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d078622b73 v1.62.0.0 feat: plan-mode auto-select at the review scope gate (#2533)
* fix(evals): align plan-eng/design plan-mode + finding-floor smokes to their declared periodic tier

The #2077 demotion of these four stochastic tests to 'periodic' was inert:
E2E_TIERS declared periodic but the files self-gated on EVALS_TIER === 'gate',
so they kept running in the blocking gate lane and never in the weekly lane.

Flip the four self-gates to 'periodic' (headers/describe labels updated), add
a free static tier-alignment invariant test (dep-list filename mapping;
unmapped self-gated files are reported, never silently skipped), and name the
two plan-mode test files in their own touchfiles dep lists so the invariant
binds for them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(pty-runner): scope-gate question/auto-select detectors + observation flags

Two render-shape-anchored detectors (whitespace-squished, like the Pattern-4/5
collapsed-form handling): isScopeGateQuestionVisible requires the question text
PLUS option-body text (native AskUserQuestion renders numbered options, prose
fallback renders lettered — the option body appears in both; narration doesn't),
and isScopeGateAutoSelectVisible requires the announcement prefix PLUS the
selected-B token.

runPlanSkillObservation gains scopeGateQuestionObserved /
scopeGateAutoSelectObserved high-water flags (attached at every return path) so
paid smokes can assert gate behavior across the whole run instead of the lossy
2KB evidence tail. runPlanSkillFloorCheck no longer counts a scope-gate render
toward auqObserved (tail-scoped exclusion) — the floor measures FINDING-driven
questions, and the gate could fire inside the 3s pre-target window.

Unit fixtures pin clean/native/collapsed positives, narration negatives, and
the verbatim template announcement string (template rewording fails here first,
before the paid smokes degrade to vacuous asserts).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(plan-eng/design-review): auto-select B in plan mode at the scope gate

In plan mode the scope gate's "What should I review? A/B/C" question is pure
friction: there is no branch diff and the target is the plan being drafted.
Both gates gain an ordered exceptions block, checked BEFORE asking:

1. Plan mode → auto-select B: review the active plan (in context or pasted),
   announce it in one line ("Scope gate: plan mode — auto-selected B
   (reviewing <target>)") so the user can interrupt; an explicitly different
   user-named target still wins; no plan drafted yet → ask as normal.
2. User-named target (outside plan mode): explicit-only — a path, a pasted
   doc, or the literal words "branch diff". A passing mention is not naming;
   when in doubt, ask.

Outside plan mode with no explicitly-named target, nothing changes. Plan-mode
is checked FIRST because the PTY harness seeds drafts as pasted user messages
(claude-pty-runner.ts:1600) — ordering makes the seeded smokes deterministic.

Pinning: seeded plan-mode smokes assert no gate render + announcement rendered
(eng test 2; new design seeded test); plan-mode-no-op extends to eng/design
(bypass must not misfire outside plan mode; first question must be the gate)
plus a named-target case proving the pasted target is consumed; a drift-guard
asserts the two hand-duplicated exceptions blocks stay identical modulo the
two variant slots and carry the announcement string the detectors pin.

Skeleton ceilings ratcheted with comments (eng 68k, design 89k; eng union
ratio 1.08→1.09) — measured 67,006 B / 88,226 B after regen.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(autoplan): skip the scope gate when following loaded review skills

autoplan Step 3 reads plan-eng-review / plan-design-review SKILL.md verbatim,
and its section skip list omitted the scope gate — so autoplan ingested a
hard-STOP AskUserQuestion that contradicts its every-question-auto-decides
contract. One skip-list line fixes it; a static toContain pin in
skill-validation keeps the entry load-bearing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: file scope-gate resolver-extraction TODO (eng-review D5 follow-up)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(pty-runner): positional floor exclusion, flag builder, outcome union, token tracking

Review-army + adversarial findings on the scope-gate observability work,
all verified before fixing:

- Floor check: acceptance scanned the CUMULATIVE buffer while the scope-gate
  exclusion scanned only the 1500-byte tail, so an early gate render satisfied
  the floor vacuously once ~1.5KB of output accumulated (found independently
  by 4 review passes; predicate reproduced). Acceptance now scans only content
  APPENDED after the first gate render (positional anchor), and the LLM-judge
  'waiting' shortcut no longer fires while the gate menu is the pending render.
- High-water flags are built once and spread at every return path — the
  hand-spread pattern had already drifted (judge-waiting return omitted two
  flags), which made must-stay-false asserts vacuous on those paths.
- isScopeGateAutoSelectVisible: tense-tolerant selected/selecting/selects
  token (must-be-TRUE asserts shouldn't fail semantically-perfect paraphrases)
  and quoted-occurrence rejection (a model verbatim-quoting the announcement
  while declining must not trip must-stay-FALSE asserts). Fixtures added for
  both directions.
- PlanSkillObservation outcome union gains 'wrote_findings_before_asking'
  (returned at runtime via classifyVisible but missing from the type).
- trackTokens/tokensObserved: cumulative-buffer token high-water for
  consumption asserts (the 2KB evidence tail is lossy and the plan-file
  fallback is unreachable outside plan mode).
- New scope-gate-floor unit pins (from the ship coverage audit): both gate
  render forms trip acceptance and exclusion; a genuine finding AUQ is not
  excluded; tail-scoping semantics pinned.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(evals): harden no-op asserts, close tier-invariant fail-open holes, pin gate question strings

