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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 730a1017d1 v1.89.1.0 fix: remove continuous checkpoint commits (#2970)
* v1.89.1.0 fix: remove continuous checkpoint commits and repair validation blockers

* fix: clarify shipping and engineering review recovery

* fix: interpret native no-change review descriptions

* test: separate descendant readiness from timeout delivery
2026-09-24 17:27:14 -04:00
Garry Tan b9706f3635 v1.88.1.0 fix: harden credential boundaries and owned state (#2942)
* fix(settings): preserve symlinked settings targets

Resolve the selected target for locking, mutation, backup, and rollback; refuse target changes and preserve private modes. Addresses #2830.

* fix(redact): bind masking to original detected spans

Inspired by #2929's anchored-span diagnosis; independently implemented using normalization offsets. Addresses #2930 and the relocation portion of #2912 without changing detection sensitivity.

* fix(evals): exclude operator credentials from prefix admission

Adapts the credential-suffix screen proposed in #2636, with real launched-child regression coverage and deliberate provider-auth exceptions.

* fix(artifacts): retain custom allowlist rules on reinitialization

Preserve the exact user-owned suffix and publish only a successfully assembled replacement. Independently implements the repair reported in #2907.

* test(cso): verify exact masked reads and unmaskable payload refusal

* fix(cso): preserve exact filesystem identities through lease recovery

Preserve 64-bit device/inode identity and nanosecond race checks. Add native NTFS lifecycle coverage for #2927; retain ambiguous legacy-state refusal without claiming Windows PID-reuse recovery is resolved.

* fix(redact): bind pre-push scans to destination and preserve seam context

Uses #2935 (bd07318) as source evidence for push-target range and slice-overlap defects. Independently implemented; no cherry-pick or release metadata adoption.

* test(ci): gate native agent ownership and settings links on macOS

* fix(browse): bind agent lifetimes and cleanup to owned generations

Uses #2931 by Chris Hutton / Claude Fable 5.1 as attributed design input; independently implemented without broad sweeps or copied code. Keep uncertain children and locks rather than deleting foreign state.

* test(ci): include concurrent shutdown controls in the native macOS gate

* v1.88.1.0 fix: harden credential boundaries and owned state

* fix(redact): preserve target provenance and scan boundary semantics

* test(artifacts): read managed rules from atomic allowlist assembly

* fix: preserve native exit observations and fixture prerequisites

* fix: preserve UTF-16 offsets through redaction normalization
2026-09-23 08:54:53 -04:00
Garry TanandOpenAI Codex 636175d349 v1.87.6.0 fix: make checks reliable and everyday validation faster (#2898)
* fix: acknowledge seeded plans before invoking review skills

* fix: distinguish current plan input from conversation history

* fix: keep hermetic plan reviews on manual permissions

* fix: distinguish tool discovery from file permission ownership

* fix: preserve initial plan mode in observation tests

* fix: wait for scope decisions before writing review findings

* fix: carry autoplan decisions consistently into review artifacts

* test: retain native failure context in periodic assertions

* fix: advance active file permissions before queued questions

* fix: finish red-team attempts before retry and cleanup

* fix: finalize plan format captures and judges before retry

* fix: cancel setup-gbrain SDK attempts before fixture cleanup

* test: select periodic consumers of the bounded attempt helper

* fix native Bash permission cards and queued questions

* fix: preserve independent decisions and review scope

Keep CEO approach, engineering scope and outside-review choices from approving independent remedies together. Carry declared contracts through DX polish and resolve new gaps before editing the plan. Regenerate every host and retain existing stop boundaries.

Validation: 654 focused tests passed across nine files; all-host generation passed. Full free and periodic validation pending.

Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com>

* fix: require approval before design plan amendments

Align the Design review philosophy and rating recipe with its section protocol: resolve one proposed fix, then apply only that approved decision and retain honest scores for declined fixes.

Validation: 469 focused tests passed across four files; all-host generation passed.

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* fix: observe native question completion before transcript persistence

Match owned completion hooks to submitted choices, reject conflicting or late answers, and retain bounded failure evidence.

* test: recognize review posture in acknowledged native questions

Require the selected mode acknowledgement, a completed follow-up question, and its current decoded display while preserving existing posture assertions.

* fix: preserve settled CEO choices and isolate pending remedies

Resolve established approach gates with cited authority and keep independent fixes out of unrelated option commitments and plan amendments.

* fix: carry approved DX choices through later review steps

Choose documentation approaches within the accepted scope and map resolved confusion points without reopening them through a bulk menu.

* test: handle native settings-file edit prompts

Keep one-time owned-file approvals and retain the actual sampled Autoplan permission frame with its matching barrier state.

* test: accept standard CEO reply directives with tuning footers

Recognize the exact trailing preference footer and letter-list directive while preserving current-display and exact acknowledgement checks.

* test: scope split reviewers to their generated plan artifacts

* test: observe native Bash permissions and invocation results

* test: handle owned Bash prompts during mode preference checks

* test: preserve synchronous subprocess rejection in Codex fixture

* Fix periodic review handoff navigation

Recognize review-first and explicit manual-next-step labels while preserving exact action families, manual preference, and ambiguous-menu rejection.

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* Bind pending file permissions to distinct current targets

Allow one captured file request to own the complete current dialog while unrelated file work is pending. Preserve same-path ambiguity, exact input ownership, and one-time grant checks.

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* Make paired CEO verification choices genuinely unresolved

Start the positive control with proposed manual checks so its unchanged oracle measures two new coverage decisions. Preserve runtime contracts, targets, count bounds, and all assertions.

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* Keep CEO review options and verification within approved scope

Audit every offered option for independent add-ons and keep new verification depth pending until accepted. Preserve already requested coverage and trace plan changes to the actual decision.

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* Assemble DX review artifacts before appending the final report

Keep early DX evidence above decisions, update artifact sections in place, and append the report using the actual current file suffix. Re-read after deleting an existing report before choosing the append anchor.

