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Garry Tan 7fca42ad8b v1.91.12.0 v1.91.12.0: audit fix wave, ~11-minute paid eval lanes, eval reliability policy (#2999)
* test: delete test-infrastructure dead code (G)

- exit-propagation drives the runner's real strict verdict
  (BunTestOutputClassifier + strictTestExitCode); delete the unused
  shardRunLooksTruncated predicate.
- delete skill-coverage-matrix registry + its gate (nothing reads it; the
  floor already iterates skillCensus()).
- delete touchfiles-facade export-parity tests (Bun fails missing imports
  at link time) and the duplicated E2E_TIERS tier-value test.
- delete brain-cache-spec TRANSPORT_DEFAULT_POLICY, SKILL_RUN_RETENTION_DAYS
  and the now-unused BrainTrustPolicy type with their literal tests.
  AUTOPLAN_PREFLIGHT_BUDGET_BYTES stays: skill-preflight-budget enforces it
  against real resolver output.
- delete audit-compliance's JSDoc-comment grep.

* test: replace product tests that fake the product with real-boundary tests (F)

- design: serve.test.ts drove an inline mirror server; now two tests run the
  real serve() on an ephemeral port (reload confinement, submit exit 0).
- setup-gbrain: rollback + voyage tests execute the template-extracted init
  blocks (3 sites) instead of drifted local bash copies.
- terminal-agent: internalHandler source greps replaced by a behavioral
  /internal/grant + /internal/revoke auth matrix (no/wrong/valid token).
- /health: server-security-surface and the server-auth / security-audit-r2 /
  sidebar-tabs source greps fold into one liveness-only check on the real
  body; the L4 sidecar wiring gets a behavioral /pty-inject-scan test.
- delete tautologies (browser-manager onDisconnect, memory-command #12),
  ios swiftui tap fixture self-check, memory-ingest put_page grep, detach
  source greps, sidebar-agent absence pins, dead-CSS pins + the dead CSS,
  security-audit-r2 Task 1 + the test-only meta-commands re-export,
  duplicate generated-SKILL.md checks.
- make-pdf coverage-gaps cases move into their owner test files.

* test: delete tests of dead eval code (A)

- A1: the retired Eng lexical oracle (evaluateEngSeedCoverage,
  isEngSeedDecisionAUQ), the completion-handoff detector and the retained
  corpus had no paid caller since v1.87.6; delete their 26 replay files,
  ~2.6k helper LOC and fixtures, and the dead blocks in 8 mixed files
  (live hasNativePlanTerminal / batching assertions stay).
- A2: dead viewport approvers in autoplan-artifact-permission and their 11
  replay files + fixtures; recorder/launcher cases stay.
- A3: never-wired oracles and seeders (autoplan-phase-order,
  eng-finding-fixture, ceo-paired-fixture, design-ui-scope,
  plan-skill-completion, pty-current-screen, required-reads,
  transcript-section-logger); plan-seed-submission now decodes through the
  production createPtyScreen; section manifests name their actual guard.
- A4: zero-reference helper exports, plus execGit and invokeAndObserve
  found by the reachability pass.
- 52 fixtures orphaned by the deletions; touchfile and selection-table
  entries for every deleted path.

* test: clean up the paid eval lane (B1-B4, B6, B7)

- B1: delete paid files that assert nothing or cannot pass meaningfully:
  skill-llm-eval-spec and skill-e2e-spec-execute (test.todo), gemini-e2e
  (+ gemini-session-runner; no gemini CLI in CI), ship-idempotency (red
  since v1.63), the two opus-4-7 *-sonnet overlay wrappers, conductor-prose
  (+ its source-evaluation replay), codex-e2e-plan-format; drop their keys,
  scripts and census rows.
- B2: skill-llm-eval grades browse/sections/command-list.md with one union
  judge that also carries the baseline score pin; regression-vs-baseline
  deleted (paid run: pass, c4/c4/a4).
- B3: memory-pipeline, ios-qa, ios-qa-swift-build and plan-tune-cathedral
  make no model calls; renamed out of the paid glob so they run on every
  PR. Swift builds need GSTACK_TEST_SWIFT=1; device stub deleted.
- B4: codex-e2e*, outside-voice, aside and ios-device cannot run in the CI
  image; excluded from the weekly lane with a tracked re-entry condition.
- B6: fold opus-47's negative routing controls into skill-routing-e2e
  journey-negatives (paid run: 3/3 unrouted) and delete the file.
- B7: delete the never-green brain-privacy-gate eval; a free
  gstack-skill-start test now proves consent precedes artifacts egress.

* test: retire the finding-count cluster and trim its helpers (C)

- C0/C1: the five never-green evals (skill-e2e-autoplan-chain and
  skill-e2e-plan-{ceo,eng,design,devex}-finding-count) failed on harness and
  budget, never on skill behavior; delete them, their touchfile/tier ids,
  AUTOPLAN_CHAIN_BUDGET and the dedicated eighth periodic slice (--slices 7).
- C2: delete the helper groups whose only paid consumers were those files
  (11 modules), trim claude-pty-runner and eng-seeded-coverage to the paid
  closure, and delete the free replay tests whose assertions exercised only
  that dead code (89 files, 135 orphaned fixtures). Blocks that used dead code
  only as input for a live subject keep their assertions: the multiSelect
  default moved to plan-review-decisions, runner PTY tests use inline caller
  policies, and the timer-safe budget checks moved to eng-finding-retry-budget.
- The eight production-touching files stay except ceo-current-decision-record
  (its template read only feeds the retired counter).
- CARVE_GUARDS.autoplan is behavioral 'none'; TODOS records the lost chain
  and per-finding cadence coverage with their re-entry tests.

* test: fold per-incident replay series into their detector owners (D)

Twelve detector families move into one owner test each: 73 incident files
become describe blocks in ceo-section-loading-fixture (stale-fill race),
model-overlays, coverage-audit-evidence, autoplan-phase-observer,
native-auto-decide, outside-voice-evidence, eng-first-review,
plan-count-completion, plan-count-file-permission, ceo-mode-option,
plan-scope-selection and plan-count-prerequisite. Each block keeps its original
code and fixture, so every case still runs; only tests asserting the incident
file's own touchfile registration are dropped (41). Touchfile lists that named
an incident now name its owner.

* test: start the plan-count history PTY on its readiness marker (H)

The fake CLI prints a startup marker and the runner waits for it instead of the
fixed 8 s startup sleep (8.6 s -> 0.9 s locally). eng-semantic-terminal's
sleeping registration cases went with C; plan-count-timeout keeps the fixed wait
because it asserts deadline behavior.

* test: derive paid touchfiles from each eval's static closure (E)

touchfiles.test.ts now checks, per key, that the paid file's static
test/helpers and test/fixtures closure (plus fixture paths it names in string
literals) is covered, and names the file, path, chain and key to fix when it is
not. Free *.test.ts files are no longer touchfiles, so editing a free replay
test stops selecting paid evals: 950 entries removed, 653 real closure paths
added. The hand-copied inventories go: periodic-fixture-selection,
fake-impeccable-touchfiles and 45 per-file selection examples. Selection for
the sample edits (plan-eng-review template, claude-pty-runner,
plan-count-fixture, gstack-config) loses no case under either profile.
CONTRIBUTING documents the rule and its lower bound.

* test: skip hollow tier shards and census judges in the paid planner (B5)

A paid file is now skipped for a tier lane only when every E2E id it registers
is known statically and none has that tier; ids come from the touchfile
registrations and literal testName/*IfSelected arguments, so a comment or
skill path that quotes another id cannot unschedule it, and computed names
keep today's scheduling. --list and the manifest show each skip as
"skipped: no E2E_TIERS id has tier <tier>". The weekly gate census drops the
LLM judges (--skip-judges); they still run in the periodic census and PR gate
lanes. Gate lane 52 -> 42 files, census 41; periodic 77 -> 69.

* test: run seven paid evals on the current default capture model (B8)

skill-e2e-{auq-matrix,plan-format,qa-bugs,retro,workflow} pinned
claude-opus-4-7 and skill-e2e-office-hours plus -brain-writeback pinned
claude-sonnet-4-6; none tests a historical model, so they now capture with
resolveEvalModel('capture'), and the free harness tests that execute these
registrations receive the same resolver. The paid re-pin run passed all of
them. skill-e2e-{design,office-hours-phase4,plan-prosons,plan} keep
claude-opus-4-7: six of their cases failed on the default model (three
timeouts, a missing report file, a format miss and a posture score of 3), so
per the plan's fallback they keep their pins with a TODOS entry. The pre-spend
estimate and drop threshold are in docs/test-audit-2026-09.md.

* test: guard the reduced suite against new test-of-test files

- test/test-of-test-ratchet.test.ts records the 228 free tests that import only
  test/ code and fails on a new one, naming the owner test to extend instead;
  a stale baseline entry fails with the remove instruction.
- test/helpers/resolve-repo-path.ts is the one specifier/literal resolver for
  the ratchet and the touchfile closure invariant, with its own unit tests.
- CONTRIBUTING "Test tiers" describes the paid-failure workflow (fix, then one
  row in the detector's owner test) and the ratchet; TEST_PORTFOLIO gains the
  detector -> owner-test table and no longer claims an Autoplan chain eval.
- TODOS: automatic exclusion policy for chronically red periodic files (P3),
  the deferred native-completion table collapse, the unused CEO payment
  seeder; the PTY readiness item is narrowed to the paid runner.
- docs/test-audit-2026-09.md collects the triage, security mapping, inventories,
  selection proof, behavior-commit decisions and retained false positives.

* v1.91.8.0 test: smaller suite, derived paid selection, retired never-green evals

Release metadata for the test-reduction branch: VERSION 1.91.8.0 (1.91.7.0 is
claimed by #2983), CHANGELOG with the measured before/after table and a
contributor section, durations re-recorded on Ubicloud standard-16 (857 files,
0 failures), the agents digest, CONTRIBUTING's after-measurement row, the B8
fallback TODOS entry, and the after metrics, kept-vs-plan notes, B8 run and
census estimate in docs/test-audit-2026-09.md.

* fix(ubicloud): skip retrieval globs that match nothing instead of reporting a failed pull

* test: pin DISABLE_AUTOUPDATER in hermetic env and capture corrupt-seed warning

Both EVALS_HERMETIC branches of buildHermeticEnv now carry
DISABLE_AUTOUPDATER=1 (the allowlist scrubbed the workflow's copy, so every
PTY screen showed the updater's npm-prefix failure). Per-test overrides
still win. The corrupt durations-seed test now captures its expected
warning and restores the console spy.

* style(cso): format lib/cso TypeScript with pinned Prettier

Mechanical reformat only. Minified transpile output is byte-identical for
21 of 22 files; witness.ts differs only in three regex flag orders
(/mi -> /im), which JavaScript canonicalizes. Source-text assertions over
lib/cso now compare whitespace-insensitively with the same tokens.

* fix(cso): import join for compiled-launcher assertion witnesses

Compiled installs always take the non-Bun branch, which called an unimported
join and threw before any runtime-tested assertion could be witnessed. The
child command selection is now a pure, platform-aware function; a missing
sibling launcher fails with its expected path.

* fix(browse): make connect --supervise actually respawn a crashed server

The supervisor respawned with a block-scoped env that no longer existed, so
every attempt threw and the loop gave up after five tries. The headed env is
now one pure helper used by connect and respawn, the loop is an injectable
runHeadedSupervisor with behavioral tests, failures name the daemon log and
relaunch command, and connect's usage advertises --supervise.

* test: one finite PR world for the shared-libs fixture; name dual-voice probe evidence

The shared-libs shim served 2 PRs for pulls?state=all and endless full pages
for state=open. gh pr list, pulls?state=open|all|closed (per_page/page,
short last page, direction) and search/issues now page one deterministic
table: PR 7, 600 older open PRs, PR 42 and 3 closed PRs, so five 100-item
open-metadata pages still leave older open PRs unchecked. The Contents API
lists pinned directories (the captured attempt got 404 for contents/ and
contents/src while files resolved, then fell back to a raw host), unknown
endpoints return 404 instead of repo metadata, and the read-only detector
is unchanged. Free tests cover view agreement, the budget bound, gh/curl
agreement and the empty world.

Dual-voice outside-voice failures now report probeToolUseId, probeMode and
the canonical-match result with the reason the probe output was rejected.

* feat: require a zero-error product typecheck and a test type-debt ratchet

Adds tsconfig.json (strict) over product code, fixes its remaining 90
diagnostics (type-only, interface corrections, and explicit narrowing),
and adds a typecheck job to the required free-tests aggregate running
bun run typecheck, the test-code ratchet (identity -> count baseline, fails
on new, repeated, or unlocked fixed diagnostics), and the lib/cso format
check. Reuses fixes from #2447 where they still applied.

* test: follow the headed env helper and the typecheck gate in source-shape checks

* fix(test): pin the package.json change kind in shared-input selection tests

computePaidCaseSelection read the version-only exemption from git even when
changed files were injected, so the shared-input test failed on main and on
version-only branches. The exemption is now an optional input; the test pins
a real package.json change and covers the version-only case.

* test: judge plan-count completion on structured evidence, not wording

Replaying run 36385945043's two Design attempts showed the existing routes
rejected correct endings: attempt 1 at the typed-completion path field
('- Reviewed plan written to …' is not a 'Plan written to' line), attempt 2
at the leading-fence veto (its final message opens with the dashboard).

nativePlanTerminalPreconditions is the structural prefix of
hasNativePlanTerminal (behavior unchanged). structuredPlanCompletion adds,
inside the existing nativeSummary branch: a complete report (Design
binding for Design), a completed review-log row for the expected skill
appended during this attempt under the child's GSTACK_HOME/project slug
(resolved with bin/gstack-slug) and stamped with the fixture commit, timed
between the report/last answer (second resolution) and the final native
message, a final message with stop_reason end_turn (now carried on public
transcript messages), and no visible question or permission prompt.

Timeout summaries add idleFor and lastTerminalCandidate. Terminal and throw
captures copy the plan file and review-log rows into the artifact
directory; copies are best-effort and recorded in evidence-copy.json.
Free regressions: both captured Design endings (trimmed fixture with
provenance; report, row and end_turn reconstructed and labelled), the
negative controls, and real-PTY completion/timeout runs through the real
review logger.

* test: structural Design count boundary; TODO proposals are not findings

Replaying run 36385945043 through the Design count predicates: routing,
focus and learnings setup was not recognized as setup, Issue 1 was counted
pre-review in both attempts (the boundary fired on it), and attempt 2
counted the Font TODO proposal as a finding (review=4 and review=5 for five
issues). The paid caller now starts review at the first answered native
decision that is not setup (recognized packet, or setup header/question ID),
a completion handoff, artifact rendering or a TODO proposal (the review's
Add to TODOS.md / Skip / Build it now menu). TODO proposals are recorded as
administrative extra decisions. The replay asserts each counted call: both
attempts review=5 (Issues 1-5). isDesignCountFirstReview and its controls
are unchanged.

* test: CEO classifier throws name the question and matched predicates

Replaying run 36385945043's FAN-1 and ERR-1 throws (ledger rows
reconstructed from rendered diffs) through ceoPaymentFinding: the email
obligation's row, subject, option and proposal predicates pass and the
ELI10 explanation-defect predicate fails first ('lets that exception fly
out', 'the error bubbles up').

Binding the defect to the named ledger row instead (the planned fix) was
tried and reverted: scoped to the email seed it flips 30+ existing cf74
still-rejects replays, which require a vocabulary-free, ledger-bound email
question to earn credit only through a complete saved comparison. With
FAN-1's rendered currentDecision payload reconstructed, the recorded-
decision path counts it, so the real saved plan (not uploaded) must have
differed; failure artifacts now retain it.

The classifier stays fail-closed and unchanged. Its throw now prints the
header, the first 200 question characters and each obligation's predicate
results. Free regressions with provenance and negative controls: an
unrelated question, an email question whose row says it is already
rescued, and a ledger ID whose row belongs to another seed.

* chore: regenerate the test type-debt baseline on top of #2994

* fix(typecheck): strip the checkout root from ratchet diagnostic identities

* fix(test): recognize ledger row-ID split candidates so collection stops at the last ACK

Run 36385945043's split-overflow case asked all five candidate decisions by
8m55s, but the live candidate check required the question to open with
"E1:" and every option to be a known disposition. The skill cited ledger
row IDs ("D2.1 — R-E1: …") and offered "Hold, discuss first", so no
candidate was recognized and the attempt ran the whole review (1302s).

Identity now comes from the native header; the question must open with that
candidate's ledger reference, name only that candidate, and offer exactly one
include, defer and cut disposition. The selected answer must still be one of
those three. The semantic evaluator and every existing negative control are
unchanged; a trimmed capture from the run adds the positive case and four
row-ID negative controls.

* fix(test): stop the eng batching eval once its floor is proven

The case's only verdict is reviewCount >= FLOOR (3). Run 36385945043 had
three distinct acknowledged review decisions at 6m41s but kept answering
until the ceiling (7) at 12m13s. The registration now passes the runner's
existing isCollectionComplete stop once FLOOR non-setup, non-administrative
review decisions are acknowledged; the floor check, ceiling, budget and
counter are unchanged. A child-process registration test proves the stop
predicate and that below-floor and timeout outcomes still fail.

* test: add the non-blocking 'marathon' E2E tier

Full start-to-finish flows move out of the blocking lanes. E2E_TIERS and
E2ETier gain 'marathon'; describeE2ETier('marathon') is enabled only when
EVALS_TIER=marathon, so the gate/PR and periodic lanes (and the gate census)
never run those cases. The PR profile accepts marathon ids as scheduled
elsewhere and defers them with their own reason, even on full fallback.

* test: move the full office-hours workflow to marathon; add a periodic design-draft checkpoint

The full startup workflow runs 1–3 real spec-review rounds (~280s each) and
hit its 1200s capture in run 36385945043 at finalize. Review depth is the
product's loop, so the case cannot fit a blocking lane without cutting
rounds. It is now marathon tier with every assertion unchanged.

skill-e2e-office-hours-design-draft.test.ts (periodic) runs the same fixed
interview only through the Write that creates the design (269s in that run)
and applies the full validator's design-draft checks, the required section
reads and the launch/foreign-skill-read guards. validateOfficeHoursDesignDraft
is extracted from validateOfficeHoursCompletion, which still applies it.

Selection: office-hours-design-draft is registered periodic; the marathon-only
file is already excluded from the gate and periodic plans by the B5 planner
rule. Tier-alignment regexes and the valid-tier check accept 'marathon'.
A type-only cast in plan-scope-selection.test.ts removes a diagnostic whose
union print order made the ratchet identity unstable; baseline tightened.

* test: supply the split-overflow fixture's HOLD SCOPE mode as a prerequisite

The split actor always answered 0E's mode question with HOLD SCOPE. The
skill skips that question on an explicit choice, so the fixture now states
it and the attempt starts at the five candidate decisions (about 1.5 min
earlier in run 36385945043). Candidates, actor policy, floor and semantic
evaluation are unchanged; the fixture test pins the supplied choice.

* test: start the eng batching eval with its setup prerequisites supplied

Routing setup and cross-project learnings (D1/D2 in run 36385945043) are
never counted and are not what the case measures. The registration now uses
the runner's existing preconfiguredReviewActor so the attempt starts at the
review; engSetupAUQ still vetoes any late setup question. The registration
test pins the option.

* test: count the design-draft paid file and defer marathon ids in PR selection pins

The discovered paid-file census grows by one (skill-e2e-office-hours-design-draft).
Full-fallback PR selection defers every non-gate id; the shared-input pins now
expect periodic and marathon ids there.

* fix(review): resolve the judged revalidation, setup-authority, plan-gate and findings-record ambiguities

The census review workflow judge scored clarity/actionability 3 on both
attempts: smoke-clock limits appeared to forbid post-repair revalidation,
the caller deadline was undefined, 'ask for setup' conflicted with the
report-only browser rule, fallback-sourced HIGH discrepancies had no gate
decision, and the Step 5.8 record omitted adversarial findings.

* fix(office-hours): load the builder section for every builder-mode reply

Both census builder-wildness attempts answered a direct request for
adjacent unlocks without reading phase-2b-builder-brainstorm.md, whose
trigger read as applying only to the generative questions.

* fix(sync-gbrain): define Step 4 helper args and one atomic write path

Both census read-ready attempts spent turns reading the helper source to
resolve <user-args>, inspecting fixture internals kept inside the repo,
and reconciling 'Read + Edit' with the tmp+mv atomic write, then hit
max turns before the verdict.

* refactor(evals): share the import-closure walker and add the E2E shard reuse identity

sourceDependencyClosure moves from the workflow-judge adapter into
scripts/eval-input-cache.ts unchanged, so judge keys stay byte-identical.
scripts/e2e-shard-reuse.ts builds the consumed-input identity of one PR-lane
E2E shard (test import closure, every registered case's touchfiles, globals,
runner/workflow/setup actions, child env pins, CI image, Claude CLI) and fails
closed on anything unknown. Marathon joins the always-fresh purposes.

* feat(evals): ~12-minute blocking paid lanes and a non-blocking marathon lane

- Planner budget mode (--slice-budget S --jobs J): recorded per-tier wall
  times pack into as many ~9-minute executors as the work needs; the plan
  records per-slice estimates and the CI job timeout (supervised worst case
  + 20 min). evals.yml and evals-periodic.yml derive matrix size and
  timeout-minutes from it; max-parallel covers every slice at once.
- Case shards: plan/design/review-army/shared-libs(-paths) run one registered
  case per process (<file>#<case id>, exact name pattern, exactly one case).
- Retry rule: a timed-out attempt is a verdict. Only files whose every case
  budget is CAPTURE tier or shorter keep one retry; walls shrink to match.
- Marathon tier: positive selection, excluded from gate/periodic planners,
  run by the new evals-marathon.yml (weekly + dispatch, fresh, own report).
- PR-lane E2E reuse of verified first-attempt passes on identical inputs;
  the report rejects reuse outside the fast PR profile.
- Duration seed from census run 36385945043, per tier and per case shard.

