* fix(ci): free-tests lane actually runs the make-pdf e2e gates
The 9 make-pdf/test/e2e gate tests probe make-pdf/dist/pdf,
browse/dist/browse, and the diagram-render bundle, then self-skip when
absent. The required free-tests lane never built any of them, so the
gates silently skipped on Linux for their entire life (verified: 9 of
14 skip, exit 0). make-pdf-gate.yml's justification for deleting its
Linux leg claimed the free lane covered this — it didn't.
- new build:gates script: exactly the three artifacts the gates probe
(full bun run build compiles five binaries; ~60-90s tax on the only
required check is not warranted)
- free-tests.yml: build:gates step + poppler-utils +
fonts-noto-color-emoji (fonts must precede the first browse daemon
launch — Chromium snapshots fontconfig at startup; verified live:
a warm daemon renders tofu, a fresh one embeds NotoColorEmoji)
- make-pdf/test/e2e/ci-prereqs.test.ts: GSTACK_EXPECT_BINARIES=1 (set
by the workflow) inverts the skip polarity in CI — dropping the
build step or poppler fails the lane instead of re-opening the
silent-skip hole
Pre-flight: all 9 gates green on Linux locally.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(ci): kill the three zero-test eval jobs (hollow green)
- delete the vestigial e2e-codex / e2e-gemini matrix rows: both files
are whole-file periodic-tier, so with no row tier: they ran ZERO
tests and reported green on every PR (~2 min of runner each, pure
false confidence; the periodic lane owns those suites)
- e2e-pty-plan-smoke gains tier: gate — its two files are whole-file
describeE2ETier('gate'), so the job burned ~7 min of container setup
then skipped every describe
- KNOWN_TIER_UNSET burned down to empty; the ratchet stays armed so a
future row/file tier mismatch fails the suite instead of shipping
hollow green
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(ci): least-privilege permissions + fork-safe concurrency keys
- evals.yml / evals-periodic.yml evals jobs: explicit contents:read +
packages:read (container-image pull) and persist-credentials:false —
the jobs that execute PR-authored code with three provider API keys
ran on the repo-default token grant with the token written into
.git/config
- permissions blocks for the 4 workflows that had none (skill-docs,
make-pdf-gate, windows-free-tests, windows-setup-e2e)
- fork-safe concurrency keys: actionlint, skill-docs, make-pdf-gate,
windows-setup-e2e switch from head_ref to PR-number keying — a bare
branch name carries no fork prefix, so same-name branches from two
forks shared one group and cancelled each other's runs
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(ci): one bun version everywhere + drift tripwire
Lanes disagreed four ways: 1.3.13 (free-tests, windows, Dockerfile.ci),
latest (quality-gate, make-pdf-gate), unpinned (skill-docs,
version-gate — setup-bun installs latest), 1.3.10 (.gitlab-ci.yml).
Different Bun versions change the runner output shapes the strict
classifiers regex-match, spawn semantics, and shell parsing — a lane on
a different Bun tests a different product; Dockerfile.ci's own comment
records this class biting once already (silent 1.3.13/1.3.14 drift).
All surfaces pinned to 1.3.13; test/bun-version-drift.test.ts scans
every workflow setup-bun stanza + Dockerfile.ci + .gitlab-ci.yml and
fails on any mismatch or unpinned stanza. skill-docs also gains
--frozen-lockfile (was bare bun install).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test(ci): bind the three-way image-tag hashFiles() expressions
evals.yml, evals-periodic.yml, and ci-image.yml each compute the CI
image tag from hashFiles('.github/docker/Dockerfile.ci', 'bun.lock',
'patches/**') — synced by comment only (TODOS.md 'CI three-way
image-tag drift'). If one input list drifts, that workflow computes a
different tag for the same content: eval lanes silently rebuild the
image every run, or ci-image prebuilds a tag nobody looks up. The test
extracts each tag-computation site and fails on any mismatch.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(ci): ci-image stops rebuilding the identical image every ship
- package.json out of the trigger paths: the tag hash deliberately
excludes it (version bumps every ship), so every merge rebuilt and
re-pushed the IDENTICAL tag (~2m26s for zero content change);
patches/** added (it IS a tag input)
- manifest existence check (mirrors evals.yml): tag already exists →
skip the build
- concurrency group: two rapid main pushes raced pushing the same
:latest/:buildcache tags
- cron staggered 06:00→04:00 Monday: it shared the exact minute with
evals-periodic, which could race a half-pushed tag or duplicate the
build
- timeout-minutes: 30 (was unbounded → 360-min default for a hung
docker build)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(ci): quality-gate drops the 74s full-history checkout
fetch-depth:0 cost 74 of the job's 92 seconds; the three gates it feeds
take ~12s combined. Shallow checkout + exact-SHA fetches for the diff's
base/head (an exact-SHA fetch, not a guessed depth — long-lived
branches and merge queues still resolve), with a --deepen fallback for
push events whose 'before' is unusable. timeout right-sized 20→10 min.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(ci): small-lane batch — timeouts, right-sizing, windows cache warm-start
- timeout-minutes on the 6 remaining unbounded jobs (actionlint 5,
skill-docs 10, version-gate 10, make-pdf-gate 15, pr-title-sync 5,
evals build-image 15) — a hung step sat on GitHub's 360-min default
- right-size measured-over-long timeouts: dependency-review 10→5,
windows-setup-e2e 15→10
- dependency-review: 2-core runner (28s API call on an 8-core box) and
drop .github/workflows/** from its trigger paths (workflow edits have
no dependencies to review)
- windows caches gain restore-keys: a lockfile bump paid the 26s/43s
restore for a guaranteed cold miss
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(test): scope GSTACK_HOME to each file's execution window
Five files assigned process.env.GSTACK_HOME at module scope. Shard
processes evaluate sibling modules before running their tests, so the
assignment leaked into every other file in the shard — the damage was
already visible in defensive workarounds (relink.test.ts:28 'fresh
install test saw a neighbor's skill_prefix'; cdp-e2e's own comment
documents a sibling's temp dir baked into artifacts).
Pattern: save original, assign in beforeAll, restore in afterAll
(cdp-e2e already restored but still assigned at load — its window now
matches the others). GSTACK_TELEMETRY_OFF and GSTACK_PROJECT_SLUG get
the same treatment where they rode along. Victim files' defenses stay
in place (cheap insurance).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test: tripwire against module-scope GSTACK_HOME assignments
Column-0 assignment of GSTACK_HOME / GSTACK_STATE_ROOT in any tracked
*.test.ts fails with the file:line and the fix (beforeAll + afterAll
restore). Kills the cross-file env-leak class the previous commit
swept.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(test): e2e-harness-audit derives its skill census from disk
The hand-maintained 39-name SKILL_GLOBS list had drifted to 39 of 54
SKILL.md.tmpl on disk. No live gap today (none of the 15 unlisted
skills is interactive), but the next interactive skill would have
landed unguarded with zero signal. The audit now walks top-level dirs
for SKILL.md.tmpl (statSync so symlinked dirs like connect-chrome
count), so new skills are in scope the commit they appear.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(evals): judges honor the eval-model resolution chain + real 429 backoff
callJudge inlined GSTACK_EVAL_MODEL_JUDGE || sonnet, silently ignoring
the global GSTACK_EVAL_MODEL override every other eval call site honors
via lib/eval-model.ts. New 'judge' kind in DEFAULTS (sonnet — the D1a
pin-on-regressors calibration stands; model CHOICE unchanged) and
callJudge resolves through it: explicit arg > GSTACK_EVAL_MODEL_JUDGE >
GSTACK_EVAL_MODEL > default.
429 handling upgraded from one fixed 1s retry (reliably lost races at
CI concurrency) to three jittered exponential retries (~1s/4s/16s),
honoring the server's retry-after when present.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(test): the two expect(true) paid stubs become test.todo
skill-e2e-spec-execute (600s budget) and skill-llm-eval-spec (300s)
reported PASS on every periodic run while asserting nothing. Deleting
them would remove the periodic-tier selector surface they exist to
register (diff-based selection for spec/ changes), so they become
test.todo — reported as todo/skip, never pass — with the v1.1
implementation specs kept in-file.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(test): reactivate 5 quarantined browse tests (2 security)
extension-sender-auth's two privileged-message denial tests (content
script + missing sender.url — the extension's security boundary) and
snapshot's three skips were quarantined 'pre-existing' failures. Root
cause: machine-local state on the quarantining dev machines — the test
and gate code are byte-identical between the quarantining commit
(410b4928) and HEAD, and all five pass deterministically on a clean
checkout (68/68 across both files, multiple runs). No assertions
weakened, no product changes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(evals): activate the 4 paid test files that could never run anywhere
carve-section-loading, codex-e2e-plan-format,
codex-e2e-recommendation-substance, and llm-judge-recommendation gated
on EVALS/tier (free suite loads them as describe.skip) but their names
fell outside PAID_TEST_GLOBS, so no paid lane ever selected them — net
execution zero, forever. The existing matrix tripwire filtered on
isPaidTestFile() first, so it was blind to exactly this class (the same
bug that hid the pre-split monolith's gate tests for ~8 releases).
