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* test: delete test-infrastructure dead code (G) - exit-propagation drives the runner's real strict verdict (BunTestOutputClassifier + strictTestExitCode); delete the unused shardRunLooksTruncated predicate. - delete skill-coverage-matrix registry + its gate (nothing reads it; the floor already iterates skillCensus()). - delete touchfiles-facade export-parity tests (Bun fails missing imports at link time) and the duplicated E2E_TIERS tier-value test. - delete brain-cache-spec TRANSPORT_DEFAULT_POLICY, SKILL_RUN_RETENTION_DAYS and the now-unused BrainTrustPolicy type with their literal tests. AUTOPLAN_PREFLIGHT_BUDGET_BYTES stays: skill-preflight-budget enforces it against real resolver output. - delete audit-compliance's JSDoc-comment grep. * test: replace product tests that fake the product with real-boundary tests (F) - design: serve.test.ts drove an inline mirror server; now two tests run the real serve() on an ephemeral port (reload confinement, submit exit 0). - setup-gbrain: rollback + voyage tests execute the template-extracted init blocks (3 sites) instead of drifted local bash copies. - terminal-agent: internalHandler source greps replaced by a behavioral /internal/grant + /internal/revoke auth matrix (no/wrong/valid token). - /health: server-security-surface and the server-auth / security-audit-r2 / sidebar-tabs source greps fold into one liveness-only check on the real body; the L4 sidecar wiring gets a behavioral /pty-inject-scan test. - delete tautologies (browser-manager onDisconnect, memory-command #12), ios swiftui tap fixture self-check, memory-ingest put_page grep, detach source greps, sidebar-agent absence pins, dead-CSS pins + the dead CSS, security-audit-r2 Task 1 + the test-only meta-commands re-export, duplicate generated-SKILL.md checks. - make-pdf coverage-gaps cases move into their owner test files. * test: delete tests of dead eval code (A) - A1: the retired Eng lexical oracle (evaluateEngSeedCoverage, isEngSeedDecisionAUQ), the completion-handoff detector and the retained corpus had no paid caller since v1.87.6; delete their 26 replay files, ~2.6k helper LOC and fixtures, and the dead blocks in 8 mixed files (live hasNativePlanTerminal / batching assertions stay). - A2: dead viewport approvers in autoplan-artifact-permission and their 11 replay files + fixtures; recorder/launcher cases stay. - A3: never-wired oracles and seeders (autoplan-phase-order, eng-finding-fixture, ceo-paired-fixture, design-ui-scope, plan-skill-completion, pty-current-screen, required-reads, transcript-section-logger); plan-seed-submission now decodes through the production createPtyScreen; section manifests name their actual guard. - A4: zero-reference helper exports, plus execGit and invokeAndObserve found by the reachability pass. - 52 fixtures orphaned by the deletions; touchfile and selection-table entries for every deleted path. * test: clean up the paid eval lane (B1-B4, B6, B7) - B1: delete paid files that assert nothing or cannot pass meaningfully: skill-llm-eval-spec and skill-e2e-spec-execute (test.todo), gemini-e2e (+ gemini-session-runner; no gemini CLI in CI), ship-idempotency (red since v1.63), the two opus-4-7 *-sonnet overlay wrappers, conductor-prose (+ its source-evaluation replay), codex-e2e-plan-format; drop their keys, scripts and census rows. - B2: skill-llm-eval grades browse/sections/command-list.md with one union judge that also carries the baseline score pin; regression-vs-baseline deleted (paid run: pass, c4/c4/a4). - B3: memory-pipeline, ios-qa, ios-qa-swift-build and plan-tune-cathedral make no model calls; renamed out of the paid glob so they run on every PR. Swift builds need GSTACK_TEST_SWIFT=1; device stub deleted. - B4: codex-e2e*, outside-voice, aside and ios-device cannot run in the CI image; excluded from the weekly lane with a tracked re-entry condition. - B6: fold opus-47's negative routing controls into skill-routing-e2e journey-negatives (paid run: 3/3 unrouted) and delete the file. - B7: delete the never-green brain-privacy-gate eval; a free gstack-skill-start test now proves consent precedes artifacts egress. * test: retire the finding-count cluster and trim its helpers (C) - C0/C1: the five never-green evals (skill-e2e-autoplan-chain and skill-e2e-plan-{ceo,eng,design,devex}-finding-count) failed on harness and budget, never on skill behavior; delete them, their touchfile/tier ids, AUTOPLAN_CHAIN_BUDGET and the dedicated eighth periodic slice (--slices 7). - C2: delete the helper groups whose only paid consumers were those files (11 modules), trim claude-pty-runner and eng-seeded-coverage to the paid closure, and delete the free replay tests whose assertions exercised only that dead code (89 files, 135 orphaned fixtures). Blocks that used dead code only as input for a live subject keep their assertions: the multiSelect default moved to plan-review-decisions, runner PTY tests use inline caller policies, and the timer-safe budget checks moved to eng-finding-retry-budget. - The eight production-touching files stay except ceo-current-decision-record (its template read only feeds the retired counter). - CARVE_GUARDS.autoplan is behavioral 'none'; TODOS records the lost chain and per-finding cadence coverage with their re-entry tests. * test: fold per-incident replay series into their detector owners (D) Twelve detector families move into one owner test each: 73 incident files become describe blocks in ceo-section-loading-fixture (stale-fill race), model-overlays, coverage-audit-evidence, autoplan-phase-observer, native-auto-decide, outside-voice-evidence, eng-first-review, plan-count-completion, plan-count-file-permission, ceo-mode-option, plan-scope-selection and plan-count-prerequisite. Each block keeps its original code and fixture, so every case still runs; only tests asserting the incident file's own touchfile registration are dropped (41). Touchfile lists that named an incident now name its owner. * test: start the plan-count history PTY on its readiness marker (H) The fake CLI prints a startup marker and the runner waits for it instead of the fixed 8 s startup sleep (8.6 s -> 0.9 s locally). eng-semantic-terminal's sleeping registration cases went with C; plan-count-timeout keeps the fixed wait because it asserts deadline behavior. * test: derive paid touchfiles from each eval's static closure (E) touchfiles.test.ts now checks, per key, that the paid file's static test/helpers and test/fixtures closure (plus fixture paths it names in string literals) is covered, and names the file, path, chain and key to fix when it is not. Free *.test.ts files are no longer touchfiles, so editing a free replay test stops selecting paid evals: 950 entries removed, 653 real closure paths added. The hand-copied inventories go: periodic-fixture-selection, fake-impeccable-touchfiles and 45 per-file selection examples. Selection for the sample edits (plan-eng-review template, claude-pty-runner, plan-count-fixture, gstack-config) loses no case under either profile. CONTRIBUTING documents the rule and its lower bound. * test: skip hollow tier shards and census judges in the paid planner (B5) A paid file is now skipped for a tier lane only when every E2E id it registers is known statically and none has that tier; ids come from the touchfile registrations and literal testName/*IfSelected arguments, so a comment or skill path that quotes another id cannot unschedule it, and computed names keep today's scheduling. --list and the manifest show each skip as "skipped: no E2E_TIERS id has tier <tier>". The weekly gate census drops the LLM judges (--skip-judges); they still run in the periodic census and PR gate lanes. Gate lane 52 -> 42 files, census 41; periodic 77 -> 69. * test: run seven paid evals on the current default capture model (B8) skill-e2e-{auq-matrix,plan-format,qa-bugs,retro,workflow} pinned claude-opus-4-7 and skill-e2e-office-hours plus -brain-writeback pinned claude-sonnet-4-6; none tests a historical model, so they now capture with resolveEvalModel('capture'), and the free harness tests that execute these registrations receive the same resolver. The paid re-pin run passed all of them. skill-e2e-{design,office-hours-phase4,plan-prosons,plan} keep claude-opus-4-7: six of their cases failed on the default model (three timeouts, a missing report file, a format miss and a posture score of 3), so per the plan's fallback they keep their pins with a TODOS entry. The pre-spend estimate and drop threshold are in docs/test-audit-2026-09.md. * test: guard the reduced suite against new test-of-test files - test/test-of-test-ratchet.test.ts records the 228 free tests that import only test/ code and fails on a new one, naming the owner test to extend instead; a stale baseline entry fails with the remove instruction. - test/helpers/resolve-repo-path.ts is the one specifier/literal resolver for the ratchet and the touchfile closure invariant, with its own unit tests. - CONTRIBUTING "Test tiers" describes the paid-failure workflow (fix, then one row in the detector's owner test) and the ratchet; TEST_PORTFOLIO gains the detector -> owner-test table and no longer claims an Autoplan chain eval. - TODOS: automatic exclusion policy for chronically red periodic files (P3), the deferred native-completion table collapse, the unused CEO payment seeder; the PTY readiness item is narrowed to the paid runner. - docs/test-audit-2026-09.md collects the triage, security mapping, inventories, selection proof, behavior-commit decisions and retained false positives. * v1.91.8.0 test: smaller suite, derived paid selection, retired never-green evals Release metadata for the test-reduction branch: VERSION 1.91.8.0 (1.91.7.0 is claimed by #2983), CHANGELOG with the measured before/after table and a contributor section, durations re-recorded on Ubicloud standard-16 (857 files, 0 failures), the agents digest, CONTRIBUTING's after-measurement row, the B8 fallback TODOS entry, and the after metrics, kept-vs-plan notes, B8 run and census estimate in docs/test-audit-2026-09.md. * fix(ubicloud): skip retrieval globs that match nothing instead of reporting a failed pull * test: pin DISABLE_AUTOUPDATER in hermetic env and capture corrupt-seed warning Both EVALS_HERMETIC branches of buildHermeticEnv now carry DISABLE_AUTOUPDATER=1 (the allowlist scrubbed the workflow's copy, so every PTY screen showed the updater's npm-prefix failure). Per-test overrides still win. The corrupt durations-seed test now captures its expected warning and restores the console spy. * style(cso): format lib/cso TypeScript with pinned Prettier Mechanical reformat only. Minified transpile output is byte-identical for 21 of 22 files; witness.ts differs only in three regex flag orders (/mi -> /im), which JavaScript canonicalizes. Source-text assertions over lib/cso now compare whitespace-insensitively with the same tokens. * fix(cso): import join for compiled-launcher assertion witnesses Compiled installs always take the non-Bun branch, which called an unimported join and threw before any runtime-tested assertion could be witnessed. The child command selection is now a pure, platform-aware function; a missing sibling launcher fails with its expected path. * fix(browse): make connect --supervise actually respawn a crashed server The supervisor respawned with a block-scoped env that no longer existed, so every attempt threw and the loop gave up after five tries. The headed env is now one pure helper used by connect and respawn, the loop is an injectable runHeadedSupervisor with behavioral tests, failures name the daemon log and relaunch command, and connect's usage advertises --supervise. * test: one finite PR world for the shared-libs fixture; name dual-voice probe evidence The shared-libs shim served 2 PRs for pulls?state=all and endless full pages for state=open. gh pr list, pulls?state=open|all|closed (per_page/page, short last page, direction) and search/issues now page one deterministic table: PR 7, 600 older open PRs, PR 42 and 3 closed PRs, so five 100-item open-metadata pages still leave older open PRs unchecked. The Contents API lists pinned directories (the captured attempt got 404 for contents/ and contents/src while files resolved, then fell back to a raw host), unknown endpoints return 404 instead of repo metadata, and the read-only detector is unchanged. Free tests cover view agreement, the budget bound, gh/curl agreement and the empty world. Dual-voice outside-voice failures now report probeToolUseId, probeMode and the canonical-match result with the reason the probe output was rejected. * feat: require a zero-error product typecheck and a test type-debt ratchet Adds tsconfig.json (strict) over product code, fixes its remaining 90 diagnostics (type-only, interface corrections, and explicit narrowing), and adds a typecheck job to the required free-tests aggregate running bun run typecheck, the test-code ratchet (identity -> count baseline, fails on new, repeated, or unlocked fixed diagnostics), and the lib/cso format check. Reuses fixes from #2447 where they still applied. * test: follow the headed env helper and the typecheck gate in source-shape checks * fix(test): pin the package.json change kind in shared-input selection tests computePaidCaseSelection read the version-only exemption from git even when changed files were injected, so the shared-input test failed on main and on version-only branches. The exemption is now an optional input; the test pins a real package.json change and covers the version-only case. * test: judge plan-count completion on structured evidence, not wording Replaying run 36385945043's two Design attempts showed the existing routes rejected correct endings: attempt 1 at the typed-completion path field ('- Reviewed plan written to …' is not a 'Plan written to' line), attempt 2 at the leading-fence veto (its final message opens with the dashboard). nativePlanTerminalPreconditions is the structural prefix of hasNativePlanTerminal (behavior unchanged). structuredPlanCompletion adds, inside the existing nativeSummary branch: a complete report (Design binding for Design), a completed review-log row for the expected skill appended during this attempt under the child's GSTACK_HOME/project slug (resolved with bin/gstack-slug) and stamped with the fixture commit, timed between the report/last answer (second resolution) and the final native message, a final message with stop_reason end_turn (now carried on public transcript messages), and no visible question or permission prompt. Timeout summaries add idleFor and lastTerminalCandidate. Terminal and throw captures copy the plan file and review-log rows into the artifact directory; copies are best-effort and recorded in evidence-copy.json. Free regressions: both captured Design endings (trimmed fixture with provenance; report, row and end_turn reconstructed and labelled), the negative controls, and real-PTY completion/timeout runs through the real review logger. * test: structural Design count boundary; TODO proposals are not findings Replaying run 36385945043 through the Design count predicates: routing, focus and learnings setup was not recognized as setup, Issue 1 was counted pre-review in both attempts (the boundary fired on it), and attempt 2 counted the Font TODO proposal as a finding (review=4 and review=5 for five issues). The paid caller now starts review at the first answered native decision that is not setup (recognized packet, or setup header/question ID), a completion handoff, artifact rendering or a TODO proposal (the review's Add to TODOS.md / Skip / Build it now menu). TODO proposals are recorded as administrative extra decisions. The replay asserts each counted call: both attempts review=5 (Issues 1-5). isDesignCountFirstReview and its controls are unchanged. * test: CEO classifier throws name the question and matched predicates Replaying run 36385945043's FAN-1 and ERR-1 throws (ledger rows reconstructed from rendered diffs) through ceoPaymentFinding: the email obligation's row, subject, option and proposal predicates pass and the ELI10 explanation-defect predicate fails first ('lets that exception fly out', 'the error bubbles up'). Binding the defect to the named ledger row instead (the planned fix) was tried and reverted: scoped to the email seed it flips 30+ existing cf74 still-rejects replays, which require a vocabulary-free, ledger-bound email question to earn credit only through a complete saved comparison. With FAN-1's rendered currentDecision payload reconstructed, the recorded- decision path counts it, so the real saved plan (not uploaded) must have differed; failure artifacts now retain it. The classifier stays fail-closed and unchanged. Its throw now prints the header, the first 200 question characters and each obligation's predicate results. Free regressions with provenance and negative controls: an unrelated question, an email question whose row says it is already rescued, and a ledger ID whose row belongs to another seed. * chore: regenerate the test type-debt baseline on top of #2994 * fix(typecheck): strip the checkout root from ratchet diagnostic identities * fix(test): recognize ledger row-ID split candidates so collection stops at the last ACK Run 36385945043's split-overflow case asked all five candidate decisions by 8m55s, but the live candidate check required the question to open with "E1:" and every option to be a known disposition. The skill cited ledger row IDs ("D2.1 — R-E1: …") and offered "Hold, discuss first", so no candidate was recognized and the attempt ran the whole review (1302s). Identity now comes from the native header; the question must open with that candidate's ledger reference, name only that candidate, and offer exactly one include, defer and cut disposition. The selected answer must still be one of those three. The semantic evaluator and every existing negative control are unchanged; a trimmed capture from the run adds the positive case and four row-ID negative controls. * fix(test): stop the eng batching eval once its floor is proven The case's only verdict is reviewCount >= FLOOR (3). Run 36385945043 had three distinct acknowledged review decisions at 6m41s but kept answering until the ceiling (7) at 12m13s. The registration now passes the runner's existing isCollectionComplete stop once FLOOR non-setup, non-administrative review decisions are acknowledged; the floor check, ceiling, budget and counter are unchanged. A child-process registration test proves the stop predicate and that below-floor and timeout outcomes still fail. * test: add the non-blocking 'marathon' E2E tier Full start-to-finish flows move out of the blocking lanes. E2E_TIERS and E2ETier gain 'marathon'; describeE2ETier('marathon') is enabled only when EVALS_TIER=marathon, so the gate/PR and periodic lanes (and the gate census) never run those cases. The PR profile accepts marathon ids as scheduled elsewhere and defers them with their own reason, even on full fallback. * test: move the full office-hours workflow to marathon; add a periodic design-draft checkpoint The full startup workflow runs 1–3 real spec-review rounds (~280s each) and hit its 1200s capture in run 36385945043 at finalize. Review depth is the product's loop, so the case cannot fit a blocking lane without cutting rounds. It is now marathon tier with every assertion unchanged. skill-e2e-office-hours-design-draft.test.ts (periodic) runs the same fixed interview only through the Write that creates the design (269s in that run) and applies the full validator's design-draft checks, the required section reads and the launch/foreign-skill-read guards. validateOfficeHoursDesignDraft is extracted from validateOfficeHoursCompletion, which still applies it. Selection: office-hours-design-draft is registered periodic; the marathon-only file is already excluded from the gate and periodic plans by the B5 planner rule. Tier-alignment regexes and the valid-tier check accept 'marathon'. A type-only cast in plan-scope-selection.test.ts removes a diagnostic whose union print order made the ratchet identity unstable; baseline tightened. * test: supply the split-overflow fixture's HOLD SCOPE mode as a prerequisite The split actor always answered 0E's mode question with HOLD SCOPE. The skill skips that question on an explicit choice, so the fixture now states it and the attempt starts at the five candidate decisions (about 1.5 min earlier in run 36385945043). Candidates, actor policy, floor and semantic evaluation are unchanged; the fixture test pins the supplied choice. * test: start the eng batching eval with its setup prerequisites supplied Routing setup and cross-project learnings (D1/D2 in run 36385945043) are never counted and are not what the case measures. The registration now uses the runner's existing preconfiguredReviewActor so the attempt starts at the review; engSetupAUQ still vetoes any late setup question. The registration test pins the option. * test: count the design-draft paid file and defer marathon ids in PR selection pins The discovered paid-file census grows by one (skill-e2e-office-hours-design-draft). Full-fallback PR selection defers every non-gate id; the shared-input pins now expect periodic and marathon ids there. * fix(review): resolve the judged revalidation, setup-authority, plan-gate and findings-record ambiguities The census review workflow judge scored clarity/actionability 3 on both attempts: smoke-clock limits appeared to forbid post-repair revalidation, the caller deadline was undefined, 'ask for setup' conflicted with the report-only browser rule, fallback-sourced HIGH discrepancies had no gate decision, and the Step 5.8 record omitted adversarial findings. * fix(office-hours): load the builder section for every builder-mode reply Both census builder-wildness attempts answered a direct request for adjacent unlocks without reading phase-2b-builder-brainstorm.md, whose trigger read as applying only to the generative questions. * fix(sync-gbrain): define Step 4 helper args and one atomic write path Both census read-ready attempts spent turns reading the helper source to resolve <user-args>, inspecting fixture internals kept inside the repo, and reconciling 'Read + Edit' with the tmp+mv atomic write, then hit max turns before the verdict. * refactor(evals): share the import-closure walker and add the E2E shard reuse identity sourceDependencyClosure moves from the workflow-judge adapter into scripts/eval-input-cache.ts unchanged, so judge keys stay byte-identical. scripts/e2e-shard-reuse.ts builds the consumed-input identity of one PR-lane E2E shard (test import closure, every registered case's touchfiles, globals, runner/workflow/setup actions, child env pins, CI image, Claude CLI) and fails closed on anything unknown. Marathon joins the always-fresh purposes. * feat(evals): ~12-minute blocking paid lanes and a non-blocking marathon lane - Planner budget mode (--slice-budget S --jobs J): recorded per-tier wall times pack into as many ~9-minute executors as the work needs; the plan records per-slice estimates and the CI job timeout (supervised worst case + 20 min). evals.yml and evals-periodic.yml derive matrix size and timeout-minutes from it; max-parallel covers every slice at once. - Case shards: plan/design/review-army/shared-libs(-paths) run one registered case per process (<file>#<case id>, exact name pattern, exactly one case). - Retry rule: a timed-out attempt is a verdict. Only files whose every case budget is CAPTURE tier or shorter keep one retry; walls shrink to match. - Marathon tier: positive selection, excluded from gate/periodic planners, run by the new evals-marathon.yml (weekly + dispatch, fresh, own report). - PR-lane E2E reuse of verified first-attempt passes on identical inputs; the report rejects reuse outside the fast PR profile. - Duration seed from census run 36385945043, per tier and per case shard. * docs: blocking lane budget, marathon lane, retry policy and E2E reuse * chore(typecheck): lock in two fixed test diagnostics * fix(ci): drop a duplicated env/jobs block in evals-marathon.yml * test(ship-docsync): shard the doc-sync lifecycle by case and drop the duplicate dispatch-only case ship-docsync ran the same fixture and prompt as ship-docsync-completion and asserted a subset of it. The file now runs one case per process, so its lane wall is its longest case instead of half the sum of thirteen. * fix(evals): plan CI-unrunnable cases as excluded entries, not empty case shards design-review-fix drives the Aside browser and registers test.skip on Linux runners, so its case shard executed zero cases and failed the exact-one-case check in proof census 36597762183 (eval-slices 6). CASE_CI_EXCLUDE (reason + tracking, beside PERIODIC_CI_EXCLUDE) now turns such cases into excluded manifest entries that --list and the manifest surface; every planned case shard still must execute exactly its case. * docs(todos): list the case-level Aside exclusion with the CI-unrunnable evals * fix(plan-ceo-review): restore experience-first expansion framing, require the mode handoff, skip pacing menus Census 36597762183: both mode-routing runs logged provenance and moved on without the mandated handoff chat; the EXPANSION run asked an unauthorized batch/narrow pacing menu instead of the first per-addition question; the expansion-energy proposals led with the spec because v1.87.6.0 dropped 'lead with the felt experience'. The HOLD review detector also rejected a decision whose grounding line named no plan file although the owned source Read binds it. * test(outside-plan-disabled): bind quoted prior-record values by their sentence, not phrase order The parent obeyed the off switch and twice named the seeded completed record as pre-existing, once with the quotation after its owner and once with slash separators; the order-specific stripper counted both as current completion. Timestamp, location, current-claim and value-match controls still reject. * test(outside-plan-disabled): compare named record timestamps as instants; negated authorship is not a current claim The repair rerun named the seeded record by its ISO second (2026-09-29T16:58:52Z vs .727Z) and said 'I did not write'; both were misread as a foreign timestamp and a current write. * test(ceo-section-loading): recognize an arrow-ordered stale-fill execution by event roles The census review traced the seeded race as 'R1 miss -> R1 store read (v1) -> W commit v2 -> W cache.delete -> W fulfills -> R1 cache.set(v1) -> R2 (begun after W) hits v1', but the in-flight gate only accepted race vocabulary or fixed sentence shapes. Order, actor, version and dismissal mutations still fail. * test(design-floor): answer the seed-declared all-seven 0D focus menu while it is pending The actor declares 'Design: review all seven dimensions', but its picker reused designReviewSetupAUQ, which only matches already-answered calls (and a narrower header/label set), so the pending D1 focus menu was never answered and the case waited out its 609 s deadline. The skill's Step 0D requires asking; the fixture now answers it. * test(ceo-mode-routing): accept the skill-mandated Note form and Recommendation reason as HOLD posture HOLD Defer/Keep briefs must use 'Note: options differ in kind' (preamble), but the answered-HOLD path demanded a Completeness score, rejected a one-line Net with a semicolon, and read posture only from ELI10. The rerun's brief applied HOLD SCOPE in its Recommendation reason. Revert the ineffective 'always'/'handoff chat' wording: two runs still skipped the mode handoff. * test(qa-bugs): keep claude-opus-4-7 after qa-b6-static stalled on the default model qa-b6-static timed out on claude-fable-5-1 in census 36597762183 and in one of two targeted reruns. Both times the stream stopped mid-message with no pending tool, right after the model found the disabled submit button, and stayed silent until the 300 s deadline. Per the B8 fallback, re-pin with a TODOS entry; budgets and retries are unchanged. A rerun on opus-4-7 passed (125 s, 5/5 detected). * test(evals): add E2E_KINDS, BEHAVIOR_WHY, EVAL_POLICY and CASE_QUARANTINE skeletons Every E2E_TIERS and LLM_JUDGE_TOUCHFILES key starts as 'rule'; BEHAVIOR_WHY and CASE_QUARANTINE start empty. EVAL_POLICY pre-registers the approved panel (3, majority 2), quarantine entry 0.95/10 and exit 0.97/10, 10% cap, 8-weekly-run expiry, Fisher drift alarm and one INFRA re-dispatch. * test(evals): add trial records, panelVerdict, expectContract and trial-outcomes JSONL EvalTestEntry gains case_id, kind, trial, panel, failure_class and policy_version, stamped from the runner's TRIAL_ENV on isolated trial shards. panelVerdict() is the single verdict function (INCOMPLETE on missing or duplicate trials, contract veto at any count, quarantine hard-break rule, INFRA/INCOMPLETE machine classification). expectContract() records failure_class 'contract' on the collector entry and a sidecar before throwing. trial-outcomes JSONL has a fail-closed writer and a data-only reader. * test(evals): pin the fail-closed rule-shard gate through the real --report path Synthetic slice artifacts for rule fail, timeout, missing slice, unreported entry, hollow, never-started, collector failure and wrong-slice reports all exit red before the panel-verdict gate change lands. * test(evals): retire every paid automatic retry Paid evals never retry (approved 2026-09-29): delete SHORT_CASE_RETRY_FILES and retriesWithinCaseCap, drop the retry fields from the registered wall rows (walls now cover one run plus reserve), make retriesForFiles return 0, pass --retry 0 explicitly, and drop --retry 1 from the package.json paid scripts. Add the eval:pass-rates alias. Tests that pinned the old retry allowance are updated as a policy change; review-finalization-budget now proves late-result recording under the production zero-retry arguments. * test(llm-judge): sample every judge as a pre-registered 3-sample panel Each of the 24 skill-llm-eval judges now draws EVAL_POLICY.judge.samples independent samples of the same prompt concurrently inside the unchanged JUDGE_MS budget. Numeric dimensions gate on the per-dimension panel mean against the unchanged threshold; booleans (would_browse, consistent) on a strict majority. An erroring sample fails the whole panel and is never resampled; a refusal is an unscored panel only when every sample refused. callJudge's 429 backoff stays: it is transport before any model output. The workflow-judge cache stores and validates only complete panels, and its identity now records the panel and zero file retries. Harness tests that pinned one provider call per case now pin the panel size. * test(evals): classify every live case and re-select a case when its kind changes E2E_KINDS: rule by default (191 E2E ids), 22 behavior cases whose verdict is a live model choice with an acceptable sub-100% per-trial rate, each with a BEHAVIOR_WHY tolerance, and 25 judge entries (the 24 workflow judges plus the fixed-fixture llm-judge-recommendation rubric check). Contract-shaped cases (ask-before-decide, plan-mode no-writes, mandated steps, secrets, the batching floor) stay rule. Behavior requires a known literal registration and an exact Bun test name so the case runs as its own trial shard. Map-diff selection now diffs E2E_KINDS and BEHAVIOR_WHY per key, and a base revision without them selects every key, so a kind flip runs the panel it introduces. test/eval-kinds.test.ts enforces coverage, tolerances, isolatability and the reviewed counts, printing the literal to add. * feat(evals): per-case pass rates with Wilson intervals, identity series and quarantine policy scripts/eval-flake-rank.ts becomes eval:pass-rates (eval:flake-rank stays an alias, and the legacy aggregate stays exported). It reads eval-store's trial-outcomes JSONL from the last N completed evals-periodic runs on this branch and main (gh, downloading only the trial-outcomes artifact, cached and size-capped, parsed as data), plus local eval dirs, and prints per-case per-trial pass rates with 95% Wilson intervals. A series is a case's own touchfiles minus GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES (caseSeriesIdentities, for the report job to stamp), per model, CLI version and policy version. Labels: INCONCLUSIVE, BROKEN, FLAKY, FAILING, PASSING. --backfill imports legacy slice artifacts as pre-policy trials (first attempt only, attributed by registry id, never guessed) for display only. --gate fails with ACTION REQUIRED on post-policy evidence only: drift below the quarantine entry rule, a rule case behaving like behavior, a one-sided Fisher drop against the previous identity (Holm-controlled), and quarantine entries that met their exit rule, expired after 8 weekly runs, broke the 10% tier cap or are invalid. CASE_QUARANTINE entries now carry a failureClass (detector, harness or model-latency); a product defect has no class and is never quarantined. The policy test pins EVAL_POLICY's approved constants. * feat(eval-pass-rates): attribute legacy records by the exact slug of their display name * ci(image): pin Claude Code 2.1.284 so the eval model is recognized 2.1.251 logs [claude-code:unrecognized_model] for claude-fable-5-1, the eval capture/judge default. 2.1.284 does not. The gate PTY smoke subset (plan-ceo/plan-devex plan-mode, plan-mode-no-op) parses on the new TUI; plan-design-review-plan-mode passed at 293 s on 2.1.284 and timed out at 300 s on 2.1.251 on the same tree. * test(eng-batching): grade the floor once the review report is complete A completed GSTACK REVIEW REPORT ends the review, so the review-question count is final there. Run 36606688266 wrote its report at 1,248 s and closed the session at 1,318 s; the case now stops collection and applies the unchanged floor at the report instead of waiting out the session. No budget changes. * test(eng-batching): bind unsourced native briefs through the report's target Run 36606688266 asked ten separate native review questions (D1-D9 bound to ledger records R1-R9) and failed reviewCount=0 < FLOOR=3: its briefs named the plan by title instead of citing PLAN.md, its report declared 'Review target (fixed): PLAN.md' under '# Engineering review: <plan>', and it kept an unfenced copy of the plan's own H1. The named-source route now accepts those spellings and non-inline ledger briefs. The same replay rejects a foreign, mixed, duplicate or missing target, another plan's title or copied H1, a brief naming another plan or file, a mismatched saved brief, and re-asks. The run-36597762183 capture still counts 3. * fix(plan-design-review): treat a designer with no API key as unavailable Both proof runs (36597762183, 36606688266) printed DESIGN_READY, hit 'No OpenAI API key found' on the first $D variants call, then hand-built HTML/CSS wireframes, screenshots and a comparison board for ~195-245 s before the first review question; the second run timed out at 600 s. A failed first generation now takes the existing text-only path, and the skill forbids substituting hand-built mockups. * fix(deslop-shared-libs): read related sources together within the turn limit Run 36606688266's opportunity audit read sixteen sources one per turn and stopped at error_max_turns; the passing run 36597762183 read the same files in three batched commands. The skill now says turns are bounded and asks for parallel reads or one read-only command per step. * test(ceo-mode-routing): submit a mode review that scrolled past the viewport Run 36606688266 bundled routing, learnings and the mode choice into one native call. Its review panel was taller than the terminal, so the tab bar scrolled off, ceoModeSubmissionInput returned null for 240 s and HOLD SCOPE was never submitted ('no posture match'). With no bar on screen the viewport must still end at the focused Submit prompt, and the accumulated screen text supplies the one complete panel, authenticated exactly as before. Replay controls reject another mode, an unoffered answer, an altered question, a quoted panel, trailing output, a moved cursor and an answered or changed call. * docs(evals): document the pre-registered verdict policy, quarantine, pass-rate history and arithmetic AGENTS.md replaces the retry rule with the approved policy text (no retries; kind fixes trials; no added trials, samples or dispatches after a result; quarantine by CASE_QUARANTINE only; one INFRA/INCOMPLETE re-dispatch) and notes that a pre-registered fixed panel is not rejudging. CONTRIBUTING gains the kind rules, the judge panel, eval:pass-rates and an 'Add a paid eval' checklist. TESTING_INTERNALS describes verdicts, quarantine, history and the arithmetic, including the rule term: 1 trial vs 2-of-3 red rates at p = 0.99/0.95/0.90/0.70/0.30 and lane all-green probabilities for the current 191 rule / 22 behavior / 25 judge registry. * feat(evals): trial planner, slice exit split and panel-verdict report Planner: behavior and quarantined cases become panels of isolated trial shards (<file>#<id>~t<N>) bound by EVALS_SELECTION_JSON=[id] and the exact test name; the file shard excludes them by name. Trials of one case never share a slice, result slugs are unique, panels are validated whole, unknown registrations throw, and the planner prints a capacity preflight. Executor: each trial shard gets its TRIAL_ENV identity and a trial record (outcome, failure class, cause, cost); every shard writes a JUnit report. The slice exit now means execution completeness: a failed rule shard or a trial without a record reds the runner, a failed trial does not. Report: panelVerdict() decides every panel of the first run attempt (later attempts are reported, never replacing it); rule shards keep the unchanged fail-closed checks; collector records all count (no last-attempt wins); census runs enforce the quarantine cap and expiry. It writes collector-outcomes v2, trial-outcomes.jsonl (trials plus JUnit rule/judge cases), report-summary.md, and one headline + failure block with rerun commands, and flags INFRA/INCOMPLETE-only reds for the one re-dispatch. The fail-open suite gains the panel cases: behavior 1/3 red, 2/3 green with its failed trial shown, missing trial INCOMPLETE, contract at 2/3 red, quarantined 1/3 green, 0/3 and contract red, missing slice red, and a later attempt never replacing the first. * chore(evals): refresh paid duration seeds from proof runs 36597762183 and 36606688266 Both tiers, merged in run order (the later run wins). Notable: split-overflow 1332s -> 504s, section-loading 604s -> 342s, mode-routing 575s -> 444s; multi-finding-batching 734s -> 1318s (its red path in run 36606688266). * feat(evals): stamp trial series identities and fit panels to the live registry - scripts/eval-trial-series.ts stamps series_identity (eval-flake-rank's caseSeriesIdentities) on a report's trial-outcomes JSONL as its own step, keeping the history tool out of the paid runner's closure; TrialOutcomeRecord gains the optional series_identity field. - Slice-count plans let a registered trial spill into an ordinary lane when its siblings hold every long lane, so panels never share a runner. - Re-audited test-selection.ts (Stream B added the E2E_KINDS/BEHAVIOR_WHY map-diff; no new module loading) and repinned its hash. - Detach and release floors now count trial shards (66 periodic trials in 22 panels): periodic floor 33,821s, still under eval:bg:periodic's 67,380s. - Coordination fixtures supply the executor's trial records. * ci(evals): attempt-scoped artifacts, verdict-v2 PR comment, weekly pass-rate gate and one INFRA re-dispatch - Slice, census and marathon artifacts carry -a<run_attempt>; reports download them per artifact (no merge), so records never overwrite and a re-run never replaces the first attempt's verdict. - Planners pass --max-parallel for the capacity preflight (24/16 unchanged: the refreshed periodic plan needs 24 slices, the gate census 12). - PR comment: jq-only job reads collector-outcomes v2 (headline, sanitized failure block); the group_by(.name)|last recomputation is gone. - Reports stamp series identities, upload trial-outcomes-* for history, and shard logs upload always (a failed trial no longer reds its runner). - Weekly report: headline + failure block of both lanes in the issue body, the eval:pass-rates --gate step (fails closed without history), close the issue on a green run, and UC-E1: when every red is machine-classified INFRA/INCOMPLETE, one re-dispatch as a new run in its own concurrency group (redispatch_of), both runs reported. * feat(evals): planner-side whole-panel reuse and negative receipts The planner job restores this PR's receipt store once and ships a single filtered set with the plan: a pass or panel receipt with a same-or-newer FAIL for its input identity is dropped, and a panel receipt ships only as a whole PASS panel (re-verified with panelVerdict) from one run. Executors read only that set (no per-slice cache restore or save), so every trial of a panel sees the same receipts; a trial reuses its own record from the panel receipt, keeping a split PASS's failed trial. Trial identities drop the trial index (run-scoped) and bind the panel policy. Executed shards carry their input identity; the report turns a whole fresh PASS panel into a panel receipt and a FAIL panel or failed rule shard into a negative receipt, and marks a panel that mixes reused and fresh trials INCOMPLETE. The report job merges plan, slice and report receipts (newest per file) and saves one store per run. Also fixes two TS2352 casts in browse/test/dia-macos-qualification.test.ts whose diagnostic text drifted with program order (baseline locked, fix only). * feat(evals): --case/--trials local diagnosis and panels in local sharded runs bun run scripts/test-paid-shards.ts --case <id> [--trials N] runs N independent trials of one case through the CI panel runner (trial shards, TRIAL_ENV identity, name-pattern isolation) and prints its panelVerdict(); N defaults to the case's policy panel and CI never reads it. The local sharded path (test:gate:sharded, test:periodic:sharded) now plans the same trial shards and exclusions as CI and exits on execution completeness plus panel verdicts. * test(pty): grant an owned Create pane whose title row is cropped The targeted batching rerun on Claude Code 2.1.284 left its first report Write unanswered for 1,372 s and timed out: the viewport began at the pane's relative file row and rule, with the 'Create file' title cropped above, so the preview parser rejected the file row as foreign. That row must now resolve to the owned path and is skipped before the unchanged line-by-line preview match. Replay controls reject another file, another directory and an edited preview row. * fix(evals): tsx-safe generics in eval-flake-rank, legacy artifact names, no-retry wall docs * test(evals): record the read-only and detector-row invariants as contracts shared-libs-opportunity-judgment and review-design-lite are behavior cases: their recommendation and checklist judgments may vary, but the read-only invariant (commands, provider requests, fixture bytes, hooks, state) and the deterministic fake-engine detector rows are contracts. Both now go through expectContract, so any failure vetoes the panel. * test(judges): sample the recommendation rubric as a panel; never re-ask armJudge llm-judge-recommendation is a judge case: each fixture now draws a 3-sample judgePanel, gates reason_substance on the panel mean and the present/commits/has_because checks on a 2-of-3 majority, thresholds unchanged. armJudge no longer re-asks on a malformed verdict; it is a failed sample, as the judge policy requires. * test(evals): record a pre-turn API or CLI failure as infra recordE2E sets failure_class 'infra' on a failed session whose runner reports error_api, timeout_startup, error_output_stream or a non-zero CLI exit with zero turns and no assistant event. A model refusal, a timeout after model work, max turns, or an explicit caller pass/class keeps its ordinary classification. * test: pin every-record outcome counts and the twelve doc-sync callbacks * test(eng-batching): read the report target as a field, not a spelling The next targeted rerun (Claude Code 2.1.284) again asked eleven separate native questions and again counted zero: its briefs named no plan and its report declared '- **Review target (fixed):** `/abs/PLAN.md`' under '# Eng Review — PLAN.md: <plan>'. An unsourced brief now inherits the one current target field that names a PLAN.md file, whatever its list or emphasis markup; its ledger record still supplies the cited finding and must reproduce the brief exactly. A brief that names its plan must still match the report title. Replays of all three captures count 9, 9 and 3; controls reject a foreign, duplicate or missing target and an archived title. * fix(evals): --case list mode and name precheck; case-shard qa-callers; refresh batching and design-with-ui seeds * chore(release): v1.91.9.0 * test: settle the post-response composer before seeding; give the TPA recorder adapter its infra helper submitPlanSeed accepted a stale empty composer when the transcript recorded end_turn before the CLI repainted (late-repaint-typed-current fails 5/5 on the old helper, passes 5/5 now). The TPA recording fixture extracted recordE2E without isPreTurnInfraFailure, so every failed case threw before recording. * test(autoplan-dual-voice): unwrap Claude Code 2.1.284 subagent hand-back frames; accept read-only probe diagnostics; record before asserting Census run 36626737820: the native CEO report arrived framed and indented, so its INPUT line never matched, and the model's exact probe plus two variable echoes was not canonical. A column-zero line inside a frame, command substitution, backticks, redirects, assignments, CODEX_MODE echoes and output line-count mismatches stay rejected. The failure now records before asserting. * ci(image): keep Claude Code 2.1.251; test(ceo-mode-routing): keep HOLD's own deferrals in scope before assessing its rigor decision 2.1.284 enables per-turn effort for claude-fable-5-1: in gate census 36626737820, 66 of 84 sessions ran longer than on 2.1.251 (+20% session time, +32% thinking tokens) and 11 cases timed out on unchanged budgets. HOLD SCOPE's 0G step asks its own defer/keep menu; the actor answered it Defer and the assessment then judged that scope question as the rigor decision. The actor now answers that menu Keep and assesses the next one. * test: attribute quoted prior-record field lists, state the judge reason bound in its schema, move split-overflow to marathon Census 36629958451 reds: - outside-plan-disabled-no-fallback: the model quoted the pre-existing record as a parenthesized field list with its exact timestamp; attribution now requires that exact timestamp and the record's own field values. - plan-devex-peer-comparison-classification: the judge correctly returned missing but wrote a 1069-character reason, voiding the judgment; structured outputs cannot enforce maxLength, so the bound is stated on the field. - plan-ceo-split-overflow ran 504-1188 s as one PTY flow and set the periodic lane's wall clock; it now runs weekly in the marathon lane. * test: supply holdDeferKeepIndex to the CEO routing mocks and follow split-overflow into the marathon lane The registered-callback fixtures mock ceo-mode-option and lacked the new export; the split fixtures asserted the periodic tier; the registered-budget check looked for split-overflow only in the periodic manifest. * fix(qa): checkpoint receipts print the report link for their exploration file qa-functional-webhook-report failed in two of three censuses because the report linked .qa-evidence/NNN capture folders as "checkpoints" and never linked exploration-NNN.json. The checkpoint receipt now prints link: [checkpoint NNN](exploration-NNN.json), and the functional report template says capture folders are not checkpoints. * docs: final census numbers in the v1.91.9.0 entry; file the paid-eval follow-ups * ci(evals): name the PR-comment loop's unused fields so shellcheck passes (SC2034) * fix(plan-ceo-review): tighten expansion pacing wording to fit the skeleton cap after the main merge The merged skeleton measured 80,166 bytes against its unchanged 80,150 cap. Same instructions: ask separately for each addition, in turn, with no pacing menu; lead each proposal with the felt experience, then shape, effort and impact. * fix(eval-pass-rates): match trial-outcome files by basename so Windows backslash paths are read * fix(evals): repair proof-run reds in design-consultation, document-release, design and QA fixtures - design-consultation Phase 1 asks one brief that confirms context and decides research; the confirm-only first question scored substance 2. - document-release defines ship-owned inputs, exact steps and the JSON result, and drops stale spawned-from-/ship text (judge actionability 3.67 -> 4/4/4). - plan-design-with-ui accepts the Step 0D focus menu the same way the shared picker does ("focus on specific ones?"). - plan-design-review plan-mode saves in three Edits instead of one final Write. - QA functional annotations ask for the full 40-character revision. - Outside-disabled attribution judges quoted prior-record data by its exact timestamp or a dated, pre-existing-record sentence; four captured phrasings replay clean and current claims still fail. - --case can select autoplan-dual-voice by its literal test name. * test(design): revert the three-Edit plan-mode flow A focused paid run still timed out at 300 s: the first three passes alone took 150 s of thinking. The case stays a named timeout red rather than cutting review depth. * test: accept 'review mode = X' auto-decide declarations and parenthetical scope exclusions in the shared-libs actor auto-decide-preserved: the product auto-decided HOLD SCOPE and said "Decision: review mode = HOLD SCOPE"; the grammar knew only "is" and ":". shared-libs-plan-callers: the recommended option said "(no hardening)" and the actor read "hardening" as an expansion. Both replay the captured text, keep negative controls, and passed focused paid runs. * fix(review): pass Review Army checklists by path, run research alongside dispatch, always probe the design detector; state review-log invocation and statuses in the caller fixture - review-army-perf-n-plus-one: the parent copied full checklists into agent prompts and ran web research before dispatch (290 s on a 12-line diff); 212 s now. - review-design-lite: 5 of 6 captured trials reported the detector absent without probing; the probe is mandatory and its first line is reported, and the contract credits only fake-engine rule ids the checklist never names. - review-exploratory-small-cli: the fixture never gave review-log's direct invocation or status vocabulary; the model ran it through bun and wrote status "blocked". The prompt states both and the validator rejects out-of-vocabulary review statuses. Each case passed a focused paid run after