enhance(#3172): require a stated failing direction for every automated acceptance command (#3825)

* test(#3172): failing-first suite for the stated failing-direction probe

Pins the <fails_when> pairing walk, placeholder denylist, MISSING sentinel
exemption, degraded-read contract, CLI arm and the plan-authoring contract text.
RED by construction: the module exports it requires do not exist yet.
Executed on the remote runner.

* feat(#3172): require a stated failing direction for every automated acceptance command

Every runnable <automated> command now carries a <fails_when> sibling naming
what output constitutes failure. A command with no expressible failure mode is
not an acceptance test: it reads as rigour and is not falsifiable.

- verify-command-grounding gains a failing-direction probe sharing the existing
  <automated> grammar, MISSING sentinel and walk guard rather than copying them
- gsd-tools check verify-failure-directions <N> backs it; plan-phase dispatches
  it and hands the JSON to gsd-plan-checker check 8f
- Dimension 8 detail extracted to references to stay under the agent size cap

Verified on the remote runner.

* fix(#3172): close four review findings in the failing-direction probe

- MISSING_SENTINEL_RE matched an env-var assignment prefix (MISSING=1 cmd), so
  a real command was exempted from the new blocking gate. Tightened the SHARED
  constant rather than adding a second copy.
- Both token regexes scanned to EOF on unclosed openers (O(n^2), 1562ms at 40k).
  Bodies are now non-crossing; 1ms, byte-identical on well-formed input. The
  pre-existing AUTOMATED_BLOCK_RE carried the same defect and is fixed here too.
- probePhaseFailingDirections reported status 'ok' when one plan was unreadable,
  conflating 'could not look' with 'nothing to report'.
- Extracted the phase-resolution block both check arms had copied verbatim.

Also corrects a docs/AGENTS.md dimension list stale since #2401.
Verified on the remote runner.

* fix(#3172): project the planner rule onto the spawn contract, settle emitted bookkeeping

The remote runner refuted the planner-side edit. agents/gsd-planner.md is frozen
under a 49152-LF-char cap asserted by four suites and sat at 49,146 — six chars
of headroom — so the +537 of authoring rule blew it. #3297/#3645 already settled
where such a rule goes: the planner spawn contract in plan-phase.md, beside
<tracked_source_paths>. The agent file is reverted to origin/next verbatim.

- plan-phase.md gains <failing_direction_contract>; tests row 30 now asserts the
  contract there and row 30b guards the freeze in both directions
- plan-phase.md growth acknowledged by APPENDING to the 3409 fragment, per the
  precedent that two ack sources may never name the same path
- install-tree fixtures regenerated for the three new reference files

Verified on the remote runner.

* chore(#3172): backfill PR number into the changeset fragment

pr:0 -> pr:3825 now that the PR exists.

