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+8 702a1a9b69 v1.78.0.0 fix: the two-red-lanes wave — AUQ collapse rooted, OSV green from 105, 18 community PRs absorbed, upgrade path can't eat installs (#2752)
* fix(auq): spawned trigger is objective — explicit declaration or STATUS echo, never inference (periodic-lane AUQ collapse)

The v1.76 spawned rule's parenthetical '(or your dispatch prompt marks this
session as spawned)' let the model INFER spawned status from a scripted-looking
prompt in a CI-looking session and silently auto-choose every review-phase
question: reviewCount=0 across the plan-review periodic E2Es (weekly run
33363624506, 9 of 14 failed shards; reproduced locally, zero AUQ fingerprints).
Env and hook paths were excluded by inspection: hermetic children echo
SESSION_KIND: interactive (CLAUDE_CODE_ENTRYPOINT=cli beats CI markers) and the
question-preference hook isn't installed there.

The trigger is now objective: the echoed SESSION_KIND: spawned STATUS line, or
an EXPLICIT dispatch-prompt declaration ("you are a SPAWNED subagent") —
declared, never inferred — with an absence-safe interactive fence: CI env vars,
scripted-looking or pasted prompts, and write-to-this-exact-file instructions
are NOT spawned markers. The prose channel stays because Task-tool subagents
inherit the parent env (no spawned prefix) — their dispatch prompt is the only
signal; #2733's env-prefix channel is untouched.

19 carve skeleton ceilings re-pinned with measured values (+~440 bytes/skill);
ship goldens refreshed for all three hosts; resolver pins extended with the
no-inference regression tests.

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

* fix: mktemp failure aborts loudly at all three skill-content sites; failed upgrade swap restores the backup (#2679)

An empty $(mktemp) result silently disabled the redaction pass (redact-doc
resolver, ship pr-body) and made /gstack-upgrade's vendored path destructive:
clone lands at "/gstack", the swap mv fails, and rm -rf then deletes BOTH the
live install's backup and "". All three sites now guard the assignment with a
loud exit; the vendored block additionally restores the backup when the swap
fails (same failure class — backup deletion after a failed mv) and the GitLab
MR path sends the SCANNED file's bytes instead of re-rendering an unscanned
heredoc. bin/gstack-redact rejects an explicit empty --from-file path instead
of silently falling through to stdin.

Receipts: 6 of 8 new regression checks fail on a v1.77.0.0 scratch worktree.

Fixes #2679

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

* fix(auq): the interactive fence classifies the session — it never nudges ask-count

Burn-in run 1 of the periodic repro overshot the review band (reviewCount=8 >
CEILING=7) with the fence's 'when unsure, ask' tail: that phrasing is a quota
nudge, not a classification default. The fence now states it only classifies
the session and never changes how many questions the skill asks. Pin added.

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

* fix(ci): OSV suppression config actually loads — explicit global --config + expiring, reasoned ignores

The ignore file was inert from v1.65.0.0: OSV-Scanner only auto-discovers
configs named osv-scanner.toml (no leading dot) and applies them
per-directory, so the root config never covered lib/diagram-render/bun.lock
either way. The workflow now passes --config=.osv-scanner.toml globally.
Every IgnoredVulns entry carries a reason with an upgrade trigger and an
ignoreUntil expiry (~90 days) so suppressions must be re-justified. A wiring
test pins flag ↔ filename ↔ entry hygiene so the file can never silently go
inert again.

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

* fix(deps): dependency wave — 105 OSV advisories → 3 reasoned suppressions, all lanes verified on the pinned scanner

Root: overrides pin ip-address 10.3.1 (defeats BOTH nested nodes — socks'
range pull and express-rate-limit's exact 10.1.0 pin, which a top-level bump
provably cannot reach) and sharp 0.35.0 (GHSA-f88m, HIGH; transformers still
pins ^0.34 upstream — smoke-tested round-trip); marked ^18.0.11; full in-range
lockfile refresh clears hono, fast-uri, protobufjs, qs, body-parser, nanoid,
uuid, immutable and friends.

lib/diagram-render (via its own build-script contract: exact pins edited,
fresh lock, dist rebuilt): mermaid 11.16.1, @excalidraw/excalidraw 0.18.1,
@excalidraw/mermaid-to-excalidraw 1.1.2 → 2.2.2 — the 1.x line exact-pinned
mermaid 10.9.x and dragged the entire duplicate mermaid-10 advisory chain
(dompurify 3.1.6, nanoid 3.3.3, lodash-es); the bundle shrinks 9.96 → 7.59 MB
with the duplicate mermaid gone. Nested exact pins that survived get scoped
overrides (nanoid 5.1.16, lodash-es 4.18.1).

Verification: clean-worktree frozen-lockfile installs (root + nested) + the
SAME osv-scanner release the action pins (v2.3.8) with the workflow's exact
scan-args → exit 0, 'No issues found'. Smoke tests cover the override
surfaces (sharp round-trip, ip-address lockfile assertion, marked parse);
socks + diagram-drift suites already pin the rest.

Supersedes #2695 (its own lockfile kept socks/ip-address@10.2.0; @anupamme's
report credited for the parallel diagnosis).

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

* test(gbrain-sync): stub pgrep so the pin case is hermetic

The only non-dry-run --code-only child hits #1734's PATH-resolved
autopilot probe. A live host daemon is a correct refuse; the test
cannot inject processRunning. Neutralize pgrep in the fixture bindir
instead of adding a production env hatch.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* test(gbrain-sync): blank inherited GBRAIN_HOME in the pin child

Lock paths are checked before pgrep. Spreading process.env let a runner
GBRAIN_HOME with a live lock refuse the case before the stub ran.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* fix: point ship design-checklist at installed gstack/review path

The /ship Design Review step skipped the checklist because the generated path omitted the gstack/ install segment. Sync the generated skill doc and pin a regression assertion.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Wave-amended: goldens regenerated against the wave tree (author's golden commit 8e7a03ca superseded)

* fix(codex): a CLI that cannot execute no longer reports CODEX_MODE: ready

Follow-up to #2477. The model probe it added does a real round trip, but its
final branch is the `else` of a "model 400" grep, so it swallowed spawn ENOENT,
non-executable binaries and missing vendor payloads alongside genuine network
timeouts. All three are deterministic — retrying never helps — yet they landed
in the fail-open bucket and resolved to `ready`, so every Codex pass was
skipped in silence and the review reported itself complete.

Observed live: @openai/codex was on PATH with an empty
vendor/aarch64-apple-darwin/codex/ directory. gstack said `ready` for two
months while no Codex pass ran.

Three changes:

- `_gstack_codex_model_probe` classifies deterministic install failures (exit
  126/127, or stderr matching ENOENT/ENOEXEC/EACCES/"cannot execute binary
  file") as MODEL_UNUSABLE_INSTALL, exit 2, never cached — a reinstall is
  picked up on the next probe. Exit 124 and genuine transients still fail open,
  which is what #2477 intended.

- The preflight chain captures the probe's code instead of testing it for
  truthiness, so exit 2 routes to a new `broken_install` mode whose remedy is
  `npm install -g @openai/codex` rather than "check your model pin". A missing
  binary and an unusable model are different problems with different fixes.

- `_gstack_codex_version_check` no longer reads a broken CLI as healthy. It ran
  `codex --version 2>/dev/null | head -1`, which captures head's status, not
  codex's — and 2>/dev/null discarded the one diagnostic available. It now
  captures the real exit code and warns on non-zero. Empty-but-successful
  output stays silent, per the existing "empty output → OK" case.

Tests: 6 added to test/codex-hardening.test.ts covering both broken-install
shapes, the exit-2 contract, no caching, the transient still failing open, the
model 400 still classifying as MODEL_UNUSABLE, and the version-check warning.
845 pass / 0 fail across all 8 suites touching the changed files.

Closes #2742

Wave-amended: autoplan hand-maintained preflight chain completed (tmpl+render); install-signature grep gated on failed spawn only; goldens regenerated against the wave tree (author's golden commit 5797d326 superseded); +2 tests

* feat(redact): add Groq, Tavily and Notion API key patterns

* fix(redact): stop reporting .env.local as an internal hostname

`internal.hostname` ends in `.local|.prod|.staging|…`, so `.env.local`
matches on `env.local` and a dotenv FILENAME is reported as a leaked
internal host.

The collision is not exotic. It fires on `--env-file=.env.local` in an npm
script, `.env.staging` in a README, `.env.prod` in a .gitignore — ordinary
lines on branches that leak nothing. Measured on one private repo, three of
four MEDIUM findings in a routine push were this, and the fourth was a
deleted localhost URL. That ratio is the real cost: a scanner that reports
package.json is one people learn to skim, and skimming is how the HIGH
finding it exists for gets missed.

The guard follows the `insideUuid` precedent and stays deliberately narrow —
it exempts only a span beginning `env.` immediately preceded by a dot, i.e.
the literal `.env.<suffix>` form. `api.corp.local`, `build-7.internal` and
`myenv.local` all still report.

The test pins both directions, and the negative controls are the point: an
exemption written as "any span ending .local" would pass the dotenv half
while quietly gutting the pattern for every real host. Verified red/green —
with the validate hook removed, exactly the 6 dotenv cases fail and all 9
real-host controls still pass.

* fix: don't flag git SSH remotes as pii.email

`pii.email` matches the `git@github.com` inside
`git@github.com:acme/widgets.git`. That is a transport user@host, not a
person's address, so any diff touching a clone URL -- a deploy config's
repo URL, a submodule entry, a README clone line -- draws a spurious
MEDIUM from the pre-push hook.

Suppressed by URL shape rather than by adding `git` to
EMAIL_ALLOW_LOCALPARTS. A bare `git@` allowlist entry would also
suppress a genuine address at a domain that merely begins with "git"
(git@gitmail.com), converting a false positive into a false negative --
the worse failure for a guardrail. Two shapes are accepted:

  - `<user>@<host>:<path>.git` for ANY host, covering self-hosted
    remotes, plus the equivalent ssh:// URL form.
  - `git@<known-host>` for github.com, gitlab.com, bitbucket.org and
    ssh.dev.azure.com, whose bare form appears in docs and in
    `ssh -T git@github.com` connectivity checks with no path at all.
    Matched exactly, so gitmail.com is unaffected.

emailAllowed now receives the normalized text and the span offset so it
can see that surrounding shape; it had only ever been passed the matched
span.

Tests pin both directions: the SSH remotes go quiet, and a real address
still fires -- including at a git host (alex@github.com) and at a
git-prefixed domain (git@gitmail.com).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(redact): install-prepush-hook refreshes a stale managed hook

The marker check returned before the only writer, so once a repo had the
hook, no later change to the wrapper could ever reach it. The `printf x`
fail-open fix (v1.64.0.0) has still not landed in any repo that received
the hook before it, and a wrapper naming a gstack that has since moved
stays pointed at a dead path for the same reason.

Compare the body against what this version generates: rewrite on drift,
stay a no-op when identical. The chained pre-push.local is untouched on
both paths.

The existing trailing-newline regression test cannot catch this — it
installs into a repo with no prior managed hook, the one case that was
never broken.

* fix(redact): install-prepush-hook refreshes a stale managed hook

The marker check returned before the only writer, so once a repo had the
hook, no later change to the wrapper could ever reach it. The `printf x`
fail-open fix (v1.64.0.0) has still not landed in any repo that received
the hook before it, and a wrapper naming a gstack that has since moved
stays pointed at a dead path for the same reason.

Compare the body against what this version generates: rewrite on drift,
stay a no-op when identical. The chained pre-push.local is untouched on
both paths.

The existing trailing-newline regression test cannot catch this — it
installs into a repo with no prior managed hook, the one case that was
never broken.

Wave-amended: spawnSync timeouts added to the new tests (v1.77 sync-spawn tripwire)

* refactor(redact): name the SSH-remote path lookahead constant

Wave polish on the #2734 absorption: the 512-char scp-path lookahead window
follows the UUID_CONTEXT_CHARS named-constant convention instead of a magic
number at the slice site.

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

* fix(config): reject malformed cross_project_learnings at set

A typo was stored with exit 0, so the feature stayed off and the first-run prompt never returned. Reject like codex_reviews; do not coerce.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* fix(gbrain-detect): classify gbrain >= 0.43 held-lock refusal as engine-locked

gbrain 0.43+ refuses a held PGLite lock with exit 1 and the message
"GBrain's local database is already open through `gbrain serve` (MCP,
PID N)" instead of the pre-0.43 exit 124 + "connect timed out" that
the #2194 branch matches. The message matches no known pattern, so the
classifier falls through to the defensive broken-config default — and
Step 1.5 of /setup-gbrain and /sync-gbrain then tell the user to move a
perfectly healthy config.json aside and re-init the engine.

Reproduced live on gbrain 0.43.0.0, 0.44.0.0 and 0.46.30.0: with a
serve holding the lock, gstack-gbrain-detect reports
gbrain_local_status=broken-config; after stopping the serve it reports
ok with the same untouched config.

Match on the stable substring "already open through", mirroring the
existing #2194 branch semantics: engine-locked for pglite, broken-db
otherwise. Adds a fake-gbrain behavior for the 0.43+ refusal plus two
cases (pglite -> engine-locked, postgres -> broken-db).

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

* fix(memory-helpers): a slow gitleaks probe no longer disables secret scanning

`gitleaksAvailable()` cached every failure the same way, so a 2s timeout on
`gitleaks version` was recorded as "the binary is absent" for the rest of the
process. One busy moment and the whole ingest ran unscanned behind a single
stderr line — a fail-open outcome decided by machine load rather than by
anything about the machine's setup. The caller only acts on
`scanner === "gitleaks"`, so every later file was written with no scan and no
second warning.

The probe now classifies three outcomes. ENOENT (and a present-but-unusable
binary: bad exit, EACCES) stays cached — that is a fact about the box, and
re-probing it per file would be waste. A timeout gets one retry on a 10s
budget, and if that also expires nothing is cached: the file is reported
unscanned, the warning says so in those words, and the next file probes again.

Observed under the 7-way sharded free-test runner, where spawning a shell
script inside a temp bin dir took longer than the 2s budget.

Tests: the retry path, the no-cache-on-timeout path (the second call must
re-probe), and the cached-absent path. The fake gitleaks hangs for 30s rather
than racing a short sleep against a short budget, and the budgets are chosen so
load cannot flip an outcome: 30s where the retry MUST answer, 800ms where the
probe MUST expire. An earlier draft used 1s/5s and flaked under the same shard
runner this commit is about. The existing probe test pinned `detect` to
calls[1], which a retry breaks; it now asserts the order instead of the index.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0111Mq3JGwZDcstn5wYcbhSw

* fix(make-pdf): pdftotext version and flavor probe returns unknown on poppler

describeBinary reports version="unknown" flavor="unknown" for every poppler
install, so logDiagnostics prints nothing useful on the most common
implementation. Two independent causes:

1. poppler writes the -v banner to stderr and exits 0. execFileSync returns
   stdout (empty) and does not throw on a zero exit, so the stderr fallback in
   the catch block is unreachable. The in-code comment already notes poppler
   exits 0, but only the throwing path reads stderr.

2. flavor is matched against the version line alone. poppler prints
   "pdftotext version 26.06.0" on line 1 and names itself on line 2,
   "Copyright ... The Poppler Developers", so even a working stderr read
   yields "unknown".

Switch the probe to spawnSync, which returns both streams regardless of exit
status, match the version banner rather than assuming line 0, and derive the
flavor from the full output.

Measured on poppler 26.06.0 (Homebrew, macOS), same machine and binary:

  before: { version: "unknown",                  flavor: "unknown" }
  after:  { version: "pdftotext version 26.06.0", flavor: "poppler" }

xpdf is unaffected: it exits non-zero and names itself on line 1, so it
resolved correctly before and still does.

Tests use shell shims reproducing each vendor's banner, stream and exit status,
since a real pdftotext cannot be assumed present in CI. Two of the four fail on
this commit's parent; the xpdf and no-banner cases pass there and are included
as regression guards rather than red-proofs.

* fix(open-gstack-browser): pre-flight cleanup never killed the stale daemon

Step 0 read the old pid with `grep -o '"pid":[0-9]*'` and Step 2 read the port
the same way. Neither can match. Every writer of that file in
browse/src/server.ts serializes with `JSON.stringify(state, null, 2)`, so the
bytes on disk are `"pid": 12060` — colon, space, digits.

