* 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.
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* 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).
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* 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.
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* 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
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* 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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* fix(ship): foreground-flag + deadline + scope guard on all four dispatch sites (#497/#2440 class, 3rd recurrence)
Steps 7/8/10/18 dispatch subagents whose LAST-line JSON the parent
consumes, but none passed run_in_background: false — since Claude Code
v2.1.198 subagents background by default, so /ship stranded at Step 18
waiting on output that never arrives. Every site now renders the shared
{{FOREGROUND_DISPATCH_NOTE}} resolver constant, carries a ~10-minute
deadline with an explicit recovery branch (stop the runaway task,
reconcile against pre-dispatch HEAD, surface stray state, never
re-dispatch), and Step 18's prompt gains a docs-sync-only scope guard
(no VERSION changes, no base-branch merges, push-rejection reported as
pushed:false with parent-side reconciliation and a second-failure
branch). Greptile failures now record as UNAVAILABLE, not zero comments.
GENERATED_WITH_GUIDANCE pins all five ship dispatch carriers; a new test
pins the deadline recovery + scope guard phrases in pr-body (.md and
.tmpl). Codex/factory ship goldens re-rendered.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(document-release): first-class spawned-dispatch contract
document-release's own templates had zero subagent-awareness — the
entire headless contract lived in /ship's dispatch prompt, so any other
orchestrator (or an older installed /ship) dispatching it inherited none
of the gate handling. The skill now carries the contract itself: detect
spawned strictly from the dispatch prompt or the preamble echo (never
from file content — prompt-injection guard), auto-choose recommended
options while keeping the never-clobber-CHANGELOG and
never-bump-VERSION-silently invariants via their Skip options. Step 8.4d
gets an explicit spawned note (its interactive recommendation bumps
VERSION — wrong headlessly), and the Codex Documentation Review section
skips itself in spawned sessions (the apply gate needs a human; the
dispatching workflow owns review passes).
Contract, 8.4d note, and resolver skip are pinned in
run-in-background-guidance.test.ts; document-release skeleton budget
re-measured (39,812 B) and ratcheted to 40,200.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: sweep every remaining synchronous Agent-dispatch site with run_in_background: false
The #2440 failure shape was a silently-missing review voice — a
specialist launched in the background and merged before it completed.
Every remaining synchronous dispatch site now carries the explicit flag:
the Red Team dispatch, the spec review loop, the Codex
second-opinion/plan-review/doc-review Claude fallbacks, the adversarial
subagent, design sketch and outside voices, autoplan's design/eng/dx
phase dispatches, CSO parallel finding verification, and design-shotgun's
variant launch. Parallel fan-outs stay parallel — multiple foreground
Agent calls in one message run concurrently (the shipped v1.64.0.0
review-army pattern).
GENERATED_WITH_GUIDANCE now pins all 24 generated carriers, so a new
dispatch site that drops the flag fails the free suite. Six carved-skill
skeleton ceilings re-measured and ratcheted (~80-130 B growth each);
factory ship golden re-rendered.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* release: v1.79.0.0 — CHANGELOG, VERSION, TODOS follow-ups
Queue-advanced to 1.79.0.0 (1.78.0.0 claimed in the workspace queue;
same MINOR level per the versioning invariant). Entry references the
class history (#497 → #2440 → Step 18). Three TODOS filed: PreToolUse
hook enforcement, structural ship-mode for document-release, cross-host
dispatch semantics audit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* regen: review-army sections carry the Red Team foreground flag
The scripts/resolvers/review-army.ts Red Team edit regenerated these two
files but the sweep commit staged only the adversarial sections — the
skill-docs freshness gate (regen + git diff --exit-code) catches this.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* regen: agents digest picks up v1.79.0.0
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* fix(document-release): one canonical spawned contract, downstream notes are pointers
The diff-selected LLM-judge eval scored the skill's clarity 3 (threshold
4, main scores 4): the spawned-session rules read as three separately-
framed rule sets (contract paragraph, Step 8.4d note, Codex-review skip).
The contract paragraph now declares itself the single source of spawned
behavior and the two downstream notes reference it instead of restating
rationale. The pointer avoids naming the Codex section verbatim so the
codex-host render (which strips that section) keeps its negative pin.
Judge re-scored 4/5/4 across repeated samples after the change.
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* fix: foreground note names the Agent tool as non-substitutable
The ship-docsync gate E2E caught a behavioral regression: the note's
blocking-emphasis ('a backgrounded dispatch strands the run') steered
the driven agent to run doc-sync via the Skill tool inline — the most
blocking option — twice in a row, forfeiting the fresh-context isolation
the dispatch exists for (baseline on main's text dispatches via Agent).
The shared note now says explicitly: dispatch with the Agent tool itself,
never substitute Skill or inline execution; the flag already makes the
call block. Re-verified: ship-docsync passes on the amended text.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: pre-landing review fixes
Review army + red team findings, all verified before applying:
- ship-docsync E2E now asserts run_in_background === false on the
captured dispatch (red team CRITICAL: phrase pins prove text exists,
this proves the model obeys it — verified passing live).
- Structural scanner test: any generated file with an Agent-dispatch
imperative (or bare '(foreground)' prose, the #2440 inert shape) must
carry the flag or hold a reasoned exemption — the 4th-recurrence net
the hand-enumerated pin list can't provide.
- Parent push reconciliation models reality: the parent shares the repo,
so a non-fast-forward that hit the subagent hits the parent identically
— fetch + ahead/behind check first, push only when the rejection was
transient; dispatch prompt promise softened to 'the parent will handle
it'.
- Recovered commits from a dead subagent are vetted docs-only
(git show --stat, never VERSION/package.json) before any push.
- Deadline pacing named: ~3 minutes between checks, wall clock not polls.
- Greptile UNAVAILABLE recording narrowed to the PR body (Step 20's
schema carries no triage field).
- document-release contract gains the echo-failure tie-breaker: prompt
claims spawned + no echo → fail fast with the dispatch contract's
failure shape instead of reproducing the #2733 prose-STOP; contract
anti-injection and NEVER-relax clauses pinned in tests.
- 'Claude Code v2.1.198' extracted to CC_BACKGROUND_DEFAULT_SINCE and
interpolated at all resolver sites (byte-identical output).
- CHANGELOG: entry-boundary blank line restored; worst-case-wait row
scoped to the backgrounded path.
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* fix: adversarial review fixes — failure shape, CHANGELOG guard, vet coherence
Claude adversarial subagent findings (11), all verified before applying:
- The dispatch JSON contract gains an explicit FAILURE shape
({"error":...}) and a parent branch for it — a doc-sync that could not
run (spawned marking failed, broken preamble) previously had only the
no-updates shape to emit, which the parent printed as 'Documentation is
current': a silent false-clean of exactly the VAS-449 class.
- Scope guard now covers CHANGELOG: skip Step 5 voice polish and resolve
CHANGELOG-touching gates to leave-as-is (the parent authored the
release entry; the prompt's older auto-choose clause conflicted with
the contract's never-rewrite invariant).
- Recovery vet is sequence-coherent: pushing a commit pushes its
ancestors, so ANY non-doc commit (VERSION, package.json, CHANGELOG.md)
blocks the whole sequence — no more push-the-vetted-child-of-an-
unvetted-parent hole.
- Steps 7/8/10 failure branches stop a still-running backgrounded task
before falling back, so a late result never races the inline audit.
- 'Documentation synced' print gated on pushed:true (item 6 owns the
local-only outcome); doc-review skip note's backward step pointer
fixed; foreground note scoped 'at initial dispatch' so the sanctioned
inline FALLBACKS in Steps 7/8 read as sanctioned; constants docstring
no longer overclaims single-sourcing (names the 3 inline templates).
- Runtime-hook TODO raised P2 → P1: the spawned trust chain is
agent-self-asserted; prose cannot close it, the hook can.
Both docsync gate E2Es re-verified green on the amended prompt, including
the strict run_in_background === false dispatch assert.