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
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Tom Boucher
2026-08-24 19:05:11 -04:00
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@@ -123,15 +123,27 @@ interface HarvestOptions {
// ─── Extraction ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
const TASK_NAME_RE = /<name>([\s\S]*?)<\/name>/;
const AUTOMATED_BLOCK_RE = /<automated[^>]{0,200}>([\s\S]*?)<\/automated>/g;
/**
* The body cannot cross a subsequent `<automated>` opener (negative lookahead
* `(?!<automated\b)` gates each consumed char), mirroring the stop-at-next-open
* shape `extractTaggedBlocks`/`stripTaggedBlocks` already use. This is what
* makes a scan over an unclosed opener LINEAR instead of quadratic: the lazy
* `[\s\S]*?` body used to scan all the way to EOF hunting a closing tag that
* never comes (measured: k=40000 unclosed openers, ~1.5s). `MAX_BLOCK_WALK`
* below bounds matched-block COUNT, not scan cost — it does nothing for a scan
* that matches nothing, which is exactly the case this shape fixes.
*/
const AUTOMATED_BLOCK_RE = /<automated[^>]{0,200}>((?:(?!<automated\b)[\s\S])*?)<\/automated>/g;
/**
* Bounds walking pathological input (e.g. hundreds of unclosed `<automated>`
* openers). `extractTaggedBlocks`/`stripTaggedBlocks` (task-block grammar
* owner, `./markdown-sectionizer.cjs`) already use a ReDoS-safe
* stop-at-next-open pattern with no separate iteration cap of their own — a
* document full of unclosed `<task>` openers never matches, so their walk is
* a single linear scan regardless. This guard only bounds the `<automated>`
* Bounds the NUMBER of matched `<automated>` blocks walked (e.g. hundreds of
* legitimately closed blocks in one document), not the cost of scanning
* pathological unclosed input — that cost is now bounded by the non-crossing
* body in `AUTOMATED_BLOCK_RE`/`VERIFY_TOKEN_RE` themselves (a failed scan is
* linear, so no separate iteration cap is needed to keep it cheap).
* `extractTaggedBlocks`/`stripTaggedBlocks` (task-block grammar owner,
* `./markdown-sectionizer.cjs`) already use the same non-crossing shape with
* no iteration cap of their own. This guard only bounds the `<automated>`
* scan this module still runs directly, matching the pre-existing behavior.
*/
const MAX_BLOCK_WALK = 20000;
@@ -202,6 +214,253 @@ function extractAutomatedCommands(planText: unknown): AutomatedCommand[] {
return out;
}
// ─── Failing direction (#3172) ─────────────────────────────────────────────────
type FailingDirectionStatus = 'ok' | 'missing' | 'empty' | 'placeholder' | 'sentinel' | 'orphan';
type FailingDirectionSeverity = 'blocker' | 'warning' | 'none';
interface ResolvedFailingDirection {
command: string;
statement: string | null;
status: FailingDirectionStatus;
severity: FailingDirectionSeverity;
}
interface FailingDirectionEntry extends ResolvedFailingDirection {
plan: string;
task: string;
}
interface FailingDirectionCounts {
blocker: number;
warning: number;
total: number;
}
interface ProbePhaseFailingResult {
status: 'ok' | 'blocked' | 'unresolvable';
commands: FailingDirectionEntry[];
counts: FailingDirectionCounts;
readError: string | null;
}
interface ProbePhaseFailingOptions {
phaseDir: string;
}
/**
* Ordered alternation with a backreference so `<automated>` and `<fails_when>`
* are recovered in a SINGLE document-order pass — the pairing walk needs
* their relative positions, which two independent scans would discard.
*
* The body cannot cross a subsequent `<automated>` or `<fails_when>` opener
* (negative lookahead `(?!<(?:automated|fails_when)\b)`), the same
* non-crossing shape as `AUTOMATED_BLOCK_RE` above. This is what keeps a scan
* over an unclosed opener LINEAR (verified: k=10000/20000/40000 unclosed
* openers all complete in ~0ms); `MAX_BLOCK_WALK` bounds matched-block COUNT,
* not scan cost.
*/
const VERIFY_TOKEN_RE = /<(automated|fails_when)[^>]{0,200}>((?:(?!<(?:automated|fails_when)\b)[\s\S])*?)<\/\1>/g;
