feat(#2646): surface unresolved deferred-items.md at milestone close (#2983)

* feat(#2646): surface unresolved deferred-items.md at milestone close

auditOpenArtifacts scanned eight categories; deferred-items.md was not
among them. #2287 made that file readable at the PHASE boundary
(audit-uat, /gsd-progress check 7), but one boundary up it stayed
invisible — and phase directories archive to milestones/vX.Y-phases/ by
default (#1871), so an out-of-scope discovery a phase agent correctly
recorded rather than fixed left the live tree at milestone close having
never reached the [R]/[A]/[C] prompt that exists to catch exactly this.

Adds deferred_items as a ninth scanner plus its count, its items entry
and its report section. The workflow needed no change: complete-milestone
branches on "any section with count > 0", so the new category flows
through the existing prompt.

The resolved/unresolved predicate is NOT reimplemented. uat.cjs already
exports parseDeferredItems, which owns the parsing rule (entries under a
`## Deferred Items` level-2 heading, else the whole file fail-safe;
RESOLVED only on an explicit case-insensitive `status: resolved` field).
The scanner requires it lazily, inside the scan, so audit-command-router's
property that a route never loads the module it does not need is
preserved. Two readers of one file sharing one predicate is the point —
duplicating the inequality is how they drift into disagreeing about what
"open" means.

Regression test proves fail-first: 9 of its 10 cases go red against the
pre-change tree. The tenth is the deliberate no-regression boundary (a
clean tree emits no section) and is green both ways.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015TQU48ETJjEmGLJjA6hdQ4

* docs(#2646): document the pre-close artifact audit and its nine categories

The /gsd-complete-milestone entry did not mention the audit at all, so
the gate that can stop a close was undocumented — and this change adds a
category to it. Tabulates all nine with their source artifact and what
makes each one "open", plus the [R]/[A]/[C] outcomes.

Also disambiguates the one genuinely confusing thing: the per-phase
deferred-items.md scanned here is NOT the `## Deferred Items` section the
[A] path writes into STATE.md. Same name, different artifact, opposite
ends of the flow.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015TQU48ETJjEmGLJjA6hdQ4

* chore(#2646): backfill changeset pr number

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015TQU48ETJjEmGLJjA6hdQ4

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
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@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
---
type: Added
pr: 2983
---
**Unresolved `deferred-items.md` entries now reach the milestone-close audit.** `auditOpenArtifacts` gains `deferred_items` as a ninth scanned category, so an out-of-scope discovery a phase agent correctly recorded rather than fixed surfaces in `/gsd-complete-milestone`'s pre-close report alongside the other eight, and the existing `[R] Resolve / [A] Acknowledge / [C] Cancel` prompt applies to it. #2287 made the file readable at the phase boundary (`audit-uat`, `/gsd-progress` check 7); one boundary up it was still invisible, and phase directories archive to `milestones/vX.Y-phases/` by default (#1871), so an unresolved entry left the live tree without ever being triaged. The resolved/unresolved predicate is not reimplemented — the scanner lazily requires `uat.cjs`'s exported `parseDeferredItems`, so both boundaries agree by construction about what "open" means. **Behaviour change worth noting before you upgrade:** a project carrying unresolved deferred items will now see the `[R]/[A]/[C]` prompt at milestone close where close previously proceeded silently. That is the intended correction, but it surfaces pre-existing debt on the first run. (#2646)

