Garry Tan
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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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Testing internals: env keys, hermetic E2E
Moved verbatim from CLAUDE.md (token-load reduction). Read this before
writing or debugging E2E tests, passing env: to a runner, or touching
test/helpers/hermetic-env.ts.
Env keys in Conductor workspaces. The GSTACK_* env-shim (v1.39.2.0+,
lib/conductor-env-shim.ts) promotes GSTACK_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY /
GSTACK_OPENAI_API_KEY to their canonical names inside gstack's TS binaries.
Tests run through gstack entrypoints inherit this promotion automatically.
Don't echo the key value to stdout, logs, or shell history. The historical
"never pass env: to runAgentSdkTest" rule is retired: the failure was
partial-env replacement (the SDK's Options.env REPLACES the child's entire
environment, so an object without the key broke auth). The runner now always
passes a COMPLETE hermetic env with per-test env: merged last, so per-test
overrides are safe; ambient process.env.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY mutation also
still works (the env builder reads process.env at call time).
Hermetic local E2E (default). Every E2E runner (claude -p, PTY, Agent
SDK, codex, gemini) spawns children through test/helpers/hermetic-env.ts:
allowlist-scrubbed env (operator CONDUCTOR_*, CLAUDE_*, GSTACK_*,
MCP_*, GBRAIN_*, and credentials like GH_TOKEN never reach children),
a fresh seeded CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR (no operator ~/.claude CLAUDE.md /
MCP servers / skills), a temp GSTACK_HOME, and --strict-mcp-config.
Local eval signal matches CI. Debug against real operator state with
EVALS_HERMETIC=0 (restores the legacy env AND drops the strict-MCP flag).
Per-test env: overrides merge last, so deliberate contamination
(CONDUCTOR_WORKSPACE_PATH, per-test GSTACK_HOME) keeps working. The
hermetic config dir seeds NO skills by default; a PTY test that types a
/skill slash command must pass seedSkills: true to the PTY runner, which
points the child's CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR at hermeticSkillsConfigDir() — a
seeded registry that symlinks the LIVE working tree's SKILL.md files (by
design: the skills ARE the subject under test; a snapshot would measure stale
copies). Wiring is pinned by test/hermetic-wiring.test.ts (static tripwire),
two gate-tier canaries in test/skill-e2e-hermetic-canary.test.ts, and the
seeding tripwires in test/hermetic-skills-seeding.test.ts /
test/pty-skill-seeding-wiring.test.ts.
Seeded planning sessions also receive an isolated runtime home through
test/helpers/hermetic-skill-runtime.ts, so absolute lazy-section paths resolve
to the working tree under test. Explicit per-test home overrides remain intact.
Autoplan resolves each review skill from its own installed host registry.
Interactive planning evidence. Native plan-review count drivers use
observeScreen: true and await currentScreen() before choosing an input. The
existing xterm dependency interprets cursor moves and erases; old menus in the
raw stream cannot establish a current prompt. Snapshots preserve
terminal.raw.log, terminal.visible.log, and terminal.screen.log separately.
Setting EVALS_RUN_ID or GSTACK_EVAL_DIR retains these snapshots; an output
directory without a run ID gets a stable, unique local ID for that writer.
Completed native transcript calls establish question counts and phase coverage.
Report-aware count tests also require a fresh, complete report and native
completion evidence before accepting a completion heading.
The periodic first-question matrix uses test/helpers/auq-native-capture.ts
to match the first public PreToolUse AskUserQuestion payload to its current
native display. It grades that question's exact public fields without answering
it or reading model transcripts. question_captured records
workflowCompleted: false. With GSTACK_EVAL_DIR, EVALS_RUN_ID, or an explicit
run ID, native-auq/<run-id>/<test>-<suffix>/capture.json under the eval directory
retains the public payload, bounded current viewport, and capture outcome.
CEO mode selection uses the actual SDK AskUserQuestion permission callback
in auq-sdk-capture.ts, with the existing 12-turn and 240-second limits. It
captures the public question and stops without submitting an answer; its
question_captured outcome also records workflowCompleted: false. The retained
capture survives fixture cleanup. Provider refusals and malformed questions
remain failures. Section-loading captures retain their noninteractive contract.
Shared-code revalidation fixtures pair public tool calls with their successful results to verify that the current trusted start record was inspected before completion. A discovered path in tool output counts; a path mentioned only in instructions or narration does not. Saved public captures cover absolute and relative paths and discovery followed by a read. The revalidation prompt supplies the path to the trusted start-record directory and declares the existing turn limit. It asks the agent to batch independent reads and retrieve the complete final record; every source, approval, persistence, and completion check still applies. The path-boundary fixtures use this same execution contract for symlinks, submodules, ignored files, index flags, and legacy or filtered evidence. Their skip actor accepts an explicit no-change choice; a preservation word inside an option that also approves changes cannot authorize edits. Captured native questions exercise the actual answer callback, and native turn-limit failures still fail even after a question was answered.
