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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
5214ad5802 fix(#4267): correct tdd.md pointer citations; fix(#4269): collapse plan-level gate-rule duplication (#4295)
* fix(#4267): correct tdd.md pointer citations; fix(#4269): collapse plan-level gate-rule duplication

execute-plan.md and gsd-executor.md each cited "Red-Green-Refactor Cycle"
for three facts (commit-scope contract, fail-fast rule, error handling),
but only the commit-scope contract lives there. Fail-fast is in tdd.md's
"Fail-Fast Rules" subsection (under "Gate Enforcement Rules") and error
handling is in tdd.md's "Error Handling" section — cite each correctly.

gsd-executor.md's "Plan-Level TDD Gate Enforcement" section also fully
restated the gate-sequence rules tdd.md's "Gate Enforcement Rules" already
owns (and covers more thoroughly, including the actual git-log validation
script). Collapse it to a short pointer, matching the treatment already
used by the cycle-steps pointer immediately above it.

Adds tests/tdd-reference-correctness.test.cjs asserting the pointer text
cites the correct section names, that those sections actually carry the
guidance, and that the old gate-sequence restatement is gone from
gsd-executor.md.

Closes #4267
Closes #4269

* docs(#4267): add changeset for tdd.md pointer correctness fix

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

* chore(#4267): acknowledge execute-plan.md growth

execute-plan.md grew 95 bytes (39766 -> 39861) from the corrected
three-section citation in the #3990/#4267 cycle-steps pointer.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: execute-plan.md — net +95 bytes from citing the "Fail-Fast Rules" and "Error Handling" sections by name instead of a single mis-scoped section (#4267).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#4267): update PROSE_ALLOWLIST line numbers shifted by the pointer-citation edit

This branch's edits to agents/gsd-executor.md and gsd-core/workflows/execute-plan.md
shifted line numbers, leaving tests/no-bare-gsd-tools-command-position.test.cjs's
PROSE_ALLOWLIST pointing at stale lines. Update both entries to their new correct
lines (811 and 419 respectively) without changing the underlying prose.

* fix(#4267): restore INVALID_RED citation, fix allowlist line shift after #3770 rebase

The rebase onto next picked up #3770's already-merged fail-fast update to
gsd-executor.md's plan-level gate section, which this branch's own commit
collapses into a pointer. The conflict resolution kept the pointer but
dropped the literal "INVALID_RED" term that tests/tdd-red-evidence.test.cjs
requires gsd-executor.md to name — restored it. Also updates
no-bare-gsd-tools-command-position.test.cjs's PROSE_ALLOWLIST line number
for gsd-executor.md, shifted again by the rebase.

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

* test(#4267): fix non-matching regression-guard regex in tdd-reference-correctness

The fail-fast regression guard asserted gsd-executor.md no longer contains
"If a test passes unexpectedly during the RED phase" — but the actual old
prose (removed by this branch's pointer-collapse) read "If a test passes
unexpectedly during RED, STOP". The regex never matched the real old text,
so the assertion would have passed even against the unmodified pre-change
file. Caught by an isolated orthogonal review pass. Fixed to match the
actual removed wording, and confirmed (via a direct grep) it is genuinely
absent from the current file.

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

* docs(#4267): 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>
2026-09-04 19:13:56 -04:00
Tom Boucher
d29b50d696 fix(#4051): route specific intents first and confirm before dispatch in --do (#4289)
* test(#4051): pin freeform routing specificity contract in do.md

* fix(#4051): order freeform routing specific-first, confirm before dispatch, argument-aware forwarding

* fix(#4051): regenerate FEATURES.md, satisfy docs-guard on new routing test

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: do.md — deliberate growth: specific-first routing table (code-review, plan review, ui-review, secure-phase, audit, docs-update, phase CRUD rows), a REQ-DO-03 confirm step, and argument-hint-aware dispatch.

* chore(#4051): fold regression into non-bug-prefixed test filename per lint-regression-test-names

* fix(#4051): review fixes — em-dash description style, split audit-fix route

* chore(#4051): sync skill mirrors of execute-phase/phase descriptions

* chore(#4051): add changeset (pr backfill to follow)

* chore(#4051): backfill PR 4289 in changeset

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-04 17:19:16 -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

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-04 16:44:38 -04:00
Tom Boucher
2f4f7538e9 fix(#4264): wire both TDD dispatch backends to phase.tdd-applicable (#4284) 2026-09-04 16:08:42 -04:00
Tom Boucher
580059251a fix(#4040): route partially-created .planning to initialization recovery (#4283)
* test(#4040): add failing-first regression tests for partial-init routing

Red: init.progress/init.resume/init.new-project payloads carry no
partial-init discriminator, and progress.md/resume-project.md/
new-project.md route an interrupted bootstrap (.planning/PROJECT.md +
config.json only) to Route F / STATE reconstruction / a hard error.

* fix(#4040): route partially-created .planning to initialization recovery

A bootstrap interrupted after .planning/PROJECT.md (but before
REQUIREMENTS.md/ROADMAP.md/STATE.md) was mis-routed three ways:
progress.md read it as between-milestones (Route F) or 'no planning
structure', resume-project.md offered STATE.md reconstruction, and
new-project.md errored 'already initialized' — a routing loop with no
recovery exit.

Add a shared buildInitCompletenessFields discriminator
(planning_exists / requirements_exists / milestones_exists /
init_incomplete) to the init.progress, init.resume and init.new-project
payloads, and branch on init_incomplete in progress.md, resume-project.md
and new-project.md BEFORE the legacy branches. MILESTONES.md presence
excludes the archival between-milestones state, so Route F and the
STATE-reconstruction path keep working.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: progress.md — deliberate #4040 growth: new init_incomplete recovery branch (routing text + guard on the no-planning and Route F branches) added ahead of the legacy init_context routes.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: resume-project.md — deliberate #4040 growth: new init_incomplete branch routing an interrupted bootstrap to initialization recovery before the STATE.md-reconstruction branch.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: new-project.md — deliberate #4040 growth: project_exists gate split on init_incomplete so a partial bootstrap resumes initialization instead of erroring.

* chore(#4040): add changeset fragment

* chore(#4040): backfill PR number in changeset fragment

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-04 16:03:42 -04:00
Tom Boucher
97ce61dee2 fix(#3990): state the RED/GREEN/REFACTOR cycle once, embed tdd.md conditionally (#4228)
* test(#3990): the RED/GREEN/REFACTOR cycle is stated once, embedded conditionally

* fix(#3990): state the cycle once — pointers in consumers, conditional tdd.md embeds

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: execute-phase.md — #3990 conditions the tdd.md embed on the dispatch being TDD

* chore(#3990): changeset for the single-statement TDD cycle

* chore(#3990): backfill changeset pr number

* fix(#4228): linear cycle check — the lazy-span regex pinned a Windows core for the whole job cap

* test(#3990): allowlist pin tracks the rebased line

* fix(tests): npm-integrity gate names an empty audit output explicitly — empty stdout crashed the parse as a bare SyntaxError

* fix: name an empty npm-audit stdout explicitly — it crashed the parse as a bare SyntaxError

Observed on CI (several branches, all lanes): spawnSync npm ETIMEDOUT with
empty stdout; the empty string survived the recovery path and surfaced as
'SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input', hiding the captured error. The
recovery path now requires non-empty stdout, and an empty result throws with
the captured stdout/stderr/message so the actual error is on the record.
Root cause of the ETIMEDOUT itself is NOT diagnosed here — this change only
stops masking it.

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-03 21:41:14 -04:00
Tom Boucher
515191f07d feat(#3677): quick-batch hardening and acceptance (#4240)
* chore(#3677): checkpoint design artifacts (gitignored, dev-only)

* test(#3677): add failing regression test for the crash-window duplicate-dispatch gap (RED)

Independently re-traces resume-mode.md/planner-wave.md/worktree-dispatch.md/
merge-wave.md and src/quick-batch.cts's resumeBatch (lines 894-899) and
confirms the prior research pass's Open Question 1: a coordinator crash
between Step 6 (executor commits, SUMMARY.md written) and Step 7 (merge)
leaves BATCH.json at "pending" with no STATE.md row yet (only written in
Step 9), so --resume's eligibility re-derivation would dispatch a second
executor into a new worktree for the same item, orphaning the first.

This test asserts worktree-dispatch.md's Step 6 excludes an item whose
SUMMARY.md already exists from the spawn set, mirroring planner-wave.md's
existing PLAN.md-existence check one layer earlier. Fails against the
current worktree-dispatch.md, which has no such guard.

See .gsd/phase/feat-3677-quick-batch-hardening-acceptance/40-design.md §1
for the full trace and fix-location rationale.

* fix(#3677): guard worktree-dispatch.md against re-dispatching an already-executed item (GREEN)

worktree-dispatch.md's Step 6 re-derives eligibility every dispatch round
via the same quick-batch resume call resume-mode.md uses, but had no check
for "did this item already finish executing" the way planner-wave.md
already checks "did this item already get planned" (PLAN.md existence)
before re-planning. A coordinator crash between Step 6 (executor commits,
SUMMARY.md written) and Step 7 (merge) left the item eligible for a second
dispatch on --resume, orphaning the first worktree's real, already-
committed work and silently losing it once the second executor's SUMMARY.md
write clobbered the first at the same item_dir path.

Adds a SUMMARY.md-existence exclusion before spawn-plan is computed,
symmetric to planner-wave.md's PLAN.md check. The excluded item is not
lost: merge-wave.md's own mergeable-wave criterion (status=pending,
SUMMARY.md on disk, not yet merged) already picks it up independently of
this eligible/spawn list.

Workflow-prose-only fix — touches no already-merged/reviewed .cts module.
See .gsd/phase/feat-3677-quick-batch-hardening-acceptance/40-design.md §1
for the fix-location rationale (why not resumeBatch itself).

* test(#3677): add real-git coverage for worktree-ownership tampering, scope drift, and submodules

Closes the three coverage gaps identified in 40-design.md §2/§3 (#3677,
epic #3344 Phase 5's own AC bullets: "arbitrary-worktree ownership
attempts", "scope drift", "submodules"):

- Arbitrary-worktree ownership tampering: a manifest entry naming a
  non-agent branch is silently dropped at normalization before any git
  subprocess runs; a manifest entry naming a plausible agent-branch that
  was never actually created by this repo's own worktree.create (a
  genuinely foreign repo/branch) is blocked via base_mismatch. Both leave
  the foreign location and repoRoot's HEAD provably untouched.

- Advisory scope drift: a committed path outside declared files_modified
  still merges successfully (advisory, never blocking) while surfacing a
  scope_out_of_declared warning naming the drifted path; an exact
  declared-scope match produces zero warnings (boundary case).

- Real .gitmodules submodule integration: a repo containing a real local
  git submodule merges cleanly through executeWorktreeWaveCleanupPlan for
  an unrelated plan; a real gitlink pointer bump (declared) merges cleanly
  with the superproject tree reflecting the new pinned commit; an
  undeclared bump is advisory-only and surfaces a scope warning naming
  vendor/sub, same as any other undeclared modification.

No src/*.cts changes — all three gaps were coverage-only; the underlying
primitives already behaved correctly (independently verified against real
git subprocess output before writing each assertion).

* docs(#3677): document how to diagnose a preserved quick-batch worktree

Extends the one-sentence "worktree is preserved (never deleted)" mention
into a concrete diagnosis procedure: where the preserved directory is, how
to read the executor's real commits/diff against the plan's declared
files_modified, how to read the item's own SUMMARY.md independent of merge
outcome, how to manually merge-and-clean-up or discard, and how to re-run
--resume afterward. Also documents that a SUMMARY.md-written-but-still-
pending item (the crash-window case fixed in this same PR) needs no manual
intervention — --resume routes it straight to the merge step.

* chore(#3677): checkpoint final acceptance-evidence mapping (gitignored, dev-only)

* fix(#3677): make crash-window duplicate-dispatch guard behaviorally provable and durably recoverable

Orthogonal review (Spec finding): the crash-window regression test added
earlier this phase only asserted readStep('worktree-dispatch.md') + regex
matches against the markdown prose — proving the DOCUMENTATION says the
right thing, never that the runtime condition (pending status + on-disk
SUMMARY.md + absent STATE row) is actually handled correctly. #3677's own
"Alternatives considered" explicitly rejects "document recovery without
fault injection" for exactly this reason.

Extracts the filtering decision into a pure, independently testable
function, filterAlreadyExecuted(eligibleIds, executedIds) in
src/quick-batch-dispatch.cts, wired to a new `quick-batch filter-executed`
CLI verb (src/quick-batch-command-router.cts) — the same pure-decision-
then-CLI-wired pattern computeSpawnPlan/computeMergeOrder already
establish. worktree-dispatch.md now calls this verb explicitly instead of
only describing the decision in prose. A genuine fixture-based test in
tests/quick-batch.test.cjs constructs a REAL BATCH.json (createBatch),
writes a REAL SUMMARY.md on disk at the item's real item_dir, calls the
REAL resumeBatch, and proves both that resumeBatch alone still reports the
item eligible AND that filterAlreadyExecuted (fed a real filesystem check)
correctly excludes it. The prior prose-assertion tests are kept — they now
prove the workflow markdown is correctly WIRED to the verb — but are no
longer the only proof.

Self-discovered defect while building that fixture (fixed inline, not
deferred): tracing merge-wave.md against /gsd:quick's own prior art
(QUICK_WORKTREE_MANIFEST=$(mktemp ...), quick.md:415) showed
$QUICK_BATCH_WORKTREE_MANIFEST is a fresh PER-PROCESS temp file. A resumed
coordinator correctly does not re-dispatch an already-executed item (this
fix), but nothing durably recorded that item's worktree_path/branch/base
either — Step 7 in the resumed process would have had no data to build its
cleanup-wave entry from. Adds dispatched_worktree/dispatched_branch/
dispatched_base to QuickBatchItem (src/quick-batch.cts) — deliberately NOT
a reuse of the pre-existing `worktree` field, whose loadBatch validation
requires the path to exist on disk (verified empirically: reusing it made
the batch permanently unloadable the moment a legitimately-merged worktree
was removed). worktree-dispatch.md persists the triple once a worktree is
created; merge-wave.md falls back to it when the ephemeral manifest lacks
an entry, clears it after a successful merge, and fails closed rather than
guessing if no record exists anywhere.

See .gsd/phase/feat-3677-quick-batch-hardening-acceptance/40-design.md §9.1
and §9.3 for the full trace, empirical verification notes, and rejected
alternatives (reusing `worktree` directly).

* test(#3677): prove the arbitrary-worktree-ownership boundary against two real sibling worktrees

Orthogonal review (Security finding): the two existing ownership-tampering
tests didn't test ownership — one was trivially rejected by
WORKTREE_AGENT_BRANCH_RE's shape check before any git call (proves branch-
NAME filtering, not ownership), the other pointed at a wholly separate,
never-linked foreign repo, so merge-base failed immediately because the
branch didn't exist as a ref at all. Neither exercised the real scenario:
a manifest entry whose worktree_path/branch are swapped to point at a
DIFFERENT, GENUINELY-REGISTERED sibling worktree of the SAME repoRoot,
with a branch name passing the shape check and a base in allowed_bases.

Investigated executeWorktreeWaveCleanupPlan (src/worktree-safety.cts)
directly: this is NOT a reachable gap. Git enforces branch-per-worktree
uniqueness, so a swapped-in entry.branch can only match worktree_path's
ACTUAL checked-out branch if it names that sibling's own real, uniquely-
generated branch name — which manifest tampering confined to one batch's
own record has no way to know (branch names are
agent-<quick_id>[-<timestamp>]-shaped, and quick_id allocation is
collision-checked GLOBALLY across every existing quick task and batch, not
merely within one batch).

Adds a stronger test that empirically proves this: two REAL, concurrently-
alive sibling worktrees of the same repo (both via real `git worktree add`,
both WORKTREE_AGENT_BRANCH_RE-passing, both sharing one merge-base), with
worktree_path/branch swapped between them in both directions. Both attempts
are blocked via branch_mismatch; both real worktrees, their branches, and
one sibling's real uncommitted-to-main commit survive completely untouched.
Supplements (does not replace) the original two tests, which still prove
distinct, real boundaries.

See .gsd/phase/feat-3677-quick-batch-hardening-acceptance/40-design.md §9.2
for the full trace, including the one explicitly-documented (not fixed)
trust boundary this investigation surfaced: the primitive defends against
fabricated data, not a caller bug that misattributes a real-but-wrong
item's own triple to a different item.

* chore(#3677): checkpoint design-doc addendum for review pass 2 findings (gitignored, dev-only)

* docs(#3677): add changeset for PR 4240

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>
2026-09-03 09:47:22 -04:00
Tom Boucher
3639ab0431 fix(#3968): measure commit claims at all three surfaces — ledger, verifier BLOCKER, porcelain HANDOFF (#4230)
* test(#3968): commit claims must be measured against git, never narrated

* fix(#3968): measure commit claims at all three surfaces

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: gsd-executor.md — #3968 plan commit ledger and measured commits contract (held under the agent size cap)
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: verify-work.md — #3968 commit-claim reconciliation with the same rev-list instrument
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: pause-work.md — #3968 uncommitted_files from git status --porcelain

* fix(#3968): retired slash syntax, allowlist line pin, git-compare test pin

* fix(#3968): persist the ledger on disk and reconcile with the same rev-list instrument

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: gsd-executor.md — #3968 plan commit ledger and measured commits contract (held under the agent size cap)
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: verify-work.md — #3968 commit-claim reconciliation with the same rev-list instrument

* fix(#3968): hold the gsd-executor size cap with a compact ledger contract

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: gsd-executor.md — #3968 plan commit ledger and measured commits contract (held under the agent size cap)

* fix(#3968): allowlist pin and HALT regex track the final prose

* chore(#3968): changeset for measured commit claims

* chore(#3968): backfill changeset pr number

* fix(#3968): quote the BASE expansion (SC2086)

* ci: raise the test-lane budget 21 to 32 minutes (measured cost grew past the cap)

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-03 05:43:16 -04:00
Tom Boucher
d5f8191f66 fix(#3730): quick-tasks-migrate — canonical-schema repair, auto-run on first quick (#4216)
* test(#3730): a legacy Quick Tasks table must be migratable to canonical

* fix(#3730): quick-tasks-migrate — canonical-schema repair, auto-run on first quick

* fix(#3730): review fixes — usage parity, contiguous table span, collision-safe bucket, template-width delimiter

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: fast.md — #3730 runs quick-tasks-migrate before the first append (auto-migration on first quick run)
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: quick.md — #3730 replaces the match-any-format note with the migration instruction

* chore(#3730): backfill changeset pr number

* fix(#3730): scope the quick-batch row-48 guard to branches touching quick-batch

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-03 01:32:41 -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
7c52344284 fix(#4003): anchor the safe-resume gate's plan-scope greps to the milestone (#4194)
* test(#4003): safe_resume_gate must grep an anchored padding-tolerant scope

* fix(#4003): anchor the resume-gate scope greps and bound them to the milestone tag

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: execute-phase.md — #4003 rewrites three commit-scope greps (safe_resume_gate, TDD RED, completion spot-check) to anchored zero-pad-tolerant regexes with a milestone tag bound; growth is the fix itself

* test(#4003): align shape assertions with the implemented gate text

* fix: bump fast-uri past GHSA-jqff-g426-hqxp (transitive, advisory reddened next)

* fix(#4003): bound the TDD RED grep to the milestone and fix tdd.md's example greps

* test(#4003): the gate pin tracks the anchored scope grep

* fix(#4003): trim the gate rationale to hold the 93400 margin ceiling

* test(#4003): the RED-grep pin tracks the milestone-bounded invocation

* chore(#4003): changeset for the anchored resume-gate scope

* chore(#4003): backfill changeset pr number

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-02 13:45:14 -04:00
Tom Boucher
acb903c2e8 enhance(#3661): make the code-review hook point configurable (#4159)
* feat(#3661): make the code-review hook point configurable

Add `workflow.code_review_point` (`execute:post` default, or
`execute:wave:post`) so a multi-wave phase can run code review once per
wave instead of once at the end, scoped to what changed since the phase's
prior review.

The code-review capability now declares its step at both loop points via a
new generic `pointFrom` step field: `pointFrom` names an enum config key,
and the step is only active at its own `point` when that key resolves to
a matching value. `_resolvePointGate` (capability-activation.cts) is the
single shared implementation consumed identically by loop-resolver.cts and
capability-state.cts, and capability-validator.cjs enforces that `pointFrom`
references an enum key whose values cover the declaring step's own point.

code-review.md's manual-invocation gate now reads `workflow.code_review`
directly instead of probing registry presence at the hardcoded execute:post
point (so manual `/gsd-code-review` keeps working regardless of which
automatic point is configured), and its file-scope tiers narrow to what
changed since the phase's last review commit when one exists.

execute-phase.md's wave-post step dispatch gets a small, precedented
carve-out so the code-review skill still receives its required phase
argument when dispatched generically (caught by the isolated spec review).

