arg form, so $_DESIGN_DIR expands (the single-quoted JSON sent the literal variable name). - H3: Content & Microcopy lists 11 items, not 8. No test pins the removed text. expected red until the regeneration commit * design: name the defaults to avoid in native design-direction prompts; plain path rule (s02 H4a, s02 H4b, s02 M9) - H4a/H4b: the design-consultation and design-sketch native subagent prompts now name the default looks to avoid (the three looks from the Hard Rules calibration plus the catalog entries the sibling outside-voice prompt already lists) and say to pick again if the first idea is one of them. - M9: 'CRITICAL PATH RULE' -> 'Path rule'; the rule and its reason stay. No test pins the changed text. Parity cap (test/helpers/carve-guards.ts): design-consultation maxSizeRatio 1.085 -> 1.092 (measured 1.0911). expected red until the regeneration commit * fix(outside-voice): preflight mode list no longer looks exhaustive (s02 M10) The preflight also prints under_codex and under_current_harness; not_authed exists only on the Codex path. 'every other mode skips them' covers all non-ready modes. No test pins the old line. expected red until the regeneration commit * outside-voice: drop booster sentences and plan-review decision IDs (s02 M1, s02 M7) - M1: native adversarial subagent prompt drops 'Be adversarial. Be thorough.'; the attacker framing, defect list and 'No compliments' output rule stay. - M7: doc-review headings drop the D3 / T3B plan-review decision IDs (D<N> also collides with AskUserQuestion brief numbering). Not changed: s02 M2 (outside adversarial prompt body sent to Codex/GPT: out of scope per plan) and s02 M3 (CODEX_BOUNDARY: UC2 gate keeps its wording). No test pins the removed text. expected red until the regeneration commit * confidence: drop issue IDs and the contributor-only design-doc pointer (s02 M4a, s02 M4b) - M4a: gate heading and FP-class intro lose '#1539' and the Django sprint measurement note; the gate rule and its four FP classes stay. - M4b: remove the pointer to ~/.gstack-dev/plans/1539-framework-aware-review.md, a contributor-local file that never exists where /plan-eng-review and /ship run. W7a pins (test/regression-1539-review-self-verify.test.ts): - :34 toMatch(/#1539/) removed (cosmetic issue-number pin; the gate-header check stays). - :64-67 'references the deferred design doc' replaced by a structural check that no .gstack-dev/plans/ path reaches the emitted prose. expected red until the regeneration commit * question-tuning: state why the summary is piped instead of citing #2024 (s02 M6) No test pins the resolver text (#2024 appears only in test names/comments). expected red until the regeneration commit * fix(testing): shared TEST_BOOTSTRAP undoes only owned changes (s03 H1, s03 H2, s03 H3, s03 M1) The shared {{TEST_BOOTSTRAP}} (/ship, /design-review) still told the agent to 'git checkout -- package.json package-lock.json', to 'revert all bootstrap changes', to 'delete silently' a failing first test, and to stage 'all bootstrap files'. The QA copy (qa/sections/test-bootstrap.md.tmpl) already says undo only owned changes, never blanket-checkout, never silently delete a valid red regression, and stop on unrelated staged edits. The shared copy now matches it. This removes destructive behavior (UC2: lands regardless of eval). W7g: test/qa-browser-preservation.test.ts gains a check that the shared copy (ship, design-review) has no 'git checkout --', no silent deletion, no blanket revert, and keeps the owned-change and staged-edits rules (case-insensitive). Negative control: the old testing.ts turns it red. Parity cap (test/helpers/carve-guards.ts): ship maxSizeRatio 1.404 -> 1.405 (measured 1.4044 at the branch tip, with the s03 M2/M3 wording). expected red until the regeneration commit * testing: coverage trace and test generation follow the value bar (s03 M2, s03 M3) - M2: 'Every branch in this diagram needs a test' / 'Each step in the journey needs a test' contradicted COVERAGE_GOAL ('Test count is not a goal') in the same rendered audit. Branches and journey steps now need coverage that would catch a regression; the value bar decides new test vs extension vs covered. - M3: 'Mock all external dependencies' -> the smallest native test, mocking only services unrelated to the behavior (matches the QA handoff in qa.ts and the audit's own E2E routing). No test pins the removed text. expected red until the regeneration commit * plan-gates: per-item confirmation states its reason, not an incident ID (s03 M4) 'VAS-449' meant nothing to the model and reached the user in the >5-items warning. The rule now gives the reason (a blanket confirmation lets the user click through without opening any file / lets unchecked items pass as verified). The per-item confirmation rule is unchanged. W7a pin: test/ship-plan-completion-invariants.test.ts:122 toMatch(/VAS-449/) removed (cosmetic incident-ID pin); the per-item rule and blanket-confirm ban checks on the same test stay. expected red until the regeneration commit * plan-gates, review-dashboard: terminal-report rules without trait claims or 'prior versions' narrative (s03 M5, s03 M7) - M5: exit gate drops 'will (correctly) reject it' and the 'Self-deception failure mode' aside; keeps the contract-violation sentence (pinned by test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts) and the body-prose-is-not-the-report rule. - M7: report-write step states the rule and its reason (delete and append at EOF so the report stays last) instead of the history of how it broke. No test pins the removed text. expected red until the regeneration commit * spec-review: default anti-shortcut clause without incident narrative (s03 M6) Drops 'the May 2026 transcript bug ... that's the bug, recognize it' and the caps; keeps the rule: each non-trivial finding goes through AskUserQuestion before it enters the plan, and only a zero-finding review skips asking. The four skill-specific branches are unchanged. W7a pin: test/skill-ceo-section-ordering.test.ts:868-873 pinned the SHA-256 of the default clause. It now checks, on every host, that the clause still says the plan cannot replace the interactive review, routes findings through AskUserQuestion, and lets only zero findings reach ExitPlanMode without asking (case-insensitive), and that the clause is host-independent. The old clause also passes; deleting the zero-findings rule turns it red. The DX hash pin is unchanged. expected red until the regeneration commit * constants: foreground-dispatch note in current-state terms at normal volume (s03 M8) Keeps every constraint (explicit run_in_background: false, Agent tool only, never inline or as a Skill, fallback only after a dispatched subagent fails) and the reason (fresh-context isolation); drops 'no longer', BACKGROUND/ONLY/ WRONG/FALLBACK caps. test/ship-control-flow.test.ts and run-in-background-guidance.test.ts check the placeholder and the explicit flag, not this prose. expected red until the regeneration commit * tasks-section: inline the effort ratios for every phase (s03 M9) The non-CEO/Eng branch said 'Effort uses the AI-compression table from CLAUDE.md', but at runtime CLAUDE.md is the user's project file; the table exists only in gstack's own repo. Every phase now renders the inline ratios the CEO/Eng branch already used. No test pins the removed text. expected red until the regeneration commit * hosts, utility: model-neutral Claude co-author trailer (s03 M10, s11 M10) The Claude host trailer and the resolver fallback (cursor, kiro, opencode, slate) signed commits as 'Claude Opus 4.7' whatever model ran. Both now read 'Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>' so the trailer cannot go stale at the next model release (the s11 report offered this neutral form; s03 M10's hunk uses it). document-release's release body renders the same {{CO_AUTHOR_TRAILER}} and follows on regeneration. test/host-config.test.ts:589 only requires 'Claude' and stays green. Goldens move on regeneration (not committed). expected red until the regeneration commit * changelog workflow: cross-check covers user-facing changes, not every commit (s03 M11) 'Every commit must map to at least one bullet' contradicted the same block's voice rule (never mention contributor-facing details) and CLAUDE.md's entry rule (the diff vs main, not how the branch got there). Every user-facing change in the commit list must be represented; merges, version bumps and mid-branch fixes need no bullet. W7a pin: test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts:2038 no longer pins the old sentence; it checks the Cross-check step still compares against the step-2 commit list and scopes to user-facing changes (case-insensitive), without re-pinning the new sentence. expected red until the regeneration commit * plan-ceo-review, plan-eng-review: storage paths follow the state root (s04 F2, s04 F3) The CEO storage policy and the eng write policy named ~/.gstack/projects/ and ~/.gstack/analytics/, while the writers (tasks-section.ts, testing.ts, spec-review.ts) use $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT. When the state root is relocated the prose pointed at the wrong directory. W7a pin: test/plan-review-cases.test.ts:852 pinned the stale path; it now checks the discovery path is under $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT and that the hardcoded ~/.gstack/projects/{slug}/ is gone. expected red until the regeneration commit * plan-ceo-review: remove the handoff-note reader and cleanup for files nothing writes (s04 F6, s04 F7) CEO handoff notes (*-ceo-handoff-*.md) have not been written since v0.11.5.1; no template, resolver or bin script produces them. The reader cost a bash call on every CEO run, depended on $SLUG/$BRANCH from another shell, and looked under $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT where pre-state-root notes never lived. W7a pin: test/skill-ceo-section-ordering.test.ts:320 sliced up to the removed '## Handoff Note Cleanup' heading; it now slices to the next heading ('## Review Log') with the same assertions. Note: the ceo-mode-option / ceo-mode-prerequisite PTY cases fail under the image's Bun 1.3.14 with or without this change and pass under Bun 1.4.0. expected red until the regeneration commit * plan reviews: replace context-pressure triage with the full-completion rule (s04 F1; manual merge of s05 M2) plan-ceo-review, plan-design-review and plan-devex-review ranked sections 'under context pressure' ending in 'Everything else', which licensed dropping sections their own anti-skip rules require. plan-eng-review already replaced the same block with 'Complete every required stage ... do not preemptively warn'. All three now use that rule and name what may never be shortened (design: Step 0, Step 0.5 mockups unless the user opted out, Passes 1-7; devex: Step 0 with persona/empathy/benchmark/magical moment/TTHW, Passes 1-8). s04 F1 noted the same block in the s05 files; the design copy is a manual merge of s05 M2 (drops 'non-negotiable', which contradicted the user's explicit 'skip mockups' opt-out). No test pins the removed text. expected red until the regeneration commit * plan-ceo-review: shared-code guidance matches the eng review (s04 F4, s04 F5) 'DRY: flag repetition aggressively' and 'DRY violations. Be aggressive.' contradicted plan-eng-review's newer rule (require common behavior and improved reliability or net savings; similar-looking code alone is insufficient), so the two reviews gave the same plan opposite advice. Both CEO lines now follow the eng rule; Section 5 keeps the file:line citation. No test pins the removed text. expected red until the regeneration commit * plan reviews: normal-volume rules; eng sections report every finding (s04 F8, s04 F10, s04 F11) - F8: eng 'at most 8 findings' per section conflicted with 'never condense or skip' and left a 9th high-confidence finding nowhere to go; report every main-report finding, most severe first (confidence calibration still suppresses low-confidence ones). - F10: drop 'It is not optional.' (the anti-skip rule already covers Section 2). - F11: 'ALWAYS a smell' -> 'a smell'. No test pins the removed text. Two eng PTY cases fail under Bun 1.3.14 and pass under Bun 1.4.0 (CI pin). expected red until the regeneration commit * plan reviews: '## CRITICAL RULE — How to ask questions' -> '## How to ask questions' (s04 F9, s05 L3) The bodies are plain procedure; the caps label added nothing and competed with the CRITICAL GAP output label. Applied in plan-ceo-review, plan-design-review and plan-devex-review sections (s05 L3 promoted by the plan). W7a: test/devex-finding-fixture.test.ts:83-84 now finds the section by a heading regex ending in 'How to ask questions'; the skill-e2e-plan-ceo-plan-mode failure diagnosis names the new heading. Judge anchors NOT changed here (builder E moves them to structural anchors): skill-ceo-section-ordering.test.ts (old :938), workflow-excerpt.test.ts:109,296, skill-llm-eval.test.ts:638, workflow-judge-input.test.ts:366,373; the mirror in touchfiles.test.ts:219 also uses '## CRITICAL RULE'. These stay red until E's anchor commit lands. expected red until the regeneration commit * autoplan: phase drivers match the loaded review skills (s05 H1, s05 H2, s05 H3, s05 H4, s05 H5, s05 M5) - H1/H2: the skip list names the current headings ('Step 0: Detect platform and base branch', 'Design Outside Voices (independent)'); the old names never matched, risking a duplicate base-branch detection or outside-voice pass. - H3: the DX journey map is the 6-stage table from Step 0F, not 9 stages. - H4: the DX checklist names Step 0 'DX Investigation' and scores only after the evidence exists, as plan-devex-review requires. - H5 (manual merge): the eng test-plan artifact uses the eng skill's {user}-{branch}-eng-review-test-plan-{datetime}.md name under $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT/projects/$SLUG (consistent with s04 F3). - M5: the Decision Audit Trail separator has 7 columns to match its header. No test pins the removed text. Three autoplan PTY cases fail under Bun 1.3.14 and pass under Bun 1.4.0. expected red until the regeneration commit * plan-design-review: scope gate runs Step 0 before mockups (W5.4, s05 H6) The scope gate said 'audit → mockups → Step 0' while the body runs Step 0 (0A-0D) first and 0D announces 'I'll generate visual mockups next'. Per the W5.4 decision, the three gate phrases now read audit → Step 0 → Step 0.5 mockups. 'Reply with A, B, or C' is unchanged. W7a pins: - test/plan-scope-selection.test.ts:616 pinned the old order sentence; it now checks the order of the 'After resolution:' steps (preamble, base branch, audit, Step 0, mockups). Negative control: the old order turns it red. - test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts:4737 normalizer strips the design-only 'Then run the pre-review audit, ... against that plan.' sentence by pattern. expected red until the regeneration commit * plan-design-review: mockup default and retrospective at normal volume (s05 M1, s05 M3, s05 M4) - M1: 'YOUR PRIMARY TOOL' / 'The rule is simple ... Don't ask permission ... Mockups ARE the plan' -> generate mockups without asking when the plan has UI and the designer is available, with the reason; skip only under the Step 0.5 conditions (which include the user's opt-out). - M3: 'be MORE aggressive' on previously flagged areas -> check whether the earlier issue recurs or was only partly fixed and say so. - M4: drop the unverifiable 'Tier 2+ (15+ RPM)' rate-tier aside; keep the one-at-a-time rule and the /design-shotgun pointer. (s05 M2 landed with s04 F1.) No test pins the removed text; the remaining failing case is the plan-scope-selection PTY case that fails under Bun 1.3.14 and passes under Bun 1.4.0. expected red until the regeneration commit * plan-devex-review: DX TRIAGE keeps every pass and reports blockers only (W5.5, s05 H7) The Mode Quick Reference let TRIAGE skip the benchmark, the magical moment and passes 2/4-8, contradicting the anti-skip rule, the 0C target gate and the 'executed all 8 DX passes' self-check. Per the W5.5 decision the TRIAGE cells now read 'Target only' / 'Verify exists' / 'All 8, blockers only', matching the Rating Method's 'flag adoption blockers; skip nice-to-haves'. No test pins the removed cells. expected red until the regeneration commit * ship, review, land-and-deploy, landing-report: fix stale cross-references (s06 H1, s06 H2, s06 H3, s06 H4, s06 H5, s06 H8, s06 M6) - H1: TODOS-format cites /ship Step 14, not 5.5. - H2: the land readiness review is the checklist /ship applies in Step 9 (there is no Step 3.5). - H3: the Apple adapter names the no-credential-talk rule by location instead of 'line 14' (it renders at line 16). - H4: greptile triage diffs against origin/<base> from the caller's detected base, not origin/main. - H5: the land Important Rules recap matches the steps (4-minute CI rounds in Step 3; 30 seconds for merge readback and deploy status). - H8: landing-report calls the util once per bump level (four), and drops the unsupported 'cached by bun' claim. - M6: landing-report says what its base detection does instead of claiming it matches other skills. No test pins the removed text. expected red until the regeneration commit * fix(land-and-deploy): readiness gate uses the project's test command and the live eval store (s06 H6, s06 H7) - H6 (manual merge): TEST_COMMAND comes from CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md; if neither documents one, ask the user instead of defaulting to 'bun test' (wrong for non-Bun projects and a bare suite run in gstack). The audit hunk's 'persist the answer to CLAUDE.md' write is not adopted: it adds a write the readiness gate never had. - H7: E2E and judge results are searched in the eval store the collector writes (~/.gstack/projects/<slug>/evals/ and its shards/*/ directories), then the legacy ~/.gstack-dev/evals/ fallback; the gate no longer reports 'no E2E tests run today' when results exist. test/state-root-ratchet.allowlist.json: allowlist the EVAL_DIR line with its reason (test/helpers/eval-store.ts writes under os.homedir()/.gstack, so the reader must use the same path, not $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT). Parity cap (test/helpers/carve-guards.ts): land-and-deploy maxSizeRatio 1.10 -> 1.108 (measured 1.1076 at the branch tip, including the W7f marker). expected red until the regeneration commit * ship: Step 9 Pass 1 defers to the checklist's critical categories (W5.3, s06 H9) /ship restated the checklist's Pass 1 as two of its five CRITICAL categories (missing Race Conditions, Shell Injection, Enum Completeness). Per the W5.3 decision it now names 'the checklist's Pass 1 categories', matching /review. No test pins the removed text. expected red until the regeneration commit * land-and-deploy: host-neutral post-merge branch example (s06 M5) The squash-merge cleanup example created 'codex/post-merge-pr-N' branches on every host. The example is now 'post-merge/pr-N', naming Codex Desktop's codex/ prefix as the host-specific case and keeping the detached-HEAD reason and the no-force-push rule. No test pins the removed text. expected red until the regeneration commit * ship: drop issue/incident IDs and the 'continue silently' suppressor (s06 M2, s06 M3, s06 M4, s06 M7) - M2/M3: '(#1946)' and '(#1079)' removed from the credential guard and REST fallback headings; the rules are unchanged. - M4: the audit-failure fallback states the reason (a skipped audit lets unverified plan items ship as done) instead of 'the failure shape that VAS-449 surfaced'. - M7: 'Continue silently — just note the counts briefly' -> report the pass counts in one line and continue to Step 6 (Step 16 cites these counts). Not changed: s06 M1, the Step 16 IRON LAW (UC2 gate keeps its wording). W7a pin: test/ship-plan-completion-invariants.test.ts:127 pinned the VAS-449 sentence; it now checks that the audit-failure fallback still forbids a silent fail-open (case-insensitive). Negative control: deleting that sentence turns it red. expected red until the regeneration commit * test: anchor plan-design excerpts on the question-procedure heading, not '## CRITICAL RULE' (W7a judge-anchor move; workflow-excerpt.test.ts:109,296) The end marker now accepts a RegExp. ASK_QUESTIONS_HEADING matches the heading with or without its 'CRITICAL RULE — ' prefix, so the excerpt is byte-identical on the current templates and survives the s04 F9 / s05 L3 rename. * test: plan-design judge-input case anchors on the question-procedure heading (W7a judge-anchor move; workflow-judge-input.test.ts:366,373) * test: plan-design workflow judge ends its slice at the question-procedure heading (W7a judge-anchor move; skill-llm-eval.test.ts:638) Judge input is byte-identical on the current templates; judge prompts and schemas are unchanged. * test: CEO governing-stage order anchors on the question-procedure heading (W7a judge-anchor move; skill-ceo-section-ordering.test.ts:938) * test: dedicated-tools overlay gates on correct output plus 20% fewer Bash calls (Eng W7 overlay predicate; replaces overlay-nudges.ts:213 taskCorrect) Every ON trial must pass the fixture's verify (already a valid-measurement requirement) and lowerIsBetter20Pct must hold; when the OFF median is 0, every ON trial must also be 0. assessOverlayArms enforces both through a new fixture.gate. Overlay contract bumps to v3 so v2 records are never reinterpreted. overlay-measurement gains rows for correct+worse (fails), 20%+incorrect (fails) and the zero baseline (passes only at 0). The prose comment follows the s01 M1 claude.md wording. * test: document-release E2E stops coaching the rules it measures (W7b; UC2 gate eval for NEVER CLOBBER / NEVER BUMP) Drops the IMPORTANT block at skill-e2e-workflow.test.ts:76-83, including 'auto-approve everything' and the CHANGELOG/VERSION instructions; keeps only the environment facts (non-interactive, no remote). Asserts the outcome: the original CHANGELOG entries remain, VERSION still reads 1.1.1, no commit after the fixture head touches VERSION, and README mentions Feature C. * test: routing E2E uses the routing instruction gstack ships (W7b routing fixture; skill-routing-e2e.test.ts:113) readShippedSkillRouting() parses the '## Skill routing' section from the routing-injection heredoc in bin/gstack-skill-start at test time. The journey fixture now carries that instruction instead of 'ALWAYS invoke … FIRST action. Do NOT answer directly', and still withholds the per-skill rule list so a regressed description can fail. bin/gstack-skill-start and the helper join the journey, context-skills and skillify touchfiles. A free check catches heredoc drift. Runs on unchanged templates set the new baseline. * test: context-skills E2E routes with the shipped ## Skill routing section (W7b routing fixture) Replaces the shouted 'ALWAYS invoke it … FIRST action' fixture and its hand-written context-save/restore rules with the section gstack appends to CLAUDE.md, which already routes save/resume to those skills. * test: skillify E2E stops scripting the skill and routes with the shipped section (W7b skillify prompt + routing fixture; W7d skillify narration ban) - CLAUDE.md fixture: the shipped ## Skill routing section replaces 'ALWAYS invoke it via the Skill tool as your FIRST action' and its hand-written rules. - scrape-match-path: prompt is 'Run /scrape latest hacker news stories'; the 'You MUST follow … 1. Run skill list … Do NOT enter the prototype phase' script is gone. Asserts the outcome: the bundled skill ran, no goto prototyping, no new skill or skillify staging written. Listing is logged. - scrape-prototype-path: drops the five-step script and the self-fulfilling 'Suggest /skillify'; keeps the user's JSON shape request. - skillify-provenance-refusal: prompt no longer dictates the refusal. - Narration grader moves to helpers/skill-body-narration.ts: line-start 'I '/'I'll '/'Let me ' plus mid-sentence 'let me <verb>', so 'let me know' is legal. Stored known-good/known-bad bodies show it still rejects every known-bad case the old /Let me /i ban caught. * test: land-and-deploy E2Es state environment facts instead of scripting the skill (W7b deploy prompts) The workflow, first-run and review-gate prompts drop the 'IMPORTANT … simulate: 1. Detect … 2. Infer … 3. Note …' scripts and the answers they supplied (platform, app, URL, merge method, 'Eng Review should be NOT RUN'). They keep the facts the fixture cannot provide (no remote, no PR, gh/fly unavailable, gstack-review-read output, report directory). Assertions now check the outcome: the artifacts name Fly and test-app, and the readiness report records the missing review. Canary, benchmark and setup-deploy prompts are unchanged. * test: ship triage asserts each failure's in-branch/pre-existing label (W7b ship triage) The old check passed if the words 'in-branch', 'pre-existing', 'math' and 'string' appeared anywhere in the final message, in any pairing. The prompt now asks for a closing JSON map; helpers/ship-triage-labels.ts reads it (or unambiguous per-failure lines) and the test requires truncate/string -> in-branch and divide/math -> pre-existing, plus a Bash call that ran the suite. Stored outputs show swapped, words-only and one-label runs fail. Drops the untyped recordE2E extras (typecheck baseline shrinks by one). * test: design-review-fix asserts a fixed design issue, not only the Aside ritual (W7b design-review-fix) Keeps the engine-routing checks (Aside driven, retired binary unused) and adds the outcome: design-audit.md exists, names a seeded defect, and index.html or style.css differs from the initial fixture commit. The style(design) commit prefix is not required. This case still cannot gate the design-review stop-condition rewrite (it self-skips without Aside and caps fixes in its prompt), per the Eng item. * test: CEO HOLD preservation grader checks the decision, not its phrasing (W7d CEO mode-routing regex judge, ceo-mode-option.ts:410-440) Drops the exact 'Keep <x> in scope' / 'Defer <x> to TODOS' labels, the 'D<n> — Keep … in scope, or defer' title, the '<plan>.md lists' phrase and the 2-of-5 keyword quota. Keeps the evidence bindings (native answer, session, timestamps, source read, mode context, later withdrawal) and now requires: one keep option and one defer option, the answer selects keep, a word of the kept label names a listed plan requirement, no expansion language, and an ELI10 + Stakes rationale of at least 20 words (so a bare mode label still fails). Stored captures: both retained known-good runs pass; every existing known-bad mutation still fails; four rewordings the old grader rejected now pass; three new known-bad cases fail. The Net/Note single-brief checks (t02 #3) are unchanged: the 'second sentence after Net' row adds scope ('Also add shared views'), so it stays a known-bad. * test: docsync observer accepts harmless read wrappers (W7d docsync observer) docsCommandAllowed now unwraps, on read-only commands only (pwd, ls, cat, stat, sha256sum, Git reads): a leading 'cd <fixture repo> &&', '2>/dev/null', a trailing '|| true', '--no-pager', '-C <fixture repo>' and '-c' with core.pager=cat / core.quotepath / color.* settings. Lifecycle and script calls stay literal so their failures cannot be suppressed. Writes, other repos, --git-dir/--work-tree, config that can execute code, real composition and redirects stay rejected. Stored commands (fixtures/docsync-observer-commands.json): 11 known-good read forms, which the old observer rejected, now pass; all 17 known-bad forms still fail under the new and old observers. docsync-command-grammar moves its three harmless rows to an accept test and keeps unsafe variants of them as rejects. * test: AUQ matrix fails only on the format fields software reads (W7d AUQ matrix emoji check) auqMachineFormatProblems() fails a first-question run when the Recommendation: line is missing or empty, or when the brief does not label exactly one option (recommended); recommendation substance >= 4 is unchanged. ELI10, Pros / cons, ✅/❌ and Net: are still scored and logged but no longer fail a paid case. scoreAuqFormat and the consistency suite are unchanged. Stored briefs: three known-good (including one without emoji or Net) pass; four known-bad (no or empty Recommendation, zero or two (recommended)) fail. * test: coverage audit grades a closing tested/untested summary before the diagram grammar (W7d coverage-audit-evidence) The diagram grammar grew through four waves of capture patches to accept correct-but-different diagrams. The E2E prompt now asks for one closing JSON line {"tested": [...], "untested": [...]}; coverageAuditVerdict passes the outcome when processPayment is only in tested and refundPayment only in untested (last summary wins; quoted or example summaries ignored). The legacy grammar stays as a fallback, so every stored capture keeps its verdict (all existing rows unchanged). Read evidence and capture success are still required. Stored summaries: three known-good (which the old grader rejected) pass; seven known-bad fail. * test: disabled outside-plan grader reads the run's own coverage self-report (W7d disabled-plan-review-evidence) The false-completion oracle kept being patched to tell historical review-log mentions from current claims. The E2E prompt now asks for a closing JSON line {"outside_review_this_run": ...}. When present, the coverage claim is that report ('completed' fails) plus any undenied 'both reviewers agree'; 'disabled' also satisfies attribution. Runs without it keep the existing prose oracle, so all stored captures and mutation rows keep their verdicts. Dispatch, CLI execution, preflight and persisted-disabled checks are unchanged. Stored outputs: three known-good pass (the old grader rejected the table form); four known-bad fail. * test: investigate boundary grader checks the verified fix, not one Edit and one verify (W7d investigate exactly-one ritual) Completion now needs at least one allowed Edit, the correction in place, at least one verifier run whose final status is 0, and no edit after the final verification. The ending-error case still requires a single verifier run (status 69), because that fixture's error tells the actor to stop without retrying. Ownership acquisition/release checks are unchanged. New free protocol controls: a passing re-verification passes (the old grader failed it); a failing final re-verification and a retry after the ending error both fail, as they did before. * test: CEO split-overflow call floor is two, the minimum for five options at four per call (W7d split-overflow 4-call floor) The regression is a candidate silently dropped to fit the four-option cap. The scope validator already requires an offered Include/Defer/Cut disposition for all five candidates; the extra N-1 call floor failed agents that batch compatible candidates, which the test header calls legitimate. FLOOR now comes from CEO_SPLIT_CALL_FLOOR = 2. Stored shapes (ceo-split-floor.test.ts): five sequential, 2-call and 3-call batches pass; a dropped candidate fails with 'missing target decisions'. The registration controls keep their verdicts; the 3-call plan_ready scenario still fails, now on missing decisions. * test: shared-libs PR coverage checks the stated page budget, not per-PR ceilings from one run (W7d shared-libs per-endpoint page caps) prCoverageRequestViolations keeps the skill's stated older-open-PR budget (five metadata pages, fifty file-list pages plus recent PR 7) and the coverage outcome (PR 42's file list read from page 1 through page 2). It drops the PR 42 three/four-page and single-first-page ceilings, which were tuned to one observed capture with a truncated first view. The judge criteria are unchanged. Stored endpoint lists: three known-good (including a re-read first page the old ceilings rejected) pass; four known-bad plus an over-budget file-list run fail. incompleteFirstFileView is no longer used by the paid case. * test: test-value review accepts any caller search, not only the literal 'git grep' (W7d literal git grep in test-value) recordsNonTestCallerSearch keeps the value-card contract (non_test_callers recorded) and accepts git grep, rg, grep or the Grep tool as the search. Severity checks and the golden exclusion are unchanged. Stored evidence: four known-good (three the old check rejected) pass; three known-bad (no search, no caller count, prose only) fail. * test: plan-format accepts any statement that kind-differentiated options are not comparable on coverage (W7d 'options differ in kind' phrase) The outcome, no fabricated Completeness: N/10, stays asserted. The required note now matches any brief wording of the same fact (KIND_NOTE_RE in helpers/plan-format-kind-note.ts). The format-compliance suite that pins the declared kind-note string is unchanged. Stored lines: four known-good pass, three known-bad (a completeness score, a recommendation, 'kind to the user') fail. * test: plan-mode smokes check the targeted plan, not the scope-gate announcement, and reject plan-file ## Decisions (W7d exact scope-gate line; W7g plan-mode ## Decisions) - Seeded eng/design plan-mode cases keep 'no scope menu' and replace the exact 'Scope gate: plan mode — auto-selected B' requirement with seededPlanTargeted(): the announcement or native seeded-plan selection, or seed-only plan names appearing in the review output after the slash command (trackTokens). The announcement is logged. - The AskUserQuestion format forbids writing a decision to the plan file as a substitute for asking. assertNoPlanFileDecisions() fails any plan_ready run whose plan carries ## Decisions (eng, design, devex, office-hours auto-mode). The AUQ-blocked cases (eng seeded, devex, office-hours) now require outcome 'asked' (AskUserQuestion variant or prose fallback). - plan-mode-evidence registration controls keep their verdicts; the missing-decisions control now fails on 'without a question'. - plan-mode-targeting.test.ts stores known-good (announcement; paraphrase plus seed content) and known-bad (neither; an untracked token) observations and plan files with and without ## Decisions. * test: plan-design judge selection check anchors on the question-procedure heading (W7a judge-anchor move; touchfiles.test.ts:219) Same structural anchor as the other judge-anchor moves; selects the same text on the current templates and after the '## How to ask questions' rename. * test: CEO plan-mode failure message names the current rule, not the '## CRITICAL RULE' heading (t13 F20) * test: browse reference judge gates on its stated floors; the baseline comparison is recorded, not a ratchet (W7d browse judge baseline ratchet; t08 F7) expect(regressions).toEqual([]) compared a noisy three-sample mean against eval-baselines.json (clarity 4), silently raising the stated clarity floor of 3. The comparison stays in judge_reasoning; pass and assertions use BROWSE_JUDGE_FLOORS (clarity 3, completeness 4, actionability 4). Judge prompt and schema are unchanged. Stored panel means: three known-good (two the ratchet rejected) pass; three below-floor panels fail. * test: eval-kinds drops the exact 22 behavior / 25 judge census (W7d exact count in eval-kinds; t12 F6) The kind contract is already asserted: every live case has one kind, kinds are rule/behavior/judge, every LLM judge is judge-kind, every behavior case has a literal registration and a BEHAVIOR_WHY, and the named contract-shaped cases stay rule. The census count only broke on adding or retiring a case. * test: plan-eng artifact case binds to the hermetic state root and requires the artifact; report case drops its shouted requirement (W7g plan-artifact fixture binding; W7g skill-e2e-plan.test.ts:479,720) - plan-eng-review-artifact: actor, observer and cleanup use one isolated GSTACK_HOME (the hermetic run's, or a seeded temporary one when hermetic mode is off) and the slug gstack-slug resolves for the fixture, instead of os.homedir()/.gstack/projects/test-project. A guard refuses a state root under the real home, and cleanup removes only the fixture's project directory. The 'IMPORTANT … you MUST write the test-plan artifact' line is replaced by the environment fact (state root and slug). The soft warning becomes an assertion: exactly one new *eng-review-test-plan-*.md about the reviewed dashboard change. - plan-review-report: removes 'CRITICAL REQUIREMENT … MOST IMPORTANT deliverable' and the restated report contract; keeps 'plan.md is the plan file'. The existing assertions (report present, last, rows, unresolved status) now measure the skill's own report prose. * test: session-runner-tools checks harness prompt properties, not a byte-for-byte copy (W7e session-runner-tools.test.ts:544; t09 F7, F8) The ship capture prompt test asserts its purpose (no CEO-only writing guidance) plus the functional rules: one allowed skill path, AskUserQuestion unavailable, the section Read rule, no git/gh/mutation, and the REPORT.md path. The two 'MUST actually Read' pins match the Read rule case-insensitively. Negative control: dropping the no-mutation rule from the harness prompt turns the test red. * test: section-capture native tools checks harness prompt properties, not a copied golden (W7e section-capture-native-tools.test.ts:467; t04 F4) Asserts the absolute skill path is the only SKILL.md named, the scenario, AskUserQuestion unavailable, the section Read rule (case-insensitive, also at :308), no git/gh/mutation, and the REPORT.md path. argv/tool-list checks are unchanged. Negative control: dropping the no-mutation rule turns it red. * test: office-hours review-preservation judge test keeps its schema and untrusted-data checks, not its wording (W7e office-hours-completion.test.ts:416-429; t09 F10) Drops 13 phrase pins on the judge prompt. Kept: both inputs carried as JSON, the response schema (wire format), and the separate untrusted-DATA test. The validator behavior tests already use stub judges. Negative control: changing the schema string in the prompt builder turns the test red. * test: docsync lifecycle interface drops pins on its own helper prompt (W7e docsync-lifecycle-interface.test.ts; t02 #17) docsNativeInterface is the test helper's own prompt, so its sentence pins only checked that the helper says what it says. Kept: owned skill path, the two extracted lifecycle commands (exact), the scripts-list interpolation, the repo path and Git read examples, and every docsCommandAllowed / docsToolFailures behavior check that enforces the interface. * test: shared-libs revalidation prompt keeps its machine-shaped checks, not ~69 phrase pins (W7e shared-libs-revalidation-prompt; t11 #3, #8; t05 F17) reviewRevalidationPrompt and reviewPrompt are test-owned harness prompts (non-test callers: 0); the paid shared-libs E2Es measure whether they work. Kept: the three exact receipt commands, base-prompt prefix and resumed suffix identity, branch selection (actor / default / resumed coverage), the state path and turn-budget interpolations, read-record-before-diff and first-response-before-start ordering, no embedded token, no supplied Skip answer, reusable:true before reusable:false, the captured R59 stage boundaries in the exclusion list, asset roots and interfaces, and the stale step-6 reference ban. The review template's Step 4.7/4.8 completion rule is matched by step number on one line, not by sentence. Negative control: reordering the diff-read instruction turns the test red. * test: plan-design SDK fixture pins its harness prompt once, by ordered properties (W7e plan-design-sdk-fixture.test.ts:91-120; t01 F13) The prompt was pinned three ways (sha256, ~20 sentences, an order check). Kept: the skill and lazy-section paths, the plan path, the ordered read -> review -> edit -> Write -> read-back -> summary steps, and the no-browsing rule (case-insensitive). Dropped the hash and sentence pins. Negative control: removing the read-back step turns it red. * docs: overlay benchmark contract v3 (dedicated-tools gate = correct output + 20% fewer Bash) * test: dedicated-tools overlay case pinned to claude-opus-5-5 (E2) * chore: regenerate SKILL.md, goldens and context-budget fixture for the Opus 5.5 prompt cleanup * document-release: CHANGELOG-preservation and VERSION-ask rules at normal volume (s10 M4, M5; UC2, eval-gated) * chore: regenerate document-release * Revert "test: dedicated-tools overlay case pinned to claude-opus-5-5 (E2)" This reverts commit 737bf478d9. * test: memory-pipeline E2E seeds transcript consent (W4 consent-first default) * test: plan-review-report free check follows the de-coached prompt (W7g) * test(W7h): drop issue-number pins in land-and-deploy-postfail, match guards case-insensitively W7h (t09 F12, F13). One test file. Removed assertion groups: - `cli/cli#3442` / `cli/cli#13380` pins (t09 F12). Invariant: none of its own (upstream archaeology; the IDs stay in the template, only the pin goes). The behavior they decorated, "after any non-zero `gh pr merge` exit, query authoritative state before retrying", is now a kept free meaning check. - `Universal invariant` label pin. Invariant: query-before-retry. Remaining protection: the new case-insensitive check `/non-zero exit from `gh pr merge`, query authoritative PR state before retrying/i` (stronger: the mutation that inverts the rule now goes red; the old test stayed green). Loosened to case-insensitive meaning checks (kept, W7 keep list, data-loss and destructive-op guards): STOP worktree cleanup without removing, no `--force`, primary working tree never removed, CLOSED -> stop, never replay a merge after MERGED, one direct fallback, no fallback from a direct attempt, the OPEN/no-auto/no-queue fallback precondition, branch-absent vs check-failed messages. Gate-tier E2E also covering the flow: land-and-deploy-workflow (gate), judge `land-and-deploy/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane). Cosmetic pins dropped (no control needed): capitals on STOP / Do NOT. Mutation log: .context/mutation-land-and-deploy-postfail.md (12 mutations, 0 unexpected: reorder, field delete and 7 safety deletes red; 3 rewordings green). * test(W7c): ship-apple-gate matches its gates on meaning, not capitals W7c (t06 #19). One test file. Removed assertion groups: - "A genuine blocker may require a safety or named documentation-risk decision" and "routine interactions and blocking decisions above" sentence pins. Invariant: routine release authorization never waives a blocking safety/docs decision. Remaining protection: kept free meaning check `/stop for that decision rather than treating release authorization as a waiver/i` plus `/named documentation-risk exception before distribution/i`. - Full-sentence "in `read-only` mode against the selected release source". Invariant: the docs preflight is read-only. Remaining protection: kept free check on "`read-only` mode". Loosened (case-insensitive, kept): apply-only-to-repository-landing scope line, CLASSIFY-before-credentials (credential boundary), never abort a store release over branch topology (demonstrated failure), two routine interactions (numeric limit), stop-for-decision (consent/stop line). Kept unchanged: manifest trigger routing, Apple read before the branch gate, byte-exact branch gate appearing once, docs preflight before the authorization moment, fastlane/iris/appPriceSchedules command anchors, stale-wording bans. No gate-tier E2E covers the Apple adapter, so every invariant keeps a free check here. Cosmetic pins dropped: capitals on ONLY / CLASSIFY / STOP. Mutation log: .context/mutation-ship-apple-gate.md (14 mutations, 0 unexpected: 2 reorders, 1 marker and 6 safety mutations red; 5 rewordings green). * test(W7c): ship-reentry-gates keeps stop/consent meaning, drops sentence pins W7c (t08 F3). One test file. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - "Retain queued fixes and restore coverage" -> a missing reviewer keeps queued fixes: gate E2E ship-skipped-queued-finding (gate) and judge `ship/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane); the stop itself stays a free check. - qa decline print line ("Test bootstrap previously declined — skipping.") -> qa skips bootstrap after a saved decline: kept free meaning check `/BOOTSTRAP_DECLINED ... skip the rest of bootstrap/i`. - "with the user's free-text evidence" -> UNVERIFIABLE items are confirmed one by one: kept free `/per-item confirmation/i` here plus the blanket-confirm check in ship-plan-completion-invariants. - Docs reentry sentences ("On reentry, reuse only ...", its duplicate, "base/ input hashes still match", "retain its actual status and scope", "Otherwise use Blocked recovery ...") -> reentry reuses only this invocation's validated evidence: kept free checks "never reuse an audit across invocations" and "reentry never resets the count or authorizes a launch"; gate E2Es ship-docsync-stale-before, ship-docsync-stale-after, ship-docsync-recovery, ship-docsync-late-result (all gate). - "left uncommitted after Step 15" -> late commits take only remaining changes: kept free "never create an empty commit" and "preserve unrelated user files"; gate E2E ship-local-workflow (gate). Loosened to case-insensitive meaning checks (stop/consent/approval lines, always kept): STOP blocks advancement, answer each AskUserQuestion, routine authorization never waives gates, dispatched-reviewer-missing -> stop, CYCLES >= 3 -> stop, Any N -> stop as NOT DONE, resume only after verified, no second deferral, per-item confirmation, explicit Add-tests choice overrides the decline for this invocation only, framework approval, first entry launches the audit, no third attempt, unwaivable redaction/security gates. Kept unchanged: bootstrap branch order, no `rm` in the decline branch, the Step 14 -> 14.5 routing line, stale-string bans, `NEW_TITLE` field and `--title "$NEW_TITLE"`. Cosmetic pins dropped: STOP capitals, "mandatory". Mutation log: .context/mutation-ship-reentry-gates.md (17 mutations, 0 unexpected: 1 reorder, 2 marker and 9 safety mutations red; 5 rewordings green). * test(W7c): shrink ceo-workflow-clarity to structural and meaning checks W7c conversion (t05 F5-F8). Pin lines 48 -> 29 (toContain|toMatch|indexOf|includes|ordered); sentence pins collapse to one case-insensitive meaning check per invariant. Per the Eng "Retirements" item, CEO invariants count as periodic-only once plan-ceo-review-benefits retires, so every invariant below keeps a free check. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - Required/Pending/Settled status sentences (4 pins): pending work stays unapproved; only exact authority settles a choice -> kept free: label order plus /Pending: unapproved/i and /Settled: ... a recommendation does not/i. - Admin-route sentences (Skip steps 1-4, 0E/0H ownership, admin answer that requests a plan change, 0G proposals use this route, mode-change pointer): admin menus approve nothing and return locally -> kept free: Admin < Plan decision < steps 1-4 < checkpoints order, /this approves no plan changes/i, /0D returns to its caller, not to mode selection/i. - not.toContain('0D never restarts mode selection') and not.toContain('using the Step 0E mode-handoff format') (t05 F8, bans of retired phrasings): same invariants -> kept free: the positive route checks. - '**STOP for the actual answer, even for a lone option.**' exact bold pin: wait for the answer before recording -> kept free: /stop for the actual answer/i, located between step 4 and the post-answer checkpoint. - Mode-change sentences (repeat handoff record, complete newly applicable Step 0 work, resume the paused step): a mode change waits for an answer -> kept free: /pause and ask ... keep the mode until answered/i and /selecting a mode does not approve changes/i; routing table rows kept exact. - Scope-count sentences: reuse counts against limits, mode recommendation excludes unchanged reuse, neither approves -> kept free: three short case-insensitive meaning checks plus the >15 / 8-file / 2-class numbers and the route order. - Completion-fraction sentences (select answered questions, exclude unscored, Y/X definitions): fraction definition -> kept free: 10/7/3 scale, reopened choice counted once, 'Report X/Y, or `N/A` when Y is zero' (output field). - Section-gate sentences ('0D's Plan decision route through its post-answer save', 'Resolve critical risks now') and the literal Decision gate count 11 (t05 F7): one gate per section -> kept free: path order, /no path selects the mode again/i, gate count derived from '### Section N:' headings. - Section 1 opening sentences (retain mode/rationale, governing row ID): Section 1 publishes current dispositions, not a mode handoff -> kept free: **Current scope** present, the four disposition names, /not another mode handoff; do not ask or log the mode again/i. Gate-tier judge that also grades this prose: 'plan-ceo-review/SKILL.md modes'. Mutation pass (scratch worktree, generated plan-ceo-review skill): 16/16 as expected; 11 kept-step/marker/safety/numeric mutations go red, 5 rewordings of dropped sentences (and a lowered-register STOP line) stay green. Log: .context/mutation-ceo-workflow-clarity.md. * test(W7c): shrink eng-review-routing to structural and meaning checks W7c conversion (t02 #4-#10, W7a s04 F15 pin). Pin lines 88 -> 74 (toContain|toMatch|indexOf|includes|ordered); ~50 full-sentence pins become order checks, field/marker checks and short case-insensitive meaning checks. Remaining gate-tier judge for the plan-eng prose: 'plan-eng-review/SKILL.md sections' (judge input is ENG_REVIEW_EXCERPT, which the first test proves contains review-sections and Recovery routing). Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - Preparation sentences ('Follow the blocks below in order after startup', 'Confidence Calibration and Decision procedure are reference rules'): blocks run in order -> kept free: heading order check now starts at '## Review preparation'; judge 'plan-eng-review/SKILL.md sections'. - Priority/compression sentences ('Shorten only optional commentary', 'never Scope Challenge, Sections 1-4...', 'Never condense, abbreviate or skip a section'): compression cannot drop required stages -> kept free: /complete every required stage, decision gate and output/i and the 'Everything else' stale ban; judge. - Exact seven-label toEqual on Scope Challenge assessments (t02 #8): all seven checks present -> kept free: arrayContaining on the same labels plus the A/B/C heading toEqual (excerpt anchors). - 'Complete these checks before the complexity decision in B': A runs before B -> kept free: heading order A < B < C. - Below-threshold / findings sentences (numbered step full sentences): C always runs, findings approve nothing -> kept free: step-number order, /fewer than 8 files AND fewer than 2 new classes/i, /run C whether B was completed or skipped/i, /approve no remedies/i, '"No issues found"'. - '... STOP before Section 1' exact caps (t02 #4): high complexity halts -> kept free: /at 8\+ files or 2\+ new classes\/services, stop before section 1/i. - High-complexity sentences ('With no proposed cuts...', 'Both retain the same approved feature list...', 'Initial scope selectors need no grid...'): cuts and structure asked separately -> kept free: step order with short anchors, 'Pending remedies not decided here: <ids>' field; judge. - Smaller-arrangement sentences ('offer confirmation of the original arrangement or a pause', 'then return to this structure selector'): a pause authorizes no cut -> kept free: order + /do not continue to C until it is settled/i + /investigate only the agreed question/i. - Selector summary sentences ('post-answer scope summary, not a remedy's pending ledger record', 'Do not invent a pre-answer record afterward', 'Scope Challenge B also uses its own selectors'): answers saved before applying -> kept free: field template order, /a failed save or read blocks advancement/i, '**not persisted**', /these selections approve no engineering remedy/i. - Decision-procedure Read-choreography anchors ('use Read to fetch the entire saved record', 'Read the entire resolution block, including State') and the bold '**STOP until the actual answer arrives.**' anchor (t02 #5/#6, s04 F18): ask once, wait, record before the next choice -> kept free: Compare < Pending-record checkpoint < Send once < AskUserQuestion call < Record < next choice, /stop until the actual answer arrives/i located between Send and Record, /do not apply a remedy ... while the choice awaits an answer/i, /approves no implementation/i; AUQ completeness and kind-note strings kept exact (plan-tune reads them). - 'An Investigate/Defer option must bound the investigation', 'Apply the preamble's Completeness scores or kind-note accordingly': judge only (gate). - Research/outside-voice sentences ('If Aside is unavailable, use host WebSearch', 'Record the actual coverage...'): unavailable research is recorded, not hidden -> kept free: exact 'Search unavailable' output string, 'Outside voice: recorded provider, completed / unavailable / disabled / skipped (reason)' field, /only completed reviews enter cross-model tension/i, TODO < Approval readiness < Required outputs order. - Recovery sentences: kept as /i meaning checks (ExitPlanMode/telemetry wait, do not resend, stop before dependent output, no chat-only success, skip forbidden writes); 'If no recovery is specified or it fails' full sentence -> kept free: 'follow **Blocked outcome**' routing; OUTCOME=error kept. - Late-change sentences ('Refresh affected tests, tasks, dependencies and parallelization', 'Unchanged saved outputs may reuse their successful Review Log'): rerun affected outputs before navigation -> kept free: order of return/Decision procedure/Approval readiness/Required outputs/navigation and the stale-evidence Blocked outcome route; judge. - Final sequence anchor 'Run Learning hooks, including gated Brain Calibration Write-Back; then return to the entrypoint's Section self-check' -> kept free: 'Section self-check' as the last ordered anchor. - Coverage-audit sentences ('For each existing or proposed component in the selected target', 'the selected target. For each existing or proposed feature', 'dedicated tool call before drawing the diagram' (s06 L9 choreography)): plan diagrams cover proposed paths, ship covers changed code -> kept free: /existing or proposed (component|function\/method)/, /future paths remain proposals/i, the four 'Every ...' obligations, /no skipping regression coverage/i, ship has no 'existing or proposed'; gate E2E plan-eng-coverage-audit. - Brain write-back ordered prose list ('reserved default-off gate', 'this runtime does not set it', 'not an instruction to write now', t02 #9 / W7a s04 F15): no gbrain write without the default-off gate and trust policy -> kept free: 'Skip unless `BRAIN_CALIBRATION_WRITEBACK` is set' precedes both write tools, eng prefix says /skip this section/i and /do not enable it or infer permission/i, trust-policy key, /if unknown, skip/i, no env interpolation, other skills carry no eng-only skip prefix. Mutation pass (scratch worktree; plan-eng-review templates and scripts/resolvers/gbrain.ts): 21/21 as expected; 14 reorder/marker/stop/ approval/consent/numeric mutations go red, 7 rewordings of dropped sentences and lowered-register STOP lines stay green. Log: .context/mutation-eng-review-routing.md. * test: fold the harness-freeze fixture tests into the tests that own their helpers (test-of-test ratchet) Seven new files imported only test code; their stored known-good/known-bad rows move unchanged into the owning tests: - auq-matrix-format-gate -> auq-native-capture.test.ts - browse-judge-floors -> workflow-judge-cache.test.ts - ceo-split-floor -> plan-review-cases.test.ts (one block appended at the end) - plan-mode-targeting -> plan-mode-evidence.test.ts - shared-libs-pr-coverage-budget -> shared-libs-fixture.test.ts - skill-body-narration -> skill-fixture.test.ts - test-value-seam-evidence -> test-value-bar.test.ts plan-format-kind-note and ship-triage-labels have no other owner, so each now checks its grader against the production source it grades: the kind note generateAskUserFormat prescribes, and the in-branch / pre-existing labels in ship/sections/tests.md.tmpl. No BASELINE entries added. * test(W7c): ship-plan-completion-invariants keeps tokens and gates, drops prose W7c (t06 #9, #10, #11; #7/#8 already landed with W7a). One test file. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - Execution-only extraction sentences ("implementation and test-creation requirements", "retain its command, expected outcome and source verbatim", "not EXTERNAL-STATE merely because ...", "Keep genuine external-state ...") -> execution-only checks route to Step 8.1/9 outside counts and are never DONE statically: kept free checks `Step 8.1/9`, outside implementation counts, `never DONE from static inspection`, do-not-waive; gate E2E ship-exploratory-plan-checks (gate). - Plan-verification prep sentences (~17: "Clarify unknown outcomes", browser vs functional items, "An API URL is not automatically a page", "Only browser evidence needs screenshots", smoke-budget and command-limit sentences, risk acceptance wording) -> plan checks are collected now, executed by the Step 9.2.1 owner before Fix-First, and never silently waived: kept free checks on the heading list, `Collect now; execute in Step 9`, `Step 8.2`, `Handoff to Step 9.2.1` order, `before Fix-First`, never silently waive, noninteractive -> blocked, the `VERIFY_RESULT=` line and `## Verification Results`; gate E2Es ship-exploratory-plan-checks, ship-exploratory-small-cli (gate). - Parent-processing duplicates on the generated section (same pins as the template test) -> kept on the template test; the generated copy keeps section order + seven-field anchor; freshness via gen-skill-docs. - "Check the task's terminal status", "recording the reason in the PR body and Step 20 metrics" -> failed audits use the fallback: kept free LAST-line JSON -> audit-failure fallback check and `(recommended/default)` marker. - Step 16 evidence sentences ("Independently prove ...", "exact command, exit, timestamp and log", "This recovery also applies ... stage 5") -> storage failure is not stale input: kept free table-row structure, storage column must not rerun `gstack-evidence run`, STALE/MISSING without proof, ledger unavailable never FRESH; judge `ship/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane). - "Each commit must work independently" -> bisectable commits: kept `bisectable commits`, `continue to Step 16`, no empty commit, history- rewrite bans; judge `ship/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane). Loosened to case-insensitive meaning checks (kept): per-item confirmation, blanket-confirm ban, classified DONE/NOT DONE by `[ -f` (MUST dropped), stop publication on new/changed/unwaived test failure + `Run Steps 5–15`, waiver reuse limited to verified pre-existing failures, fetch/push failure -> stop, never rewrite history, only a successful push, stop live child before inline audit, never race a late result, AskUserQuestion on second failure. Kept unchanged: seven-field JSON contract parse, review-mode negatives, CONTENT-SHAPE/validator tokens, Step 14 deferral routing, CHANGELOG negatives, the executed push-idempotency shell test. Cosmetic: MUST / mandatory / Do NOT capitals; "VAS-449" dropped from the describe title. Mutation log: .context/mutation-ship-plan-completion-invariants.md (19 mutations, 0 unexpected: 3 reorders, 4 markers, 7 safety red; 5 rewordings green). * test(W7c): shrink eng-scope-entry-ap to structural and meaning checks W7c conversion (t05 F1-F4; W7a s04 F15/F18 pins). Pin lines 97 -> 69 (toContain|toMatch|indexOf|includes|ordered). The AskUserQuestion-format byte-equivalence test (t05 Kept) is unchanged. eng scope-gate E2Es are periodic (plan-eng-review-plan-mode), so every scope-gate invariant keeps a free check; duplicates of eng-review-routing cite that file. