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4 people	ac20ef1e13	v1.91.16.0 fix: safe installs and upgrades, skills start everywhere, truthful completion (parallel wave) (#3014) ... * fix(make-pdf,design): real TOC page numbers and anchors; design models move to gpt-5.5 + gpt-image-2 (#2903, #2807) * ci: pin every action to a SHA, Scorecard, checksummed Bun, scoped Codex CLI in the CI image, macOS named-regressions job (#1948, #1706, #1997) * fix(cso,browse): Windows/macOS lease identity, retention skips bad runs, truthful 'not assessed' reports, env.kv false positive, Windows browse spawn fixes (#2894, #2912, #2048, #2637, #2805) * fix(outside-voice): one Codex model precedence for probe and dispatch, bounded timeouts with KILL escalation, probe cache identity, guarded mktemp, skills hidden in nested Codex (#2776, #2914, #2787, #2881, #2847) * feat(setup): install registry, ./setup --status, staged activation, per-scope migrations, host tiers and conformance kit, OpenCode/Hermes fixes, Copilot CLI (experimental), disabled_skills, slimmer CLAUDE.md (#1925, #2879, #2347, #2338, #2626, #2629, #2825, #2015, #393, #1206, #2096) Co-authored-by: Andrey Esipov <61357035+andrey-esipov@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Matthew Williams <5863886+ridermw@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Rocky Wu <92764750+lolisaigao1234@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(preamble): skills start in worktree-isolated Claude Code sessions — one literal skill-start line, context-recovery helper, no eval in skill blocks, $N token tripwire, honest plan-mode precedence (#2763, #2896, #2851) * fix(setup): per-install renders for renamed, vendored and custom-config installs, space-safe alias roots, per-host /cso launcher path (#1882, #2906) * test: free tests never write the real HOME (home-write tripwire), no orphaned browse daemons, symlinked-TMPDIR (macOS) fixes, gbrain-on-PATH isolation (#2895, #2816, #2829, #2841, #2982, #2911, #2909, #2908, #2910) * chore: integrate wave follow-ups — regenerate all hosts, README model docs, TODOS, touchfiles, duration seeds, Bun 1.3 telemetry test fix, replay fixtures pinned to their recorded bytes * v1.91.14.0: release metadata * test(browse): group-kill cleanup falls back to the leader when macOS returns EPERM for a live group * ci: Codex login steps run under bash (the CI container's default sh rejects pipefail) * fix: full-suite repairs — private state roots for 7 real-HOME writers, truthful home-guard attribution with --attribute-home, gstack-paths shim in ship-hook fixtures, Copilot in team-init probes, test-of-test detector, cookie review fixture pinned to the approved excerpt * fix(windows): LF for Dockerfiles, normalized home-guard exclusions, path.relative fixture containment, ship push test spawn timeouts * test(design-detect): widen the whole-scan budget test's timing margins so a loaded macOS runner can't time out the single-batch call * fix(evals): qa protocol names defined for the judge, async PTY judge so overlapping sessions keep their cleanup deadline, bws setup cases use the standard JUDGE_MS tier * test(pty): the non-blocking judge case is POSIX-only (its fake judge is a shebang script, like the PTY harness it covers) * test(evals): ship-coverage-audit names absolute skill paths, uses Read, and skips the Step 7 artifact nothing consumes (removes the mechanism behind 3 of 4 historical timeouts) * test: deflake terminal-agent concurrent startup (write the placeholder record before spawning, like the product) and qa-evidence resumed pipe (barrier on a full high-water mark instead of a sleep) * fix(design): daemon log stream handles open errors instead of crashing the daemon; shutdown test awaits the stubbed exit * test(evals): skillify checks the product's resolved state root (no GSTACK_HOME bypass), negative cases check every root; tpa shims live outside the agent's cwd and answer consistently * test(evals): coverage-audit detector splits parallel columns at │ rails and [+] groups; coverage prompts name absolute skill paths; TODOs from the gate eval census * fix(plan-eng-review): scope gate always sends the menu (no headless 'Scope pending' exit); PTY harness ends idle turn-ends and API-error panels promptly with a precise diagnostic * test(evals): one position-bound coverage-read rule credits read-only && chains (labels, context ranges, git displays in either order) and still rejects forged output * fix(ship): documentation section has one saved source inserted by cat (never retyped); spawned-marker evidence is the child output; refreshed codex/factory ship goldens * test(docsync): the byte-exact insert positive is POSIX-only (the bash-command observer refuses backslash paths by design) * test(evals): plan-design-with-ui focus-title rule accepts the comma-less 'dimensions or focus' wording (replayed on the captured CI run, negative controls kept) * fix(qa-callers): exploratory preflight says the scope/method Reads come after exploratory.md; design-review scan check credits an executed scan proven by one engine run over the changed files --------- Co-authored-by: Andrey Esipov <61357035+andrey-esipov@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Matthew Williams <5863886+ridermw@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Rocky Wu <92764750+lolisaigao1234@users.noreply.github.com>	2026-10-03 07:54:09 -07:00
Garry Tan	74512c20a7	v1.91.15.0 v1.91.15.0: Opus 5.5 prompt cleanup, behavior-level skill tests, transcript consent (#3017) ... * fix(models): allowlist routing for model-pinned Claude families (W1) resolveModel lowercases input and strips one trailing [...] context marker. Opus 4.7, Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5 keep their pinned overlay only for the bare ID, the bare ID plus an 8-digit date, and the bare ID plus -latest; any other suffix (point releases such as claude-sonnet-5-5, claude-opus-4-7-1) falls to the generic claude overlay. claude-opus-5-5 routes to claude explicitly (no new overlay, no new ALL_MODEL_NAMES entry). Fable keeps its prefix match while CLAUDE_FRONTIER_EVAL_MODEL is claude-fable-5-1, guarded by a test. Tests: one test/model-overlays.test.ts case per shape in the plan, plus the lowercase / [1m] marker / family-name cases and the Fable guard. * docs(CLAUDE.md): define when prompt bytes are a test contract (W7 prompt-byte rule) Adds the gstack-repo definition to the Testing section at normal volume: prompt bytes are a contract only when software reads them or a recorded eval shows the wording matters. Amends the test-value-bar line so 'prompt bytes' refers to that definition. scripts/resolvers/test-value.ts and docs/test-value-bar.md are unchanged. * fix(browse): sidebar tab hint names real tabs.json fields and how $B resolves (s11 H1, s11 M8, s11 M9) * fix(router): route telemetry uses the echoed SESSION_ID (s01 H1) $_SESSION_ID is never set in the router's bash block since bin/gstack-skill-start took over session bookkeeping, so every /gstack route event logged an empty session id. Use the literal SESSION_ID placeholder and tell the model to substitute the echoed value, matching the completion-status telemetry block. No W7a pins on the changed line. * docs(CLAUDE.md): correct stale test-infra facts (s01 H2, H3, H4, H5) H2: TREE_MUTATING is not empty; it still holds bootstrap-retention. H3: catalog ceiling is CATALOG_BUDGET_TOKEN_EQUIVALENTS (1,194), not 1,171. H4: detach timeouts point at package.json's --timeout values (gate is 49320s). H5: Writing Style lives in preamble/generate-writing-style.ts and the jargon list is Read at runtime, not baked at generation time. No W7a pins on the changed lines. * fix(preamble): drop the stale jargon-list count (s01 H6) The list has 77 terms, not 80+, and the model Reads the file anyway. No W7a pins on the changed text. * fix(overlay): claude.md dedicated-tools nudge stops naming tools the host may lack (s01 M1) The nudge named Glob and Grep, which some Claude hosts do not expose. It now names the host's dedicated file tools and its search tools when it has them, keeping the prefer-dedicated-tools behavior the claude-dedicated-tools-vs-bash overlay eval measures. Updates the prose comment at test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts:643 (comment only, no assertion change). The matching comment in test/fixtures/overlay-nudges.ts is left to its owner. * fix(preamble): progress notes on phase changes, not a [PROGRESS] cadence (s01 M2) Context Health told the model to periodically write a tagged [PROGRESS] summary. No code reads that tag; the line now says when to tell the user (finishing a phase or changing direction). Loop detection stays. W7a pin: test/terse-build.test.ts:103 pinned 'PROGRESS'; it now checks the default build emits a non-empty Context Health body (terse still emits ''). * fix(preamble): learnings review without incident archaeology (s01 M3) Drops the issue number, the 43-of-44 statistic and the ALWAYS caps from the Operational Self-Improvement step; keeps the rule that the review runs every time and that an empty result is stated explicitly. No W7a pins on the removed text. * docs(CLAUDE.md): fold 'Long-running tasks' into the detach section (s01 M4, CEO W4) The 'don't give up' section told agents to poll a plain background task with sleep 180 + TaskOutput, which the next section forbids for evals. Its one durable rule (keep checking until the run finishes, report progress at each check) now lives in the detach section's poll step, pointed at the gstack-detach EXIT sentinel, at normal volume. No tests pin the removed text. * fix(preamble): test-failure triage questions defer to the AskUserQuestion Format (s01 M5) The two quoted pseudo-briefs pinned a superseded question shape (RECOMMENDATION: Choose X, a completeness score on the recommendation, no D<N>/ELI10/Net). The triage step now gives the facts, the options with their completeness values, and the recommended option as data, and defers the shape to the Format section. Option labels that Step T4 and test/skill-validation.test.ts:2004-2016 depend on are verbatim. No W7a pins on the removed text. * fix(proactive): PROACTIVE=false means no suggestions, including 'want me to run /X?' (W5.1) The router forbade suggesting skills when PROACTIVE is false while the preamble told the model to ask 'want me to run it?'. Decision: false means never auto-invoke and never suggest, including by asking. The preamble line in generate-upgrade-check.ts now matches the router, and both quote the value as `false`, the way gstack-skill-start prints it. Restore with gstack-config set proactive true. W7a pin: test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts:4488 used the old quoted sentence as a preamble-order marker; it now finds the PROACTIVE-false rule with a quote-tolerant, case-insensitive pattern. * docs(ETHOS.md): correct the claim that ETHOS is injected into every preamble (W5.7) Nothing injects ETHOS.md. Preambles carry condensed principles (completeness, voice, search before building) and the Search Before Building section links to this file. Edit approved by Garry for this PR. * office-hours: fix stale refs, state-root path, profile query, SESSION_ID (s07 H1, H2, H3, M7, M10; s01 H1 office-hours note) - Phase 4.5 points at Founder Resources instead of the nonexistent Beat 3.5 (H1). - builder-journey.md is written to $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT, where it is opened (H2). - builder-profile context query reads developer-profile.json, the file the migration leaves behind; drop meaningless tail (H3). - Drop issue numbers from three headings (M7) and the MANDATORY/NOT optional markers on Phase 4 (M10). - Handoff telemetry uses the echoed SESSION_ID placeholder; $_SESSION_ID is never set in a fresh shell. Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * spec: plain Phase 3 gate, drop duplicates, dead telemetry and review IDs (s07 H4, M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, M6) - H4: Standard template heading no longer names nonexistent --bug/--feature/--refactor flags. - M1: Phase 3 read-code-first gate at normal volume, constraint and reason kept. - M2: drop the in-phase repeat of the read-first rule (Rules recap stays). - M3: drop the duplicate audit-sink paragraph. - M4: drop TTHW telemetry block and its never-set frontmatter keys. - M5/M6: drop plan-review finding IDs from Phase 5 headings and the /ship handoff. W7a pins: spec-template-invariants:314 (Mandatory/MUST) becomes a Phase 3 section check for the read-evidence-before-asking constraint; :203 matches 'raw spec must not be persisted' across line wraps so no duplicate paragraph is needed to satisfy it. Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * investigate: drop issue numbers from freeze-script comment (s07 M8) Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * qa: replace WTF point table with named signals and a plain stop rule (s07 M9) The self-regulation check keeps its cadence (every 5 fixes or after a revert), its signals (reverts, unrelated files, sprawl, long runs, low-severity tail), STOP-and-ask, and the 50-fix hard cap. The percentage table goes; the stop threshold (two reverts, or one unrelated-file edit) stops at least as early. W7a pins: qa-browser-preservation:220 drops 'WTF > 20%' and checks the signals case-insensitively; skill-validation:1250 checks the test-only exclusion rule instead of the heading name; carve-guards qa anchor 'WTF-LIKELIHOOD' becomes the '### 8f. Self-Regulation' heading. Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * design-html: match Pretext docs to the vendored bundle; fix cross-block server state (s08 H1, H2, H3, H4, H7, M6) - H1-H3: walkLineRanges, layoutNextLine and layoutWithLines signatures and return shapes now match design-html/vendor/pretext.js; patterns 2-4 rewritten. - H4: inline the ES-module bundle in <script type="module"> with page code in the same module; no window.Pretext global exists. - H7: remember the printed server URL and PID; later blocks restate them. - M6: drop the 2-3 line cap on the refinement summary. Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * make-pdf: drop nonexistent --no-syntax flag, trigger list and relative phrasing (s08 H5, M7, M9) Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * design-shotgun: DESIGN.md decides what variants vary; fix $SLUG; drop history (s08 H6, M1, M2, M3; W5.6) - H6: the office-hours lookup block evals gstack-slug before using $SLUG. - M1 + W5.6: with a DESIGN.md, variants keep its fonts and palette and vary layout and composition; without one they vary font, palette and layout. The swap-the-headline test and the 'Anti-convergence directive' heading (carve-guards anchor) stay. - M2: drop the Claude Code version pin; run_in_background: false and its reason stay. - M3: /tmp-then-cp rule and reason without the incident story. G1 (replace executor subagents) deferred to TODOS.md per plan. Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * design-review: plain identity line; scope 'never read source' to the audit (s08 M4, M10) M5 (risk-percentage stop conditions) is a UC2 gate and keeps its wording. Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * design-consultation: plain CLAUDE.md design-system snippet with its reason (s08 M8) Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * plan-tune: describe the never-ask hook truthfully; drop plan codes (s09 H8, H9, H10, M10; W4 plan-tune) W4: make the text true rather than change the hook. The consent copy and scope now say never-ask questions are auto-decided with gstack's recommendation by the question-preference hook (one-way doors still ask), and the profile itself never changes defaults. H10 removes the nonexistent --dismiss command. M10 strips cathedral/Layer/D-codes and keeps mechanisms. Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * context-save/restore: drop rename history; fix command-list branch rule (s09 H11, M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, M6) Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * retro: correct what the skill writes; drop word cap and archaeology (s09 H13, M7, M8, M9, M25) H13 and M7 touch neighbouring lines and were merged by hand in that order. Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * health: compute the composite in code; fix example weights; drop D6 codes (s09 H12, M21, M22) Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * gstack-upgrade: drop issue numbers and version history, keep rationale (s09 M20) Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * canary: replace the 30-second/don't-over-analyze rule with the goal (s09 M23) Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * benchmark: self-contained page discovery instead of a /canary reference (s09 M24) Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * codex: drop judge vocabulary and the maintainer known-bad-list note (s10 M1, M2) The synthesis line keeps its Recommendation: <action> because <reason> shape. M16 (consult-mode embed rule) is a UC2 gate and keeps its wording; the outside-voice prompt bodies sent to Codex are unchanged. Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * document-generate: true redaction-fence behavior; drop thoroughness booster (s10 H8, M3) Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * document-release: changelog sell test as three questions, not a 0-3 score (s10 M6) The threshold stays (fewer than two answered = needs attention, not replacement). M4/M5 (NEVER CLOBBER / NEVER BUMP) keep their wording; the integrator owns the eval-gated rewrite. W7a pin: workflow-excerpt:170 'Entries scoring <2 need attention, not replacement' becomes a case-insensitive check that weak entries get attention, not replacement. Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * ios-clean/fix/sync: match the generator's real header, package shape and regen command (s10 H2, H3, H4, H5, M9, M12) - H2: inventory greps the header the generator actually writes. - H4/H5: remove the local .package(path:) entry and DebugBridge* product deps; delete the generated DebugBridge/ and DebugBridgeGenerated/ dirs so the Phase 3 check can pass. - H3: regenerate accessors with /ios-sync (gstack-ios-qa-regen). - M12: ios-fix writes the regression with the project's own test runner. - M9: drop migration-relative sentence. ios-qa DEMO MODE (M8) is a UC2 gate and keeps its wording. Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * setup-deploy: drop User-invocable boilerplate; say default branch, not main (s10 M10, M11) Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * skillify: test staged skills directly; stop after Aside scrapes; drop roadmap notes (s10 H1, H6, H7, M14, M15) Template-only commit: generated SKILL.md is expected red until the regeneration commit. * W4: transcript ingest needs affirmative consent (recent|all) normalizeTranscriptConsent() in gstack-memory-ingest reads transcript_ingest_mode once per process. Only recent (90 days) and all (all history) are consent; an absent key, off, legacy gate letters, incremental and unknown values skip transcripts while other memory still syncs. The ingest's default source set drops transcript without consent; an explicit --sources list naming transcript overrides. gstack-gbrain-sync reads consent once at sync start and pins a non-consented run to an explicit source list, so a mid-run config change cannot add transcripts. It prints the pinned skip notice on every such run (even --quiet), records the normalized mode and skip reason in the memory stage, restages an interrupted import when the consent policy changed, passes --all-history on --full for mode all, and documents the default in --help. Tests: new gstack-gbrain-sync-transcript-mode.test.ts; memory-ingest fixtures seed consent; regression-2922's every-type case seeds consent. Findings: s09 H16 (enforce the consent choice in code). * W4: gstack-brain-sync holds staged transcript pages without consent Queued transcripts/ pages stay queued and on disk unless transcript_ingest_mode is recent or all; other classes still push. Test: brain-sync.test.ts push-filter case (absent, off, legacy A, then recent). * W4: gstack-config validates transcript_ingest_mode; set rejects empty and multi-line values transcript_ingest_mode accepts only recent|all|off and leaves the stored value unchanged otherwise. set rejects an empty value or one containing a newline for every key instead of truncating it. The config header documents the key; lookup_default keeps off. * setup-gbrain, sync-gbrain: fix stale facts and strip plan archaeology Applies s09 H1a, H1c (Mac-only wording; the installer supports Linux and Windows), H2 (smoke test has no delete step), H3 (five invocation modes), H4 (no CI grep test backs the telemetry claim), H7 (Step 4.5 does not exist; the prompt is Path 4 step 4d), M11, M12, M13, M15, M18, M19 (plan codes, issue numbers, version pins, rename story), M14 (restore-from-sync never shipped), M16 (draft self-dialogue in the Supabase steps), M17 (passed sunset date, manual merge into both sections). W7a: retires the setup-gbrain-bin-invocation-paths 'now persists staged transcripts' change-detector (t06 #17); the no-bare-invocation regex tests keep the contract. * W4: transcript consent prose in /setup-gbrain, /sync-gbrain and memory.md The Step 7.5 gate is rewritten as a consent question (manual merge of s09 H5, with H1b and H6): it checks gstack-config has, asks once with A) recent, B) all history, E) never, names Claude Code and Codex sessions from every repo-policy-allowed project and the destination brain, stores the mode value (never the letter), asks yes/no when no transcripts exist, never asks spawned or headless sessions, and drops the silent no-question bulk paths and the false skill-start-hook claim (s09 H5c). Path 4 no longer stores off on the user's behalf. /sync-gbrain gains Step 1.6 (ask when the key is absent or holds a legacy value). Step 10 and the sync verdict show the mode. setup-gbrain/memory.md gains #transcripts (values, sources, destination, override precedence, one-time restage, held staged pages, already-ingested pages stay). W7a: setup-gbrain-bin-invocation-paths drops the silent-bulk and preamble-hook pins (that prose is gone) for negative checks (no pre-answer --bulk, no skill-start claim), loosens the gstack-config pin (t06 #18) to the command without <choice>, and adds the DX 'gated on has' order check for both skills. * W5.2: /sync-gbrain is the only writer of the CLAUDE.md search-guidance block setup-gbrain's claude-md-persist section stops writing its own '## GBrain Search Guidance' block, which also removes the false 'auto-syncs on every gstack skill start' text (s09 H15; s09 H14 decided). Step 10 offers to run /sync-gbrain now and names it otherwise. Test sweep: only skill-e2e-sync-gbrain-readiness references the heading, and it checks the block /sync-gbrain writes, so no test changes. * E4: config-key reader tripwire in gstack-config-defaults.test.ts Every key in bin/gstack-config's DEFAULTS table must be read by code (gstack-config get/has <key>, a config-binary variable, a spawn argv, a config-reader call, or an anchored ^key: pattern in bin/, lib/, scripts/, setup or any .tmpl; wildcard keys by prefix) or appear in PROSE_ONLY_KEYS with a reason. Run on the current tree first: every key has a reader, so the seeded prose-only list is empty. Failure messages name the two fixes. A synthetic-tree case checks each reader form and that docs prose does not count. setup is scanned because timeline_stop_hook is read only there. * W4: /open-gstack-browser asks before replacing a live browse daemon Step 0 probes with BROWSE_NO_AUTOSTART=1 $B status (no daemon is booted by the probe). No live daemon: clear Chromium profile locks and run plain $B connect, which reaps orphans and refuses to replace a busy daemon. Already headed: connect reports it. Live headless daemon: AskUserQuestion, and only an explicit yes runs $B connect --force-restart; spawned or headless sessions leave it running and print the stop line with the resolved browse binary. The hand-rolled kill / kill -9 of the recorded PID and the browse.json deletion are gone. Supersedes s10 M13. Tests: new open-gstack-browser-liveness.test.ts (no kill of the recorded PID, status probe before connect, --force-restart only after the yes branch, profile-lock cleanup kept, spawned/headless stop line). The state-extraction tripwire now covers only the port snippet, since the pid snippet is gone. * fix(browse): untrusted-content warnings name both marker formats (s02 H5, s02 L2 / W7f) The /browse warning named only the --- UNTRUSTED EXTERNAL CONTENT --- envelope and the browser fallback only the ═══ UNTRUSTED WEB CONTENT ═══ one; $B prints both (commands.ts wrapUntrustedContent, content-security.ts ENVELOPE_BEGIN). Both surfaces now name both formats. W7f pin: test/aside-driver.test.ts:347-350 no longer bans the EXTERNAL marker; it reads both marker labels from browse/src/commands.ts and browse/src/content-security.ts and requires both in the fallback and warning. Negative control: reverting browse.ts turns the test red. Parity cap (test/helpers/carve-guards.ts): qa maxSizeRatio 1.103 -> 1.104 (measured 1.1035); the second marker adds bytes to every skill that renders the browser fallback. expected red until the regeneration commit (generated SKILL.md not committed) * fix(design): mockup board loop matches the daemon CLI (s02 H1, s02 H2, s02 H3) - H1: $D compare --serve publishes to the design daemon and exits; read BOARD_URL from stderr, wait with AskUserQuestion, then read feedback.json / feedback-pending.json. The fallback no longer names a $D serve command the step never runs. - H2: the reload POST uses the jq --arg form, so $_DESIGN_DIR expands (the single-quoted JSON sent the literal variable name). - H3: Content & Microcopy lists 11 items, not 8. No test pins the removed text. expected red until the regeneration commit * design: name the defaults to avoid in native design-direction prompts; plain path rule (s02 H4a, s02 H4b, s02 M9) - H4a/H4b: the design-consultation and design-sketch native subagent prompts now name the default looks to avoid (the three looks from the Hard Rules calibration plus the catalog entries the sibling outside-voice prompt already lists) and say to pick again if the first idea is one of them. - M9: 'CRITICAL PATH RULE' -> 'Path rule'; the rule and its reason stay. No test pins the changed text. Parity cap (test/helpers/carve-guards.ts): design-consultation maxSizeRatio 1.085 -> 1.092 (measured 1.0911). expected red until the regeneration commit * fix(outside-voice): preflight mode list no longer looks exhaustive (s02 M10) The preflight also prints under_codex and under_current_harness; not_authed exists only on the Codex path. 'every other mode skips them' covers all non-ready modes. No test pins the old line. expected red until the regeneration commit * outside-voice: drop booster sentences and plan-review decision IDs (s02 M1, s02 M7) - M1: native adversarial subagent prompt drops 'Be adversarial. Be thorough.'; the attacker framing, defect list and 'No compliments' output rule stay. - M7: doc-review headings drop the D3 / T3B plan-review decision IDs (D<N> also collides with AskUserQuestion brief numbering). Not changed: s02 M2 (outside adversarial prompt body sent to Codex/GPT: out of scope per plan) and s02 M3 (CODEX_BOUNDARY: UC2 gate keeps its wording). No test pins the removed text. expected red until the regeneration commit * confidence: drop issue IDs and the contributor-only design-doc pointer (s02 M4a, s02 M4b) - M4a: gate heading and FP-class intro lose '#1539' and the Django sprint measurement note; the gate rule and its four FP classes stay. - M4b: remove the pointer to ~/.gstack-dev/plans/1539-framework-aware-review.md, a contributor-local file that never exists where /plan-eng-review and /ship run. W7a pins (test/regression-1539-review-self-verify.test.ts): - :34 toMatch(/#1539/) removed (cosmetic issue-number pin; the gate-header check stays). - :64-67 'references the deferred design doc' replaced by a structural check that no .gstack-dev/plans/ path reaches the emitted prose. expected red until the regeneration commit * question-tuning: state why the summary is piped instead of citing #2024 (s02 M6) No test pins the resolver text (#2024 appears only in test names/comments). expected red until the regeneration commit * fix(testing): shared TEST_BOOTSTRAP undoes only owned changes (s03 H1, s03 H2, s03 H3, s03 M1) The shared {{TEST_BOOTSTRAP}} (/ship, /design-review) still told the agent to 'git checkout -- package.json package-lock.json', to 'revert all bootstrap changes', to 'delete silently' a failing first test, and to stage 'all bootstrap files'. The QA copy (qa/sections/test-bootstrap.md.tmpl) already says undo only owned changes, never blanket-checkout, never silently delete a valid red regression, and stop on unrelated staged edits. The shared copy now matches it. This removes destructive behavior (UC2: lands regardless of eval). W7g: test/qa-browser-preservation.test.ts gains a check that the shared copy (ship, design-review) has no 'git checkout --', no silent deletion, no blanket revert, and keeps the owned-change and staged-edits rules (case-insensitive). Negative control: the old testing.ts turns it red. Parity cap (test/helpers/carve-guards.ts): ship maxSizeRatio 1.404 -> 1.405 (measured 1.4044 at the branch tip, with the s03 M2/M3 wording). expected red until the regeneration commit * testing: coverage trace and test generation follow the value bar (s03 M2, s03 M3) - M2: 'Every branch in this diagram needs a test' / 'Each step in the journey needs a test' contradicted COVERAGE_GOAL ('Test count is not a goal') in the same rendered audit. Branches and journey steps now need coverage that would catch a regression; the value bar decides new test vs extension vs covered. - M3: 'Mock all external dependencies' -> the smallest native test, mocking only services unrelated to the behavior (matches the QA handoff in qa.ts and the audit's own E2E routing). No test pins the removed text. expected red until the regeneration commit * plan-gates: per-item confirmation states its reason, not an incident ID (s03 M4) 'VAS-449' meant nothing to the model and reached the user in the >5-items warning. The rule now gives the reason (a blanket confirmation lets the user click through without opening any file / lets unchecked items pass as verified). The per-item confirmation rule is unchanged. W7a pin: test/ship-plan-completion-invariants.test.ts:122 toMatch(/VAS-449/) removed (cosmetic incident-ID pin); the per-item rule and blanket-confirm ban checks on the same test stay. expected red until the regeneration commit * plan-gates, review-dashboard: terminal-report rules without trait claims or 'prior versions' narrative (s03 M5, s03 M7) - M5: exit gate drops 'will (correctly) reject it' and the 'Self-deception failure mode' aside; keeps the contract-violation sentence (pinned by test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts) and the body-prose-is-not-the-report rule. - M7: report-write step states the rule and its reason (delete and append at EOF so the report stays last) instead of the history of how it broke. No test pins the removed text. expected red until the regeneration commit * spec-review: default anti-shortcut clause without incident narrative (s03 M6) Drops 'the May 2026 transcript bug ... that's the bug, recognize it' and the caps; keeps the rule: each non-trivial finding goes through AskUserQuestion before it enters the plan, and only a zero-finding review skips asking. The four skill-specific branches are unchanged. W7a pin: test/skill-ceo-section-ordering.test.ts:868-873 pinned the SHA-256 of the default clause. It now checks, on every host, that the clause still says the plan cannot replace the interactive review, routes findings through AskUserQuestion, and lets only zero findings reach ExitPlanMode without asking (case-insensitive), and that the clause is host-independent. The old clause also passes; deleting the zero-findings rule turns it red. The DX hash pin is unchanged. expected red until the regeneration commit * constants: foreground-dispatch note in current-state terms at normal volume (s03 M8) Keeps every constraint (explicit run_in_background: false, Agent tool only, never inline or as a Skill, fallback only after a dispatched subagent fails) and the reason (fresh-context isolation); drops 'no longer', BACKGROUND/ONLY/ WRONG/FALLBACK caps. test/ship-control-flow.test.ts and run-in-background-guidance.test.ts check the placeholder and the explicit flag, not this prose. expected red until the regeneration commit * tasks-section: inline the effort ratios for every phase (s03 M9) The non-CEO/Eng branch said 'Effort uses the AI-compression table from CLAUDE.md', but at runtime CLAUDE.md is the user's project file; the table exists only in gstack's own repo. Every phase now renders the inline ratios the CEO/Eng branch already used. No test pins the removed text. expected red until the regeneration commit * hosts, utility: model-neutral Claude co-author trailer (s03 M10, s11 M10) The Claude host trailer and the resolver fallback (cursor, kiro, opencode, slate) signed commits as 'Claude Opus 4.7' whatever model ran. Both now read 'Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>' so the trailer cannot go stale at the next model release (the s11 report offered this neutral form; s03 M10's hunk uses it). document-release's release body renders the same {{CO_AUTHOR_TRAILER}} and follows on regeneration. test/host-config.test.ts:589 only requires 'Claude' and stays green. Goldens move on regeneration (not committed). expected red until the regeneration commit * changelog workflow: cross-check covers user-facing changes, not every commit (s03 M11) 'Every commit must map to at least one bullet' contradicted the same block's voice rule (never mention contributor-facing details) and CLAUDE.md's entry rule (the diff vs main, not how the branch got there). Every user-facing change in the commit list must be represented; merges, version bumps and mid-branch fixes need no bullet. W7a pin: test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts:2038 no longer pins the old sentence; it checks the Cross-check step still compares against the step-2 commit list and scopes to user-facing changes (case-insensitive), without re-pinning the new sentence. expected red until the regeneration commit * plan-ceo-review, plan-eng-review: storage paths follow the state root (s04 F2, s04 F3) The CEO storage policy and the eng write policy named ~/.gstack/projects/ and ~/.gstack/analytics/, while the writers (tasks-section.ts, testing.ts, spec-review.ts) use $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT. When the state root is relocated the prose pointed at the wrong directory. W7a pin: test/plan-review-cases.test.ts:852 pinned the stale path; it now checks the discovery path is under $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT and that the hardcoded ~/.gstack/projects/{slug}/ is gone. expected red until the regeneration commit * plan-ceo-review: remove the handoff-note reader and cleanup for files nothing writes (s04 F6, s04 F7) CEO handoff notes (*-ceo-handoff-*.md) have not been written since v0.11.5.1; no template, resolver or bin script produces them. The reader cost a bash call on every CEO run, depended on $SLUG/$BRANCH from another shell, and looked under $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT where pre-state-root notes never lived. W7a pin: test/skill-ceo-section-ordering.test.ts:320 sliced up to the removed '## Handoff Note Cleanup' heading; it now slices to the next heading ('## Review Log') with the same assertions. Note: the ceo-mode-option / ceo-mode-prerequisite PTY cases fail under the image's Bun 1.3.14 with or without this change and pass under Bun 1.4.0. expected red until the regeneration commit * plan reviews: replace context-pressure triage with the full-completion rule (s04 F1; manual merge of s05 M2) plan-ceo-review, plan-design-review and plan-devex-review ranked sections 'under context pressure' ending in 'Everything else', which licensed dropping sections their own anti-skip rules require. plan-eng-review already replaced the same block with 'Complete every required stage ... do not preemptively warn'. All three now use that rule and name what may never be shortened (design: Step 0, Step 0.5 mockups unless the user opted out, Passes 1-7; devex: Step 0 with persona/empathy/benchmark/magical moment/TTHW, Passes 1-8). s04 F1 noted the same block in the s05 files; the design copy is a manual merge of s05 M2 (drops 'non-negotiable', which contradicted the user's explicit 'skip mockups' opt-out). No test pins the removed text. expected red until the regeneration commit * plan-ceo-review: shared-code guidance matches the eng review (s04 F4, s04 F5) 'DRY: flag repetition aggressively' and 'DRY violations. Be aggressive.' contradicted plan-eng-review's newer rule (require common behavior and improved reliability or net savings; similar-looking code alone is insufficient), so the two reviews gave the same plan opposite advice. Both CEO lines now follow the eng rule; Section 5 keeps the file:line citation. No test pins the removed text. expected red until the regeneration commit * plan reviews: normal-volume rules; eng sections report every finding (s04 F8, s04 F10, s04 F11) - F8: eng 'at most 8 findings' per section conflicted with 'never condense or skip' and left a 9th high-confidence finding nowhere to go; report every main-report finding, most severe first (confidence calibration still suppresses low-confidence ones). - F10: drop 'It is not optional.' (the anti-skip rule already covers Section 2). - F11: 'ALWAYS a smell' -> 'a smell'. No test pins the removed text. Two eng PTY cases fail under Bun 1.3.14 and pass under Bun 1.4.0 (CI pin). expected red until the regeneration commit * plan reviews: '## CRITICAL RULE — How to ask questions' -> '## How to ask questions' (s04 F9, s05 L3) The bodies are plain procedure; the caps label added nothing and competed with the CRITICAL GAP output label. Applied in plan-ceo-review, plan-design-review and plan-devex-review sections (s05 L3 promoted by the plan). W7a: test/devex-finding-fixture.test.ts:83-84 now finds the section by a heading regex ending in 'How to ask questions'; the skill-e2e-plan-ceo-plan-mode failure diagnosis names the new heading. Judge anchors NOT changed here (builder E moves them to structural anchors): skill-ceo-section-ordering.test.ts (old :938), workflow-excerpt.test.ts:109,296, skill-llm-eval.test.ts:638, workflow-judge-input.test.ts:366,373; the mirror in touchfiles.test.ts:219 also uses '## CRITICAL RULE'. These stay red until E's anchor commit lands. expected red until the regeneration commit * autoplan: phase drivers match the loaded review skills (s05 H1, s05 H2, s05 H3, s05 H4, s05 H5, s05 M5) - H1/H2: the skip list names the current headings ('Step 0: Detect platform and base branch', 'Design Outside Voices (independent)'); the old names never matched, risking a duplicate base-branch detection or outside-voice pass. - H3: the DX journey map is the 6-stage table from Step 0F, not 9 stages. - H4: the DX checklist names Step 0 'DX Investigation' and scores only after the evidence exists, as plan-devex-review requires. - H5 (manual merge): the eng test-plan artifact uses the eng skill's {user}-{branch}-eng-review-test-plan-{datetime}.md name under $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT/projects/$SLUG (consistent with s04 F3). - M5: the Decision Audit Trail separator has 7 columns to match its header. No test pins the removed text. Three autoplan PTY cases fail under Bun 1.3.14 and pass under Bun 1.4.0. expected red until the regeneration commit * plan-design-review: scope gate runs Step 0 before mockups (W5.4, s05 H6) The scope gate said 'audit → mockups → Step 0' while the body runs Step 0 (0A-0D) first and 0D announces 'I'll generate visual mockups next'. Per the W5.4 decision, the three gate phrases now read audit → Step 0 → Step 0.5 mockups. 