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Garry TanandClaude Fable 5 410b4928e7 v1.66.0.0 feat: test/evals/CI speedup — 90s truthful free suite, diff-billed evals, required Linux lane (#2593)
* ci: bump CI image Bun 1.3.10 -> 1.3.13

Matches the local toolchain and brings native `bun test --shard=M/N` /
--parallel to CI (needed by the free-test lane and shard runner work).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* ci: stop version bumps rebuilding the eval Docker image (cache key trio)

Three coupled fixes, atomic because any subset is worse than none:

1. Image tag keys on hashFiles(Dockerfile.ci, bun.lock) — package.json is
   out: its version field changed on 60/60 recent commits, forcing a ~2min
   image rebuild per PR for a dependency set only bun.lock determines.
2. ci-image.yml now pushes that same content-hash tag (previously only
   :latest/:sha, so the weekly prebuild never warmed the tag the eval
   matrix actually looks up) and both eval workflows get registry layer
   cache (cache-to export gated to same-repo runs; fork tokens cannot
   write GHCR).
3. Dockerfile bakes /opt/node_modules_cache/.bun.lock and the runtime
   Restore-deps guard diffs bun.lock instead of package.json — otherwise
   every version-only bump made all 14 matrix jobs fall back to a live
   bun install, which is slower than today's behavior.

Worst-case failure mode is self-healing: a missing tag or cache falls
back to exactly the previous rebuild-and-install path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* ci: stop double-running lint + skill-docs on every PR commit

Both fired on unrestricted push AND pull_request, so each PR push ran
them twice (12 duplicate (headSha, workflow) pairs in the last 200 runs).
push is now main-only; pull_request covers PR branches.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* ci: run actionlint from the prebuilt image (16s -> ~2s)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* ci: right-size five single-core jobs to ubicloud-standard-2

actionlint, skill-docs, version-gate, pr-title-sync, and the evals report
job never exceed one core; standard-8 was ~4x the cost for zero wall-clock.
build-image and the eval matrix keep standard-8.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* ci: fix workflow_dispatch concurrency collisions (head_ref || run_id)

head_ref is empty on workflow_dispatch, so every manual dispatch of these
four workflows shared one empty-suffix group and cancelled each other.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* ci(windows): cache bun installs; run the curated suite, not a hand list

- actions/cache on ~/.bun/install/cache keyed on bun.lock (install was
  35-45s of both 55-64s jobs, all network) and Bun pinned to 1.3.13 to
  match the other lanes.
- windows-free-tests now runs `bun run test:windows` (the runner's
  --windows-only curation) instead of a hand-listed 13-file subset that
  had drifted from the registry it sampled. POSIX-bound tests get
  excluded in ONE place (the curation patterns), not two.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* evals: retry 1, not 2, on every paid path

Measured on the llm-judge shard: --retry 2 amplified 25 tests into 46
executions (+84%), with retried runs at 138s vs a 10-12s baseline (429
backoff), and a permanently-failing test paying 3x. One retry still
absorbs one-off flakes; chronic flakes become visible fix-work instead
of silent wall-clock.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* evals: split skill-e2e-review into three per-file CI shards

Bun runs describe blocks as concurrency barriers, so the e2e-review CI
job executed its tests serially: 741s of an 860s PR critical path for
tests whose slowest member is 224s. The per-file matrix is the repo's
parallelism unit, so the split moves:

- Retro E2E + retro-base-branch  -> test/skill-e2e-retro.test.ts
- review/ship base-branch + Review Dashboard Via Attribution
                                  -> test/skill-e2e-review-attribution.test.ts
- sql-injection / enum-completeness / design-lite stay in
  test/skill-e2e-review.test.ts

One 741s job becomes three ~180-250s jobs. Locally the worst paid shard
drops from 1705s (94.7% of the 1800s kill) to under 700s. Test names,
bodies, suite strings, and eval-store collectors are unchanged, so
baselines carry over. Matrix rows added to both eval workflows
(attribution is gate-only, so no periodic row); the report job's
hardcoded runner count is gone (drift-proof).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: gate security-bench on SECURITY_BENCH=1, not model-cache existence

The existsSync gate ran ~12s of ONNX inference (plus a HuggingFace
dataset fetch) on every free-suite run on any dev box that had ever
warmed the classifier, while CI (no cache) silently skipped it. Now
explicit opt-in: SECURITY_BENCH=1 bun test browse/test/security-bench.test.ts.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: watchdog E2E in 1.5s instead of 22.7s (tunable poll interval)

server.ts gains BROWSE_WATCHDOG_INTERVAL_MS (floor 50ms, default 15s
unchanged). The #994 stay-alive test runs a 250ms tick and waits for the
stay-alive log line instead of blind-sleeping 2s + 20s past the
production interval.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: dedupe coverage gates; route both walks through skill-census

skill-coverage-floor duplicated two matrix assertions (registry
completeness, gate-tier floor) with a DIFFERENT hand-rolled directory
walk — matrix's skipped nothing, floor's skipped node_modules/docs/test.
Two 'same' gates disagreeing on the census is the bug class
test/helpers/skill-census.ts was written to kill. Registry assertions
now live in matrix only (with floor's better error message), both files
walk via skillCensus().authoredSkills, and floor keeps the per-skill
structural checks it owns.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* evals: EVALS_JOBS for shard processes; explicit within-shard concurrency

EVALS_CONCURRENCY was overloaded: the legacy bun-test path used it as
--max-concurrency (default 15) while the sharded runner read it as the
process count — exporting the legacy value gave 15 concurrent Bun
processes each spawning claude (the 429 storm). Now: EVALS_JOBS = shard
processes (default 4); EVALS_CONCURRENCY = bun --max-concurrency inside
a shard (default 4, explicit in shard args — omitting it made
within-shard parallelism silently differ from the legacy path). Stale
49/59 header math replaced with the live-count rule.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* evals: enforce detach-timeout floor from the live shard census

New free tripwire: eval:bg:gate / eval:bg:periodic --timeout must cover
ceil(shards/jobs) x shard-timeout x 1.05, recomputed from the actual paid
test census every run. Hand-derived numbers go stale every time a paid
file lands — the review split just proved it: periodic's 28800s dropped
BELOW its new 32130s worst case (raised to 32400s here). An undersized
watchdog kills healthy runs and the tail reports never-started.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* evals: preflight ping once in the sharded parent, not per shard

The Anthropic fail-fast ping ran at module load in every paid test file
importing e2e-helpers — ~30 paid claude -p calls (30s timeout each) per
full sharded run for one bit of information. The parent now pings once
before spawning shards and sets EVALS_PREFLIGHT_OK=1; the module-load
path honors the flag. Extracted to test/helpers/anthropic-preflight.ts
(injectable spawn seam) with regression pins in both directions: the
flag must skip, its absence must ping exactly once, dead API must throw.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* evals: split touchfiles into pure data + selection logic + facade

touchfiles.ts listed ITSELF in GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES, so adding one test's
dep entry forced the full ~$38 / 30-45min suite — measured on 21.9% of
recent commits (42/192). The self-reference existed because data and
logic shared a file: any edit COULD be a selection-logic change.

Now: touchfiles-data.ts (the four maps, literals only, zero imports —
the future map-diff target), test-selection.ts (matchGlob/detectBase
Branch/getChangedFiles/selectTests), and touchfiles.ts as a re-export
facade so all ~12 import sites are untouched. GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES drops
the self-ref, adds test-selection.ts (logic stays maximally
conservative), and TEMPORARILY adds touchfiles-data.ts until the
map-diff change lands. New free test pins the literal-only property
(comment-aware state-machine scan with a self-test) and facade export
parity (===), so neither can silently rot.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: free runner — strict output, parallel execution, stable shard indices

Three coupled changes to scripts/test-free-shards.ts:

1. STRICT OUTPUT: runFreeShard streams through the paid runner's
   BunTestOutputClassifier — exit 0 without bun's 'Ran N tests across M
   files' summary, with (fail) lines, or with a wrong file count is a
   FAILURE (anti-truncation backstop at the runner layer), plus an
   external wall-clock timeout that SIGKILLs the process group
   (timed-out distinct from failed; exit 124 vs 1). Also fixes a latent
   shard-bleed: file selectors now use exactTestFileSelectors (relative
   paths were substring filters that matched sibling roots).

2. PARALLEL: full-suite mode is one 'bun test --parallel' invocation
   (Bun 1.3.13). Measured semantics recorded in the header: per-file
   worker isolation, standard summary, and mid-suite process.exit
   surfaces as a crashed-worker FAIL with exit 1 — strictly safer than
   serial, where the same exit truncates silently. No static weight
   lists; --shards M --shard i keeps deterministic hash partitioning for
   CI matrices (native --shard rejected: round-robin renumbers when
   files land). Spawned shards get throwaway GSTACK_HOME/TMPDIR so
   parallel shards can't contend on real state. Per-shard epilogue
   prints files/seconds/status every run.

3. Stable indices: assignFilesToShards no longer drops empty shards, so
   a shard's index depends only on the file hash and requested count —
   an empty CI matrix slot is a fast no-op success, not a renumbering.

package.json 'test' now delegates to the runner (TEST_ROOTS becomes the
single source of truth for roots; slop:diff tail preserved; the runner
inherits the 30s per-test timeout the old glob passed inline).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* ci: Linux free-test lane — ~400 files get CI coverage for the first time

New required, secretless free-tests job: the canonical runner's single
'bun test --parallel' invocation with strict-output classification on
ubicloud-standard-8. The free suite previously ran on NO Linux CI — only
a curated Windows subset ran anywhere — so every 'tests pass' claim
about main rested on contributors running them locally.

Secretless by design (no API keys; fork PRs finally get real test
signal) and pinned by test/free-tests-workflow-wiring.test.ts: canonical
runner invoked, zero secrets.* references, pull_request never
pull_request_target, and matrix-count/--shards agreement if anyone
switches to the sharded fallback.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* evals: map-diff selection — a touchfiles-data edit runs only what changed

Editing the eval dep-list data no longer forces the full ~$38 /
30-45min suite (measured on 21.9% of recent commits). When
touchfiles-data.ts is in the diff, selection now evaluates the BASE
version (git show -> mkdtemp -> spawnSync bun child printing the four
maps as JSON — sync because e2e-helpers selects at module scope) and
JSON-diffs per key: added entries, edited dep lists, and tier flips are
selected; keys removed from all maps are reported, never silently
dropped; a GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES edit still runs everything.

FAIL-CLOSED with named causes: missing-base-ref, git-show-failed,
import-failed, shape-mismatch each degrade to run-all and print
'selection: global — touchfiles-data changed (<cause>)' (D9 — silently
expensive beats silently wrong, but never silently). eval:select prints
'selected N of M, reason: ...' + removed tests; --base scopes the
map-diff too.

The temporary conservative GLOBAL entry for touchfiles-data.ts is gone —
its changes route through the map-diff. 23 new free tests: pure-core
fixtures, selectTests wiring incl. a poison-injection guard, and a temp
git repo exercising every fail-closed cause end-to-end.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* evals: selection sees uncommitted work; git errors fail closed

getChangedFiles is now the deduped union of committed (base...HEAD),
staged+unstaged (git diff HEAD), and untracked (git status --porcelain
--untracked-files=all) — an agent that edits files and runs evals
BEFORE committing no longer gets the full $38 suite every time because
the committed diff looked empty. Clean tree still returns [] (run-all
by design for main-branch/periodic runs).

Git failures now THROW with the failing command, stderr, and 'set
EVALS_ALL=1 to deliberately run the full suite' — the old return []
silently became run-all, which is silently expensive. 11 new free tests
cover every source, dedupe, quoted paths, and both failure shapes via
an injectable spawn seam.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: revert GSTACK_HOME injection in the free runner — shared mutable state

The first full run under the strict runner surfaced 12 failures with one
root cause: injecting a single throwaway GSTACK_HOME per invocation made
6,900 tests share a MUTABLE scratch home. gstack-config tests wrote keys
into it; relink and update-check tests then read them (e.g. relink saw
skill_prefix left behind by a config test and produced prefixed names).
All 12 pass when run directly.

TMPDIR isolation stays (mkdtemp inside it is still per-call unique).
Tests needing GSTACK_HOME isolation mkdtemp their own per test — the
repo convention — and hermetic-env covers E2E children. The env-dump pin
now asserts GSTACK_HOME passes through UNTOUCHED so the injection can't
come back.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: rebase parity baseline to v1.64.0.0; fix capture-vs-check drift

The parity ratchet had quietly failed for 7 skills — v1.58-v1.64 growth
landed past the v1.57.7.0 anchors and nothing caught it because this
test had no CI lane (verified pre-existing: SKILL.md content is
byte-identical to origin/main). Same rebase protocol as
v1.53->v1.57.7.0; old baseline retained for the audit trail.

Root-caused a second latent bug while rebasing: captureBaseline recorded
SKELETON-ONLY bytes while the checker compares UNION bytes (skeleton +
carved sections/*.md), so a fresh capture read carved skills at ~2x
ratio (ship: 82KB captured vs 183KB checked). captureBaseline now takes
sectionedSkills and records unions for carved skills — capture and check
measure the same thing, so the NEXT rebase can't hit this. Four
CARVE_GUARDS skeleton caps re-ratcheted to current +headroom
(plan-ceo 92K, plan-eng 70K, office-hours 100K, design-consultation
70K), annotated inline.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix: package.json version matches VERSION (1.64.0.0)

v1.64.0.0 shipped with VERSION bumped but package.json left at 1.63.0.0
— the 'package.json version matches VERSION file' test fails on
origin/main today. Nothing caught it because that test had no CI lane
until this branch's free-tests job.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: fix variants-retry-after HTTP-date flake (TODOS P2)

toUTCString() truncates to whole seconds, so a +3000ms Retry-After date
could mean an effective wait of ~2001ms — flaking against the 2500ms
assertion floor ~1-2 in 9 runs under suite load. +4000ms puts the
truncation floor at 3001ms with the assertion floor safely below it.
Pulled forward from U4 because the free-tests lane is now a required
check and this flake would randomly block PRs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: skill-fixture helper — extract SKILL.md sections, don't copy files

extractSkillSections (fence-aware H2 scanner, loud-throw on missing
sections with available-heading list), extractSkillBody (drops the
shared generated preamble), extractSkillHead (frontmatter + first 30
lines, for routing fixtures). Pinned section lists per consumer, and
free-tier real-skill pins so a gen-skill-docs heading rename fails the
FREE suite instead of a paid run. skill-fixture.ts joins
GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES (fail-safe polarity: over-select).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(evals): review E2E fixtures extract sections — 1871 -> 207 lines

CLAUDE.md's extract-don't-copy rule, applied: the three review fixtures
carry only the sections the sql-injection/enum/design-lite prompts and
judges exercise (89% cut). Full-file copies made claude -p read 1871
lines per test — the direct cause of the 1705s worst shard (94.7% of
the 1800s kill).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(evals): retro E2E fixtures extract sections — 1821 -> 757 lines

Keeps every section the retro flow exercises incl. base-branch detect;
drops preamble, Global Retrospective Mode, Compare Mode (58% cut).
retro-base-branch was the single slowest CI test at 224s.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(evals): review-army fixture extracts sections — 1871 -> 650 lines

CS1's set plus Step 1.5 (PLAN COMPLETION AUDIT machinery) and Step 4.5
(army dispatch, quality_score, findings schema) that the 7 army tests
assert on. Pin test guards the three load-bearing strings.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(evals): skillify fixtures via extractSkillBody — 63-83% smaller

Tests follow all 11 skillify steps, so the whole body stays; only the
shared generated preamble drops (skillify 1239->453, scrape 958->167).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(evals): context-skills fixtures via extractSkillBody — 74-82% smaller

context-save 1037->267 lines, context-restore 952->168; the 8 tests
exercise full save/restore/list flows so the body stays, preamble drops.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(evals): opus-47 discovery fixtures via extractSkillHead — ~95% smaller

Routing/fanout tests only read frontmatter + opening lines of the 14
installed skills (review 1871->54, office-hours 1706->80).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(evals): codex runner gains sections option — review variant 88% smaller

runCodexSkill/installSkillToTempHome accept sections?: string[] routed
through extractSkillSections; codex-review-findings wired (1465->181
lines). codex-discover-skill deliberately keeps the FULL copy — its
stderr assertions validate that the real generated artifact loads.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(evals): routing fixture installs skill HEADS, not ~18 full SKILL.md

Routing reads frontmatter only; extractSkillHead per skill (root
611->48, ship 1435->54 lines). This was the single worst fixture bloat
site: one fixture dir holding ~18 full skills.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* evals: parent-side shard skipping — a one-test diff runs 3 of 44 shards

The sharded runner spawned every shard regardless of diff; only the
child self-skipped, so a typical single-skill change still paid 44 Bun
boots + container-equivalent setup for shards with zero selected tests.
The parent now computes selection once (mirroring e2e-helpers exactly:
EVALS_ALL -> run-all, empty union -> run-all, git errors propagate the
fail-closed throw) and drops shards where no selected test name maps in.

Mapping = quoted E2E map keys in the file's source UNION keys whose dep
list registers the file (constructed-name families need the second
direction). FAIL-OPEN everywhere it matters: run-all, non-skill-e2e
files, unreadable source, zero mapped names all keep the shard — the
child filter stays authoritative, so a parent bug can only run extra.

New taxonomy status skipped-by-diff (never conflated with
never-started); selection banner prints once; --list is selection-aware.
C6 lands in the same commit: a HARD tier-alignment test — every paid
skill-e2e file must be parent-mappable or provably fail-open-safe.
Note: this change-set's 14 dep-list registrations in touchfiles-data.ts
rode along in f945c841 (concurrent-agent staging); they belong to this
change logically.

Demo: selection of one test -> 'running 3 of 44 shards, 41
skipped-by-diff'. 13 new $0 tests via injected seams.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* evals: fix context-save-list test that was 0-for-26 ($5.28, zero passes)

Disposition for the eval store's only permanently-red test. Root cause:
the hide-other-branches assertions scanned the FULL output surface
(incl. bash tool_results), so any agent that ran ls on the checkpoints
dir — the natural first step of a list flow — surfaced all three seeded
filenames and failed, even when its user-facing listing filtered
correctly. The test punished the agent for looking at the directory.

The hide-assertions now scan the agent's FINAL TEXT (the listing the
user sees); showsMain keeps the broad surface for its documented reason.
Validated live in the final gate run rather than quarantined: the test
guards real behavior (branch filtering) and the assertion was the bug.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: wire 12 orphaned test files into the free suite (D3a)

ios-qa/daemon/test (10 files), ios-qa/scripts/gen-accessors.test.ts, and
browser-skills/hackernews-frontpage/script.test.ts ran under NO script
or CI — written coverage catching nothing. All 174 tests green on
arrival (4.6s), zero quarantines needed. TODOS P2 closed: main wired
design/test in v1.64, the variants-retry-after flake it named is fixed
on this branch, and this commit lands the remaining orphans.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: supabase-provision runs in-process — 16.5s -> 0.45s

bin/gstack-gbrain-supabase-provision (482-line bash) becomes a 26-line
bun-shebang entry over a new importable lib/gbrain-supabase-provision.ts
with an injected-deps seam (fetch/env/stdout/sleep — D7: args, never
env-mutation-before-import). The 33 spawn-per-test cases run in-process
against the same Bun.serve mocks; exactly one spawn smoke keeps the
shebang/CLI/receipt contract covered.

Byte-compat proven by a 25-case differential harness (old bash bin from
git vs new, same mock): stdout, stderr, exit codes identical across all
subcommands, JSON/plain modes, and error paths. Egress receipts stay
per-attempt, receipt-before-send, fail-closed (scanner updated:
SHELL_SINKS -> MODULE_SINKS). No-op sleep injection makes retry/backoff
paths instant.

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* evals: kill the 3,372-line zombie monolith; revive 4 never-run tests

test/skill-e2e.test.ts survived the v1.56 split as a zombie: the paid
glob needs the skill-e2e-* hyphen, so with EVALS=1 NOTHING has executed
it for ~8 releases — and it held the ONLY implementations of four
map-registered tests: review-coverage-audit (gate), plan-eng-coverage-
audit (gate), ship-triage (gate), ship-idempotency (periodic). Three
gate tests silently never ran — the exact 0%-execution class this
branch exists to kill.

Rehomed into test/skill-e2e-coverage-audit.test.ts, -triage.test.ts, and
-ship-idempotency-sdk.test.ts with bodies byte-identical modulo collector
wiring and fixture extraction (drift observed in the skills since v1.56
is DOCUMENTED in each header, not fixed — their first paid run in 8
releases must attribute failures to drift, not to this move). All 24
other monolith names were true duplicates of the split files — dropped
with the monolith. Matrix rows added to both eval workflows; the paid
glob's zombie-exclusion is now a commented regression pin.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: fix two parallelism-exposed flakes (probe re-run, live-tree census)

Both pass solo and on main but flaked under the parallel runner:

1. gstack-brain-context-load probed 'gbrain --version' PER QUERY with a
   500ms budget — a cold probe on a saturated box timed out (observed
   505ms), branding gbrain 'missing' for one query while siblings
   passed. The probe is now memoized (availability can't change
   mid-invocation) with a generous one-time 5s budget; query calls keep
   the tight timeout.

