- codex exec gains --skip-git-repo-check: newer CLIs refuse exec in an
untrusted non-git dir (our temp skill dirs) — empirically verified.
- gemini: --skip-trust was removed in gemini-cli 0.34 (argv parse error);
dropped from the session runner and the benchmark adapter. A present-
but-unusable CLI (deprecated individual code-assist auth path) now
classifies as SKIP, not a false adapter failure; the benchmark live
smoke skips on auth/rate_limit error codes (environmental) while still
failing on timeout/unknown (the drift classes it exists to catch).
- codex-e2e, gemini-e2e, and benchmark-providers gain the canonical
whole-file EVALS_TIER === 'periodic' guard per CLAUDE.md tiering rule 3
(external service -> periodic) — the sharded gate runner now excludes
all three (gate: 45 -> 42 shards).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>