- PAID_TEST_GLOBS: codex-e2e* + skill-llm-eval* wildcards (replacing
exact names) + llm-judge-recommendation + carve-section-loading;
package.json's six test-script glob lists mirrored
- codex-e2e-plan-format gains the explicit periodic tier gate its
siblings carry (external-service rule) — without it the sharded
runner's no-guard default would spawn Codex in the gate tier per PR
- eval:bg:periodic --timeout 32400→37800: the census growth pushed the
periodic worst case to 35910s; the old value had 270s of headroom
BEFORE this change and would now kill healthy runs mid-flight
- new test/paid-orphan-tripwire.test.ts: any EVALS/tier-gated test file
outside the globs fails the free suite (reasoned SCANNER_EXEMPT for
the gate helpers + meta-tests) — the class-killer
- paid-shards pins updated: the four orphans now assert INSIDE the
census
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(browse): restrictDirectoryPermissions warns and skips symlinked dirs
Closes the Windows Free Tests red: recent lane failures showed a
platform-unguarded POSIX mode-bit assertion ('Expected: 493' — a
symlink-skip test) from PR-branch variants; the KNOWN_WINDOWS_SAFE
force-include reason ('mode-bitmask hits are POSIX-branch only') did
not hold for that shape, and main had neither the guard nor the
behavior.
- product: lstat first; a symlinked dir gets a warning and a skip on
both platforms — chmod AND icacls dereference the link, so
restricting through a symlink hardens an unvetted target (and
/inheritance:r could lock out its real owner). All callers already
treat hardening as best-effort (try/catch).
- test: the symlink regression test, platform-aware — symlinkSync in
the house try/catch skip pattern (Windows runners without Developer
Mode can't create symlinks), mode-bit assertion guarded off win32,
behavior assertions (no throw, warning text, target readable)
everywhere; POSIX still proves the skip (0o755 unchanged, not 0o700)
- KNOWN_WINDOWS_SAFE reason updated to the now-true premise
20/20 pass on Linux.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(test): unique tmp dirs for plan artifacts + audited live-repo cwd sites
Six paid PTY tests wrote their expected plan artifact to a FIXED shared
/tmp path ('/tmp/gstack-test-plan-<mode>.md') and rmSync'd it in
finally — under --retry 1, EVALS_JOBS>1, or two concurrent worktrees, a
sibling's cleanup deletes this run's artifact and the D19 'agent did
not produce expected plan file' assertion fires spuriously. Each test
now mkdtemps its own dir, interpolates the unique path into the agent
prompt (fixture-sourced prompts get a replaceAll + drift guard that
throws if the fixture's literal ever moves), and cleans up its own dir.
The 18 cwd:-into-the-live-repo sites were audited: all deliberate
(skill registry + hermetic pre-trusted dir, in-repo gen renders, git
history reads, slug resolution) — each now carries a
'// LIVE-REPO CWD: <reason>' comment so the next audit can tell
deliberate from accidental.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(test): trim the seven over-wall 1700s timeouts to the 1500s physical ceiling
1,700,000ms (28.3 min) exceeded every wall these tests run inside: the
25-min CI job timeout and the 1800s sharded-runner wall (which also
leaves --retry 1 zero room for a second attempt). Budget above the wall
is fiction, not headroom — a test that actually used it produced a
job-level kill (no bun summary, no artifact) instead of a clean
per-test timeout. No recorded p95 exists for this family (they are
being retiered to periodic in the re-platform wave); the trim stops at
the physical ceiling rather than guessing lower. Final policy lands in
the Wave-2 eval-budgets constants module.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* refactor(gen): main() guard — importing gen-skill-docs no longer regenerates the tree
The generator's whole body executed at module load, so any import of it
(test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts pulls assertSinglePreamble via require();
test/catalog-trim.test.ts imports helpers) regenerated all 71 SKILL.md
in place — the root cause of half the TREE_MUTATING serial-shard
entries (hazard class #2532). The body now lives in an exported
main(): number behind if (import.meta.main).
Semantics preserved exactly: failure exits are immediate (matching the
old top-level process.exit), success leaves the event loop to drain so
the llms.txt fire-and-forget IIFE finishes its write, and the module
stays synchronous/require()-able. Proofs: byte-identical --host all
output (git status clean), --dry-run stale-tree still exits 1 (the
skill-docs freshness lane depends on it), and the new
test/gen-skill-docs-import-purity.test.ts pins load-time purity via a
subprocess probe (mtime-based, so a dirty worktree can't false-fail).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(gen): --out-dir renders every host, outputs-only
--out-dir was Claude-host-only (gen-skill-docs.ts:842), which forced
the codex/factory-regenerating tests (gen-skill-docs, skill-validation,
host-config) to mutate the live tree — the reason they sit in the
TREE_MUTATING serial shard. The flag now mirrors ALL outputs into the
out-dir: external-host trees (.agents/.factory/... via
processExternalHost), external section files, openclaw docs, and
gstack/llms.txt (a catalog-mode render must never rewrite the tracked
index). OUTPUTS ONLY — inputs (templates, sections/, host configs) are
always read from ROOT, so an empty out-dir can never feed the render.
rewriteSectionBase stays Claude-only (external hosts have their own
path grammar).
Proofs: in-place --host all is byte-identical (tree clean);
--host all --out-dir <mkdtemp> renders the full multi-host tree with
ROOT untouched; gen-skill-docs-out-dir tests + 415/415
gen-skill-docs.test.ts green (bin/dev-setup's claude rendering
byte-compat).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(evals): every E2E key's dep list names its own declaring test file
129-of-177 keys omitted their own test file, so editing only a test's
prompt or assertions selected NOTHING — the changed test never ran on
the change that changed it. 135 keys self-registered (110 E2E + 25
LLM-judge), resolved by strict declaration evidence (testName:/
testIfSelected/judge call sites), with skill-name false positives
excluded.
e2e-tier-alignment's warn-only branch for unregistered files is now a
hard failure with a 4-entry KNOWN_UNREGISTERED ratchet (template-
literal testNames, fail-open-safe) + a burn-down test so the set only
shrinks. Selection sanity: a one-file diff on skill-e2e-qa-workflow now
selects its 4 tests (was 0); skill-llm-eval 0 → 25.
Known follow-ups (filed): 15 E2E + 2 judge PHANTOM keys select tests
that exist nowhere; codex-e2e-plan-format's testIfSelected names have
no map keys (run-all only).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test(evals): ratchet the 8 newly-visible gate-matrix gaps
The self-registration sweep made these eight files' gate-tier keys
visible to the census for the first time — their gate tests run in NO
CI lane today (pre-existing hole, newly measurable). Ratcheted into
KNOWN_MATRIX_GAPS with the burn-down note: the paid-lane re-platform
runs every gate file by construction and retires this ratchet class.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(test): duration-aware LPT shard packing for the free suite
Hash sharding balances file COUNTS (1.15x spread) but not cost — the
Playwright-launching files landed 4/3/4/1/2/1 across 6 shards, giving a
measured 28s–97s shard spread and ~40s of idle tail on every run.
Full-suite mode now packs by recorded per-file durations
(longest-processing-time-first) when the committed seed
scripts/free-test-durations.json exists.
