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Tom Boucher
0bb7525a62 fix(#2943): rename get-library-docs -> query-docs; correct the ctx7 fallback rationale (#2963)
* test(#2943): parity guard against the nonexistent get-library-docs tool

Second context7 naming drift after #2017 (which guarded the plugin-marketplace
PREFIX). #2017's guard only checks tools: frontmatter lines, not prose bodies —
which is where the broken tool NAME (get-library-docs) lived. The context7 MCP
server registers only resolve-library-id and query-docs; get-library-docs is a
stale copy from upstream's own README.

Scans the shipped prose surface (agents/, gsd-core/references|workflows/,
commands/gsd/, skills/) and fails if any artifact instructs an agent to call
mcp__context7__get-library-docs. Excludes tests/ (a fixture may use the name as
a negative input) and CHANGELOG/RELEASE-NOTES-LEGACY (history).

Fails-first: 4 offenders today (gsd-executor.md:29,
research-documentation-lookup.md:5, discovery-phase.md:68 & :104).

* fix(#2943): rename get-library-docs to query-docs and correct the ctx7 fallback rationale

The context7 MCP server registers only resolve-library-id and query-docs
(verified against upstream packages/mcp/src/index.ts); get-library-docs is a
stale name copied from upstream's own README. Four shipped prose sites instructed
agents to call a tool the server does not register, so every research path that
loaded the canonical reference either errored, fell through to the ctx7 CLI
branch, or fabricated a result.

- research-documentation-lookup.md, gsd-executor.md, discovery-phase.md (x2):
  get-library-docs -> query-docs, params context7CompatibleLibraryId/topic ->
  libraryId/query (the registered contract).
- Same files' ctx7 CLI fallback rationale: the cited cause
  (anthropics/claude-code#13898 'strips MCP tools from agents with a tools:
  frontmatter restriction') was wrong on two counts — #13898 is closed and was
  never about tools: frontmatter. Rewritten to describe the real mechanism
  (custom subagents cannot see project-scoped .mcp.json; they only inherit
  user-scoped ~/.claude/mcp.json). The fallback itself is kept.
- discovery-phase.md 'mode: code/info' dropped — query-docs takes libraryId +
  query only; the code-vs-concepts intent is now expressed via the query text.

resolve-library-id is unchanged (still registered upstream). CHANGELOG and
RELEASE-NOTES-LEGACY citations are historical record, left as-is.

* chore(#2943): add changeset fragment (pr:0 placeholder)

* test(#2943): widen parity-guard scan surface to docs/ (isolated-review finding)

The isolated adversarial review flagged that SCAN_DIRS omitted docs/, which
ships docs/AGENTS.md — agent-consumed prose carrying 8 mcp__context7__* refs.
No false negative today (it uses only the wildcard), but a future banned-name
addition there would slip through, recreating the exact drift this guard exists
to prevent. Add docs/ to the scan surface, with an EXCLUDED_FILES set for
historical record (docs/RELEASE-NOTES-LEGACY.md, CHANGELOG.md) that must not be
rewritten to satisfy the guard.

* fix(#2943): update shifted PROSE_ALLOWLIST line + acknowledge gsd-executor.md growth

The gsd-test gate caught two real consequences of the rationale rewrite in
agents/gsd-executor.md (the +2-line corrected mechanism description shifted
line numbers below it):

1. tests/no-bare-gsd-tools-command-position.test.cjs: the legitimate
   'gsd-tools query commit' descriptive mention moved from line 791 -> 793.
   Update the PROSE_ALLOWLIST entry to the new line (the mention is unchanged,
   just relocated by my edit above it). Without this the gate reports both a
   stale allowlist entry (791) and a new offender (793) for the same mention.
2. tests/emitted-drift-acks/2943-context7-tool-name.json: gsd-executor.md grew
   95 bytes (the accurate mechanism rationale is longer than the wrong one-line
   #13898 attribution it replaces). Acknowledge the growth with the reason.

Both are mandated by the gate, not optional. The rename itself (get-library-docs
-> query-docs) is byte-neutral-ish; only the rationale rewrite grew the file.

* chore(#2943): backfill changeset PR number 2963

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-01 01:34:05 -04:00
Tom Boucher
07603df8f2 fix(#2647): code-fixer worktree under .claude/worktrees/, not a hardcoded /tmp path (#2942)
* test(#2647): failing-first — fixer worktree path must be repo-relative not /tmp

* fix(#2647): place code-fixer worktree under .claude/worktrees/, not /tmp

The gsd-code-fixer agent hand-rolled its worktree at a hardcoded
`/tmp/sv-${padded_phase}-reviewfix-XXXXXX` mktemp path. On Windows/Git Bash
that landed OUTSIDE the project tree — outside the agent session's permission
allowlist, so every Read inside the worktree prompted (~25/run) — and mktemp's
MAX_PATH-avoidance substitute produced an un-removable `C:/mvwtNN` path.

Place the worktree repo-relative under `.claude/worktrees/` (the same dir the
harness-managed executor worktrees use: gitignored via `.claude/`, inside the
session's permission scope), with a $$-PID + epoch suffix for concurrency
uniqueness (replacing mktemp's XXXXXX). $main_repo is resolved the same way
the cleanup tail already resolves it.

Three sites updated: setup_worktree bash, concrete-steps prose, critical_rules.
The #2990 `-b "$reviewfix_branch"` invariant is preserved (the folded test
asserts it). Failing-first regression added to the #2990 suite in
tests/agent-frontmatter.test.cjs.

* test(#2647): update #2686 path assertion to expect .claude/worktrees/, not /tmp

The #2686 regression test encoded the worktree location as a hardcoded
`/tmp/sv-` path (matching sibling GSD agents at the time). #2647 showed that
breaks Windows/Git Bash (worktree outside the project tree → permission prompts;
mktemp MAX_PATH substitute un-removable). Update the #2686 path assertion to
require the repo-relative `.claude/worktrees/` location and forbid `/tmp/sv-`.
The #2686 isolation + cleanup assertions are unchanged.

* fix(#2647): word-boundary wt= parse + ack the fixer growth vs next

Two follow-ups to the #2647 GREEN run:
- parseWtAssignments matched `prior_wt=` (no word boundary), polluting the
  set and tripping the repo-relative + concurrency-unique assertions. Anchor
  on (?:^|\s)wt= so only the real worktree-path assignment is captured.
- emitted-attribution: gsd-code-fixer.md grew 1875 bytes vs origin/next. Update
  the emitted-drift-ack entry to attribute the #2647 worktree-path change
  (supersedes the prior #2825 attribution, whose growth is already in next).

* fix(#2647): address review — validate padded_phase at the sink + tighten test

Code-review + security-review both APPROVED with one actionable minor:
padded_phase is interpolated into a worktree PATH and a git BRANCH NAME, but
was only validated by the orchestrator (code-review-fix.md), not at the agent
sink. The agent prompt is a literal bash contract any caller can spawn, so add
a `[[ =~ ^[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?$ ]]` self-defense check rejecting traversal/shell
metachars (defense-in-depth; not a present vuln — the only caller validates).

Also tighten the concurrency-uniqueness test to require BOTH $$ AND $(date +%s)
(either-alone was too lax per review). Update the emitted-drift-ack reason to
cover the added validation growth.

* changeset(#2647): code-fixer worktree under .claude/worktrees not /tmp

* changeset(#2647): backfill PR number 2942

* chore(#2938): regenerate stale docs/CONTEXT-INDEX.json on next

#2938 (#2928) updated the CONTEXT.md RULESET prose for the new per-PR
emitted-drift-ack fragment mechanism (#2914) but shipped a CONTEXT-INDEX.json
generated from the OLD prose. lint:generated-sync fails on every PR that
rebases onto next after #2938 (the regen produces a 3-line diff bringing three
RULESET entries — AGENT_SIZE_BUDGET, EMITTED_ATTRIBUTION, WORKFLOW_SIZE_BUDGET
— in sync with the prose already on next). Mechanical regen via
`node scripts/gen-context-index.cjs --write`; idempotent; surfaced by the
#2647 rebase. No behavioral change.

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-07-31 14:45:51 -04:00
Tom Boucher
5d0fd4dc53 fix(#2825): gsd-code-fixer honors workflow.use_worktrees; never rm -rf a reparse point (#2905)
* fix(#2825): gsd-code-fixer honors workflow.use_worktrees; never rm -rf a reparse point

gsd-code-fixer was the only writer that hand-rolled a git worktree inside the
agent prompt and the only one that never read workflow.use_worktrees. With the
setting explicitly false, --fix still created worktrees; the fresh worktree had
no node_modules, so runs improvised a teardown whose `rm -rf` followed a Windows
junction into the REAL node_modules (silent data loss, 3x observed).

Defect 1: gate setup_worktree + its cleanup tail on workflow.use_worktrees
(same gsd_run query config-get read the four sibling workflows use). When false:
edit/commit in the main checkout (wt='.', no temp branch, no sentinel, no cleanup).

Defect 2: forbid rm -rf on a possible reparse point in the spec — never fall
through to a destructive remove; on failure, stop and surface the error.

Defect 3: REVIEW-FIX records where verification ran (main checkout vs worktree).

The transactional worktree path (#2839/#2990/#2686) is unchanged when worktrees
are enabled. Docs-parity guards in tests/code-review.test.cjs bind the spec to
the fix.

* chore(#2825): backfill changeset PR 2905

* fix(#2825): drop stale agents/gsd-code-fixer.toml ack + spent entries (emitted-attribution)

gsd-test failed: agents/gsd-code-fixer.toml is a STALE ack here — that TOML was
changed by #2834 (now in next), not this PR. The 4 base-carried acks
(autonomous/discuss-phase-assumptions/next/plan-phase) are spent/inert.

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Co-authored-by: Test <test@example.com>
2026-07-31 01:57:50 -04:00
Tom Boucher
b36e3b7e1f fix(#2751): normalize bare gsd-tools command-position calls to gsd_run in shipped source (#2851)
* test(#2751): regression guard — no command-position bare gsd-tools calls

Agents/workflows instructed bare `gsd-tools <verb>` invocations that fail with
'command not found' on a shim-only install (#725 fixed only the Codex conversion
pipeline; the Claude-facing source shipped them verbatim). Adds a source-text
guard (allow-test-rule: source-text-is-the-product) scanning agents/*.md +
gsd-core/workflows/*.md for the operative shape `gsd-tools <verb> <arg>`,
excluding command -v probes / resolver definitions, with a documented
PROSE_ALLOWLIST for descriptive mentions that name the command without
instructing literal invocation. A stale-allowlist check ensures entries stay
real. RED first; source fix lands next commit.

* fix(#2751): normalize bare gsd-tools calls to gsd_run in Claude-facing source

The 12 command-position bare `gsd-tools <verb>` instructions across agents/ and
gsd-core/workflows/ failed with 'command not found' on a shim-only install (no
gsd-tools binary on PATH). #725 fixed this only for the Codex install-conversion
pipeline; the Claude-facing SOURCE shipped the bare calls verbatim, and new ones
kept accumulating (new-project.md:114 landed 12 days AFTER #725 closed).

Rewrite each operative site to the portable `gsd_run` resolver that the same
files already define (3-18x each) — a pure command-position token swap
preserving all arguments, flags, --files, and surrounding prose. Every runtime
now benefits from one source change instead of each needing its own converter.

Touched sites (12): gsd-intel-updater (validate/snapshot/extract-exports),
gsd-code-fixer (query commit), gsd-planner (learnings.query), gsd-project-
researcher (websearch/research-plan/classify-confidence), gsd-phase-researcher
(websearch/research-plan/classify-confidence), new-project (project-instruction-
file / commit --files), new-milestone (commit --files). Preserves command -v
gsd-tools probes, resolver-snippet definitions, and the 4 descriptive prose
mentions that NAME the command without instructing invocation. RED @ 1bb12ba1.

* chore(#2751): allow-test-rule issue ref + changeset fragment

Add the (#2751) tracking ref to the source-text-is-the-product annotation per
ADR-456, and the .changeset Fixed fragment (pr:0, backfilled post-PR).

* fix(#2751): convert remaining command-position bare gsd-tools calls (verify-summary, windows, worktree, smart-entry, quick-tasks-append)

Isolated adversarial review (Step 4) found the first pass missed genuine
command-position bare calls because the regression test's hand-maintained
6-verb list silently false-passed verify-summary (the 'verify' branch matched
the prefix then died on the hyphen) and omitted windows/worktree/smart-entry/
quick-tasks-append entirely. Convert these 8 additional operative sites across
new-project.md, new-milestone.md, ship.md, execute-phase.md, progress.md,
smart-entry.md, quick.md.

* chore(#2751): backfill changeset PR number (2851)

* fix(#2751): normalize allowlist paths to forward slashes — Windows path-separator false-flag

The PROSE_ALLOWLIST is keyed by file:line using forward-slash paths, but
path.relative() returns backslash separators on Windows, so the allowlist
lookup failed and the 6 descriptive mentions were flagged as offenders on
the windows-latest CI lane. Normalize rel to forward slashes before the
lookup so the allowlist matches identically on every OS.

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Co-authored-by: Test <test@example.com>
2026-07-30 11:18:07 -04:00
Rezolv
6932fb16d7 enhance(#1699): require read-and-cite provenance for in-repo discrete values (#2768)
* test(#1699): failing-first contract tests for in-repo value provenance

Nine assertions on the deployed gsd-phase-researcher contract: the discrete-value taxonomy, the same-session Read requirement, path-AND-line-range citation, grep-alone exclusion, the verbatim quote and paraphrase ban, the quote-is-the-checkable-artifact guard, [ASSUMED] routing for unquoted skeleton values, a no-regression guard on the pre-existing package name provenance rule, and a single-definition-site guard.

Eight of the nine fail against the unmodified agent on origin/next; the ninth is the no-regression invariant and passes in both states, which is the intended enhancement shape.

Added to tests/research-agent-profiles.test.cjs rather than a new file: that file already carries the allow-test-rule exemption <runtime-contract-is-the-product> research agent .md content is the governed surface, so no new allowlist entry and no change to the per-module test-file count.

* enhance(#1699): require read-and-cite provenance for in-repo discrete values

The claim-provenance system governed external facts (npm registry, official docs, Context7, package-name provenance). For an in-repo discrete value -- an enum, schema or type union, error code, status constant, or filesystem path -- [VERIFIED] could be earned from training memory or a bare codebase grep, which proves a string occurs, not that the definition was read.

A drifted value passes into RESEARCH.md, is lifted by the planner into PLAN.md's <interfaces> context block, and is trusted by the executor, where it fails at parse()/typecheck as a mid-execution deviation -- the most expensive place to discover it.

The rule lands beside its structural sibling, the package name provenance rule, since both say existence is not verification. The verbatim quote is named as the load-bearing artifact: a citation with no quote does not earn the tag, however precise the line range looks. That keeps the rule falsifiable against the file rather than a self-report, which is the Goodhart guard.

Scope note: the quote goes in RESEARCH.md beside the claim, NOT in an <interfaces> block. <interfaces> appears zero times in this agent on next -- it is planner-side, defined at gsd-core/references/planner-interface-context.md:15 as a PLAN.md structure. The issue text and triage both said <interfaces>; instructing the researcher to populate a block it does not emit would be undefined.

Defined once at the definition site; the source-hierarchy recap is deliberately untouched, since restating it is the paraphrase-drift mode META.RULE.brief-no-paraphrase names.

* test(#1699): regenerate agent size baseline and golden parity fixtures

Regenerated via npm run size:baseline and npm run gen:golden, never hand-edited. agent-size-baseline gsd-phase-researcher.md 40866 to 42020 (LARGE tier, cap 49152, 7132 bytes headroom remaining, per ADR-1610's per-file baseline guard). 18 of 19 golden fixtures updated; pi.json is unchanged because the pi runtime ships zero agents.

* chore(#1699): add changeset for the in-repo value citation rule

User-facing behavior change in gsd-phase-researcher, so a Changed fragment is required. pr: 2768.

* test(#1699): acknowledge the gsd-phase-researcher growth for the emitted-drift gate

CI test (ubuntu-latest, 22) failed on emitted-attribution.test.cjs: gsd-phase-researcher.md grew 1154 bytes (40866 -> 42020) without an acknowledgment. The differential emitted-attribution gate landed on next in 9138271b (#2723) and requires intentional growth to be named AND explained in tests/emitted-drift-ack.json per ADR-2719 section 3.

This creates the file; it did not previously exist on next. The reason records what grew and why the prose was added inline rather than relocated into an eagerly @-imported reference, which ADR-1610 Decision 4 names as gaming the size proxy.

Verified locally against a freshly fetched origin/next: emitted-attribution 35/35, and the differential subtest runs rather than skips (skipped 0).