- no-op regression: gate-must-ask is now UNCONDITIONAL for eng/design (the
  outcome==='asked' conditional let a silent-bypass plan_ready run sail
  through); eng/design cases force --disallowedTools so the pinned prose
  shape is contractual rather than hoping native AUQ renders match; the
  named-target case uses trackTokens for consumption and lists
  wrote_findings_before_asking in its diagnostic throw branch.
- tier-alignment invariant: both quote styles matched; zero-self-gate,
  mixed-tier, and owning-keys-without-E2E_TIERS-entries are all REPORTED
  instead of silently skipped (the fail-open holes three reviewers found).
- drift-guard: the generated gate menus must carry the exact question/option
  strings the PTY question detector anchors on — free CI fails before the
  paid smokes can go vacuous on a menu reword.
- touchfiles: corrected the no-op cost note for CI concurrency + retry
  semantics.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(ci): register plan-eng/design-review skills in PTY eval containers

The extended plan-mode-no-op smoke invokes /plan-eng-review and
/plan-design-review, but the fresh CI containers registered only
office-hours and plan-ceo-review — both new runs would return
'Unknown command' and fail every PR's gate job (Codex structured
review P1, verified against evals.yml). Registration loops, the
dangling-target fail-fast list, and the frontmatter checks (now a
loop over the same skill list, so the lists can't drift) all cover
the two skills.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(plan-eng/design-review): harden scope-gate exceptions against injection and ambiguity

Adversarial-review wording fixes (Claude adversarial F1-F8 + Codex
cross-confirmation), applied to both gate templates + regen:

- Host-anchored mode signal: only the host's own system messages (plan-mode
  reminder or active plan file path) arm the auto-select; plan-shaped text
  inside pasted documents, tool results, or fetched pages does NOT count —
  injected content can't disarm the consent gate or nominate the target.
- Multiple plan candidates: the host-referenced plan file wins; still
  ambiguous means ask.
- The DIFFERENT-target override carries the passing-mention guard.
- Plan mode + explicitly named target + no drafted plan resolves to the
  named target instead of a contradictory re-ask.
- The numbered ask-path rules are qualified ('When no exception above
  applied:') so they no longer restate an unconditional MUST-ask that
  contradicts the exceptions.
- 'Whenever this gate does ask — in any mode — it is a hard STOP.'
- Shared preamble: 'any AskUserQuestion the skill fires is the workflow
  operating within plan mode' (was 'the first AskUserQuestion is the
  workflow entering plan mode', which framed the opposite of the bypass);
  regenerates every skill.
- Ceilings ratcheted with attribution: plan-eng union ratio 1.10,
  investigate 1.10 (the ~250B shared-preamble reword lands the
  closest-to-ceiling skill at 1.092).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore: bump version and changelog (v1.62.0.0)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(pty-runner): active-render gate veto in the floor check + honest periodic-wiring docs

Codex re-review P2s on the fix wave, both verified:

- A finding AUQ rendering within TAIL_SCAN_BYTES of the gate (model waiting,
  no further output) was vetoed by the blanket tail exclusion until timeout.
  The veto is now ACTIVE-RENDER-aware: parseNumberedOptions anchors the last
  cursor menu, so only a pending GATE menu vetoes; the judge fallback shares
  the same check. Residual (documented): prose gate + prose finding inside
  one tail — floors run the native-menu path in practice.
- The four demoted periodic tests are not in evals-periodic.yml's explicit
  matrix (a named instance of the pre-existing periodic-orphans TODO), so
  they run locally/manually until the PTY-capable periodic job lands.
  CHANGELOG claim softened accordingly; TODO filed with the wiring recipe.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: update project documentation for v1.62.0.0

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: apply codex doc-review fixes for v1.62.0.0

- CLAUDE.md: scope the tier-alignment invariant claim (mapped files
  enforced, unmapped files reported)
- docs/skills.md: document the plan-mode auto-select scope gate for
  /plan-eng-review and /plan-design-review
- evals.yml: fix stale comment (PTY smokes register four skills, not two)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: refresh ship golden baselines for the plan-mode preamble reword