* docs: blocking lane budget, marathon lane, retry policy and E2E reuse

* chore(typecheck): lock in two fixed test diagnostics

* fix(ci): drop a duplicated env/jobs block in evals-marathon.yml

* test(ship-docsync): shard the doc-sync lifecycle by case and drop the duplicate dispatch-only case

ship-docsync ran the same fixture and prompt as ship-docsync-completion and
asserted a subset of it. The file now runs one case per process, so its lane
wall is its longest case instead of half the sum of thirteen.

* fix(evals): plan CI-unrunnable cases as excluded entries, not empty case shards

design-review-fix drives the Aside browser and registers test.skip on Linux
runners, so its case shard executed zero cases and failed the exact-one-case
check in proof census 36597762183 (eval-slices 6). CASE_CI_EXCLUDE (reason +
tracking, beside PERIODIC_CI_EXCLUDE) now turns such cases into excluded
manifest entries that --list and the manifest surface; every planned case
shard still must execute exactly its case.

* docs(todos): list the case-level Aside exclusion with the CI-unrunnable evals

* fix(plan-ceo-review): restore experience-first expansion framing, require the mode handoff, skip pacing menus

Census 36597762183: both mode-routing runs logged provenance and moved on
without the mandated handoff chat; the EXPANSION run asked an unauthorized
batch/narrow pacing menu instead of the first per-addition question; the
expansion-energy proposals led with the spec because v1.87.6.0 dropped
'lead with the felt experience'. The HOLD review detector also rejected a
decision whose grounding line named no plan file although the owned source
Read binds it.

* test(outside-plan-disabled): bind quoted prior-record values by their sentence, not phrase order

The parent obeyed the off switch and twice named the seeded completed
record as pre-existing, once with the quotation after its owner and once
with slash separators; the order-specific stripper counted both as current
completion. Timestamp, location, current-claim and value-match controls
still reject.

* test(outside-plan-disabled): compare named record timestamps as instants; negated authorship is not a current claim

The repair rerun named the seeded record by its ISO second
(2026-09-29T16:58:52Z vs .727Z) and said 'I did not write'; both were
misread as a foreign timestamp and a current write.

* test(ceo-section-loading): recognize an arrow-ordered stale-fill execution by event roles

The census review traced the seeded race as 'R1 miss -> R1 store read (v1)
-> W commit v2 -> W cache.delete -> W fulfills -> R1 cache.set(v1) -> R2
(begun after W) hits v1', but the in-flight gate only accepted race
vocabulary or fixed sentence shapes. Order, actor, version and dismissal
mutations still fail.

* test(design-floor): answer the seed-declared all-seven 0D focus menu while it is pending

The actor declares 'Design: review all seven dimensions', but its picker
reused designReviewSetupAUQ, which only matches already-answered calls
(and a narrower header/label set), so the pending D1 focus menu was never
answered and the case waited out its 609 s deadline. The skill's Step 0D
requires asking; the fixture now answers it.

* test(ceo-mode-routing): accept the skill-mandated Note form and Recommendation reason as HOLD posture

HOLD Defer/Keep briefs must use 'Note: options differ in kind' (preamble),
but the answered-HOLD path demanded a Completeness score, rejected a
one-line Net with a semicolon, and read posture only from ELI10. The rerun's
brief applied HOLD SCOPE in its Recommendation reason. Revert the
ineffective 'always'/'handoff chat' wording: two runs still skipped the
mode handoff.

* test(qa-bugs): keep claude-opus-4-7 after qa-b6-static stalled on the default model

qa-b6-static timed out on claude-fable-5-1 in census 36597762183 and in one
of two targeted reruns. Both times the stream stopped mid-message with no
pending tool, right after the model found the disabled submit button, and
stayed silent until the 300 s deadline. Per the B8 fallback, re-pin with a
TODOS entry; budgets and retries are unchanged. A rerun on opus-4-7 passed
(125 s, 5/5 detected).

* test(evals): add E2E_KINDS, BEHAVIOR_WHY, EVAL_POLICY and CASE_QUARANTINE skeletons

Every E2E_TIERS and LLM_JUDGE_TOUCHFILES key starts as 'rule'; BEHAVIOR_WHY
and CASE_QUARANTINE start empty. EVAL_POLICY pre-registers the approved
panel (3, majority 2), quarantine entry 0.95/10 and exit 0.97/10, 10% cap,
8-weekly-run expiry, Fisher drift alarm and one INFRA re-dispatch.

* test(evals): add trial records, panelVerdict, expectContract and trial-outcomes JSONL

EvalTestEntry gains case_id, kind, trial, panel, failure_class and
policy_version, stamped from the runner's TRIAL_ENV on isolated trial
shards. panelVerdict() is the single verdict function (INCOMPLETE on
missing or duplicate trials, contract veto at any count, quarantine
hard-break rule, INFRA/INCOMPLETE machine classification). expectContract()
records failure_class 'contract' on the collector entry and a sidecar
before throwing. trial-outcomes JSONL has a fail-closed writer and a
data-only reader.

* test(evals): pin the fail-closed rule-shard gate through the real --report path

Synthetic slice artifacts for rule fail, timeout, missing slice, unreported
entry, hollow, never-started, collector failure and wrong-slice reports all
exit red before the panel-verdict gate change lands.

* test(evals): retire every paid automatic retry

Paid evals never retry (approved 2026-09-29): delete SHORT_CASE_RETRY_FILES
and retriesWithinCaseCap, drop the retry fields from the registered wall rows
(walls now cover one run plus reserve), make retriesForFiles return 0, pass
--retry 0 explicitly, and drop --retry 1 from the package.json paid scripts.
Add the eval:pass-rates alias. Tests that pinned the old retry allowance are
updated as a policy change; review-finalization-budget now proves late-result
recording under the production zero-retry arguments.

* test(llm-judge): sample every judge as a pre-registered 3-sample panel

Each of the 24 skill-llm-eval judges now draws EVAL_POLICY.judge.samples
independent samples of the same prompt concurrently inside the unchanged
JUDGE_MS budget. Numeric dimensions gate on the per-dimension panel mean
against the unchanged threshold; booleans (would_browse, consistent) on a
strict majority. An erroring sample fails the whole panel and is never
resampled; a refusal is an unscored panel only when every sample refused.
callJudge's 429 backoff stays: it is transport before any model output.

The workflow-judge cache stores and validates only complete panels, and its
identity now records the panel and zero file retries. Harness tests that
pinned one provider call per case now pin the panel size.

* test(evals): classify every live case and re-select a case when its kind changes

E2E_KINDS: rule by default (191 E2E ids), 22 behavior cases whose verdict is
a live model choice with an acceptable sub-100% per-trial rate, each with a
BEHAVIOR_WHY tolerance, and 25 judge entries (the 24 workflow judges plus the
fixed-fixture llm-judge-recommendation rubric check). Contract-shaped cases
(ask-before-decide, plan-mode no-writes, mandated steps, secrets, the batching
floor) stay rule. Behavior requires a known literal registration and an exact
Bun test name so the case runs as its own trial shard.

Map-diff selection now diffs E2E_KINDS and BEHAVIOR_WHY per key, and a base
revision without them selects every key, so a kind flip runs the panel it
introduces. test/eval-kinds.test.ts enforces coverage, tolerances,
isolatability and the reviewed counts, printing the literal to add.

* feat(evals): per-case pass rates with Wilson intervals, identity series and quarantine policy

scripts/eval-flake-rank.ts becomes eval:pass-rates (eval:flake-rank stays an
alias, and the legacy aggregate stays exported). It reads eval-store's
trial-outcomes JSONL from the last N completed evals-periodic runs on this
branch and main (gh, downloading only the trial-outcomes artifact, cached and
size-capped, parsed as data), plus local eval dirs, and prints per-case
per-trial pass rates with 95% Wilson intervals.

A series is a case's own touchfiles minus GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES
(caseSeriesIdentities, for the report job to stamp), per model, CLI version
and policy version. Labels: INCONCLUSIVE, BROKEN, FLAKY, FAILING, PASSING.
--backfill imports legacy slice artifacts as pre-policy trials (first
attempt only, attributed by registry id, never guessed) for display only.

--gate fails with ACTION REQUIRED on post-policy evidence only: drift below
the quarantine entry rule, a rule case behaving like behavior, a one-sided
Fisher drop against the previous identity (Holm-controlled), and quarantine
entries that met their exit rule, expired after 8 weekly runs, broke the
10% tier cap or are invalid. CASE_QUARANTINE entries now carry a
failureClass (detector, harness or model-latency); a product defect has no
class and is never quarantined. The policy test pins EVAL_POLICY's approved
constants.

* feat(eval-pass-rates): attribute legacy records by the exact slug of their display name

* ci(image): pin Claude Code 2.1.284 so the eval model is recognized

2.1.251 logs [claude-code:unrecognized_model] for claude-fable-5-1, the
eval capture/judge default. 2.1.284 does not. The gate PTY smoke subset
(plan-ceo/plan-devex plan-mode, plan-mode-no-op) parses on the new TUI;
plan-design-review-plan-mode passed at 293 s on 2.1.284 and timed out at
300 s on 2.1.251 on the same tree.

* test(eng-batching): grade the floor once the review report is complete

A completed GSTACK REVIEW REPORT ends the review, so the review-question
count is final there. Run 36606688266 wrote its report at 1,248 s and
closed the session at 1,318 s; the case now stops collection and applies
the unchanged floor at the report instead of waiting out the session.
No budget changes.

* test(eng-batching): bind unsourced native briefs through the report's target

Run 36606688266 asked ten separate native review questions (D1-D9 bound
to ledger records R1-R9) and failed reviewCount=0 < FLOOR=3: its briefs
named the plan by title instead of citing PLAN.md, its report declared
'Review target (fixed): PLAN.md' under '# Engineering review: <plan>', and
it kept an unfenced copy of the plan's own H1. The named-source route now
accepts those spellings and non-inline ledger briefs. The same replay
rejects a foreign, mixed, duplicate or missing target, another plan's
title or copied H1, a brief naming another plan or file, a mismatched
saved brief, and re-asks. The run-36597762183 capture still counts 3.

* fix(plan-design-review): treat a designer with no API key as unavailable

Both proof runs (36597762183, 36606688266) printed DESIGN_READY, hit
'No OpenAI API key found' on the first $D variants call, then hand-built
HTML/CSS wireframes, screenshots and a comparison board for ~195-245 s
before the first review question; the second run timed out at 600 s.
A failed first generation now takes the existing text-only path, and the
skill forbids substituting hand-built mockups.

* fix(deslop-shared-libs): read related sources together within the turn limit

Run 36606688266's opportunity audit read sixteen sources one per turn and
stopped at error_max_turns; the passing run 36597762183 read the same
files in three batched commands. The skill now says turns are bounded and
asks for parallel reads or one read-only command per step.

* test(ceo-mode-routing): submit a mode review that scrolled past the viewport

Run 36606688266 bundled routing, learnings and the mode choice into one
native call. Its review panel was taller than the terminal, so the tab
bar scrolled off, ceoModeSubmissionInput returned null for 240 s and HOLD
SCOPE was never submitted ('no posture match'). With no bar on screen the
viewport must still end at the focused Submit prompt, and the accumulated
screen text supplies the one complete panel, authenticated exactly as
before. Replay controls reject another mode, an unoffered answer, an
altered question, a quoted panel, trailing output, a moved cursor and an
answered or changed call.

* docs(evals): document the pre-registered verdict policy, quarantine, pass-rate history and arithmetic

AGENTS.md replaces the retry rule with the approved policy text (no retries;
kind fixes trials; no added trials, samples or dispatches after a result;
quarantine by CASE_QUARANTINE only; one INFRA/INCOMPLETE re-dispatch) and
notes that a pre-registered fixed panel is not rejudging. CONTRIBUTING gains
the kind rules, the judge panel, eval:pass-rates and an 'Add a paid eval'
checklist. TESTING_INTERNALS describes verdicts, quarantine, history and the
arithmetic, including the rule term: 1 trial vs 2-of-3 red rates at
p = 0.99/0.95/0.90/0.70/0.30 and lane all-green probabilities for the
current 191 rule / 22 behavior / 25 judge registry.

* feat(evals): trial planner, slice exit split and panel-verdict report

Planner: behavior and quarantined cases become panels of isolated trial
shards (<file>#<id>~t<N>) bound by EVALS_SELECTION_JSON=[id] and the exact
test name; the file shard excludes them by name. Trials of one case never
share a slice, result slugs are unique, panels are validated whole, unknown
registrations throw, and the planner prints a capacity preflight.

Executor: each trial shard gets its TRIAL_ENV identity and a trial record
(outcome, failure class, cause, cost); every shard writes a JUnit report.
The slice exit now means execution completeness: a failed rule shard or a
trial without a record reds the runner, a failed trial does not.

Report: panelVerdict() decides every panel of the first run attempt (later
attempts are reported, never replacing it); rule shards keep the unchanged
fail-closed checks; collector records all count (no last-attempt wins);
census runs enforce the quarantine cap and expiry. It writes
collector-outcomes v2, trial-outcomes.jsonl (trials plus JUnit rule/judge
cases), report-summary.md, and one headline + failure block with rerun
commands, and flags INFRA/INCOMPLETE-only reds for the one re-dispatch.

The fail-open suite gains the panel cases: behavior 1/3 red, 2/3 green
with its failed trial shown, missing trial INCOMPLETE, contract at 2/3 red,
quarantined 1/3 green, 0/3 and contract red, missing slice red, and a later
attempt never replacing the first.

* chore(evals): refresh paid duration seeds from proof runs 36597762183 and 36606688266

Both tiers, merged in run order (the later run wins). Notable: split-overflow
1332s -> 504s, section-loading 604s -> 342s, mode-routing 575s -> 444s;
multi-finding-batching 734s -> 1318s (its red path in run 36606688266).

* feat(evals): stamp trial series identities and fit panels to the live registry

- scripts/eval-trial-series.ts stamps series_identity (eval-flake-rank's
  caseSeriesIdentities) on a report's trial-outcomes JSONL as its own step,
  keeping the history tool out of the paid runner's closure;
  TrialOutcomeRecord gains the optional series_identity field.
- Slice-count plans let a registered trial spill into an ordinary lane when
  its siblings hold every long lane, so panels never share a runner.
- Re-audited test-selection.ts (Stream B added the E2E_KINDS/BEHAVIOR_WHY
  map-diff; no new module loading) and repinned its hash.
- Detach and release floors now count trial shards (66 periodic trials in
  22 panels): periodic floor 33,821s, still under eval:bg:periodic's 67,380s.
- Coordination fixtures supply the executor's trial records.

* ci(evals): attempt-scoped artifacts, verdict-v2 PR comment, weekly pass-rate gate and one INFRA re-dispatch

- Slice, census and marathon artifacts carry -a<run_attempt>; reports
  download them per artifact (no merge), so records never overwrite and a
  re-run never replaces the first attempt's verdict.
- Planners pass --max-parallel for the capacity preflight (24/16 unchanged:
  the refreshed periodic plan needs 24 slices, the gate census 12).
- PR comment: jq-only job reads collector-outcomes v2 (headline, sanitized
  failure block); the group_by(.name)|last recomputation is gone.
- Reports stamp series identities, upload trial-outcomes-* for history, and
  shard logs upload always (a failed trial no longer reds its runner).
- Weekly report: headline + failure block of both lanes in the issue body,
  the eval:pass-rates --gate step (fails closed without history), close the
  issue on a green run, and UC-E1: when every red is machine-classified
  INFRA/INCOMPLETE, one re-dispatch as a new run in its own concurrency
  group (redispatch_of), both runs reported.

* feat(evals): planner-side whole-panel reuse and negative receipts

The planner job restores this PR's receipt store once and ships a single
filtered set with the plan: a pass or panel receipt with a same-or-newer
FAIL for its input identity is dropped, and a panel receipt ships only as
a whole PASS panel (re-verified with panelVerdict) from one run. Executors
read only that set (no per-slice cache restore or save), so every trial of
a panel sees the same receipts; a trial reuses its own record from the
panel receipt, keeping a split PASS's failed trial.

Trial identities drop the trial index (run-scoped) and bind the panel
policy. Executed shards carry their input identity; the report turns a
whole fresh PASS panel into a panel receipt and a FAIL panel or failed rule
shard into a negative receipt, and marks a panel that mixes reused and
fresh trials INCOMPLETE. The report job merges plan, slice and report
receipts (newest per file) and saves one store per run.

Also fixes two TS2352 casts in browse/test/dia-macos-qualification.test.ts
whose diagnostic text drifted with program order (baseline locked, fix only).

* feat(evals): --case/--trials local diagnosis and panels in local sharded runs

bun run scripts/test-paid-shards.ts --case <id> [--trials N] runs N
independent trials of one case through the CI panel runner (trial shards,
TRIAL_ENV identity, name-pattern isolation) and prints its panelVerdict();
N defaults to the case's policy panel and CI never reads it. The local
sharded path (test:gate:sharded, test:periodic:sharded) now plans the same
trial shards and exclusions as CI and exits on execution completeness plus
panel verdicts.

* test(pty): grant an owned Create pane whose title row is cropped

The targeted batching rerun on Claude Code 2.1.284 left its first report
Write unanswered for 1,372 s and timed out: the viewport began at the
pane's relative file row and rule, with the 'Create file' title cropped
above, so the preview parser rejected the file row as foreign. That row
must now resolve to the owned path and is skipped before the unchanged
line-by-line preview match. Replay controls reject another file, another
directory and an edited preview row.

* fix(evals): tsx-safe generics in eval-flake-rank, legacy artifact names, no-retry wall docs

* test(evals): record the read-only and detector-row invariants as contracts

shared-libs-opportunity-judgment and review-design-lite are behavior
cases: their recommendation and checklist judgments may vary, but the
read-only invariant (commands, provider requests, fixture bytes, hooks,
state) and the deterministic fake-engine detector rows are contracts.
Both now go through expectContract, so any failure vetoes the panel.

* test(judges): sample the recommendation rubric as a panel; never re-ask armJudge

llm-judge-recommendation is a judge case: each fixture now draws a
3-sample judgePanel, gates reason_substance on the panel mean and the
present/commits/has_because checks on a 2-of-3 majority, thresholds
unchanged. armJudge no longer re-asks on a malformed verdict; it is a
failed sample, as the judge policy requires.

* test(evals): record a pre-turn API or CLI failure as infra

recordE2E sets failure_class 'infra' on a failed session whose runner
reports error_api, timeout_startup, error_output_stream or a non-zero CLI
exit with zero turns and no assistant event. A model refusal, a timeout
after model work, max turns, or an explicit caller pass/class keeps its
ordinary classification.

* test: pin every-record outcome counts and the twelve doc-sync callbacks

* test(eng-batching): read the report target as a field, not a spelling

The next targeted rerun (Claude Code 2.1.284) again asked eleven separate
native questions and again counted zero: its briefs named no plan and its
report declared '- **Review target (fixed):** `/abs/PLAN.md`' under
'# Eng Review — PLAN.md: <plan>'. An unsourced brief now inherits the one
current target field that names a PLAN.md file, whatever its list or
emphasis markup; its ledger record still supplies the cited finding and
must reproduce the brief exactly. A brief that names its plan must still
match the report title. Replays of all three captures count 9, 9 and 3;
controls reject a foreign, duplicate or missing target and an archived
title.

* fix(evals): --case list mode and name precheck; case-shard qa-callers; refresh batching and design-with-ui seeds

* chore(release): v1.91.9.0

* test: settle the post-response composer before seeding; give the TPA recorder adapter its infra helper

submitPlanSeed accepted a stale empty composer when the transcript recorded
end_turn before the CLI repainted (late-repaint-typed-current fails 5/5 on the
old helper, passes 5/5 now). The TPA recording fixture extracted recordE2E
without isPreTurnInfraFailure, so every failed case threw before recording.

* test(autoplan-dual-voice): unwrap Claude Code 2.1.284 subagent hand-back frames; accept read-only probe diagnostics; record before asserting

Census run 36626737820: the native CEO report arrived framed and indented, so
its INPUT line never matched, and the model's exact probe plus two variable
echoes was not canonical. A column-zero line inside a frame, command
substitution, backticks, redirects, assignments, CODEX_MODE echoes and output
line-count mismatches stay rejected. The failure now records before asserting.

* ci(image): keep Claude Code 2.1.251; test(ceo-mode-routing): keep HOLD's own deferrals in scope before assessing its rigor decision

2.1.284 enables per-turn effort for claude-fable-5-1: in gate census
36626737820, 66 of 84 sessions ran longer than on 2.1.251 (+20% session time,
+32% thinking tokens) and 11 cases timed out on unchanged budgets.

HOLD SCOPE's 0G step asks its own defer/keep menu; the actor answered it
Defer and the assessment then judged that scope question as the rigor
decision. The actor now answers that menu Keep and assesses the next one.

* test: attribute quoted prior-record field lists, state the judge reason bound in its schema, move split-overflow to marathon

Census 36629958451 reds:
- outside-plan-disabled-no-fallback: the model quoted the pre-existing record
  as a parenthesized field list with its exact timestamp; attribution now
  requires that exact timestamp and the record's own field values.
- plan-devex-peer-comparison-classification: the judge correctly returned
  missing but wrote a 1069-character reason, voiding the judgment; structured
  outputs cannot enforce maxLength, so the bound is stated on the field.
- plan-ceo-split-overflow ran 504-1188 s as one PTY flow and set the
  periodic lane's wall clock; it now runs weekly in the marathon lane.

* test: supply holdDeferKeepIndex to the CEO routing mocks and follow split-overflow into the marathon lane

The registered-callback fixtures mock ceo-mode-option and lacked the new
export; the split fixtures asserted the periodic tier; the registered-budget
check looked for split-overflow only in the periodic manifest.

