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Garry Tan	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. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * 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 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * 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) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * 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). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * 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). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * 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 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * 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 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * 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 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * 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) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * 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). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * 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. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * 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. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * 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. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * 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..." Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * 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 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * 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) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * 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> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-05-26 16:50:03 -07:00
Garry Tan	dde55103fc	v1.15.0.0 feat: slim preamble + real-PTY plan-mode E2E harness (#1215) ... * chore: add gstack skill routing rules to CLAUDE.md Per routing-injection preamble — once-per-project addition that lets agents auto-invoke the right gstack skill instead of answering generically. * refactor: slim preamble resolvers + sidecar-symlink helper Compress prose across 18 preamble resolvers — Voice, Writing Style, AskUserQuestion Format, Completeness Principle, Confusion Protocol, Context Health, Context Recovery, Continuous Checkpoint, Lake Intro, Proactive Prompt, Routing Injection, Telemetry Prompt, Upgrade Check, Vendoring Deprecation, Writing Style Migration, Brain Sync Block, Completion Status, and Question Tuning. Same semantic contract, ~half the bytes. Restored "Treat the skill file as executable instructions" phrase in the plan-mode info section after diagnosing it as load-bearing. Restored "Effort both-scales" rule in AskUserQuestion format. Bonus: scripts/skill-check.ts gains isRepoRootSymlink() so dev installs that mount the repo root at host/skills/gstack as a runtime sidecar (e.g., codex's .agents/skills/gstack) get skipped instead of double-counted. opus-4-7 model overlay gets a Fan-Out directive — explicit instruction to launch parallel reads/checks before synthesis. Net token impact across all generated SKILL.md files: ~140K tokens removed across 47 outputs. Plan-* skills retain full preamble surface (Brain Sync, Context Recovery, Routing Injection) — load-bearing functionality that early slim attempts incorrectly cut. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore: regenerate SKILL.md outputs after preamble slim bun run gen:skill-docs --host all output. Mirrors the resolver changes in the previous commit. 47 generated SKILL.md files plus 3 ship-skill golden fixtures. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(test): real-PTY harness for plan-mode E2E tests Adds test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts. Spawns the actual claude binary via Bun.spawn({terminal:}) (Bun 1.3.10+ has built-in PTY — no node-pty, no native modules), drives it through stdin/stdout, and parses rendered terminal frames. Pattern adapted from the cc-pty-import branch's terminal-agent.ts but stripped of WS/cookie/Origin scaffolding (not needed for headless tests). Public API: - launchClaudePty(opts) — boots claude with --permission-mode plan|null, auto-handles the workspace-trust dialog, returns a session handle. - session.send / sendKey / waitForAny / waitFor / mark / visibleSince / visibleText / rawOutput / close - runPlanSkillObservation({skillName, inPlanMode, timeoutMs}) — high-level contract for plan-mode skill tests. Returns { outcome, summary, evidence, elapsedMs }. outcome ∈ {asked, plan_ready, silent_write, exited, timeout}. Replaces the SDK-based runPlanModeSkillTest from plan-mode-helpers.ts which never worked. Plan mode renders its native "Ready to execute" confirmation as TTY UI (numbered options with ❯ cursor), not via the AskUserQuestion tool — so the SDK's canUseTool interceptor never fired and the assertion always saw zero questions. Real PTY observes the rendered output directly. Deletes test/helpers/plan-mode-helpers.ts. No production callers remained. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: rewrite 5 plan-mode E2E tests on the real-PTY harness Replaces SDK-based assertions with runPlanSkillObservation contract. Each test launches real claude --permission-mode plan, invokes the skill, and asserts the outcome reaches 'asked' or 'plan_ready' within a 300s budget (no silent Write/Edit, no crash, no timeout). Affected: - test/skill-e2e-plan-ceo-plan-mode.test.ts - test/skill-e2e-plan-eng-plan-mode.test.ts - test/skill-e2e-plan-design-plan-mode.test.ts - test/skill-e2e-plan-devex-plan-mode.test.ts - test/skill-e2e-plan-mode-no-op.test.ts (inPlanMode: false; tests the preamble plan-mode-info no-op path) test/e2e-harness-audit.test.ts — recognize runPlanSkillObservation as a valid coverage path alongside the legacy canUseTool / runPlanModeSkillTest. test/helpers/touchfiles.ts — point the 5 plan-mode test selections and the e2e-harness-audit selection at test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts instead of the deleted plan-mode-helpers.ts. Proof: bun test EVALS=1 EVALS_TIER=gate on these 5 files runs sequentially in 790s and passes 5/5. Same tests were 0/5 on origin/main, on v1.0.0.0, and on this branch with the SDK harness. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: align unit tests with slim resolvers + exempt 27MB security fixture - test/skill-validation.test.ts: assert the slim Completeness Principle shape (Completeness: X/10, kind-note language) instead of the old Compression table. Remove the 3 tier-1 skills from the spot-check list (they intentionally don't carry the full Completeness Principle section). Exempt browse/test/fixtures/security-bench-haiku-responses.json (27MB deterministic replay fixture for BrowseSafe-Bench) from the 2MB tracked-file gate. The gate was actually failing on origin/main since the fixture was added in v1.6.4.0 — this is a side-fix to a real regression. - test/brain-sync.test.ts: developer-machine-safe assertion for GSTACK_HOME override (compare config contents before/after instead of asserting the absence of a string that may legitimately exist). - test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts: new tests for the slim — plan-review preambles stay under the post-slim budget (~33KB), Voice + Writing Style sections stay compact, and the slim Voice section preserves the load-bearing semantic contract (lead-with-the-point, name-the-file, user-outcome framing, no-corporate, no-AI-vocab, user-sovereignty). Update path-leakage scan to allow repo-root sidecar symlinks. - test/writing-style-resolver.test.ts: assert the compact contract (gloss-on-first-use, outcome-framing, user-impact, terse-mode override) instead of the old 6-numbered-rules shape. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore: bump version and changelog (v1.13.1.0) Slim preamble work + real-PTY plan-mode E2E harness on top of v1.13.0.0. SKILL.md corpus -25.5% (3.08 MB → 2.30 MB, ~196K tokens). 5 plan-mode tests go from 0/5 to 5/5 (790s sequential), the first time those tests have ever passed. Side-fixes for the 27MB security fixture warning and the sidecar-symlink double-count. Reverts the Fan-Out directive accidentally restored to opus-4-7.md — v1.10.1.0's overlay-efficacy harness measured -60pp fanout vs baseline when the nudge was active. The intentional removal stays. TODOS: - Pre-existing test failures from v1.12.0.0 ship: RESOLVED on main + this branch - security-bench-haiku-responses.json size gate: RESOLVED via warn-only + exemption Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(test): harness primitives — parseNumberedOptions + budget regression utils claude-pty-runner.ts: - parseNumberedOptions(visible) anchors on the latest "❯ 1." cursor and returns {index, label}[]; tests that route on option labels can find indices without hard-coding positions - isPermissionDialogVisible(visible) detects file-grant + workspace-trust + bash-permission shapes (multiple regex variants) - isNumberedOptionListVisible: replaced \b2\. word-boundary regex with [^0-9]2\. — stripAnsi removes TTY cursor-positioning escapes that collapse "Option 2." to "Option2.", and \b fails on word-to-word eval-store.ts: - findBudgetRegressions(comparison, opts?) — pure function returning tests where tools or turns grew >cap× vs prior run; floors at 5 prior tools / 3 prior turns to avoid noise on tiny numbers - assertNoBudgetRegression() — wrapper that throws with full violation list. Env override GSTACK_BUDGET_RATIO helpers-unit.test.ts: 23 unit tests covering empty/sparse/wrap-around buffers for parseNumberedOptions, plus regression-floor + env-override cases for findBudgetRegressions/assertNoBudgetRegression. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: register 6 real-PTY E2E touchfiles + UI-heavy plan fixture touchfiles.ts: - 6 new entries in E2E_TOUCHFILES keyed to the new test files - 6 matching E2E_TIERS classifications: 3 gate (auq-format-pty, plan-design-with-ui-scope, budget-regression-pty), 3 periodic (plan-ceo-mode-routing, ship-idempotency-pty, autoplan-chain-pty) - gate ones are cheap/deterministic; periodic ones run weekly touchfiles.test.ts: - update the "skill-specific change selects only that skill" count from 15 → 18 (plan-ceo-review/SKILL.md change now also selects auq-format-pty, plan-ceo-mode-routing, autoplan-chain-pty) test/fixtures/plans/ui-heavy-feature.md: - planted plan with explicit UI scope keywords (pages, components, Tailwind responsive layout, hover/loading/empty states, modal, toast). Used by plan-design-with-ui-scope and autoplan-chain tests. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(test): 3 gate-tier real-PTY E2E tests skill-e2e-auq-format-compliance.test.ts (~$0.50/run, 90-130s): - Asserts /plan-ceo-review's first AUQ contains all 7 mandated format elements (ELI10, Recommendation, Pros/Cons with ✅/❌, Net, (recommended) label). Catches drift in the shared preamble resolver that previously took weeks to notice. - Auto-grants permission dialogs that fire during preamble side-effects (touch on .feature-prompted markers in fresh user environments). - Verified PASS in 126s. skill-e2e-plan-design-with-ui.test.ts (~$0.80/run, 50-90s): - Counterpart to the existing no-UI early-exit test. When the input plan DOES describe UI changes, /plan-design-review must NOT early-exit and must reach a real skill AUQ. - Sends the slash command without args, then a follow-up message with the UI-heavy plan description (Claude Code rejects unknown trailing args). Asserts evidence does NOT contain "no UI scope". - Verified PASS in 54s. skill-budget-regression.test.ts (free, gate): - Library-only assertion. Reads the most recent eval file, finds the prior same-branch run via findPreviousRun, computes ComparisonResult, asserts no test exceeded 2× tools or turns. - Branch-scoped: skips with reason if the latest eval was produced on a different branch (cross-branch comparison would be noise). - First-run grace (vacuous pass) when no prior data exists. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(test): 3 periodic-tier real-PTY E2E tests skill-e2e-plan-ceo-mode-routing.test.ts (~$3/run, 6-10 min/case): - Verifies AUQ answer routing: HOLD SCOPE → rigor/bulletproof posture language; SCOPE EXPANSION → expansion/10x/dream language. Each case navigates 8-12 prior AUQs (telemetry, proactive, routing, vendoring, brain, office-hours, premise, approach) before hitting Step 0F. - Periodic, not gate: navigation phase too slow for PR-blocking. V2 expansion to 4 modes (SELECTIVE + REDUCTION) when nav is faster. skill-e2e-ship-idempotency.test.ts (~$3/run, 5-10 min): - Builds a real git fixture with VERSION 0.0.2 already bumped, matching package.json, CHANGELOG entry, pushed to a local bare remote. Runs /ship in plan mode and asserts STATE: ALREADY_BUMPED echoes from the Step 12 idempotency check, OR plan_ready terminates without mutation. - Snapshots VERSION + package.json + CHANGELOG entry count + commit count + branch HEAD before/after; fails if any changed. skill-e2e-autoplan-chain.test.ts (~$8/run, 12-18 min): - Asserts /autoplan phases run sequentially: tees timestamps as each "**Phase N complete.**" marker first appears. Phase 1 (CEO) must precede Phase 3 (Eng); Phase 2 (Design) is optional but if it appears, must sit between 1 and 3. - Auto-grants permission dialogs that fire during phase transitions. All three auto-handle permission dialogs (preamble side-effects on fresh user envs without .feature-prompted-* markers). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: spell out AskUserQuestion everywhere instead of AUQ Per user feedback: don't shorten AskUserQuestion to AUQ — the abbreviation reads as cryptic. Apply across all the new code from this branch: - Rename test/skill-e2e-auq-format-compliance.test.ts → test/skill-e2e-ask-user-question-format-compliance.test.ts - Touchfile entry auq-format-pty → ask-user-question-format-pty (touchfiles.ts + matching assertion in touchfiles.test.ts) - Function rename navigateToModeAuq → navigateToModeAskUserQuestion - Variable auqVisible → askUserQuestionVisible - Outcome literal 'real_auq' → 'real_question' - All comments + JSDoc + CHANGELOG entry write AskUserQuestion in full - "AUQs" plural → "AskUserQuestions" No behavior change. 