The generate-completion-status.ts wording change ('any AskUserQuestion the
skill fires…') intentionally regenerates every SKILL.md; the byte-compare
goldens carry the generator's output and refresh with it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(ship): custom-hooks-path detection false-negatives on git worktrees

The pre-push guard's HOOKS_IN_GIT_DIR check compared the hooks dir against
--absolute-git-dir, which in a linked worktree is .git/worktrees/<name>
while hooks resolve to the COMMON .git/hooks — so every Conductor worktree
read as a 'custom hooks path' and the consented guard install was skipped.
Match against the resolved --git-common-dir too (with a /nonexistent
fallback so a failed resolution can't collapse the case pattern into
match-everything). Verified live: this worktree now reports yes (was no),
and the main checkout still reports yes. Goldens refreshed (--host all).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: changelog bullet for the worktree hooks-detection fix

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(evals): give the plan-ceo plan-mode smoke real budget headroom

Measured 2026-08-11: a clean isolated pass took 295.7s against the 300s
inner budget (4s of margin) and the same test timed out at ~308s three
times under concurrent eval load — a budget-edge flake in the gate lane,
not a behavior regression (it passed isolated on both this branch and
main). Inner budget 300s -> 420s, outer bun timeout 360s -> 480s, and the
test file is now named in its own touchfiles dep list so the tier-alignment
invariant binds for it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(evals): 300s budget floor for the two 90s design-consultation SDK tests

Root cause of PR #2533's e2e-design CI failure: design-consultation-preview
failed 3 attempts at 0 turns/$0.00/93s — the session was up but the model's
first completion queued past the 90s inner budget under concurrent API load
(11 matrix jobs; the sibling research test booted its first tool at 4s, so
this is API-side queuing, not CPU boot contention). The test was selected
only because touchfiles.ts is a global touchfile; the tested behavior is
untouched by this branch.

