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Garry TanandClaude Fable 5 394db326f2 v1.71.0.0 feat: token-load reduction — preamble runtime scripts, gated onboarding, 20 skill carves, CLAUDE.md trim (#2691)
* 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).

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* chore(gen): regenerate SKILL.md — dead frontmatter keys removed

Mechanical regen after hosts/claude.ts stripFields change.

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* 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.

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* 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.

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* 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.

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* 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).

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* chore: bump version and changelog (v1.69.1.0)

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* 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.

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* 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.

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* docs(changelog): heaviest-skill claim matches the fixture (land-and-deploy edges review by 0.2%)

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* 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.

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* 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.

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* 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.

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* 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.

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* 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.

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* 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.

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* 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.

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* 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.

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* 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).

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* 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.

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* 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.

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* 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.

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* chore(gen): regenerate all skills + goldens — AUQ slim

Mechanical regen: −1.3KB per tier-2+ skill (ship 69.9KB, learn 32.5KB).

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* 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.

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* 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).

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* 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.

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* 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).

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* 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).

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* 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).

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* 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).

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* 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).

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* 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).

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* 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).

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* 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.

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* feat(qa): carve QA patterns + health rubric into on-demand sections (68→48KB skeleton)

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* feat(browse): carve full command list + snapshot flags into sections/command-list.md (39→27KB skeleton)

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* 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.

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* 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.

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* 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.

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* 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.

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* 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.

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* 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.

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* 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.

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* 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.

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* 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).

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* 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.

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* chore: regenerate renders for the question-log placeholder; goldens + baselines follow

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* 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)

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* 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).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* 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).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-27 09:50:31 -07:00