- ONE store, no overlay: the seed is refreshed occasionally via the new
--record-durations mode (each file timed in its own child — exact,
and immune to bun's stream buffering, where silent passers print no
header to timestamp); GSTACK_FREE_TEST_DURATIONS overrides the path
for experiments; CI never records
- seed is a hint: missing → silent hash-shard fallback; corrupt (bad
merge) → one warning + fallback; unknown files → 75th-percentile
pessimism so a surprise long-runner can't recreate the tail
- packed shards get duration-aware walls (max(base, predicted x 3)) —
LPT decouples count from cost BY DESIGN, so the 5s/file heuristic
would undersize a shard holding few expensive files
- one log line per shard (files + predicted seconds) so packing
regressions are diagnosable from any run log
- the --shard CI-matrix path is untouched: stable hash indices are its
contract
- successor note in-code: bun >=1.3.14 ships native --timings/--shard
LPT — swap this packer when the repo unpins 1.3.13
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(test): decouple slop:diff from bun run test; quality-gate runs it per PR
'bun run test' silently appended up to two 120s npx slop-scan runs plus
a git worktree add/remove after the suite (2>/dev/null || true) —
invisible in the documented '~90-100s' timing and pure friction in the
pre-commit loop. Decoupling is not coverage removal: quality-gate.yml
now runs slop:diff on every PR (advisory, matching its in-repo 'never
blocking' contract), and /review already invokes it explicitly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(test): eval-budgets timeout tiers + fit/ceiling policy test
Five named tiers (JUDGE 120s / CAPTURE 300s / CAPTURE_LONG 600s /
PTY 900s / PTY_LONG 1200s) replace hand-ratcheted sprawl (46x300s,
46x120s, 44x360s, 44x180s, 27x240s, 19x150s, 13x420s, 12x600s...),
much of it inflated to paper over the old 40-way in-shard concurrency
that the sharded runner's 1-file-per-shard model kills. Policy test
pins: every tier fits the shard wall minus 120s overhead (the
structural fix for budgets-above-the-wall fiction), tiers stay ordered,
and no paid literal exceeds PTY_LONG x1.25 — oversized tests get split,
not budgeted past the wall.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(test): shared runBin helper for bin-script unit tests
~36 free test files each carry a near-identical local run() (spawnSync
+ utf-8 + {status, stdout, stderr}) differing only in env composition,
cwd, and timeout. runBin absorbs the invariant core; options carry the
variance (gstackHome sets BOTH GSTACK_HOME and GSTACK_STATE_DIR — the
config-precedence trap several locals rediscovered independently; home
for $HOME-anchored bins; input/trim/timeout/maxBuffer). Free-test-only
by design so it never becomes a de facto global touchfile. Migration of
the 36 call sites lands separately (mechanical batches).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(test): runBin trim assertion — trim shapes stream ends, not interior
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* refactor(test): mechanical sweep — 298 paid-test timeouts onto eval-budget tiers
69 files, both shapes (trailing bun-test budgets and runner
timeout/timeoutMs options), ROUND-UP ONLY so nothing that passed can
start failing: 75 → JUDGE_MS, 137 → CAPTURE_MS, 74 → CAPTURE_LONG_MS,
9 → PTY_MS, 3 → PTY_LONG_MS. Raw >=60s literal count in the paid scope:
395 → 97, of which 51 are non-timeout noise (fixture dates, run IDs)
and 46 are enumerated justified holds (comment-carrying calibrated
budgets, poll-loop constants, utility spawn waits, and the seven
physical-ceiling 1_500_000 sites). The eval-budgets policy ratchet
keeps the residue from regrowing.
Known collapse: where an inner runner budget and its enclosing test
budget now share a tier, the old stagger is gone — an overrun surfaces
as a bun test timeout instead of a graceful runner timeout
(diagnosability trade, not a correctness one).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test: coverage fill — 95 tests for six zero-coverage surfaces
- eval CLI family (eval-list/compare/summary + eval-select smoke): the
primary interface to eval results had no tests; isolation via a fake
gstack-slug under a mkdtemp HOME (the scripts' real resolution path —
they do NOT honor GSTACK_EVAL_DIR; only EvalCollector does). Pinned
current behavior: eval-list does NOT exclude _partial runs (documented
improvement candidate)
- slop-diff (runs on every /review + quality-gate): fixture git repo +
first-on-PATH npx stub (never downloads real slop-scan); no-diff
early exit, missing-scanner fallback, fingerprint line-insensitivity,
merge-base worktree scan
- bin/gstack-code-intelligence CLI arg surface (lib was covered, the
284-line CLI wasn't): select/consent/suggest/index/search gating;
pinned: --help routes to usage failure exit 1 (no handler)
- browse media-extract: the page.evaluate callback exercised in-process
against a mock DOM (no exports added) — lazy-src fallback chain,
HLS/DASH detection, bg-image url() parsing, 500-element cap
- browse session-cookie-store: factory contract (cookieName/ttlMs/
maxSessions eviction, cross-store isolation, mint→validate
round-trip); store is in-memory — no fs cases exist
- lib/version-source direct unit tests (gstack-version-bump.test.ts
spawns the bin, never imports the lib): parse/format/cmp/bump
coercion, npm 4→3 translation, #2501 mangled-JSON regression class
All hermetic (mkdtemp homes, runBin child isolation); windows curation
correctly partitions the six.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* refactor(test): first runBin migration batch (3 of ~36 run() duplicates)
explain-level-config, benchmark-cli, evidence move onto the shared
helper; each file's remaining special-case spawnSync sites (raw-buffer
probes, env-scrub probes) stay put deliberately. 55/55 green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* refactor(evals): paid shards spool to disk + shared runShardChild lifecycle
- runPaidShard no longer buffers whole 30-min stream-json streams in
RAM (x concurrent jobs): every byte tees to a per-shard log file
(slug-named, path printed at START for mid-run inspection and on the
FAILED terminal line); failures print a 64KiB tail read back from
disk; passing shards stay quiet (the file is the record) — the free
runner's proven contract. Classification unchanged: the strict
classifier still sees every byte first.
- the ~35 duplicated spawn/group-kill/wall-timer/finally-reap lines
move into runShardChild in test-strict-output.ts (detached-per-
platform spawn, signal forwarding, SIGKILL group kill at the wall,
drain-before-verdict); designed so the free runner can migrate later
- expectedFiles drift fixed toward ENFORCEMENT: the injected-command
exemption is gone — a fake command exiting 0 without bun's terminal
summary now reads FAILED (pinned: silent-pass → failed)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(evals): parent-computed selection propagates to shard children
The sharded runner computed diff selection once, then each of its 48-73
children recomputed it at module load — including, on touchfiles-diff
branches, a per-child bun subprocess evaluating the old data file (20s
timeout each). The parent now serializes {version, selected, reason} as
EVALS_SELECTION_JSON into the shard env; e2e-helpers adopts it at load.
Fail-open preserved: any parse/shape violation → ONE stderr warning +
local recompute; absent env → silent local compute (non-sharded
entrypoints unchanged). Drift test pins parent→child round-trip to
identical selection decisions plus the malformed/absent cases.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(test): kill the four worst fixed sleeps (300s/30s/30s/20s)
- watchdog.test: the 20s blind wait for one production parent-watchdog
tick becomes BROWSE_PARENT_WATCHDOG_INTERVAL_MS=250 (new env knob in
server.ts, NaN-safe, production default unchanged) + polls for the
boot line and the tick's stay-alive log — strictly stronger (the old
form never proved a tick observed the parent death). 24s → 3.6s.
- stop-dead-daemon / terminal-agent-owner-watchdog: the 300s/30s
stand-in child lifetimes become stdin-EOF-bound — the child can never
self-exit mid-test on a slow runner (spurious-failure class) and
self-reaps instantly if the test dies (no 300s orphans). Node-compat
stdin APIs (owner-watchdog runs on the Windows lane).
- browser-skill-commands: the sleeper fixture's 30s self-time becomes
8s (no stdin pipe exists in runToFiles) — far above the 1s product
timeout it must outlive, below the test ceiling, so a timeout-kill
regression fails on clean assertions instead of an opaque bun
timeout; added: stdout must NOT contain 'done'.
45/45 green across the four files + server tripwires.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(test): gen-skill-docs + catalog-trim leave the serial mutator shard
gen-skill-docs.test.ts's 15 in-place generator spawns now render into
mkdtemp out-dirs (gitignored-artifact reads repointed; the handshake
scan's silent console.warn degrade became a hard assertion); its
tracked-tree reads (freshness dry-run, SKILL.md content pins) stay
reads. catalog-trim needed no change beyond the earlier main() guard —
its import is now side-effect-free (pinned by the import-purity test).
