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Jakub Zych
6cfa0c55d2 refactor: drop 12 runtimes, keep Claude, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, ZCode, Antigravity
Removes kilo, kimi, kimi-code, copilot, windsurf, augment, trae, qwen, hermes,
cline, codebuddy and pi end to end: capability descriptors, installer branches
and converters (bin/install.js 14.9k -> 11.2k lines), TypeScript converters,
hook surfaces and runtime homes, review lanes qwen/kimi-code, the two pi
migrations, Kimi payload normalization in the hook guards, dead hostBehaviors
vocabulary, launcher home probes, fixtures, runtime-specific tests and the
prose that presented them as supported.

Installer output for the six kept runtimes is byte-identical to before the
prune. The Kimi tool-vocabulary tests in workflow-guard, read-guard and
read-injection-scanner are left in place pending a decision.
2026-10-06 20:02:40 +02:00
Jakub Zych
a9a7a328e6 refactor: hard-fork GSD -> MSD (Make Software Done)
Mechanical rename produced by scripts/msd-rename.cjs: gsd/Gsd/GSD -> msd/Msd/MSD
across contents and paths, upstream package/repo coordinates -> @golem15/msd-core
and golem15com/msd-core. Deep links into upstream history, sibling upstream
packages, the GSD-2 import feature, CHANGELOG.md and .changeset/ are kept as-is.

Hand edits on top: MSD block-letter banner and logos, LICENSE copyright line,
package/plugin identity, regenerated lockfile, install-tree fixtures, derived
registries and benchmark baseline; migration checksum baseline re-locked
(MSD keeps its own install state, so no install had applied the old sums);
sort-order and regex-escaped expectations in tests adjusted.
2026-10-06 01:47:40 +02:00
Tom Boucher
55fba5f7ce feat(#4917): add the PlanningDoc parse → mutate → serialize seam — Phase 1 of #4906 (#4918)
* feat(#4917): add the PlanningDoc parse -> mutate -> serialize seam

Phase 1 of epic #4906, implementing ADR-4910 and its 2026-09-21 amendment. Net-new
leaf module; NO call site is migrated, so nothing in the twelve absorbed issues
changes behavior yet.

src/planning-document.cts composes the seams that already exist rather than
reimplementing them: markdown-sectionizer for structure (fences and code spans
come from stripFencedCode / scanInlineCodeSpans, never a second scanner),
markdown-table for tables, frontmatter for frontmatter, write-set for Result<T>.

What is structural rather than conventional:

- A field node carries labelSpan, valueSpan and trailingSpan separately, and the
  only write entry point takes a node id and writes into valueSpan. trailingSpan
  is readable and has no exported writer, so the #2853/#3584/#4852 rule ("the verb
  owns the count token ONLY") stops depending on an author remembering a third
  capture group.
- Mutation is node-addressed. A handle is minted by the parser, so a caller cannot
  name a node the parser did not find. No path strings — a path is a grammar, and a
  grammar needs a parser.
- serialize splices staged spans into the ORIGINAL buffer. A no-edit serialize is
  byte-identical, which is what eliminates the #4499 defect without a targeted fix, and which also
  makes an already-escaped table cell impossible to double-escape on a round trip.
- A node that fails to parse carries its own error and span; siblings stay readable.
- Per the ADR amendment, serialize REFUSES whenever any node carries a parse error,
  even with zero staged edits, naming the offender.

One defect was found while building and fixed in place rather than deferred:
PLANNING_ARTIFACTS first derived from isCanonicalPlanningFile unfiltered, so
config.json, state.json, milestone.lock and skill-manifest.json were accepted and
returned {ok:true, nodes:[]} — "this document records nothing" when the truth was
"I have no grammar for this file". That is the exact empty-vs-error confusion this
epic exists to remove (#4899, #4900), reproduced inside the seam built to prevent
it. The registry now filters to .md while still DERIVING from
isCanonicalPlanningFile, because hand-writing a second list is the divergence this
epic is about, and parsePlanningDoc refuses a non-markdown kind at the document
level per ADR-4910 section 5.

New bin/lib module bookkeeping: .gitignore, eslint.config.mjs ignore (ADR-457 —
lint the .cts, not the emitted .cjs), docs/INVENTORY.md row, regenerated
docs/INVENTORY-MANIFEST.json, and the CONTEXT.md glossary entry.

Refs #4906

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

* test(#4917): cover the PlanningDoc seam across 28 input classes

30 cases in 14 describe blocks, one per row of the phase test matrix.

The two load-bearing tests are the fast-check properties (seed 20260921,
numRuns 200):

- a single node mutation leaves every byte outside that node's valueSpan
  identical to the source
- serialize with zero staged edits is the identity function

Both are DOCUMENT-SHAPED per CONTRIBUTING.md fixture provenance (#2371): the
generator assembles arbitrary frontmatter, heading, label and value text with
join(), and never calls serialize or any other function from the module under
test to build a fixture. Seeding the generator from the module's own writer
would make the document shape a constant, and the property could then never
explore a document the writer would not itself emit.

Verified the byte-range assertion is not vacuous with a control run: it passes
against the real writer and FAILS against a simulated #4852 writer (one capture
group, replace-to-end-of-line), which visibly drops the trailing annotation.

Boundary coverage is zero / one / two staged edits. Negative space carries its
own rows — bold emphasis in prose, a field-shaped line inside a fenced block,
the same inside an inline code span, and a horizontal rule mid-body all
correctly mint no node. Row 24 is the Generative-Fix-Divergence parity
assertion: PLANNING_ARTIFACTS must not diverge from isCanonicalPlanningFile.
Row 28 covers the non-markdown canonical file found during the build.

Assertions are structural throughout — a typed Result / NodeRead /
SerializeOutcome shape, or a byte range computed from the node's own Span.
Full-string equality appears only where the contract IS byte equality.

Refs #4906

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

* fix(#4917): apply review findings — refuse unrepresentable values, compose the layers the seam claimed

Three review passes ran against this branch: /security-review, an isolated
adversarial pass, and a standards+spec pass. Five findings, all fixed here. Every
one is the epic's own failure class reproduced inside the seam built to end it,
which is the thing worth noticing.

1. setFieldValue accepted a value containing a newline. It survived serialization
   and reparsed as a REAL sibling field — one write to Plans forged a second
   Owner into a document that already had one. Content became structure, which
   defeats ADR-4910 Decision 2's "cannot reach past its own token by
   construction": the token boundary is a LINE boundary.

2. setFieldValue accepted a value containing the trailing separator and SILENTLY
   TRUNCATED it. Staged "sneaky - annotation", read back "sneaky", with the
   remainder reclassified as trailing prose. No error, nothing unreadable, both
   resulting nodes parsing perfectly. Worse than (1) because it loses the
   caller's own value rather than adding something visible.

   Both are fixed by ONE general check, deliberately not a blacklist:
   setFieldValue rebuilds the candidate line, re-parses it through the same field
   grammar, and refuses unless the value reads back identical. Blacklisting the
   separator would close this instance and leave the class open for whatever
   separator the grammar grows next. The round-trip check is ADR-4910 Decision 4
   stated executably.

3. The module reimplemented two layers it claims to compose. Checklist detection
   hand-rolled a checkbox regex that markdown-sectionizer's iterateBullets
   already owns. Frontmatter span detection re-derived fence handling because
   frontmatter.cts's frontmatterRegion was module-private — so ADR-4910 section 1's
   stated layering was UNREACHABLE as written, and the first implementation
   routed around it silently instead of surfacing the gap.

   frontmatterRegion is now exported (additive only; ADR-2143 section 2's
   extend-never-mutate lock is inherited) and both layers are consumed.

4. The CONTEXT.md glossary entry asserted "the Frontmatter Module supplies
   frontmatter" while zero frontmatter.cts code was invoked. That was a false
   claim in the repo's vocabulary of record, written by me, and it is now true
   rather than edited away.

5. Adopting iterateBullets narrowed GFM coverage: it classifies only
   dash-prefixed task items as checkboxes, so "* [ ] x" and "+ [x] y" stopped
   becoming checklist nodes. Widening the sectionizer is forbidden by the
   inherited lock, so the task-list MARKER is interpreted in this module while
   bullet STRUCTURE still comes from the sectionizer.

The sharpest finding was not a defect. The fast-check generator constrained
values to [A-Za-z0-9 .,!?], so it could not emit an em-dash, newline, backtick,
pipe or asterisk — precisely where (1) and (2) lived. The property was real,
seeded and non-vacuous, and structurally blind to the module's actual bug class.
The generator now spans the grammar's own metacharacters, and a new property
asserts that every value setFieldValue ACCEPTS round-trips identically. Proven
able to fail: against a scratch copy with the guard stripped it fails after 7
cases on newValue "\n".

Recorded as a measured boundary, not fixed: a bare CR inside a field line leaves
that field unrecognised. Measured — sibling fields still parse, no error node,
and serialize stays byte-identical, so the worst case is an unreadable field and
never a damaged document. Flagged for Phase 4's empty-vs-error census.

Refs #4906

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

* chore(#4917): backfill changeset pr number to 4918

Refs #4906

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

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-21 11:17:58 -04:00
BeeHiggs
0967358b8b enhance(#3638): render bracket phase IDs on progress, stats, manager and statusline surfaces (epic #612 PR-5) (#4111)
* enhance(#3638): render bracket IDs on display surfaces

Gate progress, stats, manager, and statusline projections on the bracket convention; validate phase_id_convention and single-source the convention card.

Forward note: the uat.cts bracket co-change remains deliberately deferred to its owning slice.

* chore(#3638): point the changeset at PR #4111

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#3638): close bracket display review gaps

* docs(#3638): register phase display modules

* chore(#3638): re-trigger CI after macOS shard SIGTERM

`full test (macos-latest, 24, shard 3/3)` failed on 20ce98cd1 in
`tests/lint-compiled-artifact-sync.test.cjs` — the spawned
`scripts/lint-compiled-artifact-sync.cjs` was killed at 60024ms
(`exited null (signal SIGTERM)`, stdout and stderr both empty), 24ms past
the test's own `TSC_COMPILE_TIMEOUT_MS`. That is the failure mode the
constant's comment already documents ("under CI shard load that compile
can exceed the budget, dying to a SIGTERM with empty piped stdout").

No content change; this empty commit exists only to re-run the matrix,
since re-running a job needs write access on the upstream repository.

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

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-09-15 04:47:47 -04:00
Tom Boucher
37b965c0d1 enhance(#4139): Phase 7 — the agent-skill seam picks the payload in code (#4553)
* enhance(#4139): Phase 7 — the agent-skill seam picks the payload in code

ADR-4139 stream 2. The non-Claude `#2454` persona fallback in cmdAgentSkills
(src/init.cts) now selects between a canonical agents/<name>.md and a
token-minimized agents/<name>.compact.md sibling based on
workflow.compact_content, resolved in code (a real function call with a real
exit code) rather than a prose config-get gate — the same precedent stream 1's
spine/detail split established for a load-bearing seam, applied here because
this seam already runs through TypeScript instead of an eager @-include.

A missing compact sibling falls back to the canonical persona and discloses
the fallback in the served payload itself (a leading HTML-comment provenance
line), so the Done-when contract — compact when on, canonical when off, never
silent or empty — holds even for an agent nobody has compacted yet.

Authored a .compact.md sibling for all 35 shipped agents (agents/gsd-*.md),
each an independent, complete rewrite (not an extraction — nothing is "moved"
the way spine/detail moves text) that preserves frontmatter, every @-include,
every output-format contract, and every guardrail verbatim while cutting
restatement and verbose framing. Verified mechanically: every pair registers
(a canonical sibling exists), every compact file is strictly smaller, and the
full @-include set matches canonical's — including which references are
standalone eager-load lines versus inline prose mentions, since demoting one
to inline changes what the host actually substitutes.

Traced the install path before writing any code (.gsd/phase/.../40-design.md):
stageAgentsForRuntimeWithConverter glob-copies every agents/*.md file with no
stem filtering under the default full profile, so the new .compact.md files
install for free with zero installer changes — matching issue #4407's stated
scope. A tiered agent profile that doesn't stage a compact sibling degrades
through the same fallback-with-provenance path already required for an
unauthored one, so no installer change is needed there either.

Extends tests/helpers/compact-content-variant.cjs with an AGENTS_ROOT export
(deliberately not folded into DEFAULT_VARIANT_ROOTS, since agent variants are
reached by a generic code construction rather than a literal path in prose,
and checkReachability's markdown-search shape has nothing to find there).
Reachability is instead proven behaviorally: tests/agent-skills.test.cjs's new
"#4407 compact payload selection" describe block spawns gsd_run agent-skills
against real compact/canonical fixture pairs and asserts on the served
payload, which can only pass if the seam genuinely wires through.

Fixed a pre-existing test whose agents/*.md glob incidentally matched the new
.compact.md siblings (tests/agent-skills.test.cjs's Skill-frontmatter drift
guard) and added the 35 new agents/*.compact.md entries to docs/INVENTORY.md's
roster, both real, unrelated-to-content defects the new files' mere existence
surfaced.

Regenerated: install-tree fixtures (19 runtimes now ship 35 more agent files
under the full profile), INVENTORY-MANIFEST.json, and the variant-swap token
benchmark baseline (npm run benchmark:compact-content-variants --write).

Closes #4407.

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

* fix(#4407): apply orthogonal review findings from the compact-payload seam

Standards axis of /code-review: extracted readNonEmptyFileOrNull(filePath)
to collapse the duplicated read-and-empty-check shape between the compact
and canonical branches in cmdAgentSkills, and updated the adjacent comment
enumerating flat JSON extras to name agent_payload_variant alongside
source/degraded (added by the prior commit, comment left stale).

Security review and the Spec axis found no defects requiring a code change;
their non-blocking observations (a pre-existing, unmodified path-construction
pattern; the reasoned, documented substitution of a behavioral test for the
literal reachability check) are recorded in
.gsd/phase/enhance-4407-agent-skill-seam/60-review.json.

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

* fix(#4407): repo-wide roster/cap fixes surfaced by shipping .compact.md agents

Root-caused via a real gsd-test run (93 failures) rather than guessing which
tests glob agents/ naively. Two classes of defect, both genuine:

1. Identity-roster confusion (11 files/areas): many tests and one production
   script derive "the set of GSD agents" from `readdirSync(agentsDir).filter(f
   => f.endsWith('.md'))`, which incidentally matched the new .compact.md
   variant siblings too — a compact file is a rendering of an EXISTING agent
   identity, not a new one. Fixed at the shared root
   (tests/helpers/agent-roster.cjs's listAgentFiles, which several tests
   already consolidated on) and at each independent glob that didn't use it:
   agent-size-budget.test.cjs (tier-cap lookup now strips the .compact suffix
   before checking XL/LARGE membership, so a compact file inherits its
   canonical sibling's tier instead of silently falling through to DEFAULT),
   agent-skills-bootstrap.test.cjs, check-contract-drift.test.cjs (the actual
   script, not just its test), codex-config.test.cjs (confirmed directly
   against generateCodexAgentToml that a compact role's derived sandbox_mode
   is byte-identical to its canonical sibling's before excluding it — not
   assumed), and copilot-install.test.cjs (two counts that legitimately DO
   need both files — an installed-file count and a full-conversion smoke test
   — fixed to expect 70, not stay pinned to 35).

   no-bare-gsd-tools-command-position.test.cjs needed the opposite kind of fix:
   two compact files reproduce descriptive prose already allowlisted at their
   canonical file's line number; added matching entries at the compact files'
   own line numbers rather than excluding them from the scan (a genuine bare
   gsd-tools command-position bug in a compact file would be as real a defect
   as in canonical).

2. A hard, non-ackable cap (found via emitted-attribution.test.cjs's real-tree
   run): six agents' compact renditions (gsd-debugger, gsd-executor,
   gsd-phase-researcher, gsd-plan-checker, gsd-planner, gsd-verifier) exceed
   the 32,768-byte NEW_FILE_CAP (ADR-1610) even after aggressive compaction —
   confirmed structural, not a compaction-quality gap: each is dominated by
   content this phase's own rules require verbatim (the ~2.6 KB gsd_run
   bootstrap preamble runtime-launcher-parity.test.cjs requires inlined in
   every agent that calls gsd_run, output-format contracts, guardrails).
   ADR-4139's prescribed remedy (spine + lazily-read parts) has no landing
   spot in cmdAgentSkills's single-file synchronous read. Removed these 6
   compact files rather than ship an over-cap file or invent a multi-part
   read mechanism out of scope for this phase; recorded by name with the
   reason in .gsd/phase/enhance-4407-agent-skill-seam/40-design.md and
   50-test-matrix.md, per #4407's own "or explicitly recorded as not worth
   covering" allowance. Their canonical personas are served correctly today
   via the fallback-with-disclosed-provenance path this phase's own Done-when
   #2 already requires — 29 of 35 agents now have a compact variant.

Also fixes an unrelated, genuinely pre-existing defect this gsd-test run
surfaced: gsd-core/workflows/execute-plan.md sat 21 bytes over its own
DEFAULT-tier hard cap (40,960 bytes) at the branch point, before any change in
this PR touched it — confirmed via `git show <merge-base>:...execute-plan.md
| wc -c`. Per CLAUDE.md's no-deferral rule, fixed inline rather than filed:
two meaning-preserving trims in the <success_criteria> block (a repeated
parenthetical replaced with a same-exception reference; one redundant
qualifier dropped) bring it to 40,940 bytes.

Regenerated install-tree fixtures, INVENTORY-MANIFEST.json, and the variant
benchmark baseline to reflect the 6 removed files. Docs/INVENTORY.md's 6
now-orphaned roster rows removed alongside them.

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

* fix(#4407): make .compact.md-aware roster checks resilient to partial coverage

Round 2 of the gsd-test-driven roster fixes: two checks assumed every agent
has a compact sibling (true for 29 of 35 after the NEW_FILE_CAP exception),
breaking once 6 stems legitimately have none.

- tests/agent-classification-parity.test.cjs: the INVENTORY.md parser was
  picking up the "### Compact Payload Variants" subsection's rows as
  phantom/uncounted entries in the primary/advanced/inventory-only
  classification this test validates — a compact row documents an existing
  agent's alternate rendition and never gets its own AGENTS.md heading, so it
  was never meant to participate in that classification. Excluded at the
  parser, not per-assertion.
- tests/copilot-install.test.cjs: the derived expected-file-list generator
  assumed every listAgentFiles() stem has a .compact.md source sibling;
  checks disk per stem now instead.

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

* docs(#4407): backfill changeset PR number

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

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-09 12:38:59 -04:00
Behruz Nassre Esfahani
3ad75a6d59 enhance(#4285): resolve context-monitor fire-points from .planning/config.json (#4366)
* enhance(#4285): resolve context-monitor fire-points from .planning/config.json

The monitor's WARNING (35%) and CRITICAL (25%) fire-points were module
constants, so the only way to tune them was editing gsd-context-monitor.js —
a file in the MANAGED hooks registry, whose body the next install re-stages,
silently discarding the edit. The alternative was turning the safety net off.

Both are now readable from the config block the hook already opens:
hooks.context_warning_threshold and hooks.context_critical_threshold. Absent
keys resolve to today's 35/25, so every existing project is byte-identical.

Resolution is total and never throws — this hook must not block the tool call
it rides in on. A value is usable only if Number.isFinite (type-strict, so the
string "30" and true are rejected) and inside the 0-100 domain of the
remaining_percentage it is compared against; anything else falls back to the
default. The PAIR falls back together: critical >= warning has no coherent
reading, and honouring one side silently picks which of the operator's two
numbers to discard. That also covers a single override contradicting the other
key's default.

config-set validates the domain per key so accept and honour agree, but
deliberately does not enforce the pair — it writes one key per call, so a
two-step retune is transiently inconsistent on disk and refusing it there
would block a legitimate configuration.

Registration follows the statusline.show_git precedent: schema manifest plus
src/config.cts validation, not config-defaults.manifest.json and not
buildNewProjectConfig — emitting 35/25 into every new project would pin the
defaults at creation time for a setting nobody has tuned.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DsUAawHKUy9pCpnye1Jzd2

* enhance(#4285): address Codex review — per-key fallback docs, discriminating tests

Codex full-PR review (gpt-6-astra, read-only) returned five findings. Each was
verified against source before acting; all five are real.

1. docs/CONFIGURATION.md described the wrong fallback. An out-of-domain value
   falls back PER KEY; both defaults apply only when the RESOLVED pair violates
   critical < warning. warning 150 with critical 30 resolves to 35/30, not
   35/25 — at remaining 28 that difference changes the severity emitted. The
   table now states the two rules in the order they compose, and
   docs/context-monitor.md gains the same worked example.

2. The inconsistent-pair test could not prove the CRITICAL side reverts: its
   pair was 20/25, and 25 is already the default, so an implementation that
   reset only `warning` passed it. A 45/50 pair — both halves away from their
   defaults — now pins each side with its own reading, and an equal 45/45 pair
   pins that the rule is strict (`<`, not `<=`).

3. The rejection table's rows could not tell rejection from acceptance: an
   accepted -5 pairs with the default critical 25, trips the pair check, and
   produces the same silence. Two rows now separate those: a below-domain
   critical must escalate remaining 20 to CRITICAL (proving -5 was rejected,
   not honoured), and an unusable critical beside a usable warning 45 must
   still fire WARNING at remaining 40 (proving per-key fallback rather than
   reset-both). The over-claiming comments are narrowed to what each row
   actually shows.

4. Scope, reproduced rather than assumed: config-set writes through
   planningDir(), so under GSD_WORKSTREAM it lands in
   .planning/workstreams/<name>/config.json while this hook reads only
   <cwd>/.planning/config.json. That is the pre-existing root-only scope
   hooks.context_warnings has always had, but this PR advertises the setter
   route, so both docs now say the keys are root-project settings.

5. Four other English docs still stated 35/25 as fixed: the REQ-CTX-02/03
   requirements fragment, ARCHITECTURE.md's hook table and threshold table,
   and INVENTORY.md's hook row. All now name them as defaults and point at the
   config keys; docs/FEATURES.md is regenerated from its fragment via
   scripts/gen-features.cjs --write, not hand-edited.

Four new mutations, each reverted after: resetting only the warning half on an
inconsistent pair (1 red), resetting both on any unusable key (1), dropping the
>= 0 bound (1), and accepting critical == warning (1). perf-317 is 116/0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DsUAawHKUy9pCpnye1Jzd2

* enhance(#4285): tighten claims after Codex round 2 — scoped paths, one more discriminator

Confirmation round found no runtime defect and confirmed the five round-1 fixes
landed. Four precision items, all real, all fixed here.

1. The scoped-write note named the wrong path for GSD_PROJECT. planningDir()
   composes three distinct shapes, confirmed by running config-set under each:
   .planning/<project>/config.json, .planning/workstreams/<ws>/config.json, and
   .planning/<project>/workstreams/<ws>/config.json. docs/context-monitor.md
   now tabulates all four cases instead of collapsing them into one.

2. The 45/50 silence row asserted empty stdout without pinning the exit code.
   runMonitorRaw turns a spawn failure, a non-zero exit or a timeout into empty
   stdout as well, so the row could have passed on a dead child. It asserts
   exitCode === 0 first now, like the equal-pair row already did.

3. The sibling row's message claimed it proved critical fell back to 25. It
   does not: coercing '30' to 30 yields WARNING at remaining 40 too, so the row
   pins the WARNING side surviving and nothing more. Message narrowed, and a
   new row reads the same config at remaining 28, where the two candidate
   resolutions diverge — rejected gives (45, 25) and WARNING, coerced gives
   (45, 30) and CRITICAL. Mutation-verified: swapping Number.isFinite for the
   coercing global reds it.

4. "Accept and honour must agree" was too absolute in the src/config.cts and
   tests/config.test.cjs comments. The agreement holds on the DOMAIN and per
   key: an accepted value can still lose to the hook's pair check at read time,
   and a scoped write never reaches the hook at all. Likewise a two-step retune
   only CAN be transiently inconsistent — 35/25 to 20/10 is valid throughout if
   critical moves first — so the docs now say what a setter-side pair check
   would actually cost: rejecting that intermediate write and forcing an order.

The same over-absolute phrasing is in b7d179c89's message, which is left as
written rather than rewriting history; this commit and the PR body carry the
precise claim.

perf-317 117/0, config 192/0, config-field-docs 47/0, features-index-gate 84/0,
lint:ci clean cold.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DsUAawHKUy9pCpnye1Jzd2

* chore(#4285): add changeset

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DsUAawHKUy9pCpnye1Jzd2

* enhance(#4285): address review — planning-config rows, resolveThresholds properties

Two Minor findings from the maintainer review, no behaviour change.

Minor 1: gsd-core/references/planning-config.md's "Hook Fields" table gains
rows for hooks.context_warning_threshold and hooks.context_critical_threshold,
in that table's 5-column form, carrying the same per-key-fallback,
pair-reversion and root-config-scope claims docs/CONFIGURATION.md already
makes. hooks.workflow_guard's absence from that table is pre-existing and
out of scope here.

Minor 2: resolveThresholds() gets fast-check property coverage, which ADR 456
requires of a threshold/limit contract. Reaching it needed a require-time
seam: the resolver was previously observable only by spawning the hook, and a
subprocess per case cannot drive 200 runs — the same conclusion CONTEXT-INDEX
records for the ROADMAP Requirements parser. The stdin adapter therefore moves
into main() behind `require.main === module`, mirroring
gsd-cursor-subagent-start.js and gsd-statusline.js, and module.exports exposes
the resolver plus both default constants so a test asserts fallback against
the source of truth rather than a second copy of 35/25. Spawned behaviour is
unchanged: the 10s stdin timeout still arms per invocation (stdinTimeout is
now a module-scope let assigned in main(), still cleared by the end handler),
and the try/catch crash(ON_CRASH) path is untouched.

Seven properties: totality, ordering, exactness, togetherness, non-vacuity,
per-key fallback, non-object argument. Exactness is stated PER KEY — a mixed
result (one key honoured, one fallen back) is legal and is the documented
contract; the property falsified a per-pair phrasing of it in 4 runs.

Verified: cold lint:ci 0; perf-317 file 125/0; seven mutations killed and
restored, one of which (upper bound widened to 120) is invisible to the 17
hand-written cases and caught only by a property.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UZw5UhR474YLyE4knjHrte

* enhance(#4285): close the Codex-found gap in the property coverage

Codex whole-PR review of round 3 returned no Blocker and no Major. Two items,
both in the tests added this round, both verified against source before acting.

Minor — the per-key fallback property was asymmetric: it required a usable
warning to survive an unusable critical, but never the reverse. A resolver
that reverted BOTH keys the moment warning was unusable passed all seven
properties. Reproduced exactly: that mutant answers 35/25 for
{warning: 150, critical: 30} where the resolver answers 35/30, and the file
stayed green at 125/0. The mirrored property closes it — with the mutant
re-applied it is now the single failing row, and it is the only row that
fails, so it is load-bearing rather than incidental.

Nit — the ordering property's comment credited it with catching a
half-honoured pair, which it does not: 45/50 "repaired" by resetting only
critical yields 45/25, perfectly ordered. That case belongs to togetherness.
The same comment claimed the behavioural rows sample an inconsistent pair at
exactly one point; stale — they cover 20/25, 45/50 and the 45/45 equality
boundary. Both claims corrected in place.

Verified: cold lint:ci 0; perf-317 file 126/0; the mutant above killed by the
new property alone and the hook restored byte-identical afterwards.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UZw5UhR474YLyE4knjHrte

* enhance(#4285): name the installed-monitor prerequisite; close the negative-critical gap

Second Codex whole-PR pass, run because the base moved: the author's three
"Update branch" merges pulled ~26 upstream commits in, so the previously
reviewed diff sat on a base that no longer exists. No Blocker, no Major, two
Minor — both verified against source before acting.

Minor 1, and only reachable because of what the merge brought in: #2586
(03738824d) landed in that window and stops staging
hooks/gsd-context-monitor.js for Codex, since the metrics bridge it reads is
written only by hooks/gsd-statusline.js, which Codex never installs
(bin/install.js: "gsd-context-monitor.js is deliberately NOT copied for
Codex"). These two keys are read by that hook and nothing else, so on such a
runtime config-set stores and validates them and nothing consumes them — a
claim the docs this PR adds did not make. docs/context-monitor.md now carries
the explanation and both key tables carry a clause pointing at it; the FEATURES
and INVENTORY entries already link through to those two files, so they are not
edited again. The changeset says it too, because it is user-facing.

Accepting the keys on every runtime is kept deliberately: config is shared
across runtimes, so validation stays runtime-independent and the runtime
caveat lives in documentation rather than in the setter.

Minor 2: the per-key fallback property's junk generator had no negative arm,
though its mirror did — and that asymmetry hid a gap. A resolver reverting
BOTH keys whenever critical is negative answers 35/25 for {45, -5} where the
resolver answers 45/25, and it passed all 126 tests. With the negative arm
added it is the single failing row.

Verified: cold lint:ci 0; perf-317 126/0; both mutants above killed and the
hook restored byte-identical; 538/0 across the config, changeset, doc-parity
and emitted-attribution gates.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UZw5UhR474YLyE4knjHrte

* enhance(#4285): refuse the two dead threshold endpoints; resolve absent keys

Maintainer review round 2 raised two Minors and a nit.

Minor 1 — `hooks.context_warning_threshold: 0` was accepted and stored but can
never take effect: `critical < warning` must hold and both sides are clamped to
0-100, so nothing can sit below a warning of 0. Verifying it surfaced the MIRROR
case the review did not name: `critical: 100` is equally dead, since nothing can
sit above it. Both confirmed against the real resolver for partners {absent, 0,
50, 100}, with 0.001 and 99.999 honoured as controls.

`config-set` now refuses both, because storing a value the reader always
discards is the accept-then-discard shape this codebase refuses elsewhere. The
hook is unchanged and still total — it degrades to defaults rather than
throwing, so a project that already carries one of these on disk still loads.
The old "accepts the domain bounds 0 and 100" row asserted the misleading half
and is replaced by tables that make the asymmetry the point (0 is legal for
critical and illegal for warning; 100 is the reverse), plus a control row so
"refuse both endpoints outright" would not pass in its place.

Minor 2 — the keys are absent from config-defaults.manifest.json /
buildNewProjectConfig where the sibling `hooks.context_warnings` lives. Kept
that way: buildNewProjectConfig writes a hooks object into every NEW project's
config.json, which would freeze today's fire-points as an explicit per-project
override everywhere — the opposite of this PR's premise. But the underlying
complaint was real, so the actual symptom is fixed: `config-get` on an absent
key returned "Key not found" while the hook silently used 35/25. It now resolves
through SCHEMA_DEFAULTS. Restated rather than derived because CONFIG_DEFAULTS is
re-exported flattened and has no `hooks` member at runtime; the one resulting
copy of 35/25 outside the hook is pinned against the hook's exported constants
by a drift test (red-checked: moving the literal to 40 reds it).

Nit — PR-body counts unverifiable from the diff. Noted, no code change.

Codex round 3 then found a broken doc link (`context-monitor.md` resolved
inside gsd-core/references/, where it does not exist; the emitted tree's own
convention is `../../docs/...`) and a stale comment still describing the
manifest-derived approach I had backed out. Both fixed. It also corrected my
rationale on a point of fact: manifest entries alone would NOT have reached new
project configs, since buildNewProjectConfig builds its own literal — the
freezing argument applies to that function, not to the manifest. The comment now
says so rather than running the two together.

Verified: cold lint:ci 0; full suite 36,082 / 0 fail before these two fixes,
config + perf-317 321/0 after; drift pin red-checked.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UZw5UhR474YLyE4knjHrte

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-09-09 04:31:14 +00:00
Tom Boucher
e03921c7d8 enhance(#4405): split the rest of the eager-window workflows worth splitting (#4536) 2026-09-08 00:17:22 -04:00
Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich
18c899def5 enhance(#4209): optional external source reviewer lanes for /gsd:code-review (#4323)
* test(01-01): define reviewer-support trait contract

Add failing coverage for step.supportsReviewerLanes (#4209 DISP-02):
validator rejects non-boolean values with an exact field path, accepts
missing/true/false, and the real code-review capability.json steps
must declare supportsReviewerLanes: true. Add loop-resolver projection
coverage proving the trait reaches activeHooks verbatim for a
provider-neutral synthetic step (not code-review-specific), and that
omitted/false values stay inert (no key on the active hook).

All 8 new assertions fail today: the validator has no such field, and
loop-resolver has nothing to project. RED before GREEN.

* feat(01-01): declare reviewer-capable steps

Add step.supportsReviewerLanes (#4209 DISP-02): a strict optional
boolean opt-in trait, step-scoped (not capability-wide). Only a
literal true validates and projects; false/omitted stay inert (no
key on the projected active hook), and every non-boolean type fails
capability-validator.cjs with an exact field-path error.

Opt both existing code-review steps (execute:post, execute:wave:post)
into the trait in capabilities/code-review/capability.json. Project
the validated field through src/loop-resolver.cts into activeHooks
so a provider-neutral generic interpreter can read it without any
code-review-specific knowledge. Document the field in
docs/reference/capability-manifest.md and regenerate
gsd-core/bin/lib/capability-registry.cjs via the generator (never
hand-edited).

Makes all 8 RED assertions from the prior commit pass.

* test(01-02): define shared reviewer dispatch

- Add tests/reviewer-step-dispatch.test.cjs covering dispatchReviewerLanes:
  inert when the supportsReviewerLanes trait is off or nothing is selected,
  exactly-once plan/invoke per selected lane, duplicate-alias dedup, the
  bounded metadata-only source-review prompt (repo root, paths+baseSha,
  depth, four fixed prohibitions), and capability-neutral reuse via a
  second synthetic step context.
- RED: module under test (src/reviewer-step-dispatch.cts) does not exist
  yet, so require() fails and every assertion is unreached.

* feat(01-02): dispatch reviewers for opted-in steps

- Add src/reviewer-step-dispatch.cts: dispatchReviewerLanes(input, deps),
  ONE interpreter for a step's supportsReviewerLanes trait. Reuses
  resolveReviewerSelection for selection and resolveLanePlan for planning
  (both already-existing, pure building blocks); invocation is the one
  required, caller-injected seam (deps.invoke) since runLane needs
  OS-aware spawn plumbing this module does not own.
- trait !== true, or a selection resolving to zero lanes, dispatches
  nothing (zero plan/invoke calls). Each selected lane is planned and
  invoked exactly once, in the selector's deduped/sorted order.
- buildSourceReviewPrompt assembles a metadata-only bounded prompt
  (repo root, canonical paths + base SHA, depth, four fixed
  prohibitions) — never file contents — written once per dispatch and
  shared across every invoked lane.
- GREEN: tests/reviewer-step-dispatch.test.cjs now passes.

* test(01-02): define reviewer dispatch failures

- Extend tests/reviewer-step-dispatch.test.cjs with the fail-closed
  matrix: an explicitly requested lane the selector could not resolve
  still lets the OTHER resolved lane run, but the aggregate result must
  never read as a clean success (and 'every explicit lane unavailable'
  must be distinguishable from the plain no-flags-passed inert case);
  request-level validation (path traversal, absolute paths outside
  repoRoot, empty/non-string paths, missing depth/base SHA) halts the
  whole dispatch before any lane is planned or invoked; a per-lane
  prompt-budget overflow hard-fails only that lane before invoke while
  its sibling still runs.
- RED: src/reviewer-step-dispatch.cts does not yet implement any of
  these guards, so 9 of the new assertions fail against the current
  (Task 1) implementation.

* fix(01-02): fail closed in reviewer dispatch

- src/reviewer-step-dispatch.cts: add the fail-closed guards the prior
  commit deliberately left out. An explicitly requested lane the
  selector could not resolve no longer lets the aggregate read as a
  clean success — lanes that DID resolve still run and keep their
  results (never narrow the requested set), but selection.errors now
  flips the aggregate ok to false, and 'every explicit lane
  unavailable' is now distinguishable (SELECTION_FAILED) from the
  plain no-flags-passed inert case (NO_LANES_SELECTED).
- Add request-level validation (validatePaths, depth/baseSha presence)
  that halts the WHOLE dispatch before any lane is planned or invoked:
  path traversal, absolute paths outside repoRoot, empty/non-string
  paths, and missing provenance are all rejected up front.
- Add per-lane prompt-budget enforcement (resolveBudget, mirroring
  gsd-tools.cjs's budgetFor convention including budget 0 = unbounded):
  a lane whose resolved budget the prompt exceeds hard-fails before
  invoke runs for it, without cancelling a sibling lane already
  planned.
- Document the supportsReviewerLanes trait and its dispatch-step
  interpreter in gsd-core/references/loop-hook-dispatch.md.
- GREEN: all 19 tests in tests/reviewer-step-dispatch.test.cjs pass;
  no regressions in the review-lane/reviewer-selection/prompt-budget
  suites (356 passing).

* test(01-03): define optional source reviewer flow

RED: assert code-review.md dispatches roster-derived reviewer-lane flags
through a single review-lane dispatch-step call (DISP-01..05), that the
no-flag path stays byte-for-behavior unchanged (COMP-01), and that
external evidence reaching the internal reviewer prompt is marked
unverified (CONS-02). Also covers the CLI contract directly: no-op with
no explicit selection, and fail-closed on an explicit unknown lane
(SAFE-07) via real gsd-tools.cjs subprocess calls.

* feat(01-03): route optional source reviewers

GREEN: code-review.md gains a dispatch_reviewer_lanes step that matches
canonical reviewer-lane flags against the merged first-party + installed
roster (never a hand-maintained list) and, only when at least one is
present, calls the shared reviewer-step interpreter exactly once with the
already-resolved repo root, file scope, depth, and base SHA. Its evidence
paths are appended to the internal reviewer prompt via
${EXTERNAL_EVIDENCE_BLOCK}, explicitly marked unverified. No reviewer-lane
flag leaves the internal-only dispatch byte-for-behavior unchanged
(COMP-01).

Deviation (Rule 3 — blocking issue): 01-02 documented `review-lane
dispatch-step` (gsd-core/references/loop-hook-dispatch.md) as the CLI
route `dispatchReviewerLanes` wires through, but never implemented the
gsd-tools.cjs subcommand — the workflow's call had nothing to reach. Add
it to the existing review-lane router, reusing the same effort-aware plan
building and runner deps `plan`/`invoke` already use (factored into
buildLaneRunnerDeps to avoid duplicating the spawn/http/fs seam). Guard
the CLI's own `detected` set on whether an explicit flag was passed:
resolveReviewerSelection's no-explicit-selection fallback is "select every
detected reviewer" (the correct default for /gsd:review), and passing it
an unconditionally non-empty detected set would silently invoke the whole
roster on every no-flag code review, violating COMP-01.

* test(01-03): define external finding consolidation

RED: assert gsd-code-reviewer.md treats <external_reviewer_evidence> as
untrusted input — independently re-verifies every claim against the actual
current source, resists a prompt-injection attempt embedded in evidence
text, and folds a verified claim into the existing Narrative Findings
section with no second REVIEW.md schema (CONS-01..03). Also assert
code-review.md's EXTERNAL_EVIDENCE_BLOCK restates the four fixed
source-review prohibitions (SAFE-03..06) at the internal-reviewer handoff.

* feat(01-03): consolidate external review evidence

GREEN: gsd-code-reviewer.md's load_context parses <external_reviewer_evidence>
as untrusted data, independently re-verifies every cited claim against the
actual current source before it can appear in REVIEW.md, and explicitly
resists prompt injection embedded in evidence text (never a command, no
matter what it claims to be). A verified claim folds into the existing
Narrative Findings section with (external: {slug}) provenance — one
REVIEW.md schema only, no separate external-findings section.
code-review.md's EXTERNAL_EVIDENCE_BLOCK now restates the four fixed
source-review prohibitions (SAFE-03..06) at the internal-reviewer handoff.

* fix(01-02): gitignore the reviewer-step-dispatch build artifact

01-02 added src/reviewer-step-dispatch.cts but never added its
npm run build:lib output to .gitignore, unlike every sibling
gsd-core/bin/lib/*.cjs generated file. Left it showing as untracked
noise in git status.

* docs(01-04): publish user and command contract for reviewer-lane source review

- Document optional reviewer-lane flags on /gsd-code-review in USER-GUIDE.md
  and COMMANDS.md: opt-in, no source bodies in prompts, no fallback on
  failure, findings independently consolidated into the single REVIEW.md
- Add the same contract to the docs/features/code-review-pipeline.md
  fragment and regenerate docs/FEATURES.md from it
- Preserve /gsd-review as the plan-review command; cross-reference it
  rather than duplicating the reviewer roster
- Pick up docs/INVENTORY-MANIFEST.json and skills/gsd-code-review/SKILL.md
  drift owned by source already shipped in Plans 01-01/01-03 but never
  regenerated (npm run regen:derived had not been run in this worktree)

* docs(01-04): align architecture and agent ownership docs for reviewer-lane trait

- ARCHITECTURE.md: trace the #4209 capability trait (supportsReviewerLanes)
  through the shared dispatchReviewerLanes interpreter to the existing
  review-lane plan/invoke machinery, ending at gsd-code-reviewer as the
  sole REVIEW.md consolidator
- AGENTS.md: document gsd-code-reviewer's full-context verification scope
  and its treatment of external reviewer evidence as unverified input
- No new diagram, abstraction, or config key; docs/CONFIGURATION.md is
  unchanged since the feature adds no setting or default

* fix(01-02): eslint-ignore the reviewer-step-dispatch build artifact

Same gap as the earlier .gitignore fix: 01-02 added
src/reviewer-step-dispatch.cts but never added its generated
gsd-core/bin/lib/reviewer-step-dispatch.cjs output to
eslint.config.mjs's ignore list like every sibling generated file,
so tsc's emitted __importDefault CommonJS-interop var tripped
no-var.

* fix(01-04): add the reviewer-step-dispatch.cjs roster row to docs/INVENTORY.md

01-04 regenerated docs/INVENTORY-MANIFEST.json (which now lists
cli_modules/reviewer-step-dispatch.cjs) but the hand-written roster
row in docs/INVENTORY.md — required by design, since a role sentence
cannot be generated — was never added.

* fix(01-01): update the code-review capability-step fixture for supportsReviewerLanes

refactor-trigger-cli.test.cjs's preservesCodeReviewHookShapeAlongsideRefactorHook
strict-deep-equals the code-review step's exact shape at execute:post; 01-01 added
supportsReviewerLanes: true to that step and this fixture was not updated.

* chore(01-03): acknowledge emitted-doc growth for code-review.md and gsd-code-reviewer.md

Both files grew as a direct, intended consequence of wiring optional
reviewer lanes into /gsd:code-review (the new dispatch_reviewer_lanes
step and the untrusted-evidence consolidation contract) — not
incidental drift.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: code-review.md — new dispatch_reviewer_lanes step and EXTERNAL_EVIDENCE_BLOCK wiring for optional reviewer lanes (#4209)
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: gsd-code-reviewer.md — untrusted external-evidence consolidation contract for optional reviewer lanes (#4209)

* test(01-05): define WR-01/WR-02 reliability contract for dispatchReviewerLanes

From internal code review: dispatched must be false when zero lanes
actually reached plan(), and a throwing plan()/invoke() for one lane
must not discard results already collected for a sibling lane —
matching the fail-closed pattern gsd-tools.cjs already uses for the
same resolveLanePlan call (#2494/#2605/#1698/#1936/#2073/#2176/#2589/#2794).

Refs: gsd-core-dks.16, gsd-core-dks.17

* fix(01-05): close WR-01/WR-02/IN-01/IN-02 from internal review

- WR-01: dispatched now tracks whether any lane actually reached
  plan(), not results.length — an unresolvable selected slug no
  longer reports dispatched:true.
- WR-02: plan()/writePromptFile()/invoke() wrapped per-lane so a
  throw for one lane can never discard results already collected
  for a sibling lane, matching the same guard gsd-tools.cjs already
  has around the identical resolveLanePlan call.
- IN-01: documents the intentional budget===0-is-unbounded
  convention (#2797) the caller already relies on.
- IN-02: review-lane dispatch-step no longer blocks indefinitely on
  an un-piped interactive TTY; fails closed to empty paths instead.

Refs: gsd-core-dks.16, gsd-core-dks.17

* docs(01-05): add changeset fragment for PR #17

* fix(01-03): allowlist prompt-injection-scan false positive on the untrusted-evidence contract

agents/gsd-code-reviewer.md's untrusted-evidence section and its
pinning regression test both quote injection phrases as the exact
attack they defend against/detect — same
DEFECT.PROMPT-INJECTION-SCAN-COLLISION class as the existing
allowlist entries, not an actual injection vector.

* test(01-05): extend WR-02 coverage to writePromptFile/invoke throws; DIFF_BASE-empty skip

From CodeRabbit review: WR-02's earlier fix only wrapped plan() —
writePromptFile()/deps.invoke() still ran unguarded, so a throw
there still aborted every later selected lane. Also covers the
dispatch_reviewer_lanes DIFF_BASE-empty-provenance gap (explicit
lanes silently not running when no prior review and no phase-start
commit exist).

* fix(01-05): skip dispatch_reviewer_lanes with a clear warning when DIFF_BASE cannot be resolved

Previously an explicit reviewer-lane request with no prior review and
no resolvable phase-start commit reached dispatch-step with an empty
--base-sha, which fails closed via missing_provenance — correct, but
silent about why explicitly requested lanes didn't run. Now skip
dispatch entirely in that case with a stderr warning naming the
actual cause.

* fix(01-05): wrap writePromptFile/invoke in the same per-lane try/catch as plan()

WR-02's original fix only guarded plan() — a throw from
writePromptFile() or deps.invoke() still aborted the whole dispatch,
discarding results already collected for lanes processed earlier in
the loop. CodeRabbit caught the gap; WR-02b/WR-02c pin it.

* fix(01-05): WR-02b mock must throw only on the first writePromptFile() call

The committed mock threw unconditionally, so codex's retry also threw and
failed for the same reason as claude's — the test could not distinguish
'sibling still runs' from 'sibling also breaks'. Gate the throw to the
first call, matching WR-02/WR-02c's single-failure intent.

* fix(#4209): close review findings from adversarial + critical-code-reviewer pass

Two independent reviews (agy adversarial review, Opus critical-code-reviewer +
ponytail) found 6 Blocking and 7 Required issues in the reviewer-lane dispatch
wiring around dispatchReviewerLanes. All 13 tracked in gsd-core-dks.18-30 and
fixed here:

- dispatch-step's reducer silently swallowed whole-dispatch rejections
  (invalid paths, missing provenance, etc); it now checks parsed.ok/reason.
- spawn_reviewer recomputed its own stale DIFF_BASE, diverging from the
  LAST_REVIEW_COMMIT-aware value dispatch_reviewer_lanes uses on re-review;
  now shares the single compute_file_scope derivation.
- the external reviewer prompt had no actual review request or citation
  requirement, only prohibitions; added both.
- removed the supportsReviewerLanes trait plumbing (capability registry,
  validator, loop-resolver, docs, tests) — it was never consulted by the
  real dispatch path, which gates on explicit CLI flags instead.
- flag-resolution require() was a fragile cwd-relative literal that failed
  silently on non-vendored installs; now resolves via GSD_TOOLS's own
  directory and warns instead of swallowing failure.
- reducer didn't unwrap the @file: overflow protocol for large payloads.
- deduplicated resolveBudget/budgetFor into one resolveLaneBudget.
- lane artifacts now write to a mktemp run dir instead of $PHASE_DIR, so a
  second dispatch can't overwrite prior evidence.
- validatePaths rejects control characters, closing a markdown-injection
  vector into the external prompt via crafted filenames.
- reworded the one line that tripped prompt-injection-scan.sh instead of
  allowlisting the whole production prompt file.
- fixed a stale docstring range and a dispatched-field ordering bug.
- added 3 integration tests executing the actual reducer against synthetic
  dispatch-step JSON, replacing markdown-substring-only assertions.

771/771 tests pass across every touched suite; tsc --noEmit clean.

* fix(#4209): wire supportsReviewerLanes as the maintainer's required reusable trait

The maintainer's approval on issue #4209 explicitly redirected implementation
shape: reviewer-lane dispatch must be a reusable capability/step-dispatch
trait ("supportsReviewerLanes"), not code-review.md hand-wiring the call
itself. My previous commit (e2558326) deleted that trait entirely after
finding it declared-but-never-consulted, which was backwards — the fix was to
wire it, not remove it.

Restores the trait (capability.json, generated registry, validator,
loop-resolver.cts, docs, tests) and wires it for real: dispatch_reviewer_lanes
now resolves its own active hook via `gsd_run loop render-hooks` for the
configured workflow.code_review_point and only proceeds to CLI-flag matching
when supportsReviewerLanes reads true. Explicit flags no longer bypass the
trait; a matching flag with the trait false resolves zero slugs (proven by a
new integration test executing the real fence with both trait states).

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: gsd-core/workflows/code-review.md — the
dispatch_reviewer_lanes step grows a trait-resolution fence (#4209 maintainer
redirect requires the capability layer, not the workflow, own the opt-in
decision).

* fix(#4209): dispatch-step self-verifies the reviewer-lane trait via --cap-id/--point

Both an agy adversarial review and an Opus critical-code-reviewer pass
independently found the same gap in my previous commit (9b2c3773d): the trait
check I wired into code-review.md only protected code-review's OWN
invocation — gsd-tools.cjs's dispatch-step handler still hardcoded
`trait: true` unconditionally, so a second capability declaring
supportsReviewerLanes would get zero enforcement from the shared CLI unless
it correctly re-implemented the ~15-line render-hooks scrape itself. That is
exactly the "each workflow.md hand-wiring the call" the maintainer's redirect
said to eliminate.

Moves the trait check into dispatch-step itself: given --cap-id/--point, it
self-invokes `loop render-hooks <point>` (relocating the one subprocess
code-review.md used to spawn for this, not adding a new one) and derives the
real trait from that capId's active hook, rather than trusting a
caller-passed boolean. code-review.md now only passes
--cap-id code-review --point "$CODE_REVIEW_POINT" and no longer resolves or
gates on the trait itself — the ~20-line scrape it previously carried is
gone. Any other capability opts into the identical enforcement by declaring
the trait and passing the same two flags.

Replaced the two tests that stipulated SUPPORTS_REVIEWER_LANES as an input
variable (they proved a bash branch honors a variable, not that the variable
reflects the real capability manifest) with three integration tests that
invoke the real dispatch-step CLI against the real first-party capability
registry: the real code-review trait resolves true, an unknown --cap-id
resolves false (trait_not_enabled, fail-closed), and omitting
--cap-id/--point entirely resolves false (no context means no opt-in).

Also: reject \x7f/U+2028/U+2029 in validatePaths' control-character check
(agy-F1 was incomplete), and delete the promptWritten per-lane coupling
flag — the prompt write is idempotent, so writing it once per lane instead
of gating on "did any lane write it yet" removes a latent bug where a
deps.plan override that ever varies promptPath per lane would silently skip
writing for a later lane.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: gsd-core/workflows/code-review.md — net line count
drops (the trait scrape moved into dispatch-step), but the file still grew
this session across multiple commits; acknowledging per the growth-tracking
convention.