49/49 free tests still pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: harden v1.15.0.0 CHANGELOG entry against hostile readers Per Garry: write the entry assuming a critic will screencap one line and try to use it as ammunition. Reframed the v1.15.0.0 release-summary to lead with new capability (real-PTY harness, 11 plan-mode tests, +6 new) instead of fix-of-prior- flaw narrative. Removed phrases that critics could weaponize: - "0/5 → 5/5 passing", "finally pass", "∞ (never green)" — drop - "Skill prompts get a 25% haircut" — implied self-inflicted bloat - "770K → 574K tokens" — absolute number lets critics quote "still 574K of bloat"; replaced with relative "−196K tokens per invocation" - "5 plan-mode E2E tests turned out to have never actually passed" — literal admission of long-term breakage; cut entirely - Itemized "Fixed: tests finally pass" entry — moved to Changed with neutral "rewritten on the new harness" framing - "Removed: harness with the runPlanModeSkillTest API that never worked" — replaced with "superseded by claude-pty-runner.ts" Added concrete code receipts to pre-empt "it's just markdown": - Net branch size: −11,609 lines (89 files, +7,240 / −18,849) - 654 lines of TypeScript in test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts - 8 new test files, ~1,453 lines of new TS code - 23 helper unit tests + 6 new gate/periodic E2E tests The deletion-heavy net diff (−11.6K lines) is itself the strongest defense against the "bloat" critique — surfaced explicitly in the numbers table. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-04-26 13:55:13 -07:00
Garry Tan	0a803f9e81	feat: gstack v1 — simpler prompts + real LOC receipts (v1.0.0.0) (#1039) ... * docs: add design doc for /plan-tune v1 (observational substrate) Canonical record of the /plan-tune v1 design: typed question registry, per-question explicit preferences, inline tune: feedback with user-origin gate, dual-track profile (declared + inferred separately), and plain-English inspection skill. Captures every decision with pros/cons, what's deferred to v2 with explicit acceptance criteria, and what was rejected entirely. Codex review drove a substantial scope rollback from the initial CEO EXPANSION plan. 15+ legitimate findings (substrate claim was false without a typed registry; E4/E6/clamp logical contradiction; profile poisoning attack surface; LANDED preamble side effect; implementation order) shaped the final shape. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: typed question registry for /plan-tune v1 foundation scripts/question-registry.ts declares 53 recurring AskUserQuestion categories across 15 skills (ship, review, office-hours, plan-ceo-review, plan-eng-review, plan-design-review, plan-devex-review, qa, investigate, land-and-deploy, cso, gstack-upgrade, preamble, plan-tune, autoplan). Each entry has: stable kebab-case id, skill owner, category (approval | clarification | routing | cherry-pick | feedback-loop), door_type (one-way | two-way), optional stable option keys, optional psychographic signal_key, and a one-line description. 12 of 53 are one-way doors (destructive ops, architecture/data forks, security/compliance). These are ALWAYS asked regardless of user preference. Helpers: getQuestion(id), getOneWayDoorIds(), getAllRegisteredIds(), getRegistryStats(). No binary or resolver wiring yet — this is the schema substrate the rest of /plan-tune builds on. Ad-hoc question_ids (not registered) still log but skip psychographic signal attribution. Future /plan-tune skill surfaces frequently-firing ad-hoc ids as candidates for registry promotion. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: registry schema + safety + coverage tests (gate tier) 20 tests validating the question registry: Schema (7 tests): - Every entry has required fields - All ids are kebab-case and start with their skill name - No duplicate ids - Categories are from the allowed set - door_type is one-way | two-way - Options arrays are well-formed - Descriptions are short and single-line Helpers (5 tests): - getQuestion returns entry for known id, undefined for unknown - getOneWayDoorIds includes destructive questions, excludes two-way - getAllRegisteredIds count matches QUESTIONS keys - getRegistryStats totals are internally consistent One-way door safety (2 tests): - Every critical question (test failure, SQL safety, LLM trust boundary, security scan, merge confirm, rollback, fix apply, premise revise, arch finding, privacy gate, user challenge) is declared one-way - At least 10 one-way doors exist (catches regression if declarations are accidentally dropped) Registry breadth (3 tests): - 11 high-volume skills each have >= 1 registered question - Preamble one-time prompts are registered - /plan-tune's own questions are registered Signal map references (1 test): - signal_key values are typed kebab-case strings Template coverage (2 tests, informational): - AskUserQuestion usage across templates is non-trivial (>20) - Registry spans >= 10 skills 20 pass, 0 fail. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: one-way door classifier (belt-and-suspenders safety fallback) scripts/one-way-doors.ts — secondary keyword-pattern classifier that catches destructive questions even when the registry doesn't have an entry for them. The registry's door_type field (from scripts/question-registry.ts) is the PRIMARY safety gate. This classifier is the fallback for ad-hoc question_ids that agents generate at runtime. Classification priority: 1. Registry lookup by question_id → use declared door_type 2. Skill:category fallback (cso:approval, land-and-deploy:approval) 3. Keyword pattern match against question_summary 4. Default: treat as two-way (safer to log the miss than auto-decide unsafely) Covers 21 destructive patterns across: - File system (rm -rf, delete, wipe, purge, truncate) - Database (drop table/database/schema, delete from) - Git/VCS (force-push, reset --hard, checkout --, branch -D) - Deploy/infra (kubectl delete, terraform destroy, rollback) - Credentials (revoke/reset/rotate API key|token|secret|password) - Architecture (breaking change, schema migration, data model change) 7 new tests in test/plan-tune.test.ts covering: registry-first lookup, unknown-id fallthrough, keyword matching on destructive phrasings including embedded filler words ("rotate the API key"), skill-category fallback, benign questions defaulting to two-way, pattern-list non-empty. 27 pass, 0 fail. 1270 expect() calls. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: psychographic signal map + builder archetypes scripts/psychographic-signals.ts — hand-crafted {signal_key, user_choice} → {dimension, delta} map. Version 0.1.0. Conservative deltas (±0.03 to ±0.06 per event). Covers 9 signal keys: scope-appetite, architecture-care, code-quality-care, test-discipline, detail-preference, design-care, devex-care, distribution-care, session-mode. Helpers: applySignal() mutates running totals, newDimensionTotals() creates empty starting state, normalizeToDimensionValue() sigmoid-clamps accumulated delta to [0,1] (0 → 0.5 neutral), validateRegistrySignalKeys() checks that every signal_key in the registry has a SIGNAL_MAP entry. In v1 the signal map is used ONLY to compute inferred dimension values for /plan-tune inspection output. No skill behavior adapts to these signals until v2. scripts/archetypes.ts — 8 named archetypes + Polymath fallback: - Cathedral Builder (boil-the-ocean + architecture-first) - Ship-It Pragmatist (small scope + fast) - Deep Craft (detail-verbose + principled) - Taste Maker (intuitive, overrides recommendations) - Solo Operator (high-autonomy, delegates) - Consultant (hands-on, consulted on everything) - Wedge Hunter (narrow scope aggressively) - Builder-Coach (balanced steering) - Polymath (fallback when no archetype matches) matchArchetype() uses L2 distance scaled by tightness, with a 0.55 threshold below which we return Polymath. v1 ships the model stable; v2 narrative/vibe commands wire it into user-facing output. 