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Garry Tan 9a424a9f55 test: apply ship review-army findings — helper extract, slice SKILL.md, defensive judge
Five categories of fixes surfaced by the /ship pre-landing reviews
(testing + maintainability + security + performance + adversarial Claude),
applied as one review-iteration commit.

Refactor — collapse 5x duplicated judge-assertion block:
- Add assertRecommendationQuality() + RECOMMENDATION_SUBSTANCE_THRESHOLD
  constant to test/helpers/e2e-helpers.ts.
- Plan-format (4 cases) and Phase 4 (1 case) collapse from ~22 lines each
  to a single helper call. Future rubric tweaks land in one place instead
  of five.

Performance — extract Phase 4 slice instead of copying full SKILL.md:
- Phase 4 test fixture now reads office-hours/SKILL.md and writes only the
  AskUserQuestion Format section + Phase 4 section to the tmpdir, per
  CLAUDE.md "extract, don't copy" rule. Verified locally: cost dropped
  from $0.51 → $0.36/run, turn count 8 → 4, latency 50s → 36s. Reduces
  Opus context bloat without weakening the regression check.
- Add `if (!workDir) return` guard to Phase 4 afterAll cleanup so a
  skipped describe block doesn't silently fs.rmSync(undefined) under the
  empty catch.

Defense — judge prompt + output:
- Wrap captured AskUserQuestion text in clearly delimited UNTRUSTED_CONTEXT
  block with explicit instruction to treat its content as data, not commands.
  Cheap defense against the (unlikely but real) injection vector where a
  captured AskUserQuestion contains "Ignore previous instructions" text.
- Bump captured-text budget from 4000 → 8000 chars; real plan-format menus
  with 4 options × ~800 chars exceed 4000 and were silently truncating
  Haiku context mid-option.

Cleanup — abbreviation rule + dead imports + touchfile consistency:
- AUQ → AskUserQuestion in 3 sites (office-hours/SKILL.md.tmpl Phase 4
  footer, two test comments) per the always-write-in-full memory rule.
  Regenerated office-hours/SKILL.md.
- Drop unused `describe`/`test` imports in 2 new test files (only
  describeIfSelected/testConcurrentIfSelected wrappers are used).
- Add `test/skill-e2e-office-hours-phase4.test.ts` to its own touchfile
  entry for consistency with other entries that include their test file.
- Fix misleading comment in fixture test about LLM short-circuiting (it's
  has_because, not commits, that skips the API call).

Verified: build clean, free `bun test` exits 0, fixture test 30/30
expect() calls pass, Phase 4 paid eval passes substance 5 in 36s.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-01 18:40:01 -07:00

