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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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/**
* Unit tests for diff-based test selection.
* Free (no API calls), runs with `bun test`.
*/
import { describe, test, expect } from 'bun:test';
import { spawnSync } from 'child_process';
import * as fs from 'fs';
import * as path from 'path';
import * as os from 'os';
import {
matchGlob,
selectTests,
detectBaseBranch,
E2E_TOUCHFILES,
E2E_TIERS,
LLM_JUDGE_TOUCHFILES,
GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES,
} from './helpers/touchfiles';
const ROOT = path.resolve(import.meta.dir, '..');
// --- matchGlob ---
describe('matchGlob', () => {
test('** matches any depth of path segments', () => {
expect(matchGlob('browse/src/commands.ts', 'browse/src/**')).toBe(true);
expect(matchGlob('browse/src/deep/nested/file.ts', 'browse/src/**')).toBe(true);
expect(matchGlob('browse/src/cli.ts', 'browse/src/**')).toBe(true);
});
test('** does not match unrelated paths', () => {
expect(matchGlob('browse/src/commands.ts', 'qa/**')).toBe(false);
expect(matchGlob('review/SKILL.md', 'qa/**')).toBe(false);
});
test('exact match works', () => {
expect(matchGlob('SKILL.md', 'SKILL.md')).toBe(true);
expect(matchGlob('SKILL.md.tmpl', 'SKILL.md')).toBe(false);
expect(matchGlob('qa/SKILL.md', 'SKILL.md')).toBe(false);
});
test('* matches within a single segment', () => {
expect(matchGlob('test/fixtures/review-eval-enum.rb', 'test/fixtures/review-eval-enum*.rb')).toBe(true);
expect(matchGlob('test/fixtures/review-eval-enum-diff.rb', 'test/fixtures/review-eval-enum*.rb')).toBe(true);
expect(matchGlob('test/fixtures/review-eval-vuln.rb', 'test/fixtures/review-eval-enum*.rb')).toBe(false);
});
test('dots in patterns are escaped correctly', () => {
expect(matchGlob('SKILL.md', 'SKILL.md')).toBe(true);
expect(matchGlob('SKILLxmd', 'SKILL.md')).toBe(false);
});
test('** at end matches files in the directory', () => {
expect(matchGlob('qa/SKILL.md', 'qa/**')).toBe(true);
expect(matchGlob('qa/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'qa/**')).toBe(true);
expect(matchGlob('qa/templates/report.md', 'qa/**')).toBe(true);
});
});
// --- selectTests ---
describe('selectTests', () => {
test('browse/src change selects browse and qa tests', () => {
const result = selectTests(['browse/src/commands.ts'], E2E_TOUCHFILES);
expect(result.selected).toContain('browse-basic');
expect(result.selected).toContain('browse-snapshot');
expect(result.selected).toContain('qa-quick');
expect(result.selected).toContain('qa-fix-loop');
expect(result.selected).toContain('design-review-fix');
expect(result.reason).toBe('diff');
// Should NOT include unrelated tests
expect(result.selected).not.toContain('plan-ceo-review');
expect(result.selected).not.toContain('retro');
expect(result.selected).not.toContain('document-release');
});
test('skill-specific change selects only that skill and related tests', () => {
const result = selectTests(['plan-ceo-review/SKILL.md'], E2E_TOUCHFILES);
expect(result.selected).toContain('plan-ceo-review');
expect(result.selected).toContain('plan-ceo-review-selective');
expect(result.selected).toContain('plan-ceo-review-benefits');
expect(result.selected).toContain('plan-ceo-review-expansion-energy');
expect(result.selected).toContain('autoplan-core');
expect(result.selected).toContain('codex-offered-ceo-review');
expect(result.selected).toContain('plan-ceo-review-format-mode');
expect(result.selected).toContain('plan-ceo-review-format-approach');
// v1.10.2.0 plan-mode handshake entries also depend on plan-ceo-review/**
expect(result.selected).toContain('plan-ceo-review-plan-mode');
expect(result.selected).toContain('plan-mode-no-op');
expect(result.selected).toContain('e2e-harness-audit');
expect(result.selected).toContain('plan-ceo-review-prosons-cadence');
expect(result.selected).toContain('plan-review-prosons-format');
expect(result.selected).toContain('plan-review-prosons-hardstop-neg');
expect(result.selected).toContain('plan-review-prosons-neutral-neg');
// v1.13.x real-PTY E2E batch entries that also depend on plan-ceo-review/**
expect(result.selected).toContain('auq-format-gate');
expect(result.selected).toContain('plan-ceo-mode-routing');
expect(result.selected).toContain('autoplan-chain-pty');
// Per-finding count + review-report-at-bottom (v1.21.x)
expect(result.selected).toContain('plan-ceo-finding-count');
// v1.22+ AskUserQuestion-blocked regression: auto-decide-preserved
// also depends on plan-ceo-review/** (autoplan-auto-mode test was
// removed in v1.28 — see commit message for the rationale).