Both TREE_MUTATING entries deleted in this commit, per the transition
rule: an entry leaves in the same commit as the file's last in-place
write.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(test): skill-validation renders codex host into an out-dir
Its 3 in-place --host codex regeneration sites collapse into one
module-level --out-dir render; assertions untouched. TREE_MUTATING
entry deleted.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(test): host-config self-provisions goldens (ordering dependency severed)
Its goldens were 'produced by gen-skill-docs.test.ts' with a
when-missing beforeAll fallback that wrote the live tree — an
inter-test ordering dependency the serial shard hid. It now renders
codex+factory UNCONDITIONALLY into its own out-dir and reads goldens
only from there (the Claude golden deliberately keeps reading tracked
ship/SKILL.md — a read; out-dir claude renders repoint section-base
paths by design). TREE_MUTATING entry deleted.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(test): gbrain-detection-override drops mutate-then-git-restore
regenAndSnapshot renders --host claude --out-dir <mkdtemp> (+
--respect-detection) and snapshots probes from the out-dir. The
git-restore machinery is deleted outright — it restored only
PROBE_FILES of the 71 files each call wrote, so a stale tree kept the
other 68 dirty (the partial-restore bug), and its 'no output-path arg'
comment had been false since --out-dir landed. TREE_MUTATING entry
deleted.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(test): catalog-mode-full renders to out-dir; restore machinery deleted
The full-catalog smoke no longer rewrites all 71 SKILL.md then
regenerates to restore (with its 'CRITICAL: failed to restore' prayer
path) — it renders into a mkdtemp and additionally asserts tracked
ship/SKILL.md is byte-unchanged. TREE_MUTATING entry deleted.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(test): idempotency proof strengthens to two-out-dir recursive diff
Two renders into two separate out-dirs, EVERY file diffed byte-for-byte
(claude-only and --host all; normalization only for each dir's own
sanctioned section-base repoint; presence-sanity lists guard against a
vacuous empty-dir pass) — strictly stronger than the old in-place
double-regen that sampled 5 files. TREE_MUTATING entry deleted.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(test): spec-template-sync compares an out-dir render, not an in-place one
TREE_MUTATING entry deleted.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(test): the serial tree-mutating shard dissolves — TREE_MUTATING is empty
Zero mutators remain (all eight render into out-dirs now), so the four
ratchet READERS (parity caps, size budgets, carve parity/ordering) get
a quiet tree by construction in any shard and rejoin the parallel
phase. The ~35-40s serial tail on every full-suite run is gone. The
mechanism stays: a future test that genuinely must write shared
artifacts in place earns an entry with a reason and is serialized
again; the census pin still fails on renamed keys.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test(gen): out-dir byte-identity + tree-clean pins for external hosts
codex render: porcelain unchanged AND out-dir gstack-ship/SKILL.md
byte-identical to a fresh in-place render (+openai.yaml presence);
--host all render: exit 0, porcelain unchanged, claude + .agents +
.factory + llms.txt + openclaw docs all present in the out-dir.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(test): commit the initial free-test durations seed (496 files)
Recorded via --record-durations on a quiescent tree: 479s serial
total, p50 92ms / p90 1.8s / max 31.4s — the top-heavy cost shape LPT
packing exists for. A hint, not a contract: refresh opportunistically
with bun run test:free --record-durations.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(evals): planner/executor/report modes — the CI re-platform surface
One PLANNER computes diff selection + the slice plan ONCE and writes a
manifest (--emit-plan <path> --slices K); K executors consume it
(--plan <path> --slice i), never self-selecting, and write slice-result
artifacts; a REPORT reconciles results against the manifest (--report
<dir>) fail-closed: a slice whose artifact never landed is a FAILURE,
a planned shard nobody reported fails, wrong-slice/duplicate/cross-tier
results fail. Kills per-slice selector divergence and hollow-lane
aggregation at the root.
- hollow-shard guard: under EVALS_ALL, exit 0 with ZERO executed tests
(bun's 'Ran N tests' now captured by the classifier — additive) is
'passed-empty' and fails the run; selective runs keep it 'passed'
with one warning (in-file diff/tier self-skips are legitimate there);
unknown counts are never guessed hollow
- retry parity: --retry 1 default + RETRY_OVERRIDES literals for the
three files whose old matrix rows earned retries: 2 (stale entries
pinned against disk)
- live smoke: gate plan = 48 shards across 6 slices; report mode exits
1 on a fabricated missing slice, 0 when complete
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(ci): sliced paid lane (planner -> 6 executors -> fail-closed report)
The parity-phase re-platform: evals.yml gains a second, sliced lane
driven by scripts/test-paid-shards.ts — the SAME engine local
eval:bg:gate uses, so CI and local share one selection engine.
- plan-slices: ONE planner (fetch-depth 0 — the only job needing
history) emits the manifest; selection fails open to run-all, never
per-slice (the divergence class is structurally dead)
- eval-slices: 6-way matrix consuming the manifest; PTY seed +
skill-registration steps run unconditionally (idempotent — a sliced
lane cannot key them on suite names); aggregate spawn budget
6 x EVALS_JOBS=2 x EVALS_CONCURRENCY=2 = 24 lane-wide (the matrix's
40-way per row queued session startup behind 39 siblings — the
timeout-flake family root); slice results + spooled shard logs
uploaded as artifacts
- slices-report: reconciles slice artifacts against the manifest
FAIL-CLOSED via --report — a slice whose artifact never landed, or a
planned shard nobody reported, is a failure, not an absence
- sequenced needs: evals so provider concurrency never doubles while
both lanes coexist; the matrix + its ratchets are deleted after
demonstrated parity (intersection + expected-additions comparison)
- workflow_dispatch gains evals_all (default true) for parity runs and
post-merge smokes — a dispatch can never silently select zero
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(ci): weekly periodic lane runs EVERY periodic test + gate census backstop
evals-periodic.yml re-platforms onto the sharded runner: planner
manifest → 6 executor slices → FAIL-CLOSED report. This IS the coverage
contract: all ~70 periodic-tier files weekly (EVALS_ALL=1), killing the
silent-rot class where a hard-coded 9-file matrix left ~57 files
running NOWHERE (the autoplan E2E rotted invisibly for months).
- test/helpers/periodic-exclude-data.ts: reasoned exclusions in their
OWN literals file (deliberately not touchfiles-data — map-diff
evaluates old versions of that file standalone). Every entry carries
reason + tracking with a re-entry condition; the runner surfaces each
exclusion per run; policy test pins real-file + non-empty fields.
Initial: ship-idempotency + brain-privacy-gate (documented-red,
never green) and skill-e2e-ios (manual hardware). The TODOS 'sidebar
E2E trio' turned out already deleted — only tombstone tests remain.
- gate-census job: weekly EVALS_ALL gate-tier run — PR lanes are
diff-billed, so without this the full gate census might never execute
anywhere; with the hollow-shard guard it is a census-health check
(exit 0 + zero executed tests fails), not just a test run.
- failure notification is a concrete gh issue UPSERT (one tracking
issue, commented per red week — never issue-per-week spam), with
issues:write scoped to the report job.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: TESTING_INTERNALS covers the 2026-08 runner overhaul
LPT-packed free suite + --record-durations, the emptied TREE_MUTATING
mechanism, the sharded paid runner as the single selection engine,
CI planner/executor/report with the fail-closed report and hollow-shard
guard, the weekly coverage contract + exclusions policy, and the
eval-budgets timeout tiers.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs(CLAUDE.md): testing prose matches the overhauled runners
- bun run test: duration-packed shards + --record-durations; the
trailing serial tree-mutating shard no longer exists
- two-tier system: the sliced CI lanes (one engine local+CI), the
weekly all-periodic coverage contract + exclusions, the gate census
- periodic detach timeout 32400 → 37800
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs(TODOS): close the absorbed test-infra items, file the overhaul follow-ups
Closed with receipts: the periodic coverage contract (implemented as
full weekly coverage + exclusions), the eval-harness observability P1
(verified already landed: heartbeat, incremental _partial persistence,
live stderr + eval-watch), and the sidebar trio (already deleted —
tombstones remain). Filed: matrix deletion after parity, the
required-check maintainer decision, browse /tmp-namespace hardening,
PTY boot-readiness waits, the single typed test registry, bun-native
LPT swap, runBin/free-runner migrations, eval-list partial exclusion,
phantom key cleanup, duration-weighted slicing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* v1.73.0.0: test/CI overhaul — green means green, suites restructured for speed
Version + release notes for the audit-and-overhaul branch: every
silently-skipping or never-running test class fixed and tripwired, the
free suite duration-packed with the serial mutator shard dissolved, the
paid lane re-platformed onto the sharded runner (planner/slices/
fail-closed report, parity phase), the weekly all-periodic coverage
contract, eval-budget timeout tiers, and 95 new coverage tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(ci): first-live-run fixes — executor history + two environment-blind assertions
The sliced lane's first run (PR #2721) did its job: the planner and
report worked, the manifest governed, and every failure had a name.
