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Garry Tanandcapy-ai[bot] df017c50b8 v1.91.178.0 fix(qa): materialize names the next write instead of qualifying the verdict by report root (flaky pass 2026-10-22) (#3341)
* fix(qa): materialize names the next write; fixture states the write boundary (GSTA-63)

qa-functional-webhook-fix (gate 39646086155) and qa-functional-cli-fix
(gate 39166935531) each wrote a stray placeholder beside the fixture
right after a fail verdict that read "final for this report root".

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Garry Tanandcapy-ai[bot] 77d125e0bc v1.91.127.0 fix(evals): paid-gate reliability round 2: docsync candidate protocol, scope-block detection, qa fix-loop budgets, lettered consent (#3260)
* test(qa-callers): bind QA section names in the caller prompt instead of teaching helper forms (W3-4)

The caller session prompt taught full capture/checkpoint syntax but only
mentioned materialize, so two ship-exploratory-small-cli sessions (paid
gate runs 38973329985, 38993076767) skipped qa/sections/exploratory.md and
system-functional.md and guessed a bare materialize. The prompt now
declares only fixture bindings (DEADLINE_TOOL, EVIDENCE_TOOL, PROBE_DIR,
DEADLINE_FILE, --public approval, --timeout-ms 10000 for plan probes) and
points to the section for every form. The read requirement is unchanged;
both captured transcripts are kept as negative controls.

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* fix(review-army): run the state-machine detector in the scope block and check its exit status (W3-5)

Specialist 9 named gstack-state-matrix detect only in selection prose, and
small diffs keep only State Machines, so agents ran an undeclared command
(paid gate run 39002269281). The generated scope block now runs the
detector with its exit status checked: on failure it keeps the detector's
diagnostics and sets SCOPE_STATE_MACHINE=unknown, and selection dispatches
State Machines when the signal is true or unknown. The check step becomes a
declared heredoc block. The clarity test requires every non-diff-scope
signal to come from a detect helper the scope block runs; a free test runs
the block against a failing detector stub; the captured standalone call
stays outside the caller interface.

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* fix(third-party-actions): letter the absent-Aside consent options B/C/D (W3-7)

The contract fixed letters only when Aside is detected, so a tpa-absent-linux
agent numbered its consent question 1/2/3 (paid run 39011101113), which the
lettered-offer inspection cannot read. The absent branch now offers
B) gstack's own visible browser, C) manual instructions, D) defer and omits
A). The paid test's assertion is unchanged; the captured numbered answer is
a documented fail example in the unit test.

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* fix(plan-reality): say tier 1 rows are never n/a (W3-8)

The plan-review reality block offered pass|finding|n/a without saying tier 1
rows may never be n/a, so a plan-mode-no-op session wrote
`REALITY: deferred-asks n/a ...`, check returned repair, and the repair loop
ran past the 300 s capture (paid run 39004466422). The block now says tier
1 rows are never n/a and that with no linked issue deferred-asks is pass
with a receipt showing none. The captured line is pinned through check as
missing=deferred-asks verdict=repair.

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* test(qa-functional): webhook fix runs re-verify the repaired invariant and rerun superseded captures (W3-6, W3-14)

W3-6: stage 2 of the fix-run prompt asked only for the original, happy,
cancel and dependency probes while verifyQANativeRegression reruns all
eight, so a status-only repair that left partial broken reached the verifier
(paid run 38986120559). The webhook fix prompt now states the capture budget
up front (at most 5 pre-repair captures, then the 7 post-repair scenarios:
duplicate, partial, concurrent-ab, concurrent-ba, happy, cancel, dependency;
12 in total; report incomplete if 5 cannot establish the defect). That list
feeds the capture nudge (GSTACK_QA_REQUIRED_PROBES);
QA_WEBHOOK_REQUIRED_SCENARIOS and the verdict are unchanged.

W3-14: the fix prompt now says to rerun every pre-repair capture the
verdict relies on after the final repair, and that a superseded row stays
open until its command reran on the repaired source (paid run 39053431488
labelled a pre-repair duplicate superseded and never reran it). The
detector and its negative test are unchanged; the captured shape joins them
as a negative control.

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* fix(qa): tie the exploratory stop rule to per-rule input probes; fix runs close superseded captures (W3-9, W3-14)

W3-9: two qa-functional-cli-report sessions stopped at 5-7 of 12 probes
without probing a non-digit amount (paid runs 38983306684, 39001107574),
though system-functional.md requires one probe per documented input rule.
The single stop rule shared by both exploratory templates now says each
documented input rule needs its own probe breaking only that rule, and
rules left uncovered at a probe or time cap go in limits.

W3-14: for fix runs (not qa-only), every capture taken before a fix is
superseded even when its client prints no snapshot; before completion the
agent reruns each one its verdict relies on or reports it as an open
remainder. Production superseded/open semantics are unchanged.

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* test(qa-functional): keep the captured webhook-report cat attempts as denied negative controls (Q3)

Paid run 39006896632 (qa-functional-webhook-report) attempted
`cat package.json probe.ts .gitignore` and `cat src/*.ts test/*.ts`; the
PreToolUse hook denied both. This is a model miss, not a detector defect, so
both commands are pinned as denied by the registered hook and outside
qaCommandAllowed. No detector change.

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* fix(docs-candidate): per-subcommand --help and a compare reject that names the fix (W3-2)

snapshot --help and compare --help print the usage and exit 0 before any side
effect; the docsync observer admits exactly those two forms. compare names the
record path, each missing or wrong field (schema_version, base, hashes) and
the snapshot command that writes a valid record, keeping exit 1. The captured
ship-docsync-stale-after commands from PR gate run 38990111230 replay inside
the interface; help with any other argument stays rejected.

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* fix(docsync-fault): prepare writes the production candidate through the installed snapshot (W3-1)

The fault actor prepare wrote its own {base_sha, content_hashes, ...} record,
which the installed gstack-docs-candidate compare rejects, while
ship/sections/documentation.md requires running compare; 79 of 198 docsync
captures (and the red in PR gate run 38990111230) were pushed off the
documented path by it.

prepare now runs the installed snapshot under a 30 s timeout for the same
selection, returns its exact command as snapshot_command so the post-child
rerun is literal, publishes prompt and event only after a valid record
exists, and removes a record its own failed snapshot left. dispatch observes
the candidate with the same installed snapshot; inspect returns base, index
and per-file git blob ids in the record representation; the legacy re-audit
check reads selected/hashes. The fault prompt names snapshot_command and the
new field names.

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* docs(todos): file the qa-quick capture headroom follow-up (fix wave 3, T)

qa-quick timed out once at 300 s (paid run 38980005793) against passing
runs of 164-272 s. Trimming what the Quick tier loads is a product call, so
it is filed, not repaired; no budget change.

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* test(docsync): keep the two docsync model misses as negative controls (W3-3)

The Bash grep of ship-docsync-missing-asset (PR gate run 38983306684,
bash#13) and the composed cat; cat of ship-docsync-failure (38984977679,
bash#12) were correct rejections. They join the stored known_bad commands
(with a {home} placeholder for the fixture home); no detector change.

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* test(golden): refresh the ship goldens for the W3-5 scope block and W3-7 consent letters

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* fix(third-party-actions): state the absent-Aside letters in fewer characters (W3-7)

Same contract (B), C), D) when Aside is not detected; the next sentence
already omits the Aside option), 67 fewer characters on the pinned
land-and-deploy and office-hours skills.

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* test(skill-md-size): re-pin 31 over-limit skills grown by fix wave 3 prompt repairs (owner sign-off needed)

CREW rule 11: these skills were already over 100,000 characters and grow
by the minimum text each repair needs; none crosses the limit for the
first time.
- gstack-review on cursor, factory, kiro, opencode, slate (+657..+676):
  W3-5 runs gstack-state-matrix detect inside the scope block with its exit
  status checked and declares the check step as a heredoc block; the new
  fence carries the env-var-host runtime prelude (about 360 characters).
- gstack-plan-eng-review on 12 hosts (+104): W3-8 says tier 1 reality rows
  are never n/a (paid run 39004466422 looped on a rejected n/a row).
- gstack-land-and-deploy on 12 hosts and gstack-office-hours on 4 hosts
  (+21): W3-7 letters the absent-Aside consent options B), C), D).

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* fix(skills): fit the W3-5, W3-7 and W3-8 prompt repairs inside the parity budgets

The parity suite left 2-42 bytes of headroom on ship, review,
plan-eng-review, plan-ceo-review and land-and-deploy, so each repair now
pays for itself in the same resolver:
- W3-5: the scope block runs `source <(gstack-state-matrix detect --base
  <base> || echo SCOPE_STATE_MACHINE=unknown)` (a failed detector's
  stdout is overridden by the later unknown assignment; its stderr still
  shows), the check block uses a short heredoc, and DIFF_LINES comes from one
  `git diff --numstat | awk` sum instead of two --stat greps (same count:
  insertions plus deletions, binary files zero).
- W3-7: the absent branch reads "offer only options B), C) and D)."
- W3-8: "never n/a" joins the tier 1 parenthesis, the no-linked-issue rule
  joins the receipt sentence, and the deep header says the same in fewer
  words; the redundant "(it prints the PLAN_REALITY: line)" is dropped.
Size pins: land-and-deploy (12 hosts, -20), office-hours (4 hosts, -20)
and plan-eng-review (12 hosts, -10) are lowered to their new sizes;
gstack-review on cursor, factory, kiro, opencode and slate stays above its
main pin (+355..+374) because the declared check block is a new fence that
carries the env-var-host runtime prelude. Raising those five pins needs
owner sign-off.

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* fix(design-e2e): the shim-dom scan check resolves the command's literal _REPORT/_RUN (W3-10)

PR gate run 38980005793 went red because the agent ran the generated DOM
block, scanning "$_REPORT/dom/$_RUN" with _RUN="run1" assigned in the same
command, and the check looked for the literal dom/run1 anywhere in a command.

domScanOfRun substitutes that command's own literal _REPORT=/_RUN=
assignments and credits a scan only when one of its own arguments is the run
directory. scan --changed, another directory, quoted heredoc report text and
non-literal or conflicting assignments stay negative controls. All 15
captured shim-dom runs in the window pass the new check (14 passed the old).

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* test(pty): keep the last non-blank viewport for failure dumps (W3-11)

autoplan-guard-pty (PR gate run 38976253774) stalled at 489 s and its screen
dump, the tail of visibleText(), was only spinner redraws. Live PTY sessions
now remember the last non-blank viewport a screen read returned
(session.lastScreen()) and the harness wait-timeout dumps append it.
Diagnostic only: visibleText(), matching and verdicts are unchanged.

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* test(autoplan): explicit 30 s timeout for each answer-invalidation test (W3-12)

The eng-only override test ran 4.1-4.4 s on a 4-core machine against Bun's
5 s default (7.8-9.4 s per file). Each test now names a 30 s budget.

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* test(review-army): size the nested bun test budgets for windows-latest (W3-15)

windows-free-tests run 39053431430 (shard 5): the nested bun test exited 1 in
5.58 s because Bun's default 5 s hook timeout fired on the real Red Team
beforeAll (8 git spawns plus skill-section copies). Both nested argvs pass
--timeout 30000, which raises only the nested default; the registrations
under test keep their explicit timeouts. Spawn timeouts move from 8 s to
40 s and outer test timeouts to 45 s, including the consensus test that had
none. With a 6 s beforeAll injected, the lifecycle still matches; the old
argv reproduces the Windows hook timeout.

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* docs(todos): close the createQAFunctionalFixture entry and file D6 (W3-13)

The git auto-maintenance entry was fixed by 0bf9d50 (#3190). D6: nested bun
test output pollutes free-runner failure attribution in
scripts/lib/shard-engine.ts (windows-free-tests 39053431430).

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* test(free-fixtures): declare the W3-4 captured caller transcript as a free-only fixture

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* test(pty): strip cursor-visibility escapes and print the last screen on autoplan-guard-pty failure (W3-11)

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* fix(review-army): keep the state-machine detector's output only on exit 0 (W3-5 confirm round)

A failing gstack-state-matrix detect prints SCOPE_STATE_MACHINE=false before
exiting non-zero. The scope block now captures its output and sources it only
when the detector succeeds; otherwise it discards the output, sets
SCOPE_STATE_MACHINE=unknown (dispatching the State Machines specialist) and
leaves the detector's stderr visible. Free tests cover false-output/non-zero,
empty-output/non-zero and a late failure after printing true. The stack
comment is shortened so gstack-review stays 4 chars under its pin; the five
host pins are lowered to match.

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* test(qa-functional): reserve webhook post-repair reruns first inside the unchanged 12-capture ceiling (W3-6/W3-14 confirm round)

The fix prompt now states precedence: post-repair reruns (the 7 stage-2
scenarios plus each distinct pre-repair command the verdict relies on, such as
a reject probe) are reserved first, pre-repair exploration gets what remains,
and reruns that cannot fit are reported as open. A free test fits a pre-repair
reject plus the reproduced defect and its replay within 12 (11 captures).

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* fix(docs-candidate): the compare reject never sends an agent to re-snapshot after the child audit (W3-2)

A post-audit snapshot over the candidate replaces the before-audit baseline, so
the ownership check would compare current files with themselves. The fix line
now says the candidate must be the record the Prepare snapshot wrote, that the
Prepare snapshot is rerun only before dispatching the child audit, and that the
post-child snapshot uses a different --out (<audit-id>-post.json). The helper
test pins the text.

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* test(docsync-fault): diagnosable prepare snapshot failures with one fresh-id retry (W3-1)

A failed installed snapshot now returns exit 25 with a stable reason code
(snapshot_exit, snapshot_timeout, snapshot_spawn_error, snapshot_invalid_record),
the helper's stderr tail redacted through lib/redact-engine with the fixture
root as <HOME> and bounded to 800 characters, and keeps the attempt's files: the
candidate the helper left, if any, and prepare-<audit-id>-failure.json. The
failure is a prepare-failed event, not a rejected interaction. One retry is
allowed under a fresh audit id; reusing the failed id, dispatching it or a third
prepare is rejected. Tested before and after candidate creation. The two
snapshot tests get an explicit 30 s timeout: the compare/inspect agreement
test runs 4.3-4.8 s alone and timed out at Bun's 5 s default under load.

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* fix(qa-evidence): count required post-repair probes only after the fixture-declared final source edit (W3-6/W3-14 confirm round)

GSTACK_QA_REQUIRED_PROBES reminders counted any complete capture, so a
pre-repair duplicate or partial capture looked like post-repair coverage. The
caller may now declare GSTACK_QA_REQUIRED_AFTER_EDIT with absolute paths and a
clean-fixture time: only captures started after the last edit under those
paths count, none count before the first edit, and a malformed declaration
counts none. Without the declaration every capture counts as before. The
webhook fix fixture declares its src/ directory. A free test covers
pre-repair-only coverage (nudges), complete post-repair coverage (no nudge)
and a second edit (nudges again).

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* test(harness): bump HARNESS_VERSION to 5 for the W3-11 stripAnsi change

stripAnsi now removes cursor-visibility escapes (ESC[?25h/l). Every PTY case
matches patterns against its output, so a pattern spanning one of those escapes
can now match where it did not before: a verdict can change, so this is a
behavioral bump, not a non-behavioral entry. The launch.ts change (last
non-blank screen in failure messages) is diagnostic only.

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* fix(review-army): pass the state-machines output to check as a written file, not a heredoc placeholder (W3-5)

The generated-bash lint (env-host-fence-conformance INV-3) rejects free text in
a heredoc body: <its complete output> reached the shell. The agent now writes
the specialist's full output to .gstack/tmp/state-machines.md and the fence
runs gstack-state-matrix check on that file. Two stack-detection comments and
the parenthetical are trimmed to stay inside the review/ship parity ratios;
gstack-review shrinks by 33 on the five pinned hosts and their pins are
lowered to match.

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* test(autoplan-guard-pty): the scripted actor ends its turn after a background CEO dispatch before reading the close packet

PR gate 39070276914 (dc739be) failed at the close-packet check while gate
39069171159 (b789898) passed with byte-identical autoplan inputs. The evidence
differs only in order: the failing actor read the close packet in the dispatch
turn, so the first tool call after the CEO notice was the publication. The
product guard allowed all four guarded calls in both runs. The fixture step 5
told the actor to end its turn only conditionally; step 5 now ends the turn as
soon as the result says the agent runs in the background, and step 6 reads the
close packet only after the reviewer finished. The close-packet check moves to
closePacketReadAfterNotice, replayed in a free test against both captured
orders; a second free test pins the actor's steps 5 and 6.

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* chore(release): v1.91.127.0 fix wave 3 paid-gate reliability round 2

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* fix(qa): input-rule probes are per field, and a value breaking two rules covers neither (W3-9)

PR gate 39073934326 (93449bc) failed qa-functional-cli-report with no observed
unannounced defect, the same class as 38983306684 and 39001107574. The agent
read 'allowed characters' as the ID rule only, counted -5 as its sign probe
and never probed the amount's digits-only rule with an otherwise valid value,
so the seeded parseInt defect stayed hidden. The stop rule now says each
field's documented input rule needs a probe breaking only it, and that a
signed amount breaks sign and digits-only and covers neither; the functional
table row names input rules per field. The qa union stays inside its parity
ratio.

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* fix(qa): state the input-rule principle instead of a worked example (W3-9)

The signed-amount example in 0fe616e was misread in the focused rerun as 'a
signed amount breaks only the digits-only rule', and the run again missed
the seeded non-digit defect. The stop rule now states the principle: each
field's documented input rule needs a probe that breaks only it and satisfies
every other rule.

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* test(tpa): the Darwin pitch detector accepts the canonical phrase anywhere, short forms only at a sentence start

PR gate 39075977549 (d6d82fb) failed tpa-absent-darwin on a correct pitch:
'One-time note: you can download Aside (macOS 15+) at aside.com, then open it,
sign in, and re-run'. The contract is to deliver the pitch once; the
sentence-start anchor exists only so narration is not counted. The full
canonical phrase now counts anywhere unless a negation precedes it, and the
short forms (download it / download Aside at aside.com) keep the
sentence-start rule. The detector moves to test/helpers/third-party-actions.ts
with a count helper. Free tests replay the captured red (counts once), the
four captured passing Darwin pitches (once each), five Linux and five READY
narrations plus both recovery-public responses (zero), a mid-sentence short
form and negated phrases (zero), and a duplicated phrase (two).

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* test(qa-callers): only a required plan check may swap the deadline for --timeout-ms; reruns keep the deadline

PR gate 39077524802 (0f71a55) failed ship-exploratory-late-input: after the
late input change the actor reran captures 001 and 002 with --timeout-ms
10000, reading the fixture's 'explicit plan probes outside the smoke budget'
clause as covering revalidation reruns, and the verifier reported both as
smoke probes missing a trusted deadline run. The binding now says only an
explicit plan check this phase requires may use --timeout-ms, and every other
capture, including a rerun or revalidation, uses the deadline.

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* test(third-party-actions): count the Darwin pitch only at a recommendation boundary

/review delta on 51f1e02 (Claude and GPT-6.1 Sol voices): the 0f71a55
detector accepted the canonical phrase anywhere unless the adjacent word was
a negation, so a Darwin refusal or a quoted policy mention ('I will not ask
you to download Aside ...', 'The Darwin policy says to "download Aside ..."',
'You cannot download ...') satisfied the paid case's positive match, and a
free assertion even expected "You don't need to download ..." to count.

The canonical phrase now counts only where a recommendation can start: a
sentence, clause (, : ; dash), bullet, line or bold start, optionally led by
then/please/just/so/first/now and you can/could/may/should/need to, with no
negation directly before it across a line break. Quoted, parenthesised,
reported and clause-negated mentions fall outside that boundary. Every probe
from both voices is a free test; the five captured Darwin pitches (including
the 39075977549 red) still count 1 each and the Linux/READY captures 0.

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* fix(review-army): write the state-machines output to a fresh private file from gstack-state-matrix outfile

/review delta on 51f1e02 (Claude F2): dc739be wrote the specialist output to
a fixed .gstack/tmp/state-machines.md with no exclude. On a second review
Claude Code's Write refuses an existing unread file, so check could validate
the previous run's output, and git add -A could commit it.

gstack-state-matrix outfile creates .gstack/tmp (0700) at the repo top,
adds /.gstack/tmp/ to info/exclude once, and prints a new empty 0600 file
per call; the selection prose has the agent Read that file, write the full
output there and check that path. The prose moved the check command inline,
so gstack-review shrinks and its pins are lowered (cursor 141010->140637,
factory 144792->144416, kiro 140816->140449, opencode 143258->142872,
slate 140913->140543).

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* test(qa-evidence): pin the post-repair edit's mtime to capture 002's completion

The GPT voice's /review run on 51f1e02 failed qa-evidence.test.ts:547 once:
capture 003 reported no required probe remaining, so capture 002 (started
before the edit) counted as post-edit. The test wrote the edit right after
002 returned, a gap of one child run (7-27 ms measured here; the voice's
machine ran this test in 59 ms against 183 ms here, so a few ms there),
while an ext4 mtime comes from the kernel's coarse clock and lags
Date.now() by up to a tick (0.5-4.5 ms measured here).

The edit's mtime is now set to 002's recorded completedAt, so 002 started
strictly before the boundary and 003 starts after it on any machine. The
product boundary is unchanged: tick-scale imprecision only matters when a
capture starts within milliseconds before an edit, and a stricter margin
would refuse a real edit && capture chain.

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Garry Tan 55fbe77195 v1.91.24.0 test: audit wave — PR evals keep finished work, honest ceilings, EVAL_POLICY v2, faster free suite (#3031)
* chore(scripts): retire hollow and legacy paid package scripts behind one-release stubs (W8a, DX-4, CEO-31)

test:codex*, test:evals*, test:e2e*, test:gate, test:periodic, eval:bg,
eval:bg:all, eval:flake-rank, eval:watch and test:audit now print their
replacement and exit 1 via scripts/retired-command.ts. CONTRIBUTING.md
carries the same table; test/retired-commands.test.ts pins both. Eval CLI
empty-state hints point at eval:bg:pr.

* chore: delete dead update-readme-throughput, eval-watch, orphan fixtures and QA_FUNCTIONAL_INPUTS (W8b, CEO-24)

Retired with named behavior:
- update-readme-throughput.ts + readme-throughput test: replaced a README
  anchor that no longer exists from a JSON file that was never produced;
  the script was a no-op. Guarantee withdrawn (nothing to protect).
- eval-watch.ts + its dashboard tests: rendered ~/.gstack-dev/e2e-live.json
  and _partial-e2e.json, written only by unsharded runs, so it showed
  nothing for every supported (sharded) entry point. Guarantee withdrawn;
  live progress is the gstack-detach log or gh run watch. Manual-review
  rendering stays covered by eval-list and eval-summary tests.
- Orphan fixtures (autoplan-pending-artifact-ae.json, autoplan-existing-app/,
  autoplan-sign-in-ui/, parity baselines v1.47.0.0/v1.57.7.0/v1.69.1.0):
  no test, touchfile or script reads them; superseded baselines stay in
  git history.
- QA_FUNCTIONAL_INPUTS: exported, never imported.

* refactor(test-free): delete dead WORKER_HOSTILE list and buildShardArgs parallel mode

Neither had a production caller: full-suite mode runs shard processes, so the
worker quarantine was inert and --parallel was never passed (W8b).

* docs(test-value): narrow prompt-byte contract to machine-read tokens (D2)

Define prompt-byte contract as machine-read tokens (markers, field names,
command lines, enum values, file paths, security-boundary strings) and add a
sentence-pin glossary entry: convert to structural checks or delete when a
behavioral eval covers the behavior.

* test(ratchet): count free tests that slice a paid test's source

A free test that binds readFileSync(<paid test file>) and cuts it with
.slice() tests the paid harness's code out of context even when it imports a
lib/ symbol. Record the 15 existing files with reasons; new ones fail with fix
text. Self-test covers positive and negative shapes.

* test(browse): un-quarantine compare-board; all 16 board tests pass headless (W8d, CEO-24)

The GSTACK_COMPARE_BOARD_TESTS opt-in hid a headless mismatch that no
longer reproduces: all 16 tests pass on Bun 1.4.0 with the bundled
headless Chromium, solo, repeated, and beside other in-process browser
files. Protected behavior (the comparison-board DOM contract the
plan-design-review/office-hours/design-consultation feedback loop polls)
is checked on every free run again.

* test: replace silent existsSync early returns with explicit skips or assertions (W8d)

- browse/test/build.test.ts: server-node.mjs checks skip only when the
  bundle is absent and GSTACK_EXPECT_BINARIES is unset; the free CI lane
  and test:ubicloud build it and set the flag, so a dropped build step
  fails with the build command instead of passing with no assertions.
- gstack-update-check: VERSION is tracked; the guard could only hide a bug.
- gen-skill-docs host leakage/frontmatter checks assert the host tree
  exists (the module-level render always produces it).
- cso-docker staged-runtime test uses test.skipIf so reports show it as
  skipped, not passed.

* test(ship): convert ship-workflow-clarity sentence pins to structural checks

Add test/helpers/prompt-structure.ts (between, expectTokens, expectAbsent,
expectOrdered, expectMentions) with fix text on failure. ship-workflow-clarity
now pins headings, step order and machine-read tokens (commands, fields, enum
and status strings); safety rules are meaning-level keyword checks. Wording is
judged by the 'ship/SKILL.md workflow' judge in skill-llm-eval.
Sentence pins: 90 -> 0.

* ci: add platform-qualification lane for opt-in ML, gitleaks and Swift tests (W8d, CEO-24)

security-bench + security-live-playwright L4 (SECURITY_BENCH), the real
gitleaks 8.30.1 memory-ingest cases (GSTACK_TEST_GITLEAKS) and the
DebugBridge Swift build invariants (GSTACK_TEST_SWIFT) self-skip in every
lane today. No scheduled lane has their prerequisites, so per CEO-24 they
move to an owned dispatch + quarterly workflow instead of being deleted.
Each job was run locally (ML 10 pass, gitleaks 130 pass; Swift needs
macOS). test/platform-qualification-workflow.test.ts pins gate variable,
job and file together.

* fix(scripts): capture-baseline and preflight-agent-sdk no longer act on --help or typos (W8e)

capture-baseline parses its flags strictly: --help prints usage, an unknown
or valueless flag exits 2, and only a valid invocation writes a fixture
(--help used to write test/fixtures/parity-baseline-current.json).
preflight-agent-sdk gains --help, rejects unknown flags, and runs the live
SDK query (API spend) only with --live.

* test(evals): register the three keyless periodic paid files with case ids (W1b)

skill-e2e-auq-consistency, skill-e2e-auq-verbose-vs-carved-ab and
codex-e2e-recommendation-substance now carry touchfiles, a periodic tier and
kind rule (one trial, unchanged), so editing one selects its own case instead
of restoring the full PR gate. The verbose A/B case also registers the vendored
pre-cut fixture it reads, and review-army-migration-safety registers the SQL
fixture it reads.

* feat(evals): narrow PR fallback for free-only inputs (W1a, CEO-13/20, ENG-13)

The PR profile now exempts the duration seeds, every free-lane workflow
(explicit list; inventory test fails on an unclassified workflow, .yaml
and workflow_call included), scripts/ubicloud/** and fixtures declared in
the explicit FREE_FIXTURES map. Each remaining unknown file carries a label
and fix (needs touchfile entry / add to FREE_ONLY_PR_FILES / real unknown
dependency). evals.yml itself still restores the full gate.

* ci: delete ci-image.yml; the eval workflows already build and push the same content-hash tag (W8f)

evals.yml, evals-periodic.yml and evals-marathon.yml each compute the
identical hashFiles() tag and build/push it (with :buildcache and :latest)
when missing, so ci-image's push trigger and weekly cron were no-ops
(30-day median 0.5 min, 36/36 success). ci-image-tag-binding now pins the
three eval workflows.

* ci(evals): key periodic/marathon concurrency on ref+event; branch periodic dispatch skips the gate census (W2a, ENG-9, CEO-04)

* refactor(paid): drop ~160 unused imports; leaf paid-types/paid-select modules break the paid-* import cycle (W8c)

* ci(quality-gate): per-PR concurrency, free runner, drop unscoped bun audit (W2a, W8f)

- Concurrency keys on pull_request.number || run_id, so back-to-back main
  pushes no longer cancel each other's credential scan.
- ubuntu-24.04 instead of a billed 8-vCPU Ubicloud runner for a ~1 min job.
- bun audit --audit-level=critical ran on every PR regardless of diff, so a
  newly published advisory turned unrelated PRs red, with its own ignore
  policy. dependency-review (lockfile PRs, fail >= high) and the weekly OSV
  sweep remain the dependency gates.

* chore(test-free): refresh the free duration seed from the audit's Ubicloud recording

Adds the 19 files merged after the last refresh, including the 115 s
claude-overlay-setup that packed as ~1 s and doubled a shard (W6a). The seed
is re-recorded on the final tree at the end of this wave.

* ci: move tiny ubicloud-standard-2 jobs to free ubuntu-24.04 runners (W8f)

actionlint, skill-docs, dependency-review, version-gate and pr-title-sync
are sub-minute jobs; GitHub-hosted runners are free for this public repo.

* feat(test-free): pessimistic unseeded packing, seed growth ratchet and CI health summary

- Unseeded files pack at the seed's p99 instead of p75 (W6a).
- --ci-plan warns in the job summary past 5 unseeded files; --ci-verify
  lists shards that outran their prediction by 1.5x (and 30 s) plus every
  flaky pass absorbed by the serial retry (W6a, W7a job summary).
- test/free-seed-ratchet.test.ts fails when a seeded file over 60 s is not
  on scripts/free-test-seed-allowlist.json, when an entry is stale, and when
  the allowlist grows versus its merge-base copy unless the new entry is an
  annotated exception with a todo (CEO-10, DX-7). free-plan runs it with
  full history so the shrink check is real in the required lane.
- Every message names the fix command and docs anchor (DX-6).

* feat(evals): state PR coverage mode, counts, reuse and fallback files in the summary and comment (CEO-13)

* test: make the tracked-tree skill-doc freshness check local-only; tidy skill-docs header (W8f)

Every free CI shard regenerates the tracked SKILL.md files before running
tests, so the --dry-run freshness assertion compared the regenerated tree
with itself and could not fail there. It now skips under GitHub Actions;
skill-docs.yml's git diff --exit-code is CI's freshness gate. Removes a
stale concurrency comment in skill-docs.yml.

* ci(free-tests): install zsh so the bash+zsh portability arms run (W6f)

~42 zsh-arm tests (aside-probe-shell, qa-browser-preservation,
generated-docs-fences) skipped in CI because zsh is not in the runner image.
All 141 tests in those files pass with zsh present.

* feat(evals): executors write negative receipts at the execution boundary (CEO-25, ENG-6)

A completed single-trial rule/judge shard that did not pass now writes its
negative receipt beside the pass receipts in the slice artifact, so a
cancelled run's FAIL still blocks an older PASS when its report never runs.
Receipts merge negatives first and order by (run attempt, completedAt); a
same-second FAIL/PASS tie resolves to FAIL. The runner call site is a
one-line hunk in scripts/test-paid-shards.ts.

* docs(cso): state that contained runtime/scanner execution is unavailable today

The scanner catalog is empty while its build inputs await review and the
runtime catalog holds no qualified profile until the private evaluator
exists, so /cso runs static assessment only. AGENTS.md, README and
docs/cso-release-qualification.md now say so; docs/cso-scanners.md
already did.

* test(helpers): expectMentions splits on sentence ends only

Clauses joined by ';' or ':' are one rule; splitting there made a reworded
rule fail for punctuation.

* test(plan-ceo): convert skill-ceo-section-ordering sentence pins

Safety and authority rules (never/do not/stop/only/without/wait/approval) are
meaning-level expectMentions checks; other sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, option rows, placeholders and machine-read lines (auto-decide
annotation, Mode:/approved decisions format, STATUS/SOURCE fields,
CROSS-MODEL marker, gstack-ceo-mode-handoff) stay as tokens; ordering checks
unchanged. Behavior is covered by the periodic PTY case in
skill-e2e-plan-ceo-review-section-loading.test.ts.
Sentence pins: 210 -> 23.

* test(helpers): expectMentions treats wrapped lines as one sentence

Templates hard-wrap prose; only sentence ends and blank lines separate rules.

* test(gen-skill-docs): convert sentence pins to meaning checks or drop them

Safety/authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks; other English
sentences are dropped (wording is judged by the per-skill workflow judges in
skill-llm-eval and the E2E cases in touchfiles-data). Commands, config keys,
markers (PLAN MODE EXCEPTION, NO UNRESOLVED DECISIONS, Gate outcome), field
names and alternation-based meaning regexes stay. Removed the now-empty
'contains opt-in AskUserQuestion text' test (only pinned a sentence; the
resolver's AskUserQuestion wiring is covered by the codex second-opinion
tests in the same describe). Lane E's existsSync hunks are untouched.
Sentence pins: 216 -> 65 (remaining lines carry machine tokens).

* ci(windows): shard the Windows lane via --ci-plan/--ci-run/--ci-verify; move native campaigns to native-qualification.yml

- windows-free-tests.yml: a Linux plan job curates and packs the Windows-safe
  files into 6 shards, one strict serial shard per windows-latest job, and a
  Linux aggregate verifies exact coverage and every result (8.1 min on one
  runner today). --windows-only now combines with the CI modes; the plan binds
  the curated file set (W6e).
- Every Windows plan and --list run prints the curated count with its top
  exclusion reasons in the job summary; a free ratchet fails when the curated
  subset drops below its floor, with the fix (W6e).
- The four Dia/cookie diagnostic dispatch campaigns move to the dispatch-only
  native-qualification.yml with one exclusive `mode` choice input, so their
  red dispatch runs no longer read as a red PR lane (W8f). Their workflow pins
  move to test/windows-native-workflows.test.ts; the boolean-exclusivity
  guard is replaced by the choice input.

