The fresh-context adversarial pass caught a live bug in this branch's own
performance fix: gstack-wtree exported GIT_INDEX_FILE BEFORE resolving the
real index path, so `git rev-parse --git-path index` returned the temp index
itself, the stat-cache copy self-copied and failed, and every invocation fell
back to the full re-hash — the fast path was dead code (verified with bash -x).
Resolution now happens before the export; measured 0.08s per call on this repo.
Also fixed: careful fails to an ASK (not silence) when its own helper file is
missing (same partial-install state freeze already defends against); the
--source label is sanitized inside the envelope lib (newline-stripped,
sentinel-defused, length-capped — it sits in trusted framing); the HIGH rm
tokenizer skips redirections/backgrounding/`--` (rm -rf / 2>/dev/null now
denies) and knows ${HOME}; user pattern lines starting with a dash work
(grep --); greptile bodies carry per-comment id headers inside the envelope so
multi-comment PRs stay attributable (ids verified against raw metadata, never
trusted in-body); the release-body tripwire fails CLOSED when its input files
are missing (separate-shell $$ reality); land 3.5b gets the same allow-paths
as ship; the "either side dirty" fallback leftover is gone from both grading
surfaces; the evidence pump races drain against error (EPIPE consumers can't
hang the wrapper); an unset HOME skips bookkeeping instead of creating a
literal ~ dir inside the repo; a write-failure log ends with a visible marker;
freeze expands a literal leading ~ in the boundary; review-log documents its
log-time binding window.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Red team reviewed what four specialists missed — cross-cutting and
self-contradiction class:
CRITICAL: the release-body banner tripwire failed OPEN on the exact leak it
guards (grep -c prints 0 AND exits 1 on no-match, so a fallback echo
double-emitted "0" twice and the -gt comparison fell into the clean branch) —
counts now default via parameter expansion, and a functional drift test
executes the rendered tripwire block against a 0->1 banner delta to prove the
ABORT branch fires. CRITICAL: evidence fingerprints were captured AFTER the
child exited, so a working-tree edit made DURING a long suite was certified as
tested content — wtree is now captured before spawn and re-checked after;
mid-run drift omits the fingerprint (grades STALE) with a warning.
Also: the review-grading rule dropped its dirty-gates (they nullified the
keystone dirty-record->commit->CURRENT property that evidence checks already
honor — wtree equality alone proves identical content); careful's HIGH
force-push tier falls back to probing origin/main|master when the origin/HEAD
symbolic ref is absent (Conductor worktrees — the tier was silently inert in
the primary deploy environment); quoted tokens (rm -rf "/", push "main") no
longer dodge the deny; freeze fails CLOSED when its own helper file is missing
(bash makes a missing source target fatal non-interactively, so an existence
pre-check guards it); spec dedupe distinguishes pipeline failure from zero
matches instead of silently skipping dedupe on gh/jq breakage; land 3.5b sets
the cross-session --expect-cmd mismatch expectation; hook analytics JSON
fields are encoder-built per this wave's own rule.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Specialist army findings, all quote-verified before fixing:
Security: careful force-push guard now catches git's plus-refspec force
syntax (git push origin +main carried force with no flag — silently allowed
before) and refspec-form targets (HEAD:main); default-branch matching is
tokenized FIXED-STRING comparison on the full branch path (slashed defaults
like release/2.0 work; no ERE interpolation), glob-safe via noglob. HIGH rm
tier is tokenized too: trailing long options (--no-preserve-root) and /* are
root-class. Stored evidence fingerprints are 40-hex re-validated before
reaching git argv. normalizeForDetection sweeps ALL Unicode format chars
(\p{Cf}: soft hyphens, bidi marks, tag chars) instead of five enumerated
zero-widths. The wiring scanner gains flagless gh pr/issue view patterns. The
release-body banner tripwire diffs against the fetched original so a hostile
pre-existing banner string can't permanently DoS doc updates. Ship/land
evidence checks now pass --expect-cmd (a green `echo ok` recorded under the
label can never mint FRESH); package.json stays allow-listed with the
residual documented.
Performance: gstack-wtree seeds its temp index by COPYING the real index
(stat cache preserved — measured 40x faster than read-tree seeding, identical
hash) with read-tree fallback; evidence uses findLast and one gstack-slug
spawn; the stream pump honors backpressure via drain; careful's pattern block
short-circuits before slug resolution when no pattern file exists.
Testing: the gh-failure envelope test was VACUOUS (killing PATH killed the
bun shebang before the code under test ran) — replaced with a PATH gh shim
that exercises the real branch, plus shimmed happy paths (issue/pr-body/
unparseable JSON); evidence check --all + empty ledger + non-numeric
--max-age (now a usage error, was silent fail-open) covered; HIGH-tier
variants pinned; hook analytics respect GSTACK_HOME so tests stop writing the
operator's real skill-usage.jsonl.
Maintainability: dead exit ternary removed; flagValue deduped into
bin-context; sentinel defusal derived from the banner constants (no invisible
literals — \u escapes only); scratch-repo git fixture extracted to
test/helpers/scratch-repo.ts (one hermetic incantation, three consumers);
shared gstack_hook_log_fire in hook-extract.sh; the dashboard/land diff-scoped
row lists are aligned (codex-review) and drift-pinned.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
New bin/gstack-evidence: a transparent wrapper that records every verification
run as {ts, label, command, cmd_sha256, exit, duration_s, commit, tree, dirty,
wtree, log_path} in ~/.gstack/projects/<slug>/<branch>-evidence.jsonl, plus a
read-only `check` that grades FRESH/STALE/MISSING per label. "Tests passed"
now binds to the exact working-tree content it ran on (bin/gstack-wtree
fingerprint), so evidence recorded on uncommitted code stays FRESH after the
exact tested content is committed — the /ship Step 5 -> Step 16 case — while
an untracked new source file or any content change invalidates it.
Check semantics: every named label's latest record must be green, within
--max-age, matching --expect-cmd's hash when given, and fingerprint-identical
(or diff confined to --allow-paths — mechanizing Step 16's existing "CHANGELOG
edits don't count" carve-out). No --any mode: a green lane can never mask a
red sibling. Any git failure inside check (gc'd tree object, not a repo)
degrades to STALE/MISSING, never an error into the calling skill flow.
Transparency invariant (load-bearing, test-pinned): the child's exit code is
ALWAYS the wrapper's exit code; ledger/log/redact failures are stderr
warnings. Logs are per-run (0600, exclusive-open, 2MB truncation marker,
30-day opportunistic prune) — no more shared /tmp collisions between
concurrent ships. Command strings are redact-scanned before recording (HIGH
credential -> stored redacted). Machine-local by design: neither ledger nor
logs brain-sync.
Wired: ship Step 5 lanes run wrapped (per-lane labels), ship Step 16 and
land-and-deploy 3.5b check the ledger first and cite FRESH evidence instead of
re-running; a failed CHECK never blocks (run live), a failed RUN does.
test/evidence.test.ts: 21 tests incl. the keystone dirty-record -> commit ->
FRESH case.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>