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@@ -454,6 +454,24 @@ Archive milestone, tag release.
/gsd-complete-milestone
```
**Pre-close artifact audit.** Before archiving, the workflow runs `gsd-tools audit-open` and reports every unresolved item across nine categories:
| Category | Source | Open when |
|----------|--------|-----------|
| Debug sessions | `.planning/debug/` | status not `resolved` / `complete` |
| Quick tasks | `.planning/quick/` | SUMMARY missing or not `complete` |
| Threads | `.planning/threads/` | status not terminal |
| Pending todos | `.planning/todos/pending/` | present |
| Seeds | `.planning/seeds/` | not yet implemented |
| UAT gaps | `*-UAT.md` | scenarios still pending |
| Verification gaps | `*-VERIFICATION.md` | verdict `gaps_found` / `human_needed` |
| CONTEXT questions | `*-CONTEXT.md` | questions left open |
| **Deferred items** | `deferred-items.md` | entry lacks `status: resolved` |
If any category is non-empty you are prompted with `[R] Resolve` / `[A] Acknowledge all` / `[C] Cancel`. `[A]` records the items to `STATE.md` under its own `## Deferred Items` heading and closes as `override_closeout`; an all-clear closes as `verified_closeout`.
> **Note:** the `deferred-items.md` category is the per-phase SCOPE BOUNDARY log a phase agent writes when it finds a defect it should not fix. It is a different artifact from the `## Deferred Items` section `[A]` writes into `STATE.md`, which records what you acknowledged at close.
---
### `/gsd-milestone-summary`

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@@ -92,6 +92,22 @@ interface ContextQuestionItem {
scan_error?: boolean;
}
interface DeferredItem {
phase: string;
file: string;
text: string;
scan_error?: boolean;
}
/**
* Minimal structural view of `uat.cjs` — only the export `scanDeferredItems`
* lazily requires. Mirrors the local-interface convention in
* `audit-command-router.cts`, which types its lazy requires the same way.
*/
interface UatDeferredModule {
parseDeferredItems(content: string): Array<{ name: string }>;
}
interface AuditCounts {
debug_sessions: number;
quick_tasks: number;
@@ -101,6 +117,7 @@ interface AuditCounts {
uat_gaps: number;
verification_gaps: number;
context_questions: number;
deferred_items: number;
total: number;
}
@@ -117,9 +134,14 @@ interface AuditResult {
uat_gaps: UatGapItem[];
verification_gaps: VerificationGapItem[];
context_questions: ContextQuestionItem[];
deferred_items: DeferredItem[];
};
}
// The SCOPE BOUNDARY convention's filename (`agents/gsd-executor.md`), shared
// verbatim with the #2287 phase-boundary reader in `uat.cts`.
const DEFERRED_ITEMS_FILENAME = 'deferred-items.md';
// Terminal UAT states: `complete` (legacy) and `resolved` (post-gap-closure
// per workflows/execute-phase.md). Hoisted outside scanUatGaps so the Set is
// not recreated on each loop iteration.
@@ -680,6 +702,78 @@ function scanContextQuestions(planDir: string): ContextQuestionItem[] {
return results;
}
// ─── scanDeferredItems ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
/**
* Scan phase directories for UNRESOLVED entries in `deferred-items.md` (#2646).
*
* The SCOPE BOUNDARY convention (`agents/gsd-executor.md`) has a phase agent
* log an out-of-scope discovery here rather than fix it. #2287 made that file
* readable at the PHASE boundary (`/gsd-progress` check 7, `audit-uat`); this
* scanner closes the remaining reader gap one boundary up, so an entry still
* unresolved at MILESTONE close surfaces in the pre-close audit alongside the
* other eight categories and the existing `[R]/[A]/[C]` prompt applies to it.
* Without this, phase directories archive to `milestones/vX.Y-phases/` (#1871)
* and the entry leaves the live tree having never been triaged.
*
* The resolved/unresolved predicate is NOT reimplemented here: `uat.cjs`
* already exports `parseDeferredItems`, which owns the parsing rule (entries
* under a `## Deferred Items` level-2 heading, else the whole file fail-safe;
* RESOLVED only on an explicit case-insensitive `status: resolved` field).
* Duplicating that inequality is how two readers of the same file drift into
* disagreeing about what "open" means. The require is deliberately LAZY,
* inside the scan, to preserve `audit-command-router.cts`'s property that a
* route never loads the module it does not need.
*/
function scanDeferredItems(planDir: string): DeferredItem[] {
const phasesDir = path.join(planDir, 'phases');
if (!fs.existsSync(phasesDir)) return [];
let dirs: string[];
try {
dirs = fs.readdirSync(phasesDir, { withFileTypes: true })
.filter(e => e.isDirectory())
.map(e => e.name)
.sort();
} catch {
return [{ scan_error: true, phase: '', file: '', text: '' }];
}
// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-require-imports, @typescript-eslint/no-unsafe-assignment
const uat: UatDeferredModule = require('./uat.cjs');