Three were fixable on the spot:
- executor + gate-census checkouts get fetch-depth: 0 — files with
SELF-derived selection (the LLM-judge map, routing) walk git at
module load, and selection is deliberately fail-closed on git errors,
so the shallow checkout crashed those shards ('ambiguous argument
main...HEAD'). The manifest still governs WHICH shards run.
- landscape --toc gate: the exact toBe(3) landscape-page count was
font-metric-dependent (3 on Amazon Linux, 2 on ubuntu CI — the same
disease the file's own page-index comment warns about). Now a
comparative invariant: --toc must not CHANGE the landscape count vs
a baseline render.
- paid-run-manifest parse test builds its manifest under EVALS_ALL so
it never walks git (proven with GIT_DIR=/nonexistent).
Remaining first-run failures are newly-exposed rot in gate files that
had never executed in CI (skillify D1 refusal, session-intelligence
context-restore, one tpa-apple-ban retry flake) — being probed
separately; they are the lane WORKING, not the lane failing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs(TODOS): file the three first-execution findings from the sliced lane's live run
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* v1.74.0.0: queue-advance — #2722 claims the v1.73.0.0 slot
The version gate caught a live queue collision (its whole job); same
MINOR bump level, next free slot per bin/gstack-next-version.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(test): per-shard CHROMIUM_PROFILE — the collision class duration packing exposed
Nine test files launch in-process persistent contexts or daemons that
default to the SHARED ~/.gstack/chromium-profile. Two concurrent shard
processes on one profile dir kill each other's browser — observed live
on CI once duration packing recomposed shards: handoff's
launchPersistentContext died 'Target page, context or browser has been
closed' (--user-data-dir=~/.gstack/chromium-profile in the call log)
while a sibling shard's daemon logged 'Chromium process crashed'. Hash
sharding had masked the collision by chance placement; handoff passes
standalone everywhere.
Fix at the runner, not per file: each shard child gets
CHROMIUM_PROFILE=<shard-state>/chromium-profile (the documented env
knob, same isolation idea as the existing per-shard TMPDIR). Files
within a shard run serially, so sharing the per-shard profile is safe;
config.test's resolution-order tests save/restore the env around their
assertions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(test): landscape --toc gate asserts promotion PRESENCE, not counts
Two rounds of CI receipts: the exact toBe(3) was font-metric-coupled
(3 on Amazon Linux, 2 on ubuntu), and the baseline-comparison repair
then failed 2-vs-3 across renders SECONDS apart in one CI job while the
sibling no-toc test saw 3 — per-render image-promotion timing makes any
count assertion here a coin flip. The sibling test owns exact promotion
counts; this test's actual invariant is that --toc does not break the
promotion machinery: >=1 landscape page + the TOC rendered. Also drops
the second render (halves the test's runtime).
Flaky per-render image promotion itself is worth its own look — noted
in TODOS with these receipts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs(TODOS): file the per-render image-promotion nondeterminism (receipts from PR #2721)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(test): per-FILE Chromium profiles for the nine in-process launcher files
Completes the profile-isolation work: the per-shard CHROMIUM_PROFILE
stopped cross-shard kills; these nine files launch in-process
persistent contexts and could still collide with a lingering daemon a
sibling file spawned on the SAME shard profile. Each now scopes a
mkdtemp profile via beforeAll/afterAll (the module-scope-tripwire-safe
pattern), cleaned up per file. All nine green solo and in combined
runs, except the pre-existing commands+snapshot pairing — proven
identical WITH and WITHOUT these edits (baseline receipts) — which is
the daemon-lifecycle follow-up now extended in TODOS with this
session's receipts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(browse): Chromium-crash exit is daemon-only — embedded launches never kill their host
handleChromiumDisconnect unconditionally process.exit()ed. Correct for
the standalone daemon (its supervisor/user must notice); suicidal when
a TEST launches BrowserManager in-process: a mid-suite Chromium death
exited the whole bun shard with no terminal summary — the exact
truncation class the strict runner flags (observed live: CI shard 1 on
eb233299 died at cache-concurrent-refresh right after a daemon-spawning
gate test; with this fix the same pairing runs to completion and
REPORTS instead of dying).
The standalone entrypoint opts in via markDaemonProcess() under
server.ts's import.meta.main gate — the same embedder contract its
signal handlers already use (gbrowser phoenix keeps its own handlers).
Embedded contexts now get the disconnect log line and continue.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(test): context-restore assertion is evidence-based, not prose-matching
The test failed twice per run in TWO CI cycles while passing locally
4/4: the prompt said 'present the content' and the check grepped the
FINAL message for exact phrases — local runs quoted the file, CI runs
paraphrased ('the most recent context is from branch-b...') and the
substring check lost the coin flip.
- prompt now demands machine-checkable output: the newest file's
'## Working on:' heading VERBATIM + a literal 'RESTORED: <filename>'
marker (the mtime-scramble and cross-branch subject matter untouched)
- assertion ordered strongest-first: RESTORED marker → legacy content
phrases → tool-call corroboration (Read/Bash input naming the newer
file, credited ONLY when the older file was never read — a
both-files run must still present the right one)
- the older-file negative got STRONGER: an explicit RESTORED marker
naming the older file fails even if wintermute words appear elsewhere
- sibling scan: context-recovery-artifacts got the additive prompt-side
treatment only (quote the matched literals verbatim); its lenient
1-of-6 assertion deliberately unchanged
3/3 consecutive local green with all evidence classes firing
(marker=true, content=true, toolNewer=true, toolOlder=false).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(test): skillify family — HOME==cwd broke project-skill registration
Root cause (forensically pinned from stream-json init events + a
kill-after-init probe): with HOME set EQUAL to the child's cwd, claude
resolves <cwd>/.claude/skills as the PERSONAL skills directory and the
seeded project-tier skills never register — the Skill tool returned
'Unknown skill'. The provenance-refusal test then improvised a refusal
whose wording missed the regex (the deterministic CI+local red); the
happy-path and approval-reject siblings passed only because their
agents self-recovered by Reading SKILL.md manually — silently not
exercising the Skill-tool path at all.
All three tests now use HOME=<workDir>/home (a fresh subdir keeps the
override's intent: child ~/.gstack writes land in the assertable
sandbox, without the cwd collision). Refusal test additionally: a
'not registered/unknown skill' tripwire (a not-loaded skill can never
pass as a refusal) and the refusal regex now matches assistant text
only — the skill BODY echoed into the transcript contains the exact
refusal message, so the old full-surface match could pass vacuously
once the skill loaded. Sibling disk assertions sweep both $HOME/.gstack
and cwd .gstack roots (positives and negatives).
Verified paid: refusal 2x consecutive green with the skill's EXACT
message rendered ('Launching skill: skillify' in-transcript), then the
full file 5/5 green (~$1.35) with both siblings driving real Skill
calls (25-27 turns each).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs(TODOS): two of three first-execution findings fixed (skillify family, context-restore)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(test): context-restore gets a private home — the REAL root cause was fixture sharing
The evidence-based assertion fix was treating a symptom. The slice
artifact's embedded transcript showed the CI agent restoring
20260829-context-save-skill-test.md — the checkpoint the SIBLING
context-save test wrote into the SHARED gstackHome checkpoints dir,
which by filename-prefix ordering genuinely IS the newest. The agent
behaved CORRECTLY; the test's fixture set was open to concurrent
sibling writes, and bun --concurrent ordering differs between CI (save
finished first) and local (restore listed first) — the entire
local-green/CI-red split explained.
The restore test now uses its own .gstack-restore-home (the whole home
moves, not just the handed path — an agent deriving the dir from
GSTACK_HOME/projects/<slug> must land in the closed set too). Full file
4/4 paid green with all evidence flags firing.
Also: the on-failure shard-log artifact glob uploaded nothing — the
Fix-bun-temp step points TMPDIR at /home/runner/.cache, so the spool
lands there, not /tmp. Both eval workflows now glob both locations
(this gap is why diagnosing THIS failure required digging transcripts
out of the slice-results artifact).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(evidence): carry the real index mtime onto gstack-wtree's temp copy
The stat-cache seed (cp of the real index) stamped the temp index "now",
which defeats git's racy-git protection: an entry is only re-hashed when
its cached mtime is not older than the index file itself, so a same-size
rewrite landing in the same second as the last real index write looked
non-racy, kept its stale stat-cache entry, and vanished from the
fingerprint — evidence stayed FRESH after a source change. This is the
CI flake in test/evidence.test.ts "allow-paths carve-out" (sub-second
alignment on fast runners: expected STALE exit 1, got FRESH exit 0).
touch -r restores the original index timestamp, reinstating the exact
racy window git itself uses. Deterministic regression pin in
test/review-log.test.ts reproduces the miss with pinned zero-nsec
timestamps (fails on the old script, passes now); receipts: manual
probe shows the fresh-stamped copy returning the clean tree for a
same-size 'hello'→'howdy' rewrite while the mtime-carried copy detects
it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(test): landscape gate bounds the promotion count instead of pinning 3
The alt-hinted image promotion rides the per-render measurement race
already filed in TODOS (2-vs-3 landscape pages on renders seconds
apart — CI receipts from PR #2721, now reproduced locally). Pin the
two deterministic promotions as the floor and the three promotable
blocks as the ceiling (anything above 3 means the veto leaked); the
veto/portrait assertions remain exact.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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* rename /checkpoint → /context-save + /context-restore (split)
Claude Code ships /checkpoint as a native alias for /rewind (Esc+Esc),
which was shadowing the gstack skill. Training-data bleed meant agents
saw /checkpoint and sometimes described it as a built-in instead of
invoking the Skill tool, so nothing got saved.
