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Garry TanandClaude Fable 5 394db326f2 v1.71.0.0 feat: token-load reduction — preamble runtime scripts, gated onboarding, 20 skill carves, CLAUDE.md trim (#2691)
* feat(gen): strip gen-time-only frontmatter keys from Claude renders

interactive + benefits-from are read from the .tmpl by buildContext at
generation time; no runtime, host, or test reader consumes them from the
generated SKILL.md (e2e-harness-audit reads .tmpl; benefits-from tests
assert rendered prose). gbrain: stays (bin/gstack-brain-context-load reads
it from the installed render); hooks: stays (Claude Code host wires
PreToolUse from it).

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

* chore(gen): regenerate SKILL.md — dead frontmatter keys removed

Mechanical regen after hosts/claude.ts stripFields change.

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

* feat(test): context-budget ratchet — CI ceilings on always-on + eager token ledgers

New free test grades the two ledgers nothing else guards: the full-frontmatter
always-on catalog (aggregate) and per-skill eager tokens (SKILL.md +
forced-read refs), via checkBudget from lib/context-bill.ts. Ceilings live in
test/fixtures/context-budget.json with x1.05/x1.10 headroom; regenerate with
bun test/helpers/capture-context-budget.ts. New skills fail until consciously
budgeted; removed skills fail until the fixture is refreshed; reductions
ratchet the ceilings down so wins lock in.

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

* docs(todos): file output-template carve wave + plan-ceo doctrine revisit; mark preamble-carve P3 in flight

Two follow-ups deferred from the approved token-reduction program (CEO review
'NOT in scope' list), filed with full context per TODOS format. The existing
P3 preamble-carve entry gets a status update pointing at the program that
supersedes it.

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

* fix(test): review findings — Windows path normalization, full totals rebuild, ratchet coverage

Pre-landing review (5 specialists) found one critical: the ratchet test runs
in the curated Windows lane, where path.relative yields backslash skill names
that miss the test/ filter and mismatch every POSIX fixture key. Names are now
normalized once in buildRatchetBill (toPosixName) and the fixture filter is
tightened to test/fixtures/. All eight Bill.totals fields are rebuilt from the
filtered list (no fixture-polluted perInvocation/totalMd numbers for future
consumers). New coverage: Windows-separator normalization pins, a
captureContextBudget round-trip against tree-a (headroom math exact), a
stripFields regression pin (interactive/benefits-from absent from renders,
hooks/gbrain preserved), and the ceilings test no longer double-reports
stale-fixture entries.

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

* fix(test): adversarial findings — stable root key, symlink-alias dedupe, fixture-shape guard

Adversarial review (Claude subagent) verified the fixture's root-skill key was
the capture machine's checkout dirname: any non-gstack-named clone (every
Conductor worktree) failed the free suite, and the documented re-run-the-capture
recovery baked the local dirname into the committed fixture — silent corruption
through the tool's own protocol. The root skill is now pinned to ROOT_SKILL_KEY
('gstack', its frontmatter name). Symlink aliases are realpath-deduped (census
precedent): connect-chrome no longer gets its own ceiling, so Windows checkouts
that materialize the symlink as a plain file can't fail the stale-ceiling
set-equality test. New guards: fixture-shape validation (a string alwaysOnTotal
can no longer silently disable the ceiling), a mutation pin that the filter
shrinks the always-on ledger vs the raw bill, an alwaysOnTotal violation test
(the branch was load-bearing with only under-budget coverage), and an atomic
temp+rename fixture write. Fixture regenerated: 59 ceilings, alwaysOnTotal 6344.
Deferred with a TODO: anchoring transformFrontmatter's denylist strip to the
frontmatter block (latent, zero live collisions, pre-existing path).

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

* chore: bump version and changelog (v1.69.1.0)

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

* docs: update project documentation for v1.69.1.0

CLAUDE.md: Token ceiling section documents the context-budget ratchet as
the third guard (test file, fixture, new-skill budgeting, capture command).
CONTRIBUTING.md: Tier 1 guard list gains a Context-budget ratchet bullet;
the Adding-a-new-skill checklist gains the budget-capture step.

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

* docs: pin exact guard semantics for the context-budget ratchet in CLAUDE.md

Doc-review finding: "a third enforced ceiling" undercounted the guard
family (skill-size-budget floors and parity ratios also watch these
ledgers, relatively). Rephrased to match the ratchet test's own header:
absolute ceilings vs relative floors/ratios.

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

* docs(changelog): heaviest-skill claim matches the fixture (land-and-deploy edges review by 0.2%)

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

* feat(bin): gstack-skill-start + gstack-skill-end — the preamble runtime, consolidated

Absorbs the ~13KB of bash every tier-2+ SKILL.md inlined twice over (bootstrap
fence + artifacts-sync fence) and the skill-end telemetry/sync fences. Same
KEY: value STATUS-line contract the prose interprets, plus SKILL_START_PROTO
handshake (OV5), SESSION_ID/TEL_START echoes, GSTACK_HOME-normalized state
paths (EOV7), --parent-pid session identity (EOV5: $PPID inside the script is
the ephemeral tool-call shell), OV4 sanitization of passthrough output, and a
receipted daily artifacts pull (_receipted_git, brain-sync class, fail-closed).
Per-line || true error style throughout (F3) — a mid-script failure never drops
later STATUS lines.

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

* feat(gen): preamble resolvers emit a script invocation fence instead of inline bash

generate-preamble-bash: ~6.3KB fence -> 4-line gstack-skill-start invocation
(quoted-tilde pitfall handled: leading ~ interpolates through $HOME; env-var
hosts keep $GSTACK_BIN) + degraded-mode prose (F1/EOV8: safe defaults, consent
gates deferred-never-lost; OV5: proto rule). generate-brain-sync-block: ~6.8KB
bash -> interpretation prose + the privacy stop-gate (stays inline until
Phase 2's gated emission). generate-completion-status: telemetry fence -> one
gstack-skill-end call with SESSION_ID/TEL_START handoff.

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

* chore(gen): regenerate all skills + golden fixtures — inline preamble bash removed

Mechanical regen after the resolver change: −12,628 lines across 52 renders
(corpus 952K -> 806K render tokens; tier-2 skills −11-13KB each). Golden
per-host ship fixtures refreshed from the fresh claude/codex/factory renders.

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

* test: skill-start contract suite + preamble A/B eval + touchfiles registration

test/gstack-skill-start.test.ts (11 free tests): STATUS-key contract vs the
prose (F2), per-host fence resolution shapes (E1), proto-first, OV4 marker
sanitization, --parent-pid identity, headless suppression, skill-end duration
math + pending cleanup. test/skill-e2e-preamble-script-ab.test.ts (gate tier,
OV7): inline-bash render (pinned from 29785978) vs script render with the
fence redirected at the worktree bin (EOV2 — hermetic evals otherwise resolve
the operator install and silently exercise degraded mode). 21 touchfiles dep
lists gain the two bin scripts (EOV9) so future script edits select the
preamble evals; selection-count pin updated 23->24.

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

* test: repin ~70 assertions to the script contract — every literal gets a successor

Assertions that pinned inline-bash internals (update-check guard, _SESSIONS
reaping, telemetry start/end blocks, routing probe, repo-strip producer,
first-task gating, EXPLAIN_LEVEL/QUESTION_TUNING echoes, #2499 jq scope
resolution, Issue-8 CONDUCTOR gate) now pin the same invariants in their new
home: bin/gstack-skill-start / bin/gstack-skill-end file content for script
internals, the invocation fence + interpretation prose for render-side
behavior. No assertion deleted without a successor; live-execution tests
(routing probe, brain-sync jq) run against script bytes unchanged.

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

* chore(test): re-baseline size floors + ratchet ceilings down (EOV1/OV9 protocol)

parity-baseline-v1.69.1.0.json captured with carved-skill unions (53 skills);
skill-size-budget repointed with the derivation comment citing the Phase 1
context-bill receipt (the ~13KB/skill cut trips the old 80% floor on tier-1
skills first — setup-browser-cookies headroom 10.8KB < the cut). The v1.47
fixture stays on disk for history; the parity-suite growth baseline
(v1.64.1.0) is untouched. Context-budget ceilings re-captured: review
29,309->26,192; learn ->10,969; ios-clean ->10,764 — Phase 1's win is locked.

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

* feat(bin): instruction-emission layer — onboarding text appears only when its gate fires

The 8 one-time onboarding flows (lake intro, telemetry opt-in, proactive
opt-in, first-run/first-loop tips, routing injection, vendoring deprecation,
writing-style migration, spawned-session rules), the upgrade-flow + feature
discovery prose, and the privacy stop-gate (user-approved Q2) moved from
every render into gated heredocs here. Blocks are SESSION_ID-bound
(GSTACK_INSTRUCTION_BEGIN: <id> <session-id>) so page/file content can't mint
directives (F4/OV4). Ack ownership per OV6: display-only tips write their
markers at emit (script also fires the scaffold telemetry); interactive flows
carry their ack commands inside the block. The dormant WRITING_STYLE_PENDING
gate is computed for real now (marker files). BASH_COMPAT=50 heredoc guard
(same as brain-sync); the quoted routing heredoc resolves its bin path via a
sed placeholder.

