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Garry Tan e385721c25 docs: tighten four LOC post citations to match primary sources
1. Bill Gates quote: flagged as folklore-grade. Was "Bill Gates put it
   more memorably" (firm attribution). Now "The old line (widely
   attributed to Bill Gates, sourcing murky) puts it more memorably."
   The quote stands; honesty about attribution avoids the same
   misattribution trap we just fixed for Kernighan.

2. Capers Jones: "15-50 across thousands of projects" → "roughly 16-38
   LOC/day across thousands of projects" — matches his actual published
   measurements (which also report as 325-750 LOC/month).

3. Steve McConnell: "10-50 for finished, tested, delivered code" was
   folklore. Replaced with his actual project-size-dependent range from
   Code Complete: "20-125 LOC/day for small projects (10K LOC) down to
   1.5-25 for large projects (10M LOC) — it's size-dependent, not a
   single number."

4. Revert rate comparison: "Kubernetes, Rails, and Django historically
   run 1.5-3%" was unsourced. Replaced with "mature OSS codebases
   typically run 1-3%" + "run the same command on whatever you consider
   the bar and compare." No false specificity about which repos.

Net: every quantitative citation in the post now matches primary-source
figures or is explicitly flagged as folklore. Neckbeards can verify.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-18 14:01:00 +08:00
Garry Tan 73f15ca76e Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into garrytan/plan-tune-skill
Conflicts resolved:
- VERSION / package.json: keep 1.0.0.0 (our v1 milestone bump from
  commit 18fc95c0, supersedes main's 0.18.4.0).
- CHANGELOG.md: preserved both entries in chronological order — v1.0.0.0
  (writing-style + throughput receipts) above v0.18.4.0 (codex + Apple
  Silicon hardening). No gaps in sequence: 1.0.0.0 → 0.19.0.0 → 0.18.4.0
  → 0.18.3.0 → ...

Main added v0.18.4.0 (#1056): codex + Apple Silicon hardening wave.

Regenerated all SKILL.md files after merge so they pick up both main's
template changes AND our v1 writing-style + question-tuning additions.

Full free test suite: 1288 pass, 0 fail, 113 skip across 37 files, 8555
expect() calls.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-18 13:59:54 +08:00
Garry Tan dc6c114b7e docs: four precision fixes on LOC controversy post
1. Citation fix. Kernighan didn't say anything about LOC-as-metric
   (that's the famous "aircraft building by weight" quote, commonly
   misattributed but actually Bill Gates). Replaced "Kernighan implied
   it before that" with the real Dijkstra quote ("lines produced" vs
   "lines spent" from EWD1036, with direct link) + the Gates quote.
   Verified via web search.

2. Slop-scan direction clarified. "(highest on his benchmark)" was
   ambiguous — could read as a brag. Now: "Higher score = more slop.
   He ran it on gstack and we scored 5.24, the worst he'd measured
   at the time." Then the 62% cut lands as an actual win.

3. Prose/chart skill-usage ordering now matches. Added /plan-eng-review
   (28,014) to the prose list so it doesn't conflict with the chart
   below it.

4. Cut the "David — I owe you one / GUnit" insider joke. Most readers
   won't connect Cramer → Sentry → GUnit naming. Ends the slop-scan
   paragraph on the stronger line: "Run `bun test` and watch 2,000+
   tests pass."

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-18 13:48:38 +08:00
root f545c908a7 Rewrite LOC controversy post
- Lead with concession (LOC is garbage, do the math anyway)
- Preempt 14 lines/day meme with historical baselines (Brooks, Jones, McConnell)
- Remove 'neckbeard' language throughout
- Add slop-scan story (Ben Vinegar, 5.24 → 1.96, 62% cut)
- David Cramer GUnit joke
- Add testing philosophy section (the real unlock)
- ASCII weekly distribution chart
- gstack telemetry section with real numbers (15K installs, 305K invocations, 95.2% success)
- Top skills usage chart
- Pick-your-priors paragraph moved earlier (the killer)
- Sharper close: run the script, show me your numbers
2026-04-18 04:53:45 +00:00
Garry Tan 8e2129a8d9 docs: reframe reproducibility note as OSS breakout flex
"You'd need access to my private repos" → "Bookface and Posthaven are
private, but gstack and gbrain are open-sourced with tens of thousands
of GitHub stars and tens of thousands of confirmed regular users, among
the most-used OSS projects in the world that didn't exist three months
ago."

Keeps the `gh repo list` command at the end for the actual
reproducibility instruction.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-18 12:44:24 +08:00
Garry Tan 71254636ac docs: update gstack/gbrain adoption numbers in LOC controversy post
gstack: "1,000+ distinct project installations" → "tens of thousands of
daily active users" (telemetry-reported, community tier, opt-in).
gbrain: "small set of beta testers" → "hundreds of beta testers running
it live."

Both are the accurate current numbers. The concession paragraph below
(about shipped != adopted at scale for the long-tail repos) still reads
correctly since it's about the corpus as a whole, not gstack/gbrain
specifically.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-18 12:42:20 +08:00
Garry Tan dc140fe8ce docs: harden ON_THE_LOC_CONTROVERSY against Cramer + neckbeard critiques
Reframes the thesis as "engineers can fly now" (amplification, not
replacement) and fortifies the soft spots critics will attack.

Added:
- Flight-thesis opener: pilot vs walker, leverage not replacement.
- Second deflation layer for AI verbosity (on top of NCLOC). Headline
  moves from 810x to 408x after generous 2x AI-boilerplate cut, with
  explicit sensitivity analysis showing the number is still large under
  pessimistic priors (5x → 162x, 10x → 81x, 100x impossible).
- Weekly distribution check (kills "you had one burst week" attack).
- Revert rate (2.0%) and post-merge fix rate (6.3%) with OSS
  comparables (K8s/Rails/Django band). Addresses "where are your error
  rates" directly.
- Named production adoption signals (gstack 1000+ installs, gbrain beta,
  resend_robot paying API) with explicit concession that "shipped != used
  at scale" for most of the corpus.
- Harder steelman: 5 specific concessions with quantified pivot points
  (e.g., "if 2013 baseline was 3.5x higher, 810x → 228x, still high").

Removed factual error: Posterous acquisition paragraph (Garry had already
left Posterous by 2011, so the "Twitter bought our private repos" excuse
for the 2013 corpus gap doesn't apply).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-18 12:36:00 +08:00
Garry Tan 9ec4ab7eb9 codex + Apple Silicon hardening wave (v0.18.4.0) (#1056)
* fix: ad-hoc codesign compiled binaries on Apple Silicon after build

On some Apple Silicon machines, Bun's --compile produces a corrupt or
linker-only code signature. macOS kills these binaries with SIGKILL
(exit 137, zsh: killed) before they execute a single instruction.

Add a post-build codesign step to setup that runs only on Darwin arm64:
1. Remove the corrupt/linker-only signature (required — a direct re-sign
   fails with 'invalid or unsupported format for signature')
2. Apply a fresh ad-hoc signature

The step is idempotent, costs <1s, and is what Bun's own docs recommend
for distributed standalone executables. All four compiled binaries are
covered: browse, find-browse, design, and gstack-global-discover.
Failure is a non-fatal warning so Intel/CI builds are unaffected.

Fixes #997

* fix: prevent codex exec stdin deadlock with </dev/null redirect

codex CLI 0.120.0+ blocks indefinitely when stdin is a non-TTY pipe
(Claude Code Bash tool, background bash, CI). The CLI sees a non-TTY
stdin and waits for EOF to append it as a <stdin> block, even when the
prompt is passed as a positional argument.

Fix: add < /dev/null to every codex exec and codex review invocation
in the source-of-truth files (scripts/resolvers/*.ts and *.md.tmpl).
Generated SKILL.md files will be produced by bun run gen:skill-docs
in a subsequent commit (Tension D: template+resolver only, generator
is authoritative, not cherry-picked artifacts).

Affected source files (16 total invocations):
- scripts/resolvers/review.ts (4)
- scripts/resolvers/design.ts (3)
- codex/SKILL.md.tmpl (5)
- autoplan/SKILL.md.tmpl (4)

Fixes #971

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

* feat: codex/autoplan hardening + Apple Silicon coreutils auto-install

Hardens /codex and /autoplan against silent failures surfaced by the #972
stdin fix and #1003 Apple Silicon codesign. Six-layer defense:

1. **Multi-signal auth probe** (new Step 0.5 / Phase 0.5): env-based auth
   ($CODEX_API_KEY, $OPENAI_API_KEY) OR file-based auth
   (${CODEX_HOME:-~/.codex}/auth.json). Rejects false negatives that the
   old file-only check produced for CI / platform-engineer users.

2. **Timeout wrapper** around every codex exec / codex review invocation:
   gtimeout → timeout → unwrapped fallback chain. On exit 124, surfaces
   common causes + actionable next step. Guards against model-API stalls
   not covered by the #972 stdin fix.

3. **Stderr capture in Challenge mode** (codex/SKILL.md.tmpl:208):
   2>/dev/null → 2>$TMPERR. Post-invocation grep for auth/login/unauthorized
   surfaces errors that were previously dropped silently.

4. **Completeness check** in the Python JSON parser: tracks turn.completed
   events and warns on zero (possible mid-stream disconnect).

5. **Version warning** for known-bad Codex CLI (0.120.0-0.120.2, the range
   that introduced the stdin deadlock #972 fixes). Anchored regex
   `(^|[^0-9.])0\.120\.(0|1|2)([^0-9.]|$)` prevents 0.120.10 / 0.120.20
   false positives.

6. **Failure telemetry + operational learnings**: codex_timeout,
   codex_auth_failed, codex_cli_missing, codex_version_warning events
   land in ~/.gstack/analytics/skill-usage.jsonl behind the existing
   telemetry opt-in. On timeout (exit 124), auto-logs an operational
   learning via gstack-learnings-log so future /investigate sessions
   surface prior hang patterns automatically.