Fix: rename the skill and split save from restore so each skill has one
job. Restore now loads the most recent saved context across ALL branches
by default (the previous flow was ambiguous between mode="restore" and
mode="list" and agents applied list-flow filtering to restore).
New commands:
- /context-save → save current state
- /context-save list → list saved contexts (current branch default)
- /context-restore → load newest saved context across all branches
- /context-restore X → load specific saved context by title fragment
Storage directory unchanged at ~/.gstack/projects/$SLUG/checkpoints/ so
existing saved files remain loadable.
Canonical ordering is now the filename YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS prefix, not
filesystem mtime — filenames are stable across copies/rsync, mtime is
not.
Empty-set handling in both restore and list flows uses find+sort instead
of ls -1t, which on macOS falls back to listing cwd when the input is
empty.
Sources for the collision:
- https://code.claude.com/docs/en/checkpointing
- https://claudelog.com/mechanics/rewind/
* preamble: split 'checkpoint' routing rule into context-save + context-restore
scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts:238 is the source of truth for the routing
rules that gstack writes into users' CLAUDE.md on first skill run, AND
gets baked into every generated SKILL.md. A single 'invoke checkpoint'
line points at a skill that no longer exists.
Replace with two lines:
- Save progress, save state, save my work → invoke context-save
- Resume, where was I, pick up where I left off → invoke context-restore
Tier comment at :750 also updated.
All SKILL.md files regenerated via bun run gen:skill-docs.
* tests: split checkpoint-save-resume into context-save + context-restore E2Es
Renames the combined E2E test to match the new skill split:
- checkpoint-save-resume → context-save-writes-file
Extracts the Save flow from context-save/SKILL.md, asserts a file
gets written with valid YAML frontmatter.
- New: context-restore-loads-latest
Seeds two saved-context files with different YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS
prefixes AND scrambled filesystem mtimes (so mtime DISAGREES with
filename order). Hand-feeds the restore flow and asserts the newer-
by-filename file is loaded. Locks in the "newest by filename prefix,
not mtime" guarantee.
touchfiles.ts: old 'checkpoint-save-resume' key removed from both
E2E_TOUCHFILES and E2E_TIERS maps; new keys added to both. Leaving a
key in one map but not the other silently breaks test selection.
Golden baselines (claude/codex/factory ship skill) regenerated to match
the new preamble routing rules from the previous commit.
* migration: v0.18.5.0 removes stale /checkpoint install with ownership guard
gstack-upgrade/migrations/v0.18.5.0.sh removes the stale on-disk
/checkpoint install so Claude Code's native /rewind alias is no longer
shadowed. Ownership guard inspects the directory itself (not just
SKILL.md) and handles 3 install shapes:
1. ~/.claude/skills/checkpoint is a directory symlink whose canonical
path resolves inside ~/.claude/skills/gstack/ → remove.
2. ~/.claude/skills/checkpoint is a directory containing exactly one
file SKILL.md that's a symlink into gstack → remove (gstack's
prefix-install shape).
3. Anything else (user's own regular file/dir, or a symlink pointing
elsewhere) → leave alone, print a one-line notice.
Also removes ~/.claude/skills/gstack/checkpoint/ unconditionally (gstack
owns that dir).
Portable realpath: `realpath` with python3 fallback for macOS BSD which
lacks readlink -f. Idempotent: missing paths are no-ops.
test/migration-checkpoint-ownership.test.ts ships 7 scenarios covering
all 3 install shapes + idempotency + no-op-when-gstack-not-installed +
SKILL.md-symlink-outside-gstack. Critical safety net for a migration
that mutates user state. Free tier, ~85ms.
* docs: bump VERSION to 0.18.5.0, CHANGELOG + TODOS entry
User-facing changelog leads with the problem: /checkpoint silently
stopped saving because Claude Code shipped a native /checkpoint alias
for /rewind. The fix is a clean rename to /context-save +
/context-restore, with the second bug (restore was filtering by current
branch and hiding most recent saves) called out separately under Fixed.
TODOS entry for the deferred lane feature points at the existing lane
data model in plan-eng-review/SKILL.md.tmpl:240-249 so a future session
can pick it up without re-discovering the source.
* chore: bump package.json to 0.18.5.0 (match VERSION)
* fix(test): skill-e2e-autoplan-dual-voice was shipped broken
The test shipped on main in v0.18.4.0 used wrong option names and
wrong result fields throughout. It could not have passed in any
environment:
Broken API calls:
- `workdir` → should be `workingDirectory`
The fixture setup (git init, copy autoplan + plan-*-review dirs,
write TEST_PLAN.md) was completely ignored. claude -p spawned with
undefined cwd instead of the tmp workdir.
- `timeoutMs: 300_000` → should be `timeout: 300_000`
Fell back to default 120s. Explains the observed ~170s failure
(test harness overhead + retry startup).
- `name: 'autoplan-dual-voice'` → should be `testName: 'autoplan-dual-voice'`
No per-test run directory was created.
- `evalCollector` → not a recognized `runSkillTest` option at all.
Broken result access:
- `result.stdout + result.stderr` → SkillTestResult has neither
field. `out` was literally "undefinedundefined" every time.
- Every regex match fired false. All 3 assertions (claudeVoiceFired,
codex-or-unavailable, reachedPhase1) failed on every attempt.
- `logCost(result)` → signature is `logCost(label, result)`.
- `recordE2E('autoplan-dual-voice', result)` → signature is
`recordE2E(evalCollector, name, suite, result, extra)`.
Fixes:
- Renamed all 4 broken options in the runSkillTest call.
- Changed assertion source to `result.output` plus JSON-serialized
`result.transcript` (broader net for voice fingerprints in tool
inputs/outputs).
- Widened regex alternatives: codex voice now matches "CODEX SAYS"
and "codex-plan-review"; Claude voice now matches subagent_type;
unavailable matches CODEX_NOT_AVAILABLE.
- Added Agent + Skill + Edit + Grep + Glob to allowedTools. Without
Agent, /autoplan can't spawn subagents and never reaches Phase 1.
- Raised maxTurns 15 → 30 (autoplan is a long multi-phase skill).
- Fixed logCost + recordE2E signatures, passing `passed:` flag into
recordE2E per the neighboring context-save pattern.
* security: harden migration + context-save after adversarial review
Adversarial review (Claude + Codex, both high confidence) identified 6
critical production-harm findings in the /ship pre-landing pass.
All folded in.
Migration v1.0.1.0.sh hardening:
- Add explicit `[ -z "${HOME:-}" ]` guard. HOME="" survives set -u and
expands paths to /.claude/skills/... which could hit absolute paths
under root/containers/sudo-without-H.
- Add python3 fallback inside resolve_real() (was missing; broken
symlinks silently defeated ownership check).
- Ownership-guard Shape 2 (~/.claude/skills/gstack/checkpoint/). Was
unconditional rm -rf. Now: if symlink, check target resolves inside
gstack; if regular dir, check realpath resolves inside gstack. A
user's hand-edited customization or a symlink pointing outside gstack
is preserved with a notice.
- Use `rm --` and `rm -r --` consistently to resist hostile basenames.
- Use `find -type f -not -name .DS_Store -not -name ._*` instead of
`ls -A | grep`. macOS sidecars no longer mask a legit prefix-mode
install. Strip sidecars explicitly before removing the dir.
context-save/SKILL.md.tmpl:
- Sanitize title in bash, not LLM prose. Allowlist [a-z0-9.-], cap 60
chars, default to "untitled". Closes a prompt-injection surface where
`/context-save $(rm -rf ~)` could propagate into subsequent commands.