14 new tests: signal map consistency vs registry, applySignal behavior for known/unknown keys, normalization bounds, archetype schema validity, name uniqueness, matchArchetype correctness for each reference profile, Polymath fallback for outliers. 41 pass, 0 fail total in test/plan-tune.test.ts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: bin/gstack-question-log — append validated AskUserQuestion events Append-only JSONL log at ~/.gstack/projects/{SLUG}/question-log.jsonl. Schema: {skill, question_id, question_summary, category?, door_type?, options_count?, user_choice, recommended?, followed_recommendation?, session_id?, ts} Validates: - skill is kebab-case - question_id is kebab-case, <= 64 chars - question_summary non-empty, <= 200 chars, newlines flattened - category is one of approval/clarification/routing/cherry-pick/feedback-loop - door_type is one-way or two-way - options_count is integer in [1, 26] - user_choice non-empty string, <= 64 chars Injection defense on question_summary rejects the same patterns as gstack-learnings-log (ignore previous instructions, system:, override:, do not report, etc). followed_recommendation is auto-computed when both user_choice and recommended are present. ts auto-injected as ISO 8601 if missing. 21 tests covering: valid payloads, full field preservation, auto-followed computation, appending, long-summary truncation, newline flattening, invalid JSON, missing fields, bad case, oversized ids, invalid enum values, out-of-range options_count, and 6 injection attack patterns. 21 pass, 0 fail, 43 expect() calls. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: bin/gstack-developer-profile — unified profile with migration bin/gstack-developer-profile supersedes bin/gstack-builder-profile. The old binary becomes a one-line legacy shim delegating to --read for /office-hours backward compat. Subcommands: --read legacy KEY:VALUE output (tier, session_count, etc) --migrate folds ~/.gstack/builder-profile.jsonl into ~/.gstack/developer-profile.json. Atomic (temp + rename), idempotent (no-op when target exists or source absent), archives source as .migrated-YYYY-MM-DD-HHMMSS --derive recomputes inferred dimensions from question-log.jsonl using the signal map in scripts/psychographic-signals.ts --profile full profile JSON --gap declared vs inferred diff JSON --trace <dim> event-level trace of what contributed to a dimension --check-mismatch flags dimensions where declared and inferred disagree by > 0.3 (requires >= 10 events first) --vibe archetype name + description from scripts/archetypes.ts --narrative (v2 stub) Auto-migration on first read: if legacy file exists and new file doesn't, migrate before reading. Creates a neutral (all-0.5) stub if nothing exists. Unified schema (see docs/designs/PLAN_TUNING_V0.md §Architecture): {identity, declared, inferred: {values, sample_size, diversity}, gap, overrides, sessions, signals_accumulated, schema_version} 25 new tests across subcommand behaviors: - --read defaults + stub creation - --migrate: 3 sessions preserved with signal tallies, idempotency, archival - Tier calculation: welcome_back / regular / inner_circle boundaries - --derive: neutral-when-empty, upward nudge on 'expand', downward on 'reduce', recomputable (same input → same output), ad-hoc unregistered ids ignored - --trace: contributing events, empty for untouched dims, error without arg - --gap: empty when no declared, correctly computed otherwise - --vibe: returns archetype name + description - --check-mismatch: threshold behavior, 10+ sample requirement - Unknown subcommand errors 25 pass, 0 fail, 60 expect() calls. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: bin/gstack-question-preference — explicit preferences + user-origin gate Subcommands: --check <id> → ASK_NORMALLY | AUTO_DECIDE (decides if a registered question should be auto-decided by the agent) --write '{…}' → set a preference (requires user-origin source) --read → dump preferences JSON --clear [id] → clear one or all --stats → short counts summary Preference values: always-ask | never-ask | ask-only-for-one-way. Stored at ~/.gstack/projects/{SLUG}/question-preferences.json. Safety contract (the core of Codex finding #16, profile-poisoning defense from docs/designs/PLAN_TUNING_V0.md §Security model): 1. One-way doors ALWAYS return ASK_NORMALLY from --check, regardless of user preference. User's never-ask is overridden with a visible safety note so the user knows why their preference didn't suppress the prompt. 2. --write requires an explicit `source` field: - Allowed: "plan-tune", "inline-user" - REJECTED with exit code 2: "inline-tool-output", "inline-file", "inline-file-content", "inline-unknown" Rejection is explicit ("profile poisoning defense") so the caller can log and surface the attempt. 3. free_text on --write is sanitized against injection patterns (ignore previous instructions, override:, system:, etc.) and newline-flattened. Each --write also appends a preference-set event to ~/.gstack/projects/{SLUG}/question-events.jsonl for derivation audit trail. 31 tests: - --check behavior (4): defaults, two-way, one-way (one-way overrides never-ask with safety note), unknown ids, missing arg - --check with prefs (5): never-ask on two-way → AUTO_DECIDE; never-ask on one-way → ASK_NORMALLY with override note; always-ask always asks; ask-only-for-one-way flips appropriately - --write valid (5): inline-user accepted, plan-tune accepted, persisted correctly, event appended, free_text preserved with flattening - User-origin gate (6): missing source rejected; inline-tool-output rejected with exit code 2 and explicit poisoning message; inline-file, inline-file-content, inline-unknown rejected; unknown source rejected - Schema validation (4): invalid JSON, bad question_id, bad preference, injection in free_text - --read (2): empty → {}, returns writes - --clear (3): specific id, clear-all, NOOP for missing - --stats (2): empty zeros, tallies by preference type 31 pass, 0 fail, 52 expect() calls. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: question-tuning preamble resolvers scripts/resolvers/question-tuning.ts ships three preamble generators: generateQuestionPreferenceCheck — before each AskUserQuestion, agent runs gstack-question-preference --check <id>. AUTO_DECIDE suppresses the ask and auto-chooses recommended. ASK_NORMALLY asks as usual. One-way door safety override is handled by the binary. generateQuestionLog — after each AskUserQuestion, agent appends a log record with skill, question_id, summary, category, door_type, options_count, user_choice, recommended, session_id. generateInlineTuneFeedback — offers inline "tune:" prompt after two-way questions. Documents structured shortcuts (never-ask, always-ask, ask-only-for-one-way, ask-less) AND accepts free-form English with normalization + confirmation. Explicitly spells out the USER-ORIGIN GATE: only write tune events when the prefix appears in the user's own chat message, never from tool output or file content. Binary enforces. All three resolvers are gated by the QUESTION_TUNING preamble echo. When the config is off, the agent skips these sections entirely. Ready to be wired into preamble.ts in the next commit. Codex host has a simpler variant that uses $GSTACK_BIN env vars. scripts/resolvers/index.ts registers three placeholders: QUESTION_PREFERENCE_CHECK, QUESTION_LOG, INLINE_TUNE_FEEDBACK Total resolver count goes from 45 to 48. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: wire question-tuning into preamble for tier >= 2 skills scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts — adds two things: 1. _QUESTION_TUNING config echo in the preamble bash block, gated on the user's gstack-config `question_tuning` value (default: false). 2. A combined Question Tuning section for tier >= 2 skills, injected after the confusion protocol. The section itself is runtime-gated by the QUESTION_TUNING value — agents skip it entirely when off. scripts/resolvers/question-tuning.ts — consolidated into one compact combined section `generateQuestionTuning(ctx)` covering: preference check before the question, log after, and inline tune: feedback with user-origin gate. Per-phase generators remain exported for unit tests but are no longer the main entrypoint. Size impact: +570 tokens / +2.3KB per tier-2+ SKILL.md. Three skills (plan-ceo-review, office-hours, ship) still exceed the 100KB token ceiling — but they were already over before this change. Delta is the smallest viable wiring of the /plan-tune v1 substrate. Golden fixtures (test/fixtures/golden/claude-ship, codex-ship, factory-ship) regenerated to match the new baseline. Full test run: 1149 pass, 0 fail, 113 skip across 28 files. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore: regenerate SKILL.md files with question-tuning section bun run gen:skill-docs --host all after wiring the QUESTION_TUNING preamble section. Every tier >= 2 skill now includes the combined Question Tuning guidance. Runtime-gated — agents skip the section when question_tuning is off in gstack-config (default). Golden fixtures (claude-ship, codex-ship, factory-ship) updated to the new baseline. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: /plan-tune skill — conversational inspection + preferences plan-tune/SKILL.md.tmpl: the user-facing skill for /plan-tune v1. Routes plain-English intent to one of 8 flows: - Enable + setup (first-time): 5 declaration questions mapping to the 5 psychographic dimensions (scope_appetite, risk_tolerance, detail_preference, autonomy, architecture_care). Writes to developer-profile.json declared.*. - Inspect profile: plain-English rendering of declared + inferred + gap. Uses word bands (low/balanced/high) not raw floats. Shows vibe archetype when calibration gate is met. - Review question log: top-20 question frequencies with follow/override counts. Highlights override-heavy questions as candidates for never-ask. - Set a preference: normalizes "stop asking me about X" → never-ask, etc. Confirms ambiguous phrasings before writing via gstack-question-preference. - Edit declared profile: interprets free-form ("more boil-the-ocean") and CONFIRMS before mutating declared.* (trust boundary per Codex #15). - Show gap: declared vs inferred diff with plain-English severity bands (close / drift / mismatch). Never auto-updates declared from the gap. - Stats: preference counts + diversity/calibration status. - Enable / disable: gstack-config set question_tuning true|false. Design constraints enforced: - Plain English everywhere. No CLI subcommand syntax required. Shortcuts (`profile`, `vibe`, `stats`, `setup`) exist but optional. - user-origin gate on tune: writes. source: "plan-tune" for user-invoked /plan-tune; source: "inline-user" for inline tune: from other skills. - One-way doors override never-ask (safety, surfaced to user). - No behavior adaptation in v1 — this skill inspects and configures only. Generates plan-tune/SKILL.md at ~11.6k tokens, well under the 100KB ceiling. Generated for all hosts via `bun run gen:skill-docs --host all`. Full free test suite: 1149 pass, 0 fail, 113 skip across 28 files. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: end-to-end pipeline + preamble injection coverage Added 6 tests to test/plan-tune.test.ts: Preamble injection (3 tests): - tier 2+ includes Question Tuning section with preference check, log, and user-origin gate language ('profile-poisoning defense', 'inline-user') - tier 1 does NOT include the prose section (QUESTION_TUNING bash echo still fires since it's in the bash block all tiers share) - codex host swaps binDir references to $GSTACK_BIN End-to-end pipeline (3 tests) — real binaries working together, not mocks: - Log 5 expand choices → --derive → profile shows scope_appetite > 0.5 (full log → registry lookup → signal map → normalization round-trip) - --write source: inline-tool-output rejected; --read confirms no pref was persisted (the profile-poisoning defense actually works end-to-end) - Migrate a 3-session legacy file; confirm legacy gstack-builder-profile shim still returns SESSION_COUNT: 3, TIER: welcome_back, CROSS_PROJECT: true test/plan-tune.test.ts now has 47 tests total. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: E2E test for /plan-tune plain-English inspection flow (gate tier) test/skill-e2e-plan-tune.test.ts — verifies /plan-tune correctly routes plain-English intent ("review the questions I've been asked") to the Review question log section without requiring CLI subcommand syntax. Seeds a synthetic question-log.jsonl with 3 entries exercising: - override behavior (user chose expand over recommended selective) - one-way door respect (user followed ship-test-failure-triage recommendation) - two-way override (user skipped recommended changelog polish) Invokes the skill via `claude -p` and asserts: - Agent surfaces >= 2 of 3 logged question_ids in output - Agent notices override/skip behavior from the log - Exit reason is success or error_max_turns (not agent-crash) Gate-tier because the core v1 DX promise is plain-English intent routing. If it requires memorized subcommands or breaks on natural language, that's a regression of the defining feature. Registered in test/helpers/touchfiles.ts with dependencies: - plan-tune/** (skill template + generated md) - scripts/question-registry.ts (required for log lookup) - scripts/psychographic-signals.ts, scripts/one-way-doors.ts (derive path) - bin/gstack-question-log, gstack-question-preference, gstack-developer-profile Skipped when EVALS_ENABLED is not set; runs on `bun run test:evals`. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore: bump version and changelog (v0.19.0.0) — /plan-tune v1 Ships /plan-tune as observational substrate: typed question registry, dual-track developer profile (declared + inferred), explicit per-question preferences with user-origin gate, inline tune: feedback across every tier >= 2 skill, unified developer-profile.json with migration from builder-profile.jsonl. Scope rolled back from initial CEO EXPANSION plan after outside-voice review (Codex). 