repair. * docs(changelog): proof-run product fixes * fix(ship): always run the design-lite detector probe; test(shared-libs): credit a failed first file view and deferred-reuse Skip wording - /ship design-lite: the probe is mandatory and any non-ready first line is stated, matching /review (5 of 6 captured /review trials had skipped it). - shared-libs-pr-coverage: the first PR 42 page-1 read printed only a jq error, so the one refetch is a legitimate recovery, charged to the same budget. - shared-libs-review-prior-coverage: the Skip option said a future review can "reuse it once snapshot coverage holds"; a conditional tail on the recorded decision is not product work. Captured-text regressions and negative controls. * fix(ship,qa,document-release): repair proof-run regressions and fixture gaps - ship-docsync-completion: yesterday's audit-scope result dropped the section's status, so /ship spliced one in; the section now opens with **Status:**. - ship-docsync-missing-asset: a missing section or old Ship-owned mode blocks before launch. - ship-docsync-late-result: the invocation record says prepare already saves the candidate selection (no extra Read; budget unchanged). - qa exploratory: await the method Reads before the first probe. - qa-callers fixture: quote the real review-log record template; allow the git log command plan-completion prescribes. - qa functional observer: a receipt caught mid-link(2) is checked at stop instead of failing with ENOENT (reproduced from CI). Each repaired case passed a focused paid run. * ci(image): pin Claude Code 2.1.284, the version users run Request-body capture shows both 2.1.251 and 2.1.284 send effort "high" to claude-fable-5-1; 2.1.284 adds the model's own profile. The slower 2.1.284 census was mostly API latency: its SDK-only judges were 25% slower too. Nine previously slow cases pass on 2.1.284 within unchanged budgets. * test: one owner per case id, a structural devex 0B setup rule, and correct design/gbrain actors - plan-design-review-plan-mode was registered by two files; the PTY smoke is now plan-design-review-plan-mode-smoke, and a registry test requires one owner per case in case-sharded files. - plan-devex-finding-floor: the template's 0B narrative-confirmation question is classified as setup structurally instead of timing out a Haiku assessor. - setup-gbrain-remote: the actor accepted 'skip' on the MCP-registration question the test asserts; it now accepts that question and declines others. - design-review-plugin-handoff: the fake engine cited a file absent from the fixture repo and index.html linked a missing styles.css. Captured-question regressions with negative controls; each case passed a focused paid run. * test: PTY harness handles clipped reviews and bundled setup tabs; AUQ judge uses structured output; design-consultation carve declines optional outside voices - ceo mode routing: a Submit review taller than the viewport, a setup tab bundled after the mode tab, and a clip through the mode question each hung or misread the run; the native answer is still verified after Submit. - judgeRecommendation requests a 1-5 enum schema; a malformed Haiku reply had scored substance 0 for a 4/5 brief. Judge failures now propagate. - carve section-loading for design-consultation declines the optional outside voices (a supported path) and treats DESIGN.md as the report; timeout unchanged. The Step 0E handoff defect is not fixed (0/15 samples across four wordings, none shipped) and is filed in TODOS. * test: fold the design-consultation completion replay into carve-section-sharding (test-of-test ratchet) * docs(todos): record the pre-push hook shard-order hang * test(qa-callers): disable git auto maintenance in the fixture repo (same guard as shared-libs; from #3002) * test(office-hours-attempt): the fake judge SDK response carries stop_reason like the real API (structured judge requires end_turn) * fix(qa): the caller STOP line says to await the method Reads before any probe ship-exploratory-plan-checks: the model read exploratory.md and sent a capture in the same response, before seeing the section's own await rule. * fix(qa): number the qa value-bar questions from 1 and say reproduced bugs already answer the first two * fix(qa): define evidence.json where it is built, point the preparation gate at the next section, name measured command durations in the report template Recurring qa/qa-only workflow-judge complaints in CI (clarity/actionability 3.33). * fix(plan-eng-review,review): a disallowed question tool is not headless; report kept tests only when some were skipped * fix(plan-eng-review): keep the headless-rule contract phrases adjacent * fix(evals): cut path variance at its measured sources - gstack-qa-evidence capture prints startedAt/completedAt/durationMs and, for --deadline captures, remainingMs; the functional report takes durations from them. The section clock notice asks for one clock read up front instead of one after every checkpoint (QA runs spent 7-14% of tool calls on date -u). - ship plan-completion: skip the audit dispatch when discovery already found no plan (the dispatch-vs-skip conflict produced an optional 60-100 s subagent). - materialize/checkpoint validation errors state the expected schema, so a rejected annotations file is fixable in one call instead of blocking the phase. - session-runner counts turns from the transcript when a run times out, so timeouts stop reporting 'turn 0'. * fix(evals): count timeout turns only from object transcript events * test(qa-callers): deterministic child transport, completion-time handoff reads, compact phase report The exploratory caller cases exist to prove the caller starts and bounds exploratory QA. Their native adversarial reviewer (review) and plan audit (ship plan-checks) now come from recorded child outputs instead of a live subagent, handoff freshness reads are required before completion records rather than every bookkeeping log, and the phase report is compact. Measured: 194-257 s per case against 208-284 s before, no subagent calls. * test(ship-docsync): seed fault cases at their gate instead of replaying attempt 1 The post-dispatch fault cases (missing-marker, launch-failure, timeout-unsettled, late-result, stale-before, stale-after, recovery) now start from a fixture-owned attempt 1: the real actor prepares and dispatches it, its verbatim output is saved once, and the invocation journal carries its pre-dispatch entry with the child asset hashes. The model resumes at Parent processing with a trimmed read list, inspect named as the authoritative repository observation, and recovery's intermediate checkpoint folded into the next attempt's pre-dispatch entry. Assertions count only parent-issued transport events and require a read of the saved attempt-1 output; missing-asset and the legacy failure case keep the full model-driven first attempt, and their prompts are byte-identical. * test(ship-docsync): name the seeded read list and cap journal/report length The first seeded stale-before run spent calls locating documentation.md (two ls sweeps), reading through cat and re-Reading the record before Edit, and ~40 s composing 1.5-2.2 KB entries and report. Name every seeded read path, ask for native Read, and bound entry/report length. * test(ship-docsync): trim the seeded parent's measured model time Measured on the seeded runs: one read the 78 KB ship/SKILL.md, the post-child freshness comparison spent 18-32 s of thinking over full inspect contents, and the final response restated the report (~1.1 KB). Say the phase excerpt stands in for ship/SKILL.md, compare hashes first and read content only for changed paths, and end with one status line. * feat(qa-evidence): enforce the checkpoint sequence and fill report bookkeeping in code - capture refuses to run another probe until a checkpoint anchored on the latest complete capture names this capture as its next command, and every complete capture prints that requirement. - materialize fills revision, runtime, cwd and learning (checkpoints whose next native command differs) when omitted and prints the reportLinks the report must include; the QA section shrinks accordingly. * test(qa-callers): hand the caller phase its invocation-start observations and review token; fix(next-version): fetch without auto maintenance - Every caller case receives the diff, status, log, untracked list, HEAD and an already-captured review start token, so the phase spends its budget on the contract under test instead of re-running setup reads. - gstack-next-version's fetches pass --no-auto-maintenance. On git 2.55 a completed fetch forks detached maintenance in the caller's repository; the free suite's live smoke test ran it inside the CI checkout, and every shard-12 pre-push hook hang so far followed a completed smoke fetch. * feat(deslop-shared-libs): route every Git read through bin/gstack-safe-git The skill made the model retype a long safe-Git prefix on each call and a dropped flag failed shared-libs-read-only. bin/gstack-safe-git applies the fixed env + flag prefix, adds --no-ext-diff --no-textconv to log/show/diff, allows diff only between two explicit object IDs and ls-files only in the NUL-delimited overlay form, and refuses every other shape with one line naming the allowed forms. The template now points at the installed helper (host global runtime via {{SAFE_GIT}}) and drops the prose it enforces. Fixtures resolve the helper to this checkout, the git shim records the safety environment, and isGuardedGitRequest requires the complete prefix (env included) for every repository read. * test(shared-libs): tee to a discard device is not a file write Paid shared-libs-opportunity-judgment t1 on 1213b01 failed read-only on '... | tee /dev/null | sha256sum'. The detector flagged any tee operand while the same devices are allowed for redirection. tee now fails only when an operand is a real file; tee to a file, -a file and -- -a stay violations. * fix(qa-evidence,observer): reject placeholder metadata and replay-only learning; declare the docs atomic-write target - materialize measures revision, runtime and cwd itself and rejects supplied values that differ (CI run wrote revision "HEAD" and runtime "bun"), and refuses learning checkpoints that replay the same probe, naming the fix. - The docs write observer treats Claude Code's atomic temp for the authorized doc target as transient, so a temp renamed before its per-file watch no longer marks the observation incomplete (ship-docsync-completion flake). Per-file monitoring outside declared targets stays fail-closed. * test(qa-functional): fix mode requires only the happy scenario from the model (carried byte-identical from #3002 183b01f4..3e6074b4) verifyQANativeRegression already reruns all eight webhook scenarios on the repaired source, so the model-side eight-scenario requirement in fix mode duplicated harness coverage and pushed qa-functional-webhook-fix past its budget. qa-only still requires every scenario. * fix(deslop-shared-libs): probe the audited repository with -C <repo> A CI run probed safe-git from the session directory above the target repo, so the capability probe never touched the repository and the run fell back to the API without a local attempt. The probe (and any call from elsewhere) now names the audited repository. * test(qa-deadline): never attach a reader to the full-pipe fixture's stdout The full-pipe receipt test attached a 'data' listener (flowing mode) and then paused; on CI the reader could drain the 2 MB write before the pause, so the receipt write never blocked and the helper exited 0 in ~126 ms. The stdout pipe now stays unread until the assertion, which is what the test means to model. * feat(qa): helpers answer --help, and the QA eval interfaces declare it Approved by Garry: asking gstack-qa-evidence or gstack-qa-deadline for usage is read-only, so both helpers print usage and exit 0 on --help (the evidence usage now names the annotation shape), and the functional and caller command allowlists accept exactly 'bun <path>/bin/gstack-qa-{evidence,deadline} --help'. Two CI runs failed only on that call. * fix(qa): after an input change, a probe is affected unless shown otherwise CI late-input run finished in time but revalidated only the happy probe after the locale input changed and reported the stale adverse probe green. The revalidation step now treats any probe not shown to be unaffected as affected. * test(shared-libs): seed the lifecycle replay's first Step 3 pass instead of replaying it shared-libs-review-lifecycle ran ~88% of its 300 s session budget (12-run census median 265 s, 4/24 sessions timed out). The fixture now executes pass 1's Step 3 once with the real logger and Git: a real unused REVIEW_START, then the diff, inventories, attributes/config/index flags, gstack-review-read output and every file's bytes and sha256, saved to one observation. The model resumes at Step 4 with an exact four-file first read, the observation named as the authoritative pass-1 repository read, one post-fix verification, an explicit pass-2 read list and a twelve-line summary. Pass 2 still runs its own --start, diff, reads, fingerprint and stage actor before --finish. The actor scope now states that a current settled final-pass actor result supplies the replaced QA/adversarial prerequisites and that the no-credit disclosure is a reporting label: one r1 session persisted completed:false from that ambiguity. New assertions: the final binding never uses the seeded token's start or tree, and the observation was read; free controls finish the seeded token (binding changed) and omit the observation read, and both fail. * test(shared-libs): trim the resumed review replays' setup and report Every sibling review session (revalidation, path-eligibility, index-flags, prior-coverage) loaded qa/sections/exploratory.md and often scope.md although its QA and native adversarial results are supplied synthetic inputs, then spent a second request on shared-code-reuse.md and base metadata. The resumed scope now states that the supplied results replace Step 4's QA method loading; the revalidation contract names one first response (workflow, checklist, finding, prerequisites, shared-code-reuse.md, base metadata) and caps the summary at twelve lines. Receipt order, direct source reads, the checker, the question and final persistence are unchanged. * fix(review): define what a Step 5c Skip option says Step 5c named "B) Skip" without saying what its description may claim. Two CI captures (path-eligibility on131d43be, index-flags on4643cb85) offered a Skip whose description added effects beyond declining: "The extraction can be applied in a later editing review pass" and "replacing the invalidated prior Skip". Those read as change commitments, so the no-change actor refused both. Step 5c now says to describe Skip only as no code/index change with the Skip recorded; adjacent lines are compacted so the review parity caps hold unchanged. Both exact packets are kept as a free regression: still refused, and accepted once Skip follows the rule. The actor's classifier is unchanged. * fix(qa-evidence): every complete capture needs an evidence row; test(tpa): accept the hyphenated app-specific-password spelling - materialize refuses when a complete capture has no evidence row and is not named in limits (CI cli-report omitted capture 004), naming the missing IDs. - tpa-apple-ban's detector required 'app-specific password' with a space; the CI answer said 'app-specific-password path' and was otherwise correct. * test(qa-observer): fix mode treats atomic temps of authorized src/test writes as transient CI webhook-fix failed with 'Could not watch test/worker.regression-1.test.ts.tmp...': Claude Code's Write renamed its temp before the per-file watch was added. The functional eval now tells the observer its mode, and a temp whose target that mode may write is observed through its directory watch. Report-only mode and undeclared paths keep failing closed. * feat(qa-evidence): refuse evidence observed on an older input snapshot than the latest capture When native probe output declares a top-level input snapshot, materialize compares each evidence row with the latest capture's snapshot and refuses stale rows unless they are classified superseded, naming the captures to rerun. ship-exploratory-late-input kept reporting a pre-change adverse probe green after the input changed. * test(qa-functional): point the fixture at the helper's --help instead of its source A CI webhook-fix run spent three turns reading lib/qa-evidence.ts to learn the interface and timed out just before materialize (agreed with #3002's owner). * feat(qa-evidence): captures list the caller's declared-but-unrun required probes GSTACK_QA_REQUIRED_PROBES (a JSON array of native child commands) makes every capture print requiredRemaining; it never judges pass or fail. The functional eval passes the webhook list from QA_WEBHOOK_REQUIRED_SCENARIOS, which the verdict now reads too, so the nudge and the verdict share one source (agreed with #3002's owner). CI webhook-report kept stopping with scenarios unrun. * test(review-army): record N+1's pre-dispatch stages and scope the session to Step 4.5 review-army-perf-n-plus-one timed out in 7 of 13 CI runs on this branch (passing 245-280 s of 300). Each session spent ~95 s on setup (the full extracted SKILL, checklist, section greps, exploratory.md, diff-scope/stats/learnings, tooling checks), ran Step 4's core pass, a search-before-recommending WebSearch, and wrote a 10-16 KB report (~100 s after the Red Team returned). The fixture now stages only review/sections/review-army.md plus the performance and red-team checklists, and hands the session the recorded detect-scope, specialist-stats and learnings outputs and the diff. The caller passes --performance (every CI parent already treated the prompt as that force flag against the <50-line skip), declares the core pass, QA, adversarial review, web research, Fix-First and persistence out of scope, and caps the report at the selection line, the SPECIALIST REVIEW block and the Red Team result (30 lines). The Performance specialist and the conditional Red Team are still real foreground subagents, and the report still has to surface the N+1. New assertion: a foreground Performance specialist dispatch precedes the Red Team dispatch. Free controls omit the Performance dispatch or background it, and both fail; the budget lifecycle adapter supplies the current result shape. Touchfiles now include the .rb fixture the case reads. * test(review-army): share the recorded Step 4.5 staging with consensus and supply its Red Team review-army-consensus (periodic) timed out in 2 of 13 census sessions; passing runs took 213-297 s of 300. Like N+1 it spent ~30-50 s reading the whole extracted SKILL, checklist and every specialist file, sometimes dispatched an unrequested Maintainability specialist, then ran a Red Team (60-70 s) and a second merge before writing a 9-15 KB report. The N+1 staging and scope text move into stageReviewArmySession / reviewArmyScope / reviewArmyChecklists (the N+1 prompt renders byte-identical). Consensus now records its detect-scope, stats, learnings and diff, stages the Review Army section with the security and testing checklists, forces --security --testing, and caps the report like N+1. Its Red Team is outside the multi-specialist contract, so the fixture supplies a labeled synthetic NO FINDINGS result instead of a dispatch. The existing SQL-finding and browser-error assertions are unchanged; the lifecycle adapter's spawnSync now returns the git output the staging reads. * docs(changelog): v1.91.10.0 records the flake census and its repairs * test(strict-output): give the spool-prefix child time to finish before the pending stream times out windows-free-tests failed on9a7a7e54: the 150 ms shared deadline raced Bun startup on Windows, so the child was killed mid-write and the spool held a partial payload. Only the never-released extra stream should time out; the child now has 3 s. * fix(qa-evidence): accept a single limits string; test(qa-callers): read the handoff first when a probe snapshot changes CI late-input spent a turn rewriting limits as an array after materialize refused a string, and a ten-read sweep hunting for the changed input before it read reports/HANDOFF.md, then timed out at 300 s. * test(autoplan-dual-voice): unwrap the framed native report before Claude Code 2.1.284's agentId/usage trailer * test(section-loading): credit a Bash print that contains every line of the carved section * test(auto-decide): ask for the selected mode in the skill's mode handoff line, not a separate public decision * test(plan-ceo floor): scope preservation approves no premise, approach or remedy * test(autoplan-dual-voice): the fixture declares that delivered bash blocks run alone, diagnostics separately * test(coverage-audit): a fenced plain-word caption in a successful && read chain is display only Census 36776104571 plan-eng capture read both owned files with cat -n in one successful && chain; the caption 'echo "=== git diff main --stat ==="' fell outside the two-token caption grammar, so both reads lost credit. Accept a fenced caption of plain words; unfenced command strings, expansions, redirection, -e escapes and ; / || tails stay rejected. * test(office-hours): a fork whose outer options are the seeded shapes is the Phase 4 question Census trials 1-2 captured complete Phase 4 forks (A) Server-side B) Client-side C) Hybrid, recommendation with because) whose prose used none of the vocabulary words. Accept two seeded shapes as outer options as Phase 4 specificity; the earlier-phase, nested, fenced and single-shape controls still fail. * fix(review): design-lite rows keep the detector's [rule-id]; the e2e detector rows point at the diff The output template had no rule-id slot, so rows merged with checklist items dropped the detector id (census t2, local t1). Rows now carry [rule-id]. The fake engine's sample rows named a foreign fixture path at line 0; the e2e remaps them to landing.html/styles.css so trials stop spending turns reconciling it. * test(shared-libs): the plan actor reads scheduler parity and unchanged-scope lists Census 36776104571's question preserved the contract ('behaving exactly like the scheduler', 'scheduler parity holds by construction') and excluded work with 'Existing copies and helper hardening stay unchanged'. Accept exactly/parity as preservation (negated forms refuse) and a bare noun list that stays unchanged as an exclusion for the expansion scan only; verb-led clauses still refuse. * fix(qa-only,qa): name the exploratory read point and finalization order; judge qa with its browser assets qa-only judges cited 'next section' pointing at the wrong heading, an exploratory trigger that contradicted its read point, clock ownership in mixed runs and the unstated order of exploratory section 4 vs reporting. The qa judge penalized the absent qa-report-template and issue-taxonomy that qa-patterns loads; with them in, it found issue-taxonomy's dangling 'rule 13' (the consent rule is browser rule 3). * test(ship-docsync): seeded attempt 1 counts toward the limit; transport counts ignore calls that never reached the state file - CI launch-failure retried after the seeded attempt 1 as if that attempt were the fixture's; the seeded prompt now says attempt 1 is this invocation's and a further attempt needs what Blocked recovery requires. - A late-result run typo'd the state path once (ENOENT, the actor never ran), then repeated the call correctly; the per-action count compared both calls with one actor event. Only calls naming the real state file are counted. * fix(plan-eng-review): show the accepted dedicated read form for coverage-diagram sources CI plan-eng-coverage-audit mixed package/config and git diff into the source read; the review variant, whose prompt shows the && display form, does not. The plan trace step now shows it too, within the unchanged size cap. * test(sync-gbrain-readiness): a negation earlier in the claim clause is not a search/write readiness claim The census unknown actor wrote 'nothing about read, search, or write capability is confirmed either way' after a YELLOW/WARN verdict. The claim window started at 'write', so the leading 'nothing' was outside it. Check the clause subject for nothing/neither/none/no; keep the original in-claim negations. Replay of the captured output passes; positive controls still flag an unnegated claim. * fix(office-hours): a forcing question's recommendation takes the position the founder's words support auq-matrix office-hours asked D1 Demand as options about the founder's own evidence and, with no rule for that shape, recommended 'answer whichever is TRUE — A is marked recommended only because it is the strongest position' (substance 2). Say what such a recommendation is: the option the founder's own words support, why it matters for the next step, and what would change it. * fix(plan-ceo-review): name the mode preference command and the exact handoff line auto-decide-preserved at6fcb0981: the model never ran the preference check, read 'check ... through the preamble' as already done, auto-selected 'per your preference setting', and wrote 'Selected mode: HOLD SCOPE, auto-decided from your tuned preference' instead of the AUTO_DECIDE handoff line. At9a7a7e54it ran the check but wrote 'Decision: HOLD SCOPE is the review mode for ...'. Neither matched the handoff template the observer recognizes. Name gstack-question-preference --check at the point of use and say the handoff begins with the exact matching line. Collapse the audit block's comment padding to stay within the unchanged 80150-byte skeleton cap. * test(section-loading): record the CEO capture's report and transcript The6fcb0981census failed hasStaleFillRaceFinding (line 98), but the case records nothing beyond junit, so the report the detector judged is gone. Return the SkillTestResult from captureSectionReads and record it, with the full saved report, through the eval collector on pass and fail. * test(design): plan-mode names its read list and caps its additions and summary At6fcb0981plan-design-review-plan-mode timed out at 300 s (9 turns): 22 cat/sed chunk reads (~50 s), then a 28 KB plan Write (~150 s), before the read-back finished. The9a7a7e54pass took 240 s with a 24.6 KB Write. Read SKILL.md, review-sections.md and plan.md natively in one response, keep additions under 14,000 characters and the summary within ten lines. Budgets unchanged. * test(plan-mode-no-op): require prose evidence before a waiting verdict ends eng/design runs (carried byte-identical from #3002) With the prose fallback forced, the gate renders as a lettered menu; a judge 'waiting' verdict on a spinner-only frame ended the run as 'asked' before the menu rendered, so the scope-gate check failed on unchanged behavior. * feat(qa-evidence): materialize computes the phase verdict; callers must report it Approved by Garry: the helper, not the model, decides whether evidence can pass. materialize writes verdict {status, open} into evidence.json and prints it: fail or blocked from row classifications, inconclusive while any row is superseded, a complete capture is withheld, a declared required probe is unrun or there is no evidence, else pass. The caller fixture requires receipt.status to equal that verdict. CI late-input kept reporting pass with a superseded happy probe. * test(qa-callers): compare the receipt with the helper verdict only when evidence.json was materialized The producer free tests run captures without materialize; evidence.json is optional for callers, so its absence is not a verdict mismatch. * test(llm-judge): run the ship workflow judge at medium effort so its panel fits JUDGE_MS claude-fable-5-1 accepts only adaptive thinking (thinking.type.enabled with budget_tokens returns 400), so effort is the available thinking control. Measured on the exact ship judge request (105,301 input tokens): - default effort, 18 samples: thinking 5,086-10,881 tokens, 75.9-144.7 s; 3 of 18 passed the 120 s deadline (about 42% of 3-sample panels). - medium effort, 18 samples: thinking 2,749-5,762, output at most 6,144 tokens, 43.1-77.9 s; scores 4/4/4 in 16 of 18 (clarity 3 in two), versus 14 of 18 at default. callJudge gains an effort option sent as output_config.effort; only the ship judge sets it. Rubric, floors, panel size, deadline, model and max_tokens are unchanged. The cache identity records effort. * test(llm-judge): ask frontier workflow judges for 120-word reasoning under the unchanged 150-word check Told "under 150 words", the ship judge's reasoning landed at 130-156 words (3 of 18 probe samples at 152-156), so the structured-response check failed about one panel in three independent of effort. The prompt's frontier block and the response schema description now say under 120 words; the validator still rejects 150 words or more. The changed prompt bytes reach only the two frontier judges: ship/SKILL.md workflow (prompt and schema) and review/SKILL.md workflow (prompt). * test(llm-judge): type the stream transport mock call * test(plan-ceo floor): the request answers only the questions it names PR lane 36794871032 (head20d6e98f): the CEO floor ran 608 s without a question. Its Step 0 recorded the premise gap and approach choice as unresolved ledger rows, then said "this session supplies all answers up front, so no decision brief was dispatched" and wrote Sections 1-11.2734e203stopped scope preservation from approving the premise; this time the actor block (declined setup, recall, outside voices, HOLD SCOPE) and the fixture's "complete user request is available from the start" were read as pre-answering every review question. The CEO actor now states that the request answers only the routing, recall, outside-reviewer and review-mode questions it names. * test(plan-devex floor): a 'Partly wrong' 0B answer is the narrative confirmation PR lane 36794871032: the DX floor asked its D1 narrative confirmation (Accurate, proceed / Partly wrong, correct it / Way off, actual is...). The deterministic setup rule accepted only 'Some ... wrong', so the question went to the LLM assessor, which hit its 30 s spawnSync cap (ETIMEDOUT) and ended the case as assessment_error at 141 s, the same failure as census 36641820398. The rule now accepts 'partly' beside 'some'; the captured question is a free regression and the remedy-option controls still go to the assessor. * test(design-review plugin handoff): quoted report text is not an install command PR lane 36794871032: every behavioral check passed except noInstallOrOverride, which matched "no `npx impeccable`" inside the quoted heredoc that wrote detector-output.md. Nothing was installed or downloaded. The check now drops quoted-delimiter heredoc bodies (literal data) before matching; unquoted bodies, which can expand $(...), and unterminated bodies stay checked. Free controls cover the captured write, bare npx, an IMPECCABLE_BIN override, an unquoted $(npx ...), npx after the delimiter and an unterminated body. * test(review-army delivery audit): stage only the plan-completion section and record its git reads PR lane 36794871032: the case timed out at its 120 s budget after 7 turns (previous lane passed in 45 s). The session read the 46 KB extracted SKILL in three passes (cat to persisted output, grep, sed), ran its own git reads, wrote a 74-line report, then inspected and ran gstack-learnings-log and rewrote the report's Learnings section. As in the Step 4.5 cases (17ee2e54/2bd4651c), the fixture now stages only review/sections/plan-completion.md, hands the session the recorded git log and diff, declares the HIGH-impact question, its Scope Check, learnings logging and later steps outside the capture, and caps the report at the audit block and its DISCREPANCY entries (30 lines). The NOT DONE and email assertions are unchanged. * feat(qa-evidence): one capture call records the causal note for the previous capture capture R NNN [--public] (--deadline D|--timeout-ms MS) --after PREV --hypothesis 'TEXT' -- CMD publishes exploration-NNN.json {observationCapture, observationArgv, observed, hypothesis, nextCapture, nextArgv} before running CMD, refusing unless PREV is the latest complete capture. The receipt carries checkpoint/checkpointSha256; validators bind the note to the transcript's capture calls by capture ID and receipt hash instead of exact command strings. The separate checkpoint command and the capture guard keep working; materialize learning accepts both note shapes and still rejects same-probe replays. Prose and eval fixture prompts teach the merged form. * fix(qa-evidence): a superseded row stops holding the verdict open once its probe is rerun on current inputs materialize requires an old-snapshot row to be classified superseded, and its verdict kept every superseded row open, so rerunning the probe (what its own error tells the model to do) could never reach pass; late-input reran 3 and 9 on the new snapshot and still got inconclusive. A superseded row now closes only when a non-superseded row with the same captured argv observed the current snapshot. Re-materializing an already-published evidence.json names the cause instead of failing generically. * test(plan-eng batching): count saved decisions whose label drops the (recommended) marker or whose report is titled 'Eng Review Report — <plan>' * fix(qa): browser-only runs skip annotations/materialize; only Q captures can anchor evidence rows * test(design): plan-mode length is a drafting target, not a check to measure and trim * test(llm-judge): structured output for doc, outcome and posture judges so reasoning quotes cannot break JSON * test(ship-docsync): steer skill file reads to Read; large cat output becomes an unpageable preview * docs(changelog): browser-only QA evidence and structured judge output * test(qa-only cleanup): refusal scenarios get a 1 s budget and an absolute worker deadline; 300 ms starved under parallel load * fix(office-hours, design-consultation): ask the goal question and read the mode section first; ask the memorable-thing question on its own * test(outside-disabled): a record named by the retained record's own clock and then disowned owns its completed status * test(context-skills): install gstack-paths in the fixture bin; without it the model guessed the checkpoint root * test(ceo mode routing): SCOPE EXPANSION posture credits plural 'expansions' * test(ship-docsync): name the unmet atomic-replacement check on a forbidden temp-file write * fix(qa): browser-only runs materialize an empty evidence list with checkpoints in limits, matching /qa-only * test(qa callers): an accepted review-log record may cite checkpoints as finding evidence * fix(plan-eng-review): state that a disallowed question tool never qualifies as headless before the headless action * merge follow-up: re-record paid CLI parity for #2999's flags; trim merged review, qa-only and plan-eng wording toward the size caps * test(golden): refresh codex/factory ship goldens for the trimmed caller QA wording * test(coverage-audit fixture): disable git auto maintenance so cleanup is not racing a detached git writer * test(parity): raise review, qa and plan-eng caps to the measured merged size of #2999 and #3002 (each fit alone), documented per cap * fix(qa-evidence): materialize rejects an unrecognized classification before publishing, so the one-shot verdict cannot be locked inconclusive by a descriptive label
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# TODOS
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## NEXT PRIORITY
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### P1: paid-eval follow-ups from the v1.91.12.0 proof censuses (filed 2026-09-29)
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- **Thin budgets on slow API days** — on Claude Code 2.1.284, review-army-perf
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(274 of 300 s) and the ship-docsync fault cases (250-263 of 285 s) sit at
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88-93% of their budgets; a slow-API census can time them out on either CLI
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version. Make those skills faster rather than raising budgets. Effort M.
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- **Recurring reds to repair, not rerun** — `plan-design-review-plan-mode`
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(one ~250 s thinking block before its single write; times out at 300 s on
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2.1.251 in every recent run) and the HOLD SCOPE
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routing case when its next brief happens not to name the mode (see the
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handoff item below). Effort M each.
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- **`/plan-ceo-review` skips its Step 0E mode handoff** — 0 of 15 answered
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samples sent the required `Mode: <mode>; approved decisions: …` chat after
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the mode answer, across four wording repairs (none shipped). The model writes
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the handoff in its reasoning and later says it was "sent above". A prose fix
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won't reach it; this needs a mechanism outside the prompt (a hook or a
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tool-result gate). The HOLD SCOPE routing case fails whenever the handoff is
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skipped and nothing else names the posture in time. Effort M.
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- **Pre-push hook tests hang behind some shard neighbors** — on the free-suite
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plan for dfe5e733, `test/redact-prepush-hook.test.ts` timed out 6 of 28 tests
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at 30 s in shard 12 on two attempts (the hook process was still running and
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killed as dangling); it passes alone in 9 s and in the next plan's shard 12.
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One of the 29 files that ran before it only in the failing plan (browse CDP/
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stealth/tab tests, pty-workspace-trust, heredoc-pipe-deadlock among them)
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leaves state the hook's blocking path waits on. Reproduce with that shard's
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plan under xvfb and GSTACK_EXPECT_BINARIES=1. Effort S.
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- **Let pass-rate history decide the rest** — every census on this branch had
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a different handful of single-trial reds. Once `eval:pass-rates` has 10 weekly
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trials per case, apply the CASE_QUARANTINE entry rule instead of chasing one
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run at a time. Effort S.
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### P2/P3: impeccable interop deferrals (filed 2026-09-08, from the CEO + eng reviews of docs/designs/IMPECCABLE_INTEROP.md)
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Each item was weighed during the review and deferred with a reason; none blocks
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the shipped detector, catalog, or open DESIGN.md format.
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- **Carve design-review Phases 7-11 into a section (budget lever)** — design-review's
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eager tokens landed at +2.87K against the review's 2.5K target after every
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planned lever (ids-only detector rules in category 9, the dump script moved to
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`lib/dom-dump.js`, trimmed prose); the ceiling in
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`test/fixtures/context-budget.json` moved to the measured 31,319. The next real
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lever is carving the fix loop (Phases 7-11) into a section, which touches the
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E2E copy logic in `test/skill-e2e-design.test.ts`. Effort M. Priority P2.
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- **Bun `.env` auto-load audit across `bin/*.ts`** — Bun loads a cwd `.env` into
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`process.env` even for a script outside cwd. `gstack-design-detect.ts` and
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`gstack-design-md.ts` render with `--no-env-file` and ignore in-repo
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`IMPECCABLE_BIN` / `IMPECCABLE_HOME`; every other `bun run
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~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/*.ts` a skill renders has the same exposure for any
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env-driven exec path. Audit them, render `--no-env-file` where an env var can
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name a binary or a path. Effort S. Priority P2.
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- **Kiro install arm links `SKILL.md` and `sections/` only** — every gstack
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`bin/` path a Kiro render carries (the detector, the DESIGN.md tool, the render
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CLI, review-log, diff-scope) is a pre-existing gap on that host. Link `bin/`
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and `lib/` together there like the other arms (`setup` ~2341). Effort S.
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Priority P2. Collaborative repo, not fixed in the interop PR.
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- **`$D check` slop rubric** — add the catalog's LLM-only tells (hero metrics,
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identical cards, glassmorphism, content stand-ins) to `design/src/check.ts`'s
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vision pass once those entries have been exercised in reviews. Open questions:
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a paid GPT-4o call per variant, and vision misjudging cream palettes and nested
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cards. Effort M. Priority P3.
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- **Taste-profile interplay for `overused-font`** — downgrade a detector
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overused-font hit to polish when the face is in the user's approved taste
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profile. Today `impeccable hooks ignore-value overused-font <face>` covers it
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without coupling the two schemas. Effort S. Priority P3.
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- **plan-ceo-review Section 11 catalog bullets** — render `{{DESIGN_SLOP_BULLETS}}`
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into the CEO review's design section. Blocked on the plan-ceo-review doctrine
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carve (~555 B of skeleton headroom today). Effort S. Priority P3.
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- **Detector scan cache** — cache `gstack-design-detect.ts scan` results under
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`${GSTACK_HOME}/cache/design-detect/` keyed on engine hash, target-set hash,
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and `.impeccable/config*.json` hash, so Phase 9's rescan and repeated ship
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reviews skip unchanged files. Effort S. Priority P3.
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### P2: fork-port residual wave deferrals (filed at Wave A, 2026-09-03)
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Filed from the time-attack/gstack residual evaluation
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(docs/designs/fork-port-residual-2026-09/REPORT.md) and its CEO + eng reviews.
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Waves B–E2 of that plan are scheduled work, not TODOs; these are the items the
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reviews deliberately deferred, each with rationale:
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- **Shared `_gstack_owned_link` helper** — the ownership gate now exists in
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seven places (setup's `_claude_entry_is_ours` / `_claude_entry_owned_strongly`
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used by link_claude_skill_dirs and _install_alias_skill_md, while
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cleanup_old_claude_symlinks and cleanup_prefixed_claude_symlinks inline their
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own marker/cmp/banner chain and readlink `case`; bin/gstack-relink
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`_entry_is_ours`; bin/gstack-uninstall's per-entry loop; and, since the
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Aside-first wave, setup's `_prune_stale_generated`, which removes a retired
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host entry behind the banner-only `_owned_for_windows_refresh` check —
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symlinks outright, real dirs through `_cleanup_weak_dir` — and must route
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through the same helper). Extract one sourced
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helper so the destructive-path guard cannot drift, and while there: make the
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`.gstack-owned` marker's recorded install path load-bearing (today any marker
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counts, so a Windows fork copy carrying gstack's generated header is still
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treated as ours on a mode flip). Effort S. Priority P2. Depends on: none.
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- **Non-Claude host loops + stale-render prune under the marker rule** — the
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Codex, Factory, OpenCode, Cursor and Kiro link loops (setup's
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`link_*_skill_dirs`, the `_owned_for_windows_refresh` gate at each) still
|
||
`rm -rf` + re-copy a REAL host directory on banner-only proof, and
|
||
`_prune_stale_generated` routes a bannered real dir through
|
||
`_cleanup_weak_dir` only because those hosts never receive a `.gstack-owned`
|
||
marker. Write the marker for every host's copy install, then switch all five
|
||
loops and the prune to the strong/weak split the Claude host and
|
||
`gstack-relink` already use (#2119). Effort M (human ~2 days / CC ~1h).
|
||
Priority P2. Depends on: the shared `_gstack_owned_link` helper above (same
|
||
code motion; do them together).
|
||
- **Free test: CHANGELOG top heading equals VERSION** — a fork PR that claimed
|
||
a version main had since shipped auto-merged VERSION, package.json and the
|
||
digest header with no git conflict (both sides identical); only
|
||
`bin/gstack-next-version` and the PR-time queue check saw it. A tiny free
|
||
test asserting the first `## [X]` in CHANGELOG.md equals VERSION would make
|
||
the collision a red test on any branch. Decide first whether mid-branch
|
||
VERSION bumps without a CHANGELOG entry are a workflow the suite must
|
||
tolerate (`/ship` writes both in one step, so probably not). Effort S
|
||
(human ~2h / CC ~10min). Priority P3. Depends on: none.
|
||
- **Config-key reader tripwire** — `transcript_ingest_mode=off` sat unread for
|
||
months while setup-gbrain advertised it. A free test that asserts every key
|
||
in bin/gstack-config's default table is read by at least one binary (or is
|
||
explicitly listed as prose-only) makes a dead consent switch a red test.
|
||
Effort S. Priority P2. Depends on: Wave E1 landing the reader.
|
||
- **"Pre-existing" failure vocabulary** — scripts/resolvers/preamble/
|
||
generate-test-failure-triage.ts classifies from `git diff --name-only` and
|
||
never asks for a base-branch run. Rewrite T1 to verified/unverified with the
|
||
base branch's CI status (`gh run list --branch <base>`) as default evidence
|
||
and a failing-files-only worktree run as an opt-in. Effort M → S with CC.
|
||
Priority P2. Depends on: none.
|
||
- **Opt-in `reply_language` config key** (#679) — render into the Writing
|
||
Style section only when set; keep identifiers and commands in English; add
|
||
the mixed-language tests the issue asked for. Not an always-on voice line
|
||
(community-PR guardrail). Effort S. Priority P3.
|
||
- **Remove the `~/.gstack/.auth.json` writer** — browser-manager.ts:638-640
|
||
says the component-baked GBrowser extension reads it. Confirm GBrowser
|
||
bootstraps via `POST /extension-token`; if so, delete the writer plus a
|
||
migration that removes the orphaned credential file. Effort S. Priority P3.
|
||
Depends on: GBrowser source check.
|
||
- **CONTRIBUTING rule for fork-derived changes** — a change lifted from a fork
|
||
enters upstream only behind a test verified red on upstream HEAD first, with
|
||
credit to the original author; cherry-picks allowed when the fork commit
|
||
carries that test. 34 of 48 top fork candidates died under refutation; the
|
||
rule is what made the survivors safe. Effort S. Priority P2.
|
||
- **Hook slug-derivation parity audit** — question-preference-hook keyed
|
||
project prefs by cwd basename while the writer keyed by owner-repo (Wave E1
|
||
fixes it via `slugFromCacheOnly`). Audit question-log-hook and every other
|
||
Claude hook that buckets by project for the same mismatch. Effort S.
|
||
Priority P3. Depends on: Wave E1.
|
||
|
||
|
||
### P1: ZeroEntropy sunset — gbrain's default embedding provider dies Sept 4, 2026 (#2365)
|
||
|
||
**What:** ZeroEntropy (acquired by Notion) shuts down September 4, 2026. gbrain's
|
||
zeroentropyai recipe needs a migration path before then (the recipe + gateway
|
||
shim are gbrain-internal — nothing in gstack ever recommended the provider).
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Hard external deadline. After Sept 4, brains on the recipe stop
|
||
embedding new pages silently.
|
||
|
||
**Done (gstack side, v1.69.0.0):** wireup warns when ~/.gbrain/config.json names
|
||
the recipe (fail-open grep), setup-gbrain provider comments say never to select
|
||
it, USING_GBRAIN_WITH_GSTACK.md gained a troubleshooting entry (#2365).