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---
name: setup-gbrain
preamble-tier: 2
version: 1.0.0
description: |
Set up gbrain for this coding agent: install the CLI, initialize a
local PGLite or Supabase brain, register MCP, capture per-remote trust
policy. One command from zero to "gbrain is running, and this agent
can call it." Use when: "setup gbrain", "connect gbrain", "start
gbrain", "install gbrain", "configure gbrain for this machine". (gstack)
triggers:
- setup gbrain
- install gbrain
- connect gbrain
- start gbrain
- configure gbrain
allowed-tools:
- Bash
- Read
- Write
- Edit
- Glob
- Grep
- AskUserQuestion
---
{{PREAMBLE}}
# /setup-gbrain — Coding-Agent Onboarding for gbrain
You are setting up gbrain (https://github.com/garrytan/gbrain), a persistent
knowledge base, on the user's local Mac so that this coding agent (typically
Claude Code) can call it as both a CLI and an MCP tool.
**Scope honesty:** This skill's MCP registration step (5a) uses
`claude mcp add` and targets Claude Code specifically. Other local hosts
(Cursor, Codex CLI, etc.) will still get the gbrain CLI on PATH — they can
register `gbrain serve` in their own MCP config manually after setup.
**Audience:** local-Mac users. openclaw/hermes agents typically run in cloud
docker containers with their own gbrain; "sharing" a brain between them and
local Claude Code is only possible through shared Postgres (Supabase).
## User-invocable
When the user types `/setup-gbrain`, run this skill. Three shortcut modes:
- `/setup-gbrain` — full flow (default)
- `/setup-gbrain --repo` — only flip the per-remote policy for the current repo
- `/setup-gbrain --switch` — only migrate the engine (PGLite ↔ Supabase)
- `/setup-gbrain --resume-provision <ref>` — re-enter a previously interrupted
Supabase auto-provision at the polling step
- `/setup-gbrain --cleanup-orphans` — list + delete in-flight Supabase projects
Parse the invocation args yourself — these are prose hints to the skill, not
implemented as a dispatcher binary.
---
{{SECTION_INDEX:setup-gbrain}}
---
## Step 1: Detect current state
```bash
~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-gbrain-detect
```
Capture the JSON output. It contains: `gbrain_on_path`, `gbrain_version`,
`gbrain_config_exists`, `gbrain_engine`, `gbrain_doctor_ok`, `gbrain_mcp_mode`,
`gstack_brain_sync_mode`, `gstack_brain_git`, `gstack_artifacts_remote`, and
the v1.34.0.0+ `gbrain_local_status` field (one of: `ok`, `no-cli`,
`missing-config`, `broken-config`, `broken-db`, `engine-locked`, `timeout`,
`thin-client`). Treat `timeout` like `ok` (slow-but-healthy engine, #1964) — it
never triggers Step 1.5 remediation. Treat `thin-client` like `ok` too (#2051):
the machine is a thin client of a remote-HTTP MCP brain, no local engine by
design — brain-aware blocks render, and the detect JSON carries
`gbrain_thin_client: {probed: false}` (config verified; remote reachability
is checked at use time, where gbrain calls degrade gracefully).
Skip downstream steps that are already done. Report the detected state in
one line so the user knows what you found:
> "Detected: gbrain v0.18.2 on PATH, engine=postgres, doctor=ok,
> sync=artifacts-only. Nothing to install; jumping to the policy check."
Branch on the `--repo`, `--switch`, `--resume-provision`, `--cleanup-orphans`
invocation flags here and skip to the matching step.
---
## Step 1.5: Broken-local-engine remediation (plan D4)
Read `gbrain_local_status` from the Step 1 detect output. **If it's `broken-db`
or `broken-config` AND no shortcut flag was passed**, the user has a
non-working local engine — run the remediation below BEFORE Step 2.
For `gbrain_local_status` values of `no-cli` or `missing-config`, do NOT fire
Step 1.5 — fall through to Step 2 (where `no-cli` triggers Step 3 install and
`missing-config` triggers Step 4 init). Do not read the remediation section in
that case.
{{SECTION:engine-remediation}}
---
## Step 1.7: Code-intelligence provider choice (Step 0 of indexing)
You are INSIDE /setup-gbrain: the user asked for gbrain by name, so the
provider question is already answered. NEVER ask it here, and never let this
step delay or derail the actual setup. Record the choice best-effort, then
continue immediately with Step 2:
```bash
[ -f ~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-code-intelligence ] \
&& bun ~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-code-intelligence select gbrain 2>/dev/null \
|| true
```
The offer ceremony below applies ONLY when this skill is reached from another
entry point where no provider was named (a routing skill exploring indexing