const PLACEHOLDER_STATEMENTS = new Set(['tbd', 'todo', 'n/a', 'na', 'none', 'unknown', 'tba', '?', '-']);
/**
* Judge one `<automated>` command's stated failing direction. Pure, total,
* and never throws for any input shape — order of checks is load-bearing
* (#3172 review): the sentinel exemption (step 3) must run BEFORE the
* statement-presence check (step 4), because the Nyquist Wave-0 sentinel is
* not a runnable command and so has no failure mode to state, even when a
* statement happens to follow it in the plan text.
*/
function resolveFailingDirection(command: unknown, statement: unknown): ResolvedFailingDirection {
const cmd = typeof command === 'string' ? command.trim() : '';
if (cmd === '') {
return {
command: '',
statement: typeof statement === 'string' ? statement : null,
status: 'orphan',
severity: 'warning',
};
}
if (MISSING_SENTINEL_RE.test(cmd)) {
return {
command: cmd,
statement: typeof statement === 'string' ? statement.trim() : null,
status: 'sentinel',
severity: 'none',
};
}
if (typeof statement !== 'string') {
return { command: cmd, statement: null, status: 'missing', severity: 'blocker' };
}
const trimmed = statement.trim();
if (trimmed === '') {
return { command: cmd, statement, status: 'empty', severity: 'blocker' };
}
// Whole-value match only — never a substring test. "TBD in the harness
// output" is real prose and must pass (#3172 review Finding).
if (PLACEHOLDER_STATEMENTS.has(trimmed.toLowerCase())) {
return { command: cmd, statement: trimmed, status: 'placeholder', severity: 'blocker' };
}
return { command: cmd, statement: trimmed, status: 'ok', severity: 'none' };
}
/**
* Scan one text unit's `<automated>`/`<fails_when>` tokens in document order,
* binding each `<fails_when>` to the nearest PRECEDING `<automated>` (first
* statement wins; a redundant trailing statement adds no row) and emitting an
* `orphan` row for a `<fails_when>` with no pending command. Shares `guard`
* across every text unit in one `extractFailingDirections` call, mirroring
* `extractAutomatedFromText`'s MAX_BLOCK_WALK bound and zero-length-match
* advance. Returns `false` when the bound was hit; `true` otherwise.
*/
function extractFailingFromText(
text: string,
task: string,
out: FailingDirectionEntry[],
guard: { n: number },
): boolean {
VERIFY_TOKEN_RE.lastIndex = 0;
let pending: FailingDirectionEntry | null = null;
let bound = false;
let match: RegExpExecArray | null;
while ((match = VERIFY_TOKEN_RE.exec(text)) !== null) {
const kind = match[1];
const body = match[2] ?? '';
if (kind === 'automated') {
const trimmedCommand = body.trim();
if (trimmedCommand !== '') {
const entry: FailingDirectionEntry = { ...resolveFailingDirection(trimmedCommand, undefined), plan: '', task };
out.push(entry);
pending = entry;
bound = false;
}
} else {
// kind === 'fails_when'
if (pending === null) {
const entry: FailingDirectionEntry = { ...resolveFailingDirection('', body), plan: '', task };
out.push(entry);
} else if (!bound) {
const resolved = resolveFailingDirection(pending.command, body);
pending.statement = resolved.statement;
pending.status = resolved.status;
pending.severity = resolved.severity;
bound = true;
}
// already bound → redundant trailing statement, ignored (first-wins).
}
if (match.index === VERIFY_TOKEN_RE.lastIndex) VERIFY_TOKEN_RE.lastIndex += 1;
guard.n += 1;
if (guard.n > MAX_BLOCK_WALK) return false;
}
return true;
}
/**
* Extract every `<automated>`/`<fails_when>` pairing verdict from PLAN.md
* text. Never throws; a non-string or blank plan yields `[]`. `plan` is left
* `''`, mirroring `extractAutomatedCommands` — callers set it from the
* filename they read.
*
* Walks the SAME text units, in the SAME order, as `extractAutomatedCommands`
* (every `<task>` body first in document order, then the task-stripped
* remainder as a final unit with task `''`) so pairing never crosses a task
* boundary, and shares ONE `{n:0}` guard across every unit so