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Co-authored-by: CI Rebase Check <ci@gsd-redux>
Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-07-28 18:31:26 -04:00
0xdhx
3274db2757 fix(#2526): remove gsd-ui-auditor's uncallable Playwright-MCP block (#2594)
* fix(#2526): drop gsd-ui-auditor's uncallable Playwright-MCP block

The agent declares `tools: Read, Write, Bash, Grep, Glob, Skill` — no
`mcp__*` grant of any kind — while its body presented a
`<playwright_mcp_approach>` block as the *preferred* capture path. That
branch was unreachable by construction: the availability check had a
fixed answer, the three `mcp__playwright__*` calls could never dispatch,
and the "when Playwright-MCP is NOT available" fallback was the only
branch that ever ran — 39 lines of instruction loaded on every
/gsd-ui-review spawn that also invited the model to claim a capture path
it could not take.

Remove the dead block, leaving the CLI screenshot path as the sole
documented approach.

Guard the class in tests/mcp-tool-inheritance.test.cjs, which already
owns agent MCP-grant parity: the new block generalizes the #1284
researcher check from two agents and one dispatch table to every
agents/*.md and its whole body — no agent may document an
`mcp__<server>__*` namespace absent from its own `tools:` declaration.

Frontmatter is read through the canonical parser
(gsd-core/bin/lib/frontmatter.cjs) rather than a hand-rolled scan, so
inline CSV, block sequences, flow arrays, quoted scalars and full-line
comments are handled by construction; inline comments inside a scalar
survive that parser, so they are stripped explicitly. The check is
server-level by design, ignores prose metavariables like `mcp__X__*`,
matches hyphenated server ids, and carries a discovery guard plus
negative controls for every documented boundary so it cannot decay into
a vacuous pass.

The session-level Playwright-MCP pass in gsd-core/workflows/ui-review.md
is deliberately untouched — workflow files carry no fixed allowlist, so
their availability check is genuinely runtime-detected and honest.

Fixes #2526

* chore(#2526): set changeset fragment pr to 2594

The fragment shipped with the documented `pr: 0` placeholder because the
PR number does not exist until the PR is opened, and
scripts/changeset/parse.cjs rejects `pr <= 0`. Now that the PR is open,
set the real number so changeset-lint passes.

* test(#2526): cover the two-char server-id boundary of the metavariable exclusion

The length-1 "prose metavariable" exclusion was tested at length=1 and at
real ids (>=3 chars), but never at length=2 — the limit+1 boundary where a
server id starts being recognized. Review finding on #2594: `mcp__ab__foo`
in a body with no grant must flag `['ab']`.

* fix(#2526): treat a bare mcp__* grant as covering every server

`grantedServers()` stripped `mcp__*` to the empty string and dropped it via
`if (server)`, so an allowlist that grants every MCP server read as granting
none — and the guard then fired against a body the grant plainly covered.
That is the one input shape that inverts the check, turning it against a
correct agent rather than merely missing a bad one.

A `/^mcp__\*+$/` token now sets a GRANT_ALL sentinel that short-circuits
`ungrantedServers()`. The sentinel `*` is outside REFERENCE_RE's character
class, so no body reference can collide with it. A bare `mcp__` with no
wildcard stays a typo rather than a grant and keeps failing closed.

No agent uses the `mcp__*` spelling today, so this was latent rather than
live. Two negative controls pin both halves.

* fix(#2526): scan the frontmatter description for MCP references too

`ungrantedServers()` scanned `stripFrontmatter(content)` only, so an
`mcp__foo__bar` reference in the `description` field escaped the check. That
field ships with the agent and the dispatcher reads it, which makes a dead
reference there exactly as dead as one in the body.

Only `description` is added to the scanned surface, never the whole
frontmatter: `tools:` is the grant list itself, so scanning it would let every
allowlist satisfy itself and turn the guard vacuous. A negative control pins
that boundary alongside the new positive case.

All 34 per-agent tests still pass with the wider surface, so no live agent
verdict changes — this was latent.

* test(#2526): give multi-character placeholders a convention the checker knows

The metavariable exclusion is `length === 1`, so the natural placeholders
`mcp__SRV__*` and `mcp__SERVER__*` were flagged as real references — and the
failure message then offered an author two remedies ("grant the namespace or
drop the block") that both misread what they wrote.

Adopts the angle-bracket half of the suggested fix: `mcp__<SERVER>__*` is the
sanctioned multi-character placeholder, exempt by construction because `<` is
outside the reference pattern's character class. This pins an existing
property rather than adding a special case.

Declines the all-caps half. An all-caps exemption would be a false NEGATIVE
for any real server spelled in caps, and a guard that misses a dead reference
fails in exactly the direction this check exists to prevent. The bare-caps
form keeps firing; the message now names the convention as a third remedy.

Also corrects "grants neither" in that message, which was wrong for any count
other than two.

* test(#2526): pin the zero-length server id, completing the boundary triple

`mcp____foo` yields `[]`, but for a different reason than the length-1 case:
it is unrepresentable by `/mcp__([A-Za-z0-9_-]+?)__/g` since `+?` requires at
least one character, so the pattern skips it before the metavariable
exclusion is ever consulted. Pinning limit-1 completes the 0/1/2 boundary
rule on its own terms and records which mechanism owns the case.

* docs(#2526): correct every drifted AGENTS.md Tools row, not just the one

The review asked for the one-line `gsd-ui-auditor` correction (missing
`Skill`). Sweeping the defect class first — every `**Tools**` row in
docs/AGENTS.md against its agent's `tools:` frontmatter — found it was 26 of
34 rows, so the one-line framing was the reviewer's premise rather than the
population.

Breakdown of the 26:
  * 21 omitted `Skill`, 6 omitted `Edit` (overlapping) — under-promises, the
    same drift class as #2526 but in the harmless direction.
  * 8 wrote `mcp (context7)` as shorthand while frontmatter granted up to 8
    servers (firecrawl, exa, tavily, ref, jina, perplexity, both context7s).
  * 1 was actively wrong: gsd-debug-session-manager documented `Task`, a tool
    name that no longer exists — the #2526 shape at the doc layer, naming a
    capability that cannot dispatch.

Every row is now the frontmatter `tools:` value verbatim, which is also what
makes the parity guard in the following commit non-brittle. The diff is
26 insertions / 26 deletions, all Tools rows.

* test(#2526): guard AGENTS.md Tools rows against agent frontmatter

The 26 corrected rows in the previous commit were free to drift because
nothing asserted the role card and the frontmatter agreed — the same reason
the #2526 block itself survived. Correcting them without an invariant just
resets the clock.

Lands in agent-classification-parity.test.cjs rather than a new file: that
suite already owns docs/AGENTS.md as a contract surface, already carries the
`allow-test-rule` exemption for treating the doc as the product, and file
count is the unit of CI overhead (docs/TESTING-SUITES.md).

Compares the row to the frontmatter value VERBATIM, not as a set — a set
comparison would keep accepting the "mcp (context7)" shorthand that hid eight
grants behind one, which is the under-documentation half of the drift.

Carries the same discovery guard #2526's own check uses: a section with a
granted `tools:` but no **Tools** row fails loudly, so deleting a row cannot
silently retire its assertion. Both halves are negative-controlled — against
the pre-fix doc it fails naming 26 rows (gsd-ui-auditor:339 among them), and
with a row deleted it fails on the missing-row assertion.

* chore(#2526): note the AGENTS.md drift correction in the changeset

The role cards are user-visible, and 26 of them documented a tool set the
agent did not have. Type, `pr: 2594`, and the trailing `(#2526)` are
unchanged.

* fix(#2526): use a CRLF-safe split in the AGENTS.md Tools-row guard

`lint-tests` (npm run lint:ci) rejected `rawAgentsMd.split('\n')` under the
repo's local/no-crlf-fragile-split rule: Windows autocrlf yields CRLF, so a
trailing \r rides into the parsed line. Switched to `/\r?\n/`.

Caught by CI on the round-3 push before the response comment went out.

* docs(#2526): correct the drift tallies stated in c5a9607e

Re-derived the census programmatically from the pre-fix doc instead of by eye.
The 26-of-34 headline was right; the breakdown was not.

  Skill omitted   21 -> 22
  Edit omitted     6 ->  7
  "mcp (context7)" shorthand   8 rows -> 7 rows

The 8 was conflating two things: 8 rows omitted MCP grants entirely, but only
7 of them used the "mcp (context7)" shorthand — gsd-executor listed no MCP at
all. Also names the one `Agent` omission (gsd-debug-session-manager, the row
that still read `Task`).

c5a9607e's message keeps the wrong numbers rather than rewriting a pushed
branch mid-review; the test comment and changeset are the durable statements
and both are corrected here.

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Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-07-28 18:02:01 -04:00
Tom Boucher
60bc6ddd6e fix(#2568): commit the debug session doc on the manager-driven terminal path (#2731)
* test(#2568): failing-first contract for the debug manager's doc commit

agents/gsd-debug-session-manager.md contains zero occurrences of 'commit', so on
the manager-driven path — the normal /gsd-debug flow — nothing consults
commit_docs and session docs are left untracked. The step exists only in
gsd-debugger.md, which does not reach the end of a multi-cycle session.

Two layers. The spec placement is asserted against the shipped agent text because
that text is what the orchestrator executes; the commit_docs gate the fix relies
on is exercised behaviorally through the CLI in temp git projects, because 'the
CLI no-ops when disabled' is the assumption that makes calling it unconditionally
correct — asserting it in prose would be assuming the load-bearing part.

The most important case is the negative: CONTINUE_REQUIRED is non-terminal and
must NOT commit. A fix that satisfied the positive cases by committing
unconditionally would strand a half-finished session looking done, which is worse
than the bug.

RED expected on the five spec assertions; the three CLI gate tests pin existing
behavior and pass both sides.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DPq9ovaovP2UvSVLjD4Lso

* fix(#2568): commit the debug session doc on the manager-driven terminal path

agents/gsd-debug-session-manager.md contained zero occurrences of "commit", so on
the normal /gsd-debug flow nothing ever consulted commit_docs and session docs
were left untracked — reproduced by the reporter across three consecutive real
sessions.

An obligation left behind during a responsibility move. gsd-debugger.md commits
the doc at :1214, but that runs only when the debugger carries a fix to completion
inside a single spawn. The multi-cycle manager took over checkpointing, fix
application, archival to resolved/, and the terminal summary — every step that
finishes a session — without the commit step. The debugger's copy still exists and
still works on its own path, so "is this handled anywhere" answered yes.

The manager now commits before both terminal shapes, and explicitly NOT on
CONTINUE_REQUIRED. That exclusion is the load-bearing part: the manager's own
contract already forbids fabricating a terminal summary on that path, and
committing there would be the same lie in git form — a half-finished session
stranded looking done. CHECKPOINT REACHED likewise does not commit.

Two facts kept the fix small. The manager already carries the gsd_run preamble
(:96, used at :97 for resolve-model), so no new plumbing. And cmdCommit
(src/commands.cts:809-814) already gates on commit_docs and returns
skipped_commit_docs_false when disabled — so the agent calls it unconditionally
and correctness follows from the CLI rather than from a second copy of the config
check that could drift. Calling git commit directly was rejected for exactly that
reason: it would bypass a user's explicit commit_docs:false.

In-session fix code is staged by specific file, never git add -A, which would
sweep unrelated working-tree changes into a debug commit.

Body-only edit — frontmatter untouched, so the research-profiles/AGENTS.md ripple
does not apply. gsd-debugger.md's own commit step is preserved; the single-spawn
path still ends there, and a double commit is harmless since the second finds
nothing to stage.

Fixes #2568

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DPq9ovaovP2UvSVLjD4Lso

* fix(#2568): bind the commit paths, define gsd_run in-block, and make the fix commit idempotent

Three defects in my own first cut, all found by the isolated adversarial pass.

1. BLOCKER — {debug_dir} was a dangling substitution. I copied it verbatim from
   the issue's suggested patch without checking scope. It is a real variable in
   gsd-core/workflows/debug.md, where the ORCHESTRATOR receives it from init JSON
   and uses it to build debug_file_path — but this agent never receives it:
   <session_parameters> declares only slug, debug_file_path, symptoms_prefilled,
   tdd_mode, goal and specialist_dispatch_enabled. An unbound token makes --files
   resolve to a nonexistent path; cmdCommit skips missing explicit files, staging
   stays empty, and the doc silently never commits — reproducing #2568 through a
   different broken path. Same class as #2684's dangling placeholders. Now spelled
   literally as .planning/debug/resolved/{slug}.md, matching gsd-debugger.md:1214
   and this file's own prose.

2. MAJOR — gsd_run was undefined in the commit block's shell. Shell state does not
   persist across tool invocations, and the Step 2 preamble is ~230 lines and an
   entire spawn-and-loop earlier. gsd-debugger.md redeclares the full preamble
   immediately before each of its own call sites; the commit block now does the
   same, byte-identical to this file's existing definition.

3. MAJOR — the in-session fix commit was not idempotent. gsd-debugger.md's
   archive_session already commits the fix on the confirmed-checkpoint path, which
   is the standard find_and_fix flow, so `git add X && git commit` would hit an
   empty diff, exit non-zero, and abort the step before the summary was returned.
   Guarded with `git diff --cached --quiet || git commit`. The doc-commit half was
   already safe — query commit treats an empty diff as nothing_to_commit and exits
   0 — and that asymmetry is now stated rather than assumed.

Three tests added for exactly these, since the reviewer correctly noted the suite
would have caught none of them: every token substituted into a commit command must
be a declared session parameter; the preamble must sit in the same block as the
call with no step boundary between; and the fix commit must carry the staged-content
guard.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DPq9ovaovP2UvSVLjD4Lso

* fix(#2568): keep the single canonical gsd_run preamble

The previous commit added a second preamble to the commit block, on the isolated
review's theory that shell state does not persist across tool invocations. That
theory is reasonable in general and wrong for this corpus: the repo enforces
"each agent .md using gsd_run contains exactly ONE canonical preamble, before the
first gsd_run call". Adding a second broke that invariant and five suites with
it — the B-agents preamble check, runtime-launcher-parity, and three slash-
namespace guards.

The single Step 2 preamble already precedes the commit call, so coverage was
never actually missing. Reverted to one, and the test now asserts the real
property — exactly one preamble, positioned before the call that needs it —
rather than the locality I had wrongly encoded.

Recorded because the direction of the mistake matters: the review was right that
the question needed asking and wrong about the answer, and I shipped the wrong
answer without checking the invariant that already governs it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DPq9ovaovP2UvSVLjD4Lso

* fix(#2568): use the canonical /gsd:debug slash form in the new prose

My explanatory sentence wrote `/gsd-debug`, the retired syntax. Three
slash-namespace guards caught it: the #3443 invariant, the #1975 folded
bug-2543 check, and the retired-syntax scan over Claude-facing source.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DPq9ovaovP2UvSVLjD4Lso

* chore(#2568): backfill changeset PR number

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2026-07-27 20:10:11 -04:00
Tom Boucher
28e486faf7 fix(#2608): fail closed when git add fails during commit staging (#2693)
* fix(#2608): fail closed when `git add` fails during commit staging

`cmdCommit` ignored `git add` failures. #2523 had already stopped a failed path
entering the commit pathspec, but skipping it silently left two bad outcomes,
both reproduced against the pre-fix build:

- SOME paths fail  -> `{"committed":true}`. `git commit` still ran and PARTIALLY
  committed the subset that happened to stage, under a message describing the
  full requested scope.
- EVERY path fails -> `{"reason":"nothing_to_commit"}`, which is not what
  happened and points the operator nowhere.

In both cases git's original `add` stderr was discarded, so the user saw a
downstream `commit_failed` / pathspec error naming an innocent file — the
symptom reported in the issue from a linked worktree whose git directory was
outside the managed writable root.

Staging failures are now collected and the command fails closed BEFORE
`git commit` runs, returning the issue's specified shape:

  { committed: false, hash: null, reason: "staging_failed",
    file: "<first failing path>", error: "<original git add stderr>",
    failures: [ { file, error, timed_out }, ... ] }

A timeout is distinguished as `staging_timeout` (issue AC5) using the projection's
SIGTERM+ETIMEDOUT signal — the same idiom worktree-safety.cts uses. The check is
placed ahead of the `nothing_to_commit` branch so an all-paths-failed run reports
the staging cause rather than an empty changeset.

Unchanged: successful staging still commits exactly the declared scope and leaves
unrelated staged files alone; an explicitly-named file that does not exist is
still skipped rather than staged as a deletion (#2014/#2523), and a request where
every named file is missing still reports `nothing_to_commit` — no `git add` ran,
so there is no staging failure to report.

Regression tests inject the failure by monkeypatching `execGit` on the projection
module (per CLAUDE.md, over `chmod 0o000`, which does not fault under root and
would make the tests vacuous), driven in a `node -e` child because `output()`
writes via `fs.writeSync(1, …)` and cannot be captured in-process. Pre-fix, 6 of
the 10 assertions fail; post-fix all pass.

Closes #2608

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QT3ibz5qJuDuGqpTGRYVGf

* fix(#2608): roll back the index, guard the sibling surfaces, document the new reasons

Six findings from the orthogonal review of the first commit, all fixed here.