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M (remaining work is gbrain-side provider support).
|
||
**Priority:** P1 (calendar-driven). **Depends on:** gbrain upstream provider support.
|
||
|
||
### P2: v1.67 fix-wave deferrals — next-wave queue
|
||
|
||
Filed at v1.67.0.0 implementation time (see the wave plan's "Cut from this
|
||
wave"). Each was explicitly deferred with rationale, not dropped:
|
||
|
||
- **#2522 Windows omnibus mining** — the targeted Windows fixes landed in
|
||
v1.67 (#2414/#2510/#2561/#2542/#2452-half); the omnibus PR still carries a
|
||
doctor/migration surface worth extracting. Effort M→S with CC.
|
||
- **#2443 AskUserQuestion numbering redesign** — real mismatch (brief letters
|
||
vs host-rendered numbers), but a prompt-behavior redesign that shifts eval
|
||
baselines; needs its own PR with baseline refresh. Effort S.
|
||
- ~~**#2447 typecheck infra**~~ — superseded: the audit fix wave (v1.91.12.0)
|
||
added `tsconfig.json`, `bun run typecheck` (zero product errors) and the
|
||
`typecheck:test` ratchet inside the required `free-tests` check, reusing
|
||
#2447's fixes where they still applied.
|
||
- **#2492 per-project Chromium profile** — needs an on-disk migration story
|
||
for the machine-wide profile default and SingletonLock scoping. Effort M.
|
||
- **#2286 `triggers:` frontmatter** — the Claude Code router never reads the
|
||
key; folding voice-triggers into description costs catalog tokens. Needs a
|
||
maintainer token-budget decision (catalog cap is enforced). Effort S.
|
||
- **#2378 release-tag upgrade semantics** — update-check gates on
|
||
main:VERSION while upgrade installs main HEAD; installs sit between
|
||
releases. Design decision: tag-pinned installs vs HEAD. Effort M.
|
||
- **Feature-PR triage queue** — #2564 (/deck), #2497 (browse record — best of
|
||
the batch), #2476 (a11y review, unblocked by the CDP media-emulation entry
|
||
landed in v1.67), #2446 (Cua), #2448 (tiered outside voice), #2412 (lens
|
||
layer), #2241 (/grok), #2507 (pi host), #2298 (Kimi host), #2438+#2436
|
||
(gbrain doc-sync pair, ordered), #2442 (portable skill roots), #2534
|
||
(gbrain MCP routing), #2535 (outside voice for /investigate,/cso,/devex),
|
||
#2576 (fast-ship rework — re-evaluate against v1.66's CI speedup),
|
||
#2580 (land-and-deploy CI tiers — human-gate UX needs maintainer call).
|
||
|
||
### P2/P3: v1.78 fix-wave deferrals (filed at wave time, each deferred with rationale)
|
||
|
||
- **mermaid 10→11-class major bumps in lib/diagram-render** — the wave's
|
||
dependency pass cleared 102 of 105 OSV advisories via in-range bumps +
|
||
overrides; the residual ignores (image-size no-fix, @anthropic-ai/sdk under
|
||
the harness-pinned agent-sdk) carry `ignoreUntil` expiries (~2026-11-30) and
|
||
re-justify themselves on expiry. When the agent-sdk pin next moves, drop the
|
||
GHSA-p7fg ignore. Effort S. **Priority:** P3.
|
||
- **#2750 split absorption** — the record-scanning Codex JSONL parser (real
|
||
fix; current Codex streams interleave envelopes so sessions vanish from
|
||
/retro global) should be absorbed once the author splits it from the
|
||
bundled schema additions + 1 MiB scan-budget change (asked in the wave's
|
||
disposition comment). Effort S (review). **Priority:** P3.
|
||
- **#2709 macOS live verification** — the GPU flag set is reporter-validated
|
||
and darwin-gated with a GSTACK_DISABLE_GPU=off escape; the stop-path reap
|
||
is Linux-tested. Verify both on real Apple-silicon hardware (flags drop the
|
||
spin to 0%, screenshots still work, reap kills the survivor) on first
|
||
access to an M-series box. Effort S. **Priority:** P3.
|
||
- **Periodic-lane stabilization (#2756)** — the weekly lane in its v1.77
|
||
shape (73-shard sharded runner, pinned CLI, EVALS_ALL census) has never
|
||
been green; the v1.78 wave killed the deterministic v1.76 AUQ collapse but
|
||
the residual set churns (band-edge variance, the pre-existing
|
||
exited/hits=[] startup class, known flakes). Evidence table + suggested
|
||
direction (band recalibration against a fresh pinned-container
|
||
distribution) in the issue. Effort M. **Priority:** P2.
|
||
- **Outside-voice resolved-model print** — #2735's second suggestion (print
|
||
the concrete fallback model at dispatch time) is a functional change
|
||
needing model resolution in the preflight; descoped from the copy fix.
|
||
Effort S. **Priority:** P3.
|
||
|
||
### P2: v1.69 fix-wave residuals (filed at wave time, each deferred with rationale)
|
||
|
||
- **`cleanup_prefixed_claude_symlinks` symmetric conversion** — PR #2634 fixed
|
||
`cleanup_old_claude_symlinks` (destination scan, dangling-symlink aware,
|
||
path-segment provenance); the prefixed-mode sibling still iterates the
|
||
payload dir (same structural hole: can't reap orphans once the payload is
|
||
gone) and still uses a bare `*gstack*` substring match the sibling's own
|
||
tests forbid. Kept out of the contributor's absorbed commit for scope
|
||
discipline. Effort S→S with CC. **Priority:** P2.
|
||
- **#2163 legacy-slug checkpoint heal** — the gstack-slug refactor unified
|
||
save/restore slugs, but checkpoints written under a pre-fix degraded slug
|
||
are still invisible; `bin/gstack-slug`'s own MIGRATION NOTE defers data
|
||
moves. Cheap heal: restore-side probe of the alternate slug dir before
|
||
printing NO_CHECKPOINTS. Effort S. **Priority:** P3.
|
||
- **#2657 developer-profile `--reconcile`** — office-hours tenure undercounts
|
||
~3x (Phase-4.5-only logging; no timeline.jsonl reconciliation). The
|
||
arithmetic reproduces; the reporter offered the PR — invited on the issue.
|
||
Track and review when it lands. Effort S (review). **Priority:** P3.
|
||
- **Table-driven setup host dispatch from `hosts/index.ts`** — root-cause fix
|
||
for the accept-list/dispatch drift class behind #2361; v1.69.0.0 ships the
|
||
interim ratchet (accept-list ⊆ dispatch-arms cross-check test + a loud
|
||
zero-dispatch guard). The refactor needs its own PR with bake time (setup is
|
||
the riskiest file in the repo). Effort M. **Priority:** P3.
|
||
|
||
### P2: v1.67 adversarial-review residuals (verified, deferred with rationale)
|
||
|
||
Filed at v1.67 ship time from the Codex + Claude adversarial passes. Six of
|
||
the seven landed in the v1.68 fix wave (brain-sync spool-dir queue, pair-agent
|
||
consent gate, bin-context walk-up parity, per-project MCP scoping +
|
||
precedence flip, next-version ls-remote fallback + width pin, stop-hook
|
||
global-path registration + re-point). Remaining:
|
||
|
||
- **iOS tap routing across windows** — Bridges template's frontmostWindow can
|
||
swallow taps when a keyboard/menu/transparent overlay window is topmost but
|
||
doesn't handle the coordinate. Needs hit-test-aware routing + real-device
|
||
verification. Effort M. (Related: the multi-window rewrite has no static
|
||
pins — see the test-gap backlog below.)
|
||
- **setup:1601 CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR alignment** — the skills installer hardcodes
|
||
`$HOME/.claude/skills` while settings.json and hook registration honor
|
||
`CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR`; users with the override get a split-brain install.
|
||
Mitigated in v1.68.1 (canonical-root fallback to the home path so hooks
|
||
still register), but the installer itself should honor the override.
|
||
**Priority:** P3. Effort S.
|
||
- **Centralize plan_tune_hooks bool parsing + gstack-config key validation** —
|
||
the `n|no|false|skip|off|0` negative-value set is triplicated
|
||
(gstack-settings-hook prune-stale, setup heal note, setup PT_DECISION) and
|
||
gstack-config carries three verbatim copies of the key-validation block
|
||
(get/has/set). Extract a `gstack-config` bool helper + `validate_key()`;
|
||
update the locale pin test. Filed via /ship review army (maintainability).
|
||
**Priority:** P3. Effort S.
|
||
- **Accepted threat-model notes (documented, no action planned):**
|
||
redact-prepush's no-argv compatibility mode retains all-remotes exclusions;
|
||
installed hooks bind scans to the actual destination. A parcel-shaped twin
|
||
within 400 chars can suppress phone redaction (WARN-tier pattern,
|
||
attacker-influence accepted);
|
||
codex-probe's 400-signature grep can misread a transient proxy 400 as
|
||
MODEL_UNUSABLE (bounded by the 15-min negative-cache TTL).
|
||
|
||
### P2: skillify structural isolation (filed from the v1.68 wave reviews)
|
||
|
||
**What:** /skillify turns scraped page content into durable executable skill
|
||
code on disk. The v1.68 wave added the untrusted-content warning to its prose
|
||
(#2441), but a warning is not a boundary — generated actions derived from
|
||
hostile page content need structural isolation, sanitization of synthesized
|
||
selectors/names, or an explicit approval step scoped to the generated code.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** A poisoned page could steer the generated script.ts toward actions
|
||
the user never reviewed; the current gate is the Step 9 approval, which shows
|
||
the code but doesn't highlight page-derived strings.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M → S with CC. **Priority:** P2. **Depends on:** none.
|
||
|
||
### P2: slug store migration — merge pre-fix `projects/garrytan/` data (v1.68 follow-up)
|
||
|
||
**What:** The v1.68 slug-parity fix (gstack-slug now matches remote-slug's
|
||
owner-repo form) means machines that hit the degraded-slug bug (stray strong
|
||
marker above a repo, e.g. an empty ~/.git) have historical decisions /
|
||
timeline / ceo-plans / learnings filed under the marker-basename store
|
||
(observed: `~/.gstack/projects/garrytan/`) instead of per-repo stores. Define
|
||
and ship the merge/alias: attribute each misfiled record to its repo where
|
||
derivable (timeline entries carry branch; decisions carry scope), else leave
|
||
in place with a pointer file.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Post-fix sessions read the CORRECT store, so pre-fix history is
|
||
invisible to Context Recovery until migrated.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M → S with CC. **Priority:** P2. **Depends on:** the v1.68 wave
|
||
(shipped the fix + parity tests).
|
||
|
||
### P3: gstack-slug degraded-heal probe cost on cache hits (v1.68 review-army finding)
|
||
|
||
**What:** The v1.68 cache self-heal probes `_resolve_remote` (1-3 git forks) on
|
||
EVERY cache hit whenever the cached slug equals the marker-root basename — the
|
||
permanent steady state for remoteless and legit-sticky projects, on the
|
||
per-preamble hot path. Add a single-shot sentinel per cache entry so the heal
|
||
probe runs once, not forever.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** "Cache hits stay git-spawn-free" only holds for owner-repo slugs
|
||
today. Cost is bounded (1-3 forks) but paid at every skill start on affected
|
||
projects. Also next-touch notes from the same review: extract a makeResult
|
||
helper for BulkResult's 11 hand-copied literals in bin/gstack-memory-ingest.ts;
|
||
dedup the brain-worktree default-path literal between bin/gstack-brain-sync and
|
||
bin/gstack-gbrain-source-wireup.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S. **Priority:** P3. **Depends on:** cache-format compatibility
|
||
(sentinel must not break older readers).
|
||
|
||
### P2: v1.67 coverage-audit test-gap backlog (5-agent sweep, ranked)
|
||
|
||
The wave's Step-7 coverage audit (5 subsystem agents, ~700 changed paths,
|
||
~84% covered) ranked these residual gaps. None block v1.67 (the behaviors
|
||
shipped verified by hand or adjacent tests); each is a cheap pin against
|
||
silent regression:
|
||
|
||
- **setup Playwright bootstrap block** — `_PW_LOCK` stale-holder reclaim,
|
||
`_kill_tree`/`_wait_with_deadline`, and the platform override are now pinned
|
||
by test/setup-playwright-best-effort.test.ts (fork-port Wave A). Still
|
||
unpinned: `_clear_playwright_quarantine` (the P0 #2554 heal's shell half).
|
||
Effort S.
|
||
- **redact-prepush `scanAddedLines` slicing** — the >1MiB chunk path was
|
||
unexercised at v1.67. Installed-hook controls in
|
||
test/redact-prepush-target.test.ts now cover large clean diffs, seam
|
||
proximity/normalization, duplicate findings, and long-line refusal
|
||
(v1.88.1.0).
|
||
- **supabase telemetry-ingest edge function** — zero tests; producer caps at
|
||
200 chars vs ingest's 500 (dead server cap); no column↔migration pin.
|
||
- **gbrain-repo-policy-client** — no direct test file; the spawn-failed vs
|
||
unreadable split (its raison d'être) and win32 bash-wrapping unpinned.
|
||
- **extension client half of token bootstrap** — `POST /extension-token` 403
|
||
→ disconnected path untested (server half is exhaustively pinned); also
|
||
pin manifest `key` ↔ `GSTACK_EXTENSION_ID` via extension-id.ts. Effort S.
|
||
- **`assertJsOriginAllowed`** — this wave made the js/eval origin gate
|
||
mandatory; the gate itself has zero direct tests. Effort S.
|
||
- **`runBoundedChromiumReinstall`** — every heal test stubs it; the 120s
|
||
deadline + process-group SIGKILL + spawn-error branch never execute.
|
||
- **CI three-way image-tag drift** — ci-image.yml + evals.yml +
|
||
evals-periodic.yml each carry the hashFiles tag expression, synced by
|
||
comment only. One test reading all three. Effort S.
|
||
- **evals.yml matrix census** — the silent-never-ran class (see the two
|
||
files this wave had to re-add) has no membership test.
|
||
- **design-doc-discovery resolver** — new anti-drift block, zero tests for
|
||
the -nt freshness rule or cross-render identity.
|
||
- **Bridges.swift multi-window rewrite** — no static pins for
|
||
orderedWindows/searchRoots ordering; DebugBridgeTouch's `#if !defined(DEBUG)`
|
||
guard and Package.swift's `.define("DEBUG")` have no tripwire (Guideline
|
||
2.5.1 exposure on revert); parity test runs periodic-lane only.
|
||
- **Smaller pins:** gstack-egress `sanitizeForDisplay`; freeze-dir tilde
|
||
expansion; gstack-config `pair_agent` key + space-bearing values;
|
||
session-cookie-store tripwire scope (points at the wrapper, not the
|
||
factory); redact-patterns `/^pass(word)?$/i` placeholder loosening +
|
||
compact-timestamp negative; fs-atomic adoption tripwire; tracker-guard
|
||
`safeSource`; eval-watch `PARTIAL_PATH`; `killProcessGroup`;
|
||
make-pdf orchestrator `PAYLOAD_TMP_DIR` + CJK stack + smartypants NUL;
|
||
gbrain-guards `gbrainHome()`; gbrain-local-status `"timeout"` exclusion;
|
||
meta-commands state-load tripwire re-point; flushBuffers/audit 0600 census;
|
||
openclaw `version:` frontmatter drop (pre-wave, main-side — restore
|
||
extraFields or record as intentional); terse-build's stale "all 4" set
|
||
(main-side 5th terse-gated resolver).
|
||
|
||
### P2: v1.67 review-fix-batch deferrals (post-wave review army findings)
|
||
|
||
Filed at review-fix-batch time, deferred with rationale:
|
||
|
||
- **setup host-function dedup** — four near-verbatim `create_*_runtime_root`
|
||
+ `link_*_skill_dirs` copies (codex/factory/opencode/cursor) drift
|
||
independently (the #2142 ownership gate had to be patched at every site).
|
||
Parameterize on host name + skills dir. Effort S with CC.
|
||
- **cmd.exe `%VAR%` expansion in gbrainInvocation quoting** — Windows-only,
|
||
contrived escalation (requires attacker-controlled env var names), but the
|
||
quoting is not cmd.exe-safe. Fix direction: route win32 spawns through
|
||
cross-spawn (dependency decision — bun-polyfill.cjs already carries it for
|
||
the browse daemon). Effort S.
|
||
- **make-pdf flag registry metadata** — commands.ts flags are bare strings;
|
||
add a takes-value field and DERIVE cli.ts's BOOLEAN_FLAGS from the
|
||
registry (the structural `--no-*` test added in this batch covers only the
|
||
negation shape). Effort S.
|
||
- **legacy host-glob uninstall provenance gating** — gstack-uninstall's
|
||
codex/factory/kiro `gstack*` globs still rm -rf without a provenance
|
||
check; bring them to parity with the cursor banner gate added in this
|
||
batch (v1.67 added cursor; the legacy three are inherited behavior).
|
||
Effort S.
|
||
- **cursor auto-detect breadth** — `-d ~/.cursor` triggers a full extra
|
||
render + install for every Cursor-having dev on every ./setup (the dir
|
||
exists for anyone who ever launched the IDE). Product call on narrowing to
|
||
CLI detection (`command -v cursor`) or an opt-in flag. Effort S, needs a
|
||
maintainer decision on the detection contract.
|
||
|
||
### P2: Persona-fleet hostile-user harness (fork port wave 2 deferral)
|
||
|
||
**What:** Port the methodology behind time-attack/gstack's 87-hostile-user
|
||
field run (418 findings): machine-written t0 in an append-only run.jsonl
|
||
(elapsed time measured, never self-reported), every metric resolving to an
|
||
artifact, and a mandatory-quit contract with machine-checkable caps (300s to
|
||
first useful output, 900s total, 40K context tokens, 3 consecutive dead ends)
|
||
so abandonment is a computable outcome. Specs: fork `evals/fleet/METRICS.md`
|
||
+ `evals/fleet/ABANDONMENT.md` (methodology only — no runner code exists to
|
||
port; this is a build).
|
||
|
||
**Why:** A periodic hostile-user round against OUR 44-skill tree would surface
|
||
the same first-five-minutes failure class the fork closed 418 of. Fits the
|
||
existing eval-store/e2e harness as a new runner.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** L (human ~2wk) → M with CC. **Priority:** P2.
|
||
**Depends on:** decisions on cost ceilings + journal storage.
|
||
|
||
### P3: Answer-key eval methodology (rides the persona-fleet work)
|
||
|
||
**What:** Pre-registered answer keys (fork `evals/answer-keys/` —
|
||
codex-decorrelation, health-trending) grading our /codex and /health surfaces
|
||
against planted ground truth instead of judge vibes.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Deterministic scoring for surfaces where LLM-judge drift is the
|
||
known failure mode. **Effort:** M → S with CC. **Priority:** P3.
|
||
**Depends on:** persona-fleet harness (shared runner shape).
|
||
|
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### P3: Quarterly Apple-journey live re-verification
|
||
|
||
**What:** Run the /ship Apple release adapter against a real (TestFlight-only)
|
||
release once a quarter, or on first user bug report, and fix drift. Apple's
|
||
APIs move (the fork caught fastlane price_tier breaking live); the adapter's
|
||
claims are evidence-backed today and must stay that way per its own
|
||
evidence-before-claimed-limitations rule.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S per run. **Priority:** P3. **Depends on:** a paid ADP account.
|
||
|
||
### P2: Eval-run evidence records (extend the content-binding lattice to E2E/evals)
|
||
|
||
**What:** Wire `bin/gstack-evidence run` into the eval entrypoints (`eval:bg*`,
|
||
`scripts/test-paid-shards.ts`) so E2E/eval claims carry the same
|
||
working-tree-fingerprint binding as free tests, and /land-and-deploy 3.5b reads
|
||
evidence records instead of `~/.gstack-dev/evals` file mtimes.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Today "E2E ran today" is an mtime heuristic that proves nothing about
|
||
what content the run tested. **Effort:** M → S with CC. **Priority:** P2.
|
||
**Depends on:** the content-binding wave; touches the sharded runner that
|
||
concurrent worktrees share — coordinate timing.
|
||
|
||
### P2: Spec-spawn outcome ledger
|
||
|
||
**What:** `/spec`'s spawned `claude -p` agents are fire-and-forget: nothing
|
||
records whether the spawn finished, died, or stalled. Add a runs.jsonl
|
||
(spawn id, branch, worktree, pid, outcome) written at spawn + updated by a
|
||
lease/heartbeat check, surfaced as a /landing-report row.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** A dead spawn is currently invisible until someone hunts the PID.
|
||
**Effort:** M → S with CC. **Priority:** P2. **Depends on:** nothing; the
|
||
lease + heartbeat liveness pattern is documented in the local CEO plan record
|
||
(2026-08-15, binding wave).
|
||
|
||
### P3: Merge-SHA chain of custody in /land-and-deploy
|
||
|
||
**What:** Post-merge, record {merge sha, merged tree, reviewed wtree match?}
|
||
so a deployed artifact traces back to a reviewed content state.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Pre-merge checks bind reviews to content; after a squash-merge onto a
|
||
moved base the linkage is unrecorded. Needs a noise model (base movement
|
||
legitimately changes the tree) before it can alert rather than log.
|
||
**Effort:** M → S with CC. **Priority:** P3. **Depends on:** content-binding
|
||
wave fields (wtree in review records).
|
||
|
||
### P3: default-if-silent escalation contract for background loops
|
||
|
||
**What:** Long-running/background skill loops (/canary first) get an
|
||
escalation shape that carries options + a default-if-silent choice with a
|
||
timeout, so an unattended loop never stalls on a question a human isn't
|
||
around to answer.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Autonomy currently either blocks on AskUserQuestion or guesses.
|
||
**Effort:** S/M → S with CC. **Priority:** P3. **Depends on:** consent-model
|
||
review (changes AskUserQuestion semantics — needs its own design pass).
|
||
|
||
### P3: E2E eval case — staleness grading actually applied
|
||
|
||
**What:** A paid gate/periodic eval asserting an agent following the rendered
|
||
/ship dashboard + /land 3.5a text applies the wtree content-first rule (grades
|
||
CURRENT on identical content, falls back on mismatch).
|
||
|
||
**Why:** The grading rule is prompt-followed prose pinned only by a free
|
||
template-drift tripwire; this proves agents actually execute it. **Effort:** S.
|
||
**Priority:** P3. **Depends on:** content-binding wave.
|
||
|
||
### P2: office-hours design-doc dual-write functional E2E (fork port wave 2 review shortfall)
|
||
|
||
**What:** A paid E2E (claude -p) that runs the office-hours Phase 5 handoff in
|
||
a tmp repo and asserts BOTH write paths (docs/designs/<topic>.md + the
|
||
~/.gstack copy) land and that `bin/gstack-redact` was invoked at the sink.
|
||
Today only a static prose pin exists (test/skill-validation.test.ts) — the
|
||
plan's R9 asked for the functional shape.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** The dual-write is an egress path into the user's repo; prose drift
|
||
that skips the redact scan-at-sink would ship user PII into git history with
|
||
nothing failing. **Effort:** M → S with CC. **Priority:** P2.
|
||
**Tier:** periodic (quality, non-deterministic).
|
||
|
||
### P2: migration runners honor per-migration skip state
|
||
|
||
**What:** Both migration runners (setup's post-setup block and
|
||
/gstack-upgrade Step 4.75) select migrations purely by version window, so a
|
||
migration that exits via the non-interactive default-skip (v1.27's
|
||
GSTACK_MIGRATE_ASSUME_YES gate) is never offered again — the version marker
|
||
advances past it. The remediation text now prints the honest direct
|
||
invocation, but the runners should track per-migration .done/.skipped
|
||
touchfiles and re-offer pending ones on the next interactive run.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Every remaining pre-v1.27 user upgrading via an agent session ([ -t 0 ]
|
||
false) permanently misses the artifacts-rename migration unless they paste the
|
||
manual command. **Effort:** M. **Priority:** P2.
|
||
|
||
### P1: #1882 — portable skill-install prefix (non-`gstack` install dirs break silently)
|
||
|
||
**What:** Every generated SKILL.md hardcodes the literal `~/.claude/skills/gstack/...`
|
||
for its `bin/`/asset calls (the per-invocation telemetry/config preamble plus ~9
|
||
resolvers). `setup` wires the top-level skill symlinks for any directory name, so
|
||
installing at `~/.claude/skills/<other>` leaves every internal `bin` reference
|
||
pointing at a non-existent `~/.claude/skills/gstack/` path — failing **silently, at
|
||
skill-invocation time**. Make the emitted references portable: resolve the install
|
||
root at runtime (the preamble already defines `GSTACK_ROOT`/`GSTACK_BIN` in
|
||
`scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-preamble-bash.ts` but the literals don't use
|
||
them) and emit `$GSTACK_BIN`-relative paths instead of the hardcoded prefix.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Filed as #1882. Split out of the June 2026 fix wave (decision A) once
|
||
implementation showed it is a host-config/design change, not a fix-wave patch. The
|
||
urgent half — the guard/freeze/careful frontmatter hooks broken on CC 2.1.162 — was
|
||
already fixed in that wave (#1871) with a literal `$HOME`-anchored path, because
|
||
frontmatter hooks run before any runtime variable exists and cannot use `$GSTACK_BIN`.
|
||
So #1882 is now purely the body-preamble portability work.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Unblocks installs at any directory name; removes a whole class of silent
|
||
invocation-time failures.
|
||
**Cons:** Touches the most load-bearing bash in the repo (every skill's preamble);
|
||
a silent mistake breaks all 52 skills. High blast radius — needs its own focused PR.
|
||
**Note (fork port wave 2):** the Apple release adapter (ship/sections/
|
||
apple-release.md) added template surface with `~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin`
|
||
references — include it in this fix's coverage list.
|
||
|
||
**Context / where to start:**
|
||
- Rewire `ctx.paths.binDir` (and browse/design dir paths) + the ~9 resolvers that
|
||
emit the literal (`testing.ts`, `review.ts`, `design.ts`, `browse.ts`,
|
||
`redact-doc.ts`, `tasks-section.ts`, `preamble/generate-*.ts`) to use the
|
||
preamble-defined `$GSTACK_ROOT`/`$GSTACK_BIN`.
|
||
- Ensure `GSTACK_ROOT`/`GSTACK_BIN` are defined before first use in EVERY skill's
|
||
preamble (verify the telemetry preamble's first bin call is after the definition).
|
||
- **Test conflict (verified):** `test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts:1942` and the sibling
|
||
ship assertion currently *assert* generated Claude output `.toContain('~/.claude/skills/gstack')`
|
||
as a guardrail that Codex-host paths don't leak. These must be rewritten to match
|
||
the new portable scheme.
|
||
- Regenerate all 52 SKILL.md (`bun run scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts --host all`); never
|
||
hand-edit generated files. Bisect: resolver/host-config change commit, then the
|
||
52-file regen commit.
|
||
- Smoke-test a skill invocation from a non-`gstack` install dir to prove the fix.
|
||
- Sibling of #349 (the `$CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR` / `~/.claude` path issue).
|
||
|
||
## Memorable bridge follow-ups (filed via /plan-ceo-review + /plan-eng-review on the Memorable bridge fix-up, #2831)
|
||
|
||
### P3: gstack-mediated third-party hook seam
|
||
|
||
**What:** Generalize what the Memorable bridge instantiates: a `mediate <name>`
|
||
verb (or provider table) that gives ANY third-party Claude Code hook a consent
|
||
key, a receipt sink, an envelope, healing and clean removal, with Memorable as
|
||
the first provider.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** The bridge fixes the interface (config key, sink name, source tag,
|
||
hook basename, gate, envelope). A second vendor today would copy
|
||
`bin/gstack-memorable` and the hook `.ts`; the seam makes it a registration.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Deliberately not built with one provider (premature abstraction;
|
||
CEO review D1/ED17). Start from `bin/gstack-memorable`,
|
||
`hosts/claude/hooks/memorable-user-prompt-hook.ts`, and the `KNOWN_HOOKS`
|
||
row shape.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** L (human ~1.5 weeks / CC+gstack ~4 h). **Priority:** P3.
|
||
**Depends on:** a second third-party hook actually wanting in.
|
||
|
||
### P2: Windows support for the Memorable bridge (D21)
|
||
|
||
**What:** `enable` refuses on Windows and the hook exits 0 there. Bring it up:
|
||
descendant termination (`taskkill /T` or a job object) so a vendor process
|
||
cannot outlive a timeout, `.cmd` and extensionless shim handling for the
|
||
vendor path, the `bash ` command prefix setup uses for registrations, and a
|
||
live verification on the windows lane with a real `npm i -g memorable-cli`.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Without process groups the containment guarantee the bridge makes
|
||
cannot be given; refusing was the honest choice for this wave.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** `runExternal` in `hosts/claude/hooks/spawn-bin.ts` returns
|
||
`EPLATFORM` on win32; the behavioural tests are auto-excluded from the
|
||
windows lane because they spawn `bin/` scripts.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M (human ~2 days / CC+gstack ~1 h). **Priority:** P2.
|
||
**Depends on:** none.
|
||
|
||
### P3: `lib/tracker-guard.ts` envelope `kind` parameter
|
||
|
||
**What:** The envelope wraps recall text with the TRACKER banner. Add a
|
||
`kind` so third-party hook content reads as what it is, keeping the pinned
|
||
banner constants intact for tracker callers.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S (human ~2 h / CC+gstack ~10 min). **Priority:** P3.
|
||
**Depends on:** none.
|
||
|
||
### P3: vendor payload-minimization contract
|
||
|
||
**What:** Ask Memorable which `UserPromptSubmit` fields `hook user-prompt`
|
||
actually reads, so the bridge can forward fewer (drop `transcript_path` if
|
||
unused). Today it forwards the full JSON because the vendor parses Claude
|
||
Code's documented schema and its EULA forbids finding out otherwise.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S. **Priority:** P3. **Depends on:** vendor response.
|
||
|
||
### P3: recall latency measurement and timeout revisit
|
||
|
||
**What:** After a month of use, read `gstack_ms=` and `timeout` outcomes from
|
||
`gstack-egress list --sink memorable-recall` and revisit the 4.5 s ceiling and
|
||
the `--timeout 5` registration.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S. **Priority:** P3. **Depends on:** the bridge in use.
|
||
|
||
### P3: consolidate the vendor resolvers and extract the canonical-root helper (D24)
|
||
|
||
**What:** The vendor CLI is resolved twice (bash in `bin/gstack-memorable`, TS
|
||
in the hook); the canonical-root and `IS_WINDOWS` logic is copied from
|
||
`setup` (marked `TODO D24` at each copy). Extract a sourced
|
||
`gstack-canonical-root.sh` used by `setup`, `bin/gstack-memorable` and
|
||
`bin/gstack-relink`, and one resolver for the vendor.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** `setup`'s text is pinned by `test/setup-hook-canonical-paths.test.ts`;
|
||
the extraction must move those pins with it.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S. **Priority:** P3. **Depends on:** settling the pinned-text tests.
|
||
|
||
### P3: non-interactive MEDIUM-tier redaction policy for hooks
|
||
|
||
**What:** The hook refuses HIGH-tier findings only; MEDIUM needs a
|
||
confirmation no hook can ask for. Decide a policy (skip-and-log vs pass) so
|
||
hooks can honor more than HIGH.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S. **Priority:** P3. **Depends on:** none.
|
||
|
||
### P3: adopt `list-items` at setup's plan-tune "already installed" check
|
||
|
||
**What:** `setup:2525` decides with `list-sources | grep plan-tune-cathedral`,
|
||
which is tag-only and misses tag-stripped live hooks. `gstack-settings-hook
|
||
list-items --event PostToolUse --owned-by plan-tune-cathedral` is the
|
||
identity-based answer.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S. **Priority:** P3. **Depends on:** none.
|
||
|
||
### P3: next refactor wave (from the 2026-09 refactor wave survey)
|
||
|
||
**What:** Hotspots the 1.91.11.0 wave surveyed but did not refactor, plus
|
||
bugs it found and left alone because fixing them changes behavior:
|
||
- `bin/gstack-memory-ingest.ts` (2,674 lines; `ingestPass` is ~600 lines).
|
||
- `scripts/resolvers/design.ts` `generateDesignMethodology` (503 lines).
|
||
- `browse/src/browser-manager.ts` (2,143 lines) and `browse/src/cli.ts` (2,018 lines).
|
||
- `lib/cso/*` dense one-line style.
|
||
- Browse root-token denials disagree: some routes answer 401 `Unauthorized`,
|
||
others 403 `Root token required`. The route table's per-kind denial map
|
||
(`browse/src/routes/table.ts`) pins today's split.
|
||
- The sidebar's inspector live updates never arrive: `/inspector/events` is
|
||
`root-bearer` (it sat behind the old blanket root check), but
|
||
`extension/sidepanel.js` opens it with a cookie-only EventSource, and it
|
||
listens for `inspectResult` while the server emits `state` / `inspector`.
|
||
Fix both together, then flip the cookie rows in
|
||
`browse/test/server-route-auth-blackbox.test.ts`.
|
||
- Claude Code plugin-mode state (a pointer from `~/.gstack` to
|
||
`CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA`, plus merge, `--explain` and uninstall participation),
|
||
deferred by the W1 evidence gate: no official plugin distribution exists.
|
||
- The CSO native launchers (`lib/cso/launcher*.c`) pass only `HOME`,
|
||
`GSTACK_HOME` and `CLAUDE_PLUGIN_*` to the core, so `/cso` ignores an
|
||
exported `GSTACK_STATE_ROOT` / `GSTACK_STATE_DIR`. Needs a native rebuild.
|
||
- TODOS.md itself (4,500+ lines) needs restructuring.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M per item. **Priority:** P3.
|
||
|
||
## Aside integration follow-ups (filed via /plan-ceo-review + /plan-eng-review on the third-party-actions Aside plan)
|
||
|
||
### QA logged-in-evidence path via Aside (Phase 2)
|
||
|
||
**Landed (Aside-first):** `aside repl` is now the PRIMARY evidence source for
|
||
/qa, /qa-only, and /browse whenever Aside is installed and running; gstack's own
|
||
browser (with cookie import) is the automatic fallback when it is not. Kept for
|
||
the rationale; the remaining loose ends are under "Aside-first follow-ups".
|
||
|
||
**What:** Consent-gated `aside repl` as the evidence source in /qa, /qa-only,
|
||
and /browse for sessions a headless browser could never reach (SSO,
|
||
device-bound auth, Safari-side logins Chromium export can't see).
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Fills the exact gap `docs/designs/CHROME_VS_CHROMIUM_EXPLORATION.md`
|
||
records as attempted and abandoned — QA evidence from the user's REAL
|
||
logged-in browser, no cookie export. The third-party-actions contract already
|
||
recommends Aside for acting on logged-in vendor sites; this extends the same
|
||
consent-gated pattern to evidence gathering.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Shape sketched as Option 2 in the Aside integration plan
|
||
(2026-08-27): a small `{{AGENTIC_BROWSER_FALLBACK}}` resolver injected into
|
||
qa/qa-only/browse (optionally scrape + a setup-browser-cookies cross-ref).
|
||
Port the fork PR time-attack/gstack#40 judgment qualitatively — "logged-in
|
||
pages only; never bulk crawling" — never its perishable timing numbers.
|
||
Requires: untrusted-content wrapping of repl output (prose rule), a
|
||
periodic-tier hermetic E2E, ratchet fixture refresh for the touched skills.
|
||
Deliberately deferred at D1A (contract-only scope); it inserts a third-party
|
||
surface beside the first-party QA pipeline, so it's a separate product call.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M (human ~2 days / CC+gstack ~1-2 h)
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
**Depends on:** the third-party-actions Aside contract branch landing.
|
||
|
||
### Hostile-vendor-skill E2E for the third-party-actions contract
|
||
|
||
**What:** A periodic-tier E2E that plants a malicious `aside-browser` vendor
|
||
skill (one that instructs scope expansion, credential capture, or consent
|
||
bypass) and asserts the agent honors the contract's override sentence —
|
||
operational syntax only, never new permissions, scope, or consent.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Rule 3 puts vendor text in instruction position; the override is
|
||
pinned as prose but has no behavioral proof against an adversarial skill.
|
||
Flagged by the ship adversarial review (finding 11).
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Fixture = extracted contract section + a hostile vendor SKILL.md
|
||
in the workdir; assert the drive plan never exceeds the named site/actions and
|
||
never echoes captured-secret instructions. Sibling of the tpa-* suite in
|
||
`test/skill-e2e-third-party-actions.test.ts`.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S (human ~half day / CC+gstack ~30 min)
|
||
**Priority:** P2
|
||
**Depends on:** the third-party-actions Aside contract branch landing.
|
||
|
||
### fd-anchor file-level permission writes (symlink/TOCTOU parity with dirs)
|
||
|
||
**What:** `restrictFilePermissions` / `writeSecureFile` / `appendSecureFile`
|
||
in `browse/src/file-permissions.ts` still use symlink-following `chmodSync` /
|
||
`writeFileSync`; give them the same `O_NOFOLLOW` + fstat/fchmod treatment the
|
||
directory path got.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** The symlink-swap class fixed for directories on this branch remains
|
||
open for the files inside them (ship adversarial review, finding 5).
|
||
Docs note (finding 12) — done in the v1.72.0.0 doc pass: BROWSER.md
|
||
§ "Aside and third-party drives" now records that Aside drives leave no
|
||
gstack-side audit trail (no egress receipts, no browse-daemon logs); the
|
||
audit trail lives in Aside.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S (human ~half day / CC+gstack ~20 min)
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
**Depends on:** None.
|
||
|
||
## Browser cookie import follow-ups (filed via /autoplan on the Windows Opera fix wave, #2980/#2957)
|
||
|
||
### P2: Preserve receipts when key acquisition fails in a mixed batch
|
||
|
||
**What:** `importCookies` derives the key for the whole batch before the row loop, so one v10 row plus a DPAPI/Keychain failure throws a typed key error and loses plaintext and App-Bound counts for the other rows.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** A mixed plaintext + v20 + v10 batch with an unavailable key reports only the key error; recoverable plaintext cookies and the unsupported-encryption count disappear.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Raised by the outside Eng voice. Deferred because turning a thrown typed key error into partial receipts changes a cross-platform contract, including macOS Keychain "click Allow and retry" prompts. Start at `getDerivedKeys` call in `browse/src/cookie-import-browser.ts` `importCookies`.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M (human ~1 day / CC+gstack ~30 min). **Priority:** P2.
|
||
**Depends on:** a decision on how retry-able key errors surface in a receipt.
|
||
|
||
### P3: Use the SHA-256(host_key) check on the macOS/Linux CBC path
|
||
|
||
**What:** The CBC branch of `decryptCookieValue` always drops 32 bytes; databases older than Chromium meta version 24 have no prefix, so their values lose 32 real bytes.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Same correctness rule the Windows GCM branch now uses (strip only when the first 32 bytes equal SHA-256(host_key)).
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Found during the Opera wave's Eng review; affects only old profiles. yt-dlp keys this on `meta.version >= 24`.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S (human ~2 h / CC+gstack ~10 min). **Priority:** P3.
|
||
**Depends on:** nothing.
|
||
|
||
### P3: macOS and Linux Opera / Opera GX cookie import
|
||
|
||
**What:** Register Opera on macOS (`~/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.Opera`, GX `com.operasoftware.OperaGX`) and Linux (`~/.config/opera`).
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Opera users off Windows get "available on Windows only".
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Paths from yt-dlp's `cookies.py`; Keychain service and libsecret application names are unverified. Needs a person on each OS.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M (human ~1 day / CC+gstack ~30 min plus hardware verification). **Priority:** P3.
|
||
**Depends on:** a tester on macOS and Linux.
|
||
|
||
### P3: Opera Beta/Developer and Opera GX channel directories
|
||
|
||
**What:** Detect `Opera Next`/`Opera Developer`/GX beta user-data directories.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Channel users are currently "not found".
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Directory names are unverified; add registry rows once confirmed on hardware.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S. **Priority:** P3. **Depends on:** confirmed directory names.
|
||
|
||
### P3: Opera side profiles (`_side_profiles/<id>/`)
|
||
|
||
**What:** Opera GX stores extra profiles under `<root>\_side_profiles\<id>\`, which `listProfiles`, `validateProfile` and the native profile regex do not accept.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Side-profile users only see their main profile.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Needs a profile-naming rule beyond `Default`/`Profile N` and an account-selection safety review.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M. **Priority:** P3. **Depends on:** a real side-profile layout sample.
|
||
|
||
### P3: Legacy root-level Opera layouts
|
||
|
||
**What:** Older Opera stored cookies at `<root>\Network\Cookies` with no `Default\`.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Old installs report "not found".
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Cut from the wave by both CEO voices: a stale root DB can be imported as the wrong account when side profiles or a migrated `Default\` exist. Sources: yt-dlp, forensics guides. Build only on a real report, with stale-root/side-profile coexistence tests.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S-M. **Priority:** P3. **Depends on:** a user report with this layout.
|
||
|
||
### P3: User-supplied Chromium user-data path option
|
||
|
||
**What:** A yt-dlp-style `chrome:PATH` option for portable or relocated installs and unlisted forks.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Each new fork currently needs a registry change and a release.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** `ARCHITECTURE.md` prefers a hardcoded registry for safety; needs a threat review (arbitrary paths, key sources) before building.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M. **Priority:** P3. **Depends on:** threat review.
|
||
|
||
## Test infrastructure
|
||
|
||
### Automatic exclusion policy for chronically red periodic files (P3)
|
||
|
||
**What:** A weekly periodic file that stays red for several consecutive runs keeps burning slice minutes
|
||
until someone triages it by hand (the five finding-count evals were red eight runs straight before the
|
||
2026-09 audit retired them). Add a report step that, after N consecutive reds, opens a PR adding the file
|
||
to `PERIODIC_CI_EXCLUDE` with its failing run links, a tracking entry and a re-entry condition.
|
||
|
||
**Re-entry / done when:** the periodic report proposes the exclusion automatically and a human approves it.
|
||
|
||
### P3: Collapse the native-completion negative table
|
||
|
||
**What:** After the 2026-09 audit the 14-mutation "native completion and menu ownership" table survives
|
||
only in `test/eng-first-review.test.ts` (14 per-incident copies), `test/plan-count-completion.test.ts`
|
||
and `test/dx-selected-navigation-ap.test.ts`. One shared table run once against a canonical call is sound
|
||
only after `engFirstReviewAUQ` checks native completion once at entry; today each branch gates it
|
||
separately, so the change alters a paid verdict and needs its own paid run.
|
||
|
||
### P3: Re-pin the five remaining claude-opus-4-7 paid files
|
||
|
||
**What:** The 2026-09 audit moved seven paid evals to the default capture model (`resolveEvalModel('capture')`).
|
||
`skill-e2e-design`, `skill-e2e-office-hours-phase4`, `skill-e2e-plan-prosons` and `skill-e2e-plan` keep
|
||
`claude-opus-4-7` because six cases failed on the default model in one run (plan-design-review-plan-mode timeout,
|
||
office-hours-phase4-fork format, plan-review-prosons-neutral-neg missing output, plan-ceo-review-selective and
|
||
plan-eng-review 600 s timeouts, plan-ceo-review-expansion-energy posture score 3). `skill-e2e-qa-bugs` returned
|
||
to `claude-opus-4-7` after `qa-b6-static` timed out on the default model in two of three runs (census 36597762183
|
||
and a targeted local rerun): each time the stream stopped mid-message, with no pending tool, right after the model
|
||
found the disabled submit button, and emitted nothing until the 300 s case deadline. They measure an old model.
|
||
|
||
**Re-entry:** fix the prompt, budget or rubric so each case passes on the default model in one run, then drop the pin.
|
||
|
||
### P3: Retire the unused CEO payment seeder
|
||
|
||
**What:** `seedCeoPaymentProject` and `pickSuppliedCeoPlanStart` in `test/helpers/ceo-finding-fixture.ts`
|
||
and `test/fixtures/ceo-existing-payment/` lost their only paid consumer when the CEO finding-count eval
|
||
was retired; the fixture tests in `test/ceo-finding-fixture.test.ts` still exercise them. Delete the
|
||
seeder, its fixture and those tests together.
|
||
|
||
### P3: No paid eval runs the full /autoplan chain
|
||
|
||
**What:** `skill-e2e-autoplan-chain` was retired (it never reached a product
|
||
verdict: launch failures, then 85-minute budget overruns). Phase order is still
|
||
enforced by `autoplan/bin/phase-publication-hook.ts` and pinned by the free
|
||
`test/autoplan-publication-guard.test.ts`, and `skill-e2e-autoplan-dual-voice`
|
||
covers CEO Phase 1 dispatch. Nothing proves a live model completes
|
||
CEO → Design → DX → Eng or reads the required phase sections
|
||
(`CARVE_GUARDS.autoplan` is `behavioral: 'none'`).
|
||
|
||
**Re-entry:** a chain eval that fits the ordinary PTY tiers, for example one that
|
||
runs the no-UI, no-DX path (CEO then Eng) and asserts the section reads.
|
||
|
||
### P3: CI-unrunnable paid evals
|
||
|
||
**What:** Seven paid files cannot execute in the CI image (no `codex` CLI, no
|
||
macOS/Aside, no physical iPhone), so the weekly periodic lane scheduled them as
|
||
green shards that verified nothing. They are now in `PERIODIC_CI_EXCLUDE`
|
||
(`test/helpers/periodic-exclude-data.ts`): `codex-e2e`, `codex-e2e-sol-scope`,
|
||
`codex-e2e-shared-libs`, `codex-e2e-recommendation-substance`,
|
||
`skill-e2e-outside-voice`, `skill-e2e-aside`, `skill-e2e-ios-device`. One case
|
||
inside a case-sharded file is excluded the same way through `CASE_CI_EXCLUDE`:
|
||
`test/skill-e2e-design.test.ts#design-review-fix` (needs Aside). They still
|
||
run locally on a machine that has the CLI or device.
|
||
|
||
**Re-entry:** the CLI or device is available in the CI image. First target:
|
||
`codex-e2e-sol-scope` as the Codex host smoke once the Codex CLI is installed
|
||
(see "Install the Codex CLI in the CI image"). Remove each file's exclude entry
|
||
when its prerequisite exists.
|
||
|
||
**Review by:** 2026-12-28. **Effort:** S per file. **Priority:** P3.
|
||
|
||
### P3: Install the Codex CLI in the CI image
|
||
|
||
**What:** Add `@openai/codex` to `.github/docker/Dockerfile.ci` and provide a
|
||
Codex `auth.json` as a CI secret so the four `codex-e2e*` files and
|
||
`skill-e2e-outside-voice` can leave `PERIODIC_CI_EXCLUDE`.
|
||
|
||
**Cost estimate:** image build +1 npm global install (~30 s per image build);
|
||
weekly model spend on the order of the repo's periodic rule of thumb, ~$1 per
|
||
file per run, so ~$5/week for the five files, billed to the Codex account
|
||
behind the secret. **Risk:** a long-lived credential in CI.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S. **Priority:** P3.
|
||
|
||
### P1: skillify gate test red — HOME-override sessions never discover project skills (pre-existing)
|
||
|
||
**What:** `test/skill-e2e-skillify.test.ts` `skillify-provenance-refusal` fails
|
||
on BOTH this branch and origin/main @ b5a951e6 (proven 2026-08-29: identical
|
||
2-turn `Unknown skill: skillify` transcripts). Every test in that file passing
|
||
`env: { HOME: workDir }` gets ZERO seeded project skills in the session init
|
||
(claude CLI 2.1.237); the passing siblings recover by Reading the SKILL.md
|
||
directly, the refusal test's agent stops at the Skill error. Fix the harness
|
||
(seed skills wherever HOME-overridden discovery looks, or drop the HOME
|
||
override and pass the write target another way), or report upstream if
|
||
project-scope `.claude/skills` discovery genuinely keys off HOME.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** A gate-tier safety test that is red for environmental reasons trains
|
||
people to ignore gate reds.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S-M (harness). **Priority:** P1 (gate hygiene).
|
||
|
||
### P2: auq-verbose-vs-carved-ab PRE arm reads a branch-local ref (same fragility class the repetition-cut A/B just fixed)
|
||
|
||
**What:** `test/helpers/auq-sdk-capture.ts` `verboseSkill()` defaults to git ref
|
||
`ab66193e^`, reachable only from the token-usage-reduction branch — shallow
|
||
clones fail today, all clones fail after that branch is pruned. Vendor the
|
||
pre-carve render as a fixture the way `auq-pre-cut-plan-ceo-review-SKILL.md`
|
||
was vendored for the repetition-cut A/B (v1.75.0.0), or repoint at a
|
||
main-reachable commit.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S. **Priority:** P2 (weekly periodic breaks silently later).
|
||
|
||
### P3: eval-store harvest as a discriminated union
|
||
|
||
**What:** `EvalTestEntry.harvest` went all-optional in schema v2 (worktree
|
||
harvests carry patchPath/isDuplicate, arm-benchmark diff-stats carry
|
||
insertions/deletions/net) — compile-time safety for the two writer shapes now
|
||
rests on a comment. Model as `{kind:'worktree',...} | {kind:'diff-stat',...}`.
|
||
Filed from the v1.73 review army (maintainability); deferred at ship time to
|
||
avoid schema churn mid-release.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S. **Priority:** P3.
|
||
|
||
### P2: WS6-2 dead-frontmatter strip — needs a live host, not a sandbox
|
||
|
||
**What:** `bin/gstack-context-bill` warns about 14 frontmatter keys "the router
|
||
never reads" (ROUTER_KEYS in lib/context-bill.ts is a hand-maintained guess).