* feat(paid): per-slice CI job ceilings and an in-process slice deadline with not_run/hung outcomes and checkpoints (W2c, ENG-2)

* fix(pass-rates): segment trial history strictly by EVAL_POLICY version

Reader-compatibility floor for EVAL_POLICY v2 (ENG-14/CEO-35/DX-12). Only
trials under the reader's own policy version feed labels and alarms; older
policy trials stay visible but are never scored or used as a drift baseline;
trials from a newer policy are ignored with a printed count and fix text.
Reverting the later v2 writer commits leaves a reader that cannot pool v2
records into v1 series (the pre-PR reader at 2db0b3a does: it reports a
mixed fixture as FAILING with drift alarms).

* docs: one contributor command table; retired commands, seed sources and current workflows (W8g, DX-5, DX-13, CEO-12)

- CONTRIBUTING.md gains 'Which command do I run?' (task -> command ->
  cost/time -> needs, including branch validation via gh workflow run);
  CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md and TESTING_INTERNALS.md link to it instead of
  repeating command lists. Tier tables drop retired commands and stale
  per-run dollar estimates.
- Retired names (test:evals, test:e2e, eval:bg, eval:flake-rank, eval:watch,
  ...) are gone from CLAUDE.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, TESTING_INTERNALS.md,
  ARCHITECTURE.md and USING_GBRAIN_WITH_GSTACK.md.
- The flake-ledger claim now says what happens: CI uploads flake-ledger-*
  artifacts; eval:pass-rates reads only the local ledger.
- TESTING_INTERNALS states that only test:ubicloud --record-durations
  produces an acceptable duration seed (DX-13).
- CI section: quality gate no longer runs bun audit; dependency-review's
  real trigger; the platform-qualification lane.
- docs/test-audit-2026-09.md gets a corrections section for its stale claims.
- TODOS.md: audit follow-ups (post-merge metrics, stub removal, name reclaim,
  diff-aware planner); eval-watch shard-awareness and the image freshness
  tripwire closed as won't-do.

* feat(evals): recover receipts of cancelled PR runs (W1c, CEO-14/34, ENG-4/5/7)

A new recover-receipts job runs base-ref code with actions: read, restores
the PR's store, merges the receipts of completed cancelled evals.yml runs
for this PR (provenance-checked, at most 5, oldest first, negatives first),
reconstructs completed panel negatives with panelVerdict() (partial panels
get no credit) and keeps a recovery.json checkpoint that never advances past
an unresolved run. plan-slices keeps contents: read, takes the store as an
artifact, turns reuse off when recovery degraded or a run is unresolved, and
carries the whole store to slices-report so nothing is lost. Any gh problem
degrades to no recovered receipts with a named reason.

* feat(evals): classify this wave's free-only tools and workflows for PR selection

platform-qualification.yml, retired-command.ts, test-health-report.ts,
bump-harness-version.ts and eval-bg.ts never run inside a paid case.

* feat(evals): debounce PR push bursts before planning paid slices (W1d, CEO-15, ENG-11, DX-7)

A tiny ubuntu-24.04 job waits 90 s only on synchronize when another run for
the PR started in the last 15 minutes; cancel-in-progress supersedes, and a
run that outlives the wait reports "superseded by <sha>" and plans nothing.
Labels: evals-no-debounce skips the wait, evals-fresh disables receipt reuse.

* perf(test): move the real-process browser settlement cases out of test-free-shards.test.ts (W6b)

The 19 owned-browser settlement modes were 85 s of the file's 95 s and could
not be packed apart from the fast runner unit cases. They move to a shared
fixture with two files (lifecycle 47 s, ownership 39 s); the unit file drops
to 10 s. Same modes, same assertions.

* chore(evals): delete the finished validation_phase dispatch and its inline planner (W8f)

Retirement (CEO-24): the protected behavior was a one-off cookie-repair
validation subset (eight dependent cases) and a quality/behavior split of
the census; that validation is complete, so the guarantee is withdrawn.
Branch validation dispatches evals.yml with evals_all.

* perf(test): inject the office-hours record grace in non-cooperative deadline tests

* perf(test): shrink aside-render process slack via GSTACK_RENDER_SLACK_MS in timeout tests

* perf(test): make the memorable lock give-up configurable for lock-contention tests

* perf(test): check install-timeout knob normalization through its own setup lines

* perf(test): inject a 2 s storage-reset deadline in the late isolated dispatch test

* perf(test): shorten the slow gbrain fake to 1 s, still past the 300 ms probe timeout

* ci(free-tests): run only cso-docker-integration in the free CSO Docker job (F16)

cso-node-lifecycle-integration and cso-stack-cold-integration need
GSTACK_CSO_TEST_STACK images and always skipped there; they stay in the CSO
runtime workflows through test:cso:docker.

* test(gen-skill-docs,plan-ceo): split mixed sentence pins into tokens and rules

Sentences that wrap a backticked or bold token keep the token (expectTokens)
and, when they state a safety rule, a keyword check; short safety sentences
(25-39 chars) get the same treatment.

* test(plan-ceo): convert ceo-workflow-clarity.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: periodic PTY case skill-e2e-plan-ceo-review-section-loading and the plan-ceo workflow judges.
Sentence pins: 13 -> 1.

* test(plan-eng): convert eng-review-routing.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: plan-eng E2E cases (skill-e2e-plan-eng-*) and the plan-eng workflow judge.
Sentence pins: 28 -> 6.

* test(plan-eng): convert eng-scope-entry-ap.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: plan-eng E2E cases (skill-e2e-plan-eng-*) and the plan-eng workflow judge.
Sentence pins: 16 -> 5.

* test(plan): convert plan-scope-selection.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: plan-review E2E cases and workflow judges in skill-llm-eval.
Sentence pins: 19 -> 2.

* test(qa): convert qa-lazy-sections.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: qa/qa-only E2E cases (skill-e2e-qa-*) and the qa workflow judge.
Sentence pins: 71 -> 11.

* test(qa): convert qa-browser-preservation.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: qa/qa-only E2E cases (skill-e2e-qa-*) and the qa workflow judge.
Sentence pins: 25 -> 11.

* test(qa): convert qa-probe-gates.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: qa/qa-only E2E cases (skill-e2e-qa-*) and the qa workflow judge.
Sentence pins: 20 -> 5.

* test(qa): convert qa-checkpoint-evidence.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: qa/qa-only E2E cases (skill-e2e-qa-*) and the qa workflow judge.
Sentence pins: 7 -> 5.

* test(qa): convert qa-evidence.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: qa/qa-only E2E cases (skill-e2e-qa-*) and the qa workflow judge.
Sentence pins: 4 -> 3.

* test(design): convert design-consultation-contract.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: design-consultation E2E/judge cases in touchfiles-data.
Sentence pins: 44 -> 11.

* test(outside-voice): convert run-in-background-guidance.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: outside-voice E2E cases and plan-review workflow judges.
Sentence pins: 35 -> 5.

* test(spec): convert spec-template-invariants.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: spec E2E/judge cases in touchfiles-data.
Sentence pins: 36 -> 21.

* perf(evals): 420 s census slice budget; case-shard skill-e2e-qa-workflow; seed its case walls (W5c)

* feat(evals): evals.yml dispatch contract for eval:bg (CEO-17/29, DX-1, ENG-8/12)

workflow_dispatch gains base_ref, base_sha, expected_sha, nonce and
pr_receipts. The nonce appears in run-name so the dispatcher resolves its
own run; evals_all=false runs the PR profile against base_sha/base_ref; a
checkout that differs from expected_sha fails before any paid work with a
named fix; pr_receipts reads that PR's receipts read-only through the
recover-receipts artifact path (never the cache) and never saves.

* ci(windows): pack the Windows lane with Windows-measured durations (W6e)

The first sharded run (37221451711) finished in 6.0 min: the Linux seed has
browse/test/cookie-import-native-job.test.ts at ~0 s (its cases skip on
Linux) but it takes 122 s on Windows, so one shard ran 242 s against an 84 s
prediction. The plan now reads scripts/free-test-durations-windows.json; a
record_durations dispatch times every Windows-safe file alone and uploads it.

* test(free): settlement case files import the runner rule they exercise

Keeps the split files out of the test-of-test ratchet: the retry-eligibility
rule is a direct runner import passed to the shared fixture.

* fix(marathon): no hollow plan-decision-classification shard; office-hours marathon scenario scoped to the pilot (W2f)

* test(free): satisfy the typecheck:test ratchet in the seed ratchet test

* refactor(ci-history): one shared GitHub history reader with the CI flake-ledger reader

Extract pass-rates' gh fetch layer into scripts/lib/ci-history.ts (CEO-09) and
add the W7a reader: paged run listings that fail whole on any page error,
per-run artifact downloads (cached, size-capped, data only), flake-ledger
parsing, the pre-registered flaky-file rule (> 5% of main free-tests runs over
a window of at least 20 runs, widened to the newest 20 runs when the window is
thinner), a job-summary table, and named unavailable reasons with next steps.

* feat(test-health): test:health report of the audit success metrics

scripts/test-health-report.ts (CEO-09/06/22/32, DX-8/9/12/13) prints every
success metric with its counting rule from CI history: PR full-fallback rate,
reused PR trial records, PR-lane spend per merged PR and per validated
revision, cancelled slice-minutes per week, push-to-verdict p50/p95, census
expected failed trials per run with raw failure rate per kind/class and
P(lane red) under the recorded panels vs single-trial aggregation, INFRA
re-dispatches, quarantine evidence (insufficient evidence distinct from
healthy), free flaky-pass rate, free/Windows wall, free serial time and the
net-complexity line. An unreadable input prints 'unavailable: <reason>; next:
<step>', never 0. --enforce fails on a flaky file (W7a) or > 5 unseeded free
files (CEO-10); unavailable checks never fail and keep the issue open.

* test(review): convert review-workflow-clarity.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: review E2E cases (skill-e2e-review*) and the review workflow judge in skill-llm-eval.
Sentence pins: 85 -> 17.

* test(review): convert review-entry-and-design-clarity-au.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: review E2E cases (skill-e2e-review*) and the review workflow judge in skill-llm-eval.
Sentence pins: 15 -> 4.

* test(review): convert review-enum-lifecycle.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: review E2E cases (skill-e2e-review*) and the review workflow judge in skill-llm-eval.
Sentence pins: 8 -> 0.

* test(ship): convert ship-control-flow.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: ship E2E cases (skill-e2e-ship*, skill-e2e-workflow) and the 'ship/SKILL.md workflow' judge.
Sentence pins: 74 -> 9.

* test(ship): convert ship-skip-requeue.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: ship E2E cases (skill-e2e-ship*, skill-e2e-workflow) and the 'ship/SKILL.md workflow' judge.
Sentence pins: 28 -> 3.

* test(ship): convert ship-plan-completion-invariants.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: ship E2E cases (skill-e2e-ship*, skill-e2e-workflow) and the 'ship/SKILL.md workflow' judge.
Sentence pins: 28 -> 12.

* test(ship): convert ship-reentry-gates.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: ship E2E cases (skill-e2e-ship*, skill-e2e-workflow) and the 'ship/SKILL.md workflow' judge.
Sentence pins: 16 -> 4.

* test(ship): convert ship-document-release-dispatch.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: ship E2E cases (skill-e2e-ship*, skill-e2e-workflow) and the 'ship/SKILL.md workflow' judge.
Sentence pins: 11 -> 4.

* test(ship): convert ship-apple-gate.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: ship E2E cases (skill-e2e-ship*, skill-e2e-workflow) and the 'ship/SKILL.md workflow' judge.
Sentence pins: 7 -> 0.

* test(ship): convert ship-skip-actor.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: ship E2E cases (skill-e2e-ship*, skill-e2e-workflow) and the 'ship/SKILL.md workflow' judge.
Sentence pins: 6 -> 1.

* test(ship): convert ship-template-redaction.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: ship E2E cases (skill-e2e-ship*, skill-e2e-workflow) and the 'ship/SKILL.md workflow' judge.
Sentence pins: 5 -> 4.

* test(ship): convert ship-publication-gates.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: ship E2E cases (skill-e2e-ship*, skill-e2e-workflow) and the 'ship/SKILL.md workflow' judge.
Sentence pins: 5 -> 2.

* test(ship): convert ship-review-loop.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: ship E2E cases (skill-e2e-ship*, skill-e2e-workflow) and the 'ship/SKILL.md workflow' judge.
Sentence pins: 3 -> 1.

* test(ship): convert ship-version-sync.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: ship E2E cases (skill-e2e-ship*, skill-e2e-workflow) and the 'ship/SKILL.md workflow' judge.
Sentence pins: 5 -> 2.

* test(ship): convert ship-pr-liveness-policy.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: ship E2E cases (skill-e2e-ship*, skill-e2e-workflow) and the 'ship/SKILL.md workflow' judge.
Sentence pins: 4 -> 0.

* test(plan-review): convert plan-review-cases.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: plan-review E2E cases and workflow judges in skill-llm-eval.
Sentence pins: 58 -> 15.

* test(autoplan): convert autoplan-phase-order.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: autoplan E2E cases (skill-e2e-autoplan-*) and the autoplan workflow judge.
Sentence pins: 42 -> 11.

* test(autoplan): convert autoplan-phase-handoff.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: autoplan E2E cases (skill-e2e-autoplan-*) and the autoplan workflow judge.
Sentence pins: 20 -> 4.

* test(autoplan): convert autoplan-snapshot.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: autoplan E2E cases (skill-e2e-autoplan-*) and the autoplan workflow judge.
Sentence pins: 21 -> 5.

* test(outside-voice): convert outside-voice-preflight.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: outside-voice E2E cases and plan-review workflow judges.
Sentence pins: 26 -> 9.

* test(ask-format): convert resolver-ask-user-format.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: AUQ E2E cases (skill-e2e-auq-*); prompt-injection rule kept as a meaning check.
Sentence pins: 32 -> 15.

* test(skills): convert binding-template-drift.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: workflow judges in skill-llm-eval.
Sentence pins: 19 -> 13.

* test(skills): convert carve-plan-fixture.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: workflow judges in skill-llm-eval.
Sentence pins: 20 -> 6.

* test(land-and-deploy): convert land-and-deploy-postfail.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: land-and-deploy E2E cases and its workflow judge.
Sentence pins: 21 -> 14.

* test(land-and-deploy): convert land-and-deploy-ci-gate.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: land-and-deploy E2E cases and its workflow judge.
Sentence pins: 5 -> 4.

* test(land-and-deploy): convert land-and-deploy-flow.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: land-and-deploy E2E cases and its workflow judge.
Sentence pins: 5 -> 3.

* test(office-hours): convert office-hours-completion.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: office-hours E2E cases (skill-e2e-office-hours*).
Sentence pins: 16 -> 1.

* test(plan-ceo): restore the stale closing-route guard

The negative check for 'Closing hooks' / 'return to section' guards a retired
route token, not a sentence; the first conversion pass dropped it.

* ci(test-health): weekly test-health workflow with an honest tracking issue

New test-health.yml (CEO-18/DX-9): Monday 10:00 UTC after the periodic census
plus dispatch, free ubuntu-24.04 runner, permissions contents:read +
actions:read + issues:write only. Runs bun run test:health --since-days 7
--enforce; an enforced failure upserts one tracking issue, a run with
unavailable inputs keeps it open and lists them, and it closes only when every
enforced check has evidence and passes. Only main runs touch the issue.

* feat(evals): an edited paid test file runs its own gate cases in the PR lane (DX-11)

A gate case outside the audited fast profile is selected when its single
owning paid test file changed and the runner can select it by name (its
Bun test is named by the case id). The manifest records directCases and
validation accepts only recorded, name-addressable ones; the runner and
planner read the file->cases map from test-pr-profile. Cases the runner
cannot address stay deferred with the fix. An inventory test covers every
owned gate case. Touches one hunk each in test-paid-shards.ts and
lib/paid-plan.ts, and pr-shared-input-selection.test.ts's ship-skip pin.

* ci(osv): tracking issue for scheduled reds and a 14-day suppression expiry test

F11/W8f: a failed main OSV scan now upserts one tracking issue and a clean
scan closes it (scheduled reds notified no one during the August backlog).
A free test fails 14 days before any .osv-scanner.toml ignoreUntil (all four
expire 2026-11-30), with the fix: upgrade and delete, or re-justify and move
the date.

* test(ship,review): keep guards against retired fail-open instructions

'skip silently' on reviewer failure and 'do not block /ship on subagent
failure' were harmful instructions, not prose style; keep them absent with the
shortest distinctive phrase.

* feat(eval-select): default to the pr profile

DX-10: eval:select previews the PR lane's selection by default, matching
test:pr and eval:bg:pr; --profile full (or EVALS_PROFILE=full) keeps the plain
touchfile selection.

* test(evals): type-clean the recovery gh fake (typecheck:test ratchet)

* chore(windows): record the Windows duration seed (run 37221963236)

573 Windows-safe files timed alone on windows-latest; cookie-import-native-job
is 102 s there. Six shards now predict 154 s each.

* feat(evals): eval:bg dispatches the pushed ref to CI or runs locally under a 1.5x-planned cap (W5d, CEO-17/29, DX-1/2/3/7, ENG-12/19)

* feat(runners): --help on both shard runners via the shared flag loop; paid runner header describes today's planner/executor/report (W8e)

* test(windows): drop the stale Playwright exclusion and force-include probe-proven files (W6e)

A temporary windows-latest probe (run 37221995077) ran each of the 97 files
excluded for 'launches Playwright browser' or 'raw /tmp/ path' alone: all 17
Playwright files pass (Chromium is installed and Bun drives it there), and 41
of the /tmp files pass with executed cases. The Playwright pattern is removed
and the 41 files are force-included with the probe as their reason; the 36
real failures stay excluded. The curated subset grows from 573 to 631 files
and the ratchet floor follows. Windows curation moves to
scripts/lib/windows-curation.ts (the runner drops to 2000 lines).

* test(free): one install fixture cloned from a read-only seed (W6c, ENG-1)

Merge test/helpers/setup-codex-scope-fixture.ts into install-fixture.ts.
The checkout is built once per test file into a read-only seed and cloned
per fixture with copy-on-write where the filesystem has it (full copy
otherwise), restoring each file's own mode; clones never hard-link the
seed because put() and tests write in place. Callers register
afterAll(cleanupSeed); Bun's runner fires no exit event, so seeds of
killed runs are swept by pid. test/install-fixture.test.ts is the ENG-1
tripwire: put/setVersion/chmod in one clone leave the seed and a sibling
unchanged, and clones share no inodes with the read-only seed.

* test(free): split claude-overlay-setup by describe (W6b)

The 115 s serial file becomes default/lifecycle/installs files (5/4/3
tests, unchanged bodies) sharing test/helpers/claude-overlay-fixture.ts,
so the shard packer can balance them.

* test(cso): convert cso-contracts.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: cso E2E/judge cases (skill-e2e-cso*, cso-eval).
Sentence pins: 16 -> 8.

* test(cso): convert cso-preserved.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: cso E2E/judge cases (skill-e2e-cso*, cso-eval).
Sentence pins: 10 -> 3.

* test(cso): convert cso-eval.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: cso E2E/judge cases (skill-e2e-cso*, cso-eval).
Sentence pins: 7 -> 4.

* test(browser): convert aside-driver.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: Aside/browse E2E cases; the installer ban stays a meaning check.
Sentence pins: 27 -> 9.

* test(browser): convert third-party-actions.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: Aside/browse E2E cases; the installer ban stays a meaning check.
Sentence pins: 17 -> 2.

* test(skills): convert skill-validation.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: workflow judges in skill-llm-eval.
Sentence pins: 19 -> 6.

* test(skills): convert workflow-excerpt.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: workflow judges in skill-llm-eval.
Sentence pins: 37 -> 10.

* test(skills): convert question-tuning-registry-path.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: workflow judges in skill-llm-eval.
Sentence pins: 4 -> 0.

* test(skills): convert host-conformance.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: workflow judges in skill-llm-eval.
Sentence pins: 4 -> 4.

* test(memory): convert memory-ingest-landing.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: memory-ingest free tests that run the binary.
Sentence pins: 11 -> 9.

* test(windows): exclude the skip-only claude-overlay setup files from the Windows subset

Their real-setup cases are describe.skipIf(win32); after the split their bin/
spawns live in the shared helper, so the source scan stopped seeing them.

* test(skills): convert agents-digest.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: the owning skills' E2E cases and workflow judges; CLI/hook output and fixture-data pins in the tail were left alone.
Sentence pins: 1 -> 0.

* test(skills): convert brain-preflight.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: the owning skills' E2E cases and workflow judges; CLI/hook output and fixture-data pins in the tail were left alone.
Sentence pins: 2 -> 1.

* test(skills): convert codex-skill-isolation.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: the owning skills' E2E cases and workflow judges; CLI/hook output and fixture-data pins in the tail were left alone.
Sentence pins: 1 -> 0.

* test(skills): convert office-hours-review.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: the owning skills' E2E cases and workflow judges; CLI/hook output and fixture-data pins in the tail were left alone.
Sentence pins: 2 -> 1.

* test(skills): convert onboarding-moved-literals.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: the owning skills' E2E cases and workflow judges; CLI/hook output and fixture-data pins in the tail were left alone.
Sentence pins: 2 -> 2.

* test(skills): convert open-gstack-browser-liveness.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: the owning skills' E2E cases and workflow judges; CLI/hook output and fixture-data pins in the tail were left alone.
Sentence pins: 3 -> 2.

* test(skills): convert plan-floor-review.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: the owning skills' E2E cases and workflow judges; CLI/hook output and fixture-data pins in the tail were left alone.
Sentence pins: 3 -> 2.

* test(skills): convert plan-review-report-recording.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: the owning skills' E2E cases and workflow judges; CLI/hook output and fixture-data pins in the tail were left alone.
Sentence pins: 4 -> 2.

* test(skills): convert regression-1539-review-self-verify.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: the owning skills' E2E cases and workflow judges; CLI/hook output and fixture-data pins in the tail were left alone.
Sentence pins: 4 -> 0.

* test(skills): convert skill-fixture.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: the owning skills' E2E cases and workflow judges; CLI/hook output and fixture-data pins in the tail were left alone.
Sentence pins: 6 -> 3.

* test(skills): convert template-context-parity.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: the owning skills' E2E cases and workflow judges; CLI/hook output and fixture-data pins in the tail were left alone.
Sentence pins: 1 -> 0.

* test: restore pins on renderer output and paid-fixture inputs

cso-contracts (the report renderer's required empty phrase), memory-ingest
(binary output), carve-plan-fixture, ship-skip-actor and cso-eval (inputs the
paid harness builds) assert product or fixture output, not skill prose, so the
value-bar narrowing does not apply to them.

* feat(eval-policy): v2 series identity, HARNESS_VERSION guard and identity backtest

W4a (CEO-27/ENG-3/DX-6), not yet wired to the writer: caseSeriesIdentitiesV2
keys a case by the bytes it owns (paid test file, fixtures, its skills' prompt
files including the generated SKILL.md) plus HARNESS_VERSION, and records the
full consumed-input fingerprint as provenance. scripts/harness-version.json
pins the blob of every shared-harness file (GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES plus the session
runners, PTY harness, e2e gate and LLM judge), one line per file;
test/harness-version.test.ts fails on drift with both fixes, and
scripts/bump-harness-version.ts records the decision: --bump (new series for
every case) or --non-behavioral (compatibility entry, no reset).
eval-trial-series --backtest replays identities over weekly main revisions
and recorded trials (ENG-3/DX-12).

* feat(pass-rates): weekly history is main's scheduled runs plus main dispatches

W4b: pass-rates reads evals-periodic history from main only, keeping scheduled
runs and main dispatches and never a branch dispatch, so back-to-back branch
validation runs neither feed pass rates nor count as weeks for quarantine
expiry or drift. --branch <name> still reads one branch's runs for inspection.

* docs(test-audit): EVAL_POLICY v2 decision memo with the identity backtest

D1 memo (CEO-33, ENG-3, DX-12, CEO-27): P(green) arithmetic, false-blocking
targets, the v2 identity rule and harness guard, weekly history, W4c evidence
(the named 'stochastic' cases pass 26/27 to 34/34, so they stay rule), the
backtest over 29 weekly main revisions and 14,898 recorded trials, what it
means for quarantine reachability, alternatives (gating vs trended, adaptive
panels not adopted, buy vs build), and the rollback proof on the pre-PR reader.

* feat(eval-policy): EVAL_POLICY v2 writer: case-owned series identity

The v2 writer, last commit of the W4 block (DX-12/ENG-14/ENG-21): the report
job's stamp now writes caseSeriesIdentitiesV2 (case-owned bytes plus
HARNESS_VERSION) as series_identity, the full consumed-input fingerprint as
series_fingerprint and harness_version as provenance, and EVAL_POLICY.version
is 2 (approved 2026-10-04, D1). The v1 touchfile identity is removed.
Rollback = revert this commit (and the W4 commits above the reader-compat
floor); readers then ignore the v2 records with a printed count.

* test: restore pins on paid-harness prompt inputs

review-enum-lifecycle and plan-review-report-recording assert the prompt a
paid case's harness builds (opts.prompt / call.prompt), a fixture contract,
not skill prose.

* test(security): check injected safety lines on meaning, not capitals

content-security, the canary instruction and the arm judge prompt still must
carry their never-follow / never-output / exact-"none" rules; the checks are
case-insensitive keyword checks so emphasis can change. The UNTRUSTED envelope
markers and "none" value stay exact tokens. (Hidden element stripping fails
locally only because Playwright Chromium is not installed; same at base.)

* test(plan-ceo): keep the outside-voice scope-summary rule as a meaning check

The first codemod pass left an empty if body (TS1313).

* chore(windows): re-record the Windows duration seed for the 631-file subset (run 37222668939)

* ci(free-tests): summarize every shard's flake ledger in the aggregate job (W7a)

The aggregate downloads flake-ledger-* (one subdirectory per shard) and
appends lane C's `scripts/test-health-report.ts flake-summary` output to the
job summary before strict verification. The runner's own flaky table is
dropped so the ledger reader stays the single source; --ci-verify keeps the
shard-overrun warning.

* feat(evals): free test files anywhere and the stored-zip helper never restore the full PR gate (W1a)

The CEO-23 replay found design/test free tests forcing fallback (36485436963).

* feat(evals): replay recorded PR pushes through today's selector (CEO-23, ENG-18)

scripts/replay-pr-selection.ts reports per push the recorded vs replayed
mode and case count, dropped gate cases, retired failed cases and every
miss (a failed case that depends on the diff but is no longer selected).

* refactor(evals): one case-sharded carve-section-loading file with a case id and touchfiles per skill (W5a)

* test(free): hold qa-deadline's full-pipe case on a FIFO, not a paused Bun stream

Bun gives a child 'pipe' stdio a unix socketpair, so whether the 2 MB fill
actually blocks depends on the parent's reader and the host's socket buffer
sizes. CI (run 36761671811, both attempts) saw exit 0 after ~130 ms; with
net.core.{w,r}mem_default=4 MiB locally the old case fails 3/3 the same way.
A FIFO the test never reads is bounded by the kernel pipe buffer, so the
receipt write genuinely blocks and the 5 s settlement deadline must fire.
The 7 s bound now starts once the preload has queued the write.

* test(free): event-driven waits in pty-output-wake

close-releases-observers: the 500 ms wall race becomes an ordering check
(the waiter is released while only SIGINT has been sent, before close's
escalation finishes), and the Bun.spawn spy fakes only the PTY launch so a
shard neighbor's in-process spawn cannot add a stray SIGTERM (CI runs
36015568981, 36036582721, 36074636848).

continuous-redraws: the fixture spinner stops once the observer has made
five coalesced reads, so the run reaches its work deadline with no redraw
in flight. Streaming right up to the deadline raced the helper's screen
drain and failed as 'PTY screen parse failed; viewport is incomplete'
(5 CI runs 09-30..10-03; 4/40 locally under 8 busy loops, 0/40 after).

* test(free): session-runner long-capture handshake waits for the collected Read event

The fake CLI's init line arms the runner's work-phase timer, so the worker's
handshake (work-ready + a >200 s timer) could pass before the runner's read
loop had collected the Read event printed just before work-ready. Advancing
the clock then killed the run with the Read lost: readSection false (CI run
37194511124). The worker now also waits for the runner's own progress line
for that Read. Forcing the observed ordering (work-ready 200 ms before the
Read line) fails the old test deterministically and passes the new one.

* test(free): budget-override restores the CI variables it rewrites

Its provenance cases set and then deleted CI, GITHUB_ACTIONS, GITHUB_REF_NAME,
GITHUB_SHA and the GitLab CI_* names without restoring them, so in a CI shard
every later file ran with CI unset. qa-only-cleanup's real browse daemons
then launched Chromium without --no-sandbox, the sandbox failed on the
runner, and both real-Chromium cases timed out with 'QA cleanup fixture did
not become ready' (shard 12 attempt 1 of six runs on 10-04, retry alone
green). Retained startup log: 'Chromium sandboxing failed!', child env with
no CI. Reproduced 3/3 with CI=true, userns denied and budget-override ahead
of qa-only-cleanup in one process; 0/3 after.

* test(free): pr-shared-input-selection names its base and package history

Every selection now passes EVALS_BASE and packageVersionOnly explicitly, so
no case reads the checkout's git state. Before, 12 calls ran
detectBaseBranch and the cumulative case diffed package.json against
merge-base(origin/main, HEAD) — the ambient input that turned main red in
runs 36572856858 and 36594314027. A PATH git spy counts 14 git calls in the
old file and 0 now.

* feat(evals): derive PR-lane dependents for unmapped files instead of restoring the full gate

scripts/pr-dependencies.ts derives, from the checked-out tree, which paid
cases consume each repository file: test import closures, repo paths and
path.join segments in code/shell/skill text (whole-line comments and
selection data excluded), bin script names, compiled binaries by outfile
path (scripts/build.sh), package scripts, template placeholders through
RESOLVERS, and host configs by host id. The global touchfiles' import
closure is global.

PR selection: an unmapped file with derived consumers puts the run in the
new 'dependents' mode (every dependent gate case and judge, no profile cut);
a tracked file under a derivable directory that nothing reaches is exempt;
periodic/marathon workflows, .gitignore and tsconfig.test.json never run
the PR gate. PR_FULL_GATE_FILES is the fail-closed list (deps, CI image,
setup, build, evals.yml and its actions, test preload, tsconfig.json,
.gitattributes, the skill generator and preamble resolvers, the eval
policy). Untracked or underivable files restore the full gate with fix
text. The summary and PR comment list derived dependents.

* feat(evals): replay misses count derived dependents; report wave vs ordinary pushes (CEO-23)

* test: drop FREE_FIXTURES entries for fixtures deleted in W8b

* test: re-shape the census attribution fixture to qa-workflow and carve case shards

* test: census fixture case order

* ci: 420 s PR-lane slices with per-slice ceilings; periodic tracking issue only on main

evals.yml joins the census lanes at the 420 s slice budget (W5c/CEO-15) and
indexes each eval slice's job timeout from .plan.sliceCiTimeoutMinutes with
the slice-deadline clock as its first step (W2c/ENG-2). evals-periodic.yml's
tracking-issue upsert and close run only on refs/heads/main, so a branch
dispatch whose gate census is skipped (CEO-04) never opens or closes #2755.

* docs: integrate lane docs for the audit wave (eval-bg backends, PR fallback, policy v2, ceilings, evidence)

- CLAUDE.md: 'Running evals as an agent' describes scripts/eval-bg.ts's
  dispatch and local backends, forcing flags, the sentinel and status;
  eval:select's PR-profile default; prompt-structure helper and value-bar
  terms. instruction-facts now requires scripts/eval-bg.ts in that section.
- CONTRIBUTING.md: decision table gains test:health, eval:select default,
  eval:bg backends and the include_gate_census / evals_all dispatch lines;
  420 s runners and per-runner ceilings; flake ledger, OSV tracking issue
  and expiry test, weekly test health; prompt-structure guidance.
- AGENTS.md: build commands name the eval:bg backend choice and test:health.
- docs/TESTING_INTERNALS.md: anchors the fix texts point to
  (#pr-paid-lane-fallback, #pass-rate-policy-versions, #harness-version,
  #flake-ledger, #duration-seed), receipts/recovery/debounce, per-slice
  ceilings, the slice deadline with not_run/hung and checkpoints, the eval-bg
  cap formula in place of the detach floors, EVAL_POLICY v2 history, carve
  case shards via --case.
- docs/test-audit-2026-10.md: CEO-23 replay (165/168 -> 164/168
  full-fallback, 0 misses), ENG-17 slice table (re-measured on this tree),
  D2 prose-pin metric.
- TODOS.md: progress note on 'Let pass-rate history decide the rest'.
- test/testing-internals-anchors.test.ts: every TESTING_INTERNALS.md#anchor
  named in code must match a heading.

* test(free): hold qa-deadline's blocked-output-pipe receipts on a FIFO

The five 'guard %s receipts survive a blocked output pipe' cases filled a
paused Bun child pipe with 2 MiB. That pipe is a unix socketpair, so the
fill only blocks while the host's socket buffers are smaller than the write:
with net.core.{w,r}mem_default=4 MiB the old cases fail 13 of 15 case runs
(the guard finishes before the test resumes the stream). The held stream is
now a FIFO the test drains only after resume(), bounded by the kernel pipe
buffer; Windows keeps the paused pipe. Bounds and assertions are unchanged.

* test(free): qa-deadline waits for a written pid, not just the pid file

DRIVER and LEAF write their pid with writeFileSync, so under load ready()
can see the file before its digits and fail 'expected > 0, received 0'
(seen once in 150 loaded runs). After any early failure the finally
SIGKILLs the CLI, which orphans the detached command group; a leaf whose pid
file is not yet readable then keeps the output stream open and the case
hangs to its 15 s timeout (2/80 old-file runs and 3/310 FIFO-only runs
under 8 busy loops; the instrumented hang showed the CLI already SIGKILLed
by the finally). ready() now polls within the same 3 s bound until the file
holds a positive pid.