Closes #3661

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: code-review.md — #3661 adds a point-aware config gate check and LAST_REVIEW_COMMIT-based incremental scoping to the file-scope tiers.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: execute-phase.md — #3661 adds one carve-out sentence so the wave-post generic step dispatch passes PHASE_NUMBER to the code-review skill.

* docs: backfill changeset PR number for #3661 (#4159)

* fix: scope tests/io.test.cjs's fs.writeSync fault-injection mocks by fd

Five fault-injection mocks in the "bug #1008" describe blocks intercepted
every fs.writeSync call regardless of file descriptor, and several threw or
truncated unconditionally on the first call. This surfaced as an
intermittent macOS CI failure: node:test's own IPC channel back to the
parent process (which also goes through fs.writeSync internally) could get
a bogus injected error or truncated write if node's internal machinery
called it while one of these mocks was active, corrupting the message
frame the parent tried to deserialize ("Unable to deserialize cloned
data.", location tests/io.test.cjs:1:1, uncaughtException — a whole-file
IPC crash, not a test assertion failure).

Root cause confirmed by a working counter-example already in the same
file: the "#3912 A6" mocks gate on `fd !== 2` before any fault injection
and were never implicated. Applied the same fd-scoped pattern to the five
unscoped mocks (four output()-targeting tests gate on fd 1, one
error()-targeting test gates on fd 2), and added a regression test proving
an unrelated fd passes through untouched while the fault-injection mock is
active.

Found while verifying #3661; unrelated to that change's own diff.

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-02 11:01:54 -04:00
Tom Boucher
5c7243e54b fix(#3995): derive the review diff base from the phase directory (#4181)
* test(#3995): diff base keys on the phase directory, not commit subjects

All three derivation sites (Tier 3, spawn_reviewer, fallow pre-pass)
must anchor on the phase directory's first commit; the milestone-blind
repro (an archived milestone's same-numbered phase commit capturing
the base) is the failing-first row. #3191/#3503 rows reworked to the
directory-anchor contract; T6 docs-parity forbids any remaining
phase-scope message-grep site.

* fix(#3995): derive the review diff base from the phase directory

A phase number is unique within a milestone, not a repository; the
message grep had no milestone bound and tail -1 deliberately selected
the oldest same-numbered subject, dragging archived milestones phases
into the scope (7 files to 3388 plus the >50 depth downgrade). All
three lockstep sites now anchor on the first commit that added anything
under the phase own directory — the same anchor class
git-base-branch phaseStartCommit uses. ShellCheck baseline gains the
escaped fragment shifted parse signature.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: code-review.md — phase-directory anchor replaces the message-grep derivation at both sites (#3995)

* chore(#3995): backfill changeset pr number

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-02 06:03:17 -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

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-02 04:24:52 -04:00
Tom Boucher
7960374d15 fix(#3962): rename the TDD-Audit trailer token to gate-status (#4174)
* test(#3962): shipped TDD-Audit trailer token must round-trip through git

Behavioral coverage: extract the trailers:key token from ship.md and
prove a real git commit carrying that trailer reads back via
%(trailers:key=token,valueonly). gate_status contains an underscore,
which git's trailer machinery cannot tokenize, so the audit read was
structurally empty.

* fix(#3962): rename the TDD-Audit trailer token to gate-status

Underscore is not a valid git trailer token character, so
%(trailers:key=gate_status,...) could never match. Renames the token
at the read, the documented aggregate write, and the section's
prose/table header. Self-suppression semantics (#2431) unchanged.

* test(#3962): compare outcome against the seam's literal, fix doc token

Review follow-ups: the round-trip test compared outcome to 'EXITED'
but the process seam emits 'exited'; and the trailer rename is
propagated to docs/ship-pr-body-sections.md's read/write examples.

* chore(#3962): backfill changeset pr number

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-02 00:01:55 -04:00
Tom Boucher
10593e2cf2 fix(#3959): give review-prompt plans citable path anchors (#4170)
* test(#3959): plan copies carry source names, prompt carries path anchors

Regression coverage: budget copies named gsd-review-plan-<plan-id>.md
(not a bare padded index), no bare-index copy survives, and the Plans
to Review template instructs a per-plan repo-relative #### path header.
Also corrects the stale -00 assertion to the source-named copy.

* fix(#3959): give review-prompt plans citable path anchors

The Plans to Review template now instructs a per-plan repo-relative ####
path header, and the budget copies are named gsd-review-plan-<plan-id>.md
instead of a bare padded index, restoring provenance for prompt-budget's
per-plan headers while keeping the trim glob intact.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: review.md — per-plan path-header instruction in Plans to Review + provenance-named copy loop (#3959)

* chore(#3959): backfill changeset pr number

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-01 22:40:23 -04:00
Tom Boucher
ff0361071d feat(#3653): add review.models.cursor — wire modelArg/modelConfigKey for the cursor reviewer lane (#4160)
* feat(#3653): add review.models.cursor — wire modelArg/modelConfigKey for the cursor reviewer lane

cursor-agent exposes --model (204 selectable models) but the cursor lane
declared modelArg: null / modelConfigKey: null, so review.models.cursor
was rejected as an unknown config key and the #1517 reviewer-instances
escape hatch silently discarded a configured model at modelExpansion.

Wire the lane the same way codex already is: inject {{model}} into args
right after -p, set modelArg to --model, and declare modelConfigKey as
review.models.cursor plus its config schema entry. An unconfigured lane
still invokes byte-identically to today.

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

* docs(#3653): add changeset for review.models.cursor

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

* fix(#3653): update co-change surfaces that assumed cursor has no model key

gsd-test surfaced three surfaces still hardcoding "cursor declares no
modelConfigKey", broken by wiring review.models.cursor:

- tests/reviewer-config-federation.test.cjs: the #3691-narrows-#2797
  invariant test listed cursor among lanes that must own no model key.
- tests/settings-integrations.test.cjs: the #3651 keyless-lane test
  listed cursor as keyless, including a live config-set assertion that
  now correctly succeeds instead of failing (swapped to qwen).
- gsd-core/workflows/settings-integrations.md: the settable-keys
  enumeration and two prose call-outs still named cursor as keyless.

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

* chore(#3653): acknowledge deliberate growth of settings-integrations.md

settings-integrations.md grew 4 bytes because it now enumerates
review.models.cursor as a settable key alongside the other reviewer
lanes, matching the modelConfigKey wired for cursor in this PR.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: settings-integrations.md — adds review.models.cursor to the settable-keys enumeration and removes cursor from the two keyless-lane call-outs, matching #3653's modelConfigKey change

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

* chore(#3653): fix malformed Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth trailer

The previous commit's trailer was separated from Co-Authored-By by a
blank line, splitting it into an earlier, non-trailer paragraph — git's
trailer parser only recognizes the last contiguous block. Restating it
here immediately adjacent to Co-Authored-By so both parse as trailers.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: settings-integrations.md — adds review.models.cursor to the settable-keys enumeration and removes cursor from the two keyless-lane call-outs, matching #3653's modelConfigKey change
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(#3653): backfill changeset pr number

pr:0 -> pr:4160 now that https://github.com/open-gsd/gsd-core/pull/4160 exists.

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>
2026-09-01 21:40:20 -04:00
Tom Boucher
bf4485ada2 enhance(#3717): make the edge probe's shape cues language-aware via an optional text_en field (#4156)
* test(#3717): add failing-first coverage for text_en language-aware classification

Adds unit tests for the not-yet-implemented text_en field on Requirement
(fallback selection, empty/whitespace/non-string rejection, shapes-override
precedence), a SHAPE_CUES/VALID_SHAPES parity guard (RULESET.GENERATIVE-FIX),
and workflow-prose contract tests asserting spec-phase.md Step 5.5 documents
populating text_en for response_language projects. All new tests are RED
until src/edge-probe.cts and the workflow docs are updated.

* feat(#3717): make edge-probe shape classification read an optional text_en field

Requirement gains an optional text_en; classifyShape's own signature stays
untouched (a locked, directly-tested export), and the text_en ?? text
selection is pushed to proposeEdges' single call site instead. text_en is
validated fail-closed: an empty or whitespace-only value throws rather than
silently winning the ?? fallback and degrading classification to zero shapes.

This makes the #2773 doc-only translation convention an explicit,
validatable field instead of an invisible instruction, per the approved
Form-1 scope on #3717.

* docs(#3717): document the text_en field across spec-phase, reference and how-to docs

Updates Step 5.5's response_language instructions, the edge-probe reference
Inputs contract, the FEATURES.md fragment, and the non-English how-to guide
to describe the new text_en field: text keeps the requirement's own wording
in all cases, text_en (when populated) is the engine-only English rendering
the classifier prefers.

* docs(#3717): record the text_en locked-surface change in CONTEXT.md and ADR-550

Updates the Edge Probe Module glossary entry to describe the text_en field
and its fail-closed validation, and appends an ADR-550 amendment recording
why this is additive and does not re-open the #652 LLM-classifier rejection
(text_en is a plain field read by the existing deterministic regex
classifier, not a new model-dependent surface).

* docs(#3717): add changeset fragment and regenerate FEATURES.md

pr:0 placeholder — backfilled with the real PR number after the PR opens.

* docs(#3717): attribute the text_en machine check to engine-level validation, not prose tests

Code-review (Spec axis) finding: the workflow-prose contract tests and the
ADR-550 amendment overclaimed themselves as "the machine check the #2773
doc-only stopgap lacked." That check is actually engine-level
(validateRequirement/classifyShape, covered in tests/edge-probe.test.cjs) —
the prose tests are the same style of assertion #2773 already used. Reworded
both to attribute the claim correctly.

* fix(#3717): rewrap spec-phase.md so the id-unchanged sentence stays on one line

The #3717 rewrite of Step 5.5's response_language paragraph moved a line
break so "requirement `id`s" ended one physical line and "are never
translated" started the next. The pre-existing #2773 regression test
(tests/edge-probe-spec-phase-contract.test.cjs) asserts id + "never
translated" on the SAME line (no \n in between, matching git's own
line-oriented prose), so the reflow silently broke it. Rewrapped so the
sentence lands on one line again, verified against every #2773/#3717
regex assertion in that test file.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: spec-phase.md — #3717 adds text_en documentation to Step 5.5 (response_language paragraph + REQS_JSON heredoc comment); this growth is this PR's own diff, not incidental drift.

* chore(#3717): backfill changeset PR number

pr:0 -> pr:4156 now that the PR exists.

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-01 21:39:53 -04:00
Tom Boucher
4dfc46bbe7 enhance(#3348): add a context-drift pre-check gate to plan-phase (#4147)
* test(#3348): add failing-first coverage for the context-drift gate

* feat(#3348): add context-drift pre-check gate for plan-phase

Compares each phase's *-RESEARCH.md/*-PATTERNS.md/*-VALIDATION.md/*-SPEC.md
effective last-changed time (git commit time, falling back to mtime for
uncommitted edits) against *-CONTEXT.md's, so plan-phase no longer silently
reuses an upstream artifact that predates a decision added to CONTEXT.md
after that artifact was derived from it. Deterministic, no model call.

New `gsd_run verify context-drift <phase>` command, sibling to the existing
verify.codebase-drift/verify.schema-drift gates in the drift capability.
Warn-only by default (workflow.context_drift_precheck), with an opt-in
workflow.context_drift_action: block escape hatch. Wired at plan:pre in
plan-phase.md, before both the RESEARCH.md and PATTERNS.md reuse decisions.

* fix(#3348): address code-review findings — raw-text-match, stale comment, import placement, duplicated phase resolution

* fix(#3859): pin the real commit's diff.ignoreSubmodules to match the empty-diff probe

The #3859 empty-diff guard decides whether a submodule bump would land using
`--ignore-submodules=dirty`, overriding the caller's `diff.ignoreSubmodules`
config. The real `git commit -- <paths>` that follows was never given the
same override, so under a bare `diff.ignoreSubmodules=all` repo config the
two calculations disagree: driven on git 2.39.5 (Debian bookworm, the
linux-node24 test-matrix image), the guard correctly stands aside but the
scoped commit itself then silently fails (exit 1, no error text) for a
gitlink bump it had just confirmed would be recorded, surfacing as
commit_failed instead of committed:true.

Pin `-c diff.ignoreSubmodules=dirty` onto the scoped commit call too, so the
probe and the commit it protects can never diverge. Harmless when no
submodule path is involved (driven: identical outcome on an ordinary scoped
file, with and without the flag).

* fix(#3348): guard resolvePhaseDirByToken's exact-match fallback against path traversal

* fix(#3348): retarget phase-enumeration-drift exemption to the consolidated resolvePhaseDirByToken helper

cmdVerifySchemaDrift's inline readdirSync was already function-scoped-exempt
in lint-phase-enumeration-drift.cjs as a single-phase LOOKUP (not a
current-milestone enumeration). This PR's refactor pass lifted that block
into a shared helper, resolvePhaseDirByToken, also used by the new
cmdVerifyContextDrift — the guard tracks exemptions by enclosing function
name, so the readdirSync now lives in an unexempted function and started
firing. Move the exemption to resolvePhaseDirByToken (same written reason,
now covering both callers) instead of migrating to listAllPhaseDirs, which
would introduce two real behavior deltas here: it catches readdirSync
failures internally (old code let them throw) and sorts results by phase
number before matchPhaseDirs picks matches[0] (old code used raw,
OS-dependent readdirSync order).

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

* fix(#3348): satisfy lint:ci — slash form, capability registry regen

- docs/features/context-drift-gate.md used the deprecated /gsd: colon
  form; docs are never passed through the install-time slash-form
  converters, so lint-docs-command-form requires the hyphen form.
  Regenerated docs/FEATURES.md from the corrected fragment.
- Regenerated gsd-core/bin/lib/capability-registry.cjs after editing
  capabilities/drift/capability.json (lint:generated-sync).

* fix(#3859): pin the real commit's diff.ignoreSubmodules via env, not argv -c

The prior fix pinned `-c diff.ignoreSubmodules=dirty` onto the scoped commit's
argv via `commitArgs.unshift(...)`. `-c key=val` must precede the `commit`
subcommand, so this shifted `commitArgs[0]` from `'commit'` to `'-c'` for
every scoped commit call, breaking 17 position-based assertions in the
commit-files pathspec regression suite that read `a[0] === 'commit'` to find
the commit invocation among recorded git calls.

`execGit` already accepts an `env` option merged onto `process.env` before
spawning. Git honors `GIT_CONFIG_COUNT`/`GIT_CONFIG_KEY_0`/`GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_0`
as a per-invocation config override functionally identical to `-c key=val`,
expressed via env instead of argv. Passing that env alongside the existing
commitArgs (still `['commit', ..., '--', ...stagedPaths]`, argv unchanged)
fixes the real commit's effective diff.ignoreSubmodules to match the
empty-diff guard's probe without moving anything in argv position 0. Scoped
to exactly the canScope branch, matching the probe's own preconditions and
leaving no behavior change for commits the probe never evaluated.

No test file changes needed — the 17 previously-failing assertions test
argv[0] against the array passed into execGit, which never changes.

* fix(#3348): register verify-context-drift in the check subcommand router

The drift capability's new plan:pre gate declares check.query
"verify.context-drift", which normalizes to `check verify-context-drift`,
but no such subcommand was routed — phase6-capstone-conformance's
uniform-block-field test failed with "Unknown check subcommand" for
every declared gate query.

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

* fix(#3348): extend #1592's exact-key-list snapshot for the new context-drift config keys

tests/capability-registry.test.cjs asserted an exact, hardcoded snapshot
of the drift capability's config keys. #3348 legitimately adds two new
keys (workflow.context_drift_precheck, workflow.context_drift_action)
for its own plan:pre context-drift gate — extend the expected set
(and clarify the assertion message) without weakening the test's
exactness.

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

* fix(#3348): reconcile E2's exemption-migration pin with the resolvePhaseDirByToken extraction

#3348 (an earlier commit on this branch, e4b80ad81) extracted
cmdVerifySchemaDrift's inline phasesDir readdirSync/matchPhaseDirs block
into the shared resolvePhaseDirByToken helper (also used by the new
cmdVerifyContextDrift), and retargeted lint-phase-enumeration-drift.cjs's
function-scoped exemption from cmdVerifySchemaDrift to
resolvePhaseDirByToken accordingly — cmdVerifySchemaDrift no longer
contains a line the guard's detectors match, so it needs no exemption.

tests/phase-locator.test.cjs's E2 test still pinned the exemption to the
old name (cmdVerifySchemaDrift), unaware of the migration. Update E2 to
match the same "migrated call site's exemption must move, not
duplicate" pattern the test already applies to cmdRoadmapAnalyze and
cmdInitMilestoneOp just below it: drop cmdVerifySchemaDrift from the
still-exempt list and add symmetric assertions that it no longer
carries the exemption while resolvePhaseDirByToken now does.

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

* fix(#3348): fix two self-contradicting/nondeterministic tests in context-drift.test.cjs

'always exits 0 (query command contract)' included the no-phase-arg
case, which contradicts the file's own earlier
'errors with usage message on missing phase arg' test (that case
legitimately exits 1 via the Usage error) — drop it from the
always-exits-0 cases.

'degrades to mtime comparison outside a git repo' and '...in a repo
with no commits' relied on real wall-clock ordering between two
back-to-back writeFileSync calls to prove CONTEXT.md is newer than
RESEARCH.md; on a fast filesystem both can land in the same mtime
tick, producing a tie that computeContextDrift's strict `<` correctly
treats as not-stale, so stale_artifacts comes back empty. Make both
tests deterministic via explicit fs.utimesSync instead of relying on
timing (CONTRIBUTING.md: never assert elapsed wall-clock time).

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

* fix(#3348): add context_drift_precheck:false to the plan:pre all-off fixture

The "all plan:pre when-keys false" fixture explicitly disables every
known workflow.* plan:pre toggle, but didn't yet know about the new
workflow.context_drift_precheck key (defaults to true), so the new
drift context-drift gate stayed active and broke the
empty-activeHooks assertion.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: plan-phase.md — adds the #3348 context-drift plan:pre pre-check section (new ## 4.6); this PR's own diff, not incidental drift.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(#3348): backfill changeset PR number (pr:0 -> 4147)

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-01 21:39:37 -04:00
Tom Boucher
c0fd2e3f4c feat(#3673): add dispatch.maxConcurrency axis and dispatch-capacity query (#4162)
* test(#3673): add failing tests for dispatch.maxConcurrency axis and dispatch-capacity CLI route

Extends tests/host-integration.test.cjs with negotiateHostCapabilities
maxConcurrency negotiation coverage (test matrix rows 1-15, including a
fast-check property test) and a new #3673 dispatch-capacity CLI route
describe block spawning the real gsd-tools.cjs (rows 16-25). Extends
tests/host-integration-validator-parity.test.cjs with an all-19-descriptor
maxConcurrency presence/validity sweep (row 26) and adds a hostile-input
validator test to host-integration.test.cjs (row 27).

The dispatch.maxConcurrency field does not exist yet, so these tests fail.

* feat(#3673): add dispatch.maxConcurrency axis, negotiation, validator parity, and the dispatch-capacity query

Adds a numeric dispatch.maxConcurrency sub-field to the Host-Integration
Interface (ADR-1239 Phase 1), following the existing dispatch.isolation
sub-field pattern: DispatchCapability interface, SAFE_DEFAULTS/PROFILE_BASELINES
floors, and a negotiateHostCapabilities branch that passes through a positive
safe integer and fails closed to 1 otherwise (no engine-side reduction, per
the design doc's explicit rejection of a min(host,engine) rule).

capability-validator.cjs gains parity validation for the new field (optional,
positive safe integer or the "undocumented" sentinel — mirroring isolation's
"added after existing descriptors" treatment).

gsd-tools.cjs gains a new `query dispatch-capacity` route, a pure-read sibling
of `dispatch-isolation` with no side effects: live env
(GSD_DISPATCH_MAX_CONCURRENCY) > descriptor > fallback-to-1 precedence.

All 19 capabilities/*/capability.json descriptors now declare
dispatch.maxConcurrency: claude carries the one cited value (20, per
code.claude.com/docs/en/sub-agents); the other 18 carry "undocumented"
(not yet researched for this axis).

* docs(#3673): document dispatch.maxConcurrency and add its citation row to the capability matrix

Updates docs/reference/host-integration-interface.md's dispatch struct entry
(also backfilling the previously-undocumented isolation/backgroundDispatch
sub-fields found stale in the same table) and adds fail-closed/live-transport
precedence prose for the new maxConcurrency field.