- Collision-safe filename. If ${TIMESTAMP}-${SLUG}.md already exists
(same-second double-save with same title), append a 4-char random
suffix. The skill contract says "saved files are append-only" — this
enforces it. Silent overwrite was a data-loss bug.
context-restore/SKILL.md.tmpl:
- Cap `find ... | sort -r` at 20 entries via `| head -20`. A user with
10k+ saved files no longer blows the context window just to pick one.
/context-save list still handles the full-history listing path.
test/skill-e2e-autoplan-dual-voice.test.ts:
- Filter transcript to tool_use / tool_result / assistant entries
before matching, so prompt-text mentions of "plan-ceo-review" don't
force the reachedPhase1 assertion to pass. Phase-1 assertion now
requires completion markers ("Phase 1 complete", "Phase 2 started"),
not mere name occurrence.
- claudeVoiceFired now requires JSON evidence of an Agent tool_use
(name:"Agent" or subagent_type field), not the literal string
"Agent(" which could appear anywhere.
- codexVoiceFired now requires a Bash tool_use with a `codex exec/review`
command string, not prompt-text mentions.
All SKILL.md files regenerated. Golden fixtures updated. bun test: 0
failures across 80+ targeted tests and the full suite.
Review source: /ship Step 11 adversarial pass (claude subagent + codex
exec). Same findings independently surfaced by both reviewers — this is
cross-model high confidence.
* test: tier-2 hardening tests for context-save + context-restore
21 unit-level tests covering the security + correctness hardening
that landed in commit 3df8ea86. Free tier, 142ms runtime.
Title sanitizer (9 tests):
- Shell metachars stripped to allowlist [a-z0-9.-]
- Path traversal (../../../) can't escape CHECKPOINT_DIR
- Uppercase lowercased
- Whitespace collapsed to single hyphen
- Length capped at 60 chars
- Empty title → "untitled"
- Only-special-chars → "untitled"
- Unicode (日本語, emoji) stripped to ASCII
- Legitimate semver-ish titles (v1.0.1-release-notes) preserved
Filename collision (4 tests):
- First save → predictable path
- Second save same-second same-title → random suffix appended
- Prior file intact after collision-resolved write (append-only contract)
- Different titles same second → no suffix needed
Restore flow cap + empty-set (5 tests):
- Missing directory → NO_CHECKPOINTS
- Empty directory → NO_CHECKPOINTS
- Non-.md files only (incl .DS_Store) → NO_CHECKPOINTS
- 50 files → exactly 20 returned, newest-by-filename first
- Scrambled mtimes → still sorts by filename prefix (not ls -1t)
- No cwd-fallback when empty (macOS xargs ls gotcha)
Migration HOME guard (2 tests):
- HOME unset → exits 0 with diagnostic, no stdout
- HOME="" → exits 0 with diagnostic, no stdout (no "Removed stale"
messages proves no filesystem access attempted)
The bash snippets are copied verbatim from context-save/SKILL.md.tmpl
and context-restore/SKILL.md.tmpl. If the templates drift, these tests
fail — intentional pinning of the current behavior.
* test: tier-1 live-fire E2E for context-save + context-restore
8 periodic-tier E2E tests that spawn claude -p with the Skill tool
enabled and the skill installed in .claude/skills/. These exercise
the ROUTING path — the actual thing that broke with /checkpoint.
Prior tests hand-fed the Save section as a prompt; these invoke the
slash-command for real and verify the Skill tool was called.
Tests (~$0.20-$0.40 each, ~$2 total per run):
1. context-save-routing
Prompts "/context-save wintermute progress". Asserts the Skill
tool was invoked with skill:"context-save" AND a file landed in
the checkpoints dir. Guards against future upstream collisions
(if Claude Code ships /context-save as a built-in, this fails).
2. context-save-then-restore-roundtrip
Two slash commands in one session: /context-save <marker>, then
/context-restore. Asserts both Skill invocations happened AND
restore output contains the magic marker from the save.
3. context-restore-fragment-match
Seeds three saves (alpha, middle-payments, omega). Runs
/context-restore payments. Asserts the payments file loaded and
the other two did NOT leak into output. Proves fragment-matching
works (previously untested — we only tested "newest" default).
4. context-restore-empty-state
No saves seeded. /context-restore should produce a graceful
"no saved contexts yet"-style message, not crash or list cwd.
5. context-restore-list-delegates
/context-restore list should redirect to /context-save list
(our explicit design: list lives on the save side). Asserts
the output mentions "context-save list".
6. context-restore-legacy-compat
Seeds a pre-rename save file (old /checkpoint format) in the
checkpoints/ dir. Runs /context-restore. Asserts the legacy
content loads cleanly. Proves the storage-path stability
promise (users' old saves still work).
7. context-save-list-current-branch
Seeds saves on 3 branches (main, feat/alpha, feat/beta).
Current branch is main. Asserts list shows main, hides others.
8. context-save-list-all-branches
Same seed. /context-save list --all. Asserts all 3 branches
show up in output.
touchfiles.ts: all 8 registered in both E2E_TOUCHFILES and E2E_TIERS
as 'periodic'. Touchfile deps scoped per-test (save-only tests don't
run when only context-restore changes, etc.).
Coverage jump: smoke-test level (~5/10) → truly E2E (~9.5/10) for the
context-skills surface area. Combined with the 21 Tier-2 hardening
tests (free, 142ms) from the prior commit, every non-trivial code
path has either a live-fire assertion or a bash-level unit test.
* test: collision sentinel covers every gstack skill across every host
Universal insurance policy against upstream slash-command shadowing.
The /checkpoint bug (Claude Code shipped /checkpoint as a /rewind alias,
silently shadowing the gstack skill) cost us weeks of user confusion
before we realized. This test is the "never again" check: enumerate
every gstack skill name and cross-check against a per-host list of
known built-in slash commands.
Architecture:
- KNOWN_BUILTINS per host. Currently Claude Code: 23 built-ins
(checkpoint, rewind, compact, plan, cost, stats, context, usage,
help, clear, quit, exit, agents, mcp, model, permissions, config,
init, review, security-review, continue, bare, model). Sourced from
docs + live skill-list dumps + claude --help output.
- KNOWN_COLLISIONS_TOLERATED: skill names that DO collide but we've
consciously decided to live with. Mandatory justification comment
per entry.
- GENERIC_VERB_WATCHLIST: advisory list of names at higher risk of
future collision (save, load, run, deploy, start, stop, etc.).
Prints a warning but doesn't fail.
Tests (6 total, 26ms, free tier):
1. At least one skill discovered (enumerator sanity)
2. No duplicate skill names within gstack
3. No skill name collides with any claude-code built-in
(with KNOWN_COLLISIONS_TOLERATED escape hatch)
4. KNOWN_COLLISIONS_TOLERATED entries are all still live collisions
(prevents stale exceptions rotting after a rename)
5. The /checkpoint rename actually landed (checkpoint not in skills,
context-save and context-restore are)
6. Advisory: generic-verb watchlist (informational only)
Current real collisions:
- /review — gstack pre-dates Claude Code's /review. Tolerated with
written justification (track user confusion, rename to /diff-review
if it bites). The rest of gstack is collision-free.
Maintenance: when a host ships a new built-in, add the name to the
host's KNOWN_BUILTINS list. If a gstack skill needs to coexist with a
built-in, add an entry to KNOWN_COLLISIONS_TOLERATED with a written
justification. Blind additions fail code review.
TODO: add codex/kiro/opencode/slate/cursor/openclaw/hermes/factory/
gbrain built-in lists as we encounter collisions. Claude Code is the
primary shadow risk (biggest audience, fastest release cadence).
Note: bun's parser chokes on backticks inside block comments (spec-
legal but regex-breaking in @oven/bun-parser). Workaround: avoid them.
* test harness: runSkillTest accepts per-test env vars
Adds an optional env: param that Bun.spawn merges into the spawned
claude -p process environment. Backwards-compatible: omitting the
param keeps the prior behavior (inherit parent env only).
Motivation: E2E tests were stuffing environment setup into the prompt
itself ("Use GSTACK_HOME=X and the bin scripts at ./bin/"), which made
the agent interpret the prompt as bash-run instructions and bypass the
Skill tool. Slash-command routing tests failed because the routing
assertion (skillCalls includes "context-save") never fired.
With env: support, a test can pass GSTACK_HOME via process env and
leave the prompt as a minimal slash-command invocation. The agent sees
"/context-save wintermute" and the skill handles env lookup in its own
preamble. Routing assertion can now actually observe the Skill tool
being called.