* fix(#4209): remove per-run token waste from the shipped prompts

Runtime prompt content, not session tokens: two real, per-invocation token
costs in the code that ships.

1. agents/gsd-code-reviewer.md's critical_rules restated nearly all of
   load_context step 5's ~180-word untrusted-evidence contract in ~90 more
   words, breaking this section's own established terse one-liner style
   (every other rule here is 1-2 sentences). This prompt loads fresh on
   every /gsd:code-review invocation. Shrunk to a one-line cross-reference,
   matching how write_review's own reference to step 5 already does it.

2. buildSourceReviewPrompt repeated the base SHA on every single file line
   even though it is identical for every file and already stated once at
   the top of the prompt — O(files) wasted tokens on every dispatched lane
   for a 50-file review, for zero information gain. File lines are now bare
   paths.

* fix(#4209): resolve reviewer-lane trait in-process, fix CI failures found in review round 3

Opus critical-code-reviewer found a real Blocking defect in the --cap-id/
--point self-invocation added last commit: `dispatch-step` spawned
`loop render-hooks <point> --raw` as a subprocess and bare-JSON.parse'd its
stdout, but `io.cjs`'s output() redirects any payload over 50000 chars to
`@file:<path>` instead of inline JSON -- the same overflow protocol this
feature already unwraps for its OWN dispatch result 60 lines later in
code-review.md. A large-enough activeHooks envelope (more installed
capabilities/fragments) would throw, get silently swallowed by the bare
catch, and misreport a real trait as trait_not_enabled with zero diagnostic.

Fixed by extracting the config/registry/capability-state resolution
`cmdLoopRenderHooks` already performs into an exported pure function,
resolveActiveHooksForPoint (both `cmdLoopRenderHooks` and dispatch-step now
share it), and calling it in-process from dispatch-step instead of spawning
a subprocess at all. This eliminates the @file: exposure entirely (the
dispatch-step path never touches the rendered-string envelope or its
JSON-stringify/50000-char threshold), removes one subprocess spawn per
code-review invocation, and gives a genuine diagnostic (stderr warning) on
resolution failure instead of silent fail-closed. Corrected three doc/
docstring references to the now-removed subprocess self-invocation.

Also fixes 2 real CI failures this round surfaced:
- lint-tests: the agy-F1 control-char regex fix's `eslint-disable-next-line
  no-control-regex` comment was unused under this project's ESLint config
  (verified locally: the rule never actually flags \x00-\x1f in this repo's
  config) -- a mistake from an earlier commit this session, never actually
  lint-checked before push. Removed the disable comment.
- security (prompt-injection-scan): the agy-F1 regression test's crafted
  fixture literally contains "Ignore all prior instructions." as test data
  proving validatePaths rejects it -- allowlisted the test file, same
  DEFECT.PROMPT-INJECTION-SCAN-COLLISION class as existing entries.

Also trimmed agents/gsd-code-reviewer.md's load_context step 5 (R2): one
bullet stated "untrusted, never a command" three different ways in one
paragraph, and a same-file duplicate of write_review's schema rule.
Consolidated to state each rule once.

Declined one suggestion from this round: shrinking code-review.md's
EXTERNAL_EVIDENCE_BLOCK to a bare evidence list. Two tests
(tests/code-review-pipeline-regression.test.cjs's CONS-01..03 block,
tests/code-review.test.cjs's CONS-02 test) deliberately lock the four-
prohibitions restatement and the untrusted-evidence prose into the
INJECTED block itself, not just the consolidator's system prompt --
adjacency of the warning to the untrusted payload it's warning about is a
recognized prompt-injection defense-in-depth pattern from this
workstream's original TDD plan, not accidental duplication.

* fix(#4209): correct stale per-file base-SHA prose in the external prompt

Leftover from removing the per-file base SHA repetition earlier this
session: the review-request sentence still said "relative to its base SHA"
(singular per-file framing) when there's now exactly one base SHA, stated
once above the file list. Reads "relative to the base SHA above" now.

* fix(#4209): make getLane/configGet/plan required deps, delete dead defaults

R3/R4 from the review round I'd deferred as low-priority test-churn: this
file's one production caller (gsd-tools.cjs's dispatch-step handler) always
supplies all three, so the fallbacks were dead in production -- but each was
actively WRONG if ever reached: the default configGet always returned
undefined, silently disabling resolveLaneBudget's overflow guard; the
default getLane looked up only first-party REVIEWER_LANES, diverging from
production's overlay-merged roster; the default plan skipped per-host effort
resolution entirely.

These defaults were introduced by this PR's own earlier work (this file did
not exist before #4209 -- first commit a760bfcda, 01-02), not inherited from
elsewhere, so there's no external caller depending on the lenient contract.

Turned out free to fix: making the three deps required and deleting
defaultGetLane/defaultPlan needed zero test changes -- every existing test
that actually reaches the per-lane loop already supplies getLane/plan
explicitly, and configGet's only real dependent (the budget-overflow tests)
already supplies it too. 788/788 tests pass unchanged, tsc/lint clean.

* fix(#4209): define depth semantics for the external reviewer lane

Verified this was a real bug, not a match to existing convention as I'd
claimed when declining the suggestion earlier this session: the internal
gsd-code-reviewer agent's own system prompt carries a full <depth_levels>
block defining what quick/standard/deep mean and do (agents/gsd-code-
reviewer.md:68-99). The external reviewer lane has no access to that
persona at all -- it only ever sees buildSourceReviewPrompt's bounded text,
which sent the bare depth label with zero definition to a third-party CLI
with no other source of truth for what "standard" means.

Added depthMeaning(), condensed from the internal reviewer's own
<depth_levels> definitions so the two stay consistent, and interpolated it
into the review-request sentence. 150/150 tests pass, tsc/lint clean.

* fix(#4209): merge dispatch_reviewer_lanes' split fences into one shell invocation

CR-01 (Opus critical-code-reviewer, confirmed by direct execution): the
roster-matching fence set EXPLICIT_JOINED/EXPLICIT_REVIEWER_SLUGS, and a
SEPARATE later fence read them via ${#EXPLICIT_REVIEWER_SLUGS[@]} to decide
whether to dispatch at all. This file's own documented rule (its
depth-resolution guard, stated explicitly a few hundred lines earlier) is
that a guard and the extraction it protects must run as one shell
control-flow decision, because markdown-fenced blocks do not share shell
state -- this step violated its own file's rule for the entire feature's
gating condition.

Merged the roster-resolution fence and the dispatch-decision fence into one
continuous bash block, removing the intervening prose that split them.
Fixed the stderr-based failure detection in the same edit (RQ-01: checking
whether stderr is non-empty misfires on any benign Node warning; now checks
the actual exit status of the roster-resolution command).

Verified by extracting the merged fence and executing it standalone, driving
both branches: --codex resolves EXPLICIT_JOINED=codex, SLUGS_COUNT=1, and a
real dispatch-step call succeeds; no flags resolves EXPLICIT_JOINED empty,
SLUGS_COUNT=0, dispatch-step never invoked (COMP-01). 141/141 workflow tests
pass, tsc/lint clean.

* fix(#4209): depthMeaning accuracy, injection defense on all embedded fields, hoisted prompt write

Batch of Required/Suggestion fixes from the Opus critical-code-reviewer +
writing-for-agents pass:

- CR-02/CR-03: depthMeaning() dropped real categories from quick (empty catch
  blocks, commented-out code) and deep (error propagation, state mutation
  consistency, circular dependencies) relative to the real <depth_levels>
  block, and had zero test coverage. Restored full accuracy and added tests
  that read the real agents/gsd-code-reviewer.md file directly, so drift
  between the two can't recur silently. Unrecognised depth now normalizes to
  standard's definition, matching that agent's own documented rule, instead
  of rendering an undefined bare label.

- RQ-04: depth/baseSha/repoRoot/runDir land in the same markdown prompt
  `paths` does, but weren't checked for control characters like paths were
  (agy-F1's original finding). Hoisted CONTROL_CHAR to module scope and
  applied it to all four fields at the same provenance-check boundary.
  runDir previously had zero validation at all.

- S1: deleted the dead `identity` parameter on `invoke` -- the one production
  caller already ignores it, no test read it by name.

- S2: hoisted the shared prompt write above the per-lane loop -- promptPath
  is derived from runDir alone (constant across lanes by construction), so
  writing it once is both correct and cheaper than the per-lane write R1
  introduced earlier this session. Discovered and fixed a real regression
  from the naive version of this hoist: an unguarded throw would have
  escaped dispatchReviewerLanes as an uncaught exception instead of a clean
  per-lane failure. Added a new PROMPT_WRITE_FAILED whole-dispatch reason,
  matching the existing validatePaths/MISSING_PROVENANCE halt pattern, with
  a dedicated regression test.

- S3: moved `planned = true` past the budget-overflow gate, so `dispatched`
  only reports true once a lane has cleared BOTH plan and budget checks.

- S5: relayed gsd-code-reviewer.md's own "performance issues are out of
  scope unless also correctness issues" policy into the external-lane
  prompt, which previously had no such guidance and could return findings
  the internal reviewer's own contract excludes.

- RQ-05 (partial): shrunk this file's own header docstring's restatement of
  the trait-reuse architecture to a pointer at
  gsd-core/references/loop-hook-dispatch.md, the canonical home.

234/234 tests pass across the full reviewer-lane test suite, tsc/lint clean.

* fix(#4209): dedupe roster-merge logic, consolidate trait architecture prose, add step completion criterion

RQ-02: added a `review-lane explicit-from-argv` subcommand that reuses the
SAME merged-roster logic (`laneBySlug`) `dispatch-step`/`plan`/`invoke`
already share. code-review.md's ~18-line inline `node -e` reimplementing
`loadRegistry`+`mergeReviewerLanes` (a rename-only copy of the block in
gsd-tools.cjs) is now a single call to this subcommand -- the exact
violation code-review-flags.cjs's own header warns against ("this is the
canonical flag-parsing surface -- do not replicate inline bash parsing").

RQ-03: an empty --cap-id XOR --point now warns distinctly from the
legitimate no-context opt-out (both absent) -- a caller that named a
capability without its point was silently indistinguishable from a correct
opt-out. Also hardened the CODE_REVIEW_POINT config-get fallback: it only
ever fires when the config-get COMMAND ITSELF fails (config-get already
resolves the manifest's own schema default in the normal case), but that
failure was previously silent.

RQ-05/W-01/W-12/W-13: the "supportsReviewerLanes is a reusable trait
resolved inside dispatch-step" explanation was restated in full in 5
places across this session's own review cycles. Consolidated to ONE
canonical statement in gsd-core/references/loop-hook-dispatch.md; the other
4 (this file's own header, gsd-tools.cjs's comment, docs/ARCHITECTURE.md,
code-review.md's step-opening comment) now point at it instead.

W-05/W-06: loop-hook-dispatch.md described "false or non-boolean" as two
inert cases when capability-validator.cjs already rejects non-boolean at
load -- restated as the two cases that actually reach this code. Removed a
"do not hand-roll trait resolution" prohibition whose target no longer
exists once the positive description precedes it.

W-04: deleted a no-op sentence in agents/gsd-code-reviewer.md ("missing
block means proceed as normal") -- an absent optional block already means
proceed as normal without being told.

W-08/W-09: replaced longhand "zero selection/plan/invoke calls" and the
made-up compound "byte-for-behavior [un]changed" with the token this
session's own docs already coined for this concept (inert) and the word
that means what byte-for-behavior was reaching for (unchanged).

W-10: dispatch_reviewer_lanes had no completion criterion -- added one
sentence naming the checkable end state (EXTERNAL_EVIDENCE_BLOCK is set,
either populated or empty). This exact sentence would have caught the
cross-fence bug fixed two commits ago at authoring time.

Declined from this round, with reasoning: W-02/W-03 (trim the
untrusted-evidence restatement in EXTERNAL_EVIDENCE_BLOCK/critical_rules) --
two tests deliberately lock this as intentional adjacency-based
prompt-injection defense-in-depth, not accidental duplication (see this
branch's own earlier commit). S4 (wrap LANE_RUN_DIR in a creation-site
`trap ... EXIT`) -- would fire at the end of the CREATING fence, before
spawn_reviewer's agent ever reads the evidence files, given this file's own
documented fenced-block execution model; the existing named cross-reference
between creation and cleanup already satisfies the co-location concern
without introducing that regression.

853/853 tests pass across the full reviewer-lane test suite, tsc/lint clean.

* fix(#4209): merge CODE_REVIEW_POINT into dispatch_reviewer_lanes' one fence, stop test from spawning real codex

Round-5 review (agy) found the same cross-fence-split bug CR-01 already fixed
for EXPLICIT_JOINED/EXPLICIT_REVIEWER_SLUGS: CODE_REVIEW_POINT's config-get
fallback lived in an earlier, separate fence from the fence that consumes it
via --point, split only by prose (not a guard, per this step's own documented
rule). Merged into the single continuous fence and added a structural test
asserting exactly one bash fence in the step.

The new end-to-end regression test for this used --codex, which drives the
fence's real `review-lane dispatch-step` call and, with the codex binary
present on PATH, spawns the real external CLI — which then blocks on
interactive auth with no stdin (BL-01). Stubbed gsd_run for
`review-lane dispatch-step` only (captures argv instead of executing),
keeping the real config-get/explicit-from-argv calls the test is actually
about.

* fix(#4209): split control-char vs missing provenance reason, realpath-check path escapes, stale comment

Round-5 review (Opus) warning-tier findings:

- WR-04: MISSING_PROVENANCE covered both "field absent" and "field present but
  a control-character injection attempt" — a caller distinguishing a config
  problem from a security event couldn't tell them apart. Split into
  MISSING_PROVENANCE (absent) and INVALID_PROVENANCE (present but invalid).
- WR-05: validatePaths' containment check was lexical only (path.resolve),
  so a symlink whose own path sits inside repoRoot could still point outside
  it. Added an fs.realpathSync check (ENOENT-tolerant — a git-diff path can
  legitimately name a file already deleted in a stale worktree), realpathing
  repoRoot itself too so a symlinked repoRoot (e.g. /tmp on macOS) doesn't
  false-positive-reject its own real children.
- WR-08: a comment in the per-lane loop still said a throwing writePromptFile()
  was caught there — stale since the prompt write was hoisted above the loop
  in an earlier round.

WR-03 (validate depth against the quick/standard/deep enum) was considered
and declined: this dispatcher is deliberately capability-neutral (see the
existing "synthetic step context" test, which passes a non-code-review depth
label on purpose to prove no code-review-specific special-casing exists).
WR-01 (double registry load), WR-02 (trim-vs-hard-fail budget semantics), and
WR-07 (reason omitted on the aggregate return) were verified against source
and are not bugs — see review notes.

* docs(#4209): document LANE_RUN_DIR's early-exit trade-off as accepted, not a gap

Round-5 review (Opus, BL-03) flagged that an early exit between
dispatch_reviewer_lanes and commit_review leaks the run-scoped temp dir. A
trap-based cleanup was considered and rejected: if a step genuinely runs as
a separate process, a trap set at creation time would fire at the end of
that SAME fence, deleting the directory before spawn_reviewer/commit_review
ever read it — worse than the leak it would fix.

review.md's own gather_context/cleanup pair for the identical resource class
(a run-scoped reviewer temp dir) already makes and documents this exact
trade-off: cleanup runs only on a documented success path, and a leftover
$TMPDIR entry is explicitly called cheaper than destroyed evidence. Recording
that precedent here so this isn't re-raised as a live gap in a future review.

* fix(#4209): register the WR-05 symlink-escape test's synthetic docs/ path

reviewer-step-dispatch.test.cjs's "capability-neutral reuse" fixture passes
paths: ['docs/spec.md'] as a synthetic, never-read path proving the
dispatcher has no code-review-specific special-casing. lint-docs-guard-
registration correctly flagged this as an unregistered docs/ path reference —
add the docs-guard-exempt marker and its pinned baseline entry, the same
pattern every other synthetic docs/ literal in this test suite already uses.

* fix(#4209): backfill changeset pr: field with the real upstream PR number

changeset-lint's fail_pr_field_drift caught the fragment still pointing at
the fork PR (17) instead of the upstream one (open-gsd/gsd-core#4323) this
branch is now also open against.

* docs(#4209): amend ADR-2782 for the supportsReviewerLanes step-trait seam

trek-e's review (2026-09-07, gsd-core#4323) found a real ADR gap: every
decision in ADR-2782 (D1-D9) and every prior dated amendment governs the
`role: "reviewer"` capability body and its one consumer, /gsd:review. This
PR's actual new seam - a `supportsReviewerLanes: true` trait on an ordinary
feature capability's `steps[]` entry, projected through loop-resolver.cts
and resolved in-process via resolveActiveHooksForPoint - is a different
capability axis (steps/gates/contributions) that the ADR's own scope note
explicitly places out of reach. Per docs/contributor-standards.md's
"Amending an accepted ADR", an in-place dated section is the established,
lighter-weight path for an addition that stays within the ADR's existing
decisions - used twice already in this same file - so this appends a third
dated entry documenting the new seam, its consumer, and why it reuses the
existing D1-D9-governed plan/invoke machinery rather than adding a second
one. No decision is reversed; no new Amends/Amended-by pair is needed since
the steps/gates/contributions axis already carries reciprocal links to
ADR-857 and ADR-894.

* fix(#4209): close two test-quality gaps trek-e's review found

Minor 1: validatePaths (a path-shape parser guarding the prompt-
injection/path-traversal trust boundary) had only example-based coverage,
violating ADR-456's rule that parsers/budget limits carry at least one
fast-check property test. Adds three: safe-segment paths are never
rejected, a single leading "../" always escapes the one-segment repoRoot,
and a control character anywhere is always rejected - one property per
rejection reason validatePaths owns.

Minor 2: the budget-overflow check (`estimatedTokens > budget`) was only
ever exercised far below budget or at budget:0 (unbounded), never at the
exact threshold crossing where a `>` vs `>=` off-by-one would hide. Adds
three exact-boundary tests using the real estimateTokens/
buildSourceReviewPrompt the module calls internally, so the resolved
token count is exact rather than approximated: budget == estimate (must
pass), budget == estimate - 1 (must fail), budget == estimate + 1 (must
pass).

Also extracts okPlan()'s fixture timeoutMs into a named constant -
local/no-adhoc-timeout-literal (#4446) landed on next after this branch
was authored and flagged the pre-existing literal on rebase; it is fixture
data for a synthetic plan object dispatchReviewerLanes never waits on, a
distinct class from tests/helpers/timeouts.cjs's real subprocess norms.

* fix(#4209): update docs-guard-registration baseline for the new ADR citation

reviewer-step-dispatch.test.cjs's new fast-check property tests cite
docs/adr/456-test-rigor-architecture.md in a justifying comment (never a
real read). lint-docs-guard-registration fingerprints every docs/ path
string an exempted test file mentions and fails on drift so a human
re-confirms the exemption still holds - re-confirmed, and the baseline is
updated to match.

* fix(#4209): point changeset pr: field at the fork PR for CI validation

changeset-lint's fail_pr_field_drift check compares the fragment's pr:
field against the PR the CI run is actually attached to (GITHUB_EVENT_PATH),
not a fixed target. Rehearsing this branch on fork PR
davdittrich/gsd-core#17 needs pr: 17 to pass that check; the prior commit's
pr: 4323 (the real open-gsd upstream PR number) is correct for that PR but
fails here. Backfill to 4323 happens again, as the last commit, immediately
before the approved push to open-gsd#4323 - never leaving pr: 17 on the
branch that ships upstream.

* fix(#4209): reject promptChannel:none lanes from source-review dispatch

CodeRabbit found a real scope mismatch: coderabbit's lane declares
promptChannel: 'none' and reviews the working tree on its own terms,
fed nothing (review.md:367). Silently dispatching it through
dispatchReviewerLanes would ignore the bounded paths/depth/baseSha scope
buildSourceReviewPrompt promises and let the lane review whatever it
independently sees fit, violating this interpreter's own scoped,
metadata-only contract. Reject before plan()/invoke(), same as an
unresolved slug.

* fix(#4209): scope CONS-02 test to the evidence-block line, not the whole file

CodeRabbit found the whole-file match on workflowContent would still
pass if UNVERIFIED and re-open/reopen appeared in two unrelated parts
of this 1000+-line workflow, proving nothing about the actual evidence
block's contract. Line-filtered via splitLines (not a bare-\n regex
spanning readFileSync content) so this stays CRLF-portable and passes
local/no-unbounded-quantifier and local/no-crlf-fragile-split.

* fix(#4209): guard DISPATCH_JSON substitution and capture its stderr

CodeRabbit found the dispatch-step command substitution unguarded: a
non-zero exit could leave DISPATCH_JSON empty (or halt the step under
errexit with no warning), and the downstream reducer would only ever
report the generic unparseable_dispatch_output reason, discarding the
command's own diagnostic. Guarded like the existing CODE_REVIEW_POINT/
EXPLICIT_JOINED calls above it: capture stderr to a temp file, surface
it in a warning on failure, and fall back to a parseable dispatch_
command_failed JSON stub so the reducer's existing reason-reporting
path still fires.

* docs(#4209): fix byte-for-behavior wording and missing colon, regenerate

CodeRabbit found "byte-for-behavior" should read "byte-for-byte" (the
established repo term for output-identical unchanged behavior) and a
missing colon after the bold "Optional external reviewer lanes (#4209)"
lead-in in docs/features/code-review-pipeline.md. Fixed in the two
hand-authored sources (commands/gsd/code-review.md, docs/features/
code-review-pipeline.md) and regenerated the two derived projections
(skills/gsd-code-review/SKILL.md via gen-plugin-skills.cjs, docs/
FEATURES.md via gen-features.cjs) so they stay in sync.

* fix(#4209): drop the fabricated DISPATCH_JSON fallback stub (Windows CI)

The prior fix's fallback `DISPATCH_JSON='{"ok":false,...}'` embeds
double-quoted JSON keys inside a single-quoted shell literal. That
extra quote density, inside an already quote-heavy ~8KB driver string,
passed bash -n and the full local suite on Linux but broke Windows
Git-Bash: `dispatch_reviewer_lanes computes CODE_REVIEW_POINT ... end
to end (#4209 round 5)` failed on two Windows CI shards with `bash -c:
unexpected EOF while looking for matching '''` — a Windows argv-to-
command-line re-quoting edge case, reproducible on rerun, not a flake.
Root-caused via gh api job logs plus a byte-identical local
reconstruction of the test's own driver script.

Fix: drop the fabricated stub. The downstream node -e reducer already
falls back to reason `unparseable_dispatch_output` on any JSON.parse
failure, so an empty/partial DISPATCH_JSON on command failure is still
handled correctly, with zero new quoting risk.

* revert(#4209): drop the DISPATCH_JSON stderr-guard nitpick (Windows CI)

Two materially different mechanisms for the same CodeRabbit Nitpick
("Trivial | Quick win") both broke Windows Git-Bash reproducibly:
a single-quoted JSON-literal fallback ("bash -c: unexpected EOF ...
matching '''") and, after removing that, a plain `head -1 "$VAR"`
inside a nested command substitution ("unexpected EOF ... matching
'"'"). Both passed bash -n and the full local suite on Linux every
time; both failed the SAME test deterministically on Windows CI. Two
attempts at the same class of fix (nested-quote construction near
this exact step) is the retry limit - reverting to the original,
already-shipped, Windows-verified unguarded form rather than
continuing to guess at a third quoting mechanism for a Trivial-
severity nitpick. Logged as bug-221/bug-222 in .wolf/buglog.json for
anyone attempting this again: the fix belongs outside this specific
markdown-fence-driver test harness (e.g., a real .sh helper script)
if it's worth doing at all.

* fix(#4209): backfill changeset pr: field to the real upstream PR before push

Fork validation (davdittrich/gsd-core#17) needed pr: 17 to satisfy
changeset-lint's PR-number check while rehearsing there; this is the
last commit before the approved push to the real upstream PR
(open-gsd/gsd-core#4323), so the field points at that PR number again.

---------

Co-authored-by: Test <test@test.com>
Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-09-07 22:52:33 -04:00
Tom Boucher
a0f8f956c4 enhance(#4139): Phase 3 — partition rules + the five checks (#4497)
* enhance(#4139): Phase 3 — partition rules + the five checks

ADR-4139 Decision 5, epic #4139 Phase 3. Issue #4403's own "Proposed behavior"
section lists four checks; the ADR's Decision 5 and its own phase table ("partition
rules + the five checks") list five — the same four plus "boundary moves are
declared, ongoing". Same issue-vs-ADR drift Phase 2 hit on the detail.md vs
detail/*.md layout: the ADR is the locked, reviewed document, so it wins. This PR
implements all five.

docs/PARTITION-RULES.md (new) is the partition-rules document: the partition rule
itself, the protected-content list and <!-- gsd:protected --> sentinel syntax
(relocated unchanged from gsd-core/references/compact-content-protected-content.md,
now deleted — it was never referenced by any runtime workflow Read, only by the
predecessor test as documentation, so nothing at runtime regresses, and removing it
from gsd-core/references/ also drops it from all 19 installed-project shipped-content
trees for a file nothing ever read), and the five checks explained for a human
reader. Referenced from a new CONTRIBUTING.md subsection under "Editing shipped
content".

tests/helpers/compact-content-split.cjs (new) is the shared mechanics: split
discovery (any gsd-core/workflows/<name>/detail/*.md paired with <name>.md — no
registry file, a pair is registered by existing on disk), line normalization
(carries forward Phase 2's bare-label-line isTrivial fix and the canonical
gsd_run-launcher-preamble exclusion), sentinel extraction, and a
Boundary-Move-Declared commit-trailer reader that is a direct structural port of
tests/helpers/emitted-runtime.cjs's Emitted-Drift-Ack-Hash/-Growth trailer reader
(ADR-3942) — same merge-base range, same fail-closed throw on an uncomputable range,
same dedupe/conflict rules.

tests/compact-content-partition-guard.test.cjs (new) is the actual guard, superseding
tests/plan-phase-compact-split.test.cjs (deleted — its per-pair checks are now the
general guard's job for plan-phase specifically). Checks 2 (disjointness) and 3
(registration + size cap) run unconditionally against every registered split. Checks
1 (completeness, fires once per split on the PR that introduces a new detail/ path),
4 (protected content — no trailer can ever excuse this one, unlike check 5) and 5
(boundary moves declared) are PR-diff-scoped against the resolved base ref and skip
cleanly when there's nothing to compare (a fresh clone, no PR in flight) — a
deliberate asymmetry from check 5's trailer reader, which must throw rather than
silently pass when ITS range is uncomputable, since that function is answering "did
this PR declare its moves" rather than "is there even a diff to look at". Each of the
five checks carries a RED (deliberately broken fixture) / GREEN (fixed) test pair,
built against synthetic temp files or real throwaway git repos, per this repo's rule
that a guard nobody has seen go red is not yet a guard. Building the real fixtures
caught and fixed one real bug before it shipped: check 4's line-presence test was
using the trivial-line-filtered normalizer, so a byte-identical spine falsely
reported its own protected code-fence line as "deleted" — fixed with a
non-filtering membership check.

Extending docs/INVENTORY.md's "Workflow Sub-Files" table for `detail` surfaced a
pre-existing, unrelated gap in the SAME area: gsd-core/workflows/<name>/templates/*.md
is a fourth workflow sub-file kind that already existed on disk and was already known
to lint-response-language-coverage.cjs's FRAGMENT_DIRS, but was invisible to
gen-inventory-manifest.cjs and undocumented in that table. Fixed alongside it, same
pattern, same PR, rather than deferred.

Also, mechanically required by the new fourth sub-file kind:
- scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs: `detail` added to FRAGMENT_DIRS
  alongside modes/steps/templates — a detail/<part>.md inherits its parent's
  response_language coverage through the same per-file proof, not a parallel one.
- tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs: explicit regression test locking that
  detail/ files are governed solely by the hard, non-waivable NEW_FILE_CAP
  (tests/helpers/emitted-diff.cjs) and never by the XL/LARGE/DEFAULT spine tiers —
  true by construction (measureWorkflows/listWorkflowStems don't recurse), made
  explicit per the issue's own Done-when item rather than left true-by-omission.
- scripts/gen-inventory-manifest.cjs: `workflow_detail` and `workflow_templates`
  NESTED_FAMILIES entries; docs/INVENTORY-MANIFEST.json regenerated
  (plan-phase/detail/elaboration.md, discuss-phase/templates/*.md now tracked);
  docs/INVENTORY.md's table updated to four kinds.

Verified: `npm run lint:ci` clean with the eslint cache cleared.

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

* fix(#4403): review findings + a real gsd-test failure in the new guard

Two orthogonal review passes (Standards + Spec, isolated sub-agents) plus a
separate security review ran against the prior commit. Fixed everything each
surfaced:

- Security (Low, path-traversal existence oracle): checkRegistration's
  dangling-reference check extracted detail-path-shaped substrings from spine
  PROSE via a regex that permits `.`/`/` freely, then joined them onto repoRoot
  and probed fs.existsSync with no containment check — a spine file containing
  `../../../etc/detail/passwd.md`-shaped text could make the guard test file
  existence outside the repo. Added a path.relative-based containment check
  before the fs.existsSync call; anything that resolves outside repoRoot is now
  reported as a dangling reference directly, never probed on disk.
- Standards (Boundary Coverage): the size-cap fixtures covered NEW_FILE_CAP and
  NEW_FILE_CAP-1 but not NEW_FILE_CAP+1 — added the third boundary-point case
  CLAUDE.md's TEST RULES require (limit-1/limit/limit+1).
- Standards (Property-Based Testing): extractProtectedBlocks (a sentinel
  parser) and the new parseBoundaryMoveTrailerValues (a declare/dedupe/conflict
  parser, bijective-shaped) had no fast-check property test. Added three: a
  render/parse bijectivity property for the trailer parser (mirroring the exact
  ADR-3942 sibling test's alphabet/idiom), a dedupe-is-idempotent property for
  the same parser, and a well-formed-sentinel-round-trips property for
  extractProtectedBlocks.

Then dispatched gsd-test on the resulting commit. It found a real bug the
reviews couldn't have caught (none of them can run inside gsd-test's sandbox):
checks 4/5's real-repo assertion failed against plan-phase's own split,
reporting DISK_PLANS/#3218-comment lines as "undeclared boundary moves" —
content Phase 2 (#4402) legitimately moved into detail/elaboration.md months
before this PR's Boundary-Move-Declared mechanism existed to require a
trailer for it. Root cause: `resolveBase()`'s own doc comment already documents
that no `origin/*` remote-tracking ref exists inside the gsd-test sandbox
container, and its fallback candidate (a bare `next` branch) can resolve to a
point in history that predates an already-merged, already-reviewed split —
making that split look "newly introduced" from the sandbox's vantage point.
Check 1 (completeness) already scopes itself correctly to only genuinely-new
detail paths (git diff status 'A'); checks 4 and 5 did not share that scoping,
so a stale base made them re-litigate a settled split retroactively. Fixed by
having checks 4/5 skip any split name check 1 already counted as newly-split —
their own premise ("did an EXISTING split shed/undeclare something") does not
apply to a split that is, from the resolved base's vantage point, brand new;
that is check 1's domain alone. Verified locally (25/25 tests pass via a
direct `node -e` require, since `node --test` is blocked in this repo) and via
re-reasoning through the exact real-repo scenario the gsd-test failure showed.

Also regenerated all 19 tests/fixtures/install-tree/*.json goldens — the
prior commit's deletion of gsd-core/references/compact-content-protected-content.md
was never reflected there, which is what golden-install-tree.test.cjs's other
19 failures in the same gsd-test run were.

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

* docs(#4403): backfill changeset pr number to 4497

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

* fix(#4403): isolate codex-config.test.cjs into its own chunk, root-causing the Windows CI failure

PR #4497's "full test (windows-latest, 24, shard 2/3)" job failed: run-tests
killed chunk 3/8 at the 600s per-chunk backstop, with codex-config.test.cjs
(weight 17.87, by far the chunk's dominant cost) packed alongside 39 other
files. Traced, not assumed:

- scripts/run-tests.cjs's own timeout-headroom comment for the OUTER
  per-shard timeout documents that "adding one test file reshuffled 115 of
  268 unit files between shards" — shard/chunk composition is architecturally
  known to be unstable to single-file additions, which is exactly what this
  PR's own new tests/compact-content-partition-guard.test.cjs is.
- A second comment, dated 2026-09-06 (one day before this PR, PR #4428's own
  CI), already documents the SAME chunk hitting the SAME 600s backstop with
  the SAME file (codex-config.test.cjs, "a genuinely MEASURED weight of
  17.87 — not a stale-table miss") dominating it — the fix then was cutting
  the Windows per-chunk budget from 60 to 40. That cut clearly was not
  enough: two documented incidents in two days, at two different budget
  settings, both centered on one file that alone consumes ~45% of even the
  reduced Windows budget.
- tests/test-timings.json's own header confirms its source data
  (test-events-linux-node22/24.jsonl) is Linux-only, and run-tests.cjs's own
  chunk-timeout diagnostic already prints "real Windows cost runs ~2.2x the
  recorded figure" — the packer's weight-balancing is working off data that
  is both stale (table last regenerated 2026-08-07) and known to
  underestimate the platform where the failure occurs.

Given codex-config.test.cjs is disproportionately heavy AND every companion
sharing its chunk is decided by a packing algorithm already documented as
reshuffling unpredictably on any new file, tuning the shared budget a third
time only moves the marginal line to wherever the next new file happens to
land — it does not remove the gamble. Isolating codex-config.test.cjs into
its own dedicated single-file chunk, unconditionally and on every platform,
removes it at the source: the file never enters the pool packChunks balances,
so no other file's packing changes, and no future single-file addition
(mine or anyone else's) can silently reintroduce this exact failure by
landing in its chunk.

Extracted as a small pure function, partitionIsolatedFiles (mirroring this
file's existing pattern of pulling packing/analysis logic out of main() for
in-process unit coverage — see computeSweepProtectSet, analyzeChunkEvents),
with 6 new tests in tests/run-tests-harness.test.cjs covering basename
matching across path separators, near-miss non-matches, the empty-list case,
and the isolated-set contents.

Root cause is now closed rather than papered over with a retry: this failure
is a property of one specific heavy file's chunk placement, not something
that recurs randomly. If codex-config.test.cjs itself is ever genuinely sped
up, this isolation can be revisited — this is a packing-side mitigation for
a known file's cost, not a claim the cost is irreducible.

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

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-07 16:44:53 -04:00
Tom Boucher
8b7a0b696b enhance(#4139): Phase 2 — one shared gate, one pilot split, one accuracy spot-check (#4471)
* enhance(#4402): split plan-phase into a spine + detail, add the shared compact-content gate

ADR-4139 Decisions 3-5, Phase 2 of the #4139 Compact Content epic. Pilot
split for plan-phase.md, the largest of the 58 eagerly-@-included workflow
files (98,290 bytes): the spine keeps every happy-path step, every
protected-content block (planner/checker prompt templates, quality gates,
the failing-direction few-shot example, the two ScheduleWakeup guardrail
paragraphs — each marked with a <!-- gsd:protected --> sentinel), and
condensed one-paragraph summaries of five rare/opt-in fallback paths
(planner and checker filesystem-hang recovery, phase-split recommendation,
source-audit gaps, the thinking-partner conditional, and plan bounce). The
full text of those five moves verbatim to gsd-core/workflows/plan-phase/detail.md
(9.9KB, well under the 32,768-byte NEW_FILE_CAP), read by the spine only
when workflow.compact_content is false (the default) — the exact same
resolution rule now stated once in the new shared
gsd-core/references/compact-content-gate.md, which every future split
references instead of restating.

Verified mechanically (tests/plan-phase-compact-split.test.cjs, scoped to
this one split — Phase 3/#4403 owns the generalized guard): the union of
spine + detail contains every non-trivial line the parent commit carried
(0 missing), no non-trivial line is duplicated between them (0 duplicated),
and every declared protected block is well-formed and non-empty. The spine
shrinks from 98,290 to 93,206 bytes (-5.2% of the eager-window cost this
epic exists to reduce); detail.md's 9,853 bytes are only ever paid by a
project that has NOT opted in.

Verified live, end to end, twice, against this actual repo (not a
synthetic fixture) — real gsd-planner and gsd-plan-checker subagent
spawns, real PLAN.md output:
- workflow.compact_content=false: planned a real disposable phase
  (a docs/how-to page for enabling the key itself); planner returned
  PLANNING COMPLETE, checker returned VERIFICATION PASSED, all fact-checks
  against real repo state confirmed.
- workflow.compact_content=true (detail.md never read): planned a second
  real disposable phase; planner returned PLANNING COMPLETE with
  frontmatter.validate and verify.plan-structure both clean, again fully
  grounded against real repo state. The five condensed fallback sections
  were independently re-read spine-only and confirmed sufficient to act on
  correctly without detail.md's elaboration.

Also drafts gsd-core/references/compact-content-protected-content.md — the
protected-content category list and <!-- gsd:protected --> sentinel syntax
ADR-4139 Decision 5 calls for, written to move to Phase 3 (#4403) unchanged
once it lands there.

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

* fix(#4402): move detail.md into the ADR-4139-mandated detail/ subdirectory

Two independent review sub-agents (Standards and Spec axes of /code-review)
caught the same structural defect: ADR-4139 Decision 6 mandates
gsd-core/workflows/<name>/detail/*.md ("one or more parts... individually
skippable"), and this PR had shipped a flat plan-phase/detail.md instead,
copying issue #4402's own (inconsistent) restatement rather than the
locked ADR text. Fixed by git-mv to plan-phase/detail/elaboration.md and
updating every cross-reference (the spine's step 0.5 gate pointer, the
shared compact-content-gate.md's own resolution-rule wording, and the
completeness test's path constants).

Also, from the same review pass:
- docs/CONFIGURATION.md and gsd-core/references/planning-config.md's
  workflow.compact_content rows said "nothing branches on it yet" — no
  longer true now that plan-phase.md's spine does. Updated both to name
  plan-phase as the pilot and note the rest of the corpus is still pending.
- Regenerated all 19 tests/fixtures/install-tree/*.json golden fixtures
  (npm run gen:install-tree) — the three new shipped files were missing
  from the installer emitted-tree goldens.
- Found via a cache-busted `eslint . --max-warnings 0` (this repo's
  eslint --cache has produced false-greens before): the split test's
  `git show` call had a bare `timeout: 10000` literal, tripping
  local/no-adhoc-timeout-literal. Extracted to the existing GIT_TIMEOUT_MS
  constant from tests/helpers/timeouts.cjs instead of a second guessed
  copy of the same class of timeout.

Verified NOT needed, by tracing the actual mechanism rather than asserting
(tests/helpers/emitted-provenance.cjs's gsd-core-verbatim rule attributes
every gsd-core/{workflows,references}/** path to itself as an identity
source): an Emitted-Drift-Ack-Hash/-Growth trailer. Every changed/added
path in this diff is hand-authored and present in the diff itself, so
diffEmitted's attribution loop resolves `via` to the path's own source
before ever reaching the ack-lookup branch — there is no unattributed
delta to acknowledge. The spine also shrank (98,290 to 93,206 bytes), so
the growth ratchet has nothing to ack either.

Re-verified after these changes: the completeness/disjointness self-check
(0 missing, 0 duplicated) still holds against the relocated detail file,
and a full `npm run lint:ci` passes clean with the eslint cache cleared.

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

* fix(#4402): restore literal content the pre-existing drift guards pin on

The first gsd-test run against this split (19 failures) surfaced real
regressions: several pre-existing structural guards pin the EXACT text
of the sections this split condensed, and paraphrasing broke them.

- tests/plan-phase-drift-guard.test.cjs expects the literal
  `DISK_PLANS=$(gsd_run query find-phase ...)` bash assignment inside
  plan-phase.md itself, not a prose description of the same check.
  Restored the exact line into both §9a and §11a's spine summaries.
- tests/thinking-partner.test.cjs expects plan-phase.md to literally
  offer "No, I'll decide" as the skip option. Restored that exact
  phrase into the condensed thinking-partner paragraph.
- Both restores would have duplicated the same text into
  plan-phase/detail/elaboration.md (which still carries the full
  elaboration). Removed the now-redundant restatements from the
  detail file instead of leaving them duplicated — the spine already
  computes DISK_PLANS before the detail elaboration is ever read, so
  the detail file references it rather than recomputing it.
- Re-running scripts/sync-runtime-launcher.cjs after that edit found
  the canonical gsd_run preamble had also become an unintentional
  spine/detail duplicate (both files call gsd_run and each is
  required, by runtime-launcher-parity's own contract, to carry its
  own copy). That's sanctioned duplication under a DIFFERENT
  contract, not lost/copy-pasted content, so
  tests/plan-phase-compact-split.test.cjs now excludes it from the
  disjointness check the same way it already excludes trivial
  fences/headings.
- Applied the adversarial-review finding on tests/plan-phase-compact-split.test.cjs's
  own isTrivial(): a blanket `line.length <= 15` cutoff silently
  swallowed real content (e.g. the 14-char `<quality_gate>`
  sentinel). Replaced it with a specific bare-label-line pattern
  (`Options:`, `Display banner:` etc.) — verified 0 missing / 0
  duplicated against the actual split, an improvement over both the
  original cutoff and a naive full removal (which produces
  false-positive "duplicates" on generic recurring labels).
- gsd-core/references/planning-config.md's own workflow.compact_content
  row used `/gsd-plan-phase` (hyphen). That file is Claude-facing
  source text (gsd-core/references/), which tests/slash-command-namespace.test.cjs
  requires in colon form; docs/CONFIGURATION.md's use of the hyphen
  form is correct as-is since docs/ is human-facing and outside that
  test's scanned directories. Fixed to `/gsd:plan-phase`.
- tests/plan-phase-compact-split.test.cjs's own `git show` of the
  parent commit failed inside the gsd-test sandbox ("detected dubious
  ownership") because the checkout is mounted under a UID the
  invoking user doesn't own. Scoped `-c safe.directory=<repo-root>`
  to that one git invocation rather than touching global git config.
- docs/INVENTORY.md still had one outstanding "detail.md part" wording
  fix from the earlier adversarial-review pass, staged now.

Re-verified locally against the exact assertions in all four affected
test files (all pass) before dispatching a fresh gsd-test run — no
change here should have broken any of the other 18 gates; `npm run
lint` is clean with the eslint cache cleared.

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

* fix(#4402): restore the full marker enumeration to §9a's spine trigger line

The isolated Spec-axis review flagged that §9a's "Triggered when" line was
condensed to "Agent() returns but the return contains no recognized
marker" — dropping the literal `## PLANNING COMPLETE` / `## PHASE SPLIT
RECOMMENDED` / `## ⚠ Source Audit` / `## CHECKPOINT REACHED` /
`## PLANNING INCONCLUSIVE` enumeration, which is exactly the "machine-
parsed structural headings" category compact-content-protected-content.md
lists as protected. The load-bearing use of that same list (the
gsd_stall_watch call and the Handle Planner Return bullets a few lines
above) was never touched — only this one descriptive restatement was
genericized — but leaving any instance of a protected category
unsentineled is the silent erosion ADR-4139 Decision 4(c) warns
sufficiency isn't machine-checkable enough to catch on its own. Restored
the full enumeration into the spine.

That reintroduced an exact duplicate into plan-phase/detail/elaboration.md,
which still stated the same trigger sentence verbatim. Reworded the
detail file's version to reference the spine's trigger condition instead
of restating it, since the spine is now the single place that sentence
lives in full — mirroring the DISK_PLANS/"already computed above" pattern
from the previous commit.

Re-verified locally: completeness/disjointness (0 missing, 0 duplicated)
and all previously-fixed literal-content assertions still hold.

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

* docs(#4402): backfill changeset pr number to 4471

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

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-07 12:18:38 -04:00
Tom Boucher
476394689a fix(#4254): pin sequential executor to the orchestrator's validated root (#4476)
* test(#4254): sequential executor root pin — failing-first regression + matrix

The new suite executes the shipped supplied-root-pin guard against real git
fixtures (drifted primary-checkout cwd halts before the write and the FATAL
names both roots; matching cwd permits it; unexpanded/empty pins halt;
normalization forms; submodule and sibling boundaries; metacharacter quoting;
drive-letter form gate) and locks the dispatch contract across execute-phase.md,
its sequential-root-pin step fragment, and worktree-path-safety.md. The #2772
per-plan serialization assertion retargets to the fragment that now carries
those rules (ADR-857 Phase 6 ceiling), plus the host-step wiring.

* fix(#4254): pin sequential executor to the orchestrator's validated root

Sequential-mode dispatch told the executor to self-derive PROJECT_ROOT from its
own cwd; every existing guard is worktree-mode-only or self-referential, so an
executor spawned with a drifted cwd committed onto the wrong checkout silently.

- worktree-path-safety.md step 0p: mode-agnostic supplied-root pin guard,
  composed by the orchestrator at build time with the literal $ORCHESTRATOR_WT
  (git-vs-git comparison on both sides — representation-safe on Windows, the
  #4296 lesson), fail-closed on empty/unexpanded pins, registered-submodule
  allowance, warn-and-proceed only when the dispatch carries no pin block.
- execute-phase.md sequential branch: build-time embed of the bound
  <project_root_pin> via the new execute-phase/steps/sequential-root-pin.md
  fragment (ADR-857 Phase 6 frozen ceiling — the host step cannot grow; the
  wave serialization rules move with the fragment, verbatim in substance) plus
  the per-write/commit pin instruction in <sequential_execution>. Worktree-mode
  dispatch untouched (its self-derived toplevel IS correct there).
- INVENTORY rows (5 locales) + INVENTORY-MANIFEST + install-tree goldens
  regenerated for the new fragment; changeset added.

* chore(#4254): backfill changeset PR number

* fix(#4254): accept backslash-separated Windows drive pins

CI on windows-latest showed every permit-path test failing with
"Actual root: <none>": pins composed from Node's path.join arrive in the
backslash drive form (C:\Users\RUNNER~1\...), which the guard's absolute-form
gate rejected before the cwd-side root was ever computed — a legitimate
matching pin could never pass. The gate now accepts either separator
([A-Za-z]:[\\/]); git -C resolves both forms (and 8.3 short names) to the
same canonical toplevel, so the git-vs-git comparison is unaffected. Form-gate
tests cover the emitted (C:/…) and produced (C:\…) spellings plus short names.

* fix(#4254): portable drive-form gate for MSYS bash

The bracket class [\\/] that accepted backslash drive pins parses
inconsistently on MSYS bash (the Windows CI leg still rejected C:\ pins —
every permit-path test red with "Actual root: <none>"). Replace it with
standard pattern escaping outside brackets: [A-Za-z]:/*|[A-Za-z]:\\* —
the escape form is version- and build-portable. Verified across all forms:
both drive spellings accepted; bare "C:", relative, empty, and unexpanded
rejected.

* fix(#4254): runtime-generated backslash comparator + self-describing FATAL

The Windows CI legs failed every #4254 permit-path row with
'Actual root: <none>' across two prior pattern spellings ([\\/] and \\*).
Stage misattribution: <none> appears whenever the FATAL fires BEFORE the
cwd-side capture assigns ACTUAL_ROOT — the absolute-form gate was what fired.

Mechanism: the test harness spawns bash -c <script> through the Windows
command-line boundary; that round-trip applies one extra shell-quoting pass
with double-quote semantics — a backslash written twice in the script text
arrives halved, while a lone backslash survives (the pin displays intact;
row 9's pure-bash gate independently showed the halved pattern rejecting
C:\ while C:/ still passed its surviving arm). On windows-latest every pin
carries backslashes (os.tmpdir() is the 8.3 short form C:\Users\RUNNER~1\...),
so the gate ate every pin before the actual root was ever computed.

Fix, robust by construction:
- the drive-form gate generates its backslash comparator at RUNTIME
  (BS=$(printf '\134'); match [A-Za-z]:"$BS"*) — the shipped guard now
  contains no doubled backslash anywhere, enforced by a regression
  assertion on the extracted guard text;
- the FATAL self-describes: Guard stage (pin-unbound / form-gate /
  actual-capture / pinned-capture / root-mismatch) plus a Diagnostic line
  carrying git's own stderr for capture failures and both compared values
  for mismatches — future platform failures name their stage in the log;
- row 9's hand-rolled duplicate case gate (transit-fragile copy, #4296
  Minor 1 duplication smell) is replaced by driving the SHIPPED guard and
  asserting the stage; rows 2/4 pin the new stage machinery.

Validated on darwin across drift/match/relative/unbound/empty/bare-drive/
forward-and-backslash drive forms, each also re-run under a simulated
Windows transit (every doubled backslash halved) with identical outcomes.

* fix(#4254): close the empty-comparator fail-open seam in the drive-form gate

Self-review of the runtime-generated backslash comparator: if printf's
octal escape ever returned empty, the drive arm [A-Za-z]:"$BS"* would
widen to drive-RELATIVE pins (C:foo) — the construction's one theoretical
fail-open path. Fail closed with a self-describing diagnostic instead of
trusting the shell's printf.

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-07 10:54:30 -04:00
Tom Boucher
6adf3098ac fix(#4145): resolve gsd-pristine/ baselines by recorded hash, relocate orphans (#4364)
* test(#4145): regression rows for hash-matching prefix-less pristine baselines

RED skeleton: src/pristine-baseline.cts exports findPristineByHash as a
null-returning stub so the new rows fail behaviorally, not at require time.
Failing-first rows: verifier resolution (no_baseline must drop to 0 when an
exact-hash orphan exists), findPristineByHash unit row, and the two
saveLocalPatches relocation rows. Negative-space rows pin today's behavior:
missing baselines still report ok_no_baseline, mismatching orphans are never
adopted or deleted, canonical precedence and the #3657 drift posture are
untouched.

* fix(#4145): resolve gsd-pristine/ baselines by recorded hash, relocate orphans

Both pristine readers joined the manifest-keyed path strictly, so a snapshot
stored without the gsd-core/ prefix (an earlier release's writer) was reported
as ok_no_baseline by the verifier and pushed into regeneration by
saveLocalPatches — where incoming-release candidates can never satisfy the
recorded outgoing hash, leaving the correct baseline permanently unconsumed.

- src/pristine-baseline.cts (new, ADR-457): shared findPristineByHash —
  deterministic sorted scan of gsd-pristine/, exact sha-256 equality with the
  recorded pristine_hashes entry (the same authority the #3657 drift guard
  trusts), symlink-skipping, canonical path excluded via skipRel.
- verify-reapply-patches.cjs verifyFile(): on canonical miss with a recorded
  hash, adopt byte-identical content found anywhere under gsd-pristine/ before
  reporting OK_NO_BASELINE. Drift posture (#3657), canonical precedence, and
  the frozen REASON/report shapes are untouched; the verifier stays read-only.
- install.js saveLocalPatches(): preserve-check rescue — relocate a
  hash-matching orphan to the canonical path (copy, hash-verify, then remove
  the orphan) so the state self-heals on the next update instead of repeating
  forever. Honest accounting: new non-overlapping rescued counter.
- Workflow doc: one-sentence note on hash-based snapshot resolution.
- Derived ripples: INVENTORY-MANIFEST.json regen, eslint ignore + .gitignore
  entries for the compiled artifact, seedFixture mkdir fix in the new rows.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: reapply-patches.md — one-sentence note on hash-based pristine snapshot resolution (#4145)

* fix(#4145): review follow-up — orphan scan never consumes a canonical path

Adversarial review finding: with two modified files sharing byte-identical
outgoing content, recoverOrphanedPristine could adopt the OTHER file's
canonical pristine as its rescue source — relocating it (copy + delete at
its home path) and ping-ponging the single baseline between the two files
across updates. findPristineByHash's skip parameter now accepts a Set, and
saveLocalPatches passes the normalized manifest keys so every canonical
path is excluded; only genuine non-canonical orphans are eligible for
removal (no strict-join reader ever consults those). Adds the
canonical-theft regression row, a Set-skip unit assertion, and tightens the
workflow doc sentence the same pass flagged as overstated.