The engineering and DX finding fixtures check coverage of their seeded issues rather than cap the total number of review questions. Each decision needs a distinct, completed native question with an offered answer; accepting, rejecting, or deferring a recommendation all count as reviewing it. Engineering's mandatory legacy regression tests also need affirmative plan or public-narration evidence. Additional useful questions are allowed within the existing time limits. Generic question counts remain diagnostic, and a fresh final review report is required.
E2E tests stream progress in real-time (tool-by-tool via --output-format stream-json --verbose). Results are persisted to ~/.gstack/projects/<slug>/evals/ (legacy
fallback ~/.gstack-dev/evals/) with auto-comparison
against the previous finalized run (in-flight _partial files are never used as
a baseline, so a run can't compare against itself).
The periodic overlay fixtures use a versioned behavior gate with efficacy reported separately. See Overlay benchmark contract v2 for exact correctness requirements, retired fanout cases, immutable evidence, and the limits of a passing result.
Coverage ownership
The test portfolio audit separates deterministic harness checks, prompt judges, live first-question captures, completed workflows and platform integrations. Shared setup is reusable; evidence with different scenario or independent-trial requirements is not. It records the preserved coverage and measured component savings from the test-speed refactor.
Runners: how the suites execute (2026-08 overhaul)
Aside-only E2E tests self-skip without a live Aside; browser-driving tests
run on either engine. Every skill that opens a web page drives the Aside AI
browser first (scripts/resolvers/aside.ts) and falls back to gstack's own
browse engine when Aside is absent (and Chromium bootstrapped). The cases that
need Aside itself (test/skill-e2e-aside.test.ts, design-review-fix in
test/skill-e2e-design.test.ts) call asideAvailable() from
test/helpers/aside-available.ts (the same probe the skills run in BROWSER
SETUP) and skip when the aside CLI or the Aside app is absent. CI runners have
no Aside, so those run only on macOS dev machines and sit in the periodic tier;
set GSTACK_SKIP_ASIDE=1 to force the skip locally (which also exercises the
fallback hand-off). The qa E2E files (test/skill-e2e-qa-workflow.test.ts,
test/skill-e2e-qa-bugs.test.ts) gate on asideAvailable() || fs.existsSync(browseBin): the skill's own BROWSER SETUP picks the engine, so
on a Mac they drive Aside and on Linux CI they drive the built browse binary,
skipping only when neither exists. The $B-driven E2E cases and browse/test/
run on every platform as before, so Linux CI proves the fallback engine live.
Bootstrap dependency retention is opt-in qualification, not the behavior test.
qa-bootstrap still runs its original unpinned Vitest installation and assertions
on macOS and Linux, including documented unsharded commands. Only a Linux paid
shard runner issues the owned retention scope: it binds each actual fixture and
native lifetime, retains locks, package manifests and the installed file/link
inventory, and acknowledges capture before deleting the fixture. The outer
runner also captures evidence when a callback is killed. Incomplete capture
fails qualification and preserves the source fixture as well as partial evidence.
Other platforms explicitly report retention as unavailable and still execute the
native behavior test. A run without the runner-issued scope earns no retained
dependency qualification credit; candidate acceptance requiring that evidence
must use the Linux sharded path and verify every attempt's complete capture,
acknowledgment and cleanup fallback. A passing unsharded or macOS behavior test
does not substitute for that evidence.
The renderer picks the same way, so the render gates are engine-agnostic.
/make-pdf, /diagram, and design previews print and screenshot their local
HTML through lib/aside-render.ts / bin/gstack-render.ts, which render in
Aside when probeAside() says READY and through the browse engine otherwise.
make-pdf's *-gate.test.ts and test/skill-e2e-diagram.test.ts (periodic,
paid) gate on browserAvailable() (make-pdf/test/e2e/browser-available.ts:
asideAvailable() || resolveBrowseBin() !== null) — on a Mac they print
through Aside, on Linux CI through the browse binary bun run build:gates
compiles, and they skip only when neither exists. Only
test/aside-render.test.ts's two live Aside cases (a full round-trip and a
late-readiness --wait-expr poll) are Aside-only: its option
mapping and generated-script pins run everywhere, and its fake-executable cases
drive both engines hermetically (fake aside / browse scripts on PATH pin
probe classification, the stdout contract, loopback-server policy, the timeout
kill, engine choice and the mid-run fallback). test/gstack-render-cli.test.ts
does the same for bin/gstack-render.ts with GSTACK_SKIP_ASIDE=1 and
GSTACK_BROWSE_BIN pointed at a fake daemon that logs every argv line. A green
gate on Linux proves the fallback engine, not Aside; the Mac run is the Aside
evidence.