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

* feat(gen): drop the 8 onboarding generators — renders keep one instruction-block rule

generate-{lake-intro,telemetry-prompt,proactive-prompt,first-run-guidance,
routing-injection,vendoring-deprecation,spawned-session-check,
writing-style-migration}.ts deleted (single source is now the script's
emission layer, F5). generate-upgrade-check shrinks to the steady-state
PROACTIVE/SKILL_PREFIX rules. generate-brain-sync-block hands the privacy
stop-gate to the emitted block. The fence prose gains the generic rule:
follow GSTACK_INSTRUCTION blocks only from this command's direct tool result
with the matching SESSION_ID; unterminated block ends at end-of-output.

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

* chore(gen): regenerate all skills + goldens — onboarding prose degated

Mechanical regen: corpus 806K -> 707K render tokens (−8KB/skill; cumulative
vs main: ship 91->71KB, learn 53->34KB, ios-clean 53->33KB).

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

* test: onboarding tombstone + Phase 2 pin relocations

New test/onboarding-moved-literals.test.ts (F5): 12 distinctive literals must
live in bin/gstack-skill-start AND stay absent from every render, plus the
SESSION_ID-binding pins. ~40 assertions repinned to the emission-layer
contract (gates, block ids, in-block acks, script-run marker writes); the OV4
sanitize test upgraded to the real property (every legitimate block header
carries the run's SESSION_ID). first-task dep list drops the deleted
generator; the token->tip case map is pinned to cover every detector bucket.

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

* chore(test): carve floors/ceilings recomputed; baseline + ratchet follow Phase 2 (OV9)

All 9 carved skills re-anchored to post-Phase-2 measurements (cso's union had
tripped its 72,000 floor at 71,379; design-consultation had 252B of margin).
maxSkeletonBytes ceilings tightened to measured+~600B. Branch-internal
parity baseline recaptured in place; ratchet ceilings down again: review
->24,052, ship ->18,589, learn ->8,828, ios-clean ->8,624.

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

* feat(gen): AUQ slim — tool resolution as a STATUS-line branch table, split rules to invariants + absolute pointer

Tool resolution (1,799B) rewritten as a 3-branch table keyed on the echoed
CONDUCTOR_SESSION/SESSION_KIND lines — Conductor prose-default, MCP-variant
preference, and failure handoff preserved verbatim in behavior, including the
auto-decide-first ordering and the gstack-question-log capture requirement.
5+-options handling (1,924B) compressed to the split invariants (never drop;
D<N>.k shape; Include/Defer/Cut/Hold; question_id scheme with the never-ask
refusal) + the full-rule pointer. Both doc pointers now interpolate the
absolute install root (Codex outside-voice #7 convention) instead of the bare
'in the gstack repo'. Failure-fallback, Format, and self-check sections are
byte-identical — all 14 MANDATORY always-loaded pins pass with zero test
edits.

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

* chore(gen): regenerate all skills + goldens — AUQ slim

Mechanical regen: −1.3KB per tier-2+ skill (ship 69.9KB, learn 32.5KB).

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

* chore(test): baseline + ratchet follow Phase 3 (OV9); OV8 evaluated — shrink floor stays

Branch-internal baseline recaptured; ratchet ceilings down again. OV8's
floor-retirement question, evaluated as planned after Phase 3: the 80% shrink
floor stays — it uniquely catches accidental body deletion in non-carved
skills BETWEEN ratchet recaptures, and the capture command has amortized the
fixture-refresh cost that motivated retiring it.

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

* feat(review): carve adversarial, plan-completion, and review-army into sections

The three resolver macros ship already carves as siblings now load on demand
for /review too: skeleton 100.2KB -> 55.0KB (-45%), union 93.4KB. Resolvers
stay the single source of truth (sections wrap the macros). Step 0/1, scope
drift, critical pass, confidence calibration, and fix-first stay always-loaded.
Fixtures and pins follow the moved content (codex-hardening wrapped-sites,
review-army E2E fixture builds skeleton+sections with an empty-fixture guard).

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

* feat(codex): carve the three mutually exclusive modes into sections

Review/Challenge/Consult mode bodies (34.7KB where at most one ever runs)
load on demand: skeleton 81.0KB -> 55.2KB, union 1.04x the monolith. The mode
dispatch, filesystem boundary, and a new always-loaded 'Synthesis
recommendation (REQUIRED) — all modes' block stay skeleton-side (the AUQ
per-skill pins pass unchanged); the plan-file report + exit gate render after
the last section pointer per the gateAfterStop pattern.

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

* feat(land-and-deploy): carve first-run validation, readiness gate, and merge/deploy into sections

The once-per-repo dry-run validation, the pre-merge readiness gate, and the
merge + deploy-strategy steps (37.8KB) load on demand: skeleton 91.1KB ->
55.7KB. Step 1.5 keeps its detection bash as the dispatch; the first-run
section's fingerprint-save block gained {{SLUG_EVAL}} so it is self-contained.
Zero content lost (line-coverage checked against HEAD).

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

* feat(ios): demote the four ios skills to preamble-tier 2 (Phase 5)

They never consume the tier-3 sections (repo-mode ownership, search-before-
building) but do fire AskUserQuestion, which tier >=2 provides — verified by
grep before the plan review. -2.2KB per skill. Render assertions pin the
demotion (tier-3 sections absent, AUQ format present).

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

* chore(guards): register wave-1 carves; monolith invariants retire; baselines + ratchet follow

CARVE_GUARDS gains review/codex/land-and-deploy (12 carved skills total);
their MONOLITH_INVARIANTS entries retire (invariants now generate from the
registry, cso precedent). Touchfiles: carve-section-loading covers the three
new carves; the codex + land-and-deploy LLM-judge dep lists widen to their
sections. Regen + goldens + branch-internal baseline + ratchet ceilings
recaptured (review 24,052 -> skeleton-based ceiling; union floors hold).

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

* test(gen-skill-docs): review render pins read the carved union

The review carve's readSkillUnion conversions (same pattern its neighbor
carved-skill pins already use).

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* feat(autoplan): carve the four review phases + tasks aggregator into sections

Phase bodies (CEO/Design/Eng/DX consensus flows) and the Implementation Tasks
aggregator load on demand; Design and DX stay separate sections because each
is independently conditional on scope. Skeleton 83.7KB -> 58.7KB (-30%
always-loaded); the 6 decision principles, classification, sequencing, and
explicit skip-condition dispatch stay always-loaded. The chain E2E's
phase-complete markers now live only in sections, so its assertions double as
section-read proof (behavioral: external).

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

* feat(spec): carve the post-confirmation gate-and-file tail into one section

Phases 1-4 are the turn-1 conversational spine — carving them would force the
Read on the first user message for zero real savings. The mechanical tail
(4.5/4.5a/4.5b redaction gates + Phase 5 filing + TTHW telemetry) fires only
after draft confirmation: a genuine lazy boundary, kept as ONE section so the
gh-issue-create bash can never load without the fail-closed redaction gate
that precedes it. Skeleton 65.4KB -> 50.7KB; all ~85 phase-structure
invariants migrated location-aware plus a new carve-shape suite (56 tests).

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

* feat(setup-gbrain): carve the branch-exclusive install paths into sections

Brain-init (Paths 1/2/3/4 bodies), engine remediation, transcript gate, and
CLAUDE.md persist load on demand — at most one install route ever runs.
Skeleton 75.3KB -> 57.0KB; the Step 1 detect and Step 2 path dispatch stay
always-loaded. New buildSetupGbrainFixture helper gives the periodic E2Es
extract-don't-copy fixtures with a non-empty guard; the voyage-code-3 gate
counts scan the tmpl union (the third init site lives in engine-remediation).

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

* chore(guards): register wave-2 carves (15 carved skills); autoplan monolith retires; baselines follow

CARVE_GUARDS gains autoplan (behavioral: external via the chain eval), spec,
and setup-gbrain; autoplan's MONOLITH_INVARIANTS entry retires. Touchfiles:
setup-gbrain periodic dep lists gain the section tmpls + fixture helper; the
stale-brain-refs scan covers setup-gbrain/sections. Regen + goldens + branch
baseline + ratchet recaptured.

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

* feat(qa): carve QA patterns + health rubric into on-demand sections (68→48KB skeleton)

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

* feat(browse): carve full command list + snapshot flags into sections/command-list.md (39→27KB skeleton)

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

* feat(retro): absorb inline git/awk metrics into bin/gstack-retro-metrics + carve report format

RETRO_METRICS_PROTO: 1 contract, local git reads only (fetch stays in the
skill prose), degraded path documented in the skeleton.

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* test: register wave-3 carves (qa, browse, retro) — guards, touchfiles, pins, baselines

CARVE_GUARDS gains the three entries; qa's monolith invariant retires.
auq-format carve-safety now keys on the skeleton+sections union shipping
the AUQ block (first tier-1 carve: browse never renders it by design).
Baselines: parity v1.69.1.0 at 18 sectioned skills; ratchet recaptured.