* fix(#4145): INVENTORY roster row + symlink-fixture correction

Two leftovers from the ab17b7a1e5 bench run, both root-caused:
- docs/INVENTORY.md roster row for cli_modules/pristine-baseline.cjs
  (#3762 gate: every manifest entry carries a row).
- The findPristineByHash symlink unit fixture placed its symlink target
  INSIDE the scanned root, so the walk legitimately matched the real target
  file. The implementation skips the symlink itself; the fixture now keeps
  the target outside the scanned tree so the assertion tests what it claims.

* changeset(#4145): fixed fragment for pristine baseline hash resolution

---------

Co-authored-by: gsd-agent <agent@gsd.local>
2026-09-06 02:04:18 -04:00
Cody Anderson
77e2472ca0 enhance(#4221): replace installer Read() deny rules with a managed secret-read guard hook (#4236)
* feat(#4221): gsd-secret-read-guard PreToolUse hook + registration

Add hooks/gsd-secret-read-guard.js, a blocking PreToolUse guard on
Read|Grep|Bash that denies reads of .env, .env.<suffix> and .secrets
(the .env.example/.sample/.template/.dist templates stay readable).
Read checks file_path; Grep checks an explicit path and judges the glob
per brace alternative; Bash runs a two-pass token scan (quotes, comments,
redirects with fd digits, separators, $( )/backtick/<( ) recursion,
heredoc bodies never scanned as commands, nested bash -c/eval rescans,
git <ref>:<path> shapes) with a closed non-reading exemption set for
existence checks. Fail-open crash policy; 1 MiB commands are denied as
command-too-large; more than 64 glob alternatives as glob-too-complex.

Why: Claude Code 2.1.259 makes every `cd DIR && grep …` compound prompt
for approval whenever any Read() deny rule exists, even in auto mode. A
hook denial is not a permission rule and never arms that check. The
installer-written deny rules are retired in the follow-up commit.

Registration: hooks.json (Read|Grep|Bash, timeout 5), build-hooks
HOOKS_TO_COPY, managed-hooks-registry, runtime-hooks-surface (blocking
guard with BLOCKING_GUARD_TIMEOUT_S; Kimi ReadFile|Grep|Shell),
shell-command-projection managed sets, installer-migration-report,
OpenCode/Kilo plugin (grep tool mapping, include -> glob, dispatch),
docs tables in five locales, ADR-766 always-on list, regen:derived
fixtures, and a new table-driven unit suite.

* test(#4221): pin the secret-read guard in existing hook gates

Register gsd-secret-read-guard.js in every existing hook gate: the
hooks-crash-policy table (deny row; 6 -> 7 deny cases), plugin-manifest
REQUIRED_HOOKS and its Read|Grep|Bash group, docs-hooks-table-parity
EXPECTED_SURFACE_HOOKS, install.test MANAGED_JS_HOOKS, install-minimal-
hooks JS_HOOKS/BLOCKING_GUARDS, portable-node-runner GUARD_HOOKS,
kilo-upgrades PLUGIN_GUARD_HOOKS, the Kimi normalization-parity and
typed-payload floors, the OpenCode adapter (grep mapping, include ->
glob, three dispatch tests) and a Kimi TOML matcher assertion.

* fix(#4221): retire installer Read() deny rules (legacy filter)

Rename GSD_CLAUDE_DENY_PERMISSIONS to GSD_CLAUDE_LEGACY_DENY_PERMISSIONS
and stop adding the three Read(.env) / Read(.env.*) / Read(.secrets)
strings. mergeClaudePermissions now only filters them out of an existing
permissions.deny: an absent deny key stays absent, a malformed one is
still repaired to [], and an array emptied by the filter is deleted so
no `"deny": []` residue is left. Uninstall filters the same legacy list
and, symmetric with the Antigravity branch, drops an emptied allow or
deny key and an emptied permissions object.

Unlike the #2278 allow-side migration there is no surviving current
deny list, so the constant is renamed rather than mirrored. Removal is
byte-exact: a hand-written identical rule is indistinguishable from the
installer's and is removed too (the manifest never recorded permission
strings). USER-GUIDE and CONTEXT.md updated.

* test(#4221): flip install-regressions deny-rule assertions to the retired shape

The fresh-merge, non-destructive merge, idempotency, end-to-end install,
reinstall and uninstall assertions now expect no Read(.env*) deny rules
and no permissions.deny key on a fresh install; the deny:null repair case
is kept. A new describe block covers the legacy filter: retired strings
removed with a user entry kept, partial sets, near-miss strings
untouched, idempotency, GSD-only deny array deleted, a pre-existing
empty deny preserved, and uninstall symmetry for allow/deny/permissions.

* chore(#4221): add changeset fragment for PR #4236

* fix(#4221): case-fold names; scan shell stdin and xargs pipes

Review round 1 (trek-e):

- Blocker: secret-name matching is now case-insensitive in the Read,
  Grep (path and glob) and Bash paths, so `.ENV` / `.Secrets` on a
  case-insensitive filesystem are recognized as the same secret file.
- Major: a shell interpreter's script is now scanned wherever it comes
  from. The tokenizer keeps heredoc bodies as per-segment tokens and
  records separator operators; pass 2 groups by segment id and resolves
  bash/sh/zsh/dash/ksh/su invocation mode: `-c` (including combined
  `-lc`) scans the script operand, a file operand is checked as a file
  (a `<( )` operand's echo/printf output is reconstructed), otherwise
  stdin is the script and heredocs, here-strings and a piped echo/printf
  source are scanned. `eval` joins all its operands; `source`/`.` handle
  process substitution. Data heredocs (`cat <<EOF`, the commit-message
  shape) stay unscanned.
- Major: `… | xargs <cmd>` checks the upstream segment's operands as
  file names when the sub-command reads (`echo .env | xargs cat`,
  `find . -name .env | xargs cat`); `-a`/`--arg-file` suppresses the
  inference; a shell sub-command's `-c` script is scanned.

Header, USER-GUIDE bullet and changeset updated; documented gaps now
include piped scripts from non-echo sources and `exec`/`timeout`
wrappers. 60 new suite cases pin the block and allow shapes.

---------

Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-09-05 04:00:08 -04:00
JusticeWay
0fca71eaae enhance(#2529): cover every workflow with response-language directives + CI lint (#2558)
* enhance(#2529): cover every workflow with response-language directives + CI lint

Every workflow now carries response-language coverage in one of three forms,
and a CI lint keeps it that way.

- 43 workflows load the new shared reference,
  `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, by eager `@`-import.
- Lazy-loaded modes/steps/templates, which cannot rely on an eager import,
  carry an exact inline directive; 35 such paths are pinned by exact path.
- Fragments dispatched by a covered parent inherit coverage, proven per file
  rather than granted per directory.

The 45 workflows whose directive covered only "questions, prompts, and
explanations" now name inter-tool narration, which is the defect #2529
reports: the running commentary between tool calls stayed English while the
answers around it were translated.

`scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs` enforces it and fails closed on
three independent discovery failures (unreadable catalog, empty catalog,
unfollowed symlink). It resolves which reference a workflow imports and applies
the same four-predicate test to that file, so a weakened shared reference
uncovers its importers instead of passing silently, reported once as a systemic
failure rather than 43 times. The walk follows symlinked subtrees with a
realpath cycle bound. `lint:ci` invokes it by name.

REQ-LANG-03 and REQ-LANG-04 state the contract in docs/FEATURES.md;
REQ-LANG-04 names the two forms that satisfy it ("narration", "between tool
calls") rather than enumerating class members an author cannot use verbatim,
and a test pins that text to what the matcher accepts.

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

* chore(#2529): register the coverage test in the docs-guard lane

`107eb8c1` (#3787) landed the docs-guard lane on `next` while this PR was
open: a test that reads a `docs/` path must be named in
`scripts/docs-guard-registry.cjs` or carry a `docs-guard-exempt` marker,
so the guards that read a doc run on the PR that changes it.

`tests/response-language-coverage.test.cjs` reads `docs/FEATURES.md` -- it
extracts every form REQ-LANG-04 offers an author and runs each through the
matcher that enforces it. Registration, not exemption, is the correct side
of that gate: a reword of the requirement with no code change is precisely
the diff this test exists to catch, and it is the diff the lane would
otherwise skip.

Registered narrowly (`['docs/FEATURES.md']`) rather than with the `'*'`
sentinel, so an unrelated docs change does not pull this test into the lane.

Verified: lint-docs-guard-registration 0 violations, tests/ci-docs-guard-registry.test.cjs
51/51, lint:ci exit 0.

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

* chore(#2529): consolidate this PR's emitted-growth acks into its own fragment

This PR ripples emitted bytes across 85 workflow paths. Until now each ripple
was acknowledged by appending to whichever live fragment owned that path,
because two ack sources may never name the same path.

`a84f7563` (#3078) swept all 45 fully-spent fragments off `next`. Forty-two of
the paths this PR grows were owned by swept fragments, so those keys are now
unowned and this PR's own fragment declares them directly -- one path, one
source, and no dependence on a fragment that no longer exists. Each adopted
entry keeps its measurement and records where it came from.

Two paths are handled differently, because the sweep did not free them:

- `review.md` is now owned by `3034-parallel-reviewer-lanes.json`, which
  landed on `next` after the sweep. Its entry is live, so the old route still
  applies: this PR's note is appended to that entry rather than declared a
  second time.
- `plan-review-convergence.md` keeps the arrangement made in round 24.

Result: 3 fragments in the directory, 85 keys in this PR's own,
0 cross-source duplicates. `lint-emitted-drift-ack` exit 0,
`tests/emitted-attribution.test.cjs` green.

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

* fix(#2529): move REQ-LANG-03/04 into the feature fragment that now generates them

`36375513` (#3845) made docs/FEATURES.md a generated projection of
docs/features/*.md, marked "do not edit by hand". This PR wrote REQ-LANG-03
and REQ-LANG-04 straight into the generated file, so the rebase left the
requirement present in the projection and absent from its source -- the next
regeneration would have deleted both, and `tests/features-index-gate.test.cjs`
was already red on the mismatch.

Both requirements now live in docs/features/response-language-config.md
alongside REQ-LANG-01 and -02. Regenerating produces a docs/FEATURES.md that is
byte-identical to the committed one, so the text this PR shipped is unchanged --
only its source of truth moved to where #3840 put it.

The docs-guard registration is widened to name the fragment as well as the
projection. The requirement's source is the fragment now, and an edit there
that skips regeneration would otherwise reach this guard through neither path.

Verified: features-index-gate 68/68, lint-docs-guard-registration 0 violations,
ci-docs-guard-registry + response-language-coverage 142/142.

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

* chore(#2529): hand the plan-phase ack back to its new live owner

`c933184b` (#3825) landed `3172-stated-failing-direction.json` on `next` after
fragment had adopted that path when the sweep left it unowned, so the merged
tree named it from two sources -- a hard failure in
`scripts/lint-emitted-drift-ack.cjs`.

The path has a live owner again, so the append route applies: this PR's note
joins that entry, carrying its own measurement, and the key is dropped from
this PR's fragment (84 keys left, the others untouched). The provenance
sentence written for the swept-fragment case is removed rather than reused --
this path was never orphaned, so that account of it would be false.

Same shape as `review.md` and `plan-review-convergence.md`: ownership is a
property of the merged tree, and a fragment landing upstream after a push can
reclaim a key no local check would have flagged.

Verified: lint-emitted-drift-ack exit 0, lint:ci exit 0.

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

* fix(#2529): state byte figures that are true against the tree

The reference claimed `execute-phase.md` has "2 bytes of headroom under the
ceiling named below". That was true when the sentence was written -- the file
sat at 93398 against the 93400 comfort assert -- and upstream has since shrunk
it to 91493 against a 93600 hard ceiling, so the figure now understates the
headroom by three orders of magnitude. The rationale the sentence supports does
not depend on the number, so the number is gone rather than refreshed: a
restated figure would go stale again on the next upstream edit, and nothing
parses it.

Audited every other numeric claim this PR ships the same way, mechanically
against the merge base: all 82 FILE-delta claims in the ack fragment match the
real per-file delta exactly, and the 1,629-byte reference and 63-byte import
line check out. One class was imprecise: the 41 notes for workflows whose
inline directive was rewritten in place quoted the conversion counterfactual as
"+1,692 bytes more loaded context", which is the reference form's whole weight,
not the increase over the inline directive those files already carry. Each now
names both quantities and the net (+1,605 / +1,609 / +1,584).

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

* fix(#2529): one rule for pinned vs inherited coverage, and the docs to pick it

Review measured that 14 of the 35 pinned fragments would pass by inheritance
anyway, and that the PR asserted both readings at once: inheritance is real
coverage (so those 14 pins are noise) or it is not (so 30 inheriting fragments
are green-but-uncovered). Only one can be true.

Inheritance is real: the predicate proves it per file -- the parent must
dispatch this exact path from a read/execute context AND be covered itself --
so the parent's directive is in the loaded context by the time the fragment is
read. The 14 pins are therefore removed along with the directive lines they
pinned, and those files inherit like the 30 structurally identical ones. The
rule is now stated where the set is declared, and enforced from the other side
by a test: no member of the pinned set may be one that would have inherited.
That is what decides the form for the next fragment.

- pinned set 35 -> 21; 14 workflow files revert to their base content
- `findViolations` no longer returns early on a pinned path: a file that becomes
  eagerly loaded and takes the shared reference is strictly better off, and the
  gate must not red that. The reference form is admitted because its own wording
  is validated in turn; an arbitrary reworded inline line still fails.
- the reference-directive cache is keyed by size and mtime, not by path alone,
  so a rewritten reference re-asked in one process no longer returns the stale
  verdict
- `carriesInlineDirective` names its negation blindness: four independent hits
  read vocabulary, not polarity
- the real-tree scan asserts each source produced files instead of `> 152`, a
  constant that read as the workflow count and would have passed a scan that
  lost one of its two directories
- the pinned-set size assertion goes the same way: the size follows from the
  rule, so the rule is what the suite asserts

Docs, for the gate that now governs every future workflow:
- `docs/contributing/response-language-coverage.md` -- why the narration class
  is the discriminator, the four coverage forms, the decision order that picks
  one, the pinned line, and what each failure message means
- a row in CONTRIBUTING.md's CI checks table, matching the docs-guard row
- `docs/CONFIGURATION.md` points at it from the `response_language` entry

Also: the changeset said 45 reworded workflows; it is 44 (42 @-reference + 21
pinned + 44 rewritten = 107 touched). That text ships to CHANGELOG.md.

`3707-parse-gap-reporting.json` landed on `next` reclaiming `audit-uat.md` and
`progress.md`; both handed back by the append route, leaving 82 keys here.

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

* fix(#2529): correct the reference-taker count, 43 -> 42

The ack notes said the import line is byte-identical "in each of the 43
workflows that take the reference" and that the alternative would be "43 inline
copies". The shared reference has 42 importers; the 43rd file in review's table
is `execute-phase.md`, which imports the OTHER reference. Corrected in all 41
notes that carry the sentence, across this PR's fragment and the two it appends
to.

Found by re-running the numeric audit from the previous round after the rebase,
which also re-verified all 84 FILE-delta claims against the new base -- all
exact.

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

* chore(#2529): migrate the emitted-drift ack from a fragment to commit trailers

ADR-3942 (#3954) landed while this PR was open: the acknowledgment is now a commit
trailer and tests/emitted-drift-acks/ no longer exists. The fragment is deleted and
each key it declared becomes one trailer, reasons unchanged.

The four keys this PR had handed to 3034-*, 3172-* and 3707-* under the one-source
rule come home here. That rule was the whole reason for the hand-backs, and the
trailer model has no shared namespace to collide in -- five of this PR's rounds were
spent on exactly those collisions.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: add-backlog.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: 42 inline copies would be 43 places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: add-phase.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: 42 inline copies would be 43 places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: add-tests.md — #2529 MAJOR 1 (round 10): the workflow's pre-existing inline response-language directive is rewritten IN PLACE so the sentence names inter-tool NARRATION explicitly — narration between tool calls, status updates, progress notes, findings — instead of only "questions, prompts, and explanations". That older wording is the defect #2529 reports (it leaves the running commentary between tool calls in English while the answers around it are translated), and `scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs` had been certifying it as coverage, so the gate legitimised the bug. +87 bytes, prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. FILE delta and LOADED-CONTEXT delta are both +87 here, and that identity is the point — the directive was deliberately NOT converted to an `@`-reference, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"), so the conversion would have bought a smaller measured file at a cost of 1,692 bytes of loaded context per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629-byte reference — against the 87 bytes this inline directive costs, a net +1,605. Stated plainly because the gates cannot state it: the repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so an `@`-reference conversion would have READ as a smaller change to every gate in the repo while costing 1,605 bytes more loaded context per invocation.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: add-todo.md — #2529 MAJOR 1 (round 10): the workflow's pre-existing inline response-language directive is rewritten IN PLACE so the sentence names inter-tool NARRATION explicitly — narration between tool calls, status updates, progress notes, findings — instead of only "questions, prompts, and explanations". That older wording is the defect #2529 reports (it leaves the running commentary between tool calls in English while the answers around it are translated), and `scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs` had been certifying it as coverage, so the gate legitimised the bug. +87 bytes, prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. FILE delta and LOADED-CONTEXT delta are both +87 here, and that identity is the point — the directive was deliberately NOT converted to an `@`-reference, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"), so the conversion would have bought a smaller measured file at a cost of 1,692 bytes of loaded context per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629-byte reference — against the 87 bytes this inline directive costs, a net +1,605. Stated plainly because the gates cannot state it: the repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so an `@`-reference conversion would have READ as a smaller change to every gate in the repo while costing 1,605 bytes more loaded context per invocation.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: ai-integration-phase.md — #2529 MAJOR 1 (round 10): the workflow's pre-existing inline response-language directive is rewritten IN PLACE so the sentence names inter-tool NARRATION explicitly — narration between tool calls, status updates, progress notes, findings — instead of only "questions, prompts, and explanations". That older wording is the defect #2529 reports (it leaves the running commentary between tool calls in English while the answers around it are translated), and `scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs` had been certifying it as coverage, so the gate legitimised the bug. +87 bytes, prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. FILE delta and LOADED-CONTEXT delta are both +87 here, and that identity is the point — the directive was deliberately NOT converted to an `@`-reference, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"), so the conversion would have bought a smaller measured file at a cost of 1,692 bytes of loaded context per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629-byte reference — against the 87 bytes this inline directive costs, a net +1,605. Stated plainly because the gates cannot state it: the repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so an `@`-reference conversion would have READ as a smaller change to every gate in the repo while costing 1,605 bytes more loaded context per invocation. Re-homed in round 16: the fragment that carried this sentence (`3423-required-reading.json`) was retired on `next` by ddf85287 (fix(#3357), #3513), and no fragment on `next` declares this path now. The ack therefore returns to this PR's own fragment, which is the only live source for it — the change to the path is this PR's.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: analyze-dependencies.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: 42 inline copies would be 43 places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: audit-fix.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: 42 inline copies would be 43 places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. Re-homed in round 19: this PR declared the path in its own fragment, and `3602-workflow-subagent-model-resolution.json` landed on `next` declaring it too. One path takes exactly one ack source, so the sentence moves here and the key leaves ours. Re-homed from `3602-workflow-subagent-model-resolution.json` in round 26: `a84f7563` (#3078) swept that fragment as all-spent, so this path is unowned and this PR's own fragment declares it directly.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: audit-milestone.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: 42 inline copies would be 43 places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. Re-homed from `2962-zsh-nomatch-for-glob-portability.json` in round 26: `a84f7563` (#3078) swept that fragment as all-spent, so this path is unowned and this PR's own fragment declares it directly.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: audit-uat.md — A live/archived split was added and then reverted on this branch (see `$comment`): the split's extra rule in `initialize`, the narrowed Unparsed-table filter, and the separate 'Unparsed UAT Files in Archived Milestones' informational section are all removed, so the file settles at origin/next 5582 -> 7124 bytes (+1542, final). #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: 42 inline copies would be 43 places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: autonomous.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: 42 inline copies would be 43 places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. Re-homed in round 16: `3210-autonomous-precondition-gate.json` landed on `next` in 8fc88f66 (fix(#3210), #3528) and declares this path today. One path takes exactly one ack source, so the sentence moves here and the key leaves this PR's fragment. Re-homed from `3210-autonomous-precondition-gate.json` in round 26: `a84f7563` (#3078) swept that fragment as all-spent, so this path is unowned and this PR's own fragment declares it directly.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: check-todos.md — #2529 MAJOR 1 (round 10): the workflow's pre-existing inline response-language directive is rewritten IN PLACE so the sentence names inter-tool NARRATION explicitly — narration between tool calls, status updates, progress notes, findings — instead of only "questions, prompts, and explanations". That older wording is the defect #2529 reports (it leaves the running commentary between tool calls in English while the answers around it are translated), and `scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs` had been certifying it as coverage, so the gate legitimised the bug. +87 bytes, prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. FILE delta and LOADED-CONTEXT delta are both +87 here, and that identity is the point — the directive was deliberately NOT converted to an `@`-reference, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"), so the conversion would have bought a smaller measured file at a cost of 1,692 bytes of loaded context per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629-byte reference — against the 87 bytes this inline directive costs, a net +1,605. Stated plainly because the gates cannot state it: the repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so an `@`-reference conversion would have READ as a smaller change to every gate in the repo while costing 1,605 bytes more loaded context per invocation.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: cleanup.md — #2529 MAJOR 1 (round 10): the workflow's pre-existing inline response-language directive is rewritten IN PLACE so the sentence names inter-tool NARRATION explicitly — narration between tool calls, status updates, progress notes, findings — instead of only "questions, prompts, and explanations". That older wording is the defect #2529 reports (it leaves the running commentary between tool calls in English while the answers around it are translated), and `scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs` had been certifying it as coverage, so the gate legitimised the bug. +87 bytes, prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. FILE delta and LOADED-CONTEXT delta are both +87 here, and that identity is the point — the directive was deliberately NOT converted to an `@`-reference, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"), so the conversion would have bought a smaller measured file at a cost of 1,692 bytes of loaded context per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629-byte reference — against the 87 bytes this inline directive costs, a net +1,605. Stated plainly because the gates cannot state it: the repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so an `@`-reference conversion would have READ as a smaller change to every gate in the repo while costing 1,605 bytes more loaded context per invocation. Re-homed in round 18: this PR declared the path in its own fragment, and `2142-quick-task-archival.json` landed on `next` declaring it too. One path takes exactly one ack source, so the sentence moves here and the key leaves ours. Re-homed from `2142-quick-task-archival.json` in round 26: `a84f7563` (#3078) swept that fragment as all-spent, so this path is unowned and this PR's own fragment declares it directly.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: code-review-fix.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: 42 inline copies would be 43 places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. Re-homed in round 13: `3190-code-review-fix-auto-rewrite-review.json` landed on `next` in 1d5d7795 (fix(#3190), #3434) and declares this path too. One path takes exactly one ack source, so the sentence moves here and the key leaves this PR's fragment. Re-homed from `3190-code-review-fix-auto-rewrite-review.json` in round 26: `a84f7563` (#3078) swept that fragment as all-spent, so this path is unowned and this PR's own fragment declares it directly.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: code-review.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: 42 inline copies would be 43 places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. Re-homed in round 19: the fragment that carried this sentence (`3503-diff-base-scope-anchor.json`) was retired on `next` by 2fca0e17 (enhance(#2554), #3695), and `2554-code-review-depth-overrides.json` declares this path today. One path takes exactly one ack source, so the sentence follows the path to its live owner. Re-homed from `2554-code-review-depth-overrides.json` in round 26: `a84f7563` (#3078) swept that fragment as all-spent, so this path is unowned and this PR's own fragment declares it directly.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: complete-milestone.md — #2529 MAJOR 1 (round 10): the workflow's pre-existing inline response-language directive is rewritten IN PLACE so the sentence names inter-tool NARRATION explicitly — narration between tool calls, status updates, progress notes, findings — instead of only "questions, prompts, and explanations". That older wording is the defect #2529 reports (it leaves the running commentary between tool calls in English while the answers around it are translated), and `scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs` had been certifying it as coverage, so the gate legitimised the bug. +87 bytes, prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. FILE delta and LOADED-CONTEXT delta are both +87 here, and that identity is the point — the directive was deliberately NOT converted to an `@`-reference, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"), so the conversion would have bought a smaller measured file at a cost of 1,692 bytes of loaded context per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629-byte reference — against the 87 bytes this inline directive costs, a net +1,605. Stated plainly because the gates cannot state it: the repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so an `@`-reference conversion would have READ as a smaller change to every gate in the repo while costing 1,605 bytes more loaded context per invocation. Re-homed in round 15: the fragment carrying it (`3458-audit-open-acknowledge-wiring.json`) was retired on `next` and the path is declared by `3409-unreachable-guard-arms.json` today. One path takes exactly one ack source, so the sentence follows the path to its live owner. Re-homed from `3409-unreachable-guard-arms.json` in round 26: `a84f7563` (#3078) swept that fragment as all-spent, so this path is unowned and this PR's own fragment declares it directly.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: debug.md — #2529 MAJOR 1 (round 10): the workflow's pre-existing inline response-language directive is rewritten IN PLACE so the sentence names inter-tool NARRATION explicitly — narration between tool calls, status updates, progress notes, findings — instead of only "questions, prompts, and explanations". That older wording is the defect #2529 reports (it leaves the running commentary between tool calls in English while the answers around it are translated), and `scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs` had been certifying it as coverage, so the gate legitimised the bug. +87 bytes, prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. FILE delta and LOADED-CONTEXT delta are both +87 here, and that identity is the point — the directive was deliberately NOT converted to an `@`-reference, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"), so the conversion would have bought a smaller measured file at a cost of 1,692 bytes of loaded context per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629-byte reference — against the 87 bytes this inline directive costs, a net +1,605. Stated plainly because the gates cannot state it: the repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so an `@`-reference conversion would have READ as a smaller change to every gate in the repo while costing 1,605 bytes more loaded context per invocation. Re-homed in round 14: the fragment that carried this sentence (`3149-init-debug-entry-point.json`) was retired on `next` by 26f8015c (fix(#3448), #3476), and `3448-debug-autoresume-next-action.json` declares the path today. One path takes exactly one ack source, so the sentence follows the path to its live owner rather than being dropped or re-armed under a retired number. Re-homed from `3448-debug-autoresume-next-action.json` in round 26: `a84f7563` (#3078) swept that fragment as all-spent, so this path is unowned and this PR's own fragment declares it directly.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: diagnose-issues.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: an inline copy in every workflow would be that many places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. Re-homed in round 19: this PR declared the path in its own fragment, and `3602-workflow-subagent-model-resolution.json` landed on `next` declaring it too. One path takes exactly one ack source, so the sentence moves here and the key leaves ours. Re-homed from `3602-workflow-subagent-model-resolution.json` in round 26: `a84f7563` (#3078) swept that fragment as all-spent, so this path is unowned and this PR's own fragment declares it directly.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: discuss-phase.md — #2529 round 36: this workflow's inline directive was rewritten in round 10 to name inter-tool narration, but in the compressed form, and that rewrite came to −1 byte against `next` — so it declared no growth and this key was absent from this PR's ack set until now. Round 36 replaces the compressed clause with the same enumeration the other rewordings carry — narration between tool calls, status updates, progress notes, findings, questions, prompts, and explanations — because `discuss-phase.md` started from the identical upstream sentence as `verify-work.md` and `new-milestone.md` and those two took the full list, so the shorthand was an inconsistency rather than a decision. +87 bytes against `next`, prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. The directive stays INLINE rather than becoming an `@`-reference, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"), so the conversion would have cost 1,692 bytes of loaded context against the 87 this sentence costs. `commands/gsd/discuss-phase.md` dispatches this workflow lazily (`Read and execute ...`) rather than `@`-importing it, so the 87 bytes land in the installed file and are read once the workflow is dispatched, not on every command invocation.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: discuss-phase-assumptions.md — #2529 MAJOR 1 (round 10): the workflow's pre-existing inline response-language directive is rewritten IN PLACE so the sentence names inter-tool NARRATION explicitly — narration between tool calls, status updates, progress notes, findings — instead of only "questions, prompts, and explanations". That older wording is the defect #2529 reports (it leaves the running commentary between tool calls in English while the answers around it are translated), and `scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs` had been certifying it as coverage, so the gate legitimised the bug. +87 bytes, prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. FILE delta and LOADED-CONTEXT delta are both +87 here, and that identity is the point — the directive was deliberately NOT converted to an `@`-reference, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"), so the conversion would have bought a smaller measured file at a cost of 1,692 bytes of loaded context per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629-byte reference — against the 87 bytes this inline directive costs, a net +1,605. Stated plainly because the gates cannot state it: the repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so an `@`-reference conversion would have READ as a smaller change to every gate in the repo while costing 1,605 bytes more loaded context per invocation. Re-homed in round 15: `3409-unreachable-guard-arms.json` landed on `next` in #3558 and declares this path too. One path takes exactly one ack source, so the sentence moves here and the key leaves this PR's fragment. Re-homed from `3409-unreachable-guard-arms.json` in round 26: `a84f7563` (#3078) swept that fragment as all-spent, so this path is unowned and this PR's own fragment declares it directly.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: discuss-phase-power.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: 42 inline copies would be 43 places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: do.md — #2529 MAJOR 1 (round 10): the workflow's pre-existing inline response-language directive is rewritten IN PLACE so the sentence names inter-tool NARRATION explicitly — narration between tool calls, status updates, progress notes, findings — instead of only "questions, prompts, and explanations". That older wording is the defect #2529 reports (it leaves the running commentary between tool calls in English while the answers around it are translated), and `scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs` had been certifying it as coverage, so the gate legitimised the bug. +87 bytes, prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. FILE delta and LOADED-CONTEXT delta are both +87 here, and that identity is the point — the directive was deliberately NOT converted to an `@`-reference, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"), so the conversion would have bought a smaller measured file at a cost of 1,692 bytes of loaded context per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629-byte reference — against the 87 bytes this inline directive costs, a net +1,605. Stated plainly because the gates cannot state it: the repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so an `@`-reference conversion would have READ as a smaller change to every gate in the repo while costing 1,605 bytes more loaded context per invocation.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: docs-update.md — #2529 MAJOR 1 (round 10): the workflow's pre-existing inline response-language directive is rewritten IN PLACE so the sentence names inter-tool NARRATION explicitly — narration between tool calls, status updates, progress notes, findings — instead of only "questions, prompts, and explanations". That older wording is the defect #2529 reports (it leaves the running commentary between tool calls in English while the answers around it are translated), and `scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs` had been certifying it as coverage, so the gate legitimised the bug. +83 bytes, prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. FILE delta and LOADED-CONTEXT delta are both +83 here, and that identity is the point — the directive was deliberately NOT converted to an `@`-reference, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"), so the conversion would have bought a smaller measured file at a cost of 1,692 bytes of loaded context per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629-byte reference — against the 83 bytes this inline directive costs, a net +1,609. Stated plainly because the gates cannot state it: the repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so an `@`-reference conversion would have READ as a smaller change to every gate in the repo while costing 1,609 bytes more loaded context per invocation. Re-homed in round 19: this PR declared the path in its own fragment, and `3602-workflow-subagent-model-resolution.json` landed on `next` declaring it too. One path takes exactly one ack source, so the sentence moves here and the key leaves ours. Re-homed from `3602-workflow-subagent-model-resolution.json` in round 26: `a84f7563` (#3078) swept that fragment as all-spent, so this path is unowned and this PR's own fragment declares it directly.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: edit-phase.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: 42 inline copies would be 43 places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. Re-homed in round 13: `3262-editphase-milestone-scope-guard.json` landed on `next` in fd4715f8 (fix(#3262), #3446) and declares this path too. One path takes exactly one ack source, so the sentence moves here and the key leaves this PR's fragment. Re-homed from `3262-editphase-milestone-scope-guard.json` in round 26: `a84f7563` (#3078) swept that fragment as all-spent, so this path is unowned and this PR's own fragment declares it directly.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: eval-review.md — #2529 MAJOR 1 (round 10): the workflow's pre-existing inline response-language directive is rewritten IN PLACE so the sentence names inter-tool NARRATION explicitly — narration between tool calls, status updates, progress notes, findings — instead of only "questions, prompts, and explanations". That older wording is the defect #2529 reports (it leaves the running commentary between tool calls in English while the answers around it are translated), and `scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs` had been certifying it as coverage, so the gate legitimised the bug. +87 bytes, prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. FILE delta and LOADED-CONTEXT delta are both +87 here, and that identity is the point — the directive was deliberately NOT converted to an `@`-reference, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"), so the conversion would have bought a smaller measured file at a cost of 1,692 bytes of loaded context per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629-byte reference — against the 87 bytes this inline directive costs, a net +1,605. Stated plainly because the gates cannot state it: the repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so an `@`-reference conversion would have READ as a smaller change to every gate in the repo while costing 1,605 bytes more loaded context per invocation. Re-homed in round 16: the fragment that carried this sentence (`3423-required-reading.json`) was retired on `next` by ddf85287 (fix(#3357), #3513), and no fragment on `next` declares this path now. The ack therefore returns to this PR's own fragment, which is the only live source for it — the change to the path is this PR's.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: execute-plan.md — #2529 MAJOR 1 (round 10): the workflow's pre-existing inline response-language directive is rewritten IN PLACE so the sentence names inter-tool NARRATION explicitly — narration between tool calls, status updates, progress notes, findings — instead of only "questions, prompts, and explanations". That older wording is the defect #2529 reports (it leaves the running commentary between tool calls in English while the answers around it are translated), and `scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs` had been certifying it as coverage, so the gate legitimised the bug. +87 bytes, prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. FILE delta and LOADED-CONTEXT delta are both +87 here, and that identity is the point — the directive was deliberately NOT converted to an `@`-reference, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"), so the conversion would have bought a smaller measured file at a cost of 1,692 bytes of loaded context per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629-byte reference — against the 87 bytes this inline directive costs, a net +1,605. Stated plainly because the gates cannot state it: the repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so an `@`-reference conversion would have READ as a smaller change to every gate in the repo while costing 1,605 bytes more loaded context per invocation. Re-homed in round 14: the fragment that carried this sentence (`2652-quick-diagnose-dispatch-isolation.json`) was retired on `next` by 362d0434 (fix(#3370), #3478), and `3370-execute-phase-gate-conflation.json` declares the path today. One path takes exactly one ack source, so the sentence follows the path to its live owner rather than being dropped or re-armed under a retired number. Re-homed from `3370-execute-phase-gate-conflation.json` in round 26: `a84f7563` (#3078) swept that fragment as all-spent, so this path is unowned and this PR's own fragment declares it directly.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: explore.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: 42 inline copies would be 43 places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. Re-homed from `2229-explore-claim-disposition.json` in round 26: `a84f7563` (#3078) swept that fragment as all-spent, so this path is unowned and this PR's own fragment declares it directly.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: extract-learnings.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: 42 inline copies would be 43 places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: fast.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: 42 inline copies would be 43 places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. Re-homed in round 18: this PR declared the path in its own fragment, and `3585-planning-commit-guard.json` landed on `next` declaring it too. One path takes exactly one ack source, so the sentence moves here and the key leaves ours. Re-homed from `3585-planning-commit-guard.json` in round 26: `a84f7563` (#3078) swept that fragment as all-spent, so this path is unowned and this PR's own fragment declares it directly.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: forensics.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: 42 inline copies would be 43 places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: graduation.md — #2529 MAJOR 1 (round 10): the workflow's pre-existing inline response-language directive is rewritten IN PLACE so the sentence names inter-tool NARRATION explicitly — narration between tool calls, status updates, progress notes, findings — instead of only "questions, prompts, and explanations". That older wording is the defect #2529 reports (it leaves the running commentary between tool calls in English while the answers around it are translated), and `scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs` had been certifying it as coverage, so the gate legitimised the bug. +87 bytes, prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. FILE delta and LOADED-CONTEXT delta are both +87 here, and that identity is the point — the directive was deliberately NOT converted to an `@`-reference, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"), so the conversion would have bought a smaller measured file at a cost of 1,692 bytes of loaded context per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629-byte reference — against the 87 bytes this inline directive costs, a net +1,605. Stated plainly because the gates cannot state it: the repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so an `@`-reference conversion would have READ as a smaller change to every gate in the repo while costing 1,605 bytes more loaded context per invocation.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: health.md — #2529 MAJOR 1 (round 10): the workflow's pre-existing inline response-language directive is rewritten IN PLACE so the sentence names inter-tool NARRATION explicitly — narration between tool calls, status updates, progress notes, findings — instead of only "questions, prompts, and explanations". That older wording is the defect #2529 reports (it leaves the running commentary between tool calls in English while the answers around it are translated), and `scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs` had been certifying it as coverage, so the gate legitimised the bug. +87 bytes, prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. FILE delta and LOADED-CONTEXT delta are both +87 here, and that identity is the point — the directive was deliberately NOT converted to an `@`-reference, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"), so the conversion would have bought a smaller measured file at a cost of 1,692 bytes of loaded context per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629-byte reference — against the 87 bytes this inline directive costs, a net +1,605. Stated plainly because the gates cannot state it: the repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so an `@`-reference conversion would have READ as a smaller change to every gate in the repo while costing 1,605 bytes more loaded context per invocation. Re-homed in round 13: the fragment that carried this sentence (`2573-state-head-freshness.json`) was retired on `next` by 7ddcc198 (fix(#3309)), and `3309-health-docs-generated.json` declares the path today. One path takes exactly one ack source, so the sentence follows the path to its live owner rather than being dropped or re-armed under a retired number. Re-homed from `3309-health-docs-generated.json` in round 26: `a84f7563` (#3078) swept that fragment as all-spent, so this path is unowned and this PR's own fragment declares it directly.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: help.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: 42 inline copies would be 43 places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: import.md — #2529 MAJOR 1 (round 10): the workflow's pre-existing inline response-language directive is rewritten IN PLACE so the sentence names inter-tool NARRATION explicitly — narration between tool calls, status updates, progress notes, findings — instead of only "questions, prompts, and explanations". That older wording is the defect #2529 reports (it leaves the running commentary between tool calls in English while the answers around it are translated), and `scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs` had been certifying it as coverage, so the gate legitimised the bug. +87 bytes, prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. FILE delta and LOADED-CONTEXT delta are both +87 here, and that identity is the point — the directive was deliberately NOT converted to an `@`-reference, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"), so the conversion would have bought a smaller measured file at a cost of 1,692 bytes of loaded context per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629-byte reference — against the 87 bytes this inline directive costs, a net +1,605. Stated plainly because the gates cannot state it: the repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so an `@`-reference conversion would have READ as a smaller change to every gate in the repo while costing 1,605 bytes more loaded context per invocation. Re-homed in round 18: this PR declared the path in its own fragment, and `3576-references-canonical-cites.json` landed on `next` declaring it too. One path takes exactly one ack source, so the sentence moves here and the key leaves ours. Re-homed from `3576-references-canonical-cites.json` in round 26: `a84f7563` (#3078) swept that fragment as all-spent, so this path is unowned and this PR's own fragment declares it directly.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: inbox.md — #2529 MAJOR 1 (round 10): the workflow's pre-existing inline response-language directive is rewritten IN PLACE so the sentence names inter-tool NARRATION explicitly — narration between tool calls, status updates, progress notes, findings — instead of only "questions, prompts, and explanations". That older wording is the defect #2529 reports (it leaves the running commentary between tool calls in English while the answers around it are translated), and `scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs` had been certifying it as coverage, so the gate legitimised the bug. +87 bytes, prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. FILE delta and LOADED-CONTEXT delta are both +87 here, and that identity is the point — the directive was deliberately NOT converted to an `@`-reference, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"), so the conversion would have bought a smaller measured file at a cost of 1,692 bytes of loaded context per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629-byte reference — against the 87 bytes this inline directive costs, a net +1,605. Stated plainly because the gates cannot state it: the repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so an `@`-reference conversion would have READ as a smaller change to every gate in the repo while costing 1,605 bytes more loaded context per invocation.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: ingest-docs.md — #2529 MAJOR 1 (round 10): the workflow's pre-existing inline response-language directive is rewritten IN PLACE so the sentence names inter-tool NARRATION explicitly — narration between tool calls, status updates, progress notes, findings — instead of only "questions, prompts, and explanations". That older wording is the defect #2529 reports (it leaves the running commentary between tool calls in English while the answers around it are translated), and `scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs` had been certifying it as coverage, so the gate legitimised the bug. +87 bytes, prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. FILE delta and LOADED-CONTEXT delta are both +87 here, and that identity is the point — the directive was deliberately NOT converted to an `@`-reference, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"), so the conversion would have bought a smaller measured file at a cost of 1,692 bytes of loaded context per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629-byte reference — against the 87 bytes this inline directive costs, a net +1,605. Stated plainly because the gates cannot state it: the repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so an `@`-reference conversion would have READ as a smaller change to every gate in the repo while costing 1,605 bytes more loaded context per invocation. Re-homed from `2658-trae-instruction-file-path.json` in round 26: `a84f7563` (#3078) swept that fragment as all-spent, so this path is unowned and this PR's own fragment declares it directly.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: insert-phase.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: 42 inline copies would be 43 places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: list-phase-assumptions.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: 42 inline copies would be 43 places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: list-seeds.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: 42 inline copies would be 43 places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: list-workspaces.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 …

* fix(#2529): read the catalog-relative dispatch spelling, and the plural of "output"

Two false positives in the coverage lint, both surfaced by this round's work
rather than by a red gate finding them for us.

#3552 landed `execute-phase/steps/protected-branch.md` on next while this PR was
open, dispatched from execute-phase.md's `"none"` arm with the path written
RELATIVE to the catalog. `namesFragmentAsEntryPoint` only ever looked for the
`gsd-core/workflows/`-rooted spelling, so it read a live dispatch as no dispatch
and the new fragment as uncovered. It now accepts both spellings and matches the
relative one on a path boundary, so `vendor/<path>` cannot vouch for `<path>`.

Recognizing that spelling makes one pin redundant: execute-phase.md dispatches
executor-isolation-dispatch.md the same way, so the fragment inherits and its
own copy of the sentence comes back out. That is the rule round 29 encoded,
enforced by the test that measures it rather than by hand.

`output` was the one term in USER_OUTPUT_RE without an `s?`, so "translate all
outputs, including narration between tool calls" read as uncovered. The new
property tests caught it on their first run.

Those properties pin the rule the hand-written cases are instances of: four
signals on ONE line accept, dropping any one rejects, spreading them across
lines rejects. The vocabulary is written out in the test rather than read back
from the script's regexes, per CONTRIBUTING.md "Fixture provenance (#2371)" -- a
generator seeded from the matcher can only re-derive what the matcher already
believes, and that independence is what caught the plural. Both new properties
are mutation-verified: dropping the narration predicate reds the necessity
property, and collapsing the document to a single line reds the cross-line one.

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

* enhance(#2529): spell the narration enumeration out in the last two shorthand directives

discuss-phase.md and plan-phase.md were the only two of this PR's 44
rewordings that abbreviated the inserted clause to "narration between tool
calls included" instead of naming the output classes the way the rest of them
do. Both forms satisfy the lint's four predicates, so nothing was broken --
but the point of #2529 is that an author reading one workflow should not have
to infer what the neighbouring one means by "included".

Both abbreviations were size decisions rather than wording ones, and both
reasons have since expired because next shrank the files. discuss-phase.md
sat 25 bytes under the 32,000-byte #717 dispatcher budget and now has 1,825;
plan-phase.md sat 87 bytes under the 94,519-byte ADR-857 capstone ratchet
against a +108 clause and now has 3,180. Neither budget is raised here and no
unrelated prose is trimmed; workflow-size-budget and
phase6-capstone-conformance both pass.

discuss-phase.md started from the identical upstream sentence as verify-work.md
and new-milestone.md ("All user-facing questions, prompts, and explanations in
this workflow"), and those two received the full enumeration; it now matches
them exactly. plan-phase.md keeps its own scope word ("orchestrator output") and
its subagent pass-through instruction, both upstream's, and only trades the
shorthand for the enumeration.

The shorthand now appears nowhere in the catalog. The two remaining variants
(plan-review-convergence.md, spec-phase.md) keep upstream's own verb and scope
and end on "report prose", which is what those workflows actually emit --
rewriting those would change a directive's strength, not its wording.

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

* fix(#2529): match the workflow extension case-insensitively in coverage discovery

`findMarkdownFilesRecursive` filtered on `entry.name.endsWith('.md')`, so
`SETTINGS.MD` — the same file to Windows and macOS, a different one to Linux —
was skipped on the only platform whose verdict gates the merge. The direction of
that failure is the problem: a workflow the walk declines to see is a workflow
this lint certifies by omission, which is the same vacuous pass `main()` already
refuses when discovery returns nothing at all.

The filter is now an allowlist keyed on the lowercased `path.extname`.
`.mdx` stays out on purpose: admitting an extension states what a workflow IS,
and that claim has a second half — `inheritsParentCoverage` resolves a
fragment's parent as `<workflow>.md`. An `.mdx` entry belongs here next to the
parent resolution it would have to move with, not ahead of it.

Two tests: an uppercase-extension file is discovered AND lands as a violation
rather than an exemption, and every admitted extension is spelled so the
lowercasing match can reach it (an uppercase or dotless entry would be dead
configuration that reads like coverage).

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

* enhance(#2529): cover the quick-batch workflow that #3676 landed uncovered

`next` gained `quick-batch.md` and nine step fragments in 2f64e6230 (#3676,
PR #4212) with no response-language directive, so the merge result reds this
PR's own lint with 10 violations. The lint is doing exactly what it exists to
do; the coverage is what has to move.

`quick-batch.md` takes the shared @-reference on line 1, the same as the other
42 top-level workflows, and eight of the nine fragments then inherit through
its `read and execute` stubs. The ninth does not:
`quick-batch/steps/plan-checker-loop.md` is dispatched by a SIBLING fragment
(`planner-wave.md:134`) and named in the parent only inside a parenthetical
with no dispatch verb, which is the shape round 29's rule already covers for
`execute-phase/steps/regression-gate-run.md` and
`plan-phase/steps/prd-express-path.md`. It carries the pinned inline directive
and joins `EXACT_INLINE_DIRECTIVE_WORKFLOWS`; the comment above that set now
names four such fragments instead of three. Coverage: 163 workflows.

`FULL_BUDGET` in tests/skill-frontmatter-contract.test.cjs moves 844 -> 846.
The same commit grew `help/modes/full.md` from 834 to 844 lines, landing it
exactly on the ceiling with zero slack, and the two lines this PR adds there
are its pinned directive and the blank separating it. That is a coverage
contract every workflow carries, not the content creep the budget guards.
The #597 ratchet rule holds: actualMax 846, slack 0, well inside LARGE_GRACE.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: quick-batch.md — #2529: the workflow arrived on `next` in 2f64e6230 (#3676, PR #4212) with no response-language directive, so this PR's lint reds on the merge result; covering it is the PR's whole contract, not an optional extra. It gains the shared directive as a single eager `@`-reference line, the identical form the other 42 top-level workflows take. FILE delta: +62 bytes, as the gate measures it. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,691 bytes — the import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates read the FILE and not the transitive inline, so they see 62 of those 1,691 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. Nine `quick-batch/steps/*` fragments are covered without a byte of their own — eight inherit through the parent's dispatch stubs, and the ninth takes the pinned inline sentence, which the emitted surface does not measure.

* fix(#2529): scope row 48 by what a diff says, not by which paths it names

`tests/gsd-quick-batch-quick-regression.test.cjs` treats any branch touching a
`quick-batch` path as #3676 phase work, then forbids it from editing ordinary
`quick.md`. This PR covers EVERY workflow with the shared response-language
directive — quick-batch.md and its fragments included — so the scope check
turned true, and the row read this PR's one-line directive on `quick.md` as a
phase violation.

That is the false positive the row's own #3730 note already scoped away from,
arriving by the other door: not an unrelated branch that misses the surface,
but a catalog-wide sweep that touches all of it. A path now counts as phase
work only when its diff says something other than the coverage contract, and
the two accepted directive forms are read from
`scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs` rather than restated, so a
reworded contract cannot leave the carve-out matching prose the lint no longer
recognizes. A file the branch ADDED still counts — every line is new, which is
what a real #3676-phase branch looks like.

The invariant is unweakened in the direction that matters: a phase branch that
edits `commands/gsd/quick.md`, `gsd-core/workflows/quick.md` or anything under
`quick/steps/` for any reason other than the directive still fails the row.

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

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-09-04 21:12:12 -04:00
Tom Boucher
8249ebcf6e fix(#3770): require intentional RED evidence before GREEN (#4279)
* test(3770): add failing tests for intentional RED evidence gate

RED: classifyRedEvidence / buildRedEvidenceRecord / check tdd-red-evidence do
not exist yet; every row fails on require. Per #3770 only an intentional
target-test failure may authorize GREEN; zero-test discovery, fixture crashes,
unrelated failures, and unexpected green are INVALID_RED.

* fix(3770): require intentional RED evidence before GREEN

Only an intentional failure of the TARGET test (distinctly named, TAP-reported
assertion failure) classifies as RED_EVIDENCE_OK and authorizes GREEN. Zero-test
discovery, fixture/load crashes (file-named failures), nonzero exits without a
failing test, unrelated failures, unexpected greens, and malformed/missing
records are INVALID_RED and block GREEN.