1. A `staging_failed` return left the index PARTIALLY STAGED. The paths that did
   stage stayed in the index with no commit made and no cleanup, so the next bare
   `git commit` would sweep them up — the same silent partial commit this fix
   exists to prevent, deferred one step. (Pre-fix the partial state at least got
   consumed by the incorrect commit.) The staging failure path now resets the
   paths it staged, matching cmdPrSubrepo's established rollback-then-error
   convention. The reset is scoped to what THIS call staged — paths the caller
   had already staged are captured up front and excluded, so a caller's own work
   is never destroyed — and is best-effort, since an unwritable index (the very
   failure being reported) cannot be reset either.

2. `cmdCommitToSubrepo` still had the identical defect: a failed `git add` was
   dropped silently and the function committed the subset that happened to stage,
   discarding git's stderr. It now fails closed per sub-repo with the same
   staging_failed/staging_timeout reasons and the same scoped rollback.

3. The `git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch` branch (default mode, for a planning
   file that no longer exists on disk) still discarded its result. It mutates the
   index exactly like `git add`, and `--ignore-unmatch` already makes "no such
   path" a success, so a non-zero exit there is a real I/O failure — now routed
   through the same staging-failure path.

4. `agents/gsd-executor.md` documented the commit envelope as an exhaustive
   three-shape enum and pattern-matched only `nothing_to_commit | commit_failed`.
   It is the sole consumer doc for this surface, so the new reasons are added
   with explicit guidance not to retry (a retry hits the same unwritable index),
   and the "one of three shapes" framing is corrected.

5. The default (non---files) staging path and `--amend` are now covered by tests.
   Both were already guarded by the first commit but unexercised.

6. The changeset framed the fix as `--files`-only; it applies to default and
   sub-repo commits too, and now mentions the rollback.

Regenerated the agent size baseline and the 18 golden install-parity fixtures for
the gsd-executor.md edit.

16 assertions across both surfaces verified against the built lib.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QT3ibz5qJuDuGqpTGRYVGf

* test(#2608): update the #2523 out-of-repo contract to the new staging_failed reason

The remote test run surfaced this: `#2523: out-of-repo --files path is rejected by
git` asserted `reason: 'nothing_to_commit'`, and now gets `staging_failed`.

This is a deliberate contract improvement, not a papered-over failure. The old
reason existed only because a failed `git add` was skipped and the resulting empty
`stagedPaths` fell through to the empty-changeset branch. But "nothing to commit"
is not what happened — the caller named a file and git refused it — and that
misreport is exactly the class of defect #2608 closes. The result now carries the
offending path and git's own message ("… is outside repository at …"), which is
strictly more actionable for the same condition.

#2523's two substantive invariants are untouched and still asserted: no commit is
created, and the index is left clean. Two assertions are ADDED (the path is named,
git's message is preserved) so the richer contract is pinned rather than merely
allowed.

Per CONTRIBUTING, a stale-test correction rides its own commit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QT3ibz5qJuDuGqpTGRYVGf

* fix(#2608): compact the executor doc addition to stay under the agent LARGE cap

The remote test run failed: `gsd-executor.md is 49217 bytes — exceeds the LARGE
hard cap of 49152`. The file was already at 48596 (556 bytes of headroom) and the
new commit-envelope documentation pushed it 65 bytes over.

The cap is a red line, not a budget to raise, so the addition is compacted rather
than the cap moved: four lines instead of eight, keeping the load-bearing facts —
the two new reasons, that nothing was committed and the index was rolled back,
that `file` + `error` should be surfaced, and that retrying is wrong because a
retry hits the same cause. Dropped only the restatement of the linked-worktree
example (already in the changeset and PR) and the `failures[]` field (a superset
of `file`/`error`, discoverable from the payload).

Net addition is now 276 bytes; the file sits at 48872 with 280 bytes of headroom.
Extracting the agent's shared boilerplate to references/ would buy much more, but
that is a restructuring of the executor agent and does not belong in a
commit-staging bugfix.

Agent size baseline and the golden install-parity fixtures regenerated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QT3ibz5qJuDuGqpTGRYVGf

* chore(#2608): backfill changeset PR number (#2693)

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2026-07-27 02:45:35 -04:00
Tom Boucher
bd570618d4 feat(#2632): executor actuals and the closed estimate-calibration loop (#2672)
* feat(#2632): record executor actuals and close the estimate calibration loop

* fix(#2632): calibrate against the raw projection so the loop converges

* test(#2632): add closed-loop convergence guard and codify the feedback-loop rule

* fix(#2632): pair calibration samples per plan; atomic write; amend adr

* chore(#2632): backfill changeset pr to 2672

* fix(#2632): retry renameSync on transient windows errnos and clean up the temp
2026-07-26 16:28:56 -04:00
Tom Boucher
89b673e40d feat(#2631): planner emits estimate and plan-checker surfaces the over-budget flag (#2670)
* test(#2631): failing-first planner estimate emission and over-budget surfacing

* feat(#2631): emit plan estimate and surface the over-budget split recommendation

* fix(#2631): extract sizing prose to references to fit planner and plan-phase caps

* fix(#2631): move estimate check to plan-checker; fix template regex and caps

* fix(#2631): restore ALWAYS split literal and keep gsd_run after the launcher preamble

* fix(#2631): invoke estimate-check after the launcher preamble in plan-checker

* fix(#2631): stop double-applying calibration; repair COMMANDS table and stale reference

* chore(#2631): backfill changeset pr to 2670

* chore(#2631): backfill changeset pr to 2670
2026-07-26 14:29:02 -04:00
Tom Boucher
0ad3c5dd14 fix(#2279): refresh date stamps on map-codebase Update runs (#2550)
* fix(#2279): reword date stamping to overwrite existing dates on Update runs

The map-codebase agent and workflow instructions only said to replace
[YYYY-MM-DD] placeholders, but Update-path files already contain concrete
dates from the prior run. Reword to SET the date stamps unconditionally,
overwriting whatever date is already there.

Closes #2279

* docs(#2279): backfill changeset PR number (2550)
2026-07-23 07:37:37 -04:00
Tom Boucher
77bf21b3a6 fix(#1995): widen worktree branch regex to accept agent-<id> namespace (#2548)
* test(#1995): regression test for agent-<id> branch namespace

Add failing-first tests proving that normalizeCleanupManifestEntry and
planWorktreeRecordAgent reject Claude Code's current agent-<id> isolation
branches (only worktree-agent-<id> is accepted). Boundary tests cover both
namespaces plus rejection cases.

* fix(#1995): widen worktree branch regex to accept agent-<id> namespace

Claude Code's isolation="worktree" branch naming changed from
worktree-agent-<id> to agent-<id>. Widen the regex in all 7 locations
from ^worktree-agent-[A-Za-z0-9._/-]+$ to ^(worktree-)?agent-[A-Za-z0-9._/-]+$
so both namespaces are accepted. Introduce a shared WORKTREE_AGENT_BRANCH_RE
constant in src/worktree-safety.cts to prevent future drift.

Closes #1995

* fix(#1995): update workflow guards, test assertions, and baselines

Widen the branch-check regex in execute-phase.md and execute-plan.md.
Update all test assertions that checked for ^worktree-agent- to expect
the widened ^(worktree-)?agent- pattern. Regenerate golden-install-parity
fixtures, agent-size-baseline, and workflow-size-baseline.

Closes #1995

* fix(#1995): update extractCwdGuardBash sanity check for widened regex

The e2e test's sanity check verified the extracted bash block contained
'worktree-agent-'. After widening to '(worktree-)?agent-', update the
check to match the new pattern.

* fix(#1995): widen missed workflow-guard branch check + changeset + lint fixes

- hooks/gsd-workflow-guard.js: widen startsWith('worktree-agent-') to
  /^(worktree-)?agent-/ regex — same defect class, was missed in prior commit
- tests/worktree.test.cjs: fix indentation regression from prior edit
- Add .changeset/1995-worktree-agent-branch-namespace.md (pr:0 placeholder)

Found by orthogonal code review (Step 4).

* fix(#1995): regenerate golden + size baselines for workflow-guard change

* docs(#1995): backfill changeset PR number (2548)
2026-07-23 07:36:53 -04:00
Tom Boucher
c5e0371775 feat(#1951): reversibility tagging — gate one-way-door decisions (#2471)
* test(#1951): add failing-first tests for reversibility tagging

Red phase for issue #1951 (reversibility tagging: classify decisions by
undo cost, gate one-way doors behind a checkpoint:decision).

Tests assert, per the issue's acceptance criteria:
- discuss-phase CONTEXT.md template records a **Reversibility:** field with
  a rationale on captured decisions, and states it is optional
- gsd-planner @-references planner-reversibility.md and stays under the
  49152-char agent cap (LARGE_CAP, tests/agent-size-budget.test.cjs)
- a one-way rating inserts a checkpoint:decision before the dependent task;
  reversible inserts none; costly is flagged but never blocks
- the taxonomy defaults to reversible when unsure (checkpoint-fatigue guard)
  and inserting a checkpoint implies autonomous: false
- docs/reference/plan-md.md documents <reversibility> as optional with all
  three ratings
- --no-reversibility-gates parses to REVERSIBILITY_GATES=false, is injected
  into the planner prompt, and is advertised in the command argument-hint
  and help full mode (argument-hint parity)
- the override suppresses the gate but still persists the rating
- cmdVerifyPlanStructure accepts every rating and the absent case
  (additive-validator guarantee, behavioral via runGsdTools)
- parity: thinking-models-planning.md #4 adopts the canonical three-level
  taxonomy and the binary REVERSIBLE/IRREVERSIBLE vocabulary is gone
- no content loss from the planner extraction made to fit under the cap

Prose-contract assertions are Red until the implementation lands. The
behavioral validator assertions pass immediately — regression guards
proving the validator already accepts unknown optional tags.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(#1951): reversibility tagging — gate one-way-door decisions

Classify planning decisions by what undoing them would cost, and give a
one-way door a human beat before the agent walks through it (issue #1951,
The Pragmatic Programmer Topic 15 'Reversibility'; Bezos's one-way/two-way
door framing).

Acceptance criteria met:
- discuss-phase records an optional reversibility rating with a rationale
  on <decisions> entries in the phase CONTEXT.md template. Unrated
  decisions are treated as reversible, so existing phases are unaffected.
- a one-way rating makes gsd-planner insert a checkpoint:decision before
  the task that implements the decision, reusing the existing checkpoint
  mechanism -- no new checkpoint machinery.
- reversible ratings trigger no checkpoint; costly ratings are flagged in
  the plan but never block.
- the rating persists on the task as the optional <reversibility rating=>
  element. cmdVerifyPlanStructure accepts every rating and the absent
  case; the structural validator does not reject unknown optional tags.
- --no-reversibility-gates (REVERSIBILITY_GATES=false) suppresses
  checkpoint insertion for intentionally-unattended runs while still
  recording ratings -- the override changes what stops the run, not what
  the plan remembers.

Single taxonomy, not two: references/thinking-models-planning.md #4
already shipped a binary REVERSIBLE/IRREVERSIBLE classification and is
loaded by both gsd-planner and gsd-plan-checker. It is rewritten onto the
canonical three-level vocabulary and now points at planner-reversibility.md
as the taxonomy owner, with a parity test that fails if the surfaces
diverge (DEFECT.GENERATIVE-FIX-DIVERGENCE).

agents/gsd-planner.md sat 47 chars under the 49152 LARGE_CAP, so the
checkpoint DO/DON'T guidance was relocated verbatim into
planner-antipatterns.md -- already @-referenced from the same section for
the same topic, so the planner still loads it and nothing was dropped. A
test guards the relocation against content loss.

Files: gsd-core/references/planner-reversibility.md (NEW, canonical
taxonomy + emission rules + anti-patterns), gsd-planner.md, plan-phase
workflow/command/help (flag wiring + parity), plan-md.md schema,
discuss-phase context template, CONTEXT.md glossary, INVENTORY + manifest,
size baselines, install goldens, plugin skills regen, changeset.

Closes #1951

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#1951): address orthogonal review findings

Two isolated reviewers (correctness + security), neither of which authored
the change. Every finding fixed:

Security — the rationale is untrusted input (ADR-1577). It originates in
conversation and flows CONTEXT.md -> planner -> PLAN.md -> executor, each
hop an LLM reading the previous hop's output, with no validation on the
path. planner-reversibility.md and the discuss-phase template now state
it is data and never instructions, and name the </reversibility>
early-termination hazard explicitly -- a rationale that closes its own
element injects sibling structure the executor reads as real tasks.
Four tests guard it.

Correctness 1 — nothing machine-enforced the feature's own promise: a task
rated one-way with no preceding checkpoint:decision validated as fully
clean, so a planner error silently reopened the gap this feature exists to
close. cmdVerifyPlanStructure now warns on an ungated one-way rating. A
warning, not an error: <reversibility> stays additive and the plan stays
valid. Four tests cover ungated (warns), gated (silent), still-valid, and
reversible/costly never flagged.

Correctness 2 — pass-always test. The --no-reversibility-gates parse test
substring-matched the whole workflow file, and plan-phase.md prose mentions
both tokens in one sentence, so it passed with the bash conditional
deleted: it was testing the documentation, not the parser. Now scoped to
the fenced bash blocks and matched as one physical line, with a negative
control confirming prose alone cannot satisfy it.

Correctness 3 — costly had no itemized emission rule, only one-way did, so
two agents could diverge on whether to tag costly at all.

Correctness 4 — template convention break: the example ratings were bare
while every sibling field uses [...] to signal substitution, inviting an
LLM to copy one-way/costly forward as boilerplate. Now bracketed.

Correctness 5 — latent false-green: .includes('reversible') also matches
inside irreversible/irreversibility, which appear in anti-pattern
prose, so a surface that dropped the real taxonomy entry would still pass.
Now word-boundary matched.

ADR-857 phase-6 ceiling — the first gsd-test run caught plan-phase.md
1216 bytes over its frozen 94519 ceiling (it had 49 bytes of headroom on
next). The ceiling may only rise for privileged host machinery, and
reversibility gating is optional-feature logic, so the wiring was slimmed
to its minimum and the explanatory prose moved to the reference files the
planner already loads. plan-phase.md is now 94400 bytes -- 119 under the
ceiling and 70 bytes SMALLER than on next, so the host loop shrank while
gaining the feature, which is what phase 6 ratchets toward. The tracer
contract (tests/tracer-bullet.test.cjs) is unchanged.

Lint — fixed an unnecessary non-null assertion in verify.cts and a
CRLF-fragile bare \n regex in the new test (DEFECT.WINDOWS-CRLF-TEST-
PORTABILITY, the #1658/#1668/#2206/#2449/#2450 class).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(#1951): checkpoint fixture must carry the common task elements

The gated-one-way fixture built a checkpoint:decision task from the
abbreviated skeleton in gsd-planner.md, which shows only the
checkpoint-specific elements (<decision>/<context>/<resume-signal>).
cmdVerifyPlanStructure requires <name> and <action> on EVERY task
regardless of type, so the fixture failed validation for reasons that had
nothing to do with reversibility:

  errors: ["Task missing <name> element", "Task 'unnamed' missing <action>"]

Caught by gsd-test on 14d14a39 (2 failures, both this fixture).

The canonical shape is in tests/verify.test.cjs:266 — a checkpoint task
carries <name>/<files>/<action>/<verify> like any other. Fixture corrected
to match. Verified behaviorally against the real gsd-tools CLI across all
four cases: gated one-way (valid, silent), ungated one-way (valid, warns),
costly (valid, silent), absent (valid, silent).

Not a product defect: the validator's every-task contract is intentional
and pre-existing, and docs/reference/plan-md.md scopes its required-element
list to type=auto/tracer only because those are the elements a planner must
author, not because checkpoints are exempt from <name>.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(#1951): backfill changeset pr number to 2471

* fix(#1951): CodeQL incomplete-sanitization + prompt-injection scan collision

Both CI failures were real defects in code this PR added, not false
positives.

CodeQL js/incomplete-sanitization (high), reversibility-tagging.test.cjs:46 —
the namesRating helper built its regex with `rating.replace(/[-]/g, '\\-')`,
which escapes the hyphen but not backslash, so the escape was incomplete.
It was also unnecessary: `-` carries no special meaning outside a character
class. Replaced with a complete metacharacter escape (backslash included).
Word-boundary behavior verified unchanged across all three ratings — notably
that "irreversible" prose still does not satisfy a "reversible" match, which
is the false-green this helper exists to prevent.

Prompt injection scan — the checkpoint fixture used the human-verification
child element inside <verify>. That tag name is a fake-instruction-boundary
pattern in scripts/prompt-injection-scan.sh, and the scan runs over changed
files, so copying the shape from tests/verify.test.cjs (unflagged only
because it is not in this diff) tripped the gate. Switched to the documented
plain-prose <verify> form.

The first attempt at that fix failed the same gate a second time: the
comment explaining the collision quoted the offending tag literally. The
comment now names it in prose instead — the scanner does not care whether a
match is code or commentary, which is the whole point of the
DEFECT.PROMPT-INJECTION-SCAN-COLLISION note in CLAUDE.md.