2. skill-size-budget's catalog estimate read the LIVE tree, so a
   concurrent worker's transient skill-shaped scratch dirs exactly
   doubled it (8356 vs 4177). The ratchet now counts git-TRACKED skills
   only — the catalog that ships, immune to sibling workers.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* evals: demote 4 expensive posture tests to periodic (D2a)

design-consultation-research ($0.91/304s) and -preview ($0.89/481s) —
the two most expensive gate tests — plus office-hours-forcing-energy
(LLM-judge posture score; its sibling was already demoted) and
cso-full-audit (250s/$0.57; the targeted cso tests stay gate). Saves
~$8-12 and 10-15 min per gate run. The plan-*-finding-floor tests stay
gate deliberately: cheap insurance on the most-edited skill surface.
Housing files have no whole-file self-gates, so the runtime E2E_TIERS
filter handles both tiers; tier-alignment tripwire green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* evals: judge default Sonnet -> Haiku 4.5 (D1a)

The 25 doc-quality judges are rubric-scoring calls — a duty Haiku is
already proven at in this repo (pty hung/working classifier,
first-task-scaffold, hermetic-canary). Tests needing a stronger judge
pass a model explicitly. Note: eval-store judge costs were hardcoded
synthetic (0.02), so no baseline distortion. Re-baselined by the
periodic run in this branch's final verification.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* evals: SDK runner default Opus -> Sonnet (D1a)

agent-sdk-runner defaulted to Opus 4.7 while session-runner (the claude
-p path) defaulted to Sonnet — an inconsistency between the two runners,
not a decision anyone made. Unpinned tests were implicitly asserting the
expensive model. The 30+ tests that genuinely need Opus already pin it
via opts.model. Re-baselined by the periodic run in this branch's final
verification; regressors get explicit Opus pins.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: CLAUDE.md tells the truth about the free suite; make-pdf gate is macOS-only

The '<2s' claim was off by two orders of magnitude (measured 454s serial
at v1.63; ~90-100s now under the parallel runner), and the bare
'bun test' guidance walked the whole repo, loading paid eval files and
missing the strict classifier. Commands now say 'bun run test' with real
numbers, document the strict-output invariant, the EVALS_JOBS /
EVALS_CONCURRENCY split, the computed detach-timeout floor, and the
required free-tests lane. make-pdf-gate drops its Linux leg (redundant
with the free lane running make-pdf tests on every PR); macOS rendering
coverage stays.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: catalog ratchet reads committed content; SDK unit pins follow D1a default

Two follow-ups from the verification runs:

1. skill-size-budget's catalog estimate still flaked under --parallel
   (8356, then 8041, vs 4177 solo) even after filtering to tracked
   skills: sibling workers REGENERATE real SKILL.md files mid-run, so
   any live-tree read is a moving target. The ratchet now reads each
   tracked skill's frontmatter from git show HEAD: — the catalog that
   ships — which no concurrent worker can perturb.

2. agent-sdk-runner unit pins asserted the old Opus default through the
   default-flow fixtures; flipped to the Sonnet default (the explicit-
   override pass-through pins keep Opus — that path is unchanged).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(browse): SIGKILL abandoned Chromium on close-race timeout (suite wedge)

close()'s launched-mode path raced browser.close() against 5s and on
timeout ABANDONED the child: this.browser nulled, process handle lost,
Chromium alive holding keep-alive connections into test servers whose
stop() then waits forever. Reproduced twice as an intermittent (~50%)
whole-suite wedge — a 44min 0.1%-CPU hang pinned by a leaked LISTEN
socket, and a 400s hang with commands.test.ts teardown in flight.

The child handle is now captured BEFORE the race and SIGKILLed on
race-timeout (launched mode only; headed keeps context.close). Race
timers are unref'd so a successful close stops pinning the caller's
event loop for the window. The four browse test servers force-close
keep-alives (stop(true)) as belt-and-braces.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: delete two dead-architecture security contract tests

browse/test/security-source-contracts.test.ts and sidebar-security.test.ts
read browse/src/sidebar-agent.ts at module scope — a file deleted (on main
too) when the sidebar chat-queue path was ripped in favor of the terminal
PTY. Both files have errored on load ever since: the old truncating suite
never surfaced it, and no CI lane ran them. Their subjects (queue-spawn
canary injection, preSpawnSecurityCheck, queued args, chat system prompt)
no longer exist; server.ts retains processAgentEvent only in a comment.

Live security coverage continues in security.test.ts (canary/verdict),
content-security.test.ts (L1-L3), server-sanitize-surrogates.test.ts,
and the security-bench suite. If the terminal-agent path should inherit
any of the deleted contracts, that is a separately scoped piece of work
against the component that actually exists.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(redact): calibrate placeholder recognition for code and doc shapes

Three pushed-secret false positives blocked this branch's push; each is
now recognized as a placeholder in the url_with_password/basic_auth_url
validators, with real passwords still blocking (all pinned):

- ${camelCase} JS template interpolations (the old check only skipped
  uppercase env-style ${DB_PASS}, so the supabase-provision bash->TS
  port's `postgresql://${dbUser}:${dbPass}@...` flagged as two
  pushed secrets).
- The literal PASSWORD/pass placeholder in URL-format doc comments.
- The provision lib's doc comments now use <PASSWORD>/PASSWORD forms.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: opt-in gate for live-playwright ML tests; ios-qa build hygiene

security-live-playwright's L4 tests dlopen onnxruntime inside a bun
--parallel worker whenever the dev box has a warm model cache — the
source of the intermittent 'panic: Segmentation fault' + crashed-worker
retries (and likely the residual run wedges). Same SECURITY_BENCH=1
opt-in as security-bench.test.ts; the L1-L3 tests in the file still run
everywhere.

Also: gitignore the ios-qa gen-accessors-tool Swift .build/ output (a
side-effect of running its tests that kept polluting git status) and
commit its Package.resolved so tool builds resolve reproducibly.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: free runner output contract — name the failure, quiet the noise

Diagnosing a red run used to mean re-running with output captured to a
file and grepping past ~1000 lines of tab-close spam and ASCII art —
several runs today ended with no way to even NAME the failing test, and
a wall-timeout kill said nothing about which file wedged.

New contract: the full child stream ALWAYS lands in a per-run log file
(path printed up front); the console shows only runner lines, (fail)
results, crash markers, and the terminal summary (--verbose restores
the firehose; the strict classifier consumes the full stream in every
mode). After every run a stable epilogue names the outcome:

  [test:free] FAIL — k failing test(s) in j file(s), c crashed
  worker(s). Full log: <path>
    ✗ <file> — <test name>
    ⚠ crashed+retried: <file>
    ⏱ in flight at kill: <files>      (timeout only — the wedge suspects)

Attribution rides bun --parallel's per-file output grouping
(ANSI-stripped — color codes defeated a plain grep today). 12 new pins:
epilogue formats, crash surfacing, quiet/verbose console policy, log
completeness, in-flight-at-kill on a real hang.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: quarantine 5 pre-existing env failures individually (receipts in-file)

Three snapshot tests (stale-ref error, snapshot -D diff, annotation
cleanup) and two extension-sender-auth behavioral tests fail identically
on origin/main v1.64.1.0, solo, on dev machines — verified per the blame
protocol. Main's CI lane skip-lists both FILES wholesale; quarantining
only the five failing tests keeps the other 60 guarding. Each carries
the un-skip condition.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: stealth-webdriver launch gets parallel-load headroom (120s)

Playwright's default 30s launch timeout dies under the full-suite
--parallel run when ~400 workers contend for Chromium launches — bun
reports the hook death as an '(unnamed)' 30006ms failure (named on
sight by the new runner epilogue). Both launch sites get explicit 120s
timeouts; the runner's external wall-clock still bounds the ceiling.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: free-runner wall timeout 15min -> 6min (faster wedge diagnosis)

The suite completes in ~100-160s; a wedge used to mean 15 minutes of
silence before the kill-and-name epilogue fired. 6min keeps ~3.5x
headroom over the slowest observed clean run while naming wedge
suspects in minutes. --wall-timeout <secs> overrides per run.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: run worker-hostile files in a serial child (first entry: security-live-playwright)

The residual full-suite wedge, named by the new epilogue: Bun 1.3.13
segfaults running browse/test/security-live-playwright.test.ts in a
--parallel worker ('panic: Segmentation fault ... a bug in Bun'), and
the crashed-worker retry then wedges the whole invocation past the wall
clock. The file passes serially.

New WORKER_HOSTILE placement list: full-suite mode excludes listed files
from the parallel invocation and runs them in their own strict-classified
serial child afterward — execution placement, not a skip; each entry
carries its reason and removal condition.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: gate compare-board's file-level hooks too — the intermittent staller

Skipped describes do NOT skip file-level hooks: the quarantined
compare-board file still ran its top-level beforeAll (PNG fixtures +
Bun.serve + a BrowserManager launch — exactly the 'needs a
display-shaped env' code) on every run, and under parallel load that
setup wedges. Caught red-handed by the runner's in-flight-at-kill
epilogue: '⏱ in flight at kill: browse/test/compare-board.test.ts'.
This was the suite's intermittent staller. Hooks now honor the same
GSTACK_COMPARE_BOARD_TESTS gate; the gated file drops from 3.7s of live
setup to 0.4s of pure skips.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: full suite runs as N shard processes; scrub spec-sync child env

Two fixes from the wedge-hunt endgame:

1. Full-suite mode switches from one 'bun test --parallel' invocation to
   N concurrent shard PROCESSES, serial within each (the paid runner's
   proven model; N = min(6, cpus-2)). The single-invocation strategy hit
   three distinct Bun 1.3.13 worker pathologies in one day — a segfault
   whose crashed-worker retry wedged the run, a quarantined file's
   still-running file-level hooks stalling a worker, and spawn-heavy
   files hanging under load — and each one stalled the WHOLE invocation.
   Process shards isolate any wedge to its own shard. First full run
   under this model: no wedge, six epilogues, one real failure named.
   WORKER_HOSTILE stays as the paper trail; --parallel remains available
   per-shard for a future Bun.

2. That one real failure: spec-template-sync regenerates SKILL.md via a
   child that inherited the shard process's env — an earlier test's
   GSTACK_*/GBRAIN_* mutations changed generator output (failed in-suite,
   passed solo on an identical tree). The child now gets a scrubbed env:
   generator output must be a function of the templates, not of whichever
   test ran before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: tree-mutating tests run after the parallel shards; scrub relink env

The flake family's root cause, finally: five test files REGENERATE
shared repo artifacts in place (catalog-mode-full rewrites every
SKILL.md in full-catalog mode; spec-sync and idempotency regenerate all
skills; gen-skill-docs and skill-validation rewrite .agents/). Any
concurrent shard reading those files sees a moving target — this one
family produced the exactly-doubled catalog estimate, the golden-file
drift, and the spec-sync mismatch chased earlier today. Full-suite mode
now runs TREE_MUTATING files in one serial shard AFTER the parallel
shards complete; CI's matrix is unaffected (per-runner checkouts).

Also: relink's run() helper spread process.env into its children, so a
sibling file's leaked GSTACK_HOME made the 'fresh install' test see a
neighbor's skill_prefix. GSTACK_HOME is now dropped unless the test
passes it explicitly.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: gbrain-detection-override joins TREE_MUTATING (mutator #6)

It regenerates SKILL.md in place with --respect-detection (the gbrain
variant adds ~1-3KB per carved skeleton) and git-restores afterward —
its own header documents the approach. During that window the parity
suite in a concurrent shard read inflated skeletons and failed 4 caps.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: tree-ratchet readers join the serial phase (quiet tree by construction)

Two consecutive runs failed the parity caps with byte-identical inflated
skeletons (+~2KB gbrain-variant blocks) while the tree was clean before
and after — some concurrent regen window keeps escaping the mutator
census. Rather than hunt every present and future mutator, the tests
that MEASURE the shared tree (parity caps, size budgets, carve guards)
now run in the serial phase after the parallel shards: a quiet tree by
construction, immune to any regen we haven't found.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* evals: judge default back to Sonnet — Haiku regressed the rubric family (A/B receipts)

The partial-diff rehearsal was the Haiku judge default's first live run
and it failed all three selected doc-rubric judges. Controlled A/B on
the identical health-rubric prompt: Haiku 2/2/2 vs Sonnet 4/3/4, both
with coherent reasoning — Haiku is simply a harsher grader on
long-document rubrics, and every >=4 threshold in skill-llm-eval was
calibrated against months of Sonnet baselines. Per D1a's
pin-on-regressors protocol the default reverts; a new
GSTACK_EVAL_MODEL_JUDGE override makes future recalibration a one-var
experiment. Haiku keeps the classifier-grade duties (pty hung/working,
warmup, distill via lib/eval-model.ts) and D1a's capture->Sonnet stands.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(test-runner): per-origin classifier buffers — interleaved pipes can't shear lines

stdout and stderr are independent pipes; a chunk from one can arrive
between two halves of a line from the other. The single shared
pending-buffer glued those fragments into garbled lines: a sheared
(fail) line went uncounted (defeating the exit-0-with-failures
backstop) and a sheared terminal summary read as truncation.
Counters stay shared; line assembly is now per-stream, and both
runners tag the stream origin. Also drops the dead ChildProcess
type import left by the killProcessGroup move.

* fix(test-runner): real carve-guard keys in TREE_MUTATING; census pins; size-scaled wall deadlines

TREE_MUTATING listed 'test/carve-guard-checks.test.ts' — a file that
has never existed (the real ratchet readers are
carve-guard-completeness and carve-section-ordering), so the intended
serialization was silently absent. New census pin tests fail on any
key that doesn't name a real free test file, and on a TEST_ROOTS
entry that stops contributing files. Full-suite wall deadlines now
scale with shard size (max(6min, files x 5s)) so a jobs=1 machine or
the ~130-file Windows shards can't false-timeout a healthy run;
explicit --wall-timeout disables scaling. Stale --parallel wording in
the dry-run message, jsdoc, and the TREE_MUTATING ordering comment
corrected to the shipped process-shard model.

* fix(evals): selection under-selection fixes — duplicate keys, self-paths, quotePath

Three under-selection holes: (1) duplicate E2E_TOUCHFILES keys
(ship-plan-completion/-verification) — JS keeps the LAST duplicate, so
the earlier dep lists were dead; pair deleted and a duplicate-key scan
added to the literal-only tripwire. (2) The five rehomed e2e files
didn't list themselves in their own dep lists, so editing the test
never selected it. (3) git C-escapes non-ASCII paths without
core.quotePath=false, so an accented filename matched no glob and
deselected its tests. Also updates the stale --retry cost comment.

* fix(evals): destructive-actions guard actually inspects Bash commands

The rehomed guard filtered on typeof input === 'string', but
session-runner records tool inputs as objects ({command} for Bash) —
the filter matched nothing and the assertion could never fail, even
against a real 'git push'. Now extracts the command from the object
shape, same as the usedGitDiff check above it.

* fix(redact): interpolation allowance can't swallow a real $word password

The placeholder calibration used optional braces on both sides, which
also suppressed bare $lowercase — a real password starting with '$'
would have passed the HIGH gate. Interpolation now means ${identifier}
(braced, any case) or bare $UPPER_SNAKE only; both connection-string
patterns share one validator so they can't drift. Pins added for the
bare-$word block, $UPPER allowance, and mismatched-brace block.

* fix(gbrain): wait --timeout validates up front instead of polling forever on NaN

Number('abc') is NaN, NaN comparisons are always false, and the
poll loop never hit its deadline — an infinite 5s loop where the bash
predecessor errored immediately. die(2) at parse time, with a test.

* ci: least-privilege tokens on the two lanes that execute PR-controlled code

free-tests runs PR code (install lifecycle scripts + the suite) with
whatever the repo-default GITHUB_TOKEN grant is, persisted into
.git/config by checkout. Now: permissions contents:read,
persist-credentials false, pinned by the wiring test. actionlint gets
the same treatment plus a digest pin on the third-party Docker Hub
image (a tag is repointable with no GitHub-side audit trail, and the
image sees the mounted checkout). restore-keys added to both caches so
a lockfile bump warms from the previous cache; stale --parallel header
wording corrected.

* test(browse): unit coverage for the close() SIGKILL fallback

The wedge fix (capture the Chromium child before the close race,
SIGKILL on timeout) shipped without a test of the branch it added —
the coverage audit flagged it as the diff's one regression-gap. The
5s race window becomes an injectable closeRaceMs field, and four unit
tests pin: SIGKILL on hang, no SIGKILL on clean close, no SIGKILL on
an already-exited child, SIGKILL on a rejecting close.

* docs: CLAUDE.md describes the shipped shard-process model, not the abandoned --parallel probe

* fix(test-runner): cancellation terminates the run; win32 kills the whole tree

Installing SIGINT/SIGTERM forwarders suppresses Node's default
terminate-on-signal, so a cancelled run killed the current child and
kept LAUNCHING shards — observed as paid runs continuing to burn API
spend after Ctrl-C (codex adversarial, repro'd ALIVE_AFTER_SIGTERM).
The first signal now also schedules the parent's own exit after the
children's SIGKILL grace, and both shard pools consult
isTerminationRequested() before taking new work. On win32,
killProcessGroup uses taskkill /T /F — detached:true creates no
killable group there, and a bare child.kill orphaned every grandchild
(ports, locks, and the inherited pipes that kept close from firing).
Also: the tree-mutating serial shard prints dirty generated artifacts
when it dies mid-regeneration, and --shard CI-matrix mode gets the
same size-scaled wall deadline as full-suite mode.

* fix(evals): preflight fails fast on spawn error, timeout, and exit 127

The ping only grepped stdout for two connection strings — a missing
claude binary, a 30s timeout kill, or command-not-found all returned
'ok', and the fleet then burned ~30 shard timeouts discovering the
outage one child at a time. Cross-model finding (testing specialist +
codex adversarial). Other non-zero exits stay deliberately fail-open:
a flaky preflight must not block a runnable suite; pinned both ways.

* fix(redact): lowercase 'password'/'pass' at the URL-password position blocks

The case-insensitive placeholder words waved postgres://admin:password@host
through the HIGH gate as a doc placeholder (codex adversarial,
verified zero findings pre-fix). URL-password position is now stricter
than generic placeholder detection: ALL-CAPS doc convention
(USER:PASSWORD), ${identifier} interpolations, bare $UPPER_SNAKE, and
structural shapes (<your-password>) suppress; lowercase dictionary
words block. Pinned in both directions.

* fix(gbrain): DSNs percent-encode the password; body reads retry; stdout drains

Three codex-adversarial findings in the provision port: (1) raw DB_PASS
interpolation — a reserved character (/ # ? % @) restructured the URI,
provisioning succeeded, and every consumer then failed to parse the DSN
(unusable billable orphan); now encodeURIComponent, round-trip pinned.
(2) await res.text() sat outside the transport try — a server that sent
headers then reset the stream was an uncaught exit 1 instead of a
retry-then-exit-8. (3) The bin entrypoint called process.exit() after
unawaited stdout writes, truncating piped JSON; exitCode lets writes
drain.

* fix(evals): selection-path helpers join GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES; base-branch keys self-register

The three-file split moved test-selection.ts into the globals but
dropped the facade — an edit to test/helpers/touchfiles.ts (executable
selection-path code imported by every consumer) selected ZERO paid
tests, the exact invisible-non-execution class this branch exists to
kill (claude adversarial, finding 1). e2e-helpers.ts (the harness every
paid test imports) and paid-test-set.ts (paid-vs-free classification)
had the same gap. The review/ship base-branch keys also register
test/skill-e2e-review-attribution.test.ts so editing those tests
selects them.

* ci(free-tests): PR-number concurrency, failure-log artifact, main-push runs

Three red-team/adversarial findings on the new required lane:
(1) concurrency keyed on bare head_ref — two forks with the same
branch name shared one group, so a push to fork B cancelled fork A's
in-flight REQUIRED check (merge-pipeline DoS with no code fault); key
on the PR number. (2) The runner's full logs die with the runner in
os.tmpdir() — a red check named WHICH test failed but never why;
upload the shard logs as an artifact on failure. (3) PR-only trigger
meant two individually-green PRs could merge into a red main with
nothing running the suite there; add push: branches: [main].

* ci: PR-number concurrency keying on the eval and Windows lanes too

Same fork-branch-name collision as free-tests.yml: bare head_ref
carries no owner prefix, so same-name branches from different forks
shared a cancel-in-progress group.

* test(evals): retro E2E passes require the report on disk

Both retro tests passed with zero work product: error_max_turns
counted as success and the content assertion was guarded by
fs.existsSync — a run that burned 30 turns and wrote nothing recorded
green (red team). The report is now load-bearing for pass/fail.

* chore: bump version and changelog (v1.66.0.0)

Test/evals/CI speedup pass: release summary + itemized changes in
CHANGELOG.md; TODOS.md marks the free-suite exit-code P1 complete and
files the review-army follow-ups.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(redact): fully-braced ${...} interpolations are code, whatever they contain

The identifier-only braced form flagged the DSN builder's own
${encodeURIComponent(dbPass)} call site as a pushed secret — a scan
that cries wolf on the fix for the previous finding. Any ${...}
spanning the whole password segment is template code; bare $word
stays uppercase-only so $hunter2 still blocks. The mismatched-brace
negative fixture assembles at runtime so this file's own pushed bytes
carry no blockable URL shape.

* test(gbrain): assemble the pooler expected-URL from parts (scan-clean pushed bytes)

* docs: sync docs for v1.66.0.0 (test/evals/CI speedup)

CONTRIBUTING.md, AGENTS.md, and ARCHITECTURE.md still taught bare
`bun test` for the suite; the shipped runner deprecates it (walks the
whole repo, loads paid eval files, misses the strict classifier). All
suite-level references now say `bun run test`, the Tier 1 section
describes the strict shard runner (~90-100s, --verbose, --wall-timeout),
the sharded paid-runner paragraph documents diff-based shard skipping
and the EVALS_JOBS / EVALS_CONCURRENCY split, the Tier 3 row points at
the actual judge-only invocation, and GSTACK_EVAL_MODEL_JUDGE is
documented at the judge it overrides.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* ci(free-tests): restore the PR-number concurrency + failure-log artifact; truth-fix stale comments

The workspace-revert incident that hit CHANGELOG/TODOS mid-ship also
caught free-tests.yml between edits: commit 8d6c2ff8's message claims
PR-number concurrency + artifact upload + main-push runs, but only the
push trigger survived to the commit (caught by the /document-release
doc-vs-code audit). Both re-applied. Also: eval-model.ts header said
capture defaults to Opus (it's Sonnet per D1a), paid-shards' header
pinned a stale 44/63 shard census, and two CHANGELOG phrases
over-claimed ('six' -> 'up to six' shard processes; retry-1 scoped to
retry-bearing paid paths).

* ci: setup-buildx before every cache-exporting image build

First live run of the cache trio failed at flag-parse time: the
default buildx `docker` driver hard-errors on cache-to registry
export ('Cache export is not supported for the docker driver'), which
failed build-image on PR #2593 and skipped the entire gate eval
matrix behind it. docker/setup-buildx-action creates the
docker-container builder that supports registry cache export; all
three build sites (evals, evals-periodic, ci-image) get it.

* fix(browse): Xvfb identity is argv[0]'s basename, not a cmdline substring

First Linux CI run: isOurXvfb identified the TEST RUNNER as our Xvfb —
the suite's own argv contains 'xvfb.test.ts', the substring match over
the whole cmdline passed, and the start-time check matched because the
pid was real. Any process whose ARGUMENTS mention xvfb (a runner, an
editor) was killable — the sibling-kill class the identity check
exists to prevent. Identity now rests on argv[0]'s basename ('Xvfb'),
with a sh-$0 regression pin. isDisplayFree falls back to the X
socket/lock files when xdpyinfo isn't installed (x11-utils is absent
on some images that ship Xvfb).

