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Garry Tan 55fbe77195 v1.91.24.0 test: audit wave — PR evals keep finished work, honest ceilings, EVAL_POLICY v2, faster free suite (#3031)
* chore(scripts): retire hollow and legacy paid package scripts behind one-release stubs (W8a, DX-4, CEO-31)

test:codex*, test:evals*, test:e2e*, test:gate, test:periodic, eval:bg,
eval:bg:all, eval:flake-rank, eval:watch and test:audit now print their
replacement and exit 1 via scripts/retired-command.ts. CONTRIBUTING.md
carries the same table; test/retired-commands.test.ts pins both. Eval CLI
empty-state hints point at eval:bg:pr.

* chore: delete dead update-readme-throughput, eval-watch, orphan fixtures and QA_FUNCTIONAL_INPUTS (W8b, CEO-24)

Retired with named behavior:
- update-readme-throughput.ts + readme-throughput test: replaced a README
  anchor that no longer exists from a JSON file that was never produced;
  the script was a no-op. Guarantee withdrawn (nothing to protect).
- eval-watch.ts + its dashboard tests: rendered ~/.gstack-dev/e2e-live.json
  and _partial-e2e.json, written only by unsharded runs, so it showed
  nothing for every supported (sharded) entry point. Guarantee withdrawn;
  live progress is the gstack-detach log or gh run watch. Manual-review
  rendering stays covered by eval-list and eval-summary tests.
- Orphan fixtures (autoplan-pending-artifact-ae.json, autoplan-existing-app/,
  autoplan-sign-in-ui/, parity baselines v1.47.0.0/v1.57.7.0/v1.69.1.0):
  no test, touchfile or script reads them; superseded baselines stay in
  git history.
- QA_FUNCTIONAL_INPUTS: exported, never imported.

* refactor(test-free): delete dead WORKER_HOSTILE list and buildShardArgs parallel mode

Neither had a production caller: full-suite mode runs shard processes, so the
worker quarantine was inert and --parallel was never passed (W8b).

* docs(test-value): narrow prompt-byte contract to machine-read tokens (D2)

Define prompt-byte contract as machine-read tokens (markers, field names,
command lines, enum values, file paths, security-boundary strings) and add a
sentence-pin glossary entry: convert to structural checks or delete when a
behavioral eval covers the behavior.

* test(ratchet): count free tests that slice a paid test's source

A free test that binds readFileSync(<paid test file>) and cuts it with
.slice() tests the paid harness's code out of context even when it imports a
lib/ symbol. Record the 15 existing files with reasons; new ones fail with fix
text. Self-test covers positive and negative shapes.

* test(browse): un-quarantine compare-board; all 16 board tests pass headless (W8d, CEO-24)

The GSTACK_COMPARE_BOARD_TESTS opt-in hid a headless mismatch that no
longer reproduces: all 16 tests pass on Bun 1.4.0 with the bundled
headless Chromium, solo, repeated, and beside other in-process browser
files. Protected behavior (the comparison-board DOM contract the
plan-design-review/office-hours/design-consultation feedback loop polls)
is checked on every free run again.

* test: replace silent existsSync early returns with explicit skips or assertions (W8d)

- browse/test/build.test.ts: server-node.mjs checks skip only when the
  bundle is absent and GSTACK_EXPECT_BINARIES is unset; the free CI lane
  and test:ubicloud build it and set the flag, so a dropped build step
  fails with the build command instead of passing with no assertions.
- gstack-update-check: VERSION is tracked; the guard could only hide a bug.
- gen-skill-docs host leakage/frontmatter checks assert the host tree
  exists (the module-level render always produces it).
- cso-docker staged-runtime test uses test.skipIf so reports show it as
  skipped, not passed.

* test(ship): convert ship-workflow-clarity sentence pins to structural checks

Add test/helpers/prompt-structure.ts (between, expectTokens, expectAbsent,
expectOrdered, expectMentions) with fix text on failure. ship-workflow-clarity
now pins headings, step order and machine-read tokens (commands, fields, enum
and status strings); safety rules are meaning-level keyword checks. Wording is
judged by the 'ship/SKILL.md workflow' judge in skill-llm-eval.
Sentence pins: 90 -> 0.

* ci: add platform-qualification lane for opt-in ML, gitleaks and Swift tests (W8d, CEO-24)

security-bench + security-live-playwright L4 (SECURITY_BENCH), the real
gitleaks 8.30.1 memory-ingest cases (GSTACK_TEST_GITLEAKS) and the
DebugBridge Swift build invariants (GSTACK_TEST_SWIFT) self-skip in every
lane today. No scheduled lane has their prerequisites, so per CEO-24 they
move to an owned dispatch + quarterly workflow instead of being deleted.
Each job was run locally (ML 10 pass, gitleaks 130 pass; Swift needs
macOS). test/platform-qualification-workflow.test.ts pins gate variable,
job and file together.

* fix(scripts): capture-baseline and preflight-agent-sdk no longer act on --help or typos (W8e)

capture-baseline parses its flags strictly: --help prints usage, an unknown
or valueless flag exits 2, and only a valid invocation writes a fixture
(--help used to write test/fixtures/parity-baseline-current.json).
preflight-agent-sdk gains --help, rejects unknown flags, and runs the live
SDK query (API spend) only with --live.

* test(evals): register the three keyless periodic paid files with case ids (W1b)

skill-e2e-auq-consistency, skill-e2e-auq-verbose-vs-carved-ab and
codex-e2e-recommendation-substance now carry touchfiles, a periodic tier and
kind rule (one trial, unchanged), so editing one selects its own case instead
of restoring the full PR gate. The verbose A/B case also registers the vendored
pre-cut fixture it reads, and review-army-migration-safety registers the SQL
fixture it reads.

* feat(evals): narrow PR fallback for free-only inputs (W1a, CEO-13/20, ENG-13)

The PR profile now exempts the duration seeds, every free-lane workflow
(explicit list; inventory test fails on an unclassified workflow, .yaml
and workflow_call included), scripts/ubicloud/** and fixtures declared in
the explicit FREE_FIXTURES map. Each remaining unknown file carries a label
and fix (needs touchfile entry / add to FREE_ONLY_PR_FILES / real unknown
dependency). evals.yml itself still restores the full gate.

* ci: delete ci-image.yml; the eval workflows already build and push the same content-hash tag (W8f)

evals.yml, evals-periodic.yml and evals-marathon.yml each compute the
identical hashFiles() tag and build/push it (with :buildcache and :latest)
when missing, so ci-image's push trigger and weekly cron were no-ops
(30-day median 0.5 min, 36/36 success). ci-image-tag-binding now pins the
three eval workflows.

* ci(evals): key periodic/marathon concurrency on ref+event; branch periodic dispatch skips the gate census (W2a, ENG-9, CEO-04)

* refactor(paid): drop ~160 unused imports; leaf paid-types/paid-select modules break the paid-* import cycle (W8c)

* ci(quality-gate): per-PR concurrency, free runner, drop unscoped bun audit (W2a, W8f)

- Concurrency keys on pull_request.number || run_id, so back-to-back main
  pushes no longer cancel each other's credential scan.
- ubuntu-24.04 instead of a billed 8-vCPU Ubicloud runner for a ~1 min job.
- bun audit --audit-level=critical ran on every PR regardless of diff, so a
  newly published advisory turned unrelated PRs red, with its own ignore
  policy. dependency-review (lockfile PRs, fail >= high) and the weekly OSV
  sweep remain the dependency gates.

* chore(test-free): refresh the free duration seed from the audit's Ubicloud recording

Adds the 19 files merged after the last refresh, including the 115 s
claude-overlay-setup that packed as ~1 s and doubled a shard (W6a). The seed
is re-recorded on the final tree at the end of this wave.

* ci: move tiny ubicloud-standard-2 jobs to free ubuntu-24.04 runners (W8f)

actionlint, skill-docs, dependency-review, version-gate and pr-title-sync
are sub-minute jobs; GitHub-hosted runners are free for this public repo.

* feat(test-free): pessimistic unseeded packing, seed growth ratchet and CI health summary

- Unseeded files pack at the seed's p99 instead of p75 (W6a).
- --ci-plan warns in the job summary past 5 unseeded files; --ci-verify
  lists shards that outran their prediction by 1.5x (and 30 s) plus every
  flaky pass absorbed by the serial retry (W6a, W7a job summary).
- test/free-seed-ratchet.test.ts fails when a seeded file over 60 s is not
  on scripts/free-test-seed-allowlist.json, when an entry is stale, and when
  the allowlist grows versus its merge-base copy unless the new entry is an
  annotated exception with a todo (CEO-10, DX-7). free-plan runs it with
  full history so the shrink check is real in the required lane.
- Every message names the fix command and docs anchor (DX-6).

* feat(evals): state PR coverage mode, counts, reuse and fallback files in the summary and comment (CEO-13)

* test: make the tracked-tree skill-doc freshness check local-only; tidy skill-docs header (W8f)

Every free CI shard regenerates the tracked SKILL.md files before running
tests, so the --dry-run freshness assertion compared the regenerated tree
with itself and could not fail there. It now skips under GitHub Actions;
skill-docs.yml's git diff --exit-code is CI's freshness gate. Removes a
stale concurrency comment in skill-docs.yml.

* ci(free-tests): install zsh so the bash+zsh portability arms run (W6f)

~42 zsh-arm tests (aside-probe-shell, qa-browser-preservation,
generated-docs-fences) skipped in CI because zsh is not in the runner image.
All 141 tests in those files pass with zsh present.

* feat(evals): executors write negative receipts at the execution boundary (CEO-25, ENG-6)

A completed single-trial rule/judge shard that did not pass now writes its
negative receipt beside the pass receipts in the slice artifact, so a
cancelled run's FAIL still blocks an older PASS when its report never runs.
Receipts merge negatives first and order by (run attempt, completedAt); a
same-second FAIL/PASS tie resolves to FAIL. The runner call site is a
one-line hunk in scripts/test-paid-shards.ts.

* docs(cso): state that contained runtime/scanner execution is unavailable today

The scanner catalog is empty while its build inputs await review and the
runtime catalog holds no qualified profile until the private evaluator
exists, so /cso runs static assessment only. AGENTS.md, README and
docs/cso-release-qualification.md now say so; docs/cso-scanners.md
already did.

* test(helpers): expectMentions splits on sentence ends only

Clauses joined by ';' or ':' are one rule; splitting there made a reworded
rule fail for punctuation.

* test(plan-ceo): convert skill-ceo-section-ordering sentence pins

Safety and authority rules (never/do not/stop/only/without/wait/approval) are
meaning-level expectMentions checks; other sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, option rows, placeholders and machine-read lines (auto-decide
annotation, Mode:/approved decisions format, STATUS/SOURCE fields,
CROSS-MODEL marker, gstack-ceo-mode-handoff) stay as tokens; ordering checks
unchanged. Behavior is covered by the periodic PTY case in
skill-e2e-plan-ceo-review-section-loading.test.ts.
Sentence pins: 210 -> 23.

* test(helpers): expectMentions treats wrapped lines as one sentence

Templates hard-wrap prose; only sentence ends and blank lines separate rules.

* test(gen-skill-docs): convert sentence pins to meaning checks or drop them

Safety/authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks; other English
sentences are dropped (wording is judged by the per-skill workflow judges in
skill-llm-eval and the E2E cases in touchfiles-data). Commands, config keys,
markers (PLAN MODE EXCEPTION, NO UNRESOLVED DECISIONS, Gate outcome), field
names and alternation-based meaning regexes stay. Removed the now-empty
'contains opt-in AskUserQuestion text' test (only pinned a sentence; the
resolver's AskUserQuestion wiring is covered by the codex second-opinion
tests in the same describe). Lane E's existsSync hunks are untouched.
Sentence pins: 216 -> 65 (remaining lines carry machine tokens).