The browse-binary leg presumes Chromium bootstrapped: resolveBrowseBin()
only checks that the binary (or the find-browse shim) exists, never that
Chromium can launch, so on an install where the best-effort Chromium step
was skipped (GSTACK_SKIP_PLAYWRIGHT=1) or failed, these gates run and fail
at browser launch instead of skipping. Fix the bootstrap (or move the binary
aside) before running them locally; CI always installs Chromium first.
test/dom-dump-hygiene.test.ts is the one free-suite case on the same leg: it
runs lib/dom-dump.js (the rendered-DOM dump /design-review hands the design
detector) inside a real Chromium page through the built browse binary, so it
self-skips when the binary is absent and, because a cold Chromium launch is
load-sensitive on a busy dev box, runs only in CI or on explicit opt-in
(GSTACK_DOM_DUMP_HYGIENE=1).
Free suite (bun run test:free). scripts/test-free-shards.ts runs N
concurrent shard processes (serial within each) with strict-output
classification per shard. Local defaults use the available CPU affinity
(which Bun also bounds by a container's cgroup CPU quota), floored at one and
capped at 16 on Linux and six on macOS and Windows; GSTACK_FREE_JOBS remains
an explicit override.
This does not change the separate CI machine count. Full-suite shards are packed by RECORDED PER-FILE
DURATIONS (LPT, packShardsByDuration) when the committed seed
scripts/free-test-durations.json exists — refresh it with
bun run test:ubicloud --record-durations, which times each file in its own
child on a VM with the CI lane's environment and copies the seed back (CI never
records; a seed recorded where browser or display tests skip underestimates
them). Missing seed → silent hash-shard fallback; corrupt seed → one warning +
fallback; unknown files get 75th-percentile pessimism, and both full-suite and
--ci-plan runs name them on stderr so a new slow file cannot silently become
the long pole. Packed
shards get duration-aware walls (max(base, predicted × 3, files × 5s)). The
legacy --shards N --shard i path keeps stable hash indices. Required CI uses
one duration-packed --ci-plan, 20 ordinary --ci-run shards plus a separate
exclusive-fixture shard, and a --ci-verify aggregate. CI shards still run on
independent machines without ordering unrelated jobs. The public
TREE_MUTATING map now classifies exclusive host-state fixtures; its sole
entry is test/bootstrap-retention.test.ts, whose same-UID nondumpable actors
affect host-wide procfs permission checks. Locally, this file runs only after
all parallel shards settle, and cancellation prevents that final phase from
starting. No selected files, retries, budgets, or receipt requirements are
removed. Former generator mutators still render into private output directories;
this serial phase protects process visibility, not in-place doc generation.
Full child output is retained in private files under .context/free-test-logs/,
outside each shard's temporary cleanup directory. The runner prints the path at
launch and completion. Losing the log fails the run even when the child exits
successfully. A redirected log directory is rejected before launching a child.
On failure, read that log first: the recovery message distinguishes incomplete
capture, unconfirmed cleanup, deadline expiry and a test/module failure. Fix the
demonstrated cause before rerunning. A focused bun test command is offered only
when every failure is attributable to existing selected files; it proves that
repair, not completion of the original selection. Preserve failed attempts when
sharing results, and inspect logs for private data before sharing them.
Before publication, classify new deterministic regressions for quick feedback.
Refresh the timing seed with the existing recorder on fixed inputs; do not edit
source while tests run. Critical boundary controls belong in QUICK_CORE when
their feedback cost is justified. Other measured files qualify at two seconds
or less; slow and unmeasured files remain outside quick, not outside full tests.
Report cold setup separately from warm execution, while retaining failed-attempt,
retry and cleanup time in the total cost.
PTY fixture timing. Plan-count sessions wake on terminal output or exit,
with at least 250ms between expensive observations and a 2s fallback for
transcript or hook changes that produce no terminal output. New output batches
settle for 250ms before observation so split terminal redraws cannot route input
from their first chunk. Input debounces,
permission guards, and the real CLI's 8s startup grace are unchanged. Synthetic
CLIs can pass startupReadyMarker to runPlanSkillCounting and emit that exact
marker after installing their input handlers; a missing marker fails before
any command is sent. The marker wait stays inside the existing startup and
total-run deadlines. test/pty-output-wake.test.ts covers output, silent waits,
exit, close, missing readiness, split redraws, and continuous redraws. Close and output waits
cancel their losing deadlines so completed workers can exit immediately.
The UI-positive design gate commits the supplied plan as review-input.md
before the first model turn. It requires an acknowledged Design focus/rating
question followed by an answered native finding about concrete UI behavior;
setup and outside-review choices cannot satisfy that sequence. Its declared
board actor submits feedback before acknowledging it. The final proof uses
the full native question, not the truncated diagnostic snippet, and proposal
text mentioning "no UI scope" is not treated as an exit verdict. Unknown-command
failures must name the invoked slash command; a child tool rejecting --help
is not a skill registration failure. Periodic seeded-finding classifiers
separately verify fixture-owned findings.