Two lines of code. No behavioral change for existing tests that don't
pass env:.
* test(context-skills): fix routing-path tests after first live-fire run
First paid run of the 8 tests (commit bdcf2504) surfaced 3 genuine
failures all rooted in two mechanical problems:
1. Over-instructed prompts bypassed the Skill tool.
When the prompt said "Use GSTACK_HOME=X and the bin scripts at
./bin/ to save my state", the agent interpreted that as step-by-step
bash instructions and executed Bash+Write directly — never invoking
the Skill tool. skillCalls(result).includes("context-save") was
always false, so routing assertions failed. The whole point of the
routing test was exactly to prove the Skill tool got called, so
this was invalidating the test.
Fix: minimal slash-command prompts ("/context-save wintermute
progress", "/context-restore", "/context-save list"). Environment
setup moved to the runSkillTest env: param added in 5f316e0e.
2. Assertions were too strict on paraphrased agent output.
legacy-compat required the exact string OLD_CHECKPOINT_SKILL_LEGACYCOMPAT
in output — but the agent loaded the file, summarized it, and the
summary didn't include that marker verbatim. Similarly,
list-all-branches required 3 branch names in prose, but the agent
renders /context-save list as a table where filenames are the
reliable token and branch names may not appear.
Fix: relax assertions to accept multiple forms of evidence.
- legacy-compat: OR of (verbatim marker | title phrase | filename
prefix | branch name | "pre-rename" token) — any one is proof.
- list-all-branches + list-current-branch: check filename timestamp
prefixes (20260101-, 20260202-, 20260303-) which are unique and
unambiguous, instead of prose branch names.
Also bumped round-trip test: maxTurns 20→25, timeout 180s→240s. The
two-step flow (save then restore) needs headroom — one attempt timed
out mid-restore on the prior run, passed on retry.
Relaunched: PID 34131. Monitor armed. Will report whether the 3
previously-failing tests now pass.
First run results (pre-fix):
5/8 final pass (with retries)
3 failures: context-save-routing, legacy-compat, list-all-branches
Total cost: $3.69, 984s wall
* test(context-skills): restore Skill-tool routing hints in prompts
Second run (post 1bd50189) regressed from 5/8 to 0/8 passing. Root
cause: I stripped TOO MUCH from the prompts. The "Invoke via the Skill
tool" instruction wasn't over-instruction — it was what anchored
routing. Removing it meant the agent saw bare "/context-save" and did
NOT interpret it as a skill invocation. skillCalls ended up empty for
tests that previously passed.
Corrected pattern: keep the verb ("Run /..."), keep the task
description, keep the "Invoke via the Skill tool" hint. Drop ONLY the
GSTACK_HOME / ./bin bash setup that used to be in the prompt (now
covered by env: from 5f316e0e). Add "Do NOT use AskUserQuestion" on
all tests to prevent the agent from trying to confirm first in
non-interactive /claude -p mode.
Lesson: the Skill-tool routing in Claude Code's harness is not
automatic for bare /command inputs. An explicit "Invoke via the Skill
tool" or equivalent routing statement in the prompt is what makes
the difference between 0% and 100% routing hit rate.
Relaunching for verification.
* fix(context-skills): respect GSTACK_HOME in storage path
The skill templates hardcoded CHECKPOINT_DIR="\$HOME/.gstack/projects/\$SLUG/checkpoints"
which ignored any GSTACK_HOME override. Tests setting GSTACK_HOME
via env were writing to the test's expected path but the skill was
writing to the real user's ~/.gstack. The files existed — just not
where the assertion looked. 0/8 pass despite Skill tool routing
working correctly in the 3rd paid run.
Fix: \${GSTACK_HOME:-\$HOME/.gstack} in all three call sites
(context-save save flow, context-save list flow, context-restore
restore flow). Default behavior unchanged for real users (no
GSTACK_HOME set). Tests can now redirect storage to a tmp dir by
setting GSTACK_HOME via env: (added to runSkillTest in 5f316e0e).
Also follows the existing convention from the preamble, which already
uses \${GSTACK_HOME:-\$HOME/.gstack} for the learnings file lookup.
Inconsistency between preamble and skill body was the real bug —
two different storage-root resolutions in the same skill.
All SKILL.md files regenerated. Golden fixtures updated.
* test(context-skills): widen assertion surface to transcript + tool outputs
4th paid run showed the agent often stops after a tool call without
producing a final text response. result.output ends up as empty
string (verified: {"type":"result", "result":""}). String-based regex
assertions couldn't find evidence of the work that did happen —
NO_CHECKPOINTS echoes, filename listings, bash outputs — because
those live in tool_result entries, not in the final assistant message.
Added fullOutputSurface() helper: concatenates result.output + every
tool_use input + every tool output + every transcript entry. Switched
the 3 failing tests (empty-state, list-current, list-all) and the
flaky legacy-compat test to this broader surface. The 4 stable-passing
tests (routing, fragment-match, roundtrip, list-delegates) untouched
— they worked because the agent DID produce text output.
Pattern mirrors the autoplan-dual-voice test fix: "don't assert on
the final assistant message alone; the transcript is the source of
truth for what actually happened."
Expected outcome:
- empty-state: NO_CHECKPOINTS echo in bash stdout now visible
- list-current-branch: filename timestamp prefix visible via find output
- list-all-branches: 3 filename timestamps visible via find output
- legacy-compat: stable pass regardless of agent's text-response choice
* test(context-skills): switch remaining string-match tests to fullOutputSurface
5th paid run was 7/8 pass — only context-restore-list-delegates still
flaked, passing 1-of-3 attempts. Same root cause as the 4 tests fixed
in 0d7d3899: the agent sometimes stops after the Skill call with
result.output == "", so /context-save list/i regex finds nothing.
Switched the 3 remaining string-matching tests to fullOutputSurface():
- context-restore-list-delegates (the actual flake)
- context-save-then-restore-roundtrip (magic marker match)
- context-restore-fragment-match (FRAGMATCH markers)
All 6 string-matching tests now use the same broad assertion surface.
Only 2 tests still inspect result.output directly (context-save-routing
via files.length and skillCalls — no string match needed).
Expected outcome: 8/8 stable pass.
* feat: session timeline binaries (gstack-timeline-log + gstack-timeline-read)
New binaries for the Session Intelligence Layer. gstack-timeline-log appends
JSONL events to ~/.gstack/projects/$SLUG/timeline.jsonl. gstack-timeline-read
reads, filters, and formats timeline data for /retro consumption.
Timeline is local-only project intelligence, never sent anywhere. Always-on
regardless of telemetry setting.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat: preamble context recovery + timeline events + predictive suggestions
Layers 1-3 of the Session Intelligence Layer:
- Timeline start/complete events injected into every skill via preamble
- Context recovery (tier 2+): lists recent CEO plans, checkpoints, reviews
- Cross-session injection: LAST_SESSION and LATEST_CHECKPOINT for branch
- Predictive skill suggestion from recent timeline patterns
- Welcome back message synthesis
- Routing rules for /checkpoint and /health
Timeline writes are NOT gated by telemetry (local project intelligence).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat: /checkpoint + /health skills (Layers 4-5)
/checkpoint: save/resume/list working state snapshots. Supports cross-branch
listing for Conductor workspace handoff. Session duration tracking.
/health: code quality scorekeeper. Wraps project tools (tsc, biome, knip,
shellcheck, tests), computes composite 0-10 score, tracks trends over time.
Auto-detects tools or reads from CLAUDE.md ## Health Stack.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore: regenerate SKILL.md files + add timeline tests
9 timeline tests (all passing) mirroring learnings.test.ts pattern.
All 34 SKILL.md files regenerated with new preamble (context recovery,
timeline events, routing rules for /checkpoint and /health).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore: bump version and changelog (v0.15.0.0)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: update self-learning roadmap post-Session Intelligence
R1-R3 marked shipped with actual versions. R4 becomes Adaptive Ceremony
(trust as separate policy engine, scope-aware, gradual degradation). R5
becomes /autoship (resumable state machine, not linear chain). R6-R7
unbundled from old R5. Added State Systems reference, Risk Register
(Codex-reviewed), and validation metrics for R4.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test: E2E tests for Session Intelligence (timeline, recovery, checkpoint)
3 gate-tier E2E tests:
- timeline-event-flow: binary data flow round-trip (no LLM)
- context-recovery-artifacts: seeded artifacts appear in preamble
- checkpoint-save-resume: checkpoint file created with YAML frontmatter
Also fixes package.json version sync (0.14.6.0 → 0.15.0.0).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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