**Shared helper** (bin/gstack-codex-probe): consolidates all four pieces
(auth probe, version check, timeout wrapper, telemetry logger) into one
bash file that /codex and /autoplan source. Namespace-prefixed
(_gstack_codex_*) with a unit test that verifies sourcing does not leak
shell options into the caller. pathRewrites in host configs rewrite
~/.claude/skills/gstack → $GSTACK_ROOT for Codex, $GSTACK_BIN for
Factory/Cursor/etc.

**Apple Silicon coreutils auto-install** (setup:264): macOS lacks GNU
timeout by default; Homebrew's coreutils installs it as gtimeout to
avoid shadowing BSD utilities. ./setup now auto-installs coreutils on
Darwin (arch-agnostic — applies to Intel + Apple Silicon) when neither
gtimeout nor timeout is present. Opt-out via GSTACK_SKIP_COREUTILS=1
for CI, managed machines, or offline envs.

**25 deterministic unit tests** (test/codex-hardening.test.ts):
- 8 auth probe combinations (env precedence, whitespace, alternate
  $CODEX_HOME, corrupt file paths)
- 10 version regex cases including 0.120.10 false-positive guards
  and v-prefixed / multiline output
- 4 timeout wrapper + namespace hygiene (bash -n, gtimeout
  preference, set-option leak check)
- 3 telemetry payload schema checks (confirms env values + auth
  tokens never leak into emitted events)

**1 periodic-tier E2E** (test/skill-e2e-autoplan-dual-voice.test.ts):
gates the /autoplan dual-voice path — asserts both Claude subagent
and Codex voices produce output in Phase 1, OR that [codex-unavailable]
is logged when Codex is absent. ~\$1/run, not a CI gate.

Golden baseline + gen-skill-docs exclusion list updated for the new
codex path references and the 16 < /dev/null redirects from #972.

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

* fix: plan-review right-sized diff counterbalance (not minimal-diff default)

/plan-ceo-review and /plan-eng-review listed "minimal diff" as an
engineering preference without counterbalancing language. Reviewers
picked up on that and rejected rewrites that should have been approved.

The preference is now framed as "right-sized diff" with explicit
permission to recommend a rewrite when the existing foundation is
broken. Implementation alternatives section in CEO review gets an
equal-weight clarification: don't default to minimal viable just
because it is smaller. Recommend whichever best serves the user's
goal; if the right answer is a rewrite, say so.

Three-line tone edit per template, no voice / ETHOS / YC / promotional
content change.

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

* release: v0.18.4.0 — codex + Apple Silicon hardening wave

- Apple Silicon codesign fix (#1003 @voidborne-d)
- Codex stdin deadlock fix (#972 @loning)
- Codex timeout wrapper (gtimeout → timeout → unwrapped fallback)
- Multi-signal auth gate for /codex + /autoplan
- Codex version warning for known-bad CLI (0.120.0-0.120.2)
- Challenge mode stderr capture + completeness check
- Plan-review right-sized diff counterbalance
- Failure telemetry + auto-log timeout as operational learning
- 25 deterministic unit tests + dual-voice periodic E2E

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

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Co-authored-by: voidborne-d <voidborne-d@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: loning <loning@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-18 12:30:54 +08:00
Garry Tan 58e6a94e7c fix: correct tax-app exclusion rationale
tax-app is a demo app I built for an upcoming YC channel video,
not an "import-dominated history" as the previous commit claimed.
Excluded because it's not production shipping work, not because
of an import commit.

Updated rationale in scripts/garry-output-comparison.ts's
EXCLUDED_REPOS constant, in docs/ON_THE_LOC_CONTROVERSY.md's
method section + conclusion, and in the README hero wording
("one demo repo" vs the earlier "repos dominated by imported code").

Numbers unchanged — the exclusion itself is the same, just the
reason.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-18 12:27:09 +08:00
Garry Tan 28f7876ea5 exclude: tax-app from throughput analysis (import-dominated history)
tax-app's history is one commit of 104K logical lines — an initial
import of a codebase, not authored work. Removing it to keep the
comparison honest.

Changes:
- scripts/garry-output-comparison.ts: added EXCLUDED_REPOS constant
  with tax-app + a one-line rationale. The script now skips excluded
  repos with a stderr note and deletes any stale output JSON so
  aggregation loops don't pick up pre-exclusion numbers.

- README hero: updated to 810× run rate + 240× YTD (were 880×/260×).
  Wording updated to "40 public + private repos ... after excluding
  repos dominated by imported code."

- docs/ON_THE_LOC_CONTROVERSY.md: updated all numbers, added an
  "Exclusions" paragraph explaining tax-app, removed tax-app from
  the "shipped not WIP" example list.

New numbers (2026 through day 108, without tax-app):
  - To-date:  240× logical SLOC (1,233,062 vs 5,143)
  - Run rate: 810× per-day pace (11,417 vs 14 logical/day)
  - Annualized: ~4.2M logical lines projected

Future re-runs automatically skip tax-app. Add more exclusions to
EXCLUDED_REPOS at the top of the script with a one-line rationale.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-18 12:23:20 +08:00
Garry Tan c5e2e1bf66 docs: ON_THE_LOC_CONTROVERSY methodology post + README link
Long-form response to the "LOC is a meaningless vanity metric" critique.
Covers:
- The three branches of the LOC critique and which are right
- Why logical SLOC (NCLOC) beats raw LOC as the honest measurement
- Full method: author-scoped git diff, regex-classified added lines,
  aggregated across 41 public + private garrytan/* repos
- Both calculations: to-date (260x) and run-rate (879x)
- Steelman of the critics (greenfield-vs-maintenance, survivorship bias,
  quality-adjusted productivity, time-to-first-user)
- Reproduction instructions

Linked from README hero via a blockquote directly below the number.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-18 12:19:27 +08:00
Garry Tan 629bb53e97 feat(throughput): script natively computes to-date + run-rate multiples
Enhanced scripts/garry-output-comparison.ts so both calculations come
out of a single run instead of being reassembled ad-hoc in bash:

PerYearResult now includes:
- days_elapsed — 365 for past years, day-of-year for current
- is_partial — flags the current (in-progress) year
- per_day_rate — logical/raw/commits normalized by calendar day
- annualized_projection — per_day_rate × 365

Output JSON's `multiples` now has two sibling blocks:
- multiples.to_date — raw volume ratios (2026-YTD / 2013-full-year)
- multiples.run_rate — per-day pace ratios (apples-to-apples)

Back-compat: multiples.logical_lines_added still aliases to_date for
older consumers reading the JSON.

Updated README hero to cite both (picking up brain/* repo that was
missed in the earlier aggregation pass):

  2026 run rate: ~880× my 2013 pace (12,382 vs 14 logical lines/day)
  2026 YTD:      260× the entire 2013 year

Stderr summary now prints both multiples at the end of each run.

Full analysis at ~/throughput-analysis-2026-04-18.md (local-only).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-18 12:15:19 +08:00
Garry Tan d0645830ca docs: run rate vs year-to-date throughput comparison
Two separate numbers in the README hero:
- Run rate: ~700× (9,859 logical lines/day in 2026 vs 14/day in 2013)
- Year-to-date: 207× (2026 through April 18 already exceeds 2013 full
  year by 207×)

Previous "207× pro-rata" framing mixed full-year 2013 vs partial-year
2026. Run rate is the apples-to-apples normalization; YTD is the
"already produced" total. Both are honest; both are compelling; they
measure different things.

Analysis at ~/throughput-analysis-2026-04-18.md (local-only).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-18 12:10:37 +08:00
Garry Tan b37c811ade feat: 207× throughput multiple (with private repos + Bookface)
Re-ran scripts/garry-output-comparison.ts across all 41 repos under
garrytan/* (15 public + 26 private), including Bookface (YC's internal
social network, 2013-era work).

2013 activity: 71 commits, 5,143 logical lines, 4 active repos
  (bookface, delicounter, tandong, zurb-foundation-wysihtml5)
2026 activity: 350 commits, 1,064,818 logical lines, 15 active repos
  (gbrain, gstack, gbrowser, tax-app, kumo, tenjin, autoemail, kitsune,
  easy-chromium-compiles, conductor-playground, garryslist-agent, baku,
  gstack-website, resend_robot, garryslist-brain)

Multiples:
- Logical SLOC: 207× (up from 130.2× when including private work)
- Raw lines: 223×
- Commits/active-week: 3.4×

Stopped committing docs/throughput-2013-vs-2026.json — analysis is a
local artifact, not repo state. Added docs/throughput-*.json to
.gitignore. Full markdown analysis at ~/throughput-analysis-2026-04-18.md
(local-only). README multiple is now hardcoded; re-run the script and
edit manually when you want to refresh it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-18 12:08:23 +08:00
Garry Tan cd59590c34 feat: compute real 2013-vs-2026 throughput multiple (130.2×)
Ran scripts/garry-output-comparison.ts across all 15 public garrytan/*
repos. Aggregated results into docs/throughput-2013-vs-2026.json and
ran scripts/update-readme-throughput.ts to replace the README placeholder.

2013 public activity: 2 commits, 2,384 logical lines added across 1
week, in 1 repo (zurb-foundation-wysihtml5 upstream contribution).

2026 public activity: 279 commits, 310,484 logical lines added across
17 active weeks, in 3 repos (gbrain, gstack, resend_robot).

Multiples (public repos only, apples-to-apples):
- Logical SLOC: 130.2×
- Commits per active week: 8.2×
- Raw lines added: 134.4×

Private work at both eras (2013 Bookface at YC, Posterous-era code,
2026 internal tools) is excluded from this comparison.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-18 11:57:58 +08:00
Garry Tan 00a7a65026 test: V1 gate coverage — writing-style resolver + config + jargon + migration + dormancy
Six new gate-tier test files:

- test/writing-style-resolver.test.ts — asserts Writing Style section
  is injected into tier-≥2 preamble, all 6 rules present, jargon list
  inlined, terse-mode gate condition present, Codex output uses
  \$GSTACK_BIN (not ~/.claude/), tier-1 does NOT get the section,
  migration-prompt block present.