Paid suite (sharded runner, local AND CI). scripts/test-paid-shards.ts
is the single selection engine: 1 file per shard, EVALS_JOBS shard
processes × EVALS_CONCURRENCY within-shard, per-shard GSTACK_EVAL_DIR,
full-stream spooling to per-shard log files (path printed at START and on
failure), never-started/timed-out taxonomy, and parent-computed diff
selection propagated to children via EVALS_SELECTION_JSON (fail-open: a
child that can't parse it recomputes locally with one warning). Paid evals
never retry; each case's kind fixes its trials before the run (see "Eval verdict
policy" below). Files in CASE_SHARDED_FILES run one registered case per
process (<file>#<case id>, an exact --test-name-pattern, exactly one executed
case), so a long file of short cases spreads across runners and each case gets
its own SDK semaphore.
Trial telemetry rides the store: every recorded test carries its 1-based
attempt plus, on an isolated trial shard, its case_id, kind, trial,
panel and policy_version, and each lane's report uploads one
trial-outcomes JSONL line per trial. bun run eval:pass-rates
(eval:flake-rank is an alias) turns that history into per-case pass rates
(see "Pass-rate history" below; the free lane's flake ledger is folded in from
flakeLedgerPath() — override with GSTACK_FLAKE_LEDGER, the same env var the
CI free lane sets before uploading the ledger as the flake-ledger artifact). Census integrity is
enforced from the free suite: every E2E_TOUCHFILES / LLM_JUDGE_TOUCHFILES
key must name a living paid test (test/touchfiles.test.ts's reverse
invariant), and git show <sha>:path fixtures are banned — vendor the bytes
instead (test/git-ref-fixture-tripwire.test.ts).
Functional QA and documentation acceptance require an explicit EVALS_RUN_ID;
GSTACK_EVAL_DIR alone does not satisfy their evidence-ownership guard. For each
local invocation, supply a fresh ID to the documented detached runner:
EVALS_RUN_ID="local-$(bun -e 'console.log(crypto.randomUUID())')" bun run eval:bg:pr
Neither package scripts nor gstack-detach invent this identity. CI's PR/manual
slices, periodic slices and weekly gate census supply an ID bound to the workflow
run, attempt, job and slice. Existing slice artifacts retain per-shard snapshots;
separate always-run native-captures-<EVALS_RUN_ID> artifacts retain project/legacy
e2e-runs and evals/qa-callers evidence for 90 days. These diagnostic artifacts
are not collector results and do not establish that an unfinished test passed.
Fast PR profile and evidence reuse. test:pr selects the changed cases in
scripts/test-pr-profile.ts plus every changed quality judge. --profile full
retains the broad census; no case IDs or tier assignments are removed. The plan
records both E2E and judge selections and lists deferred coverage. Executors
receive those selections separately and the report checks actual executed case
counts. Unknown source dependencies restore the broad gate; unmapped prompts
without registered coverage require full validation. Known broad-only prompt
changes are explicitly deferred, not counted as PR passes. Weekly/manual runs of
evals-periodic.yml execute both complete censuses fresh; manual evals.yml
runs the broad gate. This deliberately moves some defect detection later.
scripts/eval-input-cache.ts accepts only complete, clean, first-attempt passes
with matching before/after inputs. The audited workflow-judge adapter hashes the
actual expanded prompt, source/fixture/rubric/runner closure, installed SDK,
model parameters and runtime. Missing/unknown inputs force execution. Receipts
are scoped to the same repository and PR, expire after 24 hours, and contain
public scores and provenance rather than prompts or secrets. Of the 17 cases
using runWorkflowJudge, 16 are eligible; the cookie workflow's custom input
does not match the cache adapter and stays fresh, as do the other 11 quality cases.
CI supplies the scoped cache/runtime configuration; local runs are fresh by
default. Cached scores must
pass current assertions; reused records retain their original source and time
and cannot renew the receipt. scripts/e2e-shard-reuse.ts extends the same receipts
to PR-profile E2E shards (paid evals never retry, so a pass is structurally a
first attempt): the identity hashes the test's import closure, every tracked file
matched by the touchfiles of every case the file registers plus the global
touchfiles, the runner/workflow/setup actions, the child's environment pins, the
CI image and Claude CLI version, and the shard's case ids, pattern, wall and
concurrency. A computed registration, an unmatched touchfile pattern, a retrying
file, a preload option or a custom endpoint makes the shard ineligible. A reused
shard reports reused with its source run and writes execution: "reused"
collector records; the report rejects reused outcomes outside the fast PR profile.
EVALS_FRESH=1, periodic, marathon and release validation bypass both lookup and publishing.