* fix(qa): checkpoint receipts print the report link for their exploration file

qa-functional-webhook-report failed in two of three censuses because the
report linked .qa-evidence/NNN capture folders as "checkpoints" and never
linked exploration-NNN.json. The checkpoint receipt now prints
link: [checkpoint NNN](exploration-NNN.json), and the functional report
template says capture folders are not checkpoints.

* docs: final census numbers in the v1.91.9.0 entry; file the paid-eval follow-ups

* ci(evals): name the PR-comment loop's unused fields so shellcheck passes (SC2034)

* fix(plan-ceo-review): tighten expansion pacing wording to fit the skeleton cap after the main merge

The merged skeleton measured 80,166 bytes against its unchanged 80,150 cap.
Same instructions: ask separately for each addition, in turn, with no pacing
menu; lead each proposal with the felt experience, then shape, effort and impact.

* fix(eval-pass-rates): match trial-outcome files by basename so Windows backslash paths are read

* fix(evals): repair proof-run reds in design-consultation, document-release, design and QA fixtures

- design-consultation Phase 1 asks one brief that confirms context and decides
  research; the confirm-only first question scored substance 2.
- document-release defines ship-owned inputs, exact steps and the JSON result,
  and drops stale spawned-from-/ship text (judge actionability 3.67 -> 4/4/4).
- plan-design-with-ui accepts the Step 0D focus menu the same way the shared
  picker does ("focus on specific ones?").
- plan-design-review plan-mode saves in three Edits instead of one final Write.
- QA functional annotations ask for the full 40-character revision.
- Outside-disabled attribution judges quoted prior-record data by its exact
  timestamp or a dated, pre-existing-record sentence; four captured phrasings
  replay clean and current claims still fail.
- --case can select autoplan-dual-voice by its literal test name.

* test(design): revert the three-Edit plan-mode flow

A focused paid run still timed out at 300 s: the first three passes alone took
150 s of thinking. The case stays a named timeout red rather than cutting review depth.

* test: accept 'review mode = X' auto-decide declarations and parenthetical scope exclusions in the shared-libs actor

auto-decide-preserved: the product auto-decided HOLD SCOPE and said
"Decision: review mode = HOLD SCOPE"; the grammar knew only "is" and ":".
shared-libs-plan-callers: the recommended option said "(no hardening)" and the
actor read "hardening" as an expansion. Both replay the captured text, keep
negative controls, and passed focused paid runs.

* fix(review): pass Review Army checklists by path, run research alongside dispatch, always probe the design detector; state review-log invocation and statuses in the caller fixture

- review-army-perf-n-plus-one: the parent copied full checklists into agent
  prompts and ran web research before dispatch (290 s on a 12-line diff); 212 s now.
- review-design-lite: 5 of 6 captured trials reported the detector absent
  without probing; the probe is mandatory and its first line is reported, and
  the contract credits only fake-engine rule ids the checklist never names.
- review-exploratory-small-cli: the fixture never gave review-log's direct
  invocation or status vocabulary; the model ran it through bun and wrote
  status "blocked". The prompt states both and the validator rejects
  out-of-vocabulary review statuses.
Each case passed a focused paid run after repair.

* docs(changelog): proof-run product fixes

* fix(ship): always run the design-lite detector probe; test(shared-libs): credit a failed first file view and deferred-reuse Skip wording

- /ship design-lite: the probe is mandatory and any non-ready first line is
  stated, matching /review (5 of 6 captured /review trials had skipped it).
- shared-libs-pr-coverage: the first PR 42 page-1 read printed only a jq error,
  so the one refetch is a legitimate recovery, charged to the same budget.
- shared-libs-review-prior-coverage: the Skip option said a future review can
  "reuse it once snapshot coverage holds"; a conditional tail on the recorded
  decision is not product work. Captured-text regressions and negative controls.

* fix(ship,qa,document-release): repair proof-run regressions and fixture gaps

- ship-docsync-completion: yesterday's audit-scope result dropped the section's
  status, so /ship spliced one in; the section now opens with **Status:**.
- ship-docsync-missing-asset: a missing section or old Ship-owned mode blocks
  before launch.
- ship-docsync-late-result: the invocation record says prepare already saves
  the candidate selection (no extra Read; budget unchanged).
- qa exploratory: await the method Reads before the first probe.
- qa-callers fixture: quote the real review-log record template; allow the
  git log command plan-completion prescribes.
- qa functional observer: a receipt caught mid-link(2) is checked at stop
  instead of failing with ENOENT (reproduced from CI).
Each repaired case passed a focused paid run.

* ci(image): pin Claude Code 2.1.284, the version users run

Request-body capture shows both 2.1.251 and 2.1.284 send effort "high" to
claude-fable-5-1; 2.1.284 adds the model's own profile. The slower 2.1.284
census was mostly API latency: its SDK-only judges were 25% slower too. Nine
previously slow cases pass on 2.1.284 within unchanged budgets.

* test: one owner per case id, a structural devex 0B setup rule, and correct design/gbrain actors

- plan-design-review-plan-mode was registered by two files; the PTY smoke is
  now plan-design-review-plan-mode-smoke, and a registry test requires one
  owner per case in case-sharded files.
- plan-devex-finding-floor: the template's 0B narrative-confirmation question
  is classified as setup structurally instead of timing out a Haiku assessor.
- setup-gbrain-remote: the actor accepted 'skip' on the MCP-registration
  question the test asserts; it now accepts that question and declines others.
- design-review-plugin-handoff: the fake engine cited a file absent from the
  fixture repo and index.html linked a missing styles.css.
Captured-question regressions with negative controls; each case passed a
focused paid run.

* test: PTY harness handles clipped reviews and bundled setup tabs; AUQ judge uses structured output; design-consultation carve declines optional outside voices

- ceo mode routing: a Submit review taller than the viewport, a setup tab
  bundled after the mode tab, and a clip through the mode question each hung
  or misread the run; the native answer is still verified after Submit.
- judgeRecommendation requests a 1-5 enum schema; a malformed Haiku reply had
  scored substance 0 for a 4/5 brief. Judge failures now propagate.
- carve section-loading for design-consultation declines the optional outside
  voices (a supported path) and treats DESIGN.md as the report; timeout unchanged.
The Step 0E handoff defect is not fixed (0/15 samples across four wordings,
none shipped) and is filed in TODOS.

* test: fold the design-consultation completion replay into carve-section-sharding (test-of-test ratchet)

* docs(todos): record the pre-push hook shard-order hang

* test(qa-callers): disable git auto maintenance in the fixture repo (same guard as shared-libs; from #3002)

* test(office-hours-attempt): the fake judge SDK response carries stop_reason like the real API (structured judge requires end_turn)

* fix(qa): the caller STOP line says to await the method Reads before any probe

ship-exploratory-plan-checks: the model read exploratory.md and sent a capture
in the same response, before seeing the section's own await rule.

* fix(qa): number the qa value-bar questions from 1 and say reproduced bugs already answer the first two

* fix(qa): define evidence.json where it is built, point the preparation gate at the next section, name measured command durations in the report template

Recurring qa/qa-only workflow-judge complaints in CI (clarity/actionability 3.33).

* fix(plan-eng-review,review): a disallowed question tool is not headless; report kept tests only when some were skipped

* fix(plan-eng-review): keep the headless-rule contract phrases adjacent

* fix(evals): cut path variance at its measured sources

- gstack-qa-evidence capture prints startedAt/completedAt/durationMs and, for
  --deadline captures, remainingMs; the functional report takes durations from
  them. The section clock notice asks for one clock read up front instead of one
  after every checkpoint (QA runs spent 7-14% of tool calls on date -u).
- ship plan-completion: skip the audit dispatch when discovery already found no
  plan (the dispatch-vs-skip conflict produced an optional 60-100 s subagent).
- materialize/checkpoint validation errors state the expected schema, so a
  rejected annotations file is fixable in one call instead of blocking the phase.
- session-runner counts turns from the transcript when a run times out, so
  timeouts stop reporting 'turn 0'.

* fix(evals): count timeout turns only from object transcript events

* test(qa-callers): deterministic child transport, completion-time handoff reads, compact phase report

The exploratory caller cases exist to prove the caller starts and bounds
exploratory QA. Their native adversarial reviewer (review) and plan audit
(ship plan-checks) now come from recorded child outputs instead of a live
subagent, handoff freshness reads are required before completion records
rather than every bookkeeping log, and the phase report is compact. Measured:
194-257 s per case against 208-284 s before, no subagent calls.

* test(ship-docsync): seed fault cases at their gate instead of replaying attempt 1

The post-dispatch fault cases (missing-marker, launch-failure, timeout-unsettled,
late-result, stale-before, stale-after, recovery) now start from a fixture-owned
attempt 1: the real actor prepares and dispatches it, its verbatim output is saved
once, and the invocation journal carries its pre-dispatch entry with the child
asset hashes. The model resumes at Parent processing with a trimmed read list,
inspect named as the authoritative repository observation, and recovery's
intermediate checkpoint folded into the next attempt's pre-dispatch entry.
Assertions count only parent-issued transport events and require a read of the
saved attempt-1 output; missing-asset and the legacy failure case keep the full
model-driven first attempt, and their prompts are byte-identical.

* test(ship-docsync): name the seeded read list and cap journal/report length

The first seeded stale-before run spent calls locating documentation.md (two ls
sweeps), reading through cat and re-Reading the record before Edit, and ~40 s
composing 1.5-2.2 KB entries and report. Name every seeded read path, ask for
native Read, and bound entry/report length.

* test(ship-docsync): trim the seeded parent's measured model time

Measured on the seeded runs: one read the 78 KB ship/SKILL.md, the post-child
freshness comparison spent 18-32 s of thinking over full inspect contents, and
the final response restated the report (~1.1 KB). Say the phase excerpt stands
in for ship/SKILL.md, compare hashes first and read content only for changed
paths, and end with one status line.

* feat(qa-evidence): enforce the checkpoint sequence and fill report bookkeeping in code

- capture refuses to run another probe until a checkpoint anchored on the
  latest complete capture names this capture as its next command, and every
  complete capture prints that requirement.
- materialize fills revision, runtime, cwd and learning (checkpoints whose next
  native command differs) when omitted and prints the reportLinks the report
  must include; the QA section shrinks accordingly.

* test(qa-callers): hand the caller phase its invocation-start observations and review token; fix(next-version): fetch without auto maintenance

- Every caller case receives the diff, status, log, untracked list, HEAD and an
  already-captured review start token, so the phase spends its budget on the
  contract under test instead of re-running setup reads.
- gstack-next-version's fetches pass --no-auto-maintenance. On git 2.55 a
  completed fetch forks detached maintenance in the caller's repository; the
  free suite's live smoke test ran it inside the CI checkout, and every
  shard-12 pre-push hook hang so far followed a completed smoke fetch.

* feat(deslop-shared-libs): route every Git read through bin/gstack-safe-git

The skill made the model retype a long safe-Git prefix on each call and a
dropped flag failed shared-libs-read-only. bin/gstack-safe-git applies the
fixed env + flag prefix, adds --no-ext-diff --no-textconv to log/show/diff,
allows diff only between two explicit object IDs and ls-files only in the
NUL-delimited overlay form, and refuses every other shape with one line
naming the allowed forms. The template now points at the installed helper
(host global runtime via {{SAFE_GIT}}) and drops the prose it enforces.

Fixtures resolve the helper to this checkout, the git shim records the safety
environment, and isGuardedGitRequest requires the complete prefix (env
included) for every repository read.

* test(shared-libs): tee to a discard device is not a file write

Paid shared-libs-opportunity-judgment t1 on 1213b01 failed read-only on
'... | tee /dev/null | sha256sum'. The detector flagged any tee operand while
the same devices are allowed for redirection. tee now fails only when an
operand is a real file; tee to a file, -a file and -- -a stay violations.

* fix(qa-evidence,observer): reject placeholder metadata and replay-only learning; declare the docs atomic-write target

- materialize measures revision, runtime and cwd itself and rejects supplied
  values that differ (CI run wrote revision "HEAD" and runtime "bun"), and
  refuses learning checkpoints that replay the same probe, naming the fix.
- The docs write observer treats Claude Code's atomic temp for the authorized
  doc target as transient, so a temp renamed before its per-file watch no
  longer marks the observation incomplete (ship-docsync-completion flake).
  Per-file monitoring outside declared targets stays fail-closed.

* test(qa-functional): fix mode requires only the happy scenario from the model (carried byte-identical from #3002 183b01f4..3e6074b4)

verifyQANativeRegression already reruns all eight webhook scenarios on the
repaired source, so the model-side eight-scenario requirement in fix mode
duplicated harness coverage and pushed qa-functional-webhook-fix past its
budget. qa-only still requires every scenario.

* fix(deslop-shared-libs): probe the audited repository with -C <repo>

A CI run probed safe-git from the session directory above the target repo, so
the capability probe never touched the repository and the run fell back to the
API without a local attempt. The probe (and any call from elsewhere) now names
the audited repository.

* test(qa-deadline): never attach a reader to the full-pipe fixture's stdout

The full-pipe receipt test attached a 'data' listener (flowing mode) and then
paused; on CI the reader could drain the 2 MB write before the pause, so the
receipt write never blocked and the helper exited 0 in ~126 ms. The stdout pipe
now stays unread until the assertion, which is what the test means to model.

* feat(qa): helpers answer --help, and the QA eval interfaces declare it

Approved by Garry: asking gstack-qa-evidence or gstack-qa-deadline for usage
is read-only, so both helpers print usage and exit 0 on --help (the evidence
usage now names the annotation shape), and the functional and caller command
allowlists accept exactly 'bun <path>/bin/gstack-qa-{evidence,deadline} --help'.
Two CI runs failed only on that call.

* fix(qa): after an input change, a probe is affected unless shown otherwise

CI late-input run finished in time but revalidated only the happy probe after
the locale input changed and reported the stale adverse probe green. The
revalidation step now treats any probe not shown to be unaffected as affected.

* test(shared-libs): seed the lifecycle replay's first Step 3 pass instead of replaying it

shared-libs-review-lifecycle ran ~88% of its 300 s session budget (12-run
census median 265 s, 4/24 sessions timed out). The fixture now executes pass 1's
Step 3 once with the real logger and Git: a real unused REVIEW_START, then the
diff, inventories, attributes/config/index flags, gstack-review-read output and
every file's bytes and sha256, saved to one observation. The model resumes at
Step 4 with an exact four-file first read, the observation named as the
authoritative pass-1 repository read, one post-fix verification, an explicit
pass-2 read list and a twelve-line summary. Pass 2 still runs its own --start,
diff, reads, fingerprint and stage actor before --finish.

The actor scope now states that a current settled final-pass actor result
supplies the replaced QA/adversarial prerequisites and that the no-credit
disclosure is a reporting label: one r1 session persisted completed:false
from that ambiguity.

New assertions: the final binding never uses the seeded token's start or tree,
and the observation was read; free controls finish the seeded token (binding
changed) and omit the observation read, and both fail.

* test(shared-libs): trim the resumed review replays' setup and report

Every sibling review session (revalidation, path-eligibility, index-flags,
prior-coverage) loaded qa/sections/exploratory.md and often scope.md although
its QA and native adversarial results are supplied synthetic inputs, then spent
a second request on shared-code-reuse.md and base metadata. The resumed scope
now states that the supplied results replace Step 4's QA method loading; the
revalidation contract names one first response (workflow, checklist, finding,
prerequisites, shared-code-reuse.md, base metadata) and caps the summary at
twelve lines. Receipt order, direct source reads, the checker, the question and
final persistence are unchanged.

* fix(review): define what a Step 5c Skip option says

Step 5c named "B) Skip" without saying what its description may claim. Two
CI captures (path-eligibility on 131d43be, index-flags on 4643cb85) offered a
Skip whose description added effects beyond declining: "The extraction can be
applied in a later editing review pass" and "replacing the invalidated prior
Skip". Those read as change commitments, so the no-change actor refused both.
Step 5c now says to describe Skip only as no code/index change with the Skip
recorded; adjacent lines are compacted so the review parity caps hold
unchanged. Both exact packets are kept as a free regression: still refused,
and accepted once Skip follows the rule. The actor's classifier is unchanged.

* fix(qa-evidence): every complete capture needs an evidence row; test(tpa): accept the hyphenated app-specific-password spelling

- materialize refuses when a complete capture has no evidence row and is not
  named in limits (CI cli-report omitted capture 004), naming the missing IDs.
- tpa-apple-ban's detector required 'app-specific password' with a space; the
  CI answer said 'app-specific-password path' and was otherwise correct.

* test(qa-observer): fix mode treats atomic temps of authorized src/test writes as transient

CI webhook-fix failed with 'Could not watch test/worker.regression-1.test.ts.tmp...':
Claude Code's Write renamed its temp before the per-file watch was added. The
functional eval now tells the observer its mode, and a temp whose target that
mode may write is observed through its directory watch. Report-only mode and
undeclared paths keep failing closed.

* feat(qa-evidence): refuse evidence observed on an older input snapshot than the latest capture

When native probe output declares a top-level input snapshot, materialize
compares each evidence row with the latest capture's snapshot and refuses
stale rows unless they are classified superseded, naming the captures to
rerun. ship-exploratory-late-input kept reporting a pre-change adverse probe
green after the input changed.

* test(qa-functional): point the fixture at the helper's --help instead of its source

A CI webhook-fix run spent three turns reading lib/qa-evidence.ts to learn the
interface and timed out just before materialize (agreed with #3002's owner).

* feat(qa-evidence): captures list the caller's declared-but-unrun required probes

GSTACK_QA_REQUIRED_PROBES (a JSON array of native child commands) makes every
capture print requiredRemaining; it never judges pass or fail. The functional
eval passes the webhook list from QA_WEBHOOK_REQUIRED_SCENARIOS, which the
verdict now reads too, so the nudge and the verdict share one source (agreed
with #3002's owner). CI webhook-report kept stopping with scenarios unrun.

* test(review-army): record N+1's pre-dispatch stages and scope the session to Step 4.5

review-army-perf-n-plus-one timed out in 7 of 13 CI runs on this branch (passing
245-280 s of 300). Each session spent ~95 s on setup (the full extracted SKILL,
checklist, section greps, exploratory.md, diff-scope/stats/learnings, tooling
checks), ran Step 4's core pass, a search-before-recommending WebSearch, and
wrote a 10-16 KB report (~100 s after the Red Team returned).

The fixture now stages only review/sections/review-army.md plus the performance
and red-team checklists, and hands the session the recorded detect-scope,
specialist-stats and learnings outputs and the diff. The caller passes
--performance (every CI parent already treated the prompt as that force flag
against the <50-line skip), declares the core pass, QA, adversarial review, web
research, Fix-First and persistence out of scope, and caps the report at the
selection line, the SPECIALIST REVIEW block and the Red Team result (30 lines).
The Performance specialist and the conditional Red Team are still real
foreground subagents, and the report still has to surface the N+1.

New assertion: a foreground Performance specialist dispatch precedes the Red
Team dispatch. Free controls omit the Performance dispatch or background it, and
both fail; the budget lifecycle adapter supplies the current result shape.
Touchfiles now include the .rb fixture the case reads.

* test(review-army): share the recorded Step 4.5 staging with consensus and supply its Red Team

review-army-consensus (periodic) timed out in 2 of 13 census sessions; passing
runs took 213-297 s of 300. Like N+1 it spent ~30-50 s reading the whole
extracted SKILL, checklist and every specialist file, sometimes dispatched an
unrequested Maintainability specialist, then ran a Red Team (60-70 s) and a
second merge before writing a 9-15 KB report.

The N+1 staging and scope text move into stageReviewArmySession /
reviewArmyScope / reviewArmyChecklists (the N+1 prompt renders byte-identical).
Consensus now records its detect-scope, stats, learnings and diff, stages the
Review Army section with the security and testing checklists, forces
--security --testing, and caps the report like N+1. Its Red Team is outside
the multi-specialist contract, so the fixture supplies a labeled synthetic
NO FINDINGS result instead of a dispatch. The existing SQL-finding and
browser-error assertions are unchanged; the lifecycle adapter's spawnSync now
returns the git output the staging reads.

* docs(changelog): v1.91.10.0 records the flake census and its repairs

* test(strict-output): give the spool-prefix child time to finish before the pending stream times out

windows-free-tests failed on 9a7a7e54: the 150 ms shared deadline raced Bun
startup on Windows, so the child was killed mid-write and the spool held a
partial payload. Only the never-released extra stream should time out; the
child now has 3 s.

* fix(qa-evidence): accept a single limits string; test(qa-callers): read the handoff first when a probe snapshot changes

CI late-input spent a turn rewriting limits as an array after materialize
refused a string, and a ten-read sweep hunting for the changed input before it
read reports/HANDOFF.md, then timed out at 300 s.

* test(autoplan-dual-voice): unwrap the framed native report before Claude Code 2.1.284's agentId/usage trailer

* test(section-loading): credit a Bash print that contains every line of the carved section

* test(auto-decide): ask for the selected mode in the skill's mode handoff line, not a separate public decision

* test(plan-ceo floor): scope preservation approves no premise, approach or remedy

* test(autoplan-dual-voice): the fixture declares that delivered bash blocks run alone, diagnostics separately

* test(coverage-audit): a fenced plain-word caption in a successful && read chain is display only

Census 36776104571 plan-eng capture read both owned files with cat -n in one
successful && chain; the caption 'echo "=== git diff main --stat ==="' fell
outside the two-token caption grammar, so both reads lost credit. Accept a fenced
caption of plain words; unfenced command strings, expansions, redirection,
-e escapes and ; / || tails stay rejected.

* test(office-hours): a fork whose outer options are the seeded shapes is the Phase 4 question

Census trials 1-2 captured complete Phase 4 forks (A) Server-side B) Client-side
C) Hybrid, recommendation with because) whose prose used none of the vocabulary
words. Accept two seeded shapes as outer options as Phase 4 specificity; the
earlier-phase, nested, fenced and single-shape controls still fail.