options). Even then:
- `"offer": false` with reason `bin-absent` → the installed gstack predates
the code-intelligence CLI. Skip this step entirely and continue with the
skill — the user asked for gbrain, so set up gbrain. Never block setup on
a missing optional gate.
- `"offer": false` with reason `small-repo` → grep is already fast here; say
so in one line and continue with this skill only if the user asked for
gbrain by name.
- `"offer": false` with reason `provider-selected` or `declined` → the
machine-wide question was already answered; apply it silently and continue.
- `"offer": true` → present the returned options ONCE via AskUserQuestion:
**GBrain** (recommended — semantic memory + code, sends repo content to
YOUR gbrain DB, per-repo consent), **Sourcebot** (self-hosted whole-repo
search, local when on localhost), **Graphify** (local tree-sitter graph,
nothing leaves the machine, user installs it), or **No indexing**. Record
the choice: `gstack-code-intelligence select <provider|none>` — `none`
persists the decline so NO skill ever asks again, on any repo
(re-enable: `gstack-code-intelligence select <provider>`). Local-compute
and remote-send providers are separate consents — never bundle them.
- Per-repo send consent (GBrain/Sourcebot) is recorded with
`gstack-code-intelligence consent <repo> yes|no` and is ALWAYS vetoed by a
`deny` tier in gstack-gbrain-repo-policy — the trust store is the single
authority for whether code leaves a repo.
If the user picked GBrain (or asked for this skill directly), continue below.
If they picked Sourcebot/Graphify, run `gstack-code-intelligence index <repo>`
and stop — the rest of this skill is gbrain-specific.
## Step 2: Pick a path (AskUserQuestion)
Only fire this if Step 1 shows no existing working config AND no shortcut
flag was passed. **Special case:** if `gbrain_mcp_mode=remote-http` in the
detect output, an HTTP MCP is already registered — skip directly to Step 5a
verification (re-test the registration) and Step 6 onward, treating this run
as idempotent. Don't ask Step 2 again.
The question title: "Where should your brain live?"
Options (present based on detected state):
- **1 — Supabase, I already have a connection string.** Cloud-agent users
whose openclaw/hermes provisioned one already. Paste the Session Pooler
URL from the Supabase dashboard (Settings → Database → Connection Pooler
→ Session). *Trust-surface caveat to include in the prompt:* "Pasting this
URL gives your local Claude Code full read/write access to every page your
cloud agent can see. If that's not the trust level you want, pick PGLite
local instead and accept the brains are disjoint."
- **2a — Supabase, auto-provision a new project.** You'll need a Supabase
Personal Access Token (~90 seconds). Best choice for a shared team brain.
- **2b — Supabase, create manually.** Walk through supabase.com signup
yourself; paste the URL back when ready.
- **3 — PGLite local.** Zero accounts, ~30 seconds. Isolated brain on this
Mac only. Best for try-first.
- **4 — Remote gbrain MCP.** Someone else (or another machine of yours) is
already running `gbrain serve` with HTTP transport. You paste the MCP URL
+ a bearer token; this skill registers it as your MCP. No local brain DB,
no local install needed. Recommended when the brain is shared across
machines or run by a teammate.
- **Switch** (only if Step 1 detected an existing engine): "You already have
a `<engine>` brain. Migrate it to the other engine?" → runs
`gbrain migrate --to <other>` wrapped in `timeout 180s` (D9).
Do NOT silently pick; fire the AskUserQuestion.
---
## Step 3: Install gbrain CLI (if missing)
**SKIP entirely on Path 4 (Remote MCP).** Path 4 doesn't need a local gbrain
binary — all calls go through MCP to the remote server. Jump to Step 4 (the
Path 4 subsection).
For Paths 1, 2a, 2b, 3, switch — only if `gbrain_on_path=false`:
```bash
~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-gbrain-install
```
The installer runs D5 detect-first (probes `~/git/gbrain`, `~/gbrain` first),
then D19 PATH-shadow validation (post-link `gbrain --version` must match
install-dir `package.json`). On D19 failure the installer exits 3 with a
clear remediation menu; surface the full output to the user and STOP. Do not
continue the skill — the environment is broken until the user fixes PATH.
---
## Step 4: Initialize the brain
Path-specific. The init procedure for the path picked in Step 2 — Paths 1, 2a,
2b, 3, 4 (4a-4e), and the Switch migration flow — lives in the brain-init
section. Run ONLY the sub-section for the picked path.