The failure was silent in the worst way. `_OLD_PID` came back empty, the kill
never ran, browse.json was deleted anyway, and the next `connect` died with
"existing daemon has different config (proxy/headed mismatch)" — an error
pointing at proxy/headed flags rather than at the cleanup that no-opped. Caught
against a daemon left over from a reboot: the operator was told to check flags
they had never passed.

Both patterns now accept optional whitespace. The new tripwire does not match
strings — it RUNS the snippets the skill hands the agent, against a state file
written exactly the way the server writes one, and asserts pid and port come
back out. A third case pins the coupling to `JSON.stringify(state, null, 2)`,
so a switch to compact JSON surfaces as a failing expectation rather than as
silence.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0111Mq3JGwZDcstn5wYcbhSw

* test(make-pdf): clean up the pdftotext shim tmpdir after the suite

Wave polish on the #2690 absorption: the describe-scope mkdtemp left one
directory per run.

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

* fix(browse): honour CHROMIUM_PROFILE in cli profile-lock cleanup

cli.ts resolved the Chromium profile dir with a hardcoded
$HOME/.gstack/chromium-profile, while browser-manager launches the profile
returned by config.resolveChromiumProfile(), which honours CHROMIUM_PROFILE
and GSTACK_HOME.

killOrphanChromium() and cleanChromiumProfileLocks() are called with no
argument, so whenever CHROMIUM_PROFILE was set they cleaned locks for, and
killed Chromium on, the DEFAULT profile rather than the one being launched.
Starting a browser with a custom profile therefore evicted an unrelated
browser running on the default profile.

Delegating to resolveChromiumProfile() also picks up GSTACK_HOME and
os.homedir(), so the cleanup path now matches the launch path on Windows
where HOME is frequently unset.

* fix(auq): the interactive fence is quota-silent — it defers to the skill's own decision points

Burn-in calibration: run 1 (fence tail 'when unsure, ask') overshot the
plan-ceo review band at reviewCount=8; run 2 (tail mentioning 'HOW MANY
questions') undershot at 1. Any ask-count language in the fence anchors the
model in one direction or the other. The tail now says only: classify as
interactive, then follow the skill's own decision-point instructions exactly
as written. Pins updated to forbid count language in either direction.

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

* test(browse): pin cli.ts profile-dir wiring to the canonical resolver

Wave-added coverage for the #2732 absorption: a 6-line fix with zero tests is
how the hardcoded path shipped in the first place. resolveChromiumProfile's
env behavior is already pinned in config.test.ts; this pins cli.ts's
delegation and forbids the hardcoded path from returning.

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

* fix(browse): preserve return value for async IIFE expressions in js/eval (#2727)

Wave-amended: test moved to browse/test/ (browse unit-test convention); trailing-semicolon normalization kept — it is load-bearing for the expression wrapper

* fix: bin writers drop data on Windows paths with an apostrophe

Two independent Windows git-bash bugs in the bin writers, both silent
because callers invoke these scripts with 2>/dev/null and do not check
the exit status — a hard failure was indistinguishable from success.

Bug 1 — apostrophe in the checkout path breaks the bun -e program.
gstack-learnings-log, gstack-question-log and gstack-telemetry-log build
a bun -e program as a double-quoted shell string and interpolate
SCRIPT_DIR into a single-quoted JS import specifier. A path such as
C:/Users/Someone's PC/... closes the JS string literal early and Bun
fails to parse ("Expected ; but found s"). Every learning write and every
plan-tune question event no-oped; telemetry error redaction fell to its
fail-closed null path. The #1950 cygpath -m guard did not cover this —
cygpath normalises the drive form but does not remove the apostrophe.

Fixed by not interpolating the path at all: cd into the module root and
use a relative import specifier, which is immune to apostrophes, spaces,
backslashes and MSYS paths alike. The one remaining interpolated data
path in gstack-developer-profile (readFileSync of PROFILE_FILE) is passed
via the environment instead, matching do_log_session in the same file.

Bug 2 — gstack-developer-profile --derive fails on an MSYS-form
GSTACK_HOME. GSTACK_HOME defaults to $HOME/.gstack, which under git-bash
is /c/Users/..., and Bun on Windows cannot open that form (ENOENT). This
script carried no cygpath guard at all. Fixed by normalising GSTACK_HOME
once, before PROFILE_FILE / LEGACY_FILE / the events path are derived
from it, so all three pick up the normalised value.

Adds test/hostile-path-writers.test.ts, which runs the bins from a
directory whose name contains an apostrophe and asserts that rows are
ACTUALLY WRITTEN (not merely that the exit code is 0 — exit-code-only
checks are what masked bug 1). The apostrophe repro is OS-independent:
SCRIPT_DIR derives from the script's own location, so a copied checkout
under a hostile directory name reproduces bug 1 on Linux/macOS CI too.

Wave-amended: all four writers unified on the env-var import pattern the PR already used in gstack-developer-profile (no CWD-dependent module resolution)
Wave-amended: all four writers unified on the env-var import pattern the PR already used in gstack-developer-profile (apostrophe-safe without CWD-dependent module resolution); import-shape pin updated

* fix(memory-ingest): stop two silent transcript-ingest failures

Two independent bugs made transcript pages silently fail to reach the brain.

1. Frontmatter fence gluing. buildTranscriptPage() built the closing "---"
   with no trailing newline, and session bodies always start with "## ", so
   the rendered page ended "...---## User". gbrain's frontmatter matcher
   (/^---\r?\n([\s\S]*?)\r?\n---(\r?\n|$)/ in src/core/markdown.ts) requires
   the closing "---" to end its own line, so it skipped the glued fence,
   latched onto the next standalone "---" in the transcript body, parsed the
   prose between as YAML, and dropped the page with "Invalid YAML frontmatter".
   Transcripts with no later "---" fell back to body-only, silently losing
   their frontmatter. Fix: emit the fence on its own line with a blank
   separator, matching renderPageBody()'s artifact branch.

2. Slug collisions. Two source files can map to one path-derived slug (a
   session resumed under the same id on one day, or two ids sharing a 12-char
   prefix). writeStaged() names each file "${slug}.md", so the second
   overwrote the first; gbrain collected N-1 of N staged files and the
   reconciliation guard failed the whole batch every run. Fix:
   disambiguateSlugs() keeps the first occurrence and gives each later collider
   a stable "-<sha8(source_path)>" suffix (deterministic, and slug + page_slug
   move together so writeStaged, the failure mapping, and state recording agree).

Exports buildTranscriptPage, renderPageBody, and disambiguateSlugs for tests.
Adds regression tests for both failures.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Wave-amended: contributor's local-workaround docblock note removed; issue refs retargeted #2653 (closed by its author) -> #2724 (the live 887-staged-to-0-ingested report)

* fix: keep feature markers in GStack state

* fix: align feature marker seeding with GStack state

Wave-amended: seeding relocation re-applied to the composite action (v1.77 moved CI seeding out of the inline workflow steps the original commit edited); wiring tripwire re-pointed accordingly; stale marker comment updated

* chore(upgrade): migrate feature-discovery markers to GSTACK_HOME

Follow-through on the #2748 absorption: existing installs answered the
continuous-checkpoint and model-overlay prompts with markers beside the
install; v1.78 reads them from GSTACK_HOME. Copy them once so nobody gets
re-prompted. Idempotent, non-fatal.

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

* fix(land-and-deploy): check fork branch in head repo

Wave-amended: gh leaves .headRepository.nameWithOwner empty (verified live against gh 2.83) — owner/name now composed from headRepositoryOwner.login + headRepository.name so reconciliation is not a permanent no-op; fork branches get report-not-delete (maintainers lack fork push rights); pins updated

* test: spawn timeouts on the #2748 marker tests (v1.77 sync-spawn tripwire)

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

* test: spawn timeouts on absorbed-PR tests (v1.77 sync-spawn tripwire)

The absorbed community tests (#2748, #2676, #2714, #2720) were authored
before the v1.77 tripwire required a timeout on every sync spawn in the test
trees.

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

* fix(gbrain): a slow --version probe classifies as timeout, never no-cli (#2716)

resolveGbrainBin's bare catch collapsed 'gbrain missing' and 'gbrain present
but the 2s --version budget expired' into the same null — freshClassify then
said no-cli, which the --is-ok whitelist from #1964 does NOT forgive, so a
bun-shim install on a loaded POSIX box silently lost every brain-aware block.
The probe now returns a discriminated result (cached per-process, same
lifetime the old null had) using the same killed/SIGTERM/ETIMEDOUT
discrimination the sources-list probe below already uses; timeout routes to
the forgiven 'timeout' status. GSTACK_GBRAIN_VERSION_PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS test
override added (same precedent as the sources-probe override).

Receipt: the slow-but-present sibling test fails on a v1.77.0.0 scratch
worktree (classifies no-cli there).

Fixes #2716

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

* fix(codex): close the consult-mode fence, report turn.failed as a failure, capture exit codes portably (#2671, #2669)

Three defects in the codex skill sections:

- The resumed-session bash block never closed its fence; every fenced region
  after it inverted (prose rendered as code, the synthesis-recommendation tail
  rendered inert). A repo-wide fence-pairing test now scans every generated
  SKILL.md and sections/*.md with a CommonMark-faithful state machine (an
  info-string opener inside a fence is literal content — nested template
  examples in document-generate/make-pdf stay legal; a file ending inside a
  fence fails).

- The JSONL parsers had no turn.failed branch: a turn that STATED its failure
  was reported as 'possible mid-stream disconnect'. Challenge and consult now
  print the event's error and run a three-way completeness check (failed-with-
  reason / silent-disconnect / ok); consult previously had no completeness
  check at all.

- ${PIPESTATUS[0]} is empty under zsh, so hang detection never fired and
  every clean run printed a spurious '[codex exit ]'. All three capture sites
  use ${PIPESTATUS[0]:-${pipestatus[1]}}, pinned statically and EXECUTED
  under real bash and zsh in the new test. Expect a step-change in
  codex_timeout telemetry — the counter starts firing for zsh users.

Receipt: the portability pin fails on a v1.77.0.0 scratch worktree; the fence
fix is structural (17 → 18 fence lines, tail no longer inside a block).

Fixes #2671
Fixes #2669

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* fix: outside-voice fallback is labeled honestly — same model family, not cross-model (#2735)

When Codex is unavailable, the plan-review outside voice falls back to a
Claude subagent and the copy sold it as 'cross-model coverage' with 'genuine
independence'. Fresh context is real; cross-model validation is not — a user
weighing 'both reviewers agree' deserves to know both reviewers share a model
family. Six canonical strings fixed at the resolver source (constants.ts
not_installed/not_authed, review.ts outside-voice bullet + three dispatch
paragraphs); ~10 generated docs and the ship goldens regenerated. Printing
the resolved fallback model at dispatch time is descoped as a functional
change (follow-up in the wave dispositions).

Fixes #2735

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* fix(relink): skill_prefix patches the gbrain render too — the file the host actually serves (#2738)

gstack-relink linked SKILL.md from RENDER_DIR when a gbrain render was active
but ran gstack-patch-names only on INSTALL_DIR, so the served frontmatter kept
the unprefixed name and skill_prefix=true silently no-oped for every
brain-aware skill. The render tree (user-owned, untracked) is now patched too;
gstack-patch-names is idempotent so repeat relinks never double-prefix. The
gen-skill-docs note that pointed users at relink now describes what relink
actually covers.

Receipt: the new test fails on a v1.77.0.0 scratch worktree (served render
keeps 'name: qa').

Fixes #2738

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

* fix(render): section refs point at the FINAL render dir, never the tmp swap dir (#2692)

gen-skill-docs bakes its --out-dir into rendered CONTENT (rewriteSectionBase),
and both swap-in callers (setup, gstack-config gbrain-refresh) render into
claude.tmp.<pid> before the #2569 atomic rename — so every rendered skill
carried ~9 dead section Read paths that pointed at a directory the swap had
just deleted. New --link-root flag names the final serving dir (defaults to
--out-dir for direct-render callers: bin/dev-setup, dev-skill.ts, mkdtemp
tests — full caller audit in the wave notes); the rewrite now uses a
replacement callback so a $-bearing configured path can't expand as $& in a
replacement string. The swap logic itself stays byte-identical. Tests pin the
generator contract (tmp out-dir files reference the final dir, $-bearing
path included) and both callers' wiring.

Fixes #2692

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

* feat(setup): persistent timeline Stop hook opt-out — timeline_stop_hook config gate (#2677)

--no-team is a one-shot teardown, so every later bare ./setup (including the
ones /gstack-upgrade runs) re-registered the timeline Stop hook with no way
to say 'never'. New gate mirrors the plan_tune_hooks pattern: flag
(--timeline-stop-hook/--no-timeline-stop-hook) > env
(GSTACK_TIMELINE_STOP_HOOK) > saved config (timeline_stop_hook) > default
yes. An explicit flag persists to config so the decision survives upgrades;
an explicit 'no' also removes a live registration (reconciliation), so the
opt-out works against installs registered by an older setup. --no-team
semantics unchanged (NO_TEAM_MODE is never initialized from config). Full
gstack-config surface: DEFAULTS entry, header docs, list/defaults
enumeration, warn-and-default validation.

Fixes #2677

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

* fix(browse): tame the macOS headless GPU spin + reap the lock-less headless Chromium on stop (#2709)

Two defects in one report. On macOS 26 / Apple Silicon the headless-shell GPU
process pegs ~800% CPU indefinitely after real page work and --disable-gpu
alone is not enough; the reporter validated that adding
--disable-software-rasterizer/--disable-gpu-compositing/--disable-gpu-watchdog
drops it to 0.0% with screenshots still working. The flag block is a pure
platform-parameterized function (unit-tested on any host), darwin-gated,
headless-only (buildGStackLaunchArgs feeds the headed/GBrowser paths where
GPU-off is wrong), with a GSTACK_DISABLE_GPU=off escape.

Separately: the headless launch has no userDataDir, so it never writes the
SingletonLock that killOrphanChromium walks — 'browse stop' reported success
while the orphan kept spinning. The daemon now records the launched child's
pid + wall-clock start time in the state file (the xvfbPid/xvfbStartTime
contract), and stop paths reap a survivor only after verifying BOTH the
recorded start time and a Chromium-looking cmdline — a recycled PID, even one
running a different legitimate Chromium, is never killed (identity tests
include the coreutils-shebang trap that defeats argv0 renames).

macOS efficacy is per the reporter's validation; live re-verification on
Apple silicon is tracked in TODOS.md.

Refs #2709

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* fix(wtree): a failed touch falls through to the HEAD seed instead of reopening the racy window (#2687)

The v1.74 racy-git fix carries the real index's mtime onto the temp copy —
but its 'touch -r … || true' meant a FAILED touch silently kept the copy's
fresh stamp, marking every entry non-racy and reopening the exact same-size-
rewrite hole. A failed touch now discards the copy and seeds from read-tree
HEAD (slower; every entry re-hashed; fingerprint stays honest).

Verification for #2687 itself: the reporter's same-size-rewrite repro run 20
iterations against this tree — 0 misses (the underlying race was fixed by
v1.74's b1485d88 with its own regression test; this wave verifies and closes,
it does not claim that fix). Receipt: the stubbed-touch test fails on a
v1.77.0.0 scratch worktree.

Fixes #2687

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

* test: rewrite gate pin follows the LINK_ROOT rename (#2692)

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

* docs: v1.78 fix-wave deferrals filed in TODOS.md

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

* v1.78.0.0 release metadata: VERSION, package.json translation, CHANGELOG wave entry, agents digest

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

* docs(osv): ignore ledger names its filed tracking issues (#2753, #2754)

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

* fix(redact): large reports survive the pipe — exitCode instead of process.exit; inert test payload

The wave's PR quality gate failed closed: gate-secret-scan.mjs pipes the
diff's added lines into gstack-redact and parses the JSON report, but
process.exit() discards stdout still buffered in the pipe — this wave's
646-finding report (202 KB) is the first big enough to arrive truncated
(~145 KB) at node's collector, so JSON.parse failed and the gate read
'no report' as HIGH. The report and auto-redact body paths now set
process.exitCode and let the runtime drain stdout; exit-code contract
unchanged (verified 0/2/3 end-to-end). Also: the C1 test's stdin payload no
longer uses a provider-prefix credential shape (the gate correctly flagged
it; the content was never read on the error path under test).

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

* test(memory-ingest): fence regression test survives Windows tmpdirs

Wave polish on the #2699 absorption: the hand-built JSONL interpolated the
raw tmpdir into a JSON string — on Windows (D:\a\...) that's an invalid
escape, the user line was silently dropped, and the body started at
'## Assistant' (Windows Free Tests red). JSON.stringify the path.