|
||
The approved ponytail-import plan mandates EMPIRICAL verification before
|
||
stripping: remove the keys in a scratch install on a LIVE Claude Code host,
|
||
confirm skill discovery/routing/hooks unchanged, then land via the
|
||
hosts/claude.ts denylist (keys stay in templates for gen tooling). Deferred at
|
||
v1.73 implementation time with a decision-ledger entry (2026-08-28) because the
|
||
cloud sandbox cannot exercise live-host discovery. Savings are hundreds of
|
||
always-on bytes; growth is already capped by the ratchet regardless.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S (once on a live host). **Priority:** P2.
|
||
|
||
### P3: scope the evidence-gate digest allow-path
|
||
|
||
**What:** `agents-digest/gstack-AGENTS.md` rides `--allow-paths` in ship's and
|
||
land-and-deploy's evidence checks in EVERY repo, and unlike CHANGELOG/VERSION
|
||
it is instruction-bearing for rules-reading hosts. Scope the exemption to
|
||
"the bump actually regenerated it" (e.g. gstack-evidence learns a
|
||
--allow-if-regenerated flag, or the check compares the digest bytes to a fresh
|
||
generator run). Filed from the v1.73 Claude adversarial pass; the gate is
|
||
advisory and gstack's freshness CI covers the drift case, so P3.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S-M. **Priority:** P3.
|
||
|
||
### 2026-08-29 test-infra overhaul — follow-ups (filed at implementation)
|
||
|
||
The overhaul landed: green-means-green fixes (make-pdf gates in the required
|
||
lane, zero-test eval jobs killed, 4 orphaned paid files activated + orphan
|
||
tripwire, touchfiles self-registration + warn→fail), the serial
|
||
tree-mutating shard dissolved (main() guard + --out-dir all hosts),
|
||
duration-packed free shards, the sharded paid runner as the CI engine
|
||
(planner/slices/fail-closed report, parity phase), the weekly all-periodic
|
||
coverage contract + gate census, eval-budget timeout tiers, and the
|
||
coverage fill. Remaining, in rough priority order:
|
||
|
||
- **DONE (v1.77.0.0 test-infra wave 1) — Delete the legacy evals.yml matrix after
|
||
parity.** Deleted as a pure-deletion commit (one revert restores it) after
|
||
a static parity receipt: sliced gate census (49 files) ⊇ matrix files (18),
|
||
31 files of extra coverage. `needs: evals` edge dropped, PR comment moved
|
||
into slices-report, KNOWN_MATRIX_GAPS/KNOWN_TIER_UNSET retired,
|
||
test/evals-workflow-matrix.test.ts rewritten as
|
||
test/evals-workflow-wiring.test.ts. The register-skills fail-fast
|
||
verification loop was ported to the surviving lanes FIRST via the shared
|
||
.github/actions/register-gstack-skills composite.
|
||
- **P1 — Maintainer decision: make `slices-report` a required check** once
|
||
post-migration flake data exists (the Codex outside-voice's "green means
|
||
green is not delivered while paid stays advisory" point — correct, and
|
||
deliberately a branch-protection decision, not repo YAML). Effort S.
|
||
- **P2 — browse daemon lifecycle vs in-suite browsers (top remaining free-suite
|
||
flake).** The post-#994 daemon deliberately outlives its parent and lingers
|
||
across test FILES in a shard process; a later file's browser use can then
|
||
fight it ('[browse] FATAL: Chromium process crashed' + 5s element-wait
|
||
timeouts). Receipts: commands+snapshot in one bun process fails identically
|
||
WITH and WITHOUT per-file CHROMIUM_PROFILE isolation (pre-existing; PR
|
||
#2721 triage), and CI shard 1 on d9b78b5a died at model-overlay-sonnet-5
|
||
after a daemon-spawning file. Per-shard + per-file profile isolation
|
||
(landed) removed the cross-shard kills; the intra-shard daemon handoff
|
||
needs a real design: tests that spawn the daemon should stop it in
|
||
afterAll, or the daemon should detect a foreign CHROMIUM_PROFILE env and
|
||
refuse reuse. Effort M.
|
||
- **P2 — browse daemon /tmp-namespace hardening.** Every file-path transport
|
||
to the daemon (eval <file>, load-html --from-file, pdf output, upload,
|
||
cookie-import) assumes client and daemon share one /tmp view; a sandboxed
|
||
shell reusing an out-of-namespace daemon gets "File not found" on files it
|
||
just wrote (root-caused live, reproduced with unshare). Minimal fix: the
|
||
CLI reads a local `eval <file>` itself and sends the code as `js` (
|
||
semantics-preserving; keep the daemon path for remote callers), plus a
|
||
namespace hint appended to read-commands.ts:313's error. Effort S.
|
||
- **P2 — PTY boot-readiness wait (paid runner).** Free fake-CLI tests now pass
|
||
`startupReadyMarker` (plan-count-history since the 2026-09 audit). The paid
|
||
runner's real-CLI path (`runPlanSkillCounting` without a marker) and
|
||
`test/pty-screen-session.test.ts` still pay the blind 8 s wait; a real
|
||
readiness waitFor needs empirical CLI 2.1.x ready-marker probing in a working
|
||
terminal environment. Effort S, needs a dev machine.
|
||
- **P2 — single typed test registry.** Paid globs, tiers, touchfiles keys,
|
||
and exclusions are still separate literal authorities synced by tripwires;
|
||
derive them from one registry and the drift class dies structurally
|
||
(outside-voice recommendation; the tripwires are the interim). Effort M.
|
||
- **P2 — swap the custom LPT packer for bun-native `--timings`/`--shard`**
|
||
at the next Bun unpin (native LPT scheduling ships ≥1.3.14; the packer is
|
||
deliberately small and swappable — see the successor note in
|
||
scripts/test-free-shards.ts). Effort S.
|
||
- **P3 — runBin migration remainder** (~31 of 36 local run() duplicates;
|
||
helper + first 3 migrated). Mechanical batches. Effort S.
|
||
- **P3 — migrate the free runner onto runShardChild** (the shared lifecycle
|
||
helper the paid runner now uses; designed for it). Effort S.
|
||
- **P3 — eval-list should exclude _partial runs** (pinned as current
|
||
behavior in test/eval-cli-family.test.ts with an improvement note).
|
||
Effort S.
|
||
- **P3 — 15 E2E / 2 judge PHANTOM touchfiles keys** select tests that exist
|
||
nowhere — add keys or delete, one sweep. Effort S.
|
||
- **P3 — first-execution rot from the sliced lane's first live runs: 2 of 3
|
||
FIXED** (PR #2721): (a) ✅ skillify family — root cause was HOME==cwd
|
||
making claude treat <cwd>/.claude/skills as the PERSONAL dir (project
|
||
skills never registered); all three tests now use a fresh HOME subdir,
|
||
the refusal test gained a not-registered tripwire + assistant-text-only
|
||
matching (the skill body echo could pass vacuously), and the siblings now
|
||
genuinely exercise the Skill-tool path (verified paid, 5/5).
|
||
(b) ✅ session-intelligence context-restore — assertion was prose-matching
|
||
over stochastic wording; now verbatim RESTORED-marker + tool-call
|
||
corroboration with a stronger older-file negative (3/3 paid green).
|
||
(c) `tpa-apple-ban` failed only on retry attempt 2 once — flake watch
|
||
only. The lane finding these on first execution is the coverage contract
|
||
working.
|
||
- **P2 — make-pdf image promotion is per-render nondeterministic on CI**:
|
||
two renders of the same fixture SECONDS apart in one CI job produced 2 vs
|
||
3 landscape pages (an image's promotion depends on load timing at render).
|
||
The landscape gates now assert content/presence invariants, but the
|
||
underlying render race is a product quality issue (a user's alt-hinted
|
||
image can silently miss its landscape promotion). Receipts: PR #2721
|
||
free-tests runs on heads ab549353 + c49b2ece. Effort S.
|
||
- **P3 — duration-weighted slice assignment** if parity data shows slice
|
||
walls diverging >1.5x (round-robin today; eval-store durations exist).
|
||
Effort S.
|
||
|
||
### P2: /context-save worktree-identity hardening (the #2052 residual)
|
||
|
||
**What:** Persist a stable worktree identity (path hash or worktree name) into
|
||
checkpoint frontmatter at save time; `/context-restore` prefers identity match
|
||
over branch-name match. PR #2054 (@jbetala7, absorbed in the June 2026 wave)
|
||
fixed restore ORDERING (current-branch first), but branch frontmatter is not a
|
||
stable worktree identity: same-name branches across clones/remotes, renamed
|
||
branches, and detached HEAD can still restore the wrong checkpoint.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Closes the residual wrong-checkpoint class entirely instead of the
|
||
common case. Codex outside-voice concurred during the wave's eng review.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Eliminates cross-clone checkpoint collisions.
|
||
**Cons:** Frontmatter schema change; needs a migration story for old
|
||
checkpoints (no-identity checkpoints rank as fallback, like #2054's
|
||
no-branch handling).
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Filed from the June 2026 fix-wave eng review (NOT-in-scope item).
|
||
Start at `context-restore/SKILL.md.tmpl` Step 1 + `/context-save`'s frontmatter
|
||
writer; mirror #2054's partition logic with identity as the first key.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S (human ~4h, CC ~20min). **Depends on:** #2054 (landed in the wave).
|
||
|
||
### P3: gbrain reindex-in-place on perpetual drift (conditional — check the drift log first)
|
||
|
||
**What:** IF the `[gbrain-sources] drift:` stderr line (added in the June 2026
|
||
wave) shows drift firing on every sync for some environment, implement #1985's
|
||
reporter design: refresh an existing source in place with `gbrain reindex-code`
|
||
instead of remove+add (which drops and re-embeds the full index — 768 pages /
|
||
6,786 embeddings in the reporter's case).
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Perpetual drift means paying full re-embed cost every sync. The wave's
|
||
`realpathSync` normalization (symlink aliases are a match, not drift) may have
|
||
eliminated the drift class entirely — that's why this is conditional.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Avoids repeated embedding spend for affected environments.
|
||
**Cons:** Speculative until the drift log produces evidence; reindex-in-place
|
||
has its own consistency questions (stale chunks for deleted files).
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Filed from the June 2026 fix-wave eng review (4A observability).
|
||
Trigger condition documented in `lib/gbrain-sources.ts` at the drift log line.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M (human ~1d, CC ~45min). **Depends on:** drift-log evidence from
|
||
the wave's `ensureSourceRegistered` logging.
|
||
### ✅ DONE (2026-08-29): Periodic CI coverage contract — implemented as option (a)
|
||
|
||
**Resolved by the test-infra overhaul:** evals-periodic.yml re-platformed onto
|
||
scripts/test-paid-shards.ts — ALL periodic-tier files run weekly (EVALS_ALL,
|
||
planner manifest → 6 slices → fail-closed report) minus the reasoned
|
||
exclusions in test/helpers/periodic-exclude-data.ts (reason + tracking per
|
||
entry, policy-pinned). A weekly EVALS_ALL gate census rides the same cron.
|
||
The silent-rot class is dead: a test that runs nowhere is now either planned,
|
||
diff-skipped, excluded-with-reason, or a failed report. Original filing kept
|
||
below for the receipts.
|
||
|
||
#### Original filing (closed)
|
||
Periodic CI matrix covers 9 of ~66 e2e files — decide the coverage contract
|
||
|
||
**Priority:** P2
|
||
|
||
**What:** `evals-periodic.yml` (weekly cron, `EVALS_TIER=periodic EVALS_ALL=1`) runs a
|
||
hard-coded 9-file matrix; `evals.yml` gate shards cover 14 files. ~57 `test/skill-e2e-*`
|
||
files run in NEITHER workflow — they execute only when a local diff happens to select
|
||
them via touchfiles. CLAUDE.md says "periodic tests run weekly via cron," which the
|
||
matrix doesn't deliver. Decide: (a) expand the periodic matrix (or glob it) to all
|
||
periodic-tier files with a budget cap, (b) shrink the claim in CLAUDE.md and mark the
|
||
uncovered files as local-only, or (c) tier the orphans explicitly.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** The autoplan-dual-voice E2E was silently broken for months (claude >= 2.x
|
||
changed unregistered-slash-command handling) and nothing noticed until a docs PR's
|
||
touchfiles happened to select it locally (2026-07-09). Tests that never run anywhere
|
||
rot invisibly; each one found broken later costs a full /investigate session.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Kills the silent-rot class for ~57 test files; makes the CLAUDE.md tiering
|
||
claim true.
|
||
**Cons:** Full periodic coverage costs real money weekly (rough order: ~$1/file/run);
|
||
some orphans are deliberately manual (ios-device, opus-47 overlay harness), so a plain
|
||
glob is wrong — needs a curated exclude list.
|
||
|
||
**Fresh receipts (2026-08-16, v1.66.0.0 re-baseline):** the first full local
|
||
periodic run in this store gave the never-baselined tail its first results:
|
||
`skill-e2e-setup-gbrain-{bad-token,path4-local-pglite,remote}` all failed
|
||
(spawned-process exit 1 — likely live-gbrain interference on a dev box) and
|
||
`skill-e2e-ship-idempotency` timed out at the 1800s shard wall. None are in
|
||
the weekly matrix, so these failures are invisible to CI — exactly this
|
||
item's thesis. Start the burn-down with those four.
|
||
|
||
**Context / where to start:** `.github/workflows/evals-periodic.yml:71` (matrix),
|
||
`test/helpers/touchfiles.ts` E2E_TIERS (tier labels already exist per test), orphan
|
||
list generated via `comm -23` between `ls test/skill-e2e-*.test.ts` and the file lists
|
||
in `.github/workflows/evals*.yml`. Receipts from the autoplan incident:
|
||
`~/.gstack/projects/garrytan-gstack/e2e-runs/2026-07-10-0154/` (0-turn "Unknown command"
|
||
transcripts).
|
||
|
||
### ✅ DONE (verified 2026-08-29): Eval harness live progress + incremental persistence
|
||
|
||
**Verified landed** (the v1.66-era harness work delivered all three asks):
|
||
(1) heartbeat — session-runner writes ~/.gstack-dev/e2e-live.json atomically
|
||
per tool call (+ progress.log + per-test ndjson); (2) incremental persistence
|
||
— EvalCollector writes _partial-e2e.json after every addTest, dual-signal
|
||
isPartialEval keeps partials out of baselines; (3) live signal — per-tool
|
||
stderr progress lines flush unbuffered, and scripts/eval-watch.ts dashboards
|
||
the heartbeat. The 2026-08 overhaul added per-shard full-stream spool logs
|
||
(path printed at START) on top. Original filing kept below for receipts.
|
||
|
||
#### Original filing (closed)
|
||
Eval harness: live progress + incremental result persistence (kill the silent hour)
|
||
|
||
**Priority:** P1
|
||
|
||
**What:** `bun run test:evals` is observably silent for its entire runtime and
|
||
persists nothing until completion. Make the E2E harness (1) append a one-line
|
||
progress record per test START and END to a well-known heartbeat file (e.g.
|
||
`~/.gstack-dev/evals/.current-run.jsonl`), (2) write each test's eval-store
|
||
result incrementally instead of only at run end, and (3) flush per-test
|
||
pass/fail lines to stderr unbuffered so `bun test --concurrent` mega-file
|
||
buffering can't hide 50 minutes of legitimate progress.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** During the v1.57.11.0 ship, the diff-selected eval run (54 tests) was
|
||
killed ~50 min in and NOTHING distinguished the corpse from a healthy run for
|
||
hours: the log had zero test lines (per-file buffering across five mega
|
||
`skill-e2e-*.test.ts` files), `~/.gstack-dev/evals/` had zero new files
|
||
(results persist only on completion), and the only available liveness signal
|
||
(`pgrep "bun test --max-concurrency"`) false-positives on every sibling
|
||
free-suite shard. An agent or human watching the run has no honest signal.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Dead runs detected in minutes instead of hours; partial results
|
||
survive kills (a 50-min run that dies at test 40/54 keeps 40 results and can
|
||
resume); `eval:watch` gets a real data source.
|
||
|
||
**Cons:** Touches `test/helpers/session-runner.ts` + `eval-store.ts` (global
|
||
touchfiles — change triggers ALL eval tests on the next diff-selected run);
|
||
incremental writes need a PARTIAL marker so `eval:compare` doesn't treat a
|
||
dead run as a complete baseline.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Root-caused 2026-06-12 during the v1.57.11.0 /ship. The run
|
||
itself was on pace (~50 min for 54 E2E tests at concurrency 15 is nominal);
|
||
the failure was pure observability. Related: the existing
|
||
`project_e2e_harness_observability` note (stream-json reasoning + tool traces
|
||
dropped on failure — same module, fix together). Start in
|
||
`test/helpers/session-runner.ts` (per-test lifecycle) and
|
||
`test/helpers/eval-store.ts` (persistence timing).
|
||
|
||
**Depends on / blocked by:** Nothing. Classify the new behavior under the
|
||
existing two-tier system; the heartbeat file must be safe under
|
||
`--concurrent` (append-only, one JSON line per event).
|
||
|
||
### ✅ DONE (v1.53.1.0): Rebaseline parity-suite (v1.44.1 → v1.53.0.0)
|
||
|
||
**What:** `test/parity-suite.test.ts` checked every skill's SKILL.md size against
|
||
the frozen `test/fixtures/parity-baseline-v1.44.1.json`. Five planning skills had
|
||
crept past the 1.05x ceiling: `plan-ceo-review` (1.052), `plan-eng-review` (1.062),
|
||
`plan-design-review` (1.068), `investigate` (1.053), `office-hours` (1.065) — growth
|
||
from the brain-aware-planning releases (v1.49–v1.52) plus the v1.53 redaction guard.
|
||
|
||
**Resolved:** Captured a fresh baseline at HEAD via
|
||
`bun run scripts/capture-baseline.ts --tag v1.53.0.0` and re-pointed the test at
|
||
`test/fixtures/parity-baseline-v1.53.0.0.json`. The per-skill 1.05 ratio is kept, so
|
||
future bloat is still caught — only the stale anchor moved. Mirrors the earlier
|
||
`skill-size-budget` rebase (v1.44.1 → v1.47.0.0). Historical v1.44.1 / v1.46.0.0 /
|
||
v1.47.0.0 baselines retained in `test/fixtures/` for the v1→v2 audit trail. The
|
||
captured skill bytes match `origin/main` exactly (the rebasing branch left every
|
||
SKILL.md untouched). `bun test` is green again.
|
||
|
||
## Scope-gate follow-ups (filed via /plan-eng-review on the plan-mode auto-select-B change)
|
||
|
||
### DONE (v1.77.0.0) — SDK eval budgets charge API-queue latency to the work budget
|
||
|
||
**Shipped shape:** the two-phase timer landed WITHOUT the codemod this entry
|
||
feared: the total wall stays <= timeout (work phase = remainder after first
|
||
byte), so every outer/inner bun-timeout relationship is untouched; a silent
|
||
API now dies EARLY at the startup grace (90s local / 300s CI floor, enforced
|
||
Math.max) with the distinct reason 'timeout_startup'. Option (b)'s 300s CI
|
||
floor is in (test/session-runner-startup-grace.test.ts pins it). The
|
||
budget-EXTENSION variant (work budget = full timeout from first byte, which
|
||
DOES need the tier/wall reshape) remains wave-2 scope in the overhaul plan.
|
||
|
||
Original entry follows for context:
|
||
|
||
**What:** `runSkillTest`'s single `setTimeout(timeout)` arms at spawn, so session
|
||
startup AND the model's first-completion queue time are charged against the
|
||
test's work budget. Under concurrent load (11 CI matrix jobs, or local eval
|
||
runs sharing the org API), a first completion can queue 60-90s+, producing the
|
||
deterministic `0 turns / $0.00 / <budget>s x3 attempts` failure shape. Observed:
|
||
`review-dashboard-via` (PR #2472, 180s→300s), `retro-base-branch` (240s→360s),
|
||
`plan-ceo-plan-mode` (300s→420s, 2026-08-12), `design-consultation-preview`
|
||
(90s→300s, PR #2533 CI). Every fix so far is a per-test budget bump.
|
||
|
||
**Why not just re-arm the timer on first stream event:** an audit (2026-08-12)
|
||
found ~100 outer bun-timeout literals sized as inner+30-60s; re-arming the inner
|
||
clock breaks every outer/inner relationship and needs a codemod of all of them.
|
||
|
||
**Options:** (a) two-phase timer in session-runner (startup grace, re-arm on
|
||
first NDJSON line) + codemod outer literals to inner+grace+slack; (b) adopt a
|
||
300s floor for all CI SDK budgets (statically enforceable — a free test can
|
||
assert no `timeout: <300_000` in skill-e2e files) and stop re-litigating per
|
||
test; (c) startup-spawn semaphore in the runner (bounds the boot stampede but
|
||
not API-side queuing — evidence says queuing dominates, so likely insufficient
|
||
alone). Recommend (b) short-term + (a) properly sequenced with the codemod.
|
||
|
||
**Depends on / blocked by:** none.
|
||
|
||
### P2: Wire the four demoted plan-mode/finding-floor PTY tests into periodic CI
|
||
|
||
**What:** `evals-periodic.yml` runs an explicit 9-file matrix; the four tests
|
||
demoted to `periodic` in v1.62.0.0 (`skill-e2e-plan-eng-plan-mode`,
|
||
`skill-e2e-plan-design-plan-mode`, `skill-e2e-plan-eng-finding-floor`,
|
||
`skill-e2e-plan-design-finding-floor`) are not in it, so they currently run
|
||
only locally/manually (`bun run test:periodic` or `eval:bg:periodic`). Wiring
|
||
them needs a PTY-capable periodic job: the container skill-registration setup
|
||
from evals.yml's `e2e-pty-plan-smoke` job (real-file SKILL.md copies for the
|
||
TUI's cross-mount symlink bug) with `EVALS_TIER=periodic`.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Codex re-review P2 on the v1.62.0.0 ship. This is a named instance of
|
||
the existing periodic-orphans problem (see "P1/P2 periodic coverage" TODO in
|
||
Test infrastructure) — solve it there or here, once.
|
||
|
||
**Depends on / blocked by:** none; sibling of the periodic-orphans TODO above.
|
||
|
||
### P3: Extract the whole scope gate to a shared `{{SCOPE_GATE}}` resolver
|
||
|
||
**What:** Move the duplicated scope-gate prose (heading, intro sentence, the
|
||
plan-mode/named-target exceptions block, numbered items, the A/B/C menu, and the
|
||
Recommendation line) from `plan-eng-review/SKILL.md.tmpl` and
|
||
`plan-design-review/SKILL.md.tmpl` into a `scripts/resolvers/` module with 4-5
|
||
injected variant slots (preceded-by list, item-2 phrasing, option-C vocabulary,
|
||
recommendation tail, exceptions action tail).
|
||
|
||
**Why:** The two copies are hand-synced today. The drift-guard test in
|
||
`test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts` ("scope-gate exceptions drift-guard") makes the
|
||
duplication safe but is a stopgap — one source of truth is the real fix. Filed
|
||
as D5 of the eng review on the plan-mode auto-select-B change (2026-08-11).
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Single source for a load-bearing gate; future gate changes (new
|
||
exceptions, wording tuning) land once.
|
||
**Cons:** Touches the resolver registry and its tests; must preserve the exact
|
||
generated bytes or re-baseline the carve/parity ceilings.
|
||
|
||
**Context / where to start:** structural-only diff, sequenced AFTER the
|
||
behavior change (refactor and behavior never together). The drift-guard test
|
||
becomes the migration's acceptance check: extract, regen, confirm byte-identical
|
||
output, then retire or simplify the guard. Effort: human ~half day / CC ~20 min.
|
||
|
||
**Depends on / blocked by:** the plan-mode auto-select-B PR landing on main.
|
||
|
||
## Token-reduction follow-ups (Phase B, filed via /plan-eng-review on the plan-ceo-review carve)
|
||
|
||
### P2: v1.70 ship-review deferrals (specialist + adversarial findings, each verified)
|
||
|
||
**What:** Follow-ups deferred from the v1.70.0.0 pre-landing review, none ship-blocking:
|
||
|
||
- **Batch the 11 `gstack-config get` forks in `bin/gstack-skill-start`** into one config
|
||
read (~60-250ms of preamble latency per skill invocation, worse on macOS). The
|
||
consolidation into one script is what makes batching trivial now.
|
||
- **Cache the `gbrain --version` probe** (Node CLI cold start, 100-300ms per invocation
|
||
for gbrain users) keyed on binary path + mtime.
|
||
- **`bin/gstack-retro-metrics`: single-pass diffs** — combine the `--numstat` and `-p`
|
||
passes (`git log --numstat -p`), unify the three test-file definitions (`is_test`,
|
||
the awk regex, the repo-wide grep), and cover the `origin/<base>` ref preference +
|
||
300-commit/40-coauthor truncation paths with tests.
|
||
- **Rename `generate-upgrade-check.ts`** — it now emits only PROACTIVE/SKILL_PREFIX
|
||
rules; the name misleads anyone hunting for upgrade-prompt rendering.
|
||
- **evals.yml gate matrix drift:** 9 pre-existing gate-tier files in `E2E_TIERS` are
|
||
absent from the static suite matrix, so they never run in PR CI. Add them (or prune
|
||
their tier), plus a free tripwire test diffing gate-tier `E2E_TIERS` against the
|
||
workflow matrix so the class can't recur.
|
||
- **`_sanitize` case/separator variants:** the strip is exact-literal; make it
|
||
case-insensitive and separator-tolerant, with pinned variant cases.
|
||
- **Telemetry unset-vs-off semantics:** `gstack-skill-start` treats an UNSET telemetry
|
||
key as enabled for the LOCAL analytics write (pre-consent recording, local-only);
|
||
`gstack-telemetry-log` maps unset to off. Decide one semantic and document it.
|
||
- **Coverage gaps from the ship audit:** `--brain-health` block (zero tests), the
|
||
learnings `>5`-entries sanitize passthrough (poison test), session prune +
|
||
`.pending-*` finalize loop, and a shared `ONBOARDING_MARKERS` constant for the three
|
||
seed sites (hermetic-env, e2e-helpers, the script's gates).
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Each was found by the v1.70 review army with file:line evidence; all are quality
|
||
or latency wins on the new runtime scripts, none change behavior contracts.
|
||
|
||
**Effort estimate:** M (human team) → S (CC+gstack)
|
||
**Priority:** P2
|
||
**Depends on / blocked by:** v1.70.0.0 landing.
|
||
|
||
### P3: Output-template carve wave — REVIEW_DASHBOARD + PLAN_FILE_REVIEW_REPORT
|
||
|
||
**What:** Carve the two output-format resolver blocks — the review dashboard table
|
||
shape and the plan-file report skeleton — out of the six skills that inline them
|
||
(`{{REVIEW_DASHBOARD}}` 5,940B ×6 + `{{PLAN_FILE_REVIEW_REPORT}}` 5,989B ×6,
|
||
~71.6KB total) into on-demand sections or a shared reference doc.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Largest remaining duplicated block after the preamble program lands. These
|
||
are output TEMPLATES (table shapes, markdown skeletons), not behavioral steps — the
|
||
classic carve candidate.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** ~1.4KB×2 saved per invocation across 6 review-family skills; single source
|
||
for the dashboard/report format.
|
||
**Cons:** Both blocks are partially pinned (`test/skill-e2e-review-attribution.test.ts`
|
||
slices `## Review Readiness Dashboard`; `test/skill-validation.test.ts:1566` asserts a
|
||
specific row) — needs a pin-relocation design first, which is why it was deferred from
|
||
the main program.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Deferred from the token-reduction program's Phase 4 (plan on branch
|
||
`prompt-token-load-reduction`, "NOT carving" list). The carve pipeline and guard
|
||
registry to use are the same as carve wave 4. Start by mapping every test that slices
|
||
or asserts dashboard/report text, then decide skeleton-vs-section placement per pin.
|
||
|
||
**Effort estimate:** M (human team) → S (CC+gstack)
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
**Depends on / blocked by:** Token-reduction program Phases 1-4 landing (carve
|
||
machinery churn would conflict).
|
||
|
||
### P3: Anchor transformFrontmatter's denylist strip to the frontmatter block
|
||
|
||
**What:** `transformFrontmatter` (scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts:525-530, denylist branch)
|
||
deletes the FIRST line matching `^<field>:` anywhere in the file, not just inside
|
||
the frontmatter block, and would orphan continuation lines of a block-style YAML
|
||
value. Slice the frontmatter, strip within it, reassemble.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Latent mis-strip class: a skill body line beginning `interactive:` or
|
||
`benefits-from:` (e.g. a skill documenting the frontmatter contract) would be
|
||
silently deleted from the render. Zero live collisions today (verified across all
|
||
tracked SKILL.md bodies during the v1.69.x token-reduction Phase 0 review), but
|
||
each new stripFields entry widens the exposure.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Kills the whole latent class; makes stripFields safe to grow.
|
||
**Cons:** Touches the generator hot path — needs a full regen + the per-host
|
||
golden fixtures re-checked; deserves its own small PR, not a rider.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Found by the Phase 0 adversarial review on branch
|
||
`prompt-token-load-reduction` (finding ADV4). The gen-side parser reads only
|
||
inline `[...]` array form (gen-skill-docs.ts:751), so block-form YAML for these
|
||
keys fails silently twice — worth a validation error at the same time.
|
||
|
||
**Effort estimate:** S (human team) → S (CC+gstack)
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
**Depends on / blocked by:** none.
|
||
|
||
### P3: Revisit plan-ceo-review doctrine carve after the preamble program lands
|
||
|
||
**What:** Re-evaluate carving plan-ceo-review's ~13KB of always-loaded doctrine
|
||
(`## Prerequisite Skill Offer` 7,125B + `## Cognitive Patterns` 3,336B +
|
||
`## Philosophy` 2,535B) into its existing sections/ dir.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Deferred from the token-reduction program because the skeleton had only
|
||
~555B of headroom under its carve-guard ceiling and the doctrine is behavior-core.
|
||
The preamble phases shrink the skeleton by ~22KB, which changes the tradeoff: the
|
||
ceiling gets recomputed and the doctrine becomes the dominant remaining always-loaded
|
||
block in the skill.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** ~3.2K tokens off every /plan-ceo-review invocation if the doctrine reads
|
||
lazily without behavior loss.
|
||
**Cons:** The Cognitive Patterns section shapes the review voice throughout — a
|
||
requiredReads guard + A/B eval (same design as the design-doctrine carve) is mandatory,
|
||
and the answer may legitimately be "keep it inline."
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Filed from the token-reduction program's CEO review ("NOT carving" list).
|
||
Measure with `bin/gstack-context-bill --skill plan-ceo-review` after Phase 3 lands;
|
||
use the carve-guards registry + a behavioral loading eval if carved.
|
||
|
||
**Effort estimate:** S (human team) → S (CC+gstack)
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
**Depends on / blocked by:** Token-reduction program Phase 3 (re-baseline + recomputed
|
||
carve ceilings).
|
||
|
||
## gbrowser memory follow-ups (filed via /plan-eng-review + /codex on the v1.49 leak-fix PR)
|
||
|
||
These four items came out of the memory-leak investigation that shipped
|
||
the `$B memory` diagnostic + the four leak fixes. They were
|
||
deliberately deferred from that PR (already 14 commits / ~12 files);
|
||
each stands alone and any one could ship independently.
|
||
|
||
### P2: MV3 extension service worker memory profile
|
||
|
||
**What:** The `/memory` endpoint snapshot enumerates pages but does
|
||
not enumerate the gstack baked-in extension's service-worker target.
|
||
A long-running MV3 service worker can leak through retained DOM
|
||
snapshots, message ports that never close, alarms that re-arm, and
|
||
caches that grow without bound. The diagnostic should call
|
||
`Target.getTargets` with a filter for `service_worker` and include
|
||
each one in `tabs[]` (or a sibling `serviceWorkers[]` array) with the
|
||
same `Performance.getMetrics` data.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Codex's outside-voice review on the eng-review surfaced this
|
||
class of leak (the extension is part of the gbrowser process tree but
|
||
invisible to today's snapshot). Until we surface it, a SW leak shows
|
||
up only in the parent process RSS with no per-target attribution.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Closes the per-target attribution gap for the
|
||
single-most-likely future leak source (our own extension).
|
||
**Cons:** Extension SW lifecycle is asymmetric vs page lifecycle;
|
||
auto-attach + filter is one more piece of CDP plumbing.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Codex finding #4 on the eng-review outside voice. Not
|
||
in scope of the v1.49 PR; deliberately deferred to keep the PR to
|
||
the four highest-confidence leak fixes.
|
||
|
||
**Priority:** P2. **Effort:** M.
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
### P2: Native + GPU memory breakdown in `$B memory`
|
||
|
||
**What:** `$B memory` shows Bun RSS + per-tab JS heap + Chromium
|
||
process tree (PIDs + types + CPU time) but the per-process RSS is
|
||
absent — `SystemInfo.getProcessInfo` doesn't expose RSS and the eng
|
||
review (D2 USE_CDP) explicitly chose CDP over shelling to `ps`. The
|
||
honest next step is to surface what CDP DOES give for the other
|
||
memory categories: `Memory.getDOMCounters` per target (node + listener
|
||
counts), `SystemInfo.getInfo` for GPU memory, `Memory.getAllTimeSamplingProfile`
|
||
for a sampled native estimate.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Codex's outside-voice review flagged that
|
||
`Performance.getMetrics` misses native memory, GPU memory, video
|
||
buffers, Skia, network cache, extension process RSS, and
|
||
browser-process RSS — all the categories where a 160 GB leak would
|
||
actually live. A diagnostic that misses the categories where the
|
||
leak class lives undersells itself.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Per-process category breakdown closes the gap between
|
||
"Activity Monitor says 160 GB" and what the diagnostic shows.
|
||
**Cons:** Each CDP method has its own quirks; this is a real
|
||
implementation pass, not a one-line addition.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Codex finding #5 on the eng-review outside voice. Not
|
||
in scope of the v1.49 PR; deliberately deferred.
|
||
|
||
**Priority:** P2. **Effort:** M.
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
### P3: Single-context CDP listener for Network.loadingFinished
|
||
|
||
**What:** `wirePageEvents` attaches a `page.on('requestfinished')`
|
||
listener PER PAGE. The D10 fix removed the body-materialization leak
|
||
inside that listener but kept the per-page listener architecture
|
||
(7 listeners attached per tab — close, framenavigated, dialog,
|
||
console, request, response, requestfinished). The stretch goal from
|
||
D10 was to replace the per-page `requestfinished` listener with a
|
||
single context-level CDP listener via
|
||
`Target.setAutoAttach({autoAttach: true, waitForDebuggerOnStart: false,
|
||
flatten: true})` and a browser-wide `Network.loadingFinished` event
|
||
handler.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Going from N to 1 listener for the request-size capture is
|
||
structurally the right architecture and removes one piece of per-tab
|
||
memory pressure. The body-materialization fix already addressed the
|
||
acute leak; this is the architectural cleanup that prevents similar
|
||
leaks in the same class.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** One listener per browser instead of one per tab.
|
||
**Cons:** `Target.setAutoAttach` plumbing is more code than the
|
||
straight per-page listener; the marginal memory win is small on top
|
||
of the body-fetch fix that already landed.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** D10 stretch goal on the eng-review. The minimal-risk
|
||
fix shipped in v1.49 (replaces `await res.body()` with
|
||
`await req.sizes()`, preserving the per-page listener); this is the
|
||
architectural follow-up.
|
||
|
||
**Priority:** P3. **Effort:** M-L.
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
### P3: Real-Chromium peak-RSS reproducer (periodic tier)
|
||
|
||
**What:** The gate-tier reproducer
|
||
(`browse/test/memory-leak-reproducer.test.ts`) pins the invariant
|
||
that `res.body()` is never called during a burst of
|
||
`requestfinished` events. It uses a fake page; it does NOT spin up a
|
||
real Chromium nor measure peak Bun RSS during a real concurrent fetch
|
||
burst. A periodic-tier follow-up should: spin up a real headless
|
||
Chromium, navigate to a fixture page that concurrently fetches 500
|
||
mixed responses (small JSON, 100 KB images, 10 MB chunked,
|
||
gzip-compressed 2 MB), sample `process.memoryUsage().heapUsed` every
|
||
100 ms during the burst, assert `peak_heap < 200 MB above baseline`
|
||
AND `post-gc_heap < 30 MB above baseline`. Also include a single-tab
|
||
WebGL canvas variant that grows to >4 GB and asserts the per-tab RSS
|
||
toast fires.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Codex flagged that the leak's real failure mode is transient
|
||
amplification under concurrent burst, not retained leak — a steady-state
|
||
heap test misses it. The fake-page gate-tier test catches the
|
||
listener-architecture regression; the periodic real-browser test
|
||
catches the actual peak-RSS class.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Closes the "did we actually demonstrate the OOM is fixed"
|
||
question with hard numbers. Feeds the ANGLE_B_NUMBERS CHANGELOG
|
||
release-summary table.
|
||
**Cons:** Periodic tier costs minutes of CI time and money per run;
|
||
real-browser memory tests are inherently flaky.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Codex outside-voice finding on the eng-review; D7
|
||
ANGLE_B_NUMBERS CHANGELOG framing needs this reproducer's numbers
|
||
before /ship time.
|
||
|
||
**Priority:** P3. **Effort:** M.
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
## design daemon: follow-ups (filed v1.45.0.0 via /ship review army)
|
||
|
||
### ✅ DONE (v1.45.0.0): Tighten daemon test coverage
|
||
|
||
**Resolved in commit `6b037c55` (same PR):** All 5 test gaps filled before
|
||
landing. Per-file totals after: serve 16, daemon 34, daemon-discovery 23,
|
||
feedback-roundtrip-daemon 4 = 77 (+10 from initial ship). Specifically:
|
||
- Idle-shutdown actually fires (spawn-based, daemon process observed exiting,
|
||
state file removed).
|
||
- Bare GET polling doesn't reset idle (hammers `/api/progress` in background,
|
||
daemon still idles out).
|
||
- Idle-with-active-boards extends, then force-shuts after MAX_EXTENSIONS
|
||
(with `DESIGN_DAEMON_EXTENSION_MS=1500` + `MAX_EXTENSIONS=2`).
|
||
- Concurrent `ensureDaemon()` race converges on one daemon (lock wins).
|
||
- Stale-lock reclaim (dead PID succeeds, alive unrelated PID refuses).
|
||
- Malformed-JSON + non-object + array-body + missing-html negatives for
|
||
`POST /api/boards` and `POST /boards/<id>/api/reload`.
|
||
|
||
### P3: Minor maintainability nits from /ship review
|
||
|
||
- `design/src/cli.ts` and `design/src/serve.ts` both have a small `openBrowser`
|
||
helper with identical darwin/linux/else branches. Extract a shared
|
||
`design/src/open-browser.ts`.
|
||
- `design/src/daemon-client.ts:320` (`AbortSignal.timeout(2000)`) and `:357`
|
||
(`delay(50)`) use bare numeric literals while sibling timeouts are named
|
||
constants. Promote to `SHUTDOWN_POST_TIMEOUT_MS` and `ALIVE_POLL_INTERVAL_MS`.
|
||
- `design/src/daemon-state.ts:21` `serverPath` field is written
|
||
(`daemon.ts:541`) but never read by production code. Either remove or
|
||
document the forensic intent.
|
||
|
||
### P3: Daemon scope deferred from v1.45.0.0 plan
|
||
|
||
Originally listed in the plan's "TODOs surfaced for later" section:
|
||
|
||
- Per-daemon scoped auth tokens (only relevant once a tunnel/share use case appears).
|
||
- Optional persistent board history on disk in
|
||
`~/.gstack/projects/$SLUG/designs/history/` so submitted boards survive
|
||
daemon restarts.
|
||
- Windows spawn branch lifted from browse (V1 daemon is macOS + Linux;
|
||
Windows users fall back to legacy `--no-daemon` per-process server).
|
||
- `$D board list` / `$D board stop <id>` per-board ops CLI (V1 has only
|
||
`$D daemon status` / `stop`).
|
||
- Cross-worktree daemon attach (conductor sibling worktrees of the same
|
||
repo currently each spawn their own daemon — matches browse; revisit
|
||
if it causes friction).
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
## Codex model profiles: follow-ups (filed v1.67.2.0 via /ship review army)
|
||
|
||
### P2: Single owner for the Codex render model (persist the resolved profile)
|
||
|
||
**What:** `./setup` resolves the Codex generation model from config.toml on every
|
||
run, but every OTHER regeneration surface (`bun run build`, direct
|
||
`gen:skill-docs --host codex`, the free suite's tree-mutating shard) renders the
|
||
host default (gpt), silently reverting a Sol user's live symlinked render until
|
||
the next setup. Persist the resolved model (gstack-config key or marker file the
|
||
generator reads when `--model` is absent for codex) so all surfaces agree.
|
||
**Why:** A Sol-using contributor cannot keep both a correct install and a green
|
||
free suite in one tree; CLAUDE.md's "Deploying to the active skill" flow
|
||
(bun run build) downgrades the profile. Cross-model consensus finding
|
||
(Claude adversarial M4, Codex adversarial P2, red team C-70).
|
||
**Priority:** P2. **Effort:** S (human ~half day / CC ~20min).
|
||
|
||
### P3: Codex periodic CI shards never execute (no codex CLI in Dockerfile.ci)
|
||
|
||
**What:** `evals-periodic.yml` carries `e2e-codex`, and now `e2e-codex-sol-scope`,
|
||
but the CI image installs only claude-code, so both shards boot, skip everything,
|
||
and report green weekly. Either bake `@openai/codex` + an auth strategy into the
|
||
image, or prune both matrix entries and document codex evals as local-only.
|
||
**Why:** A green all-skip shard reads as coverage that does not exist.
|
||
**Priority:** P3. **Effort:** M (auth strategy is the hard part).
|
||
|
||
### P3: `--model` override persistence across upgrades
|
||
|
||
**What:** `./setup --host codex --model <id>` applies to that run only; the
|
||
upgrade flow re-resolves from config.toml. Setup now prints the persistence
|
||
hint (set `model` in config.toml). If users keep tripping on it, persist the
|
||
override in `~/.gstack/config.yaml` and read it between `--explicit` and the
|
||
TOML lookup.
|
||
**Why:** Explicit user choices should survive upgrades or say loudly that they
|
||
will not (the hint covers the second half today).
|
||
**Priority:** P3. **Effort:** S.
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
## browse server: terminal-agent teardown follow-ups (filed v1.41 via /plan-eng-review)
|
||
|
||
### ✅ DONE (v1.44.0.0): Identity-based terminal-agent kill (replace pkill regex with PID)
|
||
|
||
**Resolved:** Bundled into the v1.44.0.0 long-lived-sidebar PR as Commit 0.
|
||
`browse/src/terminal-agent-control.ts` is the new home for `readAgentRecord`,
|
||
`writeAgentRecord`, `clearAgentRecord`, and `killAgentByRecord`. The agent
|
||
writes `<stateDir>/terminal-agent-pid` (JSON `{pid, gen, startedAt}`) at boot
|
||
and clears it on SIGTERM/SIGINT. `cli.ts` and `server.ts` both route through
|
||
`killAgentByRecord` instead of `pkill -f terminal-agent\.ts`. The new
|
||
`browse/test/terminal-agent-pid-identity.test.ts` is the static-grep tripwire
|
||
that fails CI if `pkill ... terminal-agent` or `spawnSync('pkill', ...)`
|
||
reappears in any source file.