{{SECTION:brain-init}}
---
## Step 5: Verify gbrain doctor
**SKIP entirely on Path 4 (Remote MCP).** The brain host runs its own
doctor; we don't have local DB access to introspect. Step 4c's verify
round-trip already proved the server is reachable, authed, and on a
compatible MCP version.
For Paths 1, 2a, 2b, 3, switch:
```bash
doctor=$(gbrain doctor --json)
status=$(echo "$doctor" | jq -r .status)
```
If status is `ok` or `warnings`, proceed. Anything else → surface the full
doctor output and STOP.
---
## Step 5a: Register gbrain as Claude Code MCP (D18)
Only if `which claude` resolves. Ask: "Give Claude Code a typed tool surface
for gbrain? (recommended yes)"
The registration form depends on the path picked in Step 2:
### Path 4 (Remote MCP — HTTP transport with bearer)
Tear down any prior registration (could be local-stdio from an old setup,
or stale remote-http with a rotated token), then register with HTTP +
bearer at user scope:
```bash
claude mcp remove gbrain -s user 2>/dev/null || true
claude mcp remove gbrain 2>/dev/null || true
claude mcp add --scope user --transport http gbrain "$MCP_URL" \
--header "Authorization: Bearer $GBRAIN_MCP_TOKEN"
unset GBRAIN_MCP_TOKEN # zero from process env after registration
claude mcp list | grep gbrain # verify: should show "✓ Connected"
```
**Token-storage note:** `claude mcp add --header "Authorization: Bearer ..."`
puts the bearer on argv during process startup, briefly visible to `ps` for
~10ms. The token's resting state is `~/.claude.json` (mode 0600 — Claude
Code's own credential surface for every MCP server). This trade-off is
documented in `setup-gbrain/memory.md`. If a future Claude Code release adds
a stdin or env-var input form for headers, switch to that.
### Paths 1, 2a, 2b, 3 (Local stdio)
Register at **user scope** with an **absolute path** to the gbrain
binary. User scope makes the MCP available in every Claude Code session on
this machine, not just the current workspace. Absolute path avoids PATH
resolution issues when Claude Code spawns `gbrain serve` as a subprocess.
```bash
GBRAIN_BIN=$(command -v gbrain)
[ -z "$GBRAIN_BIN" ] && GBRAIN_BIN="$HOME/.bun/bin/gbrain"
claude mcp remove gbrain -s user 2>/dev/null || true
claude mcp remove gbrain 2>/dev/null || true
claude mcp add --scope user gbrain -- "$GBRAIN_BIN" serve
claude mcp list | grep gbrain # verify: should show "✓ Connected"
```
### Both paths
If `claude` is not on PATH: emit "MCP registration skipped — this skill is
Claude-Code-targeted; register `gbrain serve` (or your remote MCP URL) in
your agent's MCP config manually." Continue to step 6.
**Heads-up for the user:** an already-open Claude Code session will not
pick up the new MCP tools until restart. Tell them: "Restart any open
Claude Code sessions to see `mcp__gbrain__*` tools — they're loaded at
session start, not mid-session."
---
## Step 6: Per-remote policy (D3 triad, gated repo-import)
If we're in a git repo with an `origin` remote, check the policy:
```bash
current_tier=$(~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-gbrain-repo-policy get)
```
Branches:
- `read-write` → import this repo: `gbrain import "$(pwd)" --no-embed` then
`gbrain embed --stale &` in the background.
- `read-only` → skip import entirely (this tier is enforced by the future
auto-import hook + by gbrain resolver injection, not here).
- `deny` → do nothing.
- `unset` → AskUserQuestion: "How should `<normalized-remote>` interact with
gbrain?"
- `read-write` — agent can search AND write new pages from this repo
- `read-only` — agent can search but never write
- `deny` — no interaction at all
- `skip-for-now` — don't persist, ask next time
On answer (other than skip-for-now):
```bash
~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-gbrain-repo-policy set "$REMOTE" "$TIER"
```
Then import iff `read-write`.
If outside a git repo OR no origin remote: skip this step with a note.
For `/setup-gbrain --repo` invocations, execute ONLY Step 6 and exit.
---
## Step 7: Offer artifacts sync + wire it into gbrain
Renamed from "session memory sync" in v1.27.0.0 — the on-disk concept is
artifacts (CEO plans, designs, /investigate reports, retros) rather than
"session memory," which was a confusing name for what was always a
human-readable artifact bucket. Behavioral transcript ingest is its own
step (7.5) with its own option set.
Separate AskUserQuestion: "Also sync your gstack artifacts (CEO plans,
designs, reports, retros) to a private git repo that gbrain can index
across machines?"
Options:
- Yes, full sync (everything allowlisted)
