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v1.44.0.0 feat: long-lived sidebar — keepalive, restart, re-attach, scrollback replay (#1678)
* fix(browse): identity-based terminal-agent kill replaces pkill regex
Commit 0 of the v1.44 long-lived-sidebar PR — foundation for the watchdog
and removes a latent cross-session footgun.
`pkill -f terminal-agent\.ts` (cli.ts spawn site + server.ts shutdown) matched
by argv regex and would kill ANY process whose argv contained the string —
sibling gstack sessions on the same host, an editor with the file open, a
second `$B connect` run. Identity-based PID kill via a new helper module
removes that whole class of bug.
* New `browse/src/terminal-agent-control.ts`: `readAgentRecord`,
`writeAgentRecord`, `clearAgentRecord`, `killAgentByRecord`. Validates
PID liveness via `isProcessAlive` before signaling (PID-reuse defense).
* `terminal-agent.ts` writes `<stateDir>/terminal-agent-pid` (JSON
`{pid, gen, startedAt}`) at boot; clears on SIGTERM/SIGINT.
* New per-boot `CURRENT_GEN` (16-byte random); `/internal/*` callers can
include `X-Browse-Gen` to defend against split-brain in the upcoming
watchdog. Absent header is accepted (backward compat); mismatch returns
409. New `checkInternalAuth` helper centralizes bearer + gen checks.
* New `/internal/healthz` route — agent liveness probe used by the
upcoming watchdog (returns pid/gen/sessions, no claude-binary lookup).
* `cli.ts` and `server.ts` both call `killAgentByRecord` instead of pkill.
* `ServerConfig.ownsTerminalAgent` JSDoc updated; the gated teardown now
runs 4 side effects (was 3) — adds the new agent-record unlink.
Test changes:
* New `browse/test/terminal-agent-pid-identity.test.ts` — static-grep
tripwire that fails CI if any source file re-introduces `pkill ...
terminal-agent` or `spawnSync('pkill', ...)`; round-trips
write/read/clear; verifies killAgentByRecord no-ops on dead PIDs.
* `browse/test/server-embedder-terminal-port.test.ts` rewritten to
intercept `process.kill` (not `child_process.spawnSync`); writes a
sentinel agent-record with a guaranteed-dead PID; asserts probe-only
(signal 0) calls, no termination signals; verifies all 3 discovery
files including the new terminal-agent-pid.
Closes TODOS.md P3 ("Identity-based terminal-agent kill").
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(tests): repair 7 pre-existing failures (env pollution + stale markers)
All 7 failures existed on main before this branch — verified via `git stash`
round-trip. Bundling them into the long-lived-sidebar PR because we kept
tripping over them while running `bun test` to verify Commit 0.
* Global afterEach restores `process.env.PATH` (new bunfig.toml +
test-setup.ts). browser-skill-commands.test.ts sets
`PATH = '/test/bin:/usr/bin'` to exercise a scrubbed-env fixture and
used the broken `process.env = origEnv` reassignment pattern that
swaps the proxy reference; the underlying env stayed mutated and
leaked downstream. Fixed three call sites in that file and added a
narrow PATH-only global guardrail so a future polluter can't bring
the bug back. Killed: pair-agent-tunnel-eval (bun ENOENT),
security.test.ts > resolveBashBinary (Bun.which('bash') null),
server-no-import-side-effects (bun ENOENT).
* server-auth.test.ts: two `sliceBetween` markers referenced strings
deleted when sidebar-agent.ts was ripped — `'Sidebar agent started'`
→ `'Terminal agent started'`, `'Sidebar endpoints'` → `'Batch endpoint'`.
Also fixed the pair-agent BROWSE_PARENT_PID assertion (the literal
`serverEnv.BROWSE_PARENT_PID` never existed in source; the actual
contract is the object-literal `BROWSE_PARENT_PID: '0'` inside the
`const serverEnv` declaration).
* test/upgrade-migration-v1.test.ts: also overrides HOME in the spawn
env. The migration shells out to `${HOME}/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-config`
and a developer's real config with `explain_level` set causes the
script to take the "user already decided" branch and skip writing
the pending-prompt flag the test asserts on.
* test/setup-codesign.test.ts: replaced fragile `bun run build`
string-match (which hit a comment 700 lines later) with the actual
invocation `bun_cmd run build` used in the setup script.
Net: full suite is now green; CI no longer trips on bash/bun-ENOENT
from PATH pollution or on test markers that drifted with the codebase.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* refactor(terminal-agent): extract internalHandler<T> helper for /internal/* routes
Replaces the copy-pasted bearer-auth + X-Browse-Gen + req.json().then().catch()
boilerplate on /internal/grant and /internal/revoke with a single
internalHandler<T>(req, fn) wrapper. Future /internal/* routes added by the
v1.44 long-lived-sidebar work (/internal/lease-refresh, /internal/restart)
land as one-liners using the same helper. Pure refactor; no behavior change.
/internal/healthz stays on the bare checkInternalAuth gate because it's a
GET with no JSON body to parse — the helper's body-parse path would 400 it.
* browse/src/terminal-agent.ts — new internalHandler<T>; /internal/grant
+ /internal/revoke routed through it.
* browse/test/terminal-agent-internal-handler.test.ts — static-grep
tripwire that fails CI if the helper goes away or either of the two
refactored routes regresses to the old inline pattern.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(terminal-agent): 25s WS keepalive ping/pong + client keepalive frames
PTY connections were dying silently after NAT idle timeouts (30-60s on most
home routers, even shorter on some carrier-grade NAT) and Chrome MV3 panel
suspension. Neither side noticed until the user's next keystroke produced
no output. Both sides now drive a 25s keepalive cycle.
Server side (browse/src/terminal-agent.ts):
* New ws.open handler constructs the PtySession eagerly and starts a
setInterval that sends `{type:"ping",ts:Date.now()}` every 25s.
Interval handle stored on session.pingInterval so close() can clear it.
* PtySession.pingInterval field added; cleared in ws.close before
disposeSession runs. Prevents timer leak across reconnects.
* Message handler accepts `{type:"ping"|"pong"|"keepalive"}` silently —
keepalive frames are a liveness signal at the TCP layer, no state to
update. Existing resize/tabSwitch/tabState handling unchanged.
* GSTACK_PTY_KEEPALIVE_INTERVAL_MS env knob (default 25000) lets the
upcoming e2e tests compress idle assertions without 30s waits.
Client side (extension/sidepanel-terminal.js):
* Belt-and-suspenders: client also runs a 25s setInterval that sends
`{type:"keepalive"}`. Defends against Chrome pausing our timers if
the server-side ping ever gets dropped (rare but possible in MV3).