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

* fix(test): drop stale generate-lake-intro import (generator deleted in the emission-layer move)

Sol scope discipline stays pinned via the model overlay + completeness
section; the lake intro is now a single script-emitted blurb.

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* feat(office-hours): carve Phase 2A/2B into mode-exclusive sections (81→67KB skeleton)

A session runs exactly one mode, so a builder session never loads the
13KB startup diagnostic. Mode mapping and the vibe-shift upgrade rule
stay in the skeleton.

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

* feat(design): carve UX doctrine + Pretext patterns into read-on-demand sections

design-html 57→49KB, design-shotgun 53→50KB. Sections wrap
{{UX_PRINCIPLES}} so scripts/resolvers/design.ts stays the source of
truth; the pretext-patterns STOP sits at the top of Step 3 so the read
provably precedes the Write.

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

* test: register wave-4 carves (office-hours ext, design-html, design-shotgun) — 20 carved skills

Both design entries carry requiredReads + loading-eval scenarios (D3A
condition). office-hours phase sections are mode-exclusive, so only the
always-reached design/handoff section is a deterministic requiredRead.
Baselines and ratchet recaptured.

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* docs: trim CLAUDE.md 66.4→44.9KB — verbatim moves to docs/, pointers stay inline

Moved: browser/sidebar/server internals, CHANGELOG release-summary format
spec, project tree, hermetic-E2E detail, slop-scan reference, OpenClaw
publishing. Kept inline: every hard behavioral rule (dist/ ban, redaction
scan-at-sink, egress receipts, bisect commits, eval detach, CHANGELOG
entry rules), the machine-managed GBrain block (byte-identical), and the
'## Deploying to the active skill' header with gbrain-refresh in range
(pinned by test/gbrain-refresh-install-render.test.ts). No voice rewrites.

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

* fix(test): seed onboarding markers into the hermetic child GSTACK_HOME

EOV7 made bin/gstack-skill-start honor GSTACK_HOME, so the operator-HOME
seeding in e2e-helpers.ts no longer reaches hermetic children — the
emission layer fired lake-intro/telemetry prompts that burned turns and
stalled PTY tests waiting on an answer (observed: plan-mode-no-op derailed
by the telemetry question). Onboarding-specific tests pin their own
GSTACK_HOME per-test, which merges over this seed.

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* test: raise carve-section-loading wall clock to 480s SDK / 540s bun

The heavy full-workflow scenarios satisfy their required section reads
inside 60s but need 300-450s to finish the report on slower sandboxes;
the 300s default read as a loading failure when the carve invariant held
(traces: plan-eng-review read its section at 8s, office-hours all three
at 24s, design-html both at 50s — all timed out mid-report).

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* fix(security): harden the skill-start trust boundary — review-army findings

Session ID gains a urandom suffix (block binding unforgeable by reflected
content); _sanitize also neutralizes spoofed SESSION_ID: lines; branch
names are charset-clamped before JSON embedding (skill-start + skill-end);
.brain-last-push reads first line only with a charset clamp; the artifacts
URL echo routes through _sanitize; the privacy consent gate fires in
interactive sessions only (spawned auto-choose could accept consent no
human gave — emission order is not a safety property); the daily pull gets
non-interactive + slow-network git guards and stamps only when the
receipted path ran; ~/.claude.json gets a grep pre-filter before the jq
parse.

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

* fix(resolvers): question-log session_id becomes a substitution placeholder + stale-comment sweep

The question-log block bound $_SESSION_ID, a shell variable the
consolidated fence never sets — hook-less hosts logged empty session_id,
breaking /plan-tune per-session grouping. It now uses the same
substitute-from-the-skill-start-echoes contract as the telemetry block.
Also: retired the pre-Phase-2 stop-gate docstring, repointed the
gbrain-local-status cross-reference at the script's inline jq, dropped an
orphaned section comment, documented retro-metrics' suffix-only census.

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

* chore: regenerate renders for the question-log placeholder; goldens + baselines follow

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

* test: hermetic update-check, onboarding gate sequencing, seeding parity

The contract test's child did a live git ls-remote + curl to github.com on
every bun run test (update_check config now gates it off); the headless
test gets a fresh GSTACK_HOME so the suppression is actually exercised; a
new OV6 test drives the script three times to pin ack-at-emit and gate
sequencing; hermetic seeding covers the config-keyed privacy gate; the
EVALS_HERMETIC=0 debug seeding reaches marker parity.

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* test(ci): demote the preamble A/B to periodic (OV7) and add it to the periodic matrix

Post-Phase-3 demotion per the plan; the eval needs fetch-depth 0 (it git
shows a pre-Phase-1 sha), which only the periodic workflow provides — and
a static matrix entry so it can't silently never run.

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

* chore: bump version and changelog (v1.70.0.0)

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* docs: update project documentation for v1.70.0.0

ARCHITECTURE.md: the preamble section now describes the v1.70 runtime —
the rendered {{PREAMBLE}} block invokes bin/gstack-skill-start and reads
STATUS lines, gstack-skill-end logs telemetry, and one-time onboarding
text arrives as gated GSTACK_INSTRUCTION blocks instead of riding in
every render.

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* docs: doc-review fixes — repair moved-file links, drop unbacked session-count claim

docs/BROWSER_INTERNALS.md: the two ARCHITECTURE.md anchor links broke when
the section moved from repo-root CLAUDE.md into docs/ — now ../ARCHITECTURE.md.
ARCHITECTURE.md: the preamble's session-tracking item claimed an active-session
count and an "ELI16 mode" that no shipped code implements (the count
computation was deleted with the inline preamble); describe the real
touch-and-prune behavior instead.

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* docs(changelog): correct numeric claims against measured counts

50 of 62 installed skills dropped (fixture/alias entries have no preamble);
11 new carves + a deeper office-hours carve = 9→20; test counts match the
files (13 / 11 / 3 / 7).

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* docs: repoint the preamble-runtime version reference after the queue rebump (v1.71.0.0)

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* test(e2e-design): widen the Aesthetic synonym set — vocabulary variance, not a regression

Both attempts in run 33090283032 produced judge-praised DESIGN.md files
phrased as 'design principles'/'design language' without any of the four
original literals; inputs were identical to the prior passing run
32899975845 (design-consultation untouched by the intervening merge).

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

* fix(test): stage design-consultation's sections/ into the E2E fixture

The skill has been carved since v1.57.0.0 — the DESIGN.md structure
prescription (the AESTHETIC proposal template) lives in
sections/proposal-and-preview.md behind a STOP-read. The fixture only
copied SKILL.md, so the agent improvised structure from the skeleton and
the section-synonym check has been a coin flip since the carve (CI run
33090283032 trace shows 'no sections dir'; the local eval store has the
same failure on 2026-08-25 while that day's CI run passed on lucky
vocabulary).

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

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2026-08-27 09:50:31 -07:00
1d41ee3ab3 v1.63.0.0 feat: GStack 2 fork port wave — egress receipts, context-bill, sharded gate, /health fix (#2541)
* test(helpers): shared skill-census helper with three explicit counts

physicalSkillFiles (symlinked dirs included, root router included),
authoredSkills (realpath-deduped, router excluded), registryEntries
(what ./setup registers: unique frontmatter names + _gstack-command).

One counting authority for the hermetic seeder, context-bill ground
truth, and the catalog-budget test — connect-chrome's dir symlink and
the root router otherwise produce three subtly different hand-rolled
censuses. Ported-wave foundation (C11).

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* fix(evals): stop the harness grading itself

findPreviousRun excluded only the file being written, by name, so every
suite compared against _partial-e2e.json — the current run's own
accumulator, relabelled with the current tier just before each flush.
That is why every block read '+$0.00, +0s, Stable run, no regressions.'
This harness has never been able to detect a regression, and reassuring
output that cannot fail is worse than none. In-progress runs are now
excluded by role, and a run with nothing to compare against says NO
BASELINE instead of claiming stability.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit f3140b5245221fff7fb9411c7ec07c2ca11587b5)

* refactor(evals): shared partial-run predicate + finalized-run lookup

isPartialEval(data, filename) is the one place that decides what counts
as an in-progress accumulator (the _partial flag OR a _partial-prefixed
filename), and findLatestFinalizedRun(evalDir, tier) is the one place
that finds the newest real run — scanning the eval dir plus one level of
shards/<slug>/ subdirs, where the sharded paid runner points each
shard's collector. skill-budget-regression.test.ts's hand-rolled
findLatestRun (flag-blind: a flagged-but-renamed accumulator passed its
name check) is replaced by the shared helper.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit b55fcf6966366fd21a8cdc46de61aab6e1b1d100)

* feat(evals): register shipped skills for hermetic PTY children

Hermetic children get a config dir that deliberately seeds no skills —
right for children that install their own, fatal for the PTY family that
TYPES /office-hours or /plan-ceo-review: claude rejects the command as
Unknown before any model turn, so the plan-family gate smokes measure
nothing. hermeticSkillsConfigDir() is a second, opt-in config dir under
the same runRoot that mirrors ./setup's registration exactly (real dir
per registry name, SKILL.md + sections/ symlinks, frontmatter-name
resolution, _gstack-command root alias), driven by the shared
skill-census so connect-chrome's dir symlink collapses the same way
setup's idempotent overwrite does.