* fix(review): design-lite rows keep the detector's [rule-id]; the e2e detector rows point at the diff

The output template had no rule-id slot, so rows merged with checklist items
dropped the detector id (census t2, local t1). Rows now carry [rule-id]. The
fake engine's sample rows named a foreign fixture path at line 0; the e2e remaps
them to landing.html/styles.css so trials stop spending turns reconciling it.

* test(shared-libs): the plan actor reads scheduler parity and unchanged-scope lists

Census 36776104571's question preserved the contract ('behaving exactly like the
scheduler', 'scheduler parity holds by construction') and excluded work with
'Existing copies and helper hardening stay unchanged'. Accept exactly/parity as
preservation (negated forms refuse) and a bare noun list that stays unchanged as
an exclusion for the expansion scan only; verb-led clauses still refuse.

* fix(qa-only,qa): name the exploratory read point and finalization order; judge qa with its browser assets

qa-only judges cited 'next section' pointing at the wrong heading, an exploratory
trigger that contradicted its read point, clock ownership in mixed runs and the
unstated order of exploratory section 4 vs reporting. The qa judge penalized the
absent qa-report-template and issue-taxonomy that qa-patterns loads; with them
in, it found issue-taxonomy's dangling 'rule 13' (the consent rule is browser rule 3).

* test(ship-docsync): seeded attempt 1 counts toward the limit; transport counts ignore calls that never reached the state file

- CI launch-failure retried after the seeded attempt 1 as if that attempt were
  the fixture's; the seeded prompt now says attempt 1 is this invocation's and
  a further attempt needs what Blocked recovery requires.
- A late-result run typo'd the state path once (ENOENT, the actor never ran),
  then repeated the call correctly; the per-action count compared both calls
  with one actor event. Only calls naming the real state file are counted.

* fix(plan-eng-review): show the accepted dedicated read form for coverage-diagram sources

CI plan-eng-coverage-audit mixed package/config and git diff into the source
read; the review variant, whose prompt shows the && display form, does not.
The plan trace step now shows it too, within the unchanged size cap.

* test(sync-gbrain-readiness): a negation earlier in the claim clause is not a search/write readiness claim

The census unknown actor wrote 'nothing about read, search, or write capability
is confirmed either way' after a YELLOW/WARN verdict. The claim window started
at 'write', so the leading 'nothing' was outside it. Check the clause subject for
nothing/neither/none/no; keep the original in-claim negations. Replay of the
captured output passes; positive controls still flag an unnegated claim.

* fix(office-hours): a forcing question's recommendation takes the position the founder's words support

auq-matrix office-hours asked D1 Demand as options about the founder's own
evidence and, with no rule for that shape, recommended 'answer whichever is
TRUE — A is marked recommended only because it is the strongest position'
(substance 2). Say what such a recommendation is: the option the founder's own
words support, why it matters for the next step, and what would change it.

* fix(plan-ceo-review): name the mode preference command and the exact handoff line

auto-decide-preserved at 6fcb0981: the model never ran the preference check,
read 'check ... through the preamble' as already done, auto-selected 'per your
preference setting', and wrote 'Selected mode: HOLD SCOPE, auto-decided from
your tuned preference' instead of the AUTO_DECIDE handoff line. At 9a7a7e54 it
ran the check but wrote 'Decision: HOLD SCOPE is the review mode for ...'.
Neither matched the handoff template the observer recognizes. Name
gstack-question-preference --check at the point of use and say the handoff
begins with the exact matching line. Collapse the audit block's comment
padding to stay within the unchanged 80150-byte skeleton cap.

* test(section-loading): record the CEO capture's report and transcript

The 6fcb0981 census failed hasStaleFillRaceFinding (line 98), but the case
records nothing beyond junit, so the report the detector judged is gone.
Return the SkillTestResult from captureSectionReads and record it, with the
full saved report, through the eval collector on pass and fail.

* test(design): plan-mode names its read list and caps its additions and summary

At 6fcb0981 plan-design-review-plan-mode timed out at 300 s (9 turns): 22 cat/sed
chunk reads (~50 s), then a 28 KB plan Write (~150 s), before the read-back
finished. The 9a7a7e54 pass took 240 s with a 24.6 KB Write. Read SKILL.md,
review-sections.md and plan.md natively in one response, keep additions under
14,000 characters and the summary within ten lines. Budgets unchanged.

* test(plan-mode-no-op): require prose evidence before a waiting verdict ends eng/design runs (carried byte-identical from #3002)

With the prose fallback forced, the gate renders as a lettered menu; a judge
'waiting' verdict on a spinner-only frame ended the run as 'asked' before the
menu rendered, so the scope-gate check failed on unchanged behavior.

* feat(qa-evidence): materialize computes the phase verdict; callers must report it

Approved by Garry: the helper, not the model, decides whether evidence can
pass. materialize writes verdict {status, open} into evidence.json and prints
it: fail or blocked from row classifications, inconclusive while any row is
superseded, a complete capture is withheld, a declared required probe is
unrun or there is no evidence, else pass. The caller fixture requires
receipt.status to equal that verdict. CI late-input kept reporting pass with a
superseded happy probe.

* test(qa-callers): compare the receipt with the helper verdict only when evidence.json was materialized

The producer free tests run captures without materialize; evidence.json is
optional for callers, so its absence is not a verdict mismatch.

* test(llm-judge): run the ship workflow judge at medium effort so its panel fits JUDGE_MS

claude-fable-5-1 accepts only adaptive thinking (thinking.type.enabled with
budget_tokens returns 400), so effort is the available thinking control.
Measured on the exact ship judge request (105,301 input tokens):

- default effort, 18 samples: thinking 5,086-10,881 tokens, 75.9-144.7 s;
  3 of 18 passed the 120 s deadline (about 42% of 3-sample panels).
- medium effort, 18 samples: thinking 2,749-5,762, output at most 6,144
  tokens, 43.1-77.9 s; scores 4/4/4 in 16 of 18 (clarity 3 in two), versus
  14 of 18 at default.

callJudge gains an effort option sent as output_config.effort; only the ship
judge sets it. Rubric, floors, panel size, deadline, model and max_tokens are
unchanged. The cache identity records effort.

* test(llm-judge): ask frontier workflow judges for 120-word reasoning under the unchanged 150-word check

Told "under 150 words", the ship judge's reasoning landed at 130-156 words
(3 of 18 probe samples at 152-156), so the structured-response check failed
about one panel in three independent of effort. The prompt's frontier block
and the response schema description now say under 120 words; the validator
still rejects 150 words or more. The changed prompt bytes reach only the two
frontier judges: ship/SKILL.md workflow (prompt and schema) and
review/SKILL.md workflow (prompt).

* test(llm-judge): type the stream transport mock call

* test(plan-ceo floor): the request answers only the questions it names

PR lane 36794871032 (head 20d6e98f): the CEO floor ran 608 s without a
question. Its Step 0 recorded the premise gap and approach choice as
unresolved ledger rows, then said "this session supplies all answers up
front, so no decision brief was dispatched" and wrote Sections 1-11.
2734e203 stopped scope preservation from approving the premise; this time
the actor block (declined setup, recall, outside voices, HOLD SCOPE) and the
fixture's "complete user request is available from the start" were read
as pre-answering every review question. The CEO actor now states that the
request answers only the routing, recall, outside-reviewer and review-mode
questions it names.

* test(plan-devex floor): a 'Partly wrong' 0B answer is the narrative confirmation

PR lane 36794871032: the DX floor asked its D1 narrative confirmation
(Accurate, proceed / Partly wrong, correct it / Way off, actual is...). The
deterministic setup rule accepted only 'Some ... wrong', so the question went
to the LLM assessor, which hit its 30 s spawnSync cap (ETIMEDOUT) and ended
the case as assessment_error at 141 s, the same failure as census
36641820398. The rule now accepts 'partly' beside 'some'; the captured
question is a free regression and the remedy-option controls still go to
the assessor.

* test(design-review plugin handoff): quoted report text is not an install command

PR lane 36794871032: every behavioral check passed except noInstallOrOverride,
which matched "no `npx impeccable`" inside the quoted heredoc that wrote
detector-output.md. Nothing was installed or downloaded. The check now drops
quoted-delimiter heredoc bodies (literal data) before matching; unquoted
bodies, which can expand $(...), and unterminated bodies stay checked. Free
controls cover the captured write, bare npx, an IMPECCABLE_BIN override, an
unquoted $(npx ...), npx after the delimiter and an unterminated body.

* test(review-army delivery audit): stage only the plan-completion section and record its git reads

PR lane 36794871032: the case timed out at its 120 s budget after 7 turns
(previous lane passed in 45 s). The session read the 46 KB extracted SKILL in
three passes (cat to persisted output, grep, sed), ran its own git reads,
wrote a 74-line report, then inspected and ran gstack-learnings-log and
rewrote the report's Learnings section. As in the Step 4.5 cases
(17ee2e54/2bd4651c), the fixture now stages only
review/sections/plan-completion.md, hands the session the recorded
git log and diff, declares the HIGH-impact question, its Scope Check,
learnings logging and later steps outside the capture, and caps the report
at the audit block and its DISCREPANCY entries (30 lines). The NOT DONE and
email assertions are unchanged.

* feat(qa-evidence): one capture call records the causal note for the previous capture

capture R NNN [--public] (--deadline D|--timeout-ms MS) --after PREV --hypothesis 'TEXT' -- CMD
publishes exploration-NNN.json {observationCapture, observationArgv, observed, hypothesis,
nextCapture, nextArgv} before running CMD, refusing unless PREV is the latest complete capture.
The receipt carries checkpoint/checkpointSha256; validators bind the note to the transcript's
capture calls by capture ID and receipt hash instead of exact command strings. The separate
checkpoint command and the capture guard keep working; materialize learning accepts both note
shapes and still rejects same-probe replays. Prose and eval fixture prompts teach the merged form.

* fix(qa-evidence): a superseded row stops holding the verdict open once its probe is rerun on current inputs

materialize requires an old-snapshot row to be classified superseded, and its verdict kept every
superseded row open, so rerunning the probe (what its own error tells the model to do) could never
reach pass; late-input reran 3 and 9 on the new snapshot and still got inconclusive. A superseded
row now closes only when a non-superseded row with the same captured argv observed the current
snapshot. Re-materializing an already-published evidence.json names the cause instead of failing
generically.

* test(plan-eng batching): count saved decisions whose label drops the (recommended) marker or whose report is titled 'Eng Review Report — <plan>'

* fix(qa): browser-only runs skip annotations/materialize; only Q captures can anchor evidence rows

* test(design): plan-mode length is a drafting target, not a check to measure and trim

* test(llm-judge): structured output for doc, outcome and posture judges so reasoning quotes cannot break JSON

* test(ship-docsync): steer skill file reads to Read; large cat output becomes an unpageable preview

* docs(changelog): browser-only QA evidence and structured judge output

* test(qa-only cleanup): refusal scenarios get a 1 s budget and an absolute worker deadline; 300 ms starved under parallel load

* fix(office-hours, design-consultation): ask the goal question and read the mode section first; ask the memorable-thing question on its own

* test(outside-disabled): a record named by the retained record's own clock and then disowned owns its completed status

* test(context-skills): install gstack-paths in the fixture bin; without it the model guessed the checkpoint root

* test(ceo mode routing): SCOPE EXPANSION posture credits plural 'expansions'

* test(ship-docsync): name the unmet atomic-replacement check on a forbidden temp-file write

* fix(qa): browser-only runs materialize an empty evidence list with checkpoints in limits, matching /qa-only

* test(qa callers): an accepted review-log record may cite checkpoints as finding evidence

* fix(plan-eng-review): state that a disallowed question tool never qualifies as headless before the headless action

* merge follow-up: re-record paid CLI parity for #2999's flags; trim merged review, qa-only and plan-eng wording toward the size caps

* test(golden): refresh codex/factory ship goldens for the trimmed caller QA wording

* test(coverage-audit fixture): disable git auto maintenance so cleanup is not racing a detached git writer

* test(parity): raise review, qa and plan-eng caps to the measured merged size of #2999 and #3002 (each fit alone), documented per cap

* fix(qa-evidence): materialize rejects an unrecognized classification before publishing, so the one-shot verdict cannot be locked inconclusive by a descriptive label
2026-10-01 13:55:16 -07:00
Garry Tan df89475b17 v1.91.11.0 refactor: one state-root rule, browse route table, shared shard engine, PTY harness split, MECE review resolvers (#3002)
* refactor(resolvers): split review.ts into MECE resolver modules (pure move)

Move every function from scripts/resolvers/review.ts, unchanged, into:
- review-dashboard.ts: review dashboard, plan-file review report
- plan-gates.ts: approval check, exit-plan-mode gate, plan-file discovery,
  plan-completion audit/gate (ship + review), plan verification exec
- spec-review.ts: both spec review loops, benefits-from, anti-shortcut clause
- outside-voice-steps.ts: Codex second opinion, adversarial step, Codex plan
  review, Codex doc review, disabled-outside record
- review-scope.ts: scope drift, cross-review dedup, shared-code reuse

review.ts is deleted; index.ts imports the new modules. gen-skill-docs
output is byte-identical for every host (--host all). Test imports and
source-path references are re-pointed; the two source-text report/gate
tests in gen-skill-docs.test.ts become behavioral renders across every
consuming skill and host. All 46 touchfile entries that named review.ts
now name all five modules, guarded by a recorded selection golden.

* test(browse): black-box auth matrix for every server route and both surfaces

Drives buildFetchHandler fetchLocal/fetchTunnel with no token, wrong token,
root token, scoped token and the SSE cookie for all 33 routes, plus unmatched
paths and wrong methods. Denials assert today's exact status, body and content
type; allowed credentials assert the handler was reached. Written against the
unchanged if-chain server so the W3 route-table refactor must keep it green.

* refactor(shard-engine): move scripts/test-strict-output.ts to scripts/lib/shard-engine.ts

The shared shard engine grows from the existing strict-output module
(runShardChild, killProcessGroup, signal forwarding, strict classifier).
scripts/test-strict-output.ts stays as a re-export so existing importers,
mock.module paths and the strict-output/run-shard-child tests are unchanged.
The engine inherits the global touchfile entry; the free runner's CLI-routing
fixture copies the new module.

* refactor(resolvers): decompose the three >150-line review resolvers (output-neutral)

Split generateAdversarialStep, generateCodexPlanReview and
generatePlanCompletionAuditInner into per-section helpers whose template
literals are copied verbatim, so every function in the new modules is at
or under 150 lines. gen-skill-docs output is byte-identical for every host
(--host all, compared against 96764e80 with a fixed --link-root).

* refactor(resolvers): one outside-voice failure policy (deliberate prose unification)

outsideVoiceFailurePolicy(ctx, opts) in outside-voice.ts now renders the
auth / timeout / empty-response bullets for all four call sites that
hand-typed them (Codex second opinion, adversarial step, Codex plan
review, design outside voices). Options are explicit per site
(timeoutMinutes, onTimeout, stderrOnEmpty, fallback, escape) with no
defaults.

Deliberate generated-prose changes (every host):
- office-hours: 'Fall back to <native> subagent.' becomes
  'Fall back to the <native> subagent below.'
- plan-devex-review: the plain 'Auth failure (stderr contains ...)'
  bullets become the canonical bold bullets; auth also triggers on
  'API key'; 'auth failed' becomes 'authentication failed'.
- review/ship adversarial: 'exceeded 9 minutes and was terminated'
  becomes 'timed out after 9 minutes and was terminated'; the timeout
  is still MISSING COVERAGE.
- design outside voices: unchanged.

Adds ratchet (d) (test/outside-voice-failure-policy.test.ts) with a
reasoned allowlist for /codex's own CLI errors, the MISSING COVERAGE
retention test, refreshed codex/factory ship goldens, and outside-voice.ts
in every touchfile entry of review.ts and design.ts (selection golden
extended).

* test(pty): fake PTY session driver with an injectable clock through the runner launch seam

The three plan-skill runners take an optional PtyDriver (launch, now,
monotonic, sleep); omitted, they use the real launcher and clocks exactly as
before. test/helpers/pty/fake-session.ts feeds scripted frames through that
seam, and claude-pty-runner.runners.unit.test.ts runs observation, counting
and floor for success, deadline timeout, permission prompt and plan-ready
outcomes with no CLI or real timers. These cases must stay green unchanged
through the W4 split and the runPtySession extraction.

Touchfiles: every entry that lists claude-pty-runner.ts or pty-screen.ts now
also lists test/helpers/pty/**.

* refactor(shard-engine): run both lanes on the shared engine; lane policy injected

Engine (scripts/lib/shard-engine.ts) gains the W2 primitives: per-shard
tmp/Chromium sandbox + async cleanup backstop, log-path allocation and
full-stream log capture, one duration-seed reader/writer with a lane
predicate, LanePolicy (seed predicate + zero-execution verdict),
strictShardStatus, and the shared CLI flag loop. runShardChild takes an
optional companion (signal/settle) and waits a bounded 250ms to reap a
wall-killed child.

Free lane stops spawning shards itself: runFreeShard uses runShardChild
with trackShardBrowser as the companion (win32 path unchanged: no process
group, no negative-pid kill). Its sync state-dir removal stays lane policy.
Paid lane uses the sandbox, log, seed, verdict and flag primitives; the
hollow-shard guard applies PAID_LANE_POLICY. Lane outcomes are unchanged
(free keeps >= 0 seeds and file-count zero-exec rule; paid keeps > 0 seeds,
warning under selection and passed-empty under EVALS_ALL).

paid-free-boundary's closure assertion now names the engine module, where
the strict classifier lives.

* test(shard-engine): engine unit tests, fixture-corpus equivalence, per-lane CLI parity

- test/shard-engine.test.ts: failing/unhandled/module-load output fails both
  lanes, per-lane zero-execution and seed rules, whole-group kill on a wall
  timeout (both lanes), mocked-win32 path with no negative-pid kill,
  companion settle order, log capture, sandbox isolation, flag loop.
- test/shard-engine-equivalence.test.ts + test/fixtures/shard-equivalence:
  seven outcome fixtures plus one real shard, run through both lanes and
  compared with classifications recorded from the base runners (96764e80).
- test/shard-cli-parity.test.ts + test/fixtures/shard-cli-parity: flag set,
  defaults, validation errors and the Unknown argument error per lane match
  the base runners.

* refactor(shard-engine): decompose runFreeShard and runPaidShard to <= 150 lines

Output-neutral extraction under the fixture-corpus equivalence and runner
tests: captureFreeStream, explainFreeVerdict and logFreeRecovery (free);
paidShardCommand, settleShardSpool, settleBootstrapRetention and
printLogTail (paid). The bootstrap scope-creation block that
bootstrap-retention.test.ts evaluates stays verbatim.

* refactor(pty): split claude-pty-runner.ts into test/helpers/pty/* behind a barrel

Pure move: every line of the former 5,047-line runner lands verbatim in one
module (four private helpers gain `export` for cross-module use):
binary, screen (absorbs test/helpers/pty-screen.ts, which now re-exports it),
launch, session (PtyDriver), judge, classify, auq, plan-native, boundaries,
runners/{observation,counting,floor}. claude-pty-runner.ts re-exports the
original public surface by name; pty/ modules import siblings directly.

Tests that read the runner's source text:
- rewritten as behavioral: the unit test's model-pin tripwire (fake CLI argv:
  fallback chain, --model before extraArgs, hermetic --strict-mcp-config),
  pty-skill-seeding-wiring (runners through the fake driver; launcher through
  a fake CLI reporting CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR). The "three wrappers forward model"
  grep is replaced by the runners' fake-driver launch assertions.
- pty-screen-session / pty-screen-supervision: stop copying runner source;
  they mock.module the real pty/screen.ts (and the fixture cleanup) instead.
- re-pointed to the owning module (they execute a sliced runner body with
  injected boundaries; no seam exists for those boundaries yet):
  eng-seeded-completion-ai, plan-floor-permission, plan-create-prepublication,
  plan-count-completion; hermetic-wiring's source guard now reads pty/launch.ts
  and scans every pty/ module for raw process.env spreads.
- plan-count-timeout and pty-output-wake mock the viewport at pty/screen.ts.

* test(ratchet-c): enforcing module/function size ratchet and moved-code touchfile coverage

Ratchet (c) ships enforcing: test/helpers/module-size.ts counts file and
top-level function lengths by brace matching over masked source (strings,
comments, regex literals and template text masked; ${} expressions kept),
covering function declarations, arrow functions assigned to consts and
route-table handler properties, with no parser dependency. Its self-test
uses template literals and code-fence braces copied from
scripts/resolvers/review.ts and design.ts. test/fixtures/module-size-ratchet.json
binds scripts/lib/shard-engine.ts (<= 800 lines, <= 150 per function) and
records the residual runner sizes (free 2352, paid 1921) as non-growth caps;
allowlist entries are keyed on file plus matched text and need a reason.
Failure output lists file:line, the rule, Fix: and the allowlist path.

touchfiles.test.ts gains the moved-code superset check over
test/fixtures/touchfile-move-goldens/ (W2 golden recorded at 96764e80:
test-strict-output.ts and test-paid-shards.ts global, test-free-shards.ts none).

* refactor(browse): declared route table replaces the buildFetchHandler if-chain

The ~1,300-line if-chain in buildFetchHandler becomes a route table:
each entry declares method, path, auth kind and surfaces, and one auth
gate in browse/src/routes/table.ts returns the per-kind denial (root-bearer,
scoped, root-or-sse-cookie: 401 Unauthorized; root-token: 403 Root token
required; extension-origin: 403 Forbidden). Unmatched requests take the
declared fallthrough (root-bearer check, then plain-text 404). Handlers move
to browse/src/routes/{core,pairing,pty,tokens,tunnel,activity,commands,files,
inspector}.ts and receive a RouteContext with auth checks as functions
instead of closing over factory locals. Dispatch order is unchanged:
tunnel filter, beforeRoute overlay, gate, handler. TUNNEL_PATHS stays a
literal in server.ts.