expect(result.selected).toContain('auto-decide-preserved');
// v1.27+ gate-tier reviewCount-floor regression for transcript bug
expect(result.selected).toContain('plan-ceo-finding-floor');
// garrytan/askuserquestion-split-on-overflow: split-overflow periodic
// E2E test also depends on plan-ceo-review/** (5-option scope decision
// regression for the "drop to fit 4 options" failure mode).
expect(result.selected).toContain('plan-ceo-split-overflow');
// v2 plan Phase B carve: the section-loading E2E depends on plan-ceo-review/**.
expect(result.selected).toContain('plan-ceo-section-loading');
// Token-reduction Phase 1: the preamble script A/B also keys on plan-ceo-review/**.
expect(result.selected).toContain('preamble-script-ab');
expect(result.selected.length).toBe(24);
expect(result.skipped.length).toBe(Object.keys(E2E_TOUCHFILES).length - 24);
});
test('global touchfile triggers ALL tests', () => {
const result = selectTests(['test/helpers/session-runner.ts'], E2E_TOUCHFILES);
expect(result.selected.length).toBe(Object.keys(E2E_TOUCHFILES).length);
expect(result.skipped.length).toBe(0);
expect(result.reason).toContain('global');
});
test('gen-skill-docs.ts is a scoped touchfile, not global', () => {
const result = selectTests(['scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts'], E2E_TOUCHFILES);
// Should select tests that list gen-skill-docs.ts in their touchfiles, not ALL tests
expect(result.selected.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
expect(result.selected.length).toBeLessThan(Object.keys(E2E_TOUCHFILES).length);
expect(result.reason).toBe('diff');
// Should include tests that depend on gen-skill-docs.ts
expect(result.selected).toContain('skillmd-setup-discovery');
expect(result.selected).toContain('session-awareness');
expect(result.selected).toContain('journey-ideation');
// Should NOT include tests that don't depend on it
expect(result.selected).not.toContain('retro');
expect(result.selected).not.toContain('cso-full-audit');
});
test('unrelated file selects nothing', () => {
const result = selectTests(['README.md'], E2E_TOUCHFILES);
expect(result.selected).toEqual([]);
expect(result.skipped.length).toBe(Object.keys(E2E_TOUCHFILES).length);
});
test('empty changed files selects nothing', () => {
const result = selectTests([], E2E_TOUCHFILES);
expect(result.selected).toEqual([]);
});
test('multiple changed files union their selections', () => {
const result = selectTests(
['plan-ceo-review/SKILL.md', 'retro/SKILL.md.tmpl'],
E2E_TOUCHFILES,
);
expect(result.selected).toContain('plan-ceo-review');
expect(result.selected).toContain('plan-ceo-review-selective');
expect(result.selected).toContain('retro');
expect(result.selected).toContain('retro-base-branch');
// Also selects journey routing tests (*/SKILL.md.tmpl matches retro/SKILL.md.tmpl)
expect(result.selected.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(4);
});
test('works with LLM_JUDGE_TOUCHFILES', () => {
const result = selectTests(['qa/SKILL.md'], LLM_JUDGE_TOUCHFILES);
expect(result.selected).toContain('qa/SKILL.md workflow');
expect(result.selected).toContain('qa/SKILL.md health rubric');
expect(result.selected).toContain('qa/SKILL.md anti-refusal');
expect(result.selected.length).toBe(3);
});
test('SKILL.md.tmpl root template selects root-dependent tests and routing tests', () => {
const result = selectTests(['SKILL.md.tmpl'], E2E_TOUCHFILES);
// Should select the 7 tests that depend on root SKILL.md
expect(result.selected).toContain('skillmd-setup-discovery');
expect(result.selected).toContain('session-awareness');
expect(result.selected).toContain('session-awareness');
// Also selects journey routing tests (SKILL.md.tmpl in their touchfiles)
expect(result.selected).toContain('journey-ideation');
