feat(#3970): per-task external-tracker content-resolution seam (#4000)

* feat(#3970): per-task external-tracker content-resolution seam

Implements ADR-3646 (Phase 1, #3970): a `<task tracker-id="...">` attribute
plus a new optional `taskContentResolver` capability-manifest field let a
capability resolve a task's action/verify/acceptance-criteria/read_first/done
content from an external issue tracker instead of PLAN.md's inline body.

- src/plan-document.cts: parses the `tracker-id` attribute into `PlanTask.trackerId`
- src/task-content-resolution.cts: new leaf module — split/find/build/resolve,
  with a hard-halt (throw) contract on ambiguous/failed/timeout/malformed
  resolution, never a silent fallback to possibly-stale inline text
- src/task-command-router.cts: new `task resolve-content --plan --task-id --raw`
  CLI verb wiring the module into a real process exit code
- gsd-core/bin/lib/capability-validator.cjs: validates the new
  `taskContentResolver` manifest field (feature-role only, cross-capability
  trackerPrefix uniqueness)
- gsd-core/workflows/execute-plan.md, gsd-core/references/loop-hook-dispatch.md,
  docs/reference/capability-manifest.md: wire the seam into the per-task loop
  and document it as a new `execute:task` point outside the existing
  contribution/step/gate vocabulary (unconditional in autonomous mode)

Closes #3970

* fix(#3970): gate checkpoint tasks out of content resolution, close trackerPrefix grammar parity gap, cover path-traversal guard

Standards/Spec code-review pass on the task-content-resolution seam (ADR-3646
Phase 1) found three defects:

1. execute-plan.md's task-content-resolution bullet fired on any
   tracker-id-bearing task with no check that it wasn't type="checkpoint:*",
   contradicting ADR-3646 Decision 1 (a checkpoint task must never enter
   resolve-content). plan-document.cts already parses trackerId: null
   unconditionally for checkpoint tasks; only the workflow prose needed the
   fix, so the bullet now explicitly excludes checkpoint tasks.

2. task-content-resolution.cts's parseResolverDeclaration accepted any
   non-empty trackerPrefix with no grammar check, while capability-
   validator.cjs's KEBAB_RE enforces kebab-case at install time — a
   Generative Fix Divergence gap. Added the same grammar (as a literal
   regex, documented as intentionally not shared across the .cts/.cjs build
   boundary) plus a parity test asserting the two surfaces agree across a
   valid/invalid trackerPrefix table.

3. task-command-router.cts's routeResolveContent path-traversal guard on
   --plan had zero test coverage. Added a test exercising a
   ../../../etc/passwit-shaped path and asserting the USAGE rejection names
   the offending path.

* fix(#3970): sanitize resolver diagnostics and cap resolver timeoutMs

Two findings caught by an isolated security-review pass on the task
content resolution seam:

- ResolverFailedError/ResolverMalformedOutputError embedded raw,
  unsanitized subprocess stderr/stdout (attacker/model-influenced via
  the tracker-id argv token) into .message. A hostile or buggy resolver
  could smuggle a newline plus a forged "Error: " line, or terminal
  escape sequences, into a diagnostic io.cjs's error() writes verbatim
  to stderr. Fixed at the constructor (task-content-resolution.cts) via
  io.cjs's existing formatDiagnosticToken(), so every caller of
  resolveTaskContent gets a safe .message by construction.

- capability-validator.cjs's validateTaskContentResolverFields had no
  upper bound on taskContentResolver.invoke.timeoutMs, letting a
  manifest declare an effectively unbounded value and defeat the
  "bounded subprocess" design intent. Added a 120000ms ceiling specific
  to this field, without touching the shared isPositiveIntegerMs()
  helper (still used unbounded by the reviewer lane's timeoutFloorMs
  and probe timeoutMs).

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

* fix(#3970): fix gsd-test failures — stale prose allowlist line and stderr-vs-message assertion

gsd-test (remote dockerized matrix) came back red with 5 failures on this
PR; all five are real defects, fixed here.

- tests/no-bare-gsd-tools-command-position.test.cjs: PROSE_ALLOWLIST's
  execute-plan.md entry pointed at line 415, which ffc190df4's
  checkpoint-exclusion caveat (added near line 221) shifted down by one
  line. The actual "validated downstream by gsd-tools uat
  classify-coverage" descriptive mention now sits at line 416. Updated
  the allowlist entry's line number to match.