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - 'Reply with A, B, or C. STOP and wait' order anchors (t05 F1): menu before bootstrap -> kept free: the consumed prefix 'Reply with A, B, or C' (pty/classify.ts, pty/judge.ts) before {{PREAMBLE}}, {{GBRAIN_CONTEXT_LOAD}} and the first ```bash; new presence checks for the announcement and menu after '## Scope gate' (an indexOf of -1 used to pass the order check). - Preamble 'starting from the Scope gate...' exact pin: kept as /i meaning. - Scope entry sentences ('Before discovery tools or preamble, check provided messages...', 'Do not probe for session state', 'When no exception above applied:', 'Announce an auto-selected plan in one line...', 'A fresh announcement made before skill loading...', 'Step 0 below still verifies or sends the public auto-selection line...') (t05 F4): target bound before bootstrap and announced -> kept free: announcement/menu-before-bootstrap order checks above, /first tool call = AskUserQuestion/i, /clarify ambiguous, conflicting, quoted or stale targets/i; periodic E2E plan-eng-review-plan-mode. - Startup step sentences ('3. Check web-research readiness at ...', '4. Run **Design Doc Check**, then ...', 'Keep the reviewed target fixed', 'Continue at ...'): startup order -> kept free: ordered startup anchors (now including Prerequisite Skill Offer), '**Engineering review → Step 0**' pointer, the stale-path ban; 'Keep the reviewed target fixed' stays pinned (/i) in eng-review-routing.test.ts. - Entry anchors 'Before Step 0, require resolved scope' and '**Complexity gate:** while a Scope Challenge complexity question' -> shortened anchors 'require resolved scope' and '**Complexity gate:**', same order check. - Plan-selection exception sentences and 'If the tool is unavailable, disallowed (`--disallowedTools`) ... send the menu as plain prose and STOP' (t05 F4): pasted text is not a mode signal; ambiguity and named targets ask; unavailable tool stops -> kept as /i meaning checks for each (safety and consent lines); A/B/C menu body kept exact (consumed by the PTY classifier). - 'Reply with A, B, or C. STOP and wait for the answer.' exact: kept as the exact prefix plus /reply with A, B, or C\. stop and wait for the answer/i. - Judge-bundle sentences ('format/transport rules apply throughout', 'Follow the blocks below in order after startup', 'It may be the selected plan or a separate file', 'Save permitted auxiliary artifacts under the write policy'): ordering and write permission -> kept free: stage order, write-policy table rows exact, /permission for one path authorizes no other/i, /defer ... telemetry and plan status footer to finish/i, forbidden-log Blocked outcome route (/i), section Read paths, log exit-code tails. - Complexity-path duplicates of eng-review-routing (t05 F2: 'Complete these checks before...', 'After verification, apply only accepted scope changes', 'Run C whether B...', 'Always ask the structure question...', post-answer summary/Read-back sentences, 'A failed save or Read blocks advancement', 'Findings and scope answers approve no remedies', 'Continue to Section 1 only when...', 'Send one question object for one choice', 'Compare every native field...', 'Repair any difference and repeat the complete Read before asking', 'Read the selected saved label...', 'Check the save result, then Read the entire resolution block', '**STOP until the actual answer arrives.**', the Paused question / Blocked outcome lines): the same invariants -> kept free in eng-review-routing.test.ts (order of Send/AskUserQuestion/Record, /stop until the actual answer arrives/i, failed save blocks, approve-no-remedies, Paused/Blocked recovery checks) and auq-format-always-loaded.test.ts (one question object per choice); here: A/B/C stage order and the 8-file / 2-class thresholds (/i, no caps STOP literal), Recovery routing pointer for unreadable records. The Read-back choreography is the dated text s04 F18 flags; judge 'plan-eng-review/SKILL.md sections' (gate) grades the procedure. - Calibration note exact sentences and the one-line formatting pin (t05 F3, W7a s04 F15): no shipped source enables BRAIN_CALIBRATION_WRITEBACK -> kept free: {{BRAIN_WRITE_BACK}} once after {{LEARNINGS_LOG}}, /never set it yourself/i, and a new code check that no file in bin/, lib/ or scripts/ assigns or exports BRAIN_CALIBRATION_WRITEBACK (only the gbrain resolver names it). Mutation pass (scratch worktree; plan-eng-review templates, generated plan-eng-review skill, bin/gstack-config): 21/21 as expected; 14 reorder/marker/table/stop/safety/consent/code/numeric mutations go red, 7 rewordings and lowered-register lines stay green. Log: .context/mutation-eng-scope-entry-ap.md. * test: type the model-routing table; point skillify comment at skill-fixture.test.ts * test(W7c): skill-validation matches three capital-letter pins on meaning W7c (t08 F2, F4, F5). One test file; only these three pins change. Removed assertion groups: none. Loosened, invariant kept as a free case-insensitive meaning check: - `MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE` (codex skeleton) -> one codex mode per invocation: `/mutually exclusive/i` (t08 F4). - `skip the Codex passes ONLY` (review adversarial) -> `codex_reviews=disabled` skips only the Codex passes, Claude adversarial still runs: `/disabled[^\n]*skip the Codex passes only/i` (t08 F5). - `If any in-branch failures remain unfixed, **STOP**. Do not proceed` (ship tests section) -> unfixed in-branch failures block advancement: `/in-branch failures remain unfixed ... stop ... do not proceed/i` (t08 F2). Also covered by gate E2E ship-triage (gate). Cosmetic pins dropped: capitals and bold only. Mutation log: .context/mutation-skill-validation.md (6 mutations, 0 unexpected: 3 rule deletions red; 3 lower-case rewordings green). * test(W7c): drop coverage-audit checklist tool-call prose pins W7c conversion (t05 F11; unblocks s06 L9). Pin lines 17 -> 14. Removed assertion group (invariant -> remaining protection): - review/specialists/testing.md prose pins 'If the caller explicitly asks for an ASCII coverage diagram', 'dedicated tool call' and /Read diffs, package files, configs, or other context in separate tool calls\./ (tool-use choreography): the agent reads the named source and test files before drawing the diagram -> kept free: the same test still extracts the checklist's example diagram and requires coverageAuditVerdict to accept it (sourceRead/testsRead/diagram/passed), plus the kept [OK]/[GAP] row and legend pins; gate-tier E2Es review-coverage-audit, plan-eng-coverage-audit and ship-coverage-audit (E2E_TIERS: gate) grade the reads from transcript evidence with the same oracle. Mutation pass (scratch worktree, review/specialists/testing.md): 6/6 as expected; reordered diagram rows, deleted legend, deleted [OK] marker and a removed text fence go red; two rewordings of the dropped tool-call sentences stay green. Log: .context/mutation-coverage-audit.md. * test(W7c): loosen auq-format-always-loaded per-skill rule pins W7c conversion (t01 F10-F12; W7c list item auq-format-always-loaded:61-72). The MANDATORY format list (machine-read Recommendation:/(recommended) and the AUQ format labels, W7 keep list) is unchanged. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - plan-ceo-review /Do NOT batch/i (t01 F10): one decision per question -> kept free: /One decision unit = one AskUserQuestion call/i in the same rule list. - plan-eng-review full-sentence regexes 'Send `AskUserQuestion({ questions: [currentDecision] })` only after the pending-record checkpoint passes. Send one question object for one choice; other IDs wait' and 'If you discover another independent choice, separate it and rebuild this comparison before saving or sending the question' (t01 F11): one question object per independent choice survives the carve -> kept free: /one\s+question object for one choice/i and /independently selectable changes separate IDs/i; the checkpoint-before-send order stays pinned in eng-review-routing.test.ts. - codex /Synthesis recommendation \(REQUIRED\)/i (t01 F12, caps marker): codex keeps its synthesis rule always loaded -> kept free: /Synthesis recommendation/i and the machine format /Recommendation\s*:\s*<action>\s* because/i. Mutation pass (scratch worktree, generated SKILL.md and sections): 8/8 as expected; removing Recommendation: <action> because, the synthesis rule, or the CEO/eng/design decision-unit rules goes red; dropping (REQUIRED) and rewording the two dropped eng sentences stays green. Log: .context/mutation-auq-format-always-loaded.md. * test(W7c): qa-probe-gates keeps loop order, bounds and the CI-proven Read gate W7c (t07 F3, F4, F5). One test file. This file stays the single owner of shared QA loop ordering (qa-functional-prompt defers to it). Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - `> **STOP.** Before any probe ...` prefix pin (t07 F3, retire) -> parent QA loads methods before any probe: kept free meaning check on "before any probe, including plan checks, complete the ordered scope/method Reads" and its order before the required-checks step. - Preparation prose in the stage list ("in full and select the surfaces", "2. Read the selected surface methods below in full", "Write a **charter**", "Start once before baseline:") -> stage order scope -> methods -> charter -> deadline start -> loop: kept as structural anchors (section Reads, surface labels, `## 1. Charter and preflight`, `bun G start D SECONDS`, step 1 title); added a reorder control moving a method Read after the charter. - Bounds/layout sentences ("an unlimited mode uses the caller's bound", "announce finite command timeouts", "EARLIER_UTC = caller's absolute deadline, if set", "in the probe directory, beside its deadline if bounded", duplicate SECONDS pins in the mode-bounds test, "charters as Markdown in the report", the full "observed: its exact decoded child JSON ..." sentence) -> numeric bounds and field names are kept free checks; the observed-field shape is enforced by the native checkpoint validator (qa-functional-prompt validator tests, free) and gate E2Es qa-functional-cli-report, qa-functional-webhook-report (gate). - Publication prose ("No drafts/placeholders", "and replay limits in the report", "An absolute state path is not itself a secret", "If capture is incomplete, report that limit instead of reconstructing it") -> notes are immutable and unsafe values withheld: kept free checks on "corrections cannot repair published notes", never invent a substitute, withhold secrets/unsafe values and stop the chain; validator-backed in qa-functional-prompt; gate E2Es review-exploratory-small-cli, ship-exploratory-small-cli (gate). - Loop-step prose ("Guard if bounded; await completion", "Run that exact probe; G enforces ..." duplicate, "then minimize via those gates", "Expiry leaves confirmation/minimization incomplete", "for each affected revalidation", "If bounded, run", "Reuse Step 4's ... completed Reads", "Finish missing methods before charters") -> loop has 5 steps, guarded by G, replays via steps 2–3, revalidation returns to step 2: kept free checks on step count, `G enforces the deadline`, `bun G status D`, `via steps 2–3`, `return to step 2`, refusals as not-run, do not repeat completed Reads. - CI-fixture clause "description, section index or remembered method is not a completed instruction Read" -> covered by the kept CI-proven clauses (`## 0. Preparation gate`, await each Read, complete missing Reads before Charter) and gate E2E ship-exploratory-small-cli (gate; the CI case). Kept (meaning checks, case-insensitive where prose): CI-proven "await their results before the first probe" rule (comment + mutation kept), Reads in order, no repeated Reads, SECONDS=30/900, shorter mode/caller limit, no D without a total limit, finite timeouts, REPORT_DIR layout and caller paths win, plan checks after smoke with no smoke guard and no clock reset, caller cap, not-run on expiry, await clock results, never reset D/bypass G, invalid/missing D stops probes, expiry -> write the report, Step 4 read-only, isolation/permission preflight before setup, field names, QA_DEADLINE receipts, all semantic-flip mutation controls, method/report resource paths, helper commands. Cosmetic pins dropped: STOP / AND capitals, bold STOP prefix. Mutation log: .context/mutation-qa-probe-gates.md (22 mutations, 0 unexpected: 3 reorders, 4 markers, 8 safety red; 7 rewordings green). * test(W7c): shrink autoplan-phase-order to structural and meaning checks W7c conversion (t06 #13; W7c list item 'Eng runs LAST, always', 'ONLY/FINAL'). Pin lines 203 -> 166. autoplan has only periodic E2Es (autoplan-dual-voice, autoplan-journal-drift: E2E_TIERS periodic), so every invariant keeps one free check: sentence pins collapse to short /i meaning checks; commands, CLI signatures, placeholders, tool parameters, report fields, packet outputs (code-generated) and stale-string bans stay exact. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - 'Eng runs LAST, always' (caps sentence): Eng is the terminal phase -> kept free: /CEO → Design.*→ DX.*→ Eng/s, heading order 1 < 2 < 2.5 < 3 and the 'CEO → Design → Eng → DX' ban. - Final-gate sentences ('...Use Decision Classification; ask once at Final Approval Gate, never mid-run', 'Queue clearly-wrong/challenged premises', 'The user decides there; never stop mid-pipeline'): premises queue for the single final gate -> kept free: /never auto-decide user challenges/i, /ask once at final approval gate, never mid-run/i, 'as User Challenges for Phase 4', /never stop mid-pipeline/i, the two old-gate bans. - Generated setup sentences ('Resolve this phase', 'Run all applicable skills and lazy sections fully', 'log successful ranges/total to EOF'): phases load at their own boundary -> kept free: /never prefetch future phases/i, /missing skill: report phase and setup repair/i, per-phase methodology CLI and Read-before-create order, no in-full-now Reads. - Intake load sentence ("Resolve this phase's source to absolute `<REVIEW_SKILL>`; load via its checkpoint") -> kept free: `<REVIEW_SKILL>` token and /never prefetch future phases/i; section load keeps `readRanges`/EOF/skip-listed checks. - Native dispatch sentences ("ONLY/FINAL tool call", 'Keep native Reads enabled', 'all criteria + plan', 'if its schema exposes it', 'Claude Code: end response immediately', 'Other hosts await that ID', "Then outside → this phase's review ONLY", 'No inline substitute; apply failure policy'): the native review blocks and completes before outside review -> kept free: native < outside order, run_in_background: false, isAsync: true, /final tool call/i, /end response immediately/i, /no further tool calls\/review until/i, `nativePromptPath` to EOF, INPUT-hash match, /retry invalid input once/i, /no inline substitute/i, 720000ms timeout, provenance placeholder, N/A and CONFIRMED status tokens, /primary cannot replace/i. - Sequential Execution sentences (Keep ONE phase active, compaction reload, 'reconcile saved artifacts and sent conversation messages separately', 'Publication is a separate operation', 'an earlier Read is not this close', "Then continue to the next phase's tool calls in the same turn", 'record verbatim into fenced history', 'retaining its original source SHA', 'compaction resumes the existing invocation', the full LOG/amend-input sentence): one phase at a time, publish before advancing -> kept free: /keep one phase active/i, /never draft future-phase reviews/i, compaction reload (/i), two ordered chains (load < snapshot < dispatch < consume < remaining sections; phase-close < parent message < driver advance < after Eng), skip/resume/step 6 (Publish) routes, open-gate, uptake, pending, never-skip and raw-transcript lines (/i), rerun fields `baselineEdits.record`/`sourceSha256`, `amend-input`. - Amendment-binding sentences ('load the shared close steps afresh, even if read earlier', 'Keep this checkpoint for this invocation; review exports do not replace it') -> kept free: checkpoint field per phase, `methodologyPath`, /afresh/i, /review exports do not replace it/i. - Shared-close sentences (~20: completion prerequisites, readRanges Read choreography, 'A Read of only the edited tail does not satisfy...', 'If a result is truncated...', 'If a Read fails...', 'regenerate the packet...', 'Retention checks prove bytes; counts, hashes...', 'Review history stays in Review record', 'Taste remains provisional', 'Apply the phase's failure policy...'): read the whole packet, verify, then publish -> kept free: the seven-step order, terminal-results/INPUT/pending/no-credit/User Challenges/None/fixed-checkpoint lines (/i), prepare-close CLI, `readRanges` with exact `offset` and `limit`, /through EOF/i, no advance without a result, step-3 return, verification compare/recheck/keep-open, stale ban, generated copy contains the template. - Publication sentences ('After sending the actual parent report', 'using actual findings and voice statuses', "The sent conversation message is step 6's output", 'This message is the next operation...', the duplicated driver pins) -> kept free: publish < report < return order, /send the filled report ... visible parent assistant text/i, /before any next-phase tool call/i, both-voices rule, same-turn/driver-alone/no-continue-wait/skip lines (/i), Bash-is-not-publication (/i), stale ban. - Report-format sentences ("the actual host's reviewer names", 'Include the DX metrics line only when ...', "Resolve `report.next` using the driver's applicable scope/skip rules") -> kept free: every report field line, `report.includeDxMetrics`, `report.next`, and the code-generated packet checks. - Intake/DX-scope/call-site sentences ('without losing requirements', 'Use returned paths/`scope`', 'false and neither semantic trigger applies', 'checks exact retention', the 'for both voices' tail) -> kept free: ACTIVE_PLAN field, save-to-ACTIVE_PLAN, conversation approval, backup-exactly, stop on helper error, `## Review record` (all /i where prose), init/scope/create/ prepare-close CLIs, `dxRequired`, 2+ threshold, enabling flags, no-negation rule, snapshot/verbatim dispatch/outside-inline lines, stale path bans. Mutation pass (scratch worktree; autoplan template, sections and generated phase-close): 23/23 as expected; 16 reorder/old-order/tool-param/placeholder/ numeric/consent/stop/safety mutations go red, 7 rewordings and lowered caps (ONLY/FINAL, Keep ONE phase) stay green. Log: .context/mutation-autoplan-phase-order.md. * test(W7c): qa-functional-prompt keeps the verifier contract, drops driver prose W7c (t07 F6, F7, F8). One test file. The eval prompt itself is unchanged. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - ~40 driver-prompt sentence pins in the disclosure, artifact and fix-budget tests ("All four reads are required before probing ...", "command is the exact full outer capture invocation, including ...", "different later command", "not the required same-command replay", "Only the helper writes observed fields", "Link the evidence and checkpoint files ...", "Evidence rows contain ONLY complete JSON ...", "aim under 400 words", "one causal sentence per checkpoint hypothesis ...", "a reproduced in-tier defect requires ...", duplicates of "retain its headings ..." etc.) -> the run produces verifiable evidence and a linked report: free validator tests in this file (qaFunctionalVerdict replay, validateQACheckpoints on CI, R29 and R85 captures) and gate E2Es qa-functional-cli-report, qa-functional-webhook-report, qa-functional-cli-fix, qa-functional-webhook-fix (gate). Kept the machine-read contract: read list, `"command":"<exact full outer capture invocation>"`, `annotations.learning`, the three copied field names, the >20-character limit, evidence.json before report.md. - `maxTurns: 40` / `completionReserveMs: timeout / 4` exact source pins -> replaced by a `maxTurns >= 40` floor and presence of `completionReserveMs`. - Fix-stage provenance sentences ("most recent completed native probe", "Tests, source edits and clock reads ...", "write no checkpoint when there is no next probe") -> test output never becomes `observed`: kept one free meaning check plus the R29 validator test (free). - Duplicate loop-order checks on qa-only/sections/exploratory.md and grep of `scripts/resolvers/qa.ts` source (t07 F6, F8) -> loop ordering has one owner, qa-probe-gates (free, every host). Here the source grep becomes a check on `generateQAExploratory` output (one probe per native command, never batch probes), and the caller test keeps resource paths, field names and structural stage anchors. Loosened to case-insensitive meaning checks (kept): never synthesize JSON, never shorten native JSON, existing tests read-only, freeze tests after red, repair scope `src/<family>.ts`, green suite does not replace native probes, report incomplete honestly, report-only proposes test stubs, completion reserve does not end coverage, all eight scenarios required, never backfill notes, owned probe directory, only complete emitted JSON, wrapper/entrypoint boundary lines. Kept unchanged: paid-case selection, CI/R29/R85 validator replays, actor boundary and command allowlist, fix-stage order, verification probe list, scenario lists. Cosmetic pins dropped: ONLY / NOT / Never capitals. Mutation log: .context/mutation-qa-functional-prompt.md (19 mutations, 0 unexpected: 3 reorders, 4 markers, 7 safety red; 5 rewordings green). * test(W7c): match plan-scope-selection scope-gate stop lines case-insensitively W7c conversion, scope-gate caps pins only (t06 #14). The scope classifiers (nativeSeededPlanSelection, isScopeGateAutoSelectVisible, isScopeGateQuestionVisible), the consumed announcement and A/B/C menu bytes, and every non-caps assertion are unchanged. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - 'Reply with A, B, or C. STOP and wait' order anchors (design, template and every host expansion): menu precedes bootstrap -> kept free: the consumed prefix 'Reply with A, B, or C' (pty/classify.ts, pty/judge.ts), now also required to exist after '## Scope gate' so a missing menu cannot pass the order check with indexOf -1. - 'call AskUserQuestion FIRST and wait.', 'does NOT count as the mode signal', 'If the user explicitly named a DIFFERENT target' (design and eng), 'STOP and wait for the answer — only after the user picks', 'STOP and wait for the answer' (toContain and indexOf before the first ```bash on every host): ask first, pasted text is not a mode signal, explicit targets win, stop until answered -> kept free: the same rules as case-insensitive meaning checks, including the per-host ordering (search /stop and wait for the answer/i before the first ```bash, with a presence check). Mutation pass (scratch worktree; plan-design-review and plan-eng-review templates): 12/12 as expected; gate-after-preamble, removed design menu prefix, removed stop lines (design, eng), removed mode-signal, ask-first and explicit-target rules go red; lowering STOP/FIRST/NOT/DIFFERENT stays green. The eng menu prefix is not pinned here (eng-scope-entry-ap.test.ts M1 covers it). Log: .context/mutation-plan-scope-selection.md. * test(W7c): match document-release spawned-dispatch contract on meaning W7c conversion (t04 F3; W7a run-in-background-guidance.test.ts:472,474, named by the Eng W7c gate as anti-injection and VERSION invariants that stay as case-insensitive meaning checks). The run_in_background flag pins, structural scanner and inverted-phrasing ban are unchanged. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - 'NEVER trigger it on their own' (caps literal): prompt/file/tool claims do not enable spawned mode (anti-injection) -> kept free: /claims never trigger it on their own/i in the generated skill and template. - 'The NEVER-do invariants below do' (short form of a wrapped sentence that names the caps headings s10 rewrites): spawned auto-pick still never rewrites CHANGELOG or changes VERSION -> kept free: /skip any recommendation that rewrites CHANGELOG or changes VERSION/i (whitespace-normalized) in both files; gate E2E document-release. - 'A spawned run must never change VERSION': same rule, now /i. Mutation pass (scratch worktree; document-release skill, template and release-body section, ship/sections/documentation.md): 7/7 as expected; deleting the anti-injection clause, the CHANGELOG/VERSION carve-out, the spawned VERSION line, the run_in_background flag or the dispatch heading goes red; lowering NEVER and rewording 'NEVER-do invariants' stays green. Log: .context/mutation-run-in-background-guidance.md. * test(W7c): match retro clock rule case-insensitively, drop proximity regex W7c conversion (t02 #11, #12). Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - /NEVER from `date`/ (caps): today comes from the session reminder, not the system clock -> kept free: /session reminder/ and /never from `date`/i. - /(?:disclosure[\s\S]{0,200}narrative|narrative[\s\S]{0,200}disclosure)/ (200-char word-proximity window): offline/local-only runs disclose that the window is not freshness-verified -> kept free: the exact disclosure string 'offline run, window not freshness-verified' (it reaches the retro output), RETRO_REF disclosure and the GUARD_* script checks; gate judge 'retro/SKILL.md instructions'. Mutation pass (scratch worktree, retro/SKILL.md.tmpl): 4/4 as expected; allowing `date` or deleting the disclosure string goes red; lowering NEVER and rewording the narrative clause stays green. Log: .context/mutation-regression-1624-retro-stale-base.md. * test(W7c): match redact scan-at-sink exact-bytes rule case-insensitively W7c conversion (t02 #13). Credential-handling checks (mktemp, --from-file, exit codes 3/2/0, visibility lookups, no HIGH skip flag) are unchanged. Removed assertion group (invariant -> remaining protection): - /EXACT bytes/ (caps): scan the exact bytes that will be sent -> kept free: /exact bytes/i in the same test, next to the mktemp and --from-file checks. Mutation pass (scratch worktree, scripts/resolvers/redact-doc.ts): 3/3 as expected; scanning a summary instead of the exact bytes or dropping the Exit 3 (HIGH) branch goes red; lowering EXACT stays green. Log: .context/mutation-redact-doc-resolver.md. * test(W7c): check the codex boundary on meaning and its path list W7c conversion (t02 #14, W7a host-config.test.ts:565). The boundaryInstruction bytes sent to Codex are unchanged; only the test loosens. Removed assertion group (invariant -> remaining protection): - toContain('Do NOT read') (caps fragment): Codex must not read or execute Claude skill definitions -> kept free: /do not read or execute any files under/i plus each excluded path ('~/.claude/', '~/.agents/', '.claude/skills/', 'agents/'), which is the actual contract. Mutation pass (scratch worktree, hosts/codex.ts): 3/3 as expected; replacing the prohibition or dropping an excluded path goes red; lowering IMPORTANT/NOT stays green. Log: .context/mutation-host-config.md. * test(W7c): shrink skill-ceo-section-ordering to structural and meaning checks W7c conversion of test/skill-ceo-section-ordering.test.ts: t06 #1-#6, t05 F5 (cross-reference: the remaining bold-STOP pins), t13 F3 / W7.md CRITICAL RULE anchor. #1 (ASK_QUESTIONS_HEADING anchor) was already on the base branch; #5 now slices the blocked chat return to the next "\n## " heading, so removing or renaming `## Review Log` cannot widen or break the window. Pins (grep -cE 'toContain|toMatch|indexOf|includes'): 647 -> 388 lines; toContain( 535 -> 136; expect() calls per run 1657 -> 1399. The carve block, section-capture fixtures and validateCeoReviewCompletion tests are unchanged (t06 keep list) except two exact-duplicate 0D pins. CEO invariants count as periodic-only (plan-ceo-review-benefits retires), so every invariant below keeps a free structural or case-insensitive check. Gate-tier judge that also grades this prose: 'plan-ceo-review/SKILL.md modes'. New helpers: ordered() (exact labels/headings/placeholders/table cells as strings, meaning anchors as /i RegExp) and between() (fails loudly on a missing end anchor instead of silently running to EOF). Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - t06 #2 / t05 F5: '**STOP for the actual answer, even for a lone option.**' (x6 exact pins + 3 split/indexOf anchors) and '**STOP for the answer**' (x3): wait for the actual answer before recording -> kept free: one /stop for the actual answer/i per slice (template 0D in dispatch order between the ask-one-row check and the answer save; every generated host carrier between **4. Ask and **Post-answer checkpoint:**), /stop for the answer/i in 0E step 3 (template and generated), plus the Pre-question < 4. Ask < Post-answer checkpoint order and the 2-checkpoint count. Dispatch slices now end at **Post-answer checkpoint:**. - t06 #4 'Recommendation is ALWAYS present': recommendation label contract -> kept free: '(recommended)' and 'AUTO_DECIDE depends on it' in generated SKILL.md; exactly-one-(recommended) rule in 0D's currentDecision table. - t06 #6 and other bans of retired phrasings ('If the section has findings, you MUST call AskUserQuestion', 'Otherwise, use AskUserQuestion for each finding', 'After each section, pause and wait for feedback', 'Save pending rows before comparisons', 'using the Step 0E mode-handoff format', 'Save a chat-only plan', 'quality bonus, not a gate', 'If no file is in scope, skip this section', 'always write', 'For every question', 'for architecture choices', 'These approaches differ in coverage (...)', 'Finish with ExitPlanMode', 'Before summaries, review logs or next-step menus...', "put the complete comparison in the question's brief", 'Use this exact route:', 'citing its ID', /\blog (?:with|that ID)\b/): same invariants -> kept free: the positive checks (one **Decision gate.** per section wired to Analyze → Resolve → Apply; pending-rows-before-comparisons order; **Otherwise:** in the 0H order; report not persisted + Read-back gate; write-when-permitted incl. zero tasks; Outcome routing count 1; record-provenance-after-handoff order; literal dispatch-object comparison). 'Do NOT proceed ... 0C-bis' becomes not.toContain('0C-bis') on 0D. Short stale-token bans stay (<approved 0D approach>, reference | commitment | current value, ___ methods, retry once, telemetry has logged, NUMBER + LETTER / "3A", the Forbidden-storage regex, removed menu option, unbound placeholders). - t06 #3, magic counts: literal 11 sections / toHaveLength(7) closing steps -> kept free: section numbers 1..N derived from '## Review Sections (N sections' and checked against the ### Section headings; closing-step count derived from the 7 route labels. - Decision cycle / storage / comparison sentences (Start at step 1, run steps 2–4 only when needed, mode-change pointer, storage-policy save sentence, Copy the grid, Validate every field, Show unchanged/shared/pending repeated x4, other rows stay fixed or pending x5, never prewrite x3, Build one currentDecision x3, Ask one row per call x6, Save the answer reference x5, Keep independent changes separate x4): full decision protocol in order -> kept free: label order 1. Check < 2. Record < 3. Compare < grid < Pre-question < Read-back < 4. Ask < Post-answer (template + every host), one /i check each for pending-rows-before-comparisons, save-before-ask, amend only authorized work, failed save stops, decline-all stop, show unchanged/shared/pending, independent changes separate. Admin/plan routes also kept in ceo-workflow-clarity.test.ts. - Handoff/provenance sentences (After selection, send brief chat, Keep rows separate, logging-row repeats, Section 1 current-scope sentences): mode handoff applies before questions and logs provenance after -> kept free: /before tools or further questions/i, handoff < Other selections < provenance < selecting-a-mode order, the two exact output-format lines with <rows or none> / <Application and rationale>, auto_decided true/false fields, 'No new approach decision was needed' (quoted chat output). Section 1 dispositions -> ceo-workflow-clarity's Section 1 test. - Scope/mode-selection sentences (REDUCTION, HOLD and SELECTIVE's HOLD checks; For both expansion modes...; Skip/Defer destination repeats; present both inputs for final approval; 0E counts changed files; Count all deliverables; >15/greenfield repeats; SELECTIVE balances...): scope decisions per item with exact destinations -> kept free: prescribed menu label orders (A Add/B Defer/C Skip; A Defer/B Keep; TODO A/B/C; depth A/B), Defer -> TODOS.md + NOT in scope, Skip -> no TODO, /ask separately/i, /all four 0D steps for each unanswered addition or deferral/i, routing rows and >15 / 8-file / 2-class numbers (once each; ceo-workflow-clarity keeps the reuse-count checks), carve block's document-approval order. - TODO menu (per plan-review-calibration t04 F11 retirement, which names this file as the remaining free protection): kept free in the TODOS.md-updates slice: /only unanswered TODO proposals reach this menu/i, /do not ask again about an item already deferred, skipped or kept/i, /one per question/i. - Resolver prose (spec review, plan report, tasks emit, exit gate, codex plan review, brain cache refresh, approval readiness, design clause): each sentence pin -> one short /i check per invariant on every host (five dimensions, at most three launches, required save stops, destination-file Read/Write order, zero tasks, unknown files JSONL format, ExitPlanMode only after checks, forbidden history, outcome routing and skip routes, native fallback never outside coverage); exact strings kept only for machine/output tokens (NO UNRESOLVED DECISIONS, '- + N unresolved from prior reviews', STATUS/SOURCE/OUTSIDE_STATUS assignments, CROSS-MODEL, OUTSIDE COVERAGE, 'N findings; R resolved; U unresolved', quoted report phrases, Gate outcome: Blocked, Read-back gate). Dropped: 'If both counts are zero', 'For **Outside Review**, use ...', 'Enter after either an external reviewer...', 'identify the causal mechanism', 'A credible material risk...', "check the assembled set's capacity", 'including findings that needed only factual correction', 'show unsaved fields and errors', Strategy-only tasks sentence, verified-report-can-pass sentence -> neighbouring kept /i checks in the same slice plus the gate-tier 'plan-ceo-review/SKILL.md modes' judge. - Review-section prose (continuity requirement lists, test-review and outside rule duplicates, strategy-only diagram sentences, Review facts repeats, Stage 3 publishes it, Count a reopened choice once, Keep them before the terminal report repeats, EXIT gate verifies..., no report or log needed yet, then run telemetry as the last review operation): per-section gate and ledger continuity -> kept free: Analyze < Resolve < Apply, Resolve paths via check-scope < correct < record order, /resolve critical risks now/i, /review only; do not change code/i, ledger header + status tokens, one /i per approval/stop line; reopened-once lives in ceo-workflow-clarity; terminal order kept as cache refresh < {{BRAIN_CACHE_REFRESH}} < Telemetry < finished < Call ExitPlanMode < handoff. - Duplicate pins removed outright (same string asserted 2-6 times across tests, incl. carve-block 'Ask one row per call' and bold-STOP pins): each keeps its single remaining check named above. Cosmetic pins dropped without controls: bold/caps (**STOP**, ALWAYS, MUST), double compactProse wrappers. Mutation pass (scratch worktree; templates, generated SKILL.md and review-dashboard resolver): 39/39 as expected; 28 kept-step/marker/ placeholder/safety/consent/numeric mutations go red (incl. the three TODO-menu lines), 11 rewordings of dropped sentences, the CRITICAL RULE heading rename, re-adding the retired #6 sentence, and lowered-register STOP lines stay green. Log: .context/mutation-skill-ceo-section-ordering.md. Runtime (Bun 1.4.0, 3 runs): before 2.05/1.84/1.77 s (median 1.84), after 1.87/1.80/2.08 s (median 1.87); dominated by runGeneration and the capture subprocess fixtures. * test(W7c): shrink plan-review-cases to structural and meaning checks W7c conversion (t03 F1-F4; t02 F4/F5 duplicate STOP/threshold pins). Pins 713 -> 208 lines by the brief's grep (toContain|toMatch|indexOf|includes); prose assertions 592 -> 366 (toContain/toMatch calls plus expectAll regex rules; expect() calls per run 3232 -> 2808). Tests 218 -> 215. t03 F1 (stale ~/.gstack/projects discovery path) was already fixed by W7a on the base; its $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT check and the stale-path ban are kept. Kept byte-exact or structural: marker-order arrays (### Prepare an unanswered choice -> ### Send once and wait -> ### Record the answer, heading list equality, Pending-record checkpoint, finish steps 1-6, entrypoint recovery order, output placeholder order), the parsed write-policy table routes, the generateAntiShortcutClause host matrix, every not.toContain(stale) ban, numeric limits (8+ files / 2+ new classes, fewer than 8 / 2, under 5 words, 2-3 options, six-column / five-field / four-step), consumed tokens and field names (`scope accepted as-is`, `scope reduced per recommendation`, FULL_REVIEW/ SCOPE_REDUCED mapping, **issues_found**, SOURCE=/OUTSIDE_STATUS=/STATUS=, OUTCOME=, `BLOCKED`, `## GSTACK REVIEW REPORT`, `currentDecision`, D<N> and ROW-ID formats, prescribed A-D menus), placeholders, commands/paths and all picker behavior tests (unchanged). STOP/wait/approval/safety lines become case-insensitive meaning checks located between their headings (e.g. /stop until the actual answer arrives/i between Send once and Record the answer; /do not replace the section in place/i plus /append the new report at EOF/i). CEO invariants (periodic-only once plan-ceo-review-benefits retires) each keep one free check. Eng/Design/DX invariants keep one free check too; nothing below relies on a periodic-only E2E. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - CEO route/narrow depth (:19) full sentences: admin answers approve nothing, plan decisions run steps 1-4, settled choices go to 0E -> kept free: Admin < Plan decision order, checkpoint order, five short /i checks, stale ban. - Eng evidence paths/labels (:33) 'Prior Learnings configuration', path rule sentences -> kept free: the three path field labels, /never invent paths/i, `not available`, label tokens, stale ban. - Eng first report save (:47) 9 requirement sentences -> 5 short /i requirements with the same remove-one-must-throw self-control; parent-dir, original-plan-copy and scope-record clauses dropped (initialization invariant kept by target-header/preserve/no-findings/placement/terminal- report checks; collision suffix kept in the write-policy test). - Eng setup selectors (:79) and its duplicate in the big Eng ordering test: selectors approve no remedy -> kept free: /these selections approve no engineering remedy/i, B selectors, no pre-answer ledger, stale ban; the 'For the next choice' sentence -> kept free: transaction marker order. - Eng performance (:94) exact bullet list -> kept free: four concern keywords from the parsed bullets; Decision-procedure sentence -> kept free in the four-section test. - Eng complexity/MODE (:105) per-target counting, 'Count each once', 'Keep it current', 'Continue to Section 1' sentences -> kept free: count-selected- work, both thresholds, MODE tokens and mapping, scope-reduction meaning, 'approves no pending remedy', Continue-to-Section-1 in the C order array. - Eng three-stage transaction (:125) sentence markers -> same 13-step order array with short /i anchors and the remove-one-must-throw control. - Eng Test Plan refresh, coverage trace (:150, :162) sentences -> kept free: placeholder count/order, prepare step count, short /i checks; coverage audit also graded by plan-eng-coverage-audit (gate). - CEO fallback (:178) sentences -> kept free: host mode token matrix, status field values, /final report is written later in Required Outputs/i, ban. - Persistence per skill (:229) Eng duplicates ('If the required log is forbidden', 'Neither supplies', FULL_REVIEW mapping, 'after successful Read-back') -> kept free in the readiness, complexity and write-policy tests; CEO 'retain its diagnostic' -> kept free: /do not claim that entry was recorded/i and three other CEO log checks. - Report resolver per host (:261) duplicate 'Do not choose another destination', 'Review record and write policy', 'full review output', explicit/named/active sentences -> kept free: target precedence order; CEO writer's seven sentences -> kept free: six-anchor order ending at '4. **Read-back gate:**' plus the blocked-return check. - Generated carriers (:327) bold STOP pin -> /stop until the actual answer arrives/i in the dispatch order array. - Big Eng ordering test (:358) duplicates of the gate describe (one question object, 8+/STOP, both-retain, setup, separate instrumentation, keep chosen values, calibration<procedure<scope, Decision procedure < Architecture, outside-voice consent lines) -> kept free once each (boundary list, queue test, preparation order array now ending at ### 1. Architecture review); 'Use existing tests ... bounded probes', 'post-answer scope summary', 'Compare only the file/class arrangement', 'contracts and approved security...', 'With no proposed cuts', 'Present numbered...' sentences -> kept free: build-boundary order check, structure-question and unapproved-fixes checks, C-step order array. - Eng gate describe: exact-duplicate pins (same sentence 2-4x in one test or repeated per section inside the 4-section loop) -> one copy kept; ledger placeholder descriptions (Plan baseline/Runtime evidence/Actual answer/ Accepted scope text) -> kept free: parsed ledger field-name list, R1 header, State values, A)/B) selectors, ledger position. - Gate tests 'identifies commitments before comparing values', 'common new defaults...', 'exact prior answers authorize...', 'finding evidence, stable decision identity...' merged: every non-duplicate invariant (optional depths, shared new value needs approval, unknown risks visible, drafts grant nothing, reopened ID keeps D<N>, test scores not answer status) -> kept free as one /i check in 'current contracts...' or 'all four section gates...'; their order checks -> kept free: prepare<identify<compare<save<send<record. - Remove-old-occurrence, 'Otherwise leave the remedy pending', 'no question or comparison grid is needed', 'never the saved-report gate', 'Compare the label separately', 'When revising, replace the whole current payload', 'It may be the selected plan', 'Present each completely as not persisted', 'If none is permitted...', 'A forbidden write follows its row', 'Run Learning hooks ...', 'Refresh affected tests...', 'If startup values...', 'instead of creating another approval row', 'Keep that remedy pending' -> same invariant kept free by an adjacent check (State replace/once checks, approves-no-implementation, factual-correction, recovery routing, payload rebuild, write-policy routes, return-to-entrypoint count, late-change and blocked checks, common-work check). - Worked example anchor sentence -> anchored on the Compare section and 'Ask about jitter first:'; parsed R1/R2 table equality kept. - Outside-voice queue: dead generic branch (all three skills `continue` before it; never executed) removed -> none needed (unreachable). Eng procedure re-checks inside the queue (5 sentences) -> kept free in the gate describe. Shared CEO/Eng/DX scope-revision sentences hoisted to one shared /i block per skill; CEO 'Keep candidate scope ...' etc. -> kept free as short /i checks; prescribed A-D menus kept exact. - Design register (:1771) sentences -> kept free: grounding-before-question order and three /i checks; 'Surface real missing decisions' dropped (positive restatement of the same rule). Gate-tier coverage that also grades this prose: judges 'plan-eng-review/ SKILL.md sections', 'plan-design-review/SKILL.md passes', 'plan-ceo-review/ SKILL.md modes'; E2Es plan-eng-coverage-audit, plan-review-report, plan-devex-review-plan-mode (gate). Cosmetic pins dropped without controls: bold/caps STOP and NOT, issue-number comments unchanged. Mutation pass (scratch worktree; eng/ceo/design templates and the outside-voice, testing and review-dashboard resolvers): 33/33 as expected; 24 kept-step/marker/safety/numeric mutations go red, 6 rewordings of dropped sentences and 3 lowered-register STOP/NOT lines stay green. Log: .context/mutation-plan-review-cases.md. Runtime (bun test, Bun 1.4.0, median of 3): 0.85 s -> 0.77 s. * test(W7c): qa-caller-authority keeps authority and safety lines, drops report prose W7c (t10 F12, F13). One test file; still renders every host x caller. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - `STOP and wait` / `STOP for the answer` / `AskUserQuestion and WAIT` capitals (t10 F12) -> approval before `./setup` or install: now an order check (explicit approval < "only after approval" < `cd <SKILL_DIR> && ./setup`; OK to proceed? < setup; AskUserQuestion-and-wait < install only the actual choice), plus case-insensitive "stop for the answer". Stronger: the mutation that moves setup ahead of the approval ask now goes red (the old test stayed green). New negative control removes the approval ask. - Report-layout prose for /review and /ship (keep metadata/outcome tables, demote headings one/two levels, fields as subsections, keep scores separate, save baseline normally) -> one final linked report section: kept free checks on the `## Exploratory QA and Verification Results` / `### Browser results` / `## Exploratory QA` headings, link every checkpoint and no second report; gate E2Es review-exploratory-small-cli, ship-exploratory-small-cli (gate). - Smoke-pacing prose ("one success and the riskiest changed failure/edge", "Required even for small diffs ...", "Required: plan commands/assertions, listed separately", "Other ideas are optional, untested") and duplicate report-status pins -> kept the numeric `5 minutes/12 probes` bound and the report-clean-only-when-all-required-pass gate; gate E2Es ship-exploratory-small-cli, ship-exploratory-plan-checks (gate). - Dedup prose ("Combine saved `findings` ...", "If both history ... classify normally", "Report the suppressed count once if nonzero", "If N > 0, print once:", "Otherwise skip the summary") -> only user `skipped` findings are suppressed: kept free order check (read decisions before matching) and the `skipped` / never `fixed` / `auto-fixed` lines; gate E2E ship-skipped-queued-finding (gate). - Preparation sentence pins duplicated from qa-probe-gates (Reads in order, no repeated Reads, "in full and select the surfaces", "Write a **charter**", "charter** per behavior", "announce finite command timeouts") -> owned by qa-probe-gates (free, every host); this file keeps scope < methods < charter structural order for every caller. - Learnings prose ("Otherwise skip this optional lookup", "Reading old notes never requires writing new ones") -> report-only lookup never writes: kept free checks (directory already known, caller permits, do not run the search helper, no bash/gstack-config/AskUserQuestion, injection throw); the query interpolation stays checked via `"webhook retries"`. - Misc prose ("Re-run affected contracts and adjacent happy paths ...", "Run only for selected browser surfaces", "Confirm each issue by retrying once", "parent applies queued fixes", "No test framework detected", "Report QA setup blockers", "required QA") -> judge `qa/SKILL.md workflow` and `review/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane); the adjacent kept gates remain free. Kept as case-insensitive meaning checks (authority, consent, safety): probe- local blocker rule, report-only never bootstraps/invokes skills, unknown caller -> report-only, declined -> blocked, credentials/passwords/other tabs, local-target ownership, no unit-test/curl substitute, functional-only reads nothing browser-side, never-pass list, named-risk acceptance, noninteractive -> blocked, test_stub ASK approval, ship waiver cannot complete review, caller-required rechecks, blocked rechecks never verify repairs, no edits during Step 4.8, no inner repair loop, REVIEW_START/token-once, native pass required for 5.8, coverage-cap stop lines, report-only never commits or dispatches, CI/test-weakening ban, never delete a valid red regression. Kept unchanged: machine tokens (`bun G start D`, `$B snapshot -i`, `DIFF_START`, `CONSOLE_ERRORS=`, `$B handoff/resume`), resource paths, the `If A and allowance remains:` count, `Minimum = 60%, Target = 80%`, all `.not.toContain` stale-workflow bans, existing negative controls. Cosmetic pins dropped: STOP / WAIT / LOCAL / Never capitals. Mutation log: .context/mutation-qa-caller-authority.md (23 mutations, 0 unexpected: 3 reorders, 3 markers, 11 safety red; 6 rewordings green). * test(W7h): retire CEO TODO-menu prose pins from plan-review-calibration W7h retirement (t04 F11; W7c list). The calibration corpus and buildPlanReviewDecisionPrompt never read this CEO prose; the AUQ format tokens (consumed by plan-tune and judges) and the calibration-harness outcome tests are unchanged. Retirement card: - test: plan-review-calibration.test.ts, the six CEO TODO-menu pins ('Only unanswered TODO proposals reach this menu', 'Do not ask again about an item already deferred, skipped or kept', 'carry its actual answer and destination forward', 'Resolve each remaining proposal through all four steps of 0D, using the menu below', 'Never batch TODOs — one per question'). - detects: edits to plan-ceo-review TODO-menu prose. - non_test_callers: none (test-only reads of the template). - search_command: grep -rn "Never batch TODOs\|Only unanswered TODO" test/ - stronger_proof / replacement: skill-ceo-section-ordering.test.ts 'TODOS.md updates' slice keeps /i meaning checks for unanswered-only, no re-asking and one TODO per question (CEO invariants are periodic-only under the W7c gate, so they keep a free check); 'route through 0D' stays covered by that file's 0D route checks. - history: 636175d v1.87.6.0. - validation: bun test test/plan-review-calibration.test.ts. Controls (scratch worktree): replacing 'Never batch TODOs — one per question' or deleting 'Only unanswered TODO proposals reach this menu' turns skill-ceo-section-ordering.test.ts red (2/2); in this file, removing an AUQ format token goes red and rewording the retired TODO sentence stays green (2/2). Log: .context/mutation-plan-review-calibration.md. * test(W7h): retire spec-template-sync as a duplicate of the freshness check W7h retirement (t05 F18; Eng factual correction: the file takes 145 ms, its "2 minutes" was the 120 s timeout, so this is a duplicate-only retirement). Removes its scripts/free-test-durations.json entry. Retirement card: - test: test/spec-template-sync.test.ts (regenerate /spec into an out-dir and compare spec/SKILL.md + spec/sections/gate-and-file.md with the tracked bytes; check the generated header). - detects: /spec template edited without regeneration, or a hand-edited generated file. - non_test_callers: none. - search_command: grep -rn spec-template-sync package.json scripts test .github - stronger_proof / replacement: gen-skill-docs.test.ts 'generated files are fresh (match --dry-run)' (FRESH for every skill, no STALE anywhere; the dry-run covers carved sections such as spec/sections/gate-and-file.md); the generated-banner checks in the same file cover the header. - history: c118e24 / 410b492 / 394db32 / b1485d8 (codex T8). - validation: bun test test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts. Control (scratch worktree, run against the replacement): a stale spec/sections/gate-and-file.md, a stale spec/SKILL.md, and a spec template edit without regeneration each fail gen-skill-docs 'generated files are fresh' (3/3). Log: .context/mutation-spec-template-sync.md. * test(W7h): retire the literal 75 KB autoplan budget duplicate W7h retirement (t04 F18). test/skill-preflight-budget.test.ts asserted the same four-skill autoplan sum twice: once against AUTOPLAN_PREFLIGHT_BUDGET_BYTES * 3 (25,600 x 3 = 76,800 = 75 KiB) and once against a literal 75 * 1024, which would drift silently if the constant changed. Retirement card: - test: skill-preflight-budget.test.ts 'autoplan total under 25 KB instruction cap × 3 (75 KB instruction budget)'. - detects: the four plan-* skills' brain preflight + refresh + write-back instructions exceeding 75 KiB. - non_test_callers: none. - stronger_proof / replacement: 'autoplan: sum across 4 plan-* skills stays under AUTOPLAN_PREFLIGHT_BUDGET_BYTES × 3 (instructions)' in the same file, which reads the constant from scripts/brain-cache-spec.ts. - history: c118e24 v1.64.1.0. - validation: bun test test/skill-preflight-budget.test.ts. Controls (scratch worktree): shrinking AUTOPLAN_PREFLIGHT_BUDGET_BYTES below the current total, or growing the eng write-back instructions by 80 KB, turns the kept constant-based check red (2/2). Log: .context/mutation-skill-preflight-budget.md. * test(W7c): workflow-excerpt keeps heading order and tokens, drops judged prose W7c (t04 F5, F6, F7, F15; F1/F2 already landed with W7a). One test file. This file guards judge-input fidelity; the judges that read these excerpts grade the prose itself. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - Ship rule sentences ("Use the documented selector and pre-merge command.", "During pre-flight, read the existing review log", "Tests must pass or retain approval ...", "For another repair, repeat rule 2 ...", "The unchanged release steps follow", "Use this example only after confirming ...", "Retain queued fixes and restore coverage", "Each commit must work independently", "Keep actual outcomes and incomplete flags", the long "Continue to Step 9.2 with the core/design-lite findings ..." form, the Y'd/D'd evidence sentence) -> judge `ship/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane), which reads this exact excerpt; kept free checks on step routing (`Step 4`, `Step 8.1`, 9.2 -> 9.2.1 QA -> 9.3, `Insert Step 5, affected Steps 6–8 and all of Step 9 before the pending Step 10`, `5 → 6 → … → 11.5`, `continue to Step 16`), tokens (`BASE_VERSION`, `VERIFY_RESULT stays fail`, `"partial":N,"not_done":N`, "intentionally dropped"), and the review cycle order (9.1 < 9.2 < 9.2.1 < 9.3 < 9.4) as a structural check. - Outside-review routing sentences ("Other preflight mode, including harness mismatch", "Outside execution or output validation fails", "Retain its output and diagnosis ...", "No prompt, outside process or native replacement", "Other preflight failures retain their printed diagnosis", the full fallback-list regex) -> disabled means no outside call: kept free order of disabled/prompt/ready/fallback blocks, `outside_status` tokens, `_DISABLED_REVIEW_MODE`, disabled recheck before dispatch, "disabled means no replacement", fallback-not-completion; judges `document-release/SKILL.md workflow`, `plan-eng-review/SKILL.md sections` (gate lane). - Eng/design prose ("quote the motivating plan requirement", "Use a scoped Edit to save this record ... Leave other choices unchanged" full form, "edit the plan and re-rate") -> judge `plan-eng-review/SKILL.md sections` and `plan-design-review/SKILL.md passes` (gate lane); approval meaning checks kept. - Retro prose ("does not require saved history", "PRs referenced", "not newly added test cases", "is the live **team** streak", "draft the tweetable summary using the format in Step 14, then save") -> judge `retro/SKILL.md instructions` (gate lane); kept headings, `prs_merged: null`, `streak_days`, the one-second compare window, Capture Learnings after Step 14, no `$(date`, two `today="<today>"`. Loosened to case-insensitive meaning checks (stop/consent/approval and safety lines, always kept): STOP for each pending decision (now a regex anchor between Step 5 and the Test Plan Artifact), STOP until the actual answer arrives, no remedy/next section/ExitPlanMode while a choice awaits an answer, evidence-not-approval, reopened choices need answers, wait for approval (design), AskUserQuestion once (t04 F6), per-finding approvals, dispatched-reviewer-missing -> stop, CYCLES >= 3 -> stop with `converged:false`, no fourth cycle, required-probe gate before Step 10, failed probes block continuation, coverage-gate not bypassed, failed/unrun probes not passed, three snapshots match, document-release VERSION-absent rule, never create an empty commit, `read any other SKILL.md` (t04 F15), AskUserQuestion-and-wait in the capture prompt. Kept unchanged: heading/step order checks, `## Review Sections` single-copy check, fail-closed marker tests, redact-before-edit ordering, approval gates outside subagent prompts, plan-tune auto-decide output lines, CEO capture harness contract, deploy formula execution, all stale-string bans. Cosmetic pins dropped: STOP / ONCE / NOT / OTHER capitals. Mutation log: .context/mutation-workflow-excerpt.md (21 mutations, 0 unexpected: 3 reorders, 3 markers, 8 safety red; 7 rewordings green). * test(W7h): retire the paid first-task-scaffold E2E duplicate W7h retirement (t12 F12). Removes the case from test/helpers/touchfiles-data.ts (E2E_TOUCHFILES, E2E_TIERS periodic, E2E_KINDS rule) and both scripts/paid-test-durations.json entries; test/helpers/periodic-exclude-data.ts had no entry. e2e-tier-alignment, eval-kinds, eval-detach-timeout-floor, periodic-exclude-policy, touchfiles and paid-shards tests stay green. Retirement card: - test: test/skill-e2e-first-task-scaffold.test.ts ('first-task-scaffold', periodic, ~$0.02): Haiku is told to run exactly one detector command and the test greps the tool result for code_node / greenfield. - detects: detector bucket regressions in bin/gstack-first-task-detect. - non_test_callers: none. - search_command: grep -rn "first-task-scaffold" test scripts .github - stronger_proof / replacement: test/preamble-first-task-scaffold.test.ts (free; executes the real detector on fixture repos for every bucket, including code_node and greenfield, plus first-run gating and telemetry in bin/gstack-skill-start). The model added nothing: the prompt dictated the exact command. - history: c118e24 v1.64.1.0. - validation: bun test test/preamble-first-task-scaffold.test.ts plus the registration tests above. Control (scratch worktree, against the replacement): making the detector emit the wrong bucket for a Node project or a commit-less repo turns preamble-first-task-scaffold.test.ts red (2/2). Log: .context/mutation-first-task-scaffold.md. * test(W7c): shrink gen-skill-docs to structural and meaning checks W7c conversion of the sentence/caps pins in test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts (t01 F2-F9, F18, F19; t08 F12; t10 F4; t02 #5 duplicate STOP literal). t01 F1 ('Every commit must map to at least one bullet point') was already gone on the base. Pins (grep -cE 'toContain|toMatch|indexOf|includes') 1446 -> 1360; tests 457 -> 457. Untouched: the FRESH/STALE freshness check, the routing soft-policy negative, skill-start/end script pins, the SESSION_KIND spawned line, and the old-wording negative pins (delete-then-append, 0D/0F, gate "if applicable"). Machine markers stay byte-exact: NO UNRESOLVED DECISIONS, `**UNRESOLVED DECISIONS:**`, `Approval readiness: PASS`, `D<N> — <ROW-ID>: ...