// Should NOT select unrelated non-routing tests
expect(result.selected).not.toContain('plan-ceo-review');
expect(result.selected).not.toContain('retro');
});
test('global touchfiles work for LLM-judge tests too', () => {
const result = selectTests(['test/helpers/session-runner.ts'], LLM_JUDGE_TOUCHFILES);
expect(result.selected.length).toBe(Object.keys(LLM_JUDGE_TOUCHFILES).length);
});
});
// --- detectBaseBranch ---
describe('detectBaseBranch', () => {
test('detects local main branch', () => {
const dir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'touchfiles-test-'));
const run = (cmd: string, args: string[]) =>
spawnSync(cmd, args, { cwd: dir, stdio: 'pipe', timeout: 5000 });
run('git', ['init']);
run('git', ['config', 'user.email', 'test@test.com']);
run('git', ['config', 'user.name', 'Test']);
fs.writeFileSync(path.join(dir, 'test.txt'), 'hello\n');
run('git', ['add', '.']);
run('git', ['commit', '-m', 'init']);
const result = detectBaseBranch(dir);
// Should find 'main' (or 'master' depending on git default)
expect(result).toMatch(/^(main|master)$/);
try { fs.rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true }); } catch {}
});
test('returns null for empty repo with no branches', () => {
const dir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'touchfiles-test-'));
const run = (cmd: string, args: string[]) =>
spawnSync(cmd, args, { cwd: dir, stdio: 'pipe', timeout: 5000 });
run('git', ['init']);
// No commits = no branches
const result = detectBaseBranch(dir);
expect(result).toBeNull();
try { fs.rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true }); } catch {}
});
test('returns null for non-git directory', () => {
const dir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'touchfiles-test-'));
const result = detectBaseBranch(dir);
expect(result).toBeNull();
try { fs.rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true }); } catch {}
});
});
// --- Completeness: every testName in skill-e2e-*.test.ts has a TOUCHFILES entry ---
describe('TOUCHFILES completeness', () => {
test('every E2E testName has a TOUCHFILES entry', () => {
// Read all split E2E test files
const testDir = path.join(ROOT, 'test');
const e2eFiles = fs.readdirSync(testDir).filter(f => f.startsWith('skill-e2e-') && f.endsWith('.test.ts'));
let e2eContent = '';
for (const f of e2eFiles) {
e2eContent += fs.readFileSync(path.join(testDir, f), 'utf-8') + '\n';
}
// Extract all testName: 'value' entries
const testNameRegex = /testName:\s*['"`]([^'"`]+)['"`]/g;
const testNames: string[] = [];
let match;
while ((match = testNameRegex.exec(e2eContent)) !== null) {
let name = match[1];
// Handle template literals like `qa-${label}` — these expand to
// qa-b6-static, qa-b7-spa, qa-b8-checkout
if (name.includes('${')) continue; // skip template literals, check expanded forms below
testNames.push(name);
}
// Add the template-expanded testNames from runPlantedBugEval calls
const plantedBugRegex = /runPlantedBugEval\([^,]+,\s*[^,]+,\s*['"`]([^'"`]+)['"`]\)/g;
while ((match = plantedBugRegex.exec(e2eContent)) !== null) {
testNames.push(`qa-${match[1]}`);
}
expect(testNames.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
const missing = testNames.filter(name => !(name in E2E_TOUCHFILES));
if (missing.length > 0) {
throw new Error(
`E2E tests missing TOUCHFILES entries: ${missing.join(', ')}\n` +
`Add these to E2E_TOUCHFILES in test/helpers/touchfiles.ts`,
);
}
});
test('E2E_TIERS covers exactly the same tests as E2E_TOUCHFILES', () => {
const touchfileKeys = new Set(Object.keys(E2E_TOUCHFILES));
const tierKeys = new Set(Object.keys(E2E_TIERS));
const missingFromTiers = [...touchfileKeys].filter(k => !tierKeys.has(k));