Ported from fork commit 03c4eca2, tree walk rewritten for the upstream
layout (top-level <skill>/SKILL.md dirs, no skills/ tree). Unit tests
are new: seed shape, census parity, symlink resolution, connect-chrome
collapse, idempotence, no-API-key seed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 93dae6107b30ce453a07c2d342b60262bba6ce0b)

* feat(evals): seedSkills opt-in for PTY slash-command tests + tripwire

Wire ClaudePtyOptions.seedSkills through launchClaudePty: when set (and
hermetic, and no per-test CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR override), the child gets
hermeticSkillsConfigDir() so typed /skill slash commands resolve instead
of dying as Unknown command before any model turn. Opted in at the three
runPlanSkill* helpers and the four direct-launch slash-command tests
(plan-design-with-ui, plan-ceo-mode-routing, autoplan-chain,
ship-idempotency).

New static tripwire (test/pty-skill-seeding-wiring.test.ts): any test
file that sends a slash command over the PTY must route through a
runPlanSkill* helper or pass seedSkills: true — an unseeded slash-command
test spends money and measures nothing. hermetic-wiring.test.ts now
blesses the repo-tree seeding path explicitly (config dir under runRoot,
symlinks into the repo checkout, never operator ~/.claude).

The CI "Register gstack skills for PTY smoke" step keeps a keep-me note:
container cross-mount symlinks defeat the TUI scanner and HOME is not
hermeticized, so the real-file copies there must survive this change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 63c52269daaffb833b3105ea9b4b99be6df8fec7)

* refactor(evals): single shared paid-test-set module

test/helpers/paid-test-set.ts is now the one definition of which test
files are paid (the exact globs package.json's test:gate expands).
scripts/test-free-shards.ts derives its free/paid exclusion from it
instead of a private regex list, dropping the dead
browse/test/security-review-fullstack.test.ts pattern (file no longer
exists). The sharded paid runner derives its enumeration from the same
module, so a file added to one list can no longer silently miss the
other.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit a7f36479a6a1f3656452370f5883371f3cb65623)

* feat(evals): env-driven lazy eval dir + shard-aware store and tooling

Importing eval-store no longer spawns the gstack-slug subprocess: the
module-level DEFAULT_EVAL_DIR constant is now a memoized defaultEvalDir()
resolved at collector construction. Resolution order: explicit
constructor arg, then GSTACK_EVAL_DIR, then slug detection — so the
sharded paid runner can point each shard child at its own
<evalDir>/shards/<slug>/ dir with plain env, no --preload.

Runs collected under a shards/ subdir record their slug in the eval
JSON (EvalResult.shard). findPreviousRun scans one shards/<slug>/ level
and prefers same-slug priors, so each shard baselines against its own
history instead of whichever shard flushed last. eval:list,
eval:summary, and eval:compare enumerate the same one level of shard
subdirs; eval:compare's no-arg mode also stops picking an in-progress
accumulator as the after-run.

eval-watch stays flat (documented follow-up): it tails a single dir for
live progress and gains nothing from per-shard baselines until the
runner emits a merged stream.

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(cherry picked from commit e1f53f7d9c7fe6b65877d843f2e25bd2e2d12ffd)

* feat(evals): sharded paid tier runner

scripts/test-paid-shards.ts runs the gate/periodic tier one Bun process
per test file, with an EXTERNAL wall-clock timeout that SIGKILLs the
shard's detached process group and an aggregate that distinguishes
passed / failed / timed-out / never-started — partial execution can no
longer read as a pass. Bun's native --shard/--isolate covers none of
this: no process-group kill (hung claude/codex PTY grandchildren
survive in-process isolation), no never-started taxonomy, no per-shard
env. Each shard child gets GSTACK_EVAL_DIR=<evalDir>/shards/<slug>/
(slug = test filename sans extension, stable across runs) so shard
baselines compare against their own prior runs.

Output classification lives in scripts/test-strict-output.ts (strict
exit-code derivation, incremental fail-line classifier, child signal
forwarding) so the runner and any future strict bun-test wrapper share
one implementation. Enumeration derives from the shared paid-test-set
module; tier exclusion fires only on an explicit whole-file
EVALS_TIER === '<other>' guard.

package.json gains test:gate:sharded / test:periodic:sharded, and
eval:bg:gate / eval:bg:periodic now run the sharded scripts with detach
timeouts sized to the worst case (gate: 49 shards x 30min / 4 jobs ~
6.2h -> 25200s; periodic: 59 -> 28800s).

test/paid-shards.test.ts pins enumeration, tier classification, and the
kill-and-continue property with a real busy-loop shard.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 5e76bd5931836257f896cedfe4e93912cb759c70)

* feat(security): hash-chained egress receipt ledger (core)

Port lib/egress-receipt from the v2 fork as TypeScript: writeReceipt
(sync, fail-closed via typed EGRESS_RECEIPT_FAILED), best-effort
writeOutcome, readLedger/listReceipts/verifyLedger, GSTACK_HOME ->
GSTACK_STATE_DIR -> ~/.gstack resolution, 0600 ledger under a 0700
security dir, and an mkdir spin lock (2.5s budget) with documented
>10s-mtime stale-lock reclaim.

Changes vs the fork:
- lastRawLine tail-reads the final 4KB instead of loading the whole
  ledger, so appends stay O(1) as the file grows.
- WARN-at-size: past 25MB writeReceipt emits one self-explanatory
  stderr warning per process (what the ledger is, how to inspect it,
  rotation TODO); verifyLedger gains a sizeWarning field. Rotation
  TODO carries the chain-genesis sketch (new generation's first record
  embeds the prior file's tail hash).

bin/gstack-egress-receipt is a bun script bridging shell callers:
write|outcome subcommands, exit 3 + EGRESS_RECEIPT_FAILED on stderr on
failure; --no-payload records sha256:null for git-class ops.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 619726a3d77d987a2e50151a5727b3faaaf5fc6a)

* chore(bin): delete dead brain-consumer/reader scripts

bin/gstack-brain-consumer and bin/gstack-brain-reader are byte-identical
dead scripts that POST the repo URL + a Bearer token to a /ingest-repo
endpoint gbrain removed (docs/gbrain-sync.md already documents the
removal in past tense). No live references remain; CHANGELOG mentions
are historical.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 254ddc69fc5a0270fcc973e36b6a81766d835d2d)

* feat(security): shared shell receipt helpers

bin/gstack-egress-lib.sh (sourced library, gstack-gbrain-lib.sh
precedent) provides _receipted_curl and _receipted_git: write the
egress receipt BEFORE the send via gstack-egress-receipt, hand curl the
SAME payload file via --data-binary @file so the receipt hash matches
the wire bytes exactly, then append a best-effort outcome. Per-call
fail policy: 'closed' refuses the send (return 3, problem/cause/fix
message on stderr) and 'open' warns and proceeds. Payload temp files
are consumed immediately per call — no EXIT traps, since callers like
gstack-telemetry-sync own their own EXIT trap and a sourced trap would
clobber it.

Tested end-to-end against a local Bun.serve listener: receipt sha256
equals the sha256 of the bytes the listener received, fail-closed
refusal never touches the network and carries the problem/cause/fix
stderr shape, fail-open warns and proceeds.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 6d067dce2d4c8815dec98be551763c85a3671357)

* feat(security): receipt core shell sinks

Wire the three core bash egress sinks through gstack-egress-lib.sh:

- gstack-telemetry-sync: the batch POST now writes the payload to a
  temp file, receipts those exact bytes fail-closed, and hands curl the
  SAME file. On refusal nothing is sent and the cursor does not
  advance, so the batch stays buffered for the next run. The HTTP
  status is recorded as the receipt outcome.
- gstack-update-check: fail-open receipts (warn + proceed) on the
  Supabase ping POST, both VERSION curls (via a local
  _receipted_version_fetch helper that skips non-network schemes), and
  git ls-remote. The ping receipt is written inside the backgrounded
  subshell, so it can never block the script's exit.
- gstack-brain-sync: fail-closed git-class receipts. The push receipt
  is written BEFORE the commit consumes the queue, so a refused receipt
  leaves the queue intact and the next run retries the whole drain
  (pinned by a new queue-intact-on-refusal test, including the
  problem/cause/fix refusal message shape). The retry-path fetch and
  retry push carry their own fail-closed receipts.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 3c60f699acceaf1c92a218874711e05fc17dca5d)

* feat(security): receipt TS module sinks + tunnel

writeReceipt (fail-closed, sha256:null — a subprocess or SDK owns the
wire bytes) before every TS-module network-bearing operation:

- bin/gstack-gbrain-sync.ts: before the gbrain code walk that ships
  repo content to the user's gbrain DB (may be remote Postgres). A
  refused receipt fails the stage with status refused-egress-receipt.
- bin/gstack-memory-ingest.ts: before the gbrain batch import of
  transcript pages. A refused receipt returns a system_error verdict
  without spawning the import.
- browse/src/server.ts: before both ngrok.forward call sites (start-up
  BROWSE_TUNNEL=1 path and the /tunnel/start endpoint). A receipt
  failure lands in the existing catch that tears the tunnel listener
  back down and refuses the start.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 5677d618a48fcd0ae2b068bf868781d90f809cb5)

* feat(design): receipted fetch for OpenAI calls

design/src/receipted-fetch.ts wraps every api.openai.com call: a
content-free egress receipt (sink design-openai, sha256 of the JSON
body — hash only, never the body) is written BEFORE the send. Polarity
is FAIL-OPEN: user-facing generation must not die because an audit log
hiccuped, so a receipt failure warns on stderr and the call proceeds.
Streams pass through untouched (response bodies returned as-is;
non-string request bodies receipted as sha256:null rather than drained
to hash).