Behavior-preserving: the black-box auth matrix from the previous commit
passes unchanged. /memory and /inspector/events are declared root-bearer
because the blanket check always ran before their SSE-cookie branch.

Source-text route tests are rewritten as behavioral tests through
buildFetchHandler or a route's real handler with a stub RouteContext
(browse/test/route-test-harness.ts). Checks with no runtime seam are
re-pointed to the route modules: Surface type, /inspector/events SSE
helper, sanitizeReplacer imports, /pty-inject-scan sidecar-client import,
and the ngrok config lookup and startTunnel wiring that stay in server.ts.

* test(browse): stubbed-handler auth matrix and route inventory for the route table

Every ROUTES entry runs through the real dispatcher and gate with stub
handlers on each declared surface and six credentials; denials assert the
exact status and body each auth kind returned at 96764e8, admitted
credentials assert the handler ran (with the gate's TokenInfo for scoped
routes). Also pins the reviewed route inventory (method, path, auth kind,
surfaces), that every entry declares auth and surfaces, that the table's
tunnel paths equal the TUNNEL_PATHS literal with GET /connect admitted, the
unmatched fallthrough, and that the root token is rejected on every tunnel
route through buildFetchHandler.

* test(browse): ratchet (b) keeps route dispatch inside the route table

Scans browse/src/server.ts and browse/src/routes/*.ts for pathname
comparisons; only the table matcher and the tunnel-surface filter are
allowed, listed with reasons in browse/test/fixtures/route-dispatch-allowlist.json
(keyed on file plus line text). Also checks every entry declares auth and
surfaces and that gstack registers no beforeRoute overlay itself. Self-tests
plant a violation and assert the file:line, Fix: and allowlist path in the
message, that a shifted line stays allowlisted, and that a reasonless entry
is rejected.

* test: touchfile superset check for modules moved out of browse/src/server.ts

Records the paid evals selected by touching browse/src/server.ts at 96764e80
(17 E2E, 1 LLM judge) and asserts every browse/src/routes/*.ts module selects
a superset. The test reads every golden in test/fixtures/moved-module-selection/
so other moved-code goldens can sit beside it.

* test(shard-engine): give non-timeout corpus fixtures CI headroom; keep the POSIX golden off the Windows lane

Only the wall-timeout fixture keeps a 3s wall; the rest get 60s so a loaded
host cannot turn a pass into a timeout. Base and branch runners still agree
on every classification under the new walls. The Windows exclusion entry
moves the free runner's ratchet (c) residual cap to 2356 lines.

* refactor(pty): one runPtySession loop drives observation, counting and floor

test/helpers/pty/session.ts owns launch -> start -> (poll -> tick)* ->
timeout and the failure contract the three runners each hand-rolled: the
run's own error wins over capture and close errors, close always runs, owned
fixture cleanup runs last (also when launch fails). Each runner now supplies a
PtySessionPlan: its boot/command step, poll cadence (2s observation/floor
sleep; counting's output wake + 250ms coalesce), tick policy (permission
handling, native identity, terminal rules stay per runner because they differ)
and capture hooks. The runner bodies are decomposed into top-level steps so no
function exceeds 150 lines; behavior is unchanged and the fake-driver cases
from the first W4 commit pass unmodified.

The counting capture step and the native completion-summary predicate are now
named functions (countingCapture, isNativeCompletionSummary), so
plan-create-prepublication and plan-count-completion call them directly
instead of executing sliced source. The two harnesses that still execute a
sliced runner body with injected boundaries (eng-seeded-completion-ai,
plan-floor-permission) pass the PtyDriver seam instead of overriding
Date/Bun.sleep.

* test(ratchet-c): register route modules, review resolver modules and server.ts residual cap

* refactor(pty): decompose launchClaudePty and engNumberedFindingAUQ under 150 lines

launchClaudePty (349 lines) becomes launch preparation (args, hermetic
child env, owned state roots), recorder creation, spawn, the trust-dialog
watcher, close, and the session handle over one PtyProcess state object. The
failure order is unchanged: abort the viewport, dispose any recorders created
so far, dispose the viewport, rethrow. The --model / --strict-mcp-config
ordering and seedSkills wiring stay pinned by the behavioral fake-CLI tests.

engNumberedFindingAUQ (345 lines) keeps its guards and dispatch; each
self-contained issue family (declared cache, library retry hooks, cache
owner, injected singleton, shared writers, injected export) moves verbatim
into its own function. Every pty/ module is now <= 800 lines and every
top-level function <= 150 lines.

* test(pty): split claude-pty-runner.unit.test.ts along the pty/ module seams

The 188 unit tests move verbatim into claude-pty-runner.{screen,classify,
auq,launch,plan-native,boundaries}.unit.test.ts (test names unchanged; each
file imports only what it uses from the barrel). The five files that no longer
read a SKILL.md template join the test-of-test ratchet baseline with a reason.

* test(touchfiles): moved PTY modules keep their paid-eval selection

test/fixtures/touchfile-selection/w4-pty.json records, at 96764e8, the paid
evals selected by touching test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts (20) and
test/helpers/pty-screen.ts (20). touchfiles.test.ts now asserts every .ts file
under test/helpers/pty/ (and pty/screen.ts for both sources) selects a
superset, reading every golden in that directory so later moves can add one;
a planted-violation case pins the report and its Fix line.

* fix(browse): unexchanged pair setup keys no longer authenticate bearer requests

validateToken accepted a gsk_setup_ key as a bearer on /command, /batch and
/file (found while building the W3 auth matrix). A setup key now only
authenticates the /connect exchange.

* W1: one state-root owner (lib/state-root.ts + bin/gstack-state-root.sh), gstack-paths --explain and fail-stop, parity tests

* W1: guarded migration of every executable state-root site; uninstall deletes only ~/.gstack

Bins, careful/freeze hooks, setup, upgrade migrations, browse/src, design,
ios-qa daemon, lib and scripts resolve the state root through
bin/gstack-state-root.sh (bash) or lib/state-root.ts (TS). Bins source the
twin and stop with a reinstall message when it is missing; hooks source it
and never spawn gstack-paths. browse/src/config.ts and lib/cso/state.ts
delegate to resolveStateRoot. Analytics writers and readers move together
so the usage log stays one file. gstack-uninstall deletes state only at
~/.gstack, refuses (exit 2) when it resolves to /, $HOME or an ancestor,
the checkout or the git root, and leaves any other resolved root in place
with the removal command. Fixtures that copy single bins now copy the twin.

* W1: privacy keys and trust-policy deny tiers merge across state roots; gstack-config reporting; test hermeticity

readConfigKey / gstack_read_config_key return the most restrictive
telemetry, memorable_recall, codex_reviews and update_check across the
resolved root and ~/.gstack; other keys read the resolved root only.
gstack-config set reports an overriding root with the exact override
command, list shows the winning root and a root-variable disagreement line.
gstack-gbrain-repo-policy get merges deny/read-only tiers. gstack-egress
reads through readConfigKey. test-setup.ts strips inherited
GSTACK_STATE_ROOT/GSTACK_STATE_DIR and redirects the legacy root.

* W1: shared hook logging helper (hosts/claude/hooks/hook-log.ts)

One hook-errors.log writer: root from resolveStateRoot, 0600 on every
append, opt-in rate limit used only by memorable-user-prompt. The five
hooks route through it.

* W1: docs/state-root.md and README troubleshooting pointer

Precedence table, a real --explain example, the move-your-state recipe,
merged privacy keys, the uninstall rule, the resolver-failure fix, and the
plugin-mode note (evidence gate: no official plugin distribution).

* W1b: template and resolver prose resolve state through guarded gstack-paths; ratchet (a)

Every gstack-paths eval in templates and resolvers carries the fail-stop
guard; executable ~/.gstack paths in bash blocks (context recovery preamble,
eureka log, analytics, project artifacts, upgrade snooze, setup-gbrain lock,
retro snapshots, ship consent marker) use $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT, and the writer
prose that pairs with them points at the printed PROJECT_DIR / RETRO_FILE.
ship drops export GSTACK_STATE_ROOT. SKILL.md regenerated (claude + codex),
ship goldens re-pinned, parity and context-budget caps raised to the measured
sizes with notes. test/state-root-ratchet.test.ts enforces the rule with a
reasoned allowlist; W1 touchfile entries plus a superset golden.

* refactor: apply W1 state-root edits in W2/W3/W5-owned files; one moved-code touchfile golden for all workstreams

* test: fold the moved-code touchfile golden into touchfiles.test.ts; fix integration fixture closure and caps

* v1.91.11.0: CHANGELOG, TODOS, docs and conventions for the refactor wave

* test: re-measure plan-ceo/design-consultation caps and ship goldens after the guarded plan-discovery and spec-review blocks; add the state-root twin to the workflow-boundaries fixture

* fix(windows): migrations resolve their directory with either path separator; state-root parity compares under the HOME Git Bash actually sees

* fix(review,ship): state plan-check timing after smoke expiry and test_stub Skip semantics (review workflow judge clarity)

* test(qa-eval): webhook fix eval asks for the fix loop's post-repair probes; eight-scenario coverage stays in the report-only case and the harness recheck

* test(qa-eval): re-pin the webhook prompt contract to the fix-loop stage; R29 coverage omissions stay bound by the report-only case

* fix(review,ship): plan checks publish a checkpoint before each probe; only the smoke expiry stop is skipped

* fix(qa): carry #2999's checkpoint receipt link, report-template line and full-revision placeholder (identical hunks)

* test(qa-callers): disable git auto maintenance in the caller fixture

Git 2.47+ runs auto maintenance detached after commit; on the CI runner's git
2.55 it rewrote .git/objects fan-out directories while the write observer was
running, which surfaced as unauthorized mutations. Same gc.auto=0 /
maintenance.auto=false guard the shared-libs fixture already uses.

* test(plan-mode-no-op): require prose evidence for the prose-fallback members so a spinner-frame judge verdict cannot end the run as asked

* test(ship-docsync): carry #2999's seeded-attempt docsync harness (identical files)

The doc-sync fault cases replayed attempt 1 before reaching their gate and ran
out of their 285s budget. The fixture now seeds attempt 1 and the parent starts
at the gate under test. Taken byte-identical from origin/capy/audit-fix-wave
(fb526898, e6ac813d, 6ce10ff7, d0c53577, 77cce3be). Local: stale-before,
recovery and late-result 6/6 PASS (97-164s); the whole file 12/12 PASS.
2026-10-01 11:57:48 -07:00
Garry TanandClaude Fable 5 253d1dfe26 v1.76.0.0 fix: ship doc-sync survives Conductor — spawned subagent sessions reachable (#2733) (#2741)
* feat(session-kind): explicit GSTACK_SESSION_KIND override; skill-start spawned gates keyed on kind (#2733)

Claude Code subagents inherit the parent env byte-for-byte, so ambient
markers classify them as the parent's kind and the spawned classification
was unreachable outside OpenClaw. GSTACK_SESSION_KIND=spawned (step 0,
spawned-only by design) lets a dispatching skill mark its subagent per
command. skill-start now keys SPAWNED_SESSION and the spawned-session
instruction block on the resolved kind (was raw OPENCLAW_SESSION),
suppresses CONDUCTOR_SESSION for spawned sessions, gates all 11
interactive-onboarding blocks plus their ack-at-emit marker writes on
kind != spawned, and adds a destructive-gate carve-out to the spawned
block (conservative-continue, never prose-STOP).

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

* fix(hooks): spawned-session escape in Conductor AUQ deny; override coverage in AUQ-error fallback (#2733)

Hooks inherit the harness env, so a per-command GSTACK_SESSION_KIND
prefix inside a subagent's bash can never reach them. Levers added:
a deterministic [conductor][spawned] auto-choose deny for env-level
spawned sessions (OPENCLAW_SESSION or session-wide GSTACK_SESSION_KIND),
and a spawned escape sentence appended to both hooks' prose directives
so a marked subagent that slips and calls AUQ resolves to auto-choose
instead of prose-STOP. The sentence lives in one shared constant
(hosts/claude/hooks/spawned-directive.ts) so the two paths can never
drift; destructive semantics are unified to conservative-continue.

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

* fix(ship): Step 18 marks the document-release subagent spawned — env prefix + auto-choose prompt (#2733)

The dispatch prompt now (1) frames the run as a SPAWNED subagent whose
LAST line is machine-parsed, (2) instructs prefixing the preamble's
gstack-skill-start invocation with GSTACK_SESSION_KIND=spawned on the
same command line (template bash blocks don't share exports), and
(3) resolves every AUQ gate to auto-choosing the recommended option,
conservative on no-recommendation, never destructive. The JSON contract
gains a required "decisions" array (auto-chosen gates, printed to the
ship console — never embedded in the public PR body) and a placement
clause so the skill's own doc-health summary stops competing with the
LAST-line JSON. Tripwire pins added; codex/factory goldens refreshed.

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

* feat(auq-format): proactive SESSION_KIND=spawned rule ordered above the Conductor rule (#2733)

The spawned classification previously existed only in the failure-fallback
branch — a spawned session was invited to call AskUserQuestion and reach
auto-choose via the deny/error detour, and a spawned session inside a
Conductor workspace hit the Conductor prose-STOP rule first. The Tool
resolution list now leads with the spawned rule (auto-choose recommended,
never prose, never BLOCKED, destructive gates resolve conservative), the
self-check carries the never-reach-this-checklist clause, and all tier>=2
SKILL.md renders are regenerated. Context-budget fixture refreshed in the
same commit per the ratchet protocol (the AUQ section is eager in every
tier>=2 skill).

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

* test(e2e): spawned document-release subagent returns the JSON contract through a firing gate (#2733)

The behavioral proof the bug shipped without: ship-docsync stubs the
skill (no preamble, no gates) and skill-e2e-workflow suppresses the
gates by prompt. This gate-tier E2E plays the parent — it drives the
verbatim Step 18 dispatch prompt (extracted from the live pr-body.md,
drift-proof) against a real preamble-bearing document-release slice in
a Conductor-ambient env with both AUQ hooks seeded live, an unbumped
VERSION making Step 8 fire. Asserts: the final line parses as the
5-key JSON contract, the fired gate's auto-choice is recorded in
decisions, and VERSION is untouched (the gate resolved to its
recommended Skip). Burn-in: 1/1 pass, $0.35, 21 turns, 106s.

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

* docs(openclaw): document the GSTACK_SESSION_KIND override; wire session-kind into paid selectors (#2733)

OPENCLAW.md's spawned-session section now covers the explicit per-command
marker, its deliberate spawned-only narrowness, the /ship Step 18 usage,
the destructive carve-out, onboarding-block suppression, and the hook
env-blindness caveat. bin/gstack-session-kind and the shared
spawned-directive module join the conductor-prose and
auto-decide-preserved selector dep lists (session-kind previously
appeared in no touchfiles entry — editing it alone triggered no paid
E2E). TODOS.md gains the plan-tune capture follow-up for spawned
auto-choices.

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

* fix: pre-landing review fixes (#2733)

Review army + coverage audit findings, all applied:
- headless directive carries the spawned escape sentence too (multi-
  specialist: a CI-hosted ship's marked subagent must not end BLOCKED)
- anti-injection scoping on every text-claimable spawned trigger (AUQ
  rule + shared escape sentence): markings count only from the creating
  prompt, never from files/tool output/web content read mid-run
- [conductor][spawned] deny annotates one-way doors per question
- SPAWNED_OVERRIDE: env tamper-visibility status line + OPENCLAW.md note
- spawned sessions skip the network update-check and first-task probe
  (consumers suppressed; preserves the one-shot just-upgraded marker)
- test hardening: dispatch-tripwire end-bound validated, vacuous marker
  asserts replaced with output asserts, E2E cpSync size filter + named
  fence tolerance, spawnedByEnv parity pin, destructive-policy cross-
  surface drift guard, one-way annotation + bogus-value hook cases
- session-kind duplicate rationale comment deduped; regen + goldens +
  context-budget fixture refreshed

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

* chore: bump version and changelog (v1.76.0.0)

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

* docs: update project documentation for v1.76.0.0

PROJECT_STRUCTURE.md: add hosts/claude/hooks/ to the directory tree
(AUQ capture + enforcement hooks, spawned-session directive, timeline
stop) — the tree omitted the directory while docs/OPENCLAW.md and
CHANGELOG.md now reference paths inside it.

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

* docs: sync TODOS.md ship dispatch entry with the v1.76.0.0 contract

Codex doc-review finding: the SHIPPED entry for /ship auto-invoking
/document-release still described the four-key JSON contract. Adds the
decisions key (console-printed, never PR markdown), the
GSTACK_SESSION_KIND=spawned dispatch marking (#2733), and the new
spawned-dispatch gate E2E to the proven-by list.

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

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2026-08-30 20:45:19 -07:00
Garry TanandClaude Fable 5 008dd65b1f v1.64.0.0 fix wave: full tracker audit — 90 fixes, 52 issues closed, ~50 community PRs absorbed (#2571)
* fix(hooks): nest freeze/careful permissionDecision under hookSpecificOutput

Claude Code ignores a top-level permissionDecision, so the /freeze deny and
/careful ask guards silently allowed everything. Nest both under
hookSpecificOutput with permissionDecisionReason, update the shape-blind
tests to pin the nested form, and document the constraint in both skill
templates (regen included).

Closes half of #1459 (freeze enforcement chain).

Contributed by @jawadakram20 (PR #2331; team-init hunk deferred to the
dedicated team-init fix).

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

* fix(team-init): required-mode hook blocks with nested schema + exit 2

The generated check-gstack.sh emitted a flat permissionDecision payload and
exited 0, which Claude Code ignores — required mode enforced nothing. The
generated hook now nests the deny under hookSpecificOutput and exits 2 so
the block holds even if the JSON schema drifts again. Adds a temp-repo
regression test that runs the generated hook under both installed and
missing-gstack homes.

Fixes #2413, #2296.

Contributed by @Masashi-Ono0611 (PR #2423).

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

* fix(careful): close three check-careful bypasses via real JSON extraction

The grep-based command extractor stopped at the first escaped quote, so any
quoted argument truncated the command before the pattern checks ran —
`git commit -m "wip" && rm -rf /` was silently allowed. Replace it with a
python3/node JSON parse that fails CLOSED on unreadable payloads, add an
IFS/base64-to-shell obfuscation tripwire, and stop multi-line commands from
riding the single-line safe-exception whitelist (line-based grep would have
approved `rm -rf /` when a later line matched node_modules — a hazard the
real newline decoding exposed).

Contributed by @wtamminga (PR #2426; the -R hunk was dropped — it landed in
v1.61.0.0 — and output shapes updated to the nested hookSpecificOutput form).

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

* fix(review,autoplan): require explicit run_in_background: false on specialist agents

Claude Code v2.1.198 made subagents run in the background by default, which
inverted the old "do not use the flag" guidance: review-army specialists and
autoplan dual voices silently launched in the background and the merge step
could proceed before they completed — regressing the #497 fix. The generated
guidance now instructs an explicit run_in_background: false, and a static
tripwire fails the free suite if the inert inverted phrasing ever returns to
any generated SKILL.md.

Fixes #2440.

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

* fix(investigate): anchor the scope-lock freeze hook on $HOME, not CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR

The investigate skill's PreToolUse hooks and Scope Lock probe resolved
check-freeze.sh via ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}, which does not exist when
frontmatter hooks run — the || exit 0 tail then failed open, so the debug
scope boundary silently never engaged (#1871 follow-up). Anchor all four
sites on $HOME/.claude/skills/gstack/ like careful/freeze, and add a static
test asserting no frontmatter command: line in the guard-family skills ever
references CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR again.

Fixes #2469; closes the last live half of #1459 together with the
freeze/careful hookSpecificOutput fix. The broader portable-install-root
rewrite stays #1882 (its own focused PR per the TODOS.md decision).

Reported with a fix by @maxpetrusenkoagent (PR #1873; absorbed narrowly —
the cwd-walk rewrite belongs to #1882).

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

* fix(redact): scan large diffs in line-aligned slices; stop digit-UUIDs matching as cards/phones

The prepush guard blocked any push whose added lines exceeded the engine's
1 MiB cap with engine.input_too_large — a size error naming no credential —
which trains people onto GSTACK_REDACT_PREPUSH=skip. Scan in 768 KiB
line-aligned slices instead (no pattern is multi-line, so a boundary cannot
bisect a secret); a single oversized line still goes to the engine intact and
fails closed. Also suppress card/phone matches whose span sits ENTIRELY
inside a UUID — digit-only UUID fixtures were 14 of 21 MEDIUM findings on an
ordinary branch, the noise level that stops people reading MEDIUM at all.

Fixes #2304.

Contributed by @luckywenapere (PR #2543).

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

* feat(redact): block Google OAuth client secrets and Telegram bot tokens at HIGH

GOCSPX-prefixed client secrets and <bot_id>:<35-char> Telegram tokens are
never-publishable credential shapes with unambiguous formats — both now
block at HIGH like the other live-format credentials.

Contributed by @francis-eye (PR #2357).

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

* fix(redact-prepush): resolve the real push base instead of EMPTY_TREE whole-repo scans

When the remote default branch is not main/master (or origin/HEAD is unset),
the merge-base guess failed and the hook fell back to scanning the ENTIRE
repository as added lines — re-attributing long-pushed secrets to the
current push and, on any real repo, tripping the engine byte cap so the push
blocked having scanned nothing. Derive the base from commits reachable from
no remote-tracking branch, keep the empty-tree path only for genuinely fresh
repos, and split the block message so an unscannable diff is reported as
"could not scan (fail closed)" rather than "credential found — rotate it".

Contributed by @stormeoio (PR #2398).