* ci(windows): shard the Windows lane via --ci-plan/--ci-run/--ci-verify; move native campaigns to native-qualification.yml

- windows-free-tests.yml: a Linux plan job curates and packs the Windows-safe
  files into 6 shards, one strict serial shard per windows-latest job, and a
  Linux aggregate verifies exact coverage and every result (8.1 min on one
  runner today). --windows-only now combines with the CI modes; the plan binds
  the curated file set (W6e).
- Every Windows plan and --list run prints the curated count with its top
  exclusion reasons in the job summary; a free ratchet fails when the curated
  subset drops below its floor, with the fix (W6e).
- The four Dia/cookie diagnostic dispatch campaigns move to the dispatch-only
  native-qualification.yml with one exclusive `mode` choice input, so their
  red dispatch runs no longer read as a red PR lane (W8f). Their workflow pins
  move to test/windows-native-workflows.test.ts; the boolean-exclusivity
  guard is replaced by the choice input.

* feat(paid): per-slice CI job ceilings and an in-process slice deadline with not_run/hung outcomes and checkpoints (W2c, ENG-2)

* fix(pass-rates): segment trial history strictly by EVAL_POLICY version

Reader-compatibility floor for EVAL_POLICY v2 (ENG-14/CEO-35/DX-12). Only
trials under the reader's own policy version feed labels and alarms; older
policy trials stay visible but are never scored or used as a drift baseline;
trials from a newer policy are ignored with a printed count and fix text.
Reverting the later v2 writer commits leaves a reader that cannot pool v2
records into v1 series (the pre-PR reader at 2db0b3a does: it reports a
mixed fixture as FAILING with drift alarms).

* docs: one contributor command table; retired commands, seed sources and current workflows (W8g, DX-5, DX-13, CEO-12)

- CONTRIBUTING.md gains 'Which command do I run?' (task -> command ->
  cost/time -> needs, including branch validation via gh workflow run);
  CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md and TESTING_INTERNALS.md link to it instead of
  repeating command lists. Tier tables drop retired commands and stale
  per-run dollar estimates.
- Retired names (test:evals, test:e2e, eval:bg, eval:flake-rank, eval:watch,
  ...) are gone from CLAUDE.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, TESTING_INTERNALS.md,
  ARCHITECTURE.md and USING_GBRAIN_WITH_GSTACK.md.
- The flake-ledger claim now says what happens: CI uploads flake-ledger-*
  artifacts; eval:pass-rates reads only the local ledger.
- TESTING_INTERNALS states that only test:ubicloud --record-durations
  produces an acceptable duration seed (DX-13).
- CI section: quality gate no longer runs bun audit; dependency-review's
  real trigger; the platform-qualification lane.
- docs/test-audit-2026-09.md gets a corrections section for its stale claims.
- TODOS.md: audit follow-ups (post-merge metrics, stub removal, name reclaim,
  diff-aware planner); eval-watch shard-awareness and the image freshness
  tripwire closed as won't-do.

* feat(evals): recover receipts of cancelled PR runs (W1c, CEO-14/34, ENG-4/5/7)

A new recover-receipts job runs base-ref code with actions: read, restores
the PR's store, merges the receipts of completed cancelled evals.yml runs
for this PR (provenance-checked, at most 5, oldest first, negatives first),
reconstructs completed panel negatives with panelVerdict() (partial panels
get no credit) and keeps a recovery.json checkpoint that never advances past
an unresolved run. plan-slices keeps contents: read, takes the store as an
artifact, turns reuse off when recovery degraded or a run is unresolved, and
carries the whole store to slices-report so nothing is lost. Any gh problem
degrades to no recovered receipts with a named reason.

* feat(evals): classify this wave's free-only tools and workflows for PR selection

platform-qualification.yml, retired-command.ts, test-health-report.ts,
bump-harness-version.ts and eval-bg.ts never run inside a paid case.

* feat(evals): debounce PR push bursts before planning paid slices (W1d, CEO-15, ENG-11, DX-7)

A tiny ubuntu-24.04 job waits 90 s only on synchronize when another run for
the PR started in the last 15 minutes; cancel-in-progress supersedes, and a
run that outlives the wait reports "superseded by <sha>" and plans nothing.
Labels: evals-no-debounce skips the wait, evals-fresh disables receipt reuse.

* perf(test): move the real-process browser settlement cases out of test-free-shards.test.ts (W6b)

The 19 owned-browser settlement modes were 85 s of the file's 95 s and could
not be packed apart from the fast runner unit cases. They move to a shared
fixture with two files (lifecycle 47 s, ownership 39 s); the unit file drops
to 10 s. Same modes, same assertions.

* chore(evals): delete the finished validation_phase dispatch and its inline planner (W8f)

Retirement (CEO-24): the protected behavior was a one-off cookie-repair
validation subset (eight dependent cases) and a quality/behavior split of
the census; that validation is complete, so the guarantee is withdrawn.
Branch validation dispatches evals.yml with evals_all.

* perf(test): inject the office-hours record grace in non-cooperative deadline tests

* perf(test): shrink aside-render process slack via GSTACK_RENDER_SLACK_MS in timeout tests

* perf(test): make the memorable lock give-up configurable for lock-contention tests

* perf(test): check install-timeout knob normalization through its own setup lines

* perf(test): inject a 2 s storage-reset deadline in the late isolated dispatch test

* perf(test): shorten the slow gbrain fake to 1 s, still past the 300 ms probe timeout

* ci(free-tests): run only cso-docker-integration in the free CSO Docker job (F16)

cso-node-lifecycle-integration and cso-stack-cold-integration need
GSTACK_CSO_TEST_STACK images and always skipped there; they stay in the CSO
runtime workflows through test:cso:docker.

* test(gen-skill-docs,plan-ceo): split mixed sentence pins into tokens and rules

Sentences that wrap a backticked or bold token keep the token (expectTokens)
and, when they state a safety rule, a keyword check; short safety sentences
(25-39 chars) get the same treatment.

* test(plan-ceo): convert ceo-workflow-clarity.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: periodic PTY case skill-e2e-plan-ceo-review-section-loading and the plan-ceo workflow judges.
Sentence pins: 13 -> 1.

* test(plan-eng): convert eng-review-routing.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: plan-eng E2E cases (skill-e2e-plan-eng-*) and the plan-eng workflow judge.
Sentence pins: 28 -> 6.

* test(plan-eng): convert eng-scope-entry-ap.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: plan-eng E2E cases (skill-e2e-plan-eng-*) and the plan-eng workflow judge.
Sentence pins: 16 -> 5.

* test(plan): convert plan-scope-selection.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: plan-review E2E cases and workflow judges in skill-llm-eval.
Sentence pins: 19 -> 2.

* test(qa): convert qa-lazy-sections.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: qa/qa-only E2E cases (skill-e2e-qa-*) and the qa workflow judge.
Sentence pins: 71 -> 11.

* test(qa): convert qa-browser-preservation.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: qa/qa-only E2E cases (skill-e2e-qa-*) and the qa workflow judge.
Sentence pins: 25 -> 11.

* test(qa): convert qa-probe-gates.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: qa/qa-only E2E cases (skill-e2e-qa-*) and the qa workflow judge.
Sentence pins: 20 -> 5.

* test(qa): convert qa-checkpoint-evidence.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: qa/qa-only E2E cases (skill-e2e-qa-*) and the qa workflow judge.
Sentence pins: 7 -> 5.

* test(qa): convert qa-evidence.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: qa/qa-only E2E cases (skill-e2e-qa-*) and the qa workflow judge.
Sentence pins: 4 -> 3.

* test(design): convert design-consultation-contract.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: design-consultation E2E/judge cases in touchfiles-data.
Sentence pins: 44 -> 11.

* test(outside-voice): convert run-in-background-guidance.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: outside-voice E2E cases and plan-review workflow judges.
Sentence pins: 35 -> 5.

* test(spec): convert spec-template-invariants.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: spec E2E/judge cases in touchfiles-data.
Sentence pins: 36 -> 21.

* perf(evals): 420 s census slice budget; case-shard skill-e2e-qa-workflow; seed its case walls (W5c)

* feat(evals): evals.yml dispatch contract for eval:bg (CEO-17/29, DX-1, ENG-8/12)

workflow_dispatch gains base_ref, base_sha, expected_sha, nonce and
pr_receipts. The nonce appears in run-name so the dispatcher resolves its
own run; evals_all=false runs the PR profile against base_sha/base_ref; a
checkout that differs from expected_sha fails before any paid work with a
named fix; pr_receipts reads that PR's receipts read-only through the
recover-receipts artifact path (never the cache) and never saves.

* ci(windows): pack the Windows lane with Windows-measured durations (W6e)

The first sharded run (37221451711) finished in 6.0 min: the Linux seed has
browse/test/cookie-import-native-job.test.ts at ~0 s (its cases skip on
Linux) but it takes 122 s on Windows, so one shard ran 242 s against an 84 s
prediction. The plan now reads scripts/free-test-durations-windows.json; a
record_durations dispatch times every Windows-safe file alone and uploads it.

* test(free): settlement case files import the runner rule they exercise

Keeps the split files out of the test-of-test ratchet: the retry-eligibility
rule is a direct runner import passed to the shared fixture.

* fix(marathon): no hollow plan-decision-classification shard; office-hours marathon scenario scoped to the pilot (W2f)

* test(free): satisfy the typecheck:test ratchet in the seed ratchet test

* refactor(ci-history): one shared GitHub history reader with the CI flake-ledger reader

Extract pass-rates' gh fetch layer into scripts/lib/ci-history.ts (CEO-09) and
add the W7a reader: paged run listings that fail whole on any page error,
per-run artifact downloads (cached, size-capped, data only), flake-ledger
parsing, the pre-registered flaky-file rule (> 5% of main free-tests runs over
a window of at least 20 runs, widened to the newest 20 runs when the window is
thinner), a job-summary table, and named unavailable reasons with next steps.

* feat(test-health): test:health report of the audit success metrics

scripts/test-health-report.ts (CEO-09/06/22/32, DX-8/9/12/13) prints every
success metric with its counting rule from CI history: PR full-fallback rate,
reused PR trial records, PR-lane spend per merged PR and per validated
revision, cancelled slice-minutes per week, push-to-verdict p50/p95, census
expected failed trials per run with raw failure rate per kind/class and
P(lane red) under the recorded panels vs single-trial aggregation, INFRA
re-dispatches, quarantine evidence (insufficient evidence distinct from
healthy), free flaky-pass rate, free/Windows wall, free serial time and the
net-complexity line. An unreadable input prints 'unavailable: <reason>; next:
<step>', never 0. --enforce fails on a flaky file (W7a) or > 5 unseeded free
files (CEO-10); unavailable checks never fail and keep the issue open.

* test(review): convert review-workflow-clarity.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: review E2E cases (skill-e2e-review*) and the review workflow judge in skill-llm-eval.
Sentence pins: 85 -> 17.

* test(review): convert review-entry-and-design-clarity-au.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: review E2E cases (skill-e2e-review*) and the review workflow judge in skill-llm-eval.
Sentence pins: 15 -> 4.

* test(review): convert review-enum-lifecycle.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: review E2E cases (skill-e2e-review*) and the review workflow judge in skill-llm-eval.
Sentence pins: 8 -> 0.

* test(ship): convert ship-control-flow.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: ship E2E cases (skill-e2e-ship*, skill-e2e-workflow) and the 'ship/SKILL.md workflow' judge.
Sentence pins: 74 -> 9.

* test(ship): convert ship-skip-requeue.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: ship E2E cases (skill-e2e-ship*, skill-e2e-workflow) and the 'ship/SKILL.md workflow' judge.
Sentence pins: 28 -> 3.