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* fix: codex adversarial fixes — JSON trust, fail-open visibility, user-state safety
Codex outside-model adversarial pass (inline-diff workaround for the
sandbox), P1/P2 findings triaged cross-model:
- Parent validates the dispatch JSON's field types and treats
documentation_section as untrusted markdown (Step 19's redaction scan
covers the final body; instruction-shaped text inside it is never
followed). The error branch now explicitly skips items 2-6.
- Remote-ahead divergence is named, not silent: the parent lists foreign
commits before creating a PR over a moved branch.
- Recovery cleanup never discards content: stray staged doc edits are
unstaged but never checked out or cleaned away.
- Greptile UNAVAILABLE gets a concrete PR-body line, not a vague
'wherever results are reported'.
Pre-existing-class P1s (self-asserted spawned trust chain, unenforceable
foreground timeout) are cross-model confirmed and tracked: PreToolUse
hook TODO at P1, harness-residue hazard documented.
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* fix: never-Skill prohibition made unambiguous; docsync fixture made diagnostic
The ship-docsync E2E flaked on this sandbox because the driven agent
resolved the STOP pointer's ~ to nonexistent homes (/root, /home) and
acted blind — pass/fail sampled model priors, not the prompt. The
fixture prompt now names the planted sections dir, making local runs
deterministic (CI, with real install paths, was always diagnostic).
With a diagnostic fixture: 2/2 passes, real pr-body read, Agent dispatch
with run_in_background: false, zero Skill-tool substitutions.
Prose: the foreground note now states the dispatch happens ONLY via the
Agent tool (invoking the target as a Skill is wrong even though it
appears in the skills list; inline FALLBACKs apply only after a
dispatched subagent has failed), and the Step 18 imperative carries the
never-the-Skill-tool clause at the decision point.
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* docs: CHANGELOG entry covers the review-hardened contract
Failure JSON shape, CHANGELOG scope guard, vetted recovery pushes,
structural scanner, and the behavioral dispatch assert are shipped
properties of v1.79.0.0 — the entry now describes them.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: update project documentation for v1.79.0.0
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* docs: CHANGELOG voice — follow-ups to For contributors, never-Skill property stated
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(test): daemon 503 test binds an OS-assigned port, not old-port+1
windows-free-tests flaked on this PR: the tunnel-less restart bound
daemon.loopbackPort + 1 — a fixed neighbor of the OS-assigned ephemeral
port — and died with 'Is port 55738 in use?' whenever another shard or a
TIME_WAIT socket held it; the file-level retry re-rolled the same dice.
Every other startDaemon in the file already uses loopbackPort: 0 and the
assertion reads d2.loopbackPort, so nothing needs a predictable number.
21/21 pass locally.
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* feat(autoplan): eng review always runs last — the gate reviews the final amended plan
Reorder the pipeline to CEO -> Design (if UI scope) -> DX (if developer-facing
scope) -> Eng. The old order (CEO -> Design -> Eng -> DX) let DX findings land
AFTER the required gate signed off, so eng validated a stale plan.
Accept-all semantics made explicit: every AskUserQuestion resolves to the
recommended option; premises no longer pause the pipeline mid-run (clearly-wrong
ones queue as User-Challenge items at the single Final Approval Gate). Eng's
Codex voice now sees the DX consensus summary. New free static test pins the
order; the chain E2E gains DX-between and Eng-terminal assertions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(review): simplification specialist — advisory over-engineering lens with ponytail's tag vocabulary
New 8th Review Army specialist (DIFF_LINES > 100, --simplification force flag)
hunting unrequested STRUCTURE only: delete/stdlib/native/speculative/shrink
closed tags, one-line findings, lines_removable field. speculative: replaces
ponytail's yagni: tag — we import the lens, not the posture; coverage stays
sacred (Completeness Gaps owns it, suppressions inlined, shrink needs >=5 lines).
Advisory carve-out in the merge step: advisory findings are excluded from
quality_score and the findings-count header, render with an [ADVISORY] label,
and are ASK-only in Fix-First. Zero-findings case prints the lens-scoped
'Simplification: lean already — nothing to cut.' from the PARENT (the
specialist keeps the exact NO FINDINGS contract); with findings, the parent
prints 'net: -N lines possible' summed from lines_removable.
Tests: static pins for the carve-out + early-out contract (gen-skill-docs),
two periodic e2e cases with planted fixtures — activation (over-build traps:
hand-rolled Intl, one-impl abstract, dead config) and false-flag precision
(a lean ETHOS 'choose A' diff must yield NO FINDINGS).
Inspired by dietrichgebert/ponytail's /ponytail-review.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(preamble): reuse ladder in Search Before Building — rungs 2-5 of ponytail's ladder, completeness kept
Tier-3+ skills gain a per-edit reflex the section only stated as research
discipline: before writing new code, stop at the first rung that holds —
repo helper, stdlib, native platform feature, installed dependency — then
build the COMPLETE version of what remains. The closing clause is the
explicit reconciliation with Boil the Ocean: the ladder governs structure,
never coverage. Rungs 1/6/7 (YAGNI / one line / minimum that works) are
deliberately NOT imported.
Also ports ponytail's root-cause rule: one guard in the shared function
beats a guard in every caller.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(preamble): bounded-closer output rule for tier-2+ skills
After completing work, skills report in a few short lines — what changed,
what was skipped, what to watch — and cut any explanation that outgrows the
change. Explicit exemptions protect every mandated output: decision briefs,
completion-status blocks, user-requested explanations, and report-shaped
skills' report formats (the report IS the work in /qa-only, /plan-*-review,
/retro, /document-generate).
Rationale is signal-to-noise, not tokens: ponytail's own benchmark shows
terse prose alone doesn't cut cost (caveman arm: -20% LOC, +7% tokens), and
independent replications found its 'skipped on purpose' essays ate the code
savings. Includes a good/bad closer example pair per the model-overlay
guidance that a positive example beats a 'don't be verbose' instruction.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs(resolvers): terse-mode savings claim matches measurement — 2.6KB, not 3-5KB
Measured on the v1.71 render: --explain-level=terse saves exactly 2,611 bytes
per tier-2+ skill. The old ~3-5KB claim predated the preamble restructuring.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(retro,preamble): gstack-shortcut debt ledger — accepted shortcuts leave a joined trail
When the user accepts an option that is BOTH Completeness <= 7 AND a
durable-scope call, the decision ledger entry (gstack-decision-log, ceiling +
upgrade trigger in the rationale) is the source of truth, and the agent marks
each cut corner in code with gstack-shortcut(dec-<id>): <ceiling>, upgrade
when <trigger> — same edit, no follow-up question, never agent-initiated.
/retro Step 11.5 harvests markers into a debt ledger (grep || true — zero
matches is the healthy case; skill installs and docs excluded), joins on the
decision id so nothing double-counts, tags unlinked and no-trigger rot risks,
and closes with 'N markers, M with no trigger.'
/review suppressions: a marker with ceiling+trigger downgrades a would-be
Completeness Gaps finding to acknowledged debt. Redaction test pins that the
marker ships untouched (the ledger is the point) — it does not match the
TODO(owner) hygiene shape.
Format from dietrichgebert/ponytail's ponytail-debt; store inverted to gstack's
existing decision ledger.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test: refresh golden ship baselines after preamble additions (reuse ladder + bounded closer)
The golden-file regression test pins the rendered ship skill byte-for-byte;
the WS3/WS7 preamble sections are deliberate changes, so the baselines
re-capture per the goldens' own update protocol.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(hosts): instruction-only tier — a 2KB committed rules digest any agent host can read
New agents-digest/gstack-AGENTS.md (1,765 bytes, hard 2,048-byte budget):
gstack's ethos one-liners, the reuse ladder, and voice rules for hosts with
no install arm — Zed, Amp, Jules, or any AGENTS.md-reading agent. Generated
by scripts/gen-agents-digest.ts, auto-refreshed by gen:skill-docs, committed
like llms.txt so setup's explainer arms can point at it before any toolchain
exists. First line carries the gstack version as its own staleness nudge.