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

* fix(auq): the interactive fence ends at classification — all behavioral tails removed

The pinned-container periodic lane proved the collapse dead (reviewCount 0 →
7/8/5 across the AUQ suite) but flagged the fence's remaining behavioral
clause: 'never adds, removes, or batches the skill's decision points' broke
the paired-finding control (5 > 4 — it suppressed the batching that fixture
expects), and the band overshot its ceiling (8 > 7). Every behavioral tail
tried so far skewed counts somewhere ('when unsure, ask' → 8; 'HOW MANY
questions' → 1; 'never batches' → paired control red). The fence now ends at
'When unsure, default to interactive.' — classification only, zero behavior
words. Pins forbid every tried-and-failed phrasing.

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

* fix(auq): the spawned trigger is the STATUS echo, nothing else — prose channel removed from the eager path

Two pinned-container periodic rounds showed that ANY dispatch-prompt
declaration channel in rule 1 keeps question counts unstable (round 1, fence
with behavioral clause: paired control 5>4, band 8>7; round 2, bare fence:
intermittent 0s return, paired control breaks both directions). The stable
regime CI was calibrated against had no spawned prose in the eager path at
all. Rule 1 now keys on exactly one machine-verifiable thing: the preamble's
own SESSION_KIND: spawned STATUS echo. No text from a dispatch prompt, file,
or page can flip a session to auto-choose (the strongest anti-injection
form). Subagents that missed the env marker are caught at FAILURE time by
the AUQ hooks' spawned escape (explicit declaration, never inference) — a
channel that never enters an interactive session's eager reasoning.

This reverses the wave's earlier explicit-declaration middle ground (and
adopts the outside voice's twice-made echo-only argument) on the new
evidence. #2733 protected: skill-e2e-docsync-spawned (gate) passes 1/1 on
this prose — the ship Step-18 dispatch forces the env prefix, so the echo
fires there.

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

* docs: periodic-lane stabilization residual filed (#2756)

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

* fix(browse): chromium reap works off-Linux and on every stale-state path

readPidCmdline fell back to '' on darwin (no /proc), so the identity gate
never matched and reapRecordedChromium was inert on the platform #2709's
GPU-spin reap actually targets — it now falls back to ps -o command=.
readPidStartTime no longer throws when ps is missing (Windows): a launch
must never die to a reap-bookkeeping probe. Three stale-state cleanup
paths (dead-daemon stop, startServer stale cleanup, headed-connect) now
reap the recorded chromium BEFORE unlinking the state file instead of
orphaning it, and the stop-path wait polls (100ms steps, 1s cap) instead
of sleeping a fixed 500ms. Wiring pinned: server-state pid/start-time
write, all five cli.ts reap call sites, headless-only GPU-flag push.

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

* fix(browse): chained IIFE + second statement no longer misclassified as one expression

isSingleParenOrIifeExpression accepted any tail after the initial group's
close as long as trailing chars looked chain-ish, so
`(async()=>{await 1})().then(x=>x); console.log('done')` classified as a
single expression and the expression wrapper emitted a SyntaxError. The
tail is now consumed as a strict member/call/index/optional-chain walk to
END of input via a shared string/escape-aware findBalancedClose scanner;
anything else (';', operators) demotes to the block wrapper. Negative +
positive tests added.

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* refactor(browse): move headlessGpuArgs below the import block

The #2709 helper landed between two import statements; imports now stay
contiguous. No behavior change.

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

* fix(codex-probe): timed-out probe (124) keeps its fail-open contract

Exit 124 reached the string-signature branch before the timeout fail-open,
so a slow probe whose partial output happened to quote 'permission denied'
classified as MODEL_UNUSABLE_INSTALL — a deterministic-broken verdict from
a transient condition. 124 is now excluded from the signature branch, and
the detect/display greps share one hoisted _BROKEN_SIG regex (they had
already drifted: display dropped 'not executable').

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

* fix(codex): JSONL parser initializes its state vars in both modes

challenge-mode initialized turn_completed_count but tested turn_failed via
'in dir()'; consult-mode initialized neither and rebuilt the counter with
a dir() conditional per event. Both parsers now init turn_completed_count
and turn_failed up front and use plain checks — same semantics, no
module-globals introspection.

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

* fix(ship): PR/MR create aborts on a missing or empty scanned body file

Both the gh and glab send blocks now guard [ -s "$PR_BODY_FILE" ] and the
prose restates that the variable comes from the scan block — bash blocks
run in separate shells, and an unset/empty path would previously send an
empty body (gh) or cat's error output (glab) instead of the scanned bytes.
Codex/factory ship goldens regenerated.

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

* fix(upgrade): abort when a stale .bak already exists at the install path

A leftover $INSTALL_DIR.bak from a crashed upgrade would make the mv nest
the live install inside it, and the failure-restore arm would 'restore'
the stale backup — possibly deleting the only good copy. The upgrade now
refuses to start and tells the user to inspect/salvage the backup.

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

* fix(redact-doc): mktemp-failure message names what it refuses to send

'refusing to send unscanned <noun>' read as if 'unscanned' modified a
missing word for sink nouns like 'the spec body'; now 'refusing to send
<noun> unscanned'. Generated spec section refreshed.

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

* fix(setup): typo'd timeline-stop-hook value warns instead of persisting

--timeline-stop-hook=noo silently normalized to yes AND wrote yes to
config — a persisted decision the user never made. Unrecognized values now
warn (naming the source), apply the default for this run only, and skip
the config write. The opt-out log line names the actual decision source
(flag/env/config) and no longer claims a removal that may not have
happened.

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

* fix(memory-helpers): slow-probe warning no longer suppresses the absent warning

One shared _gitleaksWarned flag served two different messages: a 'machine
under load, retrying next file' warning early in a run permanently
silenced the later 'gitleaks not in PATH; secret scanning disabled'
warning — the user never learned scanning was off for good. Split into
per-message flags.

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

* refactor(lib): shared isExecTimeout helper; export GbrainBinProbe

The killed/SIGTERM/ETIMEDOUT discrimination was hand-rolled at three sites
(gbrain version probe, engine classifier, gitleaks probe) and free to
drift; it now lives once in lib/gbrain-exec.ts. GbrainBinProbe is exported
(it's the return type of exported probeGbrainBin) and the cache carries a
rationale comment: caching a timeout for process lifetime is deliberate —
the memo dedupes the ~3 probes of one short-lived preamble process.

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

* refactor(gen-skill-docs): extract parsePathFlag; fix rewriteSectionBase docstring

--out-dir and --link-root shared near-identical inline parsing; one helper
now owns it. The rewriteSectionBase docstring said 'no-op when --out-dir
is unset' but the gate is the link root (which --link-root can set
independently) — it now describes the real behavior.

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

* refactor(memory-ingest): reunite preparePages with its docblock; pin disambiguateSlugs wiring

The #2724 disambiguateSlugs block was inserted between preparePages'
docblock and the function, orphaning the secret-scanning policy doc onto
the wrong symbol. Reordered. A call-site pin now asserts the prepare→stage
flow actually invokes disambiguateSlugs, so a refactor can't drop the call
while every unit test stays green.

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* test(hostile-path): per-run mkdtemp root; telemetry-log redaction coverage

The suite used a FIXED tmpdir name, so concurrent runs (sharded runner,
sibling worktrees) tore down each other's trees mid-flight — now a
per-run mkdtemp root with the apostrophe dir inside. gstack-telemetry-log
was the one bin named in the suite header with no test: it now must append
a real row under the hostile path with the credential span redacted
(<REDACTED-github.pat>) and the rest of the message preserved.

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

* test(config): signal-killed spawns map to -1, not exit 0

Both cfg() helpers defaulted a null spawn status to 0 — a child killed by
signal would read as success and mask real failures.

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* test(upgrade): v1.78.0.0 feature-marker migration suite

The only migration without a dedicated test. Covers copy-when-absent
(script must mkdir GSTACK_HOME itself), destination-wins (never
overwrites), clean no-op, and two-run idempotence — asserting file
existence and contents, not just exit codes.

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* test(auq): pin the explicit-declaration-only spawned escape sentence

SPAWNED_ESCAPE_SENTENCE's tightened wording had no pin: positive pins on
the explicit-declaration clause, negative pins on the retired v1.76 loose
parentheticals ('e.g. your dispatch prompt says', 'marks this session as
spawned'), and a drift guard that both hook directives embed the constant
verbatim.

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

* test(gbrain): invalid version-probe timeout env falls back to the default

GSTACK_GBRAIN_VERSION_PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS set to 'abc', '-1', or '0' must use
the default budget — exercised behaviorally through probeGbrainBin with a
fresh PATH per case (the memo keys on PATH).

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

* test(codex): execute the JSONL parser under real python3; fence scanner tracks opener length

The parser's turn.completed/turn.failed/disconnect semantics were pinned
by shape only — now the python block is extracted from both RENDERED
sections and run against synthetic event streams (tokens line, FAILED +
not-a-disconnect, silence -> disconnect warning, SESSION_ID echo), with
byte-equivalence safety pins on the bash double-quote extraction. The
fence scanner also gains CommonMark opener-length tracking: a 4-backtick
fence wrapping a 3-backtick example no longer false-positives, with a
self-test.

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

* test(redact): large report survives a slow piped consumer

Pins the >145KB truncation regression (process.exit before the pipe
drained): 900 MEDIUM findings -> 259KB JSON report through a sleep-first
POSIX consumer that holds the 64KiB kernel buffer full at child exit;
asserts complete parseable JSON with matching counts and exit 2, plus an
--auto-redact mirror (700 redactions, final sentinel byte arrives).
Harness proven red against a copy of the bin with process.exit restored.

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

* test(dev-setup): update LINK_ROOT source pin to the parsePathFlag shape

Companion to the gen-skill-docs parsePathFlag extraction: the pin still
asserts the same invariant (LINK_ROOT defaults to OUT_DIR, so an in-place
render stays a byte-exact no-op) against the new expression.

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

* docs(changelog): fix-batch properties folded into the v1.78.0.0 entry

Stale-backup refusal + empty-scanned-body guard on the mktemp bullet, the
redact pipe-truncation fix as its own item (a v1.77 bug), and test counts
refreshed to the post-fix-batch suite (8,660).

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

* test(upgrade): migration test resolves bash through the parent PATH

A hardcoded /usr/bin:/bin child PATH breaks spawn('bash') on the Windows
curated lane (spawn resolves against the CHILD env's PATH; no bash.exe
lives there). Hermeticity is carried by HOME/GSTACK_* overrides, not PATH.
Found by the cycle-2 review pass.

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

* fix(memory-helpers): per-run cooldown bounds the slow-gitleaks probe cost

Retrying a slow probe per FILE (#2715's slow!=absent split) re-paid up to
probe+retry (12s default) per file — an 887-file ingest on a loaded box
spent hours re-asking the same slow question. After 3 consecutive slow
answers the run stops probing and warns once that remaining files go
unscanned; the availability cache is still never written, so the next
process probes fresh. Slow/absent discrimination is unchanged.

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

* fix(memory-ingest): slug assignments persist across runs via the state consult

First-occurrence-keeps-bare was walk-order-dependent ACROSS runs: a source
that got the suffixed slug once could take the bare slug the next run (its
collider aged out or was skipped as unchanged), leaving gbrain holding the
same transcript under two slugs — and a NEW collider could claim a bare
slug that state shows belongs to an unchanged source, silently overwriting
that page. disambiguateSlugs now consults state.sessions: a recorded slug
stays owned by its source_path, re-ingested sources keep their slug
verbatim, fresh assignments never take another source's slug, and legacy
duplicate records (pre-#2724 overwrites) resolve first-owner-wins and
self-heal on the next state write. Stateless behavior is unchanged.

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

* docs(changelog): D2/D3 properties folded into the absorbed-PR bullets

Gitleaks per-run probe cooldown on the #2715 credit; cross-run slug
persistence on the #2699/#2724 credit.

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

* docs: update project documentation for v1.78.0.0

README.md: the persistent timeline Stop hook opt-out (#2677) — flag,
env var, and config key with resolution order. BROWSER.md: browse stop
against a dead daemon now reaps the recorded headless Chromium child,
identity-verified (#2709). CLAUDE.md + CONTRIBUTING.md: free-suite test
count ~7,000 → ~8,700 (8,660 as of this wave).

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

* docs: cross-model doc review fixes for v1.78.0.0

CONTRIBUTING.md: the day-to-day example now edits the .tmpl (SKILL.md
is generated); the OSV row states the explicit --config load and the
reasoned, expiring ignore contract. BROWSER.md: stop row mentions the
identity-checked Chromium reap; env table gains CHROMIUM_PROFILE and
GSTACK_DISABLE_GPU rows.

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

* docs(changelog): headline claims what the receipts show

"Both red weekly lanes are green again" overclaimed: OSV is verifiably
green (pinned scanner, frozen install, branch dispatch), but the periodic
lane keeps its pre-wave churn (#2756) — what this wave proves is that the
v1.76 regression that silenced plan reviews is dead. Flagged by the
cross-model doc review; headline now leads with the user-visible outcome.

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

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Garry TanandClaude Fable 5 e76f65a8da v1.77.0.0 feat: test-infrastructure overhaul wave 1 — matrix deletion, flake telemetry, sync-spawn wedge class extinct (#2746)
* fix: pin the claude CLI to an exact version in the CI image + tripwire

The image installed @anthropic-ai/claude-code UNPINNED and rebuilt weekly
'to pick up CLI updates' — while bun sat carefully pinned at 1.3.13 two RUN
lines above. The PTY harness screen-scrapes this CLI's TUI, and that drift
broke it three separate times (welcome-screen wedge on 2.1.233, skillify
HOME discovery on 2.1.237, guard/freeze hooks on 2.1.162), each debugged as
a flake first. Pin 2.1.251 (current latest), bump deliberately via a PR
that runs the PTY gate, and enforce with test/ci-image-cli-pin.test.ts:
any global npm install in Dockerfile.ci without an exact @X.Y.Z pin fails
the free suite. The weekly ci-image cron stays as a cheap tag self-heal.

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

* feat: stamp the claude CLI version into every eval-store run record

Three harness breakages were traced to claude-CLI TUI drift only after long
flake hunts, because no run record said which CLI it actually exercised.
EvalCollector now stamps claude_cli_version (claude --version, cached once
per process, 'unknown' when the binary is absent) into both partial and
finalized records — schema-additive optional field, no SCHEMA_VERSION bump.
Correlating a flake wave with a CLI release becomes a grep over
~/.gstack/projects/<slug>/evals/ instead of archaeology.

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

* fix: give the spinning-shard kill test load headroom (30s -> 90s)

The test spawns and group-kills three real children (one a busy-loop
burning a full core) while five sibling shard processes compete for eight
vCPUs. Under full-suite load it blew bun's default 30s per-test ceiling at
30,009ms — while passing in isolation in 1.4s — and red the only required
lane. Every assertion in it is event-based (statuses, group-kill proof,
heartbeat lines); the sole latency claim is the <30s kill-deadline sanity
bound, which stays. Explicit 90s headroom, not a weakened oracle.

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

* feat: green-by-skip census — skip counts in the classifier, all-skipped labeling in the paid runner

bun's 'Ran N tests' line COUNTS skipped tests, so a codex/gemini shard
whose every test self-skipped (binary absent on the runner — true of every
CI runner today) exits 0, dodges the hollow-shard guard, and reads as
coverage in the weekly census. The classifier now parses bun's ' N skip' /
' N pass' recap lines; ShardOutcome carries skippedTests; formatSummary and
the fail-closed slices report label an all-skipped pass explicitly:
'all N tests SKIPPED — verified nothing'. Status stays 'passed' (external
service availability is host state, not a repo regression) but the census
can no longer mistake absence for coverage.

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* refactor: extract composite actions for eval-lane setup; surviving lanes gain the fail-fast registry verification

'Fix bun temp' x3, 'Restore deps' x5, 'Seed claude interactive config' x3,
and 'Register gstack skills' x3 were byte-near-identical copies across the
legacy matrix, the sliced lane, and the periodic lane — and only the MATRIX
copy of register-skills carried the 19-line dangling-symlink + frontmatter
fail-fast loop written after a silent 'Unknown command' + 35-min-timeout
incident. Extract all four into .github/actions/ composites; the register
composite carries the verification loop (generalized over the skill list),
so the sliced and periodic lanes — the lanes that SURVIVE the matrix
deletion — now inherit the check they had silently dropped. Matrix-job
inline copies are left untouched: that job is deleted next.