All ten call sites converted with per-command payload classes:
generate, variants (injected fetchFn passes through), iterate (both
threaded and fresh paths), evolve (image + screenshot analysis), check,
diff, design-to-code, memory.

Unit-tested with injected fetch: receipt-before-send ordering, stream
passthrough, and fail-open on an unwritable ledger.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit c0e5ff6639414ac2fd98e8ac3affb51401746b55)

* feat(security): receipt admin scripts + user git-ops (zero exceptions)

Wire the remaining shell egress through gstack-egress-lib.sh:

- gstack-gbrain-mcp-verify: both JSON-RPC probe POSTs (initialize +
  tools/list) receipted fail-closed via payload files (hash == wire
  bytes). A refused receipt lands in the NETWORK class — no send.
- gstack-security-dashboard / gstack-community-dashboard: the
  community-pulse GETs receipted fail-open (read-only stats must not
  break over an audit hiccup).
- gstack-gbrain-supabase-provision: api_call receipted fail-closed.
  Each retry attempt hands the helper a fresh copy of the body file
  (the helper consumes its payload). The receipt hashes the request
  body only — the PAT never reaches the ledger or any log. Refusal
  exits 8 without retrying.
- git-class sha256:null receipts, fail-open: gstack-artifacts-init
  (ls-remote, initial push, fetch/pull recovery, retry push),
  gstack-brain-restore (staging clone, existing-repo fetch),
  gstack-session-update (self-update pull).

gstack-team-init needs no wiring: every git clone in it is inside an
echoed instruction string, not an executed command.

The lib now self-locates with shell builtins only (no dirname), so
sourcing works under the whitelist-PATH test harnesses.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit b8c5e2055b21ab72878b3e46f8047782ee65a11c)

* test(security): egress wiring tripwire + polarity contract

Static-grep tripwire pinning the egress-receipt wiring (threat model in
the header: the ledger is forensic observability of ATTEMPTED egress,
not an exfiltration control):

- Per-sink assertions: every wired TS module imports egress-receipt and
  calls writeReceipt; every wired shell sink sources
  gstack-egress-lib.sh with each network op under a receipt;
  ngrok-proximity check for server.ts; every design api.openai.com call
  routes through receiptedFetch.
- Absence assertions: the dead brain-consumer/reader scripts stay
  deleted (lstat, so a dangling symlink also fails).
- Polarity table pinned as data (fail-closed: brain-sync,
  memory-ingest, gbrain-sync, telemetry-sync, ngrok, mcp-verify,
  supabase-provision; fail-open: design-openai, update-check,
  dashboards, git-class user ops, context-bill --exact) plus per-file
  polarity spot-checks.
- NEW-SINK SCANNER with zero KNOWN_UNWIRED: sweeps bin/, lib/,
  scripts/, design/src, browse/src for curl, absolute-URL fetch(, and
  git remote ops (never local rev-parse/get-url; heredoc bodies and
  message strings excluded) and requires every hit to be receipted or
  in a REASONED exemption list where each entry carries its why.
  Preamble-generated skill prose documented out-of-scope in the header.
- Shebang tripwire: no bin/gstack-* file may carry a node shebang.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit ff69ceeafaf9c017d539b6ad77ff8f95b680b979)

* feat(cli): gstack-egress reader

bin/gstack-egress (bun) — the auditor's view of the receipts ledger:

- list: one row per receipt (what gstack ATTEMPTED to send), with
  --since/--host/--sink filters and --json.
- verify: recompute the hash chain; exit 3 on tamper naming the first
  broken line; prints the sizeWarning when the ledger passes 25MB.
- grants: what CAN leave, built on the upstream config keys only
  (telemetry, artifacts_sync_mode, redact_repo_visibility,
  redact_prepush_hook via gstack-config get) — each grant names its
  file, key, and the exact revoke command.

CLI smoke tests spawn the real bin against a temp GSTACK_HOME,
including a broken-chain fixture asserting exit 3.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 9e24eca0f1069fea2ea69e7df4e9b256e93d59a3)

* feat(cli): context-bill — token bill-of-materials (stripped port)

lib/context-bill.ts, ported from the v2 fork and STRIPPED to the tiers
this repo's skills can exercise: ALWAYS-ON (per-skill frontmatter bytes
with dead-key and foreign-host-file flags), EAGER (SKILL.md + any
forced 'for every invocation' references), on-disk totals, --diff,
--budget, and --exact with the calibration table. The fork's
CONDITIONAL/TRANSITIVE/LAZY/FAST-PATH parsers understand only its
dispatcher layout and were dropped; the tier fields stay in the report
shape (empty/zero/null) so re-adding a parser is additive.
TOKEN_DIVISORS and their provenance docblock kept; --help notes
recalibration via --exact's calibration block.

Three upstream fixes over the fork:
(a) findSkillDirs treats the walk ROOT as a container — the repo root's
    router SKILL.md is billed AND its children are walked (the fork
    short-circuited and billed one skill); walkMd skips node_modules
    and dot-directories.
(b) installed-tree layout: subdirs that are their own repo checkout
    (a gstack/ clone inside ~/.claude/skills, detected by .git) are
    skipped, and directory symlinks (connect-chrome) are followed with
    a container-recursion cycle guard.
(c) ROUTER_KEYS widened to the upstream frontmatter contract {name,
    description, version, allowed-tools, triggers, preamble-tier}.

--exact writes an egress receipt (sink context-bill-exact, host
api.anthropic.com) BEFORE any count_tokens POST; if the receipt cannot
be written the run degrades to the offline estimate with a warning —
nothing is sent unrecorded. bin/gstack-context-bill is the bun shim.

Tests: fixture-tree ledgers, the three fixes, --diff/--budget exit
codes, --exact with injected fetch (envelope subtraction, receipt
ordering, fail-open degradation), CLI smoke test, and ground truth
against THIS repo via test/helpers/skill-census.ts.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 675c19876b87ec927b555f5f64c7f93130b3de90)

* test(catalog): aggregate discovery-surface budget with ratchet protocol

Every host loads every skill's frontmatter name + description at
discovery, every session. applyCatalogTrim in scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts
shapes each description and the 160KB per-file warn covers body size,
but nothing capped the aggregate frontmatter — the catalog could grow
one reasonable-looking description at a time. This test is that
enforcement layer.

Measures the catalog via test/helpers/skill-census.ts authoredSkills
(symlink-deduped, root router counted separately as the _gstack-command
alias line item): 53 skills + router = 4,420 bytes = 1,105
token-equivalents today, asserted <= 1,150 (~4% headroom). Per-skill
sub-cap of 260 bytes (largest today: design-consultation at 229), plus
a non-empty-description check.

Failure messages are self-service ratchets: they print the new total,
the delta, and the update protocol (bump the constant AND the
derivation comment in the same commit; trim instead of grow for
existing descriptions). Parser handles folded block scalars
(description: >-) for fork parity; import-free by design so it
survives generator refactors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit c106fb36f768181b80c257e5cff1cde4f435f9c0)

* fix(browse): extension token bootstrap moves to pinned-origin POST; /health carries no token

GET /health is now liveness/status only in every mode — both token
carve-outs (headed-mode disjunct AND chrome-extension:// Origin
disjunct) are removed. Token bootstrap is POST /extension-token on the
local listener: the Origin header must be exactly
chrome-extension://<GSTACK_EXTENSION_ID> and the Host header's hostname
must parse to 127.0.0.1 or localhost (parsed via new URL, never literal
equality — Host arrives as '127.0.0.1:34567'). Wrong origin/host → 403
with no detail. The tunnel surface 404s the endpoint (not in
TUNNEL_PATHS, verified by test).

The extension ID is pinned by a new "key" field (RSA public key) in
extension/manifest.json; browse/scripts/extension-id.ts reproduces the
ID derivation (first 16 bytes of SHA-256 of the DER public key, hex
mapped 0-9a-f → a-p). The private key is not committed anywhere —
unpacked/baked-in loads only need the public key.