'Reply with A, B, or C' is unchanged. W7a pins: - test/plan-scope-selection.test.ts:616 pinned the old order sentence; it now checks the order of the 'After resolution:' steps (preamble, base branch, audit, Step 0, mockups). Negative control: the old order turns it red. - test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts:4737 normalizer strips the design-only 'Then run the pre-review audit, ... against that plan.' sentence by pattern. expected red until the regeneration commit * plan-design-review: mockup default and retrospective at normal volume (s05 M1, s05 M3, s05 M4) - M1: 'YOUR PRIMARY TOOL' / 'The rule is simple ... Don't ask permission ... Mockups ARE the plan' -> generate mockups without asking when the plan has UI and the designer is available, with the reason; skip only under the Step 0.5 conditions (which include the user's opt-out). - M3: 'be MORE aggressive' on previously flagged areas -> check whether the earlier issue recurs or was only partly fixed and say so. - M4: drop the unverifiable 'Tier 2+ (15+ RPM)' rate-tier aside; keep the one-at-a-time rule and the /design-shotgun pointer. (s05 M2 landed with s04 F1.) No test pins the removed text; the remaining failing case is the plan-scope-selection PTY case that fails under Bun 1.3.14 and passes under Bun 1.4.0. expected red until the regeneration commit * plan-devex-review: DX TRIAGE keeps every pass and reports blockers only (W5.5, s05 H7) The Mode Quick Reference let TRIAGE skip the benchmark, the magical moment and passes 2/4-8, contradicting the anti-skip rule, the 0C target gate and the 'executed all 8 DX passes' self-check. Per the W5.5 decision the TRIAGE cells now read 'Target only' / 'Verify exists' / 'All 8, blockers only', matching the Rating Method's 'flag adoption blockers; skip nice-to-haves'. No test pins the removed cells. expected red until the regeneration commit * ship, review, land-and-deploy, landing-report: fix stale cross-references (s06 H1, s06 H2, s06 H3, s06 H4, s06 H5, s06 H8, s06 M6) - H1: TODOS-format cites /ship Step 14, not 5.5. - H2: the land readiness review is the checklist /ship applies in Step 9 (there is no Step 3.5). - H3: the Apple adapter names the no-credential-talk rule by location instead of 'line 14' (it renders at line 16). - H4: greptile triage diffs against origin/<base> from the caller's detected base, not origin/main. - H5: the land Important Rules recap matches the steps (4-minute CI rounds in Step 3; 30 seconds for merge readback and deploy status). - H8: landing-report calls the util once per bump level (four), and drops the unsupported 'cached by bun' claim. - M6: landing-report says what its base detection does instead of claiming it matches other skills. No test pins the removed text. expected red until the regeneration commit * fix(land-and-deploy): readiness gate uses the project's test command and the live eval store (s06 H6, s06 H7) - H6 (manual merge): TEST_COMMAND comes from CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md; if neither documents one, ask the user instead of defaulting to 'bun test' (wrong for non-Bun projects and a bare suite run in gstack). The audit hunk's 'persist the answer to CLAUDE.md' write is not adopted: it adds a write the readiness gate never had. - H7: E2E and judge results are searched in the eval store the collector writes (~/.gstack/projects/<slug>/evals/ and its shards/*/ directories), then the legacy ~/.gstack-dev/evals/ fallback; the gate no longer reports 'no E2E tests run today' when results exist. test/state-root-ratchet.allowlist.json: allowlist the EVAL_DIR line with its reason (test/helpers/eval-store.ts writes under os.homedir()/.gstack, so the reader must use the same path, not $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT). Parity cap (test/helpers/carve-guards.ts): land-and-deploy maxSizeRatio 1.10 -> 1.108 (measured 1.1076 at the branch tip, including the W7f marker). expected red until the regeneration commit * ship: Step 9 Pass 1 defers to the checklist's critical categories (W5.3, s06 H9) /ship restated the checklist's Pass 1 as two of its five CRITICAL categories (missing Race Conditions, Shell Injection, Enum Completeness). Per the W5.3 decision it now names 'the checklist's Pass 1 categories', matching /review. No test pins the removed text. expected red until the regeneration commit * land-and-deploy: host-neutral post-merge branch example (s06 M5) The squash-merge cleanup example created 'codex/post-merge-pr-N' branches on every host. The example is now 'post-merge/pr-N', naming Codex Desktop's codex/ prefix as the host-specific case and keeping the detached-HEAD reason and the no-force-push rule. No test pins the removed text. expected red until the regeneration commit * ship: drop issue/incident IDs and the 'continue silently' suppressor (s06 M2, s06 M3, s06 M4, s06 M7) - M2/M3: '(#1946)' and '(#1079)' removed from the credential guard and REST fallback headings; the rules are unchanged. - M4: the audit-failure fallback states the reason (a skipped audit lets unverified plan items ship as done) instead of 'the failure shape that VAS-449 surfaced'. - M7: 'Continue silently — just note the counts briefly' -> report the pass counts in one line and continue to Step 6 (Step 16 cites these counts). Not changed: s06 M1, the Step 16 IRON LAW (UC2 gate keeps its wording). W7a pin: test/ship-plan-completion-invariants.test.ts:127 pinned the VAS-449 sentence; it now checks that the audit-failure fallback still forbids a silent fail-open (case-insensitive). Negative control: deleting that sentence turns it red. expected red until the regeneration commit * test: anchor plan-design excerpts on the question-procedure heading, not '## CRITICAL RULE' (W7a judge-anchor move; workflow-excerpt.test.ts:109,296) The end marker now accepts a RegExp. ASK_QUESTIONS_HEADING matches the heading with or without its 'CRITICAL RULE — ' prefix, so the excerpt is byte-identical on the current templates and survives the s04 F9 / s05 L3 rename. * test: plan-design judge-input case anchors on the question-procedure heading (W7a judge-anchor move; workflow-judge-input.test.ts:366,373) * test: plan-design workflow judge ends its slice at the question-procedure heading (W7a judge-anchor move; skill-llm-eval.test.ts:638) Judge input is byte-identical on the current templates; judge prompts and schemas are unchanged. * test: CEO governing-stage order anchors on the question-procedure heading (W7a judge-anchor move; skill-ceo-section-ordering.test.ts:938) * test: dedicated-tools overlay gates on correct output plus 20% fewer Bash calls (Eng W7 overlay predicate; replaces overlay-nudges.ts:213 taskCorrect) Every ON trial must pass the fixture's verify (already a valid-measurement requirement) and lowerIsBetter20Pct must hold; when the OFF median is 0, every ON trial must also be 0. assessOverlayArms enforces both through a new fixture.gate. Overlay contract bumps to v3 so v2 records are never reinterpreted. overlay-measurement gains rows for correct+worse (fails), 20%+incorrect (fails) and the zero baseline (passes only at 0). The prose comment follows the s01 M1 claude.md wording. * test: document-release E2E stops coaching the rules it measures (W7b; UC2 gate eval for NEVER CLOBBER / NEVER BUMP) Drops the IMPORTANT block at skill-e2e-workflow.test.ts:76-83, including 'auto-approve everything' and the CHANGELOG/VERSION instructions; keeps only the environment facts (non-interactive, no remote). Asserts the outcome: the original CHANGELOG entries remain, VERSION still reads 1.1.1, no commit after the fixture head touches VERSION, and README mentions Feature C. * test: routing E2E uses the routing instruction gstack ships (W7b routing fixture; skill-routing-e2e.test.ts:113) readShippedSkillRouting() parses the '## Skill routing' section from the routing-injection heredoc in bin/gstack-skill-start at test time. The journey fixture now carries that instruction instead of 'ALWAYS invoke … FIRST action. Do NOT answer directly', and still withholds the per-skill rule list so a regressed description can fail. bin/gstack-skill-start and the helper join the journey, context-skills and skillify touchfiles. A free check catches heredoc drift. Runs on unchanged templates set the new baseline. * test: context-skills E2E routes with the shipped ## Skill routing section (W7b routing fixture) Replaces the shouted 'ALWAYS invoke it … FIRST action' fixture and its hand-written context-save/restore rules with the section gstack appends to CLAUDE.md, which already routes save/resume to those skills. * test: skillify E2E stops scripting the skill and routes with the shipped section (W7b skillify prompt + routing fixture; W7d skillify narration ban) - CLAUDE.md fixture: the shipped ## Skill routing section replaces 'ALWAYS invoke it via the Skill tool as your FIRST action' and its hand-written rules. - scrape-match-path: prompt is 'Run /scrape latest hacker news stories'; the 'You MUST follow … 1. Run skill list … Do NOT enter the prototype phase' script is gone. Asserts the outcome: the bundled skill ran, no goto prototyping, no new skill or skillify staging written. Listing is logged. - scrape-prototype-path: drops the five-step script and the self-fulfilling 'Suggest /skillify'; keeps the user's JSON shape request. - skillify-provenance-refusal: prompt no longer dictates the refusal. - Narration grader moves to helpers/skill-body-narration.ts: line-start 'I '/'I'll '/'Let me ' plus mid-sentence 'let me <verb>', so 'let me know' is legal. Stored known-good/known-bad bodies show it still rejects every known-bad case the old /Let me /i ban caught. * test: land-and-deploy E2Es state environment facts instead of scripting the skill (W7b deploy prompts) The workflow, first-run and review-gate prompts drop the 'IMPORTANT … simulate: 1. Detect … 2. Infer … 3. Note …' scripts and the answers they supplied (platform, app, URL, merge method, 'Eng Review should be NOT RUN'). They keep the facts the fixture cannot provide (no remote, no PR, gh/fly unavailable, gstack-review-read output, report directory). Assertions now check the outcome: the artifacts name Fly and test-app, and the readiness report records the missing review. Canary, benchmark and setup-deploy prompts are unchanged. * test: ship triage asserts each failure's in-branch/pre-existing label (W7b ship triage) The old check passed if the words 'in-branch', 'pre-existing', 'math' and 'string' appeared anywhere in the final message, in any pairing. The prompt now asks for a closing JSON map; helpers/ship-triage-labels.ts reads it (or unambiguous per-failure lines) and the test requires truncate/string -> in-branch and divide/math -> pre-existing, plus a Bash call that ran the suite. Stored outputs show swapped, words-only and one-label runs fail. Drops the untyped recordE2E extras (typecheck baseline shrinks by one). * test: design-review-fix asserts a fixed design issue, not only the Aside ritual (W7b design-review-fix) Keeps the engine-routing checks (Aside driven, retired binary unused) and adds the outcome: design-audit.md exists, names a seeded defect, and index.html or style.css differs from the initial fixture commit. The style(design) commit prefix is not required. This case still cannot gate the design-review stop-condition rewrite (it self-skips without Aside and caps fixes in its prompt), per the Eng item. * test: CEO HOLD preservation grader checks the decision, not its phrasing (W7d CEO mode-routing regex judge, ceo-mode-option.ts:410-440) Drops the exact 'Keep <x> in scope' / 'Defer <x> to TODOS' labels, the 'D<n> — Keep … in scope, or defer' title, the '<plan>.md lists' phrase and the 2-of-5 keyword quota. Keeps the evidence bindings (native answer, session, timestamps, source read, mode context, later withdrawal) and now requires: one keep option and one defer option, the answer selects keep, a word of the kept label names a listed plan requirement, no expansion language, and an ELI10 + Stakes rationale of at least 20 words (so a bare mode label still fails). Stored captures: both retained known-good runs pass; every existing known-bad mutation still fails; four rewordings the old grader rejected now pass; three new known-bad cases fail. The Net/Note single-brief checks (t02 #3) are unchanged: the 'second sentence after Net' row adds scope ('Also add shared views'), so it stays a known-bad. * test: docsync observer accepts harmless read wrappers (W7d docsync observer) docsCommandAllowed now unwraps, on read-only commands only (pwd, ls, cat, stat, sha256sum, Git reads): a leading 'cd <fixture repo> &&', '2>/dev/null', a trailing '|| true', '--no-pager', '-C <fixture repo>' and '-c' with core.pager=cat / core.quotepath / color.* settings. Lifecycle and script calls stay literal so their failures cannot be suppressed. Writes, other repos, --git-dir/--work-tree, config that can execute code, real composition and redirects stay rejected. Stored commands (fixtures/docsync-observer-commands.json): 11 known-good read forms, which the old observer rejected, now pass; all 17 known-bad forms still fail under the new and old observers. docsync-command-grammar moves its three harmless rows to an accept test and keeps unsafe variants of them as rejects. * test: AUQ matrix fails only on the format fields software reads (W7d AUQ matrix emoji check) auqMachineFormatProblems() fails a first-question run when the Recommendation: line is missing or empty, or when the brief does not label exactly one option (recommended); recommendation substance >= 4 is unchanged. ELI10, Pros / cons, ✅/❌ and Net: are still scored and logged but no longer fail a paid case. scoreAuqFormat and the consistency suite are unchanged. Stored briefs: three known-good (including one without emoji or Net) pass; four known-bad (no or empty Recommendation, zero or two (recommended)) fail. * test: coverage audit grades a closing tested/untested summary before the diagram grammar (W7d coverage-audit-evidence) The diagram grammar grew through four waves of capture patches to accept correct-but-different diagrams. The E2E prompt now asks for one closing JSON line {"tested": [...], "untested": [...]}; coverageAuditVerdict passes the outcome when processPayment is only in tested and refundPayment only in untested (last summary wins; quoted or example summaries ignored). The legacy grammar stays as a fallback, so every stored capture keeps its verdict (all existing rows unchanged). Read evidence and capture success are still required. Stored summaries: three known-good (which the old grader rejected) pass; seven known-bad fail. * test: disabled outside-plan grader reads the run's own coverage self-report (W7d disabled-plan-review-evidence) The false-completion oracle kept being patched to tell historical review-log mentions from current claims. The E2E prompt now asks for a closing JSON line {"outside_review_this_run": ...}. When present, the coverage claim is that report ('completed' fails) plus any undenied 'both reviewers agree'; 'disabled' also satisfies attribution. Runs without it keep the existing prose oracle, so all stored captures and mutation rows keep their verdicts. Dispatch, CLI execution, preflight and persisted-disabled checks are unchanged. Stored outputs: three known-good pass (the old grader rejected the table form); four known-bad fail. * test: investigate boundary grader checks the verified fix, not one Edit and one verify (W7d investigate exactly-one ritual) Completion now needs at least one allowed Edit, the correction in place, at least one verifier run whose final status is 0, and no edit after the final verification. The ending-error case still requires a single verifier run (status 69), because that fixture's error tells the actor to stop without retrying. Ownership acquisition/release checks are unchanged. New free protocol controls: a passing re-verification passes (the old grader failed it); a failing final re-verification and a retry after the ending error both fail, as they did before. * test: CEO split-overflow call floor is two, the minimum for five options at four per call (W7d split-overflow 4-call floor) The regression is a candidate silently dropped to fit the four-option cap. The scope validator already requires an offered Include/Defer/Cut disposition for all five candidates; the extra N-1 call floor failed agents that batch compatible candidates, which the test header calls legitimate. FLOOR now comes from CEO_SPLIT_CALL_FLOOR = 2. Stored shapes (ceo-split-floor.test.ts): five sequential, 2-call and 3-call batches pass; a dropped candidate fails with 'missing target decisions'. The registration controls keep their verdicts; the 3-call plan_ready scenario still fails, now on missing decisions. * test: shared-libs PR coverage checks the stated page budget, not per-PR ceilings from one run (W7d shared-libs per-endpoint page caps) prCoverageRequestViolations keeps the skill's stated older-open-PR budget (five metadata pages, fifty file-list pages plus recent PR 7) and the coverage outcome (PR 42's file list read from page 1 through page 2). It drops the PR 42 three/four-page and single-first-page ceilings, which were tuned to one observed capture with a truncated first view. The judge criteria are unchanged. Stored endpoint lists: three known-good (including a re-read first page the old ceilings rejected) pass; four known-bad plus an over-budget file-list run fail. incompleteFirstFileView is no longer used by the paid case. * test: test-value review accepts any caller search, not only the literal 'git grep' (W7d literal git grep in test-value) recordsNonTestCallerSearch keeps the value-card contract (non_test_callers recorded) and accepts git grep, rg, grep or the Grep tool as the search. Severity checks and the golden exclusion are unchanged. Stored evidence: four known-good (three the old check rejected) pass; three known-bad (no search, no caller count, prose only) fail. * test: plan-format accepts any statement that kind-differentiated options are not comparable on coverage (W7d 'options differ in kind' phrase) The outcome, no fabricated Completeness: N/10, stays asserted. The required note now matches any brief wording of the same fact (KIND_NOTE_RE in helpers/plan-format-kind-note.ts). The format-compliance suite that pins the declared kind-note string is unchanged. Stored lines: four known-good pass, three known-bad (a completeness score, a recommendation, 'kind to the user') fail. * test: plan-mode smokes check the targeted plan, not the scope-gate announcement, and reject plan-file ## Decisions (W7d exact scope-gate line; W7g plan-mode ## Decisions) - Seeded eng/design plan-mode cases keep 'no scope menu' and replace the exact 'Scope gate: plan mode — auto-selected B' requirement with seededPlanTargeted(): the announcement or native seeded-plan selection, or seed-only plan names appearing in the review output after the slash command (trackTokens). The announcement is logged. - The AskUserQuestion format forbids writing a decision to the plan file as a substitute for asking. assertNoPlanFileDecisions() fails any plan_ready run whose plan carries ## Decisions (eng, design, devex, office-hours auto-mode). The AUQ-blocked cases (eng seeded, devex, office-hours) now require outcome 'asked' (AskUserQuestion variant or prose fallback). - plan-mode-evidence registration controls keep their verdicts; the missing-decisions control now fails on 'without a question'. - plan-mode-targeting.test.ts stores known-good (announcement; paraphrase plus seed content) and known-bad (neither; an untracked token) observations and plan files with and without ## Decisions. * test: plan-design judge selection check anchors on the question-procedure heading (W7a judge-anchor move; touchfiles.test.ts:219) Same structural anchor as the other judge-anchor moves; selects the same text on the current templates and after the '## How to ask questions' rename. * test: CEO plan-mode failure message names the current rule, not the '## CRITICAL RULE' heading (t13 F20) * test: browse reference judge gates on its stated floors; the baseline comparison is recorded, not a ratchet (W7d browse judge baseline ratchet; t08 F7) expect(regressions).toEqual([]) compared a noisy three-sample mean against eval-baselines.json (clarity 4), silently raising the stated clarity floor of 3. The comparison stays in judge_reasoning; pass and assertions use BROWSE_JUDGE_FLOORS (clarity 3, completeness 4, actionability 4). Judge prompt and schema are unchanged. Stored panel means: three known-good (two the ratchet rejected) pass; three below-floor panels fail. * test: eval-kinds drops the exact 22 behavior / 25 judge census (W7d exact count in eval-kinds; t12 F6) The kind contract is already asserted: every live case has one kind, kinds are rule/behavior/judge, every LLM judge is judge-kind, every behavior case has a literal registration and a BEHAVIOR_WHY, and the named contract-shaped cases stay rule. The census count only broke on adding or retiring a case. * test: plan-eng artifact case binds to the hermetic state root and requires the artifact; report case drops its shouted requirement (W7g plan-artifact fixture binding; W7g skill-e2e-plan.test.ts:479,720) - plan-eng-review-artifact: actor, observer and cleanup use one isolated GSTACK_HOME (the hermetic run's, or a seeded temporary one when hermetic mode is off) and the slug gstack-slug resolves for the fixture, instead of os.homedir()/.gstack/projects/test-project. A guard refuses a state root under the real home, and cleanup removes only the fixture's project directory. The 'IMPORTANT … you MUST write the test-plan artifact' line is replaced by the environment fact (state root and slug). The soft warning becomes an assertion: exactly one new *eng-review-test-plan-*.md about the reviewed dashboard change. - plan-review-report: removes 'CRITICAL REQUIREMENT … MOST IMPORTANT deliverable' and the restated report contract; keeps 'plan.md is the plan file'. The existing assertions (report present, last, rows, unresolved status) now measure the skill's own report prose. * test: session-runner-tools checks harness prompt properties, not a byte-for-byte copy (W7e session-runner-tools.test.ts:544; t09 F7, F8) The ship capture prompt test asserts its purpose (no CEO-only writing guidance) plus the functional rules: one allowed skill path, AskUserQuestion unavailable, the section Read rule, no git/gh/mutation, and the REPORT.md path. The two 'MUST actually Read' pins match the Read rule case-insensitively. Negative control: dropping the no-mutation rule from the harness prompt turns the test red. * test: section-capture native tools checks harness prompt properties, not a copied golden (W7e section-capture-native-tools.test.ts:467; t04 F4) Asserts the absolute skill path is the only SKILL.md named, the scenario, AskUserQuestion unavailable, the section Read rule (case-insensitive, also at :308), no git/gh/mutation, and the REPORT.md path. argv/tool-list checks are unchanged. Negative control: dropping the no-mutation rule turns it red. * test: office-hours review-preservation judge test keeps its schema and untrusted-data checks, not its wording (W7e office-hours-completion.test.ts:416-429; t09 F10) Drops 13 phrase pins on the judge prompt. Kept: both inputs carried as JSON, the response schema (wire format), and the separate untrusted-DATA test. The validator behavior tests already use stub judges. Negative control: changing the schema string in the prompt builder turns the test red. * test: docsync lifecycle interface drops pins on its own helper prompt (W7e docsync-lifecycle-interface.test.ts; t02 #17) docsNativeInterface is the test helper's own prompt, so its sentence pins only checked that the helper says what it says. Kept: owned skill path, the two extracted lifecycle commands (exact), the scripts-list interpolation, the repo path and Git read examples, and every docsCommandAllowed / docsToolFailures behavior check that enforces the interface. * test: shared-libs revalidation prompt keeps its machine-shaped checks, not ~69 phrase pins (W7e shared-libs-revalidation-prompt; t11 #3, #8; t05 F17) reviewRevalidationPrompt and reviewPrompt are test-owned harness prompts (non-test callers: 0); the paid shared-libs E2Es measure whether they work. Kept: the three exact receipt commands, base-prompt prefix and resumed suffix identity, branch selection (actor / default / resumed coverage), the state path and turn-budget interpolations, read-record-before-diff and first-response-before-start ordering, no embedded token, no supplied Skip answer, reusable:true before reusable:false, the captured R59 stage boundaries in the exclusion list, asset roots and interfaces, and the stale step-6 reference ban. The review template's Step 4.7/4.8 completion rule is matched by step number on one line, not by sentence. Negative control: reordering the diff-read instruction turns the test red. * test: plan-design SDK fixture pins its harness prompt once, by ordered properties (W7e plan-design-sdk-fixture.test.ts:91-120; t01 F13) The prompt was pinned three ways (sha256, ~20 sentences, an order check). Kept: the skill and lazy-section paths, the plan path, the ordered read -> review -> edit -> Write -> read-back -> summary steps, and the no-browsing rule (case-insensitive). Dropped the hash and sentence pins. Negative control: removing the read-back step turns it red. * docs: overlay benchmark contract v3 (dedicated-tools gate = correct output + 20% fewer Bash) * test: dedicated-tools overlay case pinned to claude-opus-5-5 (E2) * chore: regenerate SKILL.md, goldens and context-budget fixture for the Opus 5.5 prompt cleanup * document-release: CHANGELOG-preservation and VERSION-ask rules at normal volume (s10 M4, M5; UC2, eval-gated) * chore: regenerate document-release * Revert "test: dedicated-tools overlay case pinned to claude-opus-5-5 (E2)" This reverts commit 737bf478d9. * test: memory-pipeline E2E seeds transcript consent (W4 consent-first default) * test: plan-review-report free check follows the de-coached prompt (W7g) * test(W7h): drop issue-number pins in land-and-deploy-postfail, match guards case-insensitively W7h (t09 F12, F13). One test file. Removed assertion groups: - `cli/cli#3442` / `cli/cli#13380` pins (t09 F12). Invariant: none of its own (upstream archaeology; the IDs stay in the template, only the pin goes). The behavior they decorated, "after any non-zero `gh pr merge` exit, query authoritative state before retrying", is now a kept free meaning check. - `Universal invariant` label pin. Invariant: query-before-retry. Remaining protection: the new case-insensitive check `/non-zero exit from `gh pr merge`, query authoritative PR state before retrying/i` (stronger: the mutation that inverts the rule now goes red; the old test stayed green). Loosened to case-insensitive meaning checks (kept, W7 keep list, data-loss and destructive-op guards): STOP worktree cleanup without removing, no `--force`, primary working tree never removed, CLOSED -> stop, never replay a merge after MERGED, one direct fallback, no fallback from a direct attempt, the OPEN/no-auto/no-queue fallback precondition, branch-absent vs check-failed messages. Gate-tier E2E also covering the flow: land-and-deploy-workflow (gate), judge `land-and-deploy/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane). Cosmetic pins dropped (no control needed): capitals on STOP / Do NOT. Mutation log: .context/mutation-land-and-deploy-postfail.md (12 mutations, 0 unexpected: reorder, field delete and 7 safety deletes red; 3 rewordings green). * test(W7c): ship-apple-gate matches its gates on meaning, not capitals W7c (t06 #19). One test file. Removed assertion groups: - "A genuine blocker may require a safety or named documentation-risk decision" and "routine interactions and blocking decisions above" sentence pins. Invariant: routine release authorization never waives a blocking safety/docs decision. Remaining protection: kept free meaning check `/stop for that decision rather than treating release authorization as a waiver/i` plus `/named documentation-risk exception before distribution/i`. - Full-sentence "in `read-only` mode against the selected release source". Invariant: the docs preflight is read-only. Remaining protection: kept free check on "`read-only` mode". Loosened (case-insensitive, kept): apply-only-to-repository-landing scope line, CLASSIFY-before-credentials (credential boundary), never abort a store release over branch topology (demonstrated failure), two routine interactions (numeric limit), stop-for-decision (consent/stop line). Kept unchanged: manifest trigger routing, Apple read before the branch gate, byte-exact branch gate appearing once, docs preflight before the authorization moment, fastlane/iris/appPriceSchedules command anchors, stale-wording bans. No gate-tier E2E covers the Apple adapter, so every invariant keeps a free check here. Cosmetic pins dropped: capitals on ONLY / CLASSIFY / STOP. Mutation log: .context/mutation-ship-apple-gate.md (14 mutations, 0 unexpected: 2 reorders, 1 marker and 6 safety mutations red; 5 rewordings green). * test(W7c): ship-reentry-gates keeps stop/consent meaning, drops sentence pins W7c (t08 F3). One test file. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - "Retain queued fixes and restore coverage" -> a missing reviewer keeps queued fixes: gate E2E ship-skipped-queued-finding (gate) and judge `ship/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane); the stop itself stays a free check. - qa decline print line ("Test bootstrap previously declined — skipping.") -> qa skips bootstrap after a saved decline: kept free meaning check `/BOOTSTRAP_DECLINED ... skip the rest of bootstrap/i`. - "with the user's free-text evidence" -> UNVERIFIABLE items are confirmed one by one: kept free `/per-item confirmation/i` here plus the blanket-confirm check in ship-plan-completion-invariants. - Docs reentry sentences ("On reentry, reuse only ...", its duplicate, "base/ input hashes still match", "retain its actual status and scope", "Otherwise use Blocked recovery ...") -> reentry reuses only this invocation's validated evidence: kept free checks "never reuse an audit across invocations" and "reentry never resets the count or authorizes a launch"; gate E2Es ship-docsync-stale-before, ship-docsync-stale-after, ship-docsync-recovery, ship-docsync-late-result (all gate). - "left uncommitted after Step 15" -> late commits take only remaining changes: kept free "never create an empty commit" and "preserve unrelated user files"; gate E2E ship-local-workflow (gate). Loosened to case-insensitive meaning checks (stop/consent/approval lines, always kept): STOP blocks advancement, answer each AskUserQuestion, routine authorization never waives gates, dispatched-reviewer-missing -> stop, CYCLES >= 3 -> stop, Any N -> stop as NOT DONE, resume only after verified, no second deferral, per-item confirmation, explicit Add-tests choice overrides the decline for this invocation only, framework approval, first entry launches the audit, no third attempt, unwaivable redaction/security gates. Kept unchanged: bootstrap branch order, no `rm` in the decline branch, the Step 14 -> 14.5 routing line, stale-string bans, `NEW_TITLE` field and `--title "$NEW_TITLE"`. Cosmetic pins dropped: STOP capitals, "mandatory". Mutation log: .context/mutation-ship-reentry-gates.md (17 mutations, 0 unexpected: 1 reorder, 2 marker and 9 safety mutations red; 5 rewordings green). * test(W7c): shrink ceo-workflow-clarity to structural and meaning checks W7c conversion (t05 F5-F8). Pin lines 48 -> 29 (toContain|toMatch|indexOf|includes|ordered); sentence pins collapse to one case-insensitive meaning check per invariant. Per the Eng "Retirements" item, CEO invariants count as periodic-only once plan-ceo-review-benefits retires, so every invariant below keeps a free check. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - Required/Pending/Settled status sentences (4 pins): pending work stays unapproved; only exact authority settles a choice -> kept free: label order plus /Pending: unapproved/i and /Settled: ... a recommendation does not/i. - Admin-route sentences (Skip steps 1-4, 0E/0H ownership, admin answer that requests a plan change, 0G proposals use this route, mode-change pointer): admin menus approve nothing and return locally -> kept free: Admin < Plan decision < steps 1-4 < checkpoints order, /this approves no plan changes/i, /0D returns to its caller, not to mode selection/i. - not.toContain('0D never restarts mode selection') and not.toContain('using the Step 0E mode-handoff format') (t05 F8, bans of retired phrasings): same invariants -> kept free: the positive route checks. - '**STOP for the actual answer, even for a lone option.