- test/explain-level-config.test.ts — gstack-config set/get round-trip
  for default + terse, unknown-value warns + defaults to default,
  header documents the key, round-trip across set→set→get.

- test/jargon-list.test.ts — shape + ~50 terms + no duplicates
  (case-insensitive) + includes canonical high-signal terms.

- test/v0-dormancy.test.ts — 5D dimension names + archetype names
  forbidden in default-mode tier-≥2 SKILL.md output, except for
  plan-tune and office-hours where they're load-bearing.

- test/readme-throughput.test.ts — script replaces anchor with number
  on happy path, writes PENDING marker when JSON missing, CI gate
  asserts committed README contains no PENDING string.

- test/upgrade-migration-v1.test.ts — fresh run writes pending flag,
  idempotent after user-answered, pre-existing explain_level counts
  as answered.

All 95 V1 test-expect() calls pass. Full suite: 0 failures.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-18 11:39:24 +08:00
Garry Tan dfc091fca1 chore: regenerate SKILL.md files + golden fixtures for V1
Mechanical regeneration from the updated templates in prior commits:
- Writing Style section now appears in tier-≥2 skill output.
- EXPLAIN_LEVEL + WRITING_STYLE_PENDING echoes in preamble bash.
- V1 migration-prompt block fires conditionally on first upgrade.
- Jargon list inlined into preamble prose at gen time.
- Retro template's logical SLOC + weighted commits order applied.

Regenerated for all 8 hosts via bun run gen:skill-docs --host all.
Golden ship-skill fixtures refreshed from regenerated outputs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-18 11:39:10 +08:00
Garry Tan 18fc95c0a0 docs(v1): README hero reframe + writing-style + CHANGELOG + version bump to 1.0.0.0
README.md:
- Hero removes "600,000+ lines of production code" framing; replaces
  with the computed 2013-vs-2026 pro-rata multiple (via
  <!-- GSTACK-THROUGHPUT-PLACEHOLDER --> anchor, filled by the
  update-readme-throughput build step).
- Hiring callout: "ship real products at AI-coding speed" instead of
  "10K+ LOC/day."
- New Writing Style section (~80 words) between Quick start and
  Install: "v1 prompts = simpler" framing, outcome-language example,
  terse-mode opt-out, pointer to /plan-tune.

CLAUDE.md: one-paragraph Writing style (V1) note under project
conventions, linking to preamble resolver + V1 design docs.

CHANGELOG.md: V1 entry on top of v0.19.0.0 with user-facing narrative
(what changes, how to opt out, for-contributors notes). Mentions
scope reduction — pacing overhaul ships in V1.1.

CONTRIBUTING.md: one-paragraph note on jargon-list.json maintenance
(PR to add/remove terms; regenerate via gen:skill-docs).

VERSION + package.json: bump to 1.0.0.0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-18 11:38:57 +08:00
Garry Tan 2c404f9bd0 feat(retro): surface logical SLOC + weighted commits above raw LOC
V1 reorders the /retro summary table to lead with features shipped,
then commits + weighted commits (commits × files-touched capped at 20),
then PRs merged, then logical SLOC added as the primary code-volume
metric. Raw LOC stays present but is demoted to context. Rationale
inline in the template: ten lines of a good fix is not less shipping
than ten thousand lines of scaffold.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-18 11:38:43 +08:00
Garry Tan d840ab67f4 feat: LOC reframe tooling — throughput comparison + README updater + scc installer
Three new scripts:

- scripts/garry-output-comparison.ts — enumerates Garry-authored commits
  in 2013 + 2026 on public repos, extracts ADDED lines from git diff,
  classifies as logical SLOC via scc --stdin (regex fallback if scc
  missing). Writes docs/throughput-2013-vs-2026.json with per-language
  breakdown + explicit caveats (public repos only, commit-style drift,
  private-work exclusion).

- scripts/update-readme-throughput.ts — reads the JSON if present,
  replaces the README's <!-- GSTACK-THROUGHPUT-PLACEHOLDER --> anchor
  with the computed multiple (preserving the anchor for future runs).
  If JSON missing, writes GSTACK-THROUGHPUT-PENDING marker that CI
  rejects — forcing the build to run before commit.

- scripts/setup-scc.sh — standalone OS-detecting installer for scc.
  Not a package.json dependency (95% of users never run throughput).
  Brew on macOS, apt on Linux, GitHub releases link on Windows.

Two-string anchor pattern (PLACEHOLDER vs PENDING) prevents the
pipeline from destroying its own update path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-18 11:38:35 +08:00
Garry Tan 6c4f72a426 feat: V1 upgrade migration — writing-style opt-out prompt
New migration script following existing v0.15.2.0.sh / v0.16.2.0.sh
pattern. Writes a .writing-style-prompt-pending flag file on first run
post-upgrade. The preamble's migration-prompt block reads the flag and
fires a one-time AskUserQuestion offering the user a choice between
the new default writing style and restoring V0 prose via
\`gstack-config set explain_level terse\`. Idempotent via flag files;
if the user has already set explain_level explicitly, counts as
answered and skips.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-18 11:38:16 +08:00
Garry Tan 34eb39285d feat(gstack-config): validate explain_level + document in header
Adds explain_level: default|terse to the annotated config header with
a one-line description. Whitelists valid values; on set of an unknown
value, prints a specific warning ("explain_level '\$VALUE' not
recognized. Valid values: default, terse. Using default.") and writes
the default value. Matches V1 preamble's EXPLAIN_LEVEL echo expectation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-18 11:38:08 +08:00
Garry Tan ada1a2a925 feat(preamble): V1 Writing Style section + EXPLAIN_LEVEL echo + migration prompt
Adds a new Writing Style section to tier-≥2 preamble output composing with
the existing AskUserQuestion Format section. Six rules: jargon glossed on
first use per skill invocation (from scripts/jargon-list.json), outcome-
framed questions, short sentences, decisions close with user impact,
gloss-on-first-use even if user pasted term, user-turn override for "be
terse" requests. Baked conditionally (skip if EXPLAIN_LEVEL: terse).

Adds EXPLAIN_LEVEL preamble echo using \${binDir} (host-portable matching
V0 QUESTION_TUNING pattern). Adds WRITING_STYLE_PENDING echo reading a
flag file written by the V0→V1 upgrade migration; on first post-upgrade
skill run, the agent fires a one-time AskUserQuestion offering terse mode.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-18 11:38:01 +08:00
Garry Tan 5b2790dc5b feat: curated jargon list for V1 writing-style glossing
Repo-owned list of ~50 high-frequency technical terms (idempotent,
race condition, N+1, backpressure, etc.) that gstack glosses on first
use in tier-≥2 skill output. Baked into generated SKILL.md prose at
gen-skill-docs time. Terms not on this list are assumed plain-English
enough. Contributions via PR.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-18 11:37:50 +08:00
Garry Tan 83c0d0aac3 docs: add PLAN_TUNING_V1 + PACING_UPDATES_V0 design docs
Captures the V1 design (ELI10 writing + LOC reframe) in
docs/designs/PLAN_TUNING_V1.md and the extracted V1.1 pacing-overhaul
plan in docs/designs/PACING_UPDATES_V0.md. V1 scope was reduced from
the original bundled pacing + writing-style plan after three
engineering-review passes revealed structural gaps in the pacing
workstream that couldn't be closed via plan-text editing. TODOS.md
P0 entry links to V1.1.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-18 11:37:45 +08:00
Garry Tan a699018ec6 Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into garrytan/plan-tune-skill
Conflicts resolved:
- VERSION / package.json: keep 0.19.0.0 (our MINOR bump stays above main's
  new 0.18.3.0 — community wave v0.18.3.0 + our plan-tune v0.19.0.0 both
  ship, ours on top).
- CHANGELOG.md: preserved both entries in order — v0.19.0.0 (plan-tune)
  above v0.18.3.0 (community wave). No version gaps.
- .github/docker/Dockerfile.ci: main's Hetzner-mirror swap is a better root
  cause fix than my retry-only patch (route-local for Ubicloud runners,
  avoids archive.ubuntu.com entirely). Combined: main's mirror swap PLUS
  my defense-in-depth layers on top (apt retries config, --retry-connrefused
  on curl, and outer shell-loop retries for apt-get update). Mirror swap
  solves the root cause; retries handle the rare case where even Hetzner
  blips.

Main added:
- v0.18.3.0 (#1028): community wave — Windows cookie import, OpenCode install,
  permission-prompt cleanup, $B server persistence across Bash calls, cookie
  picker fix, OpenClaw frontmatter fix.
- Dockerfile.ci Hetzner mirror swap (from the same wave).

Regenerated all SKILL.md files after merge so they reflect main's design-*
template changes AND our question-tuning preamble additions.

Full free test suite: 1162 pass, 0 fail, 113 skip across 29 files, 7903
expect() calls.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-17 15:52:53 +08:00
Garry Tan 1211b6b40b community wave: 6 PRs + hardening (v0.18.1.0) (#1028)
* fix: extend tilde-in-assignment fix to design resolver + 4 skill templates

PR #993 fixed the Claude Code permission prompt for `scripts/resolvers/browse.ts`
and `gstack-upgrade/SKILL.md.tmpl`. Same bug lives in three more places that
weren't on the contributor's branch:

- `scripts/resolvers/design.ts` (3 spots: D=, B=, and _DESIGN_DIR=)
- `design-shotgun/SKILL.md.tmpl` (_DESIGN_DIR=)
- `plan-design-review/SKILL.md.tmpl` (_DESIGN_DIR=)
- `design-consultation/SKILL.md.tmpl` (_DESIGN_DIR=)
- `design-review/SKILL.md.tmpl` (REPORT_DIR=)

Replaces bare `~/` with quoted `"$HOME/..."` in the source-of-truth files, then
regenerates. `grep -rEn '^[A-Za-z_]+=~/' --include="SKILL.md" .` now returns zero
hits across all hosts (claude, codex, cursor, gbrain, hermes).