* test(ship): convert ship-plan-completion-invariants.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: ship E2E cases (skill-e2e-ship*, skill-e2e-workflow) and the 'ship/SKILL.md workflow' judge.
Sentence pins: 28 -> 12.

* test(ship): convert ship-reentry-gates.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: ship E2E cases (skill-e2e-ship*, skill-e2e-workflow) and the 'ship/SKILL.md workflow' judge.
Sentence pins: 16 -> 4.

* test(ship): convert ship-document-release-dispatch.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: ship E2E cases (skill-e2e-ship*, skill-e2e-workflow) and the 'ship/SKILL.md workflow' judge.
Sentence pins: 11 -> 4.

* test(ship): convert ship-apple-gate.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: ship E2E cases (skill-e2e-ship*, skill-e2e-workflow) and the 'ship/SKILL.md workflow' judge.
Sentence pins: 7 -> 0.

* test(ship): convert ship-skip-actor.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: ship E2E cases (skill-e2e-ship*, skill-e2e-workflow) and the 'ship/SKILL.md workflow' judge.
Sentence pins: 6 -> 1.

* test(ship): convert ship-template-redaction.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: ship E2E cases (skill-e2e-ship*, skill-e2e-workflow) and the 'ship/SKILL.md workflow' judge.
Sentence pins: 5 -> 4.

* test(ship): convert ship-publication-gates.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: ship E2E cases (skill-e2e-ship*, skill-e2e-workflow) and the 'ship/SKILL.md workflow' judge.
Sentence pins: 5 -> 2.

* test(ship): convert ship-review-loop.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: ship E2E cases (skill-e2e-ship*, skill-e2e-workflow) and the 'ship/SKILL.md workflow' judge.
Sentence pins: 3 -> 1.

* test(ship): convert ship-version-sync.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: ship E2E cases (skill-e2e-ship*, skill-e2e-workflow) and the 'ship/SKILL.md workflow' judge.
Sentence pins: 5 -> 2.

* test(ship): convert ship-pr-liveness-policy.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: ship E2E cases (skill-e2e-ship*, skill-e2e-workflow) and the 'ship/SKILL.md workflow' judge.
Sentence pins: 4 -> 0.

* test(plan-review): convert plan-review-cases.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: plan-review E2E cases and workflow judges in skill-llm-eval.
Sentence pins: 58 -> 15.

* test(autoplan): convert autoplan-phase-order.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: autoplan E2E cases (skill-e2e-autoplan-*) and the autoplan workflow judge.
Sentence pins: 42 -> 11.

* test(autoplan): convert autoplan-phase-handoff.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: autoplan E2E cases (skill-e2e-autoplan-*) and the autoplan workflow judge.
Sentence pins: 20 -> 4.

* test(autoplan): convert autoplan-snapshot.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: autoplan E2E cases (skill-e2e-autoplan-*) and the autoplan workflow judge.
Sentence pins: 21 -> 5.

* test(outside-voice): convert outside-voice-preflight.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: outside-voice E2E cases and plan-review workflow judges.
Sentence pins: 26 -> 9.

* test(ask-format): convert resolver-ask-user-format.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: AUQ E2E cases (skill-e2e-auq-*); prompt-injection rule kept as a meaning check.
Sentence pins: 32 -> 15.

* test(skills): convert binding-template-drift.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: workflow judges in skill-llm-eval.
Sentence pins: 19 -> 13.

* test(skills): convert carve-plan-fixture.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: workflow judges in skill-llm-eval.
Sentence pins: 20 -> 6.

* test(land-and-deploy): convert land-and-deploy-postfail.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: land-and-deploy E2E cases and its workflow judge.
Sentence pins: 21 -> 14.

* test(land-and-deploy): convert land-and-deploy-ci-gate.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: land-and-deploy E2E cases and its workflow judge.
Sentence pins: 5 -> 4.

* test(land-and-deploy): convert land-and-deploy-flow.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: land-and-deploy E2E cases and its workflow judge.
Sentence pins: 5 -> 3.

* test(office-hours): convert office-hours-completion.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: office-hours E2E cases (skill-e2e-office-hours*).
Sentence pins: 16 -> 1.

* test(plan-ceo): restore the stale closing-route guard

The negative check for 'Closing hooks' / 'return to section' guards a retired
route token, not a sentence; the first conversion pass dropped it.

* ci(test-health): weekly test-health workflow with an honest tracking issue

New test-health.yml (CEO-18/DX-9): Monday 10:00 UTC after the periodic census
plus dispatch, free ubuntu-24.04 runner, permissions contents:read +
actions:read + issues:write only. Runs bun run test:health --since-days 7
--enforce; an enforced failure upserts one tracking issue, a run with
unavailable inputs keeps it open and lists them, and it closes only when every
enforced check has evidence and passes. Only main runs touch the issue.

* feat(evals): an edited paid test file runs its own gate cases in the PR lane (DX-11)

A gate case outside the audited fast profile is selected when its single
owning paid test file changed and the runner can select it by name (its
Bun test is named by the case id). The manifest records directCases and
validation accepts only recorded, name-addressable ones; the runner and
planner read the file->cases map from test-pr-profile. Cases the runner
cannot address stay deferred with the fix. An inventory test covers every
owned gate case. Touches one hunk each in test-paid-shards.ts and
lib/paid-plan.ts, and pr-shared-input-selection.test.ts's ship-skip pin.

* ci(osv): tracking issue for scheduled reds and a 14-day suppression expiry test

F11/W8f: a failed main OSV scan now upserts one tracking issue and a clean
scan closes it (scheduled reds notified no one during the August backlog).
A free test fails 14 days before any .osv-scanner.toml ignoreUntil (all four
expire 2026-11-30), with the fix: upgrade and delete, or re-justify and move
the date.

* test(ship,review): keep guards against retired fail-open instructions

'skip silently' on reviewer failure and 'do not block /ship on subagent
failure' were harmful instructions, not prose style; keep them absent with the
shortest distinctive phrase.

* feat(eval-select): default to the pr profile

DX-10: eval:select previews the PR lane's selection by default, matching
test:pr and eval:bg:pr; --profile full (or EVALS_PROFILE=full) keeps the plain
touchfile selection.

* test(evals): type-clean the recovery gh fake (typecheck:test ratchet)

* chore(windows): record the Windows duration seed (run 37221963236)

573 Windows-safe files timed alone on windows-latest; cookie-import-native-job
is 102 s there. Six shards now predict 154 s each.

* feat(evals): eval:bg dispatches the pushed ref to CI or runs locally under a 1.5x-planned cap (W5d, CEO-17/29, DX-1/2/3/7, ENG-12/19)

* feat(runners): --help on both shard runners via the shared flag loop; paid runner header describes today's planner/executor/report (W8e)

* test(windows): drop the stale Playwright exclusion and force-include probe-proven files (W6e)

A temporary windows-latest probe (run 37221995077) ran each of the 97 files
excluded for 'launches Playwright browser' or 'raw /tmp/ path' alone: all 17
Playwright files pass (Chromium is installed and Bun drives it there), and 41
of the /tmp files pass with executed cases. The Playwright pattern is removed
and the 41 files are force-included with the probe as their reason; the 36
real failures stay excluded. The curated subset grows from 573 to 631 files
and the ratchet floor follows. Windows curation moves to
scripts/lib/windows-curation.ts (the runner drops to 2000 lines).

* test(free): one install fixture cloned from a read-only seed (W6c, ENG-1)

Merge test/helpers/setup-codex-scope-fixture.ts into install-fixture.ts.
The checkout is built once per test file into a read-only seed and cloned
per fixture with copy-on-write where the filesystem has it (full copy
otherwise), restoring each file's own mode; clones never hard-link the
seed because put() and tests write in place. Callers register
afterAll(cleanupSeed); Bun's runner fires no exit event, so seeds of
killed runs are swept by pid. test/install-fixture.test.ts is the ENG-1
tripwire: put/setVersion/chmod in one clone leave the seed and a sibling
unchanged, and clones share no inodes with the read-only seed.

* test(free): split claude-overlay-setup by describe (W6b)

The 115 s serial file becomes default/lifecycle/installs files (5/4/3
tests, unchanged bodies) sharing test/helpers/claude-overlay-fixture.ts,
so the shard packer can balance them.

* test(cso): convert cso-contracts.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: cso E2E/judge cases (skill-e2e-cso*, cso-eval).
Sentence pins: 16 -> 8.

* test(cso): convert cso-preserved.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: cso E2E/judge cases (skill-e2e-cso*, cso-eval).
Sentence pins: 10 -> 3.

* test(cso): convert cso-eval.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: cso E2E/judge cases (skill-e2e-cso*, cso-eval).
Sentence pins: 7 -> 4.

* test(browser): convert aside-driver.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: Aside/browse E2E cases; the installer ban stays a meaning check.
Sentence pins: 27 -> 9.

* test(browser): convert third-party-actions.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: Aside/browse E2E cases; the installer ban stays a meaning check.
Sentence pins: 17 -> 2.

* test(skills): convert skill-validation.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: workflow judges in skill-llm-eval.
Sentence pins: 19 -> 6.

* test(skills): convert workflow-excerpt.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: workflow judges in skill-llm-eval.
Sentence pins: 37 -> 10.

* test(skills): convert question-tuning-registry-path.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: workflow judges in skill-llm-eval.
Sentence pins: 4 -> 0.

* test(skills): convert host-conformance.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: workflow judges in skill-llm-eval.
Sentence pins: 4 -> 4.

* test(memory): convert memory-ingest-landing.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: memory-ingest free tests that run the binary.
Sentence pins: 11 -> 9.

* test(windows): exclude the skip-only claude-overlay setup files from the Windows subset

Their real-setup cases are describe.skipIf(win32); after the split their bin/
spawns live in the shared helper, so the source scan stopped seeing them.

* test(skills): convert agents-digest.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: the owning skills' E2E cases and workflow judges; CLI/hook output and fixture-data pins in the tail were left alone.
Sentence pins: 1 -> 0.

* test(skills): convert brain-preflight.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: the owning skills' E2E cases and workflow judges; CLI/hook output and fixture-data pins in the tail were left alone.
Sentence pins: 2 -> 1.

* test(skills): convert codex-skill-isolation.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: the owning skills' E2E cases and workflow judges; CLI/hook output and fixture-data pins in the tail were left alone.
Sentence pins: 1 -> 0.

* test(skills): convert office-hours-review.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: the owning skills' E2E cases and workflow judges; CLI/hook output and fixture-data pins in the tail were left alone.
Sentence pins: 2 -> 1.

* test(skills): convert onboarding-moved-literals.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: the owning skills' E2E cases and workflow judges; CLI/hook output and fixture-data pins in the tail were left alone.
Sentence pins: 2 -> 2.

* test(skills): convert open-gstack-browser-liveness.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: the owning skills' E2E cases and workflow judges; CLI/hook output and fixture-data pins in the tail were left alone.
Sentence pins: 3 -> 2.

* test(skills): convert plan-floor-review.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: the owning skills' E2E cases and workflow judges; CLI/hook output and fixture-data pins in the tail were left alone.
Sentence pins: 3 -> 2.

* test(skills): convert plan-review-report-recording.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: the owning skills' E2E cases and workflow judges; CLI/hook output and fixture-data pins in the tail were left alone.
Sentence pins: 4 -> 2.

* test(skills): convert regression-1539-review-self-verify.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: the owning skills' E2E cases and workflow judges; CLI/hook output and fixture-data pins in the tail were left alone.
Sentence pins: 4 -> 0.

* test(skills): convert skill-fixture.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: the owning skills' E2E cases and workflow judges; CLI/hook output and fixture-data pins in the tail were left alone.
Sentence pins: 6 -> 3.