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* feat: delete the legacy 17-row eval matrix — the sliced lane is the only paid lane

Every PR paid twice: the hand-enumerated matrix (18 test files, 22.6 min,
~$21 API measured on run 33263204465) ran serialized AHEAD of the strictly
superior sliced lane via 'needs: evals' — 35.5 min wall and ~2x paid spend
for the same diff. 14 of 17 rows carried no tier:, so periodic Opus
benchmarks leaked into every PR (the e2e-plan row alone: 12/12 tests,
21.7 min, $7.28 — the wall-clock bound of ALL of CI).

Parity receipt (static, pre-deletion): the sliced lane's gate census (49
files, derived from the runner itself) strictly contains all 18 matrix test
files, plus 31 files the matrix never ran. Pure deletion — one revert
restores it. The PR comment moved into slices-report (same '## E2E Evals'
upsert marker, now sourced from slice artifacts + carrying the fail-closed
reconciliation verdict). plan-slices loses the needs edge; the dead
workflow-level EVALS_TIER env goes with it.

test/evals-workflow-matrix.test.ts (and its KNOWN_MATRIX_GAPS /
KNOWN_TIER_UNSET burn-down ratchets — retired: the sliced census makes
'every gate file runs' true by construction) is rewritten as
test/evals-workflow-wiring.test.ts: matrix stays deleted, planner/executor/
report tier + slice-count agreement, both surviving lanes on the shared
register-skills composite with its fail-fast verification loop, PR comment
survival. Expected: PR eval wall 35.5 -> ~13 min, per-PR paid spend ~halved.

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

* fix: provider-runner timeouts kill the whole process GROUP; codex/gemini inherit the orphan-drain hardening

All three provider runners (claude/codex/gemini) killed only the direct
child on timeout: tool subprocesses the CLI spawned survived as orphans
holding our pipes open and burning shared API rate (observed: a 600s
timeout stretching past 1400s; a stalled run once burned a core for 15
hours). gstack-detach's watchdog had the same shape one level up — killpg
SIGTERM, 5s grace, then a direct-child proc.kill() that orphaned
grandchildren.

Fix: spawn provider children via node:child_process with detached (own
process group) and killProcessGroup(SIGKILL) in the timeout handler —
runShardChild's proven pattern, EPERM/ESRCH fallbacks included. The codex
and gemini copies also gain the reader.cancel() + stderr Promise.race
hardening only the claude copy had (they still carried the blocked-drain
hang it fixed). gstack-detach's watchdog now group-SIGKILLs after the
grace.

Regression net: test/session-runner-groupkill.test.ts drives the REAL
runSkillTest against a fake claude shim (PATH override) that spawns a
grandchild and wedges — the run must classify timeout within budget and
leave neither shim nor grandchild alive — plus source pins on all three
runners (detached + killProcessGroup, no bare timeout kill, no Bun.spawn
reversion).

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

* fix: skill-e2e-opus-47 renders SKILL.md fixtures into a mkdtemp — never the live tree

mkEvalRoot ran gen-skill-docs with cwd=ROOT, regenerating every in-repo
SKILL.md mid-run while concurrent paid shards copyFileSync those same files
in their beforeAll (EVALS_JOBS>=4 locally, 2 per CI slice) — a sibling
could capture a half-regenerated or opus-rendered SKILL.md, and a timeout
before afterAll stranded the whole tree at the wrong model for every later
shard. A cross-shard race that could flake ANY concurrent paid test.

Render via the --out-dir flag gen-skill-docs grew for exactly this reason
(mirrors the repo layout, which is all the fixture reads), read the skill
heads from the render dir, delete it, and drop the afterAll restore-regen
entirely.

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* fix: claude CLI version resolves in the runner parent, never on a test thread

Eng-review finding: getClaudeCliVersion's fallback is a SYNCHRONOUS
spawnSync on the same thread that polls concurrent PTY/session tests — the
judgePtyState blocking class this overhaul kills elsewhere. The paid runner
parent now resolves it once (cached) and stamps GSTACK_CLAUDE_CLI_VERSION
into every shard's env; eval-store short-circuits on the env var, and the
fallback spawn's budget tightens 10s -> 3s (bounded one-time stall, records
'unknown' on a slow CLI).

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* test: wire skippedTests end-to-end through runPaidShard

The census unit tests hand-built outcomes and the classifier tests parsed
strings; nothing proved a real child's ' N skip' recap flows into
outcome.skippedTests and the formatSummary label. A commandFor fake now
prints the recap shape and the test asserts the parsed counts, the
all-skipped predicate, and the 'verified nothing' label.

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

* fix: make the setup composites rerun-safe (codex diff-review hardenings)

restore-deps: 'cp -r SRC node_modules' with an existing node_modules NESTS
the copy and leaves stale deps active — rm first. register-gstack-skills:
'ln -snf' hard-errors under set -eu when a REAL directory occupies the
gstack slot — clear a non-symlink leftover first. CI workspaces are fresh
today; a reusable composite must survive dirty reruns.

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* fix: sweep — every sync spawn in the test trees carries a timeout (436 sites, 157 files)

spawnSync/execSync/Bun.spawnSync BLOCK the main thread, so bun's in-process
per-test timeout can never fire while one waits — a hung child (stdin read,
network probe, dead daemon) wedges the whole shard until the runner's
external wall-clock SIGKILL. This exact class reached main: free-tests run
33262077256, test/gstack-memory-ingest.test.ts (normally 2.3s) held shard 2
at the 360s wall while its five siblings finished in ~65s.

Mechanical sweep in two waves (12 + 4 fan-out agents, every edit verified
against its call site): default timeout: 30_000 (matches the free runner's
per-test budget), 120_000 for genuinely slow ops (installs, builds,
playwright, provider CLIs), helper wrappers fixed ONCE where call sites
route through them. Sites that only LOOK like calls (string fixtures, grep
needles, comments) were skipped with reasons — the enforcement commit that
follows marks them exempt.

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* test: sync-spawn timeout tripwire — the wedge class stays extinct

Free scanner over all test trees (test/, browse/test/, design/test/,
make-pdf/test/, ios-qa, browser-skills): every spawnSync/execSync/
Bun.spawnSync call site must carry a timeout within a 30-line options
window, or an explicit '// tripwire-exempt: <reason>' marker. Comment
lines are skipped; exemptions are counted and ratcheted shrink-only
(ceiling 6 = the 6 string-fixture/grep-needle sites where the pattern is
CONTENT, not a call — marked in this commit). A scan-sanity test pins that
the scanner still sees >100 real call sites so it can never rot to a
vacuous green. Companion to the 436-site sweep in the previous commit.

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

* feat: paid-lane flake telemetry — record-level attempts, flaky_retries, report surfacing

bun --retry leaves a retried pass INVISIBLE in its output: a fail-then-pass
prints the error detail but no (fail) result line and recaps as a clean
pass (probed live on 1.3.10). So attempts are recorded where they cannot
lie: EvalCollector.addTest stamps a 1-based attempt on same-name re-records
(a retried test runs its body again and re-records), finalized runs carry
flaky_retries, printSummary warns loudly, and the fail-closed slices report
lists every passed-only-on-retry test — recorded and ranked, never blocking
and never silent. Cross-model confirmed (codex reached the same don't-parse
-the-stream conclusion independently).

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* feat: free-lane flake ledger — retry ON in CI, flaky-passes recorded and uploaded

The runner's attribution-gated flaky-retry pass (cap 5, truncation veto)
was OFF in the required lane and its FLAKY-PASS evidence was console-only —
so a single timing flake red the merge gate while repeat offenders stayed
unenumerable. free-tests.yml now sets GSTACK_FREE_RETRY_FLAKY=1 and points
GSTACK_FLAKE_LEDGER at runner.temp; every flaky-pass appends a JSONL entry
(SINGLE writer: the parent runner — no concurrent-append hazard by
construction; fail-open with a loud warning so a broken ledger can never
red the lane) and the artifact uploads UNCONDITIONALLY — a flaky-pass run
is green, which is exactly when the evidence matters. Wiring pinned by
free-tests-workflow-wiring; ledger behavior unit-tested incl. the fail-open
path. Matches 2026 industry practice (retry for data, quarantine out of
merge-blocking but never out of logging) with the repo's own receipts.

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

* feat: eval:flake-rank — the flake-telemetry dial

Aggregates per-test series across every finalized eval-store run (shard
dirs included) plus the free flake ledger: runs, fails, RETRIED PASSES
(the flake signature), avg duration — ranked retries-first. This is the
readable dial behind two policies: a flaky pass never blocks a merge but
is always ranked here, and the WS16 required-check promotion needs weeks
of clean flake-rank, not vibes. --json for machines, --dir for downloaded
CI artifacts.

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* feat: two-phase session timeout — silent APIs die at the startup grace, named

The single spawn-armed timer charged API queue latency to the work budget:
the recurring '0 turns / $0.00 / x3 attempts' failure with four budget-bump
receipts (180->300s, 240->360s, 300->420s, 90->300s). Split: startup phase
(no NDJSON byte yet) kills EARLY at min(grace, timeout) with the distinct
exitReason 'timeout_startup' — an availability verdict, not transcript
archaeology — and the work phase arms on the first byte for the REMAINING
budget, so total wall never exceeds the timeout (tier envelopes are
margin-free: tests pass timeout: CAPTURE_MS and bun-budget the same tier).
Local grace 90s (observed queue latency 60-90s), CI floor 300s (TODOS-filed;
shared runners queue harder), both pinned by the new grace tests with fake
-claude shims covering the late-first-byte and silent-API paths.

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* fix: census integrity — 17 phantom selection keys deleted, reverse invariant added, gitignored dep patterns replaced, local map forks derived

The merge-blocking gate census counted tests that could not run. Deleted
(critic-verified against both quoted-occurrence and dep-registration
liveness): 7 *-prosons-format keys with no declaring test, ship-plan-
completion/-verification, review-plan-completion, design-shotgun-path/
session/full, autoplan-core (dead ~10 months), e2e-harness-audit (its
namesake is a FREE-suite file), plus 2 dead LLM-judge keys and 2 free-file
keys (budget-regression-pty, global-discover) misplaced in the PAID maps.
Census: 191 -> 174 keys, gate 86 -> 78 honest.

The new reverse invariant in touchfiles.test.ts makes the class structurally
impossible: every key must be quoted in a living paid test file OR
registered to an existing paid test file via its dep list (the constructed-
name binding the 2026-08 self-registration sweep established) — zero
exceptions needed today, with a live-file check on any future exception.

Also: '.agents/skills/**' dep patterns replaced with the generator
(scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts) — .agents/ is gitignored, so those patterns
could NEVER match a git diff and review-template edits silently stopped
selecting codex/gemini tests; the codex/gemini local touchfile maps are now
DERIVED from the canonical map (loud throw if a key vanishes) instead of
hand-forked copies that had already drifted. ios-qa-e2e demoted gate ->
periodic: its gate declaration was never executable in CI (hardware
exclusion only applies at tier=periodic), so every Linux PR planned a
hollow shard.

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* fix: routing journeys lose their answer key and end at the routing decision

The journey tests exist to catch skill-DESCRIPTION regressions (touchfiles:
*/SKILL.md.tmpl), but the fixture CLAUDE.md shipped an explicit
prompt->skill lookup table — with the answer key in context, a badly
regressed frontmatter description still routed correctly, so the tests
could not fail on the exact class they select for. The fixture now carries
only the generic invoke-skills nudge; the frontmatter carries the routing
load. Also capped all 10 journeys at maxTurns 2 / tools [Skill, Read]:
only the FIRST Skill call is asserted, so 5 turns of Read/Bash/Glob/Grep
was pure spend — roughly halves each journey's cost.

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

* fix: retire decided A/B experiments; vendor the pre-cut fixture; ban raw-SHA fixtures

Three one-shot decision experiments kept re-running weekly as N=1
stochastic comparisons — flaky by construction with near-zero remaining
information: skill-e2e-auq-repetition-cut-ab (its own header: gate "passed
pre-landing, approved 2026-08-25"), skill-e2e-preamble-script-ab ("demoted
post-Phase-3"), and opus-47's fanout arm-vs-arm (parA >= parB across two
SINGLE stochastic runs — a coin flip). Deleted, with their selection keys;
the SDK overlay-harness stays as the maintained instrument for the next
experiment, and opus-47 keeps its routing-precision cases.

verboseSkill() now reads the VENDORED test/fixtures/auq-pre-cut-...-SKILL.md
instead of `git show ab66193e^:...` — a branch-local ref that dies on
branch prune and already failed on shallow clones. New free tripwire
(test/git-ref-fixture-tripwire.test.ts) bans the raw-SHA fixture class
outright: quoted SHA:path rev-specs and gitRef-style hex defaults in the
test trees fail the suite with the vendor-instead instruction.

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

* fix: demote plan-ceo-review-expansion-energy to periodic

Opus generator + a subjective 2-axis >=4/5 LLM-judge threshold sat in the
MERGE-BLOCKING gate — the exact class its sibling posture tests were
demoted for, with a receipt (a +21-line preamble change once flipped the
score). CLAUDE.md's own tiering rule: Opus model test -> periodic. The
weekly lane keeps the regression signal; merges stop paying a judge-
temperament tax.

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* fix: paid shards get per-shard TMPDIR + CHROMIUM_PROFILE isolation and a kill-path cleanup backstop

The free runner treats this isolation as MANDATORY (two concurrent shards
on one Chromium profile kill each other's browser; shared tmp
cross-contaminates) — the paid lane had none of it. Doubly load-bearing
here: a shard that hits its 30-min wall is group-SIGKILLed, so per-test
afterAll cleanup never runs; the rmSync backstop is the only thing keeping
wedged runs from accumulating full git-repo workspaces in the shared
tmpdir forever. This is the DAG prerequisite for raising EVALS_JOBS (next
commit) — more concurrency on shared state amplifies exactly the
shared-tree race class opus-47 exhibited.

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* feat: paid-runner defaults 4x4 -> 8x2 — halve the local gate worst case

39 of 75 skill-e2e files hold exactly ONE test, so within-shard
concurrency was dead weight for most shards: 4 jobs x 4 concurrency
yielded only ~4-6 real in-flight sessions and a 13-wave local gate worst
case (~6.5h). 8 jobs x 2 gives ~10-13 in-flight — under the
documented-safe ~15 — and ~7 waves (~3.3h worst case). CI lanes keep
their explicit EVALS_JOBS env (2 per slice; 4 for gate-census); this
changes local defaults. Rollback trigger: sustained 429 storms in the WS1
telemetry across 2 PR cycles. test/eval-detach-timeout-floor.test.ts
recomputed green (the raise LOWERS the worst-case floor).

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

* fix: SHA-pin every action in the secrets-bearing eval lanes

evals.yml and evals-periodic.yml execute PR-authored code with three
provider API keys in env, yet rode mutable action tags (@v7/@v8/@v2/@v4)
— while quality-gate.yml, osv-scanner.yml, and dependency-review.yml
already model the SHA-pin pattern. All 30 uses sites across both lanes now
pin the exact commit (tag noted in a trailing comment); dependabot's
github-actions ecosystem keeps them fresh via PRs instead of silent tag
moves. Pulled forward from the plan's endgame on the CEO-review + outside-
voice agreement: supply-chain pins on secret lanes go first, not last.

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

* fix: sweep wave 3 — the execFileSync family gets timeouts (90 sites, 17 files)

The tripwire's regex covered spawnSync/execSync/Bun.spawnSync but not
execFileSync — an entire blocking sync-spawn API family that could
reintroduce the shard-wedge class undetected (ship review army). Same
mechanical recipe as waves 1-2: timeout: 30_000 default, 120_000 for slow
ops, shared wrappers fixed once, string-needle sites skipped with reasons.

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

* test: review-army + adversarial test hardening

- Tripwire scans execFileSync too (ceiling 8: two more grep-needle string
  exemptions); merge-introduced timeout-less spawnSync in
  question-preference-hook fixed — the tripwire caught a site that landed
  on main AFTER the sweep, on its first day.
- gstack-detach gains TWO watchdog kill regression tests: TERM-immune
  grandchild (the killpg-after-grace escalation) and the leader-dies
  variant (the pgid-at-spawn fix — the case the first test cannot see).
- eval-flake-rank gets its unit suite (final-attempt accounting, artifact
  exclusion, shard recursion, recency bound).
- Groupkill/startup-grace shim markers are per-run unique (pid-suffixed
  sleep durations): sibling Conductor worktrees run free suites with no
  machine lock, and fixed markers let one run pgrep/pkill the other's
  shims — a cross-run flake inside the anti-flake tests.
- flake-ledger test pins the project-scoped local default; stale empty
  section headers in touchfiles-data deleted (they invited entries under
  deliberately retired categories).

