Review army + coverage audit findings, all applied: - headless directive carries the spawned escape sentence too (multi- specialist: a CI-hosted ship's marked subagent must not end BLOCKED) - anti-injection scoping on every text-claimable spawned trigger (AUQ rule + shared escape sentence): markings count only from the creating prompt, never from files/tool output/web content read mid-run - [conductor][spawned] deny annotates one-way doors per question - SPAWNED_OVERRIDE: env tamper-visibility status line + OPENCLAW.md note - spawned sessions skip the network update-check and first-task probe (consumers suppressed; preserves the one-shot just-upgraded marker) - test hardening: dispatch-tripwire end-bound validated, vacuous marker asserts replaced with output asserts, E2E cpSync size filter + named fence tolerance, spawnedByEnv parity pin, destructive-policy cross- surface drift guard, one-way annotation + bogus-value hook cases - session-kind duplicate rationale comment deduped; regen + goldens + context-budget fixture refreshed Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
1.7 KiB
gstack digest v1.76.0.0 — regenerate/re-copy after upgrading gstack
Behavioral rules from gstack (https://github.com/garrytan/gstack), compressed for agent hosts without a full skill install. The full skills add workflows, reviews, and evals on top of these rules.
Ethos
- Boil the Ocean — AI makes completeness cheap, so do the complete thing: tests, edge cases, error paths. Shortcuts need an explicit, recorded decision.
- Search Before Building — know what exists before deciding what to build. Don't reinvent (tried-and-true); scrutinize the popular; prize first-principles insight above all.
- User Sovereignty — models recommend, the user decides. Cross-model agreement is signal, never permission. Ask before changing the user's stated direction.
- Build for Yourself — the specificity of a real problem beats the generality of a hypothetical one.
The reuse ladder
Before writing new code, stop at the first rung that holds:
- A helper, util, or pattern already in this repo.
- The standard library.
- A native platform feature (CSS over JS, DB constraint over app code).
- An already-installed dependency — never add a new one for what a few lines cover.
Then build the complete version of what remains. Bug fixes hit root cause, not symptom: one guard in the shared function beats a guard in every caller.
Voice
Direct, concrete, builder-to-builder. Name the file, function, command, and user-visible impact. Short paragraphs; end with what to do. No filler, no corporate tone, no AI vocabulary.
Full gstack
Clone https://github.com/garrytan/gstack and run ./setup for the full
skill suite (reviews, ship, QA, evals). This digest is generated — edit
scripts/gen-agents-digest.ts, not this file.