`, `## EXIT PLAN MODE GATE (BLOCKING)` anchors, `**Gate outcome: Blocked**`, helper commands/flags (gstack-office-hours-review prepare/check/finalize --design, --out-dir, --report, --unreviewed), helper stop reasons, analytics commands. Consent, stop, approval, decision-cycle and navigation lines (incl. the Eng W7c-gate lines at the old 2362-2370) are kept as short case-insensitive checks. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - qa-only 'Never fix bugs' + 'NEVER fix anything' (t01 F8): report-only skill -> kept free: /never fix/i in Additional Rules + frontmatter no Edit/Glob/Grep. - qa 'WTF' token (t08 F12): fix-loop self-check -> kept free: /every 5 fixes/i. - TEST_COVERAGE_AUDIT sharedPhrases sentences and the three Test-step sentences (t01 F4): read source before tracing/diagramming in plan and ship -> kept free: order 'concrete source and test files' < Trace data flow < Diagram the execution < Quality scoring rubric in both, star/GAP markers, the plan/diff mode split, the Test review subheading structure test; gate judges 'plan-eng-review/SKILL.md sections', 'ship/SKILL.md workflow'. - 'REGRESSION RULE' / 'IRON RULE' labels (t01 F4): regression coverage is required -> kept free: REGRESSION RULE heading, /without regression coverage, that coverage is a critical requirement/i (plan), /regression test is written immediately/i (ship), plus the existing regression-contract tests. - '**STOP for each pending decision.**' (t01 F7, retired) -> kept free: 'Wait for its answer before applying that remedy' (control C1). - F19 rule sentences: step numbers dropped; kept free /prevent duplicate bumps, pushes and PRs, never verification/i, /native result never supplies outside coverage/i, /required-probe gate, never silently waive/i, /never offer a conversion/i, /actual counts, never estimates/i (deduped 2 -> 1). - SPEC_REVIEW_LOOP (t01 F3, about 74 sentence pins): - office-hours dispatch sentences (Before EACH dispatch, parent Read does not deliver, string unchanged) -> kept free: prepare --design/--out-dir, order mktemp < prepare < round-N.prompt.md < `dispatch`, /all preceding valid round files in order/i, /read the entire prepared prompt/i. - reviewer prompt sentences -> kept free: document/verdict path and schema wiring, mode sections ('The Assignment', 'What I noticed...'), dimension order, short checks for coaching protection, no invented customer answers, minor findings included, identical JSON, classify every prior finding, open questions vs committed behavior. Dropped: 'Could an engineer implement this...' ban (positive design-and-coaching check carries it), absence-is-not- confirmation, unsupported-claims and labeling sentences -> gate E2E office-hours-spec-review; prior-status validation in office-hours-review.test.ts. - convergence evidence sentences, 'Recording concerns does not mark them fixed', Disposition, observation/attempt counting, 'unavailable score is null', 'missing or invalid verdict is ... never PASS', 'Preserve the failed output' -> office-hours-review.test.ts (convergence, finalize, invalid artifact vs --unreviewed, null quality_score) + gate E2E office-hours-spec-review; kept free: helper stop-reason order and round 3, /before fixing any findings or dispatching again/i, /on a stop, do not fix again or re-dispatch/i, /do not edit that generated section/i, finalize before /existing user approval/i, --unreviewed wiring, /do not fabricate JSON/i, /not an approval gate/i. - CEO spec-review sentences (Read Agent's tool definition, omit field, consume completed review, Keep both consistent, duplicated 'both complete labeled texts'/'all five dimensions'/'Preserve the failure'/'citing the owning input'/'## Reviewer Concerns', 'Read these documents' ban, strategy-only and narrow-decision sentences) -> CEO is periodic-only, so kept free: one short check per invariant (wait tool, no-wait resume, no advance while waiting, three launches, stop after third, stop the loop, missing score, null grade, SCORE 1-10, not persisted, mkdir/append stop, save-failure stop, ITERATIONS, FOUND/FIXED/REMAINING order, both inputs in full, partial-input refusal, summary-is-not-the-plan, 1-10 score, PASS rule, cite input) plus the existing order/count/command checks. - Design approval reconciliation (t01 F2, about 79 pins): - Pass 5 sentences and 'AskUserQuestion once per issue. Do NOT batch. Recommend + WHY.' -> kept free: /stop\W+AskUserQuestion once per issue/i located after four short reuse/new-evidence/first-decision checks; batching -> auq-format-always-loaded.test.ts PER_SKILL_RULES ('One issue = one AskUserQuestion call'). - duplicate 'Never group distinct issues.' pins (2 -> 1) and the rest of the Design gate 0 sentences -> kept free: 0 < 1 order, short checks per approval line, refresh < Read-back gate < rerun order; gate judge 'plan-design-review/SKILL.md passes'. - CEO readiness/gate/0D sentences -> kept free: one short check per approval line, readiness order, `Approval readiness: PASS`, gate order Read-only < Verify readiness < 1. Read, route order, /stop for the actual answer/i in step 4, `D<N> — <ROW-ID>` header, row fields; admin-route sentences -> ceo-workflow-clarity.test.ts kept checks. Dropped: 'No report or completion log is needed' (order check carries it), 'Save or present the updated plan', 'checked row IDs...' (marker kept), strategy-only/narrow-decision sentences (default kept), cross-model/integration sentences reduced to external-only and native-fallback checks. - Eng readiness/procedure sentences -> kept free: short approval checks, gate numbering/order, AUQ call < /stop until the actual answer arrives/i < Record the answer, recovery order; 'separate it and rebuild this comparison' -> auq-format-always-loaded.test.ts PER_SKILL_RULES. - Exit gate 'contract violation' sentence (t01 F9, design/devex/codex) -> kept free: heading anchor + /do not call ExitPlanMode/i inside the gate. - Unresolved-decisions gate (t01 F5): '(MANDATORY', 'Never omit'/'never omitted', 'FINAL non-whitespace line is the unresolved-decisions', 'FAILS the gate', 'DROP the current skill' -> kept free: NO UNRESOLVED DECISIONS, /final\s+non-whitespace\s+line/i, `**UNRESOLVED DECISIONS:**`, /missing\s+status [^.]*fails/i in every gate skill and the resolver, /avoids double-counting/i, the old soft-wording negative pin. - delete-then-append 'never mid-file' / 'Do NOT replace the section in place' (t01 F6) -> kept free: 'delete-then-append flow' + /append the new report at EOF/i; old-wording negatives kept. - design-html '**Never include by default (AI slop blacklist):**' (t01 F18) -> kept free: /AI slop blacklist/i, catalog id comment, lib/design-catalog.ts. - CODEX_BOUNDARY 'Do NOT read or execute any' casing (t10 F4) -> kept free: /do not read or execute any/i in every codex-calling skill. - CEO 0D order anchor '**STOP for the actual answer...**' (one of the 8) -> kept free: /stop for the actual answer/i at the same position. Mutation pass (scratch worktree, generated SKILL.md/sections plus spec-review.ts and lib/office-hours-review.ts; the freshness test is excluded with -t because any mutation makes it STALE): 43/43 as expected. 25 kept-step, marker, safety, numeric and retirement-control mutations go red; 18 rewordings of dropped sentences and lowered-register STOP/NEVER/FAILS lines stay green. Log: .context/mutation-gen-skill-docs.md. Runtime (Bun 1.4.0, wall, 3 runs): before 4.42/4.49/4.70s (median 4.49s), after 4.42/4.53/4.63s (median 4.53s). * test(W7c): review-workflow-clarity keeps order, tokens and gates, drops judged prose W7c (t06 #12). One test file. Each removed pin was the text fix for a past `review/SKILL.md workflow` judge finding; that judge (gate lane) still grades the prose, so the free test keeps only structure, tokens and gates. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - Plan-audit sentences ("retain the exact command ...", "A mixed item contributes to both lists", "Keep external-state ...", "If only behavioral checks remain ...", "File-existence checks ... are static audit checks") -> audited deliverables vs deferred behavioral checks: kept free checks on the separation, never DONE from a diff, zero-deliverable no-waive, UNVERIFIABLE -> Step 4.7, read-only audit (no apps/APIs/state) and inspect -before-invoke order; gate E2E review-exploratory-small-cli (gate). - QA loop/report duplicates of qa-probe-gates / qa-caller-authority (probe loop sentences, shared contracts, report layout prose, "Only the parent runs report-only discovery", "Read agent/user updates ...", "Prepare one provisional QA section", smoke composition) -> owned there (free, every host); here only `5 minutes/12 probes`, headings, link-every-checkpoint, no second report, never overwrite another run, freshness vs current inputs. - Persistence/finalization prose (~45: "final zero-edit pass, reconcile", "by structural identity", "without requiring deleted pre-extraction blocks", "raw bytes equal the bound snapshot blobs", "Keep both through re-reviews", "Earlier core tokens remain unused", "Re-read its final- snapshot supporting source ...", "Fixed advice needs no skip coverage", "The required in-host adversarial result controls native completion", "Optional outside attempts keep their own incomplete records ...", etc.) -> kept free token list (REVIEW_START/PASS_START, COMPLETED, CONVERGED, CYCLES=0 once, `review_binding`, `snapshot_covered_paths`, sharedLibsFingerprint, `completed:false`, evidence_paths/helper_target), cycle limit (at most 3, Below 3 repeat, At 3 persist `converged:false`), section order, and the integrity gates below; judge `review/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane); gate E2Es review-army-delivery-audit, review-army-json-findings, review-army-quality-score (gate). - Confidence-calibration prose (data loss/outage examples, missing field / nullable / race quoting, metaclass/ORM sentence, missing-literal sentence, learning-log sentence) -> kept the score table as a routing table (each band's action), `[CRITICAL]` / `[CRITICAL|INFORMATIONAL]`, no P0-2, `file:line`, force 4-5, never invent 7+, unverified-without-quote, gate before table; judge `review/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane). - Shared-code reuse safeguard enumeration (assume-unchanged/skip-worktree, sparse index, symlinks, submodules, Git filters, encodings, fsmonitor, textconv, provenance, binding wording) -> enforced in code and covered by free tests test/shared-libs-snapshot-check.test.ts, test/shared-libs-evidence.test.ts, test/shared-libs-checker-interface- evidence.test.ts; kept the checker command/heredoc/JSON tokens and the fail-closed lines. - Misc definitions ("A probe is affected when ...", "An invocation is this /review run ...", "Step 1.5's provisional notes ...", "Otherwise record each considered specialist", "Core findings use the confidence gates below", "highest confidence", "distinct specialists", "all source names", "active or unknown reader/writer", Greptile "Before edits, inspect ...") -> judge `review/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane). Kept as case-insensitive meaning checks (stop/consent/approval/safety): no edits before Step 5, readers returned or confirmed stopped, no edits in Step 4.8, stop without edits on unconfirmed readers (review and ship), stop at 3 cycles with no clean summary or fourth pass, failed/blocked probes mean incomplete, ship named-risk cannot complete review, native vs outside cannot substitute, structured-review gate, never carry coverage forward, never invent a binding, skipped advisory cannot suppress a defect, user-skip-only suppression, Greptile reply != code approval and wait for approval before editing, HIGH-impact gate options (A ends, read-only audit, no shipping authorization), never downgrade severity, never trust a supplied hash, missing metadata cannot dedupe, test creation needs approval, report-only review never runs setup/installs/cookie import. Kept unchanged: all marker-order arrays, manifest order, Pre-Landing summary after the logger, finish-token count and negatives, stale-wording bans (incl. `git diff origin/main`), ship/review routing negatives. Cosmetic pins dropped: STOP / NON / COUNT capitals; the test titled "resolves the judged ... ambiguities" is renamed to say what it keeps. Mutation log: .context/mutation-review-workflow-clarity.md (23 mutations, 0 unexpected: 3 reorders, 4 markers, 11 safety red; 5 rewordings green). * test(W7c): ship-control-flow keeps step routing, tokens and gates, drops rule prose W7c (t09 F1, F2, F3, F4). One test file. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - Work-list prose ("Expand a repair into individual steps ...", "This replaces the current item ...", "Add its destination only if ...", "The saved list takes precedence ...", "For another repair, repeat rule 2 ...", "The unchanged release steps follow", "Follow the saved work list", "Keep CYCLES and scoped approvals across this repeat", "Keep the findings and their approvals", "any further repair inserts its checks ...") -> repairs insert ordered steps ahead of pending work: kept free checks on the example sequences (`5 → … → 11.5`, `9 → 10 → 11` before 11.5, `5–11.5 → 12–14 → 16`, `14.5 → 15 → 16`, `9 → 10 → 11 → 11.5`), insert-before- pending routing lines, no unlisted steps, same attempt counts, no reset of the one-repair limit; judge `ship/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane); gate E2Es ship-docsync-recovery, ship-docsync-stale-after (gate). - Queue-qualification sentence pins duplicated in ship-version-sync (t09 F4: "require successful utility output ...", "`offline:false` qualifies ...", "Offline output without that fallback ...") -> kept in test/ship-version-sync.test.ts next to its script-behavior tests (free); here the Qualify < Usable < No-usable order, `NEW_VERSION=CANDIDATE_VERSION`, `>= NEW_VERSION`, `BUMP_LEVEL`, `currentVersion` and the approval line stay. - Distribution prose ("List candidate distribution paths", untracked files, manifest sentences) -> kept the New-artifact branch label, AskUserQuestion and the no-release-during-/ship safety line; gate E2E ship-local-workflow (gate). - Dispatch/dashboard/coverage prose ("Omitting the flag runs the subagent in the background", "keeping a fresh context", "Use one row for each entry in step 1", "including its undetermined-percentage and test-only rules") -> kept the `run_in_background: false` contract at all three sites, the dashboard header/verdict tokens, no inline Skill fallback, coverage gate not bypassed; gate E2E ship-coverage-audit (gate). - Recovery/docs/test sentences ("If an attempt remains and either ...", "a concrete launch/input/permission correction ...", "restart Step 16 stage 1 to regenerate ...", "This recovery also applies ... stage 5", "Content- preserving commits keep valid evidence", "Retain queued fixes and restore coverage", "If this pass made edits, resume at the next decision ...", "Undispatched host-unsupported/gated specialists do not block", "count it in the invocation record before launch", "Keep Step 9.4's incomplete flags", "saved handle, original token and source", "unknown or missing status is unavailable", "Finish the saved replies ...", "fetch and inspect the remote, then merge ...") -> judge `ship/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane); gate E2Es ship-docsync-* (gate) and ship-skipped-queued-finding (gate); the adjacent stop/approval lines stay free. Kept as case-insensitive meaning checks (t09 F1/F3; stop/consent/approval and safety lines): STOP and AskUserQuestion gates apply during repairs, a repair never resets or expands approvals, children return evidence not permission, prior-invocation audits never qualify, one repair/re-audit and no third attempt (initial-plus-one, once), Otherwise -> stop unless the user accepts the named docs risk, never silently refresh hashes, never run a third audit, dispatched-reviewer-missing -> stop, CYCLES >= 3 -> stop with `converged:false`, no fourth cycle, missing coverage cannot be replaced, failed probes never clean, required-probe gate before Step 10, cannot waive reviewer/test/security gates, native recovery stops the task first and remains blocked, outside output cannot replace native, never attach new tokens to old work, failed build stops shipping, never edit the child's counts, test failure stops publication, push failure stops with no Step 19, never rewrite history, never bypass failed guards, both redaction scans before publishing, no release publish during /ship, only approval changes the version, declining bootstrap is not test approval. Kept unchanged: the executed plan-tune nudge shell test (3 roots), section/ step ordering checks, Step 11.5 placement and `review_binding.*` fields, branch-label order in the adversarial finish (every host), all stale- wording bans, `(recommended)` marker on Add tests. Cosmetic pins dropped: STOP / ONE capitals (t09 F1, F3). Mutation log: .context/mutation-ship-control-flow.md (21 mutations, 0 unexpected: 3 reorders, 3 markers, 9 safety red; 6 rewordings green). * test(W7h): replace workflow-judge-cache source-grep counts with an invariant W7h retirement (t09 F16, t13 F6) of the source-grep counts in 'workflow registration preserves model work and reserves only terminal-recording grace'. The stage-order check over runWorkflowJudge (the cheapest guard) and every behavioral callback test stay. Retirement card: - test: workflow-judge-cache.test.ts pins of skill-llm-eval.test.ts source: "execution: reused ? 'reused' : 'executed'", 'const workDeadline = started + JUDGE_MS;', 'const WORKFLOW_JUDGE_RECORD_MS = 5_000;', 'const WORKFLOW_JUDGE_TEST_MS = JUDGE_MS + 10_000;', "testName: 'review/SKILL.md workflow'", and the magic counts /}, WORKFLOW_JUDGE_TEST_MS\);/ x17 and /}, JUDGE_MS\);/ x7. - detects: any workflow eval added or removed, any constant reformatted. - non_test_callers: none. - stronger_proof / replacement: (a) a new invariant in the same test: every `await runWorkflowJudge(` registration closes with WORKFLOW_JUDGE_TEST_MS (the property the 17-count stood in for, now independent of how many evals exist); (b) the real-callback tests in this file exercise execute-once, reuse with provenance (execution reused/executed), timeout, supersede, expiry and the recording deadline. - history: 636175d (#2898); last 7fca42a. - validation: bun test test/workflow-judge-cache.test.ts. Controls (scratch worktree, test/skill-llm-eval.test.ts): moving cache.publish before the score assertions or registering the ship workflow judge with JUDGE_MS goes red; adding a correctly registered eval and reformatting 5_000 as 5000 (both red under the old pins) stay green (4/4). Log: .context/mutation-workflow-judge-cache.md. * test(W7h): retire the bws session-awareness (ELI16) paid case W7h retirement (t14 F5). Removes the case from test/skill-e2e-bws.test.ts and its E2E_TOUCHFILES / E2E_TIERS (gate) / E2E_KINDS (rule) entries in test/helpers/touchfiles-data.ts; scripts/paid-test-durations.json is per-file and test/helpers/periodic-exclude-data.ts had no entry. test/touchfiles.test.ts selection examples now name sibling cases with the same touchfiles (skillmd-outside-git, skillmd-no-local-binary). e2e-tier-alignment, eval-kinds and touchfiles stay green. Retirement card: - test: skill-e2e-bws.test.ts 'session-awareness' (gate, paid). - detects: nothing gstack ships. The prompt coaches a mode that no longer exists ("_SESSIONS=4, so ELI16 mode is active ... Re-ground them"; `git grep ELI16` outside test/ and CHANGELOG is empty) and says "DO NOT actually call AskUserQuestion"; every asserted word (billing/acme, payment/feature, stripe/checkout, recommend) comes from the prompt itself. - non_test_callers: none. - search_command: git grep -n "session-awareness\|ELI16" -- test scripts - stronger_proof / replacement: the AUQ format's grounding line 'Project/branch/task: <1 short grounding sentence using _BRANCH>' is pinned free by plan-review-calibration.test.ts (format tokens) and graded by gate E2E auq-format-gate; session identity in the preamble stays pinned by skill-validation.test.ts 'contains session awareness' and gen-skill-docs.test.ts 'session awareness lives in gstack-skill-start'. - history: c118e24 v1.64.1.0 (#2572). - validation: bun test test/touchfiles.test.ts test/e2e-tier-alignment.test.ts test/eval-kinds.test.ts. Control (scratch worktree, against the replacement): removing the 'Project/branch/task:' grounding line from the AUQ format resolver turns plan-review-calibration.test.ts red (1/1). Log: .context/mutation-session-awareness.md. * test(W7h): pin the Codex availability probe free for the four offering skills Replacement check for the codex-offered-* paid retirement (t14 F8): each of office-hours, plan-ceo-review, plan-design-review and plan-eng-review must render the executed `command -v codex` probe and its `not_installed` fallback mode in its generated SKILL.md + sections. These are bash lines the agent runs, so a deterministic grep replaces a paid model summary of them. skill-validation.test.ts already covers the default-on outside voice for eng/CEO/devex; this adds office-hours and plan-design-review and the fallback token. Control (scratch worktree, generated files): removing the probe from office-hours, plan-design-review or plan-eng-review, or the CEO not_installed branch, turns the new test red (4/4). Log: .context/mutation-codex-offering.md. * test(W7c): ship-workflow-clarity becomes a structural check of ship-only invariants W7c (t07 F1, F2, F15). One test file: 59 tests / ~438 pins -> 33 tests. Round-tagged titles (r6/r12/r22) are gone. Every invariant this file shared with the other converted ship files is now checked once, in its owner: ship-control-flow (work list, repair ranges, docs/test/push recovery, adversarial finish order, Step 11.5 binding), ship-plan-completion- invariants (evidence ledger, push/commit, waivers), ship-reentry-gates (stop lines, docs reentry, NEW_TITLE), workflow-excerpt (review cycle order, coverage/probe gates), qa-probe-gates / qa-caller-authority (QA loop). Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - Duplicated literals (45 repeated 2-7x, e.g. "Keep the same attempt counts throughout the invocation" x7, "Docs, TODO edits ... make evidence STALE" x5, the CYCLES >= 3 / fixes-below-cap / no-edits sentences, push-failure and native-recovery sentences) -> one free check each in the owners above. - Smoke/plan-check loop sentences and "Required even for small diffs ..." -> qa-probe-gates (free, every host); gate E2E ship-exploratory-small-cli (gate). Kept here: smoke guard started once before step 3, every host. - Invocation-record field lists (receipt/handle/attempt field prose, "reuse this invocation's saved level", FRESH/ALREADY_BUMPED level derivation, receipt definition, start-token definition) -> kept `BUMP_LEVEL`, record outside the product tree, approval scope, never borrow/replace a token, REVIEW_START/PASS_START/DESIGN_START, `gstack-review-log --start`, `gstack-wtree`; version derivation also in test/ship-version-sync.test.ts (free); judge `ship/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane). - Reuse/judge-evidence prose ("original command, result/counts ...", "Compare hashes or complete bytes", "consumed files, fixtures ...", "complete expanded request, rubric ...") -> kept never resample, changed/ unknown dependencies rerun, mandatory reviews still run, freeze inputs; judge `ship/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane). - Build/route prose ("If none exists, record not applicable ...", "declared generation/build commands ...", "Run them and save results", "Explain why other changes cannot affect it", "Inspect writer handles, including the docs child", "Keep Step 8's original child report and counts", "Recheck affected plan items ...", "append current evidence ...") -> kept stage order, route-label order, prompts/templates count as behavior, no-change -> stage 3, writer termination before another writer, stop until confirmed, build-failed label, no substitute command; gate E2Es ship-docsync-* (gate). - Docs-collector prose ("Terminal completion or confirmed termination is sufficient", "Require every field/type ...", "Compare saved base and input hashes ...", "Otherwise save post-child hashes ...", "A stale snapshot is neither ...", "Reconcile those before proceeding") -> kept attempt counting incl. failed launches, request alone insufficient, exited child blocked, HEAD/index unchanged + `files_updated`, protected-file exclusions, `documentation_section`, failed/blocked -> recovery, actual user exception, blocked status retained, same approved scope and exact content, retry restarts stage 1; gate E2Es ship-docsync-missing-marker, ship-docsync-launch-failure, ship-docsync-late-result (gate). - Release/commit prose ("Record the release decision after a version was actually written", "Skip unchanged versions and manifest-only repairs", "Best-effort, non-interactive, non-blocking", "Group VERSION + CHANGELOG + TODOS.md ...", "Only the final VERSION/CHANGELOG commit gets the release version and co-author trailer", "use the first changed component ... (major/minor/patch/micro") -> kept ALREADY_BUMPED, the stale "skip if ALREADY_BUMPED" ban, `baseVersion`/`currentVersion`, absent fourth component is zero, no automatic rebump, digest tokens and pre-push digest check, no Git tag, commit-before-push order; gate E2E ship-local-workflow (gate). - Coverage/design prose ("Count each generation-authorized attempt ...", "including the initial audit, failures and zero-test results", "Two passes already used ...", "read-only reassessment uses no pass", design-lite ownership, same path/line merge, specialist stats, distinct defects) -> kept the 2-pass and 30/5/2-minute limits, re-entry never resets, missing permission is not approval, audit-only header/override order/no commit/ return decisions, child JSON, one item with both sources and stricter ASK, neither pass substitutes; gate E2Es ship-coverage-audit, ship-coverage-value (gate). Design-review-lite E2E is periodic, so the merge rule keeps its free meaning check here. - Spec/title/comment prose ("existing open PR/MR", "one match supplies the existing title/identity", "Save the result for Step 19's recheck", "In a new shell, restore ...", "Partial, deferred, failed, dropped or unverified scope uses ...", "newest", "Try to auto-resolve if they are simple", "distinguish an app from a library/CLI", "If the ask is App Store/ TestFlight distribution", "a new package.json or Cargo.toml alone ...", "After edits, the full re-review repeats ...") -> judge `ship/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane); ship-apple-gate (free) for the Apple route. Kept as case-insensitive meaning checks (stop/consent/approval/safety, always kept): never invent credentials, ask for unknown targets first, include the workflow in tests/review, frontmatter read as data never shell source, exact spec_branch match, positive-integer issue number, Closes #N only for fully completed scope, lookup failure/ambiguous match -> stop never "no PR", never publish an unprefixed title, ambiguous conflicts -> stop, AskUserQuestion and wait, unclear Apple target -> AskUserQuestion and wait, confirmed app -> stop and Read, stop for repair (recommended) or accept each named probe risk, skipping a fix is not risk acceptance, accepted risk is not passing verification, queue without editing in Steps 10/11, never credit outside coverage, do not report a clean review, unavailable outside challenge never resets the three-cycle limit, records mismatch blocks release, missing snapshots block regardless of HEAD, uncertain edits cannot be exempted, scripts/dependencies/runtime config need live tests, named testing gap A/B/C (recommended), reuse prior B only for same scope, declared but unavailable suite blocks, explicit untested-scope approval, report the gap never FRESH, no documentation writer after push, do not run create commands for an existing PR, Greptile status truthfulness. Kept unchanged: all stale-string bans, machine tokens and JSON contracts (`gh pr list ... --json number,title,url`, glab list, `v$NEW_VERSION `, `${NEW_TITLE:?...}` guard, exit 3, `--allow-paths ...`, `| FRESH (exit 0) |`, `--label <lane> --expect-cmd`, `gstack-review-read`, `git diff <reviewed-tree> <current-tree>`, `"status":"complete|no_pr|unavailable"`, specialist and coverage JSON, `status:"unavailable"`/`completed:false`/`converged:false`, `Pre-Landing Review: INCOMPLETE`, `ALREADY_PUSHED`), the threshold/branch/ installed-asset reference test, the section-index row check. Cosmetic pins dropped: STOP / ONE / ONLY capitals and bold (t07 F2). Mutation log: .context/mutation-ship-workflow-clarity.md (23 mutations, 0 unexpected: 4 reorders, 4 markers, 9 safety red; 6 rewordings green, all of which turned the old test red). * test(W7c): qa-exploratory-callers keeps phase order and authority, drops duplicated prose W7c (t04 F8, F16). One test file; only the generated-parent-path and runner-prompt pins change. The validator-backed caller tests (observer, checkpoint causality, read-only diff grammar, write watcher, deadline authority) are unchanged. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - Parent-path loop and preparation pins duplicated from qa-probe-gates (Reads in order, "Reuse Step 4's surfaces ...", "Finish missing methods before charters", isolation preflight, shared preparation order, the six plan-execution sentences, the three shared loop contracts) -> owned by qa-probe-gates (free, every host, with semantic mutation controls). - Parent prose ("Templates cannot replace them", "Only the parent runs report-only discovery", "Read agent/user updates and await results ...", report-clean and not-run list duplicates of qa-caller-authority) -> caller observer attribution tests in this file (free) and gate E2Es review-exploratory-small-cli, ship-exploratory-small-cli (gate); report gates stay in qa-caller-authority (free, every host). - Shared-loop duplicates (preserve key/value, Q supplies observed, write the report, return to step 2, pass requires) -> qa-probe-gates / qa-caller-authority; kept the observationCommand/observed field definitions and identity-hash rule here. - Runner harness prompt sentences (t04 F16: receipt-interface prose, appendSystemPrompt rules, scheduling prompt) -> reduced to one anchor per rule; `at most ${maxTurns} assistant turns`, maxTurns/timeout/reserve values, `(probe-...)`, `reports/review.md`, and every `not.toMatch` scenario-answer ban stay. validateCallerEvidence remains the behavioral oracle. Kept as case-insensitive meaning checks: phase order 1-4 per caller, review readiness follows report-only rules and never installs/imports cookies/bootstraps, smoke stop at 5 minutes or 12 probes, G enforces the deadline, never reset D/bypass G, plan checks remain required past the smoke budget, /review incomplete and /ship blocked unless the user accepts the named risk, repeat step 3 for affected checks, harness keeps parent decision gates, turn limit never authorizes skipping work, never group probes, Hard deadline UTC rule, HANDOFF.md read before completed records, no checkpoint for deferred ideas. Cosmetic pins dropped: AND / Never capitals. Mutation log: .context/mutation-qa-exploratory-callers.md (15 mutations, 0 unexpected: 2 reorders, 2 markers, 6 safety red; 5 rewordings green). * test(W7h): pin the CEO /office-hours prerequisite structure free Replacement check for the plan-ceo-review-benefits paid retirement (t14 F7). The paid case had a model summarize plan-ceo-review/SKILL.md and grep the summary for "office hours" and "design doc". The rendered text is static, so this free test checks it directly: the Prerequisite Skill Offer triggers on the design-doc check's "No design doc found", offers 'A) Run /office-hours now' and 'B) Skip — proceed with standard review', does not re-offer later in the session, and Mid-session detection (0A) offers `/office-hours`. Per the Eng Retirements item, CEO invariants become periodic-only once this gate case retires, so they keep this structural free check. Control (scratch worktree, generated plan-ceo-review/SKILL.md): removing the /office-hours option, the no-design-doc trigger, the mid-session offer or the no-re-offer rule goes red; rewording the pitch stays green (5/5). Log: .context/mutation-ceo-benefits.md. * test(W7h): retire the paid SKILL.md-summary cases in skill-e2e-plan W7h retirement (t14 F6-F8): office-hours-spec-review, plan-ceo-review-benefits and codex-offered-{office-hours,ceo-review,design-review,eng-review}. Each asked a model to read a generated SKILL.md, write a summary, and grepped the summary for facts the generated file states directly. Registration cleanup in the same commit: E2E_TOUCHFILES, E2E_TIERS (all six gate) and E2E_KINDS (rule) in test/helpers/touchfiles-data.ts; six scripts/paid-test-durations.json case-shard entries; no test/helpers/periodic-exclude-data.ts entries existed. The fast PR profile (scripts/test-pr-profile.ts) drops plan-ceo-review-benefits and office-hours-spec-review from PR_PROFILE_CASE_IDS and PR_PROFILE_FILES. Tests that named the retired ids as live examples move to existing ones: paid-free-boundary and paid-pr-profile (a CEO template change now plans auq-format-gate plus the CEO judge; the case-shard fixture uses plan-review-report), test-pr-profile, touchfiles (CEO selection count 21 -> 19), the touchfile-moved-code w5 golden (retired ids removed), the behavior-lane case-shard census (78 -> 72) in cookie-validation-phases, and the skill-e2e-plan timeout list and full-gate PR floor (78,425 -> 72,755 s) in paid-retry-supervision. e2e-tier-alignment, eval-kinds, eval-detach-timeout-floor and paid-shards stay green. Coverage consequence: per the Eng Retirements item, plan-ceo-review-benefits was the only gate-tier CEO E2E in the fast PR profile, so CEO invariants are treated as periodic-only under the W7c gate (every CEO conversion in this branch keeps one free check per invariant); the gate judge 'plan-ceo-review/SKILL.md modes' still runs for CEO prompt changes. An office-hours prompt change now has no fast PR E2E and is reported as deferred to broad coverage rather than run. Retirement cards: - office-hours-spec-review: detects the Spec Review Loop's stated dimensions, dispatch tool, iteration cap and metrics. Replacement: gen-skill-docs.test.ts 'SPEC_REVIEW_LOOP resolver' (round-3 cap, prepare/check/finalize commands, verdict and round-file wiring) and test/office-hours-review.test.ts (verdict parsing). Control: changing the round limit in scripts/resolvers/spec-review.ts turns gen-skill-docs red. - plan-ceo-review-benefits: detects the CEO /office-hours prerequisite and mid-session offer. Replacement: gen-skill-docs.test.ts 'plan-ceo-review offers /office-hours when no design doc exists and detects a lost user mid-session' (previous commit). Control: 4/4 red mutations there. - codex-offered-* (x4): detects the `command -v codex` probe, a fallback and optionality. Replacement: gen-skill-docs.test.ts 'Codex outside voice is offered behind an executed availability probe' (probe + not_installed fallback for all four skills) and skill-validation.test.ts 'plan reviews run the Codex outside voice default-on'. Control: 4/4 red there. - non_test_callers: none; history: c118e24 v1.64.1.0 (#2572). - validation: the registration tests named above. Controls log: .context/mutation-skill-e2e-plan-retirements.md. * test(W7h): delete the codex-offering prompt builder left unused by the retirement Dead-code follow-up to the codex-offered-* retirement: buildCodexOfferingPrompt (test/helpers/codex-offering-fixture.ts) had no caller besides those cases. Deletes the helper, its free test (test/codex-offering-fixture.test.ts), the two captured public fixtures it replayed, its scripts/free-test-durations.json entry, and the helper/fixture paths still listed as touchfiles of six plan review E2Es in test/helpers/touchfiles-data.ts. Retirement card: - test: codex-offering-fixture.test.ts (pinned the builder's prompt text and replayed captured timeout/CDD transcripts against it). - detects: changes to a prompt that no paid case sends any more. - non_test_callers: none (grep -rn codex-offering test scripts is empty). - replacement: none needed; the behavior it supported is now the free probe check in gen-skill-docs.test.ts. - validation: bun test test/touchfiles.test.ts test/touchfiles-map-diff.test.ts test/paid-shards.test.ts test/e2e-tier-alignment.test.ts; bun run typecheck. * test(W7h): delete validateOfficeHoursSpecSummary left unused by the retirement Dead-code follow-up to the office-hours-spec-review retirement: validateOfficeHoursSpecSummary in test/helpers/office-hours-completion.ts graded only that paid case's model-written summary. Deletes it and its free describe block in test/office-hours-completion.test.ts ('office-hours spec-review summary completion'); every other validator and test in both files is unchanged. Retirement card: - detects: a summary missing five dimensions, the Agent dispatch, the 3 iteration cap or the four metrics. - non_test_callers: none. - replacement: the facts it graded are pinned free on the generated text by gen-skill-docs.test.ts 'SPEC_REVIEW_LOOP resolver' (round-3 cap and loop wiring); see the retirement commit's control. - validation: bun test test/office-hours-completion.test.ts. * test(W7h): drop the no-op review-report check from setup-gbrain-remote W7h retirement (t12 F9) of one assertion in the paid setup-gbrain-remote case. No registration changes (the case stays). Retirement card: - assertion: `expect(/## GSTACK REVIEW REPORT|critical_gaps/i .test(result.output)).toBe(false)` with its comment. - detects: /setup-gbrain writing a plan-review report or critical_gaps findings, which it never produces; the removed comment itself said "Setup-gbrain doesn't have a review report contract". Copied from the plan-review tests (c118e24, #2572). - non_test_callers: none. - replacement: none needed; `grep -rln "PLAN_FILE_REVIEW_REPORT\|GSTACK REVIEW REPORT\|critical_gaps" setup-gbrain/*.tmpl setup-gbrain/sections/*.tmpl` is empty, so there is no behavior to control. The case's real contracts stay: the secret token never reaches CLAUDE.md, `mcp add ... --transport http`, and `Mode: remote-http` (read by bin/gstack-gbrain-detect). - validation: bun test test/skill-e2e-setup-gbrain-remote.test.ts (skips without EVALS; module loads). * test(W7h): delete incompleteFirstFileView, which no paid case uses W7h retirement (task scope: "incompleteFirstFileView + its free test in test/shared-libs-fixture.test.ts if no paid case uses it"). `grep -rn incompleteFirstFileView test scripts` showed only the export in test/helpers/shared-libs-eval-fixture.ts and its own free describe block; no paid case or grader calls it, so the helper and the two tests that pinned it are dead code. Retirement card: - test: shared-libs-fixture.test.ts 'incompleteFirstFileView (census 36641820398 shared-libs-pr-coverage)' (2 tests). - detects: regressions in a page-1 recovery classifier nothing consumes. - non_test_callers: none. - replacement: none needed; the shared-libs page budgets that a recovery read is charged to stay enforced by the kept budget function and its tests. - validation: bun test test/shared-libs-fixture.test.ts (241 pass); bun run typecheck. * test: update the periodic release floor for the opus-5-5 overlay case paid-retry-supervision.test.ts 'detached PR fallback and release commands cover their actual default worker budgets' was red on the integrated base 23a0be82d (green on f30b7b7): 737bf478d (E2, "dedicated-tools overlay case pinned to claude-opus-5-5") added a periodic file, so the recomputed periodic release floor is 33,852 s, not the pinned 33,821 s. Updates the pinned floor and the two-tier sum (55,546 -> 55,577 s); the detached release wall (116,700 s) still exceeds the recomputed census wall plus 120 s, which the same test asserts, so package.json does not change. eval-detach-timeout-floor stays green. * test(E1): pin CLAUDE.md facts, /ship step references and state-root literals New free test test/instruction-facts.test.ts (CEO/DX/Eng E1 items; DX-13 one named test() per check, each failure prints both values, file:line and the fix): - 'CLAUDE.md names every TREE_MUTATING file and does not call the set empty': imports TREE_MUTATING from scripts/test-free-shards.ts (today test/bootstrap-retention.test.ts). - 'CLAUDE.md states the current catalog ceiling from test/catalog-budget.test.ts': the "`CATALOG_BUDGET_TOKEN_EQUIVALENTS` (N today" value must equal the constant (1,194). - 'CLAUDE.md points at package.json for detach timeouts instead of stating numbers': no eval:bg* --timeout value appears in CLAUDE.md (plain or with commas), and the detach section names package.json's eval:bg:gate / eval:bg:periodic and states no timeout number. - 'every explicit /ship Step reference names a defined /ship step with the expected title': matches only `/ship Step N` and `/ship's Step N` (backticked or not) across every .tmpl and scripts/resolvers/; each must be a table row whose step is a heading in ship/SKILL.md.tmpl or ship/sections/*.md.tmpl whose title contains the row's subject, and the reference's line or enclosing heading must mention that subject; stale rows fail. Today: document-release release-body Step 7 -> /ship Step 14 (TODOS.md), plus the incident-history comment in scripts/resolvers/constants.ts ("/ship Step 18"), kept as a historical row with a reason (handoff: that comment's step is stale; the dispatch is Step 14.5). - 'negative control: moving a reference to another existing /ship step fails': rewrites the TODOS reference to Step 12 in memory and asserts the checker reports it. - 'every ~/.gstack/projects/ and ~/.gstack/analytics/ hit is allowlisted with a reason' and 'every state-root allowlist row still matches a hit': all 37 current hits in .tmpl and scripts/resolvers/ are covered by 36 rows, each with one of four reasons (user-facing description; gbrain context_queries manifest glob read literally by bin/gstack-brain-context-load.ts; source comment; pending conversion tracked in TODOS.md). The readiness-gate EVAL_DIR rows reuse the reason from test/state-root-ratchet.allowlist.json. New hits fail, and converting a literal fails until its row is deleted. Mutation pass (scratch worktree): 15/15 as expected; drifting the catalog number in CLAUDE.md or the constant, dropping or emptying TREE_MUTATING text, adding a TREE_MUTATING key, copying a detach timeout into CLAUDE.md, moving/undefining/retitling a /ship reference, a new /ship reference, a new state-root literal and a converted allowlisted literal all go red; unrelated rewording stays green. Log: .context/mutation-instruction-facts.md. * test: integration repairs after F2 (calibration test renders the AUQ format; census counts and release floors without the reverted overlay case) * chore: constants comment names the /ship documentation dispatch, not a stale step number * test: office-hours-auto-mode joins the fast PR profile (replaces the retired office-hours-spec-review probe) * docs: TODOS for the Opus 5.5 prompt-cleanup deferrals * fix(state-root): design-doc discovery reads $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT/projects DESIGN_DOC_DISCOVERY and autoplan's Step 2 design-doc lookup read the literal ~/.gstack/projects path, so under a non-default state root they missed the docs office-hours writes. The block now globs "$GSTACK_STATE_ROOT"/projects, and each caller's bash block (autoplan, plan-ceo/devex/eng-review, the spec-review prerequisite recheck) resolves the root with the guarded gstack-paths eval first. Allowlist: drops the autoplan ls row, both _LOCALDOC rows and the resolver source-comment row from STATE_ROOT_ALLOWLIST. Tests: the eng Design Doc Check fixture installs gstack-paths and seeds docs under a non-default root; the CEO discovery fixture passes an explicit GSTACK_STATE_ROOT. * chore: regenerate SKILL.md and context budget after design-doc discovery state-root change * fix(state-root): history, report and ledger paths name $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT Agent-facing read/write paths that named the literal ~/.gstack default now name the state root their writers use: - canary-history.jsonl and health-history.jsonl (the blocks above already resolve the root and print PROJECT_DIR) - ios-design-review report: adds {{SLUG_SETUP}} so the report path is the PROJECT_DIR it prints - plan-tune dream-cycle gate's distillation-proposals.json - retro's skill-usage and eureka reads: read the path gstack-retro-metrics prints (it already checks $_gstack_sr_root/analytics) - ship's apple-effects.log durable-effect ledger and the gstack-evidence ledger description (bin/gstack-evidence writes under resolveStateRoot()) Allowlist: drops the nine matching PENDING rows from STATE_ROOT_ALLOWLIST. * chore: regenerate SKILL.md, ship goldens and context budget after history/ledger state-root paths * fix(state-root): taste-profile legacy fallback globs $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT designs The legacy approved.json fallback in {{TASTE_PROFILE}} (design-consultation, design-shotgun) named the literal ~/.gstack/projects path while the approval writers use $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT/projects/$SLUG/designs. Allowlist: drops the design.ts PENDING row. Pin (W7a): design-consultation-contract's exact glob string becomes a meaning-level check (legacy fallback names the state-root designs dir and approved.json, and no ~/.gstack literal). * chore: regenerate SKILL.md and context budget after taste-profile state-root glob * fix(state-root): completion-status telemetry prose names $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT/analytics gstack-skill-end writes analytics under the resolved state root ($_GH), so the PLAN MODE EXCEPTION note now names $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT/analytics/ instead of the ~/.gstack default. Allowlist: drops the generate-completion-status.ts PENDING row. Pin (W7a): gen-skill-docs 'render documents the analytics sink' now checks that the render names the state-root analytics dir. * chore: regenerate SKILL.md, ship goldens and context budget after telemetry prose state-root change * fix(state-root): gbrain context_queries globs use {gstack_state_root}/ bin/gstack-brain-context-load.ts resolves the {gstack_state_root}/ prefix through gstack-paths (configuredStateGlob); the legacy ~ form only matched the default root. The nine projects/analytics manifest globs in design-consultation, design-shotgun, investigate, office-hours, plan-ceo-review and retro now use the prefix, as does office-hours' builder-profile developer-profile.json glob (plan-tune writes it under $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT). Allowlist: drops the nine MANIFEST_GLOB rows and the now-unused MANIFEST_GLOB and PENDING reasons; the header lists the remaining row kinds. Tests: new brain-context-load case loads the shipped investigate and office-hours queries against a configured root and proves a file only under ~/.gstack is not read. * chore: regenerate SKILL.md and context budget after manifest state-root globs * plan-tune, office-hours, retro: read gate and profile files from the state root (E1 follow-up) * chore: regenerate plan-tune, office-hours, retro * release: v1.91.15.0 — Opus 5.5 prompt cleanup, behavior-level skill tests, transcript consent * test: calibration-gate scan reads tracked files with POSIX paths (windows-free-tests) * test: skillify E2E sweeps the state root (GSTACK_HOME) where the global tier actually writes * qa-only: one rule for mixed-run clocks; annotations and materialize are per probe directory * chore: regenerate qa-only * test: shared-libs evals deliver the skill instructions in context, as a loaded skill does * Revert design-doc discovery state-root conversion: it made plan-eng-review ask its scope gate in prose (plan-mode no-op eval) * chore: regenerate after design-doc discovery revert * test: plan-review-report prompt asks plainly to save the review to plan.md * docs: CHANGELOG and TODOS reflect the held design-doc discovery conversion * docs: exact eval counts for the held design-doc conversion * test: coverage-audit grader accepts read-only git diff with a -- pathspec (CI run 37094035231 shape) * qa: plain self-regulation stop rule; drop the report template's link to an index.md nothing writes * chore: regenerate qa * qa: --quick sets both tier and exploration; say how browser phases and functional contracts share the probe loop * chore: regenerate qa * test: a bare QA helper invocation is a usage probe, like --help (CI run ship-exploratory-unavailable)	2026-10-03 01:19:03 -07:00
Garry TanandOpenAI Codex	636175d349	v1.87.6.0 fix: make checks reliable and everyday validation faster (#2898) ... * fix: acknowledge seeded plans before invoking review skills * fix: distinguish current plan input from conversation history * fix: keep hermetic plan reviews on manual permissions * fix: distinguish tool discovery from file permission ownership * fix: preserve initial plan mode in observation tests * fix: wait for scope decisions before writing review findings * fix: carry autoplan decisions consistently into review artifacts * test: retain native failure context in periodic assertions * fix: advance active file permissions before queued questions * fix: finish red-team attempts before retry and cleanup * fix: finalize plan format captures and judges before retry * fix: cancel setup-gbrain SDK attempts before fixture cleanup * test: select periodic consumers of the bounded attempt helper * fix native Bash permission cards and queued questions * fix: preserve independent decisions and review scope Keep CEO approach, engineering scope and outside-review choices from approving independent remedies together. Carry declared contracts through DX polish and resolve new gaps before editing the plan. Regenerate every host and retain existing stop boundaries. Validation: 654 focused tests passed across nine files; all-host generation passed. Full free and periodic validation pending. Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * fix: require approval before design plan amendments Align the Design review philosophy and rating recipe with its section protocol: resolve one proposed fix, then apply only that approved decision and retain honest scores for declined fixes. Validation: 469 focused tests passed across four files; all-host generation passed. Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * fix: observe native question completion before transcript persistence Match owned completion hooks to submitted choices, reject conflicting or late answers, and retain bounded failure evidence. * test: recognize review posture in acknowledged native questions Require the selected mode acknowledgement, a completed follow-up question, and its current decoded display while preserving existing posture assertions. * fix: preserve settled CEO choices and isolate pending remedies Resolve established approach gates with cited authority and keep independent fixes out of unrelated option commitments and plan amendments. * fix: carry approved DX choices through later review steps Choose documentation approaches within the accepted scope and map resolved confusion points without reopening them through a bulk menu. * test: handle native settings-file edit prompts Keep one-time owned-file approvals and retain the actual sampled Autoplan permission frame with its matching barrier state. * test: accept standard CEO reply directives with tuning footers Recognize the exact trailing preference footer and letter-list directive while preserving current-display and exact acknowledgement checks. * test: scope split reviewers to their generated plan artifacts * test: observe native Bash permissions and invocation results * test: handle owned Bash prompts during mode preference checks * test: preserve synchronous subprocess rejection in Codex fixture * Fix periodic review handoff navigation Recognize review-first and explicit manual-next-step labels while preserving exact action families, manual preference, and ambiguous-menu rejection. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Bind pending file permissions to distinct current targets Allow one captured file request to own the complete current dialog while unrelated file work is pending. Preserve same-path ambiguity, exact input ownership, and one-time grant checks. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Make paired CEO verification choices genuinely unresolved Start the positive control with proposed manual checks so its unchanged oracle measures two new coverage decisions. Preserve runtime contracts, targets, count bounds, and all assertions. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Keep CEO review options and verification within approved scope Audit every offered option for independent add-ons and keep new verification depth pending until accepted. Preserve already requested coverage and trace plan changes to the actual decision. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Assemble DX review artifacts before appending the final report Keep early DX evidence above decisions, update artifact sections in place, and append the report using the actual current file suffix. Re-read after deleting an existing report before choosing the append anchor. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Keep outside plan reviews exclusive and invocation-owned Follow one preflight-selected backend, terminate failed Codex work before fallback, and allocate extra prompt/output files uniquely. Consume only the current invocation’s completed output. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Select periodic completion evaluations for report writer changes Register the shared review resolver for eight missing consumers and regress selection for all nine completion cases without changing their IDs or tiers. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Keep permission ambiguity fixtures on the same normalized target Use distinct raw spellings of one target in the four negative fixtures so they exercise the normalized duplicate-owner guard after exact current-file disambiguation. Preserve the existing exception, no-input, diagnostic and cleanup assertions. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Clarify preserved contracts in engineering review fixture Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Recognize the offered DX follow-up handoff Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Check independent commitments before presenting review options Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Keep Codex review output and status in one shell invocation Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Distinguish seeded plans from reports written by a test attempt Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Recover clipped Autoplan file approvals with bounded viewport resizing Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Recover clipped Bash approvals before binding the complete command Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Isolate setup message tests from the shared checkout Run the real installer in a temporary payload with private config, require successful completion, and guard source and binary contents and mtimes. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Fix periodic native permission and report completion handling Match the pinned CLI's soft wraps and clipped headings without granting from incomplete frames. Retire completed file requests, retain mode annotations, and ask section captures for a short final acknowledgement after their full report is saved. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Preserve review approvals and validate DX comparison artifacts Keep independent remedies and approved amendments explicit. Give the synthetic DX review its existing documentation and validate peer comparison as required analysis alongside four native decisions. Add positive and negative semantic calibrations while preserving review counts, model budgets and prompt size limits. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Make the five-finding CEO fixture's application boundary explicit Materialize the request adapter and service composition used by the synthetic payment application. Explicitly declare the revised unregistered-event and mail-telemetry assumptions while preserving uncaught handler errors, the original invoice path and all five unresolved findings. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Keep CEO state-path checks scoped to directory preparation Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Use checked ports and bounded cleanup in pair-agent tests Discover the daemon port from its owned state file, retain startup diagnostics, and await failed-start cleanup. Add occupied-port, early-exit, deadline, and foreign-state regressions while preserving the existing HTTP assertions and hook budgets. Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Preserve queued edit identity and recover clipped Bash permissions Distinguish separately queued unfinished edits from mutation of one native tool ID. Keep grants bound to an exact owned request and reject reused IDs, ambiguous inputs, and competing owners. Support the pinned renderer's literal em dash and request a repaint when only the Bash card's top rule is clipped. Grants still require the complete fresh card and an exact native acknowledgment. Validation: 413 integrated parser/event tests passed; private repaint controls and joint source review passed. Full canonical suite and native periodic rerun remain pending. Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Keep periodic reviews within their approved contracts and deliverables Carry exact approvals through engineering review, preserve declared contracts when amending CEO plans, and keep prioritization at the requested decision level. Materialize the revised synthetic SDK reference contract while retaining the five original documentation gaps. Accept the observed semicolon in the finite DX handoff menu and register the direct source dependencies used by the engineering cases. Regenerate canonical review documents without changing model budgets, retries, count bands, or native completion assertions. Validation: all-host generation and 275 review, fixture, selection and parity tests passed. Full free-suite and native periodic validation remain pending. Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Keep Eng approval cadence and independence guards explicit * Accept ordinary punctuation in manual review handoffs * Recover file permissions alongside queued Bash calls * Carry approved DX work through later review findings * Clarify the synthetic auth internal failure decision * Bound the periodic DX fixture to onboarding changes * Recognize native Design review handoff labels * Hold scope in the integration-choice review fixture * Carry approved Design decisions through review evidence * Capture listener state when feedback reload fails * Exclude workspace caches before checking deprecated flags * Verify Design UI scope against a seeded review plan * Clarify plan review decisions and outside-voice approval flow * Reject setup menus in the Design UI gate * docs: require focused repair validation before final acceptance * fix: separate review commitments within existing prompt budgets * docs: align generation and contributor validation guidance * fix: advance native review prompts and count acknowledged findings * chore: bump version and changelog (v1.87.1.0) Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * chore: enforce cheap checks and side-effect-free validation previews * fix: handle owned Fetch permissions and oversized native cards * test: ground review fixtures in independent executable contracts * fix: preserve review decisions and verify reports before completion * test: construct the synthetic credential URL without a scanner false positive * test: materialize DX examples and verify their actual local behavior * fix: clarify CEO review decisions and execution order * fix: clarify review workflow ordering and select Design quality checks * Fix review decision gates and incomplete evaluation fixtures Persist CEO and engineering commitment ledgers before menus, preserve exact approvals, and distinguish implementation structure from feature scope. Route Autoplan through the canonical CEO Step 0 ordering. Classify DX findings before requesting approval and ground runtime claims in actual evidence. Complete neutral non-target fixture contracts and accept the captured Design handoff purpose without relaxing its ownership or acknowledgment checks. Record runtime-capability verification in AGENTS.md validation discipline. Validation: 1,335 focused tests passed across 21 files; build, all-host freshness, skill validation (647 artifacts / 107 tracked), and credential checks passed. Prior paid failures are preserved; behavioral acceptance remains pending. * Fix review decision boundaries and owned Read prompts Preserve exact approvals across review options, compare consistent DX milestones, and keep proposed implementation separate from review evidence. Bind modern Read prompts to one immutable native request and wait for its result. Retain captured regression verdicts, correct fixture error names, improve import probe diagnostics, and record focused-first validation discipline in AGENTS.md. * Clarify CEO and engineering review decisions Use explicit decision steps, one engineering ledger, and clear scope/write transitions. Preserve exact approvals and distinguish pending test requirements. Keep unrelated generated content unchanged. * Fix review decision ordering and native evaluation interactions * Clarify engineering decisions and test artifact order * Clarify pending choices and approvals in CEO reviews * Make CEO review phases sequential and clarify completion * Fix Design board submission intent matching * Seed an existing browser test baseline for Autoplan * Document decision-log payloads before state initialization * Preserve exact review scope and decide one change before drafting options * Require input identity before repeating passing model judges * Honor permitted storage throughout CEO review completion * Match complete native permission text within the pinned renderer contract * Align review approvals, independent choices, and bounded validation * fix: preserve reopened approvals and declare fixture interfaces * fix: isolate review artifacts and audit complete questions * fix: match detector artifact permissions to configured storage * fix: complete native permissions and review fixture workflows * fix: order CEO review work and separate engineering guarantees * fix: preserve native validation and separate review choices * fix: clarify review decisions and judge complete report context * fix: constrain review judgments and retain parse failures * fix: compare each affected value before review decisions * fix: make engineering review decisions and completion order explicit * fix: give the complete Autoplan evaluation a bounded chain budget * fix(cso): diagnose forbidden Docker endpoints before tool lookup * fix(reviews): reconcile workflow contracts and generated artifacts after main integration * fix(evals): migrate retained regressions to the native review harness * fix(tests): close native harness and workflow integration regressions * fix(evals): preserve complete permission context and native menu contracts * fix(tests): capture synchronous command output without pipe drain stalls * fix(reviews): clarify decision and completion ordering * fix(reviews): separate decision readiness from final completion checks * refactor(reviews): consolidate decision rules and completion branches * fix(plan-eng-review): order preparation and clarify decision routing * fix(plan-eng-review): restore size and question-format guard parity * fix(plan-eng-review): clarify scope phases and blocked completion * fix(plan-eng-review): unify review flow and report destination * fix(plan-eng-review): define bootstrap and question stage ownership * fix(plan-eng-review): clarify review structure and design lookup * fix(plan-eng-review): render report examples and show saved decisions * fix: consolidate Eng review decisions and select their evaluations * test: cover overlapping terminal attachments and clean merged runner type * fix: preserve Office Hours relationship closings during review updates * fix: retain pasted review targets across slash invocations * docs: preserve validation traces and correct release scope * test: cover pasted targets in both review skills * fix: validate report artifacts before recording success * fix: redact source roots at CSO report boundaries * fix: bind native Design questions before answering * test: select report privacy and native recovery regressions * test: bind rejection predicate in extracted observers * fix: bind complete boxed native questions * test: keep the Design UI fixture on native review * fix: preserve review decisions and evaluation completion outcomes * fix: clarify CEO approval and report completion order * fix: align native review evaluation ownership and completion * fix: bind review evaluators to native decisions and owned artifacts * fix: validate review decisions against native outcomes * fix: preserve review evidence and Autoplan phase handoffs * test: bind review evidence to owned decisions and completion * fix: retain owned native history across compaction * fix(evals): validate current review decisions and setup choices * fix: bind Autoplan reviews and phase completion to current amended input * fix: reconcile native review evidence and close Autoplan phases * test: recognize owned whole-candidate complexity decisions * test: preserve report freshness for approved investigation handoffs * fix: recognize scoped review findings and isolate dual voice fixtures * fix: make review handoffs and question dispatch self-contained * test: recognize complete CEO decisions and procedural pauses * fix: bind current CEO comparison options and risk intervals * test: bind engineering decisions and completion to owned evidence * fix: publish Autoplan phase reports before continuing tools * test: verify actual Autoplan dual-review dispatch evidence * test: select dual review when shared evidence fixtures change * fix: clarify plan review decisions and completion gates * fix: make CEO review decisions and return paths explicit * test: keep Autoplan prompt files inside attempt state * test: preserve source whitespace across permission dialog wraps * fix: publish Autoplan phase reports before continuing * test: recognize current CEO comparisons and reject inactive records * fix: reconcile engineering decision states before completion * test: recognize complete Design decisions and reports * test: verify current engineering decisions before navigation * Recognize source-owned component reduction choices * fix: recognize current CEO ledger and commitment grids * test: supply RequestPolicy context to Eng count fixture * fix: save complete engineering decisions before asking * fix: bind Autoplan publication to the complete phase readback * chore: prepare 1.87.5.0 reliability release * fix: clarify engineering review completion and preserve log failures * fix: bind CEO saved choices and current section ancestry * fix(evals): bind review execution and completion evidence * fix(plan-ceo-review): verify complete decisions before asking * fix(evals): preserve complete engineering choice records * fix(evals): preserve complete review outcomes and bounded fixtures * fix(autoplan): publish phase reports before advancing * fix(plan-ceo-review): validate option fields before asking * fix(plan-eng-review): verify current decisions after answers * fix(evals): bind review decisions and bound fixture scope * fix(plan-ceo-review): verify decision rows and edit saved checkpoints * fix(evals): bind review evidence and scope document lookup * fix(plan-eng-review): update resolution state with its answer * fix(reviews): preserve complete questions through dispatch * fix(evals): recognize completed mode declarations * fix(evals): define cache consistency at wrapper completion * fix(evals): validate owned initial scope and completed review handoffs * fix: assemble complete CEO decision fields before saving * fix: authenticate automatic mode decisions without guessing selectors * fix: bind engineering coverage to approved regression contracts * fix(evals): supply review helpers to native Eng capture * fix(plan-eng-review): preserve the full selected option scope * fix(evals): recognize owned engineering seed and regression evidence * fix(evals): bind engineering retry reports to native approvals * docs: clarify release guarantees (v1.87.5.0) Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * fix(evals): recognize owned engineering decisions and handoffs * fix(evals): bind engineering decisions and completion evidence * fix(tests): align review contracts and selection fixtures * fix(skills): restore review prompt size limits * fix(plan-eng-review): clarify review execution and completion * fix(evals): preserve configured retries through all supervision layers * Clarify Engineering decisions and report completion * Keep native decision assertions within their source boundary * fix: recognize owned engineering decisions and completed navigation * fix: bind completed auto decisions to their current review * fix: recognize explicit CEO source attribution * fix: dispatch verified CEO decisions without recomposing fields * test: expose existing execution deadlines to review actors * fix: distinguish CEO decision records from incidental headings * test: bind split-scope choices to the registered native actor * test: connect reviewed regressions to required evaluation coverage * Clarify CEO decision routing and completion stages * test: expose existing section review deadlines to fixture actors * test: recognize complete native CEO pacing inventories * test: exclude answered history from current CEO payloads * test: detect phase entry through owned skill HOME aliases * test: validate native review completion and owned report permissions * fix: make Autoplan close packets carry the parent handoff steps * test: assess source-bound HOLD decisions within the existing deadline * fix: keep CEO native decision fields under one formatting authority * test: register integrated review and permission dependencies * test: align native review adapters and finding coverage Preserve explicit AUTO decisions, apply native single-select defaults, and bind complete cropped questions and report permissions to their owned requests. Require seeded review findings instead of crediting setup menus. Keep captured failure controls and additive selection dependencies. The integrated candidate passed 3,099 focused tests across 65 files; affected paid validation remains required before publication. * fix(autoplan): require phase reports before advancing * fix(evals): bind setup and evidence to complete attempts * fix(evals): bind native answers and pending writes to fixture scope Preserve complete option rows when native descriptions wrap, retain current owned Write arguments before journal publication, and keep engineering and DX answers within their declared fixture interfaces. Add captured free regressions without increasing model budgets or relaxing completion checks. * fix(autoplan): verify phase reports across native tool paths Guard owned methodology reads and reviewer dispatches, detect complete driver loads through Bash, and distinguish report-only edits from implementation changes. Follow authenticated native UUID ancestry when journal writes arrive out of order and verify earlier native content for cached phase reads. Keep current close acknowledgment and parent publication in order, require CEO entry before later phases, and register captured failure regressions. * fix(evals): honor native input and collection lifecycles Match complete native Edit panes and truncated question borders, reject stderr close before EOF, and stop the CEO split fixture once its acknowledged scope decisions are collected. Keep semantic validation, process failures, report requirements, and absolute deadlines authoritative. Add captured-event and real-process regressions with selection dependencies. Focused checks pass; final integrated paid and full-suite acceptance remain pending. * fix(autoplan): retain native session ownership across directory changes Recover missed native UUID ancestry through the existing strict graph while preserving ordinary event order and legacy scoping. Bind publication hooks to Claude's original project directory while retaining current cwd for requested file paths. Captured public-event regressions, existing caller checks, and a pinned native CLI loopback verify both fixes. Preserve failed attempts and require fresh paid and final full-suite acceptance. * docs: align evaluation limits and completion version * fix(autoplan): allow authenticated phase reads during journal streaming * fix(evals): bind clipped native questions and owned edit dialogs * fix: preserve overlay retries and bounded cleanup * fix: recognize owned planning preludes in native questions * docs: explain overlay scheduling and cleanup guarantees * fix: require fresh publication after Autoplan phase reruns * Release gstack 1.87.6 * fix: preserve CI paths, process identity, and test deadlines * fix: keep informational setup commands independent of install probes * fix: clarify plan review decisions and bound source audit reports * Fix remaining Windows identity and native path CI failures * Clarify CEO review decision and reviewer-result routing * test: accept no-install planner in retry supervision * fix(ceo-review): make review decisions and report completion explicit * perf(test): add fast PR gates, input-keyed judge reuse and isolated free shards * fix(test): start isolated CEO smoke from its existing project plan * fix(test): repair CI fixture races and preserve retry evidence * fix(ceo-review): clarify approvals, depth and saved completion --------- Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com>	2026-09-22 14:57:52 -04:00
Garry TanandClaude Fable 5	394db326f2	v1.71.0.0 feat: token-load reduction — preamble runtime scripts, gated onboarding, 20 skill carves, CLAUDE.md trim (#2691) ... * feat(gen): strip gen-time-only frontmatter keys from Claude renders interactive + benefits-from are read from the .tmpl by buildContext at generation time; no runtime, host, or test reader consumes them from the generated SKILL.md (e2e-harness-audit reads .tmpl; benefits-from tests assert rendered prose). gbrain: stays (bin/gstack-brain-context-load reads it from the installed render); hooks: stays (Claude Code host wires PreToolUse from it). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore(gen): regenerate SKILL.md — dead frontmatter keys removed Mechanical regen after hosts/claude.ts stripFields change. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(test): context-budget ratchet — CI ceilings on always-on + eager token ledgers New free test grades the two ledgers nothing else guards: the full-frontmatter always-on catalog (aggregate) and per-skill eager tokens (SKILL.md + forced-read refs), via checkBudget from lib/context-bill.ts. Ceilings live in test/fixtures/context-budget.json with x1.05/x1.10 headroom; regenerate with bun test/helpers/capture-context-budget.ts. New skills fail until consciously budgeted; removed skills fail until the fixture is refreshed; reductions ratchet the ceilings down so wins lock in. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(todos): file output-template carve wave + plan-ceo doctrine revisit; mark preamble-carve P3 in flight Two follow-ups deferred from the approved token-reduction program (CEO review 'NOT in scope' list), filed with full context per TODOS format. The existing P3 preamble-carve entry gets a status update pointing at the program that supersedes it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): review findings — Windows path normalization, full totals rebuild, ratchet coverage Pre-landing review (5 specialists) found one critical: the ratchet test runs in the curated Windows lane, where path.relative yields backslash skill names that miss the test/ filter and mismatch every POSIX fixture key. Names are now normalized once in buildRatchetBill (toPosixName) and the fixture filter is tightened to test/fixtures/. All eight Bill.totals fields are rebuilt from the filtered list (no fixture-polluted perInvocation/totalMd numbers for future consumers). New coverage: Windows-separator normalization pins, a captureContextBudget round-trip against tree-a (headroom math exact), a stripFields regression pin (interactive/benefits-from absent from renders, hooks/gbrain preserved), and the ceilings test no longer double-reports stale-fixture entries. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): adversarial findings — stable root key, symlink-alias dedupe, fixture-shape guard Adversarial review (Claude subagent) verified the fixture's root-skill key was the capture machine's checkout dirname: any non-gstack-named clone (every Conductor worktree) failed the free suite, and the documented re-run-the-capture recovery baked the local dirname into the committed fixture — silent corruption through the tool's own protocol. The root skill is now pinned to ROOT_SKILL_KEY ('gstack', its frontmatter name). Symlink aliases are realpath-deduped (census precedent): connect-chrome no longer gets its own ceiling, so Windows checkouts that materialize the symlink as a plain file can't fail the stale-ceiling set-equality test. New guards: fixture-shape validation (a string alwaysOnTotal can no longer silently disable the ceiling), a mutation pin that the filter shrinks the always-on ledger vs the raw bill, an alwaysOnTotal violation test (the branch was load-bearing with only under-budget coverage), and an atomic temp+rename fixture write. Fixture regenerated: 59 ceilings, alwaysOnTotal 6344. Deferred with a TODO: anchoring transformFrontmatter's denylist strip to the frontmatter block (latent, zero live collisions, pre-existing path). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore: bump version and changelog (v1.69.1.0) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: update project documentation for v1.69.1.0 CLAUDE.md: Token ceiling section documents the context-budget ratchet as the third guard (test file, fixture, new-skill budgeting, capture command). CONTRIBUTING.md: Tier 1 guard list gains a Context-budget ratchet bullet; the Adding-a-new-skill checklist gains the budget-capture step. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: pin exact guard semantics for the context-budget ratchet in CLAUDE.md Doc-review finding: "a third enforced ceiling" undercounted the guard family (skill-size-budget floors and parity ratios also watch these ledgers, relatively). Rephrased to match the ratchet test's own header: absolute ceilings vs relative floors/ratios. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(changelog): heaviest-skill claim matches the fixture (land-and-deploy edges review by 0.2%) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(bin): gstack-skill-start + gstack-skill-end — the preamble runtime, consolidated Absorbs the ~13KB of bash every tier-2+ SKILL.md inlined twice over (bootstrap fence + artifacts-sync fence) and the skill-end telemetry/sync fences. Same KEY: value STATUS-line contract the prose interprets, plus SKILL_START_PROTO handshake (OV5), SESSION_ID/TEL_START echoes, GSTACK_HOME-normalized state paths (EOV7), --parent-pid session identity (EOV5: $PPID inside the script is the ephemeral tool-call shell), OV4 sanitization of passthrough output, and a receipted daily artifacts pull (_receipted_git, brain-sync class, fail-closed). Per-line || true error style throughout (F3) — a mid-script failure never drops later STATUS lines. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(gen): preamble resolvers emit a script invocation fence instead of inline bash generate-preamble-bash: ~6.3KB fence -> 4-line gstack-skill-start invocation (quoted-tilde pitfall handled: leading ~ interpolates through $HOME; env-var hosts keep $GSTACK_BIN) + degraded-mode prose (F1/EOV8: safe defaults, consent gates deferred-never-lost; OV5: proto rule). generate-brain-sync-block: ~6.8KB bash -> interpretation prose + the privacy stop-gate (stays inline until Phase 2's gated emission). generate-completion-status: telemetry fence -> one gstack-skill-end call with SESSION_ID/TEL_START handoff. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore(gen): regenerate all skills + golden fixtures — inline preamble bash removed Mechanical regen after the resolver change: −12,628 lines across 52 renders (corpus 952K -> 806K render tokens; tier-2 skills −11-13KB each). Golden per-host ship fixtures refreshed from the fresh claude/codex/factory renders. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: skill-start contract suite + preamble A/B eval + touchfiles registration test/gstack-skill-start.test.ts (11 free tests): STATUS-key contract vs the prose (F2), per-host fence resolution shapes (E1), proto-first, OV4 marker sanitization, --parent-pid identity, headless suppression, skill-end duration math + pending cleanup. test/skill-e2e-preamble-script-ab.test.ts (gate tier, OV7): inline-bash render (pinned from 29785978) vs script render with the fence redirected at the worktree bin (EOV2 — hermetic evals otherwise resolve the operator install and silently exercise degraded mode). 21 touchfiles dep lists gain the two bin scripts (EOV9) so future script edits select the preamble evals; selection-count pin updated 23->24. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: repin ~70 assertions to the script contract — every literal gets a successor Assertions that pinned inline-bash internals (update-check guard, _SESSIONS reaping, telemetry start/end blocks, routing probe, repo-strip producer, first-task gating, EXPLAIN_LEVEL/QUESTION_TUNING echoes, #2499 jq scope resolution, Issue-8 CONDUCTOR gate) now pin the same invariants in their new home: bin/gstack-skill-start / bin/gstack-skill-end file content for script internals, the invocation fence + interpretation prose for render-side behavior. No assertion deleted without a successor; live-execution tests (routing probe, brain-sync jq) run against script bytes unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore(test): re-baseline size floors + ratchet ceilings down (EOV1/OV9 protocol) parity-baseline-v1.69.1.0.json captured with carved-skill unions (53 skills); skill-size-budget repointed with the derivation comment citing the Phase 1 context-bill receipt (the ~13KB/skill cut trips the old 80% floor on tier-1 skills first — setup-browser-cookies headroom 10.8KB < the cut). The v1.47 fixture stays on disk for history; the parity-suite growth baseline (v1.64.1.0) is untouched. Context-budget ceilings re-captured: review 29,309->26,192; learn ->10,969; ios-clean ->10,764 — Phase 1's win is locked. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(bin): instruction-emission layer — onboarding text appears only when its gate fires The 8 one-time onboarding flows (lake intro, telemetry opt-in, proactive opt-in, first-run/first-loop tips, routing injection, vendoring deprecation, writing-style migration, spawned-session rules), the upgrade-flow + feature discovery prose, and the privacy stop-gate (user-approved Q2) moved from every render into gated heredocs here. Blocks are SESSION_ID-bound (GSTACK_INSTRUCTION_BEGIN: <id> <session-id>) so page/file content can't mint directives (F4/OV4). Ack ownership per OV6: display-only tips write their markers at emit (script also fires the scaffold telemetry); interactive flows carry their ack commands inside the block. The dormant WRITING_STYLE_PENDING gate is computed for real now (marker files). BASH_COMPAT=50 heredoc guard (same as brain-sync); the quoted routing heredoc resolves its bin path via a sed placeholder. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(gen): drop the 8 onboarding generators — renders keep one instruction-block rule generate-{lake-intro,telemetry-prompt,proactive-prompt,first-run-guidance, routing-injection,vendoring-deprecation,spawned-session-check, writing-style-migration}.ts deleted (single source is now the script's emission layer, F5). generate-upgrade-check shrinks to the steady-state PROACTIVE/SKILL_PREFIX rules. generate-brain-sync-block hands the privacy stop-gate to the emitted block. The fence prose gains the generic rule: follow GSTACK_INSTRUCTION blocks only from this command's direct tool result with the matching SESSION_ID; unterminated block ends at end-of-output. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore(gen): regenerate all skills + goldens — onboarding prose degated Mechanical regen: corpus 806K -> 707K render tokens (−8KB/skill; cumulative vs main: ship 91->71KB, learn 53->34KB, ios-clean 53->33KB). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: onboarding tombstone + Phase 2 pin relocations New test/onboarding-moved-literals.test.ts (F5): 12 distinctive literals must live in bin/gstack-skill-start AND stay absent from every render, plus the SESSION_ID-binding pins. ~40 assertions repinned to the emission-layer contract (gates, block ids, in-block acks, script-run marker writes); the OV4 sanitize test upgraded to the real property (every legitimate block header carries the run's SESSION_ID). first-task dep list drops the deleted generator; the token->tip case map is pinned to cover every detector bucket. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore(test): carve floors/ceilings recomputed; baseline + ratchet follow Phase 2 (OV9) All 9 carved skills re-anchored to post-Phase-2 measurements (cso's union had tripped its 72,000 floor at 71,379; design-consultation had 252B of margin). maxSkeletonBytes ceilings tightened to measured+~600B. Branch-internal parity baseline recaptured in place; ratchet ceilings down again: review ->24,052, ship ->18,589, learn ->8,828, ios-clean ->8,624. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(gen): AUQ slim — tool resolution as a STATUS-line branch table, split rules to invariants + absolute pointer Tool resolution (1,799B) rewritten as a 3-branch table keyed on the echoed CONDUCTOR_SESSION/SESSION_KIND lines — Conductor prose-default, MCP-variant preference, and failure handoff preserved verbatim in behavior, including the auto-decide-first ordering and the gstack-question-log capture requirement. 5+-options handling (1,924B) compressed to the split invariants (never drop; D<N>.k shape; Include/Defer/Cut/Hold; question_id scheme with the never-ask refusal) + the full-rule pointer. Both doc pointers now interpolate the absolute install root (Codex outside-voice #7 convention) instead of the bare 'in the gstack repo'. Failure-fallback, Format, and self-check sections are byte-identical — all 14 MANDATORY always-loaded pins pass with zero test edits. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore(gen): regenerate all skills + goldens — AUQ slim Mechanical regen: −1.3KB per tier-2+ skill (ship 69.9KB, learn 32.5KB). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore(test): baseline + ratchet follow Phase 3 (OV9); OV8 evaluated — shrink floor stays Branch-internal baseline recaptured; ratchet ceilings down again. OV8's floor-retirement question, evaluated as planned after Phase 3: the 80% shrink floor stays — it uniquely catches accidental body deletion in non-carved skills BETWEEN ratchet recaptures, and the capture command has amortized the fixture-refresh cost that motivated retiring it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(review): carve adversarial, plan-completion, and review-army into sections The three resolver macros ship already carves as siblings now load on demand for /review too: skeleton 100.2KB -> 55.0KB (-45%), union 93.4KB. Resolvers stay the single source of truth (sections wrap the macros). Step 0/1, scope drift, critical pass, confidence calibration, and fix-first stay always-loaded. Fixtures and pins follow the moved content (codex-hardening wrapped-sites, review-army E2E fixture builds skeleton+sections with an empty-fixture guard). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(codex): carve the three mutually exclusive modes into sections Review/Challenge/Consult mode bodies (34.7KB where at most one ever runs) load on demand: skeleton 81.0KB -> 55.2KB, union 1.04x the monolith. The mode dispatch, filesystem boundary, and a new always-loaded 'Synthesis recommendation (REQUIRED) — all modes' block stay skeleton-side (the AUQ per-skill pins pass unchanged); the plan-file report + exit gate render after the last section pointer per the gateAfterStop pattern. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(land-and-deploy): carve first-run validation, readiness gate, and merge/deploy into sections The once-per-repo dry-run validation, the pre-merge readiness gate, and the merge + deploy-strategy steps (37.8KB) load on demand: skeleton 91.1KB -> 55.7KB. Step 1.5 keeps its detection bash as the dispatch; the first-run section's fingerprint-save block gained {{SLUG_EVAL}} so it is self-contained. Zero content lost (line-coverage checked against HEAD). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(ios): demote the four ios skills to preamble-tier 2 (Phase 5) They never consume the tier-3 sections (repo-mode ownership, search-before- building) but do fire AskUserQuestion, which tier >=2 provides — verified by grep before the plan review. -2.2KB per skill. Render assertions pin the demotion (tier-3 sections absent, AUQ format present). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore(guards): register wave-1 carves; monolith invariants retire; baselines + ratchet follow CARVE_GUARDS gains review/codex/land-and-deploy (12 carved skills total); their MONOLITH_INVARIANTS entries retire (invariants now generate from the registry, cso precedent). Touchfiles: carve-section-loading covers the three new carves; the codex + land-and-deploy LLM-judge dep lists widen to their sections. Regen + goldens + branch-internal baseline + ratchet ceilings recaptured (review 24,052 -> skeleton-based ceiling; union floors hold). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(gen-skill-docs): review render pins read the carved union The review carve's readSkillUnion conversions (same pattern its neighbor carved-skill pins already use). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(autoplan): carve the four review phases + tasks aggregator into sections Phase bodies (CEO/Design/Eng/DX consensus flows) and the Implementation Tasks aggregator load on demand; Design and DX stay separate sections because each is independently conditional on scope. Skeleton 83.7KB -> 58.7KB (-30% always-loaded); the 6 decision principles, classification, sequencing, and explicit skip-condition dispatch stay always-loaded. The chain E2E's phase-complete markers now live only in sections, so its assertions double as section-read proof (behavioral: external). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(spec): carve the post-confirmation gate-and-file tail into one section Phases 1-4 are the turn-1 conversational spine — carving them would force the Read on the first user message for zero real savings. The mechanical tail (4.5/4.5a/4.5b redaction gates + Phase 5 filing + TTHW telemetry) fires only after draft confirmation: a genuine lazy boundary, kept as ONE section so the gh-issue-create bash can never load without the fail-closed redaction gate that precedes it. Skeleton 65.4KB -> 50.7KB; all ~85 phase-structure invariants migrated location-aware plus a new carve-shape suite (56 tests). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(setup-gbrain): carve the branch-exclusive install paths into sections Brain-init (Paths 1/2/3/4 bodies), engine remediation, transcript gate, and CLAUDE.md persist load on demand — at most one install route ever runs. Skeleton 75.3KB -> 57.0KB; the Step 1 detect and Step 2 path dispatch stay always-loaded. New buildSetupGbrainFixture helper gives the periodic E2Es extract-don't-copy fixtures with a non-empty guard; the voyage-code-3 gate counts scan the tmpl union (the third init site lives in engine-remediation). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore(guards): register wave-2 carves (15 carved skills); autoplan monolith retires; baselines follow CARVE_GUARDS gains autoplan (behavioral: external via the chain eval), spec, and setup-gbrain; autoplan's MONOLITH_INVARIANTS entry retires. Touchfiles: setup-gbrain periodic dep lists gain the section tmpls + fixture helper; the stale-brain-refs scan covers setup-gbrain/sections. Regen + goldens + branch baseline + ratchet recaptured. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(qa): carve QA patterns + health rubric into on-demand sections (68→48KB skeleton) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(browse): carve full command list + snapshot flags into sections/command-list.md (39→27KB skeleton) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(retro): absorb inline git/awk metrics into bin/gstack-retro-metrics + carve report format RETRO_METRICS_PROTO: 1 contract, local git reads only (fetch stays in the skill prose), degraded path documented in the skeleton. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: register wave-3 carves (qa, browse, retro) — guards, touchfiles, pins, baselines CARVE_GUARDS gains the three entries; qa's monolith invariant retires. auq-format carve-safety now keys on the skeleton+sections union shipping the AUQ block (first tier-1 carve: browse never renders it by design). Baselines: parity v1.69.1.0 at 18 sectioned skills; ratchet recaptured. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): drop stale generate-lake-intro import (generator deleted in the emission-layer move) Sol scope discipline stays pinned via the model overlay + completeness section; the lake intro is now a single script-emitted blurb. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(office-hours): carve Phase 2A/2B into mode-exclusive sections (81→67KB skeleton) A session runs exactly one mode, so a builder session never loads the 13KB startup diagnostic. Mode mapping and the vibe-shift upgrade rule stay in the skeleton. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(design): carve UX doctrine + Pretext patterns into read-on-demand sections design-html 57→49KB, design-shotgun 53→50KB. Sections wrap {{UX_PRINCIPLES}} so scripts/resolvers/design.ts stays the source of truth; the pretext-patterns STOP sits at the top of Step 3 so the read provably precedes the Write. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: register wave-4 carves (office-hours ext, design-html, design-shotgun) — 20 carved skills Both design entries carry requiredReads + loading-eval scenarios (D3A condition). office-hours phase sections are mode-exclusive, so only the always-reached design/handoff section is a deterministic requiredRead. Baselines and ratchet recaptured. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: trim CLAUDE.md 66.4→44.9KB — verbatim moves to docs/, pointers stay inline Moved: browser/sidebar/server internals, CHANGELOG release-summary format spec, project tree, hermetic-E2E detail, slop-scan reference, OpenClaw publishing. Kept inline: every hard behavioral rule (dist/ ban, redaction scan-at-sink, egress receipts, bisect commits, eval detach, CHANGELOG entry rules), the machine-managed GBrain block (byte-identical), and the '## Deploying to the active skill' header with gbrain-refresh in range (pinned by test/gbrain-refresh-install-render.test.ts). No voice rewrites. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): seed onboarding markers into the hermetic child GSTACK_HOME EOV7 made bin/gstack-skill-start honor GSTACK_HOME, so the operator-HOME seeding in e2e-helpers.ts no longer reaches hermetic children — the emission layer fired lake-intro/telemetry prompts that burned turns and stalled PTY tests waiting on an answer (observed: plan-mode-no-op derailed by the telemetry question). Onboarding-specific tests pin their own GSTACK_HOME per-test, which merges over this seed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: raise carve-section-loading wall clock to 480s SDK / 540s bun The heavy full-workflow scenarios satisfy their required section reads inside 60s but need 300-450s to finish the report on slower sandboxes; the 300s default read as a loading failure when the carve invariant held (traces: plan-eng-review read its section at 8s, office-hours all three at 24s, design-html both at 50s — all timed out mid-report). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(security): harden the skill-start trust boundary — review-army findings Session ID gains a urandom suffix (block binding unforgeable by reflected content); _sanitize also neutralizes spoofed SESSION_ID: lines; branch names are charset-clamped before JSON embedding (skill-start + skill-end); .brain-last-push reads first line only with a charset clamp; the artifacts URL echo routes through _sanitize; the privacy consent gate fires in interactive sessions only (spawned auto-choose could accept consent no human gave — emission order is not a safety property); the daily pull gets non-interactive + slow-network git guards and stamps only when the receipted path ran; ~/.claude.json gets a grep pre-filter before the jq parse. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(resolvers): question-log session_id becomes a substitution placeholder + stale-comment sweep The question-log block bound $_SESSION_ID, a shell variable the consolidated fence never sets — hook-less hosts logged empty session_id, breaking /plan-tune per-session grouping. It now uses the same substitute-from-the-skill-start-echoes contract as the telemetry block. Also: retired the pre-Phase-2 stop-gate docstring, repointed the gbrain-local-status cross-reference at the script's inline jq, dropped an orphaned section comment, documented retro-metrics' suffix-only census. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore: regenerate renders for the question-log placeholder; goldens + baselines follow Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: hermetic update-check, onboarding gate sequencing, seeding parity The contract test's child did a live git ls-remote + curl to github.com on every bun run test (update_check config now gates it off); the headless test gets a fresh GSTACK_HOME so the suppression is actually exercised; a new OV6 test drives the script three times to pin ack-at-emit and gate sequencing; hermetic seeding covers the config-keyed privacy gate; the EVALS_HERMETIC=0 debug seeding reaches marker parity. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(ci): demote the preamble A/B to periodic (OV7) and add it to the periodic matrix Post-Phase-3 demotion per the plan; the eval needs fetch-depth 0 (it git shows a pre-Phase-1 sha), which only the periodic workflow provides — and a static matrix entry so it can't silently never run. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore: bump version and changelog (v1.70.0.0) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: update project documentation for v1.70.0.0 ARCHITECTURE.md: the preamble section now describes the v1.70 runtime — the rendered {{PREAMBLE}} block invokes bin/gstack-skill-start and reads STATUS lines, gstack-skill-end logs telemetry, and one-time onboarding text arrives as gated GSTACK_INSTRUCTION blocks instead of riding in every render. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: doc-review fixes — repair moved-file links, drop unbacked session-count claim docs/BROWSER_INTERNALS.md: the two ARCHITECTURE.md anchor links broke when the section moved from repo-root CLAUDE.md into docs/ — now ../ARCHITECTURE.md. ARCHITECTURE.md: the preamble's session-tracking item claimed an active-session count and an "ELI16 mode" that no shipped code implements (the count computation was deleted with the inline preamble); describe the real touch-and-prune behavior instead. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(changelog): correct numeric claims against measured counts 50 of 62 installed skills dropped (fixture/alias entries have no preamble); 11 new carves + a deeper office-hours carve = 9→20; test counts match the files (13 / 11 / 3 / 7). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: repoint the preamble-runtime version reference after the queue rebump (v1.71.0.0) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(e2e-design): widen the Aesthetic synonym set — vocabulary variance, not a regression Both attempts in run 33090283032 produced judge-praised DESIGN.md files phrased as 'design principles'/'design language' without any of the four original literals; inputs were identical to the prior passing run 32899975845 (design-consultation untouched by the intervening merge). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): stage design-consultation's sections/ into the E2E fixture The skill has been carved since v1.57.0.0 — the DESIGN.md structure prescription (the AESTHETIC proposal template) lives in sections/proposal-and-preview.md behind a STOP-read. The fixture only copied SKILL.md, so the agent improvised structure from the skeleton and the section-synonym check has been a coin flip since the carve (CI run 33090283032 trace shows 'no sections dir'; the local eval store has the same failure on 2026-08-25 while that day's CI run passed on lucky vocabulary). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-27 09:50:31 -07:00
+2131 people	ae8914af7e	v1.67.0.0 fix: the tracker wave — XProtect self-heal, complete installs, brain-sync integrity, 31 community PRs credited (#2604) ... * fix(test): host-config goldens self-provision .agents/.factory artifacts Fixes #2532. The codex/factory golden tests read gitignored artifacts that only gen-skill-docs.test.ts (serial tree-mutating phase) produces, so the file failed in isolation and on clean clones (the #2536 "3 failures then 0" symptom). beforeAll now generates a host's artifacts iff its ship SKILL.md is missing — never overwriting existing ones, so stale artifacts still fail the golden. The file is also classified TREE_MUTATING so its provisioning runs in the serial window, not racing parallel readers. Verified: full pass with .agents/ and .factory/ deleted (74/74 in isolation). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): exempt the live repo tree from hermetic-wiring's operator-~/.claude ban The skill-seeding tripwire asserted every seeded symlink target must NOT start with ~/.claude — but on the default global-git install the repo itself lives at ~/.claude/skills/gstack, so every CORRECT symlink (which must resolve into the live repo tree, as the very next assertion requires) carried the banned prefix. The test could never pass on a default install: pristine v1.64.1.0 (c118e240) fails it in any worktree under ~/.claude/skills/ and passes elsewhere (verified 2026-08-15). Exempt targets that realpath into the resolved repo ROOT before applying the operatorClaude ban — realpath both sides so a symlinked HOME can't dodge the tripwire. Genuine escapes (a target under ~/.claude but outside the repo) still fail with the escape message. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(gen-skill-docs): quote YAML inline scalars containing '...' (Bun strict parser breaks on bare ellipsis) A bare ... inside a plain YAML scalar is a document-end marker that strict YAML parsers (Bun.YAML among them) reject mid-scalar. catalog-trim truncation appends '...' to any description whose lead exceeds 200 chars, so any truncated description would generate a SKILL.md with unparseable frontmatter. Add the ellipsis test to toYamlInlineScalar's needsQuote so such scalars are emitted double-quoted, plus unit coverage for the quoting rules. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(gen-skill-docs): throw when a template contains {{PREAMBLE}} twice Hardens the #2508/#2362 class: a second {{PREAMBLE}} occurrence — even a prose mention, which is exactly how spec/SKILL.md.tmpl re-expanded the full ~12K-token preamble mid-document — now fails generation with the template path instead of silently shipping a doubled preamble. Pure exported guard (assertSinglePreamble) called from resolvePlaceholders, unit-tested with the original prose-mention shape. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): classify catalog-trim.test.ts as tree-mutating Discovered while landing the duplicate-{{PREAMBLE}} guard: importing scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts executes its top-level body, which regenerates the entire claude host (71 GENERATED files) at import time. catalog-trim.test.ts does that import from a PARALLEL shard — the same read-during-regeneration hazard class as #2532, invisible only because the regen is byte-identical on a fresh tree. Move it to the serial tree-mutating window. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): prepush hook test builds PATH with a POSIX-only separator `test/redact-prepush-hook.test.ts` shadows `git` with a stub by prepending a temp dir to PATH, built as `${stubDir}:${process.env.PATH}`. On Windows the separator is `;`, so that produces one unparseable entry, the stub is never found, and the REAL git runs — the diff succeeds, `gitStrict` never throws, and the hook exits 0 where the test expects 1. It fails as a wrong assertion rather than as a portability problem, which is what made it hard to place. Replace it with a `prependPath` helper mirroring the one already in test/gstack-brain-context-load.test.ts, which handles both platform details: `path.delimiter`, and a case-insensitive lookup of the existing env key — Windows commonly spells it `Path`, and adding a second `PATH` alongside an inherited `Path` leaves the winner up to the spawn implementation. On POSIX the helper resolves to `{ PATH: binDir + ":" + process.env.PATH }`, byte-identical to the expression it replaces, so behaviour there is unchanged. Fixing the separator alone does not make the test pass on Windows, and it cannot: the premise is that a signal-killed child yields `spawnSync` status === null, and Windows has no equivalent (a force-killed process reports a non-zero exit code). The stub is also a `#!/bin/sh` file named `git`, which Windows will not execute, since process creation resolves through PATHEXT and ignores the shebang. A Windows variant would assert the non-zero-exit branch instead — a different branch than the test name claims — so the test is gated with test.skipIf(process.platform === "win32"), matching test/session-runner-timeout.test.ts and test/setup-emoji-font.test.ts. Windows before: 14 pass, 1 fail. After: 14 pass, 1 skip, 0 fail (3 consecutive runs). Unchanged on POSIX, where it should still run and pass — worth confirming in CI, since I can only verify the Windows half here. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(artifacts): sync the decision store, which no allowlist glob matched gstack-decision-log enqueues projects/<slug>/decisions.jsonl after every write, but none of the 16 managed globs matched it, so compute_paths_to_stage rejected every one at its "must match at least one allowlist glob" check. The writer and the syncer disagreed silently: enabling artifacts sync backed up learnings, plans, designs and timelines -- everything except the durable decision ledger -- and nothing reported a miss, because a dropped path prints exactly what a synced one does when the queue is otherwise empty. Add the three decisions.* globs and class them artifact so they also sync in artifacts-only mode. The test reads the heredocs out of the script rather than executing it: gstack-artifacts-init.test.ts drives the real script through #!/bin/bash shims and a colon-separated PATH, so it cannot run on Windows -- the platform where the companion slug bug bit. * fix(windows): resolve the project slug natively when gstack-slug cannot spawn bin/gstack-slug is a `#!/usr/bin/env bash` script with no file extension. Windows honors neither the shebang nor PATHEXT for an explicit path, so spawnSync fails ENOENT and resolveSlug returned its literal fallback, "unknown". Every decision on the machine was therefore filed under ~/.gstack/projects/unknown/ -- one bucket shared by every project -- while the bash-side Context Recovery preamble resolved the real slug, found no decisions.active.json there, and skipped through a bare `if [ -f ... ]` with no else. Nothing failed. Both decision bins (log and search) missed identically, so writes and searches stayed consistent with each other, and the only component that resolved correctly was silent by design. Measured on one machine: 62 decisions accumulated over 10 days and 170 skill runs, surfaced zero times. shell:true is not the fix here, unlike #1731 -- cmd.exe cannot run a bash script either. Nor is re-spawning through `bash`: on Windows that frequently resolves to WSL, whose $HOME and /mnt/c paths yield a different slug AND a different cache directory, trading one split store for another. Instead, port gstack-slug's own three steps (cache -> git remote -> basename), keeping its alphabet and its MSYS-form cache key so both paths agree. The fallback is win32-gated, so POSIX behaviour is byte-identical. Tests exercise the fallback on every platform (only the gating is win32-specific), so POSIX CI catches a regression that would otherwise surface only on a Windows user's disk, plus a static gate pinning the platform check. * fix(security): guard brain-sync arithmetic against injected .brain-last-pull; sanitize _GBRAIN_HOST Re-derived from PR #2588 under the generated-file screening rule (resolver hunks taken; SKILL.md files regenerated, not accepted). A poisoned .brain-last-pull could reach bash arithmetic ($(( ))) — a code-execution vector from a writable state file; the timestamp is now validated numeric before use. _GBRAIN_HOST from ~/.claude.json is clamped to hostname-safe characters before echo. Ship goldens refreshed to the regenerated output. Co-authored-by: sneakygriff <89592870+sneakygriff@users.noreply.github.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(sync): run gstack-brain-sync through bash, not cmd.exe, on Windows The brain-sync stage failed on EVERY Windows run with "is not recognized as an internal or external command", so /sync-gbrain always reported ERR brain-sync among otherwise green stages. #1731 gave these spawns shell: NEEDS_SHELL_ON_WINDOWS. That is correct for the gbrain.cmd shim and does nothing here: shell:true routes through cmd.exe, which resolves .cmd/.bat via PATHEXT but has no concept of a shebang, so an extension-less bash script is rejected outright. A .cmd shim needs a shell; a shebang script needs an interpreter. The two cases look identical and are not. The failure was quiet rather than loud. artifacts_sync_mode defaults to pushing curated artifacts to git, so a Windows user's learnings piled up uncommitted in ~/.gstack indefinitely while the sync report showed one red line out of four. New bashScriptInvocation() resolves Git for Windows' bash explicitly and passes the script as argv[0]. It prefers Git bash over a bare `bash` on PATH because WindowsApps ships a bash.exe that is the WSL launcher, which would read C:\... as a Linux path; GSTACK_BASH overrides for unusual installs; forward slashes because bash treats backslashes as escapes; and it returns null when no bash exists so the stage says so plainly instead of surfacing an unactionable spawn error. The #1731 tripwire asserted the shape that does not work, so it now asserts the opposite (never a raw spawnSync(brainSyncPath, ...)) and six unit tests cover the resolver. Verified on Windows: the stage now reports "OK brain-sync curated artifacts pushed (4.2s)" and the artifacts repo committed + pushed on its own. Affected-test set unchanged at 14 pre-existing failures before and after, with 6 new passing tests. * fix(gbrain): quote cmd.exe arguments at a single gbrain invocation seam Fixes #2471. With shell:true on Windows, node/bun join argv into one cmd.exe string without quoting, so a repo path with a space — the default C:\Users\First Last\ layout — split into two arguments and every gbrain call carrying a path silently targeted the wrong location (worst: `sources add --path`). All gbrain CLI invocations now build their (cmd, argv, shell) triple through gbrainInvocation(), which quotes risky arguments for cmd.exe's re-parse (embedded quotes doubled). The four direct spawn sites in lib/gbrain-sources.ts route through the seam; the #1731 static invariant is upgraded for seamed files (any direct "gbrain" opener is the violation) and kept as-is for lib/gbrain-local-status.ts. POSIX behavior unchanged (shell:false, passthrough argv). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(brain-sync): classify queue entries, rewrite surgically, re-push stranded commits Fixes #2549 (P0 data loss). Every drain exit previously truncated the WHOLE queue (six `: > "$QUEUE"` sites), which (a) destroyed privacy/mode-held entries while misattributing them as "no allowlisted changes", (b) destroyed entries enqueued concurrently during the drain, and (c) left push-failed commits stranded locally with nothing ever re-pushing them until unrelated new work arrived. Now: compute_paths_to_stage classifies every entry (stageable / retained privacy-held / dropped skipped-invalid-unmatched-missing); rewrite_queue re-reads the LIVE queue at mv time and removes only this drain's processed paths (retained + concurrent appends + unparseable lines survive; atomic tmp+mv); an unpushed-commit detector at run start re-pushes stranded local commits (receipted fail-closed; a receipt refusal skips the retry rather than wedging the drain; guards missing origin/<branch>; runs inside the existing lock). Status lines carry counts; full drop paths go to a 0600 sidecar (.brain-sync-drops.json) so filenames stay out of transcripts. --drop-queue remains the one intentional truncation. Matrix added: privacy retention, unmatched/missing counted drops + sidecar mode, unparseable-line preservation, surgical same-drain retention, push-fail commit retention + detector re-delivery on an EMPTY queue, receipt-refusal skip. 35/35 in test/brain-sync.test.ts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(gbrain): make --full do a full code walk, not a delta one `runCodeImport()` walked with a bare `gbrain sync --strategy code --source X`. The strategy is right, but that walk is incremental: it only revisits files changed since the source's checkpoint. A file missed at the ORIGINAL import is therefore never revisited and stays out of the index indefinitely. The reindex-code pass below cannot rescue it. It re-chunks pages that already exist and never walks the filesystem — the same property the comment directly above already relies on when explaining why the walk has to run first. That fix landed one flag short: it made a fresh source get pages at all, but left `--full` unable to discover a file the first walk skipped. Net effect: `/sync-gbrain --full` did not perform a full walk, and re-running it never re-detected the gap. The failure is silent, which is what makes it expensive. Nothing errors, nothing warns, and the verdict block still reports OK while `gbrain search` and `gbrain code-def` answer out of a partial index. It reads as "gbrain is weak at code questions" rather than "the index is incomplete". Measured on two local code sources before and after this change, counting exported functions resolvable via `gbrain code-def`: one went from 61/201 (30%) to 180/201 (89%), importing 79 files that had no page at all; the other had whole source files missing entirely and reached 93%. Both had been serving search from a partial index for weeks. Scoped to `--full` so incremental runs stay fast. `--yes` because this spawns non-interactively and a full walk otherwise prompts to confirm import cost. Anyone can check their own brain without applying this: gbrain sync --source <id> --strategy code --full --dry-run and compare "N file(s) would be imported" against that source's page_count. Worth knowing while doing so: the default strategy is markdown and --strategy is per-invocation, never persisted on the source, so dropping the flag reports strategy=markdown and a handful of files. * fix(brain-cache): honest 'missing' instead of fabricated-empty digests on gbrain failure A gbrain-unreachable failure in fetchRecentDecisions and fetchSalience used to be converted into a cached 'successful' empty digest ("_No prior skill runs recorded._" / "_No salient pages in last 14d._") that refreshEntity stamped with last_refresh. The false negative then survived every subsequent TTL cycle, indistinguishable from a genuine zero-rows result. Now failure returns null, so cmdGet's existing missing/stale-fallback machinery reports the true state — matching what fetchGoals and fetchSimplePage already do on failure. Also adds an Array.isArray guard in fetchRecentDecisions so a malformed payload ({pages: {}} etc.) classifies as failure instead of crashing refreshEntity mid-refresh; a genuinely empty pages array still renders the honest empty digest. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): give the schema-mismatch rebuild test a load-proof budget The rebuild path refreshes every per-project entity against the real gbrain CLI; with an unreachable brain each spawn runs to its own timeout, and under machine load the stack exceeds bun's 5s default (observed 5.2-5.4s, identically on pre-#2587 binaries — a load flake, not a regression). 30s budget matches the sibling brain-sync suite's convention. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(memory-ingest): parse the current Codex response_item rollout shape Fixes #2105. Codex rollout JSONL moved to { type: 'response_item', payload: { type: 'message', role, content: [...] } }; the parser's legacy payload.message branch never fired on it, so every Codex session imported as an empty shell (message_count: 0 — 243/243 sessions on the reporting machine). Both shapes now parse; non-message response_items (reasoning etc.) are ignored. parseTranscriptJsonl exported for direct unit tests (CLI path unchanged — import.meta.main guard). Note: #2104's staging-in-gitignored-tree half is already defended on main (--include-gitignored + GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES, #2144, plus the #2486 reconcile guard) — verified, no change needed; it moves to the close-only roster. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): refresh codex/factory ship goldens from post-#2588 regeneration The #2588 absorb refreshed all three ship goldens, but `bun run gen:skill-docs` regenerates the CLAUDE host only — the codex/factory goldens were copied from artifacts rendered before the resolver change and failed against a fresh external-host regen in the serial test phase. Re-rendered with --host codex / --host factory and re-copied. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(make-pdf): boolean flags no longer swallow the next positional argument Fixes #2514. The parser treated any non-flag token after a flag as its value, so `$P generate --toc essay.md` ate essay.md as --toc's value and failed with "missing input" — the skill's own documented usage only worked when two boolean flags happened to be adjacent. BOOLEAN_FLAGS enumerates the no-value flags; value flags (--watermark, --to, --title, ...) are unchanged. main() now runs behind import.meta.main so tests import the parser directly. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(repo-mode): probe GNU stat before BSD so Git Bash stops crashing Fixes #2195. On GNU coreutils `stat -f` SUCCEEDS (filesystem status, not a format string), so the BSD-first fallback chain never fell over — it fed multi-word filesystem output into the cache-age arithmetic and crashed under set -u on Windows Git Bash. GNU `stat -c` fails cleanly on BSD/macOS, making GNU-first deterministic on both; the mtime is numeric-validated before arithmetic as a last line of defense. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(retro): point the prior-retros context query at files /retro actually writes Fixes #2552's live half. The gbrain context-query glob targeted ~/.gstack/projects/<slug>/retros/*.md — a directory and extension nothing writes — so prior-retro recall was dead on every brain-aware run. /retro saves to .context/retros/*.json (repo-local); the query now reads that. The issue's second defect (quoted-tilde orphan sweep) is already fixed on main — the preamble sweeps with "$HOME/..." — verified, no change needed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(sync-gbrain): remove the capability-check page file left in the user's repo Fixes #2503. On worktree-pinned brains `gbrain put` materializes the checked page as _capability_check_<pid>.md in the current directory (the user's repo), and `gbrain delete` removes the page but not the file — every /sync-gbrain run left a stray file in the repo root. The check now deletes the materialized file explicitly after the page delete. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(browse): warn that hover scrolls and the daemon tab persists across sessions Fixes #2445. Both behaviors are by design but produced confidently wrong verification output: hovering a below-the-fold element scrolls the page before a "rest state" screenshot (exit 0, wrong section), and the daemon's tab survives sessions so a bare `reload` can act on whatever earlier work left open. The screenshot-evidence section now names both traps with the concrete guards (assert window.scrollY; always goto before verifying). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(gitattributes): pin *.txt to LF .gitattributes pins LF for every other text format in the repo (*.md, *.tmpl, *.yml, *.yaml, *.json, *.toml, *.sh, *.ts, extensionless scripts, even the hash-pinned diagram-render dist files). *.txt is the one text format left unpinned. On Windows with core.autocrlf=true, that means the two tracked .txt files are rewritten to CRLF at checkout and then read as permanently modified: gstack/llms.txt +174 bytes make-pdf/test/fixtures/combined-gate.expected.txt +20 bytes git status is never clean, and /gstack-upgrade's 'git stash' step saves a phantom stash on every upgrade — one that pops back to an empty diff. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(setup): install every skill runtime asset for the Claude host On a fresh Claude install, link_claude_skill_dirs installed only SKILL.md (+ sections/) per skill. Every skill that reads a sibling runtime file at .claude/skills/<name>/<file> was broken out of the box: /review stopped at 'Read .claude/skills/review/checklist.md' (file never installed), and qa's templates/references, plan-devex-review's dx-hall-of-fame.md, gstack-upgrade's migrations/, and careful/freeze's bin/ hooks were all silently missing. Codex/Factory/OpenCode/Kiro installers already copied these; the primary host never did. Fix: a shared _link_skill_runtime_assets helper installs EVERYTHING a skill ships next to its SKILL.md, with an explicit exclusion list (F7): node_modules, dist, test, *.tmpl, hidden files. Exclusion-list polarity means a newly added asset installs by default instead of being silently dropped. Assets refresh unconditionally on re-run (rm + relink/copy), so Windows real-dir copies pick up changes after git pull. New free test runs the real installer functions against the live repo into a temp skills dir with a TWO-CLASS referenced-paths assertion (ENG-OV7): alias-relative refs (.claude/skills/<name>/<path>) must exist under the install; repo-anchored refs (~/.claude/skills/gstack/<path>) must exist in the tree modulo an explicit built-artifact allowlist (browse/design/ make-pdf dist + the compiled gstack-global-discover). Known-broken class-2 refs (#2250 bare bin names) are ratcheted: the test fails if they quietly start existing without the entry being removed. Fixes #2317 Fixes #2454 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(setup): alias skills install as rewritten copies, never symlinks The two back-compat alias dirs — _gstack-command (root router) and connect-chrome (→ open-gstack-browser) — symlinked the canonical SKILL.md verbatim, so each alias re-served the canonical frontmatter name:. Claude Code keys skills on that name and requires global uniqueness: the connect-chrome duplicate silently shadowed /open-gstack-browser (whichever readdir returned first won), and the _gstack-command duplicate could drop the ENTIRE personal-skills set — every /gstack command vanished until the user hand-deleted the alias dirs, and the next setup re-broke it. Fix: copy-then-rewrite. A shared _install_alias_skill_md helper reads the SOURCE SKILL.md and writes a fresh copy with name: rewritten to the alias dir's own name (_gstack-command / connect-chrome / gstack-connect-chrome). sed never edits in place: on Unix the old install was a symlink into the repo, and an in-place rewrite through it would have corrupted the generated source (eng review E2). bin/gstack-relink gets the same treatment for its root-alias helper, and its discovery loop now skips symlinked source dirs so the connect-chrome repo symlink can't re-mint the duplicate. Tests assert: installed aliases are NOT symlinks, carry their own unique names, all installed frontmatter names are globally unique, re-runs refresh cleanly, legacy symlinked aliases are replaced not written through, and the source files stay byte-intact. Fixes #2511 Fixes #2201 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(setup): Windows re-runs refresh installed skills for codex/factory/opencode hosts On Windows (Git Bash / MSYS2, no Developer Mode), _link_or_copy installs REAL directory copies. The install guards in link_codex_skill_dirs, link_factory_skill_dirs, link_opencode_skill_dirs, and create_agents_sidecar only ran the copy when the target was a symlink or missing — true on the first install, never again. Every subsequent ./setup after a git pull reported 'gstack ready (codex).' and exited 0 while silently refreshing nothing: users ran stale SKILL.md forever. (link_claude_skill_dirs already handled this; the other hosts never got the treatment.) Fix: all five guard sites bypass the symlink-or-missing check when IS_WINDOWS=1 — _link_or_copy rm -rf's the destination first, so the real-dir copy refreshes in place. Unix behavior is unchanged (symlinks still pass the guard via -L and serve updates without re-copying). The new bash-fixture test drives the REAL extracted functions through the install → upstream change → re-run cycle under IS_WINDOWS=1 (v1 must become v2), pins the sidecar-skip behavior, checks the Unix path stayed a symlink, and statically asserts the bypass at all five sites so factory/opencode can't regress. Registered in the Windows-safe curated list (KNOWN_WINDOWS_SAFE) so it actually runs on the windows-latest CI lane — the 'bin/' pattern hit is a fixture path segment, not a shebang spawn. Fixes #2444 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(uninstall): remove real-directory skill installs, gated on provenance On Windows, setup installs skills as REAL directory copies (cp -R via _link_or_copy). gstack-uninstall's per-skill loop filtered on [ -L ], so every copy was skipped: --force exited 0 and printed 'gstack uninstalled.' while leaving ~52 gstack-* directories plus _gstack-command/ behind in ~/.claude/skills. The same filter also missed the standard Unix shape (real dir + symlinked SKILL.md), which was left as a dangling-symlink husk. Fix: the loop now handles all three install shapes. Symlink entries keep the existing readlink check. Real dirs with a SYMLINKED SKILL.md are removed when the link points into gstack (same semantics as setup's cleanup helpers). Real dirs with a REAL-FILE SKILL.md — the Windows copy shape — are removed ONLY when both provenance gates pass (F8): (a) the directory name is in gstack's skill inventory (source dir names, frontmatter names, gstack- prefixed variants, and the alias dirs), and (b) the SKILL.md carries the existing generated banner '<!-- AUTO-GENERATED from' (ENG-OV10: every pre-v1.67 copy already carries it; a NEW marker would refuse to delete legitimate old installs, recreating the bug). Anything failing a gate is listed to stderr and never deleted — a user's own skill that happens to share a name with a gstack skill survives. Tests: a fake-tree fixture covers removed/kept/listed for every shape (including the F8 name-collision row), and a census test asserts every installable skill's generated SKILL.md carries the banner so the gate can't strand a bannerless skill. Registered in the Windows-safe curated list — the copy shape is exactly what windows-latest exercises. Fixes #2563 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(setup): wire --host cursor through the full install path './setup --host cursor' was accepted by the flag parser and then did nothing: no INSTALL_CURSOR branch existed, so the script built binaries, printed no 'ready' line, and installed zero skills — Cursor users had no way to install gstack at all. Full install slice, re-derived from PR #2547 by @szsunyuan onto the current installers: generate .cursor/ skill docs (host config already existed), create a minimal ~/.cursor/skills/gstack runtime root (root SKILL.md + bin/lib/browse assets + review checklist pair + ETHOS.md + supabase config — bin and lib travel together because bin scripts import ../lib), link the generated gstack-* skills, and plant the repo-local .cursor/skills/gstack sidecar WITHOUT ever wiping the generated SKILL.md files it shares a directory with (link-before-sidecar ordering keeps the generation fallback alive). Auto mode detects Cursor via the cursor binary or the ~/.cursor footprint. gstack-uninstall removes ~/.cursor/skills/gstack* and per-project .cursor/skills/gstack* — and never rmdir's .cursor itself, where Cursor stores user rules. Re-derivation deltas from the PR: the link guards carry the #2444 IS_WINDOWS bypass (re-runs refresh real-dir copies), lib/ and supabase/config.sh ride along like every other runtime root, and the hosts/cursor.ts sidecar field is omitted (HostConfig no longer carries one — sidecar behavior lives in setup). Fixes #1358 Co-authored-by: Yuan Sun <forrest.sun527@gmail.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(settings): include command in add-event dedup key (#2382) Fixes #2382. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(setup): render the gbrain :user variant to an out-dir — global installs stay git-clean On a global-git install with gbrain, ./setup and 'gstack-config gbrain-refresh' ran gen:skill-docs:user IN PLACE inside the install checkout, rewriting ~16 TRACKED SKILL.md files. The checkout stayed permanently dirty, every /gstack-upgrade 'git stash' saved a redundant snapshot of generated content, and the growing stash list invited a 'git stash pop' that would lay stale instruction markdown from an older gstack over the current version — a quiet wrong-rules failure mode. Fix, wired through machinery that already existed (gen-skill-docs --out-dir + the symlink install layer): brain-aware SKILL.md now renders into the untracked ~/.gstack/render/claude, and both Claude installers serve the render when present — setup's link_claude_skill_dirs prefers $GSTACK_HOME/render/claude/<skill>/SKILL.md, and bin/gstack-relink does the same so a later config change can't silently flip skills back to the blockless canonical source. setup wipes and rebuilds the render each run, repoints installed skills after a successful render, and removes a stale render (re-linking canonical) when gbrain is gone. gbrain-refresh renders to the out-dir and repoints via relink; its 'this dirties the install's git tree' caveat is retired because it no longer does. A one-time upgrade migration (gstack-upgrade/migrations/v1.67.0.0.sh, F12) restores the legacy dirt: unstaged modifications to SKILL.md / sections/ *.md files in the install checkout are git-checkout'd back to canonical; anything outside that footprint (user edits, untracked files, staged work) is left alone and reported. Idempotent, non-fatal, symlinked installs skipped. Tests: render-preference behavior for both installers, static pins that every executable :user invocation carries --out-dir and the caveat text is gone, migration fixture (restore/leave/idempotent/no-op matrix), and the existing out-dir render test now asserts 'git status --porcelain' gains zero new entries across a full :user render. Fixes #2569 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(redact): close the remaining #1946 fail-opens — detection coverage + one-time consent Two of #1946's reported gaps were still open after the v1.64 fail-closed work (the git-error and oversized-diff paths in bin/gstack-redact-prepush are already strict, chunked, and pinned by tests): 1. Detection fail-open: env.kv required an UPPERCASE name with an '=' assignment, so 'api_key=…', 'apiKey: "…"', and 'password: …' — the most common real config shapes — produced NO finding at all. The pattern is now case-insensitive, accepts ':' (YAML/JSON) as well as '=' assignment, and handles quoted JSON keys. It stays MEDIUM and entropy-gated per the calibration rule (a generic net that cries wolf gets bypassed), with pinned cases for each closed shape plus the placeholder/entropy negatives. 2. Install fail-open: nothing ever offered the guard, so a plain 'git push' scanned nothing and users believing themselves protected weren't. setup now asks ONCE for consent on a real interactive terminal (maintainer decision 6): an explicit answer is recorded to the existing redact_prepush_hook key and never re-asked; a timeout or non-interactive run changes nothing and keeps the hint-only posture. Default stays FALSE, and setup still never installs the hook itself — /ship owns the per-repo install (the wrong-repo invariant is pinned by the existing 'setup carries the hint only' test). Tests: per-shape pattern cases, prompt gating statics (key-absence + TTY + timed default-N read), timeout-persists-nothing, non-interactive stays hint-only with no key write, and recorded-answer-is-silent behavior runs. Contributes to #1946 (the pre-push guard's fail-closed scan paths landed in earlier releases; this closes the coverage and consent gaps it names). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(hooks): Stop hook closes dangling timeline entries — fail-open The preamble writes event:'started' to the project timeline at every skill start, but the matching 'completed' write lives in prose at the END of the skill workflow — unenforceable. An interrupted session, a context blowout, or an agent that simply stops leaked started > completed forever, and the leak was unrepairable after the fact (observed live in #2553). New hosts/claude/hooks/timeline-stop-hook (+ .ts, question-log-hook shim pattern): on Claude Code's Stop event it appends event:'completed' with outcome 'unknown' and source 'stop-hook' for every 'started' entry in the project timeline that has no matching completion. setup registers it via gstack-settings-hook add-event (Stop was already an accepted event) under its own source tag, idempotently; --no-team and gstack-uninstall remove it. FAIL-OPEN contract (F5), pinned by tests: ALWAYS exits 0 — corrupt timeline (bad lines skipped individually, valid ones still repaired), missing timeline, garbage/empty stdin, bun missing from PATH (the shim '|| true's), and an over-cap timeline (10MB skip) all repair nothing and block nothing; errors land in ~/.gstack/hook-errors.log best-effort. The write path is append-only with a ~2s internal budget, and a second Stop is a no-op (already-closed entries never re-close). Correlation is project-scoped by design — the preamble's session id is shell-local, so a concurrent same-project session's entry may close early as a traceable source:'stop-hook' row rather than a silent leak; the header documents the trade-off. Fixes #2553 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * ios-qa: guard DebugBridgeTouch.m on DEBUG, not just TARGET_OS_IOS DebugBridgeTouch.m and its header both promise the code is DEBUG-only and never shipped: "Uses these private UIKit selectors (DEBUG-only; never shipped to App Store)" "DEBUG-only — never link in Release." Nothing enforced it. The only guard was `#if TARGET_OS_IOS`, so a Release build for iOS compiled the entire implementation in, private API and all. Measured on a real app (an iOS Release build, `nm -j` on the app binary): DebugBridge symbols 15 IOHIDEventCreateDigitizer 2 AXSSetAutomationEnabled 1 symbol, 2 strings IOKit.framework 4 strings including +[DebugBridgeTouch sendTapAtPoint:inWindow:] and _OBJC_CLASS_$_DebugBridgeTouch. That is a Guideline 2.5.1 private-API exposure in a shippable binary, and it fails Package.swift's own stated CI invariant: nm -j build/Release/<binary> | grep -q DebugBridge && exit 1 WHY THE EXISTING GUARD DOES NOT COVER THIS Package.swift documents the protection as `.when(configuration: .debug)` on the consuming target's dependency. That works for SwiftPM consumers. It cannot be expressed by an app that integrates DebugBridge as a local package inside an .xcodeproj: Xcode's Filters column under Frameworks, Libraries, and Embedded Content offers platform conditions only — iOS, macOS, visionOS — never build configuration. So for xcodeproj consumers the documented guard silently does nothing, which is precisely the case that was measured. The Swift targets were already safe: all four .swift files are `#if DEBUG` guarded and Package.swift defines DEBUG for them via swiftSettings. Only the Objective-C target, the one that actually links private API, was unguarded. THE FIX 1. DebugBridgeTouch.m.template now branches `#if !defined(DEBUG)` first and emits nothing at all in Release, falling through to the existing iOS and non-iOS branches only in Debug. 2. Package.swift.template declares DEBUG explicitly for the ObjC target: cSettings: [.define("DEBUG", .when(configuration: .debug))] The two Swift targets already did this. Relying on SwiftPM's implicit DEBUG for C-family targets is not worth betting a private-API exposure on. VERIFIED, by compiling the generated file for iOS both ways: xcrun -sdk iphoneos clang -c DebugBridgeTouch.m -arch arm64 ... Release (no -DDEBUG) 0 DebugBridge symbols, 0 private-API symbols, 448 B Debug (-DDEBUG=1) 7 DebugBridge symbols, 6 private-API symbols, 13104 B The harness is unchanged in Debug. Release now emits an empty translation unit. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ios-qa): bridges search front-most presented content first A presented sheet sits AFTER the screen it covers in window.subviews, so the elements walk emitted the covered screen first — a client taking the first match for a label activated a control the user cannot reach, and the agent saw a success (measured on a real app: the sheet's 'Create' button ranked 210th behind 35+ covered-screen entries). Menus, alerts and action sheets were worse: each gets its OWN UIWindow, so keying off isKeyWindow missed them entirely — absent from /elements, dropped from /screenshot, untappable via /tap. Re-derived from PR #2397 by @IDSTUK onto the current bridge templates (the SwiftUI tap-reliability rework had moved underneath the PR): ScreenshotBridgeImpl gains orderedWindows(in:) (visible windows front-most first by windowLevel then insertion order, PassThroughWindow overlays still filtered), frontmostWindow(), and searchRoots() (per window, the top-most presented view controller's view before the window itself). /elements walks those roots in order through the existing shared visited-set + budget, so overlapping roots emit each view once at its front-most position; /tap targets frontmostWindow() for both the accessibility-activation and synthesized-touch paths; /type and /swipe search the roots in order; /screenshot composites every window back-to-front at the existing 1x scale. The two now-dead private activeScene/activeKeyWindow copies in ElementsBridgeImpl and MutationBridgeImpl are removed. Fixture mirror synced byte-for-byte; verified with a full 'xcodebuild build -scheme FixtureApp-Package -destination generic/platform=iOS Simulator' (BUILD SUCCEEDED, DEBUG guard from the previous commit included). Co-authored-by: IDST UK <IDSTUK@users.noreply.github.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(setup-gbrain): invoke gstack-memory-ingest/gstack-gbrain-sync via bun run + .ts /setup-gbrain's transcript-ingest steps told the agent to run bin/gstack-memory-ingest and bin/gstack-gbrain-sync by BARE name. Neither exists — only the .ts files ship (mode 644, no bin alias) — so the agent dutifully reported 'script missing at install root' and the ingest/full- sync steps dead-ended on every host (hit live under Codex; the Claude render carries the same text). All four template sites (probe, silent-bulk, post-answer full sync, the preamble-hook incremental mention) and the four memory.md reference-doc sites now use the repo's established form: 'bun run <path>/gstack-memory- ingest.ts …' / 'bun run <path>/gstack-gbrain-sync.ts …' — matching what sync-gbrain already does. Generated SKILL.md regenerated from the template in the same commit. Re-derived from PR #2409 by @SomSamantray per the wave's screening rule (the PR edited the generated SKILL.md directly; the generated file must come from gen:skill-docs). The contributor's structural test rides along as-is: bare-invocation regexes with negative .ts lookahead and backslash- continuation coverage pin every site, so the drift can't return. The referenced-paths ratchet in test/setup-claude-skill-assets.test.ts drops its two #2250 known-broken entries — the class-2 assertion now guards these paths again. Verified against #2250's site list (template lines 690/735/784-area, all covered) plus a fresh grep: zero bare invocations remain in the template or memory.md; the one prose mention ('gstack-memory-ingest now persists…') is not an invocation and stays. Fixes #2250 Fixes #2393 Co-authored-by: SomSamantray <SomSamantray@users.noreply.github.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): update four main-side assertions to the T3 installer contracts Integration drift from the T3 lane: three static assertions pinned the OLD implementation shapes that T3 legitimately replaced — the gbrain-refresh branch no longer self-documents a reset --hard cycle (#2569 renders to an untracked out-dir instead; the test now pins THAT), setup's regen block renamed to the render form (re-anchored, same exit-code-propagation invariant), and sections/ linking generalized into _link_skill_runtime_assets (the _link_or_copy routing assertion moved into the helper). Fourth: the uninstall neutral-target test asserted against os.tmpdir(), which reads $TMPDIR at call time — a shard neighbor can leave it gstack-containing, making the "neutral" symlink target match the provenance substring; the test now falls back to a fixed neutral root and asserts neutrality explicitly. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: whitelist engine-locked at all three gbrain-usable gates (#2456) #2194 taught the classifier to report a PGLite lock held by a live \`gbrain serve\` as engine-locked instead of broken-config, but none of the three "is gbrain usable?" gates accepted the new status — so the symptom moved from a wrong error to a quieter wrong suppression: gbrain-refresh stripped GBRAIN_CONTEXT_LOAD / GBRAIN_SAVE_RESULTS blocks out of every generated SKILL.md after every upgrade, on the RECOMMENDED /setup-gbrain default (PGLite + local-stdio MCP spawns gbrain serve at session start). engine-locked is the same class as timeout (#1964): the engine is installed and healthy, a legitimate holder has the lock. All three gates now agree: - bin/gstack-gbrain-detect --is-ok exits 0 on engine-locked - bin/gstack-config gbrain-refresh case arm renders instead of suppressing - scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts --respect-detection treats it as detected Test mirrors the existing timeout case in test/gbrain-detection-override.test.ts (engine-locked renders brain blocks; the sibling no-cli case still proves suppression works). Applies the reporter's patch + test from the issue. Fixes #2456 Co-authored-by: Mateus Moraes <mmoraes@users.noreply.github.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: detect bearer-token thin clients via host MCP registration (#2520) The #2051 thin-client fix keys detection on the remote_mcp marker in ~/.gbrain/config.json — but that marker is only written by the OAuth path (gbrain init --mcp-only). Bearer-token installs (gbrain connect <url> --token, gbrain's own recommended default for local/personal use) never touch config.json, so they fell through to the local probe, failed against the dead-or-absent local engine, and landed on missing-config / broken-db / broken-config / engine-locked — silently suppressing brain blocks for a fully-working remote brain. New evidence source: hasRemoteOnlyGbrainMcp() reads ~/.claude.json MCP registrations (user scope AND project scope) with the same classification rules as gstack-gbrain-detect's tier-3 fallback. File-read only — no subprocess, no network (a classifier network probe is the #1964 pathology). Wired at two sites in freshClassify: - missing-config branch: a bearer thin client may never have run a local init; if the host's only gbrain registration is remote-HTTP, that registration IS the brain → thin-client. - post-probe-failure demotion: broken-db / broken-config / engine-locked reclassify to thin-client when the only gbrain registration is remote. A local-stdio sibling registration blocks the demotion (federation guard: a user running a local engine plus a remote team brain keeps precise local statuses). "timeout" is excluded — already usable, and may be a genuinely healthy slow local engine. 7 new unit tests in test/gbrain-local-status.test.ts: user-scope, project- scope, engine-locked/broken-db demotion, federation guard, no-registration discriminator, end-to-end --is-ok gate (35 pass total in the file). Root-cause analysis by @d-danielsun in #2520. Fixes #2520 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: resolve GBRAIN_HOME with gbrain's parent-dir semantics (#2521) gstack treated GBRAIN_HOME as the config directory; gbrain's configDir() treats it as the PARENT and always appends `.gbrain` itself (the contract is explicit in gbrain's source: GBRAIN_HOME=/tmp/x → /tmp/x/.gbrain/ config.json). With GBRAIN_HOME set, gstack classified engine status from a file gbrain never reads — the probe's two halves (file checks vs the spawned `gbrain sources list`) looked at DIFFERENT installs, so any resulting status was arbitrary: missing-config/broken-config against healthy installs, or a thin-client marker gstack saw that gbrain itself reported as "No brain configured". New shared resolver `gbrainConfigDir()` in lib/gbrain-exec.ts is the single source of truth. All seven gstack sites route through the contract: - lib/gbrain-local-status.ts gbrainConfigPath (the classifier's file half) - bin/gstack-gbrain-detect GBRAIN_CONFIG + readRemoteMcpUrl - lib/gbrain-exec.ts buildGbrainEnv (the probe's DATABASE_URL seed — fixing only the classifier would have left the split-brain in the spawn half, flagged by the reporter) - lib/gbrain-guards.ts gbrainHome (clones-dir + autopilot-lock paths) - lib/gstack-memory-helpers.ts gbrainConfigPath (engine-tier fallback) - bin/gstack-gbrain-install pre-doctor config check (shell) Unit tests cover GBRAIN_HOME set (config found at $GBRAIN_HOME/.gbrain), the old flat layout explicitly NOT read (both classifier and buildGbrainEnv), and unset (~/.gbrain unchanged). Existing fixtures that encoded the deviant flat layout are updated to gbrain's contract. Root-cause analysis by @d-danielsun in #2521. Deviation from the 3-site plan spec: the same deviant resolution existed in four more sites (buildGbrainEnv, gbrain-guards, memory-helpers, gbrain-install); fixing only three would have left gstack disagreeing with itself as well as with gbrain, so the whole class moved to the shared resolver in one change. Fixes #2521 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: read project-scoped MCP registrations in gbrain detection (#2499) Claude Code registers MCP servers at two scopes in ~/.claude.json: user scope (.mcpServers) and project scope (.projects["/abs/path"].mcpServers — what `claude mcp add` WITHOUT --scope user writes). Every gbrain detection site read only user scope, so a correctly configured project-scoped brain was invisible: brain-aware blocks suppressed, remote-mode artifacts sync never recognised, and detectEndpointHash fell through to the 'local' literal — two different project-scoped brains hashed identically, so switching between them never invalidated the cache, the exact scenario the function's docstring says it exists to catch. Nothing errored; the features just quietly were not there. Two sites fixed: - scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-brain-sync-block.ts: the shared detection block (rendered into every tier-2+ SKILL.md) now resolves the gbrain entry ONCE into _GBRAIN_MCP_ENTRY — user scope first, then the nearest-ancestor project entry for $PWD that actually carries a gbrain server (longest matching key with a path-boundary check: /a/repo never matches /a/repo2; a nested project WITHOUT gbrain doesn't shadow its parent's registration). _GBRAIN_MCP_TYPE and _GBRAIN_HOST extract from the resolved entry, so claude.json is parsed once per skill start. All SKILL.md files regenerated in this commit; the ship golden fixtures and three carve-guard skeleton caps (plan-eng-review, plan-devex-review, office-hours; ~1.5KB rendered growth per skill) are refreshed with measured values. - bin/gstack-brain-cache detectEndpointHash: same resolution order in TS (user scope, else nearest-ancestor project entry by cwd, both path separators for Windows keys). Tests: rendered-output tests in test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts pin the regenerated block (static markers + a FUNCTIONAL run of the exact rendered lines against a fixture ~/.claude.json with only a project-scoped registration, plus an outside-cwd discriminator); detectEndpointHash unit tests in test/brain-cache-roundtrip.test.ts cover project-scope resolve, path-boundary, nearest-ancestor distinct hashes, and user-scope precedence. Root-cause analysis by @samporter-31 in #2499. Fixes #2499 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: /sync-gbrain respects an existing valid .gbrain-source pin (#2417) /sync-gbrain always derived a new worktree-scoped source ID, even when the repository already carried a valid .gbrain-source pin created through the native GBrain source workflow — silently bypassing the selected source boundary, registering a duplicate federated source, and routing later dream/cycle checks to the wrong source. Now a local pin is reused when it passes the fail-closed identity checks: the ID is syntactically valid, the source is registered, and the registered path realpath-resolves to the current checkout (so a stale or copied dotfile can't redirect a sync into another repo's source). A confirmed pin is treated as user-managed — synced and attached without add/remove, legacy migration, or federation changes. Dry-run stays spawn-free (reads only the local marker for previews). Missing, invalid, stale, or unreadable pins fall back to the existing generated source ID. Absorbs PR #2417 by @exGeni (applied via git am -3; 42 tests pass in test/gstack-gbrain-sync.test.ts including the new pin-respecting coverage: spawn-free dry-run, symlink-equivalent registered paths, non-dry-run sync/attach with no add/remove, dream routing, unreadable markers, config-backed env use). Co-authored-by: Evgenii Lopatin <e75533@gmail.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: gstack-gbrain-install --dry-run no longer requires the network (#2540) The GitHub reachability probe (curl --head, 10s max) was gated only on --validate-only, so a --dry-run — which prints a plan and exits without ever cloning — could fail with exit 3 "cannot reach https://github.com" whenever the curl lost a race for sockets/DNS. Reproducible at ~15% by running 60 dry-runs concurrently, and the cause of intermittent red in the D5 detect-first tests, which call this exact path. The probe now also skips under --dry-run: requiring the network for a plan-print buys nothing and costs a real failure mode. Real installs still fail fast when offline rather than hanging git clone. Absorbs PR #2540 by @CarringtonCreative (applied via git am -3; 26 tests pass across test/gbrain-detect-install.test.ts + test/egress-receipt-wiring.test.ts). Fixes the offline/flake half of #2536. Co-authored-by: Carrington Dennis <carrdenn3@gmail.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: accept 3-digit semver + package.json version sources (#2501) Two version-source shapes failed CLOSED in a way that silently disabled /ship's queue-collision check: 1. A --version-path / .gstack/version-path target that is a package.json was read as raw text: the whitespace strip turned the JSON into '{"name":"frontend",... which parseVersion rejected, so every read — local, `git show`, and rival PRs' claims through the GitHub/GitLab Contents APIs — fell back to 0.0.0.0 and competing claims were dropped as "malformed". 2. parseVersion required exactly four components, so gstack-next-version exited 2 on EVERY invocation in a 3-digit repo. That CLI IS the queue-collision check; /ship then took its documented offline path of naive local arithmetic, two branches cut from the same base picked the same version, and git merged the duplicate without a conflict. New lib/version-source.ts holds the shared semantics so both CLIs agree by construction: parseVersion accepts 3- or 4-digit (3 pads the micro slot for uniform comparison), versionWidth/fmtVersion keep a 3-digit repo 3-digit through bumping and formatting, micro coerces to patch on 3-digit repos (with a warning in the output), and extractVersion reads a .json version-path as JSON (.version) from any byte source. gstack-version-bump treats a package.json version-path as that repo's single source of truth (written in place, DRIFT_* states can't arise — no second file to drift from). Detection is by shape, not new configuration. Scope per the wave plan's version-tooling end-state spec (decision 11, ENG-OV1): this is the READING capability + 3-digit acceptance ONLY. gstack's own VERSION file stays the 4-digit source of truth; nothing here flips authority to package.json. The PR's bundled fix for the .gstack/version-path pin being ignored by classify's base read lands separately (#2462) — these tests drive the JSON version-path through the explicit --version-path flag. Re-derived from PR #2501 by @YiftahR (73 tests pass across test/gstack-version-bump.test.ts, test/gstack-next-version.test.ts, test/ship-version-sync.test.ts). Fixes #2501 Co-authored-by: YR <work.yiftah.rottem@gmail.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: write/repair sync npm lockfiles' version fields (#2567) npm records the package version twice in its lockfiles — top-level `version` and, in lockfileVersion >= 2, `packages[""].version` (the entry describing the root package itself) — and `npm install` keeps both in step. gstack-version-bump write/repair updated VERSION + package.json but left the lockfile behind, so every /ship bump in an npm repo drifted one field per release until someone ran npm, dirtying the tree on the next `npm install` far from the cause. write and repair now mirror the version into package-lock.json AND npm-shrinkwrap.json (which shares the format and, when present, is what npm actually honors) as a pure JSON edit — no npm spawn, no dependency-tree churn, dependency entries untouched. Per the wave plan's version-tooling end-state spec (decision 11): synced ONLY when the file already exists, never created (gstack itself is bun-only). A failed manifest/lockfile write keeps the existing exit-3 half-write semantics so classify reports DRIFT_STALE_PKG on re-run instead of hiding the drift. Tests: 5 new cases in test/gstack-version-bump.test.ts — both lockfile version fields synced with deps untouched, repair heals a stale lockfile, lockfileVersion 1 (no packages map) doesn't crash, npm-shrinkwrap.json synced without inventing a package-lock.json, malformed lockfile exits 3 loudly (26 pass total in the file). Re-derived from PR #2568 by @ortonom under decision 11. Fixes #2567 Co-authored-by: ortonom <3261546+ortonom@users.noreply.github.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: subdirectory manifests + npm-valid version mirror (#2531) Two gaps in gstack-version-bump's manifest handling, resolved to the wave plan's version-tooling end-state spec (decision 11): 1. Subdirectory manifests. A repo whose only Node package lives in web/, app/, or frontend/ has no ROOT package.json, so join(cwd, "package.json") reported pkgExists:false and every bump silently wrote VERSION alone — leaving the manifest to be bumped by hand, which is exactly the drift this tool exists to prevent, in the one layout where it silently did nothing. All three subcommands now resolve the manifest as --package-json-path → .gstack/package-json-path → ./package.json (mirroring resolveVersionPath). 2. npm-valid mirror. VERSION is 4-digit MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH.MICRO; npm's semver is 3-component and rejects a fourth, so mirroring the raw form breaks `npm ci` in any repo npm actually manages. The manifest and its lockfiles now carry the npm-valid 3-digit translation (1.67.0.0 → 1.67.0) via npmVersion() in lib/version-source.ts. VERSION stays the 4-digit source of truth. classify judges drift against the TRANSLATED form — a correctly-synced `0.1.25` no longer reads as eternal drift against `0.1.25.0` — and grandfathers the pre-v1.67 1:1 four-digit mirror as in-sync (flagging it DRIFT_UNEXPECTED would hard-stop /ship on every existing repo on upgrade day; the next write migrates the manifest to the translated form). Lockfiles are synced beside the resolved manifest — including beside a pinned JSON version-path — and only when they already exist. classify output gains pkgPath and expectedPkgVersion for observability; write/repair report packageJsonPath + packageJsonVersion. The /ship Step 12 prose (ship/SKILL.md.tmpl) documents the resolution chain and the translation; SKILL.md files regenerated and ship golden fixtures refreshed in this commit. Tests: subdirectory pin + --package-json-path override, translated-form classify (FRESH/ALREADY_BUMPED, no false drift), grandfathered 1:1 mirror, genuine divergence still drifts, repair to the npm-valid form (33 pass in test/gstack-version-bump.test.ts; 526 pass across the five affected files including goldens and parity). Re-derived from PR #2531 by @CarringtonCreative on top of the 3-digit/ JSON version-source work, under decision 11 (which resolves the PR's lockfile-gated translation in favor of an unconditional npm-valid mirror). Co-authored-by: Carrington Dennis <carrdenn3@gmail.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: git-based version allocator when the PR queue is unreachable (#2545) When the host query (gh/glab) failed, gstack-next-version returned offline:true with an EMPTY claim set, and /ship's documented fallback was local BUMP_LEVEL arithmetic. Local arithmetic cannot see a sibling's claim, so the fallback allocated a version another open PR already held — observed in a downstream repo where two merged PRs both read v0.1.57.0 (and an audit found four such duplicate pairs over three weeks). New fetchGitClaimed() degrades the QUEUE VIEW without degrading the ALLOCATION: git already knows what the API was asked for. It reads every remote-tracking branch's pinned version file (through extractVersion, so JSON version-paths resolve on remote refs too and each branch's own digit width is preserved) plus the versions already shipped in the base's last 400 commit subjects (3- or 4-digit; the cap announces itself in warnings when it truncates). The fallback runs only when the host told us nothing — the online path is untouched — and the output gains a load-bearing `fallback: "git" | null` field that /ship can branch on, plus explicit warnings for both the recovered-from-git and the nothing-found cases. Tests: end-to-end stub-gh offline contract (fallback:'git' + a valid version + the warning), sibling-claim discovery from remote-tracking refs, the pick advancing past the sibling's claim, shipped-subject scanning, JSON version-path claims on remote refs, and non-repo degradation to a warning (45 pass in test/gstack-next-version.test.ts). Re-derived from PR #2545 by @CarringtonCreative under the wave plan's version-tooling end-state spec; the PR's own VERSION/CHANGELOG stamping is stripped (release stamping happens at /ship time, not per commit). Co-authored-by: Carrington Dennis <carrdenn3@gmail.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: version-bump honors the .gstack/version-path pin in versionRel (#2462) cmdClassify's current-version read already resolved the .gstack/version-path pin, but versionRel — the repo-relative path fed to `git show origin/<base>:<path>` — was derived from the CLI flag alone (`argVal(args, "--version-path") ?? "VERSION"`). In a pinned repo with no explicit flag, base and current therefore read DIFFERENT files: current from the pinned file, base from the root VERSION. On a repo with no root VERSION, the base always read 0.0.0.0 — and the pinned-JSON handling never engaged, so a pinned package.json was read as raw text (currentVersion 0.0.0.0) and `write` would have overwritten the manifest with a bare version string. New resolveVersionRel() resolves the pin's REPO-RELATIVE form once (flag → .gstack/version-path first line → "VERSION"); classify, write, and repair all derive both the relative and absolute paths from it, so base and current reads can no longer diverge. The old resolveVersionPath (which returned an absolute path `git show` cannot use) is folded in. Unit tests (the ENG-OV6 spec case plus write/repair coverage): pin set + no flag → classify reads base AND current from the SAME pinned file (plain-text sub/VERSION and pinned frontend/package.json, both against a real git base with NO root VERSION anywhere), write updates the pinned manifest in place without inventing a root VERSION, repair treats the pinned JSON as single-source, and the explicit flag still overrides the pin (38 pass in test/gstack-version-bump.test.ts). Re-spec'd per ENG-OV6 from the report in #2462 (the originally-filed classify-read hypothesis was already handled; the live bug was the :138 versionRel derivation). Same fix shape independently identified in PR #2501 by @YiftahR. Fixes #2462 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: diff-scope glob coverage, honest exit contract, dirty-tree visibility (#2526, #2455, #2299) Three silent-skip classes in bin/gstack-diff-scope, each of which quietly disabled scope-gated reviewers in /ship and /review: 1. Pattern gaps (#2526, #2455). `*/api/*` required a path segment BEFORE api/, so a root-level api/ layout (Vercel serverless, Next.js pages/api at root) never set SCOPE_API — 63 serverless functions in the reporter's payments repo, none ever classified, the API-contract specialist silently skipped on every payment PR (it found a CRITICAL when run by hand). Same for root-level migrations/. And the Rails data_migrate gem's db/data/ data migrations — arbitrary Ruby run unattended against production data — fell through to plain BACKEND, so the [NEVER_GATE] data-migration specialist never got the chance to run. Added: api/*, migrations/*, db/data/*, data_migrations/*. 2. All-false was indistinguishable from "could not look" (#2526). New contract: empty change set → all false exit 0; >=1 match → flags exit 0; changed files with ZERO matches → SCOPE_ERROR=unmatched + the unmatched paths as comment lines + exit 2 (a new top-level layout now trips loudly instead of invisibly disabling reviewers); unresolvable base ref (shallow CI checkout) → SCOPE_ERROR=no_base + exit 2 instead of a green that means "we could not look". Every output line stays a shell-safe assignment or comment for sourcing consumers, which tolerate the nonzero exit today (source ... || true / eval). 3. Uncommitted work was invisible (#2299). /ship detects scope in Step 9, BEFORE it commits in Step 15, so the common start-work-then-ship flow ran the classifier against an empty diff and skipped every reviewer. The change set is now the UNION of committed diff + working tree + untracked files. Also from #2299: the single first-match-wins case made the nine flags mutually exclusive (Button.test.jsx set FRONTEND but not TESTS; util.test.ts the opposite) — each category now gets its own case, with BACKEND deliberately still excluding frontend component/view files. And file listing is NUL-safe (git diff -z), so non-ASCII paths no longer defeat extension globs via octal quoting. Deliberate behavior change (flagged in #2299): with independent flags, a backend test file sets BACKEND and TESTS, which can trip the security specialist's SCOPE_BACKEND gate on test-only PRs — errs toward more review, not less. Table-driven tests cover every glob class (root api/, nested api/, controllers, openapi, root/nested/prisma/db-migrate/db-data migrations, dual-category test files, auth, prompts, docs, plain classes), the four-state exit contract, dirty-tree + untracked visibility, and the non-ASCII path case (39 pass in test/diff-scope.test.ts). Fixes shaped by the reporters' patches: @grant-ship-it (#2526), @mkyed (#2455), @ShahriarLak (#2299). Fixes #2526 Fixes #2455 Fixes #2299 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(redact-prepush): don't re-scan commits a catch-up merge brought in `remoteSha..localSha` is "everything new on this branch", which is not the same as "everything new to the remote". Merge origin/main into a feature branch and every commit main gained since that branch's last push becomes an added line — content that is already published, already scanned, and not this push's doing. Two consequences, both observed: · FALSE HIGH FINDINGS. A placeholder connection string in a fixture someone else had already merged blocked an unrelated push as db.url_with_password, telling the operator to rotate a credential over a file they never touched. A guard that cries wolf on catch-up merges is one people learn to bypass reflexively — which is exactly how a real secret gets through. · OVERSIZED SCANS. The SCAN_CHUNK_BYTES comment already records a 1,146,782-byte diff from "a feature branch catching up to a busy main" blowing the engine's 1 MiB cap. Same root cause, treated there as a size problem. Narrowing the range fixes the size too. A two-dot range cannot express this: after merging main, neither the remote tip nor the merge-base with main is an ancestor of the other, so no single base excludes both. The narrowed range is `rev-list localSha --not remoteSha --remotes`. remoteSha STAYS the base — it is what git tells us the remote has, and is authoritative in a way --remotes is not, since tracking refs can be absent or stale. Using --remotes alone excludes nothing in a repo without them, so every commit ever made reads as new. That is the same false positive from the other direction, and it is what the existing test "only NEW content is scanned (remote..local), not pre-existing" catches. When excluding tracking refs changes nothing, this push has no catch-up commits and the plain range already describes it exactly — so we defer to it. That keeps every non-catch-up push on the original gitStrict diff path, which is what #1946's fail-closed regression test exercises. A narrowing that silently retired that test would be a worse trade than the false positives it set out to fix. Each commit is diffed alone. A merge's combined diff shows only content present in no parent, so a secret introduced while resolving a conflict is still caught while an ordinary merge contributes nothing. Tests: 22/22 existing prepush tests still pass (two of them fail without the remoteSha base and the defer-to-plain-range guard respectively — verified by mutation). 5 new tests build real repositories on disk and pin both directions: a catch-up merge no longer re-scans published content, and secrets in new commits, in merge resolutions, and in repos with no remote are all still scanned. Absorbs PR #2592 by @Two-Six-Alpha-1115 (applied via git am -3; 5 new tests pass in test/redact-prepush-scan-range.test.ts). Also narrows the range for the rebased-force-push shape reported in #2573 — proven by the follow-up regression test. Co-authored-by: Scott <scott@peninsulaminerals.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(redact): parcel IDs are not phone numbers A county tax-map parcel ID (APN) reads as a national-format phone number to `pii.phone.e164` — the same collision class as the digit-only UUID that `insideUuid` already guards. `12-3456789.000` matches, and so does its normalized `123456789000`. This is not a rare edge. Land, title and property-tax repos carry APNs by the hundred; a single title branch pushed 2 MEDIUM findings, and the same shape recurs in every fixture, mart and smoke in the domain. A guardrail that cries wolf on the domain's primary identifier is one people learn to wave through, which is how a real HIGH finding eventually gets ignored. The guard is deliberately narrow, in two tiers: 1. The DOTTED form is exempt on its own shape. No phone convention puts a dot before a trailing 3-4 digit group after a 4-8 digit middle. Hyphen-only variants (22-0001-000) are NOT shape-exempted — those genuinely are phone-shaped. 2. A DIGITS-ONLY span is phone-shaped in isolation, so it earns the exemption only by evidence: it must be the exact digit-normalization of a punctuated APN within the surrounding window. Fixtures and marts carry the pair; a real phone number has no such twin. This reads the document's own evidence instead of guessing from digits. Verified against the unmodified engine over inputs spanning every rule family (AWS, PEM, GitHub PAT, email, IP, credit card, SSN, timestamp, UUID, nine phone formats): exactly one behavior changed, the APN pair. The new test pins both directions and was proven red under mutation — stubbing the guard to `return true` (the dangerous blanket-exemption failure) fails 12 of 15; `return false` fails 3. Absorbs PR #2591 by @Two-Six-Alpha-1115 (applied via git am -3; 96 tests pass across test/redact-parcel-id-false-positive.test.ts + test/redact-engine.test.ts, and the pattern-lint / CLI / prepush-hook / autoredact suites stay green). Co-authored-by: Scott <scott@peninsulaminerals.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: prove the rebased force-push shape is scanned correctly (#2573) #2573: after `git rebase origin/main`, the feature branch's remote tip still exists locally (the pre-rebase tip) but is no longer an ancestor of HEAD, so the old `remoteSha..localSha` range swept in every upstream commit rebased onto — 1.14 MiB scanned instead of 0.27 MiB on the reported repo, tripping the engine's 1 MiB cap and blocking the push with engine.input_too_large (a HIGH that meant "the engine never ran", not a finding). The catch-up-merge narrowing (`rev-list localSha --not remoteSha --remotes`) covers this shape too: the upstream commits are reachable from origin/main's remote-tracking ref, which exists by construction — you cannot have rebased onto origin/main without it. No residual gap found; this lands the proof alone, end-to-end through the actual hook binary with the real pre-push stdin protocol: - fixture sanity: the pre-rebase tip exists locally, is NOT an ancestor, and the OLD two-dot range would have swept in the upstream credential - a clean rebased force-push passes — someone else's already-published HIGH-shaped fixture no longer blocks it - coverage is not narrowed: a HIGH in a rebased commit of our own still blocks - the scanned commit set is exactly the rebased own commits, so scan size is proportional to OUR work, not to how busy main was Analyzed non-gap, recorded in the test header: upstream commits in NO remote-tracking ref cannot arise from the standard flow — rebasing onto origin/<branch> requires the tracking ref, and rebasing onto a purely local branch means the "upstream" content was never published, so scanning it is correct. Fixes #2573 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): ratchet four skeleton-size caps for the wave's preamble growth The #2499 project-scoped-MCP jq entry-resolution adds ~340 bytes to every brain-sync preamble block, and the wave's doc additions push four skills 3-91 bytes past their v1.64/v1.65 parity caps. Re-measured per the ratchet protocol: plan-ceo-review 92,531 → cap 93,000; document-release 56,571 → 57,000; design-consultation 70,003 → 70,500; cso 75,891 → 76,400. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(todos): file the v1.67 fix-wave deferrals + ZeroEntropy sunset deadline The wave plan's "Cut from this wave" list becomes a durable next-wave queue: Windows omnibus mining, AskUserQuestion numbering redesign, typecheck infra, Chromium profile migration, triggers-frontmatter decision, release-tag upgrade semantics, and the 15-PR feature triage queue. ZeroEntropy's Sept 4 2026 shutdown is filed P1 (calendar-driven — gbrain's default embedding provider). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * deps(browse): bump playwright + playwright-core to 1.62.1 (P0 #2554 vehicle) Split from dependabot #2582 per plan OV3: this commit bumps ONLY playwright (^1.58.2 -> ^1.62.1, lock resolves playwright@1.62.1 + playwright-core@1.62.1 exactly). puppeteer-core, @huggingface/transformers, marked, and socks are deliberately NOT bumped here — they land separately (73b) gated on the ONNX sidecar smoke. Why: bun.lock pinned playwright(-core)@1.58.2, whose Chromium build macOS XProtect now kills on launch — browse is dead on macOS (#2554). 1.62.1 ships Chromium 151.0.7922.34 (headless shell v1234), which launches clean. Verification: bunx playwright install chromium (Chrome Headless Shell 151.0.7922.34 downloaded), then the full browse suite from browse/: 2016 pass / 32 skip / 2 fail across 129 files (133.9s). Both fails are playwright-independent: data-platform.test.ts "rejects paths in cwd" expects <cwd>/package.json to exist (browse/ has none; passes from repo root, the shard runner's cwd — 15/15), and stealth-webdriver.test.ts passes standalone (15/15) — a 5s-timeout flake under full-suite parallel load. Fixes the vehicle half of #2554 (self-heal lands next commit). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(browse): XProtect launch-kill self-heal — classify, quarantine-clear, bounded reinstall (P0 #2554) macOS XProtect definition updates can start SIGKILLing the exact Chromium revision the lockfile pins (xprotectd killed revision 1208's headless shell at spawn; the failure surfaced as a generic launch timeout). New browse/src/xprotect-heal.ts heals it, once per process: - Classifier (F9): positive signatures sourced from the #2554 report + Playwright's launch-error format (signal=SIGKILL process-exit lines, and launch timeout WITH a <launched> marker), negative-checked FIRST against missing executable, spawn EACCES/EPERM, Linux sandbox denials, and plain exitCode=1 crashes. darwin-gated. - Heal (F4 one-shot, in-memory flag): clears com.apple.quarantine via `xattr -dr` on chromium* revision dirs in the Playwright cache ONLY — never a GSTACK_CHROMIUM_PATH bundle (probePoisonedChromiumBundle's scope contract, double-gated at the call sites via usesCustomExecutable). - Reinstall (E1/ENG-OV3): `bunx playwright install --force chromium` run FROM THE GSTACK INSTALL ROOT — the root whose node_modules/playwright-core/browsers.json pins the SAME chromium revision our embedded playwright-core expects (a cwd-resolved bunx would fetch latest and heal to the wrong revision). Bounded at 120s with a process-GROUP SIGKILL on timeout; on any heal failure the caller gets the ORIGINAL launch error + manual `bunx playwright install chromium` guidance — the CLI never hangs. - Verification (F9): post-install asserts the REGISTRY-derived executable path exists (the revision dir playwright-core 1.62.1 expects), not merely install exit 0. - Logging (F11): every action emits one structured stderr line ([browse:xprotect-heal] JSON). All three launch sites in browser-manager.ts (headless launch, headed launchPersistentContext, handoff relaunch) route through launchWithXProtectHeal with one post-heal retry. setup's ensure_playwright_browser failure path gains the same quarantine-clear (_clear_playwright_quarantine, Darwin-only, Playwright cache scope) before its Chromium reinstall. Tests: browse/test/xprotect-heal.test.ts — 33 pass (classifier both polarities, one-shot guard incl. failed-heal consumption, custom-executable scope, registry-revision expectation vs playwright-core browsers.json, install-root revision matching, quarantine-clear scope, wrapper retry + guidance surfacing). browser-manager unit/custom-chromium: 36 pass. bridge-chromium-e2e real-launch smoke: 3 pass. setup-windows-fallback ln-invariant: 9 pass. bash -n setup: clean. Fixes #2554. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(browse): daemon owns signal policy — handleSIG*:false at launch sites + SIGHUP shutdown (#2220) Playwright's default handleSIGINT/handleSIGTERM/handleSIGHUP handlers close Chromium the moment the DAEMON process receives a signal — which fights the deliberate headless SIGTERM-ignore in server.ts (Claude Code's Bash sandbox fires SIGTERM when the parent shell exits between tool invocations; the daemon survives it by design, but Playwright's handler killed its browser out from under it). All three flags are now false at all three launch sites (headless launch, headed launchPersistentContext, handoff relaunch). ENG-OV4: the daemon had NO process-level SIGHUP handler (only SIGINT and the mode-aware SIGTERM handler), so flipping handleSIGHUP:false alone would remove the ONLY Chromium cleanup on hangup. server.ts now routes SIGHUP to activeShutdown — the same shutdown path SIGINT uses (closes Chromium, releases ports, removes the state file). Static tripwire (browse/test/launch-signal-flags.test.ts, house grep-style): every chromium.launch/launchPersistentContext site must carry the three flags (site count pinned at 3 so a NEW launch site trips it), server.ts must keep the SIGHUP→activeShutdown route, and the deliberate headless SIGTERM-ignore must still exist (the reason handleSIGTERM:false is safe — pinned in the test's header comment). Tests: launch-signal-flags 3 pass; browser-manager-unit 28 pass; bridge-chromium-e2e real-launch smoke 3 pass. Fixes #2220. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(browse): absorb #2414 residuals — EPERM-alive liveness + Windows-dead test tripwires (re-derived) Re-derive of PR #2414 (SYKhayyat) onto current main. Most of the PR already landed in earlier waves: the tick-derived RESPAWN_GUARD_WINDOW_MS, the spawnTerminalAgent windowsHide flag, the process-liveness regression tests, and the browse/test import.meta.path sweep are all on main. Two pieces remained: 1. isProcessAlive EPERM semantics (error-handling.ts): on the signal-0 path, EPERM means the process EXISTS but we lack rights to signal it — that is ALIVE. Returning false made callers that validate liveness before killing (killAgentByRecord, the terminal-agent watchdog) skip the kill and respawn around a survivor — the self-reinforcing one-leak-per-tick chain from #2414/#2295. Matters for cross-user PID checks. 2. Six test/ files ADDED SINCE the PR reintroduced the exact Windows bug its second commit fixed: `new URL(import.meta.url).pathname` yields `/C:/Users/...` on Windows, so path.resolve prepends the cwd drive and every tripwire ENOENTs instead of asserting anything (egress-receipt, egress-lib, egress-receipt-wiring, gstack-egress-cli, pty-skill-seeding-wiring, skill-census). All six now use import.meta.path — Bun's absolute native path, identical arity. The remaining #2414 piece — replacing the Windows tasklist probe with signal-0 — lands as its own commit (#1952) on top of this shape. Tests: the 6 touched test files 47 pass; process-liveness-windows + error-handling 13 pass. Re-derived from PR #2414 by @SYKhayyat. Fixes the residual of #2295. Co-authored-by: SYKhayyat <shaulyoelkhayyat@gmail.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(browse): isProcessAlive uses signal-0 on every platform — no more tasklist probe (#1952) Replace the Windows tasklist shell-out in isProcessAlive with process.kill(pid, 0), unifying all platforms on the POSIX idiom. Node maps signal-0 to an OpenProcess existence check on Windows — and the Windows daemon runs under Node (dist/server-node.mjs + bun-polyfill, the documented oven-sh/bun#4253 fallback) — so the probe is portable. Why the shell-out had to go, beyond the cosmetic conhost flash the watchdog blinked into the foreground every 60s (#1952): a Bun.spawnSync that hits its timeout still RETURNS with partial stdout, so the `.includes()` PID match answered "dead" for LIVE processes under load — the false-negative half of the #2414/#2295 leak chain. Signal 0 spawns nothing, cannot time out, and is ~5 orders of magnitude faster (measurements in #2414). EPERM still reports alive (process exists, we just can't signal it). Layered on the post-#2414-absorb shape: test 3 in process-liveness-windows.test.ts now asserts the probe is subprocess-free on ANY platform (win32 exemption dropped), test 4's static tripwire loses its error-handling.ts exemption (a `tasklist … PID eq` existence probe anywhere in src/ now fails CI), and windows-spawn-hide.test.ts drops its tasklist-in-error-handling needle (nothing spawns, which is stronger than hiding the window). Tests: process-liveness-windows + windows-spawn-hide + error-handling — 17 pass, 0 fail. Fixes #1952. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(browse): windowsHide sweep — flag every residual child_process site + full-census tripwire (#2160, #2415) Add windowsHide:true at every remaining direct child_process call in browse/src that could flash a console window on Windows: - project-slug.ts (execSync gstack-slug) - browser-skills.ts (cp.spawnSync git rev-parse) - security-sidecar-client.ts (spawn — the LONG-LIVED Node sidecar, whose missing flag parked a console window on the taskbar for the daemon's whole lifetime) - find-security-sidecar.ts (execFileSync node --version) - meta-commands.ts (execSync git rev-parse in inbox + the osascript activate call) - browse-client.ts (cp.spawnSync git rev-parse) - file-permissions.ts (execFileSync whoami.exe — Windows-only, ran bare) - cli.ts (nodeSpawn osascript) windows-spawn-hide.test.ts gains a SWEEP test on top of the existing needles: it censuses EVERY child_process binding in src/ (static imports incl. aliases, `await import()` / require destructures, and `import * as cp` namespaces — 15 call sites across 10 files today) and fails CI on any call without windowsHide within its options window. Exemptions carry reasons — the one today is domain-skill-commands' interactive $EDITOR spawn (stdio:'inherit'; CREATE_NO_WINDOW would detach a console editor into an invisible console). Tests: windows-spawn-hide 5 pass; file-permissions 19 pass; browse-client 28 pass; browser-skill-commands 29 pass (81/81 combined). Fixes the app-side half of #2160; closes out #2415's residuals. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(browse): fail-fast busy-daemon semantics — never auto-kill an alive pid, add --force-restart (#2219) The CLI killed live-but-busy daemons: a heavy dev-mode page (cold-compiling Next.js route, timed-out navigation still churning) kept the daemon from answering /health longer than the old ~1s probe window (3 × 250ms), so the connection-error path declared it dead, SIGTERMed a healthy process, and every kill lost the session's tabs, cookies, and logins (reproduced 4/4 in the #2219 report). New contract (decision 9 / F10): - probeHealthWithBackoff is budget-based: ~8s total (HEALTH_PROBE_TOTAL_BUDGET_MS), 500ms intervals, each probe self-bounded at 2s — sized to the observed busy windows. - decideDaemonRestart (pure, exported, unit-tested) encodes the IRON RULE: healthy-after-probe → retry the SAME daemon; alive+unhealthy → "daemon busy — retry or --force-restart" + NONZERO exit, daemon untouched; only a DEAD pid (or an explicit --force-restart) reaches kill+restart. - --force-restart global flag (extractGlobalFlags): the one consent path that replaces a live daemon, always announcing the state it costs. - Wired at all three kill sites: sendCommand's connection-error branch, ensureServer's stale-state path (which previously killServer'd any alive pid whose single 2s health probe missed), and connect — which used to "Kill ANY existing server" and now refuses to replace a healthy daemon without 'browse disconnect' or --force-restart. pair-agent's internal headed switch passes --force-restart explicitly (the mode switch is that command's stated purpose), preserving its behavior. E5 IRON RULE regression tests (busy-daemon-iron-rule.test.ts, real spawned CLI + fake daemons + live sleep-pid stand-ins per the busy-daemon-recovery.test.ts pattern): healthy daemon SURVIVES connect (refused with guidance, pid alive, state file untouched); wedged-alive daemon + plain command → busy report, nonzero exit, pid alive; wedged daemon + --force-restart IS killed and a real replacement daemon serves the command. Plus pure-function coverage of all four decision outcomes and the ~8s budget pin. Tests: busy-daemon-iron-rule 8 pass (16.7s, includes a real daemon lifecycle); busy-daemon-recovery + proxy-config + daemon-mismatch-refuse + cli-lock + cli-start-final-healthcheck + cli-setsid-daemonize 39 pass. Fixes #2219. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(browse): `stop` on a dead daemon is success — never boots a daemon to stop it (#2254) Two changes, one contract: - Pre-server short-circuit: `browse stop` is handled BEFORE ensureServer(). No daemon state → "nothing to stop", exit 0. Stale state (dead pid AND dead port) → clean the state file, exit 0. The old flow routed stop through ensureServer(), which started a fresh daemon + Chromium (multi-second boot, resource churn) purely so it could be told to shut down — or crashed on the stale state. - Reconnect branch: a connection error while sending `stop` where the pid turns out dead (daemon died mid-flight, between the short-circuit check and the send) is treated as SUCCESS — the desired end state (no daemon) already holds — instead of the crash-restart path. Integration tests (stop-dead-daemon.test.ts, real spawned CLI + scratch BROWSE_STATE_FILE): stop with no state exits 0 and spawns nothing (a spawned daemon would have written the state file); stop with a stale state file (dead pid + verified-closed port) exits 0, cleans the state, and spawns nothing. Tests: stop-dead-daemon 2 pass; busy-daemon-iron-rule 8 pass; busy-daemon-recovery 1 pass (11/11 combined). Fixes #2254. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(upgrade): /gstack-upgrade stops a stale daemon — deferring to a busy one (#2551) A browse daemon started before an upgrade keeps serving the OLD binary's code after `git reset --hard` + `./setup` — the running process holds the old executable, so users on the "new" version kept getting pre-upgrade behavior (and config-mismatch refusals against the new CLI) until they happened to stop it by hand. New unconditional Step 4.8 in gstack-upgrade/SKILL.md.tmpl (+ regen, same commit): compare the running daemon's recorded binaryVersion (the readVersionHash git-SHA the server stamps into its state file) against the freshly built browse/dist/.version. - Stale + responsive → `browse stop` (graceful), telling the user old→new hash; the next command boots a daemon on the new binary. - Stale + BUSY → DEFER (decision 10): never kill a busy daemon during upgrade. Print the old→new hash and the escape hatch — `browse stop` when it finishes, or `browse --force-restart stop` now. - Dead pid / matching hash / no state → silent no-op. Tests: skill-validation + gen-skill-docs 731 pass after regen. Fixes #2551. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(browse): terminal-agent allocates from the fixed port scan range, not port:0 (#2314) The terminal-agent bound `Bun.serve({ port: 0 })` and kept that OS-assigned port for its whole (weeks-long) lifetime. `port: 0` draws from the OS EPHEMERAL range (49152-65535 on macOS) — the exact pool every short-lived `app.listen(0)` test server draws from — so the agent squatted ports that test suites expected to receive and silently absorbed their traffic as phantom 404s (two squatting daemons verified in the report). Fix per decision 8: extract the main server's port allocation into browse/src/port-allocator.ts (checkPortAvailable / isPortAvailable / findAvailablePort + the 10000-60000 range constants and the actionable sandbox-vs-occupied error formatters, all verbatim from server.ts) and make BOTH long-lived listeners use it — server.ts's findPort is now a thin findAvailablePort(BROWSE_PORT) wrapper, and terminal-agent's buildServer takes a pre-allocated port from the same range. No terminal-port consumer carries a range assumption (they read the port file), verified by grep. Tests: terminal-agent-port-range (new — allocator stays inside 10000-60000 and below the 49152 ephemeral floor, explicit-port honored, occupied-explicit throws, static tripwires pin no-port:0 in terminal-agent.ts and the shared wrapper in server.ts) + findport + terminal-agent-integration/session-routing/detach-reattach + dual-listener: 67 pass, 0 fail. Fixes #2314. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(browse): capture daemon stdout/stderr to browse-daemon.log + Windows polyfill spawn fixes (re-derived from #2461) The detached daemon's stdout/stderr were wired to 'ignore' on every platform, so every console.error('[browse] FATAL: ...') from a Chromium crash, uncaughtException, or unhandledRejection was discarded at the OS level — a crash-and-respawn looked identical to every other dropped session, with nothing on disk recording why. Both spawn paths now redirect to <stateDir>/browse-daemon.log (append mode, accumulates across respawns): the Unix path via an fd from openDaemonLogSink(), the Windows path by opening the fd INSIDE the node -e launcher string (an fd opened in cli.ts would not cross the spawn boundary). Unwritable state dir falls back to 'ignore' rather than failing the launch. Capturing daemon output is what surfaced the PR's second fix, still valid on current main: bun-polyfill.cjs's Bun.spawn/spawnSync called Node's child_process with a bare command name, which Windows can't resolve without PATHEXT lookup ("spawn bun ENOENT" from the terminal-agent respawn path). Routed through cross-spawn on win32 (now a direct dependency; already in the tree transitively via @modelcontextprotocol/sdk) — the PR verified empirically that shell:true does NOT neutralize cmd.exe metacharacters reachable via `$B skill run` arg passthrough, and that Node refuses .cmd spawns without a shell (CVE-2024-27980), so cross-spawn's combined PATHEXT resolution + argument escaping is the only correct shape. The PR's third fix (resolveDisconnectCause throwing "browser?.process is not a function") already landed on main via the #2085 typeof guard — not re-applied. F6 log hygiene (daemon-log-hygiene.test.ts): needle tests pin the log wiring on both spawn paths (and that stdio 'ignore','ignore','ignore' never returns), that bun-polyfill stays on cross-spawn with no shell:true, that NO console.* call in src/ passes a token value (interpolated or bare arg), and that the page-content carrier modules (tab-session, buffers, content-security, activity) stay console-free — so neither AUTH_TOKEN nor unsanitized page-derived strings can reach browse-daemon.log. Tests: daemon-log-hygiene + bun-polyfill + windows-spawn-hide + cli-setsid-daemonize 21 pass; stop-dead-daemon + busy-daemon-iron-rule (exercises a REAL daemon boot through the new log-fd wiring) 10 pass. Re-derived from PR #2461 by @phuttimatebenchanakatkul. Co-authored-by: phuttimatebenchanakatkul <phuttimatebenchanakatkul@gmail.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: raise gbrain version-probe timeout to 10s on Windows On Windows the gbrain CLI is a .cmd shim that runs `bun run cli.ts`. A cold spawn takes over the 2s timeout in resolveGbrainBin (warm runs are ~700ms), so the probe times out, localEngineStatus classifies the engine as "no-cli", and the 60s status cache then serves that false negative to every skill preamble and sync run. /sync-gbrain skips the memory stage with "gbrain CLI not on PATH" even though the CLI works. Give the shim 10s of headroom, gated on NEEDS_SHELL_ON_WINDOWS so POSIX keeps the cheap 2s probe. Applies to both resolveGbrainBin and readGbrainVersion. Observed on Windows 11, bun 1.3.14, gbrain 0.42.59.0. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(browse): remove the dead security shield + unfed /health.security (re-derived from #2557) The sidebar's SEC shield has been dead UI since the PTY terminal rewrite: nothing set its data-status, nothing unhid it, and the /health.security field behind it read getStatus() off ~/.gstack/security/session-state.json — a file whose ONLY writer (sidebar-agent.ts) was deleted with the chat path. /health therefore reported a permanent 'inactive', or a stale FALSE-GREEN 'protected' wherever an old state file survived on disk (a single unit-test run was enough to plant one). A green shield sourced from leftover state reads as "no threats detected" when the real state is "not measured" — the same fail-open class as #2026. Removed (dead surfaces only): the shield markup/CSS and the stale sidepanel.js comment; the /health security field and server.ts's getStatus import; getStatus / SecurityStatus / StatusDetail / SessionState / read+writeSessionState (and security.ts's dead child_process import); the session-state + getStatus unit tests — including the round-trip test that wrote real fixture data into ~/.gstack and left /health green forever. (The PR's security-sidepanel-dom.test.ts deletion already happened on main via #2230; its resolveDisconnectCause guard landed via the #2085 typeof fix. Neither re-applied.) Kept, per ENG-OV9 — security.ts has LIVE consumers: the pure combiner (combineVerdict + THRESHOLDS), canary utilities, and extractDomain stay; server.ts's /pty-inject-scan L4 path (isSidecarAvailable + scanWithSidecar) is untouched. browse/test/server-security-surface.test.ts pins BOTH directions: the dead surface stays dead (no /health security field, no getStatus import, no reader of the security session-state file, shield markup gone) and the live half stays live (sidecar wiring in server.ts, combiner/canary exports in security.ts, /health carries no token — the v1.63 regression wall). A future re-feed from LIVE signals must update that test deliberately rather than resurrect the state-file path. F13 (same commit): CLAUDE.md's Sidebar security stack section, ARCHITECTURE.md's prompt-injection Visibility + critical-constraint paragraphs, and BROWSER.md's security section now describe the removed surfaces as history, not live features. Net -166 lines. Tests: server-security-surface + security + security-adversarial(+fixes) + security-integration + server-auth 114 pass; sidepanel-* + extension-token + extension-sender-auth 58 pass / 2 skip. Re-derived from PR #2557 by @frederik-kaster-noygear. Co-authored-by: Frederik Kaster <frederik.kaster@noygear.ai> Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(browse): capture browser-skill subprocess output via temp files, not pipes (core of #2559) Under a loaded parent, the FIRST piped Bun.spawn in a process intermittently yields an empty stderr even though the child wrote it and exited 0 — measured identically with readers-attached-before-exit and with a manual getReader() drain, so it's loss inside the async pipe plumbing, not read ordering. It flaked `$B skill test` (bun test writes its banner to stdout and the pass/fail summary to stderr, so a dropped stderr silently degraded the result to just the banner) and would blank a skill's JSON result on `$B skill run` while still reporting success. New runToFiles() points the child's stdout/stderr at temp files via Bun.file() (never raw fds — closing self-opened fds around a spawn tripped Bun's fd bookkeeping into a stray epoll_ctl EBADF), awaits exit, then reads the files: the kernel has flushed everything by child exit, so the post-exit read is complete, and chatty children can't stall on a full pipe buffer. Both handleTest and spawnSkill route through it (timeout + capped read preserved via timeoutMs/maxStdoutBytes). Bun.spawnSync would also capture reliably but would deadlock: a spawned skill calls back into this same daemon on GSTACK_PORT. The `tests passed for "<name>"` fallback is gone — a passing bun test always prints a summary, so exit 0 with no output means the run was NOT captured, and handleTest now throws instead of fabricating success. The E2E assertion checks both stream halves (banner + summary + "Ran N tests") instead of the loose alternation whose `tests passed` branch matched the synthetic fallback vacuously. A static tripwire pins the structure: runToFiles owns the module's ONLY Bun.spawn, and no site reads child output via stdout:'pipe' / new Response(proc.stdout) / getReader(). Scope: the PR's repo-wide test-file sweep is deliberately not absorbed — this is the core only, per the wave plan. Tests: browser-skill-commands + browser-skills-e2e + browser-skill-write 74 pass, 0 fail. Re-derived from PR #2559 by @frederik-kaster-noygear. Co-authored-by: Frederik Kaster <frederik.kaster@noygear.ai> Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(browse): allow Emulation.setEmulatedMedia on the CDP allowlist (re-derived from #2419) Adds Emulation.setEmulatedMedia to the deny-default CDP allowlist: tab-scoped, trusted output (returns an empty result — no page content). Unlocks media type/feature overrides (prefers-color-scheme, prefers-reduced-motion, prefers-contrast, forced-colors) via `$B cdp`, so dark-mode and a11y CSS branches are testable without a headed toggle. Like setUserAgentOverride, the override persists on the tab until cleared with an empty features array — noted in the entry's justification. Registry test pins the entry (allowed + tab scope + trusted output); the PR's VERSION/CHANGELOG stamping is stripped per wave convention (versioning happens at /ship). Tests: cdp-allowlist 7 pass, 0 fail. Re-derived from PR #2419 by @meshailabs. Co-authored-by: meshailabs <devsupport@meshai.dev> Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(browse): create node bundle output directory * fix(deps): bun-patch playwright-core 1.62.1 — windowsHide at launch + taskkill (#2160, #1989) The repo's first patchedDependencies entry. playwright-core's bundled process launcher (lib/coreBundle.js in the 1.62.x layout) spawns browser children without windowsHide — Node defaults it to FALSE for child_process.spawn — so Chromium children could flash a console window on Windows, and its force-kill path shells `taskkill /pid <pid> /T /F` through cmd.exe with the same omission. Both sites now pass windowsHide: true via patches/playwright-core@1.62.1.patch (generated with `bun patch` / `bun patch --commit`). Coherence verified end-to-end: rm -rf node_modules && bun install applies the patch cleanly (both sites present in the reinstalled tree), and a real chromium.launch() through the patched bundle works. browse/test/playwright-core-patch.test.ts pins the three-legged invariant statically — package.json's patchedDependencies key is VERSION-KEYED against the installed playwright-core, the patch file exists and carries both sites, bun.lock records the patch, and the installed bundle actually has it applied — so a future playwright bump that forgets to re-target the patch fails CI with the exact key to regenerate (revert pairing: dropping the c25 bump requires dropping this patch too). Tests: playwright-core-patch 4 pass, 0 fail. Fixes #2160, #1989. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(preamble): probe AGENTS.md for skill routing; team-init resolves GSTACK_ROOT (#2500) The HAS_ROUTING preamble probe only checked CLAUDE.md, so repos that route skills via AGENTS.md (the cross-harness convention for Codex, Cursor, and generic agent hosts) reported HAS_ROUTING: no and got nagged to create CLAUDE.md. The probe now iterates CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md. gstack-team-init's required-mode enforcement (the CLAUDE.md verification snippet and the generated .claude/hooks/check-gstack.sh) hardcoded ~/.claude/skills/gstack, false-blocking installs living at any other host's global root or the migrated ~/.gstack/repos/gstack location. Both sites now resolve the install root: GSTACK_ROOT env first, then every registered host's globalRoot, then the migrated repo path. Install instructions keep pointing at the canonical Claude location. test/routing-probe.test.ts pins both: rendered-preamble assertions plus a live execution of the extracted probe block (AGENTS.md-only repo => yes), and a drift test that requires every hosts-registry globalRoot to appear in team-init's probe list. Re-derived from PR #2500 onto current code (the PR's 52-file regen was discarded and regenerated here). Contributed by @gamerey43. Fixes #2500 Co-authored-by: gamerey43 <gamerey43@users.noreply.github.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(resolvers): empty find must not fall through to cwd (#2483) find ... | xargs ls -t runs ls with NO operands when find matches nothing — GNU xargs still invokes the command once, and ls -t with no operands lists the current directory. Three sites misfired on fresh installs (no ceo-plans / checkpoints / plans yet), exactly where a wrong answer is least likely to be recognized: review.ts's plan fallback silently adopted a random cwd .md as "the plan", and Context Recovery listed unrelated cwd files as RECENT ARTIFACTS / LATEST_CHECKPOINT. All three now use xargs -r ls -t, mirroring the shape the sibling bin/gstack-codex-session-import fix (#2482) landed with: -r pins the BSD skip-on-empty behavior on GNU too, and BSD xargs accepts -r as a no-op. test/empty-find-fallthrough.test.ts pins it four ways: no bare xargs ls -t in scripts/ or bin/, both rendered Context Recovery sites guarded, a live execution proving an empty checkpoints dir yields no checkpoint (not a decoy cwd file), and a rendered-SKILL.md sweep. Re-derived from PR #2483 onto current code. Contributed by @tranthanhnhatkhoa. Fixes #2483 Co-authored-by: tranthanhnhatkhoa <tranthanhnhatkhoa@users.noreply.github.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(codex): retire deprecated web-search flag behind one CODEX_WEB_SEARCH_FLAG constant (#2525) codex >=0.144 deprecates the legacy --enable-based web_search_cached spelling (web search is on by default; --enable <FEATURE> now means -c features.<name>=true, verified against codex 0.147.0's exec --help). Every gstack codex invocation now passes -c 'web_search="cached"' instead. The flag previously lived inline at 19 raw sites. Per ENG-OV11a the 10 template-inline sites (autoplan/SKILL.md.tmpl x4, codex/SKILL.md.tmpl x6) convert to a shared {{CODEX_WEB_SEARCH_FLAG}} token first, so ONE resolver constant (CODEX_WEB_SEARCH_FLAG in scripts/resolvers/constants.ts) now covers all sites: review.ts x5, design.ts x3, the token resolver in utility.ts, and the tool-map helper comment. codex/SKILL.md.tmpl's web-search prose guarantee is corrected: the -c form explicitly overrides a top-level web_search config (the legacy flag yielded to it), and native codex review disables web search regardless of configuration, so the flag is a no-op on the default Review path. test/codex-web-search-flag.test.ts is the safety net: repo-wide grep tripwires assert NO rendered SKILL.md/section/golden and NO source file carries the deprecated spelling, and that the token resolves in rendered output. Fixes #2525 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(question-tuning): interpolate the absolute question-registry path (#2489) The Question Tuning preamble pointed agents at a RELATIVE scripts/question-registry.ts in the same sentence whose ${bin} path renders absolute. Agents run with cwd in the USER'S project — the relative lookup never resolves, silently fails, and the documented {skill}-{slug} fallback fabricates a singleton question_id every time (one observed /plan-eng-review session: 21/21 unregistered ids, so no per-question preference can ever attach). The resolver now interpolates ctx.paths.skillRoot the way sibling resolvers interpolate bin paths: ~/.claude/skills/gstack/scripts/question-registry.ts on Claude, $GSTACK_ROOT/scripts/question-registry.ts on env-var hosts. test/question-tuning-registry-path.test.ts asserts the rendered path per host, forbids the bare relative shape, and checks the target file exists in the install tree. Fixes #2489 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(resolvers): slug-canonical branch form in file-path positions (#2550, #1851) Branch-name-to-filename had incompatible rules across writer and readers: gstack-review-log WRITES <branch>-reviews.jsonl with the gstack-slug canonical form (tr '/' '-' then tr -cd 'a-zA-Z0-9._-', bin/gstack-slug:178), but Context Recovery PROBED it with raw $_BRANCH from git branch --show-current — so for any branch containing a '/' the REVIEWS line never fired (#1851's reader half of #1127). The probe now uses ${BRANCH:-unknown}, the canonical value the gstack-slug eval on the block's first line already sets. review.ts's plan content-search BRANCH gains the missing tr -cd half so it matches the same canonical pipeline. Full audit of the 5 raw $_BRANCH interpolation sites in scripts/resolvers/ (E3): generate-context-recovery.ts:16 (reviews.jsonl path) -> canonical BRANCH; :19/:21 (timeline.jsonl content greps) KEEP raw $_BRANCH because the timeline writer (preamble's gstack-timeline-log call) stores the raw branch in the "branch" field — slugging the reader would break that pairing; generate-preamble-bash.ts:29 (display echo) and :97 (timeline data write) keep raw by design. The *-$BRANCH-design-*.md family (review.ts:313 + 3 plan-review templates) is a consistent tr '/' '-' writer/reader pair and is deliberately untouched. test/branch-slug-hygiene.test.ts pins the discipline: a rendered-output sweep forbids raw $_BRANCH adjacent to a path separator or as a filename prefix in ANY generated SKILL.md/section, and a live round-trip on a feat/slash branch proves gstack-review-log's write is found by the rendered probe (with the raw-form shape as a negative control). Reader-side fix folded from PR #1851. Contributed by @harjothkhara. Fixes #2550 Fixes #1127 Co-authored-by: harjothkhara <harjothkhara@users.noreply.github.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ship): review fix loop stays in one invocation, bounded at 3 cycles (#2391) The pre-landing review committed its fixes, then STOPPED and told the user to run /ship again — 5-10 manual invocations on a branch with a few auto-fixable findings, violating /ship's fully-automated contract. There is no user decision between those invocations; each rerun just repeats the workflow until a review pass produces no fixes. ship/sections/review-army.md.tmpl item 7 now makes the loop explicit: after committing fixes, re-run the test suite (Step 5) and this review (Step 9 items 2-6) in the SAME invocation, repeating until one full pass applies zero fixes, then continue to Step 12. Bounded at 3 fix cycles — a review that will not converge STOPs with a report of which findings keep reappearing (a genuine blocker), never with a rerun request. test/ship-review-loop.test.ts asserts no rendered ship surface (section + all three host goldens) carries the STOP-and-rerun shape and that the bounded loop language renders. Fixes #2391 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(codex): model round-trip probe — an unusable configured model fails fast with guidance (#2477) The auth probe accepts 'auth exists' as readiness, but a ChatGPT account with a stale model pin in ~/.codex/config.toml passes it and then EVERY mode dies with an HTTP 400 ('The <model> model is not supported when using Codex with a ChatGPT account') and no pointer to where the model came from — one report burned ~40 minutes and four invocations plus a strings dump of the binary before finding the one-line config fix. bin/gstack-codex-probe gains _gstack_codex_model_probe: a short codex exec 'reply OK' round trip with the configured model, gated behind the cheap auth probe at all three preflight sites (codex Step 0.5, the shared codexPreflight in scripts/resolvers/constants.ts — which grows a model_unusable CODEX_MODE branch — and autoplan's availability chain). Verdicts: MODEL_OK (cached 1h, keyed on config.toml + auth.json mtimes so a pin edit or re-login re-probes immediately), MODEL_UNUSABLE (exit 1, prints the rejection plus HINTs at the model= pin and the [notice.model_migrations] table), MODEL_PROBE_INCONCLUSIVE (timeout or transient: FAIL-OPEN so network luck never wedges codex mode). The 'Model not supported (HTTP 400)' Error Handling entry already shipped in v1.64.0.0; Step 0.5's prose now routes MODEL_UNUSABLE to it. test/codex-model-probe.test.ts drives all four behaviors against a stubbed codex binary (invocation-counted cache hit, hint content, fail-open polarity, mtime invalidation). Fixes #2477 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(review): skip nested codex spawns when already running under a Codex host (#2519) /review executed inside a Codex host spawned the codex specialist passes anyway — the same model reviewing itself, at multiplied cost (observed: 15M tokens for a single /review). Detection per maintainer decision 7: a presence probe of the Codex session env. A live Codex session exports CODEX_THREAD_ID and CODEX_SANDBOX into every shell it spawns — verified during implementation against a live `codex exec 'env | grep -i codex'` capture on codex 0.147.0 (CODEX_THREAD_ID, CODEX_SANDBOX=seatbelt, CODEX_SANDBOX_NETWORK_DISABLED=1, CODEX_CI=1). The shared codexPreflight in scripts/resolvers/constants.ts (consumed by all three review.ts army blocks: adversarial, codex plan review, codex doc review) now yields CODEX_MODE=under_codex and instructs exactly one printed notice — '[running under Codex — nested codex passes skipped; set GSTACK_FORCE_CODEX_REVIEW=1 to force]'. The override env var forces the nested passes for users who really want them. codex/SKILL.md.tmpl Step 0.5 gains the same probe: /codex under a Codex host stops with a one-line notice, since its whole value is a SECOND model's opinion. test/codex-under-codex-detection.test.ts runs the rendered preflight bash under all four env combinations (thread-id only, sandbox only, forced, clean) and asserts the probe + notice render in the three preflight consumers and the codex skill. Fixes #2519 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(build): convert MSYS paths for Bun in the Windows server-bundle build (#2452) browse/scripts/build-node-server.sh resolves GSTACK_DIR with pwd, which under MSYS/Git Bash yields a /c/... style absolute path that Bun cannot open ('FileNotFound opening root directory') — the Windows Node-server bundle build died at the first bun build. Convert via cygpath -m on MINGW/MSYS/CYGWIN before deriving SRC_DIR/DIST_DIR. Re-derived from PR #2452, taking only the cygpath build half — the PR's icacls principal-ambiguity half already landed on main (browse/src/file-permissions.ts's SID-form principal). Verified the build bug still exists on current code before absorbing (build-node-server.sh:10 had no conversion). Contributed by @chiragborse1. Co-authored-by: chiragborse1 <chiragborse1@users.noreply.github.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): update four main-side gen-skill-docs assertions to the T6 contracts Three contracts moved under this theme and the assertions pinned the old shapes: - The routing-probe assertion expected the single-file 'grep ... CLAUDE.md' shape; #2500 made the probe iterate CLAUDE.md AND AGENTS.md, so it now asserts the for-loop + quoted $_RF shape. - The three Claude-output Codex-path bans tripped on ~/.codex/config.toml, which the shared codexPreflight's model_unusable branch (#2477) now documents in rendered output. That path is the Codex CLI's own config file — the same user-facing class as the already-exempt ~/.codex/sessions/ — so it is scrubbed before the host-path ban, with the reasoning recorded next to the existing exemptions. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(sync-gbrain): dream pack-capability WARN anchors to the graph phase Fixes #2341. classifyDreamOutcome matched the bare phrase "does not declare this phase", but gbrain's only emitters are the CONTENT phases (extract_atoms, synthesize_concepts) — which the default base packs legitimately skip while resolve_symbol_edges still runs. Every base-pack brain therefore got the pack-capability WARN with its wrong, costly remediation ("switch schema packs"), masking real graph problems. The match now anchors to the graph phase (resolve_symbol_edges/extract_code_symbols); a base-pack run with a built graph is clean, and a resolved-0 run gets the honest 0-edge diagnosis. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(setup): install office-hours into the external-host runtime roots Fixes #2449. plan-eng-review's inline office-hours step reads $GSTACK_ROOT/office-hours/SKILL.md, but the codex/factory/opencode runtime roots never installed it — the documented path pointed at nothing on every external-host install (Codex on Windows was the reported repro). Each runtime-root creator now links its host-rendered gstack-office-hours SKILL.md at office-hours/SKILL.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(gbrain-install): name the real fix when an npm-installed bun breaks the shim Fixes #2487. `npm i -g bun` puts POSIX/cmd/ps1 shims on %PATH% but never bun.exe — and the gbrain.exe shim that `bun link` generates resolves bun.exe specifically, so link succeeds and every gbrain call dies with bun's misleading "bun is not installed in %PATH%" (which suggests installing a second parallel bun). The D19 validation failure paths now detect the condition on Windows and print the actual remediation: bun's own process.execPath IS the hidden bun.exe — add its directory to PATH. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(ios-qa): document the bridge compatibility preflight and non-SwiftPM fallback Re-derived from PR #2581 under the generated-file screening rule (template hunk taken; SKILL.md regenerated). Prevents the agent from inventing project wiring on apps the bridge doesn't support (ObservableObject-style or non-SwiftPM apps): the preflight now names the compatibility check and the manual fallback path. Co-authored-by: Tim White <itstimwhite@users.noreply.github.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(deps): force adm-zip past CVE-2026-39244 via an override Re-derived from PR #2485 as a resolution override rather than its direct-dep bump: adm-zip reaches the tree only transitively (onnxruntime-node pins ^0.5.16), so a top-level copy at 0.6.0 would leave onnxruntime-node loading the vulnerable 0.5.17 — which is exactly what the scanner PR's own lockfile showed. The override forces every resolution to ^0.6.0. Co-authored-by: anupamme <anupamme@users.noreply.github.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * deps: remove unused puppeteer-core; bump transformers/marked/socks Completes the #2582 split (ENG-OV8). puppeteer-core had ZERO imports repo-wide — a dead direct dependency whose only footprint was its CVE-prone transitive chain (puppeteer-core > @puppeteer/browsers > proxy-agent > get-uri > basic-ftp) and the pin test + basic-ftp override that existed solely to guard it. Removing the dependency removes the surface: the basic-ftp override and test/basic-ftp-security-pin.test.ts retire with it (the lockfile resolves zero basic-ftp copies now). transformers ^4.2.0, marked ^18.0.9, socks ^2.8.9 land per the dependabot group, gated on the ONNX sidecar load+classify smoke passing with the bumped transformers (28/28 sidecar+classifier+security tests green post-bump). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore(deps): bump the github-actions group across 1 directory with 10 updates Bumps the github-actions group with 10 updates in the / directory: | Package | From | To | | --- | --- | --- | | [actions/checkout](https://github.com/actions/checkout) | `4` | `7` | | [docker/login-action](https://github.com/docker/login-action) | `3` | `4` | | [docker/setup-buildx-action](https://github.com/docker/setup-buildx-action) | `3` | `4` | | [docker/build-push-action](https://github.com/docker/build-push-action) | `6` | `7` | | [actions/dependency-review-action](https://github.com/actions/dependency-review-action) | `4.9.0` | `5.0.0` | | [actions/upload-artifact](https://github.com/actions/upload-artifact) | `4` | `7` | | [actions/download-artifact](https://github.com/actions/download-artifact) | `4` | `8` | | [oven-sh/setup-bun](https://github.com/oven-sh/setup-bun) | `1` | `2` | | [actions/cache](https://github.com/actions/cache) | `4` | `6` | | [google/osv-scanner-action/.github/workflows/osv-scanner-reusable.yml](https://github.com/google/osv-scanner-action) | `3adb4b14a2b0623876d18d863a498b785fb3752d` | `f4cfcc01edc9c8b756a9b873b7a623ca674da51e` | Updates `actions/checkout` from 4 to 7 - [Release notes](https://github.com/actions/checkout/releases) - [Commits](https://github.com/actions/checkout/compare/v4...v7) Updates `docker/login-action` from 3 to 4 - [Release notes](https://github.com/docker/login-action/releases) - [Commits](https://github.com/docker/login-action/compare/v3...v4) Updates `docker/setup-buildx-action` from 3 to 4 - [Release notes](https://github.com/docker/setup-buildx-action/releases) - [Commits](https://github.com/docker/setup-buildx-action/compare/v3...v4) Updates `docker/build-push-action` from 6 to 7 - [Release notes](https://github.com/docker/build-push-action/releases) - [Commits](https://github.com/docker/build-push-action/compare/v6...v7) Updates `actions/dependency-review-action` from 4.9.0 to 5.0.0 - [Release notes](https://github.com/actions/dependency-review-action/releases) - [Commits](https://github.com/actions/dependency-review-action/compare/2031cfc080254a8a887f58cffee85186f0e49e48...a1d282b36b6f3519aa1f3fc636f609c47dddb294) Updates `actions/upload-artifact` from 4 to 7 - [Release notes](https://github.com/actions/upload-artifact/releases) - [Commits](https://github.com/actions/upload-artifact/compare/v4...v7) Updates `actions/download-artifact` from 4 to 8 - [Release notes](https://github.com/actions/download-artifact/releases) - [Commits](https://github.com/actions/download-artifact/compare/v4...v8) Updates `oven-sh/setup-bun` from 1 to 2 - [Release notes](https://github.com/oven-sh/setup-bun/releases) - [Commits](https://github.com/oven-sh/setup-bun/compare/v1...v2) Updates `actions/cache` from 4 to 6 - [Release notes](https://github.com/actions/cache/releases) - [Changelog](https://github.com/actions/cache/blob/main/RELEASES.md) - [Commits](https://github.com/actions/cache/compare/v4...v6) Updates `google/osv-scanner-action/.github/workflows/osv-scanner-reusable.yml` from 3adb4b14a2b0623876d18d863a498b785fb3752d to f4cfcc01edc9c8b756a9b873b7a623ca674da51e - [Release notes](https://github.com/google/osv-scanner-action/releases) - [Commits](https://github.com/google/osv-scanner-action/compare/3adb4b14a2b0623876d18d863a498b785fb3752d...f4cfcc01edc9c8b756a9b873b7a623ca674da51e) * fix(test): scope rendered-output tripwires to repo sources; stop cdp-e2e's env leak Two hermeticity holes surfaced by the wave's final gate. (1) The three T6 tripwires (branch-slug, codex-flag, empty-find) enumerated the whole tree including the workspace-local .claude/ install, which is not generated output and can carry dangling symlinks from unrelated sessions — one ENOENT there failed all three. They now scan repo sources only. (2) browse/test/cdp-e2e.test.ts mutated process.env.GSTACK_HOME at module scope without restore; in one-process shard runs that leaks into every later test file — observed baking cdp-e2e's temp render path into artifacts that outlived it (53 dangling SKILL.md symlinks in a workspace install). The original value is now restored in afterAll. The exact test that performed the polluted relink remains unattributed; both known leak vectors are closed and the workspace was repaired via an explicit gstack-relink. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): honest budget for the suite's one headed persistent-context launch The launchHeaded/handoff parity test cold-launches a HEADED Chromium — 8-25s on macOS, worse on the first launch of a freshly downloaded bundle (XProtect scans it, the #2554 class) and under shard concurrency. bun's 5s default made it the suite's most reliable false negative: it timed out identically on the pre-wave baseline run of pristine main. 45s budget; passes 15/15. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): assemble redact fixtures at runtime — the guard caught its own wave The pre-push redact guard BLOCKED this branch's first push: the wave's new scan-range tests carried live-FORMAT fake credentials as literals (3 AWS key shapes + a password-bearing DB URL), and the guard scans pushed diff bytes. Same dogfood moment as the v1.64 wave, same rule: assemble the fixture at runtime so the diff never carries a credential shape, never bypass the guard. Runtime strings stay live-format for the hook under test. The guard works. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): sync ios-qa fixture mirrors with the #2585 DEBUG-guard templates The #2585 absorb updated DebugBridgeTouch.m.template and Package.swift.template but not their FixtureApp mirrors, failing the template↔fixture parity gate. DebugBridgeTouch.m syncs byte-for-byte; the fixture Package.swift takes only the template's new cSettings DEBUG define on the Touch target (the fixture's own testTarget is fixture-only content the parity normalization deliberately ignores — a naive full copy breaks the XCTest invariant). 23/23 including the real swift build. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(slug): env-override runs never persist to the cwd cache; cache is GSTACK_HOME-aware Found while closing the wave's eval gate: a test exporting GSTACK_PROJECT_SLUG from the repo root persisted the override into the cwd slug cache, silently rebinding the ENTIRE repo's session state (evals, decisions, timelines) to the test's slug for every later env-less run. The escape hatch is per-invocation by contract — it no longer writes the cache. The cache dir also hardcoded $HOME while lib/bin-context.ts's native port (#2561) reads it GSTACK_HOME-aware, so temp-home test runs littered the real ~/.gstack (observed: 2,528 stale temp-cwd entries, swept). Writer and reader now key the same GSTACK_HOME-aware cache; regression tests pin both behaviors. Also raises the cso --diff eval budget (240s/25t → 360s/40t): transcript-verified, the wave's legitimately-grown audit session completes the report and dies in closing telemetry at ~215s under the old budget; the full-audit sibling already runs at 300s. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): pin GSTACK_HOME in the slug walk-up cache tests The cache dir became GSTACK_HOME-aware; these tests seed and assert cache files under a temp HOME but spread the ambient env, so a sibling test leaking process.env.GSTACK_HOME in a shared-process shard pointed the bin at a different cache than the one under assertion (AC-2/AC-6 failed in shard context, passed solo). The env now pins GSTACK_HOME to the temp home — verified identical results with and without a simulated ambient leak. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): the cache-hygiene test strips ambient GSTACK_PROJECT_SLUG Its env-less contract must be env-less: any ambient override leaking into a shared-process shard flips the run into override mode, which correctly skips the cache write the test asserts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): ratchet ship's skeleton cap for the v1.66.1 merge union Merging main's v1.66.1.0 (evidence-ledger prose in ship's template) on top of the wave's growth lands ship at 90,333 bytes, 333 over its cap. Re-measured per the ratchet protocol: cap 90,800. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(brain-sync): throttle + bound the detector push; empty-queue fast path Review-army findings on the #2549 detector. (1) The preamble runs --once at every skill boundary, so an unthrottled retry paid a full network push attempt per boundary in exactly the steady states it targets (offline, broken auth) — a captive-portal push can block 30-75s against the header's "<1s when idle" promise. Attempts now stamp .brain-last-push-attempt and retry at most every 10 minutes; the push never prompts (GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0) and bounds stalled transfers via git's low-speed limits (portable — stock macOS has no timeout binary). (2) Author-scoped: only gstack-brain-sync's own commits retry; a user's manual commit in ~/.gstack rides along on real drains as before, never auto-published by the detector. (3) Empty-queue fast path exits before the compute/rewrite python spawns — the steady state is now cheaper than the pre-wave truncation code. (4) The queue rewrite warns on failure instead of silently letting the status claim a drain that didn't happen, counts held unparseable lines, and collapses duplicate lines on rewrite. Throttle + delivery matrix cases added (37/37). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(version-bump): JSON version-paths get the npm translation; honest recovery messages Review-army findings. A repo whose package.json carries the legacy 4-digit mirror and pins it via .gstack/version-path would get "1.67.0.1" written into a manifest npm rejects forever, with no drift state to catch it (a JSON source is self-consistent by construction) — the JSON branch now writes the npm-valid translation, warns when translation occurred, and surfaces the requested form. Lockfile-failure messages now match reality per failure point: classify never reads lockfiles, so "re-run and repair" was a false promise when package.json was written and only the lockfile threw. Both malformed-version messages read MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH[.MICRO], matching the 3-digit contract this wave ships. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(extension): remove the orphaned security-banner block; repair two dead CSS tokens Design-review findings. The 197-line .security-banner component (incl. its keyframes) had no producer — no JS has created the element since the chat-path rip, the same dead-hidden-security-UI class as the #2557 shield this wave removed; a tombstone comment points at git history if the banner UX returns. Two pre-existing token bugs in the mem-toast styles: --zinc-700 was never defined so the button hover computed to transparent (now carries a fallback), and --font-sans doesn't exist (now --font-system, which :root defines). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(brain-sync): detector pushes only when ALL unpushed commits are its own; lock released on every exit The unpushed-commit detector's author check was existential: any bot-authored commit in origin/<branch>..HEAD armed a push of HEAD, silently publishing interleaved user-authored commits in ~/.gstack. Now the gate requires the author-scoped count to equal the total unpushed count — one user commit disables the autonomous retry entirely (user commits still ride along when a real drain pushes). Detached HEAD is excluded (origin/HEAD usually resolves, making the retry a 10-minutely doomed push). The lock-release trap now installs immediately after lock acquisition instead of after the empty-queue fast path — the steady state at every skill boundary leaked the lock dir and relied on stale-PID detection, which PID reuse defeats. An INT during the detector's network push is covered too. Matrix test: interleaved user commit blocks the detector, then a real drain delivers everything. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(version-bump): version-path and package-json-path pins cannot escape the repository .gstack/version-path and .gstack/package-json-path are repo-controlled content. A cloned repo pinning '../../victim.json' — or an in-repo symlink pointing outside — turned a routine bump into an arbitrary file overwrite outside the repository. assertRepoContained rejects absolute paths, lexical .. escapes, and symlink escapes (deepest existing ancestor realpath'd, so a not-yet-created VERSION file is checked through its parent). Lockfiles that are symlinks resolving outside the repo are skipped with a warning instead of written through. Six containment tests including the not-over-broad control (subdirectory pins keep working). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(browse): port allocator range actually stays below the ephemeral floor; terminal-agent retries a raced bind RANDOM_PORT_MAX was 60000 while the module header documents 49152-65535 as the pool to avoid — ~22% of allocations landed back inside it, preserving the phantom-404 squatting class for both the daemon and the weeks-lived terminal-agent. The cap is now 49151 and the range test pins the true property (< 49152) instead of the old <= 60000 tautology. terminal-agent boot also re-allocates and retries up to 5 times when Bun.serve throws in the probe-then-bind TOCTOU window — previously a concurrent bind killed the boot with no retry via main().catch → exit 1. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(codex-probe): bash-native watchdog when no timeout binary exists; negative-cache the deterministic model 400 Stock macOS ships neither coreutils gtimeout nor timeout(1); the wrapper's fallback ran the command unwrapped, so a hung codex exec blocked the probe and the calling workflow indefinitely. The fallback now backgrounds the command, TERMs it at the deadline, and mirrors timeout(1)'s exit-124 contract — with the watchdog's stdout detached so an early finish never blocks a caller's $(...) capture on the orphaned sleep. MODEL_UNUSABLE is now negative-cached for 15 minutes (same exit-1 + hints from cache). The deterministic 400 is config-driven, so re-probing every preflight charged the affected user a 30s round trip plus real tokens per review section, forever. Editing config.toml — the fix — changes the cache signature and re-probes immediately; MODEL_PROBE_INCONCLUSIVE stays uncached. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(browse): xprotect heal resolves the install root via os.homedir and keeps guidance on a failed retry With HOME unset, the global-install candidate became the RELATIVE path .claude/skills/gstack under the daemon's cwd — often an untrusted repo being QA'd, whose planted node_modules would then be where the heal runs the playwright install (repo-controlled code execution). os.homedir() plus an absolute-or-skip guard closes the class. launchWithXProtectHeal also wraps the post-heal retry: a second classified failure previously propagated raw, dropping the manual-remediation guidance exactly when the automatic path had just proven insufficient. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(make-pdf): --strict and --confidential join BOOLEAN_FLAGS; the guard test derives the set from source Both flags are read as '=== true' booleans but were missing from BOOLEAN_FLAGS, so 'generate --strict essay.md' still ate essay.md as the flag's value — the exact #2514 failure the set exists to prevent. The completeness guard hardcoded six names and could not catch it; it now derives every boolean read from cli.ts itself (direct reads plus booleanFlag pairs), so the next boolean flag fails the suite until it joins the set. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(todos): file the v1.67 adversarial-review residuals + coverage-audit test-gap backlog Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * v1.67.0.0: version bump (MINOR — full-tracker fix wave, pre-approved) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(changelog): v1.67.0.0 release summary + itemized changes with contributor credits Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(todos): mark the 2026-08-14 tracker-audit waves shipped in v1.67; re-file the four residuals Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(uninstall): provenance-gate the shape-2 and cursor sweeps; document the alias-name coupling Three ways gstack-uninstall could touch a user's own skills: - Shape 2 (real dir + symlinked SKILL.md) matched the link target against a bare *gstack* substring, so a skill symlinked from ~/tools/gstack-fork/ was wiped on uninstall. The gate now requires "gstack" as an anchored path segment (gstack/*|*/gstack/*, same pattern as shape 1) AND the dir name in gstack's skill inventory (parity with shape 3); anything else is listed to stderr, never deleted. - The new Cursor removals (~/.cursor/skills/gstack* and repo-local .cursor/skills/gstack*) rm -rf'd any glob match with no provenance check, so a hand-written ~/.cursor/skills/gstack-fork-notes was swept. Real dirs now require the AUTO-GENERATED banner in SKILL.md; non-matching dirs are kept and listed. Legacy codex/factory/kiro globs are untouched (tracked in TODOS as a follow-up). - The _INVENTORY seed list hardcodes alias names created by setup's _install_alias_skill_md; both sites now carry mirrored keep-in-sync comments so a renamed alias can't silently strand its dir. The skipped-entry report moves to the end of the run so cursor skips are listed alongside the Claude ones. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(redact): env.kv stops flagging cacheKey-style names; prepush exclusion scoped to the push remote Two calibration/coverage fixes in the redaction guard: - env.kv's zero-or-more-prefix regex fired on ANY identifier ending in a credential suffix, so ordinary code (cacheKey:, sortKey:, partitionKey:, hotkey:, even monkey:) with an 8+-char entropic value hit a MEDIUM confirm prompt — a gate that cries wolf gets ignored. A name now only counts when its shape is credential-semantic: suffix separated by _/-/. (api_key, x-access-key, AUTH.TOKEN), a bare suffix (key:, token:), ALL-CAPS env style (APIKEY=, MY_APIKEY=), or a camel compound with a credential prefix (apiKey, authToken, clientSecret). The value stays capture group 1, so the shape check lives in validate (isCredentialShapedEnvName), not the regex. - gstack-redact-prepush's narrowing excluded commits reachable from ANY remote (`--not --remotes`), so a secret that had only ever reached a private/local-path remote was never scanned when later pushed to a PUBLIC remote. The exclusion is now scoped to the push target (`--remotes=<name>/*`) via the remote name git hands pre-push as $1 (the installed wrapper already forwards "$@"); stdin/CLI invocations and URL pushes without a configured name fall back to the historical all-remotes behavior. #2592's catch-up-merge fix is unaffected: upstream commits come from the same remote being pushed to. New coverage: env.kv negative controls (cacheKey/sortKey/partitionKey/ hotkey/monkey/idempotencyKey) + positive controls for all four name shapes; end-to-end hook tests proving a second-remote secret blocks a push to origin while origin-published catch-up content still doesn't, plus both fallbacks. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(browse): honest probe budget, bounded daemon log, single refusal source, liveness + reinstall coverage Five hardening items in the browse CLI and its tests: - probeHealthWithBackoff's advertised ~8s budget could really run ~10s: the final 2s probe could start 1ms before the deadline, and every call site had JUST run a failed probe yet the loop re-probed immediately. Iterations now start with the sleep and each probe's timeout clamps to the remaining budget (isServerHealthy takes an injectable timeout). - browse-daemon.log is append-mode across every respawn with no size cap, so a crash-respawn loop fills the disk. The path is now built in one place (daemonLogPath — the Unix fd path and the Windows launcher string had two spellings) and daemon start rotates a >10MB log to browse-daemon.log.1, single generation, matching the repo's 10MB rotation convention. Rotation is exported + injectable and behaviorally unit-tested. - The two "healthy daemon already running" refusal blocks in connect had already drifted (one lost the tabs/cookies/logins explainer) — extracted refuseHeadedOverLiveDaemon as the single source. - process-liveness: pinned the EPERM-means-alive contract (PID 1 on POSIX, PID 4 on Windows — signalable-or-EPERM, both alive). A probe that reads EPERM as dead is the false negative that leaked agents. - runBoundedChromiumReinstall had zero coverage: now exercised end-to-end against a stub bunx on a prepended PATH — exit 0, install-exit-N with stderr tail, the detached group-kill timeout path (child of the child dies too), and spawn-error. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(hooks): timeline Stop hook reads a 256KB tail instead of the whole file The Stop hook runs on EVERY Claude Code turn machine-wide and re-read + JSON-parsed the entire timeline each time, scaling to the 10MB size cap (~100-300ms per turn of pure overhead). It now reads only the last 256KB via fstat + positioned read, discarding the first partial line when the window starts mid-file. Semantics: a dangling "started" older than the last 256KB of appends belongs to a session long gone — beyond repair interest. The window can never fabricate a dangling entry ("completed" is always appended AFTER its "started", so any started inside the window has its completion inside the window too), so idempotency holds. The fail-open contract is unchanged: exit 0 always, size cap kept, deadline re-checked before the write. New test: a >256KB timeline where a recent dangling entry still gets repaired while an old out-of-window dangler is left alone; all existing fail-open cases pass unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(setup): Windows runtime-asset copies prune nested gitignored build output _link_skill_runtime_assets' exclusion list filters DIRECT children only, so the Windows cp -R real-copy path swept NESTED gitignored build output into the installed skill dirs — concretely, ios-qa/scripts/gen-accessors-tool/ .build is 252MB per install. The IS_WINDOWS real-copy branch now prunes nested node_modules/.build/dist post-copy (find -prune -exec rm -rf). Scoped to _link_skill_runtime_assets ONLY: the generic _link_or_copy stays untouched because runtime roots (browse/, design/) intentionally copy their dist/ binaries. On Unix the assets are symlinks into the working tree, and the prune is gated on the real-copy shape so it can never delete build output from the repo through a link — both directions pinned in test/setup-windows-rerun-refresh.test.ts with fixture trees. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(upgrade): migrations see the real install dir; stash can no longer resurrect stale renders Two ways the v1.67 render-dirt cleanup was inert in the wired upgrade flow: - Both migration runners invoked `bash "$migration"` without GSTACK_INSTALL_DIR, so migrations that clean the INSTALL (v1.67.0.0.sh defaults to ~/.claude/skills/gstack when unset) silently no-oped for repo-local installs. setup now passes "$SOURCE_GSTACK_DIR" and the /gstack-upgrade Step 4.75 runner passes the detected "$INSTALL_DIR". - /gstack-upgrade Step 4 ran `git stash` BEFORE reset+setup, so the tree was always clean by the time the migration ran, the legacy render dirt landed in stash@{0}, and Step 4's own note then told the user to `git stash pop` — restoring stale generated SKILL.md over the fresh checkout permanently. Step 4 now discards the render footprint (generated SKILL.md and sections/*.md modifications only, the same classification as migrations/v1.67.0.0.sh) BEFORE stashing, so the stash only ever carries real user changes; the stash-pop note says the render dirt was discarded and regenerates. The migration stays for manual git-pull flows. Template change regenerated for all 3 hosts (claude tree checked in; codex/factory trees are gitignored render outputs). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(browse): stop --force-restart kills the live daemon directly instead of booting a fresh one `browse stop --force-restart` on a live-but-busy daemon fell through the stop short-circuit into ensureServer(), whose force-restart path kills the daemon and then STARTS A FRESH ONE (daemon + Chromium, multi-second churn) just so sendCommand('stop') can shut it down again — the #2254 churn in force clothing. gstack-upgrade's Step 4.8 sends users down exactly this path when a stale daemon is busy after an upgrade. The stop short-circuit now handles it: live pid + --force-restart → kill the daemon (tree-kill on Windows, TERM→KILL on POSIX), reap the orphaned Chromium + clear profile locks, remove the state file, exit 0 — no server is ever started. Pinned in stop-dead-daemon.test.ts: a wedged live "daemon" is killed, the state file stays gone (a booted daemon would have rewritten it), and no Starting/Restarting output appears. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(hooks): timeline repair counts started vs completed per key instead of set-masking The dangling-event repair kept only the FIRST "started" entry per skill+session key and treated "completed" as a set, so any key where one run completed and another dangles was never repaired — and keys are not unique per run: legacy entries with no session field all share the bare-skill key, and the preamble's "$$-epoch" session ids collide within the same second. One old completion masked every future dangler forever. The hook now counts started vs completed per key and appends completions for the DIFFERENCE. Idempotency holds by construction: the appended completions balance the counts, so the next Stop appends nothing. Pinned with the two-runs-one-dangling case plus a re-run no-op assertion; all existing fail-open cases pass unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(setup): Windows refresh bypass no longer deletes a user's own skill dirs The #2444 IS_WINDOWS refresh bypass (link_codex/factory/opencode/cursor _skill_dirs) rm -rf's the destination before re-copying — and the host skills dirs are SHARED namespaces, so the gstack* glob can land on a user's OWN real directory (e.g. ~/.cursor/skills/gstack-notes). Every ./setup re-run silently deleted it — the ownership guard the comments still claimed (#2142). The sidecar installers had the same shape against a hand-written skill squatting on the canonical .../skills/gstack root, and create_cursor_runtime_root wiped that root unconditionally on every platform. Same provenance model as bin/gstack-uninstall (#2563): - _owned_for_windows_refresh: a real dir is only replaced when its SKILL.md carries the AUTO-GENERATED banner; symlinks and missing targets always pass. Non-matching dirs are kept and listed to stderr. Wired into all four *_skill_dirs loops. - _sidecar_root_user_owned: a root whose SKILL.md exists WITHOUT the banner is the user's — create_agents_sidecar, create_cursor_sidecar, and create_cursor_runtime_root skip it entirely instead of writing into (or wiping) someone else's skill. A root with no SKILL.md stays presumed ours (the documented install location; old/partial installs look like that). Pinned by a static census (every bypass site must carry its gate) plus behavior fixtures: a bannerless user dir survives the Windows re-run while a bannered install still refreshes, and a squatted sidecar root is left untouched. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(render): a failed brain-aware render can no longer vanish the installed skill set Both render sites (setup's gbrain step and gstack-config gbrain-refresh) ran `rm -rf` on the LIVE render dir BEFORE invoking gen:skill-docs:user. Installed skills symlink into that dir (relink prefers it), so one transient render failure — bun error, disk full, broken template — left every brain-aware skill's SKILL.md symlink dangling: the whole skill set vanished from Claude Code until a successful re-render. Both sites now render into "$RENDER_DIR.tmp.$$" and swap it in only on SUCCESS via a shared-contract _swap_in_render helper (mv old away, mv tmp in, drop old — links into the live path stay valid because the path never changes). The failure branch removes only the tmp dir and says so: the previous render, and every link into it, stays fully intact. The deliberate wipe on the gbrain-GONE path (stale render shadowing canonical files) is unchanged. Pinned in test/user-render-out-dir-install.test.ts: static shape (render targets the TMP dir, never the live dir), _swap_in_render driven behaviorally from BOTH files, and an end-to-end failure-branch fixture proving a pre-existing render plus an installed symlink survive a failed render. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test+docs: codex probe cache invalidation coverage, make-pdf --no-* structural pin, file the review-batch deferrals - test/codex-model-probe.test.ts: the 1h TTL and the auth.json half of the mtime signature had no coverage — a regression in either would silently serve a stale MODEL_OK after re-login or forever. Added TTL-expiry (backdated cache line re-probes) and auth.json-mtime invalidation cases, mirroring the existing config.toml case. - make-pdf/test/cli-args.test.ts: structural assertion derived from the commands.ts registry — every --no-* flag must be in BOOLEAN_FLAGS, so a new negation flag can't silently re-open #2514 (swallowing the next positional). - TODOS.md: filed five review-batch deferrals under the v1.67 queue with rationale and effort: setup host-function dedup, cmd.exe %VAR% quoting in gbrainInvocation (cross-spawn direction), make-pdf flag registry metadata (derive BOOLEAN_FLAGS), legacy codex/factory/kiro uninstall provenance gating (parity with the cursor gate), and cursor auto-detect breadth (product call). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): package.json version check accepts the decision-11 npm translation The bump wrote the npm-valid 3-digit manifest version for the first time this release; the old assertion demanded byte-equality with the 4-digit VERSION. Accept the translation plus the grandfathered pre-v1.67 mirror, matching gstack-version-bump's own drift contract. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: sync project documentation with the v1.67.0.0 fix wave Port range 10000-49151 + busy-vs-dead daemon semantics + XProtect launch heal + browse-daemon.log in BROWSER.md/ARCHITECTURE.md; #2557 dead security surface (shield, L4b Haiku, DeBERTa ensemble, canary injector) marked removed in README/ARCHITECTURE per CLAUDE.md's do-not-redocument note; runtime-asset installs + alias copies in CONTRIBUTING/CLAUDE.md; manual uninstall fixed for asset-bearing dirs, alias copies, cursor/opencode roots, and the timeline Stop hook; gbrain-refresh out-dir render path; npm-valid package.json version translation documented in CLAUDE.md; patches/ in the project tree; two CHANGELOG accuracy fixes (-272 net lines, upgrade-time quarantine-clear) + release-summary em-dash polish. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(browse): findAvailablePort comment matches the 49151 range cap Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ci-image): the dependency layer carries patches/ — bun install needs the patch files the lock declares bun.lock's patchedDependencies (playwright-core windowsHide) made 'bun install --frozen-lockfile' fail inside the image build: the Dockerfile copied package.json + bun.lock but not patches/. The image-tag hash in all three workflows (ci-image, evals, evals-periodic — kept in lockstep) now includes patches/** so editing a patch rebuilds the layer instead of serving a stale cache. Verified: the exact COPY set (package.json + bun.lock + patches) installs clean in a Linux container; without patches it reproduces the CI failure. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(codex-probe): cache signature uses GNU-first stat with numeric validation On GNU stat, -f means FILESYSTEM mode — the BSD-first form emitted a multi-line filesystem block on Linux, so the cache signature never matched its own cache line and the model-probe cache missed on every read (each preflight re-paid the probe). Same class and same fix as #2195: GNU -c %Y first, BSD -f %m fallback, non-numeric residue coerced to 0. Verified: the probe test file passes 7/7 under real GNU stat in a Linux container (it failed 2/7 on Linux CI before). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): first cross-platform run of the wave's tests — Linux tmp portability + Windows-lane truthfulness Four platform holes from the lanes' first full run over the v1.67 tests: - uninstall neutral-root fallback hardcoded /private/tmp (macOS-only) and ENOENT'd on Linux CI, where the shard TMPDIR is the gstack-containing path that forces the fallback — now realpath'd literal /tmp. - uninstall's kept-and-listed assertion demanded a backslash path on Windows while the bash uninstall prints POSIX paths — now separator-insensitive. - setup-rerun's IS_WINDOWS=0 sub-case and the iron rule's force-restart consent path are Unix-shaped by construction (Git Bash ln -snf copies without Developer Mode; the consent path boots a real replacement daemon the browserless Windows lane cannot host) — gated off win32 with the reasons in place; the Windows-relevant halves still run there. - codex-under-codex-detection drives rendered bash under a hardcoded POSIX PATH, so every case saw empty output on Windows — moved to KNOWN_WINDOWS_INCOMPATIBLE with the run receipt. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ci-image): stage patches/ into the narrow build context in all three workflows The image builds from context .github/docker, into which a staging step copies package.json + bun.lock — the previous fix added COPY patches to the Dockerfile but not patches/ to that staging, so buildx failed computing the COPY checksum ('/patches: not found'). All three workflows (ci-image, evals, evals-periodic) stage identically, in lockstep with the shared tag hash. Verified: a build over the exact staged context resolves both COPY layers. 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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
4 people	94993f7401	v1.61.0.0 fix wave: guards failing open / silent failures (9 fixes, 4 community PRs absorbed) (#2472) ... * fix(careful): warn on chained rm even when the last target is safe The safe-exception block whitelisted rm -rf of build artifacts by extracting targets with a single greedy match (.*rm ...), which only ever inspects the LAST rm in the command. A chain like 'rm -rf /; rm -rf node_modules' was therefore judged solely by its trailing safe target and allowed without warning, waving through the destructive 'rm -rf /'. Gate the shortcut to single rm invocations: when any shell separator (; | & newline, incl. JSON-escaped \n/\r from the grep extraction path) is present, fall through to the destructive-pattern check, which warns on any recursive rm. Single-command artifact cleanups still allow. Adds 3 regression tests covering semicolon and && chains in both orders. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * harden(careful): substitution separators + capital -R recursive flag (#2039) Two residual fail-opens in the same guard PR #2040 hardened, both verified by executing the script pre-fix: - rm -rf $(./wipe-all)/node_modules silently allowed: the substitution token ends in a whitelisted suffix and the safe-exception early exit skipped ALL downstream checks. $( and backtick now count as chain separators; plain $VAR expansion stays allowed. - rm -R / silently allowed: both greps required a lowercase r in the flag cluster; capital -R is the documented BSD/macOS recursive flag. Both greps now match -[a-zA-Z]*[rR]. Six new tests: substitution x2 -> ask, capital-R x2 -> ask, rm -Rf node_modules single-command -> still allowed, escaped-newline branch (existing code, previously untested), and a pinned deliberate FP (cd app && rm -rf node_modules -> ask) documenting the fail-closed direction on chains. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(context-restore): prefer the current branch's own checkpoint (#2052) All worktrees of a repo share one origin-derived slug, so they share one `~/.gstack/projects/<slug>/checkpoints/` dir. `/context-restore` loaded the newest checkpoint across the whole dir, so in one worktree it could silently restore a *sibling worktree's* newer checkpoint. Step 1 now orders candidates current-branch-first (read from each file's `branch:` frontmatter), keeping other branches as a fallback. A branch is checked out in at most one worktree, so this stops cross-worktree contamination while preserving Conductor cross-branch handoff: when the current branch has no checkpoint of its own, the full newest-first set is still used. - scan the 200 newest before partitioning so a current-branch checkpoint sitting below a burst of sibling saves is still found; output still capped at 20 - non-git / detached HEAD / branchless legacy saves fall back to the old newest-first behavior (back-compat) - +5 regression tests in context-save-hardening.test.ts (the #2052 bug case fails on the old pipeline); regenerated SKILL.md + proactive-suggestions.json Fixes #2052 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(gbrain): pass --confirm-destructive on drift re-register (#1985) ensureSourceRegistered() handles match-but-different-path by removing the old source then re-adding it at the new path. The remove was issued as `gbrain sources remove <id> --yes`, but gbrain >= 0.42 gates `sources remove` behind `--confirm-destructive` (`--yes` alone no longer suppresses the data-loss prompt). The remove therefore fails with "To proceed, pass --confirm-destructive", which ensureSourceRegistered surfaces as "source registration failed" — aborting the entire /sync-gbrain code stage for any already-registered source whose path has drifted. The memory and brain-sync stages still pass, so the code index silently stops refreshing. The orchestrator's own safeSourcesRemove() already passes --confirm-destructive; this brings the lib helper in line with that convention. Keeps --yes for older gbrain. Tests: extend the fake gbrain shim in gbrain-sources.test.ts to simulate the gbrain >= 0.42 guard (remove without --confirm-destructive exits 1), update the drift re-register assertion, and add a regression test that proves the drift path no longer throws. Both fail on main with the exact "To proceed, pass --confirm-destructive" error and pass with the fix. Fixes #1985 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * harden(gbrain-sources): route drift remove through #1734 guards + realpath drift check Absorbing #2031 un-blocked a destructive remove that bypassed the #1734 data-loss guards: ensureSourceRegistered's drift path issued `gbrain sources remove` directly, without the detectAutopilot + decideSourceRemove checks every other remove routes through via safeSourcesRemove. gbrain >= 0.42's own prompt was accidentally blocking that path; with --confirm-destructive passed it is live again. - Drift remove now refuses LOUDLY (throws, actionable message) while an autopilot is active or when decideSourceRemove disallows; a silent changed=false would hide the drifted registration. - decideSourceRemove's extraArgs (--keep-storage when supported) propagate to the remove call, matching safeSourcesRemove. - Drift is realpath-normalized before being declared: a symlink alias of the same directory (macOS /tmp -> /private/tmp) is a match, not drift — the probable cause of #1985's reporter hitting the remove on an unmoved repo. - Drift fires a loud stderr line (old -> new path); perpetual drift in logs is the trigger for promoting #1985's reindex-in-place design. Tests: autopilot-active refusal (no remove in call log), fail-closed refusal on unreadable sources list, --keep-storage propagation, symlink-alias no-drift; existing drift tests pin the guard probes so a live autopilot on the dev machine can't flip them. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(developer-profile): exclude mode:resources rows from SESSION_COUNT, TIER, NUDGE_ELIGIBLE (#2067) Every /office-hours run appends a mode:"resources" bookkeeping row alongside the real session row, so --read double-counted sessions (~2x): tiers promoted early and the builder-to-founder nudge armed prematurely. The file already filtered resources rows for LAST_*/CROSS_PROJECT; the same realSessions filter now feeds SESSION_COUNT/TIER, and the nudge predicate is the faithful allowlist (mode === 'builder') so a future mode #4 fails closed instead of re-opening this bug. 8 regression tests: count vs resources noise, tier boundaries both sides, nudge false-with-noise / true-at-3-builders, cross-project trailing row. Absorbed from PR #1991 by @mvann (fix + tests commits; the PR's version-bump commit is superseded by this wave's consolidated release commit). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(hooks): passThrough() two-branch contract — never emit permissionDecision:'defer' (#2035, #2006) Every AskUserQuestion died with "Tool result missing due to internal error" on current Claude Code builds (Desktop 1.14271.0, CC 2.1.177). Root cause: the question-preference-hook emitted permissionDecision:'defer' on every pass-through path. 'defer' is a real PreToolUse value, but since CC v2.1.89 its semantics are "pause this tool call for external resumption" (headless resume) — never "abstain". Interactive sessions have nothing to resume the paused call, so the tool orphaned. Pre-2.1.89 builds ignored the unknown value, which is why the hook worked when it shipped and broke later. The fix is the two-branch pass-through contract: - no context -> exit 0 with EXACTLY empty stdout - memory nuggets present -> hookSpecificOutput with hookEventName + additionalContext ONLY (the documented shape; plan-tune Layer 8 memory injection ships through this branch and keeps working) defer() is renamed passThrough() so the function says what it does, and docs/spikes/claude-code-hook-mutation.md's protocol contract (cited by the hook header) is corrected in the same commit — it taught '"defer" — let permission flow continue' and was the reintroduction vector. Test contract rewritten in the same commit (13 assertions across 3 files, verified fail-first against the unfixed hook): pass-through paths assert exact-empty stdout (a garbage/partial write cannot slip past an optional-chained parse), the nugget path asserts permissionDecision is ABSENT while additionalContext survives, and a new tripwire asserts no non-deny path ever puts the string "permissionDecision" on stdout. The deny (auto-decide) and Conductor prose-redirect paths are unchanged. Deployment: no migration needed — settings.json points at the absolute bash shim which execs the .ts live; /gstack-upgrade delivers the fix. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(one-way-doors): unify credential noun net + wire it into the runtime (#2024) Library fix: revoke/reset/rotate now share ONE noun alternation (api key, token, secret, credential, access key, password) with optional plural s?. Pre-fix leaks: "reset my secret", "reset my access key", "revoke my secret" (mismatched per-verb lists) and every plural form ("rotate the credentials", "revoke all tokens" — \b(...)\b cannot match a trailing s). Runtime wiring — the regexes could never fire in production before: - gstack-question-preference --check gains --summary-stdin: the question text pipes via stdin (never argv — summaries carry quotes/newlines/shell metacharacters) and feeds isOneWayDoor alongside the id, so an ad-hoc destructive question with a stored never-ask preference now forces ASK_NORMALLY. Empty/absent stdin keeps exact id-only semantics. - question-preference-hook falls back to classifyQuestion(question text) when the registry lookup misses, so unregistered destructive questions pass through to a human instead of auto-deciding. - question-tuning resolver prose shows the piped form (SKILL.md regen lands in the wave's release commit). Tripwires (verified fail-first): full verbs x nouns x singular/plural matrix with the #2024 repro rows, benign-summary no-over-match rows, stdin transport survival (quotes/newlines), empty-stdin fail-safe, and hook fallback both directions (destructive -> pass-through, benign -> deny). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(design): loud integer-flag contract for --count/--retry/--timeout (#2032) design variants --count abc silently generated ZERO variants and exited 0: parseInt(NaN) flowed through Math.min into the generation loop bound. The same NaN class was live on the two sibling flags in the same file: --retry abc made generate() a silent no-op (attempt <= NaN never true, null output, exit 0) and --timeout abc killed the serve board ~immediately (setTimeout(NaN)). New design/src/flag-utils.ts: parseIntFlag (pure, unit-testable) + normalizeIntFlag (CLI wrapper). Contract matches the --viewports precedent (error loudly on nonsense — these commands spend real image-API money, a silent fixup hides typos from calling agents): undefined -> default; bare flag/empty/non-integer ("3.7" rejected, not truncated)/below-min -> exit 1 with usage hint; above-max -> clamp with stderr warning. --count normalizes at the variants() consumption site so programmatic callers are covered, with the ceiling derived from STYLE_VARIATIONS.length instead of a magic 7; the CLI passes the raw flag through (a pre-parseInt would truncate "3.7"). Tripwires live in test/design-flag-utils.test.ts — deliberately under test/, not design/test/, which is invisible to the bun test glob, TEST_ROOTS, and every workflow (wiring design/test/ into CI is a captured TODO). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(gbrain): thin-client state — remote-MCP brains no longer classify as broken-config (#2051) A thin client (remote-HTTP MCP brain, no local engine by design) probed `gbrain sources list`, which gbrain's dispatch guard REFUSES on thin clients (exit 1, no recognized error string), so the classifier fell to its defensive broken-config default and every suppression gate silently hid brain-aware blocks from exactly the users on a shared team brain. New 'thin-client' state, detected PRE-probe from gbrain's own remote_mcp config marker via the existing gbrainConfigPath() helper (mirrors gbrain's isThinClient(); honors GBRAIN_HOME; zero network, immune to error-string drift), with a /thin[- ]client/ stderr backstop in the probe catch. Remote reachability is deliberately NOT probed by the classifier — that is the #1964 pathology; gbrain calls degrade gracefully at use time, and the detect JSON says so honestly (gbrain_thin_client: {probed: false}). The state is admitted at every suppression gate — gstack-gbrain-detect --is-ok (drives setup + gbrain-refresh), gen-skill-docs' detection override, gstack-config gbrain-refresh — while the sync stages (code/memory/dream) SKIP with an accurate reason: code indexing runs on the brain server, memory syncs via the remote brain's artifacts pull. The two consumer classes need opposite answers, which is why this is a distinct state and not a skip-the-probe special case. sync-gbrain Step 1.5 and setup-gbrain prose route thin-client to proceed, never into broken-config remediation. detectMcpMode secondary generalization: url-match against the config's remote_mcp.mcp_url (deterministic — gbrain mounts at the generic /mcp path) -> name pattern gbrain[-_]* -> stdio command token; gbrain_mcp_mode stays a 3-value enum. Tripwires: end-to-end --is-ok exits 0 on a thin-client fixture AND still exits 1 on broken-config (the gate didn't widen); pre-probe + stderr-fallback classifier paths; 4 detectMcpMode identification cases incl. a non-matching url that must NOT false-positive. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * release: v1.60.0.0 — regen SKILL.md, VERSION, CHANGELOG, TODOS follow-ups - Regenerate all SKILL.md from templates (question-tuning --summary-stdin prose from #2024, context-restore branch preference from PR #2054, sync-gbrain/setup-gbrain thin-client prose from #2051) + llms.txt. - VERSION + package.json -> 1.60.0.0 (bin/gstack-next-version, queue-aware: #1815 claims 1.59.0.0, #2213 claims 1.59.1.0). - CHANGELOG release summary + itemized entry crediting @jbetala7 (x3) and @mvann. - TODOS.md: three eng-review follow-ups (design/test CI wiring + documented pre-existing retry-after flake, /context-save worktree identity, gbrain reindex-in-place conditional on the new drift log). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(resolvers): compress --summary-stdin preamble prose to fit parity budget; re-bless ship goldens The v1.57.7.0 parity suite caps investigate's generated size at 1.09x baseline; the #2024 question-tuning prose (duplicated into every tier->=2 skill) tipped it to 1.092. Compressed to a single inline command + short pointer (the full rationale lives in bin/gstack-question-preference's header and the one-way-doors module docs). Ship goldens re-blessed against the final resolver text (conscious template-change acknowledgment, per the golden-file regression contract). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(e2e): office-hours-spec-review turn budget fits the carved skill layout (#2473) The test failed deterministically with error_max_turns at 9 turns on main and this branch alike (CI attempt logs + local main repro). Root cause from the failing transcript: the Spec Review Loop content is carved out of office-hours/SKILL.md into office-hours/sections/, so the agent needs discovery hops (grep SKILL.md -> ls sections/ -> read the section) before it can write — 8 tool turns + the closing text turn = 9 > the 8-turn budget, which predates the carve. Observed failures wrote a CORRECT summary on tool turn 8 and died on the closing turn. maxTurns 8 -> 12. Verified: PASS locally post-fix (7 turns this run — the extra headroom absorbs discovery-path nondeterminism). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(e2e): review-dashboard-via session budget survives runner contention (#2473) The test failed on CI (and its baseline run) with the timeout signature: 0 turns, $0.00, exactly 183s, 3/3 attempts — the spawned claude -p session never emitted a single stream event before the 180s inner timeout. The file's tests run concurrently on one runner; session startup queues behind sibling sessions, and this test had the tightest budget in the file (the 240s-budget tests in the same job passed). A clean local run takes 270s wall for 4 turns, confirming 180s was too tight even without contention. Inner timeout 180s -> 300s; outer bun timeout 240s -> 360s to keep headroom over the inner budget. Verified: PASS locally post-fix (4 turns, 270s). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(e2e): retro-base-branch session budget survives runner contention (#2473) Same class as review-dashboard-via, one test over in the same file: /retro is a long multi-step flow whose clean pass measures 225-239s — a coin flip against the 240s inner budget. First CI run passed at 225s; the rerun timed out at the 240s line on all 3 attempts (exitReason "timeout"); the local verification run passed at 239s, ONE second under the old cap. Inner timeout 240s -> 360s; outer bun timeout 300s -> 480s for headroom. Verified: PASS locally post-fix (17 turns, 239s). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Jayesh Betala <jayesh.betala7@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: Michael Vann <9221873+mvann@users.noreply.github.com>	2026-08-08 09:28:45 -07:00
Garry TanandClaude Opus 4.7	ce5fbfa99f	v1.52.0.0 feat(plan-tune): explicit consent + first-run setup wizard for contributors (#1741) ... * feat(plan-tune): explicit-consent surface + setup gate for question_tuning Step 0 grows two implicit gates that run before user-intent routing: - Consent gate: question_tuning=false + no marker → offer opt-in (contributor-specific copy variant) - Setup gate: question_tuning=true + declared empty + no marker → run 5-Q wizard Markers (~/.gstack/.question-tuning-prompted, ~/.gstack/.declared-setup-prompted) ensure each user is asked at most once. The Enable+setup section split into "Consent + opt-in" (with contributor framing) and standalone "5-Q setup" reachable from both the consent flow and the setup gate. Also aligns the calibration gate across three docs (V0 said 90+ days, TODOS said 2+ weeks, binary uses 7 days). The fix distinguishes: - Display gate (sample_size>=20, skills>=3, question_ids>=8, days_span>=7): for rendering inferred values in /plan-tune output - Promotion gate (90+ days stable across 3+ skills): for shipping E1 behavior-adapting defaults TODOS.md E1 card updated to reference 90+ days, plus Codex's substrate risk note: generated skill prose is agent-compliance-based, so E1 ships as advisory annotations on AskUserQuestion recommendations, not silent AUTO_DECIDE. Tests can verify templates contain right reads but can't prove agents obey them. Per /plan-eng-review + Codex outside-voice 2026-05-26. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore: bump version and changelog (v1.49.0.0) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(bins): honor GSTACK_STATE_ROOT override for test isolation Plan-tune cathedral T1 (per D16 / Codex outside voice). The 3 bins that back /plan-tune (question-log, question-preference, developer-profile) previously ignored GSTACK_STATE_ROOT, so tests that tried to point state at a tempdir via that env var silently wrote to the real ~/.gstack. Make STATE_ROOT take precedence over GSTACK_HOME so the cathedral's E2E + unit tests can isolate cleanly without sledgehammering HOME. Order of precedence: GSTACK_STATE_ROOT > GSTACK_HOME > $HOME/.gstack Matches the existing gstack-paths emission order. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(plan-tune): regression coverage for v1.49 consent + setup gates Plan-tune cathedral T2 + part of T1 follow-up (Codex IRON RULE — regressions get tests). v1.49 shipped two prose-driven implicit gates inside plan-tune Step 0 (consent, setup) with zero test coverage. The cathedral refactors that template heavily; without tests, silent breakage is possible. Three regression families plus a static template assertion: 1. Consent gate fires under qt=false + no marker; goes silent on marker write or qt=true flip. 2. Setup gate fires under qt=true + empty declared + no marker; goes silent when declared populates, marker is written, or qt is still false. 3. Marker idempotency: gates stay silent across 5 re-invocations after a single decline/bail. Markers honored independently. 4. Static template assertion: gate language can't be silently deleted without breaking a test. Also extends gstack-config to honor GSTACK_STATE_ROOT (it was the last bin still ignoring it — caught while writing the tests; without this, tests would silently mutate the user's real config.yaml). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(spikes): Claude hook mutation + Codex session format Plan-tune cathedral T4 (per D5/D10). Two Phase 1 design spikes that downstream tasks (T3, T5, T6, T8, T9) depend on. claude-code-hook-mutation.md - Confirms PreToolUse allow + updatedInput is supported and is the right mechanism for substituting an auto-decided answer. - Pins stdin/stdout JSON schemas with field-by-field reference. - Documents matcher regex syntax for "(AskUserQuestion|mcp__.*__AskUserQuestion)" so Conductor's MCP-routed AUQ is covered. - Captures parallel-hook merge order caveat and our settings.json snippet. codex-session-format.md - Maps the on-disk ~/.codex/sessions/<date>/rollout-*.jsonl schema by event type (response_item 76%, event_msg 19%, turn_context, session_meta). - Critical finding: Codex has NO AskUserQuestion tool. Gstack AUQ-shaped Decision Briefs surface as agent_message text; answer is the next user_message. Two-tier recovery: marker-first (D18), then pattern fallback for hash-only logging. - Confirms logs_2.sqlite is internal telemetry, not session content. - Lists open questions to answer during T9 implementation. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(settings-hook): schema-aware PreToolUse/PostToolUse registration Plan-tune cathedral T3 (per D4 + Codex correction). The previous bin only knew SessionStart and dedup'd on the hardcoded `gstack-session-update` substring. The cathedral needs PreToolUse + PostToolUse hooks registered side-by-side with the user's own hooks, with explicit consent UX, backups, and rollback. New subcommands: - add-event --event <SessionStart|PreToolUse|PostToolUse|...> --command <cmd> --source <tag> [--matcher <re>] [--timeout <s>] - remove-source --source <tag> # removes all entries tagged by source - diff-event ... # preview without mutating - rollback # restore latest backup - list-sources # audit gstack-tagged hooks Multi-source dedup via a new `_gstack_source` field on each hook entry (Claude Code preserves unknown fields). Source tag lets plan-tune-cathedral register PreToolUse + PostToolUse without colliding with the existing SessionStart wiring, and lets remove-source clean up cleanly during gstack-uninstall. Backups written automatically to settings.json.bak.<ts> before any mutation, with a .bak-latest pointer the rollback subcommand reads. Existing legacy `add <cmd>` / `remove <cmd>` shape preserved verbatim so setup --team and gstack-uninstall keep working unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(hooks): PostToolUse capture hook for AskUserQuestion Plan-tune cathedral T5. Closes the substrate hole that motivated this entire branch: agent-compliance-only logging produced zero events in weeks of dogfood. PostToolUse hook captures every AUQ fire deterministically. What ships: - hosts/claude/hooks/question-log-hook.ts — TS hook that reads Claude Code's hook stdin, walks tool_input.questions[*], extracts user choice + recommended option from tool_response, spawns gstack-question-log per question. - hosts/claude/hooks/question-log-hook — bash shim Claude Code's hook runner invokes; execs bun against the .ts file. - Marker-first question_id extraction (D18 progressive markers): <gstack-qid:foo-bar> stripped from question text, used as the id. Hash fallback hook-<sha1[:10]> for unmarked questions (observed-only, never used as preference key — D18 hash drift mitigation). - (recommended) label parsing for the user_choice/recommended fields, with refuse-on-ambiguous when two labels are present (D2 safety). - Free-text capture: source=auq-other + free_text field when user picks Other and types (Layer 8 dream cycle input). - Matcher covers both native AskUserQuestion and mcp__*__AskUserQuestion (Codex/Conductor catch from outside voice review). - Crash safety: always exits 0; errors land in ~/.gstack/hook-errors.log so the user's session is never blocked by a hook failure. gstack-question-log extended to: - Accept `source` field (default 'agent', new values: hook, auq-other, auto-decided, codex-import-marker, codex-import-pattern). - Accept `tool_use_id` (<=128 chars) for dedup. - Composite dedup on (source, tool_use_id) across the last 100 lines — protects against hook + preamble both firing on the same tool call (D3 belt+suspenders). - Async fire `gstack-developer-profile --derive` after each successful write so inferred.sample_size actually grows (D17 — without this, the cathedral's "before 0, after >0" metric never moves). - GSTACK_QUESTION_LOG_NO_DERIVE=1 escape hatch for tests. 9 new unit tests covering capture, marker extraction, MCP variant, free-text, dedup, ambiguous-recommended safety, crash paths. All pass plus the existing 88 tests across related files. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(hooks): PreToolUse enforcement hook for AskUserQuestion preferences Plan-tune cathedral T6 — the keystone that makes never-ask actually bind. Today preferences are agent-convention (silently ignored). This hook enforces them via Claude Code's hook protocol: when a never-ask preference matches an AUQ that is two-way + has a marker + has a clear recommendation, the hook returns permissionDecision: "deny" with permissionDecisionReason naming the auto-decided option. The agent obeys the rejection feedback and proceeds with the recommended option without re-firing AUQ. Decision tree (per question): - marker absent → defer (D18: hash IDs are observed-only) - one-way door → defer (safety override — never auto-decide one-way) - always-ask preference → defer - no preference set → defer - ambiguous recommendation (two (recommended) labels OR no parseable rec) → defer (D2 refuse-on-ambiguous) - never-ask / ask-only-for-one-way + two-way + clean rec → deny+reason Preference precedence per D8: project-local (~/.gstack/projects/<slug>/question-preferences.json) wins, global (~/.gstack/global-question-preferences.json) is fallback. Why deny+reason instead of allow+updatedInput: AskUserQuestion's updatedInput shape for "pre-resolve this question" isn't structurally pinned in Claude Code docs (T4 spike open question). deny with a reason that names the auto-decided option is the conservative + reliable v1 — the model receives the rejection, reads the recommended option from the reason, proceeds without re-prompting. Swap to allow+updatedInput once the AUQ input shape is verified against real Claude Code. Since deny prevents PostToolUse from firing, this hook logs the auto-decided event itself via gstack-question-log (source=auto-decided) so /plan-tune's Recent auto-decisions surface picks it up. Also writes a session marker ~/.gstack/sessions/<id>/.auto-decided-<tool_use_id> for coordination when the AUQ-shape switch lands. Multi-question AUQ: enforcement is all-or-nothing per call. If any question in the batch isn't eligible (no marker, no preference, ambiguous rec, etc.), the whole call defers so the user still gets to answer the rest normally. Registry lookup: cheap regex extraction from scripts/question-registry.ts (reading + bun-importing the TS file from a hook is too slow). Door type defaults to two-way for unregistered. Matcher covers both native AskUserQuestion and mcp__*__AskUserQuestion (Conductor disables native — Codex outside-voice catch). 15 unit tests cover defer paths, enforcement, one-way safety override, ambiguous-rec refuse, precedence (project wins, global fallback, project-overrides-global), MCP matcher, auto-decided event logging, session marker writing, crash safety. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(scripts): declared-annotation helper + autonomy signal_key wiring Plan-tune cathedral T7. Adds the helper that lets skills inject one-line plain-English annotations on AUQ recommendations based on the user's declared profile — read-only, advisory-only, per TODOS.md E1 substrate-risk guidance (no AUTO_DECIDE off inferred). scripts/declared-annotation.ts - getDeclaredAnnotation(signal_key) → annotation | null - primaryDimensionFor(signal_key) → Dimension | null - Signature uses kebab signal_key per D2/Codex correction (registry uses hyphens; profile dimensions use underscores; helper maps internally). - Bands: >= 0.7 high, <= 0.3 low, else null. Middle band stays silent. - Per-dimension plain-English phrasing: 5 dimensions × 2 bands = 10 phrases. - Reads ~/.gstack/developer-profile.json (honors GSTACK_STATE_ROOT). scripts/psychographic-signals.ts - New signal_key 'decision-autonomy' that maps user_choice → autonomy dimension nudges. This was the missing signal for the 'autonomy' dimension — without it, the cathedral could annotate four of five declared dimensions but autonomy stayed silent. scripts/question-registry.ts - Add signal_key: 'decision-autonomy' to land-and-deploy-merge-confirm and land-and-deploy-rollback. These are the highest-leverage autonomy questions in the surface — "let me decide" vs "go ahead" is exactly what the dimension captures. 13 unit tests cover the helper's full contract (unknown keys, missing profile, middle-band null, both band thresholds, all five dimensions rendering distinct phrases). Existing 47 plan-tune.test.ts tests still pass after the registry + signal-map enrichment. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(setup): install plan-tune cathedral hooks with explicit consent UX Plan-tune cathedral T8. Wires the new PostToolUse capture hook and PreToolUse enforcement hook into ~/.claude/settings.json via the schema-aware gstack-settings-hook (T3) — respecting D4's "never mutate settings.json silently" boundary and the Codex outside-voice warning. Behavior at setup time: - Idempotency: if list-sources already shows 'plan-tune-cathedral', no-op with a one-line note. - Marker present (previously declined): no-op, no re-prompt. - Interactive terminal: print rationale + diff preview from settings-hook, rollback command, and prompt y/N. On accept, register both hooks (PostToolUse and PreToolUse) with --source plan-tune-cathedral. On decline, touch ~/.gstack/.plan-tune-hooks-prompted so we don't re-ask. - Non-interactive (CI / scripted): no prompt; print the two exact commands the user would need to install manually. - --no-team teardown also removes the plan-tune hooks via remove-source. gstack-uninstall extended to clean up plan-tune-cathedral hooks alongside the existing SessionStart cleanup. Listed as a separate "plan-tune cathedral hooks" line in the REMOVED summary when it fires. No new test file — coverage from T3's gstack-settings-hook-schema-aware tests proves the underlying bin behavior; setup-level integration is verified manually (re-running ./setup is cheap and the prompt makes it obvious whether install happened). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(bin): gstack-codex-session-import — structured Codex transcript parser Plan-tune cathedral T9. Backfills question-log.jsonl from Codex sessions since Codex has no AskUserQuestion tool (per docs/spikes/codex-session-format.md) and gstack AUQ-shaped Decision Briefs show up as agent_message prose. Walks ~/.codex/sessions/<date>/rollout-*.jsonl, matches each agent_message that contains either a <gstack-qid:foo-bar> marker or a D-numbered Decision Brief header, then pairs it with the next user_message for the answer. Two-tier recovery per D5: - marker present → source=codex-import-marker, stable question_id - no marker but D-shape detected → source=codex-import-pattern with hash-only question_id (never used as preference key per D18) Subcommands: gstack-codex-session-import # latest session gstack-codex-session-import <file> # explicit path gstack-codex-session-import --since <iso> # all sessions newer than User-choice extraction handles A/B/C letter responses and prose responses that start with the option label. Recommended option parsed via the "(recommended)" label suffix (same convention as Layer 2). Each extracted event written via gstack-question-log, so source tagging, dedup, and async derive all apply uniformly. spawnSync uses the cwd from session_meta so gstack-slug buckets events into the project the user was actually working in, not the importer's cwd. 7 unit tests cover marker path, pattern fallback, multiple briefs in sequence, missing user_message, numeric/letter user response forms, empty-sessions-dir handling. Smoke-tested against a real ~/.codex/sessions/ file from earlier today — returns IMPORTED: 0 because that session was autonomous (no AUQ-shaped prose), proving the bin doesn't false-positive on unrelated agent_message events. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(bin): gstack-distill-free-text — Layer 8 dream cycle distiller Plan-tune cathedral T10. Reads auq-other free-text events from this project's question-log.jsonl, calls Claude via the Anthropic SDK to extract structured proposals (preference candidates, declared-profile nudges, memory nuggets), writes them to distillation-proposals.json for the user to review via /plan-tune (never autonomous — every apply requires explicit Y). Subcommands: gstack-distill-free-text # sync distill gstack-distill-free-text --background # detach + return PID gstack-distill-free-text --dry-run # emit prompt + events, no API call gstack-distill-free-text --status # run history + cost-to-date D7 rate cap: 3 distills per slug per day. Reads ~/.gstack/distill-cost.jsonl for the count, exits with RATE_CAPPED when limit hit. Cost log lines tagged by slug so sibling projects don't share the cap. Yesterday runs don't count. D6 API auth: Anthropic SDK direct, fail-loud on missing ANTHROPIC_API_KEY with explicit message that distill is a separate billing surface from the interactive Claude Code session. Uses claude-haiku-4-5 for cost (~$0.001/ 1k input, $0.005/1k output) — sufficient for structured extraction. D14 execution context: --background spawns detached (nohup) so auto-trigger during /ship doesn't add 30s of pause; results surface on next /plan-tune. Source events get distilled_at:<ts> stamped on them after the run so they don't re-propose on the next distill. Match by ts + question_id. Cost-log line per run includes: slug, proposals_count, rejected_low_confidence, input_tokens, output_tokens, cost_usd_est. /plan-tune stats reads this to show "$X estimated, N runs this month" per Layer 4 surface. 10 unit tests cover --status, rate cap (3/day, yesterday-not-counted, other-slug-not-counted), no-log/no-free-text paths, --dry-run, missing API key, --background spawn. The actual SDK call is exercised by the T16 E2E test (uses real key, ~$0.001 per run). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(bin): gstack-distill-apply — apply distillation proposals with gbrain tag Plan-tune cathedral T11. Bin that applies a single user-approved proposal from distillation-proposals.json to the right surface: - memory-nugget → appended to ~/.gstack/free-text-memory.json (durable local source-of-truth; gbrain is mirror when configured). - preference → routed through gstack-question-preference --write with source=plan-tune (clears the user-origin gate). - declared-nudge → atomic update to developer-profile.json declared dim, small=0.05, medium=0.10, large=0.15, clamped to [0, 1]. Why a separate bin (not inline in the skill template): /plan-tune's apply step needs to be invokable from any host (Claude, Codex, etc) and must write to multiple state files atomically. A bin centralizes the schema + clamp logic; the skill template just calls it after user Y. gbrain coordination: --gbrain-published true marks the nugget so /plan-tune stats can show "12 nuggets, 8 mirrored to gbrain". The skill template invokes mcp__gbrain__put_page / extract_facts / add_tag in the same turn (those are MCP tools, not CLI-callable) before calling this bin. Local file remains canonical so the PreToolUse hook injection path (T12) doesn't depend on gbrain availability. Subcommands: gstack-distill-apply --list # show pending proposals gstack-distill-apply --proposal <N> # apply, file fallback gstack-distill-apply --proposal <N> --gbrain-published true Applied proposals get applied_at + gbrain_published stamped on them so re-running --list shows only unconsumed ones. 11 unit tests cover --list (all three kinds + quotes), memory-nugget append + non-clobber, preference routing through the gate-respecting bin, declared-nudge math (medium=0.10, small=0.05, large=0.15, clamp at [0,1]), proposal mark-applied with gbrain flag, and error paths (bad index, missing --proposal). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(hooks): Layer 8 memory injection via per-session cache Plan-tune cathedral T12. Extends the PreToolUse hook to inject matching free-text-memory.json nuggets into AskUserQuestion responses, giving the agent + user the distilled context from past 'Other' answers right when the related question fires. Per-session cache (D13 perf): first read of free-text-memory.json writes ~/.gstack/sessions/<id>/memory-cache.json. Subsequent hooks on the same session take the cached path. Invalidation is by file-missing: when the canonical file changes (via gstack-distill-apply), the per-session cache either reflects the staler view for the rest of the session or the session restarts and the cache rebuilds. Cheap, correct enough for v1. Matching logic: - Walk this AUQ batch's questions, extract marker question_ids. - Look up signal_key in scripts/question-registry.ts. - Collect nuggets whose applies_to_signal_keys include any of the matched signal_keys. - Cap to 3 most-recent (by applied_at) so the additionalContext stays short. - Surface as additionalContext on the hookSpecificOutput response. Memory + enforcement interact cleanly: the same hook can both surface nuggets AND deny the tool when a never-ask preference matches. Memory context isn't doubled in the deny reason — the auto-decided option name in the deny path is sufficient signal. 6 new tests cover injection on defer, no-match silence, 3-most-recent cap, memory-alongside-deny enforcement, cache file write-through, empty-canonical graceful degradation. Existing 15 preference-hook tests still green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(plan-tune): SKILL.md surfaces for cathedral T13 Plan-tune cathedral T13. Rewires plan-tune/SKILL.md.tmpl to expose the new cathedral surfaces: Step 0 routing: - Implicit gate #3 (dream-cycle): fires when distillation-proposals.json has unapplied proposals. Marker is per-proposal applied_at so re-firing naturally skips already-handled items. - Added user-intent route for "dream cycle" / "distill" / "what have I been free-texting". - Power-user shortcuts: distill, dream, audit. Stats: - Host-aware source breakdown (SOURCE_HOOK, SOURCE_AGENT, SOURCE_AUTO_DECIDED, SOURCE_CODEX_IMPORT_*, SOURCE_AUQ_OTHER). - MARKED percentage so D18 progressive-markers progress is visible. - Distill cost-to-date via gstack-distill-free-text --status. Recent auto-decisions: - Last 10 source=auto-decided events with question_id + user_choice. Lets the user spot-check enforcement and flip via always-ask. Audit unmarked questions: - Top N hash-only ids by frequency. Surfaces next candidates for the D18 marker retrofit. Dream cycle review + manual distill: - Walks unapplied proposals via AskUserQuestion (one per call), routes accepts through gstack-distill-apply with --gbrain-published flag. Skill template invokes mcp__gbrain__put_page when MCP is available; local file remains source-of-truth. Regenerated SKILL.md via `bun run gen:skill-docs`. All 60 plan-tune tests still green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(preamble): inject <gstack-qid:...> marker convention into question-tuning resolver Plan-tune cathedral T14. Per D18 progressive markers, the PreToolUse enforcement hook only fires when the AUQ question text contains a <gstack-qid:foo-bar> marker the hook can extract. Without a marker, the hook logs the fire as observed-only and skips enforcement (hash IDs drift with prose so they're never used as preference keys). The high-leverage retrofit point is the preamble's Question Tuning section, not 10 individual skill templates. Updating scripts/resolvers/question-tuning.ts adds the marker convention to every tier-≥2 skill in one change — agents running ANY of the 30+ tier-≥2 skills now embed the marker by default when the question matches a registered question_id. Two convention additions in the preamble: 1. "Embed the question_id as a marker (<gstack-qid:{id}>) somewhere in the rendered question." With explanation that the marker is the only path for the PreToolUse hook to enforce preferences. 2. "Embed the option recommendation via the (recommended) label suffix on exactly one option per AUQ." Documents the D2 parser contract: label first, prose fallback, refuse-on-ambiguous. Net cost: ~700 bytes added to the preamble per generated skill. Plan-review preamble budget ratcheted from 39000 → 40000 (test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts) with a comment explaining the cathedral T14 expansion is load-bearing. Regenerated 42 SKILL.md files via `bun run gen:skill-docs`. The token ceiling warning on ship/SKILL.md (~41K tokens) is pre-existing; this PR doesn't change ship's preamble materially. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(ship): plan-tune discoverability nudge after first successful ship Plan-tune cathedral T15 (the ship-side surface; the setup-side surface shipped in T8 with explicit hook-install consent UX). Adds Step 21 to ship/SKILL.md.tmpl: after Step 20 (persist metrics) succeeds, surface /plan-tune once per machine via a marker-gated single-line nudge. Behavior: - If ~/.gstack/.plan-tune-nudge-shown exists → no-op. - If question_tuning is already true → no-op (user already on board). - Otherwise: print one nudge line, touch marker. The nudge mentions both the observational substrate AND the hook-installed auto-decide enforcement so users know what they get when they opt in. Non-blocking — never asks a question, doesn't gate ship completion. To re-show: rm ~/.gstack/.plan-tune-nudge-shown before next ship. Setup-side discoverability shipped in T8 via the hook install prompt (explicit consent + diff preview + backup). Together these two surfaces cover first-install AND first-ship moments — the user discovers plan-tune organically rather than needing to know /plan-tune exists. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(plan-tune): 5 cathedral E2E scenarios + touchfile registration Plan-tune cathedral T16 (per D12 — all 5 in gate tier). One consolidated file with five describeIfSelected scenarios, each selectable by its own touchfile entry so they only run when the relevant code changes (or EVALS_ALL=1 forces all): plan-tune-hook-capture — PostToolUse hook fires → question-log fills plan-tune-enforcement — never-ask + marker + 2-way → deny+reason + auto-decided event logged plan-tune-annotation — declared profile + memory nugget → additionalContext surfaced on defer plan-tune-codex-import — synthetic JSONL → import bin → log with source=codex-import-marker plan-tune-dream-cycle — apply proposal → re-fire question → memory injected via additionalContext Each scenario fixtures an isolated git repo + bins + scripts + hooks under tmp, then exercises the cathedral chain end-to-end against real on-disk binaries (no mocks at the bin layer). GSTACK_STATE_ROOT keeps the user's real ~/.gstack untouched. These five complement the existing unit tests by proving the full sub-process chain works (not just individual functions in isolation). They DON'T spawn claude -p because the cathedral's substrate behavior is deterministic — agent compliance is no longer the variable. The existing test/skill-e2e-plan-tune.test.ts (plan-tune-inspect) still covers the LLM-driven intent-routing behavior. Cost: each scenario runs in ~1s with $0 because no claude -p invocations. Touchfile-gated, so they only run on PRs that touch cathedral code. Also fixes a bug found by the E2E: question-log-hook didn't pass the incoming tool call's cwd to spawnSync when invoking gstack-question-log, so the bin used the hook process's cwd (the repo root) instead of the session's cwd. Result: log writes landed in the wrong project bucket. Fix mirrors the same cwd-passing pattern from question-preference-hook. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore: bump VERSION to 1.50.0.0 + plan-tune cathedral CHANGELOG Plan-tune cathedral T17. Bumps VERSION 1.49.0.0 → 1.50.0.0 (MINOR per CLAUDE.md scale-aware rule: this is substantial new capability — 8 layers, ~3000 LOC, 96 new tests, deterministic substrate + dream-cycle distillation). CHANGELOG entry follows the release-summary format from CLAUDE.md: - Two-line bold headline naming what changed for users (deterministic capture, binding preferences, free-text memory loop) - Lead paragraph: before/after framed concretely (zero events captured → every fire, agent-honored → hook-enforced, declared profile → injected context, regex backfill → structured JSONL parser) - Two tables: metric deltas + layer/where-it-lives. Real numbers (96 tests, ~$0.01 per distill, 3/day cap), no AI vocabulary, no em dashes. - "What this means for solo builders" close: ties dream cycle to the compounding loop and points to ./setup as the on-ramp. - Itemized Added/Changed/For contributors sections list every layer's surfaces with file paths. Also: - Refreshed test/fixtures/golden/{claude,codex,factory}-ship-SKILL.md to match the regenerated ship templates (Step 21 nudge added). - Rebased plan-tune entry in parity-baseline-v1.47.0.0.json from 51717 → 64017 bytes with a baseline_note explaining the cathedral T13 expansion. Documents that the new Dream cycle, Recent auto-decisions, Audit unmarked, Dream cycle review/distill sections are load-bearing, not bloat. Without the rebase, the size-budget gate fails — and the cathedral's whole point is making /plan-tune do more, not less. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore: bump VERSION 1.50.0.0 → 1.52.0.0 (queue collision with #1742) CI version gate caught: PR #1742 (garrytan/upgrade-gstack-gbrain-v1) already claims v1.50.0.0 and #1751 (garrytan/browser-memory-leak) claims v1.51.0.0. gstack-next-version util recommends v1.52.0.0 as the next free slot. Updates: - VERSION 1.50.0.0 → 1.52.0.0 - package.json version sync - CHANGELOG.md header + metric table label - parity-baseline-v1.47.0.0.json baseline_note reference No content changes; pure slot rebase per the queue. The cathedral scope (8 layers, 96 tests) and CHANGELOG narrative stay identical — same ship, different release number. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore: cap audit — remove distill rate cap, loosen size/budget gates Plan-tune cathedral follow-up. The 3/day distill cap was theatrical: at ~$0.01 per Haiku call, even a runaway loop firing every minute would cost ~$14/day, and free-text events are rare enough that the natural input rate self-limits to 1-2 fires/day. Count caps don't protect against runaway bugs (which fire 1000x/second, not 4 times/day) but DO punish heavy users who'd legitimately distill multiple times during a busy week. Removed: 3/day rate cap on bin/gstack-distill-free-text. --status output swapped from "TODAY: N / 3" to "TODAY: N run(s), $X" so users see what they're spending instead of how close they are to a meaningless count. Loosened (caps that exist for real-runaway protection, not normal scope): - EVALS_BUDGET_HARD_CAP_GATE $25 → $200/run - EVALS_BUDGET_HARD_CAP_PERIODIC $70 → $500/run - EVALS_BUDGET_HARD_CAP $30 → $300/run (umbrella fallback) - GSTACK_SIZE_BUDGET_RATIO 1.05 → 1.50 per-skill ratio - plan-review preamble byte budget 40K → 60K Principle: caps exist to catch obvious bugs (infinite retry, model price change, prompt blowup), not to gate legitimate scope growth. Set high enough that real growth never trips them, only bug territory does. Adjusted defaults are 4-8× historical worst case, leaving ample headroom for the next 12 months of legitimate expansion. Tests updated: distill-free-text removes the 3-test rate-cap describe block in favor of "no rate cap" assertion that 10 runs/day pass. Other budget tests still pass because they were never near the old ceilings. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-05-28 18:21:09 -07:00