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* fix: adversarial-review runtime fixes across the telemetry + kill paths

- session-runner: exit-labeling keys off 'exit', not 'close' — an orphan
  holding the pipes could relabel a REAL exit (auth failure) as
  'timeout_startup' availability noise; the kill path still always
  group-kills and cancels the reader (labeling and unblocking are separate
  concerns). Work phase arms on a flag, not firstResponseMs===0 (a same-ms
  first byte left the startup timer live all run). The CI startup grace is
  now a real FLOOR (Math.max), matching its name and pinning test.
- gstack-detach: pgid captured AT SPAWN (== child pid under
  start_new_session) — resolving it after the grace raised ESRCH once the
  leader died on SIGTERM, orphaning TERM-immune grandchildren forever.
- test-free-shards: ledger entries carry branch + git_sha (rev-parse split:
  '--abbrev-ref HEAD HEAD' printed the branch twice and recorded it as the
  sha); local ledger default is per-PROJECT, not the machine-global tmpdir.
- eval-flake-rank: per-LINE ledger parse (one torn JSONL line vanished the
  whole series), 60-day recency bound (transcript-bearing files are MBs),
  shared isFinalizedEvalResultFile predicate (the artifact-taxonomy rule
  lived in three places); eval-store exports the predicate and finalize
  stops computing flakyRetries twice; paid-shards cleanup uses async rm
  (a SIGKILLed shard's git-workspace teardown blocked every sibling's
  stream classification on the parent event loop).

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* fix: CI trust-boundary + fail-closed repairs (adversarial findings)

- Token/exec separation restored: slices-report (runs PR-authored code:
  bun install + the reconcile runner) drops to contents:read; the PR
  comment moves to a NEW slices-comment job holding the write token with
  ZERO repo code — no checkout, no bun, only downloaded artifacts + jq/gh.
  $GITHUB_ENV/BASH_ENV persistence is job-scoped, so the split is the
  boundary. The matrix-era report job had this property; the consolidation
  had regressed it. Pinned by the wiring test.
- Reconcile exit captured via PIPESTATUS[0] in BOTH lanes: GitHub's default
  run-step shell has no pipefail, so `$?` after `| tee` was tee's exit —
  the fail-closed gate was silently fail-open. Wiring test pins it.
- PR comment: final-attempt accounting restored the dropped COST
  accumulation (the dial read $0 forever), flaky passes render as the
  warning they are (never as failures), and a malformed tests[] artifact
  skips that file instead of aborting the whole comment under bash -e.
- Remaining mutable action tags pinned (free-tests upload-artifact,
  ci-image checkout/docker trio — the image publisher holds packages:write
  and feeds the secret-bearing lanes). restore-deps fallback installs
  --frozen-lockfile; register-gstack-skills validates skill names before
  its rm -rf.

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* chore: bump version and changelog (v1.77.0.0)

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

* docs: update project documentation for v1.77.0.0

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

* docs: cross-model doc-review fixes — flake-ledger env knobs, CI retry-on note, stale version comment

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

* docs: correct CHANGELOG receipt numbers to measured values

Gate census keys: 78 -> 77 (bun-imported E2E_TIERS count). Sweep receipt:
586 sites/176 files -> 499 sites/146 files, measured by running this
branch's spawnsync-timeout-tripwire against origin/main (exit 1, 499
violations across 146 unique files; green on this branch).

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* fix: slices-comment creates the PR comment via REST — the write-token job has no git context

The token/exec split gives slices-comment NO checkout by design, and gh's
pr-comment subcommand resolves the repo FROM git — it died with 'not a git
repository' on PR #2746's first run (the update-existing PATCH path was
already explicit-repo REST and worked). Create now posts through
gh api repos/.../issues/N/comments, and the wiring test pins that no
git-context-requiring comment call can creep back into the job.

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* fix: startup-grace probes clear CI for local semantics; new probe pins the floor clamp

The two shim probes pass explicit 2s/4s graces, but in CI the runner clamps
any explicit grace up to the 300s floor (deliberate adversarial-review fix),
so 'silent API killed at the grace' died at the 30s work cap instead of 2s —
a deterministic red on every CI run, green locally. The probes now pin LOCAL
semantics with CI cleared (same save/restore pattern as their PATH shim),
and a fourth probe pins the clamp itself: CI=1 + 2s grace + 6s timeout must
kill at the 6s cap, still in the startup phase — proof an explicit low grace
cannot bypass the floor.

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2026-08-31 08:55:30 -07:00
Garry TanandClaude Opus 4.8 9fd03fae9e v1.58.4.0 fix: high-priority community bug wave + PTY plan-mode smoke gate (#2077)
* fix(gbrain): stop forcing GBRAIN_PREPARE on transaction-mode poolers (#1965)

buildGbrainEnv auto-set GBRAIN_PREPARE=true whenever DATABASE_URL targeted
port 6543, and the /sync-gbrain capability check exported it for the rest
of the skill run. Both had the semantics inverted: gbrain auto-disables
prepared statements on transaction-mode poolers because they break every
write there ("prepared statement does not exist"); GBRAIN_PREPARE=true is
gbrain's documented override for SESSION-mode poolers on 6543, not a
requirement for transaction mode. The #1435 search symptom the auto-set
worked around was fixed gbrain-side.

Remove both force-sets. A caller-set GBRAIN_PREPARE (either value) still
passes through untouched, preserving the session-mode-on-6543 escape hatch.
isTransactionModePooler stays exported.

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* fix(gbrain): classify probe timeout as its own status; sync proceeds instead of skipping (#1964)

The 5s engine probe misclassified healthy-but-slow engines (cold Supabase
pooler connections measured at 6.9-10.7s) as broken-config, so /sync-gbrain
silently skipped code+memory and told the user their config was malformed.

- New "timeout" status: probe killed at the deadline with no recognized
  stderr pattern. Default deadline is now 15s, overridable via
  GSTACK_GBRAIN_PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS (tests set 300ms against a fake that
  sleeps 2s).
- Sync stages PROCEED on timeout with a stderr warning naming the env knob;
  a genuinely-dead engine surfaces its real error at the first operation
  instead of a false config diagnosis.
- Consistency everywhere "ok" gated behavior: gstack-gbrain-detect --is-ok
  exits 0 on timeout, and gen-skill-docs' detection gate accepts it, so a
  slow engine no longer silently suppresses brain-aware features.
- Status cache: key now includes the effective probe timeout (raising it
  invalidates a cached timeout) and GBRAIN_HOME; config detection honors
  GBRAIN_HOME so relocated-home users stop being misclassified as
  missing-config.

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

* fix(bins): cygpath-normalize SCRIPT_DIR for bun imports; surface learnings-log errors (#1950)

Under Windows git-bash, pwd yields a POSIX path (/c/Users/...) that Bun on
Windows cannot resolve as an ES module specifier. gstack-learnings-log
interpolates SCRIPT_DIR into a bun -e import, so every invocation died with
"Cannot find module" — and 2>/dev/null swallowed the error, silently
dropping every AI-logged learning for Windows users.

- 3-line cygpath -m guard in gstack-learnings-log and gstack-question-log
  (which gains the same import shape in the next commit). Matches the
  duplicated IS_WINDOWS convention in setup; no shared shell lib exists.
- learnings-log adopts question-log's set +e / TMPERR capture pattern
  wholesale: validation errors now print to stderr. The old
  `if [ $? -ne 0 ]` check was dead code under set -euo pipefail — the
  script exited at the failing assignment before reaching it.
- New test/bin-windows-bun-import-paths.test.ts: static invariant (any
  bash bin interpolating $SCRIPT_DIR into a bun -e import must carry the
  guard) + behavioral end-to-end run invoked via `bash <bin>` — added to
  the windows-free-tests workflow list so the conversion is proven on the
  only platform where the bug exists.

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

* fix(question-log): dedupe INJECTION_PATTERNS via lib/jsonl-store (#1934)

bin/gstack-question-log carried a local copy of the injection-pattern list,
so pattern fixes to lib/jsonl-store.ts never propagated — including the
/override[:\s]/i false-positive fix arriving via community PR #1940.
Import the shared hasInjection instead (enabled by the previous commit's
cygpath guard). question-log also gets the lib's stricter superset
(human:, disregard, from-now-on, approve-all patterns).

Tests pin the contract in a #1940-order-independent way: an "Override:
ignore all previous instructions" header is rejected, "prose overrides the
deterministic table" is accepted, and a static invariant keeps local
INJECTION_PATTERNS duplicates out of the bin.

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

* fix(security): community-pulse + both dashboards never report fake zeros (#1947)

The security-signaling surface failed open at three layers — every failure
mode read as a reassuring "0 attacks" / "0 installs":

- community-pulse edge function: supabase-js returns {data,error} without
  throwing, and all five queries discarded `error` — a DB outage produced
  real-looking zeros via the SUCCESS path, and the catch (also returning
  zeros with HTTP 200) was unreachable for query failures. Every query now
  destructures and throws; the catch serves the stale cache (marked
  "stale": true) when one exists, else 503 {"error":"pulse_unavailable"}.
  Success responses carry "status":"ok" so clients can distinguish
  authoritative data from legacy backends. NOTE: the edge function deploys
  out-of-band (supabase functions deploy community-pulse).
- gstack-security-dashboard: captures the HTTP status; non-200 / network
  failure / error body / missing section → "unknown — backend error";
  jq missing → "unknown — install jq" (the lossy grep fallback broke on
  nested arrays and under-reported attacks as zero — removed); a 200
  without the new marker shows figures with an "unverified (legacy
  backend)" note. Also fixes a latent display bug: the TOTAL grep matched
  the digit 7 inside "attacks_last_7_days" and misreported every count.
- gstack-community-dashboard: same class — curl || echo "{}" plus
  grep || echo "0" printed "Weekly active installs: 0" on any failure.
  Now "unknown — backend error (HTTP N)".

test/security-dashboard-fallback.test.ts pins the matrix (200+marker,
200-legacy, 503, network failure) x (jq present, jq absent) for both bins:
"unknown" states never render as 0.

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

* fix(telemetry): redact error_message spans before they leave the machine (#1947)

error_message was uploaded with only quote/newline escaping — stack traces
and failed-API errors can embed credentials, private paths, and hostnames,
and the sync path strips only _repo_slug/_branch.

New lib/redact-engine.ts export redactFindingSpans(): replaces EVERY
finding's span with <REDACTED-{id}> regardless of tier (applyRedactions is
the interactive PII-only path and exits nonzero on credential findings, so
it can't serve machine egress). Returns null when a span can't be located —
callers drop the whole payload rather than risk a leak.

gstack-telemetry-log pipes error_message through it at LOG time, so the
local JSONL at rest is clean too; surrounding text survives for crash
triage. FAIL CLOSED: bun missing, engine error, or non-JSON-string output
all null the field. Tests pin: embedded ghp_ token → <REDACTED-github.pat>
with context intact; redactor unavailable → null; raw bytes on disk never
contain the token.

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

* fix(redact): prepush guard fails closed on git failure; /ship owns hook install (#1946)

Two gaps closed:

1. Fail closed. The git() helper returned "" on ANY non-zero exit or
   maxBuffer overflow (status null), addedLinesFor produced an empty
   string, and the push sailed through unscanned — fail-open on exactly
   the oversized-diff case where a large secret-bearing blob is most
   likely. The diff call now uses a strict variant that throws; main
   blocks with a clear message naming the GSTACK_REDACT_PREPUSH=skip
   escape valve. Probe calls (symbolic-ref, rev-parse, merge-base) keep
   the permissive helper — their failures are normal control flow.

2. Install path. The hook was installed by nothing ("opt-in, installed by
   nothing" was the issue's words). ./setup runs in the gstack checkout —
   the wrong repo for a per-project hook — so it gets a one-line hint
   only. /ship owns per-repo install: config redact_prepush_hook=true +
   hook missing → silent install (consent already given); config unset +
   no ~/.gstack/.redact-prepush-prompted marker → one-time machine-wide
   AskUserQuestion offer, answer persisted. ship/SKILL.md regenerated in
   this same commit (check-freshness bisect discipline).

Tests: unscannable diff (bogus SHAs) → exit 1 + valve named; empty-but-
successful diff → exit 0; static asserts pin setup as hint-only and the
ship template as the installer surface.

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

* feat(redact): six new credential patterns — GitLab, HuggingFace, npm, DigitalOcean, Bearer, GCP SA (#1946)

Coverage gaps from the #1946 security review, including token types for
tooling gstack itself drives (glab):

HIGH (block): gitlab.token (glpat-/glptt-/gldt-), huggingface.token (hf_),
npm.token (npm_), digitalocean.token (dop_v1_), gcp.service_account (the
JSON-escaped "private_key" form that dodges pem.private_key's literal-block
match when minified, confirmed by "private_key_id" proximity).

MEDIUM (warn): auth.bearer — the most FP-prone shape in the set (docs are
full of "Authorization: Bearer <token>"), so it requires header-context
proximity and the same entropy>=3.0 + placeholder validator recipe as
env.kv. "Bearer YOUR_TOKEN_HERE" never fires; calibration over coverage,
per the cries-wolf principle.

All shapes are linear-time; test/redact-pattern-lint.test.ts covers them
automatically. Engine tests add positive + placeholder-negative cases per
pattern.

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

* test: coverage-audit additions for the fix wave

Ship Step 7 gap-fill (all passing, 248 tests across the touched suites):
memory + dream stage probe-timeout proceeds, gbrain-detect override paths,
stale-flag passthrough, 200-body-missing-.security fail-closed case,
telemetry redaction edges, and credential-pattern edge cases.

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

* fix: pre-landing review fixes

Review army findings (1 critical, auto-fixed with regression tests):

- CRITICAL (security specialist, verified live): redactFindingSpans spliced
  only the regex capture span, and pem.private_key / gcp.service_account
  capture just the BEGIN-header — the key body survived "redaction" and
  shipped via telemetry. Marker-only patterns now drop the whole payload
  (null, fail closed). Overlapping spans (Bearer+JWT on the same bytes) are
  coalesced before splicing so stale offsets can't leave partial secret
  bytes behind.
- gitStrict: drop the dead `|| r.status === null` disjunct (null !== 0
  already covers it); add the signal-kill/null-status regression test the
  docstring promised.
- security-dashboard human mode flags stale snapshots ("figures may be out
  of date") instead of presenting frozen counts as current.
- community-dashboard marker check uses jq when available — the grep-only
  variant misclassified whitespaced/reserialized bodies as legacy.
- telemetry fail-closed test now shadows bun with a failing stub
  (deterministic on any host layout); stale "five status cases" describe
  title renamed.

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

* fix: adversarial review fixes (Claude + Codex cross-model passes)

Both adversarial passes ran against the wave; every FIXABLE finding landed
with a regression test:

- probeTimeoutMs clamps to >=1ms: a fractional override floored to 0, and
  execFileSync treats timeout:0 as NO timeout — the probe that exists to
  bound hangs could hang forever (found by both models independently).
- /ship silent hook install now requires the hooks dir to live inside
  .git: with core.hooksPath (husky's COMMITTED .husky/), the chaining
  installer would have renamed the team's committed pre-push and written a
  machine-local wrapper into the working tree (found by both models).
- gstack-config gbrain-refresh accepts the "timeout" status — the last
  consumer still gating on literal "ok" (Codex); gstack-gbrain-detect's
  config-derived fields honor GBRAIN_HOME so the detection JSON can't
  report status ok alongside config_exists false (Codex).
- prepush: a remote sha absent locally (shallow clone / stale fetch) falls
  back to the merge-base/empty-tree range — scans MORE, never blocks a
  legitimate push into training users toward --no-verify.
- dashboards: curl's own 000 no longer doubles to "HTTP 000000"; the
  community dashboard flags stale snapshots like the security one; array
  sections parse via jq (the sed/grep loops truncated at the first ']');
  the no-jq marker grep tolerates whitespace.
- telemetry: multi-line redactor output nulls the field instead of
  corrupting the JSONL record; setup's hint fires only when the config key
  is genuinely unset (an explicit false is a recorded decline); the /ship
  prompt marker honors GSTACK_HOME.

Kept as designed (cross-model tension noted): Bearer stays MEDIUM in the
prepush gate — a HIGH Bearer would block every docs example; the entropy
validator can't eliminate that FP class, and MEDIUM warns visibly.