**' exact bold pin: wait for the answer before recording -> kept free: /stop for the actual answer/i, located between step 4 and the post-answer checkpoint. - Mode-change sentences (repeat handoff record, complete newly applicable Step 0 work, resume the paused step): a mode change waits for an answer -> kept free: /pause and ask ... keep the mode until answered/i and /selecting a mode does not approve changes/i; routing table rows kept exact. - Scope-count sentences: reuse counts against limits, mode recommendation excludes unchanged reuse, neither approves -> kept free: three short case-insensitive meaning checks plus the >15 / 8-file / 2-class numbers and the route order. - Completion-fraction sentences (select answered questions, exclude unscored, Y/X definitions): fraction definition -> kept free: 10/7/3 scale, reopened choice counted once, 'Report X/Y, or `N/A` when Y is zero' (output field). - Section-gate sentences ('0D's Plan decision route through its post-answer save', 'Resolve critical risks now') and the literal Decision gate count 11 (t05 F7): one gate per section -> kept free: path order, /no path selects the mode again/i, gate count derived from '### Section N:' headings. - Section 1 opening sentences (retain mode/rationale, governing row ID): Section 1 publishes current dispositions, not a mode handoff -> kept free: **Current scope** present, the four disposition names, /not another mode handoff; do not ask or log the mode again/i. Gate-tier judge that also grades this prose: 'plan-ceo-review/SKILL.md modes'. Mutation pass (scratch worktree, generated plan-ceo-review skill): 16/16 as expected; 11 kept-step/marker/safety/numeric mutations go red, 5 rewordings of dropped sentences (and a lowered-register STOP line) stay green. Log: .context/mutation-ceo-workflow-clarity.md. * test(W7c): shrink eng-review-routing to structural and meaning checks W7c conversion (t02 #4-#10, W7a s04 F15 pin). Pin lines 88 -> 74 (toContain|toMatch|indexOf|includes|ordered); ~50 full-sentence pins become order checks, field/marker checks and short case-insensitive meaning checks. Remaining gate-tier judge for the plan-eng prose: 'plan-eng-review/SKILL.md sections' (judge input is ENG_REVIEW_EXCERPT, which the first test proves contains review-sections and Recovery routing). Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - Preparation sentences ('Follow the blocks below in order after startup', 'Confidence Calibration and Decision procedure are reference rules'): blocks run in order -> kept free: heading order check now starts at '## Review preparation'; judge 'plan-eng-review/SKILL.md sections'. - Priority/compression sentences ('Shorten only optional commentary', 'never Scope Challenge, Sections 1-4...', 'Never condense, abbreviate or skip a section'): compression cannot drop required stages -> kept free: /complete every required stage, decision gate and output/i and the 'Everything else' stale ban; judge. - Exact seven-label toEqual on Scope Challenge assessments (t02 #8): all seven checks present -> kept free: arrayContaining on the same labels plus the A/B/C heading toEqual (excerpt anchors). - 'Complete these checks before the complexity decision in B': A runs before B -> kept free: heading order A < B < C. - Below-threshold / findings sentences (numbered step full sentences): C always runs, findings approve nothing -> kept free: step-number order, /fewer than 8 files AND fewer than 2 new classes/i, /run C whether B was completed or skipped/i, /approve no remedies/i, '"No issues found"'. - '... STOP before Section 1' exact caps (t02 #4): high complexity halts -> kept free: /at 8\+ files or 2\+ new classes\/services, stop before section 1/i. - High-complexity sentences ('With no proposed cuts...', 'Both retain the same approved feature list...', 'Initial scope selectors need no grid...'): cuts and structure asked separately -> kept free: step order with short anchors, 'Pending remedies not decided here: <ids>' field; judge. - Smaller-arrangement sentences ('offer confirmation of the original arrangement or a pause', 'then return to this structure selector'): a pause authorizes no cut -> kept free: order + /do not continue to C until it is settled/i + /investigate only the agreed question/i. - Selector summary sentences ('post-answer scope summary, not a remedy's pending ledger record', 'Do not invent a pre-answer record afterward', 'Scope Challenge B also uses its own selectors'): answers saved before applying -> kept free: field template order, /a failed save or read blocks advancement/i, '**not persisted**', /these selections approve no engineering remedy/i. - Decision-procedure Read-choreography anchors ('use Read to fetch the entire saved record', 'Read the entire resolution block, including State') and the bold '**STOP until the actual answer arrives.**' anchor (t02 #5/#6, s04 F18): ask once, wait, record before the next choice -> kept free: Compare < Pending-record checkpoint < Send once < AskUserQuestion call < Record < next choice, /stop until the actual answer arrives/i located between Send and Record, /do not apply a remedy ... while the choice awaits an answer/i, /approves no implementation/i; AUQ completeness and kind-note strings kept exact (plan-tune reads them). - 'An Investigate/Defer option must bound the investigation', 'Apply the preamble's Completeness scores or kind-note accordingly': judge only (gate). - Research/outside-voice sentences ('If Aside is unavailable, use host WebSearch', 'Record the actual coverage...'): unavailable research is recorded, not hidden -> kept free: exact 'Search unavailable' output string, 'Outside voice: recorded provider, completed / unavailable / disabled / skipped (reason)' field, /only completed reviews enter cross-model tension/i, TODO < Approval readiness < Required outputs order. - Recovery sentences: kept as /i meaning checks (ExitPlanMode/telemetry wait, do not resend, stop before dependent output, no chat-only success, skip forbidden writes); 'If no recovery is specified or it fails' full sentence -> kept free: 'follow **Blocked outcome**' routing; OUTCOME=error kept. - Late-change sentences ('Refresh affected tests, tasks, dependencies and parallelization', 'Unchanged saved outputs may reuse their successful Review Log'): rerun affected outputs before navigation -> kept free: order of return/Decision procedure/Approval readiness/Required outputs/navigation and the stale-evidence Blocked outcome route; judge. - Final sequence anchor 'Run Learning hooks, including gated Brain Calibration Write-Back; then return to the entrypoint's Section self-check' -> kept free: 'Section self-check' as the last ordered anchor. - Coverage-audit sentences ('For each existing or proposed component in the selected target', 'the selected target. For each existing or proposed feature', 'dedicated tool call before drawing the diagram' (s06 L9 choreography)): plan diagrams cover proposed paths, ship covers changed code -> kept free: /existing or proposed (component|function\/method)/, /future paths remain proposals/i, the four 'Every ...' obligations, /no skipping regression coverage/i, ship has no 'existing or proposed'; gate E2E plan-eng-coverage-audit. - Brain write-back ordered prose list ('reserved default-off gate', 'this runtime does not set it', 'not an instruction to write now', t02 #9 / W7a s04 F15): no gbrain write without the default-off gate and trust policy -> kept free: 'Skip unless `BRAIN_CALIBRATION_WRITEBACK` is set' precedes both write tools, eng prefix says /skip this section/i and /do not enable it or infer permission/i, trust-policy key, /if unknown, skip/i, no env interpolation, other skills carry no eng-only skip prefix. Mutation pass (scratch worktree; plan-eng-review templates and scripts/resolvers/gbrain.ts): 21/21 as expected; 14 reorder/marker/stop/ approval/consent/numeric mutations go red, 7 rewordings of dropped sentences and lowered-register STOP lines stay green. Log: .context/mutation-eng-review-routing.md. * test: fold the harness-freeze fixture tests into the tests that own their helpers (test-of-test ratchet) Seven new files imported only test code; their stored known-good/known-bad rows move unchanged into the owning tests: - auq-matrix-format-gate -> auq-native-capture.test.ts - browse-judge-floors -> workflow-judge-cache.test.ts - ceo-split-floor -> plan-review-cases.test.ts (one block appended at the end) - plan-mode-targeting -> plan-mode-evidence.test.ts - shared-libs-pr-coverage-budget -> shared-libs-fixture.test.ts - skill-body-narration -> skill-fixture.test.ts - test-value-seam-evidence -> test-value-bar.test.ts plan-format-kind-note and ship-triage-labels have no other owner, so each now checks its grader against the production source it grades: the kind note generateAskUserFormat prescribes, and the in-branch / pre-existing labels in ship/sections/tests.md.tmpl. No BASELINE entries added. * test(W7c): ship-plan-completion-invariants keeps tokens and gates, drops prose W7c (t06 #9, #10, #11; #7/#8 already landed with W7a). One test file. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - Execution-only extraction sentences ("implementation and test-creation requirements", "retain its command, expected outcome and source verbatim", "not EXTERNAL-STATE merely because ...", "Keep genuine external-state ...") -> execution-only checks route to Step 8.1/9 outside counts and are never DONE statically: kept free checks `Step 8.1/9`, outside implementation counts, `never DONE from static inspection`, do-not-waive; gate E2E ship-exploratory-plan-checks (gate). - Plan-verification prep sentences (~17: "Clarify unknown outcomes", browser vs functional items, "An API URL is not automatically a page", "Only browser evidence needs screenshots", smoke-budget and command-limit sentences, risk acceptance wording) -> plan checks are collected now, executed by the Step 9.2.1 owner before Fix-First, and never silently waived: kept free checks on the heading list, `Collect now; execute in Step 9`, `Step 8.2`, `Handoff to Step 9.2.1` order, `before Fix-First`, never silently waive, noninteractive -> blocked, the `VERIFY_RESULT=` line and `## Verification Results`; gate E2Es ship-exploratory-plan-checks, ship-exploratory-small-cli (gate). - Parent-processing duplicates on the generated section (same pins as the template test) -> kept on the template test; the generated copy keeps section order + seven-field anchor; freshness via gen-skill-docs. - "Check the task's terminal status", "recording the reason in the PR body and Step 20 metrics" -> failed audits use the fallback: kept free LAST-line JSON -> audit-failure fallback check and `(recommended/default)` marker. - Step 16 evidence sentences ("Independently prove ...", "exact command, exit, timestamp and log", "This recovery also applies ... stage 5") -> storage failure is not stale input: kept free table-row structure, storage column must not rerun `gstack-evidence run`, STALE/MISSING without proof, ledger unavailable never FRESH; judge `ship/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane). - "Each commit must work independently" -> bisectable commits: kept `bisectable commits`, `continue to Step 16`, no empty commit, history- rewrite bans; judge `ship/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane). Loosened to case-insensitive meaning checks (kept): per-item confirmation, blanket-confirm ban, classified DONE/NOT DONE by `[ -f` (MUST dropped), stop publication on new/changed/unwaived test failure + `Run Steps 5–15`, waiver reuse limited to verified pre-existing failures, fetch/push failure -> stop, never rewrite history, only a successful push, stop live child before inline audit, never race a late result, AskUserQuestion on second failure. Kept unchanged: seven-field JSON contract parse, review-mode negatives, CONTENT-SHAPE/validator tokens, Step 14 deferral routing, CHANGELOG negatives, the executed push-idempotency shell test. Cosmetic: MUST / mandatory / Do NOT capitals; "VAS-449" dropped from the describe title. Mutation log: .context/mutation-ship-plan-completion-invariants.md (19 mutations, 0 unexpected: 3 reorders, 4 markers, 7 safety red; 5 rewordings green). * test(W7c): shrink eng-scope-entry-ap to structural and meaning checks W7c conversion (t05 F1-F4; W7a s04 F15/F18 pins). Pin lines 97 -> 69 (toContain|toMatch|indexOf|includes|ordered). The AskUserQuestion-format byte-equivalence test (t05 Kept) is unchanged. eng scope-gate E2Es are periodic (plan-eng-review-plan-mode), so every scope-gate invariant keeps a free check; duplicates of eng-review-routing cite that file. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - 'Reply with A, B, or C. STOP and wait' order anchors (t05 F1): menu before bootstrap -> kept free: the consumed prefix 'Reply with A, B, or C' (pty/classify.ts, pty/judge.ts) before {{PREAMBLE}}, {{GBRAIN_CONTEXT_LOAD}} and the first ```bash; new presence checks for the announcement and menu after '## Scope gate' (an indexOf of -1 used to pass the order check). - Preamble 'starting from the Scope gate...' exact pin: kept as /i meaning. - Scope entry sentences ('Before discovery tools or preamble, check provided messages...', 'Do not probe for session state', 'When no exception above applied:', 'Announce an auto-selected plan in one line...', 'A fresh announcement made before skill loading...', 'Step 0 below still verifies or sends the public auto-selection line...') (t05 F4): target bound before bootstrap and announced -> kept free: announcement/menu-before-bootstrap order checks above, /first tool call = AskUserQuestion/i, /clarify ambiguous, conflicting, quoted or stale targets/i; periodic E2E plan-eng-review-plan-mode. - Startup step sentences ('3. Check web-research readiness at ...', '4. Run **Design Doc Check**, then ...', 'Keep the reviewed target fixed', 'Continue at ...'): startup order -> kept free: ordered startup anchors (now including Prerequisite Skill Offer), '**Engineering review → Step 0**' pointer, the stale-path ban; 'Keep the reviewed target fixed' stays pinned (/i) in eng-review-routing.test.ts. - Entry anchors 'Before Step 0, require resolved scope' and '**Complexity gate:** while a Scope Challenge complexity question' -> shortened anchors 'require resolved scope' and '**Complexity gate:**', same order check. - Plan-selection exception sentences and 'If the tool is unavailable, disallowed (`--disallowedTools`) ... send the menu as plain prose and STOP' (t05 F4): pasted text is not a mode signal; ambiguity and named targets ask; unavailable tool stops -> kept as /i meaning checks for each (safety and consent lines); A/B/C menu body kept exact (consumed by the PTY classifier). - 'Reply with A, B, or C. STOP and wait for the answer.' exact: kept as the exact prefix plus /reply with A, B, or C\. stop and wait for the answer/i. - Judge-bundle sentences ('format/transport rules apply throughout', 'Follow the blocks below in order after startup', 'It may be the selected plan or a separate file', 'Save permitted auxiliary artifacts under the write policy'): ordering and write permission -> kept free: stage order, write-policy table rows exact, /permission for one path authorizes no other/i, /defer ... telemetry and plan status footer to finish/i, forbidden-log Blocked outcome route (/i), section Read paths, log exit-code tails. - Complexity-path duplicates of eng-review-routing (t05 F2: 'Complete these checks before...', 'After verification, apply only accepted scope changes', 'Run C whether B...', 'Always ask the structure question...', post-answer summary/Read-back sentences, 'A failed save or Read blocks advancement', 'Findings and scope answers approve no remedies', 'Continue to Section 1 only when...', 'Send one question object for one choice', 'Compare every native field...', 'Repair any difference and repeat the complete Read before asking', 'Read the selected saved label...', 'Check the save result, then Read the entire resolution block', '**STOP until the actual answer arrives.**', the Paused question / Blocked outcome lines): the same invariants -> kept free in eng-review-routing.test.ts (order of Send/AskUserQuestion/Record, /stop until the actual answer arrives/i, failed save blocks, approve-no-remedies, Paused/Blocked recovery checks) and auq-format-always-loaded.test.ts (one question object per choice); here: A/B/C stage order and the 8-file / 2-class thresholds (/i, no caps STOP literal), Recovery routing pointer for unreadable records. The Read-back choreography is the dated text s04 F18 flags; judge 'plan-eng-review/SKILL.md sections' (gate) grades the procedure. - Calibration note exact sentences and the one-line formatting pin (t05 F3, W7a s04 F15): no shipped source enables BRAIN_CALIBRATION_WRITEBACK -> kept free: {{BRAIN_WRITE_BACK}} once after {{LEARNINGS_LOG}}, /never set it yourself/i, and a new code check that no file in bin/, lib/ or scripts/ assigns or exports BRAIN_CALIBRATION_WRITEBACK (only the gbrain resolver names it). Mutation pass (scratch worktree; plan-eng-review templates, generated plan-eng-review skill, bin/gstack-config): 21/21 as expected; 14 reorder/marker/table/stop/safety/consent/code/numeric mutations go red, 7 rewordings and lowered-register lines stay green. Log: .context/mutation-eng-scope-entry-ap.md. * test: type the model-routing table; point skillify comment at skill-fixture.test.ts * test(W7c): skill-validation matches three capital-letter pins on meaning W7c (t08 F2, F4, F5). One test file; only these three pins change. Removed assertion groups: none. Loosened, invariant kept as a free case-insensitive meaning check: - `MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE` (codex skeleton) -> one codex mode per invocation: `/mutually exclusive/i` (t08 F4). - `skip the Codex passes ONLY` (review adversarial) -> `codex_reviews=disabled` skips only the Codex passes, Claude adversarial still runs: `/disabled[^\n]*skip the Codex passes only/i` (t08 F5). - `If any in-branch failures remain unfixed, **STOP**. Do not proceed` (ship tests section) -> unfixed in-branch failures block advancement: `/in-branch failures remain unfixed ... stop ... do not proceed/i` (t08 F2). Also covered by gate E2E ship-triage (gate). Cosmetic pins dropped: capitals and bold only. Mutation log: .context/mutation-skill-validation.md (6 mutations, 0 unexpected: 3 rule deletions red; 3 lower-case rewordings green). * test(W7c): drop coverage-audit checklist tool-call prose pins W7c conversion (t05 F11; unblocks s06 L9). Pin lines 17 -> 14. Removed assertion group (invariant -> remaining protection): - review/specialists/testing.md prose pins 'If the caller explicitly asks for an ASCII coverage diagram', 'dedicated tool call' and /Read diffs, package files, configs, or other context in separate tool calls\./ (tool-use choreography): the agent reads the named source and test files before drawing the diagram -> kept free: the same test still extracts the checklist's example diagram and requires coverageAuditVerdict to accept it (sourceRead/testsRead/diagram/passed), plus the kept [OK]/[GAP] row and legend pins; gate-tier E2Es review-coverage-audit, plan-eng-coverage-audit and ship-coverage-audit (E2E_TIERS: gate) grade the reads from transcript evidence with the same oracle. Mutation pass (scratch worktree, review/specialists/testing.md): 6/6 as expected; reordered diagram rows, deleted legend, deleted [OK] marker and a removed text fence go red; two rewordings of the dropped tool-call sentences stay green. Log: .context/mutation-coverage-audit.md. * test(W7c): loosen auq-format-always-loaded per-skill rule pins W7c conversion (t01 F10-F12; W7c list item auq-format-always-loaded:61-72). The MANDATORY format list (machine-read Recommendation:/(recommended) and the AUQ format labels, W7 keep list) is unchanged. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - plan-ceo-review /Do NOT batch/i (t01 F10): one decision per question -> kept free: /One decision unit = one AskUserQuestion call/i in the same rule list. - plan-eng-review full-sentence regexes 'Send `AskUserQuestion({ questions: [currentDecision] })` only after the pending-record checkpoint passes. Send one question object for one choice; other IDs wait' and 'If you discover another independent choice, separate it and rebuild this comparison before saving or sending the question' (t01 F11): one question object per independent choice survives the carve -> kept free: /one\s+question object for one choice/i and /independently selectable changes separate IDs/i; the checkpoint-before-send order stays pinned in eng-review-routing.test.ts. - codex /Synthesis recommendation \(REQUIRED\)/i (t01 F12, caps marker): codex keeps its synthesis rule always loaded -> kept free: /Synthesis recommendation/i and the machine format /Recommendation\s*:\s*<action>\s* because/i. Mutation pass (scratch worktree, generated SKILL.md and sections): 8/8 as expected; removing Recommendation: <action> because, the synthesis rule, or the CEO/eng/design decision-unit rules goes red; dropping (REQUIRED) and rewording the two dropped eng sentences stays green. Log: .context/mutation-auq-format-always-loaded.md. * test(W7c): qa-probe-gates keeps loop order, bounds and the CI-proven Read gate W7c (t07 F3, F4, F5). One test file. This file stays the single owner of shared QA loop ordering (qa-functional-prompt defers to it). Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - `> **STOP.** Before any probe ...` prefix pin (t07 F3, retire) -> parent QA loads methods before any probe: kept free meaning check on "before any probe, including plan checks, complete the ordered scope/method Reads" and its order before the required-checks step. - Preparation prose in the stage list ("in full and select the surfaces", "2. Read the selected surface methods below in full", "Write a **charter**", "Start once before baseline:") -> stage order scope -> methods -> charter -> deadline start -> loop: kept as structural anchors (section Reads, surface labels, `## 1. Charter and preflight`, `bun G start D SECONDS`, step 1 title); added a reorder control moving a method Read after the charter. - Bounds/layout sentences ("an unlimited mode uses the caller's bound", "announce finite command timeouts", "EARLIER_UTC = caller's absolute deadline, if set", "in the probe directory, beside its deadline if bounded", duplicate SECONDS pins in the mode-bounds test, "charters as Markdown in the report", the full "observed: its exact decoded child JSON ..." sentence) -> numeric bounds and field names are kept free checks; the observed-field shape is enforced by the native checkpoint validator (qa-functional-prompt validator tests, free) and gate E2Es qa-functional-cli-report, qa-functional-webhook-report (gate). - Publication prose ("No drafts/placeholders", "and replay limits in the report", "An absolute state path is not itself a secret", "If capture is incomplete, report that limit instead of reconstructing it") -> notes are immutable and unsafe values withheld: kept free checks on "corrections cannot repair published notes", never invent a substitute, withhold secrets/unsafe values and stop the chain; validator-backed in qa-functional-prompt; gate E2Es review-exploratory-small-cli, ship-exploratory-small-cli (gate). - Loop-step prose ("Guard if bounded; await completion", "Run that exact probe; G enforces ..." duplicate, "then minimize via those gates", "Expiry leaves confirmation/minimization incomplete", "for each affected revalidation", "If bounded, run", "Reuse Step 4's ... completed Reads", "Finish missing methods before charters") -> loop has 5 steps, guarded by G, replays via steps 2–3, revalidation returns to step 2: kept free checks on step count, `G enforces the deadline`, `bun G status D`, `via steps 2–3`, `return to step 2`, refusals as not-run, do not repeat completed Reads. - CI-fixture clause "description, section index or remembered method is not a completed instruction Read" -> covered by the kept CI-proven clauses (`## 0. Preparation gate`, await each Read, complete missing Reads before Charter) and gate E2E ship-exploratory-small-cli (gate; the CI case). Kept (meaning checks, case-insensitive where prose): CI-proven "await their results before the first probe" rule (comment + mutation kept), Reads in order, no repeated Reads, SECONDS=30/900, shorter mode/caller limit, no D without a total limit, finite timeouts, REPORT_DIR layout and caller paths win, plan checks after smoke with no smoke guard and no clock reset, caller cap, not-run on expiry, await clock results, never reset D/bypass G, invalid/missing D stops probes, expiry -> write the report, Step 4 read-only, isolation/permission preflight before setup, field names, QA_DEADLINE receipts, all semantic-flip mutation controls, method/report resource paths, helper commands. Cosmetic pins dropped: STOP / AND capitals, bold STOP prefix. Mutation log: .context/mutation-qa-probe-gates.md (22 mutations, 0 unexpected: 3 reorders, 4 markers, 8 safety red; 7 rewordings green). * test(W7c): shrink autoplan-phase-order to structural and meaning checks W7c conversion (t06 #13; W7c list item 'Eng runs LAST, always', 'ONLY/FINAL'). Pin lines 203 -> 166. autoplan has only periodic E2Es (autoplan-dual-voice, autoplan-journal-drift: E2E_TIERS periodic), so every invariant keeps one free check: sentence pins collapse to short /i meaning checks; commands, CLI signatures, placeholders, tool parameters, report fields, packet outputs (code-generated) and stale-string bans stay exact. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - 'Eng runs LAST, always' (caps sentence): Eng is the terminal phase -> kept free: /CEO → Design.*→ DX.*→ Eng/s, heading order 1 < 2 < 2.5 < 3 and the 'CEO → Design → Eng → DX' ban. - Final-gate sentences ('...Use Decision Classification; ask once at Final Approval Gate, never mid-run', 'Queue clearly-wrong/challenged premises', 'The user decides there; never stop mid-pipeline'): premises queue for the single final gate -> kept free: /never auto-decide user challenges/i, /ask once at final approval gate, never mid-run/i, 'as User Challenges for Phase 4', /never stop mid-pipeline/i, the two old-gate bans. - Generated setup sentences ('Resolve this phase', 'Run all applicable skills and lazy sections fully', 'log successful ranges/total to EOF'): phases load at their own boundary -> kept free: /never prefetch future phases/i, /missing skill: report phase and setup repair/i, per-phase methodology CLI and Read-before-create order, no in-full-now Reads. - Intake load sentence ("Resolve this phase's source to absolute `<REVIEW_SKILL>`; load via its checkpoint") -> kept free: `<REVIEW_SKILL>` token and /never prefetch future phases/i; section load keeps `readRanges`/EOF/skip-listed checks. - Native dispatch sentences ("ONLY/FINAL tool call", 'Keep native Reads enabled', 'all criteria + plan', 'if its schema exposes it', 'Claude Code: end response immediately', 'Other hosts await that ID', "Then outside → this phase's review ONLY", 'No inline substitute; apply failure policy'): the native review blocks and completes before outside review -> kept free: native < outside order, run_in_background: false, isAsync: true, /final tool call/i, /end response immediately/i, /no further tool calls\/review until/i, `nativePromptPath` to EOF, INPUT-hash match, /retry invalid input once/i, /no inline substitute/i, 720000ms timeout, provenance placeholder, N/A and CONFIRMED status tokens, /primary cannot replace/i. - Sequential Execution sentences (Keep ONE phase active, compaction reload, 'reconcile saved artifacts and sent conversation messages separately', 'Publication is a separate operation', 'an earlier Read is not this close', "Then continue to the next phase's tool calls in the same turn", 'record verbatim into fenced history', 'retaining its original source SHA', 'compaction resumes the existing invocation', the full LOG/amend-input sentence): one phase at a time, publish before advancing -> kept free: /keep one phase active/i, /never draft future-phase reviews/i, compaction reload (/i), two ordered chains (load < snapshot < dispatch < consume < remaining sections; phase-close < parent message < driver advance < after Eng), skip/resume/step 6 (Publish) routes, open-gate, uptake, pending, never-skip and raw-transcript lines (/i), rerun fields `baselineEdits.record`/`sourceSha256`, `amend-input`. - Amendment-binding sentences ('load the shared close steps afresh, even if read earlier', 'Keep this checkpoint for this invocation; review exports do not replace it') -> kept free: checkpoint field per phase, `methodologyPath`, /afresh/i, /review exports do not replace it/i. - Shared-close sentences (~20: completion prerequisites, readRanges Read choreography, 'A Read of only the edited tail does not satisfy...', 'If a result is truncated...', 'If a Read fails...', 'regenerate the packet...', 'Retention checks prove bytes; counts, hashes...', 'Review history stays in Review record', 'Taste remains provisional', 'Apply the phase's failure policy...'): read the whole packet, verify, then publish -> kept free: the seven-step order, terminal-results/INPUT/pending/no-credit/User Challenges/None/fixed-checkpoint lines (/i), prepare-close CLI, `readRanges` with exact `offset` and `limit`, /through EOF/i, no advance without a result, step-3 return, verification compare/recheck/keep-open, stale ban, generated copy contains the template. - Publication sentences ('After sending the actual parent report', 'using actual findings and voice statuses', "The sent conversation message is step 6's output", 'This message is the next operation...', the duplicated driver pins) -> kept free: publish < report < return order, /send the filled report ... visible parent assistant text/i, /before any next-phase tool call/i, both-voices rule, same-turn/driver-alone/no-continue-wait/skip lines (/i), Bash-is-not-publication (/i), stale ban. - Report-format sentences ("the actual host's reviewer names", 'Include the DX metrics line only when ...', "Resolve `report.next` using the driver's applicable scope/skip rules") -> kept free: every report field line, `report.includeDxMetrics`, `report.next`, and the code-generated packet checks. - Intake/DX-scope/call-site sentences ('without losing requirements', 'Use returned paths/`scope`', 'false and neither semantic trigger applies', 'checks exact retention', the 'for both voices' tail) -> kept free: ACTIVE_PLAN field, save-to-ACTIVE_PLAN, conversation approval, backup-exactly, stop on helper error, `## Review record` (all /i where prose), init/scope/create/ prepare-close CLIs, `dxRequired`, 2+ threshold, enabling flags, no-negation rule, snapshot/verbatim dispatch/outside-inline lines, stale path bans. Mutation pass (scratch worktree; autoplan template, sections and generated phase-close): 23/23 as expected; 16 reorder/old-order/tool-param/placeholder/ numeric/consent/stop/safety mutations go red, 7 rewordings and lowered caps (ONLY/FINAL, Keep ONE phase) stay green. Log: .context/mutation-autoplan-phase-order.md. * test(W7c): qa-functional-prompt keeps the verifier contract, drops driver prose W7c (t07 F6, F7, F8). One test file. The eval prompt itself is unchanged. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - ~40 driver-prompt sentence pins in the disclosure, artifact and fix-budget tests ("All four reads are required before probing ...", "command is the exact full outer capture invocation, including ...", "different later command", "not the required same-command replay", "Only the helper writes observed fields", "Link the evidence and checkpoint files ...", "Evidence rows contain ONLY complete JSON ...", "aim under 400 words", "one causal sentence per checkpoint hypothesis ...", "a reproduced in-tier defect requires ...", duplicates of "retain its headings ..." etc.) -> the run produces verifiable evidence and a linked report: free validator tests in this file (qaFunctionalVerdict replay, validateQACheckpoints on CI, R29 and R85 captures) and gate E2Es qa-functional-cli-report, qa-functional-webhook-report, qa-functional-cli-fix, qa-functional-webhook-fix (gate). Kept the machine-read contract: read list, `"command":"<exact full outer capture invocation>"`, `annotations.learning`, the three copied field names, the >20-character limit, evidence.json before report.md. - `maxTurns: 40` / `completionReserveMs: timeout / 4` exact source pins -> replaced by a `maxTurns >= 40` floor and presence of `completionReserveMs`. - Fix-stage provenance sentences ("most recent completed native probe", "Tests, source edits and clock reads ...", "write no checkpoint when there is no next probe") -> test output never becomes `observed`: kept one free meaning check plus the R29 validator test (free). - Duplicate loop-order checks on qa-only/sections/exploratory.md and grep of `scripts/resolvers/qa.ts` source (t07 F6, F8) -> loop ordering has one owner, qa-probe-gates (free, every host). Here the source grep becomes a check on `generateQAExploratory` output (one probe per native command, never batch probes), and the caller test keeps resource paths, field names and structural stage anchors. Loosened to case-insensitive meaning checks (kept): never synthesize JSON, never shorten native JSON, existing tests read-only, freeze tests after red, repair scope `src/<family>.ts`, green suite does not replace native probes, report incomplete honestly, report-only proposes test stubs, completion reserve does not end coverage, all eight scenarios required, never backfill notes, owned probe directory, only complete emitted JSON, wrapper/entrypoint boundary lines. Kept unchanged: paid-case selection, CI/R29/R85 validator replays, actor boundary and command allowlist, fix-stage order, verification probe list, scenario lists. Cosmetic pins dropped: ONLY / NOT / Never capitals. Mutation log: .context/mutation-qa-functional-prompt.md (19 mutations, 0 unexpected: 3 reorders, 4 markers, 7 safety red; 5 rewordings green). * test(W7c): match plan-scope-selection scope-gate stop lines case-insensitively W7c conversion, scope-gate caps pins only (t06 #14). The scope classifiers (nativeSeededPlanSelection, isScopeGateAutoSelectVisible, isScopeGateQuestionVisible), the consumed announcement and A/B/C menu bytes, and every non-caps assertion are unchanged. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - 'Reply with A, B, or C. STOP and wait' order anchors (design, template and every host expansion): menu precedes bootstrap -> kept free: the consumed prefix 'Reply with A, B, or C' (pty/classify.ts, pty/judge.ts), now also required to exist after '## Scope gate' so a missing menu cannot pass the order check with indexOf -1. - 'call AskUserQuestion FIRST and wait.', 'does NOT count as the mode signal', 'If the user explicitly named a DIFFERENT target' (design and eng), 'STOP and wait for the answer — only after the user picks', 'STOP and wait for the answer' (toContain and indexOf before the first ```bash on every host): ask first, pasted text is not a mode signal, explicit targets win, stop until answered -> kept free: the same rules as case-insensitive meaning checks, including the per-host ordering (search /stop and wait for the answer/i before the first ```bash, with a presence check). Mutation pass (scratch worktree; plan-design-review and plan-eng-review templates): 12/12 as expected; gate-after-preamble, removed design menu prefix, removed stop lines (design, eng), removed mode-signal, ask-first and explicit-target rules go red; lowering STOP/FIRST/NOT/DIFFERENT stays green. The eng menu prefix is not pinned here (eng-scope-entry-ap.test.ts M1 covers it). Log: .context/mutation-plan-scope-selection.md. * test(W7c): match document-release spawned-dispatch contract on meaning W7c conversion (t04 F3; W7a run-in-background-guidance.test.ts:472,474, named by the Eng W7c gate as anti-injection and VERSION invariants that stay as case-insensitive meaning checks). The run_in_background flag pins, structural scanner and inverted-phrasing ban are unchanged. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - 'NEVER trigger it on their own' (caps literal): prompt/file/tool claims do not enable spawned mode (anti-injection) -> kept free: /claims never trigger it on their own/i in the generated skill and template. - 'The NEVER-do invariants below do' (short form of a wrapped sentence that names the caps headings s10 rewrites): spawned auto-pick still never rewrites CHANGELOG or changes VERSION -> kept free: /skip any recommendation that rewrites CHANGELOG or changes VERSION/i (whitespace-normalized) in both files; gate E2E document-release. - 'A spawned run must never change VERSION': same rule, now /i. Mutation pass (scratch worktree; document-release skill, template and release-body section, ship/sections/documentation.md): 7/7 as expected; deleting the anti-injection clause, the CHANGELOG/VERSION carve-out, the spawned VERSION line, the run_in_background flag or the dispatch heading goes red; lowering NEVER and rewording 'NEVER-do invariants' stays green. Log: .context/mutation-run-in-background-guidance.md. * test(W7c): match retro clock rule case-insensitively, drop proximity regex W7c conversion (t02 #11, #12). Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - /NEVER from `date`/ (caps): today comes from the session reminder, not the system clock -> kept free: /session reminder/ and /never from `date`/i. - /(?:disclosure[\s\S]{0,200}narrative|narrative[\s\S]{0,200}disclosure)/ (200-char word-proximity window): offline/local-only runs disclose that the window is not freshness-verified -> kept free: the exact disclosure string 'offline run, window not freshness-verified' (it reaches the retro output), RETRO_REF disclosure and the GUARD_* script checks; gate judge 'retro/SKILL.md instructions'. Mutation pass (scratch worktree, retro/SKILL.md.tmpl): 4/4 as expected; allowing `date` or deleting the disclosure string goes red; lowering NEVER and rewording the narrative clause stays green. Log: .context/mutation-regression-1624-retro-stale-base.md. * test(W7c): match redact scan-at-sink exact-bytes rule case-insensitively W7c conversion (t02 #13). Credential-handling checks (mktemp, --from-file, exit codes 3/2/0, visibility lookups, no HIGH skip flag) are unchanged. Removed assertion group (invariant -> remaining protection): - /EXACT bytes/ (caps): scan the exact bytes that will be sent -> kept free: /exact bytes/i in the same test, next to the mktemp and --from-file checks. Mutation pass (scratch worktree, scripts/resolvers/redact-doc.ts): 3/3 as expected; scanning a summary instead of the exact bytes or dropping the Exit 3 (HIGH) branch goes red; lowering EXACT stays green. Log: .context/mutation-redact-doc-resolver.md. * test(W7c): check the codex boundary on meaning and its path list W7c conversion (t02 #14, W7a host-config.test.ts:565). The boundaryInstruction bytes sent to Codex are unchanged; only the test loosens. Removed assertion group (invariant -> remaining protection): - toContain('Do NOT read') (caps fragment): Codex must not read or execute Claude skill definitions -> kept free: /do not read or execute any files under/i plus each excluded path ('~/.claude/', '~/.agents/', '.claude/skills/', 'agents/'), which is the actual contract. Mutation pass (scratch worktree, hosts/codex.ts): 3/3 as expected; replacing the prohibition or dropping an excluded path goes red; lowering IMPORTANT/NOT stays green. Log: .context/mutation-host-config.md. * test(W7c): shrink skill-ceo-section-ordering to structural and meaning checks W7c conversion of test/skill-ceo-section-ordering.test.ts: t06 #1-#6, t05 F5 (cross-reference: the remaining bold-STOP pins), t13 F3 / W7.md CRITICAL RULE anchor. #1 (ASK_QUESTIONS_HEADING anchor) was already on the base branch; #5 now slices the blocked chat return to the next "\n## " heading, so removing or renaming `## Review Log` cannot widen or break the window. Pins (grep -cE 'toContain|toMatch|indexOf|includes'): 647 -> 388 lines; toContain( 535 -> 136; expect() calls per run 1657 -> 1399. The carve block, section-capture fixtures and validateCeoReviewCompletion tests are unchanged (t06 keep list) except two exact-duplicate 0D pins. CEO invariants count as periodic-only (plan-ceo-review-benefits retires), so every invariant below keeps a free structural or case-insensitive check. Gate-tier judge that also grades this prose: 'plan-ceo-review/SKILL.md modes'. New helpers: ordered() (exact labels/headings/placeholders/table cells as strings, meaning anchors as /i RegExp) and between() (fails loudly on a missing end anchor instead of silently running to EOF). Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - t06 #2 / t05 F5: '**STOP for the actual answer, even for a lone option.**' (x6 exact pins + 3 split/indexOf anchors) and '**STOP for the answer**' (x3): wait for the actual answer before recording -> kept free: one /stop for the actual answer/i per slice (template 0D in dispatch order between the ask-one-row check and the answer save; every generated host carrier between **4. Ask and **Post-answer checkpoint:**), /stop for the answer/i in 0E step 3 (template and generated), plus the Pre-question < 4. Ask < Post-answer checkpoint order and the 2-checkpoint count. Dispatch slices now end at **Post-answer checkpoint:**. - t06 #4 'Recommendation is ALWAYS present': recommendation label contract -> kept free: '(recommended)' and 'AUTO_DECIDE depends on it' in generated SKILL.md; exactly-one-(recommended) rule in 0D's currentDecision table. - t06 #6 and other bans of retired phrasings ('If the section has findings, you MUST call AskUserQuestion', 'Otherwise, use AskUserQuestion for each finding', 'After each section, pause and wait for feedback', 'Save pending rows before comparisons', 'using the Step 0E mode-handoff format', 'Save a chat-only plan', 'quality bonus, not a gate', 'If no file is in scope, skip this section', 'always write', 'For every question', 'for architecture choices', 'These approaches differ in coverage (...)', 'Finish with ExitPlanMode', 'Before summaries, review logs or next-step menus...', "put the complete comparison in the question's brief", 'Use this exact route:', 'citing its ID', /\blog (?:with|that ID)\b/): same invariants -> kept free: the positive checks (one **Decision gate.** per section wired to Analyze → Resolve → Apply; pending-rows-before-comparisons order; **Otherwise:** in the 0H order; report not persisted + Read-back gate; write-when-permitted incl. zero tasks; Outcome routing count 1; record-provenance-after-handoff order; literal dispatch-object comparison). 'Do NOT proceed ... 0C-bis' becomes not.toContain('0C-bis') on 0D. Short stale-token bans stay (<approved 0D approach>, reference | commitment | current value, ___ methods, retry once, telemetry has logged, NUMBER + LETTER / "3A", the Forbidden-storage regex, removed menu option, unbound placeholders). - t06 #3, magic counts: literal 11 sections / toHaveLength(7) closing steps -> kept free: section numbers 1..N derived from '## Review Sections (N sections' and checked against the ### Section headings; closing-step count derived from the 7 route labels. - Decision cycle / storage / comparison sentences (Start at step 1, run steps 2–4 only when needed, mode-change pointer, storage-policy save sentence, Copy the grid, Validate every field, Show unchanged/shared/pending repeated x4, other rows stay fixed or pending x5, never prewrite x3, Build one currentDecision x3, Ask one row per call x6, Save the answer reference x5, Keep independent changes separate x4): full decision protocol in order -> kept free: label order 1. Check < 2. Record < 3. Compare < grid < Pre-question < Read-back < 4. Ask < Post-answer (template + every host), one /i check each for pending-rows-before-comparisons, save-before-ask, amend only authorized work, failed save stops, decline-all stop, show unchanged/shared/pending, independent changes separate. Admin/plan routes also kept in ceo-workflow-clarity.test.ts. - Handoff/provenance sentences (After selection, send brief chat, Keep rows separate, logging-row repeats, Section 1 current-scope sentences): mode handoff applies before questions and logs provenance after -> kept free: /before tools or further questions/i, handoff < Other selections < provenance < selecting-a-mode order, the two exact output-format lines with <rows or none> / <Application and rationale>, auto_decided true/false fields, 'No new approach decision was needed' (quoted chat output). Section 1 dispositions -> ceo-workflow-clarity's Section 1 test. - Scope/mode-selection sentences (REDUCTION, HOLD and SELECTIVE's HOLD checks; For both expansion modes...; Skip/Defer destination repeats; present both inputs for final approval; 0E counts changed files; Count all deliverables; >15/greenfield repeats; SELECTIVE balances...): scope decisions per item with exact destinations -> kept free: prescribed menu label orders (A Add/B Defer/C Skip; A Defer/B Keep; TODO A/B/C; depth A/B), Defer -> TODOS.md + NOT in scope, Skip -> no TODO, /ask separately/i, /all four 0D steps for each unanswered addition or deferral/i, routing rows and >15 / 8-file / 2-class numbers (once each; ceo-workflow-clarity keeps the reuse-count checks), carve block's document-approval order. - TODO menu (per plan-review-calibration t04 F11 retirement, which names this file as the remaining free protection): kept free in the TODOS.md-updates slice: /only unanswered TODO proposals reach this menu/i, /do not ask again about an item already deferred, skipped or kept/i, /one per question/i. - Resolver prose (spec review, plan report, tasks emit, exit gate, codex plan review, brain cache refresh, approval readiness, design clause): each sentence pin -> one short /i check per invariant on every host (five dimensions, at most three launches, required save stops, destination-file Read/Write order, zero tasks, unknown files JSONL format, ExitPlanMode only after checks, forbidden history, outcome routing and skip routes, native fallback never outside coverage); exact strings kept only for machine/output tokens (NO UNRESOLVED DECISIONS, '- + N unresolved from prior reviews', STATUS/SOURCE/OUTSIDE_STATUS assignments, CROSS-MODEL, OUTSIDE COVERAGE, 'N findings; R resolved; U unresolved', quoted report phrases, Gate outcome: Blocked, Read-back gate). Dropped: 'If both counts are zero', 'For **Outside Review**, use ...', 'Enter after either an external reviewer...', 'identify the causal mechanism', 'A credible material risk...', "check the assembled set's capacity", 'including findings that needed only factual correction', 'show unsaved fields and errors', Strategy-only tasks sentence, verified-report-can-pass sentence -> neighbouring kept /i checks in the same slice plus the gate-tier 'plan-ceo-review/SKILL.md modes' judge. - Review-section prose (continuity requirement lists, test-review and outside rule duplicates, strategy-only diagram sentences, Review facts repeats, Stage 3 publishes it, Count a reopened choice once, Keep them before the terminal report repeats, EXIT gate verifies..., no report or log needed yet, then run telemetry as the last review operation): per-section gate and ledger continuity -> kept free: Analyze < Resolve < Apply, Resolve paths via check-scope < correct < record order, /resolve critical risks now/i, /review only; do not change code/i, ledger header + status tokens, one /i per approval/stop line; reopened-once lives in ceo-workflow-clarity; terminal order kept as cache refresh < {{BRAIN_CACHE_REFRESH}} < Telemetry < finished < Call ExitPlanMode < handoff. - Duplicate pins removed outright (same string asserted 2-6 times across tests, incl. carve-block 'Ask one row per call' and bold-STOP pins): each keeps its single remaining check named above. Cosmetic pins dropped without controls: bold/caps (**STOP**, ALWAYS, MUST), double compactProse wrappers. Mutation pass (scratch worktree; templates, generated SKILL.md and review-dashboard resolver): 39/39 as expected; 28 kept-step/marker/ placeholder/safety/consent/numeric mutations go red (incl. the three TODO-menu lines), 11 rewordings of dropped sentences, the CRITICAL RULE heading rename, re-adding the retired #6 sentence, and lowered-register STOP lines stay green. Log: .context/mutation-skill-ceo-section-ordering.md. Runtime (Bun 1.4.0, 3 runs): before 2.05/1.84/1.77 s (median 1.84), after 1.87/1.80/2.08 s (median 1.87); dominated by runGeneration and the capture subprocess fixtures. * test(W7c): shrink plan-review-cases to structural and meaning checks W7c conversion (t03 F1-F4; t02 F4/F5 duplicate STOP/threshold pins). Pins 713 -> 208 lines by the brief's grep (toContain|toMatch|indexOf|includes); prose assertions 592 -> 366 (toContain/toMatch calls plus expectAll regex rules; expect() calls per run 3232 -> 2808). Tests 218 -> 215. t03 F1 (stale ~/.gstack/projects discovery path) was already fixed by W7a on the base; its $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT check and the stale-path ban are kept. Kept byte-exact or structural: marker-order arrays (### Prepare an unanswered choice -> ### Send once and wait -> ### Record the answer, heading list equality, Pending-record checkpoint, finish steps 1-6, entrypoint recovery order, output placeholder order), the parsed write-policy table routes, the generateAntiShortcutClause host matrix, every not.toContain(stale) ban, numeric limits (8+ files / 2+ new classes, fewer than 8 / 2, under 5 words, 2-3 options, six-column / five-field / four-step), consumed tokens and field names (`scope accepted as-is`, `scope reduced per recommendation`, FULL_REVIEW/ SCOPE_REDUCED mapping, **issues_found**, SOURCE=/OUTSIDE_STATUS=/STATUS=, OUTCOME=, `BLOCKED`, `## GSTACK REVIEW REPORT`, `currentDecision`, D<N> and ROW-ID formats, prescribed A-D menus), placeholders, commands/paths and all picker behavior tests (unchanged). STOP/wait/approval/safety lines become case-insensitive meaning checks located between their headings (e.g. /stop until the actual answer arrives/i between Send once and Record the answer; /do not replace the section in place/i plus /append the new report at EOF/i). CEO invariants (periodic-only once plan-ceo-review-benefits retires) each keep one free check. Eng/Design/DX invariants keep one free check too; nothing below relies on a periodic-only E2E. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - CEO route/narrow depth (:19) full sentences: admin answers approve nothing, plan decisions run steps 1-4, settled choices go to 0E -> kept free: Admin < Plan decision order, checkpoint order, five short /i checks, stale ban. - Eng evidence paths/labels (:33) 'Prior Learnings configuration', path rule sentences -> kept free: the three path field labels, /never invent paths/i, `not available`, label tokens, stale ban. - Eng first report save (:47) 9 requirement sentences -> 5 short /i requirements with the same remove-one-must-throw self-control; parent-dir, original-plan-copy and scope-record clauses dropped (initialization invariant kept by target-header/preserve/no-findings/placement/terminal- report checks; collision suffix kept in the write-policy test). - Eng setup selectors (:79) and its duplicate in the big Eng ordering test: selectors approve no remedy -> kept free: /these selections approve no engineering remedy/i, B selectors, no pre-answer ledger, stale ban; the 'For the next choice' sentence -> kept free: transaction marker order. - Eng performance (:94) exact bullet list -> kept free: four concern keywords from the parsed bullets; Decision-procedure sentence -> kept free in the four-section test. - Eng complexity/MODE (:105) per-target counting, 'Count each once', 'Keep it current', 'Continue to Section 1' sentences -> kept free: count-selected- work, both thresholds, MODE tokens and mapping, scope-reduction meaning, 'approves no pending remedy', Continue-to-Section-1 in the C order array. - Eng three-stage transaction (:125) sentence markers -> same 13-step order array with short /i anchors and the remove-one-must-throw control. - Eng Test Plan refresh, coverage trace (:150, :162) sentences -> kept free: placeholder count/order, prepare step count, short /i checks; coverage audit also graded by plan-eng-coverage-audit (gate). - CEO fallback (:178) sentences -> kept free: host mode token matrix, status field values, /final report is written later in Required Outputs/i, ban. - Persistence per skill (:229) Eng duplicates ('If the required log is forbidden', 'Neither supplies', FULL_REVIEW mapping, 'after successful Read-back') -> kept free in the readiness, complexity and write-policy tests; CEO 'retain its diagnostic' -> kept free: /do not claim that entry was recorded/i and three other CEO log checks. - Report resolver per host (:261) duplicate 'Do not choose another destination', 'Review record and write policy', 'full review output', explicit/named/active sentences -> kept free: target precedence order; CEO writer's seven sentences -> kept free: six-anchor order ending at '4. **Read-back gate:**' plus the blocked-return check. - Generated carriers (:327) bold STOP pin -> /stop until the actual answer arrives/i in the dispatch order array. - Big Eng ordering test (:358) duplicates of the gate describe (one question object, 8+/STOP, both-retain, setup, separate instrumentation, keep chosen values, calibration<procedure<scope, Decision procedure < Architecture, outside-voice consent lines) -> kept free once each (boundary list, queue test, preparation order array now ending at ### 1. Architecture review); 'Use existing tests ... bounded probes', 'post-answer scope summary', 'Compare only the file/class arrangement', 'contracts and approved security...', 'With no proposed cuts', 'Present numbered...' sentences -> kept free: build-boundary order check, structure-question and unapproved-fixes checks, C-step order array. - Eng gate describe: exact-duplicate pins (same sentence 2-4x in one test or repeated per section inside the 4-section loop) -> one copy kept; ledger placeholder descriptions (Plan baseline/Runtime evidence/Actual answer/ Accepted scope text) -> kept free: parsed ledger field-name list, R1 header, State values, A)/B) selectors, ledger position. - Gate tests 'identifies commitments before comparing values', 'common new defaults...', 'exact prior answers authorize...', 'finding evidence, stable decision identity...' merged: every non-duplicate invariant (optional depths, shared new value needs approval, unknown risks visible, drafts grant nothing, reopened ID keeps D<N>, test scores not answer status) -> kept free as one /i check in 'current contracts...' or 'all four section gates...'; their order checks -> kept free: prepare<identify<compare<save<send<record. - Remove-old-occurrence, 'Otherwise leave the remedy pending', 'no question or comparison grid is needed', 'never the saved-report gate', 'Compare the label separately', 'When revising, replace the whole current payload', 'It may be the selected plan', 'Present each completely as not persisted', 'If none is permitted...', 'A forbidden write follows its row', 'Run Learning hooks ...', 'Refresh affected tests...', 'If startup values...', 'instead of creating another approval row', 'Keep that remedy pending' -> same invariant kept free by an adjacent check (State replace/once checks, approves-no-implementation, factual-correction, recovery routing, payload rebuild, write-policy routes, return-to-entrypoint count, late-change and blocked checks, common-work check). - Worked example anchor sentence -> anchored on the Compare section and 'Ask about jitter first:'; parsed R1/R2 table equality kept. - Outside-voice queue: dead generic branch (all three skills `continue` before it; never executed) removed -> none needed (unreachable). Eng procedure re-checks inside the queue (5 sentences) -> kept free in the gate describe. Shared CEO/Eng/DX scope-revision sentences hoisted to one shared /i block per skill; CEO 'Keep candidate scope ...' etc. -> kept free as short /i checks; prescribed A-D menus kept exact. - Design register (:1771) sentences -> kept free: grounding-before-question order and three /i checks; 'Surface real missing decisions' dropped (positive restatement of the same rule). Gate-tier coverage that also grades this prose: judges 'plan-eng-review/ SKILL.md sections', 'plan-design-review/SKILL.md passes', 'plan-ceo-review/ SKILL.md modes'; E2Es plan-eng-coverage-audit, plan-review-report, plan-devex-review-plan-mode (gate). Cosmetic pins dropped without controls: bold/caps STOP and NOT, issue-number comments unchanged. Mutation pass (scratch worktree; eng/ceo/design templates and the outside-voice, testing and review-dashboard resolvers): 33/33 as expected; 24 kept-step/marker/safety/numeric mutations go red, 6 rewordings of dropped sentences and 3 lowered-register STOP/NOT lines stay green. Log: .context/mutation-plan-review-cases.md. Runtime (bun test, Bun 1.4.0, median of 3): 0.85 s -> 0.77 s. * test(W7c): qa-caller-authority keeps authority and safety lines, drops report prose W7c (t10 F12, F13). One test file; still renders every host x caller. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - `STOP and wait` / `STOP for the answer` / `AskUserQuestion and WAIT` capitals (t10 F12) -> approval before `./setup` or install: now an order check (explicit approval < "only after approval" < `cd <SKILL_DIR> && ./setup`; OK to proceed? < setup; AskUserQuestion-and-wait < install only the actual choice), plus case-insensitive "stop for the answer". Stronger: the mutation that moves setup ahead of the approval ask now goes red (the old test stayed green). New negative control removes the approval ask. - Report-layout prose for /review and /ship (keep metadata/outcome tables, demote headings one/two levels, fields as subsections, keep scores separate, save baseline normally) -> one final linked report section: kept free checks on the `## Exploratory QA and Verification Results` / `### Browser results` / `## Exploratory QA` headings, link every checkpoint and no second report; gate E2Es review-exploratory-small-cli, ship-exploratory-small-cli (gate). - Smoke-pacing prose ("one success and the riskiest changed failure/edge", "Required even for small diffs ...", "Required: plan commands/assertions, listed separately", "Other ideas are optional, untested") and duplicate report-status pins -> kept the numeric `5 minutes/12 probes` bound and the report-clean-only-when-all-required-pass gate; gate E2Es ship-exploratory-small-cli, ship-exploratory-plan-checks (gate). - Dedup prose ("Combine saved `findings` ...", "If both history ... classify normally", "Report the suppressed count once if nonzero", "If N > 0, print once:", "Otherwise skip the summary") -> only user `skipped` findings are suppressed: kept free order check (read decisions before matching) and the `skipped` / never `fixed` / `auto-fixed` lines; gate E2E ship-skipped-queued-finding (gate). - Preparation sentence pins duplicated from qa-probe-gates (Reads in order, no repeated Reads, "in full and select the surfaces", "Write a **charter**", "charter** per behavior", "announce finite command timeouts") -> owned by qa-probe-gates (free, every host); this file keeps scope < methods < charter structural order for every caller. - Learnings prose ("Otherwise skip this optional lookup", "Reading old notes never requires writing new ones") -> report-only lookup never writes: kept free checks (directory already known, caller permits, do not run the search helper, no bash/gstack-config/AskUserQuestion, injection throw); the query interpolation stays checked via `"webhook retries"`. - Misc prose ("Re-run affected contracts and adjacent happy paths ...", "Run only for selected browser surfaces", "Confirm each issue by retrying once", "parent applies queued fixes", "No test framework detected", "Report QA setup blockers", "required QA") -> judge `qa/SKILL.md workflow` and `review/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane); the adjacent kept gates remain free. Kept as case-insensitive meaning checks (authority, consent, safety): probe- local blocker rule, report-only never bootstraps/invokes skills, unknown caller -> report-only, declined -> blocked, credentials/passwords/other tabs, local-target ownership, no unit-test/curl substitute, functional-only reads nothing browser-side, never-pass list, named-risk acceptance, noninteractive -> blocked, test_stub ASK approval, ship waiver cannot complete review, caller-required rechecks, blocked rechecks never verify repairs, no edits during Step 4.8, no inner repair loop, REVIEW_START/token-once, native pass required for 5.8, coverage-cap stop lines, report-only never commits or dispatches, CI/test-weakening ban, never delete a valid red regression. Kept unchanged: machine tokens (`bun G start D`, `$B snapshot -i`, `DIFF_START`, `CONSOLE_ERRORS=`, `$B handoff/resume`), resource paths, the `If A and allowance remains:` count, `Minimum = 60%, Target = 80%`, all `.not.toContain` stale-workflow bans, existing negative controls. Cosmetic pins dropped: STOP / WAIT / LOCAL / Never capitals. Mutation log: .context/mutation-qa-caller-authority.md (23 mutations, 0 unexpected: 3 reorders, 3 markers, 11 safety red; 6 rewordings green). * test(W7h): retire CEO TODO-menu prose pins from plan-review-calibration W7h retirement (t04 F11; W7c list). The calibration corpus and buildPlanReviewDecisionPrompt never read this CEO prose; the AUQ format tokens (consumed by plan-tune and judges) and the calibration-harness outcome tests are unchanged. Retirement card: - test: plan-review-calibration.test.ts, the six CEO TODO-menu pins ('Only unanswered TODO proposals reach this menu', 'Do not ask again about an item already deferred, skipped or kept', 'carry its actual answer and destination forward', 'Resolve each remaining proposal through all four steps of 0D, using the menu below', 'Never batch TODOs — one per question'). - detects: edits to plan-ceo-review TODO-menu prose. - non_test_callers: none (test-only reads of the template). - search_command: grep -rn "Never batch TODOs\|Only unanswered TODO" test/ - stronger_proof / replacement: skill-ceo-section-ordering.test.ts 'TODOS.md updates' slice keeps /i meaning checks for unanswered-only, no re-asking and one TODO per question (CEO invariants are periodic-only under the W7c gate, so they keep a free check); 'route through 0D' stays covered by that file's 0D route checks. - history: 636175d v1.87.6.0. - validation: bun test test/plan-review-calibration.test.ts. Controls (scratch worktree): replacing 'Never batch TODOs — one per question' or deleting 'Only unanswered TODO proposals reach this menu' turns skill-ceo-section-ordering.test.ts red (2/2); in this file, removing an AUQ format token goes red and rewording the retired TODO sentence stays green (2/2). Log: .context/mutation-plan-review-calibration.md. * test(W7h): retire spec-template-sync as a duplicate of the freshness check W7h retirement (t05 F18; Eng factual correction: the file takes 145 ms, its "2 minutes" was the 120 s timeout, so this is a duplicate-only retirement). Removes its scripts/free-test-durations.json entry. Retirement card: - test: test/spec-template-sync.test.ts (regenerate /spec into an out-dir and compare spec/SKILL.md + spec/sections/gate-and-file.md with the tracked bytes; check the generated header). - detects: /spec template edited without regeneration, or a hand-edited generated file. - non_test_callers: none. - search_command: grep -rn spec-template-sync package.json scripts test .github - stronger_proof / replacement: gen-skill-docs.test.ts 'generated files are fresh (match --dry-run)' (FRESH for every skill, no STALE anywhere; the dry-run covers carved sections such as spec/sections/gate-and-file.md); the generated-banner checks in the same file cover the header. - history: c118e24 / 410b492 / 394db32 / b1485d8 (codex T8). - validation: bun test test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts. Control (scratch worktree, run against the replacement): a stale spec/sections/gate-and-file.md, a stale spec/SKILL.md, and a spec template edit without regeneration each fail gen-skill-docs 'generated files are fresh' (3/3). Log: .context/mutation-spec-template-sync.md. * test(W7h): retire the literal 75 KB autoplan budget duplicate W7h retirement (t04 F18). test/skill-preflight-budget.test.ts asserted the same four-skill autoplan sum twice: once against AUTOPLAN_PREFLIGHT_BUDGET_BYTES * 3 (25,600 x 3 = 76,800 = 75 KiB) and once against a literal 75 * 1024, which would drift silently if the constant changed. Retirement card: - test: skill-preflight-budget.test.ts 'autoplan total under 25 KB instruction cap × 3 (75 KB instruction budget)'. - detects: the four plan-* skills' brain preflight + refresh + write-back instructions exceeding 75 KiB. - non_test_callers: none. - stronger_proof / replacement: 'autoplan: sum across 4 plan-* skills stays under AUTOPLAN_PREFLIGHT_BUDGET_BYTES × 3 (instructions)' in the same file, which reads the constant from scripts/brain-cache-spec.ts. - history: c118e24 v1.64.1.0. - validation: bun test test/skill-preflight-budget.test.ts. Controls (scratch worktree): shrinking AUTOPLAN_PREFLIGHT_BUDGET_BYTES below the current total, or growing the eng write-back instructions by 80 KB, turns the kept constant-based check red (2/2). Log: .context/mutation-skill-preflight-budget.md. * test(W7c): workflow-excerpt keeps heading order and tokens, drops judged prose W7c (t04 F5, F6, F7, F15; F1/F2 already landed with W7a). One test file. This file guards judge-input fidelity; the judges that read these excerpts grade the prose itself. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - Ship rule sentences ("Use the documented selector and pre-merge command.", "During pre-flight, read the existing review log", "Tests must pass or retain approval ...", "For another repair, repeat rule 2 ...", "The unchanged release steps follow", "Use this example only after confirming ...", "Retain queued fixes and restore coverage", "Each commit must work independently", "Keep actual outcomes and incomplete flags", the long "Continue to Step 9.2 with the core/design-lite findings ..." form, the Y'd/D'd evidence sentence) -> judge `ship/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane), which reads this exact excerpt; kept free checks on step routing (`Step 4`, `Step 8.1`, 9.2 -> 9.2.1 QA -> 9.3, `Insert Step 5, affected Steps 6–8 and all of Step 9 before the pending Step 10`, `5 → 6 → … → 11.5`, `continue to Step 16`), tokens (`BASE_VERSION`, `VERIFY_RESULT stays fail`, `"partial":N,"not_done":N`, "intentionally dropped"), and the review cycle order (9.1 < 9.2 < 9.2.1 < 9.3 < 9.4) as a structural check. - Outside-review routing sentences ("Other preflight mode, including harness mismatch", "Outside execution or output validation fails", "Retain its output and diagnosis ...", "No prompt, outside process or native replacement", "Other preflight failures retain their printed diagnosis", the full fallback-list regex) -> disabled means no outside call: kept free order of disabled/prompt/ready/fallback blocks, `outside_status` tokens, `_DISABLED_REVIEW_MODE`, disabled recheck before dispatch, "disabled means no replacement", fallback-not-completion; judges `document-release/SKILL.md workflow`, `plan-eng-review/SKILL.md sections` (gate lane). - Eng/design prose ("quote the motivating plan requirement", "Use a scoped Edit to save this record ... Leave other choices unchanged" full form, "edit the plan and re-rate") -> judge `plan-eng-review/SKILL.md sections` and `plan-design-review/SKILL.md passes` (gate lane); approval meaning checks kept. - Retro prose ("does not require saved history", "PRs referenced", "not newly added test cases", "is the live **team** streak", "draft the tweetable summary using the format in Step 14, then save") -> judge `retro/SKILL.md instructions` (gate lane); kept headings, `prs_merged: null`, `streak_days`, the one-second compare window, Capture Learnings after Step 14, no `$(date`, two `today="<today>"`. Loosened to case-insensitive meaning checks (stop/consent/approval and safety lines, always kept): STOP for each pending decision (now a regex anchor between Step 5 and the Test Plan Artifact), STOP until the actual answer arrives, no remedy/next section/ExitPlanMode while a choice awaits an answer, evidence-not-approval, reopened choices need answers, wait for approval (design), AskUserQuestion once (t04 F6), per-finding approvals, dispatched-reviewer-missing -> stop, CYCLES >= 3 -> stop with `converged:false`, no fourth cycle, required-probe gate before Step 10, failed probes block continuation, coverage-gate not bypassed, failed/unrun probes not passed, three snapshots match, document-release VERSION-absent rule, never create an empty commit, `read any other SKILL.md` (t04 F15), AskUserQuestion-and-wait in the capture prompt. Kept unchanged: heading/step order checks, `## Review Sections` single-copy check, fail-closed marker tests, redact-before-edit ordering, approval gates outside subagent prompts, plan-tune auto-decide output lines, CEO capture harness contract, deploy formula execution, all stale-string bans. Cosmetic pins dropped: STOP / ONCE / NOT / OTHER capitals. Mutation log: .context/mutation-workflow-excerpt.md (21 mutations, 0 unexpected: 3 reorders, 3 markers, 8 safety red; 7 rewordings green). * test(W7h): retire the paid first-task-scaffold E2E duplicate W7h retirement (t12 F12). Removes the case from test/helpers/touchfiles-data.ts (E2E_TOUCHFILES, E2E_TIERS periodic, E2E_KINDS rule) and both scripts/paid-test-durations.json entries; test/helpers/periodic-exclude-data.ts had no entry. e2e-tier-alignment, eval-kinds, eval-detach-timeout-floor, periodic-exclude-policy, touchfiles and paid-shards tests stay green. Retirement card: - test: test/skill-e2e-first-task-scaffold.test.ts ('first-task-scaffold', periodic, ~$0.02): Haiku is told to run exactly one detector command and the test greps the tool result for code_node / greenfield. - detects: detector bucket regressions in bin/gstack-first-task-detect. - non_test_callers: none. - search_command: grep -rn "first-task-scaffold" test scripts .github - stronger_proof / replacement: test/preamble-first-task-scaffold.test.ts (free; executes the real detector on fixture repos for every bucket, including code_node and greenfield, plus first-run gating and telemetry in bin/gstack-skill-start). The model added nothing: the prompt dictated the exact command. - history: c118e24 v1.64.1.0. - validation: bun test test/preamble-first-task-scaffold.test.ts plus the registration tests above. Control (scratch worktree, against the replacement): making the detector emit the wrong bucket for a Node project or a commit-less repo turns preamble-first-task-scaffold.test.ts red (2/2). Log: .context/mutation-first-task-scaffold.md. * test(W7c): shrink gen-skill-docs to structural and meaning checks W7c conversion of the sentence/caps pins in test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts (t01 F2-F9, F18, F19; t08 F12; t10 F4; t02 #5 duplicate STOP literal). t01 F1 ('Every commit must map to at least one bullet point') was already gone on the base. Pins (grep -cE 'toContain|toMatch|indexOf|includes') 1446 -> 1360; tests 457 -> 457. Untouched: the FRESH/STALE freshness check, the routing soft-policy negative, skill-start/end script pins, the SESSION_KIND spawned line, and the old-wording negative pins (delete-then-append, 0D/0F, gate "if applicable"). Machine markers stay byte-exact: NO UNRESOLVED DECISIONS, `**UNRESOLVED DECISIONS:**`, `Approval readiness: PASS`, `D<N> — <ROW-ID>: ...`, `## EXIT PLAN MODE GATE (BLOCKING)` anchors, `**Gate outcome: Blocked**`, helper commands/flags (gstack-office-hours-review prepare/check/finalize --design, --out-dir, --report, --unreviewed), helper stop reasons, analytics commands. Consent, stop, approval, decision-cycle and navigation lines (incl. the Eng W7c-gate lines at the old 2362-2370) are kept as short case-insensitive checks. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - qa-only 'Never fix bugs' + 'NEVER fix anything' (t01 F8): report-only skill -> kept free: /never fix/i in Additional Rules + frontmatter no Edit/Glob/Grep. - qa 'WTF' token (t08 F12): fix-loop self-check -> kept free: /every 5 fixes/i. - TEST_COVERAGE_AUDIT sharedPhrases sentences and the three Test-step sentences (t01 F4): read source before tracing/diagramming in plan and ship -> kept free: order 'concrete source and test files' < Trace data flow < Diagram the execution < Quality scoring rubric in both, star/GAP markers, the plan/diff mode split, the Test review subheading structure test; gate judges 'plan-eng-review/SKILL.md sections', 'ship/SKILL.md workflow'. - 'REGRESSION RULE' / 'IRON RULE' labels (t01 F4): regression coverage is required -> kept free: REGRESSION RULE heading, /without regression coverage, that coverage is a critical requirement/i (plan), /regression test is written immediately/i (ship), plus the existing regression-contract tests. - '**STOP for each pending decision.