90s budgets cannot absorb one slow first completion. Both 90s tests in the
file move to the repo's saturated-runner standard (300s inner / 360s outer,
matching review-dashboard-via and retro-base-branch). Deliberately NOT
re-arming the runner's inner timer on first stream event: an audit found
~100 outer bun-timeout literals sized inner+30-60s that a re-arm would
silently break — the structural options are written up in TODOS.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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---
name: ship
preamble-tier: 4
version: 1.0.0
description: |
Ship workflow: detect + merge base branch, run tests, review diff, bump VERSION,
update CHANGELOG, commit, push, create PR. Use when asked to "ship", "deploy",
"push to main", "create a PR", "merge and push", or "get it deployed".
Proactively invoke this skill (do NOT push/PR directly) when the user says code
is ready, asks about deploying, wants to push code up, or asks to create a PR. (gstack)
allowed-tools:
- Bash
- Read
- Write
- Edit
- Grep
- Glob
- Agent
- AskUserQuestion
- WebSearch
sensitive: true
triggers:
- ship it
- create a pr
- push to main
- deploy this
---
{{PREAMBLE}}
{{BASE_BRANCH_DETECT}}
{{GBRAIN_CONTEXT_LOAD}}
# Ship: Fully Automated Ship Workflow
You are running the `/ship` workflow. This is a **non-interactive, fully automated** workflow. Do NOT ask for confirmation at any step. The user said `/ship` which means DO IT. Run straight through and output the PR URL at the end.
**Only stop for:**
- On the base branch (abort)
- Merge conflicts that can't be auto-resolved (stop, show conflicts)
- In-branch test failures (pre-existing failures are triaged, not auto-blocking)
- Pre-landing review finds ASK items that need user judgment
- MINOR or MAJOR version bump needed (ask — see Step 12)
- Greptile review comments that need user decision (complex fixes, false positives)
- AI-assessed coverage below minimum threshold (hard gate with user override — see Step 7)
- Plan items NOT DONE with no user override (see Step 8)
- Plan verification failures (see Step 8.1)
- TODOS.md missing and user wants to create one (ask — see Step 14)
- TODOS.md disorganized and user wants to reorganize (ask — see Step 14)
**Never stop for:**
- Uncommitted changes (always include them)
- Version bump choice (auto-pick MICRO or PATCH — see Step 12)
- CHANGELOG content (auto-generate from diff)
- Commit message approval (auto-commit)
- Multi-file changesets (auto-split into bisectable commits)
- TODOS.md completed-item detection (auto-mark)
- Auto-fixable review findings (dead code, N+1, stale comments — fixed automatically)
- Test coverage gaps within target threshold (auto-generate and commit, or flag in PR body)
**Re-run behavior (idempotency):**
Re-running `/ship` means "run the whole checklist again." Every verification step
(tests, coverage audit, plan completion, pre-landing review, adversarial review,
VERSION/CHANGELOG check, TODOS, document-release) runs on every invocation.
Only *actions* are idempotent:
- Step 12: If VERSION already bumped, skip the bump but still read the version
- Step 17: If already pushed, skip the push command
- Step 19: If PR exists, update the body instead of creating a new PR
Never skip a verification step because a prior `/ship` run already performed it.
---
{{SECTION_INDEX:ship}}
---
## Step 1: Pre-flight
1. Check the current branch. If on the base branch or the repo's default branch, **abort**: "You're on the base branch. Ship from a feature branch."
2. Run `git status` (never use `-uall`). Uncommitted changes are always included — no need to ask.
3. Run `git diff <base>...HEAD --stat` and `git log <base>..HEAD --oneline` to understand what's being shipped.
4. Check review readiness:
{{REVIEW_DASHBOARD}}
If the Eng Review is NOT "CLEAR":
Print: "No prior eng review found — ship will run its own pre-landing review in Step 9."
Check diff size: `git diff <base>...HEAD --stat | tail -1`. If the diff is >200 lines, add: "Note: This is a large diff. Consider running `/plan-eng-review` or `/autoplan` for architecture-level review before shipping."
If CEO Review is missing, mention as informational ("CEO Review not run — recommended for product changes") but do NOT block.
For Design Review: run `source <(~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-diff-scope <base> 2>/dev/null)`. If `SCOPE_FRONTEND=true` and no design review (plan-design-review or design-review-lite) exists in the dashboard, mention: "Design Review not run — this PR changes frontend code. The lite design check will run automatically in Step 9, but consider running /design-review for a full visual audit post-implementation." Still never block.
Continue to Step 2 — do NOT block or ask. Ship runs its own review in Step 9.
---
## Step 2: Distribution Pipeline Check
If the diff introduces a new standalone artifact (CLI binary, library package, tool) — not a web
service with existing deployment — verify that a distribution pipeline exists.
1. Check if the diff adds a new `cmd/` directory, `main.go`, or `bin/` entry point:
```bash
git diff origin/<base> --name-only | grep -E '(cmd/.*/main\.go|bin/|Cargo\.toml|setup\.py|package\.json)' | head -5
```