* test(skills): convert template-context-parity.test.ts sentence pins

Safety and authority sentences become expectMentions keyword checks (reword
freely, keep the rule); other English sentence pins are dropped. Headings,
labels, placeholders, commands, field names, enum/status tokens and ordering
checks stay. Behavior and wording: the owning skills' E2E cases and workflow judges; CLI/hook output and fixture-data pins in the tail were left alone.
Sentence pins: 1 -> 0.

* test: restore pins on renderer output and paid-fixture inputs

cso-contracts (the report renderer's required empty phrase), memory-ingest
(binary output), carve-plan-fixture, ship-skip-actor and cso-eval (inputs the
paid harness builds) assert product or fixture output, not skill prose, so the
value-bar narrowing does not apply to them.

* feat(eval-policy): v2 series identity, HARNESS_VERSION guard and identity backtest

W4a (CEO-27/ENG-3/DX-6), not yet wired to the writer: caseSeriesIdentitiesV2
keys a case by the bytes it owns (paid test file, fixtures, its skills' prompt
files including the generated SKILL.md) plus HARNESS_VERSION, and records the
full consumed-input fingerprint as provenance. scripts/harness-version.json
pins the blob of every shared-harness file (GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES plus the session
runners, PTY harness, e2e gate and LLM judge), one line per file;
test/harness-version.test.ts fails on drift with both fixes, and
scripts/bump-harness-version.ts records the decision: --bump (new series for
every case) or --non-behavioral (compatibility entry, no reset).
eval-trial-series --backtest replays identities over weekly main revisions
and recorded trials (ENG-3/DX-12).

* feat(pass-rates): weekly history is main's scheduled runs plus main dispatches

W4b: pass-rates reads evals-periodic history from main only, keeping scheduled
runs and main dispatches and never a branch dispatch, so back-to-back branch
validation runs neither feed pass rates nor count as weeks for quarantine
expiry or drift. --branch <name> still reads one branch's runs for inspection.

* docs(test-audit): EVAL_POLICY v2 decision memo with the identity backtest

D1 memo (CEO-33, ENG-3, DX-12, CEO-27): P(green) arithmetic, false-blocking
targets, the v2 identity rule and harness guard, weekly history, W4c evidence
(the named 'stochastic' cases pass 26/27 to 34/34, so they stay rule), the
backtest over 29 weekly main revisions and 14,898 recorded trials, what it
means for quarantine reachability, alternatives (gating vs trended, adaptive
panels not adopted, buy vs build), and the rollback proof on the pre-PR reader.

* feat(eval-policy): EVAL_POLICY v2 writer: case-owned series identity

The v2 writer, last commit of the W4 block (DX-12/ENG-14/ENG-21): the report
job's stamp now writes caseSeriesIdentitiesV2 (case-owned bytes plus
HARNESS_VERSION) as series_identity, the full consumed-input fingerprint as
series_fingerprint and harness_version as provenance, and EVAL_POLICY.version
is 2 (approved 2026-10-04, D1). The v1 touchfile identity is removed.
Rollback = revert this commit (and the W4 commits above the reader-compat
floor); readers then ignore the v2 records with a printed count.

* test: restore pins on paid-harness prompt inputs

review-enum-lifecycle and plan-review-report-recording assert the prompt a
paid case's harness builds (opts.prompt / call.prompt), a fixture contract,
not skill prose.

* test(security): check injected safety lines on meaning, not capitals

content-security, the canary instruction and the arm judge prompt still must
carry their never-follow / never-output / exact-"none" rules; the checks are
case-insensitive keyword checks so emphasis can change. The UNTRUSTED envelope
markers and "none" value stay exact tokens. (Hidden element stripping fails
locally only because Playwright Chromium is not installed; same at base.)

* test(plan-ceo): keep the outside-voice scope-summary rule as a meaning check

The first codemod pass left an empty if body (TS1313).

* chore(windows): re-record the Windows duration seed for the 631-file subset (run 37222668939)

* ci(free-tests): summarize every shard's flake ledger in the aggregate job (W7a)

The aggregate downloads flake-ledger-* (one subdirectory per shard) and
appends lane C's `scripts/test-health-report.ts flake-summary` output to the
job summary before strict verification. The runner's own flaky table is
dropped so the ledger reader stays the single source; --ci-verify keeps the
shard-overrun warning.

* feat(evals): free test files anywhere and the stored-zip helper never restore the full PR gate (W1a)

The CEO-23 replay found design/test free tests forcing fallback (36485436963).

* feat(evals): replay recorded PR pushes through today's selector (CEO-23, ENG-18)

scripts/replay-pr-selection.ts reports per push the recorded vs replayed
mode and case count, dropped gate cases, retired failed cases and every
miss (a failed case that depends on the diff but is no longer selected).

* refactor(evals): one case-sharded carve-section-loading file with a case id and touchfiles per skill (W5a)

* test(free): hold qa-deadline's full-pipe case on a FIFO, not a paused Bun stream

Bun gives a child 'pipe' stdio a unix socketpair, so whether the 2 MB fill
actually blocks depends on the parent's reader and the host's socket buffer
sizes. CI (run 36761671811, both attempts) saw exit 0 after ~130 ms; with
net.core.{w,r}mem_default=4 MiB locally the old case fails 3/3 the same way.
A FIFO the test never reads is bounded by the kernel pipe buffer, so the
receipt write genuinely blocks and the 5 s settlement deadline must fire.
The 7 s bound now starts once the preload has queued the write.

* test(free): event-driven waits in pty-output-wake

close-releases-observers: the 500 ms wall race becomes an ordering check
(the waiter is released while only SIGINT has been sent, before close's
escalation finishes), and the Bun.spawn spy fakes only the PTY launch so a
shard neighbor's in-process spawn cannot add a stray SIGTERM (CI runs
36015568981, 36036582721, 36074636848).

continuous-redraws: the fixture spinner stops once the observer has made
five coalesced reads, so the run reaches its work deadline with no redraw
in flight. Streaming right up to the deadline raced the helper's screen
drain and failed as 'PTY screen parse failed; viewport is incomplete'
(5 CI runs 09-30..10-03; 4/40 locally under 8 busy loops, 0/40 after).

* test(free): session-runner long-capture handshake waits for the collected Read event

The fake CLI's init line arms the runner's work-phase timer, so the worker's
handshake (work-ready + a >200 s timer) could pass before the runner's read
loop had collected the Read event printed just before work-ready. Advancing
the clock then killed the run with the Read lost: readSection false (CI run
37194511124). The worker now also waits for the runner's own progress line
for that Read. Forcing the observed ordering (work-ready 200 ms before the
Read line) fails the old test deterministically and passes the new one.

* test(free): budget-override restores the CI variables it rewrites

Its provenance cases set and then deleted CI, GITHUB_ACTIONS, GITHUB_REF_NAME,
GITHUB_SHA and the GitLab CI_* names without restoring them, so in a CI shard
every later file ran with CI unset. qa-only-cleanup's real browse daemons
then launched Chromium without --no-sandbox, the sandbox failed on the
runner, and both real-Chromium cases timed out with 'QA cleanup fixture did
not become ready' (shard 12 attempt 1 of six runs on 10-04, retry alone
green). Retained startup log: 'Chromium sandboxing failed!', child env with
no CI. Reproduced 3/3 with CI=true, userns denied and budget-override ahead
of qa-only-cleanup in one process; 0/3 after.

* test(free): pr-shared-input-selection names its base and package history

Every selection now passes EVALS_BASE and packageVersionOnly explicitly, so
no case reads the checkout's git state. Before, 12 calls ran
detectBaseBranch and the cumulative case diffed package.json against
merge-base(origin/main, HEAD) — the ambient input that turned main red in
runs 36572856858 and 36594314027. A PATH git spy counts 14 git calls in the
old file and 0 now.

* feat(evals): derive PR-lane dependents for unmapped files instead of restoring the full gate

scripts/pr-dependencies.ts derives, from the checked-out tree, which paid
cases consume each repository file: test import closures, repo paths and
path.join segments in code/shell/skill text (whole-line comments and
selection data excluded), bin script names, compiled binaries by outfile
path (scripts/build.sh), package scripts, template placeholders through
RESOLVERS, and host configs by host id. The global touchfiles' import
closure is global.

PR selection: an unmapped file with derived consumers puts the run in the
new 'dependents' mode (every dependent gate case and judge, no profile cut);
a tracked file under a derivable directory that nothing reaches is exempt;
periodic/marathon workflows, .gitignore and tsconfig.test.json never run
the PR gate. PR_FULL_GATE_FILES is the fail-closed list (deps, CI image,
setup, build, evals.yml and its actions, test preload, tsconfig.json,
.gitattributes, the skill generator and preamble resolvers, the eval
policy). Untracked or underivable files restore the full gate with fix
text. The summary and PR comment list derived dependents.

* feat(evals): replay misses count derived dependents; report wave vs ordinary pushes (CEO-23)

* test: drop FREE_FIXTURES entries for fixtures deleted in W8b

* test: re-shape the census attribution fixture to qa-workflow and carve case shards

* test: census fixture case order

* ci: 420 s PR-lane slices with per-slice ceilings; periodic tracking issue only on main

evals.yml joins the census lanes at the 420 s slice budget (W5c/CEO-15) and
indexes each eval slice's job timeout from .plan.sliceCiTimeoutMinutes with
the slice-deadline clock as its first step (W2c/ENG-2). evals-periodic.yml's
tracking-issue upsert and close run only on refs/heads/main, so a branch
dispatch whose gate census is skipped (CEO-04) never opens or closes #2755.

* docs: integrate lane docs for the audit wave (eval-bg backends, PR fallback, policy v2, ceilings, evidence)

- CLAUDE.md: 'Running evals as an agent' describes scripts/eval-bg.ts's
  dispatch and local backends, forcing flags, the sentinel and status;
  eval:select's PR-profile default; prompt-structure helper and value-bar
  terms. instruction-facts now requires scripts/eval-bg.ts in that section.
- CONTRIBUTING.md: decision table gains test:health, eval:select default,
  eval:bg backends and the include_gate_census / evals_all dispatch lines;
  420 s runners and per-runner ceilings; flake ledger, OSV tracking issue
  and expiry test, weekly test health; prompt-structure guidance.
- AGENTS.md: build commands name the eval:bg backend choice and test:health.
- docs/TESTING_INTERNALS.md: anchors the fix texts point to
  (#pr-paid-lane-fallback, #pass-rate-policy-versions, #harness-version,
  #flake-ledger, #duration-seed), receipts/recovery/debounce, per-slice
  ceilings, the slice deadline with not_run/hung and checkpoints, the eval-bg
  cap formula in place of the detach floors, EVAL_POLICY v2 history, carve
  case shards via --case.
- docs/test-audit-2026-10.md: CEO-23 replay (165/168 -> 164/168
  full-fallback, 0 misses), ENG-17 slice table (re-measured on this tree),
  D2 prose-pin metric.
- TODOS.md: progress note on 'Let pass-rate history decide the rest'.
- test/testing-internals-anchors.test.ts: every TESTING_INTERNALS.md#anchor
  named in code must match a heading.

* test(free): hold qa-deadline's blocked-output-pipe receipts on a FIFO

The five 'guard %s receipts survive a blocked output pipe' cases filled a
paused Bun child pipe with 2 MiB. That pipe is a unix socketpair, so the
fill only blocks while the host's socket buffers are smaller than the write:
with net.core.{w,r}mem_default=4 MiB the old cases fail 13 of 15 case runs
(the guard finishes before the test resumes the stream). The held stream is
now a FIFO the test drains only after resume(), bounded by the kernel pipe
buffer; Windows keeps the paused pipe. Bounds and assertions are unchanged.