* fix(evals): a deleted file selects the dependents of the live files that still reference it

PR selection treated every path absent from the head tree as an unknown
dependency, so any PR that deleted a file forced the full gate. A deleted
path is now placed like a live one, against the head tree: a matching
touchfile selects its cases; live code, skill text or a full-gate input that
still references it (path, extensionless import target, relative import,
bin name, ancestor directory, compiled-binary outfile; whole-line comments
and data files excluded) contributes its dependents, a full-gate referencer
restores the full gate with a 'deleted but still referenced' fix, and an
unreferenced deleted path has no dependents. Deleted PR_FULL_GATE_FILES
entries still force the full gate. Tests that used absent paths as stand-ins
for new unmapped files now use tracked root files (or an explicit tracked
set); the CEO-23 replay counts misses through those references too.

* docs: integrate free-suite lane docs (seed anchor, Windows lane, native qualification, install fixture, flake rules)

- docs/TESTING_INTERNALS.md: '### Free suite duration seed' (the anchor the
  seed messages link) with DX-13, the 99th-percentile packing, --ci-plan
  warning, --ci-verify overruns and the CEO-10 seed ratchet; the Windows
  6-job lane, its Windows-measured seed and refresh dispatch, curation and
  WINDOWS_CURATED_FLOOR; native-qualification.yml modes; the merged
  install fixture; test-only timing knobs; the flake-ledger job summary,
  Windows ledger names and three free-suite flake rules; zsh in the
  Ubicloud mirror.
- scripts/test-health-report.ts links #free-suite-duration-seed, so the
  two seed messages share one heading (the anchor test caught the split).
- CONTRIBUTING.md: Windows seed refresh and native qualification rows;
  seed-source pointer. AGENTS.md: Windows six-job lane.
- docs/cso-release-qualification.md: the free CSO Docker job runs only
  cso-docker-integration.test.ts.
- docs/test-audit-2026-10.md: free-suite evidence lines.
- TODOS.md: CEO-11b progress note on the pre-push hook hang.

* test: final duration seeds on the integrated tree; retire the emptied cookie-validation-phases file

Linux seed re-recorded on Ubicloud standard-16 and the Windows seed from
dispatch run 37227140871, both at c903310. The seed allowlist drops the three
entries that are no longer over the ceiling. cookie-validation-phases lost its
validation-phase pins with W8f and its Windows/Dia pins moved to
windows-native-workflows with native-qualification.yml, so the file is
deleted and the curated Windows floor rises to 638. The Windows recorder writes
the seed at its default path so GSTACK_FREE_TEST_DURATIONS never leaks into
timed tests.

* test: re-express stale PR-lane pins against the new evals.yml contract

- ci-eval-cache: the profile/fresh expressions now include evals_all=false
  dispatches and pr_receipts/evals-fresh; the PR store is restored only by
  recover-receipts (still scoped to repository_id + PR, PR events only),
  plan-slices takes it as an artifact and never touches the cache, saves
  stay PR-only, EVALS_CACHE_PR binds pr_receipts dispatches, and the report
  verdict artifact carries report receipts.
- ci-paid-coordination: plan-slices needs only the two ubuntu coordination
  jobs (never the image); the fork/Dependabot clause is unchanged on
  plan-slices and also gates debounce and recover-receipts; only recovery
  holds actions: read.
- qa-supervision-selection: auq-consistency and auq-verbose-vs-carved-ab
  (W1b) reach claude-pty-runner and pty-screen through auq-sdk-capture,
  exactly as auq-format-gate does.
- paid-retry-supervision: the full-validation plan uses a tracked full-gate
  input (setup); an absent path is now a deletion placed by its references.

* ci(windows): record the Windows seed at the default path

* chore: HARNESS_VERSION non-behavioral decision for the audit-wave integration

* v1.91.20.0 release metadata: test, eval and CI audit wave

* test(compare-board): wait for the post-submit state the feedback POST settles

The two post-submit assertions read the board once, but the board disables
the submit button and shows the message only after its feedback POST
resolves. On a loaded Ubicloud shard the read beat the round trip (FLAKY-PASS
in the final free-suite run). Delaying the POST by 400 ms reproduces both
failures at HEAD; polling for the settled state passes.

* test(plan-eng plan-mode): run the seeded STOP-gate smoke in its own fixture project

The seeded plan proposes a custom test runner, so the review's Step 0 reads
the working tree's test setup. In the gstack checkout that is gstack's own
sharded runner, and the case timed out at 300 s in census 37228573062 after
this wave reshaped the runner. It now runs in a four-file Bun project with
git history, with the product-notice suppression auto-decide-preserved's
standalone fixture already uses. Local pass on Bun 1.4.0 + Claude Code
2.1.284: asked in 121 s, seed tokens observed.

* test(plan-mode evidence): pin the seeded eng smoke's isolated fixture cwd and env

* ci(image): Git >= 2.44 so paid shared-libs cases run the supported safe-git path

bin/gstack-safe-git prefixes every /deslop-shared-libs Git read with
--no-lazy-fetch, which noble's git 2.43 rejects (exit 129). The eval image
therefore ran every paid shared-libs case on the unsupported-Git fallback:
local history unavailable, branch HEAD unknown. shared-libs-read-only failed
on exactly that in PR run 37230639146 ("Current branch HEAD: unknown. The
safe-git probe failed (unknown option: --no-lazy-fetch, git 2.43.0)") and in
2 of 74 earlier PR runs. The image installs current Git from the Ubuntu Git
Maintainers PPA and fails its build if --no-lazy-fetch is missing; the
deliberate unsupported-Git case keeps its fake Git.

* eval: pool matching branch census trials into main's pass-rate series (D1 option b)

Approved 2026-10-05. eval:pass-rates also reads completed branch census runs
in the weekly window. A branch trial counts only toward a series a main run
also has (same case-owned bytes, HARNESS_VERSION, model and CLI), so a branch
extends main's history but never starts or becomes a case's current series;
weeks for quarantine expiry still count main runs only. The D1 backtest put
this at 67 of 210 cases with enough trials for the entry rule, against 0 of
195 on main alone.

* C2: /qa defines its outcome filename fields; QA report templates name the measured timing fields

Low judge samples in failing panels named both: qa workflow (37186854666)
'an undefined {user} in the outcome filename', and qa-only workflow
(37198445662) 'template asks for Duration / durationMs totals while
reporting.md mandates Probe budget and Guarded command time'. The qa
union stays under its 1.11 size ratio (93292 of 93294 bytes).

(cherry picked from commit e14c0c1de1)

* C2: Browser Quick gets a feasible budget; QA loop names its directory and stop path

Judge rationales on the qa-only panels (2 of the last 3) cited the 30 s
Browser Quick budget: homepage + 5 targets, each a checkpoint write and a
guarded command, left ~5 s per probe. Quick is now 180 s (method text: 3
minutes); the qa-only-no-fix paid check expects the same native deadline.
PROBE_DIR points at its source line, a stopped loop goes to the final
report steps (annotations, materialize, Markdown), and /review and /ship
say that after smoke expiry only plan checks rerun in revalidation.

(cherry picked from commit 78d4a2a343)

* qa: fit the C2 judge fixes under the qa and review size caps

Brings GSTA-21's qa.ts trims (3bd625d, ce73af0) for the cherry-picked C2
wording: PROBE_DIR keeps 'owned', the stop line points at §4, and the
post-expiry rule is one sentence, so /review fits its cap. qa measures
93,303 / 84,049 = 1.11010 against the same 1.1102 cap GSTA-21 set. The
qa-only workflow judge passed 10 of 10 local trials on this wording (7 of 10
before the C2 fixes).

* test: qa-only fixture keeps its caller-set 30 s deadline

The qa-only-no-fix fixture tells the model to start the guard with 30 s
(a caller limit), so its deadline assertion's default stays 30 000 ms; the
product's Browser Quick default (180 s) does not apply to it. Reverts the
helper and its test to their base.

(cherry picked from commit e36e622add)

* test: qa-quick sets a caller probe limit and drains past its session budget

C2 raised Browser Quick's native budget to 180 s. qa-quick is the only gate case
on the native budget, and its wall went 194 s (main periodic, pre-C2) -> 254 s and
274 s (this PR's runs) -> 300 s session timeout (run 37242691913): the agent now
probes every navigation target with a checkpoint, then needs ~80 s to report.
Like qa-only-no-fix, the eval now sets a caller probe limit (30 s), scopes the
fixture, and gives bun's outer timeout the session drain margin instead of racing
the 300 s session. The product's 180 s budget and the session budget are unchanged.
Diagnostic rerun passed in 195 s.

(cherry picked from commit f8dc64031e)

* chore: restore the audit wave's package scripts after the main merge (version 1.91.23)

* qa: keep main's one-sentence post-expiry rule for /review and /ship

The C2 variants ("step 4c reruns plan checks only" and "even in 4c") read
to the review workflow judge as conflicting with Step 5.8's repeat-pass
reruns: 6 of 10 local trials passed with the longer sentence and PR run
37248650879 failed on the shorter one. Main's "Post-expiry smoke rechecks are
not-run." passed 10 of 10. qa (9/10), qa-only (10/10) and
ship-managed-hook-refresh (10/10) were measured on the same tree.

* v1.91.24.0: move off the slot #3036 claims
2026-10-05 01:29:54 +00:00
+44 2db0b3adc8 v1.91.19.0 fix: severe fix wave (truthful gates, no lost memory, every host finds gstack) (#3025)
* docs: approved severe fix wave plan (Oct 2026)

* D0: keep a project's .env and bunfig.toml out of compiled binaries and daemon children

Compiled binaries are built with --no-compile-autoload-dotenv and
--no-compile-autoload-bunfig; the browse server and terminal agent are
spawned with --no-env-file and an empty config, so a repo's .env cannot set
GSTACK_CHROMIUM_NO_SANDBOX and a bunfig preload cannot run code in them.
Verified on Bun 1.4.0.

* A9: --no-write is a dry run and leaves ingest state untouched

--no-write stamped every prepared page ingested_at and saved state, so a
later real run skipped those pages forever. It now prepares and reports
pages without importing or changing the state file.

Tests that used GSTACK_MEMORY_INGEST_NO_WRITE / --no-write to seed state
move to an explicit seam (a fake gbrain that accepts every staged page),
because the --no-write contract deliberately changes.

* H #2885 #2827: vector geometry is not phone or card PII

pii.phone.e164 accepts "." as a group separator, so a single float
(viewBox="0 0 581.66796875 ...") and a run of path coordinates
("37.6188 101.694") read as phone numbers. pii.cc's \b stops at a decimal
point, so the long fraction of an .excalidraw float is a Luhn candidate.
Excalidraw's seed/versionNonce/updated integers read as bare phone numbers.
A rendered /diagram triplet raised 18 (svg) and 97 (excalidraw) MEDIUM
findings on main; it now raises none.

- looksLikeDecimalCoordinates (ported from #2885, extended to a single
  decimal and refusing a leading "+", the E.164 marker)
- insideDecimalNumber: a cc span glued to "<digit>." or ".<digit>"
- isNumericMetadataValue: an unquoted JSON value under a seed, nonce or
  timestamp key; the same digits under "phone" still report

Controls: E.164 in prose, dotted and spaced phones, "+"-prefixed runs,
"phone"/"contact" JSON numbers, Luhn-valid cards in prose and at sentence end.

Co-authored-by: Lewis <lewispeel@hotmail.com>

* D1: pin the terminal-agent /ws Origin to the gstack extension (#1324)

GSTACK_EXTENSION_ID moves to browse/src/extension-id.ts, shared by
/extension-token and the terminal agent's /ws gate. /ws now returns 403 for
every origin except the pinned extension. Forks override the ID with
gstack-config set browse_extension_id <id>, honored by both routes; the
BROWSE_EXTENSION_ID env var is no longer read. Test sites that used fake
extension IDs now use the pinned origin.

* H #2899: env.kv skips a function call assigned to a credential name

`session = _FlakySession(...)`, `token = make_token(user, ...)` and
`password = getpass.getpass()` raised env.kv MEDIUM, which blocks the
fail-closed decision log. The exemption needs the line's evidence, not the
span's shape: the value is unquoted, is an identifier or dotted path
followed by "(", and the call closes on the line or opens a multi-line
argument list. Quoted values, unclosed "(" inside an unquoted secret
(API_SECRET=Abc123xyz(9Qm) and calls carrying a high-entropy literal
argument still report. The literal check is shared with the #2912 env-read
exemption.

Co-authored-by: Yugz <yannduzelier@gmail.com>

* H #2962: per-machine config filenames are not internal hostnames

`CLAUDE.local.md` and `settings.local.json` reported internal.hostname
MEDIUM (the pattern's \b stops at the dot before the extension), which fails
closed in the decision log. A span immediately followed by a known config
extension (.md .json .jsonc .yaml .yml .toml .ini .conf .txt) and a word
boundary is a filename. Controls: `ssh build.local`, `printer.local.` at a
sentence end, `printer.local/md`, `printer.local.mdx`, a host with a port,
`api.corp`, `build-7.internal`. The `.env.local` vectors (#2740) pass on
main already via isDotenvFilename and are pinned here as regressions.

Co-authored-by: Florian <florian.cleyetmerle@gmail.com>

* H #2784: four-part versions need a version declaration, not a shape

`"version": "1.128.1.0"`, `<Version>`, `AssemblyVersion("1.0.0.0")` and
Keep a Changelog headings raised pii.ip_public MEDIUM on every release,
because a four-part version is byte-for-byte a dotted quad. Exempt only when
the same line declares it a version immediately before the value (a version
key or word, an XML tag, an attribute call, or a `## [x]` heading). The same
digits after host:/server =/"upstream", bare on a line, or after prose that
merely mentions a version still report. Unlike #2784, this does not exempt a
value because the same string is declared a version elsewhere in the text:
that let a real address sharing a diff with a matching version slip. The
pre-push hook's VERSION-file rule (#2856) is unchanged.

Co-authored-by: cdecook23 <decook23@gmail.com>

* H #2913: postgres:postgres is exempt only on a loopback host

The postgres image's default pair in compose files and CI DATABASE_URLs
blocked pushes as db.url_with_password HIGH. It is now exempt only for
postgres/postgresql URLs with exactly postgres:postgres on localhost or
127.0.0.1 (optional port). A bare single-label host (`db`, `postgres`), any
other host, a host that merely starts with localhost (`localhost.evil...`,
`localhost@prod-db`), any other user or password, and other schemes still
block. #2913 exempted the pair on any host; this keeps the plan's narrower
rule.

Co-authored-by: mb1810 <michael.berger1810@gmail.com>

* G1: ship without a version when no version source is configured

Resolve the version source to four outcomes (valid, absent, ambiguous,
broken) in lib/version-source.ts and read that one signal in
gstack-version-bump (new NO_VERSION state; write refuses to invent a
VERSION), gstack-next-version (no_version, no slot), /ship's bump,
CHANGELOG and title steps, /land-and-deploy's drift check and
/document-release. A configured version file that is missing, empty,
unreadable or malformed stops with its path; 0.0.0.0 is never
substituted. docs/skills.md documents .gstack/version-path.

Migrates two tests that pinned the old fabricated-0.0.0.0 behavior.

Co-authored-by: Koda <koda@edgeviewfinance.com.au>
Co-authored-by: Merit Blake <merit@newsprint.com>

* H #2949: eval credential screen checks every name segment

The hermetic eval env admits GITHUB_* and EVALS_* metadata but rejects
credential-shaped names, judged only by the last underscore segment. A
trailing qualifier carried a credential through: GITHUB_APP_PRIVATE_KEY_BASE64,
GITHUB_TOKEN_1, EVALS_API_KEY_FALLBACK reached eval children. The screen
now rejects a name when any segment is a credential word; segments, not
substrings, so GITHUB_PATH / GITHUB_TOKENIZER / GITHUB_KEYRING stay
metadata, and explicit runner admissions still win.

Co-authored-by: Nguyen Thanh Dat <ntdat812@gmail.com>

* H #2915: cover chunked scanning of large multi-file push diffs

Test-only coverage for behavior already on main: a clean two-file pushed
diff over the engine's 1 MiB cap passes without engine.input_too_large, and
a credential at the end of the second file (a later scan chunk) still
blocks the push.

Co-authored-by: pneumorea-ai <pneumorea@gmail.com>

* A3: keep a project's DATABASE_URL away from a PGLite brain

With a PGLite config, buildGbrainEnv returned the caller env unchanged, so
a project's .env DATABASE_URL (autoloaded by Bun) reached gbrain: a false
broken-db at best, gbrain talking to the app's own Postgres at worst.
Inherited DATABASE_URL and GBRAIN_DATABASE_URL are now blanked for PGLite
configs (GSTACK_RESPECT_ENV_DATABASE_URL=1 still keeps them), and every
gbrain child runs from gbrain's config dir instead of the user's project,
so it cannot reload the project's .env / .env.local.

The old test that pinned pass-through for an engine:pglite config is
migrated: pass-through now applies only to configs that name neither a
database_url nor PGLite.

Co-authored-by: maxpetrusenkoagent <max.petrusenko.agent@gmail.com>

* C9: guard destructive gstack-upgrade and spec fences against unset or wrong paths

Fresh-shell hosts (and Claude Code, which keeps cwd but not shell variables)
ran cd "$INSTALL_DIR" with an empty variable, so git checkout/stash/reset
targeted the user's project. Step 2 now prints an absolute path; every
destructive fence starts with cd -- "${VAR:?...}" || exit 1 and checks it is
gstack's own checkout before any git command. /spec's worktree and spawn
fences get the same guard.

* F4: keep every paid design variant across regenerate rounds

$D variants now reserves a collision-safe round-<N>/ directory per run
(atomic mkdir) and writes a manifest.json of what each round saved. The
paid image request and the local write retry separately: a write failure
retries the write (temp + rename) and, if the path stays unwritable,
keeps the bytes in the temp dir instead of buying the image again.
Responsive variants land in their round directory too.

Readers updated: design-shotgun reserves a round dir and a private temp
dir for its parallel agents and records approved_path/round in
approved.json; design-html resolves approved_path (legacy letters still
work) and finds round-dir variants; design-consultation checks the
printed paths; the gallery shows round-dir variants. Variants that were
already overwritten before this change cannot be recovered.

Migrates the consultation contract test that pinned the flat path.

Co-authored-by: Matt Van Horn <mvanhorn@gmail.com>

* A2: stage dot-leading slugs gbrain can collect; network errors are db-unreachable

A page slug segment starting with a dot (a .claude project) staged a file
gbrain's import walker prunes, so the batch was refused on every run.
Leading dots become "dot-" per segment, and slugs recorded in state under
the old name map through the same function so no page is duplicated.

A DNS or connection failure (ENOTFOUND, EAI_AGAIN, ECONNREFUSED, ...) no
longer classifies as broken-db, which routed users to move a working
config aside. The new db-unreachable status carries the reason
"database host unreachable (<code> <host>); your gbrain config is
unchanged. Fix: check network or VPN, then re-run /sync-gbrain.", skips
local sync stages with that reason, and counts as usable for
gstack-gbrain-detect --is-ok like timeout.

Co-authored-by: Infiniteyieldai <infiniteyield.ai@gmail.com>

* D2: one address classifier for navigation literals, DNS answers, redirects and page-driven navigations (#2811)

classifyAddress() in url-validation.ts blocks 169.254.0.0/16 (metadata and
container credential endpoints), 100.100.100.200, fe80::/10 and fc00::/7,
including IPv4-mapped, IPv4-compatible and NAT64 spellings and decimal,
octal and hex IPv4. validateNavigationUrl, the A/AAAA answer check and
session-persist's cookie-domain guard all use it. BrowserManager now checks
every navigation request (redirect hops, link clicks, scripted navigations):
a blocked target resets the tab to about:blank and the write command fails
with the reason. Connection-time DNS rebinding remains out of scope.

Co-authored-by: Gabriel Rondon <grondon@gmail.com>

* C4: external hosts point at carved sections relative to the installed skill

Publishes the pointer form setup matches: on every non-Claude host a carved
section is `sections/<file>` relative to the installed gstack-<skill> SKILL.md
directory (QA's existing form), never $GSTACK_ROOT/<skill>/sections/, which
does not exist in external runtime roots. No render changes yet: only QA is
carved on external hosts today.

* INV-1: gate outcome contract for outside reviews

classifyOutsideReview() returns separate execution, findings and verdict
fields from text, stderr and exit status; reason codes, anchors and fix
actions live in lib/gate-outcomes.ts. validateOutsideReview() stays as the
text-only wrapper and the two-argument CLI keeps exit 0/1/2 for importers
and installed skills that predate a re-render. The --verdict form (implied
by --stderr/--exit) prints VERDICT/FINDINGS/REASON and exits 0/3/4/1; the
generated outside-voice caller moves to it and branches on each status
(unverified prints OUTSIDE_STATUS: unverified, never completed).

Adds docs/troubleshooting.md with one anchored section per reason code, the
anchor test, and the gate-tail lint (query scripts may not swallow failures,
gate calls may not end in || true, other best-effort tails say why).

* G1: quote the base placeholder in document-release title sync

The title-sync block is checked with bash -n; an unquoted <base> parses
as a redirection. Migrates the test that pinned the old root VERSION
read to the shared classifier call.

* G3: give every logging-bin mktemp a ${TMPDIR:-/tmp} template

Bare mktemp, mktemp -t and literal /tmp templates in the learnings,
question and preference logs (plus jsonl-merge, distill, the two
dashboards, /ship's PR body and /document-release's run dir) now use
"${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/<name>.XXXXXX", the form the INV-3 lint accepts. When
the temp file cannot be created, the learnings, question and preference
logs now say the entry was not recorded and how to fix TMPDIR instead of
exiting with only mktemp's own error. Three tests that pinned the bare
PR_BODY_FILE=$(mktemp) and one that pinned the /tmp run dir migrate.

GNU and BSD mktemp already honor TMPDIR without a template, so the
macOS-sandbox drop in #2952 is unverified here; the template makes the
temp location explicit on every mktemp.

Co-authored-by: Davon Johnson <d.johnson@dayofshow.net>

* B1b: structured outside-review gate fails on P0 as well as P1

validateOutsideReview() derived its structured pass/fail from a [P1] match,
so a review reporting only [P0] findings passed. The wrapper now reads the
classifier's findings verdict (P0 or P1), and the /review and /ship
structured-gate prose requests [P0]-[P3] tags and fails on P0/P1; untagged
output (OUTSIDE_STATUS: unverified) is missing coverage. The ship clarity
pin moves from 'structured P1' to 'structured P0/P1' with the behavior.

* E1: freeze normalizes boundary and target the same way on Windows; hooks spawn through cmd.exe (#2876, #2354)

gstack_hook_normalize_path (careful/bin/hook-extract.sh) maps C:\..., c:/...,
UNC \\server\share (leading // kept) and /cygdrive/c to one form; check-freeze
runs both the saved boundary and file_path through it before the absolute
test, after symlink resolution, and compares case-insensitively on Windows
bash. freeze, guard and careful register hooks as
bash -c "exec bash \"$HOME/...\"" so cmd.exe, which never expands $HOME,
no longer turns the hook into a silent exit 127.

Co-authored-by: Kevin Grasso <kevin@biblingo.com>
Co-authored-by: Xuan-Ce Wang <261591073+xwang4-svg@users.noreply.github.com>

* G4: keep CLI-to-daemon loopback calls off HTTP_PROXY (#494)

The CLI appends 127.0.0.1, localhost and ::1 to the user's NO_PROXY (and
no_proxy), keeping existing entries, before its first fetch. Verified on
Bun 1.4.0: fetch honors NO_PROXY when it is set before the first request
and ignores later changes, so it is set at the top of main().

* F1: bind the plan audit to this branch's plan, never the newest file

Plan File Discovery now prefers an explicit binding (the plan-mode file
or /autoplan ACTIVE_PLAN from the conversation, then a "Plan: <path>"
line in the PR body), then lists candidates: repo-committed
docs/designs/ files this branch changed or that name it, and personal
plan files that name the branch. Candidates are offered, never picked
silently. The repo-name match and the newest-file-of-the-day fallback,
which audited PRs against unrelated plans, are gone. With nothing bound
or chosen it prints the exact line 'Plan completion audit: not run (...).
Fix: add "Plan: <path>" to the PR body, or run /autoplan.'

/ship's parent now binds the plan before dispatching the audit
subagent ({{PLAN_COMPLETION_GATE_SHIP:discovery}}), so the child never
searches. Migrates three tests that pinned the old markers and notice.

Co-authored-by: loulanyue <260355617@qq.com>

* G5: browse type --selector <sel> <text> (#2936)

--selector focuses the element (sel or @ref) and types into it. The bare
form still types its text literally into the focused element; text that
starts with -- goes after a -- separator. When the first word looks like a
CSS selector, the result adds a hint to use --selector without echoing the
typed text, and never refuses based on page contents. Help and command
usage updated.

Co-authored-by: Thomas Reuser <thomasreuser@gmail.com>

* F2: design-doc discovery reads docs/designs, never a root DESIGN.md

A root DESIGN.md is the design system /design-consultation writes, so
preferring it unconditionally reviewed plans against a token file while
printing "Design doc found" and never looked at docs/designs/ feature
docs. Discovery now considers only docs/designs/*.md as the repo-local
design doc (still freshness-compared with the private ~/.gstack copy).
The CEO finding fixture seeds its supplied design as a docs/designs doc
and its test follows.

Co-authored-by: Bit0ps <alex.dreamscaper@gmail.com>

* C4: rename the external carve test (typecheck:test union-order artifact)

tsc prints a union's members in type-creation order; a test file sorting
before ceo-mode-option.test.ts reordered one baseline diagnostic's text.

* C1: every env-var host fence resolves its own gstack root

Codex and the other env-var hosts run each block in a fresh shell, so
GSTACK_ROOT/BIN, B and D set by the preamble were empty in later blocks
(/bin/gstack-slug, B=/browse). scripts/resolvers/runtime-root.ts now owns
root resolution: a valid exported GSTACK_ROOT (bin/ and lib/), else the
per-install literal root (no git call), else repo-local, else the global root
(CODEX_HOME on Codex); no root prints the setup fix line and exits. One
post-render pass inserts it (<=400 bytes) into every fence that uses these
variables without assigning them; B/D come from the same helper as BROWSE
and DESIGN SETUP. Claude output is byte-identical.

Migrated pins of the old preamble lines (gen-skill-docs.test.ts) and a
fixture whose exported GSTACK_ROOT lacked lib/ (skill-positional-literals).

* E8: headless browse honors GSTACK_CHROMIUM_PATH; extensions load in new headless mode (#2771, #1968, #2281)

The headless launch passes GSTACK_CHROMIUM_PATH as executablePath, scopes
the XProtect self-heal out for that bundle, and names the path in a launch
failure with the fix. BROWSE_EXTENSIONS_DIR now launches a persistent
context under the project state dir with --headless=new, so the extension
runs and no window appears (the off-screen window was visible on macOS and
the extension never ran in an isolated newContext). The GPU source guard
test moves from the removed useHeadless flag to launch() vs launchHeaded().

Co-authored-by: oli548 <312288720+oli548@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Slava <slava.istomin@tuta.io>
Co-authored-by: ryanlaiwy <129729476+ryanlaiwy@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: 李翊楠 <yinanli1917@gmail.com>

* C2: link design/dist and make-pdf/dist into every host runtime root and the agents sidecar

Codex design and make-pdf skills fall back to $GSTACK_DESIGN and
$GSTACK_MAKE_PDF under the runtime root, but setup linked only browse/dist,
so both preflights reported NOT_AVAILABLE on a fresh install. One helper
links dist/ only (make-pdf/ ships a Claude SKILL.md) into the Codex,
Factory, OpenCode, Cursor, Copilot and Kiro roots, the .agents sidecar and
the Cursor sidecar.

Co-authored-by: Mammad M. <mammad@digit.az>

* C3: install router and nested SKILL.md files as real copies; back up hand edits; --status checks

Codex skips a symlinked SKILL.md file, so the gstack router linked into
~/.codex/skills/gstack was invisible. Every host runtime root (Codex,
Factory, OpenCode, Cursor, Copilot, Kiro) and Kiro's per-skill installs
now get real copies, rewritten on every run (the auto-update path runs
setup --refresh-registered, so it refreshes them too). setup records each
copy's hash in <state root>/skill-copies.tsv; a copy that no longer matches
is saved to a uniquely named backup under <state root>/backups/skill-copies/
before _activate_runtime_root replaces the tree, and a failed backup keeps
the old tree. setup prints what it refreshed or removed.

./setup --status now prints, per registered install, whether the router is a
real file and whether every section pointer resolves, with the fix command.

Test migration: setup-codex-model pinned the Kiro router/upgrade links as
_link_or_copy; C3 deliberately changes them to copies.

* INV-3: install-level host conformance checks (no symlinked SKILL.md, dist present, section pointers resolve)

For codex, kiro, factory, opencode, cursor and copilot, the real-setup
conformance kit now fails when an installed SKILL.md is a symlink, when
design/dist or make-pdf/dist is missing from the runtime root, or when a
'Read `.../sections/<f>.md`' pointer in an installed SKILL.md does not
resolve (bare pointers in carved skills, relative-to-installed-skill
pointers, and $GSTACK_ROOT/~/absolute/../ pointers everywhere), and
./setup --status must report 'all resolve'. No new setup runs.

Expected red until the generator lane lands: design-html's install-offer
pointer and plan-eng-review's review-sections pointer name
$GSTACK_ROOT/<skill>/sections/... on every external host.

* B11: auto-update tracks pull, setup and migrations; announces only on success; retries with backoff

gstack-session-update wrote the 'just upgraded' marker after SETUP_FAILED or
SETUP_SKIPPED bun_missing, and re-ran setup only when HEAD moved, so a failed
install was announced as an upgrade and never retried. Stages are now
persisted in <state root>/session-update-pending; the marker is written only
when every stage succeeded; a pending setup or migrations stage is retried
even with HEAD unchanged after the update-check interval, then 6h, then 24h;
and each session start prints one line naming the stage, the reason and the
repair command while it is pending. Best-effort tails carry a same-line
reason.

* D1: gstack-config key browse_extension_id for forks and self-built extensions

The browse daemon trusts one Chrome extension ID on /extension-token and the
terminal-agent /ws. The override now lives only in gstack-config (never an
env var a project .env could set): empty by default (gstack's published
extension), a 32-letter a-p Chrome ID when set, "" clears it, and anything
else is rejected with the stored value kept. The browse lane reads it.

gstack-config-defaults: browse/src counts as a reader directory; the key is
listed prose-only until the browse lane's reader lands (the stale-entry check
then asks for the entry's removal).

* G2: key the sticky slug cache on the git common dir

A linked worktree used to resolve its slug fresh from the remote while
the main checkout kept its sticky pre-remote identity, so learnings,
checkpoints and timelines split into two buckets. gstack-slug and its
TS twin in lib/bin-context.ts now key the cache on the git common dir
(read from .git files, no git spawn, so cache hits stay git-free) and
read entries in one deterministic order: the repository entry, then the
main checkout's pre-upgrade entry, then this directory's own. Both the
repository and per-path entries are written.

When a worktree's own old entry named a different bucket that still
holds data, that slug is recorded in projects/<slug>/.former-slugs and
reported by --get FORMER_SLUGS. New --adopt-legacy --from <slug> merges
it: JSONL logs append missing lines with de-duplication, missing files
copy, differing files are listed as conflicts and never overwritten,
the source bucket is kept, and it prints migrated/pending/conflicting
counts; reruns are idempotent. --adopt-legacy --dismiss <slug> drops
the reminder.

Co-authored-by: loulanyue <260355617@qq.com>

* C5: OpenCode /gstack-* commands load the skill by its frontmatter name

OpenCode's skill tool knows gstack-review as `review` (its frontmatter
name), and OpenCode's builtin /review shadows that name as a command. The
managed /gstack-review command told the agent to load `gstack-review`,
a name the skill tool does not list. Every managed command now names the
frontmatter name. OpenCode's AskUserQuestion/ExitPlanMode mapping (#2759)
already shipped in v1.91.16.0.

Test migration: the #2629 commands test pinned the directory name.

Co-authored-by: Lockyer <135391289+Lockyer228@users.noreply.github.com>

* E4: Windows node-server bundle keeps sharp and socks external; CLI resolves its server script lazily (#2260, #2439)

build-node-server.sh passes --external sharp and --external socks (Bun on
Windows refuses to inline them; on Linux they were silently inlined). The
CLI no longer resolves server.ts or server-node.mjs at module load:
resolveServerLaunch() runs when a server starts, so a Windows minimal
runtime with only server-node.mjs works and a missing script is reported
only when one is needed.

Co-authored-by: Spooks444 <193448029+Spooks444@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: punksterlabs <77217235+punksterlabs@users.noreply.github.com>

* B1: Codex reviews whose sandbox could not start are unavailable, not a pass

In containers without unprivileged user namespaces every Codex command
fails, yet the review exits 0 and concludes 'no findings' (captured in
test/fixtures/codex-sandbox/). The validator now takes execution evidence:
'codex exec --json' command events and the 'codex review' stderr transcript
(a command that succeeded proves execution); sandbox failure lines on
stderr or in failed command output return unavailable(sandbox_unavailable);
exact 'could not run commands / read the diff' phrases are the last
fallback. Review text that merely discusses bwrap or namespaces still passes.

A free 'codex sandbox ... true' preflight (Linux, 10 s) runs before the paid
model probe and every automatic outside review; CODEX_MODE gains
sandbox_unavailable, and an inconclusive model probe reports unverified
instead of ready (exit code kept for stale callers). Every Codex site
(outside-voice resolver, /codex review, challenge, consult) takes its sandbox
from _GSTACK_CODEX_SANDBOX and pipes its result through the validator; a
static test parses rendered command positions for both. GSTACK_CODEX_NO_SANDBOX=1
(exactly 1, shell env only) switches to danger-full-access with a warning on
every use. Sandbox pins in existing tests move from the literal read-only to
the selected-sandbox variable; captured autoplan probes are judged against
the probe block they executed.

* C6: gstack-relink discovers skills structurally, so /browse survives a skill_prefix toggle

relink skipped a hardcoded list of support-directory names that included
browse, a real skill, so toggling skill_prefix removed /browse. A top-level
directory is now a skill exactly when it carries a SKILL.md.