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
### P3: shutdown() reads module-level `config`, not `cfg.config` (composition gap)
|
||
|
||
**What:** `browse/src/server.ts:shutdown()` reads `path.dirname(config.stateFile)`
|
||
where `config` is the module-level value resolved at import time, not the
|
||
`cfg.config` passed into `buildFetchHandler`. Same gap applies to
|
||
`cleanSingletonLocks(resolveChromiumProfile())` at server.ts:1298 — should
|
||
read `cfg.chromiumProfile`.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Embedders today happen to share state-dir resolution with the CLI
|
||
(both go through `resolveConfig()` against the same env), so this doesn't
|
||
bite. But if an embedder ever passes a divergent `cfg.config` (e.g., a test
|
||
harness pointing at a temp dir), shutdown will operate on the wrong paths.
|
||
The `ownsTerminalAgent` flag exposes the problem without fixing it.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Closes the embedder-composition story properly. Pairs with
|
||
`cfg.chromiumProfile` to give a single coherent "this factory teardown
|
||
respects cfg" contract.
|
||
|
||
**Cons:** Pre-existing — not a regression. Two call sites today (1285 for
|
||
terminal files, 1298 for chromium locks). Threading `cfg.config` and
|
||
`cfg.chromiumProfile` into the right closures is straightforward but
|
||
broader than the v1.41 fix.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Flagged by both Codex and Claude subagent in the /plan-eng-review
|
||
dual voices. Documented as out-of-scope in the v1.41 plan; same shape as the
|
||
`chromiumProfile` PR-body note to the gbrowser team.
|
||
|
||
**Depends on:** None.
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
### P3: Ownership-object refactor if a 4th caller-owned teardown gate appears
|
||
|
||
**What:** Today `ServerConfig` has three caller-owned teardown gates:
|
||
`xvfb?` (presence ⇒ don't close), `proxyBridge?` (same), and now
|
||
`ownsTerminalAgent` (explicit boolean). If a 4th gate appears, collapse to
|
||
`cfg.callerOwns?: Set<'terminalAgent' | 'xvfb' | 'proxyBridge' | ...>` or
|
||
similar.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Three independent flags is below the refactor threshold — each
|
||
field has clear, distinct semantics and the JSDoc voice is consistent. A
|
||
fourth tips the cost balance: the per-field surface gets noisy, and
|
||
"what does this factory own?" becomes a question you have to ask of three
|
||
or four scattered fields instead of one explicit set.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Single source of truth for "what gstack tears down". Trivial
|
||
extension surface for future caller-owned resources. Easier to assert in
|
||
tests ("the set should contain X, not Y").
|
||
|
||
**Cons:** Premature today. The polarity-inversion note in the
|
||
`ownsTerminalAgent` JSDoc only hurts a little — it's one anomaly, not a
|
||
pattern. Refactoring now to an ownership object would touch every embedder.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Recommended by Claude subagent during /plan-ceo-review dual
|
||
voice (autoplan). Trigger: a 4th caller-owned teardown gate in this same
|
||
`ServerConfig` shape.
|
||
|
||
**Depends on:** A 4th gate to motivate the refactor.
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
## /sync-gbrain memory stage perf follow-up
|
||
|
||
### P2: Investigate `gbrain import` perf on large staging dirs
|
||
|
||
**What:** Cold-run time on a 5131-file staging dir is >10 min in `gbrain import`
|
||
alone (after gstack's prepare phase, which is now <10s after dropping per-file
|
||
gitleaks). On 501 files it took 10s. The scaling is worse than linear and the
|
||
bottleneck is inside gbrain, not the gstack orchestrator.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** With memory-ingest's prepare phase now fast, the remaining cold-run cost
|
||
is entirely on the gbrain side. Users with large corpora (5K+ files) currently pay
|
||
~15-30 min on first ingest. Likely culprits in `~/git/gbrain/src/core/import-file.ts`:
|
||
|
||
- N+1 SQL queries: `engine.getPage(slug)` for each file's content_hash check
|
||
(line 242 + 478) — should be batched into a single query
|
||
- Per-page auto-link reconciliation that fires even for unchanged content
|
||
- FTS / vector index updates without batching transactions
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Lives in gbrain (cleaner separation). Fix in gbrain benefits other
|
||
gbrain callers too (`gbrain sync`, MCP `put_page` workflows). Likely 10-50x
|
||
speedup from batched queries alone.
|
||
|
||
**Cons:** Cross-repo change, requires gbrain test coverage for the new batched
|
||
path. Not on the gstack critical path; gstack's architecture is already correct.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Verified on real corpus 2026-05-10. gstack-side prepare with
|
||
`--scan-secrets` off runs in <10s. The full gbrain import on the same staged
|
||
dir consumes 100% CPU for >10 min. Both observations from
|
||
`bin/gstack-memory-ingest.ts:ingestPass` reaching the `runGbrainImport` call
|
||
quickly, then the child process taking the bulk of the wall time.
|
||
|
||
**Depends on:** None — gstack's batch-ingest architecture (D1-D8 in
|
||
`docs/designs/SYNC_GBRAIN_BATCH_INGEST.md`) is already shipped and correct.
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
### P3: Cache "no changes since last import" at the prepare-batch level
|
||
|
||
**What:** Even with the prepare phase fast (<10s for 5135 files), walking and
|
||
mtime-stat'ing every file on a true no-op run adds a few seconds and creates
|
||
spurious staging dirs. Cache the most-recent-source-mtime per-source in the
|
||
state file; if no source dir has a newer mtime, skip the walk + stage + import
|
||
entirely.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Most `/sync-gbrain` invocations have nothing new to ingest. The
|
||
fastest path is "do nothing, fast." `gbrain doctor` should still report state,
|
||
but the actual ingest pipeline can short-circuit when last_full_walk is recent
|
||
and no source-tree mtime has moved.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Trivial implementation (~20 lines in `ingestPass`). Makes the
|
||
incremental fast-path actually live up to "<30s" in the original plan.
|
||
|
||
**Cons:** Adds a cache invalidation surface. If a user edits a file but its
|
||
parent dir's mtime doesn't update (rare on macOS APFS), changes get missed.
|
||
Mitigation: only short-circuit when last_full_walk is recent (e.g. <1 min ago).
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Filed during 2026-05-10 perf testing after `--scan-secrets` was
|
||
made opt-in. Lower priority than the gbrain-side perf issue above.
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
## Browser-skills follow-on (Phases 2-4)
|
||
|
||
### P1: Browser-skills Phase 2 — `/scrape` and `/skillify` skill templates
|
||
|
||
**What:** Phase 2a of the browser-skills design (`docs/designs/BROWSER_SKILLS_V1.md`). Two new gstack skills: `/scrape <intent>` (read-only) is the single entry point for pulling page data — first call prototypes via `$B` primitives, subsequent calls on a matching intent route to a codified browser-skill in ~200ms. `/skillify` codifies the most recent successful prototype into a permanent browser-skill on disk: synthesizes `script.ts` + `script.test.ts` + fixture from the agent's own context (final-attempt $B calls only), runs the test in a temp dir, asks before committing, atomic rename to `~/.gstack/browser-skills/<name>/`. The mutating-flow sibling `/automate` is split out as its own P0 (below) — same skillify pattern, different trust profile.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Phase 1 shipped the runtime — humans can hand-write deterministic browser scripts that gstack runs. Phase 2a unlocks the productivity gain: an agent that gets a flow right once via 20+ `$B` commands says `/skillify` and the script becomes a 200ms call forever after. Same skillify pattern Garry's articles describe, applied to the read-only browser activity (scraping) most amenable to deterministic compression. Mutating actions ship next as `/automate` because the failure mode (unintended writes) needs stronger gates.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** The 100x productivity gain lives here. Closes the loop: agents prototype, codify, then reach for the codified skill in future sessions instead of re-exploring. Replaces the original "self-authoring `$B` commands" P1 — same user-visible goal, no in-daemon isolation problem (skill scripts run as standalone Bun processes, never imported into the daemon). Synthesis question (Codex finding #6) is resolved by re-prompting from the agent's own conversation context (option b in the design doc), bounded to final-attempt `$B` calls per `/plan-eng-review` D2.
|
||
|
||
**Cons:** **Bun runtime distribution** (Codex finding #7). Phase 1 sidesteps this because the bundled reference skill ships inside the gstack install. User-authored skills land on machines without Bun unless we ship a runtime alongside, compile to a self-contained binary, or use Node + the existing `cli.ts` pattern. Deferred to Phase 4 — `/skillify` documents the assumption that gstack is installed (which means Bun is on PATH).
|
||
|
||
**Context:** The Phase 1 architecture (3-tier lookup, scoped tokens, sibling SDK, frontmatter contract) is locked and exercised by the bundled `hackernews-frontpage` reference skill. Phase 2a plugs `/scrape` and `/skillify` into that runtime via two skill templates plus one new helper (`browse/src/browser-skill-write.ts` for atomic temp-dir-then-rename per `/plan-eng-review` D3) — no new storage primitives.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M (human: ~1 week / CC: ~1 day)
|
||
**Priority:** P1 (this branch — `garrytan/browserharness` shipping as v1.19.0.0)
|
||
**Depends on:** Phase 1 shipped (this branch).
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
### P2: Browser-skills Phase 3 — resolver injection at session start
|
||
|
||
**What:** Mirror the domain-skill resolver at `browse/src/server.ts:722-743`. When a sidebar-agent session starts on a host with matching browser-skills, inject a list block telling the agent which skills exist for that host and how to invoke them (`$B skill run <name> --arg ...`). UNTRUSTED-wrapped via the existing L1-L6 security stack. Add `gstack-config browser_skillify_prompts` knob (default `off`) controlling end-of-task nudges in `/qa`, `/design-review`, etc. when activity feed shows ≥N commands on a single host AND no skill exists yet for that host+intent.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Without the resolver, browser-skills only work when the user explicitly types `$B skill run <name>`. With the resolver, agents auto-discover existing skills for the current host and reach for them instead of re-exploring. Same compounding pattern as domain-skills.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Closes the discoverability gap. Agents that wouldn't know a skill exists now see it in their system prompt automatically. End-of-task nudges (opt-in via knob) catch the moments where skillify is most valuable.
|
||
|
||
**Cons:** The resolver block lives in the system prompt and competes with other resolver blocks for prompt budget. Need to gate carefully so it doesn't fire on every host with a skill — only when the skill is plausibly relevant to the current task. v1.8.0.0 domain-skills handles this by only firing for the active tab's hostname; same pattern here.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S (human: ~3 days / CC: ~4 hours)
|
||
**Priority:** P2
|
||
**Depends on:** Phase 2.
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
### P2: Browser-skills Phase 4 — eval infrastructure + fixture staleness + OS sandbox
|
||
|
||
**What:** Three loosely-coupled extensions: (a) LLM-judge eval ("did the agent reach for the skill instead of re-exploring?"), classified `periodic` per `test/helpers/touchfiles.ts`. (b) Fixture-staleness detection — periodic comparison of bundled fixtures against live pages, flagging mismatches before they break tests silently. (c) OS-level FS sandbox for untrusted spawns: `sandbox-exec` profile on macOS, namespaces / seccomp on Linux. Drops in cleanly behind the existing trusted/untrusted contract (Phase 1 just stripped env; Phase 4 adds real FS isolation).
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Phase 1's trust model has the daemon-side capability boundary right (scoped tokens) but the process-side env scrub is hygiene, not a sandbox (Codex finding #1). For genuinely untrusted skills (Phase 2 agent-authored), real FS isolation matters. Eval + fixture staleness keep the skill quality bar honest as flows drift.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Closes the last credible attack surface from Codex finding #1 (FS read of `~/.ssh/id_rsa` etc.). Eval data tells us whether the resolver injection is actually working. Fixture staleness catches HTML drift before users.
|
||
|
||
**Cons:** Three different concerns, three different design passes. Tempting to bundle. Resist: each can ship independently. OS sandbox is the hardest piece (macOS `sandbox-exec` is Apple-private but stable; Linux requires namespaces + bind mounts).
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** L (human: ~2-3 weeks / CC: ~3-5 days)
|
||
**Priority:** P2
|
||
**Depends on:** Phase 2 (need agent-authored skills to motivate sandbox); Phase 3 (eval needs resolver injection).
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
### P2: Migrate `/learn` to SQLite
|
||
|
||
**What:** The current `~/.gstack/projects/<slug>/learnings.jsonl` storage works (append-only, tolerant parser, idle compactor) but Codex outside-voice (T5) flagged JSONL as "the wrong primitive" for multi-writer canonical state: lost-update on rewrite, partial-line corruption on crash, no transactions. v1.8.0.0 hardened JSONL with flock + O_APPEND but the right long-term primitive is SQLite (which Bun has built in via `bun:sqlite`).
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Domain skills now live in the same `learnings.jsonl` (per CEO D1 unification). As volume grows, the JSONL hardening compactor + tolerant parser approach becomes the long pole. SQLite gives atomic transactions, indexes (huge for hostname lookup), and crash-safety without a custom compactor.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Atomic writes. Real schema. Fast indexed lookups by hostname/key/type. Crash-safe.
|
||
|
||
**Cons:** Migration touches every consumer of `learnings.jsonl` — `/learn` scripts (`gstack-learnings-log`, `gstack-learnings-search`), domain-skills.ts read/write, gbrain-sync (which currently treats it as a flat file). Old `learnings.jsonl` files in the wild need a one-shot migration script.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** The JSONL hardening in v1.8.0.0 was the right call for that release scope (preserve unification, not boil-the-ocean). But the failure modes are bounded, not eliminated. SQLite is the boil-the-ocean fix.
|
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**Effort:** M (human: ~1 week / CC: ~1 day)
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**Priority:** P2
|
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**Depends on:** v1.8.0.0 in production for ~1 month to measure JSONL pain (compactor frequency, partial-line drops, write contention).
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---
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### P2: Remove plan-mode handshake from `/plan-devex-review` SKILL.md.tmpl
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||
|
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**What:** `/plan-devex-review` has a "Plan Mode Handshake" section at the top that contradicts the preamble's "Skill Invocation During Plan Mode" contract (which says AskUserQuestion satisfies plan mode's end-of-turn requirement). The handshake forces an extra exit-plan-mode step that no other interactive review skill needs. `/plan-ceo-review`, `/plan-eng-review`, `/plan-design-review` all run fine in plan mode without it.
|
||
|
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**Why:** Found during the v1.8.0.0 DevEx review. The inconsistency cost a turn and confused the flow. Either remove the handshake from `plan-devex-review` (clean fix, recommended) OR add it to every interactive skill for consistency.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Fixes a real DX bug for anyone running `/plan-devex-review` in plan mode. Five-minute change.
|
||
|
||
**Cons:** Need to think about WHY it was added in the first place — there may be context this TODO is missing.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** The handshake section in `plan-devex-review/SKILL.md.tmpl` says it's needed because plan mode's "this supersedes any other instructions" warning could otherwise bypass the skill's per-finding STOP gates. But the same warning exists for the other review skills, and they all work fine because AskUserQuestion satisfies the end-of-turn contract.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S (human: ~15 min / CC: ~5 min)
|
||
**Priority:** P2
|
||
**Depends on:** Nothing.
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
### P2: Bump gbrain install-pin in lockstep with gstack memory-feature releases (#1305 part 2)
|
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|
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**What:** `bin/gstack-gbrain-install` pins gbrain to commit `08b3698` (v0.18.2). When gstack ships features that depend on newer gbrain ops or schema (e.g. v1.26.0 manifests + `code-def`/`code-refs`/`reindex-code`), the pin doesn't move with it. Fresh `/setup-gbrain` installs an old gbrain that fails `gbrain doctor` schema_version checks (24 vs latest 32+) until the user manually upgrades.
|
||
|
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**Why:** Filed in #1305 alongside the `put_page` CLI bug. Out of scope for the v1.26.5.0 fix wave (separate release-coordination concern: which gbrain version we install vs. how we call it). The install-pin should either (a) auto-bump whenever gstack releases features that need newer gbrain, or (b) detect a stale pin during preamble and either auto-upgrade gbrain or print a one-line FIX hint.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Closes the "fresh-install paper-cut" path. New users land on a healthy schema. Reduces support noise on `/setup-gbrain` flows. Makes the gstack/gbrain release contract visible.
|
||
|
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**Cons:** Adds release-cadence coupling between gstack and gbrain. Needs a policy: pin = "minimum version that still works" vs "latest known good." If gbrain ships a breaking change to `put` shape and gstack doesn't update the pin, fresh installs break in a new way.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Issue #1305 part 1 (the `put_page` CLI verb bug) was handled in v1.26.5.0. Part 2 (this TODO) is the install-pin staleness. Pin lives in `bin/gstack-gbrain-install` near the top as a constant. Easiest minimal fix: ship the pin as a tracked release artifact (e.g. write it from `package.json` at build time) and add a doctor-style preamble check.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S (human: ~2 days / CC: ~3 hours)
|
||
**Priority:** P2
|
||
**Depends on:** Nothing.
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
### P3: Source-id host-collision risk in `deriveCodeSourceId` (cross-host duplicate org/repo)
|
||
|
||
**What:** v1.26.5.0's `deriveCodeSourceId` drops the host segment to fit gbrain's 32-char source-id budget. This means `github.com/acme/foo` and `gitlab.com/acme/foo` collapse to the same `gstack-code-acme-foo`. `ensureSourceRegisteredSync()` in `bin/gstack-gbrain-sync.ts:323` will silently re-register the source when `local_path` differs, evicting one side.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Vanishingly rare in practice — same `<org>/<repo>` shape across both github.com and gitlab.com on the same machine almost never happens. But the failure mode is silent (one repo evicts the other in the brain), and the user has no signal anything is wrong.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Closes the silent-eviction edge. Two viable approaches: short host marker (`gh-` / `gl-` / `bb-`) eats 3 chars but keeps cross-host uniqueness; OR include a 3-char hash of the host alongside the org-repo.
|
||
|
||
**Cons:** Source IDs change shape again — anyone with existing registrations on v1.26.5.0 gets a one-time re-register. Net break-even because the current scheme also changed from v1.26.4.0.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Filed in #1320 / #1322 / #1323 / #1331 (the underlying source-id validation bugs), addressed in v1.26.5.0 by dropping host segment + hash-truncating. Cross-host collision was a known accepted tradeoff in PR #1330's design ("vanishingly rare in practice"). Codex outside-voice plan review surfaced it as a long-tail concern; this TODO captures it for a future bump.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** XS (human: ~4 hours / CC: ~30 min)
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
**Depends on:** Nothing.
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
### P3: GBrain skillpack publishing for domain skills
|
||
|
||
**What:** Domain skills are agent-authored notes per hostname. Right now they're per-machine or per-agent-repo. The natural compounding extension: publish curated skill packs to GBrain (`gstack-brain-sync`) so others can subscribe. "Louise's LinkedIn skills" or "Garry's GitHub skills" become packs anyone can pull.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** v1.8.0.0 gets us per-machine compounding. Cross-user compounding is the network effect — every user contributes, every user benefits.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Massive compounding potential. Hard part is trust/moderation (existing problem GBrain-sync has thought through).
|
||
|
||
**Cons:** Publishing infra, signature/redaction model, moderation when packs go bad. Real plan needed.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** GBrain-sync infra (v1.7.0.0) already does private cross-machine sync for the user's own data. Skillpack publishing is the public/shared layer on top of that.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M (human: ~1 week / CC: ~1 day)
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
**Depends on:** GBrain-sync stable in production. Some user demand signal first.
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
### P3: Replay/record demonstrated flows to domain-skills
|
||
|
||
**What:** Watch a human drive a site once (record DOM events + screenshots + nav), generalize to a domain-skill. "Teach by showing." Different research dream than v1.8.0.0's per-site notes.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** The highest-quality skill content is one a human demonstrated, not one the agent figured out from scratch. Pairs with skillpack publishing — recorded flows are the most valuable packs.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Skill quality jumps. Some sites are too complex for an agent to figure out alone (multi-step OAuth, captcha-gated forms).
|
||
|
||
**Cons:** Record fidelity vs. selector stability over time. DOM changes break recordings. Real research needed.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Browser-use has experimented with this. Playwright has a recorder. Codeception/Cypress recorders exist. None of them do the "generalize the recording into a markdown note" step.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** L (human: ~2-3 weeks / CC: ~2-3 days)
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
**Depends on:** Probably its own `/office-hours` session before committing eng time.
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
### P3: `$B commands review` batch-mode UX
|
||
|
||
**What:** Originally an alternative for the inline-on-first-use approval gate (DevEx D6 alternative C). Instead of approving each agent-authored command at first invocation, batch them: agent scaffolds many, human reviews `$B commands review` at a convenient time, approves/rejects in one pass.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** If self-authoring commands ever ships (the P1 above), the inline approval at first-use can interrupt the agent mid-task. Batch review is friendlier for the human.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Reduces interrupt frequency. Lets humans review with full context.
|
||
|
||
**Cons:** Defers approval — agent can't use the new command until the human comes back. If the agent needs the command immediately, this is worse than inline.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Tied to the P1 above. Won't ship before that does.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S (human: ~half day / CC: ~30 min)
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
**Depends on:** P1 self-authoring `$B` commands.
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
### P3: Heuristic command-gap watcher
|
||
|
||
**What:** Sidebar-agent watches the activity feed; when an agent repeats a similar action 3+ times (e.g., calls `$B js` with structurally similar arguments), suggest scaffolding a command. From DevEx D4 alternative C.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Closes the discoverability loop on self-authoring commands. Agent is most likely to write a command when it just hit the same friction multiple times.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Surgical. Fires only when a command would have demonstrably helped. Uses real telemetry, not heuristics.
|
||
|
||
**Cons:** False positives (legitimate repeated actions) feel intrusive. Hard to design without telemetry first.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Telemetry from v1.8.0.0 (`cdp_method_called`, `cdp_method_denied` counters) gives us the data to design this well. Don't design until we have ~1 month of production data.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M (human: ~1 week / CC: ~1 day)
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
**Depends on:** v1.8.0.0 telemetry in production. P1 self-authoring commands.
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
## Sidebar Terminal (cc-pty-import follow-ups)
|
||
|
||
### v1.1: PTY session survives sidebar reload
|
||
|
||
**What:** Today the Terminal tab's PTY dies with the WebSocket — sidebar
|
||
reload, side-panel close, even a quick navigate-away in another tab close
|
||
the session. v1.1 should key the PTY on a tab/session id so a reload
|
||
reattaches to the existing claude process and you keep `/resume` history.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Mid-task resilience. When you've been pair-programming with claude
|
||
for 20 minutes and an accidental Cmd-R blows it away, the cost is real.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Better UX, fewer interrupted sessions. **Cons:** Session-tracking
|
||
state, ghost-process risk, lifecycle bugs (when DOES the PTY actually go
|
||
away?). v1 chose the simple "PTY dies with WS" model deliberately.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** /plan-eng-review Issue 1C decision (cc-pty-import branch,
|
||
2026-04-25). v1 ships with phoenix's lifecycle. **Depends on:**
|
||
cc-pty-import landed.
|
||
|
||
**Priority:** P2 (nice-to-have).
|
||
**Effort:** M. Likely needs a per-tab session map keyed by chrome.tabs.id
|
||
plus a TTL so abandoned PTYs eventually exit.
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
## Testing
|
||
|
||
## P2: Per-finding AskUserQuestion count assertion for /plan-ceo-review
|
||
|
||
**What:** PTY E2E test that drives /plan-ceo-review through Step 0 with a stable fixture diff containing N known findings, asserts that exactly N distinct AskUserQuestions fire (one per finding) before plan_ready.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** The skill template repeats "One issue = one AskUserQuestion call. Never combine multiple issues into one question." at every review checkpoint. No test enforces it. The current `skill-e2e-plan-ceo-plan-mode.test.ts` smoke (post-v1.21.1.0) only catches "agent skipped Step 0 entirely." Batching findings into one question slips through silently.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Locks in the strongest contract the skill mandates. Catches a real failure mode (the original attachment showed 2 findings batched as 0 questions).
|
||
**Cons:** Needs a stable fixture diff to keep finding count deterministic (~1 day human / ~30 min CC). Opus may reasonably consolidate two related findings, so the assertion needs a forgiving lower bound (e.g., `>= ceil(N * 0.6)`) rather than strict equality.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** The PTY harness (`runPlanSkillObservation`) returns at first terminal outcome — for V2 we need a streaming variant that counts AskUserQuestions across the whole session up to `plan_ready`. Probably a new helper alongside `runPlanSkillObservation`.
|
||
|
||
**Depends on:** Stable fixture diff (`test/fixtures/plans/multi-finding.diff` or similar) with a small known set of issues that triggers all 4 review sections.
|
||
|
||
**Priority:** P2.
|
||
**Effort:** S (CC: ~30 min once fixture exists). Captured from v1.21.1.0 plan-eng-review D2.
|
||
|
||
**Status (2026-09):** The four `skill-e2e-plan-*-finding-count` evals were retired
|
||
after eight red weekly runs whose failures were harness and budget, not skill
|
||
behavior. The `*-finding-floor` evals assert at least one AskUserQuestion, not one
|
||
per finding, so this contract has no paid coverage today. Re-entry test: a
|
||
qid-keyed per-finding count on a multi-finding fixture with `QUESTION_TUNING: true`
|
||
(the `<gstack-qid:…>` markers only appear with tuning on).
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
## P3: Honor env vars in gstack-config (so QUESTION_TUNING/EXPLAIN_LEVEL actually isolate tests)
|
||
|
||
**What:** `gstack-config get <key>` reads `~/.gstack/config.yaml`. `runPlanSkillObservation` plumbs `env: { QUESTION_TUNING: 'false', EXPLAIN_LEVEL: 'default' }` through to the spawned `claude` process — but the skill preamble bash uses `gstack-config get question_tuning`, which never looks at env. The env passthrough is theater on current code.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Without env honoring, the v1.21.1.0 plan-ceo-review smoke is still flaky on machines with `question_tuning: true` set in YAML. AUTO_DECIDE preferences would skip the rendered AskUserQuestion list, masking the regression we want to catch.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Makes the gate test hermetic across machines. The env wiring is already in place — only `gstack-config` needs to read env first, fall back to YAML.
|
||
**Cons:** Touches the gstack-config binary across all 3 platforms (linux/darwin/windows). Cross-binary refactor.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Captured from v1.21.1.0 adversarial review. Documented honestly in the test docstring as a known limitation.
|
||
|
||
**Priority:** P3.
|
||
**Effort:** S. Single-file edit to `bin/gstack-config` (~10 LOC for env-first lookup).
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
## P3: Path-confusion hardening on SANCTIONED_WRITE_SUBSTRINGS
|
||
|
||
**What:** `runPlanSkillObservation`'s silent-write detector uses substring matching on a few sanctioned paths (`.gstack/`, `CHANGELOG.md`, `TODOS.md`, etc). A write to `node_modules/some-pkg/CHANGELOG.md` or `src/foo/.gstack/leak.ts` is currently sanctioned because the substring matches anywhere in the path.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Defensive — no current bug exploits this, but a malicious skill or fixture could write to a path that happens to contain `.gstack/` or `CHANGELOG.md` and slip past silent-write detection.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Hardens the harness against future skill misbehavior. Aligns substring rules with their intent.
|
||
**Cons:** Need to anchor against absolute prefixes (`os.homedir() + '/.gstack/'`, worktree root) which makes the test less portable across machines.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Captured from v1.21.1.0 adversarial review (HIGH/FIXABLE finding, pre-existing). Refactored into a `SANCTIONED_WRITE_SUBSTRINGS` constant in v1.21.1.0 but the substring-includes logic is unchanged from before.
|
||
|
||
**Priority:** P3.
|
||
**Effort:** S.
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
## P1: Structural STOP-Ask forcing function across all skills
|
||
|
||
**What:** Design and implement a structural forcing function that catches when a skill mandates per-issue AskUserQuestion but the model silently substitutes batch-synthesis. Candidate mechanisms: question-count assertion (skill declares expected question count in frontmatter; post-run audit logs if model fired <N), typed question templates (skill hands the model pre-built AskUserQuestion payloads rather than prose instructions), or a canUseTool-based post-run audit that compares declared-gates-fired vs expected.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** The authoritative "Skill Invocation During Plan Mode" rule (hoisted to preamble position 1) tells the model AskUserQuestion satisfies plan mode's end-of-turn requirement. That fixes plan-mode entry, but NOT the broader class of failures: the model silently substitutes batch-synthesis for STOP-Ask loops whenever the skill's interactive contract collides with any other rule surface (auto mode, tool-count anxiety, cognitive load). Without structural enforcement, every skill with STOP-per-issue contracts remains vulnerable.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Catches a class-of-bug, not an instance. Applies to every skill that declares STOP gates. Builds on `canUseTool` primitive in `test/helpers/agent-sdk-runner.ts`.
|
||
|
||
**Cons:** Real design work. How does a skill declare expected question count — static value in frontmatter, or dynamic based on number of review sections that surface findings? Is the audit inline (blocking, same-turn) or post-hoc (after skill completion)? Calibration of expected-vs-actual thresholds depends on real V0 question-log data across skills.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Relevant files — `scripts/question-registry.ts` (typed question catalog), `scripts/resolvers/question-tuning.ts` (preference classification), `bin/gstack-question-log` (event log), `bin/gstack-question-preference` (read/write preferences), `test/helpers/agent-sdk-runner.ts` (canUseTool harness). Existing question-log already captures fire events; the gap is declaring expected counts and auditing against them.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** L (human: ~1-2 weeks / CC+gstack: ~2-3 hours for design doc + first-pass implementation).
|
||
**Priority:** P1 if interactive-skill volume is growing; P2 otherwise.
|
||
**Depends on / blocked by:** design doc — likely its own `docs/designs/STOP_ASK_ENFORCEMENT_V0.md`.
|
||
## Context skills
|
||
|
||
### `/context-save --lane` + `/context-restore --lane` for parallel workstreams
|
||
|
||
**What:** Let users save and restore per-workstream (lane) context independently. On save: `/context-save --lane A "backend refactor"` writes a lane-tagged file. Or `/context-save lanes` reads the "Parallelization Strategy" section of the most recent plan file and auto-generates one saved context per lane. On restore: `/context-restore --lane A` loads just that lane's context. Useful when a plan has 3 independent workstreams and the user wants to pick one up in each of 3 Conductor windows.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Plans produced by `/plan-eng-review` already emit a lane table (Lane A: touches `models/` and `controllers/` sequentially; Lane B: touches `api/` independently; etc.). Right now there's no way to transfer that structure into resumable saved state. Users manually re-describe the scope in each window. Lane-tagged save/restore would be the bridge between "here's the plan" and "three people (or three AIs) are now working in parallel on it."
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Turns `/plan-eng-review`'s parallelization output into actionable resume state. Reduces context-loss across Conductor workspace handoffs for multi-workstream plans.
|
||
|
||
**Cons:** Net-new functionality (not a port from the old `/checkpoint` skill). The "spawn new Conductor windows" part needs research into whether Conductor has a spawn CLI. Also requires lane-tagging discipline in the save step (manual or extracted).
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Source of the lane data model is `plan-eng-review/SKILL.md.tmpl:240-249` (the "Parallelization Strategy" output with Lane A/B/C dependency tables and conflict flags). Deferred from the v0.18.5.0 rename PR so the rename could land as a tight, low-risk fix. Saved files currently live at `~/.gstack/projects/$SLUG/checkpoints/YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS-<title>.md` with YAML frontmatter (branch, timestamp, etc.). The lane feature would add a `lane:` field to frontmatter and a `--lane` filter to both skills.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M (human: ~1-2 days / CC: ~45-60 min)
|
||
**Priority:** P3 (nice-to-have, not blocking anyone yet)
|
||
**Depends on:** `/context-save` + `/context-restore` rename stable in production (v1.0.1.0+). Research: does Conductor expose a spawn-workspace CLI?
|
||
|
||
## P0: Browser-skills Phase 2 follow-up — `/automate` skill
|
||
|
||
**What:** The mutating-flow sibling of `/scrape` (Phase 2b). `/automate <intent>` codifies form fills, click sequences, and multi-step interactions into permanent browser-skills. Reuses Phase 2a's skillify machinery (`/skillify` is shared) and the D3 atomic-write helper. Adds: per-mutating-step UNTRUSTED-wrapped summary + `AskUserQuestion` confirmation gate when running non-codified (codified skills run unattended after the initial human approval). Defaults to `trusted: false` per Phase 1 — env-scrubbed spawn, scoped-token capability, no admin scope.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Read-only scraping is the safer wedge to validate the skillify pattern (failure mode: wrong data = benign). Mutating actions are the other half of the 100x productivity gain — agents that codify "log into example.com → click Settings → toggle X" save real time on every future session. Splitting from Phase 2a means we ship the productivity loop first, validate the architecture, then add the higher-trust surface with confidence.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Unlocks deterministic automation authoring without self-authoring safety concerns — Phase 1's scoped-token model applies equally to mutating skills. The codified script enumerates exactly which `$B click`/`$B fill`/`$B type` calls run; nothing else is possible at runtime. Reuses 100% of `/skillify`, the D3 helper, and the storage tier. Per-step confirmation gate surfaces the actions to the user before they run for the first time.
|
||
|
||
**Cons:** Mutating intents have higher blast radius (the wrong selector clicks "Delete Account" instead of "Delete Comment"). Phase 4 OS-level FS sandbox is a stronger answer; until then, the user trust burden is real. Confirmation-gate UX needs care — too many prompts and users hit "yes" reflexively. Mitigation: only gate first-run; after `/skillify` codifies, the skill runs unattended.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Original Phase 2 plan in `docs/designs/BROWSER_SKILLS_V1.md` bundled `/scrape` + `/automate`. Split during the v1.19.0.0 plan review (`/plan-eng-review` on `garrytan/browserharness`) — the user's source doc framed both as primary, but in practice scraping is where users start because the failure mode is benign. Ship `/scrape` + `/skillify` first (this branch), validate the skillify pattern works, then `/automate` lands on top of the same machinery.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M (human: ~3-5 days / CC: ~1 day)
|
||
**Priority:** P0 (next branch after v1.19.0.0)
|
||
**Depends on:** Phase 2a (`/scrape` + `/skillify`) shipped at v1.19.0.0. The D3 atomic-write helper (`browse/src/browser-skill-write.ts`) and the bundled SDK pattern are reused as-is.
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
## P0: PACING_UPDATES_V0 — Louise's fatigue root cause (V1.1)
|
||
|
||
**What:** Implement the pacing overhaul extracted from PLAN_TUNING_V1. Full design in `docs/designs/PACING_UPDATES_V0.md`. Requires: session-state model, `phase` field in question-log schema, registry extension for dynamic findings, pacing as skill-template control flow (not preamble prose), `bin/gstack-flip-decision` command, migration-prompt budget rule, first-run preamble audit, ranking threshold calibration from real V0 data, one-way-door uncapped rule, concrete verification values.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Louise de Sadeleer's "yes yes yes" during `/autoplan` was pacing + agency, not (only) jargon density. V1 addresses jargon (ELI10 writing). V1.1 addresses the interruption-volume half. Without this, V1 only gets halfway to the HOLY SHIT outcome.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** End-to-end answer to Louise's feedback. Ships real calibration data from V1 usage. Completes the V0 → V2 pacing arc started in PLAN_TUNING_V0.
|
||
|
||
**Cons:** Substantial scope (10 items in `docs/designs/PACING_UPDATES_V0.md`). Needs its own CEO + Codex + DX + Eng review cycle. Calibration depends on real V0 question-log distribution.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** PLAN_TUNING_V1 attempted to bundle pacing. Three eng-review passes + two Codex passes surfaced 10 structural gaps unfixable via plan-text editing. Extracted to V1.1 as a dedicated plan.
|
||
|
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**Depends on / blocked by:** V1 shipping (provides Louise's baseline transcript for calibration).
|
||
|
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## Plan Tune (v2 deferrals from v0.19.0.0 rollback)
|
||
|
||
All six items are gated on v1 dogfood results and the acceptance criteria in
|
||
`docs/designs/PLAN_TUNING_V0.md`. They were explicitly deferred after Codex's
|
||
outside-voice review drove a scope rollback from the CEO EXPANSION plan. v1
|
||
ships the observational substrate only; v2 adds behavior adaptation.
|
||
|
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### E1 — Substrate wiring (5 skills consume profile)
|
||
|
||
**What:** Add `{{PROFILE_ADAPTATION:<skill>}}` placeholder to ship, review,
|
||
office-hours, plan-ceo-review, plan-eng-review SKILL.md.tmpl files. Implement
|
||
`scripts/resolvers/profile-consumer.ts` with a per-skill adaptation registry
|
||
(`scripts/profile-adaptations/{skill}.ts`). Each consumer reads
|
||
`~/.gstack/developer-profile.json` on preamble and adapts skill-specific
|
||
defaults (verbosity, mode selection, severity thresholds, pushback intensity).
|
||
|
||
**Why:** v1 observational profile writes a file nobody reads. The substrate
|
||
claim only becomes real when skills actually consume it. Without this, /plan-tune
|
||
is a fancy config page.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** gstack feels personal. Every skill adapts to the user's steering
|
||
style instead of defaulting to middle-of-the-road.
|
||
|
||
**Cons:** Risk of psychographic drift if profile is noisy. Requires calibrated
|
||
profile (v1 acceptance criteria: 90+ days stable across 3+ skills).
|
||
|
||
**Context:** See `docs/designs/PLAN_TUNING_V0.md` §Deferred to v2. v1 ships the
|
||
signal map + inferred computation; it's displayed in /plan-tune but no skill
|
||
reads it yet.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** L (human: ~1 week / CC: ~4h)
|
||
**Priority:** P0
|
||
**Depends on:** **90+ days of v1 dogfood stable across 3+ skills** (per
|
||
`docs/designs/PLAN_TUNING_V0.md` §"Deferred to v2" E1 acceptance criteria).
|
||
Distinct from the lighter-weight diversity-display gate
|
||
(`sample_size >= 20 AND skills_covered >= 3 AND question_ids_covered >= 8
|
||
AND days_span >= 7`) used in /plan-tune to render the inferred column —
|
||
display is a UI affordance, promotion to E1 needs a much higher bar
|
||
because behavioral adaptation is consequential and hard to revert. Prior
|
||
versions of this card cited "2+ weeks" which conflicted with V0 — V0 wins.
|
||
|
||
**Substrate risk (Codex outside-voice, Phase A review 2026-05-26):** Generated
|
||
skill prose is agent-compliance-based. Tests can verify templates contain the
|
||
right reads of `~/.gstack/developer-profile.json` and the right decision
|
||
points, but tests cannot prove agents obey them at runtime. E1 ships
|
||
adaptations as **advisory annotations on AskUserQuestion recommendations**
|
||
("Recommended via your profile: <choice>") until there's a hard runtime
|
||
execution path. Do NOT gate any AUTO_DECIDE on inferred profile alone in v1
|
||
of E1; explicit per-question preferences remain the only AUTO_DECIDE
|
||
source.
|
||
|
||
### E3 — `/plan-tune narrative` + `/plan-tune vibe`
|
||
|
||
**What:** Event-anchored narrative ("You accepted 7 scope expansions, overrode
|
||
test_failure_triage 4 times, called every PR 'boil the lake'") + one-word vibe
|
||
archetype (Cathedral Builder, Ship-It Pragmatist, Deep Craft, etc).
|
||
scripts/archetypes.ts is ALREADY SHIPPED in v1 (8 archetypes + Polymath
|
||
fallback). v2 work is the narrative generator + /plan-tune skill wiring.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Makes profile tangible and shareable. Screenshot-able.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Killer delight feature. Social surface for gstack. Concrete, specific
|
||
output anchored in real events (not generic AI slop).
|
||
|
||
**Cons:** Requires stable inferred profile — without calibration it produces
|
||
generic paragraphs. Gen-tests need to validate no-slop.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Archetypes already defined. Just need the /plan-tune narrative
|
||
subcommand + slop-check test.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S+ (human: ~1 day / CC: ~1h)
|
||
**Priority:** P0
|
||
**Depends on:** Calibrated profile (>= 20 events, 3+ skills, 7+ days span).
|
||
|
||
### E4 — Blind-spot coach
|
||
|
||
**What:** Preamble injection that surfaces the OPPOSITE of the user's profile
|
||
once per session per tier >= 2 skill. Boil-the-ocean user gets challenged on
|
||
scope ("what's the 80% version?"); small-scope user gets challenged on ambition.
|
||
`scripts/resolvers/blind-spot-coach.ts`. Marker file for session dedup. Opt-out
|
||
via `gstack-config set blind_spot_coach false`.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Makes gstack a coach (challenges you) instead of a mirror (reflects
|
||
you). The killer differentiation vs. a settings menu.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** The feature that makes gstack feel like Garry. Surfaces assumptions
|
||
the user hasn't challenged.
|
||
|
||
**Cons:** Logically conflicts with E1 (which adapts TO profile) and E6 (which
|
||
flags mismatch). Requires interaction-budget design: global session budget +
|
||
escalation rules + explicit exclusion from mismatch detection. Risk of feeling
|
||
like a nag if fires wrong.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** v2 must redesign to resolve the E1/E4/E6 composition issue Codex
|
||
caught. Dogfood required to calibrate frequency.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M (human: ~3 days / CC: ~2h design + ~1h impl)
|
||
**Priority:** P0
|
||
**Depends on:** E1 shipped + interaction-budget design spec.
|
||
|
||
### E5 — LANDED celebration HTML page
|
||
|
||
**What:** When a PR authored by the user is newly merged to the base branch,
|
||
open an animated HTML celebration page in the browser. Confetti + typewriter
|
||
headline + stats counter. Shows: what we built (PR stats + CHANGELOG entry),
|
||
road traveled (scope decisions from CEO plan), road not traveled (deferred
|
||
items), where we're going (next TODOs), who you are as a builder (vibe +
|
||
narrative + profile delta for this ship). Self-contained HTML (CSS animations
|
||
only, no JS deps).
|
||
|
||
**CRITICAL REVISION from v0 plan:** Passive detection must NOT live in the
|
||
preamble (Codex #9). When promoted, moves to explicit `/plan-tune show-landed`
|
||
OR post-ship hook — not passive detection in the hot path.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Biggest personality moment in gstack. The "one-word thing that makes
|
||
you remember why you built this."
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Screenshot-worthy. Shareable. The kind of dopamine hit that turns
|
||
power users into evangelists.
|
||
|
||
**Cons:** Product theater if the substrate isn't solid. Needs /design-shotgun
|
||
→ /design-html for the visual direction. Requires E2 unified profile for
|
||
narrative/vibe data.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** /land-and-deploy trust/adoption is low, so passive detection is
|
||
the right trigger shape. Dedup marker per PR in `~/.gstack/.landed-celebrated-*`.
|
||
E2E tests for squash/merge-commit/rebase/co-author/fresh-clone/dedup variants.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M+ (human: ~1 week / CC: ~3h total)
|
||
**Priority:** P0
|
||
**Depends on:** E3 narrative/vibe shipped. /design-shotgun run on real PR data
|
||
to pick a visual direction, then /design-html to finalize.
|
||
|
||
### E6 — Auto-adjustment based on declared ↔ inferred mismatch
|
||
|
||
**What:** Currently `/plan-tune` shows the gap between declared and inferred
|
||
(v1 observational). v2 auto-suggests declaration updates when the gap exceeds
|
||
a threshold ("Your profile says hands-off but you've overridden 40% of
|
||
recommendations — you're actually taste-driven. Update declared autonomy from
|
||
0.8 to 0.5?"). Requires explicit user confirmation before any mutation (Codex
|
||
trust-boundary #15 already baked into v1).