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

* fix(openclaw): make native skills codex-friendly (#864)

Normalizes YAML frontmatter on the 4 hand-authored OpenClaw skills so stricter
parsers like Codex can load them. Codex CLI was rejecting these files with
"mapping values are not allowed in this context" on colons inside unquoted
description scalars.

- Drops non-standard `version` and `metadata` fields
- Rewrites descriptions into simple "Use when..." form (no inline colons)
- Adds a regression test enforcing strict frontmatter (name + description only)

Verified live: Codex CLI now loads the skills without errors. Observed during
/codex outside-voice run on the eval-community-prs plan review — Codex stderr
tripped on these exact files, which was real-world confirmation the fix is needed.

Dropped the connect-chrome changes from the original PR (the symlink removal is
out of scope for this fix; keeping connect-chrome -> open-gstack-browser).

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

* fix(browse): server persists across Claude Code Bash calls

The browse server was dying between Bash tool invocations in Claude Code
because:

1. SIGTERM: The Claude Code sandbox sends SIGTERM to all child processes
   when a Bash command completes. The server received this and called
   shutdown(), deleting the state file and exiting.

2. Parent watchdog: The server polls BROWSE_PARENT_PID every 15s. When
   the parent Bash shell exits (killed by sandbox), the watchdog detected
   it and called shutdown().

Both mechanisms made it impossible to use the browse tool across multiple
Bash calls — every new `$B` invocation started a fresh server with no
cookies, no page state, and no tabs.

Fix:
- SIGTERM handler: log and ignore instead of shutdown. Explicit shutdown
  is still available via the /stop command or SIGINT (Ctrl+C).
- Parent watchdog: log once and continue instead of shutdown. The existing
  idle timeout (30 min) handles eventual cleanup.

The /stop command and SIGINT still work for intentional shutdown. Windows
behavior is unchanged (uses taskkill /F which bypasses signal handlers).

Tested: browse server survives across 5+ separate Bash tool calls in
Claude Code, maintaining cookies, page state, and navigation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(browse): gate #994 SIGTERM-ignore to normal mode only

PR #994 made browse persist across Claude Code Bash calls by ignoring SIGTERM
and parent-PID death, relying on the 30-min idle timeout for eventual cleanup.

Codex outside-voice review caught that the idle timeout doesn't apply in two
modes: headed mode (/open-gstack-browser) and tunnel mode (/pair-agent). Both
early-return from idleCheckInterval. Combined with #994's ignore-SIGTERM, those
sessions would leak forever after the user disconnects — a real resource leak on
shared machines where multiple /pair-agent sessions come and go.

Fix: gate SIGTERM-ignore and parent-PID-watchdog-ignore to normal (headless) mode
only. Headed + tunnel modes respect both signals and shutdown cleanly. Idle
timeout behavior unchanged.

Also documents the deliberate contract change for future contributors — don't
re-add global SIGTERM shutdown thinking it's missing; it's intentionally scoped.

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

* fix: keep cookie picker alive after cli exits

Fixes garrytan/gstack#985

* fix: add opencode setup support

* feat(browse): add Windows browser path detection and DPAPI cookie decryption

- Extend BrowserPlatform to include win32
- Add windowsDataDir to BrowserInfo; populate for Chrome, Edge, Brave, Chromium
- getBaseDir('win32') → ~/AppData/Local
- findBrowserMatch checks Network/Cookies first on Windows (Chrome 80+)
- Add getWindowsAesKey() reading os_crypt.encrypted_key from Local State JSON
- Add dpapiDecrypt() via PowerShell ProtectedData.Unprotect (stdin/stdout)
- decryptCookieValue branches on platform: AES-256-GCM (Windows) vs AES-128-CBC (mac/linux)
- Fix hardcoded /tmp → TEMP_DIR from platform.ts in openDbFromCopy

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(browse): Windows cookie import — profile discovery, v20 detection, CDP fallback

Three bugs fixed in cookie-import-browser.ts:
- listProfiles() and findInstalledBrowsers() now check Network/Cookies on Windows
  (Chrome 80+ moved cookies from profile/Cookies to profile/Network/Cookies)
- openDb() always uses copy-then-read on Windows (Chrome holds exclusive locks)
- decryptCookieValue() detects v20 App-Bound Encryption with specific error code

Added CDP-based extraction fallback (importCookiesViaCdp) for v20 cookies:
- Launches Chrome headless with --remote-debugging-port on the real profile
- Extracts cookies via Network.getAllCookies over CDP WebSocket
- Requires Chrome to be closed (v20 keys are path-bound to user-data-dir)
- Both cookie picker UI and CLI direct-import paths auto-fall back to CDP

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(browse): document CDP debug port security + log Chrome version on v20 fallback

Follow-up to #892 per Codex outside-voice review. Two small additions to the
Windows v20 App-Bound Encryption CDP fallback:

1. Inline comment documenting the deliberate security posture of the
   --remote-debugging-port. Chrome binds it to 127.0.0.1 by default, so the
   threat model is local-user-only (which is no worse than baseline — local
   attackers can already read the cookie DB). Random port 9222-9321 is for
   collision avoidance, not security. Chrome is always killed in finally.

2. One-time Chrome version log on CDP entry via /json/version. When Chrome
   inevitably changes v20 key format or /json/list shape in a future major
   version, logs will show exactly which version users are hitting.

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

* chore: v0.18.1.0 — community wave (6 PRs + hardening)

VERSION bump + users-first CHANGELOG entry for the wave:
- #993 tilde-in-assignment fix (byliu-labs)
- #994 browse server persists across Bash calls (joelgreen)
- #996 cookie picker alive after cli exits (voidborne-d)
- #864 OpenClaw skills codex-friendly (cathrynlavery)
- #982 OpenCode native setup (breakneo)
- #892 Windows cookie import + DPAPI + v20 CDP fallback (msr-hickory)

Plus 3 follow-up hardening commits we own:
- Extended tilde fix to design resolver + 4 more skill templates
- Gated #994 SIGTERM-ignore to normal mode only (headed/tunnel preserve shutdown)
- Documented CDP debug port security + log Chrome version on v20 fallback

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

* fix: review pass — package.json version, import dedup, error context, stale help

Findings from /review on the wave PR:

- [P1] package.json version was 0.18.0.1 but VERSION is 0.18.1.0, failing
  test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts:177 "package.json version matches VERSION file".
  Bumped package.json to 0.18.1.0.
- [P2] Duplicate import of cookie-picker-routes in browse/src/server.ts
  (handleCookiePickerRoute at line 20 + hasActivePicker at line 792). Merged
  into single import at top.
- [P2] cookie-import-browser.ts:494 generic rethrow loses underlying error.
  Now preserves the message so "ENOENT" vs "JSON parse error" vs "permission
  denied" are distinguishable in user output.
- [P3] setup:46 "Missing value for --host" error message listed an incomplete
  set of hosts (missing factory, openclaw, hermes, gbrain). Aligned with the
  "Unknown value" error on line 94.

Kept as-is (not real issues):
- cookie-import-browser.ts:869 empty catch on Chrome version fetch is the
  correct pattern for best-effort diagnostics (per slop-scan philosophy in
  CLAUDE.md — fire-and-forget failures shouldn't throw).

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

* test(watchdog): invert test 3 to match merged #994 behavior

main #1025 added browse/test/watchdog.test.ts with test 3 expecting the old
"watchdog kills server when parent dies" behavior. The merge with this
branch's #994 inverted that semantic — the server now STAYS ALIVE on parent
death in normal headless mode (multi-step QA across Claude Code Bash calls
depends on this).

Changes:
- Renamed test 3 from "watchdog fires when parent dies" to "server STAYS ALIVE
  when parent dies (#994)".
- Replaced 25s shutdown poll with 20s observation window asserting the server
  remains alive after the watchdog tick.
- Updated docstring to document all 3 watchdog invariants (env-var disable,
  headed-mode disable, headless persists) and note tunnel-mode coverage gap.

Verification: bun test browse/test/watchdog.test.ts → 3 pass, 0 fail (22.7s).

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

* fix(ci): switch apt mirror to Hetzner to bypass Ubicloud → archive.ubuntu.com timeouts

Both build attempts of `.github/docker/Dockerfile.ci` failed at
`apt-get update` with persistent connection timeouts to archive.ubuntu.com:80
and security.ubuntu.com:80 — 90+ seconds of "connection timed out" against
every Ubuntu IP. Not a transient blip; this PR doesn't touch the Dockerfile,
and a re-run reproduced the same failure across all 9 mirror IPs.

Root cause: Ubicloud runners (Hetzner FSN1-DC21 per runner output) have
unreliable HTTP-port-80 routing to Ubuntu's official archive endpoints.

Fix:
- Rewrite /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources (deb822 format in 24.04)
  to use https://mirror.hetzner.com/ubuntu/packages instead. Hetzner's
  mirror is publicly accessible from any cloud (not Hetzner-only despite
  the name) and route-local for Ubicloud's actual host. Solves both
  reliability and latency.
- Add a 3-attempt retry loop around both `apt-get update` calls as
  belt-and-suspenders. Even Hetzner's mirror can have brief blips, and the
  retry costs nothing when the first attempt succeeds.

Verification: the workflow will rebuild on push. Local `docker build` not
practical for a 12-step image with bun + claude + playwright deps + a 10-min
cold install. Trusting CI.

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

* fix(ci): use HTTP for Hetzner apt mirror (base image lacks ca-certificates)

Previous commit switched to https://mirror.hetzner.com/... which proved the
mirror is reachable and routes correctly (no more 90s timeouts), but exposed
a chicken-and-egg: ubuntu:24.04 ships without ca-certificates, and that's
exactly the package we're installing. Result: "No system certificates
available. Try installing ca-certificates."

Fix: use http:// for the Hetzner mirror. Apt's security model verifies
package integrity via GPG-signed Release files, not TLS, so HTTP here is
no weaker than the upstream defaults (Ubuntu's official sources also
default to HTTP for the same reason).