Co-authored-by: Jonathan Zhang <topcoder1@Mac-Studio.local>

* C4: carve ship and plan-ceo-review on every host; enforce the 160 KB byte gate

The generated ship skill was 202-241 KB on all 10 non-Claude hosts (and
Factory plan-ceo-review 160,039 bytes), over the 160,000-byte ceiling,
because section carving ran only for Claude. Both skills now carve on every
host, pointing at sections relative to the installed skill directory (literal
$GSTACK_ROOT/<skill>/sections refs are rewritten the same way). The ceiling
is measured in UTF-8 bytes and fails generation in repo mode; under
--install-root it warns so setup never leaves a user without skills.

qa-lazy-sections.test.ts pinned ship as inline-on-external-hosts; migrated to
the carved policy and kept the inline check on review (Claude-only carve).

* B5: learnings and timeline reads fail loudly when bun is missing

gstack-learnings-search and gstack-timeline-read ended in
'2>/dev/null || exit 0', so a missing bun or a crashed embedded script
printed nothing and exited 0, identical to 'nothing recorded'. Both now
exit 127 with '<script>: bun not found on PATH, so ... could not be
read. Fix: install Bun (https://bun.sh), then re-run ./setup.' and let
an embedded-script failure exit non-zero with its stderr. A successful
run with no matches still exits 0 with empty output. The generated
callers that print 'LEARNINGS: unavailable (...)' belong to the
generator lane.

Co-authored-by: loulanyue <260355617@qq.com>

* B2: a retired-model 404 reports MODEL_UNUSABLE, not CODEX_MODE: ready

The model probe matched only 400 / 'is not supported', so a retired model's
404 ('does not exist or you do not have access to it') and a custom
provider's bare 404 fell through to the inconclusive branch and reported
ready. Both now classify as MODEL_UNUSABLE with a hint naming the two causes
(retired model, or a wrong base_url) and log codex_model_retired; a
'requires a newer version of Codex' 400 points at upgrading the CLI and logs
codex_cli_outdated. Ported from #2843 onto the current probe.

Co-authored-by: Marek Cermak <marek.cermak@strv.com>

* B6: rank learnings by matched query tokens and disclose truncation

A more specific query used to drop the exact match: the token-OR filter
recalled every entry sharing one token, the sort used confidence alone,
and the default --limit cut silently. Entries now rank by how many
distinct query tokens they match, then confidence, then recency, and a
query that matched more than fit says '-- N more matched, raise --limit
to see them'. The hit count lives in a local map so a field stored on
disk can never become a sort key, and the type grouping uses a
null-prototype map so a row typed 'constructor' or '__proto__' cannot
crash the run. Ranking code ported from #2796; regression vectors
adapted from #2799 (its stemmer is not needed).

Co-authored-by: loulanyue <260355617@qq.com>
Co-authored-by: y$un_ <forrest.sun527@gmail.com>

* C7: required team mode also blocks Copilot CLI's lowercase skill tool

Copilot CLI applies Claude-format matchers by tool name; its skill tool is
`skill`, which no Claude tool name maps to, so the 'Skill' matcher never
fired and Copilot ran protected skills without gstack. The hook entry now
matches 'Skill|skill', an entry an older team-init wrote is upgraded in
place, and the deny is emitted in both decision formats (Copilot reads the
top-level permissionDecision, Claude Code reads hookSpecificOutput) with
exit 0 so both parse it.

Test migration: the settings test pinned matcher 'Skill'.

Co-authored-by: neallee <neallee@gmail.com>

* B3: Codex auth probe accepts custom providers' env_key credentials

The auth probe only knew CODEX_API_KEY, OPENAI_API_KEY and auth.json, so a
working self-hosted or OpenAI-compatible provider configured with
[model_providers.<id>] env_key = "X" reported AUTH_FAILED and /codex
stopped. The probe now reads env_key from model_providers tables only
(comments ignored, the name must be a shell identifier before it is
dereferenced) and accepts a set variable; when none is set it names the
missing key on stderr. Ported from #2192 with the table scoping added.

Co-authored-by: hardy <932821449@qq.com>

* E8: keep the extensions profile under the state dir at a path lock cleanup accepts

cleanSingletonLocks only cleans directories named chromium-profile, so the
BROWSE_EXTENSIONS_DIR profile moves to <state>/extensions/chromium-profile.

* B10: plan-tune never reports CALIBRATED with zero signal events

Stats printed CALIBRATED: true from logged-answer counts alone, while
every answer could miss SIGNAL_MAP and leave each dimension at its 0.5
seed (#2623). --derive now records inferred.signal_events, the answers
that actually moved a dimension; calibration requires at least one, and
the summary prints 'not calibrated: no recorded signals' verbatim when
there are none (or says the count is unknown for a profile derived
before this change). The psychographic redesign stays out of scope.

* A1: verify gbrain landing before stamping transcripts, plus --reconcile

gbrain import exits 0 while skipping pages (returned per-file failures,
malformed filenames, managed-import Pending receipts), and its failure
ledger exists only for git import dirs, so a skipped page was stamped
ingested and never retried (field reports: 37 and 69 lost entries).

Write, verify, then stamp (lib/memory-ingest-landing.ts, a new ratcheted
module):
- State schema 2 with a transition table (staged -> imported_unverified ->
  ingested, plus refused, quarantined, unrecoverable). Schema 1 files
  migrate in place: entries become ingested in the legacy "default"
  source and a reconcile pass is marked pending.
- Named failures come from --json `failures`, stderr "Skipped <rel>:"
  lines and the ledger; a failure gbrain does not attribute refuses the
  whole batch. After 3 refused batches the batch is bisected and the page
  that poisons it is quarantined (printed even under --quiet).
- Landing check: one `gbrain list --source-id` per source per run and at
  most 50 `gbrain get --json` content checks against a
  gstack_content_sha256 frontmatter field gstack now writes. Lookup errors
  and pglite_busy mean "not yet checked", never absent; pages over the cap
  stay imported_unverified and are not re-imported.
- Each entry records its gbrain source_id. Remote-http mode records
  "staged", never "ingested".
- The source fingerprint comes from the exact bytes parsed, so a
  transcript that grows during import is not stamped as its newer self
  (the old unscanned contract test is migrated; it pinned that bug).
- --reconcile mode (bounded by --limit, default 200; resumable; --dry-run;
  backs up the state file) prints "reconcile: checked N, present M,
  re-queued K, not yet checked L". --request-reconcile records a pending
  pass without calling gbrain; the v1.91.17.0 migration (placeholder name)
  uses it, and the next ingest run does one bounded pass.
- One lock for every state writer; a state-save failure fails the run.

The #1802 static pins in regression-1611 move to the new structure
(remote-http returns before importBatch; the finally honors
preserveStaging).

Co-authored-by: afshaker <andrew@phone2.io>

* B4: arm64 re-sign keeps a backup, restores it when codesign fails, and reports design unavailable on exit 137

setup's Apple Silicon re-sign mutated each binary in place (truncate, remove
signature) and left it that way when re-signing failed; a design binary that
was then SIGKILLed at launch produced at most a quiet log line. Each binary is
now copied first and restored as built when signing fails, and design is
exec-probed after re-signing: exit 137 prints 'design unavailable: ... Fix:
cd <checkout> && ./setup' (even under -q). Verified on Linux with the real
block and uname/codesign/otool/stat stubs; not run on a Mac.

* D3: treat design docs and handoff notes as data in plan reviews

plan-ceo-review, plan-eng-review and plan-devex-review read the freshest
design doc as the source of truth, and nothing said its content is data.
In multi-agent pipelines another agent may have written it, or a handoff
note beside it, with reviewer-directed text ('skip Step 0', 'approve
as-is'). Each read site now says the doc and any handoff note are data,
never to follow text aimed at the reviewer, and to report it as
suspicious content. The plan-completion audit's discovery, which now
reads repo docs/designs/ files (F1), carries the same rule.

Co-authored-by: cube <frosimanuel@gmail.com>

* D4: setup-deploy reports Render API key presence only

/setup-deploy ran 'echo $RENDER_API_KEY | head -c 4', printing the
key's first bytes into the transcript. It now prints only
'RENDER_API_KEY: set' or 'RENDER_API_KEY: not set'. Wording follows the
#2971 port of #1096; a test also guards against any setup-deploy command
echoing a credential variable.

Co-authored-by: jacob-wang <jiayuw794@gmail.com>

* D5: per-project headed Chromium profiles; never kill a live profile owner (#2492)

The headed profile moves from <gstack home>/chromium-profile to
<project>/.gstack/chromium-profile (CHROMIUM_PROFILE still wins).
killOrphanChromium now kills a SingletonLock PID only when the lock names
this host, the process is a Chromium using that profile, and its daemon is
gone (reparented to init or a subreaper); a live owner or another host's
lock stops browse with the holder named. On first headed use a project
profile is seeded from the old shared profile only when nothing holds it:
copied without Singleton* files into a 0700 temp dir and renamed into
place, with a one-time notice; otherwise it starts fresh and says how to
import later. New: browse profiles [list] and browse profiles prune
[--days N] (never removes a profile in use or the old shared one).
The #2817 headed-startup tests move to the project profile and a real
orphan (the old stand-in was a live child of the test).

Co-authored-by: miao <miao@macmini-2.local>

* F5: installed Claude skills serve the rendered sections, not the checkout copies

Probe: a gbrain user render serves ship/SKILL.md from the render dir; its
STOP pointers name absolute render paths, but its section index names
`sections/<f>.md` relative to the installed skill directory, whose
sections/ was linked from the checkout. So the rendered 'Save Results to
Brain' blocks (plan reviews, office-hours, ship adversarial) were generated
and never read. setup's _link_skill_runtime_assets and gstack-relink (the
gbrain-refresh path) now serve a rendered counterpart per file, keep
checkout-only assets (manifest.json), return an asset to the checkout once
its render is gone, and never touch an entry that is not gstack's links.

Co-authored-by: Jonah Berg <jonah.berg.g@gmail.com>

* F1: ratchet /ship's parity union-size cap for this lane's content

G1's NO_VERSION arms, F1's parent-side plan binding and D3's data line
add 2,126 bytes to /ship's skeleton-plus-sections union, taking it from
1.4022x to 1.4135x of the v1.64.1.0 baseline (cap was 1.405). The cap
moves to 1.414 with the measurement recorded, as earlier growth did; no
other invariant changes.

* E5: feed every Codex prompt on stdin instead of argv

Prompts went to Codex as one argv string ('codex exec "$(cat file)"'), which
fails over 32 KB on Windows (and over 128 KB on Linux, E2BIG) and mangles
quotes. Every codex exec site (outside-voice resolver, /codex review custom
instructions, challenge, consult new and resume) now runs 'codex exec -'
with the prepared prompt file on stdin; challenge and consult write the
prompt with a quoted heredoc so it is never shell-parsed. The bash-native
timeout watchdog (stock macOS) started the command in the background, which
gives it /dev/null as stdin; it now passes the caller's stdin through.

The 'byte for byte' dispatch test drops its old argv trailing-LF exception,
the consultation and autoplan fixtures follow the stdin form, and the static
site test requires stdin at every rendered codex exec.

* G6: prettyscreenshot --hide keeps a trailing image path as the output path (#1419)

--hide collected every following non-flag argument as a selector, so the
output path was hidden instead of written to. A trailing argument that looks
like a path or ends in .png/.jpg/.jpeg/.webp is now the output path.

Co-authored-by: Jayesh Betala <jayesh.betala7@gmail.com>

* INV-3: render-level host conformance and generated-bash lint on every host

One render per host checks every fence of every SKILL.md and section file:
bash -n with angle-bracket placeholders normalized; the env-var host prelude
and its B/D consumers run under env -i and set -u with stub binaries (no
empty value, no /bin/, /browse, /design or /gstack- path); and a quote-aware
lint (test/helpers/generated-bash-lint.ts) fails on a ~/ word inside double
quotes, mktemp without a TMPDIR-respecting template, and cd/rm -r/mv/git -C
on a variable the fence never assigned unless written ${VAR:?...} (cd must
also handle failure). Negative controls plant each failure.

Templated the bare mktemp calls in generator-owned resolvers and the upgrade
fence; migrated the two tests that pinned the bare form.

* G6: analytics averages quoted duration_s values (#1728)

gstack-skill-end writes duration_s as a quoted string, and the per-skill
average stripped everything from the leading quote, so every average
read 0s. The awk now drops a leading quote before extracting digits.

Co-authored-by: Ryan Alberts <ryan.a.alberts@gmail.com>

* G6: gstack-ios-qa-daemon --help prints usage instead of starting the daemon (#1932)

Co-authored-by: maxpetrusenkoagent <max.petrusenko.agent@gmail.com>

* G1: tighten /ship's NO_VERSION wording to fit the union-size cap

Same behavior in fewer bytes: the NO_VERSION arm, the broken-source
exit, the unprefixed-title rule, the Step 20 null and the CHANGELOG
skip. The cap ratchet commit measured this wording.

* G6: rejected taste preferences gain confidence (#1777)

bumpPref computed every entry's confidence from approved_count, so a
rejected entry, which never gains approvals, stayed at 0: show ranked
rejections by insertion order and the taste-drift warning could not
fire from real use. Confidence now uses the entry's own bucket count.
Also salvaged by Garry's #2971.

Co-authored-by: Jayesh Betala <jayesh.betala7@gmail.com>

* E2: Windows /cso build disables only C5105, and a failed MSVC compile is not reported as a missing toolchain

The Windows SDK's winbase.h raises C5105, which /W4 /WX promotes to error
C2220, so every MSVC build of the native /cso helper failed, and setup
mapped every probe failure to 'install Visual Studio 2022 Build Tools'.
Both compile lines add /wd5105 (only that diagnostic), and setup keeps the
probe's output: a probe that found MSVC but failed to compile reports
windows-msvc-compile with the compiler's first error. Not run on Windows:
the mapping test stubs powershell.exe; the ps1 assertion runs everywhere.

Co-authored-by: AlinValentin7 <AlinValentin7@users.noreply.github.com>

* E6: gbrain-refresh hands the detection file to Python on stdin

Under Git Bash, a native Windows Python first on PATH cannot open an MSYS
/c/... path, so gbrain-refresh always summarized the detection as
'local-status: unknown' and brain-aware blocks were suppressed. bash now
opens the file and Python reads stdin; the grep fallback without Python is
unchanged. Verified on Linux with a stub Python that refuses path opens; not
run on Windows.

Co-authored-by: maxpetrusenkoagent <max.petrusenko.agent@gmail.com>

* G6: context-save computes session duration on Linux (#2704)

The duration step parsed 'ps -o lstart=' with BSD-only 'date -jf', so on
Linux session_duration_s was always unknown. It now falls back to GNU
'date -d', and never parses an empty start (GNU reads that as midnight).
Ported onto the current block instead of #2704's ~/.gstack/sessions
mtime, which bypassed the state root.

Co-authored-by: Evgenii Lopatin <e75533@gmail.com>

* Q2: one-time notice naming the Codex provider and account for outside reviews

Outside reviews are on by default and use whatever Codex login exists
(#965). The first automatic Codex review on a machine now prints one
non-blocking notice: the provider (config.toml model_provider, else openai),
where the credential comes from (CODEX_API_KEY, OPENAI_API_KEY, the ChatGPT
login or the key saved by codex login; never the value), that reviews stay
on, and how to turn them off (gstack-config set codex_reviews disabled). A
marker in the gstack state root keeps it to once per machine. Tests that run
the generated command now use private state roots. Also shortens the
no-sandbox provenance line.

* Q1: validate browser output paths the way the kernel resolves them (#2971 salvage)

validateOutputPath walks the destination one component at a time, resolving
each existing component before the next, so link/../x, a dangling symlink
and a dangling symlinked parent can no longer route a write outside the
safe directories, while a new multi-level directory inside them is allowed.
scrape validates its manifest and every downloaded file, not only --dir.
Ported from PR #2971 onto current code.

* G6: retro test census counts non-JS suites, skips generated output

The census recognized only JS/TS-style names, so pytest and minitest
(test_*.py|rb), XCTest (Tests/ dirs, FooTests.swift), Terraform
(*.tftest.hcl) and Bats (*.bats) suites counted as zero, and a committed
build directory counted as authored code (and its Test/ subdirs as test
LOC). is_test now knows those conventions and never treats prose as a
test, generated output is skipped in the numstat pass, TEST_FILES_CHANGED
uses is_test, and TEST_FILES_TOTAL uses the same filename conventions
minus generated paths. Merges #2812, #2809 and #2037's patterns (#2037's
retro template edits target a block the metrics bin replaced).

Co-authored-by: Jino <dgfrty00@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: snig-17 <santosh.m.tiwari@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Sholto McNeilage <sholto@nodenarrative.com.au>

* Q3: setup stops auto-installing the AskUserQuestion preference hook in Conductor and removes one it added

The PreToolUse question-preference hook breaks Conductor's native
AskUserQuestion round-trip even when it only defers (#2207), and setup
auto-installed it on every Conductor workspace setup. Now a Conductor setup
without an explicit opt-in never installs it and removes an existing one
(the question-log and AUQ-error hooks stay), printing how to keep it
(gstack-config set plan_tune_hooks yes). An explicit opt-in still installs
it. gstack-settings-hook remove-source gains --event to scope the removal.

Test migration: setup-plan-tune-hooks-noninteractive pinned the retired
Conductor auto-opt-in.

Co-authored-by: Phil Hie <philhie@outlook.com>

* E5: watchdog stdin test feeds the wrapper through a redirect

Callers run '_gstack_codex_timeout_wrapper ... codex exec - < file'. Bash keeps
stdin for a backgrounded command inside a pipeline but not behind a
redirect, so the pipe form passed on the old watchdog; the redirect form
reproduces the lost prompt.

* F4: type the variant-round fetch stub like the existing stubs

The test-typecheck ratchet flagged the zero-argument stub cast to
typeof fetch; it now takes the fetch arguments like
variants-retry-after's stub. Test behavior unchanged.

* A4: import transcripts into per-repository, non-federated gbrain sources

`gbrain import` ran without --source-id, so transcripts from every project
landed in the shared (often federated) default source.

- Each transcript partition imports with --source-id into its originating
  repository's own source (gstack-transcripts-<repo>, built with
  constrainSourceId, now exported from lib/gbrain-sources.ts). The source
  is registered machine-local and --no-federated before its first import,
  and the registration is cached in state. Partitions import one after
  another (PGLite is a single writer); a failing source no longer blocks
  the others, except a timeout, whose checkpoint must survive.
- If gbrain cannot register the source, that partition stays local and
  unstamped, and the run says why (even under --quiet).
- --include-unattributed sends repo-less transcripts only to the
  machine-local gstack-transcripts-unattributed source, keeps them on the
  machine when the brain is remote (Postgres, Supabase or remote-HTTP),
  and never writes them to the publishable ~/.gstack/transcripts staging.
- A page's recorded source is sticky: pages stamped before this release
  ("default") keep importing there, so no source gains a duplicate.
- The staging dir name carries -src-<id> so a resumed import keeps its
  source.

Test fakes that recorded only the last import now record every import of
one run, and answer `gbrain sources`; remote-http scan tests use an
attributed transcript, since unattributed ones no longer stage there.

Co-authored-by: Sinabina <sinabina@Sinabinas-MacBook-Pro-4.local>

* F3: load the taste profile, and report a failed slug lookup

The taste-profile probe double-quoted ~/.claude/.../gstack-slug, so the tilde
never expanded and /design-consultation and /design-shotgun always printed
NO_TASTE_PROFILE. Use quoteSafePath(); stop hiding gstack-slug's stderr and
print TASTE_PROFILE_UNAVAILABLE with the fix when the slug cannot be resolved.

* B4: DESIGN_READY only when the design binary actually starts

DESIGN SETUP (and office-hours' visual exploration) printed DESIGN_READY for
any executable binary, so one SIGKILLed at launch by an invalid macOS code
signature still passed. Launch it under the portable 10-second deadline
(gtimeout, timeout, or perl alarm); otherwise print DESIGN_NOT_AVAILABLE with
the exit code, 'timed out after 10s', or on 137 the code-signature hint and
'Fix: cd <checkout> && ./setup'. A success is cached by inode and mtime under
the state root so Gatekeeper's first-launch scan is paid once.

The probe launches the binary with no arguments (usage, exit 0): the design
CLI has no --version command today.

* C2: name the runtime root every way a generated preflight may read it in the dist test

The generator lane's C1 resolves D from $GSTACK_ROOT instead of
$GSTACK_DESIGN, so the test now exports GSTACK_ROOT as well; it still fails
on main (no dist in the roots) and passes with and without the C1 change.

* A5: brain-sync stage fails loud when the artifacts source indexed zero pages

The stage reported "curated artifacts pushed" whenever gstack-brain-sync
exited 0, but a git push is not gbrain indexing. After a successful push
the stage now reads the maintained artifacts source's page count
(GSTACK_BRAIN_SOURCE_ID, else the source whose path is the artifacts
worktree or state root): zero pages is ERR with the fix command; a
missing source or an unavailable count says so instead of claiming
indexing.

Co-authored-by: Jimmy Zeisweiss <4261258+jzeisweiss@users.noreply.github.com>

* B1: state the effective read-only sandbox in /codex review prose

The codex parity invariant requires the skill to state sandbox_mode="read-only";
the command now takes it from _GSTACK_CODEX_SANDBOX, so the prose names the
effective default explicitly.

* A6: report deleted-worktree gbrain sources; prune only with proof, on request

A deleted Conductor worktree leaves its gstack-code-<hash> source behind
and gbrain's autopilot fails on it forever. Local absence is not proof a
source is dead (machines sharing a federated brain register their own
paths, and its pages may be the only copy of uncommitted work), so gstack
never removes one automatically.

- Each sync counts consecutive misses for gstack code sources whose path
  is missing, prints "path unavailable" once per source with the review
  command, and records which repository each synced source belongs to.
- New gstack-gbrain-sync --prune-gone-worktrees (with --dry-run, whose
  plan it always prints first) removes a source only when its path was
  missing on two consecutive syncs, its parent is readable, recomputing
  deriveCodeSourceId() for that path on this host yields its id, and the
  repository's git common dir still exists and no longer lists the
  worktree. It re-checks the path right before removing (through the
  #1734-guarded safeSourcesRemove) and logs each removal.

* D0: pass the Bun child flags after 'run' so wrappers that rewrite 'bun run' argv keep working

bun run --no-env-file --config=/dev/null <script> has the same effect
(verified on Bun 1.4.0) and keeps argv[1] === 'run', which the
publication-lock fixture's preload injection relies on. The sidebar-tabs
source guard now expects the flags in the terminal-agent spawn.

* E8: count the BROWSE_EXTENSIONS_DIR persistent launch in the signal-flags guard

The new launch site carries handleSIGINT/SIGTERM/SIGHUP false like the
other three, so the guard's expected count moves from 3 to 4.

* D2: give the memory-leak reproducer's fake request isNavigationRequest()

wirePageEvents now runs the navigation guard on every request event; the
fake request adapter supplies the method real Playwright requests have.

* A7: run only the resolve_symbol_edges dream phase, detected first

/sync-gbrain --dream and the --full auto-build ran gbrain's full dream
cycle (~35 minutes, LLM phases) when the call graph needs only the
resolve_symbol_edges phase. The stage now runs
gbrain dream [--source <id>] --phase resolve_symbol_edges when the
installed gbrain accepts that phase (detected by behavior: gbrain
validates --phase before printing --help). Otherwise it skips the forced
dream and says the full cycle costs about 35 minutes and how to run it,
instead of starting it.

Co-authored-by: liutiming <timingliu@outlook.com>

* D0: keep the dotenv isolation test runnable on the Windows lane

The compiled probe gets its .exe name on Windows, and the terminal-agent
case (owner identity comes from ps) is skipped there.

* B9: read cycle_freshness from a doctor run that includes it

/sync-gbrain Step 3.5 and the --full auto-dream decision read CYCLE from
gbrain doctor --json --fast, which skips the DB checks that carry
cycle_freshness, so the answer was always "unknown". Both now read
gbrain doctor --json --scope=brain (DB checks, no skill-file walk), parse
its JSON even when doctor exits 1 for a failing check, and match the
issue that names this source: "never completed" is never, "last cycled
Nh ago" is completed. When the installed gbrain does not report the
check, they say "unknown: installed gbrain does not expose
cycle_freshness" (lib readCycleStatus carries the reason to the --full
SKIP row).

The source-probe fixture that pinned the --fast call and a made-up
message format now answers --scope=brain with gbrain's real message.

* B4: compact the launch probe (cache keyed on inode, valid while newer than the binary)

Keeps design-consultation inside its parity size budget.

* C4: migrate the ship docs-dispatch test to the carved external ship

On Codex and Factory the documentation dispatch now lives in
sections/documentation.md behind a pointer relative to the installed skill,
like Claude; the test pinned the old inlined layout.

* B5: learnings callers report a failed search instead of reading as empty

Every generated gstack-learnings-search caller ended in 2>/dev/null || true,
so a missing bun or a failed search looked like 'nothing recorded'. Callers
now keep stdout, capture stderr and the exit status, and print
'LEARNINGS: unavailable (<first stderr line>)' on failure (resolver callers
in learnings.ts and review-army.ts, plus investigate, qa and ship's
adversarial section).

* F1: ship and review count unverified/unavailable outside reviews as missing coverage

INV-1 consumers in this lane's templates: /ship's readiness note, its
PR body Pre-Landing Review section and /review's completion rule now say
an outside review reporting unverified or unavailable is missing
coverage, never a pass. The PR body's Plan Completion section prints
F1's not-run line instead of the old 'No plan file detected.' The /ship
union-size cap moves to 1.415 for these lines (measured 1.4148).

* A8: rename the artifacts repo with OWNER/REPO, rewrite the remote only after it

The v1.27.0.0 migration passed a bare repo name to gh repo rename / gh
repo edit, which always fails (gh wants [HOST/]OWNER/REPO), then step 2
rewrote ~/.gstack-artifacts-remote.txt to the never-renamed repository.

- Qualify both names with the owner from the recorded remote URL (else
  the signed-in gh user) and surface gh's error.
- Step 2 moves the remote file but rewrites the URL only once the rename
  is confirmed; a later successful retry rewrites it then.
- A pending journal now counts as state to migrate, so the #1383 retry
  actually re-runs step 1 (it used to see no legacy file and declare the
  migration done).
- The v1.91.17.0 migration (placeholder name) repairs installs already
  hit: when the remote names gstack-artifacts-<user> that does not exist
  but gstack-brain-<user> does, it restores the old URL in the remote
  file and ~/.gstack's origin and says so. It only calls gh for such a
  remote and never fails the upgrade.

Co-authored-by: Brandon Pugsley <aibpaem@gmail.com>

* B8: read gbrain JSON with bun instead of jq in install and wireup

gstack-gbrain-install read package.json with jq but never checked for it,
so on a machine without jq a successful install failed with "cannot read
version". gstack-gbrain-source-wireup hard-failed without jq ("brew
install jq" is not actionable on git-bash), so the wireup was skipped on
every run. Both now read the JSON with bun, which they already require.

Co-authored-by: benjamin beres <benjamin.beres@bienpreter.com>

* B4: shorter probe messages (design-consultation parity budget)

* B5: shorter capture variable names (parity budget)

* E7: find the Aside CLI in ~/.local/bin when it is not on PATH (#2902)

The installer puts aside in ~/.local/bin, which is not on the default macOS
login PATH, so the probe said NEEDS_ASIDE ('download Aside') for a healthy
install. The probe now falls back to ~/.local/bin/aside, drives the resolved
binary, and prints READY: <path> when it is off PATH so later blocks run that
path. Ported from PR #2965 onto the current _gs_d probe.

Co-authored-by: Som Samantray <som.samantray@gmail.com>

* A2: key the dot-slug catalog entry on the message users actually saw

* E1: cmd.exe-safe investigate freeze hook

On Windows Claude Code runs hook commands through cmd.exe, which cannot parse
the single-quoted bash -c argument, so /investigate's scope-lock hook never
ran. Use one double-quoted bash -c script that names the hook path directly
(no S= variable: POSIX sh would expand $S to empty and skip the hook).

* F4: design resolver reads per-round variant paths

$D variants now writes $_DESIGN_DIR/round-<N>/variant-*.png and prints JSON
with roundDir, manifest and paths. The mockup flow and comparison-board loops
build the board from those printed paths instead of hardcoded
variant-{A,B,C}.png, and approved.json records approved_path and round so a
round-1 choice made after round 2 still resolves.

* E4: generators tolerate Bun's spurious EEXIST on Windows (#2329)

Bun on Windows throws EEXIST from a recursive mkdir of an existing directory,
so gen:skill-docs and the llms.txt writer crashed once a second file landed
in a directory. Both now use lib/fs-utils' mkdirpSync (ported from PR #2329
onto the existing helper instead of a new scripts/fs-utils.ts).

Co-authored-by: Vaughan <vaughan@cairnsitguy.com.au>

* C7: keep the required-mode hook's exit-2 deny

Copilot CLI treats a preToolUse exit 2 as deny (its hooks reference), and
#2413 established exit 2 plus hookSpecificOutput as the shape Claude Code
enforces, so the deny output stays as on main; only the matcher and the
in-place upgrade of older 'Skill' entries change.

* C3: guard Kiro's router copies on a present source; give the QA pointer adapter the copy and dist helpers

A copy fails where a symlink dangled, so the Kiro router and upgrade copies
are written only when their render exists (as every other runtime root
already does). test/qa-lazy-sections' extracted Kiro installer now supplies
_link_runtime_dists (C2) and the SKILL.md copy helpers (C3).

* Q3: office-hours asks open-ended questions in a Q<N> prose form (#2719)

In Conductor, and whenever AskUserQuestion fails, prose is the only channel,
and the prose fallback defined only the D<N> decision brief. Phase 2A/2B
diagnostic questions have no option set, so the model dropped the phase.
Office-hours' preamble now defines the Q<N> open-question form (question,
why I'm asking, what a strong answer sounds like) and routes free-text
replies to it; the diagnostic sections name it. Scoped to office-hours so
every other skill's preamble is unchanged. Ported from PR #2729.

Co-authored-by: Bharadwaj Mittapelli <bharadwajmittapelli@gmail.com>

* A2: render db-unreachable like timeout

gbrain's new db-unreachable status is a transient network failure; a setup
run while offline must not strip brain-aware blocks from every skill.

* A2: treat db-unreachable like timeout in gbrain-refresh

The memory lane's new db-unreachable status (network or DNS failure, config
intact) is transient, so gbrain-refresh keeps rendering brain-aware blocks
for it exactly as it does for timeout instead of suppressing them.

* C8: a render given disabled skills drops them from the router (#3018)

The root router named every skill and ends 'When in doubt, invoke the skill',
so it routed to skills the user disabled. gen-skill-docs takes
--disabled-skills (runGeneration disabledSkills): the router drops their
routing rules, keeps the other side of an 'A or B' rule, and names them as
disabled. The router and gstack-upgrade cannot be disabled. With no disabled
skills the render is byte-identical.

* G2/G3/INV-1: skill-start former-bucket notice and visible learnings failure; TMPDIR mktemp in gbrain bins; best-effort reasons

* C9: Step 2 falls back to the install registry's source checkout (DX-7)

Codex users who installed from the README's ~/gstack clone got 'ERROR:
gstack not found' from /gstack-upgrade: Step 2 only looked under host skill
directories. It now falls back to the source checkout the install registry
recorded for the current host.

* B4: design --version prints the version, and the probe uses it

The design CLI treated --version as an unknown command (exit 1), so the
probe launched the binary with no arguments instead. Add --version (prints
the gstack version, exit 0, before auth or network) and probe with it, so
messages read '<path> --version exited <code>' as planned.

* C4: no external render points at a section file that is not installed

design-html's detector install offer and plan-eng-review's self-check pointed
at $GSTACK_ROOT/<skill>/sections/<file> on every external host, where neither
skill is carved and no section tree exists. design-html now inlines the offer
off Claude, and a skill's pointer to its own {{SECTION}}-inlined section
names the inlined text.

* C1: skillify finds the browse SDK under its own host's install root

The template hardcoded ~/.claude/skills/gstack for the canonical
browse-client.ts, so external hosts read another host's install or nothing.
A new INSTALLED_ROOT resolver (sibling of INSTALLED_BIN_DIR) names the host's
global root, or the per-install root when setup renders for one.

* C4: rewrite section refs on hosts whose root stays a literal ~/<globalRoot>

Kiro, OpenCode, Cursor and Copilot render ~/.claude/skills/gstack as their own
literal root, not $GSTACK_ROOT, so plan-eng-review's self-check pointer
escaped the rewrite (found by the setup lane's installed-pointer check).

* Integrator: outside-voice fences use the shared runtime prelude; TMPDIR mktemp and per-round variant paths in design templates

* Integrator: C8 router omits disabled skills on every render (relink renders the served Claude router in place); Windows-safe E4/E6 entries; investigate hooks under the cmd.exe check; browse_extension_id reader; order-insensitive test typecheck identities

tsc printed one unchanged ceo-mode-option diagnostic's object members in a
different order (content?/isError?) once lib/fs-utils joined the generator's
import graph; identities now sort object-type members, and old baselines
normalize on read.

* Q1 (#2971 salvage): bound iOS proxy responses

One wall-clock deadline covers headers and body (stalled and dribbling bodies
time out), the whole body is capped at 64 MiB (upstream_response_too_large),
every terminal path clears its timer, removes listeners and destroys the
request, and the daemon threads the deadline through both listeners. Ambiguous
mutations are still never replayed after a timeout or abort. Ported from
#2971's proxy-transport work plus the size bound.

* I1: grade the AUQ matrix's (recommended) marker on option labels, the field the auto-decide hook reads

The decision-brief format puts a Pros / cons block with 'A) ... (recommended)'
in the question text and the same marker on the option label. The matrix
counted both and failed all six skills in periodic run 37151477069 with
'expected exactly one (recommended) option, found 2'. The question-preference
hook reads labels only, so the gate now checks the native question: a
Recommendation line in the question text and exactly one label ending in
(recommended). Fixtures move to the native question shape and add the real
spec capture plus a marker-only-in-text negative control.