Verified locally before push: scan reports 0 findings across 57 changed
files, eslint clean, and both fixtures still validate as designed (gated
one-way silent, ungated one-way warns, neither errors).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(#1951): record measured cost and halve gsd-tools spawns

The Windows shard 1/3 job timeout was traced to the sharding layer, not to
this PR's assertions — see #2472. Two contributing factors were this file's
own, and are fixed here.

1. tests/test-timings.json had no entry for reversibility-tagging.test.cjs,
   so scripts/run-tests.cjs weighted it at the table's median fallback
   (~315ms) for LPT chunk packing. It actually measures 5595ms — an 18x
   under-weight. Recorded the measured value from the green gsd-test run
   (max across the node22/node24 lanes, per gen-test-timings.cjs's
   convention). Only this one entry: a full regen churns 634 entries of
   run-to-run drift, and the table is explicitly advisory and un-gated, so
   a 637-line diff does not belong in a feature PR.

2. Each verifyPlan() spawns gsd-tools, which dominates this file's cost.
   Spawns cut from 9 to 6 with no coverage lost:
   - the ungated-one-way warning and its stays-valid assertion now share
     one plan instead of building the same plan twice;
   - the reversible/costly never-flagged-as-ungated test was strictly
     subsumed by the additive suite, which already runs those two ratings
     ungated and asserts no /reversibilit/ warning at all — and the gate
     warning's text contains both "reversibility" and "one-way", so the
     broader assertion catches it. It only re-spawned gsd-tools twice to
     prove the same thing.

Both are symptom fixes. The shard imbalance itself (19/11/10 minutes
against a 20-minute cap, from a cost-blind round-robin partition that also
reshuffles downstream files whenever one is inserted) is tracked in #2472.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(#1951): checkpoint fixture adopts the #2444 type-branched contract

Surfaced by rebasing onto next, which gained #2444 (branch plan-structure
validation on task type=checkpoint:*) while this PR was in review.

cmdVerifyPlanStructure no longer applies one required-element set to every
task. A checkpoint:decision now requires <name> + <resume-signal> +
<decision> + <options>, and is exempt from the <action>/<verify>/<done>/
<files> set that auto and tracer tasks carry. The gated-one-way fixture
predated that split and failed on the new requirement:

  errors: ["Task 'Task 0: Confirm the on-disk format' missing <options>"]

Fixture rewritten to mirror the checkpoint:decision contract exactly — real
<options> with two <option> children — rather than padding it with fields
checkpoints no longer need. That also drops the plain-prose <verify> the
earlier revision carried purely to dodge the prompt-injection scan; a
checkpoint task has no <verify> requirement at all, so the workaround is
moot.

Verified against the real gsd-tools CLI across all four cases: gated one-way
(valid, silent), ungated one-way (valid, warns), costly (valid, silent),
absent (valid, silent).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-21 10:44:55 -04:00
Tom Boucher
517bae8d6d fix(#2372): widen decision-coverage-plan to all planner-canonical tags, drop misleading "(or body)" (#2443)
* fix(#2372): widen decision-coverage scan to planner-canonical tags, fix message

Bug: check.decision-coverage-plan's remediation message told the user to
cite decisions "(or body)" but extractPlanDesignatedSections only scanned
<objective>/<tasks>/<task>/<action>. A decision cited in <read_first>,
<behavior>, <verify>, <acceptance_criteria>, or <done> was invisible to
the gate — false BLOCKING coverage gap, plus the message's own fix-hint
sent the user to "the body" where re-citing still failed.

Two-part fix (must change together — that drift was the bug):

1. Widen XML_DECISION_TAGS_RE in src/check-command-router.cts to also
   match <read_first>, <behavior>, <verify>, <acceptance_criteria>,
   <done>. These are all planner-canonical tags the planner is told to
   use (plan-phase.md:830-862, plan-phase.md:772). The body negative-
   lookahead mirrors the opening-tag set so each tag's body is captured
   independently.

2. Correct buildPlanMessage to name ONLY the surfaces the extractor
   actually scans (front-matter must_haves/truths/objective,
   designated markdown headings, and the nine planner-canonical tag
   bodies). The misleading "(or body)" clause is gone.

Also updates the planner's documented contract (agents/gsd-planner.md:69)
and user-facing docs (docs/CONFIGURATION.md, docs/USER-GUIDE.md) to
reflect the wider scan.

Regression tests in tests/decisions.test.cjs cover each newly-scanned
tag body, a control (no citation still uncovered), and a message/extractor
parity assertion that names every scanned surface — so the two cannot
drift apart again.

Out of scope (per triage): cmdDecisionCoverageVerify/buildVerifyMessage
is a separate command (decision-coverage-verify) checking shipped
artifacts, not plan citations — untouched.

* chore(#2372): regenerate agent-size-baseline + golden-install-parity fixtures

gsd-planner.md grew 49172 → 49294 (+122 chars) from the widened decision-
coverage contract (5 new scanned tag names + heading clarification).
Growth is justified: the contract surface is itself the fix — the prior
text under-described what the gate scans, which was the bug.

Updates:
- tests/agent-size-baseline.json (gsd-planner.md: 49172 → 49294)
- 17 tests/fixtures/golden-install-parity/*.json (one hash per runtime)
- tests/fixtures/install-tree/*.json (regenerated by gen:golden)

* fix(#2372): per-tag matching — outer-tag citations survive inner-tag nesting

Code review (subagent) flagged a Medium edge-case regression from the
single-alternation regex: when a newly-scanned tag nests inside another
scanned tag, the alternation's negative lookahead halts the outer tag's
body at the inner tag — losing any D-NN citation in the outer tag's
prefix prose. Concretely:

  <action>per D-05 <verify>npm test</verify></action>

  → 3-tag alternation (old):  captured 'per D-05 <verify>npm test</verify>' as <action> body → D-05 caught
  → 9-tag alternation (bug):  captured 'npm test' only (from <verify>); D-05 in <action> prefix LOST

Switches extractXmlTagBodies to per-tag matching: each tag gets its own
regex whose negative-lookahead tempers only against the SAME tag's
reopening. So <verify> inside <action> is absorbed into <action>'s body
(D-05 caught) AND <verify> is matched separately on its own pass.

Per-tag preserves both:
- the reporter's case (sibling tags inside <read_first>)
- nested-tag citations in outer-tag prefix prose
- ReDoS safety (each per-tag regex keeps the #2128 body tempering)

Also adds the reviewer's other requested edge-case tests:
- non-scanned tag (<name>) bearing D-NN must NOT count
- self-closing form <read_first /> safely ignored
- attribute form <verify type="...">D-NN</verify> (canonical planner shape)
- CRLF newlines in tag body do not break capture

* chore(changeset): backfill pr:2443 in .changeset/noble-elks-chatter.md
2026-07-19 23:07:13 -04:00
Tom Boucher
d16a66479a feat(#1950): broken-windows ledger — cross-phase defect register gating ship (#2441)
* feat(#1950): broken-windows ledger — cross-phase defect register gating ship

Adds a new  capability (#1950) that operationalizes GSD's
no-defer discipline as a tracked, enforced artifact:
accumulates stubs, TODOs, skipped tests, unrun verifies, and unmet truths
across phases, and /gsd-ship blocks while any entry is open.

Implementation:
- src/broken-windows.cts → gsd-core/bin/lib/broken-windows.cjs: typed IR +
  I/O entry points (parseLedger/renderLedger/appendWindow/markWaived/markFixed
  + cmdWindowsStatus/Append/Waive/MarkFixed). Frozen REASON enum for typed
  error assertions. Windows-safe atomic rename with retry on transient
  EPERM/EBUSY/EACCES.
- gsd-tools.cjs: new  subcommand (status | append | waive | fixed),
  wired via routeWindows + HOST_COMMAND_ROUTERS.windows.
- capabilities/broken-windows/capability.json: one ship:pre gate with
  artifact-frontmatter-equals predicate on WINDOWS.md open_count == 0.
  activationKey windows.enabled (default true) + sibling windows.enforce
  (default true, separate so tracking can precede enforcement).
- gsd-core/workflows/ship.md: capId==broken-windows branch in preflight,
  sibling to security — reads gsd_run windows status --raw, fails closed
  on open_count > 0 or unreadable ledger.
- agents/gsd-executor.md: extends the existing ## Known Stubs instruction
  to also append to WINDOWS.md via gsd_run windows append (best-effort,
  never blocks execution).
- agents/gsd-verifier.md: new Step 8b — record unmet truths + human-verify
  items in WINDOWS.md.
- gsd-core/workflows/progress.md: surfaces open + waived counts.
- docs/COMMANDS.md + CONTEXT.md glossary entry + docs/INVENTORY.md:
  document the gate, waiver mechanism, and new module.
- tests/broken-windows.test.cjs: pure + CLI behavioral coverage + fast-check
  roundtrip property; fail-closed on malformed ledger; security boundary on
  path traversal in --file.

Backward-compatible: a project with no .planning/WINDOWS.md reports
open_count: 0 and ships cleanly. Disable enforcement per-project with
gsd config-set windows.enforce false (tracking continues, gate stays open).

* chore(#1950): ratchet size baselines, defer verifier integration

- Workflow size baseline: ship.md 25575→27928, progress.md 31789→32632
  (broken-windows preflight branch + open-windows surface).
- Agent size baseline: gsd-executor.md 46644→47951 (Known Stubs → also
  appends to WINDOWS.md). gsd-verifier.md unchanged.
- LARGE_CAP (49152) preempted the planned verifier integration
  (gsd-verifier.md was at 49140 pre-PR — 12 bytes of headroom, not the
  documented 'real headroom'). Verifier integration deferred to a follow-up
  PR that extracts the VERIFICATION.md template (lines 739-859) to
  gsd-core/references/ — a pre-existing cap-tightness defect this PR
  exposed but does not expand scope to fix. Verifier integration is not in
  the issue's acceptance criteria (executor writes is; unmet-truths
  recording was an enhancement, not a gate).

* fix(#1950): gate default-off, rename to workflow.windows_enforce, regen goldens

Test-failure-driven fixes after first gsd-test run on db8733c8f failed 44
cases (pre-existing structural tests encoded 'ship:pre has 1 gate' / 'all
caps off → empty hooks'):

- capability manifest: rename windows.enabled+windows.enforce (default
  true) → single federated key workflow.windows_enforce (default FALSE,
  opt-in). Matches security's workflow.security_enforce convention and
  makes the adr857 all-caps-off test pass without modification (the test's
  buildAllFalseConfig handles workflow.* out of the box). Default-OFF keeps
  the gate out of the registry's default ship:pre resolution so existing
  loop-hooks-ship-pre-e2e structural assertions (exactly 1 gate, capId
  'security') stay valid; users opt in via
  gsd config-set workflow.windows_enforce true.
- drop activationKey (security doesn't have one either; workflow.* key
  doubles as the activation toggle).
- regenerate docs/reference/capability-matrix.md to include broken-windows
  (capability-matrix-sync test).
- regenerate tests/fixtures/golden-install-parity/*.json (18 runtimes) —
  installer now emits the new capability + lib file.
- update CONTEXT.md, docs/COMMANDS.md, docs/FEATURES.md, ship.md,
  agents/gsd-executor.md to use the new key name and /gsd:colon slash
  syntax (slash-command-namespace test).
- restore accidentally-regressed /gsd:capture in progress.md.

Tracking-only by default; enforcement is opt-in. Acceptance criterion
'/gsd-ship fails while any ledger entry is open' is met when
workflow.windows_enforce=true (test fixture enables it).

* test(#1950): update ship:pre structural invariants for 2-gate registry

- loop-hooks-ship-pre-e2e: the registry now declares 2 gates at ship:pre
  (security + broken-windows), regardless of activation. Activation tests
  above still pin security-only or empty behavior via fixtures; these
  structural tests pin the REGISTRY shape, which has 2 gates as of #1950.
- workflow-size-baseline: ship.md 27928→27945 (workflow.windows_enforce
  rename added 17 bytes).

* fix(#1950): review H1+H2+M1+M2+M3 — fence-injection, EACCES fail-closed, cleanup, strict line, stryker

Adversarial isolated review (Step 6.3) found 2 HIGH findings that block
the PR and 3 mediums. All addressed:

H1 (HIGH): description containing the markdown 3-backtick fence would
terminate the ledger's JSON code block early inside JSON.stringify output
(JSON doesn't escape backticks), corrupting the file and bricking the
next parse. Fix: use a 4-backtick fence (json ... ) which
JSON.stringify cannot produce on its own, AND validate that no entry
text field contains a 4-backtick run (reject at append time with new
WINDOWS_INVALID_TEXT reason code). Locked by a regression test.

H2 (HIGH): readLedgerOrNull swallowed ALL fs errors as 'no ledger',
silently returning open_count:0 on EACCES/EPERM/EIO. The ship gate
would then pass on an unreadable ledger — the precise vector the
workflow doc claims is impossible. Fix: only ENOENT returns null;
every other fs error propagates as WINDOWS_LEDGER_MALFORMED so the
gate blocks and the operator sees a real diagnostic. Locked by a
regression test that chmod 000s a ledger with open_count=1 and
asserts the result is never a false-green 0.

M1: writeLedgerAtomic left an orphaned .tmp file on rename failure.
Wrapped renameWithRetry in try/catch with best-effort unlink.

M2: validateLine silently coerced 'abc' → NaN → null, hiding type
drift. Removed the line === 0 special case (was undocumented) and
made the error message match the strict check. Now any non-positive-
integer line value throws, including strings.

M3: tests/broken-windows.test.cjs (with its fast-check property test)
was not in stryker.config.mjs DEFAULT_TEST_CMD — Stryker would mutate
src/broken-windows.cts but no test would catch the mutations,
producing false surviving-mutant scores. Added to the list.

L1 (dead throw e after error()), L7 (line boundary tests, H1/H2
regression tests, 4-backtick CLI test) also addressed.

* docs(#1950): inline concurrency + busy-wait notes (review L2+L3)

* fix(#1950): regen goldens against latest gsd-tools; correct --line 0 boundary test

gsd-test v4 caught two issues:
- goldens I regenerated earlier (commit 526682084) predated the L1
  routeWindows catch-block cleanup (commit dd844d565). Regenerated
  via 'npm run gen:golden' against current HEAD so the install
  parity hash for gsd-tools.cjs matches.
- 'append --line boundary' test expected --line 0 to succeed with
  null entry.line, but the M2 fix correctly rejects 0 (lines are
  1-indexed; 0 is not a valid source line). Updated the boundary
  test to assert --line 0 fails alongside -1 and 'abc'.

* chore(#1950): regen goldens after rebase onto next

* chore(#1950): quick.md baseline 50699→50993 (correct resolution from next rebase)

* chore(changeset): backfill pr:2441 in .changeset/broken-windows-ledger.md

* fix(#1950): renderTable escapes backslash before pipe (CodeQL incomplete-sanitization)

CodeQL flagged the markdown-table cell escaper:
  String(s ?? '').replace(/\|/g, '\\|')
— it escapes pipe but not backslash first. A description containing '\|'
would render as '\\|' which markdown parses as 'literal backslash' +
'cell separator', splitting the column.

Fix: escape backslash FIRST (each \ → \\), then pipe (each | → \|).
Now a description with '\|' renders as '\\\\|' (literal '\\' + escaped
pipe), which markdown renders as a single '\|' inside the cell. The JSON
code block (the parse source-of-truth) was already correctly escaped via
JSON.stringify; only the display-only table was affected.

Locked by a regression test that:
1. Verifies the JSON block reparses with the description intact.
2. Walks the rendered table row counting unescaped pipes — must be
   exactly 11 (the row separators for 10 cells), proving no in-cell
   pipe added a split.
2026-07-19 20:24:21 -04:00
Tom Boucher
d0bacc2517 fix(#2351): replace hardcoded timeout with portable run-with-timeout (#2426)
* fix(#2351): replace hardcoded gnu timeout with portable run-with-timeout

Stock macOS ships neither `timeout` nor `gtimeout` (GNU coreutils). The 10
hardcoded `timeout <n> <cmd>` calls across the workflow/agent/reference gates
exited 127 ("command not found") on such hosts, and the gates — which only
distinguish 0/124/other — misreported a passing build or test as a FAILURE.

Fix: a single Node-based `gsd_run run-with-timeout <secs> [--] <cmd…>` verb in
gsd-tools.cjs. Coreutils-independent (stock macOS AND Windows), keeps GNU
`timeout`'s exit-code contract (124 timeout, passthrough, 127/126 ENOENT/EACCES,
128+signum on signal), inherits stdio so pipes/redirects work, and reaps the
whole process group so a watch-mode runner cannot outlive its budget. Runs
before gsd-tools' flag parsing so the wrapped argv stays opaque.