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* Keep outside plan reviews exclusive and invocation-owned

Follow one preflight-selected backend, terminate failed Codex work before fallback, and allocate extra prompt/output files uniquely. Consume only the current invocation’s completed output.

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* Select periodic completion evaluations for report writer changes

Register the shared review resolver for eight missing consumers and regress selection for all nine completion cases without changing their IDs or tiers.

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* Keep permission ambiguity fixtures on the same normalized target

Use distinct raw spellings of one target in the four negative fixtures so they exercise the normalized duplicate-owner guard after exact current-file disambiguation. Preserve the existing exception, no-input, diagnostic and cleanup assertions.

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* Clarify preserved contracts in engineering review fixture

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* Recognize the offered DX follow-up handoff

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* Check independent commitments before presenting review options

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* Keep Codex review output and status in one shell invocation

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* Distinguish seeded plans from reports written by a test attempt

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* Recover clipped Autoplan file approvals with bounded viewport resizing

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* Recover clipped Bash approvals before binding the complete command

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* Isolate setup message tests from the shared checkout

Run the real installer in a temporary payload with private config, require successful completion, and guard source and binary contents and mtimes.

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* Fix periodic native permission and report completion handling

Match the pinned CLI's soft wraps and clipped headings without granting from incomplete frames. Retire completed file requests, retain mode annotations, and ask section captures for a short final acknowledgement after their full report is saved.

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* Preserve review approvals and validate DX comparison artifacts

Keep independent remedies and approved amendments explicit. Give the synthetic DX review its existing documentation and validate peer comparison as required analysis alongside four native decisions. Add positive and negative semantic calibrations while preserving review counts, model budgets and prompt size limits.

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* Make the five-finding CEO fixture's application boundary explicit

Materialize the request adapter and service composition used by the synthetic payment application. Explicitly declare the revised unregistered-event and mail-telemetry assumptions while preserving uncaught handler errors, the original invoice path and all five unresolved findings.

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* Keep CEO state-path checks scoped to directory preparation

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* Use checked ports and bounded cleanup in pair-agent tests

Discover the daemon port from its owned state file, retain startup diagnostics, and await failed-start cleanup. Add occupied-port, early-exit, deadline, and foreign-state regressions while preserving the existing HTTP assertions and hook budgets.

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* Preserve queued edit identity and recover clipped Bash permissions

Distinguish separately queued unfinished edits from mutation of one native tool ID. Keep grants bound to an exact owned request and reject reused IDs, ambiguous inputs, and competing owners.

Support the pinned renderer's literal em dash and request a repaint when only the Bash card's top rule is clipped. Grants still require the complete fresh card and an exact native acknowledgment.

Validation: 413 integrated parser/event tests passed; private repaint controls and joint source review passed. Full canonical suite and native periodic rerun remain pending.

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* Keep periodic reviews within their approved contracts and deliverables

Carry exact approvals through engineering review, preserve declared contracts when amending CEO plans, and keep prioritization at the requested decision level. Materialize the revised synthetic SDK reference contract while retaining the five original documentation gaps.

Accept the observed semicolon in the finite DX handoff menu and register the direct source dependencies used by the engineering cases. Regenerate canonical review documents without changing model budgets, retries, count bands, or native completion assertions.

Validation: all-host generation and 275 review, fixture, selection and parity tests passed. Full free-suite and native periodic validation remain pending.

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* Keep Eng approval cadence and independence guards explicit

* Accept ordinary punctuation in manual review handoffs

* Recover file permissions alongside queued Bash calls

* Carry approved DX work through later review findings

* Clarify the synthetic auth internal failure decision

* Bound the periodic DX fixture to onboarding changes

* Recognize native Design review handoff labels

* Hold scope in the integration-choice review fixture

* Carry approved Design decisions through review evidence

* Capture listener state when feedback reload fails

* Exclude workspace caches before checking deprecated flags

* Verify Design UI scope against a seeded review plan

* Clarify plan review decisions and outside-voice approval flow

* Reject setup menus in the Design UI gate

* docs: require focused repair validation before final acceptance

* fix: separate review commitments within existing prompt budgets

* docs: align generation and contributor validation guidance

* fix: advance native review prompts and count acknowledged findings

* chore: bump version and changelog (v1.87.1.0)

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* chore: enforce cheap checks and side-effect-free validation previews

* fix: handle owned Fetch permissions and oversized native cards

* test: ground review fixtures in independent executable contracts

* fix: preserve review decisions and verify reports before completion

* test: construct the synthetic credential URL without a scanner false positive

* test: materialize DX examples and verify their actual local behavior

* fix: clarify CEO review decisions and execution order

* fix: clarify review workflow ordering and select Design quality checks

* Fix review decision gates and incomplete evaluation fixtures

Persist CEO and engineering commitment ledgers before menus, preserve exact
approvals, and distinguish implementation structure from feature scope.
Route Autoplan through the canonical CEO Step 0 ordering. Classify DX findings
before requesting approval and ground runtime claims in actual evidence.

Complete neutral non-target fixture contracts and accept the captured Design
handoff purpose without relaxing its ownership or acknowledgment checks.
Record runtime-capability verification in AGENTS.md validation discipline.

Validation: 1,335 focused tests passed across 21 files; build, all-host freshness,
skill validation (647 artifacts / 107 tracked), and credential checks passed.
Prior paid failures are preserved; behavioral acceptance remains pending.

* Fix review decision boundaries and owned Read prompts

Preserve exact approvals across review options, compare consistent DX milestones,
and keep proposed implementation separate from review evidence. Bind modern
Read prompts to one immutable native request and wait for its result.

Retain captured regression verdicts, correct fixture error names, improve import
probe diagnostics, and record focused-first validation discipline in AGENTS.md.

* Clarify CEO and engineering review decisions

Use explicit decision steps, one engineering ledger, and clear scope/write transitions. Preserve exact approvals and distinguish pending test requirements. Keep unrelated generated content unchanged.