Extension side: background.js bootstraps and refreshes the token via
POST /extension-token (403 → disconnected state); sidepanel.js direct
connect path does the same; sidepanel-terminal.js's dead /health token
fallback (read AUTH_TOKEN/authToken keys the server never sent,
hardcoded port) is replaced with the window.gstackAuthToken path.

MIGRATION NOTE: the manifest key pins the extension ID, so existing
installs' side-panel local state (saved port, snoozes) resets once —
explained in-product via a one-time notice (flag
gstack_id_migrated_v162). After upgrading the server, restart the
browser so the old service worker stops polling for a token GET /health
no longer serves.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit e9a0b6847a2d17fe6656a4686b4efd0c8380eb09)

* docs: correct stale compiled-binaries claim; file three egress/eval follow-ups

CLAUDE.md's compiled-binaries section claimed browse/dist binaries are
tracked by git and appear as modified in git status — false since
64d5a3e4 (v0.11.16.0) untracked them, and actively harmful: it trained
agents to ignore dist binaries in git status. The section now states
the truth (untracked + gitignored; a dist binary in git status means
someone force-added it) and covers make-pdf/dist too.

TODOS.md gains the three follow-ups filed by the v1.62 port-wave
reviews: ledger rotation with chain-genesis records, launch-nonce
token bootstrap, and eval-watch shard-awareness.

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* fix: pre-landing review fixes for the v2 port wave

Review army (checklist + 5 specialists) + coverage/plan audits on the
assembled branch. Genuine correctness/security/hygiene fixes:

- test-paid-shards: strictTestExitCode now receives expectedFiles on the
  real bun path, so a shard that runs fewer files than planned (harness
  crash, nothing loaded) with exit 0 is no longer recorded 'passed' — the
  invisible-non-execution class the runner exists to kill. Pinned by the
  new test/strict-output.test.ts (also covers the chunk-boundary classifier).
- test-paid-shards: EVALS_TIER env is validated (gate|periodic) like the
  --tier flag, so a typo can't self-skip every test and exit 0 green.
- package.json: test:periodic:sharded sets EVALS_ALL=1, restoring the
  full-tier semantics the pre-shard script had (CI already set it; local
  eval:bg:periodic silently under-measured without it).
- brain-sync.test: run() pins HOME to the temp home so gstack-artifacts-init
  stops writing/clobbering the operator's real ~/.gstack-artifacts-remote.txt
  every free-suite run; afterEach now also scrubs the current filename.
- egress-receipt: cap each receipt field at 512B so a serialized line always
  fits the 4KB tail-read window — a longer line would make the next append
  hash a truncated prior line and verifyLedger report a permanent false
  TAMPER. warnLedgerSize short-circuits before statSync once fired (append
  hot path).
- gstack-egress: import.meta.dir (Windows-safe) instead of new URL().pathname
  so grants doesn't silently report defaults on Windows; strip control chars
  from ledger-derived fields on render so a crafted receipt can't spoof the
  auditor's view.
- extension/background.js + CLAUDE.md: renumber the identity-pin migration
  refs v1.62 -> v1.63 (main claimed 1.62.0.0; this wave queue-advances).
- egress-receipt-wiring: pin lib/context-bill.ts unconditionally (both land
  together now); drop the dead RunShardsOptions.tier field.

All fix-affected test files green; gate failures triaged as external-env
(codex/gemini CLI drift) or pre-existing (hermetic-canary fails identically
on base). Deferred polish tracked in the PR body + decision store.

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

* chore: bump version and changelog (v1.63.0.0)

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

* docs: file TODO to harden plan-design-with-ui PTY detection

The v1.63 seedSkills change made this gate test execute for the first
time; it reliably times out because its terminal scraper can't parse the
(correctly-rendered) scope-gate AskUserQuestion out of a spinner-mangled
PTY buffer. Shipped skill behavior is correct — test-harness limitation.

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* chore: re-slot release as v1.62.1.0 (PATCH per user)

Main claimed 1.62.0.0 while the wave was in flight; the user chose the
PATCH slot over queue-advancing MINOR. Renumbers the identity-pin
migration notice (now version-free flag name so a re-slot never orphans
an already-set flag), the CLAUDE.md /health note, the CHANGELOG heading,
and the TODOS section titles.

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* fix(test): stop hard-requiring the literal ok) case label in gbrain-refresh guards

The extractor grepped for 'ok)' but the case label grew to
ok|timeout|thin-client) (#1964, #2051), so the whole file errored on
import — the free suite's only red for months. The extractor now matches
any label starting with ok and its alternations; all 7 guard assertions
run again.

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* fix(test): hermetic-canary probes with ${VAR:-} so nounset shells can't fail success

The probe echoed bare $CONDUCTOR_WORKSPACE_PATH — when scrubbing WORKS
the var is unset, and under a nounset shell the echo errors, failing the
canary exactly when isolation succeeds. Defaulted expansions assert
identically under any shell. Fails identically on base; fixed here.

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* fix(evals): absorb codex/gemini CLI drift; external-service tests go periodic-tier

- codex exec gains --skip-git-repo-check: newer CLIs refuse exec in an
  untrusted non-git dir (our temp skill dirs) — empirically verified.
- gemini: --skip-trust was removed in gemini-cli 0.34 (argv parse error);
  dropped from the session runner and the benchmark adapter. A present-
  but-unusable CLI (deprecated individual code-assist auth path) now
  classifies as SKIP, not a false adapter failure; the benchmark live
  smoke skips on auth/rate_limit error codes (environmental) while still
  failing on timeout/unknown (the drift classes it exists to catch).
- codex-e2e, gemini-e2e, and benchmark-providers gain the canonical
  whole-file EVALS_TIER === 'periodic' guard per CLAUDE.md tiering rule 3
  (external service -> periodic) — the sharded gate runner now excludes
  all three (gate: 45 -> 42 shards).

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* fix(evals): parse single-logical-line AskUserQuestions in the PTY runner

When the PTY reflows a boxed AUQ, ALL options land on ONE logical line
after stripAnsi — parseNumberedOptions parsed one option per line, found
only '1.', and the >=2 check failed forever while the correct question
sat on screen (plan-design-with-ui timed out this way twice, with the
rendered scope-gate AUQ visible in both failure buffers). The cursor
line is now parsed as a stream of ascending N. tokens; DEC cursor-
visibility residue is stripped before matching; plan-design-with-ui's
budgets grow to fit observed ~6min preamble+thinking latency. Pinned by
test/pty-auq-single-line.test.ts using the real failure buffers; all 142
existing parser-consumer unit tests still green.

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* chore: restore v1.63.0.0 (MINOR — user-confirmed final slot)

The wave ships new capability (egress receipts + two CLIs, sharded paid
runner, hermetic skill seeding) at ~8K lines — MINOR scale per the
scale-aware bump rules. Supersedes the brief v1.62.1.0 re-slot; the
version-free migration flag means no state churn from the renumber.

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* test: spell out AskUserQuestion in the PTY single-line fixture

Rename test/pty-auq-single-line.test.ts to
test/pty-askuserquestion-single-line.test.ts and expand the AUQ
abbreviation in identifiers and comments. House style writes
AskUserQuestion in full in filenames, identifiers, and comments.

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* docs: sync every doc surface with the v1.63 release

/document-release audit (4-lane, all claims verified against branch code):

- README: gstack-egress + gstack-context-bill rows in the standalone-binaries
  table; Privacy & Telemetry gains the receipted-egress bullet (attempted-
  egress framing per the shipped threat model).
- ARCHITECTURE: /health is liveness-only, POST /extension-token endpoint row
  + bootstrap mechanics paragraph; new Egress receipt ledger subsection under
  Security model; eval persistence covers the sharded runner, GSTACK_EVAL_DIR,
  and the finalized-run baseline rule.
- CLAUDE.md: sharded test scripts in Commands; sharded semantics in the
  detached-evals section; PTY skill seeding in the hermetic section; egress
  invariant block beside the other server-egress invariants; catalog-budget
  ceiling beside the 160KB token ceiling; project-tree entries for
  lib/egress-receipt.ts, lib/context-bill.ts, scripts/test-paid-shards.ts.
- CONTRIBUTING: seedSkills + live-tree seeding in the hermetic paragraph;
  sharded runner in detached runs; catalog-budget in the Tier 1 list.
- BROWSER: extension token bootstrap section, tunnel egress receipts section,
  identity-pin migration note in manual install.
- REMOTE_BROWSER_ACCESS: tunnel-start receipt bullet in the security model.
- gbrain docs: /sync-gbrain + brain-sync egress-receipt behavior documented;
  dead consumer-token instructions removed (consumer machinery deleted this
  release); new fail-closed refusal added to the error catalog.
- CHANGELOG: measured-vs-ceiling catalog numbers, contributor notes for the
  external-service tier move and the PTY single-line AskUserQuestion parser,
  release date.
- TODOS: /health token-distribution TODO resolved by this release, removed;
  port-wave follow-up sections re-labeled to the shipped version.