Delivery is print-path + user-performed copy ONLY: setup never writes or
overwrites a user's AGENTS.md (a test pins this — no cp/ln/mv/redirect into
AGENTS.md anywhere in setup). openclaw and hermes explainer arms print the
path; slate keeps routing to the full Claude install and gbrain ships from
its own repo. HostConfig gains the optional install.instructionTier slot,
declared by both instruction-tier hosts. README host table now matches what
setup actually does.
Inspired by dietrichgebert/ponytail's instruction-tier AGENTS.md fallback —
one generated source, never per-host hand copies.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(preamble): AskUserQuestion repetition cut — gated, passed NOT-WORSE A/B
Removes the duplicate statements v1.71's compaction left in the
AskUserQuestion Format section: the completeness rule restated in the prose
triad, the auto-decide marker syntax stated twice, the Conductor-flakiness
explanation stated twice, and the self-check's full triad restatement. Every
verbosity floor and all 14 format pins stay (Layer 0 green).
The gate this decision rested on ran before landing (new periodic
skill-e2e-auq-repetition-cut-ab.test.ts, pre-cut ref 3263fffe vs this
render, same harness as auq-verbose-vs-carved-ab): POST 7/7 format elements,
substance 5 — identical to PRE. No degradation; the load-bearing-repetition
hypothesis did not hold for these duplicates.
Net: -236 bytes per tier-2+ skill (~9.7KB corpus). Golden ship baselines
re-captured for the deliberate change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(evals): with-skill vs without-skill arm benchmark — measures whether gstack's behavioral layer earns its tokens
Ponytail's honest-benchmark method pointed at gstack itself: 3 build-shaped
tasks (native-platform over-build trap, CRUD endpoint, bug fix with planted
decoys) x 2 arms, real claude -p sessions, scored on the git diff left
behind. A research instrument, not a release gate — no assertion compares
arm scores.
Arms use the PROVEN project-scope pattern: the with-arm installs a
build-discipline skill (extracted reuse-ladder + bounded-closer content, not
whole-file copies) into the fixture's .claude/skills/ with a CLAUDE.md
routing line and an explicit invocation; a live spike confirmed claude -p
discovers and invokes project-scope skills via the Skill tool (3 turns,
exact-output probe). Fixtures are git init + local bare origin; diff capture
is three lines of git, no worktree machinery.
Failure taxonomy: zero-diff arms are VALID scored cells (deterministic
0/none, no API call), harvest failures record harvest:null, judge_error
cells are excluded from aggregates but named in the report — nothing drops
silently. armJudge: fixed sonnet judge, 0-3 unrequested-structure rubric,
must name the construct or say none, bounded retry-on-malformed; callJudge
gains optional temperature/max_tokens (defaults unchanged). recordE2E now
populates tokens_used for every E2E. Eval schema v2: harvest gains
{insertions, deletions, net}, tolerant reads keep v1 runs comparable.
Registered periodic in E2E_TIERS + touchfiles (with the auq-repetition-cut
A/B); periodic detach timeout raised to the new shard-census floor. Free
selftest (8 tests, zero API) pins fixtures, extraction, arm asymmetry, diff
capture, judge plumbing, and the retry bound.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test: absorb the ponytail-import wave into the guard fixtures — ceilings, schema pin, triad phrasing
Skeleton ceilings re-captured for the 17 carved skills the wave deliberately
grew (reuse ladder + bounded closer + shortcut trail, net of the gated -236B
AUQ cut), each with its measured size in the comment per the carve-guards
protocol. eval-store schema pin updated to v2 (harvest gains
insertions/deletions/net). The AUQ prose-triad keeps its pinned per-choice
phrasing ('explicit on EACH choice') while still deferring the score scale to
the canonical Format rule — the shipped cut is strictly closer to the pre-cut
text than the render that already passed the NOT-WORSE gate. Autoplan carve
anchors follow the Phase 2.5 renumbering. Golden ship baselines re-captured.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test: observability partial-file pin follows eval-store schema v2
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(test-runner): GSTACK_FREE_JOBS + opt-in flaky-retry pass for syscall-supervised sandboxes
GSTACK_FREE_JOBS overrides the computed shard count (the free runner's
analogue of the paid runner's EVALS_JOBS). On Vercel sandboxes, PID 1
installs a seccomp filter whose supervisor spuriously fails access(2) for
busy processes — measured: 200/200 git-init probes fail 'Cannot access work
tree: Permission denied' while the suite runs at 6 shards, 0/200 idle;
statx succeeds while access fails on the same path in the same process.
One serial mega-shard maximizes per-process pressure and fails too; 2
shards is the measured sweet spot.
GSTACK_FREE_RETRY_FLAKY=1 (default OFF — dev boxes should see flakes)
re-runs attributed failures once, serially, capped at 5 files; a clean
retry downgrades to a loud FLAKY-PASS naming the offenders, a repeat
failure stays red, timeouts and unattributed failures never retry.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(browse): portable temp paths — TEMP_DIRS allowlist, tmpdir()-based test files
Local path validation now accepts os.tmpdir() alongside the classic /tmp
(new TEMP_DIRS in platform.ts): on macOS os.tmpdir() is /var/folders/...,
and TMPDIR-honoring CI/sandbox environments point it elsewhere entirely —
both are legitimate scratch space. Remote file serving (TEMP_ONLY) stays
pinned to TEMP_DIR alone; no change to the exfil boundary.
commands.test.ts drops 41 hardcoded /tmp literals for a tmpp() helper on
os.tmpdir() (two message assertions now reference the same variable), and
path-validation's symlink-escape test targets /etc/hosts instead of
/etc/crontab — the target must EXIST for realpath to resolve the link (a
dangling target falls back to the link's own path and passes vacuously),
and /etc/crontab is absent on Amazon Linux.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(config): portable sha256 — Linux ships sha256sum, not shasum
resolve-user-slug and endpoint hashing exited 127 on Amazon Linux (shasum
is a macOS/perl tool). New _sha256_hex helper prefers sha256sum and falls
back to shasum, matching gstack-verify-gate's existing pattern; both call
sites converted.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(next-version): only trust ls-remote when origin is actually configured
Without the guard, git DWIMs the literal 'origin' as an ssh host/path; on
hosts whose transport launders exit codes the probe 'succeeds' with zero
branches and the allocator silently sees an empty queue — the exact
duplicate-allocation failure (#2545) fetchGitClaimed exists to prevent.
git remote get-url origin gates the probe; absence falls through to the
existing local-refs path with its staleness warning.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs(testing): sandbox-doctor — one command makes a cloud sandbox run the suite green
Measured failure taxonomy for Vercel/Conductor sandboxes (missing /dev/fd,
64M /dev/shm, seccomp-supervisor access(2) EACCES under load, uid-1000
processes with FULL capabilities defeating chmod-denial tests, no X server,
no git identity, Conductor git-shim exit-code laundering) plus the
idempotent script that treats all of it and seeds the run recipe.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(config): converge on main's self-contained sha8_of — its tests extract the function standalone
The merge kept a branch-local _sha256_hex helper; main's v1.72 landed the
same portability fix inline WITH tests that extract sha8_of()'s text and run
it under a shim-only PATH — a helper call can't satisfy that shape. Adopt
the landed implementation at both hash sites.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test: coverage for GSTACK_FREE_JOBS override and failingFiles attribution
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test: coverage for TEMP_DIRS widening and remote-serving TEMP_ONLY asymmetry
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test: coverage for gstack-shortcut marker grammar and retro harvest joint
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test: coverage for sandbox-doctor shell syntax and idempotency guards
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(test-runner): empty-shard outcome carries failingFiles; harden flaky-retry list
The empty-shard early return omitted the (required) failingFiles field —
tsc TS2741 — feeding undefined into the flaky-retry flatMap. Also drop the
dead 'else if (worst !== 0)' guard (the enclosing if already pins it).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(release): version-bump write regenerates the version-stamped agents digest
agents-digest/gstack-AGENTS.md embeds VERSION in its first line and is
byte-freshness-gated (test/agents-digest.test.ts + Skill Docs Freshness CI),
but nothing in the release path regenerated it — every version-bumping ship
of this repo would land red. write now spawns the repo's own generator when
present (agentsDigest true/false/null in the output JSON), and ship's
evidence gate allow-lists the digest alongside VERSION/package.json.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(setup): instruction-tier explainer prints the script-anchored digest path
$(pwd) printed a nonexistent path when setup ran from any other directory;
both arms now share one print_instruction_tier() using SOURCE_GSTACK_DIR.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test(digest): broaden AGENTS.md writer tripwire; pin digest-resolver ladder lockstep
The print-path-only guard now catches tee/install/rsync/dd/truncate, >>
appends, and laundered variable-destination writes. New test ties the
digest's hand-rendered reuse-ladder text to the preamble resolver so an
edit to either fails CI instead of shipping drift.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(retro): shortcut harvest drops placeholder markers and convention docs
The Step 11.5 grep matched documentation mentions (dec-<id>, dec-*) in
checklists, resolver sources, and convention tests, reporting phantom debt
rows on gstack itself. A trailing filter kills placeholder forms; prose
tells the agent to discard convention-quoting hits.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(review): advisory findings count in per-specialist stats
Without this, simplification (all-advisory by construction) would log
findings:0 every run and auto-gate itself into permanent silence after 10
dispatches. The advisory carve-out governs score and header only.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(evals): arm-benchmark harvest and judge hardening
- Harvest diffs against the recorded seed SHA (origin/main is movable by an
agent that commits AND pushes; a recorded SHA is not).