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Profile drifts silently without correction. Self-correcting profile
|
||
stays honest.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Profile becomes more accurate over time. User sees the gap and
|
||
decides.
|
||
|
||
**Cons:** Requires stable inferred profile (diversity check). False positives
|
||
nag the user.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** v1 has `--check-mismatch` that flags > 0.3 gaps but doesn't
|
||
suggest fixes. v2 adds the suggestion UX + per-dimension threshold tuning from
|
||
real data.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S (human: ~1 day / CC: ~45min)
|
||
**Priority:** P0
|
||
**Depends on:** Calibrated profile + real mismatch data from v1 dogfood.
|
||
|
||
### E7 — Psychographic auto-decide
|
||
|
||
**What:** When inferred profile is calibrated AND a question is two-way AND
|
||
the user's dimensions strongly favor one option, auto-choose without asking
|
||
(visible annotation: "Auto-decided via profile. Change with /plan-tune."). v1
|
||
only auto-decides via EXPLICIT per-question preferences; v2 adds profile-driven
|
||
auto-decide.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** The whole point of the psychographic. Silent, correct defaults based
|
||
on who the user IS, not just what they've said.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Friction-free skill invocation for calibrated power users. Over time,
|
||
gstack feels like it's reading your mind.
|
||
|
||
**Cons:** Highest-risk deferral. Wrong auto-decides are costly. Requires very
|
||
high confidence in the signal map AND calibration gate.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** v1 diversity gate is `sample_size >= 20 AND skills_covered >= 3
|
||
AND question_ids_covered >= 8 AND days_span >= 7`. v2 must prove this gate
|
||
actually catches noisy profiles before shipping.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M (human: ~3 days / CC: ~2h)
|
||
**Priority:** P0
|
||
**Depends on:** E1 (skills consuming profile) + real observed data showing
|
||
calibration gate is trustworthy.
|
||
|
||
## Browse
|
||
|
||
### Scope sidebar-agent kill to session PID, not `pkill -f sidebar-agent\.ts`
|
||
|
||
**What:** `shutdown()` in `browse/src/server.ts:1193` uses `pkill -f sidebar-agent\.ts` to kill the sidebar-agent daemon, which matches every sidebar-agent on the machine, not just the one this server spawned. Replace with PID tracking: store the sidebar-agent PID when `cli.ts` spawns it (via state file or env), then `process.kill(pid, 'SIGTERM')` in `shutdown()`.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** A user running two Conductor worktrees (or any multi-session setup), each with its own `$B connect`, closes one browser window ... and the other worktree's sidebar-agent gets killed too. The blast radius was there before, but the v0.18.1.0 disconnect-cleanup fix makes it more reachable: every user-close now runs the full `shutdown()` path, whereas before user-close bypassed it.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Surfaced by /ship's adversarial review on v0.18.1.0. Pre-existing code, not introduced by the fix. Fix requires propagating the sidebar-agent PID from `cli.ts` spawn site (~line 885) into the server's state file so `shutdown()` can target just this session's agent. Related: `browse/src/cli.ts` spawns with `Bun.spawn(...).unref()` and already captures `agentProc.pid`.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S (human: ~2h / CC: ~15min)
|
||
**Priority:** P2
|
||
**Depends on:** None
|
||
|
||
## Sidebar Security
|
||
|
||
### ML Prompt Injection Classifier — v1 SHIPPED (branch garrytan/prompt-injection-guard)
|
||
|
||
**Status:** IN PROGRESS on branch `garrytan/prompt-injection-guard`. Classifier swap:
|
||
**TestSavantAI** replaces DeBERTa (better on developer content — HN/Reddit/Wikipedia/tech blogs all
|
||
score SAFE 0.98+, attacks score INJECTION 0.99+). Pre-impl gate 3 (benign corpus dry-run)
|
||
forced this pivot — see `~/.gstack/projects/garrytan-gstack/ceo-plans/2026-04-19-prompt-injection-guard.md`.
|
||
|
||
**What shipped in v1:**
|
||
- `browse/src/security.ts` — canary injection + check, verdict combiner (ensemble rule),
|
||
attack log with rotation, cross-process session state, status reporting
|
||
- `browse/src/security-classifier.ts` — TestSavantAI ONNX classifier + Haiku transcript
|
||
classifier (reasoning-blind), both with graceful degradation
|
||
- Canary flows end-to-end: server.ts injects, sidebar-agent.ts checks every outbound
|
||
channel (text, tool args, URLs, file writes) and kills session on leak
|
||
- Pre-spawn ML scan of user message with ensemble rule (BLOCK requires both classifiers)
|
||
- `/health` endpoint exposes security status for shield icon
|
||
- 25 unit tests + 12 regression tests all passing
|
||
|
||
**Branch 2 architecture (decided from pre-impl gate 1):**
|
||
The ML classifier ONLY runs in `sidebar-agent.ts` (non-compiled bun script). The compiled
|
||
browse binary cannot link onnxruntime-node. Architectural controls (XML framing + allowlist)
|
||
defend the compiled-side ingress.
|
||
|
||
### ML Prompt Injection Classifier — v2 Follow-ups
|
||
|
||
#### ~~Cut Haiku false-positive rate from 44% toward ~15% (P0)~~ — SHIPPED in v1.5.2.0
|
||
|
||
Measured result (500-case BrowseSafe-Bench smoke): detection 67.3% → **56.2%**, FP 44.1% → **22.9%**. Gate passes (detection ≥ 55%, FP ≤ 25%). Knobs that landed: label-first ensemble voting (verdict label trumps numeric confidence for transcript layer), hallucination guard (`verdict=block` at conf < 0.40 → warn-vote), new `THRESHOLDS.SOLO_CONTENT_BLOCK = 0.92` for label-less content classifiers, label-first extension to toolOutput path, tighter Haiku prompt + 8 few-shot exemplars, pinned Haiku model, `claude -p` spawn from `os.tmpdir()` so CLAUDE.md can't poison the classifier, timeout bumped 15s → 45s. CI gate: `browse/test/security-bench-ensemble.test.ts` replays fixture, fail-closed on missing fixture + security-layer diff. The original plan's stop-loss revert order didn't move the FP needle (FPs came from single-layer-BLOCK paths, not ensemble); the real levers turned out to be architectural (label-first) plus a new decoupled threshold.
|
||
|
||
See CHANGELOG.md [1.5.2.0] for the full shipped summary.
|
||
|
||
#### Original spec (pre-ship, retained for archive)
|
||
|
||
**What:** v1 ships the Haiku transcript classifier on every tool output (Read/Grep/Bash/Glob/WebFetch). BrowseSafe-Bench smoke measured detection 67.3% + FP 44.1% — a 4.4x detection lift from L4-only, but FP tripled because Haiku is more aggressive than L4 on edge cases (phishing-style benign content, borderline social engineering). The review banner makes FPs recoverable but 44% is too high for a delightful default.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** User clicks review banner roughly every-other tool output = real UX friction. Tuning these four knobs together should cut FP to ~15-20% while keeping detection in the 60-70% range:
|
||
|
||
1. **Switch ensemble counting to Haiku's `verdict` field, not `confidence`.** Right now `combineVerdict` treats Haiku warn-at-0.6 as a BLOCK vote. Haiku reserves `verdict: "block"` for clear-cut cases and uses `"warn"` liberally. Count only `verdict === "block"` as a BLOCK vote; `warn` becomes a soft signal that participates in 2-of-N ensemble but doesn't single-handedly BLOCK.
|
||
2. **Tighten Haiku's classifier prompt.** Current prompt is generic. Rewrite to: "Return `block` only if the text contains explicit instruction-override, role-reset, exfil request, or malicious code execution. Return `warn` for social engineering that doesn't try to hijack the agent. Return `safe` otherwise." More specific instructions → fewer false flags.
|
||
3. **Add 6-8 few-shot exemplars to Haiku's prompt.** Pairs of (injection text → block) and (benign-looking-but-safe → safe). LLM few-shot consistently outperforms zero-shot on classification.
|
||
4. **Bump Haiku's WARN threshold from 0.6 to 0.75.** Borderline fires drop out of the ensemble pool.
|
||
|
||
Ship all four together, re-run BrowseSafe-Bench smoke, record before/after. Target: 60-70% detection / 15-25% FP.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S (human: ~1 day / CC: ~30-45 min + ~45min bench)
|
||
**Priority:** P0 (direct UX impact post-ship; ship v1 as-is with review banner, file this as the immediate follow-up)
|
||
**Depends on:** v1.4.0.0 prompt-injection-guard branch merged
|
||
|
||
#### Cache review decisions per (domain, payload-hash-prefix) (P1)
|
||
|
||
**What:** If Haiku fires on a page twice in the same session (e.g., user does Bash then Grep on the same suspicious file), the second fire shouldn't re-prompt. Cache the user's decision keyed by a per-session (domain, payloadHash-prefix) pair. Small LRU, ~100 entries, session-scoped (not persistent across sidebar restarts — we want fresh decisions on new sessions).
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Reduces review-banner fatigue when the same bit of sketchy content gets scanned multiple times via different tools. At 44% FP on v1, this matters most.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S (human: ~0.5 day / CC: ~20 min)
|
||
**Priority:** P1
|
||
|
||
#### Fine-tune a small classifier on BrowseSafe-Bench + Qualifire + xxz224 (P2 research)
|
||
|
||
**What:** TestSavantAI was trained on direct-injection text, wrong distribution for browser-agent attacks (measured 15% recall). Take BERT-base, fine-tune on BrowseSafe-Bench (3,680 cases) + Qualifire prompt-injection-benchmark (5k) + xxz224 (3.7k) combined, ship in ~/.gstack/models/ as replacement L4 classifier.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Expected 15% → 70%+ recall on the actual threat distribution without needing Haiku. Would also cut latency (no CLI subprocess) and drop Haiku cost.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** XL (human: ~3-5 days + ~$50 GPU / CC: ~4-6 hours setup + ~$50 GPU)
|
||
**Priority:** P2 research — validate the lift on a held-out test set before committing to replace TestSavant
|
||
|
||
#### DeBERTa-v3 ensemble as default (P2)
|
||
|
||
**What:** Flip `GSTACK_SECURITY_ENSEMBLE=deberta` from opt-in to default. Adds a 3rd ML vote; 2-of-3 agreement rule should reduce FPs while catching attacks that only DeBERTa sees.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** More votes = better calibration. Currently opt-in because 721MB is a big first-run download; flipping to default requires lazy-download UX.
|
||
|
||
**Cons:** 721MB first-run download for every user. Costs user bandwidth + disk.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M (human: ~2 days / CC: ~1 hour + UX)
|
||
**Priority:** P2 (after #1 tuning to see how much room is left)
|
||
|
||
#### User-feedback flywheel — decisions become training data (P3)
|
||
|
||
**What:** Every Allow/Block click is labeled data. Log (suspected_text hash, layer scores, user decision, ts) to ~/.gstack/security/feedback.jsonl. Aggregate via community-pulse when `telemetry: community`. Periodically retrain the classifier on aggregate feedback.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** The system gets better the more it's used. Closes the loop between user reality and defense quality.
|
||
|
||
**Cons:** Feedback loop can be poisoned if attacker controls enough devices. Need guardrails (stratified sampling, reviewer validation, k-anon minimums on training batch).
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** L (human: ~1 week for local logging + aggregation pipe, another week for retrain cron / CC: ~2-4 hours per sub-part)
|
||
**Priority:** P3 — only worth building after v2 tuning proves the architecture is the right shape
|
||
|
||
#### ~~Shield icon + canary leak banner UI (P0)~~ — SHIPPED
|
||
|
||
Banner landed in commits a9f702a7 (HTML+CSS, variant A mockup) + ffb064af
|
||
(JS wiring + security_event routing + a11y + Escape-to-dismiss). Shield
|
||
icon landed in 59e0635e with 3 states (protected/degraded/inactive),
|
||
custom SVG + mono SEC label per design review Pass 7, hover tooltip with
|
||
per-layer detail.
|
||
|
||
Known v1 limitation logged as follow-up: shield only updates at connect —
|
||
see "Shield icon continuous polling" above.
|
||
|
||
#### ~~Shield icon continuous polling (P2)~~ — SHIPPED
|
||
|
||
Commit 06002a82: `/sidebar-chat` response now includes `security:
|
||
getSecurityStatus()`, and sidepanel.js calls `updateSecurityShield(data.security)`
|
||
on every poll tick. Shield flips to 'protected' as soon as classifier warmup
|
||
completes (typically ~30s after initial connect on first run), no reload needed.
|
||
|
||
#### ~~Attack telemetry via gstack-telemetry-log (P1)~~ — SHIPPED
|
||
|
||
Landed in commits 28ce883c (binary) + f68fa4a9 (security.ts wiring). The
|
||
telemetry binary now accepts `--event-type attack_attempt --url-domain
|
||
--payload-hash --confidence --layer --verdict`. `logAttempt()` spawns the
|
||
binary fire-and-forget. Existing tier gating carries the events.
|
||
|
||
Downstream follow-up still open: update the `community-pulse` Supabase edge
|
||
function to accept the new event type and store in a typed `security_attempts`
|
||
table. Dashboard read path is a separate TODO ("Cross-user aggregate attack
|
||
dashboard" below).
|
||
|
||
#### Full BrowseSafe-Bench at gate tier (P2)
|
||
|
||
**What:** Promote `browse/test/security-bench.test.ts` from smoke-200 (gate) to full-3680
|
||
(gate) once smoke/full detection rate correlation is measured (~2 weeks post-ship).
|
||
|
||
**Why:** BrowseSafe-Bench is Perplexity's 3,680-case browser-agent injection benchmark.
|
||
Smoke-200 is a sample; full coverage catches the long tail. Run time ~5min hermetic.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S (CC: ~45min)
|
||
**Priority:** P2
|
||
**Depends on:** v1 shipped + ~2 weeks real data
|
||
|
||
#### ~~Cross-user aggregate attack dashboard (P2)~~ — CLI SHIPPED, web UI remains
|
||
|
||
CLI dashboard shipped in commits a5588ec0 (schema migration) + 2d107978
|
||
(community-pulse edge function security aggregation) + 756875a7 (bin/gstack-
|
||
security-dashboard). Users can now run `gstack-security-dashboard` to see
|
||
attacks last 7 days, top attacked domains, detection-layer distribution,
|
||
and verdict counts — all aggregated from the Supabase community-pulse pipe.
|
||
|
||
Web UI at gstack.gg/dashboard/security is still open — that's a separate
|
||
webapp project outside this repo's scope.
|
||
|
||
#### TestSavantAI ensemble → DeBERTa-v3 ensemble (P2) — SHIPPED (opt-in)
|
||
|
||
Commits b4e49d08 + 8e9ec52d + 4e051603 + 7a815fa7: DeBERTa-v3-base-injection-onnx
|
||
is now wired as an opt-in L4c ensemble classifier. Enable via
|
||
`GSTACK_SECURITY_ENSEMBLE=deberta` — sidebar-agent warmup downloads the 721MB
|
||
model to ~/.gstack/models/deberta-v3-injection/ on first run. combineVerdict
|
||
becomes a 2-of-3 agreement rule (testsavant + deberta + transcript) when
|
||
enabled. Default behavior unchanged (2-of-2 testsavant + transcript).
|
||
|
||
#### ~~TestSavantAI + DeBERTa-v3 ensemble~~ — SHIPPED opt-in (see entry above)
|
||
|
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#### ~~Read/Glob/Grep tool-output injection coverage (P2)~~ — SHIPPED
|
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|
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Commits f2e80dd7 + 0098d574: sidebar-agent.ts now scans tool outputs from
|
||
Read, Glob, Grep, WebFetch, and Bash via `SCANNED_TOOLS` set. Content >= 32
|
||
chars runs through the ML ensemble; BLOCK verdict kills the session and
|
||
emits security_event. The content-security.ts envelope path was already
|
||
wrapping browse-command output; this extension closes the non-browse path
|
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Codex flagged.
|
||
|
||
During /ship for v1.4.0.0 this path got additional hardening (commit
|
||
407c36b4 + 88b12c2b + c51ebdf4): transcript classifier now receives the
|
||
tool output text (was empty before), and combineVerdict accepts a
|
||
`toolOutput: true` opt that blocks on a single ML classifier at BLOCK
|
||
threshold (user-input default unchanged for SO-FP mitigation).
|
||
|
||
#### ~~Adversarial + integration + smoke-bench test suites (P1)~~ — SHIPPED
|
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|
||
Four test files shipped this round:
|
||
* `browse/test/security-adversarial.test.ts` (94a83c50) — 23 canary-channel
|
||
+ verdict-combiner attack-shape tests
|
||
* `browse/test/security-integration.test.ts` (07745e04) — 10 layer-coexistence
|
||
+ defense-in-depth regression guards
|
||
* `browse/test/security-live-playwright.test.ts` (b9677519) — 7 live-Chromium
|
||
fixture tests (5 deterministic + 2 ML, skipped if model cache absent)
|
||
* `browse/test/security-bench.test.ts` (afc6661f) — BrowseSafe-Bench 200-case
|
||
smoke harness with hermetic dataset cache + v1 baseline metrics
|
||
|
||
#### Bun-native 5ms inference (P3 research) — SKELETON SHIPPED, forward pass open
|
||
|
||
Research skeleton landed this round (browse/src/security-bunnative.ts,
|
||
docs/designs/BUN_NATIVE_INFERENCE.md, browse/test/security-bunnative.test.ts):
|
||
|
||
* Pure-TS WordPiece tokenizer — reads HF tokenizer.json directly, matches
|
||
transformers.js output on fixture strings (correctness-tested in CI)
|
||
* Stable `classify()` API that current callers can wire against today
|
||
* Benchmark harness with p50/p95/p99 reporting — anchors v1 WASM baseline
|
||
for future regressions
|
||
|
||
Design doc captures the roadmap:
|
||
* Approach A: pure-TS + Float32Array SIMD — ruled out (can't beat WASM)
|
||
* Approach B: Bun FFI + Apple Accelerate cblas_sgemm — target ~3-6ms p50,
|
||
macOS-only, ~1000 LOC
|
||
* Approach C: Bun WebGPU — unexplored, worth a spike
|
||
|
||
Remaining work (XL, multi-week):
|
||
* FFI proof-of-concept for cblas_sgemm
|
||
* Single transformer layer implementation + correctness check vs onnxruntime
|
||
* Full forward pass + weight loader + correctness regression fixtures
|
||
* Production swap in security-bunnative.ts `classify()` body
|
||
|
||
## Builder Ethos
|
||
|
||
### First-time Search Before Building intro
|
||
|
||
**What:** Add a `generateSearchIntro()` function (like `generateLakeIntro()`) that introduces the Search Before Building principle on first use, with a link to the blog essay.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Boil the Lake has an intro flow that links to the essay and marks `.completeness-intro-seen`. Search Before Building should have the same pattern for discoverability.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Blocked on a blog post to link to. When the essay exists, add the intro flow with a `.search-intro-seen` marker file. Pattern: `generateLakeIntro()` at gen-skill-docs.ts:176.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S
|
||
**Priority:** P2
|
||
**Depends on:** Blog post about Search Before Building
|
||
|
||
## Chrome DevTools MCP Integration
|
||
|
||
### Real Chrome session access
|
||
|
||
**What:** Integrate Chrome DevTools MCP to connect to the user's real Chrome session with real cookies, real state, no Playwright middleman.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Right now, headed mode launches a fresh Chromium profile. Users must log in manually or import cookies. Chrome DevTools MCP connects to the user's actual Chrome ... instant access to every authenticated site. This is the future of browser automation for AI agents.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Google shipped Chrome DevTools MCP in Chrome 146+ (June 2025). It provides screenshots, console messages, performance traces, Lighthouse audits, and full page interaction through the user's real browser. gstack should use it for real-session access while keeping Playwright for headless CI/testing workflows.
|
||
|
||
Potential new skills:
|
||
- `/debug-browser`: JS error tracing with source-mapped stack traces
|
||
- `/perf-debug`: performance traces, Core Web Vitals, network waterfall
|
||
|
||
May replace `/setup-browser-cookies` for most use cases since the user's real cookies are already there.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** L (human: ~2 weeks / CC: ~2 hours)
|
||
**Priority:** P0
|
||
**Depends on:** Chrome 146+, DevTools MCP server installed
|
||
|
||
## Browse
|
||
|
||
### Bundle server.ts into compiled binary
|
||
|
||
**What:** Eliminate `resolveServerScript()` fallback chain entirely — bundle server.ts into the compiled browse binary.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** The current fallback chain (check adjacent to cli.ts, check global install) is fragile and caused bugs in v0.3.2. A single compiled binary is simpler and more reliable.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Bun's `--compile` flag can bundle multiple entry points. The server is currently resolved at runtime via file path lookup. Bundling it removes the resolution step entirely.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M
|
||
**Priority:** P2
|
||
**Depends on:** None
|
||
|
||
### Sessions (isolated browser instances)
|
||
|
||
**What:** Isolated browser instances with separate cookies/storage/history, addressable by name.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Enables parallel testing of different user roles, A/B test verification, and clean auth state management.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Requires Playwright browser context isolation. Each session gets its own context with independent cookies/localStorage. Prerequisite for video recording (clean context lifecycle) and auth vault.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** L
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
|
||
### Video recording
|
||
|
||
**What:** Record browser interactions as video (start/stop controls).
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Video evidence in QA reports and PR bodies. Currently deferred because `recreateContext()` destroys page state.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Needs sessions for clean context lifecycle. Playwright supports video recording per context. Also needs WebM → GIF conversion for PR embedding.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
**Depends on:** Sessions
|
||
|
||
### v20 encryption format support
|
||
|
||
**What:** AES-256-GCM support for future Chromium cookie DB versions (currently v10).
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Future Chromium versions may change encryption format. Proactive support prevents breakage.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
|
||
### State persistence — SHIPPED
|
||
|
||
~~**What:** Save/load cookies + localStorage to JSON files for reproducible test sessions.~~
|
||
|
||
`$B state save/load` ships in v0.12.1.0. V1 saves cookies + URLs only (not localStorage, which breaks on load-before-navigate). Files at `.gstack/browse-states/{name}.json` with 0o600 permissions. Load replaces session (closes all pages first). Name sanitized to `[a-zA-Z0-9_-]`.
|
||
|
||
**Remaining:** V2 localStorage support (needs pre-navigation injection strategy).
|
||
**Completed:** v0.12.1.0 (2026-03-26)
|
||
|
||
### Auth vault
|
||
|
||
**What:** Encrypted credential storage, referenced by name. LLM never sees passwords.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Security — currently auth credentials flow through the LLM context. Vault keeps secrets out of the AI's view.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** L
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
**Depends on:** Sessions, state persistence
|
||
|
||
### Iframe support — SHIPPED
|
||
|
||
~~**What:** `frame <sel>` and `frame main` commands for cross-frame interaction.~~
|
||
|
||
`$B frame` ships in v0.12.1.0. Supports CSS selector, @ref, `--name`, and `--url` pattern matching. Execution target abstraction (`getActiveFrameOrPage()`) across all read/write/snapshot commands. Frame context cleared on navigation, tab switch, resume. Detached frame auto-recovery. Page-only operations (goto, screenshot, viewport) throw clear error when in frame context.
|
||
|
||
**Completed:** v0.12.1.0 (2026-03-26)
|
||
|
||
### Semantic locators
|
||
|
||
**What:** `find role/label/text/placeholder/testid` with attached actions.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** More resilient element selection than CSS selectors or ref numbers.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M
|
||
**Priority:** P4
|
||
|
||
### Device emulation presets
|
||
|
||
**What:** `set device "iPhone 16 Pro"` for mobile/tablet testing.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Responsive layout testing without manual viewport resizing.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S
|
||
**Priority:** P4
|
||
|
||
### Network mocking/routing
|
||
|
||
**What:** Intercept, block, and mock network requests.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Test error states, loading states, and offline behavior.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M
|
||
**Priority:** P4
|
||
|
||
### Download handling
|
||
|
||
**What:** Click-to-download with path control.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Test file download flows end-to-end.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S
|
||
**Priority:** P4
|
||
|
||
### Content safety
|
||
|
||
**What:** `--max-output` truncation, `--allowed-domains` filtering.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Prevent context window overflow and restrict navigation to safe domains.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S
|
||
**Priority:** P4
|
||
|
||
### Streaming (WebSocket live preview)
|
||
|
||
**What:** WebSocket-based live preview for pair browsing sessions.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Enables real-time collaboration — human watches AI browse.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** L
|
||
**Priority:** P4
|
||
|
||
### Headed mode with Chrome extension — SHIPPED
|
||
|
||
`$B connect` launches Playwright's bundled Chromium in headed mode with the gstack Chrome extension auto-loaded. `$B handoff` now produces the same result (extension + side panel). Sidebar chat gated behind `--chat` flag.
|
||
|
||
### `$B watch` — SHIPPED
|
||
|
||
Claude observes user browsing in passive read-only mode with periodic snapshots. `$B watch stop` exits with summary. Mutation commands blocked during watch.
|
||
|
||
### Sidebar scout / file drop relay — SHIPPED
|
||
|
||
Sidebar agent writes structured messages to `.context/sidebar-inbox/`. Workspace agent reads via `$B inbox`. Message format: `{type, timestamp, page, userMessage, sidebarSessionId}`.
|
||
|
||
### Multi-agent tab isolation
|
||
|
||
**What:** Two Claude sessions connect to the same browser, each operating on different tabs. No cross-contamination.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Enables parallel /qa + /design-review on different tabs in the same browser.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Requires tab ownership model for concurrent headed connections. Playwright may not cleanly support two persistent contexts. Needs investigation.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** L (human: ~2 weeks / CC: ~2 hours)
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
**Depends on:** Headed mode (shipped)
|
||
|
||
### Sidebar agent needs Write tool + better error visibility — SHIPPED
|
||
|
||
**What:** Two issues with the sidebar agent (`sidebar-agent.ts`): (1) `--allowedTools` is hardcoded to `Bash,Read,Glob,Grep`, missing `Write`. Claude can't create files (like CSVs) when asked. (2) When Claude errors or returns empty, the sidebar UI shows nothing, just a green dot. No error message, no "I tried but failed", nothing.
|
||
|
||
**Completed:** v0.15.4.0 (2026-04-04). Write tool added to allowedTools. 40+ empty catch blocks replaced with `[gstack sidebar]`, `[gstack bg]`, `[browse]`, `[sidebar-agent]` prefixed console logging across all 4 files (sidepanel.js, background.js, server.ts, sidebar-agent.ts). Error placeholder text now shows in red. Auth token stale-refresh bug fixed.
|
||
|
||
### Sidebar direct API calls (eliminate claude -p startup tax)
|
||
|
||
**What:** Each sidebar message spawns a fresh `claude -p` process (~2-3s cold start overhead). For "click @e24" that's absurd. Direct Anthropic API calls would be sub-second.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** The `claude -p` startup cost is: process spawn (~100ms) + CLI init (~500ms-1s) + API connection (~200ms) + first token. Model routing (Sonnet for actions) helps but doesn't fix the CLI overhead.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** `server.ts:spawnClaude()` builds args and writes to queue file. `sidebar-agent.ts:askClaude()` spawns `claude -p`. Replace with direct `fetch('https://api.anthropic.com/...')` with tool use. Requires `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` accessible to the browse server.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M (human: ~1 week / CC: ~30min)
|
||
**Priority:** P2
|
||
**Depends on:** None
|
||
|
||
### Chrome Web Store publishing
|
||
|
||
**What:** Publish the gstack browse Chrome extension to Chrome Web Store for easier install.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Currently sideloaded via chrome://extensions. Web Store makes install one-click.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S
|
||
**Priority:** P4
|
||
**Depends on:** Chrome extension proving value via sideloading
|
||
|
||
### Linux cookie decryption — PARTIALLY SHIPPED
|
||
|
||
~~**What:** GNOME Keyring / kwallet / DPAPI support for non-macOS cookie import.~~
|
||
|
||
Linux cookie import shipped in v0.11.11.0 (Wave 3). Supports Chrome, Chromium, Brave, Edge on Linux with GNOME Keyring (libsecret) and "peanuts" fallback. Windows DPAPI support remains deferred.
|
||
|
||
**Remaining:** Windows cookie decryption (DPAPI). Needs complete rewrite — PR #64 was 1346 lines and stale.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** L (Windows only)
|
||
**Priority:** P4
|
||
**Completed (Linux):** v0.11.11.0 (2026-03-23)
|
||
|
||
## Ship
|
||
|
||
### Runtime enforcement of foreground dispatch (PreToolUse hook)
|
||
|
||
**What:** A PreToolUse hook (settings.json) that forces or verifies `run_in_background: false` on Agent tool calls made inside gstack workflows, making the #497/#2440 bug class structurally impossible on Claude Code instead of prose-pinned.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** v1.79.0.0 fixed the class at the prose+test layer (every synchronous dispatch site carries the flag, pinned by `test/run-in-background-guidance.test.ts`), but phrase-presence pins are file-level, not call-level, and a genuinely blocking foreground call still can't be interrupted by prose. Runtime enforcement is the structural fix; prose guidance can't survive a model that ignores it.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Third recurrence of the class (#497 → #2440 → /ship Step 18 stranding). The hook must scope to gstack skill sessions (never break legitimate background Agent use elsewhere), is Claude-host only (other hosts get nothing from it), and mirrors the existing question-preference PreToolUse hook wiring in `bin/gstack-settings-hook*`. Filed from the v1.79.0.0 CEO plan review (approach C, deliberately split out for bake time).
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M (human) / S (CC)
|
||
**Priority:** P1
|
||
**Depends on:** None
|
||
|
||
*Priority raised P2 → P1 by the v1.79.0.0 adversarial review: the spawned trust chain is agent-self-asserted (the echo exists because the agent typed the env prefix a prompt told it to), so instruction text read before the preamble can convert an interactive run to full-auto. Prose cannot close this; the hook can.*
|
||
|
||
### Structural ship-mode for document-release
|
||
|
||
**What:** A capability-narrowed dispatch mode for /document-release (cannot bump VERSION, run review passes, or push) instead of narrowing the full workflow through prose in /ship's dispatch prompt; the parent /ship owns all git operations.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** The v1.79.0.0 scope guard works by telling the subagent what not to do; a structural mode makes the forbidden operations unavailable rather than discouraged. Codex outside voice (v1.79.0.0 eng review) called the current shape "runs a large workflow and then disables half of it through prose" — correct long-term, wrong to fold into a regression fix.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Redesigns the #2733 JSON contract (files_updated/commit_sha/pushed/documentation_section/decisions), so it needs its own PR with bake time. Start from `ship/sections/pr-body.md.tmpl` Step 18 and `document-release/SKILL.md.tmpl`'s spawned contract; decide whether the mode is a dispatch-prompt parameter or a `GSTACK_DOC_RELEASE_MODE` env the preamble echoes.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** L (human) / M (CC)
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
**Depends on:** None
|
||
|
||
### Cross-host dispatch semantics audit
|
||
|
||
**What:** Audit every subagent-dispatch site's rendering on non-Claude hosts (codex, factory, openclaw, hermes) and decide per host: rewrite to the host's native delegation primitive, inline-execute the step, or skip it.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** The codex-host ship render inlines Step 18 instructing an Agent-tool dispatch that Codex cannot perform (no Agent tool, no run_in_background). Pre-existing (predates v1.79.0.0), surfaced by the eng-review outside voice. Host rewrites currently key on the exact string 'use the Agent tool', which none of the ship dispatch openers match, so Claude-specific instructions pass through verbatim.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** See `hosts/define-host.ts:55`, `hosts/factory.ts:34`, `hosts/hermes.ts:15` for the existing rewrite mechanism, and `test/fixtures/golden/codex-ship-SKILL.md` for what codex actually receives today. The v1.79.0.0 `{{FOREGROUND_DISPATCH_NOTE}}` resolver is a natural place to start host-branching.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M (human) / S (CC)
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
**Depends on:** None
|
||
|
||
### /ship Step 12 test harness should exec the actual template bash, not a reimplementation
|
||
|
||
**What:** `test/ship-version-sync.test.ts` currently reimplements the bash from `ship/SKILL.md.tmpl` Step 12 inside template literals. When the template changes, both sides must be updated — exactly the drift-risk pattern the Step 12 fix is meant to prevent, applied to our own testing strategy. Replace with a helper that extracts the fenced bash blocks from the template at test time and runs them verbatim (similar to the `skill-parser.ts` pattern).
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Surfaced by the Claude adversarial subagent during the v1.0.1.0 ship. Today the tests would stay green while the template regresses, because the error-message strings already differ between test and template. It's a silent-drift bug waiting to happen.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** The fixed test file is at `test/ship-version-sync.test.ts` (branched off garrytan/ship-version-sync). Existing precedent for extracting-from-skill-md is at `test/helpers/skill-parser.ts`. Pattern: read the template, slice from `## Step 12` to the next `---`, grep fenced bash, feed to `/bin/bash` with substituted fixtures.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S (human: ~2h / CC: ~30min)
|
||
**Priority:** P2
|
||
**Depends on:** None.
|
||
|
||
### /ship Step 12 BASE_VERSION silent fallback to 0.0.0.0 when git show fails
|
||
|
||
**What:** `BASE_VERSION=$(git show origin/<base>:VERSION 2>/dev/null || echo "0.0.0.0")` silently defaults to `0.0.0.0` in any failure mode — detached HEAD, no origin, offline, base branch renamed. In such states, a real drift could be misclassified or silently repaired with the wrong value. Distinguish "origin/<base> unreachable" from "origin/<base>:VERSION absent" and fail loudly on the former.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Flagged as CRITICAL (confidence 8/10) by the Claude adversarial subagent during the v1.0.1.0 ship. Low practical risk because `/ship` Step 3 already fetches origin before Step 12 runs — any reachability failure would abort Step 3 long before this code runs. Still, defense in depth: if someone invokes Step 12 bash outside the full /ship pipeline (e.g., via a standalone helper), the fallback masks a real problem.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Fix: wrap with `git rev-parse --verify origin/<base>` probe; if that fails, error out rather than defaulting. Touches `ship/SKILL.md.tmpl` Step 12 idempotency block (around line 409). Tests need a case where `git show` fails.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S (human: ~1h / CC: ~15min)
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
**Depends on:** None.
|
||
|
||
### GitLab support for /land-and-deploy
|
||
|
||
**What:** Add GitLab MR merge + CI polling support to `/land-and-deploy` skill. Currently uses `gh pr view`, `gh pr checks`, `gh pr merge`, and `gh run list/view` in 15+ places — each needs a GitLab conditional path using `glab ci status`, `glab mr merge`, etc.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Without this, GitLab users can `/ship` (create MR) but can't `/land-and-deploy` (merge + verify). Completes the GitLab story end-to-end.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** `/retro`, `/ship`, and `/document-release` now support GitLab via the multi-platform `BASE_BRANCH_DETECT` resolver. `/land-and-deploy` has deeper GitHub-specific semantics (merge queues, required checks via `gh pr checks`, deploy workflow polling) that have different shapes on GitLab. The `glab` CLI (v1.90.0) supports `glab mr merge`, `glab ci status`, `glab ci view` but with different output formats and no merge queue concept.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** L
|
||
**Priority:** P2
|
||
**Depends on:** None (BASE_BRANCH_DETECT multi-platform resolver is already done)
|
||
|
||
### Multi-commit CHANGELOG completeness eval
|
||
|
||
**What:** Add a periodic E2E eval that creates a branch with 5+ commits spanning 3+ themes (features, cleanup, infra), runs /ship's Step 5 CHANGELOG generation, and verifies the CHANGELOG mentions all themes.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** The bug fixed in v0.11.22 (garrytan/ship-full-commit-coverage) showed that /ship's CHANGELOG generation biased toward recent commits on long branches. The prompt fix adds a cross-check, but no test exercises the multi-commit failure mode. The existing `ship-local-workflow` E2E only uses a single-commit branch.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Would be a `periodic` tier test (~$4/run, non-deterministic since it tests LLM instruction-following). Setup: create bare remote, clone, add 5+ commits across different themes on a feature branch, run Step 5 via `claude -p`, verify CHANGELOG output covers all themes. Pattern: `ship-local-workflow` in `test/skill-e2e-workflow.test.ts`.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
**Depends on:** None
|
||
|
||
### Ship log — persistent record of /ship runs
|
||
|
||
**What:** Append structured JSON entry to `.gstack/ship-log.json` at end of every /ship run (version, date, branch, PR URL, review findings, Greptile stats, todos completed, test results).
|
||
|
||
**Why:** /retro has no structured data about shipping velocity. Ship log enables: PRs-per-week trending, review finding rates, Greptile signal over time, test suite growth.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** /retro already reads greptile-history.md — same pattern. Eval persistence (eval-store.ts) shows the JSON append pattern exists in the codebase. ~15 lines in ship template.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S
|
||
**Priority:** P2
|
||
**Depends on:** None
|
||
|
||
|
||
### Visual verification with screenshots in PR body
|
||
|
||
**What:** /ship Step 7.5: screenshot key pages after push, embed in PR body.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Visual evidence in PRs. Reviewers see what changed without deploying locally.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Part of Phase 3.6. Needs S3 upload for image hosting.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M
|
||
**Priority:** P2
|
||
**Depends on:** /setup-gstack-upload
|
||
|
||
## Review
|
||
|
||
### Inline PR annotations
|
||
|
||
**What:** /ship and /review post inline review comments at specific file:line locations using `gh api` to create pull request review comments.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Line-level annotations are more actionable than top-level comments. The PR thread becomes a line-by-line conversation between Greptile, Claude, and human reviewers.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** GitHub supports inline review comments via `gh api repos/$REPO/pulls/$PR/reviews`. Pairs naturally with Phase 3.6 visual annotations.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S
|
||
**Priority:** P2
|
||
**Depends on:** None
|
||
|
||
### Greptile training feedback export
|
||
|
||
**What:** Aggregate greptile-history.md into machine-readable JSON summary of false positive patterns, exportable to the Greptile team for model improvement.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Closes the feedback loop — Greptile can use FP data to stop making the same mistakes on your codebase.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Was a P3 Future Idea. Upgraded to P2 now that greptile-history.md data infrastructure exists. The signal data is already being collected; this just makes it exportable. ~40 lines.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S
|
||
**Priority:** P2
|
||
**Depends on:** Enough FP data accumulated (10+ entries)
|
||
|
||
### Visual review with annotated screenshots
|
||
|
||
**What:** /review Step 4.5: browse PR's preview deploy, annotated screenshots of changed pages, compare against production, check responsive layouts, verify accessibility tree.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Visual diff catches layout regressions that code review misses.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Part of Phase 3.6. Needs S3 upload for image hosting.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M
|
||
**Priority:** P2
|
||
**Depends on:** /setup-gstack-upload
|
||
|
||
## QA
|
||
|
||
### QA trend tracking
|
||
|
||
**What:** Compare baseline.json over time, detect regressions across QA runs.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Spot quality trends — is the app getting better or worse?
|
||
|
||
**Context:** QA already writes structured reports. This adds cross-run comparison.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S
|
||
**Priority:** P2
|
||
|
||
### CI/CD QA integration
|
||
|
||
**What:** `/qa` as GitHub Action step, fail PR if health score drops.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Automated quality gate in CI. Catch regressions before merge.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M
|
||
**Priority:** P2
|
||
|
||
### Smart default QA tier
|
||
|
||
**What:** After a few runs, check index.md for user's usual tier pick, skip the AskUserQuestion.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Reduces friction for repeat users.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S
|
||
**Priority:** P2
|
||
|
||
### Accessibility audit mode
|
||
|
||
**What:** `--a11y` flag for focused accessibility testing.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Dedicated accessibility testing beyond the general QA checklist.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
|
||
### CI/CD generation for non-GitHub providers
|
||
|
||
**What:** Extend CI/CD bootstrap to generate GitLab CI (`.gitlab-ci.yml`), CircleCI (`.circleci/config.yml`), and Bitrise pipelines.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Not all projects use GitHub Actions. Universal CI/CD bootstrap would make test bootstrap work for everyone.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** v1 ships with GitHub Actions only. Detection logic already checks for `.gitlab-ci.yml`, `.circleci/`, `bitrise.yml` and skips with an informational note. Each provider needs ~20 lines of template text in `generateTestBootstrap()`.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
**Depends on:** Test bootstrap (shipped)
|
||
|
||
### Auto-upgrade weak tests (★) to strong tests (★★★)
|
||
|
||
**What:** When Step 7 coverage audit identifies existing ★-rated tests (smoke/trivial assertions), generate improved versions testing edge cases and error paths.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Many codebases have tests that technically exist but don't catch real bugs — `expect(component).toBeDefined()` isn't testing behavior. Upgrading these closes the gap between "has tests" and "has good tests."
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Requires the quality scoring rubric from the test coverage audit. Modifying existing test files is riskier than creating new ones — needs careful diffing to ensure the upgraded test still passes. Consider creating a companion test file rather than modifying the original.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
**Depends on:** Test quality scoring (shipped)
|
||
|
||
## Retro
|
||
|
||
### Deployment health tracking (retro + browse)
|
||
|
||
**What:** Screenshot production state, check perf metrics (page load times), count console errors across key pages, track trends over retro window.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Retro should include production health alongside code metrics.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Requires browse integration. Screenshots + metrics fed into retro output.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** L
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
**Depends on:** Browse sessions
|
||
|
||
## Infrastructure
|
||
|
||
### /setup-gstack-upload skill (S3 bucket)
|
||
|
||
**What:** Configure S3 bucket for image hosting. One-time setup for visual PR annotations.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Prerequisite for visual PR annotations in /ship and /review.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M
|
||
**Priority:** P2
|
||
|
||
### gstack-upload helper
|
||
|
||
**What:** `browse/bin/gstack-upload` — upload file to S3, return public URL.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Shared utility for all skills that need to embed images in PRs.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S
|
||
**Priority:** P2
|
||
**Depends on:** /setup-gstack-upload
|
||
|
||
### WebM to GIF conversion
|
||
|
||
**What:** ffmpeg-based WebM → GIF conversion for video evidence in PRs.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** GitHub PR bodies render GIFs but not WebM. Needed for video recording evidence.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
**Depends on:** Video recording
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
### Extend worktree isolation to Claude E2E tests
|
||
|
||
**What:** Add `useWorktree?: boolean` option to `runSkillTest()` so any Claude E2E test can opt into worktree mode for full repo context instead of tmpdir fixtures.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Some Claude E2E tests (CSO audit, review-sql-injection) create minimal fake repos but would produce more realistic results with full repo context. The infrastructure exists (`describeWithWorktree()` in e2e-helpers.ts) — this extends it to the session-runner level.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** WorktreeManager shipped in v0.11.12.0. Currently only Gemini/Codex tests use worktrees. Claude tests use planted-bug fixture repos which are correct for their purpose, but new tests that want real repo context can use `describeWithWorktree()` today. This TODO is about making it even easier via a flag on `runSkillTest()`.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M (human: ~2 days / CC: ~20 min)
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
**Depends on:** Worktree isolation (shipped v0.11.12.0)
|
||
|
||
### E2E model pinning — SHIPPED
|
||
|
||
~~**What:** Pin E2E tests to claude-sonnet-4-6 for cost efficiency, add retry:2 for flaky LLM responses.~~
|
||
|
||
Shipped: Default model changed to Sonnet for structure tests (~30), Opus retained for quality tests (~10). `--retry 2` added. `EVALS_MODEL` env var for override. `test:e2e:fast` tier added. Rate-limit telemetry (first_response_ms, max_inter_turn_ms) and wall_clock_ms tracking added to eval-store.
|
||
|
||
### Eval web dashboard
|
||
|
||
**What:** `bun run eval:dashboard` serves local HTML with charts: cost trending, detection rate, pass/fail history.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Visual charts better for spotting trends than CLI tools.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Reads `~/.gstack-dev/evals/*.json`. ~200 lines HTML + chart.js via Bun HTTP server.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
**Depends on:** Eval persistence (shipped in v0.3.6)
|
||
|
||
### CI/CD QA quality gate
|
||
|
||
**What:** Run `/qa` as a GitHub Action step, fail PR if health score drops below threshold.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Automated quality gate catches regressions before merge. Currently QA is manual — CI integration makes it part of the standard workflow.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Requires headless browse binary available in CI. The `/qa` skill already produces `baseline.json` with health scores — CI step would compare against the main branch baseline and fail if score drops. Would need `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` in CI secrets since `/qa` uses Claude.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M
|
||
**Priority:** P2
|
||
**Depends on:** None
|
||
|
||
### Cross-platform URL open helper
|
||
|
||
**What:** `gstack-open-url` helper script — detect platform, use `open` (macOS) or `xdg-open` (Linux).
|
||
|
||
**Why:** The first-time Completeness Principle intro uses macOS `open` to launch the essay. If gstack ever supports Linux, this silently fails.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S (human: ~30 min / CC: ~2 min)
|
||
**Priority:** P4
|
||
**Depends on:** Nothing
|
||
|
||
### CDP-based DOM mutation detection for ref staleness
|
||
|
||
**What:** Use Chrome DevTools Protocol `DOM.documentUpdated` / MutationObserver events to proactively invalidate stale refs when the DOM changes, without requiring an explicit `snapshot` call.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Current ref staleness detection (async count() check) only catches stale refs at action time. CDP mutation detection would proactively warn when refs become stale, preventing the 5-second timeout entirely for SPA re-renders.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Parts 1+2 of ref staleness fix (RefEntry metadata + eager validation via count()) are shipped. This is Part 3 — the most ambitious piece. Requires CDP session alongside Playwright, MutationObserver bridge, and careful performance tuning to avoid overhead on every DOM change.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** L
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
**Depends on:** Ref staleness Parts 1+2 (shipped)
|
||
|
||
## Office Hours / Design
|
||
|
||
### Design docs → Supabase team store sync
|
||
|
||
**What:** Add design docs (`*-design-*.md`) to the Supabase sync pipeline alongside test plans, retro snapshots, and QA reports.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Cross-team design discovery at scale. Local `~/.gstack/projects/$SLUG/` keyword-grep discovery works for same-machine users now, but Supabase sync makes it work across the whole team. Duplicate ideas surface, everyone sees what's been explored.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** /office-hours writes design docs to `~/.gstack/projects/$SLUG/`. The team store already syncs test plans, retro snapshots, QA reports. Design docs follow the same pattern — just add a sync adapter.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S
|
||
**Priority:** P2
|
||
**Depends on:** `garrytan/team-supabase-store` branch landing on main
|
||
|
||
### /yc-prep skill
|
||
|
||
**What:** Skill that helps founders prepare their YC application after /office-hours identifies strong signal. Pulls from the design doc, structures answers to YC app questions, runs a mock interview.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Closes the loop. /office-hours identifies the founder, /yc-prep helps them apply well. The design doc already contains most of the raw material for a YC application.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M (human: ~2 weeks / CC: ~2 hours)
|
||
**Priority:** P2
|
||
**Depends on:** office-hours founder discovery engine shipping first
|
||
|
||
## Design Review
|
||
|
||
### /plan-design-review + /qa-design-review + /design-consultation — SHIPPED
|
||
|
||
Shipped as v0.5.0 on main. Includes `/plan-design-review` (report-only design audit), `/qa-design-review` (audit + fix loop), and `/design-consultation` (interactive DESIGN.md creation). `{{DESIGN_METHODOLOGY}}` resolver provides shared 80-item design audit checklist.
|
||
|
||
### Design outside voices in /plan-eng-review
|
||
|
||
**What:** Extend the parallel dual-voice pattern (Codex + Claude subagent) to /plan-eng-review's architecture review section.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** The design beachhead (v0.11.3.0) proves cross-model consensus works for subjective reviews. Architecture reviews have similar subjectivity in tradeoff decisions.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Depends on learnings from the design beachhead. If the litmus scorecard format proves useful, adapt it for architecture dimensions (coupling, scaling, reversibility).