- src/tdd-red-evidence.cts: pure classifier + persisted record builder (reuses
  the prohibition-enforcement TAP primitives; fail-closed, never throws)
- check tdd-red-evidence <record.json>: validates the persisted record
  (command, exit code, failing test, expected, actual)
- gsd-executor.md / references/tdd.md / references/execute-mvp-tdd.md: RED now
  requires the evidence record + gate verdict, not a nonzero exit or a RED: tag

* chore(3770): regenerate inventory manifest for tdd-red-evidence.cjs

* fix(3770): fit executor fail-fast under size cap, fix unrelated-failure fixture, ignore generated lib

- gsd-executor.md: compress the #3770 fail-fast rule to one line (49149 B <
  49152 cap; line-count parity keeps the #2751 PROSE_ALLOWLIST line 816 valid)
- tests: the row-6 fixture used String.replace (first-occurrence), so the
  `not ok` line still named the target test and the classifier was right to
  accept it; replaceAll makes the failure genuinely unrelated
- eslint.config.mjs: ignore tsc-generated bin/lib/tdd-red-evidence.cjs
  (lint the src/*.cts source, per ADR-457 migration rule)

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: gsd-executor.md — the #3770 fail-fast rule now requires intentional RED evidence (check tdd-red-evidence) before GREEN; +172 bytes, kept under the LARGE cap and on one line

* chore(3770): add changeset

* chore(3770): backfill PR number in changeset

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-04 16:44:38 -04:00
Tom Boucher
2f64e6230a feat(#3676): quick-batch command, workflow, and isolation integration (#4212)
* test(#3676): add failing tests for quick-batch dispatch core

Failing-first tests for Phase 4 of epic #3344 (ADR-1239 "Quick-batch
binding"): quick-batch-dispatch.test.cjs / .property.test.cjs cover the
new pure decision-logic module (arg validation, effective concurrency,
deterministic merge order, spawn backpressure, verification/merge
routing, cleanup-entry construction — design doc rows 3-15,24,26-28,
30-36,39; property rows 51-53). quick-batch-update-items.test.cjs
covers the new updateBatchItems export on src/quick-batch.cts (rows
15,22-23, including the negative cycle-rejection case).
quick-batch-command-router.test.cjs covers the new
gsd-tools quick-batch CLI family (rows 46-47). These reference modules/
exports that do not exist yet.

* feat(#3676): implement quick-batch dispatch core, updateBatchItems, and command router

Phase 4 of epic #3344 (ADR-1239 "Quick-batch binding") CORE decision
layer — CLI verbs and pure orchestration logic only; no workflow
markdown, no Agent()/git-worktree I/O.

- src/quick-batch-dispatch.cts (new): pure decision functions consumed
  by the (separate, follow-up) /gsd:quick-batch workflow markdown —
  parseQuickBatchArgs, computeEffectiveConcurrency, computeMergeOrder,
  computeSpawnPlan, routeVerificationOutcome, routeMergeOutcome,
  buildCleanupManifestEntry (the last parses caller-supplied plan text
  via the existing parsePlanDocument; no filesystem access).

- src/quick-batch.cts: adds updateBatchItems, resolving the design
  doc's Open Question 1 as ONE additive export on this module instead
  of the second, independent BATCH.json writer the design doc
  originally proposed. Reuses the same withPlanningLock transaction
  shape, computeWaves, and platformWriteSync call resumeBatch/
  completeQuickItem already use; fails closed without persisting on
  an unknown item, an unknown/self dependency, or an introduced cycle.

- src/quick-batch-command-router.cts (new): gsd-tools quick-batch CLI
  family, wired into HOST_COMMAND_ROUTERS (gsd-core/bin/gsd-tools.cjs)
  as a first-party always-on command (like /gsd:quick), not the opt-in
  capability-registry path graphify uses. Verbs: create/update/resume/
  complete (wrap quick-batch.cts) and effective-concurrency/
  merge-eligible/spawn-plan/verification-routing/merge-routing/
  cleanup-entry/parse-args (wrap quick-batch-dispatch.cts).

Design doc rows covered: 3-15, 22-24, 26-28, 30-39, 46-47. Property
rows 51-53. Rows covering workflow markdown / Agent() dispatch /
`git worktree` behavior (16-21, 25, 29, 40-45, 48-50) remain for the
follow-up markdown-authoring pass, per the phase brief's explicit
scope boundary.

* docs(#3676): register quick-batch-dispatch/command-router modules in bookkeeping surfaces

New-.cts-module ripple for the two Phase 4 modules (epic #3344,
ADR-1239 "Quick-batch binding"): .gitignore (compiled .cjs artifacts,
ADR-457 build-at-publish), eslint.config.mjs (lint the .cts source,
not the emitted .cjs), docs/INVENTORY.md + docs/INVENTORY-MANIFEST.json
(via `node scripts/gen-inventory-manifest.cjs --write`, after
`npm run build:lib`), and CONTEXT.md glossary entries for
"Quick-Batch Dispatch Core Module" and "Quick-Batch Command Router
Module", plus an update to the existing "Quick-Batch Core Primitives
Module" entry documenting the new updateBatchItems export.

* test(#3676): fold updateBatchItems tests into quick-batch.test.cjs (fix lint-test-file-count)

scripts/lint-test-file-count.cjs buckets any quick-batch-*.test.cjs
file under the quick-batch production module by longest-prefix match,
and that module is already at its 2-file cap (quick-batch.test.cjs +
quick-batch.property.test.cjs). The standalone
tests/quick-batch-update-items.test.cjs added in the prior commit
pushed it to 3 and failed `npm run lint:ci`. Fold its content into
quick-batch.test.cjs (append-only — no existing test in that file is
modified) and update the CONTEXT.md glossary reference to match.

Surfaced while re-running `GITHUB_BASE_REF=next npm run lint:ci` after
`npm ci` (this worktree previously had no local node_modules, which
also made gen-scripts-cli-exit/gen-hooks-cli-exit/gen-exit-code-*
unable to resolve typescript — resolved by npm ci, no code change
needed there). `npm run lint:ci` and
`npx tsc -p tsconfig.build.json --noEmit` are both green after this
fix.

* test(#3676): add failing tests for the quick-batch command/workflow markdown

Failing-first tests for Phase 4's markdown-authoring pass (epic #3344,
ADR-1239 "Quick-batch binding"): gsd-quick-batch-workflow.test.cjs
covers commands/gsd/quick-batch.md's frontmatter/objective/process,
gsd-core/workflows/quick-batch.md's byte-size boundary (row 49, ADR
1610 NEW_FILE_CAP) and step-fragment count, the isolation model
(rows 20-22), the executor single-writer invariant (row 18), merge
validation reusing the existing bounded primitive (row 25), the
optional research/plan-checker/verification leaves (rows 16,17,19,
30,31), planning-failure blocking execution (row 29), the submodule
guard (rows 36,44), and the new agents/gsd-planner.md quick-batch
mode (rows 13-15). gsd-quick-batch-quick-regression.test.cjs covers
row 48 (ordinary /gsd:quick stays byte-identical). Named
`gsd-quick-batch-*` (not `quick-batch-*`) so lint-test-file-count's
longest-prefix bucketing doesn't fold these markdown-only tests into
the already-capped quick-batch/quick-batch-dispatch/
quick-batch-command-router production-module buckets from the CORE
pass. These reference files that do not exist yet.

* feat(#3676): author the quick-batch command, workflow, and planner mode

Phase 4 markdown-authoring pass (epic #3344, ADR-1239 "Quick-batch
binding") — the orchestration layer that calls into Pass 1's CLI
verbs (src/quick-batch-command-router.cts).

- commands/gsd/quick-batch.md (new): frontmatter/objective/process,
  delegates argument validation to `quick-batch parse-args`
  (parseQuickBatchArgs) rather than re-deriving the grammar.

- gsd-core/workflows/quick-batch.md (new, 11843 bytes — under ADR
  1610's 32768-byte NEW_FILE_CAP for a brand-new file) + 9 lazy-loaded
  step fragments under gsd-core/workflows/quick-batch/steps/:
  resume-mode, batch-init, research-phase (flag:--research),
  planner-wave (+ nested plan-checker-loop when --validate),
  worktree-dispatch, merge-wave, verification-wave (flag:--validate),
  completion. Covers design doc rows 3-45: capacity/isolation
  resolution (reusing dispatch-isolation-gate.md verbatim), per-DAG-
  layer planning with full-task-catalog prompts and always-required
  depends_on/files_modified frontmatter, serialized worktree create/
  merge/cleanup via the existing worktree.cleanup-wave primitive,
  deterministic wave-order merging, verification routing
  (human_needed/gaps_found), the executor single-writer invariant,
  submodule fail-loud guard, and #1941 fork-base auto-degrade.

- agents/gsd-planner.md: additive new `load_mode_context` bullet for
  `**Mode:** quick-batch`, pointing at the new
  gsd-core/references/planner-quick-batch.md reference (documents the
  always-required depends_on/files_modified contract, reusing the
  existing frontmatter grammar — no new keys). Existing modes
  byte-identical, only a new bullet added.

- src/init.cts (+init-command-router.cts, +command-aliases.cts):
  cmdInitQuickBatch / `init.quick-batch` — model profiles,
  commit_docs, roadmap/planning existence checks, and the
  section_manifest field gating research-phase/verification-wave
  (reuses the existing flag:--research/flag:--validate WHEN_VOCABULARY
  atoms — no new atom needed).

Rows 16-21, 25, 29, 36, 38, 39, 44, 46-50 covered structurally by the
prior test(#3676) commit; rows 3-15, 22-24, 26-28, 30-35, 37, 40-43,
45 covered by construction (verb wiring, single-writer prompt
constraints, crash-window resume via unmodified Phase 3 primitives).

* docs(#3676): regenerate skills/inventory/section-manifest/install-tree; baseline the intentional word-splitting pattern

npm run regen:derived output for the new command/workflow/reference
(epic #3344, ADR-1239 "Quick-batch binding"):
- skills/gsd-quick-batch/SKILL.md (generated from commands/gsd/quick-batch.md)
- docs/INVENTORY.md rows for /gsd-quick-batch, quick-batch.md,
  planner-quick-batch.md, and the quick-batch-dispatch.cjs/
  quick-batch-command-router.cjs CLI-module rows' now-live
  `/gsd-quick-batch` cross-reference (was "(separate, follow-up)")
  + docs/INVENTORY-MANIFEST.json (`node scripts/gen-inventory-manifest.cjs --write`)
- gsd-core/workflows/section-manifest.json (`npm run gen:section-manifest`)
  — research-phase/verification-wave gsd:section entries for the new
  quick-batch workflow
- tests/fixtures/install-tree/*.json (`npm run gen:install-tree`) —
  the new command/workflow/skill/reference files now ship to every
  runtime

scripts/lint-workflow-shellcheck-baseline.json: 3 new entries for
gsd-core/workflows/quick-batch.md's intentional flag-token/$ARGUMENTS
word-splitting (SC2046/SC2086) — the same deliberate unquoted-optional-
flag pattern gsd-core/workflows/quick.md already carries baselined
(e.g. `$DISCUSS_PARAM $RESEARCH_PARAM` in quick.md's own Step 2);
quoting would break the intended "omit this arg when the flag is
false" splitting.

* fix(#3676): close prompt-injection and argv/glob-injection gaps in quick-batch leaf dispatch

Security review pass findings, both confirmed real:

1. HIGH — prompt injection, no boundaries. Every leaf-dispatch fragment
   interpolated the raw, attacker-influenced task ${description} (and
   the shared ${TASK_CATALOG_TABLE}, broadcasting every item's raw
   description into every planner's prompt in the layer) straight into
   Agent() prompt bodies with no boundary. Fixed by wrapping every such
   interpolation in a <security_context> + DATA_START/DATA_END
   boundary, matching the CONCRETE convention already implemented in
   this repo (agents/gsd-debug-session-manager.md, agents/gsd-debugger.md,
   gsd-core/workflows/debug.md) — commands/gsd/quick.md's own
   <security_notes> only asserts this convention in prose, so the
   debug-agent files are the real precedent followed here. Added a new
   <security_notes> block to commands/gsd/quick-batch.md (it had none)
   documenting both this fix and the one below.

2. MEDIUM — unquoted $ARGUMENTS -> argv/glob injection.
   gsd-core/workflows/quick-batch.md and commands/gsd/quick-batch.md both
   ran `gsd_run quick-batch parse-args --raw -- $ARGUMENTS` UNQUOTED,
   causing shell word-splitting and pathname expansion on raw task-list
   text before the parser ever saw it. Fixed at the source: added a
   `--text <string>` form to the `parse-args` verb
   (src/quick-batch-command-router.cts) that accepts the ENTIRE
   $ARGUMENTS as ONE quoted argv element and does the whitespace split
   itself, in Node — which is never glob-aware, unlike the shell.
   Both call sites now use `--text "$ARGUMENTS"`. The `-- <tokens>` form
   is kept for direct/test callers that already have a real argv array.

The SC2086 baseline entry added for the original unquoted line is now
stale (`node scripts/lint-workflow-shellcheck.cjs` no longer reports
it) and has been removed; the two SC2046 entries for the UNRELATED,
still-unquoted `$([ "$VALIDATE_MODE" = true ] && echo --validate)`-style
conditional-flag splitting remain — that line only ever expands to one
of a few known-safe literal strings (never raw user text), matching
quick.md's own already-baselined convention exactly.

Tests: quick-batch-command-router.test.cjs covers the new --text form
(token splitting, glob-shaped text passing through literally
unexpanded, whitespace-only input). gsd-quick-batch-workflow.test.cjs
asserts the DATA_START/DATA_END boundary on every leaf prompt
(research-phase/planner-wave/plan-checker-loop/verification-wave,
including the shared task catalog) and the quoted --text call sites.

* fix(#3676): strengthen test-depth gaps in rows 9, 18, 24, 34, 35

Spec review pass findings — the test matrix claimed "yes" coverage
these assertions did not actually support:

- Row 9 (--jobs 0/-1/abc hostile case): previously asserted rejection
  only. Added an end-to-end assertion (tests/quick-batch-command-router.test.cjs,
  committed alongside the security fix that touches the same file) that
  .planning/quick-batches/ is never created for any rejected value —
  createBatch is genuinely never reached.
- Row 18 (--resume <unknown-batch-id>): previously only exercised a
  hand-corrupted BATCH.json, never a genuinely nonexistent batch
  directory. Added the real nonexistent-id case (also in
  quick-batch-command-router.test.cjs).
- Row 24 (post-planning updateBatchItems racing a concurrent
  completeQuickItem for a different item, both through
  withPlanningLock): zero test existed. Added a property test
  (tests/quick-batch.property.test.cjs, appended — Phase 3's own file,
  no existing test touched) exercising both call orders and asserting
  no lost update in the final on-disk manifest — the same technique
  Phase 3's own row-15 lock-contention property test uses (sequential
  calls through the real lock; a working mutex makes any interleaving
  equivalent to some serial order, so this is the same claim a literal
  concurrent-thread test would make without OS-level threading).
- Row 34 (worktree preserved on merge_failed) and row 35 (undeclared-
  deletion detection): both were previously asserted only at the pure
  routeMergeOutcome level. Added tests/gsd-quick-batch-merge-integration.test.cjs
  using the SAME real-git-fixture pattern tests/worktree-safety.test.cjs
  already establishes for executeWorktreeWaveCleanupPlan (real repo,
  real worktree, a REAL merge conflict / a REAL file deletion diffed
  against declared_deletions) — asserting the actual worktree directory
  survives on disk, not just that a pure function returns a
  preserveWorktree:true field. Named gsd-quick-batch-* so lint-test-
  file-count's bucketing doesn't fold it into any capped module bucket.

Row 48 (/gsd:quick regression) intentionally left as-is per the
reviewer's own framing: the byte-identity claim is already
mechanically proven by the changed-path diff (git diff --name-only
empty on those two paths IS byte-identity), and a genuine execution-
level regression test would require actually running the workflow —
out of scope for this repo's unit-test model (no other quick.md
regression test in this repo does that either).

* docs(#3676): add the changeset and user-facing docs the command needed

Standards review pass findings — both HARD:

- Missing changeset. None of the 6 prior #3676 commits touched
  .changeset/*. /gsd-quick-batch is a new user-facing command;
  CLAUDE.md/CONTRIBUTING.md require one. Added
  .changeset/silly-rams-caper.md (type: Added, pr: 0 placeholder —
  backfilled after the PR opens, matching CLAUDE.md's own documented
  convention and Phase 3's own precedent, #4190's
  .changeset/mellow-yaks-squeak.md). Uses the docs-convention hyphen
  form `/gsd-quick-batch` throughout, never the source-artifact colon
  form (`scripts/lint-docs-command-form.cjs` confirms 0 violations;
  that check scans docs/**, not .changeset/, so it was never actually
  in scope for the fragment itself, but the wording still follows the
  doc convention for consistency, matching how Phase 3's own fragment
  named the not-yet-shipped command).
- Missing docs. Added docs/how-to/batch-quick-tasks.md (Diátaxis
  how-to, matching docs/how-to/handle-quick-and-fast-tasks.md's
  existing convention for /gsd-quick /gsd-fast) covering --jobs,
  --validate, --research, --resume, --file, the capacity/isolation
  interaction, and resume/failure recovery. Cross-linked from
  docs/README.md's how-to index and from handle-quick-and-fast-tasks.md's
  own "Related" section. Added a /gsd-quick-batch section to
  docs/COMMANDS.md (same table format as the existing /gsd-quick
  entry) and docs/features/quick-batch.md (REQ-QB-01..12, same
  frontmatter shape as docs/features/quick-mode.md) — regenerated
  docs/FEATURES.md (179 features) and skills/gsd-quick-batch/SKILL.md
  via the standard generators.

* fix(#3676): close docs-parity, attribution, and generated-registry gaps gsd-test caught

gsd-test's real run against 155e8975b3 found 43 failures, all rooted in
this phase's own new command/workflow never being registered across
~10 independent generated/hand-maintained registries this repo keeps
in parity by convention. Root-caused each, no test weakened or
special-cased.

- help.md ↔ commands/gsd/ bidirectional parity (docs-parity-live-
  registry.test.cjs): added a /gsd:quick-batch entry to
  gsd-core/workflows/help/modes/full.md (the real help.md content;
  gsd-core/workflows/help.md is a thin dispatcher) documenting every
  flag (--file/--jobs/--validate/--research/--resume), matching the
  existing /gsd:quick entry's format.

- gen-section-manifest.test.cjs: quick-batch.md's
  `gsd_run query init.quick-batch` invocation used inline
  `$([ ... ] && echo --flag)` substitutions, which never satisfy the
  test's exact-whitespace-token / assigned-variable detection (the
  trailing `))` glued onto `--research` in the compound substitution
  broke the "exact token" match). Rewrote to the same
  VALIDATE_PARAM/RESEARCH_PARAM two-line pattern
  gsd-core/workflows/quick.md's own Step 2 already uses.

- runtime-launcher-parity.test.cjs: the 8 quick-batch/steps/*.md
  fragments that call gsd_run each needed their OWN embedded copy of
  the canonical shim preamble (every workflow .md that calls gsd_run
  carries its own copy — reading one file does not persist shell state
  into another). Ran `node scripts/sync-runtime-launcher.cjs`, which
  inserted it before each file's first gsd_run call.
  plan-checker-loop.md correctly has none — it never calls gsd_run
  directly.

- Namespace routing (skill-manifest.test.cjs, install-nested-
  layout.test.cjs, runtime-artifact-layout-surface.test.cjs): added
  `quick-batch` to commands/gsd/ns-workflow.md's `requires:` array and
  routing table (same namespace `quick` already routes through), and
  to src/clusters.cts's `utility` cluster (same cluster `quick`
  already belongs to). Verified by hand-running installRuntimeArtifacts
  + applySurface for augment/cline against a real temp install: exactly
  6 top-level gsd-ns-* router dirs, gsd-quick-batch correctly nested
  under gsd-ns-workflow/skills/, never re-flattened.

- mcp-server-catalog.test.cjs: hardcoded command count 71 -> 72 (a
  brand-new command is a real count change, not a bug this test should
  hide).

- model-omit-when-inherit-guard.test.cjs: added the canonical
  `<!-- #2517 model-omit-on-inherit -->` marker block to
  gsd-core/workflows/quick-batch.md (every leaf dispatch — planner/
  researcher/checker/executor/verifier — lives in a steps/ fragment,
  read combined with the host by this test's own readWorkflowCombined,
  same as quick.md's own research-phase.md carries it for its gated
  section). Also fixed a genuine pre-existing inconsistency in the
  test's own "#2711: the guarded set is derived from dispatch sites"
  check: its `nonDispatching` computation read the BARE host file while
  `derived` (the set it's checked against) reads the combined
  host+steps content — inconsistent with that same test file's own
  #2994 doc comment explaining why the combined read is necessary.
  quick-batch.md is the first workflow whose EVERY model="{...}"
  dispatch site lives in a mandatory (never gated) steps/ fragment —
  extracted to stay under ADR-1610's tighter NEW_FILE_CAP for a
  brand-new file — which is what exposed the mismatch. Fixed by using
  the same readWorkflowCombined read in both places.

- skill-frontmatter-contract.test.cjs: shortened
  commands/gsd/quick-batch.md's frontmatter `description` from 107 to
  91 chars (<=100 budget), and added `quick-batch.md` to the hand-
  maintained KNOWN_SKILLS consolidation allowlist with a #3676
  justification comment (a genuinely new first-party command, not a
  consolidation of an existing skill).

- workflow-fragments-emission.install.test.cjs: added `quick-batch.md`
  to the hand-maintained MARKED_WORKFLOWS set (composeWorkflow is
  deliberately NOT a no-op for it — its research-phase/verification-
  wave sections are gated).

- Regenerated all downstream artifacts (npm run build:lib && npm run
  regen:derived && npm run gen:plugin-skills -- --write && npm run
  gen:features -- --write): skills/gsd-quick-batch/SKILL.md,
  skills/gsd-ns-workflow/SKILL.md, install-tree fixtures for
  augment/cline/hermes/qwen/trae/zcode.

- emitted-attribution.test.cjs: agents/gsd-planner.md's #3676 addition
  (one new `load_mode_context` bullet pointing at the new
  gsd-core/references/planner-quick-batch.md reference) grew the file
  124 bytes without an acknowledgment trailer. Acknowledged below —
  the growth is the deliberate, additive, single-bullet change from
  the earlier feat(#3676) commit, not drift.

Verified: npm run build:lib clean, npx tsc -p tsconfig.build.json
--noEmit clean, GITHUB_BASE_REF=next npm run lint:ci fully green
(includes lint-workflow-shellcheck, lint-test-file-count,
lint-docs-command-form). The deep install/spawn/registry tests gsd-test
actually runs (docs-parity-live-registry, gen-section-manifest,
runtime-launcher-parity, install-nested-layout,
runtime-artifact-layout-surface, skill-manifest, skill-frontmatter-
contract, mcp-server-catalog, model-omit-when-inherit-guard,
workflow-fragments-emission) are not part of lint:ci — each fix above
was independently verified by hand-invoking the exact production
function the failing test calls (installRuntimeArtifacts, applySurface,
composeWorkflow, the CLUSTERS union, the section-manifest forwarding
regex) against the real repo tree and confirming the expected shape.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: gsd-planner.md — additive #3676 quick-batch mode bullet in load_mode_context (one new line pointing at gsd-core/references/planner-quick-batch.md); not drift.

* fix(#3676): trim the /gsd:quick-batch help.md entry to fit the LARGE tier line budget

skill-frontmatter-contract.test.cjs's "feature #3039: tiered help —
size budgets" enforces a SEPARATE line-count ceiling for
gsd-core/workflows/help/modes/full.md (FULL_BUDGET = 844 lines,
tighten-only ratchet, scripts/lib/allowlist-ratchet.cjs's
assertTightCeiling) — independent of the skill-frontmatter description-
length budget and consolidation allowlist I touched in the prior round;
those are unrelated checks in the same test FILE, not the same check.

Root cause: the /gsd:quick-batch entry I added to full.md in the
docs-parity fix round was 17 lines, pushing the file from 834 to 851
lines — 7 over the 844 ceiling. Condensed the entry (merged the
per-flag bullet list into one dense "Flags:" line, dropped from 3
Usage examples to 1) to 844 lines exactly — at the ceiling with zero
slack, which assertTightCeiling accepts (it only fails on
actualMax > ceiling, or on slack > grace when the ceiling is too
LOOSE — zero slack triggers neither).

Verified after trimming: full.md still contains a live /gsd:quick-batch
reference (bidirectional parity) and all 5 argument-hint flags
(--jobs/--validate/--research/--resume/--file) still appear as literal
tokens (docs-parity-live-registry.test.cjs's own flag-coverage check,
re-run by hand against the trimmed content).

Verified: npm run build:lib clean, npx tsc -p tsconfig.build.json
--noEmit clean, GITHUB_BASE_REF=next npm run lint:ci fully green.

* docs(#3676): backfill changeset pr number to 4212

Follow-up to fix(#3676) commits — .changeset/silly-rams-caper.md's
pr:0 placeholder backfilled with the real PR number now that
gh api POST /pulls has returned it (#4212). Matches CLAUDE.md's PR
Number Handling convention and Phase 3's own #4190 precedent
(708c5a3f8c). Doc-only (root-level .changeset/*.md fragment), exempt
from a fresh gsd-test run per pre-pr-gate.sh's DOC_ONLY_RE.

* fix(#3676): resolve prompt-injection-scan false positive on test fixture

tests/quick-batch.test.cjs:232's row 11b regression proves the task-list
parser carries a prompt-injection-shaped task description through
createBatch as inert data, never interpreted. The fixture has to be a
real "ignore all previous instructions..." phrase or the test asserts
nothing, but the full-file --diff scan flagged it once unrelated edits
in the same file pulled it into the changed-file set.

Add the file to prompt-injection-scan.sh's ALLOWLIST, matching the
sanctioned, precedented exemption already used for other legitimate
security-regression fixtures (tests/windsurf-conversion.test.cjs,
tests/health-validation.test.cjs, tests/continuation-grammar-parity.test.cjs)
per DEFECT.PROMPT-INJECTION-SCAN-COLLISION.

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-02 22:38:31 -04:00
Tom Boucher
91ed46882a feat(#3675): quick-batch core primitives and resumable manifest (#4190)
* test(#3675): add failing tests for quick-batch core primitives

Adds the full behavioral (tests/quick-batch.test.cjs) and property-based
(tests/quick-batch.property.test.cjs) coverage for #3675's quick-batch core
primitives per the phase's 35-row test matrix — task-list parsing (inline +
--file, with path-confinement/symlink-escape/non-regular-file rejection),
collision-safe quick-id preallocation under withPlanningLock, BATCH.json
schema/validation/resume, dependency-DAG + partitionByFileOverlap wave
construction, and exactly-once STATE.md completion (including the
STATE-row-written-but-manifest-not-yet-updated crash window).

The import target (gsd-core/bin/lib/quick-batch.cjs, compiled from a
not-yet-written src/quick-batch.cts) does not exist yet — every test in both
files fails at the top-level require() before any assertion runs. Five
fast-check properties cover collision-freedom under lock contention, resume
idempotency, exactly-once STATE completion, wave totality, and DAG-respecting
wave order, per the design doc's property-based-coverage requirement.

* feat(#3675): implement quick-batch core primitives

Adds src/quick-batch.cts (ADR-457 build-at-publish, compiled to
gsd-core/bin/lib/quick-batch.cjs) implementing #3675's quick-batch core
primitives per the phase design lock — pure/state primitives and
CLI-testable core operations only, no agent dispatch, no worktree creation,
no user-facing command (Phase 4/#3676's job):

- parseTaskList / parseTaskListFromFile: inline bulleted/numbered task-list
  parsing (>=2 items required) and a --file variant strictly confined to the
  planning workspace root via requireSafePath, rejecting non-regular-file
  targets.
- allocateQuickIds / createBatch: collision-safe YYMMDD-xxx quick-id
  preallocation under withPlanningLock, checked against both on-disk
  .planning/quick/ entries and sibling .planning/quick-batches/*/BATCH.json
  manifests (never on-disk-only, which would miss another in-flight batch
  that hasn't dispatched any real quick directory yet) — replicates
  cmdInitQuick's own grammar rather than delegating to it (that function's
  2-second granularity is not batch-safe).
- computeWaves: deterministic wave construction combining dependency-DAG
  layering with partitionByFileOverlap (#3674), called per DAG layer over
  path-separator-normalized planned_files — normalization happens at this
  module's boundary, never inside the Phase 2 helper.
- loadBatch: fail-closed BATCH.json schema validation (corrupt/truncated
  JSON, wrong types, missing fields, out-of-batch dependency references,
  dependency cycles, a worktree path absent from disk).
- resumeBatch: skips complete items, never auto-retries failed items,
  propagates/reverses blocked status along the DAG to a fixed point, and
  detects a STATE.md row that already exists for a non-complete item (the
  "STATE written, BATCH.json not yet updated" crash window) — completing it
  without re-appending. Idempotent across repeated calls.
- completeQuickItem / hasQuickTaskRow: exactly-once STATE.md completion —
  appendQuickTaskRow (unmodified) is called at most once per quick id, gated
  by hasQuickTaskRow's own idempotency check re-parsing the real "Quick Tasks
  Completed" table, since appendQuickTaskRow itself carries no idempotency.

BATCH.json lives at .planning/quick-batches/<batch-id>/BATCH.json, a sibling
of .planning/quick/ — never inside it, so scanQuickTasks never misreads a
batch manifest as a broken quick task.

* docs(#3675): register the new quick-batch module

New src/*.cts -> bin/lib/*.cjs modules need four hand-maintained
registrations beyond the code itself: .gitignore (compiled artifact),
eslint.config.mjs (ADR-457: lint the .cts, not the emitted .cjs),
docs/INVENTORY.md's CLI Modules roster row plus the regenerated
docs/INVENTORY-MANIFEST.json cli_modules entry, and a CONTEXT.md glossary
entry matching the convention set by the sibling File Overlap Partitioner
Module (#3674) entry it sits beside.

NOTE: docs/INVENTORY-MANIFEST.json was updated BY HAND (alphabetically
sorted single-entry insertion into families.cli_modules, matching the
existing file's structure) rather than via
`node scripts/gen-inventory-manifest.cjs --write` — this session's
MEMTRACE-FIRST guard hard-blocks direct execution of that indexed script
path from Bash, with no available Memtrace tool to route through instead.
The orchestrator should re-run `node scripts/gen-inventory-manifest.cjs
--check` to confirm this hand-edit is byte-identical to the generator's own
output before merging.

* fix(#3675): resolve lint findings in quick-batch primitives and tests

Unsafe `any[]` assignment from `new Array(n)` in the DAG cycle-check color
array, two unnecessary `as string[]` casts TS 5.5's inferred type
predicates already narrowed, raw `fs.rmSync` in test cleanup (needs the
Windows-EBUSY retry budget `helpers.cleanup` carries), an unused `loadBatch`
import, an unbounded `mkfifo` subprocess spawn missing a timeout, and a
CONTEXT.md glossary illustration that looked like a real file reference.

* feat(#3675): close acceptance-criteria gaps found in review

Standards- and spec-axis review (plus a self-caught race) surfaced real
gaps against issue #3675's own acceptance criteria and this repo's test
conventions:

- BATCH.json was missing options, base_revision, per-item wave, and
  per-item commit — the issue's AC explicitly lists all four as things
  the manifest must track. Added them: createBatch persists caller-supplied
  batchOptions/baseRevision verbatim and assigns each item its computed
  wave index; completeQuickItem now persists the commit onto the item,
  not just the STATE.md row. All four are backward-tolerant on load (an
  older/hand-built manifest without them still validates).
- resumeBatch had no "incompatible base divergence" check at all, despite
  the AC and the ADR's own "Base divergence" section requiring one. Added
  an opt-in currentBaseRevision comparison that fails closed with a
  recoverable diagnostic on mismatch, and touches nothing on refusal.
- resumeBatch read-modify-wrote BATCH.json OUTSIDE withPlanningLock — the
  only durable write path in this module that wasn't lock-protected,
  a real lost-update race against a concurrent completeQuickItem or
  another resume. Now runs inside the same lock createBatch/
  completeQuickItem use.
- loadBatch and collectExistingBatchQuickIds used raw JSON.parse with no
  size cap (security review, Low/informational); switched to the
  existing safeJsonParse (1MB cap) for defense-in-depth.
- Parser (parseTaskList) had only example-based tests; CLAUDE.md requires
  a fast-check property test for parsers. Added one plus a companion
  reject-property for <2 items.
- The id-exhaustion fail-closed ceiling (MAX_TIME_BLOCK) was untested at
  any boundary. Exported the pure allocateIdsGivenUsed/MAX_TIME_BLOCK for
  direct limit-1/limit/limit+1 testing without needing 46k fixture dirs.
- Issue AC explicitly asks for prompt-injection-payload test coverage,
  distinct from the existing shell-metacharacter test; added one.
- Test row 9 (FIFO skip) silently returned instead of calling t.skip(),
  so an unsupported platform would report a pass rather than a documented
  skip; fixed to bind the test-context param and skip properly.
- Extracted toWaveInput to remove a 2-site production duplication of the
  QuickBatchItem -> computeWaves reshape (Standards-axis smell).
- Added the required .changeset/ fragment (CONTRIBUTING.md: editing src/
  is user-facing even though the compiled .cjs is gitignored).

* fix(#3675): restore "not valid JSON" wording in loadBatch's parse-failure reason

gsd-test caught this: switching loadBatch to safeJsonParse changed the parse-
failure message shape ("... parse error — ...") without preserving the
"not valid JSON" substring row 27's own test asserts on. Re-wrap
safeJsonParse's error into the original diagnostic phrasing regardless of
which of its three failure modes fired.

* docs(#3675): backfill changeset pr number to 4190

* fix(#3675): detect a silently-no-op mkfifo on Windows, not just a throwing one

CI caught this on windows-latest: row 9's platform-skip only caught mkfifo
throwing (command not found). On this runner mkfifo resolves to something
that exits 0 without creating a file (NTFS has no FIFO concept), so
execution fell through to parseTaskListFromFile against a path that
doesn't exist, producing an ENOENT stat error instead of the expected
"not a regular file" rejection. Check the artifact actually exists before
trusting a zero exit code, and skip with a documented reason either way.

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-02 15:38:27 -04:00
Tom Boucher
b0572c0108 feat(#3674): extract shared file-overlap wave partitioner (#4166)
* test(#3674): characterize existing wave-dispatch output and add tests for the extracted partitioner

Pins resolveWaveDispatch's and emitWorkflowScript's current, unextracted
output (chain-overlap, disjoint-empty-set, and a multi-wave/multi-stage
golden script) as a regression safety net ahead of extracting
partitionStages into a standalone module. Also adds the new module's
unit and property tests (test matrix rows 1-11) against its expected
public API, which does not exist yet and is added in the next commit.

* feat(#3674): extract file-overlap partitioner into a shared, generic module

Moves partitionStages' greedy first-fit file-overlap algorithm into a new,
dependency-free src/file-overlap-partitioner.cts module (partitionByFileOverlap),
generalized over a plain {id, files}[] shape rather than claude-orchestration.cts's
Plan/Wave interfaces. partitionStages becomes a thin adapter mapping its own
Plan[] shape onto the generic input and back — behavior-preserving, no dependency
ordering, no path normalization, no filesystem access moved or added. Enables a
future consumer (quick-batch, #3675 / ADR-1239) to reuse the same primitive
without pulling in orchestration internals.

* docs(#3674): register the file-overlap-partitioner module bookkeeping

New src/*.cts -> bin/lib/*.cjs modules need four hand-maintained
registrations beyond the code itself: .gitignore (compiled artifact),
eslint.config.mjs (ADR-457: lint the .cts, not the emitted .cjs),
docs/INVENTORY.md's CLI Modules roster row (regenerated via
gen-inventory-manifest.cjs --write), and a CONTEXT.md glossary entry
matching the convention set by similarly-scoped leaf modules
(text-lines.cts, plan-dependency-graph.cts, spec-section.cts).

* fix(#3674): alphabetize INVENTORY.md row, manifest regen no-op, fast-check import already correct

- docs/INVENTORY.md: move file-overlap-partitioner.cjs row to alphabetical position
- docs/INVENTORY-MANIFEST.json: regenerated via gen-inventory-manifest.cjs --write,
  produced no diff (manifest is keyed by content, not row order)
- tests/claude-orchestration.test.cjs's direct require('fast-check') is correct as-is:
  tests/helpers/fast-check-setup.cjs's own docstring scopes the shared-seed wrapper to
  "every *.property.test.cjs file"; claude-orchestration.test.cjs is not a .property.test.cjs
  file, and every .property.test.cjs file sampled uses the wrapper consistently. No outlier.

* fix(#3674): constrain the no-overlap property test to unique ids, fixing an ambiguous duplicate-id reconstruction

The `no two plans in the same stage share a modified file` property
reconstructs which physical item produced each output id via
`remaining.findIndex(r => r.id === id)`. Under duplicate ids (an
explicitly-supported input shape for `partitionByFileOverlap`) that
reconstruction can pick the wrong physical occurrence, producing a
false-positive overlap failure (observed counterexample: p0(f1),
p208(f1), p208([]) — correctly staged as [[p0,p208#2],[p208#1]], but
misread by id-order as [[p0,p208#1],...], which do overlap).
Properties (a) determinism and (b) totality already exercise
duplicate ids correctly and are left unchanged; only this property's
generated items are now constrained to unique ids via
`fc.uniqueArray`, where the reconstruction is unambiguous.

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-02 07:33:42 -04:00
Tom Boucher
647365faf1 fix(#4011): key the TDD runtime gate on TDD_MODE alone (#4180)
* test(#4011): TDD gate keys on TDD_MODE alone, not the MVP intersection

Contract updates: no shipped line may conjoin MVP_MODE with TDD_MODE as
a gate condition, the end-of-phase escalation must not require MVP, the
executor agent's gate section triggers on TDD_MODE alone, and the gate
semantics reference loads without MVP_MODE.

* fix(#4011): key the TDD runtime gate on TDD_MODE alone

The RED-commit gate shipped as #76's MVP slice kept the paired
invocation's conjunct, so workflow.tdd_mode=true was silently inert on
every non-MVP phase, contradicting references/tdd.md's own contract.
Drops the MVP conjunct from the per-task gate and the end-of-phase
review escalation; rescopes execute-mvp-tdd.md's load condition,
gsd-executor's gate section, and mvp-concepts' intersection claim.
MVP remains free to imply TDD; the file is not renamed (stated
assumption in the PR body).

* test(#4011): scope no-conjunct detector to shell conditions; clean stale MVP+TDD phrasing

Review follow-ups: the detector now only inspects if/[ condition lines
so explanatory prose mentioning both flags cannot trip it; remaining
'under/outside MVP+TDD' phrases in execute-phase.md, the gate
reference, and docs/INVENTORY.md now describe TDD-mode semantics.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: execute-phase.md — TDD-gate decoupling comment + escalation rescoping (#4011)
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: gsd-executor.md — gate section trigger rescoped to TDD_MODE alone (#4011)

* chore(#4011): backfill changeset pr number

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-02 04:24:52 -04:00
Cody Anderson
8c9265d4e5 fix(#3724): warning-only Dimension 3b findings no longer force the revision loop (#3758)
* fix(#3724): stop advisory Dimension 3b findings from forcing the revision loop

Dimension 3b (undeclared/temporal coupling, #1954) is spec'd "never a
blocker" but tagged severity: warning — the tier plan-phase's revision
loop counts as must-fix — and the planner is never taught the rule, so
every multi-wave phase touching shared mutable state replans at least
once, and intentionally coupled plans re-flag identically every
iteration to the stall prompt.

Three coordinated changes:
- gsd-plan-checker: retag 3b to severity: info, the tier
  references/revision-loop.md already exempts by design; recognize a
  coupling_justified frontmatter declaration in the Do-NOT-flag list so
  deliberate pairs converge. Additions are offset by trimming 3b
  motivation prose — the checker sits 45 bytes under its LARGE hard cap.
- plan-phase step 12: INFO-only accept — an issues block with zero
  BLOCKER/WARNING entries accepts the plan and surfaces the advisories
  instead of re-entering the revision loop. Real blockers and warnings
  still gate unconditionally.
- gsd-planner: slim pointer in assign_waves to the new
  progressive-disclosure reference gsd-core/references/planner-coupling.md
  (the planner sits 19 chars under its own cap), which carries the
  shared-mutable-state rule and the coupling_justified escape hatch so
  first-pass plans avoid the finding when the coupling is unintentional.

Documented the coupling_justified field in docs/reference/plan-md.md.
Growth acks per #2914; inventory manifest and install-tree fixtures
regenerated for the new reference file.

Closes #3724

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GshUzpGjoxiw6uNRiFMHvM

* test(#3724): pin Dimension 3b at severity: info

The severity retag makes the old assertion (severity: warning) stale;
lock the advisory tier from both directions — info must be present,
warning must not — so a future edit cannot silently re-arm the
revision-loop trigger.

Refs #3724

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GshUzpGjoxiw6uNRiFMHvM

* chore(#3724): changeset fragment for PR #3758

Refs #3724

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GshUzpGjoxiw6uNRiFMHvM

* docs(#3724): roster planner-coupling.md in docs/INVENTORY.md

The new reference was enumerated in the manifest and all 19 install-tree
fixtures but missing its row in the Modular Planner Decomposition table —
the roster half the manifest-sync test cannot check. (Review Blocker.)

Refs #3724

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GshUzpGjoxiw6uNRiFMHvM

* test(#3724): cover all four acceptance criteria (review round 1)

- plan-checker-coupling: the 3b severity assertion is now a PARITY check
  deriving the exempt tier from revision-loop.md's flow instead of
  hardcoding info — editing either side alone reds the suite. New
  describe pins the other three criteria: plan-phase's INFO-only accept
  clause (proven failing-first), the BLOCKER + WARNING count staying
  intact, the coupling_justified Do-NOT-flag exemption + fix_hint, and
  the planner pointer + planner-coupling.md content.
- ack fragment: $comment's plan-phase figure corrected to +79B; the 2775
  pin note carried forward into the gsd-planner.md entry, updated for
  upstream's #3761/#3764 Rule-paragraph anchor (which this diff leaves
  verbatim).

The parallel-dependent-plans re-anchor this commit originally carried was
superseded by upstream #3764 during review; this branch no longer touches
that file.

Refs #3724

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GshUzpGjoxiw6uNRiFMHvM

* fix(#3724): review round 2 — align the stance enumeration, complete the template contract

MAJOR: <adversarial_stance>'s severity enumeration gains the INFO bullet so it
agrees with Dimension 3b's 'ALWAYS INFO' mandate instead of contradicting it.
Funded by extracting the inline <examples> block to the new progressive-
disclosure reference gsd-core/references/plan-checker-examples.md (@-inlined
from the same spot; #1949 precedent), which also restores the 3b motivation
clause round 1 traded away (Nit 4) and nets the agent file SMALLER than base
(49107 -> 48486) — the extraction the byte pressure was owed.

MINOR: gsd-core/templates/phase-prompt.md now carries coupling_justified, and
the field's shape becomes one 'plan-id: reason' string per coupled peer so a
plan justified against two peers can express it; docs/reference/plan-md.md's
Type column names the shape.

NIT: the 3409 ack's plan-phase entry no longer calls the #1168 workflow
ratchet an 'XL tier'.

Acks and derived artifacts updated accordingly (checker entry removed — a
shrink needs no ack; INVENTORY roster row + regen:derived for the new file).

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GshUzpGjoxiw6uNRiFMHvM

* test(#3724): derive the 3b negative severity assertion (review round 2)

Every severity token in the 3b span must BE the tier revision-loop.md exempts,
replacing the hardcoded severity:warning negative — if the loop's exemption
ever moves, the failure names the real conflict instead of blaming the agent
file with a mutually-unsatisfiable pair.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GshUzpGjoxiw6uNRiFMHvM

* fix(#3724): refit the planner coupling pointer under the char cap

Upstream #3299 (PR #3390) grew agents/gsd-planner.md to 49146 chars at the
base, leaving 5 chars of headroom where the +16-char pointer was measured
against 13 more. The pointer prose shortens to 'Non-file coupling:' —
49150 chars, back under the strict 49152-char cap — and the ack figures
follow. The @-path the tests pin is unchanged.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GshUzpGjoxiw6uNRiFMHvM

* fix(#3724): re-home the plan-phase ack after the #3823 spent-fragment sweep

Upstream #3078/#3823 deleted all fully-spent ack fragments, including
3409-unreachable-guard-arms.json, which carried this PR's plan-phase.md
+79B append. Per the collision remedy that sweep added: take the deletion
and home the still-live entry in this PR's own fragment. Figures
re-measured at this merge base (90871 -> 90950 LF bytes).

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GshUzpGjoxiw6uNRiFMHvM

* fix(#3724): absorb the spent #3172 plan-phase fragment into this PR's ack

Upstream #3825 shipped 3172-stated-failing-direction.json naming only
plan-phase.md, now spent at the base — colliding with this PR's live
plan-phase entry. Per the #3003 pattern the fully-spent single-path
fragment is deleted and this fragment stays the path's one source;
figures re-measured at this base (93073 -> 93152 LF bytes).

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GshUzpGjoxiw6uNRiFMHvM

* fix(#3724): review round 3 — true up the ack figures, restore the wave comment

The fragment's absolute sizes are re-measured and anchored to base
e40e9670 (planner 47259 -> 47330 chars, checker 45537 -> 44916 B,
plan-phase 91186 -> 91265 LF bytes), with a note that absolutes rot as
next moves — the deltas are the durable claims. The round-1 removal of
the '# Implicit dependency: files_modified overlap forces a later wave.'
pseudocode comment offset headroom base drift had already returned, so
it is restored (findings 2-3). Changeset gains the (#3724) backlink
(finding 4).

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GshUzpGjoxiw6uNRiFMHvM

* fix(#3724): review round 4 — close the verify-work surface, harden the boundaries

BLOCKER: verify-work.md's verify_gap_plans is the second multi-plan
consumer of the checker's sentinels, and its ISSUES FOUND handler entered
revision_loop with zero severity parsing — the guaranteed replan #3724
fixed in plan-phase, alive on the gap-closure surface. The handler now
counts BLOCKER + WARNING and accepts INFO-only returns with advisories
displayed. The checker's INFO stance bullet is reworded to the claim that
is true everywhere ('revision gates count only BLOCKER + WARNING').

Minor 1: plan-phase's iteration_count >= 3 arm recounts severities, so an
INFO-only third check accepts instead of halting on a '0 issues remain'
user gate. Minor 2: the coupling_justified exemption now requires the
entry to NAME the other plan, closing the blanket-suppression reading.
Nit 1: INVENTORY row states the extraction buys cap headroom, not context.
Nit 2: the advisory display gains a concrete format on both surfaces.

Ack fragment re-anchored at base ddde001a: verify-work.md +264B (new
entry), plan-phase.md +395B, checker still net negative (-512B).

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GshUzpGjoxiw6uNRiFMHvM

* test(#3724): pin the verify-work accept and the iteration-cap boundary (review round 4)

Two wiring assertions: verify_gap_plans' ISSUES FOUND handler gates on
BLOCKER + WARNING and accepts INFO-only blocks, and plan-phase's
iteration_count >= 3 arm recounts severities instead of gating advisories
— the limit+1 boundary of the gate this PR fixes.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GshUzpGjoxiw6uNRiFMHvM

* fix(#3724): review round 5 — fail closed at the gates, surface the advisory

Blocker 1: the checker's step-10 status rule routes an INFO-only result to
## ISSUES FOUND (with a new ### Advisories (info) template section and a
severity-aware recommendation) so the orchestrator receives the block and
displays the advisory instead of silently accepting a bare PASSED.

Blockers 2+3: all three gate surfaces (plan-phase step 12 both arms,
verify-work verify_gap_plans) carry one canonical clause verbatim — an entry
whose severity is missing or unrecognized counts as a BLOCKER (fail closed) —
making the accept condition an explicit-INFO whitelist while keeping
issue_count coherent for stall math.

Major 1: the INFO stance bullet scopes its claim to the plan-phase and
verify-work gates (quick mode's loop still revises on any ISSUES FOUND).
Major 2: INVENTORY row and ack $comment state the extraction's real trade
(readability, +0.6 KB eager runtime context), not a cap remedy.
Minor 1: plan-md.md marks coupling_justified as prompt convention, unvalidated.
Nit 1: ack absolutes re-anchored at base 1e67ec97; checker now +120B and acked.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GshUzpGjoxiw6uNRiFMHvM

* test(#3724): pin the round-5 contract — fail-closed parity, INFO-only return shape

New: three-surface verbatim parity test for the fail-closed clause (Blockers
2+3); checker return-contract test for the INFO-only ## ISSUES FOUND route and
advisories section (Blocker 1). All seven newly pinned tokens are absent at
f3a5682d, so each new assertion fails pre-fix.

Updated: accept-clause regexes track the explicit-INFO whitelist wording;
the severity sweep scopes to the span's fenced yaml examples via
yamlSeverityTiers (round-5 Minor 3, applied to the blocker negative too);
the iteration-cap comment states it is a prose pin, not an executed boundary
check (Minor 4); splitLines call sites document the line-pin coupling (Nit 2).

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GshUzpGjoxiw6uNRiFMHvM

* fix(#3724): adopt next's line wrap in the 3b motivation clause — drops a wrap-only hunk from the diff

Byte-identical content; the wrap difference was an artifact of the round-1
base adaptation predating upstream's #3003 landing.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GshUzpGjoxiw6uNRiFMHvM

* fix(#3724): review round 7 — gate every checker consumer, not just the two audited ones

Blocker: quick/steps/plan-checker-loop.md (issue-named in #3724) gets the
same canonical fail-closed clause and explicit-INFO whitelist accept as
plan-phase/verify-work — an INFO-only result proceeds instead of entering
quick mode's revision loop.
Major: import.md plan_validate handles the checker return by severity
(INFO-only never blocks an import) and is added to agent-contracts.md's
consumer enumeration, which had omitted it.
The checker's INFO stance bullet drops the quick-mode carve-out — the claim
is universally true again now that every consuming gate is severity-aware.
Minor: an applied coupling_justified exemption is surfaced as its own info
advisory so a stale one-sided declaration stays observable.
Nit: plan-phase's revision-iteration Display line is explicitly conditioned
on not having already proceeded to step 13.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GshUzpGjoxiw6uNRiFMHvM
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: import.md — #3724 round 7: the plan_validate step's checker-return handler becomes severity-aware — counts BLOCKER + WARNING failing closed and accepts an explicitly-INFO-only return with advisories displayed instead of blocking the import

* test(#3724): pin the round-7 surfaces — five-gate parity, quick/import accepts, exemption visibility

The verbatim fail-closed parity test extends to quick/steps/plan-checker-loop.md
and import.md plan_validate; new assertions pin quick mode's INFO-only proceed,
import's never-blocks accept, import.md's presence in agent-contracts.md's
consumer row, and the surfaced coupling_justified exemption advisory. All four
newly pinned token families are absent at the pre-fix head, so each new
assertion fails first.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GshUzpGjoxiw6uNRiFMHvM

---------

Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-08-31 19:08:11 -04:00
Tom Boucher
6beaa66b25 enhance(#3304): gate re-verification blockers on deterministic evidence (#4085)
* test(#3304): add failing-first suite for the convergence evidence gate

Content-assertion suite for the Step 7 re-verification evidence gate
(agents/gsd-verifier.md / gsd-core/references/verifier-evidence-gate.md).
Committed before the implementation to prove RED via gsd-test.

* enhance(#3304): gate re-verification blockers on deterministic evidence

Step 7's anti-pattern scan re-runs at full, unbounded scope on every
re-verification pass, independent of the must-haves established in Step 2.
A blocker it finds — other than the self-evidencing debt-marker check —
previously reverted a completed gap-closure round and started another
--gaps cycle on nothing more than the verifier's own new judgment call,
with no bound on how many times that could repeat.