Free test timing and isolation. test:quick is an explicitly partial measured
subset for edit feedback. test remains complete local acceptance with its
bounded worker pool. The CI planner inventories every free file and packs them
using scripts/free-test-durations.json; each machine runs its assigned shard
serially. Plans and receipts bind the source revision, complete inventory and
strict outcomes; missing, duplicate or mismatched receipts fail the required
aggregate. The existing maximum five-file flaky retry allowance applies across
the entire lane, not separately to every machine. Refresh the full timing list
with bun run test:ubicloud --record-durations. Profiling records failures faithfully
and is separate from final release acceptance.
CI planner/executor/report. --emit-plan <path> --slice-budget S --jobs J
(CI) or --slices K (local) computes selection + the slice plan ONCE (killing
per-slice selector divergence);
--plan <path> --slice i executors consume the manifest and write
slice-result artifacts; --report <dir> reconciles them FAIL-CLOSED (a slice
whose artifact never landed, or a planned shard nobody reported, is a
failure). Budget mode (packBySliceBudget) places shards longest-recorded-first
into the fullest slice whose estimated wall on J FIFO workers stays within S
seconds, else a new slice; a shard with no recorded wall weighs the whole budget
(its own runner), a shard longer than the budget runs alone, and overlays keep
one final one-at-a-time slice. The manifest's plan records each slice estimate
and ciTimeoutMinutes (every slice's supervised worst case plus 20 minutes
setup); CI derives the matrix ([range(1; .sliceCount + 1)]) and job timeout
from it, and executors refuse an EVALS_JOBS other than the planned J and run
their shards longest first. --slices K keeps the supervised round-robin
baseline re-packed by recorded times for local runs. Durations are recorded per
tier (a file's gate and periodic cases differ); refresh one tier from a
downloaded report directory with --report <dir> --write-durations. Under EVALS_ALL the hollow-shard guard marks exit-0 shards with
ZERO executed tests passed-empty (a failure) — census-health, not just
test runs. evals.yml runs the sliced gate lane per PR — the ONLY paid lane
since the legacy 17-row matrix (22.6 min/$21 per PR serialized ahead of the
slices) was deleted after demonstrated parity; its
KNOWN_MATRIX_GAPS/KNOWN_TIER_UNSET ratchets retired with it and
test/evals-workflow-wiring.test.ts pins the surviving wiring (slice-count
agreement, tier consistency, the shared register-skills composite with its
fail-fast verification loop). Tier marathon (complete start-to-finish flows)
is selected positively: a file enters the marathon plan only when it declares
describeE2ETier('marathon') or registers a marathon-tier case, and the gate and
periodic planners exclude marathon-only files; evals-marathon.yml runs them
weekly and on dispatch, fresh, one file per runner, with its own fail-closed
report and tracking issue, and nothing requires it. evals-periodic.yml runs ALL
periodic-tier files weekly (the coverage contract) minus the reasoned
exclusions in test/helpers/periodic-exclude-data.ts (reason + tracking
required per entry; removal re-activates the file), plus a weekly
EVALS_ALL gate census, plus a tracking-issue UPSERT on red weeks. The CI
image pins the claude CLI to an exact version (.github/docker/Dockerfile.ci,
enforced by test/ci-image-cli-pin.test.ts — bumps ride PRs that run the PTY
gate), and every eval-store run records claude --version, resolved once in
the runner parent and handed to shard children as GSTACK_CLAUDE_CLI_VERSION
(never spawned on a test thread), so a TUI-drift flake hunt is a grep, not
archaeology.
Eval verdict policy (EVAL_POLICY version 1 in
test/helpers/periodic-exclude-data.ts, pre-registered 2026-09-29). Paid evals
never retry. Each live case has exactly one kind in E2E_KINDS
(test/helpers/touchfiles-data.ts; test/eval-kinds.test.ts enforces coverage),
and the kind fixes its trials before the run:
rule(default): one trial; any failed assertion fails the verdict. For cases where nothing stochastic decides the verdict, or where it checks a contract the product must meet every run.behavior: a panel ofn = 3independent trials, launched together as isolated case shards on different slices (key<file>#<id>~t<N>). All three always run: no early stop and no conditional extra trial. PASS when at leastk = 2pass and no trial violated a contract (expectContract()stampsfailure_class: 'contract'). Each behavior case names its tolerated deviation inBEHAVIOR_WHYand must have a literal registration so it can run alone.judge: an LLM judge scoring a fixed input.judgePanel()(test/helpers/llm-judge.ts) draws 3 samples of the same prompt concurrently inside the unchangedJUDGE_MS; numeric dimensions gate on the per-dimension mean against the unchanged threshold (no dimension compensates for another), booleans on a strict majority. A sample that errors (refusal, truncation, non-JSON, a malformed field) fails the panel and is never resampled; a refusal counts as an unscored panel only when every sample refused.callJudge's 429 backoff happens before any model output and is transport, not a verdict retry. The workflow-judge cache stores whole panels only.