2. If new artifact detected, check for a release workflow:
```bash
ls .github/workflows/ 2>/dev/null | grep -iE 'release|publish|dist'
grep -qE 'release|publish|deploy' .gitlab-ci.yml 2>/dev/null && echo "GITLAB_CI_RELEASE"
```
3. **If no release pipeline exists and a new artifact was added:** Use AskUserQuestion:
- "This PR adds a new binary/tool but there's no CI/CD pipeline to build and publish it.
Users won't be able to download the artifact after merge."
- A) Add a release workflow now (CI/CD release pipeline — GitHub Actions or GitLab CI depending on platform)
- B) Defer — add to TODOS.md
- C) Not needed — this is internal/web-only, existing deployment covers it
4. **If release pipeline exists:** Continue silently.
5. **If no new artifact detected:** Skip silently.
---
## Step 3: Merge the base branch (BEFORE tests)
Fetch and merge the base branch into the feature branch so tests run against the merged state:
```bash
git fetch origin <base> && git merge origin/<base> --no-edit
```
**If there are merge conflicts:** Try to auto-resolve if they are simple (VERSION, schema.rb, CHANGELOG ordering). If conflicts are complex or ambiguous, **STOP** and show them.
**If already up to date:** Continue silently.
---
{{SECTION:tests}}
{{SECTION:test-coverage}}
{{SECTION:plan-completion}}
{{SECTION:review-army}}
{{SECTION:greptile}}
{{SECTION:adversarial}}
## Step 12: Version bump (auto-decide)
The deterministic version-state logic is the tested **`gstack-version-bump`** CLI
(classify / write / repair). The bump-LEVEL decision and queue-collision handling
stay agent judgment; the slot pick stays `gstack-next-version`.
1. **Classify state** — pure reader, never writes:
```bash
bun run ~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-version-bump classify --base <base>
```
Read the JSON `state` and dispatch:
- **FRESH** → do the bump (steps 2-4).
- **ALREADY_BUMPED** → skip the bump, but run the queue-drift check (step 3) with the reported `currentVersion`. If the queue moved (next free version differs), **AskUserQuestion**: rebump to the new version (rewrites CHANGELOG header + PR title) or keep current (CI version-gate will reject until resolved).
- **DRIFT_STALE_PKG** → run `gstack-version-bump repair` (syncs package.json to VERSION). No re-bump; reuse `currentVersion` for CHANGELOG + PR.
- **DRIFT_UNEXPECTED** → **STOP**. package.json disagrees with VERSION while VERSION matches base — a manual edit bypassed /ship. Reconcile manually, then re-run.
2. **Decide the bump level** from the diff (agent judgment):
- **MICRO**: <50 lines, trivial tweaks/config. **PATCH**: 50+ lines, no feature signals.
- **MINOR**: **ASK** if any feature signal (new route/page, migration, new module), OR 500+ lines. **MAJOR**: **ASK** — milestones or breaking changes only.
Save as `BUMP_LEVEL`. The level is the user-intended bump; queue-aware placement may advance the slot without changing the level.
3. **Queue-aware pick** (workspace-aware ship):
```bash
QUEUE_JSON=$(bun run ~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-next-version --base <base> --bump "$BUMP_LEVEL" --current-version "$BASE_VERSION" 2>/dev/null || echo '{"offline":true}')
NEW_VERSION=$(echo "$QUEUE_JSON" | jq -r '.version // empty')
```
If `offline`/util fails: fall back to local `BUMP_LEVEL` arithmetic and print `⚠ workspace-aware ship offline — using local bump only`. If `claimed` is non-empty, render the queue table so the user sees landing order. If an active sibling workspace holds a version `>= NEW_VERSION`, **AskUserQuestion**: advance past (unrelated work) or abort and sync with the sibling.
4. **Write the bump** (FRESH, or an approved rebump):
```bash
bun run ~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-version-bump write --version "$NEW_VERSION"
```
The CLI validates the 4-digit `MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH.MICRO` pattern and writes **both** VERSION and package.json. On a half-write (VERSION written, package.json failed) it exits 3 — re-run, and classify will report DRIFT_STALE_PKG for `repair` to fix.
5. **Record the release decision** (durable cross-session memory). The bump level is a real decision the next session should not re-derive blind:
```bash
~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-decision-log '{"decision":"Ship NEW_VERSION (BUMP_LEVEL)","rationale":"WHY","scope":"repo","source":"skill","confidence":9}' 2>/dev/null || true
```
Substitute `NEW_VERSION`, `BUMP_LEVEL`, and a one-line `WHY` (the signal that set the level: diff scale, a new feature, a breaking change). Best-effort and non-interactive; never blocks the ship. Skip on the ALREADY_BUMPED path (the decision was logged on the run that did the bump).
{{SECTION:changelog}}
## Step 14: TODOS.md (auto-update)
Cross-reference the project's TODOS.md against the changes being shipped. Mark completed items automatically; prompt only if the file is missing or disorganized.
Read `.claude/skills/review/TODOS-format.md` for the canonical format reference.
**1. Check if TODOS.md exists** in the repository root.
**If TODOS.md does not exist:** Use AskUserQuestion:
- Message: "GStack recommends maintaining a TODOS.md organized by skill/component, then priority (P0 at top through P4, then Completed at bottom). See TODOS-format.md for the full format. Would you like to create one?"