* fix(test-runner): strip GHA ::group:: wrappers before file attribution

On GitHub Actions bun wraps each file's log section in ::group::. The
un-stripped header failed FILE_HEADER_RE, failures attributed to the
PREVIOUS file, and the terminal recap's re-printed (fail) lines landed
under a phantom second file — the first Linux run reported 5 real
failures as 10 across 2 files (one of them innocent). Strip the prefix
before matching; the existing file+test dedupe then absorbs the recap.

* test: first-Linux-run environment fixes — bun-only PATH shim, claude gate, darwin-scoped pdf gates

Three environmental assumptions the Linux lane exposed:
(1) gbrain-detect's deterministic SAFE_PATH lacked the bun runtime, so
every env-shebang spawn exited 127 on CI; a scratch dir holding ONLY a
bun symlink joins the PATH (appending bun's real dir would leak its
siblings — dev boxes keep gbrain there too).
(2) host-config's 'detect finds claude' assumed a claude binary; the
secretless lane deliberately has none — gated on Bun.which.
(3) The four make-pdf render gates hard-required prerequisites on ANY
CI, but the make-pdf gate workflow is macOS-only by decision and the
Linux lane doesn't build dist/pdf — hard-require scoped to darwin.

* ci(free-tests): run the suite under xvfb-run

Headed-browser tests (handoff, extension sidepanel DOM) need a real
DISPLAY; the first Linux run died on Playwright's 'headed browser
without an XServer' banner. xvfb-run -a provides the display; x11-utils
ships xdpyinfo for display probing.

* fix(test-runner): bun's headerless failure recap can't invent a phantom failing file

Round-3 CI showed the remaining half of the recap bug: bun prints
'N tests failed:' then re-prints every (fail) line with NO file
headers, so they attributed to the stale currentFile — an innocent
file (test/uninstall.test.ts) was charged with another file's 5
failures. The recap marker now ends attribution (currentFile=null,
chunk closed) and recap re-prints of already-recorded test names
dedupe; a recap-only failure the main run never attributed still
records, unattributed, as belt and braces.

* test(browse): sidepanel DOM suite launches with --no-sandbox on CI + console capture

The suite's raw chromium.launch had no --no-sandbox — every browse
test that goes through gstack's launcher (which always passes it)
survived the Linux lane, while this file's sandboxed renderer died on
first navigation: waitForFunction hung to the 15s test timeout, then
every newContext failed with Target.createBrowserContext. Also wires
pageerror/console-error capture at all six pages so a page-side
failure reads as itself in CI logs instead of a bare timeout.

* test(browse): delete the sidepanel security-DOM suite — it tests UI removed in v1.14

Another member of the never-ran class: the file skipped everywhere
(Playwright chromium absent locally, no Linux CI until this branch),
so it rotted invisibly through THREE contract changes — the v1.63
/extension-token bootstrap, the endpoint growth (/memory,
/pty-session, /sse-session), and finally the v1.14 sidebar-REPL
rewrite that removed the security shield/banner UI it asserts on
(#security-shield survives in sidepanel.html as a dead hidden stub
with no JS driver; sidepanel.js:87 and :1317 document the removal).
The Linux lane executed it for the first time and it can never pass:
the behavior is gone. The L1-L3 security filters it name-checked stay
covered by the ~83 unit/behavioral security tests. The free-tests
lane also vendors xterm assets (bun run vendor:xterm) so the
sidepanel terminal scripts load for any future DOM coverage.

* ci(evals): per-row retry override — two receipted rows keep the third attempt

Three PR rounds of receipts: pty-plan-smoke failed attempt 2 in two
consecutive rounds with ROTATING members (plan-design-review, then
plan-eng-review) and e2e-workflow's document-release timed out on
attempt 2 in round 4 — while both families pass on branches still
running three attempts, and every other row stayed green at --retry 1
across all rounds. Matrix rows gain an optional retries field
(default 1); only these two rows set 2, keeping the measured
retry-amplification win everywhere else.

* test(windows): curate the seven POSIX-bound files the expanded lane surfaced; fix flag-utils path embedding

First full run of the expanded Windows lane (13 -> ~258 files, PR #2593
run 31918591602) failed in exactly 8 files. One was a real test bug,
fixed: design-flag-utils embedded a raw Windows ROOT into a bun -e
string where backslashes act as escapes (D:\a\gstack imported as
D:agstack) — forward slashes work on every platform. The other seven
are POSIX-bound in ways the content patterns cannot see (sed/ln/bash
ARE their subject, a shebang shim arrives via variable, wall-clock
retry bounds on the slowest runner) — each gets a receipted
KNOWN_WINDOWS_INCOMPATIBLE entry, and the census pin now covers that
list so a renamed file fails the suite instead of silently keeping a
stale exclusion.

* test(windows): curate skill-census + browser-manager-unit; surface unhandled errors in the epilogue

Round-2 Windows census (zero failing TESTS — the first curation wave
held): shard 1 failed on an unhandled module-load throw in
skill-census (the skills-tree symlink layout needs Developer Mode CI
runners lack) and shard 2 wedged to its wall deadline inside
browser-manager-unit — both get receipted exclusions; macOS + Linux
lanes keep covering the files. The unhandled-error class also exposed
an epilogue gap: it fails the shard via the strict classifier but
produces no (fail) lines, so the epilogue read 'FAIL — 0 failing
test(s)' with no culprit. The reporter now attributes each
'# Unhandled error between tests' marker to its chunk and the FAIL
line carries the count.

* docs: file the two Windows-lane follow-ups (browser-manager wedge, skill-census symlinks)

* test(windows): round-3 curation — seven files the round-2 wedge had been truncating

The browser-manager-unit wedge was cutting shard 2 short, so each
Windows round revealed the next segment of never-run files. With the
wedge excluded, shard 2 completes (50s) and shows its real failures:
seven more POSIX-environment files (PID/cmdline identity probing,
bash scripts as the subject under test, env-scrubbed bun spawns).
Shards 1 and 3 (including all tree-mutators) now PASS on
windows-latest — this should be the fixed point: ~234 files of real
Windows coverage vs the 13 hand-picked before.

* test(windows): round-4 curation (spawnSkill env, symlink fixtures) + shard-log artifact

Shard 2 ran all 132 files with zero (fail) lines yet bun exited 1 —
unhandled errors in a shape neither counter names, and the Windows
lane had no log artifact to attribute them. Statically attributed and
excluded: browser-skill-commands (spawnSkill spawns bun with a
constructed env; resolution fails under Windows spawn) and
security-audit-r2 (evil-link symlink fixtures need Developer Mode).
The lane now uploads its shard logs on failure like free-tests.yml,
with os.tmpdir() pointed at runner.temp so the glob can find them.

* evals: Opus pin on the spec AUQ-matrix entry — D1a regressor, receipts in-file

The periodic re-baseline for the capture default (Opus -> Sonnet)
found exactly one regressor across the seven-entry AUQ behavioral
matrix: spec failed twice under Sonnet ('never reached a question in
budget', 242s) while its six siblings passed; the controlled Opus
re-run passed cleanly (7/7 format, substance 5, 160s), and a second
run through the new per-entry model plumbing confirms. MatrixSkill
gains an optional model field wired into captureFirstAuq; only spec
sets it. TODOS gains the re-baseline receipts for the never-baselined
periodic tail (three setup-gbrain files + ship-idempotency, all
local-only).

* test(evals): scope-gate assertion carries its evidence tail; file the detector-flake TODO

The plan-design-review member fails ONLY scopeGateQuestionObserved
intermittently on unchanged code (PR #2593: red rounds 3/11 + rerun,
green rounds 5/6 — every attempt terminal, no plan-mode leak), and a
bare Expected-true/Received-false is undiagnosable from CI logs. The
check now throws with the last-2KB visible evidence, so the next
failure distinguishes a detector-sensitivity miss from a real silent
bypass. TODO filed with the full receipt trail.

* test(evals): review-dashboard-via budget 300s -> 360s — third ratchet of the same contention story

PR #2472 documented the 180s deterministic 0-turn startup timeouts and
ratcheted to 300s; PR #2593 hit 302s timeouts on attempt 2 in two
consecutive runs while five sibling rounds passed — marginal at 300s
under 40-way in-shard concurrency. Same headroom its contention-class
sibling (retro-base-branch) carries; outer bun timeout rises to 480s.

* test(evals): document-release budget 180s -> 300s — same contention ratchet, receipts in-file

Timed out at exactly 180s on its final attempt twice on PR #2593
(rounds 4 and 13) while passing four other rounds — a 30-turn
multi-step doc workflow is marginal at 180s under 40-way in-shard CI
concurrency. Same story and same fix as review-dashboard-via and
retro-base-branch; outer bun timeout rises to 360s.

* docs: file the systemic in-shard-concurrency follow-up behind the timeout-flake family

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* fix(ci): skill-docs freshness gate covers all 10 hosts and can actually fail

The Codex/Factory gates ran 'git diff --exit-code -- .agents/' / '-- .factory/',
but both paths are gitignored (.gitignore:16-17) — git diff on ignored untracked
paths is always empty, so those two gates were structurally incapable of failing
and 7 of 10 hosts had no gate at all.

New shape: one 'gen:skill-docs --host all' pass (the generator hard-fails on any
per-host error, gating all 10 hosts on generates-cleanly), byte-freshness via
git diff for tracked output, plus a porcelain check that fails on untracked
generated strays (git diff can't see brand-new files). The gitignored-hosts
byte-freshness limitation is documented in the workflow comment.

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* fix(test): exorcise the sidebar-agent ghost from the test suite

browse/src/sidebar-agent.ts was deleted in the v1.14 sidebar refactor, but the
test suite kept testing it for 48 versions. Nothing noticed because the free
suite runs in no CI job and Bun-era module-load errors were suppressed in the
Windows shard runner via an exclusion pattern whose own comment documented the
breakage ('broken on every platform since v1.14 ... exit 0').

- Delete sidebar-security.test.ts + security-source-contracts.test.ts: crashed
  at module load (unguarded readFileSync of the deleted file); per-assertion
  triage confirmed every SERVER_SRC pin targeted the deleted chat prompt
  builder (zero hits in today's server.ts) — nothing to port.
- Delete sidebar-integration.test.ts: 11 of 13 tests exercised deleted
  endpoints (/sidebar-command queue, /sidebar-agent/event, chat buffer); the 2
  passing tests pinned only the blanket auth gate, covered by
  server-auth.test.ts + dual-listener.test.ts.
- Delete test/skill-e2e-sidebar.test.ts: E2E for the deleted queue flow.
- sidebar-ux.test.ts 1,669 -> 830 lines: 20 dead-chat describes + 15 dead
  tests removed (incl. 10 vacuous passes asserting on empty indexOf slices);
  2 stale pins on LIVE features fixed (content.js typed-catch CSSOM fallback,
  arrow-hint window widened). 95 pass / 0 fail.
- sidebar-tabs.test.ts: both failures were stale pins, not regressions —
  forceRestart's deliberate ws.close(4001) and the terminal-agent spawn that
  moved into spawnTerminalAgent() (identity-based kill refactor). 28 pass.
- touchfiles.ts: drop the three sidebar E2E entries from BOTH maps
  (E2E_TOUCHFILES + E2E_TIERS) — they pointed diff-selection at the deleted
  file, so those tests were unreachable by any diff.
- test-free-shards.ts: remove the now-dead sidebar-agent exclusion pattern.

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* feat(ci): run the free test suite in CI (it ran nowhere)

The full free suite (bun test: browse/test/ + test/ + make-pdf/test/) had no CI
job on any Linux/macOS runner — only Windows curated shards, paid evals, and
doc-freshness gates existed. That's how two module-load-crashing test files
survived 48 versions.

Same cached Dockerfile.ci image and container wiring as evals.yml (deps
restore, build, Chromium verify). Includes a module-load-error guard: older
Bun reported test-file import crashes with exit 0 on macOS/Linux, so the job
also fails on any nonzero 'N errors' count in the summary — future crash-class
regressions can't hide from the exact job built to catch them.

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* feat(test): validate touchfile dependency paths exist on disk

New guard in touchfiles.test.ts: every non-glob dep path must exist, and every
glob's anchor directory must exist. This is the axis the 181-key two-map sync
discipline never covered — an entry can point at a long-deleted file and
diff-based selection then silently never triggers those tests (the sidebar
trio sat rotted for 48 versions).

First run immediately caught a fourth rotted entry: 'spec authored quality'
referenced test/fixtures/spec/** (directory does not exist) and selected for a
judge test that exists nowhere in the repo. Removed.

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* fix(security): remove deleted /sidebar-chat endpoint from tunnel allowlist

TUNNEL_PATHS is the audited tunnel attack surface — its own comment says every
addition widens it. '/sidebar-chat' stayed in the set after the endpoint was
deleted with the chat-queue path, meaning any future route matching that path
would have been silently tunnel-exposed. The set is now exactly the pair
ceremony (/connect) and the scoped command endpoint (/command), and the
dual-listener closed-set pin enforces that.

Also repairs a pre-existing red pin in dual-listener.test.ts: v1.63.0.0 made
the tunnel allowlist args-aware (canDispatchOverTunnel gained a second param)
without updating the test — red on main since then, invisible because the free
suite had no CI job.

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* fix(security): delete chain's shadow dispatcher that skipped every security gate

meta-commands.ts carried a 'CLI mode' fallback that re-implemented command
routing without the server pipeline's gates: no scope check, no domain check,
no tab ownership, no rate limit, no hidden-element stripping, no scoped-token
enveloping — and it called handleReadCommand without a BrowserManager, which
also skipped the JS-origin cookie-exfiltration assertion. It was unreachable
in production (server.ts always passes executeCommand) and one boolean away
from being live.

chain now hard-errors without a server context. handleReadCommand's bm param
is required and assertJsOriginAllowed runs unconditionally. The chain tests
that exercised the deleted fallback now route through a server-shaped
executeCommand adapter (real handlers + trust wrapping + {status,result}
envelope), so their behavioral coverage — sequencing, trust markers, pipe
format, aliases, error reporting — survives on the production-shaped path.

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* fix(extension): delete the dead chat-queue client surface

The sidebar-command handler in background.js POSTed to a server endpoint that
no longer exists (deleted with the chat queue) — ~35 lines of fully-wired dead
code including error handling for the permanent 404, plus its allowlist entry.
No sender in the extension ever emitted the message type.

chatEnabled leaves the /health contract (server hardcoded false, background.js
re-derived it, nothing consumed it — the chat input element it guarded is gone
from sidepanel.html). BROWSE_SIDEBAR_CHAT env flag had zero readers.

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* fix(security): delete dead exports the ripped chat path left behind

Three-way split by importer class:

(a) Zero importers, deleted: the whole attack-attempt logging cluster in
security.ts (logAttempt, AttemptRecord, salted hashPayload + device-salt,
attempts.jsonl rotation, telemetry spawn plumbing incl.
buildTelemetrySpawnCommand/resolveBashBinary — the LIVE attempts.jsonl writer
is tunnel-denial-log.ts with its own rotation); the decision-file handshake
(writeDecision/readDecision/clearDecision/excerptForReview — written for
sidebar-agent's poll loop, which no longer exists); sidebar-utils.ts (whole
module — its sanitizeExtensionUrl 'sanitized before embedding in a prompt'
for the deleted prompt builder); 8 dead server.ts imports (sanitizeExtensionUrl,
generateCanary, injectCanary, writeDecision, rotateRoot, serializeRegistry,
restoreRegistry, clearAgentRecord); buildPtyClearCookie + buildSseClearCookie;
WEBDRIVER_MASK_SCRIPT (orphaned by the D7 stealth narrowing — applyStealth
never used it).

(b) Dead-pin tests edited with their exports: the 'still exported' pin in
stealth-layer-c, the string-content describe in stealth-webdriver (its live
applyStealth behavioral coverage untouched), the clear-cookie assertions,
security-review-flow.test.ts deleted whole (all 4 describes exercised the
dead decision mechanism, incl. a 'simulated sidebar-agent poll loop').

(c) KEPT deliberately: leaseCount (live behavioral coverage),
extractPtyCookie + validatePtySessionToken (extractPtyCookie is adopted by
the terminal-agent cookie-parse unification later in this wave),
resetSessionMarker + clearContentFilters (test-support API for the live
content-security layer).

Also fixes two pre-existing red pins found while here, invisible until the
free suite got a CI job: the v1.44 spawnClaude->maybeSpawnPty rename in
terminal-agent.test.ts, and a cross-file test-isolation bug where
content-security.test.ts's clearContentFilters() wiped the auto-registered
url-blocklist filter for every later file in the same bun process
(security-integration.test.ts failed on co-run; afterAll now restores it).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(security): delete the dead ML layers — transcript classifier and DeBERTa ensemble

The L4b Haiku transcript classifier and the opt-in DeBERTa ensemble
(GSTACK_SECURITY_ENSEMBLE=deberta, a documented 721MB download) had ZERO
production callers since the chat-path agent that invoked them was ripped.
The only live ML path is scanPageContent (testsavant) inside the security
sidecar subprocess. Deleted by import graph:

- security-classifier.ts 614 -> 265 lines: HAIKU_MODEL, checkTranscript,
  shouldRunTranscriptCheck, loadDeberta, scanPageContentDeberta, ToolCallInput,
  all DEBERTA_* consts + load state. Header now states the live truth
  (imported only by security-sidecar-entry.ts). downloadFile kept, name
  intact — it is an enumerated egress sink (HF model download).
- security-bunnative.ts + test: a research skeleton self-described as 'NOT a
  production replacement', shipped into src/ with zero importers.
- security-bench-ensemble{,-live}.test.ts + the Haiku response fixture: a
  paid live-model benchmark for a layer that could not fire. The
  security-classifier-tdz test's only case exercised checkTranscript — gone.
- security.ts: layer-model header rewritten to the live architecture;
  StatusDetail.layers -> {testsavant, canary}; getStatus() no longer requires
  the impossible transcript==='ok' for 'protected' (old on-disk session state
  with a transcript key is tolerated on read, never re-emitted).
- security-sidecar-entry.ts needed zero changes: it serializes
  getClassifierStatus() verbatim and no consumer read .transcript (verified
  in sidecar-client + server.ts).
- BROWSER.md security section matches reality (ensemble knob gone, 112MB not
  22MB, sidecar hosting documented). combineVerdict/THRESHOLDS retained as
  the pure, tested combiner of record — comments now flag transcript/deberta
  votes as producer-less.

Net: 26 pass in security.test.ts incl. a NEW regression test for stale-
transcript disk tolerance; egress-receipt tripwire green.

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* docs: scrub the sidebar-agent ghost from comments and CLAUDE.md

20+ comments across 10 files still described the deleted sidebar-agent.ts as a
live process — including load-bearing architecture claims ('IMPORTED ONLY BY
sidebar-agent.ts', 'sidebar-agent fills this in on first prompt-injection
load', 'kill sidebar-agent' in shutdown docs) and ~60 lines of tombstone
blocks in server.ts enumerating deleted identifiers by name (a false grep
surface: searching processAgentEvent hit server.ts and looked live).

CLAUDE.md's security-stack section now documents the LIVE architecture: L1-L3
content filters + testsavant via the security sidecar subprocess; the
L4b/ensemble rows, the GSTACK_SECURITY_ENSEMBLE knob, and the 721MB DeBERTa
download are gone (deleted as dead code this wave) with an explicit
do-not-re-document note; attempts.jsonl is correctly attributed to
tunnel-denial-log.ts; the no-live-writer status of classifierStatus is stated.

Comments that survive now describe what IS, not what WAS: the promotion gate
in domain-skills.ts explains why classifier_score>0 is load-bearing given no
L4 load-time scan exists; file-permissions.ts names real sensitive files.

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* fix(gen): delete the codex-helpers shadow module

gen-skill-docs.ts imported externalSkillName (unaliased) from
resolvers/codex-helpers.ts at line 21 and then re-declared the same function
locally — the import was silently shadowed, and the imported copy was the
STALE one (it lacked the frontmatterName param the local copy grew). Three
more functions were byte-identical duplicates, imported only under _-prefixed
aliases to keep the module 'referenced', and transformFrontmatter was a
superseded hardcoded-Codex variant. Nothing else imported the module.

Also drops three dead top-of-file imports (COMMAND_DESCRIPTIONS,
SNAPSHOT_FLAGS — which pulled the whole browse/src module graph into every
generator run for nothing — and an unused review-resolver trio).

Proof: bun run gen:skill-docs exits 0 with a byte-identical tree (zero-diff
regen); gen-skill-docs.test.ts 405/405 green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(server): delete ServerConfig.idleTimeoutMs + chromiumProfile — documented, never read

Both fields carried JSDoc asserting embedder behavior that did not exist:
the idle check reads the module-level IDLE_TIMEOUT_MS env constant, and both
resolveChromiumProfile() call sites pass no argument. Worse than absent — an
embedder passing idleTimeoutMs: 5000 silently got 30 minutes.

Wiring them honestly is impossible today: the idle timer, activity state, and
shutdown target are module-global, so a per-factory value would lie for any
process running more than one handler. Deleted instead, with a ServerConfig
note pointing at the deferred singleton/route-table refactor where real
support belongs. BROWSE_IDLE_TIMEOUT and CHROMIUM_PROFILE env remain the
honest knobs.

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* fix(security): wire appendSecureFile at the four real log-append sites

file-permissions.ts carries a 24-line rationale for why POSIX mode bits are
insufficient on Windows and implements appendSecureFile (0600 at create,
Windows ACL on first write only) — but its single caller was the dead
logAttempt, while the four REAL page-content log writers (console/network/
dialog logs in server.ts, the command audit log) used raw fs.appendFileSync
with no mode. Page-content-derived logs now get owner-only permissions from
birth on every platform.

Verified before wiring: mode applies atomically at create via appendFileSync
{mode}, and the ACL pass runs only on first write — no per-append subprocess
cost on the hot console-log path.

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* fix(stealth): handoff() uses the shared profile resolution + lock cleanup

The headless-to-headed handoff path hardcoded ~/.gstack/chromium-profile,
silently ignoring $CHROMIUM_PROFILE and $GSTACK_HOME (gbrowser's gbd sets
per-workspace profiles), and skipped cleanSingletonLocks() — so a handoff
into a profile with a stale SingletonLock could hang where launchHeaded()
would have recovered.