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>
Co-authored-by: Cathryn Lavery <cathrynlavery@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Joel Green <thejoelgreen@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: d 🔹 <258577966+voidborne-d@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Break <breakneo@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Michael Spitzer-Rubenstein <msr.ext@hickory.ai>
2026-04-17 00:45:13 -07:00
Garry Tan c26d5fac78 fix(ci): harden Dockerfile.ci against transient Ubuntu mirror failures
The CI image build failed with:
  E: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/...
     Connection failed [IP: 91.189.92.22 80]
  ERROR: process "/bin/sh -c apt-get update && apt-get install ..."
     did not complete successfully: exit code: 100

archive.ubuntu.com periodically returns "connection refused" on individual
regional mirrors. Without retry logic a single failed fetch nukes the whole
Docker build. Three defenses, layered:

  1. /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80-retries — apt fetches each package up to 5 times
     with a 30s timeout. Handles per-package flakes.
  2. Shell-loop retry around the whole apt-get step (x3, 10s sleep) — handles
     the case where apt-get update itself can't reach any mirror.
  3. --retry 5 --retry-delay 5 --retry-connrefused on all curl fetches (bun
     install script, GitHub CLI keyring, NodeSource setup script).

Applied to every apt-get and curl call in the Dockerfile. No behavior change
on happy path — only kicks in when mirrors blip. Fixes the build-image job
that was blocking CI on the /plan-tune PR.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-17 14:39:13 +08:00
Garry Tan bab052e10a Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into garrytan/plan-tune-skill
Conflicts resolved:
- VERSION: keep 0.19.0.0 (our MINOR bump stays above main's new 0.18.2.0)
- package.json: bumped to 0.19.0.0 to match VERSION (test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts
  asserts they match)
- CHANGELOG.md: keep both entries — our v0.19.0.0 on top, main's v0.18.2.0
  below it, preserving the full version history

Main added v0.18.2.0 (#1030): context-rot defense for /ship (subagent isolation
for coverage/plan-completion/greptile/docs steps + clean integer step numbering).
Regenerated all SKILL.md files after merge so they reflect both main's ship
template changes AND our preamble additions (question-tuning section).

Full free test suite: 1158 pass, 0 fail, 113 skip across 28 files, 7855
expect() calls.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-17 14:28:05 +08:00
Garry Tan b3eaffce07 feat: context rot defense for /ship — subagent isolation + clean step numbering (v0.18.1.0) (#1030)
* refactor: renumber /ship steps to clean integers (1-20)

Replaces fractional step numbers (1.5, 2.5, 3.25, 3.4, 3.45, 3.47, 3.48,
3.5, 3.55, 3.56, 3.57, 3.75, 3.8, 5.5, 6.5, 8.5, 8.75) with clean
integers 1 through 20, plus allowed resolver sub-steps 8.1, 8.2,
9.1, 9.2, 9.3. Fractional numbering signaled "optional appendix" and
contributed to /ship's habit of skipping late-stage steps.

Affects:
- ship/SKILL.md.tmpl (all headings + ~30 cross-references)
- scripts/resolvers/review.ts (ship-side 3.47/3.48/3.57/3.8 conditionals)
- scripts/resolvers/review-army.ts (ship-side 3.55/3.56 conditionals)
- scripts/resolvers/testing.ts (ship-side 2.5/3.4 references, 5 sites)
- scripts/resolvers/utility.ts (CHANGELOG heading gets Step 13 prefix)
- test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts (5 step-number assertions updated)
- test/skill-validation.test.ts (3 step-number assertions updated)

/review step numbering (1.5, 2.5, 4.5, 5.5-5.8) intentionally unchanged —
only the ship-side of each isShip conditional was updated.

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

* feat: subagent isolation for /ship's 4 context-heaviest sub-workflows

Fights context rot. By late /ship, the parent context is bloated with
500-1,750 lines of intermediate tool output from tests, coverage audits,
reviews, adversarial checks, and PR body construction. The model is
at its least intelligent when it reaches doc-sync — which is why
/document-release was being skipped ~80% of the time.

Applies subagent dispatch (proven pattern from Review Army at Step 9.1
and Adversarial at Step 11) to four sub-workflows where the parent
only needs the conclusion, not the intermediate output:

- Step 7 (Test Coverage Audit) — subagent returns coverage_pct, gaps,
  diagram, tests_added
- Step 8 (Plan Completion Audit) — subagent returns total_items, done,
  changed, deferred, summary
- Step 10 (Greptile Triage) — subagent fetches + classifies, parent
  handles user interaction and commits fixes (AskUserQuestion + Edit
  can't run in subagents)
- Step 18 (Documentation Sync) — subagent invokes full /document-release
  skill in fresh context; parent embeds documentation_section in PR body

Sequencing fix for Step 18: runs AFTER Step 17 (Push) and BEFORE Step 19
(Create PR). The PR is created once from final HEAD with the
## Documentation section baked into the initial body — no create-then-
re-edit dance, no race conditions with document-release's own PR body
editor.

Adds "You are NOT done" guardrail after Step 17 (Push) to break the
natural stopping point that currently causes doc-release skips.

Each subagent falls back to inline execution if it fails or returns
invalid JSON. /ship never blocks on subagent failure.

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

* test: regression guard for /ship step numbering

Three regression guards in skill-validation.test.ts to prevent future
drift back to fractional step numbering:

1. ship/SKILL.md.tmpl contains no fractional step numbers except the
   allowed resolver sub-steps (8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3). A contributor
   adding "Step 3.75" next month will fail this test with a clear error.

2. ship/SKILL.md main headings use clean integer step numbers. If a
   renumber accidentally leaves a decimal heading, this catches it.

3. review/SKILL.md step numbers unchanged — regression guard for the
   resolver conditionals in review.ts/review-army.ts. If a future edit
   accidentally touches the review-side of an isShip ternary, /review's
   fractional numbering (1.5, 4.5, 5.7) would vanish. This test catches
   that cross-contamination.

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

* docs: sync ship step references after renumber

CLAUDE.md: "At /ship time (Step 5)" → "(Step 13)" — CHANGELOG is now
  explicitly Step 13 after the renumber (was implicit between old
  Step 4 and Step 5.5).
TODOS.md: "Step 3.4 coverage audit" → "Step 7" — references the open
  TODO for auto-upgrading ★-rated tests, which hooks into the coverage
  audit step.

Both are historical references to ship's step numbering that became
stale when clean integer renumbering landed in 566d42c2.

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

* test: update golden ship skill baselines after renumber + subagent refactor

The golden fixtures at test/fixtures/golden/{claude,codex,factory}-ship-SKILL.md
regression-test that generated ship/SKILL.md output matches a committed baseline.
After renumbering steps to clean integers and converting 4 sub-workflows to
subagent dispatches, the generated output changed substantially — refresh the
baselines to reflect the new expected output.

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

* chore: bump version and changelog (v0.18.1.0)

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

* chore: gitignore Claude Code harness runtime artifacts

.claude/scheduled_tasks.lock appears when ScheduleWakeup fires. It's a
runtime lock file owned by the Claude Code harness, not project source.
Add .claude/*.lock too so future harness artifacts in that directory
don't need their own gitignore entries.

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>
2026-04-16 23:14:03 -07:00
Garry Tan bd44c27a18 chore: bump version and changelog (v0.19.0.0) — /plan-tune v1
Ships /plan-tune as observational substrate: typed question registry, dual-track
developer profile (declared + inferred), explicit per-question preferences with
user-origin gate, inline tune: feedback across every tier >= 2 skill, unified
developer-profile.json with migration from builder-profile.jsonl.

Scope rolled back from initial CEO EXPANSION plan after outside-voice review
(Codex). 6 deferrals tracked as P0 TODOs with explicit acceptance criteria:
E1 substrate wiring, E3 narrative/vibe, E4 blind-spot coach, E5 LANDED
celebration, E6 auto-adjustment, E7 psychographic auto-decide.

See docs/designs/PLAN_TUNING_V0.md for the full design record.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-17 13:38:44 +08:00
Garry Tan da190c2ccd Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into garrytan/plan-tune-skill 2026-04-17 13:34:37 +08:00
Garry Tan 2b3f9676f2 test: E2E test for /plan-tune plain-English inspection flow (gate tier)
test/skill-e2e-plan-tune.test.ts — verifies /plan-tune correctly routes
plain-English intent ("review the questions I've been asked") to the
Review question log section without requiring CLI subcommand syntax.

Seeds a synthetic question-log.jsonl with 3 entries exercising:
- override behavior (user chose expand over recommended selective)
- one-way door respect (user followed ship-test-failure-triage recommendation)
- two-way override (user skipped recommended changelog polish)

Invokes the skill via `claude -p` and asserts:
- Agent surfaces >= 2 of 3 logged question_ids in output
- Agent notices override/skip behavior from the log
- Exit reason is success or error_max_turns (not agent-crash)

Gate-tier because the core v1 DX promise is plain-English intent routing.
If it requires memorized subcommands or breaks on natural language, that's
a regression of the defining feature.