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

* fix(redact-prepush): preserve the trailing newline handed to chained pre-push.local

The chaining wrapper captured stdin with $(cat), which strips the trailing
newline — a chained shell hook built on `while read` then never entered its
loop for the final (usually only) ref line and exited 0, failing OPEN. Use
the printf-x sentinel so the byte-exact input reaches the chained hook, with
tests covering both the pass-through and the short-circuit paths.

Contributed by @francis-eye (PR #2358).

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

* fix(redact-prepush): close the ext-diff, header-lookalike, and ref-parse bypasses

Three ways the pushed diff escaped scanning: (1) a user-level diff.external
or textconv driver replaced the diff with its own output — zero '+' lines,
so the scan saw nothing (now --no-ext-diff --no-textconv); (2) an added
content line whose text begins with "++" renders as "+++…" and the blanket
header skip dropped it (now hunk-aware header detection); (3) a pre-push
ref line that failed to parse was silently skipped, leaving that ref
unscanned (now fails closed with the offending line named).

Minimal reimplementation of the two confirmed bypasses from PR #2498 by
@lubosxyz (the full PR overlaps the chunked-scan work absorbed separately),
plus the unparseable-ref hardening.

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

* fix(pair-agent): keep the ngrok authtoken out of the transcript and shell argv

The not-authed flow told the user to paste their ngrok authtoken into the
chat so the agent could run `ngrok config add-authtoken` — putting a live
credential in the transcript, tool-call argv, and anything the transcript
syncs to. The user now runs the auth command in their own terminal; the
agent only verifies via `ngrok config check`, and a pasted token triggers a
rotate-and-reauth instruction. A static test pins that no agent-run bash
fence ever contains add-authtoken again.

Fixes #2335.

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

* fix(update-check): crash emits CHECK_FAILED instead of reading as up-to-date

gstack-update-check signals "up to date" with SILENCE, and it runs under
set -e — so any unguarded mid-script failure exited quietly and was
indistinguishable from a current install. Observed live as a 45-release
silent-staleness incident. An ERR trap (with -E so it propagates into
functions) now emits a CHECK_FAILED sentinel naming the line and status,
and exits 0 so caller `|| true` guards can't eat it. Behavioral tests cover
both the crash and the healthy-silent paths; egress-receipt wiring is
untouched and still pinned by test/egress-receipt-wiring.test.ts.

Fixes #1974. (#2378's HEAD-SHA staleness half was already fixed on main by
the ls-remote + SHA-pinned VERSION resolution — close as already-fixed.)

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

* fix(deps): bump diff 7.0.0 → 9.0.0 (GHSA-73rr-hh4g-fpgx parsePatch DoS)

The advisory affects diff 6.x–8.0.2. The only API this repo uses is
Diff.diffLines (browse/src/snapshot.ts:571, browse/src/meta-commands.ts:728),
which is unchanged across the major hop; snapshot tests pass against 9.0.0.

Closes #1588.

Contributed by @genisis0x (PR #1599; VERSION collateral stripped, lockfile
regenerated fresh).

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

* ci(evals): skip eval jobs deterministically on fork PRs

Fork PRs never receive repository secrets, so every API-calling eval failed
at SDK auth — but only when Docker-cache luck let the jobs start at all,
making fork PRs randomly red or grey. Skip the eval and report jobs
explicitly for fork-origin PRs, keep the image BUILD (validates
Dockerfile.ci changes) without the push a fork token can't perform, and
leave full coverage for same-repo PRs, pushes, and dispatches.

Contributed by @andrey-esipov (PR #2345).

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

* fix(extension): deny token/port reads to content-script and foreign senders

background.js answered getPort — port, connected state, AND the browse
server auth token — to any sender that passed the type allowlist,
including content scripts running in web-page context and, behind only
the sender.id check, anything without extension-page provenance. The
getToken sender.tab restriction covered getToken alone, and only after
getPort had already handed out the token.

Single decision point now: extension/sender-auth.js classifies each
message type; the eight privileged types (getPort, setPort, getServerUrl,
getToken, fetchRefs, command, sidebar-command, getTabState) require an
own-extension-page sender (chrome-extension://<own id>/ URL, no
sender.tab, own sender.id). Denied senders get { error: 'unauthorized' }
and nothing else — never the token, never the port. Content-script flows
(elementPicked, pickerCancelled, inspectResult, openSidePanel) are
untouched, and the sidepanel/popup keep the getPort token field their
connect path reads. The policy mirrors the v1.63 server-side model:
AUTH_TOKEN is released only to the pinned extension Origin via
POST /extension-token, so the extension must not re-leak it to contexts
the server would never have trusted.

browse/test/extension-sender-auth.test.ts drives the real background.js
onMessage listener under a chrome stub with four sender shapes (own
extension page, own content script, foreign extension id, missing
sender.url) and pins that denied responses carry no token/port fields,
that a denied setPort never persists, that a denied command never
reaches the network, and that the inspector + tab-state flows keep
working. The helper is loaded via importScripts in the classic service
worker and require()-able from bun tests.

Contributed by @punksterlabs (PR #1822; reimplemented against the v1.63 POST /extension-token pinned-origin model).

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

* test(update-check): fixture links gstack-egress-lib.sh — all 38 tests failed on main

v1.63.0.0 made bin/gstack-update-check source bin/gstack-egress-lib.sh
unconditionally, but the test fixture's GSTACK_DIR only linked gstack-config
— every test died at the source line (0/38 pass on pristine main,
verified). The suite-truncation bug hid it: the runner was killed by an
earlier file's delayed process.exit before this file ran. Link the lib like
the real install layout the script assumes.

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

* fix(browse): capture active-tab state before close() — last-tab auto-create raced the close event

closeTab checked `tabId === this.activeTabId` AFTER awaiting page.close(),
but the page 'close' event handler can fire during that await and reassign
activeTabId — losing the race meant the last-tab auto-create never ran,
leaving the manager with zero tabs. Capture wasActive before closing, and
only reassign activeTabId when it no longer points at a live tab.

Part of the test-integrity repairs unmasked by the suite-truncation fix.

Contributed by @time-attack (PR #2230, browser-manager hunk).

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

* test(browse): delete the orphaned sidebar chat-queue suite; align sidebar-ux/tabs with the PTY-only sidebar

browse/test/sidebar-integration.test.ts tested the /sidebar-command queue
path ripped in v1.14 (34 references to removed endpoints — 11 permanent
failures masked by suite truncation). sidebar-ux.test.ts carried 73 failures
pinning the same dead surface (pickSidebarModel, ANALYSIS_WORDS); the trim
keeps its 108 live tests, including the background.js token/allowlist gates.
sidebar-tabs gets the two matching expectation updates.

Closes #2420, #1980.

Contributed by @time-attack (PR #2230, sidebar hunks; the
security-sidepanel-dom deletion was NOT taken — that suite pins the live
sidepanel DOM surface and passes).

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

* test(browse): align dual-listener and terminal-agent static guards with the current source

Two static-grep guards pinned superseded source shapes and failed once the
suite actually ran them: the tunnel dispatch gate is args-aware since the
--out disk-write ban (canDispatchOverTunnel takes command AND args), and
lazy PTY spawn routes through the maybeSpawnPty helper since v1.44. The
updated assertions pin the current, stricter shapes (open() never spawns;
the helper is the only spawnClaude caller).

Contributed by @time-attack (PR #2230, dual-listener + terminal-agent hunks).

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

* fix(test): remove all 8 delayed process.exit teardown bombs — the tier-1 gate can finally fail

bun test runs every file in ONE process, so a 500ms setTimeout(process.exit(0))
armed in afterAll fired mid-way through a LATER file and killed the entire
suite with exit 0 and no summary — only ~16 of 434 files ran, and every
downstream failure was invisible (observed live throughout this wave's
enumeration). Changes, all guarded by fault injection:

- Replace every delayed-exit teardown with a time-boxed close of the file's
  own browser (8 files across browse/ and design/); stub the daemon
  /shutdown timer instead of letting its unconditional process.exit tear
  the runner down.
- test/no-suicide-exit.test.ts: static tripwire — no *.test.ts may schedule
  a delayed process.exit again.
- test/exit-propagation.test.ts + fixtures: fault injection with REAL bun
  output proves the truncation shape (exit 0, no summary) and that
  scripts/test-free-shards.ts now detects it: a shard exiting 0 WITHOUT
  bun's final summary line is treated as FAILED (exit code alone is not
  evidence of completion).
- handoff: the three headed-mode integration tests are darwin-skipped with
  a pointer to the known macOS headed-launch breakage (#2242/#2554); they
  keep running on Linux CI. Un-skip in the browse-daemon wave.
- feedback-roundtrip: repair the handler call sites unmasked by the fix —
  handlers take (command, args, session, bm); passing the manager where a
  session belongs broke all six tests.
- user-slug-fallback: HOME isolation makes endpoint_hash deterministic.

Fixes #2421, #2435.

Contributed by @sneakygriff (PR #2172) with repairs from @time-attack
(PR #2230 feedback-roundtrip hunks); supersedes PR #2252 by @whd4 (same
defect, credited).

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

* test: include design/test/ in the free suite and the sharded runner

design/test was absent from both the package.json test globs and TEST_ROOTS
in scripts/test-free-shards.ts — its tests (including one of the teardown
bombs removed in the previous commit) never ran in any CI or local free
run, so design fixes could ship without their unit tests executing.

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

* fix(make-pdf): reject directories when resolving the browse binary

access(X_OK) is true for directories (they carry the execute/traverse
bit on POSIX and pass the Windows existence check too), so cwd-dependent
resolution could pick the ~/.claude/skills/browse alias DIRECTORY as the
browse binary. Every browse call then exited 4 with empty stderr, which
make-pdf surfaced as "Chromium failed to launch" against a perfectly
healthy Chromium (#2156). Guard isExecutable with statSync().isFile()
so only regular files qualify.

Contributed by @jwilk-hrep (PR #2538).

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

* fix(make-pdf): write browse-bound temp files under the safe-dirs allowlist

os.tmpdir() on macOS resolves to /var/folders/..., which fails browse's
safe-dirs validation ([/tmp, cwd]) since the v1.6.0.0 --from-file
tightening. Default PDF output (generate with no -o), the preview HTML,
tmpFile() scratch files, and setup's smoke-test fixture/output all wrote
there, so browse rejected the paths it was asked to read or write.
Export PAYLOAD_TMP_DIR from browseClient (the existing TEMP_DIR
convention: os.tmpdir() on Windows, /tmp elsewhere) and route
orchestrator.ts and setup.ts temp files through it.

Contributed by @lvthewah (PR #2505; the browse-binary directory guard
from that PR landed separately via PR #2538).

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

* fix(make-pdf): stop URLs swallowing smartypants placeholders

A bare autolinked URL (<a href="X">X</a>) has zero whitespace between
the URL text and its own closing tag. TAG_RE carves that </a> into a
NUL-delimited SMARTPANTS_PRESERVED placeholder BEFORE the URL pass
runs, and URL_RE's \S+ swallowed the adjacent placeholder into the URL
match. The restore pass is single-shot, so the inner placeholder never
restored: raw "SMARTPANTS_PRESERVED_N" text leaked into the rendered
link, the </a> vanished, and link-blue styling bled into the rest of
the document (#2084). Excluding the NUL sentinel (\u0000) from the URL
character class stops the match from crossing into an already-carved
zone.

Contributed by @marshaung (PR #2280; PR #2339 by @BrendaB24 covered the
same smartypants defect).

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

* fix(make-pdf): no blank first page when content precedes the first H1

Two paths put invisible content ahead of the first H1 and cost users a
blank page 1 (#1904):

- A visually-empty preamble (leading <style> block, HTML comment)
  became its own .chapter. That section took the `.chapter:first-of-type
  { break-before: auto }` exception, so the first real chapter inherited
  `break-before: page` and started on page 2. Non-rendering preambles
  now fold into the first real chapter (markup preserved, no page
  break); real text preambles keep their own chapter.
- Leading YAML frontmatter rendered as a literal paragraph of body text
  on its own first page (marked has no frontmatter awareness). It is
  now stripped before parsing; a `---` thematic break elsewhere is
  untouched.

Contributed by @jbetala7 (PR #1913).

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

* fix(browse): allow about:blank so a restarted daemon can initialise

The daemon opens its own first tab on about:blank, so blocking it in
validateNavigationUrl meant a restarted daemon could never recreate the
blank tab it starts from — and `browse newtab about:blank`, which
`make-pdf setup` runs as its Chromium smoke test, failed and surfaced
as "Chromium failed to launch" against a healthy browser.

Allow about:blank ONLY, never the about: scheme: about:blank has no
origin, loads nothing and runs nothing, while about:config and friends
are real surfaces. Exact href match (lower-cased, since the URL parser
normalises the protocol but not the opaque part), so about:blankfoo
stays blocked.

Contributed by @jwilk-hrep (PR #2537).

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

* fix(design): drop gpt-image-2 tool model that 400s under the gpt-4o orchestrator

The Responses API rejects pairing a gpt-4o orchestrator with an
image_generation tool spec'd as model: "gpt-image-2" (400
invalid_request_error), which took every design image call offline —
generate, variants, iterate (both threaded and fresh paths), evolve,
and /design-shotgun (#1771). gpt-image-2 is only valid under a gpt-5
orchestrator; with gpt-4o the tool must omit the model field (defaults
to gpt-image-1).

Remove the model field at all five call sites and add a static-grep
tripwire test (design/test/image-gen-pairing.test.ts) that fails CI if
any design/src module reintroduces the gpt-4o + gpt-image-2 pairing.
Re-enabling gpt-image-2 later requires bumping the orchestrator off
gpt-4o in the same diff, which the tripwire permits.

Contributed by @Pablosinyores (PR #1773).

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

* fix(design): variants AbortError message reports the real 240s timeout

generateVariant arms its abort at 240_000 ms but the AbortError branch
returned "Timeout (120s)" — off by 2x, so a user staring at the failure
could not tell whether to bump the timeout, retry, or drop the call.
Report the actual configured bound, and pin it with a test that forces
the abort path (fast-forwarding only the 240_000 ms timer) and asserts
the surfaced string matches.

Contributed by @vryahn (PR #1774).

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

* fix(memory-ingest): stop silently ingesting 0 pages — include gitignored staging, reconcile counts

Pages stage into ~/.gstack/.staging-ingest-*/ inside a repo whose .gitignore
is `*`, and gbrain import honours .gitignore — so it collected 0 files,
imported nothing, and the ingest still reported "written: N" from the STAGED
count while advancing state, meaning no future run ever retried. Three
layers now: (1) pass --include-gitignored (root cause); (2) if the installed
gbrain predates the flag, retry without it (subcommand --help is generic, so
the attempt is the only probe) with an upgrade pointer; (3) reconcile
gbrain's imported+unchanged accounting against the staged count and REFUSE
to advance state on a shortfall, naming the gitignore collision.

Fixes #2144, #2104.

Contributed by @gawievanblerk (PR #2560) and @Charles-Grant (PR #2486).

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

* fix(autoplan): task aggregator returned zero tasks on every run — jq scope bug

Inside ($commits | split("|") | ...) the "." context is the split ARRAY, so
the filter's bare .commit raised "Cannot index array with string" on every
record — and the 2>/dev/null swallowed it, so aggregation silently produced
zero tasks no matter how many the reviews emitted. Bind .commit to $c before
the pipe. Reproduced live before the fix; regenerated autoplan/SKILL.md.

Fixes #2018.

Contributed by @kkroo (PR #2416; regenerated against the current template).

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

* fix(session-update): un-wedge auto-upgrade — autostash over local patches, log the pull's real reason

On a normal install the tracked files ARE locally patched (skill-prefix
name rewrites, gbrain-refresh blocks), so the bare `git pull --ff-only`
refused on every run and auto-upgrade froze forever — observed as 308
consecutive PULL_FAILED entries with the reason discarded by 2>/dev/null.
Pull now runs --autostash (local patches ride over the update and pop back),
stderr is captured into the log so a genuine failure names its cause, an
autostash pop conflict recovers to a clean tree and re-renders the patches
(gstack-patch-names + gbrain-refresh, both idempotent), and a successful
pull re-renders them as a self-heal. Behavioral tests cover the wedge shape
and the reason logging.

Fixes #2566.

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

* test: raise the free-suite per-test timeout to 30s

bun's 5s default is fine for a file run solo, but the monolithic free suite
shares one process across 100+ files whose browser instances contend for
launch slots — Playwright tests that pass in isolation time out mid-suite.
30s matches the ceiling the enumeration runs used; the sharded runner
(test:free) is unaffected.

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

* fix(question-log): parse native AskUserQuestion answers — every native answer logged as __unknown__

Current Claude Code returns AskUserQuestion results as an OBJECT map keyed
by question text ({answers: {question: label}}); the hook only handled the
legacy array shapes, so 86% of live records carried user_choice __unknown__
— and the bin then scored every one as followed_recommendation false,
silently poisoning plan-tune metrics. Adds the object-map extraction (exact
+ whitespace-normalized + single-question pairing, multiSelect joins,
annotations as free_text), strips the (Recommended) suffix from BOTH sides
of the comparison, skips the computation entirely on extraction failure,
and logs unrecognized shapes to hook-errors.log instead of embedding them
in the record.

Fixes #2336, #2206.

Based on the working patch in #2336 by @yijisoo; suffix comparison fix
contributed by @chuchu2781 (PR #2400).

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

* fix(slug): canonicalize slash branches to dash form — review history stops splitting

Branch-name sanitization disagreed across gstack (four incompatible rules),
so reviews for the same slash-named branch landed in multiple files and the
ship dashboard missed entries. gstack-slug now canonicalizes / to - in one
place, and ship's review lookup routes through it; goldens regenerated
against the current templates.

Fixes #1127, #2550.

Contributed by @ShuratCode (PR #2465; duplicate fixes by @xrfael-dev and
two others in PRs #1851/#1699/#1621, credited).

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

* fix(slug): resolve the project root by marker walk-up — subdirectory sessions stop misfiling state

gstack-slug derived everything from pwd, so a session in a subdirectory got
the subdir's basename as its slug (or an outer monorepo's remote), misfiling
reviews/decisions/learnings under a phantom project — and the per-pwd cache
made the wrong answer permanent. The resolver now walks up from pwd:
outermost STRONG marker wins (.git, package.json, pyproject.toml, Cargo.toml,
Gemfile, go.mod, .project.yaml), weak content markers (README, LICENSE) catch
non-code project folders, deploy artifacts are deliberately not markers, and
GSTACK_PROJECT_SLUG remains the escape hatch. The cache self-heals on
mismatch. Main-side invariants preserved on top: the unconditional
[a-zA-Z0-9._-] re-sanitize before echo and slash→dash branch canonicalization.

Fixes #1125.

Contributed by @ajeenkya (PR #1702; rebased over the sanitize and
branch-canonicalization work that landed after it).

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

* fix(hooks): shared spawn-bin helper — all three AskUserQuestion hooks were inert on Windows

The plan-tune hooks resolved bin scripts via new URL(import.meta.url).pathname
(which doubles the drive letter on Windows: /C:/C:/...) and spawnSync'd
extensionless bash scripts directly (unrunnable without a shell association)
— so question logging, preferences, and the error fallback all silently
no-op'd on Windows, and /plan-tune collected no data. A single spawn-bin.ts
helper now owns bin resolution (fileURLToPath) and win32 bash routing for
every hook, with static tripwires so a future hook can't reintroduce the
raw pattern. This is the one Windows-spawn idiom for hook code.

Fixes #2356.

Contributed by @rafassousa (PR #2504; supersedes PR #2399 by @chuchu2781).

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

* feat(model-overlays): add fable-5, opus-4-8, and sonnet-5 overlays + resolver mappings

model-overlays/ had no entry for the current Claude generation, so every
session on a Claude 5 family or Opus 4.8 model fell through to the generic
claude.md nudges. Adds the three overlays with resolver mappings and
per-overlay tests; generated output for the default host is unchanged
(overlays activate by detected model).

Closes #2509.

Contributed by @chrisquorum (PRs #2246, #2243, #2247).

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

* fix(windows): grant icacls ACEs by *SID, not unqualified username

An unqualified username handed to icacls is ambiguous: on a machine whose
hostname equals the username (a common Windows setup), it resolves to the
MACHINE account instead of the user. Combined with /inheritance:r, that
leaves ~/.gstack with a single ACE matching nobody — the process that just
"secured" the directory locks itself out, and icacls still reports success.

Both icacls sites in the repo (restrictFilePermissions and
restrictDirectoryPermissions in browse/src/file-permissions.ts — the only
icacls call sites; setup has none) now grant via icacls' literal-SID form
`*<SID>`, resolved once per process from System32\whoami.exe (pinned to
System32 because a bare `whoami` under a bash-flavoured PATH picks up the
MSYS build, which rejects /user). Fallback when the SID can't be resolved
is the domain-qualified `USERDOMAIN\username` name, which is unambiguous
where the bare username was not.

Windows-only regression tests assert the hardened directory stays usable
by the calling process (readdir + write), which is exactly the check that
a not-toThrow assertion sailed past before.

Contributed by @asizux2 (PR #2479); the same defect was independently fixed by @Icandi40, @chiragborse1, @IntegriGit and @voltapix26.

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

* fix(windows): forward windowsHide through the bun-polyfill spawn shims

windowsHide is the one spawn option where Node's default is the opposite
of Bun's: Node shows the child's console window, Bun.spawn hides it.
The polyfill's spawn and spawnSync shims dropped the option entirely, so
the Node fallback path (dist/bun-polyfill.cjs) silently inverted the
behavior on the one platform the shim exists to serve — every watchdog
respawn of the terminal agent popped a visible bun.exe console window.

Three sites fixed:
- Bun.spawnSync shim: forwards windowsHide with Bun-matching default true
- Bun.spawn shim: same (stdio:'ignore' silences output but does NOT
  suppress the console window on Windows)
- spawnTerminalAgent in terminal-agent-control.ts: explicit
  windowsHide: true, so the Node fallback path behaves like Bun-native

An explicit windowsHide: false is honored at both shims. Three focused
tests pin the default-true, default-true-sync, and explicit-false paths
by intercepting child_process in a subprocess; the test file's require
path now uses forward slashes so it survives interpolation into a JS
string literal on Windows.