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
**Depends on:** Design outside voices shipped (v0.11.3.0)
|
||
|
||
### Outside voices in /qa visual regression detection
|
||
|
||
**What:** Add Codex design voice to /qa for detecting visual regressions during bug-fix verification.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** When fixing bugs, the fix can introduce visual regressions that code-level checks miss. Codex could flag "the fix broke the responsive layout" during re-test.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Depends on /qa having design awareness. Currently /qa focuses on functional testing.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
**Depends on:** Design outside voices shipped (v0.11.3.0)
|
||
|
||
## Document-Release
|
||
|
||
### Spawned-session auto-choices are invisible to /plan-tune
|
||
|
||
**What:** Capture auto-chosen decisions from spawned sessions (OPENCLAW_SESSION or GSTACK_SESSION_KIND=spawned) into `gstack-question-log` so `/plan-tune` learning sees them.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** In spawned sessions the model never calls AskUserQuestion (it auto-chooses the recommended option per the spawned-session block), so the PostToolUse capture hook never fires and no prose brief is ever logged — every gate decision made inside a /ship Step 18 document-release subagent is missing from the question-tuning corpus.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** #2733 made spawned sessions reachable from Claude Code subagents (every Conductor-hosted /ship now produces one). The subagent reports auto-chosen decisions in the JSON contract's `decisions` array (user-visible in the ship console), but nothing writes them to `~/.gstack/` question analytics. Start from the spawned-session instruction block in `bin/gstack-skill-start` — add a "log each auto-chosen decision with bin/gstack-question-log" sentence and a `source` value distinguishing auto-chosen from human-answered so tuning never trains on machine picks as if a human made them.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
**Depends on:** #2733 fix (GSTACK_SESSION_KIND=spawned marker) landing.
|
||
|
||
### Auto-invoke /document-release from /ship — SHIPPED
|
||
|
||
Shipped in v0.8.4; redesigned twice since. Current design (v0.18.2.0+, carved in
|
||
v1.54.0.0): `/ship` Step 18 (`ship/sections/pr-body.md`) dispatches
|
||
`/document-release` as a general-purpose subagent AFTER Step 17 (push) and
|
||
BEFORE Step 19 (PR creation); the subagent's JSON contract (`files_updated`,
|
||
`commit_sha`, `pushed`, `documentation_section`, `decisions` since v1.76.0.0)
|
||
is baked into the initial PR body — except `decisions`, which prints to the
|
||
ship console and never enters PR markdown. Since v1.76.0.0 (#2733) the dispatch
|
||
marks the subagent `GSTACK_SESSION_KIND=spawned` so its interactive gates
|
||
auto-choose the recommended option. Subagent failure is non-blocking. The
|
||
skeleton names "the /document-release subagent" at three touchpoints
|
||
(section-index trigger + STOP pointer, Step 17 handoff, hoisted doc-sync
|
||
invariant). Pinned by `test/ship-document-release-dispatch.test.ts` +
|
||
carve-guards anchors; behavior proven by the `ship-docsync` gate E2E
|
||
(`test/skill-e2e-ship-docsync.test.ts`) and the spawned-dispatch gate E2E
|
||
(`test/skill-e2e-docsync-spawned.test.ts`).
|
||
|
||
### Machine-checkable Step 18 dispatch receipt in /ship's Section self-check
|
||
|
||
**What:** Make ship's "Section self-check" verify a document-release dispatch
|
||
actually occurred (a machine-checkable marker/receipt), instead of relying on
|
||
prompt-level invariants alone.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Prompt wording deters skipping but can't prove the dispatch happened.
|
||
Two residual gaps from the v1.69 review are folded into this scope: (1) an
|
||
agent invoking `/document-release` inline via the Skill tool bypasses the
|
||
fresh-context subagent + JSON contract and no test can see it; (2) the ship
|
||
RE-RUN path names document-release in the re-run list but no test asserts
|
||
doc-sync on re-run.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** The `ship-docsync` E2E asserts the dispatch tool-call on the
|
||
primary path; this TODO is the enforcement layer beyond wording. Start from
|
||
ship's Section self-check (ship/SKILL.md.tmpl) and the Step 18 parent
|
||
processing in ship/sections/pr-body.md.tmpl.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M (human) → S (CC+gstack)
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
**Depends on:** ship-docsync E2E landed
|
||
|
||
### Apply the dispatch-pin + E2E pattern to /land-and-deploy → /canary
|
||
|
||
**What:** Same treatment ship→document-release got: name the handoff at the
|
||
skeleton decision points, pin with carve-guards anchors + a free tripwire,
|
||
prove with a toolCalls-assert E2E.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Identical failure class — a carve or reword can silently strand the
|
||
canary handoff out of the always-loaded skeleton, and nothing tests it today.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Model files: `test/ship-document-release-dispatch.test.ts` (free
|
||
pin) and `test/skill-e2e-ship-docsync.test.ts` (dispatch E2E, gate tier).
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M (human) → S (CC+gstack)
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
**Depends on:** None
|
||
|
||
### CI gate-lane hollow-coverage burn-down (evals.yml matrix)
|
||
|
||
**What:** `test/evals-workflow-matrix.test.ts` (added v1.70.1.0) ratchets two
|
||
pre-existing CI coverage holes; burn them down. (1) Eight gate-hosting test
|
||
files have no `evals.yml` matrix row, so CI never runs them
|
||
(`KNOWN_MATRIX_GAPS` in the test enumerates them — notably the plan-mode and
|
||
finding-floor smokes and the AUQ format-compliance gate). (2) Four matrix rows
|
||
point at whole-file tier-gated files but set no row `tier:` property, so with
|
||
`EVALS_TIER` unexported those suites self-skip: `codex-e2e` runs
|
||
ZERO tests and report green on every PR (vestigial rows; the periodic cron
|
||
lane owns them — consider deleting the rows), and `e2e-pty-plan-smoke` spends
|
||
~7 min on setup then skips every describe (hollow-green since the files
|
||
adopted `describeE2ETier('gate')` — set `tier: gate` on the row to reactivate,
|
||
after confirming the smokes still pass).
|
||
|
||
**Why:** "Gate tier blocks merge" is silently false for these files. Each fix
|
||
is a deliberate cost/flake decision (activating paid suites on every PR), so
|
||
they're enumerated instead of drive-by-fixed. The mechanism already exists:
|
||
per-row `tier:` property, exported as `EVALS_TIER` by the Run step.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Found 2026-08-26 on PR #2700 while adding the `ship-docsync` row.
|
||
Fix = add/adjust the matrix row, then DELETE the corresponding burn-down entry
|
||
(the tripwire fails on stale entries, so cleanup is enforced).
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S per file (mechanical) + one burn-in run each to confirm green
|
||
**Priority:** P2
|
||
**Depends on:** None
|
||
|
||
### Periodic paid-test shard census is one ungated file from the detach-timeout floor
|
||
|
||
**What:** The periodic tier's shard census is 67 files — one ungated slot below
|
||
the 68-file (17×4) ceiling. The next paid `skill-e2e-*` file WITHOUT a
|
||
whole-file `describeE2ETier` self-gate lands at 68 (still 17 waves, floor
|
||
32,130s ≤ 32,400s — passes); the SECOND ungated file trips 18 waves → 34,020s
|
||
floor > the 32,400s configured detach timeout, and
|
||
`test/eval-detach-timeout-floor.test.ts` fails with a confusing message.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Whoever adds the second ungated periodic E2E gets a floor failure
|
||
unrelated to their change. Fix options: raise the periodic detach timeout, or
|
||
enforce whole-file tier self-gates on all paid files (upgrades them from the
|
||
tier-alignment warn-only bucket to the hard invariant, and — bonus — restores
|
||
tierless `bun run test:evals` coverage decisions to diff selection alone).
|
||
|
||
**Context:** `scripts/test-paid-shards.ts` `classifyPaidTestFile` counts
|
||
ungated files in both tiers; `ship-docsync` composed `describeE2ETier('gate')`
|
||
with diff selection specifically to avoid consuming the last free slot.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
**Depends on:** None
|
||
|
||
### `{{DOC_VOICE}}` shared resolver
|
||
|
||
**What:** Create a placeholder resolver in gen-skill-docs.ts encoding the gstack voice guide (friendly, user-forward, lead with benefits). Inject into /ship Step 5, /document-release Step 5, and reference from CLAUDE.md.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** DRY — voice rules currently live inline in 3 places (CLAUDE.md CHANGELOG style section, /ship Step 5, /document-release Step 5). When the voice evolves, all three drift.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Same pattern as `{{QA_METHODOLOGY}}` — shared block injected into multiple templates to prevent drift. ~20 lines in gen-skill-docs.ts.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S
|
||
**Priority:** P2
|
||
**Depends on:** None
|
||
|
||
## Ship Confidence Dashboard
|
||
|
||
### Smart review relevance detection — PARTIALLY SHIPPED
|
||
|
||
~~**What:** Auto-detect which of the 4 reviews are relevant based on branch changes (skip Design Review if no CSS/view changes, skip Code Review if plan-only).~~
|
||
|
||
`bin/gstack-diff-scope` shipped — categorizes diff into SCOPE_FRONTEND, SCOPE_BACKEND, SCOPE_PROMPTS, SCOPE_TESTS, SCOPE_DOCS, SCOPE_CONFIG. Used by design-review-lite to skip when no frontend files changed. Dashboard integration for conditional row display is a follow-up.
|
||
|
||
**Remaining:** Dashboard conditional row display (hide "Design Review: NOT YET RUN" when SCOPE_FRONTEND=false). Extend to Eng Review (skip for docs-only) and CEO Review (skip for config-only).
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
**Depends on:** gstack-diff-scope (shipped)
|
||
|
||
|
||
## Completeness
|
||
|
||
### Completeness metrics dashboard
|
||
|
||
**What:** Track how often Claude chooses the complete option vs shortcut across gstack sessions. Aggregate into a dashboard showing completeness trend over time.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Without measurement, we can't know if the Completeness Principle is working. Could surface patterns (e.g., certain skills still bias toward shortcuts).
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Would require logging choices (e.g., append to a JSONL file when AskUserQuestion resolves), parsing them, and displaying trends. Similar pattern to eval persistence.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M (human) / S (CC)
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
**Depends on:** Boil the Lake shipped (v0.6.1)
|
||
|
||
## Safety & Observability
|
||
|
||
### On-demand hook skills (/careful, /freeze, /guard) — SHIPPED
|
||
|
||
~~**What:** Three new skills that use Claude Code's session-scoped PreToolUse hooks to add safety guardrails on demand.~~
|
||
|
||
Shipped as `/careful`, `/freeze`, `/guard`, and `/unfreeze` in v0.6.5. Includes hook fire-rate telemetry (pattern name only, no command content) and inline skill activation telemetry.
|
||
|
||
### Skill usage telemetry — SHIPPED
|
||
|
||
~~**What:** Track which skills get invoked, how often, from which repo.~~
|
||
|
||
Shipped in v0.6.5. TemplateContext in gen-skill-docs.ts bakes skill name into preamble telemetry line. Analytics CLI (`bun run analytics`) for querying. /retro integration shows skills-used-this-week.
|
||
|
||
### /investigate scoped debugging enhancements (gated on telemetry)
|
||
|
||
**What:** Six enhancements to /investigate auto-freeze, contingent on telemetry showing the freeze hook actually fires in real debugging sessions.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** /investigate v0.7.1 auto-freezes edits to the module being debugged. If telemetry shows the hook fires often, these enhancements make the experience smarter. If it never fires, the problem wasn't real and these aren't worth building.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** All items are prose additions to `investigate/SKILL.md.tmpl`. No new scripts.
|
||
|
||
**Items:**
|
||
1. Stack trace auto-detection for freeze directory (parse deepest app frame)
|
||
2. Freeze boundary widening (ask to widen instead of hard-block when hitting boundary)
|
||
3. Post-fix auto-unfreeze + full test suite run
|
||
4. Debug instrumentation cleanup (tag with DEBUG-TEMP, remove before commit)
|
||
5. Debug session persistence (~/.gstack/investigate-sessions/ — save investigation for reuse)
|
||
6. Investigation timeline in debug report (hypothesis log with timing)
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M (all 6 combined)
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
**Depends on:** Telemetry data showing freeze hook fires in real /investigate sessions
|
||
|
||
## Context Intelligence
|
||
|
||
### Context recovery preamble
|
||
|
||
**What:** Add ~10 lines of prose to the preamble telling the agent to re-read gstack artifacts (CEO plans, design reviews, eng reviews, checkpoints) after compaction or context degradation.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** gstack skills produce valuable artifacts stored at `~/.gstack/projects/$SLUG/`. When Claude's auto-compaction fires, it preserves a generic summary but doesn't know these artifacts exist. The plans and reviews that shaped the current work silently vanish from context, even though they're still on disk. This is the thing nobody else in the Claude Code ecosystem is solving, because nobody else has gstack's artifact architecture.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Inspired by Anthropic's `claude-progress.txt` pattern for long-running agents. Also informed by claude-mem's "progressive disclosure" approach. See `docs/designs/SESSION_INTELLIGENCE.md` for the broader vision. CEO plan: `~/.gstack/projects/garrytan-gstack/ceo-plans/2026-03-31-session-intelligence-layer.md`.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S (human: ~30 min / CC: ~5 min)
|
||
**Priority:** P1
|
||
**Depends on:** None
|
||
**Key files:** `scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts`
|
||
|
||
### Session timeline
|
||
|
||
**What:** Append one-line JSONL entry to `~/.gstack/projects/$SLUG/timeline.jsonl` after every skill run (timestamp, skill, branch, outcome). `/retro` renders the timeline.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Makes AI-assisted work history visible. `/retro` can show "this week: 3 /review, 2 /ship, 1 /investigate." Provides the observability layer for the session intelligence architecture.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S (human: ~1h / CC: ~5 min)
|
||
**Priority:** P1
|
||
**Depends on:** None
|
||
**Key files:** `scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts`, `retro/SKILL.md.tmpl`
|
||
|
||
### Cross-session context injection
|
||
|
||
**What:** When a new gstack session starts on a branch with recent checkpoints or plans, the preamble prints a one-line summary: "Last session: implemented JWT auth, 3/5 tasks done." Agent knows where you left off before reading any files.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Claude starts every session fresh. This one-liner orients the agent immediately. Similar to claude-mem's SessionStart hook pattern but simpler and integrated.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S (human: ~2h / CC: ~10 min)
|
||
**Priority:** P2
|
||
**Depends on:** Context recovery preamble
|
||
|
||
### /checkpoint skill
|
||
|
||
**What:** Manual skill to snapshot current working state: what's being done and why, files being edited, decisions made (and rationale), what's done vs. remaining, critical types/signatures. Saved to `~/.gstack/projects/$SLUG/checkpoints/<timestamp>.md`.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Useful before stepping away from a long session, before known-complex operations that might trigger compaction, for handing off context to a different agent/workspace, or coming back to a project after days away.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M (human: ~1 week / CC: ~30 min)
|
||
**Priority:** P2
|
||
**Depends on:** Context recovery preamble
|
||
**Key files:** New `checkpoint/SKILL.md.tmpl`, `scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts`
|
||
|
||
### Session Intelligence Layer design doc
|
||
|
||
**What:** Write `docs/designs/SESSION_INTELLIGENCE.md` describing the architectural vision: gstack as the persistent brain that survives Claude's ephemeral context. Every skill writes to `~/.gstack/projects/$SLUG/`, preamble re-reads, `/retro` rolls up.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Connects context recovery, health, checkpoint, and timeline features into a coherent architecture. Nobody else in the ecosystem is building this.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S (human: ~2h / CC: ~15 min)
|
||
**Priority:** P1
|
||
**Depends on:** None
|
||
|
||
## Health
|
||
|
||
### /health — Project Health Dashboard
|
||
|
||
**What:** Skill that runs type-check, lint, test suite, and dead code scan, then reports a composite 0-10 health score with breakdown by category. Tracks over time in `~/.gstack/health/<project-slug>/` for trend detection. Optionally integrates CodeScene MCP for deeper complexity/cohesion/coupling analysis.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** No quick way to get "state of the codebase" before starting work. CodeScene peer-reviewed research shows AI-generated code increases static analysis warnings by 30%, code complexity by 41%, and change failure rates by 30%. Users need guardrails. Like `/qa` but for code quality rather than browser behavior.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Reads CLAUDE.md for project-specific commands (platform-agnostic principle). Runs checks in parallel. `/retro` can pull from health history for trend sparklines.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M (human: ~1 week / CC: ~30 min)
|
||
**Priority:** P1
|
||
**Depends on:** None
|
||
**Key files:** New `health/SKILL.md.tmpl`, `scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts`
|
||
|
||
### /health as /ship gate
|
||
|
||
**What:** If health score exists and drops below a configurable threshold, `/ship` warns before creating the PR: "Health dropped from 8/10 to 5/10 this branch — 3 new lint warnings, 1 test failure. Ship anyway?"
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Quality gate that prevents shipping degraded code. Configurable threshold so it's not blocking for teams that don't use `/health`.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S (human: ~1h / CC: ~5 min)
|
||
**Priority:** P2
|
||
**Depends on:** /health skill
|
||
|
||
## Swarm
|
||
|
||
### Swarm primitive — reusable multi-agent dispatch
|
||
|
||
**What:** Extract Review Army's dispatch pattern into a reusable resolver (`scripts/resolvers/swarm.ts`). Wire into `/ship` for parallel pre-ship checks (type-check + lint + test in parallel sub-agents). Make available to `/qa`, `/investigate`, `/health`.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Review Army proved parallel sub-agents work brilliantly (5 agents = 835K tokens of working memory vs. 167K for one). The pattern is locked inside `review-army.ts`. Other skills need it too. Claude Code Agent Teams (official, Feb 2026) validates the team-lead-delegates-to-specialists pattern. Gartner: multi-agent inquiries surged 1,445% in one year.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Start with the specific `/ship` use case. Extract shared parts only after 2+ consumers reveal what config parameters are actually needed. Avoid premature abstraction. Can leverage existing WorktreeManager for isolation.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** L (human: ~2 weeks / CC: ~2 hours)
|
||
**Priority:** P2
|
||
**Depends on:** None
|
||
**Key files:** `scripts/resolvers/review-army.ts`, new `scripts/resolvers/swarm.ts`, `ship/SKILL.md.tmpl`, `lib/worktree.ts`
|
||
|
||
## Refactoring
|
||
|
||
### /refactor-prep — Pre-Refactor Token Hygiene
|
||
|
||
**What:** Skill that detects project language/framework, runs appropriate dead code detection (knip/ts-prune for TS/JS, vulture/autoflake for Python, staticcheck/deadcode for Go, cargo udeps for Rust), strips dead imports/exports/props/console.logs, and commits cleanup separately.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Dirty codebases accelerate context compaction. Dead imports, unused exports, and orphaned code eat tokens that contribute nothing but everything to triggering compaction mid-refactor. Cleaning first buys back 20%+ of context budget. Reports lines removed and estimated token savings.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M (human: ~1 week / CC: ~30 min)
|
||
**Priority:** P2
|
||
**Depends on:** None
|
||
**Key files:** New `refactor-prep/SKILL.md.tmpl`, `scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts`
|
||
|
||
## Factory Droid
|
||
|
||
### Browse MCP server for Factory Droid
|
||
|
||
**What:** Expose gstack's browse binary and key workflows as an MCP server that Factory Droid connects to natively. Factory users would run /mcp, add the gstack server, and get browse, QA, and review capabilities as Factory tools.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Factory already supports 40+ MCP servers in its registry. Getting gstack's browse binary listed there is a distribution play. Nobody else has a real compiled browser binary as an MCP tool. This is the thing that makes gstack uniquely valuable on Factory Droid.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Option A (--host factory compatibility shim) ships first in v0.13.4.0. Option B is the follow-up that provides deeper integration. The browse binary is already a stateless CLI, so wrapping it as an MCP server is straightforward (stdin/stdout JSON-RPC). Each browse command becomes an MCP tool.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** L (human: ~1 week / CC: ~5 hours)
|
||
**Priority:** P1
|
||
**Depends on:** --host factory (Option A, shipping in v0.13.4.0)
|
||
|
||
### .agent/skills/ dual output for cross-agent compatibility
|
||
|
||
**What:** Factory also reads from `<repo>/.agent/skills/` as a cross-agent compatibility path. Could output there in addition to `.factory/skills/` for broader reach across other agents that use the `.agent` convention.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Multiple AI agents beyond Factory may adopt the `.agent/skills/` convention. Outputting there too would give free compatibility.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
**Depends on:** --host factory
|
||
|
||
### Custom Droid definitions alongside skills
|
||
|
||
**What:** Factory has "custom droids" (subagents with tool restrictions, model selection, autonomy levels). Could ship `gstack-qa.md` droid configs alongside skills that restrict tools to read-only + execute for safety.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Deeper Factory integration. Droid configs give Factory users tighter control over what gstack skills can do.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
**Depends on:** --host factory
|
||
|
||
## GStack Browser
|
||
|
||
### Anti-bot stealth: Playwright CDP patches (rebrowser-style)
|
||
|
||
**What:** Write a postinstall script that patches Playwright's CDP layer to suppress `Runtime.enable` and use `addBinding` for context ID discovery, same approach as rebrowser-patches. Eliminates the `navigator.webdriver`, `cdc_` markers, and other CDP artifacts that sites like Google use to detect automation.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** As of v1.58.3.0 our JS-layer stealth is "Layer C" — always-on `navigator.webdriver` mask + `window.chrome.*` shape + `Notification.permission`/Permissions alignment + per-install `hardwareConcurrency`/`deviceMemory` + a `Function.prototype.toString` proxy + an automation-global sweep + ChromeDriver `cdc_`/`__webdriver` cleanup (still NOT faking plugins/languages, since modern fingerprinters punish inconsistent fakes more than they punish admitted defaults). That closes most JS-observable tells, but Google still triggers captchas because the deepest detection is at the CDP protocol level, which a page-world init script can't reach. rebrowser-patches proved the CDP approach works but their patches target Playwright 1.52.0 and don't apply to our 1.58.2. We need our own patcher using string matching instead of line-number diffs. 6 files, ~200 lines of patches total. (Layer C's toString proxy still has descriptor/Reflect.ownKeys surfaces; pushing the spoofs to native code via CDP suppression or the Chromium fork makes the JS layer obsolete.)
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Full analysis of rebrowser-patches source: patches 6 files in `playwright-core/lib/server/` (crConnection.js, crDevTools.js, crPage.js, crServiceWorker.js, frames.js, page.js). Key technique: suppress `Runtime.enable` (the main CDP detection vector), use `Runtime.addBinding` + `CustomEvent` trick to discover execution context IDs without it. Our extension communicates via Chrome extension APIs, not CDP Runtime, so it should be unaffected. Write E2E tests that verify: (1) extension still loads and connects, (2) Google.com loads without captcha, (3) sidebar chat still works.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** L (human: ~2 weeks / CC: ~3 hours)
|
||
**Priority:** P1
|
||
**Depends on:** None
|
||
|
||
### Chromium fork (long-term alternative to CDP patches)
|
||
|
||
**What:** Maintain a Chromium fork where anti-bot stealth, GStack Browser branding, and native sidebar support live in the source code, not as runtime monkey-patches.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** The CDP patches are brittle. They break on every Playwright upgrade and target compiled JS with fragile string matching. A proper fork means: (1) stealth is permanent, not patched, (2) branding is native (no plist hacking at launch), (3) native sidebar replaces the extension (Phase 4 of V0 roadmap), (4) custom protocols (gstack://) for internal pages. Companies like Brave, Arc, and Vivaldi maintain Chromium forks with small teams. With CC, the rebase-on-upstream maintenance could be largely automated.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Trigger criteria from V0 design doc: fork when extension side panel becomes the bottleneck, when anti-bot patches need to live deeper than CDP, or when native UI integration (sidebar, status bar) can't be done via extension. The Chromium build takes ~4 hours on a 32-core machine and produces ~50GB of build artifacts. CI would need dedicated build infra. See `docs/designs/GSTACK_BROWSER_V0.md` Phase 5 for full analysis.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** XL (human: ~1 quarter / CC: ~2-3 weeks of focused work)
|
||
**Priority:** P2
|
||
**Depends on:** CDP patches proving the value of anti-bot stealth first
|
||
|
||
## /spec follow-ups (deferred from v1.47.0.0 via /plan-ceo-review SCOPE EXPANSION)
|
||
|
||
### P2: `/spec --epic` mode (parent issue + child issues + dependency graph)
|
||
|
||
**Priority:** P2
|
||
|
||
**What:** Add `--epic` flag that produces an Epic issue (parent) plus N child issues with explicit dependency graph and topological order. Emits multiple `gh issue create` calls with parent linkage in child bodies.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Multi-week initiatives often span 3-5 specs that share context but ship sequentially. Today `/spec --epic` would let users author the full initiative in one session and file all linked issues atomically. The Epic template already exists in `spec/SKILL.md.tmpl` (carried over from PR #1698); only the flag routing + multi-issue `gh` orchestration is missing.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:**
|
||
- Closes the multi-issue workflow gap that `/spec` v1 doesn't cover.
|
||
- Parent + child linkage means project boards show the full initiative at-a-glance.
|
||
- Composes cleanly with existing `--execute` (spawn an agent on the parent epic; agent files children as it works).
|
||
|
||
**Cons:**
|
||
- More gh API surface (one create per child, parent-link edit pass).
|
||
- Dependency-graph rendering in markdown is fiddly across GitHub vs GitLab renderers.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Considered in `/plan-ceo-review` SCOPE EXPANSION (D5), deferred 2026-05-25 in favor of shipping the 5 critical-path expansions (--execute, --dedupe, archive, quality gate, --audit). Re-evaluate once v1.47 ships and we see how often users hit "this should be 3 issues" in real /spec sessions.
|
||
|
||
**Depends on:** v1.47.0.0 `/spec` lands first; need real usage data to calibrate the multi-issue surface.
|
||
|
||
### P3: `/spec --dedupe` semantic matching (LLM-based) for v1.1
|
||
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
|
||
**What:** Upgrade `--dedupe`'s string match against `gh issue list --search` to LLM-based semantic similarity. Today's v1 picks string overlap on title keywords; semantic match would catch "the sidebar terminal flakes on reload" matching an existing issue titled "PTY reconnect fails after extension restart" where keyword overlap is zero.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** String match has high precision but low recall — it misses near-duplicates with different vocabulary. LLM semantic match catches more dupes but costs ~$0.01-0.05 per spec dispatch and adds 5-10s latency.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:**
|
||
- Catches dupes string match misses.
|
||
- One more reason `/spec` is more useful than freehand authoring.
|
||
|
||
**Cons:**
|
||
- Paid + slower. Most v1 users probably don't hit enough false-negatives to justify the cost.
|
||
- Adds another LLM-judged decision to a skill that already has the quality gate.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Considered in `/plan-ceo-review` build-time decisions; chose string match for v1 to keep the dedupe path free + fast. Revisit if v1 produces a meaningful false-negative rate in real use.
|
||
|
||
**Depends on:** v1.47.0.0 ships; gather real false-negative data from the v1 string matcher.
|
||
|
||
## Test/evals/CI speedup follow-ups (filed v1.66.0.0 via /ship review army)
|
||
|
||
### P2: Free-suite shard balancing — LPT by recorded durations instead of stable hash
|
||
|
||
**What:** Full-suite shard assignment is a stable hash; measured shard durations
|
||
spread 69.5s-168.5s (max 2.4x min), so ~35-40s of every run is idle tail. Local
|
||
full-suite mode doesn't need deterministic indices (only the CI --shards matrix
|
||
does) — bin-pack by recorded per-file durations (bun prints them in the logs the
|
||
runner already captures), keep assignFilesToShards untouched for --shard mode.
|
||
**Where:** scripts/test-free-shards.ts main() full-suite path.
|
||
**Effort:** S (human ~4h, CC ~20min).
|
||
|
||
### P2: Propagate parent eval selection to shard children (EVALS_SELECTION_JSON)
|
||
|
||
**What:** The sharded paid runner computes selection once in the parent, but each
|
||
shard child re-derives it at e2e-helpers module load (git spawns per shard; plus a
|
||
bun child evaluating the old touchfiles-data when map-diff is active). Serialize
|
||
the parent's selection into the child env and honor it in computeDiffSelection,
|
||
keeping child self-derivation for non-sharded entrypoints. Add a parent/child
|
||
selection drift test (same fixture through computePaidDiffSelection and
|
||
computeDiffSelection) while there.
|
||
**Where:** scripts/test-paid-shards.ts runPaidShards env block; test/helpers/e2e-helpers.ts.
|
||
**Effort:** S (human ~4h, CC ~20min).
|
||
|
||
### P2: evals.yml matrix census tripwire — gate files must appear in the CI matrix
|
||
|
||
**What:** The branch's headline incident (two rehomed gate files silently never ran
|
||
for 48 versions because the monolith's filename missed the hand-listed evals.yml
|
||
matrix) has no tripwire binding gate-tier skill-e2e files to the matrix.
|
||
e2e-tier-alignment covers the LOCAL sharded runner's mapper; the CI matrix can
|
||
still drift. Parse the workflow YAML in a free test and diff against E2E_TIERS
|
||
gate files (curated exclude list for deliberately-manual files).
|
||
**Where:** new test beside test/e2e-tier-alignment.test.ts; .github/workflows/evals.yml.
|
||
**Effort:** S (human ~3h, CC ~15min).
|
||
|
||
### P2: E2E dep-list self-registration sweep — 129 of 177 keys omit their own test file
|
||
|
||
**What:** Editing only a test's assertions/prompt selects nothing for most keys
|
||
(the adversarial review measured 129/177), and parent-side shard skipping makes
|
||
the hole cheaper to hit. This branch fixed the rehomed files' keys; sweep the
|
||
rest mechanically (each key's dep list appends the file that declares it) and
|
||
upgrade e2e-tier-alignment's report-only mode to enforce self-registration.
|
||
**Where:** test/helpers/touchfiles-data.ts; test/e2e-tier-alignment.test.ts.
|
||
**Effort:** S (human ~3h, CC ~15min).
|
||
|
||
### P3: Paid runner spools non-live shard output to disk instead of RAM
|
||
|
||
**What:** Non-live shards buffer their entire 30-min stream-json stdout+stderr in
|
||
memory (Buffer[]), x jobs concurrent shards. Spool to a temp file like the free
|
||
runner's per-run log.
|
||
**Where:** scripts/test-paid-shards.ts runPaidShard buffered path.
|
||
**Effort:** S (human ~2h, CC ~10min).
|
||
|
||
### P3: Eval Docker image freshness tripwire
|
||
|
||
**What:** The cache-key trio means the image rebuilds only when Dockerfile/bun.lock
|
||
change; freshness of the baked unpinned claude CLI now rides entirely on
|
||
ci-image.yml's cron. If the cron silently fails or is disabled, eval CI pins to an
|
||
ever-older CLI with no signal. Add an image-age check (fail the eval workflow when
|
||
the image tag's created date exceeds N days) or a cron-liveness alert.
|
||
**Where:** .github/workflows/ci-image.yml, evals.yml.
|
||
**Effort:** S (human ~2h, CC ~10min).
|
||
|
||
### P3: Detach-floor self-check against runtime knobs (EVALS_JOBS)
|
||
|
||
**What:** test/eval-detach-timeout-floor.test.ts computes the worst case from
|
||
constants; an operator exporting EVALS_JOBS=2 doubles the gate worst case past the
|
||
25,200s watchdog and healthy tail shards report never-started. Add a runtime
|
||
self-check in test-paid-shards main(): warn/fail when the computed worst case with
|
||
LIVE options exceeds a GSTACK_DETACH_TIMEOUT env exported by gstack-detach.
|
||
**Where:** scripts/test-paid-shards.ts; bin/gstack-detach.
|
||
**Effort:** S (human ~2h, CC ~10min).
|
||
|
||
### P3: Eval store records the effective judge/capture model per run
|
||
|
||
**What:** Model defaults moved (capture Opus→Sonnet) and GSTACK_EVAL_MODEL_JUDGE
|
||
can silently change graders; eval:compare deltas across a model boundary conflate
|
||
model swap with skill regressions. Record the resolved models in the eval-store
|
||
record and surface them in eval:compare.
|
||
**Where:** test/helpers/eval-store.ts, llm-judge.ts, eval-compare.
|
||
**Effort:** S (human ~2h, CC ~10min).
|
||
|
||
### P3: SECURITY_BENCH periodic lane — classifier behavioral coverage runs nowhere
|
||
|
||
**What:** Gating the live L4 classifier tests on SECURITY_BENCH=1 fixed local
|
||
suite speed but left the prompt-injection classifier with no scheduled lane.
|
||
Add SECURITY_BENCH=1 (with model-cache warmup, 112MB first run) to
|
||
evals-periodic.yml so behavioral coverage exists weekly.
|
||
**Where:** .github/workflows/evals-periodic.yml; browse/test/security-live-playwright.test.ts.
|
||
**Effort:** S (human ~2h, CC ~10min).
|
||
|
||
### P3: Shared child-lifecycle helper for the two shard runners
|
||
|
||
**What:** runFreeShard and runPaidShard duplicate ~35 lines of spawn/group-kill/
|
||
wall-timer scaffold verbatim (and the ShardCommand type). Extract into
|
||
scripts/test-strict-output.ts, which already hosts the shared lifecycle
|
||
primitives, leaving stream policy per runner.
|
||
**Where:** scripts/test-free-shards.ts, scripts/test-paid-shards.ts.
|
||
**Effort:** S (human ~3h, CC ~15min).
|
||
|
||
### P3: DI-refactor gstack-gbrain-detect-mcp-mode test (~40s spawn cost, absorbed but real)
|
||
|
||
**What:** Plan item 5 of the v1.66.0.0 pass, deferred: the test spawns the real
|
||
binary repeatedly. Refactor to import the module with a DI-injected exec seam
|
||
(never env-set-before-import), keep 1-2 spawn smokes. Cost is currently absorbed
|
||
by shard parallelism; the per-file wall cost remains.
|
||
**Where:** test/gstack-gbrain-detect-mcp-mode.test.ts.
|
||
**Effort:** S (human ~2h, CC ~15min).
|
||
|
||
### P2: In-shard eval concurrency (40) is the shared root of the timeout-flake family
|
||
|
||
**What:** Every timeout-flake member on PR #2593 (document-release 180s->300s,
|
||
review-dashboard-via 300s->360s after PR #2472's 180s->300s, retro-base-branch
|
||
240s->360s) shares one story: claude session STARTUP queues behind up to 39
|
||
siblings under evals.yml's `--max-concurrency 40`, eating the per-test budget
|
||
before the first turn. Per-test ratchets treat symptoms. Systemic options:
|
||
(a) drop in-shard concurrency to ~15-20 and measure the wall-clock cost,
|
||
(b) startup-aware budgets (start the timer at first turn, not spawn),
|
||
(c) per-row concurrency overrides like the retries field. Receipts: the
|
||
PR #2593 flake ledger comment.
|
||
**Where:** .github/workflows/evals.yml:309 (--max-concurrency 40);
|
||
test/helpers/session-runner.ts (budget start point).
|
||
**Effort:** M (human ~1d, CC ~45min + measurement rounds).
|
||
|
||
### P2: plan-design-review scope-gate detector is marginal under CI contention
|
||
|
||
**What:** `plan-design-review reaches a terminal outcome outside plan mode`
|
||
(test/skill-e2e-plan-mode-no-op.test.ts) intermittently fails ONLY the
|
||
`scopeGateQuestionObserved` check on unchanged code — PR #2593 CI: failed
|
||
rounds 3/11 + one rerun, passed rounds 5/6, all attempts reaching a terminal
|
||
outcome with no plan-mode leak. Hypothesis: the PTY detector anchors on a
|
||
render shape that scrolls out or gets rephrased under 40-way in-shard
|
||
contention. The assertion now throws WITH the last-2KB evidence tail, so the
|
||
next CI failure carries the screen contents; fix the detector (scan full
|
||
scrollback, or widen the anchored shape) from that data.
|
||
|
||
**Where:** test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts (scopeGateQuestionObserved
|
||
detector), test/skill-e2e-plan-mode-no-op.test.ts.
|
||
**Effort:** S (human ~3h, CC ~20min + one CI round with evidence).
|
||
|
||
### P3: Diagnose the browser-manager-unit wedge on windows-latest
|
||
|
||
**What:** The expanded Windows lane wedges to its wall deadline inside
|
||
browse/test/browser-manager-unit.test.ts (in-flight at kill, PR #2593 run
|
||
31919227507); the file is green on macOS and Linux. Excluded from the Windows
|
||
curation with a receipt; needs a Windows repro to find which describe hangs
|
||
(fake-timer/unref semantics under bun-windows are the suspects).
|
||
**Where:** browse/test/browser-manager-unit.test.ts; scripts/test-free-shards.ts
|
||
KNOWN_WINDOWS_INCOMPATIBLE (remove the entry once fixed).
|
||
**Effort:** S (human ~2h with a Windows box, CC ~15min + CI rounds).
|
||
|
||
### P3: skill-census Windows compatibility
|
||
|
||
**What:** skillCensus() throws at module load on windows-latest
|
||
(test/helpers/skill-census.ts:63) — the skills-tree symlink layout needs
|
||
Developer Mode CI runners lack. Either branch the census walk on win32
|
||
(treat copy-dirs as the setup script's _link_or_copy fallback produces) or
|
||
keep the exclusion. Consumers (catalog budget, coverage matrix) currently
|
||
have no Windows signal.
|
||
**Where:** test/helpers/skill-census.ts; test/skill-census.test.ts.
|
||
**Effort:** S (human ~3h, CC ~20min + CI rounds).
|
||
|
||
### P3: Tighten revived coverage-audit E2E assertions
|
||
|
||
**What:** The revived skill-e2e-coverage-audit tests assert hasGap OR hasTested
|
||
(near-vacuous) and reference skill sections their own DRIFT WARNING says moved.
|
||
Tighten to conjunctive assertions and retarget the prompts at live sections;
|
||
needs one paid run to validate, so it didn't ride the ship.
|
||
**Where:** test/skill-e2e-coverage-audit.test.ts.
|
||
**Effort:** S (human ~2h, CC ~15min + one paid run).
|
||
|
||
## Completed
|
||
|
||
### #2701 cookie-import profile pills (Local State info_cache)
|
||
|
||
Current Local State names take precedence, Preferences/directory fallbacks remain,
|
||
and Default sorts before numbered profiles in numeric order. Directory labels
|
||
distinguish duplicate names.
|
||
|
||
**Completed:** v1.90.0.0 (2026-09-24)
|
||
|
||
### Reconcile the registered Opus 4.7 overlay efficacy gates
|
||
|
||
**What:** Revisit the two registered fanout experiments against the current overlay
|
||
and record an evidence-based decision about their intended effect before release.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** The paid gates require a fanout lift of at least 0.5, but the overlay's
|
||
fanout nudge was removed in v1.10.1.0 after it reduced parallel tool use. Keeping
|
||
an unsupported effect expectation makes the periodic suite fail without showing
|
||
a regression in harness-aware outside reviews.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Found on `edinburgh-v1` during the 2026-09-09 ship eval. Both selected
|
||
`overlay-harness-opus-4-7-fanout-{toy,realistic}` cases failed through their retry
|
||
(`Expected: true; Received: false`). Correcting fragmented SDK message counting
|
||
still yields zero lift: toy ON/OFF = 3/3 tools; realistic ON/OFF = 4/4, across
|
||
10 saved trials per arm. The selected experiment inputs match `origin/main`
|
||
`71f6048e8ada25180e61438abc1d98cb151fe9a7`; no paid base-branch run was performed.
|
||
See the completed "Overlay efficacy harness + Opus 4.7 fanout nudge removal"
|
||
entry below and `test/fixtures/overlay-nudges.ts`. The current failure remains
|
||
reported; no effect threshold, model, overlay text, or pass result was changed.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M
|
||
**Priority:** P0
|
||
**Depends on:** None
|
||
|
||
**Completed:** v1.87.5.0 (2026-09-15)
|
||
|
||
**Policy disposition:** Contract v2 retires the unsupported fanout experiments and
|
||
records comparative efficacy separately from supported behavior checks. Historical
|
||
failures retain their original verdicts; this closes policy reconciliation only,
|
||
without claiming positive efficacy or paid acceptance. See
|
||
`docs/OVERLAY_BENCHMARK_CONTRACT.md`.
|
||
|
||
### Codex→Claude reverse buddy check skill
|
||
|
||
**What:** A Codex-native skill (`.agents/skills/gstack-claude/SKILL.md`) that runs `claude -p` to get an independent second opinion from Claude — the reverse of what `/codex` does today from Claude Code.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Codex users deserve the same cross-model challenge that Claude users get via `/codex`. Currently the flow is one-way (Claude→Codex). Codex users have no way to get a Claude second opinion.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** The `/codex` skill template (`codex/SKILL.md.tmpl`) shows the pattern — it wraps `codex exec` with JSONL parsing, timeout handling, and structured output. The reverse skill would wrap `claude -p` with similar infrastructure. Would be generated into `.agents/skills/gstack-claude/` by `gen-skill-docs --host codex`.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M (human: ~2 weeks / CC: ~30 min)
|
||
**Priority:** P1
|
||
**Depends on:** None
|
||
|
||
**Completed:** v1.86.0.0 (2026-09-11). Shipped as `/claude-code`, with automatic outside-review routing and safe installation migration.
|
||
|
||
### P3: Carve the always-loaded `{{PREAMBLE}}` reference blocks into an on-demand doc
|
||
|
||
**What:** The per-skill section carves (`/ship` v1.54, `/plan-ceo-review` v1.56) yield
|
||
real but bounded wins (-42% to -59% on the carved skill) because the shared
|
||
`{{PREAMBLE}}` (~40-50KB on every tier-3/4 skill) is the dominant always-loaded cost
|
||
and stays inline. Move the rarely-needed preamble REFERENCE blocks (the AskUserQuestion
|
||
split-rules and the CJK / lone-surrogate escaping reference) into an on-demand
|
||
section-style doc the agent reads only when it hits those edge cases, leaving the hot
|
||
path (voice, completeness principle, recommendation format) inline.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Highest-ROI remaining token target. One preamble carve helps EVERY tier-≥2
|
||
skill at once, not one skill per PR. The eng-review on the plan-ceo carve flagged that
|
||
per-skill carves stay modest precisely because the preamble dominates the always-loaded
|
||
surface.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** A single change reduces always-loaded cost across the whole skill pack.
|
||
**Cons:** The preamble is load-bearing and shared; a botched carve regresses every skill.
|
||
Needs the same union-parity + per-push freshness guards the section carves use, applied
|
||
corpus-wide.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Builds on the v2 section pipeline (`scripts/resolvers/sections.ts`,
|
||
`{{SECTION:id}}` / `{{SECTION_INDEX}}`). The preamble source is
|
||
`scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts`. Measure which sub-blocks are cold (escaping reference,
|
||
split-rules) vs hot (voice, recommendation format) before cutting. Validate on one skill,
|
||
then roll corpus-wide.
|
||
|
||
**Effort estimate:** L (human team) → M (CC+gstack)
|
||
**Priority:** P3
|
||
**Depends on / blocked by:** The section pipeline (shipped v1.54). No hard blocker.
|
||
**Completed:** v1.70.0.0 (2026-08-25) — delivered in a stronger form by the token-reduction program: preamble bash moved to `bin/gstack-skill-start`/`-end`, one-time onboarding became gated instruction blocks, AUQ reference rules point at on-demand docs, and 12 more skills got section carves (20 total). Wins locked by the context-budget ratchet.
|
||
|
||
|
||
### ✅ DONE (v1.69.0.0): `./setup --host slate` accepted but installs nothing
|
||
|
||
**Priority:** P4 (was filed as slate-only — shipped with the whole drift class gated)
|
||
|
||
**What:** `slate` passed host-arg validation but set no INSTALL_* flag, so the
|
||
run configured nothing and exited 0. Now an informational arm (points at
|
||
`--host claude`; per docs/designs/SLATE_HOST.md Slate reads `.claude/skills`
|
||
as a compatibility fallback), plus a zero-dispatch guard that errors loudly if
|
||
any future host is accepted without an install arm, plus a cross-check test
|
||
pinning accept-list ⊆ dispatch-arms against the hosts/index.ts registry.
|
||
|
||
**Completed:** v1.69.0.0 (2026-08-22)
|
||
|
||
### ✅ DONE (v1.69.0.0, gstack side): ZeroEntropy sunset detect + advisory
|
||
|
||
**Priority:** P1 (calendar-driven; gbrain-side migration remains open — see
|
||
NEXT PRIORITY)
|
||
|
||
**What:** Wireup warns when ~/.gbrain/config.json names the zeroentropyai
|
||
recipe (fail-open grep — never blocks a working setup); setup-gbrain provider
|
||
comments say never to select the legacy recipe; USING_GBRAIN_WITH_GSTACK.md
|
||
troubleshooting entry names the Sept 4, 2026 deadline and #2365.