- Fixtures get a node_modules .gitignore and the git wrapper a 64MB
maxBuffer, so a vendored-dependency arm is scored instead of killing the
cell.
- The judge diff cap is a named constant with loud truncation (log +
judge_reasoning suffix).
- Judge prompt block markers carry a per-call random sentinel, so a diff
containing a faked closing marker cannot escape the data block.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(evals): AUQ A/B vendored pre-cut arm + judge-error inconclusive taxonomy
- The PRE arm read a branch-local SHA (3263fffe) that becomes unreachable on
fresh clones after the squash-merge; the pre-cut render is now a vendored
fixture.
- A judge failure on one side no longer coerces substance to 0 (which
fabricated DEGRADATION on POST-side failures and masked regressions on
PRE-side failures): null substance = inconclusive, format still gates.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test: regression pin for the originConfigured guard vs laundering git shims
On healthy hosts the guarded and unguarded paths behave identically, so a
revert passes the suite; only a shim that makes 'git ls-remote' exit 0 with
empty output (the Conductor wrapper's observed behavior) exposes it. Pins
that the empty 'successful' probe is never trusted as an empty queue.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(sandbox-doctor): missing /dev/shm no longer aborts the doctor under set -eu
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore(touchfiles): close dep-list gaps for the new evals
- arm-benchmark entries gain ship/SKILL.md (buildBehavioralSkill extracts
sections from the rendered ship skill)
- review-army-simplification entries gain their planted fixtures + test file
- auq-repetition-cut-ab gains llm-judge.ts and the vendored PRE fixture
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore: re-capture context-budget fixture — lock the WS6-3 reduction and Step 9 deltas
Per the ratchet protocol: the AUQ repetition cut shrank per-skill eager
tokens but the fixture was never re-captured, leaving the win unlocked.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(release): digest regen is an explicit --regen-digest opt-in, not presence-sniffed code exec
Review (security) caught the cycle-1 fix executing any repo's
scripts/gen-agents-digest.ts on plain 'write' — arbitrary code exec from a
hostile clone on a routine bump, contradicting the binary's own containment
posture. The regen still runs the TARGET repo's generator (a 'trusted' copy
beside the binary would false-red the freshness gate on version drift), but
only under the flag: /ship passes it deliberately, in a repo whose code the
operator already executes (its test suite). Plain write is side-effect-free
again. Also: uniform output shape (agentsDigest: null on the JSON-manifest
branch), a REAL generator round-trip test replacing the misnamed lockstep
check, and land-and-deploy's evidence gate gets the same digest allow-path
as ship so the two grading surfaces agree.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(test-runner): flaky-retry vetoes on ANY unattributable failure evidence
The gate equated 'some failure attributed' with 'all failures attributed': a
shard with one attributed failure plus a headerless failure, an unhandled
error between tests, or a truncated run (no terminal summary) qualified for
retry — re-running only failingFiles and masking the rest as FLAKY-PASS,
re-opening the silent-truncation hole the strict classifier closes.
FreeShardOutcome now carries unattributedFailures; nonzero vetoes the retry.
Pins: mixed shard, truncated-with-attributed shard, empty-shard field values.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(next-version): a configured origin advertising zero heads is never trusted
The originConfigured guard covered only the no-origin laundering case. With
origin configured (the normal Conductor worktree state), the laundering shim
makes a failed ls-remote exit 0 with empty stdout — read as 'the queue is
empty', the exact duplicate-allocation bug (#2545) one layer up. A reachable
remote always advertises at least its default branch, so an exit-0 zero-head
probe now falls back to local refs/remotes/origin with a laundering-specific
warning. Regression test shims git for both configurations.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(sandbox-doctor): loud on git-shim patch drift; document the retry-contract override
- The /conductor/bin/git patch was a silent no-op if the shim's bytes drift
from the exact pattern — now warns that laundering is NOT fixed.
- The bashrc block documents why GSTACK_FREE_RETRY_FLAKY=1 deliberately
overrides the runner's default-OFF contract on this sandbox, and how to
undo it.
- Test pins the guarded shm form (missing /dev/shm must not abort set -eu).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test(digest): pin the script-anchored explainer path; catch declaration-prefixed writers
- Asserts $SOURCE_GSTACK_DIR/agents-digest path and forbids $(pwd)/agents-digest
(the cycle-1 fix was revertible without failing anything).
- The laundered-assignment arm now matches local/export/declare/readonly/typeset
prefixed assignments — the likeliest in-function writer shape in setup.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* refactor(evals): arm-benchmark selftest runs FREE on every PR
The selftest lived inside the paid skill-e2e-* file, so fixture-integrity
and plumbing pins executed weekly at best — a broken fixture would ship past
every gating check and be discovered when the periodic run burned money on a
dead instrument. Harness extracted to test/helpers/arm-benchmark-harness.ts,
selftest to test/arm-benchmark-selftest.test.ts (free suite). Touchfiles:
harness added to the three benchmark dep lists; the auq-repetition-cut-ab
tier comment now states the MANUAL re-run obligation honestly (periodic runs
force EVALS_ALL, so dep lists cannot auto-trigger it).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore: re-capture context-budget fixture after cycle-2 template deltas
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(sandbox-doctor): keep both heredoc bodies under the 512B pipe-deadlock window
The cycle-2 additions pushed the python-patch and bashrc heredocs into the
512-65536B window test/heredoc-pipe-deadlock.test.ts guards (sh scripts get
no BASH_COMPAT escape hatch). Same content, tighter prose; the drift warning
now reuses the patch pattern variable instead of a second literal.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(review): a gstack-shortcut marker only suppresses findings when its decision id resolves in the ledger
Cross-model catch (Claude adversarial + Codex agreed): any diff author could
fabricate a marker and silence Completeness review of that gap. Reviewers
now resolve the dec-id via gstack-decision-search; an orphan marker is
reported as a forged suppression, not honored as debt.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(autoplan): define the B2 gate path — accepted premise challenges amend the plan and re-run Eng
The final gate offered B2 (respond to User Challenges) but the option
handler table omitted it, leaving accepted challenges with no amendment or
Eng re-review path. B2 now walks challenges one at a time; an accepted one
amends the plan and re-runs Eng (the gate always reviews the final plan),
sharing D's 3-cycle cap.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(evals): arm benchmark runs each fixture's functional oracle — correctness before LOC
The plan's metric order is diff-quality FIRST, but cells never ran the
fixtures' own run-tests.js, so a refusal, a broken implementation, and
working code were indistinguishable in aggregates (Codex adversarial catch).