* Fix review decision ordering and native evaluation interactions

* Clarify engineering decisions and test artifact order

* Clarify pending choices and approvals in CEO reviews

* Make CEO review phases sequential and clarify completion

* Fix Design board submission intent matching

* Seed an existing browser test baseline for Autoplan

* Document decision-log payloads before state initialization

* Preserve exact review scope and decide one change before drafting options

* Require input identity before repeating passing model judges

* Honor permitted storage throughout CEO review completion

* Match complete native permission text within the pinned renderer contract

* Align review approvals, independent choices, and bounded validation

* fix: preserve reopened approvals and declare fixture interfaces

* fix: isolate review artifacts and audit complete questions

* fix: match detector artifact permissions to configured storage

* fix: complete native permissions and review fixture workflows

* fix: order CEO review work and separate engineering guarantees

* fix: preserve native validation and separate review choices

* fix: clarify review decisions and judge complete report context

* fix: constrain review judgments and retain parse failures

* fix: compare each affected value before review decisions

* fix: make engineering review decisions and completion order explicit

* fix: give the complete Autoplan evaluation a bounded chain budget

* fix(cso): diagnose forbidden Docker endpoints before tool lookup

* fix(reviews): reconcile workflow contracts and generated artifacts after main integration

* fix(evals): migrate retained regressions to the native review harness

* fix(tests): close native harness and workflow integration regressions

* fix(evals): preserve complete permission context and native menu contracts

* fix(tests): capture synchronous command output without pipe drain stalls

* fix(reviews): clarify decision and completion ordering

* fix(reviews): separate decision readiness from final completion checks

* refactor(reviews): consolidate decision rules and completion branches

* fix(plan-eng-review): order preparation and clarify decision routing

* fix(plan-eng-review): restore size and question-format guard parity

* fix(plan-eng-review): clarify scope phases and blocked completion

* fix(plan-eng-review): unify review flow and report destination

* fix(plan-eng-review): define bootstrap and question stage ownership

* fix(plan-eng-review): clarify review structure and design lookup

* fix(plan-eng-review): render report examples and show saved decisions

* fix: consolidate Eng review decisions and select their evaluations

* test: cover overlapping terminal attachments and clean merged runner type

* fix: preserve Office Hours relationship closings during review updates

* fix: retain pasted review targets across slash invocations

* docs: preserve validation traces and correct release scope

* test: cover pasted targets in both review skills

* fix: validate report artifacts before recording success

* fix: redact source roots at CSO report boundaries

* fix: bind native Design questions before answering

* test: select report privacy and native recovery regressions

* test: bind rejection predicate in extracted observers

* fix: bind complete boxed native questions

* test: keep the Design UI fixture on native review

* fix: preserve review decisions and evaluation completion outcomes

* fix: clarify CEO approval and report completion order

* fix: align native review evaluation ownership and completion

* fix: bind review evaluators to native decisions and owned artifacts

* fix: validate review decisions against native outcomes

* fix: preserve review evidence and Autoplan phase handoffs

* test: bind review evidence to owned decisions and completion

* fix: retain owned native history across compaction

* fix(evals): validate current review decisions and setup choices

* fix: bind Autoplan reviews and phase completion to current amended input

* fix: reconcile native review evidence and close Autoplan phases

* test: recognize owned whole-candidate complexity decisions

* test: preserve report freshness for approved investigation handoffs

* fix: recognize scoped review findings and isolate dual voice fixtures

* fix: make review handoffs and question dispatch self-contained

* test: recognize complete CEO decisions and procedural pauses

* fix: bind current CEO comparison options and risk intervals

* test: bind engineering decisions and completion to owned evidence

* fix: publish Autoplan phase reports before continuing tools

* test: verify actual Autoplan dual-review dispatch evidence

* test: select dual review when shared evidence fixtures change

* fix: clarify plan review decisions and completion gates

* fix: make CEO review decisions and return paths explicit

* test: keep Autoplan prompt files inside attempt state

* test: preserve source whitespace across permission dialog wraps

* fix: publish Autoplan phase reports before continuing

* test: recognize current CEO comparisons and reject inactive records

* fix: reconcile engineering decision states before completion

* test: recognize complete Design decisions and reports

* test: verify current engineering decisions before navigation

* Recognize source-owned component reduction choices

* fix: recognize current CEO ledger and commitment grids

* test: supply RequestPolicy context to Eng count fixture

* fix: save complete engineering decisions before asking

* fix: bind Autoplan publication to the complete phase readback

* chore: prepare 1.87.5.0 reliability release

* fix: clarify engineering review completion and preserve log failures

* fix: bind CEO saved choices and current section ancestry

* fix(evals): bind review execution and completion evidence

* fix(plan-ceo-review): verify complete decisions before asking

* fix(evals): preserve complete engineering choice records

* fix(evals): preserve complete review outcomes and bounded fixtures

* fix(autoplan): publish phase reports before advancing

* fix(plan-ceo-review): validate option fields before asking

* fix(plan-eng-review): verify current decisions after answers

* fix(evals): bind review decisions and bound fixture scope

* fix(plan-ceo-review): verify decision rows and edit saved checkpoints

* fix(evals): bind review evidence and scope document lookup

* fix(plan-eng-review): update resolution state with its answer

* fix(reviews): preserve complete questions through dispatch

* fix(evals): recognize completed mode declarations

* fix(evals): define cache consistency at wrapper completion

* fix(evals): validate owned initial scope and completed review handoffs

* fix: assemble complete CEO decision fields before saving

* fix: authenticate automatic mode decisions without guessing selectors

* fix: bind engineering coverage to approved regression contracts

* fix(evals): supply review helpers to native Eng capture

* fix(plan-eng-review): preserve the full selected option scope

* fix(evals): recognize owned engineering seed and regression evidence

* fix(evals): bind engineering retry reports to native approvals

* docs: clarify release guarantees (v1.87.5.0)

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* fix(evals): recognize owned engineering decisions and handoffs