Registered in test/helpers/touchfiles.ts with dependencies:
- plan-tune/** (skill template + generated md)
- scripts/question-registry.ts (required for log lookup)
- scripts/psychographic-signals.ts, scripts/one-way-doors.ts (derive path)
- bin/gstack-question-log, gstack-question-preference, gstack-developer-profile

Skipped when EVALS_ENABLED is not set; runs on `bun run test:evals`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-17 06:48:10 +08:00
Garry Tan 0427c957f2 test: end-to-end pipeline + preamble injection coverage
Added 6 tests to test/plan-tune.test.ts:

Preamble injection (3 tests):
- tier 2+ includes Question Tuning section with preference check, log,
  and user-origin gate language ('profile-poisoning defense', 'inline-user')
- tier 1 does NOT include the prose section (QUESTION_TUNING bash echo
  still fires since it's in the bash block all tiers share)
- codex host swaps binDir references to $GSTACK_BIN

End-to-end pipeline (3 tests) — real binaries working together, not mocks:
- Log 5 expand choices → --derive → profile shows scope_appetite > 0.5
  (full log → registry lookup → signal map → normalization round-trip)
- --write source: inline-tool-output rejected; --read confirms no pref
  was persisted (the profile-poisoning defense actually works end-to-end)
- Migrate a 3-session legacy file; confirm legacy gstack-builder-profile
  shim still returns SESSION_COUNT: 3, TIER: welcome_back, CROSS_PROJECT: true

test/plan-tune.test.ts now has 47 tests total.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-17 06:45:09 +08:00
Garry Tan b7c6150b6f feat: /plan-tune skill — conversational inspection + preferences
plan-tune/SKILL.md.tmpl: the user-facing skill for /plan-tune v1. Routes
plain-English intent to one of 8 flows:

  - Enable + setup (first-time): 5 declaration questions mapping to the
    5 psychographic dimensions (scope_appetite, risk_tolerance,
    detail_preference, autonomy, architecture_care). Writes to
    developer-profile.json declared.*.
  - Inspect profile: plain-English rendering of declared + inferred + gap.
    Uses word bands (low/balanced/high) not raw floats. Shows vibe archetype
    when calibration gate is met.
  - Review question log: top-20 question frequencies with follow/override
    counts. Highlights override-heavy questions as candidates for never-ask.
  - Set a preference: normalizes "stop asking me about X" → never-ask, etc.
    Confirms ambiguous phrasings before writing via gstack-question-preference.
  - Edit declared profile: interprets free-form ("more boil-the-ocean") and
    CONFIRMS before mutating declared.* (trust boundary per Codex #15).
  - Show gap: declared vs inferred diff with plain-English severity bands
    (close / drift / mismatch). Never auto-updates declared from the gap.
  - Stats: preference counts + diversity/calibration status.
  - Enable / disable: gstack-config set question_tuning true|false.

Design constraints enforced:
- Plain English everywhere. No CLI subcommand syntax required. Shortcuts
  (`profile`, `vibe`, `stats`, `setup`) exist but optional.
- user-origin gate on tune: writes. source: "plan-tune" for user-invoked
  /plan-tune; source: "inline-user" for inline tune: from other skills.
- One-way doors override never-ask (safety, surfaced to user).
- No behavior adaptation in v1 — this skill inspects and configures only.

Generates plan-tune/SKILL.md at ~11.6k tokens, well under the 100KB ceiling.
Generated for all hosts via `bun run gen:skill-docs --host all`.

Full free test suite: 1149 pass, 0 fail, 113 skip across 28 files.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-17 06:44:08 +08:00
Garry Tan 822e843a60 fix: headed browser auto-shutdown + disconnect cleanup (v0.18.1.0) (#1025)
* fix: headed browser no longer auto-shuts down after 15 seconds

The parent-process watchdog in server.ts polls the spawning CLI's PID
every 15s and self-terminates if it is gone. The connect command in
cli.ts exits with process.exit(0) immediately after launching the server,
so the watchdog would reliably kill the headed browser within ~15s.

This contradicted the idle timer's own design: server.ts:745 explicitly
skips headed mode because "the user is looking at the browser. Never
auto-die." The watchdog had no such exemption.

Two-layer fix:
1. CLI layer: connect handler always sets BROWSE_PARENT_PID=0 (was only
   pass-through for pair-agent subprocesses). The user owns the headed
   browser lifecycle; cleanup happens via browser disconnect event or
   $B disconnect.
2. CLI layer: startServer() honors caller's BROWSE_PARENT_PID=0 in the
   headless spawn path too. Lets CI, non-interactive shells, and Claude
   Code Bash calls opt into persistent servers across short-lived CLI
   invocations.
3. Server layer: defense-in-depth. Watchdog now also skips when
   BROWSE_HEADED=1, so even if a future launcher forgets PID=0, headed
   browsers won't die. Adds log lines when the watchdog is disabled
   so lifecycle debugging is easier.

Four community contributors diagnosed variants of this bug independently.
Thanks for the clear analyses and reproductions.

Closes #1020 (rocke2020)
Closes #1018 (sanghyuk-seo-nexcube)
Closes #1012 (rodbland2021)
Closes #986 (jbetala7)
Closes #1006
Closes #943

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Co-Authored-By: sanghyuk-seo-nexcube <noreply@github.com>
Co-Authored-By: rodbland2021 <noreply@github.com>
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix: disconnect handler runs full cleanup before exiting

When the user closed the headed browser window, the disconnect handler
in browser-manager.ts called process.exit(2) directly, bypassing the
server's shutdown() function entirely. That meant:

- sidebar-agent daemon kept polling a dead server
- session state wasn't saved
- Chromium profile locks (SingletonLock, SingletonSocket, SingletonCookie)
  weren't cleaned — causing "profile in use" errors on next $B connect
- state file at .gstack/browse.json was left stale

Now the disconnect handler calls onDisconnect(), which server.ts wires
up to shutdown(2). Full cleanup runs first, then the process exits with
code 2 — preserving the existing semantic that distinguishes user-close
(exit 2) from crashes (exit 1).

shutdown() now accepts an optional exitCode parameter (default 0) so
the SIGTERM/SIGINT paths and the disconnect path can share cleanup code
while preserving their distinct exit codes.

Surfaced by Codex during /plan-eng-review of the watchdog fix.

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

* fix: pre-existing test flakiness in relink.test.ts

The 23 tests in this file all shell out to gstack-config + gstack-relink
(bash scripts doing subprocess work). Under parallel bun test load, those
subprocess spawns contend with other test suites and each test can drift
~200ms past Bun's 5s default timeout, causing 5+ flaky timeouts per run
in the gate-tier ship gate.

Wrap the `test` import to default the per-test timeout to 15s. Explicit
per-test timeouts (third arg) still win, so individual tests can lower
it if needed. No behavior change — only gives subprocess-heavy tests
more headroom under parallel load.

Noticed by /ship pre-flight test run. Unrelated to the main PR fix but
blocking the gate, so fixing as a separate commit per the test ownership
protocol.

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

* fix: SIGTERM/SIGINT shutdown exit code regression

Node's signal listeners receive the signal name ('SIGTERM' / 'SIGINT')
as the first argument. When shutdown() started accepting an optional
exitCode parameter in the prior disconnect-cleanup commit, the bare
`process.on('SIGTERM', shutdown)` registration started silently calling
shutdown('SIGTERM'). The string passed through to process.exit(), Node
coerced it to NaN, and the process exited with code 1 instead of 0.

Wrap both listeners so they call shutdown() with no args — signal name
never leaks into the exitCode slot. Surfaced by /ship's adversarial
subagent.

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

* fix: onDisconnect async rejection leaves process running

The disconnect handler calls this.onDisconnect() without awaiting it,
but server.ts wires the callback to shutdown(2) — which is async. If
that promise rejects, the rejection drops on the floor as an unhandled
rejection, the browser is already disconnected, and the server keeps
running indefinitely with no browser attached.

Add a sync try/catch for throws and a .catch() chain for promise
rejections. Both fall back to process.exit(2) so a dead browser never
leaves a live server. Also widen the callback type from `() => void`
to `() => void | Promise<void>` to match the actual runtime shape of
the wired shutdown(2) call.

Surfaced by /ship's adversarial subagent.

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

* fix: honor BROWSE_PARENT_PID=0 with trailing whitespace

The strict string compare `process.env.BROWSE_PARENT_PID === '0'` meant
any stray newline or whitespace (common from shell `export` in a pipe or
heredoc) would fail the check and re-enable the watchdog against the
caller's intent.

Switch to parseInt + === 0, matching the server's own parseInt at
server.ts:760. Handles '0', '0\n', ' 0 ', and unset correctly; non-numeric
values (parseInt returns NaN, NaN === 0 is false) fail safe — watchdog
stays active, which is the safe default for unexpected input.

Surfaced by /ship's adversarial subagent.

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

* fix: preserve bun:test sub-APIs in relink test wrapper

The previous commit wrapped bun:test's `test` to bump the per-test
timeout default to 15s but cast the wrapper `as typeof _bunTest`
without copying the sub-properties (`.only`, `.skip`, `.each`,
`.todo`, `.failing`, `.if`) from the original. The cast was a lie:
the wrapper was a plain function, not the full callable with those
chained properties attached.

The file doesn't use any of them today, but a future test.only or
test.skip would fail with a cryptic "undefined is not a function."
Object.assign the original _bunTest's properties onto the wrapper so
sub-APIs chain correctly forever.

Surfaced by /ship's adversarial subagent.

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

* chore: bump version and changelog (v0.18.1.0)

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

* test: regression tests for parent-process watchdog

End-to-end tests in browse/test/watchdog.test.ts that prove the three
invariants v0.18.1.0 depends on. Each test spawns the real server.ts
(not a mock), so any future change that breaks the watchdog logic fails
here — the thing /ship's adversarial review flagged as missing.

1. BROWSE_PARENT_PID=0 disables the watchdog
   Spawns server with PID=0, reads stdout, confirms the
   "watchdog disabled (BROWSE_PARENT_PID=0)" log line appears and
   "Parent process ... exited" does NOT. ~2s.

2. BROWSE_HEADED=1 disables the watchdog (server-side guard)
   Spawns server with BROWSE_HEADED=1 and a bogus parent PID (999999).
   Proves BROWSE_HEADED takes precedence over a present PID — if the
   server-side defense-in-depth regresses, the watchdog would try to
   poll 999999 and fire on the "dead parent." ~2s.

3. Default headless mode: watchdog fires when parent dies
   The regression guard for the original orphan-prevention behavior.
   Spawns a real `sleep 60` parent and a server watching its PID, then
   kills the parent and waits up to 25s for the server to exit. The
   watchdog polls every 15s so first tick is 0-15s after death, plus
   shutdown() cleanup. ~18s.

