Claude Code strips the unknown _gstack_source key when it rewrites
settings.json, so tag-based dedupe degraded to exact-command equality and
every Conductor worktree's setup appended a fresh hook entry; deleted
worktrees left dead hooks erroring on every AskUserQuestion fire.
- KNOWN_HOOKS identity table (shared JS prelude, single source of truth):
ownership is intrinsic and PER HOOK ITEM — basename + relpath suffix +
event (+ matcher where defined). Tags never claim foreign items.
- New `prune-stale [--repoint <root>] [--all]`: prune dead gstack items,
re-point survivors at the stable install (tag restore from the table),
exact-duplicate collapse, uninstall/no-team identity sweep. Explicit
plan_tune_hooks:no is honored (dead pruned, live never re-pointed).
- add-event / remove-source become item-aware: replace/remove only the owned
item; a user's co-located hook in the same entry is never collateral.
- Mutation safety: mkdir lock with owner token, ownership-checked release,
atomic stale takeover; per-process-unique tmp + backup names;
backup-on-change everywhere; fail-closed on parse failure (a corrupt
settings.json is never overwritten — previously catch{} clobbered it);
locked atomic rollback.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>