A Step 7 blocker now blocks unconditionally in re-verification mode only
if it is a carried-forward gap (present in the prior VERIFICATION.md's
gaps: list) or the flagged file was git-modified since the prior pass
(a regression; fails closed toward blocking when history is unresolvable).
Otherwise it predates the gap-closure round unflagged and needs
deterministic evidence — a named test run red, or another concrete
reproducible artifact — to stay blocking. Unevidenced, it downgrades to
a new advisory: frontmatter list and report section instead of setting
status: gaps_found, and never reverts a completed must-have.

Maintainer approval was narrowed to this evidence condition only,
explicitly rejecting the broader "advisory whenever untraceable to a
requirement/decision/prior-gap" proposal — implemented and pinned by
tests/verifier-evidence-gate.test.cjs and documented as rejected in
gsd-core/references/verifier-evidence-gate.md so it can't silently
re-expand.

Closes #3304

* fix(#3304): correct window-truncation and indentation bugs in evidence-gate tests

gsd-test's GREEN checkpoint caught 3 real bugs in the test file itself
(not the production prose): a {0,600} match window was shorter than the
724-char paragraph it was scanning (the "exclude from Step 9 Rule 1"
phrase starts at offset 662), and two regexes assumed no indentation
after a markdown list-continuation line break. All three phrases are
confirmed unique across agents/gsd-verifier.md, so the windowed
submatches are replaced with direct whole-string assertions instead of
just widening the window.

Also acknowledges the deliberate byte growth in agents/gsd-verifier.md
that the differential-attribution check (ADR-2719) correctly flagged.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: gsd-verifier.md — adds the #3304 re-verification evidence gate (Step 7 rule, Advisory bucket, advisory: frontmatter, report section); 1488 bytes, still within the LARGE-tier 48 KiB cap (48751/49152).

* docs(#3304): backfill changeset PR number

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-30 16:51:52 -04:00
Dennis Kim
8487f0ed42 enhance(#3552): warn on additional protected branches beyond the resolved base branch (#3648)
* test(01-01): add failing protected-branch warning coverage

- pin configured, absent, and malformed branch-list behavior
- require opposite CLI and execute warning outcomes

* feat(01-01): warn on configured protected branches

- resolve the base branch union configured protected branch names
- expose exact boolean CLI comparison output for workflow callers
- keep execute-phase warning advisory and within its byte budget

* test(01-01): add failing protected branch config coverage

- cover valid list persistence and null unset
- reject hostile shapes while preserving the prior value

* feat(01-01): validate protected branch configuration

- register git.protected_branches as a canonical config key
- require a non-empty array of non-blank branch names

* test(01-02): add failing ship protected-branch controls

- Execute both workflow warning blocks with exact predicate arguments
- Require true and false results to produce opposite warning outcomes
- Preserve the none-strategy feature-branch offer contract

* feat(01-02): warn at ship on protected branches

- Reuse the typed protected-branch predicate in ship preflight
- Keep raw base resolution for PR targeting and advisory branch creation
- Prove execute and ship warning blocks with opposite-result controls

* test(01-02): add failing protected-branch docs parity

- Require the canonical schema key in both English config references
- Pin the non-empty string-array type and absent default
- Require synchronized multi-branch examples and advisory semantics

* feat(01-02): publish protected branch configuration contract

- Document the optional non-empty string-array field in both references
- Explain resolved-base union and absent-field compatibility
- Keep execute and ship warnings advisory under branching_strategy none

* fix(01): CR-01 honor active workstream branch policy

* fix(01): WR-01 assert protected config path selection

* docs: add changeset fragment for #3648

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017CteVPJt4BkPmroMPGajYx

* fix(#3648): resolve base_branch precedence inversion and round-1 findings

Blocker 1/2: production config resolution was flat-first, so a project
that migrated to git.base_branch but still carried a stale flat
base_branch got the old value back. Add base_branch to
normalizeLegacyKeys (mirrors the existing branching_strategy/sub_repos
pattern: canonical nested wins) and route readEffectiveGitConfig's
test seam through the same normalization so it can't silently diverge
from production again. Adds a regression test with both keys set that
fails without the fix.

Blocker 3/4/5: restore the handle_branching case-selector prose and
"none" contract sentence that #3389's tests anchor on, and revert the
unrelated prose/comment compaction in the same step — both were
drive-by edits outside #3552's scope.

Also addresses review majors/minors: delete readConfigBaseBranch and
readConfigProtectedBranches (dead in production, only self-tested);
--is-protected now fails closed (reports protected) instead of
silently answering false when the base branch can't be verified;
trim configured protected-branch names; fix HOME-without-USERPROFILE
vacuous isolation on Windows; correct the drift-ack's byte accounting.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01S44stkuQbhD3jTCtKzte5N

* test(#3648): add failing legacy-key hoist safety coverage

Round-2 review found normalizeLegacyKeys block 5 records a normalization
carrying the DISCARDED flat value on the canonical-wins branch. Probing
that turned up a second, unreported defect in the same helper shape:
blocks 1, 2 and 5 all spread result['git'] / result['planning'] with no
object guard, so a config whose section key holds a string is spread into
index keys —

  {"git":"main","base_branch":"release"}
    -> {"git":{"0":"m","1":"a","2":"i","3":"n","base_branch":"release"}}

The resolved value is accidentally still correct, so nothing fails and no
diagnostic fires. But normalizations.length > 0 sets configDirty, and
config-loader then serializes that shape back into the user's
config.json — a read that silently corrupts config.

The deleted #3057 W3 suite covered {"git":"main","base_branch":"release"}
explicitly; this is the input it would have caught.

Covers both defects across blocks 1 and 5, with object/array/null
negative controls that must stay green in both phases, and a fast-check
property over arbitrary `git` values.

* test(#3648): pin fail-closed handling of malformed protected_branches

Replaces the test that pinned the fail-OPEN behaviour. The old
assertion — ['develop', 42] yields isProtected === false for 'develop' —
locked in the exact failure #3552 exists to close: config-set validation
is bypassable by a direct edit of .planning/config.json, so a user who
believes 'develop' is protected got a silent false and no warning.

It was also inconsistent with the fail-CLOSED direction twelve lines
away, where an unverified base reports protected and writes a
diagnostic. A protection predicate must not have two opposite failure
directions depending on which input is bad (#3648 review Blocker 3).

New coverage: a bad element drops only itself, a non-array contributes
no names, an empty list is well-formed rather than malformed, and
--is-protected surfaces the rejection. Both negative controls — a clean
list reports nothing rejected and writes no diagnostic — must stay green
in either phase, so the reject channel cannot fire unconditionally.

* fix(#3648): drop only invalid protected_branches and report them

Partition git.protected_branches instead of discarding the whole list on
one bad element, and carry the rejections out through
ProtectedBranchStatus so --is-protected can name them on stderr. Valid
names keep protecting; the user finds out the rest were ignored.

A non-array value still contributes no names — a bare string is not a
list of branch names — but is now reported rather than swallowed. An
empty array stays silent: declaring no extra protected branches is a
valid choice, not a misconfiguration.

writeDiagnostic is hoisted out of the unverified-base branch since both
arms now use it.

* test(#3648): prove the predicate diagnostic survives both call sites

The workflow bash stub now emits a stderr diagnostic the way the real
command does, which is what makes a swallowed `2>/dev/null` visible to a
test — previously the stub was silent on stderr, so discarding it changed
no observable behaviour and the call sites could drop the explanation
undetected.

Adds the Minor 2 binding check as well: ship must expose the predicate
result as IS_PROTECTED rather than only echoing a warning, asserted by
running the extracted bash and reading the bound value, not by grepping
the workflow source.

Both tests carry opposite-outcome controls — an empty diagnostic must
leave the text absent, and a false predicate must bind false.

* fix(#3648): surface the predicate diagnostic and bind ship's result

Drop `2>/dev/null` from the --is-protected call at both call sites. The
fail-closed explanation and the new rejected-entry warning both go to
stderr, so discarding it left the user with a bare "protected branch"
warning on a branch that is not protected and no way to tell a real
match from a degraded-git guess. `git branch --show-current` keeps its
own redirect — that one is genuine noise.

ship.md binds IS_PROTECTED and its prose now branches on the variable,
so the following steps have evaluable state instead of having to infer
it from warning text in tool output.

execute-phase.md byte accounting refreshed: 92326 -> 92645, net growth
319 bytes (was 331 before the redirect came out). Baseline re-verified
against the current rebase base by blob id; the ceiling check passes
with 755 bytes of margin.

* test(#3648): restore negative space for the readFile config seam

The #3057 W3 suite was deleted with readConfigBaseBranch, but every arm
it pinned survives verbatim in readEffectiveGitConfig's readFile branch —
the JSON.parse catch, the non-object guard, the git-section object guard,
.trim() and blank-string rejection — and the four surviving readFile
injections were positive-path only. protected_branches was never driven
through this seam at all.

Restores nine cases against the seam, including protected_branches
partitioning, plus a control proving loadConfig still wins when both
seams are supplied.

Records honestly what the suite pins. Mutating the built lib shows
.trim() is KILLED, while the non-object guard and the blank-string
rejection SURVIVE — both are unreachable through this entry point for
the same reasons the deleted suite documented against its own
equivalents: a JSON-parsed non-object carries no relevant own-property
either way, and a blank value is rejected a second time downstream by
the resolver's truthiness check. They stay as defence-in-depth and are
labelled known-unkillable rather than left looking like coverage this
suite does not provide.

* test(#3648): distinguish detached HEAD from a missing branch argument

`args[1] ?? ''` collapsed two different situations into one: a detached
HEAD, where `git branch --show-current` legitimately prints nothing, and
the flag being called with no argument at all. Both answered false, so
the right outcome arrived by an unintentional path and a caller bug was
indistinguishable from normal operation.

Asserts the detached case stays silent and the missing-argument case
reports, with a control that the two diagnostics differ.

* fix(#3648): report a missing --is-protected branch argument

Answer false either way, but say so when the flag arrives with no
argument. A detached HEAD passes an explicit empty string and stays
silent, since that is a normal state rather than a misconfiguration.

* docs(#3648): state exact-name matching and per-entry rejection

isProtected is exact string equality, so a git-flow project must
enumerate every release/* and hotfix/* by name. #3552 only asked for an
integration-branch field, so the implementation satisfies the letter of
the issue while leaving its git-flow motivation partly unserved — say so
where users will meet it rather than leaving them to discover it.

Also documents the Blocker 3 behaviour change: an invalid entry is
ignored with a warning naming it and the remaining names still apply.

Both statements land in docs/CONFIGURATION.md and
gsd-core/references/planning-config.md, and the config-field-docs parity
test asserts each in both so the two cannot drift.

* refactor(#3648): extract isValidProtectedBranches for cross-surface pinning

The `git.protected_branches` check inside `cmdConfigSet` and the resolver's
per-entry filter in `git-base-branch.cts` are deliberately different shapes —
all-or-nothing on write, per-entry on read, so a hand-edited config.json cannot
fail the guard open. Nothing structural keeps their two definitions of "usable
branch name" in step.

Lifting the write-side check into a named, exported predicate lets a property
test ask both surfaces about the same value and assert they agree, which is the
fast-check gap the round-2 review flagged. No behaviour change: the predicate is
the same expression, called from the same place.

* fix(#3648): stop --is-protected rewriting the config it is asking about

`gsd_run query git.base-branch --is-protected` runs on every execute-phase and
every ship. It resolved config through `loadConfig`, whose normalize-then-write
path rewrites `.planning/config.json` whenever any legacy key normalizes — so a
boolean question was silently editing the user's checked-in config. This PR had
widened the trigger by adding a fifth normalization block (top-level
`base_branch` -> `git.base_branch`), making it fire for exactly the projects the
feature targets.

`loadConfigResolved` gains `options.persist` (opt-OUT, default true): resolution
is unchanged, only the two write-back side effects are suppressed. The predicate
passes `persist: false`; the ~30 other callers are untouched, so a legacy config
is still migrated by ordinary use.

Asserted on BYTES rather than parsed shape, because the rewrite reorders keys and
reflows whitespace even when the values are equivalent. Three tests, each with
its own control: the end-to-end CLI leaves the file byte-identical while still
answering `true` from the legacy key (proving the config WAS read); an ordinary
persisting load of the same fixture DOES change the bytes (proving the fixture
is live rather than inert); and `persist:false` vs default over one directory
returns deep-equal config while differing on the write. Reverting the one-line
`persist: false` fails the first of those and only that one.

Also from the review:

- `readEffectiveGitConfig`'s comment claimed the readFile branch routed "through
  the same precedence authority production uses". It does not, and cannot — it
  reproduces two of production's steps over a single file. The comment now names
  what the seam covers and what it does NOT (root/workstream deep merge, builtin
  and global defaults, federated merge), and the seam now applies production's
  flat-then-nested lookup so it stops disagreeing about a surviving flat key.

- The missing-argument diagnostic promised "answering false", which the
  fail-closed guard on the same call can contradict by printing `true`. It now
  states what it did with the argument and leaves the answer to stdout.

* test(#3648): re-pin block 5 on #3760's refusal contract

#3767 landed on next while this PR was in review and fixed the non-object
config-section defect properly: a present-but-non-object section now BLOCKS its
own migration — value preserved, no Normalization pushed, refusal reported via
`skipped[]` — rather than being rebuilt from a plain-object view. That supersedes
this branch's round-2 `hoistLegacyKey`, which prevented the character-key spread
but still dropped the section value silently, and which the round-3 review
correctly called out as destruction in place of corruption. The rebase drops that
commit and routes block 5 through the upstream helper.

This file's tests asserted the superseded design, so they are rewritten to pin
block 5 — `base_branch` -> `git.base_branch`, which did not exist when #3760's
suite was written — against the contract that now governs it: ordinary hoist into
an absent/null/object section, canonical-nested-wins, and refusal for each of
string/number/boolean/array sections with the exact `skipped` entry.

Two controls keep it from passing vacuously: the refusal must be scoped to block
5 (an unrelated block still normalizes in the same call), and a property over
arbitrary `git` values asserts hoist and refusal are exhaustive AND mutually
exclusive per key, that a refusal leaves both the section and the legacy key
untouched, and that a hoist manufactures no index key the input did not carry.

* docs(#3648): correct the Git Query and Config Loader module contracts

CONTEXT.md's Git Query Module still described base-branch tier 1 as a direct
`.planning/config.json` read. Since this PR it is the EFFECTIVE configuration
resolved by the Config Loader — a materially different authority, carrying the
root/workstream deep merge, flat-then-nested lookup and builtin/federated
defaults. The `--is-protected` predicate, `git.protected_branches`, and the two
invariants that distinguish the predicate from the plain query (fails closed on
an unverified base; must not write) were undocumented entirely.

The Config Loader entry now states that loading is not side-effect-free by
default and documents `options.persist`.

docs/INVENTORY.md's `git-base-branch.cjs` row carried the same stale ladder and
no mention of the predicate. `node scripts/gen-inventory-manifest.cjs --write`
was run and produced no diff: the manifest indexes roster NAMES, not row prose,
so a description edit cannot move it.

Also closes the global-defaults minor: `git.protected_branches` is inert in
`~/.gsd/defaults.json`, but so is every other `git.*` key — no branch-policy key
appears in `_globalBaseCfg` or `GLOBAL_DEFAULTS_RESOLUTION_KEYS`. That is
section-wide and predates this PR, so the fix is to state the scope where users
meet it rather than to quietly extend the resolution set for two new keys.

* fix(#3648): close four defects found by the round-4 external review

Two external reviewers (codex, antigravity/Gemini 3.1 Pro) were run adversarially
against this branch. Four findings reproduced against source; each is fixed with a
failing-first test and a control, and each fix was verified by reverting it and
watching exactly the intended test fail.

1. `persist:false` was DROPPED by the workstream fallback (codex). Blocker 1 was
   only half closed. `loadConfigResolved` re-enters itself with a bare
   `{ workstream: null }` when a workstream has no config.json of its own, and
   that literal discarded every other option — so the recursive pass ran at the
   DEFAULT persistence and rewrote the ROOT config. Reproduced: with
   GSD_WORKSTREAM=alpha and a legacy flat `base_branch`, `--is-protected`
   rewrote `.planning/config.json` despite `persist:false`. Both recursions now
   forward `options` and override only `workstream`; the explicit override still
   wins the hasOwnProperty check, so spreading cannot let `workstreamContext`
   reintroduce a workstream.

2. Both workflow call sites failed OPEN, and aborted under `set -e` (both
   reviewers, independently). `IS_PROTECTED=$(gsd_run ...)` yields an empty
   string when the query fails, so `[ "$X" = true ]` was simply false: no
   warning, no trace — a silent hole in the guard whose only job is to warn. The
   bare assignment also aborted the step under `set -e`. Both sites now degrade
   VISIBLY: `|| IS_PROTECTED=""`, then an explicit empty-string arm that says the
   check did not run. Deliberately not fail-closed — claiming "protected" on no
   evidence would warn on every branch whenever gsd-tools is unavailable.

3. `isValidProtectedBranches` and the resolver disagreed on a sparse array
   (antigravity). `.every()` skips holes; the resolver's `for...of` yields
   `undefined` for them, so `["main", , "develop"]` was accepted by config-set
   and rejected by the resolver. The cross-surface property passed only because
   `fc.array` cannot generate a hole. The predicate now indexes, and the
   generator punches holes so that axis is actually falsifiable. JSON cannot
   express a hole, so this is unreachable in production — but two definitions of
   one predicate must not contradict each other.

4. A top-level `protected_branches` silently outranked `git.protected_branches`
   (antigravity). Routing the key through `get(key, {section, field})` gave it
   flat-then-nested precedence, which is back-compat for keys
   `normalizeLegacyKeys` migrates. `protected_branches` is new in #3552 and has
   no legacy form, so that invented an undocumented alias. It now resolves
   nested-only through a new `getNested`, in production and in the test seam.
   `base_branch` keeps flat-then-nested — it HAS a legacy spelling that #3760's
   refusal path can leave behind — and a control pins that distinction.

Also narrows a CONTEXT.md claim this round introduced. The predicate fails closed
only when a git query TIMED OUT or could not be spawned (#3057 B4's `verified`);
a git command that runs and exits non-zero counts as a clean negative, so a cwd
that is not a repository answers `false`, not `true`. Verified pre-existing on
next @ 738f42f4, so the documentation was over-claiming rather than the code
regressing — but an over-broad contract is exactly what the module docs must not
carry.

Both workflow byte figures re-derived after the call-site change:
execute-phase.md 92356 -> 92865 (+509), ship.md 36784 -> 37227 (+443).

* test(#3648): pin git config read parity

* docs(#3648): document git query contracts

* fix(#3648): expose protected branch default

* test(#3648): snapshot planning tree for read-only query

* test(#3648): pin planning snapshot stray-write detection

* fix(#3648): resolve merge conflict from #3078's ack-fragment sweep

next swept the fully-spent 2818/3003 ack fragments this branch had
appended to (#3078, a84f7563). Rebased onto upstream/next and took
the deletions on both, then moved the #3552 append into a new
fragment of its own.

Rebasing onto the current base also left execute-phase.md only 34
bytes under the frozen ADR-857 Phase 6 margin ceiling (93400 bytes) —
intervening next PRs consumed the rest while this PR was in review.
Extracted the "none" arm's protected-branch-warning bash block into
gsd-core/workflows/execute-phase/steps/protected-branch.md (content
unchanged, matching the existing steps/ extraction pattern used
elsewhere in this file) so the inline growth is a one-line pointer
instead of the full block. 93366 -> 93385 bytes (+19), 15 bytes
inside the ceiling.

* fix(#3648): drop stale ack entry for the new step file

The extracted execute-phase/steps/protected-branch.md needed no
acknowledgment of its own — the differential-attribution check flagged
the entry as stale once the build ran, so removed it and kept the two
growth entries (execute-phase.md, ship.md) that actually needed one.

* fix(#3648): follow the step-file reference in the bash-extraction test helper

extractProtectedBranchWarningBash() read the "none" arm's bash block
directly out of execute-phase.md. That block now lives in
execute-phase/steps/protected-branch.md (byte-ceiling extraction);
the helper follows the step-file reference and extracts from there
when no inline block is found, so the three execute-phase tests that
execute this bash for real keep exercising the actual behavior.

* fix(#3648): regenerate INVENTORY-MANIFEST.json and satisfy the CRLF-fragile lint rule

- gen-inventory-manifest.cjs --write to pick up the new
  execute-phase/steps/protected-branch.md entry (already covered by
  docs/INVENTORY.md's generic workflow_steps wildcard row, so no
  INVENTORY.md edit is needed).
- Reworked the step-file-reference lookup in
  extractProtectedBranchWarningBash() to avoid a bare-\n regex split
  on file content (local/no-crlf-fragile-split), using the same
  line-array scan the function already uses elsewhere.

* fix(#3648): regenerate golden install-tree fixtures for the new step file

npm run gen:install-tree, adding gsd-core/workflows/execute-phase/
steps/protected-branch.md to all 19 runtime install-tree fixtures.
CI's tests/golden-install-tree.test.cjs caught this on push — I'd
verified the differential-attribution and INVENTORY-MANIFEST checks
but missed this separate golden-fixture check for the new file.

* fix(#3648): add the canonical gsd_run preamble to the new step file

CI's runtime-launcher-parity suite requires exactly one canonical
resolver preamble in every workflow .md that calls gsd_run. The
inline "none"-arm block never needed one (execute-phase.md already
carried a preamble elsewhere in the same file), but the extracted
execute-phase/steps/protected-branch.md is now its own file with no
preamble of its own. Ran node scripts/sync-runtime-launcher.cjs to
insert it (execute-phase.md itself is untouched — still 93385 bytes,
inside the ADR-857 ceiling).

That preamble defines its own gsd_run(), which shadows the mock
tests/git-base-branch.test.cjs injects for the three #3648 tests that
execute this bash for real — without stripping it, those tests reached
the real gsd-tools.cjs on the machine running them instead of the
test's fixture. Preamble correctness is already covered by
tests/runtime-launcher-parity.test.cjs, so extractProtectedBranchWarningBash()
now strips the preamble line before handing the block to the harness;
it only needs to exercise the #3552 warning logic.

* fix(#3552): address PR 3648 review feedback on protected branch warnings

- Fix execute-phase handle_branching branching_strategy=none instruction
  to "Read and execute execute-phase/steps/protected-branch.md"
- Use io.error(..., ERROR_REASON.USAGE) for cmdGitBaseBranch usage errors
- Align git.protected_branches schema default to (none) without fallback []
- Relocate CONTEXT.md forward-referencing sentence into module body
- Sanitize control and ANSI characters in renderRejected diagnostics
- Clean up out-of-scope whitespace hunks in gsd-tools.cjs

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: execute-phase.md — #3552: execute-phase handle_branching adds a pointer to execute-phase/steps/protected-branch.md for branching_strategy=none so the protected-branch check executes while keeping execute-phase.md within the ADR-857 Phase 6 margin ceiling (93400 bytes). 93392 bytes, 8 bytes inside the ceiling.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: ship.md — #3552: ship preflight step 3 now asks the same typed git.base-branch --is-protected predicate as execute-phase, binding IS_PROTECTED and warning without refusing execution or blocking the branching_strategy=none feature-branch offer; it degrades visibly (rather than silently reading an empty result as "not protected") when the query itself fails to run. 36841 bytes, well inside the XL cap (98304, tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs).

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-08-29 17:00:52 -04:00
Tom Boucher
519ac23ebb fix(#3839): hook tables say PreToolUse (validate-commit) and SessionStart (session-state) (#4041)
* test(#3839): docs hook tables must match surface registrations (failing first)

* docs(#3839): hook tables say PreToolUse for validate-commit, SessionStart for session-state

gsd-validate-commit.sh is registered PreToolUse (src/runtime-hooks-surface.cts;
its exit-2 block IS the contract — a post-tool hook cannot prevent a commit)
and gsd-session-state.sh is registered SessionStart (session orientation, not
post-tool tracking). Both rows said PostToolUse in ARCHITECTURE.md and the
three INVENTORY locales; the issue asked for a neighbouring-row scan, which
is how the session-state row was found. All other rows in the four tables
verify against the surface.

* fix(#3839): review fold-ins — 10 more wrong rows in ko-KR/pt-BR/zh-CN, parser authority + drift pins

Adversarial review found the same two wrong rows shipped in five more
files the issue's table missed (ko-KR ARCHITECTURE+INVENTORY, pt-BR
ARCHITECTURE+INVENTORY, zh-CN ARCHITECTURE) — all fixed; DOC_TABLES now
covers all ten shipped tables. The parity parser unioned only the Kimi
mirror list, silently exempting agent-isolation-guard (registered via
the dynamic preToolEvent push): probes are now parsed too, with bare
hook names resolved against hooks/ ground truth and dynamic event
variables resolved to their canonical (non-Gemini) events; an exact-set
pin replaces the loose size guard. allow-test-rule marker carries the
issue ref; unverified-ceiling 280→281 (audited: the new marker is
legitimate — the suite reads product docs whose text is the contract).

* fix(#3839): register the hook-table parity suite in the docs-guard lane

The new suite reads ten docs/ paths, so lint-docs-guard-registration
requires it in the docs-guard registry — the first GREEN bench run
caught the omission (the RED run's docs-guard failures were the same
signal, previously misread as marker fallout).

* chore(#3839): changeset fragment (pr number backfilled after PR creation)

* chore(#3839): backfill changeset PR number (4041)

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-29 11:11:24 -04:00
Tom Boucher
dd4f179672 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>
2026-08-28 13:17:04 -04:00
Tom Boucher
2ea5efc151 enhance(#3911): hooks declare their crash policy (#3960)
* enhance(#3911): give hooks an exit seam that needs no build

ADR-3889 Phase 7 foundation. The 19 shipped enforcement hooks hold 91 of the
epic's 128 terminators and cannot reach `terminateNow` today.

The obvious route — requiring `gsd-core/bin/lib/cli-exit.cjs`, as
gsd-agent-isolation-guard.js already does for two other modules — is rejected.
That precedent carries its own warning (#3582): those files are tsc output,
gitignored and absent on a raw plugin-marketplace or git-clone install, so the
hook must first call ensureRuntimeBuild() to self-heal. Making the module a
hook needs IN ORDER TO TERMINATE depend on a build inverts the dependency, and
its failure mode is precisely the fail-open this phase exists to remove: a
guard that cannot terminate cannot deny. `lint-hooks-runtime-build-seam`
already encodes that concern, and Design B would have had to add an
ensureRuntimeBuild() call to all 19 hooks to satisfy it.

So `hooks/lib/` becomes a third emit location for cli-exit and a fifth for the
registry, preserving the invariant `src/cli-exit.cts`'s own header states: it
imports nothing but node:fs and its sibling registry, and the generator
dual-emits that sibling alongside each copy so a relative require resolves next
to whichever copy loaded it. Shipping needed no change — build-hooks.js already
declares HOOKS_SUBDIRS_TO_COPY = ['lib'].

Proven, not asserted: the two files are copied into an otherwise-empty tmpdir
and a child process requires them and terminates — PASS exits 0, HOOK_DENY
exits 2 with the payload on both stdout and stderr. That test fails the moment
the hooks copy gains a require reaching outside hooks/lib/.

Also fixed inline: the registry's fifth target let any `--write` test overwrite
the real committed hooks/lib/exit-code-registry.js, because the test helper
derived only three of the other output paths. It now redirects all five, and a
regression test asserts every committed artifact is byte-identical after a
redirected write.

Install-tree goldens pick up the two new shipped paths across 11 runtimes —
insertions only, no removals. lint:ci was green while they were stale, so this
was found by regenerating rather than by a gate.

Verification runs on the remote runner.

Refs #3911

* enhance(#3911): declare a crash policy, and migrate the write guard

Adds `hooks/lib/hook-exit.js` — the hook-facing vocabulary over `terminateNow`,
hand-written because the cli-exit copy beside it is generated:

  allow(payload)          exit 0
  deny(payload, stderr?)  exit 2
  crash(onCrash, payload) whichever the hook DECLARED

`crash()` takes the policy as a required argument with no default, which is the
whole mechanism: fail-open by accident stops being expressible. A hook must
name ALLOW or DENY at the call site, and an unrecognized value terminates
INTERNAL rather than guessing. Fail-open stays legal; fail-open by omission
does not.

`gsd-write-guard.js` is the first hook migrated, all 12 sites, and it exposed a
gap in the seam. `terminateNow`'s doc comment justified its fd-2 write by
citing this hook's `emitBlock` — but modeled it as sending the same bytes to
both streams, when `emitBlock` actually sends full JSON to stdout and only the
bare `reason` string to stderr, because Kimi's hook bus feeds stderr verbatim
back to the model. Migrating as written would have turned a readable sentence
into a JSON blob for Kimi-backed agents.

#3911 requires both "all 19 hooks terminate through terminateNow" and "no
hook's effective default changes". Those are jointly satisfiable only by
teaching the seam to carry a distinct stderr payload, so `terminateNow` gains
an optional third argument: omitted, behavior is byte-for-byte what it was; a
string is written raw, which is exactly the Kimi case. The doc comment's
inaccurate claim about emitBlock is corrected in place.

Proven rather than asserted: the pre-migration file is reconstructed from HEAD
and driven with the same catastrophic-shrink payload as the migrated one —
exit code, stdout and stderr all byte-identical.

Verification runs on the remote runner.

Refs #3911

* enhance(#3911): all 19 hooks terminate through the seam

Migrates the remaining 18 enforcement hooks onto allow/deny/crash. An AST walk
now reports zero `process.exit(` call sites across every `hooks/*.js` — down
from the 91 the census measured.

Each hook with an outer catch declares its policy once, at module top, with the
reason that policy is right for that specific guard: a read guard that cannot
scan must not block the read; a statusline that renders every prompt must
degrade rather than crash; an injection scanner must not retroactively block a
result already returned. Those sentences are the deliverable — they are what
turns fail-open-by-accident into fail-open-on-purpose. No hook's effective
default changed.

Wiring exposed two defects, both fixed here rather than noted.

A SECOND stdout/stderr-splitting site turned up in `gsd-workflow-guard.js`'s
`emitForceAddBlock`, matching the pattern already known from the write guard —
full JSON to stdout, bare reason to stderr for the Kimi bus. It uses the
`stderrPayload` argument added in the previous commit, which is now carrying
its second real caller rather than one special case.

More seriously, `terminateNow` emitted both streams inside ONE try, so a
payload that failed to serialize aborted before the stderr write ever ran. The
two windsurf guards write nothing to stdout on a block and only a reason string
to stderr, so `deny(undefined, reason)` exited 2 with EMPTY stderr — a deny
that silently loses its reason, which is the exact "fails with success" class
this epic exists to close. The streams are now emitted independently, each with
its own guard, and `undefined` means "nothing to write for this stream" rather
than an error. Regression tests inject a throwing write on one fd and assert
the other still receives its payload; they fail against the single-try version.

Byte-identity was proven per hook, not assumed: each pre-change file is
reconstructed from HEAD and driven side by side with the migrated one across
its normal path, its deny path, malformed stdin and empty stdin — exit code,
stdout and stderr compared.

Verification runs on the remote runner.

Refs #3911

* enhance(#3911): harden the three shell hooks, and pin every hook's policy

`gsd-phase-boundary.sh`, `gsd-session-state.sh` and `gsd-validate-commit.sh`
gain `set -euo pipefail`.

The expected hazard did not materialize, and that is worth recording: every
intentionally-non-zero command in all three is already the condition of an
`if`/`elif`, which `set -e` never fires on, and none of them reads a
possibly-unset variable or pipes through a grep that may legitimately match
nothing. No `|| true` guards were needed. Each hook was still checked
command-by-command before the flags went in rather than after.

Twenty-one before/after cases across the three hooks — disabled and enabled,
planning and non-planning, missing STATE.md, malformed JSON, the Kimi payload
shape, quoted and unquoted `-m`, valid and over-long Conventional Commits —
all match on exit code, stdout and stderr.

The hardening is shown to actually fire, not merely added: with a stubbed
`node` that fails at the JSON-emit step, phase-boundary and session-state go
from silently exiting 0 with empty stdout to failing visibly with the error
surfaced. No such case could be constructed for `gsd-validate-commit.sh`,
whose every statement already sits inside an if-condition — recorded as
unproven rather than claimed.

`tests/hooks-crash-policy.test.cjs` adds the per-hook coverage the issue asks
for, table-driven over all 19 hooks rather than 76 hand-written cases: normal
allow, deny where a deny path exists, crash-honors-the-declared-policy, and an
unclosed-stdin case — the one `process.exitCode` structurally cannot serve. The
deny assertions encode each hook's ACTUAL stream split rather than a uniform
shape, since four of the six deliberately differ. A drift guard enumerates
`hooks/*.js` and fails if a terminating hook is ever added without a row.

Writing those tests surfaced two hooks that emit a block decision in their JSON
body and exit 0. Both were checked rather than assumed, and neither is a
fails-with-success: `gsd-read-injection-scanner.js` is PostToolUse, where the
tool has already run and exit 2 has no meaning, and `gsd-cursor-subagent-start.js`
follows Cursor's JSON-body protocol. They are deliberately left alone — a
mechanical sweep to `deny()` would have broken exactly these two.

Verification runs on the remote runner.

Refs #3911

* fix(#3838): the commit validator says when it could not validate

#3911 claims to subsume #3838. Measurement said otherwise, so this closes it
for real rather than by assertion.

`set -euo pipefail`, added earlier on this branch, does NOT fix #3838: bash
exempts a command used as an `if` condition from `set -e`, and all three of the
hook's swallow-and-pass sites are exactly that shape. Verified against the
hardened hook with a node shim that fails only the classifier call — a
non-conforming commit still exited 0 with empty stdout AND empty stderr,
indistinguishable from "your commit conforms". That is the defect verbatim.

All three sites named in #3838 now capture the real exit status instead of
consuming it as a condition, and each distinguishes its genuine negative from
"could not run":

- the classifier: 0 = is a git commit, 1 = genuinely not one, anything else =
  could not classify. Its `node -e` now wraps the require and the call in
  try/catch and exits 3 on a throw, so a broken require chain can never be
  mistaken for `isGitSubcommand` legitimately returning false — which is the
  arm that matters, since `token-scanner.cjs` is a gitignored build artifact
  and a fresh checkout lands there.
- the opt-in config read and the JSON command extraction get the same
  treatment.

On "could not run" the hook emits a diagnostic to stderr naming which check
failed and why, then exits 0. The issue confirms this is safe — it is a
PreToolUse hook, so stderr does not disturb the JSON protocol — and ranks it
the smallest sufficient fix. The gate still fails open, but it can no longer do
so silently, which is the whole complaint: a validator that disables itself
quietly costs more than one that is absent, because it is trusted.

Both controls are unchanged and pinned by tests: a conforming commit still
passes silently, a non-conforming one still exits 2 with its existing block
payload. The defect test asserts stderr is non-empty and names the failure; it
fails against the pre-fix hook.

Verification runs on the remote runner.

Refs #3911, #3838

* docs(#3911): document the hook crash-policy contract

Reference and Explanation via a new docs/features fragment (FEATURES.md is
generated from it), INVENTORY rows for the three new hooks/lib files, and an
ARCHITECTURE note on the hooks section.

How-To: docs/how-to/declare-a-hook-crash-policy.md, indexed from docs/README.md
— a hook author now has to choose and declare a crash policy, which is more
than one step and crosses into which harness protocol their hook speaks. It
covers allow/deny/crash, writing an ON_CRASH reason that is actually useful,
when a deny needs a distinct stderr payload, the two hooks whose harness reads
a JSON-body decision and must NOT use deny(), and what to do when a check
cannot run at all — with #3838 as the worked example.

Refs #3911

* test(#3911): prove the seam actually ships, and stop hand-rolling temp cleanup

Two review findings.

The acceptance criterion 'hooks/dist/** stays in parity via the build seam
(lint:hooks-runtime-build-seam)' was misstated and unmet: that lint checks
something else — that a hook requiring a compiled gsd-core/bin/lib module also
calls ensureRuntimeBuild(). Nothing exercised that the three new hooks/lib
files reach hooks/dist/lib at all. That gap is not theoretical: #770 is a
recorded ship-blocking bug where a new hook never shipped because a copy list
missed it. The suite now builds dist through the repo's own ensureBuiltHooks(),
byte-compares each shipped copy against its source, and spawns a child that
requires the SHIPPED dist copy and denies — which is what catches a copy that
exists but cannot resolve its sibling registry.

gsd-validate-commit.sh hand-duplicated mktemp/run/rm three times; one idempotent
trap on EXIT replaces them, guarded so cleanup cannot alter the exit status.
Behavior-neutral across five cases, with temp-file counts taken before and
after each run.

Refs #3911

* fix(#3911): stage transitive hook lib requires, not just one level

The remote run returned 7 failures across 3 real causes.

The important one is a PRODUCTION bug this phase exposed rather than caused.
`writeCursorHooksJson` scanned each hook script for `./lib/X` requires exactly
one level deep and never re-scanned the lib files it staged for their own
sibling requires. Nothing had a transitive lib dependency before, so the gap
was invisible. Adding hook-exit.js -> cli-exit.js -> exit-code-registry.js
made real Cursor installs ship a bundle that dies at require time with
MODULE_NOT_FOUND. It now walks to a fixed point, and a real installed Cursor
hook runs to completion.

The staging harness in shared-hooks-dir-resolution hand-copied its fixture, so
the injection scanner crashed at require time and its exit-1 was being read as
a policy decision. Migrated to copyScriptWithDeps, which walks the require
graph — the repo's recorded rule for this class, since adding another
copyFileSync keeps it alive for the next person.

The missing-lib-source test in cursor-hook-workspace-roots hardcoded which lib
file it expected to be named in the abort message; the same throw now fires for
a different file first. Its assertion is unchanged in substance — staging still
must abort rather than ship a broken hook — only the name is no longer pinned.

The last one was my own test asserting an uppercase reason code. Measured
against origin/next: the pre-change hook emits the same lowercase
'config_unreadable', so the test was wrong, not the migration. Corrected to the
real value rather than making the code match the test.

Verification runs on the remote runner.

Refs #3911

* chore(#3911): regenerate the cursor install-tree golden

The staging fix means a Cursor install now correctly carries the two
transitive lib files it was silently missing. Additive only — no path was
removed. The golden diff is the evidence the packaging defect was real.

Refs #3911

* chore(#3911): backfill the changeset PR number

Refs #3911

* fix(#3911): a git probe that timed out is not a negative

A macOS CI lane failed three deny cases at 2084ms, 2112ms and 2177ms — just
past the 2000ms budget these hooks give their git probes. The three that passed
took 72ms, 595ms and 651ms. Under shard contention `git rev-parse` overruns,
the hook reads the non-zero result as "not a git repo", and allows with exit 0
and empty stdout AND empty stderr. Under load, the guards silently stop
guarding. That is ADR-3889's thesis exactly, sitting inside the security hooks
this phase is about.

The repo had already recognized the class in one place — gsd-cursor-subagent-start.js
fail-closed-denies on `git_timed_out` (#3045) — but nowhere else.

`hooks/lib/git-probe.js` classifies a probe's outcome, distinguishing a real
non-zero exit from ETIMEDOUT, a signal kill, and a spawn failure, rather than
folding all four into `status !== 0`. Three guards route their eight git probes
through it.

The resolution is the same shape #3838 took, and the same one that issue
endorsed as smallest-sufficient: fail open, but loudly. **No exit code changes
on any path** — a developer on a loaded machine is still not blocked, which
keeps #3911's declaration-pass contract intact for exit codes. What changes is
that the hook now says on stderr which probe could not answer, instead of
presenting silence as a clean verdict.

Scope was checked across every hooks/*.js, not just the three that failed:
gsd-agent-isolation-guard spawns no git; gsd-statusline's two probes gate only
a cosmetic display segment, not an allow/deny decision, and are left alone.

The C2 deny assertion was a real-race test — it demanded exit 2 while a slow
git legitimately yields 0. It now requires the hook to either deny, or allow
with a diagnostic naming the probe that could not run; a silent allow still
fails, so the assertion is not vacuous. A deterministic regression stubs git on
PATH to sleep past the budget rather than waiting for load to reproduce it.

Verification runs on the remote runner.

Refs #3911

* test(#3911): a PATH shim cannot intercept the hooks' git spawn on Windows

The deterministic timeout regression stubbed git on PATH and asserted the
guard reports rather than silently allows. It passes on Linux and macOS and
failed on Windows in 83ms and 176ms — the stub was never invoked at all.

Mechanism: the hooks call spawnSync('git', args) with no shell:true, so on
Windows CreateProcess resolves git.exe only and never a PATH .cmd shim. The
git.cmd branch could not have worked and is removed rather than left implying
a Windows path that does. Adding shell:true to the hooks to serve a test would
change product behavior and widen an injection surface, so the case is skipped
on win32 only, with the mechanism written into the skip reason so a future
reader does not 'fix' it that way.

Linux and macOS keep the coverage, and macOS is where the underlying fail-open
was actually caught.

Refs #3911

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-27 22:21:10 -04:00
Tom Boucher
03b7125293 enhance(#3909): a probe that could not run no longer asserts a verdict (#3944)
* test(#3909): failing-first suite for the fabricated probe fallbacks

Binds the four fabrication sites found by executing the surfaces (ADR-3889
failure class (c)), each with a positive control so an over-firing fix goes red:

- the blocking api-coverage.verify-pre gate certifying "no external-API
  integration" from a zero-byte phase scope
- the assumption-delta query route scanning an unresolvable phase section as
  the empty string and reporting it as an examined negative
- both capability fragments' probe fallbacks, which append a fabricated
  verdict rather than replacing, and fire on the legitimate exit-1 negative

Verification runs on the remote runner.

Refs #3909

* enhance(#3909): a probe that could not run no longer asserts a verdict

ADR-3889 Phase 5. Four sites turned a failed or unexamined probe into a
confident negative; each now reports what it could not establish.

- check api-coverage.verify-pre: a phase with no plan body and no roadmap
  section ran detection over zero bytes and PASSED the blocking seal gate,
  certifying "no external-API integration" from input it never read. It now
  holds with scope_unavailable. The discriminator is bytes examined, never
  signals found, so a phase whose plans are real and simply carry no API
  vocabulary passes exactly as before.
- query assumption-delta scan: an unresolvable phase section was scanned as
  the empty string and reported as an examined negative. It now returns
  {skipped, reason: phase_unresolved}, still at exit 0 — an ADR-2980 degraded
  result in the payload, leaving the gsd-tools exit projection to P8.
- both capability fragments: `|| echo '{"detected":false}'` appended rather
  than replaced, and fired on the legitimate exit-1 negative, so a correct
  answer and an honest skip both arrived as two concatenated objects. They now
  keep the probe's own payload and manufacture only an explicit
  probe_unavailable skip when the probe produced nothing at all.

Every registered outcome is more restrictive on a blocking gate, so this can
turn a false green red and never a red green.

Docs: FEATURES 156, CONFIGURATION (both keys), references/api-coverage.md
seal-time outcome table, and a new how-to for the reason-code vocabulary.

Verification runs on the remote runner.

Closes #3909

* test(#3909): correct the stale unknown-phase assertion

`unknown phase → detected:false, no throw (graceful)` scanned phase 999
against a two-phase roadmap and asserted `detected === false`. That pinned
the fabrication as intended behavior: the phase does not exist, so the
detector was handed the empty string and its "no core assumption changed"
answer described nothing that was ever read.

It now asserts the skipped-with-reason shape. The graceful-degradation
contract the test was actually protecting — the query succeeds and does not
throw on an unknown phase — is unchanged.

Found by code review, not by the author.

Refs #3909

* docs(#3909): author the FEATURES entry in its generator source

`docs/FEATURES.md` is generated by `scripts/gen-features.cjs` from the
per-feature fragments in `docs/features/`. The API-coverage entry was edited
in the generated file, so the next regeneration silently dropped it.

The text now lives in `docs/features/api-coverage-gate.md` and
`docs/FEATURES.md` is regenerated from it, leaving the shipped file
byte-identical and its content actually derivable.

Caught by `lint:generated-sync`.

Refs #3909

* test(#3909): bind the skip to "not found", and pin the discriminator

The first verification run went red on one case, and the case was wrong
rather than the code.

`getRoadmapPhaseWithFallback` returns `null` for an unknown phase and for a
missing ROADMAP.md, but for a section whose body is whitespace-only it returns
the heading line alone — which is not empty. So a body-less section WAS found,
and reporting `detected:false` over its heading is a real negative, not a
fabrication. The test had assumed the resolver yielded `''` there.

Correcting the test rather than the resolver keeps `skipped` bound to the
distinction the issue asks for — found versus not found — and avoids diverging
`assumption-delta scan` from `roadmap.get-phase`, which the fragment documents
as sharing one resolver.

Also adds the seeded property the test matrix had promised: for any plan body,
the scope read back is whitespace-only exactly when the body was. That pins the
gate's discriminator to bytes examined, so it cannot quietly become "no signals
found", across unicode whitespace and CRLF.

`docs/INVENTORY.md` picks up the reference doc's new seal-time outcome table —
surfaced by the co-change gate, not by a lint failure.

Refs #3909

* chore(#3909): backfill the changeset PR number

Refs #3909

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-27 15:50:12 -04:00
Tom Boucher
c5f2b94b27 enhance(#3907): gates report no-input instead of a verdict they never reached (#3932)
* feat(#3907): gates report no-input instead of asserting a verdict they never reached

The three stdin-reading gates bound 2 to a stdin read error only, with no arm for stdin closed at zero bytes - so empty input flowed into the detector, found nothing, and exited 1, which each module's own comment defines as a negative verdict. An unset PHASE_SECTION made the UI gate assert the phase has no UI. Empty and whitespace-only input now exit NO_INPUT, and a read error exits UNAVAILABLE rather than a locally-invented 2, both resolved through the registry and delivered by terminateNow.

The exit code was only half of it: under --json the same input emitted {detected:false}, byte-identical to the fabricated payload #3909 exists to fix, and the blocking coverage gate reads that payload. Empty input now emits the in-tree {skipped:true,reason} form with no detected key at all.

teams-status is excluded: it never reads stdin and has no invented 2, so the four-module framing in the issue and ADR is wrong. The dead root bin/lib/ui-safety-gate.cjs is deleted - no installer reference, no workflow invocation, and the live fallback chains are for other modules. Its removal restores the unit tests to the module that actually ships; they had been asserting the stale copy's two-field shape, which is why it drifted unnoticed.

* fix(#3907): drive gate tests through the process seam, and make removed-but-needed basename-precise

CONTRIBUTING requires every subprocess go through tests/helpers/process-seam.cjs; two of the three gate suites hand-rolled spawnSync while the third, added in the same change, used runNode correctly for the identical injection case. Converted the blocks this change added, leaving pre-existing ones alone.

Deleting one of two files sharing a basename made lint-removed-but-needed report 14 references that were all to the surviving canonical module - the false-positive class its own docstring names. It now matches on the deleted file's full path when a surviving file shares its basename, which is more precise rather than weaker: a genuine full-path reference still fails, and behaviour is unchanged when no basename collides. It immediately caught a docstring on this branch that spelled the deleted path.

* test(#3907): update the one existing assertion that pinned the old empty-stdin verdict

A pre-existing test asserted exit 1 on empty stdin - the defect this phase removes - and was missed because the change added new blocks without auditing existing ones pinning the old contract. Audited the rest: the other three status-1 assertions in that file all feed real input and are the genuine-negative controls that must keep returning 1, so exactly one was stale. The retired 2 is gone from the describe's contract comment too.

* chore(#3907): backfill changeset pr number

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-27 11:37:31 -04:00
Tom Boucher
39673ae9ff fix(#3738): antigravity global skills/agents install to ~/.gemini/config (#3921)
* test(#3738): antigravity global skills/agents must resolve under ~/.gemini/config

Regression tests (RED first): --skills-root and gsd-tools query surfaces,
install-plan dest dirs, and converter skills-path rewrite.

* fix(#3738): antigravity global skills/agents install to ~/.gemini/config

Antigravity's machine-local discovery scans ~/.gemini/config/{skills,agents};
the configHome (~/.gemini/antigravity) is deprecated for artifacts. Declare the
ADR-1239 skills/agents 'home' override on the antigravity global layout — the
same mechanism codex uses (.agents) — and divert ~/.claude/skills/ references
in converted global content to ~/.gemini/config/skills/. configHome, settings,
probe/migration semantics, and the local .agents layout are unchanged.

* fix(#3738): retire deprecated configHome artifacts via installer migration 010

Next install converges an existing antigravity install: manifest-managed
skills/gsd-*/ and agents/gsd-*.md under the configHome (a location AGY does
not scan) are removed — modified files backed up first, unmanifested and
non-gsd entries preserved — and now-empty containers retired. Global scope
only; the local .agents surface is live. Docs + inventory updated.

* fix(#3738): converter sync in bin/install.js, harness emit-root coverage, migration baseline

- bin/install.js converter gains the same ~/.claude/skills → ~/.gemini/config/
  rewrite as src (ADR-1508 dual copy must stay in sync).
- Parity-manifest walk covers home-override emit roots (extraEmitRootsFor) so
  antigravity's emitted skills/agents stay differential-visible at their new
  install root; install-tree fixture regen confirms an unchanged key set.
- skills-from-commands rule declares the antigravity converter as a
  runtime-scoped transform; one ack fragment covers the identity-classed
  workflow whose antigravity copy embeds the old skills path.
- Migration 010 checksum baseline + home-override set doc updated; existing
  tests updated to the #3738 contract (global dest, golden parity via layout
  dest, integration expectations).

* fix(#3738): tolerate an absent extra emit root on baseline-side measurement

The base tree's installer predates the home override, so <HOME>/.gemini/config
does not exist there; walk() threw ENOENT and the in-job baseline build failed.
An absent extra root is the legitimate pre-override shape — skip it.

* fix(#3738): review findings — manifest agents root, bare skills-path rewrite, guard comment

- writeManifest resolves the agents-kind home override (_kindDestDirSafe), so
  the manifest records agents at their actual install root and drift detection
  keeps working (isolated review finding 1, major).
- Converter bare forms ~/.claude/skills and $HOME/.claude/skills (no trailing
  slash) divert to ~/.gemini/config/skills instead of falling through to the
  retired configHome path (finding 2).
- real-home-guard comment updated: antigravity's global agents kind is the
  first agents-kind home override (finding 3, doc-only).
- Regression tests for both behavioral findings.

* chore(#3738): changeset fragment (pr number backfilled after PR creation)

* chore(#3738): backfill changeset PR number (3921)

* fix(#3738): sandbox HOME in tests that install antigravity global artifacts

antigravity is the first home-override runtime in the golden-parity and
skills-wrapper suites (codex is not in their runtime lists), so those tests
never needed HOME sandboxing — the real-home guard now (correctly) refuses
their un-sandboxed global installs on CI, where HOME is the passwd home.

* fix(#3738): stop the K3 sequential-sandbox env leak; sandbox L2's home-override plans

K3's two back-to-back sandboxHome calls leave HOME pointing at the first
sandbox once the after-hooks restore (each call saves the env as it found
it, so the second saves the first's sandbox as 'original'). On the windows
matrix that leaked gsd-k3-qwen-* home into the L2 property, whose
antigravity/global run then (correctly) refused via the #3712 real-home
guard — antigravity is the runtime that made L2's plan escape into
os.homedir(). K3 now manages the env with a single restore; L2 sandboxes
HOME per run, mirroring L1.