* fix(evals): bind engineering decisions and completion evidence

* fix(tests): align review contracts and selection fixtures

* fix(skills): restore review prompt size limits

* fix(plan-eng-review): clarify review execution and completion

* fix(evals): preserve configured retries through all supervision layers

* Clarify Engineering decisions and report completion

* Keep native decision assertions within their source boundary

* fix: recognize owned engineering decisions and completed navigation

* fix: bind completed auto decisions to their current review

* fix: recognize explicit CEO source attribution

* fix: dispatch verified CEO decisions without recomposing fields

* test: expose existing execution deadlines to review actors

* fix: distinguish CEO decision records from incidental headings

* test: bind split-scope choices to the registered native actor

* test: connect reviewed regressions to required evaluation coverage

* Clarify CEO decision routing and completion stages

* test: expose existing section review deadlines to fixture actors

* test: recognize complete native CEO pacing inventories

* test: exclude answered history from current CEO payloads

* test: detect phase entry through owned skill HOME aliases

* test: validate native review completion and owned report permissions

* fix: make Autoplan close packets carry the parent handoff steps

* test: assess source-bound HOLD decisions within the existing deadline

* fix: keep CEO native decision fields under one formatting authority

* test: register integrated review and permission dependencies

* test: align native review adapters and finding coverage

Preserve explicit AUTO decisions, apply native single-select defaults, and bind complete cropped questions and report permissions to their owned requests. Require seeded review findings instead of crediting setup menus.

Keep captured failure controls and additive selection dependencies. The integrated candidate passed 3,099 focused tests across 65 files; affected paid validation remains required before publication.

* fix(autoplan): require phase reports before advancing

* fix(evals): bind setup and evidence to complete attempts

* fix(evals): bind native answers and pending writes to fixture scope

Preserve complete option rows when native descriptions wrap, retain current
owned Write arguments before journal publication, and keep engineering and
DX answers within their declared fixture interfaces. Add captured free
regressions without increasing model budgets or relaxing completion checks.

* fix(autoplan): verify phase reports across native tool paths

Guard owned methodology reads and reviewer dispatches, detect complete driver
loads through Bash, and distinguish report-only edits from implementation
changes. Follow authenticated native UUID ancestry when journal writes arrive
out of order and verify earlier native content for cached phase reads.

Keep current close acknowledgment and parent publication in order, require CEO
entry before later phases, and register captured failure regressions.

* fix(evals): honor native input and collection lifecycles

Match complete native Edit panes and truncated question borders, reject stderr close before EOF, and stop the CEO split fixture once its acknowledged scope decisions are collected. Keep semantic validation, process failures, report requirements, and absolute deadlines authoritative.

Add captured-event and real-process regressions with selection dependencies. Focused checks pass; final integrated paid and full-suite acceptance remain pending.

* fix(autoplan): retain native session ownership across directory changes

Recover missed native UUID ancestry through the existing strict graph while preserving ordinary event order and legacy scoping. Bind publication hooks to Claude's original project directory while retaining current cwd for requested file paths.

Captured public-event regressions, existing caller checks, and a pinned native CLI loopback verify both fixes. Preserve failed attempts and require fresh paid and final full-suite acceptance.

* docs: align evaluation limits and completion version

* fix(autoplan): allow authenticated phase reads during journal streaming

* fix(evals): bind clipped native questions and owned edit dialogs

* fix: preserve overlay retries and bounded cleanup

* fix: recognize owned planning preludes in native questions

* docs: explain overlay scheduling and cleanup guarantees

* fix: require fresh publication after Autoplan phase reruns

* Release gstack 1.87.6

* fix: preserve CI paths, process identity, and test deadlines

* fix: keep informational setup commands independent of install probes

* fix: clarify plan review decisions and bound source audit reports

* Fix remaining Windows identity and native path CI failures

* Clarify CEO review decision and reviewer-result routing

* test: accept no-install planner in retry supervision

* fix(ceo-review): make review decisions and report completion explicit

* perf(test): add fast PR gates, input-keyed judge reuse and isolated free shards

* fix(test): start isolated CEO smoke from its existing project plan

* fix(test): repair CI fixture races and preserve retry evidence

* fix(ceo-review): clarify approvals, depth and saved completion

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2026-09-22 14:57:52 -04:00
Garry TanandOpenAI Codex 9f81911136 v1.86.0.0 feat: route outside reviews by harness (#2850)
* feat: add a restricted and supervised Claude Code runner

Preserve configured authentication and models while enforcing tool access, strict completion JSON, bounded output and process cleanup. Cover argv, failure handling, session metadata and Windows process containment.

* feat: route outside reviews by harness and migrate wrapper installs

Use Claude Code from Codex and Codex from other supported hosts, with shared invocation rendering, positive gate validation and per-phase provenance. Rename /claude to /claude-code, repair managed shared and copied installations safely, and generate native Kiro skills. Add installed-workflow, failure-injection and live cross-harness regression coverage.

* test: recognize CEO mode labels without terminal spacing

The paid workflow rendered SCOPEEXPANSION at option 4, but its driver required a literal space. Match the leading mode title without cursor-spacing artifacts and ignore adjacent preview text. Preserve missing-target failures and downstream posture assertions.

* test: isolate plan-count fixtures before starting review workflows

Seed the complete test plan in a private git repository before launching Claude, so a bare slash command cannot review the live workspace while a delayed fixture message remains queued. Preserve count thresholds, parsers and budgets. Add initial-context and installed-discovery tests, and retain startup/terminal diagnostics on failed evaluations.

* test: stabilize review fixtures and Claude eval startup

Preserve source boundaries in workflow judge inputs, isolate CEO mode plans, and wait for interactive trust input readiness. Keep startup failure evidence and retain existing models, budgets, and assertions.

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* test: classify collapsed review modes and isolate seeded findings

Keep review questions out of the setup count when terminal cursor positioning removes spaces. State existing webhook safeguards so the five-finding control measures its seeded defects without accidental extra security and concurrency gaps. Preserve question bands and the paired control.