Total runtime: ~21s for all 3 tests. They catch the class of bug this
branch exists to fix: "does the process live or die when it should?"

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

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Co-authored-by: rocke2020 <noreply@github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-16 15:39:44 -07:00
Garry Tan c837e2403e chore: regenerate SKILL.md files with question-tuning section
bun run gen:skill-docs --host all after wiring the QUESTION_TUNING preamble
section. Every tier >= 2 skill now includes the combined Question Tuning
guidance. Runtime-gated — agents skip the section when question_tuning is
off in gstack-config (default).

Golden fixtures (claude-ship, codex-ship, factory-ship) updated to the new
baseline.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-17 06:38:53 +08:00
Garry Tan f388ed67b7 feat: wire question-tuning into preamble for tier >= 2 skills
scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts — adds two things:

  1. _QUESTION_TUNING config echo in the preamble bash block, gated on the
     user's gstack-config `question_tuning` value (default: false).
  2. A combined Question Tuning section for tier >= 2 skills, injected after
     the confusion protocol. The section itself is runtime-gated by the
     QUESTION_TUNING value — agents skip it entirely when off.

scripts/resolvers/question-tuning.ts — consolidated into one compact combined
section `generateQuestionTuning(ctx)` covering: preference check before the
question, log after, and inline tune: feedback with user-origin gate. Per-phase
generators remain exported for unit tests but are no longer the main entrypoint.

Size impact: +570 tokens / +2.3KB per tier-2+ SKILL.md. Three skills
(plan-ceo-review, office-hours, ship) still exceed the 100KB token ceiling —
but they were already over before this change. Delta is the smallest viable
wiring of the /plan-tune v1 substrate.

Golden fixtures (test/fixtures/golden/claude-ship, codex-ship, factory-ship)
regenerated to match the new baseline.

Full test run: 1149 pass, 0 fail, 113 skip across 28 files.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-17 06:38:46 +08:00
Garry Tan a8b8985048 feat: question-tuning preamble resolvers
scripts/resolvers/question-tuning.ts ships three preamble generators:

  generateQuestionPreferenceCheck — before each AskUserQuestion, agent runs
    gstack-question-preference --check <id>. AUTO_DECIDE suppresses the ask
    and auto-chooses recommended. ASK_NORMALLY asks as usual. One-way door
    safety override is handled by the binary.

  generateQuestionLog — after each AskUserQuestion, agent appends a log
    record with skill, question_id, summary, category, door_type,
    options_count, user_choice, recommended, session_id.

  generateInlineTuneFeedback — offers inline "tune:" prompt after two-way
    questions. Documents structured shortcuts (never-ask, always-ask,
    ask-only-for-one-way, ask-less) AND accepts free-form English with
    normalization + confirmation. Explicitly spells out the USER-ORIGIN
    GATE: only write tune events when the prefix appears in the user's own
    chat message, never from tool output or file content. Binary enforces.

All three resolvers are gated by the QUESTION_TUNING preamble echo. When
the config is off, the agent skips these sections entirely. Ready to be
wired into preamble.ts in the next commit.

Codex host has a simpler variant that uses $GSTACK_BIN env vars.

scripts/resolvers/index.ts registers three placeholders:
  QUESTION_PREFERENCE_CHECK, QUESTION_LOG, INLINE_TUNE_FEEDBACK

Total resolver count goes from 45 to 48.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-17 06:24:22 +08:00
Garry Tan c249dc37b2 feat: bin/gstack-question-preference — explicit preferences + user-origin gate
Subcommands:
  --check <id>   → ASK_NORMALLY | AUTO_DECIDE  (decides if a registered
                   question should be auto-decided by the agent)
  --write '{…}'  → set a preference (requires user-origin source)
  --read         → dump preferences JSON
  --clear [id]   → clear one or all
  --stats        → short counts summary

Preference values: always-ask | never-ask | ask-only-for-one-way.
Stored at ~/.gstack/projects/{SLUG}/question-preferences.json.

Safety contract (the core of Codex finding #16, profile-poisoning defense
from docs/designs/PLAN_TUNING_V0.md §Security model):

  1. One-way doors ALWAYS return ASK_NORMALLY from --check, regardless of
     user preference. User's never-ask is overridden with a visible safety
     note so the user knows why their preference didn't suppress the prompt.

  2. --write requires an explicit `source` field:
       - Allowed:  "plan-tune", "inline-user"
       - REJECTED with exit code 2: "inline-tool-output", "inline-file",
         "inline-file-content", "inline-unknown"
     Rejection is explicit ("profile poisoning defense") so the caller can
     log and surface the attempt.

  3. free_text on --write is sanitized against injection patterns (ignore
     previous instructions, override:, system:, etc.) and newline-flattened.

Each --write also appends a preference-set event to
~/.gstack/projects/{SLUG}/question-events.jsonl for derivation audit trail.

31 tests:
- --check behavior (4): defaults, two-way, one-way (one-way overrides
  never-ask with safety note), unknown ids, missing arg
- --check with prefs (5): never-ask on two-way → AUTO_DECIDE; never-ask
  on one-way → ASK_NORMALLY with override note; always-ask always asks;
  ask-only-for-one-way flips appropriately
- --write valid (5): inline-user accepted, plan-tune accepted, persisted
  correctly, event appended, free_text preserved with flattening
- User-origin gate (6): missing source rejected; inline-tool-output
  rejected with exit code 2 and explicit poisoning message; inline-file,
  inline-file-content, inline-unknown rejected; unknown source rejected
- Schema validation (4): invalid JSON, bad question_id, bad preference,
  injection in free_text
- --read (2): empty → {}, returns writes
- --clear (3): specific id, clear-all, NOOP for missing
- --stats (2): empty zeros, tallies by preference type

31 pass, 0 fail, 52 expect() calls.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-17 06:22:57 +08:00
Garry Tan 2b54677398 feat: bin/gstack-developer-profile — unified profile with migration
bin/gstack-developer-profile supersedes bin/gstack-builder-profile. The old
binary becomes a one-line legacy shim delegating to --read for /office-hours
backward compat.

Subcommands:
  --read              legacy KEY:VALUE output (tier, session_count, etc)
  --migrate           folds ~/.gstack/builder-profile.jsonl into
                      ~/.gstack/developer-profile.json. Atomic (temp + rename),
                      idempotent (no-op when target exists or source absent),
                      archives source as .migrated-YYYY-MM-DD-HHMMSS
  --derive            recomputes inferred dimensions from question-log.jsonl
                      using the signal map in scripts/psychographic-signals.ts
  --profile           full profile JSON
  --gap               declared vs inferred diff JSON
  --trace <dim>       event-level trace of what contributed to a dimension
  --check-mismatch    flags dimensions where declared and inferred disagree by
                      > 0.3 (requires >= 10 events first)
  --vibe              archetype name + description from scripts/archetypes.ts
  --narrative         (v2 stub)

Auto-migration on first read: if legacy file exists and new file doesn't,
migrate before reading. Creates a neutral (all-0.5) stub if nothing exists.

Unified schema (see docs/designs/PLAN_TUNING_V0.md §Architecture):
  {identity, declared, inferred: {values, sample_size, diversity},
   gap, overrides, sessions, signals_accumulated, schema_version}

25 new tests across subcommand behaviors:
- --read defaults + stub creation
- --migrate: 3 sessions preserved with signal tallies, idempotency, archival
- Tier calculation: welcome_back / regular / inner_circle boundaries
- --derive: neutral-when-empty, upward nudge on 'expand', downward on 'reduce',
  recomputable (same input → same output), ad-hoc unregistered ids ignored
- --trace: contributing events, empty for untouched dims, error without arg
- --gap: empty when no declared, correctly computed otherwise
- --vibe: returns archetype name + description
- --check-mismatch: threshold behavior, 10+ sample requirement
- Unknown subcommand errors

25 pass, 0 fail, 60 expect() calls.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-17 06:20:25 +08:00
Garry Tan a949de76b6 feat: bin/gstack-question-log — append validated AskUserQuestion events
Append-only JSONL log at ~/.gstack/projects/{SLUG}/question-log.jsonl.
Schema: {skill, question_id, question_summary, category?, door_type?,
options_count?, user_choice, recommended?, followed_recommendation?,
session_id?, ts}

Validates:
- skill is kebab-case
- question_id is kebab-case, <= 64 chars
- question_summary non-empty, <= 200 chars, newlines flattened
- category is one of approval/clarification/routing/cherry-pick/feedback-loop
- door_type is one-way or two-way
- options_count is integer in [1, 26]
- user_choice non-empty string, <= 64 chars

Injection defense on question_summary rejects the same patterns as
gstack-learnings-log (ignore previous instructions, system:, override:,
do not report, etc).

followed_recommendation is auto-computed when both user_choice and
recommended are present.

ts auto-injected as ISO 8601 if missing.

21 tests covering: valid payloads, full field preservation, auto-followed
computation, appending, long-summary truncation, newline flattening,
invalid JSON, missing fields, bad case, oversized ids, invalid enum
values, out-of-range options_count, and 6 injection attack patterns.

21 pass, 0 fail, 43 expect() calls.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-17 06:16:54 +08:00
Garry Tan 5e20a3b718 feat: psychographic signal map + builder archetypes
scripts/psychographic-signals.ts — hand-crafted {signal_key, user_choice} →
{dimension, delta} map. Version 0.1.0. Conservative deltas (±0.03 to ±0.06
per event). Covers 9 signal keys: scope-appetite, architecture-care,
code-quality-care, test-discipline, detail-preference, design-care,
devex-care, distribution-care, session-mode.

Helpers: applySignal() mutates running totals, newDimensionTotals() creates
empty starting state, normalizeToDimensionValue() sigmoid-clamps accumulated
delta to [0,1] (0 → 0.5 neutral), validateRegistrySignalKeys() checks that
every signal_key in the registry has a SIGNAL_MAP entry.