const extraInTiers = [...tierKeys].filter(k => !touchfileKeys.has(k));
if (missingFromTiers.length > 0) {
throw new Error(
`E2E tests missing TIER entries: ${missingFromTiers.join(', ')}\n` +
`Add these to E2E_TIERS in test/helpers/touchfiles.ts`,
);
}
if (extraInTiers.length > 0) {
throw new Error(
`E2E_TIERS has extra entries not in E2E_TOUCHFILES: ${extraInTiers.join(', ')}\n` +
`Remove these from E2E_TIERS or add to E2E_TOUCHFILES`,
);
}
});
test('E2E_TIERS only contains valid tier values', () => {
const validTiers = ['gate', 'periodic'];
for (const [name, tier] of Object.entries(E2E_TIERS)) {
if (!validTiers.includes(tier)) {
throw new Error(`E2E_TIERS['${name}'] has invalid tier '${tier}'. Valid: ${validTiers.join(', ')}`);
}
}
});
test('every LLM-judge test has a TOUCHFILES entry', () => {
const llmContent = fs.readFileSync(
path.join(ROOT, 'test', 'skill-llm-eval.test.ts'),
'utf-8',
);
// Extract test names from addTest({ name: '...' }) calls
const nameRegex = /name:\s*['"`]([^'"`]+)['"`]/g;
const testNames: string[] = [];
let match;
while ((match = nameRegex.exec(llmContent)) !== null) {
testNames.push(match[1]);
}
// Deduplicate (some tests call addTest with the same name)
const unique = [...new Set(testNames)];
expect(unique.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
const missing = unique.filter(name => !(name in LLM_JUDGE_TOUCHFILES));
if (missing.length > 0) {
throw new Error(
`LLM-judge tests missing TOUCHFILES entries: ${missing.join(', ')}\n` +
`Add these to LLM_JUDGE_TOUCHFILES in test/helpers/touchfiles.ts`,
);
}
});
});
// --- dependency paths exist on disk ---
//
// The axis nobody guarded: a dep-list entry can point at a file that was
// deleted long ago (browse/src/sidebar-agent.ts sat in three entries for 48
// versions), and diff-based selection then silently never triggers those
// tests. Globs are skipped (they describe patterns, not files); every literal
// path must exist.
describe('touchfile dependency paths exist', () => {
const allEntries: Array<[string, string]> = [];
for (const [name, deps] of Object.entries(E2E_TOUCHFILES)) {
for (const dep of deps) allEntries.push([name, dep]);
}
for (const [name, deps] of Object.entries(LLM_JUDGE_TOUCHFILES)) {
for (const dep of deps) allEntries.push([name, dep]);
}
for (const dep of GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES) allEntries.push(['(global)', dep]);
test('every non-glob dependency path exists', () => {
const stale = allEntries
.filter(([, dep]) => !dep.includes('*'))
.filter(([, dep]) => !fs.existsSync(path.join(ROOT, dep)));
if (stale.length > 0) {
throw new Error(
`Touchfile dep lists reference files that do not exist:\n` +
stale.map(([name, dep]) => ` ${name} -> ${dep}`).join('\n') +
`\nDelete or update these entries in test/helpers/touchfiles.ts — ` +
`diff-based selection silently skips tests whose deps are gone.`,
);
}
});
test('every glob dependency anchors to a directory that exists', () => {
// Cheap sanity for globs, two shapes: 'dir/**' (prefix ends with '/')
// must have the directory itself; 'dir/file-prefix*.ext' must have the
// containing directory. Catches 'deleted-dir/**' rot without a full
// filesystem walk; deliberately does not chase file-prefix staleness.
const stale = allEntries
.filter(([, dep]) => dep.includes('*'))
.map(([name, dep]) => {
const prefix = dep.split('*')[0];
const anchor = prefix.endsWith('/') ? prefix.slice(0, -1) : path.dirname(prefix);
return [name, dep, anchor] as const;
})
.filter(([, , anchor]) => anchor.length > 0 && anchor !== '.' && !fs.existsSync(path.join(ROOT, anchor)));
if (stale.length > 0) {
throw new Error(
`Touchfile glob deps whose anchor directory does not exist:\n` +
stale.map(([name, dep]) => ` ${name} -> ${dep}`).join('\n'),
);
}
});
});