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* test: isolate browser daemon state across free shards

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* test: stabilize native review counting and interactive navigation

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* chore: prepare v1.82.0.0 release

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* fix: eliminate browser and process-cleanup test flakes

Pin every CI surface to Bun 1.4.0 to avoid extra-stdio finalizers closing
reused live sockets. Add an isolated GC/listener regression that fails on
Bun 1.3.13, and prevent coordinated rollback to an affected CI runtime.

Check renderer cleanup against the render's own staging directory so
concurrent renders cannot invalidate the assertion. Make the no-pgrep
process-tree walk tolerate disappearing /proc entries, and synchronize
its test fixture through child readiness and pipe EOF instead of sleeps.

Validation: 9,157 passed, 31 skipped, zero failures across 556 files with
retries disabled. Build, all-host generation freshness, and skill checks
passed. All three races have failing-before/passing-after regressions.

* fix: count completed native review questions in evals

* fix: drive review navigation from confirmed native choices

* fix: require complete section-loading eval reports

* test: isolate telemetry HTTP transport from local assertions

* fix: keep review input on the active native question

* test: let tunnel revocation daemon choose an available port

* test: allocate available ports for pairing and watchdog fixtures

* fix: stabilize planning eval navigation and phase reporting

* test: isolate installed runtime paths in planning evals

* test: stabilize review evidence and concurrent refresh fixtures

* fix: resolve design findings before editing the plan

* fix: honor and persist disabled outside plan reviews

* fix: preserve planning decisions and terminal evidence

Load installed host reviews at autoplan phase entry and wait for completed
reviewers and saved artifacts. Reuse approved remedies while preserving
individual finding decisions.

Drive interactive evals from the current terminal viewport, bind native
questions across scrolling, and require complete native report evidence.
Cover captured stale menus, permission lifecycles, setup classification,
and disabled-review tool availability with deterministic regressions.

Advance release metadata and the upgrade migration to the unclaimed
1.83.0.0 slot.

* fix: drive native review questions and preserve current plans

Use the native single-choice keyboard protocol and current terminal viewport,
with per-question navigation inside packets and completed-call coverage.
Keep permissions, multi-select menus, and Submit controls distinct.

Send Autoplan reviewers the amended implementation plan, keep its review record
separate, and supply retained application contracts in the chain fixture.
Clarify individual DevEx decisions and complete CEO fix options; use one active
plan destination for the section-loading report.

* fix: preserve complete plan-review decisions

* fix: recognize native plan dialogs and reviewer controls

* fix: preserve review decisions and phase completion

* fix: recognize completed reviews without losing findings

* fix: preserve review continuity and native eval completion

* test: fix native review completion and eval retry isolation

* test: handle native review menus and complete eval fixtures

* test: fix native review setup, completion, and isolation failures

* test: limit native skill discovery to runtime assets

* fix: bind Autoplan reviews to full ordered phase inputs

* test: fix planning eval routing, counting, and timeout handling

* chore: advance queued release to v1.84.0.0

* fix: preserve complete review inputs and planning decisions

* fix: reconcile review approvals and preserve phase obligations

* fix: preserve review obligations and unblock eval permissions

Carry recorded Autoplan requirements into blind phase inputs, require Eng
review approvals before exit, and exercise combined asynchronous flows in
CEO reviews. Correct native finding and handoff classification and unblock
repeated report edits using scoped request identities.

* fix: retain plan requirements and complete native review dialogs

* fix: complete native review prompts and retain plan references

* fix: preserve review inputs and classify native eval evidence

* fix: check competing completion orders in CEO reviews

* fix: recognize review decisions and require phase methodology

Require the current phase methodology before Autoplan snapshots. Correct
substantive decision, closed handoff, and cache-finding classification, and
honor the recommended implementation approach in native review dialogs.

Add captured-transcript regressions without changing review thresholds,
provider models, retries, or deadlines.

* test: bind native review decisions and close completed handoffs

* fix: complete review dialogs and verify methodology delivery

* fix: preserve review evidence and unblock native eval prompts

* fix: handle native review question completions

* fix: recognize native review narration and controls

* fix: count native review decisions and isolate eval fixtures

* test: verify seeded review coverage and current artifact permissions

* test: isolate model and brain-aware skill renders

* fix: repair native workflow evaluation and clarify review steps

* fix: stabilize workflow eval evidence and review guidance

* test: repair native workflow observation and fixture isolation

* fix: recognize completed workflow evidence and owned skill reads

* test: repair seeded workflow delivery and completion evidence

* test: recognize current review evidence across native forms

* test: handle native review variants and permission redraws

* fix: honor review preferences and recognize native eval evidence

* test: recognize completed review decisions and queued permissions

* test: match current review contracts and partial-line edits

* test: recognize completed workflow evidence and bounded human waits

* fix: preserve review entry gates and native eval interactions

* fix: recognize native workflow evidence and preserve review gates

* test: recognize current review evidence and preconfigure workflow fixtures

* test: recognize completed review findings and scoped artifact permissions

* fix: stabilize native workflow review and permission evidence

* fix: recognize current review evidence and scoped edit confirmations

Clarify Design and engineering review entry instructions and Design scoring.
Recognize required legacy coverage and public Autoplan completion recaps.
Bind the pending Edit confirmation to its exact file, ordered digest, and
one-request approval when a preceding command display remains visible.
Keep reviews within their existing size limits and preserve scope gates
when extracting workflow fixtures from either supported preamble header.

Keep failure outcomes, review thresholds, provider choices, and eval budgets.

* fix: recover review workflow progress and eval evidence

* fix: recognize valid review evidence and scope selection

* test: fix review evidence parsing and repeated artifact prompts

* test: recognize valid review decisions and pending native cards

* fix(plan-eng-review): keep final navigation consistent with approved tasks

* test: recognize valid review evidence and bind legacy diff requests

* fix: stabilize review eval evidence and harness repair guidance

* docs: update project documentation for v1.85.0.0

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* test: fix Windows CI fixtures and credential scan

Rebase captured JSON values and filesystem evidence using the appropriate
path convention. Compile native fake CLIs on Windows and synchronize pipe
holder readiness, with cleanup retained when assertions fail.