panelVerdict() (test/helpers/eval-store.ts) is the single verdict
function the report, collector-outcomes.json, the PR comment and pass-rates
all use. A timed-out, crashed or infrastructure-failed trial is a failed trial
recorded with its class; a missing or duplicate trial record makes the verdict
INCOMPLETE, which fails the lane; a 2/3 PASS is shown as PASS 2/3 with the
failed trial's cause. A manual re-run adds trials under a new run attempt and
never replaces the first attempt's verdict. A red census is never rerun on
unchanged inputs: each red is diagnosed as product, test/detector, harness or
infra and resolved by a concrete repair and a fresh census, or listed as a named
red. The one exception: a census whose every red verdict is machine-classified
INFRA or INCOMPLETE (missing slice artifact, runner loss, API error before the
first model turn) may be re-dispatched once as a new run, and both runs are
reported. Changing any EVAL_POLICY constant after seeing census results needs
Garry's re-approval, a version bump and a fresh census;
test/periodic-exclude-policy.test.ts pins the approved values.
Quarantine (CASE_QUARANTINE, same file). An entry needs: a per-trial rate
below 95% over at least 10 post-policy trials of the case's current input
identity (pre-policy backfill may justify only an initial entry, labeled as
such); a written diagnosis in reason whose failureClass is detector,
harness or model-latency (a product defect is fixed or listed as a named
red, never quarantined); unchanged case touchfiles in the change that adds it;
and an owner, tracking pointer, enteredAt date and measurable exit. A
quarantined case still runs its full panel and reports in every lane but cannot
fail it, except on a hard break (0 of n) or a contract violation, and it never
counts as passing coverage. At most 10% of a blocking tier (gate, periodic) may
be quarantined. The weekly report fails when an entry passes its exit rule (at
least 97% over at least 10 trials) without being removed, when an entry is 8
weekly runs old, or when a tier is over its cap.
Pass-rate history (bun run eval:pass-rates, scripts/eval-flake-rank.ts).
It reads the trial-outcomes artifact of the last N completed
evals-periodic.yml runs on the current branch and main (flags: --case,
--runs N, --branch, --dir, --backfill, --json, --gate) and prints
per-case per-trial pass rates with 95% Wilson intervals. A series is one case
under one input identity, the hash of its own touchfiles minus
GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES (harness edits do not restart it), per model, Claude CLI
version and policy version; a change starts a new series and older ones stay
visible. Labels: INCONCLUSIVE below 10 trials, BROKEN when the latest run is
0/n after a prior interval at or above 95%, FLAKY when failures leave the
interval straddling 95%, FAILING when the whole interval is below it, PASSING
otherwise. --backfill imports legacy slice artifacts as pre-policy trials
(first attempt only; a record that names no registry id is listed as
unattributed, never guessed); they are display-only. --gate (the weekly
report) fails with ACTION REQUIRED, on post-policy trials of the current series
only, when a non-quarantined blocking case meets the entry rule (proposing an
entry), when a rule case does (rule case behaving like behavior: fix or
reclassify), when a blocking case's current identity is significantly below its
previous one (one-sided Fisher exact, α = 0.05, at least 6 trials each side,
Holm-controlled across the cases tested), and on the quarantine rules above.
History that cannot be fetched fails the gate closed.
The arithmetic. With per-trial pass rate p, the chance a single case goes red (a false red while the product works, the catch rate once it has regressed):
| p | 1 trial | 2-of-3 panel |
|---|---|---|
| 0.99 | 1.0% | 0.03% |
| 0.95 | 5.0% | 0.72% |
| 0.90 | 10.0% | 2.8% |
| 0.70 | 30.0% | 21.6% |
| 0.30 | 70.0% | 78.4% |
The panel removes most false reds at healthy rates, but it catches a 0.95 → 0.70 regression in one run only 21.6% of the time (a single trial 30%, retry-until-green 3%), so drift detection is the history rule's job, not the per-run verdict's. The Fisher alarm is weak at the minimum sample (5.4% power for 0.95 → 0.70 at 6 trials a side), and ten straight passes still leave a 72% Wilson lower bound: after this policy lands, every series starts INCONCLUSIVE.
A lane is all green with probability Π p_rule × Π P(≥2 of 3 | p_behavior) × Π p_judge. For the current registry (PR gate worst case: 107 rule cases and 24 judges; weekly census: 190 rule, 22 behavior and 25 judge verdicts), with rule and judge verdicts at p_rule:
| p_rule | full PR gate | weekly, behavior p = 0.90 | 0.95 | 0.97 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.99 | 26.8% | 6.2% | 9.8% | 10.9% |
| 0.995 | 51.9% | 18.2% | 29.0% | 32.1% |
| 0.999 | 87.7% | 43.2% | 68.7% | 76.1% |
The rule term dominates: a green lane on a working product needs rule cases to be near-deterministic (0.999), which is why failing detectors are converted to outcome checks and product defects are fixed or named, and why each census reports its expected lane false-red from the measured rates.