* test(free): qa-deadline waits for a written pid, not just the pid file

DRIVER and LEAF write their pid with writeFileSync, so under load ready()
can see the file before its digits and fail 'expected > 0, received 0'
(seen once in 150 loaded runs). After any early failure the finally
SIGKILLs the CLI, which orphans the detached command group; a leaf whose pid
file is not yet readable then keeps the output stream open and the case
hangs to its 15 s timeout (2/80 old-file runs and 3/310 FIFO-only runs
under 8 busy loops; the instrumented hang showed the CLI already SIGKILLed
by the finally). ready() now polls within the same 3 s bound until the file
holds a positive pid.

* fix(evals): a deleted file selects the dependents of the live files that still reference it

PR selection treated every path absent from the head tree as an unknown
dependency, so any PR that deleted a file forced the full gate. A deleted
path is now placed like a live one, against the head tree: a matching
touchfile selects its cases; live code, skill text or a full-gate input that
still references it (path, extensionless import target, relative import,
bin name, ancestor directory, compiled-binary outfile; whole-line comments
and data files excluded) contributes its dependents, a full-gate referencer
restores the full gate with a 'deleted but still referenced' fix, and an
unreferenced deleted path has no dependents. Deleted PR_FULL_GATE_FILES
entries still force the full gate. Tests that used absent paths as stand-ins
for new unmapped files now use tracked root files (or an explicit tracked
set); the CEO-23 replay counts misses through those references too.

* docs: integrate free-suite lane docs (seed anchor, Windows lane, native qualification, install fixture, flake rules)

- docs/TESTING_INTERNALS.md: '### Free suite duration seed' (the anchor the
  seed messages link) with DX-13, the 99th-percentile packing, --ci-plan
  warning, --ci-verify overruns and the CEO-10 seed ratchet; the Windows
  6-job lane, its Windows-measured seed and refresh dispatch, curation and
  WINDOWS_CURATED_FLOOR; native-qualification.yml modes; the merged
  install fixture; test-only timing knobs; the flake-ledger job summary,
  Windows ledger names and three free-suite flake rules; zsh in the
  Ubicloud mirror.
- scripts/test-health-report.ts links #free-suite-duration-seed, so the
  two seed messages share one heading (the anchor test caught the split).
- CONTRIBUTING.md: Windows seed refresh and native qualification rows;
  seed-source pointer. AGENTS.md: Windows six-job lane.
- docs/cso-release-qualification.md: the free CSO Docker job runs only
  cso-docker-integration.test.ts.
- docs/test-audit-2026-10.md: free-suite evidence lines.
- TODOS.md: CEO-11b progress note on the pre-push hook hang.

* test: final duration seeds on the integrated tree; retire the emptied cookie-validation-phases file

Linux seed re-recorded on Ubicloud standard-16 and the Windows seed from
dispatch run 37227140871, both at c903310. The seed allowlist drops the three
entries that are no longer over the ceiling. cookie-validation-phases lost its
validation-phase pins with W8f and its Windows/Dia pins moved to
windows-native-workflows with native-qualification.yml, so the file is
deleted and the curated Windows floor rises to 638. The Windows recorder writes
the seed at its default path so GSTACK_FREE_TEST_DURATIONS never leaks into
timed tests.

* test: re-express stale PR-lane pins against the new evals.yml contract

- ci-eval-cache: the profile/fresh expressions now include evals_all=false
  dispatches and pr_receipts/evals-fresh; the PR store is restored only by
  recover-receipts (still scoped to repository_id + PR, PR events only),
  plan-slices takes it as an artifact and never touches the cache, saves
  stay PR-only, EVALS_CACHE_PR binds pr_receipts dispatches, and the report
  verdict artifact carries report receipts.
- ci-paid-coordination: plan-slices needs only the two ubuntu coordination
  jobs (never the image); the fork/Dependabot clause is unchanged on
  plan-slices and also gates debounce and recover-receipts; only recovery
  holds actions: read.
- qa-supervision-selection: auq-consistency and auq-verbose-vs-carved-ab
  (W1b) reach claude-pty-runner and pty-screen through auq-sdk-capture,
  exactly as auq-format-gate does.
- paid-retry-supervision: the full-validation plan uses a tracked full-gate
  input (setup); an absent path is now a deletion placed by its references.

* ci(windows): record the Windows seed at the default path

* chore: HARNESS_VERSION non-behavioral decision for the audit-wave integration

* v1.91.20.0 release metadata: test, eval and CI audit wave

* test(compare-board): wait for the post-submit state the feedback POST settles

The two post-submit assertions read the board once, but the board disables
the submit button and shows the message only after its feedback POST
resolves. On a loaded Ubicloud shard the read beat the round trip (FLAKY-PASS
in the final free-suite run). Delaying the POST by 400 ms reproduces both
failures at HEAD; polling for the settled state passes.

* test(plan-eng plan-mode): run the seeded STOP-gate smoke in its own fixture project

The seeded plan proposes a custom test runner, so the review's Step 0 reads
the working tree's test setup. In the gstack checkout that is gstack's own
sharded runner, and the case timed out at 300 s in census 37228573062 after
this wave reshaped the runner. It now runs in a four-file Bun project with
git history, with the product-notice suppression auto-decide-preserved's
standalone fixture already uses. Local pass on Bun 1.4.0 + Claude Code
2.1.284: asked in 121 s, seed tokens observed.

* test(plan-mode evidence): pin the seeded eng smoke's isolated fixture cwd and env

* ci(image): Git >= 2.44 so paid shared-libs cases run the supported safe-git path

bin/gstack-safe-git prefixes every /deslop-shared-libs Git read with
--no-lazy-fetch, which noble's git 2.43 rejects (exit 129). The eval image
therefore ran every paid shared-libs case on the unsupported-Git fallback:
local history unavailable, branch HEAD unknown. shared-libs-read-only failed
on exactly that in PR run 37230639146 ("Current branch HEAD: unknown. The
safe-git probe failed (unknown option: --no-lazy-fetch, git 2.43.0)") and in
2 of 74 earlier PR runs. The image installs current Git from the Ubuntu Git
Maintainers PPA and fails its build if --no-lazy-fetch is missing; the
deliberate unsupported-Git case keeps its fake Git.

* eval: pool matching branch census trials into main's pass-rate series (D1 option b)

Approved 2026-10-05. eval:pass-rates also reads completed branch census runs
in the weekly window. A branch trial counts only toward a series a main run
also has (same case-owned bytes, HARNESS_VERSION, model and CLI), so a branch
extends main's history but never starts or becomes a case's current series;
weeks for quarantine expiry still count main runs only. The D1 backtest put
this at 67 of 210 cases with enough trials for the entry rule, against 0 of
195 on main alone.

* C2: /qa defines its outcome filename fields; QA report templates name the measured timing fields

Low judge samples in failing panels named both: qa workflow (37186854666)
'an undefined {user} in the outcome filename', and qa-only workflow
(37198445662) 'template asks for Duration / durationMs totals while
reporting.md mandates Probe budget and Guarded command time'. The qa
union stays under its 1.11 size ratio (93292 of 93294 bytes).

(cherry picked from commit e14c0c1de1)

* C2: Browser Quick gets a feasible budget; QA loop names its directory and stop path

Judge rationales on the qa-only panels (2 of the last 3) cited the 30 s
Browser Quick budget: homepage + 5 targets, each a checkpoint write and a
guarded command, left ~5 s per probe. Quick is now 180 s (method text: 3
minutes); the qa-only-no-fix paid check expects the same native deadline.
PROBE_DIR points at its source line, a stopped loop goes to the final
report steps (annotations, materialize, Markdown), and /review and /ship
say that after smoke expiry only plan checks rerun in revalidation.

(cherry picked from commit 78d4a2a343)

* qa: fit the C2 judge fixes under the qa and review size caps

Brings GSTA-21's qa.ts trims (3bd625d, ce73af0) for the cherry-picked C2
wording: PROBE_DIR keeps 'owned', the stop line points at §4, and the
post-expiry rule is one sentence, so /review fits its cap. qa measures
93,303 / 84,049 = 1.11010 against the same 1.1102 cap GSTA-21 set. The
qa-only workflow judge passed 10 of 10 local trials on this wording (7 of 10
before the C2 fixes).

* test: qa-only fixture keeps its caller-set 30 s deadline

The qa-only-no-fix fixture tells the model to start the guard with 30 s
(a caller limit), so its deadline assertion's default stays 30 000 ms; the
product's Browser Quick default (180 s) does not apply to it. Reverts the
helper and its test to their base.

(cherry picked from commit e36e622add)

* test: qa-quick sets a caller probe limit and drains past its session budget

C2 raised Browser Quick's native budget to 180 s. qa-quick is the only gate case
on the native budget, and its wall went 194 s (main periodic, pre-C2) -> 254 s and
274 s (this PR's runs) -> 300 s session timeout (run 37242691913): the agent now
probes every navigation target with a checkpoint, then needs ~80 s to report.
Like qa-only-no-fix, the eval now sets a caller probe limit (30 s), scopes the
fixture, and gives bun's outer timeout the session drain margin instead of racing
the 300 s session. The product's 180 s budget and the session budget are unchanged.
Diagnostic rerun passed in 195 s.

(cherry picked from commit f8dc64031e)

* chore: restore the audit wave's package scripts after the main merge (version 1.91.23)

* qa: keep main's one-sentence post-expiry rule for /review and /ship

The C2 variants ("step 4c reruns plan checks only" and "even in 4c") read
to the review workflow judge as conflicting with Step 5.8's repeat-pass
reruns: 6 of 10 local trials passed with the longer sentence and PR run
37248650879 failed on the shorter one. Main's "Post-expiry smoke rechecks are
not-run." passed 10 of 10. qa (9/10), qa-only (10/10) and
ship-managed-hook-refresh (10/10) were measured on the same tree.

* v1.91.24.0: move off the slot #3036 claims
2026-10-05 01:29:54 +00:00
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>

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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
Garry TanandClaude Opus 4.7 33cb4715ef v1.39.2.0 feat: GSTACK_* env-shim for Conductor + gbrain/gstack setup docs (#1534)
* feat: GSTACK_* env-key shim for Conductor workspaces

New lib/conductor-env-shim.ts promotes GSTACK_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY and
GSTACK_OPENAI_API_KEY to canonical names when canonical is empty. Wired
into the four TS entry points that hit paid APIs or gbrain embeddings:
gstack-gbrain-sync.ts, gstack-model-benchmark, preflight-agent-sdk.ts,
test/helpers/e2e-helpers.ts. Side-effect-only import, 15 lines total.

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

* docs: gbrain+gstack setup, Conductor env mapping (v1.39.2.0)

USING_GBRAIN_WITH_GSTACK.md: new "What you get after setup" section,
Path 4 (remote MCP / split-engine), /sync-gbrain workflow stages +
watermark mechanics, "Conductor + GSTACK_* env vars" section, env vars
table extended, two troubleshooting entries (silent embedding failure
and FILE_TOO_LARGE watermark block).

CONTRIBUTING.md "Conductor workspaces": new paragraph on the GSTACK_*
prefix pattern and the four entry points importing the shim.

VERSION 1.39.1.0 → 1.39.2.0 and CHANGELOG entry covering the shim +
docs (full release-summary format with before/after table).

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

* test: unit coverage for conductor-env-shim

Refactor lib/conductor-env-shim.ts to export promoteConductorEnv()
so unit tests can manipulate env and call it directly (a bare side-
effect IIFE on import isn't reachable from bun:test once cached).
The on-import IIFE still runs — existing four-entry-point imports
keep working unchanged.

test/conductor-env-shim.test.ts covers all three branches:
GSTACK_FOO present + FOO empty → promotion; FOO already set →
no-overwrite; nothing in env → no-op.

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

* docs: Conductor strips canonical API keys (not just "doesn't inherit")

The prior docs framed the GSTACK_* prefix as collision-avoidance:
"Conductor exposes API keys under a GSTACK_ prefix so it never
collides with whatever the host system has set." That understates
the mechanism — Conductor actively strips ANTHROPIC_API_KEY and
OPENAI_API_KEY from every workspace's process env, so setting them
in ~/.zshrc or .env doesn't help. The fix path is to set the
GSTACK_-prefixed forms in Conductor's workspace env config; Conductor
passes those through untouched.