Assemble synthetic credential fixtures at runtime so the added-line scan
keeps enforcing the same gate without flagging its own rejection controls.

Discover generated skills directly for the empty-find regression check,
avoiding a recursive scan through saved evaluation artifacts and dependencies.

* fix: preserve source renders on Windows

Compare canonical generator paths using native separators so an output
sidecar pointing at the source cannot overwrite its skill or metadata.
Keep the regression fixture isolated from the real checkout and expose
freshness diagnostics before asserting subprocess status.

Detach Windows drain-test pipe holders from the fake provider's automatic
child cleanup while preserving the enclosing runner job and its assertions.

* fix: clarify outside review fallback and CEO decisions

Render one applicable own-harness fallback path and retain native review,
disabled policy, and missing-coverage semantics. Align report field names
and mode labels, and make the existing per-cut scope approval explicit.

Regenerate skill outputs and keep the workflow judge's model, thresholds,
and retry policy unchanged.

* chore: move release to free version slot (v1.86.0.0)

PR #2852 now claims v1.85.0.0. Align the release metadata and
rename migration so upgrades from that version still receive it.

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* fix: include engineering review prerequisites and restore branch context

* fix: recognize coverage diagrams and clarify design review instructions

* fix: preserve file identities and join Windows test processes

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2026-09-14 14:32:45 -07:00
0530392821 v1.81.0.0 feat: Aside is the browser gstack drives first; every browsing skill, the PDF/diagram renderer, and web research; the bundled browser stays the automatic fallback (#2810)
* feat(aside): browser-driver contract, cookbook, research and fallback resolvers

{{ASIDE_SETUP}} (readiness probe + ten rules for driving the user's real browser), {{ASIDE_COOKBOOK}} (script shapes verified live against Aside CLI 1.26: one flow per aside repl script, CDP console hook before navigation, evidence lines, session-directory artifact handoff, GSTACK_STEP_OK sentinel), {{ASIDE_RESEARCH}} (research through aside exec, WebSearch when Aside is absent, knowledge otherwise) and {{BROWSE_FALLBACK}} (the fifteen-row Aside-step to $B-command table plus the rules that differ, so every browsing skill keeps working on gstack's own headless browser). test/aside-driver.test.ts pins the sentences and asserts every browsing skill carries the Aside block followed by the fallback; test/helpers/aside-available.ts is the shared live-Aside probe.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(render): Aside-first local-HTML renderer with the bundled browser as fallback

lib/aside-render.ts serves the HTML's directory on loopback (Aside refuses file:// URLs), opens it with waitUntil load, prints through CDP Page.printToPDF so tagged output, outlines, header/footer templates and page numbers survive, emulates device metrics for sized screenshots, and writes in-page evaluations to files; when Aside is absent it runs the same spec through the browse daemon (newtab, load, js, pdf, screenshot, closetab) and reports ENGINE=aside|browse. bin/gstack-render.ts is the CLI skill templates call. lib/claude-bin.ts and lib/error-handling.ts become the canonical copies (browse/src re-exports them).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(browse): /browse drives Aside first, with the $B reference behind the fallback

Contract, cookbook, mode choice (aside repl by default, aside exec for reading), report format, the fallback section, and the full command reference carved on demand.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(qa): /qa and /qa-only drive Aside, fall back to $B

QA_METHODOLOGY runs every phase as Aside scripts (orient, explore, document, re-test, mobile viewport via CDP emulation, links via HEAD fetch); the authenticate phase is 'you are already signed in'; a 13th rule requires consent before mutating actions on non-local targets; the fallback section translates each step onto $B. The qa E2E tests run on whichever engine is present.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(design): design-review, design-consultation, design-shotgun, plan-design-review, design-html drive Aside

Design-system extraction is one script printing FONTS/COLORS/HEADINGS/TOUCH_TARGETS/NAV; competitor research confirms the exact URLs before opening them in the real browser and runs on the bundled browser when Aside is absent; design-html's viewport screenshots, sketches and comparison boards render through gstack-render.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(deploy): benchmark, canary, land-and-deploy Step 7, devex-review drive Aside

One aside repl script per page prints NAV/PAINT/LCP/RESOURCES/SCRIPTS/CSS/SUMMARY (benchmark), CONSOLE_ERRORS/NAV/TEXT + screenshot (canary, re-run every 60s), and the post-deploy check reads responseStatus from the navigation entry; each carries the $B fallback.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(third-party-actions): Aside is the recommended driver; gstack's visible browser stays the fallback

The readiness probe is lifted from {{ASIDE_SETUP}} at gen time (byte-identity pinned) and rule 3 points at browse/SKILL.md for how to drive; the consent question offers Aside first and gstack's own visible browser (handoff/resume for sign-in) as the fallback, as v1.72 framed it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(scrape): /scrape reads pages through Aside; the browser-skills runtime rides the fallback

Look-then-extract scripts build the JSON inside the page and print it between JSON_START/JSON_END; aside exec for fuzzy intents; on the $B fallback the browser-skills match/prototype flow and /skillify apply as before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(make-pdf): print through Aside first, the bundled browser otherwise

asideClient.ts replaces the direct $B client with one render() call per PDF (the exact option mapping the browse pdf command had: paper, margins, header/footer/page numbers, tagged, outline, printBackground, preferCSSPageSize, Paged.js wait); the diagram pre-pass, oversized-image downscale and DOCX rasters each run as one render script with per-fence try/catch; exit 4 now means no browser is available and names both remedies; $P setup reports which engine it found. The e2e gates run on whichever engine is present, so the Linux lane exercises the fallback.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(diagram): the triplet is one gstack-render call

SVG, PNG and excalidraw from one invocation over the content-addressed bundle staged under /tmp/gstack-render; every diagram type gets an excalidraw export; gstack-render picks the engine and prints ENGINE=; the diagram E2E gates on either engine.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(research): web research runs in Aside first, WebSearch second