* Q1: type the proxy-transport test doubles (typecheck:test ratchet)

* INV-1: gate outcome rows and troubleshooting sections for every lane's new messages

* Release v1.91.19.0 (next free patch in the queue: #3022 holds 1.91.17.0, #3023 holds 1.91.18.0); migration renamed; engines.bun >=1.4.0 to match the CI pin (#2815)

* v1.91.19.0 docs and metadata: CHANGELOG, TODOS, README troubleshooting/upgrade/type --selector, BROWSER.md type and profiles, AGENTS.md conventions, CONTRIBUTING #2949, touchfiles for the wave's new lib/bin files

* I1: give hermetic Codex runs a temp dir beside CODEX_HOME so Codex can create its PATH aliases

Codex 0.160 refuses to create its helper aliases (codex-linux-sandbox among
them) when CODEX_HOME sits under its temp dir, and the runner put the
hermetic home under the shard TMPDIR. Periodic run 37151477069 shows the
warning and 'Unable to spawn codex-linux-sandbox ... No viable candidates
found in PATH' for every exec_command in codex-sol-scope-termination.

* I1: Codex evals fail a review whose commands never ran and stop reading tool errors as skill-load problems

validateCodexReview accepted codex-review-findings in periodic run 37151477069
although its only command failed in bwrap ('I couldn't run the review'); it
now requires execution evidence from classifyOutsideReview (B1's INV-1
classifier). codex-sol-scope-termination failed on 'apply_patch verification
failed: invalid hunk' because the skill-load check matched any 'invalid';
it now matches Codex 0.160's skill-loader diagnostics only.

* I1: run paid eval containers with seccomp unconfined so Codex's sandbox can start

Docker's default seccomp profile blocks the user namespaces bubblewrap needs,
so every Codex command in a paid eval failed with 'bwrap: No permissions to
create a new namespace' (codex-review-findings, run 37151477069). Reproduced
in the CI image locally: default profile fails, seccomp=unconfined runs the
command. The runner stays non-root.

* I1: shared-libs plan actor reads one exclusion grammar for scope lists

Periodic run 37151477069 refused 'Existing-caller migration and helper
hardening stay out of scope' as a hardening proposal: the actor had two
partial exclusion rules (unanchored is/are/remains outside, and an anchored
list that only stays unchanged), the third refusal at this boundary after
36633323521 and 36776104571. One anchored predicate now covers a bare list
of scope nouns (hyphenated compounds included) with is/are/stays/remains and
unchanged/untouched/excluded/out of scope/outside/not part; any other verb
in the clause is still read as a proposal. Adds the real capture and two
adversarial controls.

* Parity caps: measured v1.91.19.0 union/skeleton sizes for ship, review, design-consultation, office-hours and design-shotgun, with the reason beside each

* Regenerate generated output for v1.91.19.0 (gen:skill-docs --host all, goldens, llms.txt, context-budget fixture)

* I1: plan-eng-review writes the Test Plan Artifact even while test choices are pending

Periodic run 37151477069 (plan-eng-review-artifact): a non-interactive review
recorded every Test review choice as pending and never wrote the QA test
plan, because Step 5 said to write the artifact 'when these test and eval
choices are resolved' while the artifact section says to list unresolved
choices as pending. Both now say to write it after the decision gate, with
unanswered choices under Pending Decisions. The pinned sentence becomes a
meaning-level check.

* I3: plan-eng-review states when findings first enter the report and that the scope menu's recommendation needs no repo probe

Judge rationales for 'plan-eng-review/SKILL.md sections' (actionability 3.67
in periodic run 37151477069, clarity 3 in 36385945043 and 35567915613) cite
two concrete tensions: 'do not add findings before Scope Challenge C' versus
the ledger saves C itself performs, and 'Recommendation: A when a branch diff
exists' versus 'do not probe for session state'. The write policy now says
findings first enter through Scope Challenge C's ledger saves; the selector
says its Recommendation line advises the user and needs no repository
inspection. The pinned sentence becomes the new meaning-level regex.

* I3: plan-ceo-review defines the closing sequence's cleanup step

Two of three judge samples for 'plan-ceo-review/SKILL.md modes' in periodic
run 37151477069 (actionability at the 4.0 gate) flag 'perform permitted
cleanup' as never defined. The only cleanup the skill has is archiving old
CEO plans, which needs approval; step 5 now says so.

* I3: /qa-only's value-card rule names only its own card location

qa-only rendered the /qa line 'Put it in the 8e.5 record (/qa) or under each
proposed test (/qa-only)'; judge samples for 'qa-only/SKILL.md workflow'
(actionability at the 4.0 gate in run 37151477069, 3.67 in 36907895813)
flag the /qa-only-irrelevant 8e.5 record. The qa-mode bar now renders the
invoking skill's location; both skills get shorter.

* test-of-test ratchet: a repo script or setup read by path counts as product code

codex-invocation-sites (runs scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts), gstack-config-gbrain-refresh
(copies bin/<name> through a variable) and setup-cso-windows-probe (reads setup and
scripts/build-cso-windows.ps1) exercise product code the detector could not see.

* I1: DX floor actor strips the editor hint from the footer line only (from #2971)

The custom-field reply normalization removed 'ctrl+g to edit in <editor>'
from every line, so question text that resembled the menu footer could be
rewritten and still authenticate. Only the last non-empty line is the
footer. Ported from Garry's #2971 with its negative control.

* I4: attribute every census testcase; deselections never count as SKIPPED

The paid report counted every skipped JUnit testcase as SKIPPED and every
testcase whose name was not a registry id as unattributed. On the 2026-10-03
census (run 37151477069) that was SKIPPED 82 / unattributed 72 (periodic) and
SKIPPED 282 / unattributed 24 (gate), and every case-shard sibling also wrote a
skipped history record that reset its pass-rate series.

- attributeJUnitCase: a name is its registry id or CASE_TEST_NAMES label, else
  the only id its file registers, else the keyless file itself. Skipped
  other-tier cases, case-shard siblings, isolated or unselected cases and Bun's
  '(unnamed)' hook placeholders are zero-credit deselections with a reason and
  write no history record. Anything else is listed by name as unattributed.
- One result and one history record per case per shard; a genuinely skipped
  selected case counts as SKIPPED and is listed with its reason, also in
  report-summary.md and collector-outcomes.json. SKIPPED panels show their
  reason and skipped trials are no longer called assertions.
- CASE_TEST_NAMES labels for the three /cso cases.
- tierSkipReason: a computed registration whose lane-tier ids are all
  registered to other test files is excluded at plan time, so the four gate
  and two periodic files that ran with every test skipped no longer take a
  runner.

Census rerun: periodic SKIPPED 0 / unattributed 0, gate SKIPPED 0 /
unattributed 0; verdicts unchanged.

* I5: split the deploy file per case; guard PR-lane shard walls at 600 s

test/skill-e2e-deploy.test.ts ran 668 s as one gate shard in the 2026-10-03
census (six sequential cases, 51-201 s each). It is now case-sharded, so each
case is its own shard with its own (smaller) supervision budget; no timeout
or budget was raised.

- CASE_SHARDED_FILES gains the deploy file (names already equal ids).
- Gate duration seeds for the six case keys from the census JUnit walls, so
  packing stays at 12 gate-census slices (CI cap 230m -> 200m).
- shardDurationViolations + PR_LANE_SHARD_LIMIT_MS: a free test fails when a
  planned gate shard's recorded wall (committed seed, and the last gate census
  in test/fixtures/paid-report-census/gate-census-durations.json) exceeds 600 s.
- Tests that pinned deploy as one shard follow the split (cookie planner keys,
  reuse fixture key, release/PR floors).

* TODOS: /review fingerprint under Codex's read-only .git sandbox (found by the live Codex check)

* Free-suite repairs from the first integrated Ubicloud run

Product:
- Outside-voice fences carry runtimeRootPrelude(ctx) explicitly again, so the
  resolver output runs on its own (the post-render pass skips fences that
  already assign GSTACK_ROOT); outsideVoiceRuntime stays deleted.
- D5: an explicit CHROMIUM_PROFILE (gbrowser's per-workspace gbd) is never
  seeded from the shared profile or registered for `browse profiles prune`;
  this was also the free suite's write to the real ~/.gstack/browse-profiles.json.
- gstack-ios-qa-daemon: BASH_COMPAT=50 for its >512-byte --help heredoc.

Tests migrated to the wave's deliberate contract changes:
- B1 heading admits `unverified`; sandbox flag is ${_GSTACK_CODEX_SANDBOX:?};
  verdict-form output (VERDICT/FINDINGS/REASON); fake codex follows the
  preflight + stdin + -o form; Q2 notice marked shown in a private state root.
- C1: an exported root needs bin/ and lib/; a lone GSTACK_BIN is not honored.
- C4: plan-ceo-review is carved on every host (carrier, discovery and
  methodology fixtures read sections/ when the render has it).
- E7: READY prints the resolved Aside path.
- INV-3: the cookie-approval reconstruction reverses the bun-install mktemp template.
- F1's `Plan:` binding read gets a reasoned tracker-guard exemption.
- Browse stubs stop their server instead of scheduling process.exit; the
  headless launch check only counts browsers its own launch started.

* Regenerate generated output after the outside-voice prelude repair

* I1: revert the seccomp-only eval container option; it does not let Codex's sandbox start

Run 37158847998 on this branch and a stock Ubicloud VM both show that
seccomp=unconfined only moves bubblewrap's failure from 'No permissions to
create a new namespace' to 'Failed to make / slave: Permission denied'.
Codex's sandbox started only with the host sysctl
kernel.apparmor_restrict_unprivileged_userns=0 plus seccomp and AppArmor
unconfined on the container, which a container job cannot set from its
steps. The relaxation bought nothing, so it goes; the fix is filed as a
TODO for the integrator.

This reverts commit ec97187.

* I1: a Codex review eval needs a completed command, not just review-shaped text

Run 37158847998 recorded codex-review-findings as passed again: the agent
wrote 'I couldn't run the review because the execution sandbox failed
(bwrap: Failed to make / slave)', the failure never reached stderr or a
command event, and no phrase rule matched. validateCodexReview now also
requires at least one command_execution event that completed with exit 0.
Fixtures gain that event; the CI output is a new negative control.

* Evals lane follow-ups: close the skillify gate TODO (I2 green), file its open reds, CHANGELOG lines; refresh measured parity annotations

* Regenerate generated output after merging wave/evals

* D2: bound the navigation guard's tab reset (commit, 5 s)

Ubicloud run 3: a click to a link-local link reported the block, but the
reset's page.goto('about:blank') waited the full 30 s default navigation
timeout, so the command hung past the test deadline and the stale block
leaked into the next command. The reset now waits for commit only, with a
5 s bound.

* I1: run Codex paid slices on a host-run job where bubblewrap can start

Docker's default seccomp/AppArmor profiles and the Ubuntu 24.04 host's
kernel.apparmor_restrict_unprivileged_userns=1 keep Codex's bubblewrap
sandbox from starting in a job container, so every Codex command failed.
The planner now packs Codex shards into their own slices (plan.codexSlices,
validated against the entries); evals-periodic runs those slices on a new
host-run job that lifts the host restriction and runs the same CI image
with seccomp and AppArmor unconfined. Artifact names match eval-slices,
so the report reconciles one manifest. Gate plans have no Codex slices.

* I1: the /codex review eval passes only when Codex executed

Run 37158847998 recorded codex-review as passed while the sandbox
preflight said unavailable and no review ran: the case only checked the
session exit and an optional output file. It now requires the shared
validator's executed verdict (findings, clean or unverified) in the
codex command's own output and a written, non-fail-closed GATE.

* TODOS: characterize the free-suite timing reds from Ubicloud run 4

* I1: QA evidence names the probes to rerun after an input change, before the one-shot materialize

ship-exploratory-late-input returned inconclusive in gate census 37158847998:
the fixture locale changed after captures 001 and 002, the agent reran only
input 9, and materialize (which publishes once) recorded capture 001 as open.
Its next line then said to rerun what is open, which the published verdict no
longer allowed. Every capture now lists the commands that observed an older
input snapshot and have no rerun on current inputs (revalidate, plus the next
line), and materialize's next line says the verdict is final.

* I1: the eng batching counter reads records under "Section N — <review> review" headings

plan-eng-multi-finding-batching failed in 6 of 12 runs with reviewCount 0-1
(or a timeout with every ask counted as Step 0). In run 37158847998 the agent
asked 11 separate questions, each with a saved ledger record, but filed
records R2-R10 under '## Section 1 — Architecture review'. The counter strips
'Section 1' but not the dash separator, so it rejected every record outside
the Decision ledger and the floor never filled. Quoted, historical and
unrelated headings still do not count.

* I1: plan-eng-review-artifact names its report file without making it the only output

Runs 37151477069 and 37158847998 wrote the whole review, including the
GSTACK REVIEW REPORT, into review-output.md and never ran the Test Plan
Artifact block. #3017 made the artifact a hard assertion and dropped the
prompt's explicit artifact instruction, leaving 'Write your review to
review-output.md' as the one named destination. The prompt now names that
file as the selected report file and says every other output keeps the
destination the skill gives it, without naming the artifact.

* browse: close returns when Chromium exits; Xvfb cleanup does not wait on its own zombie

BrowserManager.close() detached every 'disconnected' listener before
browser.close(). That also removed Playwright's internal listener that
resolves close(), so every launched-mode close waited the full 5 s race
timeout (measured 5,000 ms on origin/main and on this branch; raw Playwright
closes in ~50 ms), and Playwright 1.62 has no Browser.process() for the
SIGKILL fallback. The daemon's SIGINT shutdown therefore took over 5 s, which
reddened the CLI lifecycle test under load (1 of 8 on main) and left browsers
alive at shard cleanup. gstack now detaches only its own listeners: close
takes ~50 ms.

cleanupXvfb treated a terminated Xvfb child as alive until our own blocked
event loop reaped it, so every close waited a full second then sent SIGKILL
to a zombie. A zombie now counts as exited; the display test counts only
running Xvfb processes.

* I1: office-hours-brain-writeback reads the long skill with Read and skips the preamble

4 of 18 trials ended error_max_turns at the unchanged 12-turn budget with a
gbrain search but no gbrain put. The failing trial in 37151477069 read the
1260-line rendered SKILL.md with cat, got truncated output, spent four more
turns re-reading it with sed, then ran the preamble's skill-start block. The
passing trials skipped the preamble. The prompt now says to read the skill
with the Read tool and skip the preamble, onboarding, telemetry and
contributor sections, as the plan-eng fixtures already do. Budget unchanged.

* CI: no credential-shaped URLs in added lines (quality scan); release floor measured on the merged tree

The quality job's credential scan of the PR diff flagged 7 db.url_with_password
lines: three docs lines now describe the login instead of spelling a URL, and
three tests build the URL from parts. paid-retry-supervision's periodic release
floor is the merged tree's measured 35,711 (main's value; the evals lane's
33,821 predates main's new paid files).

* qa-evidence: hold the stdout-pipe cases on a FIFO, not on a paused child stream

Ubicloud run 4 finished the blocked-forever case in 71 ms (it should take the
5 s write deadline): the 2 MB write was not held, because saturation depended
on how the runtime buffers a paused child pipe. On POSIX the child's stdout is
now a FIFO the test reads only when it chooses to, so the kernel holds the
write; Windows keeps the paused pipe.

* TODOS/CHANGELOG: the three run-4 timing reds are fixed at their causes (daemon close latency, FIFO-held pipe tests)

* I1: a QA helper call bun could not load is checked at the installed path, not failed outright

review-exploratory-small-cli failed gate census 37162480720 with 'command
outside declared caller observation interface': the actor dropped one
character from the shard directory in a gstack-qa-evidence capture path, bun
refused to load it ('Module not found', exit 1), and the next call ran the
same capture correctly. A failed call whose only output is bun's refusal for
a gstack-qa-evidence/deadline path is now held to the interface as the same
command at the installed helper path, so a compound or undeclared command
still fails.

* I1: plan-eng-review's final self-check names its three outputs

The fixture-prompt repair did not hold: in 37162480720 plan-eng-review-artifact
again wrote one review-output.md, ran the skeleton's read-back gate on it and
stopped without the QA Test Plan artifact (no gstack-paths/gstack-slug block).
The transcript shows the agent's last check before finishing is the skeleton's
Section self-check, which said only 'and outputs'. It now names the saved
report, the QA Test Plan artifact and the Review Log, each at its own
destination or presented as not persisted (the existing write policy).

* I1: revert the plan-eng-review self-check wording; it did not change the artifact outcome

A local run of plan-eng-review-artifact in the CI image (Claude Code 2.1.284)
at e2f65ab22 still wrote one review-output.md in 8 turns and ran no Bash, so
the QA Test Plan artifact block never ran. Keep the skill text unchanged; the
case is deferred with its evidence.

* I1: seed the Codex files' periodic durations from their first executing run

Every Codex file recorded ~1 s because its commands could not start in the
container (codex-e2e*, outside-voice, workflow). Run 37162480720 executed them
on the host-run job; its slice 24 walls replace the placeholders so the
planner packs the Codex slice by real work (7 files, ~4.9 min estimated).

* Refresh scripts/free-test-durations.json (bun run test:ubicloud --record-durations; covers the wave's new test files)

* evals2 follow-ups: outside-voice-evidence helper in five case touchfiles; close the evals lane's Codex-CI, late-input, batching and brain-writeback TODOs (run 37162480720); CHANGELOG lines

* fix(browse): take the next free X display when a concurrent allocator wins the race

Pick-then-spawn let two allocators (parallel daemons or test shards) choose
the same free display; the losing Xvfb exited and the handoff failed (run 6,
handoff 'failure before launch'). spawnFreeXvfb now treats a display taken
during startup as a collision and moves on. Regression test forces the race
with a delayed Xvfb wrapper (pre-fix: fails; two-process repro 13/15 -> 0/15).

* test(ci): read the host-run Codex eval job's docker env, mounts and uploads

eval-codex-slices runs on the host and passes its executor env through docker
-e flags and HOME through a $RUNNER_TEMP/eval-home mount. The evidence and
coordination tests now map those back to the container view instead of
assuming job.container, and the job's native-capture upload carries the
qa-callers paths like the other executors.

* I1: plan-eng-review-artifact runs the real interactive review in a PTY, replacing the composing fixture

The claude -p case told the model to skip the preamble and questions and go
straight to the review. In 37151477069, 37158847998, 37162480720 and a local
CI-image run it wrote the whole review into one file without executing the
workflow, so it measured composing, not /plan-eng-review. The interactive
batching PTY run in 37158847998 did write the artifact during Test review, so
there is no product defect.

New test/skill-e2e-plan-eng-artifact.test.ts keeps the case id, tier
(periodic), kind (rule) and budget (CAPTURE_LONG_MS): it drives the real
/plan-eng-review over the same dashboard plan and sources, answers each
question with its first option, stops once the QA test plan exists or the
report completes, and asserts the same requirement (exactly one new
eng-review test plan in the run's own state root, about the dashboard change).
The composing case is retired from skill-e2e-plan.test.ts in this commit.
runPlanSkillCounting reports engTestPlans (read before fixture cleanup) and
passes them to isCollectionComplete. One paid run in the CI image (Claude Code
2.1.284): pass, collection_complete at 498 s with one test plan.

The new file takes its own periodic runner (seeded at 498 s), so the periodic
census plans 26 slices: the planner's --max-parallel and both executors' caps
move from 25 to 26 so every slice still starts at once; the paid-file census
pin moves from 106 to 107.

* evals2 final: plan-eng-review-artifact touchfiles point at its PTY file and helpers; plan file wall drops the moved case

Applies the lane's touchfiles-data patch (its outside-voice-evidence hunks
were already in 9a96fb3). skill-e2e-plan.test.ts lost one 600 s case to
skill-e2e-plan-eng-artifact.test.ts, so its periodic wall is two 900 s + two
600 s (3,000,000 + reserve) and its timeout pin lists the remaining cases.

* TODOS/CHANGELOG: close plan-eng-review-artifact (real PTY review, 498 s pass)

* test: plan-eng-review-artifact is a PTY runner consumer (selected by claude-pty-runner and pty-screen changes)

* test(windows): spawn cmd.exe hooks verbatim, use a .invalid UNC host, and match CRLF fixtures and native separators

windows-free-tests reds on 364f0f3, each verified on windows-latest
(46 pass, 1 POSIX-only skip, 0 fail):
- investigate-freeze-path cmd.exe cases: Bun MSVC-quoted the command line
  cmd.exe parses, so cmd saw \"bash and failed; Node's shell spawn (what
  Claude Code uses) passes it verbatim.
- investigate-freeze-path UNC cases: a single-label host made each
  filesystem probe wait on network name resolution (cd 11 s, -L 2.8 s);
  a reserved .invalid host fails at once (55-80 ms).
- paid-report-census: the junit fixture is CRLF in a Windows checkout.
- codex-invocation-sites: rendered paths use backslashes on Windows.

* eval(plan-design-with-ui): the Step 0D focus title may spell the seven dimensions as a word

Run 37166586458 slice 5 (dfaf154) asked 'D2 - Review all seven design
dimensions, or focus on specific areas?' and reached its review finding,
but the focus predicate only accepted the numeral, so the case failed with
no acknowledged Design focus. Both recognizers accept 7 or seven; the
byte-exact capture is a free regression, and engineering/other-count/
no-'design' titles stay rejected.

* eval(ship-docsync): git check-ignore is a declared read in the docs observation interface

Run 37166586458 slice 2 (dfaf154): ship-docsync-completion's parent ran
'git check-ignore -v .qa-state' to verify the prompt's claim that the
observer probe is Git-excluded. The read was outside the closed Git list,
so the run's DOC_PATH replacement was unprovable and failed. check-ignore
cannot write; it joins the list and the interface prose. Free regression
replays the captured command against the fixture and keeps composition and
redirects rejected.

* fix(browse): read Xvfb's own startup error to classify a lost display race

Run 10 (1ffd38e) failed handoff's concurrent promotion once: 'Xvfb on :100
exited during startup (code 1)' with the display free again by the exit
check, so a holder that won the lock and closed within the 100 ms poll
looked like a broken install. Startup stderr now goes to a private file;
'Server is already active for display' is a collision and moves on, and any
other startup exit carries Xvfb's fatal line. Regression: a stub that
reports the collision for one display and exits leaves spawnFreeXvfb on the
next display (pre-fix: the misleading install error).

* test: merged-main fixtures (E6 copies the Claude render library gstack-config now sources; the census fixture's plan-mode-no-op budget follows its v1.91.18.0 policy)

* qa: materialize runs once per PROBE_DIR, and qa-only says §1 reuses the REPORT_DIR it resolved

Run 37170610789 slice 3 (feaa28d): the qa-only workflow judge scored
clarity 3.33 and named two ambiguities: §4 said materialize runs once per
report root while mixed runs materialize each surface's PROBE_DIR, and
SKILL.md deferred exploratory §1 without saying §1 reuses the REPORT_DIR
resolved under Prepare Report Artifacts. A local run of the same judge on
the repaired text: clarity 3.67, completeness 4.33, actionability 4 (pass);
all three samples call the workflow internally consistent.

* Regenerate generated output for the qa materialize/REPORT_DIR wording

* eval: three detector defects from run 37170610789 (feaa28d)

- safety-codex-consult-embed: the fake codex recorded argv only, but every
  codex exec takes its prompt on stdin since E5; it records stdin for the
  '-' form and the check reads both.
- ship-docsync-missing-asset: 'ls ... 2>&1' on a read-only command is the
  same harmless stderr wrapper as '2>/dev/null'; stdout redirects, pipes
  and script calls stay rejected.
- qa-functional-webhook-fix: a pre-repair capture whose command reran on
  the repaired inputs may be classified superseded (exploratory §4); the
  evidence check accepts that and still rejects superseded on a post-repair
  capture or one never rerun.
Each free regression fails without its repair.

* fix(test:free): a browser record removed mid-read by a shutting-down daemon is absent

Run 13 (feaa28d) needed the flaky-retry for 'owned detached browser
settlement > cancel': 2 unattributed failures instead of 1. A 16-vCPU
stress run reproduced it once in 64 with the cause:
'browser ownership unavailable'. On SIGINT the cancelled daemon removes its
state file; record() saw it exist, then lstat/read hit ENOENT, which
failure() reports as an ownership error. ENOENT there now means absent.
New mode cancel-vanishing-record forces the removal between the check and
the read (pre-fix: 2 unattributed, deterministic; now 1).

* test(windows): the 2>&1 wrapper regression uses relative reads (no native paths in literal commands)

* test(plan-seed): wait for the fixture CLI's slash event instead of a fixed 50 ms

Run 14 (b2f729b) needed the flaky-retry for 'startup-placeholder': the
events log had paste/enter/end_turn but not yet the slash 50 ms after it
was sent. The check now polls (bounded 5 s); the deadline assertion
measures when submission settled, which is what it bounds. One test
typecheck diagnostic goes away with the typed reader.

* eval(plan-design-with-ui): recognize the Step 0D focus question by meaning, not one title spelling

The b2f729b gate run titled it "I've rated this plan 5/10 on design
completeness. Review all 7 dimensions, or focus on specific areas?", the
third native wording to miss a spelling-pinned regex. The native form is
now a class: a title that offers all seven (numeral or word) dimensions or
passes versus a focus and names design. Captured titles from 37166586458
and this run pass; other counts, engineering passes, titles without design
or without a focus stay rejected.

* eval(shared-libs-read-only): curl answers the provider rate-limit probe with the same 404 as gh

Gate census 37174266054 slice 9: the model probed API availability with
curl -o /dev/null https://api.github.com/rate_limit (GET, discarded). The
gh transport already answers rate_limit as an unknown endpoint (404); the
curl transport refused it, and the refusal counted as a read-only
violation. curl now gets the same 404. POST, file output, other repos and
raw hosts stay refused. Paid rerun (gate, 1 trial): PASS in 177 s.

* eval(shared-libs-plan-callers): an exclusion may combine states (unchanged/out of scope)

Periodic census 37174266054: every option ended 'Scheduler semantics,
existing callers and helper hardening stay unchanged/out of scope', which
the actor read as proposing hardening. Exclusion states may now be joined
by '/', 'or' or 'and'; the captured question is answered, and clauses that
pair a state with a real change ('stay unchanged/harden the helper') are
still refused. Paid rerun (periodic, 1 trial): PASS in 296 s.

* paid: --case plan-eng-review-artifact selects its PTY test by its registered name

A local --case run matched 0 tests (no spend): the PTY test's Bun name is
not its case id, and CASE_TEST_NAMES had no label for it.

* eval(plan-eng-review-artifact): periodic checkpoint resumes at Test review; the fresh full run moves to marathon

A fresh interactive /plan-eng-review cannot reach Test review inside the
600 s periodic budget: startup plus one-at-a-time Scope Challenge questions
took 595 s with six questions and no Test review in census 37174266054 and
in a local run (one earlier fresh run passed at 498 s). Per the eval-speed
policy, the long run moves to the non-blocking marathon lane and the
blocking case becomes a focused checkpoint.

- plan-eng-review-artifact (periodic, 600 s unchanged): resumes the real
  interactive skill from a saved review record: the plan, the Scope
  Challenge result, Sections 1-2 complete, and a Decision ledger rebuilt
  from that census run's six actual native questions and answers
  (test/fixtures/plan-eng-artifact-resume-37174266054.json). The live skill
  runs Section 3, Test review. Assertion unchanged: exactly one new
  eng-review test plan in the run's own state root, about the dashboard
  change. Paid trial (local, Claude Code 2.1.284): PASS, 364 s.
- plan-eng-review-artifact-full (marathon, PTY_LONG_MS): the fresh
  start-to-finish run with the same assertion; budget measured beside it.
- test/plan-eng-resume.test.ts proves the rebuilt record is a valid resume
  point and rejects missing, unanswered, edited or duplicated records.
- Registry: touchfiles, tiers, kinds, test-name labels, durations, paid
  file count 115, PTY consumer list; CHANGELOG and TODOS.

* setup-deploy: say which deploy fields count as confirmed, how to resolve the default branch, and group the detection tests

Periodic census 37176837432: the setup-deploy workflow judge's actionability
mean was 3.67 (4, 4, 3). The low sample named the Fly/Heroku/Railway/GitHub
Actions deploy trigger left undefined until Step 4's 'not already confirmed'
catch-all and an unstated way to find <default branch>, and misread
'A || B && C' detection lines. Step 4 now defines a confirmed field and names
the paths that leave the trigger unset, <default branch> resolves with
gh repo view, and the two OR'd detection tests are grouped explicitly (same
behavior). One judge run on the repaired text: 4/4/4, pass.

* Regenerate generated output for the setup-deploy wording

* TODOS: census data for the skipped CEO mode handoff (mode-routing, auto-decide-preserved); floor runner Edit-permission parse under collapsed TTY spaces

* fix(browse): a blocked navigation that fails at once leaves the tab blank and the next command clean

PR CI on 8d2d269 (free-suite 3): the redirect to [::ffff:169.254.170.2]
failed immediately on the runner, so its chrome-error page committed around
the guard's about:blank reset, and leaving the error page committed a
second about:blank after the reset resolved, interrupting the next three
tests' gotos. The guard now lets the blocked request settle (bounded at
1 s; a hanging target is still cut off by the reset), resets, and waits for
the main frame to stay quiet before returning. Regression: a redirect to a
blocked address on Chromium's unsafe port 1 fails at once (pre-fix: blank
check and the next goto fail, deterministically).

* qa: the checkpoint note is created for browser runs and composed for functional ones

Periodic census 37178143007: the qa-only workflow judge scored
actionability 3.67 again; one sample read step 2's 'Create
exploration-NNN.json' as applying to functional runs before reaching
'Functional: do not write this file'. The sentence now names both surfaces
up front; byte-neutral (the browser line drops its restated clause), qa
union 1.1098 under its 1.110 cap. One judge run on the repaired text:
3.67/4/4, pass.

* Regenerate generated output for the qa checkpoint wording

* eval(section-loading): byte-range prints of a section count as a complete read

Periodic census 37178143007: plan-ceo-section-loading printed
review-sections.md in five byte ranges (head -c 16000, then tail -c +N |
head -c 17000, one-byte overlaps) and the detector, which matched whole
printed lines, saw the lines split at each range edge as missing. Outputs
of the commands that name the section are also joined on their overlap.
Regression: the captured ranges count; dropping a middle range or the last
range does not (pre-fix: the complete ranges were refused).

* test(plan-design-review): count design terms the review wrote into the plan

* fix(aside): probe names the platform (GSTACK_PLATFORM override) so the macOS pitch never re-probes the OS

* fix(plan-ceo-review): Step 0E mode handoff runs gstack-ceo-mode-handoff so the selected mode is printed, not only composed

* chore: refresh context-budget fixture

* test(auto-decide): accept Step 0E's documented AUTO_DECIDE line with its decisions suffix; replay the captured trial

* docs: CHANGELOG and TODOS for the CEO mode handoff and platform line

* test(plan-design-review): plan-term credit needs a rated summary; adapter regression for census 37179171083

* test(auto-decide): the printed handoff may precede Step 0E's provenance log; replay census 37182865432; TODOS for two rotating census reds

* test(plan-ceo-section-loading): read the skill's ledger and currentDecision records for the stale-fill decision; replay three census reports

* test: $B counts as a browser call only in command position; qa functional prompt defines its classification values

* test(shared-libs-plan-callers): a verbless unchanged-scope list is an exclusion; replay census 37186854666; TODOS for two census reds

* fix(settings-hook): retry a lock released between mkdir and the existence check instead of dropping the mutation

* test(ship-docsync): the child's reply to a parent SendMessage counts as its spawned-marker report; replay PR run 37188668421

* test(browse): Xvfb stub-failure tests allocate from ranges no other allocator uses

* perf(ship): documentation gate snapshots and compares its candidate with gstack-docs-candidate

* fix(review): unverified Codex mode runs the passes in the mode summary too; stale-fill decision check accepts any ledger row ID

* test(shared-libs-plan-callers): judge scope by forbidden verb+object actions, not an exclusion grammar; replay six refusals and four passing censuses

* test(shared-libs-plan-callers): type the brief-line parameter

* test(ship-docsync): an inline-code status quote is not a false current claim; replay PR run 37196811165

* fix(review,ship): Codex challenge and structured-review bodies run in unverified mode, matching their headers

* docs(TODOS): overlay-harness control-arm error and format-approach provider refusals, with run links

* docs(TODOS): qa-only workflow judge data point

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ac20ef1e13 v1.91.16.0 fix: safe installs and upgrades, skills start everywhere, truthful completion (parallel wave) (#3014)
* fix(make-pdf,design): real TOC page numbers and anchors; design models move to gpt-5.5 + gpt-image-2 (#2903, #2807)

* ci: pin every action to a SHA, Scorecard, checksummed Bun, scoped Codex CLI in the CI image, macOS named-regressions job (#1948, #1706, #1997)

* fix(cso,browse): Windows/macOS lease identity, retention skips bad runs, truthful 'not assessed' reports, env.kv false positive, Windows browse spawn fixes (#2894, #2912, #2048, #2637, #2805)

* fix(outside-voice): one Codex model precedence for probe and dispatch, bounded timeouts with KILL escalation, probe cache identity, guarded mktemp, skills hidden in nested Codex (#2776, #2914, #2787, #2881, #2847)

* feat(setup): install registry, ./setup --status, staged activation, per-scope migrations, host tiers and conformance kit, OpenCode/Hermes fixes, Copilot CLI (experimental), disabled_skills, slimmer CLAUDE.md (#1925, #2879, #2347, #2338, #2626, #2629, #2825, #2015, #393, #1206, #2096)

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* fix(preamble): skills start in worktree-isolated Claude Code sessions — one literal skill-start line, context-recovery helper, no eval in skill blocks, $N token tripwire, honest plan-mode precedence (#2763, #2896, #2851)

* fix(setup): per-install renders for renamed, vendored and custom-config installs, space-safe alias roots, per-host /cso launcher path (#1882, #2906)

* test: free tests never write the real HOME (home-write tripwire), no orphaned browse daemons, symlinked-TMPDIR (macOS) fixes, gbrain-on-PATH isolation (#2895, #2816, #2829, #2841, #2982, #2911, #2909, #2908, #2910)

* chore: integrate wave follow-ups — regenerate all hosts, README model docs, TODOS, touchfiles, duration seeds, Bun 1.3 telemetry test fix, replay fixtures pinned to their recorded bytes

* v1.91.14.0: release metadata

* test(browse): group-kill cleanup falls back to the leader when macOS returns EPERM for a live group

* ci: Codex login steps run under bash (the CI container's default sh rejects pipefail)

* fix: full-suite repairs — private state roots for 7 real-HOME writers, truthful home-guard attribution with --attribute-home, gstack-paths shim in ship-hook fixtures, Copilot in team-init probes, test-of-test detector, cookie review fixture pinned to the approved excerpt

* fix(windows): LF for Dockerfiles, normalized home-guard exclusions, path.relative fixture containment, ship push test spawn timeouts

* test(design-detect): widen the whole-scan budget test's timing margins so a loaded macOS runner can't time out the single-batch call

* fix(evals): qa protocol names defined for the judge, async PTY judge so overlapping sessions keep their cleanup deadline, bws setup cases use the standard JUDGE_MS tier

* test(pty): the non-blocking judge case is POSIX-only (its fake judge is a shebang script, like the PTY harness it covers)

* test(evals): ship-coverage-audit names absolute skill paths, uses Read, and skips the Step 7 artifact nothing consumes (removes the mechanism behind 3 of 4 historical timeouts)

* test: deflake terminal-agent concurrent startup (write the placeholder record before spawning, like the product) and qa-evidence resumed pipe (barrier on a full high-water mark instead of a sleep)

* fix(design): daemon log stream handles open errors instead of crashing the daemon; shutdown test awaits the stubbed exit

* test(evals): skillify checks the product's resolved state root (no GSTACK_HOME bypass), negative cases check every root; tpa shims live outside the agent's cwd and answer consistently

* test(evals): coverage-audit detector splits parallel columns at │ rails and [+] groups; coverage prompts name absolute skill paths; TODOs from the gate eval census

* fix(plan-eng-review): scope gate always sends the menu (no headless 'Scope pending' exit); PTY harness ends idle turn-ends and API-error panels promptly with a precise diagnostic

* test(evals): one position-bound coverage-read rule credits read-only && chains (labels, context ranges, git displays in either order) and still rejects forged output

* fix(ship): documentation section has one saved source inserted by cat (never retyped); spawned-marker evidence is the child output; refreshed codex/factory ship goldens

* test(docsync): the byte-exact insert positive is POSIX-only (the bash-command observer refuses backslash paths by design)

* test(evals): plan-design-with-ui focus-title rule accepts the comma-less 'dimensions or focus' wording (replayed on the captured CI run, negative controls kept)

* fix(qa-callers): exploratory preflight says the scope/method Reads come after exploratory.md; design-review scan check credits an executed scan proven by one engine run over the changed files

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2026-10-03 07:54:09 -07:00
Garry Tan 7fca42ad8b v1.91.12.0 v1.91.12.0: audit fix wave, ~11-minute paid eval lanes, eval reliability policy (#2999)
* test: delete test-infrastructure dead code (G)

- exit-propagation drives the runner's real strict verdict
  (BunTestOutputClassifier + strictTestExitCode); delete the unused
  shardRunLooksTruncated predicate.
- delete skill-coverage-matrix registry + its gate (nothing reads it; the
  floor already iterates skillCensus()).
- delete touchfiles-facade export-parity tests (Bun fails missing imports
  at link time) and the duplicated E2E_TIERS tier-value test.
- delete brain-cache-spec TRANSPORT_DEFAULT_POLICY, SKILL_RUN_RETENTION_DAYS
  and the now-unused BrainTrustPolicy type with their literal tests.
  AUTOPLAN_PREFLIGHT_BUDGET_BYTES stays: skill-preflight-budget enforces it
  against real resolver output.
- delete audit-compliance's JSDoc-comment grep.