**' (t01 F7, retired) -> kept free: 'Wait for its answer before applying that remedy' (control C1). - F19 rule sentences: step numbers dropped; kept free /prevent duplicate bumps, pushes and PRs, never verification/i, /native result never supplies outside coverage/i, /required-probe gate, never silently waive/i, /never offer a conversion/i, /actual counts, never estimates/i (deduped 2 -> 1). - SPEC_REVIEW_LOOP (t01 F3, about 74 sentence pins): - office-hours dispatch sentences (Before EACH dispatch, parent Read does not deliver, string unchanged) -> kept free: prepare --design/--out-dir, order mktemp < prepare < round-N.prompt.md < `dispatch`, /all preceding valid round files in order/i, /read the entire prepared prompt/i. - reviewer prompt sentences -> kept free: document/verdict path and schema wiring, mode sections ('The Assignment', 'What I noticed...'), dimension order, short checks for coaching protection, no invented customer answers, minor findings included, identical JSON, classify every prior finding, open questions vs committed behavior. Dropped: 'Could an engineer implement this...' ban (positive design-and-coaching check carries it), absence-is-not- confirmation, unsupported-claims and labeling sentences -> gate E2E office-hours-spec-review; prior-status validation in office-hours-review.test.ts. - convergence evidence sentences, 'Recording concerns does not mark them fixed', Disposition, observation/attempt counting, 'unavailable score is null', 'missing or invalid verdict is ... never PASS', 'Preserve the failed output' -> office-hours-review.test.ts (convergence, finalize, invalid artifact vs --unreviewed, null quality_score) + gate E2E office-hours-spec-review; kept free: helper stop-reason order and round 3, /before fixing any findings or dispatching again/i, /on a stop, do not fix again or re-dispatch/i, /do not edit that generated section/i, finalize before /existing user approval/i, --unreviewed wiring, /do not fabricate JSON/i, /not an approval gate/i. - CEO spec-review sentences (Read Agent's tool definition, omit field, consume completed review, Keep both consistent, duplicated 'both complete labeled texts'/'all five dimensions'/'Preserve the failure'/'citing the owning input'/'## Reviewer Concerns', 'Read these documents' ban, strategy-only and narrow-decision sentences) -> CEO is periodic-only, so kept free: one short check per invariant (wait tool, no-wait resume, no advance while waiting, three launches, stop after third, stop the loop, missing score, null grade, SCORE 1-10, not persisted, mkdir/append stop, save-failure stop, ITERATIONS, FOUND/FIXED/REMAINING order, both inputs in full, partial-input refusal, summary-is-not-the-plan, 1-10 score, PASS rule, cite input) plus the existing order/count/command checks. - Design approval reconciliation (t01 F2, about 79 pins): - Pass 5 sentences and 'AskUserQuestion once per issue. Do NOT batch. Recommend + WHY.' -> kept free: /stop\W+AskUserQuestion once per issue/i located after four short reuse/new-evidence/first-decision checks; batching -> auq-format-always-loaded.test.ts PER_SKILL_RULES ('One issue = one AskUserQuestion call'). - duplicate 'Never group distinct issues.' pins (2 -> 1) and the rest of the Design gate 0 sentences -> kept free: 0 < 1 order, short checks per approval line, refresh < Read-back gate < rerun order; gate judge 'plan-design-review/SKILL.md passes'. - CEO readiness/gate/0D sentences -> kept free: one short check per approval line, readiness order, `Approval readiness: PASS`, gate order Read-only < Verify readiness < 1. Read, route order, /stop for the actual answer/i in step 4, `D<N> — <ROW-ID>` header, row fields; admin-route sentences -> ceo-workflow-clarity.test.ts kept checks. Dropped: 'No report or completion log is needed' (order check carries it), 'Save or present the updated plan', 'checked row IDs...' (marker kept), strategy-only/narrow-decision sentences (default kept), cross-model/integration sentences reduced to external-only and native-fallback checks. - Eng readiness/procedure sentences -> kept free: short approval checks, gate numbering/order, AUQ call < /stop until the actual answer arrives/i < Record the answer, recovery order; 'separate it and rebuild this comparison' -> auq-format-always-loaded.test.ts PER_SKILL_RULES. - Exit gate 'contract violation' sentence (t01 F9, design/devex/codex) -> kept free: heading anchor + /do not call ExitPlanMode/i inside the gate. - Unresolved-decisions gate (t01 F5): '(MANDATORY', 'Never omit'/'never omitted', 'FINAL non-whitespace line is the unresolved-decisions', 'FAILS the gate', 'DROP the current skill' -> kept free: NO UNRESOLVED DECISIONS, /final\s+non-whitespace\s+line/i, `**UNRESOLVED DECISIONS:**`, /missing\s+status [^.]*fails/i in every gate skill and the resolver, /avoids double-counting/i, the old soft-wording negative pin. - delete-then-append 'never mid-file' / 'Do NOT replace the section in place' (t01 F6) -> kept free: 'delete-then-append flow' + /append the new report at EOF/i; old-wording negatives kept. - design-html '**Never include by default (AI slop blacklist):**' (t01 F18) -> kept free: /AI slop blacklist/i, catalog id comment, lib/design-catalog.ts. - CODEX_BOUNDARY 'Do NOT read or execute any' casing (t10 F4) -> kept free: /do not read or execute any/i in every codex-calling skill. - CEO 0D order anchor '**STOP for the actual answer...**' (one of the 8) -> kept free: /stop for the actual answer/i at the same position. Mutation pass (scratch worktree, generated SKILL.md/sections plus spec-review.ts and lib/office-hours-review.ts; the freshness test is excluded with -t because any mutation makes it STALE): 43/43 as expected. 25 kept-step, marker, safety, numeric and retirement-control mutations go red; 18 rewordings of dropped sentences and lowered-register STOP/NEVER/FAILS lines stay green. Log: .context/mutation-gen-skill-docs.md. Runtime (Bun 1.4.0, wall, 3 runs): before 4.42/4.49/4.70s (median 4.49s), after 4.42/4.53/4.63s (median 4.53s). * test(W7c): review-workflow-clarity keeps order, tokens and gates, drops judged prose W7c (t06 #12). One test file. Each removed pin was the text fix for a past `review/SKILL.md workflow` judge finding; that judge (gate lane) still grades the prose, so the free test keeps only structure, tokens and gates. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - Plan-audit sentences ("retain the exact command ...", "A mixed item contributes to both lists", "Keep external-state ...", "If only behavioral checks remain ...", "File-existence checks ... are static audit checks") -> audited deliverables vs deferred behavioral checks: kept free checks on the separation, never DONE from a diff, zero-deliverable no-waive, UNVERIFIABLE -> Step 4.7, read-only audit (no apps/APIs/state) and inspect -before-invoke order; gate E2E review-exploratory-small-cli (gate). - QA loop/report duplicates of qa-probe-gates / qa-caller-authority (probe loop sentences, shared contracts, report layout prose, "Only the parent runs report-only discovery", "Read agent/user updates ...", "Prepare one provisional QA section", smoke composition) -> owned there (free, every host); here only `5 minutes/12 probes`, headings, link-every-checkpoint, no second report, never overwrite another run, freshness vs current inputs. - Persistence/finalization prose (~45: "final zero-edit pass, reconcile", "by structural identity", "without requiring deleted pre-extraction blocks", "raw bytes equal the bound snapshot blobs", "Keep both through re-reviews", "Earlier core tokens remain unused", "Re-read its final- snapshot supporting source ...", "Fixed advice needs no skip coverage", "The required in-host adversarial result controls native completion", "Optional outside attempts keep their own incomplete records ...", etc.) -> kept free token list (REVIEW_START/PASS_START, COMPLETED, CONVERGED, CYCLES=0 once, `review_binding`, `snapshot_covered_paths`, sharedLibsFingerprint, `completed:false`, evidence_paths/helper_target), cycle limit (at most 3, Below 3 repeat, At 3 persist `converged:false`), section order, and the integrity gates below; judge `review/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane); gate E2Es review-army-delivery-audit, review-army-json-findings, review-army-quality-score (gate). - Confidence-calibration prose (data loss/outage examples, missing field / nullable / race quoting, metaclass/ORM sentence, missing-literal sentence, learning-log sentence) -> kept the score table as a routing table (each band's action), `[CRITICAL]` / `[CRITICAL|INFORMATIONAL]`, no P0-2, `file:line`, force 4-5, never invent 7+, unverified-without-quote, gate before table; judge `review/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane). - Shared-code reuse safeguard enumeration (assume-unchanged/skip-worktree, sparse index, symlinks, submodules, Git filters, encodings, fsmonitor, textconv, provenance, binding wording) -> enforced in code and covered by free tests test/shared-libs-snapshot-check.test.ts, test/shared-libs-evidence.test.ts, test/shared-libs-checker-interface- evidence.test.ts; kept the checker command/heredoc/JSON tokens and the fail-closed lines. - Misc definitions ("A probe is affected when ...", "An invocation is this /review run ...", "Step 1.5's provisional notes ...", "Otherwise record each considered specialist", "Core findings use the confidence gates below", "highest confidence", "distinct specialists", "all source names", "active or unknown reader/writer", Greptile "Before edits, inspect ...") -> judge `review/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane). Kept as case-insensitive meaning checks (stop/consent/approval/safety): no edits before Step 5, readers returned or confirmed stopped, no edits in Step 4.8, stop without edits on unconfirmed readers (review and ship), stop at 3 cycles with no clean summary or fourth pass, failed/blocked probes mean incomplete, ship named-risk cannot complete review, native vs outside cannot substitute, structured-review gate, never carry coverage forward, never invent a binding, skipped advisory cannot suppress a defect, user-skip-only suppression, Greptile reply != code approval and wait for approval before editing, HIGH-impact gate options (A ends, read-only audit, no shipping authorization), never downgrade severity, never trust a supplied hash, missing metadata cannot dedupe, test creation needs approval, report-only review never runs setup/installs/cookie import. Kept unchanged: all marker-order arrays, manifest order, Pre-Landing summary after the logger, finish-token count and negatives, stale-wording bans (incl. `git diff origin/main`), ship/review routing negatives. Cosmetic pins dropped: STOP / NON / COUNT capitals; the test titled "resolves the judged ... ambiguities" is renamed to say what it keeps. Mutation log: .context/mutation-review-workflow-clarity.md (23 mutations, 0 unexpected: 3 reorders, 4 markers, 11 safety red; 5 rewordings green). * test(W7c): ship-control-flow keeps step routing, tokens and gates, drops rule prose W7c (t09 F1, F2, F3, F4). One test file. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - Work-list prose ("Expand a repair into individual steps ...", "This replaces the current item ...", "Add its destination only if ...", "The saved list takes precedence ...", "For another repair, repeat rule 2 ...", "The unchanged release steps follow", "Follow the saved work list", "Keep CYCLES and scoped approvals across this repeat", "Keep the findings and their approvals", "any further repair inserts its checks ...") -> repairs insert ordered steps ahead of pending work: kept free checks on the example sequences (`5 → … → 11.5`, `9 → 10 → 11` before 11.5, `5–11.5 → 12–14 → 16`, `14.5 → 15 → 16`, `9 → 10 → 11 → 11.5`), insert-before- pending routing lines, no unlisted steps, same attempt counts, no reset of the one-repair limit; judge `ship/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane); gate E2Es ship-docsync-recovery, ship-docsync-stale-after (gate). - Queue-qualification sentence pins duplicated in ship-version-sync (t09 F4: "require successful utility output ...", "`offline:false` qualifies ...", "Offline output without that fallback ...") -> kept in test/ship-version-sync.test.ts next to its script-behavior tests (free); here the Qualify < Usable < No-usable order, `NEW_VERSION=CANDIDATE_VERSION`, `>= NEW_VERSION`, `BUMP_LEVEL`, `currentVersion` and the approval line stay. - Distribution prose ("List candidate distribution paths", untracked files, manifest sentences) -> kept the New-artifact branch label, AskUserQuestion and the no-release-during-/ship safety line; gate E2E ship-local-workflow (gate). - Dispatch/dashboard/coverage prose ("Omitting the flag runs the subagent in the background", "keeping a fresh context", "Use one row for each entry in step 1", "including its undetermined-percentage and test-only rules") -> kept the `run_in_background: false` contract at all three sites, the dashboard header/verdict tokens, no inline Skill fallback, coverage gate not bypassed; gate E2E ship-coverage-audit (gate). - Recovery/docs/test sentences ("If an attempt remains and either ...", "a concrete launch/input/permission correction ...", "restart Step 16 stage 1 to regenerate ...", "This recovery also applies ... stage 5", "Content- preserving commits keep valid evidence", "Retain queued fixes and restore coverage", "If this pass made edits, resume at the next decision ...", "Undispatched host-unsupported/gated specialists do not block", "count it in the invocation record before launch", "Keep Step 9.4's incomplete flags", "saved handle, original token and source", "unknown or missing status is unavailable", "Finish the saved replies ...", "fetch and inspect the remote, then merge ...") -> judge `ship/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane); gate E2Es ship-docsync-* (gate) and ship-skipped-queued-finding (gate); the adjacent stop/approval lines stay free. Kept as case-insensitive meaning checks (t09 F1/F3; stop/consent/approval and safety lines): STOP and AskUserQuestion gates apply during repairs, a repair never resets or expands approvals, children return evidence not permission, prior-invocation audits never qualify, one repair/re-audit and no third attempt (initial-plus-one, once), Otherwise -> stop unless the user accepts the named docs risk, never silently refresh hashes, never run a third audit, dispatched-reviewer-missing -> stop, CYCLES >= 3 -> stop with `converged:false`, no fourth cycle, missing coverage cannot be replaced, failed probes never clean, required-probe gate before Step 10, cannot waive reviewer/test/security gates, native recovery stops the task first and remains blocked, outside output cannot replace native, never attach new tokens to old work, failed build stops shipping, never edit the child's counts, test failure stops publication, push failure stops with no Step 19, never rewrite history, never bypass failed guards, both redaction scans before publishing, no release publish during /ship, only approval changes the version, declining bootstrap is not test approval. Kept unchanged: the executed plan-tune nudge shell test (3 roots), section/ step ordering checks, Step 11.5 placement and `review_binding.*` fields, branch-label order in the adversarial finish (every host), all stale- wording bans, `(recommended)` marker on Add tests. Cosmetic pins dropped: STOP / ONE capitals (t09 F1, F3). Mutation log: .context/mutation-ship-control-flow.md (21 mutations, 0 unexpected: 3 reorders, 3 markers, 9 safety red; 6 rewordings green). * test(W7h): replace workflow-judge-cache source-grep counts with an invariant W7h retirement (t09 F16, t13 F6) of the source-grep counts in 'workflow registration preserves model work and reserves only terminal-recording grace'. The stage-order check over runWorkflowJudge (the cheapest guard) and every behavioral callback test stay. Retirement card: - test: workflow-judge-cache.test.ts pins of skill-llm-eval.test.ts source: "execution: reused ? 'reused' : 'executed'", 'const workDeadline = started + JUDGE_MS;', 'const WORKFLOW_JUDGE_RECORD_MS = 5_000;', 'const WORKFLOW_JUDGE_TEST_MS = JUDGE_MS + 10_000;', "testName: 'review/SKILL.md workflow'", and the magic counts /}, WORKFLOW_JUDGE_TEST_MS\);/ x17 and /}, JUDGE_MS\);/ x7. - detects: any workflow eval added or removed, any constant reformatted. - non_test_callers: none. - stronger_proof / replacement: (a) a new invariant in the same test: every `await runWorkflowJudge(` registration closes with WORKFLOW_JUDGE_TEST_MS (the property the 17-count stood in for, now independent of how many evals exist); (b) the real-callback tests in this file exercise execute-once, reuse with provenance (execution reused/executed), timeout, supersede, expiry and the recording deadline. - history: 636175d (#2898); last 7fca42a. - validation: bun test test/workflow-judge-cache.test.ts. Controls (scratch worktree, test/skill-llm-eval.test.ts): moving cache.publish before the score assertions or registering the ship workflow judge with JUDGE_MS goes red; adding a correctly registered eval and reformatting 5_000 as 5000 (both red under the old pins) stay green (4/4). Log: .context/mutation-workflow-judge-cache.md. * test(W7h): retire the bws session-awareness (ELI16) paid case W7h retirement (t14 F5). Removes the case from test/skill-e2e-bws.test.ts and its E2E_TOUCHFILES / E2E_TIERS (gate) / E2E_KINDS (rule) entries in test/helpers/touchfiles-data.ts; scripts/paid-test-durations.json is per-file and test/helpers/periodic-exclude-data.ts had no entry. test/touchfiles.test.ts selection examples now name sibling cases with the same touchfiles (skillmd-outside-git, skillmd-no-local-binary). e2e-tier-alignment, eval-kinds and touchfiles stay green. Retirement card: - test: skill-e2e-bws.test.ts 'session-awareness' (gate, paid). - detects: nothing gstack ships. The prompt coaches a mode that no longer exists ("_SESSIONS=4, so ELI16 mode is active ... Re-ground them"; `git grep ELI16` outside test/ and CHANGELOG is empty) and says "DO NOT actually call AskUserQuestion"; every asserted word (billing/acme, payment/feature, stripe/checkout, recommend) comes from the prompt itself. - non_test_callers: none. - search_command: git grep -n "session-awareness\|ELI16" -- test scripts - stronger_proof / replacement: the AUQ format's grounding line 'Project/branch/task: <1 short grounding sentence using _BRANCH>' is pinned free by plan-review-calibration.test.ts (format tokens) and graded by gate E2E auq-format-gate; session identity in the preamble stays pinned by skill-validation.test.ts 'contains session awareness' and gen-skill-docs.test.ts 'session awareness lives in gstack-skill-start'. - history: c118e24 v1.64.1.0 (#2572). - validation: bun test test/touchfiles.test.ts test/e2e-tier-alignment.test.ts test/eval-kinds.test.ts. Control (scratch worktree, against the replacement): removing the 'Project/branch/task:' grounding line from the AUQ format resolver turns plan-review-calibration.test.ts red (1/1). Log: .context/mutation-session-awareness.md. * test(W7h): pin the Codex availability probe free for the four offering skills Replacement check for the codex-offered-* paid retirement (t14 F8): each of office-hours, plan-ceo-review, plan-design-review and plan-eng-review must render the executed `command -v codex` probe and its `not_installed` fallback mode in its generated SKILL.md + sections. These are bash lines the agent runs, so a deterministic grep replaces a paid model summary of them. skill-validation.test.ts already covers the default-on outside voice for eng/CEO/devex; this adds office-hours and plan-design-review and the fallback token. Control (scratch worktree, generated files): removing the probe from office-hours, plan-design-review or plan-eng-review, or the CEO not_installed branch, turns the new test red (4/4). Log: .context/mutation-codex-offering.md. * test(W7c): ship-workflow-clarity becomes a structural check of ship-only invariants W7c (t07 F1, F2, F15). One test file: 59 tests / ~438 pins -> 33 tests. Round-tagged titles (r6/r12/r22) are gone. Every invariant this file shared with the other converted ship files is now checked once, in its owner: ship-control-flow (work list, repair ranges, docs/test/push recovery, adversarial finish order, Step 11.5 binding), ship-plan-completion- invariants (evidence ledger, push/commit, waivers), ship-reentry-gates (stop lines, docs reentry, NEW_TITLE), workflow-excerpt (review cycle order, coverage/probe gates), qa-probe-gates / qa-caller-authority (QA loop). Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - Duplicated literals (45 repeated 2-7x, e.g. "Keep the same attempt counts throughout the invocation" x7, "Docs, TODO edits ... make evidence STALE" x5, the CYCLES >= 3 / fixes-below-cap / no-edits sentences, push-failure and native-recovery sentences) -> one free check each in the owners above. - Smoke/plan-check loop sentences and "Required even for small diffs ..." -> qa-probe-gates (free, every host); gate E2E ship-exploratory-small-cli (gate). Kept here: smoke guard started once before step 3, every host. - Invocation-record field lists (receipt/handle/attempt field prose, "reuse this invocation's saved level", FRESH/ALREADY_BUMPED level derivation, receipt definition, start-token definition) -> kept `BUMP_LEVEL`, record outside the product tree, approval scope, never borrow/replace a token, REVIEW_START/PASS_START/DESIGN_START, `gstack-review-log --start`, `gstack-wtree`; version derivation also in test/ship-version-sync.test.ts (free); judge `ship/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane). - Reuse/judge-evidence prose ("original command, result/counts ...", "Compare hashes or complete bytes", "consumed files, fixtures ...", "complete expanded request, rubric ...") -> kept never resample, changed/ unknown dependencies rerun, mandatory reviews still run, freeze inputs; judge `ship/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane). - Build/route prose ("If none exists, record not applicable ...", "declared generation/build commands ...", "Run them and save results", "Explain why other changes cannot affect it", "Inspect writer handles, including the docs child", "Keep Step 8's original child report and counts", "Recheck affected plan items ...", "append current evidence ...") -> kept stage order, route-label order, prompts/templates count as behavior, no-change -> stage 3, writer termination before another writer, stop until confirmed, build-failed label, no substitute command; gate E2Es ship-docsync-* (gate). - Docs-collector prose ("Terminal completion or confirmed termination is sufficient", "Require every field/type ...", "Compare saved base and input hashes ...", "Otherwise save post-child hashes ...", "A stale snapshot is neither ...", "Reconcile those before proceeding") -> kept attempt counting incl. failed launches, request alone insufficient, exited child blocked, HEAD/index unchanged + `files_updated`, protected-file exclusions, `documentation_section`, failed/blocked -> recovery, actual user exception, blocked status retained, same approved scope and exact content, retry restarts stage 1; gate E2Es ship-docsync-missing-marker, ship-docsync-launch-failure, ship-docsync-late-result (gate). - Release/commit prose ("Record the release decision after a version was actually written", "Skip unchanged versions and manifest-only repairs", "Best-effort, non-interactive, non-blocking", "Group VERSION + CHANGELOG + TODOS.md ...", "Only the final VERSION/CHANGELOG commit gets the release version and co-author trailer", "use the first changed component ... (major/minor/patch/micro") -> kept ALREADY_BUMPED, the stale "skip if ALREADY_BUMPED" ban, `baseVersion`/`currentVersion`, absent fourth component is zero, no automatic rebump, digest tokens and pre-push digest check, no Git tag, commit-before-push order; gate E2E ship-local-workflow (gate). - Coverage/design prose ("Count each generation-authorized attempt ...", "including the initial audit, failures and zero-test results", "Two passes already used ...", "read-only reassessment uses no pass", design-lite ownership, same path/line merge, specialist stats, distinct defects) -> kept the 2-pass and 30/5/2-minute limits, re-entry never resets, missing permission is not approval, audit-only header/override order/no commit/ return decisions, child JSON, one item with both sources and stricter ASK, neither pass substitutes; gate E2Es ship-coverage-audit, ship-coverage-value (gate). Design-review-lite E2E is periodic, so the merge rule keeps its free meaning check here. - Spec/title/comment prose ("existing open PR/MR", "one match supplies the existing title/identity", "Save the result for Step 19's recheck", "In a new shell, restore ...", "Partial, deferred, failed, dropped or unverified scope uses ...", "newest", "Try to auto-resolve if they are simple", "distinguish an app from a library/CLI", "If the ask is App Store/ TestFlight distribution", "a new package.json or Cargo.toml alone ...", "After edits, the full re-review repeats ...") -> judge `ship/SKILL.md workflow` (gate lane); ship-apple-gate (free) for the Apple route. Kept as case-insensitive meaning checks (stop/consent/approval/safety, always kept): never invent credentials, ask for unknown targets first, include the workflow in tests/review, frontmatter read as data never shell source, exact spec_branch match, positive-integer issue number, Closes #N only for fully completed scope, lookup failure/ambiguous match -> stop never "no PR", never publish an unprefixed title, ambiguous conflicts -> stop, AskUserQuestion and wait, unclear Apple target -> AskUserQuestion and wait, confirmed app -> stop and Read, stop for repair (recommended) or accept each named probe risk, skipping a fix is not risk acceptance, accepted risk is not passing verification, queue without editing in Steps 10/11, never credit outside coverage, do not report a clean review, unavailable outside challenge never resets the three-cycle limit, records mismatch blocks release, missing snapshots block regardless of HEAD, uncertain edits cannot be exempted, scripts/dependencies/runtime config need live tests, named testing gap A/B/C (recommended), reuse prior B only for same scope, declared but unavailable suite blocks, explicit untested-scope approval, report the gap never FRESH, no documentation writer after push, do not run create commands for an existing PR, Greptile status truthfulness. Kept unchanged: all stale-string bans, machine tokens and JSON contracts (`gh pr list ... --json number,title,url`, glab list, `v$NEW_VERSION `, `${NEW_TITLE:?...}` guard, exit 3, `--allow-paths ...`, `| FRESH (exit 0) |`, `--label <lane> --expect-cmd`, `gstack-review-read`, `git diff <reviewed-tree> <current-tree>`, `"status":"complete|no_pr|unavailable"`, specialist and coverage JSON, `status:"unavailable"`/`completed:false`/`converged:false`, `Pre-Landing Review: INCOMPLETE`, `ALREADY_PUSHED`), the threshold/branch/ installed-asset reference test, the section-index row check. Cosmetic pins dropped: STOP / ONE / ONLY capitals and bold (t07 F2). Mutation log: .context/mutation-ship-workflow-clarity.md (23 mutations, 0 unexpected: 4 reorders, 4 markers, 9 safety red; 6 rewordings green, all of which turned the old test red). * test(W7c): qa-exploratory-callers keeps phase order and authority, drops duplicated prose W7c (t04 F8, F16). One test file; only the generated-parent-path and runner-prompt pins change. The validator-backed caller tests (observer, checkpoint causality, read-only diff grammar, write watcher, deadline authority) are unchanged. Removed assertion groups (invariant -> remaining protection): - Parent-path loop and preparation pins duplicated from qa-probe-gates (Reads in order, "Reuse Step 4's surfaces ...", "Finish missing methods before charters", isolation preflight, shared preparation order, the six plan-execution sentences, the three shared loop contracts) -> owned by qa-probe-gates (free, every host, with semantic mutation controls). - Parent prose ("Templates cannot replace them", "Only the parent runs report-only discovery", "Read agent/user updates and await results ...", report-clean and not-run list duplicates of qa-caller-authority) -> caller observer attribution tests in this file (free) and gate E2Es review-exploratory-small-cli, ship-exploratory-small-cli (gate); report gates stay in qa-caller-authority (free, every host). - Shared-loop duplicates (preserve key/value, Q supplies observed, write the report, return to step 2, pass requires) -> qa-probe-gates / qa-caller-authority; kept the observationCommand/observed field definitions and identity-hash rule here. - Runner harness prompt sentences (t04 F16: receipt-interface prose, appendSystemPrompt rules, scheduling prompt) -> reduced to one anchor per rule; `at most ${maxTurns} assistant turns`, maxTurns/timeout/reserve values, `(probe-...)`, `reports/review.md`, and every `not.toMatch` scenario-answer ban stay. validateCallerEvidence remains the behavioral oracle. Kept as case-insensitive meaning checks: phase order 1-4 per caller, review readiness follows report-only rules and never installs/imports cookies/bootstraps, smoke stop at 5 minutes or 12 probes, G enforces the deadline, never reset D/bypass G, plan checks remain required past the smoke budget, /review incomplete and /ship blocked unless the user accepts the named risk, repeat step 3 for affected checks, harness keeps parent decision gates, turn limit never authorizes skipping work, never group probes, Hard deadline UTC rule, HANDOFF.md read before completed records, no checkpoint for deferred ideas. Cosmetic pins dropped: AND / Never capitals. Mutation log: .context/mutation-qa-exploratory-callers.md (15 mutations, 0 unexpected: 2 reorders, 2 markers, 6 safety red; 5 rewordings green). * test(W7h): pin the CEO /office-hours prerequisite structure free Replacement check for the plan-ceo-review-benefits paid retirement (t14 F7). The paid case had a model summarize plan-ceo-review/SKILL.md and grep the summary for "office hours" and "design doc". The rendered text is static, so this free test checks it directly: the Prerequisite Skill Offer triggers on the design-doc check's "No design doc found", offers 'A) Run /office-hours now' and 'B) Skip — proceed with standard review', does not re-offer later in the session, and Mid-session detection (0A) offers `/office-hours`. Per the Eng Retirements item, CEO invariants become periodic-only once this gate case retires, so they keep this structural free check. Control (scratch worktree, generated plan-ceo-review/SKILL.md): removing the /office-hours option, the no-design-doc trigger, the mid-session offer or the no-re-offer rule goes red; rewording the pitch stays green (5/5). Log: .context/mutation-ceo-benefits.md. * test(W7h): retire the paid SKILL.md-summary cases in skill-e2e-plan W7h retirement (t14 F6-F8): office-hours-spec-review, plan-ceo-review-benefits and codex-offered-{office-hours,ceo-review,design-review,eng-review}. Each asked a model to read a generated SKILL.md, write a summary, and grepped the summary for facts the generated file states directly. Registration cleanup in the same commit: E2E_TOUCHFILES, E2E_TIERS (all six gate) and E2E_KINDS (rule) in test/helpers/touchfiles-data.ts; six scripts/paid-test-durations.json case-shard entries; no test/helpers/periodic-exclude-data.ts entries existed. The fast PR profile (scripts/test-pr-profile.ts) drops plan-ceo-review-benefits and office-hours-spec-review from PR_PROFILE_CASE_IDS and PR_PROFILE_FILES. Tests that named the retired ids as live examples move to existing ones: paid-free-boundary and paid-pr-profile (a CEO template change now plans auq-format-gate plus the CEO judge; the case-shard fixture uses plan-review-report), test-pr-profile, touchfiles (CEO selection count 21 -> 19), the touchfile-moved-code w5 golden (retired ids removed), the behavior-lane case-shard census (78 -> 72) in cookie-validation-phases, and the skill-e2e-plan timeout list and full-gate PR floor (78,425 -> 72,755 s) in paid-retry-supervision. e2e-tier-alignment, eval-kinds, eval-detach-timeout-floor and paid-shards stay green. Coverage consequence: per the Eng Retirements item, plan-ceo-review-benefits was the only gate-tier CEO E2E in the fast PR profile, so CEO invariants are treated as periodic-only under the W7c gate (every CEO conversion in this branch keeps one free check per invariant); the gate judge 'plan-ceo-review/SKILL.md modes' still runs for CEO prompt changes. An office-hours prompt change now has no fast PR E2E and is reported as deferred to broad coverage rather than run. Retirement cards: - office-hours-spec-review: detects the Spec Review Loop's stated dimensions, dispatch tool, iteration cap and metrics. Replacement: gen-skill-docs.test.ts 'SPEC_REVIEW_LOOP resolver' (round-3 cap, prepare/check/finalize commands, verdict and round-file wiring) and test/office-hours-review.test.ts (verdict parsing). Control: changing the round limit in scripts/resolvers/spec-review.ts turns gen-skill-docs red. - plan-ceo-review-benefits: detects the CEO /office-hours prerequisite and mid-session offer. Replacement: gen-skill-docs.test.ts 'plan-ceo-review offers /office-hours when no design doc exists and detects a lost user mid-session' (previous commit). Control: 4/4 red mutations there. - codex-offered-* (x4): detects the `command -v codex` probe, a fallback and optionality. Replacement: gen-skill-docs.test.ts 'Codex outside voice is offered behind an executed availability probe' (probe + not_installed fallback for all four skills) and skill-validation.test.ts 'plan reviews run the Codex outside voice default-on'. Control: 4/4 red there. - non_test_callers: none; history: c118e24 v1.64.1.0 (#2572). - validation: the registration tests named above. Controls log: .context/mutation-skill-e2e-plan-retirements.md. * test(W7h): delete the codex-offering prompt builder left unused by the retirement Dead-code follow-up to the codex-offered-* retirement: buildCodexOfferingPrompt (test/helpers/codex-offering-fixture.ts) had no caller besides those cases. Deletes the helper, its free test (test/codex-offering-fixture.test.ts), the two captured public fixtures it replayed, its scripts/free-test-durations.json entry, and the helper/fixture paths still listed as touchfiles of six plan review E2Es in test/helpers/touchfiles-data.ts. Retirement card: - test: codex-offering-fixture.test.ts (pinned the builder's prompt text and replayed captured timeout/CDD transcripts against it). - detects: changes to a prompt that no paid case sends any more. - non_test_callers: none (grep -rn codex-offering test scripts is empty). - replacement: none needed; the behavior it supported is now the free probe check in gen-skill-docs.test.ts. - validation: bun test test/touchfiles.test.ts test/touchfiles-map-diff.test.ts test/paid-shards.test.ts test/e2e-tier-alignment.test.ts; bun run typecheck. * test(W7h): delete validateOfficeHoursSpecSummary left unused by the retirement Dead-code follow-up to the office-hours-spec-review retirement: validateOfficeHoursSpecSummary in test/helpers/office-hours-completion.ts graded only that paid case's model-written summary. Deletes it and its free describe block in test/office-hours-completion.test.ts ('office-hours spec-review summary completion'); every other validator and test in both files is unchanged. Retirement card: - detects: a summary missing five dimensions, the Agent dispatch, the 3 iteration cap or the four metrics. - non_test_callers: none. - replacement: the facts it graded are pinned free on the generated text by gen-skill-docs.test.ts 'SPEC_REVIEW_LOOP resolver' (round-3 cap and loop wiring); see the retirement commit's control. - validation: bun test test/office-hours-completion.test.ts. * test(W7h): drop the no-op review-report check from setup-gbrain-remote W7h retirement (t12 F9) of one assertion in the paid setup-gbrain-remote case. No registration changes (the case stays). Retirement card: - assertion: `expect(/## GSTACK REVIEW REPORT|critical_gaps/i .test(result.output)).toBe(false)` with its comment. - detects: /setup-gbrain writing a plan-review report or critical_gaps findings, which it never produces; the removed comment itself said "Setup-gbrain doesn't have a review report contract". Copied from the plan-review tests (c118e24, #2572). - non_test_callers: none. - replacement: none needed; `grep -rln "PLAN_FILE_REVIEW_REPORT\|GSTACK REVIEW REPORT\|critical_gaps" setup-gbrain/*.tmpl setup-gbrain/sections/*.tmpl` is empty, so there is no behavior to control. The case's real contracts stay: the secret token never reaches CLAUDE.md, `mcp add ... --transport http`, and `Mode: remote-http` (read by bin/gstack-gbrain-detect). - validation: bun test test/skill-e2e-setup-gbrain-remote.test.ts (skips without EVALS; module loads). * test(W7h): delete incompleteFirstFileView, which no paid case uses W7h retirement (task scope: "incompleteFirstFileView + its free test in test/shared-libs-fixture.test.ts if no paid case uses it"). `grep -rn incompleteFirstFileView test scripts` showed only the export in test/helpers/shared-libs-eval-fixture.ts and its own free describe block; no paid case or grader calls it, so the helper and the two tests that pinned it are dead code. Retirement card: - test: shared-libs-fixture.test.ts 'incompleteFirstFileView (census 36641820398 shared-libs-pr-coverage)' (2 tests). - detects: regressions in a page-1 recovery classifier nothing consumes. - non_test_callers: none. - replacement: none needed; the shared-libs page budgets that a recovery read is charged to stay enforced by the kept budget function and its tests. - validation: bun test test/shared-libs-fixture.test.ts (241 pass); bun run typecheck. * test: update the periodic release floor for the opus-5-5 overlay case paid-retry-supervision.test.ts 'detached PR fallback and release commands cover their actual default worker budgets' was red on the integrated base 23a0be82d (green on f30b7b7): 737bf478d (E2, "dedicated-tools overlay case pinned to claude-opus-5-5") added a periodic file, so the recomputed periodic release floor is 33,852 s, not the pinned 33,821 s. Updates the pinned floor and the two-tier sum (55,546 -> 55,577 s); the detached release wall (116,700 s) still exceeds the