const results: DeferredItem[] = [];
for (const dir of dirs) {
const phaseDir = path.join(phasesDir, dir);
const phaseMatch = dir.match(new RegExp(`^(${PHASE_NUMBER_TOKEN_SOURCE})`, 'i'));
const phaseNum = phaseMatch ? phaseMatch[1] : dir;
const filePath = path.join(phaseDir, DEFERRED_ITEMS_FILENAME);
if (!fs.existsSync(filePath)) continue;
let safeFilePath: string;
try {
safeFilePath = requireSafePath(filePath, planDir, 'deferred items file', { allowAbsolute: true });
} catch {
continue;
}
const content = platformReadSync(safeFilePath);
if (content === null) continue;
for (const item of uat.parseDeferredItems(content)) {
results.push({
phase: sanitizeForDisplay(phaseNum),
file: DEFERRED_ITEMS_FILENAME,
text: sanitizeForDisplay(item.name),
});
}
}
return results;
}
// ─── auditOpenArtifacts ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
/**
@@ -723,6 +817,10 @@ function auditOpenArtifacts(cwd: string): AuditResult {
try { return scanContextQuestions(planDir); } catch { return [{ scan_error: true, phase: '', file: '', question_count: 0, questions: [] }]; }
})();
const deferredItems = (() => {
try { return scanDeferredItems(planDir); } catch { return [{ scan_error: true, phase: '', file: '', text: '' }]; }
})();
// Count real items (not scan_error sentinels)
const countReal = (arr: Array<{ scan_error?: boolean; _remainder_count?: number }>) =>
arr.filter(i => !i.scan_error && !i._remainder_count).length;
@@ -736,9 +834,10 @@ function auditOpenArtifacts(cwd: string): AuditResult {
uat_gaps: countReal(uatGaps),
verification_gaps: countReal(verificationGaps),
context_questions: countReal(contextQuestions),
deferred_items: countReal(deferredItems),
total: 0,
};
counts.total = counts.debug_sessions + counts.quick_tasks + counts.threads + counts.todos + counts.seeds + counts.uat_gaps + counts.verification_gaps + counts.context_questions;
counts.total = counts.debug_sessions + counts.quick_tasks + counts.threads + counts.todos + counts.seeds + counts.uat_gaps + counts.verification_gaps + counts.context_questions + counts.deferred_items;
return {
scanned_at: new Date().toISOString(),
@@ -753,6 +852,7 @@ function auditOpenArtifacts(cwd: string): AuditResult {
uat_gaps: uatGaps,
verification_gaps: verificationGaps,
context_questions: contextQuestions,
deferred_items: deferredItems,
},
};
}
@@ -869,6 +969,16 @@ function formatAuditReport(auditResult: AuditResult): string {
}
}
// Deferred items (deferred decisions — blue). Out-of-scope discoveries a
// phase agent recorded rather than fixed, still unresolved at close (#2646).
if (counts.deferred_items > 0) {
lines.push('');
lines.push(`🔵 Deferred Items (${counts.deferred_items} unresolved)`);
for (const item of items.deferred_items.filter(i => !i.scan_error)) {
lines.push(` • Phase ${item.phase}: ${item.text}`);
}
}
lines.push('');
lines.push(hr);
lines.push(` ${counts.total} item${counts.total !== 1 ? 's' : ''} require decisions before close.`);

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@@ -569,7 +569,8 @@ describe('audit-open — output shape (#2911)', () => {
const expectedCountKeys = [
'debug_sessions', 'quick_tasks', 'threads', 'todos',
'seeds', 'uat_gaps', 'verification_gaps', 'context_questions', 'total',
'seeds', 'uat_gaps', 'verification_gaps', 'context_questions',
'deferred_items', 'total',
];
for (const key of expectedCountKeys) {
assert.equal(
@@ -581,6 +582,7 @@ describe('audit-open — output shape (#2911)', () => {
const expectedItemKeys = [
'debug_sessions', 'quick_tasks', 'threads', 'todos',
'seeds', 'uat_gaps', 'verification_gaps', 'context_questions',
'deferred_items',
];
for (const key of expectedItemKeys) {
assert.ok(

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/**
* #2646 (c) — `deferred-items.md` has no reader at MILESTONE close.
*
* `auditOpenArtifacts` (src/audit.cts) is the pre-close gate behind
* `/gsd-complete-milestone`. It scanned eight categories — debug sessions,
* quick tasks, threads, todos, seeds, UAT gaps, verification gaps, context
* questions — and `deferred-items.md` was not among them.
*
* #2287 made that file readable at the PHASE boundary (`audit-uat`,
* `/gsd-progress` check 7). One boundary up it was still invisible, and phase
* directories archive to `milestones/vX.Y-phases/` by default (#1871) — so an
* out-of-scope discovery a phase agent correctly recorded rather than fixed
* left the live tree at milestone close without ever reaching the existing
* `[R] Resolve / [A] Acknowledge / [C] Cancel` prompt.
*
* This adds `deferred_items` as a ninth scanner, its count, its `items` entry
* and its report section. The resolved/unresolved predicate is NOT
* reimplemented — the scanner lazily requires `uat.cjs`'s exported
* `parseDeferredItems`, so both boundaries agree by construction about what
* "open" means.
*/
'use strict';