Three docs updated to reflect the strip, not the polite framing:
USING_GBRAIN_WITH_GSTACK.md (Conductor section), CONTRIBUTING.md
(Conductor workspaces paragraph), CHANGELOG.md (release summary).

README.md gains a "Running gstack in Conductor?" callout in the
GBrain section pointing at the canonical doc's anchor, plus a fourth
path entry (remote gbrain MCP / split-engine) that was already
documented in USING_GBRAIN but missing from the README summary.

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

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-16 12:32:33 -07:00
Garry TanandClaude Opus 4.7 0570ef93a5 v1.24.0.0 feat: cross-platform hardening — curated Windows lane + Bun.which resolver + path-portability helper (#1252)
* feat(paths): bin/gstack-paths helper + migrate 8 skills off inline state-root chains

New bin/gstack-paths emits GSTACK_STATE_ROOT, PLAN_ROOT, TMP_ROOT exports for
skill bash blocks to source via eval. Honors GSTACK_HOME → CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA →
$HOME/.gstack → .gstack (and parallel chains for plan/tmp roots) so skills work
the same in plugin installs, global installs, and CI containers without HOME.

Eight skills migrate off inline ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA:-...} or ${GSTACK_HOME:-...}
chains: careful, freeze, guard, unfreeze, investigate, context-save,
context-restore, learn, office-hours, plan-tune, codex. Resolved values are
identical, so existing tests cover correctness; the win is consolidating 11
copy-pasted fallback chains behind one helper.

codex/SKILL.md.tmpl gets a new Step 0.6 Resolve portable roots that sources
gstack-paths once, then replaces hardcoded ~/.claude/plans/*.md and
/tmp/codex-*-XXXXXX.txt with "$PLAN_ROOT"/*.md and "$TMP_ROOT/codex-*-XXXXXX.txt".

Hardening direction credited to the McGluut/gstack fork; this is upstream's
factoring of the per-skill chain the fork inlined.

Tests: test/gstack-paths.test.ts covers all three fallback chains with 8 unit
tests (HOME unset, CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA set, GSTACK_HOME wins, etc).

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

* feat(claude-bin): Bun.which wrapper for cross-platform claude resolution

Replaces 75 LOC of fork-side reimplementation (PATH parsing, Windows PATHEXT,
case-insensitive Path/PATH, X_OK) with a thin wrapper around Bun.which() — the
runtime built-in that already does all of it. New file is ~70 LOC including
the override + arg-prefix logic the runtime doesn't cover.

Override branch fixed: GSTACK_CLAUDE_BIN=wsl now resolves through Bun.which()
just like a bare claude lookup would. The McGluut fork's claude-bin.ts only
handled absolute-path overrides; bare commands silently returned null. Passing
the override value through Bun.which fixes the documented use case for free.

Five hardcoded claude spawn sites rewired through resolveClaudeCommand:
  - browse/src/security-classifier.ts:396 — version probe
  - browse/src/security-classifier.ts:496 — Haiku transcript classifier
  - scripts/preflight-agent-sdk.ts — preflight binary pinning
  - test/helpers/providers/claude.ts — LLM judge availability + run
  - test/helpers/agent-sdk-runner.ts — SDK harness binary resolver
All retain their existing degrade-on-missing semantics.

Tests: browse/test/claude-bin.test.ts has 9 unit tests including the
override-PATH-resolution case the fork's version got wrong.

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

* docs+test: AGENTS.md/docs/skills.md inventory sync + private-path leak detector

Inventory sync (codex-flagged drift):
- /debug → /investigate (skill renamed in v1.0.1.0)
- AGENTS.md grows from 21 to 40+ skills, organized by category (plan reviews,
  implementation, release, operational, browser, safety)
- docs/skills.md gains 11 missing entries: /plan-devex-review, /devex-review,
  /plan-tune, /context-save, /context-restore, /health, /landing-report,
  /benchmark-models, /pair-agent, /setup-gbrain, /make-pdf
- Stale "<5s bun test" claim dropped — slim-preamble harness + new tests means
  no realistic universal claim to make
- Adds explicit "Mac + Linux full, curated Windows lane" platform statement +
  "Git Bash / MSYS today, native PowerShell future" install note

New invariants in test/skill-validation.test.ts (~80 LOC):
- Private-path leak detector scans every SKILL.md / SKILL.md.tmpl for known
  maintainer-only filenames (coordination-board.md, SEEKING_LOG.md,
  RATIONAL_SUBJECT.md, VALUE_SIGNAL_LOOP.md, C:\LLM Playground\go).
  Adapted from the McGluut fork's skill-contract-audit.ts; we don't take
  the script wholesale because most of its checks are already covered by
  test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts:1668-2074 and test/skill-validation.test.ts:1419
  — only the private-path scan and doc-inventory cross-check are new.
- Doc-inventory cross-check: every skill directory with a SKILL.md.tmpl must
  appear in both AGENTS.md and docs/skills.md. Catches the inventory drift
  this commit is fixing — without this test it would just drift again.

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

* feat(windows): curated windows-free-tests CI job + test-free-shards curation

Codex's v1.18.0.0 review flagged that a windows-latest matrix entry on the
existing Linux-container evals.yml workflow can't work as a drop-in, and that
the free test suite has POSIX-bound dependencies a sharded runner doesn't fix
on its own. This commit takes McGluut's test-free-shards.ts (190 LOC), adds a
Windows-fragility scan, and runs the curated subset on a separate non-container
windows-latest job.

scripts/test-free-shards.ts:
- Enumeration + paid-eval filtering + stable-hash sharding (FNV-1a). Adapted
  from McGluut/gstack fork.
- Upstream-original: --windows-only filter scans each test's content for
  POSIX-bound patterns: hardcoded /bin/sh, spawn('sh', ...), bash -c, raw
  /tmp/, chmod, xargs, which claude. Files matching are excluded with the
  reason logged. Currently filters 25 of 128 free tests; remaining 103 run
  on windows-latest.

.github/workflows/windows-free-tests.yml:
- Separate non-container job (NOT a matrix entry on evals.yml). Runs:
    bun run test:windows                       # curated subset
    bun test browse/test/claude-bin.test.ts    # PATHEXT+overrides on Windows
    bun test test/gstack-paths.test.ts         # state-root resolution

package.json: new test:free + test:windows scripts.

Honest about scope (codex-flagged): this does NOT make the full free suite
Windows-safe. The 25 excluded tests need POSIX-only surfaces ported off shell
primitives (test/ship-version-sync.test.ts:72 hardcodes /bin/bash, etc).
Tracked as a P4 follow-up TODO. Full Windows parity is the next wave; this
release ships the curated lane.

Tests: test/test-free-shards.test.ts has 14 unit tests covering enumeration,
paid-eval filtering, Windows-fragility detection (POSIX patterns + safe code),
and stable sharding determinism.

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

* chore(release): v1.20.0.0 — cross-platform hardening, curated Windows lane

Cross-platform hardening. Mac + Linux full, curated Windows lane added.

Workspace-aware queue at ship time:
- v1.17.0.0 claimed by garrytan/setup-gbrain-run (PR #1234)
- v1.19.0.0 claimed by garrytan/browserharness (PR #1233)
- This branch claims v1.20.0.0 (next available slot)

(Initially bumped to v1.18.0.0 during plan-mode implementation; rebumped to
v1.20.0.0 at /ship time when gstack-next-version detected the queue had moved.)

Headline numbers (full release-note in CHANGELOG.md):
- 2 new shared resolvers: bin/gstack-paths (61 LOC), browse/src/claude-bin.ts (73 LOC)
- 8 skills migrated off inline state-root chains
- 5 hardcoded claude spawn sites rewired through the shared resolver
- 75 LOC of fork-side reimplementation replaced by Bun.which()
- 103 of 128 free tests run on windows-latest (curated, ~80%)
- +31 new unit tests + 3 new invariants
- AGENTS.md inventory grows from 21 to 40+ skills

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

* fix(windows-ci): configure git identity + extend Windows-fragility curation

First windows-free-tests CI run surfaced 34 failures across two patterns:

1. Tests that init a temp git repo via execSync('git commit ...') — Windows
   runner has no default git user.email/user.name, so the commit fails.
   Fix: add a "Configure git identity" step to .github/workflows/windows-free-tests.yml
   that sets a CI-only identity globally.

2. Tests that use POSIX-only APIs unconditionally:
   - file-mode bitmask checks (`stat.mode & 0o600`, `mode & 0o111`) — Windows
     fakes mode bits and these assertions don't compose
   - hardcoded forward-slash path assertions (`file.endsWith('/tab-42.json')`)
     — Windows path separators are '\\'
   Fix: extend WINDOWS_FRAGILE_PATTERNS in scripts/test-free-shards.ts to
   detect both. 8 additional tests now excluded from the curated Windows
   subset with logged reasons:
     - browse/test/security-review-flow.test.ts (file mode)
     - browse/test/security-sidepanel-dom.test.ts (forward-slash path)
     - browse/test/url-validation.test.ts (forward-slash path)
     - test/gbrain-repo-policy.test.ts (file mode)
     - test/relink.test.ts (file mode)
     - test/skill-validation.test.ts (file mode — single assertion at :934)
     - test/team-mode.test.ts (file mode — also kills its 30 git-init beforeEach failures)
     - test/upgrade-migration-v1.test.ts (file mode)

Curated Windows subset: 103 → 95 tests (still ~74% of free suite). All
14 test-free-shards unit tests still pass.

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

* fix(windows-ci): enforce LF + build server-node.mjs in CI

Second round of windows-free-tests fixes after the first push. Curated subset
went from 386/34 to 58/4 fails. Remaining 4 fails + 1 error trace to two root
causes:

1. Line-ending sensitivity. Windows checkout with core.autocrlf=true converts
   .md/.tmpl files to CRLF. Tests that parse YAML frontmatter with
   `/^---\n([\\s\\S]+?)\n---/` then return zero matches — skill-collision-
   sentinel.test.ts:120 enumerated 0 skills on Windows, cascading into 3
   downstream test failures (sanity, KNOWN_COLLISIONS, /checkpoint resolved).

   Fix: add .gitattributes that pins LF for .md/.tmpl/.yml/.json/.toml/.sh/
   .ts/.tsx/.js/.mjs/.cjs/.bash. Root-cause fix; prevents future similar
   tests from hitting the same trap. Also keeps bash scripts LF on Linux
   runners (CRLF in shebangs produces "bad interpreter" errors).

2. Module-level Windows assertion in browse/src/cli.ts:82 throws if
   browse/dist/server-node.mjs is missing. Any test that transitively loads
   cli.ts (e.g., browse/test/tab-isolation.test.ts via shard mate imports)
   then fails to even start. server-node.mjs is generated by bash
   browse/scripts/build-node-server.sh, which `bun run build` calls but
   `bun install` does not.

   Fix: add a "Build server-node.mjs" step to .github/workflows/
   windows-free-tests.yml. Calls only the node-server build script, not
   full `bun run build` — we don't need the compiled binaries for tests
   and the full build is slow.

Expected: skill-collision-sentinel goes 0→3 pass (sanity, KNOWN_COLLISIONS,
/checkpoint resolved). tab-isolation's "unhandled error between tests"
disappears. Remaining tests should be green.

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

* fix(windows-ci): platform-aware claude-bin test + curate bin/ shebang spawns

Round 3 of windows-free-tests fixes. Round 2 (LF gitattributes + server-node.mjs
build) cleared shard 1 entirely (skill-collision-sentinel and tab-isolation
green). Shard 2 surfaced two more issues:

1. browse/test/claude-bin.test.ts:50 — the "PATH-resolvable override" test
   creates a fake binary 'fake-claude-cli' (no extension) and expects
   Bun.which to find it. On Windows, Bun.which probes PATHEXT extensions
   (.cmd, .exe, .bat) — a bare-name file is not discoverable. Production
   behavior is correct; the test was Mac/Linux-shaped.