Adds a dispatch.maxConcurrency row (with citation) to all 19 host sections in
docs/reference/host-integration-capability-matrix.md — required for
tests/host-integration-descriptors.test.cjs's kimi-code matrix-parity check,
which asserts every declared dispatch sub-axis is documented there.

Updates docs/how-to/add-or-update-a-host-integration.md's dispatch checklist
and example descriptor block to mention maxConcurrency (and, likewise
backfilling a stale gap, isolation/backgroundDispatch).

* fix(#3673): extract shared maxConcurrency validator, drop dead reserved-name check

Exports isPositiveSafeInteger from src/host-integration.cts as the single
source of truth for the dispatch.maxConcurrency positive-safe-integer
contract; negotiateHostCapabilities and gsd-tools.cjs's routeDispatchCapacity
now both call it instead of independently reimplementing the same predicate.

Also removes the __proto__/constructor/prototype reserved-name branch from
capability-validator.cjs's maxConcurrency check — copy-pasted from the
string-enum fields above it, but unreachable for a numeric field (the
generic positive-safe-integer branch already rejects any string) and absent
from maxDepth, the field the code's own comment claims to mirror.

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-01 21:39:12 -04:00
Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich
b848b23861 feat(#3778): dispatch plan:pre planner contributions before quick planning (#3934)
* feat(#3778): dispatch plan:pre planner contributions in quick.md

- Add plan:pre capability gate to quick.md Step 5, mirroring plan-phase.md's
  existing render + generic contribution dispatch pattern
- Inject planner-targeted contribution fragments into the planner prompt,
  after AGENT_SKILLS_PLANNER, matching D-08 ordering
- Add tests/quick-plan-pre-capabilities.test.cjs proving the dispatch is
  generic (D-01) via real scanWiredKinds/coveredKindsInRegion functions
- Record quick.md's byte-growth rationale in this commit trailer for every
  gsd-core-verbatim runtime

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: quick.md — #3778: Step 5 (Spawn planner, quick mode) gains a `plan:pre` capability gate, mirroring `plan-phase.md:420-424` and `:797`. This is shipped shell and prose read by an agent at runtime, not compiled, so the reasoning has to travel with the feature rather than being deferred to a reference doc: (1) the dispatch paragraph phrases role routing possessively ("the role each entry's `into` names") rather than as an `into ==` equality, because `coveredKindsInRegion` (scripts/gen-loop-host-contract.cjs) voids a segment's `kind == "contribution"` coverage credit when a role or capability equality shares that same segment — an equality phrasing here would silently fail the generic-dispatch proof required by D-01; (2) `activeHooks` is read directly in-context from `PLAN_PRE_HOOKS_JSON`/`HOOKS_JSON` and the unfiltered `rendered` digest is explicitly forbidden from being pasted, because `rendered` carries every kind and role — including non-planner-targeted contributions such as a `into: "checker"` twin — and pasting it would leak checker-scoped guidance into the planner's prompt (T-01-02 in the threat model); (3) the injection block sits inside `<planning_context>` AFTER `${AGENT_SKILLS_PLANNER}` and after the Project skills line, matching plan-phase's `:741` -> `:797` ordering (D-08), so agent-skills content is never shadowed by capability-contributed prose. No prose was moved into an eagerly `@`-imported reference to shrink the measured file — @gsd-core/references/loop-hook-dispatch.md already existed before this change and is deferred to for the generic contract only, exactly as plan-phase.md already does.

* test(#3778): expand quick.md plan:pre dispatch coverage to all nine locked conditions

Extend tests/quick-plan-pre-capabilities.test.cjs with D-02 (silent
omit-when-empty), D-03 (single shared planner spawn), D-06 (array-order
dispatch phrasing), D-07 (planner-only into filter), and D-08 (render call
< agent-skills placeholder < injection block < spawn ordering) assertions,
all extracted via a brace-bounded slice anchored on the literal injection
instruction rather than a naive first-brace scan (${AGENT_SKILLS_PLANNER}
and the surrounding prompt's ${VALIDATE_MODE ? ...} ternaries also contain
brace pairs).

Add a capability-registry.test.cjs describe block proving the registry-wide
D-07 exclusion is meaningful: at least one plan:pre contribution exists,
every plan:pre contribution has a non-empty into/fragment.inline, and the
registry as a whole carries at least one non-planner-into contribution.

Add a loop-host-contract.test.cjs regression pin for D-09: quick.md stays
absent from STEP_WORKFLOWS, parseLoopHostBlock still throws on quick.md's
real content, and buildContract() still yields exactly 5 entries.

Verified red-without-Task-1 by temporarily reverting quick.md to its
pre-f30de9cc content and re-running these three suites (D-08 failed as
expected), then restored via git checkout and re-confirmed green.

* docs(#3778): note quick planning also renders plan:pre in the tutorial

The tutorial's Step 6 named only /gsd-plan-phase as the trigger for the
plan:pre hook set. Since quick.md now dispatches the same hook set
(f30de9cc), the sentence understated the capability's real reach.

* feat(#3778): add changeset fragment

* chore(#3778): reference the upstream issue in the changeset fragment

The fragment was the only one of 81 in .changeset/ without a trailing
(#NNNN) reference or a bold lead-in. serializeChangelog auto-appends
only the pr: field, so the rendered CHANGELOG entry carried no link
back to issue #3778.

* test(#3778): scope the D-07 registry assertion to what it actually proves

The registry-wide non-planner check was named "D-07 exclusion is
meaningful", which overclaims: it proves only that `into` takes
non-planner values somewhere in the registry, not that anything is
excluded at plan:pre. Every plan:pre contribution is currently
into: "planner", so the filter is a forward-looking safeguard there.

Narrowing the assertion to plan:pre (as review suggested) would fail
today. Asserting plan:pre is all-planner would be brittle — it would
break the day a legitimate non-planner plan:pre contribution lands,
which is exactly when the safeguard starts doing work. So the
assertion is unchanged and only the name and comment are corrected.

* chore(#3778): point the changeset fragment at the upstream PR

The fragment carried pr: 3, the fork staging PR. changeset lint derives
the real PR number from GITHUB_EVENT_PATH, so on the upstream PR that
would read as pr-field drift. Point it at open-gsd/gsd-core#3934.

* test(#3778): require contributions in Quick revision prompts

* test(loop-host): require Quick auxiliary registration

* fix(#3778): preserve contributions in Quick plan revisions

* fix(#3778): validate Quick as a planner contribution host

* fix(#3778): tighten Quick contribution contract

* test(#3778): drop unnecessary source-contract exemption

* fix(#3778): require Quick planner target coverage

* docs(#3778): describe targeted auxiliary coverage

---------

Co-authored-by: davdittrich <davdittrich@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: CI Rebase Check <ci@gsd-redux>
Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-09-01 21:16:57 -04:00
Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich
c9bff8d2b9 fix(#3899): resolve REVIEWS.md by quoted assignment, not an unquoted ls (#3928)
* fix(#3899): resolve REVIEWS.md by quoted assignment, not an unquoted ls

The convergence loop resolved the phase REVIEWS.md through
`$(ls ${phase_dir}/... 2>/dev/null)`. The unquoted ${phase_dir} word-splits,
so a project path containing a space handed `ls` arguments that do not exist,
the discarded stderr hid the error, and the empty result was reported as
"review agent did not produce REVIEWS.md" — blaming the agent for a quoting
defect. A glob metacharacter fails worse: the pattern expands to whatever
sibling directory matches, so the loop silently reads a different phase's
REVIEWS.md and `ls` still exits 0.

Assign the path directly, quoted, and fail closed with an error that names the
expected location. The regression block extracts the bash fence from the
shipped workflow and RUNS it against space-, glob- and missing-file fixtures,
because every text assertion in that suite passed against the broken line.

* chore(#3899): add the changelog fragment

* fix(#3899): reject a non-file reviews path and anchor the gate harness

Adversarial review (codex, gemini) on the first cut, three findings taken:

- `[ -r ]` alone is true for a readable DIRECTORY, so a directory standing
  where the reviews file belongs passed the gate and reached the consumers
  that read it. Require a regular file as well.
- the harness picked its fence by scanning the WHOLE document for a bash
  block assigning REVIEWS_FILE. If the real fence ever stopped assigning it
  and an unrelated one started, the harness would execute the wrong block and
  report green. Anchor the span to the verification step, between its opening
  sentence and the next heading.
- the no-subshell assertion matched only `$(`; a backtick rewrite would
  reintroduce identical word-splitting unseen. The discarded-stderr assertion
  is scoped to lines naming REVIEWS_FILE rather than banning the redirect
  across the whole fence.

Four findings declined: `return 1 || exit 1` (the document's own idiom is a
bare `exit 1`, including the guard immediately below), `${phase_dir:-}` for
`set -u` (unchanged exposure from the old line, and an unset phase_dir is a
bug worth surfacing), an explicit empty-phase_dir branch (the guard already
fails closed and prints the truncated path), and a downstream
`[ -n "$REVIEWS_FILE" ]` hazard (no such consumer exists — the guard exits
before any of them run).

* chore(#3899): backfill the changeset PR number

* fix(#3899): address required review feedback

Use the fragment-aware workflow reader, remove the inert exemption marker, document the unreadable-arm coverage limit, align errors with the workflow convention, and name an empty phase_dir directly. Migrate the obsolete emitted-drift fragment to the current commit-trailer contract.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: plan-review-convergence.md — #3899: replace unquoted $(ls ... 2>/dev/null) resolution with a quoted direct path, fail-closed file/readability checks, and an explicit phase_dir diagnostic; surrounding prose records why quoting is load-bearing.

---------

Co-authored-by: davdittrich <davdittrich@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: CI Rebase Check <ci@gsd-redux>
Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-09-01 20:25:27 -04:00
Tom Boucher
b6dd4e2e74 fix(#3936): dispatch quick research with researcher persona and model (#4158)
* test(#3936): quick research dispatch must use researcher persona/model

Regression tests for the planner-persona leak in quick's Step 4.75
research dispatch: init quick emits researcher_model, the workflow
resolves AGENT_SKILLS_RESEARCHER and parses researcher_model, and the
researcher dispatch uses the researcher persona/tier while planner and
executor dispatches keep their own.

* fix(#3936): dispatch quick research with researcher persona and model

cmdInitQuick now emits researcher_model (parity with the plan-phase
init), quick.md resolves AGENT_SKILLS_RESEARCHER and parses the new
field, and Step 4.75's dispatch swaps ${AGENT_SKILLS_PLANNER}/
{planner_model} for the researcher's own persona and tier. The #2517
model-omission list gains researcher_model.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: quick.md — researcher persona resolution line + researcher_model parse-list entry (#3936)

* chore(#3936): backfill changeset pr number

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-01 19:40:34 -04:00
Tom Boucher
eca9c2b590 fix(#4112): portable grep in workflow markdown + submodule commit fix under diff.ignoreSubmodules (#4149)
* fix(#4112): ban GNU-only grep -P in workflow markdown to prevent macOS regressions

Add scripts/lint-portable-grep.cjs, wire it into lint:ci, and add
tests/lint-portable-grep.test.cjs. The #4112 shell-syntax fix newly exposed
a pre-existing grep -oP invocation that silently resolves to "" on stock
macOS's BSD grep (no -P support). This ratchet catches the same class of
GNU-coreutils assumption before it merges, mirroring lint-portable-timeout.cjs.

* fix(#4112): drop unneeded ls -l long-format that broke basename/dirname extraction

The previous commit on this branch replaced grep -oP 'phases/\K[^/]+'
(GNU-only, silently fails on macOS's BSD grep) with
basename "$(dirname "$phase")"), but left ls -lt (long format, -l) in
place. -l output is a full detail line (permissions, owner, size, date,
path), not a bare path, so dirname on that string throws "illegal
option -- r" (BSD) / errors under GNU coreutils too -- the extraction
never produced a usable value, on any platform. -l was never needed
here; only mtime-sort plus the bare path mattered. Dropping it to
ls -t restores one-bare-path-per-line output, which basename/dirname
actually requires. Confirmed on gsd-test's Linux bench: the #4112
regression test (tests/pause-work-context-detection.test.cjs) now
passes phase, spike, and sketch resolution.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: pause-work.md — portability fix (#4112): dropping grep -oP for a portable basename/dirname extraction is a few characters longer per line; no functional growth beyond the fix.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: sync-skills.md — portability fix (#4112): replacing grep -oP '(?<=--from )\S+' with a portable sed -E capture-group equivalent (no PCRE lookbehind available) is a longer expression; growth is the direct cost of the fix, not new functionality.

* fix(#3859): pin git commit itself against diff.ignoreSubmodules=all, not just the probe

git 2.39.x (the exact version on the CI Linux bench) resolves a
pathspec-scoped `git commit -- <path>` through the same
diff.ignoreSubmodules-gated machinery as `git diff`, so a genuinely
bumped submodule gitlink was silently dropped by the real commit even
though the #3859 empty-diff probe correctly saw the change. The commit
was misclassified as generic commit_failed because git's refusal text
never says "nothing to commit". Prefix the pathspec-scoped commit
invocation with -c diff.ignoreSubmodules=dirty, the same override the
probe already carries, so the two can no longer disagree. Confirmed on
git 2.50.1 (no-op) and git 2.39.5 via the actual gsd-tester-linux
v1.8.0-node24 bench image (turns the silent refusal into a commit).

* fix(#3859): carry the diff.ignoreSubmodules override via env, not argv

The prior commit prepended `-c diff.ignoreSubmodules=dirty` to the real
commit's argv, which shifted `commitArgs[0]` off `'commit'` and broke
several pre-existing #3859 regression tests
(tests/commit-files-pathspec.test.cjs) that assert on the raw argv
captured at the execGit seam, e.g. `gitCalls.some((a) => a[0] ===
'commit')`. Carry the same override via `GIT_CONFIG_COUNT` /
`GIT_CONFIG_KEY_0` / `GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_0` env vars instead, which git
honours identically and leaves argv untouched. Re-confirmed on the
gsd-tester-linux v1.8.0-node24 bench (git 2.39.5): the submodule commit
still succeeds.

* test(#3859): pin the commitEnv GIT_CONFIG_* override to canScope directly

The commitEnv/GIT_CONFIG_* override added in e935694fc/b3d37b929 was only
exercised indirectly through pre-existing submodule integration tests. Add
two dedicated regression tests that pin the canScope=false side of the
scoping decision: a whole-index commit (no --files) and an --amend commit
must both keep recording a bumped submodule gitlink under
diff.ignoreSubmodules=all with no override applied, since neither shape
carries a pathspec for that git internal check to consult.

* fix(#4112): match grep invocations after then/do/else/elif shell keywords

lint-portable-grep.cjs's GREP_INVOCATION_RE only anchored to line-start or
right after `| & ; ( \` {`, so a grep call positioned right after `then`,
`do`, `else`, or `elif` (e.g. `if x; then grep -oP '...'; fi`) was never
flagged, letting the GNU-only grep -P defect this lint exists to catch
reappear undetected in that shape.

* fix(#3859): apply the diff.ignoreSubmodules override to every commit, not just scoped ones

The commitEnv GIT_CONFIG_* override landed in e935694fc/b3d37b929 only when
canScope was true, on the assumption that git 2.39.5's silent refusal of a
bumped submodule gitlink under diff.ignoreSubmodules=all only affects a
pathspec-limited `git commit -- <paths>`. Reproduced directly against the
pinned CI tester image (ghcr.io/open-gsd/gsd-tester-linux:v1.8.0-node24,
git 2.39.5): a bare whole-index `git commit -m ...` with no pathspec at all
is refused identically when the only staged change is a submodule gitlink,
since git's "nothing to commit" check is a real diff against HEAD that
honours diff.ignoreSubmodules regardless of whether a pathspec narrows it.
Apply the override unconditionally instead of gating it on canScope; it
remains a confirmed no-op for --amend, which never hits this refusal at
all. Caught by the new regression test added in 579ac9f8f, which failed
against the real bench git version before this change.

* fix(#3859): apply diff.ignoreSubmodules override to commit-to-subrepo and pr-subrepo

cmdCommit already carries the GIT_CONFIG_* override that forces
diff.ignoreSubmodules=dirty on the actual git commit call so a bumped
submodule gitlink is not spuriously refused under git 2.39.5. The two
sibling multi-repo commit paths, cmdCommitToSubrepo and cmdPrSubrepo,
build the identical canScope-branched commit invocation but never
carried the override, so the same refusal there surfaces as a generic
commit_failed/error instead of a recorded gitlink. Apply the override
unconditionally to both, matching the corrected cmdCommit shape.

* fix(#3859): pin pr-subrepo's change detection against diff.ignoreSubmodules

cmdPrSubrepo discovers what to commit via `git status --porcelain`, which
(like the empty-diff probe fixed for cmdCommit) honors a local
diff.ignoreSubmodules=all config. Under that config, a genuinely bumped
submodule gitlink is invisible to the status scan, so changedFiles comes
back empty and the function reports nothing_to_commit before ever reaching
the commit call this same issue already fixed. Pin the status probe with
--ignore-submodules=dirty, mirroring the flag cmdCommit's diff probe already
uses, so a real gitlink bump is detected regardless of local config.

Found while adding a regression test for the previous #3859 follow-up fix:
the test failed not on the commit step but on this earlier detection step.

* docs(#3859): update changeset to cover all three fixed commit sites

* docs(#4112): backfill changeset PR number (pr:0 -> pr:4149)

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-01 17:31:01 -04:00
Tom Boucher
80d2236ca5 fix(#4112): drop redundant $(( subshell wrapping in pause-work.md Context Detection (#4140)
* test(#4112): add failing-first regression coverage for pause-work.md Context Detection

Extracts and executes the shipped Context Detection bash block to prove the
$(( arithmetic-context misparse (SC1102/SC1106/SC2205) as a hard syntax
error, plus boundary/independence coverage for the phase/spike/sketch/
deliberation resolution the fix must preserve.

* test(#4112): fix false-green regression test — assert dash/sh failure, not bash -n

The prior version asserted bash -n syntax validity and wrapped bash -c
execution, neither of which detects this bug: bash/zsh silently fall back to
a working command-substitution reading of the ambiguous $(( construct, and
bash -n never evaluates arithmetic-context content at parse time. A gsd-test
run against the still-broken file passed 41594/41594 with this test in
place — a false green. POSIX sh/dash does not implement that fallback and
throws a real "Syntax error: Missing '))'", which is what this version
asserts against.

* fix(#4112): remove leaked tool-call tags corrupting the regression test file

A subagent's Write introduced trailing </content>/</invoke> markup at the
end of tests/pause-work-context-detection.test.cjs. gsd-test's own
tests/portability-rule-disable-ban.test.cjs (which parses every test file)
correctly caught this as a parse error. Strips the garbage lines; no
behavioral change.

* fix(#4112): drop redundant $(( subshell wrapping in pause-work.md Context Detection

phase=/spike=/sketch= opened with $((, which POSIX sh/dash parses as
arithmetic expansion and rejects (Syntax error: Missing '))') since the
enclosed text isn't valid arithmetic. bash/zsh silently retry it as command
substitution, which masked the defect there. Dropping the inner grouping
parens (matching the deliberation= line already in the same block) makes
the construct valid under bash, zsh, and dash alike, with identical
fallback-to-empty-string behavior when nothing matches.

Once the surrounding syntax parses, ShellCheck can now also analyze the
inner ls -lt calls it previously couldn't see past the parse failure,
newly surfacing the same pre-existing SC2012 ("use find instead of ls")
suggestion already baselined for the file's other ls usage. Baseline
updated to reflect the true current count; no ls-vs-find behavior change
made, as that is a separate, pre-existing, out-of-scope question.

* fix(#4112): verify shell discrimination instead of trusting the binary name

Code review finding: falling back from dash to sh could silently produce a
non-discriminating test on a host where /bin/sh is bash-compatible (e.g.
macOS) — such a shell never throws on the broken construct either, so the
test would pass whether the bug were present or not. resolvePosixShell now
verifies the candidate actually rejects a known-ambiguous $(( snippet
before using it, and skips with an explicit reason when none does. The
gsd-test Linux bench (dash as /bin/sh) is unaffected either way.

* fix(#4112): route regression test through process-seam, splitLines, cleanup

npm run lint:ci flagged 7 violations gsd-test's node:test run doesn't check:
local/no-adhoc-markdown-parsing (single fence-spanning regex),
local/no-crlf-fragile-split (bare \n split), local/no-unbounded-spawn (x4,
hand-rolled execFileSync with no timeout), and local/no-raw-rmsync-in-tests.
Rewrites the test to route every subprocess call through
tests/helpers/process-seam.cjs's runHook() (bounded by construction),
tests/helpers.cjs's cleanup() for temp-dir removal, and a line-by-line fence
scan using the text-lines.cts splitLines() seam, matching this repo's
established extraction idiom (tests/no-hardcoded-home-gsd-tools.test.cjs).
No behavioral change to what is asserted.