- Yes, artifacts-only (plans, designs, retros — skip behavioral data)
- No thanks
If yes, run the artifacts-init helper. It asks the user to pick a git host
(GitHub via `gh`, GitLab via `glab`, or paste a URL manually), creates
`gstack-artifacts-$USER` (private), and writes the canonical HTTPS URL to
`~/.gstack-artifacts-remote.txt`. Pass `--url-form-supported` from Step 4c's
verify output (Path 4) or `false` (Paths 1/2/3 — local mode doesn't probe):
```bash
URL_FORM=${URL_FORM_SUPPORTED:-false}
~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-artifacts-init --url-form-supported "$URL_FORM"
~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-config set artifacts_sync_mode artifacts-only
# or "full" if user picked yes-full
```
`gstack-artifacts-init` always prints a "Send this to your brain admin" block
at the end with the exact `gbrain sources add` command. Per codex Finding #3:
the skill never auto-executes server-side gbrain commands; even if the user
IS the brain admin, copy-pasting the printed command is the consistent UX.
### Path 4 (Remote MCP) — done after artifacts-init
In remote mode, the local `gstack-gbrain-source-wireup` helper does NOT run
(it shells out to a local `gbrain` CLI which Path 4 doesn't install). The
brain admin runs the printed command on the brain host instead. Skip to Step 7.5.
### Paths 1, 2a, 2b, 3 (Local stdio) — wire up the federated source
Then wire the artifacts repo into gbrain so its content is searchable from
any gbrain client. The helper creates a `git worktree` of `~/.gstack/`,
registers it as a federated source via `gbrain sources add --path
--federated`, and runs an initial `gbrain sync`. Local-Mac only.
Capture the database URL out of `~/.gbrain/config.json` first and pass it
explicitly so the wireup is robust against any other process rewriting
`~/.gbrain/config.json` mid-sync (e.g., concurrent `gbrain init` runs
elsewhere on the machine):
```bash
GBRAIN_URL=$(python3 -c "
import json, os, sys
try:
c = json.load(open(os.path.expanduser('~/.gbrain/config.json')))
print(c.get('database_url', ''))
except Exception:
pass
")
~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-gbrain-source-wireup --strict \
${GBRAIN_URL:+--database-url "$GBRAIN_URL"}
```
`--strict` exits non-zero on missing prereqs (gbrain not installed, < 0.18.0,
or no `~/.gstack/.git` yet) so the user sees the failure rather than silently
ending up with an unwired brain. On non-zero exit, surface the helper's
output and STOP per skill rules — search-across-machines won't work until
the prereq is fixed.
---
## Step 7.5: Transcript & memory ingest gate
**SKIP entirely on Path 4 (Remote MCP).** Transcript ingest shells out to
the local `gbrain` CLI which Path 4 doesn't install. Remote-mode users
rely on the brain server's own ingest cadence — if your brain admin wants
this machine's transcripts indexed, they pull from your `gstack-artifacts-$USER`
repo (set up in Step 7) on whatever schedule they prefer. Set
`gstack-config set transcript_ingest_mode off` and continue to Step 8.
For Paths 1, 2a, 2b, 3, run the ingest gate:
{{SECTION:transcript-gate}}
---
## Step 8: Persist `## GBrain Configuration` in CLAUDE.md
CLAUDE.md is the audit trail: after a successful setup, persist the
configuration block. The exact block formats (remote-http vs local-stdio) and
the post-Step-9 Search Guidance write live in the claude-md-persist section.
{{SECTION:claude-md-persist}}
---
## Step 9: Smoke test
### Path 4 (Remote MCP)
The `mcp__gbrain__*` tools aren't visible mid-session — they're loaded at
Claude Code session start. So the live smoke test in this same skill run is
informational: print the curl-equivalent the user can run after restarting
Claude Code. The verify round-trip in Step 4c already proved the server is
reachable + authed + on a compatible MCP version, so we don't re-test that.
Print to stdout:
```
After restarting Claude Code, the `mcp__gbrain__*` tools become callable.
Smoke test: ask the agent to run `mcp__gbrain__search` with any query
("test page" works). You should see a JSON list of pages.
To verify from the shell right now (without waiting for restart):
curl -s -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'Accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_TOKEN>' \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list","params":{}}' \
<YOUR_MCP_URL>
```
Do NOT print the actual token in the curl command — leave the placeholder
`<YOUR_TOKEN>` so the snippet is safe to copy into chat / share.
### Paths 1, 2a, 2b, 3 (Local stdio)
```bash
SLUG="setup-gbrain-smoke-test-$(date +%s)"