- tests/task-command-router-resolve-content.test.cjs: the path-traversal
  test asserted the outside-project-scope diagnostic against the thrown
  ExitError's own .message. io.cts's error() (ADR-3889) writes its
  human-readable message to fd 2 via writeAllSync and then throws a bare
  `new ExitError(1)` with no message argument — by design, so the
  exception carries no duplicate text and the thrown ExitError's message
  defaults to "process exit 1" (cli-exit.cts's ExitError constructor).
  Root cause was the test, not the source: task-command-router.cjs's
  outside-project-scope rejection already calls error() correctly and the
  diagnostic text is genuinely emitted, just on fd 2, not on the
  exception. Fixed the test to capture fd-2 writes (mirroring
  tests/estimate-calibrate.test.cjs's runCalibrateExpectError and this
  same file's own captureStdout for fd 1) and assert against the captured
  stderr text instead of err.message. This was masked locally because a
  manual `node -e` sanity check that only inspects the caught exception's
  .message cannot see what the real node:test run actually failed on.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: execute-plan.md — adds the ADR-3646 task-content-resolution bullet and checkpoint-exclusion caveat to the per-task execute loop; a real behavioral prose addition, not incidental bloat.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(#3970): backfill changeset PR number (pr:0 -> pr:4000)

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -396,6 +396,11 @@ function validateCapability(cap, folderId) {
errors.push(...validateRuntimeBody(cap));
// A host that is ALSO a reviewer keeps exactly one manifest (ADR-2782 D1).
errors.push(...validateReviewerBody(cap));
// ADR-3646: a runtime capability installs a host CLI, it does not resolve
// task content — taskContentResolver is feature-only.
if (cap.taskContentResolver !== undefined) {
errors.push('role:runtime capability must not have a "taskContentResolver" body (feature-only field)');
}
} else if (cap.role === 'reviewer') {
// ADR-2782 D3 — a lane that is not an install target. No runtime body, no
// install surface, no runtimeCompat (it surfaces through no host runtime).
@@ -718,6 +723,118 @@ function validateFeatureBody(cap) {
}
}
// ADR-3646: optional per-task external-tracker content-resolution seam.
errors.push(...validateTaskContentResolver(cap));
return errors;
}
/**
* ADR-3646 — validate an OPTIONAL `taskContentResolver` body on a `role:
* "feature"` capability. Absence is never an error (most manifests won't
* have one); presence is strictly validated.
*
* Wrapped in try/catch to degrade any unexpected throw (a hostile Proxy, a
* throwing getter, etc.) to a single validation error rather than crashing
* every consumer of loadRegistry, per the #1461 OVL-1 discipline that
* `validateReviewerBody` follows.
*
* @param {object} cap The parsed capability manifest.
* @returns {string[]} Array of error strings; empty = valid or absent.
*/
function validateTaskContentResolver(cap) {
try {
return validateTaskContentResolverFields(cap);
} catch (err) {
return ['capability taskContentResolver body could not be validated: ' + safeErrorMessage(err)];
}
}
/**
* Upper bound for `taskContentResolver.invoke.timeoutMs`, specific to this
* field only. `isPositiveIntegerMs()` has no ceiling and stays that way — it
* is shared with the reviewer lane's `timeoutFloorMs` and probe `timeoutMs`,
* which may legitimately need a longer or unbounded value. Without a ceiling
* here, a manifest could declare `Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER` and let
* `resolve-content` hang near-indefinitely on a stuck/malicious resolver,
* defeating the feature's "bounded subprocess" design intent.
*/
const TASK_CONTENT_RESOLVER_TIMEOUT_CEILING_MS = 120000;
function validateTaskContentResolverFields(cap) {
const errors = [];
if (typeof cap !== 'object' || cap === null || Array.isArray(cap)) return errors;
const tcr = cap.taskContentResolver;
if (tcr === undefined) return errors; // optional — never an error to omit
const ctx = 'capability "' + (typeof cap.id === 'string' ? cap.id : '(unknown)') + '"';
if (typeof tcr !== 'object' || tcr === null || Array.isArray(tcr)) {
const got = tcr === null ? 'null' : Array.isArray(tcr) ? 'array' : typeof tcr;
errors.push(
ctx + ' taskContentResolver must be an object (got: ' + got + '). ' +
'Omit the key entirely to declare no resolver — an explicit null is not an omission.',
);
return errors; // cannot validate fields of a non-object
}
// ── trackerPrefix — same grammar as a capability id ─────────────────────
if (typeof tcr.trackerPrefix !== 'string' || tcr.trackerPrefix.length === 0 || !KEBAB_RE.test(tcr.trackerPrefix)) {
errors.push(
ctx + ' taskContentResolver.trackerPrefix must be a non-empty kebab-case string matching ' +