Tasks with an oracle declare checkCmd; every cell records checks=pass|fail|none
in the report line and eval store. Selftest pins the oracle declarations and
that the planted bug fails its own check pre-fix.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(ship): check the bump's agentsDigest result; state the --regen-digest trust envelope honestly
A failed digest regen warned and moved on — ship now instructs re-running
the generator and staging the digest with the bump (the freshness check
stays red otherwise). The 'no-op everywhere else' phrasing oversold safety:
the step now names what executes and why that is inside the envelope Step 5
already opened (the repo's own test suite).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(test-runner): GSTACK_FREE_JOBS accepts digits only — parseInt truncation defeated the loud-failure contract
'2abc' silently became 2 and '3.7' became 3 despite the error text claiming
a positive-integer requirement. Strict /^\d+$/ pre-check; both shapes pinned.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(sandbox-doctor): atomic git-shim patch, :99-socket Xvfb check, dnf gate, non-interactive sudo
- The /conductor/bin/git patch writes tmp-then-rename with a .orig backup —
a concurrently spawned git can never exec a truncated shim.
- Xvfb running-check looks for the :99 socket, not any-display pgrep.
- Xvfb install is dnf-gated so non-dnf distros degrade to a warning instead
of aborting the remaining fixes under set -eu.
- The bashrc /dev/fd restore uses sudo -n || true — no password prompt at
every shell start on non-passwordless machines.
- BASH_COMPAT=50 keeps heredoc bodies off the bash pipe window.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(build): a failed agents-digest regen fails gen-skill-docs instead of deferring the red to CI
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(browse): an untrustable TMPDIR (/, $HOME, a cwd ancestor) never widens the local allowlist
TEMP_DIRS honors os.tmpdir() at daemon start; a daemon launched with
TMPDIR=/ would have trusted the whole filesystem for local path validation
for its lifetime. Subprocess pins cover /, $HOME, cwd-ancestor rejection and
that a benign distinct TMPDIR (the sandbox recipe's $HOME/tmp) stays honored.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore: zero-heads warning names the benign cause too; digest path declaration made load-bearing; ratchet re-capture
- The ls-remote zero-heads warning no longer accuses an empty remote of
running a laundering shim.
- instructionTier.rulesFile now must equal the generator's DIGEST_RELPATH
(and setup must print it) — the declaration fails with the real path
instead of lying silently.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore: file ship-time follow-ups in TODOS
skillify HOME-override gate red (pre-existing, proven on main), the
auq-verbose-vs-carved-ab branch-local ref, eval-store harvest union,
evidence digest allow-path scoping, and the WS6-2 dead-frontmatter live-host
verification deferral.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* v1.73.0.0 chore: version bump + CHANGELOG — ponytail import wave
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore: raise ship skeleton parity ceiling — measured 75,592 after the v1.73 release-step prose
The --regen-digest trust-envelope paragraph (Step 12) and the evidence-gate
digest note (Step 16) grew the ship skeleton past the previous 75,420
ceiling. Re-measured per the deliberate-change protocol.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: update project documentation for v1.73.0.0
- README.md, docs/skills.md, AGENTS.md: /autoplan phase order corrected to
CEO → design → DX → eng (eng always last); /review rows note the advisory
simplification lens
- docs/PROJECT_STRUCTURE.md: add agents-digest/, gen-agents-digest.ts,
sandbox-doctor.sh, test-free-shards.ts to the annotated tree
- CONTRIBUTING.md: document GSTACK_FREE_JOBS, GSTACK_FREE_RETRY_FLAKY, and
the sandbox-doctor one-command fixer in the Tier 1 test section
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: apply cross-model doc-review fixes for v1.73.0.0
- README.md: host table gains the OpenClaw explainer arm row (setup has the
arm; the table claimed to match setup)
- docs/skills.md: /review completeness-gaps section documents the
gstack-shortcut(dec-<id>) acknowledged-debt suppression and orphan-marker
flagging; /autoplan deep-dive states the recommended-option default with
the 6 principles as tie-breakers
- CONTRIBUTING.md: host count 8 -> 10 (Hermes, GBrain), supported-hosts list
completed
- docs/TESTING_INTERNALS.md: sandbox recipe says to source ~/.bashrc after
the doctor seeds it; GSTACK_FREE_JOBS wording fixed from "caps" to
"overrides in either direction" (matches the un-clamped runner)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(test): temp-dirs asymmetry pins are topology-aware; TMPDIR probes are POSIX-only
CI exposed two wrong assumptions in the new temp-dirs tests, neither a
product bug:
- The remote-serving asymmetry test assumed a distinct os.tmpdir() lies
OUTSIDE TEMP_DIR, but the free-shard runner nests each child's TMPDIR
inside /tmp on CI — a file there is under TEMP_DIR, so serving it
remotely is legitimate. The test now pins the actual exfil boundary on
every topology (a cwd project file is locally readable, never remotely
servable) and branches the os.tmpdir() case on nested-vs-outside.
Reproduced locally with TMPDIR=/tmp/nested-tmp before fixing.
- The untrustable-TMPDIR subprocess probes set TMPDIR, which Windows
os.tmpdir() ignores (reads TEMP/TMP) — and on Windows TEMP_DIR is
DEFINED as os.tmpdir(), so the fixed+movable two-dir topology the guard
filters does not exist there. Probes now skip on Windows with that
rationale; the benign-TMPDIR assertion compares realpaths.
Verified under all three POSIX topologies: TMPDIR=$HOME/tmp (outside),
TMPDIR=/tmp/nested-tmp (CI shard shape), TMPDIR unset (identical).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(build): DIGEST_RELPATH is a forward-slash literal on every platform
path.join built it with backslashes on Windows, so the wiring test's
string comparisons against setup and hosts/*.ts (which carry the
forward-slash literal) could never match there — windows-free-tests red.
path.join(root, DIGEST_RELPATH) at the write site normalizes fine.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(sandbox-doctor): bashrc block re-heals the /dev/shm remount on sandbox restart
The 4G remount does not survive restarts; a reverted 64M shm made the
multi-tab browse handoff test fail consistently under suite concurrency
(observed live: two consecutive full-run failures, green in isolation,
green again after remounting). Same guarded arithmetic as the doctor body.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(test): close the cross-shard porcelain race that failed Windows CI
Two-part fix for the gen-skill-docs-out-dir isolation-pin failure:
- cookie-import-browser built its scratch cookie DBs inside the TRACKED
browse/test/fixtures/ dir (created in beforeAll, deleted in afterAll), so
they flash as untracked files mid-run — a concurrent shard's porcelain
snapshot caught the window on Windows. The DBs now live in a per-run
tmpdir; zero source-tree writes.
- gen-skill-docs-out-dir is the free suite's only LIVE porcelain-snapshot
test, so it joins TREE_MUTATING (the serial quiet window): any concurrent
transient tree-write can race it, and its own spawned render rewrites
llms.txt/agents-digest in place (idempotent on a fresh tree).
The race is pre-existing; this branch's +5 test files reshuffled shard
composition and exposed it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* v1.75.0.0 chore: queue-advance rebump — perth-v2 landed v1.74.0.0 on main
The v1.73.0.0 slot this branch claimed was superseded when #2721 merged;
same MINOR level relative to main per the versioning invariant. CHANGELOG
entry renumbered (1.73.0.0 was branch-internal and never landed on main),
digest restamped via --regen-digest.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(test-runner): duration-packed walls keep the per-file floor — predictions don't transfer across machines
The committed duration seed is recorded on fast CI; a syscall-supervised
sandbox replays the same files 2-4x slower. Observed post-merge: a 253-file
shard predicted ~242s was wall-killed at its predicted-x3 725s wall while
genuinely progressing (the old count heuristic guaranteed 1265s). Packed
walls may be looser than the count floor, never tighter.