* test: replace product tests that fake the product with real-boundary tests (F)

- design: serve.test.ts drove an inline mirror server; now two tests run the
  real serve() on an ephemeral port (reload confinement, submit exit 0).
- setup-gbrain: rollback + voyage tests execute the template-extracted init
  blocks (3 sites) instead of drifted local bash copies.
- terminal-agent: internalHandler source greps replaced by a behavioral
  /internal/grant + /internal/revoke auth matrix (no/wrong/valid token).
- /health: server-security-surface and the server-auth / security-audit-r2 /
  sidebar-tabs source greps fold into one liveness-only check on the real
  body; the L4 sidecar wiring gets a behavioral /pty-inject-scan test.
- delete tautologies (browser-manager onDisconnect, memory-command #12),
  ios swiftui tap fixture self-check, memory-ingest put_page grep, detach
  source greps, sidebar-agent absence pins, dead-CSS pins + the dead CSS,
  security-audit-r2 Task 1 + the test-only meta-commands re-export,
  duplicate generated-SKILL.md checks.
- make-pdf coverage-gaps cases move into their owner test files.

* test: delete tests of dead eval code (A)

- A1: the retired Eng lexical oracle (evaluateEngSeedCoverage,
  isEngSeedDecisionAUQ), the completion-handoff detector and the retained
  corpus had no paid caller since v1.87.6; delete their 26 replay files,
  ~2.6k helper LOC and fixtures, and the dead blocks in 8 mixed files
  (live hasNativePlanTerminal / batching assertions stay).
- A2: dead viewport approvers in autoplan-artifact-permission and their 11
  replay files + fixtures; recorder/launcher cases stay.
- A3: never-wired oracles and seeders (autoplan-phase-order,
  eng-finding-fixture, ceo-paired-fixture, design-ui-scope,
  plan-skill-completion, pty-current-screen, required-reads,
  transcript-section-logger); plan-seed-submission now decodes through the
  production createPtyScreen; section manifests name their actual guard.
- A4: zero-reference helper exports, plus execGit and invokeAndObserve
  found by the reachability pass.
- 52 fixtures orphaned by the deletions; touchfile and selection-table
  entries for every deleted path.

* test: clean up the paid eval lane (B1-B4, B6, B7)

- B1: delete paid files that assert nothing or cannot pass meaningfully:
  skill-llm-eval-spec and skill-e2e-spec-execute (test.todo), gemini-e2e
  (+ gemini-session-runner; no gemini CLI in CI), ship-idempotency (red
  since v1.63), the two opus-4-7 *-sonnet overlay wrappers, conductor-prose
  (+ its source-evaluation replay), codex-e2e-plan-format; drop their keys,
  scripts and census rows.
- B2: skill-llm-eval grades browse/sections/command-list.md with one union
  judge that also carries the baseline score pin; regression-vs-baseline
  deleted (paid run: pass, c4/c4/a4).
- B3: memory-pipeline, ios-qa, ios-qa-swift-build and plan-tune-cathedral
  make no model calls; renamed out of the paid glob so they run on every
  PR. Swift builds need GSTACK_TEST_SWIFT=1; device stub deleted.
- B4: codex-e2e*, outside-voice, aside and ios-device cannot run in the CI
  image; excluded from the weekly lane with a tracked re-entry condition.
- B6: fold opus-47's negative routing controls into skill-routing-e2e
  journey-negatives (paid run: 3/3 unrouted) and delete the file.
- B7: delete the never-green brain-privacy-gate eval; a free
  gstack-skill-start test now proves consent precedes artifacts egress.

* test: retire the finding-count cluster and trim its helpers (C)

- C0/C1: the five never-green evals (skill-e2e-autoplan-chain and
  skill-e2e-plan-{ceo,eng,design,devex}-finding-count) failed on harness and
  budget, never on skill behavior; delete them, their touchfile/tier ids,
  AUTOPLAN_CHAIN_BUDGET and the dedicated eighth periodic slice (--slices 7).
- C2: delete the helper groups whose only paid consumers were those files
  (11 modules), trim claude-pty-runner and eng-seeded-coverage to the paid
  closure, and delete the free replay tests whose assertions exercised only
  that dead code (89 files, 135 orphaned fixtures). Blocks that used dead code
  only as input for a live subject keep their assertions: the multiSelect
  default moved to plan-review-decisions, runner PTY tests use inline caller
  policies, and the timer-safe budget checks moved to eng-finding-retry-budget.
- The eight production-touching files stay except ceo-current-decision-record
  (its template read only feeds the retired counter).
- CARVE_GUARDS.autoplan is behavioral 'none'; TODOS records the lost chain
  and per-finding cadence coverage with their re-entry tests.

* test: fold per-incident replay series into their detector owners (D)

Twelve detector families move into one owner test each: 73 incident files
become describe blocks in ceo-section-loading-fixture (stale-fill race),
model-overlays, coverage-audit-evidence, autoplan-phase-observer,
native-auto-decide, outside-voice-evidence, eng-first-review,
plan-count-completion, plan-count-file-permission, ceo-mode-option,
plan-scope-selection and plan-count-prerequisite. Each block keeps its original
code and fixture, so every case still runs; only tests asserting the incident
file's own touchfile registration are dropped (41). Touchfile lists that named
an incident now name its owner.

* test: start the plan-count history PTY on its readiness marker (H)

The fake CLI prints a startup marker and the runner waits for it instead of the
fixed 8 s startup sleep (8.6 s -> 0.9 s locally). eng-semantic-terminal's
sleeping registration cases went with C; plan-count-timeout keeps the fixed wait
because it asserts deadline behavior.

* test: derive paid touchfiles from each eval's static closure (E)

touchfiles.test.ts now checks, per key, that the paid file's static
test/helpers and test/fixtures closure (plus fixture paths it names in string
literals) is covered, and names the file, path, chain and key to fix when it is
not. Free *.test.ts files are no longer touchfiles, so editing a free replay
test stops selecting paid evals: 950 entries removed, 653 real closure paths
added. The hand-copied inventories go: periodic-fixture-selection,
fake-impeccable-touchfiles and 45 per-file selection examples. Selection for
the sample edits (plan-eng-review template, claude-pty-runner,
plan-count-fixture, gstack-config) loses no case under either profile.
CONTRIBUTING documents the rule and its lower bound.

* test: skip hollow tier shards and census judges in the paid planner (B5)

A paid file is now skipped for a tier lane only when every E2E id it registers
is known statically and none has that tier; ids come from the touchfile
registrations and literal testName/*IfSelected arguments, so a comment or
skill path that quotes another id cannot unschedule it, and computed names
keep today's scheduling. --list and the manifest show each skip as
"skipped: no E2E_TIERS id has tier <tier>". The weekly gate census drops the
LLM judges (--skip-judges); they still run in the periodic census and PR gate
lanes. Gate lane 52 -> 42 files, census 41; periodic 77 -> 69.

* test: run seven paid evals on the current default capture model (B8)

skill-e2e-{auq-matrix,plan-format,qa-bugs,retro,workflow} pinned
claude-opus-4-7 and skill-e2e-office-hours plus -brain-writeback pinned
claude-sonnet-4-6; none tests a historical model, so they now capture with
resolveEvalModel('capture'), and the free harness tests that execute these
registrations receive the same resolver. The paid re-pin run passed all of
them. skill-e2e-{design,office-hours-phase4,plan-prosons,plan} keep
claude-opus-4-7: six of their cases failed on the default model (three
timeouts, a missing report file, a format miss and a posture score of 3), so
per the plan's fallback they keep their pins with a TODOS entry. The pre-spend
estimate and drop threshold are in docs/test-audit-2026-09.md.

* test: guard the reduced suite against new test-of-test files

- test/test-of-test-ratchet.test.ts records the 228 free tests that import only
  test/ code and fails on a new one, naming the owner test to extend instead;
  a stale baseline entry fails with the remove instruction.
- test/helpers/resolve-repo-path.ts is the one specifier/literal resolver for
  the ratchet and the touchfile closure invariant, with its own unit tests.
- CONTRIBUTING "Test tiers" describes the paid-failure workflow (fix, then one
  row in the detector's owner test) and the ratchet; TEST_PORTFOLIO gains the
  detector -> owner-test table and no longer claims an Autoplan chain eval.
- TODOS: automatic exclusion policy for chronically red periodic files (P3),
  the deferred native-completion table collapse, the unused CEO payment
  seeder; the PTY readiness item is narrowed to the paid runner.
- docs/test-audit-2026-09.md collects the triage, security mapping, inventories,
  selection proof, behavior-commit decisions and retained false positives.

* v1.91.8.0 test: smaller suite, derived paid selection, retired never-green evals

Release metadata for the test-reduction branch: VERSION 1.91.8.0 (1.91.7.0 is
claimed by #2983), CHANGELOG with the measured before/after table and a
contributor section, durations re-recorded on Ubicloud standard-16 (857 files,
0 failures), the agents digest, CONTRIBUTING's after-measurement row, the B8
fallback TODOS entry, and the after metrics, kept-vs-plan notes, B8 run and
census estimate in docs/test-audit-2026-09.md.

* fix(ubicloud): skip retrieval globs that match nothing instead of reporting a failed pull

* test: pin DISABLE_AUTOUPDATER in hermetic env and capture corrupt-seed warning

Both EVALS_HERMETIC branches of buildHermeticEnv now carry
DISABLE_AUTOUPDATER=1 (the allowlist scrubbed the workflow's copy, so every
PTY screen showed the updater's npm-prefix failure). Per-test overrides
still win. The corrupt durations-seed test now captures its expected
warning and restores the console spy.

* style(cso): format lib/cso TypeScript with pinned Prettier

Mechanical reformat only. Minified transpile output is byte-identical for
21 of 22 files; witness.ts differs only in three regex flag orders
(/mi -> /im), which JavaScript canonicalizes. Source-text assertions over
lib/cso now compare whitespace-insensitively with the same tokens.

* fix(cso): import join for compiled-launcher assertion witnesses

Compiled installs always take the non-Bun branch, which called an unimported
join and threw before any runtime-tested assertion could be witnessed. The
child command selection is now a pure, platform-aware function; a missing
sibling launcher fails with its expected path.

* fix(browse): make connect --supervise actually respawn a crashed server

The supervisor respawned with a block-scoped env that no longer existed, so
every attempt threw and the loop gave up after five tries. The headed env is
now one pure helper used by connect and respawn, the loop is an injectable
runHeadedSupervisor with behavioral tests, failures name the daemon log and
relaunch command, and connect's usage advertises --supervise.

* test: one finite PR world for the shared-libs fixture; name dual-voice probe evidence

The shared-libs shim served 2 PRs for pulls?state=all and endless full pages
for state=open. gh pr list, pulls?state=open|all|closed (per_page/page,
short last page, direction) and search/issues now page one deterministic
table: PR 7, 600 older open PRs, PR 42 and 3 closed PRs, so five 100-item
open-metadata pages still leave older open PRs unchecked. The Contents API
lists pinned directories (the captured attempt got 404 for contents/ and
contents/src while files resolved, then fell back to a raw host), unknown
endpoints return 404 instead of repo metadata, and the read-only detector
is unchanged. Free tests cover view agreement, the budget bound, gh/curl
agreement and the empty world.

Dual-voice outside-voice failures now report probeToolUseId, probeMode and
the canonical-match result with the reason the probe output was rejected.

* feat: require a zero-error product typecheck and a test type-debt ratchet

Adds tsconfig.json (strict) over product code, fixes its remaining 90
diagnostics (type-only, interface corrections, and explicit narrowing),
and adds a typecheck job to the required free-tests aggregate running
bun run typecheck, the test-code ratchet (identity -> count baseline, fails
on new, repeated, or unlocked fixed diagnostics), and the lib/cso format
check. Reuses fixes from #2447 where they still applied.

* test: follow the headed env helper and the typecheck gate in source-shape checks

* fix(test): pin the package.json change kind in shared-input selection tests

computePaidCaseSelection read the version-only exemption from git even when
changed files were injected, so the shared-input test failed on main and on
version-only branches. The exemption is now an optional input; the test pins
a real package.json change and covers the version-only case.

* test: judge plan-count completion on structured evidence, not wording

Replaying run 36385945043's two Design attempts showed the existing routes
rejected correct endings: attempt 1 at the typed-completion path field
('- Reviewed plan written to …' is not a 'Plan written to' line), attempt 2
at the leading-fence veto (its final message opens with the dashboard).

nativePlanTerminalPreconditions is the structural prefix of
hasNativePlanTerminal (behavior unchanged). structuredPlanCompletion adds,
inside the existing nativeSummary branch: a complete report (Design
binding for Design), a completed review-log row for the expected skill
appended during this attempt under the child's GSTACK_HOME/project slug
(resolved with bin/gstack-slug) and stamped with the fixture commit, timed
between the report/last answer (second resolution) and the final native
message, a final message with stop_reason end_turn (now carried on public
transcript messages), and no visible question or permission prompt.

Timeout summaries add idleFor and lastTerminalCandidate. Terminal and throw
captures copy the plan file and review-log rows into the artifact
directory; copies are best-effort and recorded in evidence-copy.json.
Free regressions: both captured Design endings (trimmed fixture with
provenance; report, row and end_turn reconstructed and labelled), the
negative controls, and real-PTY completion/timeout runs through the real
review logger.

* test: structural Design count boundary; TODO proposals are not findings

Replaying run 36385945043 through the Design count predicates: routing,
focus and learnings setup was not recognized as setup, Issue 1 was counted
pre-review in both attempts (the boundary fired on it), and attempt 2
counted the Font TODO proposal as a finding (review=4 and review=5 for five
issues). The paid caller now starts review at the first answered native
decision that is not setup (recognized packet, or setup header/question ID),
a completion handoff, artifact rendering or a TODO proposal (the review's
Add to TODOS.md / Skip / Build it now menu). TODO proposals are recorded as
administrative extra decisions. The replay asserts each counted call: both
attempts review=5 (Issues 1-5). isDesignCountFirstReview and its controls
are unchanged.

* test: CEO classifier throws name the question and matched predicates

Replaying run 36385945043's FAN-1 and ERR-1 throws (ledger rows
reconstructed from rendered diffs) through ceoPaymentFinding: the email
obligation's row, subject, option and proposal predicates pass and the
ELI10 explanation-defect predicate fails first ('lets that exception fly
out', 'the error bubbles up').

Binding the defect to the named ledger row instead (the planned fix) was
tried and reverted: scoped to the email seed it flips 30+ existing cf74
still-rejects replays, which require a vocabulary-free, ledger-bound email
question to earn credit only through a complete saved comparison. With
FAN-1's rendered currentDecision payload reconstructed, the recorded-
decision path counts it, so the real saved plan (not uploaded) must have
differed; failure artifacts now retain it.

The classifier stays fail-closed and unchanged. Its throw now prints the
header, the first 200 question characters and each obligation's predicate
results. Free regressions with provenance and negative controls: an
unrelated question, an email question whose row says it is already
rescued, and a ledger ID whose row belongs to another seed.

* chore: regenerate the test type-debt baseline on top of #2994

* fix(typecheck): strip the checkout root from ratchet diagnostic identities

* fix(test): recognize ledger row-ID split candidates so collection stops at the last ACK

Run 36385945043's split-overflow case asked all five candidate decisions by
8m55s, but the live candidate check required the question to open with
"E1:" and every option to be a known disposition. The skill cited ledger
row IDs ("D2.1 — R-E1: …") and offered "Hold, discuss first", so no
candidate was recognized and the attempt ran the whole review (1302s).

Identity now comes from the native header; the question must open with that
candidate's ledger reference, name only that candidate, and offer exactly one
include, defer and cut disposition. The selected answer must still be one of
those three. The semantic evaluator and every existing negative control are
unchanged; a trimmed capture from the run adds the positive case and four
row-ID negative controls.

* fix(test): stop the eng batching eval once its floor is proven

The case's only verdict is reviewCount >= FLOOR (3). Run 36385945043 had
three distinct acknowledged review decisions at 6m41s but kept answering
until the ceiling (7) at 12m13s. The registration now passes the runner's
existing isCollectionComplete stop once FLOOR non-setup, non-administrative
review decisions are acknowledged; the floor check, ceiling, budget and
counter are unchanged. A child-process registration test proves the stop
predicate and that below-floor and timeout outcomes still fail.

* test: add the non-blocking 'marathon' E2E tier

Full start-to-finish flows move out of the blocking lanes. E2E_TIERS and
E2ETier gain 'marathon'; describeE2ETier('marathon') is enabled only when
EVALS_TIER=marathon, so the gate/PR and periodic lanes (and the gate census)
never run those cases. The PR profile accepts marathon ids as scheduled
elsewhere and defers them with their own reason, even on full fallback.

* test: move the full office-hours workflow to marathon; add a periodic design-draft checkpoint

The full startup workflow runs 1–3 real spec-review rounds (~280s each) and
hit its 1200s capture in run 36385945043 at finalize. Review depth is the
product's loop, so the case cannot fit a blocking lane without cutting
rounds. It is now marathon tier with every assertion unchanged.

skill-e2e-office-hours-design-draft.test.ts (periodic) runs the same fixed
interview only through the Write that creates the design (269s in that run)
and applies the full validator's design-draft checks, the required section
reads and the launch/foreign-skill-read guards. validateOfficeHoursDesignDraft
is extracted from validateOfficeHoursCompletion, which still applies it.

Selection: office-hours-design-draft is registered periodic; the marathon-only
file is already excluded from the gate and periodic plans by the B5 planner
rule. Tier-alignment regexes and the valid-tier check accept 'marathon'.
A type-only cast in plan-scope-selection.test.ts removes a diagnostic whose
union print order made the ratchet identity unstable; baseline tightened.

* test: supply the split-overflow fixture's HOLD SCOPE mode as a prerequisite

The split actor always answered 0E's mode question with HOLD SCOPE. The
skill skips that question on an explicit choice, so the fixture now states
it and the attempt starts at the five candidate decisions (about 1.5 min
earlier in run 36385945043). Candidates, actor policy, floor and semantic
evaluation are unchanged; the fixture test pins the supplied choice.

* test: start the eng batching eval with its setup prerequisites supplied

Routing setup and cross-project learnings (D1/D2 in run 36385945043) are
never counted and are not what the case measures. The registration now uses
the runner's existing preconfiguredReviewActor so the attempt starts at the
review; engSetupAUQ still vetoes any late setup question. The registration
test pins the option.

* test: count the design-draft paid file and defer marathon ids in PR selection pins

The discovered paid-file census grows by one (skill-e2e-office-hours-design-draft).
Full-fallback PR selection defers every non-gate id; the shared-input pins now
expect periodic and marathon ids there.

* fix(review): resolve the judged revalidation, setup-authority, plan-gate and findings-record ambiguities

The census review workflow judge scored clarity/actionability 3 on both
attempts: smoke-clock limits appeared to forbid post-repair revalidation,
the caller deadline was undefined, 'ask for setup' conflicted with the
report-only browser rule, fallback-sourced HIGH discrepancies had no gate
decision, and the Step 5.8 record omitted adversarial findings.

* fix(office-hours): load the builder section for every builder-mode reply

Both census builder-wildness attempts answered a direct request for
adjacent unlocks without reading phase-2b-builder-brainstorm.md, whose
trigger read as applying only to the generative questions.

* fix(sync-gbrain): define Step 4 helper args and one atomic write path

Both census read-ready attempts spent turns reading the helper source to
resolve <user-args>, inspecting fixture internals kept inside the repo,
and reconciling 'Read + Edit' with the tmp+mv atomic write, then hit
max turns before the verdict.

* refactor(evals): share the import-closure walker and add the E2E shard reuse identity

sourceDependencyClosure moves from the workflow-judge adapter into
scripts/eval-input-cache.ts unchanged, so judge keys stay byte-identical.
scripts/e2e-shard-reuse.ts builds the consumed-input identity of one PR-lane
E2E shard (test import closure, every registered case's touchfiles, globals,
runner/workflow/setup actions, child env pins, CI image, Claude CLI) and fails
closed on anything unknown. Marathon joins the always-fresh purposes.

* feat(evals): ~12-minute blocking paid lanes and a non-blocking marathon lane

- Planner budget mode (--slice-budget S --jobs J): recorded per-tier wall
  times pack into as many ~9-minute executors as the work needs; the plan
  records per-slice estimates and the CI job timeout (supervised worst case
  + 20 min). evals.yml and evals-periodic.yml derive matrix size and
  timeout-minutes from it; max-parallel covers every slice at once.
- Case shards: plan/design/review-army/shared-libs(-paths) run one registered
  case per process (<file>#<case id>, exact name pattern, exactly one case).
- Retry rule: a timed-out attempt is a verdict. Only files whose every case
  budget is CAPTURE tier or shorter keep one retry; walls shrink to match.
- Marathon tier: positive selection, excluded from gate/periodic planners,
  run by the new evals-marathon.yml (weekly + dispatch, fresh, own report).
- PR-lane E2E reuse of verified first-attempt passes on identical inputs;
  the report rejects reuse outside the fast PR profile.
- Duration seed from census run 36385945043, per tier and per case shard.

* docs: blocking lane budget, marathon lane, retry policy and E2E reuse

* chore(typecheck): lock in two fixed test diagnostics

* fix(ci): drop a duplicated env/jobs block in evals-marathon.yml

* test(ship-docsync): shard the doc-sync lifecycle by case and drop the duplicate dispatch-only case

ship-docsync ran the same fixture and prompt as ship-docsync-completion and
asserted a subset of it. The file now runs one case per process, so its lane
wall is its longest case instead of half the sum of thirteen.

* fix(evals): plan CI-unrunnable cases as excluded entries, not empty case shards

design-review-fix drives the Aside browser and registers test.skip on Linux
runners, so its case shard executed zero cases and failed the exact-one-case
check in proof census 36597762183 (eval-slices 6). CASE_CI_EXCLUDE (reason +
tracking, beside PERIODIC_CI_EXCLUDE) now turns such cases into excluded
manifest entries that --list and the manifest surface; every planned case
shard still must execute exactly its case.

* docs(todos): list the case-level Aside exclusion with the CI-unrunnable evals

* fix(plan-ceo-review): restore experience-first expansion framing, require the mode handoff, skip pacing menus

Census 36597762183: both mode-routing runs logged provenance and moved on
without the mandated handoff chat; the EXPANSION run asked an unauthorized
batch/narrow pacing menu instead of the first per-addition question; the
expansion-energy proposals led with the spec because v1.87.6.0 dropped
'lead with the felt experience'. The HOLD review detector also rejected a
decision whose grounding line named no plan file although the owned source
Read binds it.

* test(outside-plan-disabled): bind quoted prior-record values by their sentence, not phrase order

The parent obeyed the off switch and twice named the seeded completed
record as pre-existing, once with the quotation after its owner and once
with slash separators; the order-specific stripper counted both as current
completion. Timestamp, location, current-claim and value-match controls
still reject.

* test(outside-plan-disabled): compare named record timestamps as instants; negated authorship is not a current claim

The repair rerun named the seeded record by its ISO second
(2026-09-29T16:58:52Z vs .727Z) and said 'I did not write'; both were
misread as a foreign timestamp and a current write.

* test(ceo-section-loading): recognize an arrow-ordered stale-fill execution by event roles

The census review traced the seeded race as 'R1 miss -> R1 store read (v1)
-> W commit v2 -> W cache.delete -> W fulfills -> R1 cache.set(v1) -> R2
(begun after W) hits v1', but the in-flight gate only accepted race
vocabulary or fixed sentence shapes. Order, actor, version and dismissal
mutations still fail.

* test(design-floor): answer the seed-declared all-seven 0D focus menu while it is pending

The actor declares 'Design: review all seven dimensions', but its picker
reused designReviewSetupAUQ, which only matches already-answered calls
(and a narrower header/label set), so the pending D1 focus menu was never
answered and the case waited out its 609 s deadline. The skill's Step 0D
requires asking; the fixture now answers it.

* test(ceo-mode-routing): accept the skill-mandated Note form and Recommendation reason as HOLD posture

HOLD Defer/Keep briefs must use 'Note: options differ in kind' (preamble),
but the answered-HOLD path demanded a Completeness score, rejected a
one-line Net with a semicolon, and read posture only from ELI10. The rerun's
brief applied HOLD SCOPE in its Recommendation reason. Revert the
ineffective 'always'/'handoff chat' wording: two runs still skipped the
mode handoff.

* test(qa-bugs): keep claude-opus-4-7 after qa-b6-static stalled on the default model

qa-b6-static timed out on claude-fable-5-1 in census 36597762183 and in one
of two targeted reruns. Both times the stream stopped mid-message with no
pending tool, right after the model found the disabled submit button, and
stayed silent until the 300 s deadline. Per the B8 fallback, re-pin with a
TODOS entry; budgets and retries are unchanged. A rerun on opus-4-7 passed
(125 s, 5/5 detected).

* test(evals): add E2E_KINDS, BEHAVIOR_WHY, EVAL_POLICY and CASE_QUARANTINE skeletons

Every E2E_TIERS and LLM_JUDGE_TOUCHFILES key starts as 'rule'; BEHAVIOR_WHY
and CASE_QUARANTINE start empty. EVAL_POLICY pre-registers the approved
panel (3, majority 2), quarantine entry 0.95/10 and exit 0.97/10, 10% cap,
8-weekly-run expiry, Fisher drift alarm and one INFRA re-dispatch.

* test(evals): add trial records, panelVerdict, expectContract and trial-outcomes JSONL

EvalTestEntry gains case_id, kind, trial, panel, failure_class and
policy_version, stamped from the runner's TRIAL_ENV on isolated trial
shards. panelVerdict() is the single verdict function (INCOMPLETE on
missing or duplicate trials, contract veto at any count, quarantine
hard-break rule, INFRA/INCOMPLETE machine classification). expectContract()
records failure_class 'contract' on the collector entry and a sidecar
before throwing. trial-outcomes JSONL has a fail-closed writer and a
data-only reader.

* test(evals): pin the fail-closed rule-shard gate through the real --report path

Synthetic slice artifacts for rule fail, timeout, missing slice, unreported
entry, hollow, never-started, collector failure and wrong-slice reports all
exit red before the panel-verdict gate change lands.

* test(evals): retire every paid automatic retry

Paid evals never retry (approved 2026-09-29): delete SHORT_CASE_RETRY_FILES
and retriesWithinCaseCap, drop the retry fields from the registered wall rows
(walls now cover one run plus reserve), make retriesForFiles return 0, pass
--retry 0 explicitly, and drop --retry 1 from the package.json paid scripts.
Add the eval:pass-rates alias. Tests that pinned the old retry allowance are
updated as a policy change; review-finalization-budget now proves late-result
recording under the production zero-retry arguments.

* test(llm-judge): sample every judge as a pre-registered 3-sample panel

Each of the 24 skill-llm-eval judges now draws EVAL_POLICY.judge.samples
independent samples of the same prompt concurrently inside the unchanged
JUDGE_MS budget. Numeric dimensions gate on the per-dimension panel mean
against the unchanged threshold; booleans (would_browse, consistent) on a
strict majority. An erroring sample fails the whole panel and is never
resampled; a refusal is an unscored panel only when every sample refused.
callJudge's 429 backoff stays: it is transport before any model output.

The workflow-judge cache stores and validates only complete panels, and its
identity now records the panel and zero file retries. Harness tests that
pinned one provider call per case now pin the panel size.

* test(evals): classify every live case and re-select a case when its kind changes

E2E_KINDS: rule by default (191 E2E ids), 22 behavior cases whose verdict is
a live model choice with an acceptable sub-100% per-trial rate, each with a
BEHAVIOR_WHY tolerance, and 25 judge entries (the 24 workflow judges plus the
fixed-fixture llm-judge-recommendation rubric check). Contract-shaped cases
(ask-before-decide, plan-mode no-writes, mandated steps, secrets, the batching
floor) stay rule. Behavior requires a known literal registration and an exact
Bun test name so the case runs as its own trial shard.

Map-diff selection now diffs E2E_KINDS and BEHAVIOR_WHY per key, and a base
revision without them selects every key, so a kind flip runs the panel it
introduces. test/eval-kinds.test.ts enforces coverage, tolerances,
isolatability and the reviewed counts, printing the literal to add.

* feat(evals): per-case pass rates with Wilson intervals, identity series and quarantine policy

scripts/eval-flake-rank.ts becomes eval:pass-rates (eval:flake-rank stays an
alias, and the legacy aggregate stays exported). It reads eval-store's
trial-outcomes JSONL from the last N completed evals-periodic runs on this
branch and main (gh, downloading only the trial-outcomes artifact, cached and
size-capped, parsed as data), plus local eval dirs, and prints per-case
per-trial pass rates with 95% Wilson intervals.

A series is a case's own touchfiles minus GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES
(caseSeriesIdentities, for the report job to stamp), per model, CLI version
and policy version. Labels: INCONCLUSIVE, BROKEN, FLAKY, FAILING, PASSING.
--backfill imports legacy slice artifacts as pre-policy trials (first
attempt only, attributed by registry id, never guessed) for display only.

--gate fails with ACTION REQUIRED on post-policy evidence only: drift below
the quarantine entry rule, a rule case behaving like behavior, a one-sided
Fisher drop against the previous identity (Holm-controlled), and quarantine
entries that met their exit rule, expired after 8 weekly runs, broke the
10% tier cap or are invalid. CASE_QUARANTINE entries now carry a
failureClass (detector, harness or model-latency); a product defect has no
class and is never quarantined. The policy test pins EVAL_POLICY's approved
constants.

* feat(eval-pass-rates): attribute legacy records by the exact slug of their display name

* ci(image): pin Claude Code 2.1.284 so the eval model is recognized

2.1.251 logs [claude-code:unrecognized_model] for claude-fable-5-1, the
eval capture/judge default. 2.1.284 does not. The gate PTY smoke subset
(plan-ceo/plan-devex plan-mode, plan-mode-no-op) parses on the new TUI;
plan-design-review-plan-mode passed at 293 s on 2.1.284 and timed out at
300 s on 2.1.251 on the same tree.

* test(eng-batching): grade the floor once the review report is complete

A completed GSTACK REVIEW REPORT ends the review, so the review-question
count is final there. Run 36606688266 wrote its report at 1,248 s and
closed the session at 1,318 s; the case now stops collection and applies
the unchanged floor at the report instead of waiting out the session.
No budget changes.