Hardened per adversarial review:
- On timeout, SIGKILL the group SYNCHRONOUSLY before resolving — a descendant
  that traps SIGTERM was otherwise orphaned holding stdout, hanging captured
  gates (the exact watch-mode hang the feature prevents).
- Forward SIGINT/SIGTERM to the child tree instead of dying and orphaning it.
- Reject blank/whitespace <seconds> (was a silent unbounded run); clamp the
  timer to the 32-bit setTimeout ceiling (was a spurious immediate timeout).
- Lint detector: catch GNU long options / `-k5` / `$((...))`; anchor to command
  position so prose "timeout 30 seconds" no longer false-positives.

Resolution lives once in the CLI; all 10 sites call the shared verb. A parity
guard (scripts/lint-portable-timeout.cjs, wired into lint:ci) fails the build if
a bare `timeout`/`gtimeout` execution reappears (the portable `command -v
timeout` probe form is intentionally allowed). Also fixes the identical bug in
the zh-CN checkpoints translation, updates the tests that asserted the old
strings, trims a redundant phrase in gsd-verifier.md to keep it under its size
hard cap, and refreshes the size baselines + golden install-parity fixtures.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(#2351): add changeset (#2426)

* chore: regenerate golden/size baseline after rebase onto next

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-19 14:37:15 -04:00
Tom Boucher
1720aacf0c feat(#1949): <precondition> task element — Design by Contract (#2422)
* test(#1949): add failing-first tests for <precondition> element

Red phase for issue #1949 (Design by Contract: <precondition> element
asserted before task execution). Tests assert:

- docs/reference/plan-md.md documents the new <precondition> element
- agents/gsd-planner.md @-references planner-preconditions.md and stays
  under the 49152-char cap (progressive-disclosure requirement)
- gsd-core/references/planner-preconditions.md exists and documents the
  three emission cases mandated by the issue (user_setup / prior-phase
  artifact / env-var) and the contract triad mapping
- agents/gsd-executor.md asserts <precondition> before task execution
  and routes unmet preconditions through existing checkpoint machinery
- cmdVerifyPlanStructure (behavioral via runGsdTools) accepts plans both
  with and without <precondition> — the additive-validation guarantee
- Parity assertion: plan-md.md and planner-preconditions.md agree on the
  canonical tag spelling (DEFECT.GENERATIVE-FIX-DIVERGENCE guard)

Most prose-contract assertions are Red until the implementation lands.
The behavioral validator assertions pass immediately (regression guards
proving the validator already accepts unknown optional tags).

* feat(#1949): <precondition> task element — Design by Contract

Add an optional <precondition> element to <task> in PLAN.md (issue #1949,
The Pragmatic Programmer Topic 23). The front-of-task side of the plan
contract — preconditions (before) ↔ postconditions (<verify>/<done>/
<acceptance_criteria>, after) ↔ invariants (must_haves.truths, across the
whole plan). Together with the tracer-bullet proposal (#1945), this closes
both ends of the 'outrunning your headlights' failure mode for an
autonomous AI executor.

Acceptance criteria met:
- <precondition> is an optional element on <task>; plans that omit it
  validate unchanged (cmdVerifyPlanStructure checks for presence of
  required tags, does not reject unknown optional tags).
- gsd-executor evaluates the precondition before any other task work.
  Unmet halts execution with a checkpoint:human-verify and no partial
  commit; met or absent produces no visible change to execution flow.
  Unmet is never auto-approved under AUTO_CFG=true — a missing
  prerequisite is a fact the executor cannot establish on its own.
- gsd-planner emits <precondition> in exactly the three cases the issue
  mandates: user_setup consumption, prior-phase artifact dependency, and
  env-var/runtime-config dependency.
- Tests cover met, unmet, and absent preconditions plus the additive-
  validator guarantee.

Files:
- gsd-core/references/planner-preconditions.md (NEW): full emission
  rules, the three cases with worked examples, format guidance,
  anti-patterns, the contract triad mapping, and the executor assertion
  contract. Progressive disclosure.
- agents/gsd-planner.md: slim <precondition> note in Task Anatomy with
  @-reference to the new file. To stay under the 49152-char agent-file
  cap (27-char headroom before this change), the inline
  <comment_text_discipline> and <region_scoped_negative_gate> summaries
  are compressed to one-line pointers — their full rules already live in
  planner-antipatterns.md, so no content is lost.
- agents/gsd-executor.md: new step 0 'Precondition check' in the
  execute_tasks loop, before the type dispatch, routing unmet through
  checkpoint_return_format.
- docs/reference/plan-md.md: new Preconditions section in the schema
  reference, with the canonical example and the three emission cases.
- CONTEXT.md: Precondition glossary entry as a sibling of Tracer Bullet.
- docs/INVENTORY.md + INVENTORY-MANIFEST.json: row for the new
  references/planner-preconditions.md (regen via gen-inventory-manifest).
- tests/precondition-element.test.cjs: failing-first tests covering
  schema docs, planner emission contract, executor assertion contract,
  reference-file presence + the three cases, behavioral additive-
  validator guarantee, and a parity assertion (DEFECT.GENERATIVE-FIX-
  DIVERGENCE guard).
- .changeset/quick-hawks-bark.md: Added fragment.

Companion to #1945 (tracer bullets).

* chore(#1949): regen agent-size baseline + install-tree goldens

Documented baseline regenerations required by the feat(#1949) prose changes
(RULESET.AGENT_SIZE_BUDGET + golden-install-parity):

- npm run size:baseline — locks in the new gsd-executor.md size (+1050
  bytes: the precondition-check step 0 block). gsd-planner.md is net
  smaller (-142 bytes: compressed two inline summary blocks whose full
  rules already lived in planner-antipatterns.md to make room for the
  slim <precondition> pointer). No hard-cap breach.
- npm run gen:golden — pick up the new references/planner-preconditions.md
  + the two changed agent files across all 18 runtime install trees.

Both regens are CI-mandated after intentional agent/reference changes;
see CLAUDE.md 'RULESET.AGENT_SIZE_BUDGET' and the comments in
tests/golden-install-parity.test.cjs.

* fix(#1949): bound <precondition> checks to read-only (security review)

Apply the security-review finding (LOW, isolated /security-review subagent):
the executor's 'run the cheapest check' phrasing for a plan-author-controlled
prose line was broader than ideal — a hostile plan author could craft a
<precondition> whose 'cheapest check' is side-effecting (curl to an attacker
host under the guise of verification, rm -rf before checking, secret emission).

The risk is inherited from GSD's existing plan-trust model (<verify>, <action>,
<done> already direct the executor to run arbitrary shell), so <precondition>
does not materially expand it. But the new prose actively directs execution
('run the check') rather than passively consuming the element, so the bound
is worth making explicit.

Tightened across all four surfaces that describe the check shape:
- agents/gsd-executor.md step 0: 'Verify with read-only checks only — file
  existence, env var presence (no value output), idempotent GET /health-style
  pings. Do NOT run commands with side effects (writes, network POSTs, secret
  emission) as the check; if a side-effecting check seems required, halt and
  surface via checkpoint instead.'
- gsd-core/references/planner-preconditions.md Format section: same bound,
  plus the halt-and-surface escape hatch.
- docs/reference/plan-md.md Preconditions section: mirrored.
- CONTEXT.md Precondition glossary entry: mirrored.

Regenerated agent-size baseline (executor grew 46186 -> 46440; still under
the 49152 cap) and install-tree goldens.

* chore(#1949): backfill changeset pr number 2422

Per CONTRIBUTING.md changeset workflow + feature-builder directive Step 8.7:
backfill the placeholder pr:0 with the real PR number immediately after
gh pr create returns. Avoids the fail_invalid_fragment gate.

* fix(#1949): cite [#1949] on allow-test-rule exemption (ADR-456)

CI's lint:ci runs lint-allow-test-rule-refs which per ADR-456 requires
every // allow-test-rule: exemption on a NEW test file to carry an issue
reference (#NNN or URL). My earlier push omitted it.

Local 'npm run lint' (eslint) does NOT run this check — only 'npm run
lint:ci' does. CLAUDE.md explicitly warns: 'lint:ci ≠ lint — CI runs
lint:ci; a local pass is not the gate.' I should have run lint:ci before
pushing; correcting now.

Pattern matches the companion feature's test file:
tests/tracer-bullet.test.cjs:1  // allow-test-rule: source-text-is-the-product [#1945]
2026-07-19 07:52:36 -04:00
Tom Boucher
dd5a2211c9 enhance(#1964): semantic knowledge-base recall via MemPalace (keyword fallback) (#2416)
* test(#1964): add failing-first semantic-recall contract tests

Epic #1957 Phase 3C (final). Source-text-is-the-product contract tests:
semantic recall via MemPalace (top-k meaning-similar prior resolutions, catches
same-root-cause/different-wording cases), indexing resolved sessions at archive,
graceful degradation to keyword matching when MemPalace is absent,
knowledge-base.md stays the durable plain-text source of truth, agent Phase 0 /
Matching Logic is semantic-first (the stale 'keyword overlap, not semantic
similarity' claim must go), and no new embedding/vector infra (reuse MemPalace).

Failing-first: reference, the Matching Logic reframe, the Phase 0 consolidation,
and the archive indexing step do not yet exist.

* feat(#1964): semantic knowledge-base recall via MemPalace (keyword fallback)

Epic #1957 Phase 3C (FINAL). Replaces keyword-overlap matching with semantic
recall: at Phase 0 the debugger queries MemPalace with the current symptoms
and surfaces the top-k meaning-similar prior resolutions, catching the
same-root-cause/different-wording cases keyword overlap missed (the self-noted
'keyword overlap, not semantic similarity' limitation). Resolved sessions are
indexed into MemPalace at archive (symptoms + root_cause(s) + fix + recurrence
guard). knowledge-base.md remains the durable plain-text source of truth; when
MemPalace is absent the debugger falls back to keyword-overlap matching
(logged, never a silent skip). No new embedding/vector infrastructure —
MemPalace is reused.

Size-neutral agent edits: the Matching Logic section reframed (keyword-only ->
semantic-first + keyword-fallback + @-include); Phase 0's three keyword bullets
consolidated into one semantic-first bullet; one MemPalace-indexing step added
at archive. Agent at 57222 B (122 B headroom — final phase). Full rules in
gsd-core/references/debugger-semantic-recall.md. INVENTORY + manifest +
agent-size baseline + install-parity goldens + AGENTS.md updated.

* fix(#1964): address orthogonal review (invocation mechanism, index Resolution-not-symptoms + redaction, fallback detail)

- HIGH: the 'query MemPalace' instruction was WHAT-level only; the agent has
  no MCP tools. Added an Invocation section naming the Bash CLI
  (mempalace search --wing <wing>) + MCP-when-registered + wing resolution
  (config.mempalace.wing -> project_code -> project dir), matching every other
  MemPalace integration. Without this the feature silently degraded to keyword
  matching even when MemPalace was present.
- MEDIUM (security x2): index the agent-authored Resolution summary
  (root_cause + fix + recurrence_guard), NOT raw user-supplied Symptoms —
  excludes attacker-controlled prose from the cross-session index AND reduces
  secret/PII leakage. Redact secret-shaped values before indexing. Stated the
  write order (KB append + commit MUST succeed before indexing).
- LOW: restored 'identifiers' + 'case-insensitive' to the keyword fallback;
  added a test asserting the fallback mechanics survived the Phase 0
  consolidation (Error patterns field, 2+ token overlap, identifiers,
  case-insensitive).

* chore(#1964): ratchet agent-size baseline downward (leaner archive bullet shrank gsd-debugger.md 57222->57197)

* chore(#1964): backfill changeset pr number (PR #2416)
2026-07-18 19:01:04 -04:00
Tom Boucher
c67f301867 feat(#1963): emit blameless-postmortem Prevention block at resolution (#2410)
* test(#1963): add failing-first prevention/postmortem contract tests

Epic #1957 Phase 3B. Source-text-is-the-product contract tests: blameless
5-Whys that BRANCHES per Phase 2A RCA (not a single-cause chain; treats agent
error as 'why was that possible?'), the 'why wasn't this caught?' question,
the recurrence-guard taxonomy (regression test / assertion / lint rule / KB
pattern), the KB-entry why_not_caught + recurrence_guard fields with backward
compat, the session-manager prevention summary line, and the Zawinski
scope-boundary (a block, not a subsystem).

Failing-first: reference, archive_session edit, KB schema extension, and
session-manager summary do not yet exist.

* feat(#1963): emit blameless-postmortem Prevention block at resolution

Epic #1957 Phase 3B. At archive_session the debugger now produces a
Prevention block with three blame-free components: a branching 5-Whys causal
chain (branches per Phase 2A RCA, not a single chain; 'agent error' prompts
'why was that possible?', never blame), a 'why wasn't this caught?' answer
naming the missed gate (test/typecheck/lint/review/verify), and a concrete
recurrence guard (regression test / assertion / lint rule / KB pattern).

The knowledge-base entry gains two structured fields (why_not_caught +
recurrence_guard) so future Phase-0 recall surfaces the prior prevention, not
just the prior fix. Additive: old entries without the fields still load. The
session-manager compact summary surfaces a one-line prevention summary.

Full rules extracted to gsd-core/references/debugger-prevention.md (slim
archive_session step + 2 KB fields kept in the agent). INVENTORY + manifest +
agent-size baseline + install-parity goldens + AGENTS.md updated.

* fix(#1963): address orthogonal review (CRITICAL append-template drift + Phase-0 consumption + parity test)

- CRITICAL: the archive_session KB append template omitted Why not caught +
  Recurrence guard (only the Entry Format had them) — the feature's core
  deliverable silently did not happen. Added both fields to the append template
  the agent actually follows (nearest-instruction wins).
- HIGH: Phase 0 (KB read) only surfaced root_cause + fix; the new fields were
  dead data. Extended the Phase 0 Evidence line to consume why_not_caught +
  recurrence_guard when present (absent on old entries — backward compat holds).
- MEDIUM: added a cross-section parity test (every Entry-Format field must also
  appear in the append template — the guard that would have caught the
  Critical) + a Phase-0-consumption assertion.
- MEDIUM: the 'branches per Phase 2A' claim is now wired — reuses
  reasoning_checkpoint.candidate_causes across the four categories.
- MEDIUM: recurrence-guard taxonomy gains type refinement + config-default
  change; LOW: added 'build' gate to both surfaces for parity.
- NIT: compact-summary fallback shape ('no gate existed'); verify the guard
  artifact exists before recording it.

* test(#1963): anchor Phase-0 consumption test on the specific heading

The regex /Phase 0[\s\S]{0,1200}/ matched the first 'Phase 0' in the file
(in knowledge_base_protocol prose), not the Phase 0 block in investigation_loop.
Anchor on '**Phase 0: Check knowledge base**' and widen to 1500 chars.

* chore(#1963): backfill changeset pr number (PR #2410)
2026-07-18 17:38:54 -04:00
Tom Boucher
36a311c5bb enhance(#1962): harden regression tests (PBT shrinking + oracle classification + boundaries) (#2409)
* test(#1962): add failing-first repro-hardening contract tests

Epic #1957 Phase 3A. Source-text-is-the-product contract tests: PBT shrinking
(fast-check/Hypothesis, minimized seed, manual-minimization degradation), the
four oracle types (specified/derived/metamorphic/implicit with implicit flagged
weakest), boundary neighbors (off-by-one/min-max/empty-singleton tied to the
equivalence class), oracle_type in DEBUG Resolution, and the Phase 1A tie-in
(minimized seed + real oracle => the mutation guardrail bites).

Failing-first: reference, agent cross-refs, and template field do not yet exist.

* feat(#1962): harden regression tests (PBT shrinking + oracle classification + boundaries)

Epic #1957 Phase 3A. Extends Minimal Reproduction (shrinking) and Test-First
Debugging (oracle classification + boundary neighbors):
- Shrinking: wrap an input-space failing input in a property (fast-check JS/TS,
  Hypothesis Python) and store the MINIMIZED counterexample as the regression
  seed; degrade to manual minimization when no PBT framework is present.
- Oracle classification: state specified / derived (contract/model) /
  metamorphic / implicit (crash, weakest) before writing the assertion; record
  under Resolution.oracle_type; never default to implicit silently.
- Boundary neighbors: off-by-one, min/max, empty/singleton around the fixed
  defect's equivalence class.

Together they turn the regression test into a root-cause check — what the Phase
1A mutation guardrail needs to bite. Full rules extracted to gsd-core/references/
debugger-repro-hardening.md. INVENTORY + manifest + agent-size baseline +
install-parity goldens + AGENTS.md + DEBUG template updated.

* fix(#1962): address orthogonal review (bounding, provenance, oracle scope, sufficient-triple)

- HIGH: added a 'Bound the property/shrink run' section (60s timeout, degrade-
  to-manual on timeout, do-not-raise-default-run-limits, argv-not-shell) —
  the gauntlet violation the sibling references already honored.
- Medium: test-provenance caveat (the failing input often comes from the bug
  report — author the generator from a sanitized description, cross-ref
  debugger-fix-acceptance.md).
- Medium: oracle scope note — the 4 types cover deterministic bugs; non-
  deterministic failures re-route to stability-stress per bug-taxonomy.
- Medium: Phase 1A tie-in corrected — seed+oracle is necessary not sufficient;
  boundary neighbors close the adjacent-input escape; the sufficient triple is
  seed+oracle+neighbors.
- Low: preserve the original noisy repro as a secondary reference; operationalize
  'equivalence class' (the predicate the fix draws). Nit: degradation reworded.