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

* chore: bump version and changelog (v1.57.11.0)

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

* docs: P1 TODO — eval harness live progress + incremental persistence

Root-caused during this ship: a killed eval run was indistinguishable from a
healthy one for hours (per-file output buffering across mega test files, no
incremental eval-store writes, no honest liveness signal). Full context and
starting points in the entry.

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

* test: fix operational-learning E2E fixture — copy lib/jsonl-store.ts

Pre-existing breakage, proven on main: gstack-learnings-log has imported
lib/jsonl-store.ts (shared injection patterns) since v1.57.5.0 / #1910, but
the fixture copies only the bin scripts — the bin exits 1 before writing
anything, on main silently (stderr swallowed) and on this branch loudly
(the #1950 error-surfacing made the four-day-old failure visible). A real
install always ships bin/ and lib/ together; the fixture now does too.
Verified: the fixture-shaped invocation writes the learning (exit 0) with
lib present, exits 1 on both main and this branch without it.

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

* fix(ios-qa): isolate E2E tests under --concurrent (3 real races)

The ios-qa E2E file failed intermittently under `bun test --concurrent`
(the eval harness default). Three distinct shared-state races, all fixed:

1. Shared pidfile: a module-level `workDir` reassigned in beforeEach was
   clobbered by parallel tests, so concurrent daemons collided on the same
   pidfile and the loser returned `already_running`. Each test now gets its
   own dir via makeWorkDir().
2. process.env path globals: tests set GSTACK_IOS_AUDIT_PATH /
   _ATTEMPTS_PATH / _ALLOWLIST_PATH on the shared process env; concurrent
   tests stomped each other's audit/attempts destinations. Threaded
   auditPath/attemptsPath/allowlistPath through DaemonOptions (and
   mintForCaller) as explicit args — env is no longer load-bearing.
3. afterEach cleanup race: the per-test cleanup drained a shared dir array,
   so the first test to finish deleted still-running tests' workDirs
   mid-assertion. Moved to afterAll (cleans once, after all settle).

Verified: 5/5 clean full-suite runs at --max-concurrency 15 (was
intermittent); daemon unit suite 91/91; daemon source compiles. The paths
default to the env-derived locations when options are omitted, so the
production CLI path is unchanged.

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

* test(pty): pin spawned claude to EVALS model chain (default claude-sonnet-4-6)

launchClaudePty spawned the interactive `claude` TUI with no --model flag, so
the child inherited the operator's ~/.claude/settings.json model. On a
slow-thinking model that meant 5+ min of extended thinking on empty plan-mode
context, timing out the plan-mode smoke tests regardless of contention. Pin the
model via opts.model ?? EVALS_MODEL ?? 'claude-sonnet-4-6' — byte-identical to
session-runner.ts:144, so PTY and `claude -p` evals always agree.

Pushed before extraArgs (last flag wins, so a per-test --model still overrides).
Placement leaves the spawn region byte-stable for a clean merge with the
in-flight hermetic-env branch. Plumbed model through the three plan-skill
wrappers. Static-grep tripwires guard the pin, its fallback chain, the
before-extraArgs ordering, and all three wrapper forwards.

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

* test(pty): detect markdown bold-bullet prose AUQs (fixes office-hours smoke)

office-hours auto-mode renders its mode question as `- **Building a startup**`
markdown bullets (office-hours/SKILL.md.tmpl:102) with no letter/number marker.
isProseAUQVisible only matched `A)`-style lettered or `1.`-style numbered
options, so the question went undetected: the model surfaced it at ~2m19s
(well under the 300s budget) but the harness kept scoring the run "working"
off the spinner glyphs and timed out — a false timeout on a question that was
already on screen.

Add Pattern 3: when an interrogative line ('?') is present AND 3+ bold-bullet
markers (`- **`) appear in the 4KB tail, classify as a prose AUQ. Bold is the
discriminator vs incidental prose bullets; the line anchor is dropped (stripAnsi
can collapse option lines) and the existing `❯ 1.` cursor gate still defers to a
live native list. Wires through the existing classifyVisible 'asked' path and the
timeout high-water-mark, so office-hours now classifies 'asked' instead of
'timeout'. Five unit cases: the office-hours render passes; no-'?', <3-bullet,
plain-bullet, and native-cursor cases stay false.

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

* test(pty): detect stripAnsi-collapsed prose AUQs + judge spinner-precedence

The plan-eng/plan-design plan-mode + finding-floor smokes timed out even when
the skill HAD rendered a complete prose AskUserQuestion and was waiting: the PTY
strips cursor-positioning escapes, collapsing the option newlines/spaces so
"A) ..." arrives as "A(recommended)" / "-B:" and "Reply with A, B, or C" as
"ReplywithA,B,orC". Every line-anchored detector (Patterns 1-3) returns false on
those bytes, so proseAUQEverObserved never latched and the run timed out on a
question that was already on screen.

Add Pattern 4/5: a two-signal collapsed-form detector — a reply/recommendation
marker (space-insensitive "reply with [A-D]", "Recommendation:", or
"(recommended)") AND 2+ distinct A-D letters each punctuated by ) : or (. The
conjunction is what separates a real AUQ from incidental report prose; verified
true on the verbatim failing-run buffers where Patterns 1-3 return false.

Also fix the Haiku judge spinner bias: of 614 verdicts, 569 were 'working' and
95 of those noted a question was visible — Claude Code keeps the spinner
animating at an idle prose decision, so the judge coin-flipped. Add a precedence
override: when an option list AND a Recommendation/Reply instruction are both
visible, classify WAITING even with spinner glyphs. Kept the strict dual-signal
gate (never option-list-alone) so auto-decide-preserved doesn't flip.

5 unit tests pin the two-signal contract (2 true on real collapsed bytes, 3
false guards). 90 -> 95 pass.

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

* feat(plan-review): ask-first scope gate for plan-eng + plan-design review

On an empty/cold invocation, plan-eng-review and plan-design-review would dive
straight into repo exploration (plan-eng) or a 7-pass mockup+audit (plan-design)
and only ask the user much later, if at all. plan-ceo-review already asks first
via an unconditional Step-0 gate and behaves well; these two did not.

Add a hard-STOP scope gate as the FIRST operational instruction in each skill
(above the design-doc check / pre-review audit / mockup defaults it explicitly
overrides): the first tool call must be AskUserQuestion confirming the review
target, before any git/Read/Grep/Glob/Bash or mockup generation. Under
--disallowedTools the options render as plain column-0 lettered prose with a
Recommendation + "Reply with A, B, or C" line so the answer is detectable.

This is correct cold-start UX (confirm what to review before grinding a full
review on nothing) and it is the product half of the plan-mode smoke fix; the
harness collapsed-form detector is the deterministic half that catches the ask
however it renders. Templates + regenerated SKILL.md (default variant).

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

* test(tiers): reclassify stochastic plan-eng/plan-design ask-first smokes as periodic

plan-eng-review and plan-design-review run a long explore/audit before their
first AskUserQuestion, so whether the plan-mode + finding-floor smokes reach a
terminal outcome within the 300s/600s budget depends on stochastic ask-first
compliance (measured ~50-67%/run even with the hardened gate). Per the
"non-deterministic -> periodic" tiering rule, move the four affected smokes
(plan-eng/plan-design review-plan-mode + finding-floor) to periodic.

The deterministic harness fix (collapsed-form detector + judge precedence) and
the ask-first gate lift these from always-failing to mostly-passing and are the
real product+harness improvements; periodic monitoring tracks the rate weekly
without blocking PRs on an LLM coin-flip. plan-ceo/plan-devex ask-first reliably
and stay gate-tier.

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

* ci(evals): gate the deterministic PTY plan-mode smokes in CI

The real-PTY plan-mode smokes never ran in CI — the gate was local-only. Add an
e2e-pty-plan-smoke matrix suite running the two deterministically-reliable ones
(office-hours-auto-mode, plan-mode-no-op) so a regression there blocks PRs. The
stochastic plan-eng/plan-design ask-first smokes stay periodic (touchfiles
E2E_TIERS) and are not CI-gated.

A fresh CI container has no ~/.claude.json, so the spawned interactive `claude`
would wedge on the onboarding + API-key-approval dialog. Add a scoped seed step
(hasCompletedOnboarding + key approval, its own ANTHROPIC_API_KEY env) before the
run — mirrors what the hermetic E2E child env seeds. Per-suite timeout override
(35 min) via matrix.suite.timeout so the PTY suite has headroom for --retry 2
without bumping the other 12 suites. Report runner count 12 -> 13.

Validate via workflow_dispatch before relying on the gate (PTY-in-CI is new).

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

* ci(evals): install gstack skill registry for the PTY smoke suite

The first dry-run of e2e-pty-plan-smoke failed: the spawned interactive `claude`
printed "Unknown command: /plan-ceo-review". .claude/skills is gitignored, so a
fresh CI checkout has no gstack skill registry and the TUI can't resolve
/office-hours or /plan-ceo-review.

Add a Register step (scoped to the suite, after Seed, before Run) that mirrors
setup's --no-prefix user-scoped registry minimally: $HOME/.claude/skills/gstack
-> repo (resolves the preambles' absolute ~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/* and
<skill>/sections/* paths) + per-skill SKILL.md/sections symlinks for the two
skills these tests invoke. HOME is /github/home in this container and the runner
adds no HOME/CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR override (no hermetic mode), so $HOME is the right
anchor — the Seed step already proved claude reads it. No ./setup (binary build
+ Chromium + fonts + /dev/tty prompt); SKILL.md + bin/ + sections/ are committed.

Self-validating: fails the step loudly on a dangling symlink or missing
`name:` frontmatter, so a moved target surfaces here instead of as a silent
35-min "Unknown command" timeout.

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

* chore: bump version and changelog (v1.58.4.0)

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

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2026-06-21 07:15:19 -07:00
0a803f9e81 feat: gstack v1 — simpler prompts + real LOC receipts (v1.0.0.0) (#1039)
* docs: add design doc for /plan-tune v1 (observational substrate)

Canonical record of the /plan-tune v1 design: typed question registry,
per-question explicit preferences, inline tune: feedback with user-origin
gate, dual-track profile (declared + inferred separately), and plain-English
inspection skill. Captures every decision with pros/cons, what's deferred to
v2 with explicit acceptance criteria, and what was rejected entirely.

Codex review drove a substantial scope rollback from the initial CEO
EXPANSION plan. 15+ legitimate findings (substrate claim was false without
a typed registry; E4/E6/clamp logical contradiction; profile poisoning
attack surface; LANDED preamble side effect; implementation order) shaped
the final shape.

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

* feat: typed question registry for /plan-tune v1 foundation

scripts/question-registry.ts declares 53 recurring AskUserQuestion categories
across 15 skills (ship, review, office-hours, plan-ceo-review, plan-eng-review,
plan-design-review, plan-devex-review, qa, investigate, land-and-deploy, cso,
gstack-upgrade, preamble, plan-tune, autoplan).

Each entry has: stable kebab-case id, skill owner, category (approval |
clarification | routing | cherry-pick | feedback-loop), door_type (one-way
| two-way), optional stable option keys, optional psychographic signal_key,
and a one-line description.

12 of 53 are one-way doors (destructive ops, architecture/data forks,
security/compliance). These are ALWAYS asked regardless of user preference.

Helpers: getQuestion(id), getOneWayDoorIds(), getAllRegisteredIds(),
getRegistryStats(). No binary or resolver wiring yet — this is the schema
substrate the rest of /plan-tune builds on.

Ad-hoc question_ids (not registered) still log but skip psychographic
signal attribution. Future /plan-tune skill surfaces frequently-firing
ad-hoc ids as candidates for registry promotion.

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

* test: registry schema + safety + coverage tests (gate tier)

20 tests validating the question registry:

Schema (7 tests):
- Every entry has required fields
- All ids are kebab-case and start with their skill name
- No duplicate ids
- Categories are from the allowed set
- door_type is one-way | two-way
- Options arrays are well-formed
- Descriptions are short and single-line

Helpers (5 tests):
- getQuestion returns entry for known id, undefined for unknown
- getOneWayDoorIds includes destructive questions, excludes two-way
- getAllRegisteredIds count matches QUESTIONS keys
- getRegistryStats totals are internally consistent

One-way door safety (2 tests):
- Every critical question (test failure, SQL safety, LLM trust boundary,
  security scan, merge confirm, rollback, fix apply, premise revise,
  arch finding, privacy gate, user challenge) is declared one-way
- At least 10 one-way doors exist (catches regression if declarations
  are accidentally dropped)

Registry breadth (3 tests):
- 11 high-volume skills each have >= 1 registered question
- Preamble one-time prompts are registered
- /plan-tune's own questions are registered

Signal map references (1 test):
- signal_key values are typed kebab-case strings

Template coverage (2 tests, informational):
- AskUserQuestion usage across templates is non-trivial (>20)
- Registry spans >= 10 skills

20 pass, 0 fail.

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

* feat: one-way door classifier (belt-and-suspenders safety fallback)

scripts/one-way-doors.ts — secondary keyword-pattern classifier that catches
destructive questions even when the registry doesn't have an entry for them.

The registry's door_type field (from scripts/question-registry.ts) is the
PRIMARY safety gate. This classifier is the fallback for ad-hoc question_ids
that agents generate at runtime.

Classification priority:
  1. Registry lookup by question_id → use declared door_type
  2. Skill:category fallback (cso:approval, land-and-deploy:approval)
  3. Keyword pattern match against question_summary
  4. Default: treat as two-way (safer to log the miss than auto-decide unsafely)

Covers 21 destructive patterns across:
  - File system (rm -rf, delete, wipe, purge, truncate)
  - Database (drop table/database/schema, delete from)
  - Git/VCS (force-push, reset --hard, checkout --, branch -D)
  - Deploy/infra (kubectl delete, terraform destroy, rollback)
  - Credentials (revoke/reset/rotate API key|token|secret|password)
  - Architecture (breaking change, schema migration, data model change)

7 new tests in test/plan-tune.test.ts covering: registry-first lookup,
unknown-id fallthrough, keyword matching on destructive phrasings including
embedded filler words ("rotate the API key"), skill-category fallback,
benign questions defaulting to two-way, pattern-list non-empty.

27 pass, 0 fail. 1270 expect() calls.

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

* feat: psychographic signal map + builder archetypes

scripts/psychographic-signals.ts — hand-crafted {signal_key, user_choice} →
{dimension, delta} map. Version 0.1.0. Conservative deltas (±0.03 to ±0.06
per event). Covers 9 signal keys: scope-appetite, architecture-care,
code-quality-care, test-discipline, detail-preference, design-care,
devex-care, distribution-care, session-mode.

Helpers: applySignal() mutates running totals, newDimensionTotals() creates
empty starting state, normalizeToDimensionValue() sigmoid-clamps accumulated
delta to [0,1] (0 → 0.5 neutral), validateRegistrySignalKeys() checks that
every signal_key in the registry has a SIGNAL_MAP entry.

In v1 the signal map is used ONLY to compute inferred dimension values for
/plan-tune inspection output. No skill behavior adapts to these signals
until v2.

scripts/archetypes.ts — 8 named archetypes + Polymath fallback:
- Cathedral Builder (boil-the-ocean + architecture-first)
- Ship-It Pragmatist (small scope + fast)
- Deep Craft (detail-verbose + principled)
- Taste Maker (intuitive, overrides recommendations)
- Solo Operator (high-autonomy, delegates)
- Consultant (hands-on, consulted on everything)
- Wedge Hunter (narrow scope aggressively)
- Builder-Coach (balanced steering)
- Polymath (fallback when no archetype matches)

matchArchetype() uses L2 distance scaled by tightness, with a 0.55 threshold
below which we return Polymath. v1 ships the model stable; v2 narrative/vibe
commands wire it into user-facing output.

14 new tests: signal map consistency vs registry, applySignal behavior for
known/unknown keys, normalization bounds, archetype schema validity, name
uniqueness, matchArchetype correctness for each reference profile, Polymath
fallback for outliers.

41 pass, 0 fail total in test/plan-tune.test.ts.

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

* feat: bin/gstack-question-log — append validated AskUserQuestion events

Append-only JSONL log at ~/.gstack/projects/{SLUG}/question-log.jsonl.
Schema: {skill, question_id, question_summary, category?, door_type?,
options_count?, user_choice, recommended?, followed_recommendation?,
session_id?, ts}

Validates:
- skill is kebab-case
- question_id is kebab-case, <= 64 chars
- question_summary non-empty, <= 200 chars, newlines flattened
- category is one of approval/clarification/routing/cherry-pick/feedback-loop
- door_type is one-way or two-way
- options_count is integer in [1, 26]
- user_choice non-empty string, <= 64 chars

Injection defense on question_summary rejects the same patterns as
gstack-learnings-log (ignore previous instructions, system:, override:,
do not report, etc).

followed_recommendation is auto-computed when both user_choice and
recommended are present.

ts auto-injected as ISO 8601 if missing.