String(KEBAB_RE) + ' (got: ' + describeValue(tcr.trackerPrefix) + ')',
);
}
// ── invoke ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
const inv = tcr.invoke;
if (typeof inv !== 'object' || inv === null || Array.isArray(inv)) {
const got = inv === null ? 'null' : Array.isArray(inv) ? 'array' : typeof inv;
errors.push(ctx + ' taskContentResolver.invoke must be an object (got: ' + got + ')');
return errors; // cannot validate sub-fields of a non-object
}
if (typeof inv.binary !== 'string' || inv.binary.length === 0) {
errors.push(ctx + ' taskContentResolver.invoke.binary must be a non-empty string');
}
if (!Array.isArray(inv.args)) {
errors.push(ctx + ' taskContentResolver.invoke.args must be an array of strings');
} else {
let hasPlaceholder = false;
for (const a of inv.args) {
if (typeof a !== 'string') {
errors.push(ctx + ' taskContentResolver.invoke.args entries must be strings (got: ' + describeValue(a) + ')');
} else if (a === '{{id}}') {
hasPlaceholder = true;
}
}
if (!hasPlaceholder) {
errors.push(
ctx + ' taskContentResolver.invoke.args must contain a "{{id}}" placeholder — ' +
'without it the resolved tracker id could never reach the resolver subprocess',
);
}
}
if (!isPositiveIntegerMs(inv.timeoutMs)) {
errors.push(
ctx + ' taskContentResolver.invoke.timeoutMs must be a positive integer of milliseconds — ' +
'an unbounded resolver call could hang task execution indefinitely ' +
'(got: ' + describeValue(inv.timeoutMs) + ')',
);
} else if (inv.timeoutMs > TASK_CONTENT_RESOLVER_TIMEOUT_CEILING_MS) {
// Ceiling specific to this field — `isPositiveIntegerMs()` itself stays
// unbounded because it is shared with the reviewer lane's
// `timeoutFloorMs`/probe `timeoutMs`, which have no such ceiling.
errors.push(
ctx + ' taskContentResolver.invoke.timeoutMs must not exceed ' +
TASK_CONTENT_RESOLVER_TIMEOUT_CEILING_MS + 'ms — an unbounded-in-practice value defeats the ' +
'"bounded subprocess" design intent (got: ' + inv.timeoutMs + ')',
);
}
return errors;
}
@@ -943,7 +1060,7 @@ const HTTP_ONLY_INVOKE_FIELDS = ['hostConfigKey', 'defaultHost', 'path', 'model
// Feature-only fields are as forbidden on a lane-only capability as on a runtime
// one; a `role: "reviewer"` capability owns no artefacts and wires no loop point.
const FEATURE_FIELDS_FORBIDDEN_ON_REVIEWER = ['skills', 'agents', 'steps', 'contributions', 'gates', 'hooks', 'activationKey'];
const FEATURE_FIELDS_FORBIDDEN_ON_REVIEWER = ['skills', 'agents', 'steps', 'contributions', 'gates', 'hooks', 'activationKey', 'taskContentResolver'];
// GATE A: installSurface → allowed hooksSurface values (DEFECT.GENERATIVE-FIX: parity invariant)
// Derived from the actual pairings in the 16 real runtime descriptors.
@@ -3184,6 +3301,11 @@ function validateCrossCapability(capMap, centralKeys, centralPatterns = []) {
const laneSlugClaims = new Map(); // slug → capId[]
const laneFlagClaims = new Map(); // flag → capId[]
const laneSectionClaims = new Map(); // reviewsSection → capId[]
// ADR-3646: task-content resolver tracker-prefix uniqueness across the
// MERGED first-party ∪ overlay set, mirroring the reviewer-lane collision
// pattern above — two resolvers claiming the same prefix would make
// `execute:task` dispatch ambiguous (which capability's resolver runs?).
const trackerPrefixClaims = new Map(); // trackerPrefix → capId[]
// Claims are ACCUMULATED and reported after the sweep, never reported on the
// second claimant. Reporting pairwise-on-collision looks equivalent and is not:
@@ -3204,6 +3326,15 @@ function validateCrossCapability(capMap, centralKeys, centralPatterns = []) {
};
for (const [capId, cap] of capMap) {
// ADR-3646: a MALFORMED taskContentResolver body was already reported by
// validateCapability — do not double-report; only claim well-shaped
// bodies. Independent of the reviewer-lane checks below, so it runs even
// for capabilities that carry no `reviewer` body at all.
const tcr = cap.taskContentResolver;
if (typeof tcr === 'object' && tcr !== null && !Array.isArray(tcr)) {
claim(trackerPrefixClaims, tcr.trackerPrefix, capId);
}
const r = cap.reviewer;
// A capability with no lane contributes to no uniqueness set. A MALFORMED
// body was already reported by validateCapability — do not double-report.
@@ -3225,6 +3356,7 @@ function validateCrossCapability(capMap, centralKeys, centralPatterns = []) {
[laneSlugClaims, 'slug'],
[laneFlagClaims, 'flag'],
[laneSectionClaims, 'reviewsSection'],
[trackerPrefixClaims, 'taskContentResolver.trackerPrefix'],
]) {
for (const [key, claimants] of claims) {
if (claimants.length < 2) continue;
@@ -3734,6 +3866,7 @@ module.exports = {
validateCommandEntry,
validateRuntimeCompat,
validateFeatureBody,
validateTaskContentResolver,
validateConfigHome,
validateArtifactKindEntry,
validateArtifactLayout,