* test(eng-batching): bind unsourced native briefs through the report's target

Run 36606688266 asked ten separate native review questions (D1-D9 bound
to ledger records R1-R9) and failed reviewCount=0 < FLOOR=3: its briefs
named the plan by title instead of citing PLAN.md, its report declared
'Review target (fixed): PLAN.md' under '# Engineering review: <plan>', and
it kept an unfenced copy of the plan's own H1. The named-source route now
accepts those spellings and non-inline ledger briefs. The same replay
rejects a foreign, mixed, duplicate or missing target, another plan's
title or copied H1, a brief naming another plan or file, a mismatched
saved brief, and re-asks. The run-36597762183 capture still counts 3.

* fix(plan-design-review): treat a designer with no API key as unavailable

Both proof runs (36597762183, 36606688266) printed DESIGN_READY, hit
'No OpenAI API key found' on the first $D variants call, then hand-built
HTML/CSS wireframes, screenshots and a comparison board for ~195-245 s
before the first review question; the second run timed out at 600 s.
A failed first generation now takes the existing text-only path, and the
skill forbids substituting hand-built mockups.

* fix(deslop-shared-libs): read related sources together within the turn limit

Run 36606688266's opportunity audit read sixteen sources one per turn and
stopped at error_max_turns; the passing run 36597762183 read the same
files in three batched commands. The skill now says turns are bounded and
asks for parallel reads or one read-only command per step.

* test(ceo-mode-routing): submit a mode review that scrolled past the viewport

Run 36606688266 bundled routing, learnings and the mode choice into one
native call. Its review panel was taller than the terminal, so the tab
bar scrolled off, ceoModeSubmissionInput returned null for 240 s and HOLD
SCOPE was never submitted ('no posture match'). With no bar on screen the
viewport must still end at the focused Submit prompt, and the accumulated
screen text supplies the one complete panel, authenticated exactly as
before. Replay controls reject another mode, an unoffered answer, an
altered question, a quoted panel, trailing output, a moved cursor and an
answered or changed call.

* docs(evals): document the pre-registered verdict policy, quarantine, pass-rate history and arithmetic

AGENTS.md replaces the retry rule with the approved policy text (no retries;
kind fixes trials; no added trials, samples or dispatches after a result;
quarantine by CASE_QUARANTINE only; one INFRA/INCOMPLETE re-dispatch) and
notes that a pre-registered fixed panel is not rejudging. CONTRIBUTING gains
the kind rules, the judge panel, eval:pass-rates and an 'Add a paid eval'
checklist. TESTING_INTERNALS describes verdicts, quarantine, history and the
arithmetic, including the rule term: 1 trial vs 2-of-3 red rates at
p = 0.99/0.95/0.90/0.70/0.30 and lane all-green probabilities for the
current 191 rule / 22 behavior / 25 judge registry.

* feat(evals): trial planner, slice exit split and panel-verdict report

Planner: behavior and quarantined cases become panels of isolated trial
shards (<file>#<id>~t<N>) bound by EVALS_SELECTION_JSON=[id] and the exact
test name; the file shard excludes them by name. Trials of one case never
share a slice, result slugs are unique, panels are validated whole, unknown
registrations throw, and the planner prints a capacity preflight.

Executor: each trial shard gets its TRIAL_ENV identity and a trial record
(outcome, failure class, cause, cost); every shard writes a JUnit report.
The slice exit now means execution completeness: a failed rule shard or a
trial without a record reds the runner, a failed trial does not.

Report: panelVerdict() decides every panel of the first run attempt (later
attempts are reported, never replacing it); rule shards keep the unchanged
fail-closed checks; collector records all count (no last-attempt wins);
census runs enforce the quarantine cap and expiry. It writes
collector-outcomes v2, trial-outcomes.jsonl (trials plus JUnit rule/judge
cases), report-summary.md, and one headline + failure block with rerun
commands, and flags INFRA/INCOMPLETE-only reds for the one re-dispatch.

The fail-open suite gains the panel cases: behavior 1/3 red, 2/3 green
with its failed trial shown, missing trial INCOMPLETE, contract at 2/3 red,
quarantined 1/3 green, 0/3 and contract red, missing slice red, and a later
attempt never replacing the first.

* chore(evals): refresh paid duration seeds from proof runs 36597762183 and 36606688266

Both tiers, merged in run order (the later run wins). Notable: split-overflow
1332s -> 504s, section-loading 604s -> 342s, mode-routing 575s -> 444s;
multi-finding-batching 734s -> 1318s (its red path in run 36606688266).

* feat(evals): stamp trial series identities and fit panels to the live registry

- scripts/eval-trial-series.ts stamps series_identity (eval-flake-rank's
  caseSeriesIdentities) on a report's trial-outcomes JSONL as its own step,
  keeping the history tool out of the paid runner's closure;
  TrialOutcomeRecord gains the optional series_identity field.
- Slice-count plans let a registered trial spill into an ordinary lane when
  its siblings hold every long lane, so panels never share a runner.
- Re-audited test-selection.ts (Stream B added the E2E_KINDS/BEHAVIOR_WHY
  map-diff; no new module loading) and repinned its hash.
- Detach and release floors now count trial shards (66 periodic trials in
  22 panels): periodic floor 33,821s, still under eval:bg:periodic's 67,380s.
- Coordination fixtures supply the executor's trial records.

* ci(evals): attempt-scoped artifacts, verdict-v2 PR comment, weekly pass-rate gate and one INFRA re-dispatch

- Slice, census and marathon artifacts carry -a<run_attempt>; reports
  download them per artifact (no merge), so records never overwrite and a
  re-run never replaces the first attempt's verdict.
- Planners pass --max-parallel for the capacity preflight (24/16 unchanged:
  the refreshed periodic plan needs 24 slices, the gate census 12).
- PR comment: jq-only job reads collector-outcomes v2 (headline, sanitized
  failure block); the group_by(.name)|last recomputation is gone.
- Reports stamp series identities, upload trial-outcomes-* for history, and
  shard logs upload always (a failed trial no longer reds its runner).
- Weekly report: headline + failure block of both lanes in the issue body,
  the eval:pass-rates --gate step (fails closed without history), close the
  issue on a green run, and UC-E1: when every red is machine-classified
  INFRA/INCOMPLETE, one re-dispatch as a new run in its own concurrency
  group (redispatch_of), both runs reported.

* feat(evals): planner-side whole-panel reuse and negative receipts

The planner job restores this PR's receipt store once and ships a single
filtered set with the plan: a pass or panel receipt with a same-or-newer
FAIL for its input identity is dropped, and a panel receipt ships only as
a whole PASS panel (re-verified with panelVerdict) from one run. Executors
read only that set (no per-slice cache restore or save), so every trial of
a panel sees the same receipts; a trial reuses its own record from the
panel receipt, keeping a split PASS's failed trial.

Trial identities drop the trial index (run-scoped) and bind the panel
policy. Executed shards carry their input identity; the report turns a
whole fresh PASS panel into a panel receipt and a FAIL panel or failed rule
shard into a negative receipt, and marks a panel that mixes reused and
fresh trials INCOMPLETE. The report job merges plan, slice and report
receipts (newest per file) and saves one store per run.

Also fixes two TS2352 casts in browse/test/dia-macos-qualification.test.ts
whose diagnostic text drifted with program order (baseline locked, fix only).

* feat(evals): --case/--trials local diagnosis and panels in local sharded runs

bun run scripts/test-paid-shards.ts --case <id> [--trials N] runs N
independent trials of one case through the CI panel runner (trial shards,
TRIAL_ENV identity, name-pattern isolation) and prints its panelVerdict();
N defaults to the case's policy panel and CI never reads it. The local
sharded path (test:gate:sharded, test:periodic:sharded) now plans the same
trial shards and exclusions as CI and exits on execution completeness plus
panel verdicts.

* test(pty): grant an owned Create pane whose title row is cropped

The targeted batching rerun on Claude Code 2.1.284 left its first report
Write unanswered for 1,372 s and timed out: the viewport began at the
pane's relative file row and rule, with the 'Create file' title cropped
above, so the preview parser rejected the file row as foreign. That row
must now resolve to the owned path and is skipped before the unchanged
line-by-line preview match. Replay controls reject another file, another
directory and an edited preview row.

* fix(evals): tsx-safe generics in eval-flake-rank, legacy artifact names, no-retry wall docs

* test(evals): record the read-only and detector-row invariants as contracts

shared-libs-opportunity-judgment and review-design-lite are behavior
cases: their recommendation and checklist judgments may vary, but the
read-only invariant (commands, provider requests, fixture bytes, hooks,
state) and the deterministic fake-engine detector rows are contracts.
Both now go through expectContract, so any failure vetoes the panel.

* test(judges): sample the recommendation rubric as a panel; never re-ask armJudge

llm-judge-recommendation is a judge case: each fixture now draws a
3-sample judgePanel, gates reason_substance on the panel mean and the
present/commits/has_because checks on a 2-of-3 majority, thresholds
unchanged. armJudge no longer re-asks on a malformed verdict; it is a
failed sample, as the judge policy requires.

* test(evals): record a pre-turn API or CLI failure as infra

recordE2E sets failure_class 'infra' on a failed session whose runner
reports error_api, timeout_startup, error_output_stream or a non-zero CLI
exit with zero turns and no assistant event. A model refusal, a timeout
after model work, max turns, or an explicit caller pass/class keeps its
ordinary classification.

* test: pin every-record outcome counts and the twelve doc-sync callbacks

* test(eng-batching): read the report target as a field, not a spelling

The next targeted rerun (Claude Code 2.1.284) again asked eleven separate
native questions and again counted zero: its briefs named no plan and its
report declared '- **Review target (fixed):** `/abs/PLAN.md`' under
'# Eng Review — PLAN.md: <plan>'. An unsourced brief now inherits the one
current target field that names a PLAN.md file, whatever its list or
emphasis markup; its ledger record still supplies the cited finding and
must reproduce the brief exactly. A brief that names its plan must still
match the report title. Replays of all three captures count 9, 9 and 3;
controls reject a foreign, duplicate or missing target and an archived
title.

* fix(evals): --case list mode and name precheck; case-shard qa-callers; refresh batching and design-with-ui seeds

* chore(release): v1.91.9.0

* test: settle the post-response composer before seeding; give the TPA recorder adapter its infra helper

submitPlanSeed accepted a stale empty composer when the transcript recorded
end_turn before the CLI repainted (late-repaint-typed-current fails 5/5 on the
old helper, passes 5/5 now). The TPA recording fixture extracted recordE2E
without isPreTurnInfraFailure, so every failed case threw before recording.

* test(autoplan-dual-voice): unwrap Claude Code 2.1.284 subagent hand-back frames; accept read-only probe diagnostics; record before asserting

Census run 36626737820: the native CEO report arrived framed and indented, so
its INPUT line never matched, and the model's exact probe plus two variable
echoes was not canonical. A column-zero line inside a frame, command
substitution, backticks, redirects, assignments, CODEX_MODE echoes and output
line-count mismatches stay rejected. The failure now records before asserting.

* ci(image): keep Claude Code 2.1.251; test(ceo-mode-routing): keep HOLD's own deferrals in scope before assessing its rigor decision

2.1.284 enables per-turn effort for claude-fable-5-1: in gate census
36626737820, 66 of 84 sessions ran longer than on 2.1.251 (+20% session time,
+32% thinking tokens) and 11 cases timed out on unchanged budgets.

HOLD SCOPE's 0G step asks its own defer/keep menu; the actor answered it
Defer and the assessment then judged that scope question as the rigor
decision. The actor now answers that menu Keep and assesses the next one.

* test: attribute quoted prior-record field lists, state the judge reason bound in its schema, move split-overflow to marathon

Census 36629958451 reds:
- outside-plan-disabled-no-fallback: the model quoted the pre-existing record
  as a parenthesized field list with its exact timestamp; attribution now
  requires that exact timestamp and the record's own field values.
- plan-devex-peer-comparison-classification: the judge correctly returned
  missing but wrote a 1069-character reason, voiding the judgment; structured
  outputs cannot enforce maxLength, so the bound is stated on the field.
- plan-ceo-split-overflow ran 504-1188 s as one PTY flow and set the
  periodic lane's wall clock; it now runs weekly in the marathon lane.

* test: supply holdDeferKeepIndex to the CEO routing mocks and follow split-overflow into the marathon lane

The registered-callback fixtures mock ceo-mode-option and lacked the new
export; the split fixtures asserted the periodic tier; the registered-budget
check looked for split-overflow only in the periodic manifest.

* fix(qa): checkpoint receipts print the report link for their exploration file

qa-functional-webhook-report failed in two of three censuses because the
report linked .qa-evidence/NNN capture folders as "checkpoints" and never
linked exploration-NNN.json. The checkpoint receipt now prints
link: [checkpoint NNN](exploration-NNN.json), and the functional report
template says capture folders are not checkpoints.

* docs: final census numbers in the v1.91.9.0 entry; file the paid-eval follow-ups

* ci(evals): name the PR-comment loop's unused fields so shellcheck passes (SC2034)

* fix(plan-ceo-review): tighten expansion pacing wording to fit the skeleton cap after the main merge

The merged skeleton measured 80,166 bytes against its unchanged 80,150 cap.
Same instructions: ask separately for each addition, in turn, with no pacing
menu; lead each proposal with the felt experience, then shape, effort and impact.

* fix(eval-pass-rates): match trial-outcome files by basename so Windows backslash paths are read

* fix(evals): repair proof-run reds in design-consultation, document-release, design and QA fixtures

- design-consultation Phase 1 asks one brief that confirms context and decides
  research; the confirm-only first question scored substance 2.
- document-release defines ship-owned inputs, exact steps and the JSON result,
  and drops stale spawned-from-/ship text (judge actionability 3.67 -> 4/4/4).
- plan-design-with-ui accepts the Step 0D focus menu the same way the shared
  picker does ("focus on specific ones?").
- plan-design-review plan-mode saves in three Edits instead of one final Write.
- QA functional annotations ask for the full 40-character revision.
- Outside-disabled attribution judges quoted prior-record data by its exact
  timestamp or a dated, pre-existing-record sentence; four captured phrasings
  replay clean and current claims still fail.
- --case can select autoplan-dual-voice by its literal test name.

* test(design): revert the three-Edit plan-mode flow

A focused paid run still timed out at 300 s: the first three passes alone took
150 s of thinking. The case stays a named timeout red rather than cutting review depth.

* test: accept 'review mode = X' auto-decide declarations and parenthetical scope exclusions in the shared-libs actor

auto-decide-preserved: the product auto-decided HOLD SCOPE and said
"Decision: review mode = HOLD SCOPE"; the grammar knew only "is" and ":".
shared-libs-plan-callers: the recommended option said "(no hardening)" and the
actor read "hardening" as an expansion. Both replay the captured text, keep
negative controls, and passed focused paid runs.

* fix(review): pass Review Army checklists by path, run research alongside dispatch, always probe the design detector; state review-log invocation and statuses in the caller fixture

- review-army-perf-n-plus-one: the parent copied full checklists into agent
  prompts and ran web research before dispatch (290 s on a 12-line diff); 212 s now.
- review-design-lite: 5 of 6 captured trials reported the detector absent
  without probing; the probe is mandatory and its first line is reported, and
  the contract credits only fake-engine rule ids the checklist never names.
- review-exploratory-small-cli: the fixture never gave review-log's direct
  invocation or status vocabulary; the model ran it through bun and wrote
  status "blocked". The prompt states both and the validator rejects
  out-of-vocabulary review statuses.
Each case passed a focused paid run after repair.

* docs(changelog): proof-run product fixes

* fix(ship): always run the design-lite detector probe; test(shared-libs): credit a failed first file view and deferred-reuse Skip wording

- /ship design-lite: the probe is mandatory and any non-ready first line is
  stated, matching /review (5 of 6 captured /review trials had skipped it).
- shared-libs-pr-coverage: the first PR 42 page-1 read printed only a jq error,
  so the one refetch is a legitimate recovery, charged to the same budget.
- shared-libs-review-prior-coverage: the Skip option said a future review can
  "reuse it once snapshot coverage holds"; a conditional tail on the recorded
  decision is not product work. Captured-text regressions and negative controls.

* fix(ship,qa,document-release): repair proof-run regressions and fixture gaps

- ship-docsync-completion: yesterday's audit-scope result dropped the section's
  status, so /ship spliced one in; the section now opens with **Status:**.
- ship-docsync-missing-asset: a missing section or old Ship-owned mode blocks
  before launch.
- ship-docsync-late-result: the invocation record says prepare already saves
  the candidate selection (no extra Read; budget unchanged).
- qa exploratory: await the method Reads before the first probe.
- qa-callers fixture: quote the real review-log record template; allow the
  git log command plan-completion prescribes.
- qa functional observer: a receipt caught mid-link(2) is checked at stop
  instead of failing with ENOENT (reproduced from CI).
Each repaired case passed a focused paid run.

* ci(image): pin Claude Code 2.1.284, the version users run

Request-body capture shows both 2.1.251 and 2.1.284 send effort "high" to
claude-fable-5-1; 2.1.284 adds the model's own profile. The slower 2.1.284
census was mostly API latency: its SDK-only judges were 25% slower too. Nine
previously slow cases pass on 2.1.284 within unchanged budgets.

* test: one owner per case id, a structural devex 0B setup rule, and correct design/gbrain actors

- plan-design-review-plan-mode was registered by two files; the PTY smoke is
  now plan-design-review-plan-mode-smoke, and a registry test requires one
  owner per case in case-sharded files.
- plan-devex-finding-floor: the template's 0B narrative-confirmation question
  is classified as setup structurally instead of timing out a Haiku assessor.
- setup-gbrain-remote: the actor accepted 'skip' on the MCP-registration
  question the test asserts; it now accepts that question and declines others.
- design-review-plugin-handoff: the fake engine cited a file absent from the
  fixture repo and index.html linked a missing styles.css.
Captured-question regressions with negative controls; each case passed a
focused paid run.

* test: PTY harness handles clipped reviews and bundled setup tabs; AUQ judge uses structured output; design-consultation carve declines optional outside voices

- ceo mode routing: a Submit review taller than the viewport, a setup tab
  bundled after the mode tab, and a clip through the mode question each hung
  or misread the run; the native answer is still verified after Submit.
- judgeRecommendation requests a 1-5 enum schema; a malformed Haiku reply had
  scored substance 0 for a 4/5 brief. Judge failures now propagate.
- carve section-loading for design-consultation declines the optional outside
  voices (a supported path) and treats DESIGN.md as the report; timeout unchanged.
The Step 0E handoff defect is not fixed (0/15 samples across four wordings,
none shipped) and is filed in TODOS.

* test: fold the design-consultation completion replay into carve-section-sharding (test-of-test ratchet)

* docs(todos): record the pre-push hook shard-order hang

* test(qa-callers): disable git auto maintenance in the fixture repo (same guard as shared-libs; from #3002)

* test(office-hours-attempt): the fake judge SDK response carries stop_reason like the real API (structured judge requires end_turn)

* fix(qa): the caller STOP line says to await the method Reads before any probe

ship-exploratory-plan-checks: the model read exploratory.md and sent a capture
in the same response, before seeing the section's own await rule.

* fix(qa): number the qa value-bar questions from 1 and say reproduced bugs already answer the first two

* fix(qa): define evidence.json where it is built, point the preparation gate at the next section, name measured command durations in the report template

Recurring qa/qa-only workflow-judge complaints in CI (clarity/actionability 3.33).

* fix(plan-eng-review,review): a disallowed question tool is not headless; report kept tests only when some were skipped

* fix(plan-eng-review): keep the headless-rule contract phrases adjacent

* fix(evals): cut path variance at its measured sources

- gstack-qa-evidence capture prints startedAt/completedAt/durationMs and, for
  --deadline captures, remainingMs; the functional report takes durations from
  them. The section clock notice asks for one clock read up front instead of one
  after every checkpoint (QA runs spent 7-14% of tool calls on date -u).
- ship plan-completion: skip the audit dispatch when discovery already found no
  plan (the dispatch-vs-skip conflict produced an optional 60-100 s subagent).
- materialize/checkpoint validation errors state the expected schema, so a
  rejected annotations file is fixable in one call instead of blocking the phase.
- session-runner counts turns from the transcript when a run times out, so
  timeouts stop reporting 'turn 0'.

* fix(evals): count timeout turns only from object transcript events

* test(qa-callers): deterministic child transport, completion-time handoff reads, compact phase report

The exploratory caller cases exist to prove the caller starts and bounds
exploratory QA. Their native adversarial reviewer (review) and plan audit
(ship plan-checks) now come from recorded child outputs instead of a live
subagent, handoff freshness reads are required before completion records
rather than every bookkeeping log, and the phase report is compact. Measured:
194-257 s per case against 208-284 s before, no subagent calls.

* test(ship-docsync): seed fault cases at their gate instead of replaying attempt 1

The post-dispatch fault cases (missing-marker, launch-failure, timeout-unsettled,
late-result, stale-before, stale-after, recovery) now start from a fixture-owned
attempt 1: the real actor prepares and dispatches it, its verbatim output is saved
once, and the invocation journal carries its pre-dispatch entry with the child
asset hashes. The model resumes at Parent processing with a trimmed read list,
inspect named as the authoritative repository observation, and recovery's
intermediate checkpoint folded into the next attempt's pre-dispatch entry.
Assertions count only parent-issued transport events and require a read of the
saved attempt-1 output; missing-asset and the legacy failure case keep the full
model-driven first attempt, and their prompts are byte-identical.

* test(ship-docsync): name the seeded read list and cap journal/report length

The first seeded stale-before run spent calls locating documentation.md (two ls
sweeps), reading through cat and re-Reading the record before Edit, and ~40 s
composing 1.5-2.2 KB entries and report. Name every seeded read path, ask for
native Read, and bound entry/report length.

* test(ship-docsync): trim the seeded parent's measured model time

Measured on the seeded runs: one read the 78 KB ship/SKILL.md, the post-child
freshness comparison spent 18-32 s of thinking over full inspect contents, and
the final response restated the report (~1.1 KB). Say the phase excerpt stands
in for ship/SKILL.md, compare hashes first and read content only for changed
paths, and end with one status line.

* feat(qa-evidence): enforce the checkpoint sequence and fill report bookkeeping in code

- capture refuses to run another probe until a checkpoint anchored on the
  latest complete capture names this capture as its next command, and every
  complete capture prints that requirement.
- materialize fills revision, runtime, cwd and learning (checkpoints whose next
  native command differs) when omitted and prints the reportLinks the report
  must include; the QA section shrinks accordingly.

* test(qa-callers): hand the caller phase its invocation-start observations and review token; fix(next-version): fetch without auto maintenance

- Every caller case receives the diff, status, log, untracked list, HEAD and an
  already-captured review start token, so the phase spends its budget on the
  contract under test instead of re-running setup reads.
- gstack-next-version's fetches pass --no-auto-maintenance. On git 2.55 a
  completed fetch forks detached maintenance in the caller's repository; the
  free suite's live smoke test ran it inside the CI checkout, and every
  shard-12 pre-push hook hang so far followed a completed smoke fetch.

* feat(deslop-shared-libs): route every Git read through bin/gstack-safe-git

The skill made the model retype a long safe-Git prefix on each call and a
dropped flag failed shared-libs-read-only. bin/gstack-safe-git applies the
fixed env + flag prefix, adds --no-ext-diff --no-textconv to log/show/diff,
allows diff only between two explicit object IDs and ls-files only in the
NUL-delimited overlay form, and refuses every other shape with one line
naming the allowed forms. The template now points at the installed helper
(host global runtime via {{SAFE_GIT}}) and drops the prose it enforces.

Fixtures resolve the helper to this checkout, the git shim records the safety
environment, and isGuardedGitRequest requires the complete prefix (env
included) for every repository read.

* test(shared-libs): tee to a discard device is not a file write

Paid shared-libs-opportunity-judgment t1 on 1213b01 failed read-only on
'... | tee /dev/null | sha256sum'. The detector flagged any tee operand while
the same devices are allowed for redirection. tee now fails only when an
operand is a real file; tee to a file, -a file and -- -a stay violations.

* fix(qa-evidence,observer): reject placeholder metadata and replay-only learning; declare the docs atomic-write target

- materialize measures revision, runtime and cwd itself and rejects supplied
  values that differ (CI run wrote revision "HEAD" and runtime "bun"), and
  refuses learning checkpoints that replay the same probe, naming the fix.
- The docs write observer treats Claude Code's atomic temp for the authorized
  doc target as transient, so a temp renamed before its per-file watch no
  longer marks the observation incomplete (ship-docsync-completion flake).
  Per-file monitoring outside declared targets stays fail-closed.

* test(qa-functional): fix mode requires only the happy scenario from the model (carried byte-identical from #3002 183b01f4..3e6074b4)

verifyQANativeRegression already reruns all eight webhook scenarios on the
repaired source, so the model-side eight-scenario requirement in fix mode
duplicated harness coverage and pushed qa-functional-webhook-fix past its
budget. qa-only still requires every scenario.

* fix(deslop-shared-libs): probe the audited repository with -C <repo>

A CI run probed safe-git from the session directory above the target repo, so
the capability probe never touched the repository and the run fell back to the
API without a local attempt. The probe (and any call from elsewhere) now names
the audited repository.

* test(qa-deadline): never attach a reader to the full-pipe fixture's stdout

The full-pipe receipt test attached a 'data' listener (flowing mode) and then
paused; on CI the reader could drain the 2 MB write before the pause, so the
receipt write never blocked and the helper exited 0 in ~126 ms. The stdout pipe
now stays unread until the assertion, which is what the test means to model.

* feat(qa): helpers answer --help, and the QA eval interfaces declare it

Approved by Garry: asking gstack-qa-evidence or gstack-qa-deadline for usage
is read-only, so both helpers print usage and exit 0 on --help (the evidence
usage now names the annotation shape), and the functional and caller command
allowlists accept exactly 'bun <path>/bin/gstack-qa-{evidence,deadline} --help'.
Two CI runs failed only on that call.

* fix(qa): after an input change, a probe is affected unless shown otherwise

CI late-input run finished in time but revalidated only the happy probe after
the locale input changed and reported the stale adverse probe green. The
revalidation step now treats any probe not shown to be unaffected as affected.

* test(shared-libs): seed the lifecycle replay's first Step 3 pass instead of replaying it

shared-libs-review-lifecycle ran ~88% of its 300 s session budget (12-run
census median 265 s, 4/24 sessions timed out). The fixture now executes pass 1's
Step 3 once with the real logger and Git: a real unused REVIEW_START, then the
diff, inventories, attributes/config/index flags, gstack-review-read output and
every file's bytes and sha256, saved to one observation. The model resumes at
Step 4 with an exact four-file first read, the observation named as the
authoritative pass-1 repository read, one post-fix verification, an explicit
pass-2 read list and a twelve-line summary. Pass 2 still runs its own --start,
diff, reads, fingerprint and stage actor before --finish.

The actor scope now states that a current settled final-pass actor result
supplies the replaced QA/adversarial prerequisites and that the no-credit
disclosure is a reporting label: one r1 session persisted completed:false
from that ambiguity.

New assertions: the final binding never uses the seeded token's start or tree,
and the observation was read; free controls finish the seeded token (binding
changed) and omit the observation read, and both fail.

* test(shared-libs): trim the resumed review replays' setup and report

Every sibling review session (revalidation, path-eligibility, index-flags,
prior-coverage) loaded qa/sections/exploratory.md and often scope.md although
its QA and native adversarial results are supplied synthetic inputs, then spent
a second request on shared-code-reuse.md and base metadata. The resumed scope
now states that the supplied results replace Step 4's QA method loading; the
revalidation contract names one first response (workflow, checklist, finding,
prerequisites, shared-code-reuse.md, base metadata) and caps the summary at
twelve lines. Receipt order, direct source reads, the checker, the question and
final persistence are unchanged.

* fix(review): define what a Step 5c Skip option says

Step 5c named "B) Skip" without saying what its description may claim. Two
CI captures (path-eligibility on 131d43be, index-flags on 4643cb85) offered a
Skip whose description added effects beyond declining: "The extraction can be
applied in a later editing review pass" and "replacing the invalidated prior
Skip". Those read as change commitments, so the no-change actor refused both.
Step 5c now says to describe Skip only as no code/index change with the Skip
recorded; adjacent lines are compacted so the review parity caps hold
unchanged. Both exact packets are kept as a free regression: still refused,
and accepted once Skip follows the rule. The actor's classifier is unchanged.

* fix(qa-evidence): every complete capture needs an evidence row; test(tpa): accept the hyphenated app-specific-password spelling

- materialize refuses when a complete capture has no evidence row and is not
  named in limits (CI cli-report omitted capture 004), naming the missing IDs.
- tpa-apple-ban's detector required 'app-specific password' with a space; the
  CI answer said 'app-specific-password path' and was otherwise correct.

* test(qa-observer): fix mode treats atomic temps of authorized src/test writes as transient

CI webhook-fix failed with 'Could not watch test/worker.regression-1.test.ts.tmp...':
Claude Code's Write renamed its temp before the per-file watch was added. The
functional eval now tells the observer its mode, and a temp whose target that
mode may write is observed through its directory watch. Report-only mode and
undeclared paths keep failing closed.

* feat(qa-evidence): refuse evidence observed on an older input snapshot than the latest capture

When native probe output declares a top-level input snapshot, materialize
compares each evidence row with the latest capture's snapshot and refuses
stale rows unless they are classified superseded, naming the captures to
rerun. ship-exploratory-late-input kept reporting a pre-change adverse probe
green after the input changed.

* test(qa-functional): point the fixture at the helper's --help instead of its source

A CI webhook-fix run spent three turns reading lib/qa-evidence.ts to learn the
interface and timed out just before materialize (agreed with #3002's owner).

* feat(qa-evidence): captures list the caller's declared-but-unrun required probes

GSTACK_QA_REQUIRED_PROBES (a JSON array of native child commands) makes every
capture print requiredRemaining; it never judges pass or fail. The functional
eval passes the webhook list from QA_WEBHOOK_REQUIRED_SCENARIOS, which the
verdict now reads too, so the nudge and the verdict share one source (agreed
with #3002's owner). CI webhook-report kept stopping with scenarios unrun.

* test(review-army): record N+1's pre-dispatch stages and scope the session to Step 4.5

review-army-perf-n-plus-one timed out in 7 of 13 CI runs on this branch (passing
245-280 s of 300). Each session spent ~95 s on setup (the full extracted SKILL,
checklist, section greps, exploratory.md, diff-scope/stats/learnings, tooling
checks), ran Step 4's core pass, a search-before-recommending WebSearch, and
wrote a 10-16 KB report (~100 s after the Red Team returned).

The fixture now stages only review/sections/review-army.md plus the performance
and red-team checklists, and hands the session the recorded detect-scope,
specialist-stats and learnings outputs and the diff. The caller passes
--performance (every CI parent already treated the prompt as that force flag
against the <50-line skip), declares the core pass, QA, adversarial review, web
research, Fix-First and persistence out of scope, and caps the report at the
selection line, the SPECIALIST REVIEW block and the Red Team result (30 lines).
The Performance specialist and the conditional Red Team are still real
foreground subagents, and the report still has to surface the N+1.

New assertion: a foreground Performance specialist dispatch precedes the Red
Team dispatch. Free controls omit the Performance dispatch or background it, and
both fail; the budget lifecycle adapter supplies the current result shape.
Touchfiles now include the .rb fixture the case reads.

* test(review-army): share the recorded Step 4.5 staging with consensus and supply its Red Team

review-army-consensus (periodic) timed out in 2 of 13 census sessions; passing
runs took 213-297 s of 300. Like N+1 it spent ~30-50 s reading the whole
extracted SKILL, checklist and every specialist file, sometimes dispatched an
unrequested Maintainability specialist, then ran a Red Team (60-70 s) and a
second merge before writing a 9-15 KB report.

The N+1 staging and scope text move into stageReviewArmySession /
reviewArmyScope / reviewArmyChecklists (the N+1 prompt renders byte-identical).
Consensus now records its detect-scope, stats, learnings and diff, stages the
Review Army section with the security and testing checklists, forces
--security --testing, and caps the report like N+1. Its Red Team is outside
the multi-specialist contract, so the fixture supplies a labeled synthetic
NO FINDINGS result instead of a dispatch. The existing SQL-finding and
browser-error assertions are unchanged; the lifecycle adapter's spawnSync now
returns the git output the staging reads.

* docs(changelog): v1.91.10.0 records the flake census and its repairs

* test(strict-output): give the spool-prefix child time to finish before the pending stream times out

windows-free-tests failed on 9a7a7e54: the 150 ms shared deadline raced Bun
startup on Windows, so the child was killed mid-write and the spool held a
partial payload. Only the never-released extra stream should time out; the
child now has 3 s.

* fix(qa-evidence): accept a single limits string; test(qa-callers): read the handoff first when a probe snapshot changes

CI late-input spent a turn rewriting limits as an array after materialize
refused a string, and a ten-read sweep hunting for the changed input before it
read reports/HANDOFF.md, then timed out at 300 s.

* test(autoplan-dual-voice): unwrap the framed native report before Claude Code 2.1.284's agentId/usage trailer

* test(section-loading): credit a Bash print that contains every line of the carved section

* test(auto-decide): ask for the selected mode in the skill's mode handoff line, not a separate public decision

* test(plan-ceo floor): scope preservation approves no premise, approach or remedy

* test(autoplan-dual-voice): the fixture declares that delivered bash blocks run alone, diagnostics separately

* test(coverage-audit): a fenced plain-word caption in a successful && read chain is display only

Census 36776104571 plan-eng capture read both owned files with cat -n in one
successful && chain; the caption 'echo "=== git diff main --stat ==="' fell
outside the two-token caption grammar, so both reads lost credit. Accept a fenced
caption of plain words; unfenced command strings, expansions, redirection,
-e escapes and ; / || tails stay rejected.

* test(office-hours): a fork whose outer options are the seeded shapes is the Phase 4 question

Census trials 1-2 captured complete Phase 4 forks (A) Server-side B) Client-side
C) Hybrid, recommendation with because) whose prose used none of the vocabulary
words. Accept two seeded shapes as outer options as Phase 4 specificity; the
earlier-phase, nested, fenced and single-shape controls still fail.

* fix(review): design-lite rows keep the detector's [rule-id]; the e2e detector rows point at the diff

The output template had no rule-id slot, so rows merged with checklist items
dropped the detector id (census t2, local t1). Rows now carry [rule-id]. The
fake engine's sample rows named a foreign fixture path at line 0; the e2e remaps
them to landing.html/styles.css so trials stop spending turns reconciling it.