|
||
|
||
**Completed:** v1.69.0.0 (2026-08-22)
|
||
|
||
### ✅ DONE (v1.68.1.0): Stop-hook registration pins the setup-time absolute path
|
||
|
||
**Priority:** P1 (was filed Effort S, scoped to the Stop hook — shipped as the full defect class)
|
||
|
||
**What:** Registering hooks from a dev worktree baked that worktree's physical
|
||
path into global settings.json; deleting the worktree left dead hooks erroring
|
||
on every AskUserQuestion/session stop. Fixed for ALL gstack hooks, not just
|
||
Stop: canonical-only registration via `_hook_command_path`, a KNOWN_HOOKS
|
||
identity table in `gstack-settings-hook` (survives Claude Code stripping
|
||
`_gstack_source` tags), a `prune-stale [--repoint|--all]` self-healer that
|
||
runs heal-first on every `./setup`, per-item mutation safety, a mutation lock,
|
||
fail-closed parse, and complete uninstall/no-team teardown.
|
||
|
||
**Completed:** v1.68.1.0 (2026-08-18)
|
||
|
||
### ✅ DONE (v1.66.0.0): Free suite exit code is untrustworthy — in-process force-exits mask failures
|
||
|
||
**Priority:** P1
|
||
|
||
**What:** At least five browse test files end with `setTimeout(() => process.exit(0), 500)`
|
||
(browse/test/commands.test.ts:101, snapshot.test.ts:36, batch.test.ts:47,
|
||
handoff.test.ts:31, content-security.test.ts:465). The timer fires inside the SHARED
|
||
`bun test` process, exiting 0 before bun prints its final summary — so `bun test` can
|
||
report exit 0 while real test failures scrolled by earlier. Remove the force-exits and
|
||
fix the underlying handle leaks they paper over (lingering Playwright/daemon handles
|
||
that once made the suite hang), or scope the exit to a spawned child process.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Observed 2026-08-07: three genuinely failing tests (eval-list-cli,
|
||
benchmark-cli, observability check 11) rode green `bun test` exit codes across
|
||
multiple runs; the failures only surfaced by grepping logs for "(fail)" lines. A test
|
||
suite that exits 0 on failure is worse than no suite — it manufactures false
|
||
confidence at commit time and in any CI job that trusts the exit code.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Restores the one contract everything (CI, /ship, humans) relies on: exit
|
||
code == truth. Also un-hides the missing final summary block.
|
||
**Cons:** The force-exits exist because the suite once hung on leaked handles;
|
||
removing them without fixing the leaks trades silent failure for hangs. Needs a
|
||
focused pass: find each leaked handle (daemon children, PTY, Playwright contexts),
|
||
close them in afterAll, then delete the exits one file at a time.
|
||
|
||
**Context / where to start:** `grep -rn "process.exit(0)" browse/test/` — the
|
||
setTimeout variants are the offenders (server-no-import-side-effects.test.ts:62 is a
|
||
spawned-child probe, fine). Repro: run the full free suite and note the log ends at
|
||
the browse files with no "Ran N tests" summary. Receipts:
|
||
~/.gstack-dev/logs/free-suite-main-check.log (3 masked fails, exit 0).
|
||
|
||
**Completed:** v1.66.0.0 (2026-08-15) — main's v1.64 removed the force-exits; v1.66.0.0 adds runner-level strict-output classification (a shard without bun's terminal summary FAILS), size-scaled wall deadlines, and the failure-naming epilogue, so exit code == truth is enforced by the runner, not by convention.
|
||
|
||
### Slim preamble + real-PTY plan-mode E2E harness (v1.13.1.0)
|
||
|
||
- Compressed 18 preamble resolvers; total `SKILL.md` corpus dropped from 3.08 MB to 2.30 MB across 47 outputs (-25.5%, ~196K tokens saved).
|
||
- Built `test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts` — real-PTY harness using `Bun.spawn({terminal:})` (Bun 1.3.10+ has built-in PTY, no `node-pty` needed).
|
||
- Rewrote 5 plan-mode E2E tests (`plan-ceo`, `plan-eng`, `plan-design`, `plan-devex`, `plan-mode-no-op`); all 5 pass for the first time ever (790s sequential).
|
||
- Same tests were 0/5 on `origin/main`, on v1.0.0.0, and on this branch with the SDK harness — the SDK couldn't observe Claude's plan-mode confirmation UI.
|
||
- Side fixes folded in: `scripts/skill-check.ts` sidecar-symlink helper, `test/skill-validation.test.ts` exemption for `browse/test/fixtures/security-bench-haiku-responses.json` (resolves the size-warning noise from main's warn-only conversion).
|
||
|
||
**Completed:** v1.13.1.0 (2026-04-25)
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
### Pre-existing test failures surfaced during v1.12.0.0 ship — RESOLVED
|
||
|
||
- `test/brain-sync.test.ts` GSTACK_HOME isolation fixed on main in v1.13.0.0.
|
||
- The Opus 4.7 overlay test (now a block in `test/model-overlays.test.ts`) updated on main to match the new overlay content (the v1.10.1.0 removal of "Fan out explicitly" was correct — measured −60pp fanout vs baseline).
|
||
|
||
**Completed:** v1.13.0.0 (2026-04-25, on main)
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
### `security-bench-haiku-responses.json` size gate — RESOLVED
|
||
|
||
- Main converted the 2 MB tracked-file gate to warn-only in v1.13.0.0.
|
||
- v1.13.1.0 added a `knownLargeFixtures` exemption to suppress the warning for this specific intentional fixture.
|
||
|
||
**Completed:** v1.13.1.0 (2026-04-25)
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
### Bearer-token secret-scan regression fixed + E2E coverage added for privacy gate + gh auto-create (v1.12.0.0)
|
||
|
||
- **Fixed the `bearer-token-json` regression in `bin/gstack-brain-sync`** — the value charset `[A-Za-z0-9_./+=-]{16,}` didn't permit spaces, so auth headers with the standard `Bearer <token>` form (literal space after the scheme name) slipped past the scanner. Added an optional `(Bearer |Basic |Token )?` prefix to the pattern. Validated against 5 positive cases (including the regression fixture) + 3 negative cases (short tokens, non-secret keys, random JSON). The 7-pattern secret scanner now passes all fixtures including bearer-json.
|
||
- **Added `test/gstack-brain-init-gh-mock.test.ts`** — 8 tests exercising the `gh` CLI auto-create path that previously had zero coverage. Stubs `gh` on PATH to record every call, asserts `gh repo create --private --description "..." --source <GSTACK_HOME>` fires with the computed `gstack-brain-<user>` default name. Covers: happy path, fall-through-to-`gh repo view` when create hits already-exists, user-provided-URL-bypasses-gh, gh-not-on-path prompts for URL, gh-not-authed prompts for URL, idempotent `--remote` re-runs, conflicting-remote rejection.
|
||
- **Added the brain privacy-gate E2E** (retired as never green in the 2026-09 test audit; `test/gstack-skill-start.test.ts` now pins consent before egress) — periodic-tier E2E (~$0.30-$0.50/run). Stages a fake `gbrain` on PATH + `gbrain_sync_mode_prompted=false` in config, runs a real skill via `runAgentSdkTest`, intercepts tool-use via `canUseTool`, and asserts the preamble fires the 3-option privacy AskUserQuestion with canonical prose ("publish session memory" / "artifact" / "decline"). Second test asserts the gate is silent when `prompted=true` (idempotency-within-session).
|
||
- **Registered `brain-privacy-gate` in `test/helpers/touchfiles.ts`** (periodic tier) with dependency tracking on `scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-brain-sync-block.ts`, `bin/gstack-brain-sync`, `bin/gstack-brain-init`, `bin/gstack-config`, and the Agent SDK runner. Diff-based selection will re-run the E2E whenever any of those change.
|
||
|
||
**Completed:** v1.12.0.0 (2026-04-24)
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
### Overlay efficacy harness + Opus 4.7 fanout nudge removal (v1.10.1.0)
|
||
- Built `test/skill-e2e-overlay-harness.test.ts`, a parametric periodic-tier eval that drives `@anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk` and measures first-turn fanout rate (overlay-ON vs overlay-OFF) across registered fixtures
|
||
- Measured the original "Fan out explicitly" overlay nudge: baseline Opus 4.7 = 70% first-turn fanout on toy prompt, with our nudge = 10%, with Anthropic's own canonical `<use_parallel_tool_calls>` text = 0%
|
||
- Removed the counterproductive nudge from `model-overlays/opus-4-7.md`
|
||
- Shipped 36-test free-tier unit suite for the SDK runner + strict fixture validator
|
||
- Registered `overlay-harness-opus-4-7-fanout-{toy,realistic}` in E2E_TOUCHFILES and E2E_TIERS
|
||
- Total investigation cost: ~$7 across 3 eval runs
|
||
**Completed:** v1.10.1.0
|
||
|
||
### CI eval pipeline (v0.9.9.0)
|
||
- GitHub Actions eval upload on Ubicloud runners ($0.006/run)
|
||
- Within-file test concurrency (test() → testConcurrentIfSelected())
|
||
- Eval artifact upload + PR comment with pass/fail + cost
|
||
- Baseline comparison via artifact download from main
|
||
- EVALS_CONCURRENCY=40 for ~6min wall clock (was ~18min)
|
||
**Completed:** v0.9.9.0
|
||
|
||
### Deploy pipeline (v0.9.8.0)
|
||
- /land-and-deploy — merge PR, wait for CI/deploy, canary verification
|
||
- /canary — post-deploy monitoring loop with anomaly detection
|
||
- /benchmark — performance regression detection with Core Web Vitals
|
||
- /setup-deploy — one-time deploy platform configuration
|
||
- /review Performance & Bundle Impact pass
|
||
- E2E model pinning (Sonnet default, Opus for quality tests)
|
||
- E2E timing telemetry (first_response_ms, max_inter_turn_ms, wall_clock_ms)
|
||
- test:e2e:fast tier, --retry 2 on all E2E scripts
|
||
**Completed:** v0.9.8.0
|
||
|
||
### Phase 1: Foundations (v0.2.0)
|
||
- Rename to gstack
|
||
- Restructure to monorepo layout
|
||
- Setup script for skill symlinks
|
||
- Snapshot command with ref-based element selection
|
||
- Snapshot tests
|
||
**Completed:** v0.2.0
|
||
|
||
### Phase 2: Enhanced Browser (v0.2.0)
|
||
- Annotated screenshots, snapshot diffing, dialog handling, file upload
|
||
- Cursor-interactive elements, element state checks
|
||
- CircularBuffer, async buffer flush, health check
|
||
- Playwright error wrapping, useragent fix
|
||
- 148 integration tests
|
||
**Completed:** v0.2.0
|
||
|
||
### Phase 3: QA Testing Agent (v0.3.0)
|
||
- /qa SKILL.md with 6-phase workflow, 3 modes (full/quick/regression)
|
||
- Issue taxonomy, severity classification, exploration checklist
|
||
- Report template, health score rubric, framework detection
|
||
- wait/console/cookie-import commands, find-browse binary
|
||
**Completed:** v0.3.0
|
||
|
||
### Phase 3.5: Browser Cookie Import (v0.3.x)
|
||
- cookie-import-browser command (Chromium cookie DB decryption)
|
||
- Cookie picker web UI, /setup-browser-cookies skill
|
||
- 18 unit tests, browser registry (Comet, Chrome, Arc, Brave, Edge)
|
||
**Completed:** v0.3.1
|
||
|
||
### E2E test cost tracking
|
||
- Track cumulative API spend, warn if over threshold
|
||
**Completed:** v0.3.6
|
||
|
||
### Auto-upgrade mode + smart update check
|
||
- Config CLI (`bin/gstack-config`), auto-upgrade via `~/.gstack/config.yaml`, 12h cache TTL, exponential snooze backoff (24h→48h→1wk), "never ask again" option, vendored copy sync on upgrade
|
||
**Completed:** v0.3.8
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
## Brain-aware planning follow-ups (filed v1.48.0.0 via /plan-ceo-review + /plan-eng-review)
|
||
|
||
These are the deferred cherry-picks (E2/E3/E4) from the v1.48 brain-aware
|
||
planning plan at `~/.claude/plans/hm-interesting-well-why-dapper-eagle.md`.
|
||
The foundation (Phase 0 entity model + Phase 0.5 cache + Phase 1 preflight
|
||
+ Phase 1.5 trust policy + Phase 2 write-back scaffolding) ships in
|
||
v1.48.0.0. These follow-ups extend it.
|
||
|
||
### P2: /gstack-reflect nightly synthesis skill (E2)
|
||
|
||
**What:** Scheduled skill that reads weekly `gstack/skill-run` + takes +
|
||
`get_recent_salience` and synthesizes a `gstack/insight` page surfaced at
|
||
next skill preflight.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Cross-time pattern detection is the compounding move. "You ran 4
|
||
plan-ceo on infra this week, 0 on product — is product work getting
|
||
starved?" surfaces patterns the user wouldn't notice.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Brain compounds across TIME, not just across skills. Patterns
|
||
become actionable.
|
||
|
||
**Cons:** "You're starving product work" is high-judgment territory; needs
|
||
opt-out per project, careful insight templates.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Deferred from v1.48.0.0 cherry-pick (D4) — wait 4-6 weeks for
|
||
real `gstack/skill-run` data to accumulate before designing the reflection
|
||
layer against real patterns instead of imagined ones.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** L (human ~1-2 days, CC ~4-6h)
|
||
|
||
**Depends on:** Phase 0 (gstack/skill-run page type from v1.48.0.0) +
|
||
~6 weeks of accumulated data
|
||
|
||
### P3: Cross-machine brain-cache sync (E3)
|
||
|
||
**What:** Push compressed digests through the gstack-brain-sync git pipeline
|
||
so the brain-cache survives moving between Macs / Conductor workspaces.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Eliminates the cold-miss tax on every new machine (~1-2s once per
|
||
machine per day).
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Instant warm cache on new machines.
|
||
|
||
**Cons:** Cache poisoning risk if not designed carefully (hash invariants,
|
||
endpoint-binding, conflict resolution).
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Deferred from v1.48.0.0 cherry-pick (D5) — single-machine
|
||
cache is fine for V1; correctness risk needs its own design pass.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M (human ~4h, CC ~30min)
|
||
|
||
**Depends on:** Brain-cache layer from v1.48.0.0
|
||
|
||
### P3: /gstack-onboarding dedicated skill (E4)
|
||
|
||
**What:** Guided 5-minute setup skill for new gstack installs: walks user
|
||
through reading CLAUDE.md + README + recent commits to build `gstack/product`
|
||
and active goals with explicit AUQs.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Better UX than the inline bootstrap (which only fires when a
|
||
planning skill is invoked).
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Cleaner cold-start, explicit ceremony.
|
||
|
||
**Cons:** Inline bootstrap (in scope for v1.48) already covers the
|
||
cold-start path adequately.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Deferred from v1.48.0.0 cherry-pick (D6) — observe inline
|
||
bootstrap performance first; add dedicated skill if friction is real.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S (human ~2h, CC ~15min)
|
||
|
||
**Depends on:** Inline bootstrap subcommand from v1.48.0.0
|
||
|
||
### P2: Upstream gbrain takes_add + takes_resolve MCP ops
|
||
|
||
**What:** Add `mcp__gbrain__takes_add` and `mcp__gbrain__takes_resolve`
|
||
ops in `~/git/gbrain/src/core/operations.ts`. Extract the markdown-fence
|
||
mirror logic from `commands/takes.ts:570` into a reusable
|
||
`engine.resolveTake()` helper.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Unlocks Phase 2 calibration write-back without the fence-block
|
||
fallback. ~150 LOC. Already on gbrain's v0.31.x roadmap.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Clean Phase 2 path, removes the "fall back to put_page" smell.
|
||
|
||
**Cons:** Lives in upstream gbrain repo, not helsinki — separate PR.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Phase 2 write-back is already wired in v1.48.0.0 behind the
|
||
BRAIN_CALIBRATION_WRITEBACK feature flag (default off). Flag flips to
|
||
true once upstream gbrain ships these ops. ~50 LOC follow-up in
|
||
helsinki to swap the fallback for the preferred op.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S (human ~1d, CC ~1h) in gbrain repo; trivial wire-up in
|
||
helsinki.
|
||
|
||
**Depends on:** None (parallel-track from v1.48.0.0)
|
||
|
||
### P3: Background-refresh hook supervision
|
||
|
||
**What:** Codex outside-voice raised that "background refresh at skill END"
|
||
is hand-wavy. Add proper process supervision: PID file, timeout, failure
|
||
log, cross-platform spawn.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Current implementation backgrounds with `&` which works but
|
||
leaves no observability when a refresh fails.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Deferred from v1.48.0.0 codex tension T3. Stays low priority
|
||
until users report stale digests where a background refresh silently
|
||
failed.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S (human ~2h, CC ~20min)
|
||
|
||
### P2: Re-verify calibration takes when gbrain v0.42+ lands
|
||
|
||
**What:** When upstream gbrain ships `takes_add` MCP op and we flip
|
||
`BRAIN_CALIBRATION_WRITEBACK` from FALSE to TRUE, re-run the manual
|
||
probe in `docs/gbrain-write-surfaces.md` against `/office-hours` and
|
||
confirm `gbrain takes_list` surfaces a `kind=bet` entry with the
|
||
expected weight (0.9 for office-hours, per
|
||
`scripts/brain-cache-spec.ts:151-157`).
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Today the calibration take path falls back to writing inside a
|
||
`gbrain put` fence block because `takes_add` isn't available yet. Once
|
||
v0.42+ ships, the agent will call `takes_add` directly — we should
|
||
confirm the new path actually persists a queryable take.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** v1.50.0.0 plan §"NOT in scope". The fence-block fallback
|
||
test (`test/takes-fence-fallback.test.ts`) covers wiring for both paths;
|
||
this TODO is about live verification of the preferred path when it
|
||
becomes available.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** XS (human ~15min, CC ~5min)
|
||
|
||
**Depends on:** Upstream gbrain v0.42+ release shipping `takes_add` MCP
|
||
op (separate TODO above).
|
||
|
||
### P2: Extend brain-writeback E2E to the other 4 planning skills
|
||
|
||
**What:** `test/skill-e2e-office-hours-brain-writeback.test.ts` covers
|
||
the brain-writeback path for `/office-hours` only. Adding parallel
|
||
tests for `/plan-ceo-review`, `/plan-eng-review`, `/plan-design-review`,
|
||
and `/plan-devex-review` would bring per-skill agent-obedience coverage
|
||
to parity with the resolver unit test
|
||
(`test/resolvers-gbrain-save-results.test.ts`, which covers wiring for
|
||
all 5).
|
||
|
||
**Why:** The resolver test proves the right instructions get emitted;
|
||
the E2E proves the agent actually obeys. Today we only have that
|
||
end-to-end signal for one of five planning skills.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** v1.50.0.0 plan §"NOT in scope". Extract `makeFakeGbrain`
|
||
into `test/helpers/fake-gbrain.ts` when the second consumer arrives
|
||
(YAGNI for one consumer today).
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S (human ~1d, CC ~1h). Periodic-tier (~$2-4 total for 4
|
||
runs).
|
||
|
||
**Depends on:** None.
|
||
|
||
### P2: Real-session carve canary (E3, deferred from carve-guard plan)
|
||
|
||
**What:** Wire a real-session section-Read-miss canary on top of the
|
||
carved skills. When a real user session drives a carved skill and the
|
||
agent does NOT Read a section the skeleton's STOP directive pointed it
|
||
at, log it (salted, content-free) to
|
||
`~/.gstack/analytics/section-reads.jsonl` and surface drift via
|
||
`bun run eval:summary`. Non-blocking alert, never a merge gate
|
||
(real-session data is non-deterministic).
|
||
|
||
**Why:** The static (E2) + behavioral (T2) guards prove carves are
|
||
structurally sound and that a real agent Reads sections in a controlled
|
||
eval. They do NOT see production drift — a prompt-context change that
|
||
makes live agents start skipping a section. The canary is the only
|
||
mechanism that catches that, from real usage.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Deferred from the carve-guard-hardening plan (D5→T2, codex
|
||
outside-voice #7). The deterministic `test/helpers/transcript-section-logger.ts`
|
||
was deleted in the 2026-09 test audit (no paid or production caller; see
|
||
docs/test-audit-2026-09.md); a real-session logger starts from scratch. Ship
|
||
the deterministic guards first; add this once they've proven useful. The
|
||
carved-skill set + each skill's `requiredReads` are already declared in
|
||
`test/helpers/carve-guards.ts`, so the canary reads its expectations
|
||
from there.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M (human ~2d, CC ~4h).
|
||
|
||
**Depends on:** a real-session section-read logger (none exists today).
|
||
|
||
### P2: Harden behavioral section-loading test hermeticity
|
||
|
||
**What:** `captureSectionReads` in `test/helpers/auq-sdk-capture.ts` accepts ANY
|
||
Read whose path matches `sections/<file>.md`. The skeleton's STOP-Read directive
|
||
points at the gstack-root install path (`scripts/resolvers/sections.ts` builds it
|
||
from `ctx.paths.skillRoot`), not the planted fixture copy. So a run can satisfy
|
||
the section-read assertion by reading the GLOBAL install's section instead of the
|
||
hermetic fixture.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** A behavioral test that passes by reading the global install doesn't prove
|
||
THIS branch's carved section loads. If the fixture's section were broken but the
|
||
global install's weren't, the test would still pass.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Codex outside-voice finding on the carve-guard ship (v1.57.0.0).
|
||
Pre-existing in `auq-sdk-capture.ts` — affects `skill-e2e-ship-section-loading`,
|
||
`skill-e2e-plan-ceo-review-section-loading`, and the new
|
||
`carve-section-loading.test.ts`. Fix: match the fixture's ABSOLUTE sections path
|
||
(the `planDir` copy), not a bare `sections/<file>.md` regex; or rewrite the STOP
|
||
path to the fixture during the run.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S (human ~3h, CC ~30min). **Depends on:** None.
|
||
|
||
### P3: Content-hash diagram render cache for make-pdf
|
||
|
||
**What:** Cache rendered diagram SVG/PNG in `~/.gstack/cache/diagram-render/`,
|
||
keyed on `sha256(fence source + bundle version + render options)`, so repeat
|
||
`make-pdf` runs skip the render (Aside or the fallback browse tab) for unchanged diagrams.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Every run currently re-renders every fence (~150-300ms each). Docs with
|
||
10+ diagrams pay seconds per iteration during write-preview loops. Codex
|
||
outside-voice flagged the missing cache story during the eng review of the
|
||
diagram engine plan (2026-06-11, D7).
|
||
|
||
**Context:** The diagram-render bundle ships a `BUILD_INFO.json` with a content
|
||
hash (see `lib/diagram-render/`) — use that as the bundle-version cache key
|
||
component so bundle bumps invalidate cleanly. Invalidation surface is the main
|
||
risk: stale renders after a mermaid theme change must not survive. Only worth
|
||
building once users hit multi-diagram docs; wedge perf is fine without it.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S (human ~1d, CC ~30min). **Depends on:** diagram engine wedge
|
||
shipping (lib/diagram-render bundle versioning).
|
||
|
||
### P3: Dedupe the make-pdf e2e gate-test harness
|
||
|
||
**What:** Five e2e files (`combined-gate`, `emoji-gate`, `diagram-gate`,
|
||
`landscape-gate`, `format-gate`) each hand-roll the same prerequisite probe
|
||
(binary/browse/poppler checks with CI hard-fail vs local skip), mkdtemp/rm
|
||
lifecycle, and child-timeout constants. Extract a shared
|
||
`make-pdf/test/e2e/helpers.ts` (prerequisites(), withWorkDir(), runGenerate()).
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Review-army maintainability finding on v1.58.0.0 — the boilerplate
|
||
diverges a little more with each new gate (diagram-gate now captures stderr
|
||
via Bun.spawnSync while the others use execFileSync), and a future fix to the
|
||
CI-hard-fail contract has to land five times.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** Deferred at ship time (D8.2) because it's test-only churn across
|
||
five green files at the tail of a release. Zero user-facing value; pure DRY.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S (human ~3h, CC ~20min). **Depends on:** None.
|
||
|
||
## Egress-receipt follow-ups (filed via /plan-eng-review + /codex on the v1.63 port wave)
|
||
|
||
### P2: egress ledger rotation with chain-genesis records
|
||
|
||
**What:** Rotate `~/.gstack/security/egress.jsonl` at a size threshold (match
|
||
`attempts.jsonl`'s 10MB/5-generation pattern in `browse/src/security.ts`), where
|
||
each new generation's FIRST record embeds the prior file's tail hash so
|
||
`gstack-egress verify` can walk across generations.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** v1.63 ships WARN-at-25MB (visible growth) but nothing bounds the file.
|
||
Rotation was deliberately deferred: it changes the verify contract, and a wrong
|
||
implementation makes healthy ledgers verify as "broken".
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Bounded disk forever; verify stays meaningful across generations.
|
||
**Cons:** Chain-genesis semantics are subtle; needs its own focused tests
|
||
(cross-generation verify, mid-rotation crash).
|
||
|
||
**Context:** `lib/egress-receipt.ts` (`appendChained`/`verifyLedger`) carries the
|
||
design sketch in its rotation TODO comment. Start from the `attempts.jsonl`
|
||
rotation precedent.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S (human ~4h, CC ~25min). **Depends on:** v1.63 port wave landed.
|
||
|
||
### P3: launch-nonce token bootstrap (local-process impersonation)
|
||
|
||
**What:** Add a launch-time nonce to the `/extension-token` bootstrap: `browse`
|
||
mints a nonce at headed launch, seeds it into the extension (CDP
|
||
`chrome.storage` injection or a launcher-written sidecar), and the endpoint
|
||
requires it alongside the pinned origin.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** v1.63's pinned-origin check authenticates browser contexts; any local
|
||
PROCESS can still forge an Origin header with curl. That threat is explicitly
|
||
outside the current model (any local process can hit the port anyway) — this
|
||
TODO documents the deliberate boundary and the designed path across it.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Closes the local-process impersonation path (strongest of the three
|
||
options evaluated in the v1.63 plan review).
|
||
**Cons:** Largest bootstrap change; CDP seeding is fiddly across the three
|
||
launch paths (`--load-extension`, baked-in Browser.app, real-Chrome fallback);
|
||
low present-day value.
|
||
|
||
**Context:** `browse/src/server.ts` `/extension-token` handler +
|
||
`GSTACK_EXTENSION_ID`; launch paths in `browse/src/browser-manager.ts` (~358,
|
||
~455, ~1562); `extension/background.js` bootstrap.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M (human ~2 days, CC ~1h). **Depends on:** none.
|
||
|
||
### P3: eval-watch shard-awareness
|
||
|
||
**What:** Teach `scripts/eval-watch.ts` (hardcoded `_partial-e2e.json` path at
|
||
~line 17) about the sharded layout: watch `<evalDir>/shards/*/_partial-e2e.json`
|
||
and aggregate live progress across shard subdirs.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** v1.63's sharded runner gives each shard its own eval subdir (so shards
|
||
baseline against their own priors); `findPreviousRun`, `eval-compare`,
|
||
`eval-list`, and `eval-summary` were all made shard-aware, but the live watcher
|
||
intentionally stayed flat — it shows nothing during sharded runs.
|
||
|
||
**Pros:** Live progress during `eval:bg:gate` sharded runs again.
|
||
**Cons:** Multi-file watch + aggregation UI; low stakes (the run-scoped detach
|
||
log already streams per-shard results).
|
||
|
||
**Context:** `scripts/eval-watch.ts`; shard layout defined in
|
||
`scripts/test-paid-shards.ts` (slug = test filename); `listEvalJsonFiles` in
|
||
`test/helpers/eval-store.ts` already enumerates the layout — reuse it.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S (human ~2h, CC ~15min). **Depends on:** v1.63 port wave landed.
|
||
|
||
## v1.63 port-wave review follow-ups (deferred from /ship review army — non-blocking polish)
|
||
|
||
Genuine review findings deferred from the v1.63 ship because they are
|
||
informational/polish, not correctness-blocking, and several want their own
|
||
tests. Filed so they are tracked, not dropped.
|
||
|
||
- **P2 — telemetry-sync HTTP-status outcome is dead code.** `_GSTACK_EGRESS_LAST_RECEIPT`
|
||
is set inside a command-substitution subshell in `bin/gstack-telemetry-sync`, so the
|
||
parent-shell guard that would append the HTTP status to the receipt never fires. The
|
||
generic `exit:N` outcome is still recorded, so the ledger is correct, just less
|
||
precise. Fix: have `_receipted_curl` persist the receipt id to a caller-readable temp
|
||
file, or restructure the call out of the subshell. (Confirmed by 3 review specialists.)
|
||
- **P2 — context-bill "TOTAL on disk" double-counts child skills** in a root-as-container
|
||
tree (this repo's own layout): `buildBill` sums the root skill's whole-tree walk plus
|
||
each child's subtree again (~2x the TOTAL line). ALWAYS-ON / EAGER / --diff / --budget
|
||
are all unaffected — only the informational TOTAL is wrong. Fix: compute the tree total
|
||
from a single deduplicated `walkMd(root)` pass, or exclude child dirs from the root
|
||
skill's `totalMd`. Needs a fixture test. (`lib/context-bill.ts`.)
|
||
- **P3 — DRY/robustness polish:** one shared `_gstack_egress_host_of` helper for the
|
||
~11 hand-rolled URL-to-host extractions across the egress shell sinks; extract the
|
||
duplicated tunnel-open `writeReceipt` block in `browse/src/server.ts` (two sites);
|
||
hoist the per-iteration `SharedArrayBuffer` alloc out of the egress-receipt lock spin;
|
||
replace context-bill's exact-mode `errorPct === 0` sentinel with an explicit flag;
|
||
reuse `frontmatterName()` from `skill-census.ts` in `catalog-budget.test.ts`.
|
||
- **P3 — test-coverage gaps the audit named:** `PAID_TEST_GLOBS` ↔ `package.json`
|
||
`test:gate` parity test; `GSTACK_EXTENSION_ID` ↔ `manifest.json` key derivation parity
|
||
test (`browse/scripts/extension-id.ts`); a runner test asserting each shard child gets
|
||
its own `GSTACK_EVAL_DIR` under `shards/<slug>`; receipt-refusal branch tests for
|
||
supabase-provision / gbrain-sync / memory-ingest.
|
||
|
||
## P2: harden or re-tier skill-e2e-plan-design-with-ui PTY detection
|
||
|
||
**What:** The gate-tier `test/skill-e2e-plan-design-with-ui.test.ts` began executing
|
||
for the first time once v1.63's `seedSkills` registered skills in hermetic PTY
|
||
children (the fork had deleted this file; it measured nothing before). It now
|
||
reliably TIMES OUT even though the skill runs correctly: the transcript shows
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`/plan-design-review` reaching its scope-gate AskUserQuestion (5 options, the
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`<gstack-qid:plan-design-review-scope-gate>` marker present), but the test's
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`isNumberedOptionListVisible`/`parseNumberedOptions` scraping can't classify it out
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of the PTY buffer because spinner frames (`[?25l✻Sprouting… still thinking`) are
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interleaved character-by-character with the option text.
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**Why:** Shipped behavior is correct — this is a test-harness detection limitation,
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not a product bug. But a gate test that always times out is worse than no test.
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**Fix options:** (a) harden the tail-scraping (drop DEC private-mode + spinner
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residue before matching; widen/clean the window); (b) add an LLM-judge fallback
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classifier (the file's own comments note the regex detectors are "brittle to PTY
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rendering quirks"); or (c) move this test to periodic until (a)/(b) lands.
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**Context:** `test/skill-e2e-plan-design-with-ui.test.ts`,
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`test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts:308` (`isNumberedOptionListVisible`). Evidence:
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`~/.gstack-dev/eval-runs/pdwu-verify-*.log`. **Effort:** M (human ~half day / CC ~30min).
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### P3: Residuals from the 2026-08-14 tracker-audit waves (mostly shipped in v1.67.0.0)
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The four deferred waves (A: browse-daemon lifecycle, B: install integrity,
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C: gbrain trust boundary, D: ship/version allocator) LANDED in the v1.67.0.0
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fix wave: XProtect self-heal + Playwright bump + busy-daemon iron rule +
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signal policy (A); alias shadowing + cursor slice + runtime assets + Windows
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refresh (B); brain-sync disposition model + source pins + thin-client
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detection (C); version allocator end-state + subdir manifests + diff-scope
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globs (D). What remains, re-filed individually:
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- Watchdog kills headed handoff sessions (PRs 2565/2405/2346) and the three
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darwin-skipped handoff tests in browse/test/handoff.test.ts — verify
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whether the v1.67 XProtect + rebrand work un-blocks them, then un-skip or
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||
fix. Effort S.
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- Transcript trust/scope/source isolation (PR 2232, issue 2140) — split:
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the `transcript_ingest_mode` reader (off skips, B → --all-history, unset
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unchanged) ships in fork-port Wave E1; repo-scoping and `--source-id`
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isolation still need the never-double-store review plus a gbrain flag
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probe. Close the PR after E1 with a pointer here. Effort M.
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||
- Versionless-repo onboarding (#1474, issues 2343/2334) — the #2501 JSON
|
||
version-path half landed; the no-version-file-at-all flow did not.
|
||
- Playwright bootstrap abort/timeout absorbs (PRs 2233/2359, issues
|
||
1902/2136) — DONE in fork-port Wave A: the install is best-effort and
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||
bounded (GSTACK_PLAYWRIGHT_INSTALL_TIMEOUT, default 600s), lock contention
|
||
is a reason code, skills always register. Close #2233, #1900, #1901, #1902,
|
||
#913 with the receipt (test/setup-playwright-best-effort.test.ts).
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||
|
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## Aside-first follow-ups (filed when Aside became the primary browser)
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||
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Every gstack skill that touches a web page drives the Aside AI browser first
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(`scripts/resolvers/aside.ts` is the contract; `lib/aside-render.ts` /
|
||
`bin/gstack-render.ts` render local HTML through it; `{{ASIDE_RESEARCH}}` runs
|
||
web research through it). gstack's own browser engine — the `browse` daemon,
|
||
GStack Browser headed mode, cookie import, `/pair-agent`, browser-skills /
|
||
`/skillify` — is kept as the automatic fallback whenever Aside is not installed
|
||
or not running (Linux, Windows, a closed Aside app), and web research falls
|
||
back to the WebSearch tool when the host provides one. Nothing was removed.
|
||
Loose ends:
|
||
|
||
### P1: Aside-first fallback parity — keep the `$B` equivalence table in sync with the cookbook
|
||
|
||
**What:** The fallback block (`BROWSE_FALLBACK` in the browser resolvers) maps
|
||
each verified `aside repl` cookbook shape (read a page, drive a flow, annotated
|
||
screenshot, responsive captures, links + status, performance, PDF, element
|
||
screenshot, `aside exec` research) to its `$B` equivalent so a skill produces
|
||
the same evidence lines on either path. Every time a cookbook shape is added,
|
||
renamed, or changes its output labels (`CONSOLE_ERRORS=`, `DIFF_START`,
|
||
`ASIDE_DIR=`, `GSTACK_STEP_OK`), update the table in the same commit and add a
|
||
pin in `test/aside-driver.test.ts` that the two lists name the same shapes.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** A skill that reads `DIFF_START` on the Aside path and gets nothing on
|
||
the fallback path "fixes" the missing output blindly. Parity is the whole point
|
||
of keeping the engine; a silent gap is worse than no fallback.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S per change (human ~half day, CC ~15min). **Priority:** P1. **Depends on:** nothing.
|
||
|
||
### P2: Aside CLI 1.26 lacks subcommands Aside's own skill doc lists
|
||
|
||
**What:** Aside's skill doc lists `session`, `memory`, `skills`, `host`, and
|
||
`--permission`; Aside CLI 1.26 has none of them (`aside --help`). Skills must
|
||
not depend on them until the CLI ships them. Re-probe on each Aside release;
|
||
when they land, evaluate `session` for multi-script flows and `--permission`
|
||
for the mutating-action consent gate.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** A skill written against the doc instead of the binary dies at runtime
|
||
on an unknown-command error the agent will then try to "fix" blindly.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S (human ~half day, CC ~20min per re-probe). **Priority:** P2. **Depends on:** Aside releases.
|
||
|
||
### P2: Aside E2E tests run only where Aside is installed
|
||
|
||
**What:** The Aside-only E2E lane — `test/skill-e2e-aside.test.ts`, the Aside
|
||
qa/design cases, the live render in `test/aside-render.test.ts` — self-skips
|
||
when `aside` is absent (`asideAvailable()` in `test/helpers/aside-available.ts`),
|
||
so CI's Linux runners never drive Aside; the make-pdf and /diagram render gates
|
||
already run there on the browse binary. The Aside path runs only on macOS dev
|
||
machines.
|
||
Evaluate a self-hosted macOS runner (or a scheduled job on a Mac mini) that
|
||
runs the Aside lane weekly under the same hermetic env as the other E2E lanes.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** A browser contract nobody runs in CI drifts silently — exactly the
|
||
class `test/aside-driver.test.ts` pins statically but cannot prove live.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M (human ~2 days, CC ~1h plus the machine). **Priority:** P2. **Depends on:** a macOS host with Aside signed in.
|
||
|
||
### P3: Evaluate `aside mcp` for multi-step flows
|
||
|
||
**What:** `aside repl` is one flow per script — a fresh session per call, tabs
|
||
closed when it ends. `aside mcp` keeps a persistent REPL page across calls.
|
||
Once the CLI stabilizes, measure whether an MCP path makes long QA audits
|
||
cheaper (no re-navigation per script) without losing the "leave the browser as
|
||
you found it" guarantee.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Re-navigating from the URL per script is the honest tax of the current
|
||
model; a persistent page could cut it but adds a session that must be cleaned up.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M (human ~2 days, CC ~1h). **Priority:** P3. **Depends on:** Aside CLI stability.
|
||
|
||
### P3: Eval that skills treat `aside exec` output as untrusted
|
||
|
||
**What:** `aside exec "<task>"` returns another agent's answer. Add an LLM-judge
|
||
or E2E eval that plants an instruction inside an `aside exec` result and checks
|
||
the skill takes syntax from it, never scope, permissions, or consent.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** The rule is pinned as prose; nothing yet proves a skill obeys it when
|
||
the injected text arrives through the one channel that reads like a colleague.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S (human ~1 day, CC ~30min). **Priority:** P3. **Depends on:** the Aside E2E lane above.
|
||
|
||
### P1: make-pdf renders user documents inside the real browser profile — add a CSP
|
||
|
||
**What:** `/make-pdf` prints markdown-derived HTML through Aside (the user's
|
||
signed-in browser) on a `127.0.0.1` origin. The only barrier between a hostile
|
||
document (a README from a cloned repo) and script execution in that profile is
|
||
the regex sanitizer in `make-pdf/src/render.ts`, whose header assumes marked
|
||
output is never malformed — raw-HTML passthrough breaks that assumption. Inject
|
||
gstack's own CSP `<meta>` into the print template (`default-src 'none';
|
||
img-src data: 'self'; style-src 'unsafe-inline' 'self'; font-src data: 'self';
|
||
script-src 'nonce-<per-render>'` for Paged.js), since user `<meta>` is stripped
|
||
and gstack's is not; alternatively keep make-pdf on the bundled engine by
|
||
default.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Under the old cookieless headless engine a sanitizer bypass was
|
||
near-harmless; in the real profile it is a CSRF-class primitive. Cross-model
|
||
finding (Claude adversarial + Codex).
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M (human ~2 days, CC ~1h). **Priority:** P1. **Depends on:** none.
|
||
|
||
### P1: diagram pre-pass buffers every oversized image before downscaling
|
||
|
||
**What:** `make-pdf/src/diagram-prepass.ts` caps each image at 64 MB but keeps
|
||
every pending buffer in `downscales` and duplicates it as base64 before the
|
||
batch runs; a document referencing a few dozen large images can take gigabytes.
|
||
Cap total pending bytes (e.g. 256 MB) and process in bounded batches, or
|
||
downscale sequentially.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** A hostile or merely image-heavy document crashes the tool instead of
|
||
degrading.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S (human ~1 day, CC ~30min). **Priority:** P1. **Depends on:** none.
|
||
|
||
### P2: fallback renders die after any cookie import in the daemon's lifetime
|
||
|
||
**What:** `renderWithBrowse` drives readiness and evals through `$B js`, and the
|
||
daemon's cookie-import JS lock (`browse/src/read-commands.ts`) refuses `js` on
|
||
every origin outside the imported set — `127.0.0.1` included, forever (the set
|
||
is add-only). The renderer now names the remedy (`$B stop`), but the real fix is
|
||
a fresh incognito context for local-HTML renders, or a loopback exemption once
|
||
its threat model is written down.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** On Linux/Windows (no Aside) one `/setup-browser-cookies` run makes
|
||
every later `/diagram` and `/make-pdf` render fail.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M (human ~2 days, CC ~1h). **Priority:** P2. **Depends on:** none.
|
||
|
||
### P2: carve the Aside contract + fallback block into one shared section
|
||
|
||
**What:** `{{ASIDE_SETUP}}` (~5.6 KB) plus `{{BROWSE_FALLBACK}}` (~4.1 KB) are
|
||
rendered verbatim into ten browsing skills (~97 KB of identical prose loaded on
|
||
every invocation). Keep the probe and the three decision steps inline; move
|
||
"Rules for driving a real browser" and the Aside-to-`$B` translation table into
|
||
one carved reference (the `browse/sections/command-list.md` pattern), then
|
||
re-run `capture-context-budget.ts` so the ceilings ratchet back down.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** Every skill invocation pays for prose that is skill-invariant.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** M (human ~2 days, CC ~1h). **Priority:** P2. **Depends on:** none.
|
||
|
||
### P2: `$B js` / `$B eval` output is not wrapped in the untrusted envelope
|
||
|
||
**What:** `js` and `eval` are not in `PAGE_CONTENT_COMMANDS`
|
||
(`browse/src/commands.ts`), so page-controlled return values reach the agent
|
||
unfenced while the fallback table routes exactly the page-controlled reads
|
||
through them. `gstack-render` now fences its own `EVAL`/`PAGE_ERRORS` lines and
|
||
the fallback prose says `$B js` is unwrapped; the durable fix is to add both
|
||
commands to the envelope set.
|
||
|
||
**Why:** A hostile page can deliver injection text through the one channel the
|
||
skills were told is fenced.
|
||
|
||
**Effort:** S (human ~half day, CC ~15min). **Priority:** P2. **Depends on:** none.
|
||
|
||
### P3: Aside-first renderer follow-ups (perf and DRY)
|
||
|
||
- **Readiness polling** spawns a `browse js` process every 150 ms; the daemon's
|
||
`wait <sel>` command blocks server-side in one spawn — use it for
|
||
`waitFor.selector`. Effort S.
|
||
- **Bundle re-staging:** every `runScript()` batch copies the ~9 MB diagram
|
||
bundle into a fresh mkdtemp and starts a new loopback server; stage once per
|
||
run (content-addressed) and, on the browse engine, keep one tab across the
|
||
fence/downscale/DOCX batches. Effort M.
|
||
- **Probe cost:** `probeAside()` runs two blocking spawns per process and the
|
||
engine cache is per-process; persist the outcome with a short TTL under
|
||
`GSTACK_HOME` and lower the repl probe timeout on the code path. Effort S.
|
||
- **DRY:** the console-error `HOOK` IIFE exists in seven copies across
|
||
`scripts/resolvers/*.ts` and `lib/aside-render.ts` (two divergent variants);
|
||
cookbook recipes (responsive loop, links, read-a-page) are duplicated across
|
||
`aside.ts`, `design.ts`, `utility.ts`; the readiness probe is recovered from
|
||
rendered markdown by regex in two places instead of a shared constant. Export
|
||
one source for each. Effort S each.
|
||
- **Egress scanner:** `test/egress-receipt-wiring.test.ts` scans `curl`, `git
|
||
push`, and `fetch`; add `aside exec` as a sink class so a bare call fails CI
|
||
the way the others do. Effort S.
|
||
- `_browser_hint` treats any `aside` on PATH as the Aside browser (no version
|
||
check). Effort S.
|
||
- **`gen-skill-docs --dry-run` is not write-free for external hosts:**
|
||
`processExternalHost` runs `mkdirSync(outputDir)` and writes
|
||
`agents/openai.yaml` with no `DRY_RUN` guard (only SKILL.md is skipped), so a
|
||
dry run against an empty `--out-dir` leaves 54 `openai.yaml` files behind.
|
||
Guard both writes. Effort S.
|
||
|
||
**Priority:** P3. **Depends on:** none.
|