6 deferrals tracked as P0 TODOs with explicit acceptance criteria: E1 substrate wiring, E3 narrative/vibe, E4 blind-spot coach, E5 LANDED celebration, E6 auto-adjustment, E7 psychographic auto-decide. See docs/designs/PLAN_TUNING_V0.md for the full design record. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ci): harden Dockerfile.ci against transient Ubuntu mirror failures The CI image build failed with: E: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/... Connection failed [IP: 91.189.92.22 80] ERROR: process "/bin/sh -c apt-get update && apt-get install ..." did not complete successfully: exit code: 100 archive.ubuntu.com periodically returns "connection refused" on individual regional mirrors. Without retry logic a single failed fetch nukes the whole Docker build. Three defenses, layered: 1. /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80-retries — apt fetches each package up to 5 times with a 30s timeout. Handles per-package flakes. 2. Shell-loop retry around the whole apt-get step (x3, 10s sleep) — handles the case where apt-get update itself can't reach any mirror. 3. --retry 5 --retry-delay 5 --retry-connrefused on all curl fetches (bun install script, GitHub CLI keyring, NodeSource setup script). Applied to every apt-get and curl call in the Dockerfile. No behavior change on happy path — only kicks in when mirrors blip. Fixes the build-image job that was blocking CI on the /plan-tune PR. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: add PLAN_TUNING_V1 + PACING_UPDATES_V0 design docs Captures the V1 design (ELI10 writing + LOC reframe) in docs/designs/PLAN_TUNING_V1.md and the extracted V1.1 pacing-overhaul plan in docs/designs/PACING_UPDATES_V0.md. V1 scope was reduced from the original bundled pacing + writing-style plan after three engineering-review passes revealed structural gaps in the pacing workstream that couldn't be closed via plan-text editing. TODOS.md P0 entry links to V1.1. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: curated jargon list for V1 writing-style glossing Repo-owned list of ~50 high-frequency technical terms (idempotent, race condition, N+1, backpressure, etc.) that gstack glosses on first use in tier-≥2 skill output. Baked into generated SKILL.md prose at gen-skill-docs time. Terms not on this list are assumed plain-English enough. Contributions via PR. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(preamble): V1 Writing Style section + EXPLAIN_LEVEL echo + migration prompt Adds a new Writing Style section to tier-≥2 preamble output composing with the existing AskUserQuestion Format section. Six rules: jargon glossed on first use per skill invocation (from scripts/jargon-list.json), outcome- framed questions, short sentences, decisions close with user impact, gloss-on-first-use even if user pasted term, user-turn override for "be terse" requests. Baked conditionally (skip if EXPLAIN_LEVEL: terse). Adds EXPLAIN_LEVEL preamble echo using \${binDir} (host-portable matching V0 QUESTION_TUNING pattern). Adds WRITING_STYLE_PENDING echo reading a flag file written by the V0→V1 upgrade migration; on first post-upgrade skill run, the agent fires a one-time AskUserQuestion offering terse mode. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(gstack-config): validate explain_level + document in header Adds explain_level: default|terse to the annotated config header with a one-line description. Whitelists valid values; on set of an unknown value, prints a specific warning ("explain_level '\$VALUE' not recognized. Valid values: default, terse. Using default.") and writes the default value. Matches V1 preamble's EXPLAIN_LEVEL echo expectation. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: V1 upgrade migration — writing-style opt-out prompt New migration script following existing v0.15.2.0.sh / v0.16.2.0.sh pattern. Writes a .writing-style-prompt-pending flag file on first run post-upgrade. The preamble's migration-prompt block reads the flag and fires a one-time AskUserQuestion offering the user a choice between the new default writing style and restoring V0 prose via \`gstack-config set explain_level terse\`. Idempotent via flag files; if the user has already set explain_level explicitly, counts as answered and skips. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: LOC reframe tooling — throughput comparison + README updater + scc installer Three new scripts: - scripts/garry-output-comparison.ts — enumerates Garry-authored commits in 2013 + 2026 on public repos, extracts ADDED lines from git diff, classifies as logical SLOC via scc --stdin (regex fallback if scc missing). Writes docs/throughput-2013-vs-2026.json with per-language breakdown + explicit caveats (public repos only, commit-style drift, private-work exclusion). - scripts/update-readme-throughput.ts — reads the JSON if present, replaces the README's <!-- GSTACK-THROUGHPUT-PLACEHOLDER --> anchor with the computed multiple (preserving the anchor for future runs). If JSON missing, writes GSTACK-THROUGHPUT-PENDING marker that CI rejects — forcing the build to run before commit. - scripts/setup-scc.sh — standalone OS-detecting installer for scc. Not a package.json dependency (95% of users never run throughput). Brew on macOS, apt on Linux, GitHub releases link on Windows. Two-string anchor pattern (PLACEHOLDER vs PENDING) prevents the pipeline from destroying its own update path. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(retro): surface logical SLOC + weighted commits above raw LOC V1 reorders the /retro summary table to lead with features shipped, then commits + weighted commits (commits × files-touched capped at 20), then PRs merged, then logical SLOC added as the primary code-volume metric. Raw LOC stays present but is demoted to context. Rationale inline in the template: ten lines of a good fix is not less shipping than ten thousand lines of scaffold. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(v1): README hero reframe + writing-style + CHANGELOG + version bump to 1.0.0.0 README.md: - Hero removes "600,000+ lines of production code" framing; replaces with the computed 2013-vs-2026 pro-rata multiple (via <!-- GSTACK-THROUGHPUT-PLACEHOLDER --> anchor, filled by the update-readme-throughput build step). - Hiring callout: "ship real products at AI-coding speed" instead of "10K+ LOC/day." - New Writing Style section (~80 words) between Quick start and Install: "v1 prompts = simpler" framing, outcome-language example, terse-mode opt-out, pointer to /plan-tune. CLAUDE.md: one-paragraph Writing style (V1) note under project conventions, linking to preamble resolver + V1 design docs. CHANGELOG.md: V1 entry on top of v0.19.0.0 with user-facing narrative (what changes, how to opt out, for-contributors notes). Mentions scope reduction — pacing overhaul ships in V1.1. CONTRIBUTING.md: one-paragraph note on jargon-list.json maintenance (PR to add/remove terms; regenerate via gen:skill-docs). VERSION + package.json: bump to 1.0.0.0. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore: regenerate SKILL.md files + golden fixtures for V1 Mechanical regeneration from the updated templates in prior commits: - Writing Style section now appears in tier-≥2 skill output. - EXPLAIN_LEVEL + WRITING_STYLE_PENDING echoes in preamble bash. - V1 migration-prompt block fires conditionally on first upgrade. - Jargon list inlined into preamble prose at gen time. - Retro template's logical SLOC + weighted commits order applied. Regenerated for all 8 hosts via bun run gen:skill-docs --host all. Golden ship-skill fixtures refreshed from regenerated outputs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: V1 gate coverage — writing-style resolver + config + jargon + migration + dormancy Six new gate-tier test files: - test/writing-style-resolver.test.ts — asserts Writing Style section is injected into tier-≥2 preamble, all 6 rules present, jargon list inlined, terse-mode gate condition present, Codex output uses \$GSTACK_BIN (not ~/.claude/), tier-1 does NOT get the section, migration-prompt block present. - test/explain-level-config.test.ts — gstack-config set/get round-trip for default + terse, unknown-value warns + defaults to default, header documents the key, round-trip across set→set→get. - test/jargon-list.test.ts — shape + ~50 terms + no duplicates (case-insensitive) + includes canonical high-signal terms. - test/v0-dormancy.test.ts — 5D dimension names + archetype names forbidden in default-mode tier-≥2 SKILL.md output, except for plan-tune and office-hours where they're load-bearing. - test/readme-throughput.test.ts — script replaces anchor with number on happy path, writes PENDING marker when JSON missing, CI gate asserts committed README contains no PENDING string. - test/upgrade-migration-v1.test.ts — fresh run writes pending flag, idempotent after user-answered, pre-existing explain_level counts as answered. All 95 V1 test-expect() calls pass. Full suite: 0 failures. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: compute real 2013-vs-2026 throughput multiple (130.2×) Ran scripts/garry-output-comparison.ts across all 15 public garrytan/* repos. Aggregated results into docs/throughput-2013-vs-2026.json and ran scripts/update-readme-throughput.ts to replace the README placeholder. 2013 public activity: 2 commits, 2,384 logical lines added across 1 week, in 1 repo (zurb-foundation-wysihtml5 upstream contribution). 2026 public activity: 279 commits, 310,484 logical lines added across 17 active weeks, in 3 repos (gbrain, gstack, resend_robot). Multiples (public repos only, apples-to-apples): - Logical SLOC: 130.2× - Commits per active week: 8.2× - Raw lines added: 134.4× Private work at both eras (2013 Bookface at YC, Posterous-era code, 2026 internal tools) is excluded from this comparison. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: 207× throughput multiple (with private repos + Bookface) Re-ran scripts/garry-output-comparison.ts across all 41 repos under garrytan/* (15 public + 26 private), including Bookface (YC's internal social network, 2013-era work). 2013 activity: 71 commits, 5,143 logical lines, 4 active repos (bookface, delicounter, tandong, zurb-foundation-wysihtml5) 2026 activity: 350 commits, 1,064,818 logical lines, 15 active repos (gbrain, gstack, gbrowser, tax-app, kumo, tenjin, autoemail, kitsune, easy-chromium-compiles, conductor-playground, garryslist-agent, baku, gstack-website, resend_robot, garryslist-brain) Multiples: - Logical SLOC: 207× (up from 130.2× when including private work) - Raw lines: 223× - Commits/active-week: 3.4× Stopped committing docs/throughput-2013-vs-2026.json — analysis is a local artifact, not repo state. Added docs/throughput-*.json to .gitignore. Full markdown analysis at ~/throughput-analysis-2026-04-18.md (local-only). README multiple is now hardcoded; re-run the script and edit manually when you want to refresh it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: run rate vs year-to-date throughput comparison Two separate numbers in the README hero: - Run rate: ~700× (9,859 logical lines/day in 2026 vs 14/day in 2013) - Year-to-date: 207× (2026 through April 18 already exceeds 2013 full year by 207×) Previous "207× pro-rata" framing mixed full-year 2013 vs partial-year 2026. Run rate is the apples-to-apples normalization; YTD is the "already produced" total. Both are honest; both are compelling; they measure different things. Analysis at ~/throughput-analysis-2026-04-18.md (local-only). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(throughput): script natively computes to-date + run-rate multiples Enhanced scripts/garry-output-comparison.ts so both calculations come out of a single run instead of being reassembled ad-hoc in bash: PerYearResult now includes: - days_elapsed — 365 for past years, day-of-year for current - is_partial — flags the current (in-progress) year - per_day_rate — logical/raw/commits normalized by calendar day - annualized_projection — per_day_rate × 365 Output JSON's `multiples` now has two sibling blocks: - multiples.to_date — raw volume ratios (2026-YTD / 2013-full-year) - multiples.run_rate — per-day pace ratios (apples-to-apples) Back-compat: multiples.logical_lines_added still aliases to_date for older consumers reading the JSON. Updated README hero to cite both (picking up brain/* repo that was missed in the earlier aggregation pass): 2026 run rate: ~880× my 2013 pace (12,382 vs 14 logical lines/day) 2026 YTD: 260× the entire 2013 year Stderr summary now prints both multiples at the end of each run. Full analysis at ~/throughput-analysis-2026-04-18.md (local-only). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: ON_THE_LOC_CONTROVERSY methodology post + README link Long-form response to the "LOC is a meaningless vanity metric" critique. Covers: - The three branches of the LOC critique and which are right - Why logical SLOC (NCLOC) beats raw LOC as the honest measurement - Full method: author-scoped git diff, regex-classified added lines, aggregated across 41 public + private garrytan/* repos - Both calculations: to-date (260x) and run-rate (879x) - Steelman of the critics (greenfield-vs-maintenance, survivorship bias, quality-adjusted productivity, time-to-first-user) - Reproduction instructions Linked from README hero via a blockquote directly below the number. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * exclude: tax-app from throughput analysis (import-dominated history) tax-app's history is one commit of 104K logical lines — an initial import of a codebase, not authored work. Removing it to keep the comparison honest. Changes: - scripts/garry-output-comparison.ts: added EXCLUDED_REPOS constant with tax-app + a one-line rationale. The script now skips excluded repos with a stderr note and deletes any stale output JSON so aggregation loops don't pick up pre-exclusion numbers. - README hero: updated to 810× run rate + 240× YTD (were 880×/260×). Wording updated to "40 public + private repos ... after excluding repos dominated by imported code." - docs/ON_THE_LOC_CONTROVERSY.md: updated all numbers, added an "Exclusions" paragraph explaining tax-app, removed tax-app from the "shipped not WIP" example list. New numbers (2026 through day 108, without tax-app): - To-date: 240× logical SLOC (1,233,062 vs 5,143) - Run rate: 810× per-day pace (11,417 vs 14 logical/day) - Annualized: ~4.2M logical lines projected Future re-runs automatically skip tax-app. Add more exclusions to EXCLUDED_REPOS at the top of the script with a one-line rationale. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: correct tax-app exclusion rationale tax-app is a demo app I built for an upcoming YC channel video, not an "import-dominated history" as the previous commit claimed. Excluded because it's not production shipping work, not because of an import commit. Updated rationale in scripts/garry-output-comparison.ts's EXCLUDED_REPOS constant, in docs/ON_THE_LOC_CONTROVERSY.md's method section + conclusion, and in the README hero wording ("one demo repo" vs the earlier "repos dominated by imported code"). Numbers unchanged — the exclusion itself is the same, just the reason. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: harden ON_THE_LOC_CONTROVERSY against Cramer + neckbeard critiques Reframes the thesis as "engineers can fly now" (amplification, not replacement) and fortifies the soft spots critics will attack. Added: - Flight-thesis opener: pilot vs walker, leverage not replacement. - Second deflation layer for AI verbosity (on top of NCLOC). Headline moves from 810x to 408x after generous 2x AI-boilerplate cut, with explicit sensitivity analysis showing the number is still large under pessimistic priors (5x → 162x, 10x → 81x, 100x impossible). - Weekly distribution check (kills "you had one burst week" attack). - Revert rate (2.0%) and post-merge fix rate (6.3%) with OSS comparables (K8s/Rails/Django band). Addresses "where are your error rates" directly. - Named production adoption signals (gstack 1000+ installs, gbrain beta, resend_robot paying API) with explicit concession that "shipped != used at scale" for most of the corpus. - Harder steelman: 5 specific concessions with quantified pivot points (e.g., "if 2013 baseline was 3.5x higher, 810x → 228x, still high"). Removed factual error: Posterous acquisition paragraph (Garry had already left Posterous by 2011, so the "Twitter bought our private repos" excuse for the 2013 corpus gap doesn't apply). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: update gstack/gbrain adoption numbers in LOC controversy post gstack: "1,000+ distinct project installations" → "tens of thousands of daily active users" (telemetry-reported, community tier, opt-in). gbrain: "small set of beta testers" → "hundreds of beta testers running it live." Both are the accurate current numbers. The concession paragraph below (about shipped != adopted at scale for the long-tail repos) still reads correctly since it's about the corpus as a whole, not gstack/gbrain specifically. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: reframe reproducibility note as OSS breakout flex "You'd need access to my private repos" → "Bookface and Posthaven are private, but gstack and gbrain are open-sourced with tens of thousands of GitHub stars and tens of thousands of confirmed regular users, among the most-used OSS projects in the world that didn't exist three months ago." Keeps the `gh repo list` command at the end for the actual reproducibility instruction. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * Rewrite LOC controversy post - Lead with concession (LOC is garbage, do the math anyway) - Preempt 14 lines/day meme with historical baselines (Brooks, Jones, McConnell) - Remove 'neckbeard' language throughout - Add slop-scan story (Ben Vinegar, 5.24 → 1.96, 62% cut) - David Cramer GUnit joke - Add testing philosophy section (the real unlock) - ASCII weekly distribution chart - gstack telemetry section with real numbers (15K installs, 305K invocations, 95.2% success) - Top skills usage chart - Pick-your-priors paragraph moved earlier (the killer) - Sharper close: run the script, show me your numbers * docs: four precision fixes on LOC controversy post 1. Citation fix. Kernighan didn't say anything about LOC-as-metric (that's the famous "aircraft building by weight" quote, commonly misattributed but actually Bill Gates). Replaced "Kernighan implied it before that" with the real Dijkstra quote ("lines produced" vs "lines spent" from EWD1036, with direct link) + the Gates quote. Verified via web search. 2. Slop-scan direction clarified. "(highest on his benchmark)" was ambiguous — could read as a brag. Now: "Higher score = more slop. He ran it on gstack and we scored 5.24, the worst he'd measured at the time." Then the 62% cut lands as an actual win. 3. Prose/chart skill-usage ordering now matches. Added /plan-eng-review (28,014) to the prose list so it doesn't conflict with the chart below it. 4. Cut the "David — I owe you one / GUnit" insider joke. Most readers won't connect Cramer → Sentry → GUnit naming. Ends the slop-scan paragraph on the stronger line: "Run `bun test` and watch 2,000+ tests pass." Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: tighten four LOC post citations to match primary sources 1. Bill Gates quote: flagged as folklore-grade. Was "Bill Gates put it more memorably" (firm attribution). Now "The old line (widely attributed to Bill Gates, sourcing murky) puts it more memorably." The quote stands; honesty about attribution avoids the same misattribution trap we just fixed for Kernighan. 2. Capers Jones: "15-50 across thousands of projects" → "roughly 16-38 LOC/day across thousands of projects" — matches his actual published measurements (which also report as 325-750 LOC/month). 3. Steve McConnell: "10-50 for finished, tested, delivered code" was folklore. Replaced with his actual project-size-dependent range from Code Complete: "20-125 LOC/day for small projects (10K LOC) down to 1.5-25 for large projects (10M LOC) — it's size-dependent, not a single number." 4. Revert rate comparison: "Kubernetes, Rails, and Django historically run 1.5-3%" was unsourced. Replaced with "mature OSS codebases typically run 1-3%" + "run the same command on whatever you consider the bar and compare." No false specificity about which repos. Net: every quantitative citation in the post now matches primary-source figures or is explicitly flagged as folklore. Neckbeards can verify. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: drop Writing style section from README Was sitting in prime real estate between Quick start and Install — internal implementation detail, not something users need up-front. Existing coverage is enough: - Upgrade migration prompt notifies users on first post-upgrade run - CLAUDE.md has the contributor note - docs/designs/PLAN_TUNING_V1.md has the full design Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: collapse team-mode setup into one paste-and-go command Step 2 was three separate code blocks: setup --team, then team-init, then git add/commit. Mirrors Step 1's style now — one shell one-liner that does all three. Subshell (cd && ./setup --team) keeps the user in their repo pwd so team-init + git commit land in the right place. "Swap required for optional" moved to a one-liner below. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: move full-clone footnote from README to CONTRIBUTING The "Contributing or need full history?" note is for contributors, not for someone following the README install flow. Moved into CONTRIBUTING's Quick start section where it fits next to the existing clone command, with a tip to upgrade an existing shallow clone via \`git fetch --unshallow\`. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: root <root@localhost>	2026-04-18 15:05:42 +08:00