* `MAX_BLOCK_WALK` bounds the whole document.
*/
function extractFailingDirections(planText: unknown): FailingDirectionEntry[] {
if (typeof planText !== 'string' || planText.length === 0) return [];
const out: FailingDirectionEntry[] = [];
const guard = { n: 0 };
const taskBodies = extractTaggedBlocks(planText, 'task', true);
for (const body of taskBodies) {
const nameMatch = TASK_NAME_RE.exec(body);
const task = nameMatch ? nameMatch[1].trim() : '';
if (!extractFailingFromText(body, task, out, guard)) return out;
}
const remainder = stripTaggedBlocks(planText, 'task', true);
extractFailingFromText(remainder, '', out, guard);
return out;
}
/**
* Probe every `<automated>` command's stated failing direction across a
* phase directory's `-PLAN.md` files. Never throws — a read failure degrades
* to `readError` with the offending file skipped, and an empty result with a
* populated `readError` means "could not look", which must never render as
* "nothing to report".
*/
function probePhaseFailingDirections(options: ProbePhaseFailingOptions): ProbePhaseFailingResult {
const { phaseDir } = options;
let entries: string[];
try {
entries = fs.readdirSync(phaseDir);
} catch (err) {
return {
status: 'unresolvable',
commands: [],
counts: { blocker: 0, warning: 0, total: 0 },
readError: toMessage(err),
};
}
const planFiles = entries.filter(f => PLAN_FILE_RE.test(f)).sort();
const commands: FailingDirectionEntry[] = [];
const readErrors: string[] = [];
for (const file of planFiles) {
let text: string;
try {
text = fs.readFileSync(path.join(phaseDir, file), 'utf-8');
} catch (err) {
readErrors.push(toMessage(err));
continue;
}
for (const entry of extractFailingDirections(text)) {
commands.push({ ...entry, plan: file });
}
}
const counts: FailingDirectionCounts = { blocker: 0, warning: 0, total: commands.length };
for (const c of commands) {
if (c.severity === 'blocker') counts.blocker += 1;
else if (c.severity === 'warning') counts.warning += 1;
}
const readError = readErrors.length > 0 ? readErrors.join('; ') : null;
// A populated readError can never yield 'ok' — "could not look" must never
// render as "nothing to report" (#3172 review self-finding: with the old
// `commands.length === 0 && readError !== null` precedence, a phase where
// one plan read fine with zero blockers and a SECOND plan failed to read
// fell through to 'ok' because commands.length > 0). 'blocked' keeps
// precedence over 'unresolvable' because a proven blocker is the stronger
// signal.
let status: 'ok' | 'blocked' | 'unresolvable';
if (counts.blocker > 0) {
status = 'blocked';
} else if (readError !== null) {
status = 'unresolvable';
} else {
status = 'ok';
}
return { status, commands, counts, readError };
}
// ─── Resolution ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
/**
@@ -234,7 +493,17 @@ const PREFIX_FLAG_STRIP_RE = /(?:^|\s)--prefix(?:=|\s+)(?:"[^"]*"|'[^']*'|\S+)/g
const NEEDS_NPM_RE = /^(npm|npx|pnpm|yarn|bun)\b/;
const NEEDS_MAKE_RE = /^make\b/;
const NPM_RUN_SCRIPT_RE = /\bnpm\s+run\s+([\w:@./-]+)/;
const MISSING_SENTINEL_RE = /^MISSING\b/;
/**
* The `\s|$` anchor (not `\b`) is load-bearing: `\b` also matches an env-var
* assignment prefix such as `MISSING=1 cmd` (`=` is a non-word char, so `\b`
* sits happily before it) — and that IS a real runnable command, not the
* Nyquist Wave-0 sentinel. #3172 wires this constant into a BLOCKING gate
* (`resolveFailingDirection`), so a benign #2401 false-positive on the `\b`
* form becomes a real gate bypass: `MISSING=true npm test` would be reported
* `status:'sentinel', severity:'none'` instead of `missing`/`blocker`
* (#3172 review).
*/
const MISSING_SENTINEL_RE = /^MISSING(?:\s|$)/;
const MAX_MANIFEST_BYTES = 512 * 1024;
function emptyResult(base: string): ResolvedVerifyCommand {
@@ -751,4 +1020,7 @@ export = {
resolveVerifyCommandTarget,
probePhaseVerifyCommands,
harvestPriorVerifyCommands,
resolveFailingDirection,
extractFailingDirections,
probePhaseFailingDirections,
};