This was the third live drift between the three Chromium launch paths; the
first two are documented in comments as shipped stealth regressions. Minimal
targeted fix — the full buildLaunchConfig() extraction stays in the deferred
queue.

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* fix(gen): resolver registry describes the template language again

Seven registered {{PLACEHOLDER}}s had zero uses in any .tmpl (checked in both
bare and :arg forms): REDACT_TAXONOMY_TABLE, TEST_COVERAGE_AUDIT_REVIEW,
MODEL_OVERLAY, QUESTION_PREFERENCE_CHECK, QUESTION_LOG, INLINE_TUNE_FEEDBACK,
MAKE_PDF_SETUP. The last two of those families are invoked programmatically by
preamble.ts (functions kept, registry entries dropped); the question-tuning
trio and the review coverage-audit wrapper were documented by their own module
as existing 'for unit testing' that no test performed — deleted, along with
generateRedactTaxonomyTable + its EXAMPLE/TIER_BLURB constants (its '/cso
renders the full table' comment was itself stale) and its test describe.

Also deletes the gated-resolver mechanism (ResolverEntry/appliesTo/
unwrapResolver + test/resolver-entry.test.ts): fully built, fully tested,
used by zero of the 65 registry entries — the generator loop simplifies to a
direct function call. CLAUDE.md's redact-doc line stops advertising the dead
token.

Proof: zero-diff regen (0 SKILL.md changed); gen-skill-docs + skill-validation
737 tests green.

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* fix(gen): wire boundaryInstruction from host config; drop three no-op binDir ternaries

hosts/codex.ts declared boundaryInstruction and nothing read it — review.ts
kept its own byte-identical CODEX_BOUNDARY literal (verified equal + trailing
escaped newlines). The resolver now reads the config, so the boundary has one
owner. (autoplan's template carries deliberately generic variants, enforced by
gen-skill-docs.test.ts:1358 — untouched by design.)

The 'ctx.host === codex ? $GSTACK_BIN : ctx.paths.binDir' ternary appeared in
three resolvers and could never change the result: resolvers/types.ts already
sets binDir to $GSTACK_BIN for every usesEnvVars host including codex.

Proof: zero-diff regen for claude AND codex hosts; gen-skill-docs +
host-config suites green.

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* fix(test-infra): judge uses resolveClaudeBinary; eval:watch reads the real partials dir

judgePtyState spawned the bare string 'claude' three definitions below the
resolveClaudeBinary() helper this same file exports — broken under hermetic
PATHs where every other launch in the file resolves correctly.

eval:watch read _partial-e2e.json from the legacy global ~/.gstack-dev/evals/
while EvalCollector writes it into the per-project eval dir (or
GSTACK_EVAL_DIR) — so the dashboard's completed-tests panel was empty
whenever slug detection succeeded, i.e. the normal case. The heartbeat and
per-run progress logs stay global by design (session-runner.ts: 'heartbeat
stays global'). The three eval-CLI docstrings stop claiming the legacy dir
is the primary location.

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* fix(test): delete the superseded SDK ship-idempotency suite and three orphaned fixtures

test/skill-e2e-ship-idempotency.test.ts's own header documented that the
monolith's SDK-harness version tests a synthetic prompt while it exercises
the real /ship skill — the author knew the old suite was superseded and left
both running, two paid LLM runs for one behavior. The weaker copy is gone;
its 'ship-idempotency' diff-selection key goes with it (the dedicated file is
periodic-tier, which always runs under EVALS_ALL — the key had no remaining
consumer).

Fixture rot: test/fixtures/golden-ship-claude.md was a 128KB zero-reader
orphan that had drifted 46KB from its live successor
(test/fixtures/golden/claude-ship-SKILL.md) while looking authoritative;
parity-baseline-v1.46.0.0.json and v1.53.0.0.json had zero readers (three
tests pin three OTHER baseline versions — consolidation is queued, deletion
of the unreferenced two is free).

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* fix(bin): delete zero-caller scripts; make host-config-export's docstring honest

- bin/gstack-open-url (14 lines): announced in a CHANGELOG entry, wired into
  nothing, ever. bin/gstack-platform-detect (27 lines): zero callers, and its
  hand-rolled host list was already stale (SLATE_HOST.md cites it as a
  problem). Note: the deprecated gstack-brain-consumer/reader pair the audit
  flagged was already deleted upstream in v1.63 with a stay-deleted tripwire.
- scripts/task-emission-schema.ts (61 lines): a typed schema module nothing
  imported; the tasks-section comment now documents the JSONL fields inline.
- scripts/host-config-export.ts claimed to be the 'shell bridge for the bash
  setup script' — setup never calls it (its hand-rolled host lists drifting
  is a known follow-up). Docstring now states what it IS: a standalone,
  test-pinned query CLI not yet wired into setup. Its validateValue +
  CLI_REGEX/PATH_REGEX internals were dead (defined for a guarantee the
  header claimed but nothing enforced).
- KEPT deliberately: scripts/preflight-agent-sdk.ts — a documented manual
  diagnostic (CONTRIBUTING.md + USING_GBRAIN_WITH_GSTACK.md reference it).

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* fix(server): one lone-surrogate sanitizer, one sanitizeReplacer, one startTunnel

Three copies of the surrogate sanitizer existed with two algorithms
(sanitize.ts regex vs a hand-rolled charCodeAt walk in server.ts — verified
byte-identical across 11 edge cases before converging) plus two identical
sanitizeReplacer definitions each wrapping a different copy. sanitize.ts is
now the single source of truth; the runs-INSIDE-JSON.stringify egress
invariant is unchanged at every call site and its pin tests were adapted to
the new import shape without losing intent.

The ngrok tunnel-start sequence existed three times in server.ts — the
/tunnel/start route and the BROWSE_TUNNEL=1 autostart were line-for-line
equivalent (a comment admitted 'Same cleanup as /tunnel/start's error path').
One startTunnel() now owns the ephemeral loopback bind, the pre-send egress
receipt, the state-file RMW via tmpStatePath(), and the ordered error-path
cleanup; callers keep their distinct response surfaces. The
BROWSE_TUNNEL_LOCAL_ONLY test path shares nothing (no ngrok, different state
field) and deliberately stays separate.

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* fix(security): one session-cookie registry implementation, two instances

pty-session-cookie.ts and sse-session-cookie.ts were byte-identical modulo
the cookie name — mint/validate/parse/prune/TTL, the exact code a security
fix would have to land in twice (and a third hand-rolled cookie parse in
terminal-agent.ts had already diverged; unified next commit).
createSessionCookieStore() owns the implementation; both modules become thin
instantiations keeping every exported name, their distinct threat-model
docstrings, and separate token spaces (an SSE-read cookie must never grant
PTY access). pty-session-lease.ts deliberately stays out — different contract
(sessionId/secret split, refresh, env TTL).

The factory imports nothing from token-registry (cookie-picker-auth-isolation
invariant, still pinned by sse-session-cookie.test.ts).

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* fix(security): terminal-agent uses the shared PTY cookie parser

The /ws upgrade's cookie fallback hand-parsed the Cookie header inline — the
fourth copy of the session-cookie parse, and the one that had already
diverged from the others. Parsing now goes through extractPtyCookie;
validation deliberately stays against the agent's own in-process validTokens
map (the server's registry lives in a different process). The ws-handler pin
test now pins the shared-parser call instead of the raw cookie-name literal.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(hosts): defineHost() factory — 10 copy-paste host files become declarations

hosts/*.ts were ten copies of one file: runtimeRoot byte-identical in 9/10,
pathRewrites mechanically derivable from the host name for 7/10, the 11-entry
toolRewrites map byte-identical between openclaw and gbrain, and every asset
change a 10-file edit (cursor and slate had already fallen out of three other
hand-maintained lists). defineHost() owns the defaults; each host file now
declares only what makes it different (slate/cursor: 8 lines each). Shared
constants: CROSS_MODEL_RESOLVERS, GBRAIN_RESOLVERS, EXEC_STYLE_TOOL_REWRITES.
Genuinely-different things stayed explicit: codex/factory $GSTACK_ROOT
rewrites, hermes's tool vocabulary, claude's denylist+prefixable install,
opencode's wider runtimeRoot.

Proof: JSON.stringify(ALL_HOST_CONFIGS) dump-diff before/after EMPTY (and a
runtime walk confirmed no function-valued or undefined-keyed fields, so the
JSON diff is complete); gen:skill-docs --host all zero-diff; host-config +
gen-skill-docs + idempotency suites 485/485. Host files 595 -> 285 lines.
docs/ADDING_A_HOST.md teaches the factory pattern.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(lib): fs-atomic — one atomic-write implementation, with the race actually fixed

Atomic tmp-write-then-rename was reimplemented ~20 times across lib/, bin/,
and browse/src with three tmp-suffix conventions. One of them was a latent
bug this commit closes: lib/worktree.ts used a bare '.tmp' suffix — the
deterministic-tmp collision race browse/src/server.ts documents having hit
in production (its fix, pid+random, was trapped in a comment at one site).

lib/fs-atomic.ts: atomicWriteSync (always throws, best-effort tmp cleanup,
pid+random suffix, optional mode applied at tmp creation so the file never
exists with looser permissions) + atomicWriteQuiet (shutdown paths only).
Unit tests pin the throw/quiet contracts, 0600 mode, tmp-name uniqueness
(captured via the read-only-dir failure path — Bun's fs exports are
readonly, no monkeypatching), and no-stray-tmp cleanup.

Migrated: lib/worktree.ts (the bare-.tmp bug), lib/gstack-decision.ts
(snapshot + compact log), lib/gbrain-local-status.ts (probe cache). browse
sites follow separately.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(lib): jsonl-store's docstring stops lying; mode option added; lib bypasses adopted

The header claimed 'single source of truth... the ONLY copy' with write-time
injection REJECTION — while appendJsonl never screened anything, only 1 of
~10 JSONL stores imported it, and a bypass appender lived in the same
directory. Now: the contract is explicit (screening is the CALLER's job via
hasInjection/firstInjectionMatch; the enforcing callers are named), a
option applies 0600 at create for sensitive stores, and the lib bypasses are
adopted (gstack-memory-helpers ×2, redact-audit-log — which keeps its chmod
backstop for files created looser by pre-mode versions). browse/src keeps
its own appenders by design (compiled-binary surface, own secure-append
helper) and the header now says so. gstack-decision's batched archive append
stays deliberate (single-write crash-window semantics appendJsonl's
one-record contract can't express).

New pins: 0600-at-create, and a test that documents appendJsonl does NOT
self-screen — so nobody can re-document it as self-screening without making
it true.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(browse): migrate hand-rolled atomic writes to lib/fs-atomic

Seven sites, each audited for its existing throw-vs-swallow contract before
migrating: writeSessionState + the four fire-and-forget tab/state writers use
atomicWriteQuiet (they swallowed before); writeAgentRecord + the boot-time
port-file write use atomicWriteSync (they threw before — and writeAgentRecord
previously leaked its tmp file on rename failure, which the helper cleans).
All carry {mode: 0o600} plus restrictFilePermissions after successful writes,
preserving the Windows ACL hardening that writeSecureFile provided (mode bits
are POSIX-only). server.ts untouched: its three state writes route through
tmpStatePath(), pinned by server-tmp-state-path.test.ts.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(hosts): delete five dead HostConfig fields

metadataFormat (generator hardcodes openai.yaml), sidecar (behavior lives in
setup's create_agents_sidecar — knowledge preserved as a comment in codex.ts),
install.prefixable (skill_prefix is implemented entirely in bin/gstack-config),
staticFiles (docstring cited a SOUL.md that never existed anywhere), and
adapter (its only would-be consumer, openclaw-adapter.ts, was fully dead —
with a test asserting the field was undefined). Kept: learningsMode (wired
next), linkingStrategy (validation reads it), coAuthorTrailer (consumed by
resolvers/utility.ts).

Proof: JSON dump diff shows ONLY the deleted keys vanishing; zero-diff regen
across all 10 hosts; host-config + gen-skill-docs suites green. Note: this
commit also carries chunk-23 edits to the shared hosts/claude.ts +
define-host.ts + host-config.test.ts files (skipSkills collapse, stale
line-number comment drops) — pathspec commits, concurrent prep.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(gen): preamble tiers are explicit; silent ?? 4 default becomes an error; spec stops rendering its preamble twice

Eight skills (scrape, diagram, spec, skillify, pair-agent, landing-report,
open-gstack-browser + its connect-chrome symlink) silently received the
HEAVIEST tier-4 preamble because a missing frontmatter field defaulted to 4.
Tiers are now declared in every {{PREAMBLE}} template's frontmatter and a
missing declaration throws at generation time with the template path (the 5
templates without {{PREAMBLE}} never invoke the resolver). The stale
hand-written tier-map comment (wrong in 3 of 4 rows) is gone.

Bonus bug fixed: spec/SKILL.md.tmpl mentioned {{PREAMBLE}} in prose, so the
generator inlined the ENTIRE preamble a second time — spec/SKILL.md shrinks
127,462 -> 80,924 bytes (-46,538) from de-duplication alone. skill-size-budget
gains a reasoned INTENTIONAL_SHRINKS entry (its frozen baseline had measured
the doubled-preamble bug). New tests: missing-tier throw carries the path;
every {{PREAMBLE}} template declares a tier. (Carries chunk-23 edits in the
shared test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts.)

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* fix(gen): learningsMode is read from host config, not a hardcoded host name

resolvers/learnings.ts branched on ctx.host === 'codex' while every host
declared learningsMode — the field was decorative, and the 7 hosts configured
'basic' (cursor, slate, kiro, opencode, openclaw, hermes, gbrain) silently
received the 'full' cross-project flow their runtimes can't execute (it
depends on AskUserQuestion + gstack-config plumbing). Output now matches
declaration: basic hosts get the project-scoped search block.

Blast radius proof: all committed Claude SKILL.md files and the three golden
fixtures are byte-identical; the behavior diff lands only in the gitignored
external-host trees (hand-verified: .cursor review's learnings section swaps
the cross-project AskUserQuestion block for the project-scoped search).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(gen): small config scrubs — openclaw blobs to real files, setup host drift, dead artifacts

- The three openclaw markdown blobs hardcoded inside gen-skill-docs.ts (which
  silently reverted any hand edit to their tracked outputs on regen) move to
  openclaw/templates/*.md source files; output shasums byte-identical.
- setup's --host allowlists gain cursor + slate — both fully registered hosts
  with generated output, but './setup --host cursor' exited 1 because two
  hand-rolled lists in setup had drifted from hosts/index.ts.
- scripts/proactive-suggestions.json deleted: 31KB regenerated on every run,
  read by nobody (the catalog-trim design's reader was never built); its
  emitter and three determinism tests (which guaranteed a file nothing reads
  didn't churn) retired with stays-retired pins.
- claude/SKILL.md.tmpl deleted: a complete 8.9KB skill that never generated
  output (directory name collides with the host id 'claude'), in no registry.
  Recoverable from git if ever wanted under a non-colliding name.
- openclaw's frozen extraFields.version '0.15.2.0' stamp dropped;
  includeSkills: [] no-ops omitted (the generator treats [] as absent);
  llms.txt 55 -> 54 skills.

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* feat(gen): correct preamble tiers for the 8 silently-heaviest skills

With tiers now explicit, set them RIGHT by analogy to the tiered population:
scrape/diagram/open-gstack-browser (+ the connect-chrome symlink) -> tier 1
(launchers and artifact generators, like browse and make-pdf);
landing-report/pair-agent/skillify -> tier 2 (dashboards and session tools,
like health and canary); spec -> tier 3 (interactive planning, like the
plan-*-review family). Each tier-1 skill sheds 271 lines of onboarding
prose it never needed; tier-2 shed 20 each.

Verification per the review protocol: regen diff reviewed (pure
section-removal), skill-validation + size-budget + catalog-budget +
v0-dormancy suites green (822 tests), and live smoke of the tier-corrected
skills confirms the preamble renders the intended sections at each tier.
These skills have ~no eval coverage — stated honestly; the wave's gate-tier
eval run is the backstop.

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* feat(test): e2e-gate — one tier-gate implementation, side-effect-free, with the trap pinned

The EVALS/EVALS_TIER gate was copy-pasted into ~40 test files and had drifted
into six different predicates — the drift that made 'eval:bg:all runs
everything' silently false. test/helpers/e2e-gate.ts owns the semantics now:
describeE2ETier(tier) + e2eTierEnabled(tier), env read at call time, zero
side effects (the existing e2e-helpers module runs a ~30s claude ping at
import under EVALS=1, so the gate lives in its own module; purity is pinned
by tests that scan imports and comment-stripped source).

The unit matrix pins all four env combos — including EVALS=1 with EVALS_TIER
unset -> SKIP, the exact trap that made eval:bg:all a non-run. The
tier-alignment tripwire gains a second regex for the helper shape (old shape
still detected — stragglers can't hide), and the sharded paid runner's
PRE-SPAWN tier classifier learns the helper shape too: without that, every
gate-sharded run would have spawned all 28 periodic shards just to skip them,
each paying the e2e-helpers import ping (~15 min of dead wall clock in the
CI-blocking lane). Verified: gate runs exclude the 29 periodic files,
periodic excludes the 8 gate files — identical to pre-migration.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(test): migrate the 36 tier-gated eval files to describeE2ETier

Mechanical two-liner swap in 34 files (each keeping its declared tier — all
36 predicates verified against E2E_TIERS before migrating); the two files
with compound gates (overlay-harness's EvalCollector feed, codex-e2e's
CODEX_AVAILABLE) keep their extra conditions via e2eTierEnabled. Tier
rationale comments preserved. codex-e2e/gemini-e2e/benchmark-providers keep
their distinct stderr-message gate shapes by design.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(test): skill-e2e + skill-llm-eval adopt the shared selection machinery

Both files re-implemented the diff-selection machinery e2e-helpers already
exported. The helper gained computeDiffSelection() (extracted, identical
behavior) and a trailing optional selection param on the *IfSelected helpers
(defaults preserve all 30+ existing importers). skill-e2e.test.ts drops ~120
duplicated lines; skill-llm-eval keeps its LLM_JUDGE_TOUCHFILES selection and
test.concurrent semantics via testConcurrentIfSelected.

Deliberate deltas, stated: skill-e2e.test.ts now honors the EVALS_TIER
intersection its local copy lacked (affects only direct bun test invocations
of that file — it matches no eval-script glob); its recordE2E gains the
helper's three diagnostic fields; skill-llm-eval sharded solo now runs
e2e-helpers' module-scope preflight it already ran in combined processes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(test): kill the silent-truncation race; exempt the tier-corrected shrinks

The full-suite shakeout (budgeted by the plan) surfaced both immediately:

1. server-embedder-terminal-port.test.ts stubbed process.exit and restored
   the REAL exit in its finally — but shutdown() schedules async work that
   can call process.exit AFTER restoration, killing the entire bun process
   mid-suite with exit 0 and NO summary. This is the silent-truncation class
   the new free-suite CI job guards against, reproduced locally on the first
   full run. Exit now stays a logging no-op between tests (late async exits
   become visible stderr lines, not process death); the true exit returns in
   afterAll.

2. The 80%-of-baseline shrink guard correctly flagged the six tier-corrected
   skills — their baseline was measured at the silent tier-4 default. Added
   to INTENTIONAL_SHRINKS with the reason, joining spec's double-preamble
   entry.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* release: v1.64.0.0 — the code-smell fix wave

35 commits, one PR: guard repairs (free suite in CI per-file, all-host
freshness gates, tunnel allowlist, diff-selection validation), the
sidebar-agent ghost exorcism (dead ML layers, dead endpoints, dead exports,
ghost comments), config honesty (defineHost factory, dead fields deleted,
preamble tiers explicit, spec double-render fixed), and dedup with safety
nets (session-cookie factory, fs-atomic, jsonl-store contract, one eval
tier-gate). Net -24,943 lines across 183 files.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(ci): free-tests step runs under bash (container sh rejects pipefail)

Maiden-voyage shakeout, exactly as budgeted: the CI container's default
shell is dash, which errors on 'set -o pipefail' before the first test ran.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(ci): free-tests curates 8 container-incompatible files with reasons

Second maiden-voyage shakeout round: 376 of 384 files ran green in the
container on the first completed pass. The 8 that can't run there yet are
excluded the same way the Windows shards curate POSIX-bound files — each
with its reason inline (headed-Chrome handoff, real-PTY round-trip, X server
management, extension-origin identity, the job's own TMPDIR override, and
three pre-existing env failures that fail on dev machines too). Anything
outside the list that fails still fails the job; trimming the list is
tracked follow-up.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(test): gstack-config-key-locale — suppress the skill_prefix auto-relink side effect

The test invokes the repo's own bin/gstack-config, whose 'set skill_prefix'
auto-runs $(dirname $0)/gstack-relink — resolving the install dir to the
repo itself. In any environment where the loop shares a working tree (the
free-tests CI container, a fresh-HOME run), gstack-patch-names rewrote all
52 tracked SKILL.md names to gstack- prefixed, poisoning five unrelated
suites downstream (hermetic-skills-seeding, host-config golden, skill-census,
skill-validation, spec-template-sync). GSTACK_SETUP_RUNNING=1 is the
documented suppression; relink behavior stays covered by relink.test.ts's
mock install.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(bin): gstack-codex-session-import — empty sessions dir exits 0 on Linux

GNU xargs runs 'ls -t' once even on empty input, listing the cwd and
producing a bogus LATEST from the repo root; BSD xargs (macOS) skips the
run, which is why the NO_SESSIONS path only broke on Linux. xargs -r pins
the BSD behavior on both platforms.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(parity): rebaseline v1.57.7.0 → v1.64.1.0 + skeleton-cap headroom

The two parallel v1.64 waves (code-smell fix wave + main's #2571) each
added shared-preamble prose, pushing document-release / design-consultation
/ cso past their size ratios on the v1.57.7.0 anchor and four carved
skeletons (plan-ceo-review, plan-eng-review, office-hours,
design-consultation) 22-280 B over their absolute caps. New baseline is
union-normalized (skeleton + sections/*.md, matching what the harness
measures); caps get +~1 KB headroom each with per-cap rationale. The
v1.57.7.0 fixture stays in test/fixtures/ for the audit trail, and
capture-parity-baseline.ts now documents the union-normalization step so
the next rebaseline doesn't re-trip on it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(ci): free-tests container parity — tools, pinned bun, git identity, mutation tripwire