Supersedes PRs #2523, #2294 and #2290, which each covered a subset of
these sites.

Contributed by @jerrynicholsai (PR #2539); earlier fixes by @jwilk-hrep, @rroojrooj and @WimvandenHeijkant covered subsets of the same sites.

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

* fix(watchdog): signal-0 liveness, tick-scaled respawn guard, windowsHide

Three-bug chain behind the Windows terminal-agent leak (console window
strobing every 60s, one orphaned agent per watchdog tick until the box
ran out of committable memory):

1. isProcessAlive shelled out to `tasklist /FI "PID eq <pid>"` on Windows
   with a 3s timeout. A Bun.spawnSync that hits its timeout still RETURNS
   with partial stdout, so the `.includes()` PID match read a LIVE agent
   as dead — killAgentByRecord skipped the kill, the watchdog respawned
   around the survivor, and every orphan slowed the next tasklist enough
   to produce the next false negative. Now: `process.kill(pid, 0)` on
   every platform (Node and Bun both map signal 0 to an OpenProcess
   existence check on Windows), with EPERM counted as alive. No
   subprocess, no timeout, no console window.

2. The respawn circuit-breaker was mathematically unreachable — verified
   in this tree: RESPAWN_GUARD_WINDOW_MS was a fixed 60_000 against a
   60_000ms default tick, and each tick pushes at most one respawn
   timestamp, so three pushes span ~120s and can never coexist inside a
   60s window (eviction is strict `>`, and setInterval drift plus
   per-tick work always ages the prior entry past the boundary). The
   guard could not fire at the default tick rate and a steady
   one-per-tick leak ran unbounded. The window now scales with the tick:
   max(60_000, tick * (RESPAWN_GUARD_MAX + 2)), so "3 crashes in quick
   succession → stop" holds at any tick value.

3. The tasklist probe popped a visible console per tick (no windowsHide).
   Removing the shell-out kills that site; the agent-spawn site itself
   already passes windowsHide: true (landed with the bun-polyfill
   windowsHide commit — PR #2414's terminal-agent-control.ts hunk is
   reconciled there rather than duplicated).

New browse/test/process-liveness-windows.test.ts pins all three: no
subprocess from the probe, a static tripwire against reintroducing
`tasklist` + `PID eq` liveness checks in src/, the spawnTerminalAgent
windowsHide + stdio contract, and the window-derived-from-tick
arithmetic. terminal-agent-watchdog.test.ts test 4 now pins the
window/tick relationship instead of the fixed literal that let this
ship. Also converts `new URL(import.meta.url).pathname` to
`import.meta.path` across the static-grep tests it touches — the
pathname form yields /C:/... on Windows and breaks path.resolve.

Contributed by @SYKhayyat (PR #2414).

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

* fix(terminal-agent): tie agent lifetime to its owning browse server PID

The terminal agent is intentionally detached so it survives the
short-lived CLI launcher, but its real owner is the persistent browse
server. If that server crashed or was killed before running normal
shutdown, the agent was adopted by PID 1 and lived forever (#2019).

spawnTerminalAgent now requires an ownerPid and exports it to the agent
as BROWSE_OWNER_PID; all three spawn sites pass the server PID (cli.ts
cold-start, cli.ts supervisor respawn, server.ts watchdog). The agent
polls the owner with signal 0 every 15s (GSTACK_TERMINAL_OWNER_WATCHDOG_MS
to tune) on an unref'd timer and, when the owner disappears, exits
through the SAME cleanup path as an intentional SIGTERM shutdown — now
re-entrancy-guarded and also removing the terminal-internal-token file
alongside the port file and agent record.

Runtime test spawns a real agent tied to a throwaway owner process,
kills the owner, and asserts the agent exits and its discovery files
(terminal-agent-pid, terminal-port) are gone.

Reconciled with the watchdog commit's spawnTerminalAgent contract test
(process-liveness-windows.test.ts now passes ownerPid and pins the
BROWSE_OWNER_PID env forwarding).

Closes #2019.

Contributed by @csarigoz (PR #2530).

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

* fix(windows): give the bun-polyfill spawn shim a real `exited` promise

Bun.spawn exposes `proc.exited` as a Promise resolving to the exit code.
The Node fallback shim (dist/bun-polyfill.cjs) returned no such field, so
every `await proc.exited` on the Windows path resolved instantly to
undefined — the Windows cookie picker (cookie-import-browser.ts races
proc.exited at three sites) read stdout before the child produced it and
silent-failed; browser-skill-commands and terminal-agent hit the same
class.

The shim now:
- drains stdout/stderr eagerly into capped in-memory buffers (Node's
  Readables are pull-based; without draining, a child writing past the
  OS pipe buffer blocks in write() and 'exit' never fires), replaying
  them as fresh single-shot Web ReadableStreams so reads work before or
  after awaiting exit;
- caps the buffer at 16 MB (GSTACK_SPAWN_MAX_BUFFER to override), still
  draining past the cap so a runaway child can't wedge or OOM;
- resolves `exited` with Bun-matching codes (exit code, 128+signal, 1 on
  spawn error) after both pipes finish, and resolves on 'error' too —
  Node fires 'error' without 'exit' when the binary is missing, which
  otherwise hangs the await forever.

Six tests pin exit codes, the read-after-exit ordering, spawn-failure
resolution, the buffer cap, and the large-output drain. Adapted to the
current test file (require path goes through the requirePath variable
from the windowsHide commit), and the 1 MB drain test's child now exits
in the write callback — on modern Node a pipe write past the OS buffer
is async and process.exit() straight after write() truncates at ~64 KB
even with a live reader, which fails the test for reasons unrelated to
the shim.

Contributed by @punksterlabs (PR #1743).

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

* fix(setup): BROWSE_BIN carries the .exe suffix on Windows

On Windows, `bun build --compile` emits browse.exe, but setup's
BROWSE_BIN pointed at the suffixless path — so the post-build gate
(`[ ! -x "$BROWSE_BIN" ]` → "browse binary missing") could never pass on
Windows even after a fully successful build, while the build step itself
reported success. Closes #2291.

Applied the PR's override after the IS_WINDOWS detection, and also to
the second BROWSE_BIN assignment the PR predates: the direct-Codex-
install migration path re-derives BROWSE_BIN from the migrated dir and
would otherwise drop the suffix again on Windows.

Contributed by @rroojrooj (PR #1714).

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

* fix(setup): link lib/ beside bin/ at all five host-install sites

bin/ scripts import shared modules via ../lib (gstack-learnings-log →
lib/jsonl-store.ts is the reported case), so any runtime root that
exposes bin/ without lib/ breaks 13 bin/ commands — learnings-log,
decision-log, telemetry and friends fail with "Cannot find module
.../lib/jsonl-store.ts" on every non-Claude install, silently from the
skills' perspective.

All five host-install sites now carry lib/ next to bin/, each through
the existing _link_or_copy helper (never raw ln — the static invariant
in test/setup-windows-fallback.test.ts enforces this):

- .agents sidecar (create_agents_sidecar asset loop)
- Codex runtime root (create_codex_runtime_root)
- Factory runtime root (create_factory_runtime_root)
- OpenCode runtime root (create_opencode_runtime_root)
- Kiro install block

New test/setup-runtime-lib-command.test.ts executes the real setup shell
for each root in a sandbox (both the symlink branch and the Windows copy
branch of _link_or_copy) and runs gstack-learnings-log end-to-end from
the installed root, asserting the learning lands in
~/.gstack/projects/<slug>/learnings.jsonl — plus a negative control
proving a bin-without-lib root fails exactly the way the bug report did.
gen-skill-docs.test.ts's setup-validation block pins the lib link at
every site. Cross-checked against PRs #2433, #2410 and #2198: all three
cover subsets of these sites; nothing they fix is missing here.

Contributed by @fedster99 (PR #2262); overlapping fixes by @gregario, @lsendel and @netkurt.

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

* fix(setup): ship supabase/config.sh with every host runtime root

Distinct from the lib/-beside-bin/ defect: gstack-telemetry-sync,
gstack-update-check, gstack-security-dashboard and
gstack-community-dashboard all source $GSTACK_DIR/supabase/config.sh to
resolve GSTACK_SUPABASE_URL, where GSTACK_DIR is the installed root
(parent of bin/). The [ -f ... ] guard means a root without the file
degrades SILENTLY — telemetry and update checks just stop resolving the
project URL on non-Claude installs. Closes #2215.

setup now links supabase/config.sh (file-level on purpose — migrations/
and functions/ are dev-only) via _link_or_copy at all five host-install
sites: the PR's four (Codex, Factory, OpenCode runtime roots + the Kiro
block) plus the .agents sidecar, whose bin/ resolves the same relative
path and which the PR predates covering.

The runtime-root test now asserts supabase/config.sh is present in
every built root, on both the symlink and Windows-copy branches.

Contributed by @jizusun (PR #2216).

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

* ci(windows): curate the fix-wave regression tests into the windows-latest run

The windows-free-tests curated set is derived (POSIX-fragility regex scan
+ explicit deny list), and two of this wave's Windows regression files
were auto-excluded on false-positive pattern hits:

- browse/test/file-permissions.test.ts tripped the POSIX-mode-bitmask
  pattern, but every `mode & 0o777` assertion is platform-guarded — and
  the file carries the win32-only icacls-by-SID regression tests, which
  can only ever execute on windows-latest.
- browse/test/terminal-agent-owner-watchdog.test.ts tripped the
  spawn(['bun','run',...]) pattern whose reason is the Playwright-bound
  browse server; it actually spawns terminal-agent.ts (fs/path/crypto +
  local helpers only, no Playwright at module scope), and the owner-PID
  orphan leak it pins was reported on Windows (#2019).

Adds a KNOWN_WINDOWS_SAFE force-include list (mirror of
KNOWN_WINDOWS_INCOMPATIBLE, each entry carrying its false-positive
rationale) consulted before the pattern scan, and makes the
owner-watchdog test's throwaway owner process Windows-portable
(process.execPath instead of `sleep`, which a bare runner may not have).

The wave's other new files need no wiring: process-liveness-windows and
the bun-polyfill windowsHide/exited tests pass curation automatically;
setup-runtime-lib-command self-skips on win32 by design (its Windows
branch is exercised by simulating IS_WINDOWS=1 under bash), so
force-including it would add a permanently-skipped file.

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

* fix(setup): register the SessionStart hook with a bash prefix on Windows

Windows can't execute an extensionless bash script directly — registering
the bare gstack-session-update path made the hook pop the "Select an app"
dialog on every session start (or silently never run), so team-mode
auto-upgrade was dead on Windows installs. Companion to the hooks'
spawn-bin routing: same defect class at the registration site.

Contributed by @NikhileshNanduri (PR #1813; VERSION/CHANGELOG collateral
stripped).

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

* fix(setup): stop piping gen:skill-docs through tail — generator failures were masked

setup piped doc generation through `tail -3`, so a generator crash kept the
pipe's exit 0 and installs completed "successfully" with broken or missing
SKILL.md files. Capture the real exit status at BOTH sites (the main
gen:skill-docs step and the gbrain-detected gen:skill-docs:user regen —
the second drifted in after the PR and its own test caught it), print the
tail for UX, and fail loudly.

Contributed by @DavidMiserak (PR #1898; VERSION/CHANGELOG collateral
stripped; extended to the second pipe site).

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

* fix(mktemp): move the X-run to the end of every temp-file template (BSD/busybox safe)

BSD mktemp (macOS) does not substitute an X-run that has a suffix after it:
`mktemp "$TMP_ROOT/codex-err-XXXXXX.txt"` creates a LITERAL
codex-err-XXXXXX.txt on the first call (exit 0) and every later call fails
with `mkstemp failed: File exists` — so /codex breaks from the SECOND run on
every Mac, masquerading as a model stall. busybox mktemp (Alpine) rejects the
template on the first run. Fixes #2091, #2370.

Union of both community fixes, compared at the diff level:
- PR #2372: all 11 source sites with a suffix after the X-run — codex
  SKILL.md.tmpl (5), claude SKILL.md.tmpl (3), bin/gstack-developer-profile
  (2, suffix folded into the prefix: .json.tmp.XXXXXX), and the office-hours
  codex pass in scripts/resolvers/review.ts (1).
- PR #2103: the second half of #2091 — bin/gstack-paths now strips the
  trailing slash from TMP_ROOT at the source (macOS $TMPDIR ends in `/`),
  plus runtime tests pinning that normalization.

New repo-wide tripwire in test/regression-issue2091-bsd-mktemp.test.ts:
every .tmpl, every SKILL.md, and every scripts/resolvers/*.ts is swept —
no mktemp template may carry a suffix after the X-run, with a self-test so
the detector can't be quietly blinded. Generated SKILL.md files regenerated
via gen:skill-docs in this commit.

Contributed by @ShuratCode (PR #2103) and @noron12234 (PR #2372); PR #2285 by @cathrynlavery covered a subset.

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

* fix(codex,review,ship): scope codex review with an explicit --base flag, never prompt text

`codex review` takes its scope ONLY from --base/--commit/--uncommitted. The
positional [PROMPT] is mutually exclusive with all three, and a prompt-only
`codex review "<text>"` silently falls back to the uncommitted working-tree
scope (verified on 0.144.1: it runs `git status --short; git diff` and
reviews that) — so the previous prompt-based scoping produced a
confidently-worded review of the WRONG changes and read "no changes" on a
clean tree. Every diff pass now invokes `codex review --base <base>` with no
prompt argument: /codex Step 2A default path, the /review structured pass,
and the /ship adversarial-section pass (all via scripts/resolvers/review.ts).

Custom review instructions keep their own `codex exec` path (the CLI rejects
prompt + scope flag together), with the filesystem boundary preserved there.
Two new Error Handling entries teach the failure shapes: the argv-parse
error, and the "review says no changes on a branch full of changes" symptom.

Tests updated to pin the new invariant instead of banning the fix: the old
assertions required the diff range in prompt text and banned the
`--base <base> -c '...'` substring, which the correct scoped form contains.
Also deletes test/fixtures/golden-ship-claude.md — a 2,565-line orphaned
fixture referenced by zero tests (the live goldens are in
test/fixtures/golden/, compared by test/host-config.test.ts); the factory
golden is refreshed from the regenerated output. Generated SKILL.md files
regenerated via gen:skill-docs in this commit.

Contributed by @fangearhq-boop (PR #2513).

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

* fix(review,ship): run the codex diff passes under the timeout wrapper (#1036)

The `_gstack_codex_timeout_wrapper` added in #1056 was wired into
codex/SKILL.md but never into the /review and /ship diff passes, which kept
running under a bare 5-minute Bash gate. An unwrapped stall returns no exit
code and no output, which downstream reads as "Codex reviewed and found
nothing" — a truncated pass silently became a clean bill. Measured on
codex-cli 0.145.0: a pass was killed at 287s of a 300s budget mid-tool-call,
and the same prompt completed in 336s.

Both passes in scripts/resolvers/review.ts (adversarial `codex exec` and the
structured `codex review --base` pass) now re-source gstack-codex-probe and
run under `_gstack_codex_timeout_wrapper 540`, with the Bash tool gate raised
to 600000 ms so the wrapper fires FIRST and a stall surfaces as a diagnosable
exit 124. The timeout guidance now says a timed-out pass is MISSING COVERAGE,
not a clean result, and points at the run's rollout log under
~/.codex/sessions/ for partial output. The stale "timeout doesn't exist on
macOS" claim is gone — the wrapper resolves gtimeout, then timeout, then runs
unwrapped, so it is safe without coreutils.

Static guards in test/codex-hardening.test.ts pin all three sites (resolver,
review/SKILL.md, ship/sections/adversarial.md): both calls wrapped, wrapper
budget strictly under the Bash gate, and no reappearance of the macOS claim
that steered these call sites away from the wrapper in the first place. The
Claude-output path guard in test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts now scrubs
~/.codex/sessions/ (a user-facing Codex CLI path, same class as the
~/.codex/logs/ exemption) before banning Codex host paths. Generated files
regenerated via gen:skill-docs; factory golden refreshed.

Contributed by @aegixx (PR #2379).

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

* fix(codex): sandbox the review path, fail the gate closed, order timeouts wrapper-first

Closes #2496, #2524, #2477 — three defects in the class "a guard that
reports success while doing nothing", all in codex/SKILL.md.tmpl:

(a) Review sandbox. The default `codex review` path was the only codex call
with no sandbox override, inheriting ~/.codex/config.toml's default — write
access on a trusted project — while Important Rules claimed read-only.
Top-level `codex review` has no -s/--sandbox flag (verified on 0.147.0), so
the invocation now pins `-c 'sandbox_mode="read-only"'`, the same form the
consult-resume path already uses.

(b) Fail-closed verdict gate. The old rule ("no [P1] found → PASS") could
not fail on the default path: native `codex review` output carries no
bracketed tags, and a non-zero exit, expired auth, timeout, or empty result
also contains no [P1] — all read as PASS. The gate is now an ordered,
fail-closed check: non-zero exit → FAIL; empty output → FAIL; [P0]/[P1]
(bracketed or codex's native labels) → FAIL with count; NO severity tags at
all → FAIL requiring a human read; PASS is only reachable through the
explicit tagged-advisory-only branch. [P0] is recognized as blocking, and
the review-log findings count includes it.

(c) Bash gate above the wrapper. Step 2A instructed `timeout: 300000` under
a 330s wrapper, and Challenge's 300s gate sat under a 600s wrapper — the
harness killed the call before the wrapper could emit its diagnosable
exit-124 message. Every Bash gate now sits strictly ABOVE its wrapper:
360000 over the 330s review wrapper, 660000 over the 600s challenge/consult
wrappers, with the ordering rationale stated at each site.

Also from #2477/#2524: a new Error Handling entry for the model-entitlement
400 ("The '<model>' model is not supported...") pointing at the `model =`
pin and `[notice.model_migrations]` in ~/.codex/config.toml and saying
exactly which override to retry with (-m for exec-based modes,
`-c model="..."` for review mode, which rejects -m); the Model & Reasoning
section no longer documents `-m` for `/codex review`.

Static assertions in test/codex-hardening.test.ts pin (a)-(c) across both
the .tmpl and the generated SKILL.md: every scoped review invocation carries
sandbox_mode="read-only" and never -s; the default-PASS sentence is banned
and the fail-closed branches are present; and per-section, every Bash
`timeout: N` is strictly greater than every wrapper budget, with 2A/2B/2C
all required to be inspected. Generated SKILL.md regenerated via
gen:skill-docs in this commit.

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

* fix(preamble): quoted tilde made Artifacts Sync and telemetry-finalize dead code in 49 skills

A tilde inside double quotes never expands, so the generated
`_BRAIN_SYNC_BIN="~/..."` assignments resolved to a literal ./~ path and
the Artifacts Sync + telemetry-finalize blocks silently no-op'd in every
skill that carried them (regression of #785). The preamble resolvers now
emit $HOME-based paths; all generated SKILL.md files regenerate identically
from the fixed templates, and a static tripwire fails the suite if a
quoted-tilde assignment ever reappears in generated output.

Fixes #1656, #1715.

Contributed by @jawadakram20 (PR #2333).

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

* fix(gen-skill-docs): stop the catalog trim chopping descriptions at embedded periods

The description-trim regex treated the first period as end-of-sentence, so
skill descriptions with embedded periods (e.g. file extensions, version
numbers) truncated mid-thought in the generated catalog — the discovery
surface every host loads. Trim now respects the full first sentence;
diagram's description regenerates to its intended text.

Contributed by @sneakygriff (PR #2171).

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

* fix(preamble): update_check:false gates the prose, not just the binary

Setting update_check:false stopped the update-check BINARY from running,
but every skill preamble still shipped the upgrade-handling instruction
prose unconditionally — burning tokens on instructions that could never
fire and confusing agents into probing for upgrades anyway. The resolver
now suppresses the upgrade-flow prose when the config disables checks.

Fixes #2001.

Contributed by @jc0d35 (PR #2022).

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

* fix(browse): sidebar Terminal — drop the duplicate WS subprotocol header, stop doubling CJK IME input

The terminal client passed the auth token as the WS subprotocol AND echoed
it in a second header, which some Chromium builds reject; and composition
events double-sent CJK input (each IME commit arrived once from the
composition handler and once from the data handler). One auth path, one
input path; also fixes the terminal-agent test that failed on clean main.

Contributed by @mindsurf0176 (PR #2515).

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

* fix(setup): -h/--help prints usage instead of running the installer

Asking setup for help RAN the full installer — Playwright download and all.
Standard help flags now short-circuit to usage.

Contributed by @saen-ai (PR #1219).

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

* fix(hosts): Codex-generated skills reference AGENTS.md, not CLAUDE.md

Codex reads AGENTS.md, but its generated skills still told agents to read
CLAUDE.md in 8 places — instructions Codex hosts cannot follow. The host
config now maps the memory-file name per host; all three ship goldens
refreshed from the regenerated output.

Contributed by @exGeni (PR #1996).

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

* fix(retro,ship): count tracked files for the test-file metric, not the working tree

The test-file count ran find over the working tree, sweeping untracked
build output — a Rails repo reported 623 test files when git tracks 17
(37x), skewing retro narratives and ship dashboards. Count via git ls-files
instead; includes the one-line Python-glob widening so non-JS repos stop
undercounting.

Fixes #2307, #1999.

Contributed by @joshRpowell (PR #2308).

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

* fix(land-and-deploy,gen): auto-merge diagnosis + CRLF-stable generation

Two small hardenings: land-and-deploy Step 4 no longer misdiagnoses a
failed `gh pr merge --auto` as a permissions problem when the real cause is
the merge-method mismatch the command names; and gen-skill-docs normalizes
CRLF at the template entry point so Windows checkouts with autocrlf produce
byte-identical generated output to CI instead of silently skipping the
\n-anchored transforms.