* docs(#4112): add changeset for the pause-work Context Detection fix

* docs(#4112): backfill changeset PR number (pr:0 -> pr:4140)

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-01 13:03:33 -04:00
Tom Boucher
05092ff369 fix(#4113): add no-op to empty then-body in chunked-planning-mode.md's outline resume-check (#4125)
* fix(#4113): add no-op to empty then-body in chunked-planning-mode.md's outline resume-check

The `### 8.5.1 Outline Phase` resume-detection `if` block only contained a
comment in its `then` clause, which is a syntax error under both bash and
zsh if executed literally. The workflow ShellCheck lint added by #4109
already flags this (SC1009/1048/1072/1073/2105) but the findings were
masked by matching entries in the pre-existing-findings baseline; those
five entries are removed here so a regression re-surfaces as a new
failure instead of being silently re-absorbed.

* chore: backfill changeset PR number for #4125

* fix(#4113): fix second empty-then/continue-outside-loop defect surfaced by baseline cleanup

Removing the 5 stale baseline entries for chunked-planning-mode.md in the
prior commit unmasked a second, genuinely separate ShellCheck finding
(SC2105) in a different fenced block of the same file: a bare `continue`
outside any bash loop in the ### 8.5.2 per-plan resume-check. Same root
cause class as the original bug (pseudocode fenced as literal bash) —
fixed the same way, with a `:` no-op preserving the documentation.

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-01 00:55:44 -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

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Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-08-31 19:08:11 -04:00
Tom Boucher
e242d85c92 fix(#4109): rewrap unquoted DISPATCH_SLUGS-shaped consumption to survive zsh (#4116)
* test(#4109): add zsh regression coverage for gate-check and invoke_reviewers dispatch

Extends tests/review-plan-coverage-manifest.test.cjs to cover the two
DISPATCH_SLUGS consumption sites the existing #3301 coverage-check tests
don't reach: the write_reviews gate-check block (ALL_LANES_SKIPPED /
TOTAL_LANE_FAILURE counting) and invoke_reviewers' dispatch + join loops.
Both extract the real shipped bash from review.md and run it under bash and
zsh, same convention as the existing coverage-check rows. Expected RED under
zsh pre-fix, GREEN post-fix.

* fix(#4109): rewrap unquoted DISPATCH_SLUGS-shaped consumption to survive zsh

Bash word-splits an unquoted scalar on IFS by default; zsh does not (no
setopt SH_WORD_SPLIT anywhere in these files), so a scalar accumulated from
multiple space-separated tokens and then consumed via bare `for x in $VAR`
collapses onto one bogus iteration under zsh whenever it holds 2+ tokens.

Fixes all four review.md sites reported by #4108/#4109 (invoke_reviewers
dispatch + join loops, the gate-check block, and the #3301 coverage-check
block), plus the identical pattern found by a repo-wide sweep in
complete-milestone.md, code-review.md, pr-branch.md, sync-skills.md, and
execute-phase/steps/per-plan-worktree-gate.md. Each site is rewrapped in
unquoted command substitution (`$(printf '%s' "$VAR")`), which re-splits
identically under both shells regardless of SH_WORD_SPLIT — the same
mechanism that already made the accumulator-building loops in these files
shell-safe.

* test(#4109): warn loudly when the zsh probe fails instead of skipping silently

detectShells() drops the zsh test lane whenever a live zsh probe fails (e.g.
on a CI runner without zsh installed), and a dropped lane reads identically
to a passing one in the suite's own output — exactly the blind spot that let
#4109's bug class ship undetected. Both copies of this helper (this file and
its byte-identical duplicate in review-build-prompt-optional-sections.test.cjs)
now emit a greppable console.warn when the probe fails, so a run without zsh
reads as "zsh coverage unknown" rather than "all lanes green".

* ci(#4109): gate workflows/*.md's embedded bash blocks in lint:ci

Adds scripts/lint-workflow-shellcheck.cjs, wired into npm run lint:ci, so
this bug class can't land undetected a third time. Two independent checks
run over every ```bash block in gsd-core/workflows/**/*.md:

- ShellCheck (new `shellcheck` devDependency, downloads and caches the real
  koalaman/shellcheck binary) catches the general unquoted-expansion/
  word-splitting family in argument position. 212 pre-existing findings
  across the tree are absorbed into scripts/lint-workflow-shellcheck-baseline.json
  (matched on {file, code, message}, not line number, so unrelated edits
  elsewhere in a file can't spuriously un-baseline anything) — fixing all of
  them is out of scope for this issue; only NEW findings fail the build.
- A custom structural check specifically for #4109's own shape: ShellCheck
  does not flag a bare `for x in $VAR` word-list — it treats that as an
  intentional idiom under any ruleset (confirmed empirically). This check
  does, and gates the build on any occurrence, with zero tolerance (no
  baseline) since every known site was already swept and fixed on this
  branch.

* test(#4109): update pr-branch cherry-pick loop test anchor for the zsh fix

extractPickLoop()'s PICK_LOOP_MARKER located the create_pr_branch cherry-pick
loop by the literal substring "for HASH in $INCLUDED_COMMITS", which no
longer appears verbatim after this issue's fix rewrapped that loop in
unquoted command substitution. Updates the anchor (and its error message,
now derived from the same constant instead of duplicating stale text) to the
new literal form. No behavior change to the extraction logic itself.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: review.md — #4109's fix adds explanatory comments at 4 sites; net code is functionally equivalent, comment expansion grows the file
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: complete-milestone.md — #4109's fix adds explanatory comments at 3 sites documenting the zsh word-splitting divergence
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: code-review.md — #4109's fix adds an explanatory comment documenting the zsh word-splitting divergence
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: pr-branch.md — #4109's fix adds explanatory comments at 3 sites (TRANSIENT_DIRS, INCLUDED_COMMITS, FILTER_PATHS)
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: sync-skills.md — #4109's fix adds explanatory comments at 2 sites (CREATE_LIST/UPDATE_LIST, REMOVE_LIST)

* test(#4109): cover lint-workflow-shellcheck parsers + add timeout

Adds tests/lint-workflow-shellcheck.test.cjs covering the hand-rolled
parser/logic functions exported by scripts/lint-workflow-shellcheck.cjs
(stripCommandSubstitutions, stripShellComments, substitutePlaceholders,
extractForLoops, findBareForLoopSplits, findingKey, partitionAgainstBaseline)
that shipped with zero coverage — CLAUDE.md requires at least one fast-check
property test for parsers, included here (bare/braced forms always flagged
naming the variable; quoted/substituted/literal forms never are).

Also bounds runShellcheck's subprocess with a 60s timeout: the `shellcheck`
npm package's own API has no timeout option and internally blocks on a
synchronous spawnSync, so this reimplements the binary resolve/download step
via the package's own exported config/download and calls spawnSync directly
with a native timeout. And guards the CLI entry point with
`if (require.main === module)`, matching this repo's sibling dual-purpose
lint scripts — without it, requiring the module for its exported functions
(as the new test file does) also triggered a live ShellCheck run as a side
effect.

* docs(#4109): add changeset for the zsh word-splitting fix

* chore(#4109): backfill changeset PR number (#4116)

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-31 18:08:06 -04:00
0xdhx
ef9ce3e598 fix(#3702): count asterisk, plus and ordered markers as deferred-items entries (#3739)
* fix(#3702): deferred-items counts `*`, `+` and ordered markers as list items

`deferred-items.md` has no template and no mandated shape, but its parser
recognised only the `- ` hyphen marker. Asterisk bullets, plus bullets and
dot-terminated ordered lists — all lists in CommonMark and GFM — contributed
ZERO entries on both the headless and the heading-delimited path, and a mixed
file dropped its non-hyphen entries while keeping their hyphenated siblings,
under-reporting without ever looking empty.

The restriction was a regex literal inherited from the Gaps seam, where the
template genuinely mandates the hyphen YAML-lite form; nothing in the module's
stated rationale distinguishes `*` from `-`.

Widened on the deferred path only:
- `splitGapsEntriesCore`'s entry opener, `extractGapEntryFields`' line-0 strip
  and `rawGapEntryText`'s line-0 strip take a `BulletMarkers` parameter that
  DEFAULTS to the hyphen-only set, so `## Gaps` keeps its template-mandated
  grammar byte-for-byte and the module still has exactly one grouping pass.
- `splitDeferredHeadingEntries`' body-bullet test, `stripLeadingBulletMarker`
  and `acknowledgeDeferredItem`'s status-field regexes move in lockstep —
  widening what OPENS an entry without widening what is STRIPPED before field
  extraction would surface an entry that can never resolve.

Unchanged, and pinned by tests: prose-only and bare headings still contribute
nothing ("prose is not an item"); a table under a leaf heading still yields
exactly its rows, since table lines are skipped before the body-marker flag can
be set and a `|` row is not a list marker; the paren-terminated ordered form
`1)` is out of this fix's scope.

* docs(#3702): changeset fragment (pr: 0 placeholder pre-create)

* fix(#3702): widen the forensic-audit prose entry rule to match the parser

Sibling site of the same defect class, found by a defect-class sweep of the
deferred-items consumers. `/gsd-progress` check 7 does NOT go through
`gsd-tools query` — it globs `deferred-items.md` and has the model read entries
by a prose rule that mandated "one entry per top-level `- ` line". Left as-is,
the marker widening would hold on the CLI path while the one consumer that
bypasses the parser kept reporting "No unresolved deferred items" for a file
written with `*`, `+` or an ordered marker: the same false negative, surviving
in the only place the fix could not reach by code.

Also pass DEFERRED_BULLET_MARKERS explicitly where the heading path extracts
fields. It was already correct — stripLeadingBulletMarker pre-strips the widened
set from every line, so the default hyphen strip is a no-op there — but relying
on that leaves a detection site and a strip site nominally on different marker
sets, which is exactly the asymmetry the BulletMarkers doc comment warns about.
Explicit is local; inferred is a trap for whoever edits the strip next.

Out of scope, noted rather than fixed: forensic-audit.md globs only
`.planning/phases/*/` and so misses archived milestone phases that
`scanDeferredItems` covers. Pre-existing, a different defect, and not this
issue's ruling.

* docs(#3702): note the milestone-close halt for heading-shape non-hyphen files in the changeset

A heading-delimited deferred-items.md written with */+/ordered markers
previously parsed to zero and closed silently; it now yields entries whose
heading shape acknowledgeDeferredItem refuses, halting complete-milestone
until hand-edited. User-visible, so the fragment states it.

* chore(#3702): set changeset fragment pr to 3739

* fix(#3702): CR-normalise the heading path and the acknowledge writer (review B1, M4, m2)

B1 — `splitDeferredHeadingEntries` stored RAW lines; on a CRLF file every
body line but the last still carried its `\r`, the `$`-anchored marker
strip failed on it, the marker survived into field extraction and the
field was lost — a `**Status:** resolved` that was not the file's final
line resurfaced its entry as open. The heading path now stores CR-stripped
lines like the headless path already did, and the strip regex tolerates a
trailing CR on its own. Round 1's CRLF test put `**Status:**` on the last
line, the one position `collectSection`'s `.trimEnd()` had already
de-CR'd; the new tests put it first and mid-body.

M4 (pre-existing on `next`) — `acknowledgeDeferredItem` found the status
line on a CR-stripped copy but rewrote the raw line with a `$`-anchored
`.*`, which cannot consume `\r`; `replace` returned its input, and the
writer reported `ok` over byte-identical content. The rewrite now runs on
a CR-stripped line. The comment that claimed `.*$` consumed the `\r` is
corrected — it was the bug, stated as the design.

m2 — the indent probe for an inserted `status:` line ran on the raw line
and fell back to indent 0 on CRLF; it is CR-stripped too.

* fix(#3702): derive every deferred-items marker regex from one source (review M3, N1, N2)

M3 — round 1 carried the marker alternation in FOUR places: the
`BulletMarkers` pair and two inline literals inside
`acknowledgeDeferredItem`, under a doc comment saying the interface
existed so a detection site and its strip site could not drift. All four
now derive from `DEFERRED_MARKER_ALT`; drift is impossible rather than
discouraged. A parity test pins the vocabulary against
`markdown-sectionizer`'s `iterateBullets` on everything the two grammars
are meant to agree on, and names the two points they deliberately differ.

N1 — the ordered marker is `\d{1,9}\.` (CommonMark §5.2), not `\d+\.`.

N2 — the marker is followed by `[ \t]`, not `\s`, which also accepted
`\r`; the tab remains accepted (CommonMark-legal) and the divergence from
`iterateBullets`' literal space is pinned rather than papered over.

The four regexes are exported for the parity test only.

* fix(#3702): an ordered marker opens an entry only from `1.` or inside a run (review B2, m1)

B2 — `\d+\.` alone read ordinary prose as a list: "2026. was a bad year
for this module" and, under `### Notes`, "3. is the number of retries we
settled on." both opened an entry on round 1, the second straight through
the "prose is not an item" contract that round's AC4 claimed to preserve.
CommonMark §5.3 faces the same ambiguity when an ordered list would
interrupt a paragraph and resolves it by requiring the list to start with
1; `matchListOpener` applies that rule wherever an ordered marker is seen,
with the run carried per list (headless) or per leaf-heading body. Numbers
after the first are ignored, as CommonMark ignores them. Stated cost,
pinned: a hand-numbered list starting at 2 reads as prose — every ordered
record in the #3702 scan starts at 1.

Both reviewer cases are pinned as prose; the ruling's `1. alpha / 2. beta`
shape still counts.

m1 — the 9-digit boundary is pinned at both sides (`999999999.` opens,
ten digits is not a marker), and the 3-vs-4-space indentation cliff is
pinned as deliberately NOT applied: the parser is indent-lenient because
surfacing a questionable hand-written entry beats dropping a real one.

* fix(#3702): thematic breaks close the list and fenced code never opens an entry (review M1, M2)

M1 — `- - -` was a phantom `"- -"` entry on base; widening the marker set
added `* * *` and `+ + +` to the class, and `* * *` is the separator an
author writing in the `*` style is most likely to use. A CommonMark §4.1
thematic break (plus the `+ + +` gesture, which is the same garbage as an
entry name) now closes the open entry on the headless path and is dropped
from the body on the heading path — neither an item nor a continuation.

M2 — neither splitter was fence-aware, so `+ `-prefixed diff lines and
`1.`-numbered repro steps inside a code block counted as entries; #3702's
wild records carry exactly those blocks. Both splitters now classify lines
by the sectionizer's own `scanFencedBlocks` (so `~~~`, indented and
unterminated fences behave as `stripFencedCode` would): fence content
never opens an entry, is continuation inside an open one — keeping the
span invariant `acknowledgeDeferredItem` re-verifies — and is discarded
before the first.

* test(#3702): range the #2287 deferred-items property over marker × shape × line ending (review B3)

The `#2287` property hard-coded `- ` and filtered `\r\n` out of its
arbitraries, so the widened marker set — an enumerated domain, exactly
what a property is for — was never under it. It now ranges over
`{-, *, +, ordered}` × `{headless, heading}` × `{LF, CRLF}`, with the
heading shape placing `**Status:**` first or last: the review's
prescription (markers × line endings) would not have reached B1, which
lives on the heading path only, so the shape axis is the load-bearing
addition. Ordered entries are numbered from 1, so the B2 run rule is
under the property too.

A second property drives `acknowledgeDeferredItem` over every unresolved
headless entry across the same marker × line-ending grid — the one that
reaches M4 (a CRLF rewrite that reported `ok` and wrote nothing) and m2.

* test(#3702): pin the milestone-close halt on a heading-delimited `*`/`+`/`1.` file (review m3)

A heading-delimited `deferred-items.md` written with a non-hyphen marker
previously parsed to zero entries and let `complete-milestone` close
silently; it now yields entries whose heading shape `acknowledgeDeferredItem`
refuses, which the milestone loop turns into `record_ack_failure` → exit 1.
The loop is prose in a workflow, so the test drives the two CLI calls it
makes: `audit-open --json` must list the entry, and
`audit-open acknowledge --text <the audit's own text>` must refuse with the
heading-delimited message and write nothing.

* docs(#3702): changeset and forensic-audit prose carry the round-2 grammar

The changeset names the CRLF fixes, the ordered start-at-1 rule, thematic
breaks and fences. The `/gsd-progress` forensic-audit step is the one
prose parser of this file and must state the same grammar the code has.

* fix(#3702): round-review refinements — run ends at a paragraph, rejected ordinals unstripped, breaks at any indent, fenced fields, `## Gaps` scope

Findings from the pre-push adversarial review of round 2, each pinned:

- An ordered run ENDS at a paragraph that follows a blank line (CommonMark
  §5.3); a non-indented line with no blank before it is lazy continuation
  and keeps the run open. `1. a` / blank / `paragraph` / blank / `5. x` is
  one entry, not two.
- The heading path strips the marker off every body line before field
  extraction (#3457); a line whose ordinal `matchListOpener` REJECTED must
  not be stripped, or "3. status: resolved" as prose loses its `3. ` and
  reads as a resolved field. `splitDeferredHeadingEntriesDetailed` now
  carries a per-line opener flag and only accepted openers are stripped —
  in headless regions of a heading-shaped file too.
- A thematic break is recognised at any indent, matching the parser's
  indent-lenient reading of items; `    * * *` was a phantom `* *`.
- Fenced lines carry no FIELDS either: a `status: resolved` quoted inside a
  code block no longer resolves its entry on either path.
- Block structure (breaks, fences) is a property of the GRAMMAR, carried as
  `BulletMarkers.blockStructure`: the deferred set opts in, the Gaps set
  does not, so `## Gaps` is byte-for-byte on its `next` behaviour — the
  round-2 M1/M2 change had reached it through the shared splitter.

* test(#3702): the property exercises the rejected-ordinal branch; the N2 control is independent

Round review: the widened #2287 property numbered every ordered run from 1
and so never generated an ordinal the start-at-1 rule rejects — it could
not tell round 1 from round 2 on B2. Each entry may now carry a decoy prose
line beginning with a non-1 ordinal, placed where it cannot end a run
(before the first headless entry; first in a heading body), followed by a
`status: resolved` that must never become a field; and a decoy-only
heading body must yield no entry.

The N2 assertion accepted a tab, which round 1's `\s` accepted too, so a
`[ \t]` → `\s` revert alone stayed green. NBSP, form-feed and vertical-tab
are now asserted refused — the assertion that fails on that revert on its
own, and the disclosure that `[ \t]` narrows what round 1 accepted.

* fix(#3702): the splitter records its own opener flags; an opener clears the blank-line memory

Round-review continuation, two state defects in the ordered-run logic:

- `blankSeen` survived the headless splitter's opener branch, so an opener
  followed by a lazy continuation line read as "paragraph after a blank" and
  ended the run — `1. a` / blank / `2. b` / lazy / `3. c` folded `c` into `b`.
  The opener branch now clears it.
- The heading path re-derived per-line opener flags for headless regions
  without the paragraph reset, re-accepting a rejected `3. status: resolved`
  under a stale run and stripping it into a field. `GapsEntrySpan` now
  carries the flags the splitter itself computed, and the heading path reads
  them; the re-derivation is deleted.

* fix(#3702): ordered-run memory is per indent — nested runs resolve, nested ordinals never inherit the top-level run

Round-review continuation 2: nested openers consulted the TOP-LEVEL run
flag and never wrote their own, so a nested `1. / 2.` run under a hyphen
entry rejected its `2. status: resolved` (round 1 resolved it), while a
nested `3. status: resolved` under a nested `- ` bullet inherited an open
top-level run and was stripped into a false field.

`OrderedRuns` keys the memory by indent: a new opener at indent d resets
every deeper level, a paragraph after a blank at indent d ends the runs at
d and deeper, a thematic break or a heading clears all. Both splitters use
it; the top level still decides entry boundaries, nested levels decide
only which continuation lines are accepted openers for field stripping.
Pinned for LF and CRLF.

* fix(#3702): run levels — one top level at or above the base, CommonMark column indents, a fence ends its level's runs

Round-review continuation 3:

- A dedenting top-level list (`    1.` / `  2.` / `3.`) lost its entry
  boundaries: the exact-indent run lookup rejected the shallower ordinals
  before the boundary check ran. Every indent at or shallower than the
  list's base is now ONE level, in both splitters.
- `indentOf` counted characters, so a tab and a space aliased to one level
  and `\t1. nested` / ` 2. status: resolved` resolved falsely. Indent is now
  measured in CommonMark columns (§2.2: a tab advances to the next multiple
  of 4), for the run level and the entry-boundary check alike.
- A nested run survived a fenced block. A fence is a non-list block: its
  opening delimiter ends the runs at its level and deeper, exactly as a
  paragraph after a blank does.