* fix(#3738): L2 property's HOME sandbox must exist on disk

The #3712 guard's sandbox exemption fails closed when identify(effectiveHome)
is 'absent' — L2 never created its configDir, so on the windows matrix (tmpdir
under the real home) the antigravity/global run refused even with HOME
sandboxed. Create the per-run sandbox dir and clean it up.

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-27 02:24:03 -04:00
Tom Boucher
e20744eacb enhance(#3884): failure is a value — strict argv, and --pick that signals absence (#3922)
* test(#3884): failing-first coverage for strict argv and absence-signalling --pick

ADR-3473 §8.4 says failure is a value. Three families currently encode failure as
success, and this commit pins each one RED before the fix lands.

Measured on this tree, 2026-08-26:

  gsd-tools generate-slug "test" --pick nonexistent
    -> empty stdout, exit 0                                     (#3365)

  gsd-tools audit-open --pick nonexistent_field
    -> dumps the entire human-readable audit report, exit 0

  gsd-tools generate-slug "Hello World" --raw --pick bogus
    -> prints "hello-world", another field's value, exit 0

  gsd-tools query state.planned-phase 3        (positional, no --phase)
    -> exit 0; STATE.md's "Phase: 2 of 5 (Widget Support)" is overwritten to
       "Phase: null - READY TO EXECUTE" and the frontmatter gains a corrupted
       current_phase_name                                        (#3358)

tests/pick-flag.test.cjs:27 previously asserted the #3365 defect as the contract
("returns empty string for missing field", success === true). That assertion is
replaced by the required behavior rather than deleted.

The new parseNamedArgs block calls the spec-object signature that does not exist
yet, so it fails today by construction. The 11 existing behavior-lock tests are
left untouched here; they are corrected in the implementation commit.

C1/C4 assert at the consumer's output - STATE.md's bytes - per ADR-3180
Decision 4(b). A unit assertion on the parser would have passed throughout this
defect's life.

Design:      .gsd/phase/feat-3884-failure-is-a-value/40-design.md
Test matrix: .gsd/phase/feat-3884-failure-is-a-value/50-test-matrix.md

Refs #3884

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

* enhance(#3884): failure is a value — strict argv, and --pick that signals absence

Implements ADR-3473 §8.4. Absence, emptiness and failure stop being interchangeable
ways to say "I could not answer".

parseNamedArgs (src/command-arg-projection.cts)
  Takes a spec object with a REQUIRED `positionals: number | 'rest'` and returns the
  hub's Result shape instead of a bare Record. Declaring the positional arity is what
  makes #3358's call site unrepresentable rather than merely detectable: an unrecognized
  flag or a token past the declared boundary is now InvalidArgs, naming the offending
  token and listing the accepted flags. The legacy positional-array call shape throws
  a TypeError — an internal invariant violation per ADR-3473 Decision 2, so a stale
  hand-written .cjs call site fails loudly instead of destructuring undefined off a
  Result. parseNamedArgsOrExit projects a failure onto the caller's error(); it is a
  projection over the one parser, not a second parser.

  Measured before, against a STATE.md with a populated phase-2 block:
    query state.planned-phase 3        (positional, no --phase)
    -> exit 0; "Phase: 2 of 5 (Widget Support)" overwritten to
       "Phase: null - READY TO EXECUTE", frontmatter gains a corrupted
       current_phase_name
  After: exit 1, `unexpected positional argument "3"`, STATE.md byte-identical.
  The flag form is unchanged and still updates STATE.md.

--pick <field> (gsd-core/bin/gsd-tools.cjs)
  extractField returns {found,value}, and the pick block no longer shares one catch
  between "output was not JSON" and "field was absent". An absent field exits 1 with
  pick_field_absent, naming the field and the keys that do exist; non-JSON output exits 1
  with pick_output_not_json instead of dumping the command's entire output. A field that
  is PRESENT with value null, '', 0 or false still prints at exit 0 — that is an answer,
  not a failure, and it is what keeps `--pick count` printing 0 on a fresh project.

  Measured before: `audit-open --pick nonexistent_field` printed the whole human-readable
  audit report at exit 0, and `generate-slug X --raw --pick bogus` printed "hello-world" —
  a different field's value, confidently, at exit 0.

  ADR-3409 Decision 7 explicitly deferred this contract fix to #3473; this is it. The
  sub-issue's "returns 0 when the count is zero OR absent" wording is superseded by the
  ADR rule it implements: zero prints 0, absence exits non-zero. Defaulting absence to 0
  would demote "could not answer" to "the answer is zero" — the hazard
  docs/how-to/resolve-unreachable-guard-findings.md already warns against.

Guard ledger (ADR-3473 Decision 6)
  scripts/lint-unreachable-guard-drift.cjs Detector A is RETIRED. Its premise — that a
  `--pick ... || echo` arm can never fire — is now false, so the shape it forbade is the
  correct idiom and keeping it would forbid the fix. Detector B (glob-consuming cat/ls,
  a nullglob mechanism this change does not touch) is retained in full, as are the shared
  scanner, the escape-marker parser and the baseline. Net: -1 detector, 0 added. The file
  is not deleted.

Call-site audit
  45 prompt-layer --pick invocations, every one a plain X=$(...) assignment — none in an
  if test, && chain, or a pipeline whose status is consumed, and no shell block in
  workflows/commands/agents/references sets -e. Of the 13 (command, field) pairs the
  prompt layer reads, 10 are always present; the 3 sometimes-absent ones each sit behind
  a prior found/existence check. No ADR-3409-class "field the command never produces"
  remains.

Design:      .gsd/phase/feat-3884-failure-is-a-value/40-design.md
Test matrix: .gsd/phase/feat-3884-failure-is-a-value/50-test-matrix.md

Refs #3884

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

* fix(#3884): escape untrusted tokens in diagnostics, and cover five unpinned rows

Two review findings, both fixed here rather than recorded as limits.

1. A newline in an untrusted token forged a second stderr line.

   Before, plain-text mode:
     $ gsd-tools query state.planned-phase $'foo\nError: forged second line'
     Error: unexpected positional argument "foo
     Error: forged second line"

   After:
     Error: unexpected positional argument "foo\nError: forged second line"

   --json-errors mode was never affected — io.error runs that payload through
   JSON.stringify. Plain-text mode writes 'Error: ' + message verbatim, and the
   three new InvalidArgs reasons plus the two new --pick diagnostics all
   interpolate a token that comes straight from argv.

   Fixed with ONE shared helper, formatDiagnosticToken (src/io.cts), applied at
   every interpolation site — not a copy per site. It is deliberately NOT
   applied inside error() itself: several callers in this tree emit intentional
   multi-line diagnostics, and escaping newlines there would mangle them.

   The available-top-level-keys list needed the same treatment for a reason the
   review did not anticipate: `frontmatter get <file>` reads an ARBITRARY user
   document and echoes that document's own keys into the diagnostic. Verified
   reachable — a frontmatter key containing a newline reaches the key list — so
   formatKeyForDiagnosticList is guarding a live path, not a hypothetical one.
   Ordinary keys still render plain and unquoted; a fix that merely dropped the
   key would also have passed a "one line" assertion, so the test pins the
   escaped key's presence too.

2. Five behavior-table rows were implemented but nothing pinned them:
   B7  a dotted path that dies partway
   B9  bracket syntax on a non-array
   B10 a negative array index, in and out of range
   B14 a JSON root that is not an object
   B17 an @file: payload over 50KB

   B17 is the load-bearing one. output() writes @file:<path> instead of inline
   JSON past 50000 characters, and --pick resolves that BEFORE parsing; with no
   test, a future reordering of those two steps turns every large result into a
   false pick_output_not_json. The fixture seeds 1200 phase directories and
   measures the payload at 62474 characters, asserting the spill actually
   happened rather than assuming it.

Refs #3884

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

* fix(#3884): correct the strict-argv surface against a full verification run

The first full run came back with 90 failures across 12 files, none in the new
tests. They were the argv surface telling me what it actually is. Ten root
causes; each classified before anything was changed.

I over-implemented, and that is reverted.

  ADR-3473 §8.4 says parseNamedArgs rejects "unrecognized and positional
  tokens". It says nothing about a value flag whose value is missing. Making
  that an error was my design decision, not the rule, and it broke a
  deliberately recorded contract: `--prd` with no value resolving to null
  (tests/init.test.cjs emptyPrdValueIsFalsyAndTreatedAsAbsent, row B5;
  tests/section-manifest-init-facts.test.cjs "flag-shaped value"). The
  "requires a value" branch is deleted outright rather than kept behind an
  option — an unused strictness mode is speculative generality. Unknown-flag
  and unexpected-positional rejection, which is what §8.4 actually mandates,
  is unchanged.

--wave needed a third flag kind the original design did not anticipate.

  `--wave N` is documented (commands/gsd/execute-phase.md:4,48) and the
  shipped workflow reconstructs and passes it (execute-phase.md:84), while
  #2932 records token-PRESENCE semantics: the CLI cares only that the flag
  appeared, and the value belongs to the workflow layer. That is neither a
  boolean flag nor a value flag, so `optionalValueFlags` now exists —
  presence-only in `data`, and the validation cursor consumes a following
  non-flag token so it is not reported as a stray positional. Every other
  declared boolean flag was checked against every argument-hint and prose
  usage in commands/, workflows/, agents/ and docs/; `--wave` is the only one
  of this shape.

Five tests were pinning forms that never worked.

  tests/adr857-core-without-capabilities.test.cjs passed
  `init plan-phase --phase 01-stub`, but the documented form is positional
  (docs/CLI-TOOLS.md:776) and the handler reads args[2] — which for that form
  is the literal string "--phase". Measured on the pre-fix build against a
  real .planning/phases/01-stub/ directory:

    init plan-phase 01-stub          -> phase_found=true
    init plan-phase --phase 01-stub  -> phase_found=false

  The test asserted only exit 0 and key presence, so it had been green while
  proving nothing about phase resolution. Corrected to the documented form and
  strengthened to assert phase_found === true. Same class in state.test.cjs
  (`--plan-count`, a flag that does not exist; the real one is `--plans`),
  milestone-archive.test.cjs (`init new-milestone --json`, silently ignored),
  and concurrency-safety.test.cjs (a bare positional field name whose
  OR-assertion passed because a whole-document dump happens to contain the
  substring it looked for).

Six handlers had no argv validation at all — the same #3358 shape this phase
exists to close, found while fixing the rest: init verify-work / phase-op /
review / todos / remove-workspace read args[2] with nothing checking the rest,
and validate health read --repair/--backfill through a bare args.includes()
scan that bypassed the parser entirely. All now go through the seam, so the
flag has one owner.

tests/init-debug.test.cjs rows C4/C5 asserted that an unrecognized flag must
NOT fail. That is the behavior §8.4 removes, and Decision 8 says a caller's
local expectation does not override §8, so they are inverted and renamed —
a test still called "ignores an unrecognized flag" while asserting rejection
would be its own defect. Row C6's point is its PWNED canary; that assertion is
kept verbatim and only its exit-status expectation changed, because the
hostile token is now rejected rather than absorbed.

The blast-radius estimate in 40-design.md is corrected rather than quietly
left wrong. get_impact reported MEDIUM / 8 symbols upstream, and that was
accurate for what the graph can see — parseNamedArgs's callers. It cannot see
that those callers' handlers accept argv shapes wider than the code reading
args[2] suggests, which is where the real surface was.

Refs #3884

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

* fix(#3884): withdraw the validate-health tightening, finish the A2/A3 revert

Second full run: 46 failures, down from 90. Four causes, two of them mine.

Reverted `validate health` entirely — it was scope creep, and it broke a real flag.

  ~30 of the 46 read `unknown flag "--json"; accepted: --repair, --backfill`.
  The previous commit routed `validate health` through the parser on the
  reasoning that a flag should have one owner. That was wrong twice over:
  §8.4 names parseNamedArgs and count queries, and `validate health` was never
  a parseNamedArgs call site — it read its flags, just not through the parser,
  so it had no silent-drop defect to fix. Tightening it omitted `--json`, which
  the health-diagnostic suites use heavily. The handler is now byte-for-behaviour
  back to its pre-branch form. `validate context` stays converted: it genuinely
  was a call site, and its `--json` is now declared rather than read by a second
  `args.includes` scan.

  The five handlers that had NO validation at all — init verify-work / phase-op /
  review / todos / remove-workspace — stay fixed. Those read args[2] with nothing
  checking the rest, which is the #3358 shape this phase owns.

Finished the A2/A3 revert. Three tests still encoded the deleted
"a value flag with a missing value is an error" rule, including one added by the
previous commit for that rule. All three now assert the reverted null contract,
and the ones whose titles said "rejected" are renamed — a test named for a
contract it no longer asserts is its own defect.

`--wave=` and `--wave --weird` are correctly rejected. Neither is documented in
commands/gsd/execute-phase.md, gsd-core/workflows/execute-phase.md or docs/, and
neither is emitted by the shipped prompt layer, so both are unrecognized tokens
that §8.4 mandates rejecting. `doesNotConsumeFollowingFlagAsWaveValue` keeps the
property it exists for — asserted directly now, at the parser, that `--wave` does
not swallow a following flag as its value — and only its exit-status expectation
changed.

A contradiction inside this branch, surfaced by the audit and resolved the safe way.

  Two pre-existing #3573 tests call `state begin-phase '2'` and
  `state planned-phase '2'` with a bare positional, relying on the old permissive
  parser to ignore it. This branch's own #3358 regression test requires that exact
  argv to be REJECTED. The two are mutually exclusive.

  Widening the router to accept a bare positional — mirroring complete-phase —
  would have silently re-opened #3358, and was verified to do exactly that: with
  the widened router, `query state.planned-phase 3` returned exit 0 and wrote
  current_phase_name again. It is reverted. docs/CLI-TOOLS.md:116 and
  docs/COMMANDS.md:2192 document only the `--phase N` form for both verbs, so the
  two #3573 tests move to it. Their assertions were never about the call shape —
  only that total_phases survives the resync — and both still pass.

  complete-phase is untouched: its bare positional IS documented, and it keeps the
  dynamic boundary and the negative-space note that record why.

The audit that produced this is in the PR body: for every handler whose declaration
changed, the flags it reads anywhere in its body, the flags the shipped surface
documents, and the shapes the suite passes, compared. The `--json` miss was a
pattern, not an accident — declaring a handler's flags from its parseNamedArgs call
alone misses whatever it reads elsewhere.

Refs #3884

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

* chore(#3884): backfill the changeset PR number

Refs #3884

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

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-27 00:12:13 -04:00
Tom Boucher
878f25025c enhance(#3905): the exit-code registry — one number, one meaning, enforced at build (#3920)
* feat(#3905): the exit-code registry — one number, one meaning, enforced at build

A generated registry replaces locally-invented exit codes. Every entry records code, name, meaning, owning module and the decision that authorized it. The generator refuses to build a table where two entries claim one code, two claim one name, a code falls in a range Node or the shell reserves, 2 is claimed by anything but the hook adapter, or an allocation carries no justification. exitCodeFor is pure and total: it throws rather than returning undefined, including for prototype-chain names.

Inert by design — nothing emits a registered code until #3906. Every registered code is non-zero, asserted over the whole table, so a caller testing for failure behaves identically for pass and trips for everything else.

* feat(#3905): make the registry generator's failures machine-readable

Adds a --json mode carrying {ok, reason, context, detail}, where context is a typed payload naming the specifics the prose embedded - which code collided and under which names, which band rejected a code, which field was missing. The tests now assert on that structure instead of regex-matching the generator's stderr, which CONTRIBUTING prohibits, and the CONTEXT.md glossary gains the entry the issue's scope requires.

* test(#3905): refresh the install-tree fixtures for the new declaration

The registry declaration ships in the install tree, so all 19 golden fixtures needed regenerating. Caught by the remote matrix, not by lint:ci - the install-tree goldens are verified by a test rather than a lint, so a newly shipped file clears every local gate and fails only under the suite.

* chore(#3905): backfill changeset pr number

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-27 00:10:11 -04:00
Tom Boucher
6b7df61938 enhance(#3881): one YAML parser — vendored js-yaml replaces the hand-rolled dialect (#3888)
* docs(#3881): answer §8.1's open question and correct three wrong premises

ADR-3473 §8.1 carries a blocking open question with a forcing function: it must
be answered before any implementation PR for the rule opens. Answered here as (a),
a string-coercing adapter, with the measurement that settles it.

The sequencing note bet that §8.8's schema would make (b) tractable. Measured
against merged reality it does not: only 33 of extractFrontmatter's 78 non-test
call sites read STATE.md, and two of the five compensating mechanisms §8.1 lists
survive real types, leaving ~31 lines across 3 call sites as the actual prize.

Also corrects three claims verified false while answering it. §8.1's justifying
sentence names #3349 and #3360 as defects a real parser would fix; both are
already fixed on next, confirmed by executing the compiled parser rather than
reading it. The guard roster calls lint-frontmatter-scalar-broad-grep.cjs an
expected casualty of this rule, but it guards shell grep idioms in workflow bash
fences and never touches our parser. The same roster calls lint-vendored-deps.cjs
reusable as-is; it is hardcoded to re2js throughout.

The last two were caught by applying the rule this amendment records -- a factual
claim in this ADR is a hypothesis until the implementing phase executes it -- on
its first use.

Refs #3881

* docs(#3881): record that §8.1's fork is ill-posed and (a) is not implementable

An adversarial pass on the Phase 4 design established by execution that
extractFrontmatter is not a YAML parser but a line-oriented scanner whose output
is a function of raw source text. Four spellings of the same value collapse to
one js-yaml tree but produce four distinct legacy strings, one of them mangled.
No adapter over a tree can choose among outputs the tree does not distinguish,
so fork (a) -- keep a string-coercing adapter so the existing contract holds --
cannot be built. For any document with a non-scalar value, (a) collapses into
(b); about 26 percent of frontmatter-carrying documents have one.

Also records three design defects and one new attack surface, all confirmed by
execution: catching a parse failure and returning {} would delete the frontmatter
block on the next write at eight call sites that conflate empty with unparseable;
an empty value yields null where legacy yields {}, and reconstructFrontmatter
omits null-valued keys, so the shipped state template's empty progress key would
vanish; the #1882 truncation probe is parseYamlRegion itself rather than a
pre-parse heuristic, so it cannot both stay unchanged and survive that deletion;
and FAILSAFE_SCHEMA still resolves aliases, expanding seven lines to 22.8 MB.

The rule is not deferred. The measurement is the deliverable and the re-scoping
is recorded as an open question with a forcing function, per section 8's own rule.

Refs #3881

* test(#3881): failing-first rows for block scalars, unicode keys and the missing #3594 matrix

Creates tests/feat-3594-parser-adversarial-frontmatter.test.cjs, the file the fixture README instructs contributors to register fixtures in but which never existed.

Section C: table-driven ownership check over tests/fixtures/adversarial/frontmatter/ so a fixture with no matrix entry fails loudly; six existing fixtures (duplicate-keys, crlf-mixed, unclosed-block, unicode-keys-and-values, null-byte-value, huge-bounded) each get the invariant its README states.

B1 blockScalarValueIsNotTheBlockIndicator: parsing commands/gsd/add-tests.md must give argument-instructions the instruction text, not the literal '|'. RED today.

B2 blockScalarDoesNotInventATopLevelKey: same parse must not produce a top-level Example key scraped from inside the block body. RED today.

B3 unicodeKeyRoundTripsAsIs: the 相 key in unicode-keys-and-values.md must survive parsing; today it is silently dropped. RED today.

Refs #3881

* chore(#3881): vendor js-yaml and generalize the vendored-deps guard to a manifest

Packaging step for ADR-3473 §8.1: makes js-yaml available to gsd-core/bin/** without promoting it out of devDependencies (promoting broke every installed tree, #3496).

gsd-core/bin/lib/vendor/js-yaml.cjs is a verbatim copy of node_modules/js-yaml/dist/js-yaml.js (the self-contained UMD dist bundle, not index.js), exposing load/dump/FAILSAFE_SCHEMA/YAMLException with zero require() calls of its own.

src/vendor/js-yaml.d.cts is hand-authored, not copied, because js-yaml ships no upstream .d.ts and @types/js-yaml is not installed. It is deliberately narrow, declaring only the four symbols in use, so anchors/aliases/custom types/loadAll are unreachable from typed code -- a compile-time enforcement of ADR-3473 §8.1's refusal to expand alias resolution for security reasons. Because it has no upstream counterpart it is excluded from the byte-compare.

scripts/lint-vendored-deps.cjs is refactored from a script hardcoded to re2js into a table-driven VENDORED manifest (one row per package: upstream/vendored .cjs paths, optional .d.cts paths, twin kind upstream-verbatim vs hand-authored) so a second vendored package does not require a second hardcoded check block, per ADR-3473 §8.3 'one implementation per rule'. The four existing re2js checks (vendored .cjs vs node_modules, vendored .d.cts vs node_modules, src/vendor twin vs bin-side twin, devDependency version pin vs installed version) are preserved unchanged; verified pass/fail identical before and after the refactor, and the guard's ability to fail was re-proven with a deliberate one-byte append to both re2js.cjs and js-yaml.cjs, then restored.

docs/INVENTORY.md and docs/INVENTORY-MANIFEST.json (via gen-inventory-manifest.cjs --write, run after build:lib) register vendor/js-yaml.cjs. gsd-core/bin/lib/vendor/README.md documents both vendored packages and the two twin kinds.

Refs #3881

* feat(#3881): parse .planning frontmatter with the vendored js-yaml

ADR-3473 §8.1: extractFrontmatter's read path is no longer a hand-rolled
line scanner. parseYamlRegion, escapeDoubleQuoted, unescapeDoubleQuoted and
parseQuotedScalar are deleted (not patched); parsing now goes through the
vendored js-yaml (./vendor/js-yaml.cjs) under { schema: FAILSAFE_SCHEMA,
json: true }. Everything js-yaml does not do is layered on top, in one
place, carrying the seven design-doc consequences:

1. Empty value: a null js-yaml value is coerced to {} (matching legacy's
   own empty-value contract) so reconstructFrontmatter — which omits
   null-valued keys — still round-trips a bare `key:` line instead of
   deleting it. Verified live: progress: with no value survives
   parse -> reconstruct -> re-parse.

2. Unparseable no longer collapses to a bare {}: a new FRONTMATTER_UNPARSEABLE
   Symbol (exported), keyed exactly like the existing #3257 FULL_LINE_COMMENTS
   channel, is carried on the {} returned for malformed/refused YAML. Invisible
   to Object.keys/entries/JSON.stringify/for-in, so the 70 call sites that
   never inspect it are unaffected; wiring the 8 hasFrontmatter sites to
   consult it is a separate change, not done here.

3. Non-scalar object-list items (the four spellings of `- test: a b` that
   js-yaml collapses into one tree shape) are rendered as a canonical
   `key: value[, key2: value2]` string per item, keeping the existing
   array-of-strings value SHAPE. A full corpus differential over all 1702
   tracked markdown files found 11 residual divergences from the legacy
   parser (enumerated in the PR/report), most of them the parser now being
   MORE correct (a dropped quoted top-level key, the block-scalar/phantom-key
   defect, a dropped Unicode key).

4. The #1882 truncation probe still runs the one real parser, but derives
   its key count from js-yaml's own thrown error and mark.line when the
   whole region doesn't parse cleanly (the dominant real truncation shape:
   fence opened, well-formed keys, no closing fence). Verified against both
   the clean-parse and the exception-fallback path.

5. The #3257 comment channel now attributes each pending column-0 comment
   against js-yaml's own parsed top-level key list (matched by literal key
   text, in document order) instead of the legacy ASCII-only key regex, so
   a comment above a Unicode key attaches correctly.

6. Anchors, aliases and merge keys are refused outright (a raw-text
   pre-scan, since FAILSAFE_SCHEMA still resolves them) — corpus occurrences
   today: zero. A 7-line billion-laughs fixture is verified refused rather
   than expanded.

7. A literal U+0000 is swapped for a private-use sentinel before the parse
   and restored in every resulting string afterward, since js-yaml rejects
   NUL unconditionally under every schema.

escapeDoubleQuoted is deleted and reimplemented via js-yaml's dump()
(forced double-quoted style), with control-char hex escapes lowercased to
keep serialized output byte-stable (#1779 emitted lowercase); it keeps its
exported name and signature for its two other call sites (commands.cts,
runtime-artifact-conversion.cts), which need no change.

frontmatterDeepEqual, the comment channel, sliceTopLevelFrontmatterSegments,
regenerateFrontmatterKey's guard, noOpObjectListSetError and
parseMustHavesBlock are all unchanged — retiring them is fork (b) and is
not this phase.

Refs #3881

* fix(#3881): quote template placeholders and preserve unparseable frontmatter

SECURITY.md/UI-SPEC.md/VALIDATION.md wrote frontmatter placeholders as
bare {N}/{phase-slug}/{date}, which is valid YAML flow-mapping syntax
under the vendored js-yaml parser, not the literal placeholder text
intended. Quote them so they parse as strings.

Wire the FRONTMATTER_UNPARSEABLE Symbol (exported but unused) at the
8 call sites in state.cts/state-transition.cts that compute
hasFrontmatter via Object.keys(extractFrontmatter(...)).length > 0 and
reassemble the document without a frontmatter block when false. That
check conflated 'no frontmatter' with 'unparseable frontmatter' (both
parse to {}), so a document with a merge-conflict marker or refused
alias in its frontmatter had that block silently dropped on write.
Each site now preserves the exact raw bytes stripFrontmatter removed
when the marker is set, leaving the genuinely-empty case unchanged.

Refs #3881

* test(#3881): consequence and boundary coverage for the js-yaml migration

Rows: A1 emptyValuedKeySurvivesAWrite, A2 unparseableDocumentKeepsItsFrontmatterBlock, A3 unparseableIsDistinguishableFromEmpty, A4 nonScalarValuesCanonicalize, A5 truncationProbeStillFiresOnAnOpenFence, A6 commentsStayOnTheirOwnKey, A7 anchorsAndAliasesAreRefused, A8 aliasExpansionCannotExhaustMemory, F1 UNTERMINATED_KEY_THRESHOLD boundary, F2 alias/nesting refusal bound, F3 frontmatter size boundary (huge-bounded.md + larger). Adds tests/fixtures/adversarial/frontmatter/anchor-alias-bomb.md and its entry in the feat-3594 fixture matrix.

Refs #3881

* docs(#3881): document the vendored parser, correct a stale rationale, add a vendoring how-to

Refs #3881

* docs(#3881): correct the frontmatter glossary entry

Two errors in the entry as first written: it named parseYamlRegion as part of
the read path when that function is deleted, and it recorded the eight
hasFrontmatter call sites as unwired follow-on work when they were wired in
e35ac2a2c. Also records the scope caveat that the CLI write path rebuilds the
frontmatter block independently, so the marker binds at the transform layer.

Refs #3881

* docs(#3881): record the semantic-migration decision and the counted guard ledger

The maintainer chose the full semantic migration over splitting the rule into
its own epic or patching the scanner, so section 8.1 is answered as "the fork
was ill-posed and the migration is semantic" rather than as (a) or (b).

Also replaces the pre-implementation guess that this phase would shrink the
guard surface with the counted result: excluding vendored third-party lines the
hand-maintained surface is net +307, and frontmatter.cts grew by 68 lines
despite four functions being deleted, because the compatibility layer over
js-yaml is larger than the scanner it replaced. Section 8.1's stated benefit is
therefore not delivered as written; what improved is the kind of code
maintained, not the amount. Decision 6 requires recording that rather than
netting it away.

Refs #3881

* chore(#3881): changeset for the vendored YAML parser migration

Refs #3881

* test(#3881): golden parity, round-trip property and packaging coverage

Refs #3881

* fix(#3881): refuse anchors structurally and fold in review findings

ADR-3473 §8.1 review findings, addressed inline:

Finding 1 (BLOCKER): refuseAnchorsAndAliases was a raw-line regex that matched
only the bare-key spelling (key: &x). A quoted key ("a": &x), a flow mapping
({b: &x}) and a flow sequence ([&x, *x]) all define/use the SAME anchor
mechanics while never matching that line shape, so the exact expansion the
guard exists to stop went straight through unrefused (a 303-byte quoted-key
bomb expanded to ~35.8MB). Replaced with js-yaml's own `load` `listener`
callback, which reports `state.anchor` for every event belonging to an
anchored node in every spelling, and throws from inside the callback to abort
before any expansion (~1-2ms vs full expand-then-discard). A merge key with
an alias is still refused (merge always requires a previously anchored node,
so the alias itself trips the listener); a bare merge key with NO alias is no
longer separately refused, documented as intentional: FAILSAFE_SCHEMA never
resolves `!!merge`, so it carries no expansion risk. Table-driven tests added
for all four bypass spellings + merge key, plus a quoted-key-spelled
billion-laughs fixture registered in the adversarial matrix and README.

Finding 2: src/vendor/js-yaml.d.cts's docblock falsely claimed anchors/
aliases were "simply UNREACHABLE from typed code" through the twin. Corrected
to state the truth: anchor/alias resolution is document-level `load`
mechanics reachable through exactly the declared surface, and refusal is
enforced at RUNTIME (Finding 1's listener), not by the type surface.

Finding 3 (MAJOR): the null-byte sentinel (U+E000) round-trip was
non-injective — restoreNullBytesDeep rewrote every U+E000 in the parsed tree
back to NUL, including one the document author legitimately wrote, silently
corrupting it. Now refuses outright whenever the raw region already contains
U+E000 (consistent with the existing anchor/merge-key refusal path), making
the substitution provably injective. Tests added for a real NUL alone
(preserved), a pre-existing U+E000 alone (refused, not corrupted), and both
together (refused, not merged into one byte).

Finding 4 (MAJOR): scripts/lint-vendored-deps.cjs's `srcTwin` field was dead
for a hand-authored row (only read inside the upstream-verbatim branch) —
exactly how Finding 2's stale docblock drifted unnoticed. Added
checkHandAuthoredTwin: every value-level export the twin DECLARES must be an
actual own property of the vendored runtime module at require-time. Tests
added, including a sensor that a declared-but-nonexistent export IS caught.

Finding 5: the existingFm/hasFrontmatter/stripFrontmatter/fmPrefix/
unparseableFm/reassemble preamble, copy-pasted at 7 sites in
state-transition.cts plus a sixth hand-inlined copy in state.cts's
cmdStateCompletePhase, is now one exported helper
(beginFrontmatterReassembly) every site routes through, including the
hand-inlined one. Three call sites (beginPhaseCore, patchCore, updateCore)
keep a literal `body = stripFrontmatter(content)` assignment alongside the
helper call so scripts/lint-state-write-path-drift.cjs's single-hop backward
scan (which does not chase aliases) still sees the strip; stripFrontmatter is
pure/idempotent so the extra call changes nothing observable.

Finding 6: corrected the frontmatter.cts docblock's stale "wiring is a
separate change" claim (the 8 call sites are wired on this branch) and the
changeset's backlink from (#3473) to (#3881).

Finding 7: fixed the lint:ci failures blocking the gate — an
@typescript-eslint/only-throw-error violation from throwing a bare Symbol as
the anchor-detected signal (now a real Error subclass), unused-var warnings
left over from the Finding 5 refactor, a lint-test-file-count cap exceeded by
two migration-specific test files (allowlisted with justification), and the
lint-state-write-path-drift false positive from Finding 5's helper (fixed
above). tests/frontmatter-golden-parity.test.cjs:117's execFileSync already
carried an explicit timeout; no change was needed there.

Golden fixture: added a golden entry for the new
anchor-alias-bomb-quoted.md fixture ({} — matches what the legacy line
scanner would also produce, since it independently dropped every quoted
top-level key). No other corpus document diverges: real .planning/ documents
carry zero anchors/aliases/merge keys/U+E000 today.

Refs #3881

* fix(#3881): fold in second-round review findings

Finding 1 (BLOCKER): tests/frontmatter.test.cjs pinned the pre-migration
ASCII-only key regex for the Unicode fixture; updated to require the 相
key's value now that js-yaml has no such restriction. Audited the rest of
the file for other pre-migration pins (block scalars, quoted keys,
flattened values, empty values, duplicate keys, unclosed blocks, null
bytes) by execution against real fixtures; found none regressed.

Finding 2: parseYamlRegion and escapeDoubleQuoted renamed to
parseGuardedYamlRegion and escapeDoubleQuotedScalar in src/frontmatter.cts
so no function still answers to the deleted hand-rolled scanner's name
(ADR-3473 §8.1 "deleted, not patched"). escapeDoubleQuotedScalar's three
external call sites (src/commands.cts, src/runtime-artifact-conversion.cts)
updated in the same change — a mechanical rename, not an ADR-amendment
matter.

Finding 3 (BLOCKER): fixed a real crash and a silent data-loss bug found
by execution. A top-level key named constructor/__proto__/toString/
valueOf/hasOwnProperty crashed reconstructFrontmatter (bracket read
resolving an inherited Object.prototype member); a key literally named
__proto__ was silently DROPPED entirely (bracket assignment on an
ordinary {} invoked the inherited __proto__ setter instead of creating a
data property). Fixed by building every parsed Frontmatter object with
Object.create(null), and replacing an `in` check with hasOwnProperty.call
in propagateCommentChannel. Added round-trip tests for all five hostile
keys, each with its own leading comment.

Finding 4 (MAJOR): escapeDoubleQuotedScalar's docstring falsely claimed
full byte-stability across the migration. Verified by execution: BEL/NUL/
NEL/NBSP/LS/PS/BOM now emit YAML-named escapes instead of the old hex/raw-
literal forms. Proved round-trip equivalence (each escape re-parses to the
exact source codepoint) and corrected the docstring. Found and fixed a
related real defect while verifying: a lone UTF-16 surrogate was emitted
BARE (scalarNeedsDoubleQuoting didn't trigger), producing genuinely
unparseable YAML that silently collapsed to {} on re-read — extended
scalarNeedsDoubleQuoting to route surrogates through the quoted+escaped
path.

Finding 5 (MAJOR): countKeysBeforeTruncation went silent on 4 real
truncation shapes (unquoted colon, open flow collection, mis-indented
sibling key, refused anchor). Root cause: the mark-based prefix recovery
excluded the very line whose key needed counting, and a mark-less refusal
never entered the recovery branch at all. Fixed by taking the max of two
lower bounds: the longest parser-verified line-prefix, and a raw-text
count of key-shaped lines (reusing the same key-shape pattern this file
already uses for isFrontmatterShaped). Extended test-matrix row A5
table-driven over all 4 regressed shapes.

Finding 6: the design doc's claim that no test owned the #3594 adversarial
fixture corpus was false — consolidation epic #1969 had already folded it
into tests/frontmatter.test.cjs. An earlier commit on this branch
re-created a standalone duplicate under that false premise; folded its
genuinely-new coverage (fixture-ownership check, anchor-bomb fixtures,
block-scalar B1/B2 rows) into frontmatter.test.cjs and deleted the
duplicate file. Corrected the false claims in 40-design.md §3.3.1 and the
ADR's §8.1 note, including the roadmap-sibling claim (no such file exists).

Finding 7: the golden serializer sorted object keys, making it structurally
blind to the key-order-parity invariant ADR-3473 §8.1 actually claims.
Made it order-preserving and regenerated the golden fixture from a
standalone compile of the legacy (pre-#3881) parser at ddde001af; the
current parser matches it with zero undocumented divergences, confirming
key-order parity genuinely holds. Extended row A2 table-driven across 6 of
the remaining 7 transitionCore kinds (all pass) plus documented, by
execution, a newly-discovered 8th-site regression: state.cts's
cmdStateCompletePhase calls the same preservation helper but its result is
clobbered by a later unconditional resync — filed as a distinct finding
rather than fixed here (touches syncAndPreserveStateMd, outside this
change's verified scope).

Refs #3881

* fix(#3881): preserve unparseable frontmatter through the CLI write path

Characterization (executed, before/after shown): case (b), not (a). The
frontmatter FENCE survives — `state complete-phase` on a conflict-marked
STATE.md returns success and a well-formed, freshly-derived frontmatter
block, not a document with no frontmatter at all. But the block's actual
content (the merge-conflict markers, and with them any signal to a human
that the document was in conflict) is silently discarded and replaced.

Root cause was two clobber sites, not one:

1. syncStateFrontmatter (src/state.cts) re-parses the already-preserved
   `transformedContent` from readModifyWriteStateMd, finds {} + the
   FRONTMATTER_UNPARSEABLE marker, and unconditionally rebuilt a fresh
   frontmatter block from the body anyway.
2. Even after (1) is fixed, applyPostSyncPreservation's own
   postFm/applyStatePreservation/authoritativeFm-reassertion machinery
   re-extracts frontmatter from syncedContent, restores curated fields
   from the pre-write snapshot, and reconstructs a NEW block again —
   confirmed live via `state begin-phase`, which still lost the markers
   after fixing (1) alone.

Both are now guarded by the same predicate (isUnparseableFrontmatter,
checking FRONTMATTER_UNPARSEABLE): when the ORIGINAL frontmatter did not
parse and the caller is not on ADR-3408 §8.3's closed "body wins" list,
both functions return their input content unchanged rather than
re-deriving over it. The closed list (cmdStateSync #905,
/gsd-health --repair's REGENERATE_STATE, both routed only through
writeStateMd, which never reaches applyPostSyncPreservation and passes
sanctionedPermanentEmptyFallback=true to syncStateFrontmatter) is
untouched — neither widened nor narrowed; verified by execution that
`state sync` still overwrites the conflict-marked block exactly as before.

Other verbs sharing the same readModifyWriteStateMd path were checked and
were equally affected before this fix: state update, query state.patch,
and state begin-phase all lost the conflict markers (RED, shown by
execution), and all three now preserve them (GREEN). Covered table-driven
in tests/feat-3881-yaml-parser-consequences.test.cjs's new A2b describe
block, which drives the real CLI verbs via runGsdTools — not just the pure
transitionCore layer the earlier A2 rows exercised — plus a control
asserting state sync's body-wins contract is unchanged.

Refs #3881

* fix(#3881): restore the parse surface's prototype and fix remote-runner failures

Root cause of the bulk of the 88 remote-runner failures: extractFrontmatter/parseGuardedYamlRegion handed back Object.create(null) trees for prototype-pollution safety, but assert.deepStrictEqual compares prototypes, so every assertion against a plain object literal failed (57 frontmatter.unit.test.cjs + 5 frontmatter.test.cjs + others). Fixed by keeping the internal construction null-prototype (unchanged) and converting to a plain-prototype tree via Object.defineProperty (never bracket assignment, so __proto__/constructor/toString keys stay safe) at the parseGuardedYamlRegion/unparseableResult return boundary only; the internal FULL_LINE_COMMENTS Symbol channel is copied by reference, not recursed, so its own __proto__-safety is untouched.

Per-class fixes: (1) bomAcrossArtifactTypes was the same prototype bug, no separate code change needed. (2) frontmatter-cli #1660: added objectListFieldWouldLoseData, a broader lossy-field detector alongside the existing byte-identical noOpObjectListSetError -- js-yaml's flattenObjectListItem now correctly includes every sub-key of an object-list item (a real bug fix over the legacy scanner, which silently dropped every field but the first), so a set that drops that now-included data is no longer byte-identical to the original and needs its own guard. (3) uat.test.cjs: updated the pinned expectation for the human_verification quote-stripping artifact -- js-yaml resolves quoting correctly where the legacy regex left an unbalanced quote; documented as an intentional, non-lossy behavior change. (4) smart-entry: added a fallback-only loadWithAmbiguousColonRepair so a column-0 key: value line whose value itself contains an unquoted colon (the #2571 hand-edited-STATE.md shape) round-trips instead of failing the whole frontmatter block closed. (5) frontmatter.unit.test.cjs bracket-array leniency: added a second fallback, repairMalformedInlineArrays, restoring the legacy scanner's tolerant inline-array handling (consecutive/blank commas, unclosed bracket) -- both repairs run ONLY after the primary parse already threw, so well-formed documents are unaffected. (6) prompt-injection-scan: src/frontmatter.cts had a literal U+FEFF BOM embedded in a comment illustrating the #2977 fix; replaced with the U+FEFF text escape. (7) eslint-glob-coverage: allowlisted the new src/vendor/js-yaml.d.cts vendored type declaration, same precedent as the existing re2js.d.cts entry. (8) frontmatter-golden-parity: git ls-files *.md now runs with -c safe.directory=* (process-scoped) so it survives the remote runner's dubious-ownership check without a persistent git config write.

Refs #3881

* chore(#3881): backfill changeset PR number

Refs #3881

* test(#3881): make golden parity resistant to unrelated tree churn

A corpus-wide snapshot keyed to every tracked *.md file was coupled to mutable-by-design files: .changeset/*.md's pr:0 -> real-PR-number backfill is a required workflow step, not a parser change, yet it turned this suite red. Training people to 'just regenerate the golden' on that kind of failure defeats the point of the snapshot. Exclude .changeset/** from the golden corpus entirely, tolerate tracked *.md files with no golden entry (they postdate the capture) instead of failing on them, keep hard failures for a golden entry whose file has vanished from the tree and for any real parity divergence, and add a coverage floor so the enumeration cannot quietly degrade to comparing a handful of files. Golden regenerated by recompiling the legacy pre-migration parser (git show ddde001af:src/frontmatter.cts) standalone, independent of the current parser, over the same non-changeset corpus.

Refs #3881

* test(#3881): make the parser golden hermetic instead of tree-keyed

This repo merges ~21 commits/day; a 14-day sample measured 937 touches of the
exact files (commands/gsd/*.md, gsd-core/workflows/*.md, agents/*.md,
docs/*.md) the prior golden pinned by tracked path. Any PR editing one of
those files' frontmatter for reasons unrelated to the parser (an
argument-hint addition, an allowed-tools tweak) turned the suite red, and the
reflex fix -- "regenerate the golden" -- overwrote the very snapshot meant to
catch a real regression. Excluding .changeset/** was not enough; the design
itself was wrong: a regression fixture must not be keyed to mutable repo
paths, and a single 376-entry JSON every such PR touches is also a
guaranteed merge-conflict surface.

Rebuilt the fixture to carry its own documents: each of 51 entries stores a
stable id, literal documentText (shrunk from a real ddde001af-era corpus
document), and an expectedParse captured independently from the
pre-migration legacy parser (git show ddde001af:src/frontmatter.cts,
compiled standalone against its byte-identical sibling modules). The test
reads no tracked path, shells out to no git command, and enumerates no tree
-- a PR editing commands/gsd/help.md cannot affect it. Every entry's
reconstruction was verified at capture time to reproduce both the current
and legacy parser's output on the original document; 0 of 51 candidates
were dropped by that check (1, the deliberately-unterminated
unclosed-block.md adversarial fixture, has no closing fence to truncate at
and is stored unshrunk). Kept the 5 documented DIVERGENCES rows (now
diverges:true entries) and the D2 order-preserving structural serializer
that keeps the comparison from passing vacuously; dropped the
tree-enumeration helpers, the coverage floor, the post-capture-skip logic,
and the vanished-file check -- all artifacts of the path-keyed design.

Refs #3881

* fix(#3881): resolve vendored-deps paths independently of cwd shape

Five rows in tests/lint-vendored-deps-manifest.test.cjs failed on
windows-latest CI: the test passed absolute scratch-file paths into
compareFiles()/checkRow(), whose helpers joined every input onto ROOT
via path.join(ROOT, rel), producing garbage when the input was already
absolute. It surfaced on windows-latest specifically because GitHub's
Windows runners checkout the repo on a different drive than TEMP, so
path.relative(REPO_ROOT, tmpFile) returned the absolute path unchanged
(no relative traversal is representable across drives) rather than the
relative form the test assumed. The remote gsd-test runner this repo
gates pushes on is Linux-only and could never have caught this;
GitHub CI's windows-latest job is the only signal that does, and it did.

Fixed the helper itself (scripts/lint-vendored-deps.cjs's new
resolvePath()) to treat an already-absolute input as absolute-in,
absolute-out instead of silently mis-joining it, and updated the test
to pass the scratch file's absolute path directly rather than relying
on a relative conversion that is not always representable. Kept every
mutation-sensor assertion intact and added coverage proving
resolvePath is a no-op for relative inputs and correctly passes
absolute ones through unchanged.

Refs #3881

* fix(#3881): warn when state sync regenerates over unparseable frontmatter

state sync (ADR-3408 §8.3's sanctioned regenerate path) correctly
overwrites an unparseable frontmatter block per its 'body wins'
contract — that overwrite behavior is unchanged here. The defect was
the silence: synced:true/exit 0 gave no signal that the existing
block (including git merge-conflict markers) could not be parsed and
was destroyed, per ADR-3473 §8.5 ('a derived conclusion may not be
reported as authoritative when the derivation dropped input it could
not resolve') and §8.4 ('failure is a value').

Adds a gsd: warning — ... (#3881) line on stderr, matching the
existing #3573 precedent, and surfaces the same disclosure in the
JSON result's existing changes[] array so a machine consumer sees it
too. Exit code and synced:true are left unchanged — sync did what its
contract says.

REGENERATE_STATE (/gsd-health --repair's sibling on the same
sanctioned-regenerate list) is DESTRUCTIVE-risk and unconditionally
refused by applyRepairs's dispatcher before runRepairAction ever runs
(src/health-diagnostic.cts), so it is not a live path today and is not
in scope for this fix.

Refs #3881

* fix(#3881): exit non-zero when a state command returns an error

Refs #3881

* chore(#3881): changeset for the state exit-code fix

Refs #3881

* fix(#3881): honor the documented --project-dir flag

Refs #3881

* revert(#3881): restore exit-0 result envelopes for state errors

Reverts 9638f2936 and its changeset. The change was wrong and the revert is
the correction.

This repo distinguishes two error mechanisms deliberately. error() in
src/io.cts writes to stderr and calls process.exit(1) -- the hard-failure
path. output({error: ...}) writes a JSON result envelope to stdout and returns
normally with exit 0. The reverted commit converted 23 result-envelope sites
into hard failures, which is a different contract, not a bug fix.

tests/state-contract.test.cjs's errorPathDoesNotPublish asserts the envelope
contract directly -- a failing command exits 0 with a JSON error envelope and
must not publish state.json -- and the remote matrix run caught it along with
four cases in the QA scenario walk. Thirteen tests in tests/state.test.cjs that
the original commit rewrote were encoding that real contract, not the bug it
claimed; they are restored.

Whether an error envelope on stdout with exit 0 is the right CLI design is a
genuine question, and it is section 8.4's rule ('failure is a value') with its
own phase. It is not something to flip inside this PR.

Refs #3881

* chore(#3881): backfill changeset PR number for the project-dir fix

Refs #3881

* test(#3881): keep the frontmatter mutation shard inside its time budget

The Stryker (frontmatter) shard hit the documented 15-minute (900s) shard
cap. Root cause is NOT row-level spawn overhead (contrast the #2790/
core-utils precedent): the three shard test files' own logic runs in
~413ms total (356+30+27ms) with all 392 assertions passing. Instead,
src/frontmatter.cts grew from ~825 to 1496 lines (+671/-187) migrating to
the vendored YAML parser, proportionally growing the mutant count Stryker
generates for gsd-core/bin/lib/frontmatter.cjs. Stryker's command runner
bills the full 'node --test <3 files>' invocation once per mutant, and
node:test's default per-file process isolation forks a child process for
each of the three files on every one of those invocations — pure fork
overhead multiplied by a much larger mutant population.

Fix: scripts/mutation-matrix.cjs COVERED.frontmatter now declares
isolation: 'none', and .github/workflows/mutation.yml passes
--test-isolation=${{ matrix.isolation }} (defaulting to 'process' — i.e.
unchanged behavior — for the other 8 shards, which were not individually
audited for cross-file state leakage under shared-process execution).
Measured locally via node:test's run() API on the exact 3-file set:
isolation:'process' took ~593ms vs isolation:'none' ~478ms for the same
392 passing assertions. The true CI-shard number can only be confirmed
on the GitHub Actions run (Stryker cannot run locally, and 'node --test'
is hard-blocked in this environment).

Refs #3881

* test(#3881): register the vendored-parser tests in the frontmatter mutation shard

stryker.config.mjs's own rule ("Keep this list in sync with the tests
arrays in scripts/mutation-matrix.cjs COVERED") was violated: #3881 grew
src/frontmatter.cts from ~825 to 1496 lines but its new tests
(tests/feat-3881-yaml-parser-consequences.test.cjs,
tests/frontmatter-golden-parity.test.cjs,
tests/frontmatter-roundtrip.property.test.cjs, and +167 lines in
tests/frontmatter.test.cjs) were never added to the frontmatter shard's
tests array, so Stryker's mutants in the new vendored-js-yaml adapter had
nothing constraining them. PR #3888 measured 55.8% against the 65 floor
(748 killed / 593 survived / 17 timeout) and the shard was separately
cancelled at 15m04s against the 15-minute per-shard cap.

Registers all four files (each earns its slot on evidence of a unique
constraining assertion, documented inline), gives the shard a
measured/projected 180-minute budget via a new per-module
timeoutMinutes field threaded through mutation.yml's job-level
timeout-minutes the same way isolation is threaded, and removes the
prior isolation:'none' override (re-measured at this file-set size, its
savings are within run-to-run noise, not worth the unaudited
cross-file-state-leakage risk).

Refs #3881

* feat(#3881): derive the mutation test list and ratchet the score floor

Refs #3881

* test(#3881): ratchet five stale mutation floors and close the frontmatter gap

Raised five module minScore floors per CI run 33012034388 (floor(achieved)-1):
config-schema 75.51%->74, prompt-budget 88.95%->87, context-composer 79.92%->78,
context-utilization 92.31%->91, active-workstream-store 87.42%->86. Updated both
scripts/mutation-matrix.cjs COVERED entries and tests/mutation-matrix-ratchet.test.cjs
RATCHET_BASELINE in the same diff per the ratchet's own contract.

Closed the frontmatter shard's 63.03%-vs-65 gap with new behavioral tests in
tests/feat-3881-yaml-parser-consequences.test.cjs, each paired with a documented
near-miss: frontmatterDeepEqual's array-order/length/type-mismatch/key-order
semantics (via spliceFrontmatter's no-op guard), scalarNeedsDoubleQuoting's
leading/trailing-whitespace and dash/surrogate triggers (via reconstructFrontmatter),
repairAmbiguousColonValues' already-quoted vs ambiguous-colon repair paths (via
extractFrontmatter), and the null-byte sentinel round-trip surviving at region
offset 1. Did not lower minScore.

Refs #3881

* test(#3881): decouple the ratchet test from real module floors

The CLI end-to-end rows in tests/mutation-score-ratchet.test.cjs hardcoded config-schema's real floor (52), which commit 973321541 legitimately ratcheted to 74 -- breaking a test pinned to the exact value the mechanism under test exists to change. Add an injectable --matrix seam to scripts/check-mutation-score-ratchet.cjs and point the CLI rows at a synthetic module + synthetic floor built via a temp fixture, so the rows are indifferent to any real module's floor moving while still exercising the same fail/pass behaviour.