The planning, review, design, security and investigate skills research through {{ASIDE_RESEARCH}}; WebSearch stays in allowed-tools as the fallback; testing.ts's bootstrap step follows; skeleton ceilings ratcheted for the research block.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(setup,gen-skill-docs): prune renders of skills that no longer exist

setup gains _prune_stale_generated for every host tree and the doc generator removes gstack-* output dirs it did not write, so a skill removed from the source tree can never linger in an install.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: registries, budgets and suite reconciled for Aside-first with the $B fallback

Touchfiles + E2E tiers gain the Aside keys, coverage matrix and eval baselines updated, size budget re-baselined to parity-baseline-v1.80.0.0.json (the contract plus fallback ride in every browsing skill), parity ceilings ratcheted with measured values, LLM-judge prompts and the E2E fixtures speak Aside-first, browse-fallback.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: Aside first, gstack browser fallback

README, BROWSER.md, docs/, CONTRIBUTING, CLAUDE.md, ARCHITECTURE, AGENTS.md, TODOS and the root router describe the one product story: Aside is the browser gstack drives first; the bundled headless browser is the automatic fallback (Linux, Windows, app closed) where cookie import, GStack Browser, pair-agent and browser-skills still apply.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore: regenerate SKILL.md docs, llms.txt, agents digest, ship goldens, context-budget fixture

bun run gen:skill-docs over the templates; goldens re-rendered; context-budget ceilings recaptured.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* v1.80.0.0: Aside is the browser gstack drives first; the bundled browser is the fallback

MINOR: new capability across ten skills, the renderer and research; nothing removed. CHANGELOG release summary + itemized changes; VERSION 1.80.0.0; package.json 1.80.0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(todos): file non-Claude host ownership-gate and version-heading pin follow-ups

Two follow-ups from the /plan-ceo-review + /plan-eng-review pass on merging
PR #2804 with main's v1.80.0.0 ownership gate: bring the Codex/Factory/
OpenCode/Cursor/Kiro copy loops and the stale-render prune under the
.gstack-owned marker rule, and a free test pinning that the CHANGELOG top
heading equals VERSION (the collision that git cannot see).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix: pre-landing review fixes for the Aside-first branch

Review army + adversarial passes (Claude and Codex) on the merged branch:

setup
- _prune_stale_generated scans the host dirs too (the generator already
  removed the render before setup ran, so the host branch was dead), skips
  symlinks in the render tree (rm -rf on a slash-terminated link empties its
  target), removes a host symlink only when it resolves into gstack, cleans a
  bannered real dir through _cleanup_weak_dir, recognizes frontmatter-renamed
  skills, and logs through log. The always-run codex render passes every host
  dir that may link to it.
- NEEDS_BUILD checks all three binaries (with $_EXE) and lib/ sources; the
  browser hint and the bootstrap summary honor GSTACK_SKIP_ASIDE, treat a
  requested skip as a request, and derive one skill list.

lib/aside-render.ts + bin/gstack-render.ts
- The loopback server carries a per-render secret path, checks containment on
  the real path (symlink escapes are 403), and rejects malformed encoding.
- Inline eval results are one base64 line, so page text cannot forge
  ASIDE_DIR= or the sentinel; the last ASIDE_DIR wins.
- runProc escalates SIGTERM to SIGKILL, bounds every wait, and clears every
  timer (an uncleared one kept gstack-render alive after printing OK).
- renderTmpDir refuses a shared /tmp name owned by someone else; the work dir
  and server are created inside try; goto's budget follows the render budget.
- probeAside classifies a present-but-failing CLI as ASIDE_NOT_RUNNING like
  the skills' bash probe; render() retries on gstack's own browser when Aside
  could not start or its private CDP bridge is gone (never on a page error
  or a timeout of a running script); the CLI reports the engine that actually
  rendered, exits 0 on --help, rejects non-numeric flags, documents
  --wait-timeout, fences EVAL/PAGE_ERRORS as untrusted content, and names the
  daemon's cookie-import JS lock remedy.
- The browse path passes --scale only when asked (a scale change rebuilds
  the daemon context) and restores the viewport after a sized screenshot.

resolvers / templates
- The bash probe honors GSTACK_SKIP_ASIDE and has a perl deadline on stock
  macOS; .local is no longer LOCAL (mDNS); same-origin filters compare parsed
  origins; link status is HEAD-checked only on LOCAL targets; every
  aside exec goes through the receipted _aside_exec prelude
  ({{ASIDE_EXEC_PRELUDE}}), including nine template blocks that called it
  bare; the design sketch and diagram staging use private directories.
- The generator prunes only bannered renders and never a host whose
  generation failed.

Docs, stale comments and dead code cleaned; goldens re-rendered; tests
updated and added for every behavior above.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: coverage for the render CLI, setup rebuild check, make-pdf exit codes, and prose $B spans

New free tests from the ship coverage audit: test/gstack-render-cli.test.ts
(argv guards, --help, output contract with a fake daemon, failure and
serve-root paths, no-browser case, prompt exit), test/setup-needs-build.test.ts
(every binary and source set flips NEEDS_BUILD, Windows suffixes),
make-pdf/test/cli-exit-codes.test.ts and setup-smoke.test.ts (error to exit
code mapping, runSetup stages, renderPdf's engine), and prose-span cases for
extractBrowseCommands in test/skill-parser.test.ts.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: CHANGELOG and TODOS cover the review fixes (v1.81.0.0)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: sync project docs with the v1.81.0.0 review fixes