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* docs: sweep drift that predates this release

Surfaced by the /document-release audit; every fix verified against the
current binaries:

- gstack-brain-init was replaced by gstack-artifacts-init in v1.27.0.0
  (hard-delete, no compat shim), but README, USING_GBRAIN_WITH_GSTACK,
  docs/gbrain-sync.md, and docs/gbrain-sync-errors.md still instructed
  users to run it — command-not-found on every follow. Same sweep updates
  ~/.gstack-brain-remote.txt to the canonical ~/.gstack-artifacts-remote.txt
  (legacy name still honored on restore, noted where users copy the file).
- gbrain-sync-errors.md headings re-matched to the literal messages the
  binaries print today (the doc's whole value is grep-by-exact-message):
  'gstack-artifacts-init: ~/.gstack/ is already a git repo pointing at:',
  'Remote not reachable via SSH:', 'Failed to create or find ...'. The
  already-a-repo fix now leads with the command's own set-url suggestion.
- docs/gbrain-sync.md 'Under the hood' linked a plan file that does not
  exist in the repo; replaced with the decisions themselves.
- SIDEBAR_MESSAGE_FLOW startup timeline: /pty-session responds with
  {terminalPort, sessionId, attachToken, leaseExpiresAt} (v1.44 shape,
  verified at browse/src/server.ts:1860), not the retired
  {terminalPort, ptySessionToken} pair.

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* docs: fold the Codex accuracy review of the release docs

Six findings, all verified against source before fixing:

1. 'Every send writes a receipt' overclaimed — fail-open sinks proceed with
   a stderr warning when the receipt write fails, so a fail-open send can go
   unrecorded (lib/egress-receipt.ts:8-14). Descriptive prose now says so;
   the receipted framing keeps 'attempted'.
2. 'Receipts hash the request body' is wrong for subprocess-owned sends —
   git pushes record sha256: null (lib/egress-receipt.ts:71).
3. 'grants shows every consent in force' overclaimed — it reports the four
   standing config settings (bin/gstack-egress:139-181). Reworded in
   README, ARCHITECTURE, and the CHANGELOG entry.
4. 'Zero-exception scanner' vs reality: the new-sink scanner carries a
   reasoned SCANNER_EXEMPT list (user-directed fetches, probes, instruction
   strings, skill prose). CLAUDE.md now names it.
5. Error-catalog cause/fix for the receipt refusal: the writer mkdirs the
   ledger dir itself, so 'missing' isn't a cause and bare chmod fails when
   it is absent — cause reworded, fix is mkdir -p && chmod.
6. gbrain-sync first-run steps described the retired binary's behavior:
   default repo is gstack-artifacts-$USER, and init PRINTS the gbrain
   hookup command (never auto-executes; bin/gstack-artifacts-init:384-419).

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Garry TanandClaude Opus 4.8 c7ae63201a v1.58.1.0 feat: hermetic local E2E + Conductor prose AskUserQuestion (#2004)
* feat: add shared call-time isConductor() helper

Single source of truth for Conductor host detection in TS consumers
(CONDUCTOR_WORKSPACE_PATH / CONDUCTOR_PORT). Reads the passed env at
call time, not a module-load snapshot, so unit tests can pin the env
inline without Bun --preload (esm-hoist-breaks-env-pin-bootstrap).

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* test: harden question-preference-hook harness against ambient Conductor env

runHook copied all of process.env into the hook subprocess, so running the
suite inside Conductor (CONDUCTOR_WORKSPACE_PATH/PORT set) would leak those
markers. Strip them so the existing cases deterministically characterize
NON-Conductor behavior before the Conductor branch lands. Baseline: 15 pass.

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

* feat: PreToolUse hook denies AskUserQuestion in Conductor, redirects to prose

Conductor disables native AskUserQuestion and routes through a flaky MCP
variant that returns '[Tool result missing due to internal error]'. The
hook now denies any AUQ call in a Conductor session and instructs the model
to render a prose decision brief instead (transport avoidance, not preference
enforcement) — firing for one-way doors too, with a typed-confirmation
requirement for destructive paths.

Precedence: never-ask auto-decide still wins (user already settled those);
Conductor prose is the fallback for everything else; non-Conductor behavior
is byte-for-byte unchanged. Restructured the per-question loop to compute
eligibility without early-returning so the Conductor branch can run as the
fallback while preserving memoryContext on every exit.

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* feat: Conductor renders AskUserQuestion decisions as prose by default

In Conductor, native AskUserQuestion is disabled and the MCP variant is
flaky, so skills now render every decision as a plain-text prose brief the
user answers by typing a letter — proactively, not as a failure reaction.

- Preamble emits CONDUCTOR_SESSION, gated on != headless so eval/CI inside
  Conductor still BLOCKs instead of rendering prose to nobody.
- AskUserQuestion Format gains a Conductor-default-prose rule (auto-decide
  preferences still apply first; prose decisions log via gstack-question-log
  since PostToolUse never fires), a one-way/destructive typed-confirmation
  rule, and a typed-reply continuation protocol for split chains.
- Regenerated all SKILL.md + ship golden fixtures; bumped affected carve
  skeleton caps to absorb the always-loaded additions.

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

* feat: deploy the Conductor AskUserQuestion hook (setup + upgrade migration)

The PreToolUse hook only delivers its Conductor-prose guarantee if it's
installed, but setup skips hook registration in non-interactive (conductor/CI)
setups. Two fixes so layer 3 actually deploys:

- setup: treat a Conductor workspace as an implicit opt-in for the PreToolUse
  hook on the silent fall-through (never overriding an explicit opt-out).
- migration v1.58.0.0: re-register the hook for existing Conductor installs on
  /gstack-upgrade, idempotent and respecting plan_tune_hooks=no.

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* test: E2E for Conductor prose + fix auto-decide-preserved GSTACK_HOME bug

- New skill-e2e-conductor-prose (periodic): Conductor env + plan-eng-review
  surfaces a prose decision brief, not a silent skip. Header documents this is
  end-to-end behavior coverage; the deterministic Conductor guard is the
  question-preference-hook unit test (the PTY harness can't register the MCP
  variant — Codex #10).
- Fix the pre-existing bug in auto-decide-preserved: it seeded the never-ask
  preference under GSTACK_HOME=tmpHome but never passed GSTACK_HOME into the
  PTY run, so the spawned claude read the real ~/.gstack and the preference
  was inert (Codex #9). Now passes GSTACK_HOME + CONDUCTOR_WORKSPACE_PATH to
  prove auto-decide still wins over the Conductor prose redirect.
- Register both in touchfiles (periodic tier).

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* v1.58.0.0 feat: Conductor renders AskUserQuestion decisions as prose

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* test: strip ambient Conductor env in memory-cache-injection hook harness

Same dev-in-Conductor leak fixed for question-preference-hook: this suite's
runHook copies process.env, so running it inside Conductor flipped the
defer-path memoryContext assertions into the [conductor] prose deny. Strip
CONDUCTOR_* so the cases characterize non-Conductor behavior. (CI is headless,
so this only bit local Conductor runs.)

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* feat: gstack-detach — run agent eval/bench jobs in their own session

Long agent-run jobs (30-60 min evals, benchmarks) die when the harness sends
SIGTERM to a background task's process group on turn boundaries / monitor
stops / interruptions (observed: 'script test:gate terminated by signal
SIGTERM'). gstack-detach runs the command in a fresh session (python3
os.setsid, or setsid on Linux, nohup fallback) so a group SIGTERM can't reach
it, and wraps it in caffeinate -i on macOS so idle-sleep can't kill it either.
Returns immediately; caller polls the logfile. Secrets stay in env, never argv.

The guard test pins the contract: the command runs in a different process
group than the caller and outlives the launching shell.

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* feat: eval:bg* scripts — detached eval runs for agents

Agent-facing convenience scripts that launch the eval suites through
gstack-detach so a harness SIGTERM can't kill a long run. eval:bg (diff-based),
eval:bg:all, eval:bg:gate, eval:bg:periodic — each returns immediately and
streams to /tmp/gstack-evals.log for polling. The plain test:evals / test:e2e
scripts stay foreground for humans.

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* docs: CLAUDE.md — agents must run long evals via gstack-detach

Codifies the detached-execution default: agent-launched eval/benchmark runs go
through bin/gstack-detach (or the eval:bg* scripts) so a harness SIGTERM or
macOS idle-sleep can't kill a 30-60 min run, then poll the log with a
death-aware watcher. Humans keep foreground scripts.

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* feat: harden gstack-detach against all four eval-infra killers

The basic bash detach fixed SIGTERM but a real run on a shared dev box hit
three more killers: cross-worktree API saturation (15-way concurrency x a
sibling worktree mass-timed-out the suite), a silent hang (periodic bun died
with no exit marker), and shared-/tmp log contamination (a concurrent
worktree's agent output bled into the log). Rewrite as a portable python3 tool
that bakes in all four fixes:

- fork + setsid: SIGTERM-proof (own session, survives harness polite-quit)
- caffeinate -i on macOS: no idle-sleep death
- --lock NAME (fcntl, machine-wide): concurrent worktrees SERIALIZE instead of
  saturating the shared model API
- run-scoped default log (~/.gstack-dev/eval-runs/<label>-<slug>-<branch>-<ts>-<pid>):
  no cross-worktree collision/contamination
- --timeout watchdog + a guaranteed '### gstack-detach EXIT=<code> ###' sentinel
  on every terminal path: no silent hang, finished-vs-died always detectable

Guard test pins all four: detached pgid differs + outlives launcher, run-scoped
log path, watchdog EXIT=timeout, and lock serialization (second run WAITS).