* test(shared-libs): the plan actor reads scheduler parity and unchanged-scope lists

Census 36776104571's question preserved the contract ('behaving exactly like the
scheduler', 'scheduler parity holds by construction') and excluded work with
'Existing copies and helper hardening stay unchanged'. Accept exactly/parity as
preservation (negated forms refuse) and a bare noun list that stays unchanged as
an exclusion for the expansion scan only; verb-led clauses still refuse.

* fix(qa-only,qa): name the exploratory read point and finalization order; judge qa with its browser assets

qa-only judges cited 'next section' pointing at the wrong heading, an exploratory
trigger that contradicted its read point, clock ownership in mixed runs and the
unstated order of exploratory section 4 vs reporting. The qa judge penalized the
absent qa-report-template and issue-taxonomy that qa-patterns loads; with them
in, it found issue-taxonomy's dangling 'rule 13' (the consent rule is browser rule 3).

* test(ship-docsync): seeded attempt 1 counts toward the limit; transport counts ignore calls that never reached the state file

- CI launch-failure retried after the seeded attempt 1 as if that attempt were
  the fixture's; the seeded prompt now says attempt 1 is this invocation's and
  a further attempt needs what Blocked recovery requires.
- A late-result run typo'd the state path once (ENOENT, the actor never ran),
  then repeated the call correctly; the per-action count compared both calls
  with one actor event. Only calls naming the real state file are counted.

* fix(plan-eng-review): show the accepted dedicated read form for coverage-diagram sources

CI plan-eng-coverage-audit mixed package/config and git diff into the source
read; the review variant, whose prompt shows the && display form, does not.
The plan trace step now shows it too, within the unchanged size cap.

* test(sync-gbrain-readiness): a negation earlier in the claim clause is not a search/write readiness claim

The census unknown actor wrote 'nothing about read, search, or write capability
is confirmed either way' after a YELLOW/WARN verdict. The claim window started
at 'write', so the leading 'nothing' was outside it. Check the clause subject for
nothing/neither/none/no; keep the original in-claim negations. Replay of the
captured output passes; positive controls still flag an unnegated claim.

* fix(office-hours): a forcing question's recommendation takes the position the founder's words support

auq-matrix office-hours asked D1 Demand as options about the founder's own
evidence and, with no rule for that shape, recommended 'answer whichever is
TRUE — A is marked recommended only because it is the strongest position'
(substance 2). Say what such a recommendation is: the option the founder's own
words support, why it matters for the next step, and what would change it.

* fix(plan-ceo-review): name the mode preference command and the exact handoff line

auto-decide-preserved at 6fcb0981: the model never ran the preference check,
read 'check ... through the preamble' as already done, auto-selected 'per your
preference setting', and wrote 'Selected mode: HOLD SCOPE, auto-decided from
your tuned preference' instead of the AUTO_DECIDE handoff line. At 9a7a7e54 it
ran the check but wrote 'Decision: HOLD SCOPE is the review mode for ...'.
Neither matched the handoff template the observer recognizes. Name
gstack-question-preference --check at the point of use and say the handoff
begins with the exact matching line. Collapse the audit block's comment
padding to stay within the unchanged 80150-byte skeleton cap.

* test(section-loading): record the CEO capture's report and transcript

The 6fcb0981 census failed hasStaleFillRaceFinding (line 98), but the case
records nothing beyond junit, so the report the detector judged is gone.
Return the SkillTestResult from captureSectionReads and record it, with the
full saved report, through the eval collector on pass and fail.

* test(design): plan-mode names its read list and caps its additions and summary

At 6fcb0981 plan-design-review-plan-mode timed out at 300 s (9 turns): 22 cat/sed
chunk reads (~50 s), then a 28 KB plan Write (~150 s), before the read-back
finished. The 9a7a7e54 pass took 240 s with a 24.6 KB Write. Read SKILL.md,
review-sections.md and plan.md natively in one response, keep additions under
14,000 characters and the summary within ten lines. Budgets unchanged.

* test(plan-mode-no-op): require prose evidence before a waiting verdict ends eng/design runs (carried byte-identical from #3002)

With the prose fallback forced, the gate renders as a lettered menu; a judge
'waiting' verdict on a spinner-only frame ended the run as 'asked' before the
menu rendered, so the scope-gate check failed on unchanged behavior.

* feat(qa-evidence): materialize computes the phase verdict; callers must report it

Approved by Garry: the helper, not the model, decides whether evidence can
pass. materialize writes verdict {status, open} into evidence.json and prints
it: fail or blocked from row classifications, inconclusive while any row is
superseded, a complete capture is withheld, a declared required probe is
unrun or there is no evidence, else pass. The caller fixture requires
receipt.status to equal that verdict. CI late-input kept reporting pass with a
superseded happy probe.

* test(qa-callers): compare the receipt with the helper verdict only when evidence.json was materialized

The producer free tests run captures without materialize; evidence.json is
optional for callers, so its absence is not a verdict mismatch.

* test(llm-judge): run the ship workflow judge at medium effort so its panel fits JUDGE_MS

claude-fable-5-1 accepts only adaptive thinking (thinking.type.enabled with
budget_tokens returns 400), so effort is the available thinking control.
Measured on the exact ship judge request (105,301 input tokens):

- default effort, 18 samples: thinking 5,086-10,881 tokens, 75.9-144.7 s;
  3 of 18 passed the 120 s deadline (about 42% of 3-sample panels).
- medium effort, 18 samples: thinking 2,749-5,762, output at most 6,144
  tokens, 43.1-77.9 s; scores 4/4/4 in 16 of 18 (clarity 3 in two), versus
  14 of 18 at default.

callJudge gains an effort option sent as output_config.effort; only the ship
judge sets it. Rubric, floors, panel size, deadline, model and max_tokens are
unchanged. The cache identity records effort.

* test(llm-judge): ask frontier workflow judges for 120-word reasoning under the unchanged 150-word check

Told "under 150 words", the ship judge's reasoning landed at 130-156 words
(3 of 18 probe samples at 152-156), so the structured-response check failed
about one panel in three independent of effort. The prompt's frontier block
and the response schema description now say under 120 words; the validator
still rejects 150 words or more. The changed prompt bytes reach only the two
frontier judges: ship/SKILL.md workflow (prompt and schema) and
review/SKILL.md workflow (prompt).

* test(llm-judge): type the stream transport mock call

* test(plan-ceo floor): the request answers only the questions it names

PR lane 36794871032 (head 20d6e98f): the CEO floor ran 608 s without a
question. Its Step 0 recorded the premise gap and approach choice as
unresolved ledger rows, then said "this session supplies all answers up
front, so no decision brief was dispatched" and wrote Sections 1-11.
2734e203 stopped scope preservation from approving the premise; this time
the actor block (declined setup, recall, outside voices, HOLD SCOPE) and the
fixture's "complete user request is available from the start" were read
as pre-answering every review question. The CEO actor now states that the
request answers only the routing, recall, outside-reviewer and review-mode
questions it names.

* test(plan-devex floor): a 'Partly wrong' 0B answer is the narrative confirmation

PR lane 36794871032: the DX floor asked its D1 narrative confirmation
(Accurate, proceed / Partly wrong, correct it / Way off, actual is...). The
deterministic setup rule accepted only 'Some ... wrong', so the question went
to the LLM assessor, which hit its 30 s spawnSync cap (ETIMEDOUT) and ended
the case as assessment_error at 141 s, the same failure as census
36641820398. The rule now accepts 'partly' beside 'some'; the captured
question is a free regression and the remedy-option controls still go to
the assessor.

* test(design-review plugin handoff): quoted report text is not an install command

PR lane 36794871032: every behavioral check passed except noInstallOrOverride,
which matched "no `npx impeccable`" inside the quoted heredoc that wrote
detector-output.md. Nothing was installed or downloaded. The check now drops
quoted-delimiter heredoc bodies (literal data) before matching; unquoted
bodies, which can expand $(...), and unterminated bodies stay checked. Free
controls cover the captured write, bare npx, an IMPECCABLE_BIN override, an
unquoted $(npx ...), npx after the delimiter and an unterminated body.

* test(review-army delivery audit): stage only the plan-completion section and record its git reads

PR lane 36794871032: the case timed out at its 120 s budget after 7 turns
(previous lane passed in 45 s). The session read the 46 KB extracted SKILL in
three passes (cat to persisted output, grep, sed), ran its own git reads,
wrote a 74-line report, then inspected and ran gstack-learnings-log and
rewrote the report's Learnings section. As in the Step 4.5 cases
(17ee2e54/2bd4651c), the fixture now stages only
review/sections/plan-completion.md, hands the session the recorded
git log and diff, declares the HIGH-impact question, its Scope Check,
learnings logging and later steps outside the capture, and caps the report
at the audit block and its DISCREPANCY entries (30 lines). The NOT DONE and
email assertions are unchanged.

* feat(qa-evidence): one capture call records the causal note for the previous capture

capture R NNN [--public] (--deadline D|--timeout-ms MS) --after PREV --hypothesis 'TEXT' -- CMD
publishes exploration-NNN.json {observationCapture, observationArgv, observed, hypothesis,
nextCapture, nextArgv} before running CMD, refusing unless PREV is the latest complete capture.
The receipt carries checkpoint/checkpointSha256; validators bind the note to the transcript's
capture calls by capture ID and receipt hash instead of exact command strings. The separate
checkpoint command and the capture guard keep working; materialize learning accepts both note
shapes and still rejects same-probe replays. Prose and eval fixture prompts teach the merged form.

* fix(qa-evidence): a superseded row stops holding the verdict open once its probe is rerun on current inputs

materialize requires an old-snapshot row to be classified superseded, and its verdict kept every
superseded row open, so rerunning the probe (what its own error tells the model to do) could never
reach pass; late-input reran 3 and 9 on the new snapshot and still got inconclusive. A superseded
row now closes only when a non-superseded row with the same captured argv observed the current
snapshot. Re-materializing an already-published evidence.json names the cause instead of failing
generically.

* test(plan-eng batching): count saved decisions whose label drops the (recommended) marker or whose report is titled 'Eng Review Report — <plan>'

* fix(qa): browser-only runs skip annotations/materialize; only Q captures can anchor evidence rows

* test(design): plan-mode length is a drafting target, not a check to measure and trim

* test(llm-judge): structured output for doc, outcome and posture judges so reasoning quotes cannot break JSON

* test(ship-docsync): steer skill file reads to Read; large cat output becomes an unpageable preview

* docs(changelog): browser-only QA evidence and structured judge output

* test(qa-only cleanup): refusal scenarios get a 1 s budget and an absolute worker deadline; 300 ms starved under parallel load

* fix(office-hours, design-consultation): ask the goal question and read the mode section first; ask the memorable-thing question on its own

* test(outside-disabled): a record named by the retained record's own clock and then disowned owns its completed status

* test(context-skills): install gstack-paths in the fixture bin; without it the model guessed the checkpoint root

* test(ceo mode routing): SCOPE EXPANSION posture credits plural 'expansions'

* test(ship-docsync): name the unmet atomic-replacement check on a forbidden temp-file write

* fix(qa): browser-only runs materialize an empty evidence list with checkpoints in limits, matching /qa-only

* test(qa callers): an accepted review-log record may cite checkpoints as finding evidence

* fix(plan-eng-review): state that a disallowed question tool never qualifies as headless before the headless action

* merge follow-up: re-record paid CLI parity for #2999's flags; trim merged review, qa-only and plan-eng wording toward the size caps

* test(golden): refresh codex/factory ship goldens for the trimmed caller QA wording

* test(coverage-audit fixture): disable git auto maintenance so cleanup is not racing a detached git writer

* test(parity): raise review, qa and plan-eng caps to the measured merged size of #2999 and #3002 (each fit alone), documented per cap

* fix(qa-evidence): materialize rejects an unrecognized classification before publishing, so the one-shot verdict cannot be locked inconclusive by a descriptive label
2026-10-01 13:55:16 -07:00
Garry Tan df89475b17 v1.91.11.0 refactor: one state-root rule, browse route table, shared shard engine, PTY harness split, MECE review resolvers (#3002)
* refactor(resolvers): split review.ts into MECE resolver modules (pure move)

Move every function from scripts/resolvers/review.ts, unchanged, into:
- review-dashboard.ts: review dashboard, plan-file review report
- plan-gates.ts: approval check, exit-plan-mode gate, plan-file discovery,
  plan-completion audit/gate (ship + review), plan verification exec
- spec-review.ts: both spec review loops, benefits-from, anti-shortcut clause
- outside-voice-steps.ts: Codex second opinion, adversarial step, Codex plan
  review, Codex doc review, disabled-outside record
- review-scope.ts: scope drift, cross-review dedup, shared-code reuse

review.ts is deleted; index.ts imports the new modules. gen-skill-docs
output is byte-identical for every host (--host all). Test imports and
source-path references are re-pointed; the two source-text report/gate
tests in gen-skill-docs.test.ts become behavioral renders across every
consuming skill and host. All 46 touchfile entries that named review.ts
now name all five modules, guarded by a recorded selection golden.

* test(browse): black-box auth matrix for every server route and both surfaces

Drives buildFetchHandler fetchLocal/fetchTunnel with no token, wrong token,
root token, scoped token and the SSE cookie for all 33 routes, plus unmatched
paths and wrong methods. Denials assert today's exact status, body and content
type; allowed credentials assert the handler was reached. Written against the
unchanged if-chain server so the W3 route-table refactor must keep it green.

* refactor(shard-engine): move scripts/test-strict-output.ts to scripts/lib/shard-engine.ts

The shared shard engine grows from the existing strict-output module
(runShardChild, killProcessGroup, signal forwarding, strict classifier).
scripts/test-strict-output.ts stays as a re-export so existing importers,
mock.module paths and the strict-output/run-shard-child tests are unchanged.
The engine inherits the global touchfile entry; the free runner's CLI-routing
fixture copies the new module.

* refactor(resolvers): decompose the three >150-line review resolvers (output-neutral)

Split generateAdversarialStep, generateCodexPlanReview and
generatePlanCompletionAuditInner into per-section helpers whose template
literals are copied verbatim, so every function in the new modules is at
or under 150 lines. gen-skill-docs output is byte-identical for every host
(--host all, compared against 96764e80 with a fixed --link-root).

* refactor(resolvers): one outside-voice failure policy (deliberate prose unification)

outsideVoiceFailurePolicy(ctx, opts) in outside-voice.ts now renders the
auth / timeout / empty-response bullets for all four call sites that
hand-typed them (Codex second opinion, adversarial step, Codex plan
review, design outside voices). Options are explicit per site
(timeoutMinutes, onTimeout, stderrOnEmpty, fallback, escape) with no
defaults.

Deliberate generated-prose changes (every host):
- office-hours: 'Fall back to <native> subagent.' becomes
  'Fall back to the <native> subagent below.'
- plan-devex-review: the plain 'Auth failure (stderr contains ...)'
  bullets become the canonical bold bullets; auth also triggers on
  'API key'; 'auth failed' becomes 'authentication failed'.
- review/ship adversarial: 'exceeded 9 minutes and was terminated'
  becomes 'timed out after 9 minutes and was terminated'; the timeout
  is still MISSING COVERAGE.
- design outside voices: unchanged.

Adds ratchet (d) (test/outside-voice-failure-policy.test.ts) with a
reasoned allowlist for /codex's own CLI errors, the MISSING COVERAGE
retention test, refreshed codex/factory ship goldens, and outside-voice.ts
in every touchfile entry of review.ts and design.ts (selection golden
extended).

* test(pty): fake PTY session driver with an injectable clock through the runner launch seam

The three plan-skill runners take an optional PtyDriver (launch, now,
monotonic, sleep); omitted, they use the real launcher and clocks exactly as
before. test/helpers/pty/fake-session.ts feeds scripted frames through that
seam, and claude-pty-runner.runners.unit.test.ts runs observation, counting
and floor for success, deadline timeout, permission prompt and plan-ready
outcomes with no CLI or real timers. These cases must stay green unchanged
through the W4 split and the runPtySession extraction.

Touchfiles: every entry that lists claude-pty-runner.ts or pty-screen.ts now
also lists test/helpers/pty/**.

* refactor(shard-engine): run both lanes on the shared engine; lane policy injected

Engine (scripts/lib/shard-engine.ts) gains the W2 primitives: per-shard
tmp/Chromium sandbox + async cleanup backstop, log-path allocation and
full-stream log capture, one duration-seed reader/writer with a lane
predicate, LanePolicy (seed predicate + zero-execution verdict),
strictShardStatus, and the shared CLI flag loop. runShardChild takes an
optional companion (signal/settle) and waits a bounded 250ms to reap a
wall-killed child.

Free lane stops spawning shards itself: runFreeShard uses runShardChild
with trackShardBrowser as the companion (win32 path unchanged: no process
group, no negative-pid kill). Its sync state-dir removal stays lane policy.
Paid lane uses the sandbox, log, seed, verdict and flag primitives; the
hollow-shard guard applies PAID_LANE_POLICY. Lane outcomes are unchanged
(free keeps >= 0 seeds and file-count zero-exec rule; paid keeps > 0 seeds,
warning under selection and passed-empty under EVALS_ALL).

paid-free-boundary's closure assertion now names the engine module, where
the strict classifier lives.

* test(shard-engine): engine unit tests, fixture-corpus equivalence, per-lane CLI parity

- test/shard-engine.test.ts: failing/unhandled/module-load output fails both
  lanes, per-lane zero-execution and seed rules, whole-group kill on a wall
  timeout (both lanes), mocked-win32 path with no negative-pid kill,
  companion settle order, log capture, sandbox isolation, flag loop.
- test/shard-engine-equivalence.test.ts + test/fixtures/shard-equivalence:
  seven outcome fixtures plus one real shard, run through both lanes and
  compared with classifications recorded from the base runners (96764e80).
- test/shard-cli-parity.test.ts + test/fixtures/shard-cli-parity: flag set,
  defaults, validation errors and the Unknown argument error per lane match
  the base runners.

* refactor(shard-engine): decompose runFreeShard and runPaidShard to <= 150 lines

Output-neutral extraction under the fixture-corpus equivalence and runner
tests: captureFreeStream, explainFreeVerdict and logFreeRecovery (free);
paidShardCommand, settleShardSpool, settleBootstrapRetention and
printLogTail (paid). The bootstrap scope-creation block that
bootstrap-retention.test.ts evaluates stays verbatim.

* refactor(pty): split claude-pty-runner.ts into test/helpers/pty/* behind a barrel

Pure move: every line of the former 5,047-line runner lands verbatim in one
module (four private helpers gain `export` for cross-module use):
binary, screen (absorbs test/helpers/pty-screen.ts, which now re-exports it),
launch, session (PtyDriver), judge, classify, auq, plan-native, boundaries,
runners/{observation,counting,floor}. claude-pty-runner.ts re-exports the
original public surface by name; pty/ modules import siblings directly.

Tests that read the runner's source text:
- rewritten as behavioral: the unit test's model-pin tripwire (fake CLI argv:
  fallback chain, --model before extraArgs, hermetic --strict-mcp-config),
  pty-skill-seeding-wiring (runners through the fake driver; launcher through
  a fake CLI reporting CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR). The "three wrappers forward model"
  grep is replaced by the runners' fake-driver launch assertions.
- pty-screen-session / pty-screen-supervision: stop copying runner source;
  they mock.module the real pty/screen.ts (and the fixture cleanup) instead.
- re-pointed to the owning module (they execute a sliced runner body with
  injected boundaries; no seam exists for those boundaries yet):
  eng-seeded-completion-ai, plan-floor-permission, plan-create-prepublication,
  plan-count-completion; hermetic-wiring's source guard now reads pty/launch.ts
  and scans every pty/ module for raw process.env spreads.
- plan-count-timeout and pty-output-wake mock the viewport at pty/screen.ts.

* test(ratchet-c): enforcing module/function size ratchet and moved-code touchfile coverage

Ratchet (c) ships enforcing: test/helpers/module-size.ts counts file and
top-level function lengths by brace matching over masked source (strings,
comments, regex literals and template text masked; ${} expressions kept),
covering function declarations, arrow functions assigned to consts and
route-table handler properties, with no parser dependency. Its self-test
uses template literals and code-fence braces copied from
scripts/resolvers/review.ts and design.ts. test/fixtures/module-size-ratchet.json
binds scripts/lib/shard-engine.ts (<= 800 lines, <= 150 per function) and
records the residual runner sizes (free 2352, paid 1921) as non-growth caps;
allowlist entries are keyed on file plus matched text and need a reason.
Failure output lists file:line, the rule, Fix: and the allowlist path.

touchfiles.test.ts gains the moved-code superset check over
test/fixtures/touchfile-move-goldens/ (W2 golden recorded at 96764e80:
test-strict-output.ts and test-paid-shards.ts global, test-free-shards.ts none).

* refactor(browse): declared route table replaces the buildFetchHandler if-chain

The ~1,300-line if-chain in buildFetchHandler becomes a route table:
each entry declares method, path, auth kind and surfaces, and one auth
gate in browse/src/routes/table.ts returns the per-kind denial (root-bearer,
scoped, root-or-sse-cookie: 401 Unauthorized; root-token: 403 Root token
required; extension-origin: 403 Forbidden). Unmatched requests take the
declared fallthrough (root-bearer check, then plain-text 404). Handlers move
to browse/src/routes/{core,pairing,pty,tokens,tunnel,activity,commands,files,
inspector}.ts and receive a RouteContext with auth checks as functions
instead of closing over factory locals. Dispatch order is unchanged:
tunnel filter, beforeRoute overlay, gate, handler. TUNNEL_PATHS stays a
literal in server.ts.

Behavior-preserving: the black-box auth matrix from the previous commit
passes unchanged. /memory and /inspector/events are declared root-bearer
because the blanket check always ran before their SSE-cookie branch.

Source-text route tests are rewritten as behavioral tests through
buildFetchHandler or a route's real handler with a stub RouteContext
(browse/test/route-test-harness.ts). Checks with no runtime seam are
re-pointed to the route modules: Surface type, /inspector/events SSE
helper, sanitizeReplacer imports, /pty-inject-scan sidecar-client import,
and the ngrok config lookup and startTunnel wiring that stay in server.ts.

* test(browse): stubbed-handler auth matrix and route inventory for the route table

Every ROUTES entry runs through the real dispatcher and gate with stub
handlers on each declared surface and six credentials; denials assert the
exact status and body each auth kind returned at 96764e8, admitted
credentials assert the handler ran (with the gate's TokenInfo for scoped
routes). Also pins the reviewed route inventory (method, path, auth kind,
surfaces), that every entry declares auth and surfaces, that the table's
tunnel paths equal the TUNNEL_PATHS literal with GET /connect admitted, the
unmatched fallthrough, and that the root token is rejected on every tunnel
route through buildFetchHandler.

* test(browse): ratchet (b) keeps route dispatch inside the route table

Scans browse/src/server.ts and browse/src/routes/*.ts for pathname
comparisons; only the table matcher and the tunnel-surface filter are
allowed, listed with reasons in browse/test/fixtures/route-dispatch-allowlist.json
(keyed on file plus line text). Also checks every entry declares auth and
surfaces and that gstack registers no beforeRoute overlay itself. Self-tests
plant a violation and assert the file:line, Fix: and allowlist path in the
message, that a shifted line stays allowlisted, and that a reasonless entry
is rejected.

* test: touchfile superset check for modules moved out of browse/src/server.ts

Records the paid evals selected by touching browse/src/server.ts at 96764e80
(17 E2E, 1 LLM judge) and asserts every browse/src/routes/*.ts module selects
a superset. The test reads every golden in test/fixtures/moved-module-selection/
so other moved-code goldens can sit beside it.

* test(shard-engine): give non-timeout corpus fixtures CI headroom; keep the POSIX golden off the Windows lane

Only the wall-timeout fixture keeps a 3s wall; the rest get 60s so a loaded
host cannot turn a pass into a timeout. Base and branch runners still agree
on every classification under the new walls. The Windows exclusion entry
moves the free runner's ratchet (c) residual cap to 2356 lines.

* refactor(pty): one runPtySession loop drives observation, counting and floor

test/helpers/pty/session.ts owns launch -> start -> (poll -> tick)* ->
timeout and the failure contract the three runners each hand-rolled: the
run's own error wins over capture and close errors, close always runs, owned
fixture cleanup runs last (also when launch fails). Each runner now supplies a
PtySessionPlan: its boot/command step, poll cadence (2s observation/floor
sleep; counting's output wake + 250ms coalesce), tick policy (permission
handling, native identity, terminal rules stay per runner because they differ)
and capture hooks. The runner bodies are decomposed into top-level steps so no
function exceeds 150 lines; behavior is unchanged and the fake-driver cases
from the first W4 commit pass unmodified.

The counting capture step and the native completion-summary predicate are now
named functions (countingCapture, isNativeCompletionSummary), so
plan-create-prepublication and plan-count-completion call them directly
instead of executing sliced source. The two harnesses that still execute a
sliced runner body with injected boundaries (eng-seeded-completion-ai,
plan-floor-permission) pass the PtyDriver seam instead of overriding
Date/Bun.sleep.

* test(ratchet-c): register route modules, review resolver modules and server.ts residual cap

* refactor(pty): decompose launchClaudePty and engNumberedFindingAUQ under 150 lines

launchClaudePty (349 lines) becomes launch preparation (args, hermetic
child env, owned state roots), recorder creation, spawn, the trust-dialog
watcher, close, and the session handle over one PtyProcess state object. The
failure order is unchanged: abort the viewport, dispose any recorders created
so far, dispose the viewport, rethrow. The --model / --strict-mcp-config
ordering and seedSkills wiring stay pinned by the behavioral fake-CLI tests.

engNumberedFindingAUQ (345 lines) keeps its guards and dispatch; each
self-contained issue family (declared cache, library retry hooks, cache
owner, injected singleton, shared writers, injected export) moves verbatim
into its own function. Every pty/ module is now <= 800 lines and every
top-level function <= 150 lines.

* test(pty): split claude-pty-runner.unit.test.ts along the pty/ module seams

The 188 unit tests move verbatim into claude-pty-runner.{screen,classify,
auq,launch,plan-native,boundaries}.unit.test.ts (test names unchanged; each
file imports only what it uses from the barrel). The five files that no longer
read a SKILL.md template join the test-of-test ratchet baseline with a reason.

* test(touchfiles): moved PTY modules keep their paid-eval selection

test/fixtures/touchfile-selection/w4-pty.json records, at 96764e8, the paid
evals selected by touching test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts (20) and
test/helpers/pty-screen.ts (20). touchfiles.test.ts now asserts every .ts file
under test/helpers/pty/ (and pty/screen.ts for both sources) selects a
superset, reading every golden in that directory so later moves can add one;
a planted-violation case pins the report and its Fix line.

* fix(browse): unexchanged pair setup keys no longer authenticate bearer requests

validateToken accepted a gsk_setup_ key as a bearer on /command, /batch and
/file (found while building the W3 auth matrix). A setup key now only
authenticates the /connect exchange.

* W1: one state-root owner (lib/state-root.ts + bin/gstack-state-root.sh), gstack-paths --explain and fail-stop, parity tests

* W1: guarded migration of every executable state-root site; uninstall deletes only ~/.gstack

Bins, careful/freeze hooks, setup, upgrade migrations, browse/src, design,
ios-qa daemon, lib and scripts resolve the state root through
bin/gstack-state-root.sh (bash) or lib/state-root.ts (TS). Bins source the
twin and stop with a reinstall message when it is missing; hooks source it
and never spawn gstack-paths. browse/src/config.ts and lib/cso/state.ts
delegate to resolveStateRoot. Analytics writers and readers move together
so the usage log stays one file. gstack-uninstall deletes state only at
~/.gstack, refuses (exit 2) when it resolves to /, $HOME or an ancestor,
the checkout or the git root, and leaves any other resolved root in place
with the removal command. Fixtures that copy single bins now copy the twin.

* W1: privacy keys and trust-policy deny tiers merge across state roots; gstack-config reporting; test hermeticity

readConfigKey / gstack_read_config_key return the most restrictive
telemetry, memorable_recall, codex_reviews and update_check across the
resolved root and ~/.gstack; other keys read the resolved root only.
gstack-config set reports an overriding root with the exact override
command, list shows the winning root and a root-variable disagreement line.
gstack-gbrain-repo-policy get merges deny/read-only tiers. gstack-egress
reads through readConfigKey. test-setup.ts strips inherited
GSTACK_STATE_ROOT/GSTACK_STATE_DIR and redirects the legacy root.

* W1: shared hook logging helper (hosts/claude/hooks/hook-log.ts)

One hook-errors.log writer: root from resolveStateRoot, 0600 on every
append, opt-in rate limit used only by memorable-user-prompt. The five
hooks route through it.

* W1: docs/state-root.md and README troubleshooting pointer

Precedence table, a real --explain example, the move-your-state recipe,
merged privacy keys, the uninstall rule, the resolver-failure fix, and the
plugin-mode note (evidence gate: no official plugin distribution).

* W1b: template and resolver prose resolve state through guarded gstack-paths; ratchet (a)

Every gstack-paths eval in templates and resolvers carries the fail-stop
guard; executable ~/.gstack paths in bash blocks (context recovery preamble,
eureka log, analytics, project artifacts, upgrade snooze, setup-gbrain lock,
retro snapshots, ship consent marker) use $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT, and the writer
prose that pairs with them points at the printed PROJECT_DIR / RETRO_FILE.
ship drops export GSTACK_STATE_ROOT. SKILL.md regenerated (claude + codex),
ship goldens re-pinned, parity and context-budget caps raised to the measured
sizes with notes. test/state-root-ratchet.test.ts enforces the rule with a
reasoned allowlist; W1 touchfile entries plus a superset golden.

* refactor: apply W1 state-root edits in W2/W3/W5-owned files; one moved-code touchfile golden for all workstreams

* test: fold the moved-code touchfile golden into touchfiles.test.ts; fix integration fixture closure and caps

* v1.91.11.0: CHANGELOG, TODOS, docs and conventions for the refactor wave

* test: re-measure plan-ceo/design-consultation caps and ship goldens after the guarded plan-discovery and spec-review blocks; add the state-root twin to the workflow-boundaries fixture

* fix(windows): migrations resolve their directory with either path separator; state-root parity compares under the HOME Git Bash actually sees

* fix(review,ship): state plan-check timing after smoke expiry and test_stub Skip semantics (review workflow judge clarity)

* test(qa-eval): webhook fix eval asks for the fix loop's post-repair probes; eight-scenario coverage stays in the report-only case and the harness recheck

* test(qa-eval): re-pin the webhook prompt contract to the fix-loop stage; R29 coverage omissions stay bound by the report-only case

* fix(review,ship): plan checks publish a checkpoint before each probe; only the smoke expiry stop is skipped

* fix(qa): carry #2999's checkpoint receipt link, report-template line and full-revision placeholder (identical hunks)

* test(qa-callers): disable git auto maintenance in the caller fixture

Git 2.47+ runs auto maintenance detached after commit; on the CI runner's git
2.55 it rewrote .git/objects fan-out directories while the write observer was
running, which surfaced as unauthorized mutations. Same gc.auto=0 /
maintenance.auto=false guard the shared-libs fixture already uses.

* test(plan-mode-no-op): require prose evidence for the prose-fallback members so a spinner-frame judge verdict cannot end the run as asked

* test(ship-docsync): carry #2999's seeded-attempt docsync harness (identical files)

The doc-sync fault cases replayed attempt 1 before reaching their gate and ran
out of their 285s budget. The fixture now seeds attempt 1 and the parent starts
at the gate under test. Taken byte-identical from origin/capy/audit-fix-wave
(fb526898, e6ac813d, 6ce10ff7, d0c53577, 77cce3be). Local: stale-before,
recovery and late-result 6/6 PASS (97-164s); the whole file 12/12 PASS.
2026-10-01 11:57:48 -07:00
Garry Tan dcaea52800 v1.91.7.0 feat: add functional QA and pre-publication docs checks (#2983)
* feat: add surface-aware exploratory QA and ship documentation gates

* test: preserve delegated QA setup authority after main integration

* fix(qa): clarify exploration order and preserve report artifacts

* test(qa): follow the shared setup reference directly

* refactor(ship): make verification and recovery routes explicit

* test(ship): align evidence and review guards with explicit routes

* fix(workflows): clarify ship recovery and functional QA evidence

* fix(workflows): clarify approval recovery and full QA coverage

* refactor(workflows): order review transactions and clarify ship state

* fix(ship): clarify final verification and fail closed at publication

* fix(evals): attribute native atomic documentation writes

* fix(ship): clarify recovery and documentation lifecycle guidance

* fix(test): preserve observed native placeholder styling in CI

* fix(codex): report watchdog timeouts without a process-exit race

* Checkpoint functional QA implementation and workflow validation repairs

* Fix documentation and shared-review fixture contracts

* docs: clarify judge reuse and evaluation supervision

* test: align review evidence and selected case contracts

* test: verify append-only documentation checkpoints and recovery

* fix: qualify QA workflows and CI validation repairs

* fix: launch shared-libs fixture scripts on Windows

* fix: qualify QA deadlines, fixture isolation, and shard cleanup

* fix: preserve qualified QA and cancellation repairs

* fix: enforce functional fixture authority and share strict event decoding

* fix: retain free-test evidence and explain recovery

* fix: reject malformed native evidence after decoder consolidation

* test: use reliable capture for telemetry privacy filters

* test: refresh measured quick coverage and document validation costs

* Fix native fixture receipts and preserve VM validation evidence

* Align negative judge controls with upstream clarity policy

* Fix report-only QA preparation and public evidence handling

* Clarify QA-only preparation and current-report preservation

* Stream Ship quality judgments with an explicit 64k response contract

* Validate compact judge reasoning locally with supported wire schema

* Align functional QA fixture instructions with evidence acceptance

* Bind native browser diagnostics to execution evidence and align review verdicts

* Preserve native diagnostic line boundaries

* Serialize functional QA evidence from native captures

* Keep large QA evidence fixture payload out of Windows argv
2026-09-29 06:07:35 -07:00