* Ping reply: on `{type:"ping",ts}` from the server, immediately send
`{type:"pong",ts}`. Lets the agent observe round-trip latency for
free and confirms the channel is bidirectional.
* Interval cleared in three teardown paths: ws.close handler,
teardown(), forceRestart(). Three paths exist because the sidebar
can exit the LIVE state through any of them; all three must clean up
or we leak timers across reconnects.
Test (browse/test/terminal-agent-keepalive.test.ts):
* Static-grep tripwires for the 7-point protocol contract: agent has
a configurable interval, open() starts the ping, close() clears it,
message handler accepts keepalive vocabulary, client sends keepalive
+ replies pong, and all three client teardown paths clear the timer.
* Wire-level tests (actually observe a ping after 25s) belong in the
e2e tier — adding them here would either flake on slow CI or require
a real Bun.serve listener per test which we don't want to pay for
in the free tier.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(sidebar): patient tryAutoConnect — poll forever with ascending status, abort only on 401
The 15s give-up message ("Browse server not ready. Reload sidebar to retry.")
fired on every cold start where the daemon took >15s to bind — common on
Conductor workspaces, CI runners, and any system under load. The user
already opened the sidebar; telling them to give up is the wrong default.
Now polls every 2s indefinitely with ascending status messages:
* 0 - 15s : silent (handles the happy path on a warm laptop)
* 15 - 60s : "Waiting for browse server..."
* 60s - 5m : "Still waiting — browse server may be slow to start."
* > 5m : "Browse server still not responding after 5 min. Try `$B status`."
Loop aborts on three signals only:
* state transitions out of IDLE (connect succeeded or user navigated)
* autoConnectAborted sticky flag set on unrecoverable error
* the panel itself unloading (browser handles this; pagehide cleanup
arrives with T8 of the larger plan)
401 from /pty-session sets the sticky flag with a clear "Auth invalid —
reload the sidebar or restart your gstack session." message. Without the
flag, the loop would re-call connect() every 2s and spam the same error;
with it, the user sees the message once and the loop holds. forceRestart()
clears the flag so clicking Restart is the explicit "try again" escape hatch.
Bumped poll interval 200ms → 2000ms — the legacy tight loop burned CPU
for no reason. 2s is plenty fast for a "did the daemon come up yet" check.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(browse): terminal-agent watchdog with PID liveness + crash-loop guard
terminal-agent could die independently of the server — SIGKILL from the OS
OOM killer, an uncaught exception under PTY churn, an external `pkill` from
a sibling debugging session. Pre-v1.44 the sidebar would observe the broken
connection and stay broken until the user reloaded the sidebar. Now a 60s
ticker checks the recorded agent PID and respawns via the shared
spawnTerminalAgent helper when dead.
Identity-based liveness (T4 from the eng review):
* Uses readAgentRecord + isProcessAlive (signal 0 probe), not a name match.
* Slow-but-alive agents intentionally fall through — respawning around a
living agent would create split-brain (two agents writing the port
file, tokens diverging between them, mystery upgrade 401s).
* Pairs with the v1.44 generation counter in /internal/* loopback calls:
if a stale agent does come back to life mid-cycle, its X-Browse-Gen
no longer matches and the parent's calls 409 cleanly.
Crash-loop guard:
* 3 respawn attempts inside a rolling 60s window → stop trying. A daemon
up for a week with one crash a day shouldn't trip the guard.
* On trip: one-line error to console (`respawn guard tripped`) and the
watchdog goes dormant. Manual restart via the sidebar Restart button
is the explicit signal to re-arm (added in Commit 2 of the larger PR).
Shared spawn path (refactor):
* New spawnTerminalAgent(opts) in terminal-agent-control.ts handles:
prior-PID cleanup → spawn → record stash. Both the CLI cold-start path
in cli.ts and the new server.ts watchdog route through it. Removes the
copy-paste between them; future env wiring lands in one place.
Gated on cfg.ownsTerminalAgent — embedders that pre-launch their own PTY
server (gbrowser phoenix overlay) still own the full lifecycle.
GSTACK_AGENT_WATCHDOG_TICK_MS env knob compresses the 60s tick for e2e
tests without 60s waits per assertion.
Tests:
* browse/test/terminal-agent-watchdog.test.ts — 7 static-grep tripwires
for the load-bearing invariants (ownsTerminalAgent gate, PID-based
liveness, crash-loop guard with window pruning, shutdown cleanup,
CLI cold-start uses the same helper, env knob exists).
* Live process-kill tests belong in the e2e tier; cheaper invariants
here catch refactor regressions in ~1ms each.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(cli): opt-in outer supervisor — respawn browse server on crash
Pre-v1.44 `$B connect` was fire-and-forget: spawn server detached, CLI
exits, server runs unsupervised. If the server crashed (OOM, uncaught
exception, signal kill from a runaway debugger), the user had to notice,
re-run `$B connect`, and resume work. The v1.44 terminal-agent watchdog
recovers from one layer of failure; this commit closes the outer loop.
Opt-in via `--supervise` flag or `BROWSE_SUPERVISE=1` env. Default
behavior is unchanged — every existing caller (Claude Code's Bash tool,
scripts, CI) still gets a prompt return. When the flag is set:
* CLI stays attached, polls server PID every 30s via readState() +
isProcessAlive (same identity primitive as the terminal-agent watchdog).
* On unexpected exit: respawn via the same headed-mode startServer path
used initially, then re-spawn the terminal-agent so the PTY recovers
too (otherwise sidebar Restart is the only path back).
* Crash-loop guard: 5 respawns in a rolling 5-min window → exit 1 with
a clear error. Window pruning means a long-lived daemon with sporadic
crashes does NOT trip the guard (otherwise we punish the user for the
supervisor doing its job).
* Backoff: 1s, 2s, 4s, 8s, 30s capped. Env-overridable via
GSTACK_SUPERVISOR_BACKOFF for tests.
* SIGINT / SIGTERM: clean teardown — signals the supervised server
before exiting itself. Without this, Ctrl-C leaves an orphaned server.
Out of scope (deferred follow-up): routing the Chromium-disconnect
exit-code-1 path back through this supervisor. The terminal-agent
watchdog already covers the highest-frequency restart case; Chromium
crash recovery joins the queue as its own commit.
Test (browse/test/cli-supervisor.test.ts):
* 6 static-grep tripwires: opt-in default, signal wiring, crash-loop
guard with window pruning, backoff schedule env knob, tick interval
env knob, terminal-agent re-spawn after server respawn.
* Live respawn tests belong in the e2e tier (real spawn cycles take
3-8s each; spamming these in the free tier would balloon CI time).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(browse): pty-session-lease registry — stable sessionId + lease lifecycle
Foundation for Commit 2 of the long-lived-sidebar PR. Separates two
concerns that pre-v1.44 were conflated under one token:
* sessionId — stable, non-secret identifier for a single PTY session.