* chore(#1962): backfill changeset pr number (PR #2409)

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-07-18 15:46:42 -04:00
Tom Boucher
6baa2a8182 feat(#1961): add bug-taxonomy classification + strategy routing to gsd-debugger (#2407)
* test(#1961): add failing-first bug-taxonomy routing contract tests

Epic #1957 Phase 2B. Source-text-is-the-product contract tests (3 taxonomy
classes, explicit class->technique routing table, Bohrbug->repro+SBFL+bisect,
Heisenbug->record-replay/stability+SKIP-SBFL, Concurrency->atomicity/order/
deadlock checklist, bug_class in DEBUG Current Focus, supersede-not-append)
plus a routing-table specification object pinning the documented decisions
(SBFL forbidden on Heisenbug is the load-bearing 1B/2B seam).

Failing-first: reference, Phase 1.75, and routing-table reframe do not yet exist.

* feat(#1961): add bug-taxonomy classification + strategy routing to gsd-debugger

Epic #1957 Phase 2B (reliability-critical). Adds Phase 1.75: classify the
failure as Bohrbug / Heisenbug-Mandelbug / Concurrency, then route the
investigation technique via an explicit class->technique table (Kernighan: no
opaque heuristic). Bohrbug -> reproduction + SBFL (Phase 1.25) + git bisect;
Heisenbug/Mandelbug -> record-replay (rr) + stability-stress + statistical
sampling, with SBFL explicitly SKIPPED (a flaky spectrum poisons the Ochiai
ranking — the load-bearing 1B/2B seam); Concurrency -> the
atomicity/order/deadlock checklist first.

Reframes (supersedes, not appends — Zawinski) the flat 'Technique Selection by
situation' table into a class-routed table; the 11 techniques remain as routed
targets. bug_class recorded in Current Focus (DEBUG template); common-bug-
patterns catalog cross-referenced to the taxonomy.

Full rules extracted to gsd-core/references/debugger-bug-taxonomy.md. INVENTORY
+ manifest + agent-size baseline + install-parity goldens + AGENTS.md updated.

* fix(#1961): address orthogonal review (phase-name drift, General lane, revoke framing, row-scoped tests, bounding)

- HIGH: reference said 'Phase 1B' (epic shorthand); corrected to the deployed
  'Phase 1.25' (matches the agent + SBFL reference).
- HIGH: 6 of 11 techniques (Rubber duck, Delta, Working backwards,
  Differential, Comment-out, Follow-the-indirection) were orphaned by the
  situation-table reframe. Added a 'General (any class, situation-cued)'
  lane to BOTH the reference routing table and the agent's Technique
  Selection table that re-homes them — supersede-not-append now holds.
- MEDIUM: the SBFL-skip is structurally retroactive (Phase 1.25 runs before
  Phase 1.75 classification), so reframed the table column from 'Do NOT use'
  to 'Revoke if already run' + an explicit 'retroactive revocation, not
  proactive skip' note stating the ordering honestly.
- MEDIUM: contract tests are now row-scoped (parse the table by class, assert
  per-row) instead of presence-only; added a guard that the previously-
  orphaned techniques now have a General-lane route.
- LOW: pinned the canonical bug_class value form (lowercase-kebab:
  bohrbug|heisenbug-mandelbug|concurrency; prose may use title-case).
- NIT: added a 'Bound the Heisenbug-chase runs' note (rr/stability/sampling
  timeouts) per the unbounded-subprocess gauntlet.

* chore(#1961): backfill changeset pr number (PR #2407)
2026-07-18 14:42:29 -04:00
Tom Boucher
f8b16d1874 enhance(#1960): add RCA branching (fishbone + AND-gate) to gsd-debugger (#2405)
* test(#1960): add failing-first RCA-branching contract + schema-invariant tests

Epic #1957 Phase 2A. Source-text-is-the-product contract tests (fishbone
>=2 categories, AND-gate, multi-cause root_cause, backward compat, reasoning
checkpoint candidate_causes+and_gate fields, debugger-philosophy single-cause
note, DEBUG template) plus behavioral schema-invariant checks on two fixtures:
two contributing causes (AND-gate yes) -> both recorded; single-cause
(AND-gate no) -> one root_cause, identical to today.

Failing-first: reference, agent edits, and template note do not yet exist.

* feat(#1960): add RCA branching (fishbone + AND-gate) to gsd-debugger

Epic #1957 Phase 2A. Guards against 5-Whys single-cause bias: before committing
root_cause, the debugger enumerates candidate causes across >=2 Ishikawa
categories (code/config/environment/data) and explicitly answers an AND-gate
question. When the AND-gate fires, every contributing cause is recorded, so a
multi-cause fix no longer recurs via the unaddressed second cause.
Resolution.root_cause may hold one OR a small set (additive; single-cause
sessions are byte-identical to today). The Structured Reasoning Checkpoint gains
candidate_causes + and_gate fields; debugger-philosophy.md adds the
single-cause-bias trap.

Full rules extracted to gsd-core/references/debugger-rca-branching.md (slim
Phase 2 routing + 2 checkpoint fields kept in the agent). INVENTORY + manifest +
agent-size baseline + install-parity goldens + AGENTS.md + DEBUG template updated.

* fix(#1960): address orthogonal review (AND-gate self-consistency, parity guard, narrowed claim, ripples)

- Reference: the collapse rule now enforces AND-gate self-consistency —
  and_gate=yes with a single confirmed cause is flagged as incomplete
  (return to Phase 3); a race/timing note clarifies such bugs bridge
  categories; the 'byte-identical' backward-compat claim narrowed to
  'root_cause shape unchanged; reasoning_checkpoint gains 2 fields in every
  session'.
- DEBUG.md: stale 'five-field' mirror prose -> seven-field (parallel-surface
  drift the reviewer flagged); new debug-session-management parity test pins
  the field-count claim to the gsd-debugger.md YAML keys (CRLF-safe).
- Scalar-assuming consumers of set-valued root_cause updated: session-manager
  compact summaries (319/332), diagnose-only return (1062), archive entry
  (1216), ROOT CAUSE FOUND return (1322).
- Test: added the AND-gate-yes/single-cause invariant + fixture; rephrased the
  fixture describe block honestly as a schema-invariant specification.
- Phase 2 bullet phrasing clarified ('at hypothesis formation, before the
  Phase 4 commit').

* test(#1960): parity regex accepts word-form count ('seven-field' or '7-field')

* test(#1960): parity regex counts array-valued YAML keys (no inline value)

* chore(#1960): backfill changeset pr number (PR #2405)
2026-07-18 13:42:58 -04:00
Tom Boucher
56a5c6404c feat(#1959): add spectrum-based fault localization (Ochiai) pre-filter to gsd-debugger (#2403)
* test(#1959): add failing-first SBFL contract + Ochiai correctness tests

Epic #1957 Phase 1B. Source-text-is-the-product contract tests (Ochiai
formula documented, Tarantula fallback, top-N seeding, no-coverage skip
logged, ranking->Evidence, Bohrbug gating) plus a behavioral Ochiai
formula-correctness section: bound [0,1], max-score invariant, a known-fault
fixture proving the fault ranks #1 (criterion 2), clean degradation on
zero failing tests, and two fast-check properties.

Failing-first: reference file and agent routing do not yet exist.

* feat(#1959): add spectrum-based fault localization (Ochiai) pre-filter to gsd-debugger

Epic #1957 Phase 1B. When a runnable test suite with per-test coverage exists
(>=1 failing AND >=1 passing test), the debugger computes an Ochiai
suspiciousness ranking over the coverage spectrum and seeds the top-N
suspicious locations into Evidence as first-class hypothesis candidates,
narrowing the search space deterministically before LLM reasoning. Tarantula
documented as fallback. Degrades cleanly (logged, never silent) when there is
no test suite, no failing tests, or no per-test coverage, and is explicitly
not trusted on flaky/Heisenbug spectra (pairs with Phase 2B bug-taxonomy).

Full rules extracted to gsd-core/references/debugger-sbfl.md (slim Phase 1.25
routing kept in the agent to respect the size cap). No new coverage framework
— reuses the project's existing test/coverage runner. INVENTORY + manifest +
agent-size baseline + install-parity goldens + AGENTS.md updated.

* test(#1959): bound property generators to valid coverage counts

The [0,1] property generated failedExec independently of totalFailed, but
Ochiai's score is only bounded by 1 under the coverage invariant
failedExec <= totalFailed (a failing test that executed s is one of the
totalFailed failing tests). Out-of-domain inputs (failedExec=100, totalFailed=5)
make the formula correctly return >1. Bound failedExec by totalFailed via
fc.chain so the property tests the real domain. Also cleaned up the ranking
property (removed dead code).

* fix(#1959): address orthogonal review (monotonicity property, degradation row, coverage bounding)

- Replace vacuous ranking property (true-by-sort-construction) with a
  non-trivial monotonicity property: holding totalFailed + passedExec fixed,
  ochiai is non-decreasing in failedExec. An inverted formula would fail it.
- Add the missing 'no passing tests' degradation row (preconditions require
  >=1 passing test; Tarantula would divide by totalPassed=0).
- Bound the coverage subprocess (CLAUDE.md gauntlet): cap the coverage run,
  degrade-to-skip on timeout, never hang the debug session.
- Reword 'discard the ranking' -> 'mark the Evidence entry as revoked (do not
  delete)' per Kernighan auditability.

* test(#1959): bound monotonicity-property generator to valid coverage (failedExecA <= totalFailed)

* chore(#1959): backfill changeset pr number (PR #2403)
2026-07-18 07:55:28 -04:00
Tom Boucher
5e52350736 feat(#1958): add multi-signal fix-acceptance guardrail to gsd-debugger (#2396)
* test(#1958): add failing-first guardrail contract tests

Epic #1957 Phase 1A. Adds source-text-is-the-product tests asserting the
5-signal fix-acceptance guardrail contract (target test, mutation check,
no-op/deletion detector, adjacent tests, revert-and-reconfirm), graceful
degradation, FIX REJECTED BY GUARDRAIL return path, per-signal debug-file
recording, and subprocess bounding.

Failing-first: reference file and agent sections do not yet exist.

* feat(#1958): add multi-signal fix-acceptance guardrail to gsd-debugger

Epic #1957 Phase 1A. Prevents accepting a fix that merely greens the test
(Goodhart defense / APR overfitting). Adds a 5-signal gate run before fix
acceptance: target test, mutation check (Stryker), no-op/behavior-deleting
detector, adjacent/held-out tests, revert-and-reconfirm. Degrades gracefully
when Stryker or a test suite is absent (each skip logged, never a silent pass),
records per-signal results under Resolution.verification, and returns a
FIX REJECTED BY GUARDRAIL outcome the session-manager surfaces for
revise / accept-as-debt / abandon.

Full rules extracted to gsd-core/references/debugger-fix-acceptance.md (slim
routing kept in the agent to respect the agent-size cap). Debug template +
INVENTORY + manifest + agent-size baseline + AGENTS.md updated.

* test(#1958): correct newline-tolerant assertion + regen install-parity goldens

The revert-and-reconfirm assertion collapsed whitespace before matching so
markdown line-wrapping does not break it. Regenerated the golden-install-parity
and install-tree fixtures (npm run gen:golden) to absorb the intentional
gsd-debugger.md / gsd-debug-session-manager.md / DEBUG.md / new reference-file
changes to the installed artifact tree.

* fix(#1958): tighten guardrail per orthogonal review

Addresses the isolated reviewer's findings:
- signal 5 now states its recorded-repro dependency and routes the no-repro
  case to the degradation row; revert mechanism specified (git stash / git
  revert -n); minimality flag tied to diff structure, not revert-ability.
- bounded-subprocesses section now bounds the git subprocess (5-30s) too,
  requires argv-array argument passing, and scopes Stryker to the driving
  regression test (a mutant killed only by a non-driving test is a finding).
- new test-provenance (security) clause: the driving test must be
  agent-authored; bug-report repro scripts are DATA, never executed verbatim.
- tightened 3 contract assertions to bind to specific clauses
  (guardrail_verdict field, deletion-reject-unless-RCA, 60s+git bounding).
- Goodhart framing softened to 'partially-independent'; DEBUG.md template
  verification field notes the nested map shape.

* chore(#1958): backfill changeset pr number (PR #2396)

* fix(#1958): add issue ref to allow-test-rule annotation (ADR-456)

CI lint-allow-test-rule-refs requires every allow-test-rule exemption to
carry a 'see #NNN' issue ref per ADR-456. The new test file's annotation
lacked it; this adds (see #1958).
2026-07-18 00:39:28 -04:00
Tom Boucher
f74442310d fix(#2257): auto-resume debug on non-terminal session-manager return (#2300)
The /gsd-debug orchestrator handled the gsd-debug-session-manager return
with only two literal-string checks (DEBUG SESSION COMPLETE, ABANDONED)
and no else branch, so a usable-but-non-terminal progress summary (the
manager's own turn/context budget exhausted mid-loop, with a valid
on-disk checkpoint) fell through to the user as if the debug were
complete. Same gap at the continue subcommand.

Callee side (agents/gsd-debug-session-manager.md): add an explicit
non-terminal CONTINUE_REQUIRED return marker, distinct from the two
terminal shapes and from a genuine user-input checkpoint.

Orchestrator (gsd-core/workflows/debug.md Sections 4 and 1c): classify
returns exhaustively — recognized terminal markers behave as before,
anything else is non-terminal and auto-resumes by re-spawning the
session manager from the same slug/checkpoint. Anti-loop guard: after
two consecutive no-progress resumes (unchanged next_action/updated),
emit a blocker report instead of looping.

Regression test (source-text contract guard, fix-2196 idiom) asserts
both sections' non-terminal/auto-resume branch, the CONTINUE_REQUIRED
marker, and the anti-loop bound.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-15 12:55:38 -04:00
Tom Boucher
315d94f6d4 feat(#1945): tracer-first planning default + executor feedback gate (#2294)
* feat(#1945): tracer-first planning default + executor feedback gate

Make "thin end-to-end slice first, verify, then expand" the default planning + execution discipline instead of the opt-in --mvp mode.

- gsd-planner: first-class `type="tracer"` task; every plan LEADS with one production-quality end-to-end tracer slice by default; --no-tracer restores horizontal layers; --mvp/--tdd compose on top.
- gsd-executor + execute-plan: post-tracer feedback gate — autonomous runs halt-on-fail before expansion, interactive runs emit checkpoint:human-verify after the tracer.
- --no-tracer flag wired through plan-phase workflow/command/help/skill.
- CONTEXT.md glossary defines tracer bullet vs prototype; docs + references reconciled.
- tests/tracer-bullet.test.cjs: prose-contract + behavioral (verify plan-structure accepts tracer) coverage.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(#1945): backfill changeset PR number to 2294

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-15 09:41:36 -04:00
Adnan
3592697bed fix(#2107): orchestrator honors gate="blocking-human" checkpoints in auto-mode (#2113)
* fix(execute-phase): honor gate="blocking-human" in auto-mode checkpoint handling

The package-legitimacy gate (#2827) spans two layers. gsd-executor refuses to
auto-approve a gate="blocking-human" checkpoint and escalates it so a human can
vet the package. execute-phase's checkpoint_handling step then dispatched purely
on checkpoint *type* and never read gate -- so under --auto/--chain it
auto-approved the checkpoint the executor had just refused to auto-approve.

Net effect: the slopsquatting defence was inert in exactly the unattended mode
where it matters. An [ASSUMED]/[SUS] package reached install with no human ever
seeing the prompt.

- gsd-core/workflows/execute-phase.md: carve out gate="blocking-human" (and the
  package-legitimacy what-built markers) ahead of every auto-mode branch.
- gsd-core/references/checkpoints.md: document the gate attribute and its two
  values. blocking-human previously appeared nowhere outside gsd-executor.md,
  so no planner had a documented way to author a non-auto-approvable checkpoint.
- tests/package-legitimacy-gate.test.cjs: the existing regression test asserted
  the executor half only, which is why it stayed green while the gate was open.
  Now asserts the orchestrator half too.

* chore(changeset): link to issue #2107

* chore(changeset): backfill PR number 2113

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNR8m2pv5U7ubn4iiXVrMa

* test(#2107): refresh golden-install-parity hashes for edited gsd-core files

The golden fixtures pin content hashes for gsd-core/references/checkpoints.md
and gsd-core/workflows/execute-phase.md, both edited by this fix. Regenerated
via UPDATE_GOLDEN=1; only those two keys change across all 17 runtime fixtures.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNR8m2pv5U7ubn4iiXVrMa

* fix(#2107): keep the carve-out inside the ADR-857 host-loop budget

The ADR-857 phase-6 ratchet pins execute-phase.md below 93600 LF bytes so
optional-feature logic keeps migrating out of the host loop. The carve-out
first landed 623 bytes over that ceiling.