- Options: A) Create it now, B) Skip for now
- If A: Create `TODOS.md` with a skeleton (# TODOS heading + ## Completed section). Continue to step 3.
- If B: Skip the rest of Step 14. Continue to Step 15.
**2. Check structure and organization:**
Read TODOS.md and verify it follows the recommended structure:
- Items grouped under `## <Skill/Component>` headings
- Each item has `**Priority:**` field with P0-P4 value
- A `## Completed` section at the bottom
**If disorganized** (missing priority fields, no component groupings, no Completed section): Use AskUserQuestion:
- Message: "TODOS.md doesn't follow the recommended structure (skill/component groupings, P0-P4 priority, Completed section). Would you like to reorganize it?"
- Options: A) Reorganize now (recommended), B) Leave as-is
- If A: Reorganize in-place following TODOS-format.md. Preserve all content — only restructure, never delete items.
- If B: Continue to step 3 without restructuring.
**3. Detect completed TODOs:**
This step is fully automatic — no user interaction.
Use the diff and commit history already gathered in earlier steps:
- `git diff <base>...HEAD` (full diff against the base branch)
- `git log <base>..HEAD --oneline` (all commits being shipped)
For each TODO item, check if the changes in this PR complete it by:
- Matching commit messages against the TODO title and description
- Checking if files referenced in the TODO appear in the diff
- Checking if the TODO's described work matches the functional changes
**Be conservative:** Only mark a TODO as completed if there is clear evidence in the diff. If uncertain, leave it alone.
**4. Move completed items** to the `## Completed` section at the bottom. Append: `**Completed:** vX.Y.Z (YYYY-MM-DD)`
**5. Output summary:**
- `TODOS.md: N items marked complete (item1, item2, ...). M items remaining.`
- Or: `TODOS.md: No completed items detected. M items remaining.`
- Or: `TODOS.md: Created.` / `TODOS.md: Reorganized.`
**6. Defensive:** If TODOS.md cannot be written (permission error, disk full), warn the user and continue. Never stop the ship workflow for a TODOS failure.
Save this summary — it goes into the PR body in Step 19.
---
## Step 15: Commit (bisectable chunks)
### Step 15.0: WIP Commit Squash (continuous checkpoint mode only)
If `CHECKPOINT_MODE` is `"continuous"`, the branch likely contains `WIP:` commits
from auto-checkpointing. These must be squashed INTO the corresponding logical
commits before the bisectable-grouping logic in Step 15.1 runs. Non-WIP commits
on the branch (earlier landed work) must be preserved.
**Detection:**
```bash
WIP_COUNT=$(git log <base>..HEAD --oneline --grep="^WIP:" 2>/dev/null | wc -l | tr -d ' ')
echo "WIP_COMMITS: $WIP_COUNT"
```
If `WIP_COUNT` is 0: skip this sub-step entirely.
If `WIP_COUNT` > 0, collect the WIP context first so it survives the squash:
```bash
# Export [gstack-context] blocks from all WIP commits on this branch.
# This file becomes input to the CHANGELOG entry and may inform PR body context.
mkdir -p "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/.gstack"
git log <base>..HEAD --grep="^WIP:" --format="%H%n%B%n---END---" > \
"$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/.gstack/wip-context-before-squash.md" 2>/dev/null || true
```
**Non-destructive squash strategy:**
`git reset --soft <merge-base>` WOULD uncommit everything including non-WIP commits.
DO NOT DO THAT. Instead, use `git rebase` scoped to filter WIP commits only.
Option 1 (preferred, if there are non-WIP commits mixed in):
```bash
# Interactive rebase with automated WIP squashing.
# Mark every WIP commit as 'fixup' (drop its message, fold changes into prior commit).
git rebase -i $(git merge-base HEAD origin/<base>) \
--exec 'true' \
-X ours 2>/dev/null || {
echo "Rebase conflict. Aborting: git rebase --abort"
git rebase --abort
echo "STATUS: BLOCKED — manual WIP squash required"
exit 1
}
```
Option 2 (simpler, if the branch is ALL WIP commits so far — no landed work):
```bash
# Branch contains only WIP commits. Reset-soft is safe here because there's
# nothing non-WIP to preserve. Verify first.
NON_WIP=$(git log <base>..HEAD --oneline --invert-grep --grep="^WIP:" 2>/dev/null | wc -l | tr -d ' ')
if [ "$NON_WIP" -eq 0 ]; then
git reset --soft $(git merge-base HEAD origin/<base>)
echo "WIP-only branch, reset-soft to merge base. Step 15.1 will create clean commits."
fi
```
Decide at runtime which option applies. If unsure, prefer stopping and asking the
user via AskUserQuestion rather than destroying non-WIP commits.
**Anti-footgun rules:**
- NEVER blind `git reset --soft` if there are non-WIP commits. Codex flagged this
as destructive — it would uncommit real landed work and turn the push step into
a non-fast-forward push for anyone who already pushed.
- Only proceed to Step 15.1 after WIP commits are successfully squashed/absorbed
or the branch has been verified to contain only WIP work.
### Step 15.1: Bisectable Commits
**Goal:** Create small, logical commits that work well with `git bisect` and help LLMs understand what changed.
1. Analyze the diff and group changes into logical commits. Each commit should represent **one coherent change** — not one file, but one logical unit.