21 tests covering: valid payloads, full field preservation, auto-followed
computation, appending, long-summary truncation, newline flattening,
invalid JSON, missing fields, bad case, oversized ids, invalid enum
values, out-of-range options_count, and 6 injection attack patterns.

21 pass, 0 fail, 43 expect() calls.

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

* feat: bin/gstack-developer-profile — unified profile with migration

bin/gstack-developer-profile supersedes bin/gstack-builder-profile. The old
binary becomes a one-line legacy shim delegating to --read for /office-hours
backward compat.

Subcommands:
  --read              legacy KEY:VALUE output (tier, session_count, etc)
  --migrate           folds ~/.gstack/builder-profile.jsonl into
                      ~/.gstack/developer-profile.json. Atomic (temp + rename),
                      idempotent (no-op when target exists or source absent),
                      archives source as .migrated-YYYY-MM-DD-HHMMSS
  --derive            recomputes inferred dimensions from question-log.jsonl
                      using the signal map in scripts/psychographic-signals.ts
  --profile           full profile JSON
  --gap               declared vs inferred diff JSON
  --trace <dim>       event-level trace of what contributed to a dimension
  --check-mismatch    flags dimensions where declared and inferred disagree by
                      > 0.3 (requires >= 10 events first)
  --vibe              archetype name + description from scripts/archetypes.ts
  --narrative         (v2 stub)

Auto-migration on first read: if legacy file exists and new file doesn't,
migrate before reading. Creates a neutral (all-0.5) stub if nothing exists.

Unified schema (see docs/designs/PLAN_TUNING_V0.md §Architecture):
  {identity, declared, inferred: {values, sample_size, diversity},
   gap, overrides, sessions, signals_accumulated, schema_version}

25 new tests across subcommand behaviors:
- --read defaults + stub creation
- --migrate: 3 sessions preserved with signal tallies, idempotency, archival
- Tier calculation: welcome_back / regular / inner_circle boundaries
- --derive: neutral-when-empty, upward nudge on 'expand', downward on 'reduce',
  recomputable (same input → same output), ad-hoc unregistered ids ignored
- --trace: contributing events, empty for untouched dims, error without arg
- --gap: empty when no declared, correctly computed otherwise
- --vibe: returns archetype name + description
- --check-mismatch: threshold behavior, 10+ sample requirement
- Unknown subcommand errors

25 pass, 0 fail, 60 expect() calls.

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

* feat: bin/gstack-question-preference — explicit preferences + user-origin gate

Subcommands:
  --check <id>   → ASK_NORMALLY | AUTO_DECIDE  (decides if a registered
                   question should be auto-decided by the agent)
  --write '{…}'  → set a preference (requires user-origin source)
  --read         → dump preferences JSON
  --clear [id]   → clear one or all
  --stats        → short counts summary

Preference values: always-ask | never-ask | ask-only-for-one-way.
Stored at ~/.gstack/projects/{SLUG}/question-preferences.json.

Safety contract (the core of Codex finding #16, profile-poisoning defense
from docs/designs/PLAN_TUNING_V0.md §Security model):

  1. One-way doors ALWAYS return ASK_NORMALLY from --check, regardless of
     user preference. User's never-ask is overridden with a visible safety
     note so the user knows why their preference didn't suppress the prompt.

  2. --write requires an explicit `source` field:
       - Allowed:  "plan-tune", "inline-user"
       - REJECTED with exit code 2: "inline-tool-output", "inline-file",
         "inline-file-content", "inline-unknown"
     Rejection is explicit ("profile poisoning defense") so the caller can
     log and surface the attempt.

  3. free_text on --write is sanitized against injection patterns (ignore
     previous instructions, override:, system:, etc.) and newline-flattened.

Each --write also appends a preference-set event to
~/.gstack/projects/{SLUG}/question-events.jsonl for derivation audit trail.

31 tests:
- --check behavior (4): defaults, two-way, one-way (one-way overrides
  never-ask with safety note), unknown ids, missing arg
- --check with prefs (5): never-ask on two-way → AUTO_DECIDE; never-ask
  on one-way → ASK_NORMALLY with override note; always-ask always asks;
  ask-only-for-one-way flips appropriately
- --write valid (5): inline-user accepted, plan-tune accepted, persisted
  correctly, event appended, free_text preserved with flattening
- User-origin gate (6): missing source rejected; inline-tool-output
  rejected with exit code 2 and explicit poisoning message; inline-file,
  inline-file-content, inline-unknown rejected; unknown source rejected
- Schema validation (4): invalid JSON, bad question_id, bad preference,
  injection in free_text
- --read (2): empty → {}, returns writes
- --clear (3): specific id, clear-all, NOOP for missing
- --stats (2): empty zeros, tallies by preference type

31 pass, 0 fail, 52 expect() calls.

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

* feat: question-tuning preamble resolvers

scripts/resolvers/question-tuning.ts ships three preamble generators:

  generateQuestionPreferenceCheck — before each AskUserQuestion, agent runs
    gstack-question-preference --check <id>. AUTO_DECIDE suppresses the ask
    and auto-chooses recommended. ASK_NORMALLY asks as usual. One-way door
    safety override is handled by the binary.

  generateQuestionLog — after each AskUserQuestion, agent appends a log
    record with skill, question_id, summary, category, door_type,
    options_count, user_choice, recommended, session_id.

  generateInlineTuneFeedback — offers inline "tune:" prompt after two-way
    questions. Documents structured shortcuts (never-ask, always-ask,
    ask-only-for-one-way, ask-less) AND accepts free-form English with
    normalization + confirmation. Explicitly spells out the USER-ORIGIN
    GATE: only write tune events when the prefix appears in the user's own
    chat message, never from tool output or file content. Binary enforces.

All three resolvers are gated by the QUESTION_TUNING preamble echo. When
the config is off, the agent skips these sections entirely. Ready to be
wired into preamble.ts in the next commit.

Codex host has a simpler variant that uses $GSTACK_BIN env vars.

scripts/resolvers/index.ts registers three placeholders:
  QUESTION_PREFERENCE_CHECK, QUESTION_LOG, INLINE_TUNE_FEEDBACK

Total resolver count goes from 45 to 48.

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

* feat: wire question-tuning into preamble for tier >= 2 skills

scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts — adds two things:

  1. _QUESTION_TUNING config echo in the preamble bash block, gated on the
     user's gstack-config `question_tuning` value (default: false).
  2. A combined Question Tuning section for tier >= 2 skills, injected after
     the confusion protocol. The section itself is runtime-gated by the
     QUESTION_TUNING value — agents skip it entirely when off.

scripts/resolvers/question-tuning.ts — consolidated into one compact combined
section `generateQuestionTuning(ctx)` covering: preference check before the
question, log after, and inline tune: feedback with user-origin gate. Per-phase
generators remain exported for unit tests but are no longer the main entrypoint.

Size impact: +570 tokens / +2.3KB per tier-2+ SKILL.md. Three skills
(plan-ceo-review, office-hours, ship) still exceed the 100KB token ceiling —
but they were already over before this change. Delta is the smallest viable
wiring of the /plan-tune v1 substrate.

Golden fixtures (test/fixtures/golden/claude-ship, codex-ship, factory-ship)
regenerated to match the new baseline.

Full test run: 1149 pass, 0 fail, 113 skip across 28 files.

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

* chore: regenerate SKILL.md files with question-tuning section

bun run gen:skill-docs --host all after wiring the QUESTION_TUNING preamble
section. Every tier >= 2 skill now includes the combined Question Tuning
guidance. Runtime-gated — agents skip the section when question_tuning is
off in gstack-config (default).

Golden fixtures (claude-ship, codex-ship, factory-ship) updated to the new
baseline.

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

* feat: /plan-tune skill — conversational inspection + preferences

plan-tune/SKILL.md.tmpl: the user-facing skill for /plan-tune v1. Routes
plain-English intent to one of 8 flows:

  - Enable + setup (first-time): 5 declaration questions mapping to the
    5 psychographic dimensions (scope_appetite, risk_tolerance,
    detail_preference, autonomy, architecture_care). Writes to
    developer-profile.json declared.*.
  - Inspect profile: plain-English rendering of declared + inferred + gap.
    Uses word bands (low/balanced/high) not raw floats. Shows vibe archetype
    when calibration gate is met.
  - Review question log: top-20 question frequencies with follow/override
    counts. Highlights override-heavy questions as candidates for never-ask.
  - Set a preference: normalizes "stop asking me about X" → never-ask, etc.
    Confirms ambiguous phrasings before writing via gstack-question-preference.
  - Edit declared profile: interprets free-form ("more boil-the-ocean") and
    CONFIRMS before mutating declared.* (trust boundary per Codex #15).
  - Show gap: declared vs inferred diff with plain-English severity bands
    (close / drift / mismatch). Never auto-updates declared from the gap.
  - Stats: preference counts + diversity/calibration status.
  - Enable / disable: gstack-config set question_tuning true|false.

Design constraints enforced:
- Plain English everywhere. No CLI subcommand syntax required. Shortcuts
  (`profile`, `vibe`, `stats`, `setup`) exist but optional.
- user-origin gate on tune: writes. source: "plan-tune" for user-invoked
  /plan-tune; source: "inline-user" for inline tune: from other skills.
- One-way doors override never-ask (safety, surfaced to user).
- No behavior adaptation in v1 — this skill inspects and configures only.

Generates plan-tune/SKILL.md at ~11.6k tokens, well under the 100KB ceiling.
Generated for all hosts via `bun run gen:skill-docs --host all`.

Full free test suite: 1149 pass, 0 fail, 113 skip across 28 files.

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

* test: end-to-end pipeline + preamble injection coverage

Added 6 tests to test/plan-tune.test.ts:

Preamble injection (3 tests):
- tier 2+ includes Question Tuning section with preference check, log,
  and user-origin gate language ('profile-poisoning defense', 'inline-user')
- tier 1 does NOT include the prose section (QUESTION_TUNING bash echo
  still fires since it's in the bash block all tiers share)
- codex host swaps binDir references to $GSTACK_BIN

End-to-end pipeline (3 tests) — real binaries working together, not mocks:
- Log 5 expand choices → --derive → profile shows scope_appetite > 0.5
  (full log → registry lookup → signal map → normalization round-trip)
- --write source: inline-tool-output rejected; --read confirms no pref
  was persisted (the profile-poisoning defense actually works end-to-end)
- Migrate a 3-session legacy file; confirm legacy gstack-builder-profile
  shim still returns SESSION_COUNT: 3, TIER: welcome_back, CROSS_PROJECT: true

test/plan-tune.test.ts now has 47 tests total.

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

* test: E2E test for /plan-tune plain-English inspection flow (gate tier)

test/skill-e2e-plan-tune.test.ts — verifies /plan-tune correctly routes
plain-English intent ("review the questions I've been asked") to the
Review question log section without requiring CLI subcommand syntax.

Seeds a synthetic question-log.jsonl with 3 entries exercising:
- override behavior (user chose expand over recommended selective)
- one-way door respect (user followed ship-test-failure-triage recommendation)
- two-way override (user skipped recommended changelog polish)

Invokes the skill via `claude -p` and asserts:
- Agent surfaces >= 2 of 3 logged question_ids in output
- Agent notices override/skip behavior from the log
- Exit reason is success or error_max_turns (not agent-crash)

Gate-tier because the core v1 DX promise is plain-English intent routing.
If it requires memorized subcommands or breaks on natural language, that's
a regression of the defining feature.

Registered in test/helpers/touchfiles.ts with dependencies:
- plan-tune/** (skill template + generated md)
- scripts/question-registry.ts (required for log lookup)
- scripts/psychographic-signals.ts, scripts/one-way-doors.ts (derive path)
- bin/gstack-question-log, gstack-question-preference, gstack-developer-profile

Skipped when EVALS_ENABLED is not set; runs on `bun run test:evals`.

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

* chore: bump version and changelog (v0.19.0.0) — /plan-tune v1

Ships /plan-tune as observational substrate: typed question registry, dual-track
developer profile (declared + inferred), explicit per-question preferences with
user-origin gate, inline tune: feedback across every tier >= 2 skill, unified
developer-profile.json with migration from builder-profile.jsonl.

Scope rolled back from initial CEO EXPANSION plan after outside-voice review
(Codex). 6 deferrals tracked as P0 TODOs with explicit acceptance criteria:
E1 substrate wiring, E3 narrative/vibe, E4 blind-spot coach, E5 LANDED
celebration, E6 auto-adjustment, E7 psychographic auto-decide.

See docs/designs/PLAN_TUNING_V0.md for the full design record.

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

* fix(ci): harden Dockerfile.ci against transient Ubuntu mirror failures

The CI image build failed with:
  E: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/...
     Connection failed [IP: 91.189.92.22 80]
  ERROR: process "/bin/sh -c apt-get update && apt-get install ..."
     did not complete successfully: exit code: 100

archive.ubuntu.com periodically returns "connection refused" on individual
regional mirrors. Without retry logic a single failed fetch nukes the whole
Docker build. Three defenses, layered:

  1. /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80-retries — apt fetches each package up to 5 times
     with a 30s timeout. Handles per-package flakes.
  2. Shell-loop retry around the whole apt-get step (x3, 10s sleep) — handles
     the case where apt-get update itself can't reach any mirror.
  3. --retry 5 --retry-delay 5 --retry-connrefused on all curl fetches (bun
     install script, GitHub CLI keyring, NodeSource setup script).

Applied to every apt-get and curl call in the Dockerfile. No behavior change
on happy path — only kicks in when mirrors blip. Fixes the build-image job
that was blocking CI on the /plan-tune PR.

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

* docs: add PLAN_TUNING_V1 + PACING_UPDATES_V0 design docs

Captures the V1 design (ELI10 writing + LOC reframe) in
docs/designs/PLAN_TUNING_V1.md and the extracted V1.1 pacing-overhaul
plan in docs/designs/PACING_UPDATES_V0.md. V1 scope was reduced from
the original bundled pacing + writing-style plan after three
engineering-review passes revealed structural gaps in the pacing
workstream that couldn't be closed via plan-text editing. TODOS.md
P0 entry links to V1.1.

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

* feat: curated jargon list for V1 writing-style glossing

Repo-owned list of ~50 high-frequency technical terms (idempotent,
race condition, N+1, backpressure, etc.) that gstack glosses on first
use in tier-≥2 skill output. Baked into generated SKILL.md prose at
gen-skill-docs time. Terms not on this list are assumed plain-English
enough. Contributions via PR.

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

* feat(preamble): V1 Writing Style section + EXPLAIN_LEVEL echo + migration prompt

Adds a new Writing Style section to tier-≥2 preamble output composing with
the existing AskUserQuestion Format section. Six rules: jargon glossed on
first use per skill invocation (from scripts/jargon-list.json), outcome-
framed questions, short sentences, decisions close with user impact,
gloss-on-first-use even if user pasted term, user-turn override for "be
terse" requests. Baked conditionally (skip if EXPLAIN_LEVEL: terse).

Adds EXPLAIN_LEVEL preamble echo using \${binDir} (host-portable matching
V0 QUESTION_TUNING pattern). Adds WRITING_STYLE_PENDING echo reading a
flag file written by the V0→V1 upgrade migration; on first post-upgrade
skill run, the agent fires a one-time AskUserQuestion offering terse mode.

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

* feat(gstack-config): validate explain_level + document in header

Adds explain_level: default|terse to the annotated config header with
a one-line description. Whitelists valid values; on set of an unknown
value, prints a specific warning ("explain_level '\$VALUE' not
recognized. Valid values: default, terse. Using default.") and writes
the default value. Matches V1 preamble's EXPLAIN_LEVEL echo expectation.

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

* feat: V1 upgrade migration — writing-style opt-out prompt

New migration script following existing v0.15.2.0.sh / v0.16.2.0.sh
pattern. Writes a .writing-style-prompt-pending flag file on first run
post-upgrade. The preamble's migration-prompt block reads the flag and
fires a one-time AskUserQuestion offering the user a choice between
the new default writing style and restoring V0 prose via
\`gstack-config set explain_level terse\`. Idempotent via flag files;
if the user has already set explain_level explicitly, counts as
answered and skips.