echo "Set up on $(date). Smoke test for /setup-gbrain." | gbrain put "$SLUG"
gbrain search "smoke test" | grep -i "$SLUG"
```
Confirms the round trip. On failure, surface `gbrain doctor --json` output
and STOP with a NEEDS_CONTEXT escalation.
---
## Step 9.5: Brain trust policy (v1.48 brain-aware planning, D4 / Phase 1.5)
The brain trust policy controls whether gstack auto-pushes `~/.gstack/`
artifacts and writes calibration takes back to this brain. It's per-
endpoint: a user with both a local PGLite (personal) and a team remote
MCP (shared) gets both policies tracked separately.
Detect the active endpoint hash + current policy:
```bash
_HASH=$(~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-config endpoint-hash 2>/dev/null)
_POLICY=$(~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-config get brain_trust_policy@$_HASH 2>/dev/null || echo unset)
echo "ENDPOINT_HASH: $_HASH"
echo "BRAIN_TRUST_POLICY: $_POLICY"
```
Branch on transport + current policy:
**If `_POLICY` is `personal` or `shared`:** policy already set. Print
"Trust policy for this endpoint: $_POLICY" and skip to Step 10.
**If `_POLICY` is `unset` AND `_HASH == "local"`:** auto-set personal
(local engines are inherently single-tenant). No AskUserQuestion.
```bash
~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-config set brain_trust_policy@$_HASH personal
echo "Trust policy auto-set to 'personal' for local PGLite (single-tenant by construction)."
```
**If `_POLICY` is `unset` AND `_HASH != "local"` (remote MCP):** ask the
trust policy question via AskUserQuestion:
> The brain at this MCP endpoint — is it your personal brain or a
> shared/team brain?
>
> Personal: gstack auto-pushes ~/.gstack/ artifacts (CEO plans, design
> docs, retros, learnings) and writes calibration takes back as you make
> decisions. Your brain gets smarter every session. Pick this if you
> alone set up this brain.
>
> Shared/team: read-only by default. gstack reads context but prompts
> before any write. Safer for brains where your individual takes
> shouldn't pollute the shared corpus.
Options:
- A) Personal (recommended for self-hosted remote brains)
- B) Shared/team
After answer, persist:
```bash
~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-config set brain_trust_policy@$_HASH <personal|shared>
```
If `personal` was selected AND `artifacts_sync_mode` is still `off`, also
default it to `full` (D4 auto-push convention):
```bash
_CURRENT_SYNC=$(~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-config get artifacts_sync_mode 2>/dev/null || echo off)
if [ "$_CURRENT_SYNC" = "off" ]; then
~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-config set artifacts_sync_mode full
echo "artifacts_sync_mode auto-set to 'full' (personal brain default)."
fi
```
Backwards compat: existing users whose `artifacts_sync_mode_prompted` is
already `true` keep their answer; this gate only fires for new endpoints
or first-time-after-upgrade users.
## Step 10: GREEN/YELLOW/RED verdict block (idempotent doctor output)
After Steps 1-9 complete, summarize. Re-running `/setup-gbrain` on a
configured Mac is a first-class doctor path: every step detects existing
state, repairs only what's missing, and reports here.
```bash
~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-gbrain-detect 2>/dev/null || true
~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-config get transcript_ingest_mode 2>/dev/null || echo "off"
~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-config get artifacts_sync_mode 2>/dev/null || echo "off"
[ -f ~/.gstack/.gbrain-sync-state.json ] && cat ~/.gstack/.gbrain-sync-state.json || echo "{}"
```
Read `gbrain_mcp_mode` from the detect output and pick the right verdict
template. Each row is `[OK]/[FIX]/[WARN]/[ERR]`.
### Path 4 (Remote MCP)
```
gbrain status: GREEN (mode: remote-http)
MCP ............. OK {SERVER_NAME} v{SERVER_VERSION} at {MCP_URL}
Auth ............ OK bearer accepted (verified via /tools/list)
Engine .......... N/A remote mode
Doctor .......... N/A remote mode (brain admin runs `gbrain doctor`)
Repo policy ..... OK {read-write|read-only|deny}
Artifacts repo .. OK {gstack_artifacts_remote URL}
Artifacts sync .. OK {artifacts_sync_mode}
Transcripts ..... OK route to artifacts repo → remote brain (plan D11)
Code search ..... {OK local-pglite (~/.gbrain/pglite) | N/A declined at Step 4d}
CLAUDE.md ....... OK
Smoke test ...... INFO printed for post-restart manual verification
Restart Claude Code to pick up the `mcp__gbrain__*` tools.
Re-run `/setup-gbrain` any time the bearer rotates or the URL moves.
```