Timeout policy. Paid tests use the tiers in
test/helpers/eval-budgets.ts (JUDGE/CAPTURE/CAPTURE_LONG/PTY/PTY_LONG);
test/eval-budgets-policy.test.ts pins that every tier fits the shard wall
minus overhead and ratchets raw literals. Budget above the wall is fiction.
No paid test may exceed the ordinary tiers.
FINDING_RETRY_BUDGETS also registers the CEO split-overflow and Eng
multi-finding batching files. Each retains its 25-minute case deadline and runs
once (paid evals never retry) in a 27-minute shard wall including two minutes for
cleanup. No per-case budget grows. Overlay wrappers
have a 1,830-second minimum shard wall and run without Bun retries; see the
overlay contract for their unchanged work budget.
The quality file reserves its whole-file wall (3,170 seconds) for every case run once, plus cleanup. Each still has 120 seconds of model work. Its 17 workflow judges own their deadline and abort signal, with five seconds for terminal recording inside a ten-second Bun grace; the other 11 retain their existing 120-second Bun timeout. Late responses cannot create records or cache passes.
The ship documentation file reserves 4,920 seconds for four 600-second cases and eight 300-second fault cases, run once, plus cleanup; in CI each case runs as its own shard. The standalone documentation child retains its 600-second case. The five review/ship explorer cases reserve 1,695 seconds, run once, including finalization grace. These are whole-file supervision limits, not additional model work per case.
The shared-library path file reserves 1,920 seconds for its three serial
600-second cases, run once, plus 120 seconds for cleanup; in CI each case runs as
its own shard with a 720-second wall (a registered file's case shard supervises
caseMs times its allowed attempts plus the reserve). Its
registered budget keeps the file in its own shard and binds the expected wall
to both the saved plan and the execution receipt; missing or stale budget
records fail reconciliation. Case deadlines and model budgets do not grow.
resolvePaidShardBudget(files, overrideMs?) is the canonical per-job resolver.
Each registered finding file and each overlay wrapper requires its
own shard, even with --files-per-shard above one. Mixed or multi-file overlay
jobs are rejected. An explicit
CLI --timeout, EVALS_SHARD_TIMEOUT_MS, or API timeoutMs still wins for these
policies, including a lower cap; overlay overrides below their minimum are rejected.
Planner entries and execution results record the effective wall,
its source and policy identifier. Custom drivers must resolve each job instead
of passing their ordinary 1800-second default as an explicit cap;
their outer controller/detach wall must also cover the allocated work and cleanup.
The paid census counts are printed by --list for each tier.
eval:bg:pr and eval:bg:periodic have 92820/67380-second outer caps, above their recomputed floors (PR fallback 78,425 s, periodic 33,821 s including the trial shards); the PR
wrapper covers a full-gate fallback at its default two workers. The broad gate
wrapper reserves 49320 seconds (floor 21,725 s), and release reserves 116700 seconds for both
tiers; free tests recompute each floor from the live shard census, case shards
included. Legacy monolithic
eval:bg/eval:bg:all retain their shorter 5400/7200-second caps; use the
sharded periodic path for complete coverage.
CI plans with --slice-budget 540 --jobs 2 for the PR gate, the periodic census
and the weekly gate census (the gate census also --skip-judges), and
--slice-budget 1 --jobs 1 (one file per runner) for marathon. The live plans
must fit their workflow's max-parallel so every slice starts at once, and
ciTimeoutMinutes must stay within 360; test/evals-workflow-wiring.test.ts
recomputes both from the complete census. Reconciliation rejects missing,
duplicated or misplaced registered work, absent budget records, case shards that
did not execute exactly their case, and reused results outside the PR profile.
Ordinary paid tiers and the default 1800-second shard wall remain unchanged; the
registered and overlay policies above supply exceptions, and unregistered
over-ceiling tests still fail policy checks.
Session timeouts are two-phase: a silent API dies at the startup grace (90s
local / 300s CI floor, distinct exit reason timeout_startup) and the work
budget arms on the first byte — the total wall never grows
(test/session-runner-startup-grace.test.ts pins the floor). A timed-out
session kills its whole detached process group (claude, codex, and gemini
runners alike — test/session-runner-groupkill.test.ts), so a stray
grandchild can't stretch a 600s budget past 1400s. And sync spawns can't
wedge a shard: every spawnSync/execSync/execFileSync/Bun.spawnSync
in the test trees must carry a timeout, enforced by
test/spawnsync-timeout-tripwire.test.ts with a shrink-only exemption
ratchet.
Anchor-sliced setup harnesses. setup is one large bash script, so the
free tests that pin its linker, cleanup, retired-skill prune, browser hint,
rebuild decision, and Chromium-bootstrap behavior never run the whole thing.