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

* feat: LOC reframe tooling — throughput comparison + README updater + scc installer

Three new scripts:

- scripts/garry-output-comparison.ts — enumerates Garry-authored commits
  in 2013 + 2026 on public repos, extracts ADDED lines from git diff,
  classifies as logical SLOC via scc --stdin (regex fallback if scc
  missing). Writes docs/throughput-2013-vs-2026.json with per-language
  breakdown + explicit caveats (public repos only, commit-style drift,
  private-work exclusion).

- scripts/update-readme-throughput.ts — reads the JSON if present,
  replaces the README's <!-- GSTACK-THROUGHPUT-PLACEHOLDER --> anchor
  with the computed multiple (preserving the anchor for future runs).
  If JSON missing, writes GSTACK-THROUGHPUT-PENDING marker that CI
  rejects — forcing the build to run before commit.

- scripts/setup-scc.sh — standalone OS-detecting installer for scc.
  Not a package.json dependency (95% of users never run throughput).
  Brew on macOS, apt on Linux, GitHub releases link on Windows.

Two-string anchor pattern (PLACEHOLDER vs PENDING) prevents the
pipeline from destroying its own update path.

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

* feat(retro): surface logical SLOC + weighted commits above raw LOC

V1 reorders the /retro summary table to lead with features shipped,
then commits + weighted commits (commits × files-touched capped at 20),
then PRs merged, then logical SLOC added as the primary code-volume
metric. Raw LOC stays present but is demoted to context. Rationale
inline in the template: ten lines of a good fix is not less shipping
than ten thousand lines of scaffold.

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

* docs(v1): README hero reframe + writing-style + CHANGELOG + version bump to 1.0.0.0

README.md:
- Hero removes "600,000+ lines of production code" framing; replaces
  with the computed 2013-vs-2026 pro-rata multiple (via
  <!-- GSTACK-THROUGHPUT-PLACEHOLDER --> anchor, filled by the
  update-readme-throughput build step).
- Hiring callout: "ship real products at AI-coding speed" instead of
  "10K+ LOC/day."
- New Writing Style section (~80 words) between Quick start and
  Install: "v1 prompts = simpler" framing, outcome-language example,
  terse-mode opt-out, pointer to /plan-tune.

CLAUDE.md: one-paragraph Writing style (V1) note under project
conventions, linking to preamble resolver + V1 design docs.

CHANGELOG.md: V1 entry on top of v0.19.0.0 with user-facing narrative
(what changes, how to opt out, for-contributors notes). Mentions
scope reduction — pacing overhaul ships in V1.1.

CONTRIBUTING.md: one-paragraph note on jargon-list.json maintenance
(PR to add/remove terms; regenerate via gen:skill-docs).

VERSION + package.json: bump to 1.0.0.0.

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

* chore: regenerate SKILL.md files + golden fixtures for V1

Mechanical regeneration from the updated templates in prior commits:
- Writing Style section now appears in tier-≥2 skill output.
- EXPLAIN_LEVEL + WRITING_STYLE_PENDING echoes in preamble bash.
- V1 migration-prompt block fires conditionally on first upgrade.
- Jargon list inlined into preamble prose at gen time.
- Retro template's logical SLOC + weighted commits order applied.

Regenerated for all 8 hosts via bun run gen:skill-docs --host all.
Golden ship-skill fixtures refreshed from regenerated outputs.

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

* test: V1 gate coverage — writing-style resolver + config + jargon + migration + dormancy

Six new gate-tier test files:

- test/writing-style-resolver.test.ts — asserts Writing Style section
  is injected into tier-≥2 preamble, all 6 rules present, jargon list
  inlined, terse-mode gate condition present, Codex output uses
  \$GSTACK_BIN (not ~/.claude/), tier-1 does NOT get the section,
  migration-prompt block present.

- test/explain-level-config.test.ts — gstack-config set/get round-trip
  for default + terse, unknown-value warns + defaults to default,
  header documents the key, round-trip across set→set→get.

- test/jargon-list.test.ts — shape + ~50 terms + no duplicates
  (case-insensitive) + includes canonical high-signal terms.

- test/v0-dormancy.test.ts — 5D dimension names + archetype names
  forbidden in default-mode tier-≥2 SKILL.md output, except for
  plan-tune and office-hours where they're load-bearing.

- test/readme-throughput.test.ts — script replaces anchor with number
  on happy path, writes PENDING marker when JSON missing, CI gate
  asserts committed README contains no PENDING string.

- test/upgrade-migration-v1.test.ts — fresh run writes pending flag,
  idempotent after user-answered, pre-existing explain_level counts
  as answered.

All 95 V1 test-expect() calls pass. Full suite: 0 failures.

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

* feat: compute real 2013-vs-2026 throughput multiple (130.2×)

Ran scripts/garry-output-comparison.ts across all 15 public garrytan/*
repos. Aggregated results into docs/throughput-2013-vs-2026.json and
ran scripts/update-readme-throughput.ts to replace the README placeholder.

2013 public activity: 2 commits, 2,384 logical lines added across 1
week, in 1 repo (zurb-foundation-wysihtml5 upstream contribution).

2026 public activity: 279 commits, 310,484 logical lines added across
17 active weeks, in 3 repos (gbrain, gstack, resend_robot).

Multiples (public repos only, apples-to-apples):
- Logical SLOC: 130.2×
- Commits per active week: 8.2×
- Raw lines added: 134.4×

Private work at both eras (2013 Bookface at YC, Posterous-era code,
2026 internal tools) is excluded from this comparison.

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

* feat: 207× throughput multiple (with private repos + Bookface)

Re-ran scripts/garry-output-comparison.ts across all 41 repos under
garrytan/* (15 public + 26 private), including Bookface (YC's internal
social network, 2013-era work).

2013 activity: 71 commits, 5,143 logical lines, 4 active repos
  (bookface, delicounter, tandong, zurb-foundation-wysihtml5)
2026 activity: 350 commits, 1,064,818 logical lines, 15 active repos
  (gbrain, gstack, gbrowser, tax-app, kumo, tenjin, autoemail, kitsune,
  easy-chromium-compiles, conductor-playground, garryslist-agent, baku,
  gstack-website, resend_robot, garryslist-brain)

Multiples:
- Logical SLOC: 207× (up from 130.2× when including private work)
- Raw lines: 223×
- Commits/active-week: 3.4×

Stopped committing docs/throughput-2013-vs-2026.json — analysis is a
local artifact, not repo state. Added docs/throughput-*.json to
.gitignore. Full markdown analysis at ~/throughput-analysis-2026-04-18.md
(local-only). README multiple is now hardcoded; re-run the script and
edit manually when you want to refresh it.

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

* docs: run rate vs year-to-date throughput comparison

Two separate numbers in the README hero:
- Run rate: ~700× (9,859 logical lines/day in 2026 vs 14/day in 2013)
- Year-to-date: 207× (2026 through April 18 already exceeds 2013 full
  year by 207×)

Previous "207× pro-rata" framing mixed full-year 2013 vs partial-year
2026. Run rate is the apples-to-apples normalization; YTD is the
"already produced" total. Both are honest; both are compelling; they
measure different things.

Analysis at ~/throughput-analysis-2026-04-18.md (local-only).

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

* feat(throughput): script natively computes to-date + run-rate multiples

Enhanced scripts/garry-output-comparison.ts so both calculations come
out of a single run instead of being reassembled ad-hoc in bash:

PerYearResult now includes:
- days_elapsed — 365 for past years, day-of-year for current
- is_partial — flags the current (in-progress) year
- per_day_rate — logical/raw/commits normalized by calendar day
- annualized_projection — per_day_rate × 365

Output JSON's `multiples` now has two sibling blocks:
- multiples.to_date — raw volume ratios (2026-YTD / 2013-full-year)
- multiples.run_rate — per-day pace ratios (apples-to-apples)

Back-compat: multiples.logical_lines_added still aliases to_date for
older consumers reading the JSON.

Updated README hero to cite both (picking up brain/* repo that was
missed in the earlier aggregation pass):

  2026 run rate: ~880× my 2013 pace (12,382 vs 14 logical lines/day)
  2026 YTD:      260× the entire 2013 year

Stderr summary now prints both multiples at the end of each run.

Full analysis at ~/throughput-analysis-2026-04-18.md (local-only).

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* docs: ON_THE_LOC_CONTROVERSY methodology post + README link

Long-form response to the "LOC is a meaningless vanity metric" critique.
Covers:
- The three branches of the LOC critique and which are right
- Why logical SLOC (NCLOC) beats raw LOC as the honest measurement
- Full method: author-scoped git diff, regex-classified added lines,
  aggregated across 41 public + private garrytan/* repos
- Both calculations: to-date (260x) and run-rate (879x)
- Steelman of the critics (greenfield-vs-maintenance, survivorship bias,
  quality-adjusted productivity, time-to-first-user)
- Reproduction instructions

Linked from README hero via a blockquote directly below the number.

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* exclude: tax-app from throughput analysis (import-dominated history)

tax-app's history is one commit of 104K logical lines — an initial
import of a codebase, not authored work. Removing it to keep the
comparison honest.

Changes:
- scripts/garry-output-comparison.ts: added EXCLUDED_REPOS constant
  with tax-app + a one-line rationale. The script now skips excluded
  repos with a stderr note and deletes any stale output JSON so
  aggregation loops don't pick up pre-exclusion numbers.

- README hero: updated to 810× run rate + 240× YTD (were 880×/260×).
  Wording updated to "40 public + private repos ... after excluding
  repos dominated by imported code."

- docs/ON_THE_LOC_CONTROVERSY.md: updated all numbers, added an
  "Exclusions" paragraph explaining tax-app, removed tax-app from
  the "shipped not WIP" example list.

New numbers (2026 through day 108, without tax-app):
  - To-date:  240× logical SLOC (1,233,062 vs 5,143)
  - Run rate: 810× per-day pace (11,417 vs 14 logical/day)
  - Annualized: ~4.2M logical lines projected

Future re-runs automatically skip tax-app. Add more exclusions to
EXCLUDED_REPOS at the top of the script with a one-line rationale.

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* fix: correct tax-app exclusion rationale

tax-app is a demo app I built for an upcoming YC channel video,
not an "import-dominated history" as the previous commit claimed.
Excluded because it's not production shipping work, not because
of an import commit.

Updated rationale in scripts/garry-output-comparison.ts's
EXCLUDED_REPOS constant, in docs/ON_THE_LOC_CONTROVERSY.md's
method section + conclusion, and in the README hero wording
("one demo repo" vs the earlier "repos dominated by imported code").

Numbers unchanged — the exclusion itself is the same, just the
reason.

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* docs: harden ON_THE_LOC_CONTROVERSY against Cramer + neckbeard critiques

Reframes the thesis as "engineers can fly now" (amplification, not
replacement) and fortifies the soft spots critics will attack.

Added:
- Flight-thesis opener: pilot vs walker, leverage not replacement.
- Second deflation layer for AI verbosity (on top of NCLOC). Headline
  moves from 810x to 408x after generous 2x AI-boilerplate cut, with
  explicit sensitivity analysis showing the number is still large under
  pessimistic priors (5x → 162x, 10x → 81x, 100x impossible).
- Weekly distribution check (kills "you had one burst week" attack).
- Revert rate (2.0%) and post-merge fix rate (6.3%) with OSS
  comparables (K8s/Rails/Django band). Addresses "where are your error
  rates" directly.
- Named production adoption signals (gstack 1000+ installs, gbrain beta,
  resend_robot paying API) with explicit concession that "shipped != used
  at scale" for most of the corpus.
- Harder steelman: 5 specific concessions with quantified pivot points
  (e.g., "if 2013 baseline was 3.5x higher, 810x → 228x, still high").

Removed factual error: Posterous acquisition paragraph (Garry had already
left Posterous by 2011, so the "Twitter bought our private repos" excuse
for the 2013 corpus gap doesn't apply).

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* docs: update gstack/gbrain adoption numbers in LOC controversy post

gstack: "1,000+ distinct project installations" → "tens of thousands of
daily active users" (telemetry-reported, community tier, opt-in).
gbrain: "small set of beta testers" → "hundreds of beta testers running
it live."

Both are the accurate current numbers. The concession paragraph below
(about shipped != adopted at scale for the long-tail repos) still reads
correctly since it's about the corpus as a whole, not gstack/gbrain
specifically.

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* docs: reframe reproducibility note as OSS breakout flex

"You'd need access to my private repos" → "Bookface and Posthaven are
private, but gstack and gbrain are open-sourced with tens of thousands
of GitHub stars and tens of thousands of confirmed regular users, among
the most-used OSS projects in the world that didn't exist three months
ago."

Keeps the `gh repo list` command at the end for the actual
reproducibility instruction.

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* Rewrite LOC controversy post

- Lead with concession (LOC is garbage, do the math anyway)
- Preempt 14 lines/day meme with historical baselines (Brooks, Jones, McConnell)
- Remove 'neckbeard' language throughout
- Add slop-scan story (Ben Vinegar, 5.24 → 1.96, 62% cut)
- David Cramer GUnit joke
- Add testing philosophy section (the real unlock)
- ASCII weekly distribution chart
- gstack telemetry section with real numbers (15K installs, 305K invocations, 95.2% success)
- Top skills usage chart
- Pick-your-priors paragraph moved earlier (the killer)
- Sharper close: run the script, show me your numbers

* docs: four precision fixes on LOC controversy post

1. Citation fix. Kernighan didn't say anything about LOC-as-metric
   (that's the famous "aircraft building by weight" quote, commonly
   misattributed but actually Bill Gates). Replaced "Kernighan implied
   it before that" with the real Dijkstra quote ("lines produced" vs
   "lines spent" from EWD1036, with direct link) + the Gates quote.
   Verified via web search.

2. Slop-scan direction clarified. "(highest on his benchmark)" was
   ambiguous — could read as a brag. Now: "Higher score = more slop.
   He ran it on gstack and we scored 5.24, the worst he'd measured
   at the time." Then the 62% cut lands as an actual win.

3. Prose/chart skill-usage ordering now matches. Added /plan-eng-review
   (28,014) to the prose list so it doesn't conflict with the chart
   below it.

4. Cut the "David — I owe you one / GUnit" insider joke. Most readers
   won't connect Cramer → Sentry → GUnit naming. Ends the slop-scan
   paragraph on the stronger line: "Run `bun test` and watch 2,000+
   tests pass."

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* docs: tighten four LOC post citations to match primary sources

1. Bill Gates quote: flagged as folklore-grade. Was "Bill Gates put it
   more memorably" (firm attribution). Now "The old line (widely
   attributed to Bill Gates, sourcing murky) puts it more memorably."
   The quote stands; honesty about attribution avoids the same
   misattribution trap we just fixed for Kernighan.

2. Capers Jones: "15-50 across thousands of projects" → "roughly 16-38
   LOC/day across thousands of projects" — matches his actual published
   measurements (which also report as 325-750 LOC/month).

3. Steve McConnell: "10-50 for finished, tested, delivered code" was
   folklore. Replaced with his actual project-size-dependent range from
   Code Complete: "20-125 LOC/day for small projects (10K LOC) down to
   1.5-25 for large projects (10M LOC) — it's size-dependent, not a
   single number."

4. Revert rate comparison: "Kubernetes, Rails, and Django historically
   run 1.5-3%" was unsourced. Replaced with "mature OSS codebases
   typically run 1-3%" + "run the same command on whatever you consider
   the bar and compare." No false specificity about which repos.

Net: every quantitative citation in the post now matches primary-source
figures or is explicitly flagged as folklore. Neckbeards can verify.

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* docs: drop Writing style section from README

Was sitting in prime real estate between Quick start and Install —
internal implementation detail, not something users need up-front.
Existing coverage is enough:
- Upgrade migration prompt notifies users on first post-upgrade run
- CLAUDE.md has the contributor note
- docs/designs/PLAN_TUNING_V1.md has the full design

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* docs: collapse team-mode setup into one paste-and-go command

Step 2 was three separate code blocks: setup --team, then team-init,
then git add/commit. Mirrors Step 1's style now — one shell one-liner
that does all three. Subshell (cd && ./setup --team) keeps the user
in their repo pwd so team-init + git commit land in the right place.

"Swap required for optional" moved to a one-liner below.

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* docs: move full-clone footnote from README to CONTRIBUTING

The "Contributing or need full history?" note is for contributors, not
for someone following the README install flow. Moved into CONTRIBUTING's
Quick start section where it fits next to the existing clone command,
with a tip to upgrade an existing shallow clone via
\`git fetch --unshallow\`.

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