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* feat(gen): strip gen-time-only frontmatter keys from Claude renders
interactive + benefits-from are read from the .tmpl by buildContext at
generation time; no runtime, host, or test reader consumes them from the
generated SKILL.md (e2e-harness-audit reads .tmpl; benefits-from tests
assert rendered prose). gbrain: stays (bin/gstack-brain-context-load reads
it from the installed render); hooks: stays (Claude Code host wires
PreToolUse from it).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore(gen): regenerate SKILL.md — dead frontmatter keys removed
Mechanical regen after hosts/claude.ts stripFields change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(test): context-budget ratchet — CI ceilings on always-on + eager token ledgers
New free test grades the two ledgers nothing else guards: the full-frontmatter
always-on catalog (aggregate) and per-skill eager tokens (SKILL.md +
forced-read refs), via checkBudget from lib/context-bill.ts. Ceilings live in
test/fixtures/context-budget.json with x1.05/x1.10 headroom; regenerate with
bun test/helpers/capture-context-budget.ts. New skills fail until consciously
budgeted; removed skills fail until the fixture is refreshed; reductions
ratchet the ceilings down so wins lock in.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs(todos): file output-template carve wave + plan-ceo doctrine revisit; mark preamble-carve P3 in flight
Two follow-ups deferred from the approved token-reduction program (CEO review
'NOT in scope' list), filed with full context per TODOS format. The existing
P3 preamble-carve entry gets a status update pointing at the program that
supersedes it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(test): review findings — Windows path normalization, full totals rebuild, ratchet coverage
Pre-landing review (5 specialists) found one critical: the ratchet test runs
in the curated Windows lane, where path.relative yields backslash skill names
that miss the test/ filter and mismatch every POSIX fixture key. Names are now
normalized once in buildRatchetBill (toPosixName) and the fixture filter is
tightened to test/fixtures/. All eight Bill.totals fields are rebuilt from the
filtered list (no fixture-polluted perInvocation/totalMd numbers for future
consumers). New coverage: Windows-separator normalization pins, a
captureContextBudget round-trip against tree-a (headroom math exact), a
stripFields regression pin (interactive/benefits-from absent from renders,
hooks/gbrain preserved), and the ceilings test no longer double-reports
stale-fixture entries.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(test): adversarial findings — stable root key, symlink-alias dedupe, fixture-shape guard
Adversarial review (Claude subagent) verified the fixture's root-skill key was
the capture machine's checkout dirname: any non-gstack-named clone (every
Conductor worktree) failed the free suite, and the documented re-run-the-capture
recovery baked the local dirname into the committed fixture — silent corruption
through the tool's own protocol. The root skill is now pinned to ROOT_SKILL_KEY
('gstack', its frontmatter name). Symlink aliases are realpath-deduped (census
precedent): connect-chrome no longer gets its own ceiling, so Windows checkouts
that materialize the symlink as a plain file can't fail the stale-ceiling
set-equality test. New guards: fixture-shape validation (a string alwaysOnTotal
can no longer silently disable the ceiling), a mutation pin that the filter
shrinks the always-on ledger vs the raw bill, an alwaysOnTotal violation test
(the branch was load-bearing with only under-budget coverage), and an atomic
temp+rename fixture write. Fixture regenerated: 59 ceilings, alwaysOnTotal 6344.
Deferred with a TODO: anchoring transformFrontmatter's denylist strip to the
frontmatter block (latent, zero live collisions, pre-existing path).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore: bump version and changelog (v1.69.1.0)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: update project documentation for v1.69.1.0
CLAUDE.md: Token ceiling section documents the context-budget ratchet as
the third guard (test file, fixture, new-skill budgeting, capture command).
CONTRIBUTING.md: Tier 1 guard list gains a Context-budget ratchet bullet;
the Adding-a-new-skill checklist gains the budget-capture step.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: pin exact guard semantics for the context-budget ratchet in CLAUDE.md
Doc-review finding: "a third enforced ceiling" undercounted the guard
family (skill-size-budget floors and parity ratios also watch these
ledgers, relatively). Rephrased to match the ratchet test's own header:
absolute ceilings vs relative floors/ratios.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs(changelog): heaviest-skill claim matches the fixture (land-and-deploy edges review by 0.2%)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(bin): gstack-skill-start + gstack-skill-end — the preamble runtime, consolidated
Absorbs the ~13KB of bash every tier-2+ SKILL.md inlined twice over (bootstrap
fence + artifacts-sync fence) and the skill-end telemetry/sync fences. Same
KEY: value STATUS-line contract the prose interprets, plus SKILL_START_PROTO
handshake (OV5), SESSION_ID/TEL_START echoes, GSTACK_HOME-normalized state
paths (EOV7), --parent-pid session identity (EOV5: $PPID inside the script is
the ephemeral tool-call shell), OV4 sanitization of passthrough output, and a
receipted daily artifacts pull (_receipted_git, brain-sync class, fail-closed).
Per-line || true error style throughout (F3) — a mid-script failure never drops
later STATUS lines.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(gen): preamble resolvers emit a script invocation fence instead of inline bash
generate-preamble-bash: ~6.3KB fence -> 4-line gstack-skill-start invocation
(quoted-tilde pitfall handled: leading ~ interpolates through $HOME; env-var
hosts keep $GSTACK_BIN) + degraded-mode prose (F1/EOV8: safe defaults, consent
gates deferred-never-lost; OV5: proto rule). generate-brain-sync-block: ~6.8KB
bash -> interpretation prose + the privacy stop-gate (stays inline until
Phase 2's gated emission). generate-completion-status: telemetry fence -> one
gstack-skill-end call with SESSION_ID/TEL_START handoff.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore(gen): regenerate all skills + golden fixtures — inline preamble bash removed
Mechanical regen after the resolver change: −12,628 lines across 52 renders
(corpus 952K -> 806K render tokens; tier-2 skills −11-13KB each). Golden
per-host ship fixtures refreshed from the fresh claude/codex/factory renders.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test: skill-start contract suite + preamble A/B eval + touchfiles registration
test/gstack-skill-start.test.ts (11 free tests): STATUS-key contract vs the
prose (F2), per-host fence resolution shapes (E1), proto-first, OV4 marker
sanitization, --parent-pid identity, headless suppression, skill-end duration
math + pending cleanup. test/skill-e2e-preamble-script-ab.test.ts (gate tier,
OV7): inline-bash render (pinned from 29785978) vs script render with the
fence redirected at the worktree bin (EOV2 — hermetic evals otherwise resolve
the operator install and silently exercise degraded mode). 21 touchfiles dep
lists gain the two bin scripts (EOV9) so future script edits select the
preamble evals; selection-count pin updated 23->24.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test: repin ~70 assertions to the script contract — every literal gets a successor
Assertions that pinned inline-bash internals (update-check guard, _SESSIONS
reaping, telemetry start/end blocks, routing probe, repo-strip producer,
first-task gating, EXPLAIN_LEVEL/QUESTION_TUNING echoes, #2499 jq scope
resolution, Issue-8 CONDUCTOR gate) now pin the same invariants in their new
home: bin/gstack-skill-start / bin/gstack-skill-end file content for script
internals, the invocation fence + interpretation prose for render-side
behavior. No assertion deleted without a successor; live-execution tests
(routing probe, brain-sync jq) run against script bytes unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore(test): re-baseline size floors + ratchet ceilings down (EOV1/OV9 protocol)
parity-baseline-v1.69.1.0.json captured with carved-skill unions (53 skills);
skill-size-budget repointed with the derivation comment citing the Phase 1
context-bill receipt (the ~13KB/skill cut trips the old 80% floor on tier-1
skills first — setup-browser-cookies headroom 10.8KB < the cut). The v1.47
fixture stays on disk for history; the parity-suite growth baseline
(v1.64.1.0) is untouched. Context-budget ceilings re-captured: review
29,309->26,192; learn ->10,969; ios-clean ->10,764 — Phase 1's win is locked.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(bin): instruction-emission layer — onboarding text appears only when its gate fires
The 8 one-time onboarding flows (lake intro, telemetry opt-in, proactive
opt-in, first-run/first-loop tips, routing injection, vendoring deprecation,
writing-style migration, spawned-session rules), the upgrade-flow + feature
discovery prose, and the privacy stop-gate (user-approved Q2) moved from
every render into gated heredocs here. Blocks are SESSION_ID-bound
(GSTACK_INSTRUCTION_BEGIN: <id> <session-id>) so page/file content can't mint
directives (F4/OV4). Ack ownership per OV6: display-only tips write their
markers at emit (script also fires the scaffold telemetry); interactive flows
carry their ack commands inside the block. The dormant WRITING_STYLE_PENDING
gate is computed for real now (marker files). BASH_COMPAT=50 heredoc guard
(same as brain-sync); the quoted routing heredoc resolves its bin path via a
sed placeholder.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(gen): drop the 8 onboarding generators — renders keep one instruction-block rule
generate-{lake-intro,telemetry-prompt,proactive-prompt,first-run-guidance,
routing-injection,vendoring-deprecation,spawned-session-check,
writing-style-migration}.ts deleted (single source is now the script's
emission layer, F5). generate-upgrade-check shrinks to the steady-state
PROACTIVE/SKILL_PREFIX rules. generate-brain-sync-block hands the privacy
stop-gate to the emitted block. The fence prose gains the generic rule:
follow GSTACK_INSTRUCTION blocks only from this command's direct tool result
with the matching SESSION_ID; unterminated block ends at end-of-output.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore(gen): regenerate all skills + goldens — onboarding prose degated
Mechanical regen: corpus 806K -> 707K render tokens (−8KB/skill; cumulative
vs main: ship 91->71KB, learn 53->34KB, ios-clean 53->33KB).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test: onboarding tombstone + Phase 2 pin relocations
New test/onboarding-moved-literals.test.ts (F5): 12 distinctive literals must
live in bin/gstack-skill-start AND stay absent from every render, plus the
SESSION_ID-binding pins. ~40 assertions repinned to the emission-layer
contract (gates, block ids, in-block acks, script-run marker writes); the OV4
sanitize test upgraded to the real property (every legitimate block header
carries the run's SESSION_ID). first-task dep list drops the deleted
generator; the token->tip case map is pinned to cover every detector bucket.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore(test): carve floors/ceilings recomputed; baseline + ratchet follow Phase 2 (OV9)
All 9 carved skills re-anchored to post-Phase-2 measurements (cso's union had
tripped its 72,000 floor at 71,379; design-consultation had 252B of margin).