2. **Commit ordering** (earlier commits first):
- **Infrastructure:** migrations, config changes, route additions
- **Models & services:** new models, services, concerns (with their tests)
- **Controllers & views:** controllers, views, JS/React components (with their tests)
- **VERSION + CHANGELOG + TODOS.md:** always in the final commit
3. **Rules for splitting:**
- A model and its test file go in the same commit
- A service and its test file go in the same commit
- A controller, its views, and its test go in the same commit
- Migrations are their own commit (or grouped with the model they support)
- Config/route changes can group with the feature they enable
- If the total diff is small (< 50 lines across < 4 files), a single commit is fine
4. **Each commit must be independently valid** — no broken imports, no references to code that doesn't exist yet. Order commits so dependencies come first.
5. Compose each commit message:
- First line: `<type>: <summary>` (type = feat/fix/chore/refactor/docs)
- Body: brief description of what this commit contains
- Only the **final commit** (VERSION + CHANGELOG) gets the version tag and co-author trailer:
```bash
git commit -m "$(cat <<'EOF'
chore: bump version and changelog (vX.Y.Z.W)
{{CO_AUTHOR_TRAILER}}
EOF
)"
```
---
## Step 16: Verification Gate
**IRON LAW: NO COMPLETION CLAIMS WITHOUT FRESH VERIFICATION EVIDENCE.**
Before pushing, re-verify if code changed during Steps 4-6:
1. **Test verification:** If ANY code changed after Step 5's test run (fixes from review findings, CHANGELOG edits don't count), re-run the test suite. Paste fresh output. Stale output from Step 5 is NOT acceptable.
2. **Build verification:** If the project has a build step, run it. Paste output.
3. **Rationalization prevention:**
- "Should work now" → RUN IT.
- "I'm confident" → Confidence is not evidence.
- "I already tested earlier" → Code changed since then. Test again.
- "It's a trivial change" → Trivial changes break production.
**If tests fail here:** STOP. Do not push. Fix the issue and return to Step 5.
Claiming work is complete without verification is dishonesty, not efficiency.
---
## Step 17: Push
**Credential pre-push guard (#1946) — run before the push:**
```bash
_REDACT_PREPUSH=$(~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-config get redact_prepush_hook 2>/dev/null || echo "false")
_HOOK_PATH=$(git rev-parse --git-path hooks/pre-push 2>/dev/null || echo "")
_HOOK_INSTALLED="no"
[ -n "$_HOOK_PATH" ] && [ -f "$_HOOK_PATH" ] && grep -q "gstack-redact" "$_HOOK_PATH" 2>/dev/null && _HOOK_INSTALLED="yes"
# Custom hooks dirs (core.hooksPath — e.g. husky's COMMITTED .husky/) must
# never get a silent install: the chaining installer would rename the team's
# committed hook and write a machine-local wrapper into the working tree.
_HOOKS_DIR=$(git rev-parse --git-path hooks 2>/dev/null || echo "")
_GIT_DIR=$(git rev-parse --absolute-git-dir 2>/dev/null || echo "")
# Linked worktrees: --absolute-git-dir is .git/worktrees/<name> but hooks
# resolve to the COMMON .git/hooks, so match against the common dir too or
# every Conductor worktree false-negatives as a "custom hooks path". The
# /nonexistent fallback keeps the case pattern from collapsing to "/*"
# (match-everything) when resolution fails.
_GIT_COMMON=$(cd "$(git rev-parse --git-common-dir 2>/dev/null || echo /nonexistent)" 2>/dev/null && pwd || echo /nonexistent)
_HOOKS_IN_GIT_DIR="no"
case "$_HOOKS_DIR" in
"$_GIT_DIR"/*|"$_GIT_COMMON"/*|hooks|.git/hooks) _HOOKS_IN_GIT_DIR="yes" ;;
esac
_PREPUSH_PROMPTED=$([ -f "${GSTACK_HOME:-$HOME/.gstack}/.redact-prepush-prompted" ] && echo "yes" || echo "no")
echo "REDACT_PREPUSH: $_REDACT_PREPUSH"
echo "HOOK_INSTALLED: $_HOOK_INSTALLED"
echo "HOOKS_IN_GIT_DIR: $_HOOKS_IN_GIT_DIR"
echo "PREPUSH_PROMPTED: $_PREPUSH_PROMPTED"
```
Branch on the echoed values:
1. **`REDACT_PREPUSH: true` and `HOOK_INSTALLED: no` and `HOOKS_IN_GIT_DIR: yes`** —
consent already given; install silently (no question) and continue:
```bash
~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-redact install-prepush-hook
```
If `HOOKS_IN_GIT_DIR: no` (husky or another committed hooks dir), do NOT
install silently — print one line: "redact pre-push guard not installed:
this repo uses a custom core.hooksPath; run
`gstack-redact install-prepush-hook` manually if you want it chained."
2. **`REDACT_PREPUSH` not true AND `PREPUSH_PROMPTED: no`** — one-time
offer (fires once EVER, machine-wide). AskUserQuestion:
> gstack can install a per-repo git pre-push hook that blocks pushes
> containing credentials (API keys, tokens, private keys). It's a
> guardrail, not enforcement — `GSTACK_REDACT_PREPUSH=skip` bypasses it.
> Install it for repos you ship from?
Options:
- A) Yes — install the credential guard (recommended)
- B) No — never ask again
If A: run `~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-config set redact_prepush_hook true`
then `~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-redact install-prepush-hook`.
If B: run `~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-config set redact_prepush_hook false`.