Safe to log, safe in URLs, safe in DevTools. Identifies "this terminal,"
not "you're allowed to use this terminal."
* lease — server-side bookkeeping that maps sessionId → expiresAt.
Re-attach within the lease window resumes the same PTY; expiry tears
it down.
The companion attach-token primitive (short-lived 30s bearer) reuses the
existing browse/src/pty-session-cookie.ts module unchanged — the lease
adds a name-space alongside, it doesn't replace anything.
Codex outside-voice (T1 of the eng review) flagged the original D4
"token IS sessionId" design as conflating identity with auth. The fix
is this lease registry: re-attach URLs carry the stable sessionId
(loggable), the short-lived attachToken stays out of logs.
API:
* mintLease() → { sessionId, expiresAt }
* validateLease(sessionId) → { ok: true, expiresAt } | { ok: false }
* refreshLease(sessionId) — validate-first, never resurrects expired
leases. Security-critical: the 30-min TTL is what bounds blast
radius for a leaked attachToken whose lease should have GC'd.
* revokeLease(sessionId) — explicit dispose path.
* leaseCount() — observability helper.
* __resetLeases() — test-only.
TTL env knob (GSTACK_PTY_LEASE_TTL_MS) lets v1.44 e2e tests compress
the detach window to 1s instead of waiting 30 minutes per assertion.
Server.ts wiring + /pty-session shape change + /pty-restart + /pty-dispose
+ /pty-session/reattach all land in subsequent commits in this branch.
Test (browse/test/pty-session-lease.test.ts):
* 8 cases pinning mint uniqueness, validate-first refresh contract,
revoke idempotency, null/undefined tolerance, and the negative case
that refresh never resurrects a revoked lease (same code path as
expired-and-pruned).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(terminal-agent): sessionId-aware grant + scoped restart + eager spawn
Wires the pty-session-lease primitive (
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feat: gstack v1 — simpler prompts + real LOC receipts (v1.0.0.0) (#1039)
* docs: add design doc for /plan-tune v1 (observational substrate) Canonical record of the /plan-tune v1 design: typed question registry, per-question explicit preferences, inline tune: feedback with user-origin gate, dual-track profile (declared + inferred separately), and plain-English inspection skill. Captures every decision with pros/cons, what's deferred to v2 with explicit acceptance criteria, and what was rejected entirely. Codex review drove a substantial scope rollback from the initial CEO EXPANSION plan. 15+ legitimate findings (substrate claim was false without a typed registry; E4/E6/clamp logical contradiction; profile poisoning attack surface; LANDED preamble side effect; implementation order) shaped the final shape. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: typed question registry for /plan-tune v1 foundation scripts/question-registry.ts declares 53 recurring AskUserQuestion categories across 15 skills (ship, review, office-hours, plan-ceo-review, plan-eng-review, plan-design-review, plan-devex-review, qa, investigate, land-and-deploy, cso, gstack-upgrade, preamble, plan-tune, autoplan). Each entry has: stable kebab-case id, skill owner, category (approval | clarification | routing | cherry-pick | feedback-loop), door_type (one-way | two-way), optional stable option keys, optional psychographic signal_key, and a one-line description. 12 of 53 are one-way doors (destructive ops, architecture/data forks, security/compliance). These are ALWAYS asked regardless of user preference. Helpers: getQuestion(id), getOneWayDoorIds(), getAllRegisteredIds(), getRegistryStats(). No binary or resolver wiring yet — this is the schema substrate the rest of /plan-tune builds on. Ad-hoc question_ids (not registered) still log but skip psychographic signal attribution. Future /plan-tune skill surfaces frequently-firing ad-hoc ids as candidates for registry promotion. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: registry schema + safety + coverage tests (gate tier) 20 tests validating the question registry: Schema (7 tests): - Every entry has required fields - All ids are kebab-case and start with their skill name - No duplicate ids - Categories are from the allowed set - door_type is one-way | two-way - Options arrays are well-formed - Descriptions are short and single-line Helpers (5 tests): - getQuestion returns entry for known id, undefined for unknown - getOneWayDoorIds includes destructive questions, excludes two-way - getAllRegisteredIds count matches QUESTIONS keys - getRegistryStats totals are internally consistent One-way door safety (2 tests): - Every critical question (test failure, SQL safety, LLM trust boundary, security scan, merge confirm, rollback, fix apply, premise revise, arch finding, privacy gate, user challenge) is declared one-way - At least 10 one-way doors exist (catches regression if declarations are accidentally dropped) Registry breadth (3 tests): - 11 high-volume skills each have >= 1 registered question - Preamble one-time prompts are registered - /plan-tune's own questions are registered Signal map references (1 test): - signal_key values are typed kebab-case strings Template coverage (2 tests, informational): - AskUserQuestion usage across templates is non-trivial (>20) - Registry spans >= 10 skills 20 pass, 0 fail. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: one-way door classifier (belt-and-suspenders safety fallback) scripts/one-way-doors.ts — secondary keyword-pattern classifier that catches destructive questions even when the registry doesn't have an entry for them. The registry's door_type field (from scripts/question-registry.ts) is the PRIMARY safety gate. This classifier is the fallback for ad-hoc question_ids that agents generate at runtime. Classification priority: 1. Registry lookup by question_id → use declared door_type 2. Skill:category fallback (cso:approval, land-and-deploy:approval) 3. Keyword pattern match against question_summary 4. Default: treat as two-way (safer to log the miss than auto-decide unsafely) Covers 21 destructive patterns across: - File system (rm -rf, delete, wipe, purge, truncate) - Database (drop table/database/schema, delete from) - Git/VCS (force-push, reset --hard, checkout --, branch -D) - Deploy/infra (kubectl delete, terraform destroy, rollback) - Credentials (revoke/reset/rotate API key|token|secret|password) - Architecture (breaking change, schema migration, data model change) 7 new tests in test/plan-tune.test.ts covering: registry-first lookup, unknown-id fallthrough, keyword matching on destructive phrasings including embedded filler words ("rotate the API key"), skill-category fallback, benign questions defaulting to two-way, pattern-list non-empty. 27 pass, 0 fail. 1270 expect() calls. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: psychographic signal map + builder archetypes scripts/psychographic-signals.ts — hand-crafted {signal_key, user_choice} → {dimension, delta} map. Version 0.1.0. Conservative deltas (±0.03 to ±0.06 per event). Covers 9 signal keys: scope-appetite, architecture-care, code-quality-care, test-discipline, detail-preference, design-care, devex-care, distribution-care, session-mode. Helpers: applySignal() mutates running totals, newDimensionTotals() creates empty starting state, normalizeToDimensionValue() sigmoid-clamps accumulated delta to [0,1] (0 → 0.5 neutral), validateRegistrySignalKeys() checks that every signal_key in the registry has a SIGNAL_MAP entry. In v1 the signal map is used ONLY to compute inferred dimension values for /plan-tune inspection output. No skill behavior adapts to these signals until v2. scripts/archetypes.ts — 8 named archetypes + Polymath fallback: - Cathedral Builder (boil-the-ocean + architecture-first) - Ship-It Pragmatist (small scope + fast) - Deep Craft (detail-verbose + principled) - Taste Maker (intuitive, overrides recommendations) - Solo Operator (high-autonomy, delegates) - Consultant (hands-on, consulted on everything) - Wedge Hunter (narrow scope aggressively) - Builder-Coach (balanced steering) - Polymath (fallback when no archetype matches) matchArchetype() uses L2 distance scaled by tightness, with a 0.55 threshold below which we return Polymath. v1 ships the model stable; v2 narrative/vibe commands wire it into user-facing output. 14 new tests: signal map consistency vs registry, applySignal behavior for known/unknown keys, normalization bounds, archetype schema validity, name uniqueness, matchArchetype correctness for each reference profile, Polymath fallback for outliers. 41 pass, 0 fail total in test/plan-tune.test.ts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: bin/gstack-question-log — append validated AskUserQuestion events Append-only JSONL log at ~/.gstack/projects/{SLUG}/question-log.jsonl. Schema: {skill, question_id, question_summary, category?, door_type?, options_count?, user_choice, recommended?, followed_recommendation?, session_id?, ts} Validates: - skill is kebab-case - question_id is kebab-case, <= 64 chars - question_summary non-empty, <= 200 chars, newlines flattened - category is one of approval/clarification/routing/cherry-pick/feedback-loop - door_type is one-way or two-way - options_count is integer in [1, 26] - user_choice non-empty string, <= 64 chars Injection defense on question_summary rejects the same patterns as gstack-learnings-log (ignore previous instructions, system:, override:, do not report, etc). followed_recommendation is auto-computed when both user_choice and recommended are present. ts auto-injected as ISO 8601 if missing. 21 tests covering: valid payloads, full field preservation, auto-followed computation, appending, long-summary truncation, newline flattening, invalid JSON, missing fields, bad case, oversized ids, invalid enum values, out-of-range options_count, and 6 injection attack patterns. 21 pass, 0 fail, 43 expect() calls. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: bin/gstack-developer-profile — unified profile with migration bin/gstack-developer-profile supersedes bin/gstack-builder-profile. The old binary becomes a one-line legacy shim delegating to --read for /office-hours backward compat. Subcommands: --read legacy KEY:VALUE output (tier, session_count, etc) --migrate folds ~/.gstack/builder-profile.jsonl into ~/.gstack/developer-profile.json. Atomic (temp + rename), idempotent (no-op when target exists or source absent), archives source as .migrated-YYYY-MM-DD-HHMMSS --derive recomputes inferred dimensions from question-log.jsonl using the signal map in scripts/psychographic-signals.ts --profile full profile JSON --gap declared vs inferred diff JSON --trace <dim> event-level trace of what contributed to a dimension --check-mismatch flags dimensions where declared and inferred disagree by > 0.3 (requires >= 10 events first) --vibe archetype name + description from scripts/archetypes.ts --narrative (v2 stub) Auto-migration on first read: if legacy file exists and new file doesn't, migrate before reading. Creates a neutral (all-0.5) stub if nothing exists. Unified schema (see docs/designs/PLAN_TUNING_V0.md §Architecture): {identity, declared, inferred: {values, sample_size, diversity}, gap, overrides, sessions, signals_accumulated, schema_version} 25 new tests across subcommand behaviors: - --read defaults + stub creation - --migrate: 3 sessions preserved with signal tallies, idempotency, archival - Tier calculation: welcome_back / regular / inner_circle boundaries - --derive: neutral-when-empty, upward nudge on 'expand', downward on 'reduce', recomputable (same input → same output), ad-hoc unregistered ids ignored - --trace: contributing events, empty for untouched dims, error without arg - --gap: empty when no declared, correctly computed otherwise - --vibe: returns archetype name + description - --check-mismatch: threshold behavior, 10+ sample requirement - Unknown subcommand errors 25 pass, 0 fail, 60 expect() calls. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: bin/gstack-question-preference — explicit preferences + user-origin gate Subcommands: --check <id> → ASK_NORMALLY | AUTO_DECIDE (decides if a registered question should be auto-decided by the agent) --write '{…}' → set a preference (requires user-origin source) --read → dump preferences JSON --clear [id] → clear one or all --stats → short counts summary Preference values: always-ask | never-ask | ask-only-for-one-way. Stored at ~/.gstack/projects/{SLUG}/question-preferences.json. Safety contract (the core of Codex finding #16, profile-poisoning defense from docs/designs/PLAN_TUNING_V0.md §Security model): 1. One-way doors ALWAYS return ASK_NORMALLY from --check, regardless of user preference. User's never-ask is overridden with a visible safety note so the user knows why their preference didn't suppress the prompt. 2. --write requires an explicit `source` field: - Allowed: "plan-tune", "inline-user" - REJECTED with exit code 2: "inline-tool-output", "inline-file", "inline-file-content", "inline-unknown" Rejection is explicit ("profile poisoning defense") so the caller can log and surface the attempt. 3. free_text on --write is sanitized against injection patterns (ignore previous instructions, override:, system:, etc.) and newline-flattened. Each --write also appends a preference-set event to ~/.gstack/projects/{SLUG}/question-events.jsonl for derivation audit trail. 31 tests: - --check behavior (4): defaults, two-way, one-way (one-way overrides never-ask with safety note), unknown ids, missing arg - --check with prefs (5): never-ask on two-way → AUTO_DECIDE; never-ask on one-way → ASK_NORMALLY with override note; always-ask always asks; ask-only-for-one-way flips appropriately - --write valid (5): inline-user accepted, plan-tune accepted, persisted correctly, event appended, free_text preserved with flattening - User-origin gate (6): missing source rejected; inline-tool-output rejected with exit code 2 and explicit poisoning message; inline-file, inline-file-content, inline-unknown rejected; unknown source rejected - Schema validation (4): invalid JSON, bad question_id, bad preference, injection in free_text - --read (2): empty → {}, returns writes - --clear (3): specific id, clear-all, NOOP for missing - --stats (2): empty zeros, tallies by preference type 31 pass, 0 fail, 52 expect() calls. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: question-tuning preamble resolvers scripts/resolvers/question-tuning.ts ships three preamble generators: generateQuestionPreferenceCheck — before each AskUserQuestion, agent runs gstack-question-preference --check <id>. AUTO_DECIDE suppresses the ask and auto-chooses recommended. ASK_NORMALLY asks as usual. One-way door safety override is handled by the binary. generateQuestionLog — after each AskUserQuestion, agent appends a log record with skill, question_id, summary, category, door_type, options_count, user_choice, recommended, session_id. generateInlineTuneFeedback — offers inline "tune:" prompt after two-way questions. Documents structured shortcuts (never-ask, always-ask, ask-only-for-one-way, ask-less) AND accepts free-form English with normalization + confirmation. Explicitly spells out the USER-ORIGIN GATE: only write tune events when the prefix appears in the user's own chat message, never from tool output or file content. Binary enforces. All three resolvers are gated by the QUESTION_TUNING preamble echo. When the config is off, the agent skips these sections entirely. Ready to be wired into preamble.ts in the next commit. Codex host has a simpler variant that uses $GSTACK_BIN env vars. scripts/resolvers/index.ts registers three placeholders: QUESTION_PREFERENCE_CHECK, QUESTION_LOG, INLINE_TUNE_FEEDBACK Total resolver count goes from 45 to 48. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: wire question-tuning into preamble for tier >= 2 skills scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts — adds two things: 1. _QUESTION_TUNING config echo in the preamble bash block, gated on the user's gstack-config `question_tuning` value (default: false). 2. A combined Question Tuning section for tier >= 2 skills, injected after the confusion protocol. The section itself is runtime-gated by the QUESTION_TUNING value — agents skip it entirely when off. scripts/resolvers/question-tuning.ts — consolidated into one compact combined section `generateQuestionTuning(ctx)` covering: preference check before the question, log after, and inline tune: feedback with user-origin gate. Per-phase generators remain exported for unit tests but are no longer the main entrypoint. Size impact: +570 tokens / +2.3KB per tier-2+ SKILL.md. Three skills (plan-ceo-review, office-hours, ship) still exceed the 100KB token ceiling — but they were already over before this change. Delta is the smallest viable wiring of the /plan-tune v1 substrate. Golden fixtures (test/fixtures/golden/claude-ship, codex-ship, factory-ship) regenerated to match the new baseline. Full test run: 1149 pass, 0 fail, 113 skip across 28 files. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore: regenerate SKILL.md files with question-tuning section bun run gen:skill-docs --host all after wiring the QUESTION_TUNING preamble section. Every tier >= 2 skill now includes the combined Question Tuning guidance. Runtime-gated — agents skip the section when question_tuning is off in gstack-config (default). Golden fixtures (claude-ship, codex-ship, factory-ship) updated to the new baseline. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: /plan-tune skill — conversational inspection + preferences plan-tune/SKILL.md.tmpl: the user-facing skill for /plan-tune v1. Routes plain-English intent to one of 8 flows: - Enable + setup (first-time): 5 declaration questions mapping to the 5 psychographic dimensions (scope_appetite, risk_tolerance, detail_preference, autonomy, architecture_care). Writes to developer-profile.json declared.*. - Inspect profile: plain-English rendering of declared + inferred + gap. Uses word bands (low/balanced/high) not raw floats. Shows vibe archetype when calibration gate is met. - Review question log: top-20 question frequencies with follow/override counts. Highlights override-heavy questions as candidates for never-ask. - Set a preference: normalizes "stop asking me about X" → never-ask, etc. Confirms ambiguous phrasings before writing via gstack-question-preference. - Edit declared profile: interprets free-form ("more boil-the-ocean") and CONFIRMS before mutating declared.* (trust boundary per Codex #15). - Show gap: declared vs inferred diff with plain-English severity bands (close / drift / mismatch). Never auto-updates declared from the gap. - Stats: preference counts + diversity/calibration status. - Enable / disable: gstack-config set question_tuning true|false. Design constraints enforced: - Plain English everywhere. No CLI subcommand syntax required. Shortcuts (`profile`, `vibe`, `stats`, `setup`) exist but optional. - user-origin gate on tune: writes. source: "plan-tune" for user-invoked /plan-tune; source: "inline-user" for inline tune: from other skills. - One-way doors override never-ask (safety, surfaced to user). - No behavior adaptation in v1 — this skill inspects and configures only. Generates plan-tune/SKILL.md at ~11.6k tokens, well under the 100KB ceiling. Generated for all hosts via `bun run gen:skill-docs --host all`. Full free test suite: 1149 pass, 0 fail, 113 skip across 28 files. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: end-to-end pipeline + preamble injection coverage Added 6 tests to test/plan-tune.test.ts: Preamble injection (3 tests): - tier 2+ includes Question Tuning section with preference check, log, and user-origin gate language ('profile-poisoning defense', 'inline-user') - tier 1 does NOT include the prose section (QUESTION_TUNING bash echo still fires since it's in the bash block all tiers share) - codex host swaps binDir references to $GSTACK_BIN End-to-end pipeline (3 tests) — real binaries working together, not mocks: - Log 5 expand choices → --derive → profile shows scope_appetite > 0.5 (full log → registry lookup → signal map → normalization round-trip) - --write source: inline-tool-output rejected; --read confirms no pref was persisted (the profile-poisoning defense actually works end-to-end) - Migrate a 3-session legacy file; confirm legacy gstack-builder-profile shim still returns SESSION_COUNT: 3, TIER: welcome_back, CROSS_PROJECT: true test/plan-tune.test.ts now has 47 tests total. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: E2E test for /plan-tune plain-English inspection flow (gate tier) test/skill-e2e-plan-tune.test.ts — verifies /plan-tune correctly routes plain-English intent ("review the questions I've been asked") to the Review question log section without requiring CLI subcommand syntax. Seeds a synthetic question-log.jsonl with 3 entries exercising: - override behavior (user chose expand over recommended selective) - one-way door respect (user followed ship-test-failure-triage recommendation) - two-way override (user skipped recommended changelog polish) Invokes the skill via `claude -p` and asserts: - Agent surfaces >= 2 of 3 logged question_ids in output - Agent notices override/skip behavior from the log - Exit reason is success or error_max_turns (not agent-crash) Gate-tier because the core v1 DX promise is plain-English intent routing. If it requires memorized subcommands or breaks on natural language, that's a regression of the defining feature. Registered in test/helpers/touchfiles.ts with dependencies: - plan-tune/** (skill template + generated md) - scripts/question-registry.ts (required for log lookup) - scripts/psychographic-signals.ts, scripts/one-way-doors.ts (derive path) - bin/gstack-question-log, gstack-question-preference, gstack-developer-profile Skipped when EVALS_ENABLED is not set; runs on `bun run test:evals`. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore: bump version and changelog (v0.19.0.0) — /plan-tune v1 Ships /plan-tune as observational substrate: typed question registry, dual-track developer profile (declared + inferred), explicit per-question preferences with user-origin gate, inline tune: feedback across every tier >= 2 skill, unified developer-profile.json with migration from builder-profile.jsonl. Scope rolled back from initial CEO EXPANSION plan after outside-voice review (Codex). 6 deferrals tracked as P0 TODOs with explicit acceptance criteria: E1 substrate wiring, E3 narrative/vibe, E4 blind-spot coach, E5 LANDED celebration, E6 auto-adjustment, E7 psychographic auto-decide. See docs/designs/PLAN_TUNING_V0.md for the full design record. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ci): harden Dockerfile.ci against transient Ubuntu mirror failures The CI image build failed with: E: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/... Connection failed [IP: 91.189.92.22 80] ERROR: process "/bin/sh -c apt-get update && apt-get install ..." did not complete successfully: exit code: 100 archive.ubuntu.com periodically returns "connection refused" on individual regional mirrors. Without retry logic a single failed fetch nukes the whole Docker build. Three defenses, layered: 1. /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80-retries — apt fetches each package up to 5 times with a 30s timeout. Handles per-package flakes. 2. Shell-loop retry around the whole apt-get step (x3, 10s sleep) — handles the case where apt-get update itself can't reach any mirror. 3. --retry 5 --retry-delay 5 --retry-connrefused on all curl fetches (bun install script, GitHub CLI keyring, NodeSource setup script). Applied to every apt-get and curl call in the Dockerfile. No behavior change on happy path — only kicks in when mirrors blip. Fixes the build-image job that was blocking CI on the /plan-tune PR. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: add PLAN_TUNING_V1 + PACING_UPDATES_V0 design docs Captures the V1 design (ELI10 writing + LOC reframe) in docs/designs/PLAN_TUNING_V1.md and the extracted V1.1 pacing-overhaul plan in docs/designs/PACING_UPDATES_V0.md. V1 scope was reduced from the original bundled pacing + writing-style plan after three engineering-review passes revealed structural gaps in the pacing workstream that couldn't be closed via plan-text editing. TODOS.md P0 entry links to V1.1. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: curated jargon list for V1 writing-style glossing Repo-owned list of ~50 high-frequency technical terms (idempotent, race condition, N+1, backpressure, etc.) that gstack glosses on first use in tier-≥2 skill output. Baked into generated SKILL.md prose at gen-skill-docs time. Terms not on this list are assumed plain-English enough. Contributions via PR. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(preamble): V1 Writing Style section + EXPLAIN_LEVEL echo + migration prompt Adds a new Writing Style section to tier-≥2 preamble output composing with the existing AskUserQuestion Format section. Six rules: jargon glossed on first use per skill invocation (from scripts/jargon-list.json), outcome- framed questions, short sentences, decisions close with user impact, gloss-on-first-use even if user pasted term, user-turn override for "be terse" requests. Baked conditionally (skip if EXPLAIN_LEVEL: terse). Adds EXPLAIN_LEVEL preamble echo using \${binDir} (host-portable matching V0 QUESTION_TUNING pattern). Adds WRITING_STYLE_PENDING echo reading a flag file written by the V0→V1 upgrade migration; on first post-upgrade skill run, the agent fires a one-time AskUserQuestion offering terse mode. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(gstack-config): validate explain_level + document in header Adds explain_level: default|terse to the annotated config header with a one-line description. Whitelists valid values; on set of an unknown value, prints a specific warning ("explain_level '\$VALUE' not recognized. Valid values: default, terse. Using default.") and writes the default value. Matches V1 preamble's EXPLAIN_LEVEL echo expectation. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: V1 upgrade migration — writing-style opt-out prompt New migration script following existing v0.15.2.0.sh / v0.16.2.0.sh pattern. Writes a .writing-style-prompt-pending flag file on first run post-upgrade. The preamble's migration-prompt block reads the flag and fires a one-time AskUserQuestion offering the user a choice between the new default writing style and restoring V0 prose via \`gstack-config set explain_level terse\`. Idempotent via flag files; if the user has already set explain_level explicitly, counts as answered and skips. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: LOC reframe tooling — throughput comparison + README updater + scc installer Three new scripts: - scripts/garry-output-comparison.ts — enumerates Garry-authored commits in 2013 + 2026 on public repos, extracts ADDED lines from git diff, classifies as logical SLOC via scc --stdin (regex fallback if scc missing). Writes docs/throughput-2013-vs-2026.json with per-language breakdown + explicit caveats (public repos only, commit-style drift, private-work exclusion). - scripts/update-readme-throughput.ts — reads the JSON if present, replaces the README's <!-- GSTACK-THROUGHPUT-PLACEHOLDER --> anchor with the computed multiple (preserving the anchor for future runs). If JSON missing, writes GSTACK-THROUGHPUT-PENDING marker that CI rejects — forcing the build to run before commit. - scripts/setup-scc.sh — standalone OS-detecting installer for scc. Not a package.json dependency (95% of users never run throughput). Brew on macOS, apt on Linux, GitHub releases link on Windows. Two-string anchor pattern (PLACEHOLDER vs PENDING) prevents the pipeline from destroying its own update path. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(retro): surface logical SLOC + weighted commits above raw LOC V1 reorders the /retro summary table to lead with features shipped, then commits + weighted commits (commits × files-touched capped at 20), then PRs merged, then logical SLOC added as the primary code-volume metric. Raw LOC stays present but is demoted to context. Rationale inline in the template: ten lines of a good fix is not less shipping than ten thousand lines of scaffold. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(v1): README hero reframe + writing-style + CHANGELOG + version bump to 1.0.0.0 README.md: - Hero removes "600,000+ lines of production code" framing; replaces with the computed 2013-vs-2026 pro-rata multiple (via <!-- GSTACK-THROUGHPUT-PLACEHOLDER --> anchor, filled by the update-readme-throughput build step). - Hiring callout: "ship real products at AI-coding speed" instead of "10K+ LOC/day." - New Writing Style section (~80 words) between Quick start and Install: "v1 prompts = simpler" framing, outcome-language example, terse-mode opt-out, pointer to /plan-tune. CLAUDE.md: one-paragraph Writing style (V1) note under project conventions, linking to preamble resolver + V1 design docs. CHANGELOG.md: V1 entry on top of v0.19.0.0 with user-facing narrative (what changes, how to opt out, for-contributors notes). Mentions scope reduction — pacing overhaul ships in V1.1. CONTRIBUTING.md: one-paragraph note on jargon-list.json maintenance (PR to add/remove terms; regenerate via gen:skill-docs). VERSION + package.json: bump to 1.0.0.0. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore: regenerate SKILL.md files + golden fixtures for V1 Mechanical regeneration from the updated templates in prior commits: - Writing Style section now appears in tier-≥2 skill output. - EXPLAIN_LEVEL + WRITING_STYLE_PENDING echoes in preamble bash. - V1 migration-prompt block fires conditionally on first upgrade. - Jargon list inlined into preamble prose at gen time. - Retro template's logical SLOC + weighted commits order applied. Regenerated for all 8 hosts via bun run gen:skill-docs --host all. Golden ship-skill fixtures refreshed from regenerated outputs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: V1 gate coverage — writing-style resolver + config + jargon + migration + dormancy Six new gate-tier test files: - test/writing-style-resolver.test.ts — asserts Writing Style section is injected into tier-≥2 preamble, all 6 rules present, jargon list inlined, terse-mode gate condition present, Codex output uses \$GSTACK_BIN (not ~/.claude/), tier-1 does NOT get the section, migration-prompt block present. - test/explain-level-config.test.ts — gstack-config set/get round-trip for default + terse, unknown-value warns + defaults to default, header documents the key, round-trip across set→set→get. - test/jargon-list.test.ts — shape + ~50 terms + no duplicates (case-insensitive) + includes canonical high-signal terms. - test/v0-dormancy.test.ts — 5D dimension names + archetype names forbidden in default-mode tier-≥2 SKILL.md output, except for plan-tune and office-hours where they're load-bearing. - test/readme-throughput.test.ts — script replaces anchor with number on happy path, writes PENDING marker when JSON missing, CI gate asserts committed README contains no PENDING string. - test/upgrade-migration-v1.test.ts — fresh run writes pending flag, idempotent after user-answered, pre-existing explain_level counts as answered. All 95 V1 test-expect() calls pass. Full suite: 0 failures. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: compute real 2013-vs-2026 throughput multiple (130.2×) Ran scripts/garry-output-comparison.ts across all 15 public garrytan/* repos. Aggregated results into docs/throughput-2013-vs-2026.json and ran scripts/update-readme-throughput.ts to replace the README placeholder. 2013 public activity: 2 commits, 2,384 logical lines added across 1 week, in 1 repo (zurb-foundation-wysihtml5 upstream contribution). 2026 public activity: 279 commits, 310,484 logical lines added across 17 active weeks, in 3 repos (gbrain, gstack, resend_robot). Multiples (public repos only, apples-to-apples): - Logical SLOC: 130.2× - Commits per active week: 8.2× - Raw lines added: 134.4× Private work at both eras (2013 Bookface at YC, Posterous-era code, 2026 internal tools) is excluded from this comparison. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: 207× throughput multiple (with private repos + Bookface) Re-ran scripts/garry-output-comparison.ts across all 41 repos under garrytan/* (15 public + 26 private), including Bookface (YC's internal social network, 2013-era work). 2013 activity: 71 commits, 5,143 logical lines, 4 active repos (bookface, delicounter, tandong, zurb-foundation-wysihtml5) 2026 activity: 350 commits, 1,064,818 logical lines, 15 active repos (gbrain, gstack, gbrowser, tax-app, kumo, tenjin, autoemail, kitsune, easy-chromium-compiles, conductor-playground, garryslist-agent, baku, gstack-website, resend_robot, garryslist-brain) Multiples: - Logical SLOC: 207× (up from 130.2× when including private work) - Raw lines: 223× - Commits/active-week: 3.4× Stopped committing docs/throughput-2013-vs-2026.json — analysis is a local artifact, not repo state. Added docs/throughput-*.json to .gitignore. Full markdown analysis at ~/throughput-analysis-2026-04-18.md (local-only). README multiple is now hardcoded; re-run the script and edit manually when you want to refresh it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: run rate vs year-to-date throughput comparison Two separate numbers in the README hero: - Run rate: ~700× (9,859 logical lines/day in 2026 vs 14/day in 2013) - Year-to-date: 207× (2026 through April 18 already exceeds 2013 full year by 207×) Previous "207× pro-rata" framing mixed full-year 2013 vs partial-year 2026. Run rate is the apples-to-apples normalization; YTD is the "already produced" total. Both are honest; both are compelling; they measure different things. Analysis at ~/throughput-analysis-2026-04-18.md (local-only). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(throughput): script natively computes to-date + run-rate multiples Enhanced scripts/garry-output-comparison.ts so both calculations come out of a single run instead of being reassembled ad-hoc in bash: PerYearResult now includes: - days_elapsed — 365 for past years, day-of-year for current - is_partial — flags the current (in-progress) year - per_day_rate — logical/raw/commits normalized by calendar day - annualized_projection — per_day_rate × 365 Output JSON's `multiples` now has two sibling blocks: - multiples.to_date — raw volume ratios (2026-YTD / 2013-full-year) - multiples.run_rate — per-day pace ratios (apples-to-apples) Back-compat: multiples.logical_lines_added still aliases to_date for older consumers reading the JSON. Updated README hero to cite both (picking up brain/* repo that was missed in the earlier aggregation pass): 2026 run rate: ~880× my 2013 pace (12,382 vs 14 logical lines/day) 2026 YTD: 260× the entire 2013 year Stderr summary now prints both multiples at the end of each run. Full analysis at ~/throughput-analysis-2026-04-18.md (local-only). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: ON_THE_LOC_CONTROVERSY methodology post + README link Long-form response to the "LOC is a meaningless vanity metric" critique. Covers: - The three branches of the LOC critique and which are right - Why logical SLOC (NCLOC) beats raw LOC as the honest measurement - Full method: author-scoped git diff, regex-classified added lines, aggregated across 41 public + private garrytan/* repos - Both calculations: to-date (260x) and run-rate (879x) - Steelman of the critics (greenfield-vs-maintenance, survivorship bias, quality-adjusted productivity, time-to-first-user) - Reproduction instructions Linked from README hero via a blockquote directly below the number. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * exclude: tax-app from throughput analysis (import-dominated history) tax-app's history is one commit of 104K logical lines — an initial import of a codebase, not authored work. Removing it to keep the comparison honest. Changes: - scripts/garry-output-comparison.ts: added EXCLUDED_REPOS constant with tax-app + a one-line rationale. The script now skips excluded repos with a stderr note and deletes any stale output JSON so aggregation loops don't pick up pre-exclusion numbers. - README hero: updated to 810× run rate + 240× YTD (were 880×/260×). Wording updated to "40 public + private repos ... after excluding repos dominated by imported code." - docs/ON_THE_LOC_CONTROVERSY.md: updated all numbers, added an "Exclusions" paragraph explaining tax-app, removed tax-app from the "shipped not WIP" example list. New numbers (2026 through day 108, without tax-app): - To-date: 240× logical SLOC (1,233,062 vs 5,143) - Run rate: 810× per-day pace (11,417 vs 14 logical/day) - Annualized: ~4.2M logical lines projected Future re-runs automatically skip tax-app. Add more exclusions to EXCLUDED_REPOS at the top of the script with a one-line rationale. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: correct tax-app exclusion rationale tax-app is a demo app I built for an upcoming YC channel video, not an "import-dominated history" as the previous commit claimed. Excluded because it's not production shipping work, not because of an import commit. Updated rationale in scripts/garry-output-comparison.ts's EXCLUDED_REPOS constant, in docs/ON_THE_LOC_CONTROVERSY.md's method section + conclusion, and in the README hero wording ("one demo repo" vs the earlier "repos dominated by imported code"). Numbers unchanged — the exclusion itself is the same, just the reason. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: harden ON_THE_LOC_CONTROVERSY against Cramer + neckbeard critiques Reframes the thesis as "engineers can fly now" (amplification, not replacement) and fortifies the soft spots critics will attack. Added: - Flight-thesis opener: pilot vs walker, leverage not replacement. - Second deflation layer for AI verbosity (on top of NCLOC). Headline moves from 810x to 408x after generous 2x AI-boilerplate cut, with explicit sensitivity analysis showing the number is still large under pessimistic priors (5x → 162x, 10x → 81x, 100x impossible). - Weekly distribution check (kills "you had one burst week" attack). - Revert rate (2.0%) and post-merge fix rate (6.3%) with OSS comparables (K8s/Rails/Django band). Addresses "where are your error rates" directly. - Named production adoption signals (gstack 1000+ installs, gbrain beta, resend_robot paying API) with explicit concession that "shipped != used at scale" for most of the corpus. - Harder steelman: 5 specific concessions with quantified pivot points (e.g., "if 2013 baseline was 3.5x higher, 810x → 228x, still high"). Removed factual error: Posterous acquisition paragraph (Garry had already left Posterous by 2011, so the "Twitter bought our private repos" excuse for the 2013 corpus gap doesn't apply). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: update gstack/gbrain adoption numbers in LOC controversy post gstack: "1,000+ distinct project installations" → "tens of thousands of daily active users" (telemetry-reported, community tier, opt-in). gbrain: "small set of beta testers" → "hundreds of beta testers running it live." Both are the accurate current numbers. The concession paragraph below (about shipped != adopted at scale for the long-tail repos) still reads correctly since it's about the corpus as a whole, not gstack/gbrain specifically. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: reframe reproducibility note as OSS breakout flex "You'd need access to my private repos" → "Bookface and Posthaven are private, but gstack and gbrain are open-sourced with tens of thousands of GitHub stars and tens of thousands of confirmed regular users, among the most-used OSS projects in the world that didn't exist three months ago." Keeps the `gh repo list` command at the end for the actual reproducibility instruction. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * Rewrite LOC controversy post - Lead with concession (LOC is garbage, do the math anyway) - Preempt 14 lines/day meme with historical baselines (Brooks, Jones, McConnell) - Remove 'neckbeard' language throughout - Add slop-scan story (Ben Vinegar, 5.24 → 1.96, 62% cut) - David Cramer GUnit joke - Add testing philosophy section (the real unlock) - ASCII weekly distribution chart - gstack telemetry section with real numbers (15K installs, 305K invocations, 95.2% success) - Top skills usage chart - Pick-your-priors paragraph moved earlier (the killer) - Sharper close: run the script, show me your numbers * docs: four precision fixes on LOC controversy post 1. Citation fix. Kernighan didn't say anything about LOC-as-metric (that's the famous "aircraft building by weight" quote, commonly misattributed but actually Bill Gates). Replaced "Kernighan implied it before that" with the real Dijkstra quote ("lines produced" vs "lines spent" from EWD1036, with direct link) + the Gates quote. Verified via web search. 2. Slop-scan direction clarified. "(highest on his benchmark)" was ambiguous — could read as a brag. Now: "Higher score = more slop. He ran it on gstack and we scored 5.24, the worst he'd measured at the time." Then the 62% cut lands as an actual win. 3. Prose/chart skill-usage ordering now matches. Added /plan-eng-review (28,014) to the prose list so it doesn't conflict with the chart below it. 4. Cut the "David — I owe you one / GUnit" insider joke. Most readers won't connect Cramer → Sentry → GUnit naming. Ends the slop-scan paragraph on the stronger line: "Run `bun test` and watch 2,000+ tests pass." Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: tighten four LOC post citations to match primary sources 1. Bill Gates quote: flagged as folklore-grade. Was "Bill Gates put it more memorably" (firm attribution). Now "The old line (widely attributed to Bill Gates, sourcing murky) puts it more memorably." The quote stands; honesty about attribution avoids the same misattribution trap we just fixed for Kernighan. 2. Capers Jones: "15-50 across thousands of projects" → "roughly 16-38 LOC/day across thousands of projects" — matches his actual published measurements (which also report as 325-750 LOC/month). 3. Steve McConnell: "10-50 for finished, tested, delivered code" was folklore. Replaced with his actual project-size-dependent range from Code Complete: "20-125 LOC/day for small projects (10K LOC) down to 1.5-25 for large projects (10M LOC) — it's size-dependent, not a single number." 4. Revert rate comparison: "Kubernetes, Rails, and Django historically run 1.5-3%" was unsourced. Replaced with "mature OSS codebases typically run 1-3%" + "run the same command on whatever you consider the bar and compare." No false specificity about which repos. Net: every quantitative citation in the post now matches primary-source figures or is explicitly flagged as folklore. Neckbeards can verify. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: drop Writing style section from README Was sitting in prime real estate between Quick start and Install — internal implementation detail, not something users need up-front. Existing coverage is enough: - Upgrade migration prompt notifies users on first post-upgrade run - CLAUDE.md has the contributor note - docs/designs/PLAN_TUNING_V1.md has the full design Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: collapse team-mode setup into one paste-and-go command Step 2 was three separate code blocks: setup --team, then team-init, then git add/commit. Mirrors Step 1's style now — one shell one-liner that does all three. Subshell (cd && ./setup --team) keeps the user in their repo pwd so team-init + git commit land in the right place. "Swap required for optional" moved to a one-liner below. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: move full-clone footnote from README to CONTRIBUTING The "Contributing or need full history?" note is for contributors, not for someone following the README install flow. Moved into CONTRIBUTING's Quick start section where it fits next to the existing clone command, with a tip to upgrade an existing shallow clone via \`git fetch --unshallow\`. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: root <root@localhost> |