* fix(#3702): the indent measure is grammar-scoped — Gaps keeps next's character count

`blockStructure: false` promised the Gaps grammar byte-for-byte parity with
`next`, but the CommonMark-column indent measure added for the deferred
grammar was shared by the whole splitter core, so tab-indented Gaps input
changed entry boundaries in BOTH directions:

  `\t- a` / `  - b`  — next folded into one entry, HEAD split into two
  `  - a` / `\t- b`  — next split into two,      HEAD folded into one

`indentWidth` now keys the measure on the grammar: columns for the deferred
set, raw character count for Gaps. The opt-out covers indent semantics, not
only fences and thematic breaks.

Four cases pin both halves — the two flipped Gaps pairs, the two Gaps pairs
that never moved, and the same tab/space pairs on the deferred path returning
the opposite (column-measured) verdict by design.

* fix(#3702): the acknowledge path reads and writes through one classifier

Round 3, Blockers 1 and 3, and Minors 7 and 8 — one mechanism, so one commit.
Every consumer of an entry's lines now reads the splitter's own per-line
verdict instead of a re-derivation of it.

B1. Round 2 widened the WRITER's status-line finder to the deferred marker set
while `extractGapEntryFields` still de-bulleted line 0 only. A nested
`  * status: pending` was therefore selectable by the writer and invisible to
the reader: acknowledge rewrote it in place, returned `ok`, and the item stayed
outstanding on every later audit. Measured against a `next` build, `*`, `+` and
`1.` each resolved on base and stopped resolving at round 2's head — a
regression, not a gap in new behaviour. The hyphen form of the same shape was
already broken on `next` and is fixed here too: one classifier cannot be right
for three markers and wrong for the fourth.

`parseGapEntryFieldLine` is now the single place a line is classified as a
field, and it reports the offset at which the VALUE begins. The rewrite happens
at that offset rather than through a second regex, so a line the classifier can
select is one whose rewrite it has already located — the selection and the
rewrite cannot disagree. Both `DEFERRED_STATUS_FIELD_RE` and
`DEFERRED_STATUS_REWRITE_RE` are deleted rather than widened. A read-back guard
returns `rewrite_not_readable` rather than `ok`; it is unreachable by
construction today and is the fail-loud floor under the next divergence.

B3. This is the end state the round-3 review prescribed on both #3739 and
#3773: #3773's shared classifier, parameterised by this PR's marker set, with
this PR's two status regexes deleted. #3773 lands first. Its hyphen-only strip
is consistent with `next`'s hyphen-only splitter today, so the writer/reader
divergence is created by THIS merge, which is why widening every consumer
belongs to the PR that widens the domain.

m7. The heading path marker-stripped its lines before calling the reader, so
the reader's fence scan ran over text the splitter never saw: `- ```sh` is an
ordinary bullet to the splitter but strips to a fence opener, and a
`**Status:** resolved` after it was suppressed as fence content — a resolved
entry resurfaced as open. Stripping now happens inside the reader, after the
fence scan.

m8. `rawGapEntryText` stripped a marker off line 0 unconditionally, but on the
heading shape line 0 is the heading TEXT: `### 1. Race in the writer` was
silently renamed to `Race in the writer`, and the name is the key acknowledge
matches on. Line 0 is stripped only when the splitter accepted it as an opener.

Also removed: `splitDeferredHeadingEntries`, whose sole caller only null-checked
it (round 3, M4 — the claim was zero callers, which was wrong; the wrapper's
`.map` was waste at the one call site), and `stripLeadingBulletMarker`, which
this change leaves with no callers at all. The export surface narrows to the two
splitter regexes the behavioural parity test reads (M6).

[PEER-ASK pr-order-12d5]
q: Reviewer blocked both on merge order. I'm declaring #3773 lands first and
   building the end-state shape into #3739 now (both my status regexes
   deleted). Does that match your plan?
reply: CONFIRMED - same order, derived independently. #3773 cannot carry the
   fold: `DEFERRED_BULLET_MARKERS`/`BulletMarkers` have zero occurrences at
   `next` (verified), so the prescribed end state is not executable inside
   #3773 without absorbing this PR's work.
deadline: 03:55 UTC (answered before it)
fallback: declare #3773 first, adopt end-state shape in #3739, push+comment
decision: proceeded as stated; #3773 lands first, this PR carries the widening
   of every consumer.

Refs #3740

* test(#3702): pin the detect/strip symmetry, and drop a white-box test that could not reach it

Round 3, Blocker 2 and Minors 6 and 9.

B2. The regression shipped green because no fixture put a marker on a nested
status line. Four markers x {nested status line}, each asserting the entry
READS BACK as acknowledged rather than that acknowledge merely reported `ok` —
reporting `ok` over a line the reader skips is the whole defect. Plus the bare
capitalised `Status:` case (the reader stores it case-sensitively, so the
writer must not select it), and an idempotence test, which is the failure the
defect actually produced: the item resurfaces, is acknowledged again, and never
settles.

Each of these was run against the pre-fix build first: all five fail there and
pass here. Two further assertions in the block are labelled CONTROL because
they held pre-fix — they guard the new offset-based rewrite and the opener-flag
threading against regressing, and calling them regression tests for a reported
defect would overclaim.

M6. The round-2 parity test asserted that four writer-side regexes embedded the
same source string. That is true of a detect/read asymmetry too, so it could
not have caught B1 — and two of the four regexes were widened into `export =`
purely to let it read them. Replaced with a behavioural test that drives the
real seam: every marker that opens an entry must also resolve it through
acknowledge. The structural assertion is kept for the two splitter regexes,
which really are two copies of one alternation.

m9. `expectedResolved` was computed and immediately voided; the loop beneath it
already asserts both polarities.

m7/m8 coverage lands here too: a bullet whose content is a fence opener must
not suppress the entry's fields, and a heading beginning with a list marker
must keep it in the entry name.

* docs(#3702): document the deferred-items entry shape where the file is written

Round 3, Major 5, and #3702's own item 2. The widened grammar was documented in
the reader (`forensic-audit.md`) but not at the write site, where
`executor-examples.md` still said only "log to deferred-items.md" — so the
question the issue actually raised, which shapes count, remained unanswered
anywhere a human writes the file.

States what opens an entry (`-`, `*`, `+`, and `1.` when the list starts at
`1.`), that `1)` is not a marker here, that a separator closes the list and
fenced content is never an entry or a field, and that an entry without an
explicit `status: resolved` stays open by design.

* chore(#3702): regenerate the changeset through the generator

Round 3, Minor 10. The fragment was hand-named against 64 generated names on
`next`, and its body ran ~250 words against CONTRIBUTING's one-sentence form.
Regenerated via `npm run changeset`, which is also what the random three-word
name is for: concurrent PRs never collide.

* fix(#3702): the fence gate lives on the seam both sides call, not just the reader

Found by the pre-push adversarial review of this round, and it is a regression
this round introduced rather than a pre-existing one.

`extractGapEntryFields` applied `fencedLineSet` before classifying; the
acknowledge writer's status-line search did not. So a `status:` line inside a
fenced block was SELECTED by the writer and SKIPPED by the reader — the write
produced a line nothing reads, the read-back guard refused it, and the entry
became impossible to acknowledge at all: `audit acknowledge` raised an internal
error and `complete-milestone` halted on it.

Measured, `- alpha` / fence / `  status: pending` / fence:

  next          ack=ok                   -> reads back "acknowledged"
  round-2 head  ack=ok                   -> reads back ""      (the B1 defect)
  before this   ack=rewrite_not_readable -> refuses entirely   (worse than next)

`entryFieldLines` is now the seam — per line of an entry, the field it declares
or `null`, fences included — and the reader and the writer both go through it.
That makes "the writer cannot select a line the reader will not read back"
structural rather than asserted, which is what the previous commit's message
claimed while a second read-side filter still lived outside the classifier.

Two comments corrected with it. The read-back guard is NOT "unreachable by
construction": this round shipped a reachable path to it, which is precisely
what an invariant asserted in a comment is worth. And the M6 replacement test
put its marker only on the entry opener, so it passed against the defective
build — the exact weakness it was introduced to fix in round 2's test. It now
marks the nested status line too, and fails pre-fix like the rest.

Round-3 tests against the pre-fix build: 10 of 12 fail there, and the 2 that
hold are labelled CONTROL because they guard this round's new code rather than
pin a reported defect.

* fix(#3702): one end-of-file CRLF algorithm, adopting #3773's with its B4 closed

Round-4 M1. Two open PRs shipped two different answers to "what line ending
does an entry that ENDS THE FILE get?", and the review's ruling was that the
disagreement needs one answer, not two. Neither shipped answer was that one.
Measured on builds of both heads:

  case                                     #3739 r3   #3773   here
  undelimited single entry, CRLF preamble    pass      FAIL    pass
  LF-dominant list, one stray CRLF at EOF    FAIL      pass    pass
  (the other five)                           pass      pass    pass

This PR's content.endsWith('\r\n', matchIndexInContent) reads the terminator of
the PREVIOUS line, so it propagated an isolated CRLF into an LF-dominant list --
refuted by #3773's own LF-dominant fixture, ported here. Withdrawn.

#3773's crlfAtEof asks the right question -- does anything before the entry,
within scope, contradict CRLF -- and fails closed. But its scope goes EMPTY for
an undelimited single-entry list, because the entry-list region runs from the
first entry's start to the insertion point and those coincide; crlfAtEof('') is
false by its own before.length > 0 guard, so 'preamble\r\n\r\n- alpha' gained a
bare \n in a CRLF document. That is #3773's B4, verified by driving its head.

Adopted here with the scope widened to everything preceding the insertion point
where the preferred region is empty, rather than asserting LF from no evidence.
That only ever loosens a scope carrying zero information, and the predicate
stays fail-closed over the wider one. An entry at offset 0 of an undelimited
document has no evidence under either scope and stays LF.

Tests: 10 added. Negative control, driven -- 1 of the 10 fails against this
branch's own pre-fix head (the stray-CRLF fixture); B4 fails against #3773's
head; the remaining 8 are the scope counterexamples ported with the function,
which were regression pins in #3773 and are guards here. Each still kills a
simpler algorithm: drop any one and a refuted scope passes again.

Four deferred-items suites 450/450, 0 skipped. npm run lint:ci exit 0.

* fix(#3702): drop the unreachable rewrite_not_readable guard (B3)

Round-4 B3: the status had zero test coverage in either file. The review
offered two branches -- drive it from a test, or delete it and stop carrying an
untested terminal status. Taking the second, with the reason stated rather than
assumed.

Why it cannot be driven. Round 3 added the guard after a fenced `status:` line
proved the writer could select a line the reader would not read back. Round 3
then closed that divergence STRUCTURALLY, by routing the writer's line selection
and the reader's field extraction through one entryFieldLines seam. The guard
now detects a state construction prevents: 21 document shapes were driven
against it -- fence openers on the bullet line for every marker in the widened
set, duplicate and triplicate status lines, bolded and nested variants, fences
between duplicates -- and none reached it. The only seam that would is routing
the internal call through the module's exports so a test could stub it, which
reshapes production surface for a test.

Why leaving it undriven is not free. RULESET.TESTS.mutation-score runs Stryker
incrementally over changed files at an 80% threshold and says to treat a
surviving mutant as a failing test specification. An undriven `if` on a changed
file is exactly that, on both the condition and the .toLowerCase() comparison.

What this gives up, stated rather than hidden: if a future change re-splits the
writer's selection from the reader's extraction, acknowledgeDeferredItem returns
ok over an item that stays outstanding -- the original #3702 defect class. One
correction to the review's framing: match_verification_failed does NOT backfill
it. That check runs BEFORE the write and compares the matched span to the
target, so it cannot see a post-write read-back failure. The protection against
re-splitting is the shared seam and the round-3 tests that pin it, not a runtime
assertion. A comment at the removal site records all of this.

Removing it also drops the union member from both files, which resolves the PR
body's internal contradiction (it claimed no type-signature changes while adding
one) and the duplicate-status surface #3773 collides on.

No test changed behaviour: 450/450 across the four deferred-items suites, 149/149
across the audit suites, npm run lint:ci exit 0 -- the same figures as before the
removal, which is itself the evidence that nothing exercised the branch.

* fix(#3702): the deferred fence gate is indent-unbounded, like the rest of the grammar (M2)

Round-4 M2. scanFencedBlocks is CommonMark, which caps a fence delimiter's
indent at three spaces -- a fourth makes it an indented code block instead. This
grammar had already opted out of that cliff for entry openers ([ \t]*) and for
THEMATIC_BREAK_RE (^[ \t]*), but not for fences. So a fence at four spaces was
not a fence to the gate, and a `status: resolved` line inside it RESOLVED the
entry containing it.

That is not an exotic shape. A fenced block written under a NESTED bullet sits
at four spaces, so ordinary hand-written deferred-items.md files reach it.
Driven before the fix at indents 4, 5, 8 and a leading tab: all four silently
resolved. It is the #3702 silent-resolution defect class in a new place.

gsd-core/references/executor-examples.md, added by this PR, states flatly that
"nothing inside a fenced code block is an entry or a field". The review offered
fixing the parser or bounding that claim in three places. Fixing it -- the claim
is the one users will rely on, and the grammar had already chosen unbounded
indent everywhere else.

NO second fence dialect (the rule blankIndentedFenceDelimiters states). The
classification is still done by scanFencedBlocks, the one exported CommonMark
state machine, over a de-indented VIEW of the same lines. Run lengths, backtick
vs tilde, closer-must-match-and-not-trail, info-string rules and the
unterminated-at-EOF case remain that engine's answers. Indent is the only
dimension hidden from it, and it is exactly the dimension this grammar has
already declared it does not measure. Index alignment is 1:1 -- map preserves
length -- so every returned line index still addresses the original line.

Scope is the deferred grammar only. Both marker-parameterised call sites gate on
markers.blockStructure, which the Gaps set does not set, so Gaps reaches an empty
set. Verified, not asserted: the 47-fixture Gaps differential (marker x
line-ending x separator x fence x break x key-shape x list-shape) is
BYTE-IDENTICAL across this change, 8033 bytes both sides.

Tests: 14 added, of which 8 fail against the pre-fix source and pass here; the
other 6 are the deliberate controls -- indents 0 through 3, which must NOT move,
and the Gaps opt-out guard.

Four deferred-items suites green; the 58 suites touching uat/deferred/sectionizer
run 6045 tests with an IDENTICAL failing set before and after this change (17
pre-existing environment failures -- installs and an unpinned GSD_EMITTED_BASE;
emitted-attribution passes 259/259 in isolation with its base pinned). lint:ci
exit 0.

* fix(#3702): changeset, both prose parsers, and the minors (M3, M4, m1-m3, m5, n1-n2)

M3 -- the changeset omitted a user-BREAKING change. Measured against next: a
heading-delimited deferred-items.md written with `*`, `+` or `1.` went from
"0 entries, so complete-milestone has nothing to acknowledge and closes" to
"1 entry, the CLI writer refuses the heading shape, ACK_FAILURES accumulates,
exit 1". The `-` form already halted and is unchanged. That is release-note
material: a close that used to succeed now fails, and the correct response is to
fix the file, not revert. Also names the fence-indent fix below, and adds #3740
so #3773's issue is attributed here as it is absorbed.

M4 -- gsd-core/workflows/progress/steps/forensic-audit.md is a SECOND,
model-executed parser of the same grammar, and prose cannot carry a parity test.
Its widened text stated the start-at-1 rule, fences and separators but not the
`1)` exclusion nor the nine-digit ordinal cap, both enforced in code with pinned
tests. Both stated now, along with the round-4 fence-indent rule. (No ack
fragment: the size ratchet's currentSizes does a NON-recursive readdirSync of
gsd-core/workflows and agents, so a file under workflows/progress/steps/ is
outside its scope -- verified by reading the helper, not by the green.)

n1 -- executor-examples.md documented that the BOLDED status key is matched
case-insensitively and left the bare key's rule to inference. Driven: bare
`Status: resolved` is NOT read, so the entry stays open with no warning, while
`**Status:**` is. Stated explicitly, with the digit cap and the any-indent fence
rule (n2).

m1 -- boundary coverage was 2/3. limit (999999999.) and limit+1 (1234567890.)
were pinned; limit-1 (12345678.) added, per RULESET.TESTS.boundary-coverage.

m2 -- THEMATIC_BREAK_RE and the tab-expanding indent counter are hand-rolled
CommonMark rules with no in-repo peer to compare against, so the parity
assertion is against the SPEC: eight positive and five negative fixtures, plus
the two DELIBERATE divergences pinned as deliberate (`+` is a separator here but
not in CommonMark, because `+` is a list marker in this grammar and `+ + +`
would otherwise be a phantom entry; indent is unbounded). One fixture was
initially wrong -- `-- -` IS a CommonMark break, since the spec allows free
spacing between the three characters -- and the parser was right.

m3 -- the result union is hand-duplicated in audit.cts as part of a deliberate
structural view of uat.cjs, so the fix is not to delete a copy but to make drift
observable. Every REACHABLE status is now driven from a fixture; four of the six
(ambiguous, unsupported_heading_shape, already_resolved, match_verification_failed)
had no assertion anywhere in the suite before this. match_verification_failed is
still undriven and the test says so rather than omitting it.

m5 -- DECLINED, with the measurement. The review is right that `(\s*)` in the
opener and `/^[ \t]*/` in the reader disagree about \f, \v and NBSP, but its
prescribed narrowing was implemented, driven and REVERTED: as shipped, an entry
indented with any of those surfaces, parses its status field, acknowledges, and
reads back acknowledged -- a complete round-trip. Narrowing turns all three into
SILENTLY DROPPED entries, which is the #3702 defect class itself and the opposite
of this file's stated fail-safe rule. A latent inconsistency in the safe
direction is not worth a live regression in the unsafe one. Pinned by three
round-trip tests so the prescription cannot be re-applied silently; if it is ever
closed, the direction is to make the readers agree with the opener, not to make
the opener reject lines it accepts today.

Four deferred-items suites 475/475, 0 skipped. lint:ci and lint:changeset exit 0.
The 47-fixture Gaps differential is byte-identical at 8033 bytes.

* fix(#3702): the pinned `## Gaps` phantom now cites its issue (m4)

Round-4 m4. The second assertion in the Gaps byte-for-byte test pins a real
defect as expected output: a spaced hyphen thematic break in `## Gaps` is read
as an ITEM, so `- - -` surfaces a phantom open gap named `- -`. Reproduced on
pristine next at 389bc86e0 across nine separator shapes -- every spaced hyphen
form is affected, `---`/`----`/`* * *`/`___` are not, and the dividing line is a
space after the first hyphen (the Gaps opener is /^(\s*)(-)\s/ with no
thematic-break concept at all).

Filed as open-gsd/gsd-core#3898. The pin stays: scope-limiting Gaps is the point
of the blockStructure opt-out, and this assertion is the only thing that would
notice the Gaps path moving. What was missing was the tracking -- a pinned defect
with no issue behind it reads as intended behaviour to the next reader. The
comment now says which it is and what the expectation becomes when #3898 lands.

* fix(#3702): an unterminated fence runs to the end of its entry, never past it (B1, B2)

Round 4 de-indented every line before `scanFencedBlocks`, so a fence
opened at any indent — and `scanFencedBlocks` runs an unterminated
fence to end-of-document — so one stray delimiter swallowed every entry
after it into the entry before it. `- a` / blank / four-space ``` /
blank / `- b` yielded ONE entry where `next` yields two: a widening
that made an already-counted item vanish, on the mixed-file shape #3702
exists to close. Reproduces at indent 0 as well.

The bound is the entry. CommonMark closes a fence with its container
and a container at the next item at its level; this parser extends
that to a document-level stray delimiter, where CommonMark would
swallow to EOF and the fail-safe rule (surface, don't drop) will not.
`scanFencesFrom` reports the unterminated opener and the walk supplies
the bound — the next line shaped like a top-level item — then RESCANS
from it, so a later delimiter is read on its own terms. Still one
fence dialect: every block boundary is `scanFencedBlocks`' answer.
Entry-scoped `fencedLineSet` (the field reader) already ran an
unterminated fence to the end of its lines, so reader and walk agree
by construction.

Tests: the M2 pin that asserted `[]` for a stray fence before an item
flips (the item counts); the round-4 "runs to end-of-file, exactly as
CommonMark says" test is retitled — its assertion stands because the
bound is the entry — and extended with the next entry; a new block pins
the review reproduction at both indents, a terminated deep fence still
gating, the gated status inside the bounded fence, the rescan case, and
the heading-tokenizer caveat (at indent 0 the tokenizer applies
CommonMark's own fence rule, so a heading after a stray delimiter is
body text there, exactly as on `next`).