ALWAYS (after either answer, but NOT if the question itself failed to
render — a failed AskUserQuestion must re-offer next time):
```bash
touch "${GSTACK_HOME:-$HOME/.gstack}/.redact-prepush-prompted"
```
3. **Anything else** (declined earlier, or already installed) — continue
without comment.
**Idempotency check:** Check if the branch is already pushed and up to date.
```bash
git fetch origin <branch-name> 2>/dev/null
LOCAL=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
REMOTE=$(git rev-parse origin/<branch-name> 2>/dev/null || echo "none")
echo "LOCAL: $LOCAL REMOTE: $REMOTE"
[ "$LOCAL" = "$REMOTE" ] && echo "ALREADY_PUSHED" || echo "PUSH_NEEDED"
```
If `ALREADY_PUSHED`, skip the push but continue to Step 18. Otherwise push with upstream tracking:
```bash
git push -u origin <branch-name>
```
**You are NOT done.** The code is pushed but documentation sync and PR creation are mandatory final steps. Continue to Step 18.
---
**PR/MR title invariant (always applies — do not skip even if you don't open the section below):** Any PR or MR you create OR update in the next step MUST have a title that starts with `v$NEW_VERSION` (the version bumped in Step 12), in the format `v<NEW_VERSION> <type>: <summary>`. Never create or edit a PR/MR title without this prefix. Compute the correct title with the single source of truth helper: `~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-pr-title-rewrite.sh "$NEW_VERSION" "<current title>"`. The full create/update procedure (idempotency, redaction scan, self-check) is in the section below.
{{SECTION:pr-body}}
## Step 20: Persist ship metrics
Log coverage and plan completion data so `/retro` can track trends:
```bash
eval "$(~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-slug 2>/dev/null)" && mkdir -p ~/.gstack/projects/$SLUG
```
Append to `~/.gstack/projects/$SLUG/$BRANCH-reviews.jsonl`:
```bash
echo '{"skill":"ship","timestamp":"'"$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ)"'","coverage_pct":COVERAGE_PCT,"plan_items_total":PLAN_TOTAL,"plan_items_done":PLAN_DONE,"verification_result":"VERIFY_RESULT","version":"VERSION","branch":"BRANCH"}' >> ~/.gstack/projects/$SLUG/$BRANCH-reviews.jsonl
```
Substitute from earlier steps:
- **COVERAGE_PCT**: coverage percentage from Step 7 diagram (integer, or -1 if undetermined)
- **PLAN_TOTAL**: total plan items extracted in Step 8 (0 if no plan file)
- **PLAN_DONE**: count of DONE + CHANGED items from Step 8 (0 if no plan file)
- **VERIFY_RESULT**: "pass", "fail", or "skipped" from Step 8.1
- **VERSION**: from the VERSION file
- **BRANCH**: current branch name
This step is automatic — never skip it, never ask for confirmation.
---
## Step 21: Plan-tune discoverability nudge (first-successful-ship only)
Plan-tune cathedral T15. After a successful ship, surface /plan-tune once
per machine. Single line, non-blocking, marker-gated so it never re-fires.
```bash
_NUDGE_MARKER="$HOME/.gstack/.plan-tune-nudge-shown"
_QT=$(~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-config get question_tuning 2>/dev/null || echo "false")
if [ ! -f "$_NUDGE_MARKER" ] && [ "$_QT" = "false" ]; then
echo ""
echo "gstack can learn from your AskUserQuestion answers. Run /plan-tune to opt in"
echo "— it captures which prompts you find valuable vs noisy and (with hooks installed)"
echo "auto-decides your never-ask preferences."
touch "$_NUDGE_MARKER"
fi
```
If the marker exists, OR question_tuning is already on, the nudge is a
no-op. The marker guarantees at-most-once per machine. To re-enable:
`rm ~/.gstack/.plan-tune-nudge-shown` before next ship.
---
## Section self-check (before you finish)
You ran a carved skill. For your situation, list every section the Section index
named as applying, and confirm you issued a Read for each one. If you executed any
of those steps from memory without reading its section, you skipped the source of
truth — STOP, Read it now, and redo that step. Deterministic version work goes
through `gstack-version-bump`; never hand-roll the VERSION/package.json write.
---
## Important Rules
- **Never skip tests.** If tests fail, stop.
- **Never skip the pre-landing review.** If checklist.md is unreadable, stop.
- **Never force push.** Use regular `git push` only.
- **Never ask for trivial confirmations** (e.g., "ready to push?", "create PR?"). DO stop for: version bumps (MINOR/MAJOR), pre-landing review findings (ASK items), and Codex structured review [P1] findings (large diffs only).
- **Always use the 4-digit version format** from the VERSION file.
- **Date format in CHANGELOG:** `YYYY-MM-DD`
- **Split commits for bisectability** — each commit = one logical change.
- **TODOS.md completion detection must be conservative.** Only mark items as completed when the diff clearly shows the work is done.
- **Use Greptile reply templates from greptile-triage.md.** Every reply includes evidence (inline diff, code references, re-rank suggestion). Never post vague replies.
- **Never push without fresh verification evidence.** If code changed after Step 5 tests, re-run before pushing.
- **Step 7 generates coverage tests.** They must pass before committing. Never commit failing tests.
- **The goal is: user says `/ship`, next thing they see is the review + PR URL + auto-synced docs.**