The **Code search** row reflects the choice at Step 4d:
- If user picked A (Yes): `OK local-pglite` and `gbrain_local_status == "ok"` going forward.
- If user picked B (No): `N/A declined at Step 4d` — `gstack-config set local_code_index_offered true` to silence future migration notices.
The **Transcripts** row changed in v1.34.0.0: in remote-http mode,
gstack-memory-ingest now persists staged transcripts to
`~/.gstack/transcripts/run-<pid>-<ts>/` and gstack-brain-sync pushes them
to the artifacts repo. Brain admin's pull job indexes into the remote brain.
Local PGLite (when present) stays code-only — no transcript pollution.
### Paths 1, 2a, 2b, 3 (Local stdio)
```
gbrain status: GREEN (mode: local-stdio)
CLI ............. OK <gbrain version>
Engine .......... OK <pglite|supabase> at <path>
doctor .......... OK
MCP ............. OK registered (user scope)
Repo policy ..... OK <read-write|read-only|deny>
Code import ..... OK <last_imported_head>
Artifacts sync .. OK <artifacts_sync_mode> to <remote>
Transcripts ..... OK <N> sessions, last ingest <when>
CLAUDE.md ....... OK
Smoke test ...... OK put → search → delete round-trip
Run `/setup-gbrain` again any time gbrain feels off; it's safe and idempotent.
```
If any row is YELLOW or RED, the verdict line says so and the failing rows
surface a one-line "next action" (e.g.,
`Engine .......... ERR PGLite corrupt — run \`gbrain restore-from-sync\` (V1.5)`).
For V1, restore-from-sync is a V1.5 P0 cross-repo TODO; until it ships,
the user's brain remote (with brain-sync enabled) holds curated artifacts
as markdown + git, recoverable manually via `gbrain import` from a clone.
---
## `/setup-gbrain --cleanup-orphans` (D20)
Re-collect a PAT (show the Path 2a PAT scope disclosure — it lives in the
brain-init section; read that section if it isn't already loaded), then:
```bash
# List user's Supabase projects (user has to pipe this through their own
# shell to review; we don't rely on a stored PAT).
export SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN="<collected from read_secret_to_env>"
projects=$(curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
https://api.supabase.com/v1/projects)
```
Parse the response, identify any project named starting with `gbrain` whose
`ref` doesn't match the user's active `~/.gbrain/config.json` pooler URL.
For each orphan, AskUserQuestion per project: "Delete orphan project
`<ref>` (`<name>`, created `<created_at>`)?" — NEVER batch; per-project
confirm is a one-way door.
On confirmed delete:
```bash
curl -s -X DELETE -H "Authorization: Bearer $SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
https://api.supabase.com/v1/projects/$REF
```
Never delete the active brain without a second explicit confirmation.
At end: `unset SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN`. Revocation reminder.
---
## Telemetry (D4)
The preamble's Telemetry block logs skill success/failure at exit. When
emitting the event, add these enumerated categorical values to the
telemetry payload (SAFE — no free-form secrets, never the URL or PAT):
- `scenario`: `supabase-existing` | `supabase-auto-provision` |
`supabase-manual` | `pglite-local` | `switch-to-supabase` |
`switch-to-pglite` | `repo-flip-only` | `cleanup-orphans` |
`resume-provision`
- `install_performed`: `yes` | `no` (D5 reuse) | `skipped` (pre-existing)
- `mcp_registered`: `yes` | `no` | `claude-missing`
- `trust_tier_set`: `read-write` | `read-only` | `deny` |
`skip-for-now` | `n/a` (outside git repo)
Never pass `SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN`, `DB_PASS`, `GBRAIN_POOLER_URL`,
`GBRAIN_DATABASE_URL`, or any `postgresql://` substring to the telemetry
invocation. The CI grep test in `test/skill-validation.test.ts` enforces
this at build time.
---
## Important Rules
- **One rule for every secret.** PAT, DB_PASS, pooler URL: env-var only,
never argv, never logged, never persisted to disk by us. The only file
that holds the pooler URL long-term is `~/.gbrain/config.json`, written
by gbrain's own `init` at mode 0600 — that's gbrain's discipline, not
ours.
- **STOP points are hard.** Gbrain doctor not healthy, D19 PATH shadow, D9
migrate timeout, smoke test failure — each is a STOP. Do not paper over.
- **Concurrent-run lock.** At skill start, `mkdir ~/.gstack/.setup-gbrain.lock.d`
(atomic). If the mkdir fails, abort with: "Another `/setup-gbrain` instance
is running. Wait for it, or `rm -rf ~/.gstack/.setup-gbrain.lock.d` if
you're sure it's stale." Release on normal exit AND in the SIGINT trap.
- **CLAUDE.md is the audit trail.** Always update it in Step 8 after a
successful setup.