Reverted in isolation against the final tree: 3 named tests fail.

* fix(#3702): `0.` starts an ordered list (M1)

The start-at-1 rule applied unconditionally dropped ONLY the first item
of a `0.`-numbered list — the run then started at `1.` — which is the
mixed under-report that looks like a clean parse. CommonMark §5.2
permits any 1-9-digit start and a `0.` list is ordinary; a sentence
opening with "0." is not a shape anyone writes. The threshold is now
`> 1`. The cost is restated accurately in the doc comment and pinned:
a list starting at 2 or more, at a paragraph position, reads as prose
until its first `0.`/`1.` line — the prefix, not the whole list.

Boundary tests at the threshold itself: `0.`, `1.`, `2.` starts, `00.`/
`01.`, and the prefix-loss case. Reverted in isolation: 1 named test
fails.

* fix(#3702): a non-1 ordinal is an item wherever a list is already open at its level (M2)

The per-indent run memory recorded whether the previous opener was
ORDERED, so a bullet item closed the run and `1. a` / `- b` / `5. c`
folded `5. c` into `b` — another mixed-file under-report. In CommonMark
`5. c` there opens a fresh ordered list (start=5): a non-1 start is
refused only where it would interrupt a PARAGRAPH (§5.3), and after a
list item it interrupts nothing. `ListRuns` now records "a list is
open here"; the start rule applies where no list is open at the line's
level — the positions a sentence can occupy — so the round-2 B2 pins
(doc start, after a heading, after a paragraph) hold unchanged.

Two round-2 pins move with it, both CommonMark-backed: `1. alpha` /
`- beta` / `2. gamma` is three items, and a nested `3. status:` after
a nested bullet is a nested item (a field line, as `- status:` would
be); the "rejected ordinal is not stripped" pin is re-anchored at a
paragraph position, where it still holds. Reverted in isolation: 4
named tests fail.

* docs(#3702): the two runtime-loaded docs state the grammar the parser ships (B3, M4 parity)

`executor-examples.md` (the write-site doc) and `forensic-audit.md`
check 7 (the model-executed parser) both asserted "never silently drops
a possibly-open item" over a grammar that dropped three measured shapes.
Both now carry the round-5 grammar — `0.`/`1.` starts, a non-1 ordinal
inside an open list, an unclosed fence ending with its own entry — and
the fail-safe sentence is kept with what it does NOT cover named
beside it: a fenced line, a separator, and an ordered list numbered
from `2.` upward at a paragraph position, and nothing else.

* docs(#3702): changeset reflects the merged contract

The "Breaking, and deliberate: … HALTS complete-milestone" paragraph
described a refusal that #3781 removed from `next`; a heading-shaped
file written with a newly recognised marker now surfaces its entries
and `complete-milestone` acknowledges them in place. The fragment cites
#3702 alone — #3740 and #3775 closed on `next` through #3940 and #3989;
this PR's shared reader/writer classifier subsumes both fixes rather
than closing either issue. The round-5 grammar (ordered start, unclosed
fence bound) is stated in the user-facing sentence.

* fix(#3702): the heading-shape insert lands on a line the reader reads, and keeps a closing `#` sequence

Found by the round's pre-push adversarial review. An entry whose body ends
in a fenced block — closed, or unclosed and therefore running to the
entry's end — received `status: acknowledged` AFTER its last non-blank
line, i.e. as fence content: the writer returned `ok` and the reader
never saw the marker, the item stayed outstanding. That is the #3702
class itself (a write nothing reads), on the shape #3781 just opened.
The insert now walks back over blank AND fenced lines, classified by the
reader's own `fencedLineSet`, so the marker lands on a line the reader
reads; pinned as round-trips for an unclosed fence, a closed fence, and
a pending entry ending in an unclosed fence before a heading. Reverted
in isolation: the round-trip test fails.

Separately, the leaf line-0 rewrite (`### status: open ###`) dropped the
closing `#` sequence; it is kept now. Cosmetic, pinned.

* docs(#3702): the prose parser states the bare-key case rule; both docs say what an unclosed fence does, no more

`forensic-audit.md` check 7 called `status: resolved` case-insensitive
where the code reads a bare key lower-case only (the bolded form in any
case; the value case-insensitively) — `executor-examples.md` already said
so, the model-executed parser did not. And both docs claimed "a stray
delimiter cannot hide the entries after it", which overstates B1: an
UNCLOSED fence ends with its entry; a closed pair of delimiters is a
fence, whatever sits between them, as CommonMark reads it. Found by the
round's pre-push review.

* fix(#3702): a heading whose text is a fence delimiter is a heading, not a fence

Second finding of the round's pre-push review, one door over from the
first: for a leaf headed `### ```` (or `~~~`) the entry-level fence scan
read line 0 — the heading TEXT, not a Markdown line — as a fence opener,
so every body line was fenced: the reader read no field under it, and
the writer's marker (placed by the same scan) landed on a line nothing
reads — `ok`, item outstanding. `entryFencedLines` now owns the entry's
fence view for reader and writer alike, and a leaf's line 0 never opens
a fence (the leaf tell is `openerFlags[0] === false`; a pending or
headless entry's line 0 is a marker line, never a delimiter). Pinned for
both delimiters, read and write; reverted in isolation the pin fails.

---------

Co-authored-by: CI Rebase Check <ci@gsd-redux>
Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-08-31 13:44:47 -04:00
Tom Boucher
996196fe02 fix(#4099): stop word-splitting an unquoted PLAN_IDS string (bash vs zsh diverge) (#4102)
* fix(review): stop word-splitting an unquoted PLAN_IDS string (bash vs zsh diverge)

#3301's plan-coverage-manifest block built a space-separated PLAN_IDS
accumulator and re-split it via unquoted `for x in $PLAN_IDS`. Bash
word-splits an unquoted scalar on IFS by default; zsh does not, so every
plan id collapsed onto one iteration under zsh whenever a review had 2+
plans, undercounting the manifest and merging bullets onto one line. This
is exactly what was failing origin/next's CI on every push.

Derive PLAN_COUNT and the bullet list directly from the same *-PLAN.md
glob loop used for copying — glob iteration, unlike re-splitting a stored
string, is identical under bash and zsh, so it never needs word-splitting.

Closes #4099

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: review.md — fix comment documents the bash/zsh word-splitting divergence (gsd-core#4099); net code is smaller, comment expansion grows the file

* docs(#4099): add changeset for the plan-coverage-manifest zsh fix

* docs(#4099): fix changeset body to match the bold-dash-explanation format

Code review (standards axis) flagged the changeset body as not matching
CONTRIBUTING.md's canonical `**<Bold>** — <explanation>.` format — the bold
clause had its own trailing period instead of being followed directly by
the em-dash separator.

* chore(#4099): backfill changeset PR number (#4102)

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-31 11:08:22 -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

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-30 16:51:52 -04:00
Tom Boucher
62b0d939b6 feat(#3274): make reviewer-lane timeout configurable via timeoutConfigKey (#4083)
* feat(#3274): make reviewer-lane timeout configurable via timeoutConfigKey

Add an optional `timeoutConfigKey` field to the reviewer lane descriptor,
resolved in `resolveLanePlan` at invocation time and falling back to the
frozen `timeoutFloorMs` when unset or invalid, in the same spirit as the
existing `promptBudgetKey`/`modelConfigKey` fields. All 12 shipped lanes
declare `review.timeouts.<slug>` on both surfaces (the descriptor and their
capability.json manifest), validated by capability-validator.cjs.

For the antigravity lane, the native `agy --print-timeout` flag — previously
a second hardcoded literal (`540s`) independent of the outer cap — is now
derived from the same resolved outer timeout in `antigravityArgv`, preserving
the existing 60-second buffer relationship (ADR-2782 D6: the outer bound is
declared data, the inner one is handler-owned).

The antigravity default timeoutFloorMs stays at 600s per the maintainer's
disposition; users raise it through the new config key instead.

* docs(#3274): document review.timeouts.* and extract resolveTimeoutMs helper

Address code-review findings on the timeoutConfigKey change: extract the
inline timeout-resolution logic into a named, exported, directly-tested
resolveTimeoutMs helper (matching the file's existing configString/
normalizeHost convention); document the new review.timeouts.* federated
config keys in docs/CONFIGURATION.md, docs/reference/capability-manifest.md,
and docs/how-to/ship-a-reviewer-lane.md; add the changeset fragment.

* fix(#3274): resolve native antigravity timeout in resolveLanePlan, not the runner

gsd-test caught two design mistakes in the prior commits:

1. SpawnPlan.argv is documented and tested as fully resolved by
   resolveLanePlan (model/effort/output/prompt already folded in) — leaving
   the antigravity '{{nativeTimeout}}' marker unresolved until the runner's
   antigravityArgv violated that contract and broke tests that read
   plan.argv directly (tests/antigravity-reviewer.test.cjs,
   tests/review-default-reviewers-workflow.test.cjs). Fix: '{{nativeTimeout}}'
   is now a fifth ARGV_PLACEHOLDER member, resolved by resolveLanePlan itself
   via the new nativeTimeoutToken() helper, exactly like the other four.
   antigravityArgv reverts to its pre-#3274 four-argument form. Also missed
   updating capabilities/antigravity/capability.json's invoke.args to match
   the descriptor, which broke the manifest/descriptor parity test.

2. tests/reviewer-config-federation.test.cjs enforces a deliberate, narrow
   invariant (#3691 narrows #2797): qwen, cursor, and coderabbit — the three
   lanes with neither a model flag nor a host — may own no config key beyond
   their own prompt-budget key. Adding review.timeouts.<slug> to all 12 lanes
   violated it. Fix: those three keep timeoutConfigKey: null and own no
   review.timeouts.* key, matching their existing modelConfigKey: null. The
   other 9 lanes are unaffected.

* chore(#3274): backfill changeset PR number (pr:0 -> 4083)

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-30 14:26:02 -04:00
Tom Boucher
6eea00b707 enhance(#3301): tell reviewers the plan ids and total count, grade coverage (#4084)
* test(#3301): add failing-first plan coverage manifest tests

Failing-first regression tests for the plan-id manifest, the updated Review
Instructions, and the mechanical per-reviewer coverage check, ahead of the
review.md implementation. RED baseline before the fix lands.

* test(#3301): raise allow-test-rule-refs unverified ceiling for new marker

Adding tests/review-plan-coverage-manifest.test.cjs's source-text-is-the-product
marker grows the unverified-exemption pool by one (282 -> 283), the same
documented growth path scripts/lint-allow-test-rule-refs.cjs's own failure
output names. Confirmed clean via 'npm run lint:allow-test-rule-refs' locally.

* feat(#3301): tell reviewers the plan ids and total count, grade coverage

build_prompt now derives a plan-id manifest from each *-PLAN.md filename
(stripping the -PLAN.md suffix) and appends it, with the total plan count,
to both gsd-review-instructions.md and gsd-review-prompt.md. The Review
Instructions prose requires one heading-verbatim section per id before any
cross-plan or overall-risk content.

write_reviews grades each dispatched lane's real (non-stub, non-empty)
review against that same manifest and records an optional plan_coverage:
frontmatter block, present only when a lane is incomplete. The match
escapes regex metacharacters in the id and excludes a preceding/trailing
hyphen or word character as a boundary, closing the two traps named in the
issue (a decimal phase like 12.6 satisfied by 12X6-01; a threat id like
T-04-07 registering as coverage of plan 04-07). CodeRabbit is exempt, since
it never receives the source-grounding prompt carrying the manifest.

This closes the gap where a review that silently covers only some plans in
a multi-plan phase is indistinguishable from one that covers all of them.

* docs(#3301): add changeset fragment

* test(#3301): use t.after() instead of try/finally for cleanup

CONTRIBUTING.md bans try/finally inside test bodies. Code review caught
this in the new coverage-manifest test file; switch every fixture-cleanup
site to the approved t.after() pattern.

* test: use t.after() instead of try/finally in #3300's build_prompt tests

Pre-existing try/finally-for-cleanup pattern in this file (landed for
#3300) violates CONTRIBUTING.md's explicit ban on try/finally inside test
bodies. Surfaced incidentally while reviewing #3301's diff, which cites
this file as its extraction-pattern precedent; fixed inline per the
no-defer rule rather than deferred to a separate PR.