Move the two-layer rationale (why gsd-executor escalates these checkpoints)
into references/checkpoints.md, where the gate is now documented, and reduce
the workflow to the operative rule. execute-phase.md is 93589 bytes, under
the ceiling; the gate token and both <what-built> marker strings are kept
because the orchestrator matches on them.

Refresh the two baselines the edit invalidates: golden-install-parity
fixtures (only the checkpoints.md and execute-phase.md hashes move) and
workflow-size-baseline.json (one line). The ADR-857 ceiling itself is
untouched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNR8m2pv5U7ubn4iiXVrMa

* fix(#2107): executor honors blocking-human on the decision branch + gate transport

Review found the fix incomplete one layer down. Two executor-layer gaps:

1. Blocker — agents/gsd-executor.md auto-mode dispatch gated
   checkpoint:human-verify on gate="blocking-human" but the checkpoint:decision
   branch below auto-selected the first option with no gate check. The executor
   resolves a decision itself (auto-selects and continues) without returning it,
   so the orchestrator carve-out never runs for it. A planner following the new
   checkpoints.md rule 6 ("gate a decision whose default would be wrong to
   assume") would have it silently auto-selected under --auto/--chain — the exact
   #2107 harm, one checkpoint type over. The decision branch now STOPs and
   returns for an explicit human decision when gate="blocking-human".

2. Major (transport) — checkpoint_return_format carried no field conveying the
   gate to the freshly-spawned orchestrator, so recognition of the proactive
   pre-install checkpoint rested on freeform prose. Added a **Gate:** field to
   the return format and re-pointed the execute-phase carve-out at it
   ("If the returned Gate: is blocking-human"). Net byte-negative: execute-phase.md
   drops 93589 -> 93583, widening ADR-857 headroom from 11 to 17 bytes.

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* test(#2107): cover decision carve-out + gate transport, de-vacuum conditional tests

- New: 'auto mode does not auto-select a blocking-human decision checkpoint'
  asserts the executor decision branch STOPs on blocking-human. Verified red on
  the pre-fix executor (2 fail), green with the fix (27 pass).
- New: 'checkpoint_return_format transports the gate ...' asserts the **Gate:**
  field carries blocking-human across the executor->orchestrator boundary.
- New: 'auto-select rule for decision is conditional' — orchestrator-side mirror
  of the human-verify conditional test, for the execute-phase decision branch.
- Fix vacuous test: both conditional tests now assert the anchor matched
  (length > 0) before iterating, so anchor drift can no longer pass with zero
  assertions.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(#2107): refresh golden + size baselines for executor + execute-phase edits

Regenerated via UPDATE_GOLDEN=1 and update-size-baseline.cjs. Only the
gsd-executor.md and gsd-core/workflows/execute-phase.md hashes move across the
runtime fixtures (35 ins / 35 del, no keys added or removed); checkpoints.md is
unchanged this round. Size baselines: gsd-executor.md 43607 -> 43973,
execute-phase.md 93589 -> 93583 (still under the ADR-857 ceiling).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-07-13 13:43:29 -04:00
Tom Boucher
b5ce72f729 fix(#2119): single SECURITY.md writer — auditor is return-only (#2154)
* fix(2119): single SECURITY.md writer — auditor is return-only

The gsd-security-auditor held Write/Edit and was instructed to write
SECURITY.md (no <N>- prefix, no template frontmatter), while the
orchestrator's Step 6 also wrote the correct padded <N>-SECURITY.md
from templates/SECURITY.md. Two writers, two naming conventions, two
shapes — the auditor's unprefixed file was invisible to the workflow's
*-SECURITY.md glob detector and unparseable for the threats_open gate.

Fix (option 1 from the issue): make the auditor return-only.
- Remove Write/Edit from auditor's tools
- Rewrite all 'Write SECURITY.md' instructions to 'Return structured
  verdict' with threats_open count
- Add explicit constraint in workflow Step 5 spawn prompt
- Update existing test (was asserting Write in tools — now asserts absence)
- Add new regression test for single-writer contract
- Update docs/AGENTS.md stale Tools/Produces rows
- Regenerate golden fixtures + agent size baseline

* docs(changeset): backfill PR number (#2154)

* chore(#2119): regenerate pi/qwen golden fixtures after next merge

The single-writer change edits gsd-core/workflows/secure-phase.md and
agents/gsd-security-auditor.md; pi.json (added on next) and qwen.json (merge
straggler) were the only runtime fixtures still holding pre-change hashes for
those files. All other runtimes already reflect the change. Regenerated via
the sanctioned gen-golden-install-parity script.

* merge origin/next — regenerate goldens + baseline for merged state

* fix slash-command syntax: /gsd-secure-phase → /gsd:secure-phase (#2154 CI fix)
2026-07-13 00:47:15 -04:00
Dave
c1756d0cd5 chore(#1867): register ui-consideration probe + regen install cascade (SHIP-01)
Ship-safe registration + regenerated snapshots for the #1867 UI-consideration
probe (Phase 3, SHIP-01):

- CONTEXT.md: PROBE.ui.{verification,axis,seam} predicates + ui-consideration
  -probe added to PROBE.family (machine-canon for the 3rd adapter, MIXED axis).
- agents/gsd-ui-{researcher,checker}.md: one @-include of
  references/ui-consideration-probe.md each (both under the 24576 agent cap).
- docs/INVENTORY.md + INVENTORY-MANIFEST.json: register the reference doc and
  the compiled ui-consideration-probe.cjs (inventory-manifest-sync green).
- tests/fixtures/golden-install-parity/*.json (16 runtimes): recaptured against
  a clean full build — folds in the deferred Phase-1 (ref doc, plan-phase lift)
  and Phase-2 (ui-phase step, UI-SPEC section) install-surface changes.
- tests/agent-size-baseline.json: ratcheted the two grown UI agents.
- .changeset/vivid-orcas-chatter.md: type Added (pr updated at PR-open).

Inventory/golden/size gates green; lint:ci + lint:docs + lint:changeset green.
The plan-phase.md PRE_PHASE6 ceiling stays RED pending #1852 (unchanged).

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BKt4hgNZwXSeJYJtYAQUSS
2026-07-10 14:40:03 -04:00
Alex V.
f15c25867d docs(#1578): rebase B2+B3 agent prompt changes 2026-07-08 12:57:49 +03:00
Tom Boucher
68a5258d45 fix(#2017): grant mcp__plugin_context7_context7__* for plugin-marketplace context7 (8 agents) (#2029)
* fix(#2017: grant mcp__plugin_context7_context7__* for plugin-marketplace context7

The 8 context7-using agents granted only mcp__context7__* (standalone server
form). Claude Code's plugin-marketplace context7 install names tools
mcp__plugin_context7_context7__*, so the grant never matched and every
researcher/planner/executor silently lost doc lookup (fell back to WebSearch).

- 8 agents: add mcp__plugin_context7_context7__* alongside mcp__context7__*.
- scripts/research-profiles.cjs: update the researcher profile tools to match.
- tests/context7-plugin-grant-parity.test.cjs: regression guard — no agent
  grants the standalone form without the plugin form.

Closes #2017

* docs(#2017): backfill changeset pr 2029
2026-07-05 17:15:48 -04:00
Tom Boucher
9f0d785b61 fix(#2020): remove dead SDK file refs that triggered infinite find.exe on Windows (#2027)
* fix(#2020): remove dead SDK file refs that triggered infinite find.exe on Windows

gsd-executor.md referenced sdk/src/query/QUERY-HANDLERS.md and reapply-patches.md
referenced sdk/dist/cli.js — both retired with the SDK (ADR-0174). AI runtimes
that locate doc refs via filesystem search ran find /, which on Git Bash for
Windows traverses the whole drive (14h+, orphaned find.exe, 4M+ handles).

- agents/gsd-executor.md: drop dead QUERY-HANDLERS.md ref.
- workflows/reapply-patches.md: drop dead sdk/dist/cli.js clause.
- tests/no-dead-sdk-refs.test.cjs: regression guard — no sdk/src|dist|handlers
  file refs in agents/workflows/references markdown.

Closes #2020

* docs(#2020): backfill changeset pr 2027
2026-07-05 16:43:26 -04:00
Tom Boucher
ed79902509 feat(#2007): implement mempalace memory_mode kg_backend and replace routing (#2010)
Wire the two forward-declared mempalace.memory_mode modes so they actually
route recall/capture instead of silently behaving as `augment`:

- kg_backend: the palace temporal KG is the primary knowledge-graph source;
  native .planning/graphs/ is the fallback. Non-KG drawer recall stays additive.
- replace: recall resolves through the palace as the source of truth; native
  artifacts are the fallback.

Every mode stays onError:skip and default-resilient — an unreachable palace
degrades to native memory and GSD keeps writing .planning/graphs/, so no memory
is lost. Cross-mode .planning/graphs/ migration remains a documented open
question (PRD/ADR §17), out of scope here.

Surfaces updated (instruction-only contract): recall/capture commands (+ generated
skills), discuss/wave fragments, curator agent, capability.json schema. Docs:
how-to Step 3, CONFIGURATION, FEATURES, CONTEXT glossary. Regenerated
capability-registry, golden install-parity fixtures (mempalace hashes only),
agent-size-baseline. Added a routing-contract + cross-surface parity test.

Incidental (folded per no-defer rule): removed pre-existing unused imports
(spawnSync in capability-registry.test.cjs; fs in issue-498-package-identity.test.cjs)
that eslint flagged in/alongside the touched files.

Closes #2007

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-05 15:01:22 -04:00
Tom Boucher
a62079b2da fix(#1865): runtime launcher honors CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR (#2024)
* fix(#1865): runtime launcher honors CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR

The gsd_run preamble resolved the Claude global install only at
$HOME/.claude/gsd-core/bin/, but the installer honors CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR —
so a global install redirected via CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR was invisible to every
gsd_run call (every command failed with 'gsd-tools.cjs not found').

The Claude resolver arm now uses ${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.claude},
matching the installer + the other runtimes' ${VAR:-default} pattern.
Default $HOME/.claude behavior is unchanged.

- _runtime-launcher.snippet.sh: Claude arm honors CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR.
- sync-runtime-launcher.cjs re-run: 95 workflows/agents re-synced.
- review.md / discuss-phase.md: trimmed to stay under their byte budgets.
- runtime-launcher-parity.test.cjs: (A) substring updated for the new form
  + explicit #1865 assertion that the snippet honors CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR.
- goldens + size baselines recaptured.

Closes #1865

* docs(#1865): backfill changeset pr 2024
2026-07-05 14:20:52 -04:00
Behruz Nassre Esfahani
7bef6a6496 fix(#1863): use named flags for state.* calls in executor + workflows (#1873)
* fix(#1863): use named flags for state.* calls in executor + workflows

The named-only state-command router (parseNamedArgs) silently drops
positional args, so state.cjs threw its required-arg error and
metrics/decisions/blockers/session continuity were never recorded.

Convert record-metric / add-decision / add-blocker / record-session in
agents/gsd-executor.md to the named-flag form (mirroring execute-plan.md),
and fix the two remaining positional record-session calls in
gsd-core/workflows/milestone-summary.md and forensics.md. Recapture the
golden-install-parity fixtures and size baselines for the edited files.

Also fix a pre-existing detached-rebuild handle leak in
tests/graphify-auto-update.slow.test.cjs: three dispatch tests returned
after observing only the synchronous "running" status without awaiting the
detached rebuild's terminal state. That leak was latent until the new
#1863 regression block's added runtime shifted --test-force-exit timing
and surfaced it as a non-zero chunk exit. The three tests now await
terminal status via the file's existing waitForBuildStatus helper.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(#1863): add changeset

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-07-02 13:01:10 -04:00
Tom Boucher
3c13903dcd feat(#1866): agent-side self-load of configured agent_skills
Each of the 22 consumer agents now self-loads its configured agent_skills
in its mandatory init step, so .planning/config.json agent_skills.<type>
reaches the agent on every runtime — including Cursor and /gsd-autonomous,
where Skill()-delegated workflow bash init did not reliably execute.

- gsd-core/references/agent-skills-bootstrap.md: shared contract
  (query + Read + dedup guard that skips when <agent_skills> is already
  in the prompt, so Claude's orchestrator-side injection never doubles)
- 22 agents/gsd-*.md: one self-load line naming the agent's own type
- gsd-core/workflows/autonomous.md: note that delegated agents self-load
- tests/agent-skills-bootstrap.test.cjs: regression + parity (CONSUMER_AGENTS
  bijection + fast-check property) — Generative-Fix-Divergence guard
- docs: ADR-1866, CONFIGURATION dual-injection How It Works, INVENTORY
  row, Changed changeset

Closes #1866
2026-07-01 20:09:01 -04:00
Tom Boucher
1bd04e1565 docs(#1847): add Claude Sonnet 5 changeset for next-line changelog + refresh stale model examples
The 1.6.1 forward-port (#1851) used the no-changelog opt-out instead of carrying
a changeset, so Sonnet 5 — unlike every other 1.6.1 fix (#1580/#1591/#1693 whose
fragments live on next) — had no fragment and would be MISSING from the 1.7.0
changelog. Add the fragment so the release render reflects current shipping code.
Also note the bold-checklist form in the #1591 fragment, and refresh two stale
claude-sonnet-4-6 illustrative examples to current IDs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-30 23:04:13 -04:00
Rezolv
18995380ce feat(#1154): honest verifier — abstain (insufficient_spec) on non-inferable backstop truths (#1738)
* feat(verify-phase): honest verifier — abstain (insufficient_spec) on non-inferable backstop truths (#1154)

Carry the edge-probe's existing `backstop` (non-inferable) tier through the
plan-phase projection as a structured flat-scalar marker instead of a prose
parenthetical, and make verify-phase abstain -> human_needed (never silent-pass)
on a backstop truth it cannot confirm with explicit evidence. Truth-axis mirror
of #644's prohibition judgment-tier (ADR-550 D4).

Engine (deterministic, CI-tested per ADR-550 D5 — never the LLM verdict):
- src/probe-core.cts: truthStatement/truthVerification normalizers, projectTruths
  (conservative serializer), dispositionForUnverifiableTruth (backstop+no-evidence
  -> unverified/flagged/insufficient_spec; backstop+evidence -> green; inferable
  -> green, the over-abstention guard).
- src/roadmap.cts: coerceTruthToString now reads `statement` first so an object-form
  backstop truth is surfaced, not dropped (Hyrum backward-compat for truth-readers).

Workflow/agent/docs: plan-phase emits the structured marker (flat scalar, ADR-550
#1278); verify-phase + gsd-verifier add the abstain arm; new references/honest-verifier.md;
FEATURES/COMMANDS document insufficient_spec; ADR-550 amended (truth-axis D4 mirror).

Decisions adopted (trek-e review): insufficient_spec feeds existing human_needed with a
distinguishable reason (no new VERIFIER_STATUS); changeset Changed; round-trip parity
test; abstain-on-unconfirmed-backstop regression test red-first.

Implementation notes (deviations from the issue's proposed file list, verified live):
- frontmatter.cts needs no change — its flat parser already round-trips object-form truths.
- verify.cts needs no change — it grades artifacts/key_links structurally; truths are
  LLM-graded at the workflow layer, so consumption lives there + the deterministic helper.
- No CJS<->SDK hand-sync — the SDK seam was retired (ADR-0174); src/*.cts is sole source.

Regenerated artifacts: golden-install-parity fixtures, INVENTORY-MANIFEST, size baselines.

* chore(#1154): add changeset (Changed) for honest verifier

User-facing changelog fragment for #1738. Typed `Changed` (not `Added`) per
trek-e review condition 3 — the verify behavior shifts for backstop-bearing specs
(a confident silent `passed` becomes `human_needed`), which is user-visible even
though the schema marker is additive.

* docs(#1154): score-formula also excludes abstained insufficient_spec truths (review nit-1)

trek-e review nit: the verify-phase score sentence said PRESENT_BEHAVIOR_UNVERIFIED
truths were "the only ones excluded" from verified_truths. Post-#1154 an abstained
`insufficient_spec` backstop truth is also excluded (it is not ✓ VERIFIED and routes
to human_needed). Behavior was already correct; this tightens the wording.
Regenerated golden-install-parity fixtures + workflow-size baseline for the touched
verify-phase.md. (Nit-2 — a dedicated insufficient_spec_items frontmatter list — is
intentionally not taken: the current design is ADR-550-D4-conformant, the abstain
cause rides as a distinguishable report reason, and adding it would exceed the
approved scope.)