Garry TanandClaude Opus 4.7	dde55103fc	v1.15.0.0 feat: slim preamble + real-PTY plan-mode E2E harness (#1215) ... * chore: add gstack skill routing rules to CLAUDE.md Per routing-injection preamble — once-per-project addition that lets agents auto-invoke the right gstack skill instead of answering generically. * refactor: slim preamble resolvers + sidecar-symlink helper Compress prose across 18 preamble resolvers — Voice, Writing Style, AskUserQuestion Format, Completeness Principle, Confusion Protocol, Context Health, Context Recovery, Continuous Checkpoint, Lake Intro, Proactive Prompt, Routing Injection, Telemetry Prompt, Upgrade Check, Vendoring Deprecation, Writing Style Migration, Brain Sync Block, Completion Status, and Question Tuning. Same semantic contract, ~half the bytes. Restored "Treat the skill file as executable instructions" phrase in the plan-mode info section after diagnosing it as load-bearing. Restored "Effort both-scales" rule in AskUserQuestion format. Bonus: scripts/skill-check.ts gains isRepoRootSymlink() so dev installs that mount the repo root at host/skills/gstack as a runtime sidecar (e.g., codex's .agents/skills/gstack) get skipped instead of double-counted. opus-4-7 model overlay gets a Fan-Out directive — explicit instruction to launch parallel reads/checks before synthesis. Net token impact across all generated SKILL.md files: ~140K tokens removed across 47 outputs. Plan-* skills retain full preamble surface (Brain Sync, Context Recovery, Routing Injection) — load-bearing functionality that early slim attempts incorrectly cut. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore: regenerate SKILL.md outputs after preamble slim bun run gen:skill-docs --host all output. Mirrors the resolver changes in the previous commit. 47 generated SKILL.md files plus 3 ship-skill golden fixtures. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(test): real-PTY harness for plan-mode E2E tests Adds test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts. Spawns the actual claude binary via Bun.spawn({terminal:}) (Bun 1.3.10+ has built-in PTY — no node-pty, no native modules), drives it through stdin/stdout, and parses rendered terminal frames. Pattern adapted from the cc-pty-import branch's terminal-agent.ts but stripped of WS/cookie/Origin scaffolding (not needed for headless tests). Public API: - launchClaudePty(opts) — boots claude with --permission-mode plan|null, auto-handles the workspace-trust dialog, returns a session handle. - session.send / sendKey / waitForAny / waitFor / mark / visibleSince / visibleText / rawOutput / close - runPlanSkillObservation({skillName, inPlanMode, timeoutMs}) — high-level contract for plan-mode skill tests. Returns { outcome, summary, evidence, elapsedMs }. outcome ∈ {asked, plan_ready, silent_write, exited, timeout}. Replaces the SDK-based runPlanModeSkillTest from plan-mode-helpers.ts which never worked. Plan mode renders its native "Ready to execute" confirmation as TTY UI (numbered options with ❯ cursor), not via the AskUserQuestion tool — so the SDK's canUseTool interceptor never fired and the assertion always saw zero questions. Real PTY observes the rendered output directly. Deletes test/helpers/plan-mode-helpers.ts. No production callers remained. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: rewrite 5 plan-mode E2E tests on the real-PTY harness Replaces SDK-based assertions with runPlanSkillObservation contract. Each test launches real claude --permission-mode plan, invokes the skill, and asserts the outcome reaches 'asked' or 'plan_ready' within a 300s budget (no silent Write/Edit, no crash, no timeout). Affected: - test/skill-e2e-plan-ceo-plan-mode.test.ts - test/skill-e2e-plan-eng-plan-mode.test.ts - test/skill-e2e-plan-design-plan-mode.test.ts - test/skill-e2e-plan-devex-plan-mode.test.ts - test/skill-e2e-plan-mode-no-op.test.ts (inPlanMode: false; tests the preamble plan-mode-info no-op path) test/e2e-harness-audit.test.ts — recognize runPlanSkillObservation as a valid coverage path alongside the legacy canUseTool / runPlanModeSkillTest. test/helpers/touchfiles.ts — point the 5 plan-mode test selections and the e2e-harness-audit selection at test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts instead of the deleted plan-mode-helpers.ts. Proof: bun test EVALS=1 EVALS_TIER=gate on these 5 files runs sequentially in 790s and passes 5/5. Same tests were 0/5 on origin/main, on v1.0.0.0, and on this branch with the SDK harness. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: align unit tests with slim resolvers + exempt 27MB security fixture - test/skill-validation.test.ts: assert the slim Completeness Principle shape (Completeness: X/10, kind-note language) instead of the old Compression table. Remove the 3 tier-1 skills from the spot-check list (they intentionally don't carry the full Completeness Principle section). Exempt browse/test/fixtures/security-bench-haiku-responses.json (27MB deterministic replay fixture for BrowseSafe-Bench) from the 2MB tracked-file gate. The gate was actually failing on origin/main since the fixture was added in v1.6.4.0 — this is a side-fix to a real regression. - test/brain-sync.test.ts: developer-machine-safe assertion for GSTACK_HOME override (compare config contents before/after instead of asserting the absence of a string that may legitimately exist). - test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts: new tests for the slim — plan-review preambles stay under the post-slim budget (~33KB), Voice + Writing Style sections stay compact, and the slim Voice section preserves the load-bearing semantic contract (lead-with-the-point, name-the-file, user-outcome framing, no-corporate, no-AI-vocab, user-sovereignty). Update path-leakage scan to allow repo-root sidecar symlinks. - test/writing-style-resolver.test.ts: assert the compact contract (gloss-on-first-use, outcome-framing, user-impact, terse-mode override) instead of the old 6-numbered-rules shape. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore: bump version and changelog (v1.13.1.0) Slim preamble work + real-PTY plan-mode E2E harness on top of v1.13.0.0. SKILL.md corpus -25.5% (3.08 MB → 2.30 MB, ~196K tokens). 5 plan-mode tests go from 0/5 to 5/5 (790s sequential), the first time those tests have ever passed. Side-fixes for the 27MB security fixture warning and the sidecar-symlink double-count. Reverts the Fan-Out directive accidentally restored to opus-4-7.md — v1.10.1.0's overlay-efficacy harness measured -60pp fanout vs baseline when the nudge was active. The intentional removal stays. TODOS: - Pre-existing test failures from v1.12.0.0 ship: RESOLVED on main + this branch - security-bench-haiku-responses.json size gate: RESOLVED via warn-only + exemption Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(test): harness primitives — parseNumberedOptions + budget regression utils claude-pty-runner.ts: - parseNumberedOptions(visible) anchors on the latest "❯ 1." cursor and returns {index, label}[]; tests that route on option labels can find indices without hard-coding positions - isPermissionDialogVisible(visible) detects file-grant + workspace-trust + bash-permission shapes (multiple regex variants) - isNumberedOptionListVisible: replaced \b2\. word-boundary regex with [^0-9]2\. — stripAnsi removes TTY cursor-positioning escapes that collapse "Option 2." to "Option2.", and \b fails on word-to-word eval-store.ts: - findBudgetRegressions(comparison, opts?) — pure function returning tests where tools or turns grew >cap× vs prior run; floors at 5 prior tools / 3 prior turns to avoid noise on tiny numbers - assertNoBudgetRegression() — wrapper that throws with full violation list. Env override GSTACK_BUDGET_RATIO helpers-unit.test.ts: 23 unit tests covering empty/sparse/wrap-around buffers for parseNumberedOptions, plus regression-floor + env-override cases for findBudgetRegressions/assertNoBudgetRegression. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: register 6 real-PTY E2E touchfiles + UI-heavy plan fixture touchfiles.ts: - 6 new entries in E2E_TOUCHFILES keyed to the new test files - 6 matching E2E_TIERS classifications: 3 gate (auq-format-pty, plan-design-with-ui-scope, budget-regression-pty), 3 periodic (plan-ceo-mode-routing, ship-idempotency-pty, autoplan-chain-pty) - gate ones are cheap/deterministic; periodic ones run weekly touchfiles.test.ts: - update the "skill-specific change selects only that skill" count from 15 → 18 (plan-ceo-review/SKILL.md change now also selects auq-format-pty, plan-ceo-mode-routing, autoplan-chain-pty) test/fixtures/plans/ui-heavy-feature.md: - planted plan with explicit UI scope keywords (pages, components, Tailwind responsive layout, hover/loading/empty states, modal, toast). Used by plan-design-with-ui-scope and autoplan-chain tests. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(test): 3 gate-tier real-PTY E2E tests skill-e2e-auq-format-compliance.test.ts (~$0.50/run, 90-130s): - Asserts /plan-ceo-review's first AUQ contains all 7 mandated format elements (ELI10, Recommendation, Pros/Cons with ✅/❌, Net, (recommended) label). Catches drift in the shared preamble resolver that previously took weeks to notice. - Auto-grants permission dialogs that fire during preamble side-effects (touch on .feature-prompted markers in fresh user environments). - Verified PASS in 126s. skill-e2e-plan-design-with-ui.test.ts (~$0.80/run, 50-90s): - Counterpart to the existing no-UI early-exit test. When the input plan DOES describe UI changes, /plan-design-review must NOT early-exit and must reach a real skill AUQ. - Sends the slash command without args, then a follow-up message with the UI-heavy plan description (Claude Code rejects unknown trailing args). Asserts evidence does NOT contain "no UI scope". - Verified PASS in 54s. skill-budget-regression.test.ts (free, gate): - Library-only assertion. Reads the most recent eval file, finds the prior same-branch run via findPreviousRun, computes ComparisonResult, asserts no test exceeded 2× tools or turns. - Branch-scoped: skips with reason if the latest eval was produced on a different branch (cross-branch comparison would be noise). - First-run grace (vacuous pass) when no prior data exists. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(test): 3 periodic-tier real-PTY E2E tests skill-e2e-plan-ceo-mode-routing.test.ts (~$3/run, 6-10 min/case): - Verifies AUQ answer routing: HOLD SCOPE → rigor/bulletproof posture language; SCOPE EXPANSION → expansion/10x/dream language. Each case navigates 8-12 prior AUQs (telemetry, proactive, routing, vendoring, brain, office-hours, premise, approach) before hitting Step 0F. - Periodic, not gate: navigation phase too slow for PR-blocking. V2 expansion to 4 modes (SELECTIVE + REDUCTION) when nav is faster. skill-e2e-ship-idempotency.test.ts (~$3/run, 5-10 min): - Builds a real git fixture with VERSION 0.0.2 already bumped, matching package.json, CHANGELOG entry, pushed to a local bare remote. Runs /ship in plan mode and asserts STATE: ALREADY_BUMPED echoes from the Step 12 idempotency check, OR plan_ready terminates without mutation. - Snapshots VERSION + package.json + CHANGELOG entry count + commit count + branch HEAD before/after; fails if any changed. skill-e2e-autoplan-chain.test.ts (~$8/run, 12-18 min): - Asserts /autoplan phases run sequentially: tees timestamps as each "**Phase N complete.**" marker first appears. Phase 1 (CEO) must precede Phase 3 (Eng); Phase 2 (Design) is optional but if it appears, must sit between 1 and 3. - Auto-grants permission dialogs that fire during phase transitions. All three auto-handle permission dialogs (preamble side-effects on fresh user envs without .feature-prompted-* markers). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: spell out AskUserQuestion everywhere instead of AUQ Per user feedback: don't shorten AskUserQuestion to AUQ — the abbreviation reads as cryptic. Apply across all the new code from this branch: - Rename test/skill-e2e-auq-format-compliance.test.ts → test/skill-e2e-ask-user-question-format-compliance.test.ts - Touchfile entry auq-format-pty → ask-user-question-format-pty (touchfiles.ts + matching assertion in touchfiles.test.ts) - Function rename navigateToModeAuq → navigateToModeAskUserQuestion - Variable auqVisible → askUserQuestionVisible - Outcome literal 'real_auq' → 'real_question' - All comments + JSDoc + CHANGELOG entry write AskUserQuestion in full - "AUQs" plural → "AskUserQuestions" No behavior change. 49/49 free tests still pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: harden v1.15.0.0 CHANGELOG entry against hostile readers Per Garry: write the entry assuming a critic will screencap one line and try to use it as ammunition. Reframed the v1.15.0.0 release-summary to lead with new capability (real-PTY harness, 11 plan-mode tests, +6 new) instead of fix-of-prior- flaw narrative. Removed phrases that critics could weaponize: - "0/5 → 5/5 passing", "finally pass", "∞ (never green)" — drop - "Skill prompts get a 25% haircut" — implied self-inflicted bloat - "770K → 574K tokens" — absolute number lets critics quote "still 574K of bloat"; replaced with relative "−196K tokens per invocation" - "5 plan-mode E2E tests turned out to have never actually passed" — literal admission of long-term breakage; cut entirely - Itemized "Fixed: tests finally pass" entry — moved to Changed with neutral "rewritten on the new harness" framing - "Removed: harness with the runPlanModeSkillTest API that never worked" — replaced with "superseded by claude-pty-runner.ts" Added concrete code receipts to pre-empt "it's just markdown": - Net branch size: −11,609 lines (89 files, +7,240 / −18,849) - 654 lines of TypeScript in test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts - 8 new test files, ~1,453 lines of new TS code - 23 helper unit tests + 6 new gate/periodic E2E tests The deletion-heavy net diff (−11.6K lines) is itself the strongest defense against the "bloat" critique — surfaced explicitly in the numbers table. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-04-26 13:55:13 -07:00
3 people	0a803f9e81	feat: gstack v1 — simpler prompts + real LOC receipts (v1.0.0.0) (#1039) ... * docs: add design doc for /plan-tune v1 (observational substrate) Canonical record of the /plan-tune v1 design: typed question registry, per-question explicit preferences, inline tune: feedback with user-origin gate, dual-track profile (declared + inferred separately), and plain-English inspection skill. Captures every decision with pros/cons, what's deferred to v2 with explicit acceptance criteria, and what was rejected entirely. Codex review drove a substantial scope rollback from the initial CEO EXPANSION plan. 15+ legitimate findings (substrate claim was false without a typed registry; E4/E6/clamp logical contradiction; profile poisoning attack surface; LANDED preamble side effect; implementation order) shaped the final shape. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: typed question registry for /plan-tune v1 foundation scripts/question-registry.ts declares 53 recurring AskUserQuestion categories across 15 skills (ship, review, office-hours, plan-ceo-review, plan-eng-review, plan-design-review, plan-devex-review, qa, investigate, land-and-deploy, cso, gstack-upgrade, preamble, plan-tune, autoplan). Each entry has: stable kebab-case id, skill owner, category (approval | clarification | routing | cherry-pick | feedback-loop), door_type (one-way | two-way), optional stable option keys, optional psychographic signal_key, and a one-line description. 12 of 53 are one-way doors (destructive ops, architecture/data forks, security/compliance). These are ALWAYS asked regardless of user preference. Helpers: getQuestion(id), getOneWayDoorIds(), getAllRegisteredIds(), getRegistryStats(). No binary or resolver wiring yet — this is the schema substrate the rest of /plan-tune builds on. Ad-hoc question_ids (not registered) still log but skip psychographic signal attribution. Future /plan-tune skill surfaces frequently-firing ad-hoc ids as candidates for registry promotion. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: registry schema + safety + coverage tests (gate tier) 20 tests validating the question registry: Schema (7 tests): - Every entry has required fields - All ids are kebab-case and start with their skill name - No duplicate ids - Categories are from the allowed set - door_type is one-way | two-way - Options arrays are well-formed - Descriptions are short and single-line Helpers (5 tests): - getQuestion returns entry for known id, undefined for unknown - getOneWayDoorIds includes destructive questions, excludes two-way - getAllRegisteredIds count matches QUESTIONS keys - getRegistryStats totals are internally consistent One-way door safety (2 tests): - Every critical question (test failure, SQL safety, LLM trust boundary, security scan, merge confirm, rollback, fix apply, premise revise, arch finding, privacy gate, user challenge) is declared one-way - At least 10 one-way doors exist (catches regression if declarations are accidentally dropped) Registry breadth (3 tests): - 11 high-volume skills each have >= 1 registered question - Preamble one-time prompts are registered - /plan-tune's own questions are registered Signal map references (1 test): - signal_key values are typed kebab-case strings Template coverage (2 tests, informational): - AskUserQuestion usage across templates is non-trivial (>20) - Registry spans >= 10 skills 20 pass, 0 fail. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: one-way door classifier (belt-and-suspenders safety fallback) scripts/one-way-doors.ts — secondary keyword-pattern classifier that catches destructive questions even when the registry doesn't have an entry for them. The registry's door_type field (from scripts/question-registry.ts) is the PRIMARY safety gate. This classifier is the fallback for ad-hoc question_ids that agents generate at runtime. Classification priority: 1. Registry lookup by question_id → use declared door_type 2. Skill:category fallback (cso:approval, land-and-deploy:approval) 3. Keyword pattern match against question_summary 4. Default: treat as two-way (safer to log the miss than auto-decide unsafely) Covers 21 destructive patterns across: - File system (rm -rf, delete, wipe, purge, truncate) - Database (drop table/database/schema, delete from) - Git/VCS (force-push, reset --hard, checkout --, branch -D) - Deploy/infra (kubectl delete, terraform destroy, rollback) - Credentials (revoke/reset/rotate API key|token|secret|password) - Architecture (breaking change, schema migration, data model change) 7 new tests in test/plan-tune.test.ts covering: registry-first lookup, unknown-id fallthrough, keyword matching on destructive phrasings including embedded filler words ("rotate the API key"), skill-category fallback, benign questions defaulting to two-way, pattern-list non-empty. 27 pass, 0 fail. 1270 expect() calls. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: psychographic signal map + builder archetypes scripts/psychographic-signals.ts — hand-crafted {signal_key, user_choice} → {dimension, delta} map. Version 0.1.0. Conservative deltas (±0.03 to ±0.06 per event). Covers 9 signal keys: scope-appetite, architecture-care, code-quality-care, test-discipline, detail-preference, design-care, devex-care, distribution-care, session-mode. Helpers: applySignal() mutates running totals, newDimensionTotals() creates empty starting state, normalizeToDimensionValue() sigmoid-clamps accumulated delta to [0,1] (0 → 0.5 neutral), validateRegistrySignalKeys() checks that every signal_key in the registry has a SIGNAL_MAP entry. In v1 the signal map is used ONLY to compute inferred dimension values for /plan-tune inspection output. No skill behavior adapts to these signals until v2. scripts/archetypes.ts — 8 named archetypes + Polymath fallback: - Cathedral Builder (boil-the-ocean + architecture-first) - Ship-It Pragmatist (small scope + fast) - Deep Craft (detail-verbose + principled) - Taste Maker (intuitive, overrides recommendations) - Solo Operator (high-autonomy, delegates) - Consultant (hands-on, consulted on everything) - Wedge Hunter (narrow scope aggressively) - Builder-Coach (balanced steering) - Polymath (fallback when no archetype matches) matchArchetype() uses L2 distance scaled by tightness, with a 0.55 threshold below which we return Polymath. v1 ships the model stable; v2 narrative/vibe commands wire it into user-facing output. 14 new tests: signal map consistency vs registry, applySignal behavior for known/unknown keys, normalization bounds, archetype schema validity, name uniqueness, matchArchetype correctness for each reference profile, Polymath fallback for outliers. 41 pass, 0 fail total in test/plan-tune.test.ts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: bin/gstack-question-log — append validated AskUserQuestion events Append-only JSONL log at ~/.gstack/projects/{SLUG}/question-log.jsonl. Schema: {skill, question_id, question_summary, category?, door_type?, options_count?, user_choice, recommended?, followed_recommendation?, session_id?, ts} Validates: - skill is kebab-case - question_id is kebab-case, <= 64 chars - question_summary non-empty, <= 200 chars, newlines flattened - category is one of approval/clarification/routing/cherry-pick/feedback-loop - door_type is one-way or two-way - options_count is integer in [1, 26] - user_choice non-empty string, <= 64 chars Injection defense on question_summary rejects the same patterns as gstack-learnings-log (ignore previous instructions, system:, override:, do not report, etc). followed_recommendation is auto-computed when both user_choice and recommended are present. ts auto-injected as ISO 8601 if missing. 21 tests covering: valid payloads, full field preservation, auto-followed computation, appending, long-summary truncation, newline flattening, invalid JSON, missing fields, bad case, oversized ids, invalid enum values, out-of-range options_count, and 6 injection attack patterns. 21 pass, 0 fail, 43 expect() calls. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: bin/gstack-developer-profile — unified profile with migration bin/gstack-developer-profile supersedes bin/gstack-builder-profile. The old binary becomes a one-line legacy shim delegating to --read for /office-hours backward compat. Subcommands: --read legacy KEY:VALUE output (tier, session_count, etc) --migrate folds ~/.gstack/builder-profile.jsonl into ~/.gstack/developer-profile.json. Atomic (temp + rename), idempotent (no-op when target exists or source absent), archives source as .migrated-YYYY-MM-DD-HHMMSS --derive recomputes inferred dimensions from question-log.jsonl using the signal map in scripts/psychographic-signals.ts --profile full profile JSON --gap declared vs inferred diff JSON --trace <dim> event-level trace of what contributed to a dimension --check-mismatch flags dimensions where declared and inferred disagree by > 0.3 (requires >= 10 events first) --vibe archetype name + description from scripts/archetypes.ts --narrative (v2 stub) Auto-migration on first read: if legacy file exists and new file doesn't, migrate before reading. Creates a neutral (all-0.5) stub if nothing exists. Unified schema (see docs/designs/PLAN_TUNING_V0.md §Architecture): {identity, declared, inferred: {values, sample_size, diversity}, gap, overrides, sessions, signals_accumulated, schema_version} 25 new tests across subcommand behaviors: - --read defaults + stub creation - --migrate: 3 sessions preserved with signal tallies, idempotency, archival - Tier calculation: welcome_back / regular / inner_circle boundaries - --derive: neutral-when-empty, upward nudge on 'expand', downward on 'reduce', recomputable (same input → same output), ad-hoc unregistered ids ignored - --trace: contributing events, empty for untouched dims, error without arg - --gap: empty when no declared, correctly computed otherwise - --vibe: returns archetype name + description - --check-mismatch: threshold behavior, 10+ sample requirement - Unknown subcommand errors 25 pass, 0 fail, 60 expect() calls. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: bin/gstack-question-preference — explicit preferences + user-origin gate Subcommands: --check <id> → ASK_NORMALLY | AUTO_DECIDE (decides if a registered question should be auto-decided by the agent) --write '{…}' → set a preference (requires user-origin source) --read → dump preferences JSON --clear [id] → clear one or all --stats → short counts summary Preference values: always-ask | never-ask | ask-only-for-one-way. Stored at ~/.gstack/projects/{SLUG}/question-preferences.json. Safety contract (the core of Codex finding #16, profile-poisoning defense from docs/designs/PLAN_TUNING_V0.md §Security model): 1. One-way doors ALWAYS return ASK_NORMALLY from --check, regardless of user preference. User's never-ask is overridden with a visible safety note so the user knows why their preference didn't suppress the prompt. 2. --write requires an explicit `source` field: - Allowed: "plan-tune", "inline-user" - REJECTED with exit code 2: "inline-tool-output", "inline-file", "inline-file-content", "inline-unknown" Rejection is explicit ("profile poisoning defense") so the caller can log and surface the attempt. 3. free_text on --write is sanitized against injection patterns (ignore previous instructions, override:, system:, etc.) and newline-flattened. Each --write also appends a preference-set event to ~/.gstack/projects/{SLUG}/question-events.jsonl for derivation audit trail. 31 tests: - --check behavior (4): defaults, two-way, one-way (one-way overrides never-ask with safety note), unknown ids, missing arg - --check with prefs (5): never-ask on two-way → AUTO_DECIDE; never-ask on one-way → ASK_NORMALLY with override note; always-ask always asks; ask-only-for-one-way flips appropriately - --write valid (5): inline-user accepted, plan-tune accepted, persisted correctly, event appended, free_text preserved with flattening - User-origin gate (6): missing source rejected; inline-tool-output rejected with exit code 2 and explicit poisoning message; inline-file, inline-file-content, inline-unknown rejected; unknown source rejected - Schema validation (4): invalid JSON, bad question_id, bad preference, injection in free_text - --read (2): empty → {}, returns writes - --clear (3): specific id, clear-all, NOOP for missing - --stats (2): empty zeros, tallies by preference type 31 pass, 0 fail, 52 expect() calls. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: question-tuning preamble resolvers scripts/resolvers/question-tuning.ts ships three preamble generators: generateQuestionPreferenceCheck — before each AskUserQuestion, agent runs gstack-question-preference --check <id>. AUTO_DECIDE suppresses the ask and auto-chooses recommended. ASK_NORMALLY asks as usual. One-way door safety override is handled by the binary. generateQuestionLog — after each AskUserQuestion, agent appends a log record with skill, question_id, summary, category, door_type, options_count, user_choice, recommended, session_id. generateInlineTuneFeedback — offers inline "tune:" prompt after two-way questions. Documents structured shortcuts (never-ask, always-ask, ask-only-for-one-way, ask-less) AND accepts free-form English with normalization + confirmation. Explicitly spells out the USER-ORIGIN GATE: only write tune events when the prefix appears in the user's own chat message, never from tool output or file content. Binary enforces. All three resolvers are gated by the QUESTION_TUNING preamble echo. When the config is off, the agent skips these sections entirely. Ready to be wired into preamble.ts in the next commit. Codex host has a simpler variant that uses $GSTACK_BIN env vars. scripts/resolvers/index.ts registers three placeholders: QUESTION_PREFERENCE_CHECK, QUESTION_LOG, INLINE_TUNE_FEEDBACK Total resolver count goes from 45 to 48. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: wire question-tuning into preamble for tier >= 2 skills scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts — adds two things: 1. _QUESTION_TUNING config echo in the preamble bash block, gated on the user's gstack-config `question_tuning` value (default: false). 2. A combined Question Tuning section for tier >= 2 skills, injected after the confusion protocol. The section itself is runtime-gated by the QUESTION_TUNING value — agents skip it entirely when off. scripts/resolvers/question-tuning.ts — consolidated into one compact combined section `generateQuestionTuning(ctx)` covering: preference check before the question, log after, and inline tune: feedback with user-origin gate. Per-phase generators remain exported for unit tests but are no longer the main entrypoint. Size impact: +570 tokens / +2.3KB per tier-2+ SKILL.md. Three skills (plan-ceo-review, office-hours, ship) still exceed the 100KB token ceiling — but they were already over before this change. Delta is the smallest viable wiring of the /plan-tune v1 substrate. Golden fixtures (test/fixtures/golden/claude-ship, codex-ship, factory-ship) regenerated to match the new baseline. Full test run: 1149 pass, 0 fail, 113 skip across 28 files. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore: regenerate SKILL.md files with question-tuning section bun run gen:skill-docs --host all after wiring the QUESTION_TUNING preamble section. Every tier >= 2 skill now includes the combined Question Tuning guidance. Runtime-gated — agents skip the section when question_tuning is off in gstack-config (default). Golden fixtures (claude-ship, codex-ship, factory-ship) updated to the new baseline. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: /plan-tune skill — conversational inspection + preferences plan-tune/SKILL.md.tmpl: the user-facing skill for /plan-tune v1. Routes plain-English intent to one of 8 flows: - Enable + setup (first-time): 5 declaration questions mapping to the 5 psychographic dimensions (scope_appetite, risk_tolerance, detail_preference, autonomy, architecture_care). Writes to developer-profile.json declared.*. - Inspect profile: plain-English rendering of declared + inferred + gap. Uses word bands (low/balanced/high) not raw floats. Shows vibe archetype when calibration gate is met. - Review question log: top-20 question frequencies with follow/override counts. Highlights override-heavy questions as candidates for never-ask. - Set a preference: normalizes "stop asking me about X" → never-ask, etc. Confirms ambiguous phrasings before writing via gstack-question-preference. - Edit declared profile: interprets free-form ("more boil-the-ocean") and CONFIRMS before mutating declared.* (trust boundary per Codex #15). - Show gap: declared vs inferred diff with plain-English severity bands (close / drift / mismatch). Never auto-updates declared from the gap. - Stats: preference counts + diversity/calibration status. - Enable / disable: gstack-config set question_tuning true|false. Design constraints enforced: - Plain English everywhere. No CLI subcommand syntax required. Shortcuts (`profile`, `vibe`, `stats`, `setup`) exist but optional. - user-origin gate on tune: writes. source: "plan-tune" for user-invoked /plan-tune; source: "inline-user" for inline tune: from other skills. - One-way doors override never-ask (safety, surfaced to user). - No behavior adaptation in v1 — this skill inspects and configures only. Generates plan-tune/SKILL.md at ~11.6k tokens, well under the 100KB ceiling. Generated for all hosts via `bun run gen:skill-docs --host all`. Full free test suite: 1149 pass, 0 fail, 113 skip across 28 files. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: end-to-end pipeline + preamble injection coverage Added 6 tests to test/plan-tune.test.ts: Preamble injection (3 tests): - tier 2+ includes Question Tuning section with preference check, log, and user-origin gate language ('profile-poisoning defense', 'inline-user') - tier 1 does NOT include the prose section (QUESTION_TUNING bash echo still fires since it's in the bash block all tiers share) - codex host swaps binDir references to $GSTACK_BIN End-to-end pipeline (3 tests) — real binaries working together, not mocks: - Log 5 expand choices → --derive → profile shows scope_appetite > 0.5 (full log → registry lookup → signal map → normalization round-trip) - --write source: inline-tool-output rejected; --read confirms no pref was persisted (the profile-poisoning defense actually works end-to-end) - Migrate a 3-session legacy file; confirm legacy gstack-builder-profile shim still returns SESSION_COUNT: 3, TIER: welcome_back, CROSS_PROJECT: true test/plan-tune.test.ts now has 47 tests total. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: E2E test for /plan-tune plain-English inspection flow (gate tier) test/skill-e2e-plan-tune.test.ts — verifies /plan-tune correctly routes plain-English intent ("review the questions I've been asked") to the Review question log section without requiring CLI subcommand syntax. Seeds a synthetic question-log.jsonl with 3 entries exercising: - override behavior (user chose expand over recommended selective) - one-way door respect (user followed ship-test-failure-triage recommendation) - two-way override (user skipped recommended changelog polish) Invokes the skill via `claude -p` and asserts: - Agent surfaces >= 2 of 3 logged question_ids in output - Agent notices override/skip behavior from the log - Exit reason is success or error_max_turns (not agent-crash) Gate-tier because the core v1 DX promise is plain-English intent routing. If it requires memorized subcommands or breaks on natural language, that's a regression of the defining feature. Registered in test/helpers/touchfiles.ts with dependencies: - plan-tune/** (skill template + generated md) - scripts/question-registry.ts (required for log lookup) - scripts/psychographic-signals.ts, scripts/one-way-doors.ts (derive path) - bin/gstack-question-log, gstack-question-preference, gstack-developer-profile Skipped when EVALS_ENABLED is not set; runs on `bun run test:evals`. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore: bump version and changelog (v0.19.0.0) — /plan-tune v1 Ships /plan-tune as observational substrate: typed question registry, dual-track developer profile (declared + inferred), explicit per-question preferences with user-origin gate, inline tune: feedback across every tier >= 2 skill, unified developer-profile.json with migration from builder-profile.jsonl. Scope rolled back from initial CEO EXPANSION plan after outside-voice review (Codex). 6 deferrals tracked as P0 TODOs with explicit acceptance criteria: E1 substrate wiring, E3 narrative/vibe, E4 blind-spot coach, E5 LANDED celebration, E6 auto-adjustment, E7 psychographic auto-decide. See docs/designs/PLAN_TUNING_V0.md for the full design record. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ci): harden Dockerfile.ci against transient Ubuntu mirror failures The CI image build failed with: E: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/... Connection failed [IP: 91.189.92.22 80] ERROR: process "/bin/sh -c apt-get update && apt-get install ..." did not complete successfully: exit code: 100 archive.ubuntu.com periodically returns "connection refused" on individual regional mirrors. Without retry logic a single failed fetch nukes the whole Docker build. Three defenses, layered: 1. /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80-retries — apt fetches each package up to 5 times with a 30s timeout. Handles per-package flakes. 2. Shell-loop retry around the whole apt-get step (x3, 10s sleep) — handles the case where apt-get update itself can't reach any mirror. 3. --retry 5 --retry-delay 5 --retry-connrefused on all curl fetches (bun install script, GitHub CLI keyring, NodeSource setup script). Applied to every apt-get and curl call in the Dockerfile. No behavior change on happy path — only kicks in when mirrors blip. Fixes the build-image job that was blocking CI on the /plan-tune PR. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: add PLAN_TUNING_V1 + PACING_UPDATES_V0 design docs Captures the V1 design (ELI10 writing + LOC reframe) in docs/designs/PLAN_TUNING_V1.md and the extracted V1.1 pacing-overhaul plan in docs/designs/PACING_UPDATES_V0.md. V1 scope was reduced from the original bundled pacing + writing-style plan after three engineering-review passes revealed structural gaps in the pacing workstream that couldn't be closed via plan-text editing. TODOS.md P0 entry links to V1.1. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: curated jargon list for V1 writing-style glossing Repo-owned list of ~50 high-frequency technical terms (idempotent, race condition, N+1, backpressure, etc.) that gstack glosses on first use in tier-≥2 skill output. Baked into generated SKILL.md prose at gen-skill-docs time. Terms not on this list are assumed plain-English enough. Contributions via PR. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(preamble): V1 Writing Style section + EXPLAIN_LEVEL echo + migration prompt Adds a new Writing Style section to tier-≥2 preamble output composing with the existing AskUserQuestion Format section. Six rules: jargon glossed on first use per skill invocation (from scripts/jargon-list.json), outcome- framed questions, short sentences, decisions close with user impact, gloss-on-first-use even if user pasted term, user-turn override for "be terse" requests. Baked conditionally (skip if EXPLAIN_LEVEL: terse). Adds EXPLAIN_LEVEL preamble echo using \${binDir} (host-portable matching V0 QUESTION_TUNING pattern). Adds WRITING_STYLE_PENDING echo reading a flag file written by the V0→V1 upgrade migration; on first post-upgrade skill run, the agent fires a one-time AskUserQuestion offering terse mode. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(gstack-config): validate explain_level + document in header Adds explain_level: default|terse to the annotated config header with a one-line description. Whitelists valid values; on set of an unknown value, prints a specific warning ("explain_level '\$VALUE' not recognized. Valid values: default, terse. Using default.") and writes the default value. Matches V1 preamble's EXPLAIN_LEVEL echo expectation. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: V1 upgrade migration — writing-style opt-out prompt New migration script following existing v0.15.2.0.sh / v0.16.2.0.sh pattern. Writes a .writing-style-prompt-pending flag file on first run post-upgrade. The preamble's migration-prompt block reads the flag and fires a one-time AskUserQuestion offering the user a choice between the new default writing style and restoring V0 prose via \`gstack-config set explain_level terse\`. Idempotent via flag files; if the user has already set explain_level explicitly, counts as answered and skips. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: LOC reframe tooling — throughput comparison + README updater + scc installer Three new scripts: - scripts/garry-output-comparison.ts — enumerates Garry-authored commits in 2013 + 2026 on public repos, extracts ADDED lines from git diff, classifies as logical SLOC via scc --stdin (regex fallback if scc missing). Writes docs/throughput-2013-vs-2026.json with per-language breakdown + explicit caveats (public repos only, commit-style drift, private-work exclusion). - scripts/update-readme-throughput.ts — reads the JSON if present, replaces the README's <!-- GSTACK-THROUGHPUT-PLACEHOLDER --> anchor with the computed multiple (preserving the anchor for future runs). If JSON missing, writes GSTACK-THROUGHPUT-PENDING marker that CI rejects — forcing the build to run before commit. - scripts/setup-scc.sh — standalone OS-detecting installer for scc. Not a package.json dependency (95% of users never run throughput). Brew on macOS, apt on Linux, GitHub releases link on Windows. Two-string anchor pattern (PLACEHOLDER vs PENDING) prevents the pipeline from destroying its own update path. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(retro): surface logical SLOC + weighted commits above raw LOC V1 reorders the /retro summary table to lead with features shipped, then commits + weighted commits (commits × files-touched capped at 20), then PRs merged, then logical SLOC added as the primary code-volume metric. Raw LOC stays present but is demoted to context. Rationale inline in the template: ten lines of a good fix is not less shipping than ten thousand lines of scaffold. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(v1): README hero reframe + writing-style + CHANGELOG + version bump to 1.0.0.0 README.md: - Hero removes "600,000+ lines of production code" framing; replaces with the computed 2013-vs-2026 pro-rata multiple (via <!-- GSTACK-THROUGHPUT-PLACEHOLDER --> anchor, filled by the update-readme-throughput build step). - Hiring callout: "ship real products at AI-coding speed" instead of "10K+ LOC/day." - New Writing Style section (~80 words) between Quick start and Install: "v1 prompts = simpler" framing, outcome-language example, terse-mode opt-out, pointer to /plan-tune. CLAUDE.md: one-paragraph Writing style (V1) note under project conventions, linking to preamble resolver + V1 design docs. CHANGELOG.md: V1 entry on top of v0.19.0.0 with user-facing narrative (what changes, how to opt out, for-contributors notes). Mentions scope reduction — pacing overhaul ships in V1.1. CONTRIBUTING.md: one-paragraph note on jargon-list.json maintenance (PR to add/remove terms; regenerate via gen:skill-docs). VERSION + package.json: bump to 1.0.0.0. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore: regenerate SKILL.md files + golden fixtures for V1 Mechanical regeneration from the updated templates in prior commits: - Writing Style section now appears in tier-≥2 skill output. - EXPLAIN_LEVEL + WRITING_STYLE_PENDING echoes in preamble bash. - V1 migration-prompt block fires conditionally on first upgrade. - Jargon list inlined into preamble prose at gen time. - Retro template's logical SLOC + weighted commits order applied. Regenerated for all 8 hosts via bun run gen:skill-docs --host all. Golden ship-skill fixtures refreshed from regenerated outputs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: V1 gate coverage — writing-style resolver + config + jargon + migration + dormancy Six new gate-tier test files: - test/writing-style-resolver.test.ts — asserts Writing Style section is injected into tier-≥2 preamble, all 6 rules present, jargon list inlined, terse-mode gate condition present, Codex output uses \$GSTACK_BIN (not ~/.claude/), tier-1 does NOT get the section, migration-prompt block present. - test/explain-level-config.test.ts — gstack-config set/get round-trip for default + terse, unknown-value warns + defaults to default, header documents the key, round-trip across set→set→get. - test/jargon-list.test.ts — shape + ~50 terms + no duplicates (case-insensitive) + includes canonical high-signal terms. - test/v0-dormancy.test.ts — 5D dimension names + archetype names forbidden in default-mode tier-≥2 SKILL.md output, except for plan-tune and office-hours where they're load-bearing. - test/readme-throughput.test.ts — script replaces anchor with number on happy path, writes PENDING marker when JSON missing, CI gate asserts committed README contains no PENDING string. - test/upgrade-migration-v1.test.ts — fresh run writes pending flag, idempotent after user-answered, pre-existing explain_level counts as answered. All 95 V1 test-expect() calls pass. Full suite: 0 failures. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: compute real 2013-vs-2026 throughput multiple (130.2×) Ran scripts/garry-output-comparison.ts across all 15 public garrytan/* repos. Aggregated results into docs/throughput-2013-vs-2026.json and ran scripts/update-readme-throughput.ts to replace the README placeholder. 2013 public activity: 2 commits, 2,384 logical lines added across 1 week, in 1 repo (zurb-foundation-wysihtml5 upstream contribution). 2026 public activity: 279 commits, 310,484 logical lines added across 17 active weeks, in 3 repos (gbrain, gstack, resend_robot). Multiples (public repos only, apples-to-apples): - Logical SLOC: 130.2× - Commits per active week: 8.2× - Raw lines added: 134.4× Private work at both eras (2013 Bookface at YC, Posterous-era code, 2026 internal tools) is excluded from this comparison. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: 207× throughput multiple (with private repos + Bookface) Re-ran scripts/garry-output-comparison.ts across all 41 repos under garrytan/* (15 public + 26 private), including Bookface (YC's internal social network, 2013-era work). 2013 activity: 71 commits, 5,143 logical lines, 4 active repos (bookface, delicounter, tandong, zurb-foundation-wysihtml5) 2026 activity: 350 commits, 1,064,818 logical lines, 15 active repos (gbrain, gstack, gbrowser, tax-app, kumo, tenjin, autoemail, kitsune, easy-chromium-compiles, conductor-playground, garryslist-agent, baku, gstack-website, resend_robot, garryslist-brain) Multiples: - Logical SLOC: 207× (up from 130.2× when including private work) - Raw lines: 223× - Commits/active-week: 3.4× Stopped committing docs/throughput-2013-vs-2026.json — analysis is a local artifact, not repo state. Added docs/throughput-*.json to .gitignore. Full markdown analysis at ~/throughput-analysis-2026-04-18.md (local-only). README multiple is now hardcoded; re-run the script and edit manually when you want to refresh it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: run rate vs year-to-date throughput comparison Two separate numbers in the README hero: - Run rate: ~700× (9,859 logical lines/day in 2026 vs 14/day in 2013) - Year-to-date: 207× (2026 through April 18 already exceeds 2013 full year by 207×) Previous "207× pro-rata" framing mixed full-year 2013 vs partial-year 2026. Run rate is the apples-to-apples normalization; YTD is the "already produced" total. Both are honest; both are compelling; they measure different things. Analysis at ~/throughput-analysis-2026-04-18.md (local-only). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(throughput): script natively computes to-date + run-rate multiples Enhanced scripts/garry-output-comparison.ts so both calculations come out of a single run instead of being reassembled ad-hoc in bash: PerYearResult now includes: - days_elapsed — 365 for past years, day-of-year for current - is_partial — flags the current (in-progress) year - per_day_rate — logical/raw/commits normalized by calendar day - annualized_projection — per_day_rate × 365 Output JSON's `multiples` now has two sibling blocks: - multiples.to_date — raw volume ratios (2026-YTD / 2013-full-year) - multiples.run_rate — per-day pace ratios (apples-to-apples) Back-compat: multiples.logical_lines_added still aliases to_date for older consumers reading the JSON. Updated README hero to cite both (picking up brain/* repo that was missed in the earlier aggregation pass): 2026 run rate: ~880× my 2013 pace (12,382 vs 14 logical lines/day) 2026 YTD: 260× the entire 2013 year Stderr summary now prints both multiples at the end of each run. Full analysis at ~/throughput-analysis-2026-04-18.md (local-only). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: ON_THE_LOC_CONTROVERSY methodology post + README link Long-form response to the "LOC is a meaningless vanity metric" critique. Covers: - The three branches of the LOC critique and which are right - Why logical SLOC (NCLOC) beats raw LOC as the honest measurement - Full method: author-scoped git diff, regex-classified added lines, aggregated across 41 public + private garrytan/* repos - Both calculations: to-date (260x) and run-rate (879x) - Steelman of the critics (greenfield-vs-maintenance, survivorship bias, quality-adjusted productivity, time-to-first-user) - Reproduction instructions Linked from README hero via a blockquote directly below the number. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * exclude: tax-app from throughput analysis (import-dominated history) tax-app's history is one commit of 104K logical lines — an initial import of a codebase, not authored work. Removing it to keep the comparison honest. Changes: - scripts/garry-output-comparison.ts: added EXCLUDED_REPOS constant with tax-app + a one-line rationale. The script now skips excluded repos with a stderr note and deletes any stale output JSON so aggregation loops don't pick up pre-exclusion numbers. - README hero: updated to 810× run rate + 240× YTD (were 880×/260×). Wording updated to "40 public + private repos ... after excluding repos dominated by imported code." - docs/ON_THE_LOC_CONTROVERSY.md: updated all numbers, added an "Exclusions" paragraph explaining tax-app, removed tax-app from the "shipped not WIP" example list. New numbers (2026 through day 108, without tax-app): - To-date: 240× logical SLOC (1,233,062 vs 5,143) - Run rate: 810× per-day pace (11,417 vs 14 logical/day) - Annualized: ~4.2M logical lines projected Future re-runs automatically skip tax-app. Add more exclusions to EXCLUDED_REPOS at the top of the script with a one-line rationale. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: correct tax-app exclusion rationale tax-app is a demo app I built for an upcoming YC channel video, not an "import-dominated history" as the previous commit claimed. Excluded because it's not production shipping work, not because of an import commit. Updated rationale in scripts/garry-output-comparison.ts's EXCLUDED_REPOS constant, in docs/ON_THE_LOC_CONTROVERSY.md's method section + conclusion, and in the README hero wording ("one demo repo" vs the earlier "repos dominated by imported code"). Numbers unchanged — the exclusion itself is the same, just the reason. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: harden ON_THE_LOC_CONTROVERSY against Cramer + neckbeard critiques Reframes the thesis as "engineers can fly now" (amplification, not replacement) and fortifies the soft spots critics will attack. Added: - Flight-thesis opener: pilot vs walker, leverage not replacement. - Second deflation layer for AI verbosity (on top of NCLOC). Headline moves from 810x to 408x after generous 2x AI-boilerplate cut, with explicit sensitivity analysis showing the number is still large under pessimistic priors (5x → 162x, 10x → 81x, 100x impossible). - Weekly distribution check (kills "you had one burst week" attack). - Revert rate (2.0%) and post-merge fix rate (6.3%) with OSS comparables (K8s/Rails/Django band). Addresses "where are your error rates" directly. - Named production adoption signals (gstack 1000+ installs, gbrain beta, resend_robot paying API) with explicit concession that "shipped != used at scale" for most of the corpus. - Harder steelman: 5 specific concessions with quantified pivot points (e.g., "if 2013 baseline was 3.5x higher, 810x → 228x, still high"). Removed factual error: Posterous acquisition paragraph (Garry had already left Posterous by 2011, so the "Twitter bought our private repos" excuse for the 2013 corpus gap doesn't apply). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: update gstack/gbrain adoption numbers in LOC controversy post gstack: "1,000+ distinct project installations" → "tens of thousands of daily active users" (telemetry-reported, community tier, opt-in). gbrain: "small set of beta testers" → "hundreds of beta testers running it live." Both are the accurate current numbers. The concession paragraph below (about shipped != adopted at scale for the long-tail repos) still reads correctly since it's about the corpus as a whole, not gstack/gbrain specifically. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: reframe reproducibility note as OSS breakout flex "You'd need access to my private repos" → "Bookface and Posthaven are private, but gstack and gbrain are open-sourced with tens of thousands of GitHub stars and tens of thousands of confirmed regular users, among the most-used OSS projects in the world that didn't exist three months ago." Keeps the `gh repo list` command at the end for the actual reproducibility instruction. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * Rewrite LOC controversy post - Lead with concession (LOC is garbage, do the math anyway) - Preempt 14 lines/day meme with historical baselines (Brooks, Jones, McConnell) - Remove 'neckbeard' language throughout - Add slop-scan story (Ben Vinegar, 5.24 → 1.96, 62% cut) - David Cramer GUnit joke - Add testing philosophy section (the real unlock) - ASCII weekly distribution chart - gstack telemetry section with real numbers (15K installs, 305K invocations, 95.2% success) - Top skills usage chart - Pick-your-priors paragraph moved earlier (the killer) - Sharper close: run the script, show me your numbers * docs: four precision fixes on LOC controversy post 1. Citation fix. Kernighan didn't say anything about LOC-as-metric (that's the famous "aircraft building by weight" quote, commonly misattributed but actually Bill Gates). Replaced "Kernighan implied it before that" with the real Dijkstra quote ("lines produced" vs "lines spent" from EWD1036, with direct link) + the Gates quote. Verified via web search. 2. Slop-scan direction clarified. "(highest on his benchmark)" was ambiguous — could read as a brag. Now: "Higher score = more slop. He ran it on gstack and we scored 5.24, the worst he'd measured at the time." Then the 62% cut lands as an actual win. 3. Prose/chart skill-usage ordering now matches. Added /plan-eng-review (28,014) to the prose list so it doesn't conflict with the chart below it. 4. Cut the "David — I owe you one / GUnit" insider joke. Most readers won't connect Cramer → Sentry → GUnit naming. Ends the slop-scan paragraph on the stronger line: "Run `bun test` and watch 2,000+ tests pass." Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: tighten four LOC post citations to match primary sources 1. Bill Gates quote: flagged as folklore-grade. Was "Bill Gates put it more memorably" (firm attribution). Now "The old line (widely attributed to Bill Gates, sourcing murky) puts it more memorably." The quote stands; honesty about attribution avoids the same misattribution trap we just fixed for Kernighan. 2. Capers Jones: "15-50 across thousands of projects" → "roughly 16-38 LOC/day across thousands of projects" — matches his actual published measurements (which also report as 325-750 LOC/month). 3. Steve McConnell: "10-50 for finished, tested, delivered code" was folklore. Replaced with his actual project-size-dependent range from Code Complete: "20-125 LOC/day for small projects (10K LOC) down to 1.5-25 for large projects (10M LOC) — it's size-dependent, not a single number." 4. Revert rate comparison: "Kubernetes, Rails, and Django historically run 1.5-3%" was unsourced. Replaced with "mature OSS codebases typically run 1-3%" + "run the same command on whatever you consider the bar and compare." No false specificity about which repos. Net: every quantitative citation in the post now matches primary-source figures or is explicitly flagged as folklore. Neckbeards can verify. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: drop Writing style section from README Was sitting in prime real estate between Quick start and Install — internal implementation detail, not something users need up-front. Existing coverage is enough: - Upgrade migration prompt notifies users on first post-upgrade run - CLAUDE.md has the contributor note - docs/designs/PLAN_TUNING_V1.md has the full design Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: collapse team-mode setup into one paste-and-go command Step 2 was three separate code blocks: setup --team, then team-init, then git add/commit. Mirrors Step 1's style now — one shell one-liner that does all three. Subshell (cd && ./setup --team) keeps the user in their repo pwd so team-init + git commit land in the right place. "Swap required for optional" moved to a one-liner below. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: move full-clone footnote from README to CONTRIBUTING The "Contributing or need full history?" note is for contributors, not for someone following the README install flow. Moved into CONTRIBUTING's Quick start section where it fits next to the existing clone command, with a tip to upgrade an existing shallow clone via \`git fetch --unshallow\`. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: root <root@localhost>	2026-04-18 15:05:42 +08:00