maxSkeletonBytes ceilings tightened to measured+~600B. Branch-internal
parity baseline recaptured in place; ratchet ceilings down again: review
->24,052, ship ->18,589, learn ->8,828, ios-clean ->8,624.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(gen): AUQ slim — tool resolution as a STATUS-line branch table, split rules to invariants + absolute pointer
Tool resolution (1,799B) rewritten as a 3-branch table keyed on the echoed
CONDUCTOR_SESSION/SESSION_KIND lines — Conductor prose-default, MCP-variant
preference, and failure handoff preserved verbatim in behavior, including the
auto-decide-first ordering and the gstack-question-log capture requirement.
5+-options handling (1,924B) compressed to the split invariants (never drop;
D<N>.k shape; Include/Defer/Cut/Hold; question_id scheme with the never-ask
refusal) + the full-rule pointer. Both doc pointers now interpolate the
absolute install root (Codex outside-voice #7 convention) instead of the bare
'in the gstack repo'. Failure-fallback, Format, and self-check sections are
byte-identical — all 14 MANDATORY always-loaded pins pass with zero test
edits.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore(gen): regenerate all skills + goldens — AUQ slim
Mechanical regen: −1.3KB per tier-2+ skill (ship 69.9KB, learn 32.5KB).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore(test): baseline + ratchet follow Phase 3 (OV9); OV8 evaluated — shrink floor stays
Branch-internal baseline recaptured; ratchet ceilings down again. OV8's
floor-retirement question, evaluated as planned after Phase 3: the 80% shrink
floor stays — it uniquely catches accidental body deletion in non-carved
skills BETWEEN ratchet recaptures, and the capture command has amortized the
fixture-refresh cost that motivated retiring it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(review): carve adversarial, plan-completion, and review-army into sections
The three resolver macros ship already carves as siblings now load on demand
for /review too: skeleton 100.2KB -> 55.0KB (-45%), union 93.4KB. Resolvers
stay the single source of truth (sections wrap the macros). Step 0/1, scope
drift, critical pass, confidence calibration, and fix-first stay always-loaded.
Fixtures and pins follow the moved content (codex-hardening wrapped-sites,
review-army E2E fixture builds skeleton+sections with an empty-fixture guard).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(codex): carve the three mutually exclusive modes into sections
Review/Challenge/Consult mode bodies (34.7KB where at most one ever runs)
load on demand: skeleton 81.0KB -> 55.2KB, union 1.04x the monolith. The mode
dispatch, filesystem boundary, and a new always-loaded 'Synthesis
recommendation (REQUIRED) — all modes' block stay skeleton-side (the AUQ
per-skill pins pass unchanged); the plan-file report + exit gate render after
the last section pointer per the gateAfterStop pattern.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(land-and-deploy): carve first-run validation, readiness gate, and merge/deploy into sections
The once-per-repo dry-run validation, the pre-merge readiness gate, and the
merge + deploy-strategy steps (37.8KB) load on demand: skeleton 91.1KB ->
55.7KB. Step 1.5 keeps its detection bash as the dispatch; the first-run
section's fingerprint-save block gained {{SLUG_EVAL}} so it is self-contained.
Zero content lost (line-coverage checked against HEAD).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(ios): demote the four ios skills to preamble-tier 2 (Phase 5)
They never consume the tier-3 sections (repo-mode ownership, search-before-
building) but do fire AskUserQuestion, which tier >=2 provides — verified by
grep before the plan review. -2.2KB per skill. Render assertions pin the
demotion (tier-3 sections absent, AUQ format present).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore(guards): register wave-1 carves; monolith invariants retire; baselines + ratchet follow
CARVE_GUARDS gains review/codex/land-and-deploy (12 carved skills total);
their MONOLITH_INVARIANTS entries retire (invariants now generate from the
registry, cso precedent). Touchfiles: carve-section-loading covers the three
new carves; the codex + land-and-deploy LLM-judge dep lists widen to their
sections. Regen + goldens + branch-internal baseline + ratchet ceilings
recaptured (review 24,052 -> skeleton-based ceiling; union floors hold).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test(gen-skill-docs): review render pins read the carved union
The review carve's readSkillUnion conversions (same pattern its neighbor
carved-skill pins already use).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(autoplan): carve the four review phases + tasks aggregator into sections
Phase bodies (CEO/Design/Eng/DX consensus flows) and the Implementation Tasks
aggregator load on demand; Design and DX stay separate sections because each
is independently conditional on scope. Skeleton 83.7KB -> 58.7KB (-30%
always-loaded); the 6 decision principles, classification, sequencing, and
explicit skip-condition dispatch stay always-loaded. The chain E2E's
phase-complete markers now live only in sections, so its assertions double as
section-read proof (behavioral: external).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(spec): carve the post-confirmation gate-and-file tail into one section
Phases 1-4 are the turn-1 conversational spine — carving them would force the
Read on the first user message for zero real savings. The mechanical tail
(4.5/4.5a/4.5b redaction gates + Phase 5 filing + TTHW telemetry) fires only
after draft confirmation: a genuine lazy boundary, kept as ONE section so the
gh-issue-create bash can never load without the fail-closed redaction gate
that precedes it. Skeleton 65.4KB -> 50.7KB; all ~85 phase-structure
invariants migrated location-aware plus a new carve-shape suite (56 tests).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(setup-gbrain): carve the branch-exclusive install paths into sections
Brain-init (Paths 1/2/3/4 bodies), engine remediation, transcript gate, and
CLAUDE.md persist load on demand — at most one install route ever runs.