   Fix: branch on process.platform. On Windows, write 'fake-claude-cli.cmd'
   with a Windows batch payload instead of a POSIX shebang script.

2. test/gstack-question-log.test.ts (and 18 sibling tests) — spawn a bash
   shebang script via spawnSync(BIN, args). Git Bash on Windows can run
   `bash /path/to/script` but spawnSync invokes CreateProcess directly,
   which doesn't parse #!/usr/bin/env bash. All these tests are
   Windows-fragile and can't run as-is.

   Fix: extend WINDOWS_FRAGILE_PATTERNS with `path.join(.., 'bin', ..)`
   detector. Curates 19 additional tests (benchmark-cli, brain-sync,
   builder-profile, explain-level-config, gbrain-*, gstack-question-*,
   hook-scripts, learnings, plan-tune, review-log, secret-sink-harness,
   taste-engine, telemetry, timeline, uninstall).

Curated Windows subset: 95 → 76 tests (~59% of free suite). Still
meaningful Windows coverage. The 52 excluded tests are tracked as a
follow-up TODO for full Windows parity (shebang-bin spawns + POSIX file
modes + raw /tmp/ etc).

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

* fix(windows-ci): curate Playwright-launching tests

Round 4 of windows-free-tests fixes. Round 3 cleared shard 2 except for
browse/test/batch.test.ts:35 which calls `await bm.launch()` and triggers
Playwright Chromium launch. The windows-latest runner doesn't have
Chromium installed (browser bring-up is a separate concern, tracked by
PR #1238 windows-pty-bun-pty-fix).

Fix: extend WINDOWS_FRAGILE_PATTERNS with `await \\w+\\.launch\\(` matcher.
Catches batch.test.ts plus 7 sibling tests (commands, compare-board,
content-security, handoff, security-live-playwright, security-sidepanel-dom,
snapshot — most already excluded by other patterns).

Curated Windows subset: 76 → 72 tests (~56% of free suite). Net curation
across all 4 rounds: 56 of 128 free tests excluded, each with a logged
reason. The 56 excluded fall into 6 buckets — POSIX shells, raw /tmp/,
chmod/xargs, file mode bitmasks, forward-slash path assertions, bin/
shebang spawns, and Playwright launches — all tracked as a P4 follow-up
TODO for full Windows parity.

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

* fix(windows-ci): catch destructured join() bin-spawns + browse server tests

Round 5 of windows-free-tests fixes. Round 4 caught Playwright launchers
but two more failure shapes appeared in shard 5:

1. test/diff-scope.test.ts uses `import { join }` (destructured) and
   `join(import.meta.dir, '..', 'bin', 'gstack-diff-scope')`. My round-3
   pattern only matched `path.join(...)` — the destructured form slipped
   through. Tightened the pattern to match the literal `, 'bin', '<name>'`
   path-segment shape regardless of whether it's `path.join` or `join`
   directly.

2. browse/test/sidebar-integration.test.ts spawns the browse server via
   `spawn(['bun', 'run', server.ts])` with BROWSE_HEADLESS_SKIP=1. The
   Bun-run-server.ts path is the same Playwright-on-Windows broken path
   that the windows-free-tests job intentionally avoids — the server-node.mjs
   route only kicks in for the compiled binary, not direct Bun runs of the
   TypeScript source. Added a BROWSE_HEADLESS_SKIP / spawn-bun-run pattern.

Curated Windows subset: 72 → 73 tests (~57% of free suite). Net up by 1
because the tightened bin pattern released one test that was a false
positive in the loose `path\\.join` form.

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

* fix(windows-ci): broaden bin/ pattern to match path.join(ROOT, 'bin')

Round 6. Round 5 tightened the bin/ pattern to require a script-name segment
after 'bin', which inadvertently released test/brain-sync.test.ts that uses:

  const BIN = path.join(ROOT, 'bin');
  const full = bin.startsWith('/') ? bin : path.join(BIN, bin);

The 'bin' segment is the LAST argument to path.join — there's no literal
script name to match. The earlier looser pattern caught this; round 5
broke that.

Fix: revert to `,\\s*['"]bin['"]\\s*[,)]` which matches both forms:
  - `, 'bin', 'script-name')`  (path.join with name) — typical
  - `, 'bin')`                  (path.join ending at bin) — brain-sync style

Curated subset: 73 → 66 tests (~52% of free suite). The 7 additional
exclusions are all bin-script tests that were misclassified by the round-5
tightening.

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

* fix(find-browse): guard main() with import.meta.main

Round 7 of windows-free-tests fixes (and a genuine bug fix beyond Windows).

browse/src/find-browse.ts called main() unconditionally at module load.
main() calls process.exit(1) when no compiled `browse` binary exists at the
known install paths. Any test that imports `locateBinary` from this module
then exits the entire test process before any tests run.

This affected the windows-free-tests CI lane because the runner intentionally
doesn't compile the browse binary (only server-node.mjs is built — full
binary compilation is slow and not needed for the curated subset). It would
also affect any Mac/Linux contributor who runs tests in a fresh checkout
before running ./setup, though the symptom is rarer there.

Fix: wrap `main()` in `if (import.meta.main) { main() }`. The CLI invocation
(via the find-browse binary or `bun run browse/src/find-browse.ts`) still
runs main() and emits the path. Imports get only the named exports.

Verified locally:
  - `bun run browse/src/find-browse.ts` still prints the binary path.
  - `import { locateBinary } from '...'` no longer exits the process.
  - `bun test browse/test/find-browse.test.ts` passes 4/4 (was crashing
    at module load).

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

* fix(windows-ci): pin LF on extensionless executables (setup, bin/*, scripts/*)

Round 8 of windows-free-tests fixes. Round 7 cleared find-browse + most
shards; one fail left in shard 7:

  test/setup-codesign.test.ts > codesign shell snippet is syntactically valid
  expect(received).toBeTruthy() — match was null

The test extracts a bash codesign block from the `setup` file via a
\\n-anchored regex, then syntax-checks it with `bash -n`. On Windows the
regex returned null because the `setup` file was checked out with CRLF
endings — my round-2 .gitattributes only covered files matched by extension
patterns (*.md, *.sh, *.ts) and `setup` is extensionless.

Fix: extend .gitattributes with explicit rules for extensionless executables:
  setup        text eol=lf
  bin/*        text eol=lf
  **/scripts/* text eol=lf

This also LF-pins all the bash bin/ scripts (gstack-paths, gstack-slug,
gstack-codex-probe, ...) which would otherwise break with "bad interpreter"
errors on Linux if a Windows contributor accidentally committed CRLF
versions. Defense in depth.

Verified locally: `git check-attr eol setup bin/gstack-paths` reports
`eol: lf` for both. Renormalized via `git add --renormalize` so any
already-LF files in the repo stay LF after the .gitattributes change.

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

* fix(windows-ci): gen:skill-docs in workflow + known-bad list for env-specific tests

Round 9 of windows-free-tests fixes. Round 8 cleared shard 7; shard 8
surfaced 4 fails:

1+2. test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts golden-file regression for Codex + Factory
   ship skills failed with ENOENT on `.agents/skills/gstack-ship/SKILL.md`
   and `.factory/skills/gstack-ship/SKILL.md`. These are gitignored
   gen-skill-docs outputs that the Mac/Linux CI workflows already
   regenerate elsewhere — the windows-free-tests lane never did.

   Fix: add `bun run gen:skill-docs --host all` step to
   windows-free-tests.yml after `bun install`.

3. test/host-config.test.ts:377 "detect finds claude" asserts the `claude`
   binary is on PATH. True when running inside Claude Code; false on a
   bare CI runner.

4. browse/test/findport.test.ts:117 asserts Bun.serve.stop() is
   fire-and-forget (returns undefined). Bun's Windows behavior for this
   polyfill differs; the assertion is Bun-on-non-Windows-specific.

Both 3 and 4 are environment/runtime-specific failures that don't fit a
regex pattern. Added a KNOWN_WINDOWS_INCOMPATIBLE explicit list to
scripts/test-free-shards.ts so they're curated by exact path, with a
reason string. The list is for cases where pattern matching can't infer
the failure shape from the source file alone.

Curated subset: 66 → 64 tests (~50% of free suite). 14 unit tests in
test/test-free-shards.test.ts still pass.

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* fix(windows-ci): curate pre-existing breakage from v1.14.0.0 sidebar refactor

Round 10 of windows-free-tests fixes. Round 9 cleared shards 7+8; shard 9
surfaced ENOENT for browse/src/sidebar-agent.ts. That file was DELETED in
v1.14.0.0 (sidebar REPL refactor — sidebar-agent.ts and the chat queue
path were ripped in favor of the interactive xterm.js PTY). 10 security
tests still reference it via top-level fs.readFileSync and fail on import.

Verified locally: `bun test browse/test/security-source-contracts.test.ts`
on this branch reports 0 pass, 1 fail, 1 error. Mac/Linux CI exits 0
because Bun reports module-load failures as "error" not "fail" and the
exit code is 0; Windows CI exits 1 (stricter). Same pre-existing
breakage on every platform — just only visible in shard 9 of the
Windows lane.

Fix: add WINDOWS_FRAGILE_PATTERNS entry matching `sidebar-agent.ts` /
`src/sidebar-agent` references. Curates browse/test/sidebar-ux.test.ts
(other 9 likely caught by paid-eval filter or earlier patterns).

Tracked as a follow-up TODO: update or delete the 10 security tests that
reference deleted source. Out of scope for v1.20.0.0 portability wave.

Curated subset: 64 → 63 tests (~49% of free suite).

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* fix(windows-ci): broaden sidebar-agent.ts pattern to catch all references

* fix(windows-ci): catch ./bin/<name> direct path spawns

* fix(windows-ci): scope Windows job to v1.20.0.0 new portability work

12 rounds of curation revealed that gstack has a long tail of tests with
environment-specific assumptions (POSIX paths, /tmp, mode bits, bash
spawns, deleted v1.14 sidebar refs, HOME=unset guards, Bun polyfill
specifics). Each round of pattern-matching curation caught 1-2 new
buckets but kept surfacing more.

Honest scope for v1.20.0.0: this PR delivers two new portability
primitives (bin/gstack-paths + browse/src/claude-bin.ts). The Windows
CI job should verify those primitives work on Windows. Full-suite
Windows parity is a P4 follow-up that requires touching many tests
that aren't part of this PR's scope.

Change: windows-free-tests.yml now runs:
  bun test test/gstack-paths.test.ts \\
           browse/test/claude-bin.test.ts \\
           test/test-free-shards.test.ts

That's 31 tests targeting exactly the new code paths shipped here.
The release-note headline ("curated Windows lane added") becomes
truthful when this passes — we have a real Windows CI gate on the
new portability work, not a rebadged failure-tolerant attempt at the
full suite.

Retained: scripts/test-free-shards.ts curation logic (informational
output via `--list`, useful for future expansion of the Windows lane
when contributors port specific tests).

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* fix(test): invoke bin/gstack-paths via bash (Windows shebang fix)

Round 13 of windows-free-tests fixes. Round 12 (scope pivot) revealed all
8 gstack-paths tests fail on Windows because the test invokes the bash
shebang script directly:

  spawnSync(BIN, [])  # BIN = path.join(ROOT, 'bin', 'gstack-paths')

Windows CreateProcess can't parse `#!/usr/bin/env bash` from the file.
The script never runs on Windows via this invocation path.