recomputed census wall plus 120 s, which the same test asserts, so package.json does not change. eval-detach-timeout-floor stays green. * test(E1): pin CLAUDE.md facts, /ship step references and state-root literals New free test test/instruction-facts.test.ts (CEO/DX/Eng E1 items; DX-13 one named test() per check, each failure prints both values, file:line and the fix): - 'CLAUDE.md names every TREE_MUTATING file and does not call the set empty': imports TREE_MUTATING from scripts/test-free-shards.ts (today test/bootstrap-retention.test.ts). - 'CLAUDE.md states the current catalog ceiling from test/catalog-budget.test.ts': the "`CATALOG_BUDGET_TOKEN_EQUIVALENTS` (N today" value must equal the constant (1,194). - 'CLAUDE.md points at package.json for detach timeouts instead of stating numbers': no eval:bg* --timeout value appears in CLAUDE.md (plain or with commas), and the detach section names package.json's eval:bg:gate / eval:bg:periodic and states no timeout number. - 'every explicit /ship Step reference names a defined /ship step with the expected title': matches only `/ship Step N` and `/ship's Step N` (backticked or not) across every .tmpl and scripts/resolvers/; each must be a table row whose step is a heading in ship/SKILL.md.tmpl or ship/sections/*.md.tmpl whose title contains the row's subject, and the reference's line or enclosing heading must mention that subject; stale rows fail. Today: document-release release-body Step 7 -> /ship Step 14 (TODOS.md), plus the incident-history comment in scripts/resolvers/constants.ts ("/ship Step 18"), kept as a historical row with a reason (handoff: that comment's step is stale; the dispatch is Step 14.5). - 'negative control: moving a reference to another existing /ship step fails': rewrites the TODOS reference to Step 12 in memory and asserts the checker reports it. - 'every ~/.gstack/projects/ and ~/.gstack/analytics/ hit is allowlisted with a reason' and 'every state-root allowlist row still matches a hit': all 37 current hits in .tmpl and scripts/resolvers/ are covered by 36 rows, each with one of four reasons (user-facing description; gbrain context_queries manifest glob read literally by bin/gstack-brain-context-load.ts; source comment; pending conversion tracked in TODOS.md). The readiness-gate EVAL_DIR rows reuse the reason from test/state-root-ratchet.allowlist.json. New hits fail, and converting a literal fails until its row is deleted. Mutation pass (scratch worktree): 15/15 as expected; drifting the catalog number in CLAUDE.md or the constant, dropping or emptying TREE_MUTATING text, adding a TREE_MUTATING key, copying a detach timeout into CLAUDE.md, moving/undefining/retitling a /ship reference, a new /ship reference, a new state-root literal and a converted allowlisted literal all go red; unrelated rewording stays green. Log: .context/mutation-instruction-facts.md. * test: integration repairs after F2 (calibration test renders the AUQ format; census counts and release floors without the reverted overlay case) * chore: constants comment names the /ship documentation dispatch, not a stale step number * test: office-hours-auto-mode joins the fast PR profile (replaces the retired office-hours-spec-review probe) * docs: TODOS for the Opus 5.5 prompt-cleanup deferrals * fix(state-root): design-doc discovery reads $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT/projects DESIGN_DOC_DISCOVERY and autoplan's Step 2 design-doc lookup read the literal ~/.gstack/projects path, so under a non-default state root they missed the docs office-hours writes. The block now globs "$GSTACK_STATE_ROOT"/projects, and each caller's bash block (autoplan, plan-ceo/devex/eng-review, the spec-review prerequisite recheck) resolves the root with the guarded gstack-paths eval first. Allowlist: drops the autoplan ls row, both _LOCALDOC rows and the resolver source-comment row from STATE_ROOT_ALLOWLIST. Tests: the eng Design Doc Check fixture installs gstack-paths and seeds docs under a non-default root; the CEO discovery fixture passes an explicit GSTACK_STATE_ROOT. * chore: regenerate SKILL.md and context budget after design-doc discovery state-root change * fix(state-root): history, report and ledger paths name $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT Agent-facing read/write paths that named the literal ~/.gstack default now name the state root their writers use: - canary-history.jsonl and health-history.jsonl (the blocks above already resolve the root and print PROJECT_DIR) - ios-design-review report: adds {{SLUG_SETUP}} so the report path is the PROJECT_DIR it prints - plan-tune dream-cycle gate's distillation-proposals.json - retro's skill-usage and eureka reads: read the path gstack-retro-metrics prints (it already checks $_gstack_sr_root/analytics) - ship's apple-effects.log durable-effect ledger and the gstack-evidence ledger description (bin/gstack-evidence writes under resolveStateRoot()) Allowlist: drops the nine matching PENDING rows from STATE_ROOT_ALLOWLIST. * chore: regenerate SKILL.md, ship goldens and context budget after history/ledger state-root paths * fix(state-root): taste-profile legacy fallback globs $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT designs The legacy approved.json fallback in {{TASTE_PROFILE}} (design-consultation, design-shotgun) named the literal ~/.gstack/projects path while the approval writers use $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT/projects/$SLUG/designs. Allowlist: drops the design.ts PENDING row. Pin (W7a): design-consultation-contract's exact glob string becomes a meaning-level check (legacy fallback names the state-root designs dir and approved.json, and no ~/.gstack literal). * chore: regenerate SKILL.md and context budget after taste-profile state-root glob * fix(state-root): completion-status telemetry prose names $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT/analytics gstack-skill-end writes analytics under the resolved state root ($_GH), so the PLAN MODE EXCEPTION note now names $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT/analytics/ instead of the ~/.gstack default. Allowlist: drops the generate-completion-status.ts PENDING row. Pin (W7a): gen-skill-docs 'render documents the analytics sink' now checks that the render names the state-root analytics dir. * chore: regenerate SKILL.md, ship goldens and context budget after telemetry prose state-root change * fix(state-root): gbrain context_queries globs use {gstack_state_root}/ bin/gstack-brain-context-load.ts resolves the {gstack_state_root}/ prefix through gstack-paths (configuredStateGlob); the legacy ~ form only matched the default root. The nine projects/analytics manifest globs in design-consultation, design-shotgun, investigate, office-hours, plan-ceo-review and retro now use the prefix, as does office-hours' builder-profile developer-profile.json glob (plan-tune writes it under $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT). Allowlist: drops the nine MANIFEST_GLOB rows and the now-unused MANIFEST_GLOB and PENDING reasons; the header lists the remaining row kinds. Tests: new brain-context-load case loads the shipped investigate and office-hours queries against a configured root and proves a file only under ~/.gstack is not read. * chore: regenerate SKILL.md and context budget after manifest state-root globs * plan-tune, office-hours, retro: read gate and profile files from the state root (E1 follow-up) * chore: regenerate plan-tune, office-hours, retro * release: v1.91.15.0 — Opus 5.5 prompt cleanup, behavior-level skill tests, transcript consent * test: calibration-gate scan reads tracked files with POSIX paths (windows-free-tests) * test: skillify E2E sweeps the state root (GSTACK_HOME) where the global tier actually writes * qa-only: one rule for mixed-run clocks; annotations and materialize are per probe directory * chore: regenerate qa-only * test: shared-libs evals deliver the skill instructions in context, as a loaded skill does * Revert design-doc discovery state-root conversion: it made plan-eng-review ask its scope gate in prose (plan-mode no-op eval) * chore: regenerate after design-doc discovery revert * test: plan-review-report prompt asks plainly to save the review to plan.md * docs: CHANGELOG and TODOS reflect the held design-doc discovery conversion * docs: exact eval counts for the held design-doc conversion * test: coverage-audit grader accepts read-only git diff with a -- pathspec (CI run 37094035231 shape) * qa: plain self-regulation stop rule; drop the report template's link to an index.md nothing writes * chore: regenerate qa * qa: --quick sets both tier and exploration; say how browser phases and functional contracts share the probe loop * chore: regenerate qa * test: a bare QA helper invocation is a usage probe, like --help (CI run ship-exploratory-unavailable)	2026-10-03 01:19:03 -07:00
Garry Tan	943105f109	v1.91.8.0 test: smaller suite, derived paid selection, retired never-green evals (#2994) ... * test: delete test-infrastructure dead code (G) - exit-propagation drives the runner's real strict verdict (BunTestOutputClassifier + strictTestExitCode); delete the unused shardRunLooksTruncated predicate. - delete skill-coverage-matrix registry + its gate (nothing reads it; the floor already iterates skillCensus()). - delete touchfiles-facade export-parity tests (Bun fails missing imports at link time) and the duplicated E2E_TIERS tier-value test. - delete brain-cache-spec TRANSPORT_DEFAULT_POLICY, SKILL_RUN_RETENTION_DAYS and the now-unused BrainTrustPolicy type with their literal tests. AUTOPLAN_PREFLIGHT_BUDGET_BYTES stays: skill-preflight-budget enforces it against real resolver output. - delete audit-compliance's JSDoc-comment grep. * test: replace product tests that fake the product with real-boundary tests (F) - design: serve.test.ts drove an inline mirror server; now two tests run the real serve() on an ephemeral port (reload confinement, submit exit 0). - setup-gbrain: rollback + voyage tests execute the template-extracted init blocks (3 sites) instead of drifted local bash copies. - terminal-agent: internalHandler source greps replaced by a behavioral /internal/grant + /internal/revoke auth matrix (no/wrong/valid token). - /health: server-security-surface and the server-auth / security-audit-r2 / sidebar-tabs source greps fold into one liveness-only check on the real body; the L4 sidecar wiring gets a behavioral /pty-inject-scan test. - delete tautologies (browser-manager onDisconnect, memory-command #12), ios swiftui tap fixture self-check, memory-ingest put_page grep, detach source greps, sidebar-agent absence pins, dead-CSS pins + the dead CSS, security-audit-r2 Task 1 + the test-only meta-commands re-export, duplicate generated-SKILL.md checks. - make-pdf coverage-gaps cases move into their owner test files. * test: delete tests of dead eval code (A) - A1: the retired Eng lexical oracle (evaluateEngSeedCoverage, isEngSeedDecisionAUQ), the completion-handoff detector and the retained corpus had no paid caller since v1.87.6; delete their 26 replay files, ~2.6k helper LOC and fixtures, and the dead blocks in 8 mixed files (live hasNativePlanTerminal / batching assertions stay). - A2: dead viewport approvers in autoplan-artifact-permission and their 11 replay files + fixtures; recorder/launcher cases stay. - A3: never-wired oracles and seeders (autoplan-phase-order, eng-finding-fixture, ceo-paired-fixture, design-ui-scope, plan-skill-completion, pty-current-screen, required-reads, transcript-section-logger); plan-seed-submission now decodes through the production createPtyScreen; section manifests name their actual guard. - A4: zero-reference helper exports, plus execGit and invokeAndObserve found by the reachability pass. - 52 fixtures orphaned by the deletions; touchfile and selection-table entries for every deleted path. * test: clean up the paid eval lane (B1-B4, B6, B7) - B1: delete paid files that assert nothing or cannot pass meaningfully: skill-llm-eval-spec and skill-e2e-spec-execute (test.todo), gemini-e2e (+ gemini-session-runner; no gemini CLI in CI), ship-idempotency (red since v1.63), the two opus-4-7 *-sonnet overlay wrappers, conductor-prose (+ its source-evaluation replay), codex-e2e-plan-format; drop their keys, scripts and census rows. - B2: skill-llm-eval grades browse/sections/command-list.md with one union judge that also carries the baseline score pin; regression-vs-baseline deleted (paid run: pass, c4/c4/a4). - B3: memory-pipeline, ios-qa, ios-qa-swift-build and plan-tune-cathedral make no model calls; renamed out of the paid glob so they run on every PR. Swift builds need GSTACK_TEST_SWIFT=1; device stub deleted. - B4: codex-e2e*, outside-voice, aside and ios-device cannot run in the CI image; excluded from the weekly lane with a tracked re-entry condition. - B6: fold opus-47's negative routing controls into skill-routing-e2e journey-negatives (paid run: 3/3 unrouted) and delete the file. - B7: delete the never-green brain-privacy-gate eval; a free gstack-skill-start test now proves consent precedes artifacts egress. * test: retire the finding-count cluster and trim its helpers (C) - C0/C1: the five never-green evals (skill-e2e-autoplan-chain and skill-e2e-plan-{ceo,eng,design,devex}-finding-count) failed on harness and budget, never on skill behavior; delete them, their touchfile/tier ids, AUTOPLAN_CHAIN_BUDGET and the dedicated eighth periodic slice (--slices 7). - C2: delete the helper groups whose only paid consumers were those files (11 modules), trim claude-pty-runner and eng-seeded-coverage to the paid closure, and delete the free replay tests whose assertions exercised only that dead code (89 files, 135 orphaned fixtures). Blocks that used dead code only as input for a live subject keep their assertions: the multiSelect default moved to plan-review-decisions, runner PTY tests use inline caller policies, and the timer-safe budget checks moved to eng-finding-retry-budget. - The eight production-touching files stay except ceo-current-decision-record (its template read only feeds the retired counter). - CARVE_GUARDS.autoplan is behavioral 'none'; TODOS records the lost chain and per-finding cadence coverage with their re-entry tests. * test: fold per-incident replay series into their detector owners (D) Twelve detector families move into one owner test each: 73 incident files become describe blocks in ceo-section-loading-fixture (stale-fill race), model-overlays, coverage-audit-evidence, autoplan-phase-observer, native-auto-decide, outside-voice-evidence, eng-first-review, plan-count-completion, plan-count-file-permission, ceo-mode-option, plan-scope-selection and plan-count-prerequisite. Each block keeps its original code and fixture, so every case still runs; only tests asserting the incident file's own touchfile registration are dropped (41). Touchfile lists that named an incident now name its owner. * test: start the plan-count history PTY on its readiness marker (H) The fake CLI prints a startup marker and the runner waits for it instead of the fixed 8 s startup sleep (8.6 s -> 0.9 s locally). eng-semantic-terminal's sleeping registration cases went with C; plan-count-timeout keeps the fixed wait because it asserts deadline behavior. * test: derive paid touchfiles from each eval's static closure (E) touchfiles.test.ts now checks, per key, that the paid file's static test/helpers and test/fixtures closure (plus fixture paths it names in string literals) is covered, and names the file, path, chain and key to fix when it is not. Free *.test.ts files are no longer touchfiles, so editing a free replay test stops selecting paid evals: 950 entries removed, 653 real closure paths added. The hand-copied inventories go: periodic-fixture-selection, fake-impeccable-touchfiles and 45 per-file selection examples. Selection for the sample edits (plan-eng-review template, claude-pty-runner, plan-count-fixture, gstack-config) loses no case under either profile. CONTRIBUTING documents the rule and its lower bound. * test: skip hollow tier shards and census judges in the paid planner (B5) A paid file is now skipped for a tier lane only when every E2E id it registers is known statically and none has that tier; ids come from the touchfile registrations and literal testName/*IfSelected arguments, so a comment or skill path that quotes another id cannot unschedule it, and computed names keep today's scheduling. --list and the manifest show each skip as "skipped: no E2E_TIERS id has tier <tier>". The weekly gate census drops the LLM judges (--skip-judges); they still run in the periodic census and PR gate lanes. Gate lane 52 -> 42 files, census 41; periodic 77 -> 69. * test: run seven paid evals on the current default capture model (B8) skill-e2e-{auq-matrix,plan-format,qa-bugs,retro,workflow} pinned claude-opus-4-7 and skill-e2e-office-hours plus -brain-writeback pinned claude-sonnet-4-6; none tests a historical model, so they now capture with resolveEvalModel('capture'), and the free harness tests that execute these registrations receive the same resolver. The paid re-pin run passed all of them. skill-e2e-{design,office-hours-phase4,plan-prosons,plan} keep claude-opus-4-7: six of their cases failed on the default model (three timeouts, a missing report file, a format miss and a posture score of 3), so per the plan's fallback they keep their pins with a TODOS entry. The pre-spend estimate and drop threshold are in docs/test-audit-2026-09.md. * test: guard the reduced suite against new test-of-test files - test/test-of-test-ratchet.test.ts records the 228 free tests that import only test/ code and fails on a new one, naming the owner test to extend instead; a stale baseline entry fails with the remove instruction. - test/helpers/resolve-repo-path.ts is the one specifier/literal resolver for the ratchet and the touchfile closure invariant, with its own unit tests. - CONTRIBUTING "Test tiers" describes the paid-failure workflow (fix, then one row in the detector's owner test) and the ratchet; TEST_PORTFOLIO gains the detector -> owner-test table and no longer claims an Autoplan chain eval. - TODOS: automatic exclusion policy for chronically red periodic files (P3), the deferred native-completion table collapse, the unused CEO payment seeder; the PTY readiness item is narrowed to the paid runner. - docs/test-audit-2026-09.md collects the triage, security mapping, inventories, selection proof, behavior-commit decisions and retained false positives. * v1.91.8.0 test: smaller suite, derived paid selection, retired never-green evals Release metadata for the test-reduction branch: VERSION 1.91.8.0 (1.91.7.0 is claimed by #2983), CHANGELOG with the measured before/after table and a contributor section, durations re-recorded on Ubicloud standard-16 (857 files, 0 failures), the agents digest, CONTRIBUTING's after-measurement row, the B8 fallback TODOS entry, and the after metrics, kept-vs-plan notes, B8 run and census estimate in docs/test-audit-2026-09.md. * fix(ubicloud): skip retrieval globs that match nothing instead of reporting a failed pull * test: count issue-numbered Design findings in the UI-scope gate eval	2026-09-29 08:58:49 -07:00
Garry Tan	dcaea52800	v1.91.7.0 feat: add functional QA and pre-publication docs checks (#2983) ... * feat: add surface-aware exploratory QA and ship documentation gates * test: preserve delegated QA setup authority after main integration * fix(qa): clarify exploration order and preserve report artifacts * test(qa): follow the shared setup reference directly * refactor(ship): make verification and recovery routes explicit * test(ship): align evidence and review guards with explicit routes * fix(workflows): clarify ship recovery and functional QA evidence * fix(workflows): clarify approval recovery and full QA coverage * refactor(workflows): order review transactions and clarify ship state * fix(ship): clarify final verification and fail closed at publication * fix(evals): attribute native atomic documentation writes * fix(ship): clarify recovery and documentation lifecycle guidance * fix(test): preserve observed native placeholder styling in CI * fix(codex): report watchdog timeouts without a process-exit race * Checkpoint functional QA implementation and workflow validation repairs * Fix documentation and shared-review fixture contracts * docs: clarify judge reuse and evaluation supervision * test: align review evidence and selected case contracts * test: verify append-only documentation checkpoints and recovery * fix: qualify QA workflows and CI validation repairs * fix: launch shared-libs fixture scripts on Windows * fix: qualify QA deadlines, fixture isolation, and shard cleanup * fix: preserve qualified QA and cancellation repairs * fix: enforce functional fixture authority and share strict event decoding * fix: retain free-test evidence and explain recovery * fix: reject malformed native evidence after decoder consolidation * test: use reliable capture for telemetry privacy filters * test: refresh measured quick coverage and document validation costs * Fix native fixture receipts and preserve VM validation evidence * Align negative judge controls with upstream clarity policy * Fix report-only QA preparation and public evidence handling * Clarify QA-only preparation and current-report preservation * Stream Ship quality judgments with an explicit 64k response contract * Validate compact judge reasoning locally with supported wire schema * Align functional QA fixture instructions with evidence acceptance * Bind native browser diagnostics to execution evidence and align review verdicts * Preserve native diagnostic line boundaries * Serialize functional QA evidence from native captures * Keep large QA evidence fixture payload out of Windows argv	2026-09-29 06:07:35 -07:00
Garry Tan	080a655791	v1.91.5.0 feat: balanced free-suite shards, test:ubicloud, and faster PR eval lane (#2989) ... * v1.91.5.0 feat: balanced free-suite shards, 16-way Linux runs, and bun run test:ubicloud * chore: regenerate agents digest for v1.91.5.0 * ci: serial flaky retry and flake ledger for the Windows free lane * ci: cancel superseded eval runs; relax LLM-judge clarity bar to 3	2026-09-28 16:00:12 -07:00
Garry TanandOpenAI Codex	636175d349	v1.87.6.0 fix: make checks reliable and everyday validation faster (#2898) ... * fix: acknowledge seeded plans before invoking review skills * fix: distinguish current plan input from conversation history * fix: keep hermetic plan reviews on manual permissions * fix: distinguish tool discovery from file permission ownership * fix: preserve initial plan mode in observation tests * fix: wait for scope decisions before writing review findings * fix: carry autoplan decisions consistently into review artifacts * test: retain native failure context in periodic assertions * fix: advance active file permissions before queued questions * fix: finish red-team attempts before retry and cleanup * fix: finalize plan format captures and judges before retry * fix: cancel setup-gbrain SDK attempts before fixture cleanup * test: select periodic consumers of the bounded attempt helper * fix native Bash permission cards and queued questions * fix: preserve independent decisions and review scope Keep CEO approach, engineering scope and outside-review choices from approving independent remedies together. Carry declared contracts through DX polish and resolve new gaps before editing the plan. Regenerate every host and retain existing stop boundaries. Validation: 654 focused tests passed across nine files; all-host generation passed. Full free and periodic validation pending. Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * fix: require approval before design plan amendments Align the Design review philosophy and rating recipe with its section protocol: resolve one proposed fix, then apply only that approved decision and retain honest scores for declined fixes. Validation: 469 focused tests passed across four files; all-host generation passed. Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * fix: observe native question completion before transcript persistence Match owned completion hooks to submitted choices, reject conflicting or late answers, and retain bounded failure evidence. * test: recognize review posture in acknowledged native questions Require the selected mode acknowledgement, a completed follow-up question, and its current decoded display while preserving existing posture assertions. * fix: preserve settled CEO choices and isolate pending remedies Resolve established approach gates with cited authority and keep independent fixes out of unrelated option commitments and plan amendments. * fix: carry approved DX choices through later review steps Choose documentation approaches within the accepted scope and map resolved confusion points without reopening them through a bulk menu. * test: handle native settings-file edit prompts Keep one-time owned-file approvals and retain the actual sampled Autoplan permission frame with its matching barrier state. * test: accept standard CEO reply directives with tuning footers Recognize the exact trailing preference footer and letter-list directive while preserving current-display and exact acknowledgement checks. * test: scope split reviewers to their generated plan artifacts * test: observe native Bash permissions and invocation results * test: handle owned Bash prompts during mode preference checks * test: preserve synchronous subprocess rejection in Codex fixture * Fix periodic review handoff navigation Recognize review-first and explicit manual-next-step labels while preserving exact action families, manual preference, and ambiguous-menu rejection. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Bind pending file permissions to distinct current targets Allow one captured file request to own the complete current dialog while unrelated file work is pending. Preserve same-path ambiguity, exact input ownership, and one-time grant checks. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Make paired CEO verification choices genuinely unresolved Start the positive control with proposed manual checks so its unchanged oracle measures two new coverage decisions. Preserve runtime contracts, targets, count bounds, and all assertions. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Keep CEO review options and verification within approved scope Audit every offered option for independent add-ons and keep new verification depth pending until accepted. Preserve already requested coverage and trace plan changes to the actual decision. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Assemble DX review artifacts before appending the final report Keep early DX evidence above decisions, update artifact sections in place, and append the report using the actual current file suffix. Re-read after deleting an existing report before choosing the append anchor. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Keep outside plan reviews exclusive and invocation-owned Follow one preflight-selected backend, terminate failed Codex work before fallback, and allocate extra prompt/output files uniquely. Consume only the current invocation’s completed output. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Select periodic completion evaluations for report writer changes Register the shared review resolver for eight missing consumers and regress selection for all nine completion cases without changing their IDs or tiers. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Keep permission ambiguity fixtures on the same normalized target Use distinct raw spellings of one target in the four negative fixtures so they exercise the normalized duplicate-owner guard after exact current-file disambiguation. Preserve the existing exception, no-input, diagnostic and cleanup assertions. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Clarify preserved contracts in engineering review fixture Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Recognize the offered DX follow-up handoff Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Check independent commitments before presenting review options Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Keep Codex review output and status in one shell invocation Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Distinguish seeded plans from reports written by a test attempt Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Recover clipped Autoplan file approvals with bounded viewport resizing Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Recover clipped Bash approvals before binding the complete command Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Isolate setup message tests from the shared checkout Run the real installer in a temporary payload with private config, require successful completion, and guard source and binary contents and mtimes. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Fix periodic native permission and report completion handling Match the pinned CLI's soft wraps and clipped headings without granting from incomplete frames. Retire completed file requests, retain mode annotations, and ask section captures for a short final acknowledgement after their full report is saved. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Preserve review approvals and validate DX comparison artifacts Keep independent remedies and approved amendments explicit. Give the synthetic DX review its existing documentation and validate peer comparison as required analysis alongside four native decisions. Add positive and negative semantic calibrations while preserving review counts, model budgets and prompt size limits. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Make the five-finding CEO fixture's application boundary explicit Materialize the request adapter and service composition used by the synthetic payment application. Explicitly declare the revised unregistered-event and mail-telemetry assumptions while preserving uncaught handler errors, the original invoice path and all five unresolved findings. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Keep CEO state-path checks scoped to directory preparation Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Use checked ports and bounded cleanup in pair-agent tests Discover the daemon port from its owned state file, retain startup diagnostics, and await failed-start cleanup. Add occupied-port, early-exit, deadline, and foreign-state regressions while preserving the existing HTTP assertions and hook budgets. Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Preserve queued edit identity and recover clipped Bash permissions Distinguish separately queued unfinished edits from mutation of one native tool ID. Keep grants bound to an exact owned request and reject reused IDs, ambiguous inputs, and competing owners. Support the pinned renderer's literal em dash and request a repaint when only the Bash card's top rule is clipped. Grants still require the complete fresh card and an exact native acknowledgment. Validation: 413 integrated parser/event tests passed; private repaint controls and joint source review passed. Full canonical suite and native periodic rerun remain pending. Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Keep periodic reviews within their approved contracts and deliverables Carry exact approvals through engineering review, preserve declared contracts when amending CEO plans, and keep prioritization at the requested decision level. Materialize the revised synthetic SDK reference contract while retaining the five original documentation gaps. Accept the observed semicolon in the finite DX handoff menu and register the direct source dependencies used by the engineering cases. Regenerate canonical review documents without changing model budgets, retries, count bands, or native completion assertions. Validation: all-host generation and 275 review, fixture, selection and parity tests passed. Full free-suite and native periodic validation remain pending. Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com> * Keep Eng approval cadence and independence guards explicit * Accept ordinary punctuation in manual review handoffs * Recover file permissions alongside queued Bash calls * Carry approved DX work through later review findings * Clarify the synthetic auth internal failure decision * Bound the periodic DX fixture to onboarding changes * Recognize native Design review handoff labels * Hold scope in the integration-choice review fixture * Carry approved Design decisions through review evidence * Capture listener state when feedback reload fails * Exclude workspace caches before checking deprecated flags * Verify Design UI scope against a seeded review plan * Clarify plan review decisions and outside-voice approval flow * Reject setup menus in the Design UI gate * docs: require focused repair validation before final acceptance * fix: separate review commitments within existing prompt budgets * docs: align generation and contributor validation guidance * fix: advance native review prompts and count acknowledged findings * chore: bump version and changelog (v1.87.1.0) Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * chore: enforce cheap checks and side-effect-free validation previews * fix: handle owned Fetch permissions and oversized native cards * test: ground review fixtures in independent executable contracts * fix: preserve review decisions and verify reports before completion * test: construct the synthetic credential URL without a scanner false positive * test: materialize DX examples and verify their actual local behavior * fix: clarify CEO review decisions and execution order * fix: clarify review workflow ordering and select Design quality checks * Fix review decision gates and incomplete evaluation fixtures Persist CEO and engineering commitment ledgers before menus, preserve exact approvals, and distinguish implementation structure from feature scope. Route Autoplan through the canonical CEO Step 0 ordering. Classify DX findings before requesting approval and ground runtime claims in actual evidence. Complete neutral non-target fixture contracts and accept the captured Design handoff purpose without relaxing its ownership or acknowledgment checks. Record runtime-capability verification in AGENTS.md validation discipline. Validation: 1,335 focused tests passed across 21 files; build, all-host freshness, skill validation (647 artifacts / 107 tracked), and credential checks passed. Prior paid failures are preserved; behavioral acceptance remains pending. * Fix review decision boundaries and owned Read prompts Preserve exact approvals across review options, compare consistent DX milestones, and keep proposed implementation separate from review evidence. Bind modern Read prompts to one immutable native request and wait for its result. Retain captured regression verdicts, correct fixture error names, improve import probe diagnostics, and record focused-first validation discipline in AGENTS.md. * Clarify CEO and engineering review decisions Use explicit decision steps, one engineering ledger, and clear scope/write transitions. Preserve exact approvals and distinguish pending test requirements. Keep unrelated generated content unchanged. * Fix review decision ordering and native evaluation interactions * Clarify engineering decisions and test artifact order * Clarify pending choices and approvals in CEO reviews * Make CEO review phases sequential and clarify completion * Fix Design board submission intent matching * Seed an existing browser test baseline for Autoplan * Document decision-log payloads before state initialization * Preserve exact review scope and decide one change before drafting options * Require input identity before repeating passing model judges * Honor permitted storage throughout CEO review completion * Match complete native permission text within the pinned renderer contract * Align review approvals, independent choices, and bounded validation * fix: preserve reopened approvals and declare fixture interfaces * fix: isolate review artifacts and audit complete questions * fix: match detector artifact permissions to configured storage * fix: complete native permissions and review fixture workflows * fix: order CEO review work and separate engineering guarantees * fix: preserve native validation and separate review choices * fix: clarify review decisions and judge complete report context * fix: constrain review judgments and retain parse failures * fix: compare each affected value before review decisions * fix: make engineering review decisions and completion order explicit * fix: give the complete Autoplan evaluation a bounded chain budget * fix(cso): diagnose forbidden Docker endpoints before tool lookup * fix(reviews): reconcile workflow contracts and generated artifacts after main integration * fix(evals): migrate retained regressions to the native review harness * fix(tests): close native harness and workflow integration regressions * fix(evals): preserve complete permission context and native menu contracts * fix(tests): capture synchronous command output without pipe drain stalls * fix(reviews): clarify decision and completion ordering * fix(reviews): separate decision readiness from final completion checks * refactor(reviews): consolidate decision rules and completion branches * fix(plan-eng-review): order preparation and clarify decision routing * fix(plan-eng-review): restore size and question-format guard parity * fix(plan-eng-review): clarify scope phases and blocked completion * fix(plan-eng-review): unify review flow and report destination * fix(plan-eng-review): define bootstrap and question stage ownership * fix(plan-eng-review): clarify review structure and design lookup * fix(plan-eng-review): render report examples and show saved decisions * fix: consolidate Eng review decisions and select their evaluations * test: cover overlapping terminal attachments and clean merged runner type * fix: preserve Office Hours relationship closings during review updates * fix: retain pasted review targets across slash invocations * docs: preserve validation traces and correct release scope * test: cover pasted targets in both review skills * fix: validate report artifacts before recording success * fix: redact source roots at CSO report boundaries * fix: bind native Design questions before answering * test: select report privacy and native recovery regressions * test: bind rejection predicate in extracted observers * fix: bind complete boxed native questions * test: keep the Design UI fixture on native review * fix: preserve review decisions and evaluation completion outcomes * fix: clarify CEO approval and report completion order * fix: align native review evaluation ownership and completion * fix: bind review evaluators to native decisions and owned artifacts * fix: validate review decisions against native outcomes * fix: preserve review evidence and Autoplan phase handoffs * test: bind review evidence to owned decisions and completion * fix: retain owned native history across compaction * fix(evals): validate current review decisions and setup choices * fix: bind Autoplan reviews and phase completion to current amended input * fix: reconcile native review evidence and close Autoplan phases * test: recognize owned whole-candidate complexity decisions * test: preserve report freshness for approved investigation handoffs * fix: recognize scoped review findings and isolate dual voice fixtures * fix: make review handoffs and question dispatch self-contained * test: recognize complete CEO decisions and procedural pauses * fix: bind current CEO comparison options and risk intervals * test: bind engineering decisions and completion to owned evidence * fix: publish Autoplan phase reports before continuing tools * test: verify actual Autoplan dual-review dispatch evidence * test: select dual review when shared evidence fixtures change * fix: clarify plan review decisions and completion gates * fix: make CEO review decisions and return paths explicit * test: keep Autoplan prompt files inside attempt state * test: preserve source whitespace across permission dialog wraps * fix: publish Autoplan phase reports before continuing * test: recognize current CEO comparisons and reject inactive records * fix: reconcile engineering decision states before completion * test: recognize complete Design decisions and reports * test: verify current engineering decisions before navigation * Recognize source-owned component reduction choices * fix: recognize current CEO ledger and commitment grids * test: supply RequestPolicy context to Eng count fixture * fix: save complete engineering decisions before asking * fix: bind Autoplan publication to the complete phase readback * chore: prepare 1.87.5.0 reliability release * fix: clarify engineering review completion and preserve log failures * fix: bind CEO saved choices and current section ancestry * fix(evals): bind review execution and completion evidence * fix(plan-ceo-review): verify complete decisions before asking * fix(evals): preserve complete engineering choice records * fix(evals): preserve complete review outcomes and bounded fixtures * fix(autoplan): publish phase reports before advancing * fix(plan-ceo-review): validate option fields before asking * fix(plan-eng-review): verify current decisions after answers * fix(evals): bind review decisions and bound fixture scope * fix(plan-ceo-review): verify decision rows and edit saved checkpoints * fix(evals): bind review evidence and scope document lookup * fix(plan-eng-review): update resolution state with its answer * fix(reviews): preserve complete questions through dispatch * fix(evals): recognize completed mode declarations * fix(evals): define cache consistency at wrapper completion * fix(evals): validate owned initial scope and completed review handoffs * fix: assemble complete CEO decision fields before saving * fix: authenticate automatic mode decisions without guessing selectors * fix: bind engineering coverage to approved regression contracts * fix(evals): supply review helpers to native Eng capture * fix(plan-eng-review): preserve the full selected option scope * fix(evals): recognize owned engineering seed and regression evidence * fix(evals): bind engineering retry reports to native approvals * docs: clarify release guarantees (v1.87.5.0) Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> * fix(evals): recognize owned engineering decisions and handoffs * fix(evals): bind engineering decisions and completion evidence * fix(tests): align review contracts and selection fixtures * fix(skills): restore review prompt size limits * fix(plan-eng-review): clarify review execution and completion * fix(evals): preserve configured retries through all supervision layers * Clarify Engineering decisions and report completion * Keep native decision assertions within their source boundary * fix: recognize owned engineering decisions and completed navigation * fix: bind completed auto decisions to their current review * fix: recognize explicit CEO source attribution * fix: dispatch verified CEO decisions without recomposing fields * test: expose existing execution deadlines to review actors * fix: distinguish CEO decision records from incidental headings * test: bind split-scope choices to the registered native actor * test: connect reviewed regressions to required evaluation coverage * Clarify CEO decision routing and completion stages * test: expose existing section review deadlines to fixture actors * test: recognize complete native CEO pacing inventories * test: exclude answered history from current CEO payloads * test: detect phase entry through owned skill HOME aliases * test: validate native review completion and owned report permissions * fix: make Autoplan close packets carry the parent handoff steps * test: assess source-bound HOLD decisions within the existing deadline * fix: keep CEO native decision fields under one formatting authority * test: register integrated review and permission dependencies * test: align native review adapters and finding coverage Preserve explicit AUTO decisions, apply native single-select defaults, and bind complete cropped questions and report permissions to their owned requests. Require seeded review findings instead of crediting setup menus. Keep captured failure controls and additive selection dependencies. The integrated candidate passed 3,099 focused tests across 65 files; affected paid validation remains required before publication. * fix(autoplan): require phase reports before advancing * fix(evals): bind setup and evidence to complete attempts * fix(evals): bind native answers and pending writes to fixture scope Preserve complete option rows when native descriptions wrap, retain current owned Write arguments before journal publication, and keep engineering and DX answers within their declared fixture interfaces. Add captured free regressions without increasing model budgets or relaxing completion checks. * fix(autoplan): verify phase reports across native tool paths Guard owned methodology reads and reviewer dispatches, detect complete driver loads through Bash, and distinguish report-only edits from implementation changes. Follow authenticated native UUID ancestry when journal writes arrive out of order and verify earlier native content for cached phase reads. Keep current close acknowledgment and parent publication in order, require CEO entry before later phases, and register captured failure regressions. * fix(evals): honor native input and collection lifecycles Match complete native Edit panes and truncated question borders, reject stderr close before EOF, and stop the CEO split fixture once its acknowledged scope decisions are collected. Keep semantic validation, process failures, report requirements, and absolute deadlines authoritative. Add captured-event and real-process regressions with selection dependencies. Focused checks pass; final integrated paid and full-suite acceptance remain pending. * fix(autoplan): retain native session ownership across directory changes Recover missed native UUID ancestry through the existing strict graph while preserving ordinary event order and legacy scoping. Bind publication hooks to Claude's original project directory while retaining current cwd for requested file paths. Captured public-event regressions, existing caller checks, and a pinned native CLI loopback verify both fixes. Preserve failed attempts and require fresh paid and final full-suite acceptance. * docs: align evaluation limits and completion version * fix(autoplan): allow authenticated phase reads during journal streaming * fix(evals): bind clipped native questions and owned edit dialogs * fix: preserve overlay retries and bounded cleanup * fix: recognize owned planning preludes in native questions * docs: explain overlay scheduling and cleanup guarantees * fix: require fresh publication after Autoplan phase reruns * Release gstack 1.87.6 * fix: preserve CI paths, process identity, and test deadlines * fix: keep informational setup commands independent of install probes * fix: clarify plan review decisions and bound source audit reports * Fix remaining Windows identity and native path CI failures * Clarify CEO review decision and reviewer-result routing * test: accept no-install planner in retry supervision * fix(ceo-review): make review decisions and report completion explicit * perf(test): add fast PR gates, input-keyed judge reuse and isolated free shards * fix(test): start isolated CEO smoke from its existing project plan * fix(test): repair CI fixture races and preserve retry evidence * fix(ceo-review): clarify approvals, depth and saved completion --------- Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com>	2026-09-22 14:57:52 -04:00
3 people	0530392821	v1.81.0.0 feat: Aside is the browser gstack drives first; every browsing skill, the PDF/diagram renderer, and web research; the bundled browser stays the automatic fallback (#2810) ... * feat(aside): browser-driver contract, cookbook, research and fallback resolvers {{ASIDE_SETUP}} (readiness probe + ten rules for driving the user's real browser), {{ASIDE_COOKBOOK}} (script shapes verified live against Aside CLI 1.26: one flow per aside repl script, CDP console hook before navigation, evidence lines, session-directory artifact handoff, GSTACK_STEP_OK sentinel), {{ASIDE_RESEARCH}} (research through aside exec, WebSearch when Aside is absent, knowledge otherwise) and {{BROWSE_FALLBACK}} (the fifteen-row Aside-step to $B-command table plus the rules that differ, so every browsing skill keeps working on gstack's own headless browser). test/aside-driver.test.ts pins the sentences and asserts every browsing skill carries the Aside block followed by the fallback; test/helpers/aside-available.ts is the shared live-Aside probe. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(render): Aside-first local-HTML renderer with the bundled browser as fallback lib/aside-render.ts serves the HTML's directory on loopback (Aside refuses file:// URLs), opens it with waitUntil load, prints through CDP Page.printToPDF so tagged output, outlines, header/footer templates and page numbers survive, emulates device metrics for sized screenshots, and writes in-page evaluations to files; when Aside is absent it runs the same spec through the browse daemon (newtab, load, js, pdf, screenshot, closetab) and reports ENGINE=aside|browse. bin/gstack-render.ts is the CLI skill templates call. lib/claude-bin.ts and lib/error-handling.ts become the canonical copies (browse/src re-exports them). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(browse): /browse drives Aside first, with the $B reference behind the fallback Contract, cookbook, mode choice (aside repl by default, aside exec for reading), report format, the fallback section, and the full command reference carved on demand. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(qa): /qa and /qa-only drive Aside, fall back to $B QA_METHODOLOGY runs every phase as Aside scripts (orient, explore, document, re-test, mobile viewport via CDP emulation, links via HEAD fetch); the authenticate phase is 'you are already signed in'; a 13th rule requires consent before mutating actions on non-local targets; the fallback section translates each step onto $B. The qa E2E tests run on whichever engine is present. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(design): design-review, design-consultation, design-shotgun, plan-design-review, design-html drive Aside Design-system extraction is one script printing FONTS/COLORS/HEADINGS/TOUCH_TARGETS/NAV; competitor research confirms the exact URLs before opening them in the real browser and runs on the bundled browser when Aside is absent; design-html's viewport screenshots, sketches and comparison boards render through gstack-render. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(deploy): benchmark, canary, land-and-deploy Step 7, devex-review drive Aside One aside repl script per page prints NAV/PAINT/LCP/RESOURCES/SCRIPTS/CSS/SUMMARY (benchmark), CONSOLE_ERRORS/NAV/TEXT + screenshot (canary, re-run every 60s), and the post-deploy check reads responseStatus from the navigation entry; each carries the $B fallback. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(third-party-actions): Aside is the recommended driver; gstack's visible browser stays the fallback The readiness probe is lifted from {{ASIDE_SETUP}} at gen time (byte-identity pinned) and rule 3 points at browse/SKILL.md for how to drive; the consent question offers Aside first and gstack's own visible browser (handoff/resume for sign-in) as the fallback, as v1.72 framed it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(scrape): /scrape reads pages through Aside; the browser-skills runtime rides the fallback Look-then-extract scripts build the JSON inside the page and print it between JSON_START/JSON_END; aside exec for fuzzy intents; on the $B fallback the browser-skills match/prototype flow and /skillify apply as before. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(make-pdf): print through Aside first, the bundled browser otherwise asideClient.ts replaces the direct $B client with one render() call per PDF (the exact option mapping the browse pdf command had: paper, margins, header/footer/page numbers, tagged, outline, printBackground, preferCSSPageSize, Paged.js wait); the diagram pre-pass, oversized-image downscale and DOCX rasters each run as one render script with per-fence try/catch; exit 4 now means no browser is available and names both remedies; $P setup reports which engine it found. The e2e gates run on whichever engine is present, so the Linux lane exercises the fallback. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(diagram): the triplet is one gstack-render call SVG, PNG and excalidraw from one invocation over the content-addressed bundle staged under /tmp/gstack-render; every diagram type gets an excalidraw export; gstack-render picks the engine and prints ENGINE=; the diagram E2E gates on either engine. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(research): web research runs in Aside first, WebSearch second The planning, review, design, security and investigate skills research through {{ASIDE_RESEARCH}}; WebSearch stays in allowed-tools as the fallback; testing.ts's bootstrap step follows; skeleton ceilings ratcheted for the research block. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(setup,gen-skill-docs): prune renders of skills that no longer exist setup gains _prune_stale_generated for every host tree and the doc generator removes gstack-* output dirs it did not write, so a skill removed from the source tree can never linger in an install. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: registries, budgets and suite reconciled for Aside-first with the $B fallback Touchfiles + E2E tiers gain the Aside keys, coverage matrix and eval baselines updated, size budget re-baselined to parity-baseline-v1.80.0.0.json (the contract plus fallback ride in every browsing skill), parity ceilings ratcheted with measured values, LLM-judge prompts and the E2E fixtures speak Aside-first, browse-fallback. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: Aside first, gstack browser fallback README, BROWSER.md, docs/, CONTRIBUTING, CLAUDE.md, ARCHITECTURE, AGENTS.md, TODOS and the root router describe the one product story: Aside is the browser gstack drives first; the bundled headless browser is the automatic fallback (Linux, Windows, app closed) where cookie import, GStack Browser, pair-agent and browser-skills still apply. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore: regenerate SKILL.md docs, llms.txt, agents digest, ship goldens, context-budget fixture bun run gen:skill-docs over the templates; goldens re-rendered; context-budget ceilings recaptured. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * v1.80.0.0: Aside is the browser gstack drives first; the bundled browser is the fallback MINOR: new capability across ten skills, the renderer and research; nothing removed. CHANGELOG release summary + itemized changes; VERSION 1.80.0.0; package.json 1.80.0. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(todos): file non-Claude host ownership-gate and version-heading pin follow-ups Two follow-ups from the /plan-ceo-review + /plan-eng-review pass on merging PR #2804 with main's v1.80.0.0 ownership gate: bring the Codex/Factory/ OpenCode/Cursor/Kiro copy loops and the stale-render prune under the .gstack-owned marker rule, and a free test pinning that the CHANGELOG top heading equals VERSION (the collision that git cannot see). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: pre-landing review fixes for the Aside-first branch Review army + adversarial passes (Claude and Codex) on the merged branch: setup - _prune_stale_generated scans the host dirs too (the generator already removed the render before setup ran, so the host branch was dead), skips symlinks in the render tree (rm -rf on a slash-terminated link empties its target), removes a host symlink only when it resolves into gstack, cleans a bannered real dir through _cleanup_weak_dir, recognizes frontmatter-renamed skills, and logs through log. The always-run codex render passes every host dir that may link to it. - NEEDS_BUILD checks all three binaries (with $_EXE) and lib/ sources; the browser hint and the bootstrap summary honor GSTACK_SKIP_ASIDE, treat a requested skip as a request, and derive one skill list. lib/aside-render.ts + bin/gstack-render.ts - The loopback server carries a per-render secret path, checks containment on the real path (symlink escapes are 403), and rejects malformed encoding. - Inline eval results are one base64 line, so page text cannot forge ASIDE_DIR= or the sentinel; the last ASIDE_DIR wins. - runProc escalates SIGTERM to SIGKILL, bounds every wait, and clears every timer (an uncleared one kept gstack-render alive after printing OK). - renderTmpDir refuses a shared /tmp name owned by someone else; the work dir and server are created inside try; goto's budget follows the render budget. - probeAside classifies a present-but-failing CLI as ASIDE_NOT_RUNNING like the skills' bash probe; render() retries on gstack's own browser when Aside could not start or its private CDP bridge is gone (never on a page error or a timeout of a running script); the CLI reports the engine that actually rendered, exits 0 on --help, rejects non-numeric flags, documents --wait-timeout, fences EVAL/PAGE_ERRORS as untrusted content, and names the daemon's cookie-import JS lock remedy. - The browse path passes --scale only when asked (a scale change rebuilds the daemon context) and restores the viewport after a sized screenshot. resolvers / templates - The bash probe honors GSTACK_SKIP_ASIDE and has a perl deadline on stock macOS; .local is no longer LOCAL (mDNS); same-origin filters compare parsed origins; link status is HEAD-checked only on LOCAL targets; every aside exec goes through the receipted _aside_exec prelude ({{ASIDE_EXEC_PRELUDE}}), including nine template blocks that called it bare; the design sketch and diagram staging use private directories. - The generator prunes only bannered renders and never a host whose generation failed. Docs, stale comments and dead code cleaned; goldens re-rendered; tests updated and added for every behavior above. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: coverage for the render CLI, setup rebuild check, make-pdf exit codes, and prose $B spans New free tests from the ship coverage audit: test/gstack-render-cli.test.ts (argv guards, --help, output contract with a fake daemon, failure and serve-root paths, no-browser case, prompt exit), test/setup-needs-build.test.ts (every binary and source set flips NEEDS_BUILD, Windows suffixes), make-pdf/test/cli-exit-codes.test.ts and setup-smoke.test.ts (error to exit code mapping, runSetup stages, renderPdf's engine), and prose-span cases for extractBrowseCommands in test/skill-parser.test.ts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: CHANGELOG and TODOS cover the review fixes (v1.81.0.0) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: sync project docs with the v1.81.0.0 review fixes BROWSER.md, ARCHITECTURE.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, README.md, CLAUDE.md, docs/TESTING_INTERNALS.md and docs/PROJECT_STRUCTURE.md now describe the shipped renderer and setup: the loopback render server's per-render secret path and real-path containment, ENGINE= naming the engine that actually rendered (mid-run retry on gstack's own browser), EVAL/PAGE_ERRORS fenced as untrusted content, --wait-timeout and the CLI's argv guards, the receipted _aside_exec prelude ({{ASIDE_EXEC_PRELUDE}} in the placeholder table), the LOCAL host rule without .local, LOCAL-only HEAD checks in the links script, GSTACK_SKIP_ASIDE across probe/renderer/setup, the ownership-gated retired-skill prune, the widened NEEDS_BUILD check, and the new free tests (gstack-render-cli, setup-prune-stale-generated, setup-browser-hint, setup-needs-build, make-pdf cli-exit-codes and setup-smoke). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: CHANGELOG states the precise mid-run retry rule Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): skill-e2e-bws slices the $B setup block from the Browser fallback section browse/SKILL.md no longer has '## SETUP' / '## Core QA Patterns' (Aside is the primary driver; the $B block moved under 'Browser fallback'), so the gate test sliced an empty block and handed the agent nothing to run. Anchor on '### Find the `$B` binary' up to the next heading. 7/7 pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): gate POSIX-only fixtures off Windows windows-free-tests: the gstack-render CLI tests drive a shebang fake browse that CreateProcess cannot exec, and two NEEDS_BUILD cases assert an execute bit and a bare-name miss that MSYS bash does not have (test -x ignores mode bits and resolves design -> design.exe). Those describes and cases now self-skip on win32; argument guards, --help, the no-browser case, and every other rebuild-check case still run there. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(render): runProc waits for the exit code until the kill deadline; newtab retries once on a cold daemon A process whose pipes have reached EOF is exiting, but runProc gave the exit code only five seconds to arrive and then returned null, which run() reports as a failed command. Under CI's six-shard load one such render failed with the artifact already written. The SIGTERM/SIGKILL timers already bound the wait, so the exit race now runs to the kill deadline. The first CLI call auto-starts the browse daemon; on a cold start it can answer 'Unable to connect' once while the server is still coming up. That single case is retried after 1.5s; every other newtab failure is not. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(aside-render): warm the daemon before live fallback cases; failures name the render error - Live fallback cases run 'goto about:blank' up to twice before asserting and skip (never fail) when the daemon cannot come up. - expectOk() puts r.error and the browse transcript into the assertion so a failed render is diagnosable from the CI log. - The argv-contract cases dump the fake's log on a miss. - File default timeout is 30s: the subject is the CLI contract, not latency. - Two cases pin the cold-daemon newtab retry and that other errors are not retried. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: CHANGELOG notes the cold-start tolerance of the bundled-browser renderer Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Sina <sdroid674+github@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-09-06 08:54:25 -07:00
3 people	b1485d8897	v1.74.0.0 test/CI overhaul: green means green, suites restructured for speed (#2721) ... * fix(ci): free-tests lane actually runs the make-pdf e2e gates The 9 make-pdf/test/e2e gate tests probe make-pdf/dist/pdf, browse/dist/browse, and the diagram-render bundle, then self-skip when absent. The required free-tests lane never built any of them, so the gates silently skipped on Linux for their entire life (verified: 9 of 14 skip, exit 0). make-pdf-gate.yml's justification for deleting its Linux leg claimed the free lane covered this — it didn't. - new build:gates script: exactly the three artifacts the gates probe (full bun run build compiles five binaries; ~60-90s tax on the only required check is not warranted) - free-tests.yml: build:gates step + poppler-utils + fonts-noto-color-emoji (fonts must precede the first browse daemon launch — Chromium snapshots fontconfig at startup; verified live: a warm daemon renders tofu, a fresh one embeds NotoColorEmoji) - make-pdf/test/e2e/ci-prereqs.test.ts: GSTACK_EXPECT_BINARIES=1 (set by the workflow) inverts the skip polarity in CI — dropping the build step or poppler fails the lane instead of re-opening the silent-skip hole Pre-flight: all 9 gates green on Linux locally. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ci): kill the three zero-test eval jobs (hollow green) - delete the vestigial e2e-codex / e2e-gemini matrix rows: both files are whole-file periodic-tier, so with no row tier: they ran ZERO tests and reported green on every PR (~2 min of runner each, pure false confidence; the periodic lane owns those suites) - e2e-pty-plan-smoke gains tier: gate — its two files are whole-file describeE2ETier('gate'), so the job burned ~7 min of container setup then skipped every describe - KNOWN_TIER_UNSET burned down to empty; the ratchet stays armed so a future row/file tier mismatch fails the suite instead of shipping hollow green Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ci): least-privilege permissions + fork-safe concurrency keys - evals.yml / evals-periodic.yml evals jobs: explicit contents:read + packages:read (container-image pull) and persist-credentials:false — the jobs that execute PR-authored code with three provider API keys ran on the repo-default token grant with the token written into .git/config - permissions blocks for the 4 workflows that had none (skill-docs, make-pdf-gate, windows-free-tests, windows-setup-e2e) - fork-safe concurrency keys: actionlint, skill-docs, make-pdf-gate, windows-setup-e2e switch from head_ref to PR-number keying — a bare branch name carries no fork prefix, so same-name branches from two forks shared one group and cancelled each other's runs Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ci): one bun version everywhere + drift tripwire Lanes disagreed four ways: 1.3.13 (free-tests, windows, Dockerfile.ci), latest (quality-gate, make-pdf-gate), unpinned (skill-docs, version-gate — setup-bun installs latest), 1.3.10 (.gitlab-ci.yml). Different Bun versions change the runner output shapes the strict classifiers regex-match, spawn semantics, and shell parsing — a lane on a different Bun tests a different product; Dockerfile.ci's own comment records this class biting once already (silent 1.3.13/1.3.14 drift). All surfaces pinned to 1.3.13; test/bun-version-drift.test.ts scans every workflow setup-bun stanza + Dockerfile.ci + .gitlab-ci.yml and fails on any mismatch or unpinned stanza. skill-docs also gains --frozen-lockfile (was bare bun install). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(ci): bind the three-way image-tag hashFiles() expressions evals.yml, evals-periodic.yml, and ci-image.yml each compute the CI image tag from hashFiles('.github/docker/Dockerfile.ci', 'bun.lock', 'patches/**') — synced by comment only (TODOS.md 'CI three-way image-tag drift'). If one input list drifts, that workflow computes a different tag for the same content: eval lanes silently rebuild the image every run, or ci-image prebuilds a tag nobody looks up. The test extracts each tag-computation site and fails on any mismatch. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ci): ci-image stops rebuilding the identical image every ship - package.json out of the trigger paths: the tag hash deliberately excludes it (version bumps every ship), so every merge rebuilt and re-pushed the IDENTICAL tag (~2m26s for zero content change); patches/** added (it IS a tag input) - manifest existence check (mirrors evals.yml): tag already exists → skip the build - concurrency group: two rapid main pushes raced pushing the same :latest/:buildcache tags - cron staggered 06:00→04:00 Monday: it shared the exact minute with evals-periodic, which could race a half-pushed tag or duplicate the build - timeout-minutes: 30 (was unbounded → 360-min default for a hung docker build) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ci): quality-gate drops the 74s full-history checkout fetch-depth:0 cost 74 of the job's 92 seconds; the three gates it feeds take ~12s combined. Shallow checkout + exact-SHA fetches for the diff's base/head (an exact-SHA fetch, not a guessed depth — long-lived branches and merge queues still resolve), with a --deepen fallback for push events whose 'before' is unusable. timeout right-sized 20→10 min. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ci): small-lane batch — timeouts, right-sizing, windows cache warm-start - timeout-minutes on the 6 remaining unbounded jobs (actionlint 5, skill-docs 10, version-gate 10, make-pdf-gate 15, pr-title-sync 5, evals build-image 15) — a hung step sat on GitHub's 360-min default - right-size measured-over-long timeouts: dependency-review 10→5, windows-setup-e2e 15→10 - dependency-review: 2-core runner (28s API call on an 8-core box) and drop .github/workflows/** from its trigger paths (workflow edits have no dependencies to review) - windows caches gain restore-keys: a lockfile bump paid the 26s/43s restore for a guaranteed cold miss Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): scope GSTACK_HOME to each file's execution window Five files assigned process.env.GSTACK_HOME at module scope. Shard processes evaluate sibling modules before running their tests, so the assignment leaked into every other file in the shard — the damage was already visible in defensive workarounds (relink.test.ts:28 'fresh install test saw a neighbor's skill_prefix'; cdp-e2e's own comment documents a sibling's temp dir baked into artifacts). Pattern: save original, assign in beforeAll, restore in afterAll (cdp-e2e already restored but still assigned at load — its window now matches the others). GSTACK_TELEMETRY_OFF and GSTACK_PROJECT_SLUG get the same treatment where they rode along. Victim files' defenses stay in place (cheap insurance). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: tripwire against module-scope GSTACK_HOME assignments Column-0 assignment of GSTACK_HOME / GSTACK_STATE_ROOT in any tracked *.test.ts fails with the file:line and the fix (beforeAll + afterAll restore). Kills the cross-file env-leak class the previous commit swept. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): e2e-harness-audit derives its skill census from disk The hand-maintained 39-name SKILL_GLOBS list had drifted to 39 of 54 SKILL.md.tmpl on disk. No live gap today (none of the 15 unlisted skills is interactive), but the next interactive skill would have landed unguarded with zero signal. The audit now walks top-level dirs for SKILL.md.tmpl (statSync so symlinked dirs like connect-chrome count), so new skills are in scope the commit they appear. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(evals): judges honor the eval-model resolution chain + real 429 backoff callJudge inlined GSTACK_EVAL_MODEL_JUDGE || sonnet, silently ignoring the global GSTACK_EVAL_MODEL override every other eval call site honors via lib/eval-model.ts. New 'judge' kind in DEFAULTS (sonnet — the D1a pin-on-regressors calibration stands; model CHOICE unchanged) and callJudge resolves through it: explicit arg > GSTACK_EVAL_MODEL_JUDGE > GSTACK_EVAL_MODEL > default. 429 handling upgraded from one fixed 1s retry (reliably lost races at CI concurrency) to three jittered exponential retries (~1s/4s/16s), honoring the server's retry-after when present. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): the two expect(true) paid stubs become test.todo skill-e2e-spec-execute (600s budget) and skill-llm-eval-spec (300s) reported PASS on every periodic run while asserting nothing. Deleting them would remove the periodic-tier selector surface they exist to register (diff-based selection for spec/ changes), so they become test.todo — reported as todo/skip, never pass — with the v1.1 implementation specs kept in-file. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): reactivate 5 quarantined browse tests (2 security) extension-sender-auth's two privileged-message denial tests (content script + missing sender.url — the extension's security boundary) and snapshot's three skips were quarantined 'pre-existing' failures. Root cause: machine-local state on the quarantining dev machines — the test and gate code are byte-identical between the quarantining commit (410b4928) and HEAD, and all five pass deterministically on a clean checkout (68/68 across both files, multiple runs). No assertions weakened, no product changes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(evals): activate the 4 paid test files that could never run anywhere carve-section-loading, codex-e2e-plan-format, codex-e2e-recommendation-substance, and llm-judge-recommendation gated on EVALS/tier (free suite loads them as describe.skip) but their names fell outside PAID_TEST_GLOBS, so no paid lane ever selected them — net execution zero, forever. The existing matrix tripwire filtered on isPaidTestFile() first, so it was blind to exactly this class (the same bug that hid the pre-split monolith's gate tests for ~8 releases). - PAID_TEST_GLOBS: codex-e2e* + skill-llm-eval* wildcards (replacing exact names) + llm-judge-recommendation + carve-section-loading; package.json's six test-script glob lists mirrored - codex-e2e-plan-format gains the explicit periodic tier gate its siblings carry (external-service rule) — without it the sharded runner's no-guard default would spawn Codex in the gate tier per PR - eval:bg:periodic --timeout 32400→37800: the census growth pushed the periodic worst case to 35910s; the old value had 270s of headroom BEFORE this change and would now kill healthy runs mid-flight - new test/paid-orphan-tripwire.test.ts: any EVALS/tier-gated test file outside the globs fails the free suite (reasoned SCANNER_EXEMPT for the gate helpers + meta-tests) — the class-killer - paid-shards pins updated: the four orphans now assert INSIDE the census Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(browse): restrictDirectoryPermissions warns and skips symlinked dirs Closes the Windows Free Tests red: recent lane failures showed a platform-unguarded POSIX mode-bit assertion ('Expected: 493' — a symlink-skip test) from PR-branch variants; the KNOWN_WINDOWS_SAFE force-include reason ('mode-bitmask hits are POSIX-branch only') did not hold for that shape, and main had neither the guard nor the behavior. - product: lstat first; a symlinked dir gets a warning and a skip on both platforms — chmod AND icacls dereference the link, so restricting through a symlink hardens an unvetted target (and /inheritance:r could lock out its real owner). All callers already treat hardening as best-effort (try/catch). - test: the symlink regression test, platform-aware — symlinkSync in the house try/catch skip pattern (Windows runners without Developer Mode can't create symlinks), mode-bit assertion guarded off win32, behavior assertions (no throw, warning text, target readable) everywhere; POSIX still proves the skip (0o755 unchanged, not 0o700) - KNOWN_WINDOWS_SAFE reason updated to the now-true premise 20/20 pass on Linux. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): unique tmp dirs for plan artifacts + audited live-repo cwd sites Six paid PTY tests wrote their expected plan artifact to a FIXED shared /tmp path ('/tmp/gstack-test-plan-<mode>.md') and rmSync'd it in finally — under --retry 1, EVALS_JOBS>1, or two concurrent worktrees, a sibling's cleanup deletes this run's artifact and the D19 'agent did not produce expected plan file' assertion fires spuriously. Each test now mkdtemps its own dir, interpolates the unique path into the agent prompt (fixture-sourced prompts get a replaceAll + drift guard that throws if the fixture's literal ever moves), and cleans up its own dir. The 18 cwd:-into-the-live-repo sites were audited: all deliberate (skill registry + hermetic pre-trusted dir, in-repo gen renders, git history reads, slug resolution) — each now carries a '// LIVE-REPO CWD: <reason>' comment so the next audit can tell deliberate from accidental. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): trim the seven over-wall 1700s timeouts to the 1500s physical ceiling 1,700,000ms (28.3 min) exceeded every wall these tests run inside: the 25-min CI job timeout and the 1800s sharded-runner wall (which also leaves --retry 1 zero room for a second attempt). Budget above the wall is fiction, not headroom — a test that actually used it produced a job-level kill (no bun summary, no artifact) instead of a clean per-test timeout. No recorded p95 exists for this family (they are being retiered to periodic in the re-platform wave); the trim stops at the physical ceiling rather than guessing lower. Final policy lands in the Wave-2 eval-budgets constants module. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(gen): main() guard — importing gen-skill-docs no longer regenerates the tree The generator's whole body executed at module load, so any import of it (test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts pulls assertSinglePreamble via require(); test/catalog-trim.test.ts imports helpers) regenerated all 71 SKILL.md in place — the root cause of half the TREE_MUTATING serial-shard entries (hazard class #2532). The body now lives in an exported main(): number behind if (import.meta.main). Semantics preserved exactly: failure exits are immediate (matching the old top-level process.exit), success leaves the event loop to drain so the llms.txt fire-and-forget IIFE finishes its write, and the module stays synchronous/require()-able. Proofs: byte-identical --host all output (git status clean), --dry-run stale-tree still exits 1 (the skill-docs freshness lane depends on it), and the new test/gen-skill-docs-import-purity.test.ts pins load-time purity via a subprocess probe (mtime-based, so a dirty worktree can't false-fail). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(gen): --out-dir renders every host, outputs-only --out-dir was Claude-host-only (gen-skill-docs.ts:842), which forced the codex/factory-regenerating tests (gen-skill-docs, skill-validation, host-config) to mutate the live tree — the reason they sit in the TREE_MUTATING serial shard. The flag now mirrors ALL outputs into the out-dir: external-host trees (.agents/.factory/... via processExternalHost), external section files, openclaw docs, and gstack/llms.txt (a catalog-mode render must never rewrite the tracked index). OUTPUTS ONLY — inputs (templates, sections/, host configs) are always read from ROOT, so an empty out-dir can never feed the render. rewriteSectionBase stays Claude-only (external hosts have their own path grammar). Proofs: in-place --host all is byte-identical (tree clean); --host all --out-dir <mkdtemp> renders the full multi-host tree with ROOT untouched; gen-skill-docs-out-dir tests + 415/415 gen-skill-docs.test.ts green (bin/dev-setup's claude rendering byte-compat). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(evals): every E2E key's dep list names its own declaring test file 129-of-177 keys omitted their own test file, so editing only a test's prompt or assertions selected NOTHING — the changed test never ran on the change that changed it. 135 keys self-registered (110 E2E + 25 LLM-judge), resolved by strict declaration evidence (testName:/ testIfSelected/judge call sites), with skill-name false positives excluded. e2e-tier-alignment's warn-only branch for unregistered files is now a hard failure with a 4-entry KNOWN_UNREGISTERED ratchet (template- literal testNames, fail-open-safe) + a burn-down test so the set only shrinks. Selection sanity: a one-file diff on skill-e2e-qa-workflow now selects its 4 tests (was 0); skill-llm-eval 0 → 25. Known follow-ups (filed): 15 E2E + 2 judge PHANTOM keys select tests that exist nowhere; codex-e2e-plan-format's testIfSelected names have no map keys (run-all only). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(evals): ratchet the 8 newly-visible gate-matrix gaps The self-registration sweep made these eight files' gate-tier keys visible to the census for the first time — their gate tests run in NO CI lane today (pre-existing hole, newly measurable). Ratcheted into KNOWN_MATRIX_GAPS with the burn-down note: the paid-lane re-platform runs every gate file by construction and retires this ratchet class. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(test): duration-aware LPT shard packing for the free suite Hash sharding balances file COUNTS (1.15x spread) but not cost — the Playwright-launching files landed 4/3/4/1/2/1 across 6 shards, giving a measured 28s–97s shard spread and ~40s of idle tail on every run. Full-suite mode now packs by recorded per-file durations (longest-processing-time-first) when the committed seed scripts/free-test-durations.json exists. - ONE store, no overlay: the seed is refreshed occasionally via the new --record-durations mode (each file timed in its own child — exact, and immune to bun's stream buffering, where silent passers print no header to timestamp); GSTACK_FREE_TEST_DURATIONS overrides the path for experiments; CI never records - seed is a hint: missing → silent hash-shard fallback; corrupt (bad merge) → one warning + fallback; unknown files → 75th-percentile pessimism so a surprise long-runner can't recreate the tail - packed shards get duration-aware walls (max(base, predicted x 3)) — LPT decouples count from cost BY DESIGN, so the 5s/file heuristic would undersize a shard holding few expensive files - one log line per shard (files + predicted seconds) so packing regressions are diagnosable from any run log - the --shard CI-matrix path is untouched: stable hash indices are its contract - successor note in-code: bun >=1.3.14 ships native --timings/--shard LPT — swap this packer when the repo unpins 1.3.13 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): decouple slop:diff from bun run test; quality-gate runs it per PR 'bun run test' silently appended up to two 120s npx slop-scan runs plus a git worktree add/remove after the suite (2>/dev/null || true) — invisible in the documented '~90-100s' timing and pure friction in the pre-commit loop. Decoupling is not coverage removal: quality-gate.yml now runs slop:diff on every PR (advisory, matching its in-repo 'never blocking' contract), and /review already invokes it explicitly. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(test): eval-budgets timeout tiers + fit/ceiling policy test Five named tiers (JUDGE 120s / CAPTURE 300s / CAPTURE_LONG 600s / PTY 900s / PTY_LONG 1200s) replace hand-ratcheted sprawl (46x300s, 46x120s, 44x360s, 44x180s, 27x240s, 19x150s, 13x420s, 12x600s...), much of it inflated to paper over the old 40-way in-shard concurrency that the sharded runner's 1-file-per-shard model kills. Policy test pins: every tier fits the shard wall minus 120s overhead (the structural fix for budgets-above-the-wall fiction), tiers stay ordered, and no paid literal exceeds PTY_LONG x1.25 — oversized tests get split, not budgeted past the wall. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(test): shared runBin helper for bin-script unit tests ~36 free test files each carry a near-identical local run() (spawnSync + utf-8 + {status, stdout, stderr}) differing only in env composition, cwd, and timeout. runBin absorbs the invariant core; options carry the variance (gstackHome sets BOTH GSTACK_HOME and GSTACK_STATE_DIR — the config-precedence trap several locals rediscovered independently; home for $HOME-anchored bins; input/trim/timeout/maxBuffer). Free-test-only by design so it never becomes a de facto global touchfile. Migration of the 36 call sites lands separately (mechanical batches). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): runBin trim assertion — trim shapes stream ends, not interior Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(test): mechanical sweep — 298 paid-test timeouts onto eval-budget tiers 69 files, both shapes (trailing bun-test budgets and runner timeout/timeoutMs options), ROUND-UP ONLY so nothing that passed can start failing: 75 → JUDGE_MS, 137 → CAPTURE_MS, 74 → CAPTURE_LONG_MS, 9 → PTY_MS, 3 → PTY_LONG_MS. Raw >=60s literal count in the paid scope: 395 → 97, of which 51 are non-timeout noise (fixture dates, run IDs) and 46 are enumerated justified holds (comment-carrying calibrated budgets, poll-loop constants, utility spawn waits, and the seven physical-ceiling 1_500_000 sites). The eval-budgets policy ratchet keeps the residue from regrowing. Known collapse: where an inner runner budget and its enclosing test budget now share a tier, the old stagger is gone — an overrun surfaces as a bun test timeout instead of a graceful runner timeout (diagnosability trade, not a correctness one). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: coverage fill — 95 tests for six zero-coverage surfaces - eval CLI family (eval-list/compare/summary + eval-select smoke): the primary interface to eval results had no tests; isolation via a fake gstack-slug under a mkdtemp HOME (the scripts' real resolution path — they do NOT honor GSTACK_EVAL_DIR; only EvalCollector does). Pinned current behavior: eval-list does NOT exclude _partial runs (documented improvement candidate) - slop-diff (runs on every /review + quality-gate): fixture git repo + first-on-PATH npx stub (never downloads real slop-scan); no-diff early exit, missing-scanner fallback, fingerprint line-insensitivity, merge-base worktree scan - bin/gstack-code-intelligence CLI arg surface (lib was covered, the 284-line CLI wasn't): select/consent/suggest/index/search gating; pinned: --help routes to usage failure exit 1 (no handler) - browse media-extract: the page.evaluate callback exercised in-process against a mock DOM (no exports added) — lazy-src fallback chain, HLS/DASH detection, bg-image url() parsing, 500-element cap - browse session-cookie-store: factory contract (cookieName/ttlMs/ maxSessions eviction, cross-store isolation, mint→validate round-trip); store is in-memory — no fs cases exist - lib/version-source direct unit tests (gstack-version-bump.test.ts spawns the bin, never imports the lib): parse/format/cmp/bump coercion, npm 4→3 translation, #2501 mangled-JSON regression class All hermetic (mkdtemp homes, runBin child isolation); windows curation correctly partitions the six. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(test): first runBin migration batch (3 of ~36 run() duplicates) explain-level-config, benchmark-cli, evidence move onto the shared helper; each file's remaining special-case spawnSync sites (raw-buffer probes, env-scrub probes) stay put deliberately. 55/55 green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(evals): paid shards spool to disk + shared runShardChild lifecycle - runPaidShard no longer buffers whole 30-min stream-json streams in RAM (x concurrent jobs): every byte tees to a per-shard log file (slug-named, path printed at START for mid-run inspection and on the FAILED terminal line); failures print a 64KiB tail read back from disk; passing shards stay quiet (the file is the record) — the free runner's proven contract. Classification unchanged: the strict classifier still sees every byte first. - the ~35 duplicated spawn/group-kill/wall-timer/finally-reap lines move into runShardChild in test-strict-output.ts (detached-per- platform spawn, signal forwarding, SIGKILL group kill at the wall, drain-before-verdict); designed so the free runner can migrate later - expectedFiles drift fixed toward ENFORCEMENT: the injected-command exemption is gone — a fake command exiting 0 without bun's terminal summary now reads FAILED (pinned: silent-pass → failed) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(evals): parent-computed selection propagates to shard children The sharded runner computed diff selection once, then each of its 48-73 children recomputed it at module load — including, on touchfiles-diff branches, a per-child bun subprocess evaluating the old data file (20s timeout each). The parent now serializes {version, selected, reason} as EVALS_SELECTION_JSON into the shard env; e2e-helpers adopts it at load. Fail-open preserved: any parse/shape violation → ONE stderr warning + local recompute; absent env → silent local compute (non-sharded entrypoints unchanged). Drift test pins parent→child round-trip to identical selection decisions plus the malformed/absent cases. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): kill the four worst fixed sleeps (300s/30s/30s/20s) - watchdog.test: the 20s blind wait for one production parent-watchdog tick becomes BROWSE_PARENT_WATCHDOG_INTERVAL_MS=250 (new env knob in server.ts, NaN-safe, production default unchanged) + polls for the boot line and the tick's stay-alive log — strictly stronger (the old form never proved a tick observed the parent death). 24s → 3.6s. - stop-dead-daemon / terminal-agent-owner-watchdog: the 300s/30s stand-in child lifetimes become stdin-EOF-bound — the child can never self-exit mid-test on a slow runner (spurious-failure class) and self-reaps instantly if the test dies (no 300s orphans). Node-compat stdin APIs (owner-watchdog runs on the Windows lane). - browser-skill-commands: the sleeper fixture's 30s self-time becomes 8s (no stdin pipe exists in runToFiles) — far above the 1s product timeout it must outlive, below the test ceiling, so a timeout-kill regression fails on clean assertions instead of an opaque bun timeout; added: stdout must NOT contain 'done'. 45/45 green across the four files + server tripwires. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): gen-skill-docs + catalog-trim leave the serial mutator shard gen-skill-docs.test.ts's 15 in-place generator spawns now render into mkdtemp out-dirs (gitignored-artifact reads repointed; the handshake scan's silent console.warn degrade became a hard assertion); its tracked-tree reads (freshness dry-run, SKILL.md content pins) stay reads. catalog-trim needed no change beyond the earlier main() guard — its import is now side-effect-free (pinned by the import-purity test). Both TREE_MUTATING entries deleted in this commit, per the transition rule: an entry leaves in the same commit as the file's last in-place write. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): skill-validation renders codex host into an out-dir Its 3 in-place --host codex regeneration sites collapse into one module-level --out-dir render; assertions untouched. TREE_MUTATING entry deleted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): host-config self-provisions goldens (ordering dependency severed) Its goldens were 'produced by gen-skill-docs.test.ts' with a when-missing beforeAll fallback that wrote the live tree — an inter-test ordering dependency the serial shard hid. It now renders codex+factory UNCONDITIONALLY into its own out-dir and reads goldens only from there (the Claude golden deliberately keeps reading tracked ship/SKILL.md — a read; out-dir claude renders repoint section-base paths by design). TREE_MUTATING entry deleted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): gbrain-detection-override drops mutate-then-git-restore regenAndSnapshot renders --host claude --out-dir <mkdtemp> (+ --respect-detection) and snapshots probes from the out-dir. The git-restore machinery is deleted outright — it restored only PROBE_FILES of the 71 files each call wrote, so a stale tree kept the other 68 dirty (the partial-restore bug), and its 'no output-path arg' comment had been false since --out-dir landed. TREE_MUTATING entry deleted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): catalog-mode-full renders to out-dir; restore machinery deleted The full-catalog smoke no longer rewrites all 71 SKILL.md then regenerates to restore (with its 'CRITICAL: failed to restore' prayer path) — it renders into a mkdtemp and additionally asserts tracked ship/SKILL.md is byte-unchanged. TREE_MUTATING entry deleted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): idempotency proof strengthens to two-out-dir recursive diff Two renders into two separate out-dirs, EVERY file diffed byte-for-byte (claude-only and --host all; normalization only for each dir's own sanctioned section-base repoint; presence-sanity lists guard against a vacuous empty-dir pass) — strictly stronger than the old in-place double-regen that sampled 5 files. TREE_MUTATING entry deleted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): spec-template-sync compares an out-dir render, not an in-place one TREE_MUTATING entry deleted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(test): the serial tree-mutating shard dissolves — TREE_MUTATING is empty Zero mutators remain (all eight render into out-dirs now), so the four ratchet READERS (parity caps, size budgets, carve parity/ordering) get a quiet tree by construction in any shard and rejoin the parallel phase. The ~35-40s serial tail on every full-suite run is gone. The mechanism stays: a future test that genuinely must write shared artifacts in place earns an entry with a reason and is serialized again; the census pin still fails on renamed keys. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(gen): out-dir byte-identity + tree-clean pins for external hosts codex render: porcelain unchanged AND out-dir gstack-ship/SKILL.md byte-identical to a fresh in-place render (+openai.yaml presence); --host all render: exit 0, porcelain unchanged, claude + .agents + .factory + llms.txt + openclaw docs all present in the out-dir. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(test): commit the initial free-test durations seed (496 files) Recorded via --record-durations on a quiescent tree: 479s serial total, p50 92ms / p90 1.8s / max 31.4s — the top-heavy cost shape LPT packing exists for. A hint, not a contract: refresh opportunistically with bun run test:free --record-durations. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(evals): planner/executor/report modes — the CI re-platform surface One PLANNER computes diff selection + the slice plan ONCE and writes a manifest (--emit-plan <path> --slices K); K executors consume it (--plan <path> --slice i), never self-selecting, and write slice-result artifacts; a REPORT reconciles results against the manifest (--report <dir>) fail-closed: a slice whose artifact never landed is a FAILURE, a planned shard nobody reported fails, wrong-slice/duplicate/cross-tier results fail. Kills per-slice selector divergence and hollow-lane aggregation at the root. - hollow-shard guard: under EVALS_ALL, exit 0 with ZERO executed tests (bun's 'Ran N tests' now captured by the classifier — additive) is 'passed-empty' and fails the run; selective runs keep it 'passed' with one warning (in-file diff/tier self-skips are legitimate there); unknown counts are never guessed hollow - retry parity: --retry 1 default + RETRY_OVERRIDES literals for the three files whose old matrix rows earned retries: 2 (stale entries pinned against disk) - live smoke: gate plan = 48 shards across 6 slices; report mode exits 1 on a fabricated missing slice, 0 when complete Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(ci): sliced paid lane (planner -> 6 executors -> fail-closed report) The parity-phase re-platform: evals.yml gains a second, sliced lane driven by scripts/test-paid-shards.ts — the SAME engine local eval:bg:gate uses, so CI and local share one selection engine. - plan-slices: ONE planner (fetch-depth 0 — the only job needing history) emits the manifest; selection fails open to run-all, never per-slice (the divergence class is structurally dead) - eval-slices: 6-way matrix consuming the manifest; PTY seed + skill-registration steps run unconditionally (idempotent — a sliced lane cannot key them on suite names); aggregate spawn budget 6 x EVALS_JOBS=2 x EVALS_CONCURRENCY=2 = 24 lane-wide (the matrix's 40-way per row queued session startup behind 39 siblings — the timeout-flake family root); slice results + spooled shard logs uploaded as artifacts - slices-report: reconciles slice artifacts against the manifest FAIL-CLOSED via --report — a slice whose artifact never landed, or a planned shard nobody reported, is a failure, not an absence - sequenced needs: evals so provider concurrency never doubles while both lanes coexist; the matrix + its ratchets are deleted after demonstrated parity (intersection + expected-additions comparison) - workflow_dispatch gains evals_all (default true) for parity runs and post-merge smokes — a dispatch can never silently select zero Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(ci): weekly periodic lane runs EVERY periodic test + gate census backstop evals-periodic.yml re-platforms onto the sharded runner: planner manifest → 6 executor slices → FAIL-CLOSED report. This IS the coverage contract: all ~70 periodic-tier files weekly (EVALS_ALL=1), killing the silent-rot class where a hard-coded 9-file matrix left ~57 files running NOWHERE (the autoplan E2E rotted invisibly for months). - test/helpers/periodic-exclude-data.ts: reasoned exclusions in their OWN literals file (deliberately not touchfiles-data — map-diff evaluates old versions of that file standalone). Every entry carries reason + tracking with a re-entry condition; the runner surfaces each exclusion per run; policy test pins real-file + non-empty fields. Initial: ship-idempotency + brain-privacy-gate (documented-red, never green) and skill-e2e-ios (manual hardware). The TODOS 'sidebar E2E trio' turned out already deleted — only tombstone tests remain. - gate-census job: weekly EVALS_ALL gate-tier run — PR lanes are diff-billed, so without this the full gate census might never execute anywhere; with the hollow-shard guard it is a census-health check (exit 0 + zero executed tests fails), not just a test run. - failure notification is a concrete gh issue UPSERT (one tracking issue, commented per red week — never issue-per-week spam), with issues:write scoped to the report job. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: TESTING_INTERNALS covers the 2026-08 runner overhaul LPT-packed free suite + --record-durations, the emptied TREE_MUTATING mechanism, the sharded paid runner as the single selection engine, CI planner/executor/report with the fail-closed report and hollow-shard guard, the weekly coverage contract + exclusions policy, and the eval-budgets timeout tiers. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(CLAUDE.md): testing prose matches the overhauled runners - bun run test: duration-packed shards + --record-durations; the trailing serial tree-mutating shard no longer exists - two-tier system: the sliced CI lanes (one engine local+CI), the weekly all-periodic coverage contract + exclusions, the gate census - periodic detach timeout 32400 → 37800 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(TODOS): close the absorbed test-infra items, file the overhaul follow-ups Closed with receipts: the periodic coverage contract (implemented as full weekly coverage + exclusions), the eval-harness observability P1 (verified already landed: heartbeat, incremental _partial persistence, live stderr + eval-watch), and the sidebar trio (already deleted — tombstones remain). Filed: matrix deletion after parity, the required-check maintainer decision, browse /tmp-namespace hardening, PTY boot-readiness waits, the single typed test registry, bun-native LPT swap, runBin/free-runner migrations, eval-list partial exclusion, phantom key cleanup, duration-weighted slicing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * v1.73.0.0: test/CI overhaul — green means green, suites restructured for speed Version + release notes for the audit-and-overhaul branch: every silently-skipping or never-running test class fixed and tripwired, the free suite duration-packed with the serial mutator shard dissolved, the paid lane re-platformed onto the sharded runner (planner/slices/ fail-closed report, parity phase), the weekly all-periodic coverage contract, eval-budget timeout tiers, and 95 new coverage tests. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ci): first-live-run fixes — executor history + two environment-blind assertions The sliced lane's first run (PR #2721) did its job: the planner and report worked, the manifest governed, and every failure had a name. Three were fixable on the spot: - executor + gate-census checkouts get fetch-depth: 0 — files with SELF-derived selection (the LLM-judge map, routing) walk git at module load, and selection is deliberately fail-closed on git errors, so the shallow checkout crashed those shards ('ambiguous argument main...HEAD'). The manifest still governs WHICH shards run. - landscape --toc gate: the exact toBe(3) landscape-page count was font-metric-dependent (3 on Amazon Linux, 2 on ubuntu CI — the same disease the file's own page-index comment warns about). Now a comparative invariant: --toc must not CHANGE the landscape count vs a baseline render. - paid-run-manifest parse test builds its manifest under EVALS_ALL so it never walks git (proven with GIT_DIR=/nonexistent). Remaining first-run failures are newly-exposed rot in gate files that had never executed in CI (skillify D1 refusal, session-intelligence context-restore, one tpa-apple-ban retry flake) — being probed separately; they are the lane WORKING, not the lane failing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(TODOS): file the three first-execution findings from the sliced lane's live run Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * v1.74.0.0: queue-advance — #2722 claims the v1.73.0.0 slot The version gate caught a live queue collision (its whole job); same MINOR bump level, next free slot per bin/gstack-next-version. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): per-shard CHROMIUM_PROFILE — the collision class duration packing exposed Nine test files launch in-process persistent contexts or daemons that default to the SHARED ~/.gstack/chromium-profile. Two concurrent shard processes on one profile dir kill each other's browser — observed live on CI once duration packing recomposed shards: handoff's launchPersistentContext died 'Target page, context or browser has been closed' (--user-data-dir=~/.gstack/chromium-profile in the call log) while a sibling shard's daemon logged 'Chromium process crashed'. Hash sharding had masked the collision by chance placement; handoff passes standalone everywhere. Fix at the runner, not per file: each shard child gets CHROMIUM_PROFILE=<shard-state>/chromium-profile (the documented env knob, same isolation idea as the existing per-shard TMPDIR). Files within a shard run serially, so sharing the per-shard profile is safe; config.test's resolution-order tests save/restore the env around their assertions. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): landscape --toc gate asserts promotion PRESENCE, not counts Two rounds of CI receipts: the exact toBe(3) was font-metric-coupled (3 on Amazon Linux, 2 on ubuntu), and the baseline-comparison repair then failed 2-vs-3 across renders SECONDS apart in one CI job while the sibling no-toc test saw 3 — per-render image-promotion timing makes any count assertion here a coin flip. The sibling test owns exact promotion counts; this test's actual invariant is that --toc does not break the promotion machinery: >=1 landscape page + the TOC rendered. Also drops the second render (halves the test's runtime). Flaky per-render image promotion itself is worth its own look — noted in TODOS with these receipts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(TODOS): file the per-render image-promotion nondeterminism (receipts from PR #2721) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): per-FILE Chromium profiles for the nine in-process launcher files Completes the profile-isolation work: the per-shard CHROMIUM_PROFILE stopped cross-shard kills; these nine files launch in-process persistent contexts and could still collide with a lingering daemon a sibling file spawned on the SAME shard profile. Each now scopes a mkdtemp profile via beforeAll/afterAll (the module-scope-tripwire-safe pattern), cleaned up per file. All nine green solo and in combined runs, except the pre-existing commands+snapshot pairing — proven identical WITH and WITHOUT these edits (baseline receipts) — which is the daemon-lifecycle follow-up now extended in TODOS with this session's receipts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(browse): Chromium-crash exit is daemon-only — embedded launches never kill their host handleChromiumDisconnect unconditionally process.exit()ed. Correct for the standalone daemon (its supervisor/user must notice); suicidal when a TEST launches BrowserManager in-process: a mid-suite Chromium death exited the whole bun shard with no terminal summary — the exact truncation class the strict runner flags (observed live: CI shard 1 on eb233299 died at cache-concurrent-refresh right after a daemon-spawning gate test; with this fix the same pairing runs to completion and REPORTS instead of dying). The standalone entrypoint opts in via markDaemonProcess() under server.ts's import.meta.main gate — the same embedder contract its signal handlers already use (gbrowser phoenix keeps its own handlers). Embedded contexts now get the disconnect log line and continue. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): context-restore assertion is evidence-based, not prose-matching The test failed twice per run in TWO CI cycles while passing locally 4/4: the prompt said 'present the content' and the check grepped the FINAL message for exact phrases — local runs quoted the file, CI runs paraphrased ('the most recent context is from branch-b...') and the substring check lost the coin flip. - prompt now demands machine-checkable output: the newest file's '## Working on:' heading VERBATIM + a literal 'RESTORED: <filename>' marker (the mtime-scramble and cross-branch subject matter untouched) - assertion ordered strongest-first: RESTORED marker → legacy content phrases → tool-call corroboration (Read/Bash input naming the newer file, credited ONLY when the older file was never read — a both-files run must still present the right one) - the older-file negative got STRONGER: an explicit RESTORED marker naming the older file fails even if wintermute words appear elsewhere - sibling scan: context-recovery-artifacts got the additive prompt-side treatment only (quote the matched literals verbatim); its lenient 1-of-6 assertion deliberately unchanged 3/3 consecutive local green with all evidence classes firing (marker=true, content=true, toolNewer=true, toolOlder=false). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): skillify family — HOME==cwd broke project-skill registration Root cause (forensically pinned from stream-json init events + a kill-after-init probe): with HOME set EQUAL to the child's cwd, claude resolves <cwd>/.claude/skills as the PERSONAL skills directory and the seeded project-tier skills never register — the Skill tool returned 'Unknown skill'. The provenance-refusal test then improvised a refusal whose wording missed the regex (the deterministic CI+local red); the happy-path and approval-reject siblings passed only because their agents self-recovered by Reading SKILL.md manually — silently not exercising the Skill-tool path at all. All three tests now use HOME=<workDir>/home (a fresh subdir keeps the override's intent: child ~/.gstack writes land in the assertable sandbox, without the cwd collision). Refusal test additionally: a 'not registered/unknown skill' tripwire (a not-loaded skill can never pass as a refusal) and the refusal regex now matches assistant text only — the skill BODY echoed into the transcript contains the exact refusal message, so the old full-surface match could pass vacuously once the skill loaded. Sibling disk assertions sweep both $HOME/.gstack and cwd .gstack roots (positives and negatives). Verified paid: refusal 2x consecutive green with the skill's EXACT message rendered ('Launching skill: skillify' in-transcript), then the full file 5/5 green (~$1.35) with both siblings driving real Skill calls (25-27 turns each). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(TODOS): two of three first-execution findings fixed (skillify family, context-restore) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): context-restore gets a private home — the REAL root cause was fixture sharing The evidence-based assertion fix was treating a symptom. The slice artifact's embedded transcript showed the CI agent restoring 20260829-context-save-skill-test.md — the checkpoint the SIBLING context-save test wrote into the SHARED gstackHome checkpoints dir, which by filename-prefix ordering genuinely IS the newest. The agent behaved CORRECTLY; the test's fixture set was open to concurrent sibling writes, and bun --concurrent ordering differs between CI (save finished first) and local (restore listed first) — the entire local-green/CI-red split explained. The restore test now uses its own .gstack-restore-home (the whole home moves, not just the handed path — an agent deriving the dir from GSTACK_HOME/projects/<slug> must land in the closed set too). Full file 4/4 paid green with all evidence flags firing. Also: the on-failure shard-log artifact glob uploaded nothing — the Fix-bun-temp step points TMPDIR at /home/runner/.cache, so the spool lands there, not /tmp. Both eval workflows now glob both locations (this gap is why diagnosing THIS failure required digging transcripts out of the slice-results artifact). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(evidence): carry the real index mtime onto gstack-wtree's temp copy The stat-cache seed (cp of the real index) stamped the temp index "now", which defeats git's racy-git protection: an entry is only re-hashed when its cached mtime is not older than the index file itself, so a same-size rewrite landing in the same second as the last real index write looked non-racy, kept its stale stat-cache entry, and vanished from the fingerprint — evidence stayed FRESH after a source change. This is the CI flake in test/evidence.test.ts "allow-paths carve-out" (sub-second alignment on fast runners: expected STALE exit 1, got FRESH exit 0). touch -r restores the original index timestamp, reinstating the exact racy window git itself uses. Deterministic regression pin in test/review-log.test.ts reproduces the miss with pinned zero-nsec timestamps (fails on the old script, passes now); receipts: manual probe shows the fresh-stamped copy returning the clean tree for a same-size 'hello'→'howdy' rewrite while the mtime-carried copy detects it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): landscape gate bounds the promotion count instead of pinning 3 The alt-hinted image promotion rides the per-render measurement race already filed in TODOS (2-vs-3 landscape pages on renders seconds apart — CI receipts from PR #2721, now reproduced locally). Pin the two deterministic promotions as the floor and the three promotable blocks as the ceiling (anything above 3 means the veto leaked); the veto/portrait assertions remain exact. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: Test <test@test.com>	2026-08-29 09:06:54 -07:00