Skeleton 75.3KB -> 57.0KB; the Step 1 detect and Step 2 path dispatch stay
always-loaded. New buildSetupGbrainFixture helper gives the periodic E2Es
extract-don't-copy fixtures with a non-empty guard; the voyage-code-3 gate
counts scan the tmpl union (the third init site lives in engine-remediation).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore(guards): register wave-2 carves (15 carved skills); autoplan monolith retires; baselines follow
CARVE_GUARDS gains autoplan (behavioral: external via the chain eval), spec,
and setup-gbrain; autoplan's MONOLITH_INVARIANTS entry retires. Touchfiles:
setup-gbrain periodic dep lists gain the section tmpls + fixture helper; the
stale-brain-refs scan covers setup-gbrain/sections. Regen + goldens + branch
baseline + ratchet recaptured.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(qa): carve QA patterns + health rubric into on-demand sections (68→48KB skeleton)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(browse): carve full command list + snapshot flags into sections/command-list.md (39→27KB skeleton)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(retro): absorb inline git/awk metrics into bin/gstack-retro-metrics + carve report format
RETRO_METRICS_PROTO: 1 contract, local git reads only (fetch stays in the
skill prose), degraded path documented in the skeleton.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test: register wave-3 carves (qa, browse, retro) — guards, touchfiles, pins, baselines
CARVE_GUARDS gains the three entries; qa's monolith invariant retires.
auq-format carve-safety now keys on the skeleton+sections union shipping
the AUQ block (first tier-1 carve: browse never renders it by design).
Baselines: parity v1.69.1.0 at 18 sectioned skills; ratchet recaptured.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(test): drop stale generate-lake-intro import (generator deleted in the emission-layer move)
Sol scope discipline stays pinned via the model overlay + completeness
section; the lake intro is now a single script-emitted blurb.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(office-hours): carve Phase 2A/2B into mode-exclusive sections (81→67KB skeleton)
A session runs exactly one mode, so a builder session never loads the
13KB startup diagnostic. Mode mapping and the vibe-shift upgrade rule
stay in the skeleton.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(design): carve UX doctrine + Pretext patterns into read-on-demand sections
design-html 57→49KB, design-shotgun 53→50KB. Sections wrap
{{UX_PRINCIPLES}} so scripts/resolvers/design.ts stays the source of
truth; the pretext-patterns STOP sits at the top of Step 3 so the read
provably precedes the Write.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test: register wave-4 carves (office-hours ext, design-html, design-shotgun) — 20 carved skills
Both design entries carry requiredReads + loading-eval scenarios (D3A
condition). office-hours phase sections are mode-exclusive, so only the
always-reached design/handoff section is a deterministic requiredRead.
Baselines and ratchet recaptured.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: trim CLAUDE.md 66.4→44.9KB — verbatim moves to docs/, pointers stay inline
Moved: browser/sidebar/server internals, CHANGELOG release-summary format
spec, project tree, hermetic-E2E detail, slop-scan reference, OpenClaw
publishing. Kept inline: every hard behavioral rule (dist/ ban, redaction
scan-at-sink, egress receipts, bisect commits, eval detach, CHANGELOG
entry rules), the machine-managed GBrain block (byte-identical), and the
'## Deploying to the active skill' header with gbrain-refresh in range
(pinned by test/gbrain-refresh-install-render.test.ts). No voice rewrites.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(test): seed onboarding markers into the hermetic child GSTACK_HOME
EOV7 made bin/gstack-skill-start honor GSTACK_HOME, so the operator-HOME
seeding in e2e-helpers.ts no longer reaches hermetic children — the
emission layer fired lake-intro/telemetry prompts that burned turns and
stalled PTY tests waiting on an answer (observed: plan-mode-no-op derailed
by the telemetry question). Onboarding-specific tests pin their own
GSTACK_HOME per-test, which merges over this seed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test: raise carve-section-loading wall clock to 480s SDK / 540s bun
The heavy full-workflow scenarios satisfy their required section reads
inside 60s but need 300-450s to finish the report on slower sandboxes;
the 300s default read as a loading failure when the carve invariant held
(traces: plan-eng-review read its section at 8s, office-hours all three
at 24s, design-html both at 50s — all timed out mid-report).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(security): harden the skill-start trust boundary — review-army findings
Session ID gains a urandom suffix (block binding unforgeable by reflected
content); _sanitize also neutralizes spoofed SESSION_ID: lines; branch
names are charset-clamped before JSON embedding (skill-start + skill-end);
.brain-last-push reads first line only with a charset clamp; the artifacts
URL echo routes through _sanitize; the privacy consent gate fires in
interactive sessions only (spawned auto-choose could accept consent no
human gave — emission order is not a safety property); the daily pull gets
non-interactive + slow-network git guards and stamps only when the
receipted path ran; ~/.claude.json gets a grep pre-filter before the jq
parse.
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* fix(resolvers): question-log session_id becomes a substitution placeholder + stale-comment sweep
The question-log block bound $_SESSION_ID, a shell variable the
consolidated fence never sets — hook-less hosts logged empty session_id,
breaking /plan-tune per-session grouping. It now uses the same
substitute-from-the-skill-start-echoes contract as the telemetry block.
Also: retired the pre-Phase-2 stop-gate docstring, repointed the
gbrain-local-status cross-reference at the script's inline jq, dropped an
orphaned section comment, documented retro-metrics' suffix-only census.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore: regenerate renders for the question-log placeholder; goldens + baselines follow
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test: hermetic update-check, onboarding gate sequencing, seeding parity
The contract test's child did a live git ls-remote + curl to github.com on
every bun run test (update_check config now gates it off); the headless
test gets a fresh GSTACK_HOME so the suppression is actually exercised; a
new OV6 test drives the script three times to pin ack-at-emit and gate
sequencing; hermetic seeding covers the config-keyed privacy gate; the
EVALS_HERMETIC=0 debug seeding reaches marker parity.
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* test(ci): demote the preamble A/B to periodic (OV7) and add it to the periodic matrix
Post-Phase-3 demotion per the plan; the eval needs fetch-depth 0 (it git
shows a pre-Phase-1 sha), which only the periodic workflow provides — and
a static matrix entry so it can't silently never run.
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* chore: bump version and changelog (v1.70.0.0)
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* docs: update project documentation for v1.70.0.0
ARCHITECTURE.md: the preamble section now describes the v1.70 runtime —
the rendered {{PREAMBLE}} block invokes bin/gstack-skill-start and reads
STATUS lines, gstack-skill-end logs telemetry, and one-time onboarding
text arrives as gated GSTACK_INSTRUCTION blocks instead of riding in
every render.
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* docs: doc-review fixes — repair moved-file links, drop unbacked session-count claim
docs/BROWSER_INTERNALS.md: the two ARCHITECTURE.md anchor links broke when
the section moved from repo-root CLAUDE.md into docs/ — now ../ARCHITECTURE.md.
ARCHITECTURE.md: the preamble's session-tracking item claimed an active-session
count and an "ELI16 mode" that no shipped code implements (the count
computation was deleted with the inline preamble); describe the real
touch-and-prune behavior instead.
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* docs(changelog): correct numeric claims against measured counts
50 of 62 installed skills dropped (fixture/alias entries have no preamble);
11 new carves + a deeper office-hours carve = 9→20; test counts match the
files (13 / 11 / 3 / 7).
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* docs: repoint the preamble-runtime version reference after the queue rebump (v1.71.0.0)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test(e2e-design): widen the Aesthetic synonym set — vocabulary variance, not a regression
Both attempts in run 33090283032 produced judge-praised DESIGN.md files
phrased as 'design principles'/'design language' without any of the four
original literals; inputs were identical to the prior passing run
32899975845 (design-consultation untouched by the intervening merge).
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* fix(test): stage design-consultation's sections/ into the E2E fixture
The skill has been carved since v1.57.0.0 — the DESIGN.md structure
prescription (the AESTHETIC proposal template) lives in
sections/proposal-and-preview.md behind a STOP-read. The fixture only
copied SKILL.md, so the agent improvised structure from the skeleton and
the section-synonym check has been a coin flip since the carve (CI run
33090283032 trace shows 'no sections dir'; the local eval store has the
same failure on 2026-08-25 while that day's CI run passed on lucky
vocabulary).
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