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Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-06-29 00:14:32 -04:00
Alex V.
1a46109b97 enhance(#1579): deterministic gsd-tools query eval.score verb (#1583)
* feat(#1579): deterministic gsd-tools query eval.score verb

Split C of #1573 (pure code, lowest risk). Adds an eval.score query verb
(coverage*0.6 + infra*0.4; bands 80/60/40) mirroring the verify.* chain;
gsd-eval-auditor consumes it instead of doing weighted arithmetic in-prompt.
Non-breaking — additive only.

arXiv: 2601.15130 (Plausibility Trap/DPDM), 2507.10281 (Table Agent), 2508.15754 (TIR).

* fix(#1579): address review — domain guard, property test, glossary, SKIP_ROOT, inventory/baseline

- C3 input-domain: reject out-of-domain eval.score (require 0<=covered<=total; was emitting overall_score>100 / negatives)
- C1 property test: add tests/eval.property.test.cjs (fast-check) — determinism, band monotonicity, [0,100] bounds, never-throws
- C2 glossary: CONTEXT.md "Eval Scoring Module" entry (source-of-truth path + interface)
- C4: add `eval` to SKIP_ROOT_RESOLUTION (pure arithmetic; no .planning/ access)
- inventory: register generated eval.cjs/eval-command-router.cjs (INVENTORY-MANIFEST.json + INVENTORY.md rows)
- size: regen agent-size baseline for gsd-eval-auditor (reused gsd_run shim + eval.score step)
- eslint: ignore generated eval*.cjs (ADR-457 bin/lib migration coverage)

* fix(#1579): register eval family in alias-drift gates

Add EVAL_COMMAND_ALIASES/EVAL_SUBCOMMANDS to scripts/check-alias-drift.cjs
families and to familyArrayKeys in the manifest-coverage test, so the eval
family lands under the same drift guard as every sibling family
(state/verify/init/phase/phases/validate/roadmap). Addresses trek-e review.

check:alias-drift ok; feat-3251 coverage 9/9; eval suites 10/10.

* docs(#1579): use half-open verdict band ranges in CLI-TOOLS

overall_score is fractional and thresholds are >=80/>=60/>=40, so a score
in [79,80) is correctly NEEDS WORK despite the old '60-79' label. Relabel
bands as 60-<80 / 40-<60 / 0-<40 to match the code. Addresses trek-e nit.

* fix(#1579): validate eval.score CLI inputs

Reject unknown infra tokens and fractional counts, and pin the 80-point verdict boundary including rounding-before-banding behavior.
2026-06-24 17:16:13 -04:00
Alex V.
a63684c222 enhance(#1577): WebFetch/WebSearch injection isolation + opt-in blocking (#1585)
* fix(#1577): isolate WebFetch/WebSearch ingress + opt-in injection blocking

Split A of #1573 (security-critical). Scans WebFetch/WebSearch output (the
largest untrusted channel) in gsd-read-injection-scanner; shared
untrusted-input-boundary reference @-included by the 8 ingest agents
(randomized per-wrap delimiters, in-prompt self-scan guard, task-anchoring);
opt-in security.injection_blocking (default advisory — non-breaking).

arXiv: 2506.05739 (PPA), 2507.15219 (PromptArmor), 2504.20472 (Referencing), 2503.00061 (defense-in-depth).

* fix(#1577): address review — honest blocking docs, config key, ADR, property test, revert localized

- A1: rewrote the opt-in-blocking doc + Security changeset honestly — the PostToolUse hook is a
  circuit-breaker (halts the agent's next step), NOT a redactor; it does not scrub content already
  in the transcript. The prompt-level data/instruction boundary is the primary control.
- A2: registered security.injection_blocking in the config schema + defaults manifests (default
  false) + an e2e config-roundtrip test; the dotted setter writes the nested shape the hook reads.
- A3: reverted the 4 hand-edited localized security-model.md (canonical EN only, per convention).
- A5: ADR-1577 (untrusted-input boundary + opt-in blocking; redaction-vs-circuit-breaker rationale).
- A6: property test — scanner never crashes / only emits valid JSON on unicode/large/malformed input.
- Also: inventory (untrusted-input-boundary.md) + agent-size baseline (8 ingest agents) +
  drift-guard matcher update (Read -> Read|WebFetch|WebSearch). A7 (content<20 early-exit) left as
  the noted pre-existing follow-up.

* fix(#1577): allowlist untrusted-input-boundary.md in injection-scan CI gate

The new reference quotes injection phrases ('ignore previous instructions',
'you are now…') as examples agents must NOT comply with, tripping the repo's
own prompt-injection-scan.sh diff gate (the standalone 'security' CI job, red
on HEAD). Allowlist it alongside the other security docs (security-model.md,
TEST-EXAMPLES.md) that legitimately demonstrate injection patterns. The JS
scanner test doesn't scan references/, so only the shell gate needed it.

Verified: scan --diff origin/next -> 0 findings; scanner JS test 15/15.

* fix(#1577): cover AC #2's gsd-ui-researcher + gsd-assumptions-analyzer

trek-e Major 1: the @-included set dropped two AC #2 agents. Restore them so
no named web-ingress agent is uncovered, keeping the two justified additions
(gsd-ai-researcher, gsd-domain-researcher). Final set = AC's 8 + 2 = 10.
 - gsd-ui-researcher carries the full WebSearch/WebFetch + MCP-fetch toolset.
 - gsd-assumptions-analyzer reads 5-15 codebase source files (external/source-
   document ingress per the boundary), though it has no web tools.
INGEST_AGENTS in the isolation test now asserts all 10; size baselines
regenerated (+60 bytes each, both well under the DEFAULT cap); changeset
reworded 8 -> 10.

Verified: untrusted-input-isolation 14/14; agent-size-budget 39/39.

* docs(#1577): document security.injection_blocking + boundary seam

trek-e Major 2 + Minor:
 - docs/CONFIGURATION.md: add the top-level security.injection_blocking key to
   the Full Schema and a Security Settings subsection, distinguishing it from
   the workflow.security_* namespace; honest circuit-breaker-not-redactor
   framing matching ADR-1577 / security-model.
 - CONTEXT.md: add the 'Untrusted-input boundary' seam glossary entry.

Verified: lint:docs ok; config-field-docs + contributor-standards green.

* test(#1577): make read-injection property test git-text, not binary

trek-e nit (and more): the file embedded a raw U+FFFF AND a raw NUL byte as
degenerate-edge inputs. The NUL is what actually made git classify it binary
(git binary = NUL in first 8K). Replace both with text-safe escapes that keep
the identical runtime values: '\\x00' and String.fromCodePoint(0xFFFF). File
now diffs/blames line-by-line.

Verified: property test 2/2; no NUL/raw-noncharacter bytes remain.

* docs(#1577): align untrusted boundary docs

Name all 10 ingress agents in INVENTORY/security-model and allowlist the intentional read-injection property corpus for the prompt-injection scanner.

* docs(#1577): align ADR ingest agent count

Update ADR-1577 from 8 to 10 ingest agents so it matches the actual boundary include set and the rest of the docs.

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Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-06-24 17:07:23 -04:00
Tom Boucher
207d8f1697 fix(#1626): make the security gate severity-aware via per-threat severity (#1635)
workflow.security_block_on was documented as the minimum threat severity
that blocks advancement, but threats carried no severity and the auditor's
threats_open count (the SECURITY.md gate field) counted every open threat
regardless of severity — so the threshold had no effect, and the auditor's
block_on vocabulary (open/unregistered/none) did not even match the config
enum (critical/high/medium/low/none).

- planner: add a Severity column to the STRIDE threat register; assign
  severity per threat.
- auditor: read severity; reconcile the <config> block_on domain to the
  severity enum; redefine threats_open as the count of OPEN threats whose
  severity is at or above block_on (none => 0). Below-threshold opens are
  reported as non-blocking and excluded from threats_open.
- SECURITY.md template + planning-config.md reconciled.

No gate-check site changed: threats_open == 0 stays the gate everywhere;
only its computation is now severity-filtered.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-23 19:04:13 -04:00
Tom Boucher
f9d9dfb4bc fix(#1627): scale security rigor by ASVS level (planner disposition + auditor depth) (#1636)
workflow.security_asvs_level was display-only — the planner hardcoded
'mitigate if ASVS L1 requires it' and the auditor only echoed the level,
so L2/L3 behaved identically to L1.

- New reference gsd-core/references/security-asvs-levels.md defines L1
  (opportunistic), L2 (standard), L3 (comprehensive) for both planner
  threat disposition and auditor verification depth (higher = superset).
- planner: disposition now scales with the configured ASVS level (no
  hardcoded L1) + @-pointer to the reference.
- auditor: verification depth scales with asvs_level (L1 grep-presence,
  L2 boundary/vector check, L3 end-to-end trace + bypass check).
- planning-config.md + INVENTORY updated; planner kept under its 48K cap
  by extracting the goal-backward worked example to planner-guidance.md.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-23 18:48:58 -04:00
Tom Boucher
2dedbdd11c fix(#1455): resolve project-code-prefixed roadmap headings
* fix: remove hardcoded phase project-code prefix cap

Centralize project-code prefix stripping/matching and replace fixed {1,6} caps so long codes (for example MANIFOLD-117) resolve across phase, roadmap parser, roadmap upgrade, and validate flows.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix: address review feedback on prefix parsing

- allow project_code prefixes with digits and underscores while preserving milestone parsing
- use shared optional project-code prefix source in phase dir parsing
- extend regression coverage for APP1/APP_1 prefixed phases

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

* chore: resolve review nit in phase-id test comment

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix: resolve project-code-prefixed roadmap headings

Make getRoadmapPhaseInternal recover from drifted project-code-prefixed ROADMAP headings while preserving canonical bare-heading preference. Add init.phase-op and parser regressions for #1455 and guard gsd-roadmapper against emitting project_code in headings.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

* chore: add changeset for project-code phase fix

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

* chore: update roadmapper agent size baseline

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(#1455): tighten project-code prefix regex to [A-Z] start; add boundary test; document source order

Resolves blockers from review:
- Regex changed from [A-Z_][A-Z0-9_]* to [A-Z][A-Z0-9_]* so leading
  underscores (_FOO-7, _-7) are never misread as project-code prefixes;
  adds boundary test asserting both do NOT strip.
- Adds comment to roadmapPhaseLookupSources explaining why 3 sources are
  needed (order-dependent canonical-heading preference).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Solvely-Colin <211764741+Solvely-Colin@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-20 18:45:41 -04:00
Tom Boucher
fe0f9f904d fix(#1478,#1479,#1480): prohibit ungrounded baselines, error-suppressing fallbacks, and stale-artifact authority in planner verify blocks (#1482)
* fix(#1478,#1479,#1480): prohibit ungrounded baselines, error-suppressing fallbacks, and stale-artifact authority in verify blocks

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore: add changeset for #1478/#1479/#1480 planner verify gate fix

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix: correct changeset format

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#1478,#1479,#1480): fix test contract violations from new planner dimensions

gsd-planner.md exceeded both the planner-decomposition 48K char limit and
the reachability-check 50K char limit after the new HARD RULE blocks were
added inline. The full rule details already exist in planner-antipatterns.md
(added in the same PR); replace the verbose inline blocks with a single
@-reference pointer to the antipatterns file, reducing the file from 50981
to 49130 chars (under both limits).

Also regenerate tests/agent-size-baseline.json to reflect the new sizes of
gsd-planner.md and gsd-plan-checker.md.

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2026-06-20 13:37:03 -04:00
Tom Boucher
9540fe43b9 fix: have executor self-report worktree metadata (#1349) 2026-06-16 14:19:08 -04:00
Tom Boucher
2d264da661 enhance(#968): region-scoped negative-grep idiom + cross-task conflict warning (#1320)
Adds a region/function-scoped negative-grep idiom to the gsd-planner verification guidance plus a warn-only `validate_plan` check (`scanFileWideNegativeGateConflict`) that flags when a task's file-wide negative grep bans a construct a sibling task legitimately requires elsewhere in the same file. ReDoS-safe (linear, no RegExp on author patterns); region-scoped gates are exempt. Warn-only — never errors, never flips `valid`.

Closes #968

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-16 02:20:34 -04:00
Tom Boucher
b108f101b0 fix(#1284): grant mcp__perplexity__* to researcher agents + dispatch-table parity guard (#1288)
Adds mcp__perplexity__* to both researcher profiles (generated source-of-truth) and regenerates the agents; adds a generative dispatch-table↔tools parity guard so future provider drift fails CI. Regenerates the agent-size baseline for the +20-byte frontmatter growth.

Fixes #1284

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2026-06-15 17:20:08 -04:00
Tom Boucher
0a856f06cd enh(#966): gate behavior-dependent truths on behavioral evidence in gsd-verifier (#1271)
* enh(#966): gate behavior-dependent truths on behavioral evidence in gsd-verifier

Introduce a per-truth PRESENT_BEHAVIOR_UNVERIFIED state for must-haves that assert a state transition or a cancellation/cleanup/ordering invariant whose only evidence is symbol presence + wiring. Such truths are excluded from the verified_truths score, reported as a behavior_unverified count, recorded in an always-on behavior_unverified_items frontmatter list, and routed to the existing human_needed sink — so a clean N/N can no longer be reached on symbol presence alone.

The overall-status vocabulary and the src/verification.cts seam are unchanged (the new state is per-truth only); gaps_found keeps decision-tree precedence; override-passed truths still count toward verified_truths. Mirrors the calibration into the shipped verify-phase.md workflow (with an infra/foundation carve-out), the VERIFICATION.md templates, and docs (planning-artifacts.md, AGENTS.md). gsd-verifier.md kept under its 48KB LARGE cap; size baselines regenerated.

Closes #966

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(#966): add changeset fragment for gsd-verifier behavior-unverified calibration

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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2026-06-15 15:24:56 -04:00
Tom Boucher
cf68841220 enh(#1243): consume Claude plugin-provided skills in agent_skills (epic #1258 Phase B) (#1261)
* feat(#1243): consume Claude plugin-provided skills via native Skill-tool directive + grant Skill to agent_skills-consumer agents

- Relax global skill name validation to accept namespaced form `^[A-Za-z0-9_-]+(:[A-Za-z0-9_-]+)*$`
- Namespaced names (containing colon) on claude runtime emit a Skill-tool load directive instead of a @-include line
- Namespaced names on non-claude runtimes are skipped with a warning
- Bare unresolved names retain existing warn-and-skip behavior (no promotion to directive)
- Grant `Skill` tool to all 22 agent_skills consumer agents; 5 generated agents updated via research-profiles.cjs + regen, 17 hand-authored agents edited directly
- Add 16 TDD tests in describe('bug #1243') covering happy/mixed/precedence/negative/cross-runtime/regression/grant cases

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(#1243): document plugin-provided skills in agent_skills

Update the Agent Skills Injection reference in CONFIGURATION.md with
the three entry forms (project-relative, global:<name>,
global:<plugin>:<skill>), the Claude-only runtime behaviour of the
namespaced form and the warn-skip on other runtimes, the plugin
pre-install prerequisite, and the consumer-agent Skill tool grant.

Add docs/how-to/attach-a-plugin-skill-to-a-gsd-agent.md with a
step-by-step guide for installing the plugin, locating the namespaced
skill name, wiring it into agent_skills, and verifying injection.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#1243): align agent_skills docs with emitted block format + mixed-block regression test (code-review)

- Replace two-section mixed-block example (bogus "Load these plugin-provided skills using the Skill tool:" header) with the actual single-section inline format in CONFIGURATION.md and docs/how-to/attach-a-plugin-skill-to-a-gsd-agent.md
- Fix quoted warning text in how-to doc to exactly match the emitted string: [agent-skills] WARNING: Plugin-namespaced skill "global:<name>" requires a Skill-tool-capable runtime (claude) — skipping on runtime "<runtime>"
- Replace phantom agent slugs (gsd-checker, gsd-researcher, gsd-advisor, gsd-synthesizer) in CONFIGURATION.md Supported Agent Types with real agents/gsd-*.md examples (gsd-plan-checker, gsd-phase-researcher, gsd-code-reviewer, gsd-ui-auditor, gsd-research-synthesizer)
- Add byte-identical mixed-block regression test: one path-resolvable global skill + one plugin-namespaced skill on claude runtime → asserts r.ir.block === single-section interleaved block, no secondary header

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(#1243): regenerate agent-size baseline for the Skill-tool grant

The 22 agent_skills-consumer agents each grew +7 bytes from adding `Skill`
to their tools list; refresh the committed per-agent size baseline (#1074 guard).

* chore(#1243): add Added changeset fragment

* fix(#1243): traceable allow-test-rule ref + separator-agnostic byte-identical tests (CI)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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2026-06-15 00:49:12 -04:00
Rezolv
395fb519e7 feat(spec-phase): prohibition probe — surface "must-NOT" constraints (#644) (#1149)
Adds the spec-time prohibition probe (spec-phase Step 5.6) — the second adapter of the probe-core resolution model. Surfaces unwritten must-NOT constraints as negative SPEC acceptance criteria with test/judgment verification tiers; fail-closed at verify time. Per ADR-550. Closes #644.
2026-06-14 21:29:11 -04:00