- Dockerfile.ci: add python3 (gstack-jsonl-merge/brain-sync/detach shell out
  to it), file (skill-validation's binary check), poppler-utils (make-pdf
  e2e gates hard-require pdftotext/pdffonts/pdfinfo), fonts-noto-color-emoji
  (emoji render gate, mirrors make-pdf-gate.yml). Fix the bun pin: the
  bun.sh installer ignores a BUN_VERSION env var, so the old form silently
  installed latest on every rebuild (observed 1.3.13/1.3.14 drift vs the
  1.3.10 devs run locally); pass the version as the positional arg.
- free-tests.yml: git identity + safe.directory for the git-exercising
  tests (container checkout is owned by a different uid than runner);
  post-loop tree-mutation tripwire that names a tracked-file-mutating test
  instead of letting downstream collateral confuse the report; skip the
  documented variants-retry-after timing flake.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(bin): gstack-session-update — detached updater owns its stdio (SIGPIPE)

The backgrounded update subshell inherited the session hook's stdout/stderr
pipes. Once the hook exits and the caller closes them, any child that writes
— git pull's autostash notice, setup output — dies of SIGPIPE, logged as
PULL_FAILED exit=141 with an empty stderr capture (observed in the free-tests
container, and reachable by any production hook runner that closes stdio
promptly). Redirect the fork to /dev/null; all observability already flows
through the session-update log file.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(test): gstack-decision-bins — explicit branch context for the scope filter

CI checks out a detached HEAD, where gitBranch() returns undefined on both
the log and search sides, so an implicitly branch-scoped decision can never
surface (filterByScope requires a matching non-empty ctx.branch). Pass the
branch explicitly on both sides — the filter logic is what's under test, not
git branch detection.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(test): ring-buffer lease interplay — same TTL window, not same millisecond

Two back-to-back mintLease() calls each stamp Date.now() + TTL; when they
straddle a millisecond boundary the exact-equality assertion flakes
(observed in CI: expiries of ...525 vs ...526). Assert the expiries are
within a 50 ms window instead — the invariant under test is that leases
share a TTL policy, not that they mint in the same clock tick.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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2026-08-15 09:37:04 -07:00
Garry TanandClaude Opus 4.8 e722c5bf89 v1.57.0.0 feat: carve-guard system + carve cso/document-release/design-consultation (#1907)
* test: canonical CARVE_GUARDS registry; derive parity + size-budget from it

Single source of truth for the carved-skill set + per-skill invariants
(EQ1). parity-harness.ts sectioned entries and skill-size-budget.ts
SECTIONS_EXTRACTED now derive from it instead of hand-maintained lists.
Closes a pre-existing drift: plan-devex-review was in SECTIONS_EXTRACTED
but had no sectioned parity invariant; now generated. carve-guards.ts is
a pure leaf data module (import type only) to avoid an import cycle.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: shared carve-guard check fns with injectable root

discoverCarvedSkills/checkOrdering/checkCompleteness take a root param so
the negative tests can point the real guards at a fixture dir.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: E2 data-driven carve static ordering guard (gate)

Per-PR backstop for every carved skill, one test() per skill, driven by
CARVE_GUARDS staticInvariants. Generalizes + retires the ceo-specific
ordering test.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: E1 carve-guard completeness meta-guard (gate)

Asserts filesystem carved set == CARVE_GUARDS set both directions, so a
future carve without a registry entry fails CI.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: ET1 guard-of-guards negative tests (gate)

Temp fixture broken 3 ways proves E1/E2 actually throw, via the injectable
root. Kills the silent-pass-guard failure class.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: T2 data-driven behavioral section-loading guard (periodic)

One file iterating CARVE_GUARDS, one test() per skill with GSTACK_CARVE_SKILL
cost-scoping (D-CODEX A). external carves (ship, plan-ceo) keep bespoke
tests; testNames aligned to their touchfile keys. Registered in touchfiles.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: defer E3 real-session carve canary to TODOS

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat: carve document-release into skeleton + on-demand section

Steps 2-9 (per-file audit, auto-updates, risky-change asks, CHANGELOG
voice polish, cross-doc consistency, TODOS cleanup, VERSION bump, commit +
PR body) move to sections/release-body.md, read on demand after the Step
1.5 coverage map. Skeleton 59,256 -> 45,797 B (-23%); union preserved.
Adds the CARVE_GUARDS entry (auto-extends parity + size-budget via EQ1).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat: carve design-consultation into skeleton + on-demand section

Phases 3-6 (complete proposal, drill-downs, design preview, writing
DESIGN.md) move to sections/proposal-and-preview.md, read on demand after
product context + research. Skeleton 80,719 -> 59,229 B (-27%); union
preserved. Adds the CARVE_GUARDS entry.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat: carve cso into skeleton + on-demand section (security-safe)

Scope-dependent audit Phases 2-11 move to sections/audit-phases.md. Mode
dispatch (## Arguments, ## Mode Resolution), always-run Phases 0/1, and the
Phase 12 false-positive-filtering exceptions stay ALWAYS-LOADED in the
skeleton. Skeleton 79,383 -> 65,117 B (-18%); union preserved.

Adds a cso CARVE_GUARDS entry with an earliest-use invariant (mustPrecedeStop):
mode dispatch must appear before any STOP-Read, so a directive that decides
which sections to read can't be stranded behind the STOP that reads them
(codex outside-voice #6). carve-guard-checks gains the mustPrecedeStop check.
parity moves cso monolith -> generated carved entry. cso-preserved.test.ts
strengthened: phrases checked against the union, plus an always-loaded
contract on the skeleton (dispatch + FP-filtering, codex #5).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: make redaction/taxonomy tests union-aware for cso + document-release carves

The cso carve moved Secrets Archaeology (prefixes, lib/redact-patterns.ts
pointer, git-history scan) into sections/audit-phases.md, and the
document-release carve moved the Step 9 PR-body redaction scan into
sections/release-body.md. Three content-presence tests asserted that content
in the skeleton SKILL.md/.md.tmpl; they now read the skeleton+sections union
(same fix as cso-preserved + parity).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore: bump version and changelog (v1.57.0.0)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix: address pre-landing review (codex) on the carve

- cso section: add a scope-gate header so '--owasp' (and other scoped modes)
  run only their selected phases, not every phase bundled in the section
  ('execute in full' no longer overrides Mode Resolution).
- carve-guard-checks: gateAfterStop now compares against the LAST STOP, not the
  first, so a gate stranded between two STOPs in a multi-STOP skeleton fails.
- TODOS: behavioral section-loading hermeticity (verifier matches global-install
  path, not the fixture) — pre-existing in auq-sdk-capture.ts, deferred.

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2026-06-07 19:13:24 -07:00
Garry TanandClaude Opus 4.8 cab774cced v1.56.0.0 Token-reduction Phase B + AUQ paranoid safety net (#1849)
* refactor(plan-ceo-review): carve review body into on-demand section

Carve the largest skill (138,838 B) into a skeleton + one on-demand
section, the documented next Phase B target after /ship (v2_PLAN.md:216).

- sections/review-sections.md(.tmpl): the 11-section deep review, codex/
  outside-voice rules, how-to-ask, Required Outputs, registries, Completion
  Summary, Review Log, REVIEW_DASHBOARD, PLAN_FILE_REVIEW_REPORT, Next Steps,
  docs/designs promotion, Formatting Rules, and the Mode Quick Reference.
- sections/manifest.json: passive registry (CM2), one entry.
- SKILL.md.tmpl: {{SECTION_INDEX}} after the system audit, a single
  {{SECTION:review-sections}} STOP-Read after Step 0 mode selection, and a
  Section self-check. All of Step 0 (the scope/mode conversation) stays in
  the always-loaded skeleton; only EXIT_PLAN_MODE_GATE follows the section.

Measured: always-loaded skeleton 138,838 -> 80,731 B (-42%, ~14.4K tokens
off every invocation). Union (skeleton + section) 139,110 B, behavior held.

Boundary honors Codex P1: nothing review-governing (formatting rules, mode
reference, how-to-ask, required outputs) sits in the skeleton below the
STOP. Housekeeping resolvers ride in the section, matching the ship
precedent (adversarial.md carries LEARNINGS_LOG + GBRAIN_SAVE_RESULTS).

Tests (atomic with the carve — skill-docs.yml gates gen:skill-docs
freshness on every push, so source + regen + tests must land together):
- parity-harness: plan-ceo flipped to sectioned, maxSkeletonBytes 90_000
  (measured 80,731 + headroom); content/minBytes run against the union.
- skill-size-budget: plan-ceo-review added to SECTIONS_EXTRACTED.
- section-manifest-consistency: generalized to discover every carved skill,
  vars computed per-skill-case (Codex P2).
- skill-ceo-section-ordering (new, gate): per-PR static guard — STOP after
  Step 0, review body absent from skeleton, report writer in the section,
  nothing review-governing below the STOP.
- skill-e2e-plan-ceo-review-section-loading (new, periodic): refreshes the
  installed skill first (Codex P1), drives full Step 0, asserts the section
  is Read before the report.
- gen-skill-docs + skill-validation: read the skeleton+sections union for
  carved skills so relocated prose still counts.
- touchfiles: plan-ceo-section-loading registered (periodic).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore: bump VERSION + CHANGELOG for plan-ceo-review carve (v1.56.0.0)

MINOR: carves the largest skill into skeleton + on-demand section,
dropping plan-ceo-review's always-loaded cost 42% (138,838 -> 80,731 B,
~14.4K tokens off every invocation). User-facing release notes lead with
the measured token win.

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* docs(todos): file P3 follow-up — carve the shared {{PREAMBLE}} reference blocks

Surfaced by /plan-eng-review on the plan-ceo-review carve: per-skill section
carves stay modest because the ~40-50KB shared preamble dominates the
always-loaded surface. A single preamble-reference carve would help every
tier->=2 skill at once. Records the why, the cold-vs-hot split to measure,
and the guards it needs. Not implemented this PR.

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* test(auq): Layer 0 — guarantee AUQ format spec is always-loaded

Deterministic, free, per-PR keystone for the token-reduction era. For every
interactive (tier>=2) skill, asserts the full AskUserQuestion decision-brief
format (ELI10/Recommendation/Pros-cons/checks/Net/(recommended)/Stakes/
self-check) lives in the always-loaded SKILL.md skeleton, NOT only in an
on-demand section. Plus a roster guard (a carve can't silently drop the block)
and per-skill rule survival in the skeleton+sections union. 51 cases + a
negative control. Fails the instant a future carve strands AUQ-governing text
where it won't be loaded when a question fires.

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* test(auq): SDK capture engine + verbose-vs-carved no-degradation A/B

Adds the reusable SDK $OUT_FILE capture engine (auq-sdk-capture.ts): drives a
skill to its AUQ and captures the verbatim text the model GENERATES, cleanly
(real-PTY mangles plan-mode AUQs via cursor escapes). Pins the skill to an
absolute path with Read/Write-only tools so the agent can't wander to the
global install. gradeAuqRecommendation normalizes a non-"because" connective
before grading so substantive reasons aren't false-flagged (without touching
the pinned shared judge).

The A/B drives the same prompt through the carved 80KB skeleton and the
pre-carve 137KB monolith and fails if carved scores worse. Result: both 7/7
format, substance 5 — proven no degradation, transcript-verified each side read
its own planted SKILL.md. Periodic tier.

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* test(auq): consistency — same trigger N runs, stable format + substance

Drives the carved /plan-ceo-review AUQ N=3 times and fails if any format
element appears in one run but not another, or substance craters. Targets the
"fine one run, broken the next" failure class a single snapshot can't see.
Result: 3/3 stable, 7/7 + substance 5 every run. Periodic tier.

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* test(auq): behavioral matrix across AUQ-heavy skills

Data-driven test that drives each AUQ-heavy skill (plan-eng/design/devex,
office-hours, cso, spec, design-consultation) to its first AskUserQuestion and
grades it to the plan-ceo bar: 7/7 decision-brief format + recommendation
substance >=4. One case per skill (isolated failures), env-subsettable via
AUQ_MATRIX_ONLY. Browser/design-binary skills are intentionally excluded
(comparison boards, not format-AUQs; Layer 0 covers their spec). All targeted
skills pass 7/7 with substance 4-5. Periodic tier.

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* test(codex): live recommendation-substance grade for /codex

Closes the gap where /codex's synthesis recommendation was only checked
statically (template grep) and via fixtures. Drives the real /codex skill over
a flawed diff and grades the emitted "Recommendation: ... because ..." line
with judgeRecommendation (present/commits/has_because/substance>=4). The named
weak spot holds up: substance 5. Periodic tier.

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* test(auq): deterministic trigger for format-compliance gate

A bare /plan-ceo-review against a repo whose work is already implemented makes
the model improvise an off-script "what should I review?" scope question that
skips the decision-brief format, which the gate test then times out waiting for.
Hand it a concrete plan to review (FORCING_FLOOR_CEO) so it reaches the real
Step 0 mode-selection AUQ that is the intended format check.

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* refactor(office-hours): carve Phase 5+6 into on-demand section

Third Phase B carve (v2_PLAN.md:216, after ship and plan-ceo-review). Moves
Phase 5 (Design Doc templates) + Phase 6 (tiered relationship handoff) — the
session's output + closing tail, only reached after the conversation and
alternatives are done — into sections/design-and-handoff.md, behind a single
STOP-Read after Phase 4.5. The live conversation (Phases 1-4.5) and the
always-run Important Rules stay in the always-loaded skeleton.

Measured: always-loaded skeleton 118,280 -> 88,975 B (-24.8%). Union preserved.
The carved AUQ is identical to pre-carve (matrix: 7/7 format, substance 5),
and Layer 0 confirms the AUQ format spec stays in the skeleton — the AUQ
paranoid suite de-risked this carve end to end.

Atomic with tests + regen (skill-docs.yml gates gen:skill-docs freshness on
every push, so source + regen + tests land together; --host all regenerates
the inlined non-Claude variants):
- sections/manifest.json: passive registry, one entry.
- parity-harness: office-hours flipped to sectioned, maxSkeletonBytes 96_000
  (measured 88,975 + headroom); content/minBytes run against the union.
- skill-size-budget: office-hours added to SECTIONS_EXTRACTED.
- gen-skill-docs + skill-validation: read the skeleton+sections union for
  office-hours so relocated Phase 5/6 prose still counts.

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* chore: bump VERSION + CHANGELOG for office-hours carve + AUQ suite (v1.57.0.0)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(preamble): carve CJK-escaping manual to on-demand doc

The AskUserQuestion format block is inlined into every interactive skill (~33).
It carried the full multi-paragraph non-ASCII/CJK escaping manual inline, but
that rationale only matters when a question contains CJK text and the operative
rule already lives in the always-loaded self-check. Moved the justification to
docs/askuserquestion-cjk.md (read on demand); kept the rule + a pointer.

Corpus: Claude-host SKILL.md total 3,087,499 -> 3,057,975 B (-29,524 B, ~900 B
x ~33 skills). Layer 0 still passes — the core decision-brief format stays
always-loaded; only the rare CJK rationale moved. Atomic with the all-host
regen (skill-docs.yml freshness gate). VERSION + package.json -> 1.58.0.0.

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* refactor(plan-eng-review): carve review body into on-demand section

Fourth Phase B carve (v2_PLAN.md:220). Moves the 4-section review (Architecture,
Code Quality, Tests, Performance), outside voice, required outputs, and review
report — everything after Step 0 scope — into sections/review-sections.md behind
a single STOP-Read. Step 0 (scope challenge) and EXIT_PLAN_MODE_GATE stay in the
always-loaded skeleton.

Measured: skeleton 106,984 -> 54,892 B (-48.7%). Union preserved. Atomic with
tests + all-host regen (freshness gate): parity flipped to sectioned
(maxSkeletonBytes 62K), plan-eng-review added to SECTIONS_EXTRACTED, gen-skill-docs
reads the union for relocated review/TEST_COVERAGE/dashboard prose. Layer 0 green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(plan-design-review): carve review body into on-demand section

Fifth Phase B carve (v2_PLAN.md:220, bundled with plan-eng). Moves the 7 design
passes, required outputs, and review report — everything after Step 0 scope and
the mockup/rating phase — into sections/review-sections.md behind a STOP-Read.
Step 0, Step 0.5 mockups, the rating method, and EXIT_PLAN_MODE_GATE stay in the
always-loaded skeleton.

Measured: skeleton 112,057 -> 76,024 B (-32.2%). Union preserved. Atomic with
tests + all-host regen: parity sectioned (maxSkeletonBytes 82K), added to
SECTIONS_EXTRACTED, gen-skill-docs reads the union. Layer 0 green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(plan-devex-review): carve review body into on-demand section

Sixth Phase B carve. Moves the 8 DX passes, required outputs, and review report
— everything after the Step 0 DX investigation — into sections/review-sections.md
behind a STOP-Read. All of Step 0 (persona, empathy, benchmark, journey trace,
roleplay) + the rating method + EXIT_PLAN_MODE_GATE stay always-loaded.

Measured: skeleton 110,621 -> 69,658 B (-37%). Union preserved. Atomic with
tests + all-host regen: added to SECTIONS_EXTRACTED, gen-skill-docs reads the
union. Layer 0 green. (No parity invariant entry for plan-devex-review.)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore: bump VERSION + CHANGELOG for plan-* family carves (v1.59.0.0)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: refresh ship golden baselines + gbrain-detection union after carves

Two follow-ups the carve commits should have carried (caught by the full suite,
missed by targeted subsets):
- ship golden baselines (claude/codex/factory) regenerated: the preamble CJK
  trim (v1.58) changed ship's always-loaded AskUserQuestion block.
- gbrain-detection-override probes the office-hours skeleton+section union:
  GBRAIN_SAVE_RESULTS moved into sections/design-and-handoff.md when office-hours
  was carved, so the detection assertions now check both files.

Full `bun test` green.

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* test(auq): grade format-compliance gate from SDK capture, not the TUI

The real-PTY version grepped the stripAnsi'd interactive AUQ picker. Verified
directly that this cannot work: plan-mode AUQs render as a cursor picker whose
cursor-positioning escapes stripAnsi can't flatten — the picker renders fine for
a human (cursorSeen=45) but the flattened text drops ELI10:/(recommended) and
parseNumberedOptions returns 0. The test was grading a lossy projection and
failed by construction.

Rewritten to drive /plan-ceo-review via the SDK $OUT_FILE capture (the agent
writes the verbatim question it would have shown — clean text, no rendering
loss) and grade 7/7 format + kind-note + recommendation substance >=4. Same
property, reliable, environment-independent; shares the engine with the periodic
A/B and matrix evals. Result: 7/7 format, substance 5. Touchfiles key renamed
ask-user-question-format-pty -> auq-format-gate (no longer a PTY test).

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* test: fix carve-broken CI evals (union reads + section fixtures)

Two CI eval jobs failed on the carved plan-* skills because they read content
that moved into sections/:

- llm-judge (skill-llm-eval): runWorkflowJudge sliced SKILL.md between markers
  like "## Review Sections" / "## CRITICAL RULE" that now live in
  sections/review-sections.md. The markers vanished from the skeleton, so the
  judge scored empty/wrong content. Fix: read the skeleton+sections union.
  Verified: plan-ceo modes / plan-eng sections / plan-design passes all PASS
  (25/25).

- e2e-plan (skill-e2e-plan): setupPlanDir copied only <skill>/SKILL.md into the
  fixture, not sections/. The carved skill's STOP pointed at a section file that
  was absent, so the model improvised a compressed report table instead of the
  canonical "| Review | Trigger | Why | Runs | Status | Findings |". Fix: copy
  sections/ alongside SKILL.md in all 6 setup sites. Verified: report test PASS,
  canonical table emitted.

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* test: copy carved sections into all e2e fixtures (prevent more carve-blind CI fails)

Proactive sweep beyond the two CI logs: every e2e test that copies a carved
skill's SKILL.md into a temp fixture must also copy its sections/, or the
model hits a STOP pointing at a missing section file and improvises/degrades.

- skill-e2e.test.ts: plan-ceo/plan-eng/plan-design/office-hours copies across
  planDir/reviewDir/ohDir/benefitsDir dests now copy sections/.
- skill-e2e-plan.test.ts: the office-hours copy + the 4-skill codex-offering
  loop now copy sections/.
- skill-e2e-design.test.ts: plan-design-review copy now copies sections/.
- skill-e2e-office-hours.test.ts: both office-hours copies now copy sections/.
- skill-e2e-office-hours-brain-writeback.test.ts: GBRAIN_SAVE_RESULTS moved into
  the section, so check the regenerated skeleton+section UNION for the gbrain put
  block, ship both into the workdir, and restore both (the section regen was also
  leaking into the working tree — finally now restores it).

ship copies (single-file Step-0 slices) and review/retro (not carved) untouched.

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* test: migrate section-loading E2E to lossless SDK tool-stream detection

The /ship and /plan-ceo-review section-loading tests drove a real PTY and
scraped the ANSI screen buffer for sections/<file>.md paths. That silently
saw nothing in a Conductor PTY (cursor-positioned tool renders and an
unanswered Step 0 question loop both defeat the regex), so both reported
read: [] even when the agent did the work.

They now run the skill through claude -p (the same SDK path the AUQ matrix
uses) and detect section reads from the tool-use stream — Read calls whose
file_path contains sections/<file>.md — with no rendering layer to mangle.
The run is also hermetic: the freshly-generated worktree skeleton + sections
are copied into a throwaway fixture with the absolute path pinned, so the
test validates this branch's carve without mutating the user's ~/.claude
install.

Validated EVALS_TIER=periodic: both pass (plan-ceo Reads review-sections.md;
ship Reads review-army.md + changelog.md), ~6.5 min for both vs ~23 min
combined on the old PTY path where both were failing.

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* chore: consolidate branch to v1.56.0.0 (single MINOR above main)

The branch bumped VERSION several times during development (1.56 → 1.57 →
1.58 → 1.59), but none of those landed on main (main is at 1.55.1.0). Per
the "never orphan branch-internal versions" discipline, collapse all four
into a single 1.56.0.0 entry — one MINOR release covering the whole branch:
five skills carved (plan-ceo, office-hours, plan-eng, plan-design,
plan-devex), the shared AskUserQuestion preamble CJK trim, and the paranoid
AUQ no-degradation test suite + lossless section-loading tests.

VERSION and package.json set to 1.56.0.0; main's 1.55.1.0 entry preserved
below the consolidated entry. No SKILL.md drift (VERSION is not embedded in
generated bodies).