const { test, describe, beforeEach, afterEach } = require('node:test');
const assert = require('node:assert/strict');
const fs = require('node:fs');
const path = require('node:path');
const { runGsdTools, createTempProject, cleanup } = require('./helpers.cjs');
/** Write a phase-directory deferred-items.md and return its phase dir. */
function writeDeferred(tmpDir, phaseDirName, lines) {
const phaseDir = path.join(tmpDir, '.planning', 'phases', phaseDirName);
fs.mkdirSync(phaseDir, { recursive: true });
fs.writeFileSync(path.join(phaseDir, 'deferred-items.md'), lines.join('\n') + '\n');
return phaseDir;
}
function auditJson(tmpDir) {
const result = runGsdTools('audit-open --json', tmpDir);
assert.ok(result.success, `Command failed: ${result.error}`);
return JSON.parse(result.output);
}
describe('#2646 auditOpenArtifacts: deferred-items.md is a scanned category', () => {
let tmpDir;
beforeEach(() => {
tmpDir = createTempProject();
});
afterEach(() => {
cleanup(tmpDir);
});
test('the category exists in the contract even when empty', () => {
const out = auditJson(tmpDir);
assert.strictEqual(out.counts.deferred_items, 0);
assert.deepStrictEqual(out.items.deferred_items, []);
});
test('no deferred-items.md in a phase dir → no false positive', () => {
const phaseDir = path.join(tmpDir, '.planning', 'phases', '01-foundation');
fs.mkdirSync(phaseDir, { recursive: true });
fs.writeFileSync(path.join(phaseDir, '.gitkeep'), '');
const out = auditJson(tmpDir);
assert.strictEqual(out.counts.deferred_items, 0);
assert.strictEqual(out.has_open_items, false);
});
test('an unresolved entry is surfaced with its phase and counted', () => {
writeDeferred(tmpDir, '01-foundation', [
'## Deferred Items',
'',
'- getUserById() has a pre-existing N+1 in the members join.',
]);
const out = auditJson(tmpDir);
assert.strictEqual(out.counts.deferred_items, 1);
assert.strictEqual(out.items.deferred_items.length, 1);
const [item] = out.items.deferred_items;
assert.strictEqual(item.phase, '01');
assert.strictEqual(item.file, 'deferred-items.md');
assert.match(item.text, /pre-existing N\+1/);
});
test('an entry marked `status: resolved` is NOT surfaced', () => {
writeDeferred(tmpDir, '01-foundation', [
'## Deferred Items',
'',
'- Already handled unrelated lint warning.',
' status: resolved',
]);
const out = auditJson(tmpDir);
assert.strictEqual(out.counts.deferred_items, 0);
});
test('resolved and unresolved entries in one file → only the unresolved surfaces', () => {
writeDeferred(tmpDir, '02-api', [
'## Deferred Items',
'',
'- Fixed already.',
' status: resolved',
'- Still open: config loader swallows a parse error.',
]);
const out = auditJson(tmpDir);
assert.strictEqual(out.counts.deferred_items, 1);
assert.match(out.items.deferred_items[0].text, /swallows a parse error/);
});
test('a headless deferred-items.md still surfaces (fail-safe, inherited from #2287)', () => {
writeDeferred(tmpDir, '03-ui', [
'- No level-2 heading here, but this is still a real discovery.',
]);
const out = auditJson(tmpDir);
assert.strictEqual(out.counts.deferred_items, 1);
});
test('entries across multiple phases are all surfaced', () => {
writeDeferred(tmpDir, '01-foundation', ['## Deferred Items', '', '- One.']);
writeDeferred(tmpDir, '02-api', ['## Deferred Items', '', '- Two.', '- Three.']);
const out = auditJson(tmpDir);
assert.strictEqual(out.counts.deferred_items, 3);
assert.deepStrictEqual(
[...new Set(out.items.deferred_items.map(i => i.phase))].sort(),
['01', '02'],
);
});
test('deferred items contribute to counts.total and flip has_open_items', () => {
writeDeferred(tmpDir, '01-foundation', ['## Deferred Items', '', '- A real discovery.']);
const out = auditJson(tmpDir);
assert.strictEqual(out.has_open_items, true);
assert.strictEqual(out.counts.total, 1);
});
});
describe('#2646 formatAuditReport: deferred items render in the report', () => {
let tmpDir;
beforeEach(() => {
tmpDir = createTempProject();
});
afterEach(() => {
cleanup(tmpDir);
});
test('the section and its entry appear in the human-readable report', () => {
writeDeferred(tmpDir, '01-foundation', [
'## Deferred Items',
'',
'- getUserById() has a pre-existing N+1 in the members join.',
]);
const result = runGsdTools('audit-open', tmpDir);
assert.ok(result.success, `Command failed: ${result.error}`);
assert.match(result.output, /Deferred Items \(1 unresolved\)/);
assert.match(result.output, /Phase 01: getUserById\(\) has a pre-existing N\+1/);
assert.match(result.output, /1 item requires? decisions? before close\./);
});
test('a clean tree still reports all-clear (no empty section emitted)', () => {
const result = runGsdTools('audit-open', tmpDir);
assert.ok(result.success, `Command failed: ${result.error}`);
assert.doesNotMatch(result.output, /Deferred Items/);
assert.match(result.output, /All artifact types clear/);
});
});