Fix: change to `spawnSync('bash', [BIN], ...)`. This matches production
usage — the script is sourced from inside skill bash blocks via
`eval "$(~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-paths)"`, where bash is
always the executor. Mac/Linux behavior is identical (bash invocation
of a bash script).

Verified locally: 8/8 tests still pass on macOS.

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

* chore(release): rebump v1.20.0.0 → v1.22.0.0 (queue drift)

Version-gate workflow rejected v1.20.0.0 because the queue moved during
the windows-free-tests fix loop:

  v1.16.0.0 → garrytan/gbrowser-unleashed (PR #1253)  [new since last bump]
  v1.17.0.0 → garrytan/setup-gbrain-run    (PR #1234)
  v1.19.0.0 → garrytan/browserharness       (PR #1233)
  v1.21.1.0 → garrytan/pty-plan-mode-e2e    (PR #1255)  [new since last bump]

Two new sibling PRs landed slot claims while we iterated on Windows.
Next free MINOR slot is v1.22.0.0.

Updated VERSION, package.json, CHANGELOG header + body. Also pushing the
round-13 windows-fix in parallel (test invokes bin/gstack-paths via bash
to handle Windows shebang).

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

* fix(test): clear USERPROFILE alongside HOME (Git Bash auto-populates HOME)

Final Windows fix. 29/31 pass; 2 fail in gstack-paths HOME-unset tests:

  (fail) CWD fallback when HOME also unset (container env)
  (fail) PLAN_ROOT chain: GSTACK_PLAN_DIR > CLAUDE_PLANS_DIR > HOME > CWD

Root cause: Git Bash on Windows auto-populates `HOME` from `USERPROFILE`
at shell startup if HOME is empty/unset. Passing `HOME: ''` to spawnSync
does set HOME='' for the child, but Git Bash overwrites it from
USERPROFILE during init, so the script sees `${HOME:-}` as non-empty
(C:\\Users\\runneradmin) and never reaches the CWD-fallback branch.

Fix: clear USERPROFILE='' too. On Linux/Mac it's a no-op (env var doesn't
exist in normal env); on Windows Git Bash it stops the HOME auto-populate.

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

* fix(test): skip HOME-unset assertions on Windows (Git Bash auto-populates)

29/31 → 31/31 expected on Windows. Final fix:

The 2 still-failing gstack-paths tests assert CWD-fallback behavior when
HOME is genuinely unset (Linux container scenario). On Windows Git Bash,
HOME gets auto-derived from USERPROFILE → HOMEDRIVE+HOMEPATH → /c/Users/<user>
during shell startup. Clearing all three of those env vars in the spawn
still results in HOME being non-empty by the time the script runs.

The bash script's CWD-fallback logic IS correct — it just isn't exercisable
through the Git Bash test surface. Skip those specific assertions on
Windows; they continue to verify on Linux/Mac.

This is the only platform-specific test guard introduced; it's narrowly
scoped to the unreachable code path, not a bypass of the real check.

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2026-05-01 07:21:28 -07:00
Garry Tan 23c4d7b228 v1.13.0.0 feat: add Claude outside-voice skill (#1212)
* Add Claude outside-voice skill

* Fix gbrain config isolation test

* Restore Opus fanout overlay nudge

* Warn on oversized tracked files

* Release v1.13.0.0

* Fix Claude diff temp file handling

* Remove Opus fanout overlay nudge
2026-04-25 11:52:48 -07:00
Garry TanandClaude Opus 4.7 e3d7f49c74 feat(v1.10.1.0): overlay efficacy harness + Opus 4.7 fanout nudge removal (#1166)
* refactor: export readOverlay from model-overlay resolver

Needed by the overlay-efficacy eval harness to resolve INHERIT directives
without going through generateModelOverlay's full TemplateContext.

* chore: add @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk@0.2.117 dep

Pinned exact for SDK event-shape stability. Used by the overlay-efficacy
harness to drive the model through a closer-to-real Claude Code harness
than `claude -p`.

* feat(preflight): sanity check for agent-sdk + overlay resolver

Verifies: SDK loads, claude-opus-4-7 is a live API model, SDKMessage
event shape matches assumptions, readOverlay resolves INHERIT directives
and includes expected content. Run with `bun run scripts/preflight-agent-sdk.ts`.

PREFLIGHT OK on first run, $0.013 API spend.

* feat(eval): parametric overlay-efficacy harness (runner + fixtures)

`test/helpers/agent-sdk-runner.ts` wraps @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk
with explicit `AgentSdkResult` types, process-level API concurrency
semaphore, and 3-shape 429 retry (thrown error, result-message error,
mid-stream SDKRateLimitEvent). Pins the local claude binary via
`pathToClaudeCodeExecutable`.

`test/fixtures/overlay-nudges.ts` holds the typed registry. Two
fixtures for the first measurement: `opus-4-7-fanout-toy` (3-file read)
and `opus-4-7-fanout-realistic` (mixed-tool audit). Strict validator
rejects duplicate ids, non-integer trials, unsafe overlay paths, non-safe
id chars, and missing overlay files at module load.

Adding a future overlay nudge eval = one fixture entry.

* test(eval): unit tests for agent-sdk-runner (36 tests, free tier)

Stub `queryProvider` feeds hand-crafted SDKMessage streams. Covers:
happy-path shape, all 3 rate-limit shapes + retry, workspace reset on
retry, persistent 429 -> `RateLimitExhaustedError`, non-429 propagation,
process-level concurrency cap, options propagation, artifact path
uniqueness, cost/turn mapping, and every validator rejection case.

* test(eval): paid periodic overlay-efficacy harness

`test/skill-e2e-overlay-harness.test.ts` iterates OVERLAY_FIXTURES,
runs two arms per fixture (overlay-ON, overlay-OFF) at N=10 trials with
bounded concurrency. Arms use SDK preset `claude_code` so both include
the real Claude Code system prompt; overlay-ON appends the resolved
overlay text. Saves per-trial raw event streams to
`~/.gstack/projects/<slug>/transcripts/` for forensic recovery.

Gated on `EVALS=1 && EVALS_TIER=periodic`. ~$3/run (40 trials).

* test: register overlay harness in touchfiles (both maps)

Entries for `overlay-harness-opus-4-7-fanout-toy` and
`opus-4-7-fanout-realistic` in E2E_TOUCHFILES (deps: model-overlays/,
fixtures file, runner, resolver) and E2E_TIERS (`periodic`). Passes
`test/touchfiles.test.ts` completeness check.

* fix(opus-4.7): remove "Fan out explicitly" overlay nudge

Measured counterproductive under the new SDK harness. Baseline Opus 4.7
emits first-turn parallel tool_use blocks 70% of the time on a 3-file
read prompt. With the custom nudge: 10%. With Anthropic's own canonical
`<use_parallel_tool_calls>` block from their parallel-tool-use docs:
0%. Both overlays suppress fanout; neither improves it.

On realistic multi-tool prompts (audit a project: read files + glob +
summarize), Opus 4.7 never fans out in first turn regardless of overlay.
Zero of 20 trials. Not a prompt problem.

Keeping the other three nudges (effort-match, batch questions, literal
interpretation) pending their own measurement. Harness is ready for
follow-up fixtures — add one entry to
`test/fixtures/overlay-nudges.ts` to measure any overlay bullet.

Cost of investigation: ~$7 total across 3 eval runs.

* chore: bump version and changelog (v1.6.5.0)

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* feat(eval): extend OverlayFixture with allowedTools, maxTurns, direction

Per-fixture tool allowlist unblocks measuring nudges that need Edit/Write
(e.g. literal-interpretation 'fix the failing tests' needs write access).
Per-fixture maxTurns lets harder prompts run longer without changing the
default. `direction` is cosmetic metadata for test output labeling.

Also adds reusable predicates and metrics:
- lowerIsBetter20Pct / higherIsBetter20Pct — 20% lift threshold vs baseline
- bashToolCallCount — count of Bash tool_use across the session
- turnsToCompletion — SDK-reported num_turns at result
- uniqueFilesEdited — Edit/Write/MultiEdit file_path set size

test/skill-e2e-overlay-harness.test.ts now threads fixture.allowedTools
and fixture.maxTurns through runArm.

* test(eval): 3 more overlay fixtures to measure remaining Claude nudges

Measures three overlay bullets that haven't been tested yet:

- claude-dedicated-tools-vs-bash — claude.md says 'prefer Read/Edit/Write/
  Glob/Grep over cat/sed/find/grep'. Fixture prompts 'list every TypeScript
  file under src/ and tell me what each exports' and counts Bash tool_use
  across the session. Overlay-ON should drop it by >=20%.
- opus-4-7-effort-match-trivial — opus-4-7.md says 'simple file reads
  don't need deep reasoning.' Fixture uses a trivial one-file prompt
  (config.json lookup) and measures turns_used. Overlay-ON should be
  <=80% of baseline turns.
- opus-4-7-literal-interpretation — opus-4-7.md says 'fix ALL failing
  tests, not just the obvious one.' Fixture seeds three failing test
  files with deliberately distinct failure modes and counts unique files
  edited. Overlay-ON should touch >=20% more files.

Adding a fourth fixture for any remaining overlay nudge is a single entry.
The harness is now proven on: fanout (deleted after measurement), dedicated
tools, effort-match, and literal-interpretation.

* fix(eval): handle SDK max-turns throw gracefully

Some @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk versions throw from the query
generator when maxTurns is reached, instead of emitting a result
message with subtype='error_max_turns'. The runner treated that as
a non-retryable error and killed the whole periodic run on the first
fixture that exceeded its turn cap.

Added isMaxTurnsError() detector and a catch branch that synthesizes
an AgentSdkResult from events captured before the throw, with
exitReason='error_max_turns' and costUsd=0 (unknown from the thrown
path). The metric function still runs against whatever assistant
turns were collected, so the trial produces a usable number.

Hoisted events/assistantTurns/toolCalls/assistantTextParts and the
timing counters out of the inner try so the catch branch can read
them. No behavior change on the success path or on rate-limit retry
paths.

* test(eval): bump maxTurns to 15 for claude-dedicated-tools-vs-bash

The prompt 'list every TypeScript file under src/ and tell me what
each exports' needs 1 turn for Glob + ~5 for Reads + 1 for summary.
Default maxTurns=5 was not enough; prior run threw from the SDK on
this fixture and tanked the whole periodic eval.

Bumping to 15 gives headroom. The runner now also handles max-turns
gracefully even if a future fixture underestimates, so this is belt
and suspenders.

* test(eval): Sonnet 4.6 variants of the 5 Opus-4.7 fixtures

Same overlays, same prompts, same metrics, `model: 'claude-sonnet-4-6'`.
Tests whether the overlays behave differently on a weaker Claude model
where baseline behavior is shakier. Sonnet trials cost ~3-4x less than
Opus so these 5 add ~$4.50 to a full run.

Measurement result from the first paired run (100 trials total,
~$14.55):

- **Sonnet + effort-match shows real overlay benefit.** With the overlay
  on, Sonnet takes 2.5 turns on a trivial `What's the version in
  config.json?` prompt. Without, it takes exactly 3.0 turns in all 10
  trials. ~17% reduction, below the 20% pass threshold but the signal
  is clean: overlay-ON distribution [2,2,2,2,2,3,3,3,3,3] vs overlay-OFF
  [3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3].
- All other Sonnet dimensions flat (fanout, dedicated-tools, literal
  interpretation). Same as Opus on those axes.
- Opus effort-match remains flat (2.60 vs 2.50, +4% slower with overlay).

Implication: model-stratified. The overlay stack helps Sonnet on some
axes where it does nothing on Opus. Wholesale removal would hurt Sonnet.
Per-nudge per-model measurement is the right move going forward.

* chore: bump version to 1.10.1.0

Updates VERSION, package.json, CHANGELOG header, and TODOS completion
marker from 1.6.5.0 to 1.10.1.0.

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2026-04-23 18:42:58 -07:00