In v1 the signal map is used ONLY to compute inferred dimension values for
/plan-tune inspection output. No skill behavior adapts to these signals
until v2.

scripts/archetypes.ts — 8 named archetypes + Polymath fallback:
- Cathedral Builder (boil-the-ocean + architecture-first)
- Ship-It Pragmatist (small scope + fast)
- Deep Craft (detail-verbose + principled)
- Taste Maker (intuitive, overrides recommendations)
- Solo Operator (high-autonomy, delegates)
- Consultant (hands-on, consulted on everything)
- Wedge Hunter (narrow scope aggressively)
- Builder-Coach (balanced steering)
- Polymath (fallback when no archetype matches)

matchArchetype() uses L2 distance scaled by tightness, with a 0.55 threshold
below which we return Polymath. v1 ships the model stable; v2 narrative/vibe
commands wire it into user-facing output.

14 new tests: signal map consistency vs registry, applySignal behavior for
known/unknown keys, normalization bounds, archetype schema validity, name
uniqueness, matchArchetype correctness for each reference profile, Polymath
fallback for outliers.

41 pass, 0 fail total in test/plan-tune.test.ts.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-17 06:14:55 +08:00
Garry Tan db3b6412b9 feat: one-way door classifier (belt-and-suspenders safety fallback)
scripts/one-way-doors.ts — secondary keyword-pattern classifier that catches
destructive questions even when the registry doesn't have an entry for them.

The registry's door_type field (from scripts/question-registry.ts) is the
PRIMARY safety gate. This classifier is the fallback for ad-hoc question_ids
that agents generate at runtime.

Classification priority:
  1. Registry lookup by question_id → use declared door_type
  2. Skill:category fallback (cso:approval, land-and-deploy:approval)
  3. Keyword pattern match against question_summary
  4. Default: treat as two-way (safer to log the miss than auto-decide unsafely)

Covers 21 destructive patterns across:
  - File system (rm -rf, delete, wipe, purge, truncate)
  - Database (drop table/database/schema, delete from)
  - Git/VCS (force-push, reset --hard, checkout --, branch -D)
  - Deploy/infra (kubectl delete, terraform destroy, rollback)
  - Credentials (revoke/reset/rotate API key|token|secret|password)
  - Architecture (breaking change, schema migration, data model change)

7 new tests in test/plan-tune.test.ts covering: registry-first lookup,
unknown-id fallthrough, keyword matching on destructive phrasings including
embedded filler words ("rotate the API key"), skill-category fallback,
benign questions defaulting to two-way, pattern-list non-empty.

27 pass, 0 fail. 1270 expect() calls.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-17 06:12:39 +08:00
Garry Tan 2c0c95099f test: registry schema + safety + coverage tests (gate tier)
20 tests validating the question registry:

Schema (7 tests):
- Every entry has required fields
- All ids are kebab-case and start with their skill name
- No duplicate ids
- Categories are from the allowed set
- door_type is one-way | two-way
- Options arrays are well-formed
- Descriptions are short and single-line

Helpers (5 tests):
- getQuestion returns entry for known id, undefined for unknown
- getOneWayDoorIds includes destructive questions, excludes two-way
- getAllRegisteredIds count matches QUESTIONS keys
- getRegistryStats totals are internally consistent

One-way door safety (2 tests):
- Every critical question (test failure, SQL safety, LLM trust boundary,
  security scan, merge confirm, rollback, fix apply, premise revise,
  arch finding, privacy gate, user challenge) is declared one-way
- At least 10 one-way doors exist (catches regression if declarations
  are accidentally dropped)

Registry breadth (3 tests):
- 11 high-volume skills each have >= 1 registered question
- Preamble one-time prompts are registered
- /plan-tune's own questions are registered

Signal map references (1 test):
- signal_key values are typed kebab-case strings

Template coverage (2 tests, informational):
- AskUserQuestion usage across templates is non-trivial (>20)
- Registry spans >= 10 skills

20 pass, 0 fail.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-17 06:10:57 +08:00
Garry Tan 70ab8326b6 feat: typed question registry for /plan-tune v1 foundation
scripts/question-registry.ts declares 53 recurring AskUserQuestion categories
across 15 skills (ship, review, office-hours, plan-ceo-review, plan-eng-review,
plan-design-review, plan-devex-review, qa, investigate, land-and-deploy, cso,
gstack-upgrade, preamble, plan-tune, autoplan).

Each entry has: stable kebab-case id, skill owner, category (approval |
clarification | routing | cherry-pick | feedback-loop), door_type (one-way
| two-way), optional stable option keys, optional psychographic signal_key,
and a one-line description.

12 of 53 are one-way doors (destructive ops, architecture/data forks,
security/compliance). These are ALWAYS asked regardless of user preference.

Helpers: getQuestion(id), getOneWayDoorIds(), getAllRegisteredIds(),
getRegistryStats(). No binary or resolver wiring yet — this is the schema
substrate the rest of /plan-tune builds on.

Ad-hoc question_ids (not registered) still log but skip psychographic
signal attribution. Future /plan-tune skill surfaces frequently-firing
ad-hoc ids as candidates for registry promotion.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-17 06:09:49 +08:00
Garry Tan 2904ddeb92 docs: add design doc for /plan-tune v1 (observational substrate)
Canonical record of the /plan-tune v1 design: typed question registry,
per-question explicit preferences, inline tune: feedback with user-origin
gate, dual-track profile (declared + inferred separately), and plain-English
inspection skill. Captures every decision with pros/cons, what's deferred to
v2 with explicit acceptance criteria, and what was rejected entirely.

Codex review drove a substantial scope rollback from the initial CEO
EXPANSION plan. 15+ legitimate findings (substrate claim was false without
a typed registry; E4/E6/clamp logical contradiction; profile poisoning
attack surface; LANDED preamble side effect; implementation order) shaped
the final shape.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-17 06:06:52 +08:00
Garry Tan cc42f14a58 docs: gstack compact design doc (tabled pending Anthropic API) (#1027)
Preserves the full architecture, 15 locked eng-review decisions, B-series
benchmark spec, codex review findings, and research that confirmed Claude
Code's PostToolUse cannot replace non-MCP tool output today. Tracks
anthropics/claude-code#36843 for the unblocking API.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-16 15:04:26 -07:00
Boyu Liu 0cc830b65f fix: avoid tilde-in-assignment to silence Claude Code permission prompts (#993)
Thanks @byliu-labs. Replaces `VAR=~/path` with `VAR="$HOME/path"` in two source-of-truth locations (scripts/resolvers/browse.ts + gstack-upgrade/SKILL.md.tmpl) so Claude Code's sandbox stops asking for permission on every skill invocation.

Co-Authored-By: Boyu Liu <byliu-labs@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-04-16 14:49:56 -07:00
Garry Tan 6a785c5729 fix: ngrok Windows build + close CI error-swallowing gap (v0.18.0.1) (#1024)
* fix(browse): externalize @ngrok/ngrok so Node server bundle builds on Windows

@ngrok/ngrok has a native .node addon that causes `bun build --outfile` to
fail with "cannot write multiple output files without an output directory".
Externalize it alongside the existing runtime deps (playwright, diff,
bun:sqlite), matching the exact pattern used for every other dynamic import
in server.ts.

Adds a policy comment explaining when to extend the externals list so the
next native dep doesn't repeat this failure.

Two community contributors independently converged on this fix:
 - @tomasmontbrun-hash (#1019)
 - @scarson (#1013)
Also fixes issues #1010 and #960.

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

* fix(package.json): subshell cleanup so || true stops masking build/test failures

Shell operator precedence trap in both the build and test scripts:

    cmd1 && cmd2 && ... && rm -f .*.bun-build || true
    bun test ... && bun run slop:diff 2>/dev/null || true

The trailing `|| true` was intended to suppress cleanup errors, but it
applies to the entire `&&` chain — so ANY failure (including the
build-node-server.sh failure that broke Windows installs since v0.15.12)
silently exits 0. CI ran the build, the build failed, and CI reported green.

Wrap the cleanup/slop-diff commands in subshells so `|| true` only scopes to
the intended step:

    ... && (rm -f .*.bun-build || true)
    bun test ... && (bun run slop:diff 2>/dev/null || true)

Verified: `bash -c 'false && echo A && rm -f X || true'` exits 0 (old,
broken), `bash -c 'false && echo A && (rm -f X || true)'` exits 1 (new,
correct).

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

* test(browse): add build validation test for server-node.mjs

Two assertions:
1. `node --check` passes on the built `server-node.mjs` (valid ES module
   syntax). This catches regressions where the post-processing steps (perl
   regex replacements) corrupt the bundle.
2. No inlined `@ngrok/ngrok` module identifiers (ngrok_napi, platform-
   specific binding packages). Verifies the --external flag actually kept
   it external.

Skips gracefully when `browse/dist/server-node.mjs` is missing — the dist
dir is gitignored, so a fresh clone + `bun test` without a prior build is
a valid state, not a failure.

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

* fix(setup): verify @ngrok/ngrok can load on Windows

Mirror the existing Playwright verification step. Since @ngrok/ngrok is
now externalized in server-node.mjs (resolved at runtime from node_modules),
confirm the platform-specific native binary (@ngrok/ngrok-win32-x64-msvc et
al.) is installed at setup time rather than surfacing the failure later
when the user runs /pair-agent.

Same fallback pattern: if `node -e "require('@ngrok/ngrok')"` fails, fall
back to `npm install --no-save @ngrok/ngrok` to pull the missing binary.

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

* chore: bump to v0.18.0.1 for ngrok Windows fix + CI error-propagation

Fixes shipped in this version:
- Externalize @ngrok/ngrok so the Node server bundle builds on Windows
  (PRs #1019, #1013; issues #1010, #960)
- Shell precedence fix so build/test failures no longer exit 0 in CI
- Build validation test for server-node.mjs
- Windows setup verifies @ngrok/ngrok native binary is loadable

Credit: @tomasmontbrun-hash (#1019), @scarson (#1013).

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>
2026-04-16 13:49:04 -07:00