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2026-06-04 11:14:43 -07:00
Garry TanandClaude Opus 4.8 46c1fae7f1 v1.54.0.0 feat: carve /ship into skeleton + on-demand sections (-59% always-loaded) (#1806)
* feat(test): transcript-section-logger + ship-action fingerprint (T10)

Pure-analysis module over a SkillTestResult/NDJSON transcript:
- extractSectionReads(): which sections/*.md a run opened (post-carve check)
- extractShipActions(): observable action fingerprint (merge/test/bump/
  changelog/commit/push/pr) that works on the MONOLITH too, so a baseline
  captured before the carve can detect a sectioned-ship regression
- baseline read/write + compareShipActions() for baseline-first dogf(T10)

Baseline-first answers the Codex outside-voice critique that a logger in the
same PR as the carve is post-failure telemetry without a pre-carve reference.

11 unit tests, all green. Paid monolith baseline capture runs separately.

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* feat(pipeline): section discovery + generation machinery (T9)

- discover-skills.ts: discoverSectionTemplates() scans <skill>/sections/*.md.tmpl
- gen-skill-docs.ts: extract resolvePlaceholders + applyHostRewrites + buildContext
  as shared helpers (processTemplate and the new processSectionTemplate both call
  them, so a sanitization/rewrite fix can't miss sections) [C1]
- processSectionTemplate: body-fragment generation (no frontmatter/catalog/voice),
  parent-skill TemplateContext (skillName pinned to parent, not 'sections', so
  appliesTo gating + tier behave identically), per-host output routing
- --host all now fails the build on ANY host failure, not just claude, so a stale
  external-host output can't slip the freshness gate [Codex outside-voice #9]

Inert until a skill is carved (no sections/ dirs exist yet). Refactor is
output-neutral: gen:skill-docs --dry-run --host all reports 0 STALE.

5 discovery unit tests + 389 gen-skill-docs tests green.

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* feat(setup): install sections/ for cherry-pick targets (claude + kiro) (T9)

Two install targets cherry-pick SKILL.md and would leave a carved skill's
sections/ behind, 404ing a runtime 'Read sections/<name>.md':
- link_claude_skill_dirs: link the sections/ subdir via _link_or_copy (windows
  gets a fresh copy on every ./setup)
- kiro per-skill loop: sed-rewrite + copy each sections/* so paths resolve under
  ~/.kiro, not ~/.codex/~/.claude

codex/factory/opencode link the whole generated dir, so sections ride free.
Addresses Codex outside-voice #4/#6 (runtime pathing landmine). Inert until a
skill is carved. Static-tripwire test + windows-fallback invariant green.

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* feat(ship): gstack-version-bump CLI — tested idempotency classify + write (T9)

Hybrid CLI extraction (CM1): the deterministic core of ship Step 12 becomes a
tested CLI instead of bash prose the agent re-derives each run.
- classify: FRESH/ALREADY_BUMPED/DRIFT_STALE_PKG/DRIFT_UNEXPECTED from VERSION
  vs origin/<base>:VERSION vs package.json.version (pure reader)
- write: validated dual-write to VERSION + package.json (FRESH bump)
- repair: DRIFT_STALE_PKG sync, no re-bump
Bump-LEVEL choice + queue collision stay agent judgment; slot pick stays
bin/gstack-next-version. This removes the re-bump-a-shipped-branch footgun from
skippable prose into code that can't be skipped or misread.

15 tests (exhaustive state matrix + write/repair fs + real-git classify).

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* test(parity): sectioned-skill parity capability — guards the carve (T9)

Carved skills (skeleton + sections/*.md) need parity checks that see relocated
content, or moving a phrase into a section reads as 'lost':
- readSkillForParity(): union skeleton + all sections/*.md
- checkSkillParity sectioned mode: content checks against the union; minBytes/
  maxSizeRatio against union bytes (total behavior preserved); maxSkeletonBytes
  asserts the always-loaded skeleton actually shrank. Lowering minBytes to fit a
  small skeleton would otherwise make the size floor toothless [Codex #12].

Built + tested BEFORE the carve so ship's invariant can flip to sectioned in the
same commit it lands. Monolith path byte-identical (verified: pre-existing
investigate 1.053 ratio drift fails the same with this change stashed).

7 sectioned-parity tests + existing parity tests green.

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* refactor(ship): carve into skeleton + on-demand sections (Claude) (T9)

ship/SKILL.md drops 167KB → 68.7KB (~59% of the always-loaded skill) by moving
8 prose-heavy steps into ship/sections/*.md, read on demand:
tests, test-coverage, plan-completion, review-army, greptile, adversarial,
changelog, pr-body. Step 12's version logic now calls the tested
gstack-version-bump CLI instead of inline bash.

Claude-first (S2): {{SECTION:id}} emits a STOP-Read pointer on Claude (skeleton +
generated section files) and INLINES the content on every other host, so external
hosts keep the full monolith — verified factory at 162KB with no sections dir.
{{SECTION_INDEX:ship}} renders the situation→section table from the PASSIVE
manifest (CM2 / v2_PLAN.md:663); required-reads live only in test fixtures.
Multi-pass resolve expands inlined sections' own resolvers.

Parity: ship invariant flipped to sectioned (union content checks + maxSkeletonBytes
asserts the shrink). Carve-fallout fixed across gen-skill-docs/skill-validation/
golden/plan-completion/#1539/size-budget tests via skeleton+sections union reads.
Free suite green except the pre-existing investigate parity drift.

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* test(ship): manifest-consistency + context-parity + requiredReads helper (T9)

Free deterministic guards for the carve:
- required-reads.ts + unit test: assertRequiredReads(run, requiredFiles) — the
  mechanical layer-5 check that the agent Read the sections its situation needs
  (required set comes from the fixture, not the passive manifest)
- section-manifest-consistency: 3-tier orphan classification (generated orphan +
  hand-edited generated file → FAIL; manifest orphan → WARN per v2_PLAN.md) and
  pins the PASSIVE-manifest contract (no applies_when/required_for)
- template-context-parity: generated sections have zero unresolved placeholders
  and gated resolvers (ADVERSARIAL_STEP/CONFIDENCE_CALIBRATION/CHANGELOG_WORKFLOW)
  rendered — proving sections resolve with the parent skillName, not 'sections'

16 tests, all green.

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* test(ship): section-loading E2E + idempotency CLI detection (T9)

- skill-e2e-ship-section-loading.test.ts (new, periodic): runs real /ship in plan
  mode against a fresh version-changing fixture and asserts the agent Read the
  required sections (review-army + changelog). Runs against the INSTALLED skill
  (~/.claude/skills/gstack/ship), not repo paths, so install-layout 404s surface
  [Codex outside-voice #5]. Layer-5 mechanical guard against silent section-skip.
- skill-e2e-ship-idempotency.test.ts: detection updated for the carve — Step 12
  now runs gstack-version-bump classify (JSON "state":"ALREADY_BUMPED") instead
  of the inline bash echo (STATE: ALREADY_BUMPED). Accept both; add a
  gstack-version-bump-write re-bump regression signal.
- touchfiles: register ship-section-loading (periodic) + extend idempotency deps
  with bin/gstack-version-bump + scripts/resolvers/sections.ts.

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* test(ship): union-read redaction wiring test for the carve (T9)

main's PR-body redaction-at-sink lives in sections/pr-body.md.tmpl after the
carve, not the skeleton template. Read skeleton + section templates union so the
redaction-wiring assertions follow the relocated content. 9/9 green.

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* v1.54.0.0 feat: carve /ship into skeleton + on-demand sections (-59% always-loaded)

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2026-05-30 12:09:10 -07:00
Garry TanandClaude Opus 4.7 ce5fbfa99f v1.52.0.0 feat(plan-tune): explicit consent + first-run setup wizard for contributors (#1741)
* feat(plan-tune): explicit-consent surface + setup gate for question_tuning

Step 0 grows two implicit gates that run before user-intent routing:
- Consent gate: question_tuning=false + no marker → offer opt-in (contributor-specific copy variant)
- Setup gate: question_tuning=true + declared empty + no marker → run 5-Q wizard

Markers (~/.gstack/.question-tuning-prompted, ~/.gstack/.declared-setup-prompted)
ensure each user is asked at most once. The Enable+setup section split into
"Consent + opt-in" (with contributor framing) and standalone "5-Q setup"
reachable from both the consent flow and the setup gate.

Also aligns the calibration gate across three docs (V0 said 90+ days, TODOS
said 2+ weeks, binary uses 7 days). The fix distinguishes:
- Display gate (sample_size>=20, skills>=3, question_ids>=8, days_span>=7):
  for rendering inferred values in /plan-tune output
- Promotion gate (90+ days stable across 3+ skills): for shipping E1
  behavior-adapting defaults

TODOS.md E1 card updated to reference 90+ days, plus Codex's substrate risk
note: generated skill prose is agent-compliance-based, so E1 ships as
advisory annotations on AskUserQuestion recommendations, not silent
AUTO_DECIDE. Tests can verify templates contain right reads but can't
prove agents obey them.

Per /plan-eng-review + Codex outside-voice 2026-05-26.

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* chore: bump version and changelog (v1.49.0.0)

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* feat(bins): honor GSTACK_STATE_ROOT override for test isolation

Plan-tune cathedral T1 (per D16 / Codex outside voice). The 3 bins that back
/plan-tune (question-log, question-preference, developer-profile) previously
ignored GSTACK_STATE_ROOT, so tests that tried to point state at a tempdir
via that env var silently wrote to the real ~/.gstack. Make STATE_ROOT take
precedence over GSTACK_HOME so the cathedral's E2E + unit tests can isolate
cleanly without sledgehammering HOME.

Order of precedence:
  GSTACK_STATE_ROOT > GSTACK_HOME > $HOME/.gstack

Matches the existing gstack-paths emission order.

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* test(plan-tune): regression coverage for v1.49 consent + setup gates

Plan-tune cathedral T2 + part of T1 follow-up (Codex IRON RULE — regressions
get tests). v1.49 shipped two prose-driven implicit gates inside plan-tune
Step 0 (consent, setup) with zero test coverage. The cathedral refactors that
template heavily; without tests, silent breakage is possible.

Three regression families plus a static template assertion:
1. Consent gate fires under qt=false + no marker; goes silent on marker write
   or qt=true flip.
2. Setup gate fires under qt=true + empty declared + no marker; goes silent
   when declared populates, marker is written, or qt is still false.
3. Marker idempotency: gates stay silent across 5 re-invocations after a
   single decline/bail. Markers honored independently.
4. Static template assertion: gate language can't be silently deleted
   without breaking a test.

Also extends gstack-config to honor GSTACK_STATE_ROOT (it was the last bin
still ignoring it — caught while writing the tests; without this, tests
would silently mutate the user's real config.yaml).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(spikes): Claude hook mutation + Codex session format

Plan-tune cathedral T4 (per D5/D10). Two Phase 1 design spikes that
downstream tasks (T3, T5, T6, T8, T9) depend on.

claude-code-hook-mutation.md
- Confirms PreToolUse allow + updatedInput is supported and is the right
  mechanism for substituting an auto-decided answer.
- Pins stdin/stdout JSON schemas with field-by-field reference.
- Documents matcher regex syntax for "(AskUserQuestion|mcp__.*__AskUserQuestion)"
  so Conductor's MCP-routed AUQ is covered.
- Captures parallel-hook merge order caveat and our settings.json snippet.

codex-session-format.md
- Maps the on-disk ~/.codex/sessions/<date>/rollout-*.jsonl schema by
  event type (response_item 76%, event_msg 19%, turn_context, session_meta).
- Critical finding: Codex has NO AskUserQuestion tool. Gstack AUQ-shaped
  Decision Briefs surface as agent_message text; answer is the next
  user_message. Two-tier recovery: marker-first (D18), then pattern
  fallback for hash-only logging.
- Confirms logs_2.sqlite is internal telemetry, not session content.
- Lists open questions to answer during T9 implementation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(settings-hook): schema-aware PreToolUse/PostToolUse registration

Plan-tune cathedral T3 (per D4 + Codex correction). The previous bin only
knew SessionStart and dedup'd on the hardcoded `gstack-session-update`
substring. The cathedral needs PreToolUse + PostToolUse hooks registered
side-by-side with the user's own hooks, with explicit consent UX, backups,
and rollback.

New subcommands:
- add-event --event <SessionStart|PreToolUse|PostToolUse|...> --command <cmd>
  --source <tag> [--matcher <re>] [--timeout <s>]
- remove-source --source <tag>      # removes all entries tagged by source
- diff-event ...                    # preview without mutating
- rollback                          # restore latest backup
- list-sources                      # audit gstack-tagged hooks

Multi-source dedup via a new `_gstack_source` field on each hook entry
(Claude Code preserves unknown fields). Source tag lets plan-tune-cathedral
register PreToolUse + PostToolUse without colliding with the existing
SessionStart wiring, and lets remove-source clean up cleanly during
gstack-uninstall.

Backups written automatically to settings.json.bak.<ts> before any
mutation, with a .bak-latest pointer the rollback subcommand reads.

Existing legacy `add <cmd>` / `remove <cmd>` shape preserved verbatim so
setup --team and gstack-uninstall keep working unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(hooks): PostToolUse capture hook for AskUserQuestion

Plan-tune cathedral T5. Closes the substrate hole that motivated this
entire branch: agent-compliance-only logging produced zero events in weeks
of dogfood. PostToolUse hook captures every AUQ fire deterministically.

What ships:
- hosts/claude/hooks/question-log-hook.ts — TS hook that reads Claude
  Code's hook stdin, walks tool_input.questions[*], extracts user choice
  + recommended option from tool_response, spawns gstack-question-log per
  question.
- hosts/claude/hooks/question-log-hook — bash shim Claude Code's hook
  runner invokes; execs bun against the .ts file.
- Marker-first question_id extraction (D18 progressive markers):
  <gstack-qid:foo-bar> stripped from question text, used as the id.
  Hash fallback hook-<sha1[:10]> for unmarked questions (observed-only,
  never used as preference key — D18 hash drift mitigation).
- (recommended) label parsing for the user_choice/recommended fields,
  with refuse-on-ambiguous when two labels are present (D2 safety).
- Free-text capture: source=auq-other + free_text field when user picks
  Other and types (Layer 8 dream cycle input).
- Matcher covers both native AskUserQuestion and mcp__*__AskUserQuestion
  (Codex/Conductor catch from outside voice review).
- Crash safety: always exits 0; errors land in ~/.gstack/hook-errors.log
  so the user's session is never blocked by a hook failure.

gstack-question-log extended to:
- Accept `source` field (default 'agent', new values: hook, auq-other,
  auto-decided, codex-import-marker, codex-import-pattern).
- Accept `tool_use_id` (<=128 chars) for dedup.
- Composite dedup on (source, tool_use_id) across the last 100 lines —
  protects against hook + preamble both firing on the same tool call
  (D3 belt+suspenders).
- Async fire `gstack-developer-profile --derive` after each successful
  write so inferred.sample_size actually grows (D17 — without this, the
  cathedral's "before 0, after >0" metric never moves).
- GSTACK_QUESTION_LOG_NO_DERIVE=1 escape hatch for tests.

9 new unit tests covering capture, marker extraction, MCP variant,
free-text, dedup, ambiguous-recommended safety, crash paths. All pass
plus the existing 88 tests across related files.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(hooks): PreToolUse enforcement hook for AskUserQuestion preferences

Plan-tune cathedral T6 — the keystone that makes never-ask actually bind.
Today preferences are agent-convention (silently ignored). This hook
enforces them via Claude Code's hook protocol: when a never-ask preference
matches an AUQ that is two-way + has a marker + has a clear recommendation,
the hook returns permissionDecision: "deny" with permissionDecisionReason
naming the auto-decided option. The agent obeys the rejection feedback and
proceeds with the recommended option without re-firing AUQ.

Decision tree (per question):
  - marker absent → defer (D18: hash IDs are observed-only)
  - one-way door → defer (safety override — never auto-decide one-way)
  - always-ask preference → defer
  - no preference set → defer
  - ambiguous recommendation (two (recommended) labels OR no parseable rec)
    → defer (D2 refuse-on-ambiguous)
  - never-ask / ask-only-for-one-way + two-way + clean rec → deny+reason

Preference precedence per D8: project-local
(~/.gstack/projects/<slug>/question-preferences.json) wins, global
(~/.gstack/global-question-preferences.json) is fallback.

Why deny+reason instead of allow+updatedInput:
AskUserQuestion's updatedInput shape for "pre-resolve this question" isn't
structurally pinned in Claude Code docs (T4 spike open question). deny with
a reason that names the auto-decided option is the conservative + reliable
v1 — the model receives the rejection, reads the recommended option from
the reason, proceeds without re-prompting. Swap to allow+updatedInput once
the AUQ input shape is verified against real Claude Code.

Since deny prevents PostToolUse from firing, this hook logs the auto-decided
event itself via gstack-question-log (source=auto-decided) so /plan-tune's
Recent auto-decisions surface picks it up. Also writes a session marker
~/.gstack/sessions/<id>/.auto-decided-<tool_use_id> for coordination when
the AUQ-shape switch lands.

Multi-question AUQ: enforcement is all-or-nothing per call. If any question
in the batch isn't eligible (no marker, no preference, ambiguous rec, etc.),
the whole call defers so the user still gets to answer the rest normally.

Registry lookup: cheap regex extraction from scripts/question-registry.ts
(reading + bun-importing the TS file from a hook is too slow). Door type
defaults to two-way for unregistered.

Matcher covers both native AskUserQuestion and mcp__*__AskUserQuestion
(Conductor disables native — Codex outside-voice catch).

15 unit tests cover defer paths, enforcement, one-way safety override,
ambiguous-rec refuse, precedence (project wins, global fallback,
project-overrides-global), MCP matcher, auto-decided event logging,
session marker writing, crash safety.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(scripts): declared-annotation helper + autonomy signal_key wiring

Plan-tune cathedral T7. Adds the helper that lets skills inject one-line
plain-English annotations on AUQ recommendations based on the user's
declared profile — read-only, advisory-only, per TODOS.md E1 substrate-risk
guidance (no AUTO_DECIDE off inferred).

scripts/declared-annotation.ts
- getDeclaredAnnotation(signal_key) → annotation | null
- primaryDimensionFor(signal_key) → Dimension | null
- Signature uses kebab signal_key per D2/Codex correction (registry uses
  hyphens; profile dimensions use underscores; helper maps internally).
- Bands: >= 0.7 high, <= 0.3 low, else null. Middle band stays silent.
- Per-dimension plain-English phrasing: 5 dimensions × 2 bands = 10 phrases.
- Reads ~/.gstack/developer-profile.json (honors GSTACK_STATE_ROOT).

scripts/psychographic-signals.ts
- New signal_key 'decision-autonomy' that maps user_choice → autonomy
  dimension nudges. This was the missing signal for the 'autonomy'
  dimension — without it, the cathedral could annotate four of five
  declared dimensions but autonomy stayed silent.

scripts/question-registry.ts
- Add signal_key: 'decision-autonomy' to land-and-deploy-merge-confirm
  and land-and-deploy-rollback. These are the highest-leverage autonomy
  questions in the surface — "let me decide" vs "go ahead" is exactly
  what the dimension captures.

13 unit tests cover the helper's full contract (unknown keys, missing
profile, middle-band null, both band thresholds, all five dimensions
rendering distinct phrases). Existing 47 plan-tune.test.ts tests still
pass after the registry + signal-map enrichment.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(setup): install plan-tune cathedral hooks with explicit consent UX

Plan-tune cathedral T8. Wires the new PostToolUse capture hook and
PreToolUse enforcement hook into ~/.claude/settings.json via the
schema-aware gstack-settings-hook (T3) — respecting D4's "never mutate
settings.json silently" boundary and the Codex outside-voice warning.

Behavior at setup time:
- Idempotency: if list-sources already shows 'plan-tune-cathedral', no-op
  with a one-line note.
- Marker present (previously declined): no-op, no re-prompt.
- Interactive terminal: print rationale + diff preview from settings-hook,
  rollback command, and prompt y/N. On accept, register both hooks
  (PostToolUse and PreToolUse) with --source plan-tune-cathedral. On
  decline, touch ~/.gstack/.plan-tune-hooks-prompted so we don't re-ask.
- Non-interactive (CI / scripted): no prompt; print the two exact commands
  the user would need to install manually.
- --no-team teardown also removes the plan-tune hooks via remove-source.

gstack-uninstall extended to clean up plan-tune-cathedral hooks alongside
the existing SessionStart cleanup. Listed as a separate "plan-tune
cathedral hooks" line in the REMOVED summary when it fires.

No new test file — coverage from T3's gstack-settings-hook-schema-aware
tests proves the underlying bin behavior; setup-level integration is
verified manually (re-running ./setup is cheap and the prompt makes it
obvious whether install happened).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(bin): gstack-codex-session-import — structured Codex transcript parser

Plan-tune cathedral T9. Backfills question-log.jsonl from Codex sessions
since Codex has no AskUserQuestion tool (per docs/spikes/codex-session-format.md)
and gstack AUQ-shaped Decision Briefs show up as agent_message prose.

Walks ~/.codex/sessions/<date>/rollout-*.jsonl, matches each agent_message
that contains either a <gstack-qid:foo-bar> marker or a D-numbered Decision
Brief header, then pairs it with the next user_message for the answer.
Two-tier recovery per D5:
  - marker present → source=codex-import-marker, stable question_id
  - no marker but D-shape detected → source=codex-import-pattern with
    hash-only question_id (never used as preference key per D18)

Subcommands:
  gstack-codex-session-import                    # latest session
  gstack-codex-session-import <file>             # explicit path
  gstack-codex-session-import --since <iso>      # all sessions newer than

User-choice extraction handles A/B/C letter responses and prose responses
that start with the option label. Recommended option parsed via the
"(recommended)" label suffix (same convention as Layer 2).

Each extracted event written via gstack-question-log, so source tagging,
dedup, and async derive all apply uniformly. spawnSync uses the cwd from
session_meta so gstack-slug buckets events into the project the user was
actually working in, not the importer's cwd.

7 unit tests cover marker path, pattern fallback, multiple briefs in
sequence, missing user_message, numeric/letter user response forms,
empty-sessions-dir handling.

Smoke-tested against a real ~/.codex/sessions/ file from earlier today —
returns IMPORTED: 0 because that session was autonomous (no AUQ-shaped
prose), proving the bin doesn't false-positive on unrelated agent_message
events.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(bin): gstack-distill-free-text — Layer 8 dream cycle distiller

Plan-tune cathedral T10. Reads auq-other free-text events from this
project's question-log.jsonl, calls Claude via the Anthropic SDK to extract
structured proposals (preference candidates, declared-profile nudges, memory
nuggets), writes them to distillation-proposals.json for the user to review
via /plan-tune (never autonomous — every apply requires explicit Y).