Contributed by @Jmeg8r (PR #2437) and @1ncludeSteven (PR #1051).

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

* fix(land-and-deploy): stop greedy sed from eating the URL scheme in deploy-config parsing

The deploy-config bootstrap parsed "Production URL: https://x.com" with
sed 's/.*: *//', which cuts at the LAST colon — the one in "https:" —
yielding "//x.com". Cut at the first ": " instead (s/^[^:]*: *//).

Resolver only; the generated land-and-deploy/SKILL.md regenerates from
this source in the docs lane.

Contributed by @briascoi (PRs #2555/#2493).

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

* fix(artifacts-init): honor the provider CLI's git_protocol instead of forcing SSH

gstack-artifacts-init unconditionally rewrote the push remote to SSH and
hard-failed setup for users whose gh/glab auth is HTTPS-only. Now:

- provider-created remotes follow `gh config get git_protocol` /
  `glab config get git_protocol` (HTTPS when unset — the gh default)
- explicit/existing/manual remotes keep their given protocol; unknown
  URL forms (local bare paths, file://, self-hosted) pass through
- new --push-protocol auto|https|ssh flag overrides the inference
- the unreachable-remote error names the actual protocol and points at
  --push-protocol instead of assuming a missing SSH key

Closes #1348.

Contributed by @time-attack (PR #2225).

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

* fix(browse): skip the .gitignore append when git already ignores .gstack/

ensureStateDir appended ".gstack/" to a tracked .gitignore even when git
already ignored the directory via global excludes, .git/info/exclude, or a
parent .gitignore — dirtying the working tree on every daemon start. Run
`git check-ignore -q -- .gstack/` first and return early when git says it's
covered; git-missing/not-a-repo/timeout all fall through to the existing
text-check append (the safe default).

Closes #2385.

Contributed by @gregario (PR #2430).

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

* fix(browse): guard browser.process() in resolveDisconnectCause

`.process()` only exists on browsers Playwright launched itself; a browser
from connectOverCDP() (or a test stub) has no such method, so the blind call
threw "browser?.process is not a function" inside the disconnect handler and
took down the daemon. Type-check the method before calling it and treat the
no-method case as no process handle.

Closes #2085.

Contributed by @elan2002 (PR #2434).

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

* fix(lib): narrow the override injection denylist to instruction-shaped phrases

The /override[:\s]/i pattern flagged any prose containing "override " or
"override:" — CLI flags (--port-override -1), tfvars notes, and plain
"you can override the default region" all tripped the injection guard.
Require an instruction-shaped continuation: "override (all)? previous |
prior | above | the rules/instructions/system prompt". Genuine attempts
like "Override: ignore all previous instructions" still block via the
ignore-previous pattern.

Closes #2401, #1934.

Contributed by @Masashi-Ono0611 (PR #2424); same fix independently by
@JonasFocus (PR #1940).

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

* fix(redact): stop the E.164 phone pattern flagging compact timestamps

Bare 14-digit runs like 20260727202423 (YYYYMMDDHHMMSS backup/log stamps)
matched the phone regex and produced MEDIUM PII findings. Reject a
separator-free 14-digit span whose fields parse as a plausible date-time;
real numbers carry a + or spacing, so phone coverage is unchanged.

Contributed by @abkrim (PR #2428).

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

* fix(design): create the OpenAI key file owner-only, closing the write-then-chmod race

saveApiKey wrote ~/.gstack/openai.json at the default umask and tightened to
0600 afterwards, leaving the API key briefly world-readable between write and
chmod (CWE-377/367). Pass mode 0o600 at create; the trailing chmodSync stays
as a backstop to tighten a pre-existing loose file.

Contributed by @bunlongheng (PR #2468).

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

* fix(config): make gstack-config key validation locale-independent

POSIX bracket ranges like a-z follow the active collation order; under GNU
grep with tr_TR.UTF-8 the range excludes the ASCII letter i, so every key
containing i (skill_prefix, explain_level, ...) was rejected as invalid.
Pin both get/set validators to LC_ALL=C, with a source-level tripwire test
since macOS BSD grep doesn't reproduce the bug.

Closes #2494.

Contributed by @Math1987 (PR #2506).

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

* fix(resolvers): stop env-var hosts from doubling $HOME in the binary fallback path

The browse/design/make-pdf setup resolvers built the fallback binary path as
"$HOME" + dir.replace(/^~/, ''), which is only correct for ~-rooted dirs.
Env-var hosts carry an absolute $GSTACK_* dir, so the generated fallback
became $HOME$GSTACK_.../browse — a path that never exists. New toShellPath()
in scripts/resolvers/types.ts expands ~ to $HOME and passes absolute
env-var dirs through untouched; all five call sites route through it.

Claude-host generated output is byte-identical, so no SKILL.md regeneration
is needed here.

Closes #2055.

Contributed by @simjak (PR #2056).

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

* fix(settings-hook): respect CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR when resolving settings.json

gstack-settings-hook hardcoded $HOME/.claude/settings.json, so users running
Claude Code with a relocated CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR had hooks written to a config
file Claude never reads. Resolve ${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.claude} first;
the explicit GSTACK_SETTINGS_FILE override still wins.

Partial #349.

Contributed by @andrefogelman (PR #2239).

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

* fix(browse): dispatch a change event after fill for change-only validators

Playwright's Locator.fill() dispatches `input` but never `change`, so
frameworks that validate on change (AngularJS ng-change, debounced
strength/match checks) never saw the filled value — correct in the DOM,
failing the framework's own validation. `browse fill` now dispatches
`change` after the fill. Failing-first regression test with a
change-only password-match fixture included.

Contributed by @intelliot (PR #2475).

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

* fix(safety): unknown question-preference source exits the documented 2, not 1

The --write user-origin gate documents exit 2 as "rejected, do not retry"
(profile poisoning defense), but a source outside both the allowed and the
explicitly-rejected lists fell through to exit 1 — the generic validation
code callers treat as retryable. Unknown sources now exit 2 with the same
do-not-retry rejection message as the known non-user-originated ones.

Closes #2390.

Contributed by @gregario (PR #2429).

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

* fix(pr-title): stop duplicating the version prefix on bare-version titles

A title that was nothing but a version ("v1.2.3" — the form ship uses for
version-only bumps) matched neither the "v<NEW_VERSION> " literal case nor
the trailing-space strip regex, fell through to the prepend path, and came
out as "v1.2.3.4 v1.2.3" — which pr-title-sync.yml then wrote back via
gh pr edit. Handle the bare form in both the no-change case and the
prefix-strip regex, and emit a bare new version when nothing follows.

Closes #1886.

Contributed by @jbetala7 (PR #1887).

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

* fix(build): escape literal braces in the bun:sqlite stub regex

Perl >= 5.26 treats an unescaped literal `{` in a pattern as fatal
("Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal"), so build-node-server.sh
died at the bun:sqlite stub substitution on modern perl. Escape both
braces; the replacement output is unchanged.

Closes #2300.

Contributed by @nuga0718 (PR #2111).

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

* fix(config): preserve spaces in gstack-config values

get/list read values with awk '{print $2}' | tr -d '[:space:]', which
truncated any value containing spaces ("/Users/x/Conductor Workspaces"
came back as "/Users/x/Conductor") and set wrote the unfiltered raw value
on the append path. New read_config_value() strips only the "key:" prefix
and trailing whitespace (cut-style parse), and set appends the same
newline-stripped value the in-place edit path uses.

Closes #1782.

Contributed by @jbetala7 (PR #1783).

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

* fix(browse): recover a late-healthy detached daemon instead of a false "Server failed to start"

startServer spawns the daemon detached + unref'd, then polls health for a
fixed budget. On a loaded machine the budget can elapse in the gap between
the loop's last tick and the daemon becoming ready — the CLI reported
"Server failed to start within Ns" while the very next `browse status`
showed a healthy server. Add a final readState()+isServerHealthy() re-check
before the timeout throw, and make the budget env-overridable via
BROWSE_START_TIMEOUT (BROWSE_* tunable convention). Structural + behavioral
tests pin both invariants.

Closes #1846.

Contributed by @harjothkhara (PR #1847).

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

* fix(browse): daemon resilience on loaded machines — Bun conn errors, stop/restart flush, startup + git-root budgets

Four load-sensitivity fixes in the daemon lifecycle:

- sendCommand only recognized Node's ECONNREFUSED/ECONNRESET; the compiled
  CLI runs on Bun, which reports 'ConnectionRefused'/'ConnectionClosed'
  ("Unable to connect..."), so daemon crashes leaked the raw error and
  exited 1 instead of entering the busy-check/restart path. Match both.
- stop/restart called shutdown() inline, which exits before the HTTP
  response flushes — the CLI saw a dropped socket (and would now
  crash-retry a fresh daemon just to stop it). Defer shutdown ~100ms so
  the 200 lands first.
- Non-CI POSIX startup budget raised 8s -> 15s (cold Chromium measured
  ~5.7s at load avg 10; load 12+ blew the old budget while the detached
  daemon was still booting).
- getGitRoot's 2s git rev-parse timeout returned null under load (6.3s
  spikes measured), scattering state files across cwds into split-brain
  daemons. Raise to 8s, still bounded.

Contributed by @mplatts (PR #1732).

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

* fix(telemetry): ingest keeps error_message/failed_step instead of dropping them

The telemetry_events columns exist and bin/gstack-telemetry-log already
sends error_message + failed_step, but the Supabase ingest function dropped
both fields on insert — every error report arrived with no message and no
failing step. Map them through with the same bounded-length sanitization as
error_class (500/100 chars). The completion-status resolver now also passes
--error-message/--failed-step in the generated skill telemetry block, with
instructions to leave them empty on success.

Resolver only for the template side; generated SKILL.md files regenerate
from this source in the docs lane.

Contributed by @sunnnybala (PR #769).

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

* fix(browse): surface non-EEXIST errors in acquireServerLock instead of masking them

acquireServerLock caught every open failure as if the lock were held:
EACCES/EROFS/ENOENT surfaced as phantom "another process holds the lock"
(null return, no diagnostics), and a failed stale-lock read or unlink was
swallowed the same way. Each failure class now logs a coded, pathed
diagnostic: non-EEXIST open errors, holder-PID read errors (ENOENT retries
the acquire — the holder released between open and read), and stale-lock
unlink errors. Four-case unit test included.

Closes #1084.

Contributed by @jbetala7 (PR #1725); same fix independently by
@JiayuuWang (PR #1097).

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

* fix(paths): shell-quote gstack-paths output so eval round-trips values

gstack-paths emitted bare KEY=VALUE lines, so the documented
eval "$(gstack-paths)" re-parsed the values: backslashes were eaten as
escapes (Windows $TMP C:\Users\... became C:Users...) and a space
word-split the assignment, leaving the variable empty. Emit each value
with printf %q so eval round-trips byte-for-byte; plain POSIX paths are
unchanged. Round-trip regression tests cover backslashes, spaces, and
embedded quotes.

Closes #2374.

Contributed by @fangearhq-boop (PR #2376); same fix independently by
@yannickspiess (PR #1580).

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

* security(browse): drop .svg from the load-html extension allowlist

SVG is a script-capable format (inline <script>, event handlers, foreign
objects), so allowing it through load-html's HTML allowlist let a local
.svg execute script in the browse session context. The allowlist is now
.html/.htm/.xhtml only; regression test asserts .svg is rejected.

Contributed by @garagon (PR #1153).

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

* fix(benchmark): validate --timeout-ms as a positive integer

gstack-model-benchmark fed --timeout-ms straight through parseInt, so
"abc" became NaN and "0"/"-1" passed through — a NaN or non-positive
timeout silently disables the per-provider watchdog. Reject anything
that isn't a positive (optionally +-prefixed) safe integer with a clear
error and exit 1.

Closes #1726.

Contributed by @jbetala7 (PR #1727).

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

* chore(fixtures): clean terminology in the security-bench replay fixture

Two spots in browse/test/fixtures/security-bench-haiku-responses.json
referred to real-world HVAC project naming; replace with the generic
"mechanical services" wording. Fixture stays valid JSON; replay tests
unchanged.

Contributed by @apex-system (PR #2131).

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

* ci: cancel superseded actionlint and skill-docs runs

actionlint.yml and skill-docs.yml trigger on both push and pull_request
with no concurrency group, so every push to an active branch left the
previous (now-obsolete) runs queued or running — twice per commit on
same-repo PR branches. Add the same cancel-in-progress concurrency
groups the heavier workflows already use, plus a free static tripwire
test that fails CI if a push+pull_request workflow ever ships again
without cancel-in-progress.

Contributed by @jbetala7 (PR #2053).

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

* fix(make-pdf): correct CJK rendering — NUL sentinel hardening, SC-first fonts, CJK quote context

Three CJK fixes in the PDF pipeline:

- smartypants strips stray input NULs up front so document text can never
  forge the U+0000 placeholder sentinel and leak a preserved-zone marker
  into the output.
- The CJK font stack led with Japanese families, so Simplified-Chinese
  text rendered han glyphs with JP variants. Lead with PingFang SC /
  Heiti SC / Noto Sans CJK SC / Source Han Sans SC before the JP
  fallbacks.
- Quote-smartening only recognized ASCII openers as "start of quote"
  context; the fullwidth colon and CJK brackets now count, so quotes
  after them curl the right way.

Contributed by @rssprivacy-commits (PR #2012).

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

* docs: regenerate skill output for the quick-win resolver changes

Regen for the deploy-config URL-scheme fix (utility resolver), telemetry
completion-status resolver, and $HOME-doubling binary-resolver fix; ship
goldens refreshed to match. Generated-output-only commit.

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

* fix(slug): cached identity is sticky — heal ONLY the provable subdir-cache bug shape

The walk-up rewrite recomputed the slug on every run and "healed" the cache
toward the fresh value, which broke the #2212 continuity contract: a project
that used gstack before adopting a git remote would be silently renamed to
the remote-derived slug, orphaning everything under ~/.gstack/projects/.
Cached identity now wins, with one precise exception: when the cached value
equals THIS pwd's basename while the walk-up proves pwd is not the project
root, the entry came from the pre-walk-up subdirectory bug (#1125) and is
recomputed. All four slug contracts pass together (repo-mode #2212,
walk-up #1125, sanitize, user-slug).

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

* fix(claude): stop false-blocking macOS keychain subscription auth in host detection

The /claude skill's auth probe only recognized env-var/API-key auth, so
macOS subscription installs (keychain-backed, where `claude -p` works fine)
were told they had no auth. Detection now uses host invocation.

Fixes #1890.

Contributed by @xing-qnex (PR #2411); PR #2548 by @shawnacalia covered the
keychain case.

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

* fix(setup): Ubuntu 26.04 Playwright platform detect + silence the codesign false alarm

Two small setup papercuts: the Playwright platform probe now recognizes
Ubuntu 26.04 instead of falling to the generic-Linux path, and macOS
installs stop warning about a codesign "failure" that was actually the
expected unsigned-adhoc path (the real signature check already gates
binary launch).

Contributed by @nuga0718 (PR #2113) and @lucascaro (PR #1758).

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

* fix(skills): land-and-deploy squash readback, next-version paths, embed-flags quoting

Three template one-liners: land-and-deploy reads the squash-merge result
from the merge commit instead of the stale branch tip; review/landing-report
/land-and-deploy templates call bin/gstack-next-version via its installed
path instead of a bare repo-relative one; setup-gbrain quotes
GBRAIN_EMBED_FLAGS so zsh word-splitting stops silently dropping
voyage-code-3 flags. Regenerated output included.

Contributed by @stormeoio (PR #2011), @rjmurillo (PR #1820) and
@trevorhstandridge (PR #1817).

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

* release: v1.64.0.0 — fix wave CHANGELOG, VERSION, deferred-wave TODOs

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

* test: refresh ship goldens for the telemetry error-field resolver output

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

* test(redact-prepush): assemble the fake AWS key at runtime — the literal blocked our own push

The hook's fixtures carried a live-format AKIA literal, and the repo's own
pre-push scanner (hardened in this wave) correctly blocked pushing it. The
placeholder-suppressed docs key would defeat the detection tests, so the
fixtures now concatenate the key at runtime: tests still exercise real
detection, and the pushed diff never contains a scannable credential shape.

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

* fix(slug): terminate the marker walk-up on dirname's fixed point — hung every bin on Windows

Under git-bash on Windows a mixed-form path walks C:/Users -> C: -> . -> .
forever: dirname's fixed point there is never "/", so the walk-up loop spun
and every bin that evals gstack-slug (learnings-log first among them) hung
until spawn timeout. Caught by windows-free-tests CI on the wave PR. Break
on the fixed point itself with a depth cap for exotic forms; regression
tests drive the extracted function with hostile path shapes under a hard
timeout.

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

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Garry TanandClaude Opus 4.8 4dfdb7cdc2 v1.57.2.0 feat: AskUserQuestion prose fallback when the tool fails at runtime (#1908)
* feat(auq): add gstack-session-kind + echo SESSION_KIND in preamble

Classifies the session as spawned | headless | interactive from env markers
(OPENCLAW_SESSION / GSTACK_HEADLESS / CONDUCTOR_* / CLAUDE_CODE_ENTRYPOINT / CI),
defaulting to interactive. Echoed once at skill start alongside BRANCH/REPO_MODE
so the AskUserQuestion-failure fallback can branch without a shell-out at failure
time. Degrade-safe: empty/error => interactive.

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

* feat(auq): prose fallback when AskUserQuestion fails (interactive sessions)

On a genuine AUQ failure (tool absent, or present-but-erroring like Conductor's
flaky MCP returning '[Tool result missing due to internal error]'): retry once,
then branch on SESSION_KIND — spawned auto-chooses, headless BLOCKs, interactive
renders a prose decision brief the user answers by typing a letter.

The prose fallback MUST surface the triad: a clear ELI10 of the issue, a
per-choice Completeness score, and a recommendation+why (one paragraph per
choice). Carves out the [plan-tune auto-decide] denial as NOT a failure, and
qualifies the former 'tool_use, not prose' assertions so the rule isn't
self-contradicting. Tests pin the triad, the SESSION_KIND branch, the OV2
collision guard, the always-loaded guarantee, and a cross-file invariant on the
auto-decide prefix.

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

* test(auq): default GSTACK_HEADLESS=1 in eval/E2E runners

Headless harness runs classify as headless (BLOCK on AUQ failure rather than
emit a prose question no one reads). SDK runner uses ambient mutation, not the
Options.env object, to avoid breaking the SDK auth pipeline. Interactive-path
suites opt out by overriding the env per-run.

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

* feat(auq): defensive PostToolUse error-fallback hook (OV3:B)

When an AskUserQuestion call returns an error/missing result, this hook injects
additionalContext reminding the model to run the prose fallback for the current
SESSION_KIND. It does not render prose itself — it guarantees the reminder fires
at the moment of failure instead of relying on the model recalling SESSION_KIND.

Inert on success and inert if the platform never invokes PostToolUse on tool
errors (unverified — could not force the Conductor MCP error in a harness; see
the spike doc). The prompt-level fallback covers the case regardless. Decision
logic is unit-tested deterministically; registered in setup beside the existing
AUQ hooks.

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

* chore(auq): regenerate SKILL.md for all hosts + refresh ship goldens

Regenerated from the resolver changes (gen:skill-docs --host all). Refreshes the
byte-exact ship golden fixtures (claude/codex/factory). Spec prose tightened so
the cross-cutting preamble addition stays under the 5% per-skill parity ceiling
(investigate 4.8%) — guard unchanged.

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

* fix(test): kebab testNames for section-loading E2Es to match TOUCHFILES keys

The two section-loading E2E tests used display-form testNames ('/ship
section-loading', '/plan-ceo-review section-loading') while every other E2E
testName and their E2E_TOUCHFILES keys are kebab. The completeness gate does an
exact `name in E2E_TOUCHFILES` check, so it failed (pre-existing on main); diff-
based selection also couldn't match them. Align to ship-section-loading /
plan-ceo-section-loading.

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

* fix(test): make external-host freshness checks deterministic

The parameterized host smoke + --host all freshness tests assumed an external
`gen:skill-docs --host all` had run first (it never does in `bun test`), so which
host reported STALE varied by sibling-test timing — flaky. Regenerate the
gitignored external host dirs in a beforeAll so the --dry-run check is
deterministic. It still catches non-deterministic generation (the real bug class
for regenerated outputs); the tracked-claude freshness test runs earlier and is
unaffected.

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

* test(parity): headroom for AUQ cross-cutting addition on carved document-release

Merging main brought the carve of document-release (smaller skeleton); the AUQ
prose-fallback adds ~2KB to every skill's always-loaded preamble, landing
document-release at ~5.9% over the pre-carve v1.53.0.0 baseline. Add a per-carve
maxSizeRatio override (CARVE_GUARDS single source of truth) and bump only this
skill to 1.08. All other skills keep the strict 1.05 ceiling.

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

* fix(auq): harden error-fallback hook + harness per adversarial review

Codex pre-landing review found three real issues:
- The PostToolUse fallback hook shared source 'plan-tune-cathedral' with the
  question-log hook (same event+matcher); gstack-settings-hook replaces the entry,
  so it would have clobbered plan-tune capture. Give it its own 'auq-error-fallback'
  source (separate entry, both run); ALREADY_INSTALLED now requires both sources.
- isErrorResponse triggered on any string containing 'internal error'/'is_error',
  so a real answer or a {"is_error": false} payload could fire the fallback after a
  successful question. Narrow it to the missing-result sentinel + boolean is_error.
- The SDK runner mutated process.env.GSTACK_HEADLESS process-wide (leaked headless
  into later tests). Removed; GSTACK_HEADLESS=1 now lives in the eval package.json
  scripts, scoped to the invocation and inherited by the SDK child.

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

* chore: bump version and changelog (v1.57.2.0)

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

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