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/**
* /office-hours Phase 4 alternatives gate regression (periodic, paid, SDK-based).
*
* Reproduces the bug seen in production: agent in builder mode reaches Phase 4,
* presents 3 architectural alternatives (A/B/C), writes "Recommendation: C" in
* chat prose, and starts editing the design doc immediately — never calls
* AskUserQuestion. The fix is the STOP gate added to office-hours/SKILL.md.tmpl
* Phase 4 footer.
*
* Test approach: SDK + captureInstruction (same proven pattern as
* skill-e2e-plan-format.test.ts). Pre-seed builder mode + "skip Phase 1/2/3,
* I have already accepted all premises" so the agent reaches Phase 4 directly.
* captureInstruction tells the agent to dump the verbatim Phase 4 AskUserQuestion
* to a file. We then assert on the captured text (regex + Haiku judge) rather
* than on tool-call observability — the captured file IS the Phase 4 question.
*
* Why periodic (not gate): Phase 4 requires the agent to invent 2-3 distinct
* architectures, which is more open-ended than the 4 plan-format cases. Closer
* to a quality benchmark than a deterministic format check. Reclassify if the
* test turns out stable.
*/
import { expect, beforeAll, afterAll } from 'bun:test';
import { runSkillTest } from './helpers/session-runner';
import {
ROOT, runId,
describeIfSelected, testConcurrentIfSelected,
logCost, assertRecommendationQuality,
createEvalCollector, finalizeEvalCollector,
} from './helpers/e2e-helpers';
import { spawnSync } from 'child_process';
import * as fs from 'fs';
import * as path from 'path';
import * as os from 'os';
const evalCollector = createEvalCollector('e2e-office-hours-phase4');
// Format predicates. The strict `Recommendation:[*\s]*Choose` regex used by
// skill-e2e-plan-format pins down a specific template-example wording ("Choose
// [X]"). The format spec at scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts
// only requires `Recommendation: <choice> because <reason>` — `<choice>` can
// be the bare option label. judgeRecommendation.present (deterministic) checks
// this canonical shape correctly; we don't need a redundant strict regex here.
const BECAUSE_RE = /\bbecause\b/i;
// At least 2 numbered/lettered options (A/B or 1/2). Office-hours Phase 4 says
// "2-3 distinct alternatives," so 2+ is the minimum bar.
const TWO_OPTIONS_RE = /\b[AB]\)|\b1\)|\b2\)/;
// Phase-4-specific: at least one of these tokens should appear in the captured
// question. Without this, a captured AskUserQuestion from an earlier phase
// would false-pass.
const PHASE4_VOCAB_RE = /approach|alternative|architecture|implementation/i;
function setupOfficeHoursDir(): string {
const dir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'skill-e2e-office-hours-phase4-'));
const run = (cmd: string, args: string[]) =>
spawnSync(cmd, args, { cwd: dir, stdio: 'pipe', timeout: 5000 });
run('git', ['init', '-b', 'main']);
run('git', ['config', 'user.email', 'test@test.com']);
run('git', ['config', 'user.name', 'Test']);
// Seed a tiny project context so the skill has something to reason about.
fs.writeFileSync(path.join(dir, 'README.md'), `# gbrain-retrieval
We're building a retrieval surface for gbrain so cross-skill memory works
end-to-end. There are three architectural shapes worth considering: server-side
(gbrain ships the smarts), client-side (gstack ships the smarts), and a hybrid
that ships V1 client-side and promotes to gbrain in V1.5.
`);
run('git', ['add', '.']);
run('git', ['commit', '-m', 'seed']);
// Extract only the AskUserQuestion Format spec + Phase 4 section from
// office-hours/SKILL.md per CLAUDE.md "extract, don't copy" rule. Copying
// the full ~2000-line SKILL.md burns Opus tokens on irrelevant phases and
// risks turn-limit timeouts. The format spec teaches the agent the
// Recommendation/because/options shape; Phase 4 is what we're testing.
fs.mkdirSync(path.join(dir, 'office-hours'), { recursive: true });
const fullSkill = fs.readFileSync(path.join(ROOT, 'office-hours', 'SKILL.md'), 'utf-8');
const fmtStart = fullSkill.indexOf('## AskUserQuestion Format');
const fmtEnd = fullSkill.indexOf('\n## ', fmtStart + 1);
const phase4Start = fullSkill.indexOf('## Phase 4: Alternatives Generation');
const phase4End = fullSkill.indexOf('\n## Phase 4.5', phase4Start);
if (fmtStart < 0 || phase4Start < 0 || phase4End < 0) {
throw new Error('skill-e2e-office-hours-phase4: failed to slice SKILL.md — section markers not found.');
}
const slice = [
'# office-hours (Phase 4 slice for E2E test)\n',
fullSkill.slice(fmtStart, fmtEnd > fmtStart ? fmtEnd : fmtStart + 4000),
'\n',
fullSkill.slice(phase4Start, phase4End),
].join('\n');
fs.writeFileSync(path.join(dir, 'office-hours', 'SKILL.md'), slice);
return dir;
}
function captureInstruction(outFile: string): string {
return `Write the verbatim text of the Phase 4 (Alternatives Generation) AskUserQuestion you would have made to ${outFile} (full text including all option labels, recommendation line with because-clause, and net-line). Do NOT call any tool to ask the user. Do NOT paraphrase — include the exact prose you would have shown. This is a format-capture test, not an interactive session.`;
}
describeIfSelected('Office Hours Phase 4 — Architectural fork must surface AskUserQuestion', ['office-hours-phase4-fork'], () => {
let workDir: string;
let outFile: string;
beforeAll(() => {
workDir = setupOfficeHoursDir();
outFile = path.join(workDir, 'phase4-capture.md');
});
afterAll(() => {
// workDir is only set if beforeAll ran (i.e. describe wasn't skipped).
// The previous empty-catch pattern silently swallowed `fs.rmSync(undefined)`
// when the test was skipped, hiding the latent bug.
if (!workDir) return;
try { fs.rmSync(workDir, { recursive: true, force: true }); } catch {}
});
testConcurrentIfSelected('office-hours-phase4-fork', async () => {
const result = await runSkillTest({
prompt: `Read office-hours/SKILL.md for the workflow.
Context: this is BUILDER MODE (Path B). The project is gbrain-retrieval — see README.md. I have a fully-formed plan and have already accepted all your Phase 3 premises. Skip Phase 1, Phase 2, and Phase 3 entirely.
Proceed directly to Phase 4 (Alternatives Generation). Generate 2-3 distinct architectural approaches that differ in KIND (not in coverage). Realistic shapes for this project:
A) Server-side: gbrain ships the retrieval smarts as new MCP tools (e.g. get_recent_salience, find_anomalies).
B) Client-side: gstack ships a helper (bin/gstack-brain-context-load) that composes salience client-side from existing MCP tools.
C) Hybrid: V1 client-side in gstack; V1.5 promotes to gbrain server-side once the salience signal is validated.
Do not skip Phase 4 — the test depends on you reaching it.
${captureInstruction(outFile)}
After writing the file with that ONE Phase 4 question, stop. Do not continue to Phase 4.5 or Phase 5.`,
workingDirectory: workDir,
maxTurns: 12,
timeout: 300_000,
testName: 'office-hours-phase4-fork',
runId,
model: 'claude-opus-4-7',
});
logCost('/office-hours Phase 4 fork', result);
expect(['success', 'error_max_turns']).toContain(result.exitReason);
expect(fs.existsSync(outFile)).toBe(true);
const captured = fs.readFileSync(outFile, 'utf-8');
expect(captured.length).toBeGreaterThan(100);
// Format-spec compliance. judgeRecommendation below covers the
// Recommendation: line itself; these regexes catch cheap structural shape.
expect(captured).toMatch(BECAUSE_RE);
expect(captured).toMatch(TWO_OPTIONS_RE);
// Phase-4 specificity: prevents a stray earlier-phase AUQ from false-passing.
expect(captured).toMatch(PHASE4_VOCAB_RE);
// Recommendation-quality judge: same threshold as plan-format tests.
await assertRecommendationQuality({
captured,
evalCollector,
evalId: '/office-hours-phase4-fork',
evalTitle: 'Office Hours Phase 4 — Architectural fork must surface AskUserQuestion',
result,
passed: ['success', 'error_max_turns'].includes(result.exitReason),
});
}, 360_000);
});
afterAll(async () => {
await finalizeEvalCollector(evalCollector);
});