They slice the source by anchor (extractFn(name) takes
name() { through the next \n}\n; test/setup-playwright-best-effort.test.ts
slices the # 2. Ensure Playwright's Chromium is available block up to
# 2b.), join the extracted functions with stubbed collaborators, and execute
the REAL bash under a temp HOME with stubbed probes and installers. Two rules
keep the harness honest: renaming a function or anchor comment in setup fails
the test with function not found / anchor not found instead of silently
testing nothing, and test/setup-link-ownership.test.ts and
test/setup-playwright-best-effort.test.ts throw on any command not found on
stderr as harness drift (a helper the test forgot to extract) rather than
letting it degrade into a pass. Files: test/setup-link-ownership.test.ts,
test/setup-cleanup-orphans.test.ts, test/setup-playwright-best-effort.test.ts,
test/setup-prune-stale-generated.test.ts (_prune_stale_generated against a
temp render tree plus host dirs: host cleanup after the generator already
pruned, symlink targets survive, frontmatter-renamed skills, foreign links),
test/setup-browser-hint.test.ts (_browser_hint and the bootstrap summary
across Aside present/absent, bootstrap ok/failed/skipped, GSTACK_SKIP_ASIDE),
and test/setup-needs-build.test.ts (the NEEDS_BUILD block sliced between
two anchors: every binary and source set flips it, Windows .exe suffixes).
test/relink.test.ts shells out to a copy of the real bin/gstack-relink
against a temp GSTACK_INSTALL_DIR / GSTACK_SKILLS_DIR, and
test/hook-scripts.test.ts runs the real careful/bin/check-careful.sh and
freeze/bin/check-freeze.sh with JSON payloads on stdin (including the
GSTACK_HOME state-root parity against bin/gstack-paths).
Ubicloud VMs (bun run test:ubicloud)
bun run test:ubicloud [test:free args] runs the free suite on an ephemeral
Ubicloud VM instead of the local machine. It is the fast path from small dev
boxes, containers, and cloud sandboxes, and the way to record the duration seed
in the CI lane's environment. It needs UBICLOUD_API_KEY (a project token from
the Ubicloud console) plus bash, curl, python3, ssh, ssh-keygen, and
tar locally.
scripts/ubicloud/ubi-runner.sh creates the VM (UBI_SIZE, default
standard-16; UBI_LOCATION, default eu-central-h1) and streams the
checkout to it: tracked files, untracked files that are not ignored, and
.git, so uncommitted edits are tested. It then runs
scripts/ubicloud/setup-free-suite.sh, which mirrors the free-suite CI job
(same Bun pin, Playwright Chromium with its setuid sandbox helper, Xvfb,
poppler, emoji fonts, generated host outputs, gate binaries, and the CSO
helper), and runs xvfb-run -a bun run test:free with GSTACK_EXPECT_BINARIES=1
and GSTACK_FREE_RETRY_FLAKY=1. Shard logs are copied to
.context/ubicloud/<timestamp>/, and the VM is destroyed on every exit path.
The exit status is the suite's.
A stock Ubuntu 24.04 VM differs from a GitHub-hosted runner in three ways that
the scripts correct: the login umask is 002 (group-writable directories fail
the CSO private-state checks), AppArmor blocks the unprivileged user
namespaces Chromium's sandbox needs, and clang and python3-venv are absent
(required by the Dia readiness and Python runner tests).
VMs are named ubirun-<epoch>-<hex>. Every new VM first destroys ubirun-*
VMs older than UBI_GC_HOURS (default 12), so an interrupted client cannot
leak one for long. For other commands, use the runner directly:
scripts/ubicloud/ubi-runner.sh run --setup <script> -- '<command>', or its
up / ssh / sync / pull / down steps (--help lists them).
Cloud sandboxes (Vercel / Conductor cloud workspaces)
Syscall-supervised sandboxes need environment setup before bun run test can
run green: run scripts/sandbox-doctor.sh once per boot. It documents and
treats the full failure taxonomy (missing /dev/fd, 64M /dev/shm, spurious
access(2) EACCES from the seccomp supervisor under load, full-capability
processes defeating chmod-denial tests, no X server, no git identity, and
Conductor's git-shim exit-code laundering). The doctor seeds TMPDIR,
DISPLAY, and the runner knobs into ~/.bashrc, so open a new shell (or
source ~/.bashrc) before running the suite. Then:
setpriv --ambient-caps=-all --bounding-set=-all bun run test
Two runner knobs exist for these environments (both no-ops unless set):
GSTACK_FREE_JOBS overrides the shard count in either direction (2 is the measured sweet spot — one
serial mega-shard and 6-way sharding both saturate the per-process syscall
supervisor), and GSTACK_FREE_RETRY_FLAKY=1 re-runs attributed failures once
serially, downgrading a clean retry to a loud FLAKY-PASS (capped at 5 files so
a broken tree can't masquerade as flaky). The required CI free lane and the
Windows lane set the retry knob too, appending every flaky pass to the JSONL ledger it uploads
(GSTACK_FLAKE_LEDGER) — a flaky pass never reds the lane, but it never
disappears either.