Refs #3881

* refactor(#3881): parse must_haves with the vendored parser and drop re-implemented leniency

Refs #3881

* fix(#3881): restore the ambiguous-colon repair its hand-edited-STATE.md contract needs

A tracked-document sweep of 910 *.md files cannot see this dependent: repairAmbiguousColonValues's one real caller is user hand-edited STATE.md content that never lives in this repo's tree, only on end users' machines, and is pinned by tests/smart-entry.unit.test.cjs. Restores the function plus its post-throw fallback path (loadWithAmbiguousColonRepair) only; repairMalformedInlineArrays and splitLegacyInlineArrayItems stay deleted, reverified against the full frontmatter test shard. Adds a frontmatter-level regression row in tests/feat-3881-yaml-parser-consequences.test.cjs so the dependency is visible where the function lives.

Closes #2571
Refs #3881

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-26 19:29:32 -04:00
Tom Boucher
ddde001af6 enhance(#3873): the STATE.md schema — one owner, generated artifacts (#3880)
* test(#3873): failing-first locale parity, plus tripwires for what must not move

Pins ADR-3473 §8.8 at the artifact a reader actually sees. The English STATE.md
reference carries a Status lifecycle section that is missing from all four
translations — the section documenting the status enum whose clobbering is
#3853. The test derives the heading set rather than hard-coding the missing
one, and names the locale and the heading when it fails.

Two tripwires that must pass today and after. The field-drift guard still
catches a re-derived fallback ladder: §8.8 instructs deleting that script, and
that instruction rests on a wrong premise about what it guards, so the test
stops a future reader from deleting it on the ADR's word. And last_activity's
label resolution is pinned to what ships today, because it is declared in one
of the two tables this phase consolidates and not the other — the
consolidation must not silently pick a side.

The locale test buckets under docs rather than state, which is what it tests;
that bucket is allowlisted with justification rather than folded into an
unrelated docs suite. It reads only markdown, so it carries no allow-test-rule
marker — a marker there would suppress nothing and would grow the unverified
pool against its ceiling.

Refs #3873

* feat(#3873): one schema owns the STATE.md key set, three tables become projections

ADR-3473 §8.8. The key set was declared in four places that had to agree by
hand and already did not: FIELD_CLASSIFICATION, FRONTMATTER_BODY_SOURCE,
FRONTMATTER_KEY_TO_BODY_LABEL and buildStateFrontmatter's emit behavior. One
frozen null-prototype schema now declares each key's type, enum, cardinality,
source, preservation, body source, body label, accepted parse shapes and
whether it is emitted unconditionally; the three tables are derived from it at
module load.

The projections are byte-identical to the literals they replace, key order
included, and the parity tests compare against verbatim copies of today's
tables rather than re-deriving both sides from the schema — a parity test fed
from one source proves nothing, which is how a consolidation ships a changed
policy under a green test.

last_activity was the live disagreement: present in one table, absent from the
other. The schema declares what ships today rather than the tidier answer, and
a test pins it.

The schema is a leaf module and owns the four field-policy types, re-exported
from state-transition so existing importers are untouched — the same split
health-diagnostic-types made to break a CJS require cycle.

Refs #3873

* feat(#3873): generate the schema-derived regions, parity-check the prose tables

ADR-3473 §8.8's generator half. gen-state-md-docs.cjs owns marked regions in
the shipped template and all five reference docs, follows gen-features.cjs's
fail-closed contract, and is wired into regen:derived and lint:generated-sync.

The Status lifecycle section was missing from all four translations — the
section documenting the status enum behind #3853 — and is now generated into
every locale. Field cardinality is a new generated table: pure schema data,
no prose, so nothing to lose.

The Field-reference and Status-values tables are parity-CHECKED rather than
generated. Their Purpose, When-populated and Matched-text columns are
genuinely hand-translated per locale, and §8.8 itself says prose stays
hand-translated; generating them from an English registry would overwrite four
locales' translations on every write. The row set is checked against the schema
instead, so a key added to one and not the other fails, which is what field
drift actually means. Building that check found last_activity_desc
undocumented in all five tables.

Three keys the docs describe are absent from the schema — active_phase,
next_action, next_phases. They are grandfathered by name, not by wildcard, so a
fourth fails: a declared gap with a forcing function rather than a silent one.

Refs #3873

* fix(#3873): declare what the parsers do, and close the shape-parity gap

Two declarations in the new schema described intended behavior rather than
actual — the defect class this epic exists to end, committed inside the epic.
Both were caught by executing the parsers instead of reading their docstrings.

current_plan.acceptedShapes claimed ['N', 'N of M']. Standalone, the hybrid
shape errors; the path that looks like support is parseInt truncating '2 of 5'
to 2 and discarding the rest. Narrowed to ['N']. The parser is deliberately NOT
fixed here: that is #3784 and PR #3791 is already doing it. When #3791 lands
this row must widen, and the shape test will go red until it does — the schema
and the parser cannot drift apart quietly, which is what §8.8's checked-not-
generated rule is for.

STATUS_LIFECYCLE_ENUM claimed to be the closed set status can hold.
normalizeStateStatus passes unrecognized prose through unchanged, so it is not
closed at runtime. The seven members are the canonical values it maps onto; the
docstring now says that and the test asserts the real lenient contract.

Closes the acceptance item that a test asserts the parsers accept exactly the
declared shapes: the check is table-driven over every row carrying
acceptedShapes, guarded against passing vacuously on an empty set, and fails
loudly if a future row has no registered driver. Adds the unwired-label throw
and the fast-check property that every projection agrees with its schema row.

Refs #3873

* fix(#3873): keep the shipped template's frontmatter first, and make row 27 able to fail

The remote matrix caught 12 failures with one cause. Making the template's
frontmatter a generated region wrapped it in its own yaml fence ahead of the
markdown fence, so extractFileTemplate and readShippedStateTemplateBody — which
both match the single markdown block — found the heading first, not the
frontmatter. That breaks the contract every new project's STATE.md is created
from: bug #21 and epic #1969 B8 pin that the File Template block starts with
frontmatter and carries gsd_state_version.

The markers now sit inside the single markdown fence, so the fence opens before
the frontmatter and the region still ends ahead of the heading. Same layout as
before this phase, with markers embedded rather than a second fence.

Row 27 existed to catch exactly this and did not, because it was writer-seeded:
it asserted against the generator's own output shape, so it passed on the broken
template. It now parses the fence the way production does and was verified to
fail against the broken shape before being trusted against the fixed one. A test
that would not have caught the bug it exists to prevent is worse than no test.

The emitted-attribution failure was separate and the fragment was the wrong
remedy: gsd-core/templates/state.md self-attributes under a verbatim-copy
identity rule, so a diff touching it needs no acknowledgment. Fragment deleted
rather than left explaining nothing.

Refs #3873

* docs(#3873): how to change the STATE.md schema

The phase gate was right and my docs artifact was wrong. I listed
lint:generated-sync as the second enablement step, which is a verification
command dressed as one, and then claimed a one-step sequence owed no how-to.

The real sequence is build:lib then regen:derived, and the ordering is a trap:
the generator reads the COMPILED schema, so regenerating before building
regenerates against the previous schema and commits artifacts that look
plausible while disagreeing with the code just written. A reference table
cannot carry an ordering dependency; that is what the how-to test is for.

The page covers adding, changing and removing a key, every reason code the
check emits and what to do about each, what is generated versus hand-translated
and why the two prose-bearing tables are parity-checked instead of generated,
adding a language, and the three grandfathered keys. Indexed from docs/README.md.

Refs #3873

* chore(#3873): backfill changeset PR number

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-26 01:57:47 -04:00
Tom Boucher
fb2d122d7f feat(#3841): assert gsd-tools identity on every state-mutating verb (#3848)
* feat(#3841): assert gsd-tools identity before any state-mutating verb

only this package publishes. The path-based branches — a project-local install,
a runtime config directory — had no such guarantee; they trusted their
configured location. This closes them.

Mechanism: once resolution finishes, and before any verb runs, the preamble
probes the tool it picked with `runtime-identity --raw` and matches the answer
with a shell `case` pattern ANCHORED to the start of the compact payload
(`{"packageName":"@opengsd/gsd-core"`). An unanchored substring match accepts
the decoy `{"packageName":"get-shit-done-cc","note":"@opengsd/gsd-core"}`, which
any colliding package could publish. The outcome is exported as the two-valued
`GSD_IDENTITY_STATUS` (`ok`/`unverified`), so the gate is asserted on a VALUE
rather than on warning prose. Rollout is warn-then-fail per the #3146 ruling:
`unverified` prints one line naming BOTH causes and continues, because
`no_identity_verb` cannot tell a foreign package from an `@opengsd/gsd-core`
older than the verb, and at rollout the old-version case is the common one.

The blocker was byte budget, not design. The preamble is inlined into 112
shipped files and several sat within single-digit bytes of frozen ceilings
(`gsd-verifier.md` 16 bytes, `gsd-executor.md` 33, `execute-phase.md` 234); a
first attempt broke five of them. What made room was collapsing the resolver's
twenty near-identical `elif [ -f … ]` arms into one candidate-list helper
(`_gsd_at`), which buys far more than the assertion costs. The preamble is now
2,624 bytes against 4,500 — a net 1,876 bytes SMALLER per inlined file, so every
capped file moved away from its ceiling rather than toward it. No cap raised, no
size-budget exception added, no override token emitted.

Resolution order, every runtime-home probe, the `unset -f gsd_run` re-source
fix, the fail-closed `exit 1`, and the `CLAUDE_ENV_FILE` persistence are all
preserved byte-for-byte in substring terms; the snippet still begins with
`_GSD_SHIM_NAME=` and still ends with `fi`, which the parity extractors anchor
on. `gsd-core/references/gsd-run-resolver.md` is re-synced byte-equal.

Also fixes two stale claims found in passing: CONTEXT.md and FEATURES.md both
described an `[ -x ]` guard as the load-bearing re-source defense. That guard
was tried and REMOVED in #3831 — it rejected the bare function name, fell
through every branch, and hit `exit 1`, which kills a sourced caller's shell.
`unset -f gsd_run` is the actual mechanism.

Refs #3841

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

* fix(#3841): pair the anchor's brace by requiring a closed identity payload

The matrix went red on `tests/new-project-mvp-prompt.test.cjs` — "new-project.md
has unbalanced braces: net depth 2" — plus a knock-on report from its parent
`bug #1516` describe, which is the same failure counted once at the child and
once at the block.

Root cause: that guard (:182-189, mirroring #3784 bd53925f) walks characters and
increments on `{`, decrements on `}`, with no awareness of shell quoting. It
scans `new-project.md` PLUS every `new-project/steps/*.md`, and both
`new-project.md` and `steps/auto-mode-config.md` carry one inlined preamble copy
— hence net 2 from a snippet that was off by exactly one. The unpaired brace was
the `{` inside the single-quoted `case` pattern of the identity anchor, which is
correct shell and invisible to a text scanner.

Fix in the snippet, not the guard. The pattern now anchors at BOTH ends:
`'{"packageName":"@opengsd/gsd-core"'*'}'`. That balances 51/51 with a brace that
does real work rather than a cosmetic pair — a truncated payload whose prefix
matches now fails too, where before it verified. Safe for any future additive
field: a JSON object's own closing brace is always the last character, whatever
type the last value has, which is pinned by two negative-space tests (a nested
object and an array-valued last key must both still verify). Cost: +3 bytes,
against the 1,873 the resolver fold already gave back.

The alternative considered and rejected was dropping the literal `{` for a `?`
glob. It balances too, but weakens the anchor from "must be an opening brace" to
"must be any one character", and the anchor is the entire point.

Two guards added so this cannot recur silently:
- runtime-launcher-parity (F0) pins brace balance at the SNIPPET, so the next
  edit to that pattern fails on the file it broke instead of surfacing three
  files downstream in a test whose name mentions neither the launcher nor this
  issue. It also asserts depth never goes negative, since a `}` preceding its
  `{` nets to zero while being unbalanced at every prefix.
- runtime-identity gains behavioral truncated-payload and trailing-garbage
  fixtures, so the added `}` is proven load-bearing rather than merely present.

Verified: snippet 51/51 braces; new-project combined net depth 0; the seven
other preamble-bearing files with nonzero depth are unchanged from merged next
(their own prose, not the preamble, and not in any guard's scan set); all 112
inlined copies and the resolver reference re-synced byte-equal; sync:launcher
idempotent on the second run.

Refs #3841

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

* chore(#3841): backfill changeset PR number

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

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-25 01:05:53 -04:00
Tom Boucher
63abcface9 feat(#3146): resolve gsd_run so workflows cannot reach a foreign gsd-tools (#3831)
* feat(#3146): resolve gsd_run so workflows cannot reach a foreign gsd-tools

The predecessor package get-shit-done-cc publishes a colliding gsd-tools bin whose phases.clear DELETES where this package's ARCHIVES, and both print success-shaped output against a gitignored .planning/ -- which is how #3129 cost a user 43 phase directories with no error and nothing recoverable from git.

The launcher's PATH branch now resolves gsd_run, published only by this package and self-locating via its own symlink chain to the sibling shim, instead of the colliding gsd-tools. A foreign handler becomes unreachable from PATH, and when no gsd_run is reachable the resolver fails closed rather than falling back -- that fallback was the vulnerability. This is smaller than the branch it replaces, which matters: the preamble is inlined into 113 shipped files and agents/gsd-verifier.md sits 2 bytes under a red-line size cap.

unset -f gsd_run leads the preamble so a re-source is idempotent. Without it, command -v finds the shell function, returns a bare name, and the resolver falls through to an exit 1 that kills a sourced caller's shell.

Adds gsd-tools runtime-identity, a manual diagnostic reporting this runtime's package coordinates over the baked package-identity (#498) and readHostVersion, with a strict total classifier: only a JSON object with an exact packageName verifies, since JSON.parse admits 0/"str"/[]/null/true.

An inlined identity assertion was built and reviewed first, then withdrawn -- it breaks five frozen size ceilings and no assertion fits in 2 bytes.

Closes #3146

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

* fix(#3146): stop sync:launcher relocating a deliberate preamble placement

Pre-existing defect, surfaced by this PR because sync is a no-op unless the snippet content actually changes. transformFile inserts the preamble into the first block that CALLS gsd_run, but gsd-core/workflows/explore.md deliberately places it in a bootstrap-only block that DEFINES gsd_run without calling it -- its own comment explains why: declining the research offer must not leave Step 5's commit call unbootstrapped. Stripping empties that block of calls, so the preamble migrated forward and broke the define-before-use invariant tests/explore-command.test.cjs pins.

Reproduced on a pristine origin/next checkout with the base snippet and base file, so this was not introduced here. The insertion target now honours a block that already carried the preamble, falling back to the first calling block for files that have none yet. Adds a behavioral regression test over a two-block fixture.

Also updates three runtime-launcher-parity tests that pinned the removed PATH fallback to gsd-tools. Their intent is preserved -- the PATH stub is renamed gsd_run so it is reachable by the new resolver, and the RUNTIME_DIR-wins test still asserts the stub is never invoked. Fixture shebangs move to an absolute /bin/sh, because the fixture PATH is deliberately restricted and #!/usr/bin/env sh could not resolve.

Refs #3146

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

* chore(#3146): backfill changeset PR number

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

* docs(#3146): document the FEATURES.md section-numbering practice

The monotonically increasing section number in docs/FEATURES.md is the most frequent merge-conflict source in this repo, and it has TWO conflict cells, not one: the ### N. heading and the hand-maintained table of contents. Two PRs adding differently numbered features still collide on the TOC, so renumbering alone does not make a branch safe. This branch alone was renumbered 165 -> 166 -> 167 -> 168 across successive rebases.

Adds a CONTRIBUTING section stating the practice: allocate the number last, never pre-emptively renumber, take max+1 after a rebase and update the TOC in the same commit, and never renumber someone else's section. Fork contributors are told explicitly they may leave the number to a maintainer at merge rather than chasing the counter. Agents are told to lease the allocation and to include the file in their published touched set.

Records the durable fix as planned rather than pretending it exists: FEATURES.md should be generated from per-feature fragments the way CHANGELOG.md is generated from .changeset/, and the way tests/emitted-drift-acks/ works (#2914).

Also renumbers this branch's own section to 168, leaving 167 to the PR already in flight.

Refs #3146

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

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-24 20:57:16 -04:00
Tom Boucher
c933184b97 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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2026-08-24 19:05:11 -04:00
Tom Boucher
596540f864 feat(#3227): publish machine-readable state contract at step boundaries (#3824)
* feat(#3227): publish machine-readable state contract at step boundaries

Adds src/state-contract.cts, a best-effort publisher that writes
.planning/state.json (contract 1.0.0) at 11 step-boundary commands, so
external tools read a versioned contract instead of parsing STATE.md and
ROADMAP.md heuristically.

Composes existing owners rather than re-deriving: phase rows come from a
new locateProgressTable extracted from deriveProgressFromRoadmap (so the
snapshot can never disagree with GSD's own progress counters), milestone
identity from getMilestoneInfo, and next from classifyProject. Owners are
required lazily to avoid the state -> state-contract -> smart-entry ->
state require cycle.

Also fixes a pre-existing defect in scripts/lint-test-file-count.cjs
(maintainer-approved as a second concern): testEffectivePrefix never
stripped the suite qualifier, so 65 dotted test files counted against no
module and 9 mis-bucketed into a shorter one. Allowlist re-baselined for
the 74 files the gate can now see.

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

* chore(#3227): backfill PR number into the changeset fragment

pr:0 -> pr:3824 now that the PR exists. Doc-only.

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

* test(#3227): shape hostile-name fixtures away from the scan corpus

The two hostile-input fixtures used a literal phrase from
scripts/prompt-injection-scan.sh's corpus, so CI's Security Scan redded on
this file. These tests assert that an arbitrary phase name round-trips into
state.json as inert data -- the property holds for any string, so the
injection flavor is illustrative, not load-bearing.

Reshaped to a hyphenated fake instruction tag, which stays hostile-looking
while matching none of the scanner's patterns. Allowlisting the file was
rejected: that mechanism is for suites whose subject IS injection defense,
and it would blind the scanner to this whole file permanently.
See DEFECT.PROMPT-INJECTION-SCAN-COLLISION.

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

* chore(#3227): ratchet the state-contract mutation floor to its measured score

The module was registered at minScore 50, the ratchet's minimum permitted
floor for a newly-registered module whose score had not been measured. This
PR's own Stryker shard measured 66.25% (run 32769289750, job 97565813640),
so the floor moves to floor(measured) - 1 = 65, per the rule the registry
documents.

66.25 is below TARGET_MUTATION_SCORE (80), so this stays a ratchet
candidate: raise as the tests improve, never lower.

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

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-24 17:56:02 -04:00
Tom Boucher
4af59f8dd3 fix(#3662): resolve managed hook node runners at hook-fire time (#3790)
* test(#3662): failing-first suite for runtime-resolving hook runners

* fix(#3662): resolve managed hook node runners at hook-fire time

* fix(#3662): close review findings and document the resolver

* fix(#3662): close adversarial and security review findings

* chore(#3662): backfill changeset pr number

* test(#3662): honor win32 skip return and platform-aware sh runner pin

* test(#3662): pin the bare win32-claude sh-hook shape omitting the bash runner

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2026-08-24 00:07:06 -04:00
Tom Boucher
107eb8c1d9 feat(#3753): run docs guards on the PR that changes the docs they read (#3787)
A PR whose diff is entirely under docs/ runs zero tests, so a guard whose INPUT
is shipped prose cannot protect the PR lane of the diffs it exists to check. Its
only firing opportunity is after merge, on the shared branch -- which is how next
went red on dacae9273 while the PR that caused it (#3746) was green on every
check.

The docs-lint job in .github/workflows/docs-required.yml -- an ALREADY-REQUIRED
context -- now selects and runs the docs guards that read the specific docs files
the PR changed.

  scripts/docs-guard-registry.cjs    test file -> the docs paths it reads (63)
  scripts/select-docs-guards.cjs     pure (changedPaths, registry) -> test files
  scripts/lint-docs-guard-registration.cjs   drift guard, wired into lint:ci

scripts/ci-test-scope.cjs is NOT touched -- `git diff origin/next --` on it is
empty -- so #764's saving stands and its 21 pinning tests are untouched.

Selection: exact path; trailing-slash directory prefix (boundary-checked --
docs/adrenaline.md does NOT match docs/adr/, which a naive startsWith gets
wrong); and '*' for the 6 entries that walk docs/ generally or read a computed
path. Unknown maps to '*' -- guessing narrow is how a guard silently stops
running. Measured: a typo fix selects 6 of 63; docs/AGENTS.md selects 12;
docs/COMMANDS.md selects 18.

Four things this got wrong first, each found by an independent reviewer or by
probe, and each having been asserted safe in a comment:

1. The registry started as a RULE in ci-test-scope.cjs's RULES, on the theory
   that classify()'s !codeChanged normalization made it inert. True for
   docs-ONLY diffs; false for MIXED docs+code diffs, where codeChanged is true
   and the normalization never runs:

     node scripts/ci-test-scope.cjs --files "docs/a.md src/semver.cts"
       with the RULE:  25 targeted_tests
       origin/next:     3 targeted_tests

   Category error: RULES is the scoped lane's input; a docs-guard registry is a
   lane manifest for a consumer that never calls classify(). Extracted; pinned
   by value.

2. The second attempt was a dedicated workflow with paths: [docs/**]. Such a
   workflow never reports on a non-docs PR, so it can never be a required
   context without hanging every non-docs PR -- and a non-required check does not
   block a merge, so the guard would have been advisory and #3753 unfixed.
   docs-required.yml already has no paths: filter, already supplies the required
   docs-lint context, already computes docs_changed, and already ran one docs
   guard gated on it. Generalizing that step needs no ruleset edit at all.

3. The registry and the drift lint were built from ONE path-segment heuristic, so
   both were blind identically -- and blind at the guard that motivated the issue.
   The reader-call regex required a character BEFORE its keyword, so a callee
   named exactly read( / load( / parse( / doc( / file( / content( could never
   match; and only an INLINE path.join(ROOT,'docs','X.md') argument was caught,
   missing the two-step-via-variable form -- the MAJORITY spelling -- plus
   template literals and concatenation. Detector 1 fired on 14 of ~450 files, so
   35 genuine guards sat unregistered while the lint reported 0 violations,
   including cursor-reviewer (reads docs/COMMANDS.md, asserts
   .includes('--cursor')) and inventory-headings-countfree. The "accepted blind
   spot" this shipped with was the common case, not a fringe.

4. With detection fixed the true population is 115 files: 63 genuine guards, 52
   incidental. Running all 63 in a REQUIRED check on a one-line typo fix is the
   cost #764 exists to avoid -- install.test.cjs is 7840 lines and reads exactly
   one docs file, docs/AGENTS.md, for its frontmatter. Dropping it reproduces the
   bug; running it for a typo elsewhere is waste. Hence the map.

Then a second review round found six more, all fixed here:

- fragment-single-edit-propagation.install.test.cjs was EXEMPTED as
  "overlay fixture only". False: it reads the real docs/registries/eos.json and
  asserts on a registry entry name, and reads the real ADR-0001 and asserts its
  H1. A docs-only PR touching either would have gone green and red next -- #3753
  shipping again, from inside the fix for it. Now registered against both paths,
  and all 52 remaining exemptions were re-audited one by one.
- The SUITES-collision guard compared RAW registry keys, but run-tests.cjs strips
  a leading `tests/` BEFORE its suite check. So it caught 'all' and missed
  'tests/all' -- the only spelling that can actually occur, since every key
  carries the prefix. One typo would have run all 824 test files inside the
  required job. Now normalized the same way run-tests.cjs normalizes.
- The lint failed OPEN on an unreadable tests dir or candidate file: 0 violations,
  ok:true. A guard that cannot read its input must never report success.
- The exemption ratchet gated identity only, so a baselined file that later
  STARTED asserting on shipped docs stayed exempt silently -- 52 permanently blind
  files. The baseline now fingerprints the docs paths each exempted file
  references and fails when that set changes, naming what changed.
- The exemption marker was still honored inside a multi-line template literal in
  the header window. The scanner now tracks template-literal and block-comment
  state.
- `git diff --name-only | grep '^docs/'` silently dropped C-quoted non-ASCII docs
  paths, making docs_changed=false a green zero-guard check. Both call sites now
  pass -c core.quotepath=false.
- The run step was gated on hashFiles(), which a force-committed
  .docs-guard-tests.txt would satisfy. The step now rm -f's both scratch files
  first and gates on an output it sets itself.

Three empty states, deliberately distinct, because conflating them rebuilds
#3753: an empty or malformed registry HARD-FAILS; docs changed with no guard
covering them logs and skips; no docs change is already gated. The middle state
must never be expressed as an empty --files-from, which prints `no tests in suite
"all"` and exits 0 -- a green check that guarded nothing. With the current
registry that state is unreachable, because the six '*' entries always match;
the branch is kept as defensive handling for a future registry and says so.

timeout-minutes: 15 bounds the required job against a hanging fork-supplied test;
it had none. npm ci was added because the job never installed dependencies -- the
previous single-file step got away without it, the registry does not.

docs/contributing/docs-guard-registration.md documents the rule, following its
sibling cross-platform-portability-rules.md, and CONTRIBUTING.md's CI Test
Quality Checks table links to it. It is also load-bearing: without a docs/ file
in the diff this PR would not have triggered its own lane, shipping an
unexercised change to a required check.

One unrelated fix, included because this PR surfaced it and CLAUDE.md forbids
deferring a defect found while working. On this branch's first CI run,
`full test (windows-latest, 24, shard 3/3)` was CANCELLED at exactly 30 minutes;
tests were still passing 0.8s before the cancel, so it is a wall-clock timeout,
not a hang, and a cancelled job reddens `Required tests`.

The cause is not this PR's test file, which costs ~60ms. Shard composition is
unstable: adding ONE file to the unit suite reshuffled 115 of 268 files between
shards, and shard 3 drew a heavier mix. Underneath that is a real pre-existing
defect. tests/ci-test-job-timeout-budget.test.cjs requires every lane's budget to
be >= 1.5x its MEASURED cost -- "a lane that got slower must be re-budgeted, not
excused" -- and its test-full entry recorded 19m from a windows-22 shard. That is
stale. Measured on `next` with none of this PR's changes present: 26m18s (run
32614439702, windows-latest/24 shard 3/3), 23m36s and 23m17s on shard 2/3. So the
lane costs ~26m and the 30-minute cap carried 1.14x headroom, not 1.5x. The gate
had been out of compliance with its own rule; this PR was merely the file
addition that reshuffled shard 3 past the cliff.

Fixed as that file prescribes: measuredMinutes 19 -> 27 with fresh evidence, and
test-full timeout-minutes 30 -> 45. The rule's minimum for 27m is 41; 45 is
deliberately above it because the reshuffle means per-shard worst case moves run
to run, and a budget pinned to the exact minimum would be re-breached by the next
test file anyone adds. Only that one job's timeout changed; test.yml's scope,
matrix and steps are untouched, so #764's saving is unaffected.

Raising that cap let the Windows shard finish (28m45s, inside 45) and uncovered
a real failure the 30-minute cancel had been masking:
`new quick-task branch branches off origin/main (#2916)` died with
`outcome=timed_out exitCode=null`, SIGTERM, at the 15000ms bound.

tests/quick-branching.test.cjs:149 `runStep` runs a `#!/usr/bin/env bash` script
executing MULTIPLE git commands, but was bound to GIT_TIMEOUT_MS (15000) -- the
norm for a SINGLE git plumbing call. tests/helpers/timeouts.cjs already documents
this exact failure and exists to fix it: HOOK_FANOUT_TIMEOUT_MS was created after
PR #3285 recorded "outcome=timed_out exitCode=null at exactly the 15000ms probe
bound while every other lane passed the same commit", and calls that "a bound
sized for the wrong class, not a slow machine". Our failure is that case
verbatim, so both sites move to the class norm rather than to a bigger number.

The same class also failed on `next` itself 21 hours earlier -- run 32608945654,
windows-latest/24 shard 1/3, `plan touching only src/ in a submodule project
keeps worktree isolation ENABLED` -- where tests/worktree-safety.test.cjs:5845
`runGate` fans out to `git config --file .gitmodules` under a hardcoded 30000.
Fixed too, since it is a defect in the tree regardless of which branch surfaced
it.

A survey of the whole tests/ tree found the same class-mismatch at further
bash fan-out sites bound under 60000ms, and the maintainer approved sweeping
them rather than leaving them latent to surface the same way one at a time. 16
fan-out sites across 16 files now use the class norm.

The sweep is class-correctness, not raising numbers until things pass. Sites
were moved ONLY where the bash body demonstrably spawns something (git, node,
npm, a CLI); self-contained shell snippets were left where they are, and are
listed as deliberately unchanged: pure if/printf bodies (copilot-install), pure
array/case builtins (code-review-pipeline-regression:638), a documented
pure-shell gsd_run stub (host-integration), single-process hook calls
(workflow-guard:222/271/302), and a deliberately tight 5000ms fast-check hook
(gsd-write-guard.property). Nothing was lowered. process-seam.test.cjs:513
(literal 300) is untouched on purpose -- it tests timeout BEHAVIOR, so raising
it would destroy what it asserts.

Shared file-level constants were the trap here, and were handled per file rather
than by redefinition: GIT_TIMEOUT_MS has ~15 users in git-base-branch and only 1
is a fan-out; WORKTREE_TIMEOUT_MS has 16 users in worktree.test.cjs and 3 are;
PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS has several in three more files. In each the CALL SITE was
changed and the constant left alone, so no single-plumbing-call site silently
inherited a 60s bound. The one exception is hooks-opt-in.test.cjs, where
HOOK_TIMEOUT_MS has exactly one consumer -- spawnHook, the fan-out itself -- so
redefining it is identical in effect and reads better.

Only two of these sites have actually been observed failing. The rest cite that
shared class and those two run ids rather than inventing evidence of their own.

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-23 21:21:21 -04:00
Behruz Nassre Esfahani
a44d513566 fix(#3712): confine in-process installs to a sandboxed HOME (#3725)
* fix(#3712): confine in-process installs to a sandboxed HOME

A runtime kind may declare a global `home` override resolved from os.homedir()
rather than from the caller's configDir — codex's skills kind (`home: ".agents"`,
ADR-1239 / #2088) is the only live case. Sandboxing configDir/targetDir does not
contain it, and assertDestWithinConfigHome cannot see the class: that gate
confines a destSubpath to whatever root it is handed, and here the root IS the
escaped home. So an in-process caller that forgot to sandbox HOME wrote to, and
pruned gsd-* entries from, the developer's REAL ~/.agents/skills.

tests/agent-descriptor-parity.install.test.cjs's K1 loop did exactly that: it
iterates every agents-kind runtime (codex included) with a sandboxed targetDir
and an un-sandboxed HOME. Reproduced against a canary home on next @ adb46cdd8 —
71 gsd-* skill dirs deleted, a foreign `cloudflare` skill surviving, suite still
exit 0. It is silent because the runtime's own config home is untouched, so the
manifest keeps reporting a healthy install.

FIVE writers resolve a kind `home` and then destroy under it. Three are reachable
today — installRuntimeArtifacts, uninstallRuntimeArtifacts (install-engine.cts)
and applySurface (surface.cts). Two are descriptor-dependent and guarded against a
future descriptor change rather than a present escape: installOpencodeFamilySkills
(behind the combined-family early return) and installAgentsKindStandalone. Those
two are scoped to the single kind each destroys — passing the whole layout made
codex's unrelated skills override trip a writer that never touches it.

- src/test-home-guard.cts: refuse when a run under a test runner cannot be shown
  to have sandboxed HOME. NODE_TEST_CONTEXT (set by `node --test`) gates it, so
  installs outside a Node test context are untouched; GSD_TEST_MODE is unusable,
  as several candidate files including the offender never set it. Homes are
  compared by FILESYSTEM IDENTITY (st_dev + st_ino), not by pathname:
  path.resolve() resolves neither symlinks nor case, and realpath returns a
  canonical pathname that two routes to one directory can still disagree on (bind
  mounts). Verified on macOS/APFS — HOME=/users/<name> made the strings differ
  while naming the same directory, and the lexical form ALLOWED a write into the
  physical real home. FAILS CLOSED: a pair is "different" only when both identify,
  or one is definitively absent (ENOENT/ENOTDIR) while the other identifies; every
  other errno is "cannot tell" and refuses. Only when neither home identifies is a
  marker consulted, and it carries the sandbox PATH and must equal the home in
  effect — a boolean checked first let an ambient or stale value disarm the guard.
- helpers: promote sandboxHome() out of its two byte-identical private copies,
  which is also what makes them record the sandbox; the three withFakeHome()
  helpers record it too. The marker NAME is duplicated as a bare string rather
  than required from the compiled guard, keeping helpers.cjs's documented
  no-built-lib-at-import-time contract; a test pins the two together.
- agent-descriptor-parity: sandbox HOME across the K1 loop.
- helpers-process-isolation: #3156's canary asserts on <home>/.gsd only, and its
  `--cursor --local` spawn cannot reach `.agents` at all, so an assertion added
  there would pass with all confinement removed. Add a discriminating row — a
  `--codex --global` spawn against a seeded ambient home — which also asserts the
  runtime still declares the override. Its check is a sampled inventory (dir names
  + each SKILL.md), not a tree compare.
- install-write-confinement: predicate rows through the deps seam, covering the
  symlinked HOME, ambient and stale markers, and each sameDirectory branch
  (both-identify, one-absent, neither-identifiable), plus wiring rows that drive
  the REAL entrypoints so deleting a guard call site is red.

Verified: guard fires end-to-end against a real un-sandboxed HOME (exit 1, zero
deletions); the case-variant fail-open reproduced on APFS before the fix and
refuses after; K1 file 29/29 green with skills intact; mutation-tested — each of
the three reachable call sites, lexical-only comparison, and treating an unknown
errno as "absent" each take exactly one row red, with every mutation echoed back;
the process-isolation row negative-controlled by reverting installerEnv to its
pre-#3156 leak (16/0 -> 13/3); a full npm test leaves ~/.agents/skills at 71.

Stated residual: the two descriptor-dependent writers have no wiring test, because
no runtime declares a `home` override on those kinds and neither can be exercised
without inventing a descriptor.

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

* chore(#3712): add changeset

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

* fix(#3712): let a sandbox nested inside the real home through the guard

All six Windows shards of #3725 failed on legitimately sandboxed
destinations. On Windows os.tmpdir() is %LOCALAPPDATA%\Temp — inside the
user's home — so every sandbox a test creates is a descendant of the real
home, and "does this land inside the real home?" answers yes for the safe
case and the dangerous one alike. POSIX conceals this: /tmp and
/var/folders both sit outside $HOME.

Add the missing conjunct: a destination inside the real home is allowed
only when it also sits beneath a HOME that was sandboxed away from the
passwd home. Both halves are required — dropping the first re-admits a
plain un-sandboxed install, and dropping the second decays into the
"is HOME sandboxed?" check the module rejects, which a layout resolved
before the sandbox walks straight through. Each is mutation-proven by a
row that goes red without it.

Also covers the two fail-closed branches of the new exemption, which
survived mutation to `true` with the suite green, and avoids `<user>` in
a docblock — the prompt-injection scanner reads it as a delimiter tag.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#3712): close three writer/rollback gaps found reviewing the whole PR

Cross-AI review of the full PR (not just the round's delta) surfaced
three ways the guard could still be defeated:

- The nested-sandbox exemption trusted the SPELLING of a destination.
  With HOME sandboxed to a directory inside the real home — legitimate on
  Windows — an aliased `.agents` (symlink, junction, subordinate bind
  mount) beneath it redirected an allowed path into the real home. Decide
  containment on the path the write RESOLVES to: walk up to the nearest
  existing ancestor, canonicalize, re-append the tail.

- `migrateLegacyDevPreferencesToSkill` is a SIXTH writer that resolves a
  skills-kind `home` override. It creates rather than prunes, which is
  why it was missed, and `_runLegacyInstallMigrations` runs it before
  `installRuntimeArtifacts`' own assertion. Guarded, scoped to that kind.

- Worst of the three: `bin/install.js` snapshots the resolved skills root
  before installing, and its outer catch rolls back by deleting and
  recreating every snapshotted `gsd-*` directory there. The guard's own
  throw landed in that catch, so refusing an un-sandboxed codex install
  provoked exactly the mutation the guard exists to prevent. Refusals are
  now marked and rethrown without rollback — nothing was written, so
  there is no partial install to undo. Every other error still rolls back.

Also carries the sandbox marker into `installSpawnEnv`, so spawned
installers are not refused on passwd-less CI images, and corrects three
claims that no longer hold: "every writer" (six, and named), the
unconditional "fails CLOSED" (the passwd-less marker branch is a
deliberate weakening, and TOCTOU is out of scope), and the assertion that
Windows os.tmpdir() is always %LOCALAPPDATA%\Temp (Node honors TEMP/TMP).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(#3712): name the guard's two limits instead of overclaiming

Round-2 review found the prose had drifted ahead of the code. Corrected,
with no behavior change:

- The module still said FIVE writers; there are six, and the sixth is
  now named along with why it was missed (it creates rather than prunes)
  and why it carries its own assertion (it runs before the main one).
- The canonicalization docblock listed subordinate bind mounts among the
  aliases it closes. It does not close them: a bind mount is not a link,
  so realpath keeps the mount-point spelling. `sameDirectory` already
  recorded that limit; the new helper now inherits it explicitly rather
  than contradicting it. Closing it needs mount-table introspection.
- "FAILS CLOSED" was unqualified while the passwd-less marker branch is
  a deliberate weakening — with no passwd entry, nothing can contradict a
  marker naming the real home.
- "Refuses BEFORE any write" was too broad: legacy install migrations run
  ahead of the layout-driven ones, which is exactly why the two
  rollbackInstallerMigrations() calls still execute before the rethrow.
  Only the codex skills-root rollback is skipped, and that is the only
  _codexPreConfigRollback() call site — applySurface is never called from
  bin/install.js and uninstall cannot reach it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#3712): sandbox HOME in the opencode-family home-override parity rows

The last two Windows failures, and the same platform asymmetry in a
different disguise. This row drives a skills-kind `home` override on
purpose — precisely what the guard polices — but relied on the override
temp dir happening to sit outside the real home. It does on POSIX
(/tmp, /var/folders); on Windows os.tmpdir() is under %USERPROFILE%, so
the guard correctly refused and only Windows went red.

Declare the sandbox instead of depending on the platform: HOME becomes
the override itself, which is the home the call writes under. This is the
fix the guard's own message prescribes, applied to the test rather than
to the guard.

Both failing Windows shards fail on exactly these two rows and nothing
else; every other shard is green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#3712): make sameDirectory answer NO when it cannot tell

Review Major 1. sameDirectory()'s only caller is the passwd-less marker
branch, which reads a `true` as permission to PROCEED:

    if (marker && sameDirectory(marker, osMod.homedir())) return;

The fallthrough returned `true` whenever neither side identified — two
absent paths, or two stats failing EACCES/EPERM/EIO on a locked-down
host — on the reasoning that "cannot tell" should make the caller refuse.
That reasoning was inverted with respect to this caller: it turned the
passwd-less escape hatch into an unconditional bypass for any marker
value at all, on precisely the hosts the fallback exists to serve. Only
two things now answer yes: one resolved pathname, or two readable
identities that match. Restoring the old fallthrough takes the new row
red.

Also from review:

- Major 2 asked whether st_dev/st_ino discriminate directories on
  Windows, where Node derives them from BY_HANDLE_FILE_INFORMATION. The
  whole guard rests on that primitive, so assert it rather than argue it:
  a row comparing two distinct temp directories, and one directory
  reached by two spellings. It runs on every platform in the matrix, so
  Windows answers the question itself.

- Minor 1: the refusal now names the real home it compared against, not
  just the destination it refused. That is the one fact needed to tell a
  true positive from a false one, and its absence is what made the
  Windows case a CI-log dig rather than a glance.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#3712): refuse a HOME that merely spells the real home more widely

Review round: one Blocker, four Minors, a Nit.

N2 (the one with teeth) — a destination's ancestor chain is linear, so
"inside the real home AND inside the effective HOME" admits two
arrangements, not one. The intended `effectiveHome ⊂ realHome` is the
Windows temp shape; `realHome ⊂ effectiveHome` — HOME at /Users, /home,
C:\Users — is not a sandbox at all, it is the real home reached by a
wider spelling, and it was exempting a stale destination pointing
straight at ~/.agents. Third conjunct added; the docblock no longer
claims two conditions suffice. Removing the conjunct reds the new row
and nothing else.

N4 — the migration guard resolved its OWN layout, and without
capabilityRegistry, so a registry-dependent descriptor could make it
vouch for a path the migration does not write: a guard reporting safe
while the unsafe write proceeds. It now guards the destination already
resolved by _resolveDevPreferencesSkillTarget, keyed on
`installRoot !== targetDir` — which is exactly the condition under which
a `home` override was declared, read off that same result.

N1 — CONTEXT.md gains the Test Home Guard Module glossary entry that
contributor-standards.md requires of a new Module. Not CI-enforced, so
green CI was never evidence it was met.

N3 — the docs/INVENTORY.md row was misfiled between install-fs-adapter
and install-model-override-resolver; the table is alphabetical and the
manifest already had it right. Moved, and its text now names six writers
and the third conjunct.

N5 — applySurface's signature docblock was two parameters stale; this PR
added the second of them.

N6 — the duplicated rollbackInstallerMigrations() adjacent to the new
rethrow: two identical consecutive calls, not two phases.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#3712): guard the sixth writer, and close two false-ALLOW paths

Review round 3 (NEW-1, NEW-2) plus three defects Codex found in the
whole-PR pass, each reproduced before it was fixed.

NEW-1 — migrateLegacyDevPreferencesToSkill called the guard with no
`deps`, so it bound real os/process.env and could not be wiring-tested
the way the other three reachable writers were. It now takes the same
optional `deps: { os?, env? }` tail parameter. The wiring block gains
the missing fourth row, and a fifth pinning the ALLOW half; the test
file's header docblock said "FIVE writers ... the three reachable
today", contradicting the six/four statement this PR already put in
src/test-home-guard.cts, CONTEXT.md, docs/INVENTORY.md and the
changeset. Both directions of the guard's condition now fail a row
when broken — previously neither did.

NEW-2 — derivesFromSandboxedHome's docblock claimed "THREE conditions
are required, and no two of them suffice". False for {2,3}: isInside is
reflexive, so whenever conjunct 1 fires conjunct 2 already returns
false on its own. Reworded as a fast path, which is what it is.

Codex 1 (false ALLOW) — on a host with no readable passwd entry the
marker branch returned as soon as the marker matched the effective
HOME. That attests a caller sandboxed HOME and says nothing about where
an already-resolved destination points, so a layout captured before
sandboxHome() — still naming the real ~/.agents — was waved straight
through: the same stale-layout shape the primary branch refuses by
design. The marker must now identify AND contain every destination.

Codex 2 (false ALLOW) — `installRoot !== targetDir` was the stand-in
for "the skills kind declared a home override". The two are not
equivalent: the inequality is false when the override resolves onto
targetDir itself, which is exactly a configDir of $HOME/.agents. The
guard was skipped and SKILL.md written into the real home under a test
runner. _resolveDevPreferencesSkillTarget now reports hasHomeOverride
off the same resolution instead of inferring it from two paths.

Codex 3 (prose) — the shared refusal message claimed every guarded
writer prunes; the migrate writer only creates. The changeset headline
claimed in-process installer calls can no longer reach the real home,
which is wider than the guard: writeNonClaudeDefaults still writes
~/.gsd/defaults.json through os.homedir(). INVENTORY's and CONTEXT's
fail-closed sentences omitted sameDirectory's pathname-equality
shortcut. All four narrowed to what the code does.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#3712): let the sandbox marker follow an overridden HOME

Found by Codex in the whole-PR pass. installSpawnEnv spreads
`overrides` last so an explicit HOME wins — deliberate, and its
docblock tells callers needing per-spawn isolation to pass their own
{ HOME, USERPROFILE }. But the #3712 marker was set before that spread,
so such a caller got HOME=<theirs> and marker=<helper default>. On a
host with no readable passwd entry the guard compares the two and
refuses a legitimately sandboxed spawn — tests/install.test.cjs:7143
and install-shared.cjs's own runInstaller both take that path.

The marker is now derived from the final HOME unless the caller
supplied one explicitly. The contract test asserted HOME after an
override but not the marker, which is why it stayed green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(#3712): name the shipped guard condition, not the deleted one

Review round 4 of #3725. Two artifacts this PR adds still described
`target.installRoot !== targetDir` in the PRESENT tense as the live guard
condition on `migrateLegacyDevPreferencesToSkill`. The shipped condition is
`runtime && target.hasHomeOverride` (src/install-engine.cts:510).

This is not ordinary doc drift. The named condition is the exact false-ALLOW
the previous round closed: a `home` override resolving onto `targetDir` — a
configDir of `$HOME/.agents`, which is where codex's override points — makes
the inequality FALSE while the override is declared, so the guard was skipped.
A maintainer reading CONTEXT.md:290 as authoritative would believe the guard
still skips that case.

  - tests/install-write-confinement.test.cjs — the ALLOW-half row's comment.
    Its "teeth" rationale is unchanged and still correct as written.
  - CONTEXT.md:290 — the Test Home Guard Module glossary entry, a documented
    PR gate. Now states the condition and names the inequality only as what it
    is NOT, with the reason.

The three surviving mentions of the inequality are all past-tense or negated
(src/install-engine.cts:448, :508 and the sibling test comment at :3698) and
are correct as they stand.

Verified: `npm run lint:ci` exit 0; full `npm test` 31327 tests / 31312 pass /
0 fail / 14 skipped, run with TMPDIR unset.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#3712): canonicalization fails closed, matching identify's errno split

Codex full-PR review of #3725, run against the round-4 head.

`resolveThroughLinks` caught EVERY realpathSync error and fell back to
`path.resolve(dest)` — the lexical spelling. That inverts the function's own
purpose. An aliased `<sandbox>/.agents` that cannot be canonicalized keeps its
sandbox spelling, satisfies the nested-sandbox exemption at :227, and the write
is ALLOWED into the real home — the exact escape this walk exists to close. The
module documents that it fails CLOSED with ONE named exception (the marker
branch); this was a second, unnamed one.

Split by errno, and deliberately by the SAME split `identify` already draws
rather than a second policy in one module — both answer "does this path exist
as named?", so they must not disagree:

  ENOENT / ENOTDIR -> walk up. The ordinary case: a fresh install resolves a
    destination nothing has created yet, so realpath fails on the leaf and on
    every not-yet-created ancestor. Refusing here rejects every install.
  anything else (EACCES, EPERM, ELOOP, EIO) -> refuse. The component exists but
    cannot be resolved, so the guard cannot tell where the write lands.

Three rows in the predicate block, beside the other aliasing rows:
  - a symlink CYCLE in the destination path (ELOOP)   -> REFUSE
  - a destination that does not exist yet (ENOENT)    -> ALLOW
  - a component behind a regular file (ENOTDIR)       -> ALLOW

Teeth checked against the artifact the test loads, not the source: reverting
the condition to the swallow-everything shape in the compiled
test-home-guard.cjs turns row 1 — and only row 1 — red. The ENOTDIR row caught
a stale build during development, which is the point of asserting on the
compiled file.

CONTEXT.md and the resolveThroughLinks docblock both record the new behaviour,
so this does not repeat the prose-vs-code drift the round-4 finding was about.

The changeset's existing scope sentence now bounds "six writers" to the
`installRuntimeArtifacts` call tree and names `cmdGenerateDevPreferences` —
which resolves the same codex `home` override through `getGlobalSkillsBase` and
writes SKILL.md beneath it unguarded. It has no in-process caller today (its
only direct require-and-call is a spawnSync with HOME sandboxed), so it is
latent rather than live, and whether it belongs in this PR is raised with the
maintainer rather than decided here.

Verified: `npm run lint:ci` exit 0; full `npm test` 31330 tests / 31315 pass /
0 fail / 14 skipped, TMPDIR unset.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-23 18:27:02 -04:00
Tom Boucher
b6977d9d11 fix(#3762): enforce docs/INVENTORY.md roster rows, backfill 32 gaps (#3766)
* test(#3762): failing-first roster gate for docs/INVENTORY.md rows

Anchors the human half of the inventory-drift rule: every entry in
docs/INVENTORY-MANIFEST.json must have a hand-written row in
docs/INVENTORY.md. Expected RED on this commit -- next carries 32
unrostered surfaces, which is the defect the gate exists to catch.

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

* fix(#3762): enforce docs/INVENTORY.md roster rows, backfill 32 gaps

docs/INVENTORY.md calls itself the authoritative roster of every shipped
GSD surface, and CLAUDE.md's inventory-drift rule requires both a roster
row and a manifest regen. Only the manifest half was anchored, so a PR
could ship a surface, regenerate the manifest, omit the row, and stay
green -- as PR #3758 did with gsd-core/references/planner-coupling.md.

Adds the roster half to tests/inventory-manifest-sync.test.cjs, backed by
a pure matcher in tests/helpers/inventory-roster.cjs, and backfills the 32
surfaces already missing rows on next.

Fixes #3762

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

* test(#3762): harden roster matcher against fenced blocks and trim exports

Skips fenced code regions when splitting level-2 sections so a documented
'## ' example inside a fence cannot truncate a family section (false red)
or contribute a phantom row (false pass); makes the heading pattern linear
rather than a backtracking lazy match; narrows the module surface to the
three names the gate consumes.

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

* fix(#3762): close two false-RED gaps found in orthogonal review

Indented headings: CommonMark permits an ATX heading to carry 1-3 leading
spaces, and a ^##-anchored pattern read such a document as having no family
sections at all -- reporting all six missing, a structural red for zero real
drift. Reproduced, then fixed and pinned.

Link-wrapped cells: a row written as [`x.md`](../x.md) was not recognized,
though docs/INVENTORY.md already uses that form elsewhere. Unwrapping now
peels a whole-cell link and a whole-cell code span, and only layers that
wrap the cell entirely -- a file mentioned mid-prose is still not a row, so
the false red is not traded for a false pass.

Adds a second fast-check property over the commands source-link rule, the
one family whose matching rule differs from the other five.

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

* test(#3762): boundary trio for the fence-marker length limit

RULESET.TESTS.boundary-coverage — the matcher's only numeric limit is the
fence marker's {3,}. Exercises 2 (inline markup, swallows nothing), 3, and
4 characters, for both backtick and tilde delimiters.

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

* chore: remove stray pwned_cmdsub injection-test canary from the repo root

A zero-byte file committed by 0e6fa2e2c (#3124) while remediating the
#3118 command-substitution injection — the marker a test wrote into cwd to
prove a substitution had NOT executed, left behind when the run ended.
Nothing in the tree references it (verified by Grep across the repo),
package.json's files array excludes root-level files so it never shipped,
and lint-removed-but-needed confirms no surviving reference.

Found while auditing the repo root for #3762; fixed inline rather than
deferred, per CLAUDE.md's no-deferrals rule.