* test(#3301): anchor coverage-check extraction on the fence line, not prose

`.plans-manifest.md` also appears in write_reviews' own prose ahead of the
```bash fence, so indexOf found that occurrence first and the
backward-walk-to-fence-open landed on the earlier, unrelated gate-check
block instead. gsd-test caught this: coverage-check tests expecting a real
verdict got null, because the wrong block ran and never writes
.plan-coverage-<slug>.json. Anchor on the fence-only bash assignment line
instead.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: review.md — #3301 adds the plan-coverage manifest and mechanical coverage check to build_prompt/write_reviews.

* fix(#3301): route id escaping through the canonical pattern seam

ADR-3212 (epic #3212) consolidated ~44 hand-rolled regex-escape copies into
one owner, src/pattern.cts's escapeRegex, specifically to stop this exact
class of duplication. My coverage-check node -e script hand-rolled the
identical metachar-escape regex — invisible to eslint-rules/no-adhoc-regex-escape.cjs
only because it lives inside a workflow markdown file, not a .cts/.cjs
source file the shape-matching guard scans. Require the compiled seam
(gsd-core/bin/lib/pattern.cjs) instead, matching the established
node -e-requires-a-compiled-lib idiom already used elsewhere in this
workflow (code-review.md's code-review-flags.cjs/code-review-depth.cjs
calls). Verified both named traps from the issue still resolve correctly
under escapeRegex's RegExp.escape-backed implementation, which differs in
escaped-text shape (hex-escapes hyphens/leading chars) but not match
result.

* test(#3301): run coverage-check block with cwd at the repo root

The block's node -e now requires ./gsd-core/bin/lib/pattern.cjs, a path
relative to the repo root (correct for production, which always runs
from there). The test harness ran it with cwd at the fixture's own temp
dir instead, so the require failed. Add an optional cwd param to
runScript (default: root, unchanged for the plan-copy-block tests) and
pass the real repo root for every coverage-check call site. Manually
verified end-to-end before spending another remote run: the extracted
block now produces the expected {complete:true} verdict.

* docs(#3301): backfill changeset pr number (pr:0 -> pr:4084)

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-30 14:25:24 -04:00
github-actions[bot]
4a705cf19f chore: sync next package version to 1.12.0 2026-08-30 03:07:03 +00:00
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).

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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
0xdhx
472f585f7c fix(#3726)!: require --confirm before milestone complete mutates (#3774)
* fix(#3726): require --confirm before milestone complete mutates

`milestone complete <version>` is a one-way door — ROADMAP.md and
REQUIREMENTS.md archived, every phase directory in the milestone MOVED,
STATE.md rewritten — and ran unconditionally on first invocation through
every invocation path, including `query milestone.complete <version>`,
whose `query` meta-prefix reads as a read-only namespace but performs no
filtering (#167's invocation-compatibility shim + #3243's dotted-form
normalization).

The gate lives on the destructive command itself, not on the `query`
prefix (the prefix is an intentional invocation mechanism, not a
permission boundary — restricting it would break dozens of shipped
workflow callers). Without --confirm and without --dry-run the command
now refuses via error() before reading anything beyond its arg checks,
so an unconfirmed invocation is a guaranteed no-op on disk. --dry-run
still previews with no confirmation needed and is now documented in the
usage block (it was only documented for the sibling archive-quick).
--force keeps its narrow meaning — bypassing the TRUNCATED-scope and
unstarted-phase guards — and does not double as the mutation opt-in.
--confirm follows the existing `phases clear --confirm` idiom in the
same module.

complete-milestone.md's two invocations pass --confirm (the workflow has
gathered explicit user intent by that step). Existing tests get
--confirm appended — pre-change behavior is exactly confirmed behavior —
and a #3726 regression block covers: refusal + full-tree byte-identity
on both invocation forms, --force not satisfying the gate, --dry-run
still passing without confirmation, and --confirm proceeding. The
refusal tests fail against pre-fix code (negative control run).

Fixes #3726

* docs(#3726): document the --confirm requirement in CLI-TOOLS and COMMANDS

Cross-AI review of the fix diff (codex, pre-create) caught three shipped
doc sites still instructing the now-refused bare invocation: the
CLI-TOOLS.md milestone-complete synopsis + flag table, and COMMANDS.md's
two guard-override instructions (`--force` alone now refuses without
--confirm). Localized CLI-TOOLS copies already lag the English synopsis
(no --force/--dry-run either) and follow the translation pipeline, not
this fix.

* chore(#3726): set changeset fragment pr to 3774

* test(#3726): confirm-gate CI repairs — QA scenario caller + growth ack

Two CI reds from the --confirm gate, both this branch's own misses:

- tests/qa/scenarios/milestone-rollover.json invoked `milestone complete
  1.0 --force` as a JSON arg-array fixture — a caller shape the test
  sweep (which grepped runGsdTools/runSdkQuery in tests/*.cjs) never
  enumerated. Adds --confirm; the scenario's boundary-crossing contract
  is otherwise untouched.
- complete-milestone.md's +420-byte --confirm note trips the
  emitted-attribution growth ratchet. Acknowledged as a #3726 append to
  the existing complete-milestone.md entry in
  3409-unreachable-guard-arms.json (two ack sources may never name the
  same path, per that fragment's own precedent).

Local: lint-emitted-drift-ack ok; loop-walk.qa 115/115 green sandboxed.

* docs(#3726): CLI-TOOLS.md guard-override sentences say --force --confirm

Review Major 1: the truncated-window and unstarted-phase guard paragraphs
still told the reader to "Pass `--force` to override", which now refuses
(--force alone does not satisfy the confirmation gate), while the flag
table 470 lines later said the opposite. Mirror the docs/COMMANDS.md pair
so the file no longer contradicts itself.

* docs(#3726): synopsis renders --confirm and --dry-run as alternatives

Review Nit 1: `milestone complete <version> --confirm [--dry-run]` read as
"a dry run still needs --confirm", the opposite of AC 3. Render the pair
as `(--confirm | --dry-run)` in the CLI-TOOLS.md synopsis and the usage
docblock, and let the flag rows carry the rule.

* test(#3726): pass --confirm in base-added milestone fixtures; re-file the growth ack

Rebase onto next (26 commits) surfaced three tests the gate now refuses:
the #3685 write-flag contract pair in tests/milestone.test.cjs and the
`milestone complete` boundary fixture in tests/state-contract.test.cjs
all invoke the command bare. Each now passes --confirm (a mutating run is
exactly what they assert on).

The +420 byte complete-milestone.md growth ack rode on
3409-unreachable-guard-arms.json, which #3078 swept from next as fully
spent — hence the modify/delete conflict. Re-filed under a fresh fragment
named for this issue, never resurrecting the swept one.

* test(#3726): pin the present-but-falsy arm of the confirmation gate

Review Minor 1: the boundary triple covered absent and present but not
present-but-falsy. The gate is an exact-token match, so --confirm=false
and --confirm=0 refuse today — pinned (canonical + query forms, whole
.planning/ tree byte-identical) so a future `=`-aware or prefix-matching
parser cannot silently turn --confirm=false into a confirmed run of an
irreversible command.

* test(#3726): drop --confirm from dry-run-only invocations

Review Nit 2: --confirm was mass-appended to 14 pre-existing --dry-run
invocations that never needed it, so each stopped standing as incidental
proof that a preview needs no confirmation. Reverted to the pre-PR form;
the dedicated AC-3 test carries the explicit assertion.

* docs(#3726): sync the localized CLI-TOOLS synopsis with the confirm gate

REQ-I18N-02 (docs/features/internationalized-documentation.md) requires
translations to stay synchronized with the English source. The four
localized CLI-TOOLS.md guides still advertised a bare
`milestone complete <version>`, which now exits 1. Render the English
synopsis verbatim — `(--confirm | --dry-run)` plus the `[--force]` and
`[--archive-quick]` flags the translations had also fallen behind on.

* test(#3726): drop --confirm from the remaining preview-only invocations

Round 2 reverted the --confirm appends on --dry-run-only invocations in
tests/milestone.test.cjs, but four more sat in two files the sweep missed:
tests/milestone-archive.test.cjs (three) and
tests/milestone-window-single-owner.test.cjs (one).

Each is a preview run whose whole purpose is to document that a preview
mutates nothing, so `--dry-run ... --confirm` contradicted the semantics
the test exists to pin. Dropping the token restores each as incidental
proof that a preview needs no confirmation; the dedicated AC-3 test keeps
the explicit assertion.

No assertion added, relaxed, or removed — the change is four tokens.

* chore(#3726): migrate the emitted-drift ack from a fragment to a commit trailer

#3954 (ADR-3942) moved emitted-drift acknowledgments out of
tests/emitted-drift-acks/ and into git commit trailers, and the fragment
directory no longer exists on next. The reason this PR's fragment carried
moves verbatim into the Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth trailer on this commit;
the fragment file is removed rather than resurrected.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: complete-milestone.md — #3726: +420 bytes (40186 -> 40606). The archive_milestone step's two `milestone complete` invocations now pass the required --confirm flag (the command refuses to mutate without it — the archive is irreversible), with a note explaining the flag and pointing at --dry-run for previews. Deliberate runtime-loaded workflow text for the new gate, not converter drift.

* fix(#3726): name --confirm in the version-required refusal

The documented arg-discovery path (gsd-tools.cjs top-level usage: invoke
the command without args and the error lists what is required) stopped at
`version required for milestone complete (e.g., v1.0)` — one required
argument short. Discovering --confirm took a second round trip through the
gate. The refusal now reads `… — and --confirm to mutate`, pinned by a test
that also asserts the version-less invocation leaves .planning/ untouched.

* test(#3726): pin the milestone complete docs against a silent regression

The changeset is `type: Fixed`, which the docs-required lint exempts, so
nothing in CI would notice a later edit that reinstated the bare-`--force`
override prose or dropped `--confirm` from the synopsis. Four tests in
tests/milestone.test.cjs now pin: the synopsis line in docs/CLI-TOOLS.md
and its four localized mirrors; the `--confirm` flag row; both
guard-override instructions in docs/CLI-TOOLS.md and docs/COMMANDS.md,
by guard name (a substring match on each instruction's `--force
--confirm` text); and — as an identity ratchet over the
milestone-complete sections — every `--force` sentence or clause that
lacks `--confirm`, so a new bare instruction in its own sentence or
clause fails whatever its wording. Named residual: a bare instruction
spliced into the same clause as a compliant one coalesces with it and
passes the ratchet; the by-name pins are what keep the four known
instructions from losing the pairing that way. The file is registered
in scripts/docs-guard-registry.cjs so the pin runs on the PR that
changes those docs, not only after merge.

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Co-authored-by: CI Rebase Check <ci@gsd-redux>
Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-08-29 17:00:45 -04:00
Tom Boucher
400db94e02 fix(#3894): quick path honors workflow.research_before_questions; key resolves from global defaults (#4047)
* test(#3894): research_before_questions must resolve globally and order quick.md (failing first)

* fix(#3894): quick path honors workflow.research_before_questions; key resolves from global defaults

Two layers, one key. The quick workflow ran its discussion phase
before its research phase unconditionally — neither quick.md nor its
steps ever read workflow.research_before_questions, though the key is
documented, schema-registered, /gsd-settings-writable, and honored by
/gsd-discuss-phase and /gsd-new-project. A gray-area answer given
without research is then written to <quick_id>-CONTEXT.md as a locked
decision downstream agents are told not to revisit — an evidence-free
choice made unfalsifiable (the reporter's #3714 misresolution).

- quick.md Step 4 now carries the same research-before-questions check
  the two honoring paths make: when enabled, research-phase executes
  before discussion-phase; false/unset keeps the written order. Both
  sections stay section-manifest gated.
- src/config-loader.cts forwarded workflow.post_planning_gaps from
  ~/.gsd/defaults.json but silently dropped this key — same file, same
  nesting, one resolved and one didn't. Now forwarded with the same
  flat + nested-alias fallback shape, added to the resolution-keys
  lockstep canary and the #3532 shadowed-warning set (nested alias
  reporting generalized over both keys).

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: quick.md — #3894: +Step 4 ordering rule (the research-before-questions check the discuss-phase and new-project paths already make); a real behavioral gate, not incidental bloat.

* fix(#3894): review fold-ins — gate the CONTEXT.md reference, colon slash-forms

- quick/steps/research-phase.md directed the researcher subagent to read
  <quick_id>-CONTEXT.md under DISCUSS_MODE with no existence hedge — but
  under the new ordering (research BEFORE discussion) the file cannot
  exist yet when the researcher is dispatched. The reference now says
  read-only-if-present with the #3894 reason; the alignment purpose
  still applies on the default ordering.
- quick.md's new rule used the hyphen slash forms (/gsd-discuss-phase,
  /gsd-new-project); source artifacts under gsd-core/workflows must
  author the colon form the install-time converters key on — the same
  file already uses /gsd:new-project and /gsd:quick elsewhere.

* docs(#3894): planning-config row names the flat CONFIG_DEFAULTS alias

config-field-docs requires every CONFIG_DEFAULTS key to appear in the
doc; the row documented the canonical namespaced form only. Adds the
same alias sentence post_planning_gaps's row carries, plus the #3894
quick-path note.

* chore(#3894): changeset fragment (pr number backfilled after PR creation)

* chore(#3894): backfill changeset PR number (4047)

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-29 13:51:42 -04:00
Tom Boucher
3c08315a5e fix(#3827): new-mode routing gate — classify approval no longer authorizes scaffold writes (#4037)
* test(#3827): new-mode routing approval gate before roadmapper (failing first)

* fix(#3827): new-mode routing gate — classify approval no longer authorizes scaffold writes

The route_new_mode step delegated to gsd-roadmapper (PROJECT.md,
REQUIREMENTS.md, ROADMAP.md, STATE.md creation + commit) with no gate:
the discovery gate approved classification only, and the zero-conflict
branch said 'proceed to routing silently'. Merge mode previews its diff
and gates via approve-revise-abort; new mode now shows the exact
destinations and requires Create planning setup | Keep synthesized
intel only | Abort, per the skill contract's routing-gate requirement.
The keep-intel-only choice is the analysis-only path the issue asks
for: no roadmapper, no destination writes, intel preserved; finalize
labels it 'new (intel only)' and points at /gsd:new-project instead of
plan-phase. Ambiguous gate answers re-ask once, then treat as Abort —
never infer Create. Zero-conflict wording is mode-aware: silence about
conflicts is not authorization to write.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: ingest-docs.md — #3827: +routing gate display block, AskUserQuestion contract, three disposition branches (incl. the intel-only no-write path), ambiguous-answer rule, intel-only finalize line, mode-aware zero-conflict pointer; a real behavioral gate, not incidental bloat.

* chore(#3827): changeset fragment (pr number backfilled after PR creation)

* chore(#3827): backfill changeset PR number (4037)

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-29 09:41:00 -04:00
Tom Boucher
80de48c319 enhance(#3914): every phase records a truthful guard ledger (#4018)
* fix(#3914): retire n/no-process-exit where its successor governs

Epic #3889 criterion 5 — no phase closes with a guard added and its
predecessor left standing — is violated in the tree by the epic that wrote it.

local/require-registered-exit was registered on gsd-core/bin/**/*.cjs and
scripts/**/*.cjs, while n/no-process-exit stayed 'error' over a nine-glob block
covering those same two. Only the hooks 'off' exemption ever came down; the
predecessor's registration never did. Both rules have been enforcing the same
property on the same surfaces since P6.

Narrowed, not deleted. Seven of those nine globs have NO successor —
eslint-rules/, bin/lib/, pi/, examples/, vscode/, .kilo/, .opencode/ — so
deleting the rule outright would silently drop enforcement on all seven. That
is the inversion this epic has already hit three times: removing a coarse guard
because a narrower one exists somewhere it does not reach. Flat config is
last-match-wins and both successor blocks come after the nine-glob block, so
'n/no-process-exit': 'off' in exactly those two retires the predecessor
precisely where the successor governs and nowhere else.

The successor is strictly more precise: it permits process.exit only inside
terminateNow in cli-exit.cts, the single sanctioned terminator (ADR-3889 §3),
where n/no-process-exit permits none and would flag terminateNow's own
generated copy.

Asserted at the consumer's altitude via ESLint.calculateConfigForFile on real
paths, with the positive control that matters: n/no-process-exit is still
'error' on six of the seven successor-less globs, so a future edit that turns
this into a blanket disable goes red. bin/lib/ has no file in this checkout and
is reported as untested rather than given an invented path. Severity is
normalized across the string/numeric/array forms the API can return, and the
normalized value asserted — not truthiness.

Verified by running calculateConfigForFile myself on both superseded globs and
four controls before trusting the test.

Found and fixed inline: the change made an eslint-disable directive at
gsd-tools.cjs:257 partially unused, which --max-warnings 0 rejects; narrowed to
the one rule still in force.

Verification runs on the remote runner.

Refs #3914

* docs(#3914): the epic added three guards, it did not remove one

The audit reconciled the epic ledger against what actually landed. The net is
+3, not -1: four lint:generated-sync --check arms (gen-scripts-cli-exit,
gen-hooks-cli-exit, gen-exit-code-registry, gen-exit-code-docs) plus one rule,
against two retirements.

An epic whose thesis was consolidation ended with a larger guard surface than
it started with. The additions are each defensible; the claim that the total
fell was never true.

Two of the three prior errors in this amendment are mine. It said "Net -1 by
count" above terms reading -1 -1 +1 +1 +1, which sums to +1 — an arithmetic
error in the paragraph directly below the sentence arguing that an ADR about
honest accounting must not pad its own ledger. And the term list omitted two of
the four --check arms, which is what turns that +1 into the real +3.

Recorded rather than quietly rewritten. This ledger has now been wrong three
times — the original -2, the -1 that replaced it, and #3914's own table, which
states -1 above terms summing to 0 — and a written claim nobody checked against
the thing it describes is the exact failure this epic exists to close.

Refs #3914

* fix(#3914): make the successor actually supersede before retiring the predecessor

An isolated security review found that the previous commit turned off a guard
that was still doing work. Reproduced by executing both rules against a
fixture, not inferred:

  const exit = 'exit';
  process[exit](1);

n/no-process-exit flags it; local/require-registered-exit did not, because it
early-returned on callee.computed. So retiring the predecessor on
gsd-core/bin/**/*.cjs and scripts/**/*.cjs un-guarded that shape on precisely
the two globs this epic's exit contract cares most about.

This is the third time in this epic I have removed a coarse guard on the claim
that a narrower one covered it, without checking construct-level parity — after
the allowlist key-to-prefix-to-exact-membership sequence and the band
ranges-to-categories one. The rule is the same every time: a narrower guard
supersedes a coarser one only where it demonstrably reaches at least as far,
and "demonstrably" means executing both against the constructs, not reading
either.

The successor now resolves computed property access for the statically
determinable cases — a string Literal, and an Identifier bound once to a string
Literal, resolved through scope — and leaves genuinely dynamic properties
alone so the rule does not over-fire. Measured after the fix: plain
process.exit flagged, process['exit']() flagged, process[exit]() flagged,
process[globalThis.k]() not flagged. That makes it a strict superset of the
predecessor on these globs, since process['exit']() was caught by NEITHER rule
before.

The second finding is worse than the first, because it was reasoning rather
than oversight. My justification comment claimed n/no-process-exit "would flag
terminateNow's own generated copy here". It would not — that file is in the
global ignore list, so neither rule ever lints it. There was no conflict to
resolve; I wrote a rationale I had not checked, in a change whose entire
subject is written claims nobody verified. Both comment blocks now state the
real basis.

The tests that should have caught this asserted only rule SEVERITY per glob and
never construct REACH, which is exactly how a coverage hole passed. A parity
matrix now pins all five shapes, including a RED/GREEN regression pin against
an inlined reproduction of the pre-fix rule — inlined rather than loaded from
HEAD, because HEAD resolves to the fixed commit under the remote runner and
would silently stop testing anything.

Verification runs on the remote runner.

Refs #3914

* fix(#3914): the two exit rules are complementary — keep both

Reverts this branch's retirement of n/no-process-exit. The premise was wrong
twice, and the second review proved the change itself was wrong.

I claimed local/require-registered-exit was a strict superset on
gsd-core/bin/**/*.cjs and scripts/**/*.cjs. Measured, successor vs predecessor:

  function f(exit) { process[exit](1); }         0  vs  1
  let exit='exit'; exit='exit'; process[exit]()   0  vs  1
  const { exit } = ...; process[exit](1)         0  vs  1

plus for-of bindings, let-then-assign, var redeclaration, catch params, and an
undeclared global named exit. The predecessor matches any identifier NAMED
exit however it is bound; the successor resolves only a string literal or a
single-write const. It never was a superset — I asserted the relationship after
fixing one construct and did not re-check the rest.

The justification was independently false: all three generated cli-exit copies
are in the global ignore list, so n/no-process-exit was never flagging
terminateNow. There was no conflict to resolve. I wrote a rationale I had not
verified, in the phase whose subject is written claims nobody checked.

So criterion 5 does not apply to this pair. They are not predecessor and
successor — they are complementary, each catching constructs the other misses.
The epic's criterion assumed a replacement relationship that does not exist
here, and retiring either rule loses real coverage. The ADR ledger now says so
with the measured shapes.

What survives is the genuine improvement: the computed-property strengthening.
local/require-registered-exit now catches process['exit'](1) and optional-chain
terminators like process?.[k]?.(1), which NEITHER rule caught before, while
correctly ignoring a genuinely dynamic property so it does not over-fire.

The parity tests are rewritten to assert what is true rather than what I wanted
to be true: a bidirectional matrix where each rule is shown catching shapes the
other misses. The previous matrix tested only the four shapes where the
successor wins, which is precisely why the regression shipped — a test set
selected to confirm the thesis.

Also corrected: a stale ADR sentence claiming a third wrong ledger version that
does not exist (the table it described now reads +3 over terms summing to +3),
and a changeset whose stated motivation was the false generated-copy conflict.

Verification runs on the remote runner.

Refs #3914

* fix(#3914): the exemption term was a no-op — the net is +4

Fourth correction to this ledger, and a fourth error of the same kind.

Every version counted removing the n/no-process-exit 'off' entry from the hooks
block as -1. Measured: calculateConfigForFile returns undefined for that rule on
hooks/**. It was never registered there, and no broader block sets it globally,
so the 'off' entry overrode nothing and removing it changed no enforcement at
all. A no-op removal, not a guard removal — the same category error as counting
baseline acknowledgement entries: a thing that is not a guard, in guard units.
It is misattributed too; that block came down in d98b55562 (#3910), already on
next before this branch existed.

So the epic added FOUR guards, not three.

This surfaced from a test of mine that overclaimed. I asserted n/no-process-exit
was error on "all nine CommonJS/hook globs" — but hooks is not one of the nine,
and the rule resolves to undefined there. Fixing the test to match reality is
what exposed the ledger term, which is the argument for tests that assert
identity rather than a comfortable shape.

The hooks state is now pinned explicitly rather than glossed: n/no-process-exit
unregistered, local/require-registered-exit error. It is mildly surprising and
therefore worth a test.

Also updates a pre-existing test that documented the old name-based-only
boundary as intentional. The computed-property strengthening deliberately moves
that boundary — process['exit'](0) was caught by NEITHER rule before — so the
test now asserts the new contract and cites the ADR, rather than being left to
fail or the rule weakened to satisfy it. A contract change should read as
deliberate in the test that pins it.

Verification runs on the remote runner.

Refs #3914

* chore(#3914): backfill changeset pr number to 4018

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-29 00:53:33 -04:00
Tom Boucher
51ca9f39ba fix(#3801): register inline_plan_threshold in the defaults manifest and correct the docs (#4019)
* fix(#3801): register inline_plan_threshold in the defaults manifest (default 2) and correct settings-advanced

* chore(#3801): changeset fragment (pr number backfilled after PR creation)

* chore(#3801): backfill changeset PR number (4019)

* test(#3801): parse the defaults table with the shared markdown-table parser

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-28 23:48:42 -04:00
Tom Boucher
1051c6d8d4 fix(#3799): scope legacy cleanup to the install's resolved config dir and add --no-legacy-cleanup (#4013)
* fix(#3795): read the interrupted agent id before clearing the stale marker (#4006)

* test(#3795): the interrupted-agent read must precede the stale-id clear

* fix(#3795): read the interrupted agent id before clearing the stale marker

execute-plan's init_agent_tracking step ran `rm -f
.planning/current-agent-id.txt` BEFORE the existence check that read it,
so the interrupted-agent branch and the Task resume prompt it exists to
offer were unreachable (#3795) — a kill -9 mid-executor left the file,
and the next run deleted it before looking. The read now precedes the
clear; fresh-run semantics (no stale id leaking into the new spawn) are
preserved. A structural guard pins the order.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: execute-plan.md — #3795: +bytes from reordering the interrupted-agent read before the rm plus the explaining comment

* chore(#3795): changeset fragment (pr number backfilled after PR creation)

* chore(#3795): backfill changeset PR number (4006)

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>