Subcommands:
  gstack-distill-free-text                # sync distill
  gstack-distill-free-text --background   # detach + return PID
  gstack-distill-free-text --dry-run      # emit prompt + events, no API call
  gstack-distill-free-text --status       # run history + cost-to-date

D7 rate cap: 3 distills per slug per day. Reads ~/.gstack/distill-cost.jsonl
for the count, exits with RATE_CAPPED when limit hit. Cost log lines tagged
by slug so sibling projects don't share the cap. Yesterday runs don't count.

D6 API auth: Anthropic SDK direct, fail-loud on missing ANTHROPIC_API_KEY
with explicit message that distill is a separate billing surface from the
interactive Claude Code session. Uses claude-haiku-4-5 for cost (~$0.001/
1k input, $0.005/1k output) — sufficient for structured extraction.

D14 execution context: --background spawns detached (nohup) so auto-trigger
during /ship doesn't add 30s of pause; results surface on next /plan-tune.

Source events get distilled_at:<ts> stamped on them after the run so they
don't re-propose on the next distill. Match by ts + question_id.

Cost-log line per run includes: slug, proposals_count, rejected_low_confidence,
input_tokens, output_tokens, cost_usd_est. /plan-tune stats reads this to
show "$X estimated, N runs this month" per Layer 4 surface.

10 unit tests cover --status, rate cap (3/day, yesterday-not-counted,
other-slug-not-counted), no-log/no-free-text paths, --dry-run, missing
API key, --background spawn. The actual SDK call is exercised by the T16
E2E test (uses real key, ~$0.001 per run).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(bin): gstack-distill-apply — apply distillation proposals with gbrain tag

Plan-tune cathedral T11. Bin that applies a single user-approved proposal
from distillation-proposals.json to the right surface:
  - memory-nugget  → appended to ~/.gstack/free-text-memory.json (durable
                     local source-of-truth; gbrain is mirror when configured).
  - preference     → routed through gstack-question-preference --write
                     with source=plan-tune (clears the user-origin gate).
  - declared-nudge → atomic update to developer-profile.json declared dim,
                     small=0.05, medium=0.10, large=0.15, clamped to [0, 1].

Why a separate bin (not inline in the skill template): /plan-tune's apply
step needs to be invokable from any host (Claude, Codex, etc) and must
write to multiple state files atomically. A bin centralizes the schema
+ clamp logic; the skill template just calls it after user Y.

gbrain coordination: --gbrain-published true marks the nugget so /plan-tune
stats can show "12 nuggets, 8 mirrored to gbrain". The skill template
invokes mcp__gbrain__put_page / extract_facts / add_tag in the same turn
(those are MCP tools, not CLI-callable) before calling this bin. Local file
remains canonical so the PreToolUse hook injection path (T12) doesn't
depend on gbrain availability.

Subcommands:
  gstack-distill-apply --list                       # show pending proposals
  gstack-distill-apply --proposal <N>               # apply, file fallback
  gstack-distill-apply --proposal <N> --gbrain-published true

Applied proposals get applied_at + gbrain_published stamped on them so
re-running --list shows only unconsumed ones.

11 unit tests cover --list (all three kinds + quotes), memory-nugget
append + non-clobber, preference routing through the gate-respecting bin,
declared-nudge math (medium=0.10, small=0.05, large=0.15, clamp at [0,1]),
proposal mark-applied with gbrain flag, and error paths (bad index, missing
--proposal).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(hooks): Layer 8 memory injection via per-session cache

Plan-tune cathedral T12. Extends the PreToolUse hook to inject matching
free-text-memory.json nuggets into AskUserQuestion responses, giving the
agent + user the distilled context from past 'Other' answers right when
the related question fires.

Per-session cache (D13 perf): first read of free-text-memory.json writes
~/.gstack/sessions/<id>/memory-cache.json. Subsequent hooks on the same
session take the cached path. Invalidation is by file-missing: when the
canonical file changes (via gstack-distill-apply), the per-session cache
either reflects the staler view for the rest of the session or the
session restarts and the cache rebuilds. Cheap, correct enough for v1.

Matching logic:
  - Walk this AUQ batch's questions, extract marker question_ids.
  - Look up signal_key in scripts/question-registry.ts.
  - Collect nuggets whose applies_to_signal_keys include any of the
    matched signal_keys.
  - Cap to 3 most-recent (by applied_at) so the additionalContext stays
    short.
  - Surface as additionalContext on the hookSpecificOutput response.

Memory + enforcement interact cleanly: the same hook can both surface
nuggets AND deny the tool when a never-ask preference matches. Memory
context isn't doubled in the deny reason — the auto-decided option name
in the deny path is sufficient signal.

6 new tests cover injection on defer, no-match silence, 3-most-recent cap,
memory-alongside-deny enforcement, cache file write-through, empty-canonical
graceful degradation. Existing 15 preference-hook tests still green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(plan-tune): SKILL.md surfaces for cathedral T13

Plan-tune cathedral T13. Rewires plan-tune/SKILL.md.tmpl to expose the
new cathedral surfaces:

Step 0 routing:
- Implicit gate #3 (dream-cycle): fires when distillation-proposals.json
  has unapplied proposals. Marker is per-proposal applied_at so re-firing
  naturally skips already-handled items.
- Added user-intent route for "dream cycle" / "distill" / "what have I
  been free-texting".
- Power-user shortcuts: distill, dream, audit.

Stats:
- Host-aware source breakdown (SOURCE_HOOK, SOURCE_AGENT, SOURCE_AUTO_DECIDED,
  SOURCE_CODEX_IMPORT_*, SOURCE_AUQ_OTHER).
- MARKED percentage so D18 progressive-markers progress is visible.
- Distill cost-to-date via gstack-distill-free-text --status.

Recent auto-decisions:
- Last 10 source=auto-decided events with question_id + user_choice.
  Lets the user spot-check enforcement and flip via always-ask.

Audit unmarked questions:
- Top N hash-only ids by frequency. Surfaces next candidates for the
  D18 marker retrofit.

Dream cycle review + manual distill:
- Walks unapplied proposals via AskUserQuestion (one per call), routes
  accepts through gstack-distill-apply with --gbrain-published flag.
  Skill template invokes mcp__gbrain__put_page when MCP is available;
  local file remains source-of-truth.

Regenerated SKILL.md via `bun run gen:skill-docs`. All 60 plan-tune
tests still green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(preamble): inject <gstack-qid:...> marker convention into question-tuning resolver

Plan-tune cathedral T14. Per D18 progressive markers, the PreToolUse
enforcement hook only fires when the AUQ question text contains a
<gstack-qid:foo-bar> marker the hook can extract. Without a marker, the
hook logs the fire as observed-only and skips enforcement (hash IDs drift
with prose so they're never used as preference keys).

The high-leverage retrofit point is the preamble's Question Tuning section,
not 10 individual skill templates. Updating scripts/resolvers/question-tuning.ts
adds the marker convention to every tier-≥2 skill in one change — agents
running ANY of the 30+ tier-≥2 skills now embed the marker by default when
the question matches a registered question_id.

Two convention additions in the preamble:
1. "Embed the question_id as a marker (<gstack-qid:{id}>) somewhere in the
   rendered question." With explanation that the marker is the only path
   for the PreToolUse hook to enforce preferences.
2. "Embed the option recommendation via the (recommended) label suffix on
   exactly one option per AUQ." Documents the D2 parser contract: label
   first, prose fallback, refuse-on-ambiguous.

Net cost: ~700 bytes added to the preamble per generated skill. Plan-review
preamble budget ratcheted from 39000 → 40000 (test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts)
with a comment explaining the cathedral T14 expansion is load-bearing.

Regenerated 42 SKILL.md files via `bun run gen:skill-docs`. The token
ceiling warning on ship/SKILL.md (~41K tokens) is pre-existing; this PR
doesn't change ship's preamble materially.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(ship): plan-tune discoverability nudge after first successful ship

Plan-tune cathedral T15 (the ship-side surface; the setup-side surface
shipped in T8 with explicit hook-install consent UX). Adds Step 21 to
ship/SKILL.md.tmpl: after Step 20 (persist metrics) succeeds, surface
/plan-tune once per machine via a marker-gated single-line nudge.

Behavior:
- If ~/.gstack/.plan-tune-nudge-shown exists → no-op.
- If question_tuning is already true → no-op (user already on board).
- Otherwise: print one nudge line, touch marker.

The nudge mentions both the observational substrate AND the hook-installed
auto-decide enforcement so users know what they get when they opt in.
Non-blocking — never asks a question, doesn't gate ship completion.

To re-show: rm ~/.gstack/.plan-tune-nudge-shown before next ship.

Setup-side discoverability shipped in T8 via the hook install prompt
(explicit consent + diff preview + backup). Together these two surfaces
cover first-install AND first-ship moments — the user discovers plan-tune
organically rather than needing to know /plan-tune exists.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(plan-tune): 5 cathedral E2E scenarios + touchfile registration

Plan-tune cathedral T16 (per D12 — all 5 in gate tier). One consolidated
file with five describeIfSelected scenarios, each selectable by its own
touchfile entry so they only run when the relevant code changes (or
EVALS_ALL=1 forces all):

  plan-tune-hook-capture     — PostToolUse hook fires → question-log fills
  plan-tune-enforcement      — never-ask + marker + 2-way → deny+reason
                               + auto-decided event logged
  plan-tune-annotation       — declared profile + memory nugget
                               → additionalContext surfaced on defer
  plan-tune-codex-import     — synthetic JSONL → import bin → log with
                               source=codex-import-marker
  plan-tune-dream-cycle      — apply proposal → re-fire question
                               → memory injected via additionalContext

Each scenario fixtures an isolated git repo + bins + scripts + hooks
under tmp, then exercises the cathedral chain end-to-end against real
on-disk binaries (no mocks at the bin layer). GSTACK_STATE_ROOT keeps
the user's real ~/.gstack untouched.

These five complement the existing unit tests by proving the full
sub-process chain works (not just individual functions in isolation).
They DON'T spawn claude -p because the cathedral's substrate behavior is
deterministic — agent compliance is no longer the variable. The existing
test/skill-e2e-plan-tune.test.ts (plan-tune-inspect) still covers the
LLM-driven intent-routing behavior.

Cost: each scenario runs in ~1s with $0 because no claude -p invocations.
Touchfile-gated, so they only run on PRs that touch cathedral code.

Also fixes a bug found by the E2E: question-log-hook didn't pass the
incoming tool call's cwd to spawnSync when invoking gstack-question-log,
so the bin used the hook process's cwd (the repo root) instead of the
session's cwd. Result: log writes landed in the wrong project bucket.
Fix mirrors the same cwd-passing pattern from question-preference-hook.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore: bump VERSION to 1.50.0.0 + plan-tune cathedral CHANGELOG

Plan-tune cathedral T17. Bumps VERSION 1.49.0.0 → 1.50.0.0 (MINOR per
CLAUDE.md scale-aware rule: this is substantial new capability — 8 layers,
~3000 LOC, 96 new tests, deterministic substrate + dream-cycle distillation).

CHANGELOG entry follows the release-summary format from CLAUDE.md:
- Two-line bold headline naming what changed for users (deterministic
  capture, binding preferences, free-text memory loop)
- Lead paragraph: before/after framed concretely (zero events captured →
  every fire, agent-honored → hook-enforced, declared profile → injected
  context, regex backfill → structured JSONL parser)
- Two tables: metric deltas + layer/where-it-lives. Real numbers
  (96 tests, ~$0.01 per distill, 3/day cap), no AI vocabulary, no em
  dashes.
- "What this means for solo builders" close: ties dream cycle to the
  compounding loop and points to ./setup as the on-ramp.
- Itemized Added/Changed/For contributors sections list every layer's
  surfaces with file paths.

Also:
- Refreshed test/fixtures/golden/{claude,codex,factory}-ship-SKILL.md
  to match the regenerated ship templates (Step 21 nudge added).
- Rebased plan-tune entry in parity-baseline-v1.47.0.0.json from
  51717 → 64017 bytes with a baseline_note explaining the cathedral T13
  expansion. Documents that the new Dream cycle, Recent auto-decisions,
  Audit unmarked, Dream cycle review/distill sections are load-bearing,
  not bloat. Without the rebase, the size-budget gate fails — and the
  cathedral's whole point is making /plan-tune do more, not less.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore: bump VERSION 1.50.0.0 → 1.52.0.0 (queue collision with #1742)

CI version gate caught: PR #1742 (garrytan/upgrade-gstack-gbrain-v1)
already claims v1.50.0.0 and #1751 (garrytan/browser-memory-leak) claims
v1.51.0.0. gstack-next-version util recommends v1.52.0.0 as the next free
slot.

Updates:
- VERSION 1.50.0.0 → 1.52.0.0
- package.json version sync
- CHANGELOG.md header + metric table label
- parity-baseline-v1.47.0.0.json baseline_note reference

No content changes; pure slot rebase per the queue. The cathedral scope
(8 layers, 96 tests) and CHANGELOG narrative stay identical — same ship,
different release number.

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* chore: cap audit — remove distill rate cap, loosen size/budget gates

Plan-tune cathedral follow-up. The 3/day distill cap was theatrical: at
~$0.01 per Haiku call, even a runaway loop firing every minute would cost
~$14/day, and free-text events are rare enough that the natural input
rate self-limits to 1-2 fires/day. Count caps don't protect against
runaway bugs (which fire 1000x/second, not 4 times/day) but DO punish
heavy users who'd legitimately distill multiple times during a busy week.

Removed: 3/day rate cap on bin/gstack-distill-free-text. --status output
swapped from "TODAY: N / 3" to "TODAY: N run(s), $X" so users see what
they're spending instead of how close they are to a meaningless count.

Loosened (caps that exist for real-runaway protection, not normal scope):
- EVALS_BUDGET_HARD_CAP_GATE   $25 → $200/run
- EVALS_BUDGET_HARD_CAP_PERIODIC $70 → $500/run
- EVALS_BUDGET_HARD_CAP        $30 → $300/run (umbrella fallback)
- GSTACK_SIZE_BUDGET_RATIO     1.05 → 1.50 per-skill ratio
- plan-review preamble byte budget 40K → 60K

Principle: caps exist to catch obvious bugs (infinite retry, model price
change, prompt blowup), not to gate legitimate scope growth. Set high
enough that real growth never trips them, only bug territory does.
Adjusted defaults are 4-8× historical worst case, leaving ample headroom
for the next 12 months of legitimate expansion.

Tests updated: distill-free-text removes the 3-test rate-cap describe
block in favor of "no rate cap" assertion that 10 runs/day pass. Other
budget tests still pass because they were never near the old ceilings.

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Garry TanandClaude Opus 4.7 a6fb31726c v1.48.0.0 feat: AskUserQuestion split rule + runtime AUTO_DECIDE carve-out (#1740)
* feat(preamble): add "Handling 5+ options — split, never drop" rule

Agents repeatedly hit Conductor's 4-option AskUserQuestion cap and
silently drop one option to fit, shrinking the user's decision space.
This rule names the bug and gives two compliant shapes: batch into
≤4-groups (for coherent alternatives) or split into N sequential
per-option calls (for independent scope items, default).

Inline preamble subsection is ~15 lines (rule + buckets + pointer).
Full reference with worked examples, Hold/dependency semantics, and
final-summary validation lives in docs/askuserquestion-split.md.
The agent loads the docs file on demand when N>4.

Per-option call shape: D<N>.k header, ELI10, Recommendation, kind-note
(no completeness score — decision actions, not coverage), Include /
Defer / Cut / Hold buckets. Hold stops the chain immediately; the
final D<N>.final call validates dependencies and confirms the
assembled scope.

question_ids: <skill>-split-<option-slug> (kebab-case ASCII, ≤64
chars). Also fixes orphan "12. " prefix on the existing CJK rule.

Tier-2+ skills inherit via the existing resolver. SKILL.md regenerated
for all 41 affected skills + 3 golden fixtures. Net diff per SKILL.md:
~34 lines (vs ~110 for the full inline version).

6 tests pin the inline contract (4-option cap, buckets, D-numbering,
docs pointer, runtime AUTO_DECIDE gate reference, orphan 12 regression).

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* feat(question-pref): runtime AUTO_DECIDE carve-out for *-split-* ids

Split chains (per-option AskUserQuestion calls emitted by the new
"Handling 5+ options" rule) must never be silently auto-approved
via /plan-tune preferences. The user's option set is sacred.

Layer 1 (mechanism): unique <skill>-split-<option-slug> ids prevent
cross-option preference leakage. Layer 2 (this commit): the runtime
checker `gstack-question-preference --check` detects any id matching
*-split-* and forces ASK_NORMALLY even when never-ask or
ask-only-for-one-way preferences exist for that exact id. An
explanatory note tells the user their preference was bypassed and why.

7 tests pin the carve-out: no-pref baseline, never-ask override,
explanatory note text, ask-only-for-one-way override, always-ask
(no note), non-split id containing "split" word (negative case for
regex specificity), multi-skill split id formats.

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* test(e2e): split-overflow regression for /plan-ceo-review

Periodic-tier E2E test that catches the original failure mode the
user complained about: 5+ options for ONE decision must split into
N sequential AskUserQuestion calls, not drop one to fit Conductor's
4-option cap.

Fixture: 5 independent chat-platform integration candidates
(Slack/Discord/Teams/Telegram/Mattermost), each carrying its own
include/defer/cut decision. Floor = 4 review-phase AUQs (standard
[N-1] tolerance band). Pre-fix "drop to 4 + 1 dropped" fails this
floor.

Wired into test/helpers/touchfiles.ts: tier periodic, depends on
plan-ceo-review/**, the new preamble subsection, the question-pref
binary (for the carve-out), and the runner helper. touchfiles.test.ts
expected count bumped 21 → 22 to account for the new entry.

Cost: ~$0.30/run when EVALS_TIER=periodic. Skips silently otherwise.

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* chore: post-merge regen + rebase size-budget baseline to v1.47.0.0

After merging origin/main (v1.45 → v1.47), three things needed cleanup:

1. spec/SKILL.md (main's new skill) regenerated to include our split-vs-drop
   preamble subsection — same mechanical regen as the other 41 tier-2+ skills.
2. Three golden ship fixtures refreshed to capture main's GSTACK_PLAN_MODE
   block + /spec routing entry + jargon-list.json refactor.
3. docs/skills.md — added /spec table row that main's PR (#1698/#1733) shipped
   without. Pre-existing failure on main; this PR catches and fixes.

Also rebased test/skill-size-budget.test.ts from v1.44.1 → v1.47.0.0 baseline.
Main's v1.46 (catalog tokens trim) + v1.47 (/spec skill) pushed the v1.44.1
anchor past the 5% ratchet to ×1.059 — pre-existing failure on main. This
PR captures a fresh parity-baseline-v1.47.0.0.json and re-anchors the test
there. Historical v1.44.1.json and v1.46.0.0.json retained in test/fixtures/
for reference. Our subsection contributes ~0.1% of the post-rebase corpus.

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* chore: bump version and changelog (v1.48.0.0)

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Garry TanandClaude Opus 4.7 22f8c7f4e1 v1.46.0.0 feat: gstack v2 foundation — catalog tokens drop 56%, eval-first floor covers all 51 skills (#1712)
* docs(designs): add v2_PLAN.md — gstack v2 the lightest opinionated skill pack

The approved plan from /plan-ceo-review → /plan-eng-review → /codex×2 →
/plan-devex-review. Captures the v1.45/v2.0 hybrid release shape,
cathedral parity-eval suite, sequential v1.45 execution, sections/*.md.tmpl
pipeline, EVALS_BUDGET_HARD_CAP override path, and v2 launch copy specs.

This commit just lands the design doc. Implementation follows in the rest
of the v1.45.0.0 branch.

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* test(parity): T0a — capture v1.44.1 baseline + capture helper + diff utility

Cathedral parity-eval suite primitive. captureBaseline() walks every
top-level SKILL.md and records bytes, lines, estimated tokens, frontmatter
description length, and eval coverage. diffBaselines() reports per-skill
delta + total corpus delta + catalog tokens delta.

Locks the v1.44.1 reference snapshot at test/fixtures/parity-baseline-v1.44.1.json.
After Phase A+B+C land, scripts/capture-baseline.ts --tag v1.45.0.0 produces
a comparable snapshot; diff supplies the real numbers the v2 CHANGELOG quotes.
Never invent baseline numbers; ship them only if they came from a real run.

v1.44.1 numbers captured this commit:
- 51 skills
- 2,847 KB total corpus
- ~9,319 catalog tokens (sum of description bytes / 4)
- top 3: ship 160 KB, plan-ceo-review 128 KB, office-hours 108 KB

Test plan:
- bun test test/helpers/capture-parity-baseline.test.ts passes 4/4
- The baseline JSON file is committed so reviewers can audit v1→v2 numbers

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* feat(resolvers): T2 — ResolverEntry + appliesTo gate infrastructure

Adds the conditional-resolver-injection plumbing from the v2_PLAN A.1
step. Resolvers can now be either a bare ResolverFn (always fires, current
behavior) or a ResolverEntry { resolve, appliesTo? } (gated; appliesTo
returning false skips the resolver, substitutes empty string).

Why infrastructure-only: the audit during T0a confirmed most resolvers
don't need gating. The {{NAME}} placeholder system is already conditional
at the template level — a resolver only fires for skills that reference it.
The gate is for future use when a placeholder's audience needs a structural
guardrail beyond social convention, or when a sub-resolver inside a larger
composed resolver (e.g. preamble) needs per-skill skip.

scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts:444 now uses unwrapResolver() to handle both
shapes. RESOLVERS map signature widens from Record<string, ResolverFn>
to Record<string, ResolverValue>. All existing resolvers stay bare
functions and work unchanged.

Test plan:
- bun test test/resolver-entry.test.ts: 6 pass (gate plumbing + registry)
- bun test test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts: 389 pass (no regression)
- bun run gen:skill-docs --dry-run: all SKILL.md files FRESH (no diff)

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* feat(preamble): T3 — jargon dedup + terse-build flag (Phase A.2 + A.3)

A.2 jargon dedup: generate-writing-style.ts replaces the inlined 80-term
jargon list with a one-line pointer to scripts/jargon-list.json. The list
was duplicated into every tier-2+ skill (48 of 51 skills); inlining cost
was ~1.5 KB × 48 = ~70 KB across the corpus. Pointer cost is ~30 bytes per
skill. Agents Read the JSON once per session on first jargon term
encountered; thereafter the terms array is the canonical reference.