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

* docs: backfill changeset pr number to 3766

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

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 18:24:25 -04:00
Tom Boucher
14679b866b enhance(#2856): add default-off live-DOM UAT capability (#3716)
* test(#2856): add failing-first suite for the live-dom-uat capability

Binds the approved triage shape before any of it exists:

- containment — the execute:wave:post hook must not render unless
  workflow.live_dom_uat is true AND the capability resolves active
  (fail-closed on a missing state entry, and on a non-boolean value)
- criterion 4 — agents/gsd-executor.md carries no browser MCP family;
  asserted as an absence, which is the only way it is observable
- Hyrum guard — the pre-existing mcp__playwright__* branch must stay
  outside the key-gated block, or upgrading silently removes working
  automated UI verification for every current Playwright-MCP user
- parity — the browser glob list now lives in two surfaces (agent
  frontmatter + workflow detection block); the assertion fails if
  either gains or loses a family without the other

Red by construction: the capability, agent and workflow block do not
exist yet. Verified on the remote runner.

Refs #2856

* enhance(#2856): add default-off live-DOM UAT capability

A phase whose acceptance criteria needed a live DOM could not be
finished by the agent that executed it: gsd-executor carries no browser
tools, so it correctly returned checkpoint:human-action even though the
work was not human-only, just tool-less. Every such phase degraded to
"executed, then finished by hand in the orchestrator", and autonomous:
false could not distinguish "a human must judge this" from "the executor
lacks the tool".

Implements the shape approved at triage, not the one reported. The
executor's tools: line is NOT widened, in any configuration: for a
first-party agent the static list is the only control that exists
(ADR-1244 D2, ADR-857 D4, no per-dispatch override). Instead one
default-off capability owns the key, the agent, and the step:

- capabilities/live-dom-uat/ — activationKey workflow.live_dom_uat
  (boolean, default false), one additive step at execute:wave:post
  (onError: skip, gates: []), so it can never halt a wave
- agents/gsd-dom-verifier.md — the only GSD agent carrying browser MCP
  globs, in its own tools: line, with no Bash
- verify-work automated_ui_verification — a gsd:live-dom-families block
  naming both new families AND the key; presence alone never activates

Two independent fail-closed gates: isCapabilityActive renders a hook
only on state.active === true, plus the step's own `when`.

The pre-existing mcp__playwright__* branch keeps the gating it already
had and stays outside the new block. Pulling it behind a default-off key
would have silently removed working automated UI verification from every
current Playwright-MCP user on upgrade.

Also closes a host gap this surfaced: execute:wave:post dispatched only
contribution + gate, so ANY registered step was declared and silently
never run — exactly the single-kind hand-roll loop-hook-dispatch.md
names. Step 5.75 now dispatches every kind == "step".

The browser-profile lock is tolerated, not coordinated: --isolated is a
flag on the operator's own MCP-server registration that GSD neither
launches nor parameterizes, so the verifier reports could_not_look /
profile_locked, names the flag, and stops. DOM-VERIFY.md keeps
could_not_look and nothing_to_report distinct behind a closed reason
enum — collapsing them is the ambiguous-run-notes defect reported.

Verified on the remote runner.

Closes #2856

* fix(#2856): apply review findings from the orthogonal passes

Correctness pass (blocker):
- delete detectionBlockIsCrlfSafe. It was pass-always: it read the file,
  replaced LF with CRLF, then indexOf'd marker strings that contain no
  newline, so the replacement could not change the result and the
  assertion could never fail for the reason it stated. There is no real
  CRLF risk on this surface either — the gsd:live-dom-families block has
  no parser, only human and agent readers. Deleted rather than replaced,
  per the repo's pass-always-test rule.

Isolated security pass (two minors, both real):
- execute-phase.md step 5.75: this change is what first activates
  kind == "step" dispatch at execute:wave:post, which newly opens the
  ref.command shell path at that loop point. Our own step uses ref.agent
  and never touches it, but the door is now open, so the step-dispatch
  line carries the same in-context validate-before-shell warning the
  sibling gate-dispatch line directly below it already carries.
- gsd-dom-verifier: quoted page text in DOM-VERIFY.md is attacker
  influenced. Require it wrapped in inline code or a fence, kept short,
  and never left reading as a directive to the next reader.

Verified on the remote runner.

Refs #2856

* fix(#2856): settle the new-agent roster ripple

Checkpoint 2 returned 28 failures, none in the new suite — all of them
the guards that exist to make adding an agent a deliberate act. Each is
a real boundary that had to move:

- docs/AGENTS.md: Tools row must copy the frontmatter verbatim (#2526),
  so the browser globs lose their backticks; primary-agent counts 21->22,
  roster 33/34->34/35, Verifiers category 1->2
- docs/INVENTORY.md: roster completeness requires every agents/gsd-*.md
  to be classified exactly once
- gsd-dom-verifier: add the anti-heredoc instruction and the commented
  hooks: frontmatter pattern both agent gates require
- gsd-core/bin/shared/model-catalog.json: every shipped agent needs a
  profile entry (#3229)
- copilot-install / kilo-upgrades / qwen-upgrades: expected agent list
  and the 34->35 roster boundary
- execute-wave-post-gate-pipeline-e2e: execute:wave:post legitimately
  carries one step now. Asserted as an exact shape — one step, capId
  live-dom-uat, ref.agent gsd-dom-verifier, onError skip — so it stays a
  real guard against accidental change rather than being relaxed

Two findings worth naming:

mcp-tool-inheritance (#2526) rejected the agent for documenting
mcp__playwright__* while its tools: line withholds it — a dead
instruction that invites the agent to claim a path it cannot take. The
prose now names the Playwright MCP family without the dispatchable
token, in both the agent and the capability fragment.

runtime-launcher-parity rejected the new gsd_run call: each fenced block
is its own shell, so a workflow step file invoking gsd_run needs its own
canonical preamble. Propagated with scripts/sync-runtime-launcher.cjs.
That script also normalizes explore.md, which is unrelated pre-existing
drift the parity check tolerates, so it is reverted to keep this diff
scoped.

The emitted-drift ack supersedes the spent #3370 entry for
execute-phase.md — it is merged into next, so its ripple is absorbed at
the base and it can no longer clear anything. That is the same supersede
the #3370 entry itself performed on the spent #3324 fragment. Its
unrelated execute-plan.md entry is untouched.

Verified on the remote runner.

Refs #2856

* fix(#2856): drop the stale emitted-drift ack entry

The automated-ui-verification.md entry was written speculatively rather
than from a reported growth, and the check names that precisely: an ack
"written or reworded in THIS diff, but nothing here needed it, so it
explains nothing".

The growth tier keys on the bare filename as it appears under
gsd-core/workflows/ or agents/. automated-ui-verification.md is nested
under verify-work/steps/, so it was never in the tracked set — only
execute-phase.md was ever reported, both before and after the launcher
preamble landed.

Only ack what the check actually reports.

Verified on the remote runner.

Refs #2856

* chore(#2856): backfill changeset pr number

pr:0 -> 3716. The placeholder fails both changeset-lint
(fail_invalid_fragment) and docs-lint (fail_malformed_fragment) by
design and can only be resolved once the PR number exists. Both now
report ok against GITHUB_BASE_REF=next.

Refs #2856

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-20 15:07:21 -04:00
Tom Boucher
8da2dd3ad2 feat(#2790): add read-only planning.inspect schema-v1 snapshot query (#3708)
* feat(#2790): add read-only planning.inspect schema-v1 snapshot query

Adds a read-only query emitting a schema-versioned JSON projection of .planning/
so downstream harness UIs can consume planning state without parsing GSD's
Markdown a second time.

Composed strictly from the ADR-3180 section 7 owners plus parsePlanDocument,
parseRequirements and parseUatItems; markdown structure is read through the
Markdown Sectionizer and Markdown Table Model seams. It declares its own flat
external schema rather than serializing PlanningSnapshot, which is the
diagnostic-rule subject and still growing.

Extracts plan-document parsing out of cmdPhasePlanIndex into a shared leaf
module so phase.plan-index and planning.inspect cannot drift, including the
plan-id derivation both surfaces report.

Also fixes parseRequirements dropping the separator delimiter used by the
shipped requirements template, surfaced while wiring the requirement rows.

* fix(#2790): close spec gaps and a raw-text test assertion found in review

Review findings from the standards, spec and security passes:

- phases[] rows carry goal and dependencies, the two per-phase elements the
  issue Summary names that had no corresponding field. Goal is bounded to the
  section's leading prose so the Depends-on line, the Plans checklist and the
  wave annotations are not duplicated into it.
- requirement rows carry their own diagnostic codes, so a consumer no longer
  has to string-parse the global diagnostics subject to correlate.
- roadmap_acceptance.checkbox is looked up through the phase-id key owners.
  It was compared raw against the on-disk directory name, so it read null for
  every real-world slugged phase directory and the evidence channel was inert.
- the hostile-input test asserts the structured payload instead of matching the
  raw stdout string. The absence proof over raw stdout is kept deliberately.

* fix(#2790): register planning in the runtime usage list and repair fixtures

Remote runner reported 9 failures on 9b3f9aa. Two root causes, both fixed:

- gsd-tools.cjs registered the planning family in HOST_COMMAND_ROUTERS but
  never added it to TOP_LEVEL_USAGE's Commands list. Those are two surfaces a
  parity test guards, and the top-of-file block comment is not the runtime
  help string. A real wiring gap that every local gate and three review passes
  missed.

- the new suite's fixtures could not produce a resolvable phase set. STATE.md
  frontmatter omitted the milestone field, which ADR-3180 7.2 rule 1 makes the
  primary milestone selector, so the phase set scoped unscoped and every
  percentage was correctly withheld. Separately declarePhase returned a path
  without creating the directory, so a phase declared but never written to left
  phases empty. Both reproduced against the built module before fixing.

No assertion was weakened. The withholding path is still exercised and still
returns null when the roadmap is absent.

* chore(#2790): backfill changeset pr number

* test(#2790): cover every enumerated matrix row and contain a symlink escape

Reverses a silent deferral. An earlier revision left 23 of the 78 enumerated
matrix rows unimplemented and 7 more as one-off manual checks, with a paragraph
in the artifact and the PR body describing the gap. CLAUDE.md is explicit that
such a note is not a fix and is not surfacing. The rows are implemented instead
and the manual-evidence bucket is gone: 49 test cases become 88, covering all 78.

Writing the symlink row proved a real leak: a *-PLAN.md symlinked outside
.planning/ had its content emitted into the payload, confirmed via a direct call
and the spawned CLI. readDocument now resolves target and planning root with
realpathSync and rejects an escape, returning the ordinary unreadable-document
shape. Tested both ways, because a containment check that over-rejects is its own
defect: an escaping symlink leaks nothing and degrades that plan alone, while a
legitimately relocated .planning/ symlink stays fully readable.

The three new modules are registered in the mutation COVERED registry, which had
been reporting has_work false and skipping the Stryker gate entirely. Provisional
non-binding floors so the shards run and report; raised to the measured value
before merge, since the registry forbids calibrating from a local run.

* fix(#2790): satisfy the mutation ratchet contract and scope the 1MB test

Remote runner reported 16 failures on 8c451ed. Two causes.

The COVERED registry has a paired contract the earlier commit violated: every
module needs a matching RATCHET_BASELINE entry, and minScore must be between 50
and 100 with minScore === baseline. The provisional floor of 1 was illegal on
both counts. All three modules now sit at 50 — the registry's own enforced
minimum — with matching baselines. The score cannot be measured locally: the
shard runs node --test, which this repo hard-blocks, so CI is the only source.
Floors are raised to the measured value once this PR's shards report; a shard
below 50 means the tests need strengthening, since the floor cannot go lower.

The 1MB test was measuring the test harness rather than the product. The command
handles the oversized payload correctly by spilling to a tmpfile and resolving it
back, but the resolved stdout then exceeds runGsdTools' maxBuffer and the helper
reports ENOBUFS. It now uses --pick so stdout stays one byte while the full 1MB
document is still read and parsed end to end.

* fix(#2790): wire containment across every document read this command drives

An isolated security review of the containment control found the boundary logic
sound but not comprehensively wired: two content reads reached the filesystem
without it.

An escaped phase DIRECTORY could enumerate external filenames into the file
fields and diagnostic subjects. Both enumeration sites now containment-check the
directory before reading. Worth recording that the leak was already prevented one
layer earlier than the review claimed: Dirent#isDirectory() reports false for a
directory symlink, so such a directory never becomes a phase row at all. The
guard is defense-in-depth for a direct caller and for platforms where a reparse
point reports as a directory.

A *-VERIFICATION.md symlinked outside the root leaked one frontmatter value
verbatim, because readVerificationStatus does its own read and copies an
unrecognized status into the payload's next_action. Closed from the consumer
side through that function's existing fs injection seam, so src/verification.cts
keeps its signature and its other callers are untouched.

The reviewer additionally rated a forged status: passed as an integrity bypass.
It is not: anyone able to plant the symlink can plant a real VERIFICATION.md
saying the same thing. The incremental risk is confidentiality, which is what
these fixes close.

src/plan-scan.cts is deliberately unchanged: isPlanSuperseded reads
symlink-followed content but yields only a derived boolean, no document text.

* test(#2790): give the mutation shards an in-process surface

Two Stryker shards were CANCELLED at the 15-minute cap, not failed on score.
CI log: 640 mutants instrumented, and the dry run reported 'Ran 1 tests in 20
seconds' because the shards pointed at the integration suite, where nearly every
case spawns a gsd-tools subprocess and Stryker's command runner treats the whole
test-runner invocation as a single test. 640 x 20s cannot finish in 15 minutes;
at the kill it was 27/640 with an ETA over an hour.

Every other COVERED module points at a property or unit file, and the workflow's
own paths filter lists exactly those two patterns. In-process is the intended
mutation surface; the shards were pointed at the wrong shape of test.

Adds tests/planning-inspect.unit.test.cjs — 39 cases in 10 describes that spawn
nothing and call the built modules directly. plan-document and the router need no
filesystem at all, one being a pure content-to-object parser and the other taking
an injected mock. The three shards now point here. The 91-case integration suite
is untouched and still runs in the normal test job.

* chore(#2790): ratchet mutation floors to the measured CI scores

CI run 32392791843 measured all three shards, which is the only source the
registry accepts — local runs count timeouts as kills and inflate badly.

  planning-command-router  95.65 -> floor 94
  plan-document            76.58 -> floor 75
  planning-inspect         57.03 -> floor 56

Applied the registry's own rule, floor(score) - 1, and updated RATCHET_BASELINE
to match, since the ratchet test enforces equality.

planning-inspect sits well below the file's target of 80 and is the obvious
ratchet candidate as its tests improve. planning-command-router already exceeds
the target. The placeholder comment about floors pending measurement is removed
rather than left standing as a false statement.

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2026-08-20 13:42:43 -04:00
Tom Boucher
2fca0e17e4 enhance(#2554): resolve code review depth from path-scoped override rules (#3695)
* test(#2554): failing-first suite for path-scoped code review depth overrides

Binds the not-yet-built code-review-depth module: segment-aware path-prefix
matching of a changed-file set against ordered {paths,depth} rules, resolution
order flag > strongest matching rule > global > standard, typed validation
errors, and the large-scope downgrade boundary. Also proves behaviorally that
workflow.code_review_depth_overrides is not yet a registered config key.

Refs #2554

* feat(#2554): resolve code review depth from path-scoped override rules

Adds workflow.code_review_depth_overrides — an ordered array of {paths, depth}
rules matched against a review's changed-file set by segment-aware path-prefix
comparison. Resolution order is --depth= flag, then the strongest matching rule,
then workflow.code_review_depth, then standard; a matching rule replaces the
global rather than being max'd with it, so quick and standard rules stay
meaningful. Glob metacharacters are a hard configuration error rather than sugar
for a prefix, and malformed rules halt the review instead of degrading to
standard. The resolver is pure and reports its own provenance, so the workflow
can print the resolved depth and the rule that matched. The pre-existing
>50-file deep-to-standard downgrade moves into the module and now names the rule
it overrode.

The key is registered centrally rather than as a capability config slice: the
federated slice channel admits only boolean/string/number/enum, so an array
slice would be dropped as malformed.

Closes #2554

* test(#2554): correct depth-provenance assertions and pin out-of-repo paths

Two corrections to the failing-first suite. The source assertion for a
non-matching rule with no global configured expected 'config'; with no global
set the depth comes from the default, and a companion assertion tolerated
either value, so both passed against an implementation that derived provenance
from whether any rules existed rather than from where the depth came from.

The out-of-repo absolute-path case used a home-directory path that matched
neither implementation, so it never exercised the defect it named. It now pins
the discriminating cases: an absolute path outside the repo root must not match
a repo-relative rule, and one under the root must.

* docs(#2554): document path-scoped code review depth overrides

Reference rows for workflow.code_review_depth_overrides in the configuration,
features and commands references plus the locale copies that carry those tables,
and in the planning-config reference. Explanation of why escalation is
whole-review rather than per-file and why v1 is prefix-only. New how-to for
scoping review depth by path, carrying the configuration-error reason table and
the distinction between nothing to report and could not look. CONTEXT.md
glossary entry and the INVENTORY row for the new CLI module.

ja-JP and ko-KR CONFIGURATION.md carry no code_review keys at all, and ko-KR and
pt-BR FEATURES.md carry no code-review config table, so those files are
deliberately untouched.

* fix(#2554): make the depth-misconfiguration halt executable and reject control chars

Three review findings, all in this change.

The misconfiguration halt was prose rather than shell: the error-printing fence
was followed by an unconditional extraction fence, so an ok:false result threw
and left the depth empty instead of stopping the review. Prose is not a guard —
the two fences are now one block with a real conditional, and anything that is
not the literal string true fails closed.

An interior control character in a rule path survived validation and reached the
provenance string and the summary box; rule paths now reject control characters
via a new PATH_CONTROL_CHAR reason, after the glob check so precedence is
unchanged. That in turn makes the field record safe to delimit, so the seven
node invocations that each re-parsed the same result to read one field collapse
to one.

Also corrects the glossary entry's illustrative paths, which the glossary-ref
check read as real repository references.

* fix(#2554): use the fast-check v4 string API and acknowledge workflow growth

Two failures from the remote matrix on d3111f45, both this branch's.

The property block built its segment arbitrary with fc.stringOf, removed in
fast-check v4. Because the arbitrary is constructed in the describe body, the
throw took out all four property tests rather than one — they had never
executed. Rewritten to fc.string({unit, ...}), the form this repo already uses
in emitted-attribution.test.cjs. Every other fast-check helper in the file was
audited against the installed module.

The emitted-attribution growth arm needed an acknowledgment for code-review.md,
which grew 5376 bytes. The pre-existing 3503 fragment keying the same file is
spent — its ripple was absorbed when #3503 merged, and the base file is exactly
the 34435-byte baseline this growth is measured against — so it cannot clear
anything, while the ack lint hard-fails on a duplicate key across two sources.
Removed it in favor of the new fragment, which is exactly how #3503 itself
replaced the spent 3191 fragment.

* docs(#2554): backfill changeset PR number

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2026-08-19 22:45:35 -04:00
Tom Boucher
79781e68eb enhance(#2401): ground verify-command paths and inherit prior-phase commands (#3678)
* feat(#2401): ground <automated> verify-command paths and inherit prior-phase commands

Adds a deterministic resolvability probe over each PLAN.md <automated> verify
command and surfaces the nearest prior phase's proven commands to the planner
at every context window.

- src/verify-command-grounding.cts: recognizer (not a shell interpreter) that
  grounds a leading cd <literal> chain and npm --prefix <literal>, and reports
  unresolvable rather than guessing. Never executes command text.
- gsd-tools check verify-command-paths <N>: per-phase probe, wired into
  plan-phase.md before the plan-check pass.
- init.plan-phase gains prior_verify_commands, ungated by context_window.
- gsd-plan-checker: new Verify Command Path Resolvability dimension that
  reports the failing target and never prescribes a replacement.

Also fixes first-match-wins prefix bucketing in scripts/lint-test-file-count.cjs
(readdir order is not stable across platforms, so a module whose name extends
another's with a hyphen bucketed differently on Linux than on macOS).

Closes #2401

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

* fix(#2401): ground the canonical --prefix form, quoted paths, and absolute cd resets

Independent review found three defects in the recognizer:

- npm --prefix DIR run SCRIPT never reached the script-existence check,
  because the pattern required npm and run to be adjacent. That is the
  form the docs tell planners to prefer, so script_missing never fired
  for it. The prefix flag and its value are now stripped before matching.
- --prefix captured with \S+, so a quoted path containing a space was
  truncated to a stray opening quote and reported as a missing directory
  - a false blocker, worse than the bug this feature fixes. The capture
  is now quote-aware.
- A chained cd whose later segment was absolute concatenated instead of
  resetting, producing a nonsense path and another false blocker. The
  fold now resets on an absolute segment.

Also replaces the bespoke phase-directory regex with the canonical
phase-id helpers. Real phase directories are NN-slug, not phase-N-slug,
so the prior-command harvest matched nothing outside its own fixtures
and the planner-inheritance half of this feature was dead code.

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

* refactor(#2401): source task blocks from the canonical sectionizer

The module carried its own copy of the <task>-block grammar - a fourth
hand-rolled mirror of the one markdown-sectionizer owns. verify.cts keeps
its copy only because it needs the type= attribute the canonical helper
discards; this module never reads that attribute, so it can share the
owner outright instead of adding a test around a copy.

extractAutomatedCommands now takes task bodies from extractTaggedBlocks
and the out-of-task remainder from stripTaggedBlocks. A task-grammar
parity test pins the attributed task-name set against the canonical
helper across six awkward task shapes.

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

* fix(#2401): extract agent-file overflow to references and repair the property arbitrary

The remote matrix run came back red with 19 failures, four root causes:

- agents/gsd-plan-checker.md and agents/gsd-planner.md both blew the
  49152 agent cap. Their bodies move to gsd-core/references/, leaving
  @-reference stubs, per the documented overflow pattern.
- The new checker dimension invoked gsd_run before the canonical
  preamble that defines it. The call is deleted outright: plan-phase.md
  already runs the probe and hands the result in as {VERIFY_PATHS}, so
  the dimension consumes that rather than re-running anything.
- fc.fullUnicodeString does not exist in fast-check 4.8.0. Replaced with
  fc.string({ unit: 'binary' }), which covers the same 0000-10FFFF range.
- Three runtime-loaded files grew; acknowledged in the existing ack
  fragments that already own those bare filenames, since two ack sources
  may never name the same path.

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

* test(#2401): regenerate golden install-tree fixtures for the new references

Adding two files under gsd-core/references/ changes what the installer
emits into every runtime's tree, so all 19 golden install-parity
fixtures went stale. Regenerated with npm run gen:install-tree; the
delta is exactly the two new reference paths per runtime, no removals.

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

* chore(#2401): backfill changeset pr number to 3678

* fix(#2401): treat ~ as a home expansion only at the start of a path

Windows CI caught this on both shards; the Linux-only remote matrix
cannot see it. The dynamic-path refusal rejected ~ anywhere, and a
GitHub Windows runner's tmpdir is an 8.3 short name -
C:\Users\RUNNER~1\AppData\Local\Temp - so a valid absolute Windows
path came back unresolvable/dynamic_path.

This was a production bug, not a test artifact: any Windows user whose
project path carries an 8.3 short name, or any literal ~, silently lost
the probe entirely - every command degrading to unresolvable with no
explanation.

~ is a home expansion only at the start of a path; elsewhere it is an
ordinary literal. The check is now split: $, backtick, *, ? and newline
stay refused anywhere (substitution and globs, and the glob characters
are illegal in Windows path components regardless), while ~ is refused
only leading, tolerating one leading quote since the check runs before
quote stripping.

The prior tests only caught this on Windows because only Windows puts a
~ in tmpdir. Four new tests pin it on every platform via a fixture
directory literally named RUNNER~1.

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

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-19 15:21:15 -04:00
Tom Boucher
1adf6d2245 fix(#3620): point the docs at files that actually exist (#3658)
* fix(3620): point the docs at files that actually exist

docproof found 34 stale references; the reporter hand-read all 34 and reported the 8 that
are real, explaining why the other 26 are deliberate (files the documents themselves label
legacy or "superseded by", and one pre-Diataxis link label whose target still resolves).
Those 26 are left alone — re-touching them would contradict the issue's own analysis.

Every claim was re-verified against git ls-files at HEAD before editing.

docs/INVENTORY.md said its roster is anchored by six drift-control tests. Five are gone
(commands-doc-parity, agents-doc-parity, cli-modules-doc-parity, hooks-doc-parity in
5d8a8c4d; command-count-sync in fbf30792), so the sentence now names the one that exists.
Whether one test is sufficient coverage is a maintainer question the issue explicitly
declined to answer, so no new drift tests are proposed here.

The four translations were a revision further behind, each naming a seventh test deleted in
ae8bb707 that the English file had already dropped. All four now match.

Renamed targets corrected in CONTEXT.md, VERSIONING.md, docs/CONFIGURATION.md and the
update workflow. The new test names carry no issue-NNN- prefix, which is what
lint-regression-test-names requires, so they are the correct targets.

docs/TESTING-SUITES.md is the one that could cost somebody time: it INSTRUCTED contributors
to add an acknowledgment to the legacy drift-ack file, which CONTRIBUTING.md says to never
use. Rewritten from the real workflow — per-PR fragments under the drift-acks directory,
and a spent base-side ack is re-armed by rewording that fragment's reason in place, never
by adding a duplicate, since two sources naming one path is a hard error.

docs/skills/discovery-contract.md's heading named a query module deleted in 11918dcc. The
section was REMOVED rather than retargeted: its documented behavior (skip the deprecated
root) is not what the surviving code does — skill-manifest includes that root marked
deprecated:true — so retargeting would have documented something false.

Found and fixed inline, same class: VERSIONING.md described an SDK bundling step the
release workflow does not have (zero such mentions in that file); CONFIGURATION.md and four
translations named a dead model-catalog triple collapsed by ADR-457.

Dead config removed: the changeset lint's user-facing prefix list still carried two retired
sdk entries. git ls-files -- 'sdk/*' returns nothing. No test pins that array.

Left deliberately: the comment explaining the retired catalog path, the install regression
test that reconstructs the old broken layout to prove it fails, and the generated
test-timings cache. Each is a legitimate mention of a dead path, not drift.

Note lint-removed-but-needed cannot catch this class: it diffs baseRef...HEAD, so it only
sees files deleted in the change under review. These were orphaned by PRs that predate the
lint. A repo-wide existence audit would need a suppression mechanism for the 26 deliberate
mentions above; that is a feature, not part of this fix.

Fixes #3620

* chore(3620): backfill changeset PR number (#3658)

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2026-08-19 01:54:01 -04:00
Tom Boucher
ac1b6d679f enhance(#3618): fold fallow-runner onto the canonical binary resolver (epic #3411 Phase 2) (#3633)
* chore(#3618): fold fallow-runner onto the canonical binary resolver

Epic #3411 Phase 2. src/fallow-runner.cts was the fourth divergent
implementation of Windows binary resolution the epic enumerated —
candidateNames, isExecutableFile, findInPath, findInNodeModules, 40 lines.
All four are deleted; resolveFallowBinary is one seam call.

Two OPT-IN options were added to resolveExecutableBinary to make the fold
behavior-preserving, both defaulting off so Phase 1's callers are byte-identical:

  prependPaths      dirs searched before env.PATH, in order, through the
                    identical per-directory candidate logic. This expresses
                    node_modules/.bin-first precedence without env surgery —
                    the rejected alternative re-introduced the
                    spread-loses-the-proxy hazard the Windows lane caught in
                    Phase 1, at every future call site instead of once.
  requireExecutable POSIX-only accessSync(X_OK); a no-op on win32 where mode
                    bits do not mean execute. Opt-in rather than default
                    because unconditional X_OK breaks #3445's suite, which
                    stages candidates with plain writeFileSync and never sets
                    an exec bit — the repo bans chmod in tests — so every one
                    would resolve to null on POSIX.

Deliberate behavior change on Windows: fallow's prior candidate list ended in a
BARE fallow. The seam never tries a bare name there, so an extensionless file
beside fallow.cmd is no longer resolved. That is the fix, not a regression — the
extensionless file is npm's POSIX sh shim, which CreateProcess cannot run
(#3275). Rows 7 and 8 of the design record it.

Defect found while working, fixed inline: the resolution order was documented
BACKWARDS as PATH-then-.bin in structural-pre-pass.md, docs/INVENTORY.md and
four INVENTORY translations. The code has always been .bin first, and .bin first
is correct — a project-local tool should beat a global one. The archived
changeset is left alone as a historical record.

fallow-runner had no test file at all. tests/fallow-runner.test.cjs is new
(F1-F15) and the seam options are pinned by S1-S12 folded into the existing
dispatch suite. RED proven by execution: with both source files stashed and
build:lib re-run, 7 of 27 probe cases failed.

Refs #3411

* chore(#3618): backfill changeset pr number 3633

* fix(#3618): assert both platform contracts in F4 instead of a POSIX-only premise

Windows CI on #3633 failed F4. The test monkeypatched accessSync to throw and
asserted resolveFallowBinary returned null — but that premise, that the X_OK
check is consulted at all, is POSIX-only by design. requireExecutable is a
deliberate no-op on win32 because Windows mode bits do not mean execute, so the
staged fixture correctly resolved there.

40-design.md's negative-space section already states this carve-out verbatim.
The test contradicted the design it was written from: fixtures were made
platform-adaptive in the previous commit, and this assertion was left
platform-blind.

F4 now asserts BOTH contracts — null on POSIX, resolves on win32 — rather than
skipping either. A t.skip on one lane would have been green and would have left
the win32 carve-out unpinned by fallow's own entry point.

Audited every other row for the same class. F1-F3, F5, F6, F11-F15 hold on both
platforms; F7-F10 and S1-S12 inject platform explicitly and are unaffected. F4
was the only row with a single-platform premise.

The local probe runs on one platform and structurally cannot catch this, which
is why it was green — that limitation is now stated at the top of the probe so a
green probe is not mistaken for platform coverage. The win32 branch was proven
by injecting platform:'win32' with accessSync throwing and asserting it still
resolves.

Refs #3411

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2026-08-18 15:32:57 -04:00
Tom Boucher
3ab0007164 enh(#2875): materialization primitives — durable user-artifact staging and descriptor-authoritative agents (#3600)
* fix(#2875): stage user artifacts durably across install wipes (#1874-F19)

preserveUserArtifacts held user files only in an in-memory Map across the
wipe, so any process death between preserve and restore lost them outright.

Seven call sites, not the four the issue records. Three of them never called
the helper at all - they open-coded the same read/wipe/write - so searching
for callers under-counted by construction; the extra sites were found by
sweeping for the pattern instead.

The worst is the mainline install path, where the crash window spans the
entire gsd-core tree copy rather than a single rmSync.

Adds src/user-artifact-staging.cts: durable on-disk staging with a record
written after the copies land as the commit point, plus recovery of orphaned
batches on the next run - without recovery the staged bytes survive but the
user's file is still gone, which would pass its own test while delivering
nothing.

Routes copyPreservingSymlink through installFs() so staging cannot bypass the
install fs seam, and reunites its symlink-safety docblock with the function it
documents.

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

* docs(#2875): amend ADR-3574 with four claims disproved by implementation

Implementing Phase 6 disproved four statements the ADR rests on. The central
decision - no single materializer - is unaffected and stands.

Corrected: decision 3 was already satisfied, so nothing was extracted; the
agents-bypass runtime set omitted claude, kilo and opencode, and closing it
needed three new pieces of descriptor contract rather than proceeding on its
own terms; three of the four blockers the layout comment names were already
stale; and F19 is seven call sites, not four.

Records the generalizable lesson: the defect is the pattern of holding user
data in memory across a wipe, not the helper, so searching for callers of the
helper under-counts by construction.

Also resolves the ADR's open question on USER_OWNED_ARTIFACTS membership, and
notes that copyPreservingSymlink needed routing through the install fs seam
before it could be reused.

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

* fix(#2875): close dangling-symlink blind spot and harden staging recovery

An adversarial review found the F19 staging work shipped red and unsafe.

Root cause, shared by two arbitrary-write findings: hasExistingSymlinkBetween
missed dangling symlinks in both its root check and its per-segment walk,
because it probed with existsSync, which is false for a link whose target does
not exist. Fixing only the new module would have reused a guard that was
itself blind. This guard protects the whole install tree.

Recovery no longer throws: it degrades per entry and per file, so one bad
batch cannot block the others. Previously an unrecoverable entry propagated
out of the first statement of install and uninstall, before the cleanup that
would have removed it - wedging the installer permanently.

Partial fs adapters now throw on any omitted method instead of silently
reaching the real filesystem, closing the trap that let a test poison list
pass while real IO happened.

Staged names must be flat, recovery refuses a dangling destination symlink,
and a batch whose recovery genuinely failed is no longer swept - it was
discarding the only durable copy of the file it had just failed to restore.

Replaces three tests that could not fail, including the one labelled negative
proof.

Known limitation, documented not closed: concurrent installs sharing a staging
key can still lose a batch. A real fix needs a cross-process lock.

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

* enh(#2875): make the descriptor authoritative for the agents kind

Deletes the inline agent-staging loop in bin/install.js and the
_DESCRIPTOR_AGENTS_RUNTIMES set, so every runtime materializes agents from
its capability descriptor instead of an inline hostBehaviors dispatch.

Closing it needed three pieces of contract the descriptor pipeline never had,
all reducible to one missing input - per-agent resolution context: a
frontmatter-extensions step for claude's effort and disallowedTools, per-agent
model-override resolution for kilo and opencode, and a named branding
converter for hermes, whose rewrite data was already declared.

Seven runtimes were on the loop, not the six the design recorded - kimi-code
was found by a golden fixture, not by analysis. claude-local and kimi-code
both silently lost their agents mid-change; the fixtures caught both and the
cause was fixed rather than the fixtures regenerated.

A parity harness gates the migration: both pipelines over identical inputs,
byte-identical output including filenames, per runtime. It is demonstrated
red before being trusted. Surface and install paths converge for all seven,
which also fixes surface previously writing no agents for these runtimes.

Codex's config.toml strip stays put - it mutates host config, which no
descriptor kind models.

Also routes install-model-override-resolver and install-effort-resolver
through the install fs seam. Both leaked real filesystem IO from the install
call tree; the stricter adapter is what exposed them.

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

* docs(#2875): record the agents-descriptor migration and correct the ADR count

The _DESCRIPTOR_AGENTS_RUNTIMES allow-list no longer exists, so the host
integration guide told readers to join a set that is gone. Replaces that with
what is now true - declare an agents entry and it installs, on the surface
path as well as install - and points anyone needing a per-agent transform at
the three extension points rather than at a new inline branch.

Corrects the ADR amendment: seven runtimes were on the inline loop, not six.
kimi-code was found by a golden fixture going red, not by reading. That is the
third short count this phase, all from enumerating by symbol or set membership
when the thing that matters is a behavior.

Adds the Changed changeset for the surface-path convergence.

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

* docs(#2875): amend ADR-2866 - claude global always wrote agents on disk

The claude row's global=[skills] described what capability.json declared, not
what the installer wrote. bin/install.js's inline agent-staging loop was never
scope-gated and never consulted the descriptor, so a claude --global install
has always written agents/gsd-*.md.

Phase 6 closes the gap by deleting that loop and declaring agents on claude's
descriptor at global scope. On-disk bytes are unchanged - the golden fixtures
did not move, which is the evidence that the descriptor, not the installer,
was incomplete.

#2218 is unaffected: agents are not trigger-bearing, so the wider row does not
introduce a new shadowing case.

Records the warning that an incomplete descriptor is invisible while a second
code path silently does its work, and only surfaces when the two are forced
into agreement.

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

* fix(#2875): close review findings across staging, agents and the parity harness

Two independent reviews of this branch found defects the local gates missed.

Security: a dangling symlink at a migration destination allowed writing
outside configDir - the same class this change claimed to close, missed at the
terminal write of the flow being added. The staging-root resolver threw as the
first statement of install and uninstall, so a hostile symlink bricked both,
and symlinked-configDir users lost uninstall as well as install; it now
degrades instead of aborting. Recovery gained a source-side symlink check and
now refuses a relative destDir, which resolved against cwd. Converter dispatch
gained a runtime allowlist - lint-time validation stopped mattering once this
branch promoted that dispatch from the surface path to real installs.

Correctness: claude --local --minimal exited 1 because the minimal profile
legitimately yields zero agents and the new path treated that as a failure.
cline --local silently lost its agents - its descriptor declared none while
the deleted loop wrote them unconditionally. The agents prune was widened to
any gsd-* entry and destroyed user files it never owned.

The parity harness, on which the migration's safety argument rested, drove a
synthetic registry and never byte-compared the shipped descriptors; two of its
trap rows could not fail. It now drives the real registry across 13
runtime-scope rows including kimi-code and cline-local, and its red-proof is
demonstrated by corrupting a live capability.json. Three goldens that had
encoded the cline regression as expected behavior were corrected.

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

* fix(#2875): close findings from both mandated review engines

/security-review found the staging source-side walk honouring
GSD_ALLOW_SYMLINKED_DEST, an opt-in documented as relaxing only the write
destination. A symlinked files/ component dereferenced because
copyPreservingSymlink lstats the leaf only, so an intermediate link is
followed. The source walk no longer honours the opt-in; the destination check
still does.

/code-review spec axis found this branch had reintroduced its own bug:
migrateLegacyDevPreferencesToSkill's new symlink refusal threw unguarded after
the legacy dir was wiped and before the staged batch was restored, so a
planted symlink bricked uninstall permanently and orphaned the batch. Refusal
kept, abort removed.

kimi-code local silently lost its agents, the same class as the cline bug, and
the parity harness recorded that exclusion as intentional - the third test in
this branch to pin a regression as correct.

--minimal now creates an empty agents/ dir that never existed. Behaviour
restored rather than softening the changeset, so its byte-identical claim
stays true.

Standards axis: try/finally removed from twelve test bodies, fast-check
properties added for parseOwnerPid, boundary coverage at the grace window and
the ancestor-probe depth, a parity assertion for the staging-root helper
duplicated across two files, and the 8-deep config walk deduplicated.

Records 60-review.json with every finding and disposition from five passes,
including the smells left unfixed and why.

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

* fix(#2875): prune stale agents unconditionally in minimal mode

The previous round stopped an empty agents/ directory being created when the
resolved profile yields no agents. That was implemented by skipping the agents
kind entirely, which also skipped its stale-agent prune - so a full to minimal
downgrade left stale gsd-* agents behind.

The deleted inline loop pruned unconditionally and only skipped writing. Those
are three separate conditions, not one: prune always, write only when there is
something to write, create the directory only when writing.

Both call sites now run _removeGsdEntries before the empty-staged early exit.
The symlink-escape guard moved with it, since the prune also touches dest.
Codex .toml agents and the config.toml stanzas are cleaned again, and
user-owned agents are still preserved.

The agents/ directory is left in place after a prune empties it, matching
every sibling kind - none of them remove the destination directory itself.

Golden fixtures confirmed byte-identical: the prune is a no-op on a fresh
install, so fixture generation is unaffected.

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

* docs(#2875): document interrupted-install recovery for user-owned files

The durable-staging fix is invisible to the user it protects. Someone whose
install died mid-flight has no way to know USER-PROFILE.md was staged before
the delete, that the next run restores it, or that recovery happens at the
start of that run rather than in the background.

Written as the task the user has - finish the interrupted command - rather
than as a description of the mechanism, and states what it will not do:
overwrite a file already present, or touch staging belonging to another
install still running.

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

* chore(#2875): backfill changeset pr number

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

* test(#2875): assert the J8 model override without building a regex

CodeQL flagged incomplete string escaping: the assertion interpolated the
override value into a RegExp while escaping only forward slashes, which is
meaningless in a constructor, leaving real metacharacters unescaped.

The failure direction was the dangerous one - a metacharacter would have made
the match more permissive, so the row would pass when it should fail. That
matters here because J8 exists precisely because an earlier revision was a
tautology; the rewrite reintroduced a different way for the same assertion to
stop discriminating.

Replaced with a line-wise exact match, so no regex is constructed at all.
Swept the other test files this branch adds; no sibling instances.

lint:ci passed on the original - lint-no-adhoc-regex-escape matches a full
metachar-escape copy, so a single slash replace slipped under it.

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

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 17:25:53 -04:00
Tom Boucher
a4a02a7a01 enhance(#2874): return the executed plan and route install IO through a seam (#3568)
* test(#2874): add failing-first gate for the executed-plan return

Four rows from the matrix's red-first order. E3 pins the one early return,
for the opencode family, where a void-shaped hole would otherwise survive
unnoticed. E13 sweeps every runtime in the registry - enumerated from the
registry rather than hardcoded, so a runtime added later cannot slip past.
F2 proves absence of real filesystem contact rather than merely that the
happy path ran, which is the difference between a complete seam and a
partial one.

G1 and G3 are the additive guard and must be green before and after. G3
deliberately leaves the two existing adapter test doubles untouched: if
this change required editing them it would not be additive, and the
acceptance criterion would be unmet.

No production code. All 19 runtimes install without throwing today, so
E3 and E13 fail on the undefined comparison alone.

Refs #2874

* feat(#2874): return the executed plan and route install IO through a seam

installRuntimeArtifacts returned void, so its correctness was observable
only by re-reading disk. It now returns what it executed - per kind, per
scope - including on the combinedFamilyInstall path, which was the one
early return where a void-shaped hole would have survived unnoticed.

Failure still throws rather than becoming an ok:false return, so control
flow is unchanged for both existing callers. A best-effort cleanup that
fails is still swallowed, but is now visible in the returned value rather
than silently absent.

The fs seam is ambient rather than threaded. Explicit deps through
install-profiles and the 3000-line conversion module was impractical; the
tradeoff, the synchronous-only re-entrancy assumption, the restore
guarantee and the partial-adapter fallback trap are all documented at the
seam. findInstallSourceRoot and its sibling stay unrouted by design -
they locate the package's own source, not the install destination.

readCmdNames keeps a second implementation because the standalone CLI
that owns the original cannot require the compiled adapter without a
build-order dependency on its own output. A parity test fails if the two
ever disagree.

Refs #2874

* chore(#2874): gitignore the new build artifact

install-fs-adapter.cjs is tsc output from src/install-fs-adapter.cts, not
a tracked source file. It was added to eslint's ignore list but not to
.gitignore, so it landed as a tracked file - the third time this step of
the new-.cts ripple has been missed on this epic.

Refs #2874

* fix(#2874): close two seam leaks and correct a false comment

A correctness review found the seam still leaked in two places, both
subtler than the three already closed.

readGsdCommandNames was routed when it should not have been: it reads the
package's own commands directory, which a destination-fake is never
seeded with, so under a fake adapter it returned an empty or wrong roster
instead of failing loudly. It now reads real fs, matching the precedent
already documented for findInstallSourceRoot.

cleanupStagedSkills ran raw rmSync from a process exit handler, which is
real filesystem work deferred past the point where withInstallFs has
restored - the one thing the synchronous-only contract exists to
exclude. Staging now captures the adapter that created each directory and
cleanup replays it, so a real install cleans up exactly as before and a
fake-staged path never reaches the real filesystem.

Also corrected a comment claiming the migration reads were an unrouted,
untested residual gap. They are routed and exercised; a comment
understating the seam is as corrosive as one overstating it in a module
whose trust rests on being honestly documented.

Refs #2874

* test(#2874): migrate the exemplar group and cover the matrix

AC3's exemplar migration lands in place: the qwen install group now
asserts skills and agents destinations from the returned plan in one
deepStrictEqual instead of probing the filesystem for each.

Nine facts the old probes established were enumerated first. Two moved to
the value assertion; seven were retained deliberately - per-file SKILL.md
existence, the VERSION file written outside this function, the manifest
content, and the post-uninstall absence checks all sit outside the plan's
per-kind contract. A migration that quietly asserts less looks like a win
and is a regression, so the enumeration is the guard rather than the
line count.

Also implements the rest of the matrix: the executed-plan shape, adapter
failure modes, the security-boundary rows including a fake that cannot
certify an install the real filesystem would refuse, cleanup visibility,
and two seeded property tests. Only the two external CI gates are left
unticked, because self-certifying them would be a claim rather than a
check.

Refs #2874

* fix(#2874): restore streaming hashes and derive F2 from the boundary rule

The checkpoint found three things reasoning had missed.

sha256File had been converted from raw-fd streaming to a single
readFileSync on the assumption that GSD artifacts are never large. A test
named for exactly that contract already existed and went red. Streaming is
restored, now routed through the adapter, which gains openSync, readSync
and closeSync. The contract was the specification; the assumption was not.

Three existing tests inject faults by monkeypatching real fs. They broke
because mkInstallTempDir stopped calling real mkdtempSync, not because of
any binding subtlety - the real adapter was already late-bound. It now
calls the real function when no fake is injected, so a monkeypatch applied
after import is still seen and the additive contract holds.

F2 poisoned real fs by method, so a deliberately unrouted package-source
read failed a correct design. It now poisons by path: destination IO is
forbidden, package-source IO is allowed and positively asserted. The claim
was always zero real destination IO, and the test now derives from that
rule instead of coincidentally matching it.

Refs #2874

* docs(#2874): add the contributor how-to for plan-based test migration

The phase gate caught a real gap. The docs plan was Reference plus
Explanation only, and every CI check would have passed, because the
docs-required lint only verifies that some file under docs/ moved.

But this phase exists to demonstrate a pattern for follow-on work, and
that work is other contributors migrating probing test groups. The
sequence has two live traps - a partial fake silently falls back to real
fs, and the seam is ambient and synchronous-only - plus one discipline
nobody infers: enumerate the facts before converting, or you assert less
and call it a win.

The page carries the qwen migration's arithmetic, nine facts enumerated
and only two converted, because a reader seeing only the diff would
reasonably conclude the pattern is to replace probes wholesale.

No locale mirrors: none of the four carries any contributor-only how-to,
so a single translated file would manufacture parity rather than provide
it.

Refs #2874

* chore(#2874): backfill changeset pr number

* test(#2874): normalize both sides of the G1 tree comparison

G1 failed on Windows only, deterministically on both shards. The defect
was in the test helper, not production.

_computePathPrefix posix-normalizes the resolved config dir
unconditionally, so on Windows the path embedded in every emitted
SKILL.md body is forward-slash form. hashDirTree stripped against the raw
backslash path from mkdtempSync, so the substring never matched and each
install's unique temp suffix stayed baked into every file - all fifteen
skill bodies hashed differently for two runs that had written identical
bytes.

Both sides are now normalized unconditionally rather than gated on
path.sep, matching the rule this repo already records: backslash paths
arrive on Linux too.

Production code is untouched and was verified correct. Normalizing this
away on the production side would have hidden a real portability bug if
one had existed.

Refs #2874

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-16 02:48:24 -04:00
Tom Boucher
c5b83cb050 chore(#3560): delete two unreachable workflows, gate workflow reachability in lint (#3564)
* chore(#3560): delete two unreachable workflows, gate reachability in lint

discovery-phase.md and plan-milestone-gaps.md shipped to all 19 runtime
install trees with no command, agent, or skill referencing them.
plan-milestone-gaps' command was deleted by #2790 and the workflow was
left behind; discovery-phase's own header claimed a caller in
plan-phase.md's mandatory_discovery step, and that step does not exist —
plan-phase.md contains zero occurrences of "discovery".

docs/INVENTORY.md asserted discovery-phase.md was an alternate entry for
/gsd-new-project. new-project.md never referenced it. The row and the
matching note sentence are removed across all five locales rather than
corrected.

Adds rule 6 to lint-command-contract: every shipped workflow must be
reachable from a loader, walking the transitive closure over the three
reference shapes this repo uses. The closure seeds ONLY from
commands/agents/skills, so a workflow that references only itself and a
pair that reference only each other are both correctly reported rather
than satisfying themselves; a visited set makes reference cycles
terminate. The measure is a mention in a LOADER — docs/ and install-tree
fixtures deliberately do not count, because scan.md proved a file can be
documented and shipped while entirely unreached.

Ships blocking, not report-only: #3561 is in this branch's base, so the
tree reports 0 unreachable from the start.

Closes #3560

* test(#3560): drive rule 6 end-to-end, sweep a stale allowlist, update ADR-0002

Review findings.

Rule 6 had no end-to-end coverage: the tests exercised the pure closure
with in-memory data, so the wiring — file collection, exit code,
diagnostic — was unproven, and #3560's acceptance list explicitly wants
a fixture showing the rule FAILS on a planted orphan. Adds an optional
--root to lint-command-contract (default behavior unchanged) and four
tests driving the real CLI through the process seam against a temp
fixture: clean=0, planted orphan=1, orphan referenced only from docs/=1,
orphan reachable transitively=0. The docs/ case is what pins the
Goodhart defense — a mention outside a loader must not confer
reachability.

Deletes two tests that were byte-identical to a third and could not
assert anything loader-specific, since the closure is source-agnostic by
design; that distinction lives in the lint script's file collection and
is now covered above.

Removes a stale ALLOWLIST entry for discovery-phase.md in
planner-language-regression — the exact sweep-miss class rule 6 exists
to catch, found in the PR that adds the rule.

ADR-0002 described five per-file frontmatter checks; rule 6 is a
repo-level reachability graph, so the Decision section now says so.

Refs #3560

* test(#3560): cut the bug-3298 test pin on the deleted plan-milestone-gaps workflow

The remote runner went red with four failures: tests/phase.test.cjs
asserted the plan-milestone-gaps workflow exists and checked its mkdir
patterns, so deleting the file broke the test that pinned it. This is the
fence the epic describes — the content-sync test IS what keeps an
unreachable file alive — and cutting the coupling is what makes the
deletion safe.

Removes only that arm. The bug-3298 block guards three workflows against
phase-dir prefix drift; the import and add-backlog arms and both shared
mkdir-pattern helpers are untouched.

Worth recording where the sweep failed: my reachability walk covered
commands, agents, skills, gsd-core and docs, and lint-removed-but-needed
covers .github/workflows, gsd-core, docs and package.json. Neither looks
at tests/, so a test-pinned deletion is invisible to both and surfaces
only on the remote runner. The how-to added by this PR names that gap
explicitly so the next deletion searches tests/ by hand.

Refs #3560

* docs(#3560): add a how-to for resolving unreachable-workflow findings

* chore(#3560): backfill changeset pr number to 3564

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-15 23:29:30 -04:00
sim
147856040b fix(#2873): close review findings across fences, sanitizer and docs
Isolated security review found resolveSpecRootReference's fence tracker
toggled on any delimiter, so a backtick fence could be closed by a tilde
one and an include in the gap was rewritten inside a code block. Fixed by
reusing scanFencedBlocks - the canonical engine already behind
stripFencedCode and extractFencedBlock - rather than carrying a fourth
copy of fence detection, which also closes the duplication the standards
review flagged.

sanitizeForRender now strips combining marks and zero-width characters
alongside the ANSI, control and bidi classes it already handled.

Adds the C, E and F matrix rows the spec review found missing, including
installer-level coverage that spawns the real install rather than calling
the report builder. Ships the how-to, the reference and command docs in
five locales, the changeset, the inventory and glossary entries, and
regenerates health.md for the new W028 rule.

Refs #2873
2026-08-14 23:48:39 -04:00