BROWSER.md, ARCHITECTURE.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, README.md, CLAUDE.md,
docs/TESTING_INTERNALS.md and docs/PROJECT_STRUCTURE.md now describe the
shipped renderer and setup: the loopback render server's per-render secret
path and real-path containment, ENGINE= naming the engine that actually
rendered (mid-run retry on gstack's own browser), EVAL/PAGE_ERRORS fenced as
untrusted content, --wait-timeout and the CLI's argv guards, the receipted
_aside_exec prelude ({{ASIDE_EXEC_PRELUDE}} in the placeholder table), the
LOCAL host rule without .local, LOCAL-only HEAD checks in the links script,
GSTACK_SKIP_ASIDE across probe/renderer/setup, the ownership-gated
retired-skill prune, the widened NEEDS_BUILD check, and the new free tests
(gstack-render-cli, setup-prune-stale-generated, setup-browser-hint,
setup-needs-build, make-pdf cli-exit-codes and setup-smoke).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: CHANGELOG states the precise mid-run retry rule

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(test): skill-e2e-bws slices the $B setup block from the Browser fallback section

browse/SKILL.md no longer has '## SETUP' / '## Core QA Patterns' (Aside is the
primary driver; the $B block moved under 'Browser fallback'), so the gate test
sliced an empty block and handed the agent nothing to run. Anchor on
'### Find the `$B` binary' up to the next heading. 7/7 pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(test): gate POSIX-only fixtures off Windows

windows-free-tests: the gstack-render CLI tests drive a shebang fake browse
that CreateProcess cannot exec, and two NEEDS_BUILD cases assert an execute
bit and a bare-name miss that MSYS bash does not have (test -x ignores mode
bits and resolves design -> design.exe). Those describes and cases now
self-skip on win32; argument guards, --help, the no-browser case, and every
other rebuild-check case still run there.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(render): runProc waits for the exit code until the kill deadline; newtab retries once on a cold daemon

A process whose pipes have reached EOF is exiting, but runProc gave the exit
code only five seconds to arrive and then returned null, which run() reports
as a failed command. Under CI's six-shard load one such render failed with the
artifact already written. The SIGTERM/SIGKILL timers already bound the wait,
so the exit race now runs to the kill deadline.

The first CLI call auto-starts the browse daemon; on a cold start it can
answer 'Unable to connect' once while the server is still coming up. That
single case is retried after 1.5s; every other newtab failure is not.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(aside-render): warm the daemon before live fallback cases; failures name the render error

- Live fallback cases run 'goto about:blank' up to twice before asserting and
  skip (never fail) when the daemon cannot come up.
- expectOk() puts r.error and the browse transcript into the assertion so a
  failed render is diagnosable from the CI log.
- The argv-contract cases dump the fake's log on a miss.
- File default timeout is 30s: the subject is the CLI contract, not latency.
- Two cases pin the cold-daemon newtab retry and that other errors are not
  retried.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: CHANGELOG notes the cold-start tolerance of the bundled-browser renderer

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

---------

Co-authored-by: Sina <sdroid674+github@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-06 08:54:25 -07:00
+8 702a1a9b69 v1.78.0.0 fix: the two-red-lanes wave — AUQ collapse rooted, OSV green from 105, 18 community PRs absorbed, upgrade path can't eat installs (#2752)
* fix(auq): spawned trigger is objective — explicit declaration or STATUS echo, never inference (periodic-lane AUQ collapse)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fixes #2679

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Three changes:

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

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

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

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

Closes #2742

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* fix(config): reject malformed cross_project_learnings at set

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* fix: keep feature markers in GStack state

* fix: align feature marker seeding with GStack state

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fixes #2716

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

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

Three defects in the codex skill sections:

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

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

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

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

Fixes #2671
Fixes #2669

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

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

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

Fixes #2735

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

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

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

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

Fixes #2738

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

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

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

Fixes #2692

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

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

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

Fixes #2677

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

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

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

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

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

Refs #2709

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

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

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

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

Fixes #2687

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* docs: update project documentation for v1.78.0.0

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mechanical regen after hosts/claude.ts stripFields change.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* docs: update project documentation for v1.69.1.0

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* test: onboarding tombstone + Phase 2 pin relocations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* docs: update project documentation for v1.70.0.0

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* fix(evals): stop the harness grading itself

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

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(cherry picked from commit f3140b5245221fff7fb9411c7ec07c2ca11587b5)

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

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

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(cherry picked from commit b55fcf6966366fd21a8cdc46de61aab6e1b1d100)

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

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

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

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(cherry picked from commit 93dae6107b30ce453a07c2d342b60262bba6ce0b)

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

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

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

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

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(cherry picked from commit 63c52269daaffb833b3105ea9b4b99be6df8fec7)

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

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

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(cherry picked from commit a7f36479a6a1f3656452370f5883371f3cb65623)

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

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

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

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

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(cherry picked from commit e1f53f7d9c7fe6b65877d843f2e25bd2e2d12ffd)

* feat(evals): sharded paid tier runner

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

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

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

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

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(cherry picked from commit 5e76bd5931836257f896cedfe4e93912cb759c70)

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

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

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

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

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(cherry picked from commit 619726a3d77d987a2e50151a5727b3faaaf5fc6a)

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

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

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(cherry picked from commit 254ddc69fc5a0270fcc973e36b6a81766d835d2d)

* feat(security): shared shell receipt helpers

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

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

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(cherry picked from commit 6d067dce2d4c8815dec98be551763c85a3671357)

* feat(security): receipt core shell sinks

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

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

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(cherry picked from commit 3c60f699acceaf1c92a218874711e05fc17dca5d)

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

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

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

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(cherry picked from commit 5677d618a48fcd0ae2b068bf868781d90f809cb5)

* feat(design): receipted fetch for OpenAI calls

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* feat(cli): gstack-egress reader

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* docs: sweep drift that predates this release

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

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

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

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

Six findings, all verified against source before fixing:

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

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

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* feat: add shared call-time isConductor() helper

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* feat: Conductor renders AskUserQuestion decisions as prose by default

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* feat: hermetic child-env builder for E2E runners

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

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

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

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

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

* feat: PTY runner spawns hermetic claude sessions

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

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

* feat: codex/gemini runners spawn hermetic children

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* chore: sync package.json to 1.58.1.0

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

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

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

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

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

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