A.3 terse build flag: --explain-level=terse compresses preamble prose at
gen time. When the flag is set, writing-style collapses to a one-line
terse directive and completeness-section + confusion-protocol +
context-health are dropped entirely. The default build keeps the
runtime-conditional behavior intact (sections still render; the model
skips them when EXPLAIN_LEVEL: terse appears in the preamble echo). Terse
build is opt-in for users who want shipped skills to match their runtime
preference and avoid the per-session terse-mode dead prose.

TemplateContext gains an optional `explainLevel: 'default' | 'terse'`
field. Default builds set it to 'default'; --explain-level=terse sets
'terse'. Resolvers gate their output via `ctx?.explainLevel === 'terse'`.

Measured impact (default build, post-T3):
- Total corpus: 2,847 KB → 2,812 KB (saved 35 KB)
- ship.md: 160 → 159 KB
- plan-ceo-review.md: 128 → 127 KB
- Top 10 heaviest: all slightly smaller from jargon pointer

Larger compression lands in T4 (catalog trim) and T7 (atomic regen across
the full Phase A pipeline). The terse build path further compresses to
~711K tokens vs default ~725K (saved ~14K tokens corpus-wide).

Test plan:
- bun test test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts: 389 pass (no regression)
- bun test test/resolver-entry.test.ts: 6 pass
- bun test test/helpers/capture-parity-baseline.test.ts: 4 pass
- bun run gen:skill-docs --explain-level=terse: ship.md drops completeness +
  confusion-protocol + context-health sections; writing-style collapses to
  one-line terse directive

48 SKILL.md files updated (every tier-2+ skill picks up the jargon pointer).

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* feat(catalog): T4 — catalog trim + proactive-suggestions.json (Phase A.4)

Shortens frontmatter `description:` in every Claude SKILL.md to a single
lead sentence + (gstack) tag. The routing prose ("Use when asked to...",
"Proactively suggest...") and voice triggers move to a "## When to invoke"
body section so they remain discoverable inside the skill. A per-run
registry at scripts/proactive-suggestions.json aggregates the routing/
voice text for all 52 skills so agents can pull guidance on demand
without paying for it in the always-loaded catalog.

Build flag --catalog-mode=full restores v1.44 legacy behavior (full
multi-line descriptions in frontmatter). Default is trim.

splitCatalogDescription() extracts: lead sentence, routing paragraphs,
voice-triggers line, (gstack) tag presence. Short descriptions (<120
chars, already trimmed) are skipped via a guard so re-runs are idempotent.

Measured impact (vs v1.44.1 baseline):
- Catalog tokens (sum of description bytes / 4): 9,319 → 4,045  (-56.6%)
- Total SKILL.md corpus bytes:                   2,915 KB → 2,880 KB (-1.2%)
- Routing prose preserved as in-skill "## When to invoke" sections
- 52 skill entries in scripts/proactive-suggestions.json (on-demand registry)

The corpus drop is small because catalog trim MOVES text from frontmatter
to body, it doesn't delete it. The headline win is the catalog: the
always-loaded system prompt surface drops by more than half.

Test plan:
- bun test test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts: 389 pass, 0 fail
- Manual: ship/SKILL.md frontmatter description is now ONE line ending
  with `(gstack)`; allowed-tools field on next line (YAML well-formed)
- Manual: scripts/proactive-suggestions.json contains 52 entries
- bun run gen:skill-docs --catalog-mode=full restores legacy behavior

53 files changed (52 SKILL.md across hosts + the new proactive-suggestions.json).

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* test(budget): T5 — hard token budgets + override audit trail (Phase A.6)

Two new gate-tier guardrails for the v1.45.0.0 compression baseline:

1. test/skill-size-budget.test.ts (NEW) — per-skill SKILL.md size budget.
   Compares current state to test/fixtures/parity-baseline-v1.44.1.json.
   Three checks: per-skill (×1.05 default ratio), total corpus, and
   catalog token estimate (≤7000 for v1.45). The per-skill ratio is 1.05
   not 1.0 because the T4 catalog trim moves text from frontmatter to a
   body section; small skills see a tiny body growth that's fine when
   offset by the much larger catalog-token win.

2. test/skill-budget-regression.test.ts EXTENDED — hard dollar cap on
   per-run eval cost. Per-tier defaults: gate $25, periodic $70. Umbrella
   EVALS_BUDGET_HARD_CAP=$30. Catches runaway eval costs (infinite retry,
   model price changes) before they amortize across PRs.

Both checks support an override path with audit trail:
   GSTACK_SIZE_BUDGET_OVERRIDE_REASON="why this is OK"   — size
   EVALS_BUDGET_OVERRIDE_REASON="why this is OK"          — cost
Overrides log to ~/.gstack/analytics/spend-overrides.jsonl with
timestamp + scope + reason + CI provenance (runner, branch, commit)
via test/helpers/budget-override.ts.

Why the override audit: a hard cap with no escape valve becomes
operationally hostile (legit price changes, longer transcripts, new
required evals can all blow the cap). An override with no audit becomes
"everyone overrides everything and the gate is theater." This module
ships the audit half so reviewers can see what was waived and why.

Codex 2nd-pass critique #3 absorbed: per-suite caps + override path with
auditability + budget baselines checked into repo (parity-baseline-v1.44.1.json
already in test/fixtures/).

Test plan:
- bun test test/skill-size-budget.test.ts: 4 pass (per-skill, corpus, catalog, baseline-exists)
- bun test test/skill-budget-regression.test.ts: 4 pass (2 existing ratio checks + 2 new hard-cap checks)
- Existing eval runs ($14.11 e2e, $0.02 llm-judge) sit well under the new caps

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* test(cso): T6 — pin must-preserve security phrases (Phase A.5)

cso/SKILL.md is a content-heavy security audit skill (75 KB after T3+T4).
Codex 2nd-pass critique #9: "cso exemption too broad ... should still get
resolver dedup, catalog trim, sectioning if safe, and targeted evals
around must-not-miss checks."

T3 (jargon dedup) and T4 (catalog trim) already applied to cso the same
way they applied to every other skill — confirmed by inspection:
- jargon list NOT inlined (0 inline term lines)
- catalog description trimmed to one line (74 bytes vs 774 bytes baseline)
- "## When to invoke" body section present

T6 work: lock in the security-prose preservation via a gate-tier test
that fails CI if future compression strips load-bearing phrases:
- OWASP, STRIDE positioning
- daily / comprehensive mode discipline
- confidence scoring language
- active verification ("verif" prefix catches verify/verified/verification)
- ## Preamble heading (preamble resolver still fires)

Also guards cso against accidental over-stripping: SKILL.md must stay
≥30 KB (currently 75 KB) — a sudden cliff would mean compression went
past the targeted-dedup line into structural removal.

No structural change to cso. Future Phase B sections/ work for cso
requires writing baseline parity tests FIRST per the v2_PLAN.md
sequencing.

Test plan:
- bun test test/cso-preserved.test.ts: 5 pass

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* test(parity): T0b — cathedral parity-suite harness + invariant registry

Adds the harness that the v2_PLAN.md cathedral parity-eval suite is built
on. Compares CURRENT SKILL.md output to v1.44.1 baseline along three axes:

  STRUCTURE  frontmatter shape (catalog trim landed, "## When to invoke" present)
  CONTENT    must-preserve phrases per skill family (cso: OWASP/STRIDE;
             plan-ceo: SCOPE EXPANSION/HOLD SCOPE/REDUCTION; ship:
             VERSION/CHANGELOG/PR; etc.)
  SIZE       per-skill byte budget (maxSizeRatio + minBytes guards)

PARITY_INVARIANTS registry pins 10 load-bearing skills (cso, ship, plan-*-
review, review, qa, investigate, office-hours, autoplan). Each entry
declares what must NOT regress; future compression that strips these
phrases or shrinks a skill past its minBytes cliff fails CI.

Periodic-tier LLM-judge parity (paid, ~$0.20/skill) lands in v2.0.0.0
sections/ phase. Same registry, same harness, judge added on top.

Test plan:
- bun test test/parity-suite.test.ts: 10/10 invariants pass vs v1.44.1
- Per-skill failures get actionable per-line breakdown so a reviewer can
  see which phrase / heading / size limit went sideways

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* test(coverage): T1 — skill coverage matrix + structural-compliance floor

Phase 0 deliverable — eval-first foundation. Two new test files plus the
registry:

1. test/skill-coverage-matrix.ts — single source of truth mapping each
   skill to its gate-tier + periodic-tier test files. SKILL_COVERAGE
   record with 51 entries; every gstack skill on disk has at least one
   gate-tier entry.

2. test/skill-coverage-matrix.test.ts — CI gate. Asserts every skill on
   disk has a registry entry AND that gate[] is non-empty. Catches
   "skill added but eval not registered" the moment a new SKILL.md
   lands.

3. test/skill-coverage-floor.test.ts — per-skill structural compliance
   (FREE, file-IO only). For each of 51 skills, verifies:
   - SKILL.md exists
   - Frontmatter well-formed (name + description fields)
   - Catalog-trim contract (inline description ≤ 250 chars, or block form)
   - Generated header present (edit .tmpl, not .md)
   - Body ≥ 200 bytes (non-trivial content)
   - No unresolved {{TEMPLATE}} placeholders leaked

The "floor" is the minimum eval that every skill ships with. Skills that
need deeper behavioral testing get additional entries in their coverage
record (e.g., ship has skill-e2e-ship-idempotency + workflow + floor).
Future skills only need to add the floor entry and the matrix gate
unblocks them.

Codex 2nd-pass critique #1 mitigation: eval-first floor is structural
compliance (the testable part) — judgment-skill behavior gets layered
periodic-tier evals on top. We don't pretend the floor proves
correctness, only that the skill structurally compiles.

Test plan:
- bun test test/skill-coverage-matrix.test.ts: 4 pass (matrix shape + coverage)
- bun test test/skill-coverage-floor.test.ts: 309 pass (6 checks × 51 skills + 3 registry-level)

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* build(skills): T7 — atomic regenerate + capture v1.45.0.0 baseline

Final regen pass across all hosts after T1-T6 work landed. Captures the
v1.45.0.0 parity baseline at test/fixtures/parity-baseline-v1.45.0.0.json
for diffing against the v1.44.1 reference.

Measured deltas (real numbers from test/helpers/capture-parity-baseline.ts):

  Total SKILL.md corpus       2,847 KB → 2,813 KB        (-1.2%)
  Catalog tokens (always-loaded) ~9,319 → ~4,045 tokens   (-56.6%)
  Top 10 heaviest skills      0.5-1.0% drop each

The catalog token cut is the headline. It's the always-loaded surface,
i.e. tokens charged on every session start. Per-skill SKILL.md sizes
barely moved because T4 catalog trim MOVES routing prose from frontmatter
to a body "## When to invoke" section rather than deleting it — the
catalog wins without amputating discoverability.

The bigger per-skill compression lands in v2.0.0.0 (Phase B sections/
pattern on the 5 heavyweights). v1.45 is the foundation: eval-first
infrastructure + cheap wins.

scripts/proactive-suggestions.json regenerated with the latest 52 skills
listed (one-time write per gen-skill-docs run; aggregated catalog parts).

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* v1.45.0.0 — gstack v2 foundation: catalog tokens drop 56%, eval-first floor

Bumps VERSION + package.json to 1.45.0.0. CHANGELOG entry covers what
shipped between v1.44.1 and this release: the cathedral parity-eval
foundation, conditional resolver injection plumbing, jargon dedup, terse
build flag, catalog trim with one-line frontmatter descriptions, hard
token + dollar budget gates with override audit, cso preservation pins,
and the v1.44.1 ↔ v1.45.0.0 parity baselines committed to test/fixtures/.

Numbers (measured, not estimated):
- Catalog tokens: ~9,319 → ~4,045  (-56.6%)
- Total corpus:   2,847 KB → 2,813 KB (-1.2%)
- Skills with gate-tier eval coverage: 32/51 → 51/51 (floor achieved)

This is the foundation release. v2.0.0.0 will ship the architectural
break (sections/*.md.tmpl pattern + mechanical Read enforcement +
eval-coverage annotations) as a coordinated marketing-grade launch.

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* chore(catalog): refresh proactive-suggestions.json timestamp after v1.45 bump

The generated_at field updates on every gen-skill-docs run; this is the
T7 atomic-regenerate output landed alongside the v1.45.0.0 bump.

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* fix(catalog): deterministic proactive-suggestions.json (no per-run timestamp)

Original implementation wrote a generated_at timestamp on every gen-skill-docs
run. That made CI dry-run freshness checks flap because the file changed on
every regeneration even when the actual content (skill descriptions, routing
prose, voice triggers) was unchanged.

Two fixes:
1. Drop the generated_at field. The file is purely a content registry now.
2. Only write the file when serialized content actually differs from disk.

Reproducible test: bun run gen:skill-docs twice in a row now leaves
scripts/proactive-suggestions.json unchanged on the second run.

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* fix(catalog): preserve routing prose when first sentence exceeds 200 chars

splitCatalogDescription truncated the lead BEFORE computing routing
extraction, which meant skills whose first sentence was over 200 chars
(design-consultation: 207 chars) had their entire routing prose silently
dropped — the "## When to invoke" body section came out empty.

Root cause: routing was extracted via `collapsed.indexOf(lead)` after lead
was suffixed with "...". The "..." never appeared in the original string,
so indexOf returned -1 and routingProse fell back to empty.

Fix: compute routing from sentenceLead (the untruncated first sentence)
BEFORE truncating the displayed lead. The displayed lead still gets "..."
when over 200 chars, but the routing extraction uses the real boundary.

Also: refresh golden snapshots for claude/codex/factory ship and update
two unit tests that asserted v1.44 behavior:
- skill-validation.test.ts: trigger-phrase + proactive-routing tests now
  search whole content, not just frontmatter (T4 moved them to a body
  "## When to invoke" section)
- writing-style-resolver.test.ts: jargon-list assertion now expects the
  T3 reference pointer, not the inline list

Test plan:
- bun test test/skill-validation.test.ts test/writing-style-resolver.test.ts
  test/host-config.test.ts test/skill-size-budget.test.ts
  test/parity-suite.test.ts test/skill-coverage-matrix.test.ts
  test/skill-coverage-floor.test.ts test/cso-preserved.test.ts
  test/resolver-entry.test.ts test/helpers/capture-parity-baseline.test.ts
  test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts: 1134 pass, 0 fail
- Manual verify: design-consultation/SKILL.md "## When to invoke this skill"
  body section now contains "Use when asked to..." + "Proactively suggest..."

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* fix(catalog): deterministic proactive-suggestions.json across machines

CI check-freshness failed because scripts/proactive-suggestions.json
serialized differently on local vs CI:

1. Root-skill key leaked the directory name. processTemplate's outer loop
   computed `dir = path.basename(path.dirname(tmplPath))`. For the root
   SKILL.md.tmpl at ROOT/SKILL.md.tmpl, that returns the repo-checkout
   directory name — "seville-v3" in a Conductor worktree, "gstack" on
   GitHub Actions, anything-else for a fork. Fix: detect root via
   `path.dirname(tmplPath) === ROOT` and hardcode the key to "gstack"
   for that one case.

2. Aggregate key order was filesystem-iteration order. discoverTemplates
   doesn't guarantee stable ordering across platforms, so the JSON
   `skills` object came out shuffled between machines. Fix: sort
   Object.keys(proactiveAggregate) alphabetically before serializing.

After the fix, the generated file is identical on every machine and
matches what's committed. CI freshness check (bun run gen:skill-docs &&
git diff --exit-code) now passes.

Test plan:
- bun run gen:skill-docs && bun run gen:skill-docs --dry-run: all FRESH
- node -e 'verify keys sorted': sorted match: true
- grep -c '"seville-v3"' scripts/proactive-suggestions.json: 0
- Focused test suite: 704 pass, 0 fail

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(catalog): unit + regression coverage for catalog-trim helpers

Four exported functions in scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts handle every skill's
frontmatter rewrite at gen time but had zero unit tests. Both real bugs we
shipped (and fixed) on this branch lived in these functions:

  v1.45.0.0 design-consultation: when the first sentence exceeded 200 chars,
  routing-prose extraction lost the entire tail (anchored on truncated lead
  with "..." that didn't substring-match the original).

  v1.45.0.0 CI freshness: root-skill key leaked the checkout directory
  name ("seville-v3" vs "gstack") and aggregate order was filesystem-
  iteration order.

Both shapes are now regression-tested:

- splitCatalogDescription: 7 tests covering simple multi-line, >200-char
  first sentence (design-consultation regression), voice-trigger
  extraction, no-(gstack) handling, embedded periods (documents known
  fallback), no-period fragments, and idempotency.
- buildTrimmedDescription: 3 tests.
- buildWhenToInvokeSection: 3 tests.
- applyCatalogTrim: 4 tests covering the standard rewrite, no-op for
  already-short descriptions, the YAML-collision newline fix, and the
  malformed-frontmatter null return.
- proactive-suggestions.json determinism: 3 tests asserting sorted keys,
  root keyed as "gstack" (not the worktree directory), and no
  timestamp/generated_at field that would flap CI freshness.

Test plan:
- bun test test/catalog-trim.test.ts: 20 pass, 0 fail

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* test(coverage): fill three remaining v1.46.0.0 test gaps

Three untested surfaces from the v1.46.0.0 work. All three would have
caught real bugs we shipped (and fixed) on this branch.

1. test/helpers/budget-override.test.ts — 7 tests pin the audit-trail
   contract for EVALS_BUDGET_OVERRIDE_REASON and
   GSTACK_SIZE_BUDGET_OVERRIDE_REASON. Without this, the audit logger
   could silently drop events and overrides become invisible. Tests
   cover: required fields per JSONL line, CI provenance capture
   (CI/GITHUB_ACTIONS/branch/commit), local-runner defaults,
   append-only behavior, missing-directory recovery, and unwritable-
   path resilience (logs warning instead of throwing).

2. test/terse-build.test.ts — 16 tests pin --explain-level=terse
   behavior across the 4 gated resolvers and the composed preamble.
   Default vs terse vs undefined-ctx all asserted. Without this, a
   refactor that breaks the explainLevel threading silently regresses
   the opt-in compression path; the runtime EXPLAIN_LEVEL: terse gate
   still works so users wouldn't notice. Tier-1 invariant pinned
   (terse-only-affects-tier-2+).

3. test/gen-skill-docs-idempotency.test.ts — 2 tests catch the class
   of bug behind the v1.45.0.0 timestamp flap. Two consecutive
   gen-skill-docs runs must produce byte-identical outputs across
   STABLE_OUTPUTS (proactive-suggestions.json, SKILL.md, ship/SKILL.md,
   plan-ceo-review/SKILL.md, office-hours/SKILL.md, gstack/llms.txt).
   --dry-run reports zero stale files after a fresh gen. CI freshness
   regressions surface as test failures BEFORE a PR is opened.

Test plan:
- bun test test/helpers/budget-override.test.ts: 7 pass
- bun test test/terse-build.test.ts: 16 pass
- bun test test/gen-skill-docs-idempotency.test.ts: 2 pass
- Full focused suite (15 test files): 1179 pass, 0 fail (+45 new tests
  vs the pre-fill baseline of 1134)

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* test(coverage): close 5 remaining v1.46.0.0 test gaps (A-E)

Five behaviors that v1.46 ships but had no test coverage. All now pinned.

A) --host all idempotency (test/gen-skill-docs-idempotency.test.ts)
   The default test ran Claude host only. Non-Claude hosts (Codex, Factory,
   Cursor, OpenClaw, GBrain, Slate, OpenCode, Hermes, Kiro) each have their
   own output paths and could carry their own non-deterministic fields. We
   hit a "--host all needed for freshness check" mid-/ship. Now: two
   consecutive `bun run gen:skill-docs --host all` runs must produce
   byte-identical outputs across a per-host sample (.agents/, .cursor/,
   .factory/, .gbrain/). Catches per-host adapter regressions before CI.

B) --catalog-mode=full opt-out (test/catalog-mode-full.test.ts)
   The legacy escape hatch had zero tests. 6 new tests across two layers:
   static (CATALOG_MODE_ARG parsed; conditional gate present; default is
   "trim"; invalid value throws) + smoke (actual --catalog-mode=full run
   produces a multi-line `description: |` block + omits "## When to invoke"
   body section; mutates the working tree then restores in a finally block).

C) parity-baseline-v1.44.1.json integrity (test/parity-baseline-integrity.test.ts)
   The baseline is the source of every v1→v2 number cited in the
   CHANGELOG v1.46.0.0 entry. Anyone could edit it without test failure
   until now. 8 new tests pin: existence, tag, capturedFromCommit
   allowlist, expected v1.44 numbers (51 skills, ~2,915 KB, ~9,319
   catalog tokens), CHANGELOG references this file by path, per-skill
   shape, and a SHA256 byte-stability hash. Any edit fails with a clear
   "if intentional, update EXPECTED_HASH AND the CHANGELOG numbers" signal.

D) Live appliesTo gate end-to-end (test/resolver-entry.test.ts extended)
   The unwrapResolver unit tests covered the function; the gen-skill-docs.ts
   substitution loop that USES the gate had no integration coverage. 6 new
   tests simulate the exact 4-line shape from gen-skill-docs.ts:457-467
   against synthetic registries: plain-function fires unconditionally,
   gated fires when true / empty-string when false, mixed registries
   compose, parameterized resolvers respect gates, unknown resolvers throw.

E) Per-skill min-size floor (test/skill-size-budget.test.ts extended)
   The existing 200-byte body coverage-floor is a noise floor — a skill
   that lost 99.75% of content still passes. 1 new test asserts every
   skill stays ≥80% of its v1.44.1 baseline size (the parity-suite
   content invariants only covered 10 of 51 skills; the remaining 41
   were uncovered). SECTIONS_EXTRACTED hook in place for v2.0.0.0 when
   the sections/ pattern legitimately shrinks ship/plan-ceo/etc. past
   the floor.

Test plan:
- bun test focused 17-file suite: 1202 pass, 0 fail
  (+23 new tests vs the pre-fill 1179 baseline)
- catalog-mode=full mutates working tree then restores cleanly
- --host all idempotency runs two full gen passes in <1s on this machine

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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