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* feat: eval:bg* use run-scoped logs + machine lock + watchdog

Drop the shared /tmp/gstack-evals.log path (the cross-worktree collision that
contaminated a live run) for gstack-detach's run-scoped default, and add the
machine-wide gstack-evals lock (concurrent worktrees serialize, no API
saturation) plus per-tier watchdog timeouts (60/90/120 min). Each eval:bg*
prints its run-scoped log path to poll.

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* docs: wire detached-eval guidance into /ship + correct CLAUDE.md flags

- /ship eval step (sections/tests.md): long eval suites launch via gstack-detach
  (own session, machine lock, EXIT sentinel) so a turn boundary can't kill a
  30+ min run mid-ship — the exact failure observed during this branch's ship.
- CLAUDE.md: correct the now-stale /tmp reference; document the --lock (serialize
  worktrees, no API saturation), --timeout watchdog, run-scoped log, and the
  guaranteed EXIT sentinel the poller breaks on.

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* refactor: extract pure promotedEnv() from conductor-env-shim

Single source of truth for GSTACK_* key promotion semantics. The ambient
promoteConductorEnv() becomes a wrapper; behavior-preserving. Needed by the
hermetic env builder which must not mutate process.env.

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* feat: hermetic child-env builder for E2E runners

Allowlist scrub (basics/network/named-auth kept; CONDUCTOR_*, CLAUDE_*,
GSTACK_*, MCP_*, GBRAIN_*, operator credentials dropped), per-runner
extraAllow, overrides merge last, EVALS_HERMETIC=0 byte-identical escape
hatch read at call time (ESM-hoist safe). Sync memoized singleton temp dirs
(<runRoot>/.claude keeps the extractPlanFilePath contract), seeded
.claude.json for non-interactive first run, pid-aware GC of crashed runs.
19 free unit tests.

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* feat: session-runner spawns hermetic children + isolation canaries

claude -p children now get the allowlist-scrubbed env and a gated
--strict-mcp-config (EVALS_HERMETIC=0 restores operator env AND args).
Two gate-tier canaries make the clean room falsifiable: hermetic-canary
asserts env redirect + scrub + zero MCP servers + nonzero API-key cost
from the Bash tool_result (never model prose); hermetic-sentinel plants a
poisoned operator config (user CLAUDE.md + MCP server) and proves the
child cannot see it. Empirically verified on claude 2.1.175: print mode
needs no seed config (the seed serves the PTY path); the child CLI sets
CLAUDECODE for its own tools, so that scrub is pinned in unit tests, not
E2E. hermetic-env.ts joins GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES.

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* feat: PTY runner spawns hermetic claude sessions

launchClaudePty children get the allowlist-scrubbed env, a gated
--strict-mcp-config, and the session exposes hermeticConfigDir for
forensics (hermetic plan files live under <dir>/plans/ and still match
extractPlanFilePath via the /.claude dir-name contract). Seeded trust
state covers repo-cwd sessions; the 15s trust-watcher stays as fallback.
Verified foreground via the plan-mode-no-op gate test.

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* feat: codex/gemini runners spawn hermetic children

Same allowlist scrub as the claude runners, with each provider's auth
surface re-admitted via extraAllow (codex: OPENAI_API_KEY/CODEX_* plus
its tempHome .codex copy; gemini: GEMINI_*/GOOGLE_* with real HOME for
~/.gemini auth). The gemini spawn previously inherited the full operator
env with no env property at all.

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* feat: agent-sdk-runner spawns hermetic children via complete Options.env

The historical 'env: breaks SDK auth' failure was partial-env replacement:
Options.env replaces the child's entire environment, so objects lacking
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY killed auth. Passing the complete hermetic env (key +
PATH + redirected CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR/GSTACK_HOME) works — validated live
via query() with a Bash tool call (success, real cost, Conductor vars
scrubbed). Per-test opts.env merges last; ambient key mutation still
works because the builder reads process.env at call time.

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* test: static tripwire pins hermetic wiring in all five runners

Free-tier invariants: every runner builds child env via hermeticChildEnv,
no raw ...process.env spread at any spawn site, --strict-mcp-config gated
on isHermeticEnabled in both claude runners, and no test callsite passes
the operator env into a runner's override parameter (scoped to runner
calls — unit tests spawning gstack bin scripts directly are exempt).
Mirrors the terminal-agent-pid-identity / server-embedder-terminal-port
tripwire idiom.

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* test: refresh codex/factory ship goldens with detached-eval block

a38089aa added the gstack-detach guidance to the ship template and
updated the claude golden; the codex and factory goldens missed the same
16-line block. Regenerated via bun run gen:skill-docs.

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* docs: hermetic local E2E is the default; retire stale SDK env warning

CLAUDE.md now documents the hermetic clean room (allowlist scrub, fresh
seeded CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR, temp GSTACK_HOME, --strict-mcp-config),
EVALS_HERMETIC=0 as the debug escape hatch, and replaces the 'never pass
env: to runAgentSdkTest' rule with the verified mechanism (partial-env
replacement was the failure; complete env is safe).

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* fix: operational-learning fixture copies lib/jsonl-store.ts with the bin

gstack-learnings-log imports $SCRIPT_DIR/../lib/jsonl-store.ts (hasInjection,
v1.57.5.0) — copying only the bin scripts into the temp fixture broke the
script with exit 1 since then. Latent because diff-based selection rarely
runs this test; surfaced when hermetic-env.ts joined GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES and
selected everything. Reproduced outside the hermetic env to confirm blame.

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

* fix: ios-qa daemon scenarios use unique pidfiles under --concurrent

All scenarios shared join(workDir, 'daemon.pid') through a module-scope
workDir binding that beforeEach reassigns mid-flight under bun --concurrent.
First daemon claims; siblings get already_running against the test process's
own always-alive pid and fail in milliseconds — the failure mode seen at
15-way gate concurrency. Per-claim unique pidfiles keep the single-instance
semantics under test.

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* fix: workflow judge re-appends body-carved sections after the marker slice

runWorkflowJudge appended sections/*.md before slicing startMarker..endMarker.
That handles skills that moved their MARKERS into sections (plan-eng,
plan-design) but not document-release, which keeps its markers in the
skeleton and carved the workflow BODY (Steps 2-9 -> sections/release-body.md)
AFTER the endMarker — so the slice dropped it and the judge scored
completeness 2 ('Steps 2-9 are in an external file'). Now any carved section
the marker window excluded is re-appended, so the judge sees the full
workflow the agent executes. document-release: completeness 2->5, clarity
3->4. ship/plan-ceo/plan-eng/plan-design judges unchanged (their section
content is already inside the slice, so the head-dedup skips re-append).

Pre-existing since the v1.57.0.0 carve (#1907); surfaced now because
hermetic-env.ts is a global touchfile that selects every llm-judge test.

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* harden: hermetic temp-dir GC grace window + half-seed cleanup

Codex adversarial review (ship) flagged two temp-dir lifecycle edges:
- GC deleted any dead-pid dir; PID reuse could delete a freshly-created dir
  whose original pid exited and was recycled to a live process. Now requires
  BOTH a dead pid AND mtime older than a 1h floor.
- A seed-write failure after mkdir left an unseeded dir named with our live
  pid that this process's GC skips, leaking until exit. Now the partial dir
  is torn down before the (still loud) rethrow.

Two findings left as-is by design: HOME stays allowlisted (CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR
wins for claude; codex/gemini need ~/.codex|~/.gemini auth; FS sandbox is
TODOS.md:454 scope; the hermetic-sentinel canary proves config isolation),
and PTY extraArgs --mcp-config is a deliberate caller opt-in like env overrides.

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

* docs: document hermetic-by-default E2E + eval:bg detached runs in CONTRIBUTING

The Testing & evals section now tells contributors that local E2E runners
spawn children through a sealed clean room (allowlist-scrubbed env, seeded
CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR, temp GSTACK_HOME, --strict-mcp-config) so local signal
matches CI, with EVALS_HERMETIC=0 as the escape hatch. The eval-tools list
gains the eval:bg* detached-run scripts (gstack-detach: SIGTERM-proof,
caffeinate-wrapped, machine-locked, run-scoped logs, EXIT= sentinel).

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

* chore: sync package.json to 1.58.1.0

The merge took main's package.json (1.58.0.0); gstack-version-bump repair
fixed the working tree but the change was left uncommitted. Without this the
committed tree disagrees with VERSION and CI's version-match test fails.

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

* docs: regenerate diagram SKILL.md with Conductor prose preamble

The diagram skill (new from main) was missing the Conductor-session prose
AskUserQuestion blocks that gen-skill-docs propagates to every SKILL.md.
Pure generated output; reproduced by bun run gen:skill-docs.

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

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