* fix(#3799): scope legacy cleanup to the install's resolved config dir and add --no-legacy-cleanup

* chore(#3799): changeset fragment (pr number backfilled after PR creation)

* chore(#3799): backfill changeset PR number (4013)

* test(#3799): mark the legacy-name fixtures with gsd-allow-legacy-name

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-28 20:16:50 -04:00
Tom Boucher
ac3668e4b7 fix(#3797): make the roadmapper's role, output, and checklist match its write-first execution flow (#4008)
* test(#3797): the roadmapper must follow one write-first contract

* fix(#3797): make the roadmapper's role, output, and checklist match its write-first execution flow

The roadmapper contradicted itself: role blurb, output format, and
completion checklist described an approve-first flow while its execution
flow said "Write Files Immediately" with reactive-only revision (#3797).
The approval gate belongs to the ORCHESTRATOR — both callers read the
written ROADMAP.md, present it, and gate on approval (with an auto-mode
bypass a subagent cannot host) — so write-first is the contract.

All approve-first text now describes the write-then-return reality, the
old "Draft Presentation Format" (whose ## ROADMAP DRAFT header matched no
orchestrator branch) is folded into the ## ROADMAP CREATED structured
return as a preview block, and the duplicate checklist lines are merged.
A structural guard pins the single contract.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: gsd-roadmapper.md — #3797: +bytes — approve-first wording replaced with write-first descriptions; the DRAFT presentation template folded into the ROADMAP CREATED return as a preview block

* chore(#3797): changeset fragment (pr number backfilled after PR creation)

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-28 15:55:55 -04:00
Tom Boucher
004c7532b6 fix(#3796): write the audit report to the single-version filename every reader expects (#4007)
* test(#3796): the audit report writer and readers must agree on the filename

* fix(#3796): write the audit report to the single-version filename every reader expects

* chore(#3796): changeset fragment (pr number backfilled after PR creation)

* chore(#3796): backfill changeset PR number (4007)

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-28 14:44:01 -04:00
Tom Boucher
4d151e46b6 fix(#3795): read the interrupted agent id before clearing the stale marker (#4006)
* test(#3795): the interrupted-agent read must precede the stale-id clear

* fix(#3795): read the interrupted agent id before clearing the stale marker

execute-plan's init_agent_tracking step ran `rm -f
.planning/current-agent-id.txt` BEFORE the existence check that read it,
so the interrupted-agent branch and the Task resume prompt it exists to
offer were unreachable (#3795) — a kill -9 mid-executor left the file,
and the next run deleted it before looking. The read now precedes the
clear; fresh-run semantics (no stale id leaking into the new spawn) are
preserved. A structural guard pins the order.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: execute-plan.md — #3795: +bytes from reordering the interrupted-agent read before the rm plus the explaining comment

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-28 13:50:37 -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)

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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
c3e667df34 fix(#3786): authorize mutable scope from live observation only in the quick planner (#4005)
* test(#3786): the quick planner constraints must carry a mutable-scope authority rule

* fix(#3786): authorize mutable scope from live observation only in the quick planner

The quick planner could commit HISTORICAL scope as authorized edit or
verification scope before any live observation of the mutable state: a
minimized probe used cached PR-diff paths (65 of them, "pending
replacement") or broadened verification to the PR integration surface in
2 of 3 trials (#3786). One explicit authority requirement reduced that
to 0 of 3.

The new planner constraint authorizes mutable-state scope ONLY from a
live observation made at planning time (for conflict resolution, the
fresh merge index via git diff --name-only --diff-filter=U) or keeps
files/verify CONDITIONAL on it; historical STATE.md entries, recovery
notes, and cached PR/base diffs may guide investigation only. A
structural guard pins the rule in the shipped constraints block.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: quick.md — #3786: +620 bytes — one MUTABLE-SCOPE AUTHORITY constraint bullet added to the planner <constraints> block

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-28 12:31:02 -04:00
Tom Boucher
c8f08b61fb fix(#3782): segment verification debt by the archived_milestone stamp in progress step 1.6 (#4001)
* test(#3782): step 1.6 must segment verification debt by the archived stamp

* fix(#3782): segment verification debt by the archived_milestone stamp in progress step 1.6

progress.md step 1.6 read the cross-population summary.total_items as
current-milestone debt while claiming the whole query respects milestone
boundaries. The active tree is milestone-filtered; archived trees are
deliberately unfiltered (each result stamped archived_milestone), so a
healthy current milestone presented six shipped milestones' still-open
items as CURRENT debt on every /gsd-progress run (#3782).

Step 1.6 now computes CURRENT_DEBT/ARCHIVED_DEBT via jq selects on the
stamp, tracks archived_debt separately (visible with its own labeled
header — segmented, never hidden), corrects the scoping claim, and
unwraps the CLI's @file: large-payload redirect before jq so counters
cannot silently read 0. A structural guard test pins the segmentation.
parse_gap_files stays deliberately cross-population.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: progress.md — #3782: +1406 bytes — step 1.6 gains the CURRENT_DEBT/ARCHIVED_DEBT segmentation jq, the @file: unwrap, and the archived-visibility paragraph; parse-gap paragraph reworded to match

* chore(#3782): changeset fragment (pr number backfilled after PR creation)

* chore(#3782): backfill changeset PR number (4001)

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-28 11:40:34 -04:00
Tom Boucher
d24e22b156 enhance(#3912): gsd-tools declares outcomes, pinned at v1 (#3983)
* enhance(#3912): gsd-tools declares outcomes, pinned at v1

ADR-3889 §4. Phase 6 already moved error()'s terminator onto the seam, so what
remained was the declaration — and the pin that makes it invisible today.

The census corrected two documented figures before any code changed.
ERROR_REASON has exactly 25 members (the ADR and epic were right; an earlier
note of mine claiming 23 was wrong and is corrected). And output({error}) is
**64 sites across 9 files, not the 60 ADR-2980 ratified** — the module shape
holds but the total drifted +4: frontmatter 7 not 6, phase 4 not 2, roadmap 3
not 2. That matters because this phase's criterion demands the pin be asserted
over the enumerated population rather than sampled; asserting over a stale 60
would leave four sites unpinned while claiming full coverage, which is the
shape of failure this epic exists to remove.

The issue does not state the fact that shapes the design: output() never
touches the exit code. Confirmed by reading it — it writes fd 1 and returns.
So a declared outcome for those 64 sites had nowhere to be READ. The mapping
was never the work; wiring somewhere for the declaration to land was.

The seam already existed twice over. cli-exit.cts holds two globalThis-Symbol
cells, each because the module is emitted to three locations and a module-level
`let` would let instances disagree, and runMain already maps a code returned by
main(). A third cell inherits that solution. output() records DEGRADED for any
{error} payload — key-order agnostic, which is exactly why the "42 sites"
figure undercounts — and runMain projects the cell only when main() returns
nothing, so an explicit return still wins.

error() maps its reason through a table over the closed 25-member enum, leaving
all 278 call sites untouched; 226 of them pass no reason at all. The version
gate lives in error(), NOT in projectOutcome: registered names are
version-invariant there, so mapping a reason straight through would make USAGE
project to 64 under v1 and break the pin on its first line. projectOutcome is
left exactly as Phase 2 shipped it, DEGRADED's 0/80 asymmetry included.

Proven rather than asserted. v1 is byte-identical across three real CLI paths —
config-get plain, config-get --json-errors, and an output({error}) path —
matching exit code and exact bytes against the pre-change build. Under
GSD_EXIT_CONTRACT=v2 the same commands now exit 66 (CONFIG_KEY_NOT_FOUND ->
NO_INPUT) and 80 (DEGRADED), both looked up through the registry. An
anti-vacuity test pins that v1 and v2 genuinely differ for at least one reason,
because without it a mapping where everything projects to 1 under both versions
would satisfy every other assertion and the declaration would be theatre.

A1 iterates all 25 enum members and A3 asserts over the measured 64-site
population, so a 26th reason or a 65th site fails until it is given a mapping —
the drift guard this phase needs, given ADR-2980's own count had drifted +4
unnoticed.

Verification runs on the remote runner.

Refs #3912

* fix(#3912): the outcome cell must never lower an exit code

The remote run caught a fail-open that this phase introduced, in the phase
whose entire purpose is removing fail-opens.

`state validate --strict` on a missing STATE.md exited **0** where it must exit
1. Mechanism: `runMain` projected the pending outcome whenever `main()` returned
void, and under v1 DEGRADED projects to 0 — so a `process.exitCode` already set
non-zero by the command was clobbered down to success. Confirmed live against a
fixture, before and after.

This refutes a review conclusion recorded earlier in this phase, that the cell
was "fail-closed and can never mask a failure as success". It could, and did.
Recording that plainly so the assumption is not repeated: the cell's danger was
never only that it might add a failure — it was that projecting it
unconditionally overwrites whatever decision came before.

Projection is now guarded: it may set a code only when none is set, and an
already-non-zero exit code always wins. The full precedence — explicit `main()`
return, then an existing non-zero exitCode, then the declared outcome — is
written at the projection site. A regression test drives a void return with a
pre-set non-zero code and a pending DEGRADED, and fails against the pre-fix
build.

The second failure was my test encoding the wrong contract, not a code defect.
It asserted `output({found:false, error: undefined})` records DEGRADED because
the KEY is present. `JSON.stringify` drops undefined, so the payload the user
receives is `{"found":false}` — carrying no error at all, and calling that
degraded would hand back exit 80 under v2 for output that reads as clean. The
discriminator is a serializable error VALUE, not key presence. The test now
pins `{error: undefined}` as explicitly NOT degraded, and the design doc's
wording is tightened to match.

Verification runs on the remote runner.

Refs #3912

* docs(#3912): the versioned exit contract, and a flag defect the docs found

Diataxis pass for Phase 8, plus a real fix that only surfaced because writing
the how-to meant running its own examples.

The docs. ADR-2980's "Revisit if" clause asked for exactly the versioned
projection this phase provides, so it gets an amendment naming #3912 /
ADR-3889 section 4 as that boundary: v1 stays 0 byte-for-byte, v2 projects
DEGRADED to 80. The amendment also records the count drift rather than
restating a stale figure — the ADR ratified 60 output({error}) sites in 9
modules; the AST-measured population is 64 across the same 9 (frontmatter 7
not 6, phase 4 not 2, roadmap 3 not 2). The pin is asserted over the
enumerated 64. json-errors.md gains the outcome-declaration reference,
including the precedence order a review pass got wrong and the suite refuted:
an explicit main() return, then an already-set non-zero process.exitCode, then
the declared outcome. Projection may only ever set a code, never lower one.

A how-to is owed here and is written, not skipped. Under v1 nothing changes,
so the audience is an operator opting into v2 and needing to know what the
codes mean for a CI gate — a migration, which is how-to shaped. It covers
turning v2 on, the code table, why 80 is "ran and reported a condition" rather
than a crash, and how to split a gate that treats any non-zero as fatal. No
tutorial: there is no new entry point to learn, and under the default contract
a reader would be walked through observing nothing.

The defect. Running the how-to's own Step 1 example returned

    $ gsd-tools --exit-contract=v2 state validate --strict
    Error: Unknown command: --exit-contract=v2          (exit 64)

while the same flag trailing the subcommand worked and exited 80. The flag
half-worked, by argv position. resolveContractVersion scans argv
non-destructively, so the token survived into the dispatcher, which treats
argv[2] as the command name. --json-errors had already solved precisely this
at gsd-tools.cjs:4455, under a comment naming the hazard verbatim: "The argv
splice must happen here too, otherwise the dispatcher below sees
--json-errors as an unknown command." The later flag never got the same
treatment.

Fixed rather than documented around: the version is resolved first — which
memoizes the cell and makes an invalid value throw early — and then every
--exit-contract= token is spliced out of the dispatcher's argv copy.
--exit-contract is now listed in TOP_LEVEL_USAGE, where it never was. The
regression test pins leading position, trailing position, agreement between
the two, and a loud failure on v3 rather than a silent fall back to v1.

Neither review engine would have caught this: the defect is invisible in the
diff, because the diff does not touch argv handling. It surfaced only from
running the documentation's own example. Writing a how-to is an execution pass.

Verification runs on the remote runner.

Refs #3912

* fix(#3912): the flag splice has to run before the run-with-timeout return

An isolated review of the previous commit found that the fix did not deliver
what it claimed, and that two of its own tests were weak. All three findings
reproduced by execution before any change was made.

The fix was placed below a return. main() intercepts `run-with-timeout` at
gsd-tools.cjs:4436 and returns from there — above both the --json-errors block
and the --exit-contract splice added in the previous commit. So the flag still
died in leading position for that one command:

    $ gsd-tools --exit-contract=v2 run-with-timeout 5 -- node -e "..."
    Error: Unknown command: run-with-timeout        (exit 64, child never ran)

The previous commit message and the test's describe-block both claimed
position-independence unconditionally. That was an overclaim, not a gap left
open, and it is the part worth naming: the fix was verified by hand on the
commands I happened to think of, and `run-with-timeout` returns before the
code I was verifying.

Both global-flag blocks now run above the interception, with a comment naming
it so a later edit cannot slide them back down. Moving --json-errors up fixes
the identical pre-existing bug for that flag, verified failing beforehand
(exit 1, sdk_unknown_command). Fixing the sibling is deliberate: same defect,
same block, and a known-broken twin next to a fixed one is not a resting state.

Two tests were not pulling their weight. The invalid-value test was vacuous —
it passed against the pre-fix build, because `--exit-contract=v3` already
exited 1 there and already printed the resolve error lazily through
error() -> getContractVersion. Both its assertions held before the fix, so it
pinned nothing. The real discriminator is that the pre-fix build emits BOTH
"Unknown command: --exit-contract=v3" and the resolve error, while the fixed
build emits only the latter; the test now asserts that absence.

The leading-position and leading==trailing tests asserted proxies — "not 64",
"no Unknown command", "the two agree" — none of which pin a value, and all of
which would survive both positions being identically broken. With a .planning
directory and no STATE.md, state-snapshot exits exactly 80 under v2 and 0
under v1 in both positions. Those numbers are pinned now. The multi-token case
the descending splice loop exists for is covered too, and run-with-timeout has
regression tests for both flags.

The lesson is narrower than "test more". Hand-verifying the production
behavior does not verify that the test would have caught its absence. The
pre-fix binary has to be run against the test's own assertions.

Investigated and deliberately not changed: splicing before --cwd parsing
degrades one diagnostic from "Missing value for --cwd" to "Invalid --cwd:
<path>", but that is pre-existing — verified on the pre-fix build via
--json-errors, which already did it. This change joins the pattern rather than
creating it, and both forms exit 64 on malformed input either way.

Verification runs on the remote runner.

Refs #3912

* chore(#3912): backfill changeset pr numbers to 3983

* test(#3912): pin the reason-table invariant as set equality, not a count

A graph-backed review flagged the unchecked lookup in
expectedErrorCode3912. Investigated by execution: the drift guard DOES
hold — for an unmapped reason under v2 the production error() yields 1
while the table yields undefined, so the assertion fails. Not a
correctness defect, and deliberately NOT made tolerant, since a tolerant
lookup would destroy the guard.

Two real problems remained. The guard asserted the wrong invariant: it
counted the TABLE's keys at 25 rather than checking they match the
ENUM's values, so a renamed member keeps the count at 25 and slips past,
and a 26th member leaves the table at 25 and slips past too. Both were
then caught only indirectly, by an undefined mismatch producing 'must
exit undefined'. It is now a sorted set equality, so the failure names
the specific missing or extra reason.

And the comment above it described a '?? FAIL' fallback that does not
exist anywhere in the function. It now states what the code actually
does, verified by running it rather than by reading it.

Refs #3912

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-28 08:09:05 -04:00
Tom Boucher
d98b55562c enhance(#3910): the raw terminator is banned by construction (#3980)
* enhance(#3910): move the last src/ terminators onto the seam

Phase 6 bans the raw terminator by construction, which it cannot do while
violations stand. A census found 12 sites the rule would flag; nine of the ten
unsanctioned ones were owned by no phase of the epic at all — a coverage hole
in the decomposition, since P0-P2 are infra, P3 the gate modules, P4 the
scanners, P5 the fragments, P7 the hooks, P8 io.cts, and P6 itself only adds
the rule. `src/**/*.cts` now holds exactly 2 raw exits, both inside
`terminateNow`, the single sanctioned site.

`io.cts`'s `error()` is the interesting one. It was first called substantive on
"dozens of callers, contract risk" — asserted, not measured, and the
measurement refuted it: 289 call sites, zero inside a try whose catch would
swallow a throw. The real obstacle was structural instead: `terminateNow`
cannot emit exit 1, because ADR-3889 §1 makes 0 and 1 unallocatable and
`nameForExitCode(1)` throws. So the only route is `ExitError` under `runMain`,
which sets exitCode and writes stderr only when the error carries a user
message — keeping the existing stderr write and throwing a message-less
ExitError is observably identical.

That census was still too narrow, and running the CLI proved it. It asked
whether the CALL sits in a try/catch; the two regressions that surfaced were
interceptors elsewhere on the stack:

- `command-routing-hub.cts`'s `dispatch()` swallowed the ExitError into a
  HandlerFailure, so the caller emitted a duplicated, wrong stderr line on
  every Hub-routed path. It now rethrows ExitError explicitly — the same shape
  `gsd-tools.cjs` already used at two dispatch sites, so this follows an
  established idiom rather than inventing one.
- the profile-pipeline router's deliberately un-awaited `.catch(e => error(...))`
  turned an ExitError rejection into an uncaught exception; it now mirrors
  runMain's handling.

`edge-probe` and `ui-consideration-probe` gained `runMain` wrappers because
probe-core's new throwing default would otherwise have escaped them.

A follow-up sweep of every dispatcher — 19 command routers, the Hub, the
gsd-tools dispatch seams — found no further swallowing catch. The admitted
bound: ~1260 non-rethrowing catches repo-wide were scanned structurally but not
individually classified. Both real regressions were found by execution, not by
reading, so the suite is the detector that matters here.

`gsd-tools.cjs:253` stays a raw exit deliberately: it is the ensureRuntimeBuild
bootstrap, which runs before cli-exit is required, so the seam does not yet
exist. It needs a second allowlist entry, which means #3910's "single allowlist
entry" criterion is unachievable as written.

Verification runs on the remote runner.

Refs #3910

* enhance(#3910): ban the raw terminator by construction

Adds local/require-registered-exit and registers it on all four globs:
src/**/*.cts, scripts/**/*.cjs, hooks/**/*.js, gsd-core/bin/**/*.cjs.

Registering on the .cts glob is load-bearing, not redundant — the emitted .cjs
mirrors are globally eslint-ignored, so a rule registered only on the emitted
globs is blind to the sources. That is the #3496 lesson, and it is how the
previous guard became invisible: n/no-process-exit was 'error' in one block yet
fired zero times on all three surfaces that mattered.

The dead n/no-process-exit: 'off' block for hooks is deleted in the same PR.
Phase 7 migrated every hook, so the exemption now protects nothing.

Two allowlist entries, not the one #3910 anticipated. terminateNow's body is
detected STRUCTURALLY — a process.exit lexically inside a function of that name
— rather than by a path and line number that rots. The second is
gsd-tools.cjs's ensureRuntimeBuild bootstrap, an inline disable with its reason
at the call site: it runs before ./lib/cli-exit.cjs is required, so the seam
does not exist yet and no migration is possible. #3910's 'single allowlist
entry' criterion is therefore unachievable as written, and is amended with the
measurement rather than quietly missed.

The rule is proven able to FAIL, per glob: four positive controls, one for each
registered glob. A guard that cannot be shown to fire is not a guard. Four
matching negative controls pin process.exitCode as never-flagged — conflating
it with process.exit is what inflated this epic's original census 2x. An
allowlist case and a near-miss (same shape, different function name) fix the
structural detection in place.

Verification runs on the remote runner.

Refs #3910

* fix(#3910): stop the detached catch from throwing, and scope the allowlist

Review findings, one of them a regression the previous fix introduced.

_handlePipelineRejection called error() from inside a DETACHED .catch().
error() now throws, so that throw became an unhandled promise rejection — and
on Node >=15 with --unhandled-rejections=throw, Node dumps a raw stack trace
with absolute paths on top of the clean Error: line. That was impossible before
this branch, because process.exit(1) terminated synchronously before any
rejection machinery could observe it. The handler now writes byte-identical
stderr itself, in both plain and --json-errors form, and sets exitCode in
place. This was the THIRD interceptor found, and like the first two it surfaced
by running the CLI rather than by reading code.

The rule's terminateNow allowlist had no path constraint, so any function
anywhere named terminateNow across all four globs inherited it. It now requires
the structural nesting check AND a cli-exit.cts basename — still no line
numbers to rot.

The four per-glob positive controls only varied a filename inside RuleTester,
which never resolves eslint.config.mjs. Since the rule is filename-agnostic,
all four exercised identical logic and none proved the rule was WIRED — this
epic's own failure mode. A registration test now asserts the rule resolves for
a real path in each glob, and it is proven able to fail: removing one glob's
registration flips the resolved value from [2] to undefined.

Three evasions the rule cannot catch (computed member, aliasing, .call/.apply)
are documented in its header and pinned by tests, labelled as known limits
rather than endorsed, so a future change that starts catching them is a
deliberate diff.

Refs #3910

* docs(#3910): document the raw-terminator ban

Reference and Explanation via a new docs/features fragment (FEATURES.md is
generated from it, not hand-edited). How-To:
docs/how-to/resolve-a-raw-terminator-finding.md, indexed from docs/README.md —
a contributor whose code trips the rule picks among three replacements by
surface (runMain/ExitError for a CLI path, terminateNow for a hook,
process.exitCode where the process should drain), and needs to know why
process.exitCode is correct and never flagged, since conflating the two is what
inflated this epic's original census 2x.

The page also names the three patterns the rule cannot catch and says plainly
that using one to dodge it is a review finding, not a fix — documenting them
without that sentence would read as a sanctioned workaround.

docs/INVENTORY.md deliberately untouched: eslint-rules/ is not a tracked family
in the manifest (verified — a regen produced a zero diff), so a hand-written row
would desync the table from the family it claims to belong to.

Refs #3910

* fix(#3910): a catch that sniffs the message swallows an ExitError

The remote run returned 41 failures, and one of them was a live production
regression rather than a test artifact.

`cmdMilestoneComplete`'s unstarted-phase guard re-threw only when
`e.message.startsWith('Cannot mark milestone complete:')`. `error()` used to
`process.exit(1)`, uncatchable, so the guard always fired. It now throws an
ExitError carrying no message, the string test fails, and the ExitError was
silently swallowed — the guard stopped blocking milestone completion entirely.
Proven against the real CLI: pre-fix, a milestone with an unstarted phase
archived at exit 0; post-fix it is blocked at exit 1 with the intended message.

That is a guard that silently stopped guarding, which is this epic's thesis
appearing inside the phase meant to enforce it. Worth stating plainly: an
earlier census DID examine this site, saw a `throw e`, and classified it as
rethrowing. It was wrong — the rethrow is conditional, and a conditional
rethrow on an inspected message is indistinguishable from an unconditional one
unless you read the predicate.

So the class was swept rather than patched where it was tripped over. An AST
census of every CatchClause across src/, gsd-core/bin/ and scripts/ found 38
conditional rethrows. Two more had the same defect and are fixed the same way:
`config.cts`'s `'No config.json'` sniff and `gsd-tools.cjs`'s
`e.name === 'WindowsError'`. The remaining 25 are provably unreachable — every
one wraps a bare fs, YAML, manifest-require or git-exec primitive that cannot
throw ExitError — and two were scanner false positives, both explained. Each
fix is an unconditional `instanceof ExitError` rethrow placed BEFORE any
inspection, matching the idiom command-routing-hub and gsd-tools already used.

Residual bound, stated rather than implied: zero known-reachable unfixed sites,
contingent only on error() never later being called inside one of those 25
primitive try blocks.

The remaining failures were harness artifacts, and the harnesses were corrected
to the new contract rather than the assertions weakened. Tests that mocked
`process.exit` to observe termination now catch ExitError and assert its code;
tests parsing stderr as a single JSON object still assert exactly that, with
their ad-hoc `node -e` scripts wrapped in runMain so it is true. milestone and
phase-resolution-parity needed no test change — they were correctly written
against the real bug and are what caught it.

Verification runs on the remote runner.

Refs #3910

* chore(#3910): backfill the changeset PR number

Also reframes the fragment to lead with the user-visible change — the
milestone guard blocking again — rather than the narrowest of the three fixes.

Refs #3910

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-28 03:15:39 -04:00